10 Creepy TV Characters You ACTUALLY Root For
2. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
It doesn't get much creepier than the thought of someone killing you and consuming your flesh alongside a nice glass of wine, and that's exactly why Hannibal Lecter - including the version played by Mads Mikkelsen on NBC's brilliant Hannibal - has continued to endure as one of pop-culture's most iconic villains.
Killing his victims, mutilating their corpses and displaying their remains in a theatrical manner, Lecter doesn't seem even slightly disturbed or put off by his heinous crimes, and instead, it's almost like he's just going shopping for a fine cut of meat. It's all so pedestrian to him, and it's frightening to consider that someone can carry out such gruesome and disturbing acts without feeling a shred of remorse.
Regardless, Hannibal is someone who, strangely, is possible to admire. There's a seductive quality to not just the overall look and feel of the show, but to Hannibal himself; he's such a sophisticated and well-mannered gentleman - murder aside - that you might even find yourself respecting him, in much the same way that people admire the elegance of the upper-class.
Hannibal is a man of taste and he hates things that are dull or banal, and on some twisted level, there’s something about that which plants you firmly on his side, even though the things he does cannot, in all good sense, be justified.