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.

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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
  • Black TongueDeep Cut85points
  • Black UnNamedDeep Cut85points
  • Black UruksDeep Cut85points
  • Black VulkarsDeep Cut85points
  • Black VultureDeep Cut85points
  • Black WidowDeep Cut85points
  • Black Widow (Batman '66)Deep Cut85points
  • Black WitchDeep Cut85points
  • Black WizardDeep Cut85points
  • Black ZeroDeep Cut85points
  • Black Zero OrganizationDeep Cut85points
  • BlackartDeep Cut85points
  • BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
  • BlackboltDeep Cut85points
  • Blackbolt's crewDeep Cut85points
  • BlackfangDeep Cut85points
  • Blackfire's CultDeep Cut85points
  • BlackguardDeep Cut85points
  • Blackhawk Squad Protection GroupDeep Cut85points
  • Blackie SartoDeep Cut85points
  • BlackjackDeep Cut85points
  • Blackjack JorgisDeep Cut85points
  • Blacklight PiratesDeep Cut85points
  • Blacklip PiratesDeep Cut85points
  • BlackmantasaurusDeep Cut85points
  • BlackoutDeep Cut85points
  • Blackout GangDeep Cut85points
  • BlackrockDeep Cut85points
  • Blackscale ClanDeep Cut85points
  • BlacksmithDeep Cut85points
  • BlacksmythDeep Cut85points
  • BlacksnakeDeep Cut85points
  • Blackstar PiratesDeep Cut85points
  • Blackstar RaidersDeep Cut85points
  • BlackstarrDeep Cut85points
  • BlackstarsDeep Cut85points
  • BlackwingDeep Cut85points
  • Blackwing OneDeep Cut85points
  • Blackwing TwoDeep Cut85points
  • BlackwoldsDeep Cut85points
  • BladeDeep Cut85points
  • Blade MasterDeep Cut85points
  • Blade ZeroDeep Cut85points
  • BladebatDeep Cut85points
  • BladedustDeep Cut85points
  • BlaggDeep Cut85points
  • BlaideDeep Cut85points
  • BlaineDeep Cut85points
  • Blaine EmmickDeep Cut85points
  • BlaiseDeep 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