Random Evil Anime Villains With The Blackest Hearts (16 items)

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  (#1) Father - 'Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'

  While Shou Tucker is a strong contender for "most evil anime character," in terms of sheer body count, the award has to go to Father. Father is a homunculus who tricked the city of Xerxes into creating the conditions needed for him to acquire godlike powers, wiping out nearly the entire civilization in the process.

  Later, he tries to do a similar thing again, this time with the help of his homunculus children, so that he can become a so-called "perfect being." He sees those around him - even his own children - as expendable tools to help him achieve that end, and has no sense of guilt or remorse for any of the lives he's taken. 
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  (#2) Griffith

  • Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the King, Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey

  Part of what makes Griffith so cruel is that he didn't just attack unsuspecting victims - he betrayed his comrades. The Band of the Hawk was a group of mercenaries who considered Griffith an important friend and ally, and in fact once rescued him from captivity despite the great personal risk they incurred by doing so. Griffith's lust for power was so consuming that when he got the opportunity to become a god called Femto, he willingly sacrificed the lives of just about all of his former friends in the process. Oh, and he assaulted Casca, forcing her lover Guts to watch.

  Why does he do all this? Because he desperately wants to create and rule his own kingdom - likely as a reaction to a childhood marred by extreme poverty.
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  (#3) Frieza

  • Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Plan to Destroy the Saiya-jin, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku, Dragon Ball

  You can't talk about anime villains with hearts of pure coal without talking about Frieza. Frieza is in the business of buying and selling planets, and he couldn't care less about the fates of those planets' inhabitants. In fact, he's the person responsible for blowing up Planet Vegeta, effectively committing genocide against an entire species, for the sole reason that he was worried that their Super Saiyan powers might eventually pose a threat to his power-grabbing schemes.

  Never once does he display a shred of remorse for his actions - instead, he gleefully mocks the survivors of his crimes.
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  (#4) Sōsuke Aizen

  • Bleach

  Sōsuke Aizen is one of the most notorious villains in the world of anime, and part of that is because of his dark, evil heart. When he first appears, he seems to a be a loyal member of Soul Society, but he soon reveals that he's been plotting to overthrow it for a long time. He uses a combination of murder and manipulation in order to further his plans and ultimately has no loyalty to anything but his own quest for power.
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  (#5) Dio Brando

  • Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

  You thought that this list would feature the infamous villain Dio Brando, and you were right, because here's Dio! This all-powerful vampire begins the series by trying to ruin his adoptive brother's life by doing everything from framing him for crimes to burning his dog alive. As the series progresses, his power, cruelty, and ambition only increase.

  One example of his terrible behavior involves promising a woman that he won't eliminate her child, then technically keeping that promise by turning her into a vampire and making her do the deed instead. In fact, Dio is so cruel that one of the only examples of him showing empathy is when he takes his father's life - the reason may have been partially because of how poorly his father treated Dio's mother, rather than solely because of his evil nature. That's not much. 
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  (#6) Overhaul - 'My Hero Academia'

  Overhaul, also known as Kai Chisaki, is the main villain from Season 4 of My Hero Academia, which means that this entry contains some manga-only spoilers.

  Overhaul is a yakuza boss who initially seeks to forge a partnership with the League of Villains. He introduces himself by blasting Magne to bits and critically injuring Mr. Compress. He believes that quirks originated from rats, and that they're actually disgusting sicknesses rather than something that should be valued. He wants to eliminate quirks from the human population and found the opportunity to do so in Eri, a little girl whose cells could be used to create a quirk destroying drug. The only person he ever showed any concern for was his boss - but while he once eliminated anyone who went against his boss, he put him in a coma himself when he refused to accept Overhaul's plan to use Eri, his granddaughter.

  All in all, the man shows not one iota of remorse for his actions and places little to no value on human life. 
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  (#7) The Major

  It's kind of hard to get worse than a villain who was hand-picked by Adolph Hitler for the SS, which is part of why the Major is an absolute must for this list. Aside from standard Nazi wrongdoings which in Hellsing are largely focused on Vampirism, the Major adores war. His gleeful grin whenever he sees other people suffering from the horrific torment he orchestrates for them is all the proof anyone needs to that this man is straight up evil. 
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  (#8) Orochimaru

  • Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds, Ninja World

  Orochimaru kidnaps and experiments on thousands of children, brainwashing and threatening some into being his servants while discarding the bodies of those who don't survive. In a few cases, he even takes over their bodies and lives in them himself. Why do all this? So that he can be immortal, which he apparently needs in order to learn every jutsu in the world.

  What's more, he has no plans to use that information for anyone's benefit except his own. While his horrible deeds don't involve world destruction like those of other Naruto villains, he's one of the few villains who doesn't have an, at least somewhat understandable or forgivable motivation - he's just really freakin' evil. 
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  (#9) Tsunenaga Tamaki

  • Deadman Wonderland

  Tamaki Tsunenaga cares so little about other people that when his own mother was begging for help after being severely injured in an earthquake, all he cared about was protecting his video games. Alongside his father, he created the Deadman Wonderland prison as a real-world game for his amusement. During the game, he pit inmates against one another in horrific deathmatches. Once, when he pit Nagi Kengamine against his pregnant wife, he punished Nagi for throwing the match by slicing open his wife's belly and taking their unborn child as a research subject. The only thing that ever upsets him is when something threatens his sense of fun or ownership over the game - he never spares a thought for the pain he inflicts. 
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  (#10) Junko Enoshima - 'Danganronpa'

  Junko Enoshima is acting out of malice and selfishness, which is what earns her a spot on this list. Because her favorite thing in the world is creating despair and misery, she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen - even organizing survival games that turn innocent people into monsters, and slaying both her twin sister and her love interest after convincing them that she never cared for them in the first place, just to squeeze out the maximum amount of misery before ending them. Junko is sadistic, manipulative, horrifically cruel, and an agent of pure chaos.
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  (#11) Ragyō Kiryūin - 'Kill La Kill'

  Ragyō Kiryūin might have awesome rainbow hair, but she's also utterly cold-hearted and cruel. She had three children for the sole purpose of trying to create a human who was infused with alien life fibers. She had no interest in any of them other than in their utility for her project and was happy to attack them when they opposed her. She abandoned Ryuko when she was a baby, then tried to end her life later, manipulated Nui into sacrificing her life for her benefit, and molested Satsuki while attempting to force her into obedience. 

  What, you ask, was all of this for? To help the life fibers destroy and dominate humanity. With no special promise of glory for herself, her actions are not only horrible, they're also utterly baffling. 
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  (#12) Johan Liebert

  • Monster

  As the titular monster of the series, Johan Liebert is one of the most fascinating and cruel characters in the world of anime. While some of his behavior can be explained by his deeply traumatic childhood, Monster goes out of its way to depict other characters who went through the same things, proving that there's something intrinsic about Johan that pushes him to take lives. He's taken out everyone from his own adoptive parents to the co-workers of the man who saved his life. He even has other serial killers working with him, though he's more than happy to end them when they're no longer useful. He's so renowned for his bloodthirsty behavior that the Nazi party tried to get him to rise up as the next Hitler. Since that wasn't his thing, he just slaughtered them to get them off his back.

  Johan's motives are a large part of what makes Monster interesting, but ultimately he isn't a sympathetic villain - he's a monster until the very end. 
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  (#13) Bondrewd - 'Made In Abyss'

  Bondrewd isn't quite as well known as some of the villains on this list, but he's no less despicable. He's a White Whistle, which means that he's one of the few people who is capable of safely descending to the depths of the Abyss. He uses this ability to conduct experiments to determine the limits of the Curse of the Abyss, and try to find workarounds for it.

  This all sounds great, until you get to the part where he tricks a bunch of kids into participating in an experiment that sends them to their excruciating demises. In sets of two, the kids are put into double elevators that plunge to the depths of the Abyss, activating the curse and destroying nearly all of the children. The only survivors are Mitty and Nanachi, but their bodies are severely deformed, and Mitty's mind is destroyed.

  Bondrewd continues his experiments on Mitty, before Nanachi finally breaks the two of them out of his lab.
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  (#14) Dino Golzine - 'Banana Fish'

  Dino Golzine is a mafia boss whose primary goals lie in maintaining his own wealth and power, and satisfying his carnal desires - which unfortunately lean toward young boys, including Ash Lynx, who he raised from childhood to be his successor.

  Ash abandons the position largely out of the disgust with Golzine's treatment of him and others, prompting Golzine to pursue Ash with the intensity of a jilted lover. His actions include kidnapping and drugging Ash's friends before forcing him to take their lives, having him sent to an experimental facility where he'll be drugged into submission himself. Golzine wants to either destroy Ash's psyche to the point where he becomes an obedient pet or end his life, and he won't be satisfied with anything less.
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  (#15) Shou Tucker

  It's probably not a surprise that Shou Tucker is on this list. After all, he's one of the most hated characters in the anime community - and for good reason. Desperate to produce another speaking chimera for his research, he sacrifices his own daughter, Nina, by fusing her with the family dog. It is also revealed that he did the same thing to his wife two years prior. He committed these atrocious crimes against his own family just so he could keep his State Alchemist certification and research privileges.
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  (#16) Kazutaka Muraki - 'Descendents Of Darkness'

  Kazutaka Muraki seems like a kindly doctor, but he absolutely isn't that at all. Rather, he's a serial killer who wants to bring his half brother Saki back to life so that he can exact revenge on him. In the anime, this would be somewhat understandable - Saki is responsible for taking their parents lives - but in the manga it's Kazutaka who did that particular deed.

  Regardless of why he wants to resurrect Saki, his methods are horrific. He takes multiple lives and manipulates people's souls in the hopes of getting the Shinigami to notice him, and targets Tsuzuki specifically due to being obsessed with him. His obsession leads to assault, both on Tsuzuki and on the 13-year-old Hisoka. In fact, he not only assaults Hisoka, he also puts a curse on him that takes his life. Basically, this guy is like a much hornier version of Orochimaru, and it's terrible.

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