Game of Thrones: The 50 Best Villains
There are a lot of bad eggs in Westeros. These fifty are the best of the worst.
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
