Bald or crazy-haired. Lairs above or below sea level. A wall of TV monitors in SD or HD - the Evil Genius gene does not discriminate.

But it does tend to create individuals prone to having doctorates and wearing bland one-piece outfits while they play God, or exercise their plots for world domination. These plots are usually executed from within the confines of some top-secret lair inside a volcano, with enough overhead to employ a small army of guards (read: human shields) and revisit said plans for pwning the world when the hero thwarts their first attempt. Thus is the stutter-step cycle of the Evil Genius, a tried-and-true movie villain profession.With Megamind 's titular character muscling his way into their ranks this weekend, IGN assembled our all-star team of individuals that can get you a space-based weapons platform by 3 o'clock.

Spent all that time creating a monster and didn't even have the decency to name it.So, the genius part is pretty clear on this one. He starts fooling around with chemicals and decaying bodies and makes his own creature. After creating it, though, he's so pissed that it's ugly that he doesn't even bother to name it – unless you consider "creature," "the demon," "wretch," "devil," "thing" and "ogre" terms of endearment (hey, whatever floats your boat). He even takes off and abandons it. Now that's just cruel. No wonder all the thing wants to do is run around and strangle everyone – his "dad" walked out on him because he was ugly.Turns out the doctor didn't have much in the common sense department, though. The creature decided to deal with its daddy issues by hunting him down and ends up killing his brother, bride and best friend. Moral of the story: Love your children, even if they're bolts-in-their-necks ugly, or else they'll kill everyone you love.

A computer program thing intent on hurting Neo's brain with "quid pro quo" this and this about the Matrix, and his cyclical role in it.Is he evil? Any computer construct that can be anything but chooses to dress as Col. Sanders has to be. Matrix Reloaded introduced us to The Architect, a key player in the Matrix, responsible for a lot of the things behind the bullet-time fun and spoon-bending Neo and friends deal with. We wish we could say more about the Matrix's talky, MENSA version of Yahoo! Answers, but we fell asleep during his "vis a vis" elliptical BS that made us wish we never wished for two Matrix sequels at all.Which is yet another reason for why this guy gets filed under "Evil."

Ernst Stavro Blofeld , SPECTRE's most infamous member, who would rather kill James Bond by building a launch pad inside a volcano, or ransom the world under the threat of nuclear war, than simply put a gun to 007's head.Blofeld first promised to kill Bond as a faceless cat enthusiast in From Russia With Love. But we didn't see his face until You Only Live Twice, where his most ridiculous plan to kill Bond and the world was apparently cause enough to finally reveal himself. If our brightest idea for world domination centered on sending a space capsule into orbit, to Pac-Man chomp American and Russian space craft for ransom, we'd do the exact opposite of showing our face in public. Especially if we're carrying around a white cat like it were our beast/hetero life partner.Eventually, Blofeld put on his Telly Savalas skin suit and got his closest to hurting Bond yet - by killing 007's new bride. As excessive and overproduced as Blofeld's plans were, the guy had ambition. And he never stopped trying... until Bond dropped his bald ass down a chimney from a helicopter in For Your Eyes Only.

To wipe out all humanity on Earth with killer plant spores, in order to recreate the Garden of Eden in space. AKA what we feel like doing every day when we're stuck in ungodly traffic on the 405.Honestly, you could include almost every James Bond Villain in this category. From bats!@# French millionaires loaded up on Nazi steroids with designs to murder Silicon Valley with earthquakes, to North Korean Colonels who undergo DNA replacement therapy to look like Patrick Bateman, 007 has faced them all. But there were two movies in a row, in particular, where Roger Moore's Bond took on wealthy industrialists who planned on killing everyone on the entire planet so that they can start humankind anew in some sort of dream utopia. Drax is one of them.Moonraker's fat, bearded Drax looked about as intimidating as a little serving jar of mango chutney, but he's the only villain that was able to take Bond up into space and evoke a full-on laser gun blast battle! The guy had big plans. Sure, most of it involved us all dying horrible deaths while he set-up a veritable non-stop sex colony in the cosmos, filled with the most beautiful people in the world, but you have to admire that kind of ambition.The second villain Moore's 007 faced was Karl Stromberg . The Spy Who Loved Me's baddie gets an honorable mention here, since he basically had the same plan as Drax, but it involved creating a new super-society *in Sebastian voice* "unda da sea." He was like the Bioshock Andrew Ryan of the Bond-o-verse.

A parody of Mr. Blofeld. Bumbling madman wants to hold the world ransom... for one million dollars!Take every stereotype about James Bond's villains, roll it up into one deranged Belgian tyrant, toss in a midget sidekick for good measure, and you have Dr. Evil. This evil genius has been the sworn nemesis of Austin Powers ever since their days at the British Intelligence Academy. Where Austin enjoyed the fame and women that came with being an International Man of Mystery, Dr. Evil had only his cockamamie plots to turn to.The duo have since come to learn they're actually long lost brothers. The former Dr. Evil has renounced villainy, but we doubt he'll be able to ignore his desires for frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their foreheads for long.

Jilted teen sidekick devotes adult life to terrorizing former mentor.Young Buddy Pine wanted nothing more than to be sidekick to the world famous Mr. Incredible. But when that didn't work out, Buddy devoted his life towards becoming Mr. Incredible's worst nightmare.He amassed a great fortune and designed powerful weapons based on zero-point energy. His elaborate plot nearly killed all five members of the Incredible family. But all the money, fancy robots and futuristic technology in the world are no match for proper teamwork. In the end, this mad genius forgot the oldest rule in the book – never wear a cape near an active jet engine.

The Brutus of Othello. Take his promotion, and he'll literally try to kill you.When you get passed up for a promotion at work, what do you do? Well, next time you decide to go for that pint of Chunky Monkey and a chick flick so you can cry about it in your room, take a few hints from this guy.Iago orchestrates the destruction of Othello (his superior), starting with his marriage, convincing him that the guy he promoted, Cassio, is banging his wife. Iago teams up with Roderigo, and then later kills him in a skeezy double-cross, all so he can convince Othello that his wife is having an affair. The plan is to force Othello to have Cassio killed and then Iago can take his place as lieutenant.Long Shakespearean story short, Othello ends up killing his wife, but Iago's plan ultimately fails when his own wife rats him out and he ends up getting arrested. Now that we think about it, maybe you should go for that ice cream...

A guy with Doogie Howser good looks who wants nothing more than to stand alongside Bad Horse in the Evil League of Evil......All he has to do is just defeat his nemesis, Captain Hammer, and tragically, accidentally, kill his lady love in the process. Damn, some job application processes are a bitch. Sure, all the sing-a-long blog fun aside, Dr. Horrible death rays himself from minor threat in a lab coat to major player in the business of plotting ends for the world the way soccer moms plan vacations.But Dr. Horrible earns his place in the EOE by getting rid of all that defined him - his nemesis and his girl. Next up for Horrible? Sing-a-long suicide hotline intervention.