Antagonists in "Locke & Key" Ranked By How Evil They Were

 7. The Spider

She's a beautiful and innocent creature trapped in a magical nightmare until Jamie gave her a mercy killing. Next!

6. Javi

Javi's not evil as much as he's a hedonistic frat. His actions as a demon under Dodge's contract, while necessary to serve a just cause, aren't his fault. Given how he's the one character who looks at her like a piece of meat, I can see why she sent him to the front of the battle.

5. Dodge

While Dodge has killed a few people, it's always in ways that are both justified and unavoidable, and yet the worst thing that Dodge did on the Netflix series was pushing that random neighborhood boy into a subway station. Mr. Gru callously dropped a rocket on two innocent children at a playground and he's still as redeemable as heck, so why should she be any different? No matter how much she goes through, her love for Kinsey and for a beautiful rebirth of all the earth is as genuine as it is beautiful. She antagonized the Lockes but only because of how much Ellie and Bode exacerbated things, and flattening the neighborhood boy was her worst sin. In fact, the only reason I put her higher than Javi is because Javi doesn't know what it's like to take a life, even in a righteous context.

4. Chad Garland

We're taking a huge leap into the entries whose redeeming qualities are zilch. Chad is so perverse and selfish that even the immoral Javi and Eden despise his unpleasant personality. He crept on Kinsey and lured Tyler into a fight for no reason but his amusement, and became the coach's favorite through sheer sycophantry, all with less than five minutes of screentime.

3. Eden Hawkins

It's hard to rank Eden given that Chad is more perverse, but Eden has probably broken more souls at Matheson Academy, and her tormenting never turns from psychological to physical until she is possessed. So both the bully and the demonic entity share the number three spot.

2. Sam Lesser

Sam is the problem child that wants for nothing but to watch the world succumb to the fire of his pent-up rage. In the second season, he decides to settle with wantonly torturing Dodge because... reasons. None of his actions came close to morally good, and the flashes we get of his past imply he's been up to no good well before Dodge communed with him. Ultimately, however, his worst crime is when Dodge gave him a jailbreak tool and he remorselessly turned it into a weapon of mass murder.

1. Frederick Gideon

His screen time is minimal but the impact he made is maximal. He was already an absolute monster devoid as so much of a sliver of a redeeming quality before he came upon the dimension of demonology; what he has become since is unspeakable. Even Sam operates on a smaller scale and even Dodge would never hurt anyone unless she absolutely had to. Frederick is a tease of pure and utter evil and ironically we all scream for more and more of him.