There are some TV characters that leave an indelible mark on our hearts—by filling it with a seething hatred hotter than a thousand suns.
Recently, website Ranker decided to catalog these awful personalities by polling the internet about their most loathed characters ever.
And while some of the results were predictable, universally-reviled garbage people, some of the other names that appeared on the list are downright weird.
Most hated TV characters, according to over 20,000 votes:\n\n1\ufe0f\u20e3 Joffrey Baratheon\n2\ufe0f\u20e3 Ramsey Bolton\n3\ufe0f\u20e3 Skyler White\n4\ufe0f\u20e3 Shou Tucker\n5\ufe0f\u20e3 Cersei Lannister\n6\ufe0f\u20e3 Livia Soprano\n7\ufe0f\u20e3 Todd Alquist\n8\ufe0f\u20e3 The Governor\n9\ufe0f\u20e3 Caillou\n\ud83d\udd1f Rachel Berry\n\nLori Grimes, Dora, Barney & Petyr are among the top 25.\u2026— (@)
The top spot went to Joffrey Baratheon, one of the truly awful central characters of HBO's Game of Thrones. Most agreed that his spot was well deserved.
@DiscussingFilm big shout out to the Joffrey Baratheon actor, Jack Gleeson - he came into Hollywood, shot 4 seasons of Game of Thrones, and left the industry as one of the most impactful villains of all time. respect!— (@)
But not everyone agreed—some felt the show's Ramsey Bolton, who came in at #2 on Ranker's list, should've bested Joffrey by a mile.
Others in the top 10 who made total sense to pretty much everyone were baddies like The Governor from The Walking Dead, yet another villain from Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister, and every parent's nightmare, the whiny titular character from PBS's Caillou.
But others were downright befuddling. Like Skyler White, Walter White's long-suffering wife on Breaking Bad, who ranked higher than the same show's Todd Alquist, a literal Nazi who murders kids—and that's not even the worst thing he did.
This left people pretty indignant, since the only real justification for hating Skyler White more than Todd Alquist is good old-fashioned misogyny.
And the list only gets weirder the further down it you go, like the baby dinosaur from the obscure 90s sitcom Dinosaurs and, for whatever reason, Stephen Colbert, who isn't even a TV character but rather... Stephen Colbert.
People definitely had a lot of opinions about practically every entry on the list.
Anyway, Ranker's list has changed since the viral top 10 that circulated over the weekend, and it's arguably even weirder now. But at least there has been justice for Skyler White, who's fallen out of the top 10.
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