10 Greatest Ever Anime Villains

If you were to go in blind to Berserk, you might not see what makes Griffith such a great villain at first. Sure, he's kind of a scheming bastard, but hey, that's how you get by in Berserk's world. But then the end of the original anime comes along, and then you see what the show had been building up to all this time.

Griffith - after being tortured by the kingdom he once served and then saved by main character Guts and his buddies - is given the chance for ultimate power he always wanted by a cabal of demons. The only price asked by those demons are the lives of his men. Griffith doesn't even think twice about selling them all out.

Then you not only get to watch all these characters you've gotten to know and care about for 26 episodes die horrible, bloody, screaming deaths, but Griffith makes Guts watch as he rapes his lover Casca before Guts manages to escape with her and swear vengeance.

It's unclear whether or not he's ever going to get that revenge. Anime adaptations are almost scared of adapting anything beyond that point, and we will all be dead in the ground before the mangaka actually finishes this story (seriously how is One Piece closer to ending than Berserk, which is almost a decade its senior?). Griffith is basically a god now, and has all the power he's ever wanted, so even if Guts manages to kill him, there's no doubt that Griffith has long since won this game.