sometimes reality presents a story
that’s just too good to pass up
don’t you want to see what daddy does
for a living welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 movie villains inspired
by actual people you do good in school
yeah that’s good
I did too they call that a paradox for
this list we’re looking at the great and
memorable villains of film who were
allegedly based on or influenced by real
people
however biographical films that directly
adapt the lives of villains won’t be
included we’re instead looking at
villains that exist within a larger
story who are influenced by a real
person even if that fact is never stated
within the film itself I will bring you
home old friend and I ask you one thing
in return don’t get in my way
number 10 dr. evil the Austin Powers
franchise ow
you shot me eh or possibly everybody’s
favorite character let alone villain
from the Austin Power series dr. evil is
well known for being a spoof of typical
James Bond villains especially Ernst
Stavro Blofeld know them are bachelors
they have captured Americans here’s the
key however dr. evil is also reportedly
based on a real person and that person
is Saturday Night Live producer Lorne
Michaels who just so happened to be one
of Mike Myers bosses from his time on
the show people have to know who’s in
charge because and everyone has to have
a direct route to you Myers is said to
have based evils facial and vocal
mannerisms on Michaels and even the
baddies catchphrase throw me a frickin
bone here is borrowed from him a takeoff
of something he regularly spouted during
SNL meetings how about New York raizy
Dutch bastard
number 9 Severus Snape the Harry Potter
franchise there will be no foolish
wand-waving or silly incantations
in this class no there wasn’t really a
dark magical wizard like this so you can
put your minds at ease I can teach you
how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the
senses in reality author JK Rowling
allegedly based Snape the greasy-haired
ambiguous tormentor of Harry and his
friends on her old chemistry teacher
John nettle ship it may have escaped
unnoticed but life isn’t fair you’re
blessed father knew that in fact he
frequently thought my father was a great
man your father was a swag metal ship
was the head of science at whiting
school in Gloucester shear which also
happened to be where Rowling’s mother
briefly worked the school teacher would
later describe himself as short-tempered
and with a dark foreboding laboratory
lazy Aaron don’t say a word against my
father weak I’m not weak then prove it
control your emotions while we’re hoping
he didn’t directly hit students over the
head with a book nettle ships strictness
had surely become legendary by his
retirement in 1997 we just want to be
comfy
people will think you
up to something number eight Ursula
The Little Mermaid come in come in time
we mustn’t lurk in doorways it’s rude
Ursula is technically based on the see
which character from the Hans Christian
Andersen story The Little Mermaid which
you know this movie is adapted from but
Disney actually dramatically expanded
her role and provided her with an
original character design for the
animated musical fantasy she may be the
key to Katniss I’m doing this design
including her wild hair extravagant
makeup and large figure was actually
modeled after the famous drag queen
divine ask you a personal question
you’re in Japan is your daughter mulatto
of course he didn’t have tentacles since
he wasn’t an ocean dwelling invertebrate
Devine was born Haris Milstead but he
often took on his divine persona for his
music and film career
unfortunately he passed away only one
year before the Little Mermaid’s release
number seven Annie Wilkes misery my name
is Annie Wilkes fan yes that’s right I’m
also a nurse
Annie wilts is one of the most popular
figures in horror known for her
seemingly sweet yet actually malicious
personality and the atrocious act she
commits towards Paul Sheldon an author
she holds captive after rescuing him
during a blizzard I hope I didn’t wake
you these acts include tying him to a
bed and brutally breaking his ankles
with a sledgehammer trust me girl it’s
for the best in the DVD commentary
director Rob Reiner stated that a
pediatric nurse named Jeanine Jones who
would induce paralysis in her patients
before attempting to revive them in
order to receive praise for her efforts
loosely influenced the murderous
tendencies of Wilkes character you dirty
bird how could you Jones may have killed
up to 46 children though only two were
confirmed which landed her a 99-year
prison sentence
god I love you number six Hannibal
Lecter The Silence of the Lambs well let
me know when those lambs stop swinging
this movie gave us one of cinema’s most
renowned villains in Hannibal Lecter the
unnervingly intelligent cannibal that
helps Clarice Starling in her search for
a serial killer Jack Crawford sent a
trainee to me he’s a character adapted
from Thomas Harris’s to suspense novels
from the 80s but it wasn’t until the
21st century that Harris revealed
lectors inspiration to be a man he
called dr. Salazar if you didn’t kill
him then who did sir who can say best
thing for him really his therapy was
going nowhere while working as a
reporter Harris spoke to this eloquent
doctor in prison in a similar
interaction to Starling and lecturers
discussions what does he do this man you
seek he kills what no that is incidental
though Harris never revealed the inmates
name dr. Salazar story and the
information given by Harris seem to
point to a real-life Mexican doctor
named Alfredo balli Trevino who served a
sentence at the same prison for chopping
up his lover a census taker once tried
to test me I ate his liver with some
fava beans and a nice Chianti number
five auric Goldfinger Goldfinger this is
gold Mr Bond
all my life I’ve been in love in its
color while the titular villain may have
been overshadowed by his own henchmen in
the film he still poses a menacing
threat to James Bond as he attempts to
radioactively contaminated in Fort Knox
his government’s given you a bomb I
prefer to call it an atomic device it’s
small but particularly dirty cobalt and
iodine precisely American media at the
time claimed that Goldfinger’s persona
was based on a gold mining magnate by
the name of Charles W angle Hart jr.
quote Mr Bond during the 50s angle Hart
built his company into one of the
world’s leaders in the refining of
precious metals with specific attention
paid to gold
when she acquired from South Africa
forgive me Mr Bond but I must arrange to
separate my goal from the late mr. solo
though the history books omit a small
steel hat wielding henchman and
Englehart story we can’t rule him out as
a likely model for the character do you
expect me to talk now Mr Bond I expect
you to die number four Biff Tannen Back
to the Future Part two look he’s a
Butthead just like his old man was while
he had a minor role as an intimidating
bully in the first movie IFS role is
significantly expanded for the sequel
now Tannen is an extremely wealthy and
powerful man ladies and gentlemen
welcome to the bit Tannen museum
dedicated to Hill valleys number one
citizen and America’s greatest living
folk hero the one and only Biff Tannen
in the real world in October of 2015 the
same month and year that are visited in
the second film writer Bob Gale admitted
that Donald Trump influenced the older
version of Biff as the business mogul
was a well-established American figure
in the late 1980s thanks to his
significant role in the real estate
market poorest person in Kuwait they
lived like kings and yet they’re not
paying we make it possible for them to
sell their oil why aren’t they paying us
25 percent of what they’re making it’s a
joke while Gayle had never admitted this
fact before Trump’s presidential bid in
2015
the similarities between the two are
undeniable
it is number three Leatherface The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre Shelly oh you’re
something stop stop
known around the world for a specialty
chainsaw and mask made from human skin
leather face is one of the most popular
and influential characters and horror
movie history as horrifying as he is it
might terrify you even more to find out
that a real-life killer named Edie
Jean who also wore a mask made from the
same material is allegedly one of the
sources for the character
there’s something about Jean that
appeals to the morbid curiosity within
all of us this Wisconsin criminal
exhumed corpses and make keepsakes like
lampshades from their bones and skin
because these crimes were real we had to
make leather face into this hulking
monster who wears a mask of human flesh
and wields a chainsaw Jean story has
been so instrumental to writers and
filmmakers that he’s inspired numerous
other fictional villains such as psychos
Norman Bates and The Silence of the
Lambs Buffalo Bill sometimes truth is
stranger than fiction
it rubs the lotion on its skin or else
it gets the hose again
number two magneto the x-men franchise
you see I think what you really are
afraid of
me me and my kind the Brotherhood of
mutants magneto is one of the x-men’s
primary antagonists a man who holds the
ability to manipulate magnetic fields
and dons a helmet that’s resistant to
telepathy the help to one with me you
thought whoever said I wanted you it
sounds nerdy but it’s pretty badass when
he completely uproots the Golden Gate
Bridge in x-men the last stand
his villany stems from his violent and
forceful attitude against mutant
oppression by humans which we can’t help
but admit sounds similar to Malcolm X’s
approach towards racism in America in
fact comic book writer Chris Claremont
confirmed the connection well it’s the
same thing that attorney General Robert
Kennedy’s a means when he says that the
number one domestic problem in America
is the race problem that it is almost
impossible to solve it it’s almost
impossible to give justice to Negroes to
top things off Magneto’s first comic
book appearance was in the September
1963 issue of x-men at the height of the
civil rights movement you strike with a
vengeance and a fury that this world has
never witnessed before we get to our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
people and your father called you – what
did your father call you Charlie oh yeah
I forgot he wasn’t around one story the
guys told me the story I believe was
from his days in Turkey there was a gang
of Hungarians that wanted their own mob
they realized that to be in power
you didn’t need guns or money or even
numbers you just needed the will to do
what the other guy wouldn’t they told me
that you had gone totally insane and
that Jim methods were unsound I do what
I do best
I take scores you do what you do best
trying to stop guys like me number one
Dracula the Dracula franchise listen to
them children of the night
what music day me known for his penchant
for violence his blood sucking ways and
his signature cape and fangs Dracula has
become a pop-culture mainstay throughout
the last century and beyond I hope you
will find this comfortable it all
started with the famous 1897 novel of
the same name in which author Bram
Stoker based his iconic villain on the
15th century Prince of Wallachia later
dubbed Vlad the Impaler and also known
as Vlad Dracula while it hasn’t been
proven that Vlad drank blood he did gain
a reputation for being excessively
violent and cruel mostly stemming from
his practice of impaling enemies on the
battlefield there is no doubt that the
only way blood could get rid of the
Boyar and cement himself in power was to
kill them all as such he’s inspired
numerous films throughout the years
technically starting with the
unauthorized adaptation called Nosferatu
in 1922 and continuing into the 21st
century
into a warrior so fierce its entire
armies would retreat in terror the
mention of his name do you agree with
our list why do you ask questions to
which you already know the answers can
you think of any movie villains that
were inspired by real people here in
case you think of any ideas for more
evil top 10s published every day be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com I like to
see girls of that caliber
that’s just too good to pass up
don’t you want to see what daddy does
for a living welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 movie villains inspired
by actual people you do good in school
yeah that’s good
I did too they call that a paradox for
this list we’re looking at the great and
memorable villains of film who were
allegedly based on or influenced by real
people
however biographical films that directly
adapt the lives of villains won’t be
included we’re instead looking at
villains that exist within a larger
story who are influenced by a real
person even if that fact is never stated
within the film itself I will bring you
home old friend and I ask you one thing
in return don’t get in my way
number 10 dr. evil the Austin Powers
franchise ow
you shot me eh or possibly everybody’s
favorite character let alone villain
from the Austin Power series dr. evil is
well known for being a spoof of typical
James Bond villains especially Ernst
Stavro Blofeld know them are bachelors
they have captured Americans here’s the
key however dr. evil is also reportedly
based on a real person and that person
is Saturday Night Live producer Lorne
Michaels who just so happened to be one
of Mike Myers bosses from his time on
the show people have to know who’s in
charge because and everyone has to have
a direct route to you Myers is said to
have based evils facial and vocal
mannerisms on Michaels and even the
baddies catchphrase throw me a frickin
bone here is borrowed from him a takeoff
of something he regularly spouted during
SNL meetings how about New York raizy
Dutch bastard
number 9 Severus Snape the Harry Potter
franchise there will be no foolish
wand-waving or silly incantations
in this class no there wasn’t really a
dark magical wizard like this so you can
put your minds at ease I can teach you
how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the
senses in reality author JK Rowling
allegedly based Snape the greasy-haired
ambiguous tormentor of Harry and his
friends on her old chemistry teacher
John nettle ship it may have escaped
unnoticed but life isn’t fair you’re
blessed father knew that in fact he
frequently thought my father was a great
man your father was a swag metal ship
was the head of science at whiting
school in Gloucester shear which also
happened to be where Rowling’s mother
briefly worked the school teacher would
later describe himself as short-tempered
and with a dark foreboding laboratory
lazy Aaron don’t say a word against my
father weak I’m not weak then prove it
control your emotions while we’re hoping
he didn’t directly hit students over the
head with a book nettle ships strictness
had surely become legendary by his
retirement in 1997 we just want to be
comfy
people will think you
up to something number eight Ursula
The Little Mermaid come in come in time
we mustn’t lurk in doorways it’s rude
Ursula is technically based on the see
which character from the Hans Christian
Andersen story The Little Mermaid which
you know this movie is adapted from but
Disney actually dramatically expanded
her role and provided her with an
original character design for the
animated musical fantasy she may be the
key to Katniss I’m doing this design
including her wild hair extravagant
makeup and large figure was actually
modeled after the famous drag queen
divine ask you a personal question
you’re in Japan is your daughter mulatto
of course he didn’t have tentacles since
he wasn’t an ocean dwelling invertebrate
Devine was born Haris Milstead but he
often took on his divine persona for his
music and film career
unfortunately he passed away only one
year before the Little Mermaid’s release
number seven Annie Wilkes misery my name
is Annie Wilkes fan yes that’s right I’m
also a nurse
Annie wilts is one of the most popular
figures in horror known for her
seemingly sweet yet actually malicious
personality and the atrocious act she
commits towards Paul Sheldon an author
she holds captive after rescuing him
during a blizzard I hope I didn’t wake
you these acts include tying him to a
bed and brutally breaking his ankles
with a sledgehammer trust me girl it’s
for the best in the DVD commentary
director Rob Reiner stated that a
pediatric nurse named Jeanine Jones who
would induce paralysis in her patients
before attempting to revive them in
order to receive praise for her efforts
loosely influenced the murderous
tendencies of Wilkes character you dirty
bird how could you Jones may have killed
up to 46 children though only two were
confirmed which landed her a 99-year
prison sentence
god I love you number six Hannibal
Lecter The Silence of the Lambs well let
me know when those lambs stop swinging
this movie gave us one of cinema’s most
renowned villains in Hannibal Lecter the
unnervingly intelligent cannibal that
helps Clarice Starling in her search for
a serial killer Jack Crawford sent a
trainee to me he’s a character adapted
from Thomas Harris’s to suspense novels
from the 80s but it wasn’t until the
21st century that Harris revealed
lectors inspiration to be a man he
called dr. Salazar if you didn’t kill
him then who did sir who can say best
thing for him really his therapy was
going nowhere while working as a
reporter Harris spoke to this eloquent
doctor in prison in a similar
interaction to Starling and lecturers
discussions what does he do this man you
seek he kills what no that is incidental
though Harris never revealed the inmates
name dr. Salazar story and the
information given by Harris seem to
point to a real-life Mexican doctor
named Alfredo balli Trevino who served a
sentence at the same prison for chopping
up his lover a census taker once tried
to test me I ate his liver with some
fava beans and a nice Chianti number
five auric Goldfinger Goldfinger this is
gold Mr Bond
all my life I’ve been in love in its
color while the titular villain may have
been overshadowed by his own henchmen in
the film he still poses a menacing
threat to James Bond as he attempts to
radioactively contaminated in Fort Knox
his government’s given you a bomb I
prefer to call it an atomic device it’s
small but particularly dirty cobalt and
iodine precisely American media at the
time claimed that Goldfinger’s persona
was based on a gold mining magnate by
the name of Charles W angle Hart jr.
quote Mr Bond during the 50s angle Hart
built his company into one of the
world’s leaders in the refining of
precious metals with specific attention
paid to gold
when she acquired from South Africa
forgive me Mr Bond but I must arrange to
separate my goal from the late mr. solo
though the history books omit a small
steel hat wielding henchman and
Englehart story we can’t rule him out as
a likely model for the character do you
expect me to talk now Mr Bond I expect
you to die number four Biff Tannen Back
to the Future Part two look he’s a
Butthead just like his old man was while
he had a minor role as an intimidating
bully in the first movie IFS role is
significantly expanded for the sequel
now Tannen is an extremely wealthy and
powerful man ladies and gentlemen
welcome to the bit Tannen museum
dedicated to Hill valleys number one
citizen and America’s greatest living
folk hero the one and only Biff Tannen
in the real world in October of 2015 the
same month and year that are visited in
the second film writer Bob Gale admitted
that Donald Trump influenced the older
version of Biff as the business mogul
was a well-established American figure
in the late 1980s thanks to his
significant role in the real estate
market poorest person in Kuwait they
lived like kings and yet they’re not
paying we make it possible for them to
sell their oil why aren’t they paying us
25 percent of what they’re making it’s a
joke while Gayle had never admitted this
fact before Trump’s presidential bid in
2015
the similarities between the two are
undeniable
it is number three Leatherface The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre Shelly oh you’re
something stop stop
known around the world for a specialty
chainsaw and mask made from human skin
leather face is one of the most popular
and influential characters and horror
movie history as horrifying as he is it
might terrify you even more to find out
that a real-life killer named Edie
Jean who also wore a mask made from the
same material is allegedly one of the
sources for the character
there’s something about Jean that
appeals to the morbid curiosity within
all of us this Wisconsin criminal
exhumed corpses and make keepsakes like
lampshades from their bones and skin
because these crimes were real we had to
make leather face into this hulking
monster who wears a mask of human flesh
and wields a chainsaw Jean story has
been so instrumental to writers and
filmmakers that he’s inspired numerous
other fictional villains such as psychos
Norman Bates and The Silence of the
Lambs Buffalo Bill sometimes truth is
stranger than fiction
it rubs the lotion on its skin or else
it gets the hose again
number two magneto the x-men franchise
you see I think what you really are
afraid of
me me and my kind the Brotherhood of
mutants magneto is one of the x-men’s
primary antagonists a man who holds the
ability to manipulate magnetic fields
and dons a helmet that’s resistant to
telepathy the help to one with me you
thought whoever said I wanted you it
sounds nerdy but it’s pretty badass when
he completely uproots the Golden Gate
Bridge in x-men the last stand
his villany stems from his violent and
forceful attitude against mutant
oppression by humans which we can’t help
but admit sounds similar to Malcolm X’s
approach towards racism in America in
fact comic book writer Chris Claremont
confirmed the connection well it’s the
same thing that attorney General Robert
Kennedy’s a means when he says that the
number one domestic problem in America
is the race problem that it is almost
impossible to solve it it’s almost
impossible to give justice to Negroes to
top things off Magneto’s first comic
book appearance was in the September
1963 issue of x-men at the height of the
civil rights movement you strike with a
vengeance and a fury that this world has
never witnessed before we get to our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
people and your father called you – what
did your father call you Charlie oh yeah
I forgot he wasn’t around one story the
guys told me the story I believe was
from his days in Turkey there was a gang
of Hungarians that wanted their own mob
they realized that to be in power
you didn’t need guns or money or even
numbers you just needed the will to do
what the other guy wouldn’t they told me
that you had gone totally insane and
that Jim methods were unsound I do what
I do best
I take scores you do what you do best
trying to stop guys like me number one
Dracula the Dracula franchise listen to
them children of the night
what music day me known for his penchant
for violence his blood sucking ways and
his signature cape and fangs Dracula has
become a pop-culture mainstay throughout
the last century and beyond I hope you
will find this comfortable it all
started with the famous 1897 novel of
the same name in which author Bram
Stoker based his iconic villain on the
15th century Prince of Wallachia later
dubbed Vlad the Impaler and also known
as Vlad Dracula while it hasn’t been
proven that Vlad drank blood he did gain
a reputation for being excessively
violent and cruel mostly stemming from
his practice of impaling enemies on the
battlefield there is no doubt that the
only way blood could get rid of the
Boyar and cement himself in power was to
kill them all as such he’s inspired
numerous films throughout the years
technically starting with the
unauthorized adaptation called Nosferatu
in 1922 and continuing into the 21st
century
into a warrior so fierce its entire
armies would retreat in terror the
mention of his name do you agree with
our list why do you ask questions to
which you already know the answers can
you think of any movie villains that
were inspired by real people here in
case you think of any ideas for more
evil top 10s published every day be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com I like to
see girls of that caliber
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