While some TV villains are memorable because they’re tragic, complex, charismatic, or influential, others linger in viewers’ brains simply because they are really, really evil.

Over the past 25 years, a handful of series antagonists have etched their names in television infamy, not just for their on-screen misdeeds, but for their complete absence of remorse, empathy, or moral compass. These TV villains aren’t just cruel — they're totally irredeemable.

Two standout examples hail from HBO’s Game of Thrones : the spoiled and sadistic boy-king Joffrey Baratheon, and the monstrous Ramsay Bolton. Both high fantasy bad guys gleefully relish in torture (both physical and psychological), brutality, and their flagrant abuses of power, making them some of the most hated antagonists on a TV show

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