Matthew Bishop
Scribe
Might be a little cocky here, but I will have to choose a villain from my own novels, King Seagraul. He begins in the early series as a revolutionary and a visionary, a living ideal of "change the system" and dies as a tyrant and war criminal corrupted by his own system. He bares the flaws of the kind of man whose ideas become violently radicalized, who becomes so obsessed with power that the base of his character is forever changed. I think a villain who transitions from heroism into villainy is always the strongest.
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