Line #55 SissyVillain/Film


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9	%%* Charlie Prince in the remake of ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007''.
10	* King Xerxes of ''Film/ThreeHundred''. He is usually wearing nothing but a gold speedo and lounging seductively on his throne.
11	* Dr. Terwilliker in ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT''. Even though he's intent on marrying Bartholomew's mother, you can clearly see he's very swishy. Especially during the ''fabulous'' dress-up song.
12	* ''Film/BangkokKnockout'' has an effeminate fighter who initially squares off against Ao, squealing in falsetto about how much he's enjoying getting kicked by such a handsome boy.
13	* The Riddler as played by Creator/JimCarrey in ''Film/BatmanForever''. Not just ''incredibly'' camp, but also AmbiguouslyGay for Bruce Wayne.
14	* In ''Film/BombayVelvet'', Kaizad Khambatta is married, but uses his wife for honey-trapping his enemies, and seems to prefer the company of other men and seems very jealous of Johnny's romance with Rosie.
15	* Prince Edward in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', a foppish, homosexual weakling who cares more about new clothes and playing with his boy toy than conquering Scotland. (His RealLife analogue, Edward II, actually was gay, but not an example: besides the problems with calling real people villains, the real Edward II was interested in traditionally manly, outdoorsy pastimes like sports and, unusually given his station in life, manual labor.) The main villain, Longshanks, is a manly man.
16	* ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'': A lot of movie villains were portrayed as having camp and implied gay stereotypes, though not crossing into explicitly DepravedHomosexual territory before the 70s or so.
17	* "Sally Can't Dance" in ''Film/ConAir'', one of the villainous prisoners, is a {{camp gay}} guy in a dress, or trans woman ([[AmbiguousGenderIdentity it isn't clear]]).
18	* Sebastian Valmont in ''Film/CruelIntentions''. Not gay, certainly, but soft-voiced and [[{{Wangst}} whiny]]. The clincher? His stepsister promises him that if he succeeds in an evil task she's giving him, ''she'll'' fuck ''him''.
19	* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': [=SkekEkt=] is the most flamboyant of the villainous Skeksis, but all of them are rather fragile due to their old age.
20	* ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'':
21	** Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are [[BanteringBaddieBuddies a pair of assassins]] who are very strongly implied to be a gay couple. Wint shows some CampGay mannerisms; Kidd, however, is an aversion of this trope, being StraightGay.
22	** Blofeld from the same movie got quite the upgrade in fabulousness, as well. He even got to dabble in {{Creepy Crossdress\|er}}ing.
23	* The Scorpio Killer from ''Film/DirtyHarry''. The contrast is made more blatant by the fact that Harry Callahan is played by quintessential "man's man" Creator/ClintEastwood.
24	* The Vietnamese Giggling General in ''Film/EasternCondors'' comes across as quite effeminate, due primarily to his peculiar laugh, but is an incredibly ferocious martial artist
25	* From the 70s film ''The Eiger Sanction'' (based on [[Literature/TheEigerSanction the book]]), there's a fellow called Miles Mellough, whose sole purpose in the movie is to embody this trope. He has a lap dog named 'Faggot', wears flamboyant clothing and makes off-colour jokes about rape in a very sissy voice. At no time is he a credible threat (we're supposed to believe he was a crack commando?!) and his death is devoid of any interesting fight: Eastwood leaves him to die in the desert midway through the film.
26	* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg from ''Film/TheFifthElement'' had some of these traits, specifically the delicacy and high fashion. Remember his perfectly appointed office? [[TheHero Dallas]], on the other hand, is an ex-soldier played by [[MachoMachoMan Bruce Willis]].
27	* The villain in the Creator/ChowYunFat film ''Full Contact'' is openly gay and wants to fuck Chow almost as much as he wants to kill him.
28	* [[TheCaligula Emperor Commodus]] from ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' is quite foppish and effeminate, especially compared to the extremely manly [[TheHero Maximus]].
29	* Park Chang-yi in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'' is a murderous, psychopathic prettyboy with anachronistically fabulous clothes and grooming. Overlaps with AgentPeacock, as he's the most feared assassin in Manchuria and every bit as deadly as he is pretty.
30	* In ''Film/TheGrandDuel'', Adam Saxon is the baby of the Saxon brothers, a dressed-all-in-white dandy, and a psychotic killer to boot who goes into near orgasmic delight whenever he gets to kill someone.
31	* Percy in ''Film/TheGreenMile''. Fittingly, the casts' Southern accents make it sound a lot like "pussy."
32	* One of the complaints often levied against the Film/HarryPotter films is that Voldemort often comes across as this.
33	* Herod in the original movie production of ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar''. He lounges in a swimming pool with two attractive women and two male servants, sings in a higher register than the other male characters, and does a very camp dance during his song.
34	* Valentine from ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' has a lisp, dresses fairly casually (and when he DOES go formal, is very foppish), and is sickened by acts of murder. ''Direct'' murder, that is. He's fine with having people kill each other.
35	* Jareth the Goblin King from ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' is every bit as fabulously {{camp}}y as [[Music/DavidBowie the man who played him]], but in a decidedly sexy and [[EvilIsCool cool]] way like Frank-N-Furter mentioned below. Complicating the issue further is his [[CampStraight definite affinity for the ladies]], or at least for Creator/JenniferConnelly.
36	%%* Waldo Lydecker from ''Film/{{Laura}}''.
37	* Dr. Caspary in ''The Lightship'' (Creator/RobertDuvall, {{Playing Against Type}}) is an effeminate dandy whose mannerisms seem to channel Truman Capote's. He's also a modern-day pirate who hijacks a naval vessel with help from his two henchmen thugs (one of whom is implied to be his lover).
38	* ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'' pits macho AntiHero Sam Spade up against ''three'' Sissy Villains: Joel Cairo, Kasper Gutman, and Wilmer. (Only UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode prevented the film from out-and-out showing that Cairo and Wilmer are the {{Gayngster}}s they are in the novel.)
39	* In Abel Gance's biopic of ''UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon\|Bonaparte}}'', Gance himself steals the show as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. Foppish and effete in his dangling earrings, and described as the most feared man in the French Revolution – other authors have called him the Terror's "Angel of Death".
40	* Lord Cutler Beckett from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' has elements of this as well, though [[TruthInTelevision a lot of real life aristocrats of 18th century acted like that]] so it's purely canon instead of being for just the heck of it.
41	* ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'':
42	** The alien commander Eros. In the words of the Rifftrax guys: "He makes Carson Kressley look butch!" The actor's name was ''Dudley Manlove''. Yes, that was his real name. Poor guy.
43	** Eros' superior, however, out-swishes him by a mile. He was played by a guy with the ordinary name (and not-so-ordinary nickname) of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Breckinridge John "Bunny" Breckinridge]], but his lifestyle topped having the surname "Manlove" by ''ten'' miles.
44	* Watson from ''Razor Sharpe'', although, given his [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent unfathomable accent]], it's anyone's guess whether this is intentional or just the result of dodgy acting.
45	* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has Pavi Largo as a minor villain. He is foppish, flamboyant and painfully vain; he dresses in replica vintage Italian suits, and speaks with an outrageous Italian accent for no good reason. He's also a serial rapist who wears the face of a beautiful woman over his own.
46	* Archibald Cunningham from ''Film/RobRoy'', a downright fop who murders people to buy fancy new clothes. He affects a comically mincing facade, but [[LetsGetDangerous drops the act]] behind closed doors and when he's angry. When talking to his mistress he [[LampshadeHanging actually mentions]] putting on a "lithp" as part of his highborn act. True to the way this trope is usually played, TheHero is the classically manly [[Creator/LiamNeeson Rob Roy]], though unusually, Cunningham is a vastly superior fighter with a fair amount of VillainousValour.
47	* [[CreepyCrossdresser Dr. Frank-N-Furter]] from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', albeit he's an EvilIsCool example.
48	* Creator/CharlesLaughton (who was bisexual) as Emperor Nero in ''The Sign of the Cross''.
49	* Buffalo Bill, the quasi-trans SerialKiller from ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'', is one of the most famous examples.
50	* Raoul Silva (as played by Creator/JavierBardem), the antagonist of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. He even actively fuels the FoeRomanceSubtext between him and [[Film/JamesBond 007]].
51	* Ronald, in ''Film/{{Squatters}}'', is first introduced in a long red wig and he lisps his way throughout the movie.
52	* Bruno from ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'', Brandon and Philip from ''Film/{{Rope}}'', Norman Bates from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''... it's safe to say that Creator/AlfredHitchcock loved this trope.
53	* Jean Girard from ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'' is a comedy version of this trope. He even talks about his husband. And he raises horses -- who are also gay. However, [[ManlyGay subverted]] in that he's the best racer on the circuit for a time -- and he puts Ricky in a humiliating arm lock in order to force him to admit that French ''crepes'' are delicious. Also subverted in that he's not particularly villainous, more of TheRival who secretly admires Ricky Bobby and sees him as a WorthyOpponent. He's a bit of an arrogant jerk, but so is Ricky.
54	* Eli Sunday, the shady preacher from ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', who's almost too pathetic to be an actual threat. Almost.
55	* Willard Gates, the villain with an aversion to being exposed to violence, in ''Film/ThisGunForHire''.
56	* Billy Breakenridge is a corrupt sheriff's deputy on the take from the bandit Cowboy gang in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}''. He's also portrayed as an effeminate, homosexual weakling. Breakenridge's collaboration with an outlaw gang is probably historically accurate, but his effeminacy was probably something Wyatt Earp made up in his account of the events at Tombstone.
57	* Darren "Wall Street" Bettencourt of ''Film/TheTransporter'' spends his first appearance trying to feel Frank up, while talking about how much "I like him." He's got the limp wrists, the LargeHam gestures, the pretty boy look, and the mincing. And then he reveals that he's actually TheDragon and a fairly nasty BloodKnight who wants to fight Frank to the death.
58	%%* [[spoiler: Castor/Zuse]] from ''Film/TronLegacy''.
59	* Aro, the head vampire in the film version of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', due to Creator/MichaelSheen [[HamAndCheese simply not giving a shit]].
60	* They're not the main villains, but in ''Film/VanishingPoint'' Kowalski picks up two stereotypical gay hitchhikers who attempt to rob him, and he beats them up.
61	* Komodo from ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' is prissy, frilly and effeminate, but he [[CampStraight very clearly has gotten with several of the hot women in this movie anyway]].
62	* Subverted by Adrian "Ozymandias" Veidt in ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. The screenwriter and director were convinced he was gay, the actor who played him suggested he was probably at least bisexual in an interview, and there's an EasterEgg in a shot of his computer desktop that may or may not have a gay PornStash. He's also extremely well-dressed, to the point of garishness in some scenes, and has a ''fabulous'' androgynous haircut bordering on PowerHair. He's also a ruthlessly efficient martial artist, a hard-nosed businessman, and has terse, rather dry and dour speech patterns and body language. He might not be quite StraightGay, but there is nothing mincing or effeminate about him in the slightest.
63	* Mr. Ho, TheDragon from ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'', is quite effeminate, especially when he feels Tang Lung's stomach and says, "Ohhhh, what rippling muscles!"
64	* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', the villainous Colonel Torres is a dandy, and strongly implied to be homosexual (and possibly an {{Ephebophile}}).
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Context SissyVillain / Film