January Meme: My favourite villains who will/should not be redeemed, and why

First, I suppose I should specify what I mean with „redemption“, because fandom has a whole range of definitions going from „villain is written with sympathetic traits and tragic background explaing his/her actions“ via „villain confronts own misdeeds, does act in attempt to make up for them /acts to help others from this point onwards“ to „villain is proven to have been not a villain at all and accepted by other heroes as fellow hero after they apologize for ever having seen that person as a villain and/or are revealed as the true villains“ (this would be one favourite fanfic trope). Sometimes, in specific circumstances and for some people, it even seems to mean just „villain should have sex with hero(ine) and be declared their one true love to blast all other loves“. (At least some of the participants in the Spike Wars back in the day gave me the impression that this was what the meant when wanting redemption for Spike. Cough.)

As for the characters named below: my own definition of what I mean when I say that I don’t want this characters to be redeemed doesn’t include sympathetic writing, or the occasional non-hostile relationship with a heroic character. But what my definition of „redemption“ for the purpose of this list does include is for the villain in question to turn another leaf, realise their misdeeds and trying to atone for them, and it most definitely includes „villain revealed to have been right and misjudged all along“.

In no particular order, listed by fandom:

( Spoilers for Babylon 5, Blake's 7, Spartacus and I, Claudius ensue )

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