History Monster / ASongOfIceAndFire

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* [[TeensAreMonsters Joffrey Baratheon]] is a dyed-in-the-wool sadist who seems to take pleasure only in fear and suffering. At first putting on a [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming face]], his true colors are hinted at when he begins carving up the face of Arya Stark's lowborn friend for fun, before trying to kill Arya herself for hitting him, despite the fact she's the younger sister of his fiancée, Sansa. After becoming king, however, Joffrey really comes into his own as a vicious bastard, ordering Ned Stark's execution even though it ensures a civil war with the North. Viewing Sansa as his toy, he frequently has her [[DomesticAbuse humiliated, beaten and threatened with death and rape.]] Among his many cruel acts, Joffrey has a bard choose between losing his hands or his tongue, tries to drown Ser Dontos with wine, orders a crowd of peasants executed because one threw some dung at him, forces one prostitute to beat another, possibly to death, at crossbow point, and eventually shoots [[spoiler:Ros]] full of crossbow bolts just to experience what it's like to personally kill someone. The taboo of kin killing means little to Joffrey either, as he threatened to [[{{Matricide}} execute his mother]] for slapping him, tried to have his uncle Tyrion assassinated, and had his bastard siblings (including [[WouldHurtAChild children and babies]]) butchered so no one would notice [[BastardBastard how little Joffrey resembled his supposed father]], Robert Baratheon. In the end, Joffrey was merely a [[StupidEvil vicious, idiot king]] who believed [[TheCaligula ruling meant everyone was his to torment.]]

* [[VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones Telltale Games Series]]: [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] is the representative in the North for the as-yet-unseen Roose Bolton, orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] while [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "not [his] best work". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically settling on her brother instead, and murders [[spoiler:the teenage Ethan]] on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness his torture (and eventual murder) of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A sadist who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.

* [[EnfanteTerrible Despite his young age]], King Joffrey Baratheon stood out as one of the vilest characters in the series. While always shown to have a darker side, Joffrey finally crossed the line when he had Ned Stark executed, ensuring that the war with the Northerners would never reach a peaceful conclusion. Joffrey not only did this in front of Ned's daughter, Sansa, Joffrey's own fiancée, he then forced her to look at the decapitated heads of her father and household afterwards. This was then followed by a long period of DomesticAbuse during which Joffrey had her regularly beaten by his Kingsguard and threatened to rape her [[spoiler:even after she married his uncle, Tyrion]]. As king, Joffrey reveled in his power over life and death, and his reign was filled with all manner of pointless cruelties. Joffrey's crimes included having a minstrel whose song offended him choose between losing his fingers or his tongue, attempting to have a drunken knight drowned in a cask of wine, firing on starving peasants with his crossbow, ordering his bodyguard to cut through a crowd of peasants to get at one of them who threw manure at him, nailing antlers to the heads of Stannis sympathizers and firing them from trebuchets as entertainment during the Battle of the Blackwater, and attempting to convince his grandfather to execute everyone who fought against him, regardless of whether or not they surrendered. A budding psychopath who believed being the king gave him the right to do whatever he liked, Joffrey's sadism was so great that he was well on his way to surpassing his predecessor as the next [[TheCaligula Mad King]] of the Seven Kingdoms.

* [[AxCrazy Ser Gregor Clegane]], alias "[[OneManArmy The Mountain that Rides]]", is a colossal sadist [[PsychoForHire in service to House Lannister]] and one of the [[TheDreaded most feared men]] in Westeros. Rumored to have murdered his sister, father, and two wives, Clegane's confirmed crimes are even more heinous. At twelve, he burned off half of his younger brother Sandor's face when the latter played with one of Gregor's discarded toys. At seventeen, he dashed Prince Aegon's head against a wall, then raped and murdered his mother, Princess Elia, with the baby's brains still on his hands. Introduced at a tournament in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Gregor murders one of his opponents, then tries to kill another and his own brother after being unseated in a joust. After tourney, he and his men rape a 13-year-old innkeeper's daughter. Unleashed on the Riverlands, Clegane and his men rape and murder anyone who falls into their hands. At one point in ''Literature/AClashOfKings'', for ten days, Gregor picks one person each day from a group of villagers for "[[TortureTechnician The Tickler]]" to question until they die from his torture. After one villager volunteers to save her daughter, Clegane has the daughter tortured the next day to make sure the mother didn't leave anything out. In ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'', Clegane cuts strips of flesh from [[AssholeVictim Vargo Hoat]] and [[{{Autocannibalism}} feeds them to him]], torturing Hoat for days before letting him die. He also smashes a girl's face in for speaking when he wanted silence, then turns her over to his men to be gang-raped for days. In the same book, during a duel with Oberyn Martell, Princess Elia's brother, who asserts that "you raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children", Clegane's only concern is that Oberyn got the order of events wrong, correcting him before brutally crushing Oberyn's skull:
--> "Her name was Elia of Dorne. ''First'', I killed her screaming whelp. ''Then'' I raped her. ''Then'' I smashed her fucking head in. Like this."
* Ramsay Snow, [[BastardBastard the Bastard of Bolton]], stands out as one of the most savage and depraved men in Westeros. Suspected of [[CainAndAbel murdering his good-hearted, trueborn brother]], Ramsay first comes to prominence after he forces Lady Hornwood to marry him to gain her lands. Having already starved her to death, Ramsay avoids death at the hands of Winterfell soldiers by impersonating his servant, Reek, then sending his "friend" to die in his place. When Theon Greyjoy takes over Winterfell, the imprisoned Ramsay allies himself with Greyjoy and acts as a corruptive influence, ultimately being the one to convince Theon to cross the MoralEventHorizon by murdering two little boys to pass them off as Bran and Rickon Stark. Gathering his own forces, Ramsay slaughters Ser Rodrik's Northerner soldiers, then betrays and captures Theon before ordering his men to raze Winterfell and slaughter everyone inside. One of Ramsay's favorite past-times is [[FlayedAlive flaying people alive]] and he's done this many times, from the people he tortures, to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the girls he hunts for fun]] that give him bad sport, to the surrendering Ironborn forces of Moat Cailin [[ILied after Ramsay promised them mercy]]. Ramsay is also responsible for [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape mentally]] torturing Theon Greyjoy to condition him into a pathetic, insane wretch [[LossOfIdentity who believes himself the new Reek]]. Taking an Arya Stark impersonator as his wife to maintain Bolton control of the North, [[DomesticAbuse Ramsay abuses her constantly]], despite her usefulness, [[RapeByProxy even forcing Theon to participate in her wedding night bedding]]. A half-feral beast of a man, Ramsay lives to satisfy his sadistic urges and is so [[ForTheEvulz pointlessly]] and [[StupidEvil moronically cruel]] that even his own sociopathic father has to hold himself back from killing him.
* [[BastardBastard Craster]] is a particularly vicious Wildling and ally of the Night's Watch (each of whom identifies him as belonging to the opposing organization) who, in his own words, kneels to no man, including Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall. Living alone in a huge, ramshackle compound, Craster keeps a harem of women in line with [[DomesticAbuse brainwashing and violence]], breaking their spirits until they cannot rise up against him, despite the fact that they vastly outnumber him. All of these women are his "[[SexSlave wives]]"; many of them are also [[ParentalIncest his daughters and granddaughters]]. When one of them becomes pregnant, Craster waits to see if it is a boy or a girl. If the child is female, he waits until she is old enough--eleven or twelve years old--and does his best to impregnate her. If the child is a boy, Craster [[HumanSacrifice leaves him in the woods as sacrifice for the Others]]. Obsessed with his own hedonism, and raising the next generation of wives, Craster uses his allegiance with the Night's Watch to make sure that nobody, not even the Watch, interferes with his business.

* [[TheBrute Gregor Clegane]], [[RedBaron The Mountain]], is [[TheDreaded the most feared knight in Westeros]] and [[PsychoForHire works for]] Tywin Lannister and his family. A violent {{sadist}} who had once [[BigBrotherBully burned his brother's face]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for playing with one of his toys]], Gregor is introduced in the Hand's tournament where he murders another contender via splintered lance; when Loras Tyrell manages to unhorse him, Gregor slaughters his own horse for failing him and attempts to murder Loras. When Gregor's own brother interferes, Gregor tries to kill him as well. When next seen, Gregor is head of the occupying Lannister forces at Harrenhal where he selects prisoners to be tortured to death by [[TortureTechnician one of his men known as The Tickler]]. When Harrenhal is lost, [[RapePillageAndBurn Gregor has every prisoner put to the sword]], leaving hundreds of corpses for the next arrivals to find. In Season 4, Gregor is seen practicing his sword skills by butchering prisoners in wholly one-sided duels before he enters into a Trial by Combat representing the Crown against Prince Oberyn Martell who wishes to force Gregor to confess to the murder of Oberyn's sister Elia and her children. When Gregor gets his hands on Oberyn, he [[EyeScream shoves his thumbs through the prince's eyes]] before [[YourHeadASplode squeezing his head until it ''explodes'']], wanting to hurt the man as much as possible while he roars out his guilt in [[WouldHurtAChild killing the children]] before he raped and murdered Elia.
* Craster is a particularly nasty Wildling who resides beyond the Wall, making his living as an ally to the Night's Watch by providing them with supplies, shelter and info. Craster delights in antagonizing them, however, hiding behind the fact he's necessary to them to avoid reprisal. What makes Craster sickening is how he rules his self-given kingdom: Craster routinely marries any daughters he has when they come of age, [[ParentalIncest beating and raping his many wives and daughter-wives]]. If they bear him sons, Craster sacrifices them by leaving them out for the White Walkers. Craster threatens violence on those he can't simply cow into submission and relishes the lack of law beyond the Wall to simply do whatever he wants, even having the audacity to claim he is a "Godly man" when criticized.
* [[AxCrazy Ramsay Snow]], the bastard son of Lord Roose Bolton and the most vicious member of House Bolton, is a {{sadist}} with a [[TortureTechnician knack for torture]] and [[FlayedAlive flaying others alive]]. After capturing Winterfell, Ramsay proceeded to play [[MindRape twisted games]] with the captive Theon Greyjoy, pretending to be an Ironborn agent who comes to save Theon—[[BadBoss killing his own men to keep up the ruse]]--and culminating in Ramsay bringing Theon to the Dreadfort and [[ColdBloodedTorture subjecting him to prolonged, hideous torture]], including [[{{Fingore}} flaying bits of him]] and [[GroinAttack castrating him]]. All that remains of Theon afterwards is a broken, obedient shell whom Ramsay dubs "Reek." In his spare time, Ramsay and his equally psychotic lover [[DarkMistress Myranda]] release girls into the woods to hunt them for sport, also using the girls to feed Ramsay's savage hounds. When Ramsay makes Theon negotiate a surrender with other Ironborn, Ramsay guarantees their safety, [[ILied only to have them flayed alive]] and displayed as gruesome trophies. After marrying Sansa Stark, Ramsay rapes her on the wedding night and continues to [[DomesticAbuse sexually and physically abuse her]] throughout the rest of the marriage. Ramsay cements his rule over his hold by [[spoiler: murdering Roose]] and having his hounds eat [[spoiler:his infant brother and stepmother]]. When he finally engages the Northern armies, Ramsay is [[WeHaveReserves apathetic to the death of his own men]] and shoots the [[spoiler:preteen Rickon Stark]] dead--moments before he reaches [[spoiler:Jon Snow]]. With few matching his [[ForTheEvulz pointless savagery]], Ramsay Snow exemplified every [[BastardBastard negative stereotypes about bastards]] in Westeros.
* [[EvilOldFolks Lord Walder Frey]], head of House Frey, is a {{smug|Snake}} old man who nevertheless appears to be little more than a doddering but harmless [[DirtyOldMan pervert]] before the true depths of his treachery are made apparent. In alliance with Tywin Lannister and Roose Bolton, Walder [[MoralEventHorizon organizes the Red Wedding]] and [[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E9TheRainsOfCastamere oversees the deaths of Robb Stark, his pregnant wife Talisa, Catelyn, and the near-entirety of their bannermen]] in a full-on massacre whilst nonchalantly drinking from a cup of wine--for the sake of power and getting back at Robb for breaking his wedding vow. Walder coldly dismisses the life of his teenage wife once Catelyn takes her hostage with the logic of "I'll find another" and doesn't so much as blink when her throat is cut in front of him. Walder is entirety unrepentant about his betrayal and destructive fallout caused by it, and [[EvilGloating cruelly gloats]] about his victory and the new position of power he's snagged for the rest of his role in the series. Walder is a coward and a backstabber who considers even age-old traditions like [[SacredHospitality guest right]] irrelevant in the face of personal gain, and is rightfully detested even in the cutthroat world of Westeros for his treason.
* [[BloodKnight Karl Tanner]], the most depraved of the many outlaws sent to the Night's Watch, takes the [[TheOathBreaker taboo of oathbreaking]] to [[MoralEventHorizon extreme measures]]. Karl first proves his viciousness and treachery by instigating a mutiny at Craster's Keep which claims the lives of Lord Commander Mormont and all of his loyalists. After taking over at Craster's Keep, Karl rules [[TheCaligula with an iron fist]], [[EvilIsPetty drinks wine from the skull of the very commander he betrayed]], relishes his past as a PsychoForHire and constantly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pressures his own men to rape and brutalize]] Craster's wives/daughters, who are too [[TheDreaded terrified of Karl's violent outbursts]] to oppose him. This is shown when his right-hand man, [[ButtMonkey Rast]], initially refuses to feed Jon's direwolf, Karl threatens to kill him [[UngratefulBastard despite the fact that Rast saved his life from Mormont a while back]]. When one of Craster's wives steps in with the last born baby boy, Karl's first reaction is to [[WouldHurtAChild take a knife and kill it]] for not wanting any more mouths to feed. He is only stopped when the wives point out that they usually leave them as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for the White Walkers, so he has that done instead. Once one of his men captures Bran and his group, Karl mercilessly abuses Bran and menaces Meera in order to get him speak. After learning that Bran is Jon's half-brother, Karl takes them as valuable hostages. Later, he attempts to gang-rape Meera with his men while [[ForcedToWatch forcing his brother to watch]]. When encountered by Jon, Karl shows nothing but pride for his treachery and relishes the time he and his men had as free men, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite mocking Craster for the same lifestyle a while back]].

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* [[TeensAreMonsters Joffrey Baratheon]] is a dyed-in-the-wool {{sadist}} who seems to take pleasure only in fear and suffering. At first putting on a [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming face]], his true colors are hinted at when he begins carving up the face of Arya Stark's lowborn friend for fun, before trying to kill Arya herself for hitting him, despite the fact she's the younger sister of his fiancée, Sansa. After becoming king, however, Joffrey really comes into his own as a vicious bastard, ordering [[spoiler:Ned Stark's]] execution even though it ensures a civil war with the North. Viewing Sansa as his toy, he frequently has her [[DomesticAbuse humiliated, beaten and threatened with death and rape.]] Among his many cruel acts, Joffrey has a bard choose between losing his hands or his tongue, tries to drown Ser Dontos with wine, orders a crowd of peasants executed because one threw some dung at him, forces one prostitute to beat another, possibly to death, at crossbow point, and eventually shoots [[spoiler:Ros]] full of crossbow bolts just to experience what it's like to personally kill someone. The taboo of kin killing means little to Joffrey either, as he threatened to [[{{Matricide}} execute his mother]] for slapping him, tried to have his uncle Tyrion assassinated, and had his bastard siblings (including [[WouldHurtAChild children and babies]]) butchered so no one would notice [[BastardBastard how little Joffrey resembled his supposed father]], Robert Baratheon. In the end, Joffrey was merely a [[StupidEvil vicious, idiot king]] who believed [[TheCaligula ruling meant everyone was his to torment.]]

* [[VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones Telltale Games Series]]: [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] is the representative in the North for the as-yet-unseen Roose Bolton, orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] while [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "not [his] best work". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically settling on her brother instead, and murders [[spoiler:the teenage Ethan]] on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness his torture (and eventual [[spoiler:murder]]) of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A sadist who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.

* ''[[VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series]]'': [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] acts as TheHeavy for the as-yet-unseen [[GreaterScopeVillain Roose Bolton]], orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "[[TortureTechnician not [his] best work]]". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically (he was afraid taking Talia might be dangerous for him) settling on her brother instead, and murders [[spoiler:the teenage Ethan]] on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness his ColdBloodedTorture (and eventual [[spoiler:murder]]) of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A {{sadist}} who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.

* ''[[VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series]]'': [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] acts as TheHeavy for the as-yet-unseen [[GreaterScopeVillain Roose Bolton]], orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "[[TortureTechnician not [his] best work]]". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically (he was afraid taking Talia might be dangerous for him) settling on her brother instead, and murders [[spoiler:the teenage Ethan]] on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness his ColdBloodedTorture (and eventual [[spoiler:murder]]) of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A {{sadist}} who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.

* Craster is a particularly vicious Wildling and ally of the Night's Watch (each of whom identifies him as belonging to the opposing organisation) who, in his own words, kneels to no man, including Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall. Living alone in a huge, ramshackle compound, Craster keeps a harem of women in line with brainwashing and [[DomesticAbuse violence]], breaking their spirits until they cannot rise up against him, despite the fact that they vastly outnumber him. All of these women are his "[[SexSlave wives]]"; many of them are [[ParentalIncest also his daughters and granddaughters]]. When one of them becomes pregnant, Craster waits to see if it is a boy or a girl. If the child is female, he waits until she is old enough (read eleven or twelve) and does his best to impregnate her. If the child is a boy, Craster leaves him in the woods to be killed by the cold or devoured by the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Others]]; this way they cannot challenge his control over the women. Obsessed with his own hedonism, and raising the next generation of wives, Craster uses his allegiance with the Night's Watch to make sure that nobody, not even the Watch, interferes with his business.

* ''[[Literature/ArchmaesterGyldaynsHistories The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens]]'': "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ser Ulf the White, known as "[[{{Turncoat}} The Betrayers]]", are "Dragonseeds," descendants of Targaryen bastards, who [[DragonRider successfully tame dragons]] and are recruited into the forces of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. During the battle of Tumbleton, however, they reveal their true colors: defecting to Aegon II's side, the two attack Tumbleton with their dragons, scorching the town from end to end with their flames and killing all those caught up in the conflagration, with thousands of refugees burning or drowning in the river Mander. The soldier who surrender are promptly beheaded and the two [[RapePillageAndBurn brutally sack the town]], with people killed and women raped, [[WouldHurtAChild including girls as young as eight and ten years old]]. Following the sack, they set themselves as tyrants over Tumbleton. Women who fail to please Ulf are given to his dragon. [[AmbitionIsEvil Ulf demands the rulership of Highgarden for his service while Hugh demands his own crown]]. When one knight is so incensed he knocks Hugh's self-made crown off, Hugh has three horseshoes nailed to his head. The two are so vile that [[EnemyMine a secret conspiracy between the two sides]] is formed for the sole purpose of eliminating them during the war. Even in the brutal Dance of the Dragons, these two exemplify [[BastardBastard why bastards are often seen as villains]] in Westeros.

* [[EnfanteTerrible Despite his young age]], King Joffrey Baratheon stood out as one of the vilest characters in the series. While always shown to have a darker side, Joffrey finally crossed the line when he had Ned Stark executed, ensuring that the war with the Northerners would never reach a peaceful conclusion. Joffrey not only did this in front of Ned's daughter, Sansa, Joffrey's own fiancée, he then forced her to look at the decapitated heads of her father and household afterwards. This was then followed by a long period of DomesticAbuse during which Joffrey had her regularly beaten by his Kingsguard and threatened to rape her [[spoiler:even after she married his uncle, Tyrion]]. As king, Joffrey reveled in his power over life and death, and his reign was filled with all manner of pointless cruelties. Joffrey's crimes included having a minstrel whose song offended him choose between losing his hands or his tongue, attempting to have a drunken knight drowned in a cask of wine, firing on starving peasants with his crossbow, ordering his bodyguard to cut through a crowd of peasants to get at one of them who threw manure at him, nailing antlers to the heads of Stannis sympathizers and firing them from trebuchets as entertainment during the Battle of the Blackwater, and attempting to convince his grandfather to execute everyone who fought against him, regardless of whether or not they surrendered. A budding psychopath who believed being the king gave him the right to do whatever he liked, Joffrey's sadism was so great that he was well on his way to surpassing his predecessor as the next [[TheCaligula Mad King]] of the Seven Kingdoms.

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* [[PosthumousCharacter King Aerys II Targaryen]], better known as "[[TheCaligula The Mad King]]", was Joffrey's {{predecessor|Villain}}, the last king of the Targaryen dynasty, and one of the most hated tyrants the Seven Kingdoms had ever known. Although he began as a promising ruler, Aerys [[SanitySlippage slowly descended into insanity]], at one point having a [[TongueTrauma man's tongue torn out]] for joking that Aerys's Hand and best friend, Tywin Lannister, was the true ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. Following his release from Duskendale, Aerys orders every Darklyn and Hollard, excluding Dontos, to be executed. After his son, Prince Rhaegar, absconded with Lyanna Stark, Aerys imprisoned Lyanna's brother Brandon for demanding her release. When Lord Rickard Stark demanded a TrialByCombat to settle the matter, Aerys named fire as his personal champion, having Rickard [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly roasted to death over an open flame]]. He also [[ForcedToWatch forced Brandon to watch Rickard's execution]], strapping him to a torture device that strangled Brandon to death as he struggled to save his father. Aerys also ordered Jon Arryn to surrender Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon for execution, with Jon's refusal sparking Robert's Rebellion. Over the course of the war, Aerys had several of his failed Hands either exiled or burned to death, eventually replacing his competent advisors with deranged alchemists who shared [[{{Pyromaniac}} his passion for fire]]. Aroused by the sight of men burning alive, Aerys savagely raped his wife on a number of occasions. When Tywin betrayed Aerys at the end of the war, Aerys ordered his pyromancers to use Wildfire to burn King's Landing to the ground, intending to kill hundreds of thousands rather than admit defeat. [[note]]:There is no indication all the wildfire has been found[[/note]]. He also ordered his Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister, to murder Tywin, his own father. This led to Jaime [[EvenEvilHasStandards betraying and murdering Aerys]] to save the city and his father's life.

* [[EnfanteTerrible Despite his young age]], King Joffrey Baratheon stood out as one of the vilest characters in the series. While always shown to have a darker side, Joffrey finally crossed the line when he had Ned Stark executed, ensuring that the war with the Northerners would never reach a peaceful conclusion. Joffrey not only did this in front of Ned's daughter, Sansa, Joffrey's own fiancée, he then forced her to look at the decapitated heads of her father and household afterwards. This was then followed by a long period of DomesticAbuse during which Joffrey had her regularly beaten by his Kingsguard and threatened to rape her [[spoiler:even after she married his uncle, Tyrion]]. As king, Joffrey reveled in his power over life and death, and his reign was filled with all manner of pointless cruelties. Joffrey's crimes included having a minstrel whose song offended him choose between losing his hands or his tongue, attempting to have a drunken knight drowned in a cask of wine, firing on starving peasants with his crossbow, ordering his bodyguard to cut through a crowd of peasants to get at one of them who threw manure at him, nailing antlers to the heads of Stannis sympathizers and firing them from trebuchets as entertainment during the Battle of the Blackwater, and attempting to convince his grandfather to execute everyone who fought against him, regardless of whether or not they surrendered. A budding psychopath who believed being the king gave him the right to do whatever he liked, Joffrey's sadism was so great that he was well on his way to surpassing his predecessor as the next [[TheCaligula Mad King]] of Westeros.
* [[PosthumousCharacter King Aerys II Targaryen]], better known as "[[TheCaligula The Mad King]]", was Joffrey's {{predecessor|Villain}}, the last king of the Targaryen dynasty, and one of the most hated tyrants the Seven Kingdoms had ever known. Although he began as a promising ruler, Aerys [[SanitySlippage slowly descended into insanity]], at one point having a [[TongueTrauma man's tongue torn out]] for joking that Aerys's Hand and best friend, Tywin Lannister, was the true ruler of Westeros. Following his release from Duskendale, Aerys orders every Darklyn and Hollard, excluding Dontos, to be executed. After his son, Prince Rhaegar, absconded with Lyanna Stark, Aerys imprisoned Lyanna's brother Brandon for demanding her release. When Lord Rickard Stark demanded a TrialByCombat to settle the matter, Aerys named fire as his personal champion, having Rickard [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly roasted to death over an open flame]]. He also [[ForcedToWatch forced Brandon to watch Rickard's execution]], strapping him to a torture device that strangled Brandon to death as he struggled to save his father. Aerys also ordered Jon Arryn to surrender Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon for execution, with Jon's refusal sparking Robert's Rebellion. Over the course of the war, Aerys had several of his failed Hands either exiled or burned to death, eventually replacing his competent advisors with deranged alchemists who shared [[{{Pyromaniac}} his passion for fire]]. Aroused by the sight of men burning alive, Aerys savagely raped his wife on a number of occasions. When Tywin betrayed Aerys at the end of the war, Aerys ordered his pyromancers to use Wildfire to burn King's Landing to the ground, intending to kill hundreds of thousands rather than admit defeat. [[note]]:There is no indication all the wildfire has been found[[/note]]. He also ordered his Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister, to murder Tywin, his own father. This led to Jaime [[EvenEvilHasStandards betraying and murdering Aerys]] to save the city and his father's life.

* [[TheNoseless Rorge]] is a SerialRapist and SerialKiller--especially of [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--and the worst of the [[RapePillageAndBurn Brave Companions]], his cruelty even exceeding their leader, Vargo Hoat. Freed along with his companion Biter, Rorge signs on with the "[[PsychoForHire Bloody Mummers]]" after Arya Stark saves him from certain death. He offers to repay her by [[UngratefulBastard anally raping her with her own wooden sword]], only stopping when she threatens him with Jaqen H'ghar. After the Brave Companions capture Jaime and Brienne, he attempts to rape Brienne, threatening to inflict FacialHorror if she screams. After Hoat's death, Rorge leads a band of brigands into Raid on Saltpans, during which women were raped and mutilated, children were butchered in the arms of their mothers, and almost the whole town was massacred. He personally kills twenty men and rapes a twelve-year-old girl, tearing her body with his armor, then giving the girl to his men who mutilate her further. Upon encountering Brienne again, Rorge expresses a desire to "cut off her legs and set her on her stumps so she can watch me fuck the crossbow girl." The girl in question is under ten years old. Additional material indicates that he is also the reason why Biter is the way he is-—finding an orphan boy, Rorge removed his tongue, filed his teeth, and made him fight dogs with only his new fangs. A consummate HeManWomanHater and ChildHater, and a pedophilic serial predator in a world full of warriors, Rorge earns the enmity and disgust of everyone he meets.

* ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'': [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating King Maegor I Targaryen]], the third King of Westeros, was better known as Maegor The Cruel, and was the ancestor to both Aerys II and Joffrey. He [[TheUsurper usurped the throne]] from his nephew and promptly [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the one Archmaester who protested. As king, Maegor turned to brutal tactics to suppress the Faith of the Seven, even riding on his dragon Balerion to burn down a Sept with all worshippers inside, using archers to pick off stragglers. Maegor proceeded to commit massacre after massacre, even passing off the skulls of poor smallfolk in the wrong place at the wrong time as members of the Faith's warriors. Worse still was Maegor's [[EvilUncle attitudes towards family]]: Maegor killed his own nephew in combat, and then had his second nephew captured and tortured to death. When one of his wives gave birth to a "stillborn monstrosity," Maegor had her, everyone at the birth, and her entire family executed. When his favorite wife revealed she'd poisoned said wife from jealousy, causing the monstrosity, Maegor cut her heart out and gave it to the dogs. Obsessed with having an heir, Maegor forcibly married three women, including his own niece. After having the Red Keep constructed, Maegor also had the builders massacred to keep its secrets to himself. Monstrous, brutal, violent and cruel, Maegor's excesses drove all Westeros to unite against him behind his only surviving nephew, Jaerhaerys, and Maegor is remembered to the present day as one of the greatest examples of an evil King.

* [[PosthumousCharacter King Aerys II Targaryen]], better known as "[[TheCaligula The Mad King]]", was Joffrey's {{predecessor|Villain}}, the last king of the Targaryen dynasty, and one of the most hated tyrants the Seven Kingdoms had ever known. Although he began as a promising ruler, Aerys [[SanitySlippage slowly descended into insanity]], at one point having a [[TongueTrauma man's tongue torn out]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for joking]] that Aerys's Hand and [[WeUsedToBeFriends best friend]], Tywin Lannister, was the true ruler of Westeros. After his son, Prince Rhaegar, absconded with Lyanna Stark, Aerys imprisoned Lyanna's brother Brandon for demanding her release. When Lord Rickard Stark demanded a TrialByCombat to settle the matter, Aerys named fire as his personal champion, having Rickard [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly roasted to death over an open flame]]. He also [[ForcedToWatch forced Brandon to watch Rickard's execution]], [[ColdBloodedTorture strapping him to a torture device]] that strangled Brandon to death as he struggled to save his father. Aerys also ordered Jon Arryn to surrender Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon for execution, with Jon's refusal sparking Robert's Rebellion. Over the course of the war, Aerys had several of his failed Hands either exiled or burned to death, eventually replacing his competent advisors with deranged alchemists who shared [[{{Pyromaniac}} his passion for fire]]. Aroused by the sight of men burning alive, Aerys savagely raped his wife on a number of occasions. When Tywin betrayed Aerys at the end of the war, Aerys ordered his pyromancers to use Wildfire to burn King's Landing to the ground, intending to kill hundreds of thousands rather than admit defeat. [[note]]:There is no indication all the wildfire has been found[[/note]]. He also ordered his Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister, to murder Tywin, his own father. This led to Jaime [[EvenEvilHasStandards betraying and murdering Aerys]] to save the city and his father's life.
* [[OneManArmy Ser Gregor Clegane]], alias "[[WorldsStrongestMan The Mountain that Rides]]", is an [[EvilIsBigger eight-foot-tall]] BlackKnight in service to House Lannister. A brutal {{sadist}} and [[TheDreaded one of the most feared men in Westeros]], Clegane is [[AxCrazy kept in a constant state of rage]] due to migraine headaches. Rumoured to have murdered his sister, [[{{Patricide}} father]], and two wives, Clegane's confirmed crimes are even more heinous. [[KidsAreCruel At twelve]], he burned off half of his younger brother Sandor's face when the latter [[DisproportionateRetribution played with one of Gregor's discarded toys]]. [[TeensAreMonsters At seventeen]], he [[WouldHurtAChild dashed Prince Aegon's head against a wall]], then raped and murdered his mother, Princess Elia, with the baby's brains still on his hands. Introduced at a tournament in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Gregor murders one of his opponents, then tries to kill another and [[CainAndAbel his own brother]] [[SoreLoser after being unseated in a joust]]. Unleashed on the Riverlands, Clegane and his men [[RapePillageAndBurn rape and murder anyone who falls into their hands]]. At one point in ''Literature/AClashOfKings'', for ten days, Gregor picks one person each day from a group of villagers for "[[TortureTechnician The Tickler]]" to question until they die from his torture. After one villager volunteers for questioning to save her daughter, Clegane [[ILied has the daughter tortured the next day]] to make sure the mother didn't leave anything out. He also smashes a girl's face in for speaking when he wanted silence, then turns her over to his men to be gang-raped for days. In ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'', Clegane slaughters the population of Harrenhal before cutting strips of flesh from [[AssholeVictim Vargo Hoat]] and [[{{Autocannibalism}} feeding them to him]], [[KickTheSonOfABitch torturing Hoat for days before letting him die]]. In the same book, during a duel with Oberyn Martell, Princess Elia's brother, who asserts that "you raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children", Clegane's only concern is that Oberyn got the order of events wrong, correcting him before [[YourHeadAsplode brutally crushing Oberyn's skull]]:
--> "Her name was Elia of Dorne. ''First'', I killed her screaming whelp. ''Then'' I raped her. ''Then'' I smashed her fucking head in. [[FacePalmOfDoom Like this]]."

* [[TheNoseless Rorge]], a SerialRapist and SerialKiller, is the worst of the [[RapePillageAndBurn Brave Companions]], his cruelty even exceeding their leader, Vargo Hoat. Freed from the Black Cells under King's Landing, along with his companion [[ImAHumanitarian Biter]], Rorge [[PsychoForHire signs on with the "Bloody Mummers"]] after Arya Stark saves him from certain death. He offers to [[UngratefulBastard repay her]] by [[WouldHitAGirl anally raping her with her own wooden sword]], only stopping when she threatens him with [[ProfessionalKiller Jaqen H'ghar]]. He later goes against Hoat's own orders when he tries to rape Brienne of Tarth, and tortures the recently crippled Jaime Lannister by kicking him in his stump, when Jaime reminds him that Brienne is supposed to remain unharmed. After Hoat's death, Rorge, taking control of a gang of brigands, burns down the town of Saltpans, in an act so savage that it shocks the sensibilities of a Westeros long inured to the atrocities of Gregor Clegane and Vargo Hoat. Killing twenty men himself, Rorge rapes every woman and child in town, most notably [[WouldHurtAChild raping a six-year-old girl]] while wearing chainmail; he also rapes nuns before feeding them to Biter. Upon encountering Brienne again, he expresses a desire to "cut off her legs and set her on her stumps so she can watch me fuck the crossbow girl." The girl in question is under ten years old. Additional material indicates that he is also the [[ParentalSubstitute reason]] why [[AxCrazy Biter]] is the way he is--finding an orphan boy, Rorge [[TongueTrauma removed his tongue]], [[FangsAreEvil filed his teeth]], and made him fight dogs with [[ManBitesMan only his new fangs]]. A consummate HeManWomanHater and ChildHater, and a serial predator in a world full of warriors, Rorge earns the enmity and disgust of everyone he meets.

* ''[[Literature/ArchmaesterGyldaynsHistories The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens]]'': "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ser Ulf the White, known as "[[{{Turncoat}} The Betrayers]]", are "Dragonseeds," descendants of Targaryen bastards, who [[DragonRider successfully tame dragons]] and are recruited into the forces of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. During the battle of Tumbleton, however, they reveal their true colors: defecting to Aegon II's side, the two attack Tumbleton with their dragons, scorching the town from end to end with their flames and killing all those caught up in the conflagration, with thousands of refugees burning or drowning in the river Mander. The soldier who surrender are promptly beheaded and the two [[RapePillageAndBurn brutally sack the town]], with people killed and women raped, [[WouldHurtAChild including girls as young as eight and ten years old]]. Setting themselves up as tyrants over Tumbleton, any who displease them are fed to their dragons.[[AmbitionIsEvil Ulf demands the rulership of Highgarden for his service while Hugh demands his own crown]]. When one knight is so incensed he knocks Hugh's self-made crown off, Hugh has three horseshoes nailed to his head. The two are so vile that [[EnemyMine a secret conspiracy between the two sides]] is formed for the sole purpose of eliminating them during the war. Even in the brutal Dance of the Dragons, these two exemplify [[BastardBastard why bastards are often seen as villains]] in Westeros.

* Lord Walder Frey, while [[DirtyOldMan somewhat repugnant]] in his first appearance, seems to be a fairly competent ruler and willing to help the heroes, for a [[NotInThisForYourRevolution price]]. His next appearance even has him come across as a CoolOldGuy, forgiving Robb's slight against him. Then comes season 3's "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E9TheRainsOfCastamere The Rains of Castamere]]" and the infamous [[WhamEpisode Red Wedding]], which opens with [[spoiler:Robb's]] pregnant wife being stabbed repeatedly in the stomach, [[spoiler:Robb, Catelyn, and the Stark Bannermen]] being murdered in a [[MoralEventHorizon massive violation of guest right]], and Walder laughing and eating the whole time. To top it off, when his wife is held hostage, he simply tells the hostage taker to kill her, saying [[WeHaveReserves she's expendable]]. To drive the point home, he begins the next episode by recounting the Red Wedding with glee, showing no remorse and celebrating [[KlingonPromotion the power]] his betrayal has brought him.
* Karl Tanner, in season 3, led a mutiny against his Lord Commander, in the process [[MoralEventHorizon becoming an oathbreaker]] by denouncing his vows to protect the wall. It's not until season 4's "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E4Oathkeeper Oathkeeper]]" that he reaches CompleteMonster status, having taken up at Craster's Keep. Here he hurtles insults towards his men, encourages them to rape Craster's daughters/wives "to death," and drinks wine from the skull of the very commander he betrayed. When one of the wives comes with a son who has been born, Karl's first reaction is to [[WouldHurtAChild take a knife and kill it]]. He's only stopped when the rest of the wives point out they usually leave the sons out in the cold as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for the White Walkers so he has that done instead. Once one of his men captures Bran and his group, he menaces Meera and threatens her to get Bran to speak. In the next episode, he intends to rape her [[ForcedToWatch in front of her brother]], and then let his men do the same.

* [[{{Sadist}} Ramsay Snow]], the Bastard of Bolton, lives up to every negative stereotype about {{bastard|Bastard}}s in Westeros. After capturing Winterfell and [[FlayingAlive flaying the Ironborn]] who had held it, Ramsay engages in [[MindRape twisted games]] with the captive prince Theon Greyjoy. First he pretends to be an Ironborn agent who frees Theon, even killing his own men to keep up the illusion before he leads Theon back to the Dreadfort where he takes over the torture personally. Said [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] consists of [[{{Fingore}} flaying bits of Theon's skin]] until he begs for the finger to be cut off, and even [[GroinAttack castrating him]] before sending the result to Theon's father in a box. All that remains of Theon is a beaten shell of a man Ramsay dubs “Reek” who serves without question. In his spare time, Ramsay and his equally psychotic lover [[MonsterFangirl Myranda]] release girls into the woods to hunt them with bows and arrows and Ramsay's monstrous hounds who maul the girls to death. When Ramsay makes Theon negotiate a surrender with other Ironborn, Ramsay promises them safe passage only to have them immediately {{flayed alive}} and displayed as gruesome trophies. Ramsay’s only motivation for these heinous acts is that [[ForTheEvulz he enjoys them]].

* Ramsay Snow, [[BastardBastard the Bastard of Bolton]], stands out as one of the most savage and depraved men in Westeros. Suspected of [[CainAndAbel murdering his good-hearted, trueborn brother]], Ramsay first comes to prominence after he forces Lady Hornwood to marry him to gain her lands. Having already starved her to death, Ramsay avoids death at the hands of Winterfell soldiers by impersonating his servant, Reek, then sending his "friend" to die in his place. When Theon Greyjoy takes over Winterfell, the imprisoned Ramsay allies himself with Greyjoy and acts as a corruptive influence, ultimately being the one to convince Theon to cross the MoralEventHorizon by murdering two little boys to pass them off as Bran and Rickon Stark. Gathering his own forces, Ramsay slaughters Ser Rodrik's Northerner soldiers, then betrays and captures Theon before ordering his men to raze Winterfell and slaughter everyone inside. One of Ramsay's favorite past-times is [[FlayedAlive flaying people alive]] and he's done this many times, from the people he tortures, to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the girls he hunts for fun]] that give him bad sport, to the surrendering Ironborn forces of Moat Cailin [[ILied after Ramsay promised them mercy]]. Ramsay is also responsible for [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape mentally]] torturing Theon Greyjoy to condition him into a pathetic, insane wretch [[LossOfIdentity who believes himself the new Reek]]. Taking an Arya Stark impersonator as his wife to maintain Bolton control of the North, [[DomesticAbuse Ramsay abuses her constantly]], despite her usefulness, [[RapeByProxy even forcing Theon to participate in her wedding night bedding]]. A half-feral beast of a man, Ramsay lives to satisfy his sadistic urges and is so [[ForTheEvulz pointlessly]] and [[StupidEvil moronically cruel]] that even his own sociopathic father has to hold himself back from killing him.

* Karl Tanner, in season 3, led a mutiny against his Lord Commander (and in the process becoming an oathbreaker (crossing an InUniverse MoralEventHorizon)) by denouncing his vows to protect the wall. It's not until season 4's "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E4Oathkeeper Oathkeeper]]" that he reaches CompleteMonster status, having taken up at Craster's Keep. Here he hurtles insults towards his men, encourages them to rape Craster's daughters/wives "to death," and drinks wine from the skull of the very commander he betrayed. When one of the wives comes with a son who has been born, Karl's first reaction is to [[WouldHurtAChild take a knife and kill it]]. He's only stopped when the rest of the wives point out they usually leave the sons out in the cold as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] for the White Walkers so he has that done instead. Once one of his men captures Bran and his group, he menaces Meera and threatens her to get Bran to speak. In the next episode, he intends to rape her [[ForcedToWatch in front of her brother]], and then let his men do the same.

* [[SmallNameBigEgo The self-styled "Lord" Vargo Hoat]] is the leader of a psychotic [[PrivateMilitaryContractor mercenary band]], known as The Brave Companions or, more commonly, "The Bloody Mummers." A vicious barbarian with no regard for morals or innocent life, Hoat allows his band to RapePillageAndBurn, at their discretion. Each man in the group is a monster with sickening crimes to his name, but Hoat allows all of them to indulge their darkest desires as long as Hoat profits. Hoat himself has a penchant for maiming victims, having earned the name "Footman" for lopping off the feet of his victims. Hoat initially works for the Lannisters, until he betrays Harrenhal to the Boltons. Once this is done, he has the Lannister commander Ser Amory Lorch fed to a bear. While Lorch was a child murdering pig of a man, all Hoat cared about was the entertainment. When his men capture Jaime Lanninster and Brienne of Tarth, Vargo has Jaime's sword hand chopped off to curry favor with his new allies and later [[AttemptedRape tries to rape]] Brienne himself. When she resists and bites his ear off, he throws her to the bear as well with a useless practice sword. Hoat is feared by all who know him as a vicious lunatic who leads the worst group of beasts posing as men in Westeros, and will kill someone for noticing his speech impediment, for not referring to him as a proper lord, or simply because he thinks it's funny.
* Hoat's company, the Brave Companions, are a bad lot, but [[TheNoseless noseless]] [[PaedoHunt paedophiliac]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil serial rapist]] and {{serial killer}} Rorge is acknowledged in-universe and out as the worst of them. Freed from the Black Cells under King's Landing, along with his [[TheDragon companion]], [[ImAHumanitarian Biter]], [[PsychoForHire Rorge]] signs on with the Brave Companions after Arya Stark saves him from certain death. He offers to [[UngratefulBastard repay her]] by anally raping her with her own wooden sword, only stopping when she threatens him with [[ProfessionalKiller Jaqen H'ghar]]. He later goes against Hoat's own orders when he tries to rape Brienne of Tarth, and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] the [[AnArmAndALeg recently crippled]] Jaime Lannister by [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicking him in his stump]], when Jaime reminds him that Brienne is supposed to remain unharmed. It's after Hoat's death, though, that Rorge really comes into his own. Taking control of a gang of brigands, he [[RapePillageAndBurn burns down the town of Saltpans]], in an act so savage that it shocks the sensibilities of a Westeros long inured to the atrocities of Gregor Clegane and Vargo Hoat. Killing twenty men himself, Rorge rapes every woman and child in town, most notably raping a six year old girl while wearing chainmail; he also rapes nuns before feeding them to Biter. Upon encountering Brienne again, he expresses a desire to "cut off her legs and set her on her stumps so she can watch me fuck the crossbow girl." The girl in question is under ten years old. Sidematerials would indicate that he is also the [[ParentalSubstitute reason]] why [[AxeCrazy Biter]] is the way he is--finding an orphan boy, Rorge removed his tongue, filed his teeth, and made him fight dogs with [[ManBitesMan only his new fangs]]. A consummate [[HeManWomanHater Woman]] & ChildHater, and a serial predator in a world full of warriors, Rorge earns the enmity and disgust of everyone he meets.

* ''[[VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series]]'': [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] acts as TheHeavy for the as-yet-unseen [[GreaterScopeVillain Roose Bolton]], orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "[[TortureTechnician not [his] best work]]". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically (he was afraid taking Talia might be dangerous for him) settling on her brother instead, and murders [[spoiler:the teenage Ethan]] on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness his ColdBloodedTorture (and eventual [[spoiler:murder]]) of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A {{sadist}} who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.

As would be expected from a {{Doorstopper}} series with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' and its television adaptation ''Series/GameOfThrones'' have many complex antagonists with very understandable motives. However, there exist several characters who are, indeed, [[CompleteMonster total monsters]].

* Ramsay Snow, [[BastardBastard the Bastard of Bolton]], stands out as one of the most savage and depraved men in Westeros. Suspected of [[CainAndAbel murdering his good-hearted, trueborn brother]], Ramsay first comes to prominence after he forces Lady Hornwood to marry him to gain her lands. Having already starved her to death, Ramsay avoids death at the hands of Winterfell soldiers by impersonating his servant, Reek, then sending his "friend" to die in his place. When Theon Greyjoy takes over Winterfell, the imprisoned Ramsay allies himself with Greyjoy and acts as a corruptive influence, ultimately being the one to convince Theon to cross the MoralEventHorizon by murdering two little boys to pass them off as Bran and Rickon Stark. Gathering his own forces, Ramsay slaughters Ser Rodrik's Northerner soldiers, then betrays and captures Theon before ordering his men to raze Winterfell and slaughter everyone inside. One of Ramsay's favorite past-times is [[FlayedAlive flaying people alive]] and he's done this many times, from the people he tortures, to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the girls he hunts for fun]] that give him bad sport, to the surrendering Ironborn forces of Moat Cailin [[ILied after Ramsay promised them mercy]]. Ramsay is also responsible for [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape mentally]] torturing Theon Greyjoy to condition him into a pathetic, insane wretch [[LossOfIdentity who believes himself the new Reek]]. Taking an Arya Stark impersonator as his wife to maintain Bolton control of the North, [[DomesticAbuser Ramsay abuses her constantly]], despite her usefulness, [[RapeByProxy even forcing Theon to participate in her wedding night bedding]]. A half-feral beast of a man, Ramsay lives to satisfy his sadistic urges and is so [[ForTheEvulz pointlessly]] and [[StupidEvil moronically cruel]] that even his own sociopathic father has to hold himself back from killing him.
* Craster is a particularly vicious Wildling and ally of the Night's Watch (each of whom identifies him as belonging to the opposing organisation) who, in his own words, kneels to no man, including Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall. Living alone in a huge, ramshackle compound, Craster keeps a harem of women in line with brainwashing and [[DomesticAbuser violence]], breaking their spirits until they cannot rise up against him, despite the fact that they vastly outnumber him. All of these women are his "[[SexSlave wives]]"; many of them are [[ParentalIncest also his daughters and granddaughters]]. When one of them becomes pregnant, Craster waits to see if it is a boy or a girl. If the child is female, he waits until she is old enough (read eleven or twelve) and does his best to impregnate her. If the child is a boy, Craster leaves him in the woods to be killed by the cold or devoured by the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Others]]; this way they cannot challenge his control over the women. Obsessed with his own hedonism, and raising the next generation of wives, Craster uses his allegiance with the Night's Watch to make sure that nobody, not even the Watch, interferes with his business.

* [[TeensAreMonsters Joffrey Baratheon]] is a dyed-in-the-wool {{sadist}} who seems to take pleasure only in fear and suffering. At first putting on a [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming face]], his true colors are hinted at when he begins carving up the face of Arya Stark's lowborn friend for fun, before trying to kill Arya herself for hitting him, despite the fact she's the younger sister of his fiancée, Sansa. After becoming king, however, Joffrey really comes into his own as a vicious bastard, ordering [[spoiler:Ned Stark's]] execution even though it ensures a civil war with the North. Viewing Sansa as his toy, he frequently has her [[DomesticAbuser humiliated, beaten and threatened with death and rape.]] Among his many cruel acts, Joffrey has a bard choose between losing his hands or his tongue, tries to drown Ser Dontos with wine, orders a crowd of peasants executed because one threw some dung at him, forces one prostitute to beat another, possibly to death, at crossbow point, and eventually shoots [[spoiler:Ros]] full of crossbow bolts just to experience what it's like to personally kill someone. The taboo of kin killing means little to Joffrey either, as he threatened to [[{{Matricide}} execute his mother]] for slapping him, tried to have his uncle Tyrion assassinated, and had his bastard siblings (including [[WouldHurtAChild children and babies]]) butchered so no one would notice [[BastardBastard how little Joffrey resembled his supposed father]], Robert Baratheon. In the end, Joffrey was merely a [[StupidEvil vicious, idiot king]] who believed [[TheCaligula ruling meant everyone was his to torment.]]

* Craster is a particularly vicious Wildling and ally of the Night's Watch (each of whom identifies him as belonging to the opposing organisation) who, in his own words, kneels to no man, including Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall. Living alone in a huge, ramshackle compound, Craster keeps a harem of women in line with brainwashing and [[DomesticAbuser violence]], breaking their spirits until they cannot rise up against him, despite the fact that they vastly outnumber him. All of these women are his "[[SexSlave wives]]"; many of them are [[ParentalIncest also his daughters and granddaughters]]. When one of them becomes pregnant, Craster waits to see if it is a boy or a girl. If the child is female, he waits until she is old enough (read eleven or twelve) and does his best to impregnate her. If the child is a boy, Craster leaves him in the woods to be killed by the cold or devoured by the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Others]]; this way they cannot challenge his control over the women. Obsessed with his own hedonism, and raising the next generation of wives, Craster uses his alleigance with the Night's Watch to make sure that nobody, not even the Watch, interferes with his business.

* ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'': [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating King Maegor I Targaryen]], the third King of Westeros, was better known as Maegor The Cruel, and was the ancestor to both Aerys II and Joffrey. He [[TheUsurper usurped the throne]] from his nephew and promptly [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the one Archmaester who protested. As king, Maegor turned to brutal tactics to suppress the Faith of the Seven, even riding on his dragon Balerion to burn down a Sept with all worshippers inside, using archers to pick off stragglers. Maegor proceeded to commit massacre after massacre, even passing off the skulls of poor smallfolk in the wrong place at the wrong time as members of the Faith's warriors. Worse still was Maegor's [[EvilUncle attitudes towards family]]: Maegor killed his own nephew in combat, and then had his second nephew captured and tortured to death. When one of his wives gave birth to a "stillborn monstrosity," Maegor had her, everyone at the birth, and her entire family executed. When his favorite wife revealed she'd poisoned said wife from jealousy, causing the monstrosity, Maegor cut her heart out and gave it to the dogs. Obsessed with having an heir, Maegor forcibly married three women, including his own niece. After having the Red Keep constructed, Maegor also had the builders massacred to keep its secrets to himself. Monstrous, brutal, violent and cruel, Maegor's excesses drove all Westeros to unite against him behind his only surviving nephew, Jaerharys, and Maegor is remembered to the present day as one of the greatest examples of an evil King.

* Joffrey's predecessor, [[PosthumousCharacter King Aerys II Targaryen]], was also known as the [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Mad King]]. Among his worst acts was his execution of Rickard Stark; after the former demanded a fair TrialByCombat, Aerys had him [[ManOnFire slowly roasted over an open flame]], reasoning that fire was his personal champion. Just for fun, he also [[ForcedToWatch forced Rickard's son Brandon to watch]], [[ColdBloodedTorture while strapped to a torture device]] that slowly strangled him to death as he struggled to rescue his father. Aerys also made the decision to replace all of his competent councillors with [[MadScientist deranged alchemists]] [[{{Pyromaniac}} who shared his enthusiasm for burning people alive]]. Finally, when Aerys finally realized he had lost his war against the rebels, he attempted to go out with a bang by ordering his pyromancers to use Wildfire to burn King's Landing to the ground-knowing that it would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people-purely out of spite.

* Joffrey's predecessor, [[PosthumousCharacter King Aerys II Targaryen]], was also known as the [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Mad King]]. Among his worst acts was his execution of Rickard Stark; after the former demanded a fair TrialByCombat, Aerys had him [[ManOnFire slowly roasted over an open flame]], reasoning that fire was his personal champion. Just for fun, he also [[ForcedToWatch forced Rickard's son Brandon to watch]], [[ColdBloodedTorture while strapped to a torture device]] that slowly strangled him to death as he struggled to rescue his father. Aerys also made the decision to replace all of his competent councillors with [[MadScientist deranged alchemists]] [[{{Pyromaniac}} who shared his enthusiasm for burning people alive]]. Finally, when Aerys finally realized he had lost his war against the rebels, he decided to go out with a bang by ordering his pyromancers to use Wildfire to burn King's Landing to the ground-knowing that it would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people-purely out of spite; while this was stopped by [[EvenEvilHasStandards his bodyguard]], there is no indication that all the Wildfire has been found.
* Ser Gregor Clegane is an eight foot giant kept in a constant state of rage due to migraine headaches. Alias [[WorldsStrongestMan The Mountain That Rides]], Gregor is one of the [[TheDreaded most feared characters in the setting]], and [[HeroKiller with good reason]]. He is rumored to have killed his sister when they were children, to have arranged for his [[{{patricide}} father]]'s HuntingAccident, and to have murdered both of his wives. The things that we know he did are even worse. As a [[EnfanteTerrible twelve year old boy]], he burned off half of his younger brother Sandor's face when the latter dared to play with one of Gregor's toys--a toy that Gregor himself, it should be noted, did not want anymore. At [[TeensAreMonsters seventeen]], he dashed the [[WouldHurtAChild baby]] Prince Aegon's head against a wall, and then raped and murdered his mother, Princess Elia, with her son's brains still on his hands. At a tournament at the start of ''A Game of Thrones'' he kills one of his opponents, and tries to kill another, and that's before he's turned loose on the countryside. He and his men proceed to [[RapePillageAndBurn rape and murder]] anyone who falls into their hands, often torturing people to see where they have hidden their gold. At one point in ''A Clash of Kings'' each day, for ten days, Gregor picks one person from a group of villagers and has his TortureTechnician, "the Tickler," [[ColdBloodedTorture question that person]] over and over, until they die from the torture. One of the villagers, a mother, volunteers to be taken if they will spare her daughter. The next day, he has the daughter questioned too, to make sure the mother didn't leave anything out. Another time he smashes a girl's face in for speaking when he wanted silence, than turns her over to his men to be gang-raped for days. At one point, he [[KickTheSonOfABitch kills some of the Brave Companions]] before [[DeathByIrony cutting off strips of flesh]] from [[spoiler:[[AssholeVictim Vargo Hoat]]]] and [[{{autocannibalism}} feeding them to him]]. When confronted by the brother of Princess Elia, who repeatedly asserts that "Her name was Elia of Dorne. You raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children," Gregor's only concern (besides killing him) is that the man has gotten the order of events wrong.

* ''[[VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series]]'': [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] acts as TheHeavy for the as-yet-unseen [[GreaterScopeVillain Roose Bolton]], orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "[[TortureTechnician not [his] best work]]". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically settling on her brother instead, and murders the teenage Ethan on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness the ColdBloodedTorture (and eventual [[spoiler:murder]] of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A {{sadist}} who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.
* ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'': [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating King Maegor I Targaryen]], the third King of Westeros, was better known as Maegor The Cruel, and was the ancestor to both Aerys II and Joffrey. He [[TheUsurper usurped the throne]] from his nephew and promptly [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the one Archmaester who protested. As king, Maegor turned to brutal tactics to suppress the Faith of the Seven, even riding on his dragon Balerion to burn down a Sept with all worshipers inside, using archers to pick off stragglers. Maegor proceeded to commit massacre after massacre, even passing off the skulls of poor smallfolk in the wrong place at the wrong time as members of the Faith's warriors. Worse still was Maegor's [[EvilUncle attitudes towards family]]: Maegor killed his own nephew in combat, and then had his second nephew captured and tortured to death. When one of his wives gave birth to a "stillborn monstrosity," Maegor had her, everyone at the birth, and her entire family executed. When his favorite wife revealed she'd poisoned said wife from jealousy, causing the monstrosity, Maegor cut her heart out and gave it to the dogs. Obsessed with having an heir, Maegor forcibly married three women, including his own niece. After having the Red Keep constructed, Maegor also had the builders massacred to keep its secrets to himself. Monstrous, brutal, violent and cruel, Maegor's excesses drove all Westeros to unite against him behind his only surviving nephew, Jaerharys, and Maegor is remembered to the present day as one of the greatest examples of an evil King.

* [[{{Sadist}} Ramsay Snow]], the Bastard of Bolton, lives up to every negative stereotype about [[BastardBastard bastards]] in Westeros. After capturing Winterfell and [[FlayingAlive flaying the Ironborn]] who had held it, Ramsay engages in [[MindRape twisted games]] with the captive prince Theon Greyjoy. First he pretends to be an Ironborn agent who frees Theon, even killing his own men to keep up the illusion before he leads Theon back to the Dreadfort where he takes over the torture personally. Said [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] consists of [[{{Fingore}} flaying bits of Theon's skin]] until he begs for the finger to be cut off, and even [[GroinAttack castrating him]] before sending the result to Theon's father in a box. All that remains of Theon is a beaten shell of a man Ramsay dubs “Reek” who serves without question. In his spare time, Ramsay and his equally psychotic lover [[MonsterFangirl Myranda]] release girls into the woods to hunt them with bows and arrows and Ramsay's monstrous hounds who maul the girls to death. When Ramsay makes Theon negotiate a surrender with other Ironborn, Ramsay promises them safe passage only to have them immediately flayed alive and displayed as gruesome trophies. Ramsay’s only motivation for these heinous acts is that [[ForTheEvulz he enjoys them.]]

* Joffrey's predecessor, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mad King]] Aerys Targaryen, wasn't exactly a paragon of justice either: The people of Westeros had been living under the [[RoyallyScrewedUp Targaryen dynasty]] for almost 300 years, even though it meant putting up with monarchs like [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Maegor the Cruel]] and [[TheCaligula Aegon the Unworthy]], yet all it took was 20 years of Aerys' rule to cause [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating five of the seven kingdoms]] [[CurbStompBattle to rise up against the Iron Throne in open revolt]]. He was really just [[UpToEleven that bad]]. Among his worst acts was his execution of Rickard Stark; after the former demanded a fair TrialByCombat, Aerys had him slowly roasted over an open flame, reasoning that [[InsaneTrollLogic fire was his personal champion]]. [[ForTheEvulz Just for kicks]], [[KickTheDog he also had Rickard's son Brandon]] [[ForcedToWatch forced to watch]] [[ColdBloodedTorture while strapped to a torture device that slowly strangled him to death]] [[SadisticChoice as he struggled to rescue his father]]. Aerys also made the StupidEvil decision to replace all of his competent councillors with [[MadScientist deranged alchemists]] [[{{Pyromaniac}} who shared his "enthusiasm" for burning people alive]]. To top it all off, when Aerys finally realized he had lost his war against the rebels, he decided to go out with a bang [[MoralEventHorizon by ordering his pyromancers to burn Westeros' capitol city to the ground]] - knowing that it would result in the deaths of ''hundreds of thousands'' of people - ''purely out of spite''. Thankfully, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his own sworn bodyguard realized that Aerys was going too far]] and [[TheOathbreaker took matters into his own hands]] before the plan could be carried out.