Day 58: The Joker. I loved this movie SO MUCH. Doing my part to aid in the spread of Batmania in 1989, I think I saw it 3 times in the theater that Summer. Looking back, the gritty realism has morphed into a retro-styled comic-book movie that I think still holds up. Although now I don’t care for the idea of the Joker having a flesh-out backstory, it still works, and was definitely among Jack Nicholson’s greatest performances.

Day 57: Johnny Lawrence. There are evil villains, and there are just super punchable assholes. Johnny Lawrence from The Karate Kid is the latter. And even though this dude terrorizes Daniel-san throughout the whole story, the movie tries to humanize him somewhat at the end, by having his sensei be even more strangely relentless against a teenager. But we all know the truth. Johnny and Daniel weren’t going to be friends after this, especially after getting a big ol’ crane kick to the face.

Day 56: Francis Buxton. The villain from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was little more than an adult brat with no thought for anyone but himself. As silly as this movie was, the performance was still spot-on. I still hate Francis, regardless of how much I envy his tub/pool.

Day 55: Judge Doom. Christopher Lloyd’s masked toon character from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? literally gave me nightmares as a child. Menacing performance mixed with truly frightening animation. And as a former Angeleno, I love the fact that the villain plot was to build a freeway. Based on how evil Judge Doom was, I have to assume the freeway in question was the 405.

Day 54: Biff Tannen (c. 1955). Man, Thomas F. Wilson played the hell out of Biff. He could’ve been a stock bully-type, but he managed to pull off humor, wily dumbness and finished it off with real threat. But then, what do you expect from one of the greatest films of our time?

Day 53: Major Arnold Toht. Got to have a Nazi on any villains list, right? This dude was freaking creepy as hell, and that’s even before his face melted.

Day 52: Prince Humperdinck. Chris Sarandon’s turn as the loathsome Prince from The Princess Bride sticks with you. He’s one of those villains who is mostly unflappable. So when he does get visibly upset, it’s pretty frightening.