History Monster / FilmDToE

* ''Film/DraculaUntold'' UsefulNotes/BluRay version: [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Mehmed II]], [[TheEmperor Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]], inherits a dark legacy of conquest and cruelty with brutal enthusiasm. Demanding 1000 Wallachian boys to become [[ChildSoldiers Janissaries]] in his armies, he then demands the son of [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Prince Vlad]] when Vlad offers himself in place of the children. Upon refusal, Mehmed [[RapePillageAndBurn rides through Wallachia]], slaughtering every village he finds and abducting the boys to become his abused soldiers. Upon fooling Vlad, Mehmed proceeds to butcher almost everyone Vlad has ever known upon breaching the fortress, while kidnapping Vlad's son to join his army.

* ''Film/DWar'': [[BigBad Buraki]] is a destructive and malevolent Imoogi who seeks to become an [[AGodAmI Celestial Dragon]] in order to destroy Heaven and Earth and rebuild them [[InTheirOwnImage in his own twisted image]]. When Heaven had the Yuh Yi Joo hidden inside of an young girl, Buraki had his army invade the girl's village, slaughtering many innocent people, including [[WouldHurtAChild a young child]], in the process, before Buraki chases after the girl himself, leading to her and Haram committing suicide in order to stop him. Returning 500 years later, he slaughters countless innocents out of pure sadism while searching for Sarah Daniels in order to claim the Yuh Yi Joo inside of her. When his forces eventually capture Ethan and Sarah, he attempts to devour the latter and claim the Yuh Yi Joo so he can finally become a Celestial Dragon. When the chosen good Imoogi awakens to fight against him, Buraki gains the upper hand, and mortally wounds him, before attempting to claim the Yuh Yi Joo from Sarah. A monstrous, sadistic Imoogi, who lacks the honorable traits of the rest of his kind, Buraki would kill anyone, [[BadBoss including his own followers]], in order to become a Celestial Dragon.

* ''Film/{{Deranged|2012}}'' (2012): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive James Kim]] is a scummy corporate executive who is behind the Yeongasi outbreak in South Korea. Pumping the viral parasites into the country's [[WaterSourceTampering water supply]], Kim infects hundreds of thousands with the Yeongasi, leading to thousands of people being [[DrivenToMadness driven insane]] and drowning themselves thanks to the virus. Deliberately thwarting attempts to cure the virus and murdering his own allies to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep things quiet]], Kim plans to [[PoisonAndCureGambit sell his own cure]] for a massive fortune, willing to let tens of thousands more innocents die if his outlandish prices aren't met.

* ''Film/Dune1984'':
** [[BigBad Baron Vladimir Harkonnen]] is a [[{{Gonk}} grotesque]], cackling beast of a man who masterminds the slaughter of House Atreides by holding the wife of Dr. Yueh hostage with no intent to ever let Yueh live. Having forced his nephew Feyd-Rautha to become his perfect heir via abuse, Harkonnen dispatches the brutal Rabban to slaughter the Fremen of Dune so he might take control of the planet before personally attempting to oversee the remaining slaughter.
** "[[ABeastInNameAndNature The Beast]]" [[PsychopathicManchild Rabban]] is a hulking brute who serves as the Baron's powerful fist in attacking Arrakis. Leading the charge in slaughtering House Atreides, Rabban personally, torturously murders Dr. Kynes with a smile on his face. When tasked with carrying out the genocide of the Fremen, Rabban accepts the mission with relish, taking every opportunity he can to massacre the Fremen. His own troops fare no better, as Rabban repays a soldier who [[YouHaveFailedMe failed him]] by crushing the man's skull in a petulant rage.

* ''Dune Warriors'' (1990): The vicious warlord [[BigBad William]] travels [[AfterTheEnd the Wasteland]], controlling the water supply and killing as he desires. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Opening the film]] with the slaughter of a settlement, William later murders several travelers and menaces the main settlement of the film to force them under his rule. When they resist, led by the wandering warrior Michael who has a grudge to settle with William, William happily tries to wipe them out as well to secure his power.

** ''Film/DeathNoteSeries'': [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]], once a college student frustrated at the perceived failures of the Japanese justice system, proves that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Upon getting his hands on the titular [[DeadlyBook Death Note]], the narcissistic Light quickly declares his designs of [[AGodAmI becoming the god of a new world]]. While he starts off by simply killing criminals, he eventually expands his targets to include the FBI investigators attempting to catch him, and anyone else he sees as a hindrance to his ascension. Light kills his girlfriend Shiori Akino at the end of the first movie to gain sympathy from [[Characters/DeathNoteLLawliet L]], using Naomi Misora, whom he also kills. His disinterest in the fate of anyone other than himself is shown most clearly when he gives the note to someone who he knew for certain would use it for selfish and evil purposes just so that he can throw the authorities off his trail and [[MemoryGambit kill his rival]]. Once he believes himself to have won, Light wastes no time in writing the name of his own father in the Death Note, an act that horrifies even his most loyal follower Misa Amane.

** [[ArchEnemy Christian Naylor]], aka "[[AxCrazy the Sandman]]", is a psychotic SerialKiller who [[CopKiller murdered the partner]] of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Detective Louis Burke. Burke tracks the Sandman down to his new lair in Los Angeles to avenge him, where he finds at least one other female victim's remains. The Sandman is later sent to the prison where Burke went undercover and agrees with its corrupt officials to kill his nemesis. He takes the opportunity to release all the prisoners and starts a PrisonRiot, which results in several deaths. The Sandman murders Burke's ally Priest with an axe before having a duel to the death with Burke.

* ''Film/DeathWish3'': Manny Fraker trumps all other villains from this series in [[AxCrazy psychotic evil]]. Introduced in prison when he informs the hero Paul Kersey he's going to "kill a little old lady, just for you later," Fraker is soon out of prison and on to ruling the streets with an iron fist. Anyone who so much as looks at his gang wrong ends up dead, and he orders several horrible murders, in one event having a woman brutally raped, who later dies from her injuries. Fraker kills Kersey's LoveInterest by pushing her into traffic before blowing her up as well.

* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': [[AxCrazy Simon Phoenix]], a psychotic criminal from the gang-ruled era of Los Angeles in the late 20th century, indulged in theft, kidnapping, rape, arson, and murder to his heart's content. Phoenix holds 30 people hostage and demands a ransom when in fact he had already killed them all, and frames [[CowboyCop John Spartan]] for their deaths. They are both sentenced to [[HumanPopsicle cryo-stasis]] and only woken up in 2032 when the new city of San Angeles has become a crime-free nanny state. Phoenix breaks out of confinement by gouging out a guard's eye to bypass the retinal scanner and indulges in his freedom to be a maniac and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans spread chaos again]], brutally murdering almost everyone who gets in his way. It turns out that Phoenix was unfrozen by the [[WellIntentionedExtremist benevolent dictator]] Dr. Raymond Cocteau to assassinate Edgar Friendly, the underground RebelLeader who has been trying to undo the oppressive system. Simon sets out on this task with murderous glee, killing many innocent bystanders in the process. Phoenix eventually teams up with his old gang after they're unfrozen and murders Cocteau [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil to start a new lawless dystopia]]. Phoenix starts by unfreezing every violent criminal locked up in the cryo-prison, before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness gunning down all the technicians because he no longer has any use for them]].

** [[DiabolicalMastermind Vardhaan Makhija]] is a ruthless crime lord who functions as the ArchEnemy of [[VillainProtagonist Don]]. Seeking to gain a criminal empire from his rival, Vardhaan unleashes a wave of death and chaos to achieve it, even attacking a club to kill him. One infamous incident has Vardhaan blackmailing the innocent Jasjit into stealing for him by [[BuriedAlive burying Jasjit's wife alive]]. Vardhaan ends up letting her die anyway, and later tries to kill Jasjit's young son. After his defeat in the original film, Vardhaan allies with the psychotic Abdul Jabbar to lay a deadly siege to the Euro-printing DZB (Deutsche Zentral Bank) and tries to kill dozens of hostages there when his plans go haywire. In the ultimate act of spite against his rival, Vardhaan tries to force Don's LoveInterest into killing Don.

* ''Downrange'': The "[[ColdSniper Rifleman]]" is a SerialKiller who preys on innocent travelers using a sniper rifle. After disabling an SUV, the Rifleman gradually starts picking off the passengers and preventing them from calling for help so he can torment them, such as by shooting at one passenger's limbs and letting him slowly bleed to death. When a family sees the broken-down SUV as they're driving in their car, the Rifleman slaughters the family as well, [[WouldHurtAChild including the adolescent daughter]]. After the police finally arrive, the Rifleman [[CopKiller kills all the officers]] in a shootout, and attempts to stab [[FinalGirl Jodi]] to death after she finally manages to subdue him.

* ''Drifter'' (2016): [[BigBad Doyle]] is the leader of a group of [[ImAHumanitarian psychotic cannibals]] that live within a small town in a post-apocalyptic desert. As a boy, Doyle brutally [[SelfMadeOrphan murdered his parents]] in their sleep as revenge for putting soap in his mouth for swearing. After the apocalypse, he created a gang by targeting specific individuals, killing their loved ones, and abusing them into loyalty. When Miles and his brother Dominic arrived in town, Doyle has his followers bring the two to him and makes the former watch as he kills Dominic with a baseball bat, later punishing his follower Vijah for helping them by biting off her ear and eating it. Doyle also attempts to make Miles into a follower by feeding him his brother's flesh, and invites him to dinner where Dominic's head has been mounted on the table to mock him, leading to Miles angrily killing one of his followers--who he watches die with little to no reaction--and then takes Vijah hostage after killing one of his own. Doyle tries to conduct himself as a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite and charismatic leader]], but deep down he is a PsychopathicManchild who never grew up.

** ''Film/EscapePlan'': [[TheHeavy Willard Hobbes]] is the operator of "The Tomb", an illegal, privately run prison he boasts to be inescapable. Although his contracts require that prisoners be kept alive, Hobbes [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures inmates to near-death]], locking the disobedient ones in a room with a powerful halogen light to painfully dehydrate their bodies. Unrelentingly cruel, when one inmate insults Hobbes he shoves a hose into the prisoner's mouth, stopping the water only just before he drowns, and lets his sadistic [[TheDragon Dragon]] torture Ray Breslin around the clock. When the inmates begin to riot and Ray and his allies try to escape, Hobbes has his men use live ammunition on both the rioters and escapees.

* ''Film/EyeInTheSky'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Susan Helen Danford, Muhammad Abdisalaam, and Rasheed Hamud]] are three leaders of [[AfricanTerrorists Al-Shabaab]] responsible for recruiting and [[HumanTrafficking trafficking]] young Muslims, brainwashing them into committing attacks throughout Kenya leading to hundreds of deaths. They would also murder a British spy trying to stop them before enacting their plan to have two brainwashed teenagers become [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]], ordering them to attack highly populated areas to kill dozens of people.

* ''Dr. Chopper'' (2005): The [[AntagonistTitle titular]] [[MadDoctor Dr. Chopper]] is a [[DeadlyDoctor rogue plastic surgeon]] who is a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries-old man]] who has cheated death time and time again by killing innocents and harvesting their organs, all in the [[ForScience name of science]] and [[ImmortalityImmorality eternal youth]]. He opens the film kidnapping a couple and murdering them for their organs, twenty years later him and his nurses have occupied Lake Tatonka where it's shown they have killed [[SerialKiller dozens of people over the years]]. Upon giving his son, Nick, a deed to where he's located, Nick lures his friends to be experimented on and killed which Chopper does with glee. He kills Reese and ties up the rest of them before declaring that they must kill Jessica; when Nick disapproves of this, Chopper [[OffingTheOffspring kills him]] before killing Tamara and Leslie.
* ''Film/DrCyclops'': [[MadScientist Dr. Alexander Thorkel]] is a biologist seeking to perfect size reduction. Upon discovering an abandoned gold mine rich with pitchblende, Thorkel began to conduct his research. When Dr. Mendoza--Thorkel's former student and lab assistant--threatens to shut down his research, Thorkel exposes him to a lethal amount of radiation, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath causing his skin to ignite as well as his skull to glow]]. With his eyesight worsening, Thorkel invites three scientists to his Peruvian home; angered by their continual intrusion in his plans, Thorkel traps the group in a [[ShrinkRay radiation chamber]], and shrinks them. Seeing his victims as nothing more than lab rats, Thorkel kills Dr. Bullfinch upon realizing that the shrinking process was temporary. Chasing the group into the jungle, Thorkel blasts Pedro with the full gauge of his shotgun, and sets the grass ablaze in an attempt to kill the three survivors in one fell swoop.
* ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler'': [[VillainProtagonist Dr. Mabuse]] himself is a ruthless [[DiabolicalMastermind master criminal]]. When the local prosecutor gets too close to him, Mabuse tries to have him killed, and cares little when his lover and right-hand woman Carozza is captured. Playing on her feelings for him, Mabuse has her kill herself and even has the prosecutor's office bombed, having the loyal subordinate who did so [[BadBoss shot]] as [[HeKnowsTooMuch not to betray]] any of the doctor's secrets. Mabuse frequently eliminates those in his path, and when he takes a shine to a countess, he locks her up and manipulates her husband into suicide, with no care for the misery he leaves in his wake as he builds up his great empire of crime.

* ''Film/DaughtersOfDarkness1971'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory is the historical [[BloodCountess countess]] who tortured and murdered 800 virgins to death and used their blood to be [[ImmortalityImmorality young and beautiful forever]]. After faking her death, Báthory used her vampiric immortality to wander Europe and and drain more virgins over the centuries. To get her victims, Báthory [[LesbianVampire seduces]] and mind-controls mortal women to become her thralls, despite their conscious protests. After encountering a married couple, Valerie and Stefan Chilton in a Belgian village, Báthory has her current thrall seduce Stefan, knowing he's a {{sadist}} and will rape and kill her, while manipulating Valerie into replacing her and has sex with her while she's mind-controlled. Báthory then kills Stefan and turns Valerie into a bloodsucker who will carry on her ways after she's gone.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead duology]]: [[BigBad Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog]] is a {{Nazi Zombie|s}} who occupied and brutalized a town in Norway. Once the people had enough, they drove Herzog into the snows where he and his soldiers froze to death. After death, Herzog becomes a powerful undead being who kills any who come for the gold he commands. When he manages to leave the mountain in the sequel, Herzog uses his men to slaughter all in their path and raises them as new zombies to fill his undead army. Herzog sets his sights upon the nearby town, intending to destroy it, aiming at completing all the aims of [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]] in undeath. Herzog shows through a massive bodycount of men, women, and children that death does nothing to diminish the monstrosity of a devoted Nazi.

* ''[[Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses Department Q: The Absent One]]'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Ditlev Pram and Ulrik Dybbøl]] have been psychopaths since [[TeensAreMonsters high school]], when they used to mask themselves before committing assaults and rapes for fun. When a teacher plans to fail Pram, the duo respond by having him [[FrameUp framed for rape]]. Later, Pram and Dybbøl rape a girl in front of her brother, before stabbing both to death, Pram then beating and raping his girlfriend with Dybbøl, uncaring that she is pregnant with his child. Growing up, the duo build a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] where they record themselves [[SerialRapist raping]] and torturing their victims and keep a trophy case of the unfortunates' belongings, including what appears to be a child's underwear.

* ''Disaster''[[note]]Also called ''Cult of Fury''[[/note]] (2003): [[BigBad Maxwell]] is a wicked cult leader who [[KnightTemplar seeks to purge the world of sin]], starting with its sinners. When his fiancée Tracy leaves him after he blows up a cruise ship in front of her, he is determined to hunt her down. Finding her in Las Vegas, Maxwell takes over the hotel where she's working, kills multiple cops trying to enter it, murders Chief Hackett, and blows up the Vegas overpass to punish the police. Growing impatient, Maxwell kidnaps Kenny's daughter Jenna as leverage, promising to kill her should he not receive Tracy. With Tracy in hand, he leaves the heroes to die in the crumbled hotel, and travels to Hoover Dam with her, where he plans to blow the Dam and unleash a flood upon Las Vegas. With his final breath, he detonates the explosives, causing Vegas to flood and kill 168 people.

* Franchise/{{Dracula}} films:
** [[Film/Dracula1931 1931 film]]: Both Creator/BelaLugosi's and Carlos Villarías's incarnations of {{Dracula}} are monstrous:
*** [[ClassicalMovieVampire Count Dracula]] himself, beneath his easily-dropped [[FauxAffablyEvil mask of civility]], is an undead nightmare and stands alone among Franchise/UniversalHorror's mostly sympathetic monsters without an iota of humanity to him. Dracula keeps the villagers around his Transylvanian estate in constant [[TheDreaded fear and dread]] of his name, feeding on the blood of innocents to kill them and rise them as vampires under his thrall with a harem of vampire women accompanying him in his crypt. In search of fresh blood, Dracula enslaves [[TheRenfield Renfield]] after he leases an abbey in England from him, massacring a ship's crew en route to England to cover his presence and feeding on innocents when he comes ashore. Dracula even bites Lucy, a woman who has nothing but intrigue for his odd mannerisms, and Mina Seward, trying everything in his power to take Mina for his own, trying to force her to kill her own fiancé John Harker and even strangling his loyal servant Renfield to death when he thinks he's betrayed him.
*** ''Drácula'': As WickedCultured and ruthless as his mainstream English version, Dracula enslaves women as his vampire brides, setting them on Renfield to enslave the man's mind after they drain him. Coming to England, Dracula kills the crew of an entire ship and sets about murdering those in London, turning the sweet Lucia into a vampire who preys on children while also targeting Eva with intent to turn her into an undead monster just like him, even [[BadBoss brutally killing the loyal Renfield]] at the end.
** Film/HammerHorror series: Dracula himself is the aristocratic, monstrous incarnation of all evil. A sadistic monster who preys on the innocent and rules the undead, Dracula debuts in ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'', showcasing his evil by killing multiple innocent people and condemning the heroic Jonathan Harker to vampirism as a FateWorseThanDeath. Constantly returning from the dead to kill more people, Dracula even enslaves women to be his mistresses and brutally tortures one of his servants for allowing victims to escape. Manipulating others into killing their loved ones for his amusement, Dracula [[Film/DraculaAD1972 later resurfaces in modern times]], set against his nemesis van Helsing's IdenticalGrandson Lawrence. Dracula [[Film/TheSatanicRitesOfDracula has a new strain]] of the bubonic plague developed, testing it out on people, and plans to spread it through the world at large to painfully exterminate all humanity. As a sadistic flourish, he plans to turn Van Helsing's granddaughter into his undead mistress while using van Helsing himself as a carrier for the plague. For all his charm and charisma, Dracula remains the true lord of darkness, endlessly returning to sow more misery and death in his wake.
** ''Film/DraculaUntold'' UsefulNotes/BluRay version: [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Mehmed II]], [[TheEmperor Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]], inherits a dark legacy of conquest and cruelty with brutal enthusiasm. Demanding 1000 Wallachian boys to become [[ChildSoldiers Janissaries]] in his armies, he then demands the son of [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Prince Vlad]] when Vlad offers himself in place of the children. Upon refusal, Mehmed [[RapePillageAndBurn rides through Wallachia]], slaughtering every village he finds and abducting the boys to become his abused soldiers. Upon fooling Vlad, Mehmed proceeds to butcher almost everyone Vlad has ever known upon breaching the fortress, while kidnapping Vlad's son to join his army.

* ''Duck, You Sucker!'' (aka ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite''): [[TheHeavy Colonel Günther "Gutierez" Reza]] is a [[SilentAntagonist silent villain]] who, throughout the movie, doesn't express a single emotion beyond self-satisfaction. He tortures Dr. Villega into identifying various members of a crowd as revolutionaries, then has them shot in front of him, smiling a little wider with each body that hits the ground. He's also the man responsible for the deaths of Juan's children and father; leads an army--[[ANaziByAnyOtherName based on Italian fascist stormtroopers]]--that seems intent on [[SociopathicSoldier killing or imprisoning everyone they meet]]; and, in the climax, guns down Mallory [[InTheBack from behind]].

* ''Film/TheEqualizer'':
** The {{sadist}}ic Nicolai Itchenko, aka [[TheHeavy Teddy Rensen]], is the DragonInChief for Vladimir Pushkin. A "sociopath with a business card" who oversees the mob's many gruesome trades, including [[HumanTraffickers that of human beings]], [[AxCrazy Teddy]] regularly murders people for little reason at all; he got on the FBI's list by sending them two dead cops with their own testicles shoved in their mouths, then follows this by beating an Irish mobster to death to "send a message" and strangling Alina's friend to death. Teddy has no issue trying to murder almost a dozen of Robert's colleagues and friends purely to bait him out, either.
** [[WouldHurtAChild Slavi]] is a pimp in the employ of Vladimir Pushkin and an especially revolting StarterVillain for Robert [=McCall=]. Slavi raised a girl named Alina as a prostitute from the time she was a little girl, raping her himself whenever he's not turning her over to others. When Robert inspires Alina to fight back, Slavi beats her half to death and muses next time he'll cut her throat--"maybe a whore who fucks and doesn't speak will make twice as much." Even an offer of nearly ten grand isn't enough to sway Slavi from his vile hold on Alina.

* ''Film/TheExpendables2'': Jean [[MeaningfulName Vilain]] is the leader of the Sangs, a mercenary group notorious for causing havoc within Albania and its surrounding regions. Discovering a mine that contains six tonnes of pure, weapons-grade plutonium, which he plans to [[ArmsDealer sell]], Vilain then raids surrounding villages for their men to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil use as workers]]. Any worker who was too old or weak was summarily executed as a [[MakeAnExampleOfThem warning to the other slaves]]. Vilain ambushes The Expendables and bribes Billy's life for the mine map, killing him anyway after they give it to him. Wanting to speed up the process, Vilain has his thugs raid the surrounding villages again, this time with the intent of using female and [[WouldHurtAChild child]] slaves. When Vilain obtains the plutonium, he seals the mine, trapping all of the slaves to tie up loose ends.

* ''Film/DaughtersOfDarkness1971'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory is the historical [[BloodCountess countess]] who tortured and murdered 800 virgins to death and used their blood to be [[ImmortalityImmorality young and beautiful forever]]. After faking her death, Báthory used her vampiric immortality to wander Europe and and drain more virgins over the centuries. To get her victims, Báthory [[LesbianVampire seduces]] and mind-controls mortal women to become her thralls, despite their conscious protests. After encountering a married couple, Valerie and Stefan Chilton in a Belgian village, Báthory has her current thrall seduce Stefan, knowing he's a {{sadist}} and will rape and kill her, while manipulating Valerie into replacing her and has sex with her while she's mind-controlled. Báthory then kills Stefan and turns Valerie into a bloodsucker who will carry on her ways after she's gone.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead duology]]: [[BigBad Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog]] is a {{Nazi Zombie|s}} who occupied and brutalized a town in Norway. Once the people had enough, they drove Herzog into the snows where he and his soldiers froze to death. After death, Herzog becomes a powerful undead being who kills any who come for the gold he commands. When he manages to leave the mountain in the sequel, Herzog uses his men to slaughter all in their path and raises them as new zombies to fill his undead army. Herzog sets his sights upon the nearby town, intending to destroy it, aiming at completing all the aims of [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]] in undeath. Herzog shows through a massive bodycount of men, women, and children that death does nothing to diminish the monstrosity of a devoted Nazi.

* ''[[Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses Department Q: The Absent One]]'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Ditlev Pram and Ulrik Dybbøl]] have been psychopaths since [[TeensAreMonsters high school]], when they used to mask themselves before committing assaults and rapes for fun. When a teacher plans to fail Pram, the duo respond by having him [[FrameUp framed for rape]]. Later, Pram and Dybbøl rape a girl in front of her brother, before stabbing both to death, Pram then beating and raping his girlfriend with Dybbøl, uncaring that she is pregnant with his child. Growing up, the duo build a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] where they record themselves [[SerialRapist raping]] and torturing their victims and keep a trophy case of the unfortunates' belongings, including what appears to be a child's underwear.

* ''Disaster''[[note]]Also called ''Cult of Fury''[[/note]] (2003): [[BigBad Maxwell]] is a wicked cult leader who [[KnightTemplar seeks to purge the world of sin]], starting with its sinners. When his fiancée Tracy leaves him after he blows up a cruise ship in front of her, he is determined to hunt her down. Finding her in Las Vegas, Maxwell takes over the hotel where she's working, kills multiple cops trying to enter it, murders Chief Hackett, and blows up the Vegas overpass to punish the police. Growing impatient, Maxwell kidnaps Kenny's daughter Jenna as leverage, promising to kill her should he not receive Tracy. With Tracy in hand, he leaves the heroes to die in the crumbled hotel, and travels to Hoover Dam with her, where he plans to blow the Dam and unleash a flood upon Las Vegas. With his final breath, he detonates the explosives, causing Vegas to flood and kill 168 people.

** [[Film/Dracula1931 1931 film]]: Both Creator/BelaLugosi's and Carlos Villarías's incarnations of {{Dracula}} are monstrous:
*** [[ClassicalMovieVampire Count Dracula]] himself, beneath his easily-dropped [[FauxAffablyEvil mask of civility]], is an undead nightmare and stands alone among Franchise/UniversalHorror's mostly sympathetic monsters without an iota of humanity to him. Dracula keeps the villagers around his Transylvanian estate in constant [[TheDreaded fear and dread]] of his name, feeding on the blood of innocents to kill them and rise them as vampires under his thrall with a harem of vampire women accompanying him in his crypt. In search of fresh blood, Dracula enslaves [[TheRenfield Renfield]] after he leases an abbey in England from him, massacring a ship's crew en route to England to cover his presence and feeding on innocents when he comes ashore. Dracula even bites Lucy, a woman who has nothing but intrigue for his odd mannerisms, and Mina Seward, trying everything in his power to take Mina for his own, trying to force her to kill her own fiancé John Harker and even strangling his loyal servant Renfield to death when he thinks he's betrayed him.
*** ''Drácula'': As WickedCultured and ruthless as his mainstream English version, Dracula enslaves women as his vampire brides, setting them on Renfield to enslave the man's mind after they drain him. Coming to England, Dracula kills the crew of an entire ship and sets about murdering those in London, turning the sweet Lucia into a vampire who preys on children while also targeting Eva with intent to turn her into an undead monster just like him, even [[BadBoss brutally killing the loyal Renfield]] at the end.

* ''Duck, You Sucker!'' (aka ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite''): [[TheHeavy Colonel Günther "Gutierez" Reza]] is a [[SilentAntagonist silent villain]] who, throughout the movie, doesn't express a single emotion beyond self-satisfaction. He tortures Dr. Villega into identifying various members of a crowd as revolutionaries, then has them shot in front of him, smiling a little wider with each body that hits the ground. He's also the man responsible for the deaths of Juan's children and father; leads an army--[[ANaziByAnyOtherName based on Italian fascist stormtroopers]]--that seems intent on [[SociopathicSoldier killing or imprisoning everyone they meet]]; and, in the climax, guns down Mallory [[InTheBack from behind]].

* ''Film/TheExpendables'' series:
** [[Film/TheExpendables2 Second film]]: Jean [[MeaningfulName Vilain]] is the leader of the Sangs, a mercenary group notorious for causing havoc within Albania and its surrounding regions. Discovering a mine that contains six tonnes of pure, weapons-grade plutonium, which he plans to [[ArmsDealer sell]], Vilain then raids surrounding villages for their men to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil use as workers]]. Any worker who was too old or weak was summarily executed as a [[MakeAnExampleOfThem warning to the other slaves]]. Vilain ambushes The Expendables and bribes Billy's life for the mine map, killing him anyway after they give it to him. Wanting to speed up the process, Vilain has his thugs raid the surrounding villages again, this time with the intent of using female and [[WouldHurtAChild child]] slaves. When Vilain obtains the plutonium, he seals the mine, trapping all of the slaves to tie up loose ends.

* ''Film/TheDevilAllTheTime'': Carl Henderson is an amateur photographer who, [[UnholyMatrimony with his wife Sandy]], gets into [[SerialKiller serial murder]]. [[HarmfulToHitchhikers Picking up hitchhikers]], Carl forces them to strip, [[RapeByProxy sleep with Sandy]] as he photographs them, before torturing and murdering them. Murdering a reverend at first when he refuses to participate, Carl spends the next 15 years killing many innocents, taking immense pleasure in their helpless terror and agony before killing them and keeping the photos as [[CreepySouvenir trophies]].

** First film: [[RogueAgent Rogue CIA agent]] James Munroe is a drug smuggler and mercenary who is responsible for his partner, General Garza, transforming the island of Vilena into a PoliceState, using the people as labor in their drug operation. During his first scene, Munroe kills one prisoner, then derides Garza for his lack of spine, forcing the latter to murder a second prisoner in order to save face. When the Expendables raid Vilena, Munroe captures Garza's daughter, Sandra, who opposes her father's government, and has her waterboarded over [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Garza]]'s objections. He contracts former Expendable, Gunnar Jensen, to kill the rest of the team, and when Garza turns on him following the Expendables' assault on Vilena, he shoots the general InTheBack, kills the rest of his security detail, and tries to make good his escape, though not before instructing Paine and The Brit to torture Barney Ross, and taking Sandra hostage to use as a HumanShield. Caring only for his profits, Munroe is willing to wreck a country in order to increase them.
** ''Film/TheExpendables2'': Jean [[MeaningfulName Vilain]] is the leader of the Sangs, a mercenary group notorious for causing havoc within Albania and its surrounding regions. Discovering a mine that contains six tonnes of pure, weapons-grade plutonium, which he plans to [[ArmsDealer sell]], Vilain then raids surrounding villages for their men to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil use as workers]]. Any worker who was too old or weak was summarily executed as a [[MakeAnExampleOfThem warning to the other slaves]]. Vilain ambushes The Expendables and bribes Billy's life for the mine map, killing him anyway after they give it to him. Wanting to speed up the process, Vilain has his thugs raid the surrounding villages again, this time with the intent of using female and [[WouldHurtAChild child]] slaves. When Vilain obtains the plutonium, he seals the mine, trapping all of the slaves to tie up loose ends.

** ''Dirty Harry'': [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Charles Davis]], better known as the [[SerialKiller Scorpio Killer]], is a [[AxCrazy psychotic madman]] who kills for money, but mainly for his own amusement. After sniping a swimming woman, he demands $100,000 in payment or he will continue his killing spree. After he is foiled in another killing attempt, he [[WouldHurtAChild murders a young boy]] and then tries to kill a priest, killing a police officer in the process. He then kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a ransom in exchange for her life. When Harry Callahan arrives with the money, Scorpio strikes him down and reveals that [[ILied he was going to let the girl die anyways]]. The police find the girl, but are unable to save her life. Scorpio's final gambit is to hold a school bus full of children hostage, planning to kill them all. Upon being foiled by Callahan, Scorpio threatens to shoot a young boy fishing.

* ''Film/DeathMachine'': [[PsychopathicManchild Jack Dante]] is the [[MadScientist psychopathic scientist]] of [[MegaCorp CHAANK Industries]] who is the head developer of the Hardman Project, and, due to illegally ordering some supplies without the company even noticing, caused numerous of casualties that ended up staining the company's name. When the CEO, Hayden Cale, tries to confront Jack about what he has done, Jack blackmails her about her personal life. When one of the higher ups of CHAANK got his key stolen by Cale, Jack sends his machine to brutally kill said higher up; it is also revealed that he did this to previous CEO. When three [[EcoTerrorist eco-warriors]] infiltrate the company and Jack got fired from his position, Jack tricked the eco-warriors to open Vault 10 and sends his machine to kill all of the people in the office while demanding to Cale that he wants his job back, and asks her to interface him on regular basis. When the heroes tries to stop Dante once and for all, he then knocks one of them unconscious and [[AttemptedRape tries to rape Cale]] while taunting her about her dead baby.

* ''Film/DeadRisingWatchtower'': In this {{interquel}} set between ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' and ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'', [[{{Jerkass}} Logan]] is an anarchistic biker gang leader, who was bored of his old life before deciding to take advantage of the chaos of a zombie outbreak. He and his gang sneak into a quarantined zombie outbreak to loot. In [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his first scene]], he comes across a married couple and offers his help for a impossible price, before beating the husband down and leaving the wife to be eaten by zombies in front of him. When one of his men get bitten, he jokingly asks if he'd rather be shot or get chained up and turned. He then attacks the two protagonists, Crystal O'Rourke and Chase Carter, kidnapping Crystal and leaving Chase in a zombie death trap. Before [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape Crystal]], he reveals his intentions to blow up the quarantine wall and let the zombie outbreak spread. When he gets bitten by a zombie, he decides to use his last human moments to finally act on his plan before he succumbs to the virus.

* ''Film/DaughtersOfDarkness1971'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory is the historical [[BloodCountess countess]] who tortured and murdered 800 virgins to death and used their blood to be [[ImmortalityImmorality young and beautiful forever]]. After faking her death, Báthory used her vampiric immortality to wander Europe and and drain more virgins over the centuries. To get her victims, Báthory [[LesbianVampire seduces]] and mind-controls mortal women to become her thralls, despite their conscious protests. After encountering a married couple, Valerie and Stefan Chilton in a Belgian village, Báthory has her current thrall seduce Stefan, knowing he's a {{sadist}} and will rape and kill her, while manipulating Valerie into replacing her and has sex with her while she's mind-controlled. Báthory then kills Stefan and turns Valerie into a bloodsucker who will carry on her ways after she's gone.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead duology]]: [[BigBad Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog]] is a {{Nazi Zombie|s}} who occupied and brutalized a town in Norway. Once the people had enough, they drove Herzog into the snows where he and his soldiers froze to death. After death, Herzog becomes a powerful undead being who kills any who come for the gold he commands. When he manages to leave the mountain in the sequel, Herzog uses his men to slaughter all in their path and raises them as new zombies to fill his undead army. Herzog sets his sights upon the nearby town, intending to destroy it, aiming at completing all the aims of [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]] in undeath. Herzog shows through a massive bodycount of men, women, and children that death does nothing to diminish the monstrosity of a devoted Nazi.

* ''[[Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses Department Q: The Absent One]]'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Ditlev Pram and Ulrik Dybbøl]] have been psychopaths since [[TeensAreMonsters high school]], when they used to mask themselves before committing assaults and rapes for fun. When a teacher plans to fail Pram, the duo respond by having him [[FrameUp framed for rape]]. Later, Pram and Dybbøl rape a girl in front of her brother, before stabbing both to death, Pram then beating and raping his girlfriend with Dybbøl, uncaring that she is pregnant with his child. Growing up, the duo build a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] where they record themselves [[SerialRapist raping]] and torturing their victims and keep a trophy case of the unfortunates' belongings, including what appears to be a child's underwear.

* ''Disaster''[[note]]Also called ''Cult of Fury''[[/note]] (2003): [[BigBad Maxwell]] is a wicked cult leader who [[KnightTemplar seeks to purge the world of sin]], starting with its sinners. When his fiancée Tracy leaves him after he blows up a cruise ship in front of her, he is determined to hunt her down. Finding her in Las Vegas, Maxwell takes over the hotel where she's working, kills multiple cops trying to enter it, murders Chief Hackett, and blows up the Vegas overpass to punish the police. Growing impatient, Maxwell kidnaps Kenny's daughter Jenna as leverage, promising to kill her should he not receive Tracy. With Tracy in hand, he leaves the heroes to die in the crumbled hotel, and travels to Hoover Dam with her, where he plans to blow the Dam and unleash a flood upon Las Vegas. With his final breath, he detonates the explosives, causing Vegas to flood and kill 168 people.

** [[Film/Dracula1931 1931 film]]: Both Creator/BelaLugosi's and Carlos Villarías's incarnations of {{Dracula}} are monstrous:
*** [[ClassicalMovieVampire Count Dracula]] himself, beneath his easily-dropped [[FauxAffablyEvil mask of civility]], is an undead nightmare and stands alone among Franchise/UniversalHorror's mostly sympathetic monsters without an iota of humanity to him. Dracula keeps the villagers around his Transylvanian estate in constant [[TheDreaded fear and dread]] of his name, feeding on the blood of innocents to kill them and rise them as vampires under his thrall with a harem of vampire women accompanying him in his crypt. In search of fresh blood, Dracula enslaves [[TheRenfield Renfield]] after he leases an abbey in England from him, massacring a ship's crew en route to England to cover his presence and feeding on innocents when he comes ashore. Dracula even bites Lucy, a woman who has nothing but intrigue for his odd mannerisms, and Mina Seward, trying everything in his power to take Mina for his own, trying to force her to kill her own fiancé John Harker and even strangling his loyal servant Renfield to death when he thinks he's betrayed him.
*** ''Drácula'': As WickedCultured and ruthless as his mainstream English version, Dracula enslaves women as his vampire brides, setting them on Renfield to enslave the man's mind after they drain him. Coming to England, Dracula kills the crew of an entire ship and sets about murdering those in London, turning the sweet Lucia into a vampire who preys on children while also targeting Eva with intent to turn her into an undead monster just like him, even [[BadBoss brutally killing the loyal Renfield]] at the end.

* ''Duck, You Sucker!'' (aka ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite''): [[TheHeavy Colonel Günther "Gutierez" Reza]] is a [[SilentAntagonist silent villain]] who, throughout the movie, doesn't express a single emotion beyond self-satisfaction. He tortures Dr. Villega into identifying various members of a crowd as revolutionaries, then has them shot in front of him, smiling a little wider with each body that hits the ground. He's also the man responsible for the deaths of Juan's children and father; leads an army--[[ANaziByAnyOtherName based on Italian fascist stormtroopers]]--that seems intent on [[SociopathicSoldier killing or imprisoning everyone they meet]]; and, in the climax, guns down Mallory [[InTheBack from behind]].

* ''Film/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': {{Satan}} is a FallenAngel who has pledged to one day become more powerful than {{God}} and turn {{Heaven}} itself to ash while [[KillAllHumans destroying as many human lives as possible]]. He has used TheBermudaTriangle as a portal to pull unsuspecting vessels and planes onto the dark side of the moon, killing hundreds if not thousands of innocent people. When the crew of a deep space mission travels close to his DerelictGraveyard, he [[DemonicPossession possesses]] and slowly kills them off one by one while turning them against each other for nothing more than [[ForTheEvulz his own sick amusement]]. Even the last crew member blowing up the ship does nothing to stop him from continuing his MO unabated.

* ''Film/DaughtersOfDarkness1971'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory is the historical [[BloodCountess countess]] who tortured and murdered 800 virgins to death and used their blood to be [[ImmortalityImmorality young and beautiful forever]]. After faking her death, Báthory used her vampiric immortality to wander Europe and and drain more virgins over the centuries. To get her victims, Báthory [[LesbianVampire seduces]] and mind-controls mortal women to become her thralls, despite their conscious protests. After encountering a married couple, Valerie and Stefan Chilton in a Belgian village, Báthory has her current thrall seduce Stefan, knowing he's a {{sadist}} and will rape and kill her, while manipulating Valerie into replacing her and has sex with her while she's mind-controlled. Báthory then kills Stefan and turns Valerie into a bloodsucker who will carry on her ways after she's gone.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'' [[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead duology]]: [[BigBad Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog]] is a {{Nazi Zombie|s}} who occupied and brutalized a town in Norway. Once the people had enough, they drove Herzog into the snows where he and his soldiers froze to death. After death, Herzog becomes a powerful undead being who kills any who come for the gold he commands. When he manages to leave the mountain in the sequel, Herzog uses his men to slaughter all in their path and raises them as new zombies to fill his undead army. Herzog sets his sights upon the nearby town, intending to destroy it, aiming at completing all the aims of [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]] in undeath. Herzog shows through a massive bodycount of men, women, and children that death does nothing to diminish the monstrosity of a devoted Nazi.

* ''Death's Dealer'' (1971): Perkins and Prescott are a wicked pair of partners who [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain despise Native Americans]], conducting attacks on innocent farmers while disguised as natives, killing most of whom they find and leaving dead Natives to frame them while Prescott uses his skills in journalism to whip people into a genocidal frenzy against the peaceful tribes all so Perkins and Prescott can take the land. Years later, the two are wealthy and powerful men, running a business on slave labor with imported Chinese laborers who are abused and killed frequently. The two also run a SexSlave operation, and when the heroine is taken captive, Prescott happily tries to rape her himself. When she resists and bites off a chunk of his ear, an amused Perkins tries to have her flogged into submission before the heroes arrive to stop them, just as Prescott and Perkins are planning to wipe out the last of the Native tribes in the area.

* ''[[Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses Department Q: The Absent One]]'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Ditlev Pram and Ulrik Dybbøl]] have been psychopaths since [[TeensAreMonsters high school]], when they used to mask themselves before committing assaults and rapes for fun. When a teacher plans to fail Pram, the duo respond by having him [[FrameUp framed for rape]]. Later, Pram and Dybbøl rape a girl in front of her brother, before stabbing both to death, Pram then beating and raping his girlfriend with Dybbøl, uncaring that she is pregnant with his child. Growing up, the duo build a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] where they record themselves [[SerialRapist raping]] and torturing their victims and keep a trophy case of the unfortunates' belongings, including what appears to be a child's underwear.

* ''Disaster''[[note]]Also called ''Cult of Fury''[[/note]] (2003): [[BigBad Maxwell]] is a wicked cult leader who [[KnightTemplar seeks to purge the world of sin]], starting with its sinners. When his fiancée Tracy leaves him after he blows up a cruise ship in front of her, he is determined to hunt her down. Finding her in Las Vegas, Maxwell takes over the hotel where she's working, kills multiple cops trying to enter it, murders Chief Hackett, and blows up the Vegas overpass to punish the police. Growing impatient, Maxwell kidnaps Kenny's daughter Jenna as leverage, promising to kill her should he not receive Tracy. With Tracy in hand, he leaves the heroes to die in the crumbled hotel, and travels to Hoover Dam with her, where he plans to blow the Dam and unleash a flood upon Las Vegas. With his final breath, he detonates the explosives, causing Vegas to flood and kill 168 people.

** [[Film/Dracula1931 1931 film]]: Both Creator/BelaLugosi's and Carlos Villarías's incarnations of {{Dracula}} are monstrous:
*** [[ClassicalMovieVampire Count Dracula]] himself, beneath his easily-dropped [[FauxAffablyEvil mask of civility]], is an undead nightmare and stands alone among Franchise/UniversalHorror's mostly sympathetic monsters without an iota of humanity to him. Dracula keeps the villagers around his Transylvanian estate in constant [[TheDreaded fear and dread]] of his name, feeding on the blood of innocents to kill them and rise them as vampires under his thrall with a harem of vampire women accompanying him in his crypt. In search of fresh blood, Dracula enslaves [[TheRenfield Renfield]] after he leases an abbey in England from him, massacring a ship's crew en route to England to cover his presence and feeding on innocents when he comes ashore. Dracula even bites Lucy, a woman who has nothing but intrigue for his odd mannerisms, and Mina Seward, trying everything in his power to take Mina for his own, trying to force her to kill her own fiancé John Harker and even strangling his loyal servant Renfield to death when he thinks he's betrayed him.
*** ''Drácula'': As WickedCultured and ruthless as his mainstream English version, Dracula enslaves women as his vampire brides, setting them on Renfield to enslave the man's mind after they drain him. Coming to England, Dracula kills the crew of an entire ship and sets about murdering those in London, turning the sweet Lucia into a vampire who preys on children while also targeting Eva with intent to turn her into an undead monster just like him, even [[BadBoss brutally killing the loyal Renfield]] at the end.

* ''Duck, You Sucker!'' (aka ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite''): [[TheHeavy Colonel Günther "Gutierez" Reza]] is a [[SilentAntagonist silent villain]] who, throughout the movie, doesn't express a single emotion beyond self-satisfaction. He tortures Dr. Villega into identifying various members of a crowd as revolutionaries, then has them shot in front of him, smiling a little wider with each body that hits the ground. He's also the man responsible for the deaths of Juan's children and father; leads an army--[[ANaziByAnyOtherName based on Italian fascist stormtroopers]]--that seems intent on [[SociopathicSoldier killing or imprisoning everyone they meet]]; and, in the climax, guns down Mallory [[InTheBack from behind]].

* ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'': The ruthless caretaker Jacinto is revealed as the [[WouldHurtAChild murderer of the ghost boy Santi]]. Jacinto begins delving further into darkness when he is consumed by {{greed}} as he tries to steal gold that will go to fund the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Republican loyalists against Franco]]. Burning the orphanage to try to kill everyone within and get to the safe containing the gold, Jacinto callously murders his own girlfriend Conchita before he returns to steal his treasure. Upon encountering all the boys there, he tries to kill them as well without any hint of remorse, just to feed his bottomless greed.

* ''Film/Dracula1931'': Both Creator/BelaLugosi's and Carlos Villarías's incarnations of {{Dracula}} are monstrous:
** [[ClassicalMovieVampire Count Dracula]] himself, beneath his easily-dropped [[FauxAffablyEvil mask of civility]], is an undead nightmare and stands alone among Franchise/UniversalHorror's mostly sympathetic monsters without an iota of humanity to him. Dracula keeps the villagers around his Transylvanian estate in constant [[TheDreaded fear and dread]] of his name, feeding on the blood of innocents to kill them and rise them as vampires under his thrall with a harem of vampire women accompanying him in his crypt. In search of fresh blood, Dracula enslaves [[TheRenfield Renfield]] after he leases an abbey in England from him, massacring a ship's crew en route to England to cover his presence and feeding on innocents when he comes ashore. Dracula even bites Lucy, a woman who has nothing but intrigue for his odd mannerisms, and Mina Seward, trying everything in his power to take Mina for his own, trying to force her to kill her own fiancé John Harker and even strangling his loyal servant Renfield to death when he thinks he's betrayed him.
** ''Drácula'': As WickedCultured and ruthless as his mainstream English version, Dracula enslaves women as his vampire brides, setting them on Renfield to enslave the man's mind after they drain him. Coming to England, Dracula kills the crew of an entire ship and sets about murdering those in London, turning the sweet Lucia into a vampire who preys on children while also targeting Eva with intent to turn her into an undead monster just like him, even [[BadBoss brutally killing the loyal Renfield]] at the end.
* ''Film/{{Dracula}}'' (Film/HammerHorror series): Dracula himself is the aristocratic, monstrous incarnation of all evil. A sadistic monster who preys on the innocent and rules the undead, Dracula debuts in ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'', showcasing his evil by killing multiple innocent people and condemning the heroic Jonathan Harker to vampirism as a FateWorseThanDeath. Constantly returning from the dead to kill more people, Dracula even enslaves women to be his mistresses and brutally tortures one of his servants for allowing victims to escape. Manipulating others into killing their loved ones for his amusement, Dracula [[Film/DraculaAD1972 later resurfaces in modern times]], set against his nemesis van Helsing's IdenticalGrandson Lawrence. Dracula [[Film/TheSatanicRitesOfDracula has a new strain]] of the bubonic plague developed, testing it out on people, and plans to spread it through the world at large to painfully exterminate all humanity. As a sadistic flourish, he plans to turn Van Helsing's granddaughter into his undead mistress while using van Helsing himself as a carrier for the plague. For all his charm and charisma, Dracula remains the true lord of darkness, endlessly returning to sow more misery and death in his wake.

* ''Film/DeathNoteSeries'': [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]], once a college student frustrated at the perceived failures of the Japanese justice system, proves that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Upon getting his hands on the titular [[DeadlyBook Death Note]], the narcissistic Light quickly declares his designs of [[AGodAmI becoming the god of a new world]]. While he starts off by simply killing criminals, he eventually expands his targets to include the FBI investigators attempting to catch him, and anyone else he sees as a hindrance to his ascension. Light kills his girlfriend Shiori Akino at the end of the first movie to gain sympathy from [[Characters/DeathNoteLLawliet L]], using Naomi Misora, whom he also kills. His disinterest in the fate of anyone other than himself is shown most clearly when he gives the note to someone who he knew for certain would use it for selfish and evil purposes just so that he can throw the authorities off his trail and [[MemoryGambit kill his rival]]. Once he believes himself to have won, Light wastes no time in writing the name of his own father in the Death Note, an act that horrifies even his most loyal follower Misa Amane.

** {{Lucifer}} is the master of Hell, whose sadism and cruelty have no bounds. Running a FireAndBrimstoneHell where countless souls are constantly tormented, Lucifer personally [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] souls using all manner of painful implements, going so far as to brand his victims and bite them. When Guerrero de la Cruz offers to kill his entire former gang and send their souls to Hell, Lucifer gives him 24 hours to accomplish the task, undermining Guerrero's efforts and shaming his conscience the whole way for his own amusement. Even once Guerrero succeeds, Lucifer still forces him to wander the land and kill dozens more sinners so that Lucifer can slake his sadistic desires on them sooner. When Guerrero eventually breaks free of his bonds, Lucifer, in ''Dead Again'', turns to Col. Jackson Boomer as his new agent and guides the man in his quest to bring Hell's legions to invade the Earth.

* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': [[BigBad Simon Phoenix]], a psychotic criminal from the gang-ruled era of Los Angeles in the late 20th century, indulged in theft, kidnapping, rape, arson, and murder to his heart's content. He holds 30 people hostage and demands a ransom when in fact he had already killed them all, and frames [[CowboyCop John Spartan]] for their deaths. They are both sentenced to [[HumanPopsicle cryo-stasis]] and only woken up in 2032 when the new city of San Angeles has become a crime-free nanny state. Simon breaks out of confinement by gouging out a guard's eye to bypass the retinal scanner and indulges in his freedom to [[ChaoticEvil be a maniac]] and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans spread chaos again]], brutally murdering almost everyone who gets in his way. It turns out he was unfrozen by the [[WellIntentionedExtremist benevolent dictator]] Dr. Raymond Cocteau to assassinate Edgar Friendly, the underground RebelLeader who has been trying to undo the oppressive system. Simon sets out on this task with murderous glee, killing many innocent bystanders in the process. He eventually teams up with his old gang after they're unfrozen and murders Cocteau [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil to start a new lawless dystopia]]. He starts by unfreezing every violent criminal locked up in the cryo-prison, before gunning down all the technicians because he no longer has any use for them.

** ''Film/TheExpendables2'': Jean [[MeaningfulName Vilain]] is the leader of the mercenary group the Sangs, who cause havoc within Albania and its surrounding regions. Discovering a mine that contains six tonnes of pure, weapons-grade plutonium, which he plans to [[ArmsDealer sell]], Vilain then raids surrounding villages for their men to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil use as workers]]. Any worker who was too old or weak was summarily executed as a [[MakeAnExampleOfThem warning to the other slaves]]. Vilain ambushes The Expendables and bribes Billy's life for the mine map, killing him anyway after they give it to him. Wanting to speed up the process, Vilain has his thugs raid the surrounding villages again, this time with the intent of using female and [[WouldHurtAChild child]] slaves. When Vilain obtains the plutonium, he seals the mine, trapping all of the slaves to tie up loose ends.