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Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
She is entirely loathsome but still motherly at times.
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Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
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Iago from Othello by William Shakespeare
He seems benign, which makes his traps easier to fall into.
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Voldemort from Harry Potter by JK Rowling
He is intelligent, charismatic, and determined.
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Lady Macbeth in Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Titus from Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
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Cruella de Vil from The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
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8.
It from It by Stephen King
He's a villain from childhood who never goes away.
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9.
Samuel Whiskers from The Tale of Samuel Whiskers by Beatrix Potter
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Sauron from The Lord on the Rings by JRR Tolkien
He's always watching for the Ring—you can't hide.
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11.
Wargrave from And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Not knowing he's the villain makes him more frightening.
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12.
Barabas from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
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13.
Claudius from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Count Dracula from Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Jadis from the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
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Patrick Bateman from American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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17.
Edmund from King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Mr. Hyde from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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19.
Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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20.
Alex d'Uberville from Tess d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
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