[Thetrashman]

So, um...Villains! Villains are cool stuff, aren't they? They can be intimidating, goofy, sympathetic, utterly monstrous, but most certainly, they can be just really fun to watch, maybe even to the point they overshadow the main characters and become your favorite! This is about that type of villain: Who are some Toku villains you personally enjoy and why? They can be from anything, Sentai, Power Rangers, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, etc.

Here's a couple of mine:

Cancer (Kamen Rider Fourze)

Cancer's screentime may have been short, but he was extremely memorable. This guy was crazy fun whenever he showed up: being a combination of dangerously competent, ridiculously funny (I've got a weakness for puns, I admit it), and surprisingly intelligent and manipulative at times really worked in his favor to me.

Ryoma Sengoku (Kamen Rider Gaim)

In one of Kamen Rider's darkest seasons, Ryoma stood out as being a particularly twisted villain in my eyes; a sociopath who only values his research and himself above everyone and everything else, his constant manipulations and amoral research leads to pretty much everything going into a downhill spiral, but he's very much a love-to-hate villain to me for matching his utter ruthlessness and remorselessness with an odd charisma and just plain fun performance.

Basco Ta Jolokia (Gokaiger)

Basco was by far and away the best villain Gokaiger had for multiple reasons; His selfish, backstabbing, manipulative ways, coupled with his lack of any sort of remorse for any action (even harming innocent kids), his interesting philosophy of having to give something up to gain another thing (even if that something is your best friends), his intense and, IMO, extremely well-done rivalry with Marvelous that culminated in one of the most satisfying fight scenes I've seen in a Toku, and on top of it all, masking his monstrosity behind a veneer of a relaxed, teasing, even affable personality that made him a joy to watch even when he was doing something despicable.