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Everyone loves a good villain.  Without a good villain, the good guy or girl is just a guy or girl – there’s nothing special about them, nor will there ever be.  Not only that, but writing someone so incredibly evil isn’t easy – you have to take yourself to a dark place, a dark place that some writers daren’t even consider going to.  It also takes a very talented actor to be able to find the darkness of those characters within themselves, and to portray it (and scare the shit out of everyone).  So, to celebrate the talent that it takes to create a truly terrible television villain, I give you this very list!

Charles Hoyt/The Surgeon, Rizzoli and Isles

It’s one thing to murder someone, but to target happily married couples, tie the husband up, rape the woman whilst the husband is watch...

Warning: This article may contain minor spoilers for anyone that hasn’t seen the first eleven episodes of Game of Thrones.

Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister

The concept of Game of Thrones being feminist never occurred to me until I watched a feature on the series in the build up to season two. After hearing that many people had been referring to it as that, I started to wonder if they were right. I’d always dismissed the concept because of how conniving and backstabbing the women on the show are, but now I’m beginning to re-evaluate what a feminist TV show is.

Since Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon were killed, the two main families in the show are matriarchal...