20 Greatest Horror Villains Of The 2020s (So Far)

Before the first trailer for Blumhouse's killer android movie M3GAN dropped, nobody could've predicted just how iconic a character she would become.

The deliciously tongue-in-cheek marketing did a fantastic job of showing off M3GAN's delightfully sassy demeanour, flamboyant killing methods, and of course, her lifelike-yet-uncanny design.

And given that concerns about the proliferation of AI began to hit the mainstream just as the film was released, everything about the character's conception feels quite perfectly timed.

M3GAN was a meme months before her first film even came out, and the movie itself absolutely surpassed expectations, cementing her as one of the most distinctive and memorable horror antagonists in years.

It's a shame that the sequel flopped at the box office - largely due to shifting away from horror to sci-fi action - making it quite possible that we've already seen the last of this undeniably fascinating and hilarious villain.

But even if M3GAN 3.0 never materialises, genre fans will still remember her years and years from now.