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Best Modern TV Villains
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Character↕ | Show↕ | Actor↕ | Years↕ | Villain Type↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter White | Breaking Bad | Bryan Cranston | 2008-2013 | Fallen anti-hero | Chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, I am the one who knocks, Heisenberg persona, ego over family |
| Cersei Lannister | Game of Thrones | Lena Headey | 2011-2019 | Scheming queen | Blows up the Sept of Baelor, walk of shame, when you play the game of thrones you win or you die |
| Joffrey Baratheon | Game of Thrones | Jack Gleeson | 2011-2014 | Sadistic child king | Orders Ned Stark's execution, most hated character on TV, purple wedding poisoning was cathartic |
| Logan Roy | Succession | Brian Cox | 2018-2023 | Patriarch tyrant | Fk off his answer to everything, media mogul terrorizing his children, boar on the floor game |
| Gus Fring | Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul | Giancarlo Esposito | 2009-2022 | Polite kingpin | Los Pollos Hermanos front, meticulous, calm cartel fear, half-face box cutter death |
| The Governor | The Walking Dead | David Morrissey | 2012-2014 | Post-apocalypse warlord | Woodbury tyrant with zombie heads in fish tanks, daughter in chains, Hershel beheading |
| Negan | The Walking Dead | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | 2016-present | Charismatic brute | Lucille barbed-wire bat, eenie meenie miney mo, killed Glenn, ruled the Saviors |
| Tony Soprano | The Sopranos | James Gandolfini | 1999-2007 | Mob boss anti-hero | New Jersey DiMeo family, panic attacks to therapy, strangles Christopher, final cut to black |
| Hannibal Lecter | Hannibal | Mads Mikkelsen | 2013-2015 | Cannibal psychiatrist | Elegant gourmand serial killer, meat dishes of his victims, mind games with Will Graham |
| Kilgrave | Jessica Jones | David Tennant | 2015-2018 | Mind-control rapist | Purple Man powers, forced Jessica's compliance, most disturbing Marvel villain |
| Rustin Parr / Errol Childress | True Detective | Glenn Fleshler | 2014 | Ritual cult killer | The Yellow King, Carcosa, Louisiana backwoods horror reveal |
| Vee | Orange Is the New Black | Lorraine Toussaint | 2014 | Manipulative mother figure | Takes over Litchfield prison family, exploits Crazy Eyes and Taystee, season 2 big bad |
| Ben Linus | Lost | Michael Emerson | 2006-2010 | Manipulative mastermind | Others leader, creepy calm lies, shifts from villain to reluctant ally across seasons |
| Agent Smith (Mr. Robot equivalent) | Mr. Robot | BD Wong (White Rose) | 2015-2019 | Dark Army head | White Rose Chinese minister, time-obsessed, orchestrates Five/Nine hack, quietly terrifying |
| Villanelle | Killing Eve | Jodie Comer | 2018-2022 | Playful assassin | Chic murders, pink tulle dress, obsession with Eve Polastri, killed her own mother |
| Dr. Robert Ford | Westworld | Anthony Hopkins | 2016-2018 | God-complex creator | Park founder, god over the hosts, orchestrates robot uprising, gets shot by Dolores |
| Wilson Fisk / Kingpin | Daredevil | Vincent D'Onofrio | 2015-2024 | Crime lord | Hell's Kitchen kingpin, restaurant punch-out rage, love interest Vanessa humanizes him, best MCU villain per fans |
| Moriarty | Sherlock | Andrew Scott | 2010-2017 | Genius rival | Consulting criminal, every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain, rooftop final problem |
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