That was a one off thing and is in no way characteristic of Frank Underwood.
(BTW, you just gave away a major spoiler for people who haven’t watch S2 yet.)
That’s a pretty good one. He delighted in wielding his personal power accorded by his blackmail material to do disgusting things to people. Pissing in Holmes’ fireplace and licking the face of that senior government official were given as run of the mill examples of his dastardliness.
She’s not evil. Sure, she’s determined, and she makes some rough choices, even takes some bad actions in the name of good. But she’s not evil.
Even Admiral Helena Cain wasn’t evil, and she was much closer than Roslin ever got.
Now Tom Zarek, I might give you evil for him. Of course, he sanctions the elimination of cylon sympathizers by secret trials, so violence is in his methods.
John Cavill is pretty evil, but cylons are fond of violence.
I don’t know that I would call them evil. Manipulative to further their anti-American goals, but not evil.
Plus, they’re not above violence. Like blackmailing the cleaning lady to plant a bug on the Secretary of State by poisoning her son, or abducting a former Soviet Jew to use his knowledge. Abducting a former Soviet spy who defected to the US was particularly violent.
He was absolutely evil in the pilot episode. In fact, I think you can hear the trace of an accent in his limited dialog because he was clearly supposed to be a future Cold War spy. And he tried to sabotage the ship to not just go off course (i.e. be ‘Lost in Space’) but to self-destruct! He just didn’t leave himself enough time to escape.
Any of this of course only applies to the first B&W season. Once the show switched to color he just became a mincing buffoon. Comedy relief rather than a real villain (actually this started towards the end of the first season).
It’s not on me to prove that she isn’t evil, unless you subscribe to a theory that all women are inherently evil by possessing a vagina or something. You are the one that has to demonstrate that she is evil, and you haven’t done so. Not even close.
In the first few minutes of this ep of NewsRadio, Dave resolves to become Pure Evil.
You mentioned Dave Foley, which brought to mind Simon.
Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito) on Taxi.
More evil than Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia?
Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck.
Frank is pretty violent, though. He carries a gun everywhere and isn’t afraid to use it. He shot that promising football player in the leg, sucker punched his old boxing nemesis (and inadvertently paralyzed his daughter), just to name a few things.
For the purposes of this thread, I’m considering Veridian Dynamics from Better off Ted as a character, as the show frequently treats “the company” as a sentient, malevolent force. Failing that, the high up manager Chet is pretty evil (though it’s implied he once beat someone with a golf club, it’s never shown on screen).
True, you don’t have to prove anything, because as you point out it’s my assertion, my burden of proof. I was just curious of your opinion.
And since I don’t really want to argue or debate over a silly tv show, I’ll say you’re right. She’s not evil. Still terrible though.
Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) from the pilot and first half-season of Fantasy Island. His character was supposed to be the devil, before they turned him into a benevolent lesson-giver.
Agree with Barking Dog. I think Leonard’s mother is the most evil character on tv. She is a sociopath smart enough to masquerade as a real human being, worse than any of the serial killers, because she can carry out her tortures in plain sight, and even pass them off as mothering. I wouldn’t be surprised if she turned out to have a freezer full of the corpses of her students and admirers of her books in a meat locker somewhere. That character is so repugnant, I can’t even watch the actress in other parts anymore, and I used to like Christine Baranski.
Jane Wyman’s character on Falcon Crest. It was 30 years ago, and I can’t even remember the character’s name (Angela Channing, apparently), but I still remember her as the epitome of pure evil. There was one scene in which she told her injured nephew that his mother was dead that felt to me like the cruelest thing I had ever seen.
OK, kvetchy Jewish mom (Rhoda’s) is not evil, just annoying. (Maybe Mary’s mother wasn’t evil, per se.) But it seems to me with all the REAL evil mothers in the world, the REAL abusive assholes, it seems to be the pearls- and- little -designer- suit (with long bangs and a blunt cut highlighted bobbed hairstyle), who just SCREAM “W.A.S.P.”, that are regarded by their kids as the Devil incarnate. Their worse characteristics seem to be drinking too many martinis or passive-aggressively insulting their offspring. “Oh, MOTHER! You are driving me CRAZY!” “Now, dear, if only you would lose a few pounds and date that nice Smith boy…”
More than never, less than twice. It’s a pretty common word, though I suppose if one was a native Spanish speaker he might confuse it for 11 when written.
She’s a lot like Sheldon, isn’t she?
I know it’s a literary series too, but still, Nellie on Little House on the Prairie was pure evil.
Not sure if evil qualifies, but Q from ST:TNG lacked any human qualities associated with good.
This is an excellent one. The scene where she goes to the psychiatrist wanting to moan about how hard her life is, and the shrink basically tells her to go fuck herself and her blood money and her indulgent self-pity, is fantastic. Carmella acts as an essential support for her murderous husband, and she knows she does so, and she does it for money. I’d almost disqualify her for violence by proxy, since she enables her husband so, but not quite.
Oh, you’re no fun at all. 
I agree that she’s a terrible person, and not one I’d want in my family.