Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27586321-20150318045135/@comment-27560932-20150318135159

Oh, yes. Thrax, solely on a scale of evil, is likely the most evil animated movie villain period. I can remember my jaw quite literally hanging when he started gloating about murdering a child. The voice and rather unique design helps.

A virus that goes from body to body, destroying each and every living being within, for the sole factor of making himself infamous... Now, replace "body" with "world" or "universe" and that's the general gist of what Thrax is. He's a serial killer, except he does that on a cosmic (to a cell, anyways) scale.

Now, between who's more heinous (Thrax and Bryagh) I'm honestly not sure. Thrax has the child-murdering thing done, and by hell he's one of the only villains I've seen who actively brags about it, but Bryagh is shown devouring an entire nest of the unborn eggs of his own species. I could pen to hunger, but given Bryagh's nature as a destructive, murderous sadist and that eating dragon eggs makes him a cannibal and a child murder...

Bryagh was also a lot more proactive about killing the heroes. Sure, Thrax tried to kill them himself, but he did so within the ranges of a child-friendly film. I'm not saying attempted murder isn't any worse than the result (quite the opposite, as you know) but it pales in comparison to the onscreen double-digits kills he scores. Bryagh, on the other hand, devastates the heroes, murder the love interest of token knight Sir Orrin in front of him, and laughs in his face when he starts crying before burning him alive as well. Bryagh was quite literally responsible for wiping out more than half the heroic cast in the film. The only ones who made it out was the main protagonist himself and the ones who were already dead. The way he does it with such callousness is... remarkable.

Now, granted, Thrax still had, as I said, double-digit kills, but none of them were major characters. Whether this makes it any less heinous is up to you (murder is still murder) but for a virus, Thrax still managed to bar down that whole "cosmic serial killer" thing. Bryagh, himself, was helping to engineer a plan to destroy all humanity, but he wasn't actually carrying out this plan himself, just doing his master's dirty work (and, subtracting one time he delibrately disobeyed Ommadon and tried to kill the person he was supposed to bring back alive for kicks, doing it remarkably well). Both are Omnicidal Maniacs in a way, but when you look at it from a certain perspective (each human body has trillions of cells, and Osmosis Jones makes it quite clear these things are very well sentient and die as soon as their human goes) Thrax does the whole "omnicidal" thing better.

Honestly, it comes down to a matter of the villain's character. Thrax did what he did well, but honestly, he's slick, smooth, charmingly evil, and, dare I say, worthy of the "leather pants" treatment. He's evil, but he's got fangirls for a reason. Bryagh, on the other hand, is just a cold-blooded dick. He oozes utter vileness, punctuates three of his four lines with a despicable, snorting laugh (one of which, again, was geared towards a mourning Sir Orrin who's love interest Danielle Bryagh had just crushed to death) and given his general ruthlessness and the fact he's got little character aside from that of someone who lives to kill (you see him anxious to lead his fleet into battle near the climax, and Bryagh's eyes quite literally shine eagerly as Ommadon tells him to "burn, demolish, devour, and grind [his enemies] to dust") means I think it's impossible for Bryagh to receive any sort of a leather pants treatment. I wouldn't know, and I don't think anyone will know, as I'm sadly part of a rather small cult following of The Flight of Dragons from whence Bryagh originates from.

So, on a sheer scale of evil, I'll probably give that to Thrax (as while he didn't have to power to end humanity, he did what he was capable of and still managed to get away with the implied murder of hundreds of billions of decidedly sentient cells and at least three humans) but when it comes down to pure depravity, I'll tilt that in favor of Bryagh. Both villains are evil, and I love 'em both for it.