9 Most Manipulative Characters In TV History

"A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it."

The Godfather of black gold, JR Ewing is prepared to make any deal in order to stay on top in the cutthroat Texan oil industry.

Whether foe or apparent friend, no-one is safe from Ewing's machinations. Over the course of Dallas, Ewing is perfectly happy to screw-over, undercut, threaten and demean anyone he deems to be in his way. This includes his own sister-in-law, for whom he secures an arrest warrant.

Ewing's final power-play catapults him into the very upper echelons of manipulative TV bastards. Ewing manages to frame his long-term nemesis, indsutry investigator Cliff Barnes, for his own murder, turning his terminal cancer in to one last ace-in-the-hole. Manipulating people and events in death, the devious and delightful tycoon proved true to his nature right until the end, and beyond.