Women Who Are The Best At Being Bad: Our Favorite Villainesses, Baddies and Lady Evil Doers

Continuing our streak of bringing new perspectives for Women’s History Month, this week several of our women writers put their minds to this one: Who’s your favorite woman villain? Who does the best killing, back stabbing, and betrayals? Who just makes you want to be BAD? Here’s a few of our favorites. Add yours in the comments or on Twitter. Hela Marvel Studios’ THOR: RAGNAROK..Hela (Cate Blanchett)..Ph: Film Frame..©Marvel Studios 2017 The villain that tickles my fancy, just gets me going, is the goddess of death herself Hela. Now I’m talking MCU Hela, that decadently seductive evil for evil sake First born of Odin, sister to Thor and Loki and all around badass. Played by the incomparable Cate Blanchett – Can this woman do no wrong? Oh yes she can do wrong and do it oh. so. well. She pulled Thor’s hammer right out of the air and crushed it like a snack bag of potato chips. Smirking like “oh were you using that?” She walks into Asgard with a lean 45 degrees cocked hip and says, honey I’m home! Murks the baddest soldiers, does a backward flip super villain landing, raises the dead with the eternal flame, AAAND has a recruitment meeting with her new executioner before lunch. Girl is a beautiful terror — so bad the only way to stop her was to bring on Armageddon. I may not be able to be a part of your army, but I sure as hell would watch you burn the world anytime. — Aisha Cersei Lannister

This next villain is not the one I love to hate — I just straight up despise this wom…