Mines have to be Celeste Price in Tampa. Absolutely disturbing individual. I don’t why but I’ve always found protagonist’s who could easily be the antagonist of a story interesting to read as main characters. Maybe it’s because I’ve always found characters that are bad people open up more interesting themes in stories. So I would like to see what other characters that y’all read that is evil in your mind. Evil characters are interesting because they are in depth and motivated and have complex backstories. Their motivations can stem from personal traumas, moral ambiguity, or a desire for power or revenge. This complexity can make them more intriguing to analyze and understand. This can make them compelling subjects for character study and storytelling.
Celeste Price is disturbing in how she does not care who she hurts in the process in getting what she wants, she is a high school teacher who preys on her middle school student and takes advantage of her position of power over her students.
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The Judge in Blood Meridian, by Cormack McCarthy.
Humbert Humbert from Lolita
The protagonist of The Wasp Factory
Humbert Humbert probably.
I don’t think she holds a candle to other answers, but June Hayward in Yellowface was awful in such a mundane way.
if we go by actual effect on the world, probably Dune, since the protagonist leads a space war with casualties in the billions
in motivations, probably Macbeth. the kind of guy who **would** do anything to get power. I also hold a special dislike for Frank Chalmers from Red Mars, but I’m not sure I’d call him ‘evil”
Dorian Grey is also pretty evil, not in *effect* but just out of sheer commitment to the bit imo. Plus the way he just kills >!Basil!<, blackmails the guy to hide the body (who then >!kills himself too!<), AND the girl who offs herself because of him. Idk it’s just way more “real” than many other characters.
Maybe sand Dan glokta. He has a lot of trauma left over from being tortured and uses that to torture other people to get false confessions and what not.