As of 3am on Monday morning winter will have officially arrived and with it a spate of disbelieving gasps. If its predecessor is anything to go by, season 6 of Game of Thrones is likely to include more villainy than a symposium of Bond baddies, with Ramsay Bolton/Snow (Iwan Rheon), formerly Snow, leading the charge as outrage generator-in-chief.In case you needed reminding, Ramsay's atrocity CV reads like the work of Jeffrey Dahmer after a stressful day. The not so lovable bastard son of Roose Bolton introduced himself to viewers by spending an entire season gleefully torturing Theon Greyjoy, an ordeal that included manually castrating him. Since then we have seen him orchestrate peasant escapes for the sole purpose of hunting them down with dogs, raping his new bride Sansa Stark on her wedding night before imprisoning her and taking far too much pleasure in flaying people.Season 5 busied itself with the task of upgrading Bolton from a sadistic side-character to major player in the fate of The North, so it is safe to expect that budding serial killers will have the opportunity to pick up a lot more tips this season.Villainy Rating: The Napoleon Bonaparte of sadistsStannis Baratheon:The powerless self-proclaimed king of Westeros is not your typical bad guy. He is not naturally inclined to malevolence but rather a kind of iron-willed sense of what is rightly owed to him. It is this, and a certain woman in red, that leads him down a pretty dark path.Crimes: Burning people who do not subject themselves to his will is par for the course for Stannis but what sets him apart is the lengths he will go to in order to gain the throne. Baratheon unflinchingly has his daughter, one of the few people he seemed fond of, tied to a stake and set alight so that he could curry favour with a deity and win his upcoming war.Villainy Rating: Someone who makes you appreciate your daddy issuesCersei Lannister:As the hyper-ruthless queen regent, Cersei had everything she wanted during the early stages of season 5. She was the de facto queen of all she surveyed and rather enjoyed lording that over people. Karma can be very unfriendly and expressed its displeasure in her by having an order of religious nuts kidnap and torture her before forcing her to walk through the city naked through a storm of vegetables.Crimes: She, with the help of her psychotic son, Joffrey, orchestrated the beheading of Ned Stark, the father of her soon-to-be daughter-in-law. She then forced Sansa into marrying her son even though she knew him to be nuttier than squirrel poo.After the death of her son she tried to have her own brother Tyrion killed and then married the already heavily abused Sansa off to the king villain Ramsay Bolton/Snow.Villainy Rating: A megalomaniacal Elizabeth TaylorDaenerys Targaryen:While not a villain in the classical sense, we have seen that the slave-freeing Queen of Meereen is not above a little cruelty. Moreover, if there is one thing that GoT has taught us, it's that everyone is corruptible when need pushes them. There is also the small matter of the insanity that runs in her family.Crimes: Daenerys has repeatedly used some rather extreme measures to achieve her goals. When she won Meereen, her first order of business was to crucify 163 people. Then, in an effort to quell a rebellion, she fed members of the ruling caste in Meereen to her dragons, a thing she had done before.Villainy Rating: Nelson Mandela with a mean streakGame of Thrones premieres on DStv channel 102 at 3am on Monday...