Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Every Character Ranked Worst To Best

Every show needs an entertaining a-hole, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's The Vulture is the quintessential awful but brilliant antagonist. Appearing sporadically throughout the show, Detective Pembroke is hated by everyone in the series due to his boundless narcissism, selfishness, sexist comments and general lack of human decency.

This might make him sound utterly detestable - which, truth be told, he is - but between Dean Winters' scene stealing performance and The Vulture's knack for getting what he deserves, he's also one of the show's best-ever characters.

Smarmy, cruel, pathetic and manipulative - he is all of these things and more. But he's also very funny and works brilliantly as a thorn in the 99's side.

With the final season on the way, it would be remiss if the show failed to give The Vulture a fitting sendoff, because for all his awful qualities he's one of the best and most consistently hysterical characters in the series.