Name a villain from Star Wars, DC, or LOTR

November 9, 2026 · Daily Dive #117

Explore 26,164 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on November 9, 2026.

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26,164 recorded names on November 9, 2026, 25,861 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Each of those three universes has outgrown its films and comics many times over, and the antagonist rosters now live inside franchise wikis, appendices and campaign books rather than on screen. One individually named antagonist counts, whether a one-line henchman, a forgotten warlord or a coded designation; anonymous crowds and whole armies are excluded.

26,164 recorded answers25,861 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut25,86085 pts
  • Rare27060 pts
  • Schooler2830 pts
  • Plankton510 pts
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Recorded answers

26,164 recorded answers

How to approach it

Take the three universes separately instead of drifting sideways between them, and descend through layers as you go. Note down the antagonists almost anyone would produce, then those confined to tie-in comics and novels, then the ones living only in animated episodes, games, art books and appendices, and finally the names preserved in production notes or early drafts. Keep a running page recording where each candidate came from, because a name you cannot spell or place is worthless by the end. Once several are listed, submit the one drawn from the deepest layer you can actually verify. Most players stop halfway down that descent, which is why the most buried pick that survives checking pays best.

Get a hint

Begin with sheer quantity instead of fame: every one of those properties keeps an index of thousands of minor antagonists, and the neglected tail end of it is where the points hide.

A little more

Step off the screen and into print, spin-off and licensed material, meaning tie-in novels, comics, animated episodes, game manuals and art books, where a minor antagonist sometimes exists only as a paragraph.

One step further

Aim for a named individual so marginal that the encyclopedia entry runs a single line, and make sure it denotes a person rather than a crowd of unnamed extras, a full combat unit or a vague label.

Reveal answers 26,164
  • Advance ManDeep Cut85points
  • Advanced LexbotDeep Cut85points
  • Advanced Science DivisionDeep Cut85points
  • Advanced Technology Development BureauDeep Cut85points
  • AdversaryDeep Cut85points
  • Adwin CharuDeep Cut85points
  • Adye PrittickDeep Cut85points
  • AegeusDeep Cut85points
  • Aello the SwiftDeep Cut85points
  • Aellyn JandiDeep Cut85points
  • Aemon GremmDeep Cut85points
  • Aemont SillibDeep Cut85points
  • Aeon DurronDeep Cut85points
  • AerialistDeep Cut85points
  • AerieDeep Cut85points
  • Aerin DlaritDeep Cut85points
  • Aero-troopersDeep Cut85points
  • AF-119Deep Cut85points
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  • AfarathuDeep Cut85points
  • AffanarDeep Cut85points
  • Afra Ra'dDeep Cut85points
  • Afren HulDeep Cut85points
  • Afsheen MakatiDeep Cut85points
  • AfterburnersDeep Cut85points
  • AftermathDeep Cut85points
  • AfterthoughtDeep Cut85points
  • AgamemnoDeep Cut85points
  • Agan SortDeep Cut85points
  • AgandaûrDeep Cut85points
  • AganthaDeep Cut85points
  • AgarushnawokliagDeep Cut85points
  • AgendaDeep Cut85points
  • Agent 1Deep Cut85points
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  • Agent AxisDeep Cut85points
  • Agent BaileyDeep Cut85points
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  • Agent KallusDeep Cut85points
  • Agent LibertyDeep Cut85points
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  • Agent MalloyDeep Cut85points
  • Agent RainbowDeep Cut85points
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Why these answers count

The score distribution is remarkably flat. Of 26,156 recorded answers, 26,123 reached the top band, and 25,854 of those sat on exactly 85 points; only 268 slid to 60, while a single entry, Tevildo, climbed to 100. That shape says reach into the obscure census mattered far more than household fame. Street-level or single-panel rogues such as "Carbomb" Carmine, "Crime Brain" Doone and "Knuckles" Farrelli all landed 85, and so did designations like 0-0-0, 11-4D and 105th Battalion, which means the middle tier was generous to anyone offering a genuinely named antagonist beyond the obvious handful a film-literate crowd would shout first. The ceiling belonged to something almost nobody else could produce: a feline proto-villain from an author's earliest drafts. The 268 answers at 60 look like the opposite trade, headline names that thousands of players reach for simultaneously. Scarcity is what the scoring rewards, since a name only a handful can produce outvalues one the crowd shares, and this board shows it plainly.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 9 Nov, 06:10 UTC

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