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  • 2000 AD:
    • Nemesis the Warlock: Nemesis himself is a bloodthirsty alien warrior who fights Torquemada primarily because he makes a good enemy.
    • Shakara: Warlord Skulka, Supreme Khan of the Xorn Empire, lives only to kill as many as he can manage, as he loves conquering and destroying civilizations more than anything. In truth, he's become bored after he helped with the destruction of the Shakara, once the strongest species in the galaxy, as he doesn't feel anyone can match them.
    • Button Man: Harry Exton becomes a pretty notorious Button Man because he prefers to kill all his opponents, whereas wounding them is considered sufficient to win a match and actually preferred as it leaves the Button Man available for further matches.
    • Aquila: Aquila himself is an unstoppable war machine, but his "brother" The Spartan is an even better example. He was resurrected by the gods not because he prayed to them for mercy, but his sheer hatred from being denied the chance to kill again upon his own death impressed them so much that they turned him into an immortal warrior.
    • Judge Dredd: Dredd himself is happiest (or the closest he can come to being happy) when he's on the streets of Mega City One, busting heads. He notes that Mega City One is the most violent, evil city on earth, but he loves it. It's the main reason he keeps turning down the office of Chief Judge.
  • For a more jolly and lovable version, see Obelix in the Asterix books. ("I do hope Asterix explains this to me later, I generally like to know why we're fighting," just before KO-ing an entire village of other Gauls in Asterix and the Cauldron.) In fact, most of the village act like this ("Hey, boys a fight!" "Come on, it'll be a change to fight each other!" leading to an all-village brawl in Asterix in Spain, which would eventually become a Running Gag).
  • In the Astro City story "The Dark Ages", there's a popular Reality TV show called "Rough Justice" that shows actual footage of Sociopathic Heroes brutally punishing assorted criminals.
  • The Midnighter from the Wildstorm series The Authority as he's about to destroy a city by ramming it with a 30 mile wide space ship aimed directly at the Villain of the Week:
    Midnighter: I love being me.
  • Cindy of Cindy and Biscuit does avoid genuinely harming entities that don't seem to be hostile, but she's mainly driven by a largely unadulterated love of fighting monsters to the death.
  • Warren Griffith of the Creature Commandos was a werewolf. Though he's a sheepish coward in human form, his wolf form carries with it a primal bloodlust that is never sated. He's always looking forward to the next battle, and never satisfied when it ends.
  • The Spartans from Democracy are arguably this, being more aggresive than the Athenians, dismissing conversations and calling them more "whinny" than babies when they are trapped in Acropolis.
  • Groo the Wanderer from the eponymous comic exhibits many of the characteristics: he will drop almost anything for a fray, and frequently chastises opponents who attempt to run away before he is finished slaying them.
  • In Gold Digger, the Murder Fist branch of the Shun Leep style makes its users into Blood Knights by putting them into a state of nirvana when in combat with a skilled foe. This inevitably drives them towards the Psycho for Hire category as they cease to care to exercise the control to not kill on purpose, while their skill continues to grow and grow from fighting powerful enemies.
  • Invincible:
    • Battle Beast brought peace and prosperity to his homeworld by beating the crap out of any and all threats. Unfortunately, he developed a taste for combat and left his world to seek out worthy foes. Unfortunately for him and just about anyone he fights, he's one of the strongest beings in the universe. So far, Thragg, the strongest Viltrumite alive, is the only one who has ever defeated Battle Beast by snapping his neck in an instant. And after he recovers, Battle Beast is eager for a rematch. When they do face again, Thragg gets his guts sliced open by a third party, not willing to accept any advantage Battle Beast cuts his guts open as well so it can be a fair match. Oh and the ensuing fight between Thragg and Battle beast lasted days, even Thragg had developed some begrudging respect for BB before killing him.
    • While most Viltrumites are ravenous imperialists eager to conquer and subjugate others, for one reason or another, the champion Conquest is not one of these. As he eagerly admits to Invincible in the middle of their fight, he's not here to pontificate or convince anyone, and he's not there on Earth to do any actual conquest. He just came to Earth because he enjoys battle for its own sake, and actively wants the locals to put up a fight. Conqest actively thanks Mark at one point for becoming such an absolute nuisance to the Viltrum Empire that they let him cut loose without the usual restrictions.
  • In Sin City, Marv admits that he loves a good fight. Miho apparently does as well. Actually, you can add Dwight and the Girls of Old Town to the list as well, see The Big Fat Kill.
    Dwight: The Valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure hateful bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter and so am I.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
    • Like his video game counterpart, Sonic is this, though for a completely different reason (he gets bored and restless when there's no new challenge or threat, and will often deliberately go seeking one out).
    • E-123 Omega, who has gone so far as to unload his payload on a Physical God and complain when he still had ammo to hit him with. He's even fallen in love (or close to it) with Blaze the Cat because of her own actions!
  • The protagonist of Spiritus, Kinju Dayal, is a world-champion MMA fighter. She took to the ring not necessarily to win, but to beat up her opponents as badly as possible. By all accounts she was very good at this.
  • Transformers:
    • The Transformers (Marvel): Bludgeon probably qualifies. He talks about a grand dream for the Decepticons conquering the universe but when they actually conquer a world... he's bored out of his mind and wondering when the Autobots are going to show up to stop them. Again, when he invades planet Earth, he's bored out of his skull (no pun intended) because Optimus Prime doesn't show up to fight him like he hoped he would. One suspects that if there were no Autobots he either wouldn't give a damn about the Decepticons or their plans to take over the world, or would start the Autobots in order to pick fights with the Decepticons.
    • The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Overlord never cared about rank, glory, or the advancement of the Decepticon cause... he was happy as long as he had the opportunity to fight and slaughter as many Autobots and bystanders as he could. Megatron, however, wasn't happy with that — upstart subordinates had given him too much experience with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder to take it on faith that someone with that much power wouldn't make a power grab. So when Megatron tried to tighten the leash and take more control over Overlord's actions, Overlord re-purposed Garrus-9 into a planetwide spectacle of violence and chaos to provoke Megatron into the one fight that Overlord has always wanted. He has a Villainous Breakdown and surrenders when he finds out Megatron is (apparently) dead.
    • The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye:
      • Overlord immediately breaks out of the Villainous BSoD he was stuck in after Last Stand of the Wreckers when he finds out Megatron isn't dead after all, meaning he might just get his fight.
      • Whirl's philosophy of life is, for the most part, that you should resort to violence both quickly and thoroughly. He never runs from a fight and goes on recreational violence sprees just for the hell of it.
        Whirl: So this is what running away feels like? I'm not keen. It's like fighting, but in the wrong direction.
        Cyclonus: Rodimus told us not to engage.
        Whirl: He did, yes, he absolutely did. And I'm going to interpret that as a veiled order to attack... Care to join me?
  • In Usagi Yojimbo, Nakamura Koji is a swordfighter who goes around looking for worthy opponents to duel with. There are other such characters in the series too.


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