// The Observatory of Evil

The Observatory of Evil

The state of fictional villainy in data: the 988 villains of the archive by medium, criminological approach and danger — filter any way you like and watch every chart recompute. A living, citable dashboard.

988villains
105theories
447franchises
71avg. danger

The average of the archive —intelligence 73, manipulation 68, violence 71, empathy 18— describes nobody in particular. The closest thing to it is Oswald Cobblepot: the most ordinary villain in the archive.

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988 villains

Click any medium or approach to filter — every number, bar and ranking updates live. Combine filters to isolate, say, the psychopaths of cinema or the anti-heroes of anime.

The numbers

By medium: Film (379), Anime (168), TV (145), Literature (91), Video games (76), Comics (52), Animation (33), Music (22), Theatre (22).

By approach: Sociológico: estructura y cultura (177), Psicológico y Psiquiátrico (176), Sociológico: procesos y control (174), Crítico, radical y feminista (132), Clásico y Neoclásico (117), Biológico y Antropológico (95), Ambiental y ecológico (60), Integrador y del curso de vida (57).