EastEnders spoilers: First photos of Lucy Beale flashback episode revealed

It's going to be an explosive week on the BBC One soap, as fans will not only find out who killed Lucy Beale - they will also bid goodbye to Nasty Nick, once and for all. To pay homage to the long-running soap villain, we've taken a look back at the show's most evil characters of all time

All hail Janine Butcher, the queen of evil! The Walford favourite has done pretty much all there is to do; she killed Barry, told everyone Jamie Mitchell was bad in bed, masqueraded as a Jewish orphan, poisoned her boyfriend, kidnapped Stacey Branning's daughter, stabbed herself to frame someone for murder, and plenty more besides. Phew

Dotty Cotton is the spawn of Nasty Nick, so we expected bad things from her right from the word go - even if she did dupe plenty of people with her cute-as-a-button pigtails. The little terror bunked off school, terrorised stroke victim Jim Branning, AND planned to kill her granny (aka the long-suffering Dot Cotton). No wonder Albert Square breathed a sigh of relief when she finally left..

Oh Stella, could you have been the most evil soap villain of all? Maybe. This crazy woman not only agreed to marry Phil Mitchell (yeuch!), but also terrorised and abused his little boy Ben - presumably turning him into the murderer we know and love today. Nice work, Stella

babynapping, she wound up being defeated and… well, she exploded after falling foul of a gas leak. Bye bye, Mad May

Boo, hiss! Archie Mitchell broke so many hearts when he arrived in Walford, separating Ronnie from her daughter, stole The Vic from Peggy, blackmailed poor old Ian Beale, and raped Stacey Branning

Steve Owen was television gold (yeah, we went there!), wasn't he? He murdered poor old Saskia by bumping her over the head with an ashtray, framed Matthew Rose for her death, slept with Sam Mitchell in a bid to annoy arch nemesis Phil… but he did rescue baby Louise from a fiery inferno, leading to his own death in the process. And it was MARTIN KEMP, so it was hard to be too mad with him - those big ol' baby blues just melted our hearts

Okay, it's official; Trevor Morgan was THE WICKEDEST MAN to ever set foot in Walford. He tormented and abused Little Mo to no end, burning her with an iron, ramming her face into her Christmas dinner, raping her and, generally, being an utterly sadistic monster

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Raise your hand if you remember Lucas? Yeah, us too. How could you forget the guy who IMPALED HIS EX WIFE WITH AN ACTUAL RAKE?!?! Exactly. Throw in the fact that he strangled Owen, imprisoned Denise, murdered a prostitute who LOOKED like Denise, and was, generally, a bit of a religious nut. Who tries to baptise people in the canal, eh? Lucas Johnson, that's who. Shudder

We used to love the vibrant and confident Zainab, so we were horrified when we learned that her ex-husband Yusef had set her on fire - actual fire - when she had an affair with Masood. But things got steadily worse when he began manipulating his ex with pills and drove a wedge between her and her loveable postman husband. He wound up becoming abusive, turning Zainab into a shell of her former self - and tried to murder her and (pretty much) her entire family. Still, he did leave her everything in his will after he burned to his death, so that's… well, that's something, we suppose

He killed Heather, people! HE KILLED HEATHER!!! Although it probably was Stella's fault…

We used to think Dean Wicks was alright - he was a bit dopey, a little bit lost, and he had a LOT of unrequited crushes. But, come 2014, he turned true villain, attacking Linda Carter and raping her in the kitchen of the Queen Vic while her family enjoyed themselves downstairs. Worse still? He is continuing to lie about it in a VERY big way, tormenting the Carter family mercilessly

Quite possibly the hottest badboy of all time, Sean was deliciously crazy, helping Tanya to bury Max Branning alive, kidnapping Roxy's daughter Amy, and, well, driving all three of them into an icy lake. But he did most of those things out of love, so we're not sure how evil he really is

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