Our 10 Favorite Villains of the Century (So Far)

House of R

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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It feels good to be bad! Mal and Jo share their top 10 villains of the century (so far) and round it out with some honorable mentions. (0:00) Intro (6:19) Rules (24:31) Jo’s no. 10 (29:50) Mal’s no. 10 (37:56) Mal’s no. 9 (42:31) Jo's no. 8 (49:12) Mal’s no. 8 (54:21) Jo's no. 7 (1:04:15) Jo's no. 9 and Mal's no. 7 (1:08:28) Jo's no. 6 (1:16:39) Mal's no. 6 (1:22:14) Jo's no. 5 (1:28:30) Jo's no. 4 (1:34:55) Mal's no. 4 (1:40:22) Mal's no. 3 (1:47:29) Jo's no. 3 and Mal's no. 2 (1:57:31) Mal's no. 5 and Jo's no. 2 (2:07:27) Jo's no. 1 (2:14:53) Mal's no. 1 (2:22:52) Honorable Mentions Hosts: Mallory Rubin and Joanna Robinson Producers: Mike Wargon, Kevin Lam, and John Richter Social: Jomi Adeniran Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.9	Greetings.
1:17.0	And welcome to House of Art in person here in Los Angeles.
1:20.0	House of Our Ringerverse Podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.
1:21.5	I'm Mallory Rubin.
1:32.5	Joining me today to rank our favorite villains of the century so far. We have the soft hearts of women. Sir Ellen, bring us the pod. It's Joanna Robinson. Hello, my darling. Welcome
1:39.0	back to the studio. I've missed you. Hello, beautiful Mallory Rubin. How are you? What a joy to stare,
1:43.7	like, stare into your beautiful face.
1:45.5	I agree. You're further away at this table than you sometimes are. We can barely do our little, but we still can. Okay. We still can. That's all that matters. It's the long-awaited, hotly anticipated, not quite as anticipated as the long-awaited fall of Fame, but the long-awaited, hotly
2:03.4	anticipated continuation of our best of the century so far series.
2:06.9	We did our best-of-the-century speeches, celebration this summer.
2:11.6	We had a blast.
2:12.8	And we knew we wanted to do a few more of these before the year ends.
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