Hey, if we're going into non-anime&manga-baddies, then I 
unhesitatingly nominate... Claude Frollo, from The Hunchback of Notre 
Dame!  (No, not the Disney version, silly; the original Victor Hugo 
novel, where Claude is a priest, knows a lot of Latin, Greek, and 
Alchemy crap, and is ten-zillion times more obsessed with Esmeralda.)
This guy is just freaked.  

	Quote: "When one does evil, one must do it thoroughly; it's 
madness to stop halfway!  The extremity of crime has a certain delirium 
of joy."
	Excerpt from the novel: 'And thus delving into his soul, when he 
saw what a large place nature had prepared for the passions, he laughed 
even more bitterly.  He stirred up all the hatred and wickedness in the 
depths of his heart and, with the cold eye of a physician examining a 
patient, he perceived that it was only corrupted love; that love, the 
source of all virtue in man, turned into horrible things in a priest's 
heart and that when a man constituted as he was made himself a priest he 
also made himself a demon.'

	However, if made to choose from the existing anime & manga 
baddies, I would choose Gendo Ikari, commander of NERV, from Neon 
Genesis Evangelion.  The guy is an utter SOB, but cool.  He treats 
everyone around him, including his own son, as pawns in some grand 
scheme.  All the mysteries, secrets, conspiracies etc. in Evangelion are 
kept by this guy.  If he were a character in The X-Files, he would be 
called White-Gloved Man or Dark Glasses Man.

	Quote:  Much of Gendo's coolness lies not in his words, but in 
his manner.  Just sits there with his hands folded just *so*, with 
sub-commander Fuyutsuki standing behind him, while all hell is breaking 
loose in Tokyo-3.  However, to give you an idea of how ruthless he is, 
here is a quote from the first episode, summoning a severely injured Rei 
to do battle:
	Ikari: Call Rei.
	Fuyutsuki: Is she ready?
	Ikari: She's not dead at least.


		Andrael ^_^


"He wasn't evil.  Just self-righteous."
				---My brother, Carl

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!  It's all Father's fault!"
				--- Shinji Ikari