18. Ellaria Sand

Note: Game of Thrones is a show full of bad people doing terrible things. If you haven’t caught up yet, maybe save reading this list for another time, because here come some serious spoilers.

Ellaria wouldn’t have landed on this list at all if it weren’t for that kiss of death she gave Myrcella in the Season 5 finale. Yes, her longtime lover was killed by a Lannister lackey, but the Red Viper knew what he was signing up for, and Myrcella was just a kid.

One crown out of seven possible crowns for evilness. (Photo by: HBO)

17. Jaqen H’Ghar

He’s done Arya more than a few favors, and gave her a place to land after escaping Westeros. But he also beat her with a stick and blinded her, and frankly, we don’t trust anyone who’s collected that many heads. One crown. (Photo by: HBO)

16. Lysa Arryn

She tried to push Tyrion out the moon door for a crime he didn’t commit. And she helped Petyr Baelish kill her first husband, Jon Arryn, which is why Ned Stark had to replace him as Hand of the King in the first place. Two crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

15. Olly

He is just a kid, and one who lost his whole family to boot. But! He just had to stab Jon Snow. Two crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

14. The High Sparrow

Some might argue the High Sparrow at least has a moral code. But that moral code includes homophobia and making women walk naked and barefoot through the city with a Shame-Bell Nun in pursuit. Three crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

13. Sandor “The Hound” Clegane

Like Jaqen H’Ghar, Sandor Clegane has committed his share of evil deeds. But he was a good friend to Arya for a minute. Three crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

12. Theon Greyjoy

Theon decided to turn on the Starks, his lifelong guardians and de facto family members. He sacked Winterfell–poorly–and pretended he murdered Bran and Rickon, while actually murdering a pair of innocent neighbor kids. To put it lightly, Theon makes poor decisions. Does that necessarily make him particularly evil? Eh. Either way, he’s definitely a special kind of stupid. Three crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

11. The Night’s King

Honestly, despite being the show’s Ultimate Evil, we haven’t actually seen the Night’s King do anything too terrible. OK, yes, he’s turned a bunch of people into snow zombies. But life is Westeros is pretty cruel; maybe life is better as a snow zombie, and he’s really doing them all a favor? Have you seen a crying snow zombie? We’re just saying. Five crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

10. Cersei Lannister

Cersei has been responsible for some deeply uncool things. But she’s also, very clearly, a product of a terrible upbringing by a tyrannical father and a loveless marriage to a chronic womanizer. And her psychopath son would likely have been a psychopath whether she bore him or not. She even tried to save Ned Stark by offering to send him to the Wall — a plan that might have worked, if not for said psychopath son. Four crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

9. Melisandre

It’s one thing to persuade a man to cheat on his wife and do blood magic for the good of the kingdom. It’s another thing entirely to murder his brother and his only daughter in pursuit of your goals. Five crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

8. Walder Frey

He just wants one of his many daughters to be the queen. That’s a goal we can all appreciate. But, you know, The whole Red Wedding thing. Five crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

7. Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane

Remember when the Red Viper was all, “You raped my sister and murdered her children”? That was this guy. Apparently raping, murdering, pillaging, and otherwise rampaging against people who couldn’t fight back is kind of Gregor Clegane’s hobby. And he’s responsible for his brother Sandor’s unfortunate facial scarring. Five crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

6. Tywin Lannister

Tywin spent the last years of his life trying to have Daenerys murdered, using his family as political pawns, and gaslighting his youngest son. He deserved to die on a toilet. Six crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

5. Joffrey Baratheon

Watching this baby-murdering, prostitute-shooting, Ned-Stark-beheading jerk choke on a pie was the highlight of the show for many viewers. But to Joffrey’s credit, he was ridiculously fun to hate. Six crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

4. Petyr Baelish

Speaking of Joffrey’s death, Littlefinger is the one who caused it — and then conveniently framed Tyrion and Sansa for it. Every season, Baelish seems a little more evil. He pushed his new wife Lysa through the moon door after she helped him pull off Jon Arryn’s murder. Plus he left Sansa in the hands of Ramsay Bolton. Seven crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

3. Ramsay Bolton

The only thing more evil than marrying someone off to Ramsay Bolton is being Ramsay Bolton. We didn’t realize it could get any worse than flaying Theon’s private parts. Then he married Sansa. Seven crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

2. Roose Bolton

He’s responsible for fathering Ramsay and engineering the Red Wedding, which included, but was not limited to, stabbing a pregnant woman in the stomach. Seven crowns. (Photo by: HBO)

1. George RR Martin

The number one threat facing each and every resident of Westeros. Plus, every book he puts out before the next GoT sequel earns him another crown. (Photo by: Corbis)