Which villains got off WAY too easy, and how would you have rewritten their ending?

Pontiac Bandit - that dude never faced justice for his criminal life.

I mean, Cersei *did* lose all of her children, which was her greatest fear. It's just easy to forget because she was such a cartoonish villain by the end. Edit: For all his evil Walter White got an annoyingly soft ending.

The Vorlons and Shadows torment the Galaxy for millennia and their punishment is to simply leave with their mentor to go catch up to their friends.

I don’t have anything chambered for how it should have gone, but I think Ben on Lost got off easy. I think that was very much a case of the audience like this actor and character and so the show just kind of bent around it over time. Don’t get me wrong, the show definitely did things to introduce varying degrees of sympathy, but a lot of that was also stuff that the other characters wouldn’t necessarily be privy to as well.

Negan from The Walking Dead. Dude even got his own spinoff show.

The medical board storyline in Grey's Anatomy had Meredith almost lose her medical license, only for her medical competence being proven when a member of the medical board has a stroke during the procedure. The thing is, it's treated as karma for the one suffering the stroke because a few seasons earlier, he himself was operating on Meredith's husband Derek and was so negligent and made so many mistakes that it's unquestionable that he killed Derek^1... and while Meredith can rattle off the names of every patient who has passed away under her care, he cared so little that he had no idea that he was reviewing the woman whose husband he killed. I think dying when Meredith revealed this was way too easy for the b******. I would want the other members of the medical review team to immediately look into Meredith's claims and find that her accusations were completely spot-on and he is *grossly* negligent and while they drop Meredith's case, they put the other doctor up for review instead with it being revealed that he's also lost his medical license. 1: I can't remember precisely what happened, but I think that Derek suffered a cranial brain bleed and the doctor *should* have drilled bore holes so that pressure is relieved.

I've come around on how Cersei died, with the caveat that Jamie should not have been there. But her dying (basically) alone and scared is more fitting than if she had the chance to be smug and defiant during some public execution 

Marlo from The Wire. Yes I know it’s supposed to be ironic/darkly humorous that the feared, cold as ice gangster from the streets ends up as a glorified pencil pusher, but he still manages to shrug even that off and end up right back defending his turf, where he’s most comfortable.

The witch from Brave. Literally killed dozens on screen and most likely hundreds more we've only heard about. Maimed MC dad, almost kill MC, brothers, dad, most of the 4 tribes, almost caused a war. Karma houdinied her way out of all of it.

Firelord Ozai and Kuvira. Both threatened to destroy the world and got off lightly. Kuvira even got clemency in the comics.

Clay Davis, Tommy Carvetti, Erwin Burrell and Rawls from the Wire. With their combined ambition and greed they did immense, generational harm to Baltimore and all of them ended up getting promoted.

The couples therapist in Ted Lasso. Dude was a massive pos.

Andrew from Buffy Not saying they should’ve killed him or anything, but Buffy and Co. should’ve told him to hit the road after season 6

Walter White gets off easy, and I hate the ending of Breaking Bad. I will start off by saying that the series is excellent. The whole show is brilliant, the final season is brilliant. And the ending is thematically all there. It works really well within the confines of the overall story. Starts the series with a terminal diagnosis, ends it by dying, I think shot in the lung. It all lines up. Still hate it. It is *so* f****** dissatisfying. Walt is the source of so much hurt, so much ruin, so much death. The man ruined lives. Him dying is such a f****** cop out. He should have been arrested, he should have faced actual, tangible consequences for all the terror he wrought.

The Professor in tell me lies... like I wanted his downfall so bad

Sosa from Scarface.

Lord Naritsugu in 13 Assassins. For all of the depravity and death he caused for the sake of just being a psychotic SOB, he should've gotten the hellraiser treatment.

Cersei should’ve died watching the city turn on her the way she humiliated others, another public “walk,” but this time no Mountain, no Jaime, just rocks and angry smallfolk instead of a comfy sibling hug.

The Byrde family on Ozark. I so wanted them to get their comeuppance but they got away with all of it

In 'The Wire', seeing certain high-level figures simply walk away while the cycle of violence continues is intentional, but it always feels like they "got off easy." A more traditional satisfying rewrite would involve some form of institutional exposure, but the show's power lies in how realistic that lack of closure actually is. For a more "TV villain" example, many felt the ending of 'Dexter' (the original run) let the character escape the consequences he truly deserved.

Suits (they all should have been disbarred)

This might be a deep cut, but the little kids from Line of Duty (British show). I would never wish harm on any child but this little shit was a hell spawn.

None of the villians want to die. Seeking a more punishing death is like saying you want to torture them for their crimes - it can be satisfying, but I don't think it is good for you to seek it. If there is judgement after death, they go to that. If not, then they go to nothing. Either way, the living are free of them. For me, it is unsatisfying if they continue to live and be able to hurt others in the future. But their being dead is justice done, even if it was "easy" or low pain.

Clarke Griffin She deserved >!death. I think Bellamy should have killed her!< 

Danny in The Karate Kid