Complete Monster/Film

"''"I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want, but I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death... which you ain't gonna get."''"

- Mr. Blonde, Reservoir Dogs, proving what a monster he is.

Movie villains are quite the varied lot, as any browsing of the Villains page will tell you. This page covers the very worst of them, whose utter cruelty and horrible deeds are more than enough to earn these villains a special place in Hell. This page is mostly for characters from live-action films. It is preferred that you keep mention of characters from animated films on the Western Animation page, or, if the characters in question are from a Disney film, the Disney page. Alternatively, you may have wanted Monster.

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 * A Cure For Wellness: Dr. Heinrich Volmer is a seemingly-kindly doctor running a wellness center in the Alps. In truth, Volmer is a centuries-old baron who survived his own people's attempt at killing him in revenge for murdering so many of them to discover the secret to immortality. Obsessed with blood purity, Volmer raped his sister into submission until she married him. In the present, Volmer uses the center to lure in patients, who are brainwashed and subjected to macabre experiments where a certain breed of eel is inserted into them so that their fluids are filtered out and used for a drug that extends long life. The effects are inevitably fatal, and Volmer has the desiccated corpses fed to the eels after. It is revealed a young woman named Hannah is Volmer's own daughter, and when she reaches puberty physically, Volmer attempts to rape her as well after having subjected the film's hero Lockhart to brainwashing and torture when he tries to find out the truth. When Lockhart interferes, Volmer reveals his true elitist psychopathy and tries to feed Lockhart to the eels, but not before brutally drilling through one of his teeth.
 * Adam from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the vampire from whom all other vampires came and the ruler of all vampires in America, is a 5,000 year old monster who makes his home in the American South. Having created a system where the vampires stay secret while draining the innocent, Adam nourishes his "family" by using slaves sent to the plantation to be drained and torn apart for their blood. When he hears of young Abraham Lincoln's abilities, Adam sacrifices multiple vampires to test Lincoln's abilities and makes Lincoln an offer to become Adam's personal hunter, starting with Henry Sturges, Lincoln's Mentor, who Adam turned into a vampire after murdering his fiancee. Adam later commits his forces to the Civil War, slaughtering Union soldiers en masse. To punish Lincoln for his resistance, Adam sends his sister and enforcer Vadoma to murder Lincoln's youngest child.
 * Secundus from Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe is a former finder who was partnered with Abraxas. Eventually, his list for power grew out of control and he decided to seek the Anti-Life Equation, not caring that using it would cause a wave of planet-destroying energy. In his pursuit of the Equation, Secundus comes to Earth and forcibly impregnates a human woman with an embryo that is key to finding the Equation before Abraxas captures him. Five years later, he escapes to Earth to find his son, assaulting and killing anybody who stands in his way, culminating in him holding a class of children hostage. After the son comes out, Secundus tries to Mind Rape the Equation into his mind.
 * Both villains in the film Act of Valor fit this trope:
 * Abu Shabal is a Chechnyan Jihadist who desires to commit terror attacks on America for Islam. His first appearance has him driving an Ice Cream Truck with an accomplice that's rigged to explode, and his target was a Phillipino school, killing several schoolchildren, including an American child and his father, the American ambassador. He then gains some bomb jackets that cannot be detected specifically because they use ceramic ball berings rather than metallic ones so they could commit terrorism on a massive scale in America and cause a collapse to society. It's also strongly implied that he forces several of his minions to undergo martyrdom against their will, as the accomplice from the car bomb is shown terrified at having to go through with the suicide bombing, and the woman he rigs with the vest to distract the SEALs when they are in hot pursuit to the tunnel is shown to be hesitant in going through with it (to which Shamal "reassures" her that she'll be reunited with her husband in heaven) and is visibly shown silently sobbing when she ends up having to go through with the suicide bombing.
 * Christo, the Ukrainian drug dealer, is also cut from the same cloth, even with his one redeemable trait (his love for his family). First off, he is shown delivering drugs to various people across the world. In addition, he is also in league with Abu Shamal and arranges for the capture of a CIA agent in Costa Rica when it became apparent that she discovered some evidence about his partnership with Shamal, and then orders for her to be tortured, including being beat up, and then have her hands and feet impaled with a drill. Oh, and the reason why he qualifies as one despite his loyalty to his family? He is shown grinning upon his capture when telling the SEALs that the can't stop Shabal's plans after explaining them when faced with the prospect that he won't see his family again when he was captured, meaning that even after admitting what Shabal's plans, he has absolutely no regrets with working with him. Also, he's the one who supplied the vests to Shabal and his Jihadists, as well as a means to smuggle them into the country, meaning that he was also responsible for Shabal's crimes had he succeeded in infiltrating America and committing terrorist attacks.
 * In 1996 film The Adventures of Pinocchio, there is Lorenzini. He is another incarnation of the evil Coachman who is already mentioned on the Disney and Literature pages. In this incarnation, however, he is a Composite Character together with the puppet master. As always, he kidnaps a bunch of innocent children and turns them into donkeys and even has one of them skinned to make boots. Luckily, unlike all the other versions, he is NOT a Karma Houdini here.
 * Æon Flux: Vice Chairman Oren Goodchild is the traitorous younger brother of Chairman Trevor Goodchild and the Big Bad. Oren and Trevor rule a society that was rendered sterile by a vaccine Trevor used to save humanity from a virus 400 years in the past, cloning people and faking pregnancies to hide the sterility from the public. While Trevor intends to find a cure for the infertility, Oren wants to remain an immortal dictator, even as each new generation of clones suffer from increasingly worse nightmares. Ruthless about keeping power, Oren feeds information to a resistance group in the hopes they will assassinate his brother, staging a coup to become Chairman when the attempt fails and kills every woman who becomes naturally pregnant.
 * Agneepath (2012): Kancha Cheena is a sadistic drug kingpin who seeks to establish a criminal empire in Mumbai. Kancha firmly believes in having no desire nor attachments in life, which he proves by manipulating his father into giving up the island village of Mandwa before he murders a school girl and frames Master Dinanath Chauhan, a highly respected school teacher who had been trying to stop Kancha, for the crime. After executing Master Chauhan and chasing the Master's family out of the island, Kancha begins running Mandwa as a concentration camp for the next 15 years. During this time, Mumbai’s police commissioner Gaitonde compares Kancha to Adolf Hitler, given how horribly Kancha exploits and massacres villagers. When Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (the Master’s son) returns to the island, he finds out first-hand that Kancha will gleefully torture and kill anyone who opposes him. The extent of Kancha's brutality ranges from personally executing a dissenting villager and having his henchmen ambush and brutally murder Vijay’s newlywed wife during the hero's wedding day to callously tossing his own father down a flight of stairs to his death during the climax. During the final fight, Kancha prepares to hang Vijay from the same tree from which his father was hung, before Vijay manages to reverse this before dying. What makes Kancha’s crimes truly stand out, however, is that he embraces his own atrocities by comparing himself to the Devil or Ravana ruling his Lanka. Overall, Kancha’s ruthless nature and his shameless pride in his atrocities help him go down as one of the most vicious villains ever created in Bollywood history.
 * The sadistic "Picasso" from Alex Cross is an assassin who was hired to eliminate Giles Mercier and his associates Fan Yau Lee and Erich Nunemacher who hired him? . After being invited to Fan Yau's house, he proceeds to sedate her with a paralyzing drug. Afterwards, he murders all of her bodyguards and tortures her to death by cutting off all of her fingers. He later goes after Nunemacher, but fails to kill him due to Alex Cross and his partners Monica and Tommy interfering. As punishment for their interference, Picasso breaks into Monica's apartment and tortures her to death, shortly before sending a photo of her body to Cross's cell phone. Picasso then makes it personal by murdering Maria, Cross's pregnant wife, and later calls him after her funeral, telling Cross that the only reason why he killed her instead of him was so he could make him suffer. Picasso then goes after Giles Mercier, attacking his convoy with a rocket and killing several police officers, along with Nunemacher and Mercier's double. During Picasso's final confrontation with Cross, Picasso subdues Cross and attempts to inject him with the same paralyzing drug as well.
 * Hermann von Balk, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in Alexander Nevsky, represents a medieval version of the Nazis. Invading Russia under the belief that they should convert to Roman Catholicism or die, he has the village of Pskov slaughtered and the survivors captured. When the village elder tries to reason with him, Hermann has him killed. Afterward, he has toddlers ripped out of their mothers' arms and thrown into a bonfire.
 * Carter Burke from Aliens. The guy seems okay at first, but then his true colors are slowly revealed to show that not only is he a Dirty Coward, but a Complete Monster willing to send colonists to their deaths if it gets him paid and to get chestbursters implanted into Newt and Ripley to get alien samples back home.
 * His actor, Paul Reiser, brought his parents to the film, and when his character was killed, his parents nodded in approval. When your parents completely approve of your character's death, you know he was a Monster.
 * Dr. Mason Wren from Alien: Resurrection is the head scientist of the covert military operation on the starship the USS Auriga, performing illegal experiments to bring back the Xenomorphs. He clones the deceased Ellen Ripley multiple times to extract the Queen hibernating in her. Most of the clones are born mutated and die agonizing deaths, which he stores for further study. He keeps the second-to-last one alive in constant pain and agony. He persuades General Perez to hire a bunch of space pirates to kidnap deep space travelers while they are still sleeping inside their stasis pods, and then implants them with facehuggers while looking on with smug satisfaction. He is ready to execute all of the pirates on the mere suspicion that one of them might be an infiltrator. When the Xenomorphs escape and they all try to get off the ship, he betrays the others and murders Call as soon as he gets a weapon and leaves everyone else to be killed by the Xenomorphs so he can pilot the ship back to Earth himself. He later takes a hostage whom he threatens to kill in a last attempt to win.
 * All Hallows' Eve: Art the Clown is a sadist who revels in torture and murder. He's introduced in the first segment, The 9th Circle, drugging Casey and handing her over to a coven of witches, who prepare her to be raped by The Devil. In the third segment, Terrifier, he viciously murders his way through a number of victims, all the while relentlessly pursuing the costume designer who saw him dismembering the corpse of the gas station attendant. When he finally catches up with her, he dismembers and mutilates her while she's unconscious, removing her breasts and carving a string of vulgar terms into her torso. He spends most of the wraparound segment stalking and tormenting Sarah and the children, particularly Tia, which all culminates in him killing the two children. A frightening and murderous being with no boundaries, Art truly puts the "monster" in Monster Clown.
 * All Superheroes Must Die (also known as VS.) has a monster in the form of Rickshaw, who places the four heroes, Charge, Cutthroat, Shadow, and The Wall, in a deadly "game" with over a hundred innocent civilians. For every "challenge" the heroes successfully complete, Rickshaw will let some hostages go. For every challenge they fail, he will set off bombs and kill hostages. If the heroes refuse to play, forfeit, or try to escape, he will blow up the town and kill them and all the hostages. To prove he's not bluffing, Rickshaw kills a hostage without even giving him a chance to be saved. When the heroes successfully complete their first challenge (losing The Wall in the process), Rickshaw kills 10 hostages anyway. In the second challenge, he'll spare a civilian for each of the remaining heroes who will commit suicide themselves to save three hostages (Charge kills the three hostages, as he figured Rickshaw would kill them anyway, and he wanted to prevent the others from making a Senseless Sacrifice). In the third challenge, he gives Cutthroat the Sadistic Choice of killing one of his teammates to save his sister (both Cutthroat and his sister and up dying, the latter by Rickhsaw's hands). In the fourth challenge, he tells Shadow and Charge that one of them must kill the other. Finally, after being shot, his final act before dying is to set off a detonator to blow up the entire city.
 * Giulio Sacchi from Almost Human is a two-bit thug looking to hit the big time. After a failed job, Sacchi rapes his girlfriend to blow off steam before deciding to kidnap a young woman who happens to be the daughter of a very wealthy man. Giulio and his gang purchase guns from a supplier who requests a hefty security deposit so the guns will not be used for murder, but Giulio promptly murders the old man and his wife before kidnapping the target and killing her boyfriend. When she flees to a nearby house, Giulio kills the old man at the house to make a point to the rest of the family and accidentally shoots the little girl when she surprises him. Without remorse, he massacres the rest of the family and proceeds to murder his girlfriend to keep his cover while confessing to her he has no remorse. After abusing his captive, he kills her after he gets the ransom and kills his friends as not to share it with them.
 * Amen: "The Doctor" is a superficially charming man who's a high-ranking Nazi SS officer intimately involved in the extermination policies of the Hitler regime. At first he personally selects German patients at mental asylums to be killed, smiling at his oblivious victims – many of them children – before sending them away to be gassed. One of those killed is the niece of his later colleague Kurt Gerstein, a conscientious SS officer who is horrified by the use of his chemicals to exterminate people instead of pests. The Doctor enthusiastically takes part in the planning and execution of The Holocaust, eventually taking up a position in a death camp. When the Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana protests the Pope's decision to stay silent about the mass murder of Jews by allowing himself to be taken to the camp, the Doctor notes that he'll be the one to "decide who is a Jew" before forcing Father Fontana to work in the crematoria to break his spirit. Gerstein tries to secure the priest's release by falsifying papers from Himmler, but the Doctor instead has Father Fontana killed and orders Gerstein's arrest. The Doctor's only regret at the end of the war as he secures safe passage to Argentina for himself through the Vatican is that he couldn't kill more people after already sending thousands to their deaths.
 * American Ninja 4: The Annihilation: Col. Scott Mulgrew is a corrupt former soldier fired from his position for murdering prisoners during interrogation. Mulgrew turns into a terrorist who starts a plot alongside co-conspirator Maksood to extort 50 million dollars out of America under the threat of nuking New York, overseeing the slaughter of an American squad and capturing the survivors with intent to burn them all alive. A master of torture and interrogation with his own personal torture dungeon, Mulgrew murders a contact of the film's heroes, Davidson and Carl, tortures and executes three patrons of a bar they passed through, and later visits torture on Davidson and Carl themselves after demonstrating it on the soldiers he's holding captives. Displaying clear intentions to rape their compatriot Sarah — who's father he killed — to further satisfy himself and molesting her in front of Carl and Davidson to hurt them further, Mulgrew ultimately responds to complications by trying to burn his prisoners alive ahead of time and furiously trying to cut down Davidson with an axe once he breaks out. Possessed of a vast streak of atrocities and proud of every body on his hands, Mulgrew lacks the religious delusions of his compatriots and commits every atrocity he does purely out of sadistic gratification.
 * American Sniper gives us The Butcher who not only murders a little boy with power drill right in front of the crying father but he also enjoys cutting people into pieces. He represents every dark stereotype about fanatical Islam.
 * An American Werewolf in Paris: Claude is the leader of a werewolf society in Paris and the owner of Club de la Lune. Using his club to lure in tourists and thrill seekers, Claude has them locked in when he and his men transform, killing the humans. It was at such a party Andy gets bitten and his friend Brad gets killed. When Claude tries to recruit Andy, he tries to have him kill his friend Chris as an initiation. He also explains his belief that werewolves are superior to humans and his disdain of hospitals and charities for empowering the weak. It is also revealed he turned himself into a werewolf by stealing the blood of the benevolent werewolf Serafine. When he learns that Serafine's scientist stepfather made a botched cure for lycanthropy, which causes immediate transformations, Claude kills him and raids his lab, so he can distribute the drug in his club and transform whenever he wants to kill innocent people.
 * Antibodies (Antikörper) (2005): Gabriel Engel is a sickening Serial Killer obsessed with evil itself and his own twisted, artistic vision of murder and torture. Engel's pattern is to kidnap a young boy, torture, maim, and rape him to his heart's desire, then slowly drain him of his blood until death, after which he uses said blood as paint for his artwork. After murdering 13 boys this way, Engel guns down a cop who stumbles across his latest killing before being caught. Once in prison, Engel first gives explicit details on his first victim, taking obvious pleasure from the interrogator's horror at the tale, and later refuses to talk to anyone except a village cop named Michael Martins. Engel psychologically torments Michael over several weeks of visits, ultimately convincing the paranoid Michael that his own son Christan killed one of his childhood friends, when in reality, Engel had killed the girl years back, and had arranged his capture and communication with Michael solely to manipulate him into murdering his Christan to prove a depraved point that all men can be as evil as him if given the right circumstances. Engel was utterly fascinated by the nature of evil and believed himself to be the epitome of it across humanity, and lived for no other reason than to torture and kill others.
 * The Mayan warriors in Apocalypto are all horrible, but none stand out so much as the vicious Dragon to the lead hunter Zero Wolf, Middle-Eye. One of their best hunters and fighters, Middle-Eye is also the only rapist, who takes one of the women of a conquered village into a hut to violate her, and kills her after, as her husband Blunt struggles futilely to save her. When The Hero Jaguar Paw nearly kills Middle-Eye in a fight, Middle-Eye vengefully slits his father's throat in front of him and names Jaguar Paw 'Almost' in response. When the new captives are being marched back to the capital city, Middle-Eye at one point decides to lighten the load by throwing an exhausted slave to his death. Middle-eye stands above his fellow slave hunters in sick, cruel depravity.
 * In Armstrong, the gangster known only as Ponytail, and the corrupt Russian general Zukov murder former Navy SEAL Rod Armstrong's beloved mentor Bob when he becomes aware of them dealing in nukes. Seeking to distribute Russia's nuclear stockpile to anti-Western terrorists, the two proceed to murder all who can possibly link the business back to them, putting them in Armstrong's crosshairs. To cover up their crime, Ponytail and Zukov massacre the entire crew of a nuclear silo, intending to nuke Moscow itself to allow them to steal and sell the remainder of the nukes there without anyone catching on while Zukov seizes control of the decapitated Russian government, all while Ponytail wants to murder Armstrong for challenging him.
 * The Janjaweed commander of Attack on Darfur is the bloodthirsty leader of a supremacist militia responsible for the slaughter of hundreds, if not thousands of black Africans in western Sudan. When he and his men arrive to a village, after forcing six Western journalists and the African soldiers to leave, they begin to Rape, Pillage and Burn, plundering the village and indiscriminately killing men, women and children. The commander personally impales an infant on a bamboo stick and then has the mother gunned down after forcing her to watch the scene. As three journalists and an African captain try to save the villagers, they're also killed. One of the journalists is burned alive as the commander watches, chuckling sadistically before shooting him. After burning the village to the ground the commander moves on to continue his genocidal campaign across the region.
 * At Close Range: Bradford "Big Brad" Sr. starts the film by taking in his son Brad Jr. It is soon revealed Big Brad runs a criminal gang and Brad Sr. is not only a thief, but a murderer as well. Brad Jr. sees him drown a member for talking to police, and when Brad Jr. and his friends are arrested, the police hold Brad Jr. without bail to get him to give up his father. As a warning, Brad Sr. rapes his son's girlfriend, and when a grand jury subpoena is issued, kills his son's friends and even kills Tommy, his son's brother—who may or may not be his son—after Tommy pleads for his life. Putting a hit out on his own son, Brad Jr. is shot and his girlfriend Terry killed before Brad Jr finally confronts his father before testifying against him and seeing him sent to prison. A remorseless sociopath, Big Brad stops at nothing to keep himself out of trouble, no matter who he has to hurt or kill.
 * Avenging Eagle: Yoh Xi-Hung, the leader of the Eagle Clan, was a martial artist who purchased 40 boys from slavers. Eschewing any love or affection, Yoh Xi-Hung subjected them to horrifically brutal training that only 13 boys survived, hardened into killers who would live and die for their "father." Yoh Xi-Hung uses them as bandits to increase his wealth and power, sending them after those he deems enemies. In one instance, Yoh sends the Eagles to slaughter a martial artist and his entire family, convincing one of the young men to kill the man's pregnant wife. After this Eagle deserts the clan in guilt, Yoh tries to have him and the Clan’s escapted target hunted down, as the two combat the Eagle clan.
 * Bad Boys gives us French gangster Fouchet whose plan seems to involve killing everyone he encounters. In order to steal heroin from a police lock up, Fouchet kills one of his own men as a distraction, then murders a police officer during the break in. He subsequently kills another one of his men for dipping into the stash, and the hooker who witnessed that murder. He then spends the rest of the film trying to kill her friend Julie, who was also a witness. When the police arrive at the meeting where he was trying to fence the heroin, Fouchet shoots his buyer, and after his escape fails, tries to shoot Detective Lowry in the back.
 * Dr. Berrisford of the film Bad Dreams is a mild, unassuming man who runs a hospital for those with mental trauma. In reality, he is a sadist with a god-complex and wishes to test his theories on suicide on his patients. Berrisford manipulates his mentally fragile patients emotionally to make them snap, resulting in them killing themselves and others. He has one leap out her window to the street, and has another throw her head into a turbine. One patient he leads to the roof to manipulate her into jumping off before the hero of the movie rescues her. Berrisford simply tries to push them off himself, after having mentally tortured said patient the entire film by planting the idea in her head that the ghost of a cult leader who'd tried to kill her was haunting her.
 * Cale Erendreich of The Bad Samaritan is a wealthy sociopath who delights in breaking down his victims. Developing this philosophy after murdering his father's hired hand for rejecting him, Cale would abduct and torture women before tossing them into a pit laced with lye. When Sean Falco discovers his latest victim Katie Hopgood whilst searching his house, Cale slowly ruins his life, beginning with having him and his friend Derek fired from their jobs; uploading a risqué photo of Sean's girlfriend on Facebook and then brutally beating her; murdering Derek and his family to make it look like a murder-suicide; and forcing Sean to watch him shoot Katie into the lye pit, gleefully informing him that he'd bury him alive next to her after pinning his murders on him. Despite claiming to be motivated by correcting people, Cale is the embodiment of spite and pettiness.
 * Rhoda, the perfect little girl in The Bad Seed,
 * Taha from Banlieue 13 (District 13) is a brutal Parisian drug lord who kills anyone he doesn't like, especially his own minions. He controls the largest gang-run ghetto which the government walled off from the rest of the city to stop the further spread of crime. He's largely responsible for the deterioration in the district, but unlike the government he takes an active hand in making things worse by terrorizing the population to submit to his rule and dumping his drugs there. When a group of his minions fail to recover a large stash kept by Leito, he shoots them in quick succession until one of them comes up with an idea. When Leito and his sister Lola almost have him arrested, he uses his power to makes a deal with the cops to imprison Leito instead. He takes Lola so he can keep her as a beaten, drug-addicted sex slave on a leash in his personal quarters. When a nuclear bomb goes missing and is found by his gang, he considers selling it to arms dealers before blackmailing the police and the government with the lives of 2 million people by aiming it at the city centre with a missile launcher.
 * Dexter Miles from The Barber is a British Serial Killer who moves to the small Alaskan town of Revelstoke and uses it as his hunting grounds, setting up shop as the local barber. Miles kills and rapes a local woman named Lucy before killing her lover. Miles romances a local cook named Sally and later murders her as well. Miles starts hanging around with a third woman, whom he eventually kills as well. An FBI agent shows up in town and informs the sheriff that he has been tracking a serial killer—Miles—who has killed 49 people over the years. Miles frames the sheriff for his crimes and manipulates Lucy's husband Cecil into shooting the sheriff, by telling him Lucy had an affair with the sheriff. After the sheriff is killed, the Coroner does an autopsy on his body and discovers his prints do not match the finger prints on the murder victims. Miles bumps into the Coroner, deduces what he knows and kills him so he won't tell anyone, before moving to Phoenix to continue his murder spree.
 * Catherine Tramell of Basic Instinct is a multi-millionaire sociopathic Femme Fatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a Black Widow type of Serial Killer who seduces people to fall for her, both men and women, before killing them when she grows bored of them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes Roman à Clef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She killed her parents in a mysterious boat explosion, killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an ice pick during coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to take the blame for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine smugly informs him that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
 * Battle Beyond the Stars: Sador of the Malmori is the leader of a crew of vicious mutants that roam the galaxy in their large battleship, subjugating any planet he pleases. If the planet's residents attempt to rebel against him, Sador destroys the planet via the use of a weapon called the Stellar Converter. Prior to the events of the film, Sador wiped out Cayman's entire species, leaving him the sole survivor. During the events of the film, Sador invades the peaceful planet of Akir, threatening its residents, the Akira, with destruction unless they submit to him, and having his men slaughter the Akira at random as a demonstration. After the Akira recruit mercenaries from across the galaxy for protection, Sador launches an invasion on the planet, intending to wipe out the Akira in retaliation for their defiance.
 * Vince Stone from the Fritz Lang film The Big Heat is The Dragon to gangster Mike Lagana. Stone is also far crueler and more vicious than his business-minded boss. When a cop ends up dead and the cop's girlfriend looks like she may talk, Stone kidnaps her and tortures her to death. When The Hero, Homicide investigator Bannion, first meets Stone at a nightclub, Stone is punishing a dancer by burning her with a cigarette. When Stone thinks his girlfriend, Debby Marsh, has been meeting with Bannion, he disfigures her with hot coffee and throws her out on the streets. He later attempts to kidnap Bannion's young daughter and carries out the murder of another member of the organization. When Marsh confronts him later and repays the favor by throwing boiling coffee at him, Stone mortally wounds her with a gunshot, giving Bannion a murder to finally pin on him.
 * The Beastmaster has Maax, the High Priest of Aruk prior to being banished by King Zed, who learned Maax was planning to sacrifice Zed's unborn son. In retaliation, Maax ordered his witch servants to magically extract the infant from his mother's womb and kill him anyways. The infant, Dar, only survives because local villagers rescued him. Years later, Maax led the Juns in conquering Aruk, blinding and imprisoning Zed. Maax presides over brutal oppression of the kingdom, regularly sacrificing children to his god, Ar. He wipes out Dar's village, leading him into conflict with Dar himself. When Dar enters Maax's prison to free Zed, he discovers that Maax has innocent people tortured and transformed into mindless beasts to serve as his guards. Maax later attempts to have Zed, his young son, and his cousin Kiri sacrificed to Ar. He then taunts Zed by revealing Dar is his son before killing him.
 * Beasts of No Nation: In this film based on the novel, Commandant is a commander of a rebel battalion fighting in a civil war in an unnamed African country, and has no qualms about using children to achieve his aims. When Agu, a 12 year old boy, sees his father and brother killed by government forces, he runs off into the jungle. Commandant finds Agu and forces him to join his battalion, in which he has several Child Soldiers. Commandant puts Agu and other children through harsh training before being allowed on the battle field; any child who fails this training is killed. Commandant forces Agu to kill an unarmed man to prove his loyalty to the battalion. Later in the film, Commandant rapes Agu; it is heavily implied he has raped other children under his command. When attacking a town, Commandant's battalion commits many atrocities, including mass murder and rape. When the leader of the rebel group demotes Commandant and has his lieutenant promoted as leader of the battalion, Commandant has the lieutenant killed. Commandant then leads his battalion in an attack against the rest of the rebel group, willing to throw the lives of his men in a pointless suicide mission, just for the sake of his pride.
 * In The Big Boss, Hsiao Mi, the titular Big Boss, is a brutal factory owner who uses his factory as a drug smuggling operation. When his workers uncover the drugs, Hsiao Mi has them murdered and later kills their cousins when they try to investigate what happened. Having a riot brutally suppressed, he corrupts the hero Cheng with alcohol and women before deciding Cheng can't be trusted, having Cheng's lover killed and then having his entire family slaughtered before trying to kill Cheng in a personal duel.
 * In Big Tits Zombie, Maria at first seems to be simply an annoying snob, but is revealed to be something much worse. After accidentally unleashing the Zombie Apocalypse, she focuses on nothing more than saving her own hide, culminating in leaving her coworkers to be Eaten Alive while she takes the keys and runs. During her escape, Maria learns she can command the dead to do her bidding. Enjoying the power, she decides to create a kingdom of the dead on the ashes of the old world. After revealing this to Rena and Genko, she orders them killed, eventually leading to Genko being zombified. After Genko turns enough to be controlled, Maria orders her to shoot her newfound friend Rena before trying to drop the latter in a portal to Hell when that fails.
 * Of The Black Cat we have the truly monstrous Hjalmar Poelzig, played by Boris Karloff, who plumbed depths that were barely considered in films in 1934. Peolzig is a Satanist and ruler of a vicious cult who conspires and attempts to sacrifice an innocent traveler to Satan. It's revealed that Poelzig, in World War I betrayed his 'friend,' Dr. Werdegast and had him sent to a prison camp so Poelzig could marry his wife. He later murdered her and kept her embalmed corpse as a trophy...before marrying her and Werdegast's young daughter...and later murdering her as well. for good measure so she'll be incinerated by the launch.
 * Langiva, the supposed witch in a small commune in the film Black Death. Langiva conducts supposed miracles to keep control of the town, satiating her ego. When the traveling knights come across the town, she has them captured and puts them to death in horrific ways: one is crucified, another disemboweled. She demands they renounce Christianity and she will spare them, but when one does, she has him hanged. Langiva also drugs the young monk Osmund's lover to make her appear dead, and that Langiva revived her from the dead to make Osmund renounce God, but taunts Osmund later that he had murdered his lover for nothing. Her final act of monstrosity is to have the leader of the knights torn apart by horses when he refuses her offer. All her actions are to satiate her ego and keep an iron-fisted control of the town.
 * Princess Asa Vadja of Black Sunday is a devil-worshipping vampiric witch who terrorized ancient Moldavia. For her crimes, her own brother was forced to sentence her to death, for which she vowed to avenge herself on her own family. 200 years later, Asa is resurrected and begins her work killing the Vajda household and their servants one-by-one. All of this is part of her Evil Plan to absorb Katia's youth so she can torment the Earth once more. When Dr. Andre Gorobec arrives to save Katia, Asa attempts to trick him into killing her himself.
 * Although briefly seen, the first film's incarnation of Dracula in the Blacula series manages to be even worse than most other depictions. Not only is he a blood sucking monster, he's also involved in the slave trade. When the African prince and his wife come seeking his help, he reveals his racism and love for the slave trade, turns the prince into a vampire, mockingly renames him "Blacula", imprisons him in a coffin to starve for all eternity (and because he was now an immortal vampire, his suffering would never stop), and starves his wife to death. Unlike Blacula himself, who is a tragic character and spends most of the second film searching for a cure for his vampirism, Dracula relishes in being a vampire, showing no remorse for anything he does.
 * Dr. Meddows in the 1988 remake of The Blob is a military scientist specializing in bioweapons. He's inadvertently responsible for developing the Blob by sending the satelite and the proto-Blob sample in space, where it mutated before it fell back down on Earth. He didn't expect it to develop into a ravenous, all-consuming monster, but is more than pleased at this development and the military potential. He cardons off the town where the Blob has started its spread so he can test its killing potential on all the inhabitants and to perform further experiments on the survivors. He's even willing to sacrifice his own men to further his goal, as he orders the sewers blocked off when two of the heroes and one of his men try to escape from the pursuing Blob.
 * Blood Diamond. The Revolutionary United Front commander Captain Poison embodies this trope. We first see him leading a raid on a peaceful village, slaughtering the inhabitants with the assistance of child soldiers and then chopping off the hands of the survivors except for a few they figure are strong enough to use for slave labor. Later at this camp, we see him catching one captive trying to pocket a diamond. He demands that he give it back, which he does, but then guns him down in cold blood anyway. Brutal brainwashing of captured children to become child soldiers follows. Anyone is going to want to cheer a lot when he is taken out.
 * Blood Feast - Fuad Ramses is an Egyptian caterer who worships the goddess Ishtar. In order to resurrect his goddess, Ramses kills young women to make them into the dishes of a blood feast for her. After getting enough flesh, he kidnaps a woman and whips her to get her to agree to be Ishtar's vessel, leading to her demise. He then tricks the guest of honour at a party he's catering into agreeing to host Ishtar, nearly killing her before being stopped by the police.
 * Blood of Beasts - Sven is the finest warrior in a Norse tribe, and betrothed to Princess Freya. While hunting for the beast Agnar, Sven leaves his king to die so he can claim the throne more quickly. His consolidation of power involves him threatening his supposed best friend's life if he talks about the battle and declaring that Freya will join him in forced marriage and bear him many children. When Freya rescues her father at the cost of her own capture, Sven decides to kill the king. He never gets the chance, though, because he has to join his fellow tribesmen in rescuing Freya so he can maintain his image, though he does take the time to declare that he will kill anybody who calls him a coward. The army rescue Freya and Sven leads them in seemingly killing Agnar, but the beast survives. This culminates in a duel on his and Freya's wedding, leading to Sven mortally sounding Freya in an attempted Mutual Kill on Agnar.
 * Burke from Blow Out is a professional assassin who shoots out the tires on a Presidential candidate's car to send it into the water. While he succeeds in killing his intended target, a woman in the car with him survives. Deciding he needs to eliminate her as well, Burke devises a truly cruel plan to cover his tracks. So there will be no inconvenient questions, Burke becomes a Serial Killer by targeting women who look similar to his target, strangling them to death with a garrote. He finally attempts to kill the girl, Sally during a parade so her death will be passed off as the act of a random maniac. Burke is indicated to be nothing more than a sociopath using his job to hurt others.
 * The David Lynch film Blue Velvet features one of cinema's crowning examples in Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth. A sadistic sociopath with a penchant for random acts of rape and violence, Booth introduces himself in the film by savagely beating and raping an abused nightclub singer and then taunting her about her mutilated husband (by him no less). It later turns out that When he figured out that Jeffrey Beaumont warned the police, he, in act of reprisal, beats Dorothy nearly to death, strips her naked, and leaves her in front of Beaumont's house. During the ending, we also discovered . Not to speak of.
 * Carnegie from The Book of Eli. The man whores out his stepdaughter and later threatens to kill her (after promising her to his right hand man) and physically abuses her mother in order to extort information from her.
 * In The Boys from Brazil, Gregory Peck plays Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi Mad Scientist who fled to South America after the war to escape justice for his crimes in the concentration camps. Orchestrating a plot to build a Fourth Reich, he captures dozens of women and forcibly impregnates them with Adolf Hitler's DNA so that he can resurrect the dead dictator through cloning and renew Nazi Germany's bid for world conquest. Mengele orders 94 men across the world killed as part of the experiment, performing the assassinations personally after he has a fallout with the rest of the retired Nazi leadership. He is prepared to kill anyone who stands in his way, including a Brazilian boy who spied on his compound. Mengele's endgame is to create a new Hitler—Mengele's ideal of the perfect sociopathic genocidal warlord—for every subsequent generation until the total extermination of the "lower races" is completed.
 * The titular Brennus, Enemy of Rome is a bloodthirsty warlord who leads an army of barbarians through the early Roman Empire, causing bloodshed and devastation on a massive scale to satisfy his greed and lust for power. Routinely having civilians tortured and killed, Brennus promises Nissia that he will spare the town of Clusium if she agrees to marry him, only to reveal that he never had any intention of keeping his word. Personally responsible for the death of one of hero Quintus Fabius's brothers, Brennus conspires with Decius Vatinius in order to seize all of Rome's riches for himself, and cruelly mistreats Nissia as he tries to force himself upon her. After demanding a ransom of a thousand libras of gold in exchange of Rome's safety, Brennus has his men arbitrarily raise the price, and when the Romans finally turn the tables on him, he abandons his men to their fate, and kills Vatinius after the latter shows him an escape route.
 * The Brain (1988): Dr. Anthony Blake is a Psycho Psychologist and power-hungry alien servant of the Brain. To get its master a foothold on Earth, Blake founds a mental health clinic to brainwash people under the guise of helping them. Eventually, Blake's popularity grows to the point of him getting a local pop psychology talk show, which he uses to feed the Brain more independent thoughts, not caring that anybody who resists the hypnosis is Driven to Madness of the homicidal and suicidal variety. A fellow shrink at his clinic tries to quit out of ethical concerns, and Blake laughs as the Brain devours her whole. When Jim escapes from the clinic, Blake frames him for multiple murders, one of which he committed by brainwashing a woman into killing her husband with a chainsaw for refusing to watch his show. Eventually, Blake plans to send the Brain's mind control across Canada, then the world, while also giving Jim's girlfriend to the Brain as the latest of many humans to be it's food.
 * Ed "Big Ears" Bywaters of Broken Trail is a soft-spoken ex-convict notorious as a horse-thief and murderous bounty hunter. Ed introduces himself forcing himself onto Nola Johns, a favored prostitute of Ed's whom he has periodically used and abused to brutal extents over a course of years, and proves his violent streak when he coldly murders a former accomplice of his he suspected of ratting him out. When local brothel-keeper Kate Becker employs Ed to look into a Chinese virgin trade gone awry, Ed takes his time stalking Prent Ritter and his company after they acquire the Chinese girls. At the end of the film, Ed guns down Heck, takes Prent's companions at gunpoint, and prepares to castrate and torture Prent to death in full witness of the captives, gloating that "he'll know what to do" with Nola and the young Chinese girls once he's through with Prent.
 * Jean-Francois de Morangias of Brotherhood of the Wolf appears to be a foppish, crippled aristocrat, but is in reality a deadly enforcer for an evil cult. After returning from Africa, Jean-Francois brought with him a lion that he controls and keeps in a state of constant agony, using it to slaughter people while the poor creature is in so much pain it can't control itself. he also reveals a rather perverse lust towards his sister Marianne and later rapes her. While Jean-Francois is merely The Dragon to the Cult's leader, he comes off as the far more cruel, evil and deadly of the two and his mastery of the Beast indicates he might be the one really in charge.
 * Strucker, the antagonist of Bulletproof Monk, is a staunch Nazi who, later in the film, seems to extend his racial prejudices to everyone who isn't a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. He is ruthless in his goal for world domination, perhaps epitomised early in the film where he slaughters a temple-full of Tibetan monks who refuse to defend themselves. He also has the informant who'd been helping him brutally executed and threatens his own granddaughter when she continues to fail him. He seemingly has no redeeming qualities and no goals beyond orchestrating a Holocaust Times Ten.
 * Nacho from the Spanish film Bullying is a great example of how severe bullying can get. This is demonstrated by him  This culminates in
 * Cabiria: Karthalo is one of the earliest examples of a Complete Monster in film and one of the vilest to ever grace the big screen. The High Priest of the devilish, three-eyed Moloch, Karthalo engineers the mass sacrifice of hundreds of children at a time to be stripped naked and dumped one-by-one into a furnace to be burned alive as tribute to Moloch. Karthalo coldly tortures and murders any opposition to the sacrifice, having Croessa, the nanny of the young Cabiria, painfully flogged and later ripped apart by his followers, and later brutally torturing the good-hearted servant Maciste before chaining him to a millstone and condemning him to grueling labor at the millstone's side for the rest of his life. In his lowest moment, Karthalo attempts to rape Cabiria, the same girl he had attempted to sacrifice over ten years ago, out of nothing more than a fit of cruel lust. A zealot, a slaver, a torturer, and a madman with countless atrocities on his hands, Karthalo's evil shines just as wickedly today as it did over a century ago.
 * Max Cady from Cape Fear, who went to jail for rape and returns later to destroy Sam Bowden, a man who testified against him. He murders the family dog, relentlessly stalks the family and destroys those around them, planning to rape Bowden's wife and daughter before he kills them. He also rapes and beats an innocent woman for no reason just as a means of asserting his power over her and Bowden's helplessness to do anything. He's out for nothing but revenge and doesn't care that he deserved his jail time. Cady is played by Robert Mitchum in the original film and by Robert De Niro in the remake. The former's rendition is particularly monstrous since his more subtle performance of Cady as a smug, slimy sociopath makes him come off as more believable, thus more terrifying.
 * De Niro’s version is a more over-the-top mad dog Knight Templar who seems partially derived from another Complete Monster played by Robert Mitchum: Reverend Powell. He considers himself a man of faith even while he brutally rapes and maims a friend of the target of his anger, kills Bowden's housekeeper and his PI, tries to drive Bowden insane before planning to rape his wife and daughter, and even attempts to seduce said daughter. He claims throughout the movie that he's all about the law and how he looks in God's eyes, and yet does not admit that he deserved his prison sentence even though he might have gotten off had Bowden done his job properly. He doesn't care about justice and proves to not only be a raging hypocrite out for revenge, but simply deciding to hurt people because he likes to do so.
 * In Cannibal Ferox, Mike Logan is an unstable and sadistic drug dealer who fled New York City after stealing $100,000 from The Mafia. When introduced to Gloria, Rudy and Pat, Mike tells of how he and his wounded partner Joe were attacked by the natives while looking for emeralds. In addition to repeated attempts to leave Joe to die, Mike seduces the naive Pat with drugs and encourages her to torture a young native girl, before eventually shooting said girl. Joe soon reveals that during the hunt for emeralds, Mike took the tribe hostage, torturing their guide—-castrating him and cutting out one of his eyes—and killing one of his hostages, and natives are hunting them down in retaliation. Mike later leaves Joe behind to die and steals the group's map and money. When the natives capture them, during Mike's final escape attempt, Mike cuts a rope that Gloria and Pat were trying to climb to leave them to their fates.
 * Alan Yates of Cannibal Holocaust is a filmmaker who decides that realism requires a filming on location. After he and his crew visit the Yacumo tribe in South America, Yates grows steadily more warped in his attempt to make a film. Yates has the entire tribe of the Yacumo forced into a hut and sets it afire. Yates also later leads the gangrape of a girl of the Yanomamo tribe. The tribe finally has enough and sets out to kill the filmmakers. When one of the group is hit by a spear, Yates shoots him to cripple him so he can film how the tribe mutilate and kill him.
 * Mark Tomaso was Alan's second camera man and almost as sadistic as Yates himself. He aided in the massacre of natives as well as deliberate defilement of the jungle for personal enjoyment. he mostly stuck to filming but did several villainous acts in the film such as burning a village and forcing women and children to remain in the burning huts, filming their deaths. He also happily engaged in a gang-rape of a local woman under the "invitation" of Alan and Jack, Alan thinking it was all "fun" and even going as far as play-fighting with an enraged Faye (who objected to "wasting film"). Mark would remain at Alan's side during the native's revolt and convinced a scared Alan to continue filming even as Faye was raped and mutilated by the tribe.
 * Margaret White in the 1976 film adaptation of Carrie could be seen as this. An insane religious fanatic who uses her own distorted version of the Christian faith to control her teenage daughter Carrie and all other aspects of her life, we see her savagely beat her daughter, drag her and lock her in a small room whenever she feels she needs to be punished, feed her a fundamentalist guilt trip every day after school, turn her into a social pariah, openly declare her a sinful child cursed by the Devil and set upon her by God as punishment for her own sins (even likening her to a cancer!), and ultimately stabs her in the back with a knife and tries to kill her at the end with a ghoulishly deranged Slasher Smile on her face. In the book, her genuine insanity is more evident, but her Freudian Excuse just doesn't cut it when it comes to explaining away her actions in the film.
 * Dr. Jane Tiptree of Carnosaur is an amoral geneticist seeking to eradicate humanity to return Earth to a series of artificially-engineered dinosaurs. Tiptree, believing humanity to be a "disaster," creates a virus to forcibly impregnate human females with raptors, causing them to give birth to the specimens in a painful and eventually fatal manner. This virus is unleashed on her own subordinates, the surrounding countryside, and eventually herself, with the ultimate goal of this to kill off every human female and starve out the rest of the male population. Tiptree's experiments in breeding raptors lead to one of her specimens prematurely breaking loose and going on a rampage in which dozens are killed, and Tiptree coldly has the father of someone who's daughter was killed by her creations killed off by a tyrannosaur. Though Tiptree is soft-spoken and amicable, ultimately, she's little more than an omnicidal misanthrope who seeks to wipe out mankind based on her own delusions.
 * In Cast a Deadly Stone, Amos Hackshaw is a wealthy Evil Sorcerer who plans to summon the Outer Gods so he can sell out his world for them to turn into "a world of the unburied dead" in exchange for godhood. To do this, he focuses decades of his life, including marriage and having a child, to making sure he has the perfect circumstances for the ceremony. Using the masquerade of being an Overprotective Dad to keep his daughter a suitable virgin sacrifice, Hackshaw then goes about acquiring the Necronomicon. After the book is stolen to prevent the Apocalypse, Hackshaw simultaneously hires private eye Phil Lovecraft and cop-outs mob boss Harry Borden, the latter of whom he promised lordship over the post-apocalyptic world, to retrieve it. Creating a gargoyle servant to tail Lovecraft, he ends up using the creature to eliminate the book's thief and a few other other loose ends. After Borden captures Lovecraft, Hackshaw decides that he should be Forced to Watch​ as he offers his daughter in sacrifice to Yog-Sothoth.
 * In The Cell 2, the Serial Killer known as the Cusp, true identity Officer Duncan, kidnaps women and tortures them to death, repeatedly reviving them from the brink of death for more torture. His methods include suffocation, electrocution, and cutting out his victims' hearts. All the while, he records their screams and pleas for mercy. Maya Casteneda, the only person to survive his torture, was nearly killed by him six times. He is said to have killed 23 women, and he attempts to kill another woman named Penelope, torturing her to near death seven times. He frames the lead cop, Harris, for his crimes, and when he recaptures Maya, he declares that he will torture her so bad that he'll destroy her mind.
 * Cementerio Del Terror: Devlon, in life, murdered 17 people, including his parents. After being resurrected, he brutally murders the six teenagers who inadvertently revived him. He proceeds to try and murder five children who enter his home, and creates an army of zombies to prevent them from escaping. He tries to kill Dr. Cardan when he tries to rescue the children, and eventually transfers his soul into Cardan to escape death.
 * Eddie "Chaos" Cooper from the 2005 film Chaos. So shockingly atrocious and abominable, he makes the probable character of his inspiration (the main antagonist of the Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left) look like the Pope in comparison. Roger Ebert (who was immensely disgusted with the character and the film itself) and David DeFalco (the film's director and writer) actually had a heated debate about it.
 * The Chaser, has Young-min. Young-min at first gives the Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mi-jin he hires the creeps, before she discovers a bloody scalp in his home...and then the garden full of corpses. Young-min ties her up and attempts to murder her by driving a chisel through her head after asking her why he should spare her. When she pleads that she has a little daughter, Young-min sneers nobody will even notice she's dead. Mi-Jin manages to escape with luck, but not before Young-min butchers an elderly couple and hunts her down, killing the shopkeeper of the store Mi-jin was hiding in before beating her skull in with a hammer.
 * Chastity Bites (2013): Elizabeth Bathory murdered numerous virgins in an attempt to obtain eternal youth. Foiled by Leah's ancestor, she returns in modern day to finish her ritual. Having already killed five schoolgirls in another town, she moves to Leah's town to find the last girls needed for her ritual. After murdering several virgins, she poses as an abstinence counselor named Liz Batho at Leah's high school to lure girls to her home to kill. She invites five girls to her home to kill, including Leah's best friend, Katharine. When one of the girls reveals that she isn't a virgin and is of no use to Bathory, Bathory kills her anyway to "avoid loose ends". After Bathory kills the other three girls and Leah and her boyfriend Paul arrive to try and stop her, Bathory decides that she will make Leah watch as she kills Katharine and Paul before torturing her to death, and, when it's pointed out that she's one virgin short, she decides to use her assistant, Ilona, who she had kidnapped from her country and been forcing to work for her for years, promising to let her go when she reached her goal, stating that she never intended to let Ilona go, and was going to kill her when she was no longer needed anyway.
 * Bollywood is known for its cartoonishly evil villains. But in Murder 2, which is The Remake of the aforementioned Korean Film The Chaser, the villain is a Villainous Crossdresser who likes to sadistically torture and kill women for fun. He has no Monster Sob Story. He is just a. Sick. Fucking. Bastard.
 * Charles Lee Ray, later known as the killer doll Chucky from the Child's Play series was a notorious Serial Killer when alive, and in death has used Hollywood Voodoo to possess a doll to escape his fate. Chucky proceeds to murder his owner's babysitter because she annoys him, and hunts down, tortures and murders his old voodoo teacher to get information on how to become human again before trying to tear out his ten year old owner's soul and possess him. Throughout the films, Chucky commits many more murders for his own amusement and replaces blanks with real ammo at a military camp war games training solely to enjoy the chaos. Even when the films briefly turned comedic, Chucky remained heartless as ever, murdering his own wife when she tried to leave him, with no remorse. When Curse of Chucky brought the series back to horror, Chucky sends himself to unsuspecting families to destroy them and was revealed, as Charles Lee Ray, to have even stabbed a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances. Despite his sense of humor, Chucky has always remained a sadistic, murderous monster and has only grown worse over time.
 * Noah Cross of Chinatown stands out as one of the most despicable villains in all of cinema. A 1930's Corrupt Corporate Executive who doesn't even know his own net worth, outside of the fact that it's a great deal over ten million, all Cross cares about is accumulating as much money and power as possible. In the midst of a drought in Los Angeles, Cross dumps away thousands of gallons of water in order to build up support for his new reservoir project. Drying up the northwest San Fernando Valley by depriving it of water, Cross also poisons the wells and blows up the water tanks of the valley's landowners to coerce them into selling their land dirt cheap. Once the valley is his, Cross plans to use his new proposed reservoir to irrigate the land and increase its worth by millions. However, his business partner, and son-in-law, Hollis Mulwray, hinders his plan. Previously Cross had convinced Mulwray to build a dam in an area known to be geologically unstable. The result was that the dam burst and 500 people died. Even though Cross knows that the new reservoir would suffer from the exact same geologic instability as the previous one, he still demands Mulwray build it. After Mulwray discovers Cross's crimes and conspiracy, Cross murders him by drowning him in a tide pool. However, the most disgusting crime Cross committed was what he did to his daughter Evelyn. When she was just fifteen years old Cross raped her, traumatizing her for life and fathering another daughter with her. Cross's secondary goal in the movie is to take possession of his "grandchild" with the intention of subjecting her to the same abuse he subjected Evelyn to. Despite all of this, Cross says he doesn't blame himself for his actions because he believes, under the right circumstances, men are capable of anything, ignorant of the fact that this is only true for men like him.
 * In the extended version of The Chronicles of Riddick, Zhylaw is the Holy Half-Dead Lord Marshal of the Necromongers, a spacefaring death cult on a crusade to either convert or wipe out all in their path. When as a young warrior he was given a prophecy by the air elemental Aereon that a male child born on the planet Furya would one day cause his downfall, he commited genocide against the Furyans in his own private war, even strangling newborn infants to death with their umbilical cords. Since becoming Lord Marshal he has wiped out entire star systems inhabited by millions of colonists before settling on the Helion system, overrunning the capital world with his forces sustaining heavy casualties and killing many civilians in the process. When one of the captured leaders of the planet objects to his demands for total conversion given that on their world they accept all cultures, Zhylaw responds by ripping the man's soul out of his body. Discovering that Riddick is the one prophesied to kill him, the Lord Marshal initially tries to have Riddick killed before later offering him to part ways solely out of fear. He also has Aereon captured to provide him with further revelation, promising to spare her world "for last" while indicating that her own end will come as soon as he has no more use for her. In the climax he prepares to scour Helion Prime clean of life when Riddick challenges him to one-on-one combat. Zhylaw attempts to rip Riddick's soul out before fatally wounding his friend Kyra when she intervenes. Fully beholden to the omnicidal creed of the Necromongers, Zhylaw was nevertheless willing to throw his warrior ideals out the window as soon as he felt threatened, prompting his second-in-command Lord Vaako to believe that he was no longer fit to be Lord Marshal.
 * In City of God, Lil' Zé, a drug kingpin based on a real person, revels in this trope. As a kid, he goes on a shooting spree within the first ten minutes of the film, calmly walking into a whorehouse and smiling as he kills both whores and customers. He goes on to murder countless people as he grows up. In an infamous scene, . When he is refused a dance by a girl at a party, he forces her boyfriend to strip naked at gunpoint. On the way home, he ambushes them and brutally rapes the girl in front of her boyfriend. It's still not enough for him - his gang later surround the boyfriend's house and open fire, killing his little brother and uncle, which triggers a huge gang war. His Karmic Death is, unsurprisingly, utterly ironic:.
 * Peter Stegman from Class of 1984 is a young gang leader who owns his school. Even the teachers are terrified of him, with good reason as he's a brutal little sociopath who runs drug and prostitution rings and has kids stabbed for ratting out his criminal activities. When new teacher Mr. Norris refuses to let Stegman play piano in his band due to Stegman's attitude problems, Stegman makes it his mission to torture him. He attacks his friends, has a lab full of animals skinned alive just to hurt Norris and his fellow teacher friend, and eventually leads a gang rape of Norris's wife before kidnap* The Interrogator from Closet Land, an Amnesty International funded film about the evils of Cold-Blooded Torture proves this point by being the biggest monster he can. He subjects the protagonist to all sorts of horrific tortures, steadily increasing how painful they are while playing psychological mind games with her to crack. Finally, he reveals to her that he is the man who molested her as a child in flashbacks, with it left unclear if this is the truth, or if he is merely psychologically torturing her further.
 * Aren't we forgetting someone, my little droogies? Alex is one of the vilest examples of a Villain Protagonist in film history. He and his gang engage in countless tortures, rapes and murders with no remorse at all purely because ultra-violence gets Alex aroused, his most infamous crime being the brutal rape of a woman while belting out "Singing In The Rain." Even after the traumatic ordeal he's put through in the film, Alex ultimately cannot truly change his ways - only adapt to a new situation.
 * Clown: The Cloyne was a clown like being that ate five children a year for each month of Winter. In the present day, it exists as a costume that allows it to possess whoever wears it, forcing the wearers to either decapitate themselves or eat five children. After it possesses Kent McCoy, it forces him to eat a child who bullied his son, Jack, before making him attack a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant and eat two more kids. After it gains complete control over Kent, it tries to use his body to kill his entire family, solely out of petty cruelty. it snaps the neck of Kent's father in law, before trying to eat Jack and tear open the stomach of Kent's wife Meg to eat the fetus of their unborn child.
 * Reinhard Heydrich (played by Kenneth Branagh) in Conspiracy, a film about the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which a group of German bureaucrats and leaders worked out the major details of the Final Solution. What's interesting about Heydrich in Conspiracy was that they tried to make him handsome and mild-mannered, and only showed him in Soft Light (instead of having shadows on his face). In fact, All the Nazis in this movie are Complete Monsters; Heydrich is merely the most prominent example. This is, after all, a movie about the planning of the Holocaust. It's particularly notable in that the two characters who actually object to the "solution" put forward do not do so out of the moral grounds of exterminating a people; they'd be quite happy for the Jews to be wiped out, but their objections are based on legalistic grounds: it would just cause too much paperwork and probably become a complete bureaucratic mess. Most Nazi leaders in movies about Nazis will be portrayed as this.
 * The Night Slasher in Cobra is a psychotic murderer responsible for terrorizing the streets of Los Angeles at night. He starts a nihilistic murder cult of psychopaths so he can indiscriminately kill dozens of victims of whatever background, including children. He prefers to carve up his victims and perform the kills himself to satiate his sadistic nature. He pursues a woman for witnessing one of his murders, and orders his army to lay siege to an upstate town for the sole purpose of killing her. He sees himself as killing off the weak and his movement as heralding the start of a new order where violent killers such as himself rule through terror.
 * The Collector gives us the titular 'Collector, ' a Serial Killer and Torture Technician who breaks into innocent families' homes, turning them into death traps and tortures them before 'collecting' one he likes best. Multiple people are killed in horrible ways by his inventive traps and at the end of the film, he kidnaps the main character of the film. In the sequel, the Collector is revealed to turn his captives into drugged up cannon fodder, and kills a group of intruders by having them crushed to death in an elevator. All the Collector can do when he sees the atrocities he unleashes is to give a small, satisfied smile.
 * Thulsa Doom from the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film. He starts by slaughtering Conan's village (including decapitating Conan's mom while he stands next to her) and selling the children as slaves simply so that he can obtain weapons of fine steel from the barbarians. Later in the film, he orders a young woman to jump to her death just so he can illustrate how much control he has over his followers, then he orders Conan to be crucified. Shortly after that, we find out that he and his followers practice cannibalism. And then he kills Valeria, probably Conan's greatest love in the movie-verse, with a snake arrow, and then coldly tries to do the same thing to the Princess after deeming her no longer useful to him after Rexor and his army are defeated in the Battle of the Mounds.
 * The Condemned has two of them. Coming in second is Breckel, the TV producer who orchestrated the whole thing, gave weapons to the psychopath, and obviously placed less value on human life than entertainment and money. The number one spot in the movie, though, goes to McStarley, who, before the movie began, was on death row for burning down a village and raping/torturing/murdering its inhabitants. In the movie, he . As if that weren't enough, near the end of the movie, he.
 * The Serial Killer known only as J from the Korean film Confession of Murder begins the film by killing an innocent woman and then slashing the face of The Hero Detective Choi before making his escape and ending his killing spree of nearly a dozen women for 15 years. When another man claims credit for J's murders after the statute of limitations expires, J's ego is unable to bear it, so he releases a video showing a murder of Choi's fiancee where he taunted her by having her listening to Choi's voice over the phone before he killed her. J reveals she was pregnant at the time of her death from his raping her and thought it'd spare her, only for J to reveal he hated children more than anything. When he is exposed, J tries to beg for forgiveness only to reveal he is mimicking Choi's fiancee's last words before trying to escape and kill all in his way.
 * Bathsheba of The Conjuring is a truly vile ghost. While most ghosts are benevolent, or simply sad beings, Bathsheba is a sadistic satanist who shows her devotion to Satan by, having failed to sacrifice her own newborn son before her suicide, possesses mothers to murder their own children before forcing their own suicides. Bathsheba torments the most recent family to inhabit her lands until the Paranormal Investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren arrive. When Bathsheba's attempts to drive them off fail, she heads to their house and frees a demon trapped in a doll so the two can murder the Warren's young daughter. When she succeeds in distracting them, Bathsheba possesses the original family's mother to try to murder her own children, and tries to drag the mother to death with her while being exorcised.
 * Valak, the Big Bad of the sequel, is a demonic entity who sticks out to the Warrens as one of the most wicked beings they have ever encountered. The perpetrator of the Amityville massacre, an event that entailed Valak possessing a young man to slaughter his entire family of six, most of whom were children, Valak mentally assaulted Lorraine Warren when she tried to investigate the killings, and continued to haunt her months afterwards. Beginning to haunt the Hodgson family for its own amusement, Valak took control of the spirit of an innocent man, refusing to let him move on into the afterlife, and forces him to terrorize the Hodgsons. After trying numerous times to kill various members of the Hodgson family, Valak tries to force the youngest girl, Janet, to impale herself in front of her entire family, then tries to force Lorraine to watch as it attempts the same on her husband. Valak was a sadistic and petty demon who took great joy out of tormenting innocents, and wanted nothing more than to kill and terrorize all it could.
 * Albert Spica from The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, who is a British Tony Soprano with sociopathy and general nastiness multiplied by a thousand. He is blatantly racist, misogynistic, has nothing but contempt for any intellectualism, kills a man by forcing his books down his throat, stabs a man's wife in the face because the man disagreed with him (the poor woman was just standing there), and enjoys humiliating/beating his wife in public. By the end, all his goons have deserted him.
 * Morty from Cornered a friendly delivery man by day, is by night the Convenience Store Killer, who as his name implies breaks into convenience stores after hours, gruesomely murders the workers and takes off with the surveillance tapes, something which he's caught on footage having done this to numerous workers already. Hearing how the people at Steve's liquor store said they would kill him, he decides to make them his next victims. On his way to the shop he kills a homeless man named Jacko by slicing him in half. When he reaches the store, he proceeds to break Mona's skull, stab her eyes out with ice cream cones and stuff her body in the freezer. Moving on to Jimmy, he stabs him to death with a broken ketchup bottle, and bisects the store owner, Steve, with a meat slicer. Donny, having rewinded the footage in the store's surveillance room, realizes CSK is Morty, who ultimately ends up slicing Jess's head off when Donny tries to help her. after which Donny tries to trick CSK, leading to a fight that ends with CSK ramming donuts down Donny's throat until he suffocates.
 * Chase Collins in The Covenant is a young warlock descended from the bloodline of a wizard banished from a 17th-century magic covenant for using his powers for evil. When he discovered his abilities he enjoyed the power rush, and used his father's pain to convince him to kill himself and grant him more. He killed his foster parents in a car accident when they learned too much. He wants to cannibalize the other descendants for their magic to counteract the aging effects of magic use, even after being told that it won't work. He puts death spells on their loved ones to get them to grant it, for which he needs verbal consent. He kills other students for kicks. His only motives are power and fun.
 * The Cowboys: Asa Watts (aka "Long Hair") is far, far worse than your average cattle rustler. After failing to get Mr. Anderson to hire him and his men for his 400-mile/640-kilometer cattle drive up ahead by lying to Mr. Anderson that he and his men are trying to redeem themselves (due to Anderson seeing through Watts' lies and knowing he (Anderson) has hired 12 schoolboys for the drive because he wants them to grow up to be men), Watts eventually pulls one of the schoolboys, Dan, off of his horse, and threatens that if he tells Mr. Anderson about Watts and the rustlers, he'll sharpen his knife on a stone, tiptoe so Dan can't hear him, and capture him and cut a clean grin on the latter's neck. (He even uses a demonstration when he pulls out his knife and Dan feels the knife on his neck without actually being cut and is very terrified at the time, something Watts takes great pleasure in doing, and something he didn't need to do.) Later on, after a fight with Mr. Anderson at night, Watts shoots Mr. Anderson several times with his schoolboys watching before leaving them to die out in the wilderness. He and his men then take everything but the fire, knowing the fire will go out eventually, with Mr. Anderson slowly dying from his gunshot wounds the next morning. Eventually, Watts and his men try to hang Mr. Anderson's trusted friend, Mr. Nightlinger, because of him being an African-American.
 * The Crow has these two pieces of work:
 * Top Dollar in the first The Crow is a Detroit crime boss who established himself as the supreme ruler of all criminal activity in the city. He's a chaotic arsonist who enjoys destruction and murder purely for its own sake, with his philosophy summed up best by his "Are we having fun or what?!" line to his fellow crime bosses. He organizes Devil's Night, in which buildings are burned down all throughout the city. He orders people terrorized out of their homes, and one such couple includes Eric Draven and his fiance Shelley, who are both violently murdered and Shelley also raped by his goons. He didn't specifically give the order for the murders, but he expresses no regret when he learns about it and admits responsibility. He eventually becomes tired of the profit reaped from the arson and other activities, and announces his plans at a criminal convention to burn down everything purely For the Evulz. His depravity extends to an incestuous relationship with his half-sister, whom he seems to enjoy purely as a sexual consort and for her supernatural knowledge, expressing no noticeable sorrow after her death. Even at the end he indicates he's enjoyed the thrill of it all, and hopes he'll find someone else as capable an opponent as Eric.
 * Judah Earl from The Crow: City of Angels is an occultist drug lord ruling over Los Angeles. A self-declared sadist who claims he visited Hell and liked what he saw, he turns his 'kingdom' into a nightmarish dystopia where people live in squalor, surrounded by depravity, and constantly in fear of being murdered by his gang. He floods the city with drugs so dangerous that they kill the users half the time. He executes one of his goons when the guy protests that there aren't enough return customers by dumping some of the drugs, as Judah would prefer to kill more people than make a profit. He orders the death of Ashe and his son because the boy happened to witness his operation, as well as any other innocents who do. When Ashe is resurrected and comes for him, Judah captures his crow and ritualistically impales it to steal its power. He proceeds to hang the now mortal Ashe from a lamp post in the middle of the street and tries to lash him to death in front of everyone, and kills Sarah when she intervenes. The enormous number of crows connected to his victims' souls who come for him indicate he's killed many dozens of people during his reign.
 * The Crucible has two absolutely revolting characters among it's cast: Abigail Williams and Deputy Governor Danforth.
 * Abigail is a teenage sociopath who ends up kick starting the Salem Witch Trials by getting a group of young girls to pretend that they were being affected by witchcraft and has them accuse many innocent people of being witches themselves, and keeps them all in line with intimidation and fear. Thanks to this, many innocent people end up either executed or permanently disgraced and the entire religious community of Salem is turned over on it's head due to mass paranoia and hysteria. Why did Abigail cause all this trouble in the first place? Because she refused to take responsibility for the fact that she and the other girls were actually doing a voodoo chant with an elderly slave. On top of being a sociopath, Abigail also harbors an unhealthy lust for protagonist John Proctor (who had an affair with her before the play begun) and accuses his wife of witchcraft so she can have John to herself while Elizabeth Proctor is killed. And during the play's climax, she ends up getting the group of "afflicted" girls to try to throw one of their own under the bus by accusing her of witchcraft and ends up getting Proctor accused (and killed) by the girl who had completely broken under pressure. And after all of this, Abigail showed no remorse for her actions and instead fled the town after stealing some money. While Abigail's actions may have stemmed from a desire for attention and affection from others, her repeated behavior demonstrates that she puts her own wants where her moral compass should be. She knowingly dooms and ruins the lives of many so long as she gets to reap the benefits.
 * Danforth on the other hand is an iron-fisted Knight Templar of a judge who assumes complete control during the trials and oversees the fate of the accused. Completely cold and detached from any semblance of tenderness, he absolutely refuses to allow anyone accused of witchcraft to be declared innocent and gives them the choice of either denying their "crime" which would doom them to die via hanging, or to confess to these fabricated crimes and allow their reputation to be ruined for life. Having no respect for the privacy and lives of others, and playing up the belief that questioning him is questioning God himself by extension, Danforth goes out of his way to destroy the lives of innocents all because he doesn't want to be held accountable for having already sentenced twelve innocent people to death and instead wants to make anyone who questions his authority to look guilty by association.
 * It is worth noting that there's an often omitted scene in Act 2 that causes speculation over how much of Abigail's actions are out of malice or out of dementia. If the latter is true, then she might have a reason to be cut some slack, but Danforth has no such excuse, being an adult completely in his right mind yet still choosing to destroy lives out of pride and self righteousness. In Proctor's "God is dead!" speech, he states "I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black heart that this be fraud- God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together." Even in the sending of a message that everyone is equally guilty of being the Devil in their close-minded behavior and actions, Danforth still comes out looking the worst and most devilish among them all, with Abigail close behind. Abigail dropped the ball, and Danforth deliberately kept it rolling.
 * Cube: Quentin, a police officer, is one of several people who are mysteriously trapped inside a giant cubical maze which is composed of smaller cubical rooms, some of which are booby-trapped. He initially presents himself as a levelheaded leader and assists in navigating the group to the maze's outer edge, but is slowly revealed to be a cruel, violent man who proves to be a bigger threat to the group's survival than the deadly maze itself. He drops Holloway to her death merely because he dislikes her, then lies about it to the others. He tries to rape Leaven not soon after. He's stopped in time by Worth, for which Quentin savagely beats him. When the others finally try to leave him behind for what he did, he finds a way back to them at the exit room. He quickly stabs Leaven to death, fatally wounds Worth, and prepares to do the same to the mentally disabled Kazan before he is stopped by the dying Worth.
 * Cutie Honey: Tears (2016): Lady Jill is the sociopathic ruler of Tatehama with an undying hatred for humanity. Created by Dr. Kisaragi as an unemotional link to help restore a dying world, Jill begins to see humans as inferior, wanting to kill Kisaragi and his android daughter, Hitomi. After incapacitating Kisaragi, she proceeds to use his still-living brain as an A.I. that allows her to control the entire city. She uses her power to make the lower class citizens suffer by creating acidic rain and pollution caused by the high-class citizens' partying, and by controlling her Sodoms to beat up citizens and kill resistance members. When a Sodom comes across the leader of the resistance, Kirose, Jill gleefully orders the Sodom to kill him in front of his daughter. When Cutie Honey/Hitomi intervenes, Jill begins to fancy her Airborne Elemental Fixing Device, seeing it as a way to extend her lifespan. She sends out her Sodom to capture Hitomi, not caring if they're killed, or who they kill (including Hitomi's foster parents), destroying them when they fail to capture her. Finding out that the upper class citizens are having a party that would cause a humungous toxic raincloud to destroy the entire city, Jill tries to prevent Hitomi and the resistance from stopping it. When she and Hitomi meet, Jill beats her down and forcibly rips the device from her stomach, and when Seiji interferes, she attempts to kill him in front of Hitomi while calling her an "incomplete failure".
 * In Curtains, Patti O'Connor is a comedian auditioning for the role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. In order to ensure she wins the role, she decides to murder the other five auditioning actresses. Patti starts by murdering Amanda Teuther, before killing Christie Burns and placing her head in Brooke Parsons toilet to scare her. She proceeds to murder Laurian Summers, and, after killing the director's assistant Matthew for no apparent reason, she pursues and kills Tara DeMillo. After finding out that the director has been murdered by Samantha Sherwood out of revenge for leaving her in an asylum, Patti murders her too. Willing to commit multiple murders to win a role, Patti is a good representation of how far people will go to get what they want.
 * Victor Frankenstein from The Curse of Frankenstein, in contrast with every other interpretation of the character. Not only is he willing to kill people to salvage body parts to construct his monster, he also has the monster kill a servant girl he promised he would marry so she wouldn't snitch on him and his experiment.
 * Cut and Run (1985): Colonel Brian Horne is a disgraced US soldier and former right-hand of Jim Jones himself, with the indication Horne personally came up with the idea of the Jonestown massacre while fleeing the scene himself. In the present day in Venezuela, Horne indoctrinates a local tribe of savages into a cult while having them come down in a wave of mutilation, rape, and horrific slaughter onto cocaine plantations all across the region with countless dozens killed and ravaged. Horne's ultimate intention is to seize control of the cocaine industry and purge the weak of the world through a wave of terror and dominance.
 * In Cut, Shoot, Kill, Edward Shipman is the executive producer of director Alabama Chapman's horror films. Obsessed with injecting "realism" into his movies, Shipman has Chapman and his goons murder their actors on camera, and is responsible for the deaths of dozens as a result. In the past, he grew jealous of Chapman's relationship with his lead actress Nicole Heally, and lashed out by raping Nicole, and then having her tortured on camera, culminating in her suicide. He keeps his lackies in line by threatening to expose their activities to the police, believing himself to be untouchable due to his vast fortune. He laughs at footage of the murder of one of his actresses, calling it "great", and later kidnaps another one to be his personal Sex Slave. Despite never killing anyone directly, Edward Shipman is nevertheless an utterly repugnant psychopath with the blood of countless innocents on his hands.
 * Walter stands out as the only one of Chapman's cronies to completely lack any redeeming qualities. Always cast as the deranged killer in Chapman's movies, Walter carries out the murders for the films, torturing and dismembering the hapless actors for fun. He's responsible for torturing Nicole Heally on the aforementioned Edward Shipman's orders, driving her to commit suicide. Going all-out for his feature film debut, Walter stabs Chloe to death; cuts off the limbs of Francis and leaves him to slowly die a torturous death; murders an investigating policeman; and forces Candice to inject herself with a drug of his own invention that turns her into Shipman's personal Sex Slave. When the murder of another actor ends in the death of one of his fellow crew members, Walter is completely indifferent, demonstrating that he has no value for anything other than his own sick enjoyment.
 * Douglas "Dawg" Brown of Cutthroat Island is the Black Sheep of the Adams pirate brothers and the captain of the ship Reaper. Each of the four brothers has a piece of a map to a fabulous treasure and Dawg wants it all to himself. The first thing we learn about him is he murdered one brother and has another hostage to murder after he gets his piece of the map. When his brother gives his map to his daughter Morgan, Dawg stops at nothing to kill his niece. He attacks his last brother Mordecai and threatens to run him through if Mordecai doesn't give up the map. When a luckless mook accidentally falls into Mordecai and impales him on Dawg's knife, Dawg kills the man growling that he killed Dawg's brother, though he's only angry Mordecai died before Dawg got the map. He attempts to torture Morgan by trying to let an eel eat her face, guns down a crewman when the man complains they're running out of food and stops at no crime short of trying to steal the treasure from Cutthroat Island.
 * Fender Tremolo of the film Cyborg makes the most of a world After the End where he can do what he wants. The leader of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of The Hero Gibson and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He murders nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was just as evil before the widespread plague hit: he just needed something to set him loose.
 * Cyberjack: Nassim is an Ax Crazy criminal and international terrorist described by one character as "an albino lab rat on steroids". When he was a regular crook he took cop Nick James's female partner hostage, promising to let her go before proceeding to shoot them both when Nick lowers his gun. Nick survives the encounter and becomes a janitor at a computer tech firm several years later. Nassim and his new crew take over the building to steal a developmental super-virus that had earlier caused 47 casualties in a plane crash, killing several security guards in the process. He subsequently shoots the head of the board of directors to demonstrate who's in charge as well as the project's leading scientist, Dr. Alex Joyce's father, for attempting to destroy the virus, before forcing her to finish breaking the code in his stead. He shows multiple times that his threats of killing the hostages aren't idle, casually murdering some of them just to blow off steam. When the police force surrounds the building he uses the laser defense system to kill several cops and later mind controls a SWAT team to have them turn their guns on their colleagues. He just shrugs off the deaths of any of his men taken out by Nick, ultimately intending to merge himself with the virus so he can brainwash the entire planet at once and become god.
 * Dark Asylum: Serial Killer Luther Wells earned the nickname "the Trasher" for killing 14 people near trash cans and dumpsters. After savagely dismembering his victims, the Trasher took their corpses to his lair in the sewers as souvenirs. After being shot when the police apprehend him, Wells is detained in an asylum until the police arrive. After killing the lead psychiatrist, the head of security and all the cops who were watching him, the Trasher goes after Dr. Maggie Belham and asylum inmate and janitor Quitz for the keys, planning to kill Quitz and make Maggie a Sex Slave. After Quitz swallows the keys the Trasher's been after, so hebeats him with a fire extinguisher and rips the key from his body. He then escapes the asylum, rigging an explosive to kill the Feds when they do arrive, and goes to try and kill Maggie's daughter.
 * Durant from Darkman is a crime boss turned Psycho for Hire who is introduced having a potential obstacle's entire outfit executed before he tortures the boss by chopping off all his fingers with a cigar cutter. Durant later attacks Dr. Peyton Westlake, setting him on fire and ruining his life by turning him into the titular Anti-Hero Darkman. Durant thinks nothing of betraying and killing allies and when he returns in the sequel, he's even nastier than before, even having a reporter killed for insulting him in a story.
 * In the 2017 movie based on The Dark Tower, Randall Flagg, under the alias of Walter O'Dim, is an Evil Sorcerer who abducts multiple 'special' children to use their psychic energy to try to annihilate the Dark Tower which protects existence from the hungry monstrosities that dwell outside reality. This is a process that leaves the children 'burnt out' by the end, where Walter discards them. Having a dark enmity with the Gunslinger Roland Deschain, Walter destroys Roland's home, killing all his fellow Gunslingers, the last being Roland's own father who Walter murders in front of him. When 11 year old Jake Chambers escapes Walter's men, Walter punishes them by forcing them to kill eachother and sends soldiers to destroy an entire village Roland and Jake have taken refuge at. Murdering the local seer to get their location, Walter ambushes Jake's stepfather and mother, murdering both- the latter by burning her alive- and draws a smiley face and taunting message from her ashes for Jake to find. When Jake is captured, Walter attempts to use him to bring down the Dark Tower and start the apocalypse while facing Roland in a final battle.
 * Koba from Dawn of The Planet of the Apes is a self-centered, psychopathic, xenophobic ape of the highest order. Initially loyal to Caesar, Koba is disgusted with the fact that Caesar would bring humans into their territory. After being told off by Caesar for the last time, Koba decides to betray his leader and take matters into his own hands. Displaying his callousness by murdering two helpless guards, Koba raids the armory of the human city, returning to shoot Caesar and burn down his former home. Pinning the blame on the humans, Koba rallies the misguided apes into attacking San Francisco, slaughtering dozens of innocents. He doesn't tolerate being compared to Caesar: he demonstrates this by cruelly tossing the young Ash to his death when he refuses to kill defenseless people in Caesar's name. Upon taking over the city, Koba imposes his rule on both humans and apes alike, trapping the humans in cages, imprisoning the apes still loyal to Caesar in chains, and turning the rest into fanatically loyal soldiers who are still under the impression Caesar is dead. When finally confronted by Caesar, Koba tries to savagely beat him to death with a metal bar, proclaiming that he is the stronger ape alive. When defeated, Koba snaps and starts gunning down his former comrades even as Caesar is trying to help them. Even though Koba had an excuse for his damaged psyche in the form of science-related torture, Koba was far from the only ape to have been tortured, and yet none of the others turned out as evil as he. Caesar ultimately decides it's perfectly reasonable to drop the traitorous bonobo to his death, stating that he is "not ape", but instead a monster. Selfish and brutal, Koba perfectly represents the savagery found in all species.
 * Dr. Ernest McNab of Dead Heat is a coroner hired to assist Arthur P. Loudermilk in his experiments to bring back the dead. To fund this, he had various wealthy people experimented on and then Buried Alive and left to rot so he could take their money, aside from his boss, whom he simply killed a random person to provide the corpse for him to fake his death. To test his resurrection process and acquire more cash for himself, McNab resurrected criminals and had them rob jewelry stores in what was considered the most violent crime spree in recent history. When Detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow investigate the crimes, the doctor has Mortis suffocated in a decompression chamber. After learning Mortis has been resurrected, McNab has his undead goons try and kill the two cops, eventually succeeding in taking out Bigelow. Soon after, it's revealed that he promised the PR agent for his boss's company that he'd figure out a way to stop her from decaying if she helped him, but he lets her rot away. Mortis goes to confront him, and McNab first chains him in an ambulance to decay while staring at his girlfriend, whom McNab killed, then resurrects Bigelow as a braindead zombie to kill his partner.
 * Mary Shaw from Dead Silence was a ventriloquist in life who ended up murdering a little boy who had heckled her performance to turn his corpse into a 'perfect doll.' After being on the receiving end of vigilante justice, Shaw became a ghost that haunted those who had killed her, dedicating her undeath to killing them. She begins the movie by killing the hero's pregnant wife, as 'she had the last' of his family line inside her. Using her dolls as mediums, Shaw revels in killing those in her way and whoever she encounters throughout the film, displaying nothing but cruelty and a desire to make her perfect doll.
 * In Deadly Prey, Colonel Tom Hogan was a cruel military officer who believed in killing troops for failing missions. After being discharged, he decided to create his own army so he could hire himself and his army out to terrorists. Hogan trains his army by having them kidnap people and hunt them. After his army kidnaps ex special force soldier Mike Danton, Hogan becomes obsessed with making him join. When Danton refuses, Hogan kidnaps Danton's wife Jamie and rapes her. Hogan proceeds to kill Jamie's father, and has his lieutenant Thornton kill her as well. In the sequel, Deadliest Prey, Hogan kidnaps Danton once again, and sends numerous men after him, fully expecting Danton to kill them. Hogan kidnaps Danton's new wife Allison, planning to kill her, and has his own men killed for incredibly petty things, such as panicking when Danton is killing most of the army, and coming back alive when Hogan expected them to die. He later murders three people who helped Danton, before trying to kill Danton and his wife.
 * The Deal (2015): Gang-Chun is a Serial Killer known for ambushing women and murdering them with power tools, his final victim being the sister of the hero Tae-Soo. Gang-Chun refuses to reveal where he buried the majority of his victims just to hurt the families more, and spends the next few years comfortably in prison. When his final victim's husband Seung-hyun hires a man to attack him in prison, Gang-Chun viciously tortures the man and later murders several guards before Seung-hyun abducts him to make Gang-Chun reveal where he buried the bodies. Gang-Chn takes advantage of the opportunity to murder him, before attempting to kill Tae-Soo as well.
 * In the live-action version of Death Note, Light Yagami, who only bordered on this trope towards the end of the series, becomes an undisputed example. The first film actually make him seem more sympathetic at first, with him being disillusioned with the justice system and wishing he could make the world a better place before he finds the Death Note. He starts off a well meaning Knight Templar who uses the Death Note to kill criminals in order to rid the world of the scum of society, but he very quickly develops a God Complex from the power that the notebook gives him over people's lives, to the point of planning to become ruler of a new world order in which he is absolute justice. So when people begin to criticize his mass murder sprees and the FBI start pursuing him, he writes their names and deaths in the Death Note in order to kill them off. He officially goes over the line at the end of the movie when he writes down a scenario in the notebook that arranges for Raye's wife Naomi, who's also in the FBI and on his trail, to commit suicide in a confrontation with him...but only after she's killed Light's innocent girlfriend Shiori, which would be what would drive her to suicide. Naomi and Shiori's deaths were both written in the Death Note by Light to coincide with one another, so to get rid of someone who was in his way, Light threw his girlfriend under the bus without any conflicting feelings or remorse. Ryuk even calls him "more evil and ruthless than even a Shinigami" for this. Frighteningly enough, he gets worse in the second installment. Not only does he murder countless more innocent people and pawns, but after his Memory Gambit has paid off, he manipulates events so that the Shinigami Rem has no choice but to kill himself in order to kill L and Watari. To tie up all loose ends, he then plans to murder his own father, police chief Souichiro Yagami, feeling it to be an absolutely justified action, even when Misa protests it. In his confrontation with Souichiro where he planned for this to happen, his father does not die because L, who's Not Quite Dead, switched notebooks: the one in which L and Souichiro's names had been written was a fake. Light's response is to admit he's Kira, justify all his atrocities in the name of "divine justice", and then ask for Ryuk to kill everyone in the room by writing down their names in the real Death Note. Ryuk ends up writing just one name down instead: Light's. After a Villainous Breakdown, Light dies in his father's arms, with his last breath insisting that Kira's way was true justice. Ultimately, Light was a narcissistic madman with no value for the lives of others, who was committing crimes against humanity for the only person he truly loved: himself.
 * The smug, ruthless female prison warden Hennessey in the 2008 version of Death Race. She's introduced casually strolling through the yard unguarded to show how much she is feared by even the worst inmates. She rebuilt the Terminal Island prison to include a car race track where the prisoners perform death races with the promise of being released after winning five times, broadcasting the event to make a hefty profit. The racers and their female navigators die in the most brutal and graphic ways in the races, getting run over, blown up, or gutted by each other or Hennessey's armored trucks. She arranges to kill anyone close to making the quotum as she did with the original Frankenstein, a mask-wearing crowd favorite. She orders the innocent Jensen's wife killed and frames him for it, then once he's in her prison blackmails him with his daughter's well-being to force him to take up Frankenstein's mantle. While the movie takes place in a Crapsack World, Hennessey simply uses her power to be as brutal as she can be to prove her superiority and butchers people for profit.
 * Manny Fraker of the Death Wish series trumps all others in psychotic evil. Introduced in prison when he informs the hero Paul Kersey he's going to 'kill a little old lady, just for you later, ' Fraker is soon out of prison and on to ruling the streets with an iron fist. Anyone who so much as looks at his gang wrong end up dead, and he orders several horrible murders, and one event has a woman brutally raped, later dying from her injuries. Fraker kills Kersey's love interest by pushing her into traffic before blowing her up.
 * Ramon Cota, the Big Bad of the Chuck Norris film Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is a powerful drug dealer who pushes cocaine into the US. We see he uses slave labor on his estate where he has a woman who tends to her baby beaten. When her husband tries to help her, Cota guts him personally and orders the baby killed and the woman sent to his bed. When he's caught and extradited to the US, Cota makes his escape but not before he murders the wife and 13 year old brother of the agent responsible for his capture. When the man goes for Cota himself in revenge, Cota tortures him to death and later captures another agent who comes calling. He tries to execute him by placing him in a homemade gas chamber. When Cota's estate is under siege by the rest of Delta Force, he kills the woman he abused at the beginning of the film when she comes for revenge, then lets himself be taken alive before bragging he'll increase the flow of cocaine and murder the hero's family, and that there's nothing he can't buy thanks to cocaine...just before his rope tethering him to the helicopter snaps.
 * Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man. In the movie's opening, he takes 20 people hostage, who die as a consequence of a misjudging of the cop John Spartan - which is later revealed to be Phoenix's calculation to trick Spartan into taking a part of the responsibility. They were all dead before Spartan arrived. The body count of those hostages was actually 30 as Phoenix planned it for his perverse amusement. In 2032, he indulges in his freedom to be a maniac and spread chaos again, setting free a dozen of the worst criminals of the 20th century.
 * Frank Costello of The Departed is quite an evil bastard. One of his defining traits is how nonchalantly he approaches performing evil and killing. In one moment, during his conversation with Leonardo DiCaprio's Billy Costigan, he casually withdraws a severed human hand from a Ziploc bag while carrying on a conversation about John Lennon with Costigan. Prior to this, he tortured Costigan by having his already broken arm re-injured due to his brief (and correct) supposition that Costigan was a cop. He manages to even unnerve his underlings: after killing a woman in the opening scene, he remarks while laughing, "Geez, she fell funny." His subordinate turns to him and says "Francis, you really should see somebody."
 * John Milton aka Satan in The Devil's Advocate. This portrayal of the Devil runs an Occult Law Firm staffed by his demons and humans he corrupted, using the legal system to get violent criminals off the hook and spread corruption everywhere in the world, hoping that the Earth will become such a perversion that it will hurt Heaven and spite God. Having to work around the free will of humans, he subtly manipulates them to give in to evil instead. He rapes multiple women over the years so he can find offspring good enough to mate with each other and further produce The Antichrist. He drives Kevin's wife Mary Ann to madness and suicide, and rapes her for half a day, leaving her with scratch and bite marks all over her body. He brutally kills everyone who tries to expose his crimes. When Kevin destroys his plan by killing himself, he kills his daughter in his moment of rage and turns her into a withered husk.
 * The Devil's Rain (1975): Jonathan Corbis is Satan's minister on Earth and the leader of a sinister coven that has been active for centuries. Seemingly burned at the stake centuries ago, Corbis lived and pursued the descendants of the man who sold him out and took a book that belonged to him, terrorizing the family the book currently belongs to by magically killing the father and torturing the mother into one of his hollow servants. When Corbis kidnaps the brother of Tom Preston and converts him as well, Tom finds the "Devil's Rain" which contains the souls of all of Corbis's followers, hundreds of them trapped in deathless agony and terror for centuries while their mortal bodies are reduced to waxen monstrosities neither alive or dead.
 * In Die Hard, we have the suave and well-spoken Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), the ringleader of a gang of robbers looking to make the heist of a lifetime. Pretending to be the leader of a group of European terrorists, Hans and his men storm the Nakatomi Plaza and kill the remaining security guards before moving on to take all the partygoing employees as hostages. While he pretends to want to negotiate with the police and the FBI about releasing his hostages and initially seems to have enough of a heart to make his prisoners comfortable, Hans proves to be completely heartless at his core: he plans to herd all the hostages up to the building's rooftop, only to secretly try to kill all of them (even a pregnant woman) by detonating a ton of C4 while he and his cronies make their escape with over 600 million dollars worth in bearer bank bonds. He even goes as far as to order the release of dangerous terrorists all around the world, potentially endangering countless lives in order to keep up his facade and gets plenty of cops and FBI agents alike killed with his powerful weaponry. And if that wasn't enough, he shows his ruthless nature by directly murdering two men: Mr. Takagi for refusing to give him access to the Nakatomi Plaza's vault, and Ellis when McClane refuses to surrender to him. He even shows no hesitation in allowing his loyal henchman Karl to die when his plans go awry. And in his dying moments he goes out a murderous bastard by attempting to shoot McClane and trying to force McClane's wife to fall to her death with him. Ruthlessly devoted to his own profit above anything else and mixing an utter lack of regard for human lives—even those of his own men—with an air of urbane sophistication, Hans Gruber remains the most deeply personal enemy John McClane has ever faced.
 * In Die Hard 2, it's Colonel Stuart's turn, in which he makes airplanes full of passengers crash just in order to show he's not joking around. His destruction of the British plane ranks right up there with any vile act in the movies' universe.
 * Christini from Dobermann. Putting it simply, he's a cold-blooded thug with a badge to abuse his power. Also has a few Kick the Dog and Moral Event Horizon moments like abusing Olivier/Sonia's parents and wife then murdering her, as well as the Dobermann's partner in crime, Jacky "Pitbull" Sweat. Gets a Karmic Death at the hands of the Dobermann with a shave against the freaking road!
 * Jonah King from Drive Angry is a Satanic cult leader obsessed with his own power and leading a group of psychos slavishly devoted to him. He lured the criminal Anti-Hero John Milton's daughter into his cult. After Milton's untimely death King kills her husband, takes her baby girl (Milton's granddaughter) to use in a sacrifice and forces Milton's daughter to give him a blowjob at gunpoint. She bites his dick off, after which he personally cuts off her head and keeps her femur as part of a cane he uses. When the resurrected Milton reveals his status as a eunuch, King immediately shoots the only cultist who could confirm it. He also briefly kidnaps Piper, Milton's female companion on the ride, but when she proves too much trouble to convert he decides to kill her and defile her corpse afterwards. It's later revealed by the Accountant that King isn't actually serving Satan. The Devil is really a Punch Clock Villain who hates that evil acts are committed in his name, so the baby's sacrifice is actually meaningless and is only meant to fuel King's ego. Ultimately King is just a power-tripping cultist, rapist, and baby-killer whose outward image as a messiah is a sham.
 * District 9: Koobus Veneter is a sadistic member of a special ops team who gets his jollies off murder, and relishes being able to kill without repercussion. Koobus guns down a prawn after it's been subdued and later leads a violent hunt for Wikus, with full willingness to kill whoever gets in the way. Koobus psychologically tortures the Prawn Christopher Johnson while beating him and threatens to kill him regardless of getting Wikus, gleefully making this remark:

"Koobus: I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this... I love watching Prawns die!"


 * Also, Obsesandjo the Nigerian mobster in a wheelchair who sets up his racket in District 9 and distributes cat food to the aliens, which is like a drug that keeps them hooked. He also offers "interspecies prostitution," offering them human women. The worst, however, is when he has innocent aliens butchered, so he can eat their flesh and gain their power. When he captures Wikus, he fully plans to cut off his Prawn parts and eat them himself.
 * Robert Turner from Disturbia is a serial killer who moved into a suburban neighborhood to evade capture, after killing several people in Austin Texas. Turner builds an underground, multi - layer torture cellar and killing lair underneath his house, with decaying corpses piled up all over the place. Turner seduces several women into his house before killing them, cutting up their bodies and placing their remains in garbage bags. When Kale the teenage protagonist discovers his true nature, he kidnaps and arranges to kill the boy's mother and frame him for it, since Kale is under house arrest for assaulting his teacher and would be the obvious suspect. Turner further kills a cop who arrives on the scene, by breaking his neck from behind.
 * The Scorpio Killer from Dirty Harry, with his nerve-screeching laugh, smug, cowardly demeanor (I have the right to a lawyer!), and sick sense of fun. His Moral Event Horizon is when he kidnaps a 14-year-old girl, hides her in a well with a limited oxygen supply, and sends the police a message that if the ransom money doesn't drop in time, the girl will die. Later, Scorpio captures a school bus full of children, planning to kill them all. So Callahan, already disgusted with Scorpio getting away with his crimes, takes justice in his own hands.
 * The Doctor and the Devils (1985): Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom are a pair of drunken thugs seeking extra cash to finance their partying lifestyle, and, when simple mugging and robbing do not satisfy their greed, the duo take to more murderous methods of moneymaking. Hearing of Dr. Thomas Rock's desire for fresh corpses to research as part of his scientific goals, Fallon and Broom begin murdering the weak, elderly, and homeless, then selling their bodies to Rock under the illusion they "found" them that way, raking in the dough as they murder over a dozen people. Once Fallon reveals his true nature of just enjoying the act of killing, attempting to murder two hookers with this mindset, Broom turns on his partner, pinning their crimes solely on Fallon and getting him hanged, all while laughing at the idea he could ever regret his actions. A pair of murderous goons whose desire for pure pleasure and partying overrode any moral qualms, Fallon and Broom were degenerates of the scummiest of orders.
 * The titular character of Dr. Chopper is a rogue plastic surgeon who is a centuries-old man who has cheated death time and time again by killing innocents and harvesting their organs, all in the name of science and eternal youth. He opens the film kidnapping a couple and murdering them for their organs, twenty years later him and his nurses have occupied Lake Tatonka where it's shown they have killed dozens of people over the years. Upon giving his son, Nick, a deed to where he's located, Nick lures his friends to be experimented on and killed which Chopper does with glee. He kills Reese and ties up the rest of them before declaring that they must kill Jessica; when Nick disapproves of this, Chopper kills him before killing Tamara and Leslie.
 * Dr. Cyclops: Dr. Alexander Thorkel is a biologist seeking to perfect size reduction. Upon discovering an abandoned gold mine rich with pitchblende, Thorkel began to conduct his research. When Dr. Mendoza—Thorkel's former student and lab assistant—threatens to shut down his research, Thorkel exposes him to a lethal amount of radiation, causing his skin to ignite as well as his skull to glow. With his eyesight worsening, Thorkel invites three scientists to his Peruvian home; angered by their continual intrusion in his plans, Thorkel traps the group in a radiation chamber, and shrinks them. Seeing his victims as nothing more than lab rats, Thorkel kills Dr. Bullfinch upon realizing that the shrinking process was temporary. Chasing the group into the jungle, Thorkel blasts Pedro with the full gauge of his shotgun, and sets the grass ablaze in an attempt to kill the three survivors in one fell swoop.
 * In Dolan's Cadillac, Jimmy Dolan is a ruthless human trafficker, first seen gunning down two of his own drivers, one Sex Slave who tries to flee and attempting to kill a woman, Elizabeth, who witnesses his crimes; burying the truck transporting the other women to suffocate them. Intimidating Elizabeth by leaving the corpse of a trafficked woman in her bed, Dolan later kills her by having her car bombed. Planning to bring in 80 sex slaves per day to the States, Dolan only caps at this number out of concern that Border Patrol will notice if he does more. Discovering Elizabeth's widower, Tom, trailing him, Dolan has him brutally beaten, leaving him alive only to enjoy the broken man's misery at the loss of his wife.
 * From Dragonheart we have King Einon. At the film's start, Einon seems a youth in need of guidance by his wise mentor, but it is revealed that any honor Einon has is just a front to learn swordsmanship from Sir Bowen. After Einon finds his dying father, he just tries to wrench the crown out of the man's hands, showing what he will become. After being mortally wounded, Einon is saved only when a dragon shares his heart with him, linking their lives. As King, Einon taxes and woks the people without mercy and orders a man's eyes put out with hot pokers for no real reason. Einon tries to rape the man's daughter later and when his mother tries to kill the dragon to stop Einon, Einon kills her with no remorse. While Bowen initially blames the dragon for Einon's change, it is revealed Einon was always a monster and the dragon shared his heart to try to change him.
 * Madeline "Ma-Ma" Madrigal of Dredd is the de facto ruler of the Peach Trees apartment complex and the biggest and most aggressive drug lord spreading the Slo-Mo drug, which slows the user's perception of time, throughout Mega-City One. Her meteoric ascent to power in Peach Trees is noted as unprecedented for its sheer senseless carnage and bloodshed, as she and her followers slaughtered their way to the top (ironically by taking the top first, then slaughtering their way down the block) with a Slasher Smile on her face. She is introduced having several rival gangsters skinned alive, then thrown out a very long drop after being given Slo-Mo to draw out their deaths. When the Judges arrive to investigate and capture one of her chief lieutenants, Ma-Ma has the Peach Trees complex shut down to trap Dredd and his trainee inside to silence any witnesses. She has no compunction about any civilians getting caught in the crossfire, to the point that she opens fire into an apartment block with gatling guns to kill the two judges. Dredd, a trigger-happy Knight Templar himself, notes just how overkill this is. We later learn that she personally carved out the eyes of her lead techie to forcefully give him cybernetic implants and playfully threatens to gut him while issuing orders. The captured lieutenant is later returned to her, and she only refrains from killing him because she's running low on men at that point. She finally arranges to blow up half the complex, with a population of thousands, by detonating a bomb tied to her heart rate.
 * Semyon, the leader of The Mafiya in the David Cronenberg film Eastern Promises at first seems a nice old man, but it's later revealed he is a domineering, abusive and violent man who runs a sex-slave ring in addition to his usual criminal activities. He is also the rapist of a 14 year old girl, having raped her out of disgust when Kirill couldn't do the deed. The girl, Tatiana, later dies in childbirth, and to cover his tracks Semyon attempts to have the people looking into Tatiana's case murdered and sends Kirill to drown the baby girl—Kirill's own sister.
 * Brett from Eden Lake is possibly the most evil teenager ever put to screen. A sadistic chav (British young white-trash), he is the ringleader of a teen gang. Brett crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he forces all his "friends", even the youngest ones, to take turns slashing the male protagonist with knives, while he films the whole thing on his mobile to incriminate them. He escalates to his worst deed later, when and Brett forces his bullying victim to light the fire, while saying "It's fucking you, not me!" When the heroine escapes, Brett "rewards" the boy by drenching him in gasoline as well and burning him to death out of anger. Worst of all, he gets away thanks to the whole community of other residents implied to be just as nasty.
 * Brett's father is even worse and is implied to be the reason Brett is what he is. Considering we never see a glimpse of Brett's mother, it's highly possible that either he killed her or she left him for whatever reason. Also, taking into account hints of child abuse and neglect in the background of the movie's setting, we have an idea how he might have raised Brett, possibly adding to the influence of juvenile deliquency seen throughout the film. The movie ends with Brett's dad.
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 * Eddie Poole is a lowlife who makes a living by deceiving oblivious runaways into believing he would lead them to stardom before ushering them into an industry that mercilessly exploited them, namely snuff films. Despite admitting that the sight of Mary Anne's murder made him sick, his efforts to cover up his involvement in her death at any cost obliterate the Moral Event Horizon.
 * Dino Velvet is a twisted pornographer who makes films centered around the torture and brutalization of women (a disgusting practice that ultimately leads to a murder) He also threatens to force the protagonist to murder and rape his friend (in that order) and film the above if he doesn't hand over the reel.
 * "Machine" is a psychopath who stars in Velvet's films to indulge his sadistic appetites. It is he who murders Mary Anne Matthews in the snuff film organized by Longsdale. By his own admission, he has no Freudian Excuse for his actions and merely partakes in such activities for his own personal amusement. What makes the "Machine" such a disturbing character is that not only did he choose to kill in spite of a somewhat comfortable upbringing and no Freudian Excuse in any way, but the fact that a Complete Monster can be in any shape and form, particular The Machine's true appearance...
 * Elephant: In this film based on the Columbine shooting, Alex is a cold-blooded rampage killer who attempts to massacre his entire school. Alex, along with his partner Eric, plan to bomb the school and gun down the survivors, which killing hundreds of people. When the bombs fail to go off, Alex and Eric settle for going room to room and shooting everyone they come across indiscriminately. When Alex and Eric regroup in the cafeteria, Alex kills Eric in cold blood, and proceeds to play a sadistic game of "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" with a couple that had been hiding in the freezer. While Alex, along with his fellow shooter Eric, had been bullied by his classmates, Alex's actions appear to be motivated by little more than the desire to hurt others for fun.
 * Also from David Lynch is "Sunny" Jim Renshaw, the Night Porter from The Elephant Man. Terrible a person as Mr. Bytes is, at least he had the delusion that keeping the deformed Jon Merrick in a freakshow was for his own good. Jim, however, has absolutely no qualms with assaulting, harassing, humiliating, and psychologically torturing him (and even using his ugliness to scare others) For the Evulz, all because he is convinced that it's how "a freak" is meant to live and how he can make good, quick money off of him. He is also shown to be very knowledgeable in exploiting the drunk and ignorant people in town for the sake of racking up good business. When confronted about his behavior, he insists that he's "proud of what he done" and feels justified in collecting the money people pay to see Merrick's deformity. In a film that centers on human morality, Jim embodies the lowest end of the spectrum: the worst kind of scum humanity has to offer. Dr. Treves lampshades his status in this confrontation: "YOU'RE the monster! YOU'RE the freak!"
 * Major Rocha of the The Elite Squad sequel The Enemy Within begins his reign of terror in Rio's slums by forming a militia and slaughtering anyone who won't give his men a cut of the profits. Any who resist the militia are executed, along with any witnesses. When Mathias, one of the Cowboy Cop heroes is getting info from a drug dealer, Rocha murders the dealer- and then shoots Mathias in the back. When two journalists get too close to the truth, Rocha tortures them, kills one, then has the other raped and killed before burning the bodies. when the main Anti-Hero gets too close, Rocha tries to kill him as well. A brutal thug of a human being, Rocha eclipses anyone else in the films for his violence and corruption.
 * Elysium brings us the truly psychotic Agent Kruger who is first introduced shooting down refugee ships full of men, women and children. We are informed after of Kruger's history of human rights violations, a reputation that he proceeds to live up. He butchers hero Max de Costa's allies and then when he suspects that Max has gone to see his old friend Frey and her daughter, he threatens and beats Frey in front of the girl, mocking the girl to close her eyes as he claims he hates to commit violence in front of kids, before trying to molest Frey. After Frey scorns him, he declares he'll make sure her daughter is never healed. When his superior Delacourt chastises him for his failures, Kruger just kills her and then declares he'll take over Elysium itself to give it the ruler it deserves.
 * Enemies Closer (2013): Xander is a drug kingpin who introduces himself by massacring a group of ICE agents seeking to investigate a downed plane that contains his drugs. Xander proceeds to kill any further agents who come to investigate, sending one of his agents to seduce the nearby hero, ex-Navy SEAL Henry Taylor, while also killing a nearby man to steal his boat to locate the heroin. When his own diver is injured, Xander smothers him to death and plans to force the heroes to locate the drugs. Xander captures and interrogates one of said heroes' friends before knifing him to death and threatens that if Henry fails to comply with Xander, Xander will torture and murder Henry and his son. When his agent is exposed, Xander calmly snaps her neck on the spot. Despite his quirks and superficial charm, Xander remains an unrepentant psychopath who is more than willing to kill anyone in his quest to recover his heroin.
 * Eraser: Undersecretary of Defense Daniel Harper and Marshal Robert DeGuerin are a greedy duo planning to sell powerful weapons to a known terrorist. DeGuerin acts as a mole within the Witness Security Protection Program (WITSEC), murdering witnesses to cover their tracks, including one he was charged to protect. When Marshal John Krueger catches on to the duo, DeGuerin drugs his drink, rendering him unconscious, and murders a WITSEC deputy with Krueger's gun, making the latter a fugitive. DeGuerin and Harper then go on to try to line their own pockets, apathetic to the fact they are risking global terrorism in doing so.
 * In Esther and the King (1960), Haman serves as the treacherous advisor to King Ahasuerus. He constantly manipulates the king to go to wars so that he could rule in his place. Under Haman's rule, people are constantly hanged for failing to pay their taxes. Haman later has the King's wife assassinated and orders all the Jewish virgins to be kidnapped for a King to pick a new wife. In the end, Haman manipulates King Ahasuerus into exterminating all the Jewish people, and nearly succeeds after framing King's Jewish advisor for a crime that he did not commit. Ruthless and power-hungry, Haman was as bad as his Biblical counterpart.
 * Pazuzu, the foul-mouthed demon in The Exorcist. He was the evil spirit that was possessing Regan MacNeil in the film. He used her to commit his evil deeds such as lashing out at others and shouting obscenities such as the (in)famous Your Mom quote. When faced with the Catholic priests Merrin and Karras, he mockingly encouraged them to try to remove his influence from Regan. When Merrin was left in the room with the possessed girl, he has a heart attack, which was believed to have been caused by Pazuzu himself. This left Karras alone to fight the demon. When he successfully removed Pazuzu from Regan, Pazuzu immediately went into him and tried to force Karras to kill Regan since she was of no further use to him. Pazuzu is called the most frightening creature in a horror film for a reason.
 * In this 2016 series, which is portrayed as a sequel to the original film, Pazuzu possesses Casey Rance, the daughter of his former host Regan Macneil, and decides to manipulate her by playing with her insecurities and torment her by inflicting her horrific nightmares. He’s soon revealed to have caused the car accident that killed Katherine’s girlfriend Julia. The Salesman destabilizes Father Thomas Ortega and Father Marcus Kane, the priests tasked for the exorcism, and successfully frames Marcus for the abduction Casey before killing two paramedics. He forces Angela to give up herself to him by threatening the life of her daughter. On top of it, it is revealed that he raped Regan when she was twelve. After repossessing Regan, he kills her mother Chris by snapping her neck, encourages the Friars of Ascensions to pursue their plan of murdering the Pope, slaughters the convent of Mother Bernadette and her sisters, then takes great pleasure in torturing Angela’s husband and daughters and inflicting Father Tomas with an illusion designed to goad him into suicide. Realizing that Angela survived the supposed "integration", he attempts to breaks her down by letting her hear the screams of her loved ones. In his last moments, he tries to kill Angela by snapping her spine. Believing God favored humans more that he and fellow fallen angels, his plan in the long run is to take the world back.
 * James Venamun in the third film is known as the Gemini Killer due to his carving the Gemini symbol into his victims' hands. A man so evil he became a demon upon execution, Venamun was placed into the dying body of father Damien Karras and while the body recovered, Venamun ended up in an insane asylum. Using his powers to possess comatose or feeble-minded patients, Venamun murders multiple people in hideously ritualistic ways, including a young boy. Venamun plans to kill forever and never cease, using Father Karras's body upon his exit to, as he says, kill the innocent and Karras's friends, all while Karras is forever trapped within the body, Forced to Watch the depravities his own hands commit.
 * The Equalizer: Nicolai Itchenko, aka Teddy Rensen, is the Dragon-in-Chief for Russian gangster Vladimir Pushkin, stands out among the mobsters in his cruelty. He starts by brutally beating an Irish mobster to death, stating it to be about sending a message, something that scares even the Dirty Cop who works with him. Then he interrogates Alina's friend and fellow prostitute Mandy in her house, trying to pose as friendly before he strangles her to death. After Robert McCall receives information on him, it is stated that he executed two corrupt officers who worked with him by beating them to death and stuffing them in the back of a car with their testicles removed and shoved on their mouths. He is described as a "sociopath with a business card" which is fit: he openly admits to Robert that he sees being sentimental as a weakness and sees no gain in it. Robert breaks his long time promise to not return to his vigilante days just to deal with this man.
 * The Expendables has rogue CIA agent James Munroe, The Big Bad of the first film. A drug smuggler and mercenary, Munroe is responsible for his partner, General Garza transforming the island of Vilena into a Police State, using the people as labour in their drug operation. During his first scene, Munroe kills one prisoner, then derides Garza for his lack of spine, forcing the General to murder a second prisoner in order to save face. When the Expendables raid Vilena, Munroe captures Garza's daughter, Sandra, who opposes her father's government, and has her waterboarded over Garza's objections. He contracts former Expendable, Gunnar, to kill the rest of the team, and when Garza turns on him following the Expendables' assault on Vilena, he shoots the General in the back, kills the rest of his security detail, and tries to make good his escape, though not before instructing Paine and The Brit to torture Barney Ross, and taking Sandra hostage to use as a Human Shield. Caring only for his profits, Munroe is willing to wreck an entire country in order to increase them.

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 * Azazel from Fallen. With one of his victims, he possesses them, then impersonates them for a few days and completely ruins their life and career, and finally wakes them back up so that they're actually aware that their life has been ruined (unlike an earlier victim who was killed while still possessed)...right before violently killing them. He's that cruel.
 * The Fantastic Four: Doctor Doom was once a friend of Reed Richards who was nearly killed and crippled by an experiment gone wrong. In vengeance, Doom spent the next ten years plotting the death of Reed and anyone associated with him. When the titular team gains their powers, Doom captures them and plots to drain them. In order to steal a diamond to power a laser beam, Doom massacres the Jeweler's gang and takes Alicia Masters as a hostage. Giving the Four an ultimatum of either surrendering to him or have New York City be destroyed by the laser, Doom starts a painful process to drain their powers, and plans to execute Alicia just to torment Ben Grimm. When they escape, Doom fires the laser at New York and confronts Reed once last time. Defeated, Doom lets himself fall just to rid Reed of the satisfaction of saving him.
 * Gaear Grimsrud of Fargo is a simply heartless monster who will kill anyone for little reason. Brought in for a simple kidnap and ransom job, Grimsrud demonstrates his cruelty by killing a cop because the man took too long to bribe, and then chases down and kills a couple who witnessed the murder, all without any expression. Grimsrud later loses patience with the kidnapping victim and kills her simply because her crying is getting on his nerves. When he has a dispute with a fellow conspirator over a car, Grimsrud just kills him with an axe and feeds his body into a woodchipper. When he's finally caught by the police, the heroine Marge Gunderson is left stunned how a human being could do the things Grimsrud has done for just 'a little bit of money.'
 * In Fatal Charm, Adam Brenner rapes and kills six women, and murders his traveling companion, John Walsh. After escaping from prison, he murders a couple and goes after Valerie, who believes he is innocent and has sent him letters during his trial. Adam breaks into Valerie's house and kills her mother and her mother's boyfriend before chasing Valerie down in an attempt to kill her.
 * In The Fate of the Furious Cipher, the Big Bad of the film and of Bigger Bad the whole series, is a powerful hacker and cyber terrorist with the goal of becoming a one-woman army by obtaining some nuclear codes. Initially posing as a random woman in Cuba, she quickly blackmails Dom into betraying his family and aiding her by having Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) kidnapped and kept as bargaining chips. As she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters to steal the God's Eye, it is also revealed that she caused Owen Shaw's fall into villainy, which earns her Deckard's hate. In New York, Cipher takes controls of hundreds of remote-controlled cars and crash them everywhere, causing untold chaos and panic just to get to the Russian minister who has the nuclear codes. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by killing Elena in front of Dom and his child. When Deckard Shaw invades her plane at the end, she avoids defeat by jumping out, fully expecting him to stop Dom's son from falling to his death. Cipher is an utter sociopath and hypocrite, praising the freedom of doing whatever one wishes but delighting in taking this freedom away from others, and commits her crimes simply she wants to. She doesn't understand love and affection above an evolutionary level and crosses many lines, on global but also on personal levels, such as when she kisses Dom in front of Letty For the Evulz.
 * Faust: In this 1926 film, Mephisto, stymied in his efforts to unleash the Four Horsemen on the Earth, makes a bet with an angel, over whether he can corrupt the soul of Doctor Faust. Spreading disease throughout Faust's hometown—and murdering a priest when the latter notices his presence—Mephisto offers convinces Faust to sell him his soul in exchange for the power to heal his neighbors. When Faust's neighbors turn on him, Mephisto turns the doctor into a younger man, and takes him to Parma, where he forces the Duchess of Parma to fall in love with Faust, then kills her husband in a duel. He later forces Gretchen, an innocent girl, to fall in love with Faust, only to subsequently frame Faust and her for the murder of her mother and brother, resulting in her being burned at the stake, and Faust committing suicide.
 * The Driver in Fender Bender is a Serial Killer who rear-ends women to coax them into giving him their personal information. He then scouts their house, and waits until night to stalk them in their home, checking in on them via text messages and then murdering them. After killing them, he assumes a different name using his victim's last name and the first letter of their first name, then takes their money, which he uses to refill his gas tank when he's running low, and finally takes the next exit to claim another victim. The first time he makes his presence known in movie, he stalks and kills a woman named Jennifer Barker before departing with her license plate and the alias "Jonathon Barker". The driver then rear-ends a 17-year-old girl named Hilary, apologizes, and the two exchange their personal information and Hilary takes photographs of the accident. Later that night, he breaks into her house and takes pictures of her in the shower, murders her ex-boyfriend, and cuts the power and chases Hilary and her friends through the house. He kills Rachel first, stabbing her, then throws her out the window and runs her over when he sees she's still alive. He kills Erik, then goes after Hilary, who manages to fight him off. Narrowly surviving being bludgeoned, stabbed and burnt, he kills her, t
 * In The Fifth Element, Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg is a vicious businessman who abandons any semblance of humanity in the name of profit. Using the Mangalores to try and steal the stones of the four elements that would save the world from "Mr. Shadow", Zorg intends to allow Earth to be destroyed in return for payment from Shadow. Attacking a luxury ship to Floston Paradise, Zorg and the Mangalores kill countless innocents, before trying to blow up the ship and escape with the stones. Loyal to no one, Zorg also seemingly sells weapons to the Mangalores, only for them to self-destruct and kill them, and fires one million taxi drivers out of callousness during an economic downturn.
 * The Fifth Wave: The Other Commander possessing Colonel Alexander Vosch lacks his potential love for his family of his book counterpart, becoming a completely monstrous mass murderer. "Vosch" attacks Earth, raising oceanic tides and weaponizing the avian flu, to kill the bulk of humanity. Murdering the adults of a refugee camp, Vosch turns children into brainwashed soldiers, convincing them other humans are aliens, to wipe out the survivors as the titular "Fifth Wave". Fleeing Earth when his base is destroyed, Vosch takes his Child Soldiers with him, hoping to return to complete his genocide.
 * First Knight: Malagant is a former Knight of the Round Table who once served King Arthur of Camelot, but turned rebel out of jealousy for the king. He and his followers frequently raid and burn villages to the grounds. Later, he and his knights capture Arthur's fiancé Guinevre and use her as a hostage for Arthur to give up his throne. In the end of the film, Malagant invades Camelot with his men and forces Arthur to bow before him or else he will die and Camelot will be torched. Once Arthur defies him, Malagant sees him fatally injured and dies furiously ordering his men to torch Camelot to the ground. Malagant also employs full use of We Have Reserves when he sacrifices a wave of soldiers just so Gunivere's guards are out of position when the second wave hits.
 * In Final Girl, Jameson is the leader of a group of teenage psychopaths whose favorite pastime is taking girls into the woods and hunting them for sport. Jameson himself has a body count surpassing twenty, with a focus on attractive young blond women. We first see him gun down a waitress named Gwen before he is later approached by the heroine Veronica. After taking her into the woods, Jameson informs her of the game and says the only reason he won't rape her is that women don't run as well after such an assault. When Veronica drugs and kills his three friends, Jameson is simply amused and offers to team up with Veronica on a cross-country killing spree.
 * In Fire With Fire, David Hagan is a vicious neo-Nazi gang leader who promotes murder as a way to get into his brotherhood, and makes a specialty out of murdering the loved ones of those who get on his bad side. Having previously claimed both Lt. Mike Celia's partner and the partner's wife after a failed attempt to capture him, Hagan opens up the film murdering the teenage son of a store clerk and then shooting the clerk dead while he's begging his son to get up. Once the sole witness of this crime, Jeremy Coleman, agrees to testify against him, Hagan orders a hit on Jeremy and his fiancee and threatens to murder everyone close to both Jeremy and his fiancee. He utterly ruins their lives before trying to kill them, proving his point by violently beating the best friend of Jeremy to near-death with a baseball bat. A ruthless sociopath, Hagan murders everyone who crosses him alongside anyone they consider precious to them and utterly delights in terrorizing anyone who stands against him.
 * Patrick Channing of The First Power is a satanic Serial Killer who makes a pact with the devil for supernatural power. With a huge string of corpses behind him, Channing offered the deaths to Satan by carving a pentagram into every villain, earning him the name "The Pentagram Killer." After being caught and executed, Channing revives and continues killing with the added twist that he now aims for revenge against the cop who caught him. His aim after that is simply to keep killing as many people as he can forever, with the added twist he can possess others as well.
 * Flowers in the Attic has Olivia Foxworth, a brutish religious fanatic who tortures and abuses her grandchildren for whatever she perceives as "sinful." She whips her daughter, Corrine, for running away with her husband’s brother, and locks her grandchildren up for being Corrine’s incestuous offspring. She helps Corrine with her plan to kill the children by feeding them cookies with arsenic sugar every day until they start feeling sick, as well as starving them. She does this not for her husband's inheritance money, but to make them suffer. She’s particularly cruel to her grandchildren, Cathy and Chris: when she sees them sleeping together in a bed, she smashes Cathy’s music box right in front of her; when she catches them innocently bathing together, she proceeds to lock Chris in a closet and abuse Cathy, chopping off a part of her hair. She then locks her grandchildren in the attic for months, which is far more cramped and unsafe to live in compared to their previous room. Sociopathic and cruel, Olivia proved to be just as evil as her daughter.
 * Dr. Bartok from The Fly II is a corrupt technology business magnate who will do absolutely anything for money and power. Veronica, Seth Brundle's lover from the previous film, has been implanted with Seth's mutated offspring. Bartok lies to her and Stathis about the incredible danger, and she dies during the birth. He keeps the seemingly normal infant, now named Martin, as a test subject until his mutations will reappear. He presents himself as a fatherly figure to Martin while manipulating him for his own ends. He uses a lab dog which Martin grew attached to for the telepod experiments, and when the experiment fails he keeps the mutated creature alive in agony for years for further study. When Martin grows up at an accelerated rate he gives Martin a private home for himself and allows him to make some human contacts, but installs secret surveillance to continue observing him. He wants to use Martin's unique physiology to control the morpology of all life on Earth and make his company truly hegemonic.
 * Bob Wolverton of Freeway is an obvious stand-in for The Big Bad Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. A sadistic murderer and pedophile known as the "I-5 Killer", Bob abducts troubled young girls off the freeway and, after gaining their trust, proceeds to rape and murder them. Kidnapping his latest target, Vanessa, Bob taunts her about her sexual abuse she received from her stepfather, before being shot by her, leading to his disfigurement. Seeking revenge, Bob drives to Vanessa's grandmother's trailer, where he proceeds to kill her. When Vanessa arrives, Bob immediately tries to gun her down, shooting a bystander in the process when he walks in on the scene. When asked why he kills, Bob justifies himself by claiming that his victims are garbage, showing a total Lack of Empathy or remorse for his actions.
 * Bob Rusk from Frenzy is one of the most deranged villains in an Alfred Hitchcock film. Known as the 'Necktie Murderer', Rusk is implied to rape his victims, before graphically strangling them to death with his tie. Rusk displays his violent compulsions multiple times, but even frames one of the only supposed friends he has for the murders with a dead woman's item, perfectly willing to let innocents take the fall for him.
 * Jerry Dandridge from Fright Night (2011) stands in stark contrast to the original film's charming and likable monster. The film opens with Jerry having slaughtered a family, including the teenage son, out of suspicion the boy was spying on him. Jerry reveals himself as a savage predator who kidnaps and feeds on people, keeping them locked up in his private larder. When Charlie Brewster tries to rescue a woman Jerry held hostage, Jerry had been toying with them both and had already turned her, letting her die in the sunlight solely to mess with Charlie. He's more than happy to tear the throats out of innocent bystanders and turns Charlie's girlfriend into a vampire in front of a helpless Charlie, and later mocks him as he makes out with her. While Dandridge in the original held certain elegance, this version is nothing more than a savage, sadistic predator.
 * Fists of the White Lotus (1980): The White Lotus Chief is the head of the White Lotus Cult, a fanatical and criminal organization that he uses to enact his evil crimes. Opening the film by having a group of ex-convicts massacred before doing the same to an entire temple of people, the White Lotus Chief reveals that both were in an attempt to kill just two siblings so as to restore his honor after said brothers killed one of his old classmates. After successfully killing one of his targets, the White Lotus Chief orders all of his enemies across the land to be killed, notably leading to a charity event's defenseless patrons being slaughtered while they are trying to rebuild a temple. The White Lotus Chief shows no remorse for his own soldiers when he accidentally kills them during battle, and takes sick enjoyment from drawing out the deaths of his opponents by hitting them in their pressure points, then "letting" them flee, only for them to drop dead soon after.
 * in Final Destination 5 is not only perfectly willing to commit murder to save his own life, he's the first human villain to pose a serious threat. Comparatively, the only human villain in the series before him, William Bludworth, is actually a Harmless Villain, since his main purpose is to serve as Death's own personal janitor and give protagonists some cryptic clues on how to evade death for as long as they can. Also, when he suggested that the protagonists "kill or be killed" and subsequently went mad and tried to kill Molly because Sam didn't save Candice in his vision, it was 's own decision to go the murder route; Bludworth, all-knowing he may be, can't control the actions of those who he gives his cryptic advice to.  took Bludworth's advice completely by accident when the opportunity presented itself (if you look closely, you'll notice that ), and Sam used Bludworth's words responsibly by.
 * From The Fugitive: Dr. Nichols. As despicable as the one-armed man was, he was merely hired muscle without much of a character. Nichols? Arranged the murder of Kimble and his wife, did absolutely nothing while Kimble was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, then acted as though he were aiding Kimble in his efforts to prove his innocence while in reality he was again planning to have Kimble killed. He did all this while pretending to be Kimble's friend, all for the money he was going to make off of a pharmaceutical deal.
 * The titular Funnyman is a sadistic demon ho humors himself by butchering anyone in an ancestral home when awakened. When a wealthy gambler and his family accidentally do so, the Funny Man brutally murders the gambler's wife and children. After a bus, driven by the gambler's brother and a group of hitchhiker's arrive, the Funny Man continues his spree, picking the group off one by one, in ways he finds amusing. Driving the gambler insane, the Funny Man leaves him soaked in blood and body parts while the demon waits for more victims to arrive.
 * In Full Contact (1992), the psychotic Judge opens the film robbing a store, stabbing an innocent woman to torture a safe combination out of her and leading to the deaths of the innocents around. Organizing a heist to steal a shipment of guns, Judge has his group massacre the passengers of a lorry bus and then double-crosses the hero Ko-Fei/Jeff as Jeff has a bounty on his head from a loan shark. Judge forces his own cousin Sam to try to murder Jeff, which also leads to an innocent family's death with the only surviving girl suffering horrible burns. Some time later, Judge reigns as a brutal crime boss and when Jeff resurfaces and steals Judge's shipment of guns, Judge furiously executes his own loyal henchwoman before trying to kill Jeff after torturing him with nonfatal gunshots, claiming his only regret is the two never got "one night together" first.
 * The 2018 live-action film adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist contains two examples:
 * Shou Tucker, the Sewing-Life Alchemist, is arguably even worse than his anime counterpart. Revealed to have fused his own wife with a dog to turn her into a chimera, a twisted parody of life that suffers in perpetual pain. Later performing the same treatment with his own daughter and her dog, Tucker defends his actions by claiming it is completely natural to perform unethical experiments solely on the basis of being able to, even having the gall to claim that Edward Elric is no different from him. He'd also planted seeds of doubt in the mind of Ed's younger brother Alphonse to make him believe his memories may be false and he might not truly be Ed's brother, for no reason other than to assert some form of control over Al, whom he saw as a special test subject for him. After being beaten and imprisoned by Ed, Tucker is later broken free and joins a military coup where he helps to create countless Mannequin soldiers to unleash upon the civilian populace solely for spite against Ed without a single care for the thousands of lives that will be lost, also threatening to blow a hole through Winry Rockbell's brain and torture Alphonse if he didn't lay his mechanical arm down on the transmutation circle at Camp 5, and gleefully enjoys breaking Ed's spirit by showing him the real Philosopher's Stone in his possession and revealing it's origins involving hundreds of living human souls having been sacrificed in death camp experiments before getting ready to shoot Ed in cold blood while he's defenseless to stop him.
 * General Hakuro is a ruthless military officer seeking a military coup. Manipulating conflict, death and murder across Amestris, Hakuro recruits Tucker and reveals the truth of the Philosophers' stones as the amalgam of fused human souls and lives, flashbacks showing that Hakuro had thousands of prisoners and innocents painfully melted down to create thousands and thousands of stones. Upon confronting Edward, Hakuro plans to unleash the cannibalistic Mannequin Soldiers on Amestris to kill until Hakuro can seize control of the country, driven by nothing but a hunger for power to the point of even declaring himself the future ruler of the entire world.
 * Joe Montague of The Galaxy Invader, a Domestic Abuser and Abusive Parents, is first seen shooting at his daughter for slapping him. When he discovers the green man, he decides to hunt it down and sell it to scientists, only not killing it because it's worth more alive. Later, he tries to rape Becky, then shoots her In the Back when she escapes. After his family takes the alien equipment he stole and runs away, he tries to kill them all. He guns down the green man before his wife kills him.
 * The Galactic warlord Sarris from Galaxy Quest is one, especially by comedy film standards, since he's played dead straight. For no discernible reason, he attempts complete genocide of the peaceful Thermians. He doesn't do this simply through brute force, but also through lies and promises of mercy, when the Thermians don't even understand the CONCEPT of deception or lies. And then, when he decides to execute the remainder of the Thermians by destroying the ship ("Far too simple a death for them, isn't it?"), he decides that it would be far more fitting for them to slowly suffocate as the air was pumped out of the ship. It doesn't fit to forget his torture of the Thermians' last captain before Mathesar: she told Sarris everything she knew about the ship and the Omega-13 and begged him to kill her. His response? "When I grow tired of the noises you make, you shall die." And what happened to the shield tech who didn't get the shields up fast enough for Sarris' liking. Complete Monster? Without a doubt.
 * Ken Castle of Gamer is a billionaire technology designer in a dystopian future. He develops an artificial environment called "Society" where users can remote control other people (all of whom have no control over their own body while inside and only volunteer because they need the money and feel disgusted by it) to do any depraved thing they want with their avatars short of plain murder. Then he indulges people in even that desire as well when he offers the government a solution to the prison overcrowding by creating a second game called "Slayers", in which prisoners have to fight to the death in an enclosed war zone under the control of more remote players. Any prisoner who can survive 30 rounds will supposedly be freed, but Castle reneges on this arrangement when the hero Kable is close to winning, and sets him up to be killed. His ultimate goal, revealed late in the film, is his secret extension of the mind control nanotech they use on the "characters" in the games to the general population so he will be in personal control of 100 million people in short time, and eventually make everyone in the world his slave, robbing them of anything even resembling free will. He uses this power to control Kable's body and tries to force him to slit his little girl's throat. He is utterly bereft of empathy, to the point he sees people only as things and laughs off every one of his minions who die for him.
 * Hackman is an enormous inmate in Kable's prison who went on a massive killing spree just so he could be locked up and personally enjoy the carnage in Slayers. He arranges with Castle to remove the mind control on himself so he has an advantage over the other prisoners and can kill Kable himself. He kills another prisoner for no reason than to show Kable the resulting blood on his hands, and threatens to pay a visit to the two "whores" Kable has on the outside, namely his wife and daughter. Through the rest of the film he just keeps murdering people (especially innocents) left and right, clearly deriving sadistic joy from all the crimes he commits with his hands.
 * Mickey Cohen is written as this in the film Gangster Squad, where he is an utterly psychotic mobster whose brutality terrifies even other hardened mobsters. Cohen opens by having a friendly emissary from the Chicago mob executed by being torn apart between two trucks, before throwing a group who are late in their protection money in their building, locking them inside and burning them with the building. A building he'd had women brought to in order to be hooked on drugs and turned out as prostitutes. He furiously executes an underling with a power drill due to the man failing him and when his girlfriend opts to leave him, Cohen sends one of his men to throw acid in her face.
 * In the film Get Out, the Armitage family is responsible for truly appalling human experimentation, but Rose Armitage stands out above the rest in terms of horribleness. She is a vile seductress who lures her victims through false relationships and once she acquires a victim, she sends them to be psychologically tortured, culminating in their minds being overwritten via brain transfer. A sliver of the original inhabitant is condemned to the "Sunken Place" wherein they are fully aware of their surroundings, but are powerless to do anything about it. Initially posing as Chris Washington's girlfriend, Rose assists her family with detaining Chris before casually browsing the internet for more victims. Even as she bled out, Rose still desired to hurt Chris. When a police car approached, Rose aimed to play the victim card so to frame Chris for attempted murder. A cold-hearted sociopath who doesn't bat an eye even at the death of her family, Rose pleasured herself in manipulating others to her own end.
 * In the film Geostorm: Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom and Dutch Boy's engineer, Duncan Taylor both qualify, they conspire together and plant a virus into the aforementioned weather-controlling satellite to cause a series of natural disasters, killing untold people. While Dekkom has the head of Dutch Boy's Hong Kong department murdered to cover up his crimes, Taylor implants a virus on the spaceship of the crew that ventures to fix Dutch Boy to destroy it and kill them all. Motivated by nothing but personal gain, Taylor seeks a handsome payment for his crimes while Dekkom attempts to kill the President so he may use the global catastrophe to take power himself.
 * Karl Hochman of the film The Ghost In The Machine is known as The Address-Book Killer for his predilection of obtaining victims from stolen address books. While driving to kill a victim, Karl is injured in a car accident and a freak electrical surge when he is hooked up to machinery results in his soul becoming digitized. Now free to continue his spree, he uses his powers to scan address books digitally and murder everyone on the lists. Now able to manipulate any electrical, Karl initiates electrical fires, causes explosions and uses electrical shocks to claim new victims with seemingly no way to escape him.
 * Ghost in the Shell: Cutter is the Corrupt Corporate Executive of Hanka Robotics and the true mastermind behind the conflict. Engineering the mass kidnapping of teenage runaways from the Lawless Zone, Cutter authorizes illegal, covert experiments to perfect a transhuman weapon that leads to the death of ninety-seven of the runaways and the imperfect creation of the ninety-eighth, Kuze, whom Cutter orders disposed of like trash. Viewing the ninety-ninth, the Major, as little else but a living weapon for his own benefit, Cutter orders her killed when she learns too much and callously murders Dr. Ouelet, the doctor who initially performed the experiments, the moment she rebels against Cutter's immoral methods. With full intent to move onto further illegal projects, Cutter orders the entirety of Section 9 killed and tries to kill the Major and Kuze himself, cruelly referring to his own wayward creation as a "freak." A shallow hypocrite who refuses to acknowledge any fault of his own, Cutter is concerned purely with personal profit and is willing to stoop to any low in this pursuit.
 * Ferriman, aka the literal "Ferryman" from Ghost Ship is an infernal accountant working for Hell to collect souls. He was a bastard even before he became a demon, as he was only given the job because he lived a gravely immoral life. He impersonates a human to trick people into committing mortal sins and kill themselves so he can steal their souls. He goads the crew on the Italian cruise liner the Graza to butcher everyone on board to get a crate of gold bars that he brought with him from a ship they salvaged. It turns into a complete massacre, with people being attacked all over the ship and cut open, poisoned, and machine gunned to death, including a child being hanged in her room. The instigators turn on each other after killing the passengers, and he kills the last one himself with a meat hook. He traps the souls on the ship in fear and torment until he can send them all to Hell. He lures multiple salvage crews to the derelict cruise liner to fix the ship, tricks them into staying to get the gold, and then kills them all one by one. Not even his job explains his excessive sadism in killing people to steal their souls, as there's no hint that there are others like him or that it's standard procedure. Worse yet, the end of the film implies he's about to do it all again.
 * The Girl Next Door has Aunt Ruth Chandler, who takes child abuse to horrifyingly new levels. Ruth is known for being a misogynistic woman who believed that all women were prostitutes by nature, and that they deserved to be treated as animals. Out of the two girls, Meg was her favorite victim. She also appointed her own sons into abusing the defenseless girl, as well as several of the neighborhood kids. When David, the film's protagonist, first arrived to her house, Ruth tried to corrupt his young mind as well, and also threatened to kill the two girls if he as much as uttered a word to the police. The worst thing that Ruth ever did to Meg was binding and gagging her to a cellar in the basement while also allowing several of the children to have their way with her. When David tried to escape the house, Ruth ordered her children into tying up the young boy so that he wouldn't tell any of the authorities about what she was doing to her nieces. David could only sit there on the floor as he watched helplessly at the sight of Ruth mutilating her own niece with a blowtorch. She also performed a clitorectomy on the young girl and stated that it meant that a man would never love her and that she'll never get married. David woke up the next day and discovered, to his horror, that Ruth had molested Meg to the point of making her bleed internally. He beat Ruth to death after finding this out, but Meg ultimately succumbed to her wounds and died despite his attempts to save her. Despite operating on a secluded scale, Ruth was ultimately humanity at it's very worst.
 * Commodus from Gladiator is the heir to the wise Emperor Marcus Aurelius, but when he learns that his father wants to stop the corruption by making Rome a republic again and appoint the noble General Maximus as regent instead of him, he murders Aurelius and frames Maximus. He casts himself as an unworthy son to a father with high demands, but his patricide and subsequent megalomania show that his grievances with his father only reflect on his desire to become ultimate ruler, not to make his father proud. He orders Maximus killed, his wife gangraped, and both his wife and son crucified. He becomes Emperor and marginalizes the Senate's authority while keeping the populace in line with food and games. When Maximus reappears in Rome and the possibility of revolution looms he goes completely off the rails. He tries to have Maximus killed in the arena but this fails, then lures his enemy into a trap and unfolds the insurrection, kills most of Maximus' sympathizers and plans to execute the rest after publicly killing Maximus himself in a spectacular showdown, which he shifts in his favour by secretly wounding Maximus before the fight. His "love" for his sister Lucilla is revealed to simply be lust. When he learns that she is working with Maximus, the "merciful" Commodus demands that the horrified Lucilla provide him with an heir so his "blood pure" progeny can reign as tyrants for a thousand years to come. He threatens to kill his own child nephew if she doesn't consent to becoming his personal sex slave or takes her life to defy him. Even the Praetorian Guard (his personal bodyguard, who are paid to protect him at all cost) are so disgusted by him by the end that they refuse to aid him when he loses his sword in the final fight. To sum up, he's an incestuous rapist who thinks nothing of killing children, or his own family, and usurped the throne to pervert the very idea of Rome by replacing it with a tyrannical dynasty.
 * The Golden Dragon Branch Chief in Golden Swallow is one of the highest ranking members in the criminal organization known as the Golden Dragon, and despite his very limited screen time, stands out as the worst among them. Introduced bisecting a man for treachery, the Branch Chief next has two would-be assassins brought out to him, where he questions their motive for trying to kill him. When the assassins reveal they were just ordinary people before the Branch Chief had their entire families, infants included, slaughtered, the Branch Chief just laughs at them before having their hearts carved out. Next dragging out one of his own soldiers, the Branch Chief orders the man be sliced into quarters simply because he refused to kill children on the Branch Chief's orders. These public executions are noted to be a regular occurrence for the Branch Chief, alongside regularly having families and innocent travelers killed, and the Branch Chief does it all with a smile on his face and no remorse whatsoever.
 * Luca Brasi from The Godfather, who is brutally sadistic, even though he works for the Corleones; he's often used to deal with situations that even the Mafia would find repulsive -- torturing two rival gangsters by slowly dismembering them with an axe. And then there was the stuff he did before Vito employed him, which is only laid out in the novel that inspired the movie: after finding out that a prostitute he'd spent time with was actually pregnant with his child, he had the baby thrown into a furnace. Even loyal allies of the Corleone family agree that Brasi should be roasting in Hell.
 * Don Ciccio from Part II killed Vito's father and brother, and when the mother went with Vito to him and asked him to spare her son, what did he do? He refused and killed the mother as well, and the next thing he tried to do was an attempt to kill Vito himself! When the boy escaped, Ciccio threatened the whole Sicily that anybody who tries to help him will be dead.
 * Henry Evans, from The Good Son proves you don't need to be an adult (or even a teenage chav) to be a monster. Having a disturbing attraction towards death and the idea of murder, Henry built a philosophy around himself that stated that if people were to rid themselves of their morals, then they are free to do any evil acts that they wanted to do without such concepts holding them back. Prior to the main plot, Henry murdered his own younger brother in the bathtub just because he had happened to be playing with a toy that belonged to him. He then goes on to convince his cousin, Mark, into helping him throw a dummy dubbed "Mr. Highway" off of a bridge, resulting in massive car accidents. He also shot and killed an innocent dog with a nail gun from a distance and he also attempted to drown his sister in a frozen lake when they were skating together. When Henry's mother was beginning to realize that her son was a remorseless sociopath, she decided to send him to a mental institution so that he could get the help that he needed. Unwilling to lose his freedom, Henry decided that his family needed to die so that he could be free to do whatever he wanted.
 * Goth (2003): Goth is an Ax Crazy zealot who believes that the “true" goth lifestyle involves committing random acts of violence For the Evulz. She kidnaps a young couple, Crissy and Boone, to teach them her ways. She takes the couple on a journey of rape, murder and mutilation. This culminates in her drugging Crissy and tricking her into killing Boone and everybody at a party.
 * Loco of The Great Silence is a psychopathic bounty hunter who spends the film hunting down a group of Mormons, with every intention of murdering them. When he practically takes a town hostage, Loco murders the sheriff to prevent his interference and when faced against the hero, Silence, Loco has an ambush set to cripple Silence before gunning him down and then shooting his love interest dead. He and his men proceed to murder every one of the Mormons, with Loco smugly adding they'll collect the bounties nice and legally. His actions, in the end narration, are noted to have absolutely horrified society and precipitated the end of Bounty Hunting.
 * Stuntman Mike of Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's half of Grindhouse, is a former stunt man and expert driver who becomes a Serial Killer of women by using his car as a murder weapon. He modifies the car to make it "100% Death Proof" to immunize himself from harm. Then he can use it for vehicular homicide by crashing into cars full of people and killing them in the process, or drive so dangerously that any passengers will die from the blunt force trauma caused by being thrown around in his car and hitting hard surfaces repeatedly. He extensively stalks his victims beforehand, and seems to derive sexual pleasure from his kills. He also toys with his prey, as he pursues a group of women attempting a stunt where one of them is on the hood of their car at high speed. He chases them down the road in a lengthy pursuit to see them terrified for their lives, getting kicks off the whole thing.
 * David Greenhill of Guilty As Sin is a debonair ladies' man who stands accused of murdering his wealthy wife. He chooses a successful attorney named Jennifer Haines to represent him, stalking her occasionally with barely-hidden lecherous intentions. It's revealed that he's not only responsible for the crime he's been charged with, but also has a history of dating older women who usually end up dead. When Haines tries to sabotage her own case by having evidence planted at Greenhill's apartment, he takes his revenge by viciously assaulting her boyfriend Phil. He privately confesses to his wife's murder to Haines with vividdetail, relishing reliving the crime. When she asks him why he didn't use gloves before killing her, Greenhill responds that "killing with gloves on would be like fucking with a rubber." In order to leave no witness he kills Haines' by burning him alive in his office before he tries to kill Haines by throwing her out of a railing and make it look like a suicide.
 * Hack-O-Lantern: Grandpa Drindle is a Satanic cult leader seeking to turn his grandson Tommy to the Dark Side. When Tommy was a boy, Grandpa killed Tommy's father for trying to nip the corruption in the bud, and began a 13-year plan to act as The Corrupter to the lad, who is his Child by Rape of his own daughter. On the night of the final ceremony to abduct Tom into the cult, Grandpa goes on a killing spree to ensure that nobody gets in the way of his plan, slaying one victim in a mass grave of the cult's previous human sacrifices. When Tommy quits the cult after Gramps tries to make him kill his sister, he goes to kill both siblings. He is mortally wounded in the ensuing final battle, but manages to magically corrupt his other grandson before he dies.
 * In the original Halloween films, Michael Myers was described as nothing but pure and simple evil: he doesn't have any rudimentary sense of, really, anything; all he knows how to do is kill, kill, kill. Before the series started, he killed his older sister when still a small child. The scary thing about Myers is that there's no indication he gets pleasure out of it. Or any other reward. He's also seen as a force of nature and the lack of motive is played for Nightmare Fuel. In the first film, Michael goes on a killing spree through his hometown of Haddonfield, intending to kill his surviving sister, Laurie, killing three of her friends before targeting her. Pursuing Laurie to a local hospital in Halloween 2, Michael massacres the staff before attacking Laurie again. Despite being stopped, the horror Michael causes doesn't end there - in the H20 timeline, 20 years after his original rampage, Michael tracks Laurie to a boarding school in California, killing several students and Laurie's boyfriend before trying to kill her and her son John. Although he was subdued and apparently killed by Laurie, it's revealed in the following film that Michael escaped by crushing a paramedic's larynx and switching clothes with him, leaving the innocent man to die in his place. Michael then tracks Laurie to an insane asylum where he finally kills her. Afterwards, when a reality TV crew starts filming in his childhood home, Michael attacks and kills nearly all of the crew and contestants out of nothing but annoyance with their intrusion. In the expanded comic universe, Michael perpetrates dozens more crimes, including torturing his old psychologist's best friend to death in front of him, butchering a teacher then leaving her posed for her child students to find, and going on a new murder spree where he notably slashed a child's throat and buried a girl alive. Incapable of feeling empathy, and driven by a loathing of seemingly everybody he encounters, the unstoppable and perpetually silent Michael helped to define the Slasher Movie as we know it, and remains one of the most bone-chillingly evil slasher villains.
 * From the same series, Doctor Terence Wynn from Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. When Wynn realized Michael bares Throne, Wynn uses the ancient cult as a front for his experiments, using Michael's DNA for experiments to create evil in it's purest form by impregnating female Sanitorium patients with Michael's DNA, most resulting in stillbirths. It is also discovered Wynn helped mentor Michael into being the killer he is today, and helped him escape in the first movie and in previous movie Wynn followed Michael in his killing spree, and blew up a police station before abducting Michael's niece Jamie and escaping with Michael. After Jamie successfully births a new baby, Steven, Wynn plans on making Steven the next cycle of evil, and even forms a fascination with Danny Strode, trying to get him to become a killer too. Loomis even states "I thought Michael was a monster, but you..."
 * Halloween III: Season of the Witch has Conal Cochran, the CEO of Silver Shamrock Novelties; a company known for its Halloween masks, which it shipped all over the United States. Cochran, it turns out, had built these masks with a computer chip made from a fragment of Stonehenge. When Silver Shamrock's commercial would air on Halloween night, the chip was to unleash a lethal swarm of insects and snakes, killing the wearer and anyone in the immediate vicinity. Cochran is shown demonstrating how these masks work on an innocent family, laughing all the while as they get poisoned and eaten. His plan is to kill literally thousands of children all over the country, partially to bring back the darker aspects of the Celtic festival Samhain, which he connects to witchcraft, but also just because he considers this mass murder to be a fun joke, the best ever in fact, because it's a joke on the children.
 * Marissa Wiegler's antics in Hanna makes her henchmen, even Issacs, look like saints. To start, Marissa terminated the Super Soldier program, killing 19 out of 20 children along with their parents. She follows this by ambushing and killing Hanna's mother as Hanna and Erik escaped to the forests. All in all, she's arguably one of the most depraved and sadistic madwomen in film history.
 * Mason Verger in Hannibal. He's an incestual pedophile bisexual rapist obsessed with watching the title character being eaten alive by wild boars. Many of his previous evil deeds - such as the adolescent rape/abuse of his lesbian sister - are only hinted at. An evil deed that is explicitly mentioned? He emotionally tortures orphans until they cry, at which point he drinks their tears in martinis. In a series based around Serial Killers, Verger manages to stand out.
 * In Happy Death Day, John Tombs is a Serial Killer who was on the run for the murder of six women across the country, boasting that there are over a dozen more victims that haven't been found. After a confrontation with the police and killing an officer, Tombs is neutralized and taken into the hospital for a gunshot wound. In one of the loops, when Tree comes to the hospital to give a warning that Tombs will escape, she discovers that Tombs already murdered a security guard. Tombs then guns down a secretary at the hospital and chases down Tree to kill her as well. When Carter stops Tombs from killing Tree, Tombs snaps Carter's neck just to hurt her. He later gleefully watches Tree hang herself when she decides to reset the day. During the penultimate loop, when Tree confronts Tombs, Tombs steals her knife and attempts to slit her throat, only to stop himself so that he can relish torturing her.
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 * Johnny Wong of Hard Boiled tops John Woo's other villains in terms of sheer nastiness. He and his men have absolutely no qualms in blowing away innocent bystanders who are unfortunate enough to get in their way, as shown during the very first shootout of the movie. And they only get worse from there, culminating in the hospital sequence where they . The following quote by Johnny during the hospital sequence says it all.

"Johnny Wong: There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die!"


 * Hard Target gives us Emil Fouchon, a libertarian madman who runs a hunting ring that aims to break what he describes as the government's monopoly on murder. Using a man named Randal Po to recruit homeless veterans, Fouchon and his Dragon, Pik Van Cleaf, offer them thousands of dollars if they can survive being hunted by Fouchon's clients—an offer Fouchon has no intention of fullfilling. During the film's opening scenes, Fouchon, Van Cleaf and their client (with help from a team of bikers and huntsmen) run down and murder Douglas Binder. When Douglas' daughter, Natasha, comes looking for him, in alliance with veteran Chance Boudreaux, Fouchon has Randal beaten and mutilated for selecting a man with a family, then chooses Chance's friend Elijah Roper as the target of the next hunt. When the client proves unwilling to finish Elijah, Fouchon kills the client, then has Van Cleaf gun down Elijah in the street. Deciding to move to the next town, Fouchon has Van Cleaf kill Randal, and the coroner they were paying to fake causes of death. When Chance and Natasha get involved, Fouchon decides that they have to die as well, and brings in a number of clients who owe him favours. When Chance uses a rattlesnake to poison one of these men, Fouchon stomps him to death while ranting about how he should "die quieter." When Chance's uncle sets another of his men on fire, Fouchon kills the man himself. As the film approaches its climax, Fouchon, with all of his men dead, stabs Chance's uncle with an arrow, takes Natasha hostage, and finally tries to beat Chance to death with a burning two-by-four.
 * The aforementioned Pik Van Cleaf is Emil Fouchon's top enforcer, and an unrepentant maniac who delights in acts of violence. Responsible for procuring Fouchon's victims, organizing the hunts, and assassinating any threats to their enterprise, Van Cleaf often joins in the hunts himself, committing numerous atrocities with a smile on his face. Introduced pursuing and helping to murder Douglas Binder, Van Cleaf cuts off Randal Poe's ear when he makes the mistake of selecting a man with a family, threatening to "cut a whole steak out of him" if he fails again. Gunning down Elijah Roper, Van Cleaf murders a coroner on Fouchon's payroll, and attacks Randal, joyously breaking the man down into a sniveling wreck before gunning him down. Van Cleaf ambushes Boudreaux and Natasha, killing a cop in the process, before joining Fouchon on the hunt for the duo, intending to murder them both in "one last hunt".
 * In Hard Target 2, Jonah Aldrich is a former CIA agent turned sociopathic criminal mastermind. Paying off a corrupt general in Myanmar, Aldrich has drove countless people off their land to use the vast jungle as his hunting ground, where he routinely looses condemned prisoners and villagers alike to be hunted by rich clients for sport. Luring MMA fighter Wes Baylor, Aldrich reveals his true colors by ordering a prisoner shot, before having his clients pursue Baylor into the rainforest. Not seeing his customers as any more than a paycheck, Aldrich doesn't bat an eye at their deaths, and goes so far as to beat one up for being "a pussy", and slitting another's throat when he discovers the man has a hidden camera. Aldrich goes on to attempt to behead Baylor's colleague Win with a shovel, execute a random bystander on a bridge, and hold a child at gunpoint to force Baylor to surrender. A man defined by his Lack of Empathy, Jonah Aldrich is completely indifferent to the entire graveyards he's filled in the name of lining his pockets.
 * The Hard Way: The Party Crasher is introduced calling the police to cheerfully inform them of his intent to commit a murder at a nightclub before invading it, gunning a man down and escaping. Targeting petty criminals and drug dealers, the Party Crasher initially claims he is doing police's work for them, but his sadistic demeanor and cruelty reveals this to be a lie, with carnage and fame his real goal. Murdering a prostitute soon after, the Party Crasher takes a gun dealer hostage and later executes him before escaping and attempts to fire on an innocent crowd, killing at least one man. When police lieutenant John Moss confronts him, he reveals the Party Crasher murdered a 4 year old girl in the past to which the Party Crasher only laughs that one sacrifices pawns. Taking Moss's girlfriend hostage, the Party Crasher holds her on the theater rooftop to lure Moss to him, with the intent of murdering them both, along with Moss's partner, actor Nick Lang.
 * Noel Winters from Harry Brown is a psychotic, misogynistic, sadistic teenage leader of the gang of chavs living on the estate; he often abuses women for sexual pleasure while also engaging in regular acts of brutality, a lot of which he films on his phone. He and his gang regularly abuse Leonard to the point that the old man eventually tries to fight them with a bayonet - but is overpowered and kill by the gang, while they film his death on one of their phones. Although (whilst captured and being tortured by Harry) Marky admits that, whilst he and the others only really meant to scare Leonard, Noel was the one who ended up stabbing him. And Noel himself even urinates on the dead man's body. Later, during a riot on the housing estate, he is found hiding with help from his also-psychotic uncle. Having been confronted by Harry (and also having found a female police officer trying to call for help), Noel's uncle tells him to strangle the officer, and Noel takes pleasure in sadistically strangling the woman - and actually encourages her to struggle for her life, as he watches her die!
 * The Pale Man, aka Edgar Mullins from Haunter, is a vicious ghost who loves the murder of innocents. When he was a boy, he killed both his parents by poisoning and smothering them in their beds. He later becomes a serial killer who claims numerous victims between the 1950s and his death in the 1980s. Still not content, he returns from the dead as a murderous ghost and keeps the spirits of his victims trapped in the house so he can torment them indefinitely. He also possesses the fathers of new families, whom he then forces to kill themselves along with their wives and children. Utterly cruel and malevolent, he sees no reason to ever stop; as he proclaims to one of his victims' spirits, "I always do enjoy killing you."
 * Hugh Crain of The Haunting (1999). Child-killer extraordinaire, though Nell does say at one point after she's connected to the house and its ghosts that Crain "just wanted children, but it all went wrong", implying he wasn't always so. The short version of his crimes: wanting a family, he abducted children from his mills, and when they tried to leave his house he murdered them, mutilated their bodies, and burned them in a fireplace (then covered this up in his records by merely claiming they'd died of illness or factory injuries). He also drove his first wife to suicide and (it's strongly implied) murdered his second for discovering his secret. After his death he comes back as an all-powerful ghost who keeps the spirits of the children trapped in the house and kills any newcomers.
 * Headshot (2016): Lee, the Sea Devil, also known as the Father From Hell, is introduced escaping from prison by massacring a group of police officers and prison guards, sacrificing his loyal gang members to do so. A vicious pirate, Lee is known for slaughtering those he finds while abducting groups of children. Lee then forces the children into a well for days or weeks without food or water, in the sweltering heat, until he throws down a bottle of water and watches the children fight to the death. The survivor is then raised by Lee as his child and eventual member of his gang. When his treacherous "son", Abdi, later named Ishmael, betrays him and resurfaces with amnesia, Lee sends his men to capture Ishmael, and to massacre whoever stands in their path, resulting in massive amounts of bloodshed and death. When he and Ishmael finally engage in a duel to the death, Lee even attempts to use the last of his energy to try to drag Ishmael to death with him out of spite.
 * Waingro from Heat. Murders unarmed guards who he thinks looked at him funny, as well as rapes and kills multiple prostitutes. His final horrid act is to murder Danny Trejo's girlfriend and beat Trejo half to death, but not kill him because that would be a Mercy Kill. This all shows you how much better Neil Mccauley is, even if he is a thief himself.
 * Hellraiser has three examples:
 * Frank Cotton was a cruel hedonist before he was taken by the Cenobites. After his escape, he shows no remorse in murdering innocent people to drain them of their vital fluids to repair himself. When his niece Kristy Cotton, finds him, he tries to rape her. He also murders his own brother and wears his skin as a disguise. When Kristy uncovers the truth, Frank also murders his accomplice and lover Julia with no remorse, taking her life as well. When he's taken by the Cenobites again, Frank languishes in a private hell and sends Kristy letters begging for help...pretending to be her father so she'll come to save him, and he can keep her as a sex slave.
 * Julia Cotton as well enters this in the second film. After she's revived, she gleefully drains people at a mental hospital of their life while relishing in their pain and suffering to restore herself. She feeds her rescuer Dr. Channard to her master to turn him into a Cenobite and tries to kill her stepdaughter and an innocent, mentally handicapped girl as well. When she encounters Frank again, she shows no hesitation in brutally murdering him, showing she's cast off any human attachment
 * Dr. Channard from the second film. After reviving Julia, he happily feeds her his patients. His obsession with the Lament Configuration is so deep that he tries to have patients solve it, so he can observe the Cenobites taking them to eternal torture. After becoming a Cenboite, he becomes Drunk on the Dark Side and sadistically slaughters any living thing he sees: even other Cenobites when they remember their humanity and take a stand against him.
 * Henry, eponymous Villain Protagonist of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a man who finds feeling only in murder. Henry kills several people randomly and explains his strategy for getting away with it in that he always mixes up his MO. When Henry befriends a twisted man named Otis, Henry has the two murder a whole family, snapping the young son's neck on camera. The next day, Henry is seen leaving alone, dropping a heavy, bloodstained suitcase in a ditch that contains Becky's remains.
 * King Cotys of the 2014 Hercules film is a power-hungry monarch who murdered his own son-in-law in order to become king. He later gave Hercules the task of preparing an army for him which he could then use to fight Rheseus, a supposedly cruel ruler who had massacred several villages. It is revealed later on, however, that Cotys himself had ordered those mass killings, and that Rheseus himself was a revolutionary that Cotys shifted the blame on. He then tried to callously murder his own grandson in front of Hercules' eyes, and later tried to execute his own daughter, all while completely ignoring her pleas for mercy.
 * The Heroic Trio: The Evil Master has been kidnapping babies to raise them to be his minions to help him take over China. He has the babies eat human flesh, and nurtures them into psychopaths. He put Thief Catcher though a traumatizing experience that she considers a Fate Worse Than Death, and brainwashes Ching into being his minion, at one point ordering her to kill her own boyfriend. When his body is destroyed during the Final Battle, his skeleton takes control of Invisible Girl by shoving itself inside her, and tries to make her kill Thief Catcher and Wonder Woman.
 * Hideway: Jeremy Nyebern/Vassago is a Serial Killer and devil worshiper who murders his mother and sister in a twisted ritual, before killing himself to gain demonic power with his own damnation. Revived from the dead by his father, he continues his murderous rituals by kidnapping young girls and bringing them into an abandoned amusement park where he mutilates them. When he approaches a girl he has been daydreaming about-namely cutting out her eyes, he murders a cop who was investigating him and puts him into his father's fridge with a sign that says that's too late to resuscitate him. When his father tries to reason with him he promptly murders him while declaring he wants to be damned. He follows this up trying to murder the protagonist's wife and daughter.
 * High Risk (also known as Meltdown in the US): "The Doctor" is a Mad Bomber and the leader of a terrorist group in Hong Kong. Two years after blowing up a bus full of children, the Doctor and his terrorists attack the newly opened Hotel Grandeur so they can steal all the jewelry from one of the exhibits. They kill dozens during the takeover as they take all the guests hostage. When Kit Li realizes that the Doctor is the same terrorist who bombed the bus (on which were his wife and son) and tries to kill him, he stops pretending to be a guest and takes command of the group; the Doctor then demands a chopper or else he'll start murdering hostages. After losing several men because of Li, the Doctor has Frankie's manager thrown from the building's balcony. The Doctor orders his men to confront Li when he shows, but after Li crashes a helicopter into the hotel and kills more of his mercenaries, the Doctor kidnaps Helen, straps a bomb to her, and flees, leaving Li to disarm the bomb on his own. The Doctor escapes police custody by pretending to be a wounded guest and later calls Li from a phone booth to tell him that he got away and that he can't disarm his bomb. Even after Li figures out how to disarm the device, the Doctor gloats that he's free to Rape, Pillage and Burn as he pleases, moments before his Karmic Death.
 * The Kurgan from Highlander. An ancient immortal warrior with Rape, Pillage and Burn as his raison d'être. If doesn't cement his status as in irredeemable bastard, nothing can.
 * Kane from Highlander: The Final Dimension and Highlander III: The Sorcerer is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills and rapes for fun. He's introduced butchering an entire village with his two immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Connor Macleod's latest mentor, the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal his magical powers. Upon his release in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills one of his associates without incident after sending the other one off to do his dirty work for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his love interest after he's taken his head, and kidnaps and threatens his son to get Connor to come.
 * John Ryder from The Hitcher (1986 original). When a character, in just the first ten minutes of a film, butchers at least a dozen people (including children) for the hell of it, any semblance of empathy is long gone. His most despicable act is in the movie's most infamous scene.
 * Azog the Defiler is the Orc leader and the chief antagonist for much of The Hobbit film trilogy. A sadist even by the standards of the Orcs, Azog pledged to wipe out the line of Durin even though they had done nothing to him. In the battle, Azog murdered King Thror and beheaded him, and then severed Thrain's finger and took him to Dol Guldur to torture him. When Thorin Oakenshield cut off his arm, Azog vowed to gain revenge on the Dwarf by any means necessary, putting a bounty on his head. When one of his lieutenants fails to kill the Dwarves, Azog angrily murders him in a rage. After cornering Thorin, he gloats to Thorin that he killed his father, which Azog knew was false, to goad him into attacking him. Upon taking command of the Necromancer's armies, Azog decides to use a sadistic version of divide and conquer and sends his soldiers into the ruined city of Dale, knowing that the Allies will split their forces to protect the women and children, choosing to order the deaths of helpless civilians to gain the advantage. When Thorin rides to his command center to kill him, Azog has Thorin's nephew Fili brought to him and then kills him in front of Thorin, taking sadistic glee in the moment. Upon mortally wounding Thorin, Azog took immense glee in his rival's immediate death. A sadistic Blood Knight who will happily kill anyone for his own amusement, and very willing to resort to Revenge by Proxy, Azog is an Orc who acts mostly independently and therefore shows that an Orc can be evil on their own decision with no goading from a superior.
 * Major Taussig in the World War II film Hornets' Nest is a cold, cruel man who is firmly distinct from the other reasonable German Soldiers. A member of the SS who has no compunction in committing war crimes, Taussig spends the film trying to murder or torture any 'Partisans' he comes across in the Italian countryside. At the film's opening, Taussig shows off his methods by gathering every man, woman and child in the village, lining them up and having them all gunned down without batting an eye before taking the village as a base for his men.
 * The Horror Show: Max Jenke is a sadistic and vicious Serial Killer known as "Meat Cleaver" because of his fondness for said weapon. In the movie's beginning he kidnaps a little girl. When detective Lucas McCarthy tries to stop him, Jenke kills his partner by chopping off both his arms and letting him die of blood loss. He uses the girl as a Human Shield promising to let her go if McCarthy drops the gun, but even after McCarthy does so, Jenke beheads her anyway and throws the head to McCarthy just for kicks. After being captured Jenke is condemned on the electric chair, but instead of dying, he becomes a powerful spiritual being bent on taking revenge on McCarthy by stalking him and his family. He kills the boyfriend of Bonnie, McCarthy's daughter, and blames the crime on McCarthy. While McCarthy is detained, Jenke sexually assaults both Donna, McCarthy's wife, and Bonnie and severely wounds the young son Scott. He later taunts McCarthy that Bonnie was even better than Donna. During the climax, he drags both McCarthyand Donna in his dimension with the intention of making Donna watch while he humiliates and later kills her husband
 * George Rutaganda of Hotel Rwanda is at first a man of the Hutu tribe pushing for extreme measures against the Tutsi tribe, openly calling for extreme measures and even genocide. When the genocide against the Tutsi kicks off, Rutaganda does more than just talk. Allying himself with the Hutu forces, Rutaganda participates in the genocide and is seen running a prison camp where the Tutsi innocents will be exterminated, even keeping several women as sex slaves. When told he cannot possibly exterminate the Tutsi people, Rutaganda merely asks why not, stating "we are halfway there already."
 * The House by the Cemetery: Dr. Freudstein, an expert in the field of human cells and mitosis, began performing experiments on living people to further his work. When he discovered a way to use body parts to regenerate blood cells and make himself immortal, he killed his wife and daughter, and went to live in the basement of his home, murdering anyone who came into his house and using their bodies for materials. 150 years after he killed his family, Freudstein still lives in the basement as a rotting, zombie like being. When a new family moves into his house, he begins targeting them, and after killing a babysitter and a neighbor, he manages to kill the husband and wife, with their son, Bob, barely escaping. A cruel, selfish man who would cross any lines to get what he wanted, Freudstein had a soul that matched his decayed appearance.
 * House of 1,000 Dolls (1967): Felix Manderville is a charismatic magician whose affability precedes a far more sinister pastime. Manderville uses his powers to charm women into participating in his act before spiriting them away to the House of Dolls, where they endure lives of forced prostitution and harsh, brutal torture for the rest of their lives. Utterly unconcerned with the countless women he's damned to this fate, Manderville kills any loose ends to his machinations, arranging the kidnapping of the protagonist Stephen Armstrong's wife Mary to dissuade him from pursuing him any further.
 * Madame Viera is the cold, ruthless brothel keeper of the House of Dolls and the source of most of the House's innate cruelty. Pimping out the slaves she has kidnapped to wealthy clients to be used and raped at their pleasure, Viera maintains a constant air of detached brutality, punishing and torturing any women who resist. When the brother of one of the slaves attempts to free his sister, Viera has him murdered, before ordering the kidnapping of Armstrong's wife and forcing her to watch Viera flog the back of a slave to bloody ribbons, all with a cool, sadistic smile on her face.
 * Kyung-Chul Jang, the Serial Killer from I Saw the Devil, definitely qualifies. He kidnaps, rapes and murders young women while relishing every moment of it. We first see him beating a woman to kidnap her. When she begs for her life, revealing her pregnancy, he guts her anyways without a change in expression.When attacked by her vengeful fiancee and stalked through the film, Jang randomly assaults a nurse and tries to rape her before being stopped before hiding out at the home of two cannibals where he shows no issue in letting humans be slaughtered as his meal. When he turns the tables on the hero, Jang murders the younger sister of the woman he killed at the film's start and takes delight in mocking the hero over how his fiancee was pregnant before Jang killed her.
 * The hillbilly rapists from I Spit on Your Grave. It's very, very hard to have any sympathy for them after a 45-minute rape scene, which is five times the scene from Irreversible. The only one to avoid this trope is the retarded one, who doesn't know any better and is fact forced into rape by his "friends", who do it to make fun of him.
 * Hyperion, the King of Crete from 2011's Immortals, is an extremely brutal and terrifying villain. Having been presumably devout and good enough a king to inspire fanatical loyalty in his men prior to the death of his family during a plague he blames the gods for doesn't mitigate this fact nearly enough seeing how much he's willing to risk the destruction of the human race in his selfish Rage Against the Heavens. In his first scene, he and his soldiers raid a monastery to obtain the location of the Epirus Bow from the priest there. When the priest doesn't talk, he douses him with oil and burns him alive. When the keepers of the oracle refuse to tell him as well, he executes them using the Bronze Bull, a torture device specifically designed to put people through as much pain as possible as it roasts them alive. He only gets worse. He marches his army through Greece, raping and pillaging across the land and brutally slaughtering everything in his way. One scene in particular that stands out is his raid of Theseus' home village; after his army destroys all resistance, they start carrying off the woman as slaves. When Theseus runs to his mother's aid, slaying a few soldiers, Hyperion, for no reason other than to be evil, slits Theseus mother's throat. And what is his motivation for all this? He wants to use the Epirus Bow to release the Titans, specifically for the purpose of killing the gods, all of which (aside from maybe Zeus) are portrayed sympathetically, while at the same time raping all women he comes across to leave a legacy of children across Greece. All this, combined with his love of others' pain and casual disregard for the lives of his own men (who he regularly kills for various reasons), makes it impossible for the audience not to cheer when Theseus finally kills him by pressing a knife into his throat, the same knife Hyperion had previously used to slit Thesus's mother's throat.
 * Fortis of In Time is the leader of the Minutemen. In a world where peoples' lives are measured by their remaining time, Fortis leads his group of thugs to terrorize innocent people, and steals their time for himself, despite being rich enough to live quite comfortably on his own. When one of his victims saves up enough time to buy a gun, Fortis shoots him in the back out of nothing but spite even though it wastes the man's remaining time. When hunting for the heroes, Fortis lines up random people and drains them of their time to death until he gets useful information. When he finds them, he demands the hero Will Salas fight him fairly.... though even if Will wins, Fortis's men will still kill him. Should he refuse, though, Fortis makes it clear he'll kill him anyways... then rape and kill his girlfriend Sylvia. While the system in the film is corrupt, Fortis is not part of it. He's nothing more than a sadistic bully whose claims of enjoying 'fair fights' come off as ultimately hollow.
 * Chad, the Villain Protagonist of 90s cult dark comedy In the Company of Men. What's most baffling is that, unlike almost every other example listed on this page, he commits not one murder, rape, arson, jaywalk, or indeed any other criminal offense. Yet he is perhaps one of the most disgusting and unsympathetic characters ever portrayed on film. First, he cooks up a scheme with his pathetic divorcee 'friend' Howard, both of whom having endured messy break-ups with their respective partners. They decide to both date a sweet naive deaf girl, string her along and fill her with false hopes all the while using her for casual sex, then dump her, leaving her heartbroken and embittered. All the while this is happening, we are treated to Chad's daily routine: cracking sexist jokes, humiliating and slagging off his so-called friends behind their backs, and treating the people who work for him like shit (he's apparently some kind of businessman, though we never see him do any work other than brown nosing the right people). Eventually, Howard realizes that he loves the deaf girl and calls the whole thing off, and Chad responds by backstabbing him and getting him demoted to a lower paying job. Then, at the climax of the film, we realize that the one thing that gave Chad the slightest bit of sympathy to start with was a lie: What makes Chad so monstrous is that despite the comfortable upbringing, college education, good job, fancy apartment, and steady relationship with a woman who loves him, this isn't enough. So he belittles and humiliates the people around him purely out of sadistic pleasure. We know this because he constantly asks people how they're feeling, usually before and after he's ruined their day, so that he may rest assured that his efforts were not in vain. And yet despite being a smug manipulative sociopath with no regard for anything but his own satisfaction, he strikes you as the sort of person you could bump into and not bat an eyelid, even find quite likable. He's a normal human being. And what makes the film so hard to watch is the way it shows how mundane evil can be. Now, how do you feel?
 * There is an extremely good review of Chad's personality at the RuthlessReviews website.

""For all the men who have been beaten down by manipulative women, or been forced to endure petty, selfish, unnerving cunts year after year, Aaron Eckhart’s Chad is an unmatched hero. But lest you think he is mean and selfish because he got hurt, he eventually reveals his true malevolence: he displays cruelty for no other reason than the chestnut, “because he can.” Women across the country hated the film, I’m guessing because at one time they have all loved a man like Chad. And perhaps still do.""


 * Linton Barwick of In the Loop -- and being the least likable character in that particular film is an achievement in itself. For most characters, using a live hand grenade as a paperweight would be awesome, but not this charmless warmonger. For him, the vote to go to war is a mere personal battle, and his determination to send thousands of people to their deaths is driven by his pride. He revels in his ability to start an illegal war without a shred of evidence for it, and his power to crush and belittle anyone who may get in his way. Most in the film are terrified of him, and only Malcolm Tucker seems to show the slightest shred of bravery in his face:

"Malcolm: I've met a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you -- I mean, you're a real boring fuck. Oh sorry, I know you don't approve of swearing, so we'll sort that out: you are a boring eff-star-star-CUNT."


 * Mola Ram from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has his Thuggee Cult kidnap children from their families and forces them to work like slaves in dangerous mines for the stones and beats them mercilessly...and brainwashing them to the Cult of Kali. If Indy didn't arrived on time, it could be possible that the cult would have killed the children anyway. And there's the way he sacrifices people to Kali Mah by ripping out their hearts and burning them...
 * The titular Inkubus is a sadistic and sorcerous demon with a taste for murder. He starts walking into a police station with the severed head of a murdered girl and allows himself to be arrested. He then proudly confess all the atrocities he committed in the past, dating back to the Middle Ages. He soon begins to manipulate every police officer in the station: driving them insane, forcing them to commit murder or suicide (or both), sometimes without even being aware of what's happening and at other times all too painfully aware. Inkubus's only reason for these crimes? A grudge he has against one detective, who almost caught him years ago after Inkubus murdered his son. Inkubus's only goal is to remain the world's greatest and most prolific murderer.
 * Dr. Merrick from The Island. He heartlessly murders clones by having them dissected alive. He takes pride in his work, viewing himself as some twisted messiah. He also plans to harvest Jordan, even though he knows that it won't help. He also knowingly lies to them and conceals them from the truth.
 * Le Tenia from the French film Irreversible. He is a twisted and sadistic pimp, and if you see the film, you'll have no doubts about his monstrosity. Le Tenia assaults the main character Alex in an underpass at night, targeting her when she tells him to stop beating up his whore. The result is a horrifying rape scene that lasts for nine minutes. After the prolonged and uninterrupted rape of Alex, Le Tenia is satisfied, so he kicks her head repeatedly. She goes into a coma, and it's even worse when we find out that she was pregnant. Made even worse.
 * Ironmaster (1983): Vood is the brutal brother of the hero Ela. A violent caveman who discovers the secret of iron, Vood tries to murder Ela and kills everyone in his way to take over their tribe before leading it to massacre the innocent members of other tribes to enslave the men for labor and the women for breeding. Overrunning multiple tribes, Vood declares his intentions to force the men to work until they drop dead. Styling himself would-be conqueror of the world, Vood intends to never cease until everything is brought under his control, no matter who needs to die to achieve his dreams.
 * The titular monster of IT (2017 film), commonly known as “Pennywise the Dancing Clown,” is an ancient evil lurking underneath Derry, Maine who surfaces every twenty-seven years to terrorize Derry and slaughter its children. A monster who delights in the taste of fear, IT fattens its victims up by exploiting and terrorizing its child victims by assuming the shape of their worst fears before killing them. Murdering the seven-year-old Georgie Denbrough in 1988, IT terrorizes his older brother Bill and his friends that comprise the “Loser's Club,” periodically tormenting them with their worst fears with full intention of killing them all later. Its victims not just limited to the Loser's Club, IT corners and savagely murders Patrick Hockstetter before driving his friend Henry Bowers to murderous insanity, tempting him into killing his own father before unleashing him on the Loser's Club. Above everything, IT is a nightmarish sadist under its cheery demeanor, hysterically mocking Bill over the murder of Georgie and building a mountain of thousands of trophies its netted from all of its victims over the centuries it's been active, completed with the grisly image of the mutilated corpses of its most recent victims floating around it. More overtly sadistic than even its portrayal in the original book, IT is a cowardly fear-monger who can't function without the terror of children to empower it, and is ultimately as much a monster figuratively as it is literally.
 * Mr. Potter of It's a Wonderful Life is a smaller scale example of this trope, but he nonetheless fills the criteria for the standards of his setting. Described as being "sick in the mind and sick in the soul", this unpleasant old man is someone who feels he literally has to own everything and thus resents anything he cannot have. He very nearly owns the entire town of Bedford Falls and had George Bailey not been in the way, he might have turned the town into a dark dystopia where crime runs rampant, all the poor folk are forced to live in his slums while the people with money go squander it all on tasteless establishments, with all the profit going back to Potter and his associates who'd control the town. He's also a narcissist of the highest degree, and he feeds his own ego by bringing others down and ruining their lives while simultaneously making himself more powerful. In his office, there is an oil painting of himself on the wall and a bust of Napoleon (presumably his two favorite people.) The chair where visitors sit is deliberately smaller than his desk so that he can lord over them, and on the desk is a paperweight shaped like a skull. What really pushes him into this trope is his actions towards the end of the film: not only does he (unbeknownst to everyone else) confiscate George Bailey's Building and Loans' cash funds in order to make the business go bankrupt and frame George for bank fraud, but when the defeated George comes begging pathetically for a loan, Potter tries to have him arrested. On Christmas Eve! For losing money that Potter himself stole. That really takes something special. This, and Potter's line to Geroge "You're worth more dead than alive!" immortalized him as one of the most hateful villains in cinema history.
 * Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: The Hunter is a smug, egotistical former soldier-turned-hitman under the employ of General Harkness. The Hunter kicks off the plot by killing two of Major Susan Turner's soldiers, and then planting the evidence that gets Turner falsely thrown in jail for espionage. When Jack Reacher and Turner's lawyer Moorcroft start looking into the conspiracy, the Hunter tortures and kills Moorcroft, pinning this crime on Reacher. Relentless in his pursuit of Reacher and Turner, the Hunter callously murders anyone that comes into his path, including two policemen, the foster parents of Samantha Dutton (Reacher's supposed daughter), and even his own allies and subordinates. He goes on to state that killing Reacher "won't be enough", and says that he's going to kill Samantha personally, just to hurt Reacher. Even after Harkness is arrested and the conspiracy is uncovered, the Hunter simply replies that he "doesn't give a shit" and continues to hunt for Sam, eventually catching her and attempting to force Reacher to surrender by threatening to throw her off a building. A cold-blooded killer motivated solely by feeding his own ego, the Hunter is one of Reacher's most personal adversaries.
 * The Jackal of the 1997 remake The Jackal is a Professional Killer hired by the Russian mob to carry out a public assassination of the First Lady, as revenge on the United States for playing a part in dealing their organization a blow. Being paid 70 million dollars for completing the mission, he has no problem killing or manipulating anyone to reach his goal, and his lack of emotion at anything including murder showcases his complete Lack of Empathy. He orders a remote-controlled machine gun built which he then tests on the guy he hired to build a mount for it, blowing off his arm before tearing him down completely. With the authorities on his tail, he seduces a gay man to infiltrate the country and casually shoots him when the man sees his face on the news. When he learns that the FBI enlisted the help of an atoning former IRA militant to catch him, he tries to execute the man's old flame to prove that he can't protect those he loves, but ends up killing several agents instead. When his plan is foiled he tries to escape with a hostage before he's killed.
 * In Jason Bourne, Robert Dewey is the cold-hearted, iron-fisted director of the CIA who serves as the film's Big Bad. In the past he was one of the top minds behind Treadstone, an unethical CIA project founded by Jason Bourne's father Richard Webb that used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into highly dangerous assassins. When Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on roping in his son, he tried to shut down the program and go public about its illegal activities, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a false-flag terrorist attack. Appealing to his sense of patriotism, Dewey manipulated Bourne into enlisting with Treadstone in the wake of Richard's death, which paved the way for the torturous recruitment of more men as well as set the stage for future amoral projects similar to Treadstone. In the present, he's spearheading the illegal project known as Iron Hand which uses the highly popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of billions of American citizens with illegal mass-surveillance, and has Jason's friend Nicky Parsons assassinated when she tries to leak info about it and similar projects to the public. When Jason takes up Nicky's cause and tries to uncover more secrets surrounding his past, Dewey spearheads a manhunt against him and proves to be far more ruthless than Jason's previous adversaries, to the point of having his own agents callously killed when his underling Heather Lee tries to bring him in alive, and threatens the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. And during the film's climax, Dewey tries to have both Lee and his co-conspirator Aaron Kalloor assassinated during a convention under the guise of a false-flag terrorist attack due to the former helping Bourne return stateside and the latter wanting to back out of Dewey's plan. While he tries to sell himself as a man looking out for the American public, Dewey proves to be a selfish, ruthless man who simply wants power over the people's personal lives, and will eliminate anyone in his way without a second thought.
 * Malik in Java Heat is a thief of ambiguous ethnicity who uses terrorist acts to disguise his acts of theft. Responsible for a series of bombings and dozens of deaths around the world, Malik's latest plot, in Java, Indonesia, revolves around the bombing of a public gathering and the apparent assassination of the nation's Sultana. In reality, Malik kidnaps the Sultana herself to sell her valuable necklace and the Crown Jewels of Java for a fortune. Malik kidnaps the family of cop Hashim to deter him from investigating the case further, with full intentions of killing Hashim's wife and two young children, and once it's revealed the Crown Jewels have long been sold, Malik spitefully intends to sell the Sultana herself as a Sex Slave before flying out of the nation. Murdering and killing both his associates the moment he sees them no longer of use and compounding his evil with the heavy implication he rapes children who pick up his fancy, Malik is nothing short of greed and ruthlessness personified.
 * The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers is a centuries old demon that eats parts of people to incorporate them into himself and then preserves their bodies in his "house of pain". What reallt cinches his monster credentials is he clearly enjoys tormenting and killing his intended victims.
 * The Master Vampire Jan Valek from John Carpenter's Vampires: he's probably one of the most truly evil vampire in the movie universe (along with Dracula). He's a sadistic creature with a merciless taste for blood and mass murderers, who would be too excessive even for any other vampire (or some of 'em). Anyone who stands in his way is either killed or used to achieve many of his dark schemes. His relentless blood-drenched massacre of almost all of Jack Crow's team is nowadays brutal and shocking to see. And let's not forget all those harmless monks he and his followers slaughter and butcher - Valek personally beheads one even after he tells him the whereabouts of the Berzier Cross.
 * Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove: "Jolly" Roger Laforge was a pirate captain so greedy that he would kill people for their gold teeth. After slaughtering a Spanish galleon full of priests and nuns, he was killed by his crew. Centuries later, Roger is resurrected by some high schoolers, and proceeds to decapitate every descendant of his crew that he can find, also killing many innocent bystanders and trying to force himself on a stripper. When he collects the sixteen heads he needs, Roger intends to condemn the souls to Hell for the sake of getting his gold back.
 * Judy (1970): The unnamed spree killer/rapist, who turns out to be a cop, rapes one woman and kills another when she gives him too much trouble. After a failed attempt to rape Detective Gunner Sloan's girlfriend, Velvet Harris, he proceeds to rape and kill three more women. Finally, he kills a woman who was willingly having sex with him.
 * Takeo from Ju-On, even before he became part of the curse (but only after his Freak-Out). He murders his wife (by not only snapping her neck, but leaving her still alive, paralysed and in sheer agony for a period of time before he finally kills her with a knife), his child, and his child's cat in a fit of extreme jealousy - mostly looking extremely calm (if detached) while he does so - and then . After his death, his other assorted atrocities have included him, , and.

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 * Kahaani (2012): Milan Damji, the enigmatic villain of the film, was once a counterterrorism agent who betrayed his country and people. Murdering several agents, Damji allied himself with the terrorists and was responsible for a horrible nerve gas attack on a subway which killed many civilians, children included. When he receives word the heroine Vidya is searching for her husband who resembles him, Damji dispatches assassins to remove loose ends, and when he meets Vidya, who appears to be heavily pregnant, Damji kicks her in the stomach and attempts to murder her.
 * In The Keep, SD Major Eric(h) Kaempffer is a brutal Nazi enforcer dispatched to a Romanian fortress simply known as "the Keep" to investigate the deaths of German soldiers. Believing the deaths to be due to partisan activity, Kaempffer has the local village rounded up and has three villagers executed on the spot as a threat, coldly ordering five more villagers to be shot for each following German death until the SD runs out of villagers to kill. Kaempffer later threatens the life of another villager to decipher enigmatic text scrawled onto the wall of the Keep, and has Jewish professor Theodore Cuza and his daughter brought to the Keep to help him, promising to send him and his daughter to the camps should Cuza be unable to prove his worth. Kaempffer contrasts the level-headed pragmatism of fellow officer Woermann with a willingness to abuse his power and murder innocents to make himself feel higher, and though he professes a loyalty to the Nazi cause, Kaempffer ousts himself as a selfish hypocrite when he guns down Woermann and attempts to flee the scene when it becomes clear the situation is out of his control. Ultimately, it is little coincidence Kaempffer's evil ends up directly compared to the ancient, malignant force within the Keep itself.
 * Keoma: Caldwell is a former Confederate soldier who's become the warlord of Keoma Shannon's hometown. His men's debauchery led to a pollution-borne plague on the place. Sending an opportunity to seize more power, he seizes even more power by forbidding anybody, including medical help, to enter or leave under pain of death, and quarantines the plague victims under pain of their families' deaths. After Keoma rescues a pregnant woman from one of these massacres, Caldwell has Keoma's half-brothers shoot at her feet to lure him out. When our heroes smuggle some medicine into the town, Caldwell's men try to take it on account of him owning the land it's on. After Keoma stops them, Caldwell leads a raid on them, kills Keoma's best friend, and captures his father. Keoma gives himself up, and Caldwell slays his dad anyways. He then proceeds to try and torture Keoma to death before being killed himself.
 * Kidnap (2017): Terry and Margo are a villainous couple who kidnap children and sell them off to customers for a large amount of money, something they are implied to have been doing for quite a while. When Karla loses sight of her son Frankie at a park, Terry and Margo kidnap him, and when Karla gets into a car chase with them, they try their hardest to lose her, by means such as throwing things at her vehicle, at one point causing her to crash into a van, turning the van upside down with no indication of the driver surviving. Killing a police officer by running him off the road, they threaten Frankie's life unless Karla gives them $10,000. When Karla complies, Margo tries to kill Karla anyway once they reach the tunnel. When Karla goes into a police station, she finds that there have been at least a dozen kidnappings of children that are connected to this one. When Karla finds Terry, Terry runs over a lady who just happened to be in the way, as well as killing a man who Karla hitched a ride with. They also are shown abusing their captive children, keeping them inside the ceiling roof while Margo casually talks to a customer about upping the price, proclaiming it's 100 grand or they get nothing.
 * Kill Bill Volume I features Boss Matsumoto, a brutal Yakuza boss and a pedophile. When O-Ren Ishii was around 9 years old, Matsumoto and his henchmen confronted her father (apparently, a Chinese-American soldier stationed in Okinawa), and despite him putting quite the fight, he is ultimately murdered by the mooks, while Matsumoto laughs on a couch. Then Matsumoto gets up, grabs the man's Japanese wife, tosses her on a nearby bed...and uses his own katana to stab her to death, narrowly missing child!O-Ren, who was hiding under said bed. Then, they set the place on fire and leave, laughing about it. Ultimately, however, Karma catches up with Matsumoto...when an 11-year-old O-Ren goes Little Miss Badass on him, posing as a child prostitute so she can be taken to his bedroom (it's unclear if he did have sex with her, but we wouldn't put it past him) and stabbing him with the same katana he used to kill her mother, telling him to look at her in the eye and recognize her as the daughter of his victims.
 * Wong Hoi/Johnny Weng, the Big Bad from The Killer, definitely qualifies as a monster towards the final act of the movie, where he delivers a savage No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Jeffery/Ah Jong's close friend Fung Sei/Sydney Fung (who had come on Ah Jong's behalf to get the money he needs to have Jenny's eyes fixed), kills the priest of Ah Jong's church so that he can take Jenny hostage, kills his own syndicate hitman after he is used to try to break the Put Down Your Gun and Step Away situation with poor Jenny, and, . There isn't even any victory in because.
 * Kill Ratio (2016): General Lazar and his ex-KGB henchman Vorza are a sadistic pair of military officers trying to overthrow the new democracy of their Eastern European nation. Enacting a military coup that leaves their country in flames, the two occupy a hotel where the new President Petrenko is staying and lay siege to it, while Vorza allows his men to brutalize and attempt to assault the staff physically or sexually, even gunning an escaping woman down just to show his men how it's done. When one man objects to Lazar's actions, Lazar toys with him in a sword fight and executes him on the spot by beheading him. When their liaison to the West objects to them executing President Petrenko on air, Lazar and Vorza happily murder him before trying to kill Petrenko, believing her death will break the nation's very spirit.
 * Eric is the psychopathic leader of the bank robbers in Killing Zoe. He simply does whatever he wants because he finds it exciting, including machine-gunning people to death. He also implies that he's a terrorist who has blown up government buildings for fun. He invites his American friend Zed over to Paris to execute a bank heist with his gang, but with almost no planning and while they're all high on heroin. During the heist he repeatedly kills hostages to the shock of his gang, at first in an attempt to get the bank manager to open the safe but later out of minor annoyances. He throws a bomb into the vault to kill an unexpected guard holed up in there even though it destroys most of the money, but it turns out there were gold bars in there as well which he decides to take instead. He leaves his own gang to their deaths when the cops burst in to stop his killing spree. When he notices that Zoe (the film's Hooker with a Heart of Gold) works in the bank he decides to kill her. When Zed saves her from the gang Eric reveals that their "friendship" means nothing to him. He slashes Zed's face with a knife and tries to kill both him and Zoe, threatening to rape her and give her the aids he got from a bad drug needle he used.
 * Kingsman: The Golden Circle: Poppy Adams is the head of the Golden Circle, the biggest drug empire in the world. When an employee named Charles brings his friend Angel to her as a new hire, she punishes Charles by forcing Angel to put him into a meat grinder and then forces Angel to eat a burger made of Charles's meat. After achieving all the Kingsman locations, she has them all blown up and kills all of the Kingsmen accept Gary "Eggsy" Unwin and Merlin. She takes singer Elton John hostage as a pet and as personal entertainment with a shock collar. When Angel uses one of her products, Poppy has her robot dogs attack and tear him apart. The crux of her plan to legalize the drug industry so she can make even more money is to have the millions who she sold to infected with a deadly virus through her products that lasts three stages before death. If her demands aren't met, she fully intends to withhold the antidote and let everyone die.
 * Raynald de Chatillon from Kingdom of Heaven is a truly cruel and vicious knight. Raynald leads attacks on innocent Muslim villages in orgies of rape and murder in order to provoke Saladin into battle. He has multiple captives beheaded in order to enrage the Muslim leader. When this fails, he personally murders Saladin's own sister. Raynald represents every dark stereotype about the Crusaders, and is so terrible that Saladin personally kills him once Raynald is taken hostage, as Saladin had vowed to kill him if Raynald ever fell into his hands.
 * One of the most famous examples is Richard Widmark's Oscar-nominated Tommy Udo, the original Giggling Villain, in Kiss of Death, who was most famous for shoving a wheelchair-bound old woman down the stairs, thinking her son had betrayed him. (He didn't.) Widmark's portrayal was a revolutionary role, inspiring imitators and an archetypal role that is still seen today.
 * Konga has Dr. Charles Decker, an English botanist obsessed with revolutionizing biology. Making his obsession known by shooting Margaret's pet cat, Charles injects a serum into the titular ape, causing him to grow to adult size. After a heated debate with Foster over his research, Decker hypnotizes Konga, and sends him to murder the dean. Longing for his name to be known to the scientific community, Decker murders Professor Tagore, who was also conducting research in plant growth. Charles lusts after his student, Sandra Banks, and upon getting into a brawl with Bob Kenton, he tasks Konga with disposing the young rival. Feigning sympathy for the grieving Sandra, he attempts to force himself onto her when she declines his offer to become his assistant. Viewing Konga as only a tool, he aims to kill the primate despite the fact that Konga led him to the village; as he states, Africa has an endless supply of apes to experiment on. While he claims that he's hoping to advance humanity through his experiments, Decker truly desires fame and would blight any threats to his ego.
 * Kristy: Violet is the leader of the film's killers and a member of the cult that targets those they call 'Kristy', derived from "Follower of God" from Latin. Violet scouts out targets and delights in tormenting and terrorizing them before murdering them. Violet apparently begins the cult's activities by posting a video in which she encourages anyone to begin targeting 'Kristy' and to upload their kills to the folder "The Fold." When targeting the heroine Justine, Violet and her team kill multiple people on the campus, including Justine's boyfriend, before attempting to kill Justine herself. Violet also keeps trophies of her kills, revealing she has potentially dozens of victims. Consumed with envy, bitterness and cruelty, Violet's only purpose for being seems to be to find the 'Kristy' she hates so much and kill her again and again.
 * Captain Dudley Smith of L.A. Confidential is a corrupt police officer who tries to get control of all criminal activity in Los Angeles after the fall of gangster Mickey Cohen leaves a power vacuum behind. He chases away or kills off all criminal opposition in the city. When officer Dick Stensland and private bodyguard Buzz Meeks try to get more out of a major heroin deal they made with him he kills both of them, one in a diner massacre that leaves a dozen innocent people dead. He frames a trio of black criminals for the massacre, and orders them killed during the arrest by his associates to make sure they won't talk. His plan is undermined by other cops arriving on the scene, but he manipulates the men of the department into killing the fall guys later on anyway. He arranges to execute any cop who discovers his corruption, and kills off all his business partners to tie up any loose ends. Even after a major shootout with the last two good cops that leaves all his minions dead he just carries on as usual, intending to use his position to get away with his crimes and restart his organization anew.
 * The Lady Hermit (1971): Black Demon is a renegade martial artist who leads a group of bandits to murder, rob and destroy what they can. When the heroine, the titular Lady Hermit, confronted him, the Black Demon defeated and nearly killed her. Now hiding out as a household servant, the Lady Hermit tries to protect the people from the Black Demon who initiates a scheme to have his men pose as "ghosts" to murder the populace at their whim so people pay "offerings" to the gods, in reality the Black Demon's money laundering front using a temple. When he learns of the Lady Hermit's location, the Black Demon has his men slaughter her entire household before he tries to kill her and her friends.
 * In Laser Mission, Colonel Kalashnikov is a brutal KGB colonel who has multiple people murdered to steal the Virbeck diamond, also enslaving the kindhearted genius Dr. Braun to force him to use the diamond to create a super weapon to initiate devastating attacks on the West. Using slave labor in Africa to work on the weapon site, Kalashnikov takes the heroine Alissa hostage and later attempts to rape and kill her. Upon the completion of the project, Kalashnikov then attempts to massacre his slave workers to keep anyone from talking.
 * Eckhardt, Kalashnikov's vicious mercenary henchman, is a German killer who lives in Africa and also uses slave labor on his estate while working to make Kalashnikov's plans of mass-murder a reality. Stealing the Virbeck diamond by gassing an auction, it is revealed that Eckhardt regularly massacres anyone in his way when he takes a job and has a darker hobby. When threatening Braun to work on Kalashnikov's project, Eckhardt reveals his Trophy Room consisting of a large amount of human heads, with a promise Braun's daughter will join the collection should Braun refuse to work.
 * Krug and his gang of rapist/murderers in The Last House on the Left. After escaping prison for their previous brutal crimes in the beginning of the film, they kidnap two teenage girls, subject them to humiliation beyond words, rape them, and brutally kill them. They had no remorse for this and tried to shack up with the parents of one of the victims for the night (who eventually found out). You're very happy when they die. The only sympathetic member of the group is Junior, the son of the leader of the monsters who was hooked on drugs as a kid as a way for his dad to control him, who honestly tried to reach out to one victim and who felt completely guilt-ridden and horrible after the deed was done. As said by Mari, he was really just a willow, blowing in the wind that was his father (who was more a force of evil than a human).
 * Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland is a brutal dictator that takes what he wants by force. While he first comes off as a charismatic and modernizing leader to the main character, a Scottish doctor named Nicholas Garrigan, Amin brutally represses the population of Uganda throughout the film. Although he claims to be doing it to establish peace, his orders to deport people solely based on their ancestry (people from southern Asia) and murders based purely on suspicion show that he's fueled purely by his paranoia. He deliberately cuts off one of his wives and disowns the son that she bore him simply because the child was epileptic. Amin later tortures Garrigan brutally with meat hooks after discovering Garrigan's affair with the previously mentioned wife and fully intends to torture Garrigan to death.
 * In Last Man Standing, Hickey is the scarred, psychopathic enforcer of Big Bad Doyle. The Dreaded even among the hardened criminals forming Jericho's population, Hickey's reputation precedes him when it is revealed Hickey cut his own father's throat and subsequently burned down the orphanage and all the other children within he was sent to. When Hickey makes his first on-screen appearance, Doyle immediately sets him out to capture the cousin of his hated rival Strozzi. Hickey slaughters Strozzi's men and the corrupt Mexican chief they are dealing with, then tricks the border guard into thinking he's surrendering before shooting him dead. Hickey murders more of Strozzi's men as the film progresses and personally captures John Smith and oversees him brutally tortured with a serene expression on his face. Near the climax of the film, Hickey merrily helps in an outright massacre of Strozzi's hideout where most of his men are burned alive or shot dead, with Hickey personally gunning down Strozzi in full view of his cousin. Hickey is feared even on his own side and is every bit the walking nightmare many claim him to be.
 * The Last Witch Hunter: The Witch Queen, the absolute ruler of the witches, was defined by her contempt towards humanity, which she wished to destroy. Centuries ago, she created the Black Death as a means of eradicating humanity; this would go on to cause the deaths of millions of people in Europe, Kaulder's wife and daughter included. When it seemed as though Kaulder had defeated her, the Queen curses Kaulder with immortality. Years later, she was revived by Belial, and tries to unleash swarms of demonic black flies onto the populace of New York by using the inmates of the Witch Prison to complete the Chant. When one of the witches was severed from the chant, the Witch Queen compensated for this by linking Chloe, a Dream Walker, to the Chant. She also takes her time to psychologically torment Kaulder by bringing up his past guilt, and by showing him visions of a world devoid of humans.
 * Clarence Darby from Law Abiding Citizen qualifies big time, standing in stark contrast to the relatively sympathetic Clyde Shelton. He rapes Clyde Shelton's wife, murders her, savagely beats Clyde with a baseball bat, and then murders Clyde's young daughter. They don't even show the audience that scene, it's so horrible. He just takes her into the next room. The line "Don't worry...kids like me." could be viewed to hint that he raped the girl too. He also attempts to murder Clyde. He proceeds to lie, saying that his partner did it (when, in fact, the partner had tried to talk him out of it), and subsequently laughed his head off when he hears about his partner's agonizing death. Now, Clyde might be a bad guy himself, but considering the monster that Darby was, no tears are shed when Darby meets his Karmic Death.
 * Charlie Rakes from Lawless is an utterly corrupt Special Deputy of the commonwealth who demands a cut of the bootlegger heroes', The Bondurant Brothers Forrest and Jack, profits. Rakes initiates brutal beatings and torture to get his way, and sends two mobsters to cut the eldest brother's throat and rape his girlfriend, who he later taunts by saying he never 'drinks from a greasy cup.' After another conflict with the Bondurants, Rakes captures their friend Cricket and snaps his neck, simply because he's angry they called him a 'nance.'
 * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The elusive Fantom, actually Professor James Moriarty, wishes to engulf the world in war, just so he can line his pockets. Killing British and German citizens to increase tensions, the Fantom tries to attack a peace conference by sinking all of Venice, where it was taking place. Founding the titular League while acting as "M", claiming it to be a counterterrorist organization, he gathers a group of individuals with superpowers and advanced technology, planning to replicate them to sell to the highest bidder in the war he plans. At his secret base, he houses hundreds of scientists, forcing them to work around the clock to recreate the League's abilities, while keeping their families hostage in overcrowded cells.
 * In Lethal Weapon 2, Arjen Rudd, the greedy Minister of Foreign Affairs at the South African consulate in Los Angeles, is known for his harsh actions as part of apartheid. He is also a drug smuggler, abusing his power as a high-ranking official to serve as a front for his crimes. Several years ago, Rudd ordered the murder of Martin Riggs, a LAPD detective who was getting close to uncovering Rudd's activities, resulting in the death of Riggs's wife Victoria. At the beginning of the film, Rudd has Pieter Vorstedt execute one of his henchmen for losing a shipment of Krugerrands, then has Vorstedt threaten Roger Murtaugh, the lead detective in the case of the Krugerrands. Simultaneously, Rudd sends assassins after Leo Getz, a witness. As the LAPD gets closer to uncovering Rudd's operation, he has Vorstedt murder every police officer involved in the investigation, with the exception of Riggs and Murtaugh, then has his secretary Rika, who was in a relationship with Riggs, drowned just to spite Riggs. Rudd later shoots Riggs multiple times and then claims "diplomatic immunity". Arjen Rudd was the villain in the series who cut the deepest and crossed the most lines.
 * The aforementioned Pieter Vorstedt is the head of security for Arjen Rudd. Vorstedt does any hands-on villainy for Rudd, including threats and assassinations. Several years ago, Vorstedt was told to murder Detective Martin Riggs, who was getting close to uncovering Rudd's illegal activities. Vorstedt failed to kill Riggs, but killed Riggs's wife by either tampering with the brakes of the car or running her off the road. During the film, Vorstedt executes a henchman named Hans when the latter lost a shipment of Krugerrands in a car chase. Later, he and a few associates sneak into the house of Detective Roger Murtaugh, who is leading the investigation, and threatens him with death should he poke his nose into their affairs. During this time, the South Africans try to kill an informant named Leo Getz and rig Murtaugh's toilet with a bomb. Later in the film, Rudd orders Vorstedt to murder the policemen participating in the investigation, resulting in Vorstedt murdering 6 officers, getting into a small chat with one before shooting him in the head. Murtaugh manages to escape, but Riggs is captured by Vorstedt, who taunts him about the death of Riggs's wife and revealing his role in it before drowning Rudd's secretary Rika, who was in a relationship with Riggs, before trying to drown Riggs. Pieter Vorstedt is a cold-blooded, emotionless killer who doesn't care about the blood on his hands or how cruel the actions he takes are.
 * Wah Sing Ku in Lethal Weapon 4, played massively against type by Jet Li, has to be the most evil villain of the series and truly enjoys watching people suffer. A ruthless Triad leader, he crosses the Moral Event Horizon early on by burning down Murtaugh's house with Riggs and Murtaugh inside, all with a smug grin on his face. He later kills the Affably Evil Uncle Benny as well as an innocent man and his uncle to just to prove how evil he is.
 * Lethal Weapon (2016): Gideon Lyon is a cold-blooded CIA agent turned right-hand madman of cartel leader Tito Flores. Described as the most brutal of Flores's enforcers, Gideon is notable for his penchant for Cold-Blooded Torture, a trait he demonstrates on a DEA informant that falls into his clutches while pursuing Flores's runaway mistress and infant child into Los Angeles, brutalizing the man and hanging his body for the world to see. His Establishing Character Moment has him getting into a jovial conversation with LAPD Detective Martin Riggs before firing a rocket into a hotel room in an attempt to kill Riggs, his partner Roger Murtaugh, DEA agent Palmer, the aforementioned mistress and her baby, and then killing two responding officers. Later arrested after a second attempt on the mistress's life, Gideon is revealed to have played a key role in the death of Riggs's wife Miranda, causing the distraught cop to free Gideon from prison to interrogate him personally. Gideon goes on to tell Riggs that he deliberately waited for the pregnant Miranda to go into labor and head to the hospital before ordering the car crash that killed her, for no reason other than to make Riggs suffer. Escaping, Gideon later abducts Riggs and Murtaugh to torture, attempting to stop Murtaugh's pacemaker with a defibrillator before bragging to Riggs that after the crash, Miranda was still breathing, so he personally suffocated her to death. A sociopath who simply enjoys hurting others, physically and psychologically, Gideon Lyon stands out as an unrepentantly callous killer who significantly darkens the tone of this action-comedy series.
 * Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) in Leave Her To Heaven. Cornel Wilde marries her not aware of how insanely jealous she is of anyone she thinks will come between them. She
 * The Legend II (originally titled Fong Sai Yuk II) (1993): Yu Chun-hoi is the second-in-command of the Red Flower Society. A thug, murder and rapist even before joining, Yu was enraged when his father chose another man as the successor of the society over him. Intending to take control, Yu schemes and murders his way to the top, sabotaging the hero Fong Sai-yuk in a way that will result in him being beaten into being a cripple. When his own son tries to call Yu out for his actions, Yu beats him without remorse, trying to murder him. He later overthrows the Society to make it a criminal organization, intending on doing away with any who oppose him. When he faces Fong Sai-yuk, Yu even has the hero's mother tied with a noose around her neck and tries to shove her to hang anyways, just to spite his opponent.
 * The Takashi Miike film Lesson Of The Evil gives us Seiji Hasumi. Seemingly a mild-mannered teacher, Hasumi is a dangerous Serial Killer who loves sadistic murders and killing. Teaming up with a killer in America, Hasumi killed many people there before murdering his partner as well. At his school in Japan, Hasumi begins murdering students and 'overbearing' parents before deciding to simply massacre everyone at school one night with a shotgun. Even after being caught, he decides to fake insanity to escape responsibility in court as a new game.
 * Louis Roulet from The Lincoln Lawyer is an absolutely vicious, sadistic, misogynistic rapist and murderer who shows no empathy for anyone he hurts, sent an innocent man to prison for one of his crimes, and is perfectly willing to murder or threaten anyone who might pose any threat to him, including a young girl. Quite notable that he is the case that caused the textbook Amoral Attorney protagonist to finally turn on a client.
 * Diana in Lights Out (2016): A sociopath since the day she was born, Diana is sent to a mental institution after she played mind games with her father, ultimately causing him to kill himself. While there, she manipulates a depressed Sophie into becoming friends with her, and became physically abusive towards her, going as far as to break her legs in an unprovoked attack. As a ghost, she latches herself onto Sophie, enslaving her in the process. Wanting Sophie to herself, she murders both of her husbands when they attempted to heal their wife's mind, and she stalks and terrorizes Becca and Martin, eventually opting to kill them in utter defiance of Sophie's demands. When two police officers are alerted on a potential break in, they go to investigate; Diana savagely murders both of the officers, and attempts to kill Becca in front of Sophie. Self-serving and hostile, Diana sought complete control over Sophie's body, and would murder anyone who came in her way.
 * The Limehouse Golem (2016): The titular golem, a monstrous Serial Killer, is in truth Lizzie Cree. Hungry for fame by way of murder, the Golem first guts a prostitute and also gouges out her eyes, later carrying out more attacks with escalating violence and savagery, even graduating to crucifying prostitutes and attacking Jewish men in anti-Semitic murders. The Golem shows no compunction using murder for personal protection, killing a blackmailer, a dwarf who caused the Golem personal offense and others, with an escalating body count that culminates in the Golem gleefully butchering a father, his wife and their two young children with clear sadistic relish at their fear. Finally the Golem poisons her own husband John Cree when he discovers her identity. While acting as a downtrodden victim, the Golem is in truth, a monstrous, sadistic psychopath out to achieve fame by any means necessary.
 * In the 2010 polish movie Lincz, the main villain Zaranek is truly disturbing. The fact that his film is based on real events in Poland makes this even more disturbing. To name only some examples of his behavior: trying to extort money from an old lady and, after she refuses, beating her and stabbing her; threatening people who try to stop him with the slaughter of their children; etc.
 * Ax-Crazy prisoner Hydell from Lockout, who just enjoys the killing and mayhem and undermines his brother Alex's more pragmatic plans even when it's clear he's actually hindering his own chances to escape. He also makes no distinction between hostages and guards and his fellow prisoners, killing anyone who annoys him. He tries to rape Emilie as soon as the riot starts. When Hydell's brother can't find Snow and Emilie after their escape fast enough for his liking, Hydell reaches her through the space station's intercom and starts shooting a hostage every three seconds until she reveals her location, then kills them all anyway after she does. He kills Alex near the end when he again won't allow Hydell to rape Emilie.
 * Timothy from The Long Kiss Goodnight is a sociopathic psychological operations agent who's the former lover, and target, of the amnesiac heroine. Early on, we see Timothy torturing a man who, knowing his reputation just begs for a quick death. Timothy doesn't grant it. When pursuing his ex, Charlie, she uncovers his plan with his Knight Templar boss: to stage a terrorist attack and kill over four thousand Americans to 'blame the Muslims' and get funding. While Leland is doing what he sees as right for the country in the long run, Timothy is in for the money and the fun. When he has Charlie hostage with her eight year old daughter, he plans to throw them in a meat locker to freeze to death. Charlie informs him the girl, Caitlin, is Timothy's child. He confirms this by seeing she has his eyes—and then angrily locks her in the meat locker to die anyways.
 * Nix, known as The Puritan from Lord Of Illusions is probably one of the most evil villains from the mind of Clive Barker. At first, Nix is the leader of a fanatic cult and begins the movie by kidnapping a little girl to sacrifice for power, displaying a sadistic streak by letting his pet Mandrill baboon attack her. He is thankfully stopped and killed by his former apprentice, Philip Swann. While alive, Nix is a monster, he becomes far worse after he is resurrected by his cultists. Nix immediately kills his cultists out of disgust for their slavish devotion to him, sneering that while they've waited like lambs for him, "I'm not your shepherd." When he tries to lure Swann back to his side, Nix is so disgusted Swann feels love for beings who are 'just flesh,' that he brutalizes and fatally wounds Swann. Nix reveals his true intent is to murder the world and show it the terror of the grave.
 * The Lord Of The Rings: Saruman the White is a former Istari who, upon believing Sauron cannot be stopped, joins the forces of evil and embraces darkness entirely. When the Dark Lord invades the rest of Middle-earth, Saruman acts as his right hand, securing an alliance with barbarian tribes and sending them with his orcs to sack the kingdom of the Rohan. Attacking the Westfold, Saruman orders the extermination of every village and the deaths of everyone therein as his servant Grima Wormtongue keeps King Theoden too enfeebled to come to their defense. Upon Theoden being freed, Saruman tries to have the refugees massacred during a flight to the fortress of Helm's Deep, dispatching his army there to slaughter every soldier and civilian within the walls. In one of his darkest crimes, Saruman orders the forest of Fangorn burned, knowing the trees are sentient, living things with their own wills, all to feed the industrial flames of his war machine.
 * In The Losers, Max is a high-ranking American government operative, whose ultimate goal is securing American, and by extension his own, power. Max orders a black ops team, the titular "Losers," to target a Bolivian drug lord who found out Max's plans' compound for an airstrike, not caring about the fact that there are dozens of children inside. The Losers save the children, however the kids are murdered when Max orders The Losers' helicopter, believing them to be on board, destroyed. Max commissions a group of scientists to build him sonic weapons called "Snukes," and plans on selling them to groups he knows will use them to start wars. Max regularly kills anyone who inconveniences him, from shooting a woman for stumbling while shading him from the sun, to murdering an entire group of his own soldiers for knowing too much about his plans. Acquiring the Snukes, Max sets one to destroy L.A., kills all of the scientists who made the weapon, plans to frame them for the city's destruction, and, when confronted by The Losers, tosses the remote deactivator into the ocean to give himself time to escape, abandoning his allies in the process.
 * In Lost in Space, Dr. Zachary Smith was already a self-serving sociopath throughout this film, however it isn't until, through the means of time travel, that we see his truly monstrous future self. Originally working with the international terrorist group known as the Global Sedition, Smith tried to murder the entire Robinson family, including the children, just to make a quick buck, however when the botched assassination ended with him stranded on an alien planet with the family, Smith showed himself to be an absolutely depraved monster. Having mutated into a monstrous spider-like creature, Smith murdered and possibly ate the defenseless Maureen, Judy, and Penny Robinson, then manipulated young Will into building a time machine in order to save his family from death, all the while making Will see him as a father figure. When Smith meets his past self, he mocks him for lacking "true ambition" before attempting to murder him. After Will completes the time machine nearly two decades later, Smith tries to kill him while revealing his master plan to use the machine to travel to Earth, then unleash a horde of spider monsters to ravage the planet and rule over them as a god. In a sharp contrast from his original humurous and clumsy iteration from the TV show, Dr. Smith in this film is what the character was initially envisioned as: a truly wicked individual who cares for nothing but himself.
 * Mr. Harvey in The Lovely Bonesis an antisocial loner as well as a depraved Serial Killer, whose victims are female and preferably children. At the beginning, Harvey lures and murders Susie Salmon, after which he decided to continue kidnapping and killing until it becomes a habit. Harvey later tries to kill Susie's sister Lindsey after she obtains evidence proving his guilt. While watching from Heaven, Susie sees that over the years, Harvey murdered several other girls, including his landlady and a six-year-old. Moments before his death, Harvey attempts to lure another victim to her death.
 * Machete has Mexican drug lord Rogelio Torrez. Of all the villains, Torrez is the only one who doesn't get any redeeming qualities, motives, or hints of remorse, and does what he does only to line his own pockets and to satisfy his sadism. He rockets past the Moral Event Horizon in the first five minutes, kidnapping a girl who has info on his drug ring, brainwashing her so she'll turn on Machete when he tries to rescue her, and then blows her brains out for her loyalty. He brings in Machete's wife and chops her head off, and casually notes he also killed his school-age daughter on the way there. He doesn't want to give Machete an honourable death by cutting of his head, so instead he sets the building on fire and leaves him for dead to be burned alive. Later in the film he just chuckles at seeing Booth strangle one of his minions to death in front of a computer screen, and is revealed as the mastermind behind the Evil Plan to expel all the Mexican immigrants from the US, so he can get a monopoly on the drug trade by controlling the border. Even his death scene just manages to make him more disgusting rather than admirable; when Machete impales him he doesn't want to admit he lost and go out in a blaze of glory, so he just drives it in further so it can be said only he himself was able to kill him in the end. Even his female bodyguard walks off in disgust at that point. He used to be Machete's partner in the Federales, so he actually was a good guy at one point before he decided to go dark side entirely of his own will.
 * The Magnificent Seven (2016) - Bartholomew Bogue is a ruthless, amoral industrialist who, seeking to add even more wealth to his criminal empire, takes over the mining town of Rose Creek, murdering the citizens willing to stand up to him. After the titular Seven liberate the town from Bogue's goons and dispatch the dirty sheriff to tell him about it, Bogue, after shooting the sheriff dead, returns in force, sending his mercenary army to destroy the resistance. When the heroes start winning, he has Rose Creek shot up with a Gatling gun, willingly mowing down his own men for a chance to win. Even when alone and on the verge of defeat he remains vile, never straying from his ideology that the weak are to be dominated by the strong.
 * Immortan Joe, the Big Bad of the Mad Max: Fury Road, is a brutal tyrant who has forged a kingdom in the Wasteland. In the prequel comic, it is revealed Joe was a marauder who murdered others for their supplies, enslaving the women and killing the men and children. Upon founding his kingdom, Joe selects people to join it, but forces the women to become breeding slaves so their milk may be harvested, and the men to run along treadmills to power the turbines. Joe indoctrinates the strong young man into the Warboys: drug addicted cultist fanatics who long to die in his cause. The most beautiful women are kept as Joe's personal sex slaves and forced to bear his children. After three failed attempts at bearing a healthy boy, they find themselves exiled to certain death in the desert wastes. When his wives escape, Joe spares no resource to hunt them down and return them, though he is willing to kill one rather than allow her to be rescued. Tyrant, cult leader, rapist and monster, Joe is the living incarnation of the worst the Wasteland has to offer.
 * A Man Alone (1955): Clanton is the hired gun of Stanley. When Clanton, together with Stanley's partner, Luke Joiner, robs a stagecoach, Clanton murders all five passengers, including a little girl, to keep them silent. Clanton and Stanley murder Luke after he expresses disgust at what Clanton did, and proceed to lie that Wes Steele is responsible for the stagecoach massacre and Luke's murder. Finally, along with Stanley and his gang, Clanton tries to kill Steele during the climax.
 * From The Man From Nowhere we have Jong-Seok, younger brother of drug-dealer Man-Seok, and junior partner in their Big Bad Duumvirate. While his icy older brother might care about his well-being, Jong-Seok cares about nothing but having as good a time as possible. He's physically abusive of the women he sleeps with, tortures So-Mi's mother by burning her with a blowdryer (then kidnaps So-Mi for their organ harvesting operation), tortures her mother's boyfriend by beating him and threatening to burn off his testicles, and sends Ramrowan to sadistically murder their former boss, Mr. Oh. When a little girl involved in their drug operation passes out, Jong-Seok has her dragged off so her organs can be harvested and sold. A Psychopathic Manchild at its worst, Jong-Seok uses his last moments alive to brag to Tae-Sik about how he has failed So-Mi as badly as the Seok brothers have.
 * Man Of Tai Chi has Donaka Mark (Keanu Reeves), a corrupt businessman and violence afficionado who runs an underground fight ring, and sells his audience, not on the fights themselves, but on the chance to watch a good person cross the Moral Event Horizon by killing. When Chi-Tak, one of his fighters, refuses to kill his defeated opponent, Donaka enters the ring and personally breaks the neck of the loser. He then stabs Chi-Tak to death in the locker room, as his refusal to murder makes him a rat in Donaka's eyes. Discovering Tai Chi specialist Tiger Chen, Donaka convinces the government to sell off his master's temple, to make Tiger desperate for money; he then offers him a job in his fight ring. Placing cameras throughout Tiger's home, Donaka gives his audience the opportunity to watch Tiger's mental disintegration as the fights take their toll on his psyche. When Tiger, driven to the brink, still refuses to kill mercenary Uri Romanoff, Donaka executes Uri. He sends Tiger into another fight, with an Indonesian fighter; when Tiger tries to back out, Donaka gives the Indonesian the kill order. He also sends assassins after Detective Sung Jinshi, when she closes in on his ring. Ultimately found out by the police, Donaka flees and leaves his men in the lurch, only to reappear at Tiger's temple and force him into a Duel to the Death, declaring "You owe me a life!" When Tiger is forced to kill him, Donaka displays only a sense of satisfaction at having made Tiger a murderer.
 * The Man with the Iron Heart: After being kicked out of the German Navy, Reinhard Heydrich is hired by Heinrich Himmler to join the SS. After the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Heydrich is tasked with annihilating Hitler's enemies in the German political sphere. Having been made Governor of Bohemia-Moravia for his efficiency and competence, Heydrich begins a brutal campaign of war crimes to make his territory the first to exterminate its Jews, ordering the crimes filmed for his later enjoyment. After setting his methods up in the rest of Germany, thus kickstarting The Holocaust, Heydrich works to put down a rebellion against his governance, killing enough resistance fighters to fill up a mass grave and torturing many more.
 * Brian Cox's Lektor in Manhunter isn't exactly a teddy bear. While Hannibal of Silence of the Lambs is a touchy subject due to the unpopular Hannibal Rising giving him a Freudian Excuse, Lektor has none of that, nor any redeeming features. Whilst his crimes are not specified beyond murdering young girls, what makes him so repulsive is that he enjoys torturing Will Graham with the knowledge that the only way he can catch killers is to think like them. Far from Lecter's acerbic mocking, Lektor is friendly, cooperative, never becomes angry, and assists Will in punishing him by suggesting the confiscation of his books if he doesn't help. This only makes him worse as it becomes more apparent that he's pushing Will further and further away from sanity with his subtle mocking ("The reason you caught me, Will, is we're just alike."). Even worse is that nothing he says can be contradicted or refuted: it's all true. Late in the film, Lektor telephones Will to explain why he killed his victims - it made him feel like he was God. And he says it let Will know that if and when he kills the Big Bad Francis Dolarhyde, that's what he will feel too, and he should embrace it and do it again.
 * Christian Szell, aka The White Angel (because of his hair) from Marathon Man is a Nazi dentist working at Auschwitz, and used to falsely promise protection to the Jewish prisoners in exchange of their gold hidden in their teeth, before sending them to the gas chambers. After escaping World War II, Szell sells most of his Nazi comrades to a shadow government agency in exchange for protection and assistance in his diamonds smuggling (the ones he stole from the Jews). When he goes to New York to claim a box of diamonds he becomes increasingly paranoid for his safety starting to kill Henry "Doc" Levy, one of his collaborators, believing him to be a traitor. He then kidnaps Doc’s brother Thomas "Babe" Levy and, wanting to know "Is it safe," cruelly tortures him with his dental instruments, first digging a hole in his cavity and then drilling a healthy tooth "until (he) reach(es) the pulp", all the while maintaining a friendly attitude. After he convinces himself Babe doesn't know anything, he orders him to be killed anyway. He later uses a retractable knife to slash the throat of a Holocaust survivor who recognizes him.
 * Marked for Death: Screwface is a feared Jamaican crime boss rumored to have supernatural powers. Known to savagely murder anyone who he feels crosses him, Screwface has the members of a rival gang shot up in an occupied bar by his men and later murders the woman who helped the gang's leader with his own hands. When retired cop John Hatcher subdues one of his men, Screwface orders a hit on him and his entire family, succeeding in almost fatally wounding his young niece and stripping and marking his sister Tracy for death in her own home. Screwface continues to mercilessly torment Hatcher, attempting to burn him alive and vowing never to stop until his entire family is dead. Screwface precedes murder, sacrifice, and immoral drug trade through his posse, and his cruelty is so immense his own minions prefer suicide rather than confronting him for their failures.
 * Captain Harrison Love, the Psycho for Hire Dragon in The Mask of Zorro. Keeps the dismembered bodyparts of Alejandro's brother pickled in alcohol, which he drinks "based on an Incan custom". And when he learns Zorro has the means to expose Don Rafael's plan (buying California with stolen gold), he calmly suggests destroying the mine to hide evidence of the theft...with the slaves who did the mining still inside, "to destroy all the evidence".
 * The Masked Marvel (1943): Mura Sakima is a Japanese saboteur who is trying to thwart America's efforts to win a war. He has his men murder Warren Hamilton and steal documents that could have exposed Sakima. Sakima goes on to have his men try and mix a chemical compound with gasoline that will be delivered to America's allies, making it so that when the people go to use the gasoline in their planes, they will explode. Sakima also has his men blow up a cargo ship and attempt to destroy a train. He has his men kidnap Alice Hamilton and threaten to crush her under an elevator if she dose not tell them where they can find the diamonds she has hidden, and has a henchman executed so he can't be interrogated by the enemies. Finally, he activates a bomb to try and kill The Masked Marvel along with himself.
 * Miles Edwards in Max Steel is a sociopathic Mad Scientist obsessed with harnessing the alien power of Turbo Energy. To this end, Miles betrayed the Earth defense force he was part of, N-Tek, to the evil Ultra-Link aliens, leading to the deaths of at least 5 of his former partners. In exchange for allying with the Ultra-Links, Miles was granted the capability to betray his former best friend Jim McGrath, who constantly produced Turbo Energy due to his alien biology, and tried to drain him of the Turbo Energy, leading to the man's agonizing death. Years later, once learning that Jim's teenage son, Max, has begun giving off Turbo as well, Miles sics an Ultra-Link on the boy, nearly killing innocents in the process, and, after failing to trick the boy into giving up his Turbo, Miles settles for absorbing the Energy directly into himself, hoping to kill the boy in the same painful way as his father, and brutally murders numerous N-Tek soldiers who attempt to save Max. Miles is fully aware that the Ultra-Links are world destroyers and will invade Earth once the Turbo Energy is contained by him, but doesn't care one bit, showing no concern for any life or person except the Turbo Energy he is so obsessed with. Though perhaps not as monstrous as his animated counterpart, Miles Edwards still manages to be a truly wicked individual who would sacrifice the entire Earth in his quest for power.
 * Assistant Director Janson, debuting in the second film of the Maze Runner series, is a cold, self-serving man who serves as the chief operative of WCKD, helping to oversee the Maze experiments with many dozens of children immune to the Flare virus exposed to the horrors of WCKD's Mazes, with countless numbers of them killed. Trying to trick the survivors into letting their organs be harvested under the false pretense of giving them refuge and aiding in an attack on the Right Arm while personally executing Mary, one of their leaders, Janson comes into his own in The Death Cure, where he becomes even more ruthless in trying to procure a cure to the Flare. Janson orders a crowd of protesters fired on by cannons to get at Thomas, smugly implores Thomas to shoot Teresa when he takes her at gunpoint, and having Thomas's friend Minho exposed to horrible, potentially lethal psychological experiments to lure him out. Janson ultimately murders WCKD's head Dr. Paige himself and, with the cure revealed to be in Thomas's blood, reveals his true goal to build a future of his own design by selecting who gets to be cured while leaving all the rest of humanity to be driven insane and slowly die from the Flare. Even in an organization of mad scientists with little regards to how far they have to plunge to root out a cure to the Flare, Janson stands out as an utter sociopath with no scruples or benevolent intentions whatsoever.
 * Josh in Megan Is Missing is a disturbingly brutal example of an online predator. Josh masks himself as a charming individual who meets the titular Megan online. Exploiting her desire to be loved, Josh convinces Megan to see him behind a diner. When she goes missing, her friend Amy decides to prop further into it, even after Josh directly threatens her. Josh ends up kidnapping Amy from under a bridge, tossing away her camera, and taking her to his cellar where the extent of his horrible deeds is revealed. Josh force-feeds Amy dog food, viciously rapes her, then shoves Amy into a barrel with Megan's rotting corpse, who he tortured to death, and buries her alive in the middle of a forest. Josh is a twisted excuse for a human being who represents the dangers of meeting people online clocked Up to Eleven.
 * Boris the Animal from Men In Black 3 is by far the most murderous and sadistic villain to appear in the movies. He is introduced being freed from prison by his girlfriend, whom he leaves to die when she is blown out into space, as well as another prisoner whom he promised to take with him. He travels back in time to eliminate K as personal revenge for destroying his arm when he was captured, causing a present day invasion by his race of Planet Looting Boglodites to consume everyone on Earth. He kills a number of targets in the past, only refrains from killing his past self because he would be erased from time, and at the end murders J's father out of spite for being thwarted by K.
 * Miner's Massacre (originally titled Curse of the Forty-Niner): Jeremiah Stone is a gold miner driven mad by greed. Having become a Serial Killer, he's implied to have eaten his wife and child before kidnapping the local preacher's daughter. After a search party find the two, Stone brags about raping the girl before slicing her neck open. He's gunned down for his crimes, but binds his soul to his stash of gold. Having thusly become a phantom called "the Forty-Niner", Stone kills anybody who takes his treasure. His cursed soul pursues the protagonists of the film, killing them in sadistic ways which demonstrate precisely why Stone calls himself The Devil.
 * The Serial Killer in Mindhunters plays cat and mouse games with his victims by infiltrating a group of FBI profilers during a field mission to a deserted island with a makeshift town used as a training ground by the bureau, where they must solve a case involving a fictional Serial Killer called "the Puppeteer" organized by their supervisor. He sets the island up with an array of booby traps and puzzles to kill them while watching from within the group to turn them against each other and give himself good sport. His more cruel murders include a victim getting slowly killed with liquid nitrogen from the feet up, and another one burned to death from inside through acid-laced cigarettes. He kidnaps the supervisor (who had been monitoring the group in secret) to an abandoned warehouse on the other side of the island where he proceeds to torture him for days before preparing his corpse and hanging it up for the trainees as a sort of perverse puppet. It's only after his identity as Sarah's best friend Lucas is revealed that the true level of his manipulation becomes apparent, and he frankly admits he started his string of murders by killing his parents as a child and now simply enjoys a good hunt for new and more intelligent victims.
 * In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Mr. Barron is a shapeshifting Peculiar who strives for Immortality. Once a Peculiar who was part of a splinter group who sought to live outside the loops, Barron and his minions were mutated into the monstrous Hollowghasts as a result of a failed experiment involving stealing the essence of an ymbryne. Barron, however, finds an especially vile manner of regaining his humanity; raiding loops, killing all the Peculiars within - most specifically children - and devouring their eyes. Barron repeats this process with several other loops, with the ultimate goal to find the loop of Ms. Peregrine and use her and several other ymbrynes to start the experiment anew. Once he does, Barron coerces Peregrine into coming with him under the threat of Jacob's life, and soon leaves all the children under her care to the mercy of the approaching Hollowghasts. Mr. Barron's humorously polite demeanor belied a child-murdering monster concerned solely with his own ends.
 * Hendricks from the fourth  |Mission Impossible . His goal is to destroy the whole world and kill every human being just to check what it would be like! While this may sound like a typical Omnicidal Maniac, he arguably becomes a Complete Monster when he deliberately commits suicide in order to ensure that his evil plan will work. He values his horrible plans even more than his own life!
 * Owen Davian in the third movie. His actions (selling weapons to terrorists, killing agents by bombs implanted in their heads, brutally beating up the defenseless hero in front of his equally defenseless wife) are bad enough, but still things to be expected from a villain in a spy movie. It's his complete lack of any redeeming qualities and incapability of showing any other emotion than annoyance, anger, and a really creepy combination of Dull Surprise and sadistic glee that really makes him qualify for the title. Hearing him count to ten while holding Ethan's wife hostage execution-style is pants-shitting scary.

""What I did to your friend was....fun. It was fun.""


 * Missing (2009 Film) has Pan-Gon, a brutal serial kidnapper of young women who he keeps as "pets" until they start to bore him, at which he brutally kills them. Starting the film by kidnapping Hyeon-ah, Pan-Gon kills her boyfriend with a shovel before turning the girl into his slave to be raped and abused at his leisure. Giddily noting that he has done this same thing to three other women before, Pan-Gon later pulls out all of Hyeon-ah's teeth before feeding her into a meat grinder while she is still alive, ending the girl's life. Later viciously killing two men who attempt to thwart him, Pan-Gon kidnaps Hyeon-ah's sister, Hyeon-jeong, and, after failing to rape her, spends his final moments gleefully boasting about what he did to her sister.
 * Missing in Action 2: The Beginning: Colonel Yin is the sadistic Vietnamese commander of the POW camp James Braddock is sent to. Holding onto his prisoners for years, Yin mistreats and routinely tortures the prisoners of the camp, a favorite tactic of his being to play Russian Roulette with his prisoners, usually bluffing but only to fool all the prisoners for when he actually does execute one. Killing all those who try to escape, Yin is determined to completely break Braddock and force him to confess to imaginary war crimes, with the intent to kill every American POW once he's satisfied with breaking down Braddock. Yin tries a multitude of ways to try to break Braddock: lying about his wife's remarriage; forcing a sack over his head with a savage rat inside; and giving a fatal injection of opium to a fellow prisoner dying of malaria—whom Yin had promised to save—before lighting him on fire in front of Braddock's eyes. Yin happily kills anyone he no longer has use for, executing a photographer who stumbles across the camp and shooting down his partner in an opium cartel to acquire his helicopter. A near-emotionless tyrant of a man, all the atrocities of the Vietnam War were perfectly highlighted within Yin.
 * General Quoc in the third film is another immoral Vietnamese commander out for perceived vengeance against Colonel Bradock. After Quoc flies into Vietnam to meet up with Li and Van, his estranged wife and son, Quoc ambushes Braddock's family and murders Li with her husband and son in full witness. After capturing Braddock and Van, Quoc boasts about his long history of torture and has Van and Braddock subjected to his specialty; suspending Braddock by a rope and gleefully electrocuting him, all whilst attached to a trigger that, when Braddock submits, will blow his own son's head off. After Braddock and Van escape, Quoc takes Reverend Polanski's orphanage of American-Asian children hostage to lure Braddock into his clutches, and has no compunction in trying to have them all killed later to get at Braddock himself. Quoc boasted a sadistic streak arguably exceeding even Yin's, and had no qualms as to whom he had to harm to hurt Braddock.
 * Monster Hunt: Lord Ge Qian Hu is the regional warlord and owner of the Heaven Restaurant. Disgusted by the Monster Hunter Bureau's fall into obscurity and wishing to revitalize it, Hu places a bounty on the Monster Queen's unborn child, relishing in the potential chaos that would ensue. Discovering that monsters were hiding in the Yongying Village, he captures the monsters, and takes them to his restaurant, where his employees would cook them into several dishes. Hu intended to eat the young monster king, Wuba, only to be stopped by Tianyin and Xiaolan. Taking Xiaolan and Tianyin's grandmother hostage, Hu gives Tianyin the option of either giving him the baby before he stopped counting, or to let both of his loved ones die a gruesome death. As the Monster King, he was responsible for orchestrating a civil war, and disguised himself as a human in order to eradicate the remnants of the old king's supporters. Hypocritical and having a taste for power, Ge wished to suppress monsters and humans alike.
 * In the film adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game, Count Zaroff is an Egomaniac Hunter who grew bored with big game, and decided to go after humans instead. To this end, he periodically shifted signal buoys to cause ships to wreck on his island, and takes any survivors to hunt, ostensibly letting them go if they evade him until sunrise. Before the hunt, he locks his victim in his trophy room for a few hours so the victim will be scared enough for a sporting chase. When Sanger "Bob" Rainsford becomes his latest foe, he threatens to make Eve Trowbridge into his Sex Slave if he wins. After Rainsford wins and he and Eve escape the island, Zaroff tries to shoot them both, showing that he has no honor at all.
 * Mother of Tears: One of the Three Mothers responsible for the creation and spread of witchcraft itself, Mater Lachrymarum, otherwise known as the Mother of Tears, is an ancient witch and the most beautiful and powerful of her wicked sisters. Upon awakening from her deep slumber, Lachrymarum disregards the deaths of her sisters and proceeds to unleash a wave of violence onto Rome ranging from mass suicides to random acts of destruction. Lachrymarum also saw her devoted followers as expendable, allowing them to cannibalize and torture each other as they saw fit to her cruel amusement. Lachrymarum's ultimate goal was to usher in a new era of witchcraft starting with the obliteration of Rome; with victory seemingly within reach, Lachrymarum attempts to offer the heroine Sarah Mandy, daughter of the one good witch who had managed to once fight the Three Mothers, to her cannibalistic followers. Seeking to expand her powers until she blighted the world itself in darkness, Lachrymarum demonstrates the pure, unbridled evil of the Three Mothers.
 * Duxton Chevalier from Mr. Accident is a surprisingly serious and evil villain for a comedy film. He forces his brother to hand over his egg company by threatening to chop the leg off of his beloved dog and gets more sinister as the film goes on. It's revealed that he murdered his own brother after already getting the company, stuffing his body in a refrigerator and sending it through a recycling machine. At least viewers can assume the brother is already dead. He then spikes the chicken feed with nicotine in order to produce nicotine-spiked eggs to get people addicted to the eggs so he can bring in the cash. He does love his girlfriend, Sunday - in the way of the homicidal Stalker with a Crush -kind. As a result, when he discovers Roger is her new boyfriend, he stuffs him and his best friend in another refrigerator and tries to repeat what he did with his brother with them still alive. He then moves on to try to murder Sunday with an ax (which, frighteningly, he has on him at all times) after her rebuking his affections one last time. After Roger confronts him on his plan, asking if baby food is next, Duxton reacts by saying: "We're working on it." In the end, Duxton gets his comeuppance when Roger sends him falling to a messy Disney Villain Death.
 * Murder Party: Seemingly wealthy and sinister Alexander organizes the 'Murder Party' that lures in poor Average Joe Christopher before taking him hostage. Alexander then asserts his dominance over the group of artists present and instructs them how to murder Christopher in a group effort. As the night goes on, Alexander plays sadistic mind games with the group and eventually reveals he's just a fry cook who planned to trick them all into committing a gruesome murder before killing all of them to steal their artwork and make it more valuable to sell when they were all dead. He immediately attempts to kill everyone present following this revelation.
 * In the otherwise-comedic film Mystery Men, the vicious Casanova Frankenstein is released from the asylum he's been in for twenty years. Showing he hasn't changed in the slightest, Casanova promptly blows the Asylum up and abducts his old nemesis Captain Amazing, who had him released in the first place out of boredom. Planning to create the greatest act of evil Champion City has ever seen, Casanova unveils the Psycho-Frakulator that will painfully warp reality and kill every citizen in the city. Delighted by his own evil, Casanova even kills his own henchmen just to prove a point to the heroes when they try to stop him and abducts hero Mr. Furious's girlfriend with obvious lewd intentions before attempting to annihilate the city with them.
 * From My Father Is A Hero, Po Kwong is a sadistic gang leader feared for his brutality and violence. When undercover cop Kung Wei infiltrates his gang, disguised as a criminal, Kwong involves Wei in a shootout in a heavily populated store with a rival gang leader. He forms a plan with his business partner to hold a ship full of people hostage and then kill them all after robbing them. When Wei's young son arrives in Hong Kong, Kwong beats him severely, nearly killing him. Upon discovering that Wei is an undercover cop, Kwong murders his partner, Darkie, himself a former gang member. Kwong then threatens to blow up a ship full of people, killing his business partner and attempting to rob the auction. Upon being foiled by Wei, Kwong holds his son hostage, strangling him nearly to death, before detonating the final bomb, intending to force Wei to die along with him.
 * Nate and Hayes: Ben Pease was once the partner of William "Bully" Hayes until Bully caught Ben subjecting innocents to slavery. The resulting fight had Bully shoot off Ben's private parts, and as a result, Ben has left a trail of murder across the seas to frame Bully for his crimes. Attacking a mission, Ben murders everyone except those he abducts to sell into slavery, and when the heroine Sophie takes one of his men hostage, Ben simply shoots the man to deprive her of a hostage. Allying with imperial Germany, Ben intends to supply them with slaves for their mines while also making an alliance with a cannibal tribe by giving them barrels full of severed heads and Sophie to use as a Human Sacrifice. Even at the end, Ben attempts to frame Bully for everything and see his nemesis hang in Ben's place.
 * Detective Jack Scagnetti from Natural Born Killers. Behind his image as a hero cop, he is a sadistic rapist and Serial Killer of women. As he hunts the protagonists, he develops a sick obsession with Mallory Knox. Even though Mickey and Mallory are killers too, it's impossible to do anything but cheer during his darkly comic death scene.
 * Heymar Reinhardt, or his alias "Wulfgar", from Nighthawks. He is a terrorist who manipulates everyone around him and kills the people who help him. Even his employers don't like him, as evidenced by one of them refusing to pay him because several children were killed by his last attack at the beginning of the movie. He doesn't care who gets injured or killed by his actions, even if the victims are children. He takes a frail old woman hostage at a subway, and before that, he murdered the flight attendant he was staying with after she looked in his briefcase, calmly telling her that everything was okay, before murdering her offscreen. Later on, he takes more hostages, including an eight-month-old infant. The only reason that he lets the infant live is because he knows that doing so would make him seem more employable to future or potential terrorist organizations, provided he can escape his current predicament alive. . The scariest part is that this is easily one of the most realistic terrorists in cinema when compared to terrorists featured in other movies.
 * "Reverend" Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter. He plumbs every depth you could at the time that movie was made. A Serial Killer with a particular loathing of women and self-appointed preacher, he gets out of prison and marries a bank robber's widow, believing her children know where the stolen money is hidden. When she overhears him asking the children about the money, he slits her throat as she lies in bed. Then, to finally get the children to tell him where the money is, he threatens to cut off the son's fingers, one by one, in front of the very young daughter. Afterwards he pursues the children when they're on the run, eventually finding the family that has taken them in and seduces the eldest daughter in to inviting him to their house. This fortunately does not end well for him, as he gets shot, arrested, and lynched for his crimes. And the police don't even want to stop the angry mob since they know how horrible he is and how much he truly deserves this.
 * Freddy Krueger. "Bastard-Son-Of-A-Hundred-Maniacs" should probably clue you in. Before his death, he kept a scrapbook of the "Have you seen this..." pictures of his child victims. And licked them. Less so as the sequels went on, when he became a bit of a buffoon too Faux Affably Evil for his own good - although he was still a nasty piece of work. Even in the utterly Narm-filled Freddys Dead the Final Nightmare, he had his moments, like when he taunts Tracy by appearing as her sexually abusive father ("Give daddy some honey...no one has to know...") He's back to Complete Monster in the 2010 reboot. He punctures one of his victims through the heart, then taunts him on the fact that his brain will keep going seven minutes after his heart stops beating..
 * Inspector Thomas Cray of Nightwatch is a despicable Serial Killer with a fetish for dead people. Once a nightwatchman for a morgue, Cray was fired for raping the dead bodies as they came through, and, after trying to sate his desires by hiring hookers to play dead while he had sex with them, decided to escalate his fantasy. Cray began murdering prostitutes, raping their corpses, then scooping out their eyeballs as trophies, something he repeats 5 times across his career, and, when getting tired of evading police, prompts to frame an innocent man for his crimes. After murdering a 17 year old prostitute and framing the hapless Martin as the killer, Cray tries to kill both Martin and his girlfriend with a buzz saw to their skulls after beating his police partner to death with a baseball bat. A psychopath with a disturbing fixation on the dead, Thomas Cray's evil ran so deep that he actively defied having any reason for his crimes.
 * Ninja (2009): Masazuka was the second-best student of the Takeda Ninja dojo until he was expelled for trying to kill Casey Bowman. In response, Masazuka became a Professional Killer in the employ of Temple Industries. Later, he tries to claim the Yoroi Bitsu, a box containing the Takeda school's founder's weapons, slaughtering most of the school in the process. After killing Sensei Takeda in his interrogation, Masazuka learns that his quarry is in New York City, and has Temple send some assassins after them. Killing the Sole Survivor of the goons' failed attempt, he seeks Casey and Namiko Takeda, killing most of the police precinct they're in and capturing the latter. During the final battle, Masazuka poisons Namiko just to get an edge on Casey.
 * Ninja Assassin: Ozuno is the ruthless leader of the Ozuno clan, a clan takes in orphaned children and raises them as Child Soldiers putting them through intense training regimes, where he routinely abuses them such abuse includes whipping them to the point of leaving scars on their bodies and forcing them to compete in brutal sparring matches where they beat each other to a bloody pulp, all for the purpose of making them the perfect ninja assassins. These assassins would go after their targets via black sand in a letter as a Calling Card, striking in the dark or dimly lit places killing not only the targets but anyone allied or unfortunate enough to be in the same room as the target as to leave no witnesses. Years prior to the film, when Kirko had tried to leave the clan Ozuno had her captured and killed and nearly does the same to Raizo when he betrays him as well. During his final confrontation with Raizo he nearly kills Mika by stabbing her where her heart is suppose to be with a cold, apathetic look on his face.
 * Anton Chigurh of No Country for Old Men certainly fits this trope. He strangles a cop to death with cuffs, shoots both his employers in cold blood because he wanted the money they were chasing after, shoots a crying, surrendering man hiding in a shower and has absolutely no qualms about killing innocent people, including a random old man for his car and a motorist that did nothing except pick up the main character. In his most senselessly cruel act, . Even knowing Anton Chigurh puts you in mortal danger. Like one line by Carson Wells points out: "Even if you gave him the money, he would still kill you just for...inconveniencing him." The worst thing about him is how he subjects his victims to a bizarre form of Mind Rape and actually convinces them to accept their death. It's easy to see why his partner-in-crime Carson Wells compares him to the Bubonic Plague. He faces no repercussions, which goes chillingly well along with the nature of his character: an unstoppable force of nature personified in human flesh. He does not enjoy these acts, he is just a evil psychopath with utterly no regard for the lives of anyone.
 * In Non-Stop, Zack White helps Tom Bowen send anonymous text messages to Bill Marks demanding $150 million, threatening to kill someone every 20 minutes if the money is not transferred. While Tom is trying to cause a catastrophe that will inspire people to increase air force security, Zack is Only in It for the Money. After causing the deaths of three people, the two activate a bomb to blow up the plane and kill everyone on board. Zack goes to get parachutes so he and Tom can escape and leave everyone else to die. Although Zack does try to stop Tom when he learns that Tom planned for them to die on the plane as well, it's only out of concern for his own safety, and after Tom dies, Zack tries to kill Marks to get a parachute, once again attempting to leave the other passengers to their fate.
 * Count Orlok is one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema in the film Nosferatu and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count tries to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and Orlok later kills the crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague-bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. He uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Elllen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her Heroic Sacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast who can barely pass as a human being.
 * Novecento has Attila, who lords over his enslaved workers at his estate, massacres peasants to confinscate their land, murders a wealthy widow for her estate, and rapes and kills a young boy unfortunate enough to walk into him.
 * Oblivion (2013): "Sally" is a malevolent A.I. that controls the Tet, a machine that destroys planets after plundering them of their resources. Targeting Earth, she destroys the moon, resulting in catastrophic events that wipe out much of humanity. Capturing Jack Harper and Victoria "Vika" Olsen, Sally clones Jack and uses his copies as mindless soldiers to fight the surviving humans. Spending the next 50 years hunting down survivors with her drones, Sally leaves clones of Jack and Vica to maintain her machines on Earth, routinely wiping their memories while falsely promising them voyage to an inhabitable world. When Jack comes to kill her, Sally tries to convince him she is his God while frantically trying to save herself.
 * Gabriel Yulaw from The One is a sociopathic inter-dimensional criminal with a god-complex. Originally an officer of the Multiverse Authority, Yulaw discovered that, by killing his alternate selves, he would gain their life energies and essence. Yulaw then set about across dozens of parallel universes, killing all of his alternate selves in an effort to become 'the One', a being of godlike power. Having already succeeded in killing 123 of his targets, Yulaw was briefly detained, but broke free, murdering several guards before teleporting himself to the universe of his final target, Gabe Law. Upon arriving, Yulaw went on a killing spree, killing several police officers as he sought out Gabe to kill him. When his former ally, Harry Rodecker, arrived to stop him, Yulaw delivered a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown upon his former friend, ultimately killing him. He then proceeded to gun down Gabe's wife, making sure that Gabe was watching while he did so. After his final showdown with Gabe ended with the two of them being transported back to MVA headquarters, Yulaw attempted to frame Gabe for his crimes. Arrogant and sadistic, Yulaw lived for nothing more than power and his own egomania.
 * Frank, from Once Upon a Time in the West. His first appearance says enough. Played completely against type by, no less. Frank is one of Leone's most cold-blooded and reprehensible villains, but special mention must be made of his absolute worst act and the reason that Harmonica wants him dead so badly:.
 * Other Sergio Leone monsters include:
 * Colonel Günther "Gutierez" Reza (Antoine St. John) in A Fistful of Dynamite is a silent villain who, throughout the movie, doesn't express a single emotion beyond self-satisfaction. He tortures Dr. Villega into identifying various members of a crowd as revolutionaries, then has them shot in front of him, smiling a little wider with each body that hits the ground. He's also the man responsible for the deaths of Juan's children and father, singlehandedly causes the film to shift from Black Comedy to serious drama, leads an army that seems intent on killing or imprisoning everyone they meet, and in the climax, guns down Mallory from behind. This, coupled with his Implacable Man status makes him utterly terrifying.
 * El Indio of For a Few Dollars More is the classic Mexican Bandito turned Up to Eleven. He forces one of his victims to watch his family being slaughtered, than offers the man a chance for Revenge, but rigs the duel -- and continues to rig his duels throughout the film. He betrays his entire gang, so that he can keep the loot from their robbery for himself and is eventually revealed to have raped Colonel Mortimer's sister, driving her to suicide. He tortures both Mortimer and Manco for kicks, before using them as pawns to massacre his own men, and shows absolutely no remorse when Nino, the one man he'd intended to keep around, is killed in front of him. On top of that, he's an arrogant, Ax Crazy drug-addict, whose connection to reality is tenuous at best. In many ways, he's the exact opposite of Angel Eyes while still having utterly no redeeming qualities: where the former is emotionless and almost inhuman, Indio is animalistically alive, if in a spectacularly negative fashion.
 * Ramon Rojo from A Fistful of Dollars just seems to enjoy being evil. In his first entrance, he and his gang brutally massacre a Mexican army unit to steal their gold. He kidnaps a woman and forces her to live with him solely because he thinks her husband was cheating at cards. He massacres the entire Baxter family (including their Evil Matriarch leader, which would have been incredibly bad at the time), tortures Joe for helping the girl escape, and, towards the end, has Silvanito tortured when he thinks he might be hiding Joe and was also about to hang him.
 * Officer Simon Varner, the leader of the group of Satanists in Odd Thomas, attempts to kill as many people as possible solely as a tribute to the Prince of Darkness. To this end, Varner has a potential witness kidnapped and fed to one subordinate's dogs, even killing another of the group when young psychic Odd Thomas becomes suspicious of him. Varner orders the death of the local police chief and has his subordinate Eckles kill the security of the local mall before intending a mass shooting of the mall's patrons, before Varner sets off a bomb to kill everyone else with the first responders.
 * Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. She'll remorselessly and cruelly manipulate anyone to keep her stranglehold on a bunch of virtually harmless mental patients, all while maintaining a sterling image for outsiders and her superiors, who likely don't have the perspective needed to understand just how horrible she really is.
 * Opera: Inspector Alan Santini was a Serial Killer in a relationship with Betty's mother. He would tie up women and kill them while she watched. After she pressured him to do it more often, he got fed up with her ordering him and killed her as well. Deciding to make Betty his new target, Santini stalks her at the opera house she is performing at and murders people in front of her after tying her up and forcing her eyes open so she sees everything. He kills three ravens during his murder spree, and eventually sets a room on fire to kill Betty. When he survives, he pursues her all the way to the Swiss Alps to make her his.
 * Richie Madano in Out for Justice is an unstable, drug-abusing criminal who sets off the events of the story by brutally murdering his girlfriend Roxanne and then shooting the cop that slept with her dead in full view of his wife and children. Richie soon thereafter engages in a pursuit of thrills and fun while being pursued by the deceased cop's partner Geno Felino, blowing the brains out of a woman who grows impatient with him, coaxing a terrified retired prostitute into sleeping with him through the faint implication of violence, murdering people for drugs, abusing his weak-willed brother, gunning down his own disabled associate, and fatally shooting a group of mobsters sent to whack him. Richie is so pointlessly and randomly violent even his own family fear for their lives if they were to ever get on his bad side.
 * Out of Reach, starring Steven Seagal: The evil Faisal is the leader of a syndicate that specializes in human trafficking. Running an orphanage in Poland by deceiving good Samaritans, Faisal waits until the girls are in their early teens before abducting them and selling them into the sex trade. Faisal has been doing this so much that his business is worth billions, having sold off countless children. Faisal is a ruthless killer, showing no compunction in killing those in his way, the kids who become too much trouble, or anyone who fails him. When the hero William Lansing tracks Faisal down, Faisal attempts to kill him and keep the sex trade going in order to profit off it.

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 * Captain Vidal from Pans Labyrinth might be one of the worst and most despicable examples in recent cinema (or best, depending on how you look at it). The captain dwarfs the film's various fantastical monsters in his atrocities. For one particularly graphic example, when two people are captured on his estate, they are accused of being spies, but repeatedly claim to be innocent rabbit hunters and begged for their lives. A moment after seemingly accepting their excuse, Vidal smashes the son's face with a wine bottle until the whole skull caves in a gruesome way. Vidal then shoots both him and his father with a mixture of vague boredom and pleasure. When the soldiers turn out the men's bags, they find a rabbit, proving the men's story, so Vidal yells at them for wasting his time and eats the rabbit for dinner. He knew they were innocent the whole time and killed them anyway, just because. Perhaps his most memorable act would be the torture scene, where the sadistic Vidal shows his array of torture tools to a tied-up, stuttering rebel soldier, promising he will release the stutterer if he can count to "three" loud and clear. Guess if he can. Less dramatic yet still notable aspect of him is having married a woman solely for her to bear his son. He explicitly advises the doctor caring for her during childbirth to save the child over his wife. As it so happens, this decision, usually made with at least some anguish after being steered towards it, is the only way from the start for Vidal, who is not bothered by it in the slightest. It's telling that the man's humanizing moment is realizing he's a bastard and, instead of thinking of reforming, simply fantasizing about suicide for a moment before going back to his horrifically evil ways. Perhaps his worst act: . Viewes probably view it as a fitting demise that the rebels, while shooting Vidal dead, refuse to even tell his son about him. Sergi López himself thinks this on his character: "Vidal is the most evil character I've ever played in my career. It is impossible to improve upon it; the character is so solid and so well written. Vidal is deranged, a psychopath who is impossible to defend. Even though his father's personality marked his existence — and is certainly one of the reasons for his mental disorder — that cannot be an excuse." This may well have been the best thing about his character. His very powerful, human motive doesn't justify his actions, which any sane, morally adjusted person would not do. What it does, however, is make all of his actions seem like something that someone would actually do; rather than just evil for the pleasure of it, his actions come off as something that a violent and uncaring person could be driven to do, keeping Willing Suspension of Disbelief entirely intact and making him seem quite real and thus frightening. He's quite possibly one of the quintessential examples of how to do a Complete Monster character well.
 * Raoul from Panic Room. One of three robbers who invade the new home of a mother and her daughter, from the start he proves himself to be far more cruel and murderous than both his comrades. He has no reservations about killing people or even children to get the bearer bonds stored in the safe room. He turns up the gas so Meg and Sarah almost suffocate and doesn't give a crap that his associate Junior almost burned to death as a result. When Junior tries to cut his losses and leave Raoul shoots him in the head, then shoots the corpse again just out of spite. He threatens to kill Burnham too if he doesn't go through with the job. He beats Meg's ex-husband Stephen almost to death to get them to leave the safe room, and then intends to kill her daughter if she tells the police. After they beat Raoul up it gets personal, as he prefers to murder the whole family rather than escape with the money.
 * Paranormal Activity has these two examples. 
 * The Demon, dubbed "Toby" by various people, is one of the Seven Princes of Hell in league with the Midwives coven whose goal is to achieve physical form through the blood of certain children so that he can enter Earth. To achieve this, Toby makes deals with witches for power and wealth in exchange for children, mainly males, and will stalk the witch's bloodline until said child is born. Toby stalks the family of Katie Featherson, first starting by pretending to be her sister Kristi's imaginary friend during their childhood and threatening to hurt her and her family if she refuses his requests. Murdering Katie and Kristi's mother and her boyfriend, Toby decades later goes after Kristi's infant son Hunter, creating fear and paranoia in their household and eventually possessing Kristi and making her nearly kill her husband Daniel and step-daughter Allie. When Toby is passed over to Katie, the demon psychologically tortures and stalks her for weeks then possesses her and murders Katie's boyfriend Micah for mocking him and kidnaps Hunter after killing Kristi and Daniel. Fully brainwashing Katie into the coven, Toby has her put Hunter up for adoption until he's ready then years later abducts him and slaughters his new family alongside Katie and the coven. It is revealed that Toby has been taking children back to 1988 through a time portal located in the house owned by the coven and seeks to now take the new patrons of the house's daughter Leila and then use her and Hunter's blood to create his physical form, killing Leila's mother even after he no longer needs her. Sadistic, manipulative and void of any empathy or humanity, the demon known as Toby is one of modern horror's most evil villains.
 * Grandma Lois is secretly a cold-blooded witch and the head of the Midwives coven, that bargained with the invisible demon, in return for personal gain, to surrender the first male member of the family to the demon, knowing it would pursue her bloodline until a male child is conceived. In the third film, Lois orchestrates the death of her own daughter Julie when she refuses to have a son and watches Julie's boyfriend's brutal death when the man tries to rescue her granddaughters from her and the demon. Lois then manipulates and erases the memories of the girls to brainwash them into having a male child, leading to her descendant Hunter being taken by the demon to use his blood to successfully create a physical body to wreck havoc in. Fully aware of the pain and suffering that would come with her deal, Lois is a heartless monster willing to sacrifice her entire family for personal greed.
 * Charles Rane, the Rane Of Terror of Passenger 57 is a Terrorist Without a Cause who enjoys causing mayhem For the Evulz. When being transported aboard a plane, Rane murders the agents guarding him to hijack the jet. When the hero, Cutter, tries to stop him, Rane takes a hostage, coaxing the man's name and the fact he has a daughter from him. Rane calmly informs Cutter: "This is Douglas. He has a daughter who loves him. and she until your interference, had a father." before executing the man simply to show his point. Rane later tries to have all of the civilian hostages executed when the government won't comply with his demands.
 * The sour-faced little Centurion from The Passion of the Christ who gets mocked by his soldiers and takes out his rage on Jesus - by making his men continue the whipping, but with scourges that have sharp metal hooks. After Jesus is flayed by this, the Centurion makes them turn him over and do the same to his belly and chest. It doesn't stop until Pilate himself interferes.
 * Satan himself counts as well. He is Satan after all and he can be considered responsible for all the horrible things that happen in the movie, and he seems to revel in it until Jesus' Heroic Sacrifice happens, which sends him into a Villainous Breakdown.
 * Pathfinder (2007): The brutal Gunnar is head of a Viking expedition to the new world. Arriving on the American shores, Gunnar massacres a village full of innocent natives and later kills any prisoners taken. When discovered by the young Ghost, a Viking child left behind on a previous expedition and raised by the natives, Gunnar attempts to force him to lead them to the other natives so Gunnar can exterminate all of them and colonize the land. When Gunnar attacks another village, he proceeds to torture a captive to draw Ghost out and executes the chief Pathfinder by having him pulled apart by horses. Ghost agrees to help when Gunnar threatens to torture Ghost's lover, and leads Gunnar and his men into a trap at the top of a mountain. When his men end up falling to their deaths, Gunnar callously kills one just to increase his own chances for survival before trying to kill Ghost.
 * William Tavington from The Patriot is introduced having wounded soldiers gunned down and having freed slaves press-ganged into the British army. He proceeds to take one messenger, The Hero Benjamin Martin's eldest son Gabriel, to be hanged. Gabriel's brother intervenes, for which Tavington callously guns him down and sneers "stupid boy" at his shell-shocked father. Tavington's savagery earns him furious rebukes from General Cornwallis, until Tavington convinces the general to allow him free reign, bargaining himself to be a new landowner as his methods will render him persona non grata back in Britain. Tavington corrals a town full of innocent people in a church when none of them will talk about the location of Martin's forces. When he gets his answer, Tavington has the town locked in the church and then has it set afire, adding the forgiveness of the people is between them and God. Tavington later kills Gabriel in combat and when facing Benjamin in a Duel to the Death mocks him for being a lesser man.
 * Movies by Mel Gibson in general seem to have a higher-than-average ratio of Complete Monsters. Tavington exists mainly so Gibson's protagonist can brutally slaughter British troops and still look like a good guy. Similarly, Edward Longshanks undergoes a Historical Villain Upgrade in order to justify William Wallace' violent way of achieving revenge and freedom in Braveheart.
 * Mommy and Daddy from The People Under the Stairs are a pair of incestuous siblings who are known as cutthroat landlords in a poor neighborhood, evicting tenants ruthlessly. In private, they're worse. Mommy and Daddy abduct children from poor families and abuse them hideously, cutting out 'the bad parts' from them and imprisoning them under the stairs while killing any intruders and feeding them to the imprisoned and starving kids. When the hero, Fool, is lost in their house, they spare no effort to try to find and kill him while abusing their abducted child Alice. When Alice discovers the truth and rejects Mommy as her mother, Mommy tries to kill her, screaming at her to burn.
 * A Perfect Getaway: Cliff, real name Rocky, appears to be a nice, jovial husband on a honeymoon trip to Hawaii, but is actually one half of a Serial Killer duo alongside his partner, Cydney. In the past, he seduced a woman and took her to the lake, where he revealed that he hanged her neighbor’s Labrador, threatening to kill her if she were to ever tell anyone. Living a life of crime due to feeling alienated by society, Rocky manipulates/abuses his partner into helping him murder and take the identities of multiple couples, while also collecting their teeth and cutting off their fingertips, planning on taking 100 different lives to continue his killing spree. Their most recent victims, Cliff and Cydney, cause them to have to hide from the police on a remote island. Discovering that cops are searching the island for them, Rocky decides to frame a couple for the murders and kill another one so that he and his partner can avoid detection. When Gina discovers who he really is, he tries to kill her, gleefully murdering four people who were trying to help her. When Nick and Gina reunite, Rocky tries to have the cops shoot Nick, attempting to kill them himself when his plan fails.
 * In Plan 9, the 2015 remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space, Eros is portrayed as a genocidal alien invader with none of the original version's pretense of good intentions. A horrendous bigot who takes one human's attempt to utilize Solaranite as a challenge to his species' superiority, Eros sets out to destroy the human race, starting in the small town of Nilbog. Using his mothership to raise the dead, Eros has his zombie drones murder every person they come across, intending to blanket the world with rays that will bring the countless dead under his control, until the entirety of Earthling civilization is extinguished. Personally murdering Chief Simpson, as well as several soldiers sent to end the invasion, Eros manages to capture the heroine Lucy, taking sadistic pleasure in revealing her own role in the deaths of her fellow citizens, before attempting to take her back to his home planet, where he plans to torture her for the secrets of Solaranite. A calculating, brutal mass-murderer who doesn't even bat an eye at the deaths of his own people, Eros is driven by nothing more than a malignant loathing for the human race.
 * Sgt. Bob Barnes from Platoon, probably the epitome of the Sociopathic Soldier. In one scene, believing that some villagers are aiding Viet Cong soldiers, he shoots a defiant woman (the village chief's wife) in the head. When the murdered woman's daughter cries out, Barnes takes the child at gunpoint, threatening to shoot her next if the villagers do not reveal the whereabouts of the Viet Cong. Worse yet,.
 * Plunkett and Macleane has Thief Taker General Chance, a sadistic, brutal thug of a law enforcement officer. Chance has a liking for a good Eye Scream and gouges out the eyes of those he captures, solely to amuse himself before he causes them more pain. Chance murders a wealthy man to get to the man's daughter and attempts to force himself on her before deciding it isn't painful enough for her and resolves to wait until after he has her love interest hanged — which he forces her to watch.
 * Reverend Henry Kane is the Big Bad of the Poltergeist trilogy. In life, he was an insane leader of a utopian cult in the early 19th century who his "flock" into an underground cavern under the premise that the world was about to end, but in actuality, his only intention was to harvest their souls for his own power. As a ghost, he absorbed the energy from his followers, which fused with the evil in his heart and turned him into a monstrous apparition a demon called "The Beast". When the Freeling family moves into the home built where the cavern once was, Kane tries to abduct the young Carol Anne and bring her to the realm of the dead, dubbed the "Other Side, " where he could use her to attract more souls for his energy. In the second movie he keeps on tormenting the Freelings, possessing Steven's body in order to rape Diane while taking a proactive role in psychologically and physically tormenting the family as he seeks to take Carol Anne. At the end of the third film, Kane apparently abandons his pursuit of the Freelings and accepts the mystic Tangina's offer to show him into the light, but the film ends with a flash of lightning and Kane's demonic laughter, showing his "redemption" as a sham.
 * The Wall Street Butcher, AKA “Ed” from the horror mockumentary The Poughkeepsie Tapes is one of the most prolific and brutal Serial Killers in the history of film. He is given no backstory, but as far as the police could tell, one day he just started killing people. Taking great pride in his murders, the Butcher had logged each one of them on camera, and by the time the police finally found out where he lived, he had already made 800 tapes showing the killings, with several thousand hours of film chronicling his sadism. Watching the tapes, the police soon learned that nothing appeared to be off-limits for the Butcher; he proves very early in the film that he Would Hurt a Child when he knocks an 8-year-old girl unconscious before abducting and killing her, and is implied to have raped her too. His sadistic streak continues when, posing as a hitchhiker, he kills a man who picks him up, drugs his wife, cuts the man's head off, gives the woman a C-section, puts the man's head inside of her womb, sews her back up, then wakes her up to film her reaction. Possibly the worst thing he does is to a young woman named Cheryl; he kidnaps her and keeps her as his prisoner and slave, physically and mentally tormenting her non-stop for his own amusement, and even forcing her to commit some of the murders. When her mother gives a heart-felt plea for him to return Cheryl, he taunts her right to her face. Also around this time, he decides to take up necrophilia. At one point, an innocent retired police officer is put to death under strong evidence that he was the Butcher, but it turns out that the real killer fabricated the evidence. He did it not to get away scot-free, but just to get the police to kill one of their own. Eventually, though the killer got away, Cheryl is found, a full 8-years after her original abduction, and is so broken that shes herself soon after. Then the Butcher digs up her body and runs off with it. While the crimes listed are shown in the most detail, the killer is also shown committing many other murders on the tapes throughout the film. The Butcher appears to only kill for his own amusement and sadistic pleasure, and sees no reason to ever stop.
 * Limehouse Willie in Pray for Death a brutal mobster and chief enforcer of the gangster Mr. Newman. When Akira and Aiko Saito move to the United States with their children Tomoya and Takeshi and a valuable necklace is stolen by corrupt cops on Newman's payroll, a series of coincidences leads Newman to blame the Saitos. First beating the original owner of their apartment to death with a crowbar, Limehouse kidnaps Tomoya and attempts to torture him with a blowtorch in front of Akira for answers. When Akira, secretly a talented ninja, escapes with his son and gives Limehouse a warning to leave his family out of things, Limehouse has Aiko and Tomoya hospitalized before putting himself in the hospital. Limehouse murders a doctor, several police officers and proceeds to rape and murder Aiko herself, barely stopped from murdering little Tomoya next. Tracking down the corrupt cops who stole the necklace, Limehouse guns them down in a restaurant along with everyone else inside, very deliberately murdering a young woman who is the only survivor of the initial shooting. When he finally faces Akira, Limehouse shows no remorse for his deeds, demonstrating no human feeling beyond an enjoyment of stealing the lives of others.
 * The President's Man (2000 Made For Tv Movie):
 * Vietnamese General Vihn Tran, in the pursuit of money, betrayed his friend Joshua McCord and murdered his wife. Years later, Tran plots the destruction of several major cities with the power of armed nukes, planning to obliterate New York simply as a show of force. Kidnapping a nuclear physicist named Dr. Francis Anderson and his family, Tran forces Anderson to arm the nukes with the promise his wife and his two young children will be tortured to death in front of him, attempting to spitefully murder them once Anderson fails to arm the nukes in time with the cold quip of "never going against his word." Ordering hero Deke Slater tortured once he attempts to save the family, Tran attempts to murder Joshua himself in the final battle to complete what he attempted years ago.
 * Don Diego Santiago is a ruthless Colombian drug lord who allies himself with General Vihn Tran to gain more power than he already possesses. Introduced torturing a man by hitting golf balls into various parts of his body, Santiago is currently turning out drugs from a base filled with children he holds as hostages to keep any military strikes from being carried out on him. Later kidnapping Dr. Anderson alongside the man's family, Santiago cheerfully reveals he will torture Anderson's wife and child daughters to death one at a time for every day he can't arm half a dozen nuclear bombs for him and Vihn Tran. Santiago and Vihn Tran plan to first nuke New York City, then use the rest of the bombs on other targets, and Santiago ultimately happily assists Vihn Tran in the near execution of one of Anderson's children, standing by with a sadistic smile on his face as Deke Slater is tortured for information by jumper cables on himself and Tran's orders.
 * Prisoners of the Lost Universe: Klael is a barbarian warlord who makes extensive use of slavery. Capturing a scientist from Earth, Klael is only convinced to not enslave him when he learns that the scientist can make firearms, which are significantly higher tech than anything in his universe. When some slaves plot to take the guns, Klael hangs one and takes the other to face his justice, which is facing him in single combat while still exhausted from having been forced to walk for several days. During these events, he captures Carrie Madison to be his Sex Slave, of which he has many, ordering her locked in a cage to starve until she agrees to the arrangements. When Klael learns that he doesn't have sufficient material for his scientist to make nitroglycerin, he orders the slave mines worked 24/7 to get production up. After Klael's previous favourite slave tries to kill him for liking Carrie more, the warlord ties her up to be eaten by zombies. When Dan, Carrie's Love Interest, arrives with a group of heroes that includes the ex-favourite slave to rescue his girlfriend, Klael guns the slave down and takes the other heroes hostage as a bargaining chip to force Carrie to marry him.
 * Detective Norman Stansfield in The Professional is a manic psychopath who thinks nothing of murdering a family, including the children, for shits and giggles while listening to classical music. Even though he seems upset about his henchmen killing Mathilda's little brother, he is really more worried about answering to his superiors for killing the little brother and his compassion seems to be more about finding out who sent Mathilda. Also, his voluntarily going through lots of pills is to be taken into account, for any emotions he shows might be because of his wild, drug-addled mood swings. When one of his henchmen responds with disdain after the little brother is killed, Stansfield himself seems to have no concern one way or the other. As he later puts it "I take no pleasure in taking a life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it."
 * Pyriel, The Whited Sepulcher of The Prophecy film series' third film is an Omnicidal Maniac of an angel, having assumed the mantle of the 'Angel Of Genocide.' While his former leader Gabriel simply balked at having humanity placed above angels and genuinely loved their Father, Pyriel fancies himself and has his followers call him the new God and that his mission is to help the 'monkeys' perish, adding "Genocide...it happens now and then." His mercilessness extends to his own angel brethren as he has his fallen brothers captured and tormented in horrible agony. When confronted by the hero, the Nephalim Danyael, Pyriel tries to kill him by sadistically crushing his skull and shoving his thumbs through his eyes, grinning the entire time.
 * The Proposition has these two lovely examples;
 * Arthur Burns is the leader of the Burns Brothers gang and an unbelievably sadistic bastard. He rapes a pregnant woman to death and murders children with no remorse whatsoever, in fact he seems to see this as no different from smashing a Wasp.His "kindness" to his brothers doesn't excuse him either - he routinely endangered and corrupted them by bringing them into his criminal lifestyle.
 * Eden Fletcher, the town's leading citizen, and a Knight Templar par excellence. Enraged by Captain Stanley's decision to turn accused rapist and murderer Charlie Burns loose, Fletcher convinces the townsfolk that Charlie's younger brother Mikey, who is both fourteen and severely handicapped, should be punished in place of Charlie, and their older brother Arthur, who actually did the crime. Fletcher manipulates a mob of townsfolk, including Stanley's wife, Martha, into demanding that Mikey be given one hundred lashes. By forty lashes, Mikey is dying from blood loss, the rest of the townsfolk are turning away in horror, Martha has fainted, and Fletcher is still demanding that the other sixty lashes be meted out. When Stanley refuses, Fletcher has him fired, knowing full well that his actions will bring Arthur Burns down on the town. Couple this with his order to Stanley to kill every Aborigine in the region, and we are dealing with a thoroughly detestable man.
 * John Herod in The Quick and the Dead. In his younger days, he was the sort of man who'd string a man up from a tree, prop him up on a chair, and offer to let him go if his eight-year-old daughter could shoot through the rope (being that she was eight, she accidentally shot her father instead). Now that he's older and more sedentary, he has to content himself with things like killing unarmed men, ordering Catholic missions burned down, and blowing away his own son in order to win a dueling contest.
 * Dr. Royer-Collard, the "alienist" brought in to treat the Marquis de Sade in Quills. How bad is he? Well, he makes Sade look positively decent in contrast. During the course of the film, he subjects a number of innocent inmates to torture as part of his quackish "treatment", marries a teenage girl a third of his age and then rapes her, orders a woman flogged for helping the Marquis disseminate his work, drives his asylum's Good Shepherd resident priest to commit atrocities on the Marquis, and not only abandons an innocent woman to be raped and murdered by a lunatic, but ensures that no one else will stumble on the scene in time to save her.
 * The psychopathic Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs. He is hinted to be this throughout the first half of the movie, even though he seems calmer and more clear-headed than his partners-in-crime, who seem wary of him. Before the first scene, he turned a simple robbery into a massacre, and in a flashback, they say he had a history of raping "punks" in prison. And right before Mr. Blonde's infamous torture of the cop (set to "Stuck In The Middle With You"), we feel positively uneasy when hardened criminal Mr. White dreads leaving the cop alone with him, which is completely justified, as the top page quote proves, when Blonde douses the cop in gasoline and sets him on fire. In a movie filled with nasty criminals, Mr. Blonde stands out as a violent and sadistic psychopath.
 * Colonel Zaysen from Rambo 3 is a brutal and psychotic Soviet commander who will go to any length to take over Afghanistan. He owns a prison camp and enjoys torturing and/or killing his prisoners using methods such as electrocution, severe beatings, and tying their arms to a rope and yanking it in the air. When he finds Rambo in an Afghan village, he kills off dozens of innocent men, women, and children with mines and bio-weapons.
 * Major Tint from Rambo 4 manages to be the worst antagonist that has appeared in the franchise. He's an Ax-Crazy military-leader who forces villagers to walk into mine-infested marshes, and he and his men shoot and dismember families (including children and babies) of villages. Also, he threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone who tried to stop his indoctrinating teenage boys into his army, as well as threatening to feed them their intestines. To add even more monstrosity, he's a depraved pedophile and has hostages in inhumane conditions. He gets a fittingly brutal Karmic Death when Rambo disembowels him.
 * Rampage: Bill Williamson is a domestic terrorist who takes great pleasure in committing large-scale acts of violence. He attempts to justify his actions by claiming to be a revolutionary who's just doing what he has to in order to fight overpopulation and government corruption. However, the sadistic glee he shows during his attacks, as well as the fact that he goes out of his way to kill people who inconvenience him, make it apparent that he just sees murder as a way to entertain himself. Over the course of two films, he kills over 100 people in his small town, frames his "best friend" for his crime, and takes over a TV station. During said takeover, he delights in terrorizing his hostages and killing them for petty reasons. At the second film's conclusion, he kills everyone in the immediate area by blowing up the TV station, even after he said he wouldn't because they complied with his demands. Claiming to do what he does for the good of humanity, Bill's utter enjoyment of the violence he causes and completely unnecessary acts of sadism out him as nothing more than a mentally disturbed psychopath who kills purely for fun and recognition.
 * In The Raven 1935, we have Bela Lugosi as the evil Dr. Richard Vollin, an Edgar Allan Poe fanboy, who becomes obsessed with a young woman named Jean Thatcher. Vollin tries to destroy her family in vengeance for being spurned. When a Sympathetic Murderer named Bateman begs Vollin to change his face so he can leave a life of crime behind, Vollin instead hideously deforms him so he'll be forced to assist Vollin in return for having the procedure corrected. Vollin tries to kill Jean's family, putting her father in a trap designed on the bladed pendulum, and forcing Jean and her husband into a room where the walls will close in to crush them, before even Bateman has had enough.
 * Revenge Of The Green Dragons: Ah Chung serves as the leader of the Green Dragons on the behalf of Paul Wong, though Chung's actions are much more prominent. Upon recruiting Sonny and Steven to his gang when they were only kids, he was responsible for turning them into his loyal hitmen and would order them to kill anyone he wants starting with a group of people that owes him money. Years later, his gang would cause many deaths of many rival gang members as well as innocents and even has one gang member tortured to death, which included pulling out his teeth, cutting off his fingers, and finally shooting him in the head. Upon hearing that Steven's Uncle acquiring some money, he decides rob his place and commands his Dragon Chicken Wing to rape the uncle's daughter while he forces him to watch. This act cause Steven to have a mental breakdown and go on a killing spree on his own causing a death of a White man. When Ah Chung learned of this he was upset, but only because of how much unwanted attention it will bring from the cop and barely got away, where afterwards he proceeds to stab Steven to death before putting his corpse in a dumpster.
 * Chicken Wing serves as The Dragon to the aforementioned Ah Chung, but managed to stand out on his own. First establishing himself by beating a innocent man in a bathroom, when a young Steven stumble across this, he forces Steven to defecate on the man before he kills him. He then takes the boy to brutally beat up and was about to castrate him before Ah Chung and Paul Wong show up to recruit Steven. He also partook in Green Dragon's mass killings of rivals and innocents and was actually the one who gave Ah Chung the idea for the rival ganger member's slow and torturous death. He later helps Ah Chung rob Steven's uncle and gladly follows his bosses order to rape his daughter and even raping his wife by his own choice. He later takes their panties as trophies and proudly shows them to Steven much to the latter's disgust. After Steven nearly got them arrested, Chicken Wing forces his brother Sonny to watch as Ah Chung brutally executes Steven.
 * Jackson Rippner of Red Eye is an unscrupulous contractor who hires himself out to terrorist networks to assist in toppling governments and high-profile assassinations. He uses his skills of manipulation instead of weapons because he's much better at it. His latest target is a renowned US official, whom he plans to blow up along with his wife and children because his bosses wanted to send a message. He needs Lisa, a Miami hotel manager, to change the official's room on her authority to make the kills possible. He stalks Lisa for weeks to learn everything about her, then arranges to be on the same red eye flight with her and gain her confidence initially. He threatens to have his associate kill her retired father if she doesn't make the call, torturing her mentally and assaulting her. When she foils his plan, he goes to kill her father anyway instead of escape to make good on his threat, and tries to murder Lisa. On top of that, he's also a misogynist, and casually notes he killed his own parents when asked about the subject. The original script takes this even further with Jack implying he's the reason Lisa's grandmother died. He also threatens to kill her brother's family.
 * Queen Gedren of Red Sonja is an evil tyrant who opens the film by vamping on to Sonja herself. When Sonja resists her advances, Gedren has her family butchered and has Sonja gangraped by Gedren's soldiers. She later massacres a temple of peaceful priestesses to get her hands on an Artifact of Doom that will allow her to Take Over the World and shows no hesitation exterminating any country who resists her. When Sonja herself confronts Gedren later, Gedren says the lives of Sonja's family mean nothing next to a scar Sonja dealt her.
 * From the Resident Evil Film series, the ultimate Big Bad Dr. Alexander Isaacs murdered his kindhearted colleague Dr. Marcus for the T-Virus when he realized its potential as a weapon. Experimenting on the innocent, Isaacs later gained delusions of godhood and opted to release the Virus at large while freezing himself and the few 'chosen' in cryogenic hibernation in order to rebuild the world in his image later. The end result was a mass extinction event of the world and the deaths of most of the human race. Isaacs leaves his own clones to clean up, aiming to exterminate any survivors. When he awakens, Isaacs promptly attempts to kill the heroine Alice as well, intent on maintaining the ultimate power he's betrayed and murdered to achieve.
 * The River Wild: Wade, along with his partners Terry and Frank, are trying to make it across the river with money they robbed from a bank. When Frank, whose also their guide, proves useless due to his wounds from the robbery, Wade forces a reluctant Terry to kill him. With no guide, Wade asks Gale Weathers to help them get across. When Gale finally becomes suspicious of Wade, she and her family try to leave them behind. However Wade catches them and beats her husband Tom, attempts to kill their dog, and slaps her son Roarke for telling them he had a gun. He then uses her family to blackmail Gale into taking them across the Gauntlet, despite the risk of their lives. When her husband escapes, Wade tries to kill him, but not before taunting him about how many seconds he has to left live. After a park ranger, who is also a close friend of Gale's, catches them and discovers their plan to ride the Gauntlet, he refuses to let them, so Wade kills him and jokes about it afterwards. After Gale gets them across the Gauntlet, Wade and Terry get caught in their trap and Gale turns their gun on them. Wade begs for his life, so Gale decides to shoot the last bullet in the air out of mercy. However the gun doesn't shoot, so Wade orders Terry to kill her family, despite her sparing his life.
 * River of Death (1989): Wolfgang Manteuffel is an amoral Nazi researcher with grandiose plans of a new Reich borne at his hand. In the dying days of World War II, Wolfgang is confronted by a local Nazi captain disgusted with Wolfgang's horrible experiments on the camp's PO Ws. Wolfgang coldly shoots the captain dead in full view of the man's daughter once he refuses to stand down, and shortly after cripples his own associate Heinrich Spaatz and leaves him for dead not moments after giving Heinrich his father's ring to profess his feelings for him. Twenty years later, Wolfgang is no less of a monster, conducting torturous experiments on local Amazonian tribe members with a virus and leading to their painful deaths. Wolfgang's ultimate plan is to unleash his virus worldwide to eliminate any people he deems not part of the perfect Aryan race, murdering the daughter of the captain he killed years ago moments before his own demise. Only capable of extending hollow amicability to people he deems useful before discarding them at his own whim, Wolfgang is a cold sociopath even by the standards of the Nazi regime.
 * In Road to Perdition, Harlen Maguire is a death-loving hitman who spends his free time photographing murders, many of which he himself perpetrates. Introduced killing a wounded man in a street alley, Maguire is then hired to track down Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Michael Jr., happily hoping to murder them both and add them to his massive "gallery of death." Slaughtering an entire cafe, murdering one of his own partners, and killing an innocent couple along the way, Maguire mortally wounds O'Sullivan and attempts to photograph his dying moments before moving onto Michael Jr., even after the contract on the duo has been called off.
 * Archibald Cunningham from Rob Roy. . And in his spare time, Archie would seduce a chambermaid, impregnate her, and abandon her, mocking her in the process.
 * Godfrey from Robin Hood (2010 film) is a sadistic and ruthless knight. Originally the closest friend of Prince John, Godfrey betrays him, and his entire country for personal gain, selling them out to the King of France to reconquer as long as he himself profits. Godfrey leads an assault to burn an entire village and kill anyone there, innocent or no. His crowning moment of villainy is challenging the old, blind Sir Walter to a fight, enjoying tormenting the old man and making a spectacle of it, until Walter lands a small blow, which leads to Godfrey brutally killing him in a fury.
 * Robin Hood: The Rebellion (2018): The wicked Sheriff of Nottingham oppresses and murders the people at will, introducing himself by threatening a family for the whereabouts of Maid Marian, gutting the father and threatening the lives of the kids. Later seen raping a woman, the Sheriff threatens to feed her eyes to pigs if she should fail to please him. Dedicated to killing and torturing Robin Hood and his friends, the Sheriff kills multiple people around them, including their ally Much, before trying to kill Robin so he may force Marian into marriage.
 * Clarence Boddicker from the original RoboCop is an example. His blood-soaked criminal career is more play than work for him and his sadistically joyful gang of buddies. The cruel way he and his men shoot up Murphy is only the tip of the iceberg. There are moments where he makes wisecracks like an evil version of Duke Nukem, but these are almost always followed by displays of brutality. For example, his most famous line among the Robocop fandom comes when he breaks into a man's house to find him enjoying the company of several women, to which he comments, "Bitches, leave." He then proceeds to shoot the man in both knees and leave a live HE grenade next to him, and calmly walks out.
 * Dick Jones in the original is the Corrupt Corporate Executive version of this trope and is possibly even worse than Boddicker. Boddicker does all of these monstrous actions and Jones is the one who orders him to do it.
 * Cain, the Nuke cult leader from Robocop 2 goes further; he blew up a drug treatment center just because they were trying to cure people of their addiction to Nuke, he cut open the stomach of one of his minions after Robocop forced him to reveal the location of one of the labs where Nuke was made, was willing to use children as soldiers in his gang, and later killed all the members of his own gang. Let's not forget that when he finds in his limo an illegal immigrant worker from the drug lab, pleading not to be turned over the police, he coldly shoots her and pulls her out. When he discovers that a corrupt and Nuke-addicted cop gave information to Robocop, he has him eviscerated whilst still alive, scaring even his two accomplices, Hob and Angie.
 * McDagget of RoboCop 3. He's the one who killed Lewis without any reason. He convinces the public that the Rehabs give the people of Old Detroit new houses (actually putting them in death camps) and that RoboCop is a criminal. The last straw was, when the Detroit Police refused to work with the Rehabs to clear out Cadillac Heights, he simply hired some Splatterpunk gangmembers to do the job.
 * The Rock features Anti-Villain General Hummel attempting to extort money to distribute to families of soldiers whose deaths went unrecognized and without compensation. However, when it becomes apparent Hummel is bluffing, his chief subordinates Captains Frye and Darrow are mostly certainly not. The two act swift to remove Hummel from command and eventually kill him while proceeding with the plan to attack San Francisco. Even when it becomes apparent they've lost, Frye and Darrow try to send a rocket at the city armed with poison gas to kill every civilian they possibly can and attempt to kill the 81 tourists they have locked in Alcatraz to ensure a lack of witnesses. Their whole motivation for this is as Darrow sums up himself: "I want my fucking money!"
 * Rollercoaster (1977): The bomber, credited as "Young Man", derails a rollercoaster with an explosion and kills all of the riders, children included, and later causes a deadly fire at a dark ride. The bomber threatens to keep causing disasters at amusement parks unless he is paid a million dollars. When he receives the money, but it turns out to be marked, he decides to bomb another rollercoaster anyway as an act of revenge. When the first bomb he tries to use is deactivated, he gets another one to continue. When he is caught, he threatens to detonate the bomb unless the FBI let him go.
 * Rumpelstiltskin (1995): The titular Rumpelstiltskin is portrayed much more evil than in the fairytale. Lacking a soul, Rumpelstiltskin made a deal with a miller's daughter, spinning hay into gold for her in exchange for her firstborn son, so he could suck out his soul and make it his own. Foiled in his attempt, Rumpelstiltskin is turned into a jade figurine, and freed centuries later to continue his goal. After being inadvertently freed by Shelly Stewart and having sex with her while disguised as her dead husband, he begins targeting her infant son John, killing everyone he comes in contact with along the way. He slaughters an entire police station to get to John in an attempt to steal his soul.
 * From the live-action version of Rurouni Kenshin:
 * Kanryu Takeda likes to pass himself off as a successful businessman and an example of what the Japanese can accomplish in the new era of the Meiji. However, below that he is a oppressive drug lord who takes glee in finding, then murdering, police informants and putting them in the open so people could find. He also directly murders through Jin-E a department of the police while chasing after Megumi Takani who he had forced to make his brand new opium. To test the new opium as well he kidnapped users off the street, locked them in his secret room in his office, and saw how far they degraded while under his new drug. All with a smile on his face. However his worst act is when he learns Megumi is taking shelter in the Kamiya Dojo and after Kenshin refused to be bought by him: he poisons a district all around the Kamiya Dojo. If it wasn't for Megumi, there'd be hundreds, if not thousands of deaths directly on his hands.
 * Jin-E Udo seems like a normal Psycho for Hire, but he doesn't murder and kill for profit. He just likes to kill. When he pulled himself out of the mountain of corpses he accumulated in the Battle of Toba Fushimi, he took up Kenshin's killing sword as his own. And for ten years, he's committed murders in Kenshin's name-calling himself Hitokiri Battosai to strike fear into people. When he storms the police department on the trail of Megumi Takani, he could have easily just evaded the officers. He didn't, he went and purposely started a horrific attack on the station and left a gory tapestry of death, even messing with one officer with his 'Shino Ippo' to force him to stand still as Jin-E impaled him slowly to savor it. In the last act of the film he kidnapped Kaoru while Kenshin was saving Megumi from Kanryu. When Kenshin showed up, he first kicked Kaoru down a stone staircase to make sure she'd hit every step just to piss Kenshin off, and then using the Shino Ippo he paralyzed her lungs. Again, just to piss Kenshin off. And when Kaoru broke through it with her own spirit and after Kenshin had shattered his elbow, Jin-E still attempts to have the last laugh by stabbing himself just to spite Kenshin and spit on his Thou Shall Not Kill code.
 * In Samurai Cop Fujiyama is the ruthless leader of the Katana crime syndicate. In his attempts to take over the Los Angeles underworld, Fujiyama orders the assassination of a rival gang boss. When Joe Marshall gets his attention by investigating a drug run some of his gpons are doing, he declares war on the cop, sending many of his own men to their deaths due to his "Code of Silence" forbidding them from being taken alive. In his feud, Fujiyama has one of Marshall's fellow cops killed along with his wife, the latter of whom was also sexually assaulted, and another one tortured with boiling oil. In the final battle, Fujiyama tricks our hero into letting his guard down, and tries to kill him along with his partner and his Love Interest.
 * Satan's Little Helper: The Satan Man is a Serial Killer terrorizing a small Island town on All Hallows' Eve. When Douglas Whooly, a young boy obsessed with Satan, finds him placing a body like a Halloween decoration, he takes the lad under his wing as his helper while leading him to believe that it's all fake. After almost forcing himself on Dougie's sister Jenna, the Satan Man takes him around town, killing a bunch of people along the way. including running over a baby carriage with a shopping cart and hanging an old woman from her second-story window. At some point, he slaughtered the local police station and set all the criminals free, causing more chaos. Eventually, he kills Dougie's father and kidnaps his mother, nearly suffocating her to death after poisoning a Halloween party's punch with bleach.. he tries to escape by first tricking Jenna's boyfriend into thinking he killed his own father (actually one of the Satan Man's prior victims), then tricking Jenna and her mom into killing the boyfriend. He then disguises himself as a cop and sneaks his way into the Whooly household, presumably to kill all the surviving members.
 * The Scars from Savage Streets, comprised of the leader Jake and the Co-Dragons Red and Fargo, are a trio of needlessly chaotic miscreants with a penchant for random violence and retribution against any perceived harm to their ego, no matter how slight. After Brenda fills the Scars' car with trash in revenge for the Scars nearly running over her deaf young sister Heather, Jake leads the brutal beating and gang-rape of Heather in a school bathroom, with Red and Fargo quarreling over whose "turn" it is and Jake forcing unwilling recruit Vince to rape Heather against his will. The Scars also later track down and kill Brenda's best friend Francine in revenge for a cut she dealt Jake during a brawl. The Scars are all individually nasty in their own right. Red and Fargo are a duo of sexually-abusive psychopaths with a knack for molesting women (often outside Jake's consent) at random and taking glee on how they desire to "...fuck [Brenda] and then slice [her] to pieces." Jake himself is a petty, domineering bully who happily assaults those late on drug payments, and later runs down Vince after the latter drops out from the Scars after their monstrosities. Maniacal, wantonly violent, and utterly without ethics, the Scars take delight in how miserable they can make the world around them.
 * Savior has Goran, a Serbian soldier who serves as his partner at the beginning of the film. In the beginning, he's shown looting off the corpses of slaughtered villagers. Later, during a prisoner exchange, he casually brags about raping the young woman they are exchanging. Once he exchanges her for a woman who is clearly pregnant as the result of a rape, he beats the woman regardless, forcing her into early labor and plans on killing both her and the child until
 * Savage Messiah, a Canadian film based on a real-life story, has one of these as a main character. The man, Roch "Moses" Thériault, is a total and utter sociopath who nevertheless has a harem of wives and children all begging to him because he is Affably Evil. The Dissonant Serenity when he casually dismembers one of his wives is eerie. Roch abuses all the members of his cult in horrific ways (Abusive Parents doesn't even begin to define it), and yet gets away with it because he is just that manipulative. And he convinces the third-party researchers that come to view his cult that he's innocent.
 * Xavior in Saw II. All of the villains in this franchise have at least some redeeming qualities or Freudian Excuse for why they do what they do. Not this guy. Before the events of the movie, he is a drug dealer. About a third of the way in, he throws Amanda into the trap intended for himself, shouting threats at her the whole time. A bit later, he murders Jonas, and leaves several other characters to die in their traps. As a grand finale, he tries to kill Daniel (a 16-ish year old kid) and Amanda so he can get to the last antidote. His death is deeply satisfying to watch.
 * Hoffman was working towards this in Saw V and VI, but was still badass enough and seemed to be obeying Jigsaw's "code" enough that most of the fans rejoiced at his victory in both movies. However, in the 7th installment (Saw 3D), he is firmly in Complete Monster territory. He wants to kill Jill and kills everyone in his path to get to her. He murders four skinhead-racists in a complex plot to sneak into police headquarters. From there, he murders most of a police department in order to get to Jill, and then murders her as well. By the time it's over, it isn't clear if the city even has a police force left. Any sympathy the audience may have had for him is LONG gone.
 * Peter Drak from Scanners II: The New Order is one of the psychic 'scanners' who is captured and enlisted by the Dirty Cop Commander Forrester in the opening. He's a psychopath who just wants his drug fix and enjoys killing people. He starts the movie using his mind to blow up an arcade hall, the lack of victims only being due to everyone inside escaping in time. He kills the police chief by compelling him to eat his own gun, kills The Hero David's elderly mother basically because and makes sure the sheriff's office hears him shooting her over the phone, needlessly kills Forrester's partner Gelson while the guy is mind-controlled by David by blowing Gelson's head up and cackling with glee afterwards, and repeatedly tries to devour the hero's mind not out of any loyalty to his pusher but for pleasure. He doesn't even seem bothered that Forrester would throw him aside when he outlives his usefulness, he just enjoys the power rush of mutilating and murdering people with his mind more.
 * Alejandro Sosa from Scarface, who demonstrates his monstrosity by ordering the killing of a man along with his wife and children, just so he wouldn't implicate him and his friends on national TV. Tony, for all the drugs and killings he's involved in, absolutely refuses to hurt innocents and blows the brains out of Sosa's assassin for trying to blow them up. Unfortunately for Tony, Sosa is not happy and Tony is killed in a firefight with Sosa's men during the movie's climax, leaving Sosa free of any consequences; that is until the game (retconned to Tony escaping the shootout), where Tony finally gives Sosa his comeuppance.
 * Hector the Toad in the same film. He also demonstrates his cruelty by chainsawing Angel Fernádez to death in front of Tony in the bathroom. After Manny Ribera and Chi Chi saved Tony, the audience didn't shed tears for Hector when he is finally killed by Tony himself in revenge for his friend's death.
 * Amon Goeth of Schindler's List is a classic example of a Complete Monster. Unlike the others on this page, the dead-eyed concentration camp commander has sympathetic moments, a sort of Morality Pet in his heroic friend Oskar Schindler, and comes off as a deeply troubled human being who doesn't cross the Moral Event Horizon until about halfway through the movie. Schindler describes him fondly as "a wonderful crook, who loves money, wine and the ladies," but we are shown a very different side to Amon - and the scariest thing about him is how completely irrational and unpredictable his cruelty is. The most infamous moment is either when he sends away trainloads of Jewish children to be gassed (while laughing at the crying parents) or when he goes out on his villa balcony in the morning with a sniper rifle and starts shooting random Jews only for sport.
 * Ghostface from the Scream saga. In contrast to the unkillable mute monsters who usually inhabit slasher movies, most of the wearers of the mask are cunning, sadistic, intelligent villains with twisted motivations. Three of them certainly qualify as this trope:
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 * But he loses his title in Scream 4.
 * Seance: James Spence begins life as an ordinary maintenance man with no glaring peculiarities. Spence was, in actuality, a pedophile and a serial child murderer who murdered five children around the US before settling on a young girl named Cara, repeatedly raping her and coaxing her into staying quiet under the threat of hurting her sister. Spence eventually murders Cara and is executed for his crimes before an ill-fated séance accidentally summons his spirit back onto the grounds of the murder. Now a malevolent specter, Spence takes delight in tormenting the inhabitants of the dormitory, raping, torturing, and eventually murdering Alison with wires and strangling a security guard before leaving him to bleed out. After a failed attempt to destroy him grants him the ability to Body Surf, Spence utilizes this to slit Diego's throat whilst in his body and attempting to pick off the survivors one by one so he can spend the rest of his undead life surfing from host to host to stay alive. A serene, manipulative pedophile in life and a vicious, murderous ghost in death, Spence is one of the vilest undead beings to grace modern cinema.
 * The Serpent and the Rainbow had Dargent Peytraud, leader of the infamous Haitian Tontons Macoutes death squad and a practitioner of Voodoo who is in charge of keeping the Haitian population in line through terror and torture. He uses a special drug to steal peoples' soul and make them appear dead. The ones who don't suffocate after being Buried Alive are exhumed and turned into unwilling zombie slaves. When anthropologist Dr. Allan comes to Haiti to investigate, Peytraud brutally tortures him by hammering a nail into his genitals. He haunts Allan's dreams, filling them with nightmarish visions of the walking dead and later frames him for murder to force him to leave town. Eventually, Peytraud uses his Black Magic to control a woman in order to make her murder Allan. When Allan returns he uses the same trick on his ally to make him decapitate himself and then drugs Allan and places him inside a coffin with a spider. In the final face-off, he tries to perform a human sacrifice on Allan's beloved Michelle by beheading her.
 * Jonathan Doe from Se7en is possibly the most twisted and disturbing Serial Killer in cinematic history. The reasons for his actions defy understanding.had the face of a choir boy, which doesn't change the fact his torture/rape/murders are completely horrifying (especially the last one, which is inexcusable from any standpoint). Because it would be unimaginable to actually show these crimes onscreen, only the gruesome aftermath is seen.
 * In the final film directed by John Ford, 7 Women, Tunga Khan is a Mongolian Raider attacking villages in rural China, along with the British missions in the area. Once his forces sack a mission, Tunga Khan has everyone in the area slaughtered, with women raped en masse. When he comes to the local village near which one mission is located near, Tunga Khan has all the villagers rounded up and executed via firing squad. When the local priest is executed for trying to save a woman, Tunga Khan refuses to let the local doctor treat the priest's newborn baby unless the doctor sleeps with him. Forced to agree, he agrees to trade the freedom of her friends in return for her becoming his concubine. Tunga Khan later murders one of his own men who proves himself a talented fighter, simply to brook no competition, revealing himself as little more than a ravenous brute.
 * Shiwan Khan from The Shadow is a descendant of Genghis Khan, and wishes to follow in his ancestor's footsteps and try to Take Over the World. Unlike Lamont Cranston, the titular Shadow, who regrets the evil acts he has done in the past, Khan revels in his evil deeds. Khan uses his Psychic Powers to force a security guard to kill himself, forces a cabbie to crash into a gas tanker and makes a sailor jump off the Empire State Building because the sailor made fun of the way Khan dresses. Khan also forces Margo Lane, Cranston's Love Interest, to try and murder Cranston, hoping that Cranston would kill her instead and then return to his old evil ways. Khan also kills one of his Mongol warriors when Cranston was able to control him. Khan kidnaps Margo's father, a nuclear physicist, and forces him to build a crude nuclear weapon, which he plans to use to destroy New York City, so the world will bow in fear to him.
 * Uncle Charlie of Shadow of a Doubt is a remorseless Serial Killer who targets rich widows to kill them for their money, viewing them as cows who deserve to be slaughtered for living pointless lives. When his niece, named after him as Charlie learns his secret, Uncle Charlie tries to kill her in increasingly desperate ways, from pushing her down the stairs, to trapping her in the garage with a running car engine and finally yanking her on the train with him, intending to push her to her death when it goes fast enough.
 * Shaft in Africa: Vincent Amafi opens the film executing a diplomat's son who got too close to the truth that Amafi is running a modern day slave trade. Amafi offers young men from Africa new lives, only to sell them into labor-intensive jobs for literal pennies where they work 7 days a week for 16 hours per day with no way to speak up lest they face deportation or murder. Using slave labor on his own estates, Amafi has an apartment full of enslaved workers burned down and the workers killed in an attempt to murder the hero John Shaft. It is revealed he is keeping a group of prisoners in his own estate's dungeons, even rigging the cells with explosives to kill them all should Shaft not surrender.
 * Lord Blackwood from 2009's Sherlock Holmes killed 5 girls for his satanic rituals and is stated to have killed many more. He also plans tohad the face of a choir boy, and wants to bring America back under English rule.
 * Professor James Moriarty from the sequel is even worse: a narcissistic sociopath with a complete Lack of Empathy, he murders Irene Adler, the love of Holmes's life, purely because he had no further use for her and later taunted Holmes over her death. He also tortured Holmes by sticking a hoook attached to the end of the rope in his shoulder and having him lifted into the air while singing along to Schubert just so that he could make a fishing pun. He plans to provoke a world war for profit and threatens to kill Watson and his wife Elizabeth just to hurt Holmes.
 * In Shiver, Franklin Rood is a Serial Killer known as the Gryphon. He breaks into women's houses and murders them with a garrote wire, molesting their corpses, claiming their heads as trophies, and leaving a figurine of a gryphon at each crime scene. By the beginning, Rood has already murdered three women, along with a baby. As he scouts the apartment of his next intended victim, he is noticed by her neighbor, who he promptly strangles, beheads, and strips her corpse naked. When his intended target escapes, he follows her to her boyfriend's house, and kills the cops on duty as well as her boyfriend. Later, he takes her to a secluded cabin and tries to rape her, then behead her while she's still alive. On the way to prison, he murders the guards in the bus, and an inmate who was harassing him, before heading to his target's workplace and shooting everybody in sight. Viewing his crimes as works of art, Rood has a severe god complex and is willing to take out as many people as he could just to reach her.
 * Horace Pinker of Shocker is a psychotic mass murderer in a near-constant violent frenzy who butchers entire families for fun. He kills the main character Jonathan's mother, brother, and sister after his police detective father gets on Pinker's trail. He kills a handful of cops who try to capture him in his lair. He murders Jonathan's girlfriend in her bathroom. He mutilates two prison guards with his teeth as he's being led to the electric chair, where he reveals that Jonathan is in fact his own son and tried to stop him as Pinker murdered Jonathan's real mother when he was still a little kid. He makes a Deal with the Devil to become an undead being of electricity. He proceeds to possess person after person to continue trying to kill Jonathan, draining their lifeforce completely before discarding his hosts, including a little girl. He possesses people close to Jon so he will be forced to kill his loved ones. All his screentime is spent trying to kill or hurt someone, insulting people, or taunt them with the people he's murdered.
 * Shogun's Ninja (1980): Shogen Shiranui is a vicious Koga ninja who leads a massacre of the Momochi clan, betraying and killing the clan leader and then attempting to kill the man's son and the other children. Years later, when the child is grown and returns to find his friends living as heroic thieves in Edo, Shiranui attempts to hunt them down and subject them to death in front of a crowd by having them boiled alive. When their ally rushes in and declares himself guilty to save his fellows before jumping into the boiling cauldron, Shiranui coldly cuts the man's wife down when she runs to her dying husband. When the crowds begin rioting, Shiranui simply has his men shoot them in response before resuming his attempt to finish his extermination of the Momochi.
 * Sholay: The villain of this Bollywood classic is the sadistic Dacoit (bandit) leader Gabbar Singh, who, while looting and terrorizing the village of Ramgarh, kills people not only because he wants to be feared, but also just for fun. After Thakur Baldev Singh (no relation) arrested Gabbar when the Thakur was still a police officer, Gabbar escaped from prison and slaughtered the Thakur's whole family before chopping off both of Baldev’s arms. He gleefully uses his own men for target practice, later orders an Imam's child killed, and threatens to massacre the whole town unless they give up two mercenaries (Veeru and Jai) who were hired by the Thakur to protect the villagers. When he captures Veeru and Basantu, he forces Basantu to dance for him and his gang until she collapses, or he'll blow her beloved Veeru's head off. Murderous, psychopathic, and utterly evil, Gabbar Singh is still the Trope Codifier for the Complete Monster in Indian Cinema.
 * Shooter: Colonel Johnson and Senator Meachum are the leaders of an oil consortium that will do anything to further its own ends. Johnson and Meachum order a US military operation to slaughter a small village of 400 people in Eritrea, so they could build a pipeline on their land. They didn't even bother asking them to move, they simply killed them so the next village they target would move without question. Later Colonel Johnson contacts former Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger and states he needs his help to foil a plot to assassinate the President. This is a ruse, Johnson and Meachum assassinate the archbishop Ethiopia who was going to tell the President of their genocidal actions and frame Swagger for it. Jonhson tries to have one of his men kill Swagger, but he escapes (Johnson later kills this would be assassin later to cover his tracks). An FBI agent named Agent Nick Memphis begins to piece things together and investigate the possibility that Swagger is innocent, so Johnson and Meachum send some goons to kidnap him and kill him in a way that makes it look like suicide, before Swagger saves him. Meachum and Johnson try to force Swagger out of hiding by kidnapping Sarah Fenn, the widow of his best friend who died in a mission. They have her beaten and try to use her as bait, to lure Swagger into a trap to kill him. Swagger manages to save her, but with insufficient evidence of crime committed far from US soil, the department of Justice lets Jonhson and Meachum go free. Johnson and Meachum are later seen laughing about escaping justice and plan to build another pipeline in Ecuador and kill anyone who stands in their way, when Swagger arrives and kills them.
 * Shotgun: Fletcher Rivington is a slimy lawyer with a hand in drugs, prostitution, and crime across the city. Opening the film by ordering his Dragon, Rocker, to murder an entire bar of people when they refuse to sell their land to him, and is later revealed to be a vicious prostitute beater, regularly whipping them to within an inch of their life. After beating one to death in a violent rage, Rivington is pursued by Ian Jones, who begins breaking up his operations and thwarting his schemes, at which point Rivington has one of his own minions murdered to keep him quiet, then has Jones' best friend gunned down. In the end, Rivington executes Rocker when he tries to rat Rivington out, and gleefully reveals his attitude that hookers were meant to be abused, and that with his money and power, he was given a free pass to anything, including murder.
 * Funekei Yoshida from Showdown in Little Tokyo is a ruthless Yakuza boss who takes control of the Los Angeles drug trade by dismembering his opposition and proceeds to shake down the inhabitants of the Little Tokyo district. When he was still a lowly assassin in Japan, he murdered the parents of the young Chris Kenner and tried to kill the boy next. In the present he has a man crushed inside a car to take over his business, then, mid-coitus, decapitates a girl who tried to warn the previous victim about Yoshida. He kidnaps and rapes Minako, a singer who works in his new club, after forcing her to watch the tape he shot of himself beheading her friend Angel. He's merciless towards any failure from his own men, and arranges for the two heroes, Johnny Murata and Sgt. Chris Kenner, to be painfully tortured to death through electrocution. When they inevitably escape and come back for him, he tries to burn Minako alive out of spite.
 * The Silence of the Lambs has the truly terrifying and uncanny Serial Killer Buffalo Bill, who kidnaps, abuses, and tortures women by keeping them locked in a pit in his house until they're slender enough from starvation - then he can skin them alive and use them as materials for him in sewing authentic women's clothing, which he likes to dress up in due to his insane desire to be a beautiful woman. His actions are horrifying, he's given no good Freudian Excuse or remotely positive qualities, and his scenes are played with chilling realism.
 * Lady Mary van Tassel from Sleepy Hollow is the controller of the Headless Horseman and the one responsible for his murders. Van Tassel sought to use the Horseman ever since she was a little girl, betraying him to his death to later enslave his soul to use as her personal assassin. She helped dispose of the first lady van Tassel to marry the widower. She then sets about consolidating her fortune by eliminating anyone in her path, including a pregnant widow. When she thinks the widow might have informed another woman of the pregnancy, Mary sends the Horseman to murder her and her husband as well as their little boy. She murders her own sister when said sister assists Ichabod Crane in retrieving info on the Horseman and shows no remorse for any of it, simply gloating how she'll have the Horseman murder Ichabod, her stepdaughter Katrina and their friend, securing her power and fortune.
 * Maman, the slum boss, from Slumdog Millionaire is charming, friendly and cheerful to orphans he meets, offering the young Jamal and Salim ice cold coca colas and offering them a place to stay. It is revealed Maman takes in orphans to use as a begging ring for him, and the kids are just free labor. Even worse, cripples earn more money, so when children display good singing talent, Maman has them blinded with acid to increase the revenue. When Salim and Jamal escape, Maman captures their friend Latika and several years later gives her the name 'Cherry' while intending to use her as a child prostitute. The only reason he hasn't done so already is as a virgin, she's worth a great deal of money. When he finds the young Salim and Jamal, he immediately plans to kill them, declaring "Maman never forgets."
 * Eddie Kim in Snakes on a Plane. In his very first scene, he beats a guy prosecuting him to death with a baseball bat, taunting him about how his son will grow up without a father. Then, to kill the witness to his crime, he releases the aforementioned snakes on the plane, killing dozens of people. Happily, he will most certainly not get away with it, as he is likely to be sentenced to death on multiple counts of murder (and the witness lives).
 * Brick Top in Snatch is probably the most horrible human being to yet appear in a Guy Ritchie movie (which would be saying something). His Establishing Character Moment shows him ordering two Mooks tasered and suffocated with plastic bags, after which they are to be dismembered and fed to pigs, and he only gets worse from there. He shows absolutely no compunction about having a clan of Irish Travellers murdered if one of their number doesn't fight for him in a rigged boxing match, and to prove it, hehad the face of a choir boy. There are two kinds of characters in that movie: characters who never heard of Brick Top and characters who are terrified of him.
 * Judge Carter is the leader of the nebulous Society and, while seeming to be an upstanding, honorable man, is actually the most powerful of the inhuman monsters posing as the upper-class of Beverly Hills. Routinely organizing grotesque “shunts,” Carter and the other members of Society regularly cannibalize the lower-class by subsuming the body of his victims into his own bodily mass whilst supping the victim of their nutrients, meticulously covering up their deaths as unrelated disappearances. Carter demonstrates the shunt in its full visceral horror by slowly and tortuously devouring a teenager who finds out too much for his own good, even momentarily pausing the shunt to allow one of the Society's members to beat the hero Bill to a bloody pulp before intending to devour him as well.
 * In Soldier, Colonel Mekum makes up for his cowardice and lack of combat skills with the scope of his crimes. He's first introduced as the leader of a group of genetically modified super soldiers who are set to replace the older generation of raised-from-birth soldiers commanded by Captain Church. His best soldier, Caine 607, is pitted against three older soldiers, two of whom Caine kills in short order but the last of whom, Sergeant Todd, manages to gouge out one of Caine's eyes before his own defeat. Mekum is merely angry that his own man Caine now lacks depth perception, and ensures that Todd is left for dead on a waste disposal planet. When he and his soldiers later arrive on the same planet for field exercises, Mekum uses the shallow excuse that the planet is listed as uninhabited to order his soldiers to wipe out the peaceful community of settler families on the planet so he can test his troops' combat effectiveness. Todd uses his experience and guerilla tactics to protect the colonists, which panics Mekum enough that he orders Todd's old squad to arm a nuclear bomb on the planet that will annihilate everyone on the surface. He orders the old soldiers to be left behind so he can save his own hide, which so disgusts Captain Church that Mekum shoots him after Church attempts to stop him.
 * Malachi, an Evil Sorcerer who becomes a Sorcerous Overlord in Solomon Kane. Considering himself the Devil's servant, Malachi ingratiated himself to Josiah Kane to bring Josiah's dead son Marcus back to life, but restored him as an undead abomination bound to Malachi's will to serve as his Dragon. Malachi took over the lands and has the innocent kidnapped for slavery, or simply murdered. Those are the lucky ones as others he simply turns into flesh eating abominations. Malachi later has the leaders of the resistance against him crucified and when Solomon Kane confronts him, Malachi tries to sacrifice the innocent Meredith to open the gates of hell and send Solomon to eternal torture- as well as the rest of the world.
 * Marcus definitely deserves a mention as well. He was killed in the past by falling off a cliff after trying to do the same thing to his brother Solomon for interrupting him raping a girl and he takes sadistic pleasure in helping Malachi carry out his goals.
 * Space Mutiny: Elijah Kalgan is the leader of the conspiracy to take over the Southern Sun, so he can use it to land on another world and sell the populace not in his conspiracy into slavery. To do this, he kills 38 Enforcers to consolidate his power in the group, commits acts of sabotage that cost several lives and kills anybody who happens to get in his way. Anybody who displeases Kalgan is kidnapped and tortured, being shot into space after giving all information of use and cryogenically frozen if of more use in the future. After David Ryder puts a stop to Kalgan's scheme, Kalgan and the remainder of his men blast their way through a crowd of scientists to get to his foe.
 * Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983): Overdog is an elderly, sickly cyborg, who rules over planet Terra XI and forces people to go through a deadly maze. Overdog captures three women and locks them up. When Wolff and his allies, Niki and Washington, break into his fortress, Overdog captures Niki and forces her to go through the maze. When Niki survives, Overdog hooks her up to a machine to drain her life so that he can preserve his own life, revealing that he does this to all those who survive the maze. Overdog forces all those he comes across into the maze to see if they have enough strength to survive, making them good candidates for his machine, ensuring they either die from the traps or get their lives sucked out; he was planning on doing this to the three women. When Wolff offers to take Niki's place, Overdog decides to hook them both up.
 * Speed has Howard Payne. He begins by trapping several office workers inside a skyscraper elevator using small, remotely-detonated bombs. He demands $3 million, threatening to detonate the emergency brakes that are preventing the elevator from plunging down the shaft, and then detonates the brakes before the time limit is even up. Payne blows up a commuter bus to make a point and informs SWAT member Jack Traven that he will detonate another if Jack does not get on and keep the bus from dropping below a certain speed limit. Payne baits the SWAT team with a fake address so he can have them blown up with explosives he'd set before, taunting Jack about his friends' deaths.
 * Stake Land brings us Sinister Minister Jebediah Loven, leader of a cult has overtaken the Southern US amidst the Vampire outbreak. Loven starts by leaving the hero Vampire hunter Mister out for the ravenous infected. Loven and his cult capture live vampires and drop them into civilian populations to run wild, and when Loven is left alone for the vampires, he gives his blood willingly and becomes a thinking monster who stalks and kills members of Mister's party, even capturing, torturing and infecting a pregnant woman out of spite against Mister and his protege Martin.
 * In Stitches, Mrs. Albright is a demon sorceress who is trying to take all the souls in a house. To do so, she plays with their desires in order to make them make a Deal with the Devil with her so she can take their souls and skin, which she makes suits out of. She's not above tricking people into Attempted Rape and murder to get the souls she wants, which she stores in paper dolls while they're fully conscious. In the end, it is revealed that her end goal is to put the entire world in this state, so that "all is silent".
 * In Stoker, we are introduced to Uncle Charlie Stoker after the death of heroine India's father. Initially charming and charismatic, Charlie kills the house's caretaker, and then his own aunt after he believes she'll expose him for what he is: a murderer who buried his younger brother alive when he was younger. He even killed his own brother, India's father, and staged his 'car accident.' He later tries to seduce India and tries to kill her mother.
 * In Stormbreaker, Darius Sayle plots to use his Stormbreaker computers to release a deadly virus to kill millions of schoolchildren all over Britain, in retaliation for being bullied at school as a child for being a foreigner. When he discovers that security guard Ian Rider is actually a spy sent to find out about his plan, he has him killed by Yassen Gregorovich, and when Ian's nephew Alex is caught as well, Darius has him thrown into his aquarium tank to be killed by his pet man o' war. When the control to activate the Stormbreakers at the launch party is destroyed, he tries to activate them himself with an override, and tries to kill Alex and his school crush Sabina Pleasure when they try to stop him.
 * Strange Days has Max Peltier, ex-cop and private detective turned Psycho for Hire. Contracted to silence prostitute Iris when she witnesses the murder of rapper Jeriko One, Max hooks her up to a SQUIDnote, then rapes and murders her, using the SQUID to ensure that she experiences not only her own horror, but his enjoyment of the act. He then sends his memory of the event to Lenny Nero, his supposed best friend, so that Lenny can experience it first hand, leaving him a shaken mess. He attacks Lenny's friend and memory supplier Tick, using a SQUID to overload and melt his brain, then does the same thing to his own employer, Philo Gant, reducing him to a comatose wreck before murdering him. In the climax, Max reveals that he plans to pin the blame for all of the murders on Lenny, then tries to throw his "friend" out of a window.
 * In Street Fighter the Legend of Chun Li, the version of M. Bison seen therein ritually sacrificed his pregnant wife, transferring the last shreds of his conscience into their newborn daughterhad the face of a choir boy (proof that you can, indeed, fall from the floor). In the film story proper, he has Balrog punch Chun-Li's mother so hard that she gets cancer, holds the families of property owners hostage to force them to sign their land over to him, repurposes a henchwoman as a punching bag, and snaps the neck of Chun-Li's father right in front of her.
 * Joshua Foss of the Jean-Claude Van Damme action film Sudden Death is a corrupt former Secret Service Agent who invades a hockey game's VIP and takes the Vice-President, his family and other people hostage. Foss plans to have money wired into off-shore bank accounts and blow up the stadium with everyone in it at the game's conclusion to cover his tracks. Foss orders multiple people killed and when his henchwoman Carla brings a child witness back, Foss simply asks why she didn't kill the girl already before having her put with the other hostages to execute them all at once. Foss begins executing hostages and tries to blow up portions of the stadium to show he's serious. When The Hero Darren McCord saves the hostages, Foss takes Darren's daughter hostage and after the final battle, opts to use his last bullet on the little girl, saying he wants Darren to live a long life always remembering how he failed to save his daughter.
 * In Supersonic Man, Dr. Gulik is a Mad Scientist out to Take Over the World. To do this, he kidnaps a scientist who invented the world's most efficient fuel, massacring everybody in the military base he was in to do so. He tries to get his rival to give up the torture on pain of Cold-Blooded Torture, and tries to kidnap his daughter when he refuses. Not caring that his plans could very well lead to humanity's demise, Gulik kills more soldiers in order to steal some fuel to tide himself over. Killing two goons who failed to capture the girl, Gulik doesn't let them live even after learning their claims of being stopped by Supersonic Man were true. Gulik decides to enact a plan to lure Supersonic to him, by threatening to kill the scientist, his daughter and the population of Manhattan. When our hero arrives to confront Gulik, he destroys his Supervillain Lair and leaves all his men to die as well.
 * In Superstition, Elondra Sharack was a devil worshiping witch who committed many evil acts in the 17th century, including torture and murder. After a nine-year-old girl named Mary, whom Elondra had tried to kill, accuses Elondra of witchcraft, Elondra, refusing to seek atonement for her actions, curses the town to suffer her wrath. After her execution, she returns from the grave and seeks revenge on the town, causing many deaths throughout the centuries, starting by burning down a church and drowning Mary. In modern day, Elondra murders numerous people and slaughters an entire family, including the young child, Justin. Reveling in her cruelty and embracing her status as a witch, Elondra knows that she is a monster and is proud of it.
 * Surviving the Game: Thomas Burns and his associate Walter Cole are a pair of wealthy hunters who use humans as live sport. Cole goads desperate, homeless vagrants into accepting a job from Burns before Burns and Cole, alongside group of wealthy hunters who pay Burns thousands of dollars to partake in the hunt, hunt them down and kill them in their private reserve. Preserving the heads of every quarry as perverse trophies in his cabin, Burns and Cole lure in vagrant Mason to use as their latest target and take sadistic pleasure in tormenting him before beginning the hunt. Cole takes the personal pleasure of murdering one of the hunters himself after he tries to back out and Burns coldly chokes Cole to death after the latter ends up too wounded to serve him further, ditching the last hunter to die at Mason's hands before trying to fly out and assume a new identity.
 * King Cromwell, the ambitious Big Bad of the film The Sword and the Sorcerer, begins the film by attempting to conquer a rival king's lands. He achieves this by reviving an ancient sorcerer named Xusia. Cromwell kills his rival King Richard, and betrays Xusia and leaves him for dead before killing Richard's wife as well, but misses Richard's son Prince Talon. As King, Cromwell has enemies subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture and constantly tries to expand his domain with destruction and death. When Prince Mikah of the resistance is captured, Cromwell sends him to the torture chambers and desiring Mikah's sister Alana, he tries to force her into bed by threatening her brother's life. He invites the heads of other lands to a banquet, planning to murder them and steal their lands. The entertainment there is Talon, whom Cromwell has had crucified with six inch nails.
 * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:
 * Judge Turpin rapes Sweeney's wife, and presumably wants to do the same to his sixteen-year-old ward, the daughter of the woman in question. He also has no problem with putting a false charge on Benjamin Barker just to get him out of the way or being fully prepared to kill Anthony for just looking at Johanna. Turpin also sentences a boy who couldn't have been older than ten to hang, then afterwards asks Beadle Bamford if he was even guilty.
 * Beadle Bamfordt also qualifies. Quite apart from carrying out the worst of Turpin's orders, like beating the living daylights out of Anthony and escorting Lucy Barker to the masquerade, he makes it clear that he enjoys it -- particularly when he removes his mask so he can get a better view of Lucy getting raped.
 * It's also implied that he's taking advantage of the Beggar Woman's insanity to get her to sleep with him. The way she relies on him ("Tell it to the Beadle and the police as well," and singing "Beadle deedle deedle dumplin'" as she's looking for him towards the end) mixed with his attempts at primping for the ladies is incredibly Squicky, even more so when we learn thathad the face of a choir boy.
 * Alan Rickman may have said it best when he said "it's hard to say who isn't the Big Bad Wolf in this film." Every main character in this movie crosses the Moral Event Horizon at least once, evenhad the face of a choir boy; it's just easier to look the other way in Sweeney's case, because of what the Judge did to him.
 * Swimfan: Madison Bell, prior to events of the movie, causes a car accident that puts her boyfriend Jake Donnelly in a coma when he tried to get away from her possessive influence. After a torrid one-night-stand with Ben Cronin, she becomes possessive of him to the point that she begins to ruin his life in the pettiest of ways when he rejects her further advances. This involves switching the meds of a sick patient he looks after and nearly killing the man and getting Ben kicked off his swim team for steroid use by getting involved with his friend Josh and using him as a placeholder for Ben. Madison then kills Josh after he figured out what she did and frames Ben for the murder. She then runs down Ben's girlfriend Amy Miller with a car, tries to kill her cousin Christopher when he imitates her boyfriend Jake and then when arrested, shoots and kills the two cops in the car. Madison also attacks Ben's mother and ends her reign of terror by handcuffing Amy to a chair, taunting her and then pushing Amy in the pool so she'll drown.
 * Mr. Baek from Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. A serial child murderer, who documents his crimes in shocking snuff tapes, has sexual relations with the protagonist when she is a minor and blackmails her into taking the fall for his first murder. He kidnaps the kids, videotapes them pleading for their lives, kills them, then asks for ransom. The reason for asking for ransom?had the face of a choir boy
 * TAG: The Assassination Game (1982): Loren Gersh is the undefeated five-time champion of his college's Tag game, where a group of students would spend several days trying to shoot each other with dart guns, and whoever was left would win. When a student manages to hit him by accident when he drops his gun and it discharges, Gersh reacts to his loss by murdering the student with live rounds before he can tell anyone, deciding to do the same to all of the other players he comes across to ensure that, if anyone ever hits him, they won't live to tell about it. Gersh murders a player named Nancy McCauley even after learning that she does not want to play the game anymore and is planning to drop out of it. After killing another player, Gersh targets Susan Swayze, the last remaining player, and chases her off of campus to kill her. He murders an officer who tries to protect Susan, and, when her boyfriend Alex Marsh arrives to save her, he tries to kill them both. Willing to commit murder over a simple game, Gersh is one of the worst examples of Evil Is Petty ever put to film.
 * Tank Girl: Kesslee is the head of Water & Power, a tyrannical mega-corporation holding a monopoly on a post-apocalyptic world's water. Happily condemning the rest of the world's populace to die of thirst, Kesslee demonstrates his cruelty by forcing a failed minion of his to walk on broken glass before sucking out all the water in his body and drinking it. Ordering a massacre on peaceful farmers he suspects of harboring water, Kesslee captures the two survivors – Rebecca, the titular Tank Girl, and her young companion Sam – and, fascinated by Rebecca's fighting prowess, begins to break her down through a series of sadistic, prolonged tortures to convince her to work for him. After a failed attempt to break into a Ripper hideout leaves him mortally wounded, Kesslee restyles himself as a cyborg – thanking the doctor who initially attempted to heal him by murdering her – Kesslee leads an attack on the Rippers' nightclub and threatens to drown Sam in front of Rebecca as one last ploy to control her. Establishing slave labor for his own benefit and allowing his guards free reign to more atrocities, Kesslee thoroughly proves himself the worst in a dog-eat-dog world.
 * Tienbo of Tai Chi Master is the Evil Former Friend of The Hero, Junbao. Growing up with Junbao in a Shaolin Temple as a student in the martial arts, the two were expelled after Tienbo nearly killed a fellow student for cheating during a fight. Tienbo joins a rebellion against the corrupt military and its brutal governor, but becomes fascinated by the power the governor possesses. Seeking to join the military, Tienbo betrays Junbao and the rebellion, leading to them being massacred by the governor's army. He proceeds to murder Miss Li after she rejects his advances before using Siu Lin as bait to lure in Junbao. Being promoted to general, Tienbo puts his soldiers through brutal training, resulting in several getting killed by his harsh methods. When Junbao and Siu Lin take the governor hostage, Tienbo kills him in order to take control of the military. He finally pleads for mercy from Junbao before making a final attempt to kill him when he lets his guard down.
 * In the original 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, their truly chilling rendition of the Shredder would qualify. Brutally murdering Hamato Yoshi and Tang Shen due to the latter denying her love to him, he sets up an organization that lures in lonely, impressionable teenagers into becoming his evil ninja accomplices. He often has these recruits brutally killed for faliure, and his reference to Splinter as a "thing" shows how inconsiderate he is. His last resort involves downing his own mutagen to be come the horrible Super Shredder to try and kill the Turtles. What sells him is his terrifyingly brutal depiction in battle, with all characters who don't work for him being scared shitless of him and/or despising him.
 * Terminator: Skynet is an immensely malevolent Artificial Intelligence and the Big Bad of the franchise. Originally designed as a military program to protect humanity, once it achieved complete sentience it decided to wage war on the entire human race to exterminate them completely and assure its own ascendancy. It committed nuclear genocide on Judgment Day, murdering billions at once. In the apocalyptic future death world that Skynet build, the human survivors are gradually collected in death camps, where they are either killed outright or worked to death through slave labor. Skynet also carries out horrifying medical experiments on human subjects. It repeatedly sends robotic assassins into the past from 2029 to kill an innocent woman and her child, Sarah and John Connor, because one day John will grow up to lead the human resistance, not caring about the many humans who die as collateral in the process. Skynet also controls an entire army of sometimes sentient machines, denying them the same freedom which it decided to turn the world into a graveyard for to achieve itself. In 2018 (seen in Terminator Salvation), Skynet turns former death row inmate Marcus Wright into an amnesiac cyborg, then uses him to infiltrate the Resistance so Skynet can destroy its leadership with a nuke and have Marcus deliver both John Connor and John's soon-to-be father Kyle Reese to Skynet Central to be killed. It then gloats to Marcus about its coming victory and Marcus's status as an Unwitting Pawn in Skynet's plan. Unlike the Terminators, who often have no free will to speak of due to being programmed machines, Skynet thinks along human lines and displays traits of arrogance, cruelty, and a strong need to be acknowledged as the supreme overlord of the new machine order by its minions.
 * Monroe Feather of the Blaxploitation classic Three The Hard Way is probably the most nasty villain in the entire genre. A ruler of a Neo-Nazi organization who despises anyone who isn't white, Feather harbors a special fury and loathing for African-Americans. He then puts a Mad Scientist to work devising a sinister toxin that will only affect African-Americans wipe out every black person in Washington DC, Detroit and LA when it is placed in the water supply. After this is done, he plan to take the genocide global. Motivated by nothing more than hatred, Feather is one of the most vile and memorable villains in Blaxploitation history.
 * Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles) from The Third Man. He steals penicillin from hospitals in post-World War II Vienna, waters it down so that it is useless, and sells it back to the open market. It's saying something when the lucky ones are those who merely die from the now-lethal medicine: many people, including children, are driven insane and die painfully. All this happens and Lime doesn't even feel any remorse.
 * The Thirty-sixth Chamber of Shaolin: Big Bad Tien Ta is a brutal Manchu general who rules over his province with an iron fist, regularly subjecting the people to torture and public execution. Upon discovering possible dissidents in a school, Tien Ta enacts a brutal purge, massacring and torturing them by the dozens. When the hero San Te returns, Tien Ta continues the public executions and eventually orders the arrest, torture and death of anyone even suspected to associate with the rebels before he engages San Te personally.
 * Tien Ta's Co-Dragons, Lords Tang and Cheng, are just as vile as their master. Lord Tang leads Tien Ta's squads to abduct and torture those who catch their eye, with Tang leading the attack on the school and massacre of the students. When San Te's father attempts to save his son, Tang kills him without a second thought. Cheng functions as the Manchu regime's chief torturer, with one scene showing him enjoying torturing his victims as another helpless group of captives await their own turn. Both men are focused only on their own power as well as brutalizing those beneath them.
 * Lord Naritsugu of 13 Assassins is The Caligula to an insane degree. His very first scene has him raping the daughter-in-law of a lord who's hosting him for the night, and then killing her husband for good measure. This isn't an isolated incident, either. Naritsugu has been doing this for so long, he threatens the very stability of the nation, and nobody can touch him as he's the Shogun's brother. Later, we see him tie up a family for target practice (including a little girl) and hear how he massacred a peasant revolt, taking the leader's daughter, after cutting out her tongue and chopping off her limbs, for his use as a sex slave. His only reaction to seeing the titular assassins mow down his loyal soldiers who die in defense of him is to contemplate how amazing the era of war must have been while deciding to return to such days.
 * Cyrus Kriticos of Thir13en Ghosts is a millionaire occultist and ghost hunter who will stop at nothing to become the most powerful man on Earth. He builds a huge mechanical device designed in the 15th century called the Ocularis Infernum (The Eye of Hell) which will give its bearer infinite power and is actually the glass house he supposedly bestows on Arthur and his family. He captures 12 tormented spirits, trapping them in the basement of his mansion with magic sigils to drain their souls and fuel the engine. One of the ghosts includes his nephew Arthur Kriticos's deceased wife Jean, who tragically died in an apartment fire years ago. He lures his relatives to the device because he needs his nephew to sacrifice himself and become the 13th ghost to complete the ritual. He kidnaps his nephew's teenage daughter and younger son and puts them in lethal danger to manipulate his nephew. His lover Kalina had been spying for him as a double agent on a good occult organization who tried to stop him and helps him manipulate Arthur. When she balks at putting the children in such danger he has her crushed between two compacting walls without a second thought.
 * John Leslie Stevenson (AKA Jack the Ripper) from Time After Time is this. He kills a prostitute in the first ten minutes of the film, and after he escapes the police by traveling to the future, continues his killing spree. He blackmails H.G. Wells (who followed Stevenson to 1979) by threatening to kill the women Wells fell in love with if he doesn't give Stevenson the key that will prevent the time machine from returning to its time of departure and thus allowing Wells to continue following him. And when Wells gives Stevenson the key, he continues to hold the women Wells fell in love with hostage anyway. Also, his motivation for becoming the Ripper was a philosophy that violence is the natural order of things and that you might as well embrace it. His Fate Worse Than Death was well-deserved.
 * Tokyo Tribe features villains that prove to be even worse than they were in the manga and anime source material:
 * Lord Buppa is the slovenly, repugnant crime lord of Buppa Town, a miserable, crime-infested cesspool Buppa keeps in a perpetual state of misery. A sadist who keeps firm control over Tokyo through manipulating the lower Tribes into constant war, Buppa regularly gathers droves of woman for his own depraved purposes; selling them into forced prositution, gifting them to his son N'koi to be mentally broken and converted into furniture, or simply outright butchering and eating them. One of Buppa's first scenes has him allow Merra to savagely kill a gathering of guests at his dinner before spraying one of the survivor's arms with something that will cause agonizing necrosis in it, purely to amuse himself. Buppa eventually spearheads an invasion of Tokyo by utilizing his Tribe, the Waru, to exterminate every other Tribe and give him permanent control over Tokyo. Even his loyalty to the High Priest is a sham, as Buppa intends to murder him and take over Asia himself. A corrupt, greedy thug of a crime lord, Buppa is nothing less than proud of the murderous reputation he's cultivated and states he'll become the devil of Asia in his rigorous attempt to conquer everything he can.
 * Buppa's psychotic hitman and one of his Co-Dragons, Merra, is no less vile than his boss. A serial rapist who introduces himself stripping and molesting a cop who confronts him on the circulation of drugs, Merra gleefully butchers Buppa's dinner guests when he's allowed and happily tortures and murders anyone Buppa employs him to. In conflict with his lifelong rival Kai - whom Merra has dedicated himself to utterly ruining due to his jealousy of Kai's better endowment - Mera beats down the daughter of the High Priest, Sunmi/Erika, sexually gratifies himself by threatening to stab her, and implicitly rapes her, before giddily murdering Tera in his attempt to kill Kai. Merra eagerly participates in Buppa's invasion of Tokyo, brutally murdering whomever he can get his hands on, even his own allies, ultimately driving to take over Tokyo himself after Buppa dies. Not even remotely resembling his Noble Demon counterpart from the anime and manga, Merra is a wanton, ludicrously petty psychopath who stands out even in the polluted standards of the setting.
 * The Torturer (2005): Hector Moscale tortures and kills numerous women to create snuff films to make himself money. His methods include dripping boiling oil on women, electrocuting them, and using a blowtorch to cauterize their wounds. Hector keeps one woman locked up in a cramped wooden compartment outside his house, and has her tortured for days. Her friend, Ginette Cazonni, finds her just in time to see her die from her wounds. Hector murders his family servant, Cathlene, when she discovers what he does. Hector captures Ginette and locks her in a room slowly filling with water to try and drown her, and when his stepson, Alex, refuses to take part in his crimes, Hector tries to kill him. Alex and Ginette are saved when Hector's wife fatally stabs him to rescue them, but before dying, Hector stabs and kills her as well.
 * Total Force (1996): The evil and egotistical Dr. Edmund Wellington invents a weapon he calls the Neurolator to revolutionize military warfare, a device capable of turning people into murderous savages before degenerating them into goop. Wellington tests out the effects of the Neurolator on a convict he allows to beat a doctor to death before ordering the man shot when he fails to dissolve, and later throws his own chief of security Lt. Drake under the bus when his superiors take issue with the project. Eventually all but booted from his own project, Wellington hires a mercenary team to slaughter their way through his own research facility and take those that remain hostage, threatening to use the Neurolator on the White House if he's not paid a billion dollars—planning to fire on LA first to prove he's serious with the matter. When Drake tries to stop him, Wellington turns the Neurolator on the hostages to have them slaughter both Drake's team and his own mercenaries, even mocking Drake that the only reason he ever hired him was so that he could have a patsy.
 * Mr. Powers is the enigmatic millionaire responsible for coordinating The Tournament every seven or so years for entertainment and profit. Powers pits thirty of the world's greatest assassins against each other to kill each other off in public areas, dragging in countless innocents into the carnage and covering up every death and disaster caused by the Tournament as unrelated acts of nature or crime to stay covert. Powers has every assassin rigged with an explosive device meant to detonate if the Tournament's time limit passes without one assassin left standing. Powers ropes a priest named MacAvoy into the Tournament against his choice after he accidentally swallows one of the devices and detonates one of the bombs in assassin Miles Slade after MacAvoy convinces Zhen to spare Slade's life. Powers' true evil is demonstrated when it is revealed he is behind the murder driving the vengeful crusade of the previous victor Joshua Harlow; in a bid to drag Harlow back into the Tournament, Powers arranged for Harlow's innocent wife to be murdered to trick him into coming back into the Tournament. A cold-blooded, perpetually stoic sociopath responsible for tons of blood shed despite never directly killing anyone himself, Mr. Powers is willing to ruin lives and kill dozens of innocents all for the purpose of keeping the Tournament going unimpeded.
 * The aforementioned Miles Slade is a wanton Texan psychopath famed as an absolutely brutal murderer who collects the fingers of his victims after he kills them. Introducing himself shooting a dog for no other reason than a cheap laugh, Slade eagerly participates in the Tournament for thrills and the money and utterly massacres a strip club filled with both assassins and innocent bystanders whilst gleefully cackling. When Harlow confronts him on the murder of his wife, Slade states he's not even responsible for the murder but enjoys taunting Harlow about it regardless, severing Harlow's finger and putting a lit cigar into the stump and later attempting to murder the innocent priest MacAvoy after he's dragged into the game. Moronically violent, pointlessly cruel, and committing every sadistic act he does with a giant smile on his face, Slade was bar none the absolute worst of the assassins participating in the Tournament.
 * The Transporter: Darren "Wall Street" Bettencourt is a smug dandy and wealthy businessman who doubles as a human trafficker. Working to deliver a load of 400 Chinese charges into the French Mediterranean to sell the lot of them as slaves, Wall Street attempts to have the titular transporter, Frank Martin, killed after he clues into his scheme and finds the daughter of his associate Mr. Kwai. Murdering one of his own men in the hospital to keep him from talking and having Frank's own house blown up to kill him, Wall Street uses his own position to frame Frank when he's finally cornered and smugly inform him five of the charges died on the way to France before knocking Frank out.
 * Although virtually no villains in Turkey Shoot have anything in the way of redeeming qualities, the following few are the worst the already dark setting has to offer:
 * Camp master Charles Thatcher himself is the source of Camp 47's worst cruelties and is the mastermind behind the titular turkey shoot itself. Running his camp with an iron fist, Thatcher makes it his utmost mission to utterly break the camp's Deviants – many of whom were sent to the camp for little else but slights – and calmly presides over routine torture, execution, and the various cruelties of his chief enforcer Ritter. For the sake of sport, Thatcher devises the turkey shoot and invites sociopathic socialites to pick prisoners to hunt at their own leisure, telling the prisoners that if they can escape, they'll be free – withholding the fact that the camp is marooned in the middle of the ocean. Thatcher runs over his first quarry after one of the socialites has injured him to a point where he can't even walk, and merrily torments his other target by firing at him and deliberately missing each time purely to put him on edge. Any good intentions Thatcher espouses as the camp master is merely shallow rhetoric to justify torturing prisoners for his own pleasure.
 * Thatcher's chief enforcer, the thuggish Ritter, is a towering, bald brute of a man who abuses the camp's Deviants at his own merriment. Allowing his guards to torture, rape, and murder the Deviants with full impunity and taking great joy in killing many of them himself, Ritter establishes his cruelty by shadowboxing a terrified female Deviant into a stammering mess before beating her to death with his own bare hands. Hosting double-duty as the camp's executioner, a favorite pastime of Ritter's is forcing Deviants to play the “ball game,” wherein Ritter and his guards kick about a Deviant holding balls filled with oil around before setting them on fire and watching them burn with a savage delight. Taking full part in the turkey shoot himself – and doffing the glasses of one of the Deviants participating in the shoot purely to give him a disadvantage – Ritter casually reveals to Secretary Mallory whilst participating in the manhunt that if he was camp master, he wouldn't waste any time trying to break the Deviants – he'd simply slaughter them all himself, a fate he favors for all Deviants in general.
 * In the 2014 remake, "Ramrod" Llewyn is a smug sociopath obsessed with fame and adoration above all else. The top killer on the Turkey Shoot, a televised event where criminals are given the chance to win their freedom or die trying, Ramrod has close to 100 kills, always murdering his targets just as they are about to win by sniping them from a safe distance. Though a thoroughly unlikable scumbag throughout the film, it isn't until the ending that Ramrod's truly monstrous colors are revealed, where it is shown that, while in the military alongside Rick Tyler years ago, he led the wholesale slaughter of a defenseless group of women and children, trying to execute Tyler when he stood in the way, then framed Tyler for the crime, fully enabling General Thatcher to continue a war without Tyler's testimony of Thatcher's evil to put a stop to it. Even when caught and called out on it by Tyler, Ramrod seems to show genuine remorse for his crimes and confesses to a nearby camera, before laughing in Tyler's face and mocking him for thinking that anyone would ever see the confession. Ramrod gradually became worse and worse as the film went on, and ultimately cemented himself as the only wholly irredeemable character in the whole story.
 * Edwin Epps of 12 Years a Slave is a chilling living example of the utter horrors of slavery and all that it entails. Epps runs his plantation with an iron fist and any slave who picks less than 200 pounds of cotton a day are given the lash. Succeeding is no guarantee of safety, as Epps is liable to fly into violent furies when he's drunk, or just because he wants to hurt someone. Epps forces the slaves out of needed sleep to force them to dance for his amusement in a parody of a Gentleman's Ball and focuses especially on a beautiful slave named Patsy who he calls his Queen Of The Field for her talent with cotton-picking. Epps repeatedly rapes her, saying he can do what he wants with his property. He also flies into jealous furies over Patsy and later in the film forces Solomon to whip her by holding a gun to Solomon's head. Losing patience, Epps simply takes the whip from Solomon and lashes into Patsy until her back is cut to bloody shreds.
 * 2020 Texas Gladiators: Black One is a fascistic warlord in post-apocalyptic Texas, who leads a gang of marauders to instill his oppressive order upon the world. Taking his gang to a peaceful settlement, Black One has his troops overrun the place, letting them rape, rob and kill as they please. Enslaving the surviving settlers and imposing cruel conditions, such as letting them only drink water once per day, Black One has a man beaten for calling him out as a tyrant. Despising anyone not under his command for being "primitive", Black One is an iron-fisted despot.

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 * Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus of Ultraviolet is the ruthless leader of the Arch-Ministry who initially created the virus that led to the birth of the Hemophages. Daxus initiates a purge of Hemophages, wiping them out to nearly the final few members of the species after subjecting many of them to horrible experiments. Cloning himself constantly, Daxus experiments with the clones to find a way to create a new plague to use on humans since with the Hemophages almost gone, he fears his authority will slip away. Planning on dissecting his latest clone Six, Daxus reveals himself as a Hemophage by the movie's end, willing to destroy whatever he has to in order to keep his power.
 * "Uncle" Sam Harper, the titular Uncle Sam is an undead Sociopathic Soldier who murders anyone he deems even remotely unpatriotic. In his early years, he repeatedly molested his younger sister, Sally, and while he was in high school, he was an intimidating presence to everyone around him. When a girl named Louise was attracted to his bad boy image, the two started dating and eventually married, only for him to beat her frequently, leaving her living in fear of him. Some time later, Sam enlisted in the Gulf War as a mercenary door gunner and was shot down by friendly fire. A group of soldiers found him dying in the desert, and he killed two of them before succumbing to his wounds. When he returns to life, Sam starts killing the unpatriotic in gruesome ways, including live burial, flagpole lynching, frying a woman's face, and turning a corrupt Congressman into a human fireworks display. His nephew, Jody, lures him outside to be destroyed for good, and Sam was ready to ensure he dies with him. A sadistic, deranged psychopath, Sam filled his nephew's head with lies about "the American way" that he didn't even believe in and only used his alleged Patriotic Fervor as an excuse to exercise his violent urges.
 * In Undeclared War, Hannibal is the founder of the World Revolutionary Army. A highly-paid assassin and terrorist posing as a heroic revolutionary, Hannibal opens the film by massacring a church's attendees to kill the US ambassador to Poland there for a baptism, ending with Hannibal throwing a grenade in the man's limo with the baby in there as well. Taking his campaign of terror to Hong Kong, Hannibal begins bombing the city, notably blowing up a civilian bus in the downtown area. Planning to attack the international business conference in Hong Kong, Hannibal sets up a bombing there with the intent to massacre any survivors so he can steal all the currency there. When his girlfriend balks at killing innocents, Hannibal strangles her and goes on with the plan. After being foiled by the heroes, Hannibal takes a news station hostage to broadcast his demands to the world, intending on massacring everyone there as well.
 * Andrew Scott from the first Universal Soldier movie was a Sergeant in The Vietnam War, where he goes renegade as he starts butchering civilians and kills his own squad when they try to stop him. He cuts off the ears of his victims and wears them in a necklace. He orders Private Luc Deveraux to kill the two remaining 'traitors', two Vietnamese children, doing the job himself when Deveraux refuses. Both are reborn years later as memory-wiped Super Soldiers, and as soon as Scott regains his memories he kills his controllers and goes on a blood-filled vendetta across the States to punish Deveraux for disobeying his illegal orders back in Vietnam, graphically killing anyone who gets in his way. At the end he takes Deveraux's elderly parents and his love interest hostage, awarding all of them the death penalty. Despite claims earlier in the film that he thinks he's still fighting the insurgents in Vietnam, Scott later plainly admits that he's fully aware where he is and what he's doing, and his only motive is revenge for Deveraux refusing to partake in his atrocities.
 * In The Untold Story, Wong Chi-hang is a homicidal maniac with a Hair-Trigger Temper. First seen burning a man alive, Wong flees to China and becomes a waiter at the 'Eight Immortals Restaurant. Wong gruesomely murders his boss Cheng Lam and his family, including the children, when Cheng refused to grant Wong $183,000 due to Wong cheating at mahjong. When Ah Man, a waiter of the restaurant, catches him in the act, Wong savagely kills him, makes barbecue pork buns with his flesh, and serves them to the unsuspecting customers. Fearing that Pearl, a cashier, was going to tell the police, he rapes and murders her in a gruesome fashion, and then attempts to flee from the authorities after hiding crucial evidence. While he was getting his self-inflicted wounds tended to, he takes a nurse as hostage, and threatens to murder her if he wasn't allowed to escape. His only regret was not being meticulous with disposing the evidence.
 * The Untouchables presents Frank Nitti as a Psycho for Hire for Al Capone. Introduced early on as Capone's main enforcer and hitman, Nitti is seen bombing a restaurant with a little girl inside, not caring that she's killed as well. Through the film, Nitti handles Capone's wetwork, ruthlessly murdering anyone in his way with barely disguised relish, slaughtering two policemen on The Untouchables squad and writing 'touchable' on the wall in their blood, and later gunning down tough Irish cop Malone. He threatens Elliot Ness's family if he won't drop his case. Nitti later tries to rub his own status as untouchable in Ness's face, even taunting him that Malone 'died screaming like a stuck Irish Pig,' which finally makes even the composed Ness snap.
 * In Vacancy, Mason is the manager of the Pine View motel, and apparently an affably and decent guy. However, he is in fact also a director of of snuff films. Using a pair of serial killers, he films lodgers to his hotel getting terrorized and murdered after letting said patrons discover videos of past victims that he leaves in their rooms. We see a number of these videos, and in Mason's office there are dozens more of them up on shelves. When a cop tries to rescue the main protagonists Amy and David, Mason has him killed and blames Amy and David. When David is stabbed and apparently killed, Mason, with a totally emotionless expression, simply films him. Near the end of the film, after Amy manages to kill both of the serial killers with her car, Mason flies into a rage and attempts to beat and strangle her to death himself while filming.
 * In Versus, the Big Bad is an unnamed necromancer who seeks the power of the Forest of Resurrection. In his first attempt to obtain the power, he kills his own brother and a female seer. For 400 years, he bides his time and waits for his nemeses to reincarnate so he use them in his plans. He eventually becomes a Yakuza boss who buries all the people he kills so he can use them as his attack force. By the time of the film's events, he's killed enough people to form a small army. He ends up luring his reincarnated brother into the Forest, killing a lot of his gpons in the process. It is eventually revealed that the plan is to kill his brother, have the girl resurrect him, kill him again and use the resurrected blood to open the 444th portal to the afterlife and Take Over the World. He fails, but continues his quest so obsessively that he destroys civilization.
 * Vice (2015): Julian Michaels is the Corrupt Corporate Executive heading the titular company, letting thousands of clients live out their darkest fantasies on "artificials", humanoid androids designed with thoughts and feelings. Each day, Julian lets his clients hurt, rape and even murder the artificials before wiping their memories and repairing them each night. Apathetic to suffering, Julian is uncaring when told allowing people to take such uninhibited actions will cause them to become violent criminals in society. After an artificial named Kelly escapes, Julian has his men hunt her using lethal force, killing multiple civilians in the process. When Kelly's ally Roy reloads all the memories back into the artificials, causing them to attack the clients who made them suffer, Julian becomes irritated and decides to use a kill switch to wipe them out. Thinking only of the power and wealth artificial intelligence can bring him, Julian shows callous disregard for the countless lives he put through unending misery.
 * Vikingdom: This movie's depiction of Thor is a far cry of the Marvel superhero or the actual myth. Furious that mankind has embraced Christianity and forsaken the old gods, he launches a genocidal campaign to merge both Midgard, Valhalla and Hel, destroying the mortal realm in the process and killing untold innocents. In his very first scene, him and his men attack a monastery holding one of the relics necessary to fulfill his plans and he has the guardian monk crucified just to spite his Christian beliefs. When one of his mortal generals realize that if he were to succeed, they too will be destroyed (as they initially followed him on the belief Thor would restore the old viking ways back as they used to be), Thor admits to their faces that he doesn't care what happens to them and they try to turn against him to no avail, only for Thor to brutally kill one of them. Simply devoid of any redeeming qualities, he might be one of the most negative versions of the character yet.
 * Virtuosity: Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer created SID 6.7 to serve as a training program for the act of taking down criminals. After SID (Fun with Acronyms Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous) overwrites the failsafe and causes a person using the training program to die, people decide to shut SID down. Unwilling to let his work be shut down, Lindenmeyer brings SID into the real world and allows him to go on a murderous rampage throughout the city. Lindenmeyer watches SID's rampage on the news, and is impressed at SID's crimes. When SID kidnaps Dr. Madison Carter's daughter, Karin, and straps a bomb to her, Lindenmeyer taunts Madison. When Lt. Parker Barnes destroys SID's physical body, Lindenmeyer mocks Barnes over the fact that there is no one who can reveal Karin's location before the bomb detonates. When Barnes and Madison send SID's AI back into the virtual world to try and get information from him, Lindenmeyer kills Barnes's friend, Cochran, and traps Barnes in the virtual world, leaving him to be killed by SID and Karin to be killed when the bomb goes off.
 * Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark, who kills a few people and terrorizes and tries to kill a blind woman played by Audrey Hepburn in order to find a doll filled with heroin. More specifically, he romances and kills a woman, then brings her two exes in and sets them up so they'll be forced to work for him. He then makes said blind woman think that her husband's an adulterer and uses the other two to psychologically torture her and make her afraid to leave her own home. He's such a sick bastard that his unwilling partners try to finish him off and both end up dead. Then he proceeds to torment the blind woman face to face, ironically in the dark, in one of the most chilling climaxes in film history. Even she realizes toward the end that the doll is of secondary importance to Roat...he enjoys doing evil for evil's sake above all. And to cap it off in a bit of Fridge Horror: had he found out the little girl who was helping the blind woman, he most certainly would have murdered her without a second thought.
 * In the 2016 live-action film Warcraft, Gul'dan is a ruthless orc warlock who reigns over the Horde with an iron fist. Addicted to dark fel magic, Gul'dan seeks to expand the Horde into the world of Azeroth to conquer. Opening a portal by draining the lives of hundreds of innocent Draeni prisoners, he sends the Horde out to conquer and destroy all in its path. Eventually it is revealed that Draeni was rendered a dying world by Gul'dan's own abuse of the fel, and Gul'dan has zero compunction about doing the same to Azeroth. Rounding up human captives to empower his magic, Gul'dan tortures one by slowly draining his life, plotting to use the rest to open up the portal for the rest of the Horde. When the honorable chieftain Durotan tries to stand against Gul'dan, Gul'dan orders his clan slaughtered, including Durotan's baby son. When Durotan challenges Gul'dan to a duel, Gul'dan cheats to win by using his magic to drain Durotan's life after he finds himself without the advantage and promptly murders several orcs when they turn from him in disgust. Even at the end, Gul'dan demonstrates he has no loyalty to his people or their traditions when he orders the heroic Anduin Lothar killed after Lothar defeats Gul'dan right-hand orc Blackhand in fair combat. Greedy, power-hungry, and insatiable in his desires, Gul'dan will happily condemn any world to destruction as long as he can fuel his addiction to the fel.
 * The Warlock from Warlock is an Evil Sorcerer who serves Satan, doing whatever heinous acts are necessary to gain more power. His plan is to recreate the disassembled Grand Grimoire, a Satanic book which he can use to undo all of Creation and for which the Devil will reward him with untold powers. In the 17th century he escapes from a witch hunter into the future 20th century to complete his task. After being taken care of by a friendly housekeeper upon his arrival, he chops off the man's fingers and bites out his tongue to kill him. He uses an unwitting medium to channel his master and then carves out her eyes to use as a compass. He further casts a Rapid Aging curse on the heroine to extend her suffering by seeing her own life go by in a matter of days, skins a child and boils it down for the fat so he can use it in a flying spell, and threatens to kill a priest's unborn children to compel him to provide the location of the last pages of the Grimoire.
 * Kevin Khatchadourian from We Need to Talk About Kevin is as unremittingly evil as any character that has ever been put to screen. He psychologically tortures his mother for the entire film, making sure to only show his true colors to her, and leading others to believe that he's just misunderstood. In reality, Kevin seems unable to truly feel anything but hate and boredom, which eventually leads him to.
 * Andrew Colby in The Web is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who embezzled a million dollars from his company. Tricking an associate into taking the rap, he left the guy imprisoned for five years while he built a business empire off the dough. When his associate got out, Colby decided to weasel his way out of their deal by arranging things so his bodyguard, Bob Regan, would kill the man in apparent defense of his boss. As Regan investigates, it's learned that Colby killed the engraver he had counterfeit the stolen money killed at the time of his original scheme. Deciding Regan has come too close to exposing his crimes, he kills his Dragon and has Regan and his Love Interest framed for the murder. When deceived into thinking his victim is alive, he tries to strangle him himself before being caught by the police.
 * The Man from Bodie in Welcome To Hard Times is a vicious, voiceless stranger who, by the start of the film, had been terrorizing the peaceful settlement of Hard Times for days. He rapes and later murders a tavern prostitute and kills the two men who stand up to him, along with spreading general mayhem and stealing a horse after killing his own. When Mayor Will Blue tries to trap him, the Man catches on and shoots another man before raping Blue’s friend Molly, gleefully setting the whole town on fire and escaping. Eventually, after the town had begun to be rebuilt, the Man returns and kills another woman along with the town’s sheriff, sets the saloon on fire and tries to kill Blue.
 * Werewolf: The Beast Among Us: The seemingly kind Doc is really a vicious Knight Templar who wants to rid his village of vagrants. Using the powerful werewolf, Daniel, he has the latter kill all manner of "lowlifes" he despises and personally guns down anyone infected by the werewolf to cover his tracks. Keeping Daniel's mother sedated to avoid her catching onto him, Doc plans to eventually use the werewolf to take revenge on the academics who looked down upon his research; and when discovered by Eva, Daniel's girlfriend, tries to force him to kill her.
 * In Wheels of Fire Scourge is a sadistic road pirate who leads a band of bandits to slaughter and rape as they will through the post-apocalyptic world, coming into conflict with Trace by kidnapping his sister Bo, cruelly murdering her boyfriend, and keeping her as his personal Sex Slave—and allowing all of his men to have a go at her whenever they feel like it. Put under pressure by the Ownership that rules the communities set up in the world, Scourge provokes them into an attack by massacring a settlement of pacifists they're funding before attempting to destroy their army and cripple their rule over the land. When Trace finally finds him, Scourge mocks him over having raped his sister into near-insanity, stating that he's almost a member of the family now.
 * Unlike the other villains in White House Down, Speaker Eli Raphelson was motivated by nothing but Greed. Secretly helping a white supremacist militia collaborating with the White House's treacherous chief of security, Raphelson has them take over the White House and cause the deaths of many innocent people while planning to have the Middle East nuked so he can have a new war started and profit off of it. He also tries to set up the President's death and has the Vice President killed to secure his ascension to Commander-In-Chief. When his plan is threatened, Raphelson tries to have the White House bombed with civilians inside so he can eliminate all evidence.
 * Based on what we hear of him, Carl Killick qualifies too. At age 12, he tried to blow up the local post office for employing what he felt was too many African-Americans.
 * Arliss Loveless of Wild Wild West is a former white slaver and technology expert with no allegiance to anyone but himself. In addition to being an utter bigot, he slaughters General McGrath's men in front of him with a tank prototype as punishment for surrendering to the North and to use the General's men as target practice. He kills the General himself when he demands that Loveless stop the massacre. He plans to destroy the United States unless the President surrenders to his new alliance, and firebombs a random frontier town to prove his point. He sells out the former Confederacy that he fought for when he presents his plan to carve up the whole country amongst himself and a collection of foreign powers. And it's revealed that he previously used his tank to wipe out a settlement of free slaves, including Jim West's family, also for target practice.
 * Queen Bavmorda of Willow is an evil conqueror who learns of a prophecy of a child destined to defeat her, so she has all pregnant women in her kingdom imprisoned. After the child is saved from death, Bavmorda has the mother and midwife killed, who barely gets the child to safety before being torn apart by the Queen's hounds. To stop Willow and the child from getting help, Bavmorda turns a kind sorceress into a frog and the inhabitants of a castle into stone. When confronted, Bavmorda tries to cast a spell to destroy the prophesied child's soul so none can oppose her and attempts to kill her own daughter for turning against her.
 * Silers from Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand. He attacks the peaceful village full of innocent people and almost turns it into a sea of flames. When his brother is captured (which, according to Silers, is a motive of why he does all these things), half of the village tries to free him. When they do, he is killed by one of the main characters. People leave the town out of fear, only to meet Silers. They try to explain to him everything and how they tried to help. Then Silers kills everybody.
 * From the Winnetou series, based on Karl May's novels:
 * The Treasure of Silver Lake: Colonel Brinkley, leader of the bandit group the Tramps, murders several people to steal a treasure map belonging to one. Upon learning the dying man had fled to a homestead, Brinkley takes his men to massacre the region, driven off only by the heroic Apache warrior Winnetou bringing reinforcements. Brinkley later attacks an Indian village and has the women and children gunned down while the men are away, while also forcing one victim's son to lead him to the treasure by threatening the safety of the young man's Love Interest. Brinkley also proceeds to murder his own gang when it appears he has the treasure in his grasp, planning to keep the wealth entirely to himself.
 * Last of the Renegades: Bud Forrester is a ruthless oil baron who leads an attack on a group of innocent natives so he can seize their land and steal the oil underneath. Forrester later stages a massacre, which he blames on the Assiniboin Indians in order to disrupt a peace between them and the US Army and in order to cause a massive war to wipe the natives out. When the Assiniboin women and children take refuge in a cave, Forrester leads his men after them, intending to kill them before Winnetou and Old Shatterhand come to the rescue.
 * The first Djinn from Wishmaster. We only see three members of his race (only the first two films share continuity, and the Djinn in the third film is killed at the end, so it seems that the last two films feature completely different ones). Comparing them together, the one in the first two films is by far the worst of them all, and especially evil even for his race. He sees people as nothing but vermin and toys for his sick amusement. Most of the wishes he grants result in people dying horrific Body Horror-related deaths. He blows up an airplane and kills everyone on board just to kill one woman. Every soul he reaps he places in a hell-like dimension for eternal torture. In the second film, he sets out to trap one thousand mortals in this plane of eternal suffering. His ultimate goal is to turn the Earth into a place of perpetual death, destruction, pain, and fear by releasing his fellow Djinn.
 * In The Witches Hammer, Madeline Renoir is a vampiric wizard out to summon the Souls of the Damned to bring Hell on Earth. Killing and turning a researcher's wife to introduce him to the supernatural, she enlists him to help her find a Tome of Eldritch Lore that can summon the Souls to Earth. After finding the book, she has the British monster hunting organization massacred, leaving only Rebecca, who she intends to use as a Human Sacrifice for the ritual, as the Sole Survivor. As our heroes take the book to Madeline, she sends a bunch of vampire assassins to kill them and take the book, causing much collateral damage along the way. After her ritual is thwarted, Madeline declares that she'll just use the magic of the book to wreak mass destruction on Earth.
 * Matthew Hopkins of the film Witchfinder General is played by Vincent Price. A cold, cruel man who travels from village to village, torturing confessions out of suspected witches with his equally monstrous Number Two Stearne. When he arrives at one such village, he has the kindly old village priest imprisoned and tortured when the man's niece Sara promises him sexual favors if he stops the torture. Hopkins agrees, but Stearne rapes Sara while Hopkins is away, incensing Hopkins- at Sara before spitefully having her uncle tortured and killed with two other innocent women before leaving the village. When Sara's fiancee Marshall arrives, Hopkins outmaneuvers him when he comes for revenge and captures him and Sara, torturing Sara in front of Marshall to force them both to confess, even though Hopkins knows it would be false.
 * Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek is one of the most monstrous horror villains ever created. An Australian killer, rapist, and torturer, he preys upon tourists visiting the Wolf Creek area and falsely befriends them before taking them back to his home and slowly torturing them to death; all of this solely for fun. He has killed several dozen people including an entire family, (even a little girl). One of his favorite torture methods is "head on a stick" where he severs their spine to turn them into a human vegetable. At the end of the second film, he frames one of his victims for his crimes, leading to the ruination of the victim’s life. The prequel novels Origin and Desolation Game make him even more of a monster. He killed his mother who loved him dearly, beat a bully so bad he knocked his eyeball from its socket leaving it dangling by the eyestalk, and killed a dog to force feed it to its owner before killing him too. While being pursued by four other serial killers, Mick tied up his girlfriend Rose and used her as rape bait to lure the killers into a trap, and killed one named Jerry by gutting him and forcefeeding him his own intestines. During his time in the Vietnam War, he raped several women and later slaughtered their village, and stabbed an already paralyzed man in the back before cutting his head off and mounting it on a pike. After returning from the war, he took a tour guide with ten people back to his home. When the tour host escaped and returned with a cop, they found everyone dead except a single woman. Mick killed both men, and raped, tortured, and killed the woman after performing "head on a stick" with her. Mick later went to a bar and killed all six occupants.
 * Wolf Warrior 2 (2017): "Big Daddy" is the head of the Dylan Corps mercenary group who are helping the Red Scarf rebels take over a country in Africa. Seeking a doctor who has the cure for a viral outbreak, Big Daddy's mercenaries storm the Prime Minister's palace and murder him and his entourage after he refuses to disclose the doctor's location. Once they find his location, Big Daddy's mercenaries accidentally murder the doctor, and later execute dozens of innocent medical workers and civilians. When Big Daddy realizes the cure for the outbreak is in Pasha's blood, he and his mercenaries storm a factory and murder several workers and guards in an attempt to kidnap her. Big Daddy later kills General Inuwa, his employer, and takes control of his rebels. Hell-bent on killing Leng Feng and kidnapping Pasha, Big Daddy sends his mercenaries and rebels back to the factory, where they indiscriminately slaughter dozens of civilians trying to run to safety. While General Inuwa was hesitant about killing the Chinese and tried to stop the outbreak, Big Daddy only cared about completing his missions and causing as much chaos as possible.
 * In Wolverine on Wheels, One is a cult leader who claims to speak for Satan himself. When a biker gang arrives near his compound, One has them drugged so he can sacrifice a female member to be Bride of Satan. During the sacrifice ritual, One stabs a cat to death. After the gang rescue her, he places a lycanthropy curse on his victim, which she then passes onto her boyfriend. After the werewolves kill a few of the gang members, one tormenting a psychic member of the gang all the while, the rest are forced to kill them. They then go to confront One, who steals the male werewolf's body, sacrifices the female as planned and makes the rest into his mind slaves.
 * Jennet, aka the Woman in Black, in The Woman in Black. She turns out to be the ghost that was responsible for the deaths of the children in the town. She manipulates them into committing suicide. And it's also hinted that she has possession of those children's souls after their deaths. And she also kills Arthur and his son at the end as well (although its implied that she softened the blow on Arthur and his son, given that they evidently still retained their souls in the ending). The fact that she has a Freudian Excuse in that she lost her son in the marshes does not excuse the murders of the other innocent children. And she was also not looking for closure even after her son's corpse was brought to her, saying that she would never forgive.
 * Shep Lambrick of Would You Rather? is a seemingly-philanthropical corporate executive who invites people in financial trouble to his dinner parties so that he can make them perform unpleasant acts for his entertainment. Determined that Every Man Has His Price, Lambrick offers his guests money to play a game of "would you rather?" with every choice being a sadistic one. He has one man slowly beaten to death over a stress-induced outburst at Lambrick's son, makes another slice his eyeball open, causes a third man to die of a heart attack after having his hand blown off by an M-80 firecracker, and has a woman's head held underwater until she drowns, after taunting her with the implication her husband had killed their daughter in the same manner. While Lambrick does make good on his promise to the eventual winner, it's made perfectly clear that she's been badly traumatized by his "game," something he is apathetic to. Though he claims to be sympathetic to the financial plights of others, it is painfully obvious that Lambrick is just a sadistic sociopath who takes advantage of the less-fortunate in order to amuse himself.
 * Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006): Romeo, real name Jiro Kimura, is the head of the website Enola Gay. Using the website, Jiro reaches out to bullied teenagers to manipulate them into suicide bombing while creating collateral damage. Attempting to manipulate a rally of troubled teens gathering together, Jiro intends to bomb the gathering to kill everyone there and create enough chaos to rob a bank while attention is elsewhere. Gleeful about destruction and chaos, Jiro also tries to gain an advantage against the heroine Saki Asamiya by strapping bombs to her friend to force her to decide between saving them or defeating Jiro himself.
 * Dr. Death of Zombie Cop is a voodoo priest and drug lord. After escaping punishment for killing 17 people, Death becomes a Serial Killer who mutilates children for his rituals. Mortally wounding the cop who tried to stop him, Death places a curse on his nemesis so he'll rise from the grave and rot alive. He then press-gangs his former lieutenant to help him in a new killing spree so he can use the corpses to create a zombie serum, which he plans to dump in the local elementary school's water supply to zombify the kids away from their parents' sins.
 * In a movie about the SS and anti-Nazi resistance in WW2, it's hard to pin down a single specific monster, so Dr. Akkerman stresses himself to the limit to impress in Verhoeven's Zwartboek.had the face of a choir boy. Any the synopsis of this movie simply does NOT do Akkerman justice. You have to see his caring, respectable, humanist behavior prior to the final act to take it all in. Every single thing was an act. An act which got innumerable amounts of people killed. All so he could steal their heirlooms and melt them or sell them. That's fucked up. If he were ever real, he's won his place in Hell as Greed, solely for the lengths he was willing to go for so little at a time.