History AxCrazy / LiveActionTv

** 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 Northern 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]].

** Connie turns it UpToEleven in "Creepy Connie 3: The Creepening" including hiring an actress in order to dupe Luke. In order to avoid paying said actress, Connie ''kidnaps her''.

* ''Series/QueenForSevenDays'': [[UsefulNotes/YeonsangunOfJoseon Lee Yung]], [[TruthInTelevision like in real life]]. In the first episode he threatens to behead Lee Yeok and his friends if Lee Yeok loses a race. He becomes ''[[UpToEleven even more]]'' insane and cruel later.

** In "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?"]]

* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': While in her first appearance, "Creepy" Connie is much more creepy than crazy, she is full blown AxeCrazy 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''!

*** Dexter's dark passenger is AxCrazy. 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.

** "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.

** Similarly, the entity from "Day of the Dove" makes its victims AxeCrazy, so it can feed on their negative emotions for sustenance. The entity itself is a case of BlueAndOrangeMorality.

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

** The Cybermen are so sane and rational that they've gone out the far side into a new ''universe'' of AxeCrazy.

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** Alex Standall, [[spoiler:especially in season 3]]. Among his [[MoodSwinger mood swings]], HairTriggerTemper, violent outbursts, and [[spoiler:willingness to kill without contemplation]], there's something definitely ''off'' with him.
** Even Clay Jensen ends up qualifying. His angry outbursts, mood swings, numerous threats to murder people and multiple acts of violence (such as beating the snot out of a guy at a party, threatening to shoot up a police station, and nearly raping a girl) in season 4 - to the point where he ends up in a psychiatric ward - puts him in this category. [[spoiler:And that's not to mention all the crap he does under his "Percy" personality. He can even be seen wearing a SlasherSmile while terrorizing the other students on the camping trip.]]

** Tuco, a cartel lieutenant and the ArcVillain of late season 1 and early season 2, is one of the best examples in recent memory, prone to fly off in a psychotic and murderous rage with no prompting. He once beat one of his own men to death for paying him a ''compliment'', as he thought the guy was [[InsaneTrollLogic undermining his authority by implying he needed to be complimented]]. Note that, in addition to being a violent criminal, he's also [[DrugsAreBad constantly tweaked out on meth]], which explains a good deal of his instability.

* ''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]].)

** 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]].

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

** Also, [[spoiler:Demon!Dean]] from season 10, who comes after Sam with a hammer, ''grinning'', mind you ...

** 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 ashtray (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/{{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".

** 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/FatherTed'' has Tom, who loves killing animals (he's not a hunter, he just... loves killing animals), has robbed a bank because (he says) he couldn't be bothered making a withdrawal the normal way, and is probably only the second-most-violent character in the show because unlike Father Jack, he doesn't appear in every episode.

** Caleb and Warren Mears.
** Glory. Juuuust a little bit.

* ''Series/QueenForSevenDays'': [[UsefulNOtes/YeonsangunOfJoseon Lee Yung]], [[TruthInTelevision like in real life]]. In the first episode he threatens to behead Lee Yeok and his friends if Lee Yeok loses a race. He becomes ''[[UpToEleven even more]]'' insane and cruel later.

** Even Clay Jensen ends up qualifying. His angry outbursts, mood swings, and multiple acts of violence (such as beating the snot out of a guy at a party, threatening to shoot up a police station, and nearly raping a girl) in season 4 - to the point where he ends up in a psychiatric ward - puts him in this category. [[spoiler:And that's not to mention all the crap he does under his "Percy" personality. He can even be seen wearing a SlasherSmile while terrorizing the other students on the camping trip.]]

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

** Even Clay Jensen ends up qualifying. His angry outbursts, mood swings, and multiple acts of violence (such as beating the snot out of a guy at a party, threatening to shoot up a police station, and nearly raping a girl) in season 4 - to the point where he ends up in a psychiatric ward - puts him in this category. [[spoiler:And that's not to mention all the crap he does under his "Percy" personality. He can even be seen wearing a SlasherSmile while terrorizing the other students on the camping trip.]]* ''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/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/BreakingBad'': a recurring trait of members of the Juarez Cartel. ''Very'' much TruthInTelevision.

** Even the nameless members are fond of decpitating their foes and littering their body parts around to send a message, as [[spoiler:Tortuga]] can attest to.

** Hector "Tio" Salamanca. In flashbacks, he is revealed to have been a particularly sadistic member of the Juarez Cartel who possessed a pronounced lack of empathy towards those outside the organization and was horribly abusive towards his own family (even while professing to value them above all things). In this manner, he served as the role model for his AxCrazy nephews, Tuco and the Salamanca Twins.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** Tuco.