History AxCrazy / LiveActionTv

** Ax Craziness is the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] of the Reavers. As Zoe puts it in the pilot episode, these cannibalistic once-human horrors will "rape you to death, eat your flesh, and sew your skin to their clothing -- and if you're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':

** Caleb.
** Warren Mears.

** River Tam is an example of someone who has gone through Ax Crazy moments while still retaining her protagonist (and [[TheWoobie woobie]]) status. Her main violence has been against bad guys, but she's attacked fellow crewmates in the past, but has not done so with enough force to kill. Still, it's enough to freak out more than a few people who are not familiar with her history and motivations for violence.\\

** Their creator, Davros who kill off his own race when they tried to stop him from make the Daleks, told the Doctor that if he were giving the power to end all life he would do it just to prove that he could and later on made a bomb that would DESTROY! REALITY! ITSELF!

--> '''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?!

The Sniper, in "Ceremonies of Light And Dark". He took seven days to kill a Minbari. [[spoiler: 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.]]

The Sniper, in "Ceremonies of Light And Dark". 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.

--> '''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?!"

* ''KamenRiderRyuki'': Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ouja who was a sadistic serial killer, he also is the one with the highest body count of the series, he also loves to commit as much destruction as possible and has an absolute blast while doing it.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': "The Ice Truck Killer" and the Trinity Killer. Dexter himself is not Ax Crazy. He's very particular and methodical about who, how, and when he kills, and limits his victims to murderers who have evaded justice (He does do in a couple of child molesters, as well).

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Has numerous examples.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': River Tam is an example of someone who has gone through Ax Crazy moments while still retaining her protagonist (and [[TheWoobie woobie]]) status. Her main violence has been against bad guys, but she's attacked fellow crewmates in the past, but has not done so with enough force to kill. Still, it's enough to freak out more than a few people who are not familiar with her history and motivations for violence.\\

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Keamy is already not a nice guy, but like several people on the freighter it appears that the Island has made him unstable. ''Extremely'' unstable. To the point where he casually kills the captain of the ship just to prove a point and intentionally puts the crew (well, the ones he hasn't killed yet) at risk...just so he can complete his mission of getting Ben. He also saves his own life by ''kicking a grenade at his second-in-command'' when it lands at his feet.

* ''Series/{{Pizza}}'': Bobo is... well insane. He keeps a chainsaw under the counter for when he deals with customers.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In the last season there's an inmate named [=KillCrazy=]. Ironically, at the first chance to actually kill something, he runs headlong into a doorframe and knocks himself out cold.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': In "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E6SexAndDrugs Sex and Drugs]]", Drexel the druglord, who is introduced to the audience by threatening to kill Miles in cold blood just for showing up on his property—only for him to reveal that his gun isn't loaded and laugh his head off. He doesn't get any saner.

--> "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!''"
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': 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 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.
** Major Zod is another example of an Ax Crazy ''Smallville'' villain. He spends most of his onscreen time in Season 9 slowly deconstructing, as stress and his own constant failures [[SanitySlippage eat away at his sanity]]. He suffers repeated breakdowns, during which his inner lunatic strains to get out; during the SeasonFinale, he undergoes a massive VillainousBreakdown and finally snaps for good, charging TheHero while ranting about how the world will KneelBeforeZod!
** [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Clark Luthor a.k.a. Ultraman]].]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': 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".

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': Jamie [[InTheLoop McDonald]] manages a rare ''verbal'' Ax Crazy. The usual display of HairTriggerTemper looks amateurish compared to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44 this guy]].

* ''VeronicaMars'': Aaron Echolls may not have used an axe in the show, but his [[spoiler: eyes in the rearview mirror scene in the season 1 finale, locking the title character in a fridge and setting it on fire (intending to burn her alive because she refused to give him back tapes proving he had murdered another teenage girl by bashing her skull in with an ash tray (also for refusing to return incriminating tapes))]], (as well as the frequent abuse of his son and the beating-almost-to-death of his daughter's boyfriend,) qualify him as a member of the Ax Crazy group.

* ''Series/YoungDracula'': 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.]]

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Drexel the druglord, who is introduced to the audience by threatening to kill Miles in cold blood just for showing up on his property—only for him to reveal that his gun isn't loaded and laugh his head off. He doesn't get any saner.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': There have been many episodes dealing with ax crazies.

* ''Series/ICarly'': Nora. She also held a medieval hatchet that scared off the trio back to their incarceration.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': River Tam is an example of someone who has gone through Ax Crazy moments while still retaining her protagonist (and [[TheWoobie woobie]]) status. Her main violence has been against bad guys, but she's attacked fellow crewmates in the past, but has not done so with enough force to kill. Still, it's enough to freak out more than a few people who are not familiar with her history and motivations for violence.\\
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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 in to the Alliance for the reward money]]. With her psychic abilities, she most likely sensed something stabworthy about him.\\
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In TheMovie, she singlehandedly [[spoiler:''slaughtered'' an army of Reavers in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
** Ax Craziness is the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] of the Reavers. As Zoe puts it in the pilot episode, these cannibalistic once-human horrors will "rape you to death, eat your flesh, and sew your skin to their clothing -- and if you're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In the last season there's an inmate named [=KillCrazy=]. Ironically, at the first chance to actually kill something, he runs headlong into a doorframe and knocks himself out cold.
** 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, it turned out to be Ax Crazy as well!
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Gabriel Gray, better known as Sylar. Take one case of validation issues and compound with superpowers and murder, and you have a doozy.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Serial killer Charles "Charlie" Lynch in "Goodbyes". He actually confronts Harmon Rabb with an ax...
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
--> "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!''"
* ''Series/{{Pizza}}'': Bobo is... well insane. He keeps a chainsaw under the counter for when he deals with customers.
** He once shoved a man into a pizza oven because he asked for a raise. This killed him.
** The Axe Murderer, who shows up from time to time.

* KamenRiderRyuki: Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ouja who was a sadistic serial killer, he also is the one with the highest body count of the series, he also loves to commit as much destruction as possible and has an absolute blast while doing it.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Callisto.
* ''Series/CharlieJade'': 01 Boxer, at least in the Betaverse, and arguably the Alphaverse. He seems to manifest a different personality in each world; in the Gammaverse he's a loving husband who is horrified at what he becomes in the other two universes.
* ''{{Wiseguy}}'': Vinnie Terranova stumbles across a corrupt toxic waste-disposal company, whose boss ends up beating a woman to death with a golf club. He later turns out to be suffering from mercury poisoning ?- he was "as mad as a hatter".
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Keamy is already not a nice guy, but like several people on the freighter it appears that the Island has made him unstable. ''Extremely'' unstable. To the point where he casually kills the captain of the ship just to prove a point and intentionally puts the crew (well, the ones he hasn't killed yet) at risk...just so he can complete his mission of getting Ben. He also saves his own life by ''kicking a grenade at his second-in-command'' when it lands at his feet.
** In season 6, [[spoiler: a clearly-not-all-there Claire]].
* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': Jamie [[InTheLoop McDonald]] manages a rare ''verbal'' Ax Crazy. The usual display of HairTriggerTemper looks amateurish compared to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44 this guy]].
-->'''Jamie:''' You mimsy bastard, Quisling leak fuck! ...Okay, okay, okay. You, Julius Nicholson, being of sound mind but with a body that looks like a giant sex toy, did knowingly do us up the shithole by passing confidential information to the enemy! And I am gonna have your guts as a skipping rope, and your lungs sun-dried and turned into a little fucking waistcoat!
** In TheMovie, he's [[IncrediblyLamePun fax]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNDXc7a8p4 crazy]].

* ''VeronicaMars'': Aaron Echolls may not have used an axe in the show, but his [[spoiler: eyes in the rearview mirror scene in the season 1 finale, locking the title character in a fridge and setting it on fire (intending to burn her alive because she refused to give him back tapes proving he had murdered another teenage girl by bashing her skull in with an ash tray (also for refusing to return incriminating tapes))]], (as well as the frequent abuse of his son and the beating-almost-to-death of his daughter's boyfriend,) qualify him as a member of the Ax Crazy group.
** Aaron's son Logan Echolls has been shown to possess similar tendencies and was described as 'psychotic' in the first episode, during which he bashed in the headlights of Veronica's car because she had inadvertently caused his own to be taken away by getting him arrested. He is shown to have a short fuse throughout the series, although the show ended before he could properly follow in his father's footsteps.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Tuco.
--> '''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?!"
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Larry. To quote his former protege:
-->'''Michael:''' "If I let him out of my sight, that's when he starts killing everybody."
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': Most of the killers, as the show tends to only deal with the most extreme criminals. They range from the technically sane but extremely sadistic and heartless to people with almost no grip on reality whatsoever.
* ''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.)]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': 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 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.
** Major Zod is another example of an Ax Crazy ''Smallville'' villain. He spends most of his onscreen time in Season 9 slowly deconstructing, as stress and his own constant failures [[SanitySlippage eat away at his sanity]]. He suffers repeated breakdowns, during which his inner lunatic strains to get out; during the SeasonFinale, he undergoes a massive VillainousBreakdown and finally snaps for good, charging TheHero while ranting about how the world will KneelBeforeZod!
** [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Clark Luthor a.k.a. Ultraman]].]]
-->Doesn't feel right, though. Not having blood on my hands before lunch.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Chang, particularly in episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage English as a Second Language]] where he takes a key-tar to a former students car.
* ''Series/{{Insecurity}}'': N'udu is a more restrained version of this; he knows how to kill people using anything and once cleared a long check out line at the grocery store by describing how he would kill the other occupants of the line using the contents of their basket. Like everything in this show, it's PlayedForLaughs
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': 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 AxeCrazy, so it can feed on their negative emotions for sustenance.

* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': Features Hoyt.

* There have been many episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' dealing with ax crazies.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

* River Tam from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is an example of someone who has gone through Ax Crazy moments while still retaining her protagonist (and [[TheWoobie woobie]]) status. Her main violence has been against bad guys, but she's attacked fellow crewmates in the past, but has not done so with enough force to kill. Still, it's enough to freak out more than a few people who are not familiar with her history and motivations for violence.\\

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' had "the Ice Truck Killer" and the Trinity Killer. Dexter himself is not Ax Crazy. He's very particular and methodical about who, how, and when he kills, and limits his victims to murderers who have evaded justice (He does do in a couple of child molesters, as well).

* In the last season of ''Series/RedDwarf'' there's an inmate named [=KillCrazy=]. Ironically, at the first chance to actually kill something, he runs headlong into a doorframe and knocks himself out cold.

* [[Series/{{Heroes}} Gabriel Gray, better known as Sylar.]] Take one case of validation issues and compound with superpowers and murder, and you have a doozy.

* From ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':

* In ''Series/{{Pizza}}'' Bobo is... well insane. He keeps a chainsaw under the counter for when he deals with customers.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has numerous examples.

* KamenRiderRyuki had Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ouja who was a sadistic serial killer, he also is the one with the highest body count of the series, he also loves to commit as much destruction as possible and has an absolute blast while doing it.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' has Callisto.
* 01 Boxer in ''Series/CharlieJade'', at least in the Betaverse, and arguably the Alphaverse. He seems to manifest a different personality in each world; in the Gammaverse he's a loving husband who is horrified at what he becomes in the other two universes.
* ''{{Wiseguy}}''. Vinnie Terranova stumbles across a corrupt toxic waste-disposal company, whose boss ends up beating a woman to death with a golf club. He later turns out to be suffering from mercury poisoning ?- he was "as mad as a hatter".

* [[Series/TheThickOfIt Jamie]] [[InTheLoop McDonald]] manages a rare ''verbal'' Ax Crazy. The usual display of HairTriggerTemper looks amateurish compared to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44 this guy]].

* ''[[Music/DougAnthonyAllStars DAAS Kapital]]'': Psycho Bob, a psychopathic American SerialKiller with a fixation on Tim.
* Aaron Echolls of ''VeronicaMars'' may not have used an axe in the show, but his [[spoiler: eyes in the rearview mirror scene in the season 1 finale, locking the title character in a fridge and setting it on fire (intending to burn her alive because she refused to give him back tapes proving he had murdered another teenage girl by bashing her skull in with an ash tray (also for refusing to return incriminating tapes))]], (as well as the frequent abuse of his son and the beating-almost-to-death of his daughter's boyfriend,) qualify him as a member of the Ax Crazy group.

* Parodied in the "Mega Movie Myths" episode of ''Series/MythBusters''. In the silent film-esque intro, Jamie is chasing Tory with a pickaxe after Tory forgot to put away his drill. "Heeeeeeeeeeere's Jamie!!"
* Tuco from ''Series/BreakingBad''.

* Larry in ''Series/BurnNotice''. To quote his former protege:

* Most of the killers in ''Series/CriminalMinds'', as the show tends to only deal with the most extreme criminals. They range from the technically sane but extremely sadistic and heartless to people with almost no grip on reality whatsoever.
* Centauri Emperor Cartagia of ''Series/BabylonFive'', 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.)]]

* Chang from ''Series/{{Community}}'', particularly in episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage English as a Second Language]] where he takes a key-tar to a former students car.
* N'udu from ''Series/{{Insecurity}}'' is a more restrained version of this; he knows how to kill people using anything and once cleared a long check out line at the grocery store by describing how he would kill the other occupants of the line using the contents of their basket. Like everything in this show, it's PlayedForLaughs
* Captain ([[LargeHam "LORD!"]]) Garth from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' 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".

* Many a inmate on ''Series/{{Oz}}'' is this. Beecher becomes this after taking a level in badass, and some of the guards show these tendencies.
* In ''Series/YoungDracula'' 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.]]

* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' features Hoyt.

* ''[[DougAnthonyAllStars DAAS Kapital]]'': Psycho Bob, a psychopathic American SerialKiller with a fixation on Tim.

** Red Jack, naturally.
** Similarly, the entity from ''Day of the Dove'' makes its victims AxeCrazy, so it can feed on their negative emotions for sustenance.

** [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Clark Luthor a.k.a. Ultraman]].

** [[AlternateUniverse Earth-2 Lionel]] was also pretty bad, having none of Earth-1 Lionel's [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]]. In his own world he continually pitted his three children against each other, allowing E-2 Lex to be killed. He also is implied to have had E-2 Tess murdered, and personally delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to E-1 Clark because E-2 Clark ''hadn't murdered Lionel''. Then he comes to Earth-1, where he's manipulative towards Alexander/Conner, eventually drugging him with Red Kryptonite. He's also absolutely ''horrible'' towards E-1 Tess, repeatedly [[HannibalLecture lecturing]] her about how she's inferior, manipulating her [[ParentalIssues desire for a father figure]], and, ultimately, [[spoiler: attempting to cut out her heart]] so that he can [[spoiler: bring E-1 Lex back]] to be [[HeirClubForMen his proper heir]].

* Centauri Emperor Cartagia of ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'', 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.)]]