10 Creepy TV Characters You ACTUALLY Root For
4. Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
We all have talents. Some of us can cook, others can play football, and a few oddballs out there can even make their eyebrows dance. But Dexter Morgan? His special talent is murdering people. And he's darn good at it.
It's actually terrifying when you think about just how skilled a serial killer the character really is. Groomed from an early age by Harry Morgan, Dexter was turned into a vigilante whose mission was to bring criminals to justice by dismembering them, a role that he carries out with a disturbingly unflinching attitude towards his victims.
He performs his murders almost like a ritual, wrapping up his targets like they're Christmas presents waiting to be played with, and what makes this even more grim is that Dexter doesn't seem bothered by any of it. It all seems quite routine and normal to him, and the scariest thing about the character is just how desensitized he is to violence and murder.
And yet, the series does a lot of things to get us on Dexter's side, actually hoping that his grisly methods will lead him to success and happiness.
As we mentioned, his targets are usually criminals, people who have escaped from the traditional, law-abiding justice system. Because of this, there's a part of you that doesn't really mind when Dexter carries out his latest gruesome murder, because hey, that bad guy probably deserved it anyway.
And because he was only turned into a serial killer due to a horrific event in his past - where he watched his mother get butchered by a chainsaw - the character feels like an unfortunate victim of his own troubled childhood, someone who's just trying to make the best of the way he's been programmed. From his point of view - and, a lot of the time, from our point of view - he's actually a hero.