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I watched a bunch of movies this year about guys being the worst, and rather than a typical best movies of the year list, I thought it might be funny to instead do a worst guys of the year list. This list will only consider main characters, so notable villains won't appear.

Allow me to introduce the suspects: Victor Frankenstein from Frankenstein, Yoo Man-soo from No Other Choice, Marty Mauser from Marty Supreme, Joe Cross from Eddington, Teddy Gatz from Bugonia, and J.B. Mooney from The Mastermind. Why they selected? They were in movies I watched and also because I said so.

Let us begin with Victor Frankenstein, J.B. Mooney, and Marty Mauser, the responsibility-dodgers. Their actions, taken at face value, are not at bad as the other three, (Victor killed two people, but one of them was an arms dealer and the other was on accident, so we can cut him some slack on that front), but given that these are movies we are movies we're talking about, I think the primary metric against which to judge these fellas is the emotional assault they subject the audience to.

I don't have anything to say about Victor Frankenstein that hasn't been said before; people have been discussing him for literally over 200 years, who am I to say I've seen something everyone else missed? The bottom line is he's a bad guy for a myriad of reasons. The big twist of Guillermo Del Toro's version is that Victor, in his final moments, is able to take responsibility for his actions and men his relationship with the creature. While no movie this year made me cry, Victor and the creature's reconciliation got damn close. Three times. For his genuine recongnition of and apology for his mistakes, and for pulling the creature out his violent spiral, Victor earns the bottom spot on the list; the least-worst guy of 2026.