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-->--''Film/TheMaskOfZorro''

** "[[TortureTechnician Anvil Charlie]]", real name [[{{Sadist}} Chareg]], is a native who sells out his own people to slavery for the chance of immunity. Named so for his proficiency with an [[DropTheHammer anvil hammer]], Charlie takes delight in torturing any slave who complains by breaking their bones with his hammer with many tortured and killed by him, dismissing their pleas that his victims used to be his friends. When Django himself is brought to him, Charlie revels in the chance to torture him and intends to go for Django's "[[GroinAttack soft oysters]]" as well.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Bury the body, bag the head."]]

->'''Harrison Love''': Then we destroy the evidence. Set explosives, bury the mine.\\
'''Rafael Montero''': And the workers?\\
'''Harrison Love''': We destroy all the evidence Don Rafael. No witnesses.

* [[Series/Zorro1990 1990s series]]: [[VillainOfTheWeek Pablo Zaragosa]], from season 3's "Siege", is a roving [[{{Bandito}} bandit]] who attempts to extort all the money out of the pueblo of Los Angeles under the threat of letting the townspeople die of thirst. Zaragosa cuts off their water supply, slaughters Los Angeles's guards with clear {{sadist}}ic aplomb, and opts to massacre every single person in the pueblo when they continue to give him grief, even [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender]] to shoot a man dead [[ForTheEvulz for giggles]].

** [[BigBad Gùrko Zagreda Langdon]] is the Archduke of Arizona and a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil despicable slaver]] who sees himself as above all "commoners" by the decree of ManifestDestiny. Langdon feigns his way into becoming the Archduke by forging legal documents while killing anyone in his way, and passes off a native woman named Conchita he raises as Spanish royalty, marrying his way into power before [[DomesticAbuse raping and abusing Conchita]] all throughout the marriage. Langdon employs brutal slave labor of the native Indian tribes to build a colossal railroad through Arizona, [[BadBoss killing many of them]] through the precarious missions to destroy the mesas blocking their path and having any others who complained tortured or murdered into silence. When opposed by Django and Zorro, Langdon heartlessly murders Zorro's steadfast servant Bernardo before deserting when the slaves revolt, killing his own son while decreeing him and his late wife a failure to his legacy.

** [[BigBad Gùrko Zagreda Langdon]] is the Archduke of Arizona and a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil despicable slaver]] who sees himself as above all "commoners" by the decree of fate itself. Langdon feigns his way into becoming the Archduke by forging legal documents while killing anyone in his way, and passes off a native woman named Conchita he raises as Spanish royalty, marrying his way into power before [[DomesticAbuse raping and abusing Conchita]] all throughout the marriage. Langdon employs brutal slave labor of the native Indian tribes to build a colossal railroad through Arizona, [[BadBoss killing many of them]] through the precarious missions to destroy the mesas blocking their path and having any others who complained tortured or murdered into silence. When opposed by Django and Zorro, Langdon heartlessly murders Zorro's steadfast servant Bernardo before [[DirtyCoward deserting when the slaves revolt]], killing his own son while decreeing him and his late wife a failure to his legacy.

** "[[TortureTechnician Anvil Charlie]]", real name [[{{sadist}} Chareg]], is a native who sells out his own people to slavery for the chance of immunity. Named so for his proficiency with an [[DropTheHammer anvil hammer]], Charlie takes delight in torturing any slave who complains by [[DropTheHammer breaking their bones with his hammer]] with many tortured and killed by him, dismissing their pleas that his victims used to be his friends. When Django himself is brought to him, Charlie revels in the chance to torture him and intends to go for Django's "[[GroinAttack soft oysters]]" as well.

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** "[[TortureTechnician Anvil Charlie]]", real name Chareg, is a native who sells out his own people to slavery for the chance of immunity. Named so for his proficiency with an [[DropTheHammer anvil hammer]], Charlie takes delight in torturing any slave who complains by breaking their bones with his hammer with many tortured and killed by him, dismissing their pleas that his victims used to be his friends. When Django himself is brought to him, Charlie revels in the chance to torture him and intends to go for Django's "[[GroinAttack soft oysters]]" as well.

In his quest for justice that has [[LongRunners spanned a 100 years]], [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} The Fox]] has a daily battle against the corrupt and evil to save the common people. Naturally, that quest produces some [[CompleteMonster truly vile villains]].

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* ''[[Film/DjangoUnchained Django]][=/=]Franchise/{{Zorro}}'', by Creator/QuentinTarantino, Matt Wagner, & Esteve Polls:

* ''ComicBook/LadyRawhide[=/=]Lady Franchise/{{Zorro}}: Outlaw Blood'', written by Shannon Eric Denton: The [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil head slaver]] is a repugnant piece of work who goes from town to town capturing droves of [[WouldHitAGirl women]] to sell as [[SexSlave enslaved prostitutes]] in brothels, letting his men have a go at them to "keep warm" in the winter conditions, not even sparing [[WouldHurtAChild children]] from the business. Cages full of women are seen ready for transport when Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro come to bust his operation, and upon capturing the two of them, the head slaver threatens to have Lady Zorro "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil broken in]]" by him and his men.

* [[Film/Zorro1975 1975 film]]: [[BigBad Colonel Huerta]] is the tyrannical dictator of Nueva Aragón who enforced a militaristic rule on the town, oppressing the local citizens with tyranny and hiding the reality of his reign as governor by having innocents punished [[ATasteOfTheLash by public flogging]] for trying to speak of their rights. When protagonist Diego tries to expose Huerta while disguised as the folk hero known as Zorro, Huerta responds by having innocent citizens suspected to be Zorro--or otherwise affiliated with Zorro--[[WorkingOnTheChainGang imprisoned and taken to his mines]], and personally guns down a civilian who tries to fight back, right in front of the civilian's family, as a warning. Lusting after Maria, the wife of a recently deceased governor, Huerta tries forcing himself upon her, and then [[IfICantHaveYou has her imprisoned when she rejects him]] and paraded in a cage to force Zorro out of hiding. When the local priest Brother Francisco tries to take a stand, Huerta declares himself as "a new god" and shoots Brother Francisco in front of a church full of protestors, [[EvenEvilHasStandards an act even his soldiers and guards are visibly shocked at]].

* 2008 musical: [[BigBad Ramon]], Diego's [[EvilFormerFriend once-beloved best friend]], grows to become a [[EvilOverlord cruel tyrant]] who starves and oppresses the people. Keeping Diego's father Don Alejandro locked away, Ramon shows himself willing to have innocent civilians executed while [[AttemptedRape trying to rape his obsession, Luisa]]. Later fine with abandoning Alejandro to starve to death, Ramon orders a crowd of protesters gunned down, murdering Diego's beloved friend Inez and even [[UngratefulBastard rejects Diego's mercy to attempt to stab him]] after their final duel.

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* ''2008 musical'': [[BigBad Ramon]], Diego's [[EvilFormerFriend once-beloved best friend]], grows to become a [[EvilOverlord cruel tyrant]] who starves and oppresses the people. Keeping Diego's father Don Alejandro locked away, Ramon shows himself willing to have innocent civilians executed while [[AttemptedRape trying to rape his obsession, Luisa]]. Later fine with abandoning Alejandro to starve to death, Ramon orders a crowd of protesters gunned down, murdering Diego's beloved friend Inez and even [[UngratefulBastard rejects Diego's mercy to attempt to stab him]] after their final duel.

* ''1990s series'': [[VillainOfTheWeek Pablo Zaragosa]], from season 3's "Siege", is a roving [[{{Bandito}} bandit]] who attempts to extort all the money out of the pueblo of Los Angeles under the threat of letting the townspeople die of thirst. Zaragosa cuts off their water supply, slaughters Los Angeles's guards with clear {{sadist}}ic aplomb, and opts to massacre every single person in the pueblo when they continue to give him grief, even [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender]] to shoot a man dead [[ForTheEvulz for giggles]].