The results of our “Favorite 80s Cartoon Villain” poll have been tabulated.  There were 1857 total votes, and we limited the voting to one vote per computer.


Our evil line-up included: (Front Row) Gargamel, Lotor, The Purple Pieman
(Back Row) Hordak, Shredder. Mumm-Ra, Cobra Commander, Megatron, and Skeletor.

We handpicked our contestants from our favorite cartoons of the 80s.  Naturally, the best villains tended to be on boy oriented cartoons, but to be fair we threw in a few from girls' cartoons as well. 

We gave the option for comments and quite a few of you took that opportunity to make write in votes.  Some alternate vote-getters included Juggernaut, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (although he rarely appeared in the Ghostbusters cartoon), the Junkyard Cats from Heathcliff, Starscream (got a couple of votes but this may be from our employee Brian who is way too obsessed with Transformers and Starscream in particular.  Brian thinks Starscream is the better villain because he was scheming to overthrow Megatron and take control of the Decepticons.) 

One person used the comments to tell us who should be the voice actors for the Transformers movie coming out next year.  I know we are probably one of the top 100,000 most powerful companies in the world, but even we can’t sway that decision.

-2%

-2%

 
3%

Gaining an only slightly more respectable 3% of the vote was the Purple Pieman from Strawberry ShortCake.  The fact that Strawberry ShortCake was an entirely girly show did not help his cause.  Let’s face it, villains and girly shows just don’t go together.

8.4%

     

The next villain on our list is Mumm-Ra The Everliving from ThunderCats.  He pulled in a paltry 8.4% of the vote.  What was Mumm-Ra missing that the rest of his action hero villain counterparts had plenty of?  Comic relief.  Nobody likes a villain who can’t make you chuckle.

8.8%

Taking a slightly higher percentage than Mumm-Ra was Gargamel with 8.8%.  This seems like a relatively impressive showing to me since Gargamel is a tough sell.  He was not particularly funny, and his only goal was to destroy the Smurfs.  Granted he used some pretty cool ingredients in his potions, but I honestly expected him to finish with a much lower percentage.

16.1%

Now we’re getting to the cream of the crop.  The next four contestants combined for more than 78% of the vote.  Cobra Commander was the laggard of the bunch with a 16.1% take.  A few voters commented that Cobra Commander wasn’t even the best Cobra villain.  They preferred other GI Joe villains like Destro and Zartan instead.  I think if he had shown his deformed face more often he could have scored some more votes.

18.2%

Next on the list was Shredder with a respectable 18.2% take.  Some of the comments indicated that Shredder got votes because he was on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, not necessarily because he was a great villain.  Considering that he was a wannabe Freddy Krueger/Wolverine he did pretty well for himself.

19.7%

Our second place finisher was Megatron with 19.7% of the vote.  I have always had issues with Megatron.  How does he transform into a tiny gun from a huge robot?  For the people complaining that Megatron should be a gun in the new Transformers movie here is what I say:  It won’t look real, so it can’t be done!  But in terms of villainess I have to agree with this one.  He was pretty evil, and he did transform.

+24%

And the winner is…. (pause here for dramatic effect before reading) Skeletor!  With slightly more than 24% of the vote Skeletor won in a landslide.  Why is Skeletor the best villain?  Besides the fact that He-Man was one of the best cartoons of the 80s?  Let me count the ways:





1)      Wears his skull on the outside
2)      Has a really cool laugh
3)      Hires the freakiest of freaks whether they are competent or not
4)      Carries a staff
5)      Dates Evil Lynn