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.

The following films, have their own pages:


 * The Godfather

"Johnny Wong: There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die!"
 * The Scorpio Killer from Dirty Harry, pictured above, 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.
 * 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 Jews for fun.
 * Though Jack Napier/The Joker from Batman may not have been quite as gritty in his approach, the sheer scope of his reign of terror puts him on more or less the same level as his counterpart in The Dark Knight. Even before his transformation, Jack Napier was outright horrible: he was the one who murdered Bruce Wayne's parents, and if his accomplice hadn't yelled at him to get out of there, it's very likely the psycho would have killed young Bruce as well. From that to present day. For starters, he intends to poison all the Gothamites with Smylex Gas for no other reason than his own amusement, has three mob bosses killed (with him even joking about their deaths, at least one of which qualified under Nightmare Fuel, where he electrocutes him with enough voltage to turn him into a charred skeleton after claiming that shaking his hand will be the end of it if he refuses to agree with the Joker). He also horrifically disfigures Alicia Hunt and was also implied to have thrown her off a building later on in the film under the guise of suicide to free himself for Vicki Vale ("You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs."). Gasses an art gallery full of people to death just to have some "alone time" with Vicki Vale and puts the components of Smylex into different cosmetics to cause random city-wide deaths just to make the people panic. He even cold-bloodedly guns down his best and only friend, Bob the Goon, simply to vent his anger over Batman ruining the above attempt to gas everyone at the parade.
 * The Joker from The Dark Knight Saga manages to be both a Complete Monster AND a Magnificent Bastard. At the start of the film, he has several of his minions commit what seems to be your standard bank robbery...until you realize that he also had his minions kill each other off to keep most of the money for themselves after their accomplices did their job, also disguising himself as one of their comrades. Right after that, he kills the Bus Driver (who apparently wasn't even in on that part of the plan), leaving himself with all the money. Even the Bank Manager, implied to be part of the Mob, is quite horrified at the complete decadence of this criminal behavior, remarking that most criminals before them at least had honor and respect for their comrades. Then, the Joker starts exploiting the Mob’s desire to be rid of Batman, casually murdering henchmen, politicians, and police to force Batman to unmask himself. He explicitly states that this is just an excuse. Despite implying at first that he wants payment for his services from the mob, he doesn't care one bit for money, even going so far as to burn his half of the Mob's money that he earned by retrieving it, causing even the Chechen mafioso to be frightened at the implications of this, thus making it quite clear that the Joker most likely instigated the backstab-chain earlier solely for the amusement of watching his thugs kill each other for money. Even the Mob finds this a tad overkill. All the while, the Joker states how he’s simply out to be give Gotham a “better class of criminal”. This being the Joker, he doesn’t stop there; he also makes the accountant attempting to unmask Batman a target, blows up a hospital,  The Joker's entire goal is really to show that anyone and everyone can and will become a Complete Monster if they're pushed far enough (or even if they are given the chance).
 * Jonathan Doe from Se7en is possibly the most twisted and disturbing Serial Killer in cinematic history. The reasons for his actions defy understanding., 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Chris Hargensen from the movie Carrie qualifies, as she is cruel beyond the typical Alpha Bitch standards in the way she treats Carrie. Her absolute cruelest act was using Sue's act of kindness toward the title character to set up her worst prank, which involved setting Carrie up to be prom queen and then dumping a bucket of pig blood on her -- an act which also led to the death of Tommy, Carrie's date and Sue's boyfriend, when the bucket fell and hit him in the head. This resulted in Carrie unleashing her telekinetic powers in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
 * Her boyfriend Billy also shows signs of this. His status is more overt in the book.
 * Margaret White could be seen as this We see her savagely beat her daughter, lock her in a small room, feed her a fundamentalist guilt trip every day after school, turn her into a social pariah, and ultimately tries to kill her at the end. 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.
 * The Green Mile has two examples:
 * The first is the evil and psychotic Wild Bill. He is first mentioned on screen when the protagonist is informed of a triple murder at a stick up performed by Wild Bill (one of the victims was a pregnant woman), and when finally incarcerated, he manages to spend his days taunting the guards by peeing on them, spitting on their faces, and molesting one to the point they wet themselves, and also, later in the story, it is revealed he also murdered the girls which John Coffey was framed for.
 * The second is Percy Wetmore, a stuck up and sadistic prison guard who takes real pleasure in hurting the inmates (in more ways than one). His hobbies include taunting people with the classic "Dead Man Walking!" and otherwise being cruel to inmates (such as breaking the fingers of Eduard Delacroix and later stomping on his mouse). This would mark him as a mere Jerkass if not for his utter worst act, which is deliberately sabotaging Del's execution in revenge for laughing at him in an earlier scene, which results in Del being horrifically burned alive in the electric chair. The worst part is, nobody can do a thing about it due to his aunt being the governor. And he wishes to get a job with the administrators at a mental asylum (where he can easily inflict more pain), but when driven mad by John's touch, he simply shoots Wild Bill to death, goes catatonic, and gets put in the very mental hospital he wanted to get transferred to.
 * IT also contains one: It itself. The thing eats children for pleasure.
 * The Shawshank Redemption:
 * Warden Norton, especially after  and gives Andy Dufresne a month in sensory deprivation. After he breaks the news about Tommy and threatens to demolish Andy's beloved library, he sentences the starving and half-mad Andy to isolation for another month, just to think about it.
 * There's also The Sisters with their leader, Bogs Diamond, who rape and brutalize Andy for an unspecified but long amount of time. When Red tells Andy that he caught their attention, he nonchalantly asks if it would matter that he's not gay. Red replies that they aren't either, because they'd have to be human first.
 * 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.
 * 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."
 * Howard Payne in Speed causes mass murder and destruction for money while playing mind games with his victims he seems to enjoy watching die. In addition, unbelievably smart, always being two steps ahead of the police. In other words, he succeeds in being a threat and a challenge to the hero.
 * 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
 * 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 the hardened criminal Mr. White dreads leaving the cop alone with him, which is completely justified, as the top page quote proves.
 * Whilst on the topic of Quentin Tarantino's films, it makes sense to mention Boss Matsumoto from Kill Bill Volume I, 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 two of his victims.
 * 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.
 * William Tavington from The Patriot likes to shoot little boys and set churches filled with innocent people on fire. The audience can only cheer when the hero kills him.
 * 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.
 * And the Mayan warriors in Apocalypto are also 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 futiley 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 depravity and the others consider him sick.
 * 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.'
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 Dick 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.
 * 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. 'Course, this all might just have been in order to make the thief protagonist look a bit more amiable.
 * 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 for his crimes are power and fun.
 * 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.
 * Albert Spica from The Cook the Thief His Wife And 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.
 * 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."
 * The Proposition has 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.
 * 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?
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 Scagnetti's darkly comic death scene.
 * 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. . 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 just fucked up. If he were ever real and there were ever a hell, he just won his place as Greed, solely for the lengths he was willing to go for so little at a time.
 * 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.

"Koobus: I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this... I love watching Prawns die!"
 * 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.
 * 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 kidnapping her to lure Norris in with the intention of killing them both.
 * 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!"
 * The Interrogator from Closetland, 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.
 * 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.
 * The District 9 protagonist's father-in-law calmly discusses Wikus' impending live vivisection with technicians while the guy is right there on the operating table, begging him for help. Following this . Viewers likely hope she at the very least breaks all ties with the bastard.
 * From the same movie, the sadistic mercenary captain Koobus Venter who shoots aliens for sport certainly counts. He's not subtle about it, either.

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 * Also, the Nigerian mobster in a wheelchair, who runs the black market for cat food (which the aliens particularly love) and forced prostitution.
 * 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.
 * The Condemned has THREE of them. Least is Saiga, the Asian martial artist, who assists the main Complete Monster in his atrocities. Coming in second is Breckel, the TV producer who orchestrated the whole thing, giave 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.
 * Most Star Wars villains, such as Darth Vader, avoid falling into this trope with the sheer force of cool (and in the case of Vader pulled a Papa Wolf Heroic Sacrifice that led to a Redemption Equals Death). Not so for these guys:
 * Grand Moff Tarkin is the Big Bad of the original Star Wars film and one of the few characters in the saga to have no substantial fanbase of any kind. In the only movie in which he appears, he orders the destruction of a heavily populated and influential planet purely to make a point to Leia and seems quite willing to repeat the process ad infinitum if such is necessary to quash the Rebellion. The only emotion he shows at all at this prospect is a kind of cold satisfaction. The Expanded Universe just makes him worse, by showing that he codified the Empire's policy of rule through fear as "The Tarkin Doctrine", and revealing that he first came to the Emperor's attention after he crushed a peace protest under his boots - he landed his Star Destroyer on them. In short, there is nothing remotely sympathetic about the guy, and his arrogance means he doesn't even get the consolation prize of being a Magnificent Bastard like his boss.
 * It says a lot that when he appears in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the guy is utterly and completely without any positive character traits. He spends the entire rescue arc being an Ungrateful Bastard, and that Anakin agrees with some of his ideals only foreshadows the inevitable.
 * Ultimately, Emperor Palpatine himself counts in spite of Rule of Cool. Even with his being a Magnificent Bastard, it was made clear in the Holocene repositories in the official atlas that he enjoys cultivating lifeforms because he will eventually terminate them. Throughout the films, we find out he is behind almost all the bad things that happen—he engineered the invasion of his own home planet, started the Clone Wars and used the start of the war to gain considerable emergency powers, nearly annihilated the Jedi Order including the children, turned Anakin to the Dark Side, killed and disposed his loyal Separatist allies when he had no use for them anymore and made the Republic into a fascist dictatorship ruling by fear and using planet-destroying superweapons like the Death Star against anything with the idea of dissenting and personally destroying entire populations that conspire against him. He only has loyalty to himself—it's shown in Episode VI that he treated Darth Vader as expandable when Luke defeated him and wanted to make Luke his apprentice instead while leaving Vader to die. When Luke refuses, Palpatine blasts him with force lightning until he is destroyed by Vader when the latter redeems himself. Star Wars Expanded Universe material only further emphasizes his unforgivable evil, and Ian McDiarmid, Palpatine's actor, has stated that he is pure evil, even going as far as to state that he was born that way.
 * Oh, if there was any doubt that he was a Complete Monster long before ascending to power, it's all but confirmed in Star Wars: Darth Plagueis when he ended up crashing his racer and killing two people without any remorse on his part, and, in fact, was extremely glad that he got away with breaking the law and insensitively decided to reveal that instant that he wants to become a racer. In addition, when Darth Tenebrous, a Sith Lord, foresaw Palpatine's murder of Plagueis upon his death and possession of Plagueis after the latter betrayed him, he was noticeably horrified at not only Plagueis' murder at the hands of Palpatine, but at how evil Palpatine is, indicating that Palpatine was so evil, that even the Sith, who are infamous for committing various crimes with the Dark Side, were repulsed by him.
 * 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.
 * Also from David Lynch is "Sunny" Jim, 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. 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!"
 * 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:
 * Angel Eyes Sentenza of The Good the Bad And The Ugly is a sociopathic mercenary who's only concern is making as much money as possible. In the opening scenes of the film, he tracks down and murders a man at another's behest. When his victim offers him money if he will spare his life, Angel Eyes replies that "Once I'm been paid, I always see my job through." He kills the man and his son, takes the money, and reports to his employer...who he promptly murders, since he feels that in taking the victim's money he has accepted the job (plus, he wants to keep the gold he's found out about for himself). Later on, he has Tuco tortured -- and is implied to have done the same thing to countless Confederate prisoners at the camp -- and watches with absolutely no emotion on his face. He's less a character than he is Greed in a trenchcoat and cowboy hat. He's so bad that the other two main characters -- no saints themselves -- both agree to shoot him in the three way Mexican Standoff that ends the film, despite their extreme distaste for one another. Perhaps the most impressive part about it is that it's done almost entirely on performance -- none of his actions are really objectively worse than those made by Blondie and Tuco, yet Lee Van Cleef's performance is so chilling that you never once doubt that he is the greater of three evils and utterly deserving of the moniker "The Bad".
 * 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. El Indio at least had a main goal, Ramon 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.
 * 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.'
 * Clarence Darby from Law Abiding Citizen qualifies big time. 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.
 * The Serial Killer known only as J from the Korean film Confession To 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 make his 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.
 * 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.
 * 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, solely so 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. He murders Otis after catching Otis raping Otis's sister Becky who confesses she loves Henry. The next day, Henry is seen leaving alone, dropping a heavy, bloodstained suitcase in a ditch that contains Becky's remains.
 * Henry Evans, from The Good Son, shows you needn't be an adult(or even a teenaged chav) to be monstrous. He had drowned his kid brother over a toy and keeps going by murdering a dog, crashing several cars with a dummy and trying to murder his mother. Curiously, even though he acts glaringly robotic and overtly creepy, no one except Mark notices his conniving behavior.
 * Rhoda, the perfect little girl in The Bad Seed,
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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."
 * 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.
 * 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).
 * 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).
 * 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. He chains up Lola to the missile for good measure so she'll be incinerated by the launch.
 * 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:.
 * 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, women, or his own family, and usurped the throne to pervert the very idea of Rome by replacing it with a tyrannical dynasty for all time.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Plunkett and Macleane has Thief Taker, General Chance. A man who very much enjoys torturing people and their fragile eyes. This makes all the more satisfying to watch.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The two hillbilly rapists in Deliverance. "Squeal like a pig!"
 * On the topic of hillbilly rapists from, there are the ones 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.
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 over again.
 * 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 she can’t interact with the world around her. She is convinced that her “master” will one day come back for her, and kills 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.
 * 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 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 more of a force of nature and the lack of motive is played for Nightmare Fuel.
 * The lack of motive carries over to the remakes; Word of God from Rob Zombie says that Michael doesn't kill because of his shitty childhood; he kills because he's evil. The abuse and terrible living conditions were incidental.
 * From the same series, Doctor Terence Wynn. At one point in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, 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.
 * 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..
 * In the James Bond films, most villains avoid falling into this trope due to redeeming qualities. Not all of them however:
 * Auric Goldfinger is such a memorable and witty villain that you almost forget that he's a criminally insane maniac. His plan involves poisoning an army barracks and the surrounding town - 60,000 people (he shrugs this off with A Million Is a Statistic) - and then detonating a nuclear device in Fort Knox to trigger a major economic crisis for his own profit, and considers such a scheme potentially one of the greatest achievements in human endeavor, up there with scaling Everest and splitting the Atom. He punishes his assistant, who becomes a Bond girl and costs him a rigged card game, by having her murdered with golden paint; he tries to have James Bond sawn in half with a laser, and he gives an Evil Speechof Evil to his mob partners even though he always planned on killing them (and does) - he just wanted to let them know how brilliant a criminal mastermind he was. Bond panders to his ego because he sees just how dangerously mad he is.
 * Hugo Drax in Moonraker. He has the most monstrous plan of any Bond villain to date - the extermination of the human race, intending to repopulate the Earth with his own specially chosen perfect specimens. He has a massive ego to the point where he talks about how "I alone" created his giant space station and has a French chateau imported brick by brick to California to be his house. He is one of the few villains to try and justify Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? by saying he wanted to give Bond an "amusing death", and when the first two fail, he still manages to give his assistant, whom Bond had seduced, a gruesome death - he has her chased down and mauled by his dogs!
 * Max Zorin in A View to a Kill really qualifies big time. Besides his main plan to cause a flood that would kill many innocents by triggering an earthquake, he drops a businessman to his death when he disagrees with his plan, kills the mayor and gets Bond blamed for it, murders the subway workers in a gleeful manner, and while doing this, betrays May Day, his main henchwoman.
 * Franz Sanchez from Licence to Kill. Although in some scenes he's Affably Evil and charming, he's also uncommonly brutal and ruthless in dealing with his enemies or those he perceives as disloyal to him - he brutally whips his mistress, Lupe Lamora, with a stingray-tail whip as a punishment for infidelity. It is also implied that under his orders, his top henchman Dario removed the heart of the man she has slept with. He feeds Bond's best friend, Felix Leiter, to a shark (he had his newlywed wife raped and killed right before), and he kills one of his collaborators, locking him in a decompression chamber, believing he stole his money. Towards the climax, he also decides to start "cutting overhead" and shoots his financial advisor.
 * Xenia Onatopp from Goldeneye has the dubious honor of being the most depraved Femme Fatale Bond has ever come across. Initially seen as a charming, elegant woman, Xenia reveals her true nature when in bed with her target, she kils him by crushing him between her thighs to suffocate him, getting clear sexual ecstasy from the murder. She steals his security clearance and murders several innocent sailors before eluding Bond. Later, when Xenia arrives in a Russian facility, she massacres all the techs with machine gun fire, getting very visibly aroused by the killings. Even her partner for the mission looks a bit stunned at it. Xenia has one of the largest bodycounts for a Dragon in the franchise, and unlike the majority of her male counterparts, Xenia is in it for money and thrills. She has no issue helping to use the Goldeneye satellite to plunge England into the dark ages as long as she gets rich from it. The fact that her job gives her the ability to express her sexualized love for killing is just another perk.
 * Carver of Tomorrow Never Dies. In addition to the whole plan of killing a city full of people and quite possibly instigating World War III, there's what he planned to do to 007 and Wai Lin. Carver orders them tortured, telling them of the techniques Mr. Stamper will use and explaining that these methods (including mutilating the genitals) are designed to inflict the maximum amount of agony while keeping the victim alive as long as possible. To say nothing of Carver ordering the murder of his own wife when she becomes too close to James Bond.
 * General Medrano of Quantum of Solace, who raped and killed Camille's family in front of her, and burnt down the house. He conspires with Dominic Greene of the organization Quantum, deliberately engineering a nationwide drought in Bolivia to get allow Quantum to get its hands on his nation's water supply and having the gall to frame the government for selling off its rainforests. Medrano is willing to plunge his nation into drought and famine, dooming multiple innocent people, just so he can have an excuse to seize power. When Greene informs Medrano how expendable he truly is to Quantum, Medrano buckles under pressure and acquiesces to Greene's demands before trying to rape his maid out of frustration. When Camille intervenes, Medrano tries to rape and murder her as well, mocking her about her mother and sister.
 * Mr. Harvey in The Lovely Bones. The way he's found out is when his Scrapbook o' Susie is found, including his plan for killing her, pictures of her, and a lock of her hair.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The Beadle, too. 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 that.
 * 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, even ; it's just easier to look the other way in Sweeney's case, because of what the Judge did to him.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

"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."
 * 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:

""What I did to your friend was....fun. It was fun.""
 * "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.
 * Nacho from the Spanish film Bullying is a great example of how severe bullying can get. This is deonstrated by him    This culminates in
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * Doctor Josef Heiter from The Human Centipede is quite possibly the most horrific Mad Scientist in all of fiction. He was the foremost authority on conjoined twin separation. Now he wants to try doing something like this in reverse. The title should be enough for you to figure it out, though you'll probably need a gallon or twelve of Brain Bleach afterwards, and then, you'll probably have nightmares.
 * Max Cady from Cape Fear. Especially Robert Mitchum, whose subtle performance makes Cady feel even more human and therefore even more terrifying.
 * 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.
 * Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: Destoroyah. To give a good idea as to how sadistic he is, he  while laughing.
 * The majority of Godzilla's other enemies are simply big, dumb, and/or mind controlled. A few, however, belong on this list every bit as much as Destoroyah does. King Ghidorah is the standout. One of the big guy's most powerful adversaries, Ghidorah is one of the few monsters to actively enjoy causing destruction, as evidenced by his cackling, Joker-esque laugh. An Omnicidal Maniac of the first order, Ghidorah has made a career out of destroying planets and all the life on them and seems to get a thrill out of taunting the human military when it fails to destroy him. It's Expy, Desigidorah, took this up another step, by slowly draining the Earth of all life. And there's its evolved form, Kaiser Ghidorah/Monster X. Originally mindcontrolled by the alien Xillians in its Monster X form, Ghidorah battles Godzilla to a standstill, during which time the aliens are defeated. Freed of their control, Ghidorah evolves into Kaiser Ghidorah and proceeds to use it's Vampiric Draining on Godzilla, slowly torturing him to death for no real reason beyond hatred (since it's no longer receiving orders from the Xillians). This isn't a first for Ghidorah--in Destroy All Monsters, after the Kilaaks control tower was destroyed, freeing all the creatures under its control, King Ghidorah kept right on attacking Godzilla and co. And that's without getting into the Rebirth of Mothra films, where Grand King Ghidorah drained the souls of children. It's about as malevolent as a film monster can get.
 * Gigan is of a similar mind to Ghidorah. Essentially a forty-story Psycho for Hire, Gigan is utterly Ax Crazy and enjoys slowly dismembering other monsters with his buzzsaw and scythes. He regularly attacks Earth while in the employ/thrall of one alien race after another, and typically takes his time in slowly cutting his opposition to pieces--even when he could just shoot them. He's also got elements of Dirty Coward in his nature, frequently abandoning allies when the going gets tough, and enjoys ganging up on single opponents alongside the likes of Megalon and fellow sociopath Ghidorah. Amongst the fandom, he is generally regarded as Godzilla's most brutal adversary.
 * X from Godzilla: Final Wars. The Controller wanted to take Earth peacefully and was simply a Well-Intentioned Extremist trying to save his people. X offs him the moment he gets the chance and takes over, instantly letting loose his entire army of monsters and begins the destruction of human civilization. While many alien invaders in Godzilla movies have done just that, it's the sadistic glee present in X as he watches the horror he's unleashed that makes it clear that, unlike his more peaceful predecessor, he's a sadist who enjoys what he's doing! When he captures the Gotengo at the climax of the film, he orders his men to slaughter the entire crew except the ones he wanted personally. Where his predecessor took prisoners even when he could've simply let the victim die, X has absolutely no regard for life at all. During the Final Battle of the film, he takes his time to enjoy the Curb Stomp Battle he's inflicting on his opponent.
 * Mola Ram and his Thuggee Cult from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom kidnaps 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...
 * Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark not only tortures people for pleasure, but when Indy and one of his henchman are fighting, he orders his people to "shoot'em both."
 * Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) from Marathon Man. A psycho Nazi dentist who loves his torture methods, as it is shown in the infamous "Is it safe?" sequence where he tortures Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) with his dental instruments, digging into one of his cavities. He also has the particular skill to kill his victims with a retractable blade, making them die slowly and painfully.
 * Takeo from Juon, 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.
 * Colonel William Stryker from X2: X-Men United brainwashes Nightcrawler into attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, and was also implied to have brainwashed Magneto into helping Stryker capture Professor X. He later deliberately conducts a raid on a school, kidnapping several of the students for experimentation, brainwashes Xavier and Cyclops, and uses Xavier in an attempt to wipe out Mutants across the world with a Cerebro clone. His brainwashing method? His own son. He is also the reason why Wolverine was imbedded with an adamantium-plated skeleton, the exact same procedure he subjected his second-in-command, Yuriko Oyama, through. In addition, he brainwashed the latter. In one scene, we see Yuriko start to wake up from the brainwashing, only for him to grab her and dose her up again before she can do anything. There's also the fact that the brainwashing serum leaves the victims conscious, but unable to control their bodies, which means that he was abducting innocent people and making them do horrible things and in a state to watch themselves do it! Nightcrawler actually thinks that he was possessed by a demon when it's done to him.
 * In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, shortly after assigning James Howlett and Victor Creed into Team X, he led them to a village where a mysterious meteorite was located. He had the chieftain killed when he refuses to give the location, and had some of the team attack the villagers as a result, disgusting James enough to have him quit Team X immediately. The same film also shows how Stryker is no different from his father. The latter kept a mutant unlawfully detained and wanted to bomb the island with mutants who just saved the day even while a fellow agent was also there. The so-called justification being that the law doesn't apply to mutants and the agent was "collateral damage". Like father, like son is so true in William's case, seeing how he has no scruples, as we see from his various heinous actions. Having Victor Creed kill off his former unit, blackmailing Kayla (Logan's girlfriend) into keeping tabs on Logan, faking her death at the hands of Victor Creed via capturing her sister (Emma Frost), getting Logan into participating in the Weapon X program to give him the adamantium skeleton, having Creed round up and experiment on mutants to produce Weapon XI (Deadpool) and having Zero kill a farming family who took Logan in after his escape (framing him with the deed), just to recapture him. Murdered a general when the man called Stryker out on the fact that he was motivated by prejudices. Kidnaped innocent mutants other than Kayla's sister just for experiments. The Three Mile Island incident only doesn't count because it was unintentional on his part. Not that it matters on the list of deliberate malice this long already. Talk about a well deserved death.
 * Even Stryker is nothing compared to Dr. Klaus Schmidt/Sebastian Shaw from X-Men First Class: In case you're wondering why he has a German name, it's because in the beginning of the movie, he worked as a Nazi scientist for Auschwitz, and then had Erik try to move a concentration camp-coin, feeling that he had a lot of potential after witnessing him wreck a gate. It is in this scene that he also mocks the Nazi belief that blond hair and blue eyes are the superior race. Yes, that's right, he actually MOCKS what would have been considered the most heinous crime in history because he felt that the Nazi belief on a master race was purely superficial. It gets even worse in the same scene: he has some Nazi guards bring Erik's mother in, not to reunite her with her son, but to use her as leverage to make him move the coin, stating that at the count to three, if he doesn't move the coin with his abilities, he'll kill her. Erik fails to move it before three. Erik is so enraged at it that he ends up crushing everything metallic in the room, even the soldier's helmets while the soldiers are wearing it, with Schmidt actually congratulating him for this action, even when his office and lab lay in shambles. In addition, flashbacks that were seen via Emma Frost's telepathic abilities implied that Schmidt also subjected Erik to experimentation afterwards. It also becomes apparent later on that he plans on instigating what history will later know as the Cuban Missile Crisis to start a thermonuclear war so that the mutants will grow stronger and decimate all of the normal humans, abducting an Army Colonel and then having him to agree to the U.S. to place American nuclear missiles in Turkey, and then proceeds to blow the colonel up by absorbing a grenade blast and reflecting it back at him (then again, considering the fact that the Colonel was preparing to blackmail him via grenade and apparently was bribed to do so given his statements, the guy kinda deserved it), and he planned to manipulate the Soviet general. Later, after he learns that Xavier was recruiting mutants to his side, he and his Hellfire group attack the CIA building used to research mutants, recruiting Angel to his side, and also managing to murder Darwin by absorbing Havok's disc energy and force-feeding Darwin the ability, causing him to self-destruct after the latter attempted to fake defection to stop them. He then successfully manipulates (or rather, forces) the Soviet general into delivering nukes to Cuba and later to deliver them past the embargo line, even arranging for the crew to be murdered in order to ensure that it crosses, in case the crew decided to turn back. He then follows the Soviet transport tanker and planned that should something go wrong even after these anticipations, he'll attempt to absorb all of the energy from his sub's nuclear reactor to destroy Cuba, then pin the blame on the United States, to follow through with his plans to instigate World War III. Not only that, but he is also directly responsible for Erik's conversion into Magneto as well as his Start of Darkness, right when the latter managed to murder him with the very coin he tried to have him move.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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. Yet somehow, people like the sonofabitch.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Speaking of Trejo, 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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".
 * Lord Blackwood from 2009's Sherlock Holmes has killed 5 girls for his satanic rituals and is stated to have killed many more. He also plans to . He also 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 Die Hard, we have Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) - . He might be Affably Evil and give his hostages some food, but won’t hesitate when he has to pull the trigger -.
 * 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.
 * 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,.
 * Aren't we forgetting someone, my little droogies?
 * It's also heavily implied that Alex's own evil (and he and his gang of droogs are plenty evil in this movie) pales before that of the people responsible for his reconditioning, since
 * 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.
 * 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. One of his least heinous deeds in the movie is gloating to the man who's chasing him that he murdered said man's pregnant fiancée even though she begged for her life.
 * Godfrey from Robin Hood (2010 film) is a sadistic and ruthless knight. He betrayed England in the first place. He enjoys killing people and burning villages. Oh, and he slew poor and blind Sir Walter!!
 * In Eight MM has "Machine" -- 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...
 * Dear old Uncle Bart in Jet Li's Unleashed. The man took in Danny after the death of his mother and spent years turning him into an unthinking, unfeeling killing machine. He made Danny into an animal, programmed to fight when his collar is clicked off, and used him to beat uncooperative debtors into submission.
 * 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.
 * 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!
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 his nature.
 * Stake Land brings us Sinister Minister Jebediah Loven, leader of a cult that 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.
 * 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. He thinks nothing of betraying and killing allies, and when he returns in the second film, he shows himself as even nastier than before, even having a reporter killed for insulting him in a story.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 too.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
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 * 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.
 * 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.
 * How has Carter Burke from Aliens not been mentioned? 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 Complete 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.
 * 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 finally killed.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 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 own hands.
 * 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 to him.
 * 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 sends a man to kill the hooker's madam with an axe, and 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 Mike 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.
 * 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. Almost all of them qualify.
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 * 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 in him.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Lektor later 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.
 * 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 vicious Serial Killers, Verger manages to stand out.
 * Colonel Zaysen from Rambo 3 destroys Afghan villages and kills innocent people, including women and children, with mines, bio-weapons, and other evil stuff for no reason at all; even when said people did nothing at all.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * In the first Iron Man movie, we have Obadiah Stane who is the second-of-command of Stark Industries. While he appears to be a somewhat gruff yet affable man on the surface, Obadiah is in reality a power hungry maniac who secretly acts as a weapons dealer for a violent group of terrorists known as the Ten Rings. Having grown an unhealthy lust for money and corporate power, Obadiah set up for Tony Stark to be killed by the terrorists so he can end up in control of Tony's company which ends up getting a convoy full of troops obliterated and Tony is set up to be tortured at the hands of the terrorists (he was supposed to be killed, but the Ten Rings found him more useful alive than dead). After Tony came back to America and the Ten Rings found the remaining scraps of Tony's armor, Obadiah betrayed the terrorists and had them killed while he stole the fragments and created the powerful, tank-like Iron Monger armor. However, his scientist team could not replicate the arc reactor needed to make the armor work, so Obadiah ambushed Tony at his home, had him drugged, and then took the arc reactor that Tony uses as his heart, leaving him to die by succumbing to shrapnel shard wounds after mocking him about his failure. After testing out the armor by slaughtering a few S.H.I.E.L.D agents, Obadiah fell in love with the armor's capabilities and fought the revived Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit in a brutal fight to the death where he wasn't afraid at all of putting civilians in mortal danger (Including a family with children) just to piss off Tony. The last threat he made before his demise was to deliberately kill anything and everything Tony holds dear to him, Pepper Potts included.
 * The third Iron Man movie gives us the equally despicable Aldrich Killian, the self-centered, misogynistic, narcissistic leader of the A.I.M corporation. When he was a young scientist, he'd wanted to get funding from Tony Stark for his A.I.M project, so he tracked Tony down to Switzerland at a New Year's Eve party and asked him about it. Tony told him to wait for him on the rooftop to discuss it, but Tony broke his word and never showed up. This enraged Killian so much that rather than jumping off the roof to his death, he decided to devote his life to creating a better mechanics business empire than Tony Stark's. After recruiting Maya and funding the research on the Extremis virus, he started using Extremis in experiments on human test subjects, seeing it give the human body strength, resilience, and even regenerative properties. However, the virus soon started backfiring and causing the test subjects to spontaneously combust. Rather than stopping the experiments, Killian devised a despicable plan around them.
 * Surprising absolutely nobody, Johann "The Red Skull" Schmidt in Captain America: The First Avenger is one. Kills people even after he gets what he wants for no real reason? Check. Has no loyalty to anyone but himself? (Seriously, he's The Starscream to Hitler.) Check. Plans to annihilate all 'enemy' cities, including his own capital? Check. He even has POWs used in torturous experiments and plans to rule the world as the God he fancies himself as. His ultimate plan is to use the power of the Tesseract to blow up one half of the entire world, which he would then build his empire on and go to war with the half of the world left undestroyed and unconquered. Armin Zola even states that Schmidt has no care for the Nazi cause and ideals: he just wants to burn the entire world before ruling it utterly, all out of hatred, malice, and evil.
 * Daredevil has Bullseye, a swaggering Psycho for Hire who prides himself on his unerring aim and his total lack of regard for human life. Retained by Wilson "The Kingpin" Fisk as a troubleshooter, Bullseye is a mess of barely contained violence, who regularly murders in his offtime. Over the course of the film he kills a man for insulting him in a bar, chokes an elderly woman to death for talking too much on a plane, murders another man in order to steal his motorcycle, and stabs one of Fisk's guards to death with pencils after deciding he'd rather not go through security. That's in addition to killing Nikolas and Elektra Natchios (and two of their bodyguards) on Fisk's orders, and trying to hunt down an already wounded Daredevil for the heinous crime of making him miss. An arrogant braggart who loves showing off against weaker opponents, and who is reduced to a sniveling wreck when beaten, Bullseye is completely void of redeeming qualities.
 * Sam Raimi's Spider-Man has Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. While first introduced as a cold, ruthless billionaire businessman and scientist who emotionally abuses his son Harry for not meeting his high standards (and shows more fondness to Peter Parker for meeting them), he begins a downward spiral into madness when he experiments on himself with a super strength formula needed for making the glider weapon his company was devising for the military to work. It enhances his strength, stamina, and agility, but also drives him insane, and in a moment of pure insanity he murders his co-worker, Dr. Stromm. The madness eventually takes shape as a Split Personality that removes all of Norman's inhibitions and taking on the identity of the Green Goblin, this allows him to kill his military sponsors and his board of directors that voted to remove him from the company. While at first Norman always blacks out after his outings as the Goblin, he soon confronts his darker nature and rather than work to overcome it, he succumbs to it instead because it's power can get him anything he's ever wanted. As the Goblin, he bombs an entire building during the Macy's parade and puts countless innocent lives in danger, puts J. Jonah Jameson in a chokehold while demanding he give information about which of his employees takes Spider-Man's pictures, offers Spider-Man to either join him in his crime spree or die, and then attempts to kill Spider-Man after luring him to a populated burning building that he's implied to have set fire to in the first place. If this wasn't bad enough, upon learning that Spider-Man is Peter Parker, he flies his glider into Aunt May's house and wounds the defenseless old woman just to emotionally compromise Peter. ("ATTACK HIS HEART!" as he puts it) At the film's climax, the Goblin abducts Peter's Love Interest Mary Jane and drops both her and a bus full of children off the Brookyln bridge to force Spider-Man into making a Sadistic Choice. When Spider-Man ends up saving both, the Goblin gives him a merciless No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while suggesting that he now plans to rape and torture MJ before killing her in order to make her death nice and slow, just to spite Peter. After Peter turns the tables, Norman pretends to show remorse and have come back to his senses, but while preparing to literally stab Peter in the back with his glider. The glider ends up impaling and killing Norman instead, but even in death his evil presence corrupts Harry and tears him and Peter apart in the following two sequels. In this sense, Norman Osborn was the Big Bad of the entire trilogy.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * If you were to look up the term "Sexual sadist" in a dictionary, chances are Vukmir from A Serbian Film would be pictured right next to the definition. No atrocity is too low for him in his films (murder, rape, necrophilia, pedophilia) and
 * The title character from Zodiac, who tortures and kills random people and flaunts his crimes to the police and media, all for shits and giggles.
 * 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
 * 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, he . There are two kinds of characters in that movie: characters who have never heard of Brick Top and characters who are terrified of him.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 daughter  (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.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * 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 in hell.
 * 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.
 * 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. 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 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.
 * Bollywood is known for its cartoonishly evil villains. But in Murder 2, which is The Remake of 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.
 * The Chaser, meanwhile, had 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.
 * Charles Lee Ray, later known as the killer doll Chucky from the Childs 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.
 * 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. Yes, he's that cruel.
 * 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.
 * Oba from Jailhouse 41, the second of the Female Prisoner Scorpion films, paints herself as this. She drowned her son and stabbed her unborn baby to death because her husband was unfaithful; she uses the scars to instill fear and exert her authority. She tortures and humiliates hostages, both the misogynist men who killed one of her companions and some perfectly innocent women. She eventually, cursing the people of her hometown, fantasizing about returning to stab them and burn their houses down.
 * In 1996 film The Adventures of Pinocchio, there is Lorenzini. It 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. Luckily, unlike all the other versions, he is NOT a Karma Houdini in this one.
 * 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.


 * 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 evidentially 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 and all for the money he was going to make off of a pharmaceutical deal.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The demon from Paranormal Activity. A brutal, sadistic, malevolent, murdering, psyche assaulting, soul-raping specter from who-knows-where. Perhaps one of the nastiest villains in any film, and he's never even seen! Watching the first film alone makes his status very clear.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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  Kevin has no Freudian Excuse of any kind. The closest he comes to displaying any kind of remorse is when he,  admits that even he doesn't really know why he did what he did. Which is less regret and more open acknowledgement about what he is - if anything, he seems to want a self justification just so that his evil deeds can mean something.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Kazuo Kiriyama from The Film of the Book for Battle Royale stands in contrast to his emotionless counterpart from the book and manga versions. Kiriyama in the film is a ruthless and psychopathic Blood Knight who voluntarily signed up for 'The Program' to be able to hunt down teenagers for for fun. Throughout the film, Kiriyama wracks up the highest kill count, not caring if his victims are helpless or not, and after gunning down one girl, he uses a megaphone so everyone around can hear her pain and his execution of her. While he never speaks a word, his Slasher Smile throughout the film speaks volumes for how much he is relishing his murder of everyone around him.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 garrotte. 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.
 * 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 has little but contempt for his unstable, Ambiguously Gay son Kirill and also 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 later 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.
 * 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. And his ultimate goal is to turn the Earth into a place of perpetual death, destruction, pain, and fear by releasing his fellow Djinn.
 * 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.
 * 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 The Hero 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.
 * 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.
 * The high priest Caiaphas also qualifies. He blackmails Pilate into crucifying Jesus or he would have a revolt on his hands that would kill both Jesus and Pilate.
 * 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.
 * Smaug from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a cruel dragon who sacked the once prosperous city of Dale and left it a burning husk with tens of thousands dead in his wake, as well as drove the dwarves from their kingdom of Erebor leaving them emotionally ruined and homeless with nowhere to turn to, and is one of two main sources of suffering for secondary protagonist Thorin Oakenshield (The other being Azog the Pale Orc). While content with sleeping within the Lonely Mountain with his treasure most of the time, it's more of him being a self-centered and indulgent kind of dragon as opposed to a lack of interest in raiding other cities, and once Bilbo Baggins wakes him up and spends a good amount of time with most of the dwarven company trying to kill Smaug, he flies off towards Laketown with the intent of violently slaughtering every last resident purely to spite Bilbo, having noticed that the hobbit cares a lot about the townsfolk. And unlike in the book, not only is he well aware of the growing darkness of Sauron and his forces yet not really caring, he seems to be considering getting in on it too! Smaug left death and suffering wherever he chose, and he was damn proud of this.