If shows like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia have taught us anything, it's that scheming, shameless, self-centered characters are even more fun to root for than "heroes."
Long before Mr. Burns spent his days polluting Springfield and mutating its wildlife with the waste from his nuclear power plant, he was a cowardly infantryman, a would-be art thief, and an absconder of the U.S.'s sole trillion-dollar bill. A scoundrel of supreme proportions, and also our favorite Springfieldian.
