From Dr. Lilith Ritter in Nightmare Alley to Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth, these are the best villains in Guillermo del Toro movies.
It's a fact of fiction that a good villain is almost always a necessary component of a good story. Naturally, having someone believably despicable for the heroes to take on makes for great conflict, which will inevitably make a narrative easier for a viewer to get sucked into. Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, best known for maintaining a singular style across various genres, understands this well, and has plenty of movies that feature excellent villains.
9 Angel de la Guardia - 'Cronos' Like Nightmare Alley, morality is somewhat complex in Guillermo del Toro's debut feature film, Cronos. It's an unsettling and fairly straightforward horror movie with a tragic figure at its center: an elderly man who finds a device that seems to make him younger, though the power he's given ultimately has a cost in more ways than one.
It arguably eschews black-and-white morality for much of its runtime, though Jessica Chastain's Lady Lucille Sharpe emerges as a villain of sorts, given she's in opposition to the main character, played by Mia Wasikowska. Sharpe's something of a tragic villain, but she does ultimately feel like an antagonist as the film goes on, and one who's capable of genuinely cruel acts.
The first of del Toro's Hellboy movies featured Rasputin as a villain, and he's adapted well to the big screen. The movie as a whole isn't quite a classic, with del Toro's second Hellboy movie being considerably better, but Grigori Rasputin is a fine and suitably imposing antagonist, serving the overall film well.
4 Prince Nuada - 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' After the good but not great 2004 Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro returned to the series in 2008 with a much-improved sequel: Hellboy II: The Golden Army. It's a more stylish and confident movie, and it feels as though del Toro embraces his love of dark fantasy much more here, combining that feel with great superhero action to make a genuinely satisfying comic book movie.
2 Colonel Richard Strickland - 'The Shape of Water' Somehow, Guillermo del Toro makes the unusual premise of The Shape of Water function as an emotional story. It is, essentially, a movie about a lonely woman who falls in love with a strange creature that's a human/fish hybrid. It was a movie that, quite miraculously, won Best Picture at the Oscars. It sounds like it shouldn't hold up as something one can take seriously, but it somehow just works.
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