- Source: List of soap opera villains
A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. In soap operas, the villain, sometimes called a "bad guy", is an antagonist, tending to have a negative effect on other characters. A female villain is sometimes called a villainess or "bad girl". Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot". An early use of the term soap opera villain was in 1942.
Tom Conroy from Media Life Magazine noted that "On soap operas, sometimes a perfectly nice regular character will suddenly turn into a villain. Viewers are rarely alerted to the change beforehand." Shelley Fralic of the Winnipeg Free Press described the "first-class villain" of soap as: "Ruthless magnate. Serial groom. Charming rogue. Unrepentant schemer. Demanding paterfamilias. Defier of death. Tough, impatient, decisive, magnetic and infuriating. The blackest of blackguards." A writer for Inside Soap magazine warned that "soap psychos" are often overly keen on their partners, keep them separated from their families, have strange things hidden in secret rooms, will attempt to kill their partner's ex-partner, and are fond of fire or high places and named a number of characters from EastEnders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street who have behaved in such ways. Debra Hale, writing about the fate of villains for the Associated Press, said that "Sometimes, a villain becomes so evil he's beyond redemption and must be killed or imprisoned", but noted that "some villains are just too delectable to kill." The following lists soap opera characters who have been described as villainous, evil, bad guys or baddies.
All My Children
Another Life
Dan Myers
Ron Washington
Another World
The Archers
Hazel Woolley
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
Brookside
Casualty
Scott Ellison
Tina Mollet
The Colbys
Sable Colby
Zachary Powers
Coronation Street
Crossroads
Ethan Black
Jake Booth
Adam Chance
Brian Noakes
Angel Samson
Dallas
J. R. Ewing
Days of Our Lives
Desperate Housewives
Doctors
Dynasty
Adam Carrington
Alexis Colby
Sable Colby
Dominique Deveraux
E Street
Mr Bad (Stephen Richardson)
Sonny Bennett
EastEnders
The Edge of Night
Raven Alexander Whitney
Eldorado
Marcus Tandy
Emmerdale
Fair City
Billy Meehan
Falcon Crest
Angela Channing
Erin Jones
Joel McCarthy
Family Affairs
General Hospital
Guiding Light
High Road
Jim Hunter
Davie Sneddon
Holby City
Tom Campbell-Gore
Cameron Dunn
Vanessa Lytton
Isaac Mayfield
Jac Naylor
Kelly Yorke
Hollyoaks
Home and Away
Knots Landing
Jill Bennett
Abby Cunningham
Joshua Rush
Greg Sumner
Danny Waleska
Loving
Garth Slater
Neighbours
One Life to Live
Pacific Drive
Trey Devlin
Passions
Norma Bates
Vincent Clarkson
Alistair Crane
Beth Wallace
Prisoner
Joan Ferguson
Red Rock
Patricia Hennesy
Brian McGonigle
The Restless Years
Rita Merrick
Santa Barbara
Gina Blake Lockridge
Keith Timmons
Search for Tomorrow
Estelle Kendall
Shortland Street
Sunset Beach
Eddie Connors
Annie Douglas Richards
Gregory Richards
Texas
Clipper Blake
The Young and the Restless
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