Riverdale: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best

23. Hal Cooper

The very definition of a useless father, Hal Cooper moaned and groaned his way through the first season as he collided with Alice and his children over just about everything. From "Listen to your mother Betty" to his refusal to listen to his own children, he was very much a caricature of an indifferent father from decades-gone-by.

However, he then received a bit of an origin-rewrite when the show decided to have him become the murderous Black Hood. While it certainly made Hal a more interesting character, the problem here was that he wasn't all that interesting to begin with, so if the show hoped that he would suddenly become more enticing just because he was a serial killer, it isn't hard to see why the played-out narrative flopped in the end. Throw in the fact that he became even more one-dimensional in Season 3 and, well, you get the point.

From cardboard cutout to caricature (and back again), Hal Cooper should have been more of a well-rounded character to begin with, but the lack of solid foundations made him the show's least interesting villain so far.