So last year my colleagues and I did March BADness, a 64 movie character tournament, to find out who is the most badass movie character ever created. For the 2nd annual tournament we’re going to put 64 movie villains up against each other to find out who is the most evil son-of-a-b—- of all times in: March MADness.
Yes I am aware the name isn’t too creative. I explored March CADness (see cad), which is lame and March BADness, which is a repeat of last year’s title, but settled on March MADness. Hey, whatever. It works.
Anyway, first let me explain the selection process. Last year, superpowers and the supernatural were disqualified, but this year we are allowing them due to a lack of quality human villains.
So, we cut a list of 100 down to the 64 baddest villains and ranked them by notoriety. In other-words, the #1 seeds are the most popular and biggest household names:
Freddy Kruger
Darth Vader
Joker
Hannibal
The villains from movies with a smaller, more cult following are the lower seeds. For example:
Bricktop from Snatch
Daniel Plainview from There Will be Blood
and so forth.
Now I can already tell people are going to argue that their favorites deserve a higher seed, but your favorites may not be mainstream enough. If you walk up to 10 random people on any street corner and say “Bricktop,” 6 to 8 of them are going to say, “who?” and that’s being generous.
If you walk up to 10 random people on any street corner and say, the Joker or Darth Vader or Freddy Kruger, they will instantly know who you are talking about. So that’s how they are ranked.
But relax.
It’s only the seeding. They still have to play the matchups. Upsets can — and will — happen. Just because one is the higher seed, doesn’t mean they are the more evil villain. So how will the matchup be decided? Glad you asked.
Each matchup is decided on it’s own merit — Mano y mano — considering these two simple rules.
- It’s quality over quantity. Meaning just because the villain blew up 1,000 people doesn’t necessarily make him/her more evil then the villain who methodically tortured a small child in front of his parents.
- Intentions matter. Meaning if the villain was trying to do the right thing and it went wrong, that’s different then intentionally doing something selfish or devious.
But what it ultimately boils down to is this:
If the devil, Lucifer or whatever you call him were to go on vacation, which of the two competitors would be a suitable fit to fill in for him and do the best job? We’re going to pick the movie villain with the more sadistic, nasty, mean and purely evil resume. The one with the most impressive resume of evil deeds. At the end we will truly know who the most evil and coldhearted villain of all times is.
The mayhem begins on Monday, March 1st 2010.
And this is your bracket:
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And here are some of Beaze’s predictions:
The odds on Favorite: Freddy Krueger. He was a pedophile and child killer while he was human. As a “demon” he was much worse.
The dark horse: John Doe from Seven. Mailing someone their wife’s head is on par with anything Freddy did.
The villain with something to prove: Norman Bates. This guy made an entire nation afraid to shower and now it seems like he’s a forgotten nightmare because of all the new torture porn.
The underdog no one wants to face: Kevin from Sin City. This dude tormented a lot of people for the fun of it. He was definitely evil and shouldn’t be underestimated.
The toughest omissions: Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. Alien Queen. Jaws (we decided no animals allowed). Hans Gruber from Die Hard.
ROUND 1 BEGINS IN THE NORTHEAST REGION —->
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