History AxCrazy / LiveActionTv

** [[TheCaligula Joffrey Baratheon]] is a rampant {{sadist}} with little regard for human life, but he's also a DirtyCoward so he prefers to use a crossbow on helpless victims to satisfy his homicidal streak and sadism. In one of his first scenes without the supervision of another Lannister, the sweet prince begins to cut Mycah with his sword and threatens to gut Arya before Nymeria intervenes. He proceeds to get much, ''much'' worse.
** Ramsay Bolton, even after being somewhat ''toned down'' from [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]], still manages to be one of the '''most''' frightening examples ever.

** Euron loves violence and slaughter, even going so far as to casually declare his intent to murder his own niece and nephew. He ''absolutely'' solidifies this in "Stormborn," which sees him board Yara's flagship in full piratical glory as he descends on his gangplank right on top of some {{Mook}}, roaring and laughing his head off like Jack Nicholson in ''Film/TheShining'' while swinging an actual battleax. He also apparently cut the tongues out of all his men after a storm simply because he "needed the silence". This bit leads to Theon jumping ship when Yara is captured.

** Joffrey is a sadistic sociopath with little regard for human life, but he's also a DirtyCoward so he prefers to use a crossbow on helpless victims. In one of his first scenes without the supervision of another Lannister, the sweet prince begins to cut Mycah with his sword and threatens to gut Arya before Nymeria intervenes. He proceeds to get much, ''much'' worse.
** Mad King Aerys was so ax-crazy that it brought about the downfall of his dynasty, at which point he plotted to incinerate King's Landing out of spite.

** Myranda quickly proves herself to be just as psychotic and insane as Ramsay.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Jesse James, the Trickster. While plenty of [[Comicbook/TheFlash the Flash's]] enemies aren't exactly sane, the Trickster doesn't cause chaos and death as part of any grand plan, or for money, like the others -- he's just doing it because he finds it fun. Notably, the comic book version of the Trickster ''isn't'' Ax-Crazy, but the show's version is largely an {{Expy}} of Comicbook/TheJoker. (He's even played by Creator/MarkHamill, who's voiced the Joker a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries fair]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries number]] [[Series/BirdsOfPrey2002 of]] [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction times]].)

* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': Newton Dell from "Thrill of the Kill" is a serial killer who murders people at random [[ForTheEvulz for the sheer pleasure of it]].

* ''Series/{{Mayday}}'': Or, in the case of the would-be skyjacker in "Fight for Your Life", [[DropTheHammer Hammer]]-and-Speargun Crazy.

* ‘’Series/BetterCallSaul’’:

** The Master; he likes to kill whether it helps his plans or not. The best example of this comes from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]], when he orders [[spoiler:the Toclafane]] to kill one-tenth of the population, just because he likes the word "decimate" (to reduce by one-tenth).

** Gus Fring. Despite on the surface seeming more calm and rational than the Salamancas, he absolutely is willing to use violence to intimidate others - see him slicing upon Victor’s throat with a box cutter to send a message to Walt and Gus, or suffocating Arturo with a plastic bag to send a message to Nacho. Also, while he is mostly calm to those in his employ, if you have wronged him, he will make it his life’s mission to completely destroy you; see him poisoning the Juarez Hotel.

** The Master; he likes to kill whether it helps his plans or not. The best example of this comes from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]], when he orders [[spoiler: the Toclafane]] to kill one-tenth of the population, just because he likes the word "decimate" (to reduce by one-tenth).

Particularly memorable is the scene in "Ariel" where she slashes Jayne's chest with a butcher knife because he was wearing a Blue Sun T-shirt, and because he would later try to [[spoiler: turn her and her brother Simon into the Alliance for the reward money]]. With her psychic abilities, she most likely sensed something stab-worthy about him.\\

%%** In Season 6, [[spoiler: a clearly-not-all-there Claire]].

** In the eighth season there's an inmate named Kill Crazy. Ironically, at the first chance to actually kill something, he runs headlong into a doorframe and knocks himself out cold. [[spoiler: Which saved his life, oddly enough.]]
** The Dwarfers used to occasionally run into Simulants, Ax-Crazy robots who were bred for a war that never happen, and bent on destroying all life. Plus the one time they were sent a replacement for Kryten, Hudzen-10, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation it turned out to be Ax-Crazy as well!]]

** Boris ends up like this after merging with his vampiric reflection, appalling even the vampires around him with his willingness to ignore [[EvenEvilHasStandards their few moral codes]], culminating in him [[spoiler: murdering the Grand High Vampire so he can steal his crown.]]
** In the Season 3 finale [[spoiler: {{Se|aledEvilInACan}}thius quickly proves utterly insane, killing the vampires around him purely because he can. He intends to replace humanity with vampires because he ''wants'' them to run out of food and descend into violent chaos. He's bad enough that Ingrid and the Count actually follow the plan instead of scheming so they can take him down.]]
* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': In "Flood", Vyvyan has created a potion that cures people of ''not'' being ax-wielding homicidal maniacs. To avoid confusion he has stored it in a coca cola can. Neil has a silly premonition that someone will accidentally drink it later on. [[spoiler: Yes, someone does.]]

** In TheMovie, he's [[IncrediblyLamePun fax]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNDXc7a8p4 crazy]].

** The Cousins. They kill almost everyone they come across. They also have a literal ax.

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' gives us Helen Brittas, whose sanity is best questioned through how quickly she resorts to violence. Her son's teacher gives him a failing mark from work she did for him? She attempts to run the teacher over with little remorse. She thinks that Brittas is cheating on her with Carole? She tries to kill Carole. She learns that a reporter lied to her about his identity? She chases after him with an axe with the intent to if not kill, at least main. This isn't going into the time she took her husband off of life support and only put it back in when Laura said that he'll miss him.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has Dr. Calvin Zabo/Johnson. Originally a good man until he lost his family due to Comicbook/{{HYDRA}}, his obsession with getting them back (plus his PsychoSerum experiments) left him psychotic and with a HairTriggerTemper like no (well, maybe [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk one]]) other.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Centauri Emperor Cartagia, epically ax crazy and in charge of a planet. Prone to laughing and doing a merry jig with you one second and casually having you executed the next. Planned to have his world [[spoiler: blown up by the bad guys in exchange for his ascent to godhood (or so he believes.)]]
** The Sniper, in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark". [[spoiler: He took seven days to kill a Minbari. He cut his victim to pieces, starting from the digits and extremities and tying off the body part to be removed next, so as to avoid his victim dying from blood loss.]]

--->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Jesse:]]''' Are you basing that on he's got like a normal, healthy brain or something?! Did you not see him beat a dude to death for, like, ''nothing''?!

** Connor ends up Ax-Crazy after [[spoiler: killing his godlike daughter Jasmine]], snapping completely after learning a man he stopped from committing suicide would have left his family alone, holding a mall hostage and rigging it with explosives, insisting that a man stop holding his daughter wrong (because Connor broke his arm). Connor had some [[AbusiveParents problems]] [[TykeBomb with]] [[OedipusComplex his]] [[EldritchAbomination family]].

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Chang, particularly in episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage English as a Second Language]] where he takes a key-tar to a former students car.
** [[spoiler: [[Recap/CommunityS3E21TheFirstChangDynasty "The First Chang Dynasty"]] [[MoralEventHorizon has him actually try to murder the study group along with the Dean]] (and everyone else in Greendale, [[LethallyStupid due to not understanding how fire works]].]]

* ''Series/GothamKnights'': Ten seconds with Duela is enough to convince anyone she's the daughter of the Joker as she likes to use violence while being pretty obviously unhinged.

-->"Heh, Hooch is crazy."\\
"Who the HELL...put bouillon cubes in the shower head!?! Huh? Hm, did you do it? Hm? Did you? If it happens again...I will wait in my SUV, blast me some speed metal -- five point one surround sound, heavy on the bass -- and someone...will be getting...mowed...down."\\
"...Hooch is ''crazy!''"

** Many Meteor Freaks. Bruno Mannheim, a gangster who appeared in Season 8's "Stiletto" was also visibly nuts, twitching in every one of his appearances, and gleefully killing his boss for wanting to go straight. And then there's LX-3, an utterly murderous clone of ComicBook/LexLuthor, who tries to kill or hurt ''every single person'' we see him speak too. He burns the other clones to death while ranting about how "ThereCanBeOnlyOne", attacks Tess, kills the whole staff at Cadmus Labs, and, to top it off, ties Lois to a scarecrow and sets the field around her alight after placing a bomb in the ''Daily Planet''. All this so he can force a SadisticChoice on Clark and have a few laughs before TheLastDance claims him.

--->Doesn't feel right, though. Not having blood on my hands before lunch.

** Captain ([[LargeHam "LORD!"]]) Garth from the episode "Whom Gods Destroy", especially apparent when he nonchalantly tosses a planet-destroying bomb to one of his henchmen for amusement. Not helped by his delusions of becoming "Master Of The Universe".
** Red Jack from "Wolf In The Fold", naturally.
** Similarly, the entity from "Day of the Dove" makes its victims AxCrazy, so it can feed on their negative emotions for sustenance. The entity itself is a case of BlueAndOrangeMorality.
** Capt. Tracey, having [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gone mad from the revelation]] that his evil deeds were AllForNothing, attacks Kirk with an ax because his phaser is drained so he can't literally ShootTheMessenger of the bad news.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** Lore, who sacrificed an entire Federation colony to the [[EldritchAbomination Crystalline Entity]], simply because the colonists were uncomfortable having an unstable sociopath with superhuman strength, speed, and intelligence freely roaming their colony. He would later try to feed the ''Enterprise'' to the same entity [[ForTheEvulz for no particular reason]].

* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Larry, who considers [[KillEmAll killing everyone involved in a mission, be they target or bystander]] a [[MurderIsTheBestSolution completely acceptable and even preferable option]]. To quote his former protege:

* ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'': Alpha. He was already a psychopath and getting loads of personalities put into himself at once just cranked it up more. He’s manipulative and slash happy with his knives.