Top 10 Best Villains of Big 3
Today I am going to enlist the Top 10 Best Villains of the Big 3. Animanga fans are pretty familiar with the term Big 3 as it represents the 3 most hyped and popular anime of all time and today I will enlist Top 10 Best Antagonists of Big 3.
Big 3 are none other than Once Piece, Naruto & Bleach. There are animes like Pokemon, DBZ, etc which have more viewers or popularity than these 3. Still, the impact and influence they have spread on the audience is second to none.
As the three anime has different power scaling systems it’s foolish to compare their power levels so I am enlisting the villains based on their mischievous works, their influence on the verse, their cruelty, their popularity among the fans, and last but not least their badassness. So without wasting any more time let’s proceed to the 10 Best Villains of Big 3.
10. Obito Uchiha
Series – Naruto
At the 10th position of our list, we have Obito Uchiha from Naruto. Though he was not a villain but rather a broken hero. Still, he appeared in the show as a villain. Obito’s influence on the Naruto verse is no joke. He did every evil thing possible just to take revenge for his love.
Obito was the main creator of Akatsuki. Because of him Konan, Yahiko & Nagato suffered. He manipulated them and send them towards hell. He did not stop at them he manipulated and convinced Sasuke to destroy Konoha which Itachi had held dear. He helped Itachi in the Uchiha clan extermination and slaughtered them without mercy and plucked their eyes.
In the Five Kage Summit arc, he disguised himself as Madara and provoked the war in the Shinobi world. With the help of Nagato’s eyes, he awakened the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path (Gedo Mazo) and revived the Ten-Tails. Because of him Neji and many more innocent shinobis died on the battlefield.
Finally, Naruto turned him back into a good guy and showed him the path he should follow. In the battle against Kaguya, he saved the life of Naruto, Sasuke & Kakashi and died as a Hero. He is also one of the strongest members of Akatsuki.
9. Akainu
Series – One Piece
Akainu is one of the major antagonists of the series. He was the main antagonist of the Marineford arc. Akainu was an acting Navy Admiral back at the Marineford arc, one of the best arcs in One Piece. But his twisted sense of Justice portrays him more like a villain than a hero.
Akainu brutally assaulted the White Beard pirates and killed Ace in front of Luffy. The scar and trauma that he gave still haunt Luffy these days. Akainu was desperate to kill Luffy even though his own subordinates and innocent people were dying. In the incident of Ohara, he burned a battleship filled with civilians and navy officers.
Akainu’s hate towards the pirates has made him blind and he has lost his sense of justice. But Akainu has some good things too he does not care about World Government and Celestial Dragons. He does not compromise his job for them. Without a doubt he is one of the 10 Best Big 3 Villains.
8. Orochimaru
Series – Naruto
Orochimaru is one of the primal antagonists of the show. He was first introduced in the Chunin exam arc where he was trying to get a new body and assassinate Hiruzen Sarutobi. Orochimaru succeded in the assassination and dealt heavy damage to the village. But in front of his real crimes, they are nothing.
Orochimaru is a mad scientist addicted to the mystery of Jutsus. He wants to learn all Jutsus of the world and to do so he invented a way to transfer his soul into another’s body. He made many hideouts and stored strong shinobis to use them like lab rats.
He collected strong Kekkei Genkai users to make them his next host. When he had no use for anyone he just tossed them in the prison for experiments. After the experiments he made them fight death matches to select strong subordinates. Orochimaru’s heinous crime list and experiments can’t be described in a single article I suppose.
7. Kaido
Series – One Piece
Kaidou is the true definition of a Warmonger. Because of his immense power, he was bored with this world and with the ones ruling it. He wanted to start a full fledge just to get rid of his boredom. Kaido only acknowledges the strong and despises the weak. He was one of the 10 Strongest Characters in One Piece.
His cruelty and mercilessness have no bounds after brutally killing Oden he mocked his death in front of Momonosuke sending him into permanent trauma. Then he left Tama on the verge of death.
Kaido is merciless even to his daughter Yamato. Just because Yamato idolizes Oden he imprisoned her in a dark place without food and water. There were many samurais too in that prison who had a grudge against Kaido. It could have been a life-threatening situation for Yamato but he did not care.
Kaido’s boredom and insignificance allowed his crew and allies to grow berserk under his name. The Shogun of Wano did whatever he want but Kaido put a blind eye on it. Dofflamingo used his influence and did all the underworld works and crimes. Kaido may have not directly allied himself with the crimes but he allowed them to happen.
6. Pain
Series – Naruto
Pain is one of the major antagonists of the series Naruto Shippuden. He was the acting leader of Akatsuki and one of its founding members. Pain is actually an alias of Nagato. With the power of Rinnegan Nagato could control up to six different clones. Nagato used to stay hidden and used the Deva Path Pain to pose as the leader of Akatsuki.
Nagato is more of a victim than a true villain. His goal and causes behind the crimes were justified. Still, I am placing him so high on the list because of his characteristics and ideologies. Nagato is the only person who sent Naruto to despair. He almost succeeded to convince Naruto that there’s no meaning to his life, he should be a noble sacrifice for the upcoming great times.
He is the main antagonist of the Pain arc. He destroyed the whole Konoha and killed a lot of civilians mercilessly. He was blinded by the hatred of war. He had lost his sense of justice. But as I mentioned before he was more of a victim than a villain. When Naruto convinced him and showed him what was good and what was wrong. He sacrificed his own life to save all the villagers.
5. Ulquiorra Cifer
Series – Bleach
Ulquiorra Cifer is the coldest villain of animanga. As you all know that every Espada represents an aspect of death. Ulquiorra represented the Emptiness of Death. As the name suggests to him a life or a heart has no meaning everything was hollow to him.
Even Ulquiorra’s favorite killing style was also to shoot a Cero from the enemy’s heart to show it’s actually empty. Ulqiorra drove Ichigo and his friends to the uttermost despair where they lost all hopes of leaving. His actions caused the berserk in Ichigo’s Reiatsu and he turned into Vasto Lorde Ichigo.
At the end of the fight when Ulquiorra was on the brink of death he finally understood the meaning of emotion and what exactly is the emptiness of heart.
4. Yhwach
Series – Bleach
Yhwach is the major antagonist of the Thousand Years Blood War arc in Bleach. He is the king of Quincy. His cruelty and mercilessness have no bounds. Yhwach is completely blind by the rage & hatred he has against the Soul Society.
He and his army elite Quincy army Sternritters mercilessly slaughtered everyone in the Soul Society. Yhwach took thousands of Shinigami’s life just to relieve his anger. He does not care about his subordinates’ life too. His only goal is to completely annihilate the Soul Society and the Shinigamis.
3. Donquixote Doflamingo
Series – One Piece
Donquixote Doflamingo is one of the primal antagonists of the series. He was first introduced during the Marineford arc as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. With his authority as a Warlord, he took over the country of Dressrosa and started doing all sorts of evil business. In the underworld, he was infamous as Joker.
Starting from Gun supplying to Woman trafficking Doflamingo had done all kinds of evil jobs. He produced artificial Devil Fruit with the help of Caesar Clown and made Kaido his ally. By doing so he obtained two strong trump cards. With the influence of Kaido & the power of Warlord, he started the most heinous crimes possible. From women trafficking to weapon smuggling his crimes were limitless.
2. Madara Uchiha
Series – Naruto
Madara Uchiha aka the Ghost of the Uchiha is one of the strongest characters in the Naruto Shippuden series. He is the legendary Uchiha who once dominated this world. Upon reincarnation, Madara created chaos in the shinobi world and put it on the brink of extinction.
Madara is a proper example of God Complex character. His way of thinking was unique and his majesty had put him on stage where he thought whatever he does is justice. Madara tried to hypnotize the whole world and put them to sleep for eternity where everyone will dream about the life they want.
According to Madara, this was the only way to attain world peace. He did not hesitate to wipe out the whole of Division 4. He did whatever evil deed possible to achieve his dream of world peace.
1. Aizen Sosuke
Series – Bleach
Aizen Sosuke is the best antagonist in the Big 3. Fans may argue about who is better Aizen or Madara. But believe those who have watched Bleach & Naruto both they will agree that Aizen was way better antagonist than anyone in the Big 3.
Aizen Sosuke had reached the pinnacle of strength & knowledge while he was a shinigami. So he dreamt of learning what lies way past that. He wanted to dethrone the Soul King & become the God himself. To achieve his goal he did numerous experiments on the citizens of Rukon District to attain Hollow Powers. He turned his fellow shinigami members into Hollow for his experiment.
He even used the Espadas to understand & make the Hogyoku perfect. It was later revealed that Ichigo’s birth & every event that happened with him was perfectly planned by Aizen. He tormented Ichigo to the extent that Ichigo almost became insane. Aizen toyed with everyone in the series just because he thought himself the superior being. He planned to sacrifice every citizen of Karakura town to create an Oken.
Conclusion
As I have mentioned earlier don’t compare them based on their strength. Many more Villains are qualified to be on this list. But keeping all the previously mentioned points I think this is the best list possible. Still, everyone has their personal favorite so some of you guys will not be pleased with the rankings. But believe me, if you put away your favoritism and think carefully these 10 characters are the Top 10 Best Villains of the Big 3 and every one of them is unique and in no way inferior to one another.