2012 Year in Review: Top Movie Villains

2012 was a pretty great year for movies of all kinds: blockbusters, indies, and all points between. It was a particularly good year for villains. Here are five of the baddest baddies of 2012.

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3. Bane - Tom Hardy, "The Dark Knight Rises" Pay no attention to the complaints about Bane's mask muffling his dialogue: All you need to know about Tom Hardy's performance in that movie you can see in his too-massive-to-seem-real physique and hulking, menacing posture. Hardy's Bane was a truly worthy adversary for the climactic entry in Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy.
3. Bane - Tom Hardy, "The Dark Knight Rises" Pay no attention to the complaints about Bane's mask muffling his dialogue: All you need to know about Tom Hardy's performance in that movie you can see in his too-massive-to-seem-real physique and hulking, menacing posture. Hardy's Bane was a truly worthy adversary for the climactic entry in Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy.