The most evil acts in animation

Buu (even Kid Buu) isn't truly evil for a handful of reasons.

Like I said above, there are certain gages you have consider for the culpability of a truly evil character.

A truly evil character needs to commit an act of malice with absolute intent to cause pain and destruction.

Even Kid Buu, was "too innocent" to really recognize the pain and suffering he was bringing upon people. To him, it was fun and games. It doesn't make him evil, it makes him completely misguided. In respects to Buu, he's more like a natural disaster then a true bad guy.
 
Anime1Envy

It's bad enough that
he killed Hughes in the form of his beloved wife
Envy just had to throw salt in the wounds in
by taking takes the form of Hughes before Edward, blaming him for death. Great! Our last view of Hughes is this horrible performance!
This scene in Episode 51 (like the scene in Episode 25) is rather unbearable for me to watch, whenever I see a picture of it or that unskippable trailer on my CoS DVD. At least Anime1 manages to soften the blow with that real-world counterpart...
Anyway...
MangaEnvy tended to just rest on his chosen appearance do make the effect on his victim. However, Anime1Envy likes to go further in the mind games. In this case, 'Hughes' blames Edward for being a lousy son (in view of Anime1Hughes' more paternal relationship with the boys), and this is very in-character for this Envy. His goals and desires motivated by the emotional scars of his own father's abandonment, Envy wants to inflict into Edward the pain of being shunned by a parent/mentor (note that his other forms in this scene- Marcoh, Trisha, and Roy- share a similar role to Ed). Heck, you can view his killing Hughes as a projection of his anti-father sentiments (and it might explain why he plays Gracia instead of Elysia. Elysia the child would be worthless defense against this person of insincere paternal love- in Envy's warped view- but the wife, perhaps a reminder of that other woman whom his father started a new life with- evidence of his abandonment- would do nicely as a revenge against fathers...)
 
Thirded. Just killing Tim would have actually been nice at that point. The kid was scarred for a good majority of his life after that.



Luthor goes out his way to run for president of the US in JLU just to tick Superman off. Seems like some of the most evil things are for petty reasons...Heck I think Joker's main reason for what he did to Tim was just to tick Batman off.

I think Ozai going out of his way to commit genocide to the Earth Kingdom was pretty bad as well. He scared Zuko and banished him to teach him a lesson. Azula wasn't too well treated as well as she was simply a tool for Ozai rather than a daughter. It seems that people to him were just objects. You could say that about Azula, but the thing is...she really did care for her friends, which is why that you actually see her mad is her reaction to Mai's betrayal.



Yeah this was pretty bad, especially since the real reason for going out of his way to screw his son's life up was just to cover up his tracks as a criminal. Even Ozai had a somewhat legit (although twisted) reason to abuse his son (you can also chalk it up to time period and culture). This was solely to keep himself out of jail, despite what he believes.
 
I'm surprised I didn't think of that one myself. Yep, that's most certainly fits the ballpin for something someone has done to just be a rotten person all around.

That might even be worse then Griffith, as Griffith committed his haneous act at the end of his wits and with a little influence from the Hand of God. Lex on the other hand tactfully executed a haneous plan all to tick off superman of his own will. I guess you could argue Brainac may have played a hand, but lets face it, Lex may win the prize as one of the most manipulative bad guys in animation history.

Truly evil!
 
V.V. Argost from The Secret Saturdays is a good example.
He killed Drew's parents (along with a bunch of other people before that) just to take their stuff, killed anyone who would give his real identity away, killed one of his long-time friends, and kills Zack Monday (on-screen) in the process of taking his powers. Also, he attempts to kill our main protagonists plenty of times. All without a single ounce of hesitation or remorse in order to get what he wants.
 
Personally, I tend to find the more petty acts of evil like this one far more horrifying than the usual "take over the world/universe/become a god"-stuff. Not sure why, maybe because the former seems more realistic in comparison to the latter?
 
Well, let's see here...

Scar in The Lion King actually manages to go through with killing Mufasa as he had planned.

The Coachman in Pinocchio continually succeeds in turning naughty boys into donkeys to sell them off to the salt mines, circus, etc. I don't know of anyone more villainous than that.:evil:
 
It's been mentioned, but, as far as I'm concerned, Griffith's actions in "Berserk" clinch it. The things he did were to people he loved.
 
Android 17 from DBZ

The guy kills Dr. Gero THE GUY WHO CREATED HIM TWICE. The first time was as soon as he was awakened. Then he comes back in DB: GT and kills his sibling's (I imagine 18 being his sister) husband AKA Krillin.

And ofcourse Frieza for obvious reasons.
 
Here's an interesting thought about this:

Who's worse, the chicken or the egg? >.>

Gero for making a being like that or Cell for what he does?
 
How about the most evil Pixar bad guy?

Yeah, you guessed it. Fats - um, it's Lotso. I mean, Scar and the rest of the Disney villains are bad. This little piece of sludge is so freaking messed up (no doubt due to his long suppressed bipolar depression left to fester, and his five thousand successful attempts at emotional abuse to a baby doll) that he lets the other toys to get purposely incinerated. Such a caring host. :shrug::mad::(:confused:
 
Well, the abovementioned villain is, IMO, tied as the most evil Pixar villain with Syndrome (The Incredibles) and Charles Muntz (Up). They were also nasty and murderous.

Speaking of murderers, there's Light Yagami. He did ALOT of evil stuff in the show, but his crowning achievement would have to be toward the end, with how he disposed of his ally/lover, Kiyomi Takada. Even if one doesn't even like Takada, what happened to her was just horrific and unfair, since she had served Light loyally and he repays her like THIS! Mikami and Misa kill themselves over Light later as well: two more people who suffered because they devoted themselves to a jerk who didn't care about them.
 
I'm gonna name Beast Wars Megatron, for KILLING the original Optimus Prime, while he was in stasis lock, and damn near undoing the whole universe, or at least the Autobots and their Maximal ancestors.

Oh, and we should probably put up Dante and Father from the First FMA anime and the manga respectively. Both will to kill who knows how many people, destroy numerous civillizations, sacrifice untold numbers of lives, all for the sake of immortality that work less each time, and to become a god respectively. Killing many for a pointlessly selfish goal is pretty rotten.
 
I'm surprised no one mentioned Shao Tucker from Full Metal Alchemist. He uses his own wife as a guinea pig, killing her in the progress. Then, to top it off, he turns his own daughter into a talking dog-creature. By the time Scar finds her, she's in such pain and so mentally scarred that all he can do is put her out of her misery.

And as for Luthor. How about shilling out money to build a nice new neighborhood and hiding a kryptonite powered energy source encased in lead under it, just so he can watch Superman and Captain Marvel tear the neighborhood apart while beating the crap out of each other.
 
I knew someone was bound to try to bring up Light at some point. Although I would concede that later, Light becomes more of a monster then in the earlier episodes, overall, its hard to call Light evil in terms of acts that are evil.

Light had a pure intent to try to bring piece through the world. True, his method for doing this was to essentially kill off all the bad guys.

This is defiantly, overall, a "Ends justify the means" type situation. Weather you believe they do or didn't, you can't deny he at least had the intent to do good.

In terms of what he did to Kiyomi, this act wasn't necessarily evil, it was about survival. Sure, at the point he did it, it was more calculated then hitting fight or flight, but it was still about survival, nothing more, nothing less. There was no malice, hate or any foul emotion involved directed towards Kiyomi.
 
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