SOD: The 10 Greatest Soap Villans of All Time

[Jeff]

#1 DAYS: Stefano DiMera / Joseph Mascolo

#2 GH: Helena Cassadine / Elizabeth Taylor and Constance Towers

#3 B&B/Y&R: Sheila Carter / Kimberlin Brown

#4 GH: Cesar Faison / Anders Hove

#5 AMC: Billy Clyde Tuggle / Matthew Cowles

#6 ATWT: James Stenbeck / Anthony Herrera

#7 GL: Roger Thorpe / Michael Zaslow

#8 OLTL: Mitch Laurence / Roscoe Born

#9 DAYS: Kristen DiMera / Eileen Davidson and Stacy Haiduk

#10 AW: Carl Hutchins / Charles Keating

[AbcNbc247]

Stefano will always be Number One!!!

I’m glad they remembered AW as well. 

[Spoon]

AW John Consadinecas Reginald Love. Should've had a longer run.

[AMCOLTLLover]

Who would put Billy Clyde over Roger Thorpe? Bruh please..

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Edited December 23, 2021 by AMCOLTLLover

[alwaysAMC]

No Janet Green? I know she got comical towards the end (so did Stefano), but she was a great villain during one of AMC's best runs in both quality and in the ratings.  

[Soapsuds]

James Stenbeck Is too low and so is Roger Thorpe.

[Faulkner]

It’s a pretty generic list, even if you could quibble with the placements. Annie Dutton (GL) might not have aired as long as most of these, but I think I’d replace Kristen with her.

An old thread with some interesting choices:

 

[Liberty City]

Some decent choices, but positions are questionable and some glaring omissions.

[titan1978]

Helena was so improperly used.  All threats and no substance to almost her entire run.  Stefano accomplished a lot of evil deeds.  So did Roger- sometimes more shady than outright evil, but still.

Anders Hove has always terrified me as Faison.

[amybrickwallace]

No Grant Harrison???

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[DemetriKane]

Poor Ray Gardner always forgotten. 

[Mona Kane Croft]

Rachel Davis was probably the best villainess ever on any soap opera, and of course she is not included in the list.  This is really just a list of moustache-twirling super-villains (with a few exceptions).   The youthful editors at SOD likely don't even remember old fashioned soap opera archetypal villains like Rachel, Liz Matthews, Lisa Hughes, John Dixon, Phil Brewer, etc.  

[AMCOLTLLover]

I Wonder Why Victor Newman Never makes those lists tbh

[kalbir]

@AMCOLTLLover Victor Newman was introduced as a villain but became an anti-hero.

Edited December 23, 2021 by kalbir

[Jeff]

It's really hard to narrow it down to 10 when there were so many greats out there.

Off the top of my head on Y&R I was thinking the late Darlene Conley's Rose DeVille, and the dude that buried Lauren Fenmore alive.

Santa Barbara fans...Shouldn't there be someone from that show? I can't think. Sherilyn Wolter (Elena Nikolas) comes to mind but her stint was brief.