Sheeit, I saw this article about the top 16 80’s cartoon villains and it had me doing imaginary face-offs between characters in my mind. I have a nephew and niece so I often find myself watching the current crop of after school cartoons with them and it has to be said - “action” cartoons nowadays are all shit. It’s not like the 80’s shows didn’t revolve round selling toys too, but man.. at least when they’d have a fight, they had a fight. In these post-Pokemon shows they always fight each other - by playing WITH the toys (think Bey Blades, Card Captors etc). Even the kids think that shit sucks.

Back to this list though, I think they’ve come through with most of the major players. I’m in disagreement with some of the ordering but that’s bound to happen. I would probably put Starscream above everyone, even Megatron. He’s the most ruthless, has zero loyalty, and is a funny cunt to boot. When he threw Megatron into space because Megatron was weighing down the space shuttle, that was a GOAT villian moment. Skeletor to me can’t be the GOAT simply cause he’s just comedy, the look of him, the voice - everything. In fact Masters of the Universe characters in general just make me laugh as soon as I see them(Trap-Jaw, Stinkor) .. cept for Man-At-Arms, he’s mean.

As far as oversights go, they missed my man Doc Terror from Centurions (Centurions was mean as fuck!). Also Saw Boss (what a bad ass name) from Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors. I would probably throw both Bebop and Rocksteady from Ninja Turtles in there too, Bebop is trueschool as and Rocksteady had all the quotables. Props for no mention of Krang too.. fuck him. Take a trip down memory lane 80’s babies.

The Top 16 80’s Cartoon Villains

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