The Devil Wears Prada is a film that has inspired devotion and endless rounds of online discourse about who, exactly, the villain of this coming-of-age rom-com-but-for-your-career movie is.
In the interest of putting this debate to rest once and for all, and in honor of the film's sixteenth anniversary, me (Mary Colussi, hello) and my partner in The Devil Wears Prada investigations, Natasha Jokic, have decided to rank all of the characters and societal forces in this film from least to most villainous. Disagree if you must, but know that we have watched this movie a frankly unsettling amount of times between us, so we're coming by our opinions honestly.