Starting of strong with Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter, one of the most notorious villains to somewhat grace our screens. His truly despicable yet enthralling character creates one of the sickest and most twisted evil minds out there, all thanks to his cannibalistic ways… yep that’s right this villain murders his victims, cooks their dead flesh, and to really top of his tormented ways feeds it to his unsuspecting guests. Nasty stuff.
Once again coming in with a truly nasty villain Joffrey Baratheon, from one of the most popular TV shows to exist in the world, Game of Thrones. This character, fortunately, meets a painful yet well-deserved death after he is secretly poisoned by Olenna Tyrell (she really was doing God's work here). Still, that is what happens, Joffrey, when you torture, assault, and kill off a fan favourite I’m afraid. With that being said however, his character remains to be a fan favourite. There's something about those truly nasty ones that you gotta love!
But of course, it would be rude not to mention the ultimate vampire Dracula. This guy is just pure evil really, especially in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's screen adaptation. He psychologically tortures his own servant, turns whoever he fancies into a vampire with his poisonous vampiric blood and to really top of his list of accomplishments he kidnaps a baby and feeds it to his vampire birds to eat and when the mother wants her baby back he just has her killed too - how dare she demand her own child back…
And to top it off with a classic Disney villain, Cruella De Vil. The clues in the name really – cruel and evil- this woman has got to be up there with the most horrible and wicked villains of all time; a fashion-obsessed heiress this woman schemes to use the fur of 101 Dalmatians for her spotted fur coat. I think we can all agree that when it comes to harming animals there is no going back thus making Cruella De Vil a top villain and most definitely a hated one.