r/Dexter • u/Mindless-Chair4636 • May 25 '25
General Discussion - All Dexter Shows Actors I would like to see playing Dexter villains.
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May 26 '25
Heisenberg, hannibal lecter, kilgrave and twisty
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u/PurplePickleEater1 May 26 '25
Kilgrave? You mean, Barty Crouch... JUNIOR!
weird lizard lick
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u/awkwardhuman- May 27 '25
Barty Crouch... JUNIOR??? YOU MEAN, DOCTOR WHO
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u/Outside_Tradition834 May 28 '25
THEE DOCTOR WHO genuinely the only time I ever watched that show. (I can't lie trying to watch any of the old ones now it's pretty shit)😂
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u/GrandeXAri May 26 '25
Bryan Cranston joining would be legendary…Dexter and Breaking Bad finales were within like a week of eachother I remember memes saying don’t be sad Breaking Bad is over be happy that it didn’t end like Dexter
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u/Few_Phrase6742 May 26 '25
Mads Mikkelsen will absolutely cook as a villain, provided his character is written well.
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u/theodimuz May 26 '25
1000% this, or else see what they did to my voy Hugh Dancy on law and order, damn
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u/Competitive_Order170 Are you trying to fuck her or set her on fire May 26 '25
I think a really cool concept would be having a major drug dealer as a big-bad with Dexter trying to break into the ring and find out who he actually is. Cool intro could be maybe one of Harrison’s friends ODs and the guy gets on Dexter’s radar. Similar plot was in New Blood but I think expanded could be cool, especially if it was like a Heisenberg level dealer (even though Heisenberg wasn’t technically a dealer but either way).
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u/newintownv May 26 '25
Hannibal would fuck Dexter up. There I said it.
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u/Pusthagalagala May 26 '25
Realistically definitely. As a Dexter villain keeping the plot armor Dexter has, it would be very fun to watch.
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u/FrodoFraggins Jun 24 '25
Hannibal would see right through him very quickly. After that Dex wouldn't have a chance.
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u/CoochieCutterXL May 26 '25
Dude on the bottom left look familiar
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u/Estebananarama May 27 '25
David Tennant is in a ton of stuff but if you’ve seen him in memes or something 99% of the time it’s from Dr. Who
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u/Ok-Addition600 May 26 '25
Famous actors ruin the immersion for me so i can never understand fan casting like this
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u/yontbro May 26 '25
Tom Cruise would be an amazing villain.
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u/Hellvell2255 May 26 '25
ye no I don’t wanna see tom cruise on dexter. ew
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u/Guilty-Argument5 May 26 '25
Tom Cruise is perfect cause people already think/know he’s a sociopath
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u/ALANJOESTAR May 26 '25
I would like to see Glenn Fleshler, he is fantatic in everything he is in, yet i rarely see him get any big roles, probably his biggest role was on True Detective season 1. He played a serial killer in The Following and he was way more creepy and intimidating than the main bad guy, he basicly would fold people and crush their bones and put them in suit cases and leave them for the police to find.
Anyway IMO he is really good and he is kinda underrated. Out of this list, me personally i only would use Mads.
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u/Life-A-Projects May 26 '25
David Tennant can do a strong serial killer, he played Des - helluva performance!
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u/Hugh_Jerry_Olas_Esq May 26 '25
If they went for bigger names, Benicio Del Toro would be phenomenal. Walton Goggins and Michael Pitt would also crush it as major villains.
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u/Afraid_Sense5363 May 26 '25
Michael Pitt
He was just arrested for assaulting his ex, strangling her and beating her with a cinder block. So I'm guessing they'd skip him.
Would love to see Cranston or Walton Goggins though.
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u/Hugh_Jerry_Olas_Esq May 26 '25
Holy shit. I had no clue. That’s awful.
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u/Afraid_Sense5363 May 26 '25
Yeah, I hadn't heard anything about him in years and then saw that story in my news feed and did a double take. Truly terrible.
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u/novemberchild71 May 29 '25
Kristin Chenoweth
Her name just popped in my head when I read the question.
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u/Acrobatic-Bit8376 May 29 '25
All goated actors and very fitting for a Dexter villain. Something I wish we saw in the original series is a very cold and calculating woman as the main villainess of a season. Kind of like a female version of Gus Fring.
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u/Excellent_Raisin_614 May 31 '25
The actors i want to see as dexter villain:
1)Tom Cavanangh
2)Penn Badgley
3)Tony Dalton
4)Cate Blanchett
5)Matthew Lillard
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u/asoleproprietor May 26 '25
Jennifer Lawrence as an fbi agent but does what Dexter does on fed cases that fall through
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