10 TV Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won
4. Chris Keller - Oz
HBO's legendary prison drama Oz is a show that had few happy endings on offer, though did basically hand a pyrrhic victory to psychopathic serial killer Chris Keller (Christopher Meloni).
Easy though it is for the audience to buy into his prison romance with protagonist Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen), there's no denying that Keller is an emotionally manipulative abuser.
Case in point, when Beecher is paroled in the sixth and final season, a lonely Keller arranges for Beecher to get caught buying drugs, thereby breaking his parole and causing him to get sent back to Oz.
The season ends with Keller attempting to win back Beecher's favour, and upon realising he won't ever be able to, he commits suicide, throwing himself off a balcony and staging it to frame Beecher for the act.
In an ultimate feat of petty revenge, this ensures that Beecher will remain in jail for the foreseeable future, but Keller's posthumous vengeance quest doesn't just stop there.
Keller also arranged for anthrax to be delivered to the mailroom run by the Aryans, killing all of them and resulting in the prison's evacuation, which is implied to be permanent.
Keller may have died, but in one fell swoop he got to flip the bird at his former lover, the a**hole Aryans, and even the prison industrial complex itself. If that ain't winning within the context of this bleaker-than-bleak show, what is?