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My Top 10 Favourite Male Villains of all time.

Karthikeyan
18 min readNov 26, 2024

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“How arrogant of you to think that any of us are anything but irrelevant”. -John Greer, Person of Interest (2011–2016).

There comes a moment in a blog’s life where some things are just long overdue, and while the argument could be made that this happened way too early, I’d say that as long as this helps me to find my groove, I am free to experiment as much as I want.

So….. Villains.

Gotta love them. As long as I do not meet them in real life. This post is in particular about male villains since I have one dedicated to their female counterparts in the pipeline so expect that to come soon enough and for this part to be rewritten. By the way, “villain” is a generalization, I can put anti-villains, antagonists, or more general antiheroes in this list; your definition of “Bad Guy” can vary greatly and so can mine, someone like Walter White from Breaking Bad could have made it in here. My taste is very unusual, so prepare yourself for some unexpected picks.

But first, some honorable mentions:

Oropo (Wakfu): Once you see the number 2 spot for both this list and the female villains list you might notice that I tend to gravitate towards characters with wasted potential more often than not, but while we’re just talking about this guy, I cannot stress…

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