Five Worst Supernatural Antagonists
#5 – The Seven Deadly Sins – “The Magnificent Seven”
Actually, only six of them sucked. Pride wasn’t half bad. Sadly, he wasn’t the ringleader and only got one moment in the spotlight while taunting Sam. Too bad too, because the idea of using Binsfeld’s Classification of Demons was actually a good idea. Obviously, it only worked on paper. Either that or every decent actor was on vacation during the casting call.
#4 – The Witches Coven – “Malleus Maleficarum”
When you’re rooting to have these shallow women wasted, you know, those who were the supposed victims, they suck. Luckily we got our wish.
#3 – Crocatta – “Long Distance Call”
You know what’s worse than a monologuing villain? A bad, over-the-top, not at all interesting villain who chews up way too much screen time (time that should have been better served with angsty Winchesters) and whose death was even uninspiring. Another waste, since the mystery leading up to the Crocatta reveal was interesting.
#2 – Lilith
I liked the idea of this famous demon as the new big bad, rising up after Azazel met his end. The mythology and her real menacing threat behind the scenes in breaking the seals was fascinating. However, they never got great actresses to play her. In person, she wasn’t all the frightening. The little girls were creepy, but not quite compelling enough. I would mark Katie Cassidy’s portrayal the best, and that was marginal. For a such a major big bad, they could have done better.
#1 – Bela Talbot (By a huge freaking lot)
I hate this bitch. I know that’s the point, but there are people like Sylar on Heroes that you love to hate, and there’s Bela, who you just want off your screen. She sucked the life out of every scene she was in and that was way too many. No chemistry with Sam, no chemistry with Dean, heck she and her cat didn’t even evoke a bond. When she wasn’t lifeless, she was just annoying. I blame it all in the writing, for I’ve seen Lauren Cohen in other things and she’s a pretty decent actress. Bela is the reason why “Bad Day At Black Rock” never makes my classics list. She’s the reason why I think the end of “Time Is On My Side” is the greatest ever (okay, maybe not, but close). No wonder season four was so great.
Interesting how four of the five came from Season Three, huh? As the story lines got richer, so did the antagonists. In a few ways though, it backfired.
I agree 100% with this list, Alice. Especially Bela. I also agree that the major problem with that character was the writing. It’s one thing for the Winchesters to be bested by her once, during this first encounter – but each and every time after that? A little too much for me. It really bothered me that Sam and Dean, who have pulled many cons in their day are so easily taken in and made to look like bumbling idiots when Bela descends. Or with their on-going quest to find her after she stole the colt. Sam and Dean are way, way too good to be taken by the same person time after time.
Thank you for putting Lilith on this list. Off-screen, she was a scary one, but once she manifested her pretty white-eyed head, not so much. I especially found the last actress who portrayed her to be lackluster and flat.
Thank goodness season 4 was so awesome! We can forget that Bela fiasco entirely and focus on the gloriousness of Ruby, finally getting what she deserved.
AHHH! Bella! I did not hate her nor did I love her, she was just there, an irritant bit like an itch that wont go, the spot you cannot see….just irritating, but what a relief when it (she) has gone!
Then we come to Lilith, I WAS soo LOKING FORWARDS to her, the kids made her creepy (not so bad) and the build up was there, she is grown up…she must be awsome…Well ok she was petty, then it fell not just flat but apart! I could not have cared less if she lived or died, she was just SOO bland!
Thanks for making me think (still having deep thoughts about Sam) and having a venue to air my thoughts.
Have a good holiday on your side of the world.
Diane (x)
(where do the comments that just dissapear go?)
Trying again
Bella was not someone I hated or loved, she was just there like an itch you cannot reach or the spot you cannot see….just irritating. And when it(she) is gone you dont notice for a while just know it is better!
Now Lilith, the kids made her creepy (not so bad) the build up was there…. she is grown up, she must be awsome…pretty yes, awsome? more like boring , could not care less if she lives or dies (yawn)
Thanks for giving me a venue to air my thoughts and making me think (still having DEEP thoughts about Sam.
Have a good holiday on your side of the world
Diane
OK!OK! BOTH posts have now appeared!!!!
What can I say must be both BELLA and LILITH coming to get me AAAAAAAAA……….Diane
My comments are going a bit strange too … I think the rubber band has melted or something. 😆
I thought Bella was a pain in the bum. The character could have been a good baddie … Smug and snidey posh tottie with the morals of a stoat and a fine line in sneakiness, but they really overplayed the brother-thwarting … Every time she sees them she rips them off and we’re supposed to believe that they’de trust her to buy their drugs? Pfff … Don’t think so …
The idea of Lilith was a scary one but the actual real-life Lilith was pretty tepid. I think that the Female Nasties always come off a bit flat because the network can’t bear to cast any one who isn’t a total babe. I mean how threatening would YED/ Uriel/ Zach etc be if they all looked like refugees from a Boy-Band? ( Actually, don’t answer that, I’m frightening myself now! 😆 )
Yep…another great list. Since everybody is bashing Bela, in that dream episode, the moment Dean opened the safe to put the dreamroot in it I saw it coming. I didn’t know who I wanted to choke more – Bela because of her general slimyness, or Dean because I absolutely refuse that he’s stupid enough to open a safe right in front of that bitch. Grrr.
Alice, I think the absolute worst SN antagonists didn’t make your list. They were the brother/sister (children/grandchildren) in Family Remains. Now FR is my least favorite show in Season 4, even beating out Heaven and Hell. FR was poorly written, filled with gaping plotholes and uninteresting characters, including Sam and Dean.
One of FR’s biggest problems was that the brother and sister as antagonists made no sense. They had been imprisoned, abused and malnourished all their lives. And yet they could read and write, and fight better commando style than Dean or Sam. They could slash tires and locate and remove the Impala’s extensive artillery in seconds, without being detected. They could knock holes in walls as if they were made of paper. Yeah, right.
The episode actually would have made more sense if they had been supernatural creatures. But the writer was evidently so enthralled by world news that he made these poor pitiful creatures human, which was absurd. Does eating rats raw give superhuman strength?
These were the worst SN antagonists hands down, I think.