Magnificent Bastard / Live-Action TV

"No one sees the perfect con coming, especially inside their own home."

"Wow, you guys have some real trust issues, don't you? Guess it makes sense she didn't tell you. I mean, with the two of you fighting all the time. Of course, if I was one of them - these people that you seem to think are your enemies - what would I do? Well, there'd be no balloon, so I'd draw a map to a real secluded place like a cave or some underbrush - good place for a trap - an ambush. And when your friends got there a bunch of my people would be waiting for them. Then they'd use them to trade for me. I guess it's a good thing I'm not one of them, huh? (Beat) You guys got any milk?"

— Benjamin Linus, Lost, "The Whole Truth"

With a variety of television shows around now and with a medium so long-lasting, it's no surprise TV has brought us a wide cast of fictional characters. Below are the most devious, charming, adaptive and intelligent.

All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!

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The following have their own pages:

Examples

• 24
• Breaking Bad
• Buffyverse
• Cowboy Bebop
• CSI-verse
• DC Comics
  • Arrowverse
  • Batman (1966)
  • Other series
• Disney
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Game of Thrones
• Highlander
• Kamen Rider
• Law & Order
• Lupin III
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Midsomer Murders
• One Piece
• Power Rangers
• Psych
• Resident Evil
• Sherlock Holmes
• Spooks
• Star Trek
• Supernatural
• Super Sentai
• The Twilight Zone
• Ultra Series
• Whoniverse

Individual works:

• A To G
• H To Z

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