15 Most Monstrous Villains In Television

Once a wicked serial killer and rapist that targeted young women, BOB was reborn as a dybbuk, a spirit of violence, after his death: able to access the physical plane by forcibly possessing the bodies of the living and forcing them to perform horrendous acts of rape, torture and murder upon the people they loved most.

It’s this that fuels Killer BOB, more than ever it did when he committed the acts himself as a living man. The horror that his victims feel as he makes victims of their families and friends through them fills him with joy.

In the events documented in the Twin Peaks television series and prequel film Fire Walk With Me, Bob is found to have been possessing Leland Palmer since he was a young boy. Forced to abuse his daughter Laura throughout her youth until her late teens, Leland’s sanity is gradually whittled away, making it increasingly unclear which demented acts are caused by the dybbuk and which by his rapidly deteriorating host.

Eventually, BOB makes Leland rape and kill Laura, finally driving him entirely insane to BOB’s everlasting delight. When identified and trapped by the authorities, Leland is made to kill himself while in police custody by running headfirst into a metal door.

At the climax of the show, BOB possesses clean-cut protagonist FBI Agent Dale Cooper, with the implication that he’ll simply carry on his decades-long spree of hateful violence and pain by proxy in this new, younger form. It’s not clear if Killer BOB can ever be stopped, or if Cooper can ever be freed from his influence, and the evil hateform remains series creator David Lynch’s most malignant and twisted creations… which is really saying something.

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