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[veliseraptor]

Top 5 villainesses

oooh let's see here

1. Morgana Pendragon (Merlin BBC). Deserved better than the show she was stuck in. I think perhaps I am different from some Morgana fans in that I actually am about her villain turn, I just think it could've been handled better - but still. I love her and not just because she has Katie McGrath's face, though that doesn't hurt.

2. Clytemnestra (Greek Mythology). #wasright but she's a villain if you ask the Greeks, so. Specifically as represented in Aeschylus's Agamemnon, where I'm not sure she's meant to be sympathetic but she is to me.

3. Catra (She-Ra). I mean, she doesn't stay a villain forever but I fell in love with her as one. She's perfectly engineered for me, tbh. Tragic backstory, motivated by fear, has an intimately close relationship to the protagonist that's part of her motivation as well...I only cosplay characters I really bond with and she qualified.

4. Lucille Sharpe (Crimson Peak). I love her! She's vicious and vengeful and traumatized and hurting. Hurt people hurt people embodied. The incest just adds spice. Still stand by Lucille/Edith as shoulda been canon, also, just by the by.

5. Nebula (MCU). Another "doesn't stay a villain but I actually loved her most when she was" one. Look, insecure/neglected younger sibling acting out their anguish with rage is a thing for me and that's where Nebula was at as a villain. Absolute me-bait. I might have fallen out with the MCU but there are still some characters I love a lot and Nebula remains one of them.

I'm not totally sure she counts but since she definitely starts out as one and for some people that's where she says I'm going to go with Minthara Baenre as my bonus round. she's just great and I love her soooo much.

Honorable mentions also to Medea, Semirhage, and Astrid Beck. I guess maybe also Alicent Hightower if we count her as a villainess.