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25 Of TV And Film's Finest Villains Looking Downright Adorable

By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (43)



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Any actor worth his or her salt has played a villain at some point. You can’t be a great actor if all you’ve ever mustered is baked apples and sunshine. Some have a better knack for it than others. Some do it so well that even when they return to “normal/heroic/heartthrobic” roles, they still make the hair stand up on the back of your neck…and not in the good way. The following folks are responsible for making you jump, squirm, squick and shake. They’re the reason you leap out of bed when something goes bump in the night. Well we want you to rest easy this evening. So tuck in while these harmless visions of psychopaths and serial killers dance in your head. They can’t hurt you now.

Ralph Fiennes (aka Amon Goeth aka Francis Dolarhyde aka Harry aka He Who Shall Not Be Named) practically singing in the rain.
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Gary Oldman (aka Dracula aka Lee Harvey Oswald aka Stansfield aka Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg) in a teeny little pilot uniform.
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Ian McDiarmid (aka Senator Palpatine aka Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aka Emperor Palpatine) having a nice cuddle with a naked Michael Fassbender.
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Jessica Lange (aka Tamora aka Martha Baring aka Big Edie aka Constance Langdon) letting Sam Shepard win at a game of “who’s got your nose?”
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Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) wearing a far-out headband. At least he fared better than Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Christoph Waltz (aka Col. Hans Landa aka Chudnofsky aka August aka Cardinal Richelieu) in his striped jim jams.
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Alan Rickman (aka Hans Gruber aka the Sheriff of Nottingham aka Prof. Severus Snape) precipitously close to giving you an up skirt shot.
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Bette Davis (aka Baby Jane) and Joan Crawford (Mommie Dearest in the flesh) having a laugh.
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Willem Dafoe (aka Max Schreck aka The Green Goblin aka I Never Want To Talk About Antichrist Again) basking in the glory that is SWINTON.
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Christopher Walken (aka Gabriel aka Bobby Cahn aka Max Shrek aka The Hessian Horseman) striking his best “Tiger Beat” pose.
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Michael Emerson (aka Ben Linus) displaying his champion pumpkin…that he carved…with a kn-LET’S MOVE ALONG.
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Peter Stormare (aka a Nihilist aka Gaear Grimsrud aka Serge Muscat) having a tussle with some luchadores.
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Tony Todd (aka the Candyman) snuggling a fan.
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Daniel Day Lewis (aka Daniel Plainview aka Bill “The Butcher” Cutting) in a sweet little sailor suit.
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Helena Bonham Carter (aka Bellatrix Lestrange aka The Red Queen) positively swimming in a t-shirt.
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Bela Lugosi (oh, all of them) looking straight pimping.
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Christopher Lee (all the other ones) with some silly nonsense on his face.
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Ian McShane (aka Al Swearengen aka Tai Lung aka Waleran Bigod aka Blackbeard) dripping with kittens.
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Dennis Hopper (aka Howard Payne aka King Koopa aka Frank Booth) caught in a giggle loop with Sean Penn.
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Javier Bardem (aka Anton Chigurh) with a puppy and a baby. I mean. COME ON.
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Vincent Price (all the ones Lugosi and Lee failed to cover) goofing off with Kermit.
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Jack Nicholson (aka Frank Costello aka Col. Nathan R. Jessup aka Daryl Van Horne aka The Joker) flashing some fancy footwear.
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John Malkovich (aka Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont aka Mitch Leary aka Cyrus ‘The Virus’ Grissom) flashing something even fancier.
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Glenn Close (aka Patty Hewes aka Cruella de Vil aka Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil aka Alex Forrest) with a mouthful of carrots which I think is cute, but you may think is creepy so…
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…I’ll leave you with this. Glenn and Woody doing an amazing job making us not miss the 90s.
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Comments

Heath Ledger?

Posted by: haplo at January 31, 2012 12:11 AM

The picture of Fassbender with Emperor Palpatine is...disconcerting. Any way could photoshop young, dreamy Christopher Walken in instead?

Posted by: mona sterling at January 31, 2012 12:17 AM

LOOK AT AL WITH THE KITTY!!

Posted by: Julie at January 31, 2012 12:31 AM

Did you have to go back to childhood to find a care-free picture of Daniel Day Lewis?

Posted by: John G. at January 31, 2012 12:42 AM

When was Heath Ledger a bad guy?

Posted by: Lucas at January 31, 2012 12:43 AM

Whoa, that Gary Oldman is talented. He can make himself into a BABY. Damn!

*badumtssh* I'll be here all week!

Posted by: figgy at January 31, 2012 12:44 AM

Wow, young Master Walken has some serious wonk-eye going on. That's ok, Chrissie, your belly button's perfection makes up for it.

Additionally, Jack Nicholson would like you to know that he is not flashing fancy footwear; he is simply New Boot Goofin'.

Posted by: Aratweth at January 31, 2012 1:06 AM

Christopher Walken (aka Gabriel aka Bobby Cahn aka Max Shrek aka The Hessian Horseman) striking his best “Tiger Beat” pose.

Oh my god.

My mouth. It made sounds.

Posted by: Lauren at January 31, 2012 1:20 AM

In that header pic, I imagine Javier Bardem has just said to Woody Allen, "Oh, you...!"

Posted by: Rest In Peace at January 31, 2012 1:21 AM

Daniel Day Lewis is one of the greatest of all time, but he's nowhere near the method actor Brandon Lee was. (Yikes).

Posted by: @Chrispeare at January 31, 2012 1:41 AM

That Robert Englund/Jamie Lee Curtis photo is really fucking with me. I love the 80s. I hate the 80s. I don't know how I feel!

Posted by: MM at January 31, 2012 2:07 AM

Oh my, Christopher Walken was...*fans self*

Posted by: TheKnightWhoSaidNi at January 31, 2012 2:30 AM

Did you have to go back to childhood to find a care-free picture of Daniel Day Lewis?

Posted by: John G. at January 31, 2012 12:42 AM

-------

That happens to be a very intense character study that D-Day-Lews is displaying there. Seconds later a lighting guy walked past his sightline, and all hell broke loose.

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 31, 2012 2:37 AM

Posted by: Margrete at January 31, 2012 2:52 AM

Christopher Walken kind of looks like Rupert Grint in that photo.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at January 31, 2012 2:56 AM

I'm going to have to officially request more pictures like these. I don't care if the actors played villains or heroes or what, but I really think I'm going to need to see more pictures like these, and I'm far too lazy to track them down myself.

Posted by: AngelArm45 at January 31, 2012 3:06 AM

This makes me so so happy.

Posted by: kelsy at January 31, 2012 3:34 AM

cocks*cker + k*ttens = happy me

Posted by: cinekat at January 31, 2012 5:01 AM

Can you imagine how different every episode of Deadwood would be if in every Swearengen scene, kittens crawled over every visible surface?

I'd have been even more terrified of him at all times than I already was, and I was purdy damn turfied.

Posted by: Nadine at January 31, 2012 5:08 AM

Willem Dafoe as Rat in Fantastic Mr. Fox is the most adorable villain ever.

Alex Pettyfer can see his future self in present day Christopher Walken.

Michael Emerson is plotting something sinister against the first place pumpkin.

Posted by: Adrien at January 31, 2012 6:09 AM

... but he's nowhere near the method actor Brandon Lee was. (Yikes).

Posted by: @Chrispeare at January 31, 2012 1:41 AM

I cannot stop grinning over this. It's so perfectly, brilliantly wrong.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at January 31, 2012 8:49 AM

The picture of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford looks like they are having a discussion on disciplining children.

Joan: "I told Christina, no wire hangers!"
Bette: "Oh shut up. Let's have another drink."

Posted by: MRod at January 31, 2012 8:50 AM

That pic of Walken. Whoa. He would have changed things for me had we met when I was the right age, is all I'm saying.

Posted by: Meander at January 31, 2012 8:57 AM

I'm sure I read a Palpatine x Magneto fanfiction in my Internet wanderings.

Posted by: duckandcover at January 31, 2012 9:11 AM

So is that picture from when Glenn Close and Woody Harrelson were surreptitiously hooking up?

Posted by: Az at January 31, 2012 9:18 AM

Helena Bonham Carter was Ally Sheedy's Breakfast Club character in high school? I KNEW IT.

Posted by: Craig at January 31, 2012 9:21 AM

I think the Davis/Crawford shot is more, "I'm going to slap you in public," and "Why don't you go back to your home on whore island?" as they each think, "Are they done yet? Did they get their shot?".

My favourite Joan Crawford story (via her daughter Christina): As she lay dying, kept company by her maid of many, many years, the maid began to pray for Joan. Joan said, "Don't you dare ask God to help me." Those were her last words.

My second favourite Joan Crawford story (via Cliff Robertson): She was in a film and the director wanted a tear to roll down her cheek. Joan's response, "Which eye?". WHICH EYE!

I bet John Malkovich is dressed like that right now. I know I am.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 31, 2012 9:39 AM

Young Christoph Waltz is a FOX. This entire post is fantabulous.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at January 31, 2012 10:51 AM

Oh, Mrs J - I cannot wait till I have an excuse to use the line "Why don't you go back to your home on whore island?"

Glenn Close looks like she's doing a Slimer-with-the-hot dogs imitation.

Once again, I am reminded of my envy of Jessica Lange - not only for looks & talent - but for the men she walked a while with.

And men with kittens...*sigh*

Posted by: Sara Tonin at January 31, 2012 11:25 AM

Actually, Nadine, now I'm imagining a Deadwood where everyone has been replaced with a kittens. It's pretty fucking adorable. Kinda like Thundercats, but with actual HOOOOOOOO's!

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: Bert at January 31, 2012 1:11 PM

No one else care that William Defoe wasn't Max Schreck but CHRISTOPHER WALKEN was.

Posted by: James at January 31, 2012 2:01 PM

Not gonna lie, I kinda want to bake a mess of cupcakes invite all these folks to a tea party, wherein we would crochet and gossip and seriously nom on some cupcakes.

Posted by: Angeleno Ewok at January 31, 2012 2:07 PM

THAT was "Chudnofsky"? Damn.

Posted by: Green Lantern at January 31, 2012 2:44 PM

Ooooh. Men in kilts...where's a good breeze when you need one?

Posted by: LB at January 31, 2012 2:49 PM

When was Heath Ledger a bad guy?

Posted by: Lucas at January 31, 2012 12:43 AM

Uh, 10 Things I Hate About You? Or maybe that Chris Nolan superhero movie. Could have been that one.

Posted by: Bouj at January 31, 2012 4:01 PM

Lange & Sheppard were breathtakingly beautiful together.

Posted by: NeoCleo at January 31, 2012 7:28 PM

Actually, Nadine, now I'm imagining a Deadwood where everyone has been replaced with a kittens. It's pretty fucking adorable. Kinda like Thundercats, but with actual HOOOOOOOO's!

If I had been drinking milk, it would have shot out of my nose when I read this.

Posted by: Bob Frapples at January 31, 2012 8:02 PM

Javier Bardem is color-coordinated with the baby!
*dies*

Posted by: Inquisitive Mind at January 31, 2012 9:46 PM

LOOKIT THE WITTLE GARY FACE!!! I just wanna pinch it! Great post, btw. Love the concept

Posted by: lolalily at January 31, 2012 10:27 PM

@Margrete That is *literally* the best thing I have ever seen in my life. Fact.

Posted by: heathnic at February 1, 2012 12:30 AM

Daaaayum, Christoph Waltz was foooooine back in the day. Not that he isn't now, but oh my stars.

Posted by: etchmiadzin at February 1, 2012 2:59 AM

Bela! Straight pimpin'. Can't stop laughing at that!

Posted by: ChickaBoom! at February 1, 2012 9:37 AM

Alan Rickman in a kilt! ALAN RICKMAN IN A KILT! ALAN RICKMAN IN A KILT! (Fans self) SWOON.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2012 10:46 AM





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