Hey guys, we kinda touched base on this on another comment but I thought we could go more in depth here! I hope WickedBinge on youtube does Most Evil Walking Dead Villain one day but till then lets hash it out here!
It's probably best to base your choice on the overall leaders of hostile groups becuase it's usually their actions and orders that influence other notbale members of their groups to do evil! (ie Dante, Martin, Jed, Merle etc) Even those with reedeming traits can be counted given the enormity of their actions.
I've decided to change my opinons a little from the other comment and in my mind here are the top 10 most evil characters:
1) Alpha: Queen of the Whisperers she is definetly the most evil of all the others, she enjoys killing and exerting dominance over others and her primitative ways of survival are just sick...... even her cruelty to her own group makes her even worse as she doesn't care for them at all and will kill them whenever they challenge her or are an inteference (like baby Adam) Also her willingness to exterminate the Coalition and hundreds of people just cause she hates her daughter for her betrayel is utterly evil and shows how crazy and bloodthirsty she is...... she will he hard to top thats for sure!
2) Simon: Negan's former right-hand and briefly the leader of the Saviors, Simon is just an evil, sadistic mass murderer who like Alpha loves killing and exerting his dominance over other groups.... we never even learn what made him this way, he's just evil from the get go and becomes worse and worse when he becomes displeased with Negan's decisions.... Negan has boundaries that Simon is more than willing to cross such as murdering children... pretty twisted. While he's almost as evil as Alpha I doubt he would ever resort to desperate measures such as wearing walker skin to blend in..... so that's why he's second only to her. Still though one of the greatest villains ever seen...
3) Beta: Alpha's right hand and now the leader of the Whisperers (de-facto) he is just as evil as Alpha and possibly even more dangerous as he is a tank and according to Lydia the most vital member of the group... however he is lower than Simon and Alpha because Alpha is kind of what made him what he is... she found him alone and crazy in a hospital and convinced him to conform to her barbaric ways of survival.... so had Alpha never met him im certain he wouldn't be what he is now..... regardless Beta is cruel, evil, intellgient and destructive... god only knows what horror he is about to unleash on the Coalition for Alpha's death......
4) Owen: The leader of the Wolves, he's the first person on this list to have reedeming qualities such as when he saved Denise and gave his life to save her when he easily could have escaped...... however this does not make him a good person and this one act of good does not absolve him of his previous atrocities.... he and his group are savage animals and I believe are second only to the Whisperers in savagness and they are far worse then Gareth and the cannibals.... they kill people with smiles on their face, set deadly traps to kill others, attack communites head on and are pure psychos... we don't really even learn when made them this way besides their philosohpy of being descded from Wolves.... . so Owen is still one of the most evil characters on the show due to the way of life of him and his people... hell had Morgan not taken him as a captive he probably would have went on slaugtering innocents.....
5) Joe: The leader of the Claimers..... yes I think he is more evil than Gareth and the Governor... why?? Because he has no justifiaction for what he and his men do! They are murderers and rapists who go around causing havoc for havoc sake...... they seemed to have been baddies even before the outbreak (such as Dan) and simply enjoy the freedom to give into their worst inclinations... they have raped god knows how many women (and maybe children) and killed countless others.... Joe is clearly crazy but he is calm, patient and intelligent and a formidable person and cold blooded murderer and overall pure evil......
6) Gareth: The leader of Terminus..... Gareth is one evil prick but he actually has reasons for why he became this way... his group was tomrented by the Crazed man and his bandits for god knows how long and this is what made them psychos.... however the fact they resorted to cannibalism is what makes them so evil and deadly.... cannibalism is pretty sick and why of all measures would they choose this?? just for easy food and supplies.... pretty twisted.... they've killed proably hundreds of people and maybe even kids and overall are one of the most dangerous groups encountered so far..... after the Wolves and Whisperers for sure
7) Jocelyn: Although she is only seen briefly I'd say she is the second most evil female character on the show... only after Alpha! Something drove her insanse and thus she decided to turn young children into killers to ensure their survial... no way noble as she is essnetially creating psychos like the ones above and god only knows what she did to these kid's parents as they were likely kidnapped.... what she did to these kids is just awful and this makes her worse then the Governor for sure.... plus what she did to Michonne.. her former best friend..... is even worse than what Shane did to Rick... branding her heavily pregnant friend like an animal and kidnapping her adoptive daughter and she surely would have killed Michonne given the chance.... Jocelyn is savage and toally insane.....and pure evil....
8) The Governor: Hand's down one of the most evil men ever encounetered on the show and one of the most popular villains on the show however compared to other villains that have been introduced the Governor seems slack... yes he is crazy and has killed maybe hundreds of people and his own allies but overall the loss of his daughter I feel is what made him this way and is why he became what he is... (Milton even implied he was a good person before this happened) also he actually wanted his people to survive in a peaceful setting at first (like Woodbury) and seemed to actually care about his people..... until they refused to aid him in his mission of killing Rick's group however compared to other leaders like Alpha, Owen and Gareth his ways of survival are less severe... he just ambushes camps and people and brutally murders them and takes what he wants while the others are even more savage and resort to even more despicable ways to stay alive... the Governor is shown be caring of others such as Tara's family and he seemed to cool down in Season 4 at first and gave Rick a chance to leave the prison and not kill anyone.... still though he is a sick, evil dictator and surpasses Negan in evil and cruelty for sure.... compared to the people above though I rank him lower cause his ways of surval are less barbaric.... for the most part....
9) Tomas and Andrew: These two go together cause they are the same men essentially... two deadly criminals who I'm sure were both killers before the apoclypse.... Tomas was just a bad person through and through and barely even an hour after meeting Rick tried to kill him twice to take the prison for himself and his group.... Andrew was single handidly able to nearly kill everyone in the prison and caused T-Dog and Lori to suffer terible deaths... it's easy to forget about these two now but they were both very dagerous men...
10) Shane Walsh: Shane is controverisal and tricky to caregorize compared to the ones above... however what makes him so evil is his actions towards Rick given their friendship and them being practicly brothers..... Shane was overall the first character on the show to devolve into a brutal survivor willing to make the hard call however he is noble in his intentions and legitmatley wanted the group to be safe and learn to be strong surviors themselves.... however given Rick was the protagonist when Shane was around Shane's oppostion to Rick makes him the antagonist and the fact he was going to murder him just to take Lori, Carl and Judith for himself was pretty cruel and a complete betrayel...... Shane's willingess to sacrifice his own allies (such as Otis) goes to show that had he lived and killed Rick he would have gotten others killed just to protect Lori, Carl and Judith.... who knows what he would've turned into eventially but he was overall evil for good reasons...... still a villain and he indeed became a monster..... and he ranks higher then others due to his relationship to Rick and his evil early on in the apoclypse....
And no more Negan cause I feel he has fully redeemed himself..... he has had many opputities to return to his former evil ways but he has igonred those and done legit good things such as saving Judith and Aaron and killing Alpha.... he is not an antagonist anymore and his past cruelty can be overlooked for the most part......
What do you guys think???