Game of Thrones: The 50 Best Villains

There are a lot of bad eggs in Westeros. These fifty are the best of the worst.
Game Of Thrones Villains

40. Rorge & Biter

Who’s Your Baddie

Two bad eggs forcibly recruited into the Night’s Watch & Lannister army

Why They’re The Worst
  • So bad they have to be kept in a cage
  • Frequently threaten to assault Arya
  • Pillaging innocent peasants
Last Seen

Murdered by Arya and the Hound in Season 4


39. Grand Maester Pycelle

Who’s Your Baddie

Grand Maester who has served plenty of kings, but especially loves the Lannisters

Why They’re The Worst
  • Sycophant
  • Complicit in the death of Jon Arryn
  • Tried to euthanize King Robert Baratheon before Lord Eddard could speak with him
  • Treacherous coward
  • Frequently betrays his vow of celibacy
  • Fakes a stammer when convenient
Last Seen

Murdered by Qyburn’s “little birds”


38. Kraznys mo Nakloz

Who’s Your Baddie

Wealthy slave-trader who grew rich training and trading the Unsullied

Why They’re The Worst
  • Raises child soldiers
  • Slices a nipple off to prove a point
  • Frequently insults Daenerys in Valyrian, not knowing that she speaks Valyrian
Last Seen

Burned alive by Drogon


37. Locke

Who’s Your Baddie

Man-at-arms and Roose Bolton’s “best hunter”

Why They’re The Worst
  • Attempts to rape Brienne
  • Chops off Jamie’s sword hand
  • Makes Jamie wear his hand around his neck and drink horse urine
  • Makes Brienne fight a bear with a stick
  • Attempted murder of Bran
Last Seen

Neck snapped by Hodor (warg’d by Bran)


36. Catspaw Assassin

Who’s Your Baddie

Assassin sent to kill Bran Stark

Why They’re The Worst
  • Attempts to murder a child who is in a coma
  • No qualms about also attempting to murder Catelyn Stark
Last Seen

Being mauled by Summer


35. Alliser Thorne

Who’s Your Baddie

Master-At-Arms and sass master at Castle Black.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Torments Jon Snow
  • Admits to having engaged in cannibalism
  • Hates all wildlings
  • Orchestrates the murder of Jon Snow
Last Seen

Hung by Jon Snow for treason


34. Oznak zo Pahl

Who’s Your Baddie

The Masters’ most flamboyant, foul-mouthed champion.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Uses familial clout to get away with murder
  • Insults Unsullied by urinating in their general direction
Last Seen

Being decapitated and urinated on by Daario Naharis


33. Sons of the Harpy

Who’s Your Baddie

Insurgency group who oppose Daenerys’ rule in Meereen.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Fucking love slavery
  • Cowards who wear masks
  • Murder many civilians
  • Destroy every ship in Meereen’s harbor
Last Seen

Quashed by Daenerys’ horde in Season 6


32. Randyll Tarly

Who’s Your Baddie

Lord of Horn Hill; father of Samwell; stick up butt.

Why They’re The Worst
  • Calls Samwell’s interest in books “womanly”
  • Told son he would kill him and make it look like an accident if he didn’t take the Black
  • Considers wildlings to be sub-human
  • Generally a xenophobic dirtbag
Last Seen

Executed by Drogon for refusing to bend the knee for Daenerys for being a foreigner


31. Pyat Pree

Who’s Your Baddie

Shifty warlock from Qarth

Why They’re The Worst
  • Assists in the Qarth coup
  • Steals the dragons
  • Intends to keep Daenerys chained up in a house of smoke and mirrors for all eternity
Last Seen

Forgets not to stand in the line of fire of a dragon’s business end and gets roasted


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