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Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects.

I was going to say Anton Chigurh, the gun-slinging incarnation of Death from the Coen Brothers' multi-Oscar-winning neo-western thriller No Country for Old Men, or John Doe, the messianic psychopath from David Fincher's modern crime classic Se7en. But ultimately, I went with this shady, mysterious figure. He's not some all-powerful demon, or an iconic badass supervillain. He is human, at least (or so we are led to believe), and yet he is a man to be feared more than any gang-leader in fictional history.

Most villains will, sooner or later, get caught unwillingly or have their plans foiled by a noble figure of authority. Not so with Soze. Instead, he plays his captors (and the audience) like a fiddle, dragging everyone along on his petty charade until the very end, where [SPOOOOOOILERS] he gets away with everything. He toys with his enemies while obfuscating the truth beyond belief, then he spits and laughs in everyone's face (metaphorically), and all that anyone can do is watch open-mouthed as the genius escapes to continue running his empire of death.

''"Keaton always said, 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him'. Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze." - 'Verbal Kint'''