Who is the greatest Anime/Manga villain

After watching the new Broly movie, I realized that Frieza is an absolute cunt and one of the greatest villains ever. I just wanted to see what others think.

Griffith

Greatest like strongest? Best written? Most enjoyable to watch?

I personally think Muerem and Pain are the best written villains in terms of character devolpment. As a pure villain through and through I think Aizen and Stain are really interesting and enticing villains with understandable motives.

Johan Liebert.

Aizen

Freiza

Toguro

Saito

Lil Slugger

Cell.

Frieza is my favorite.

Best Anime villain: Lelouch vi Britannia.

Best Manga Villain: Griffith.

Toguro, Pain, Cell, King Bradley, and Ulquiorra are my personal faves.

I'd say Stain but I don't think he's a villain, he's more of an anti-hero.

Aizen

Makishima(Psycho Pass)

Meruem (Hunter x Hunter)

Izaya Orihara (Durarara)

Solf J. Kimblee (Full Metal Alchemist)

Gilgamesh (Fate/)

Shogo Makishima (Psycho Pass)

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Hard to kill villains or main antagonists, who appear to be significantly stronger than the hero, and who are present throughout the whole story:

Ayanami / Verloren ( 07 Ghost )

Naraku ( Inuyasha )

Chaos ( Sailor Moon )

Esdeath ( Akame ga kill !)

Hao Asakura ( Shaman King )

Blackbeard ( One Piece )

Wretched Egg ( Deadman Wonderland )

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Well written villains, with non-trivial or unusual / unexpected motivations for being 'evil', who are also present for longer than only one or two story arcs:

Obito Uchiha ( Naruto )

Raoh ( Fist of the North Star )

Zeref ( Fairy Tail )

Light Yagami ( Death Note )

Char Aznable ( Mobile Suit Gundam )

Sosuke Aizen ( Bleach )

Gilgamesh ( Fate / Stay Night )

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Other villains who typically dominate the plot of a story only for one or two story arcs, but are still well-written and/or unexpectedly much more powerful than the protagonists (at least at the time they were introduced):

Meruem ( Hunter x Hunter )

Shinobu Sensui ( Yu Yu Hakusho )

Zamasu / Goku Black ( Dragon Ball Super )

Acnologia ( Fairy Tail )

Kaguya ( Naruto )

Gemini Saga 'The Pope' ( Saint Seiya )

Hellmaster Phibrizzio ( Slayers )

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Who I consider the 'greatest' of them all, changes all the time, and over time, but for now it's

AYANAMI - The massively overpowered 'God of Death' from the ' 07 Ghost ' manga.

Naruto.

Madara Uchiha(Naruto Shippuden)

Sosuke Aizen(Bleach)

Zeref Dragneel(Fairy Tail)

Meruem(Hunter X Hunter)

Kaido(One Piece)

A lot of villains end up being redeemed, so considering the irredeemable, I'd say Aizen is among the greatest.

Meruem by a mile.

This guy

And this guy, do you know how many people died due to talk-no-jutsu?

@ultimatesage: meh I'd put Madara on like a misguided anti-hero list rather than a villain list, just being an antagonist doesn't really make you a villain.

@lawcol: I wouldn't call Lelouch a villain.

@notcensored: I know, but an antagonist is the villian for the protagonist, so yeah.:/

Plus madara's badass.

Mister Krabs

I hate Ueda, haha

This, some specification would be good!

In what way are Char's motivation unusual? His motivation is just good old fashion revenge against Zabi family for assassinating his father

@gxrevs06:

The motivation for Char's behavior isn't revealed to the audience until very late in the Anime series.

Until then, the audience is left to believe that Char is just another one of Zabi-Zeon's loyal & powerful underlings.

So I think it was unexpected when Char's true + hidden goal of vanquishing the Zabi family (instead of serving them as a loyal underling) was eventually revealed, very late in the show.

Contrast Char Aznable with countless other (not as well-written) villains , who simply appear out of nowhere, then announce their trivial 'evil' goals right at that time they are introduced, and thus take away any sort of suspense and emotional concern (for the villain himself) from the audience.

Oh, right. I watched the The Origin prequel movies first, so I guess my perspective on Char's character is different

Griffith

Aizen

The son of the Prime Minister in Akame Ga Kill.

Pain. Pain spoke so much truth.

Live Action

Griffith.

Aizen

King Bradley

Ayori Tree

pain, meruem and griffith.

Aizen

Pain

Light Yagami

Goku Black

Pain

Goku Black is my # 1

Quite a few, not in any particular order:

Askeladd (Vinland saga)

Pain

Madara

Tobi (before the mask broke)

Orochimaru

Aizen

Ulquiorra

Light Yagami

Reiner (AoT, if he counts as a villain)

Eto

Frieza

King Bradley (Wrath)

Katakuri

Dio

Pain

Griffith

Four Hoursemen:

Johan Libert

Shogo Makishma

Pain

Meruem

Personally mine are:

All for One

Madara Uchiha

Tomura Shigiraki (manga)

Pain and Nagato

Dio

Frieza

Aizen

Goku Black

Blackbeard

Meruem