The Decade's Best Television Villains
Arthur Mitchell ("The Trinity Killer"), Dexter (2009)
Portrayed By: John Lithgow
Profile: A middle-aged serial killer, family man, teacher and deacon, Mitchell killed in groups of four for over three decades. During last week's season finale, Dexter finally killed Mitchell only to realize that Mitchell had killed his wife Rita first.
Powers: Mastery of the wet cement death, obsessive attention to detail that has allowed him to serial kill for thirty glorious years without being caught.
Weakness: An obsession with cyclical murders, the word "c*nt," controlling his rage, watching women bleed to death in bathtubs, impromptu dance
Teen Choice Award Nominations: No way.
Quote: "If you'd like, I can swing by your house and put an icepick in your husband's head."
Devon Banks, 30 Rock (2006 - 2009)
Portrayed By: Will Arnett
Profile: Jack Donaghy's NBC nemesis and sole competition for position of General Electric CEO. Like Jack, Devon boasts a breathy, deep voice, "hate-respect" for his foe and a thirst for power that led him to befriend Sasha and Malia Obama just to infiltrate the president's inner circle.
Powers: Persuasion and ruthlessness. In season two, Devon claimed that his homosexuality had been cured by the Church of Practicology and proposed to Don Geiss's daughter, Kathy, making him the GE heir apparent. He once sold the "E" in GE to Samsung (making it Samesung) just to keep the company afloat.
Weakness: Clay Aiken
Teen Choice Award Nominations: 0
Quote: "If there's one thing I've learned from you Jack, it's keep your friends close and your enemies so close that you are almost kissing."
Ava Moore, Nip/Tuck (2003 - 2009)
Portrayed By: Famke Janssen
Profile: The strongest of Nip/Tuck's many, many, sociopathic villains, Ava was a malicious life coach who inserted herself in the McNamara family, then seduced Sean and Julia's son Matt. Soon, Matt learned that she was having an incestuous relationship with her own son, Adrian, and then Christian discovered that Ava was actually a transsexual, made female by her surgeon ex-husband Barrett Moore (Alec Baldwin).
Powers: As Christian put it, "You lubricate acid. If I stick my dick up you, it would sizzle off."
Weakness: Limited to seducing young boys, who won't be sexually experienced enough to figure out that she's a transsexual
Leadership Experience: Managed to exert a sensual thrall over nearly every man on the show, and even made out with Julia in a dream sequence.
Claim to Fame: Dubbed the "Rolls Royce of trannies" by a shocked (and kind of turned on) Christian.
Teen Choice Award Nominations: None. This is a little TV-MA.
Quote: "Am I too much of a woman for you?"
Subscribe to the new Movieline on YouTube
Comments
No mention of pro wrestling's greatest villain Paul Heyman?
You guys missed the entire Brock Lesnar era, and looked at it like "oh it's just wrestling", without looking at the brilliance of the performance.
two weeks is not a long time for someone with a job, dick.
I believe Sylar repairs TIME PIECES!!!!! Gosh, doesn't anyone here watch Heroes? 😛
Where the hell is lionel luthor on this list?
Seriously? You saw that the section header was John Lithgow, the Trinity Killer, from the 2009 season of Dexter, and nothing in your brain said that there might be spoilers ahead about the 2009 season of Dexter and perhaps it might be a good idea not to read the rest of the entry?
Dude, sorry for your misfortune. But Movieline is very clearly based in north America, where the Dexter season is over. The site has also been posting week by week episode recaps of seasons of Mad Men and True Blood that are yet to screen on free-to-air elsewhere, without feeling any need to panic-tag the posts as spoilers. The easy way to remain unspoiled is ... wait for it... NOT to read articles/sections that are likely to spoil you. Crazy, I know, but there it is.
Please take responsibility for your own screw-up - relying on others to police the world for you just leads to frustration and disappointment all round, n'est ce pas?
oh, God, another one. Dude: "I scrolled down as fast as I could but I saw it anyway"? STOP READING! Is it so hard? The headline of the section was pretty clear as to what it was about. The Trinity Killer. John Lithgow. Dexter, 2009. Why on earth would you keep reading after that, in an article about the decade's best television villains, if you wanted to remain unspoiled about the details of his villainy?
Don't blame others. Nut up and take some responsibility for your own actions, will you? Spoiler alerts are for things TO COME: movies that (presumably) lots of folks haven't seen, or television shows that are yet to be aired. I live in Australia, for instance, where Dexter S4 has not yet aired. It probably won't for another six months. Should everyone put spoiler alerts on their posts for the next six months? Of course not. If I want to stay spoiler-free, IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY.
Interesting review and i have to agree mostly.
Hey I love Lesnar! Hope he will win!
Hi nice blog i am thinking to buy this now after the good reviews of it. Thanks ill be back to comment on it once experienced it.
Hi nice blog i am thinking to buy this now after the good reviews of it. Thanks ill be back to comment on it once experienced it.
This is good! How did you learn this stuff when you were getting started?
Excellent piece of writing, thanks. Can you expand on the second point in additional detail please?
I wish I would have read your post. But unfortunately the code is messed up on my end. Is it just me? I can barely see the box for leaving comments. You may want to give it a check...
« Previous