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
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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
  • Gabriel BradyDeep Cut85points
  • Gabriel DuncanDeep Cut85points
  • Gabriel NewmanDeep Cut85points
  • Gabriel RossettiDeep Cut85points
  • Gabriela MatiasDeep Cut85points
  • Gabrielle CarlosDeep Cut85points
  • GaccerinDeep Cut85points
  • GachialDeep Cut85points
  • Gad SlugginsDeep Cut85points
  • Gade YedanDeep Cut85points
  • Gadget-MakerDeep Cut85points
  • Gadsden GravesDeep Cut85points
  • Gaege XarranDeep Cut85points
  • GaelanDeep Cut85points
  • Gaen DrommelDeep Cut85points
  • Gaevril DaraadaDeep Cut85points
  • GaffDeep Cut85points
  • Gaff LomarDeep Cut85points
  • GageDeep Cut85points
  • GaggyDeep Cut85points
  • GagmanDeep Cut85points
  • GaiaDeep Cut85points
  • GailidDeep Cut85points
  • GakDeep Cut85points
  • Gal BrelloDeep Cut85points
  • GalaDeep Cut85points
  • Galactic Alliance GuardDeep Cut85points
  • Galactic GolemDeep Cut85points
  • Galactic MarinesDeep Cut85points
  • Galak FyyarDeep Cut85points
  • GalallDeep Cut85points
  • Galante Crime FamilyDeep Cut85points
  • GalateaDeep Cut85points
  • GalathosDeep Cut85points
  • Galavan familyDeep Cut85points
  • GalaxDeep Cut85points
  • GalaxaDeep Cut85points
  • GalekDeep Cut85points
  • GaliaDeep Cut85points
  • Galius ZedDeep Cut85points
  • GallDeep Cut85points
  • Gall TrayvisDeep Cut85points
  • GalladaDeep Cut85points
  • GallaganeDeep Cut85points
  • Gallana VenkDeep Cut85points
  • GallandroDeep Cut85points
  • GalleDeep Cut85points
  • Gallia KryderDeep Cut85points
  • Gallin CraeDeep Cut85points
  • Gallius RaxDeep 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