10 Most Hate-Worthy Villains From Animated TV Shows
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They say how good a story is depends on how bad its villains are. After all what makes the audience really get behind a protagonist and desperately pray for their victory is all the awfulness they suffer courtesy of their adversaries. And when it comes to serving up these dastardly adversaries, the world of animated television is the gift that keeps on giving.
Animated shows have given us a library of iconic bad guys over the decades. Some of them are undoubtedly more nefarious than the rest. The characters who are so vile and despicable that even during times where everything is described as grey, the audience still has no trouble viewing them in terms of black and white whichever is meant to be the bad one).
Before beginning, yes hardly anyone will agree with the order of the list because it’s almost impossible to objectively rank these bad guys in order of malevolence; so try and keep the pitch forks in check for now. With the subjectivity and of course massive spoiler warning in place, these are the ten most hate-worthy villains from animated shows.
10. Dr. Emelia - Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts
The most recent entry on the list, Dr. Emelia is detestable. There is simply no other way to put it. She is everything wrong about humans summed up in the devilishly perfect ball of hatred and destruction.
She believes only her kind deserve the right to control their fate (sure it refers to humans as a group in the context of this story but you can guess the underlying thought process), she is blinded by her arrogance and pride, and she will hurt anyone deemed necessary to meet her goals.
What’s more, she has no qualms whatsoever when it comes to taking things that are not hers. Brought up on a steady diet of hateful propaganda by her father, Emilia grows up determined to wipe out the enlarged and intelligent animals that control much of the surface world, otherwise known as mutes.
To do so, she forcefully takes over her friend’s research, then takes over the friend herself when said research transforms her into a giant monkey, keeps the now Mega Monkey friend away from her family, tries to do the same with the friend’s daughter who has inherited similar Mega animal powers, and is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way of her reversing the mutation that gave the animals their intelligence.
Oh and she also killed her brother who had grown wary of her barbaric ways.