History TheSociopath / WebComics

* While captain Snow is TheHeavy and a dreaded pirate, he's not the most sociopathic character in ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}''. This honor belongs to his lackey Han, a {{shapeshifter}} who casually transforms into people's loved ones to stab them (or to sleep with them). He has no problem with pulling a KillAndReplace, either. He bullies everyone he can, including [[BullyingADragon people who can kill him gruesomely]] and is astonished and outraged when he gets his ass handed to him. And if he lied to you, [[NeverMyFault it's your fault for believing]].

* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'''s Vriska Serket meets several of the diagnostic criteria; her favourite derogatory term is "Booooooooring!", she views apologies as frustrating necessities that require grand gestures more than sincerity, she demands Tavros apologise to her for ''[[NeverMyFault being paralysed thanks to her actions]]'', and her defining trait is her desire to be the big important hero to the point that she tries to force her friends' lives to fit the roles of characters in her roleplay avatar's life story and [[spoiler:creates the BigBad of the trolls' game session, Bec Noir, just so she can fight him]]. She's not a good liar, but she doesn't need to be because of her "manipul8ion" mind control powers, and she's apparently [[BrokenBase charmed a lot of the fans into forgetting all these things]]. She does ''possibly'' appear to show regret, however, when talking to John, and it's possible a lot of these traits are the result of her toxic environment.

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* In ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'' chief Lara and her family are all high functioning sociopaths.

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' has Mordecai Heller, Atlas May's former triggerman who defected to the Marigold after Atlas's death. An elegant, extremely intelligent and charming man who seems to have no feeling for anyone and whose loyalty to his boss doesn't extend to his colleagues, only following his own interests, and kills very casually.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', as expected from an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent aberration]]; Sirleck implies that this is a side-effect from the transformation into one, which of course he considers beneficial.
--> '''Sirleck:''' Is this an empathy thing? You should consider becoming an aberration when you've got a body again. Clear that idiocy right up.
* Suh Woohyun from Manhwa/HeadOverHeels. As a child, he was apathetic to his mother beating him, has no problem humiliating Ha Yan publicly and badmouths and curses his teacher when he's [[UngratefulBastard defending him]]. He shows barely any regard for people who aren't [[MoralityPet Joon-Hyuk]] and becomes physically violent in seconds. When he sees the state of Yan after he bullies her, he LAUGHS. He's essentially a PG-13 version of [[Manhwa/KillingStalking Oh Sangwoo]].
* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'''s Vriska Serket meets several of the diagnostic criteria; her favourite derogatory term is "Booooooooring!", she views apologies as frustrating necessities that require grand gestures more than sincerity, she demands Tavros apologise to her for ''[[NeverMyFault being paralysed thanks to her actions]]'', and her defining trait is her desire to be the big important hero to the point that she tries to force her friends' lives to fit the roles of characters in her roleplay avatar's life story and [[spoiler:creates the BigBad of the trolls' game session, Bec Noir, just so she can fight him]]. She's not a good liar, but she doesn't need to be because of her "manipul8ion" mind control powers, and she's apparently [[BrokenBase charmed a lot of the fans into forgetting all these things]]. She does ''possibly'' appear to show regret, however, when talking to John, and it's possible a lot of these traits are the result of her toxic environment.

* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'': Cyndi eventually turns out to be one. Initially, she comes off as a fairly standard AlphaBitch-type, similar to Karen, and takes twisted delight in messing with Penny, Aggie, and their friends. This reaches a head when she [[spoiler:manipulates Stan into destroying his relationship with Brandi]] and is positively gleeful about it. She eventually cements her status as this by the end of the [[spoiler:Missing Person arc]]. [[spoiler:Right before the police rescue her from her kidnapper, Charlotte, Cyndi appears to show some remorse, and convinces Charlotte that they are NotSoDifferent. When Charlotte slits her own throat in grief, Cyndi reveals that she had already managed to free herself, and that her HeelRealization was just an act to get Charlotte to kill herself. Finally, after she is rescued, her parents reveal that the police managed to hack into her laptop during their search for her, and discovered her disturbing diary entries about how much she enjoys making other people suffer. They then tearfully apologize to her as they commit her to a mental hospital.]]

** Nale is a consummate, almost compulsory manipulator and plotter, who's fairly skilled at it but still has an overly grandiose sense of himself as an evil genius. He's completely callous about killing, willing to commit a gruesome serial murder spree just as a means to the end of framing someone else for it. He seems to qualify for EvenEvilHasLovedOnes with Sabine, but being as she's [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a fiend]], even the fact that they get along and have common interests (like human sacrifice) is based on his being a psycho killer.

** Tarquin is quite the sociopath -- while his fans like to paint him as [[DracoInLeatherPants a leather pants-wearing]] NobleDemon, that doesn't change the fact that the lives of others mean very little to him. He "[[ColdBloodedTorture convinces]]" his wives to marry him. He forces Gannji and Enor to fight to the death because he thought Elan would enjoy it, simply because they had captured him and brought him to, the former after mistaking him for Nale (and seems confused when Elan isn't thrilled with the idea). He's also got LackOfEmpathy down, as he tells Malack (his supposed friend) to stop whining about his dead "children" [[spoiler:actually, it turns out, vampire minions]] and orders him to work with Nale (who killed said children). And then [[spoiler:he stabs Nale, who is also his son, to death afterwards]]. It's quite evident that he sees everyone around him as plot devices, nothing more, nothing less. Which said, he apparently felt some kind of real friendship with Malack, he feels some kind of compulsion to bring order to the world, and he pales beside...

** Xykon, the comic's BigBad. At no point does Xykon show any feeling for another being that isn't merely practical (and sometimes not even then). He has little if any desire to control his impulses, possibly because unlike Tarquin he has the raw magical power to cow anyone into obedience or kill those who would oppose him, and is well-aware of it, so he never really needed to rely so much on manipulation. His motivation for committing evil can largely be summed up with "[[ForTheEvulz Why not?]]" He's easily bored and destroying the lives of others is his only method of alleviating the boredom. He's [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior been like this since he was a child]], when his pet dog died and he first awakened his magical power by raising it as an undead, then used it to torture and kill animals. As a teenager, he murdered his family in cold blood, simply because he knew he could. [[BrilliantButLazy He is also far more cunning and manipulative than one might think]]; when sufficiently motivated, he can play others like a fiddle, such as when he [[spoiler:tricked Redcloak into killing his brother]]. To top it all off, he is [[FauxAffablyEvil very charming and funny]], as even Redcloak admits.

** Nale is a consummate, almost compulsory manipulator and plotter, who's fairly skilled at it but has a grandiose sense of himself as an evil genius. He's completely callous about killing, willing to commit a gruesome serial murder spree just as a means to the end of framing someone else for it. He seems to qualify for EvenEvilHasLovedOnes with Sabine, but being as she's [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a fiend]], even the fact that they get along and have common interests (like human sacrifice) is based on his being a psycho killer.

** Nale is a consummate, almost compulsory manipulator and plotter, who's fairly skilled at it but has a grandiose sense of himself as an evil genius. He's completely callous about killing, willing to commit a gruesome serial murder spree just as a means to the end of framing someone else for it in his stead. He seems to qualify for EvenEvilHasLovedOnes with Sabine, but being as she's [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a fiend]], even the fact that they get along and have common interests (like human sacrifice) is based on his being a psycho killer.

* Kamala Braith of ''Webcomic/TeamRAIN'' exhibits several signs of sociopathy. She has almost no impulse control resulting in her having a HairTriggerTemper and never shows any remorse for the things she does. [[spoiler: At one point, she even decides to blow up Marron just because Robin loved her, but when Robin saves her, she laughs about it and says this is even better.]] It is also clear that she has manipulated her siblings into following her since they are all terrified of what she'll do to them. She shows no qualms about hurting them if they screw up or cease to be useful. She outright admits this to her sister, Viola, after an incident [[spoiler: where she let Otso Umber escape]].

* Kamala Braith of ''WebComic/TeamRAIN'' exhibits several signs of sociopathy. She has almost no impulse control resulting in her having a HairTriggerTemper and never shows any remorse for the things she does. [[spoiler: At one point, she even decides to blow up Marron just because Robin loved her, but when Robin saves her, she laughs about it and says this is even better.]] It is also clear that she has manipulated her siblings into following her since they are all terrified of what she'll do to them. She shows no qualms about hurting them if they screw up or cease to be useful. She outright admits this to her sister, Viola, after an incident [[spoiler: where she let Otso Umber escape]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' has Mordecai Heller, Atlas May's former triggerman who defected to the Marigold after Atlas's death. An elegant, extremely intelligent and charming man who seems to have no feeling for anyone and whose loyalty to his boss doesn't extend to his colleagues, only following his own interests, and kills very casually.

** One of the protagonists of the story, Belkar Bitterleaf, is a HeroicComedicSociopath for much of a story, and actually provides the image for that page. This is later subverted in the story as he undergoes CharacterDevelopement by learning to have more impulse control and starting to show real empathy.

* {{Lackadaisy}} has Mordecai Heller, Atlas May's former triggerman who defected to the Marigold. An elegant, extremly intelligent and charming man who seems to have no feeling for anyone and no sense of loyalty, only following his own interests, and kills very casually.

* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'': Cyndi eventually turns out to be one. Initially, she comes off as a fairly standard AlphaBitch-type, similar to Karen, and takes twisted delight in messing with Penny, Aggie, and their friends. This reaches a head when she [[spoiler:manipulates Stan into destroying his relationship with Brandi]] and is positively gleeful about it. She eventually cements her status as this by the end of the [[spoiler:Missing Person arc]]. [[spoiler:Right before the police rescue her from her kidnapper, Charlotte, Cyndi appears to show some remorse, and convinces Charlotte that they are NotSoDifferent. When Charlotte slits her own throat in grief, Cyndi reveals that she had already managed to free herself, and that her HeelRealization was just an act to get Charlotte to kill herself. Finally, after she is rescued, her parents reveal that the police managed to hack into her laptop during their search for her, and discovered her disturbing diary entries about how much she enjoys making other people suffer. They then tearfully apologize to her as they commit her to a mental hospital.]]