Vilest Villain Contest

To determine the most vile villain in fiction, I turn to Tumblr.

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Vilest Villain - 2026

Round 1 Maxie (Pokémon) VS. Snake (The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice) Meruem (Hunter X Hunter) VS. Milford Soyer (Mouse P.I. For Hire) VS. Th

If you wish to vote and there's a whole mess of reblogs and/or propaganda that would make finding the current matchups difficult, then worry not! This Doc is filled with convenient links to each and every poll, so you can access them easily! Sorry the font is so small, just trying to keep them all on one line each... Except for the Qu's poll because the name of their source material is too long.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 4!

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[bbg100]

Y'all gotta vote with your beautiful minds more and your hey thats blorbo less

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Listen to them!

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 12!

Gideon Gleeful (Gravity Falls)

The Chaos Gods (Warhammer)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

....I'm starting to think that putting Lovecraftian gods in this contest was a bit unfair to the rest of the competitors.

[vilestvillaincontest]

You say that, but in ROUND 1, Gideon beat a wizard terrorist, and a man with an on screen kill count somewhere in the 800s. Not only that, but a literal EGG beat an intergalactic warlord, and Daredevil's brother (who from what I know is a street level goon at worst) beat a woman who blew up planets for fun. Somehow, I think Gideon still has a shot.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Tumblr what the FUCK

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Believe it or not, I held back on how well Mike's doing.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I am seriously tempted to throw up a Mike Murdoch vs. Chaos poll just for fun 😂🤣😂

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I mean, on the one hand, nothing's stopping you, but on the other hand, neither of us have any guarantee that that won't happen in the future.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 6!

The Snake (Orpheus & Eurydice)

Fire Lord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

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How is Griffith from Berserk not in this contest???

Because no one submitted Griffith from Berserk.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 4!

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[bbg100]

Y'all gotta vote with your beautiful minds more and your hey thats blorbo less

[vilestvillaincontest]

Listen to them!

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 4!

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

How is fucking space hitler over here losing lmao?????

[vilestvillaincontest]

My current guess? Same reason Eggman beat the Lich.

Though, to be fair to Bill, Vader wanted to rule a GALAXY. Bill, on the other hand, wanted to destroy a UNIVERSE. There's a certain difference in scale there that I think is important to mention at least once.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 16!

Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Emperor Belos / Philip Wittebane (The Owl House)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

Jonah Magnus art by @skogsdotter-draws

[auramxnt]

WHERES YOUR ANGER ELIAS

WEHRES THAT EYEPOCOLYPTIC MOTIVATION

RISE

RISE

RISE

[iammentallystable16]

Yeah but Belos did child abuse

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To be fair, I'm almost certain that there's probably a Fear Domain in Season 5 that's about child abuse and/or child abuse related trauma.

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Whoever decided that 'Arkansas' and 'Kansas' are pronounced differently deserve an honorary spot in this contest. And the guy who decided the same for 'viscount' and 'discount'.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Who is worse?

the guy who decided that Arkansas and Kansas are pronounced differently

the guy who decided that viscount and discount are pronounced differently

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

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This may be the most important reblog yet.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 12!

Gideon Gleeful (Gravity Falls)

The Chaos Gods (Warhammer)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

....I'm starting to think that putting Lovecraftian gods in this contest was a bit unfair to the rest of the competitors.

[vilestvillaincontest]

You say that, but in ROUND 1, Gideon beat a wizard terrorist, and a man with an on screen kill count somewhere in the 800s. Not only that, but a literal EGG beat an intergalactic warlord, and Daredevil's brother (who from what I know is a street level goon at worst) beat a woman who blew up planets for fun. Somehow, I think Gideon still has a shot.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Tumblr what the FUCK

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Believe it or not, I held back on how well Mike's doing.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 7!

Mike Murdock (Daredevil)

Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 16!

Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Emperor Belos / Philip Wittebane (The Owl House)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

Jonah Magnus art by @skogsdotter-draws

[element14]

Jonah, who actually ended the world and caused literally* everyone alive to be put into a subjectivity infinite hellscape tailored specifically to their greatest fear

vs.

Belos, guy who took over a small island

[vilestvillaincontest]

I mean, I wouldn't say a small island, it's like the size of Virginia, isn't it?

[element14]

Dana Terrace says the Boiling Isles are about the size of Vermont (~25,000 km²), but someone on Reddit calculated they're about 300 km². So that depends on how you look at it, I guess

Reddit - Please wait for verification

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Well, I'm going to assume the creator of the setting knows more about it than Reddit.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 4!

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[bill-cipher-offical]

CHAT, MAKE ME WIN 👏👏

[bill-cipher-offical]

MIMOSA I SWEAR IF YOUR FOLLOWERS MAKE ME LOSE AGAIN I WILL MAKE YOU EAT SOMETHING OTHER THAN FRIED APPLES AND GLITTER TEA

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Jokes on you Bill for all you know I could be into that shit

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Threatening someone randomly... Hm, that is pretty evil.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 15!

Kallamar (Cult of the Lamb)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[i-am-am-ichbin]

that bug-looking creature thing doesn't stand a chance

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That's a squid.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 4!

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[bill-cipher-offical]

CHAT, MAKE ME WIN 👏👏

[sleepy-spacetronaut]

Bill you’re already the (temporary) president of America , and now you want to be the vilest villan too ?

This calls for a reelection.

[vilestvillaincontest]

No hold on, being the President of the United States doesn't exclude you from being evil... Unfortunately.

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 16!

Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Emperor Belos / Philip Wittebane (The Owl House)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

Jonah Magnus art by @skogsdotter-draws

[poetrysucksss]

FUCK what the hell do I do in this situation man

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Flip a coin?

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Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 16!

Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Emperor Belos / Philip Wittebane (The Owl House)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

Jonah Magnus art by @skogsdotter-draws

[element14]

Jonah, who actually ended the world and caused literally* everyone alive to be put into a subjectivity infinite hellscape tailored specifically to their greatest fear

vs.

Belos, guy who took over a small island

[vilestvillaincontest]

I mean, I wouldn't say a small island, it's like the size of Virginia, isn't it?