User blog comment:Prime ShockWaveTX/Villains that should be recognized/@comment-27560932-20151128024900

I'll go with Thrax and Bryagh for this; the two are likely the most vile animated villains I've ever seen. While Thrax regularly does top the list of most evil animated villains, he's an underrated villain proper and many people seem to look over that Thrax is basically a serial killer but on a (to a cell) worldly scale. Subtracting all his on-screen kills, which frankly, is a lot, each human Thrax kills takes down all of living cells within their body. If we're going to measure by realistic human anatomy, that's a body count of anywhere from a few million to a few trillion deaths every time Thrax kills someone; and he's done that at least three times, with two more attempts in the film proper. That's a body count unrivalled by even the sickest of Berserk villains, and Thrax shows no mercy and no mercy in the film properly and kicks ass in all his evil finesse every time he's on screen, and he holds the honor of being the only Monster to ever genuinely shock me with his deeds. It was before I learned of the Monster trope, but I remember my jaw quite literally hanging when he was going over the list of his victims - including a child who's death ended up being dragged on for three weeks (given how Thrax kills his victims, that's not a very pretty thought).

Bryagh is of smaller scale, but he's definitely more depraved, and he doesn't have the cult following Thrax has (almost nobody has even heard of The Flight of Dragons, the Rankin-Bass flick from whence Bryagh originated from), which is sad because he's the most badass right-hand to a villain I've ever seen. On screen he's responsible for cannibalizing the eggs of his own kind, aiding with the total destruction of humanity, throwing an unconcious Peter in the hope his skull is smashed, and ultimately mercilessly killing four of the main characters. He's a complete and utter monster, but I can't help but love him for it.