Ranking All Main Characters From Boardwalk Empire

21. Commodore Louis Kaestner

In a show filled with real-life murderers and gangsters, none were as deplorable or hateful as the menace of all evil - Commodore Kaestner.

As Nucky's mentor, and Jimmy's biological father, The Commodore's control over the two leads is palpable for the first season, and his devious power-hungry manipulations in the second set off the more violent chain of events. There was something almost generational about the relationship of the three characters, with Nucky serving more as a father to Jimmy than the Commodore himself.

His evil acts across history varied from small such as the influence and manipulation of Jimmy, through his racist and sexist belittling of his housemaid, and all the way to the rape of Gillian Darmody when she was a child, there was not redeeming quality about The Commodore.

His position as so low on the ranking is purely down to his position as a hateful, detestable figure. The Commodore was a man who threw his political (and once physical) strength around too casually during his time on the show.

Had it not been for his sickening vices, a lot of the horrific events in the show might have never happened.