Days Of Our Lives' 10 Best Characters Ever, Ranked

By Team TVLine
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3. Sami Brady

Salem's most infamous scheme queen could've taken her life's motto from Mae West: When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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1. Marlena Evans

Since her 1976 introduction, the men she's loved have changed (from Don Craig to Roman Brady to John Black). The calamities she's faced have changed (the poor thing's been kidnapped, "killed" and yes, even demonically possessed). But one thing has remained exactly the same: how much we've rooted for Deidre Hall's plucky Doc.

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10. Alice Horton

Whether the late Frances Reid's matriarch was hanging Christmas ornaments or serving her legendary donuts, just the sight of her made us feel like we were home.

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4. EJ DiMera

When paired with the troublemaker at No. 3 on this list, James Scott's complicated conniver became so popular that he was resurrected for a reunion on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.

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5. Stefano DiMera

So mythical a character is the supervillain who plagued Salem for decades that we half-expect the Phoenix to rise yet again despite the 2016 passing of Joseph Mascolo.

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8. Vivian Alamain

Villainesses don't come any more deliciously wicked than the conniver who swiped Kate Roberts' embryo and buried Carly Manning alive!

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2. Bo Brady

If you were holding out for a hero in the 1980s, we'll bet you dollars to (Alice's) donuts, this rebel was the one you wished would ride to your rescue.

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9. Ben Weston and Ciara Brady

We're counting the CIN-sational lovers as a single entity for the purposes of this ranking, because like most fans, we can't bear the thought of them being apart.

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7. Patch Johnson

We haven't been able to take our eye... er, eyes off the reformed rogue since Kayla Brady first teased out his sweetness more than 30 years ago.

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6. John Black

Over the years, Drake Hogestyn's long-running alter ego has been everything from Roman Brady to the Pawn to a priest, but one thing he's never been... is boring.

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