History AxCrazy / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': Montgomery De La Cruz. He is MUCH less self-controlled than Bryce and his {{sadist}}ic, extremely violent behavior pretty much shows just how much sanity he has, or rather lacks.

* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': Montgomery De La Cruz. He is MUCH less self-controlled than Bryce and his murderous, {{sadist}}ic, extremely violent behavior pretty much shows just how much sanity he has, or rather lacks.

* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': Montgomery De La Cruz. He is MUCH less self-controlled than Bryce and his murderous, {{sadist}}ic, extremely violent tendencies pretty much shows just how much sanity he has, or rather lacks.

** The Silurians of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth "The Hungry Earth"]]/Cold Blood", specifically the military caste and their commander Restac, due to an unintentional incursion. This apparently gives them the excuse to attempt to start a war despite numerous protests that they don't need to.

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

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has Dr. Calvin Zabo/Johnson. Originally a good man until his 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 axe 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.)]]

** [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark!Willow and Vamp!Willow]] very much embody this trope, however even normal Willow slides into it occasionally. The comics foretell this will lead to Buffy killing her, and lately she has an actual axe (the Scythe) that's used to ''slice up Angel's son.''
** 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]].

** In the comics one also sees the two [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demons]] Nash and Pearl. They regularly kill whole groups of humans, or even demons, simply because this makes they both happy.

** "The Ice Truck Killer" and the Trinity Killer. Dexter himself is not AxeCrazy. 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).
*** Dexter's dark passenger is AxeCrazy. Dexter is obliged to kill from time to time to pacify the dark passenger, otherwise it will take over and make him AxeCrazy. One time Dexter goes longer than usual between kills we see this begin to happen, though he never completely loses control.

* ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''; In her final appearance on the show, housemate Magalie receives an unexpected bequest from a relative: [[TheSavageIndian Red Indian]] regalia. Apparently she is part-Apache and these belonged to an ancestor. She considers the abominable Marc whilst weighing the tomahawk thoughtfully. Just for a moment you wonder if Magalie is contemplating a ''crime passionelle'' with the axe. French courts tend to treat these things with sympathy, and her AbhorrentAdmirer has been pursuing her for a year. And now she has an axe in her hand...

** River Tam may or may not qualify. Her main violence has been against bad guys; though 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.\\

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.\\

* ''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 comicbook 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/BirdsOfPrey of]] [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction times]].)

** Gregor Clegane, often called 'The Mountain,' is sadistic, freakishly strong, and brutal in his attempts to sate his bloodlust, with a dangerously short temper and utter lack of regard for long-term consequences. There are a plethora of examples to list that show just how crazy he is. The list includes burning off half his brother's face when they were kids, killing a woman's children then raping and murdering her with their blood still on his hands, trying to kill a jousting opponent he lost to and his own brother when he interfered in the fight, personally picking out which war prisoner would be tortured to death each day in Harrenhal, murdering prisoners as part of his exercise routine, murdering every Northen captive in Harrenhal before leaving as a final "fuck you!" to the Stark army, even though the nobles that could have been ransomed for money, without caring about the fact that he is setting a precedent and the Starks could very well retaliate by executing their far more numerous Lannister prisoners. Also according to his younger brother Sandor he once "killed a man for snoring." [[spoiler: This is taken UpToEleven in later seasons, when he becomes a pseudo-undead monster that can ''rip a man's head off'' with little effort]].

** 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.

** 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 battleaxe. 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.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Serial killer Charles "Charlie" Lynch in "Goodbyes". He actually confronts Harmon Rabb with an axe...

** The kids think Jessie herself is axe crazy in the Halloween episode.

** 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.

** 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!]]

** In "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E4ThePlagueDogs The Plague Dogs]]", Ray Kinsey. He used to be sane, and he and his daughter Lilah took refuge at a carnival. Then Lilah stepped on a nail, got tetanus, and he could only watch helplessly as she died, because the medicine they had was taken by raiders. In response, he trained a group of attack dogs, and he didn't react well to Team Matheson killing one of his dogs. In fact, he stabbed Maggie Foster in the leg and hit an artery. Then he kidnapped Charlie Matheson, tied her to a chair, positioned a crossbow in front of her, and rigged a wire to the trigger and the door. She tried to reason with him, and even though she reminded him of his daughter Lilah, he ultimately just left her.
** 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.

** Major Zod is another example of an Ax Crazy ''Smallville'' villain. He spends most of his onscreen time in Season 9 slowly making this a DeconstructedTrope, 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!

** Other mobsters with a extremely homicidal behavior definitely qualify... or with a temper that would not have any mentally balanced person: Paulie, Christopher Moltisanti, Ralph Cifaretto, Feech La Manna, Johnny Boy Soprano and Phil Leotardo are straight examples. Even Tony Soprano has traits of one.

** 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".

** Capt. Tracey, having [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gone mad from the revelation]] that his evil deeds were AllForNothing, attacks Kirk with an axe because his phaser is drained so he can't literally ShootTheMessenger of the bad news.

** Hilariously displayed in "Mystery Spot" (the constantly repeating GroundhogDayLoop). Sam goes crazy and destroys the room's wall with an axe, even accidentally killing Dean with it...

** Sarah Newlin. Not only is she obsessed with ushering in a genocide against vampires, but she once beat an innocent woman to death with a ''shoe'' in order to keep her plans from getting out.

** This gets even worse in Series 3, after BOB has spent 25 years taking Agent Cooper's body for a joyride - during which he combined his own malice with Coop's intellect and FBI training to devise even more heinous ways of torturing his victims. He still sometimes reverts to plain old-fashioned physical violence though, such as talking his way into becoming the leader of a gang, and then ''sucker-punching the ex-leader so hard his head explodes''.

** [[spoiler:Aaron Echolls]] may not have used an axe in the show, but his 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/TheYoungOnes'': In "Flood", Vyvyan has created a potion that cures people of ''not'' being axe-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.]]

** Angelus, who sometimes to recreate the slaughter of his own family whenever he got bored. His progeny Penn later took on the same custom.

In TheMovie, she singlehandedly [[spoiler:''slaughtered'' an army of Reavers in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has Dr. Calvin Zabo/Johnson. Originally a good man until his 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.]]
* ''Series/BatesMotel'': Norman. [[SanitySlippage He gets worse as the series progresses.]]

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--> '''[[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''?!

** [[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]].]]

** "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).
*** Dexter's dark passenger is Ax Crazy. Dexter is obliged to kill from time to time to pacify the dark passenger, otherwise it will take over and make him Ax Crazy. One time Dexter goes longer than usual between kills we see this begin to happen, though he never completely loses control.
** Though far less dangerous than the other {{Big Bad}}s [[spoiler:Miguel Prado]]'s descent into vicious insanity is probably the most spectacular so far.

** The Master; he likes to kill whether it helps his plans or not. The best example of this comes from "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).
** The Silurians of the double-episode "The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood", though it's the military caste due to an unintentional incursion. This apparently gives them the excuse to attempt to start a war despite numerous protests that they don't need to.
** Hindle from "Kinda." It's clear pretty early on that he's not very mentally stable, but then he gets worse...and then he rigs up those explosives...

** 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 [[InThatOrder in that order]]."

* ''Series/IDidntDoIt'': Sherri in "Dance Fever." She repeatedly threatens to kill Lindy just so that she can be the only person with a perfect attendance record, and she has infected fellow perfect-attendance wielding students with diseases for that same purpose. She's also convinced that by having perfect attendance, she'll become a goddess, specifically the goddess of attendance. She memorized Lindy's schedule and route so that she could place a juice box on the steps she walks on in order to make her fall down the stairs and break a few bones, which would force her to miss school. Later, after Lindy avoided slipping on the juice box, she causes Logan's date to the dance to trip and fall down the stairs so that she could be his date in her place, get into Lindy's house, and make her miss school in any way possible. She even sends Lindy a video message in which she decapitates the head of a doll resembling Lindy!
-->'''Lindy:''' All right, Sherri, what's the deal? I mean, first you come after me at school, now you come after me at my house...when does it ''end?''
-->'''Sherri:''' It ends when you miss school and I become Atenda, ''(ScareChord)'' the Goddess of Attendance!\\

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Serial killer Charles "Charlie" Lynch in "Goodbyes". He actually confronts Harmon Rabb with an ax...
* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': While in her first appearance, "Creepy" Connie is much more creepy than crazy, she is full blown AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush in her next appearance. The episode deals with her attempting to get the role of Luke's lover in the school play. How does she do this? By taking out her competition, of course! The first girl she ''pushes down a flight of stairs'', putting her in a ''full body cast'', she ''welds a wrench to the next girl's braces'', and attempts to ''crush the final girl with a sandbag''!

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

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

** In the episode ''Quarantine'', Rimmer is infected with a holovirus which drives the victims completely and murderously insane while giving them clairvoyance, telekinesis, and the ability to shoot lethal energy from their eyes. He decides to [[spoiler:kill everyone on the grounds that they are humoring him and thus must be insane themselves. "So let me get this straight. You wanna fly on a magic carpet to see the king of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're all completely sane?"]]

--> "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!''"

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

--> '''Richie:''' Did you ever meditate?
--> '''Beansie:''' Me, meditate? Ha, are you crazy?
--> '''Richie:''' Not as crazy as I used to be, still crazy enough to take an eye out.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Jim Moriarty.

** Hilariously displayed in the episode "Mystery Spot" (the constantly repeating GroundhogDayLoop). Sam goes crazy and destroys the room's wall with an Ax, even accidentally killing Dean with it...

** Jamie [=McDonald=] manages a rare ''verbal'' Ax Crazy. The usual display of HairTriggerTemper looks amateurish compared to [[https://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!

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': Klaus and Katherine. Both are the villains of the series.

** In the episode ''Quaranteen'', Rimmer is infected with a holovirus which drives the victims completely and murderously insane while giving them clairvoyance, telekinesis, and the ability to shoot lethal energy from their eyes. He decides to [[spoiler:kill everyone on the grounds that they are humoring him and thus must be insane themselves. "So let me get this straight. You wanna fly on a magic carpet to see the king of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're all completely sane?"]]

--> '''Jesse:''' [[DeadpanSnarker 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/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': Montgomery De La Cruz. And that's putting it lightly. He is MUCH less self-controlled than Bryce and his murderous, {{sadist}}ic, extremely violent tendencies pretty much shows just how much sanity he has, or rather lacks.

* ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''; In her final appearance on the show, housemate Magalie receives an unexpected bequest from a relative: [[TheSavageIndian Red Indian]] regalia. Apparently she is part-Apache and these belonged to an ancestor. She considers the abominable Marc whilst weighing the tomahawk thoughtfully. Just for a moment you wonder if Magalie is contemplating a ''crime pasionelle'' with the axe. French courts tend to treat these things with sympathy, and her AbhorrentAdmirer has been pursuing her for a year. And now she has an axe in her hand.. .

* ''Series/LesFillesDacote''; In her final appearance on the show, housemate Magalie receives an unexpected bequest from a relative: [[SavageNative Red Indian]] regalia. Apparently she is part-Apache and these belonged to an ancestor. She considers the abominable Marc whilst weighing the tomahawk thoughtfully. Just for a moment you wonder if Magalie is contemplating a ''crime pasionelle'' with the axe. French courts tend to treat these things with sympathy, and her AbhorrentAdmirer has been pursuing her for a year. And now she has an axe in her hand.. .

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': Richie Aprile.

** Other mobsters with a extremely homicidal behaviour definitely qualify... or with a temper that would not have any mentally balanced person. Ralph Cifaretto, Feech La Manna, Johnny Boy Soprano, and Phil Leotardo are straight examples. Even Paulie "Walnuts" has traits of one, but more downplayed compared to the other examples, though.

** 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.

** Gregor Clegane, often called 'The Mountain,' is sadistic, freakishly strong, and brutal in his attempts to sate his bloodlust, with a dangerously short temper and utter lack of regard for long-term consequences. [[spoiler: This is taken UpToEleven in later seasons, when he becomes a pseudo-undead monster that can ''rip a man's head off'' with little effort]].

* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'': Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ouja who was a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] serialkiller, 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/KamenRiderRyuki'': Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ouja who was a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] serieskiller, 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/KamenRiderRyuki'': Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ouja who was a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] [[SeriesKiller 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/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.

** The Master; he likes to kill whether it helps his plans or not.

* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': In "Flood", Vyvyan has created a potion that cures people of ''not'' being axe-wielding homicidal maniacs. To avoid confusion he has stored it in a coca cola can. [[GenreSavvy Neil has a silly premonition that someone will accidentally drink it later on.]] [[spoiler: Yes, someone does.]]