Rooting for villains

My little brother always wanted Dick Dastardly to win a Wacky Race.

Catwoman too.

Exactly, OP. Wile E. Coyote was fun, snide and wildly creative. RR was a whooshing balloon with legs and an irritating honk.

I also kept wanting Sylvester to finally chomp down on that uber-grating, cloying Tweety Bird.

[quote] I also kept wanting Sylvester to finally chomp down on that uber-grating, cloying Tweety Bird.

Agreed, R3.

All the time. Voldemort could've killed that bitch Potter on multiple occasions, but he always talked too much and let him get away. Pissed me off.

I have to agree Wile E. Coyote, I identified much more with him. that Road Runner was handed everything on a silver plate.

I was rooting for the Demon Regan in The Exorcist.

I always had the desire to see Elmer Fudd blast that smartass rabbit's face off.

The strangling scene in Mommie Dearest...

I'm to for the Night King on Game of Thrones. He's a fucking boss whereas Cersei is just a cunt.

Yes. Baby Jane Hudson.

I was a big fan of Geoffrey

I was rooting for The Mummy in the Tom Cruise abortion of a movie last year. It would have been the only thing to make it watchable.

#TeamThanos

Carmen San Diego.

Meryl in Devil Wears Prada.

Minnie Castevet in Rosemary's Baby

Anyone against Batman and Robin. They always messed it up in the end and I was always disappointed.

Cruella de Vil

Martha Stewart, Leona Helmsley, Ruth etc...

Hatsumomo - Memoirs of a Geisha

The Wicked Witch of the West

Mighty Mouse vs the cats. The cats didn't have names that I recall, but they were the villains. Not sure in what universe a mouse (vermin) is better than a cat?

I just wanted the cats to beat the snot out of that smug mouse once. Just once.

Curly wasn’t a villain but I always wanted him to destroy Moe

The whale in Moby Dick.

There was a animated film that came out when i was a kid. It was called Chicken Run, and it was about chickens attempting to escape from a chicken farm and its harsh owners...

I wanted the chickens to fail, and remain on the farm.

Second me on The Margaret Hamilton Wicked Witch of the West...and Angelique on Dark Shadows.

R24 I think anybody who has seen the dreary Gregory Peck version wanted the whale to eat Capt Ahab.

I hated Wiley and I hated Mighty Mouse.

Angelique was my favorite on Dark Shadows. She could have done so much better than Barnabas.

Regina George.

I always wanted to sleep with King Joffery before he was poisoned

in the 80s soap Dynasty I wanted Alexis to win. Always.

Betty Broderick

Yuuuge Meghan McCain fan!!

R25 - as much as I loved Chicken Run as a kid, it never actually made me feel guilty about eating chicken. Come to think of it, that's quite strange.

J. R. and Alexis were my favorites. (Weren't they everyone's?)

I wish they could have a done a Dallas and Dynasty crossover. J. R. and Alexis trying to outdo each other while also fucking.

Jaws. Rooted for the shark.

Dark Willow on Buffy.

When she was about to transform Dawn back into a ball of mystical energy, I was shouting at the screen for her to stop talking and just do it.

Gollum

R38, I will never understand why they cast Michelle Trachtenberg in that role. I know she was young, but there MUST have been better actresses of that age out there.

I really wanted Glenn Close to kill Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction.

Darth Vader. He was awesome.

I cheered for the Indians over the cowboys & federal troops.

Never Eve over Margot.

The Yankees.

Go Go Gophers always outsmarted the Colonel.

Obviously, some villains are more charming than heroes (see Larry below).

But a cultural historian will tell you that anti-heroes (Brando, Guevara etc) became more appealing to the gullible in the post WWII years.

Deborah Norville? You dumped me for Deborah Fucking Norville??

Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.

Not really a villain, but The Trix rabbit. Just let him have some goddamn cereal.

The Sea Hag.

Sometimes Popeye and Olive Oyl could be annoying.

Paul Spector in "The Fall"

The Punisher in Daredevil S2. Absolutely.

R52 That woman just tries too hard.

She's like those Second-rate Male athletes who go elsewhere in order to be a First-rate tranvestite athlete.

The evil queen from Snow White

I was just about to say the evil queen in Snow White. People should have known I was gay by the way I idolized her. She was so much more interesting and layered than Snow White. I always thought they should have really given Snow White more of a real personality and sense of humor to make a point about how beauty only lasts for so long and how having a personality is better.

Wouldn't you be pissed if you had to wake up every morning to some little bitch with a perfect complexion and who'd sing in that shrill soprano to birds as she was doing yard work? How could you not be on the evil queen's side?

[quote] The whale in Moby Dick.

You were in luck, then.

Negan

Disney’s Jafar and also Yzma.

Both intelligent viziers & technocrat mages with developed socio-political ideologies who could easily have governed a country far more effectively than the spoiled stupid hedonists for whom they worked.

Evil Roy Slade had style.

I loved Maleficent-poor dear was hard done by when overlooked for an invitation to the Royal wedding.

I hated Maleficent so much, I wrote her an un-fan letter courtesy of our local movie palace.

The Germans in Stalag 13 were always the victims and Hogan and his men kept taking advantage of their ineptness. Poor Schultz.

The Empire in Star Wars.

Not just the cool ships and uniforms, the rebels seem a bunch of insufferable scruffy cunts, they have no discernible political philosophy or cause, and it's never explains quite why The Empire was/is the bad guy. The new SJW star wars turns this up to 11.

It relies on American nationalism and being a stand in for that Americans bizarre self righteous genesis myth story they teach their children, hence why the Empire all have English accents.

Niklaus in The Originals.

[quote]it's never explained quite why The Empire was/is the bad guy.

I assume you missed where, among other things, they murdered a planet full of people.

Completely on the side of Thanos. He was in fact right, specially considering all the douche brooeing that is done by the Avengers.

Endora. She correctly understood that her beloved daughter's life would be filled with trial and tribulation due her marriage to Durwood and she wanted to help her escape that. Also, Endora had style.

In pro-wrestling it’s generally a given that over half the audience will be rooting for the ‘heels’ I.e. antihero or villain character.

As a longtime viewer this holds true for me most of the time. It’s rare I ever support or want to watch a babyface i.e. heroic character work or promo over a heel.

R53 The Punisher was pretty cool. But although he was the opponent I wouldn't classify him as a villain, since he had his own moral code and wouldn't kill an innocent.

I used to loathe Derwood, the bad-tempered, insecure, controlling prick. But Endora was magnificent! I might suggest it for a float at Sydney's next Mardi Gras- "Rooting For Endora" .

And dressing up in Endora's chiffon and electric blue eye shadow is as good an excuse for a root as any.

I thought Simba was an annoying little shit and hoped the hyenas would eat him. Come to think of it, I hated most of the Disney protagonists. Mulan was the only one I remember liking.

Diana (V The Series)

Ursula/Vanessa (The Little Mermaid)

Posion Ivy (Batman and Robin)

Faith (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

Kate Argent (Teen Wolf)

Lilith (Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina)

Ares(Xena/Hercules)

Ruby (Supernatural)

Shere Khan.

The Evil Queen was always the best. I'd judge every adaptation of Snow White by how they portrayed the Evil Queen. If I could feel the creators judging her, I'd get super mad. Yes, I was a very weird child.

Here's my thing, though - if you want us to root for Snow White, give her a goddamn personality. We can't relate to little miss perfect. People can relate to a woman losing everything that made her special to some little twerp.

Every reality show

John Waters did a very funny commentary track for "Mommie Dearest." Of course he sides with Joan. If I remember correctly, he says "Christina's a bitch" more than once.

R65 Klaus and Damon were both shit. Katherine should've killed them.

R59 I think in general The Emperor's New Groove is underrated. I loved Yzma and Kronk. She'd make a great DL icon.

Loki in the Avengers movies.

Ursula in the Little Mermaid, Elle Driver in Kill Bill, Ms. Wardwell/Lilith on Sabrina, Seska on Voyager.

I wanted road runner to get eaten too. And tweety. And mighty mouse.

I wanted Elmer Fudd to kill that loud mouthed asshole Daffy Duck. Loved the episode with “wabbit season/duck season” seeing that shit stirring mallard getting his beak blown off. Ahh childhood memories!

The Riddler

Now that I think of it, Endora was right. Samantha gave up her power to be Darren’s drudge.

In The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, there was an episode where witch-hunting Angels were killing witches. The witches were unlikeable creatures and I couldn't stand Sabrina so I was rooting for the Angels.

R85 That episode was memorable due to Sabrina but those angels came out of nowhere.

Little Rhoda in "The Bad Seed," of course. I really wanted to see how she would make sure Monica Breedlove would get what was coming to her.

I usually like the villain color scheme. Purple, black, gray, etc. Everything has a cool look to it usually.

Cecile DePoulignac

Alma Rudder

Disney established the villain colors.

Loved this queen.

I wanted Jo to FUCK Blair--does that count?

I wanted the librarian to tell her nothing about the success rate for angioplasties.

I always wanted the Baroness to get the captain and send those kids to boarding school and further estrange them from their father. Then the two of them would escape to Switzerland leaving the children and Maria to their fate in the anschlus. The postwar period would be spent with the rich of Paris, London and Rome with occasional trips to New York and Buenos Aires.

I couldn't imagine anything more tedious than ending up in a ski lodge in Vermont.

Sheriff Buck (American Gothic)

He was the most interesting character, & Gary Cole was (is?) a fucking hot daddy.

I did as a kid. As a child I sort of felt like I was not a good person. Rooting for the villain was a manifestation of that.

But letting the villain win seemed most fair to me. The villain works so hard on his plans yet fate was always on the side of the good guy - who was often a self-righteous, bumbling idiot. The villain was the creative, hard-working underdog whom nobody liked, and in my childish mind I saw myself in him.

Scrooge. That family was insufferable.

Walter White aka Heisenberg

Spike, Darla and Drucilla. I wanted them to kill both Buffy and Angel. Also Lindsey and Lilah on Angel.

Is the Cockgobbler a favorite villain?

Tom Ripley.

Emperor Palpatine in the prequels.

Who would you root for! A fabulous and clever old queen, or a couple of young idiots and their mentors who take children away from their parents and make them into celibate super-monks whether they like it or not? The Jedi were assholes, Palpatine was a man after my own heart.

I rooted for the aliens in the half of "Attack the Block" that I watched, otherwise, no.

The Monstars should have won SPACE JAM.

Aside from Lola Bunny none of those Looney Tunes could hoop worth a damn.

I wanted the Nazis to find Anne Franks

R99 I liked Lilah and Lindsey too. Christian Kane was pretty hot back then. I'm still not over the way he died in season 5. Poor Lorne 🙁

FABULOUS!

lovvveed voldemort! wish he would've finished off annoying ass harry potter.

I rooted for the Sheriff played by Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

I also rooted for Soames played by Eric Porter in The Forsyte Saga [1967].

So there must be something about British actors.

Cersei in Game of Thrones. I didn’t like anything about her except that her character was always the most magnetic to me, and I couldn’t imagine the show without her. I am glad she lasted until the end and I don’t mind that she got a relatively sweet ending because she gave a good show.

Jon Snow on the other hand was all good and honor and I always dreaded having to follow his annoying story.

A lot of us have read books about mountaineering other than "Into Thin Air". For instance, when I was younger, I read many books by climbers, including Tenzing Norgay's.

The most interesting was a used book about the first ascent of Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog. There was the usual stuff about the technical difficulties of the mountain and the climb... but it was the only book where the climber actually talked about feeling joy at summiting. Most climbers don't discuss their feelings in books, it's against their Guy Code or something, but Herzog reported that when he finally got to the summit alone he felt... the strangest feeling of absolute happiness. He said he stumbled off the peak in a daze of euphoria and it took him hours to realize that his gloves were gone and his hands were so badly frostbitten that he ended up losing most of his fingers. And that the great mountain hadn't brought him to a state of nirvana, that was hypoxia doing strange things to his brain.

And it was then I realized I NEVER wanted to climb the Himalayan summits!

Shit on a stick, wrong thread.

I was rooting for the bitchy alien guy in Captain Marvel over the insufferable Brie Larson before they teamed up together.

R110 Another one here rooting for Cersei.

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.

Imagine having to put up with those useless Luddite Moebians.

Draco Malfoy my hottie

Was rooting for the shark in Jaws

R116 is Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way

You just have to root for Baby Jane!

Blanche is so smarmy ("That's charming, really charming." "How KIND people are! ") and stupid (all the business with the note to the neighbor-just call to her from the window, you dumb twat!) that I relish seeing her tormented.

And of course the fact that she tried to kill Jane..for imitating her at the party!

I remember rooting for The Grand Mof in the first Star Wars, and have been a firm Royalist for the Empire in all subsequent films. I was upset that they made Lord Vader turn back to the Force, then killed him in ROTJ.

I was also rooting for The Dominion in Star Trek:Deep Space Nine.

^^reading the Old Republic books of the Star Wars Extended Universe (yeah, I know) you really get a feel for why the Jedi Order imploded and collapsed as it did, and how the alternatives to supplant them as a ruling societal class other than the Empire weren’t much better. The Sith even start to make a lot of sense once you hit the ‘Knights’ books. I am a fan of Darth Plagueis and think he is almost heroic in his villainy. Then there’s the tragedy of Qui-Gon’s own version of Anakin, Xanatos...

The bullies in Young Torless. Their victim Basini is a real masochist and takes a lot of punishment. The bullies triumph in the end.

Wile E. Coyote

The whole "Villain giving their victory speech and allowing the hero time to get away" is such a tired plot device. I want to yell at them, "A speech given over their lifeless body will be just as satisfying!".

I'll second the Evil Queen in Snow White. The poor woman only had her looks. I always feel sorry for people like that. They still exist today and, once they hit 40 or 50, they realize their looks are fading/gone and they have nothing to fall back on since they were always praised for their looks and never developed a personality.

I'd love to see someone try their hand at a modern, less fantastical Snow White. Just a jealous woman trying to kill off her younger competition.

Also, the "wicked" fairy in Sleeping Beauty. She had a right to be mad.

I don't actually believe not being invited to somebody's baptism is quite reason enough to attempt to ruin their life. Just kill the thoughtless parents.

R124 Only exception I can think of is The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Tuco is having a bath while the vengeful gunman starts his diatribe. Tuco shoots him with a hidden gun he had in the tub and stands over him saying “If you’re going to shoot, then shoot. Don’t talk.”

[Quote] I'd love to see someone try their hand at a modern, less fantastical Snow White. Just a jealous woman trying to kill off her younger competition.

I can see Netflix attempting to do one. They'd probably hire someone like Alexandra Daddario to play Snow White.

R125 Yukio Mishima’s novella ‘Thirst For Love’ is about a jealous middle-aged doyenne with fading beauty who kills (or, at least, orchestrates convenient deaths).

On several daytime soaps.

They usually wrote the hero/heroine as either so whiny and perfect or as someone who had everything bad that could possibly happen to them happen (repeatedly), so by the time they were on their eighth car accident or tenth abandonment by a spouse, you just hoped that some fabulous villain with an evil cackle would come along and finish them off!

Spoiler - Blanche is a villain, too! This helps Baby Jane be so horrific in rewatches.

Who me? Was rooting for the slave owners throughout Roots

I always felt sorry for the Joker.

R133 I feel more sorry for Harley.

[quote] Emperor's New Groove is underrated. I loved Yzma and Kronk. She'd make a great DL icon.

But of course, she’s Eartha Kitt!

R72 lol poor qwerty. You’d think he’d get a little more love round here.

Ia though that Simba was a flakey fuckboi asshole with no real useful skills. All he ever did was angst.

OP this premise is the underlying idea behind the hit series COBRA KAI, which follows the story of bully Johnny Lawrence reviving his dark dojo much to the chagrin of former hero Daniel Larusso.

We even have a thread about it.

[Quote] But of course, she’s Eartha Kitt!

She did an excellent job at playing an ugly ass white woman.

The Codys on Animal Kingdom.

I thought Toecutter from Mad Max was sexy. Pretty boy Mel did nothing for me.

Ramsey in GOT. Sansa was mealy mouthed bitch who got her father killed.

On "Little Mercantile on the Prairie", I always rooted for Harriett and Nellie over the insufferable Caroline, Charles, Mary and Laura. Those sanctimonious newcomers had a nerve coming into Olsenville and try to dethrone queen Harriett.

Squidward over Spongebob, always

I loved The Grinch (original cartoon version) just the way he was.

All the villains on Melrose Place were so much more fun than annoying Billy and Allison, and dumb, boring Jane.

Wilhemina W. Witchiepoo was my hero.

I was dragged to see Black Sunday and was rooting for the entire football stadium and its inhabitants to be blown up.

I always wanted to see what the world would be like if the Legion of Doom or any supervillain actually succeeded and took it over.

They didn't seem to have thought ahead for the details--how they would administer disputes , deal with emergencies, etc. All they seemingly wanted was to wear a crown and have the superheroes drive them by pulling a chariot, like Tamburlaine. (This was a favorite image for Jack Kirby to draw in 60s Marvel Comics.) I wanted to see how they would react to practical problems afterwards.

R146 that is halfway the plot of VENTURE BROS. on Adult Swim. The protags are heroes, Dr. Venture and his two sons, but they are so incompetent and small-time that they are essentially the perpetual losers of the piece. Not that the more powerful villains who 'arch' them are much better at running global affairs; they're more organised (with guilds and unions!), better-funded and equipped and more skilled but they still can't hold power efficiently.

R141 I feel that way about Severen (RIP Bill Paxton) of Kathryn Bigelow's masterpiece Western NEAR DARK. The quintessential vamp bad-boy for me.

I always rooted for Witchiepoo

I always was on Erica’s side.

..and I loved her castle!

I never root for Trump.

Jennifer Pace

Joe Goldberg on You

I rooted for Renee Zellweger's character in What/If.

Lisa Lamont deserved to get away with everything.

The shark in Jaws 2. Those snotty teenagers were insufferable. Especially the girl who kept on screaming.

Thomas and O'Brien in Downton Abbey. So over the top. Tripping a limping veteran. Always scheeming, even against each other.

Draco Malfoy.

The Misfits in Jem.

Colin Farrell as a fascist in Fantastic Beast. Yeah I worry about myself too. But he had so much style and charisma !

The original Grinch, yes. Whoville denizens are annoying.

Alex Delarge in Clockwork Orange. But then I suppose he is more of an antihero than a total villain.

For French speaking kids of the 80s : Eliza in the cartoon Candy. What a splendid bitch. Do you remeber when she condescended to lend Candy a gown, but it was too small on purpose ?

Cloverfield

r105 That is fucked up. You went way too far. Fuck you.

Dexter in 'Dexter'. I wish I knew a Dexter. There are many people I'd ask him to keep at bay his dark passenger on.

Wile E Coyote as well. I had to stop watching that cartoon at one point because it would infuriate me.

I wanted Diana to win!

[quote]I was born last night when you met me in that alley.

Never mind Gilda, it's the lost footage of Johnny and Ballin I want to see.

I rooted for King George in Hamilton.

Diana (V) over Donovan, but not over Dr. Juliet. The series stupidly changed the main rivalry from Diana/Julie to Diana/Donovan when the 80's were built on female rivalries. Julie was badass and could not be converted by Diana. Donovan vs Diana was boring.

Diana’s rivalry in the series was with fellow visitor Lydia. She was Crystal to Diana’s Alexis.

[quote]in the 80s soap Dynasty I wanted Alexis to win. Always.

Anyone who wanted Crystal to win clearly scrapbooks while wearing ugly Christmas sweaters.

Strongly, strongly rooted for Michael Biehn in The Abyss over Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

^YES! Me, too. I also loved Michael Biehn in those days, so I always rooted for him.

^ Agreed R167. James Cameron is great at creating strong female characters, but she was just a total cunt.

r164 Yes and that was fine for on the ship rivalry but they were clearly building a Julie/Diana rivalry at one time. Both were hot, both were scientists, both were the leaders and leading military assaults, both were the brains of the operations, both were strong.

R168 That’s why I loved her. She was that BITCH!

I rooted for Freddie in the New "Nightmare on Elmstreet" with that duck-lipped Rooney Mara and the rest of that insufferable cast.

And the Predators in the newer versions with Adrian Brody and the other one with that pro-beard Olivia Munn and Boyd Whatshisface

Gargamel and Azreal. The Smurfs were irritating little shits, especially Brainy and Jokey.

Kristen on DOOL.

I was rooting for that deranged tranny Margo when he tried to kill Kelly Garrett on "Charlie's Angels".

Soames as portrayed by Eric Porter in The Forsyte Saga 1967.

Not exactly a villain but he wasn't supposed to be a heroic character, except I rooted for him far more than I did for Irene.

R160 I loved that black and white outfit.

R175 one of the few episodes of Charlie's Angels that I've seen 😄

I'm rooting for Mary Louise in Big Little Lies season 2.

The Aliens in Aliens. I had loved Alien. It was such an amazing poetic film. The bored, lazy, realistic characters. The deliberate slow pace. So rare to see a film that didn't pander to the audience. And then James Cameron made Aliens. Loud and trashy. And all the characters (except RIpley) were annoying, smarmy, gung ho assholes. Full off themselves and vile. I couldn't wait for the aliens to kill them all.

In the BBC series of Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne as played by Richard Armitage. That fucker was hot dressed in black! I was always on his side against that little wimpy looking Robin.

I think Pat Garrett had a legit grievance in turning on Billy the Kid, who became an egomaniacal sport-killer, in any movie. This goes double for GUNS II however, thanks to the handsome upright stoical William Peterson playing Garrett.

I also found Christian Slater’s portrayal of yellow-bellied racist creep ‘Arkansas’ Dave Rudabaugh somehow likeable in this movie, even though he is written and cast to type as a cockroach with no redeeming qualities.

[Quote] And then James Cameron made Aliens. Loud and trashy. And all the characters (except RIpley) were annoying, smarmy, gung ho assholes. Full off themselves and vile. I couldn't wait for the aliens to kill them all.

I wouldn't say trashy. Yes, most of them were cocky assholes except for Newt and Hicks.

Preppy bully Steff McKee (James Spader) in PRETTY IN PINK.

He loved Andie the longest and with the most realistic eye, and if you actually break it down he was the least creepy of her threee suitors about courting her; he didn’t stalk, guilt-trip, neg or ghost her and he gave her ample space respecting her choice. He also just really needed and wanted someone to love him for him and not just his money & status. He was too smart & sophisticated for that pit of a school, too.

R183 can't say i agree. Steff was an asshole to Andie and i'm glad she didn't give him the time of day.

Mr. Burns and Smithers

Tom from Tom & Jerry

Amanda Woodward from Melrose Place

Not really a villain, but I also liked Dan Fielding from Night Court.

I loved Cersei on Game of Thrones and hoped she would win in the end.

I want the IDF to hunt down R105 and gun him down in cold blood.

The thieves in "Ocean's Eleven" own this thread.

I loved Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid. I just thought his costume was so bad ass.

I rooted for the black rapists in [italic]The Birth of a Nation[/italic]. Take that, you racist white bitches! That was payback for centuries of white men raping black women.

[quote]Not really a villain, but I also liked Dan Fielding from Night Court.

I did too.

I always cheer when Dorothy Kilgallen guesses it.

For R8!

People who root for villains probably have hybristophilia.

[quote]Hybristophilia is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and/or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed an outrage, cheating, lying, known infidelities, or crime—such as rape, murder, or armed robbery.

R185 yeah, exactly.

And Steff did neg Andie, calling her a bitch to her face and implying she was frigid later on. He also conspired to wreck her relationship with her boyfriend, and was possibly stalking her (he knew where she parked her car, where she worked etc.).

Andie was too good for any of those guys, with her standards and principles and creative ambition. Along with her deadbeat Dad all the men in her life were worthless. She should have moved in with Iona.

For the classicists: one for Scarpia in Puccini's "Tosca". He has fabulous music, a lusty temperament, and his cunning makes the two protagonists look stupider than lab rats. He can easily walk off with the piece.

I liked all the women in SCOTT PILGRIM but moreso the ex-girlfriends cast in oppositional roles like Envy Adams & Knives Chau. I find Ramona Flowers kind of....bleh by comparison to them. Even her name.

Ricardo Montalban's "Khan" in "The Wrath of Khan" . . .

BLUTO. Hello?!

And of course, THE EVIL ONE.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde"

^^^Not me, 202, I love watching Faye Dunaway get mowed down.

Wasn't EVERYONE rooting for Glory to slash the life out of Dawn?

R203 LOL

Brent/Marian on Guiding Light. I was 11 I think. My mom watched it. I got hooked on this story. One of the most fucked up and scary stories ever on during the day. Psychotic cross-dresser.

^^^ oh I rooted for him because I wanted the story to continue not the fucked up things he did.

Y&R-Jill Abbott

Captain N: The Game Master-Mother Brain (Levi Stubbs playing her as a sassy black bitch made the character)

Power Rangers-Rita Repulsa (Come on, how could any gay man NOT?)

R204 lol yes! Or for Buffy to push her off of the tower. I love it when Willow threatens to turn her back into a ball of energy in season 6.

Also the Mayor from season 3 was my favourite Btvs villain.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Endora from Bewitched:

Lex on Smallville

Morgana. Pissed me off that she started off basically doing exactly what Merlin was doing, using magic to fix things behind Arthur's back, but somehow it's evil for her to do it so he turns on her. By the time she went fully evil I was angry for her because it was basically Merlin and Arthur's fault. Mordred as well. Merlin had multiple chances to save the kid from the dark side buy instead he decided to be an asshole for no reason. I can't even remember if I watched the whole series because I hated Merlin and Arthur so much towards the end.

I watched The Originals first before going back and trying to watch The Vampire Diaries. lol, nope, couldn't get through it. I just wanted the Mikaelsons to kill them all. Except maybe Bonnie.

I haven't made it past season 2 of True Blood yet because I hate Sookie and Bill so damn much. I'm putting off continuing it because I want Eric to kill them but I know Sookie's gonna turn him into a loser in a season or two.

Squidward. and Mrs Puff. Fuck Spongebob, man. What an asshole.

Buffy and half the Scooby Gang are annoying as fuck. I'd much rather watch a prequel show about Spike, Dru, Angelus and Darla.

I liked Loki way more than Thor in the first Thor movie and was 100% on his side until he went a bit too far in trying to kill him near the end. He was totally right about Thor being a dickhead who shouldn't be king at the start though.

Not rooting for a villain per se, but I can't fucking stand Chloe in Lucifer. He has so much potential to be a cool character and then there's this insipid little human pest dragging him down. Him being in love with her is one of the most ridiculously badly written and chemistry-less relationships I've ever seen.

I hate the John Watson from the BBC Sherlock series. He's at least as much if not more of an asshole as Sherlock, while the narrative, other characters and majority of fans inexplicably treat him like a saint. On top of that he's incredibly boring and annoying, and I can't remotely buy Sherlock wanting anything to do with him. I spent the whole show gradually wishing more and more that Sherlock (and later Mary) would ditch his ungrateful ass and go team up with Moriarty.

Other than the aliens in 'Attack the Block', I don't root for the bad guys.

Hannibal played by Mads Mikkelsen

[Quote] I watched The Originals first before going back and trying to watch The Vampire Diaries. lol, nope, couldn't get through it. I just wanted the Mikaelsons to kill them all. Except maybe Bonnie.

I only really liked Bonnie and Katherine. I don't understand Klaus or Damon's appeal, they're both pieces of shit. But of course nothing was going to happen to them with JPs tongue up their asses.

I rooted for Katherine on The Vampire Diaries.

Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. He was so much more passionate than Jesus, who came off kind of whiny.

R208 ah, Rita Repulsa. Loved that Queen.

It’s the same story with the villains in the original Japanese Sendai (on which the US Power Rangers are based). The campy bad guys are always more entertaining.

My favorites are Rio & Mele, the antagonists of the annoying Gekirangers (who became the US Wild Force PR team). Mele is like a DLr always talking obsessively about Rio and hot hot & beautiful he is I.e. “I once saw a man so beautiful I fought for his love as a WARRIOR”.

If I could put a contract out on Tweety Bird I would, anyone?

I always liked Catwoman more than either Batman or Robin. I would never have admitted it for fear the other kids would judge me. My nephew, on the other hand doesn’t care what the other kids think. He’s a joker fan. He openly wants him to get the better of Batman.

R218 I particularly love and support the 1992 Australian cast Judas in Jon Stevens.

I hated the Roadrunner AND Wile E. Coyote. When I was a kid I thought they were cheap filler and I wanted more of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer, not this repetitive chase junk.

Frank Langella's Dracula

R224, I saw him in that production and yes, I was rooting for him. What a great set, too, with the red highlights in a black and white field.

Peter Lorre in M.

I’m surprised more people didn’t cite Joker. I found myself rooting for The Joker in both 1989’s Batman and The Dark Knight. Made me question whether or not I was inherently evil.

Kathryn Marteuil Patty Hewes - I really wanted her to kill Ellen. Marquise de Marteuil

Whenever I'm in a shitty mood I watch Jaws and root for the shark. Sadly he always dies.

R22, I had not heard that version before! You’re right, AMAZING!! I am a little bit of a JCS, uh...geek? So I am TOTALLY excited now and just bought the Australian soundtrack. Thank you so much for mentioning it!

[Quote] I always liked Catwoman more than either Batman or Robin.

I still do lol

[Quote] Whenever I'm in a shitty mood I watch Jaws and root for the shark. Sadly he always dies.

I think you'd enjoy Deep Blue Sea.

[quote]So I am TOTALLY excited now and just bought the Australian soundtrack.

It's called a 'cast recording.'

'Soundtracks' are only for films/TV shows.

Sorry R232, I got carried away with my own enthusiasm...