Transformers the Movie’s very own Megatron has been selected by Yahoo! Movies as one of the top movie villains of all time. Taking his place with characters such as Darth Vader, Magneto, and the T-1000, the evil Decepticon leader gets the credit he deserves as one of the most menacing and fearsome baddies ever!
Ash from Carolina
Well it would make you wonder if Megatron belongs on the list at all then since he acted more like a monster than a character in the film.
Of course the wonderful thing about sci-fi is that line between monster and villain is not always clear.
The Asp
Most of those you mention are monsters of one kind or other, not characters that I would call villains.
From Merriam-Webster.com
1 : villein
2 : an uncouth person : boor
3 : a deliberate scoundrel or criminal
4 : a character in a story or play who opposes the hero
5 : one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty <automation as the villain in job…displacement — M. H. Goldberg>
Frankenstein's monster,Alien queens & Predators don't really fit well with this definition.
But.
Your point about "Bond villains" raises the absurdity of the list, as they are commonly called "Bond villains", so whoever compiled the list almost certainly should have thought of Jaws,Dr. No, et cetera as soon as he,she,it was given the task of making a list of movie villains.
Ash from Carolina
You hit that nail with a three ton hammer.
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein didn't make the list but when you read stories about people who saw the movie as a kid in 1931 they talk about how scared they were to go to sleep that night. How much of a cultral icon has the Karloff look been but it can't make the list.
No Alien Queen, how did that bad ass get left off the list?
No Predator.
No Imhotep from the Mummy.
No Bond villians on the list, heck not even Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers series.
You could make a heck of a list of great villains just with all the ones that got left off of the list to put on things like the One Ring.
The Asp
Considering the fact that movies have existed since the 1880's(?) I think it's a bit odd that this list is made up of "villains" from (mostly) the past twenty years or so.
And I'm not surprised that they forgot films are made outside of hellywood too.
darth vader? Come on.
george lucus would be more apropos.
llamatron
That list is pretty much the lamest thing on Earth.
webz
um… ok… dunno why you'll ignore that Megatron-in-name-only is 4th. He honestly shouldn't be on the list at all. He's on screen less than 5 minutes total, says and does nothing near the level of villainy compared to the other villains on this list (and don't say, "well, he tore apart Jazz" because Jazz is a robot and can be rebuilt), and is little more than a movie monster (like the T. Rex in Jurassic Park).
Even as a movie monster, Megaturd fails to truly deliver. Jaws would be number 1. I realize this probably will make lots here run to mommy, complaining about me not being nice, but hey, it's honest. Megaturd is sooooo out of his league on this list.
Witwicky Camaro
I'll ignore the Megaturd Comment. Okay thanks for the clairfications, I didn't notice that at first.
webz
#1 is Heath Ledger's Joker (which is very deserving – a fantastic performance that will live in legend), #2 is the great asthmatic Lord of the Sith, 3rd is Voldefart. 4th is Megaturd.
3rd SHOULD have been Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter.
Witwicky Camaro
Awesome, so Megatron's #4 of Top Movie Super Villians. So who's #1? Darth Vader?
EDIT: Wow, they put all the other Best Villains on the lowest Ranks.
Ash from Carolina
Wow, it's Batman week alright because that list is such a joke the Joker has to be behind it.
Movie Megatron on the list, you've got to be kidding. Going grr, growl, the cube, grr growl, oh no killed by a kid gets you on the list? He only gets on the list if you actually include Megatrons that did more than just growl get trapped in ice and have their spikey metal butt handed to them. You know actually cool Megatrons like G1, Beast Wars, and Animated.
Bah, real villains have a brain, might as well put the movie Abomination from the Hulk movie on the list.
Optimus Sledge
Everything between Zod and Vader is made of LOSE and FAIL.
Lion
G1 Megatron for me is the Megatron I see in that position.
Baird
I'm surprised, Megatron was a boring villain with nothing to really distinguish him character-wise or in a visual sense.
Bahamut Prime
Interesting news – go Megatron!
knook
What the hell, He's third you fools. The first image isn't an entry
Autovolt 127
Yeah he's with T1000 another great villain.
Takara_destron
Snow White's wicked Queen needs to be higher up.
Julliant
That "killed" Jetfire too but he gets conveniently dug out to be the Autobot taxi.
webz
Joker definitely outranks all the others… however, how could they forget Doctor Hannibal Lecter? He should have been number 3.
Kickback
Are you kidding me? I'd be estatic if that happened to me. I'd have a big orange cannon on my arm and I'd get to scream and shoot everybody and nobody would fuck with me because I could take a serious beating and still kill them 36 times over.
Unless you're Japanese, because then I'm burried in a glacier. H20, in frozen form, kills!