Being evil does not make the character evil. But being evil means the character is villainous, and when it comes to the iconic characters who have represented, shown, and accompanied their claim to fame regarding their evil intentions and evil deeds, their shrine is usually set in stone. However, this is not always the case as many TV villains, in the course of their story arc, especially over the course of several seasons, end up switching locations and at some point becoming a good guy. Sadly, it doesn’t take to change most of the time and eventually they go back to their villainous roles and ways.
And believe it or not, this has happened quite a bit in the history of television. These are TV villains who almost become good guys, but then turn back.
8 Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries)
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The Vampire Diaries It originally started as a series about a good guy vampire who falls in love with a human girl and a bad vampire brother who hates her. But like the first season and subsequent seasons Vampire Diaries She matured, as did the story and the characters, and then, the audience learned the truth about Stefan’s love for Elena, that Elena is a doppelgänger of an ancestor who was deeply in love with her. Needless to say, the doppelganger, Katherine Pierce, has returned and wreaked utter havoc on the lives of Elena, Stefan, and even Damon.
While Katherine’s plight as a character was a frustration for Elena, her path to villainy was easily met with sympathy: she was once in love, had a child with her, and in order to survive killed her family. Not only did Katherine’s past chart a course for villainy, it also briefly allowed her to try to be better and do the right thing. However, her emotional baggage, all the awfulness she went through in the past, left her mistrustful and unable to completely escape her survival situation, ultimately pitting her against the interests of others.
7 Elie “Rowan” Pope (Scandal)
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Eli “Rowan” Pope is quite possibly the worst dad in TV history as well as one of the smartest and most amazing villains ever on TV. Rowan was the man behind B613, a top secret and diabolical division of the CIA in the series of hits, scandal. It wasn’t until the second season that Rowan officially became an antagonist on the show, often working and scheming behind the scenes into his daughter’s life and livelihood and oftentimes against her intentions. rowan in scandal A constant and constant threat, a real presence where not only were his actions cold and calculated, but his exceptional intelligence as well as his range and foresight made everything and every move he made justified, at least to himself and sometimes to the public.
At one point in the series, audiences start rooting for Rowan Pope despite his manic outburst and cold-blooded killing. All the bad things he did, according to him, were for the love of his daughter, Olivia Pope. But with Rouen, all was murky and one couldn’t help but be on the lookout for the anvil that was then destined to fall, presumably on top of some sort he had fallen into the intersection with. By the end of the series, Rowan has done some good, but it’s all within the evil scheme he’s so good at, making him still the ultimate villain in the story.
6 Joe Goldberg (you)
Definitely a bad guy, Netflix’s Joe Goldberg You He is a murderer, quite possibly in the serial killer realm. In the first season, his obsession with the inspiring author and writer Beck immediately sends chills down his spine. Joe isn’t a good guy, he’s deranged, and he’s suffered from a massive amount of past trauma, more specifically his mother’s abandonment. This is established early in the series and gives a reason for his current actions and his obsession with loving women, even to the point of hurting them to make sure they don’t leave him.
However, even with all of these villainous traits, he’s also a sympathetic hero, turning into that over the seasons, or even stepping into the role as he tries to do the right thing despite behaving the wrong way, sometimes even getting down. Another bad guy to do it. However, in the end, it’s always Joe’s murderous impulses that take over and his need to survive that win out, which usually means another murder, another cover-up, and a change of identity.
5 Dexter (Dexter)
dexter As a series based on the novel, it revolves around Dexter Morgan, a serial killer who has been taught code, a method by which he kills in order to satisfy his lust and craving for murder and blood. Ironically, it is his adoptive father who is the cop who teaches him how to do it, starting at an early age. Consequently, Dexter becomes a blood spatter forensic analyst for the Miami, Florida Police Department, bringing him close to the crime. Through these means, Dexter is able to track down and kill other villains, even murderers. He does this primarily to appease his lust to kill, but justifies it through his law, that these people deserve his judgment and death sentence.
While Dexter is an obvious villain, he is also the hero of the show, and his obstacles and opponents become the other villains he tries to catch and kill as well as his friends in the police force, including his adoptive sister, as they continually come closer to discovering his secret. In the end, Dexter is responsible for a lot of deaths and even kills some of his police friends so they won’t get caught, making him the ultimate bad guy, a painful revelation his adoptive sister finds out too late.
4 Skeleton (Masters of the Universe: Revelations)
Skeletor is the main antagonist and villain in the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Cartoon series that ran from 1983 to 1985. Skeletor is an evil, skeleton-faced wizard who wants the power and secrets of Castle Grayskull. In the original series, only He-Man and his team of warriors stood in his way. Netflix recently brought He-Man back into the mainstream with Kevin Smith’s 80s animated sequel titled: Masters of the Universe: Revelations. Here, Skeletor once again continues his quest for domination, and this time he really does, killing He-Man, obtaining the Sword of Power, and finally unlocking the secrets of Grayskull.
Skeletor is at his best as a villain. However, in the course of the show, another villain appears, and Skeletor must eventually join forces with a revived He-Man to defeat the new villain. Needless to say, in the end, Skeletor remains true to his villainous persona and betrays He-Man and the other Masters to gain power again.
3 Norman Bates (Bates Motel)
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Norman Bates’s tragic and fatal story in Alfred Hitchcock mental patient Very well known. However, in 2013, a new version of the story was released as a TV series titled Bates Hotel It ran for four seasons under the direction of Karton Cruz, Anthony Cipriano, and Kerry Ehren. This remake places Norman through his teenage years and the trials and travails of a troubled young man. What is clear about 2013 Bates Hotel is that it is a coming-of-age story that examines the apparent psychosis of ordinary Bates as a murderer. While he is the villain, he is also the protagonist and many of the people who love him in his life are his antagonist, often turning a blind eye to his desperate need for help.
Norman is a killer while also going through bouts of doing badly for the right reasons, even for the good of some people. In the end, Normal succumbs to his darkness, and kills his mother as in Hitchcock’s version where Norman is much older, and he actually killed his mother. However, the TV series then takes the events of the movie and adapts them to an earlier time in Norman’s life where we really get to see the villainy of his actions and the inevitability of his misfortune.
2 Benjamin Linus (lost)
puzzles in Lost They abound but are no smarter or more sinister than the presence of Dr. Benjamin Linus. Benjamin is clearly an antagonist in the series, always up to something and his impulses and manipulations are always at the expense of others on the island. However, with the progression of time and seasons of the year Lost Moving on, there are times when Benjamin Linus joins and even helps out the other inhabitants of the island. This happened on several occasions despite the still-pervading mistrust of most of the survivors who still had to contact him, especially Sawyer. Jack, somewhat of the leader on the island, is quicker to use Linus to the advantage of the group than most. In the end, it always comes down to Benjamin Linus’ manipulation at work, which makes him both cool and dangerous as the series’ villain.
1 Jaime Lannister (Games of Thrones)
I started hating Jaime Lannister’s character very early on in Season 1 game of thrones. It was really easy, creators and writers of the show evil Almost immediately, dastardly actions, a shrewd and cunning approach to “Game of Thrones,” a conniving spirit, an incestuous relationship with his twin sister, and a villainous attempt to kill a young child, push Bran Stark out the window to his death (even though Bran wasn’t dead, it was These are indeed Jaime’s intentions.However, he just had to settle for the fact that he was permanently crippled as a child.)
Even so, despite Jaime Lannister’s horrible actions and nefarious character, his plight has veered toward redemption in later seasons, as he befriends and falls in love with Brienne of Tarth as well. Brienne becomes a catalyst for Jaime’s goodness and light to push through evil and darkness, and it’s clear that their relationship, their struggles with both carrying an enormous amount of emotional baggage, is special and worth fighting for. However, in the end, despite Jaime knowing what is good and right and even living in the moment of being and doing so, the burden and weight of his past, especially a past love for his sister, Cersei, draws him back to the actions of his former self even if he doesn’t turn his heart all the way.
