Game of Thrones: The 50 Best Villains

There are a lot of bad eggs in Westeros. These fifty are the best of the worst.
Game Of Thrones Villains

20. Ellaria Sand

Who’s Your Baddie

Vengeful paramour of Prince Oberyn Martell

Why They’re The Worst
  • Frequently insults and finally kills gentle Doran, the pacifist King of Dorne
  • Kills Princess Myrcella, a child
Last Seen

Chained in the Red Keep’s dungeons, unable to reach her daughter Tyene before she succumbs to Qyburn’s poison


19. Lord of Bones

Who’s Your Baddie

a.k.a. Rattleshirt. Notorious Free Folk leader.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Threatens to make Ygritte castrate Jon Snow
  • Makes derogatory dick-centric comments about Tormund’s alliance with Jon Snow
  • Generally has it out for Jon and his genitalia
Last Seen

Beaten to death by Tormund


18. Myranda

Who’s Your Baddie

Ramsay Bolton’s bow-wielding lover

Why They’re The Worst
  • Accomplished sadist
  • Gets Theon aroused before Ramsay castrates him
  • Hunts the most dangerous game
Last Seen

Thrown off a rampart to her death by Theon


17. Viserys Targaryen

Who’s Your Baddie

Older brother of Daenerys

Why They’re The Worst
  • Prissy lil’ bitch boy
  • Willing to let horrible things happen to his sister to get at the Throne
  • Condescending and disrespectful to other cultures
  • Drags women by their hair
  • Bad at heading warnings
  • Hot-headed (ha ha)
Last Seen

Receiving a molten gold crown from Kahl Drogo


16. Karl Tanner

 

Who’s Your Baddie

Rogue brother of the Night’s Watch

Why They’re The Worst
  • Was a fookin legend from Gin Alley
  • Instigates and leads the mutiny at Craster’s Keep
  • Drinks wine from the skull of Jeor fookin Mormont
  • Extremely prepared to stab a baby
  • Sexually assaults Caster’s daughter-wives
  • Attempts to rape Meera Reed
  • Does not fight fair (spit-fu)
Last Seen

Killed and burned by Jon Snow


15. Euron Greyjoy

 

Who’s Your Baddie

Brother of Balon Greyjoy, and Lord Reaper of Pyke; used his gap year to raise hell across the fourteen seas of the world.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Wild-eyed sadist (and an absolute charmer)
  • Apologizes for not returning home to throw his brother off a bridge sooner
  • Brutally murders Obara and Nymeria Sand
  • Assists in the torture of Ellaria and Tyene Sand
Last Seen

Ferrying the Golden Company back to Cersei


14. Tywin Lannister

Who’s Your Baddie

Head of House Lannister; a ruthless general and fearsome pragmatist.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Consistently cruel to Tyrion
  • Pettiest person in Westeros
  • Turns the Mountain loose on a civilian population
  • Orchestrates the Red Wedding
  • Hypocrite about hating Tyrion’s love of sex workers: bangs Shae
  • Fantasy Stalin
Last Seen

Arrow’d on the toilet by his own son


13. Walder Frey

Who’s Your Baddie

Lord of the Crossing. Uses his strategic position to be an excuse to be an asshole.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Hosts the Red Wedding
  • Lecher with no shame
  • Does all his murder from a comfy chair
  • Polygamist; marries literal children
Last Seen

Eating a pie made out of his sons and getting his throat cut by Arya


12. Wights

Who’s Your Baddie

Corpses reanimated by the White Walkers

Why They’re The Worst
  • Pretty creepy!
  • Unquestioning minions of the Others
  • Fast zombies
Last Seen

Breaching the Wall


11. Viserion (icy)

Who’s Your Baddie

Re-animated ice dragon

Why They’re The Worst
  • Named after Daenerys’ shitty brother so maybe we should have seen this coming
  • Currently getting the Night King airborne
  • Destroyed a portion of the Wall
Last Seen

Allowing the Army of the Dead to pass into the Seven Kingdoms


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