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