History Characters / KolchakTheNightStalkerVillains

* EvilIsHammy

* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''The Kolchak Papers'' he’s even worse than he is in the film. It’s implied he kidnapped two women and intermittently raped them and fed on them, and he taunts both Kolchak and the police officers trying to capture him, and he's clearly toying with them the entire time rather than being completely centered on business as in the film.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''The Kolchak Papers'' he’s even worse than he is in the film. It’s implied he kidnapped two women and intermittently raped them and fed on them, and he taunts both Kolchak and the police officers trying to capture him, and he's clearly toying with them the entire time rather than being completely centered on business as in the film.

* UngratefulBastard: If you help her, expect to be backstages the second you become useless.

A shapeshifting Hindu demon that devours human flesh and can take the form of whoever its victim trusts the most.

[[folder:Frankie Marnoff]]
!!Franklin "Frankie" Marnoff
-> '''Played By:''' Fred Beir

An arsonist killed in a mob hit, Marnoff’s spirit became a doppelgänger, replicating the appearance of famed musical conductor Ryder Bond and intending to take over his body, murdering anyone who got in his way, or simply killing to aid in his plan. Appears in "Firefall".

A Haitian number runner, Edmonds was shot and killed by the Mafia for running a rival operation, no matter how small-time it was. His mother, Mamalois, happened to be a voodoo priestess, and she promptly used voodoo to bring him back as a zombie, commanding him to kill the men who had killed him. Appears in "The Zombie".

A prostitute who was killed and turned by Janos Skorzeny, and then buried in an unmarked grave. A few years later, she was able to escape after her gravesite was used as a construction site. She stole a car and began killing and turning people in Barlow and San Francisco. Appears in "The Vampire".

* PlayingWithFire: As a ghost, he has the ability to summon fires and cause sleeping people to spontaneously combust.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''The Kolchak Papers'' he’s even worse than he is in the film. It’s implied he kidnapped two women and intermittently raped them and fed on them, and he taunts both Kolchak and the police officers trying to capture him, an dhe’s clearly toying with them the entire time rather than being completely centered on business as in the film.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The novelization of ''The Night Strangler'' implies he was the Count of St. Germain, though he refuses to admit to it.

-> '''Played By:''' Eric Braeden

The heir to a wealthy British family, Skorzeny inherited his family's wealth after the death of his parents. Skorzeny traveled through world and eventually disappeared until World War II, where he, under a fake name, served as a doctor for the dead and dying soldiers, and popped up in several different countries thrown into chaos or filled with violence afterwards, always under fake names. Wherever he went, bodies drained of their blood appeared. Eventually, he arrived in Las Vegas and went on a killing spree. Appears in ''The Night Stalker''.

-> '''Played By:''' Richard Anderson

* SuperhumanStrength: Jack is strong enough to rip the door of a maximum-security cell out of the wall, bolts and all.

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Once Kolchak destroys his amulet, Palmer is stuck in his dog form.]]

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:After Kolchak uses a mirror to reflect his [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] glare back at him, it completely destroys him and reduces him to ash. [[UpToEleven Then the ash disintegrates into nothing.]]]]
* HypnoticEyes: Taken UpToEleven. He can use his eyes to warp reality at his will, and one of these ways is to take control of others’ minds and use their weapons against themselves.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Kolchak taking away her powers caused her to go insane, and a medieval form of smallpox that had laid dormant in her infects her, and by the tome it’s gone she’ll be severely disfigured from it.]]

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Why?"]]

Harold Baker, nicknamed "Swordsman" for his affinity for swords to the point of owning one, was the leader of a teenage biker gang called the Nomads in the 50s. One day, a rival gang called the Jokers rigged a trap to trip Baker off his bike; the trap went wrong and decapitated him, and the leader of the gang kept his skull in a container as a trophy. Baker came back as a headless ghost riding his motorcycle and murdered the Jokers’ leader, and the Jokers realized that the only way to stop Baker was to reunite his head with his body, which they did. Years later, Baker’s corpse was removed from the cemetery when it was purchased as real estate, and his skull was separated from his body once more, freeing him to take revenge against the remaining Jokers. Appears in "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE15Chopper Chopper]]".