10 Horror TV Shows Where The Hero Became The Villain

A brilliant criminal profiler with an almost supernatural ability reconstruct crime scenes who becomes the target of the most famous cannibal in the history of pop culture - has there ever been a more complex character in the history of horror-based television than Hannibal's Will Graham?

Will was never an angel by any stretch of the imagination. Hugh Dancy's tortured lead readily admits that he enjoyed his first kill - dispatching a deranged serial killer by the name of Garrett Jacob Hobbs. With that being said, the moralistic depths he proceeds to plumb as the magnificent series plays out make this chilling admission seem like child's play.

Will's insidious relationship with Hannibal, his permanently compromised mental state, and a stint in prison for a series of murders he did not commit for good measure, have an irreparable effect on Dancy's character. Will's moral boundaries steadily dissolve across the course of show's run, as the lines between reality and delusion become more and more blurred - to the point where he ultimately becomes complicit in several gruesome murders himself.

Will never enters fully fledged villain territory but to say that this is a character who operates in morality's grey areas would be understatement of the century. He may be a good man at heart, but Hannibal's exploitation of the darker side of his psyche means that one would be hard pushed to call him a hero by the time the finale rolls around.