Whether factual or fictional, the real-life and made-up world is not without its share of bad guys. We begin the show discussing who the ultimate bad guy was to us when we were young. Sticking to the past, we move on to who the socially acceptable bad guy was when we were in elementary school — before discussing current-day socially acceptable bad guys.

We get a bit deeper when we talk about why the United States always seems to need someone to label “the enemy”; then it’s back to popular culture and asking, “What’s the most laughable villain portrayal you’ve ever seen in a movie?” Sticking with movies, it’s then on to who plays the best bad guys and who we believe to be the best bad guy from fiction.

Topping many people’s lists of top bad guy from history would be Hitler. We toss Hitler out of the equation and ask each other who we deem the top baddie from history. After that, we discuss our arch-nemeses, and then move on to who the bad guy would be in a fictionalized version of our lives (and who would play us, as well).

We close it all out with our top 5 portrayals of bad guys and then listing the roster for our hand-picked bad-guy super team!

As always, we’d love to hear all about who you deem bad guys in the comments.

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