The Simpsons: 10 Best Villains Ever
1. Sideshow Bob
Mr. Burns may be perfect for your everyday, overarching bad guy in Springfield villain, but the fact Sideshow Bob has tried to murder multiple members of the Simpsons family means he simply has to come out on top.
His attempts to kill Bart are well known, as is his tattoo of ‘Die Bart, Die’ (German, of course, for ‘The Bart, The’), but he’s tried his hand at Lisa and Selma too. It’s particularly troublesome that he describes his feelings to Lisa as ‘somewhat indifferent’, despite having turned his murderous rage on her before too. Let’s not forget that he tried to blow up the town with an atomic bomb as well.
In many ways, Bob is the perfect symbol for the show’s evolution as a whole; as he only appears once every couple of seasons, changes are more drastic. He’s gone from robbing the Kwik-E-Mart and framing Krusty to trying to kill Bart for revenge, and that all seemed to fit with your typical Simpsons story.
Since then though we’ve seen the atomic bomb saga, watched him become a Tuscan mayor, recruit his family as murder accomplices, and even one gross story where he escapes from prison by cutting off his own face.
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