Who doesn’t love a good, ol’ fashioned villain? We certainly do. Heroes have their time and place, but a mad as a hatter baddie often steals the show and makes everyone else look just a bit dull. Plenty of people have compiled their own lists on the topic, but very few contain many samples from the last ten years. So we decided to compile a list of our twenty (ish) favorite villains from our twenties, proving that classics don’t have dibs on being bad.
SPOILERS: Beware if you haven’t seen these shows/movies, the clips contain key plot moments.
1.) James Moriarty – Sherlock– played by Andrew Scott
2.) The Joker- The Dark Knight – played by Heath Ledger
3.) Raoul Silva – SKYFALL – played by Javier Bardem
4.) Voldemort- Harry Potter– played by Ralph Fiennes
5). Cersei Lannister- Game of Thrones– played by Lena Headey
6.) President Snow – Hunger Games – played by Donald Sutherland
7.) Bane – Dark Knight Rises – played by Tom Hardy
8.) John Harrison – Star Trek Into the Darkness– played by Benedict Cumberbatch
9.) Loki – Thor & The Avengers – played by Tom Hiddleston
10.) Javert – Les Miserables – played by Russell Crowe
11.) The Master/ Harold Saxon – Doctor Who – played by John Simms
12.) Benjamin Linus – LOST – played by Michael Emerson
13.) Colonel Hans Landa – Inglorious Basterds – played by Christopher Waltz
14.) Crowley – Supernatural – played by Mark Sheppard
15.) Regina George – Mean Girls – played by Rachel McAdams
16.) Russell Edgington – True Blood – played by Denis O’Hare
17.) Tate Langdon – American Horror Story – played by Evan Peters
18.) Dr. Hannibal Lecter – Hannibal – Mads Mikkelsen
19.) Walter White – Breaking Bad – played by Bryan Cranston
20.) Dexter Morgan- Dexter – played by Michael C. Hall
21.) Nik Klaus – The Vampire Diaries – played by Joseph Morgan
