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The coldest female villains

We rank the archive’s 111 female villains by their coldness, as each case file scores it. Top of the list is Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia), with 100 out of 100. Among the top ten, the most frequent theory is “Psychopathy” (3 of 10).

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01Poster of Jadis, villain from The Chronicles of NarniaJadisPsychopathy · The Chronicles of NarniaJadis, the White Witch, and psychopathy: in The Chronicles of Narnia, the last queen of Charn speaks the Deplorable Word and extinguishes all life in…10002Poster of Ella-Laraña, villain from The Lord of the RingsShelobEvolutionary criminology · The Lord of the RingsShelob and criminological evolutionism: a creature that was in Mordor before Sauron and only devours. An instinctive appetite, with no ideology or…9803Poster of Legravalima, villain from The Promised NeverlandLegravalimaClass conflict · The Promised NeverlandLegravalima and class conflict: the demon queen of The Promised Neverland, in the manga, hoards the best human meat while the lower classes starve…9804Poster of Samara Morgan, villain from The RingSamara MorganSocial contagion and geography of fear · The RingSamara Morgan and the contagion of fear: a curse that is transmitted literally from person to person through a tape. "You die in seven days"—fear as…9805Poster of Aunt Gladys, villain from WeaponsAunt GladysPsychopathy · WeaponsAunt Gladys of Weapons and psychopathy: the manipulative predator who turns kinship and tenderness into camouflage. How the mask of the frail old…9706Poster of Bloody Mary, villain from The Wolf Among UsBloody MaryCrime as a trade · The Wolf Among UsBloody Mary, of The Wolf Among Us, and crime as a trade: the Crooked Man’s enforcer collects debts, fires silver bullets and travels through mirrors.…9707Poster of La otra madre, villain from Other MommyOther MommyAttachment · Other MommyRob Savage’s Other Mommy and attachment theory: an entity wearing the mother’s face wins over a girl in a house in crisis. It does not force the…9708Poster of Rhoda Penmark, villain from The Bad SeedRhoda PenmarkBehavioral genetics · The Bad SeedThe Bad Seed and behavioral genetics: Rhoda is the myth of inherited evil in its purest form—an angelic child with a murderer in the family tree.…9709Poster of Santa Claus, villain from Chainsaw ManSanta ClausMoral disengagement · Chainsaw ManSanta Claus, of Chainsaw Man, and moral disengagement: the Doll Devil’s contractor teaches her apprentice to kill with a fox and then turns him into…9710Poster of Cassandra Nova, villain from X-MenCassandra NovaPsychopathy · Deadpool & WolverineCassandra Nova, the villain of Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), read through Robert Hare's psychopathy checklist (PCL-R): superficial charm, grandiosity,…9611Poster of Jill Roberts, villain from ScreamJill RobertsRelative deprivation · ScreamJill Roberts, Sidney’s cousin and the Ghostface of Scream 4, and relative deprivation: she lacks nothing except what her cousin has, a fame born of…9612Poster of Vanica Zogratis, villain from Black CloverVanica ZogratisHypoarousal · Black CloverVanica Zogratis, of Black Clover, and hypoarousal theory: Megicula’s host attacks civilians so a princess will fight in earnest. The science of the…9613Poster of Winifred Notty, villain from Victorian PsychoWinifred NottyTriple Risk for Delinquency Model · Victorian PsychoVirginia Feito’s Victorian Psycho and Santiago Redondo’s Triple Risk model: a governess without fear, a father who never acknowledged her and an…9614Poster of Bellatrix Lestrange, villain from Harry PotterBellatrix LestrangeCriminal heredity · Harry PotterBellatrix Lestrange and criminal heredity: the ideology of blood taken to its homicidal extreme. When believing that lineage determines a person's…9515Poster of Cruella de Vil, villain from 101 DalmatiansCruella de VilGreen criminology · 101 Dalmatians101 Dalmatians and green criminology: Cruella de Vil wants to skin puppies to make herself a coat, and the law barely touches her. Her cruelty puts…9516Poster of Diana Christensen, villain from NetworkDiana ChristensenAnomie (Durkheim) · NetworkDiana Christensen and Durkheim's anomie: the executive whose ambition has become deregulated in an industry drunk on prosperity, until every boundary…9517Poster of Dollface, villain from The StrangersDollfaceDefensible space · The StrangersDollface and defensible space: the masked assailant who terrorizes in the isolated house in the middle of nowhere, where the safest refuge becomes…9518Poster of Emily Brent, villain from And Then There Were NoneEmily BrentMoral development · And Then There Were NoneEmily Brent and moral development: in And Then There Were None, a devout spinster dismisses her maid on learning that she is pregnant, and the girl…9519Poster of Esther, villain from OrphanEstherBehavioral genetics · OrphanOrphan and behavioral genetics: Esther's twist dismantles the myth of the "child born evil" from the inside—what looks like innate wickedness turns…9520Poster of La Dama de la Saya Verde, villain from The Chronicles of NarniaThe Lady of the Green KirtlePatriarchy and crime · The Chronicles of NarniaThe Lady of the Green Kirtle and coercive control: in The Silver Chair, the queen of Underland kills Prince Rilian’s mother, enchants him, ties him…9521Poster of Milady de Winter, villain from The Three MusketeersMilady de WinterStigma · The Three MusketeersMilady de Winter and stigma: in The Three Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu’s agent bears on her shoulder the brand France burned into criminals, and…9522Poster of Santánico Pandemónium, villain from From Dusk Till DawnSantánico PandemóniumCriminogenic facilities · From Dusk Till DawnSantánico Pandemónium and the Titty Twister: the queen of a dive whose real business is devouring whoever walks in. The party facade over the trap,…9523Poster of Villanelle, villain from Killing EveVillanellePsychopathy · Killing EveKilling Eve and psychopathy: Villanelle embodies a profile science was slow to recognize—that of the female psychopath—and, along the way, dismantles…9524Poster of Aura la Guillotina, villain from FrierenAura the GuillotineCriminal personality · FrierenAura the Guillotine and the theory of the criminal personality (Yochelson & Samenow): grandiosity, the hunger for control and “superoptimism” as a…9425Poster of Dolores Umbridge, villain from Harry PotterDolores UmbridgeRight realism · Harry PotterDolores Umbridge and right realism: how zeal for order, rules and authority turns criminogenic. The harm does not arrive from chaos, but from an…94
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