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
  • WeaselDeep Cut85points
  • Weather ManDeep Cut85points
  • Weather ProphetDeep Cut85points
  • Weather WarlockDeep Cut85points
  • Weather WeaselDeep Cut85points
  • Weather WitchDeep Cut85points
  • WeaverDeep Cut85points
  • Weaver ClanDeep Cut85points
  • Webb TaffralDeep Cut85points
  • WeblinDeep Cut85points
  • WED-15-I7Deep Cut85points
  • Wedna-ElDeep Cut85points
  • Wedu BelarDeep Cut85points
  • Weeba WeebaDeep Cut85points
  • WeebaccaDeep Cut85points
  • WeedkillerDeep Cut85points
  • WeelDeep Cut85points
  • WeeperDeep Cut85points
  • WeezakDeep Cut85points
  • Wei'val the ElderDeep Cut85points
  • Wei'val the LesserDeep Cut85points
  • Weight WizardDeep Cut85points
  • WeilanDeep Cut85points
  • WeirDeep Cut85points
  • WeirlaDeep Cut85points
  • WeisboggDeep Cut85points
  • WeisswurstDeep Cut85points
  • WelkDeep Cut85points
  • Wellam AdariosDeep Cut85points
  • WellequesDeep Cut85points
  • WellerDeep Cut85points
  • Wellman LeGrosDeep Cut85points
  • WellsDeep Cut85points
  • Wen Ch'angDeep Cut85points
  • Wen DelphisDeep Cut85points
  • Wen FarhopeDeep Cut85points
  • Wena HavidDeep Cut85points
  • Wend DinardDeep Cut85points
  • WendaDeep Cut85points
  • Wendy BrownDeep Cut85points
  • Wendy HernandezDeep Cut85points
  • Wendy LawfordDeep Cut85points
  • Wendy MiroDeep Cut85points
  • WengDeep Cut85points
  • Wenlok NakDeep Cut85points
  • Wenna'lahDeep Cut85points
  • WenomDeep Cut85points
  • Were-wormsDeep Cut85points
  • WerewolfDeep Cut85points
  • WerewolvesDeep 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