User blog comment:Alwaysmore2hear/Nominate Your Essential Villains for the 2018 FANDOM 100/@comment-14660436-20180912194713

As far as this year goes off the top of my head, Simon in particular unexpectedly stole the spotlight in The Walking Dead. Starting out as a relatively minor supporting character, he eventually became a fan favorite thanks to actor Steven Ogg's fame for playing Trevor Philips, and then went on to become a big character and more specifically, a bigger villain. Not only did he end up causing most of the conflict in the show's eighth season but he also ended up one-upping Negan as a truly despicable adversary of Rick and Co. Aside from that, he was just scary but weirdly fun character in general. He might have had some humorous charisma here and there but drew in tension at the same time. Every time he showed up on screen, you were never really sure whether he would either gleefully offer someone breakfast, or mercilessly gun down an entire group of unarmed survivors while flashing a psycho smile.