9. Elmyra Duff (Tiny Toons/Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain)
Elmyra was terrible. Just all out terrible. She had no redeeming qualities: her I.Q. was the same number as the room temperature on a winter's day, her raspy squawk of a voice should be classified as torture under the rules of the Geneva Convention, and please, Warner Bros marketing department, how is a young child who regularly commits animal abuse and uses a skull as a hair accessory meant to be 'endearing'? Because that's the thing, folks: as a villain on Tiny Toons, Elmyra was at least bearable. There was a certain amount of Schadenfreude involved in watching her get bopped, squashed, battered, smacked and generally universally despised. But then she was on a spin-off with Pinky and the Brain? What?! Why that character of all characters? She was A-grade awful! Up until it was mercifully canned after barely a season, never have I empathised so much with Maurice La Marche's Brain, constantly miserable, voice dripping with derision.
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