Crazy Leader: Khan Noonien Singh
Leaving aside the question of whether the unsettlingly cut chest he displayed in the film was actually his own pectoral property or some sort of futuristic prosthetic device (all evidence points to the former), Ricardo Montalban’s turn as the magnetic, freakishly strong, genetically engineered Übermensch Khan Noonien Singh remains one of the most thoroughly enjoyable portrayals of a villain in any sci-fi flick, ever. When, near movie’s end, a grotesquely wounded Khan channel’s Melville’s Ahab yowling at the white whale — “From hell’s heart I stab at thee. For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” — we know we’re in the presence of greatness. Daft, scenery-chewing, spellbinding greatness to which the only appropriate response is, of course: “Khaaan!”
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