History Main / OrderliesAreCreeps

* The orderlies in the hospital at the beginning of ''{{Return to Oz}}'' later show up in Oz as the wheelers.

* The [[BedlamHouse mental institution]] in Rob Zombie's ''Film/{{Halloween}}'' remake seems to be completely run by creepy - and downright criminal - orderlies. The [[BattleaxeNurse nurses are heartless]], the [[GratuitousRape orderlies rape the female patients]], [[ElectricTorture electroshock therapy]] seems to be a common treatment, and Michael Myers was degraded, insulted and beaten on a daily basis. (And Dr. Loomis wonders why Michael's mental state only ''worsened'' once he was in the care of these ''"professionals!"'')
** Special mention goes to the [[{{Squick}} necrophiliac]] [[ILoveTheDead ambulance driver]] in the sequel.

* Parsons. a FatBastard orderly in LockeAndKey who ends up suffering [[spoiler: DeathByRacism.]]

* the orderlies in the hospital at the beginning of ''{{Return to Oz}}'' later show up in Oz as the wheelers.

* Most, if not all the orderlies at the asylum in [[{{SwordOfTruth}}The Law of Nines]] work for the BigBad, and abuse Jax and Alex's [[{{UnnamedParent}} Mother]]
* The doctors in TheAsylumForWaywardVictorianGirls. It is about a BedlamHouse, after all.

* Subverted in the {{Homestuck}} AU [[http://brainbent.tumblr.com Brainbent]]. Equius is an orderly, and he certainly has a creepy demeanor (quiet, sweaty giants in [[SinisterShades sunglasses]] tend to be offputting), but he's actually perfectly harmless, and indeed quite [[SugarAndIcePersonality sweet underneath his]] [[TheStoic stoic]] exterior.

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* The orderly from Michael Gentry's InteractiveFiction work ''{{Anchorhead}}'' is generally a foul-mouthed, unpleasant person who is usually seen reading a porn magazine, and will occasionally make a lewd remark.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}'' has a few examples - in the first act, one willfully leaves Max and several other patients in the burning tower because Max apparently stole and crashed his car, while the third act has one who threatens and bullies Max. [[spoiler:Of course, they're not real.]]
* Ace from ''Roleplay/RubyQuest''. Granted, he was probably a good guy before things started going to hell, but now...
* In ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' and ''AliceMadnessReturns'', Alice's experience with the two JerkAss orderlies who tortured her in the mental asylum she stayed at manifest in the creepy Wonderland versions of Tweedles Dee and Dum. You fight them in the first game, but they make a non-combative appearance in one of the creepiest sequences of the second[[spoiler:, in the same asylum Alice stayed in.]]
* {{Inverted}} and PlayedStraight in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}.'' The original orderly of Thorny Towers was Fred Bonaparte, a friendly loser who took time out to help a particularly nasty patient named Crispin. However, their interactions made Fred lose his sanity as fast as Crispin regained his, and soon ''he'' was a suffering patient as Crispin was made this trope in his place.
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Whatever the reason, many orderlies in fiction are depicted as petty or not-so-petty criminals, taking advantage of their patients and the trust of their hospital superiors. When he's not stealing patients' medication to sell on the street, any orderly who's not a faceless extra is bound to be rooting through their belongings for cash and jewelry. An orderly with lower tastes may procure drugs from hospital stocks for personal use, or secretly trade them to addicts under their care in exchange for sexual favors. The creepiest of all don't bother to barter, [[DudeShesLikeInAComa molesting or outright raping patients who are too drugged, restrained, unconscious or crazy to report the offense]].

* Pelafina in ''[[TheHouseOfLeaves The]] [[color:blue: House]] [[TheHouseOfLeaves Of Leaves]]'' is convinced (rightly or not) that the attendants at the mental hospital have been raping her on a monthly basis.

* Pelafina in ''[[TheHouseOfLeaves The [[color:blue: House]] Of Leaves]]'' is convinced (rightly or not) that the attendants at the mental hospital have been raping her on a monthly basis.

* Pelafina in ''The House Of Leaves'' is convinced that the attendants at the mental hospital have been raping her.

* the orderlies in the hospital at the beginning of ''Return to Oz'' later show up in Oz as the wheelers.

Perhaps it's because a hospital environment makes people feel more than a little vulnerable, and anxious about whether their caregivers have their best interests in mind. Perhaps it's because anywhere ''but'' a hospital, an orderly's occasional job of subduing unruly patients would brand them as a bad guy's {{Mook}}. Or perhaps it's simply HighOctaneNightmareFuel to imagine ''any'' medical professional turning bad, and it's orderlies who tend to catch the flack because we really, ''really'' want to believe our doctors and nurses are trustworthy.

* In ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' and ''AliceMadnessReturns'', Alice's experience with the two JerkAss orderlies who tortured her in the mental asylum she stayed at manifest in the creepy Wonderland versions of Tweedles Dee and Dum. You fight them in the first game, but they make a non-combative appearance in one of the [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} creepiest]] sequences of the second[[spoiler:, in the same asylum Alice stayed in.]]

* Ace from ''RubyQuest''. Granted, he was probably a good guy before things started going to hell, but now...

Whatever the reason, many orderlies in fiction are depicted as petty or not-so-petty criminals, taking advantage of their patients and the trust of their hospital superiors. When he's not stealing patients' medication to sell on the street, any orderly who's not a faceless extra is bound to be rooting through their belongings for cash and jewelry. An orderly with lower tastes may procure drugs from hospital stocks for personal use, or secretly trade them to addicts under their care in exchange for sexual favors. The creepiest of all don't bother to barter, molesting or outright raping patients who are too drugged, restrained, unconscious or crazy to report the offense.

Whatever the reason, many orderlies in fiction are depicted as petty or not-so-petty criminals, taking advantage of their patients and the trust of their hospital superiors. When he's not stealing patients' medication to sell on the street, any orderly who's not a faceless extra is bound to be rooting through their belongings for cash and jewelry. An orderly with lower tastes may procure drugs from hospital stocks for personal use, or secretly trade them to addicts under their care in exchange for sexual favors. The creepiest of all don't bother to barter, molesting patients who are too drugged, restrained, unconscious or crazy to report the offense.

* {{Inverted}} and PlayedStraight in ''{{Psychonauts}}.'' The original orderly of Thorny Towers was Fred Bonaparte, a friendly loser who took time out to help a particularly nasty patient named Crispin. However, their interactions made Fred lose his sanity as fast as Crispin regained his, and soon ''he'' was a suffering patient as Crispin was made this trope in his place.

* The orderly from Michael Gentry's InteractiveFiction work ''Anchorhead'' is generally a foul-mouthed, unpleasant person who is usually seen reading a porn magazine, and will occasionally make a lewd remark.

* Blue in ''SuckerPunch''. Though the MindScrew makes it unclear he's actually murdered any patients, what is relatively clear is that he's willing to take bribes to arrange unnecessary lobotomies, has a slimy demeanor, and is not above trying to rape a lobotomized teenager.

* The [[BedlamHouse mental institution]] in Rob Zombie's ''{{Halloween}}'' remake seems to be completely run by creepy - and downright criminal - orderlies. The [[BattleaxeNurse nurses are heartless]], the [[GratuitousRape orderlies rape the female patients]], [[ElectricTorture electroshock therapy]] seems to be a common treatment, and Michael Myers was degraded, insulted and beaten on a daily basis. (And Dr. Loomis wonders why Michael's mental state only ''worsened'' once he was in the care of these ''"professionals!"'')

* The unnamed orderly in ''Film/CriminallyInsane'' feeds the patients dog food, and scarfs down chocolate bars in front of the eating disorder-afflicted Ethel with the smuggest look on his face. Ethel later kills him by hanging him with a cord.
* The eponymous character in ''BloodNightTheLegendOfMaryHatchet'' is raped and impregnated by an orderly. She eventually gets her revenge when she rips his head off while running amok through the asylum shortly after giving birth.