I hate women!!!

[Gaith]

The best villainess, imo, would be Mrs. Coulter from His Dark Materials, as seen in The Golden Compass w/ Nicole Kidman.

Was her first name Ann?

Marisa. Pullman wrote the character several years before Ann Coulter became well-known. A happy coincidence.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Doesn't anyone like Star Trek around here?

What about Lursa, Betor and Sela?

And Harry Mudd's wife!! I had nightmares for years!!!

Rob

Did they turn into sexual dreams later like the witch?

 

[RobertScorpio]

Doesn't anyone like Star Trek around here?

What about Lursa, Betor and Sela?

And Harry Mudd's wife!! I had nightmares for years!!!

Rob

Did they turn into sexual dreams later like the witch?

shhhh..you'll blow my cover!!

Rob

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Another villainess I just recalled was Princess Ardala from Buck Rogers. I seem to remember that it was rather enjoyable to watch her in action.

Yeah, but not because she was actually evil at all - just hot!

I still remember that scene of her and Gil Gerard dancing this weird dance and her asking if their bodies touch does that mean they have mated. I think that may have jump started my sexual development a tad early.

Oh hell yeah. Ardala was SMOKIN' HAWT.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Someone may have mentioned this, but what about the wicked witch in Wizard of Oz?

Rob

Thinking of her. Yes, she may be a little cliche now but probably 100 years ago, she was damn scary. She still is for little kids.

With that said, what about the Queen from Snow White?

There are some magnificent Disney villains...

And then there are some great ones from Marvel and DC.

Cheetarah is one.

 

[DevilEyes]

With that said, what about the Queen from Snow White?

There are some magnificent Disney villains...

Fairy tales are another genre that typically features female protagonists and female villains. Another one is soap opera (especially Latin American telenovelas). It's the old cliche of bitchy stepmother or rival. Come to think of it, the latter is typical of teenage movies/shows with female protagonists as well, there's always the school bitch who's the contrast to the heroine.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Evil Leaper (Quantum Leap)

If there was ever an "evil female" character that had excuses made for her, it was the Evil Leaper. She wasn't evil; she was just forced to do evil things by her masters. Once Sam gave her chance to join the "good side," she immediately jumped at it.

The problem is, there are, in fact, very few purely villianous female characters. They almost invariably have some excuse for their actions (they're really good, just misguided) (they're being forced to be evil).

There are some, however....

1.) The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia)
2.) Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
3.) Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

 

[Kelthaz]

There's a few, but you pretty much have to look towards Joss for most of them.

- Callisto
- Xena (she did start off evil)
- Faith
- Glory
- Female Founder
- Lilah Morgan

Xena the Warrior Princess was full of female villains, pretty much every major antagonist apart from Ares (who wasn't even always an antagonist) was female: Callisto, Alti, Livia/Eve while she was evil...

Yeah, I forgot about them. Alti was pretty good, despite never being in a good episode, and Livia was great while she was evil.

I'd also count Hera, Athena, Hope, and Najara as pretty badass female villains. They didn't get much screen time, but they used what they had well.

 

[DevilEyes]

The Evil Leaper (Quantum Leap)

If there was ever an "evil female" character that had excuses made for her, it was the Evil Leaper. She wasn't evil; she was just forced to do evil things by her masters. Once Sam gave her chance to join the "good side," she immediately jumped at it.

The problem is, there are, in fact, very few purely villianous female characters. They almost invariably have some excuse for their actions (they're really good, just misguided) (they're being forced to be evil).

There are some, however....

1.) The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia)
2.) Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
3.) Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

Eh? Pretty much every villain in a fairy tale is female and eeeeeevil, all those wicked stepmothers (and hardly any wicked father/stepfather). Same things in soaps. Most femme fatales in film noirs and erotic thrillers are eeevil and have to die at the end of the movie for their crimes.

And I wouldn't say that Empress Livia, Livia Soprano, Cruella De Vil, Kai Winn, Female Founder, the Borg Queen, Seska, all the female villains in Xena the Warrior Princess, Admiral Cain, and so on, were inherently good but misguided and forced to be evil - or if you can make the case for them, you could make the same case for most male villains as well.

After all, how many people have been ready to find excuses for Macbeth, because, oh, it was just his evil wife that convinced him to go through with it, poor little puppy. Or look at the Bible: Adam ate the apple, but it was Eve that made him do it! Herod had John the Baptist killed, but it was his wife and stepdaughter that made him do it!

One thing that fiction has never been lacking in is villainous, demonized females.

 

[Kemaiku]

The Evil Leaper (Quantum Leap)

If there was ever an "evil female" character that had excuses made for her, it was the Evil Leaper. She wasn't evil; she was just forced to do evil things by her masters. Once Sam gave her chance to join the "good side," she immediately jumped at it.

The problem is, there are, in fact, very few purely villianous female characters. They almost invariably have some excuse for their actions (they're really good, just misguided) (they're being forced to be evil).

There are some, however....

1.) The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia)
2.) Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
3.) Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

Hmm, its been a while since I watched the last two seasons, maybe it was her companion that I was thinking of more, she seemed far more manipulative and actually evil.

And yes I mentioned Bellatrix too as she pretty much is outright evil.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Servalan
Elektra King
Catwoman
Hathor
The White Witch (Tilda Swinton)
Lursa & B'Etor
Admiral Cain

 

[Admiral Shran]

Hmm, its been a while since I watched the last two seasons, maybe it was her companion that I was thinking of more, she seemed far more manipulative and actually evil.

You probably were. Her holographic companion, Zoey, was one of her masters that were controlling and abusing her. She was pretty much truly evil.