With the fall TV season just around the corner, our televisions will soon be awash with characters new and old that be taking on villainous tasks, making our favorite characters’ lives a living hell.
Here are the 10 best villains currently kicking it on TV. One stipulation for making this list is that the characters couldn’t be completely defeated the last we saw them, so no dead people (some of them who were killed miserably). That said, going to prison doesn’t count as defeated, as TV shows have been busting baddies out of jail of ages, so we’ll undoubtedly be seeing some of them again.
Note: Spoilers for just about everyone on this list, so be warned.
Wilson Fisk (Daredevil)
Beyond Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, the Marvel Cinematic Universe villains are known for being fairly trite and one-dimensional. But that changed once again with Vincent D’Onofrio’s complex and nuanced performance as Wilson “Don’t Say His Name” Fisk on Netflix’s Daredevil. Though he was oddly introverted and tried to distance himself from the day-to-day criminal activities of his underlings, Fisk inevitably got pulled into the fray, and was downright frightening when he went there.