Top 10 Favourite Villians: #Number 2 - Hannah Kahnwald (Dark, Netflix) Spoilers Ahead!

I feel like I’m going to get a lot of hate for this, so let me clear, I absolutely despise Hannah. She is cruel, selfish, and cold, and deserves any bad thing that comes her way. But despite this, I objectively love her.

In my eyes, she’s the true villian of the show. Adam, Claudia, and Noah all do bad things for a good cause: stopping the cycle of horror affecting the town. Hannah, on the other hand, does bad things because deep down, she’s a bad person. I hate her, but it’s fun to watch. I love the emotion she pulls forth, I cannot explain the shock, horror, and anger I felt when she abandoned Ulrich to spend the rest of his days in a 1954 asylum. How heartless can one be to do that?

I find her obsession with Ulrich is something to be pitied. She spends her entire life being unable to have the person she truly loves the most. Even at a young age, we see her sticking pictures of him in a scrapbook. 33 years later, and she is still holding onto photographs of him. For some reason, she is entirely fixated on him, her heart and soul yearns for this man who feels nothing for her. In a way, it’s heartbreaking. Had she tried to be a good person despite this, then maybe I would truly feel sorry for her.

But alas, she is not. She doesn’t even appear to be saddened by her husband’s suicide. When asked if she ever loved him, she avoided the question. She blackmailed Aleksander in an attempted to ruin Ulrich’s life, and after all of that, she steals her son’s time machine and abandons him forever. After everything that Jonas has been through, I cannot comprehend why she would leave him.

In the end, Hannah brings a sort of chaotic flare to the show that I absolutely love. While everybody else is trying to learn what’s going on, change what’s going on, or force what’s going on to happen again, Hannah is out there making a mess and fucking shit up. She really is the true villian of the show, and for that reason, she has stolen a spot on this list.