What does it take to survive? The 100 asks that question in every season. But Clarke and her friends aren't the only ones trying to find the answer. Throughout the years, Clarke, Bellamy, and their friends are forced against others in the struggle to survive. From the moment Jasper is speared through the chest, the hundred know that they are not alone. Learning that, they are immediately on edge, and the Grounders are looked at as villains. Afterward, things only get harder.
The series's villains range from massive groups to individuals, many who have similar desires to survive. However, not all the antagonists are as interesting or exciting as others.
10 Best: Grounders
They may not be villains for long in the seven-season series, but when they were, it gave the show a little extra something fans loved. One of the reasons the Grounders were some of the best villains is that they were never really villains. They were other people who lived on Earth. Their opposition to the delinquents gave hints of insight into what Grounder culture was like. As the series progressed, the Grounders went from antagonists to allies, and that change opened the door to understand the Grounder society and broadened the world.
9 Worst: Charles Pike
The City of Light was just one of the villains running around during the third season. However, when Jaha and A.L.I.E weren't trying to make others take the chip, Charles Pike was the antagonist. Having only reunited with Arkadia members at the beginning of the third season, Pike and his group had an entirely different experience with the Grounders off-screen during season two.
Coming into the show angry and hateful toward the Grounders, Pike's agenda sees the Grounders as the enemy and wishes to eliminate them. Pike's actions lead to Bellamy siding with Pike and Lincoln's death.
8 Best: Josephine Lightbourne
Unlike nearly every other villain on The 100, Josephine Lightbourne is an opponent that utilizes her intelligence in mind games. Josephine has been immortal for two-hundred years by the time her chip takes residence in Clarke's body. Josephine is pampered and most definitely not a fighter. Josephine uses words and verbal manipulation as her weapon of choice. She is the first villain on the series to fight for control of someone else's body, and her existence allows viewers an inside look into Clarke's head and the way she thinks and feels.
7 Worst: McCreary
He may be Diyoza's right-hand man in season five, but he doesn't hold his own weight that much. McCreary is a loose cannon that doesn't bode well for the last habitable spot on Earth. While Diyoza has a plan for Eden, McCreary seems to be a bad guy for the sake of it. He didn't care about the drastically lowering number of people left in the human race. McCreary turned on Diyoza because he wanted to be in control and when McCreary found himself losing, he destroyed what was left of Earth.
6 Best: Diyoza
Most of the time, the villain doesn't get a chance at redemption. They are usually killed by the end of their first season on the show. This was not the case with Diyoza. What made Diyoza such an interesting character in season five was that she looked at Eden like she had a plan for it. Diyoza wanted peace in the valley and to have a place to raise her baby.
Diyoza's journey did not end in season five, and she lived to survive to the final season. Diyoza's final 100 arc showed her raise Hope with Octavia on Sky Ring. The three became a family, and in Diyoza's final moments, she saved Hope's soul, preventing Hope from committing mass genocide.
5 Worst: A.L.I.E
An interesting thing about Becca Franco is that her legacy is weaved within nearly every aspect of the series. Becca was on the ship Polaris, which was detached from the Ark and landed on Earth. That landing gave the survivors Nightblood, and the ship was the inspiration for the name, Polis. In season six, Becca's symbol is on Sanctum. She left her mark nearly everywhere. However, funnily enough, she is also the reason for the first apocalypse.
Her invention, A.L.I.E, was meant to help the world, but instead determined that overpopulation was the problem. Taking care of it meant destroying Earth, which Becca determined was because A.L.I.E was not programmed to understand human emotion and thought. A.L.I.E is a problem in the third season, spending the entire time controlling Jaha to give everyone the chip to the City of Light.
4 Best: Clarke, Octavia, And Bellamy (Season 5)
Complicated relationships have always riddled Octavia, Clarke, and Bellamy. Season five managed to find a way to have them all desire the same thing but still find themselves on opposing sides. Their antagonistic relationships toward each other are as high as they've ever been. Octavia is prepared to execute Clarke and throws Bellamy into the fighting pit. To save Clarke from execution, Bellamy poisons Octavia but still betrays Clarke anyway. Even with Clarke pleading with Bellamy not to, he still goes through with his plan to put the Flame in Madi. However, Clarke is not innocent in any of this, either. Clarke hatches a plan to kill Octavia to protect Madi. Clarke still takes Madi and runs when she decides against it, leaving Bellamy to die in the fighting pit.
3 Worst: Bill Cadogan
Bill Cadogan's greatest strength is his unflinching belief in himself. In "Anaconda," Cadogan showed that he did not like Becca's idea of saving the survivors with Nightblood. He wanted and needed to be the person to save humanity. Cadogan insisted he was right in every argument he was in. Yet, Cadogan did not have a lot going for him. As far as anyone could see, Cadogan could not fight. The disciples did all the fighting and training while Cadogan never lifted a finger.
He created a world without love to get to the Beings of Light but faltered to follow his own belief system. Cadogan was an awful person, but he wasn't conniving, manipulative, or complex.
2 Best: Mountain Men
One of the things that make an exciting plot is intriguing villains. Season two gets it right with Dante Wallace, Cage Wallace, and the Mountain Men. So much of The 100 is about what it takes to survive, and the Mountain Men are trying to do exactly that. Their methods are atrocious, but the story allows the audience to sympathize with characters like Maya. The radiation outside will kill those who live in the mountain, and all Cage wants to do is live outside.
Cage and his people spent their entire lives cooped up indoors, so it makes sense that he would want everyone to live a better life outside. Dante is not apart of the bone marrow extraction, yet, he allows the Grounders to be caged and drained of their blood. What it takes to survive took on a larger meaning during season two, and the Mountain Men are part of the reason why.
1 Worst: Sheidheda
As the central antagonist on Sanctum during season seven, Sheidheda had the potential to be an exciting villain if he ever actually did anything. Shiedheda feels like more of a place holder, referencing vague plans that never come to fruition. Other antagonists have done horrible actions to survive or as twisted acts of love. Sheidheda doesn't do either of those and instead only wants power. Yet, once he has it, things still feel unfinished or confusing, especially with Bill Cadogan being a central antagonist. Sheidheda's storyline doesn't even come to anything by the series finale either, as he only appears to create chaos and then die. This isn't to say Sheidheda wasn't a threat, just that compared to the other villains on the series, he did not have as complex a storyline.
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