Name a villain from Star Wars, DC, or Lord of the Rings

November 9, 2026 · Daily Dive #117

Explore 26,165 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on November 9, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 87,245 recorded answers

26,165 recorded names on November 9, 2026, 25,862 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Start with the antagonists everyone quotes from the films, then push outward into animation, comics, novels and games, where the rosters grow far deeper than most players assume. Any named or designated antagonist from the three franchises qualifies, however obscure; protagonists, neutral parties, real historical people and characters from other series are excluded.

26,165 recorded answers25,862 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut25,86185 pts
  • Rare27060 pts
  • Schooler2830 pts
  • Plankton510 pts
02

Recorded answers

26,165 recorded answers

How to approach it

Recall works best in widening rings, so avoid attempting to empty your memory in one pass. Begin with antagonists you could describe to a friend unprompted across all three franchises, then take each franchise alone and walk its major arcs in release order, because plot memory cues characters that loose recall drops. Widen the medium next: animated shows, comics, tie-in novels, games and reference books each carry their own rosters, and a minor entry in one often points to several more. Discard anyone who is really a protagonist, a neutral party or a real historical person, then copy spellings exactly as printed, since odd punctuation and numeric labels are accepted literally and that is where most players stop looking.

Get a hint

Take the three franchises one at a time and list antagonists downward from headline schemers to one-scene henchmen, hired killers and plain muscle.

A little more

Regroup that list by faction, era or story arc, and walk each medium in turn, since ordered recall pulls out far more names than free association does.

One step further

Treat designations as names as well: aliases, call signs, droid codes and numeric tags from tie-in material all count when that is the only label a character received.

Reveal answers 26,165
  • Doctor RuthlessDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SaucerDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SchivelDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor Shannon CrawfordDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor ShockerDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SightDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SilenceDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SkubaDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SlightDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SneggDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SpectroDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SpectronDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor SpiderDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor StarbuckDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor StrangegloveDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor StrangehateDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor StratosDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor TaxoDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor ThaumaturgeDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor ThawneDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor ThinkwikDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor ThirteenDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor TrapDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor TraumaDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor TymeDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor Ub’xDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor VarnDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor VentrisDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor VoodooDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor VultureDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor WeerdDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor WeirdDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor WellsDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor WingerDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor X, Y and ZDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor Xa-DuDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor YesDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor Z.Z.Deep Cut85points
  • Doctor ZadarDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor ZodiacDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor-7Deep Cut85points
  • Dodath RaidersDeep Cut85points
  • Dodd RancitDeep Cut85points
  • DodgeDeep Cut85points
  • DodgerDeep Cut85points
  • DodgsonDeep Cut85points
  • Dodo ManDeep Cut85points
  • Dodra F'assDeep Cut85points
  • Dodson MakravenDeep Cut85points
  • Doe, Rae, and MimiDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Scoring is badly lopsided. Of the 26,131 entries in the top band, 25,860 landed at 85 points and only 270 sat at 60, so recognising the broad category did almost all of the work while obscurity added next to nothing. Just one answer reached 100, Tevildo, a deep-cut Tolkien name most players would never dig out, which makes the upper tier look like a curiosity prize rather than a repeatable tactic. Everything else in the sample, from Deathfire and Grudge to strings such as 0-0-0 or 11-4D, earned the same 85, because the reveal runs past 26,000 entries and takes droids, bounty hunters, henchmen and one-line schemers alike. The 60-point tail is barely one percent of the band, so a weaker pick was rarely punished and never wrecked a run. What clearly did not pay was agonising over fame: a household name and a designation known only to a wiki editor were worth identical points, and volume plus exact spelling beat prestige every time.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 9 Nov, 11:20 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy