What are the worst villains in anime?

The colossal Titan and the armored Titan from attack on Titan

This is probably a bad example, but the villains in Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster were the most generic evil demons I think I've seen in anime.

Honestly, I think whoever wrote it cared more about the size of the female characters boobs than the motivations of the villains. The boobs definitely had more screen time

A bunch of them from forgotten 60s and 70s shows

Code Geass the Father, 30 episodes of build up leading only to the weakest arc of the series and most lame interactions and pay off. Also ruined a lot of the immersion, still a goated series but that part could be entirely removed and you wouldnt miss out on much

Not sure if this counts but I thought the Members of Thunder Pike from "I left My A-Rank Party" were pretty poorly written.

They're so incomprehensibly stupid that it just feels contrived. They feel like Saturday morning cartoon Villains but the show is trying to be serious.

Majority of the villains in SAO, only good one was the very first one and **maybe** the final one but ngl i can't remember his motives.

Every villain between season 1 2nd half and the end of the story was horrible.

Almost every "kicked from the hero party" hero party.

Not always villains but those generic assholes who hate the mc for the pettiest, stupidity reasons ever and have no role in the story beyond trying to make you feel bad for the mc. 

Summertime Render is a really fun and good series with a goofy endgame villain

Shou Tucker

The antagonists of the Fullbringer arc. Mostly because their motivation doesn't get developed very much.

Idk If Hisoka is really considered a villain but I hate that pdf clown!!!!

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Biba in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Leo Akaba from Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V is the stupidest villain in Yu-Gi-Oh and maybe in anime . Here are the 3 main reasons why he's the worst villain.

1. [Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V] >!His goal is to merge the 4 dimensions into the original 1 and to prevent the Devil Duelist Zarc, a man who fused himself with four of his dragons to become an giant dragon hell bent on destroying the world, by committing interdimensional genocide. In order to return the world to its original state, he needs vast amounts of lifeforce. He achieves this by invading other dimensions, turning people into cards, and throws them into his machine. You may not think this is a bad thing since the charcters can, and do, come back to life but this man still ordered teenagers to invade other dimensions and to primarily, turn people into cards, but you also see buildings getting destroyed and an entire city laid to waste since the monsters are real for the most part. So for sure there have many people in his invasions that did not get turned to cards but instead died for real, running counterintuitively to his goal.!<

2.[Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V] >!He recognizes that the protagonist Yuya and his dimensional counterparts are fragments of Zarc's soul, and if they are in close contact, develop an urge to become one leading to Zarc's revival. Leo then devises a plan to straight up kill Yuya if he stands in his way. He never does this by the way. Yuya discovers the plan and nothing really comes of it. Even if Leo did realize that he could just kill one of Zarc's fragments, then he should have just killed Yuri, the boy he raised at a young age to be the best soldier. Also, if Leo knows that Yuri is a fragment of Zarc, then why in the world did he train him to be the best duelist in his army? Not only that but he sends Yuri to other dimensions where he has the chance to meet his counterparts and merge with them being one step closer to becoming Zarc.!<

3. [Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V] >!Leo also reveals that he's doing this to revive his dead daughter who gave her life to defeat Zarc. Hes really upset by this to the point he tells the main charcters how kind she was and how she didnt deserve to die. So naturally he spits on her death by committing genocide in her name. Not only that but he abandoned his new family in the new world after he regained his memories and left the standard dimension to go to the fusion dimension and didn't even say a word to his wife or son to where he was going. But him being a complete dickhead doesn't stop there because just like Zarc, his daughter's soul was split into into four fragments, intact it was their duel that split the world is to four. When he went to the fusion dimension to raise his army, he met his daughter's fragment and trained her into a soldier and later threw the other fragments into his machine to drain their lifeforce once they served their purpose, killing them. He does acknowledge that those girls do have his daughter's soul inside them but he doesn't care because he views the new world as a fake one, despite many objections to his point of view.!<

This man was built up as an intimidating villain for over 100 episodes but once he actually gets screentime you see how much he sucks as a character. Dude is the main villain for the majority of the series but only has two duels. One that is unfinished and one that ends in his loss. [Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V] >!After Zarc is revived, because of Leo by the way, he duels him and, I kid you not, he gets one shotted in less than a full turn after saying he's the only who could defeat Zarc since he built a deck specifically to counter him.!< Dude is called The Professor but is the stupidest villain in Yu-Gi-Oh maybe all of anime.

Failure Frame had the worst set of villains I've ever witnessed. Aside from a single guy called gartland every single one had the same cartoonishly evil motivation - rape the female side character. 0 character complexity just the same reused copy paste villains every single episode.

If you belive my frienss, most of HeroAka vilkians (I am not watching gattke shounens nyself, so cannot say how true it is).


Main antagonist from ReCreators (absurdly overpowered just for the sake of it and with pretty dumb motivation).

Sukuna and Muzan

Probably any stock standard Isekai villain. Super one dimensional, incompetent, and irredeemably and cartoonishly evil. Just there to be the punching bag of the good guy.

Outside that, "Oberon" from SAO was needlessly rape-y. Authors who don't know how to write evil just resort to sexual assault and it makes me roll my eyes every time. There's a place to write in rape and such, but most of the time the execution is simply not it. On a bit more personal note, I dislike how every demon in Demon Slayer has to have a tragic backstory. Fucks the pacing of the show too, imo.

most recently ill say tougen anki. i actually stopped watching it because all the villains were blabbering the same bullshit that contradicts their own ideology.

i also count fairy tail in here, even tho that one does have a couple villains that are actually well written, but a lot of them are just using the same template with a different face put onto them.

Kei Uzuki of Sakamoto Days

Iok Kujan from Iron-Blooded Orphans

I shall not elaborate.

Pain from Naruto made me quit the anime

I know it's not the worst written villain, but it's the worst villain for me personally because I'd invested so much time into the anime at that point

Donquixote doflamingo

Hikaru Cuckmiki from Oshi No Ko

He was a little bitch who got pushed around, when Ai got tired of him trauma dumping and yapping and left he went mad and hired a stalker to kill her and then kills any woman who is about to be as famous as her.

It was some serious heavy plot stuff because someone as ugly and pathetic as Hikaru would just be scrubbing gum off desks.

Jokes aside...his backstory, motives amd èverything suck and he is a wimp while his son is a simp. Gooner genes fr.

Any damn villain with a pitiful humor of a millennial. Especially when the villain is a woman. I can't stand their humor, the cringyness and the whole sexist thing around the character who ruins it. Okay we saw that the whole animation staff put all the budget in half naked villainous women and their boobs movements but left the 3 cents in the diaporama type ahh animation. We also saw that the woman in question have a damn kink, cuz that's lowkey the 3rd villains characters with this mentality. We want real villain, not half naked : REAL villain. Not morally grey ones. Just a terrible person. Especially a woman, one who's not gonna have a redemption arc.

The first thing that came to my mind when i read the title was Griffith, that until i read the description, i see your point.. still Griffith