Film Guru Lad's Top Movie Villains: Part 3

My apologies to you. It's been so long since Part Two of the best movie villains, but finally, here it is, and I would love to hear what you say about your favourite villains. If you missed the first two parts of this list, go into (parts one) and (two).

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#7. HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Here is a different one from what you have been expecting! HAL 9000 is the benevolent artificial intelligence that betrays the trust of humans and is the first time viewers have seen a machine that turns evil. HAL 9000 is the precursor of those machines that went rogue.

HAL is programmed to monitor the spacecraft of Discovery One and its personnel. Throughout the movie, he becomes very corrupt and disagrees with those that give him orders to cancel the mission, which leads to a downward spiral of events. He begins to control the spaceship in light of his self-preservation and becomes a traitorous operating system that seeks to take command over the humans who programmed him.

#6. Loki (Thor & The Avengers)

It's easy to root for Loki
since he always comes
second to his brother Thor,
a favourite of his adoptive
father over Loki himself.
This jealousy adds fuel to
the fire and causes him to
have an innate desire to
rule as king, overthrow his
brother and win his father's

approval. Among his

atrocities and cunning

nature, Loki also wipes out

his race, The Frost Giants and forms a deadly alliance with an alien race to try and invade New York City through his power of the Tesseract. Unfortunately, he meets his biggest match when coming against the powerful Hulk.

#5. Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars Trilogy)

If you think Darth Vader is the only big bad of Star Wars, you know that he only serves one man, Emperor Palpatine. Yes, this evil Sith Lord is a chess master of villainy. He has done a lot of monstrous deeds, including getting elected as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic by letting the Separatists invade his peaceful world of Naboo. Palpatine then started the Clone Wars by playing both sides of one another. He is responsible for turning young Anakin Skywalker into the evil and ruthless Darth Vader and ordering the clone troopers to execute the Jedi (except for a few). This master-manipulating tyrant orchestrated the events that led to the birth of the Empire and the Jedi's near extinction. No one would stand up to him except for Vader's long-lost son Luke who the Emperor wants to turn to the dark side and have him become like his father.

#4. Agent Smith (The Matrix Trilogy)

While the first Matrix film stands
out against the two sequels, you
know they had the same villain
who is menacing enough to look
like a Men in Black agent, except
that he is a computer program that
looked like an agent and used to be
one. Yes, that name would be Agent
Smith, and this human-despising
rogue program is now a virus bent
on absorbing the bodies of humans.
He even can turn any other
programs and his former co-agents
and changes them into duplicates
of himself. His purposes remain
disclosed but only hint that
Smith is not only plotting the
destruction of humanity but of his
robotic creators of the Matrix. Agent Smith meets his match when confronting his nemesis Neo for the first time. He becomes a more relentlessly powerful foe when he has returned, but his enemies still can't stop him. He is the other saving grace of the later instalments as the main antagonist.

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