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The 18 Greatest TV Villains of All Time

By YPB Team

Sadists, schemers and one very calm man in a yellow shirt. The scariest ones here never raise their voice.

  1. Joffrey Baratheon — ranked #11
    Joffrey Baratheon
    The boy king of Game of Thrones, played by Jack Gleeson, whose petty cruelty made him one of television's most hated characters.
  2. Cersei Lannister — ranked #22
    Cersei Lannister
    Lena Headey's queen regent in Game of Thrones, a long-game manipulator who outlasted almost everyone who underestimated her.
  3. Gustavo Fring — ranked #33
    Gustavo Fring
    Breaking Bad's fried-chicken magnate and drug lord, terrifying precisely because he never raised his voice.
  4. Walter White — ranked #44
    Walter White
    Breaking Bad's chemistry teacher who spent five seasons turning himself into the man he was afraid of.
  5. Negan — ranked #55
    Negan
    The Walking Dead's barbed-wire-bat warlord, introduced with one of television's most notorious cold opens.
  6. Ramsay Bolton — ranked #66
    Ramsay Bolton
    Game of Thrones' sadist of the North, played by Iwan Rheon, whose scenes viewers watched through their fingers.
  7. Kilgrave — ranked #77
    Kilgrave
    Jessica Jones' mind-controlling stalker, played by David Tennant as charm weaponised.
  8. Lalo Salamanca — ranked #88
    Lalo Salamanca
    Better Call Saul's cartel heir, a smiling killer who was always three steps ahead.
  9. The Governor — ranked #99
    The Governor
    The Walking Dead's small-town tyrant, who ran a functioning community and a wall of severed heads.
  10. Ben Linus — ranked #1010
    Ben Linus
    Lost's soft-spoken leader of the Others, who lied so consistently that the truth became a plot twist.
  11. T-Bag — ranked #1111
    T-Bag
    Prison Break's Theodore Bagwell, a predator whose survival instinct outlasted the show's own premise.
  12. Vee Parker — ranked #1212
    Vee Parker
    Orange Is the New Black's maternal manipulator, who ran Litchfield through affection and fear in equal measure.
  13. Wilson Fisk — ranked #1313
    Wilson Fisk
    Daredevil's Kingpin, played by Vincent D'Onofrio as a man whose rage is always one sentence away from the surface.
  14. Cigarette Smoking Man — ranked #1414
    Cigarette Smoking Man
    The X-Files' shadow-government fixer, defined by a silhouette and a lit cigarette.
  15. Villanelle — ranked #1515
    Villanelle
    Killing Eve's assassin, played by Jodie Comer, who made joyful amorality look like a personality rather than a diagnosis.
  16. Homelander — ranked #1616
    Homelander
    The Boys' all-American superhero, a public smile stretched over an unstable and unaccountable god.
  17. Tony Soprano — ranked #1717
    Tony Soprano
    The Sopranos' mob boss, whose therapy sessions never quite stopped him doing the thing he was in therapy about.
  18. Sylar — ranked #1818
    Sylar
    Heroes' serial killer of the super-powered, who collected abilities the way other villains collect grudges.

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Comments

Filed as villains, Walter White and Tony Soprano meet Joffrey Baratheon and Ramsay Bolton, written to be hated and nothing else: https://youpick.best/articles/breaking-bad-vs-the-sopranos-ranked https://youpick.best/articles/game-of-thrones-ranked-many-ways

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