If a show doesn’t have great bad guys, is it even worth watching?
Well, Game of Thrones has its fair share of villains -- some of which are and were so
despicable that it’s amazing what they did was shown on TV.
But alas, they were and we’ve been haunted by their memories ever since.
The show’s evolution is clear, as are the bad guys who star in it.
From bloody betrayals to assassinations, Game of Thrones has given us a lot to talk about…
and mourn over.
And with the final season just a few weeks away, we decided to break down which characters
have been the most evil throughout the series.
But with the finale likely going to be a blood-bath, frankly, it’s still anyone’s game.
But until then…
These are the Top 11 Most Evil Game of Thrones characters.
Number 11: Euron Greyjoy
People tend to forget how evil Euron is because he does everything with a smile, even if it’s
a menacing one.
He’s got one of the best senses of humor of any villain we’ve seen on the show, and
he’s not nearly as coward or willing to hide in the shadows as many of the others
are.
Really, he’s kind of like the Bam Margera of Westeros.
But Euron is the man who killed his own brother to rule and went to hunt down the two children
who could prevent him from securing the Iron Islands.
He’s cunning and a lot more intelligent than he lets on.
But the most dangerous thing about him is how charming and charismatic he is.
Number 10: Petyr Baelish
This shadow master was very unassuming at first, but we soon learned the lengths that
this frail little man was willing to go to just to make a name for himself.
He was the architect behind schemes like pitting the Starks against the Lannisters, which ultimately
led to Ned’s death.
He had a hand in Joffrey’s death, murdered Lysa Arryn to take control of her kingdom,
married Sansa off to Ramsay Bolton and let’s not forget the time he paid an assassin to
kill Bran while he was still in a coma.
Using the knowledge he acquired, he was able to position himself in the right place at
the right time to be useful to those he would soon betray.
This man thrived on chaos, stroking the flames and disappearing when things got hot.
He played the perfect puppeteer until the Stark kids cut his strings.
Number 9: Meryn Trant
Meryn F***Ing Trant.
Joffrey really chose the best people to surround himself with.
And the worst was definitely Meryn Trant.
A bit surprising, considering Trant doesn’t seem to get much respect from other fighters.
Specifically the Hound and Bronn.
That being said, his brutality against Sansa, as well as his killing of Syrio Forel, made
us hate Trant’s smug face pretty much immediately.
But his desire for young girls is what showed us the extent of his vileness.
Luckily, Arya corrected the problem pretty swiftly in season 5.
Number 8: Tywin Lannister
If there was an award for the worst father ever, it would go to Tywin Lannister, who
only ever really showed a modicum of affection for Jaime.
The strategic force that was Tywin made use of every weapon he had at his disposal, which
included his daughter, Cersei.
He cared more about his dead wife and family’s name than protecting his children- one of
whom he treated so poorly that it was a wonder he lived to be an adult.
He ruled with an iron fist and with the Iron Bank under his thumb.
If it weren’t for Tyrion killing him, while he was on the toilet no less, the Starks and
Daenerys would have had a lot more adversity than what Cersei is dishing out.
One thing’s for certain, evil or not, Tywin knew how to play the game.
Number 7: Roose Bolton
Roose Bolton deserves a spot on this list for the mere fact that he shares Ramsay Bolton’s
DNA.
But that’s not all he’s guilty of.
This is one of the men who had a big hand in orchestrating one of the most unforgettable
scenes in Game of Thrones history: The Red Wedding.
Not only was he one of the masterminds, but this depraved individual let Catelyn Stark
know what was about to happen to her and her family, just before it DID.
And as everyone remembers, Roose was also the one who stabbed the King of the North
right in the chest, after he spent time getting to know the inner workings of Robb’s life.
And let’s not forget the romantic story about how he met his bastard son’s mother.
Another candidate for Westeros father of the year.
His casual endorsement of brutal torture gets him evil points too.
But could we really have expected less from a man whose house is represented by a flayed
man?
Number 6: Walder Frey
Meet the Freys: a bunch of decrepit, vile and power-hungry people- or at least that
was what their patriarch was.
After a deal to secure a marriage between his offspring and a Stark child went sideways
(let’s not forget that the terms were renegotiated), this man decided that the best way to get
revenge was to murder the three eldest members of the Stark family, one of whom was pregnant.
He broke Guest Right- a sacred oath made between a host (in this case, Frey) and his guests
(The Starks), where either party will cause no harm once they begin to eat.
And all for what?
His actions have condemned his family’s name- not that it matters as most of them
were made into delicious meat pies, courtesy of Arya.
Number 5: Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane
If you thought The Hound was a force to be reckoned with, then you must be forgetting
about his older brother, The Mountain.
The disturbing and unforgettable speech he gave as he battled Oberyn Martell took quite
a while to sink in.
What didn’t take so long for us to get was him crushing Oberyn’s skull like it was
a balloon, similar, we would think, to the way he did Elia Martell’s.
But what made this vile man even more so, was the fact that he should have died after
fighting Oberyn.
He was poisoned with manticore venom and underwent a procedure that changed him, appearance and
behavior-wise.
Time will tell what this man will do next, but with Cersei as leader, it can’t be good.
Number 4: Craster
Craster holds a special place on this list just because he is so disgusting.
This supposed “friend” of the Night’s Watch allowed the men to stay at his keep
if they brought him items in exchange for housing them, but the things he did at his
home are so repulsive that his even death, could not absolve him of what he did during
his life.
You see, Craster took his daughters as wives.
He had them do all the manual labor around his residence and when they were done, cooking,
cleaning and fetching water, he took them to his bed.
Oh, and it didn’t matter that he got them pregnant, unless they gave birth to a male
child, which he would quickly sacrifice to the Night Walkers as a bargaining chip to
leave him alone.
Number 3: Cersei Lannister
It seems like the apple didn’t fall too far from the Lannister tree here because Cersei
is a step above her heartless father.
The current Queen of the Seven Kingdoms has lied, slept and manipulated her way to the
top.
And with no children left to keep her remotely human, we know that there is nothing standing
in the way of Cersei doing whatever she needs to keep the throne.
Some of her crimes include killing her husband (after she cheated on him and had kids with
her brother) and murdering most of the members of the Tyrell house, along with hundreds,
if not thousands of her nation’s citizens.
And now, this ice-cold queen is planning to betray the very people she pledged to help
to stop the White Walkers’ march on the kingdom.
There’s no telling what she’ll do next.
Number 2: Joffrey Baratheon
Whoever came up with the “evil breeds evil” saying was onto something.
The grandfather, the mother and the son.
Each one more evil than the previous.
It seems like someone in each Lannister generation is destined to outdo the person who came before
them, and Joffrey certainly takes the cake- no pun intended- where this race is concerned.
Joffrey’s crimes included everything from torturing prostitutes to bullying young girls
to humiliating his uncle to abandoning his soldiers at war.
There’s so much that this petulant boy king did to repulse us that death really had to
be the next step in his journey.
And it’s his sadistic personality mixed with the entitlement that makes him one of
the most hateable characters on the show.
There’s no telling what Joffrey would have done next had he not choked on his wedding
cake.
Number 1: Ramsay Bolton
There’s probably no character in the history of television that quite matches up to Ramsay
Bolton, the bastard son of the Dreadfort.
His physical and psychological torture of Theon is honestly one of the most brutal arcs
in television history.
Showing us that he doesn’t hurt people for any sort of benefit, but because he enjoys
it.
Ramsay is a sadist in the truest sense of the word.
After torturing and breaking Theon for so long, who he also turned into a eunuch, he
took Sansa’s innocence, killed his newborn brother and flayed the skin of anyone who
dared say otherwise.
From surrendered soldiers to innocent old ladies, Ramsay had no problem peeling the
skin off of anyone who crossed him.
Ramsay was the epitome of evil as he killed his way into Winterfell’s walls -- and there
was nothing subtle about the way he did it either.
He never felt an ounce of remorse or even stopped to think before he committed any of
his vile acts.
To call him cruel would be an insult to the word.
He was and is the kind of villain we honestly weren’t ever prepared for.
But, in his defense, he did warn us: (“If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t
been paying attention”)
But what do you think?
Which character do you think deserves the title of Most Evil Game of Thrones character?
And for that matter, who do you think will be the most evil character in the final season?
Let us know in the comment section below.
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