Vote for 2016’s Best New Villain
It’s time for the Yahooies, Yahoo TV’s second annual reader-voted awards honoring the best — and sometimes worst — of 2016. Each day through Dec. 16, we will announce the nominees for one category, with an accompanying poll. The winners will be crowned Monday, Dec. 19.
The nominees for Best New Villain of 2016 are…
Chad, The Bachelorette
The reality show villain has become a television trope, but Chad turned up the villainy dial to 11. He was absolutely the most talked-about contestant of the season, and often it seemed like he was the star of the show instead of JoJo Fletcher. Whether he was chomping on deli meat or lugging around protein powder or staring down the other men, Chad was entertaining. For us, that made him there for the right reasons. — Kelly Woo
Kimble Hookstraten (Virginia Madsen), Designated Survivor
You know who isn’t named Kimble Hookstraten? Someone who has no grand political ambitions, who doesn’t think she should be the president instead of the guy who had been demoted earlier on the day he became POTUS, someone who doesn’t argue with the POTUS at every turn and collude with others who also wish the POTUS to fail. Really … you name someone, even someone fictional, “Kimble Hookstraten” and you’re really telling the world, “This is someone for whom spying and machination-ing is like breathing and walking.” Just how wicked will K. Hook prove to be? It’s one of the show’s most compelling ongoing questions. — Kimberly Potts
Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine), Stranger Things
Maybe the most terrifying thing about the mad scientist was how he had Eleven calling him “Papa.” No father would subject his child to the secret experiments that Eleven had to go through, which resulted in her contacting the Demogorgon and opening up the Upside Down. Maybe his plan was to spy on Russians, or maybe he had something more nefarious in mind. This is definitely not a candidate for Dad of the Year. — KW
Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), The Walking Dead
As we said when Jeffrey Dean Morgan was nominated for Best Scene-Stealer of 2016, as Negan, the bat-swinging sadistic Saviors leader, he takes innocuous things like whistling, nursery rhymes, and corny phrases such as “easy peasy lemon squeezy” and supercharges them with fear, intimidation, and viciousness. Negan rules with an iron fist, demands discipline and devotion, and has no problem doling out twisted punishments that never end, including scarring faces forever with hot irons, taking your wife as his own, or killing someone you love while you watch (Glenn, #neverforget!). — Carrie Bell
The Man in Black (Ed Harris), Westworld
Some villains are born bad, and some have badness thrust upon them. William belongs to the latter strain; first entering the park as a white-hatted hero, he descends into black-hatted depravity over the course of three decades playing Westworld’s game. The scariest thing about him is that he knows exactly what kind of evil he’s capable of … and doesn’t seem to care. — Ethan Alter
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