Who is the quintessential anime Villain ?

who comes to mind when you think Shonen anime bad guy

Frieza and Aizen.

Sadly Frieza, Aizen's more of a meme then anything.

Light Yagami.

Frieza fo'sho

Frieza.

Team Rocket is a close second, but they were only a threat for about 5 episodes in season one before they were memes.

My favorite runner ups are

Elder Toguro, Karasu, and Frieza

But the number quintessential anime villain by far, is Griffith.

Vegeta from Villain to hero.

Madara

Wow thinking about this, and there is not much that comes to mind that stands out. You have Majin Buu,Broly an Father but that is all I can think of.

It's Frieza.

Gotta go with Knives

Darkseid.

i just think of cloaks and either long or spikey hair,

@legacy6364: Light was good. He did the double and triple dip. A great. Villain. I know you hear it coming... He went out like a total BITCH.

Dick Dastardly

@lunacyde said:

Gotta go with Knives

I think most people remember Legato more, though Knives still was a phenomenal villain.

Freeza? King Piccolo? Cell?

In terms of Shonen? Easily Raoh

Anime in general? Probably between Griffth or Johan Liebert

At the moment, I'm on the JoJo hype train... so...

And someone above mentioned Aizen was a meme.

So here's a JoJo meme. Beware of PART 4 SPOILERS though.

CHEW

Yami Bakura.

But I'm more than a bit bias, lmao.

Exactly what I was going to say

Johan Liebert is arguably one of the greatest anime villains

toei animation ;)

Griffith

No doubt, such a complex character

Johan Liebert.

Zaltar

Madara.

Zeref

Frieza and Aizen. Oh, and maybe Madara.

Johan Liebert. He's the epitome of cruelty in anime.

Aizen and Cell. Aizen was just so blatantly evil and Cell just wanted to beat the best to be the best.

Frieza, Aizen and itachi/Orochimaru.

Aizen wasn’t really evil when you think about it. Same with Johan Liebert. They’re more of calculating/psychopathic

I didn't know there were so many Monster fans in CV :)

Dio, Aizen, Griffith