iconic than Johnny Depp? Appearing in films since  the Mid 80s, Depp has had a wide variety of roles  

all across the morality spectrum. He's played  heroes, villains and everything in between. But  

who of these characters is truly the most  noble… and who is the most reprehensible?

I'm Kyle with WickedBinge. Make sure to  grab yourself a mega pint of red wine,  

because this is Johnny Depp  Characters: Good to Evil.

As usual, we'll be starting off our  list with the most noble character  

and working our way down.  These characters are The Good.

Earning our gold medal of good is Ichabod  Crane from the Tim Burton film, Sleepy Hollow.  

Crane is a police constable in the 1790s  who is sent upstate to investigate the  

titular town. Crane is looking to find out the  truth behind a myriad of brutal decapitations.  

Crane is lambasted for his usage of scientific  methods, especially when people consider that the  

killer may be a spirit. Ichabod tries his best to  solve the murder, even taking the orphaned child  

of one of the victims under his wing. Ichabod not  only deduces the truth behind someone controlling  

the horseman but also deduces the truth the  victims are all linked by a conspiracy. Of course,  

all of this turns out to be true and they try  to discredit him. Not only does he return the  

skull to a grateful Horseman but he defeats  Van Tassel and saves Sleepy Hollow. Crane  

is one of Depp's most heroic characters and  definitely deserves this spot on the list.

Taking the silver medal of good is The Mad Hatter  from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Series.  

Upon first meeting him, The Hatter becomes a  massive asset to Alice's time in Underland.  

He is a member of the White Queen's resistance  against the Red Queen after all of his family  

is murdered by her people. He helps Alice escape  and hide from the Knave but this causes him to  

be captured in her stead. He forms a special  bond with Alice because they are both loners  

and outsiders and he does a lot to help her on  her journey. It is also heavily implied he has  

some form of Dissociative Identity Disorder, and  both Depp and Burton confirm this was a part of  

their initial idea for the character. Despite  being labeled as “mad” it's also implied that  

he grew mad from mercury poisoning that many  hatters suffered a long time ago. Hatter is  

one of the most helpful and heroic characters on  this list and definitely deserves his spot here.

Taking our bronze medal of good is The Corpse  Bride's Victor Van Dort ranks next on our list. A  

young Victorian man in an arranged marriage for  money, Victor is a nervous wreck at the best of  

times. Victor ends up in the Land of the Dead  after accidentally proposing to a revenant named  

Emily. Now the thing about this is, despite it  being an arranged marriage, Victor and Victoria  

do love each other, and Victor tries his best to  let her down easily, and obviously, that doesn't  

happen. Throughout all of his time in the Land  of the Dead, he tries his hardest to get back to  

Victoria and be with her. He is even willing to  marry Emily and die once he learns that Victoria  

is marrying Bittern. He brings up the dead to the  land of the living and reunites people with their  

loved ones. In the end, he's even the one who  gives Emily her revenge. Victor is the purest  

example of a guy who is trying his best but always  screwing up, it's no surprise he ranks here.

The next character on our list is Rango from the  film of the same name. Rango was a pet chameleon  

who gets lost in the desert and comes across the  town of Dirt. He was an actor who was great at  

telling stories, becoming a legend of the west and  the lizard with no name. He became the sheriff of  

Dirt and very quickly let that power get to his  head, despite this, he tries to not only bring  

the water back but save the day. He finds out  the truth behind the mayor and tries to convince  

everyone of this. Sure, he does end up lying to  everyone and putting a lot of people in danger,  

but he was trying his best, and in the end,  he managed to save the day, hence his ranking.

Coming from 2013's The Lone Ranger, Tonto is  next on our list. Tonto is a native American  

from the Comanche tribe who accidentally  led to the death of all of his tribe. Tonto  

is implied to have some sort of magical  abilities as he knew about John's power as  

a “Spirit Walker”. He even forges a  mystical silver bullet believing Cavendish,  

the man who killed John to be a beast known  as a Wendigo. It turns out that as a child,  

Tonto had saved Cavendish from near-death  out of the kindness of his heart,  

leading Cavendish to kill all of his tribe to  keep the location a secret. Tonto deals with  

great guilt and wants his revenge, but he does  his best to help The Lone Ranger during his quest,  

even telling children the tale of John and his  power. Tonto is a good man who is trying to  

atone for the sins he believed he committed,  so it's no doubt he lands here on the list.

The next character on our list is the  titular Sherlock Gnomes from Sherlock Gnomes.  

Now as his name implies, he's a garden gnome  version of the popular character Sherlock Holmes.  

He appears early on in the film facing his  mortal enemy Moriarty and it becomes clear  

that he's very similar to his book  counterpart. He ends up allowing Juliet  

and Gnomeo to tag along as he hunts down Moriarty  who he thinks survived their previous encounter.  

Sherlock only really cares about his work, even  having broken up with Irene through a letter and  

only visiting her for work. He's said to be a  sworn protector of all gnomes but he does cause  

some collateral smashing here and there. Sherlock  is intensely intelligent for the most part, but  

he's also shown to be prideful and a workaholic,  but he's still a good guy for the most part.

Rounding out the good bit of our list is none  other than Edward from the titular Edward  

Scissorhands. Edward is an artificial ageless  man created by an unknown inventor. Unable to be  

finished, Edward has scissors for his hands and is  seen as a sort of scary to those who are unaware  

of him. He became popular due to his ability  to give out haircuts to women and dogs alike,  

and this led to him becoming friends with Kim  and her family. Sure, he ends up killing Jim, but  

it was in self-defense, and he decides to leave  behind everyone so as to not hurt them because of  

this. Yes, Edward suffers from not understanding  many social cues or what is the right thing to  

do in certain contexts. However, we can't blame  him, due to being stuck in a castle for decades,  

it's hard to say if he could have been better,  but he definitely deserves this spot on the list.

With the good boys out of the way, we  can move onto the Gray Area of our list.

Starting off the gray area of our list is  Barnabas Collins from 2012's Dark Shadows.  

Collins was a man cursed to become a vampire  because he didn't love a witch as she loved him.  

He was buried for many years and dug up in the  modern era, he is shown to become quite attached  

to his modern family and the wonders of the  modern world. He loved a woman named Josette and  

has a strong obsession with her that carries over  into the modern day. He tries his best to fit in,  

even though he's not used to it, this isn't always  the case, however, because he is shown to have a  

strong dislike to anyone who dares betray him.  He shows no forgiveness at the worst of times,  

especially to the main antagonist, who has  tried to ruin his family. Barnabas is prone  

to moments of rage and anger that get the  better of him, but in the end, he's not  

nearly as bad a person in this adaptation.  Much like previous characters on this list,  

he suffers from not knowing how to interact with  people which we can't really hold against him.

Up next on our list is Johnny's very first role,  Glen Lantz from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Glen  

was a seventeen-year-old who lived on the iconic  Elm Street as one of the teens having nightmares  

about Freddy Krueger. Glen is part of the  group that witnesses Tina's death by Freddy  

and is told by Nancy to wake her in  case she gets pulled into a nightmare.  

Glen ends up passing out and Nancy berates him  for it. After being set up for failure pretty  

much he ends up killed by Kreuger and never  seen again beyond a massive fountain of blood.  

Glen is a typical dull kind of guy who  doesn't know enough to save Nancy or himself,  

however, he's not malicious, and if anything  he's not even dumb enough to cause real problems.

He's got a jar of dirt, Jack  Sparrow from the Pirates of The  

Caribbean series ranks next on our list. Jack  is a notorious and infamous pirate who has many  

pirate-related crimes under his belt. He is  said to have an enemy in every port and is a  

cross between a piratical genius and a madman.  Jack is also a drunkard, quite often drinking  

rum even during important moments. Despite his  general madness and crazy actions, he is shown  

to get serious at times when it's necessary,  due to focusing mostly on his intelligence.  

Relying on his intelligence he adhered strongly  to the Pirate's Code, the basis for his morality.  

We won't be getting into it too much, but  a shortened version includes: every member  

of the crew must get a fair portion of the  booty, betrayal is punished by death, killing  

a surrendering foe is unallowed and knowingly  sinking other pirates is strictly forbidden.  

This shows that despite his rough exterior, his  general silliness, and his crime-based background,  

he does have a consistent moral system that he  follows, and he definitely deserves his spot.

Coming next on our list is Lord Charlie Mortdecai  from the self-titled Mortdecai. Mortdecai is a  

swindler and “art dealer” who starts off  the movie accosted by one of his victims.  

We learn that Mortdecai and his wife have  crippling debt that needs to be handled, and  

an opportunity falls into their lap when a police  officer pressures Mortdecai into helping him with  

an art theft case. Mortdecai and his servant Jock  try their best to find out who has the painting,  

although he gets kidnapped by people who think  he has it and accidentally leads to the death of  

another art dealer named Spinoza. When they find  out that a man named Milton Krampf has it, they  

try to steal it, but this goes horribly wrong,  leading to Strago obtaining the fake painting.  

Charlie ends up obtaining the “real” painting  and selling it to the people who kidnapped him  

earlier, although it is revealed that's another  fake. Mortdecai is a loving husband, but he  

is also highly deceptive, despite all this, his  crimes are unimportant at best, hence his ranking.

Rounding out the gray area of our list is the  titular Gilbert Grape from What's Eating Gilbert  

Grape. Gilbert is the main character of the film  and pretty much the sole caretaker of his younger  

brother Arnie. Gilbert also took up the role of  protecting Arnie and repairing the house that  

was falling apart, not to mention that his job  has grown to be in danger. It becomes quickly  

obvious that he's not really all that great  because he does have an affair with a married  

woman and is a direct cause of Arnie's aquaphobia  after leaving him in the bath all night. He ends  

up getting close with a woman named Becky, who  also becomes close with the rest of his family,  

however, Gilbert's anger gets the better of him.  He assaults and beats up his mentally deficient  

younger brother, however, he does feel guilty  and appalled by that fact. He does eventually  

get forgiven and even forgives his mother for not  being able to provide for her family. He tries  

his best, and it's commendable, but he's also  not really the best person, hence his ranking.

But now we go down to the worst of  the worst, these are the Bad to Evil.

The next character on our list is Willy Wonka from  Tim Burton's 2005 Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.  

Wonka is a reclusive, crazed, candy-obsessed  man, who after being betrayed by his employees,  

shut down his factory. Wonka is shown to be  erratic, quick to annoyance, and not one to  

listen to dissent. However, it is also shown that  he is a good boss and generally a good person.  

Sure, his entire chocolate factory seems like  a death trap and it's implied that he might be  

leading the children to their doom on purpose, but  we can see he didn't kill anyone. He's even shown  

to be quite the good boss when it comes to the  Oompa-Loompas, learning their language, paying  

them in the one thing they actually  want, and in one scene you can see  

that he even built them homes similar  to the ones in Loompa-Land. That said…  

the glaring strike against him is that even though  the kids survived… I mean, he really deformed them  

and didn't really seem to care… And we couldn't  in good conscience place outside the bad section.

Beginning the Bad section of our list  is Axel Blackmar from Arizona Dream.  

Axel is a fish tagger in New York who is called  down to Arizona for his uncle's trophy wedding.  

He is then ambushed by his family to take over the  family business, which he is initially against,  

but decides to pursue. Axel then starts  lusting after a woman named Elaine,  

trying to fulfill her dream of building a  flying machine and rebuilding it multiple times.  

Somehow he decides the best way to fix this issue  is to put Elaine and her stepdaughter Grace out  

of their misery but he ends up unable to do it.  He plays Russian Roulette with Grace but the gun  

doesn't work and he eventually stops contacting  Elaine in general after the death of Leo.  

He does try to stop Grace from her suicide attempt  and ends up promising her that he'll go to Alaska  

for her. At the end of the film, he breaks into  his uncle's Cadillac shop just to sleep there.  

In the end, the whole film is a very surreal  experience and it's hard to judge Axel because  

it's hard to say how much was even the full story.  But he did try to execute two women because he  

didn't want to continue rebuilding the flying  machine, so we do have to rank him quite low.