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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[DissonantSerenity Do you like]] Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews?]] |
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| 12 | ->''UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden took an axe,\ |
| 13 | and gave her mother forty whacks.\ |
| 14 | And when he saw what she had done,\ |
| 15 | she gave her father forty-one.'' |
| 16 | -->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden American Nursery Rhyme]]''' [[note]]For the record, Ms. Borden was acquitted, but [[NeverLiveItDown never lived it down]]. There were also far less "whacks" in the actual murders.[[/note]] |
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| 21 | An "ax-crazy" character is someone who is psychologically unstable[[note]]"Unstable" is an excessively mild term here, because it implies that ''some'' residual stability may still be present. Being Ax-Crazy usually implies that almost the entire substructure of sanity is ''gone''[[/note]] ''and'' presents a clear and present danger to others. They are capable of extreme violence, whether carried out with a SlasherSmile, [[LaughingMad insane laughter]], speaking in a CreepyMonotone and/or WordSaladHorror, or out and out [[UnstoppableRage murderous rage]]; and with no way of knowing just what [[BerserkButton will set them off]], this makes them extremely frightening to deal with. This mainly differentiates them from other eccentric characters who may themselves be obsessive, weird or seemingly crazy, but use this condition hand in hand with doing good, or at least not being in the way. However, some formerly established heroes can go through an episode of ax-craziness and still retain their heroic mantle. |
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| 23 | Despite the title, ax-crazies aren't limited to wielding [[AxeBeforeEntering axes]]. Any instrument of death will do, from [[PsychoKnifeNut knives]] or [[DangerouslyCloseShave straight razors]] to swords to {{chainsaw|Good}}s and [[ExoticWeaponSupremacy beyond]]. A good number of other ax-crazies are also TriggerHappy, preferring either {{Hand Cannon}}s that blow really big holes in people, or weapons that allow them to kill lots of people with reckless abandon, such as [[MoreDakka any automatic weapon]]. And for the truly disturbed for whom the above just won't do, [[MadBomber a heaping helping of high explosives]] or [[{{Pyromaniac}} a good-sized flamethrower]] will do quite nicely. Sometimes, they don't even need weapons and just use magic spells or other powers if they have them. There are also plenty who are just as happy to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat people into an unrecognizable pulp-like mass]] with their bare hands. Less outwardly violent and unstable examples are likely to be the vindictive and vengeful sort; ''any'' sort of petty slight (real or imagined) is likely to trigger a DisproportionateRetribution, and these types tend to be the more dangerous variety due to the lengths to which they will go to carry out their revenge and make the party who attracted their wrath suffer. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | It is rare for a truly Ax-Crazy character to be [[SociopathicHero a protagonist]], largely due to it being a SubTrope of ObviouslyEvil, and most Ax-Crazy characters usually are Obviously Evil. They're common as the antagonists in {{Superhero}} and CrimeAndPunishmentSeries, often serving as a PsychoForHire. If they ''are'' a protagonist, they will most certainly be a NominalHero, VillainProtagonist and/or HeroicComedicSociopath. The difference between them and BloodKnight is this trope is all about killing while the BloodKnight is only interested in ''fighting''. There is, of course, plenty of room for overlap. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | See also InsaneEqualsViolent, TheBerserker, TheButcher, TheDreaded, MadBomber, CuteAndPsycho, BloodKnight, PsychoForHire, {{Yandere}}, TheSociopath, MadDoctor, PyroManiac, HairTriggerTemper, ColonelKilgore, GeneralRipper, InsaneAdmiral, SociopathicSoldier, HolyIsNotSafe, PsychopathicManchild, and JerkassGods. Compare and contrast MamaBear, PapaWolf, BigBrotherInstinct, and ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend, who may be capable of temporary Ax-Craziness when their kids, younger sibling(s) or mate are under threat, but are often played sympathetically. Compare HotBlooded, in which the character may have such tendencies but in a less threatening way (even if both could overlap). |
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| 29 | Contrast SuicidalPacifism, when a character never, ever resorts to violence even if it is necessary; and ExtremeDoormat, when a character is a complete pushover unable to fight back. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The canonical CharacterAlignment for most Ax-Crazy characters is [[ChaoticEvil Chaotic]] or NeutralEvil, though a couple of ChaoticNeutral [[NominalHero examples exist]]. The Ax-Crazy character's twistedness may land them comfortably in StupidEvil or even ChaoticStupid in more satirical works. Sometimes TheUnfettered, depending on whether they feel freed or enslaved by their bloodlust. At least one or more examples are an AntiVillain, where you kinda feel bad for them since their enemies pushed them too far with actions such as killing their family, their friends, or even the enemies trying to kill them, making them go Ax-Crazy -- they may be a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. The HeroicComedicSociopath is almost always Ax-Crazy, as their inability to control their madness is a good way of having a BloodyHilarious character who is still innocent enough to be a little sympathetic. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | It's very common to be PlayedForDrama, usually as either the BigBad, or TheDragon to the BigBad. It is far less common, but [[BlackComedy not unheard of]], for it to be PlayedForLaughs; this is most likely to be seen in a SadistShow, especially one featuring a lot of ComedicSociopathy and/or heavy {{Satire}}, with it appearing most often in humorous comic strips, {{Anime}}, WebOriginal works, and the more adult-oriented WesternAnimation of the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Renaissance]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation Millennium]] periods. |
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| 35 | This page is about violent crazy people, not people whose preferred weapon is an axe. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[noreallife]] |
| 38 | ---- |
| 39 | !!Example subpages: |
| 40 | [[index]] |
| 41 | * AxCrazy/AnimeAndManga |
| 42 | * AxCrazy/ComicBooks |
| 43 | * AxCrazy/FanWorks |
| 44 | * [[AxCrazy/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 45 | * AxCrazy/{{Literature}} |
| 46 | * AxCrazy/LiveActionTV |
| 47 | * AxCrazy/TabletopGames |
| 48 | * AxCrazy/VideoGames (Includes [[VisualNovel Visual Novels]]) |
| 49 | * AxCrazy/{{Webcomics}} |
| 50 | * AxCrazy/WebOriginal |
| 51 | * AxCrazy/WesternAnimation |
| 52 | [[/index]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | !!Other Examples: |
| 55 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 56 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 57 | * Red Jasper (Bill Oddie) in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio adventure ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho043DoctorWhoAndThePirates Doctor Who and the Pirates]]''. A pirate captain with more than a touch of Blackbeard to his nature, Jasper has no problem [[BadBoss doing in members of his own crew if he feels like it.]] |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 61 | * In one story arc in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Steve Dallas, in a bid to not die in six months, tries to quit smoking. As Michael Binkley puts it, "He's a psycho even with Nicotine in his veins!" Opus ties him to a chair, but this doesn't help, as later Steve is seen hopping after Opus, still tied to said chair, holding an axe in his mouth. Later on, Milo Bloom is looking through the boarding house windows with binoculars, and sees Steve holding Opus by the throat, screaming something along the lines of "A pack of Marlboros or I'm having penguin pate for dinner!" Fortunately, Steve's withdrawal-induced insanity is alleviated when he finds a huge stash of [[ProductPlacement Hostess Ding Dongs]], and gorges himself into a sugar-coma. |
| 62 | ** Another arc had Steve being the defense-lawyer for a crazed elderly female murderer who "signed" court documents by chopping at them with her axe. |
| 63 | * Pig's Guard Duck from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' has this played for laughs. |
| 64 | ** Snuffles, Zebra's cat, is probably even more so. As compared to Guard Duck he's completely TheUnfettered. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 68 | * ''The Adventure Of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina'': The Mole King towards the end when he chases down Tom and Thumbelina. |
| 69 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[spoiler: Rourke]] attacks Milo with an ax as the hot air balloon transport is crashing. He himself admits that Milo has done what few people have, which is royally piss him off. |
| 70 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Gaston. Most evident during the final showdown with the Beast (where he goads the Beast on for no discernible reason, then stabs him InTheBack with a ''very'' nasty SlasherSmile after [[UngratefulBastard being spared]]), but it's clear that by his VillainousBreakdown he's already well on his way to seeing red. |
| 71 | * Mr. Gristle from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'' takes '''much''' more delight in the unpleasant parts of his job than [[ObliviouslyEvil Mr. Trout and Pickles.]] |
| 72 | * Hopper and Thumper of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the latter even more so to a thoroughly animalistic degree. |
| 73 | * Mrs. Tweedy in ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' when she sees the chickens escaping and suffers a VillainousBreakdown. Her wielding a hand axe makes matters worse. |
| 74 | * ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': BigBad [[spoiler:[[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Barkis Bittern]] after finding out that Victoria is poor after he married her. He murders Emily so that he can get her fortune and it is implied that he plans to do the same to Victoria. He also attempts to kill Victor]]. |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Once he is exposed to smelling blood, Bruce loses all judgment and consciousness and becomes an absolutely deranged and homicidal fish-killing machine. Not even his own friends are able to control him. Just imagine [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]] as a shark. |
| 76 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Ratigan towards the climax, when he's enraged. Technically he is always a violent maniac, seeing as he struggles to maintain his composure outwardly while killing his own men for minor infractions but this is the moment where he completely snaps and shows the animal that he really is, abandoning all pretensions of being a gentleman. |
| 77 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': At first, [[BigBad Judge Claude Frollo]] seems composed and calm. But [[{{Yandere}} as he begins to develop an]] [[StalkerWithACrush unhealthy obsession for Esmeralda]], [[SanitySlippage he slowly loses his sanity]], devolving into a PsychopathicManchild who goes as far as torching Paris all to search for her, and having her burned at the stake when she refuses his advances. And by the end of the film, [[spoiler:he's willing to hack Quasimodo and Esmeralda with a sword while [[LaughingMad laughing derangedly]] and flashing a [[SlasherSmile horrific grin]].]] |
| 78 | %% * [[spoiler:King Malbert]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}''. |
| 79 | %% * Lord Shen from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''. |
| 80 | * Zira from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', who is MUCH less composed and self-controlled than her predecessor Scar. |
| 81 | * Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. When she transforms into Vanessa, it's implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and would most certainly kill a person had that been a human being, and then her cackling. She's most certainly Ax-Crazy when she has her VillainousBreakdown after Ariel destroys her eel pets, though. |
| 82 | ** It's actually hinted that she was never sane to begin with... If you take notice of the fact that she has a number of former mermaids as a polyp garden in the entrance to her cave... |
| 83 | * [[CruellaToAnimals Captain DuBois]] from ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''. She wants to have Alex's head on the wall so much that, when [[TheHero Alex]], [[TheBigGuy Gloria]], [[PluckyComicRelief Marty]] and [[TheWoobie Melman]] are tranquilized by her men, she tries to use a [[NightmareFuel saw to cut Alex's head off]]. [[FromBadToWorse She doesn't stop there]]. [[MoralEventHorizon Even after Alex is put back in captivity in the zoo, DuBois tries to use a poison dart to kill him.]] Thank goodness [[BigDamnHeroes Gia]] shows up with the circus animals to save him in the nick of time. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', the former knight of the round table Ruber is mentally insane along with his TwitchyEye. His UnstoppableRage at the beginning of the film even shows signs of this when he attacks Arthur's knights - and even kills Lionel. |
| 85 | * Shaw from ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' is a deranged BigBad hunter intent on killing for the fun of it. Has named his rifle "Lorraine," sings to it and covers it with a blanket so it won't get cold at night. Believes in animal uprisings, but scoffs at the idea of a Bigfoot. Drives his truck into the river, using it as a speedboat in an effort to get Elliot and Boog, while screaming [[LargeHam "It's like huntin' and fishin' at the same time!"]] |
| 86 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'': [[BigBad Percival C. McLeah]] is an EvilPoacher who ''clearly'' enjoys being a violent, murderous thug far more than he actually wants to make himself rich. |
| 87 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': |
| 88 | ** Rumpelstiltskin. Don't be fooled by the trickster shell. Deep down, he's really a homicidal sociopath. |
| 89 | ** Prince Charming in the ''Scared Shrekless'' story "Boots Motel", (a parody of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s Bates Motel) which Donkey and Puss in Boots make up. |
| 90 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'': Mr. Hitcher has a REALLY strong affinity for chainsaws and for using them on small animals and despite being an over-the-top parody of slasher movie villains he is still a downplayed case of an IneffectualSympatheticVillain as whenever he is not on a rampage he blunders and faces comical mishaps. |
| 91 | * ''Franchise/ToyStory'': |
| 92 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Stinky Pete the Prospector at the climax of the movie. Or rather, "[[{{Pun}} Pickaxe-Crazy]]". When it becomes apparent that the Roundup Gang does not want to go to Japan anymore, he actively tries to chop Woody to pieces with his pickaxe. |
| 93 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear is a very subtle example. He never goes visibly nuts; However, he's rampantly brutal in managing his regime, and has no qualms about using torture or even murder to get his way. It certainly doesn't help the fact that his sole motivation in his life is just to torture and mentally crush any toy into loathing their existence as much as he does, suggesting that he's an extreme {{Sadist}}. |
| 94 | * Muntz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. Polite and reserved... but for the love of God, don't make him think for one second you're going to "steal" Kevin, or else you'll find out [[NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} just how off his rocker he really is]]. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Manhwa]] |
| 98 | * In ''Manhwa/{{Chonchu}}'', most characters have their Ax Crazy moment, even non-fighters. It helps that the action happens in wartime and features many ethnic conflicts. |
| 99 | * Tick Tock in ''Manhwa/DorothyOfOz'' could possibly count as one of these due to her tendency to cut off the arms of those who displease her or give her false information. The fact that she is nothing short of proper and polite before attempting to do this is rather disconcerting. However, she is a robot who is programmed to do whatever it takes to achieve her goals. |
| 100 | ** A better example would perhaps be Shine, who had no qualms whatsoever about blowing up a city full of innocent people for the sole purpose of traumatizing Mara... and then ''grinning'' about it as she screams in pain. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 104 | %%* "Axes of Evil" by Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 105 | * Music/EmilieAutumn's "I Know Where You Sleep". The title alone should tell you enough, but just take a look at the chorus: |
| 106 | -->''You can lie to the papers\ |
| 107 | You can hide from the press\ |
| 108 | You can fake it on stage\ |
| 109 | Crawl from your cage\ |
| 110 | Search and destroy\ |
| 111 | You can kill and depend on it\ |
| 112 | I know your tainted flesh\ |
| 113 | I know your filthy soul\ |
| 114 | I know each trick you played\ |
| 115 | Whore you laid\ |
| 116 | Dream you stole\ |
| 117 | I know the bed in the room in the wall\ |
| 118 | In the house where you got what you wanted and ruined it all\ |
| 119 | I know the secrets that you keep\ |
| 120 | I know where you sleep'' |
| 121 | * In the video to Music/BabesInToyland's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1ANLb4QPY He's My Thing]]", a CreepyDoll mutilates another CreepyDoll out of jealousy. |
| 122 | * The title character from Music/TheBeatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", who goes around bashing people over the head with said hammer whenever something doesn't go his way. Or even when something does. |
| 123 | * The VillainProtagonist of the Music/TheBirthdayMassacre song "Happy Birthday" murders a bunch of people at a birthday party. |
| 124 | -->''I think my friend said, "Stick it in the back of her head"\ |
| 125 | I think my friend said, "Two of them are sisters"\ |
| 126 | "I'm a murder tramp, birthday boy," I think I said\ |
| 127 | "I'm gonna bash them in, bash them in," I think he said'' |
| 128 | * Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun": |
| 129 | -->''Debbie's smiling and waving her gun\ |
| 130 | Picking off cheerleaders one by one\ |
| 131 | Oh Buffie's pompom just blew to bits\ |
| 132 | Oh no, Mitzie's head just did the splits'' |
| 133 | * In the first few lines of Music/{{Cage}}'s "[[DreamWithinADream Among the Sleep]]", he wakes up to find a dead prostitute with an ax in her back. |
| 134 | * At least one character in every single song off Music/NickCave's ''Music/MurderBallads'', but especially notably Lottie in "The Curse of Millhaven", a fourteen-year-old girl who takes the notion that everyone has to die some day a bit too literally. Bashing a little boy's head in and throwing him in the river with his pockets full of stones is just one of the atrocities she commits. |
| 135 | * Music/HarryChapin takes a turn in this direction with "Sniper". Take a guess as to what the song's about, given that title. |
| 136 | * The Writer from Music/CoheedAndCambria's first ''Good Apollo'' album. By the end, he is definitely mentally unstable and has the ability to kill off any character he wants, since he wrote them into existence. |
| 137 | * Music/AliceCooper has a couple on the album, ''Music/FromTheInside'': |
| 138 | ** The title characters of the sweet-sounding duet "Millie and Billie" are revealed to be this when the lyrics take a dark turn: |
| 139 | ---> ''And I liked your late husband Donald\ |
| 140 | But such torture his memory brings\ |
| 141 | All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies\ |
| 142 | Guess love makes you do funny things'' |
| 143 | ** "Inmates (We're All Crazy)" quotes the Lizzy Borden verse from the top of the AxCrazy page. |
| 144 | * The narrator of Music/CreatureFeature's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1C4xP1ikY4 "Such Horrible Things"]] has been this [[EnfantTerrible ever since birth]], and spends the song recounting various increasingly horrible acts he committed growing up, like for example burning his house down at age eight because he didn't like its colour. He even admits that he deserves to rot in Hell. |
| 145 | %%* Just about ''every'' protagonist on Music/{{Dismember}}'s first two albums. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 146 | * Music/EazyE in the song "Sorry Louie". The song describes how he sadistically kills an enemy -- ''castrating him and leaving him completely covered in blood'' -- and then proceeds to kill the man's wife and son. |
| 147 | * Music/{{Eminem}}'s character Slim Shady, a mentally ill [[GangstaRap criminal]], serial killer and [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunken idiot]] who spends most of his songs describing intricately-rhymed acts of absurd violence, as a satire of [[TheNewRockAndRoll moral panics about hip-hop lyrics]]. |
| 148 | -->The ill type, I stab myself with a steel spike\ |
| 149 | While I blow my brain out just to see what it feels like\ |
| 150 | [[BlatantLies 'Cause this is how I am in real life]] |
| 151 | * Robert from Music/FosterThePeople's "Pumped Up Kicks": |
| 152 | -->''All the other kids with the pumped up kicks\ |
| 153 | You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun'' |
| 154 | %%* Music/{{GWAR}} lives this trope. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 155 | %%* Music/InsaneClownPosse. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 156 | %%* Jaguar actually has a song named "Axe Crazy". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 157 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_jjRNMOopA The Irish Ballad]]" from Music/TomLehrer's ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'' is about a little girl who kills off her entire family one by one because they annoy her, or, in the case of the baby, just because she was bored. |
| 158 | * Music/{{Megadeth}}: |
| 159 | ** "Black Friday" is about a self-admitted sadistic maniac who massacres people with [[BludgeonedToDeath a hammer]] and a blade. |
| 160 | ** "Sweating Bullets" is about a person going on a murderous rampage with an axe. |
| 161 | * Music/TheMegas: |
| 162 | ** [[MadBomber Bomb Man]] responded to the gift of emotion by [[RoboticPsychopath running around blowing everything up]]. |
| 163 | --->''You lit a fuse inside me\ |
| 164 | And now my instincts guide me through\ |
| 165 | To what I must do'' [cue explosion] |
| 166 | ** Heat Man in ''Get Equipped'' does not come across as particularly more stable. "Man on Fire/Heat Man" is largely a deranged rant about how he's going to burn ''everything''. |
| 167 | --->''Can you feel the fire? (The fire)\ |
| 168 | Can you see those cities burn? (Those cities burn)\ |
| 169 | From the depths of hell I call your name (Franchise/MegaMan)\ |
| 170 | [[HotBlooded Can you feel the heat?]]'' |
| 171 | ** [[SkeleBot9000 Skull Man]] adds [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane either]] DemonicPossession by the spirits of dead Robot Masters, or, perhaps more plausibly, [[HearingVoices outright delusions of such]] to the cocktail. He's not ''quite'' as [[EvilIsHammy hamtastic about it]] as Bomb Man and Heat Man, but it's not a subtle theme of "Cracked Skulls" either. |
| 172 | --->''It's killing we're craving'' |
| 173 | * Music/{{Metallica}}: |
| 174 | ** "Battery", as in "assault and", is about a person absolutely obsessed with committing the titular act. |
| 175 | ** Their cover of Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s [[Music/SheerHeartAttack "Stone Cold Crazy"]], about a man who dreams that he's UsefulNotes/AlCapone and then shoots people with a Tommy gun as he walks down the street. |
| 176 | * Unfortunately for the protagonist in Music/{{Mitski}}'s "Happy", her husband is not having an affair, he is [[spoiler:hacking women to pieces in their basement and giving her their jewellery]]. Said husband is not happy when she finds out. [[spoiler:He pulls her to the ground and starts choking her, but she manages to grab the axe in the nick of time and kill him.]] |
| 177 | * The protagonist from Music/PearlJam's "Alive" has, by the time of "Once", turned into an out-of-control serial killer who kills more or less indiscriminately and is a slave to his homicidal urges. |
| 178 | * Music/{{Pink}}, in her video of "Please Don't Leave Me", [[{{Yandere}} goes]] ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' [[{{Yandere}} on her boyfriend]], and then when he tries to get away chases him down with an ax and does [[Film/TheShining the Jack Nicholson hatchet-job]] on the door, complete with menacing look through the opening. |
| 179 | * Music/PinkFloyd: |
| 180 | ** "One of These Days": |
| 181 | --->''One of these days\ |
| 182 | I'm going to cut you into little pieces'' |
| 183 | ** Referenced in "One of My Turns" from ''Music/TheWall''. As Pink proceeds to demolish his apartment in front of a groupie, he screams the following: |
| 184 | --->''Run to the bedroom\ |
| 185 | In the suitcase on the left\ |
| 186 | You'll find my favorite axe'' |
| 187 | ::: : The lines have a double-meaning, since Pink is a guitarist and would under normal circumstances simply be referring to his guitar. |
| 188 | %%** Their early song "Careful With That Axe, Eugene". (Adminstrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 189 | * {{Implied}} in the video for Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompevuR1644&list=PLjACqN5i5sDWjx8wkdUyCl4MjctV4SE6o Lift]]". Taken together, MadDreamer Mark smiling and manifesting BlackEyesOfEvil when presented with an evidence bag containing a straight pin, a photo of a woman with moth wings that figures prominently in both his psych hearing and his HappyPlace, and his fixation on pinned [[MacabreMothMotif moths]] all suggest that Mark has done very, very bad things to end up in Poet County Jail and deemed a "menace to society". |
| 190 | * The Music/{{Primus}} song "My Name Is Mud" follows a guy who murdered someone because they were in an ''argument''. The music video supplies a good amount of [[SlasherSmile less-than-welcoming smiles]]. |
| 191 | %%* The narrator of Music/TheResidents' [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning cover]] of "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Satisfaction]]". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 192 | * "Mister Psycho" by Music/{{Space}}. He'll blow you away. |
| 193 | * [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Miles "Tails" Prower]] is turned into one in the Music/{{Starbomb}} song "Sonic's Best Pal", being a drug addict who wants to kill someone just to know how it feels and threatens to break Sonic's legs if he looks at him wrong. |
| 194 | %%* Too many Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs to count: (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 195 | %%** "Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance". |
| 196 | %%** "50/50". |
| 197 | %%** "Fear Garden". |
| 198 | %%** Multiple songs by MARETU. |
| 199 | * Music/TheWeeknd usually plays this persona in his music videos, especially in "Blinding Lights". The music video begins with him making a SlasherSmile. Then he starts driving maniacally. |
| 200 | * Music/XJapan: |
| 201 | ** "I'll Kill You" is about a person [[IfICantHaveYou planning to take violent revenge on the person who broke his heart]], and it's implied that he's [[MurderSuicide planning on killing himself as well]]. |
| 202 | ** "Rose of Pain" is about UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, a RealLife Ax Crazy. ([[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Okay,]] ''[[HistoricalVillainUpgrade maybe]]'' [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade not as much.]]) |
| 203 | %%** "Kurenai". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 204 | %%** "Week End", which also has a nightmarish and over the top PV. |
| 205 | * [[Music/JunTogawa YAPOOS]]'s Nikya no Youni ("Like a Butcher" in English). If the title didn't give it away: |
| 206 | -->''One quick tug on the chainsaw starter\ |
| 207 | Oh please, won't someone stop me\ |
| 208 | It reverberates in the bones\ |
| 209 | The feeling of ecstasy through my body, oh no\ |
| 210 | Light the boiler coke of my murderous intent\ |
| 211 | Oh, I can't hold out any longer\ |
| 212 | I thirst for trickling lifeblood'' |
| 213 | * The title character in "Excitable Boy" by Music/WarrenZevon, who bites the usherette's leg at the movies and rapes and kills his date to Junior Prom before taking her home. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 217 | * The eponymous hero of Creator/{{Sophocles}}'s ''Theatre/{{Ajax}}'' goes on a murdering rampage of sheep and cattle after Athena strikes him with madness. It's pretty clear that he was intending a rampage against Odysseus and the Greek troops anyways, but it would have been slightly less [[BreakTheHaughty humiliating]]. |
| 218 | * Jonathan Brewster in ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' is indicated to be a prolific SerialKiller with a love of torture, and it's clear that he's been this way since he was a child, since his hobby then was torturing his brother by putting needles under his fingernails. He's murdered as many people as his two aunts combined, but did it far less calmly. He wants to kill again [[BodyCountCompetition just so he can be ahead in the count]]. |
| 219 | * Just like his [[{{Film/Heathers}} movie counterpart]], J.D. from ''{{Theatre/Heathers}}'' is ''incredibly'' mentally unbalanced and violent, seeing killing the AlphaBitch as the solution to all of Veronica's problems. |
| 220 | %%* [[spoiler:Umbridge]] in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel''. She gets worse in the second act. |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 224 | * ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': After [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2xTJy5FaU Himeka]] [[spoiler:poisons Kotomi's dog Ron]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:she was like this since she was little; often breaking or trying to get rid of things.]] Ultimately, her behavior and her mom's refusal to treat her sociopathic behavior led the former to [[spoiler:burn down the house, much to the latter's dismay.]] |
| 225 | * ''WebAnimation/BionicleAdventures'' has Monkeydude, whose solution to practically every problem is to burn everything and everyone nearby to a crisp. |
| 226 | * ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'': The actress playing Juliet throws a bomb at her Romeo. After being told to not do it again, she goes crazy and throws a bomb at the replacement Romeo. |
| 227 | * ''WebAnimation/DragonBallDeliverance'': |
| 228 | ** As Vegeta puts it, Broly's as much a monster as ever. We first see him attacking and killing for his own sadistic amusement. |
| 229 | ** Didger is without a doubt the most insane of Commander Daiko's crew. He's positively giddy about the idea of killing Pan and Bra. |
| 230 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': [[spoiler: Melinda becomes rather unhinged and bloodthirsty as Ghost Melinda.]] |
| 231 | * ''WebAnimation/GossipCity'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOr8K9EZ9ug Akio]], Haruka's husband, looks like a NiceGuy at first, but [[spoiler:he also has a violent side whenever he gets mad at her. The reason for this, according to Inuzuka, was because he was a drug junkie.]] |
| 232 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Flippy suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the time he spent in the W.A.R (Weaponized Animal Regiment). His flipped-out state under PTSD, known as Fliqpy, is a serial killer who takes pleasure out of killing others. |
| 233 | ** Even though he's not at Flippy's level of violence, Nutty also counts in a more genuine sense, as he has killed people just to get candy. |
| 234 | * ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'': The series is called ''Madness'' for a reason. But the biggest examples '''by far''' are [[VillainProtagonist Hank]] and above everyone else '''[[MonsterClown Tricky the Clown]]'''. Tricky in particular takes it [[ExaggeratedTrope up to 111]]. |
| 235 | %% * ''WebAnimation/TheMaskedGirl'': The serial killer. |
| 236 | * ''WebAnimation/Plan3'': PlayedForLaughs with Stephen in the scenarios; if murder is (or in the loosest sense possibly) a solution to a problem, he’s more than happy to pull out a knife. |
| 237 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': |
| 238 | ** O'Malley/The Omega A.I., the ArcVillain of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', is a being ''[[MadeOfEvil made]]'' of Ax Crazy. |
| 239 | ** Seasons 9 and 10 introduce Agent Carolina. She was sane enough during Project Freelancer, [[BrokenAce but afterwards]]... Thankfully, once her revenge quest is solved, Carolina mellows out. |
| 240 | ** Season 12 introduces [[MadDoctor Dr. Emily Grey]], who might as well be the most psychotic person on the show [[DissonantSerenity despite how cheerful she is]]. Thank God she is one of the good guys. |
| 241 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Tyrian is very eager to be given tasks that involve hunting down people. When Salem orders him to go after Ruby, he mocks Cinder by implying he'll take Ruby's eye, giggling madly at the thought. When Salem orders him to capture Ruby alive, he's visibly disappointed. When Jaune makes it clear the gang won't let Tyrian take Ruby without a fight, he smiles and says "good". When Salem reveals she's disappointed in his failure to complete his task, he goes berserk; he leaps on a Beowulf and begins slashing it repeatedly while [[LaughingMad laughing]] and crying at the same time. Cinder watches him unravel in open-mouthed horror. |
| 242 | * ''WebAnimation/SolarBalls'': |
| 243 | ** Sun, particularly in the earlier episodes, as he often has a SlasherSmile and would often threaten planets that if they leave their orbit then he’ll shoot them with solar flares. |
| 244 | ** If you thought that The Sun was bad, Ceres is even worse as he contains all the traits of Sun in the early episodes but without any of the good qualities The Sun has, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/solarballs/images/a/a2/SomethingsHidingintheAsteroidBelt.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230121181316 even the thumbnail of his debut episode, he has a Slasher smile]] and he is the only character in the entire show whose dialogue only consists of laughter, further establishing himself as crazy. |
| 245 | * ''WebAnimation/OfWeaselsAndChickens'': Prima, who sings a song about the wonderful world of murder in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4d7CeQmfQ Episode Three]]. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | ->[[LateToThePunchline I get it now]]! [[DontExplainTheJoke It's a play]] on [[JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames the phrase "acts crazy"!]] |
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