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The SpearCounterpart of the PsychoLesbian, and the monosexual counterpart to the DepravedBisexual. Usually a villainous take on the CampGay. His motive is usually either his "depraved" sexuality, or an unrequited love, like his PsychoLesbian sister.

If he's not explicitly gay, but it [[AmbiguouslyGay wouldn't be surprising]], he's a SissyVillain.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* [[MonsterClown Hisoka]] from ''HunterXHunter''. If he's not killing someone, he's usually hitting on the main (male) characters, including the [[{{Shotacon}} 12 year old protagonists]].
* ''PeacemakerKurogane'' has Suzu become this after being [[RapeAndSwitch raped at the hands of an old man]]. The anime-only characters Kichisaburo and Maro are both shown to be homosexual, and both are depicted as being depraved psychos. Ito, who is shown to be explicitly homosexual, is also very much depraved. Also, the old man that raped Suzu is one, too. [[UnfortunateImplications In fact, pretty much every character that is shown overtly to be homosexual is depraved and psychotic.]]
**While the characters mentioned certainly fit the trope, other, much more sympathetic characters are pretty strongly implied to be gay or bisexual, rather [[AvertedTrope averting]] the implication that they're ALL depraved. Off the top of my head--Heisuke makes more than a few references to men and boys he finds attractive or may or may not have slept with, and he's shown as a good, fun sort of guy [[spoiler: , if not one who has some trouble making good life choices]]. Saitou, while he may or may not actually be interested in men (who knows with him?), [[spoiler: is willing enough to pretend to be for information]]. And general dynamics of HoYay between various cast members aside, there are always Hijikata and Okita, who always seem just one step shy of being an OfficialCouple (with [[WordOfGod Hijikata's voice actor]] going so far as to respond to a remark about his character having given up romantic pursuits for his mission with, essentially, "Uh...no"). In fact, given that the whole thing is set in the more-or-less privileged classes of late-Edo period Japan, one could make the argument that historical context rather suggests an EveryoneIsBi situation.
* Subverted, played around with, and possibly averted in ''YuYuHakusho''. Sensui is [[StraightGay gay]], and [[SplitPersonality crazy]], but he is not disturbed due to his sexuality like other DepravedHomosexual characters- [[spoiler:he lost his mind while on a mission to the Black Black Club's villa, seeing [[HumansAreBastards human cruelty towards demons]].]] His relationship with his partner Itsuki, knowing about their respective character traits as a NietzscheWannabe and a PsychoSupporter, is surprisingly complex and realistic.
** As a matter of fact, [[spoiler: one can make the case that Sensui's sexuality is a ''result'' of his insanity/seeing that HumansAreBastards (in order to avoid MoralDissonance), instead of the cause, making this ''also'' an InvertedTrope]].
** Karasu practically ''embodies'' this trope. He wants to ''own'' Kurama, and considers killing him slowly and painfully to be the very best and most intimate way to do so. His depravity and overall creepiness is given more focus than the fact that he's homosexual, though.
* Tomo in ''FushigiYuugi''.
* Subverted in OnePiece with Mr. 2 Bon Clay. He does start off as a villain, but it's also pretty clear that he's a nice guy who just happened to be on the wrong side. After the criminal organization he was part of was broken up, [[FaceHeelTurn he becomes an ally of the Straw Hats]], and does so [[BolivianArmyEnding many]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] [[HeroicSacrifice things]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming helping]] them, that I doubt anyone really cares about his past as a villain anymore.
* ''{{Inuyasha}}'' is pretty much the poster show for this, as literally every openly homosexual character who has appeared has been a depraved sociopath. The only exception is Jakotsu, who ''started'' out as a Depraved Homosexual, but became [[CharacterDevelopment quite more sympathetic]] as the show went on and we saw his fierce loyalty to his best friend and leader Bankotsu... [[spoiler: only to have him dying. To be fair, though, both he and his friend were in a PsychoForHire group that was wiped away, so Jakotsu's death [[BuryYourGays is NOT linked to his sexuality]].]]
* A popular fan theory speculates that Rolo Haliburton/Lamperouge, Lelouch's "fake brother" in ''CodeGeass'', is a DepravedHomosexual who [[spoiler: killed Lelouch's prospect girlfriend, Shirley Fenette]] ''solely'' out of pure jealousy.
** A similar and perhaps stronger case could be made concerning [[spoiler: V.V., who very canonically and unambigiously killed Marianne entirely out of jealousy and resentment concerning all the attention she was getting from his brother Charles.]]
* Creed from ''BlackCat'', though [[AmbiguouslyGay not stated explicitly]], exhibits many overt signs of being an example of this trope. With the way he dresses, the way he obviously has perverted fantasies about Train, and his unreasonable jealousy towards anyone remotely close to Train makes him a very likely example of a DepravedHomosexual.
* One of the teachers in the ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' anime is strongly hinted to be a DepravedHomosexual, one who's aiming to have his way with Miki. When his [[BrotherSisterIncest sister Kozue]] takes note of this things go [[BerserkButton very badly for the teacher very quickly.]]
* MW looks like it's setting up for this early on with the relationship and backstory between the two lead characters. But it's later subverted when the better part of a chapter is used to deliver an aesop about how the world is becoming more accepting of homosexuality and there's nothing wrong with it, and the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonist's]] gay relationship comes off as one of his few humanizing characteristics by the end. This is particularly notable as the series was written in 1976.
* Gauron from ''FullMetalPanic'', [[YourMileageMayVary depending on]] whether one chooses to follow the novels (where he managed to successfully execute his HikaruGenjiPlan with ''male'' twins) or the anime (where the twins were female, making him a DepravedBisexual). But no matter which version, one thing is for sure: he is [[InLoveWithYourCarnage a]] [[{{Shotacon}} complete]] [[ALoveToDismember and]] [[StalkerWithACrush total]] [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence pervert]] for [[ChasteHero Sousuke]]. Seriously? Getting stiffies over fantasizing that he would rape the poor 16-year-old's dead body after he slowly kills him? The poor boy was [[TooMuchInformation completely horrified]] and [[BrainBleach traumatized]] when Gauron took the opportunity to let him know what his plans for him were.
* Genkaku from ''DeadmanWonderland'', after getting repeatedly raped and beaten by a group of bullies (who were monk trainees like him) at the temple during his childhood, became gay and insane. He seems to express disgust and contempt towards women, and is shown to have a strong attraction to Nagi. In fact, he pretty much confesses to Nagi that he "loved him."
** And later in the series, after [[spoiler: Genkaku up there dies]], the series gains a replacement DepravedHomosexual in the form of Mockingbird, who is Misogynistic, and has a similar sort of BloodLust and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence kinky way of flirting and fighting]]. His interactions with [[http://www.onemanga.com/Deadman_Wonderland/24/05/ Ganta]] and [[http://www.onemanga.com/Deadman_Wonderland/24/03/ Senji]] certainly are... [[http://www.onemanga.com/Deadman_Wonderland/24/04/ interesting]].
* Grelle Sutcliffe from ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}''. The anime plays his actions as RapeAsComedy but in the manga he's just plain [[{{Yandere}} psycho]] for Sebastian.
** However, his affections are not just limited to Sebastian. In general, he loves to flirt with any male, that takes his fancy. For example, with William Spears, he seems enamored by his eyes, saying they send chills up his spine. In the anime, he also chased Pluto once (a dog, who was then in human form), saying he made his hunk radar go off. Also, he once looked into Undertaker's eyes, and, after seeing [[WhatBeautifulEyes how beautiful they were]], got excited and asked Undertaker to hug him.
* ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'' has Lussuria, who not only hits on jailbait but is also a necrophiliac. See also CampGay and HardGay.
* Professor Aizawa from ''{{Sukisho}}''.
** To a lesser extent, there is also Kai Nagase, Aizawa's son. Depraved homosexuality apparently runs in the family.
* To some extent, Phantom in ''{{MAR}}''. He is obsessed with Alviss, but that almost overlaps with FoeYay. The manga shows this as well, but it's mild compared to the anime. Particularly episodes 88-91 are especially squicky to this troper, [[spoiler: when Alviss is under the influence of the Zombie Tattoo and Phantom basically hypnotizes him into coming to the Chess Pieces’ Castle. [[http://www.animegalleries.net/album/toprated/category/84468/img/78]] [[http://www.animegalleries.net/img/269481]] To make matters worse, Alviss is [++16++] and Phantom is [++30++]. So again, this troper finds the whole situation very squicky indeed. Although Phantom did mention he loved a girl who turns out to be the ghost Ginta meets in the underground lake in Vestry]]
* Some of the men that [[DepravedBisexual Souma]] sleeps with in ''SakuraGari'' are DepravedHomosexual's.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''TheSandman'': The Corinthian likes guys. Also, he likes [[EyeScream guys' eyes]]. Whether these two are connected, I am unsure. Either way. He's not particularly camp (more NightmareFuelUnleaded) and the only suggestion (outside of the continuation of stories in ''The Dreaming'') that he's homosexual usually center around his choice of victims. (It helps that he takes a distinct relish in [[MemeticMolester despoiling innocence]] that implies eye-taking is at ''least'' as good as sex for him.)
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''{{Cruising}}'', starring Al Pacino, is about a cop chasing a gay serial killer through the New York City {{Leatherman}} community, circa 1980. It's implied that being around S&M turns Pacino gay, and possibly murderous as well.
* Almost all male child molesters in any media are shown to be homosexuals who molest boys. This even though most child molesters in RealLife are heterosexuals in adult relationships with women, and the fact that the majority of child molestation victims (possibly as high as 35 to 1 for penetrative rape, according to some police statistics) are ''girls''.
** Some TruthInTelevision in that the child molestors who hit the media tend to be those who indulge in molestation on an industrial scale - and quite a lot of them tend to be men who molest boys. The majority of child molestation, as noted above, is usually carried out against 'stepdaughters'.
* All of the rapists in PrisonRape sequences. Unless they are portrayed as straight but seeking dominance through rape, like the guys in ''The Shawshank Redemption''. As Morgan Freeman says, they're not homosexuals because they aren't even really human. And [[MagicalNegro Morgan Freeman knows everything]].
* Andy Warhol was portrayed in this manner (by Guy Pierce!) in ''Factory Girl'' (2006). So much so that [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Factory_Girl_2006.aspx one reviewer]] referred to the character as "Andy Warhol, or, as this film wants you to know him, Darth Warhol."
* The 1961 short film ''Boys Beware'', produced by Sid Davis. It was intended to be shown in high schools to warn teenage boys about the dangers of gay men. This film has become famous on the internet for lines such as ''"What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick. A sickness that was not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious -- a sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual."'' Another fun element: the [[ValuesDissonance violent contrast]] between the hysterical condemnation of homosexuality and the unconditional endorsement it gives the practice of hitchhiking.
**Even more dissonant is that the way Ralph acts (very touchy) is not the problem even though today someone who gave young boys a ride and pats on the back would certainly be assumed gay or at least creepy instantly.
*** ''Gay or at least creepy''? See above for confusion of "gay" and "pedophile".
* ''{{The X-Files}}'': I Want to Believe is guilty of this, with Callum Keith Rennie's serial killer kidnapping young women to build his boyfriend a girl-body.
** One has to hope that said boyfriend is actually a {{Transsexual}} and that said serial killer is actually ''bisexual'' because otherwise, [[DidNotDoTheResearch well.]] [[WallBanger Slight ''problems'' might arise in the relationship.]]
*** Add that to the plot of the evil psychic gay pedophile priest in the movie and ''{{The X-Files}}'' movie probably should have been called "X-Files: I Want To Believe Gay People Are Evil".
*** At least the pedophile priest seems to be genuinely repentant of his crimes.
* Parodied and subverted in ''Cecil B. Demented'', where sadistic hairdresser Rodney takes his frustration over being ''heterosexual'' out on other people by abusing them physically.
* Todd from ''Wedding Crashers''.
* Just about any film of the [[TheBible Easter story]] portrays King Herod thus.
** As a matter of fact, all records that mention his sexuality present Herod as a raging heterosexual hedonist with several wives and concubines, with the idea of him being gay a slander started by his enemies.
* ''Irreversible'' has a whole club full of these, one of which is a nasty piece of work called le Tenia, 'the Tapeworm'. [[spoiler: Despite his orientation, he's the one who rapes and beats Monica Bellucci's character, Alex.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* This trope probably has its origins in ''The Green Carnation'', a truly slanderous roman a clef written in the 1890s and featuring villains based on OscarWilde and his lover Alfred "Bosie" Douglas who plot to defraud a young widow of her fortune. They are assisted by a kind of YaoiFangirl based on Wilde's real-life FagHag Ada "Sphinx" Leverson.
* Another early example was E. W. Hornung's ''Raffles'' stories. Hornung intended the stories to subvert the glamor of the GentlemanThief; Raffles was no Robin Hood in the original stories, just a criminal. Although expressed very discreetly between the lines, the relationship between Raffles and his pathetically submissive sidekick/victim Bunny Manders was definitely homosexual (see discussion under HoYay). [[{{Vasha}} This troper]] thinks that the way Raffles is shown relating to Bunny is definitely exploitive and abusive. Hornung was frustrated that his readers insisted on seeing Raffles as glamorous anyhow; his later stories, where he portrayed Raffles more brutally, were less popular. More recent takes on Raffles invariably go the Robin Hood, detective, or other hero route.
* Djuna Barnes' RuleAbidingRebel book ''Nightwood'' portrays all gay men as being like this. The woman are {{Psycho Lesbian}}s.
* Dyan Ardais in Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''{{Darkover}}'' series, although he eventually redeems himself somewhat.
* There's only one character in the ''Elenium'' trilogy by DavidEddings who is confirmed to be homosexual, and that's Baron Harparin. He's a noted pederast. When he gets beheaded toward the end of the series, one character comments that a whole generation of little boys will probably remember the knight who killed him in their prayers every night.
* James Ellroy's ''The Big Nowhere'' is chock-full of these. One uses the gay escort service he runs to out and blackmail his clients; another, a closeted actor, sexually abuses his own son; and the son himself [[spoiler: goes on to become a serial killer]]. The only sympathetic gay men in the entire book, [[spoiler: Danny Upshaw]], kills himself to avoid being outed.
* Terry Goodkind's ''TheSwordOfTruth'': Darken Rahl's flunky is a pederast who cannot remember how many boys he has molested. Rahl, who knows this, nevertheless uses him to acquire boys to be killed in a special kind of ColdBloodedTorture that [[VirginPower requires that the victim be a virgin]].
* Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in {{Dune}}. It's very clear that his nephew Feyd-Rautha, the Kwisatz-Haderach-that-might-have-been, is redeemable -- he may rape slaves, but he only rapes ''girl'' slaves. Uncle Vladimir is utterly depraved -- we can tell, because he fucks ''boys''.
** And, to make sure it's doubly obvious he's evil, he specifically likes to rape boys that look like the main character. And he's enormously fat. And he's ''Russian''. Well, Russian first name and (cod-?)Finnish last name, but close enough.
*** Baron Harkonnen's last name is supposed to be Finnish? This Finnish troper wouldn't have guessed in million years. Now, if it was Härkönen...
**** Maybe they stopped in America between Finland and Giedi Prime? That tends to get rid of diacritics real fast.
*** And in 1965, when the first book was published, being a homosexual Russian pedophile was a ''big deal'' (all other considerations aside, this was during the height of the Cold War; being a Russian--or at least having a Russian name--was a no-no). And David Lynch goes even further with his 1984 film adaptation, portraying the Baron as diseased--covered with grotesque boils, presumably suffering from some manner of pox (although most of the inhabitants of Geidi Prime in Lynch's adaptation appear to be either diseased or malformed, or both)--and quite mad...even though the book itself implies neither.
* Deconstructed in ArmisteadMaupin's novel ''Maybe the Moon'' (set in 1990), in which a StraightGay actor plays a cop chasing a StereotypeGay killer in a movie. His boyfriend is pissed.
* Claggart in HermanMelville's ''Billy Budd''. It's his FreudianExcuse.
* The killer in the ElleryQueen novel [[spoiler: ''The Last Woman in His Life''.]]
* Male example: [[spoiler: a monk named Ambrose]], in Candace Robb's medieval mystery ''The Apothecary Rose.'' (The next book, however, contains a totally sympathetic character (Martin Werther) who is gay. Secretly, of course.)
* Leslie Marmon Silko's ''Almanac of the Dead'' received some criticism for this as several of the main villains are gay.
* Lord Fujiwara from ''TalesOfTheOtori''. His homosexuality is portrayed as being coincidental to his depravity, however.
* ''Darkspell'', the second book of Katharine Kerr's ''{{Deverry}}'' series, features two evil, homosexual wizards who engage in ''[[{{Squick}} rape rituals]]'' to replenish their magical powers.
* ''[[KimNewman Anno Dracula]]'' has Vardalek, a diseased, murderously sadistic member of the Carpathian Guard.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' has a quite baffling scene late in season seven with Leland Orser playing his usual slimy villain role, who is briefly seen in bed with a man for literally no reason at all.
* Averted in ''AlloAllo'', where the gay and bisexual German officers tend to be the most genial and harmless of the lot.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Slaanesh worshipers in the Warhammer40000 / Warhammer universes are often depicted this way. Of course, they have moved beyond homosexuality and will hump AnythingThatMoves once just to see what it is like. However, in what may or may not be an example of UnfortunateImplications, Slaanesh worshipers are the only characters in the Warhammer continuities who ever even hint at being gay. Creating an impression that ALL homosexuals end up as drug-addled false-idol-fondling heathen devil-pagans having wild drug-fueled orgies with men, women, beasts, aliens, mutants, demons and whatever else has a conveniently sized hole in it.
** Given the Empire's large and powerful ChurchMilitant and the Imperium's attitude to, well, everything, it can probably be assumed that anyone even suspected of being gay is burned. Possibly on the grounds of "we need you to breed more troops so don't be gay".
** You obviously haven't read enough SlashFic... wait, [[RuleThirtyFour nevermind.]]
** That's why we have CiaphasCain, who has a number of gay characters none are evil
*** However, CiaphasCain is a work of parody so it is questionable if the books can be considered hard Canon.
*** Technically, none of the novelizations are hard canon, and the sourcebooks don't really go into the DepravedHomosexual Slaaneshi cultist thing to any noticible extent, SoYeah.
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[[folder: Theater]]
* [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Some critics believe]] that Iago is one of these in the Shakespeare play ''{{Othello}}'', driven to destroy Othello because of his unrequited homosexual love for the Moorish general...{{so yeah}}.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* A minor but highly-determined villain, the jailer Mohosa casts lecherous glances and none-too-vague innuendo at the boy-faced heroes of ''VandalHearts 2''. This is only after he shows his true colors, some time after you find out he has the [[DudeShesLikeInAComa catatonic prince-apparent locked in his private quarters]].
* Lieutenant Yaha, the guardian of the District of Precious Light in {{Drakengard}} 2. He made a pact with the gnomes, giving him the ability to beguile and charm anyone who looked him in the eyes, but the price he paid was that he lost the ability to feel pleasure. He makes very "interesting" comments during his boss battle, and it's heavily implied that he had a romantic relationship with one of your allies, [[TheFool Urick]].
* Quite possibly Sander Cohen in ''{{Bioshock}}'', if the sneering remarks in some of the [[ApocalypticLog audio diaries]] are to be believed.
* Done tragically with Abul Nuquod in ''AssassinsCreed''. His sexuality ''does'' drive him to mass-murder and joining conspiracy to take over the Holy Land, but specifically because the culture he lives in and Islam in general calls him an "abomination" and causes him to be the object of shame and scorn despite his generosity and lavish parties.
* What [[MauveShirt little]] we learn about Major Raikov in ''MetalGearSolid 3'' is that he's gay and beats up his men for fun. He gets a little more characterisation in ''Portable Ops'', but not much. (Oddly, he's become a kind of EnsembleDarkhorse, and his relationship with [[DepravedBisexual Colonel Volgin]] is kind of sweet.)
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* The waiter who harasses Hunter in SuicideForHire. Hunter does make it clear that he understands most gay people are not like this ("I don't hate you for what you are, I hate you for who you are"), and the UnfortunateImplications are probably reduced by the fact that a lot of the ''straight'' characters, [[VillainProtagonist including Hunter himself]], are either [[SickSadWorld equally depraved]] or utterly stupid, so [[JustifiedTrope gay people couldn't really expect to be portrayed any differently]].
** This gay Troper agrees--and it's even pointed out that a girl acting the same way would have grosses/freaked out Hunter the same way. And knowing him, this was likely totally true.
*** Very likely, though going by his behaviour elsewhere [[WouldntHitAGirl he wouldn't have beaten the shit out of a woman who talked to him that way]].
* The main character's evil gay twin Naitsirhc from ''Sonichu'', he seems to be evil precisely because he is gay and the hero is repulsed and unnerved by his very presence. To say that the creator has issues is a massive understatement.
* Lord CJ from {{Lizzy}}. His deeds range from [[http://comics.cyberneticevilstudios.com/pages/1/7a.html ordering henchmen into sucking him off]] and breaking the sheriff [[http://comics.cyberneticevilstudios.com/pages/1/48a.html by kissing him]] to his love for [[http://comics.cyberneticevilstudios.com/pages/1/45a.html flesh-tearing hooks]] and [[http://comics.cyberneticevilstudios.com/pages/1/22a.html brain-licking]])!
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Mirage from ''TransformersEnergon'', who is madly in love with BigBad Galvatron. As tfwiki.net so subtly puts it: "He transforms from a boat into a [[StealthPun ferry]].''
** This is possible a subversion, as while Mirage is technically on the bad guy side he's part of the QuirkyMinibossSquad and isn't all that depraved or intimidating.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* It is strongly implied that Benjamin Palmer of ''BrokenSaints'' has a thing for little boys. WordOfGod practically confirms it.
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