Classic Villain / Live-Action TV

• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance has SkekSo, The Emperor of the Skeksis. A psychotic despot who represents Ambition, Greed and Pride.
• From Dexter, the Big Bad of the first Season, Brian Moser. His sins are Greed and Envy. He desires a closer bond with his younger brother and desires to eliminate anyone who comes between them.
• Doctor Who
  • The Master has been repeatedly described as the Doctor's equal and opposite. Pride and creeping madness are what defines him, and motivate him to seek to dominate the entire Universe. Originally conceived as a suave, Wicked Cultured manipulator to foil to the Doctor's more hands-on approach, he became a twisted, physically deformed and Wrathful creature in the Tom Baker years driven by nothing but destroying the Doctor, then returned to a more unstable form of his original suave incarnation in the 1980s. Recently he's changed into a more active, childish and visibly aggressive character (again, to reflect the changes in The Doctor's character). This might be explained by the fact that he's going more and more insane (culminating in Joker-level craziness). The two's similarity is lampshaded multiple times throughout the show, even by them.
  • Lady Cassandra fits this archetype really well in The End Of The World, being defeated in a rather climatic way by The Doctor for pushing him too far in her plot to seek power in order to extend her lifespan as a "pure" human, putting other people in danger because according to her, they aren't even human either way, forcing him to finish her off. Because of this, a great part of her motivation in New Earth is getting revenge on the Doctor and Rose. She is a very good foil to Rose, having the wealth and charisma that she lacks, but ironically lacking Rose's humanity herself. Since she ends up possessing Rose's body, she turns into something like an evil alter-ego of sorts to Rose for a short time, acting in a more provocative way towards The Doctor and being much more straightforward and honest when it comes to acting in accordance to her feelings towards him. As Cassandra points out, Rose has been looking and while Cassandra takes the blame, It's obvious she was heavily influenced by Rose's heart too, with both girls enjoying the kiss. So the vices related to Cassandra's persona are pride, greed, wrath, lust and ambition.
  • Davros is the other notable archvillain The Doctor has (not counting the countless species that hate him). This man is made of Pride and insanity, even more so than the Master. He is repeatedly betrayed by his own creations, the Daleks because he cannot conceive of them judging him inferior to them, even though he himself programmed them to see any non-Dalek as inherently inferior and worthy only of destruction. To that is added his idea that destruction is the only expression of power: when asked whether or not he would wipe out all life in the Universe should he have that power, he declared that he would without hesitation, since in his mind, such an exercise of power would place him above the gods. In the 2005 revival, he planned to destroy The Multiverse in its entirety, for that exact reason.
  • The Great Intelligence's sin is Wrath, for he wants nothing more than vengeance on the Doctor. Best showcased when he tried to enter the Doctor's timestream and undo all of the Doctor's victories, despite the fact that it would mean the destruction of the universe, as well as the death of the Great Intelligence. And as a bonus, Expanded Universe material identifies the Great Intelligence as an alias of Yog-Sothoth.
• Petyr "Littlefinger Baelish from Game of Thrones represents Ambition, Envy and Wrath. Unlike his foil, Ned Stark, Peytr wasn't born into nobility or power and had to earn it. Not to mention being a twisted non-action sociopath.
• Mitsuzane Kureshima of Kamen Rider Gaim. He didn't start out as one, though, starting as a ally to the main hero, but when his darker self got more and more powerful, more uglier traits surfaced, and soon becomes a demonic caricature of a character he was introduced as, culminating into a Quisling to invading aliens from a world-eating forest.
• Smallville:
  • Major Zod in Season 9: Wrath and Pride. Has all the same powers as Clark, inverted: he gains his abilities under a red sun. His British accent marks him as very different from any member of the main cast, as does his fondness for military dress. He eventually gains the same powers as Clark, and at the same time, takes advantage of him while he is infected with Red Kryptonite, then blames him for the death of one of his men. It's all revealed in the finale, when his ego and rage get the better of him. His men abandon him, and he's defeated by Clark in a very brutal Knife Fight.
  • Lex Luthor, even more so: Pride, Wrath and Envy. He fully contrasts Clark by being not only a physically normal (if very skilled and intelligent) human but also exhibits traits that are Clark's complete antithesis.
• Khan from Star Trek: Pride till his wife died on the planet that Kirk left them on, then transformed utterly to Wrath! Befriends the heroes in the original "Space Seed" episode. Done in by his pride in the climax, leading directly to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, much of which takes place in a dangerous yet visually arresting nebula. He and his henchmen have a kind of biker band look going for them in contrast to the heroes' clean-cut Starfleet uniforms. Khan may fit better as a Tragic Villain, with Pride and Wrath as his tragic flaws that overcome his otherwise noble nature and eventually push him past the Moral Event Horizon, sealing his fate. Consider all the similarities between Kirk and Khan (such as their arrogance, loyalty to friends, and protectiveness for those who serve under them).
• Supernatural:
  • Lucifer, obviously, represents Pride, Ambition, and Envy, by wanting to bring upon the Biblical Apocalypse on humanity, out of jealously that his father, God, loves them more than Lucifer. Death even compares him to a "bratty child throwing a temper tantrum", which isn't all far from the truth. Narcissistic and hubristic, Lucifer is the Greater-Scope Villain of the Winchester's lives, with the main misery in their lives all resulting from a decades-long plan to free him from the Cage and bring upon the Apocalypse.
  • Crowley represents Pride and Greed, being a selfish and power-hungry opportunist who worked his way up Hell's hierarchy from a simple demon to Lilith's right-hand man to the King of the Crossroad and eventually becoming the King of Hell himself. He desires power and will do anything to get it, and will go to even further lengths to protect it from those who oppose him. He wants to be feared by every angel and demon, and is not kidding in the least sense if he says that he'll do anything to get what he wants. Best exemplified when he started killing the people whom the Winchesters saved in order to stop them from closing the gates of Hell.
  • Metatron represents Pride and Wrath, as he is incredibly full of himself and self-centered as a result of having been the Scribe of God, and he desires revenge upon all of angelkind due to being forced out of Heaven, leading to him causing the Fall at the end of Season 8 and killing over 1,000 angels. Throughout Season 9, his ego continuously increases while he still retains his affable demeanor, eventually going into full A God Am I mode at the end of it and killing Dean Winchester (but not permanently). And eventually, it is his Pride that becomes his undoing, with Castiel exposing his true intentions to all of Heaven.

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