Chucky

A two-foot-tall Good Guy doll possessed by a serial killer shouldn't work as a horror villain. Brad Dourif's manic voice performance made it work anyway. Chucky is horror's great overachiever — a children's toy who murders adults, cracks jokes, gets married, has a kid, and eventually comes out as genderfluid in a TV series. The franchise evolved from straight horror to horror-comedy to social commentary without ever losing Chucky's essential nastiness. He's the cockroach of horror — unkillable and endlessly adaptable.