7. Simon Pegg in The Long Game
Just a quick heads up, a lot of the rest of this list is going to be dedicated to villains well, to be perfectly honest, theyre nearly all villains aside from a particularly pretty Australian, a Botox-addicted TV presenter and a snooty art critic (epic foreshadowing!). Moving on, Simon Pegg ladies and gentleman! I could definitely imagine him working alongside George Lucas after this role, and given that the guy hes working for is a slimy, greedy monster who lives in the cold and the dark and wants to dominate and torment the lives of everyone in his power, thats hardly surprising. (There, I made a George Lucas joke. Everybody gets one, okay?) Pegg plays a snivelling yet surprisingly threatening yes man working under (literally) the mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe, which took poor old Shaun of the Dead about twenty takes to say correctly. Constantly nodding, agreeing and smiling politely, the Editor (Pegg) manipulates mankind through subliminal news stories and is easily the most realistic villain of Series One. Hes someone we can all see behind the scenes of every great government and television network saying Come on, one more season of Happy Days, what harm can it do?, and the fact that hes so casual, sweet and almost funny with his kooky sense of humour just makes him all the more threatening when you think of just what hes doing to the world. (By the way, if youre getting bored of this, Id advise you to play the Simon Pegg in The Long Game Drinking Game. You just take a shot every time I make a crappy pop-culture reference in those last two paragraphs.)