Top 30 villains in television history

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25. Miss Lint 

The Tick on Amazon was easily one of the most underrated revivals last year but introduced one of the best villains: Miss Lint. Fans of Jane the Virgin were introduced to excellent character actress Yara Martinez in the first season, but on The Tick, she really comes into her own. As a villain missing her role model and boss, she spends much of the first season unsure of who she is. Once one of the most feared bad guys in the business, she’s resorted to working underneath an idiot named Ramses, who has an obsession with a moth costume.

While The Tick mainly follows the path that sidekick, Arthur, must take in order to be hero, however, it also features the origin story of Lint. She isn’t just a random bad guy who’s hoping to perform evil acts just for kicks, it’s because she has no idea what else to do with her life. The comedy from the series works to make Miss Lint’s existential crisis quite funny even though it’s clear the character is suffering.

By the end of the first half of the season, she has re-embraced her dark side as the rightful heir to The Terror’s throne and kicked Ramses to the curb. Yet, there’s something to be said for how intriguing Ben Edlund crafted Lint’s storyline so that she wasn’t just a generic bad guy. Her reintroduction to evil feels like a triumphant payoff to the origin story originally crafted for her and it’s easy for fans to root for her to take down the men standing in her path of greatness.