Neighbours villains through history

[lowculture.co.uk]

Everyone's favourite Neighbours villain at the moment seems to be Svetlanka, but I think it's time to celebrate those memorable stickybeaks from years gone by.
So, I see your Svetlanka and raise you...

SUE PARKER!
Scourge of Charlene. Tempter of Scott.
All together now: "Rack off, Sue!"

[Snuff]

Tahnee

She's quite a new one. But I loved the way she was a bitch with no friends. The persecution of Nina was really evil and hilarious.

[Robbing the Dead]

No-one beats the 'Lanka. Let's look at the evidence:
She tries to break up David and Liljana's marriage on numerous occaisions.
She slaps Serena.
She tells Liljana her baby is dead and gives it away.
She has sex with Harold.
She almost lets Liljana die rather than come clean about Luka.
Her eyes!

[Andrew*]

My favourite villain was Hannha Martin.

She may have been pretty innocent throughout the programme, but it was her that performed the greatest crime of all. She stole the RamsaySt. Street Sign over and over again.

Is there anything worse than that?

[Mike]

Anyone remember Isabella? (In other words, are you my age or older?) She was shagging Paul Robinson before he got with Christina and was planning to marry him for his money. She spoke with a bizarre Latin American type accent and had a hilarious showdown with Christina who she caught rifling through her 'hondbog'.

[toby3000]

What about the amazing Gerry Hallet? Everywhere Libby went, she was there, including, in a particularly mad stroyline, her and Drew's Honeymoon (which she was covering for the Erinsborough News. Naturally)

Tahnee was great, particularly when she took the credit for Born to Try

But how can the king of Ramsey Street, Darcy be ignored??

*Stole monay and then left some bird called Alice
*Tried to sell the surgery
*Stole lots of money off Dee
*Had affair with her best friend in super cunning way
*Tried to split up her and toadie
*Stole the Kennedy family Jewels
*Knocked over pregnant Lynne and left her
*Let Rosie be framed

and no doubt lots of other comedy evil things. Oh, he robbed the pub.

[passionoia]

Fiona Hartman was a particular favourite of mine. My memory is a bit misty but as Jim was dying of a heart attack instead of calling an ambulance didn't she phone his accountant or something?

[Cherubic]

passionoia said:

Fiona Hartman was a particular favourite of mine. My memory is a bit misty but as Jim was dying of a heart attack instead of calling an ambulance didn't she phone his accountant or something?

She was brilliant. Strutting out of Erinsborough with his life insurance under her arm.

[si]

I vote for Brendon, Tess' abusive husband (mainly because that was the only period in which I ever watched Neighbours properly).

I loved Tess.

[klee]

Annalise was shaping up to be a great soap gold-digger (anyone else remember her being introduced as Lou's new squeeze? Ew! Ew!) Then she went all drippy, left and turned up in Ally McBeal.

Julie Martin as well: soap harridan, judged in Erinsborough's finest tradition. It's either a personality transplant or death there, don't you know?

[QuincyMD]

The bloke with the tache who was a barman at Lassiters who gave Shane Ramsey some whiskey after a fatal car crash that pushed him over the limit.

He then wouldn't fess up...

[pauliepoos]

I'd like to nominate the old bloke who conned Helen Daniels out of her diamonds, only for her and Madge to team up and con him back. I think he was married to the lovely Helen Daniels, aka Anne Haddy in real life.

The name Douglas has just come to me in a blurry vision.

[Steven]

klee said:

Julie Martin as well: soap harridan, judged in Erinsborough's finest tradition. It's either a personality transplant or death there, don't you know?

I vote for Michael Martin, for being one of my favourite soap stock characters ever: the one who turns up having been reformed from being "bad" to all intents and purposes, except for when they're alone with one particular character whom they then try to drive insane (in this case Julie Martin), and no one believes said victim when they try to convince everyone that said character hasn't changed at all.

I was watching this exact storyline in Charmed the other day actually. People really get their money's worth from it.

[Ms Finerevolution]

Ah, Michael Martin.

And then he ended up not killing her!

The disappointment.

[Cherubic]

Ms said:

Ah, Michael Martin.

And then he ended up not killing her!

The disappointment.

I still think he hyponotised Debbie and she did it. Whatever she 'remembered'.

[toby3000]

passionoia said:

Fiona Hartman was a particular favourite of mine. My memory is a bit misty but as Jim was dying of a heart attack instead of calling an ambulance didn't she phone his accountant or something?

Yes, that was a particularly insane Neighbours moment, since the conversation ran along the lines of;

Fiona; 'Jim wants to change his will to leave everything to me'
Lawyer; 'Well I can't do that without Jim's signature and stuff. It's illegal
F; Jim will be very annoyed if you don't
L; Oh, OK then. Consider it done.

Genius. Though she came to a sticky end, killed ina car crash I believe, and Annalise gave the house back to Helen.

[pauliepoos]

Cherubic said:

I still think he hyponotised Debbie and she did it. Whatever she 'remembered'.

Didn't Debbie become anorexic when she fell in love with the muscle boy with bad skin who turned out to be a non practicing homosexually inclined but straight acting gay? He should be a villain for having a nice big buff body not no bum chum to bounce around the room.

If my memory serves me correctly said gay had a brief appearance in Home And Away as the uncle of Stephen who tragically died in a fire just like Stephen's parents. And didn't the fire turn out to be dodgy?

[Adrian]

He was Macca! I started watching Neighbours right at that time. I thought it was amazing. Said actor also appeared naked on stage in Lady Chatterley's Lover, I remember being intrigued to read.

-A

[Cherubic]

I have no memory of him at all. I was very young. Although I do remember Des and Daphne.

I think photos are in order.

[klee]

Lucy Robinson used to be a bad girl.

First Incarnation: Had an operation that made her temporarily blind, but pretended (even though she got her sight back soon afterwards) she still couldn't see in order to get more love and attention. The producers then repeated the same storyline more or less verbatim with Hannah Martin about eight years leter, thus proving that lightning can indeed strike the same place twice.

Second Incarnation: Came back from a long time away (holidaying in soap limbo with Rosemary and post-Canberra Charlene) with a different head and the hairstyle later used by Mel B in Bo Selecta. Officially became a wild child, went underage drinking and presided smugly over a barfight. Evil evil evil. I think she may also have come close to having sex, the ultimate 80s/90s Neighbours sin.

Third Incarnation: Not quite sure here, but was there some adultery involved after the second return of Lucy as blond bombshell rather than curly haired dag?

[Steven]

klee said:

Lucy Robinson used to be a bad girl.

First Incarnation: Had an operation that made her temporarily blind, but pretended (even though she got her sight back soon afterwards) she still couldn't see in order to get more love and attention. The producers then repeated the same storyline more or less verbatim with Hannah Martin about eight years leter, thus proving that lightning can indeed strike the same place twice.

I always thought that Lucy went blind after she fell down a drain. There was a storyline that involved Lucy being stuck in a drain, wasn't there?

[klee]

Pandarama said:

I always thought that Lucy went blind after she fell down a drain. There was a storyline that involved Lucy being stuck in a drain, wasn't there?

You may be right there. It was a long time ago now, but she definitely did the whole "Oh, I'm blind, please fuss over me, kind lady" routine. Even at the tender age of eight I thought it was completely lame.

[Steven]

klee said:

You may be right there. It was a long time ago now, but she definitely did the whole "Oh, I'm blind, please fuss over me, kind lady" routine. Even at the tender age of eight I thought it was completely lame.

It's quite fuzzy in my head too...I can only remember not thinking it at all odd until visiting the idea as an adult that falling down a drain might make you go blind...

[Nick]

Hmmm. Josh Anderson went temporarily blind when he accidentally splashed some chemical in his eyes while making surfboards for / with Brad Willis. Then he got his sight back, but pretended to still be blind for a bit so that Lucy Robinson would carry on being nice to him / dressing him / nudging his arm with her tits as she helped him around the house, etc. So, that'd be three bolts of lightning, probably all in the same house. Shocking!

Also Hilary Robinson was evil because she was just a little bit stuck-up, and had an aviary. Kerry liberated all the birds one day, and then Hilary ended up falling off a ladder when she tried to get one of the birds out of her gutter, and Kerry felt guilty, and rightly so, because Kerry was the real monster, of course, and she ended up getting shot while looking after ducks, which just goes to show how stupid and misguided it is to try and protect the birds because the birds aren't going to protect you when you need it, so, really, the biggest bastards in Neighbours were the birds, and Bronwyn Davies.

[klee]

Nick said:

Also Hilary Robinson was evil because she was just a little bit stuck-up, and had an aviary.

I'd forgotten all about her! She even had ace spinster pudding bowl hair, which proved that her unhappiness was due to sexual unfulfilment.

And what about Dorothy? She started out all Ice Queen teacher and ended up joining a video dating agency. The sight of her with her hair down trying to be sexy for the camera will live with me until my dying day.