7 Most Underrated Villains (Guest Post by Jack P.)

7. Dr. Tolian Soran (Star Trek)

Number 1 – he killed Captain Kirk. Number 2 – see number one. Think about it, Kirk has faced open war with the Klingon Empire and everything the galaxy has to throw at him and won. This is the guy who finally ended him.

6. Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. And bonus, his gun. (5th Element)

Zorg is evil for the sake of evil. He works for Mister Shadow, the Ultimate Evil, and is willing to destroy all life on Earth to prove a philosophical point. Oh, and that hairstyle? Pure evil.

5. Jabba the Hutt (Star Wars)

Jabba always gets left off Greatest Villain lists because he got strangulated by Princess Leia and died, but think about it. This is a gangster who’s criminal empire was so powerful, even the Empire wouldn’t mess with it. When Darth Vader considers you a threat, hey, you’re kind of a big deal. Even people who aren’t sci-fi fans know exactly what you mean when you say Jabba the Hutt.

4. Nudar (Futurama)

Nudar is the leader of the alien nudist scammers on Futurama. They were so good at using tiny tidbits of personal information and tricking people into giving them, they took over the entire planet. Their organ the ‘sprunjer’ engorges in the presence of valuable information. That right there is one powerful nude villain.

3. Bugger Queen (Ender’s Game)

The Bugger Queen is underrated b/c she is unknown throughout most of the novel. Ender’s Game focuses on Ender, and his fight to defeat the bugger race, the Formics. She controls her entire species telepathically, overriding their own individual wills. While she is not overly antagonistic against other races, she is willing to kill anyone and everything in order for her species to survive, even some of her own kind.

2. Tash (Narnia)

Tash is the Devil to Aslan’s Jesus. Though the Narnia movie series ended after the 3^rd installment, here’s hoping the Final Battle ever makes it to the big screen, so Tash can be seen in all his unholy glory. He has 4 arms, a beak, and the head of a horse. He steals the souls of the magical creatures and humans alike, and has an entire civilization of people who worship him and basically leads to the complete destruction of Narnia.

1. Captain Hook (Peter Pan/Hook)

Everyone thinks of Captain Hook as the bumbling, one-handed, crocophobe, but no one considers who he really is. This is a pirate who has no compunctions about waging war on innocent children. Tiny little children. He has a sword AND a hook hand. At one point, even in the original play, he attempts to kill Peter Pan by poison. In Hook, he goes ahead and even kills a child on screen (Ru-Fi-OOOOO). Bangarang to that, Captain.