11. Joker (The Dark Knight)
I want to make it clear that the only real knowledge I have of the Joker is from The Dark Knight. I don't read comic books. I rarely watch superhero cartoons, aside from Teen Titans. I never saw the original Batman. And Arkham Asylum, while amazing, doesn't provide an interesting enough storyline for me (I prefer when Joker is in the forefront). So yeah, The Dark Knight. I do believe Heath Ledger only one the Oscar because it was a posthumous thing (plus the academy snubbed him with Brokeback Mountain), but that doesn't mean he didn't do an amazing job. I honestly thought he was Paul Giamatti until someone told me it was Heath Ledger, and I was like...holy s*** he did a great Paul Giamatti impression in this movie. He was so great in The Dark Knight because they took a character that, in the cartoons and comics that I've seen, is completely goofy and over-the-top (as someone once put it, "The villains in Batman are like one massive joke that Batman refuses to laugh at) and made him realistic, while still maintaining that same psychotic personality that really makes him the kind of villain to be feared. I mean, with every other major villain in fiction, they have an agenda and they're using evil means to accomplish said agenda. With the Joker, he's just trying to f*** things up for as many people as possible, whether they're good or bad. That's scary, because he doesn't give a s*** about what's right, wrong, or what he can get out of something. He'll f*** you over. His entire plot was so convoluted and random that it became awesome by sheer virtue of the fact that things worked out for him. And even when Batman beat him, Batman still wound up losing overall because he had to take the fall for Harvey Dent's death. Truly an amazing villain, and he just misses the top ten.
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