Stranger Things: Every Main Character Ranked Worst To Best

15. Billy Hargrove

Nobody likes a bully and as much as Billy Hargrove may have garnered our sympathies in season three by sacrificing his life to save his stepsister Max, that doesn’t change the fact that he was still a deeply awful person for much of his runtime.

His character in season two is pretty much exclusively defined by his cruelty, from brutally assaulting Steve Harrington to the point of unconsciousness to his racist attacks on Lucas Sinclair, a literal child.

There are reasons given for his mean streak throughout the show, in an attempt to garner our sympathies. The main one is his father, Neil, who is shown emotionally and physically abusing his son. This abuse is what prompted Billy's mother to abandon the family when he was about ten years old, leaving him with only fond holiday memories of her.

But this is not an excuse for his bad behaviour and while, again, his last stand against the Mind Flayer does not go unappreciated, he is simply the member of the main cast who has done the worst things on screen.