Okay, not the worst compared to some of the others mentioned here, but Eddie Haskell always came across to me as a budding sociopath. I fully expected to see him raping nuns and making lampshades from their skin about fifteen years after the show ended.
And I agree about Endora. Derwood was a dick (well, two, actually :D) and treated Samantha terribly. Endora had every right to treat him like crap.
I always found Brenda Leigh Johnson of The Closer pretty despicable – and even worse because she’s playing a “good guy” role. Her passion for punishing the wicked (generally not an admirable thing in itself anyway) crosses well over the line into sadism.
Don’t forget the time when he killed his bully’s parents, made them into chili and got the bully to eat it.
Cliff Barnes from Dallas. What a whiny little bitch.
Louie dePalma from Taxi.
Geez, I know people worse than some of these in real life. But you go around calling them despicable people and someone always jumps up to defend them.
Vic Mackey in The Sheild - not only was he a dirty cop, he committed numerous crimes, got all of his team in a lot of deep shit, and in the end
Walks away nearly scott free while ruining all those around him who supported him
Well, he lured them to their death. He didn’t actually kill them.
Well, see post #55 (re Smith, not Profit).
Not sure if Netflix counts as television, but that’s what I watch it on.
Frank Underwood from House of Cards.
Haven’t seen the American version, but, yeah. The only character to out-evil him is his wife, in the end. It’s like Lady Macbeth, so far from cracking and going mad with guilt, arranged her husband’s death for her own purposes.
Agreed…but her response was not appropriate. She terrorized him, rather than simply reasoning with him and/or Samantha. She made herself an enemy – and a really nasty one – rather than striving for his enlightenment.
A valid moral stance is not sufficient justification for terrorism.
True, but occasionally she even stuck up for him and helped him–like in the very funny episode where he thought Uncle Arthur was teaching him to “cast spells.”
“Yagga-zoozy!”
If think if Darrin had been less of a hardass about letting Samantha be herself, Endora probably would have left him alone. She might not have gone as far as to like him (he is a mortal, after all) but I bet she’d have left him alone. Witches are nearly immortal–by her standards he’d be dead soon anyway.
Anthony Freemont from the Twilight Zone episode It’s Still a Good Life.
Hated Gilligan more. He’s just stoopid stupid.
At least Smith was just a greedy psychopath. I understand that.
Ray’s mother on 'Everyone love Raymond ’ . I couldn’t stand her !
Agent June Stahl, Sons Of Anarchy. What a well deserved end she came to.
Livia Soprano was a good call too and I’d add the Aprile (can’t remember the first name) that Tony’s sister shot.
Really, most of the characters on the Sopranos were despicable at one point or another.
I was going to say Vic Mackie or Ben Linus but since both were taken, I’m gonna go with Gul Dukat.
Master Shake.