Christopher Lee

The King of the Cool Bad Guys, Christopher Lee has starred in more than 200 films, playing a Villain in many of them. His two most recent portrayals were as Count Dooku in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and as Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (See Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). (I say Trilogy here because it's a few short weeks until Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King comes out. It's called Faith, people.) Count Dooku was Fairly Bad. In fact, he was Bad Enough that I can't believe that not a single one of the Jedi Knights thought something was wrong until he started attacking random people and consorting with kind of freaky alien types. I mean, Duh Guys. He LEFT the Jedi Order. Isn't that inherently suspicious? I mean, sure, the celibacy bit is a drag, but it worked for the Shakers. Sort of. For a while anyway. His Baditude Rating is tempered somewhat by the fact that he got his ass kicked by Yoda in a lightsaber battle. Dude. You're like six times his size.

Saruman the White is much Badder than Count Dooku. I mean, in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, at least he got his ass kicked by swarming giant tree folk. It was a much fairer battle than against the green midget guy. And his outfits were Marvelous! He clearly used Magic to keep his robes Sparkling White while he was down in the mines with the Orcs. Mmmm... Extraneous Use of Power... Plus, he gets Extra Points for Brilliant Use of Staff and Excellent Use of Minions. What else can we say? He is the Standard by Whom All Other Cool Bad Guys are Measured.