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
22.) Bellatrix Lestrange – Harry Potter- played by Helena Bonham Carter 
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Katie hails from Northern Virginia and spends her spare time blaring Led Zeppelin and trying to bake her way on to the Great British Bake Off one Victoria Sponge at a time. Her life largely consists of arguing with her dogs, running away from home to meander around the UK, and drinking her weight in tea. Occasionally she even makes time to write and edit for a living, but only when forced.
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