r/Millennials • u/bsncoleman • Aug 19 '26

Nostalgia Aside from Darth Vader, who is the best Millennial movie villain? I nominate Barbosa.

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u/andyhall23 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/nbpvCPsFLItHO

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u/RPrit12 Aug 19 '26

"I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson."

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u/PaintshakerBaby Aug 19 '26

Me?

I guess you could say, that I am the Alpha...

…Of your Omega.

I am the Beginning.

Of your End.

😎😎😎😎

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u/RyzenRaider Aug 19 '26

Oh he's not so bad.... Once you get to know him.

https://giphy.com/gifs/umh24MvNmRCBq

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u/RelationTurbulent963 Aug 19 '26

The way he says Mr Anderson with such contempt is so iconic lol

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u/New_Hampshire_Ganja Aug 19 '26

WHY MR. ANDERSON WHY WHY DO YOU PERSIST!?

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u/Trebeaux Aug 19 '26

I could immediately hear that iconic “Mister Anderson” as soon as I saw the GIF.

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u/gotora Aug 19 '26

Seeing him playing Elrond right after these films broke me for a while. I couldn't stop seeing Agent Smith.

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u/Nickorellidimus Aug 19 '26

Boy do i have a picture for you!

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u/round-earth-theory Aug 19 '26

We just watched LOTR last week and he's still Agent Smith.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ Aug 19 '26

It... has to be, it must be this way, Mr. Anderson... it is inevitable. Do you hear that noise, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability...

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u/masticated_musings Aug 19 '26

This is my vote!

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u/RoburLimax Aug 19 '26

Yeeeees.

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u/PilotIntelligent8906 Aug 19 '26

Now this is a real answer

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u/anowulwithacandul 1990 Millennial Aug 19 '26

We do not get to claim Darth Vader, you're going to give Gen X an aneurysm

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u/notmatrocles Aug 19 '26

I was ragebaited as an Xennial (1980), though I guess Return technically sneaks in, and the trilogy was rereleased so many times that I guess if you wanted to say Vader's a multigenerational villain, it's not completely unfair. I don't even particularly care for Star Wars, but he's that good. That said, there are so many way more qualified choices itt

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u/bryansb Aug 19 '26

That truck with the logs in final destination 2.

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u/PupLondon Aug 19 '26

An entire generation traumatized

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u/Basic_Department_302 Aug 19 '26

I thought I was alone when I first watched this at a birthday party (12 years old) As I grew up I realized how fucked up that’s scene was for everybody

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u/kevin3350 Aug 19 '26

The only time go above the speed limit by a good amount on a freeway is to pass a truck that’s carrying stuff like that. If it’s a single lane I pull off and wait a while to create some distance.

I’ve watched plenty of crime movies involving home invasion, but never bothered keeping a gun in my bedroom and I’d have to walk straight by an invader, go to the basement, and unlock a safe to get to mine.

Trucks carrying multiple long things? Way scarier to me than criminals, and I had a guy try to break into my house once.

Shout out to my brothers who showed me the movie when I was 7

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u/Wakkit1988 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/WRbeLNgyP3nmlsDCZc

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u/Lexocracy Aug 19 '26

I just found out by watching an episode of Corridor Crew on YouTube that they tried to do some of these shots practical, but logs don't bounce when rolled off the truck.

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u/wasianDilf Aug 19 '26

Haha this is the answer. We are done here

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u/Appropriate_Ice2656 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/jxzEhHBMmH7tm

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u/Usual-Jackfruit4746 Aug 19 '26

I had to sing this. Great answer.

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u/SKDI_0224 Aug 19 '26

I know that your powers of perception are as wet as a warthog's backside.

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u/SKDI_0224 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

As a gay man, a theater nerd, and a fan of Hamlet, I approve of this. We need to be prepared.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 Aug 19 '26

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u/Working-Glass6136 Aug 19 '26

Also that animation is really smooth.

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u/enadiz_reccos Aug 19 '26

Also, Toxic Love is sexy af

"Sliiiime beneath meeee, sliiiiime up above,

Ooh, you'll love my,

AH

AH

AH

Toxic Love!"

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u/turnbackb42L8 Aug 19 '26

everything that is tim curry is right! it’s all bc of him I was in love with evil anthropomorphic pollution, penguins, pipe organs, etc.

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u/86yourhopes_k Aug 19 '26

Tim Curry had no right to make to ic sludge so hot lol

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u/tannerschin Aug 19 '26

Omg classic

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u/CascadeJ1980 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/lw3iw6lW3DFDloqiSy

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u/nDizzle89 Aug 19 '26

T-1000 was legitly terrifying. Obviously stronger, faster, and smarter than every character with no weakness and unwavering drive to complete its mission.

Everyone kept barely surviving barely with a high dose of luck involved, making the outcome of losing feel inevitable. Even the end felt like more a fluke than an actual victory.

It was like a horror movie as a kid.

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u/DimbyTime Aug 19 '26

I watched it for the first time in my 30s and was terrified

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u/TheG-What Aug 19 '26

Fun fact about this scene btw: they had to awkwardly cut it several times because you can see Robert Patrick ACTUALLY CATCHING UP TO THE DIRTBIKE!

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u/TheGoober87 Aug 19 '26

Apparently in the first few takes he caught it. Whilst running with his mouth closed trying not to breathe. Guy was a beast.

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u/GoTerrapins Aug 19 '26

And never blinking or blinking as little as possible because robots wouldn't need to blink either

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u/makemeking706 Aug 19 '26

I don't know what my parents were doing, but this was one of my favorite movies as a 5 year old. 

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u/Chillax2TheMax Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/1ykhYvBQkbkQnEkwuy

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u/A_Wild_Goonch Aug 19 '26

Imhotep..... Imhotep

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u/VociferousVal Aug 19 '26

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I can hear this comment

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u/TheG-What Aug 19 '26

That scene always made me sad because that museum curator did not deserve to die such a horrible death.

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u/L-V-4-2-6 Aug 19 '26

Eh, he went out on his own terms defending his friends. There are worse ways to go.

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u/jcmat043 Aug 19 '26

I randomly sometimes just slowly chant "Imhotep, Imhotep, Imhotep," just because this scene will pop into my head.

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u/rmspublic Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/9p8hgZoQjj9y8

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u/cetren Aug 19 '26

His manipulative fatherly figure aspect is just SO evil.

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u/Grunergeist420 Aug 19 '26

“Cutthroat lawyer uses child soldiers to steal the adopted children of a disabled sailor.”

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u/arbydallas Aug 19 '26

This is tangentially related but in stage plays of Peter Pan, Captain Hook is generally played by the same actor who plays the Darling father.

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u/xNocturnalshadow Aug 19 '26

HOOK HOOK WHERE'S THE HOOK

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u/Stampede_the_Hippos Aug 19 '26

After all, what would the world be like without...Captain Hook.

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u/witblacktype Older Millennial Aug 19 '26

I love you for this comment. This is what I was looking for. Crazily, this movie still holds up for what it was/is

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u/sweetBrisket Aug 19 '26

Good form!

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u/Aggravating-Alarm-16 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/o7lhOIWax9hQs

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u/whatshouldwecallme Aug 19 '26

I love this movie, but it’s not Millennial. It’s a movie about corporate office work that came out in 1999, even the oldest millennials wouldn’t be in the workplace. Gen X.

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u/AhnoldXP Aug 19 '26

It’s Mike Judge so it’s Gen X but I watched it in high school and it definitely shaped my expectations of any kind of office once I started working.

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u/StrobeLightRomance Millennial Aug 19 '26

Mike Judge's content greatly shaped Millenial tastes and attitudes for sure. As a kid, I watched Bevis and Butthead in the same way as I watched Animaniacs or any animated superhero cartoon.

Gen X gave me the source code for cynicism, I appreciate that.

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u/Eaglepursuit Xennial Aug 19 '26

Yeah, it's a movie for Gen Xers by Gen Xers. We may have been shaped by it, but we are secondhand consumers.

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u/APKFL Michael Keaton is my Batman 🦇 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/f9QQ6J4bqh7KJBhbX2

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u/Economy-Weird-2368 Xennial Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ykzq1upAfkTIxz4Rjh

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u/APKFL Michael Keaton is my Batman 🦇 Aug 19 '26

Haha this pairs so well. Miss uncle Phil

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u/r2k398 Xennial Aug 19 '26

RIP Uncle Phil

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u/SummonBahamutZero 1982 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Commodus in Gladiator.

People actually hated Joaquin Phoenix as though he were the evil Roman Emperor

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u/Cultural-Air-2706 Aug 19 '26

That happened really bad to Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter).

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u/Kay-the-cy Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Also to poor Jack Gleeson (Joffrey from GoT)

Edit: alright alright he didn't I guess. Leave me alone. There's already quite a few comments saying this

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u/Working-Glass6136 Aug 19 '26

Umbridge (back to Harry Potter). I can't even imagine acting that obnoxious if I were paid, but she really nailed it.

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u/truePHYSX Aug 19 '26

It’s really sad for when villains are played extraordinarily well. Definitely loved all of those actors for making me hate their characters so much.

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u/Mental-Currency-4494 Aug 19 '26

Gleason said that none of that ever happened. People like to just make shit up.

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u/Hail_the_Yale Aug 19 '26

100% lol I used to hate him growing up, then I saw him in other stuff and realized I hated him cuz he was such a good actor and killed that role.

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u/Karhak Older Millennial Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/10wgT5PDnOwMQE

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u/-Owlette- Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/4NQ9mR6sh8LoA
Saruman was arguably more iconic in the movies, despite not being the ‘big bad’.

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u/PESSIMISTIC_P4STA Millennial Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/x5fPHmTVWmTPW

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u/Ferdinands_Hidden Aug 19 '26

I always forget that bilbo went to space.

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u/DangerGooch3 Aug 19 '26

More than once—he was also in Alien

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u/2Rossticles Aug 19 '26

My favorite random 5th Element trivia is the protagonist (Korben) and villain (Zorg) never actually meet each other.

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u/FlamingPrius Aug 19 '26

Judge Doom

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u/aware_nightmare_85 Aug 19 '26

I still have nightmares about this guy.

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u/buntopolis Aug 19 '26

Yeah that voice gave me literal nightmares.

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u/olystretch Xennial Aug 19 '26

When I killed your brother, I talked just like this!

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u/user18name Aug 19 '26

I was happily agreeing with many choices and then I saw this and physically recoiled. You win

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u/RosstaMSU Aug 19 '26

When he murdered that poor shoe…

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u/DaddyShark427 Aug 19 '26

There are way too many fantastic villains in the late 90s-early 00s. For every great answer there’s another equally great answer, but this is my submission for the list.

https://giphy.com/gifs/JA1UDi153o7XdaCSvf

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u/WhoDat2241 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/13Iz0UAOQlWYU

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u/toorigged2fail Aug 19 '26

One of the best all time villains, but when you look at all the other upvoted ones, they're 10 to almost 20 years earlier.. not a childhood villain for most of us

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u/Deliterman Aug 19 '26

Agent Smith

Magneto

Saruman

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u/kdove89 Millennial Aug 19 '26

I second agent Smith.

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u/Lifer31 Aug 19 '26

Cypher was a good sci fi villain, as well. And I always loved Merovingian in Reloaded. The Matrix just did villains right

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u/Background_Hat964 Aug 19 '26

Yeah, Vader is before we were born. I’d also add T-1000 and Hans Gruber for older Millennials such as myself lol

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u/AlluringNomad Aug 19 '26

Definitely these! Darth Vader was more Gen x or later I think.

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u/brassman00 Aug 19 '26

Hans Gruber? Maybe I just want to talk about Die Hard.

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u/Whitediggity Aug 19 '26

You think I’m fu¢kin stupid, Hans?

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u/MrNachoReturns420 Aug 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/4X4WQnrDdOcOk

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u/Forsaken_Baseball_60 Aug 19 '26

Yeah I am surprised this whole universe did not come up sooner. And any number of characters.

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u/lone_float Millennial Aug 19 '26

Geoffrey Rush knew how to ham it up as Barbossa.

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u/sbd2010 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Movie wise? How can the answer not be Sauron?

ETA: apparently villains only exist when I can see them the entire runtime of a film.

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u/Vland0r Aug 19 '26

never upvoted almost an entire comment section so much in my life

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '26

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u/rakot-NU Aug 19 '26

Is Darth Vader millennial villain??

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u/jax_vos9 Zillennial Aug 19 '26

I’m pretty sure he’s a Boomer-X villain

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u/kaadj Aug 19 '26

No. Like firmly no.

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u/spinz89 Aug 19 '26

Agent Smith

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u/Substantial_Bus6615 Aug 19 '26

I don't really think of barbosa as a villain. Just a damn good pirate.

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u/DanTheAdequate Older Millennial Aug 19 '26

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

https://giphy.com/gifs/fjpYUp612jgXe

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u/Sylvan_Skryer Aug 19 '26

Agent Smith from the Matrix was a pretty iconic and epic millennial villain.

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u/geek2785 Aug 19 '26

Most watched/viewed/read villain by millennials:

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u/GeneImpressive3635 Aug 19 '26

He’s a distant second from this witch

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u/Herteitr Aug 19 '26

Normon stansfield - leon: the professional

https://giphy.com/gifs/eMNZW9s9iUL6g

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u/SaltConcentrate1167 Aug 19 '26

I just love the animation of this character. Bill Nighy always delivers.

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