5. Lelouch Lamperouge

Anime: Code Geass

As the second coming of the character Lelouch vi Britannia after his exile, there aren’t many bad guys out there who are as cold and indifferent to the suffering they cause like this one.

Wiping out civilian towns in a landslide? A “mathematical overestimate”, that’s all it is to him.

Destroying Tokyo and killing countless people, innocents and children among them? Straight-up necessary for his plan to achieve what he needs to as Emperor.

He’s a real piece of work.

But Lelouch is also a devastatingly intelligent and highly interesting character who’s developed well 1as the series goes on. “Developed” as in he gets worse, but technically that’s still development!