Stargate: Every Villain Ranked Worst To Best

Played cheekily by Cliff Simon, Ba'al would go from being simply one of the gathered System Lords to the dominant Goa'uld in the galaxy through opportunistic manipulation and flippant cunning. He was pretty ingenious compared to many of his contemporary overlords and survived the longest amount of time compared to the rest of them. He cloned himself, he had a weird gravity torture facility, inexplicable access to time travel and he managed to outwit Anubis while pretended to be allied with him.

Ba'al proved himself to be far more adaptable to the wiles of SG-1 than any of the other Goa'uld and on one or two occasions was even of great help to them (but only if the galaxy itself was at stake). While he held vast territories in space and several planets answered his beck and call, his forces were eventually decimated by the return of Anubis and he turned to serving his oppressor instead.

He would eventually get one over on Anubis after SG-1's victory over Antarctica, but this victory was short lived and he lost most of his standing again when the Jaffa uprising swept the galaxy. Ba'al resorted to more interesting schemes and took up residence on Earth for a short while as the newly installed head of The Trust. Or at least one of his many clones did. The rest of them were trying to stave off the advance of the Ori.

Due to the cancellation of Stargate SG-1, Ba'al was chosen to be the antagonist for the second straight-to-DVD movie, Continuum, which means that he held out as the longest running of SG-1's many villains.