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The Ten Scariest Characters on TV Now

By Angel Cohn, TWoP | Friday, October 30, 2009, 3:18 PM

Jillian Michaels will push you to the limit on "Biggest Loser"!

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With Halloween in the air and a new fall season more than halfway done, it's an appropriate time to spotlight the characters and personalities that have sent chills up our spine. Here are the ten scariest people on television this season. Be afraid, be very afraid.

10. Russell ("Survivor")
Not the one who almost died; the other one. The one that looks like a bulldog. He's not quite the evil mastermind the show made him out to be but he's still more than a little intimidating and probably not the kind of guy you'd really want to spend much time around.

9. Irina ("Project Runway")
Yes, you've got to call it like it is sometimes, and there's no doubting that Irina is totally talented, but don't you get the impression that she'd smother one of the contestants in their sleep if she thought they had a better chance of winning than she did?

8. Damon ("The Vampire Diaries")
He's a callous killer who is out for blood and doesn't care about the consequences. We like that in a guy. Plus, he earns extra credit for not just killing innocent folks, but also emotionally manipulating everyone around him.

7. Terri ("Glee")
It's not just because we don't like her (though there's that), but there's something kind of terrifying about the way that she can quickly come up with an excuse for everything. A pathological liar is someone you don't want to reckon with.

6. Trinity ("Dexter")
He cuts up girls in bathtubs, forces people's mothers to jump out of buildings, bludgeons kindly baristas, (probably) shoots cops and federal agents -- and we just found out he's a devoted and loving family man as well. Yikes!

5. Echo ("Dollhouse")
She's not the vacant, easily manipulated doll she used to be. She's become very secretive about her knowledge, has the personalities of every imprint roaming around in her head and can become a serial killer at a moment's notice.

4. Violet ("Private Practice")
There's something really frightening about a therapist who is so unstable and immature that she gives bad advice on a regular basis. Your therapist isn't supposed to be a basket case who tells you to go out and get an abortion because she hates her own child.

3. Mary Murphy ("So You Think You Can Dance")
It's the scream that really freaks us out. That noise could be put on loop at your Halloween party and neighborhood kids would run away in terror. Seriously, try it if you don't feel like giving out candy.

2. The League ("Sons of Anarchy")
The League is a group of white supremacist gang-rapists with seemingly unlimited funds and influence, and they're on the verge of completely decimating the livelihood of SAMCRO. So, yeah, we'd say they're a tad frightening.

1. Jillian Michaels ("The Biggest Loser")
It is arguably her job to be terrifying, but she's really, really good at her job. When she starts screaming at people, we almost want to get to the nearest elliptical and run, too, just so she doesn't come after us. Those last-chance workouts give us nightmares.

Talk About It: What TV personalities scare you the most this season?

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