My ranking:

1. High Evolutionary (Animal Cruelty tops people cruelty any day of the week)

2. Denethor (I can't dredge up any pity for a guy who damn near kills his own son twice out of spite)

3. John Doe (After what he did to Brad Pitt's wife, f**k him, but up until that point I could sort of understand where he was coming from)

4. Commodus (I know he did some really awful stuff and deserved what he got but considering the backstory with his father, I can't help feeling sorry for him.)

(Never seen Django Unchained, not a Tarantino fan at all)

Im with tthat

If we're being objective here, Denethos is the least detestable villain on this thread. That says something. I think Commodus is the worst character here. High Evolutionary sounds like a horrible person, but at least he didn't rape his own sister. Sympathizing Commodus for being unloved by his own father would be like sympathizing Ozai. He's even worse than Ozai, given Azulon (Ozai's father) was a bad person too, and Commodus' father was hardly even a villain. I respect any opinion, but incest and family cruelty are just horrible. Even if we say that High Evolutionary is more evil, Commodus is still more repulsive.