Top 30 villains in television history

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10. Kai Proctor 

The criminally underrated Banshee had so many complex villains that it’s difficult to not include all of them on this list. However, Kai Proctor remains the main bad guy throughout the series run so it’s only fitting he be the one considered one of the best antagonists throughout history. The former member of an Amish society, he quickly gives up his peaceful life in favor of becoming the leader of the criminal underworld within his small town.

Throughout the show, he maintained a position as one of the most morally complex bad guys. He doesn’t see himself as a criminal, but rather a businessman who is capitalizing on things that people would be doing with or without him. Proctor doesn’t have a taste for random violence, and he only resorts to such a trivial threat when people test his patience. Despite his lifestyle, he actually has quite a rigid sense of morals which is why he finds himself allied with the man trying to take him down often: Lucas Hood.

He sorely misses his family but has a certain degree of contempt for their decisions to be docile in the face of threats. When his nephew is kidnapped, he casually pulls the perpetrator’s teeth from his mouth while the rest of his former family looks on.

Of course, this desire for kinship leads Proctor down a somewhat incestuous path with his promiscuous niece, Rebecca, who also wants to escape the rigidity of Amish life. It’s a shock that Proctor hasn’t become more well-known since the end of Banshee but nevertheless, he’s definitely one of the more interesting characters on television.