# The 13 Greatest Fantasy Villains of All Time

> Dark lords who barely show a face sit next to petty tyrants you'd happily watch lose an argument, and the gap between them is half the fun.

*By YPB Team · Published November 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-13-greatest-fantasy-villains-of-all-time*

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1. **Cersei Lannister** — score 1000/1000
   The Lannister queen who schemes to keep her family in power in A Song of Ice and Fire, played by Lena Headey on HBO.
2. **Maleficent** — score 848/1000
   The dark fairy who curses Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty.
3. **Lord Voldemort** — score 848/1000
   The dark wizard born Tom Riddle who seeks to rule the wizarding world in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
4. **Sauron** — score 818/1000
   The Dark Lord of Mordor who forged the One Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
5. **Joffrey Baratheon** — score 636/1000
   The boy king who sits on the Iron Throne after Robert Baratheon's death in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones.
6. **The Queen of Hearts** — score 636/1000
   The quick-tempered ruler of Wonderland who keeps ordering beheadings in Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
7. **The Night King** — score 636/1000
   The leader of the White Walkers and the army of the dead, a character created for HBO's Game of Thrones.
8. **The Wicked Witch of the West** — score 520/1000
   The witch who rules the Winkie Country in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, played by Margaret Hamilton in the 1939 film.
9. **Bellatrix Lestrange** — score 520/1000
   A fanatical Death Eater who kills her cousin Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
10. **Captain Hook** — score 520/1000
   The pirate captain of the Jolly Roger and Peter Pan's sworn enemy in J.M. Barrie's 1904 play and 1911 novel.
11. **The Witch-king of Angmar** — score 382/1000
   The leader of the nine Nazgul, slain by Eowyn and Merry at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in The Return of the King.
12. **Ursula** — score 382/1000
   The sea witch who trades Ariel's voice for human legs in Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid.
13. **The White Witch** — score 0/1000
   Jadis, the self-proclaimed queen who holds Narnia in endless winter in C.S. Lewis's 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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