15 Best Movie Villains Of The Decade

6. Amy - Gone Girl (2014)

For all of the temptation there must have been around Gone Girl painting old sexist archetypes a new colour, David Fincher's adaptation does remarkably well to avoid that. And in Rosmund Pike's Amy Elliott Dunne it had a great, complex villain whose manipulation of her husband is just genius.

He's obviously not innocent at all, thanks to his apathetic treatment of her and his adultery, but the twists in Gone Girl are as intoxicating as Amy's plans are clever and intricately mapped. She is, clearly, a cunning villain who has previous form in destroying people to advance herself, sometimes simply because she wanted to and her manipulation and then murder of Neil Patrick Harris' Desi is the icing on a cake of complex, deliciously machiavellian crafting.

She wins, ultimately, which is the medicine to Ben Affleck's philandering husband Nick's own sins, and the genius here is that you actually sort of celebrate her victory in the end.