The Best Bad Guys in Film/TV

The Top Ten
1 Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver Travis Bickle, a 26-year-old honorably discharged U.S. Marine, is a lonely, depressed young man living on his own in New York City. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the city's boroughs. He also spends time in porn theaters and keeps a diary. Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. After watching her interact with fellow worker Tom through her window, Travis enters to volunteer, as a pretext to talk to her, and takes her out for coffee. On a later date, he takes her to see a pornographic film, which offends her, and she goes home alone. His attempts at ...read more.

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2 Lucifer in Supernatural
3 Hannibal Lecter In Hannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.

Hannibal is genius psychopath. There's no escape from a horrible certain death.

4 Ramsey Bolton in Game of Thrones
5 Light Yagami in Death Note Light Yagami is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
6 Moriarty in Sherlock
7 The Joker in The Dark Knight The Joker is a fictional super villain created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson who first appeared in the debut issue of the comic book Batman (April 25, 1940) published by DC Comics. Credit for the Joker's creation is disputed; Kane and Robinson claimed responsibility for the Joker's design, ...read more.
8 Agent Smith in The Matrix
9 Sheriff Cooley in O Brother Where Art Thou?
10 Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders
The Contenders
11 Petyr Baelish in Game of Thrones
12 Frank Costello in The Departed
13 Roy Batty in Blade Runner
14 Negan - The Walking Dead Negan is a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and is portrayed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the American television series of the same name.

He's by far one of the worst villains in the show and he's so good at it.

15 Ben Linus in Lost
16 The Governor in The Walking Dead
17 Blondie [The Man With No Name] in "Dollars" film series

Clint Eastwood gradually developed this mysterious character over the "Dollars" films and beyond.
Finally in the film "Pale Rider", he openly admitted that he was actually the Angel of Death.

18 Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
19 Hans Gruber in Die Hard Hans Gruber is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1988 action film Die Hard portrayed by Alan Rickman.
20 Jaws in Jaws
21 Syndrome - The Incredibles Syndrome (born as Buddy Pine) is the primary antagonist in The Incredibles. He wanted to be super like the others, even though he had no powers. He was Mr. Incredible's #1 fan, and dubbed himself "Incrediboy," but he was rejected by Mr. Incredible. Angered after being refused, he developed an evil plan ...read more.
22 Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey HAL 9000 is a fictional character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL is a sentient computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
23 Tony Sparrow in Casino.

A true killer sociopath. Organize crime is a walk in the park at midnight wearing white and carrying a bag of money.

Tony Sparrow is the template for gangsters. Crime doesn't pay is a hack statement, but Tony Sparrow will make you want to sell insurance.

24 Owen (The Wolves) in The Walking Dead
25 Negan in The Walking Dead
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