{"id":898,"date":"2008-08-16T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2008-08-15T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T20:26:03","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-top-10-most-memorable-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Top 10 Most Memorable Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>You can do what you want, but I&#8217;m steering away from monsters here and instead I&#8217;m looking at bad guys (and gals) supernatural or otherwise, who are actively trying to thwart the hero of the movie. I&#8217;m also steering away from anti-heroes (which would be another good list).<br \/>\nThere are a LOT, so I&#8217;m picking 10. In episode order, they are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dr. Krup, aka &#8220;The Bat&#8221; &#8211; 102- THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY: aka the evil Judge Robert Bork.<br \/>\n\u2022 Sidney Chillas &#8211; 307- DADDY-O: buttery Bruno VeSota, the poor man&#8217;s Sidney Greenstreet, as his evilest.<br \/>\n\u2022 Fu Manchu &#8211; 323- THE CASTLE OF FU-MANCHU: The dullest villain ever, which makes him more evil.<br \/>\n\u2022 Cleolanta &#8211; 413- MANHUNT IN SPACE\/417- CRASH OF THE MOONS: Opheisha hath no fury like a bitchy suzerain scorned.<br \/>\n\u2022 Loukhy, aka Witchiepoo &#8211; 422- THE DAY THE EARTH FROZE: Gotta admit she has a bold plan&#8211;not many villains have the stones to actually steal the sun.<br \/>\n\u2022 Prosser &#8211; 501- WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD: Gets points for sheer quivering rage; loses points for being a robot.<br \/>\n\u2022 Pitch &#8211; 521- SANTA CLAUS: hammy and inept though he may be, he&#8217;s unforgettable.<br \/>\n\u2022 Krankor &#8211; 816- PRINCE OF SPACE: The nasal terror from outer space.<br \/>\n\u2022 Kalgan &#8211; 820- SPACE MUTINY: He&#8217;s evil plans largely consist of sitting around in a warehouse basement.<br \/>\n\u2022 J.K. Robertson &#8211; 821- TIME CHASERS: Everybody&#8217;s worst boss; how evil can you get?<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mention<br \/>\n\u2022 Troxartas &#8211; 703- DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL: The henpecked villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>You can do what you want, but I&#8217;m steering away from monsters here and instead I&#8217;m looking at bad guys (and gals) supernatural or otherwise, who are actively trying to thwart the hero of the movie. I&#8217;m also steering away from anti-heroes (which would be another good list). There are a LOT, so [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}