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-> '''"There are some corners of the universe that have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."''
-->-- '''The Second Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

Television has evolved a lot over the years. It used to be that you couldn't even say the word "damn" on the airwaves. Now you've got entire cable channels where people can say anything they want. These looser standards have also made it that much easier to showcase [[CompleteMonster genuinely horrifying villains]].

Any CrimeAndPunishmentSeries or Mystery show will have at least a few of these, unless they make a point of avoiding them. Among the shows that have been seen to use the trope: ''Series/LawAndOrder'', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', ''{{Matlock}}'', ''Series/NYPDBlue'', ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/CSIMiami'', ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', ''Series/MagnumPI'', ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', ''{{Shark}}'', ''Series/VeronicaMars'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'', ''Series/TheCloser'', and the list just goes on and on and on. They're generally [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]] (no pun intended), rather than recurring characters, though. Some specific examples are listed below.

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!!Shows with their own pages include:

[[index]]
* ''[[Monster/TwentyFour 24]]''
* ''Monster/CriminalMinds''
* ''Monster/DoctorWho''
* ''Monster/KamenRider''
* ''Monster/LawAndOrder''
* ''Monster/PowerRangers''
* ''Monster/SuperSentai''
* ''Monster/TheXFiles''
[[/index]]

!!Other Examples:
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* Michael Cambias on ''AllMyChildren'', a cut above the typical Soap Opera villain. Coming to Pine Valley with a goal of taking over all the major corporations based there, he used spies and a seduction of Kendall (using an alias), exploiting her hatred of Erica Kane, with a goal of stealing top secret formulas and documents, One of his spies, Lena, is also his lover, with orders to seduce Erica's daughter, Bianca; Lena winds up falling for her, but is forced to continue working for Michael due to threats against her mother. Kendall, meanwhile, finds out about the affair between him and Lena, deciding to become a double agent; when Michael catches her in his office, he attempts to rape her, but Erica stops him. After double-crossing him by pretending to leave her company, Michael tries to rape Erica, but Kendall returns the favor in stopping him. When he's thwarted from that, he goes and rapes Bianca--getting back at all three women in one fell swoop, as Bianca is simultaneously Kendall's sister, Erica's daughter, and Lena's girlfriend. After he is acquitted of all charges due to Bianca burning all evidence, she turns around and puts a bullet in him.
* Apart from Angelus, ''Series/{{Angel}}'' also features an episode in which Angel and his gang tries to exorcise a demon from a young boy that had been causing the child to start fires and attempt to murder his own sister...the twist comes when [[spoiler:after being ejected from the boy, the demon reveals that it was trapped inside the child's body and the boy was so twisted, cruel, and malevolent that the otherworldly monster was actually ''afraid'' of him. Angel barely manages to get to the boy's home to stop him from succeeding in burning his sister alive.]]
** Another example is Darin [=McNamara=], the main bad guy in "The Ring". After tricking Angel at the start about his brother Jack being kidnapped by demons (he and his brother were doing the kidnapping), he has Angel captured and forced into participating in an underground fighting ring, where demons are forced to kill each other for the humans' entertainment - they can't escape, because the wristbands they wear disintegrate them if they cross the red line separating them from their captors. When Angel attempts to hold Jack hostage, Darin simply shoots him in cold blood.
** Among ''Series/{{Angel}}'''s [[MonsterOfTheWeek villains of the week]], it's hard to top Billy Blim for clearly falling into this category. While appearing to be a normal young man, he was actually a demon filled with an extreme power of misogyny and had the power to turn any man he touched or who came in contact with his bodily fluids into someone extremely savage and brutal toward anyone female. And he had no real reason to be doing this; rather, he appeared to do it only for his own sheer amusement. The fact that it was actually the normally very cold and amoral Lilah who [[EvenEvilHasStandards took him out]] says volumes as to how horrible he was.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', we have Lord Refa, who started off as an SmugSnake who wanted to 'return the Centauri to Glory', but he's the one who started Londo off on his StartOfDarkness, making him ask Morden, the Shadows' servant, for favors. He's the one who began the entire Narn/Centauri War and authorized the ''illegal weapons'' the Mass-Drivers used against the Narn Homeworld, killing hundreds of millions. And he was a complete dupe for the Shadows, sending Centauri forces out to conquer far and wide, leaving the empire unprotected. [[spoiler: Eventually killed off when Londo, who had grown to despise Refa, was under threat of political annihilation and, seeking revenge against Refa for his (supposed) murder of Londo's lover, enacted an EvilPlan that saw Refa torn apart by a mob of vengeful Narns...to a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome cheery, upbeat Gospel song about eternal damnation.]]]]
** Jha'dur, AKA: Deathwalker. The last real leader of the Dilgar War and a perfect example of why they were wiped out. An unmistakable sociopath who conducted horrific experiments on other races, deployed weapons on civilian targets, and was planning to give other races immortality...with an ingredient that required other members of sentient species to induce mass murder and anarchy. The sheer joy she took in watching others suffer was nearly unmatched in the series.
** We also have Emperor Cartagia who is the Centauri version of [[TheCaligula Caligula]]. Tortures G'kar just for the ''fun'' of it and wanted to kill off his own race at the end of it since [[AGodAmI he thought he was God]]. And he didn't just let other people torture G'kar for him-no, he himself got in on it and got his hands messy.
** And we have President Clark. Turns the Earth Government into a dictatorship, uses the [=PsiCorps=] to MindRape and interrogate people, fonds the Nightwatch, which is [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the SS]], bombs Mars and other colonies, and has Sheridan [[ColdBloodedTorture "interrogated"]]. When he lost the war, he was going to [[TakingYouWithMe take Earth with him]].
** Bester. He's got a sympathetic backstory and lots of people still want to crush his head with a rock. {{Manipulative Bastard}}ry. Planned genocide. And the worst part is that he did it all with a smug little smile on his face.
*** He also brainwashed a main character, making him turn against everyone he cared about. And after he had completed Bester's mission, Bester revealed everything he had done and how it furthered his goals in painstaking detail. And that smug little smile never left his face...
** Vir's former fiancée, Lyndisty Drusella. A StepfordSmiler, she eagerly tells Vir the culling of the Narns she participated in. Escorting 'aggressive Narns' to ''euthanasia clinics'' and killing them, and saying she had personally stabbed hundreds of them before. All the while trying to convince Vir to cross the MoralEventHorizon by killing a Narn who was after her, but she had subdued and tied him up. If Vir had more of a spine at that moment, he'd have called her a monster to her face. It also starts to become clear that, except for Vir, the Third Wife of the former Emperor, the former Emperor, and Londo, the entire Centauri Race is descending into {{Complete Monster}}dom, since what she's doing is not only accepted on Centauri Prime, but applauded. Many fans cheered when her marriage to Vir was annulled.
** Then again, Lyndisty was [[DaddysLittleVillain raised this way by her father]], Lord Drusella.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Drusilla Drusella]], [[MeaningfulName hmm?]]
** Ulkesh, the replacement Ambassador to ''Babylon 5'' after Kosh's HeroicSacrifice. Tortures Lyta, holds everyone in contempt, has no love for the younger races...He and Cartagia are the only cases in the show of main characters deciding without hesitation that somebody just needs killing. After Cartagia's death, one person has retrospective qualms. Nobody does about Ulkesh.
* So many from ''BadGirls''. One of the most notable would be Natalie Buxton, a bullying, violent pedophile who will do ANYTHING to get her own way. She has no boundaries. You can't get much lower than her.
* The drug smuggler (possibly named Arkie Ragan) in ''Bangkok Hilton''. Using various aliases, he seduces young women and uses them to smuggle heroin overseas. When Kat gets arrested in Thailand, he abandons her with no apparent remorse about the fact that she will be sentenced to death and proceeds onto his next run.
* The new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'':
** Brother Cavil. Made worse by the fact that he was introduced as an AffablyEvil, DeadpanSnarker type. That was before we find out that he's the mastermind behind the human genocide, as well as a majority of the other bad things on the show. All because he was unhappy with the body he was made in. We later find out that [[spoiler:Cavil murdered a young orphan boy just because they were becoming friends]]. And if you forget the genocide, [[spoiler: using a ScarpiaUltimatum to rape his own mother after having his father tortured and mutilated]] probably would qualify him for this page on its own.
** Helena Cain is a [[GeneralRipper ruthless Admiral]] dedicated to wiping out [[FantasticRacism the Cylons]] [[KnightTemplar at all costs]]. She cannibalizes a refugee fleet for parts (including their FTL drives) and leaves them at the mercy of the Cylons (and we know [[LeaveNoSurvivors how the Cylons deal with civilians]]). While doing that, she conscripts any able-bodied man in the fleet, shooting their families if they refuse to join her. Then she comes to the ''Galactica'' fleet and decides to take the fight to the Cylons, despite none of the other ships except ''Galactica'' being combat-capable. She also shot her Executive Officer in the head when he refused to order what looked like a suicide mission, right in front of the crew. And let's not forget Admiral Cain's standard procedure for interrogating female Cylon prisoners: violent rape, by [[TortureTechnician the official Cylon Interrogator]], as well as any crew member who feels like it.
** Phelan, the ex-military mercenary turned crime lord from "Black Market", counts too. He runs the titular market and garrotes anyone who threatens his supremacy. When Apollo investigates the death of one of Phelan's competitors, the man pays him a visit, abducting the HookerWithAHeartOfGold Apollo had been seeing regularly and taking her daughter, warning Apollo that "I hear any more talk about Fisk I'm gonna send your whore back to you piece by piece, and then I'm gonna start on the little girl." As if that's not enough, in his headquarters he keeps a bunch of children locked in a cell. When Apollo confronts him and asks about that, he claims that some people are "demanding". When Apollo demands the kid back, Phelan replies "Sorry, the little girl's been paid for. No refunds."
* [[spoiler: Owen, Annie's fiance]] from ''Series/BeingHuman''. When confronted by [[spoiler: the ghost of the woman he killed, his reaction is "Why are you bothering me?" Until he starts [[MindScrew screwing]] with her...]]He [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gets his in the end]].
* Mr. Cannon on ''BeverlyHills90210''. Already a wanted rapist from England, he comes to America and rapes Naomi. He then tries to drug and do the same thing to Silver. After he runs away to avoid arrest, he sneaks into Naomi's place and threatens to kill her and Silver if she does not say that they lied.
* An example from ''Series/BlakesSeven'' (which is not lacking in {{Complete Monster}}s) is Raiker from the very second episode. He's a sadomasochistic dictator to the prisoners and keeps a keen eye on female convicts who can pass muster to be his [[RapeAsDrama sex slaves]] (the latter of which get dumped out of the ship when they reach the prison planet...or ''[[ThrownOutTheAirlock en route]]'', at any rate). Unsurprisingly, [[spoiler:Blake (the protagonist) and the other prisoners rebel and succeed in taking over the ship's computer]]. Raiker deals with this by [[spoiler:executing the prisoners recaptured during the revolt. Blake surrenders to stop this and Raiker responds by executing two more prisoners ForTheEvulz]]. Even his fellow crewmates are appalled by him. Raiker's comeuppance [[spoiler:when he gets sucked out into space]] at the end of the episode just isn't satisfying enough.
* ''BlueHeelers'':
** Vincent Platt from the season three episodes "Spider Man" and "Day of Reckoning" is introduced getting his kicks watching police divers fish out the body of a little girl who was kidnapped, raped and murdered, one of his victims, which disgusts Wayne. The police bring him in, but they can't get any evidence out of him so they cut him loose. He immediately kidnaps another girl, and when he's brought in he refuses to help, cries about his rights, then tries to bait Nick into attacking him by describing techniques on kidnapping little children and how sexually appealing they are. When that doesn't work he tries to assault him. Nick then brings in the photo of Platt's victim, trying to appeal to some form of decency. Platt steals the photo, taunts Nick about the victim, [[CardCarryingVillain declares he doesn't have a conscience, end of story and brags the police "will never find the little bitch," his words.]] Nick is so infuriated he tries to kill Platt, before becoming disgusted at what he might have done, but it gives Platt the idea to bash himself and make it look like Nick did it, only to be HoistByHisOwnPetard and kills himself.
** Ashley Barker in the episode "Childs Play". She and her boyfriend Luke Knight find young adults to have sex with, by force if they are not willing, then brag about it, and Ashley video tapes it and posts it on the Internet. When Luke had picked out a girl he genuinely liked her. Ashley reacts by using a pair of scissors to stab the girl. She then got Luke to slash her throat but he couldn't, so after he stabbed the victim until he got tired Ashley kept stabbing her even though she was well past dead before she and Luke made Beth stab her as well. When Ashley and Luke are caught, they both mock the victim's mother.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
** Howard Epps. It's not known exactly how many women he murdered, but we know of six. He manipulated Bones and her TrueCompanions into stopping his execution, and then escaped prison by starting a fire and killing a fire-fighter, dressing in the man's uniform, and walking out, only to continue his twisted little mind games with Bones. He shows up in her apartment, tries to kill her, and jumps from the balcony, killing himself by letting go of Booth's hand.
** The Gravedigger, simply because of the way he [[spoiler:(or she, as it would turn out)]] dispatches victims: ''burying them alive''. And we learn that the motive amounts to "because I can".
* A couple psychos make the extra effort to stand out in Series/BreakingBad.
** [[CreepyTwins "The Cousins,"]] Marco and Leonel Salamanca, are a pair of mechanical, near emotion-free hitmen for a drug cartel who kill without any hesitation. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment comes when they cross the border into the United States in a truck and casually slaughter every single person that came into the country with them.
** The drug dealers who get little kids to do their dirty work, making them kill to prove themselves and murdering them if they become a liability aren't exactly boyscouts, but the smile that they flash Jesse after they think they've gotten away with it shows that they truly have no remorse.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Described by one of the most ancient, powerful and evil vampires as 'The most vicious creature he'd ever met, ' Angelus set the standards for evil in the Buffyverse. For centuries, Angelus was the scourge of Europe with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. Angelus kicked off a career in evil with the murders of his own family. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and baby son, turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to preserve his insane, broken work of art forever. When his soul is lost again, Angel delights in psychologically tormenting his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, leaving the corpse for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture, solely for the fun involved.
** Season 7's last five episodes introduced [[PsychoForHire Caleb]], the only villain in the series to rival Angelus in depravity. A [[SinisterMinister defrocked priest]] turned SerialKiller of young women, Caleb uses the trust that people have in him to get closer to his victims, before torturing and killing them. In his first appearance he guts one of the Potential Slayers and leaves her at the side of the road, as a message for Buffy. He then kills another one of the girls during a battle, mangles the arm of another, and puts out Xander's eye, all while cracking bad jokes the entire time. He also coordinates the actions of the Bringers, organising the bombing of the Watcher Council's headquarters (resulting in most of their deaths), arranging the assaults on numerous Potentials, and trying to have Faith killed while she was in prison. A [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic sadist]], who believes that all women are whores and deserve what he does to them, Caleb is The First Evil's [[TheDragon right-hand man]], and lives for the oncoming apocalypse, seeing the end of the world as a way to dispose of all those who do not share his mad religious convictions; he also gets a real kick out reenacting his murders with the shapeshifting First. Perhaps the most frightening thing about Caleb, however, is that he is entirely human, with nary a supernatural excuse, nor a FreudianExcuse, in sight.
* Carla from ''Series/BurnNotice''. She finds operatives to help in her activities by blackmail mostly, usually involving threats to their families, and has no problem causing sheer pain to one's family as a warning. Her activities are also usually undertaken with no regard for the lives of anyone, including her operatives, who are killed if she finds any possibility of them compromising the operation. One of the few villains on the show who was killed directly by one of the protagonists, and hardly not deserving.
* ''ChoujinkiMetalder'' had God Neros, whose plan for conquering the earth involved such things as mass starvation and genocide, he's also shown to be very unrepentant about his tactics and will stop at absolutley NOTHING in order to achive them, one of these actions involves him [[spoiler:ORGANIZING THE MURDER OF ONE OF HIS FRIENDS FROM WORLD WAR II, SOLEY BECAUSE HE WANTED METALDER TO NOT BE USED FOR EVIL!]], his demise is truly deserving when in the finale, [[spoiler:Metalder chops off his head and he dies painfully]].
* Several of the killers in ''CityHomicide'', beginning in the pilot with Dr Sean Macready, a psychiatrist who kills over a dozen children by starting fires, each time making them look like electrical accidents. His motive each time is to punish his adulterous female patients, five of which later killed themselves, something he probably caused through his sessions with them. The one point of sympathy he gets is that his own children were killed in a fire when his wife was away with her own lover, but then it's implied that he started that fire as well. He is killed at the end of the episode when he unsuccessfully attempts to pull one of his victims into the fire, after the other two had escaped.
** The following episode has Brett Semple, the teenage illegitimate son of an armed robber who gets involved with his father's gang after he goes missing, and then proves himself to be far worse: he kills a bank teller in cold blood during a heist, and later shoots at the police when they come for him, with his own mother in the room. The ironic part is that Brett's father kept out of his life specifically to avoid tainting him and bringing him down that path.
** Frances Deerborne, who murders her husband's rich family, down to his younger siblings and the housekeeper, to ensure that he receives his inheritance. It is suggested that she intends to kill him later and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
** Billy Pierce, who starts by framing Superintendent Waverley for corruption as revenge for her supposed responsibility for his brother's suicide. In the season finale, he crosses the MoralEventHorizon by kidnapping her teenage son, slashing his wrists, and leaving his body for Waverley to find.
** Daniel Worthington, a misogynistic serial rapist who specifically targets strong women who he can't dominate in any other way. Worse, he drugs his wife and daughter during a movie night so that he can leave to commit his rapes, while ensuring they'll provide an alibi for him. The only reason he fails to get away with it is because Claudia baits him during her interrogation of him, and he forgoes his overseas trip to target her.
* ''Series/TheCloser'':
** Philip Stroh is a truly AmoralAttorney who defends sex offenders, but who also happens to be a serial rapist who used one of his clients as a stalking horse. He is notably one of the few criminals that Major Crimes hasn't nailed, managing to beat Brenda at her own game. For Brenda, he's ThatOneCase.
** Roger Stimple, a child molester who loves to rape and kill prepubescent black girls. You feel NO sympathy when Sgt. Gabriel beats the everlasting shit out of him.
* ''ColdCase'':
** Josh Freely from season 1's "Fly Away" was the first and worst in what would become a long line of secondary villains more despicable than the actual killer. A social worker working with emotionally-ustable parents, he is in reality a brutal pedophile who uses his position to find new victims. Freely piles emotional abuse onto the parents, making them feel as though they're worthless, so they surrender their kids to him, and if that doesn't work he's more than happy to fudge his own records so his superiors order the children removed. His abuse eventually reaches the point that one such mother murders her daughter rather than let Freely take her.
** The season 1 finale, "Lovers' Lane," brings us Jim Larkin, a [[VillainousGlutton slovenly glutton]] and serial rapist. Too lazy to even abduct victims himself, he instead badgers his abused and weak-willed son to do so for him, usually unattractive teenage girls he pretends to befriend. His assaults are absolutely brutal, reaching the point at which he murders one of his victims simply for calling him "disgusting."
** Roger Mulvaney, of season 3's "A Perfect Day," is without question the worst {{Domestic Abuse}}r in the series. A DirtyCop who ruthlessly beats his wife and two daughters, he eventually, once she decides to leave him for another man, resolves that [[IfICantHaveYou if he can't have them, nobody could]], kidnapping the three of them and making his wife watch as he throws one of the girls from a tall bridge.
** Rayanne Leland from season 5's "Spiders" is a sugary-sweet stay-at-home mom who also happens to run a Neo-Nazi coven out of her basement. When her son Truitt murders a Hispanic woman, Truitt's girlfriend, Tamyra, turns to Rayanne for help, only to find to her horror that Rayanne wholeheartedly supports her son's actions, and calmly tells Tamyra that all Hispanics should be exterminated, [[DissonantSerenity her warm, loving smile never leaving her face]]. When Tamyra threatens to go to the police, Rayanne browbeats the most insecure and sympathetic member of the coven, Elliot, into murdering her.
** John Smith from season 5's "The Road" is the most horrific SerialKiller seen on the show. [[EnfantTerrible Disturbed since childhood]], he described the sight of watching a woman drown while doing nothing to save her as the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, and dedicated his adult life to replicating that "beauty." Abducting women who were perfectly happy with their lives, Smith brought them to special cellars where he sealed them off, watching as they went insane from isolation before finally leaving them there to starve.
** Daniel Patterson from season 5's "Slipping" is the ultimate [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslighter]]. [[GreenEyedMonster Insanely jealous of his wife's skill at poetry]], he hatched a plan to both steal her work for his own and get rid of her. With the aid of his slavishly-devoted housekeeper, he did everything in his power to drive his wife insane and ultimately to suicide, maintaining a facade of a caring husband all the while. When he failed to break her, he murdered her himself. To prevent his stepdaughter from knowing the truth he sent her to a notoriously harsh boarding school, believing his story that her mother committed suicide for 45 years.
* ''{{CSI}}''
** Mandy and Cameron Klinefeld from season 4's "Assume Nothing" put the "unholy" back in UnholyMatrimony. A married couple united by a shared sexual fetish for rape and murder, the pair operate by abducting other husbands and wives, sexually torturing the women while making the men watch, with the ultimate goal of forcing them to MercyKill the women they love. They promise the husbands they can go free if they do this, but of course, [[ILied they're lying]].
** Season 12 ArcVillain Laura Gabriel is a ruthless arms smuggler and BigBadFriend to [[TheLancer Catherine Willows]]. Playing a meek and submissive wife to her [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sleazy private military firm head husband Mark]], she uses this false personality to deflect blame off her and onto him as she funnels his company's weapons to TheMafia and {{The Cartel}}s. When the investigation starts getting too close to the truth, she hires employees of the company to murder her own lawyer and all of his staff; following this, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she kills the assassins]] and burns their bodies beyond recognition in order to fake her own death and that of her right-hand man. She intended for an enraged Catherine to [[VigilanteExecution summarily execute her husband]], and also placed a contract on Catherine herself to clean up the last remaining loose end, not caring for her old friend in the slightest.
* Shane Casey borderlines this on ''{{CSINY}}'', primarily after realizing his brother was actually guilty and starting to torment Danny and Lindsay.
* In ''{{Deadwood}}'', Francis Wolcott and George Hearst were the {{Complete Monster}}s who squared off with MagnificentBastard Al Swearengen. Wolcott was a sexual sadist who enjoyed murdering prostitutes and Hearst, well, let's just say that his lack of ethics and decency made Swearengen look like a moral paragon. [[spoiler:The series ends with Hearst winning the conflict big time, riding out of town with everything he wanted and with Swearengen forced to go beyond the MoralEventHorizon by killing an innocent prostitute to save Trixie from Hearst's retribution. Something of a ForegoneConclusion, since the character is based on a successful businessman and US Senator from US history.]]
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' generally has {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s and {{Anti Villain}}s, but not always:
** By the end of season 3, [[MyBelovedSmother Gloria Hodge]], has really come across as this. Seriously, here's a woman so insanely determined that her son will marry Alma, a woman he doesn't love, that she's not only completely willing to murder any other woman who gets close to him, but also quite ready to frame other, innocent people for the crimes and emotionally blackmail her vulnerable son into becoming an accomplice in the murder of a woman he loved. She continues her mad efforts to force her son back into this miserable marriage for so long, even after Alma herself has told him to give it up, that you have to [[HiddenAgendaVillain wonder just who she's trying to please]]. And this is all before you find out that she infiltrated Bree's house and gained her trust solely for [[spoiler:the sake of polishing her off too]]. And ''that's'' before you find out that, when Orson was a teenager, [[spoiler:she murdered her husband, set it up to look like a suicide, and ''allowed the young Orson to blame himself for this'']]. In the end, the viewer can only cheer when [[spoiler:she ends up with [[AndIMustScream locked-in syndrome]] and Orson [[IShallTauntYou takes the opportunity to taunt her]].]]
** Patrick Logan from season 6, an environmental terrorist who probably has devolved into TerroristWithoutACause and is hellbent on destroying Angie and Nick's lives. He kills in cold blood the neighbor who tells him where Angie is hiding, and later threatens Angie into making a bomb [[spoiler: that he plans to blow up into her house to kill her son Danny.]] Too bad for him that [[spoiler: Angie put the bomb in the detonator...]]
** Barbara Orlofsky. After being left by her husband, despite being offered help from Mary Alice, she keeps on drinking and mistreating her son Eddie, just because she thinks ''he'' has ruined her life. She humiliates him and laughs at every attempt he does to improve his own life, even when there's people trying to encourage him. Her influence is so bad that she grows Eddie into [[spoiler: a serial killer (the Fairview Strangler), who escapes this trope for being a TragicVillain]]. And then [[spoiler: she becomes his last victim.]]
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' :
** Jordan Chase from season 5 of might just be one of the worst monsters in the whole show thus far. He directs a group of men to capture women to torture and rape for months before disposing of them in barrels. All the while, Jordan looks on, occasionally holding his watch to the women's ears and whispering, "Tick tick tick. That's the sound of your life running out." Watching the video footage they took of what they did to the women was enough to make [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Debra]] root for the people who were tracking them down and killing them (despite it being her job to catch the killers). Dexter himself admits that they sicken him. The tapes themselves, which the viewers listen to, are pure horror. When Dexter and Lumen (the last victim who managed to get away) finally have Jordan at their mercy, he taunts Lumen about what he did to her, mocking her for being so "pathetic" and "helpless". [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome When Lumen plunges her dagger into Jordan's chest]], the only thing unsatisfactory about it all is [[KarmaHoudini how quick his death was]]. Unlike the Ice Truck Killer, Miguel and Trinity, none of these bastards are presented with a FreudianExcuse, making their actions all the more horrific.
** George King, aka the Skinner, is another major villain whose actions are horrific and who has no known FreudianExcuse to balance out his crimes. In pursuit of a drug dealer who owes him money, the Skinner finds anyone who might have information about said drug dealer's whereabouts and questions them while cutting off their skin. [[MoralEventHorizon One of his victims was an innocent boy]] [[FridgeHorror who was confirmed to have died from the skinning process]]. When Dexter confronts the Skinner, he confirms that, despite the reasons the Skinner makes up for performing his grisly crimes (which are by no means a justification anyway), his only real reason is simply [[ForTheEvulz because he likes it]].
** Many of Dexter's minor victims fall into this category too. In fact, the major villains tend to come off as ''more'' sympathetic than most of the minor ones (seen with both Arthur Mitchell from Season 4 and The Ice Truck Killer of Season 1, who are ''still'' monsters). Chase and King are the crowning exceptions.
* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' has several villains almost approaching this, but two stand out in particular. First is Hearn, who [[spoiler: repeatedly rapes Sierra while she's in a childlike state in which she's been conditioned to trust him]]. He is then sent to kill Paul Ballard's neighbor, Mellie, which he appears to ''enjoy.'' [[spoiler: He gets his in the end.]] Then there's Nolan Kinnard, who, when his various Dollhouse-assisted attempts at seducing Priya Tsetsang fail, [[spoiler: has her kidnapped, drugged to appear schizophrenic, and committed to a mental hospital. He then volunteers her to the Dollhouse as an active and books her for repeated engagements in which she is in love with him.]] A throwaway shot of his drawer of Polaroids of [[spoiler: Sierra]] is a Crowning Moment of {{Squick}}, no mean feat in a series whose entire premise is designed to make you squirm.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
** Captain Selto Durka. A Peacekeeper captain legendary among the ranks for "getting results", he spends a good deal of his appearances [[TortureTechnician torturing people]]; not only did he torture Rygel for years long before the story began, but during his second episode, he also left the comm channel open so the rest of the crew would hear him burning Aeryn's face off. Oh, and then there was that attempt to abort Moya's child just so she would be capable of Starbursting to safety.
** Natira, who was Scorpius' girlfriend until he dumped her for [[EvenEvilHasStandards being to evil for his standards]]. She clearly gets off on torture and mass-murder: when an unwanted shipment of slaves ends up in her hands, she has all but one of them executed for her own amusement. Then she takes aside Rorf and Crichton for a little game of "[[EyeScream I love your lying eyes]]".
** Kaarvok is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] MadScientist with a hand-held cloning machine on standby. He's willing to do anything to ensure that he has more food...or family; he's forgotten that there's a difference. This includes cloning his victims (before killing one in front of the other), keeping Rovhu's traumatized Pilot alive so his regenerating limbs can be harvested for meat, and forcing members of Moya's crew to breed with his degenerate clone army just so he'd have [[EatsBabies something tastier]] than clone-brains to look forward to.
** Commandant Grayza, who spent her second episode date-raping John Crichton before going on to sell out entire sections of inhabited space to the atrocity-prone Scarran Imperium. And when she screws up, she's not prepared to go down unless she takes everyone aboard her command carrier with her - men, women, and children.
** Tauza from "Incubator"? Not only was she in charge of a hybridization project that had at least ninety Sebacean women raped, but she also abused the surviving offspring, Scorpius, to an unbelievable extent - all in an attempt to purge him of [[FantasticRacism "Sebacean impurities"]]: torturing him with heat lamps, beating him savagely for using the word "please", and forcing him to watch a recording of his mother being raped.
* Despite his initial appearance as an [[BaitTheDog avuncular old man]], Adelai Niska from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is quickly revealed to be the most vicious character in the series. A sadist with a love of personally conducting ColdBloodedTorture on his victims, Niska is proud of his [[TheDreaded feared reputation amongst the criminal community]] and is obsessed with ensuring the horror stories surrounding him are all true. When he first meets the crew of Serenity, Niska shows off the mutilated corpse of his wife's nephew to solidify his reputation in their eyes and to show them what price they'll pay should they fail him. After commissioning the crew to steal important cargo from an Alliance train, the crew is horrified to realize that what they've stolen is the medicine needed to treat an entire city full of sick settlers. In his next appearance, Niska is seen carving up another failed employee, before getting his hands on Mal and Wash, whom he also proceeds to torture for hours. Eventually Zoe, Mal's first mate and Wash's wife, offers to buy Niska's captives off of him, but Niska tells her that with the money she has, she can only afford one of them and tries to force her into a SadisticChoice. When Zoe ruins his fun by immediately picking her husband, he responds by saying there is enough money for ''some'' of Captain Reynolds. He then cuts off Mal's ear and gives it to her. Niska spends the remainder of the episode torturing Mal to death, only to use advanced technology to bring him back to life so Niska can have the pleasure of torturing Mal to death for days.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'':
** Richard Steig, from the pilot episode. He releases a flesh-melting toxin aboard a crowded airplane as a demonstration to potential buyers; worse still, the toxin arrived on the airplane through the insulin pen of his unsuspecting twin brother, who was chosen as a victim simply [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten to show just how dedicated Steig was]].
** David Esterbrook from "The Cure" definitely qualifies as well. He's a pharmaceutical executive running a program turning young women suffering from a rare disease into radiation-emitting bioweapons and tested it out on a cafe of innocent people.
** The unreformed Nazi in "The Bishop Revival" who develops a toxin specifically to target and kill Holocaust survivors and their descendants. He tests his toxin on a bunch of random people in a coffee shop just to see if it'll kill everyone with the genetic traits that he picked. In the end he tries to disrupt an international peace conference with a massacre just for the hell of it.
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* ''{{Garo}}'' had Barago, who was a rouge power hungry former Makai Knight wo was responisble for many of the horrible things happening in the first series from [[spoiler:Kaoru being the gate for Messiah]] to [[spoiler:The murder of Kouga's Father and Rei's Family]] there was also the part where he cut down the mirage of his own mother just to show not only how much he was willing to give up but to prove that his own family was less important to him than power, which was all he wanted from life, it's quite ironic when he is [[spoiler:screwed over by Messiah]] since he was planning to stab her in the back in order for, you guessed it, MORE power.
* ''TheGoodWife'' had a rare non-murderous example of a CompleteMonster in TV talk show host Duke Roscoe. A Glenn Beck-esque political shock jock, he accused a woman whose child had been kidnapped of murdering her, hounded her until she committed suicide, then mocked her grieving husband to his face while continuing to insist that the dead woman was a murderer. When the network was sued for libel, he threatened to quit if they settled, and went on the attack against the opposing attorneys. [[spoiler:And then CONTINUED to attempt to defame them after the child he accused the woman of murdering was found alive, kidnapped by strangers.]] This story was RippedFromTheHeadlines based on an incident with Nancy Grace.
* ''Gramps'', a 1995 made-for-TV movie also starring Griffith in the title role, a grandfather named Jack [=MacGruder=] whose outwardly sweet side is a cover for a bloodthirsty sociopath who nearly succeeds in destroying his family ...all to get at and rape his "precious" 7-year-old grandson, Matthew. Why? About 40 years earlier, Jack was the autocratic head of his household and constantly came up with new ways to beat his poor wife when she stepped even a millimeter out of line; finally, the wife is able to build a backbone and leave, taking her 7-year-old son, Clark, with her (the wife wins the divorce, cleaning out Jack, who got no visitation rights to see his son). In the present, Clark tracks down his father and -- hoping he's changed and gotten his anger issues under control -- invites him to stay. Jack charms everyone with his guitar picking, but eventually, this sinister pedophile licks his chops as he unleashes his pent-up anger on innocent people: he breaks the housekeeper's legs with a baseball bat, smashes a fire extinguisher over the head of a police officer, runs down a teenaged girl with his car (and also does the same to his daughter-in-law), and kills his daughter-in-law's father after he gathers evidence to refute Jack's claim that the daughter-in-law was cheating on him. In the end, Jack died as he lived: kidnapping Matthew and one of his female classmates. There is one final confrontation along a river, and he threatens to throw the tykes over the edge of a waterfall if Clark does not pay a $1 million ransom. Clark agrees, but throws the money in the river to the girl. When Jack tries to go after the girl, she lets him have the money and begins throwing out bills into the river; the greedy Jack begins collecting the bills...until he is caught in the current and unable to avoid going over the edge of the waterfall. Clark rescues Matthew and the little girl as Jack is crushed to death on the rocks below.
* The TV series of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' had quite a few evil immortals:
** Early villain Felicia Martins appears at first to be a DamselInDistress, a young Immortal on run from the run from the brutal, obsessed Claude Deveraux. It is revealed that Martins is far older than she claims and Deveraux is hunting her because Martins murdered his wife and their adopted baby daughter. This is her MO: she ingratiates herself into the lives of her victims and murders everything they love, making it so they're off their game and she can easily take their heads. She attempts to murder hero Duncan Macleod's loved ones after she takes Deveraux's head and is last seen [[KarmaHoudini vowing to return and murder who Duncan loves]] after he spares her
** Kalas, the BigBad of the third season is an ancient Immortal who was previously a monk who helped his teacher run a sanctuary on holy ground for Immortals. Kalas, however, used the sanctuary to murder Immortals by ambushing them as they left. After Macleod exposed him and his teacher banished him forever, Kalas vowed revenge. He later attempted to murder a young singer after only suspecting Macleod was involved with her in the 1920s, and when he returned in the 90s, he systematically laid out a web to destroy everyone close to Macleod after murdering his old teacher, Brother Paul. Kalas shows no hesitation in torturing and murdering innocent people, destroying the live of anyone remotely associated with Macleod. At the end, he is willing to reveal the secrets of Immortals at large to world and throw everything into chaos if Macleod doesn't offer his head.
** Kern of the episode ''Line Of Fire'' is described by his watcher as an 'animal,' who rapes, kills and steals as he will. Kern in the past was a scout for American forces who loves killing Native Americans. He earned Macleod's enmity when he helped slaughter the Sioux village Macleod was living with and presented Duncan with the scalps he had taken. Kern has no remorse in taking an innocent young woman and baby hostage to gain and advantage and happily describes the crimes he has committed over the centuries when confronted.
** Ernst Daimler is the only Immortal seen who's a [[ThoseWackyNazis former Nazi]]. A firm believer in fascism, Daimler sought to help 'purge' all lower races in World War 2 and ordered the slaughter of hundreds of innocent people, as well as wounded prisoners, until he was stopped by a young boy who stabbed him in the back. Thinking he was dead, the boy and his cousin wrapped Daimler in chains and threw him into the Seine where he remained [[AndIMustScream for decades.]] In the present, Daimler leads a white supremacist movement and finds the little boy who stabbed him, now a kindly old priest. Daimler gleefully guns him down after terrifying him off holy ground, and then attempts to murder a pregnant woman who tried to stop him before Macleod intervenes and takes Daimler's head.
** Kronos, an Immortal whose legacy of death dates to the Bronze Age. Kronos was the leader of the Four Horsemen, a band of Immortals who led armies to RapePillageAndBurn across continents. Kronos was the most sadistic of all of them, slaughtering the innocent and raping who he desired, including a slave girl for no other reason than his sworn brother Methos had taken a liking to her. In the present, Kronos recruits Methos, now TheAtoner, back into a scheme to reunite the Horsemen and create a plague to destroy all of humanity, viewing himself as the end of time itself.
** Morgan Walker is unique amongst other Highlander villains in that he's been a slaver for centuries. While Walker once dealt in the Atlantic Slave Trade, in modern times he uses his job as a modeling agent to capture young women for the sex trade. In prior years, Walker had an attachment to a slave named Charlotte, but after he suspected she had an affair, he killed her throwing her out of a high window and displays no remorse for her death. When hunting Methos, the immortal she had the affair with, Walker also kidnaps the daughter of Methos's good friend with full intention to kill or sell her should her father not betray Methos.
* Johnny Cooper of ''HomeAndAway'', probably the most evil of the show's villains. He and his group of surfers survive solely on the proceeds of armed robberies, and [[MoralEventHorizon worse]], he coerces his brother Rocco into helping them despite the latter's desire to go straight. When Rocco betrays him and puts him in jail, he has him killed by another member of the gang and then torments Rocco's foster brother after he is falsely convicted of his murder. A year later, he breaks out and attempts to kill Sally because she turned Rocco against him, while holding her brother hostage during the confrontation. Finally, he blackmails Sam into hiding him, possibly raping her offscreen at one point. And unlike villains like Sarah Lewis and Eve Jacobsen, there is never any suggestion of Johnny having a FreudianExcuse.
* Due to its morally ambiguous nature and realistic tendencies, ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' didn't have many of these, preferring to keep their villains as pathetic figures. But a few do stand out. The most prominent is Luther Mahoney, a Drug kingpin who has complete control over the Heroin deals in Baltimore. He escapes justice time and again and just loves rubbing his wealth and KarmaHoudini status in the face of the Detectives. He's also very smart, making himself a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity pillar of his community]] that no one wants to think anything bad about. His crimes include murdering rival dealers and anyone who stands in his way, intimidating witnesses, and ordering murders. It's mentioned at one point that he is responsible for dozens of murders.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'':
** "The Even Chance": Midshipman Jack Simpson ruthlessly torments his fellow midshipmen, both physically and psychologically. He is a sadistic bully who takes great pleasure in his evil games. He claims that he knows the guys' secrets and what gnaws their souls, and uses it as blackmail. He keeps [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating them]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown mercilessly]]. His abuse of Archie Kennedy is the worst as he is the one most terrified of him, and Simpson's mere presence gives him stress-induced ConvulsiveSeizures. Simpson is able to manipulate the situation and is never held responsible, and the others get punished instead. Later he attempts to murder his shipmates in the middle of a raid by setting one adrift in a boat and shooting the other. When he's challenged to the DuelToTheDeath, he cheats and claims it was a misfire. Finally, when his life is spared, he's unable to deal with CruelMercy and tries to stab his opponent InTheBack.
** "The Frogs and the Lobsters": Colonel [[AristocratsAreEvil Marquis]] Moncoutant is one of the leaders of French Royalist troops who set on a mission to restore the monarchy in France during the French Revolution with the help of the British Navy. However, he doesn't care much about the cause and not at all about his soldiers. The fate of other aristocrats doesn't concern him either, but he's very proud that he's BlueBlood and he believes that common people are impossible to improve, comparing them to animals. He killed a mayor and nearly [[WouldHurtAChild shot a child]] for singing ''Marseillaise'' upon his arrival to his village, and later he keeps gleefully [[OffWithHisHead killing off villagers with his personal guillotine]] one after another for no bigger offence than [[DisproportionateRetribution selling old bread]]. He never shows any remorse for his evil deeds.
* Emperor Caligula is presented as this in ''Series/IClaudius''. Not only does he poison his own father and assist in the murders of others, but when he inherits the throne of Rome, he turns the whole empire into a realm of terror and debauchery, having people murdered on insane whims (including his 12-year-old cousin and co-heir Gemellus for having a persistent cough), and forcing their wives to participate in twisted orgies against their will. He also [[TraumaticCSection cuts open his sister Drusilla to devour her unborn child]]. [[BrotherSisterIncest His child, no less.]]
* The Nazis in the Spanish series ''El Internado'', being, well, [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] and all that.
** Karl Fleischer([[spoiler:Don Joaquin]]) was a Nazi officer during WWII, began [[spoiler: racial purity experiments]] at the orphanage near the end of WWII and held out hope for the Third Reich after Hitler's suicide. When [[spoiler:Jacinta]] threatens to [[spoiler:go to the police to denounce him for kidnapping children, reporting them dead to their parents and the state, and handing the children over to adoptive parents]], he tries to kill her. If you felt bad for him after [[spoiler:his death]] at the end of season 4, you'll feel a lot better when you find out he's a Nazi.
** Jacques Noiret kills [[spoiler: [[WouldHurtAChild Cayetano]]]] and made it look like he had overdosed, bought [[spoiler: his son Ivan]] from a drug addict for 2 million euros and murders [[spoiler:his wife when she finds out and tries to make amends to the biological mother]].
** [[BigBad Ritter Wulf]] was a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate doctor at a concentration camp during the Holocaust]], performing horrific, often lethal, experiments on children. After the war, Wulf [[spoiler:fakes his death and takes the name Santiago Pazos-he's the grandfather to the series' protagonist.]]
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'''s Serial killer Charles "Charlie" Lynch in "Goodbyes". In "Nobody's Child" he had offscreen brutally stamped to death a young girl. Harmon Rabb confronts him on a decommissioned navy ship in Philadelphia where he'd taken the twin sister of the killed girl.
-->'''Rabb''': ''Charlie, there's something I need to know. Why did you kill Annie?''
-->'''Lynch''': ''I told her not to get on that school bus.''
-->'''Rabb''': ''She just wanted to be with kids her own age.''
-->'''Lynch''': ''She disrespected me.''
-->'''Rabb''': ''And for that, you beat her to death?''
-->'''Lynch''': ''[[AxCrazy You have a problem with that]]?''
-->'''Rabb''': ''Yeah, I got a problem with that.''
* From ''Series/JonathanCreek'': [[spoiler:Alan Kallarnak]]. Granted, the man had a motive: as a [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]], he was furious that his ex-wife had an abortion. But what he does afterwards leads another character to claim that his "soul rightfully belongs in Hell". After discovering that his ex-wife had a child out of wedlock in her teenage years (one that she's befriended, but neglected to tell of his maternity), he approaches the now-grown son and convinces him to murder his own mother (without informing him that she ''is'' his mother; the son was actually in love with her and - being a bit mentally disturbed - couldn't understand why she didn't reciprocate). The son dutifully carries out the murder, and the woman dies reaching out for him. The scene in which she breaks down in front of her ex-husband, sobbing about how her own son wants to kill her, contains a moment in which the killer smiles to himself as he comes up with his plan, cementing his position as a CompleteMonster. [[spoiler:Upon learning this, neither Jonathan nor Carla are particularly inclined to turn his murderers over to the police once they determine who they are.]]
* ''{{Juukou B-Fighter}}'' brought us [[BigBad Emperor Gaohm]] while at first his actions were that of a standard Toku BigBad, he became worse when it was revealed in one episode he was kidnapping children, the only reason for it? to make them do ''SLAVE LABOR'' all he did was brush it off as nothing, in the final episodes he's shown to be pushed far past the MoralEventHorizon, when he gives [[MonsterOfTheWeek Hidra]] and armband that was actully a bomb, along with costing his other servants their lives, treating them like nothing more than cannon fodder in his final plan to kill everything on earth because he was stopped by the B-Fighters
** There's also his track record of Slavery and Genocide of other worlds/dimensions before he set course for earth.
* ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' is full of [[JerkAss undesirables]], but Papa Lazarou takes the cake as the worst of all. His actions include but are not limited to capturing women and locking them in a cage to have water sprayed at them by his dwarf minions and stitching people up inside his circus animals.
* Quite every villain in ''LegendOfTheSeeker'', which is based on ''SwordOfTruth'', the book series. [[BigBad Darken Rahl]] commits mass infanticide, murders for kicks and for ink, horribly tortures people to gain magical powers, etc. He has his own sister beat violently and lies to her so she will betray her other brother and bring him the tools to take free will from every living thing in the world. He also unleashes a plague on his own people (killing hundreds of them, including a meek looking boy we are shown) for the sole reason of trying to turn people against Richard, and when all of this fails to win him victory, he ''kills a kitten with his BARE HANDS'' . Bonus points come from the fact that all of the above happens in one episode. Nicholas Rahl from the BadFuture is even more evil. He is shown to kill both of his parents and later enslaved the whole of humanity. [[EnfantTerrible Princess Violet]] manages to become a CompleteMonster despite being a child, as she already orders beheadings, keeps a "playmate" who she regularly slaps and punishes for no reason other than [[ForTheEvulz her own enjoyment]], enjoys torturing prisoners, and makes plans to have women she does not like gang-raped by the castle guard. Her mother, Queen Milena, is even more horrible as she executes anyone who annoys or upsets her! It is clear that she is the reason for why Violet is who she is.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': Anne Hannity is the most heinous villain yet featured on the show. She wanted to kill off the world's wheat market with a super-plague, so her own plague-resistant super-wheat would make her and, by extension, her company infinity billion dollars. She was going to starve the WHOLE PLANET in the name of Capitalism. She also threatens Archie Leach's family to make him help her, and attempts to murder the entire Leverage team when they find her out, asking them how they would like to be killed ("[[TheDragon Mister Voorhees]] is flexible.") On a show where most villains are interested in stealing patents and building strip malls she, and her [[TheDragon Dragon]], cold-blooded Security Cheif Voorhees really stand out. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Parker's mentor and Master Thief Archie even called the woman the trope.]]
---> '''Archie''': This virus would wipe out all the normal wheat...
---> '''Nate''': Causing famine and making her super-wheat the only option.
---> '''Archie''': She would have to be a monster.
---> '''Nate''': Yes, she would.
* ''Series/LieToMe'' had Andrew Jenkins, a serial rapist who kidnapped, tortured, blinded, and raped 12 women, and then let them go explicitly because he wanted them to live on to think about him every day.
** His copycat is almost as bad, first seeking out and marrying one of the victims to "be close to what he did to [her]" and then starting his own crime spree himself.
** Martin Walker, the titular psychopath in the aptly-named episode "Beat the Devil", a psychology student who gains Lightmans' notice when he is aroused by pictures of women being tortured; Cal correctly surmises that he has probably already killed people, and it turns out that he is, in fact, a SerialKiller, whose M.O. was water boarding young girls ''repeatedly'', then killing them after ''forcing them to dig their own graves.'' The water boarding thing is part of his pathology - he does it because, when he was a boy, his sister drowned in their swimming pool; he didn't murder her, but he saw her drowning and decided to not raise the alarm. The reason?
--> I wanted her bike.
** Zach from the series finale screws over his supposed friends for money. He doesn't care who he hurts in the course of getting ahead.
* Blue Duck in the ''LonesomeDove'' miniseries, a half breed Indian murderer and rapist, he kidnaps and rapes Lori and kills a few people, including a child. At the end, he is finally caught and about to be hung when he jumps out of a window, taking a guard with him, and both are killed.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has PsychoForHire Martin Keamy and Anthony Cooper, the con man who ruined the lives of two survivors ([[spoiler:Sawyer, due to taking all the money of his parents and leading them to death; and ''his own son'', John Locke, making him lose a kidney, his girlfriend, and the ability to walk]]).
** [[spoiler:The StartOfDarkness story for the Man in Black (who doesn't count, as he has motives we're supposed to sympathize with) manages to give us another: the unnamed "mother" of MIB and Jacob. The episode starts with her murdering a woman who has just given birth and taking her newborn children, and by the end, she's fed her "kids" a bunch of lies about the outside world and the others on the Island just to keep them with her, tried to murder her own adoptive son for trying to leave the Island, and seemed to massacre a entire village that wasn't harming her and just wanted to escape.]]
*** [[spoiler:Um, that was BEFORE Man in Black's transformation into a literal CompleteMonster. Post-transformation, he was evil incarnate and manipulated people into doing his bidding by making empty promises he had no intention on keeping, turned people into his insane minions with the sickness, and has killed a LOT of people, some in order to get off the Island, some simply because he has no use for them. It's also implied that he's going to kill everyone once he leaves the Island, and his final plan is to destroy the Island so that he can drown everyone else on it, which could have possibly also destroyed the entire world. And while pre-transformation human Man in Black showed remorse over killing his mother, post-transformation monster Man in Black showed no remorse and sometimes has shown sadistic amusement at people's suffering. He managed to be FAR worse than his fake mother, who, while crazy, was protecting the Island in order to prevent the devastating consequences, and it's probably because of this job and going mad over having to do it for so long that she acted the way she did. By the end of the series, everyone teams up against Man in Black, even past villains like Ben and Widmore, and MIB's own "claimed" minions, Claire and Sayid, eventually regain their senses and turn against him as well.]]
*** Very well said, sir/madam. He was pure evil, to the point where [[spoiler: season six didn't need a bomb/explosion in the finale (something every other season finale had) because, well, how do you top a nuke being detonating? The Man In Black, that's how.]]
* ''MadanSenkiRyukendo'' has Baron Bloody, a demonic robot scientist. In his first appearance, he sets up the death of NobleDemon Jack Moon to use his body in his own experiments. Later, it is revealed that he is responsible for the death of the SixthRanger's parents...who tried to stop him from blowing up Europe. When confronted by said SixthRanger, he proudly takes responsibility and casually refers his parents as 'foolish couple'. Where the other villains still have some sense of humor in their plans, Bloody's plans are downright vicious. Luckily, he's no KarmaHoudini, since his death involves screaming in fear, having an axe shoved into his mouth, and releasing a painful scream when he falls down to his death.
* ''Series/TheMentalist'' has some criminals who are flat out irredeemable and unsympathetic. One is obviously Red John, the serial killer that was responsible for Patrick Jane's involvement with the CBI. Another was in the episode "Red Carpet Treatment", where they attempt to investigate the death of a serial killer who was cleared of DNA evidence. The complete monster in question was actually the serial killer they were investigating. The serial killer was so horrific that even the man responsible for his death was allowed to get off scot-free for a very good reason: [[spoiler: he killed the Serial Killer when the latter not only refused any requests by the man to stay away from his wife, but also implies that he might intend to slit his wife's throat shortly after his release.]]
** Rachel Bowman in "Ball of Fire" is an interesting case. She has somewhat of a FreudianExcuse: her single father was a killer who was put in jail by Jane's team and later died there. But given all that she does in the episode - hiring a hitman to capture Jane, ''[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness shooting that same hitman]]'', torturing Jane with a cattle prod, [[spoiler: luring Lisbon to the hideout so that she can burn them both alive]] - she definitely qualifies.
* That mad psychiatrist from the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "Mindbend", who works for TheSyndicate and {{Mind Rape}}s petty crooks, brainwashing them into single-use hit men who kill themselves once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they have killed their target]].
* ''Murder In Coweta County'': A 1983 made-for-TV movie that told the true story of John Wallace, a wealthy Meriwether County, Georgia land baron, and moonshine runner who, in the 1940s, virtually ruled the county with an iron fist and had the sheriff in his back pocket. He had excessively sadistic and cruel methods of doling out physical punishment toward people who wronged him; for instance, at the beginning of the film, the sheriff catches a black farmhand stealing from Wallace; Wallace directs the farmhand to place his hands and feet in the jambs of the door, then slams the door shut on him repeatedly. (The "altruistic" side of Wallace, which he presented to the community in general, was a mere cover for his true, sinister side. For instance, he regularly attended church, was a member of the choir and church council, and paid for new pews out of his pocket.) The key incident in the film, which happens in April 1948, comes in the first hour of the movie: a sharecropper named Wilson Turner, who ran shine for Wallace, made a little too much money and made his runs a little too often; Wallace finds out and -- after beating him severely -- orders him off of his land. In retaliation (and perhaps knowing that Wallace would bury him in small-claims court, since Wallace had several judges in his back pocket), Turner steals a prized cow from Wallace's pasture. Sure enough, Wallace finds out and has Turner arrested, but then later decides to drop the charge "on a lack of evidence." Turner is let out of jail, but his freedom is short-lived, as Wallace and three of his thugs are waiting for him at the gas station. Turner hightails it, with Wallace and his buddies in pursuit, and the chase extends into Coweta County, where Turner's truck runs out of gas at the Sunset Tourist Camp; Turner tries to flee but is immediately caught and savagely beaten, creating a disturbance that draws several witnesses. As the men are trying to place Turner in one of the cars, witnesses reportedly saw Wallace pistol-whip Turner atop the head with such force that the gun discharged, likely killing him instantly. It was not good enough for Wallace to merely dispose of Turner's body in a deep well on his property, especially upon learning that hard-nosed Coweta County Sheriff Lamar Potts was investigating the case and -- knowing the fatal blow was administered in the adjacent county -- he had jurisdiction for the entire series of crimes involving Turner's death. So, Wallace directs two African American farmhands to help extract the body from the well, build a pyre, douse the body and wood with kerosene, moonshine, and gasoline...AND SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE!!!! Wallace cackles evily as he dares Potts to arrest him now, believing that the lack of a body will cast doubt on where Turner was killed. Wallace does not count on bone fragments and brain tissue (the few bits of Turner's body that remained after it was otherwise completely cremated) remaining in both the river and well, and that -- plus the testimony of the two farmhands, Wallace's goons refusing to testify in his defense (they were to claim that Turner was still alive when brought back to Meriwether County), Potts persistence in gathering other evidence...and Wallace's own eccentric statement during the trial -- led to an eventual guilty verdict and sentencing to death. Even in the last half hour before his execution Nov. 2, 1950, Wallace remains defiant, declaring himself (to an unimpressed Potts) the leader of "The Kingdom" and that he was taught to do everything without conscience or fear of the consequences. His last statement, made in the electric chair moments before his execution, is: "Almighty God, only You know my true heart. Prepare to receive me into Your House." Griffith's portrayal of the ruthless, sadistic, cold-hearted Wallace was critically acclaimed and showed just how callous, mean, and evil this outwardly Christian man truly was.
** Follow-ups: the three men that helped Wallace beat Turner to death pleaded guilty as accessories to murder and were sentenced to life in prison; they each would be released after serving seven years. The Meriwether County sheriff -- also an accomplice to murder -- pleaded not guilty, but died before being brought to trial; a guilty verdict surely would have meant a life sentence, and removal from office.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
** Special mention must go to two men who forced a young boy to try to ''suicide bomb a high school''. Their reason? A petty vendetta over something the boy's mother did ''18 years ago''.
** Ari. After [[spoiler:breaking into NCIS, shooting and wounding Gerald and Gibbs in the process]], he later [[spoiler:kills Kate and tries to kill Abby and Jenny because Gibbs reminds him of his dad]]. He casually manipulates innocents (giving a doll with a guided missile tracking signal inside it to a little girl)/sacrifices his mooks (who, given their affiliations, aren't terribly sympathetic either) just so he can get close enough to the team to hurt them directly. It is worth noting that (as foreshadowed when Ducky wonders what could create such a person) Ari does have a fairly elaborate FreudianExcuse, if [[spoiler:being manipulated and groomed specifically to become a mole by his father from birth]] even falls under that category. There have been more than a few worse criminals on the show, but Ari is mainly set apart in how he got to the NCIS team itself.
** Kyle Boone from the episode "Mind Games"; he kidnaps and tortures women (and cuts off their tongues)! Think that's bad enough? He also snaps pictures of their suffering and keeps them in a journal (though he said he doesn’t need that; they will always be in his memories). His first victim was his own ''mother''!
** Eli David, director of Mossad and Ari's father. He deliberately made Ari into a Complete Monster just so that he would have a mole inside Hamas. It is strongly hinted that he ordered the missile strike that "accidentally" killed Ari's mother and dozens of injured civilians in order to "toughen him up." Gave nearly the same treatment to his daughter Ziva, including ordering her to kill her half-brother Ari after Ari went rogue. Eli later abandoned her to die, and when Ziva finally stepped out of Eli's control, he attempted to frame her for a murder committed by another of his agents. He's basically [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Fire Lord Ozai]] as head of an intelligence agency rather than a nation.
* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' has recently gained one as well in Season 3 in the form of "the Chameleon." To elaborate, this is the guy who often runs several cartels from behind the scenes, and the closest thing to an MO that he has is that he acts as the driver. He gained a wound on his mouth via G. Callen, who at the time believed him to merely be the driver. He then proceeds to kill a lot of people by incinerating them alive inside their cars, often covering himself by using various dialects. Afterwards, he plays a dangerous game of "hide and seek" where he forces people to act as him to lure them to dead ends, which often results in their deaths in the process. Oh, and he also kidnapped and killed a Russian police officer so he could pose as him and infiltrate the NCIS headquarters to "aid" them in finding him. His final appearance was his most monstrous depiction: He arranged to have Agent Roarke join up with a family of illegal ArmsDealers (and arranged for a fake exchange with some dealers he hired without informing them of the packages) with the intention of setting him up to be caught and for NCIS to get involved. Turns out, the family did fall for the trick against his expectations, so he sent anonymous tips to both the dealers and the NCIS agents revealing that he was an agent, and that his cover was compromised, respectively. After the NCIS team killed most of the family at the area (and arresting the accountant) to rescue him, he then sniped Roarke across the jaw, forcing him into ER before he died from a heart attack, and he kills the RedHerring sniper member of the family in order to leave a message to Callen, and he later kills Agent Hunter via CarBomb in front of NCIS before he lets himself get arrested. He also arranged for Hunter to leak a video to NCIS via password about what he wants, and even the password while also making it seem as though he didn't want her to get it in order to lure Callen's team into a death trap while Callen kept watch over him (which they only survived after Callen deduced his plan), and he forces them into a SadisticChoice to release him in exchange for an American agent who was caught in Iran and had valuable information of security weaknesses in the United States, and killing his allies at some point earlier (and it is also strongly implied near the end that the Iranians were going to be informed by the Chameleon anyways about the security weaknesses even if the prisoner exchange went off without a hitch). Even when he died, he ended up having Cullen's life potentially stigmatized anyways via a breaking news report when Cullen decided midway through the prisoner exchange that [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he simply cannot let the Chameleon live after the atrocities he committed, even if it meant disobeying his superiors and getting himself arrested by the LAPD.]]
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'': [[BigBad Percy]], the head of Division, at first seemed like an AffablyEvil character who was OnlyInItForTheMoney, working for {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s and criminal organizations just as easily as for the government. However, as the series progressed, we've seen just how far he'll sink to achieve his goals, including murdering the loved ones of his own agents to keep them loyal. Perhaps the most shocking example of this was the recent revelation that [[spoiler: the terrorist who killed [[TheDragon Michael]]'s family was, in fact, a Division agent who did so on Percy's orders so that Kazim Tariq could be Percy's mole in al-Qa'ida. When Kazim accidentally killed Michael's family instead, Percy recruited Michael with the promise of getting even.]]
** [[TheStarscream Amanda]] is also a CompleteMonster and a ManipulativeBitch who constantly and ruthlessly tricks people into doing what she wants and earning their loyalty (or at least their fear; she's quite Machiavellian). But more to the point, she's the resident TortureTechnician and is quite skilled at her job, using everything from electrocutions to breaking bones to threatening ''lobotomies'' in order to get information out of her victims -- and it's quite clear she enjoys doing it. It's notable that she's the one person Nikita is afraid of.
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* ''Series/{{Oz}}'' has many, the worst being Vernon Schillinger ([[spoiler:the leader of the Nazi gang and a sadistic rapist, who makes his son kill an 8 year old]]), Simon Adebisi ([[spoiler:a drug dealer and rapist, he injected a man with AIDS, decapitated an unarmed policeman, and killed a man by feeding him ground glass for a month]]), and Malcolm Coyle ([[spoiler:a gang member who raped a dying woman and stabbed her baby "for fun"]]). Spoilered for the weak-stomached.
** Timmy Kirk. He is a two-faced and overly zealous ManipulativeBastard, whose crime was, arguably, far FAR more evil than anything that could be dreamed of by Schillinger. He leaves an infant to die inside a rat infested dumpster while its mother pleaded for mercy.
** Also, the Governor, as, in direct and indirect ways, he made 90% of the plots happen just by making prison life so insufferable for every inmate.
** The absolute worst may be William Cudney. As revenge for his wife's decision to abort his child, [[RevengeByProxy he murders the doctor's son]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Ryan is disgusted by this revelation.]]
* Alastair Crane. Just Alastair Crane of ''{{Passions}}''. His list of crimes seems completely endless. He has forced his [[spoiler: grandson to rape his granddaughter]], attempted to murder [[spoiler: everyone in his family]], committed several counts of [[spoiler: rape]], faked the deaths of [[spoiler: two of his grandchildren, his daughter's lovers, his ex-wife, and her sister]], leaving his daughter to believe that [[spoiler: she killed her mother]], tricked Whitney into believing she had [[spoiler: slept with her brother]], and he committed most of these crimes for two reasons, to find a suitable heir or simply because [[ItAmusedMe it amused him.]]
* In ''{{Primeval}}'', Helen Cutter [[spoiler:wants to wipe out the whole of humanity before it even began]] and along the way she'll screw with the cast's lives and minds just for the hell of it. She even [[MoralEventHorizon shoots said husband immediately after he]] ''[[MoralEventHorizon saves her from a burning building]]'' (which was only on fire to begin with because of the suicide bomber ''she'' sent).
* ''Series/PrisonBreak'': Wyatt Mathewson, the season four [[TheDragon Dragon]] who [[spoiler:murdered Alex Mahone's innocent son]], is arguably the worst (or at least ''scariest'') character in the series in terms of sheer cruelty and pitilessness, despite being just an executive agent and assassin.
** And [[spoiler:Christina Scofield]]. ''What a bitch''.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': While a comedy/drama, it has a few notable monsters:
** Mr. Yang - taunted Shawn over the course of a day in his first introduction, culminating in the kidnapping of his mother and strapping her to a bomb while threatening to blow her up if Shawn didn't have a heart to heart chat with the psycho. Yang does have a pretty good Freudian excuse, though, thanks to Yin.
** Yin - created elaborate games, again for the purpose of taunting/tormenting Shawn to the extent of kidnapping Shawn's then girlfriend Abigail as well as Shawn's ongoing love interest, Juliet, and forcing him to choose which would survive. He also murdered a recurring character and acquaintance of Shawn's while Shawn and Gus watched helplessly. He later kidnapped both Shawn and Gus and prepared to murder Gus with a poison injection while explaining to Shawn that he had something special planned for "him".
** Rollins - along with his partner Garth Longmore, aka [=McQuarry=], shot and kidnapped Shawn, locked him in a car trunk, threatened him repeatedly with death through the night, and took him away in a truck with intents of disposing him.
* Charles Hoyt of ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles''. He's a unrepentant sociopathic serial killer who tortured and killed many people. In particular, he preys on Jane and threatens to rape Maura. Also, much of his behavior is uncomfortably reminiscent of rape.
** Just as bad is his associate in "Remember Me". When asked what he got out of killing people, he simply said [[ForTheEvulz "it was fun"]]
* The Sheriff of Nottingham in ''Series/RobinHood'' certainly qualifies. In the first few episodes, he seems to be a mere DirtyCoward, but by the end of the first season, he seems to take a maniacal glee in finding new and unexpected ways to cross the MoralEventHorizon, to the point where most episodes involve his [[TheDragon dragon]], Guy of Gisborne, suggesting a ruthless option to accomplish their goals, and the Sheriff sneering and proposing (and implementing) a much more sadistic one.
* ''Series/TheSecretCircle'' has [[ScaryBlackMan Eben]], [[BigBad leader of the]] [[KnightTemplar witch hunters]]. He's bad enough when we first see him [[spoiler: in a flashback that reveals [[MoralEventHorizon he and his men murdered the members of the old Circle by pretending to want peace]] and tried to kill John Blackwell]], but he gets even worse when he [[spoiler: turns out to have survived the fire, only with nasty scarring, and]] proves hell-bent on killing ''every witch alive'', even those who have ''never'' heard of him, for absolutely ''no'' good reason. He doesn't bat an eye at [[{{Hypocrite}} using magic]] [[spoiler: provided by a [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]] [[CameBackWrong and]] [[AxCrazy psychotic]] Nick]] to brainwash Cassie into trying to murder [[spoiler: her father]] and to survive an attack by the Circle that should've killed him outright. Later, he [[spoiler: summons and absorbs multiple demons for their power, no doubt driving him even [[AxCrazy Ax Crazier]] -- and that's after sacrificing one of his own men to a demon and using him to lure Blackwell and the Circle into a death trap that just barely fails. Oh, and according to another witch hunter, he's even killed off [[TheDragon Isaac]], who was downright ''sane'' compared to him -- and ''then'' he kidnaps Faye, fully intending to murder her and her covenmates]]. Fortunately, [[spoiler: Jake gives him a swift, satisfying KarmicDeath in "Family" after Charles has taken the demons out of him]].
** Ironically, Eben looks tame compared to the true monster -- [[spoiler: [[TheManBehindTheMan John]] [[MagnificentBastard Blackwell]]]]. The season finale, "Family", reveals his master plan to [[spoiler: use the Crystal Skull to [[MoralEventHorizon kill all witches without Balcoin blood and create a truly dark Circle]]. [[KickTheDog He even tries to kill Adam, who's already dying from the spell in front of a helpless Cassie and Diana]]]]. Luckily, [[spoiler: Cassie manages to unleash Diana's dark magic so they can break free and [[ReversePolarity reverse the Skull's power]], [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killing Blackwell instead]]]].
* Wayne Callison of ''{{Shark}}'' probably qualifies, what with the whole torturing women to death, hiding their bodies underneath his younger brother's (whom he goaded into raping a girl at the tender age of 15) deck. He then threatens Stark's daughter during questioning just to [[LetMeAtHim enrage the guy]] [[PapaWolf to the point of attacking him]], then tries to get him thrown off the case for it. When that doesn't work, he drives his one escaped victim to suicide and uses a loophole from that to become a temporary KarmaHoudini. And that was just in his first episode.
* Series/{{Sherlock}}'s Jim Moriarty, the world's first consulting criminal, is also the most vile person Sherlock's ever come across. His whole M.O. can be boiled down to [[AttentionWhore him wanting Sherlock to notice him]]... on the occasions he isn't just incredibly [[ForTheEvulz bored with life.]] As a {{Foil}} to Sherlock, he also has the insane genius to pull off such complicated plots as stealing the crown jewels, opening the vault in the Bank of England, and releasing thousands from prison - and then, at his own trial, threatening the jurors via television to let him go free. He has no respect for human life, either, as one of his plans involved kidnapping two children, doing something unknown to make one of them terrified of Sherlock, and then poisoning them with mercury during the ordeal. He's strapped children, senior citizens, and Watson to bombs, murdered said senior citizen (and eleven others) [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to describe her insane kidnapper to Sherlock]]. The worst part of his crimes is that [[spoiler: the world believes Sherlock is the worse monster, as Moriarty framed Sherlock as a complete fraud of an investigator, pawned off most of his crimes onto Sherlock, and then shot himself to ensure that no one would ever know... and to force Sherlock to kill himself.]]
* Several villains in ''Series/TheShield'', especially the minor ones who only last one or two episodes. The doctor who bought a seven-year old girl, kept her in a cage, and repeatedly raped her definitely fits this trope, as does the old sadist who sexually abused his foster daughters and force-fed Drano to the youngest one. But several villains are so despicable that they earn a "special" place in the viewers' hearts:
** Armadillo Quintero, easily the most sickening villain on the show. A young Mexican drug lord, Armadillo is a calm and easy-going guy who likes to stay at home with a book. And a child to rape. After crossing the border, he united two rival Latino gangs under his own command by "necklacking" their leaders with car tires, then drenching them in petrol and burning them alive. But his MoralEventHorizon comes after this -- a man he murdered had a cute twelve-year old sister who refused to keep quiet like her family told her. Instead, the little girl went by herself to the police and testified against Armadillo. Later, the cops took in Armadillo for questioning, and when he sat alone in the cell for six hours, he found the girl's lost comb and began laughing eerily to himself. He is released for lack of proof, and the same night, the little girl is nowhere to be found. When she finally comes limping home in a daze, Armadillo has brutally raped her and tattooed his gang sign -- a dove -- onto her face.
** Antwon Mitchell from the fourth season takes the cake as the prime villain on the show, because he is a MagnificentBastard as well as a LargeHam. But what cemented him on this page, besides replacing crack cocaine with ''heroin'' on the streets, was his murder of a thirteen-year old [[TheWoobie Woobie]]. After forcing the girl's mother to overdose on heroin, his thugs capture her and hold her in front of two cops. After taunting the weeping girl, Antwon takes their weapons -- to incriminate the cops and bind them to him forever -- and empties his whole magazine into her head.
** Sean, the serial killer from Season 1, is definitely one. Aside from raping and murdering a twelve year old, he has over twenty further bodies to his credit. He thinks of himself as smarter than the police and thinks he is special. Then Dutch completely rips him apart with one glorious line: "If you're so special, how come a lowly civil servant like me just caught you?"
** Vic himself is kept out of this territory for much of the series because he mainly goes after other {{Complete Monster}}s such as the above mentioned characters, though he has plenty of KickTheDog moments to his credit, such as his murder of Terry Crowley, which was the crossing of the MoralEventHorizon for a lot of fans. But his behavior near the end of the series definitely qualifies, particularly when he becomes an informant in the last season and lets Ronnie take the full heat for his crimes, showing him for what he truly is: a violent and unrepentant bully who only looks out for himself. His HumiliationConga in the final episode is very, very much deserved.
* Dr. Foster from ''Series/{{Skins}}'', Series 4, who [[spoiler: attempts to MindRape Effy]] and [[spoiler: murders Freddie]] and [[spoiler: tries to do the same to Cook]]. Even his "excuse" is just further evidence that he's a twisted, sick bastard: [[spoiler: he's infatuated with Effy, his ''teenage'' patient.]]
* From ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** Brainiac has no emotions and is fond of skewering people through the head and draining the info from their brains. Despite being nearly equal to Clark in power, he prefers to perform complex {{manipulati|veBastard}}ons to make others do his dirty work for him (including infecting Mrs. Kent with a deadly disease just to trick Clark into releasing General Zod from the PhantomZone), putting Lana in a coma to force Clark and Kara to help him, giving [[spoiler:Clark's secret to [[ArchEnemy Lex]]]], bodyjacking Chloe and using her as part of a plot to brainwash Doomsday, and trying on three separate occasions to KillAllHumans via deadly viruses. In [[ItsAWonderfulPlot the Wonderful Life episode]], without Clark to stop him, Brainiac triggers a [[NukeEm nuclear holocaust]], saying the world is now ''perfect'' for Zod, Zod's consort {{Supergirl}}, and himself to rule. And that's not getting into his cannibalism of the silicon in peoples' bodies when he needs to rebuild himself, or his condescending personality, or the fact that [[EvilTwin Bizarro]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards Lex, and the various other villains who appear are all disgusted by him.]] He eventually [[spoiler: {{Heel Face Turn}}s, but since this is due to being reprogrammed and not because of a moral choice on his part, it doesn't count]].
** Lx-3, a failed clone of LexLuthor who was so depraved that even the [=LuthorCorp=] staff at Cadmus Labs felt the need to incarcerate him. Accidentally freed by Tess Mercer, Lx-3 beats her and handcuffs her in place, tries to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the five year old Lx-15]] then grabs a blowtorch proceeds to [[{{pyromaniac}} set fire to the lab]], slaughtering all the other clones while claiming that "[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne There can only be one Lex Luthor!]]" Making his way to Metropolis, Lx-3 wires the ''Daily Planet'' building to explode, planning to crush hundreds of people in the streets below, then journeys to Smallville where he kidnaps Lois Lane, ties her to a stake, and sets the field around her on fire. Confronting Clark, Lx-3 gloats that [[SadisticChoice Clark can save the woman he loves, or the citizens of Metropolis but not both]], sneering that Clark's {{pride}} will be the death of him yet. Almost out of time thanks to CloneDegeneration, Lx-3 spends his last moments trying to force Clark into violating his [[ThouShaltNotKill moral code by killing him]]. Not bad for a [[VillainOfTheWeek one episode villain]].
** Desaad is [[GodOfEvil Darkseid]]'s NumberTwo, and unlike his [[AnticlimaxBoss underwhelming master]] is determined to live up to his reputation, unnerving even his CoDragons, [[OrphanageOfFear Granny Goodness]] and [[PropagandaMachine Gordon Godfrey]]. Operating a chain of BDSM-themed nightclubs, Desaad uses them as a front to [[TheCorrupter corrupt]] the minds of his clientele, making them susceptible to a mass MindRape by Darkseid. Anyone who cannot be corrupted is gruesomely murdered, as Desaad uses his [[MindOverMatter telekenetic powers]] to induce hemorraging and implode their internal organs, leading to an agonising death from internal bleeding. Having disposed of several FBI agents who were investigating him, Desaad kidnaps Chloe and subjects her to an extended MindRape, attempting to turn her into one of Darkseid's minions. When she proves resistant, Desaad tries to kill her, tries to kill Clark when the latter intervenes to save her, and then turns Oliver Queen/Green Arrow into a minion of Darkseid after provoking the archer into brutally beating him. Incarcerated under Belle Reve, Desaad breaks out, gives the now mind controlled Oliver a Gold K ring, and tries to force him to depower Clark, so that the future Superman can be slain and the end of the world ushered in. Devoted to freeing Darkseid and bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Desaad is equal parts TortureTechnician, [[ReligionOfEvil cultist]], and SerialKiller.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'' has two examples:
** Livia Soprano stands out even in a world of brutal gangsters. Livia derives little pleasure save to hurt and makes others miserable, even telling Tony's wife he'd get bored with her on their wedding day. Livia psychologically tortures Tony as much as she can and even has a hit put out on him in revenge for trying to put her in a nursing home. Her abuse of Tony has been there for years. She even tried to stick him in the eyes with a fork when he was a child.
** Richie Aprile sticks out as the most crazy and evil gangster in a world of crazy and evil gangsters. Impulsive, violent, greedy and callous, Richie at one point paralyzes a man with a car solely for perceiving disrespect. He's such a loose cannon, Tony has to stop him from murdering gamblers at their casino for no reason. He also beats his fiancee for nothing more than saying she'd accept his son for being gay, which culminates in her snapping and murdering him herself.
* Some of the villains from the BBC's ''{{Spooks}}'' are just a big void of warm and fuzzy feelings. Interestingly, the two very worst monsters in the series are complete opposites; one is the white supremacist who murders one of the main cast by [[{{Squick}} shoving her head into a deep fat frier]] and the other is the [[TheFundamentalist Muslim cleric]] who turns ten year old boys into suicide bombers. Next to these two, a lot of the other villains in the series can come across as kind of cartoonish.
* Anubis from ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''. He used to be a System Lord before he was banished by the other Goa'uld, who considered his actions '''unspeakable''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards even by their evil standards]]. (Bear in mind that this is a race of megalomaniacal {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s who think nothing of torturing their dethroned rivals to death, then bringing them back to life and doing it again. And again. And again.) And his ultimate plan before he finally got taken out was to wipe out all life in the galaxy - all of it, mind you - so he could use the Ancient knowledge he retained to entirely recreate a galaxy's worth of races that would worship him as God.
** Actually, most Goa'uld probably qualify, although Anubis was a particularly extreme example. Tanith, for example, is a very young and pretty minor Goa'uld who still manages to betray and murder an idealistic woman who thought she had reformed; misleads the Tok'ra into giving him a willing host, whom he promptly submerges; and then, to top it all off, [[spoiler: wipes a civilization off the face of their planet]]. All with a [[SoftSpokenSadist calm voice and a pleasant smile]].
** There are also ''human'' complete monsters as well. A notable example of such a character was Dr. Keffler in the episode ''Resurrection'' where they go investigate a base that was under attack from an unstable Goa'uld hybrid, Anna. Anna was the man's daughter (long-story short, he cloned the original Goa'uld host/Goa'uld, Sekhmet, and she was the byproduct), and it is heavily implied that he submitted her through [[ColdBloodedTorture Cold-Blooded]] [[AbusiveParent Torture]] for no other reason than to get her Goa'uld personality to unleash itself. His death at the hands of the hybrid was very much deserved. She even says that he is far more evil than the Goa'uld personality she has.
** Horrifically, Repli-Carter might count as the extremely rare cross between one of these and a MagnificentBastard...she betrays both Fifth and Carter in very short order, manipulating Carter into feeling sympathetic because Carter believes Fifth was cruel to Repli-Carter. Turns out, she was merely using Carter's torture experience as grounds to manipulate her. Then, she killed Fifth, not out of vengeance or emotion, but to fuel her ambition to consume the galaxy. When real Carter showed signs of sympathy, Repli-Carter coldly and calmly, with a strangely static and uncaring version of the mannerism's real Carter would use when comforting someone, told her that Fifth wasn't worth any empathy because he was weak. She then set about wiping out the Milky Way, with her army devouring God knows how many people, ships, and planets. Eventually, she captured and attempted to torture one of Carter's best friends. Despite claiming that the real Carter's emotions and memories weren't meaningless to her, and having 'given her word' that she wouldn't invade earth or kill Daniel Jackson, she promptly did both. So, in short: in the few months she existed she killed her fellow replicator and creator, Fifth; psychologically manipulated and tortured her human progenitor, Samantha Carter; committed galactic genocide; captured and killed one of her progenitor's very best friends and attempted to conquer their home planet; and all this in the image of a beloved galactic heroine, with just a little more ambition and a little less sentiment.
---> "You have untapped greatness inside you, Sam. But you're limited by your own fears. You play by the rules, you do as you're told and you deny yourself your own desires."
*** Doesn't help that [[AmandaTapping Amanda]] played such an amazing psychopath.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Data's brother Lore is a thoroughly unsympathetic android who kills his creator, reprograms his brother to follow his every command, and threatens to set teenage Wesley on fire. He summoned the Crystalline Entity to his creator's colony when the other colonists petitioned Noong to deactivate him out of fear that he would turn on them, and since then, he's been on quest to wipe out all organic life from the universe. If he ever shows affection, it's just to manipulate Data into collaborating. He also tried to make the Borg an even greater threat to TheFederation than they already were. Given everything else we saw of his true nature, it's obvious that he mostly did it for his own sick amusement.
** Kivas Fajo, the villain from "The Most Toys". A CollectorOfTheStrange who wants to add Data, the only known android in the galaxy, to his collection. To do this, he poisons the water supply of an inhabited planet so he can capture him. He treats people and sentient beings like property. Then he talks very matter-of-factly about how he'd like to try out a particularly cruel DeathRay called a Varon-T Disruptor — illegal in The Federation because of how slowly and painfully it destroys the body from the inside out. He later does use it on his girlfriend, who is really more of a broken, codependent slave. As far as ''Star Trek'''s villains of the week go, he's one of the worst.
* MANY villains on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' come very close to this trope. After all, they are, for the most part, monsters, and that's what they do. As a result, it takes a special kind of evil to actually qualify. Fortunately (or unfortunately, as the case may be), several of the {{Big Bad}}s and their flunkies are able to provide just that kind of evil. Here are the assorted bastards:
** Alistair is Hell's [[TortureTechnician Grand Inquisitor]], and is responsible for supervising the [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] of newly arrived souls. When Dean arrives in Hell, Alistair tortures him for thirty years, offering to stop if Dean will [[DealWithTheDevil accept his offer]] and torment other souls on Alistair's behalf. When Dean accepts, one of the seals imprisoning [[BigBad Lucifer]] is broken, a fact that Alistair frequently taunts Dean about during their subsequent encounters. During the hunt for Anna Milton, Alistair captures Ruby and begins cutting pieces away from her with her own knife, before trying to overpower and murder Castiel. He murders several Reapers later in the series, and does his best to kill Sam and Dean and banish Castiel, before being finally put out of commish. An utterly sadistic [[TheBully bully]], Alistair is rivaled only by [[TheDragon Lilith]] when it comes to being the worst demon in the series.
** Lilith. Possibly the Queen Bitch of all of Supernatural. Just for starters, she enjoys possessing little girls and tormenting their families on her days off, convincing them their child has gone mad and then killing them one by one. "[[NeckSnap Grandpa, you made me mad.]]" She spends the entire season tormenting Sam and Dean, doing her best to break them and force them to open the final seal imprisoning [[PersonOfMassDestruction Lucifer]] to bring about the end of the world. She's creepy. She's sadistic. And, oh yeah, she EatsBabies. Cannot repeat that often enough. She ''eats freaking babies.'' Not for power or anything, but to KickTheDog. A truly heinous, vile piece of scum.
** In a little bit of irony, one of the show's worst examples of a CompleteMonster isn't a demon at all [[spoiler:but an [[LightIsNotGood ANGEL]]. SmugSnake angel Zachariah is a completely amoral member of the CelestialBureaucracy who views humans as completely disposable and loves to "persuade" people into serving him by torturing their friends and family to death in front of them. He's as sadistic as Alastair, but he thinks [[KnightTemplar he's one of the good guys]]. You can't even really call him a WellIntentionedExtremist - his intentions are anything but benign. His ultimate goal? The 'cleansing' of the world...and he doesn't even seem to care about a greater good. Only his own [[ItsAllAboutMe self advancement]]]].
** Arguably The leader of [[EldritchAbomination the Leviathans]], Dick Roman. He wants to turn the entire world into a slaughterhouse by making humans into a stupid, easily controlled and never-ending [[ImAHumanitarian food source]]. He also [[spoiler: shot Bobby in the head, killing him, although Bobby came back as a ghost]]. He also has no problem eating other Leviathans or forcing them to eat themselves when [[YouHaveFailedMe they fail]]. Also, his entire plan is hidden from the public by means of tainting fast food sources and making it look like the slaughterhouses being built are really hospitals, which will cure cancer among other things. To top that off, he also [[FantasticRacism hates humans and demons]] in a manner similar to Lucifer and comes off as a cross between FauxAffablyEvil and a SmugSnake.
* The 456 from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}: Children of Earth'', while being StarfishAliens, are very definitely examples of this trope. After taking control of all the world's children in order to communicate, it turns out that they [[spoiler: use human children in some nasty symbiotic way in order to get high and are bargaining to take 10% of the world's children to use as drugs or else they KillAllHumans. This is a protection racket, and they would almost certainly have been back for more later. One child is seen hooked up to one of them and it's shown that he's been a human reefer for over 40 years]]. It's really twisted and nasty.
** Also, in ''Children of Earth'', Prime Minister Green [[spoiler: calmly allows 10% of the world's children to be sold as NARCOTICS, orders the man who's been most loyal to him to give up his own children, just to make the cover story he's created realistic - which leads [[PunchClockVillain Frobisher]] to shoot his family and himself to spare them the horror. And after all the horror and pain, Green's first thought is "How do I blame the Americans for this?".]] The knowledge that he's certainly going to be put in prison, if not "Disappeared" by UNIT or executed for treason, is highly comforting. Granted, there's a whole PunchClockVillain ensemble that's going to avoid the punishment meted out to the more visible Green.
** Oswald Danes from ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'', a convicted child rapist and killer whose defense in court was "she should have run faster." After surviving his execution due to becoming immortal (along with everyone else on Earth), he starts playing the media for forgiveness and seems well on his way to becoming a DarkMessiah. On top of that, throughout the season, it's implied that he does have some guilt over what he did and wants to die -- then the finale shows that these DeathSeeker qualities actually make him ''more'' of a monster, not less. Why? Because he seems to believe that when he dies, he'll be able to torture his previous victim forever in Hell -- in fact, his last words are to yell out that he's coming for her and that she should start running.
* Gunther Lutze, the VillainProtagonist of "Death's-Head Revisited" from ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', as described by the episode's OpeningNarration:
-->''"He held the rank of a captain in the S.S. He was a black-uniformed strutting animal whose function in life was to give pain, and like his colleagues of the time he shared the one affliction most common amongst that breed known as {{Nazi|Germany}}s: he walked the Earth [[TheHeartless without a heart]]."''
** He walks around his old abandoned concentration camp, thinking about the atrocities he committed and ''smiling'' as if those were the best years of his life! This made his ultimate fate all the better as he is forced to mentally relive all the pain he inflicted on his subjects by the spirit of Becker, one of the inmates. And Becker implies its only going to get much worse from there: "Your final judgement will come from God."
** Peter Craig in "The Little People" becomes a monster when he realizes how much power he has over the titular aliens, [[ForTheEvulz stomping on their village apparently for the fun of it]].
* BOB from ''TwinPeaks''. [[spoiler:The rape and murder of Laura Palmer is just the tip of the iceberg, as he's a demonic entity who [[TheHeartless feeds on the fear and pain]] he inflicts through DemonicPossession of hapless people. Also doesn't help that he's a CompleteMonster and an EldritchAbomination rolled into one.]]
* In the new ''{{V|-2009}}'' series, the [[BigBad Visitor leader]] [[SmugSnake Anna]] most ''definitely'' qualifies as a CompleteMonster. In Season One alone, she orders fellow Visitors to skin other Visitors -- Fifth Column members -- alive, [[spoiler: forces Georgie to watch the memories of the Visitors who murdered his family in such a way that he experiences it all over again and can't stop watching, willingly sacrifices scores of her loyal followers to weed out the aforementioned Fifth Column members, and orders some of her other minions to break her daughter's legs -- after smacking her to the floor]]. She is as completely emotionless as all other non-Fifth Column Visitors as she does these things, and even her sidekick Marcus -- himself mostly emotionless -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards occasionally seems mildly uncomfortable with how cold-hearted she is]].
** It was the sheer casualness of Anna turning to her minion and telling them to "break her legs" (referring to [[spoiler: her own daughter]]), then cheerfully walking away afterwards that sealed the deal on just how monstrous this woman (read: genocidal alien queen) is. Oh, and let's not forget her habit of [[spoiler: emotionlessly mating with underlings chosen for their genetic superiority while refusing to look them in the face, then '''EATING''' them]]!
** In Season Two, Anna becomes [[UpToEleven even more vicious]]. Within the first two episodes, she casually slaughters one of her own fleet captains in front of a crowd just to prove a point ''and'' [[spoiler: seeks to perform experiments on a human/Visitor hybrid baby, whose mother she personally murdered in the Season One finale. The way Anna constantly refers to the baby as "it" is incredibly disturbing, and to make matters worse, she is now torturing the ''newborn infant'' [[ManipulativeBitch just to manipulate]] Ryan, the baby's father]]. Total, absolute monster.
*** She becomes still ''[[SerialEscalation worse]]'' later in Season Two, especially the finale, "Mother's Day". [[spoiler: To make a long story short, she has twisted said hybrid, Amy, into a [[EnfantTerrible murderous little hellspawn]] who kills Ryan in cold blood and later helps her Bliss ''all of mankind''; she has figured out how to use emotions to manipulate people, particularly Lisa, by pretending to love her; and she has locked Lisa away in Diana's prison (after murdering Diana -- ''[[SelfMadeOrphan her own mother]]'' -- in full view of her people, too) and forced her to watch [[EvilTwin Fake Lisa]] mate with and eat Tyler.]] No KarmicDeath would be good enough for her by now, especially since [[spoiler: when Diana, just before succumbing to her wounds, states that Anna's actions have doomed them all, Anna doesn't even flinch, suggesting that she no longer cares about her own race anymore -- she just wants to gain power over everyone she can and torment those who stand against her ForTheEvulz]]. What a ''bitch''.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' has a few but none worse than Mercer Hayes. While he never kills anyone, he drugs and rapes several girls, simply because he doesn't want to seduce anyone because "it takes too long". And then, to add insult to injury, he shaved their heads for no reason whatsoever. He also runs an illegal [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking casino in his dorm]]
* Any villain from ''WalkerTexasRanger''. Yeah, that show [[{{Anvilicious}} does not believe in subtlety]].
** The son of a CorruptCorporateExecutive who [[SelfMadeOrphan drowns his own wheelchair-bound father]] with a PsychoticSmirk on his face to take over his company and doesn't give a damn that his activities are destroying the native's homeland; and the Chairman, along with his killer for hire Lazarus, who is capable of murdering an innocent child without even feeling anything.
** Johnny Blade from "The Lost Boys" organizes the heist and kills a cop. Then he gives a gun to one of his accomplices and the same accomplice hides it in his friend's house. After learning this, Johnny Blade threatens an innocent young teenager Jesse (the friend of his accomplice and Carlos' nephew) to remain silent about his crimes or else he will kill his mother and later forces him to take all the guilt fdr his crimes or else he will kill his mother, whom he kidnapped, but Blade planned to order his lawyer and his accomplices in the prison to kill him, even after he took all the guilt, and planned to make Jesse's mother to commit suicide. This was so evil that a few of his henchmen [[EvenEvilHasStandards looked like they were disgusted by it]].
** Reccuring villain Victor La Rue is also incredibly nasty. He attempted to rape Alex and in the episode "The Trial of La Rue". He takes the courtroom hostage, kills the judge, and taunts Alex and his actions range from death threats for a sandwich, televising his crimes, terrorizing a divorced couple at a custody hearing, and killing people at random, and the worst of it is when he said that he would kill an innocent little girl.
** Luis Guerro, [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Juan Guerro from the episode "Golden Boy". He beats his own wife, [[DisproportionateRetribution because she didn't make him dinner]], even though she left a note that she did and brutally beats Juan repeatedly, because he was protecting her, giving him a lot of injuries in his face. He doesn't care about his own son and wife but cares about himself, and his irresponsible driving is one of the reasons why he and his wife later died in a car crash. His abusive treatment is also the reason why Juan tries so hard to study and provide his mother with a better life. What makes him worse is that he is just a minor character, yet manages to be more despicable than the drug dealers, who were the main villains in that episode.
* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', [[spoiler: Artie's evil {{split personality}}]], the BigBad of Season 4, spends most of the season releasing the most dangerous artifacts back into the world, and near the end starts targeting the loved ones of the Warehouse agents. Then, his first act upon revealing himself is [[spoiler: killing Leena]], before attempting to force the agents to undo the [[ResetButton use of the astrolabe]] by [[spoiler: trying to release an artifact-powered [[ThePlague plague]] that could potentially kill ''half the planet'']].
* The Oliver Stone-produced sci-fi miniseries ''WildPalms'' has two flavors of CompleteMonster: EvilMatriarch Josie Ito and CreepyChild Coty Wyckoff.
* Marlo Stanfield of ''Series/TheWire'' definitely qualifies. He has no conscience, no sense of social responsibility, and no respect for human life; he doesn't even have a sense of humor. Absolutely the only thing that matters to him is that his name is respected and feared on the streets, and he will kill anyone who interferes with that or his drug business in any way. Although the realism of ''TheWire'' makes categorizing morality blurry (almost every character has at least one or two PetTheDog moments), there are a few others who probably qualify, like Stringer Bell and The Greek.
* Two episodes of ''Series/WithoutATrace'' had Emil Dornvald, a mercenary working for an African dictator. The missing person of the week is in love with a rebel opposing said dictator and knew where he and his friends were holed up. So Dornvald [[spoiler:cold-bloodedly murders the pregnant teenager she's been mentoring and is very fond of, sends her a picture on the girl's phone, and offers to stop killing her loved ones if she just tells him where the men are]].
** Another episode had a conman preying on families who had adopted children from Africa; he'd claim to be the kid's birth father and guilt the parents into surrendering the kids to him, whereupon he'd take them and sell them on the black market. He also manipulated a ''Sudanese war orphan'' into helping him by claiming that he was only stealing the children to get them back to their birth parents, the young man having lost his own mother to militants. [[spoiler:When the orphan finds out he's been had, he [[TheDogBitesBack brutally stabs the guy to death]] and the FBI quite understandably decide to look the other way]].
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