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* [[spoiler:Eddy's Brother]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' [[spoiler:has no qualms about beating his little brother and Edd. Unlike Kevin and Sarah, he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever]].

* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': Stanley enjoys the rape the most and is the only one without redeeming qualities. The others even call him a sex maniac.

* Dr. Vile/Weil of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' is a huge sadist. He admits that during the Elf Wars he personally enjoyed the mass slaughter and devastation brought by his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Omega, and in the present [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming enjoys watching "pigs squeal"]]. In Zero 4, [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans he makes life in Neo Arcadia horrible]] and takes glee in the idea of destroying nature. While he does have a reason for this (mainly make humanity suffer [[FateWorseThanDeath for what they did to him]]), it's made all too clear from [[LaughingMad his attitude]] he's enjoying this. Combined with [[ItsAllAboutMe his narcissistic personality]] and [[OmnicidalManiac desire for destruction]], this makes Dr. Weil [[KnightOfCerebus one of the darkest and most horrifying villains with absolutely no redeeming qualities]] in ''Franchise/MegaMan'' history.

* [[TheCaligula Luca Blight]] from ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' is a bloodthirsty sadist and a [[AxCrazy completely insane]] [[EvilPrince prince]] of Highland. He takes immense pleasure in telling [[LovestheSoundofScreaming the scared woman to act like a pig]] and [[PuttheLaughterinSlaughter kills her anyway]] when he [[KillItwithFire burned down the Ryube village to the ground]]. As well he might, as he feeds the blood of Muse people to unleash the [[SealedEvilinaCan Beast Rune]]. [[spoiler:Unlike the other [[TragicVillain sympathetic villains]], [[FortheEvulz he is considered to be the evillest]], [[PsychoforHire brutal and sadistic JRPG villains with absolutely no redeeming qualities in this series]].]]

** Jeff Fecalman from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E3ScreamsOfSilenceTheStoryOfBrendaQ Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.]]" ''definitely'' qualifies as well. Unlike Peter and the other reoccurring {{jerk|ass}}s of the show, he is known as one of the evilest and most sadistic villains of the show and has no redeeming qualities.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

* ''Literature/TheBurningKingdoms'': General Vikram recalls how Emperor Chandra made him recount all the details about the priests and the temple children from Hirana burning alive with obvious pleasure, which disturted him greatly to do.

* Horror writer Maurice Level has a short story called ''A Maniac'', which is about a man who gets thrills from watching violent accidents. Unlike other examples, the man is explicitly stated to be neither evil nor bloodthirsty, meaning that he is essentially an otherwise normal man with a very strange fetish of sorts.

* [[TheSociopath Yuuki Terumi]] of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' ''loves'' mind raping others, and {{troll}}s them as they get defeated. And that's not even mentioning the great enjoyment he appears to take in physically hurting his opponents in battle, either. In fact, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration his entire playstyle revolves around inflicting as much pain to his opponents in the most brutal and humiliating ways possible]]. It's suggested by another character in-story that he gets off on ruining people's lives and Terumi doesn't deny it.
-->'''Terumi:''' Make sure you do your part, and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming scream for me!]]

** Cell is also this to even greater degrees. While Frieza is satisfied with the physical suffering of his victims, Cell prefers to add the psychological element to his cruelty, terrorizing and [[HopeCrusher destroying any chance for hope]] his opponent has, before killing them. On top of that, Cell freely admits that the extent of his plan after winning the Cell Games is to hunt down every last human being on the planet one by one, and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming savor their fear and despair before he kills them]]. From there, he'll go to other planets and rinse and repeat until [[OmnicidalManiac everything's dead]].

** Nappa absolutely enjoys dominating his foes, as seen when he fought the Z-Fighters. In fact, he seems to have a sadistic joy with each act of destruction he performs, such as his grin when he blew up East City.
** Vegeta, especially in the earlier seasons when he could be just as bad as Frieza, often killing people with a PsychoticSmirk on his face. He massacred an entire Namekian village with a huge grin on his face and laughed when it's revealed that they weren't wished back by Shenron [[LiteralGenie because of the way the wish was worded]]. Before then, in his Great Ape form, he ruthlessly crushed every bone in Goku's body while laughing his head off. [[HeelFaceTurn He does get over it once he settles down on Earth]] and tends to kill people for pragmatic reasons instead of joy.
** Future Androids 17 and 18 ''definitely'' qualify. They spent decades slowly torturing the people of Earth with running them over with cars, shooting them while they're running, and promising to spare them only to kill them anyway. That's not even getting started on how they treated beating Gohan and Trunks to near-death like it is a game.
** Once he took over the world, King Piccolo [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil set all the criminals free and abolished all laws]], just so that he could enjoy watching humanity tear itself apart. He then had a lottery where he would destroy one section of the world for the next 36 years, all so he could enjoy the terror on people's faces during their final moments.
** Piccolo started out as this, taking more than a little joy in breaking Goku's legs and trying to saw off his arm. He grins in delight when he's about to make the killing blow against Goku and Raditz. His training with Gohan was also brutal and he did seem to enjoy the boy's pain at first. He largely gets over it after he becomes more good, although he still likes inflicting pain on those that get him mad or [[PapaWolf hurt Gohan]].
** Broly. This may stem from his general insanity. As with others such as Frieza, Cell, Buu, etc., this leads to his downfall -- though he is shown as clearly capable of killing the Z-warriors in one fell swoop, he chooses to torture them instead, granting them the time to pull off a [[MiracleRally miraculous comeback]].
** ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Gohan]]'', [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness of all people]], becomes this when Cell's sadism triggers [[SuperpoweredEvilSide his Super Saiyan 2 transformation]], deciding to torture Cell instead of just killing him. He drops this behavior, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but only after his sadism results in]] [[HeroicSacrifice the death of his father]] [[TakingYouWithMe and the almost-destruction]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom of the Earth]] thanks to Cell [[RageQuit refusing to accept that he could ever be beaten and mocked like this]].
** Zamasu of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' shows this to various degrees, [[spoiler:in all his incarnations. Goku Black murdered Goku himself and then his family purely for the sake of being cruel after stealing the former's body, and then he and Future Zamasu reveal this to Goku after impaling him with a LaserBlade just to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown rub salt in the wound]]. Also, the Present Zamasu who was killed by Beerus was positively ''delighted'' to discover the chaos Black and Future Zamasu had inflicted upon the future Earth, happy that his dream of a mortal-free universe was becoming a reality]].

* Wreslting/ExoticAdrianStreet boasts that he COULD kill a man, just that he wouldn't be able to do it very quickly.

* ''Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung'' takes great pleasure in the suffering of his victims, and even has a massive torture chamber beneath his island [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement.]]

* ''Film/Cliffhanger'', Delmar, a sadistic mercenary working for Qualen, is ready to kill ([[Hal JerkWithAHeartOfGold]]). But when he sees that Hal is ready to die, Delmar instead brutally beats and tortures him. He laughs and taunts him throughout, comparing it to a game of football, even narrating it like one.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** For the example of [[ManipulativeBastard Mephiles the Dark]] from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', he made it his sole mission to cause pain to Elise throughout the entire course of the game, and even broke out into a [[EvilLaugh maniacal laughter]] after [[HeroKiller ending Sonic's life]].

* Maika from ''Manga/BlendS'' is an inverted example of sadism, as she's almost ''too'' kind and gentle. However, genetics has gifted her with [[FaceOfAThug a certain cruel look]] whenever she concentrates and a certain [[ItRunsInTheFamily natural ability]] that comes off as vicious. Due to this, she can only get employment in a Character CosplayCafe where she acts against type by pretending to be a sadist to the customers. This is all [[{{Yonkoma}} played for laughs]].

** ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Gohan]]'' becomes this when Cell's sadism triggers [[SuperpoweredEvilSide his Super Saiyan 2 transformation]], deciding to torture Cell instead of just killing him. He drops this behavior, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but only after his sadism results in]] [[HeroicSacrifice the death of his father]] [[TakingYouWithMe and the almost-destruction]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom of the Earth]] thanks to Cell [[RageQuit refusing to accept that he could ever be beaten and mocked like this]].

* Lord Business from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' is so sadistic, it's a wonder how they managed to put him in a kids' film. He kills a man in cold blood by decapitating him, he psychologically and physically tortures his lieutenant Good Cop Bad Cop to turn him into his puppet for his master plan, and he crushes Emmet's self-esteem brutally in the climax when [[spoiler:Vitruvius claims the prophecy was made up just before he dies]] before leaving him and the Master Builders to die in the Think Tank, which he sets to self-destruct. Oh, and let's not forget that after using Bad Cop for his own goals, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he abandons him to the same fate]].

** Cirucci Sanderwicci seems to enjoy inflicting pain. The whip should have been your first clue.

** Scherazard from the PlayerParty uses a whip and has [[DressedLikeADominatrix dominatrix-themed]] abilities, including one that whips allies to improve their performance in battle; her LimitBreak is directly called "Sadist's Whip", in which she rapidly whips a target while LaughingMad.

** Scherazard from the PlayerParty [[WhipItGood uses a whip]] and has [[DressedLikeADominatrix dominatrix-themed]] abilities, including one that whips allies to improve their performance in battle; her LimitBreak is directly called "Sadist's Whip", in which she rapidly whips a target while LaughingMad.

* In ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'': William is sexually impotent unless he is violently assaulting his victims - consent inhibits him. When he is given the order to cut [[DamselInDistress Aliena's]] ears off in front of her defeated father and his retainers, he discovers the command sexually arouses him.

* In ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', the majority of the human Killers in the Entity's Realm either have tragic backstories for why they descended into murder, and/or were forced (sometimes via torture) to go along with the Entity's murder game after it abducted them. Quite a few of them, however, were already cruel, violent {{Serial Killer}}s even before entering the fog and gladly embraced it when the Entity came for them, seeing it as a chance to continue torturing and murdering victims for eternity. This naturally includes several of the licensed Guest Killers from franchises mentioned elsewhere on this page, like [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert Wesker]], and [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Amanda Young]]; however, many of the original characters also fit the bill, primarily [[MonsterClown the Clown]], [[MadDoctor the Doctor]], [[MadArtist the Trickster]], [[BloodKnight the Knight]], and [[Film/{{Scream}} the Ghost Face]][[labelnote:*]]who, while technically a licensed killer too, is an original character underneath the mask, rather than one of the ''Saw'' villains[[/labelnote]].