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| 9 | ->''"Before we begin I'd like to discuss the subject of screaming. By saying this -- go right ahead."'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Black Mask''', ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' |
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| 12 | A sadist is someone who enjoys the suffering of others. While a sadist who has a good sense of morality and empathy will stick to playing a CruelPlayerCharacterGod or doing some CasualKink in a SafeSaneAndConsensual way, sadism becomes outright NightmareFuel when combined with [[TheSociopath sociopathy]]. This is the kind of character that takes pleasure in inflicting ColdBloodedTorture and psychological abuse. Whether it's physical or psychological, a sadist will take pleasure in making or seeing others suffer. Sometimes, a sadist has a LackOfEmpathy that stops them from feeling any guilt from the suffering they cause. However, that is not a prerequisite: Some of these characters do indeed feel bad about their actions; they just enjoy it too much to ''stop''. |
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| 14 | Note that while real-life sadists are usually of the decent kind and psychiatry stopped perceiving sadism and masochism as mental disorders long ago, fictional sadists are usually of [[CompleteMonster the truly despicable kind]]. After all, a sociopathic sadist is much easier to use [[RuleOfDrama for drama]] or for [[RuleOfSexy eroticized]] [[RomanticizedAbuse daydreaming]]. When the non-sociopathic kind of sadism is included in fiction, it tends to be either for [[AbuseMistake a plot twist]], some [[CasualKink lighthearted fun]], or maybe even [[PoorCommunicationKills tragedy]]. |
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| 16 | The original {{Trope Namer|s}} is the author Creator/MarquisDeSade, who in his books used sexual sadism both for fetish fuel and for satirical ways of describing the hypocrisy and injustice rampant in pre-revolution France. Back when psychiatry viewed all sexual minorities (including homosexuality) as "mental disorders", regular UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} was considered pathological under the diagnoses "Sexual Sadism" and "Sexual Masochism". For a little while long ago (in an appendix to DSM III, but not included in the later versions DSM IV or DSM V), psychiatry also had a concept of non-sexual sadism as a mental disorder of its own. Sadist characters may or may not fit any diagnosis, or in the case of sympathetic characters, be unfairly labeled with such a diagnosis. |
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| 18 | Many sadist characters are not physically violent, and the ones who are usually come from a violent culture or background. Psychological and emotional sadism is much more common and, in some cases, much more sophisticated and harmful, being easier to disguise from either the victim or their loved ones. It's also, often, very mundane -- the MeanBoss, TheBully, and the {{Domestic Abuse}}r are all common types of sadists. Many target family members in particular, as they are "safe" targets they can control easily, or otherwise go after someone who is in their power (e.g., a MeanBoss with their employees, or a SadistTeacher with their students) so that it becomes harder for them to resist. Others, including the nastier types of internet {{Troll}}, prefer to target strangers and may hide their behavior from those closest to them (at least, if they feel they will be judged for it), essentially leading a double life. |
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| 20 | The difference between TheSociopath and the sadist is that the latter ''wants'' to hurt others; the former is defined by their utter indifference and lack of remorse, and typically cause harm only as a means to an end. A sadist is not '''necessarily''' devoid of guilt; rather, like the {{Narcissist}}, they just ignore or find excuses for it, frequently blaming their victim ("You're stupid"; "you're weak"; "WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou", etc). That being said, the two disorders are highly co-morbid, meaning that there are plenty of sadistic sociopaths and sociopathic sadists both in fiction and in Real Life. When sadism meets narcissism, the results are equally ugly. {{Serial Killer}}s and, indeed, many violent criminals and personalities, often have shades of all of the above. Many sadists won't see or even consider the idea that there is a problem with their behavior. However, sadism just gives you unusual appetites rather than removing your sense of morality -- there are heroic sadists out there who either suppress their desires or find socially acceptable outlets for them. |
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| 22 | The difference between this trope and a BloodKnight is that a sadist may not even enjoy fighting. They simply love the misfortune of others. Whereas a BloodKnight will enjoy ''fighting'' his opponent (and [[NotWorthKilling are likely to lose interest]] if their target is unable or unwilling to fight back), most sadists will be perfectly fine with torturing a helpless victim. Expect them to take extreme actions to make their victim suffer as much as possible. That said, there are plenty of characters who fit both bills. The HeroicComedicSociopath is usually this trope PlayedForLaughs. See also ItAmusedMe (which may or may not include torture), SoftSpokenSadist, and UnsexySadist. An easy, psychologically realistic option to explain a villain who does things ForTheEvulz -- in fact, most characters who don't have some more abstract or alien reason for adhering to that trope will be sadists who let their appetites rule them. Frequently overlaps with AxCrazy, TheSociopath, MadDoctor, SadistTeacher, DepravedDentist, BloodKnight, and LovesTheSoundOfScreaming. Compare and contrast with CombatSadomasochist, who's just as happy with receiving pain as dishing it out. DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil often involve sadistic delight in the misery of a whole setting. |
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| 24 | A sadist is quite capable of delving into StupidEvil if they take their joy for harming others over actually choosing the more intelligent decision. In fact, many villains have sadism as a FatalFlaw, choosing to make their enemies suffer and [[HopeCrusher drive them to despair]] [[BondVillainStupidity instead of]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shooting them and getting it over with]]. |
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| 26 | !!Examples: |
| 27 | [[index]] |
| 28 | * Sadist/ComicBooks |
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| 33 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 34 | * Esdeath from ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' is a [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]], works as TheDragon for TheEmpire, and enjoys hurting those weaker than herself, such as by stripping them nude and forcing them to lick her shoes while chained. Her name even derives from the Japanese word for "I am a sadist". |
| 35 | * Rio Miyaichi from ''Manga/AnaSatsujin'' clearly enjoys her killings and frequently uses her main character boyfriend as an unwilling pawn in luring in victims, often at the expense of his own health and safety. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'': Tenzen Yakushiji ''really'' loves making his enemies feel pain. Among other things, he tricks Gyobu into striking at a child, forcing the boy's father to take a fatal blow solely so the child's pain rattles Gyobu enough for Tenzen to win, and later ties up Kagerou and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures her by shooting needles into her bare torso]] purely ForTheEvulz. |
| 37 | * In ''Manga/BlackButler'', Sebastian and Grell fit well into this trope. |
| 38 | ** Grell's favorite color is red, and she delights in painting the world red with blood. Her line of work as a reaper effectively involves her hacking up people with a chainsaw every night. With paperwork in between. [[spoiler:She is also actually UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper and took great pleasure in killing the women involved.]] |
| 39 | ** Sebastian has had plenty of moments where he gets one hell of a kick off of the suffering of his victims (particularly Grell) but he isn't sadistic 24/7. He can be somewhat caring when it comes to Ciel. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 41 | ** The Hollow [[MeaningfulName Shrieker]] enjoyed killing people brutally when he was alive, and as a Hollow he psychologically tortures the soul of a little boy for kicks. |
| 42 | ** Many of [[MadScientist Mayuri Kurotsuchi]]'s attacks are designed to inflict maximum pain even on a helpless opponent -- such as his paralysis ability he uses on Ishida (which Mayuri notes does not numb the user from pain -- which he demonstrates by stabbing the defenseless Ishida in the shoulder) or the painfully slow death he uses to finish off Szayelaporro. He is quite fond of taunting and bullying his enemies in battle too (as well as his allies). The manga goes further by detailing the nature of the experiments he performed on the captive Quincy -- essentially, he tortured them all in horrifically cruel and senseless ways or forced them to kill each other in the most violent ways possible. |
| 43 | ** [[PerpetualSmiler Gin Ichimaru]] cultivates this image very convincingly, due to the SlasherSmile that he keeps on his face whenever he causes someone pain, from mentally torturing Rukia to cutting Hiyori in half. He even points out that he toys with his "prey" like a snake. |
| 44 | ** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Szayelaporro Granz]] greatly enjoys performing grotesque experiments on others, and goes out of his way to torture Ishida and Renji during his battle with them. |
| 45 | ** Cirucci Sanderwicci seems to enjoy inflicting pain. The {{whip|OfDominance}} should have been your first clue. |
| 46 | ** Sternritter Driscoll Berci greatly enjoys the carnage he causes and mocks and taunts his enemies when he thinks he has the upper hand, to his delight. |
| 47 | ** While he conceals it ''pretty'' well usually, [[GodEmperor Yhwach]] is an utterly ruthless and sadistic being who absolutely delights in the pain of others, freely slaughtering enemy and ally alike just to further his own goals, and even looks down upon mercy and compassion. His first appearance in the series shows him torturing Luders by blasting his arm off and mockingly permits him that he can rest on the floor, but says he will blast Luders' legs off as well because he doesn't need them to sit. He then kills both Luders and Ebern simply because he can. After he kills Yamamoto-Genryuusai, he gives a taunting speech to him about how "weak" he has gotten and obliterates Yamamoto-Genryuusai's corpse even though he was already dead. He also enjoys playing cruel mental games with his victims, as during his second battle with Ichigo, he could've used 'The Almighty' to immediately defeat Ichigo on the spot, but instead chose to drag the fight on, both to [[BloodKnight enjoy it]], and to give Ichigo the hope that he could win. When he reveals his future manipulation power, he breaks Ichigo's new Bankai, thoroughly beats him down, severely injures Orihime with the tip of Tensa Zangetsu, and by the end starts indulging in hysterical {{evil laugh}}ter at the emotional pain of Ichigo. |
| 48 | * Maika from ''Manga/BlendS'' is an inverted example of sadism, as she's almost ''too'' [[NiceGirl kind and gentle]]. However, genetics has gifted her with [[FaceOfAThug a certain cruel look]] whenever she concentrates and a certain [[ItRunsInTheFamily natural ability]] that comes off as vicious. Due to this, she can only get employment in a Character CosplayCafe where she acts against type by pretending to be a sadist to the customers. This is all [[{{Yonkoma}} played for laughs]]. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/CandyCandy'': Eliza Leagen admits that this is her main reason for always bullying Candy and making her life miserable -- it's fun, and provides her with entertainment she usually doesn't get as she's bored with her rich life. |
| 50 | * ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': Raiza, the [[AngelicAliens Baam-seijin]]'s TortureTechnician and seargant of the Baam military. Be it a child like Cindy or an old lady like Margarete, she will take pleasure in their suffering. Outside of that, she was always a cold AlphaBitch to Erika, while being a suck-up to her brother Richter, who she has a crush on. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': As he gets in the habit of killing, [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] starts to ''really'' enjoy it and often smiles and laughs as he slaughters people by the score. He also appears to get off on being a ManipulativeBastard and can't resist the urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]] to his enemies that he's literally signed their death warrant, or take cruel pleasure in [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness discarding and betraying his own allies, even girlfriends]]. Some of his kills are needlessly nasty as well (eg. said girlfriend was forced by the Death Note to ''set herself on fire''), and on several occasions, he takes a moment to watch his victims die; for example, when he writes Naomi Misora's name in the Death Note, he reveals himself as Kira to her just because he wanted to see the look on her face before she died. And of course, like many sadists, he absolutely believes that [[NeverMyFault his victims had it coming, and that he himself is blameless]]. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': |
| 53 | ** Once he took over the world, King Piccolo [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil set all the criminals free and abolished all laws]], just so that he could enjoy watching humanity tear itself apart. He then had a lottery where he would destroy one section of the world for the next 36 years, all so he could enjoy the terror on people's faces during their final moments. |
| 54 | ** Piccolo Jr. started out as this, taking more than a little joy in breaking Goku's legs and trying to saw off his arm. He grins in delight when he's about to make the killing blow against Goku and Raditz. His training with Gohan was also brutal and he did seem to enjoy the boy's pain at first. He slightly gets over it after he becomes "infected" with Goku's and then Gohan's goodness, a little more after he fuses with Nail, despite Nail's claims that the process would not alter Piccolo's personality, and more still after merging with Kami, although Picoolo still likes inflicting pain on those that anger him or [[PapaWolf hurt Gohan]]. |
| 55 | ** Nappa absolutely enjoys dominating his foes, as seen when he fought the Z-Fighters. In fact, he seems to have a sadistic joy with each act of destruction he performs, such as his grin when he blew up East City. |
| 56 | ** Vegeta, especially in the earlier seasons when he could be just as bad as Frieza, often killing people with a PsychoticSmirk on his face. He massacred an entire Namekian village with a huge grin on his face and laughed when it's revealed that they weren't wished back by Shenron [[LiteralGenie because of the way the wish was worded]]. Before then, in his Great Ape form, he ruthlessly crushed every bone in Goku's body while laughing his head off. [[HeelFaceTurn He does get over it once he settles down on Earth]] and tends to kill people for pragmatic reasons instead of joy. |
| 57 | ** Frieza enjoys slowly tearing apart his enemies and having them die in despair rather than outright killing them, as shown when he [[ColdBloodedTorture impales Krillin with his horns, shoots up Piccolo, brutally beat Vegeta to near death, and tears Goku apart with only half of his full power]]. When he is almost killed by the Spirit Bomb, he slowly picks off Goku's friends in front of him to rub in how helpless he is. This, however, backfires when Frieza's killing of Krillin and threatening of Gohan unleashes the very thing he most feared in Goku, a Super Saiyan. |
| 58 | ** Future Androids 17 and 18 ''definitely'' qualify. They spent decades slowly torturing the people of Earth with running them over with cars, shooting them while they're running with regular guns even though their modifications should be far more lethal, and promising to spare them only to kill them anyway. That's not even getting started on how they treated beating Gohan and Trunks to near-death like it is a game. |
| 59 | ** Cell is also this to even greater degrees. While Frieza is satisfied with the physical suffering of his victims, Cell prefers to add the psychological element to his cruelty, terrorizing and [[HopeCrusher destroying any chance for hope]] his opponent has, before killing them. On top of that, Cell freely admits that the extent of his plan after winning the Cell Games is to hunt down every last human being on the planet one by one, and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming savor their fear and despair before he kills them]]. The Future Androids had reduced humanity in number, but were still leaving people alive. Android 16 takes one look at Cell and decides Cell must die for the good of the universe and Cell eventually does decided he'll go to other planets and rinse and repeat until [[OmnicidalManiac everything's dead]]. |
| 60 | ** ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Gohan]]'', [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness of all people]], becomes this when Cell's sadism triggers [[SuperpoweredEvilSide his Super Saiyan 2 transformation]], deciding to torture Cell instead of just killing him. He drops this behavior, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but only after his sadism results in]] [[HeroicSacrifice the death of his father]] [[TakingYouWithMe and the almost-destruction]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom of the Earth]] thanks to Cell [[RageQuit refusing to accept that he could ever be beaten and mocked like this]]. |
| 61 | ** Super Buu is on par in terms of sadism and is even ''worse'' than Frieza or Cell. He specializes in killing his victims in extremely gruesome ways -- for example, killing a man by liquefying his own body, [[OrificeInvasion forcibly going down the guy's throat]], and making him explode from the inside out. He also turns Chi-Chi into an egg and steps on her in front of her family and friends. Super Buu even adds [[BreakThemByTalking psychological torture]] to his list, such as his fight with Gohan. Kid Buu, in turn, is both extremely sadistic and an outright OmnicidalManiac -- his only purpose in life is to kill until there is nothing left, and he loves violence, given how he brutally beats Vegeta and his good counterpart until they can't even move anymore. Interestingly, however, Kid Buu doesn't seem to take much (if any) pleasure in the pain of others, as he never really takes his time killing his enemies or watches their pain inactively. Even when he beats Vegeta and Fat Buu mercilessly, he isn't enjoying their pain so much as just the act of pummeling them both repeatedly. |
| 62 | ** Broly from the {{non serial movie}}s. This may stem from his general insanity. As with others such as Frieza, Cell, Buu, etc., this leads to his downfall -- though he is shown as clearly capable of killing the Z-warriors in one fell swoop, he chooses to torture them instead, granting them the time to pull off a [[MiracleRally miraculous comeback]]. |
| 63 | ** Zamasu of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' shows this to various degrees, [[spoiler:in all his incarnations. Goku Black murdered Goku himself and then his family purely for the sake of being cruel after stealing the former's body, and then he and Future Zamasu reveal this to Goku after impaling him with a LaserBlade just to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown rub salt in the wound]]. Also, the Present Zamasu who was killed by Beerus was positively ''delighted'' to discover the chaos Black and Future Zamasu had inflicted upon the future Earth, happy that his dream of a mortal-free universe was becoming a reality]]. [[spoiler:Fusion Zamasu succeeds in killing all known life in the universe except for the remaining saiyans, Mai and the past kais for the purpose of laughing at them, instead expending his energy expanding into the past timeline, making Beerus wonder if he'll have to get involved.]] |
| 64 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 65 | ** Pre-HeelFaceTurn Jellal and Laxus took great pride in dominating others with their incredible powers. [[spoiler:Though only Laxus [[HeelRealization balked at actually killing someone]], while Jellal was too deep in his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] to care, as shown when he tried to murder his former love interest, killed another childhood friend in the crossfire, and then ''laughed'' about it]]. |
| 66 | ** [[PsychoForHire Zancrow]] loves torturing others for a cheap laugh, be it his opponents or [[BadBoss his own men]]. |
| 67 | ** Everyone in the Tartarus Guild who isn't [[TokenGoodTeammate Silver]], [[PragmaticVillainy Torafuzar]], or [[ArcVillain Mard Geer]] is a power-hungry monster that wants to slowly kill all humans in order to take pleasure in their rule over Earth. Special mention should go to [[MadBomber Jackal]], who loves presenting a SadisticChoice to a helpless wizard, and [[TortureTechnician Kyoka]], who submitted Erza to ColdBloodedTorture while enhancing her pain receptors. This last one actually provokes Mard Geer into [[LaserGuidedKarma torturing Kyoka]], but not out of any [[EvenEvilHasStandards decency]]; rather, he's disgusted by the fact that Kyoka could find ''any'' pleasure, and from it a twisted liking, out of [[HumansAreInsects a race so pathetic that they might as well be weeds on the roadside]]. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' features many villains who enjoy inflicting torment and cruelty on the innocent. As Kenshiro despises such villains, they are often subjected to just as cruel ends. |
| 69 | * ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 70 | ** In [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the manga]], Envy delights in giving pain to others, taking every possible opportunity to KickTheDog and [[EvilGloating gloat about the atrocities he commits]] to anyone who'll pay attention. |
| 71 | ** Similarly to Envy, Lust is notable for being the most sadistic of the Homunculi with some heavy implication of sadism being what she lusts for. She gleefully paralyzes Havoc with a twisted smile on her face and injures Mustang badly enough and leaves him to die. She will kill anyone, regardless if they’re a needed sacrifice or not, something even Envy won’t do. |
| 72 | ** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Envy is characterized in much the same way, hurting other people because of his daddy issues. |
| 73 | * Okita Sougo from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' loves to see everyone, allies or enemies, in distress, but especially [[SitcomArchnemesis Hijikata]]. [[BunnyEarsLawyer He's pretty dependable when the time calls for it, though]]. |
| 74 | %%** Borderline everyone in ''Gintama'' acts as a sadist at some point or another.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample |
| 75 | %%* The YakuzaPrincess Mikako from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample |
| 76 | * Russia from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' [[PerpetualSmiler almost always]] [[StepfordSmiler wears a smile]] despite being flat-out cruel. |
| 77 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 78 | ** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': |
| 79 | *** Devo is a CombatSadomasochist who loves inflicting pain just as much as he loves receiving it. |
| 80 | *** J. Geil makes it very clear that he enjoys women screaming and inflicting guilt onto their loved ones. |
| 81 | *** Mannish Boy seems to get a lot of enjoyment out of torturing the Crusaders in the dream world. |
| 82 | *** It's made pretty clear from his PsychoticSmirk that Pet Shop ''relishes'' in his job as the guard falcon of DIO's mansion, enjoying inflicting fear on his prey before violently killing them. |
| 83 | ** Cioccolata from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' delights in the pain and suffering he brings to other people. |
| 84 | ** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'': |
| 85 | *** Ojiro Sasame would often pass the time by using his [[FightingSpirit Stand]] to non-fatally drown any woman that came near him. |
| 86 | *** Tamaki Damo seems to get a lot of enjoyment out of interrogating people. |
| 87 | * ''Manhua/LittleTyrantDoesntWantToMeetWithABadEnd'': This {{Manhua}} has a sympathetic (and played for titillation) example in the form of Princess Noelle teasing the protagonist Roel, who puts up with it in part because his powers depend on quantified RelationshipValues. Part of Noelle's affection for Roel stems from him accepting her for who she is. |
| 88 | -->'''Roel:''' Now I regret that I encouraged you that day.\ |
| 89 | '''Noelle:''' I can't control it. You look so cute when you feel perplexed, just like what you're doing now. |
| 90 | * Quattro from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' is a borderline sociopath who takes great pleasure in torturing Nanoha's 6-year-old adoptive daughter Vivio, an act for which [[MamaBear Nanoha]] [[DungeonBypass more than makes her pay]]. |
| 91 | * ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Nozomu Okaya, out of all his friends, is ''the'' worst offender when it comes to sadism to the point where he makes most normal bullies look like saints. He goes out of his way to destroy his primary victim, Kiritaka's lunch, then force-feeds it to him when cockroaches begin to eat it, fully expecting his stomach to become infested with cockroach eggs. He later casually dismisses the possibility of Kiritaka breaking his legs and later becomes disappointed that Kiritaka went and got himself killed since that means Okaya can't make his life a living hell anymore. While the rest of Kiritaka's bullies also qualify, Kiritaka acknowledges that they are just fanatics following Okaya's lead. |
| 92 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': Yazan Gable goes out of his way to put the "sociopath" in SociopathicSoldier -- in the final episodes, he ''laughs'' as he goes on a HeroKiller rampage. |
| 93 | * ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': Johan Liebert clearly enjoys tormenting people. Some of his ways of inducing people to suicide are unnecessarily cruel as well. |
| 94 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 95 | ** Suigetsu enjoys cutting off the limbs of his opponents before cutting off their heads. |
| 96 | ** Sakon in the CreepyTwins duo of the Sound Five also counts, since he always likes to prolong fights. |
| 97 | ** Hidan is the most obvious example. He intentionally strikes non-vital areas of his opponent so that he can make them die a "[[BlatantLies good death]]". Though he does feel the need to join a ReligionOfEvil before acting on his sadistic impulses, so at least he feels his sadism needs some "higher" purpose. |
| 98 | ** Orochimaru is a power-hungry psychopath, but he clearly likes making people suffer along the way. He also seems to enjoy making a mockery of other peoples' beliefs and values, for example by how much his horrific actions freak other people out, as well as manipulating others to fight and die for him; in addition, his stated reason for trying to start another global war was "peace is boring". He also once lost the use of arms because he dragged a fight out for too long -- because he was trying to make his opponent, his mentor the Third Hokage, psychologically suffer before losing. |
| 99 | ** He once tells Kabuto, his underling, that he is even crueler than he is. Kabuto is a MadDoctor who earned Oro's praise because he was able to keep their human experiments [[AndIMustScream alive for longer]], and later [[spoiler:forces the zombies of various famous ninja to fight their friends and family as a form of psychological warfare]]. |
| 100 | ** Gaara the Sand ninja is introduced as a psychotic sadist -- he believes that he ''must'' kill people to [[AxCrazy feed the chaos inside of himself]], driven as he is by a combination of DemonicPossession, lifelong insomnia, and a horrifically traumatic childhood. He once killed three ninja in battle, and then tried to find ''more'' people to kill because it wasn't enough. He also kept his older brother and sister in line by threatening to kill them if they didn't do what he said. He got better though. |
| 101 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': Almost all the primary villains have this, but some stand out more than others: |
| 102 | ** Kuro, captain of the Black Cat Pirates, who went into great detail about why he despised working under Kaya and says how he was looking forward to the day he kills her. [[UngratefulBastard This is despite treating Kuro like a friend and father figure for three years]]. |
| 103 | ** Arlong who laughs at Nami's misery after he breaks his promise to her. He then brags to his crew about he would keep Nami under his control for the rest of his life. |
| 104 | ** Crocodile goes out of his way to cause pain and misery to others for [[ForTheEvulz no particular reason other than to be cruel]]. He causes Vivi great emotional distress by causing a Civil War that nearly destroyed her country, sending sandstorms just to torture some old man in another town, creating {{Hope Spot}}s just to drive home how helpless everyone is. It is strongly hinted that he does this because his own dream of becoming Pirate King was crushed by people like Whitebeard, so he wants everyone to be as miserable as him. |
| 105 | ** Rob Lucci enjoys making people bleed and licking their blood. He actually ''bites'' Luffy in his leopard form. |
| 106 | ** His boss, Spandam, is ''even'' worse. While Lucci has no problem making people who can fight back suffer, Spandam mercilessly beats and brutalizes Robin and Franky, both mentally and physically, when they couldn't fight back, [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusting even Lucci]]. |
| 107 | ** Doflamingo who enjoys torturing people in much the same way as Crocodile. After he forcibly takes over a country, he has people fight until they're maimed in gladiator battles and turn others into toys to serve as his slaves. He also delights using his powers to control people's bodies and make them attack their own loved ones and allies. |
| 108 | ** Diamante, Doflamingo's [[TheDragon right-hand man]], is an [[{{Jerkass}} utterly inhuman dick]] who, like his boss, revels in both physical and mental torment. He drags out his battle with [[TheWoobie Rebecca]] ''far'' longer than he needs to, given the vast difference in power between them. He not only reveals to Rebecca that [[spoiler: he was the one who killed her mother, Scarlet]] -- he ''[[RelativeButton gloats]]'' about it, and never stops doing so once he brings it up. [[spoiler:He pulls the same card against [[PapaWolf Rebecca's father]] [[HandicappedBadass Kyros]], which only serves to make [[LaserGuidedKarma Diamante's defeat at his hands]] that much quicker.]] |
| 109 | ** Kid, one of the Supernova. He is known for his sadism. He crucified pirates for daring to try to leave the New World. |
| 110 | ** Law [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzags]] this trope. He is known for being overly cruel and does enjoy causing pain, but he does so for mostly pragmatic reasons. The only person he truly enjoys torturing is Doflamingo and his family, but that's purely for personal reasons. |
| 111 | ** Blackbeard enjoys telling Luffy in detail about how he defeated his brother and how he's on death row because he tried to protect him. He also mocks Whitebeard for his inability to save [[spoiler:Ace]]. To really show how sadistic he is, he laughs like a maniac as he and his crew are shooting Whitebeard to death. |
| 112 | * Enter Vincent Nightray from ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. If he isn't molesting his stuffed animals with scissors, he's stalking his hot older brother or kidnapping women. |
| 113 | * ''Manga/RedoOfHealer'': |
| 114 | ** Just one look at Keyaru's borderline comical SlasherSmile will tell the reader that he really ''loves'' unleashing the worst sexual violence possible against his revenge targets. Unlike most examples however, he's literally just as awful as all of the people he fought against. |
| 115 | ** As for Keyaru's targets, Princess Flare gets kicks out from subjecting Keyaru to horrific abuse, Blade delights at drugging, raping and killing women during late night and Princess Norn spreads death and destruction with a wide slasher smile on her face. |
| 116 | * Ross/[[spoiler:Shion]] from ''Manga/{{Senyuu}}'' treats the main character [[ButtMonkey Alba]] sadistically every chance he gets. In episode one, after being asked to fight in the next battle, instead of attacking the enemy, he punches Alba in the back. In episode two, he even explicitly states that he likes seeing people suffer. He does it to other characters as well, but not as often. |
| 117 | * ''Manga/SorcererHunters'': Lady Velrose/Barbara Ouiblert is a sadistic FemmeFatale who immensely enjoys torturing Carrot. |
| 118 | * Ryouko Mendou from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' is a rich and bored girl who found that causing trouble and watching people squirm was the best form of entertainment. She uses underhanded mischief and devilish practical jokes as a primary source of pleasure. |
| 119 | * Dark Marik from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is a pretty clear case of what used to be Sadistic Personality Disorder. He's a psychological and physical sadist, who rigs up his duels so that they will cause the maximum amount of emotional and physical trauma to the victims, gloating about it the entire time. The Spirit of the Millenium Ring is of a similar mindset, though he's not near as blatant about it as Dark Marik is. |
| 120 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': Towards the end of Aoi's and Spectre's duel in Episode #34, [[HopeSpot Spectre makes Aoi believe that she's about to win and is about to save him]]. However, it's only a façade, as Spectre's ''Sunbloom Doom'' makes him nowhere near losing. [[BreakThemByTalking He even mocks her, calling her "a worthless woman who will never become a Blue Angel"]] and claiming that he was the Blue Angel who ''killed'' Aoi. He then [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown tears up the copy of the ''Blue Angel'' book that he materialized and burns the shreds]]. The story means the world to Aoi and gave her comfort after her parents died about ten years before the start of the series; to see it be so carelessly destroyed, in addition to [[BreaktheCutie her being so cruelly manipulated and mocked just moments ago]], [[DespairEventHorizon destroys her]]. [[spoiler:Given that the Tower of Hanoi absorbs those who lose duels and leaves their real bodies in a comatose state with ''no hope of waking up'', Spectre essentially [[MindRape tortures her mentally]] before PlayerKilling her in cold blood.]] |
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| 124 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': It's already clear in ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' canon that Ghidorah is a sadistic OmnicidalManiac with ForTheEvulz and ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill tendencies, but this story goes more into showing how depraved Ghidorah (particularly the middle head Ichi/Eldest Brother) is capable of being when it wants to torment an individual without killing them, [[spoiler:and also [[{{Backstory}} how Ghidorah became that way]]]]. |
| 125 | * ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': |
| 126 | ** Despite finding the vestiges to be creepy, All For One describes their moans of pain in Luz's MentalWorld to be [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming musical and wonderful to his ears]]. [[spoiler:It's revealed that he lied to Luz about the AddictiveMagic her Quirk is said to give her because he enjoys watching her brutally kill her camper friends' murderers and steal their Quirks in her rampage. He only holds off on tormenting Luz herself not out of any compassion but by out of PragmaticVillainy to keep her trust in him.]] |
| 127 | ** Darlene seems to enjoy hearing [[spoiler:Julia]] screaming in pain as she's stabbing the girl with her WolverineClaws. Her voice described as being filled with nothing but pure bliss, almost as if she revelled in the act of killing people. |
| 128 | ** Governor Maxwell counts, too. Well, what else would you call a bastard that forces kids to kill each other? |
| 129 | ** While most of the Wittebane's militia unit are all assassins and {{Punch Clock Villain}}s, [[PsychoForHire Jonah]] is the only one confirmed to take sick pleasure in his kills, dragging out their suffering. His boss, Tyler, also counts. |
| 130 | ** Averted with Luz. She has never been one to enjoy killing someone, [[spoiler:aside from the one time she was possessed by the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide All For One Quirk]].]] |
| 131 | * Two fanfictions rewriting certain chapters of ''Manga/FairyTail'' depict ''Erza'' of all people as a sadist. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10791036/1/What-Chapter-372-of-Fairy-Tail-should-have-been One rewrites chapter 372 so that she tortures Kyouka]], and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12742112/1/What-Chapter-321-of-Fairy-Tail-should-have-been another does that with chapter 321 so that she tortures Minerva]]. In both of them, Erza continuously taunts them and tells them that she [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming enjoys hearing them scream in agony]]. |
| 132 | * ''Fanfic/JimmysVisitWithDrFranklin'': Ebon, A [[{{Gangbangers}} Gangbanger]] who would do anything to get his way and would enjoy every second of it. |
| 133 | * The "[[DesignatedHero protagonists]]" of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' are described as sadists and routinely torture their enemies (who admittedly try to rape them). An author's note claims that "sadiztz rok haz any1 seen shrak atak 3 lol". A notable instance misspells "sadistically" as "statistically". |
| 134 | * In ''Fanfic/TruePotential'', being one is a requirement for working on Torture & Interrogation. And you ''will'' become one after working there for some time if you're not one to begin with. |
| 135 | * In ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground'', Cinder has this aspect of herself ramped up to the point that it's [[SexIsViolence literally a sexual fetish for her]]. She genuinely gets aroused by torturing and fighting people as well as having Mercury talking about what they'll do to one of her rivals. One reason for her nickname being "Cinder"[[note]][[AdaptationNameChange "Cinder Fall" isn't her real name in this fic]][[/note]] is that one of her favorite ways of sending a message is burning people alive. [[spoiler:Her mother reveals that she has always been a sadist, [[EnfantTerrible even in childhood]]. She used to capture rabbits and kill them in gruesome ways. And she didn't hesitate to brutally torture her father -- an innocent man — to death.]] |
| 136 | * In ''Fanfic/WalkOnTheMoon'', Rei Yamanaka develops shades of this after running into obstacles on her path to freedom. You can tell the general state of her mental health by how sadistic she is at any given time. |
| 137 | * ''Fanfic/ZumasFear'' has Damian Stone, [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] who loves torturing his victims before killing them. |
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| 141 | %%* Dag from ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 142 | * ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Hopper is a ruthless tyrant who delights in the fear he instills in the ants and was fully prepared to publically execute their queen to keep them compliant. He even admits to his minions that they don't even need the food the ants provide, implying his actions are motivated purely by sadism. |
| 143 | %%* [[spoiler:Eddy's Brother]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' [[spoiler:has no qualms about beating his little brother and Edd]].%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample |
| 144 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': While he is more of a calculating villain, Hades clearly takes a lot of savage delight in tormenting every victim of his schemes, either emotionally like Hercules or physically like his minions, to vent his frustration. |
| 145 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', we have Judge Claude Frollo. He has a sadistic SlasherSmile on his face after he sets fire to the platform Esmeralda is on when he tries to burn her at the stake. Also note his glee in witnessing a prisoner being tortured in the Palace of Justice. |
| 146 | -->'''Frollo:''' Ease up. Wait between lashes; otherwise, the old sting will dull him to the new. |
| 147 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': |
| 148 | ** When he realizes Mr. Incredible knows the people on the plane approaching his island, Syndrome takes great pleasure in launching a missile attack while Bob watches helplessly. |
| 149 | --->'''Syndrome:''' So you do know these people... Well, I'll just send them a little ''greeting''. |
| 150 | ** Although it mostly acts like a ruthless, cold-blooded machine, the Omnidroids do have a couple moments which suggest this. Notably, the v8 slams Mr. Incredible to the ground upon grabbing him and then tries to rip him in half like a Christmas cracker, when the intelligent A.I. could've simply thrown him into the nearby lava pool (almost as if it's pissed by his efforts to destroy it). Likewise, the v9 cruelly tosses Mr. Incredible around as if toying with him, although this instance might actually be justified by Syndrome's control. |
| 151 | * Lord Business from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' is so sadistic, it's a wonder how they managed to put him in a kids' film. He kills a man in cold blood by decapitating him, he psychologically and physically tortures his lieutenant Good Cop Bad Cop to turn him into his puppet for his master plan, and he crushes Emmet's self-esteem brutally in the climax when [[spoiler:Vitruvius claims the prophecy was made up just before he dies]] and forces him to watch the destruction of his home town before leaving him and the Master Builders to die in the Think Tank, which he sets to self-destruct. Oh, and let's not forget that after using Bad Cop for his own goals, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he abandons him to the same fate]]. |
| 152 | * ''Film/OsmosisJones'': Beyond being the microbial equivalent to a PlanetDestroyer, the [[MonstrousGerms virus]] [[Characters/OsmosisJones Thrax]] enjoys hurting other microbes way more than he needs to in the pursuit of his goals. He taunts the odd victim before killing them or taking them hostage (the moment where he taunts Ozzy that he's going to infect and kill Frank's daughter after killing Ozzy is particularly noteworthy), and he breaks Bruiser's arm just to make a statement whilst taking over Scabies' crew. Furthermore, when Thrax reaches the hypothalamus, he kills the two hapless brain cells at the gland in needlessly creative and vicious ways instead of using his (admittedly already gruesome) FingerPokeOfDoom on them: throwing one cell against the hypothalamus to be violently vaporized, and as a background bonus ''stabbing the other cell to death with multiple syringes to the back''. |
| 153 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', we have [[KnightOfCerebus the evillest villain in the movie]], the Coachman. He takes great pleasure in turning innocent children ("the stupid little boys") into donkeys, enjoying their pain with whipping them, and also selling them into slavery. |
| 154 | * In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', we have The Wolf, later revealed to be [[spoiler:TheGrimReaper himself in the flesh]]. The wolf himself admits with blood-chilling pleasure that he "loves the smell of fear" when he terrifies Puss by cutting his forehead. Whenever Puss runs away from him, the Wolf intentionally lets the cat get a head start, just for the sake of chasing him, and even gives away his presence a few times with his SinisterWhistling, just to let Puss know he's watching and is still on the hunt. After the reveal that the wolf is [[spoiler:death itself]], he slowly stalks a terrified Puss with a a sadistic SlasherSmile and an EvilLaugh. That said, it's also implied to be something he's doing just to Puss-in-Boots to punish the arrogant cat for his disregard of life and lack of respect for death. Sadism is also [[spoiler:Death's]] FatalFlaw, as giving Puss a chance to gain respect for what death really means allows Puss to overcome this fear; as soon as he notices this change, he can no longer bring himself to finish Puss off, but actively chastises himself for "playing with his food" and thus giving him the chance to change for the better. |
| 155 | * ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'' features the [[BigBad Iron-Masked Marauder]]. He succeeds in capturing Celebi with his Spider-Machine's claw, brutally electrocuting it. Then, he plans to use Celebi and attempts to usurp and kill his own boss Giovanni in order to take over Team Rocket and the entire world for himself. |
| 156 | * Rattlesnake Jake from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''. He constantly terrorizes his victims. In his first appearance, Jake strangles Beans and licks her face, and strangles her again in another scene, looking like he's enjoying it way too much. |
| 157 | * Lotso Huggin-Bear from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' is so embittered that his owner lost and replaced him that he snapped, took over the Sunnyside daycare centre, and turned it into a toy prison where he rules with an iron fist. While his principal aim is to ensure that he and his cronies get to live the good life and have run of the place, he clearly takes pleasure in deceiving new toys and bullying those under his power and gets especially mean when the idea of owners actually loving their toys is brought up [[spoiler:and nearly laughs as he leaves Woody and the others to ''burn to death'', saying "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?"]]. Even his underlings seem more than a little scared of him. |
| 158 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', we have [[spoiler:Turbo, known as King Candy]], as particularly shown when [[spoiler:the Cy-Bugs go after Vanellope and he tries to [[ForcedToWatch force Ralph to watch]]]]. |
| 159 | -->''"I should thank you... but it'd be more fun to kill you!"'' |
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| 162 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 163 | * ''Film/ThirteenAssassins'': Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, the shogun's half-brother, goes around raping and murdering as he pleases and decides to take the shogunate and plunge his country into civil war for no reason. |
| 164 | * ''Film/TwentyTwoBullets'': Pascal Vassetto is a hitman who dispatches his targets in the most brutal ways possible, such as feeding them to dogs, and doesn't think twice about murdering a child. |
| 165 | * ''Film/AlienOutlaw'': The leader alien comes to Earth to murder and rape for fun and abandons his alien buddies at the slightest trouble. |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Axeman}}'': The Axeman of Cutter's Creek stalks the woods to torture and kill random people. When his victims ask what he's doing, he dismisses the idea that he even has a reason. |
| 167 | * In the film version of ''Film/BattleRoyale'', Kiriyama actually [[spoiler:joined the Program to kill students he doesn't even know, and shoots at them with a [[SlasherSmile smile]]]]. |
| 168 | * ''Film/{{Bedeviled}}'': Mr. Bedevil is a demon who's tormented man since the beginning of time and made an app to attack people with because he believes that technology has made them grow complacent. |
| 169 | * ''Film/TheBlackBellyOfTheTarantula'': [[spoiler:Mario]] learned he enjoys killing women after murdering his wife and decides to paralyze his future victims with tarantula hawk wasp venom to make their deaths slower. |
| 170 | * ''Film/BlackButler'': [[spoiler:Shinpei Kujo is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who gleefully traffics women to be experimented on for Hanae's experiments and forces a room fulll of people to kill each other for the antidote for the hell of it. He believes that everybody tearing each other apart for power is the natural state of humanity.]] |
| 171 | * ''Film/TheBlackCobra'': The bandit leader believes that true freedom is to cause chaos and hurt people for fun, but [[spoiler:abandons his men to die when the heroes come for them]]. |
| 172 | * ''Film/Blade1998'': Deacon Frost is an upstart vampire who believes that humans are cattle and that the vamp establishment is weak for not acknowledging this. His response to this issue is to sacrifice a bunch of his brethren to become a Blood God. He's also [[spoiler:the one who turned Blade and his mother, and finds it hilarious when he sets his mother upon him]]. |
| 173 | * ''Film/{{Blastfighter}}'': Wally Hanson is a poacher who kills deer slowly because he finds it more amusing and is perfectly willing to go after humans to keep his business going. |
| 174 | * ''Film/BloodyMallory'': Lady Valentine is an aristocratic vampire who gains a near-orgasmic pleasure from blood, and is perfectly willing to destroy the world for her own power while acting diabolically flirty in every scene she's in. |
| 175 | * ''Film/TheBookOfRevelation'': After he asks why they're doing this, one of Daniel's rapists says it's just for their pleasure. |
| 176 | * ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Lothos is an ancient vampire whose favourite hobby is killing Slayers. He does try to seduce them to the dark side first, but his manipulations are transparent, and he usually gives up after the first try, immediately descending into misogyny. He also shows no care for his minions, [[spoiler:mockingly playing the violin as his [[TheDragon right-hand man]] dies]]. |
| 177 | * ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'': Shatter is a seriously nasty piece of work. Her partner Dropkick is more into killing their foes and that's it, but Shatter, despite being more restrained, ''savors'' their victims' despair just before their end when it comes down to it. |
| 178 | -->"''You're a brave warrior. You deserve a better death. ''[chuckles evilly]'' Then again...''" |
| 179 | * ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'': Alan Yates and his crew go to various places to film sensationalist documentaries, and will gleefully torture, rape and people to get good shoots. In fact, Alan has to be reminded that the camera's rolling so he can hide his own crap-eating grin. |
| 180 | * ''Film/CiaranTheDemonHunter'': [[spoiler:The demon possessing Ciaran is a perverted fiend that spends its entire screen time beating people for no reason and trying to rape a woman for his own perverted ends.]] |
| 181 | * Alex [=DeLarge=] from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' tortures, rapes, and assaults innocent random people for his own amusement (or, as he said, "for a bit of the old ultra-violence"). |
| 182 | * ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'', Delmar, a sadistic mercenary working for Qualen, is ready to kill [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Hal]]. But when he sees that Hal is ready to die, Delmar instead brutally beats and tortures him. He laughs and taunts him throughout, comparing it to a game of football, even narrating it like one. |
| 183 | * ''Film/TheCrow1994'': Top Dollar started the tradition of Devil's Night because he felt regular crime was boring, and decides to lead all of Detroit's criminals to burn the city to the ground ForTheEvulz |
| 184 | * In ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels'', crime lord Judah Earl admits point-blank to one of his goons he executes (because the guy objected that [[PragmaticVillainy the bad quality of their drugs was cutting into their profits]] since it killed too many customers) that hurting people is his only enjoyment. |
| 185 | -->'''Judah:''' Weren't you listening before, Basset? I said we all have our pleasures. Mine is the pain of others. |
| 186 | * ''Film/DemolitionMan'': Simon Phoenix is a maniac who lives only for carnage and sees a future where world peace has been achieved as ''a way to kill people more easily''. |
| 187 | * ''Film/DemonHunter2005'': {{Asmodeus}}, the Demon of Lust, is a SerialRapist who wants to found a horde of half-demons so he can TakeOverTheWorld. Despite demon sex killing the vast majority of humans, Asmodeus keeps at it, even relishing in the thought of forcing himself on an innocent. |
| 188 | * ''Film/TheDemonologist'': Abatu is a General of Hell who betrayed Lucifer with his brothers and has spent the ensuing millennia trying to destroy the world for giggles. He shows no care for his brothers beyond a shared love of destruction and doesn't even blink when his cultists die. Meanwhile, he enjoys violence, being [[InLoveWithYourCarnage borderline orgasmic]] when killing people. |
| 189 | * The Scorpio Killer from ''Film/DirtyHarry'' is completely AxCrazy and very sadistic as well, his worst act being kidnapping and burying a teenage girl alive. |
| 190 | * ''Film/DogSoldiers'': After the werewolves drag Terry off, instead of killing him right away, [[spoiler:one of the werewolves slowly eats Terry while he's still alive inside the barn]]. When Joe finds them some time later, the werewolf clearly notices Joe -- then it proceeds to slowly bite down on Terry's neck and through his spine, and throw the severed head at Joe for him to see. There's also the werewolf who [[spoiler:simply lurked behind Joe and let Joe realize on his own what was behind him]], as if toying with its prey. |
| 191 | * ''Film/TheDungeonmaster'': Mestema is an EvilSorcerer who has spent the centuries kidnapping random people and holding their families hostage to make them fight him because he's bored. |
| 192 | * Nathan from ''Film/ExMachina'' programs his creations to desire freedom so that they'll suffer in captivity. It's visually implied that he enjoys their psychological pain, as evidenced by his smug and satisfied expression when one of his creations goes mad from isolation. |
| 193 | * ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': |
| 194 | ** M is a powerful demon who's willing to torture, rape and murder anybody he has to to bring about the Apocalypse. |
| 195 | ** Claire, M's DarkMistress, willingly goes along with her lover's apocalyptic scheme, slits a guy's throat during sex, and tries to overthrow him. |
| 196 | * Creator/SergioLeone's villains Ramon and Esteban Rojo from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', El Indio from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', Angel Eyes from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Frank from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'', and Gunther Reza from ''Film/DuckYouSucker'' all enjoy hurting other people; for Indio and Frank in particular, it is their whole ''raison d'etre''. |
| 197 | * Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' is an AmbiguousSituation case. Despite being a SerialKiller on par with Freddy Kreuger below, it is implied (and in later films stated outright) that he is an extreme KnightTemplar who kills those he views as immoral, committing his murders out of a twisted PsychopathicManchild's sense of morality rather than any sadism. And yet, despite this InformedAttribute Jason often inflicts a CruelAndUnusualDeath on his victims, killing them in elaborate ways or toying with them in ways that certainly suggest to viewers that he enjoys terrorizing them. Being a SilentAntagonist, we'll probably never know for sure exactly how sadistic Jason truly is, but he can certainly be interpreted as such. |
| 198 | * ''Film/FunnyMan'': The Funny Man is a demon who spends his whole screen time brutally murdering people while cracking bad jokes. |
| 199 | * Ghidorah and Gigan from ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' seem to enjoy causing suffering, over and above the usual expectations of giant marauding kaiju. Gigan [[CloseRangeCombatant likes to get up close and personal]], where he tries to slowly and painfully carve up his enemies with the [[ChainsawGood buzzsaw]] built into his stomach, while most versions of Ghidorah like to ''take their time'' when killing other kaiju. |
| 200 | * Tommy De Vito from ''Film/GoodFellas'' is constantly seen using sadistic violence to threaten others and shows no apparent mercy for his victims. He also seems to be very familiar with utilizing fear and humiliation, [[spoiler:especially when he kills Spider]]. |
| 201 | * ''Film/Goth2003'': Goth is a madwoman who believes that the true goth lifestyle is raping and murdering anybody she pleases. She spends the film trying to corrupt a couple into her lifestyle, [[spoiler:succeeding with one of them]]. |
| 202 | * ''Film/TheGravedancers'': Kira is being haunted by the ghost of Judge William Langer, an honored man who was admired by the entire community and died peacefully. Upon his death, they found journals he wrote, which tell of his fetish with sadism and masochism. He would lock women up in cages and tie them with masks over their faces, and eventually kill them, after brutally raping them. |
| 203 | * ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': Stripe and his reincarnation Mohawk surely love hurting others and killing even more than the other gremlins. |
| 204 | * ''Film/GuineaPigDevilsExperiment'': The three unnamed men abduct a random woman and gleefully torture her so they can test the limits of human pain. |
| 205 | * ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'': Film critic Creator/KimNewman put it best in the ''25 Years of Terror'' documentary when he noted that for Michael scaring people is perhaps more important than killing them. He seems to enjoy ratcheting up his victims' fear before he kills them -- most perfectly exemplified by stringing the bodies of Laurie's friends up for her to find in the first film. And that's not even getting into the increasingly elaborate and brutal ways he dispatched his victims as the series went on... There's also the way how he [[QuizzicalTilt tilts his head]] after usually killing someone, as if he wants to [[MadArtist admire his work from another angle]]. |
| 206 | * ''Film/{{Hellbenders}}'': Surtr is a mad god who exists entirely to destroy all existence. While seeking to do so, he toys with mortals, acting like those he possessed in order to torment their loved ones and poking at people's greatest insecurities, when he doesn't just brutally kill them. |
| 207 | * ''Film/TheHobbit'': The dragon Smaug's usual modus operandi with intruders is to burn first and enjoy it immensely, except with the case of Bilbo. After talking with Bilbo at length and nearly killing him, Smaug decides it'd be way more fun to let him live for a while longer and go kill innocent people just because Bilbo begs him not to and he knows it will make him suffer with guilt. The part where Smaug draws the line is when his sadism interferes with his greed; he would love to watch Thorin gain the Arkenstone and lose his mind to greed and corruption, but Smaug still wouldn't seriously consider giving up the gem to see it happen. |
| 208 | * ''Film/HorrorsOfWar'': Captain Mitchell is a thuggish American soldier who's abrasive to his own men at the best of times and rapes civilians at the worst of times. He seems to genuinely believe that there are no innocents and anything he doe to people is deserved. |
| 209 | * ''Film/Howl2015'': The Scar werewolf in particular seems to be [[ItCanThink having a lot of fun scaring and picking off the passengers one at a time]]. |
| 210 | * ''Film/InMyCountry'': Despite justifying this as defending his people, De Jager also says that he'd ''really'' enjoyed torturing people to Langston too. |
| 211 | * Xiao Tian-zhun from ''Film/TheIronBuddha'' is a former muderer and rapist who's captured alive by a kung-fu master named Liu and is granted a second chance by the benevolent Liu. Big mistake -- three years later, Xiao graduates his training, and proceeds to organize the massacre of his ''entire'' school, culminating in killing and raping Liu's daughters while Liu is ForcedToWatch. Xiao deliberately kills his mentor and former benefactor in an excruciatingly painful manner, and then goes on a massacre across the martial world to satisfy his sadistic lust. |
| 212 | * In ''Film/IslandOfDeath'', the murderous duo Christopher and Celia dispatch their victims with utter glee, to the point where they derive sexual pleasure from doing so. |
| 213 | * ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': Stanley enjoys the rape the most. The others even call him a sex maniac. |
| 214 | * ''Film/ItWaits'': The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demon]] is explicitly a sadist, targeting the protagonist Danny and going out of its way to make her live Hell while brutally killing everyone around her for no reason other than it [[ForTheEvulz enjoys it]]. |
| 215 | -->'''Professor Riverwind''': It's like a cat. It likes to play with a damaged mouse but doesn't kill it. It enjoys the preamble of its kills. It actually gets a kick out of watching us suffer before we die. |
| 216 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 217 | ** Red Grant of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. His SPECTRE file describes him as a homicidal paranoiac, which comes into view when cornering 007, where instead of just going with the fake murder/suicide, Grant plans to humiliate and torture Bond. |
| 218 | --->''"The first [bullet] won't kill you. Not the second. Not even the third. Not until you [[KneelBeforeZod crawl over here and kiss my foot]]!"'' |
| 219 | ** Franz Sanchez from ''Film/LicenceToKill'' takes immense pleasure in hurting others or killing those who displease him, usually in horrific ways. |
| 220 | --->''"[[SeeYouInHell See you in hell!]] ''[EvilLaugh]'' No; today is the first day of the rest of your life."'' |
| 221 | ** Xenia Onatopp from ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'', whether it be crushing her victims to death during sex or gleefully machine-gunning a bunch of computer programmers. |
| 222 | ** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': Whether by [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] 007 in an effort to weaken his morale or by kidnapping the BondGirl just to rattle him, Franz Oberhauser/[[spoiler:[[HijackedByGanon Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]]] does have a knack for sadism on [[spoiler:his foster brother. While all versions of Blofeld were psychopaths in general]], Franz Oberhauser [[spoiler:is later revealed to be [[AdaptationalJerkass the darkest and most violent incarnation]] of SPECTRE's nefarious leader]], yet he remains [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]] [[FauxAffablyEvil and soft]], trying to weaken 007's morale in any way possible. To twist the knife even further, he even sadistically rubs Bond's past failures in his face several times. |
| 223 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': |
| 224 | ** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': Dieter Stark has shades of this, randomly shocking a curious ''Compsognathus'' for no reason other than "it gives me the creeps". |
| 225 | ** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the ''Indominus rex'' doesn't strictly kill for food, she hunts for sport. This is most chillingly brought to light upon discovering she left an entire herd of her suffering victims still alive to expire in an excruciating slowness. |
| 226 | ** In ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', the Indoraptor, is less sadistic and evil than the ''I. rex'', but still fits here. He can be shown playing with his prey and while he does eat them unlike the Indominous, he still takes a bit before doing so. |
| 227 | %%* Tommy Udo from ''Film/KissOfDeath''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 228 | * ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'': Krug Stillo rapes and tortures women for fun and got his son addicted to drugs to maintain control over him. |
| 229 | * [[DepravedDentist Orin Scrivello]] from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''. His VillainSong mentions that he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals loved to torture animals]] [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior as a kid]], so his mother encouraged him to get a job where he can cause people pain and suffering and get away with it -- thus, he decided to become a dentist, often giving people root canals without anesthetic. He likes to beat up his chubby female assistant, and he [[DomesticAbuse abuses his girlfriend Audrey]] -- he's also notably disappointed by a sadomasochist patient who loves pain. |
| 230 | * ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': It's implied that Gorbag has witnessed Shelob preying on his comrades yet sports a wicked grin as he describes how she prefers to feed. Further evidenced when he decides to spitefully "bleed" Frodo after the skirmish at Cirith Ungol. |
| 231 | * ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The Martians are incredibly sadistic; the novilization clarifies that their entire way of life revolves around attacking other planets and killing the populace to sate their sadism and hedonism. |
| 232 | * ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': [[spoiler:Lin Yung Chi]] started an assassins' guild despite not needing the money, and one time decided to have a woman raped by his men for no real reason. |
| 233 | * ''Film/MulanRiseOfAWarrior'': Prince Mengdu is introduced killing prisoners for fun, starts a war to avoid punishment, and kills his own father to keep it going. |
| 234 | * [[BigBad Freddy Krueger]] from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' was a sadistic child killer before his death at the hands of the parents of Elm Street, and became even worse afterward, trapping his victims in horrible dreams that [[NeverSleepAgain kill them for real]]. |
| 235 | * ''Film/NightOfTheTemplar'': Lord Renault murders his commander in a DealWithTheDevil for immortality, then proceeds to rape and murder anybody he pleases for ten lifetimes. |
| 236 | * ''Film/TheOpenHouse'': The unnamed killer spends his days sneaking into people's open houses to psychologically torture them until he gets bored and goes in for the kill. He's barely characterized but seems to be motivated by nothing but pure sadism. |
| 237 | * ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'': "Redlegs" Terrill is a guerrilla who spends his days butchering people for fun. Despite working for the Union, anything he says endorsing their cause is obviously lip-service so that they'll sign his paychecks. |
| 238 | %%* Mr. Blonde from ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample -- quotes by themselves are not examples. |
| 239 | %%-->"I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want, but I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death... which you ain't gonna get." |
| 240 | * ''Film/TheRetreat2021'': Gavin and James clearly enjoy harming their victims, from the happy expressions which they have while doing so or anticipating the acts. |
| 241 | * ''Film/SatansLittleHelper'': The Satan Man is a man in a costume who shows up and starts killing people, including a baby and an old woman, with no rhyme or reason behind it beyond a love of chaos. |
| 242 | * ''Film/TheSerpentAndTheRainbow'': Captain Dargent Peytraud runs Haiti's SecretPolice with an iron fist, crushing all dissenters with gusto. His favourite things to do are torture people and fake their deaths with voodoo magic, burying them alive to steal their souls for his power. At times Peytraud pretends to be a WellIntentionedExtremist that wants to keep Haiti strong in the face of Western imperialism, but he shows no hesitation in doing this to his fellow countrymen as well. |
| 243 | * ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'': Sorcerer Aquala serves a HumanSacrifice god for power, condemns women to death for not marrying him, curses outsiders to a slow death when they intervene, and tortures ''hundreds'' of children to death to power a vampire beast to serve him. |
| 244 | * Elena in ''Film/SharkWeek''. Her sadistic personality is established when she is shown displaying pleasure over Tiburon killing his first victim, as well as her wanting to watch Tiburon's live feed of his victims being tortured and subjected to his twisted demands. |
| 245 | * The BigBad of ''Film/Shotgun1989'' is a traditional sexual sadist who enjoys beating prostitutes. |
| 246 | * ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'': Queen Bera and the other Sodomites find high entertainment in watching slaves who revolted die by torture. |
| 247 | * [[BigBad Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] from ''Franchise/StarWars''. This is best demonstrated with him using Force Lightning to torture both [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Mace Windu]] and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Luke Skywalker]] when he could have just killed them. |
| 248 | * ''Film/{{Tenebre}}'': [[spoiler:Peter Neal]] murdered a girl in his youth to vent his sexual frustrations and starts killing again when the new murders awaken his bloodthirst. |
| 249 | * ''Film/TheresaAndAllison'': Vampires like Paisley enjoy torturing and raping humans before they feed on them. |
| 250 | * ''Film/ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'': The Man With The Plan ordered that all of the criminals who'd messed up his job die painful, slow deaths. He also clearly enjoys toying with Jimmy later when he's at his mercy. |
| 251 | * ''Film/TimeAfterTime'': Dr. John Leslie Stevenson, better known as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, kills for fun and steals a time machine to keep killing throughout time with nobody to stop him. |
| 252 | * ''Film/TokyoGorePolice'': [[spoiler:The Chief of Police assassinated his predecessor so he could privatize the police force, has a SexSlave with no arms or legs, and decides to send his men on a complete massacre when he's exposed.]] |
| 253 | * ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'': Bozo and his gang run children over with their cars for fun. One even masturbates to pictures of the bodies. |
| 254 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Judge Doom's enjoyment in doing evil to people is quite like a child having fun while playing with his toys. He orders first Smart Ass to let Eddie watching Roger and Jessica being Dipped and then to shoot him when he could have just had him killed right now. Again, during the final confrontation he starts the Dipmobile on in order to Dip Roger and Jessica with a deranged smile simply to hurt Eddie, he saws a chain to show Eddie how powerful he is and what is going to happen to him. Also, his plan to destroy Toontown appears to be more ForTheEvulz than for greed. |
| 255 | * ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'': Matthew Hopkins pretends to be a Puritan hunting witches but is really just torturing random women to death for money. |
| 256 | * ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Dr. Poison and General Ludendorff revel in the suffering and panic of others. When they turn on the German high command and lock them in a room with Poison's corrosive gas they toss in a gas mask, which will do nothing against said gas, to laugh at the men desperately fighting over it to try to survive. |
| 257 | * ''Film/WouldYouRather'': Both of the Lambricks see poor people not as people but as toys that they can destroy for their own entertainment and show absolutely zero remorse for the amount of suffering and death they cause. |
| 258 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 259 | ** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Francis seems less interested in any scientific discoveries that his experiments have brought and more interested in the pain and suffering that they will bring. |
| 260 | ** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Donald Pierce maniacally laughs while dragging one of the children's bodies into what looks like a crematorium, murders Gabriela in cold blood and then jokes about it, and tortures Caliban by exposing him to sunlight. |
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| 264 | [[AC:Examples by author:]] |
| 265 | * The VillainProtagonist libertines written by the Creator/MarquisDeSade were all about enjoying themselves, very frequently at other people's expense -- and their treatment of others, particularly those they hated, was beyond cruel. There's a reason this guy is [[TropeNamers the inspiration for the word "sadism"]]. |
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| 267 | * [[spoiler:Wargrave]] of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' admits in a document intended to be found after his death that he had always enjoyed causing pain, even as a child. Fortunately, he did also come equipped with [[MoralSociopathy a strong moral sense]] and chose a career that allowed for his sadistic tendencies to be indulged within this moral code. |
| 268 | * Visser Three from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is so fond of playing the TortureTechnician (a job which he could easily pass off on others at his current rank) that his hobby is collecting exotic torture devices from across the universe. Unsurprisingly, his second-in-command Taylor shares his passion for torture, to the point where most of an entire book (''The Illusion'') is dedicated to her gleeful torture (both physical and mental) of a captive Tobias. |
| 269 | * [[RoyalBrat Venandakatra]] from the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' is also known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Vile One]] (a name given to him by [[EvenEvilHasStandards the psychotically evil Malwa regime]]), and fully lives up to it. Anyone who crosses him in [[DisproportionateRetribution even the slightest way]] ends up on the wrong end of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice a short stake]], even [[BadBoss minions who failed at impossible tasks]]. He also gets a kick out of [[WouldHurtAChild beating up kids]], among [[PaedoHunt far worse things]]. Venandakatra is so gratuitously evil and pointlessly, [[StupidEvil self-sabotagingly cruel]] that the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName racist, fascist-lite Malwa regime]] that considers [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-rapes]] and mass murders of captured civilians [[KickTheDog standard military policy]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards thinks he's beyond the pale]]. |
| 270 | * ''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings'': The huntress takes pleasure in killing things and is always looking for her next kill. She has grown bored of her usual prey and, by the time of the book, has developed a taste for children. She enjoys teasing her prey, making them believe they will survive, before cruelly ending their life. |
| 271 | * Pinkie Brown in ''Literature/BrightonRock'' is revolted by sex, but his feelings of petty anger are described as "sensual." He has indulged this sensuality as a [[TheBully school bully]] and as an unusually hands-on [[LondonGangster gang leader]]. In one scene, he idly pinches a girl's hand, she tells him he can keep at it if he likes that sort of thing, and he immediately lets go -- her consent is a turn-off. He reminisces about |
| 272 | -->''...all the good times he'd had in the old days with nails and splinters: the tricks he'd learnt later with a razor blade: what would be the fun if people didn't squeal?'' |
| 273 | * In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Keifer Porter was this kind of person. Most of his abuse was emotional abuse of his adult wives, he threw tantrums, played them out against each other by making them jealous, and locked himself up in his room for days when things weren't done as he wanted it. Ren suspects that he hurt her on purpose when he first had penetrative sex with her. (She was a virgin and had nothing to compare him to). By far his worst offense was torturing teenage Trini, after giving her a TapOnTheHead and tying her to his bed. |
| 274 | * ''Literature/TheBurningKingdoms'': General Vikram recalls how Emperor Chandra made him recount all the details about the priests and the temple children from Hirana burning alive with obvious pleasure, which disturbed him greatly to do. |
| 275 | * ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Joslyn was sold to a man named Captain Samwin as a girl, who tortured her along with his other slaves for pleasure, burning her genitals and breasts. He did even worse to others, killing some. She eventually killed him in his sleep before running away. |
| 276 | * ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Amarantha is positively gleeful about physically and psychologically torturing people who oppose her. |
| 277 | * ''Literature/DateALive'': In Volume 15, [[spoiler:an Inversed Tohka]] sits on top of Shido and tries to make him eat cake from the floor, spanking his butt when he starts to object. |
| 278 | * ''Literature/ADearthOfChoice'': Although the Gargaren family puts on a friendly facade to the public, Katrina knows that they're very different behind closed doors. Such as the time the patriarch pushed her down the stairs, "not out of anger, spite, or anything like that. No, he just felt like it. It brought him happiness." |
| 279 | * ''Literature/Department19'' has two examples. Alexandru Rusmanov is a cruel brute who revels in death and pain, inflicting it on his own minions when they fail him -- the narration describes Alexandru's SlasherSmile as a "smile of utter malice, of pure sadism". Dracula is even worse, thinking up nauseating tortures and using them [[DisproportionateRetribution any time he has any kind of excuse]], and it's made clear that he greatly enjoys this. |
| 280 | * ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'': Malkar Gennadion is physically, emotionally, and sexually sadistic, and he [[ForTheEvulz enjoys it to the hilt]]. His former protege [[UnscrupulousHero Felix Harrowgate]] also has a taste for cruelty, although Felix tries to confine it to verbal sniping and consensual BDSM. |
| 281 | * Izaya from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' genuinely screws with people simply because he enjoys it and likes seeing their reactions -- except for [[ArchEnemy Shizuo]]. He ''hates'' Shizuo. |
| 282 | * ''Literature/EndersGame'': |
| 283 | ** [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior As a child]], Peter Wiggin [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals flayed squirrels alive]] and subjected his brother to cruel games. His genius qualified him for Battle School, but he was rejected as too dangerous. As he grew up, his [[MoralSociopathy moral compass]] largely overcame his sadistic tendencies, and he used his intelligence for good. |
| 284 | ** Achilles de Flandres in ''Literature/EndersShadow'' is his inverse. He doesn't take pleasure in the method of death, favors efficiency over pain, doesn't even need to witness it, and only goes out of his way to kill someone if they have shamed him in some way, yet he is eviller than Peter. |
| 285 | %% * Christian from ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''. However, his behavior is meant to be [[DesignatedHero seen as romantic]], even though he rapes the main character. |
| 286 | * While never explicitly shown, it's believed by everyone that Saeko of ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'' is one. For example, her Seraph and indentured servant, Matsuri, is a nervous wreck especially when she's around (but still wants to work for her even after the debt is paid off), she has been confirmed to physically punish Matsuri, and there's a rumor that the S in her name stands for Sadist. Her presence is also intimidating enough that Misaki prefers to steer clear of her whenever possible. |
| 287 | * Drake Merwin from the ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' series is a vicious psychopath who serves both a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] and a GodOfEvil purely for the chance to hurt as many people as possible. There is rarely anything he does in the series that is not for the pleasure of harming another human being. His psychological profile at the Coates Academy even diagnosed him as a sadist. [[DeadpanSnarker Diana]] drew a smiley face next to it. |
| 288 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 289 | ** [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]] is probably the worst. He takes terrifying pleasure in terrorizing, manipulating, torturing and murdering other people. |
| 290 | ** Bellatrix Lestrange is motivated primarily by her desire to inflict as much pain on as many people as possible in the name of Voldemort's cause and has an aptitude for ColdBloodedTorture. |
| 291 | ** Barty Crouch Jr. deeply shared her affinity for torture but was quite smart about dealing with it. Case in point, he managed to rub in the face of a student of his how he tortured his parents into a permanent vegetative state, without anyone none the wiser about his intent. |
| 292 | ** Lucius Malfoy is quite the example. He is extremely abusive to his house-elf Dobby, and in the fifth book, he is described as blushing in pleasure at the thought of hurting teenagers, some younger than his son. His sadism is a lot more covert... but that doesn't make him any less creepy. |
| 293 | ** Dolores Umbridge shows clear signs of being one in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' when she uses a blood quill on two students and is willing and eager to use an unforgivable curse on Harry and Hermione to force them to answer her questions. This aspect of her nature is wholly confirmed in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' when she relishes her new power to hand muggle-borns over to the dementors. |
| 294 | ** Argus Filch muses about how punishments were much more severe back in the old days and outright says that he LovesTheSoundOfScreaming. |
| 295 | ** Harry finds himself disturbed by how much the goblin Griphook seems to enjoy other people's suffering and actively wishes that they'll have to hurt wizards in order to break into Gringotts. |
| 296 | * In ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'', Ward's father is suspected to be a sadist who beat his children just for fun, though he certainly also had a nasty temper. There is also [[spoiler:Bastilla, Kariarn's slave]], who plainly "likes to hurt people". |
| 297 | * ''Literature/KaneSeries'': Mollyl from the story "The Cold Light" likes causing pain to people and the fact that he comes from famously degenerate island of Pellin does not help, either. He joins Lord Gaethaa (a.k.a. [[KnightTemplar the Crusader]]) simply because it gives him a lot of possibilities to inflict pain. When Gaethaa's men rape Kane's lover Rehhaile and his second-in-command Alidore later checks on her, seeing bruises and welts on her body, he reflects that she isn't really badly messed up, compared to other women with whom Mollyl played. |
| 298 | * Ivarr Ragnarson of ''Literature/TheLastLightOfTheSun'' is a SerialKiller and TortureTechnician whose dream in life is to successfully [[CruelAndUnusualDeath blood-eagle]] somebody while keeping them alive. Since blood-eagleing involves cutting open the victim's ribs and removing their lungs while they are still alive, this means all his victims are in for a long, drawn-out, and thoroughly agonizing death, which Ivarr enjoys every moment of. |
| 299 | * Duke d'Angouleme from the ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'' is a very powerful troll and the main enemy of [[TheProtagonist troll prince Tristan]] and his human wife Cecile. He uses pain and terror as a tool to intimidate his enemies, but he also thoroughly enjoys it. And then he gets to look after Tristan's younger brother Roland, very powerful but also [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity raving mad]] and it goes from bad to worse. |
| 300 | * Horror writer Maurice Level has a short story called "A Maniac", which is about a man who gets thrills from watching violent accidents, and he frequents a show in which a cyclist does a death-defying stunt in the hopes that he crashes. Unlike other examples, the man is explicitly stated to be neither evil nor bloodthirsty, so he is essentially an otherwise normal man with a very strange fetish. |
| 301 | * George Mellis in the Creator/SidneySheldon novel ''Master of the Game'' is this of the sexual variety. His first scene is of him beating and sodomizing Eve Blackwell, who was perfectly eager to have sex with him before discovering his true nature -- there are frequent descriptions of him going to bars and picking up [[DepravedBisexual women or men]] and leaving them broken and battered. He also mentions a realistic consequence to his needs -- he doesn't like having sex with masochists. In fact, he does his best to avoid them, because they enjoy the pain he inflicts, which decreases his pleasure. |
| 302 | * ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' has Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, a pair of HumanoidAbomination killers for hire, who kill, destroy and torture down the centuries, and ''love'' their job. In the story, they crucify and horrifically torture [[spoiler:the Marquis de Carabas]] to death using discarded medical instruments, and fantasise about doing the same to Richard and Door. |
| 303 | * ''Literature/TheObsidianChronicles'': Lord Dragon, on top of all his already established cruelty, likes to torture and murder people for fun. |
| 304 | * Pick a Nazarick NPC in ''Literature/Overlord2012'' and there's a high chance where they really get the kicks out of torturing and killing people and spreading death and chaos to any nation they touch. And those who don't treat killing swathes of people like squishing ants so they aren't any better. |
| 305 | %%* ''Literature/APieceInTheGameOfGods'': One of the gifts of Pfath to his champion:%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample -- quotes by themselves are not examples. |
| 306 | %%-->'''sadism', where if she causes sufficient pain in another, she is granted a brief increase in power.'' |
| 307 | * In ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'': William is sexually impotent unless he is violently assaulting his victims - consent inhibits him. When he is given the order to cut [[DamselInDistress Aliena's]] ears off in front of her defeated father and his retainers, he discovers the command sexually arouses him. William comes to understand this quality gradually in himself; while he is [[AgonyOfTheFeet holding an enemy's feet in a fire]] to make him confess treason William discovers that torturing a man gives him the same feeling as raping a girl, but later, dissatisfied, he decides that torturing a man without killing him is like stripping a girl without raping her. |
| 308 | * ''Literature/RiftersTrilogy'': Achilles Desjardins is a sadist in the sexual sense, implied to be the result of faulty neurology due to genetics or some other physiochemical factor. He's initially able to controls his urges with the help of the [=GuiltTrip=] RestrainingBolt, while also using virtual reality simulations to satisfy them whenever they occur. [[spoiler:Once [=GuiltTrip=] is gone, taking his normal sense of guilt with it, his sadism becomes his primary motivation. He intends to prolong the βehemoth crisis for as long as possible, which will make his help so important that the authorities will look the other way when he becomes a SerialKiller. When someone suggests that he go back to torturing women in simulations rather than in reality, he replies:]] |
| 309 | -->''"It's not about the sights or the smells, okay? You can't hurt a hallucination. It's play-acting. What's the point of torturing something that can't even suffer?"'' |
| 310 | * ''[[Literature/DifferentSeasons Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption]]'' has Bogs Diamond, a sadistic prisoner who sexually assaults Andy on multiple occasions. Red makes the point that Bogs' sexuality has nothing to do his attacks; he's high enough on the prison hierarchy that he could have almost any partner he wanted without resorting to PrisonRape. |
| 311 | * This is considered the worst crime in the galaxy in ''Literature/RodAllbrightAlienAdventures'', because there's no mitigating factors -- if you're cruel to someone, it's only because you ''want'' to be. Naturally, the BigBad of the series, BKR, is a perfect example. Causing pain is his greatest joy in life, to the point he willingly spent a long period disguised as a human teenager because it let him be TheBully. His plans are all based around causing as much suffering as possible to as many sapient beings as possible; he doesn't care at all if he gets caught in the crossfire as long as ''other'' people get hurt in the process. The ultimate of these plans is a bomb that will [[TimeStandsStill freeze the universe in time]] -- he ''loves'' the idea that anyone who's suffering will be trapped in that suffering forever, while his enemies spend eternity in the moment of their worst failure, and he spends it in the moment of his greatest triumph. |
| 312 | * Roderick Whittle, a.k.a. UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, from ''Literature/{{Savage}}''. His greatest joy is inflicting his trademark mutilations on still-living victims, prolonging their agony as long as possible. He killed his London victims before cutting them up, but this was only because their screaming would attract too much attention otherwise. Once he's in America, he takes his victims to an isolated cave where he doesn't have to worry about that. |
| 313 | * ''Literature/ShadesChildren'': The Overlords clearly enjoy watching the creatures they make kill each other for sport, and when harming free humans as well. |
| 314 | * All [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in ''Literature/TheShadowspawn'' are clinical sadists, though they can vary between mildly creepy and murderously, psychopathically AxCrazy. However, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil most are the latter]]. |
| 315 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': [[CreepyChild Hellmaster Phibrizzo]] is a manipulative sadist. [[spoiler:He revels in his victims' suffering and despair, as evidenced when he kills all of Lina Inverse's friends one by one.]] |
| 316 | * The CrapsackWorld of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' provides numerous examples, including: |
| 317 | ** The BloodKnight Gregor Clegane, who as a child held his younger brother Sandor's face in a fire for playing with his discarded toy, and who leads a band of [[PsychoForHire Psychos for Hire]] in a campaign of RapePillageAndBurn against the hapless peasantry. |
| 318 | ** Sadism runs [[VillainousLineage in the blood]] of the ObviouslyEvil House Bolton, who have a history of [[FlayingAlive flaying their enemies alive]] and continue to practice it in secret despite it being outlawed by their overlords. Ramsay Snow, after capturing Theon Greyjoy, engages in psychological and physical abuse. He flays Theon's fingers and toes and possibly castrates reducing him from a proud handsome man to a [[TheIgor broken wreck]], terrified of and submissive to Ramsay. Ramsay's behavior is atrocious enough that his father Roose berates him for it -- not because he's appalled by what his son is doing, mind you, but [[PragmaticVillainy because it's bad for PR]]. |
| 319 | ** Joffrey Baratheon [[TheCaligula takes delight in his absolute power over his subjects]] and particularly enjoys ordering executions, mutilations and forced duels to the death. While he is never hinted to actually have sex with or rape most of his victims -- he may very well have [[spoiler:died]] a virgin -- Joffery gropes Sansa during her wedding to [[spoiler:Tyrion Lannister]] and spontaneously kick-starts her undressing ceremony, indicating that he's a bit of a sexual sadist as well. |
| 320 | ** Joffrey is often compared to Aerys II, who did such lovely things as [[{{Pyromaniac}} lighting people on fire]] and setting up ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-like traps for the people who ''weren't'' on fire. At one point, one of his bodyguards reminisces that Aerys would get sexually aroused from seeing people burned alive, and one time clawed his own pregnant wife so fiercely while having sex with her that she had to be evacuated from the capital, covered in scratch marks. |
| 321 | ** [[ObviouslyEvil Euron Greyjoy]] crosses this line with gusto and likes manipulating people before torturing them for that extra evil touch. What makes Euron especially stand out is that most of his worst acts of sadism are against his own family. |
| 322 | * In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', Shallan's brother Balat has a compulsion to hurt things, which he usually vents on small animals. Combined with the time he set the estate's servant quarters on fire, there's some indication that he's [[TheSociopath a psychopath]]. Unusually for the trope, he knows that something's wrong with him and takes great pains to avoid harming people, especially his loved ones; it's strongly implied that [[spoiler:the setting's GodOfEvil is causing or exacerbating his urges]]. |
| 323 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': |
| 324 | ** Nobuyuki Sugou. Not only does he meddle with the Pain Absorber to torture Kirito, Sugou goes so far as to pin him down and [[AttemptedRape sexually assault Asuna]] ''[[ForcedToWatch right in front of him]]'', just to make him suffer psychologically. He even takes the time to look right at Kirito and ''[[PsychoticSmirk smirk]]'' while doing so. He also seems to thrive on trying to be a HopeCrusher towards Asuna and is ecstatic when Asuna attempts to reassure Kirito, saying nothing Sugou does will really hurt her. |
| 325 | --->'''Sugou:''' I was hoping you'd say that. But I wonder how long your pride's going to last. Thirty minutes? An hour? Why don't we see how long you can ''[[SuddenlyShouting HANG ON TO IT?!]]'' |
| 326 | ** [[spoiler:Gabriel Miller began studying the concept of mortality ''when he was a kid'' by killing childhood friend Alicia Klingerman. And as Vector, the dark god of Underworld, he tortured even more souls (artificial ones, but no less satisfying to him). His prime goal in Underworld though is hunting down Alice -- who resembles Alicia -- and torture her as well.]] |
| 327 | ** [[spoiler:Vassago "[=PoH=]" Cassals. Born to a Japanese father, who sold him and his mother away, he created the Laughing Coffin guild just to see Japanese people kill each other. Vassago later brings in Chinese and Korean gamers into Underworld to fight the Japanese gamers who are rescuing his [=SAO=]-era archnemesis Kirito, just to revel in the sight of Asians beating each other up. But wait, there's more. Vassago proceeds to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] Kirito in front of his TrueCompanions just to spite them, planning to cut off his limbs and [[ForcedToWatch force Kirito to watch him torture Asuna]]. And when Kirito recovers and soundly defeats him, Vassago vows that he will ''never'' stop coming after Kirito and Asuna until he finally manages to kill them in real life by [[SlashedThroat cutting their throats]] and [[AndShowItToYou ripping their hearts out]]. This backfires on him ''epically''; after hearing this, Kirito has had enough of him and subjects Vassago to a FateWorseThanDeath by permanently trapping him in a tree and [[AndIMustScream leaving him to rot in Underworld]].]] |
| 328 | * ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'': Miss Hardcastle a.k.a. the Fairy uses cigarette burns to interrogate a prisoner -- then she gets so carried away with the torture that she neglects to get any actual information from the prisoner. |
| 329 | * ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': |
| 330 | ** Morgoth, the BigBad of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', ''Literature/BerenAndLuthien'', ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'' and ''Literature/TheFallOfGondolin' (as well as many stories of ''Literature/UnfinishedTalesOfNumenorAndMiddleEarth'' and ''Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth''), has sadism rounding out of his many, many unpleasant qualities. While torturing captives can get him useful information, he often just does it for fun even when it has no practical purpose and takes great joy in his victims' agony. Something that can be traced to his real motivation behind everything, that he wants to completely nullify any life-form that he encounters as it is a reminder that it didn't originate from him and is and will always be beyond his control. |
| 331 | ** Sauron. Several thousand years of being thwarted and forced to run away from fights -- and on ''Literature/TheFallOfNumenor'' and other occassions, the physical death of his body -- along with general decay of his powers, has left him extremely embittered and completely intolerant of anyone who defies his will. Case in point, his torture of Thorin's father in ''Literature/TheHobbit''-- he tried to get him on side with a WeCanRuleTogether bargain, but one refusal from the dwarf was enough for Sauron to flip and torture him for days on end out of spite. By the time of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' he wants to dominate the world and destroy all opposition simply because that's all he's got left. |
| 332 | * ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': A number of bad guys will take pleasure in raping, torturing and murdering the people in their clutches. |
| 333 | * ''Literature/WarriorCats'' has quite a few cats who relish in other's suffering: |
| 334 | ** One Eye has perhaps the most frightening sadistic streak; he loves to manipulate, dominate, and torture other cats just for the fun of it. In the ''one'' book he appears in, he imprisons and tortures Sparrow Fur ([[WouldHurtAChild who is barely out of kithood!]]), marks several innocent cats as his servants by permenately scarring them with [[ZorroMark a circle-shaped slash]], and has his followers brutally beat up Acorn Fur (focusing on inflicting head wounds in this case), and later Clear Sky, all with ''blood-chilling'' joy. |
| 335 | ** Darktail is almost as bad. When he holds four injured [=RiverClan=] warriors captive, he cruelly tortures them into swearing an oath of loyalty to him by starving them and leaving their wounds to fester. When the last cat, Reedwhisker, finally gives in, Darktail humiliates him by forcing him to say the oath again, ''louder''. And even after they've given in, Darktail continues to starve them anyway for his own amusement. Later, Darktail murders Needletail as [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure punishment for Violetpaw trying to drug him]], but before doing so, he [[SuicidalSadisticChoice forces Needletail to either kill Violetpaw or be killed herself]], expecting that she will choose to die but wanting to torture her and Violetpaw psychologically. |
| 336 | ** [[spoiler:''The Broken Code'' arc makes it apparent that Ashfur, once a noble warrior, has become one. He displays a certain degree of joy and satisfication in hurting and terrorizing other cats, such as turning the Clans against one another, torturing the ghosts he has enslaved, and forcing Rootspring and Snowtuft to fight each other.]] |
| 337 | * Most of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Forsaken]] of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' have cruel or spiteful streaks, particularly towards those who defy them, but Semirhage takes the cake. Also known as "the Lady of Pain", she was once a world-renowned healer who defected to the Shadow after the fact that she went out of her way to cause her patients pain came to light. She became [[GodOfEvil the Dark One's]] favorite torturer, and even her fellow Forsaken -- TheDreaded one and all -- tend to be wary of her cruelty. |
| 338 | * ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': Chosovi is shown to be this during the first WizardDuel that we see. The fight is a CurbStompBattle in which the experienced student Morgan brutally flattens the brash newcomer Julia, but no matter how horribly Julia is beaten, Chosovi continues to take a gleeful delight in the duel. |
| 339 | * ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'': IT, the BrainInAJar that rules over the world of Camazotz, refers to itself as "The Happiest Sadist". |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 343 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] with [[spoiler:Oliver Queen. During season 5, the BigBad Prometheus spends several days torturing Oliver, with the hopes that Oliver would reveal his "secret." Eventually, Oliver is so exhausted that he eventually cracks and claims that he only ever killed because he liked it and wanted to, seemingly confirming that he is a sadist. However, things get more complicated in the following episodes, as it's explored how Oliver only admitted to such under immense psychological pressure. Meaning he might not enjoy killing people, but was rather pressured into believing it]]. |
| 344 | * ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': Angelus absolutely ''thrives'' on causing pain to others, with virtually everything he does being geared towards destroying someone physically, mentally, and/or emotionally. He slowly drove Drusilla insane by slaughtering everyone she loved and turned her into a vampire so her torment would continue for eternity. At the end of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 2, when he's captured Giles in order to [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torture him for information]], he freely admits that he hopes Giles ''won't'' give up the information he needs willingly because he doesn't want to be deprived of the opportunity to torture him. |
| 345 | * Toby Meres from ''Series/{{Callan}}'' takes great pleasure out of 'interrogating' members of [[SpySpeak the Opposition]], is the only assassin in The Section who volunteers to visit the interrogation department, and generally enjoys seeing even his co-workers in pain (emotional or physical) and is inclined to try to see how much he can get away with in regard to increasing it. |
| 346 | * ''Series/Cursed2020'': Brother Salt shows a clear enjoyment of his work as a torturer. |
| 347 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 348 | ** The Daleks seem to get a disturbing amount of pleasure from killing things, and they do it in the most horrible ways possible. In the ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'' novel ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresPrisonerOfTheDaleks Prisoner of the Daleks]]'', it is revealed that the Daleks adjust their DeathRay to the level required to kill their target... and then ''dial it down a notch'' to ensure that their victims die in excruciating agony. |
| 349 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]", slave overseer Mr. Kess takes a disturbing pleasure in trying to kill the Doctor with the warehouse's robotic crane arm. |
| 350 | * Red Jack from ''Series/DoomPatrol2019''. What else do you call a being that [[EmotionEater feeds on pain and suffering]]? |
| 351 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 352 | ** Gregor Clegane does not specifically love battle, just wanton slaughter -- he gets just as many jollies from butchering civilians, raping women and murdering children. When he asks Cersei who he's going to kill in a DuelToTheDeath, she asks him if it matters. He merely shakes his head. Ser Gregor cares not from where the blood flows, only that it flows. |
| 353 | ** Even the established torture-happy monsters like Gregor Clegane, who had people killed via terrified rats gnawing through their chests for the hell of it, don't hold a candle to just how utterly sadistic and cruel Ramsay can be with those who fall into his hands. Myranda isn't too far behind Ramsay in this department. |
| 354 | ** Joffrey's only genuine source of joy seems to be hurting other people. He forgoes even sexual sadism in favor of more direct physical violence. |
| 355 | ** One of the darker personality traits that Arya Stark develops over time is that she actually seems to enjoy frightening and killing her enemies, smirking and mocking them when she cuts their throats or feeds them human-flavored pies and such. That being said, she doesn't enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on just ''anyone'', only assholes whom she believes deserve it [[PayEvilUntoEvil in retaliation for the suffering they themselves have inflicted]]. Still, not being indiscriminate in her sadism doesn't make her any less of a sadist. Creator/LiamCunningham even points out in an interview that Arya’s cruelty isn't something that should be glorified, as many viewers do. |
| 356 | ** A number of the Sparrows have ''very'' enthusiastic smiles when relishing the opportunities to hurt people. ''Cersei'' of all people actually calls them out on this to Septa Unella's face, pointing out they clearly do all their evil acts to satisfy themselves rather than to appease their gods, [[NotSoDifferentRemark just like her]]. |
| 357 | ** Ser Meryn Trant uses his position as Kingsguard to abuse his power and hurt weak children as opposed to saving them. It's actually part of his fetish to beat little girls. |
| 358 | * Many killers from ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' are sadists, but explicitly Hannibal Lecter himself when somebody tries to copy his crimes and both Will and the FBI realize the key difference between the two killers -- the copycat didn't ''torture'' his victims to death. It's strongly implied in [[Franchise/HannibalLecter the novels]] that this is how Lecter kills but it is made crystal clear here. Beyond that, of course, is that he is the {{Trope Namer|s}} of HannibalLecture for a reason, and in his particularly twisted pathology seems to regard psychological torture, CriminalMindGames, exercising and abusing power over others, and pitting people against each other as acts of ''love''. He likens himself to [[AGodAmI God]] and thinks that he is AboveGoodAndEvil, and believes that both he and God are cruel to those they love because that is [[WhatYouAreInTheDark simply their nature]]. |
| 359 | * ''Series/{{Himmelsdalen}}'': Raymond found that he enjoyed seeing Helena in distress before when he'd drowned her, begging for mercy. To relive the sight, he takes hostage Luck (a dog she's fond of) so that she'll beg for mercy once again. |
| 360 | * ''Series/{{Justified}}'': |
| 361 | ** Dickie Bennett, BigBadWannabe of Season 2, is a cowardly drug dealer who wants respect and will inflict as much pain as he can on anybody who doesn't give it to him. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him forcing a man to put his leg in a bear-trap because the man dared to grow weed without his permission. He later captures protagonist Raylan Givens, strings him up from a tree, and tries to beat him to death, gloating the entire time. |
| 362 | ** Robert Quarles, BigBad of Season 3, is a SerialKiller and SerialRapist of male prostitutes (as well as a Detroit gangster). He kidnaps boys off the street, tortures and molests them, and then kills them, all as part of a hideous ritual that he can't seem to stop doing. Most of it stems from the utterly horrifying abuse he suffered at the hands of his own father. |
| 363 | * Takeshi Asakura/Ouja from ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' is [[AxCrazy completely psychopathic]] and extremely sadistic as well, his worst act being killing The Rider, including Jun Shibaura/Gai, Miyuki Tezuka/Raia, Shuichi Kitaoka/Zolda and Mitsuru Sano/Imperer, and also killing Miho Kirishima's sister. |
| 364 | * ''Series/LAsFinest'': Wayland kidnapped and held Jen along with other women to torture them for his own pleasure. |
| 365 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' is a show about sex crimes, and sadists show up from time to time. Whenever the VillainOfTheWeek is a SerialKiller, there is a good chance of him being one. Interestingly, the ''victim'' from the {{Pilot}} was one. |
| 366 | * Many of the killers in ''Series/{{Luther}}''. |
| 367 | ** A notable yet ambiguous example is VillainProtagonist Alice Morgan, whom Luther diagnoses as a malignant narcissist, a particularly nasty condition that combines narcissistic, antisocial, and sadistic behaviour into one vicious package. |
| 368 | ** One of the most notable and atrocious examples is David Robey from the film. He revels in death and violence, hosting his own chatroom for sick individuals to watch him torture, rape, and kill his victims, while also taking delight in maliciously taunting his victims and opponents, even going so far as to wear a mask with a screen that displays the faces of his victims while tormenting their relatives. |
| 369 | * It's a family comedy, but Reese from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has been shown to have no empathy and enjoy bullying others, especially his brothers. In one particular episode, he makes the neighborhood kids, whom he's bullied horribly for years, think that they're finally getting to beat him up, when in fact Reese had kidnapped a kid of about the same size as a stand-in. |
| 370 | * Charles Augustus Magnussen from the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "[[Recap/SherlockS03E03HisLastVow His Last Vow]]". Sherlock describes him as "a shark", as well as the worst person he had ever met, and says that he "picks on people who are different". He is a media baron who is secretly the "King of Blackmailers"; digging up dirt on people -- usually people in positions of power or influence -- seems to be his very ''raison d'etre''. But he doesn't use this information just to gain advantages for himself or his newspapers; he uses it, along with his ''own'' position of power, to bully and humiliate people in [[PsychopathicManchild extremely cruel and childish ways]], such as forcefully ''licking'' a government minister (i.e., sexual assault) after threatening to paint her husband as a child molester (her husband had earlier committed suicide over this threat -- he cheated on her with a 15-year-old girl, but he thought she was of legal age -- so Magnussen going after the man's ''wife'' afterwards is beyond low), to ''pissing'' in Sherlock's fireplace, to ''having Watson thrown in a bonfire'' (claiming afterwards that he had a man there ready to save him if Sherlock didn't) and watching it on his television over and over and over again... all for no other reason than he ''can''. He also admits at the end that he is willing to publicly humiliate and ruin people in his newspapers regardless of whether he can actually prove anything he says. |
| 371 | * ''Series/TheSociety'': Sam relates that Campbell once tortured a bird to death for fun, while Elle says he's inflicted pain on her for pleasure since their relationship began. |
| 372 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 373 | ** Gul Madred from the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Chain of Command]]" holds Picard prisoner and tortures him with a remote-controlled device that induces excruciating pain. At one point, he admits that he no longer needs anything from Picard; he's just enjoying the process of breaking Picard's mind. |
| 374 | ** The main antagonist in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]" is the former commander of what's basically the Cardassian version of Auschwitz, and he pulls no punches about his enjoyment of the horrors he inflicted on Bajoran prisoners. [[spoiler:It turns out he's actually a file clerk who worked for said commander, and far from being a cold-blooded sadist, he's setting himself up to take the fall because he feels that [[TheAtoner someone needs to be punished]] for the atrocities, but the fact remains that the commander in question was a real person who, it's implied, really did think that way. What's worse, the real commander died some years earlier and thus [[KarmaHoudini can't be brought to justice]].]] |
| 375 | ** Narissa from ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' derives great pleasure from the suffering of others. In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E04AbsoluteCandor Absolute Candor]]", she chuckles after molesting her brother Narek and then has an amused, open-mouthed smile after strangling him. She relishes the idea of torturing Soji for information and utters the words "pain and violence" with reverence. In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E07Nepenthe Nepenthe]]", a PsychoticSmirk forms on her lips and she hums in satisfaction after reducing Hugh to a blubbering pile of BrokenTears when she and her lackeys gun down several of his xB patients. |
| 376 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 377 | ** Protagonist Dean Winchester actually has some of this: |
| 378 | *** During his time in Hell, Dean's limits when being tortured are pushed beyond expectation, possibly due to his stubborn behavior. However, after thirty years, he finally succumbs to becoming the torturer and claims that he loves every second of tearing each of them apart, as he isn't the one getting tortured anymore. |
| 379 | *** Season 10 sums this up when he uses all of his past tragedies as a hunter who lost almost everything he's ever cared about and becomes [[spoiler:an AxCrazy demon with a ruthless and sadistic attitude]]. Similarly to Sam when he [[spoiler:[[TheSoulless literally had no soul]]]], instead of becoming emotionless, Dean actually loves killing people and making them suffer as he gleefully stabs a man who is in a depressed state just for kicks. He also goes as far as trying to murder Sam and Cas -- his brother and his best friend, respectively -- while sadistically smiling and enjoying the psychological torment that he inflicts on the former to make him feel responsible for all of their past issues. |
| 380 | *** This isn't his first rodeo with sadism either, as he has shown shades of this in the earlier seasons. He has been shown to brutally torture people, demons, and even gruesomely kill innocent creatures that don't partake in any malicious behavior. This is explicitly shown when he coldly kills Sam's old friend, Amy, for being a kitsune, albeit a kitsune who only wanted to keep her son alive and healthy. However, Dean's KnightTemplar ways prevent her from living and he murders her in front of her young son with no remorse. Thankfully, he has come a long way and has now gotten better, thanks to realizing the error of his old ways. |
| 381 | ** [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] generally tend to be this, taking a lot of pleasure in inflicting suffering on others. |
| 382 | ** After her FaceHeelTurn, Ava Wilson seems to take pleasure in watching Andy suffer and die. |
| 383 | ** The [[EvilDoppelganger alternate Michael]] from Apocalypse World is a lot crueler than the main Michael, who [[TheStoic took no joy]] in bringing about the Apocalypse. He notably tells Dean he's taking his time killing him because he's enjoying it, and that the moment when the soul finally leaves the body on death is "beautiful". |
| 384 | * ''Series/Titans2018'': Doctor Light horrifically murders a surviving prison guard in a painful fashion, seemingly out of sheer sadism. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 388 | * Many lyrics from DeathMetal songs have a quite sadistic quality to them. |
| 389 | * Since Music/{{Macabre}} sings about real life killers, it helps that some of the scum they sing about were actually diagnosed with this. |
| 390 | * In the HipHop, several GangstaRap and {{Horrorcore}} songs (especially in the Horrorcore) tell stories of people quite sadistic. |
| 391 | * ''Music/TheBeatles'' song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is about Maxwell Edison, an AxCrazy kid (and pretty sadistic) that uses the title hammer to murder a girl, his teacher, and the judge who took his case, in front of a full courtroom. |
| 392 | * DoomMetal band Saint Vitus, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LreyhwviA8Y The Sadist.]] |
| 393 | * The subject person in Music/AdamAndTheAnts' "Whip in My Valise", whose activities include pulling the wings off flies, killing grandmothers, and good old punishment. |
| 394 | -->''Your sadistic suits my masochistic'' |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 398 | * Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet boasts that he COULD kill a man, just that he wouldn't be able to do it very quickly. |
| 399 | * Dario Cueto and [[Wrestling/KarleePerez Catrina]], the two [[BigBadEnsemble competing jefes]] of the Wrestling/LuchaUnderground Temple, are two different flavors of sadist. Cueto simply loves violence in almost all its forms. He gets queasy around the subjects of [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood Child Abuse]], DomesticAbuse, UsefulNotes/{{abuse}} of [[LimaSyndrome the kidnapped]], basically of people who he feels wouldn't be able to fight back but giving an abuse victim an equal chance to inflict violence on the perpetrator is still fair game. He will gleefully coerce business partners, TagTeam partners, [[FightingYourFriend friends]], and family into matches they may not want with little regard to [[NoOshaCompliance physical safety or property damage]], even if it is [[StupidEvil his own property]]. And if a person he doesn't find interesting, such as Mascarita Sagrada ([[LegacyCharacter VII]]) or Pimpinela Escarlata enters his temple he will do everything he can to ensure they are destroyed. To discourage them from coming back. He is generally regarded as a DrunkWithPower asshole even by the show's most shameless {{blood knight}}s. Catrina is much more personal, as she likes singling out individuals, be they enemies, subordinates or simply "interesting" and doing whatever she can to make their lives miserable, be it having them beaten into bloody messes or [[EvilIsPetty breaking up their relationships]]. She has the more common case of enjoying the power to hurt people when she can in whatever way she can. She did genuinely love Fenix however and felt bad about manipulating him, not that she ever let guilt stop her. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Roleplaying Games]] |
| 403 | * ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'': Only the vilest of wide cast of villains are Sadists, including Michelle Glados, [[SoftSpokenSadist Carolyne Provencal]], Zed Provhezor, the Brickspider Bot v1.0, and [[spoiler:the Darkitect]], for they are the ones who actually enjoy watching the suffering of others. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 407 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Black dragons are ChaoticEvil monsters and the most openly sadistic of the chromatic dragons. They'll burn towns and villages with an AcidAttack, kill indiscriminately, and engage in tortures of other beings purley ForTheEvulz. Other dragons may kill hundreds of people in a fit of rage or see no particular reason not to hunt intelligent humanoids when they're hungry, but black dragons just like to hurt people and take pleasure in causing pain and suffering to those they consider weaker than them. And since dragons view themselves as a SuperiorSpecies, a black dragon's list of "things that are weaker than me" is a very long list. |
| 408 | * ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': While this is a common trait among Demon Princes, most tend towards large-scale atrocities. Not so much Beleth, the Princess of Nightmares, who's the most ''personal'' torturer in Hell -- she doesn't just want to make humans suffer, she wants to make ''each individual human'' suffer in the way that hurts them the most. |
| 409 | * ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'': Hida Tsuneo was the Crab Clan Champion and Right Hand of the Emperor during the reign of [[TheEmperor Hantei XVI]]. He was also unquestionably brutal, was personally involved in killing or torturing the Emperor's political enemies and seemed to draw particular joy from hurting those who were physically weaker than himself. His defining moment probably came right before his death, when he was ordered by the Emperor to kill the Emperor's mother -- and did so by ''crushing her head with his bare hands.'' |
| 410 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Chuuls take perverse enjoyment from other creatures' physical and emotional suffering. They strictly prefer to prey on sapient beings, eating them alive and taking time before each kill to insult and torment their victims and talk at some length about how they will enjoy devouring them. |
| 411 | * ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': Kruleboyz, as their name suggests, are a subspecies/tribe of Orruks, who are much more prone to sadism than their cousins. Ironjawz just like breaking things, and Bonesplitterz are more interested in hunting giant beasts; both will simply kill you outright if you get in their way. Only the Kruleboyz will deliberately drag out a death. Even before battle starts, they enjoy using psychological warfare to terrify and torment their intended targets, often just because they're nearby. |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 415 | * ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'': Orin Scrivello enjoyed torturing animals as a child. Naturally, he chose [[DepravedDentist dentistry]] as his career. HilarityEnsues when he ends up with a masochistic patient. |
| 416 | * ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'': Iago delights in ruining Othello's life. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 420 | * The title character from ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is a rare heroic example. One of the gameplay mechanics is her literally throwing her enemies into spectral versions of medieval torture devices. |
| 421 | * [[TheSociopath Yuuki Terumi]] of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' ''loves'' mind raping others, and {{troll}}s them as they get defeated. And that's not even mentioning the great enjoyment he appears to take in physically hurting his opponents in battle, either. In fact, [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration his entire playstyle revolves around inflicting as much pain to his opponents in the most brutal and humiliating ways possible]]. It's suggested by another character in-story that he gets off on ruining people's lives and Terumi doesn't deny it. |
| 422 | -->'''Terumi:''' Make sure you do your part, and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming scream for me]]! |
| 423 | * [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] from ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' is an extremely cruel person, and even when not being physically violent he still likes to say things to hurt people, such as making fun of Helena Pierce's scars and taunting Moxxi about how he burned her Underdome to the ground. |
| 424 | * Willow from ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'' has a '''ton''' of malicious, suffering-loving voice lines, from telling her victims that they won't live to regret hurting her to claiming that she can smell suffering ''and admitting that she likes it''. |
| 425 | * ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': |
| 426 | ** [[MusicalAssassin Lord Raptor]] is an AxCrazy, mass-murdering zombie who thrives off the deaths of countless people. |
| 427 | ** [[PsychoForHire BB Hood]] outright states that she will never give up killing until every last living creature on Earth is dead. |
| 428 | * In ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', the majority of the human Killers in the Entity's Realm either have tragic backstories for why they descended into murder, and/or were forced (sometimes via torture) to go along with the Entity's killing game after it abducted them. Quite a few of them, however, were already cruel, violent {{Serial Killer}}s even before entering the fog and gladly embraced it when the Entity came for them, seeing it as a chance to continue torturing and murdering victims to their heart's content for eternity. This naturally includes a few licensed Guest Killers from franchises mentioned elsewhere on this page, like [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert Wesker]], and [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Amanda Young]]; however, several original characters also fit the bill, primarily [[MonsterClown the Clown]], [[MadDoctor the Doctor]], [[MadArtist the Trickster]], [[BloodKnight the Knight]], and [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghost Face]][[labelnote:*]]who, while technically a licensed killer too, is an original character underneath the mask, rather than one of the ''Scream'' movie villains[[/labelnote]]. |
| 429 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Downplayed but present for Sera, who can't seem to enjoy anything unless it's at someone else's expense. As a [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters Red]] [[TerroristsWithoutACause Jenny]], she relishes humiliating, tormenting, and executing abusive nobles more than actually helping commoners, and her ''only'' idea of fun is being ThePrankster or TheGadfly (when she's not being a BloodKnight). If romanced, she loves making your relationship public mostly because she ''relishes'' the irritation and discomfort it must cause other people. ("It's one thing for people to ''know,'' but shoving it right in their faces... Vivienne's face must have puckered pinky-tight!") In ''Trespasser,'' she [[spoiler:proposes]] mostly to flip a big old middle finger at the world. "We showed them! We won!" |
| 430 | * ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': [[TheDragon Ladja]] brutally beats children up, kills their parents as their kids are forced to watch helplessly, mocks his victims before burning them to ashes... and enjoys every minute of it. |
| 431 | * The MadScientist Relmyna Verenim in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'''s ''Shivering Isles'' expansion has a nigh-religious devotion to pain, though for all her musings on its purifying power, she only ever inflicts it on other people. |
| 432 | -->''"I became sheltered within a tapestry of tranquility, woven from the screams of the Breton's anguish..."'' |
| 433 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': As the head of Vault-Tec, Stanislaus Braun turned what should have been safe havens to shelter from a nuclear apocalypse into brutal experiments mostly ForTheEvulz. This ran the gamut from forced mutations, intentional exposure to virulent diseases, intentional class conflict, exposure to mind-altering madness-inducing chemicals, and so on. When you find him in Vault 112, he has subjects trapped forever in a simulation just so that he can find more cruel ways to torment them [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]]. He instructs you to go and make a little boy cry, and his true sadism is revealed in that he is displeased with you for simply punching that kid but loves it if you break up his parents and make him believe that he'll be sent away to live in a miserable foster home. |
| 434 | * Ramsay Snow lives up to his gruesome characterization in ''VideoGame/GameOfThronesTelltale'' by purposely escalating a war between two feuding families so he could amuse himself by watching the two duke it out in a battle to the death. Either way, [[XanatosGambit he's the only one to benefit]], both for his sadistic appetite and [[PragmaticVillainy business-wise]]. |
| 435 | * The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series is full of sadists, obviously being a CrapsackWorld: |
| 436 | ** Catalina loves to cause misfortune or suffering to others, including sexual, and this is evident when she tortures C.J. for sexual pleasure. |
| 437 | ** Heavily {{implied|Trope}} in protagonists like [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Tommy Vercetti]] (he always has to make a slaughter butchering their victims with chainsaws), [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony Luis Lopez]] and [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Trevor Phillips]]. |
| 438 | %%** Tenpenny and Pulaski from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 439 | %%** Ray Bulgarin and Dimitri Rascalov from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 440 | * ''VideoGame/HalfQuake'' has the owners of the titular "institute", the self-proclaimed "Masters of Sadism", who take glee in having hapless chaps get slaughtered within their deviously designed {{Death Course}}s. Sadism in itself is a major theme of this GameMod series, to the point of it being an ArcWord. |
| 441 | * AM from ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' is [[MechanicalAbomination a supercomputer with amazing god-like powers]] who has held the last five living humans captive in his dungeon, keeping them alive for eternity while making them endure endless ColdBloodedTorture to entertain the eons of endless time he has in his new rule over Earth. Approximately 90% of his dialogue is also KickTheDog moments and he actually says that all he feels is hate. |
| 442 | * Erol of ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' series is very cruel, heartless and sadistic. [[spoiler:He hopes to have Keira's heart and eventually kill Jak.]] |
| 443 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' introduces us to Larxene, a member of Organization XIII (and the only female member discounting Xion). She takes clear glee in [[KickTheDog kicking the dog]] on several occasions, going so far as to say outright that "more pain for you means more fun for me!" The manga adaptation even shows her reading one of the Marquis de Sade's books. |
| 444 | * General Shimada, the main villain of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfTianding'', reveals his true nature as a bloodthirsty, heartless piece of work when he had an unarmed civilian he wounded beaten and stomped to death. Before ordering his minions to slaughter the whole village and having the captured resistance shot. He even displays his callousness over his own men in the finale, sending most of them to die in a booby-trapped mausoleum to retrieve a powerful MacGuffin capable of letting him TakeOverTheWorld and, prior to retrieving the item, kills all his remaining minions without batting an eye. |
| 445 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' has a few: |
| 446 | ** Scherazard from the PlayerParty uses a WhipOfDominance to go with her [[DressedLikeADominatrix dominatrix-themed]] abilities, including one that whips allies to improve their performance in battle; her LimitBreak is directly called "Sadist's Whip", in which she rapidly whips a target while LaughingMad. |
| 447 | ** One of the villains in the second game is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Angel of Slaughter]], armed with a SinisterScythe, who practically salivates at the prospect of making the PlayerParty suffer. Her sadism is explained by the FreudianExcuse of her parents having sold her to a [[MadeASlave child trafficking]] ring, serving as her CynicismCatalyst, before she was freed from said ring by the BigBad's organization brutally killing her captors while she watched. |
| 448 | * The titular mask from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. Everything it does, from threatening to [[ColonyDrop drop the moon onto Termina]] to ruining the everyday lives of its people, is all because it finds the pain and misery it causes ''hilarious''. |
| 449 | * Don Morello from ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' is introduced beating an innocent person who accidentally rammed into his car to death. The next cutscene he is in shows him torturing a dockworker who went on strike. |
| 450 | %%* Sigma from ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' has his praticular moments.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 451 | %%* ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'': Silver Horn has his cruel and worst action in torturing Nana as well.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 452 | * Dr. Vile/Weil of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' is a huge sadist. He admits that during the Elf Wars he personally enjoyed the mass slaughter and devastation brought by his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Omega, and in the present [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming enjoys watching "pigs squeal"]]. In Zero 4, [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans he makes life in Neo Arcadia horrible]] and takes glee in the idea of destroying nature. While he does have a reason for this (mainly make humanity suffer [[FateWorseThanDeath for what they did to him]]), it's made all too clear from [[LaughingMad his attitude]] he's enjoying this. Combined with [[ItsAllAboutMe his narcissistic personality]] and [[OmnicidalManiac desire for destruction]], this makes Dr. Weil [[KnightOfCerebus one of the darkest and most horrifying villains]] in ''Franchise/MegaMan'' history. |
| 453 | * The ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' franchise provides us with two. |
| 454 | ** The first is Revolver Ocelot, who is outright referred to as one in the first game, and takes great joy in torturing Snake, and [[spoiler:tortured Donald Anderson to death]]. If the player forfeits during the torture sequence, he promises to kill Meryl, for no other reason than to be cruel. [[spoiler:Of course, some of this is also CharacterizationMarchesOn, as his motives are much more complex as the games go on.]] |
| 455 | ** But worse than him, ''by far'' is Colonel Volgin, from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. Unlike Ocelot, who serves higher (if extremely convoluted) purposes, Volgin's sole motivation for anything he does is to cause other people as much pain and suffering as humanly possible, which is why there's no small reason why he's one of the only MGS villains to not get the DracoInLeatherPants treatment. Within minutes of being introduced, he nukes his own country [[ItAmusedMe just because he can]], knowing full well it could spark a war, and during the game, he abuses EVA, both physically and sexually, he beats a suspected informant to death with his bare hands, beats Sokolov [[spoiler:also to death]], and tortures Snake/Big Boss as well, expressing enthusiastic enjoyment when he sees Snake [[BringMyBrownPants losing bladder control]] due to the pain. He is also stated to be personally responsible for hundreds of murders, most of them again, by beating people to death with his bare hands. He's too much even for Ocelot, who begs him not to go through with firing nukes at his own people to no avail. Revolver Ocelot actually credits Volgin with introducing him to the joy of sadism, stating that witnessing one of his 'interrogations' made him realize that the true quality of a man is only revealed when he's in pain. Appropriately, many of his torture sessions are framed as endurance tests for the victims. |
| 456 | * In ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', the sorcerer [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] takes great pleasure in the suffering of his victims, and even has a massive torture chamber beneath his island [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement.]] |
| 457 | * Harvey from ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' is easily one of the biggest in the entire series of Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler—and given how evil the villains who are portrayed as {{Hate Sink}}s tend to be, this is saying a lot. [[spoiler:The entire battle, Harvey is only too gleeful to salt the wounds about mutating Rita, brainwashing Elena and rubbing it over and over in Osvald's face that he's done this purely to hurt Osvald. He also tortures one of Ochette's possible animal companions for a decade, with hints he may have gotten overly invested in the task]]. |
| 458 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona5 [[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'', [[spoiler:after dropping his princely mask entirely in the final act of ''Royal'', Akechi gleefully indulges in his most violent and psychopathic tendencies when fighting Shadows]]. |
| 459 | --> [[spoiler:'''Akechi:''' Working together means [[SuddenlyShouting EXTRA PAIN]] for them!]] |
| 460 | * ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' features Courtney Gears, an EvilDiva who works for Dr. Nefarious, and sings peppy songs about hate and genocide. Her pre-boss cutscene has her claim that using the [[spoiler:Biobliterator prototype that turns organic life forms into robots]] "doesn't hurt... much". Most of her BossBanter spells sadism. |
| 461 | * ''VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach'': SCP-106, as usual, stalks the player and forces them to kneel before him. |
| 462 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 463 | ** [[ManipulativeBastard Mephiles the Dark]] from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' makes it his sole mission to cause pain to Elise throughout the entire course of the game, and even breaks out into a [[EvilLaugh maniacal laughter]] after [[HeroKiller ending Sonic's life]]. |
| 464 | ** He's followed up on by Infinite from ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', who loves using his immense power to hurt and belittle the heroes fighting against his and Eggman's domination of the world. |
| 465 | * ''Franchise/StarCraft'': |
| 466 | ** Kerrigan, the "Queen of Blades" and leader of the Zerg, loves playing mind games with the other factions and pitting them against each other, usually by feigning innocence to gain their trust. In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', this attitude of hers returns, when she tries to weaken Zeratul's mind by making him believe the Protoss will be doomed to extinction no matter what he does, [[spoiler:although it's eventually revealed that she doesn't actually believe any of this as she was actually under the influence of [[EldritchAbomination Amon the Fallen Xel'Naga]]]]. |
| 467 | ** Highlord Alarak adores combat and has no qualms about letting people around him die, nor violently torching or killing innocent individuals. He threatens to outright destroy the entirety of the capital of Korhal simply due to a single human faction attacking one of his outposts. He outright kills one of his own soldiers when he is low on health in order to avoid death, and actively heals from the deaths of his enemies. Furthermore, he literally has an ability called "Sadism" in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', which increases the damage dealt to enemy heroes by 100% (which can be decreased if certain abilities are chosen). It can also be increased by choosing the ability that causes it to increase every time an ally dies. |
| 468 | * From the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series, we have [[AxCrazy Juri]] [[BloodKnight Han]]. She loves to have fun but unfortunately, her fun involves beating her opponents within an inch of their lives. [[DepravedBisexual It doesn't matter if they're a guy or girl]] as long as she gets to torture them. It gets to where she literally [[OrgasmicCombat gets off]] [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence on the pain she inflicts]]. |
| 469 | * [[TheCaligula Luca Blight]] from ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' is a bloodthirsty sadist and a [[AxCrazy completely insane]] [[EvilPrince prince]] of Highland. He takes immense pleasure in telling [[LovestheSoundofScreaming the scared woman to act like a pig]] and [[PuttheLaughterinSlaughter kills her anyway]] when he [[KillItwithFire burned down the Ryube village to the ground]]. As well he might, as he feeds the blood of Muse people to unleash the [[SealedEvilinaCan Beast Rune]]. [[spoiler:Unlike the other [[TragicVillain sympathetic villains]], [[FortheEvulz he is considered to be the evillest]], [[PsychoforHire brutal and sadistic JRPG villains in this series]].]] |
| 470 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': Magilou has a RunningGag of excitedly punishing her {{Familiar}} TheChewToy Bienfu. This becomes most explicit when Pirates get into a conversation about [[KrakenAndLeviathan a Kraken]] with NaughtyTentacles and Phi gets involved: "Boy, there's no need to contain your curiosity. When pain turns to pleasure, you've truly become a man." |
| 471 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'': Alice, a CuteAndPsycho antagonist, is mentioned to be a sadist. She's also seen kicking around her subordinates and laughing at their pain. |
| 472 | * [[PetalPower Yuuka Kazami]] from ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. |
| 473 | ** In her first appearance in ''Lotus Land Story'', she playfully threatens to reduce you to a mist of atoms. |
| 474 | ** In her second appearance in ''Mystic Square'', her motive for wrecking through Makai and beating people up is basically because [[ItAmusedMe she's bored and wants to play]]. She also utters her infamous "Genocide is just a game" line. Her tendency to add [[SayItWithHearts "<3"]] at the end of every sentence doesn't help. |
| 475 | ** In the Windows era, she reappears in ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', in which she's supposedly has calmed down a lot. She still threatens everyone who met her or accepts other characters' accusations of being the culprit of the incident, [[SureLetsGoWithThat even when she's really not]], just so that she has a reason to beat them up. When Eiki Shiki confronts her about this, she says that it was just 'daily teasing'. |
| 476 | ** In [[{{Fanon}} fan works]], she's often portrayed as downright AxCrazy. |
| 477 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'': |
| 478 | ** After petrifying or killing his enemies, Dalles usually lets at least one of them live so he can savor their despair. |
| 479 | ** ''VideoGame/YsIVMaskOfTheSun'': The Dark Knight attacking Celceta straight up expresses delight at the thought of flaying the skin off of Adol's flesh before he could find Lillia. |
| 480 | ** ''Wanderers from Ys'' (pre-''[[VideoGame/YsTheOathInFelghana Oath in Felghana]] versions): Galbalan took glee in slaughtering life across the land and found the idea of siblings dying together to be a nice image as shown by his attempt to kill Chester and Elena. |
| 481 | [[/folder]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 484 | * ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Caren Hortensia, as [[spoiler:Kirei's daughter]], inherited his sadistic nature, though she usually limits herself to being a {{Troll}} to make people miserable. |
| 485 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': |
| 486 | ** [[spoiler:Kirei Kotomine]] confesses that he is capable of feeling joy only in witnessing the suffering of others. His abuse is mostly psychological and he prefers to guide events so that others inflict suffering on themselves. At the same time, [[spoiler:[[ReluctantPsycho he still has a conscience and so knows taking pleasure in others' suffering is evil]]]]. |
| 487 | ** [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]] qualifies for one as well, if his treatment of [[spoiler:Artoria [[EntitledToHaveYou is anything]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil to go by.]]]] Even in his more [[CharacterizationMarchesOn likable portrayal]] in ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', he still says that he loves the sound of a heart breaking. |
| 488 | --->[[spoiler:'''Gilgamesh:''']] That which appeals my heart the most is the sound of a heart breaking that, when you washed the beautiful (heart), drips an even more beautiful water. When you lick it, it tastes sweet. |
| 489 | [[/folder]] |
| 490 | |
| 491 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 492 | * Adria and Quixoto from ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate''. She kept Zerlocke chained and repeatedly gave him mortal wounds for a human lifetime -- his preferred prey is human children, and he likes to mentally torment his prey and let them try to escape him before eating them. |
| 493 | * ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': |
| 494 | ** Mryorg the ogre, as the result of one too many journeys into hell, has been stripped of his ability to get satisfaction from anything except inflicting suffering on others. |
| 495 | ** Dellyn Goblin-Slayer enjoyed the ColdBloodedTorture he inflicted on monsters, both the physical and the emotional. He also couldn't fully enjoy [[RapeIsASpecialKindOFEvil raping Kin]] unless he'd beaten her to near death at the same time. |
| 496 | * Jae of ''Webcomic/{{Magience}}'' enjoys other people's pain. |
| 497 | -->'''Jae:''' Memories of your screams will be my lullaby for the next decade, at least. |
| 498 | * Unlike many of the other bullies in ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Teddy torments the weak because he gets a kick out of it. Even as he's [[HeelFaceTurn working his way]] to the good guy's side, he can't help but resist the urge to be nasty here and there. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 502 | * Mechakkara from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' usually sports a sadistic grin on his face when he's harming Linkara. |
| 503 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': |
| 504 | ** Ethan and Curien love to torture and torment their victims for their own twisted amusement. |
| 505 | ** In the Master of the Dammed's own words, he breaks the [[DespairEventHorizon spirit]] of people before he breaks the ''[[YourSoulIsMine spirit]]'' of people. |
| 506 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 507 | ** [[{{Jerkass}} Mercury Black]] enjoys hurting people and watching them suffer. He's entirely happy to taunt and terrify Ruby, and when he sees Ruby crying over Penny's destruction, he has an immensely cruel and satisfied grin. Later, when Vale is being overrun by Grimm after Cinder's plan comes to fruition, Mercury records the resulting chaos, all with a SlasherSmile on his face, in direct contrast to his partner Emerald, who [[EvenEvilHasStandards somewhat regrets it]]. |
| 508 | ** [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]] also seems to enjoy the pain of others. She describes watching the Grimm slaughtering Vale citizens as "wonderful", and when she stole the first half of Amber's power, she drew out the pain of Amber's last conscious moments with needless theatrics that gave Amber the chance to see what was going to happen to her and beg for life in horror. When she kills Pyrrha, she doesn't simply shoot her through the heart, her arrow also burns Pyrrha from the inside out -- while Pyrrha is still alive. After Ruby disfigures her, she motivates herself to grow stronger by burning alive illusions of a begging Ruby that are created by Emerald. In Volume 5, her sadism becomes more pronounced as shown when fighting Jaune in "The More The Merrier", by taunting him over his failure to save Pyrrha and when he damages her mask, she impales Weiss with a flaming spear just to spite him. [[spoiler:It's very likely that she picked up this behavior from her equally sadistic stepmother, who would often torture her with an electrical collar more for the sheer enjoyment of it than to punish her for doing something wrong.]] |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 512 | * Pretty Pink Ponytails in ''Literature/AngelOfDeath'' loves nothing more than a nice, long session of ColdBloodedTorture in the form of a childish game in her special "playroom". |
| 513 | * ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' features Francis Beans, a TortureTechnician and all-around {{Jerkass}}, and Marvin Glass, her boss, who delights in breaking peoples' minds and condemning them to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrific deaths]] in {{Blood Sport}}s. |
| 514 | * [[spoiler:Gray Boy]] in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' greatly enjoying using his time-looping powers to [[TimeLoopTrap subject people to eternal torture]]. |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 518 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': : Despite the Core's almost purely mechanical and data-based nature before possessing Marcy, the MindHive is still very much capable of feeling emotions, and there are many occasions when they take great pleasure in hurting others. |
| 519 | ** The elaborate illusions it crafts against Marcy and Olivia contain details that serve no purpose beyond mocking them for how badly they feel they've failed at protecting what matters most to them. Olivia's mother turns into a machine-newt hybrid monster belching factory smoke, whose lower half is comprised of polluted earth and ''strewn'' with Amphibian bones, symbolizing how the environmental devastation will kill not only the creatures of Amphibia but the people as well, something that clearly upsets her. The two-headed Anne/Sasha fusion that mocks Marcy for selfishly betraying them and claims her friends want nothing to do with her anymore has [[FreezeFrameBonus the St James emblem on their chest turn into a heart]] as they do so, symbolizing how much Marcy loves her friendship with the duo and how awful she feels for metaphorically breaking their hearts with her DarkSecret. And, while it's not necessary for its plans for Marcy, it has Andrias outline ''exactly'' what's about to happen to her before it begins the conversion process, and keeps itself hidden inside the room for the entirety of Olivia and Yunan's attempted rescue apparently out of [[HopeSpot amusement at their futile efforts]], when it could have physically interfered at any point. |
| 520 | ** When Andrias suffers a VillainousBreakdown and throws a [[PsychopathicManchild childish tantrum]] over failing to kill Anne again, Darcy mocks him for his 'unkingly' conduct, calling his reaction 'pathetic'. This is despite his emotional outburst being born from the [[PsychopathicManchild same negative traits]] the Core itself explicitly encouraged in Andrias over the course of 1,000 years in order to make him a [[BlindObedience more compliant servant]] to it, essentially mocking him for not acting more mature when ''it itself'' encouraged his emotional immaturity as a means of controlling him. The fact that one of the Core's collective minds is Aldrich, Andrias' father and the one he explicitly seeks to impress through the Core, gives another cruel twist to it expressing contempt for him not acting like a proper king would. |
| 521 | ** When Darcy sees Andrias shooting a pained glance at the portrait of him, Leif, and Barrel together in his childhood, it snidely mocks him that it's not the only one that needs to let go of old memories, explicitly {{Gaslighting}} him for his still-painful regret over the implosion of his childhood friendships and how it's still distracting him from his duties as the Core's loyal servant. Darcy's smug grin explicitly shows it knows this hurts Andrias and that it takes amusement in his emotional turmoil, aware that he's too devoted to it now to do anything but loyally serve it, and [[VirtueIsWeakness finds twisted fun]] in how he's still hurting after all those years. When Andrias [[LetThePastBurn burns the portrait]] to help re-commit himself towards serving the Core, it adopts a smug SlasherSmile and briefly lets Aldrich's personality surface from the collective in order to tell Andrias how he's ''[[DamnedByFaintPraise almost]]'' proud of him for doing so, explicitly withholding the approval for his actions that [[WellDoneSonGuy Andrias so craves]] from the Core even as he acts in line with its wishes. |
| 522 | ** While it admits that inhabiting Marcy's body caused the Core to start [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody exhibiting some of her quirks and mannerisms]], it's implied that it's also deliberately emulating Marcy at times to mock Andrias for his [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone suppressed guilt]] over making her into the Core's vessel, at one point making it clear to him that Marcy's still around, but [[AndIMustScream trapped inside her own mind]] because of what he did. |
| 523 | ** In "The Beginning of the End", when Darcy reveals themself before Anne and Sasha, they mock both the girls' failure to stop it as well as their claims that they're still friends with Marcy despite her stranding them in Amphibia, pointing out that from browsing Marcy's memories, it can tell they weren't the most supportive friends to her back on Earth, even though neither was actively malicious towards her, pointing out that they ignored or overlooked Marcy's needs and interests and treated her as 'the friend that was just there', which fuelled her poorly thought-out decision to use the Calamity Box. Having more or less already won at that point, it has no logical reason to taunt the girls with their past failings beyond its sadistic pleasure at their regret. It even specifically taunts Anne's intelligence, calling her 'dumber than a bag of rocks' because Anne previously admitted to Marcy her insecurities with being 'the dumb one' of their trio and it wanted to rub that in her face. It clearly relishes [[HopeCrusher broadcasting the strike team's failure]] to disperse the resistance, and when they decide to kill Anne to retrieve the Calamity Gem energy powering her, they're clearly enjoying the chance to gut her with a laser knife. They even allow Anne the opportunity for AnyLastWords before they start cutting into her, clearly not intending to honour any pleas for mercy, doing it just to enjoy the moment more, and while Anne manages to successfully reason that they [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou can't afford to kill her just yet]], they're displeased that they've been forced to delay her demise and make it clear that they ''will'' finish the job later. |
| 524 | -->'''Darcy:''' You only bought enough time to watch your planet fall. We look forward to [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissecting you]]. [[ColdBloodedTorture Alive]]. |
| 525 | ** This ends up being a major component of its downfall in "All In", where it allows itself to be distracted by tormenting its victims, ultimately allowing Sasha to cut the cable on Darcy's helmet. |
| 526 | * Mrs. Robinson from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is a [[EvilOldFolks monstrous old lady]] who feeds on the suffering of others. Her most prominent episode ''The Wicked'' outright shows the audience and characters that she amuses herself by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals poisoning animals]], framing others for her crimes, kicking people when they're down, fooling others into letting their guard down before harming them, robbing people, vandalizing property, assaulting children, carjacking, disturbing the peace, attempting murder on a daily basis, making life a living Hell for all those around her, and drinking the tears of young children she bullies. The moment she truly crosses the MoralEventHorizon is when she purposely allows Darwin to ''choke to death'' [[MurderByInaction while smiling and waving goodbye as she shuts her door on him]]. Even her own {{Jerkass}} husband [[EveryoneHasStandards is terrified of her cruelty]] and goes into a monologue (with a ThousandYardStare) about how she loves committing horrible acts ForTheEvulz. She has no reason to act so cruel, but she just loves to make everyone suffer out of pure joy. |
| 527 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stevearino (Steve's evil clone) sadistically tortures and kills cats for fun. |
| 528 | * G-rated, JerkWithAHeartOfGold example: Slappy Squirrel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Wrong her, annoy her, otherwise get on her list... and she will enjoy ''every second'' of making you miserable. She stays sympathetic partially because she at least waits until she's provoked, partially because she does care for her nephew Skippy, and partially because it's a cartoon and even the most ridiculous injury is survivable. Best exemplified in "Frontier Slappy", dealing with someone attempting to cut down her tree. |
| 529 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': |
| 530 | ** Several villains, with [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]] and the Scarecrow being the obvious examples, the latter especially since his crimes are almost entirely based around spreading terror and driving people insane with fear. |
| 531 | ** There is also the one-shot villain [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE17LockUp Lock-Up]], a cruel and power-mad guard at Arkham who thinks that criminals deserve to be tortured and clearly enjoys doing it -- and when stopped, expands his definition of "criminals" to those who got him fired or condemned his actions, as well as Gordon, the Mayor, and Batman, because he thinks they are too "soft" on criminals. He is so scary that the other Bat-rogues tried to escape Arkham solely to get away from him. |
| 532 | ** [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy Pamela Isley, alias Poison Ivy]]: All her crimes imply Pamela enjoying the suffering of others. She is a ControlFreak and while most of her crimes fall into WellIntentionedExtremist territory, at the same time, she just enjoys [[GaiasVengeance taking revenge on behalf of Mother Nature]]. Like Lock-Up, she is a good example of a sadist who truly thinks that her victims had it coming. |
| 533 | * Tarantulas from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' takes a perverse amount of pleasure from inflicting pain and dominating others, physically and mentally. Some 'hobbies' we see him engage in include killing animals for fun, abusing Blackarachnia on nearly every level, and [[ImAHumanitarian making a few attempts at cannibalism]]. It's heavily implied that he was a SerialKiller of some sort back on Cybertron. |
| 534 | * As a SadistShow, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has multiple in order to make their comeuppance at Timmy's hands that much more cathartic. |
| 535 | ** [[BabysitterFromHell Vicky the Babysitter]]. Her main hobby: torturing, tormenting, and presumably trying to kill children ForTheEvulz, though she also tries to profit from this by hiring out her services to gullible people who [[VillainWithGoodPublicity think that she is good at her job]]. She also bullies her little sister and even her own parents. |
| 536 | ** Timmy's ArchNemesis is his SadistTeacher Denzel Crocker, who gleefully hands out failing grades. On one occasion Timmy tricks him with a LookBehindYou by pointing out a nonexistent [[ChildHater "child in pain"]], upon which he [[PassThePopcorn pulls out a stool and popcorn]]. |
| 537 | --->'''Mr. Crocker:''' Hey! There's no child in pain here! [[SuddenlyShouting BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE!]] |
| 538 | ** [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Older episodes]] also had Timmy's DepravedDentist Dr. Bender, a {{narcissist}} who took great delight in making his procedures unnecessarily painful. |
| 539 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 540 | ** Carter, although not showing a particularly murderous streak, is often gleefully sadistic ([[ObnoxiousInLaws particularly towards Peter]]) and is shown to keep a [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Rancor]] in a pit below his house in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E24Peterotica Peterotica]]". Worse, he torments orphans ForTheEvulz. |
| 541 | ** Even [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]] has sadistic tendencies. He frequently kills and terrorizes squirrels for pure sadism, [[EvenEvilHasStandards an act that even shocks Stewie]]. |
| 542 | * Lord Commander in ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace''. The worst thing he did, next to tearing off Gary's left arm for no reason, was having his soldiers kill their firstborn to prove their loyalty to him. He crosses the line when he [[spoiler:kills Little Cato's father, Avocato, in Chapter 6, in a spiteful, last-ditch effort to murder his son]]. |
| 543 | * [[Characters/FuturamaBenderBendingRodriguez Bender]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has his moments. He has no qualms when he has the opportunity to hurt someone and is very heavily implied to enjoy doing that. |
| 544 | * ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': [[Characters/HazbinHotelAlastor Alastor]] states openly that he is backing the hotel because he revels in watching people fail to better themselves. He also has a very deep [[SlasherSmile smile]] as he obliterates Sir Pentious' blimp. |
| 545 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': [[Characters/InvaderZimZim Zim]] is a completely AxCrazy PsychoForHire, and also very sadistic. |
| 546 | %%** The Almighty Tallests as well.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 547 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': To some degree, it's very clear in [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugHawkMoth Hawk Moth]] tone of voice during episodes while monitoring the activity of the people he akumatizes and him taking obvious pleasure in watching his minions cause chaos around Paris that he actually seems to ''enjoy'' the destruction caused by the people he corrupts. He also doesn't seem to care about anyone affected by this and only about the end result. |
| 548 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episodes "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E1ComputerIntruder Computer Intruder]]" and "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus Bad Luck Bogus]]" feature a [[{{Gonk}} huge and hideous]] EvilKnockoff of the eponymous character who delights in torturing Bogus. |
| 549 | * The worst habit of [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicLordTirek Lord Tirek]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. He has superior strength and intelligence, as he only prefers an opportunity to cause pain and suffering. |
| 550 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': |
| 551 | ** Him enjoys torturing his victims psychologically. |
| 552 | ** One episode features the [[KnightOfCerebus most evil]] [[OneShotCharacter one-shot villain]], [[ADickinName Dick Hardly]]. [[spoiler:He attempts to kill the Powerpuff Girls to make even more knockoffs of them and forces Professor Utonium to stay with him and make more Chemical X.]] |
| 553 | %%** Mojo Jojo has his moments.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 554 | * Ren Hoek from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. There have been several episodes where it is implied that he loves to inflict physical and psychological pain on others and ''even himself''. |
| 555 | * ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': |
| 556 | ** As a GodOfEvil, the BigBad [[Characters/SamuraiJackAku Aku]] delights in causing pain and misery to as many people as possible. The whole BadFuture stems from him deciding ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil in Jack's absence. |
| 557 | ** The High Priestess takes sheer glee in abusing her daughters and shows zero remorse for it. |
| 558 | ** The Dominator really enjoys torturing his victims, both physically and mentally. |
| 559 | * Sideshow Bob from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', who enjoys tormenting Bart in particular. |
| 560 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 561 | ** [[Characters/SouthParkEricCartman Eric Cartman]] is frequently shown to have a horrific sense of humor at the expense of others. He laughs at several of Kenny's deaths, delights in torturing Kyle relentlessly (and revels in the idea of actually killing him), and is revealed at one point to have bullied a classmate to the point of being DrivenToSuicide. Probably one of the most sadistic moments in the entire series comes from the ending of "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E4ScottTenormanMustDie Scott Tenorman Must Die]]"... courtesy of Cartman, of course. |
| 562 | --->'''Mr. Mackey:''' Well, what did you use to think was funny?\ |
| 563 | '''Cartman:''' You know, all the usual stuff. Dirty jokes, funny movies, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick seeing someone die]]... |
| 564 | ** Saddam Hussein might be even more sadistic than ''Cartman''. First off he takes ''sexual'' pleasure murdering and torturing innocent people (including Kenny), enjoys abusing his boyfriend Satan, and depraves kids from their adopted families ForTheEvulz. |
| 565 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsSheldonPlankton Sheldon Plankton]]. Even in one episode where he is seen in a dream, he is destroying Bikini Bottom, even trying to crush Gary with sadistic glee. This is also evident in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' when he expresses great excitement and joy when Mr. Krabs will be executed. |
| 566 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[spoiler:In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea Alone At Sea]]", [[Characters/StevenUniverseLapisLazuli Lapis Lazuli]] admits to enjoying taking out all her frustrations and anger on Jasper while holding her down. Unfortunately for her, [[AggressiveSubmissive Jasper was messed-up in the head enough to enjoy it]].]] |
| 567 | * ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': |
| 568 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', a mobster named Don Turtelli is presented as a sadist, who likes to interrogate people by [[TickleTorture tickling their feet with a feather]] (which is presented as ColdBloodedTorture in the show), unlike other villains, who just put heroes in dangerous situations, especially since he clearly enjoys making his victims suffer. This is presented in one episode where Turtelli is torturing two kids; Rat King, who is a dangerous villain, [[EvenEvilHasStandards was disgusted with Turtelli's method, saying "I can't stand to watch..."]] |
| 569 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' features the evillest character, Dr. Victor Falco, later known as the Rat King. He takes massively cruel and sadistic delight at mind-controlling Splinter and forcing him to attack his sons, the Ninja Turtles. |
| 570 | %%** Utrom Shredder from [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 TMNT 2003]] has his moments.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample |
| 571 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has the host of the show, Chris [=McLean=], who throws teenagers in the most perverse, screwed-up challenges ever just for kicks, ratings, and money. By the time of the fourth season, the original cast is so sick of him that they have sworn to never be on the show again in any capacity, barring contract requirements like having to participate in the fifth ''All-Stars'' season (with many explicitly stating that they hated Chris). DJ ''freaked'' when he was back in Camp Wawanakwa for a challenge in the fourth season, and he was the ''judge''. |
| 572 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Lord Dominator loves causing hopelessness, panic, and especially destruction because it amuses her greatly. Her VillainSong, "I'm the Bad Guy", sums it up pretty nicely. |
| 573 | * Sledgehammer O'Possum from the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' cartoon "Out and About" inflicts all kinds of pain and suffering on a dog who did nothing to provoke him, and he often laughs at his misery. |
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