BAAL
The last surviving Goa’uld System Lord is also one of the biggest bad-asses in the galaxy, period. For thousands of years Baal ruled numerous planets with an iron (but cunning) fist. He has a predilection for torture, and when he captured Jack O’Neill he took great pleasure in torturing, killing, and reviving him over and over again (“Abyss”). The two have a very personal and brutal past.
As a System Lord Baal has often had to play second fiddle to more powerful Goa’uld, such as Ra and Anubis (“Last Stand,” “Threads”). But when the Replicators defeated the Goa’uld, Baal found himself in a unique situation. With a handful of Jaffa still loyal to him, he attempted to use the invasion of the superior Ori forces to his advantage.
Baal believed that he alone could unite the galaxy against their new, common enemy — so he captured and brainwashed prominent Jaffa, placed spies, stole Stargates to try and create his own network, and more (“Stronghold,” “Off the Grid,” “The Quest”). All of this was an attempt to regain power. He even kidnapped the leader of the Ori forces and implanted her with one of his own cloned symbiotes in an attempt to bend the Ori armies to his will (“Dominion”).
Baal lived for a short time on Earth, claiming that after the fall of the Goa’uld he only wished to live out his last years in peace. During this time Baal learned a great deal about our planet and its people, gathered intelligence, and began a cloning project. He created dozens of copies of his own host body and his symbiote, placing a tracking device within each one of them (and himself, to keep him indistinguishable). Baal’s clones would continue to be a thorn in Earth’s side for years, particularly when they worked together to infiltrate Stargate Command and steal secrets from the base computer (“Insiders”).
But Baal is as treacherous with himself as he is with others. He gathered most of his clones together under the pretense of a meeting, and killed them (“Dominion”). Few clones remain at large. But the final fate of the real Baal remains a mystery.