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The best female villains include women whose roles are truly iconic and evil. Some of the greatest movie and television villains ever made this list. Whether it&#39;s a mentally unstable character who stalks her unsuspecting victim or a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-unexpected-female-movie-villains/orrin-grey" target="_blank">conniving, totally immoral villain</a> who frames innocent people, this list includes all the big female villain names. It is, however, not complete, so please, feel free to add your favorite female TV and movie villains as well. Vote for the characters you think are the worst villains ever to grace the big or small screen.

What makes a great villain? A character that is morally bankrupt, complex, and tortured - and, more often than not, <a href="/list/most-stylish-villains-2010s/erin-cody" target="_blank">extremely well dressed</a>. The female villains listed here certainly fit the mold. Some are evil to their very core, allowing heroes to emerge and shine as they (hopefully) triumph against them. A villain is nefarious, vile and generally bad. Many are guilty of criminal behavior, to say the least. Some make us love to hate them (that&#39;s a sure sign of a fantastic female villain). We cheer if and when they meet their untimely ends, because they deserved it!

In film, some of the <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time" target="_blank">best movie villains of all time</a> are women. Need proof? How about bunny-boiler Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction&nbsp;or mentally deranged &quot;fan&quot; Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) in Misery? Sharon Stone&#39;s portrayal of femme fatale Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct&nbsp;earns her a best female villain place on the list, as well as a top spot among the sexiest characters in thrillers.

Some actresses&#39; best roles in movies or on TV shows came when they played villains. Rachel McAdams was unforgettably villainous as Regina George, aka Queen Bee, in Mean Girls.&nbsp;Helena Bonham Carter&#39;s played some interesting roles over the years, but none more wicked that Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter&nbsp;movies.

From the psycho exes to the stalkers and the femme fatales, enjoy this list of the best female villains in movies and television, and feel free to rerank it your way, too.

Villains

Loki

It seems <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-movie-villain-year-you-were-born/mike-mcgranaghan" target="_blank">every year</a>, new iconic villains are coming out of the woodwork. While some of us tend to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movie-villains-who-wore-out-their-welcome/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">despise movie villains</a>, plenty of movie-goers&nbsp;favor some of these antagonists. Whether that&#39;s due to a cool accent, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/over-the-top-comic-book-movie-performances/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">an over-the-top performance</a>, or an intimidating disposition, some villains just stand out - and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-who-got-big-after-playing-bad-guys/orrin-grey" target="_blank">redefine the actors playing them</a>.&nbsp;For instance, who doesn&#39;t have some type of fondness for Hannibal Lecter? How about the evil Darth Vader for that matter?&nbsp;Who are the greatest villains of all time? These movie bad guys are the scourge of the movie universe - and that&#39;s to say nothing of their <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/which-henchman-would-win-in-a-battle/matthew-ludwinski" target="_blank">loyal, powerful henchmen</a> - and you can now vote on the meanest villain ever to appear on film.

These are the greatest, most vile movie characters <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-hateable-villains-in-comedy-movies/elle-tharp" target="_blank">we love to hate</a>&nbsp;(or even <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/funny-villains-in-serious-movies/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">laugh at</a>) ranked by the wisdom of the crowd, which makes this ranking an accurate, real-time reflection of the crowd&#39;s collective opinion.

President Snow from Hunger Games

You know the villain as the Big Bad, the truly horrible no-good person who has <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-irredeemably-evil-villains/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">no redeeming qualities whatsoever</a>. But as many great writers have said, &quot;every villain is a hero,&quot; given a different context. It&#39;s high time we take a look at some villains we&#39;ve written off as simply evil, and show you how, with just a slightly different perspective (okay, in some cases, a vastly different perspective), these people aren&#39;t quite as villainous as expected. No, sometimes these are villains just doing their jobs, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/good-parental-advice-from-villains/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">giving solid advice</a>, or dealing with impossible situations where no reasonable person would think they had any good choices to make. Some of these people are just hard up for answers, and even the hero&#39;s solution makes things demonstrably worse.

But this list doesn&#39;t just limit itself to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/spider-man-villain-doc-ock/stephanroget" target="_blank">villains who were good</a>. We also look at villains who had a point, even if what they did was absolutely unforgivable. But really, if you think about it, plenty of our heroes have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/mcu-villains-created-by-heroes/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">done awful things</a> (Indiana Jones was just stealing artifacts and trashing monuments he had no business being around in the first place, y&#39;know), and it&#39;s all just a matter of perspective. Obi-Wan Kenobi was always rambling on about how things are different from a &quot;certain point of view.&quot; (Easy for him to say, Darth Vader&#39;s pretty cut and dry as a villain.) But put on your thinking specs and see how we argue for some of the bad guys (and gals!).

Dr. Gregory House

A detailed list of the most well-liked and loveable TV anti-heroes. The most likeable TV protagonists are listed in order from most popular to least. These ambivalent but likeable anti-heroes of TV can be changed in order of popularity to fit the viewer’s opinions. Or, you can copy to make your very own list of your most favorite TV anti-heroes. This villain list can then be re-arranged to suit your ideas. &nbsp; These ambivalent villains are a mixture of both good and evil and have managed to tug at the viewer’s heartstrings over the years. Do you remember most of these anti-heroes? This list answers the question, “Who are the most popular and likeable antiheroes of television?” Taking you on a road down memory lane, this list allows you to see which anti-heroes of TV were the worst and which were <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the best villains</a> of TV shows. &nbsp; While some TV protagonists are pure evil, many have a touch of good in them that the viewer can easily see, making the viewer sympathetic towards these quite loveable villains of television series. The viewers can often find themselves wishing only the best results for these sometimes harmless TV villains. This list allows you to choose which television anti-hero you think is the best villain of television.

People love to live dangerously, which probably leads many of you out there to lust after fictional villains from pop culture. For one reason or another, people crush on villains, often attracted to their powers, their nefarious agendas, or their aptitude for emotional manipulation.&nbsp;*Swoons.&nbsp;That being said, usually people know their crushes on villainous fictional characters get into some awkward territory, especially if you're crushing on some sexy monsters. But in the same way some people can't help but be bad, other people can't help but be compelled by the bad boys and girls out there. Ranker reached out to you, the people reading the articles, to ask &quot;&quot;which villain are you weirdly attracted to, even though you know it's wrong?&quot;&nbsp;Included below are the crushes you told us about on our&nbsp;Facebook page, and why you find their bad sides just&nbsp;so good.A number of villainous women&nbsp;on this list make sense, as they will sometimes use&nbsp;their charms to get what they want. But villainous males are just as capable of detonating charm bombs, and in some ways much more insidiously. All of them somehow made their way into your affections, an implication that you may not be as good a person as you previously thought. Well, at least you have company!

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Queen

Who is the greatest animated Disney villain? Everyone, it seems, has a favorite. Over the decades, Disney movies have given moviegoers some of the most dastardly (and, as with so many movie villains, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-stylish-villains-2010s/erin-cody" target="_blank">immaculately dressed</a>) villains in cinema history. And now, thanks to the <a href="https://disneyplus.bn5x.net/c/1217251/707629/9358?subid1=601734&amp;subid2=Disney%2B&amp;subid3=comlink&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2F" target="_blank">magic of Disney+</a>, you can go back and rewatch these classic villains doing all kinds of villainous things again and again. They may be animated, but that doesn&#39;t mean they aren&#39;t, well, mean! This list includes some of the best <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/all-disney-villains-list-of-all-disney-enemies/all-enemies-and-supervillains">Disney movie villains</a> ever but are specifically villians in animated movies, so be sure to vote for your favorites, vote down the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/disney-villains-evil-plans-ranked-stupid/jessica-bedewi" target="_blank">villains you don&#39;t think are worthy</a> of the top spots, and add any disney villains who are missing. If you&#39;re thinking of your favourite Disney bad guys from television, hop on over to vote on the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/disney-cartoon-villains-on-disney-plus/molly-gander" target="_blank">Disney aninmated series with the best villains</a>.

Vote: <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-disney-princesses">The Best Disney Princesses</a>

Disney villains come in many forms. Some, like the evil sorcerer Jafar (&#39;Aladdin&#39;) and the &quot;Mistress of All Evil,&#39; Maleficent (&#39;Sleeping Beauty&#39;), have magical powers that allow them to wreak havoc on their poor, unsuspecting victims. Great Walt Disney movie villains may also be &quot;regular&quot; people who are simply bad apples.

Speaking of bad apples, Queen Grimhilde, from Disney&#39;s classic &#39;Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,&#39; didn&#39;t necessarily have magical powers, but she was cruel beyond measure to Snow White, and a schemer of the highest order. Certainly, the same could be said of the horrible, no good Cruella de Vil from Disney&#39;s &#39;101 Dalmatians.&#39;

Rank: <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time">The Best Movie Villains of All Time</a>

Some of the best Disney movie villains aren&#39;t even human. Examples? How about the evil python Kaa from &#39;The Jungle Book&#39;? And without question Scar, the power hungry, sinister baby brother of Mufasa in &#39;The Lion King&#39; is worthy of a spot on this list. Finally, last but certainly not least, the Big Bad Wolf from Walt Disney&#39;s &#39;Three Little Pigs&#39; is a menacing character.

Which Disney film villain is your favorite?

Performances

Actors are often typecast as a specific type of character. Those who become defined as &quot;good guys (or girls)&quot; and &quot;heroes&quot; wind up playing, more often than not, good guys and heroes. When actors play&nbsp;the same kinds of roles over and over again, it can be easy for audiences to start accepting them only in those roles.

But actors often like to stretch and challenge themselves by taking roles <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superhero-actors-you-forgot-played-villains/josh-plainse" target="_blank">outside the bounds</a> of their typical persona. Just as a comedian might be eager to take on a dramatic role, an actor known mainly for playing a hero might relish the chance to finally take on a true baddie. Sometimes the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-who-played-both-superheroes-and-supervillains/anncasano" target="_blank">role reversal</a> is successful and goes down as one of the performer&#39;s most loved performances; other times, it&#39;s a bad fit, or audiences are simply unable to accept the star in an unfamiliar role.

Here are some of the actors who have generally played&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-trustworthy-celebrities/celebrity-lists" target="_blank">trustworthy</a>&nbsp;characters but broke away from that typecasting to play a villainous role. Which of these risks paid off?

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Shutter Island

What is it that makes a psychological thriller even better than having an ending where the villain wins? Maybe it’s because it’s an unexpected twist, or maybe it’s that sometimes it’s so refreshing when the predictable scenario of the hero sweeping in to win the final battle doesn’t actually happen. Sometimes it's fun to root for the bad guys for a change. What are the best movies where the bad guy wins? &nbsp; This list of the best movies where the villain wins, has been ranked by the community. There are many different genres and eras featured on the list, and though the bad guys all win in the end, they're still great films to watch. &nbsp; This list features the best movies where the bad guy wins including, Memento, Seven, No Country for Old Men, Hannibal, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Usual Suspects. Vote up the best films below and see how your favorite bad guy movies rank!

Leatherface

Some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest movie villains</a>&nbsp;can give you nightmares if you spend too much time thinking about their faces. But are they really that scary, or is it all just movie magic? This gallery features photos of film villains behind the scenes, while filming, in half costume, and even being controlled by puppeteers. Seeing these creepy villains out of context makes them seem just plain silly! They're just actors goofing around, after all!While not all the characters on the list are from horror movies, they are most certainly <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-movies-where-the-bad-guy-wins/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the bad guys</a> – at some point. But against a green screen or in the makeup chair, turns out they're all just normal people working hard to make a buck (or animatronics, or just dogs). Not so terrifying now, are they?&nbsp;

There are endless iconic villains in the world of cinema, especially ones with even more memorable&nbsp;bits of dialogue. However, it can be argued that the last words of movie villains are the true window into their soul. If the antagonist has been bested at the last moment, their last words could be that of surprise. Or perhaps they regret the path they have chosen and their final speech could be more remorseful.

In a few cases, a villain doesn&rsquo;t even have to bite the dust for it to be considered their last words. For instance, if the last thing they did was somewhat of a sinister notion, you can see how that foreboding feeling they&rsquo;ve left us with can have just as much of an impact. Either way, from all of the above to everything in between, we&rsquo;ll be taking a look at those villains that had the most iconic last words.

Which last words from these villains is the best? You get to help decide with your votes. Vote up the villainous last words that had an impact on you.

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Ric Flair

List of blonde villains in film, TV, comics, cartoons, and reality TV, ranked according to their capacities for pure evil. We&#39;re talking about the most famous blonde bad dudes/gals across the known universe and fictional universe. Are there sexy <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/comic-book-characters-with-blonde-hair/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">blonde female superheroes</a> on this list? No. But there are (possibly) sexy blonde <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/hottest-marvel-comics-super-villains/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">female supervillains</a>!&nbsp;

Sometimes the hair makes the character. For example, Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva in the movie&nbsp;Skyfall was at least 1/3&nbsp;more creepy&nbsp;because he had super blonde hair. Historically, fair skin and hair in narrative signified purity and goodness (see: Cinderella, Snow White [the skin, not the hair]), though this trope has shifted in modern storytelling. In Game of Thrones, golden-crowned&nbsp;Cersei and her son&nbsp;Joffrey Lannister both radiated evil, as did Harry Potter&#39;s father-and-son Death Eater duo&nbsp;Lucius and Draco Malfoy with their nearly shocking&nbsp;white hair. Notable <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-female-villains" target="_blank">blonde femme fatales</a>&nbsp;include Number Six in Battlestar Galactica, Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction, and Elle Driver from Kill Bill.

Vote for your favorite blonde villain TODAY, and maybe yours can be number one!

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TV Characters

In the era of fairly accurate historical dramas like The Crown and Downton Abbey, it&rsquo;s no secret that many television characters are directly based on real historical figures. Equally as often, however, thin historical homages are hidden within popular TV shows - characters that are real-life people in everything but name. Sometimes, of course, it&rsquo;s the TV villains that are based on people.

Somehow, a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/tv-characters-based-on-real-people/lisa-waugh" target="_blank">television antagonist based on a real person</a> is more impactful than when it&rsquo;s one of the good guys. Knowing that the same character stalking the heroes of our favorite TV shows once stalked - or, occasionally, still stalks - our own world is a terrifying thought, and one that gives brand new meaning to the horrors of reality television.&nbsp;

Movies have featured a tremendous number of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/royal-henchmen-in-history/peterdugre" target="_blank">henchmen</a>&nbsp;who are truly terrible at their jobs. While some <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-hatable-secondary-antagonists/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">second-tier baddies</a>&nbsp;end up overshadowing their bosses in fans&#39; memories, many more live to be a punching bag to their evil overlords. From overconfident techie Theo in Die Hard to Kronk&rsquo;s oaf-with-a-conscience in The Emperor&rsquo;s New Groove, or even the imposing but ineffective Darth Maul in Star Wars, the following stupid henchmen really take the cake.

You have to wonder why their villainous bosses took on such useless sidekicks in the first place. Which wannabe bad guy is the worst offender?

Whether you love to hate them or just straight-up hate them, movie villains have to be defeated to give a film a satisfying ending. While some bad guys are just tossed off a building or <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hoist-by-their-own-petard-villain-ends/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">melted by the Ark of the Covenant</a>, other baddies have to endure a fate that&#39;s worse than the painful bliss of nonexistence.

In some cases, the villains pass&nbsp;into the emptiness of the universe, not dead but not alive, and in other instances, they&#39;re simply driven insane by the knowledge that they&#39;ve been truly and finally bested by their nemesis. And some bad guys are just turned into mutant dogs, which is a pretty nasty fate no matter how you look at it.

Which villains suffer the worst fate is a matter of opinion, which is why we need you to decide which one of these evil creeps was given a send-off that was worse than they actually deserved.

Sci-Fi

When done right, sci-fi movie villain deaths can be incredibly satisfying. You know when villains have done&nbsp;their job right when&nbsp;the audience&nbsp;hates them with a fiery passion. The director has done their job&nbsp;if they allow the audience to blow off all that steam by watching the villain croak in the most gruesome (or at least karmically satisfying) way possible. Bonus points if the method said villain used to maim or torment people is turned around and used against them.

The world of sci-fi produces some of the biggest and baddest villains around, and the bigger they are, the&nbsp;harder they fall. When the villains from this genre are given a taste of their own medicine, it involves, say, fiery falls from skyscrapers experienced in slow motion due to all the futuristic drugs they&#39;re on. Or, if a bad guy is really unlucky, using a kaiju to terrorize thousands of people results in an opposing&nbsp;kaiju showing up to throw him hundreds of feet through the air to his demise. Basically, it&#39;s a genre <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/sci-fi-movie-villain-details/raelyn-giansanti" target="_blank">filled with brutal villains</a> who face incredibly brutal deaths. Vote up the villains that got exactly what they deserved.

It typically takes actors time to ascend to the A-list, and their path up the Hollywood ladder often includes numerous forgotten roles. In fact, today&#39;s current crop of stars includes&nbsp;a lot of great actors you forgot were villains on TV. It&#39;s a common stepping stone: Before you get the central role or a shot on the big screen, a TV villain is a great way to show off what you can do (or at least pay the bills between other parts). Plenty of movie stars <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-you-forgot-played-bad-guys/orrin-grey" target="_blank">got their start as blockbuster villains</a>, and seeing a recognizable face threatening a hero adds an unexpectedly fun element&nbsp;to a rewatch.

Over the last few decades, networks have produced <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-tv-villains-of-all-time" target="_blank">classic TV villains</a>&nbsp;year in and year out, but case-of-the-week-style shows have also given&nbsp;up-and-coming actors credits that help get their foot in the door. Whether it&#39;s Pedro Pascal going from a vamp on Buffy&nbsp;to the (hidden) face of The Mandalorian,&nbsp;or Rami Malek&nbsp;putting a cookie-cutter role on 24 behind him to win Emmy and Academy Awards, some of the most successful actors on Earth paid their dues as TV villains before finding their big break.

Galactus

Who are the best comic book villains of all time? This list of top supervillains in comics includes some of the most notorious evil-doers in comic book history. Some of them are among the <a href="/crowdranked-list/best-marvel-villains" target="_blank">best Marvel villains</a> like Doctor Doom, Magneto and Galactus. Others are classic <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-comic-book-villains">DC Comics villains</a>&nbsp;like The Joker and Bane. Are they the best (or worst, depending on how you view supervillains)? Vote them up! Feel free to add any great comic book villains who are missing from the list, and you can also re-rank this list your way, in any order you like. Any and all great comic book villains have one thing in common: They are the absolute arch rivals of some of the greatest and <a href="www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time" target="_blank">best superheroes</a> in comics' history. Every great protagonist needs a worthy antagonist to balance things out, after all. Several of the top supervillains listed here began their evil careers in comic books, but they quickly took their evil deeds to the big screen, starring in some of the <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-best-superhero-movies-ever-made" target="_blank">best superhero movies ever made</a>.Who do you think are the top comic book villains? Vote now!

Everyone loves a bad guy. Well, until they get boring. There&#39;s nothing worse than watching one of your favorite shows or movies and coming to the conclusion that you just can&#39;t stand seeing the baddie anymore. It rarely has anything to do with the actor;&nbsp;they&#39;re just trying to make the screenplay work. More often than not, villains who&#39;ve worn out their welcome are a product of filmmakers getting away from what was good about the character in the first place.

Villain fatigue occurs when someone like Emperor Palpatine, Freddy Krueger, or Lex Luthor keeps coming back even after they&#39;ve been defeated. They don&#39;t change or grow, they just keep trying to take over the galaxy/get revenge on the children of Elm Street/stop Superman, and their attempts at evil grow more outlandish with every iteration.

All of the following villains are great in their initial outings - it&#39;s just that they all stayed at the party for a little too long. Remember to vote up the villains that stuck around a bit too long.

Cinema history has presented audiences with some antagonists that can truly only be described as&nbsp;pure evil villains. This type of villain seems to have lost its&nbsp;luster in recent years. Movies seem to be more interested in antiheroes or warped reflections of main characters&nbsp;with <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/movie-villains-who-were-right/loganrapp" target="_blank">motivations audiences can relate to</a>.&nbsp;Even Thanos, whose great plan was to wipe out half of all life in the universe, was given a backstory to justify his draconian dream.

It&#39;s become so commonplace that it would be a refreshing change of pace to see more truly unsympathetic characters on cinema screens. The types of villains who want world domination for no other reason than they&#39;d like to be in charge. The villains who slay their own henchman at the slightest disagreement, and don&#39;t&nbsp;have any sort of love interest to show audiences a different side of them. That&#39;s&nbsp;the class&nbsp;of villains that really knows how to make its&nbsp;mark.

In most movies, there is a clear cut distinction between good and evil characters.&nbsp;But sometimes, as the story unfolds, the lines blur on who&#39;s&nbsp;good or bad and we end up hoping the villain overtakes the hero. Here are some of the most popular movie villains and the reasons that made people jump teams and head to the dark side.&nbsp;

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After spending so very many hours watching a TV show, we form strong attachments - and revulsions - to certain characters. Let's rank 'em.

TV Characters We Love & Hate

The best TV villains of all time rank among some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-tv-characters-of-all-time">greatest TV characters of all time</a> as well as some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/creepiest-characters-on-television">creepiest TV characters ever</a>. While some TV villains exist to make the lead characters appear more heroic, some of them are just plain old, nasty jerks. Regardless of their motivations, the top TV bad guys make us want to bust into the TV and kick some butt, fictional style.

Many of TV&#39;s greatest greatest villains didn&#39;t start that way; some of these men and women started out as virtuous people who took a skid into the darker ways of the world. Think of Breaking Bad&#39;s Gustavo Fring, a legitimate business man turned meth trafficking d-bag. Or Dexter Morgan who started out killing only bad guys and then went and got tangled up with killing people as a CYA offensive action. Of course, there&#39;s also people like&nbsp;Joffrey Baratheon of Game of Thrones&nbsp;and The Simpsons&#39; C. Montgomery Burns who seem to get off on tormenting people. They are the worst kind of awesome bad guys.

Who is the best <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-you-forgot-played-tv-bad-guys/lina-lecaro" target="_blank">bad guy on TV</a>? What television shows have the greatest TV villains? &nbsp;This best television villains list has all the top TV villains in one place for you to vote on. If your favorite TV villain isn&#39;t on the list of the greatest TV villains, make sure to add them so other voters get to hate them as much as you do.

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Ramsay Snow is a fictional character from the TV series Game of Thrones.

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Gustavo Fring

Gustavo "Gus" Fring is a fictional character in the American television drama series Breaking Bad on AMC. He is portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito and was created by series creator Vince Gilligan. Gus is one of the most prominent methamphetamine distributors in the southwestern United States. He owns and operates several legitimate businesses, including a chain of successful fast food restaurants and an industrial laundry facility, as well as fronts for a vast and sophisticated drug operation. Gus maintains a friendly and low-key exterior; he takes an active role in managing his front businesses and personally supervises employees and serves customers at his fast food restaurants. In order to keep up appearances, Gus is a board member at a hospital in the South Valley and a booster for the DEA, and has made large donations to the agency's Albuquerque office. Beneath this philanthropic exterior, however, Gus is ruthless and Machiavellian in managing his vast drug empire. He employs a number of enforcers and has personally killed rivals and associates.

Cersei Lannister

Cersei Lannister is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. She becomes a prominent point of view character in the novels beginning with the 2005 fourth installment A Feast for Crows.
Cersei is portrayed by Lena Headey on the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2014, she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance. In season 5, a young version of the character is portrayed by Nell Williams in flashbacks.

Hannibal Lecter

Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a forensic psychiatrist.

Walter White

Walter Hartwell White is a fictional character. The main protagonist, and anti-hero, in the American television drama series Breaking Bad on AMC. He was created by series creator Vince Gilligan and is portrayed by Bryan Cranston. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology, Walt was once a promising chemist who was one of the founders of the multi-billion dollar company Gray Matter Technologies. He abruptly left the company, selling his shares for $5,000, and subsequently moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to become a high school chemistry teacher. After being diagnosed with Stage IIIA lung cancer, he resorts to manufacturing methamphetamine and drug dealing to ensure his family's financial security after his death. Walt's evolution from mild-mannered school teacher and family man to ruthless criminal mastermind and murderer is the show's central focus.
Although AMC officials hesitated to cast Cranston due to his previous comedic role on Malcolm in the Middle, Gilligan cast him based on the actor's past performance in the X-Files episode "Drive", which Gilligan wrote.

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Lucifer

Lucifer is an archangel on The CW series Supernatural. The first fallen angel, he is introduced as a recurring character in the fifth season of the series. From his prison in hell, he orchestrated events not only seen in seasons one through four, but decades prior, to eventually lead to his release by breaking the 66 seals. In the episode "Sin City", he was described as the 'father' and god of the demons, the one who gave them their form and purpose. Azazel reinforced this by referring to him as "My Father" while possessing a priest before slaughtering a convent of nuns. However, in "Abandon All Hope...", Crowley remarks that Lucifer views demons with contempt and his cannon fodder and will destroy them once he has eliminated humanity.

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Petyr Baelish

Petyr Baelish is a fictional character from A Game of Thrones book and its TV-series adaptation Game of Thrones.

Joker

The Joker is a fictional supervillain who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, and Bob Kane, and first appeared in Batman #1. Credit for the character's creation is disputed; Kane and Robinson claimed responsibility for the Joker's design, while acknowledging Finger's writing contribution.

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Joffrey Baratheon

Joffrey Baratheon is a fictional character from A Game of Thrones book and its TV-series adaptation Game of Thrones.

Professor Moriarty

Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the "Napoleon of crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to Adam Worth, a real-life criminal mastermind and one of the individuals upon whom the character of Moriarty was based. The character was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock Holmes, and only featured directly in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, in more recent derivative work he has been given a greater prominence and treated as Holmes' archenemy.

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Negan

Negan is a character on The Walking Dead TV and comic book series. He is the leader of a group of roughly 500 survivors in The Sanctuary, called the Saviors, a group that trades with others. 

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Wilson Fisk

Wilson Fisk is a fictional character from the 1989 TV film The Trial of the Incredible Hulk.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown

Pennywise the Dancing Clown is a fictional character from the 1990 film and TV series It.

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Lex Luthor

Lex Luthor is a fictional character from the television series Smallville. He was a series regular from the pilot episode until the season seven finale, and has been played continuously by Michael Rosenbaum, with various actors portraying Lex as a child throughout the series. The character of Lex Luthor, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1940 as nemesis of Superman, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar—this is only the third time the character has been adapted to a live action television series. The character has also appeared in various literature based on the Smallville television series, none of which directly continues from or into the television episodes.
In this 2001 series, Lex Luthor is sent to Smallville, by his father Lionel Luthor, to run the local LuthorCorp fertilizer plant. After driving his car off a bridge, he is saved by Clark Kent and quickly develops a new friendship with the farm boy. As the series unfolds, Lex's curiosity about Clark and all things connected to Clark ultimately destroys their friendship.

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Tywin Lannister

Tywin Lannister is a fictional character from A Game of Thrones book and its TV-series adaptation Game of Thrones.

Frieza

Freeza, spelled Frieza in Funimation's English anime dub, is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Freeza makes his debut in chapter #247 Dark Clouds Swirl Over Planet Namek, first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on November 6, 1989, as a galactic tyrant revered as the most powerful being in the universe.
Despite not appearing until the manga's second half, Freeza is widely considered to be the most iconic antagonist from the series due to effectively serving as the catalyst of many of the events depicted in the story, such as Goku's arrival on Earth, the Saiyans landing on Earth, and subsequently the main characters going to planet Namek. He is also directly responsible for the murder of Bardock, the genocide of the Saiyan race, and the second death of Kuririn, arguably making him Goku's most personal and significant enemy.

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Azazel

Azazel is a fictional character on The CW Television Network's drama and horror television series Supernatural. He serves as the primary antagonist during the first two seasons. A demon, he feeds his blood to infants so that they will grow up to develop demonic abilities. His goal of using one such child to release Lucifer is not revealed until much later in the series. Azazel is referred to by nicknames such as "The Demon", "The Yellow-Eyed Demon", or "Yellow Eyes" throughout the first two seasons, his true name not being revealed until the third season. Due to the character's demonic nature of taking different hosts, Azazel has been portrayed by numerous actors, but all have maintained his sadistic sense of humor and Jack Nicholson-like mannerisms. Critics and fans alike have met him with nearly universal praise.

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Death

Death is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain Marvel #26 and was created by Mike Friedrich and Jim Starlin.

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Batiatus

Batiatus is a fictional character from the TV program Spartacus.

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The best TV villains of all time rank among some of the greatest TV characters of all time as well as some of the creepiest TV characters ever. While some TV ...