15 Most Monstrous Villains In Television

15. T-Bag (Prison Break)

Theodore ‘T-Bag’ Bagwell is practically designed by committee to be an antagonist. He’s a loathsome racist and murderer, and often referred to as a !*$%, although given that he plays no favourites with gender when it comes to sexual abuse, it’s very likely that the power-playing ‘rapist’ characteristic is predominant in him.

Male, female, old or young, T-Bag will force himself on anyone and anything, and couch it in the most reprehensibly sleazy kind of seduction possible. It’s almost like he’s desperate to get a rise out of everyone that meets him, determined to be hated.

The second season of Prison Break attempted to flesh out Bagwell’s background, to try to pin down how a man becomes such an unrepentant monster. Why they do this, I have no idea, except to say that the muppets can’t leave a good thing alone.

Regardless, actor Robert Knepper is such a talent that the viewer very nearly swallows this hastily concocted story of parental abuse and molestation, very nearly allows themselves to believe that there’s something childlike, even innocent trapped in that cesspit of a mind… but T-Bag can’t stop himself being T-Bag for long.