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 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's greatest greatest villains didn'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'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's also people like Joffrey Baratheon of Game of Thrones and The Simpsons' C. Montgomery Burns who seem to get off on tormenting people. They are the worst kind of awesome bad guys.
Who is the best bad guy on TV? What television shows have the greatest TV villains? 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'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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2,7561,267Ramsay Snow
Game of thrones2
3,1011,568Gustavo Fring
Breaking Bad3
2,9211,949Cersei Lannister
Game of Thrones4
1,628968Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal5
2,0411,332Walter White
Breaking Bad6
1,294809Lucifer
SuperNatural7
1,223793Petyr Baelish
Game of Thrones8
2,7531,892Joker
DC Universe9
3,0252,219Joffrey Baratheon
Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire10
1,7961,311Professor Moriarty
Sherlock 2010 BBCSherlock 2010 BBC11
2,295782Negan
The Walking DeadThe Walking Dead
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670462Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin
Daredevil13
81341514
886725The Night's King
Game of Thrones15
538404Slade Wilson
Arrow16
847631Plankton
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658385Killgrave
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1,3161,229Lex Luthor
Smallville Universe19
1,4861,311Crowley
Supernatural20
1,7361,731Tywin Lannister
Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire21
686576Frieza
Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn22
734633Azazel
Supernatural23
855801Death
Supernatural24
502389Batiatus
Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena25
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