Best Cartoon villain?

Oh, Benita Bizarre...(The Bugaloos)

Her undying evil goal was to become *the* pop star. Very classic.

GO TEAM ROCKET! YAY!!

Also: Mojo Jojo...
and the Red Devil with the bare bum in Cow and Chicken
And who is I. R. Weasel's foe?

Oh, Mark S, we forgot about the PPG baddies! They're all great but MooooooojoJOJO and Him are fantastic.

Mr. [Generic Name], the eternal foil of Scooby-Doo and friends, thus:

FRED: "Now let's see who the ghost/monster/idol/demon/succubus/record agent/CIA killer/Nixon plumber really is."

*unveiling sounds*

ALL: "IT'S MR. [GENERIC NAME!]"

MR. [GENERIC NAME]: "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and that darn dog!"

SCOOBY: "Scooby snax?"

ALL: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

*camera stops rolling, cast descends into cocaine and bestiality orgy*

Scooby Doo villians always had big chins. It's a dead giveaway if you're trying to work out whodunnit before Scooby and the rest of his badly animated team catch their baddy.

mr. burns

if that even counts as a villain

Dick Dastardly, he was pretty, er, dastardly.

Ned its always Mr Withers. And he's always the butler/barman/janitor/owner of the creepy old amusement park. As for best villain, it's got to be Muttley.

Hugo Agogo.

And Jinx the Cat = anti hero/villan/star. like, genius.

i go with the fevil from cow and chicken. just how *good* are modern cartoons? we had cable last year and ed introduced me to cartoon network. amazing!

"she really cut the funk, you know, she was rocking in her socks"....

good eh, sorry im listening to DMX KREW.

sorry that should be 'devil'. i am the typo KING. actually maybe thats ed.

MARK S IS WRONG! MARK S IS WRONG! It's not I R Weasel, it's I M Weasel! I have corrected the arch-pedant! Hurrah!

the only cartoon badguys I even know are the aforementioned Mojo Jojo, Boris Badenov, and the evil lady from Princess Mononoke. I guess I'll go with Boris as best.

if Brian can name Martha Raye's swinging-60's lsd villian, then I get to claim Witchipoo for my inspiration. Sid and Marty Krofft have way too much to answer for...

top 10 cartoon villans:

1. mojo jojo (self explanatory) 2. unicron (a fucking transforming PLANET...voiced by citizen kane) 3. that bug-guy sgt. slaughter kicked the shit out of in the g.i. joe movie 4. the joker (mark hammil version from latest b-man toon) 5. him (ppg...transexual [?] demon-thing...also self-explanatory) 6. bubbles as mojo jojo (should be higher?) 7. the looney tunes gremlin (because it bothers me. a lot.) 8. the looney tunes buzzard (nopenopenopenope.) 9. boris badanov 10. i.r. baboon

Gargamel & Azrael. (Apologies if I muff up the name of el gato.) Wasn't there also some arch-arch-villain that ranked above Gargamel? The Emperor to G's Darth Vader? Does anyone REMEMBER the Smurfs?

Would either Yosemite Sam or Sylvester the Cat qualify as villains?

If you're going to bring Warner Bros. into it, then *clearly* your two choices are the Coyote and Marvin the Martian.

"I claim this planet in the name of Mars...mm...isn't that LOVELY?"

I think my younger sister named some stray cat in our neighborhood Azrael. Gargamel was the guy who looked like an Evil Monk, yes? There were also some kids in my neighborhood whose parents wouldn't let them watch the Smurfs because they said that the Smurfs were Communist Satan-worshippers.

Marvin the Martian was cool. But I've been compared to Yosemite Sam (temper-wise, not looks-wise).

I'm voting for that dude with the bucket on his head from the Hercules cartoon. Superpowers from a rivety mop bucket - Ingenious!

It's either him or Mok from Rock and Rule.

Gargamel was the guy who looked like an Evil Monk, yes?

He did, at that. He just seemed to be evil, but balding and creepy. Like a caricature of the greasy molester next door, which makes his relation with the Smurfs all that more disturbing. How, this leads down the road to the perversions of discussing Smurf sex and how either Smurfette put out for everyone or she was a fag hag, and I'm not getting into that. ;-)

or she was a transvestite.
i was not allowed to watch the smurfs because it "slaughtered the english langauage and it was sexist"

The shape of Gargamel's head is the most classic thing ever. Talk about low-brow...the man had no forehead at all! He's easily my favorite cartoon villain, unless that Trotskyite witch Papa Smurf counts.

Smurfette neither "put out" nor was she a fag hag (well, I guess theoretically she could've been the latter, but I refuse to believe it). She was magically created by Gargamel in a cauldron long after most of the other Smurfs had been born (they were delivered by a Stork, IIRC). She was originally supposed to be a spy but the love of the Smurfs won her over. I think the Smurf Village was meant to be Platonic in most every sense (including the fact that it was invisible to all but the Smurfs themselves).

Mojo Jojo is a good call. Let us not forget Baron Silas Greenback a la Danger Mouse (who had one of the greatest theme songs ever).

Kris what scares me is that i think you did not have to google for that information
The Hercules Villan is Dedaules.

You're all wrong.

The correct answer is THE HOODED CLAW from the Perils of Penelope Pitstop. He embodied all the essential ingredients of an ubervillain: an utterly depraved personality, the filthiest laugh this side of Sid James, unnecessarily technical contraptions of destruction, always telling his victims precisely what his insidiously sinister plans are, and a Bobby Gillespie sized ego.

He was the subject of many a childhood nightmare round our way.

I'm with Trevor on this one, that's exactly who sprang to my mind too.

Baron Silas Greenback = one of my nicknames from school. Therefore ace. (Much better than being called Weetabix, because Weeta sounds a bit like Peter).

I'll see your Baron Greenback and raise you one Texas Pete.

I'm with trevor but mainly because the hooded claw was liberace

yeah fuck texas pete. forgot about him

he had the best bungling sidekicks, despite not being very evil

How about:
1) Mumm-Ra: even better if you were a bit rude and called him Bum-Ra, heehee.
2) Megatron: Much much better than Galvatron, even if the latter was voiced by Leonard Nimoy. He turned into a proper gun, not like Galvatron who turned into some crappy futuristic laser gun or some shit like that.
3) Shredder and that pink-brain-thing from the Ninja Turtles: Shredder was great cos he had big knive things, but what was the brain thing called? He was some brain thing in some bloke's abdomen and slobbered a lot.

Krang

I'm with Trevor on this one too. Let's not forget that the Hooded Claw was Penelope's own legal representative. Not content with (no doubt) PP large sums for questionable services, he was also engaged in attempting to kill her. Lawyers, eh?

Furthermore, the Hooded Claw was mentioned on a number one record. Any other cartoon villains who have achieved this (Hissing Sid springs distressingly to mind, although I have a feeling that the record predates the cartoon) have been novelty cartoon-derived tunes.

Cyril Sneer from the Raccoons. Pink, hot-tempered, strange nose, camp son (Cedric).