I'm going with Terrence Stamp as Zod. He always makes for a great villain.
Superman II Quotes
General Zod: I am General Zod. Your ruler. Yes, today begins a new order. Your lands, your possessions, your very lives, will gladly be given in tribute to me, General Zod! In return for your obedience you will enjoy my generous protection. In other words you will be allowed to live.
General Zod: Who is this Superman?
President: You'll find out and when you do-...
General Zod: Come to me, Superman! I defy you! Come and kneel before Zod! Zod!
General Zod: I win. I always win. Is there no one on this planet to even challenge me?
Lex Luthor: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with... Superman's address?
General Zod: What more do you want? I can see the greed written on your face.
Lex Luthor: How about Cuba?
General Zod: [thinking it over] Fair enough.
[to his fellow Villains]
General Zod: Come. The three of us will CRUSH the Son of our Jailer!
General Zod: Accept your destiny, Kal-El. As your father once condemned us, so now do we condemn his misbegotten brat!
President: What I do now, I do for the sake of the people of Earth. But there is one man on this planet who will NEVER kneel before you.
General Zod: Who is this imbecile? Where is he?
General Zod: Why do you say this to me, when you know that I will kill you for it?
General Zod: Come to me, son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!
Get Smart
He was also the perfect typical super villain as Siegfried on Get Smart. He was the most hilariously evil super villain I've ever seen on the movie screen.
Get Smart Quotes:
Shtarker: Too bad about all the dead movie stars.
Siegfried: Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice.
Siegfried: [to Dalip] Well, you did your job, so I suppose I can't kill your wife. Although be honest, I'd be doing the sighted world a favor.
Maxwell Smart: I think it's only fair to warn you, this facility is surrounded by a highly trained team of 130 black op snipers.
Siegfried: I don't believe you.
Maxwell Smart: Would you believe two dozen Delta Force commandos?
Siegfried: No.
Maxwell Smart: How about Chuck Norris with a BB gun.
Siegfried: Son of a hamster.
Shtarker: Are you crazy? This is radioactive material! One wrong move, and it's ka-frickin'-boom!
Siegfried: This is KAOS. We don't "ka-frickin'-boom" here.
Siegfried: You know, you're the only human being I know who snores when he's awake.
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Fans of Terrence Stamp or other movie or tv super villains present your evidence of why your actor made the perfect super villain.
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Superman Challenges Zod.
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Zod was top for sure.
Mark Hamill who played the Trickster on the Flash series was amazing too.
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I am going to have to go with Heath Ledger. The one and only comic actor to get a golden globe nod. If Paul Newman in Road to Perdition does not count.
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Well he was playing a comic book character. I guess he's as super as the Joker so Paul Newman counts too.
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i have to say ledger's joker. i know it's quickly beconming the cliche' answer, but th fact of the matter is, he was so good that evry single one of his lines is quotable. every tiome he came onto the screen he was thrillingly entertaining. ledger changed his voice, posture, and even typical ticks, and facial expressions. i cannot imagine him on set, because when they'd say "cut" i can't fathom him snapping out of the role. he was just spectacular.
furthermore, i thought the green goblin 1(although his mask was a little...maybe could've used some more purple) and 2 were good, along with doc ock. i also really liked magneto,k and even toad had a good turn in the firt x-men film. i liked the zod squad, superman 2 is my fvaorite of the franchise, and even the gangsters in batman begins and the dark knight were pretty awesome, including scarecrow, and especially ra's al ghul as portrayed by liam neeson. i even really liked colin farrel as bullseye and michael clarke duncan as the kingpin. the elf king was cool in HB 2, and the knives-for-hands-sand-guy was cool in HB 1. i love most of the villains in fact, and i think they're what makes comics such a great medium. i even liked (vfor the purposes of being a kids movie)arnolds's mr. freeze. haven't seen that one in some time, but despite its' campiness, i liked it when i was little. i'd have to re-watch the burton batmans to see where their villains stood on my list. i've heard the villains in those were great. two-face and the rddler in batman forever played virtually the same character though, despite the talents of carrey and...i forgot his name. but you know who i mean. gene hackman's lex was goofy but effective, spaceey's was the only saving grace of superman returns, and the smallville lex is awesome. interesting tidbit, when you search images of lex luthor, the first few are rosenbaum, the next few are spacey, then NO hackman on the first page.
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almost forgot, xerxes, mark hamill's joker voice, that yellow ***tard, elijah wood's kevin, and...that's about it.
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Michael Rosenbaum would definitely go high on my list and interestingly enough he also played a Zod possessed Luthor on Smallville.
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The best villain actor of all time goes to Heath Ledger as the Joker. He raised the bar higher for all future actors to come. At first I was wondering if I thought so because the role was so fresh in my memory, but looking back, and having watched other superhero movies recently, I think Ledger still wins. He totally disappeared into the role. You never once think that Ledger is the Joker, you just agree that the Joker exists. And with a movie which hosts the likes of Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, etc, Ledger still owned every scene he was in.
Next on my list would be Jack Nicholson as the Joker. What can I say, the Joker is a rich role to play.
3) Alfred Molina as Dr. Octopus
4) General Zodd..played by the guy I can't recall
5) Magneto played by Sir Ian McKellan.
