User blog comment:Alwaysmore2hear/Nominate Your Essential Villains for the 2018 FANDOM 100/@comment-24758512-20180911184823

Hmm... Sounds awesome. I don't have many but I'll join the fun. I'll consider one for each media they came from. Considering there are many, I'll bring only a few of them; my four favorites, actually.


 * Movies: Obviously, for 2018, I'll bring Thanos. He is around the MCU for many years but the recent films of Marvel brought more about him. For so long we thought he was just like his other versions who were mostly Omnicidal Maniacs without much of a cause except to impress Lady Death. The new version of Thanos is well more complex and well-written. They not only brought us a powerful villain but a sympathetic one with a idealistic point of view.


 * Western Cartoon: Dude, I'm between Cipher from Gravity Falls and the Lich from Adventure Time. Cipher is not only an interesting omnipotent demon with a mysterious background but a fun character to see on screen. Throughout the series, he was balanced between being a truly threatening villain and a villain designed to make the audience laugh. Much like other legendary cartoon villains like Aku.

And about the Lich, I think he is a great example of a truly dreadful villain in a series where most villain don't have a dark agenda and with global wide plans. The Lich is not only an epic villain in series with a dark setting but a scary antagonists with awesome design and personality. He will be always, for me, the scariest and most badass villain in the Western fiction.


 * Anime, Light Novel and Manga:

I considered for a long time to be All For One from My Hero Academia because of his role in All Might's story and his insane power... but yeah... he has little time on screen and then spends most of his time inside of a cell in Tartatus prison while Tomura Shigaraki takes his role... So yeah, my vote will obviously going to my favorite villain that is not from a manga or anime but from a Light Novel. Sadly... can't find one BETTER.

Isaac Ray Peram Westcott is also not from 2018 but first appeared in the series in 2012. After his defeat in the series, he was finally considered to be the most evil villain from Light Novels' history by all fanbases of the world but like many would say, he is too overrated to be known by the rest of the world, sadly. Not only him is a awesome example of a Overaching Villain but a villain with a freak twisted mind who witnessed all cruelty of human race and managed to become something worse than mankind itself. Isaac Westcott is the sinister director and founder of DEM Industries, a facade military company whose true goal was to assist Isaac Westcott to study the Spirits and allow their director to become an Inverse Spirit, in order to rewrite the reality. While he often express his feeling of revenge towards mankind for exterminating his people, his true desires is mostly related to his insane behavior and obsession with negative emotions. As the most vile mage to have ever existed, Westcott was deeply obsessed with death as it causes living being to feel despair sadness and sorrow, having found those feelings to be the most (and possibly the only) enjoyable emotion for him, whether it be inflicting despair unto others, or suffering from despair wholeheartedly. This made him extremely dangerous, as he wished to make the whole world feel his pain and suffering. As such, Westcott finds pleasure, happiness and even joy in losing important people and things he loves dearly, even going to the point to form friendships only to wait and see them dying to feel the suffering (joy) of pain.

When questioned about his motives, Westcott proclaims that all his crimes and even living is nothing but a hobby. He compares his schemes to dedicating your life to work or building a social circle, something like studying to find a job in life. His "new world for mages" is just a vague 'final' goal when in reality, the pain and suffering he's causing to humans is his true motives. What makes Westcott unique among other villains who are considered Pure Evil in this wiki and all dozens of villains I saw before, is that he is not a psychopath, he is not insane, he is not a sociopath and he is not devoid of human emotions. Westcott is like you and I, a normal and ordinary person capable of loving, forming friendships, getting attached to animals, capable of feeling envy and anger, but all his emotions are crossed with his sadomasoquist tendencies. He gets attached to people just to watch them die solely so he can get off on their pain and his own. As the represetation of the Anti-Christ in the Jewish theology, Westcott will be my favorite villain of all times. Westcott is not only a fascinating and amazing subvertion of the insane psychopath who admits they are crazy and loves killing people (like the Joker and Carnage) but he is also the villain with the longest list of crimes in the LNs media of Japan.