The 8 Most Overrated Villains

Hold your boo’s until the end, geek amigos. It’s going to get far worse than this. Fett plays little to no role in the actual capturing of Han Solo. He shows us nothing to believe he deserves the reputation he has gained as a bounty hunter. Eventually dying an unceremonious death at the hands of a BLIND man. Thank you Sarlacc pit.

M Night Shyamalan’s skills as a filmmaker land him on my list twice. This time for the brilliant race of aliens come to conquer Earth. You know…the planet that’s 70% covered in water. The one substance that seems to turn these aliens into the wicked witch of the west. Master interstellar travel? Check. Choose a race to conquer? Check. Get defeated by half empty glasses of water and a kid with a Louisville Slugger? Oops.

This is still a fun movie to watch. Once again though we are faced with an alien threat that must have slacked off in their research process. After destroying Washington D.C., New York, L.A., and multiple other cities across the globe. This band of geniuses mange to allow their entire fleet to be eradicated with a virus written on a 1996 Macintosh PowerBook connected via printer port.

M Night’s second entry on my countdown. Mr. Glass fancies himself a super villain based solely around the fact that he has a disease called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Now i grew up with someone who had this actual disease and a super villain it does not make. When a strong gust of wind can crack you like an egg…you might want to rethink your profession.

In the Lord of the Rings novels, Sauron is a force of evil. Permeating the entire land. The evil that is inside of us all. In the movies…he’s a lighthouse with a giant flaming eye. He could of at least sent a few orcs out to Mount Doom…just in case the ring showed up there, right? As geek royalty Kevin Smith made fun of in his film Clerks 2. These movies were just a whole lot of walking. Ending with a couple hobbits doing just that and tossing the all powerful One Ring right into the lava of Mount Doom. I think they had to defeat some birds and a sad little goblin along the way. Congrats!

There has got to be a better arch-enemy for the Man of Steel than this guy. I just don’t know how land grabbing real estate scams are supposed to be of any hassle to the Kryptonian. Whether it’s Hackman or Spacey, it always seems to be about dropping a coast into the ocean and reaping the benefits of his new ocean front property.

I know, I know, he’s the villainous face of the most cherished sci-fi saga of all time. He also looks like a walking vending machine. Does nothing but take orders from the real villains of the narrative, Grand Moff Tarkin and Emperor Palpatine. Spends most of his evil powers choking out his own stormtroopers and rarely kills anyone. Before you scream, “but he killed Obi Wan!” Technically he didn’t. Obi Wan Kenobi became one with the force right before Vader’s light saber would have cut him down. If we include the prequels, then he offs some defenseless sand people and murders a room full of children. Pretty heinous acts that are completely rendered moot by the constant emo whining of the character. Plus…I would NEVER hire this guy to oversee a construction project.