Hollywood’s most powerful villains of all times

Every movie is incomplete without the sabotage fight between the hero and the villains. The way the sky is important for the earth; similarly, villains are necessary for the hero. In fact, without Villains, the movie seems incomplete to many. 

The villains are even better when they are towering, seemingly bulky, and can easily hold onto their own against the hero. Whether it’s a powered-up supervillain looking to take over the world, a final opponent armed with deadly kicks, punches, and cartoonish muscles, or a henchman looking to stop a hero in his tracks, a villain with a dominating physique can be the best part of the movie. 

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Over the years, we have seen quite a lot of villains ranging from the bulky ones to the robotic; we have got it all covered and have put together a list of all the dominating ones who ruled the Hollywood industry with their vengeful characters. 

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The villainy character of T-800 Model 101 was played by the great actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie The Terminator, which was released back in 1984. 

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Before Arnold’s character in the later movies turned heroic, his bulky robotic character had tried to hunt down Sarah Connor in the movie, played by Linda Hamilton.

It had stopped her from giving birth to John Connor- who was the man who would lead the resistance against the machines whom he feared immensely. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s days as a champion bodybuilder made him perfectly fit for the role and so intimidating that he only needed a few lines and some long glares to make him one of the most memorable and powerful movie villains of all time.

The movie, Terminator, displayed him with a lot of guns, but he used his jumbo biceps strongly as well to establish his position in the Hollywood industry, 

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Bane from The Dark Knight Rises

When the talk about the super-villainy characters is happening, how can we forget Bane- one of the bulkiest, most outrageous, and known villains out there? Director Christopher Nolan wanted a physical character for Batman, played by Christian Bale after Gotham's defender took on the role of The Joker in the Dark Knight, and damn, he got one in Tom. 

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The famous actor Tom Hardy increased 30 pounds of muscle and pure body mass to play the villain and did four training sessions per day to turn into the imposing, physically unhandleable menace borrowed from one of the darkest storylines in comics history.

 Tom Hardy’s character, which is quite a genius mastermind, breaks Batman's back and holds all of Gotham hostage before being taken down in the movie's climax.

Still, his hulky character and the performance played by Hardy as Bane makes him one of the toughest and most physically dominant villains ever.

Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean 

Pirates of the Caribbean is known for its adventurous storyline and fantastically fantasy characters. The character of Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean gives a whole new meaning to the term "Davy Jones' locker” as this villain's approach is fully intimidating as his claw tends to frighten anyone who is near him.

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The physical strength that Davy possesses is his main power, in addition to how he can appear in a different location quickly, such as when Jack is looking at him at a distance and then is suddenly faced with him.

The main reason why Davy is considered as such a powerful villain is because of the fear he instills in anyone and everyone that he encounters throughout the films. Af the best part is his villainous character’s silhouette is also shown in the post-credits scene of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tells No Tales. 

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 Sauron from Lord of the Rings 

Sauron is one villian who is unforgettable when it comes to the list of powerful villains. The movie Lord of the Rings has many villainy characters, but Sauron stands out of them all. 

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But some consider Sauron out of the race when it comes to powerful villains as his threat is that of being indescribable and, sometimes, an out-of-sight force.

But we do not think the same as Sauron has the superpowers to be a villain and is a shapeshifter who can convert himself into a wolf, a vampire, and a serpent, depending on his wish and will. 

The villain has so much burning heat inside him, so much so that he can even burn Gil-galad with his touch. The scientific knowledge Sauron has led him to create the One-Ring later and build his huge palace.

There are so many other areas where Sauron's powers are astounding, but it's his fiery, malicious self that covers what's within him, which is all what makes him one of the powerful villains. 

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Thanos 

Thanos from the movie Avengers is one name everyone might have heard even if they are not into the world of Avengers. He is the genocidal villain and 

 Is considered the most powerful of any other fantasy villains because he has managed to capture all the stones and erase half the universe until, of course, the more powerful Avengers and so many others defeated him in the latest of the movie, Avengers: Endgame. 

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His near-immortal existence has made him to possess extreme physical strength and endurance kevels which any other villain from Avengers do not have. He also has some universe ending powers which are incredible and are immeasurable.

His retrieval of the stones is a frightening sight to see, both for the viewers and the Avengers because it became quite clear from it that he may be unstoppable.

Thanos was finally defeated by the Avengers. But before his demise, Thanos was indeed invincible and the universe's most threatening and powerful villain.

Norman Bates 

Norman Bates from the movie Psycho which was released in 1960 is one of the most powerful villains of all times. He is the famous man with the knife behind the women in the infamous Shower scene of the movie.

He is no mere villain, and he is the first of this kind of cinematic psycho villain that the industry has seen. Norman is a movie monster which is one hundred percent human without any superpowers. 

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He is not some fanged phantom or hairy bloke-beast, but a guy who could be standing next to you right now. He is someone you would never suspect of wanting to harm even a fly.

These days our big screens are filled with serial killers these days, so it’s hard to imagine just how shocking and terrifying mother-possessed motelier Norman Bates was to 1960 audiences or how much a kick Alfred Hitchcock got out of being behind the shock, but it’s fair to say how he truly redefined horror with his natural psychic powers marks him one among the most powerful villains of all times. 

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Voldemort 

Voldemort can never be left out from the list of super-powerful villains because he is one among them. Some say that the name of this character was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s character M.Valdemar, but in reality, it was J.K Rowling’s love of French that resulted in the name, which stands for “flight of death.” “I needed a name that evokes both power and exoticism,” she said in 2009.

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Those two words sum up the Death Eater Supreme very adequately. Exotic because he’s a mix of man and snake, slit-nosed and cold-blood.

Powerful because his command over dark magic is very powerful, so much so that he can fly without a broomstick. The watcher can sense his powerful presence in every shadow on the screen.

Nevertheless, whatever his name stands for, there’s a reason no one dares to speak of him. 

The Joker 

Joker came from comic book roots as a maniac, through the campy incarnation brought to movie and TV screens by Cesar Romero. The  Joker was always a figure of fun, and Mark Hamill's cartoon take on the character also was a fun-sided one. 

But Tim Burton and Jack Nicholson brought some darker shades to characters through the 1989 big-screen re-invention. Still, it's not hard to argue that Chris Nolan and Leath Hedger took on the villainy side of the character well when the Joker entered the more grounded film universe in The Dark Knight in 2008. 

Ledger's Joker is a thing of ugly beauty, a man who will do anything to achieve his aims and, to rephrase the words of Michael Cain Alfred, the Joker wants to watch the world burn.

Then, through Todd Phillips Joker, he got the chance to shine on his own, minus the Bat, and played here by Joaquin Phoenix and brought the Oscar home.