A special Valentine’s day list!
23 villains I adore, in no particular order:
- Hannibal Lecter
- Darth Vader (classic for a reason)
- Bertie Wooster’s Aunt Agatha
- Scorpius
- Pumpkinhead
- Hans Gruber
- The entire town of Eagleton, Indiana
- Mr. Dark (movie version)
- Irene Adler (book version)
- Loki (any version, but especially Cat Thor version from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl)
- Pinhead
- Spike (though I would argue that he ended as something other than a villain)
- Six (also maybe not a villain, though she certainly started out that way)
- Bob (Twin Peaks, if a single harrowing name doesn’t instantly mean maniacal laughter in a mirror to you)
- Benjamin Linus
- Mrs. Danvers
- Marquise de Merteuil
- Cthulhu
- The Babadook
- Lucy van Pelt (although Charlie Brown’s blockheadedness is the real villain)
- Black Phillip
- Alice Morgan
- And last, but never, ever least: The Goblin King
