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• Jack-O: Walter Machen was a sorcerer in the 1910s. Lynched for prior murders, he summons the pumpkin demon Jack-O as his automaton of destruction to massacre the leader of his killing, his family and anybody connected to the family. Jack-O kills one family, and his nemesis's wife and teenage son before being imprisoned. Decades later, the demon is released while Walter psychologically torments Sean, the youngest member of his hated family, with nightmares of his past crimes and the warlock mind controlling his parents. Jack-O proceeds to kill the teenagers who freed him, and goes on a killing spree of the rest of the neighborhood on his master's command. The demon then finds Sean, who's the only one who can kill him, and has him Buried Alive to eliminate the obstacle, killing Machen's niece in the process.
• Jack Ryan films: In different universes, the famed CIA analyst has dealt with some harsh enemies:
  • Clear and Present Danger:
    • Colonel Félix Cortez is the duplicitous intelligence officer for Colombian drug lord Ernesto Escobedo. When Ernesto's actions cause the US to uncover a money laundering operation and send several FBI and CIA agents to Colombia, Félix organizes an ambush of the agents, leading to several deaths while Félix also murders the FBI secretary he seduced to get information. When Félix discovers that American soldiers are secretly sabotaging the cartels, he promises to kill Escobedo and take over the drug trade, reduce the flow of drugs into the US, and allow the Americans to regularly arrest his men in exchange for letting him kill the soldiers. This results in Félix's men slaughtering the soldiers and capturing two of them.
    • Robert "Bob" Ritter, CIA Deputy Director of Operations, is the partner of National Security Advisor Admiral James Cutter who helps him run Operation RECIPROCITY. Ritter recruits John Clark to lead a team of soldiers in sabotaging Colombian drug cartels, resulting in several raids on drug facilities. When one of the attacks results in several innocent women and children being killed, Ritter brushes off Cutter's moral objections and pushes him to continue the operation. Ritter smugly informs hero Jack Ryan that due to Ritter's manipulations, Jack will receive all of the blame for RECIPROCITY if it's exposed while he and Cutter get presidential pardons. Later, Ritter and Cutter agree to sell out the soldiers in Colombia to Félix Cortez, leading to most of them being killed. When a livid Clark demands to know what happened to the soldiers, Ritter and Cutter try to trick him into murdering Ryan.
  • The Sum of All Fears (Continuity Reboot):
    • Richard Dressler is a Neo-Nazi billionaire who wants to create a fascist superstate in Europe. His ruminations on history have led him to the conclusion that Adolf Hitler was a fool for trying to fight Russia and America—it's much better to have them fight and destroy each other. Dressler obtains a nuclear weapon and places it in a football stadium during the Super Bowl, killing countless innocent people. He blames the attack on Russia so the Americans will bring their military to bear, and when Russia stands its ground, the two countries are ready to engage in all-out nuclear war on one another thanks to Dressler's framing and stroking of tensions.
    • Derek Olson is a man who supplies weapons to terrorists all over the world to make conflicts even worse. Discovering a cache of weapons-grade plutonium, Olson swindles a grieving father with lies that it is scrap, not warning anyone there of how dangerously radioactive it is. From there, Olson sells it to the neo-fascist Richard Dressler to start World War III, intending on riding out the storm from safety and wealth.
• Jack the Giant Slayer: Lord Roderick, the chief advisor of the King of Cloister, schemes for the throne and much more himself. Utterly self-aware of his own case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and reveling in every moment of it, Roderick has a monk who steals the magic beans he procures tortured before personally murdering him; cuts the safety harness keeping most of the men in his own search party from falling to their deaths when he's climbing the beanstalk; extorts the last bean out of Jack by threatening his life and his uncle's; throws another one of his loyal companions to his death; and, finally ceasing his long trail of betrayal, enslaves the giants of Gantua and commands them to eat his own remaining comrades. With an army of giants, Roderick plans to lay waste to the lower world, conquering first his own kingdom and then the rest of the world.
• Jake Speed (1987): Sidney "Sid" Wigway, the Arch-Enemy of the titular Action Hero, is a Diabolical Mastermind whose evil exploits fill entire volumes. Having most recently come to Africa to dabble in the art of white slavery, Sid introduces himself shooting a servant of his dead for the heinous crime of interrupting him during a slave auction. Sid engages in every evil act imaginable, from killing innocent hostages for the hell of it, to dumping his minion into a pit of lions for a chuckle, to throwing his much-abused brother to his doom for the chance of a slippery getaway. All of this he does because, as he enthusiastically admits, he's a plain and simple bad guy through and through; he takes pride in having never lived up to anything.
• Jamaica Inn (1939): Sir Humphrey Pengallan, local squire and justice of the peace of the storm-swept Cornish coast, uses his well-off status to hide his identity as the mastermind behind a group of local wreckers. Pengallan has the ostensible leader of the wreckers, Joss Merlyn, in his pocket, tipping off the gang to ships coming up to the coast loaded with valuable cargo so the wreckers can sink them and massacre any survivors. Pengallan remorselessly gloats he's drowned hundreds of sailors all for the sake of living like a king, only ever hesitating when the authorities are close to finding him out. When Joss's girlfriend Patience tries to renege on the gang, Pengallan murders her, kidnaps her niece Mary for a trophy wife, then attempts to sail out with his ill-gotten gains and force Mary to play the part of "dutiful possession" for the rest of the kingly life he's murdered his way into.
• Jane Got a Gun: John Bishop is a greedy bandit who intends to sell the women of a town into prostitution. When one of his men, Bill Hammond, took a shine to one of the women, named Jane Hammond, Bishop refused, referring to her as "property". After Hammond rescued and married Jane, Bishop sent his men after Hammond, severely wounding him, strangled a civilian for not knowing information; and sent another henchman after Jane, with the intention of allowing said henchman to rape her. Bishop later sacrifices an entire wave of his men to traps laid by Jane and her ex-fiancé, Dan Frost, and gives up his dragon to lure Dan out just to get the drop on him.
• Java Heat (2013): Malik is a thief of ambiguous ethnicity who uses terrorist acts to disguise his acts of theft. Responsible for a series of bombings and dozens of deaths around the world, Malik's latest plot, in Java, Indonesia, revolves around the bombing of a public gathering and the apparent assassination of the nation's Sultana. In reality, Malik kidnaps the Sultana herself to sell her valuable necklace and the Crown Jewels of Java for a fortune. Malik kidnaps the family of cop Hashim to deter him from investigating the case further, with full intentions of killing Hashim's wife and two young children, and once it's revealed the Crown Jewels have long been sold, Malik spitefully intends to sell the Sultana herself as a Sex Slave before flying out of the nation. Murdering and killing both his associates the moment he sees them no longer of use and compounding his evil with the heavy implication he rapes children who pick up his fancy, Malik is nothing short of greed and ruthlessness personified.
• Jeepers Creepers series: The Creeper is an ancient monster and horrific sadist who feasts on others to prolong his life. As revealed in the comics, the Creeper's evil goes back millennia, demanding Human Sacrifice and having wiped out the Roanoke colony. The Creeper relishes tormenting its victims physically or mentally, and shows no care at its actions once accidentally causing an entire town to be destroyed. In present, the Creeper takes its victims and sews them into a hideous patchwork in its lair that it dubs the House of Pain, with some victims still alive when they join the tableau of hundreds of victims. The Creeper regularly slaughters all in its path, target or not, and demonstrates utter sadistic relish in every evil it commits.
• Jennifer's Body: Nikolai Wolf is the leader of the Satan-worshipping indie band Low Shoulder, and is directly responsible for all the death and misery in the film. While performing in a bar one night, he prompts a fire to magically break out, burning dozens of people to death. Singling out Jennifer Check and believing her to be a virgin, Nikolai and his band abduct her and decide to use her in a ritual sacrifice, with Nikolai savagely stabbing her supposedly to death. Nikolai then lies about saving people from the fire, and uses at least one of Jennifer's killings to become famous and a "public hero", fooling pretty much everyone with Anita "Needy" Lesnicki unable to convince anyone of the truth.
• Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter: Maria Frankenstein seeks to ape and eclipse her grandfather's works in resurrecting the dead by murdering a slew of children and trying to resurrect their bodies, her efforts always thwarted by her nobler brother. When Jesse James and his wounded, hulking associate come into her care, Maria murders James's assistant, revives him as a zombie she dubs "Igor", and promptly has him strangle her own brother to death.
• Jet Li's The Enforcer: Po Kwong is a sadistic gang leader feared for his brutality and violence. When undercover cop Kung Wei infiltrates his gang, disguised as a criminal, Kwong involves Wei in a shootout in a heavily populated store with a rival gang leader. He forms a plan with his business partner to hold a ship full of people hostage and then kill them all after robbing them. When Wei's young son arrives in Hong Kong, Kwong beats him severely, nearly killing him. Upon discovering that Wei is an undercover cop, Kwong murders his partner, Darkie, himself a former gang member. Kwong then threatens to blow up a ship full of people, killing his business partner and attempting to rob the auction. Upon being foiled by Wei, Kwong holds his son hostage, strangling him nearly to death, before detonating the final bomb, intending to force Wei to die along with him.
• Johan Falk series:
  • Original Trilogy's Executive Protection: Nikolaus Lehman works in security. After Sven Persson, the film's secondary protagonist, asks Lehman if he could help him by negotiating with a gang of petty criminals who are harassing him, Lehman gives him a price to pay, and Persson pays it. However, instead of negotiating with them like he was supposed to do, Lehman executes all twelve of them for no reason at all. After this, he starts going after Sven, stalking him and constantly ready to kill him. However, things get worse when Lehman starts attacking Sven's innocent wife and daughter, preparing to kill both of them, even kidnapping Sven's wife and placing a bomb on her, and only stopping the bomb if Sven gives him a large amount of money. Sven does this, but the bomb carries on anyway. Once Lehman is caught by Falk, Lehman says that he's a "man of honor", and that he won't bother him if he just leaves him alone. A complete sociopath who only cares about money, Lehman is both egotistical and greedy at the same time, creating what could be Falk's biggest nightmare.
  • Leo Gaut: Anton Montay is a sadistic mobster who manages to stand out even in the movie where the victim is a cold-blooded murderer (the titular Leo Gaut). An extremely wealthy restaurant owner, Montay wanted a deal with Leo; this didn't work out, so Montay is now seeking revenge on Leo. At the very start of the film, he places a bomb in a car at a primary school, causing chaos and risking the children's lives, all because Leo's extremely autistic son Johnny goes to the school. There are no injuries, but Montay escapes by car to a shopping center, where he ends up holding an innocent father hostage. Later in the movie, Montay and his gang go to Leo's restaurant, and start insulting him, before viciously beating him. When he's done with abusing Leo, he drives by and sees Leo's daughter. He sets the place on fire, wounding if not killing her. After Leo kills two of Montay's henchmen, Montay kidnaps Leo's son and wife, and holds them hostage. When the police come, Montay runs up to the roof and holds Johnny at gunpoint, constantly messing with him psychologically. Once Falk comes up to the roof, Montay threatens to shoot Johnny if Falk doesn't drop the gun. Falk drops the gun, so Montay lets Johnny go. However, Johnny starts going down the roof and nearly falls, getting saved by Falk. Montay climbs down a ladder, but gets killed by Leo, who in the end gets killed in a car crash, letting Montay posthumously succeed.
  • The Child Infiltrator: Heikki Nieminen is an absolutely maniacal crime lord who sells robbery concepts to young criminals. After one of his buyers, Ricky, messes up, Heikki kidnaps Ricky the day after the robbery and throws him into his truck, where he stomps Ricky's head while he's on the ground and forces Ricky to get the money in under twenty four hours. When Ricky desperately tells Seth Rydell about the situation, demanding his help, Seth laughs on how desperate Ricky is, but sets up a meeting with Heikki and his gang. During the meeting, Heikki, for basically no reason at all and smiling the entire time, orders his henchmen to slowly cut off all of Ricky's fingers on his right hand. At the climax, Heikki sends a bunch of criminals to kill Ricky, putting everyone else nearby at risk. During this attack, Heikki breaks into Seth and Felix Rydell's house, and in a final effort demands their money. He then threatens to cut off Felix's fingers as well, which he does, and then threatens to kill Seth. Heikki starts a huge gunfire in their house, and fails to kill Seth. However, while recharging bullets, Felix comes from behind, but gets shot by Heikki. A shocked Seth comes and looks at his near dead brother, and says that Heikki can take the money and leave them. Heikki kills Seth's brother Felix, who was barely involved in the deal. Filled with nothing but utter sadism and greed, Heikki even disturbed Seth with his brutality, with Seth admitting that Heikki is a "sadist" and a "disturbed fuck".
• Johan Karlo's Gun Driver (2016): Brutus Van Tangelo, aka the Boss of America, is the greedy, vicious leader of Earth Containment Zone EA-005. In charge of the zone's gambling, drug dealing, prostitution, and auto racing factions, he does whatever he can to line his pockets with cash. Brutus kidnaps Jesse 01776 after he steals some of his weapons, threatening to kill his mother in front of him if he doesn't become a racer, sending her to 25 years of underground force labor once Jesse complies. Killing Sonya 01984's parents and taking her baby sister as a political prisoner, he forces her to become his mechanic, later having his robotic henchmen arrest her for selling cars to other zones. When she and Jesse both escape, Brutus tortures one of his goons to death by jamming a knife in their crotch. Tricked into a trap by Jesse, he tries to kill him once he's been hoodwinked, then tries to shoot Jesse and Sonya with his final breath.
• John Carter:
  • Sab Than is the ruler of Zodanga, a mobile city that drains energy wherever it goes, killing countless innocent residents of Mars/Barsoom. Upon being granted a new weapon by the mysterious Therns, Sab Than personally slaughters entire border cities and vows to spare the land of Helium should they give him princess Dejah Thoris in marriage. When forcing a marriage to Dejah Thoris, it is revealed Sab Than is lying and intends to wipe out Helium and all who live there regardless.
  • Matai Shang, leader of the spacefaring Therns, has traveled from planet to planet for billions of years, orchestrating wars and the annihilation of entire civilizations by uplifting "mindless brutes" he can manipulate. This is how he introduces himself to the warlord Sab Than. Shang uplifts and molds Sab Than into a city-destroying nightmare capable of annihilating the entire planet of Barsoom, which Shang intends to do by allowing Sab Than to first wed and then murder the princess of Helium; when Sab Than fails, Shang implodes his head and moves on. When John Carter demands a motive, Matai Shang admits there is no greater cause except for the joy of feeding on dying planets and the luxury of throwing their immortal weight around.
• Johnny Mad Dog (2008): General Never Die, leader of the Death Dealers, is a ruthless revolutionary who turns boys into Child Soldiers by brainwashing them with propaganda and cocaine, executing those who fail to meet his expectations. Using the boys to rape and slaughter innocent civilians under the excuse of them being government collaborators, Never Die seizes the capital and gives his boys free rein to oppress its people. When the rebels take control of the country, Never Die wastes no time in abandoning the boys for a chance to live comfortably as a corporal in the regular army.
• Johnny Mnemonic:
  • Shinji, a Yakuza enforcer working for PharmaKom, is tasked with hunting down the stolen data for the cure for NAS and preventing the public from obtaining it. Shinji leads a massacre of corporate "defectors" who give the data to Johnny, slicing off the hand of one of the defectors before interrogating him. He attempts to decapitate Johnny in order to reacquire the stolen data, and when that fails, Shinji slices Ralfi to pieces out of anger. He later leads an assault at the LoTek base of operations, decapitating a man and killing another, which indirectly causes the death of one of Shinji's own men. Finally, Shinji betrays and murders Takahashi when he learns the true contents of the stolen data before a final confrontation with Johnny.
  • Karl Honig, better known as the Street Preacher, leads a transhumanist cult and functions as an assassin for the pharma corporations. Knowing that murdering Johnny will deprive the people of needed cures, the Preacher decides as "God's Wrath", he is happy to do so. Often murdering people to convert himself to cybernetics, the Preacher tortures a bartender before murdering him. Ambushing Johnny's ally Spider at a clinic, the Preacher murders a patient and crucifies Spider before murdering him as well. Later encountering Johnny and his other ally Jane, the Preacher reveals crucifixion and torture are routine, while attempting to do it yet again in his quest to transcend humankind.
• John Wick: Chapter 4: The Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont, a power-flaunting sociopath who becomes the High Table's final measure against John Wick, demonstrably proves himself to be worse than anyone else in the assassin underworld. As an introductory act of spite, the Marquis has the New York Continental destroyed and its concierge Charon murdered, leaving Winston alive only out of Cruel Mercy. The Marquis later orders a similar purge at the Osaka Continental, resulting in dozens of otherwise-loyal assassins being purged, just to make a point of the bloodshed. Barely adherent to the High Table code, the Marquis holds his primary assassin Caine in line with his daughter's life, forcing Caine to take his place in a Duel to the Death, and mistreats another assassin named Mr. Nobody, stabbing a knife through the man's hand and forcing him to pull it out as a demonstration of strength. Abhorred even by his allies, the Marquis gleefully posits that he commits all this pointless bloodshed simply to send a message to his would-be enemies.
• Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove: "Jolly" Roger Laforge was a pirate captain so greedy that he would kill people for their gold teeth. After slaughtering a Spanish galleon full of priests and nuns, he was killed by his crew. Centuries later, Roger is resurrected by some high schoolers, and proceeds to decapitate every descendant of his crew that he can find, also killing many innocent bystanders and trying to force himself on a stripper. When he collects the sixteen heads he needs, Roger intends to condemn the souls to Hell for the sake of getting his gold back.
• Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead & Joy Ride 3: Roadkill: The trucker "Rusty Nail", unlike his original counterpart, is portrayed as a cruel, sadistic Serial Killer, who targets his victims with little to no provocation. Opening the second film murdering a prostitute he lured into his truck, Rusty spends the movie chasing down a group of friends who stole his car; his deeds include having a woman strip on camera; ripping the jaw off a bystander trying to help his captive; and maiming and torturing two victims in a sadistic game of dice, impaling the loser through the head. In the third film, Rusty takes a couple of junkies and forces them to play a "game", which gets them pulled under his truck on the highway. Picking off a race crew who cut him off on the road, Rusty forces one victim's hand and face through his engine fan clutch; kills a cop; and forces the crew to listen to their friend getting his head slowly crushed for getting them involved. Rusty forces a man to fight him head on under the promise of freeing his girlfriend, only to reveal he already killed her and was playing her screams on a recording.
• Judas and the Black Messiah: J. Edgar Hoover himself is depicted here as an oppressive racist who wants to crush the Black Panther Party and ensure a "Black Messiah" never rises to change America's white nationalist way of life. Hoover spreads hateful propaganda and promotes bigotry among his FBI subordinates and other law enforcement outlets, leading to regular bouts of brutality and abuse against Black people by those in power. Endorsing or blackmailing people to go undercover in the Black Panthers to subvert the group's message, Hoover has one of his informants torture a Panther to death to secure his cover, then frames a prominent Panther for it. In his quest to silence the voice of the Black Panthers, Hoover has had a hand in all manner of murder or wrongful imprisonment of its leaders, and ultimately stages the assassination of Fred Hampton, which results in the slayings of several Panthers, the near-murder of even more, and the arrest of any survivors of the attack.
• Judy (1970): The unnamed killer/rapist, who turns out to be a cop, rapes one woman and kills another when she gives him too much trouble. After a failed attempt to rape Detective Gunner Sloan's girlfriend, Velvet Harris, he proceeds to rape and kill three more women. Finally, he kills a woman who was willingly having sex with him.
• Juggernaut (1974): Juggernaut, real name Sidney Buckland, was once a British bomb technician who saved lives during the Blitz. But feeling his retirement pension too small, Buckland uses his skills to create several time bombs that he places on the Trans-Atlantic ocean-liner Britannic, demanding 500,000 pounds or else he won't tell how to defuse the bombs, and all 1,200 of the ships' passengers, including children, will be blown to bits or drown. Two of the three bombs required to sink the ship detonate, killing several dispatched bomb disposal experts and crewmen. When attempts to pay his ransom fall through and the police don't follow his instructions, Buckland makes good on his threat to break all contact with the authorities, forcing the passengers on the Britannic to flee on lifeboats in treacherous waters, which will kill at least half of them, or stay behind and be blown up. When Buckland is captured, his former comrade Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon, attempts to appeal to their past for knowledge of how to disarm the bombs, but Buckland lies in a last-ditch attempt to kill Fallon and everyone on board.
• Jungleground: Odin is the ruler of Jungleground, and the leader of the Ragnarockers, a gang of drug dealers who kill competition through any means necessary, despite promising his people that he would get rid of pushers. When Lt. Jacob "Jake" Cornell investigates his crimes, Odin captures him, has his girlfriend tied up, and promises him that he won’t kill him unless he gets back home before dawn, even executing a henchman for talking to him. Sending his goons out to hunt Jake, he doesn’t care if they're killed, even manipulating Dragon to seek vengeance on Jake for killing his little brother. Once Jake makes it back home, Odin upholds his promise by having his soldiers kill Jake instead of killing Jake himself.
• Jungle Warriors (1984): Cesar Santiago is a brutal and ruthless drug lord aiming to craft a new shipment of drugs to be moved into the United States through a deal with The Mafia. When a group of models find themselves in his territory, Cesar believes one of them is an undercover fed, having them tortured en masse before they are gang-raped by his men and sadistic half-sister Angel. Attempting to later murder them and the federal agents who arrive, Cesar shows no hint of sorrow when Angel dies defending them despite her being his sister and lover, stating that Angel was only his half-sister anyways.
• Ju-on franchise:
  • Takeo Saeki, before being taken by the horrific curse, murders his wife Kayeko by snapping her neck, leaving her alive, but paralyzed in extreme agony for a lengthy period before he finally kills her with a knife. Takeo then proceeds to calmly murder his son Toshio, and even Toshio's cat, before he attacks the wife of the man he suspected Kayako was having an affair with before cutting out her unborn child from her stomach and mocks the father over what he's done.
  • Black Ghost & White Ghost: The Black Ghost is a malevolent spirit housing Fukie Yokota's body, spawned from the spiritual grudge of Fukie's stillborn twin. Desiring murderous revenge on the world, the spirit attempts to forcibly take control of Fukie, causing her no shortage of pain as she descends into madness. When her mother Kiwako Yokota contacts her sister Mariko, a veteran exorcist, she attempts to purge the wicked spirit but accidentally expels Fukie's soul instead thanks to its manipulations. The overtaken Fukie subsequently finds Mariko's house at night and murders her child and husband in front of her before beating her to death. When a despondent Kiwako jumps off a roof with Fukie's body hoping it takes the spirit with her, her suicide only unleashes it upon the world to possess others, starting with her husband. Years later in White Ghost, the spirit's evil lives on at the site of Mariko's family massacre. When the Isobe family moves into Mariko's home, the spirit possesses the eldest son into murdering his entire family and performing a ritual to spread a curse before hanging himself, making it ultimately responsible for all the tragedies in both films.
• Jurassic City: Agent LaFranco at first appears to be just a shady government official who is doing some unknown stuff with recreating dinosaurs, which end up getting loose and killing many people. At the end, LaFranco reveals to Talbot that he intentionally let the dinosaurs out, so that he could swoop in and stop the dinosaurs, becoming a hero, while showing complete apathy to the number of people that died.
• The Jurassic Games: The man known only as "the Host" is the psychopathic poster boy of The Jurassic Games, a popular Blood Sport where death row inmates are forced into a dinosaur-infested virtual reality where they fight to the death for the whole world to watch. Responsible for controlling the conditions of the cyber-world, the Host invents ways to painfully murder each of the contestants, be it loosing prehistoric monsters on them to devour them; attaching explosive collars to their necks that explode if they fail challenges; putting them in death traps; or turning them against each other in hopes that they'll tear each other apart, the Host commits wanton human rights violations with a smile on his face. When contestant Anthony Tucker is proven to be innocent of his crimes, the Host reveals that he deliberately withheld this information to both exploit the man's plight for audience sympathy and to have an "epic twist" for the show's final round, before loosing a trio of Tyrannosaurs on Tucker and his rival for the grand finale. Unlike his boss, who genuinely despises the inmates for their heinous crimes and wishes them to endure the cruelest punishment, the Host simply uses the games as an outlet for his murderous impulses, seeing the inmates as the "best kind of sick" as they bring about "the highest ratings".
• Jurassic World Dominion: Dr. Lewis Dodgson, debuting in the very first film, proves to be much more destructive than any of the dinosaurs. Having been a member of InGen's competitor Biosyn for decades, Dodgson's attempt to sabotage the rival company involves him having Dennis Nedry mess with the controls of the park so Nedry can make off with embryos while everyone else is put in mortal jeopardy—even Nedry himself. Years after the fact, Dodgson eventually becomes the CEO of Biosyn, and not only does he have an involvement in the Black Market dinosaur trade, he also has Dr. Henry Wu genetically mutate locusts designed to attack and eat the crops of all his competitors to force humanity to either buy his own food sources or suffer extinction by malnourishment. Even when all that goes wrong, Dodgson tries to wipe out those who opposed him and flee with the embryos he has left, intending to continue his immoral desire for scientific superiority over everything and everyone.
• The Juror (1996): The mob hitman known as "The Teacher", real name Mark Cordell, opens the film by assassinating a mark as well as his family—including a little boy—which leads to his boss indicted for the murder. Cozying up to the titular juror of the film, Annie Laird, Cordell blackmails her into getting his boss, Louie Boffano, acquitted by threatening her son. Whenever Annie defies him, Cordell grows worse, at one point murdering a bystander and later killing Annie's friend by forcing her at gunpoint to take a fatal overdose of pills after sleeping with her. When Annie tries to reveal Cordell's ambitions to Boffano, Cordell murders Boffano and his men, ending by killing his former partner Eddie who was sympathetic to Annie's plight. Furious at Annie's "betrayal", Cordell reveals his intent to murder her son Oliver, and later attempts to kill Annie when she tries to stop him.
• Just Cause: Bobby Earl Ferguson at first appears to be a charming, brilliant young man accused by a racist justice system of the rape and brutal murder of a young girl, who was castrated in jail by other inmates, but was let out when death row inmate Blair Sullivan confesses to the crime. It turns out that Ferguson is not only guilty of the crime, but he and Sullivan have been collaborating so Sullivan will take credit for the killing in return for Ferguson killing Sullivan's parents, who he violently slaughters as soon as he leaves jail. Ferguson then attempts to kill the law professor who helped him out of jail, the professor’s wife who prosecuted him on a past rape charge, their young daughter, and the chief of police who tries to stop him.
• Just Heroes: The ruthless Tai is the traitor within the Triad organization who arranges for the murder of Mr. Tsou, the Triad leader who raised him and the heroes. Arranging a Mob War to create a power vacuum for him to take control, Tai even gets the pregnant wife of his "brother" Sou killed before attempting to slaughter everyone else in his path to taking over the Triads.

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• Kahaani (2012 Bollywood film): Milan Damji, the enigmatic villain of the film, was once a counterterrorism agent who betrayed his country and people. Murdering several agents, Damji allied himself with the terrorists and was responsible for a horrible nerve gas attack on a subway which killed many civilians, children included. When he receives word the heroine Vidya is searching for her husband who resembles him, Damji dispatches assassins to remove loose ends, and when he meets Vidya, who appears to be heavily pregnant, Damji kicks her in the stomach and attempts to murder her.
• Kalifornia: Early Grayce is a paroled murderer who mocks the idea that evil can be easily explained or given a root cause. Initially traveling with his girlfriend Adele, a rape survivor who considers Early her protector, Early meets the psychology student Brian Kessler and his girlfriend Carrie, Early initially acts friendly, while murdering bystanders for money. When Brian and Carrie find out, Early takes them hostage before killing investigating police officers. When they arrive at the house of an elderly couple, Early beats the husband to death before murdering Adele when she allows the wife to flee. Early decides to make Carrie her replacement and sexually assaults her, mocking Brian for bringing up his abusive father in an attempt to touch some humanity in him afterwards.
• Karate Kill (2016): Vandenski is the leader of Capital Messiah, a cult who kidnaps people to be used in his snuff films. Hosting these films on the Dark Web, he has countless people of all ages raped, tortured, murdered, and sacrificed, selling the videos for high prices. Kidnapping Kenji’s sister Mayumi, he has her tortured and drugs her into becoming one of his servants. When Kenji and Keiko invade his base, Vandenski captures a weakened Kenji and has him compete in a streamed fight to the death, later threatening to kill Mayumi after he escapes.
• Karate-Robo Zarborgar: Dr. Akunomiya is the evil leader of Sigma. Originally an earnest scientist who survived an assassination attempt by his own bosses, Akunomiya decided to destroy the world because of his lack of trust, and also For the Evulz. Creating the Jumbo Mecha to destroy the Earth, he has politicians kidnapped and murdered to add to the mecha, teaming up with Wakasugi to kill his rivals. Kidnapping Yutaka Daimon's father to find his Daimonium, he has him tortured in front of Daimon for not telling, killing him when he attempts suicide. Knowing that Miss Borg secretly loves Daimon, he plants a bomb in her to kill Daimon, taking her and Daimon's children to be used as fighters. During Daimon's 25-year retirement, Akunomiya has countless politicians killed to add to his machine, and even sends Daimon's son Akitsuki to kill him for his own enjoyment. Finally completing the Jumbo Mecha using Akiko's body, Sigma betrays Wakasugi and destroys most of Tokyo, killing countless civilians.
• Kate: Varrick murders the families of young women to "adopt" them and turn them into assassins. Taking in Kate, Varrick has used her since childhood to kill countless rival criminals, even giving her an unloaded gun to test her skills in one instance, and makes plans to poison her should she try to leave him. When his partner has her poisoned ahead of time, Varrick lies to her about the culprit's identity, using her to remove further rivals in the Yakuza, before corrupting her young friend Ani into shooting Kate and preparing to groom the latter into his next killer.
• The Keep:
  • Radu Molasar, the ancient, demonic force sealed within the Keep, introduces itself by murdering the tomb raiders that discover it, going on to devour the life from countless German soldiers in the area and driving the local villagers slowly insane with its presence. Vying for its freedom to walk among the Earth again, Radu Molasar manipulates a Jewish professor named Theodore Cuza by pretending to be a guardian for the Jewish people, restoring his body and stringing him along for his own ends. Radu Molasar kills the SS leader Kaempffer and his entire garrison, and, when Cuza denies him his freedom upon seeing it for the monster it is, Radu Molasar returns him to his crippled body out of spite and attempts to murder both him and his daughter for their defiance.
  • SD Sturmbannführer Erich Kaempffer is a brutal Nazi enforcer dispatched to investigate the Keep in response to the German deaths. Kaempffer introduces himself having three of the local villagers executed to curb "partisan" activity, ordering his men to execute more for each German death until they run out of villagers to kill. Giving free rein to his men to abuse the villagers and threatening to torture those who do not comply, Kaempffer ensures the compliance of Cuza when he's brought in to translate the Keep's message by threatening to have him and his daughter sent to the camps. A craven bully at heart, Kaempffer guns down his own associate Woermann to steal his cross, shortly before he is killed by the malignant force he himself is little different from.
• Keep Watching (2017): The masked mastermind—called "The Creator"—behind the hit horror sensation "Kill, or Be Killed" orchestrates home invasions of innocent families. He has his men sow terror by killing family members through methods like drowning and suffocation, murdering bystanders that could derail his show, faking rescues, and psychologically tormenting particular targets. He demonstrates this methodology on his latest target, Jamie, and her family. Revealing he forces at least one victim to join the ranks for the next show, the masked mastermind holds Jamie's little brother DJ hostage so that she can replace the last conscripted victim she killed out of self-defense. Lacking empathy and showing no regard to the people he terrorizes, the mastermind does all this simply so his unsuspecting audience can, in his own words, "keep watching".
• The Keeper (1976): The nameless "Keeper" runs a supposed home for the mentally disturbed but in truth uses it as a scheme to make himself wealthy and powerful. Convincing them of their mental maladies, the Keeper uses a machine to painfully hypnotize them into murdering their families before killing themselves in "accidents" and allowing him to claim their assets. When he learns of a potential threat, the Keeper subjects one of the inmates to mental torture to make him think himself a policeman and uses him to try to kill the intruder, not caring when his pawn dies in the attempt. The Keeper then proceeds to attempt to murder and torment more of his own inmates, not intending to stop until he has claimed more wealth and power than any other in history.
• The Keeping Room (2014/2015): Henry is an Union bummer who, unlike his partner Moses, has no sympathetic qualities. A drunken sociopath with a passion for rape and murder, Henry arrived in the countryside of South Carolina to terrorize it by indulging in serial killing for fun. Introduced shooting a woman after having raped her, killing a coachman and setting his carriage ablaze, Henry massacres the workers and clients of a store before setting his eyes on Augusta and her loved ones, raping her younger sister Louise and almost executing her.
• Keoma: Caldwell is a former Confederate soldier who's become the warlord of Keoma Shannon's hometown. His men's debauchery led to a pollution-borne plague on the place. Seeing an opportunity to seize more power, he seizes even more power by forbidding anybody, including medical help, to enter or leave under pain of death, and quarantines the plague victims under pain of their families' deaths. After Keoma rescues a pregnant woman from one of these massacres, Caldwell has Keoma's half-brothers shoot at her feet to lure him out. When our heroes smuggle some medicine into the town, Caldwell's men try to take it on account of him owning the land it's on. After Keoma stops them, Caldwell leads a raid on them, kills Keoma's best friend, and captures his father. Keoma gives himself up, and Caldwell slays his dad anyways. He then proceeds to try and torture Keoma to death before being killed himself.
• Kickboxer 3: The Art of War (1992): Frank Lane is a corrupt murderer in Brazil who secretly runs a sex slaving ring that enslaves women and children, all to put money in his pocket. Lane opens the film executing a runaway in front of the other slaves as a "lesson", and when he becomes obsessed with a young woman named Isabella, he kidnaps her to make her into his own slave. When hero David Sloane is on to him, he uses Isabella's life to force Sloane into a grueling training regimen so he loses a kickboxing match so Lane can profit. Even at the end, Lane shows no remorse, bragging he gave women a chance to be "part of something" in his dirty business.
• Kidnap: The unnamed "neighbor" to Terry and Margo Vickey is their secret partner and ringleader of their child trafficking ring. Having the unstable couple do the dirty work in the abduction of children, they have dozens of victims being taken as far back as the early 2000s, with their neighbor being the middleman connecting them with larger operations overseas. When Karla Dyson goes after and eventually kills Terry and Margo to save her son, and two other girls are being held captive in the Vickeys' attic, the ringleader confronts Karla, acting as a concerned neighbor and bystander, before Karla realizes he's in on the scheme, at which point he quickly attempts to kill Karla.
• Kidnapped (2010):
  • The "Head Thief" is the cold-blooded leader of the home invaders. He leads his gang in performing a variety of home invasions and kidnappings, threatening the families of wealthy men for money before killing them anyway, with the film opening on a victim left to suffocate after his wife is shot. Later staging another break-in, the Head Thief forces father Jaime to withdraw loads of money from ATM machines, or else his wife Marta and teen daughter Isa will be raped and tortured while Jaime listens. After Jaime gets the drop on the Head Thief and seemingly saves his family from the other kidnappers, the Head Thief returns and bashes Jaime's head in before gunning down Isa's boyfriend and Marta. The Head Thief then stabs the sobbing Isa to death, annihilating the entire family out of nothing but petty spite for being outdone.
  • The "Strong Thief" is one of the Head Thief's two Co-Dragons and indisputably the more monstrous compared to his nervous, out-of-his-depth partner the "Young Thief". When the Strong Thief is tasked to guard Jaime's wife and teenage daughter, the Strong Thief makes clear his plans to murder them even if they cooperate, horrifying his partner. The Strong Thief mercilessly murders a security guard and tortures Isa's boyfriend, then—out of boiling frustration—rapes Isa himself. When Marta desperately tries to offer herself in her daughter's place, the Strong Thief just breaks her arm and throws her aside.
• Kill Bill: Volume 1:
  • "Chapter 2: The blood-splattered BRIDE": Buck, despite his short appearance, makes himself known as one of the most disgusting characters in the film. A perverted hospital orderly, Buck has been sadistically raping the comatose Bride for four years, all the while he sells her body to other rapists for money, which he uses for his luxury car.
  • "Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren": Boss Matsumoto was a sadistic, pedophilic Yakuza boss, and the one responsible for O-Ren Ishii's life as an assassin. Invading O-Ren's home when she was nine, Matsumoto has his men fight and kill her father, laughing as he dies. Taking O-Ren's mom, he tosses her on her bed and fatally stabs her with his katana, almost killing O-Ren herself, who was hiding under the bed. With business settled, Matsumoto and his gang set the house on fire. Frequently using young girls as prostitutes, O-Ren is able to assassinate him by posing as one, appealing to Matsumoto's perverse lust.
• Kill Crazy (1990):
  • Mallerd is the leader of a group of murderous white supremacists who intend to assassinate a political figure and his entourage to send their racist message. To warm his goons up, Mallerd kidnaps five mentally damaged Vietnam veterans, murdering the doctors accompanying them before revealing his intention for them: live game. Mallerd psychologically and physically tortures the veterans himself while leaving them to the predation of his second-in-command Luther, eventually murdering all of them save the hero Puckett.
  • Luther is Mallerd's lascivious snake of a right-hand man and consummate murderer and rapist who eagerly participates in Mallerd's live hunt, forcing Puckett to jump off a cliff at gunpoint. Luther's worst is showcased in how he treats Puckett's companions: Luther horribly tortures one with barbed wire; rapes Puckett's childlike friend Malox; and, when two campers discover Puckett, Luther rapes and murders one before kidnapping the other with the intention to rape and kill her too.
• Kill Ratio (2016): General Lazar and his ex-KGB henchman Vorza are a sadistic pair of military officers trying to overthrow the new democracy of their Eastern European nation. Enacting a military coup that leaves their country in flames, the two occupy a hotel where the new President Petrenko is staying and lay siege to it, while Vorza allows his men to brutalize and attempt to assault the staff physically or sexually, even gunning an escaping woman down just to show his men how it's done. When one man objects to Lazar's actions, Lazar toys with him in a sword fight and executes him on the spot by beheading him. When their liaison to the West objects to them executing President Petrenko on air, Lazar and Vorza happily murder him before trying to kill Petrenko, believing her death will break the nation's very spirit.
• Kill Squad (1982): Joseph "Joe" Lawrence is a Vietnam veteran and Larry Pearson's best friend. Losing his feet during the war, Joe blamed the squad for the incident and sought revenge, becoming a wealthy businessman and training for years to have a chance against his former friends. Wanting the ownership over everything and hating his wife for rejecting him, Joe hired Dutch to gang-rape and kill her, ordering him to shoot him afterwards. Feigning being wheelchair-bound to divert attention from himself, Joe created a so-called "Killer Game" by making the titular "Kill Squad" eliminate Dutch and his men, while he assassinated them and potential leads to the case. After killing four members of the squad, Joe attempted to kill another one by slashing him with a sword and trying to impale him with it.
• The Killer (1989): Hay Wong Hoi/Johnny Weng is a cowardly, selfish and traitorous Triad boss and the employer of professional hitman Jeffery/Ah Jong. Wong Hoi sends Ah Jong to assassinate his own uncle so he could take over and then double-crosses Ah Jong by sending a group of hitmen after him for being spotted by the police detective Li Ying, gravely injuring an innocent child in the process. He starts to become increasingly more paranoid after Ah Jong tries to assassinate him in revenge and proceeds to mercilessly beat his best friend Sydney Fung/Fung Sei for information. Wong Hoi then unleashes a brutal assault on the church which serves as Ah Jong's hideout, killing the priest and Fung Sei, before taking Ah Jong's Love Interest Jennie hostage and attempting to kill both Ah Jong and Li even after they surrender. During the final showdown, Wong Hoi successfully lands two bullets in Ah Jong's eyes, murdering him and ensuring that his eyes cannot be used to fix Jennie's, and subsequently surrenders himself to the cops in a final desperate act to save his own skin.
• Killer Angels: Don Chu Chung Sing is a gang lord in charge of the Shadows, a syndicate involved in human trafficking. Running every night club in Hong Kong, Chu uses them to lure and kidnap illegal immigrants to be held hostage underneath his house and sold to foreign buyers, completely uncaring when one commits suicide. Sending his hitmen out to kill anybody who could pose a threat against him, resulting in dozens dying, Chu tries to have the suspect Jackie Chan killed to keep his operation a secret. After Yau-li leads a raid on his mansion, Chu is blasé when he accidentally kills his prized hitman Michael during his fight with Yau-li.
• Killer Joe: "Killer" Joe Cooper himself is a mad detective who moonlights as a hitman. Contracted by Chris Smith and his father Ansel to kill Chris's mother Adele for insurance money, Joe forces Chris to let him take his mentally ill sister Dottie on a date when he cannot pay upfront. Intimidating Dottie into sleeping with him, Joe begins living with the Smiths and regularly uses Dottie for sex before killing Adele, only to discover the beneficiary of her insurance policy is her current partner Rex. Catching and killing Rex, Joe reveals Ansel's new wife Sharla's infidelity to him as he brutally beats and rapes her, threatening to kill the whole family lest they give him Dottie in lieu of paying him.
• Killer Kid (1967): Colonel Ramirez is the icy leader of the Mexican Army forces out to erase any trace of the rebels in his quest for the head El Santo. Starting the film with a mass execution of revolutionary sympathizers, Ramirez shows himself as willing to torture wounded prisoners before initiating another massacre once he takes over a pueblo and a threat to have everyone within murdered at the slightest trace of resistance. Willing to resort to any means to destroy the rebels, Ramirez even poisons the water supply of a fort to kill everyone within.
• Killers (2014): Nomura Shuhei is a sadistic Japanese Serial Killer who uploads snuff films of his killings online where he kills women in cruelly inventive ways. Forming a relationship with a vigilante killer in Indonesia named Bayu, Nomura also bonds with a woman named Hisae when he believes her to have the same killer instinct he does. Upon discovering he is wrong, he brutally murders her and a prostitute before fleeing Japan and heading to Indonesia where he kills more people. Nomura proceeds to try to force Bayu to embrace his dark side by getting Bayu's enemy, a crime boss, to kill Bayu's daughter to force Bayu to kill the man, only for Nomura to try to murder Bayu's daughter anyways. After Bayu saves his daughter, Nomura simply tries to murder Bayu anyways for disappointing him.
• Killers of the Flower Moon:
  • William King Hale is a well-dressed, affable man whose seeming friendliness to the Osage Nation masks a heart of pure, greed-driven evil. Motivated by a desire to claim as many "headrights" from the Osage as he can, Hale devises a devious, years-spanning plot to first establish familial or monetary connections to various Osage, then coldly murder them so their inheritance will trickle back to Hale. Dozens of innocent Osage are killed during this "reign of terror", all while Hale continues to act as an ally to the Osage. In his most despicable scheme, Hale targets his own in-laws, the Kyle family, for total annihilation, poisoning several of them with a "wasting illness" that slowly kills them while forcing the weak-willed Ernest to do the same to his wife, Mollie. Hale has anyone trying to investigate the mysterious deaths either beaten within an inch of their life or killed, and emotionally abuses those around him into compliance. When the BOI begins closing in on the murder and mayhem, Hale arranges the deaths of several of his minions to tie up loose ends, and tries to do the same to Ernest himself. Even when finally exposed, Hale has the audacity to continue acting like a "friend" to the Osage, truthfully valuing nothing but money and uncaring of how many corpses he leaves behind to get more of it.
  • Byron Burkhart is the most wicked of Hale's co-conspirators, a dim and brutal man who carries out and organizes most of the Osage killings. Brutally beating an investigator who arrives to inspect the killings, Byron is responsible for shootings and worse that kill numerous innocent Osage. Byron even carries out the death of his own wife Anna with no remorse, despite her being pregnant.
• The Killing of Satan: The Prince of Magic is Satan's top lieutenant on Earth, supervising a cult of Human Sacrifice so severe that it makes their mountain lair bleed. He is first seen confronting Miguel, a powerful hero out to stop him, and mortally wounding him. After learning that Miguel's nephew Lando has gained the power to stop the Prince, he kidnaps Lando's teenage daughter to marry her off to Satan, but not before molesting her himself. When he captures said daughter, he locks her in a deadly cage full of other women he's forcibly brainwashed into his cult via torture and rape. When Lando comes to rescue her, the Prince hinders him by having his sidekick's face ripped off by one of his loved ones, making her chest explode when she's of no further use to him.
• Killing Zoe: Eric is the psychopathic leader of the bank robbers who has taken to acts of extreme violence (including murder and domestic terrorism) so he can enjoy the rush. He invites his American friend Zed over to Paris to take part in a bank heist with Eric and his gang-with almost no planning and while they're all high on heroin. During the heist he shocks his associates by repeatedly killing hostages, initially to force the bank manager to open the vault but later just to blow off steam. He uses a bomb to kill a guard who's holed up in the vault. He later decides to rape and kill Zoe, the prostitute who visited Zed in the opening, when he notices that she has a day job in the bank. When Zed objects to this, Eric slashes Zed's face with a knife and reveals that their "friendship" means nothing to him. He ultimately leaves his gang to their deaths when the cops burst in to stop his killing spree, while pursuing Zoe and Zed to kill them both.
• Killpoint (1984): Nighthawk is an unfeeling and greedy Psycho for Hire working for Joe Marks. Introduced killing a guard and stealing weapons, Nighthawk proceeds to commit two massacres in one single night, with children involved. Confessing to having killed a girl who was affiliated with Joe, Nighthawk murders the man's wife. Giving guns to a group of criminals, Nighthawk was responsible for a third massacre at a liquor store and the death of FBI Agent Bill Bryant. Shortly after betraying Joe, Nighthawk slashes his throat with a switchblade while telling him to not leave blood stains on his car.
• King Arthur (2004): Cerdic, the warchief of the Saxons, is a brutal Blood Knight leading his forces across Britannia to destroy all in their paths. First seen amongst a burnt out village, Cerdic stops a Saxon from raping a woman simply because such a coupling would "water down" their Saxon blood and promptly kills the soldier when he protests before he orders the woman killed anyways. Cerdic promptly orders his men to rampage across Britain with explicit instructions to leave behind no man, woman or child who can even carry a sword. In the final battle with Arthur, Cerdic sends his men on a diversion that will get them killed and roars they are his men when his son Cynric protests the decision. During the battle, Cerdic viciously kills Sir Galahad after making certain Arthur can see the fight, having decided earlier Arthur is the only man worth killing.
• Kingdom of Heaven:
  • Guy de Lusignan is the head of a faction of knights who chafe at not being allowed to make war on "the Saracens". Together with his psychotic sidekick, Reynald de Châtillon, Guy massacres a Muslim caravan, hoping to provoke war with Sultan Saladin, but is foiled when King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem persuades Saladin to relent and jails Reynald. Following Baldwin's death, Guy frees Reynald and sends him out to waylay and butcher another caravan, this one including Saladin's own sister. When Saladin sends an envoy to request the return of his sister's body, Guy murders the envoy in view of his party then sends his head back to Saladin as a declaration of war. Ignoring the advice of those who have fought the Muslims before, Guy marches his entire army into the desert without sufficient food or water, damning all those who disagree with this plan as cowards, and gloating about the glory he will attain when he bests Saladin. When his army is killed almost to a man, and Reynald executed in front of him by Saladin, Guy refuses to accept any responsibility, blaming everyone but himself for the way that things have worked out.
  • Reynald de Châtillon in the director's cut is worse than in the theatrical version. Reynald is a vicious nobleman who hates Muslims and seeks any excuse to slaughter them; he is known to frequently slaughter caravans of Muslim civilians. Later, Reynald tells Guy de Lusignan that he wants war with the Saracens "soon". Together, they slaughter the caravan, with Reynald having a psychotic smirk the entire time. After Guy de Lusignan becomes king, he asks Reynald to give him war, with Reynald provoking Saladin by slaughtering yet another caravan and beheading captives. Reynald also personally rapes and murders Saladin's sister. When captured by Saladin, Reynald grins to him and shows no remorse for his actions.
• Kingsman films:
  • The Golden Circle:
    • Poppy Adams is the head of the Golden Circle, the biggest drug empire in the world. When an employee named Charles brings his friend Angel to her as a new hire, she punishes Charles by forcing Angel to put him into a meat grinder and then forces Angel to eat a burger made of Charles's meat. After discovering all the Kingsman locations, she has them all blown up and kills all of the Kingsmen except Gary "Eggsy" Unwin and Merlin. She takes singer Elton John hostage as a pet and as personal entertainment with a Shock Collar. When Angel uses one of her products, Poppy has her robot dogs attack and tear him apart. The crux of her plan to legalize the drug industry so she can make even more money is to have the millions who she sold to infected with a deadly virus through her products that lasts three stages before death.
    • Charles "Charlie" Hesketh is a vindictive, elitist bully who was chosen to be a Kingsman candidate, before being rejected for being willing to sell out the Agency when threatened. In response Charlie throws his hat in with Richmond Valentine and even attempts to sabotage Eggsy as he tries to stop Valentine's plan to wipe out most of humanity. Surviving, Charlie is recruited by the Golden Circle and assists with Poppy Adams's scheme to hold hundreds of millions hostage with her drug; he hacks into the Kingsman servers and allows for the entire organization to be purged so Poppy's plan could begin. Later on, Charlie personally destroys an entire building filled with his fellow Golden Circle members, including his own girlfriend for cheating on him, just to keep the heroes from getting the antidote. In the film's climax, Charlie tries to make a run with the case that can release the antidote before laying a brutal beatdown onto Eggsy.
  • The King's Man:
    • Captain Maximilian Morton, aka "the Shepherd", is the spearhead of the conspirators called "the Flock" that kick-start World War I. Wanting to punish England on behalf of Scotland, Morton uses his co-conspirators—who he has spread around the world and who he also horribly mistreats, insisting they be ready with cyanide when compromised—to first have Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated and then coaxes England, Germany, and Russia to start fighting each other. Morton also fakes his death by having the ship of his boss Herbert Kitchener blown up with everybody on board. Numerous soldiers on each side end up killed in the war as well, including Duke Orlando Oxford's son Conrad. Morton also wants to arrange for Russia to pull out so Germany will focus all its resources on England instead. Morton also blackmails US President Woodrow Wilson to keep America out of the war, and when confronted by Orlando, Morton insists they duel honorably, only to try to kill him with a concealed pistol instead.
    • Erik Jan Hanussen, aka "the Dog", is a wealthy sociopath who serves as Kaiser Wilhelm's scheming advisor. After joining the Flock, Hanussen manipulates the Kaiser into starting World War I and helps the Shepherd plunge Europe, including his own country, into one of the worst conflicts in human history, costing millions upon millions of lives. Later, Hanussen plots to more easily starve Britain to death with a blockade by attempting to have Mexico invade America, starting a new war which would keep the United States too busy to intervene. After becoming the new Shepherd, Hanussen recruits Adolf Hitler to the Flock, having him force Wilhelm to abdicate then sending him to execute the entire Russian monarchy, including the children, planning to put Hitler into power and start a new global war alongside him and Vladimir Lenin.
    • Grigori Rasputin, aka "the Tortoise", is a Russian mystic with an ill and unpleasant temper who's deeply involved in the World War I conspiracy as well. Unlike the others in the Flock, Rasputin even shows clear disrespect to the Shepherd, only falling in line under the threat of death. Using his influence on Tzar Nicholas, Rasputin regularly warns of hexes and curses that will befall the latter's family if he doesn't submit to his whims, and on one particular occasion, fulfills a specific part of the plan by poisoning the Tzar's young son in order to manipulate Russia out of the war. When confronted and nearly assassinated by Orlando, Conrad, and Shola, Rasputin nearly succeeds in killing them all.
• King of Gambler: Marinda is the leader of The Mafia based in Hong Kong who used a bad bet in a gambling game as an excuse to instigate a Mob War. Launching an ambush on Godfather Ho's mansion right on Lin-Fei and Bobo Ho's wedding, Marinda leads her henchmen to massacre everyone present in the wedding, with Marinda personally shooting a number of bridesmaids trying to flee, having hundreds of people slaughtered in an afternoon, and later guns down Godfather Ho after ordering her mooks to Leave No Survivors in the mansion. When Lin-Fei and Paul Ho ambush Marinda's penthouse hideout, Marinda leaves her bodyguards to die in the crossfire and shoots down Paul and Lin-Fei's helicopter, nearly killing them both, before having Lin-Fei's fiancée Bobo kidnapped to lure Lin-Fei and Paul into a trap. In the final shootout, Marinda uses her own mooks as disposable meatshields while shooting Paul In the Back, before eventually killing Bobo in front of Lin-Fei.
• King Solomon's Mines (1985): Dogati, in a sharp contrast to the rest of the film, and even his partner Bockner, stands out as a deadly serious madman. Introduced kidnapping Professor Huston by murdering one of his partners, Dogati later subjects the man to brutal torture, before threatening the same to Huston's daughter Jesse. Running a slave trade where men, women, and children are sold and abused for various purposes, Dogati later tracks his Arch-Enemy Allan Quartermain to a small village, whose inhabitants he promptly massacres to pave the way for his journey to the treasure-filled Mines of King Solomon. While trekking to the Mines, Dogati and his soldiers stumble across a marsh, and Dogati proceeds to cross by slaughtering his own dozens of men, then using their bodies as stepping stones, an act that causes Bockner to turn on Dogati. In the end, Dogati forces Bockner to swallow several diamonds, proclaiming he will rip them out of the man's stomach later, and ultimately attempts to drag Quartermain down with him as the Mines crumble in on themselves.
• Kings of the Sun (1963): Conqueror Hunac Creel begins to fancy himself as powerful as any of the gods. Leading an army down to Chichen Itza to massacre the people of King Balam, Hunac Creel returns later to slaughter their allies and finish the job as violently as possible. Later tracking them to North America, Hunac Creel threatens to kill them all to the last child should Balam not offer his own life.
• Kisapmata: Dadong Carandang is an abusive monster who holds a tight grip on his wife and daughter through intimidation and threats of violence. Dadong has reduced his wife, Dely, to an emotionally broken and submissive servant, and has an unhealthy obsession with his daughter Mila. When Mila reveals herself to be engaged to a man named Noel, Dadong forces them both to live in the household under his control. After Noel stays out after the expected curfew, Dadong locks him out of the house for the night, causing Noel to have a complete mental breakdown. When Noel tries to leave the house with his wife, Mila reveals that Dadong raped her and is the reason she is pregnant in the first place. After Dadong rapes her again, Mila pretends to be sick to go to the hospital and escape with Noel. Enraged, Dadong forces his wife at gunpoint to negotiate with Noel's dad and bring the couple back to his house. When Dadong ultimately tries to shoot the couple, Dely rushes over to protect them but gets shot to death by Dadong, who then proceeds to murder Noel, Mila, and himself.
• A Kiss Before Dying (1991): Jonathan Corliss is a seemingly charismatic psychopath who tries to take over the Carlsson Corporation. Murdering his girlfriend for getting pregnant, Jonathan forges a suicide note to cover his tracks. After he arrived at New York, He then kills a hitchhiker to assume his own identity. Seducing the sister of the girlfriend he murdered, Dorothy, Jonathan kills her ex-boyfriend for recognizing him, also staging the murder to look like a suicide. When Dorothy's best friend also discovers who Jonathan is, he murders and dismembers her. When her sister was getting closer to the truth, Jonathan tries to murder her and then callously explains that he will simply have to comfort her father as he loses another child.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Harlan Dexter is a corrupt Hollywood executive who schemes to rid himself of his daughter Veronica so as to keep his late wife's insurance all to himself. Forcibly committing Veronica to a mental institution and hiring a doppelgänger to portray her in public so as to hand all of the insurance off to Dexter, the criminal later murders Veronica and her doppelgänger Mia as well, even though Dexter had taken her on as a lover. Seeking to silence any other loose ends, Dexter subjects Harry Lockhart to genital torture via electricity while planning the same for his partner Perry, after which Dexter intends to have both them and their friend Harmony killed to get away with his heinous actions.
• Kiss of Death: Tommy Udo is a giggling psychopath whose talkative, friendly demeanor belies a monster who would murder anyone for any reason his mind could dream up. Already put behind bars for a brutal murder he committed prior and establishing his cruelty to his cellmate, Nick Bianco, by telling him he'd eagerly gouge out the eyes of a guard annoying him in his patrol duty until the man dropped dead, Udo corners the wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believe ratted him out and tosses her to her death down a flight of stairs with a gigantic smile on his face. Acquitted for his murder later and now possessed of a seething hatred of Nick for testifying against him, Udo makes it his mission to destroy him and even his family, not-so-subtly threatening to target Nick's wife and kids while remarking his preferred murder of "squealers" is to shoot them in the belly to let them "roll around for a long time, thinking it over" and finally managing to shoot Nick while laughing his head off. A perpetually-grinning, unstable nightmare of a man, Udo is one of the most frightening villains to ever come out of the early Film Noir genre.
• Kite (2014): "The Emir", head of a human trafficking organization, kidnaps kids to sell to wealthy clients. Having his thugs abduct the children, he has one young girl's parents murdered in front of her before taking her. After capturing Sawa, the Emir tries to torture information out of her by deep-frying her hand. When she breaks free and prepares to kill him, The Emir argues the cops he has had killed—which she believes includes her father—were "unreasonable" for not accepting his bribes.
• The Knight of Knights: Abbot Kung Ming, who appears to be the senior monk of the Zhao Qing Monastery, actually runs the temple as a Human Trafficking syndicate specializing in abducting young women, drugging them to insanity before selling them to brothels. When a band of warriors tries to investigate the monastery, the Abbot sends several of his men to be killed in order to lure the warriors in, and then activates various traps, including spiked walls and flaming pits, to kill all of them. Stopping at nothing to silence any witnesses aware of his operations, the Abbot had a carpenter who found out the truth of his monastery flogged, forcing the carpenter's wife and sister to give themselves into prostitution to save the carpenter's life, before ordering the carpenter to be killed anyways once the wife and sister are Brainwashed and Crazy. This is an act which the Abbot is revealed to have performed on a regular basis, which he shows no remorse and is even depicted as enjoying onscreen, having his personal harem of drugged prostitutes serving him in his personal chamber.
• Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960 adaptation of The Knights of the Cross): The Teutonic Knight brothers Rotgier and Gottfried undergo Adaptational Villainy. They are equally monstrous as their superior, Siegfried de Lowe, but lack all his redeeming qualities. They enjoy engaging in the monstrous deeds of their order, such as slaughtering and enslaving pagans as well as anybody who supports them, including Christian Poland. When Jurand of Spychow slaughters a few Teutonic knights who ambushed pagans, Rotgier and Gottfried come up with the plan to kidnap Jurand's daughter, Danusia, for ransom, with Rotgier expressing desire to rape her too. When Jurand comes for his daughter, both knights reveal how they tortured her and present him with a different girl. They also reveal that Gottfried slaughtered and hanged all the criminals whom they earlier paid to kidnap Danusia. This causes Jurand to brutally murder Gottfried before himself being overpowered and taken prisoner. Rotgier goes to Poland and tells a false version of the events, blaming Jurand and the Poles for everything. Fanatical and hypocritical, Rotgier and Gottfried really stood out in the already-monstrous Teutonic Order.
• Konga: Dr. Charles Decker is an English botanist obsessed with revolutionizing biology. Making his obsession known by shooting Margaret's pet cat, Charles injects a serum into the titular ape, causing him to grow to adult size. After a heated debate with Foster over his research, Decker hypnotizes Konga, and sends him to murder the dean. Longing for his name to be known to the scientific community, Decker murders Professor Tagore, who was also conducting research in plant growth. Charles lusts after his student, Sandra Banks, and upon getting into a brawl with Bob Kenton, he tasks Konga with disposing the young rival. Feigning sympathy for the grieving Sandra, he attempts to force himself onto her when she declines his offer to become his assistant. Viewing Konga as only a tool, he aims to kill the primate despite the fact that Konga led him to the village; as he states, Africa has an endless supply of apes to experiment on. While he claims that he's hoping to advance humanity through his experiments, Decker truly desires fame and would blight any threats to his ego.
• Kristy: Violet, the leader of the film's killers, is a member of the cult that targets those they call "Kristy", derived from the Latin for "Follower of God". Violet scouts out targets and delights in tormenting and terrorizing them before murdering them. Violet apparently begins the cult's activities by posting a video in which she encourages anyone to begin targeting "Kristy" and to upload their kills to the folder "The Fold." When targeting Justine, Violet and her team kill multiple people on the campus, including Justine's boyfriend, before attempting to kill Justine herself. Violet also keeps trophies of her kills, revealing that she has potentially dozens of victims. Consumed with envy, bitterness and cruelty, Violet's only purpose for being seems to be to find the "Kristy" she hates so much and kill her again and again.
• Krrish 3: Kaal is a scientific genius who exhibits telekinetic powers. He is also an absolutely sociopathic sadist who seeks to wipe out humanity. As a young boy, he used a knife to kill his adoptive father, as Kaal was using his powers for destruction. As the head of Kaal Pharmaceuticals, he establishes himself as a terrible boss who gets wealthy by developing viruses, releasing them in densely populated areas, and withholding their antidotes until he can get a certain price. After wiping out 40% of Namibia’s population, he uses his team of maanvars, mutants made from fusing human and animal DNA, to spread the virus in Mumbai. After this plan is foiled, Kaal abducts Krishna Mehra’s/Krrish’s pregnant wife Priya and sends Kaya to impersonate Priya and lie about having a miscarriage. He later kidnaps and forcibly receives bone marrow from his biological father Rohit Mehra, making him and Krrish (half-)brothers in a way. After his disability is cured, he uses his powers to callously kill his colleagues—including Kaya after she defected to join Krrish—and mercilessly murder Krrish in front of his father. To top it all off, during a final battle against a resurrected Krrish, Kaal mocks him for being human and attempts to kill the hero’s unborn child before finishing his adversary off.
• Kull the Conqueror: Akivasha, demon sorceress and former empress of Acheron, seduces Kull himself to gain access to the throne of Valusia. In an assassination plot on Kull, Akivasha takes a liking to him, only to order him tortured to death when he rejects her and frames the harem girl Zareta with intent to burn her alive for the "murder". Seizing the throne, Akivasha tries to have Kull and his friends killed while preparing to restore Acheron, annihilating Valusia and bringing about Hell on Earth. Viciously abusing her loyal servitor Enaros by frequently burning him for increasingly petty reasons, Akivasha agonizingly burns one of her rivals from the inside out when he opposes her, opting to later take her true demonic form and restore her bloody empire.

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• L.A. Confidential (1997):
  • Captain Dudley Smith is a disarmingly friendly policeman whose manner belies his utterly corrupt nature. Aiming to consolidate control of all criminal activity in Los Angeles after the fall of gangster Mickey Cohen leaves a power vacuum behind, Dudley steadily chases away or kills all criminal opposition in the city. When his underling, crooked cop Dick Stensland, attempts to sell stolen heroin behind his back, Dudley has the Nite Owl diner shot up, killing innocent civilians alongside Stensland. Framing a trio of criminals for the crime, knowing their history as rapists will allow him to evade scrutiny, Dudley tries to have them killed while accusing them of resisting arrest. When the arrival of other cops on the scene first undermines his plot, Dudley orchestrates the criminals escaping from captivity, having them killed by Edmund Exley, a young cop trying to do good who looks up to him. Swiftly murdering any officers who discover his criminal empire, when Dudley is nearly exposed, he merely kills off all of his business partners to tie up loose ends and tries to corrupt Edmund into joining him after all of his men are killed in a shootout to restart his organization anew.
  • Pierce Morehouse Patchett is a sleazy businessman trying to take over Los Angeles crime with Dudley Smith. Running Fleur-de-Lis using high-class call girls given surgery to resemble famous actresses, Patchett assists Dudley in eliminating Dick Stensland by having a call girl date Stensland and lure him to the cafe for both to be killed along with four other innocents. Blackmailing politicians and regularly murdering rival criminals, Patchett orders a call girl dating officer Bud White to to seduce the investigating Edmund Exley in the hopes Bud will kill Edmund for he and Dudley to evade any chance of being caught, and casually murders a young actor for overhearing their plans.
• Lacombe, Lucien: The titular Lucien Lacombe is a sociopathic teenager from Vichy France who hides his lack of emotion behind a pretty face. After being denied entry into the local anti-Nazi movement, Lucien joins the Milice and sells out the resistance commander—his old schoolteacher—out of spite. Gladly helping with the arrest of several resistance fighters, Lucien manipulates the daughter of one of his associates, France Horn, into falling in love with him. When France's father is captured for being a Jew, Lucien accuses him of being responsible for his own demise in front of France, slapping and raping her when she shows disgust towards his attitude. Even his allies are not safe from him, as shown when Lucien murders his own SS partner solely to reclaim a pocket watch. Believing Nazism to be a tool for him to exert his power over people, Lucien served as an example of how some collaborators were just as bad as the Nazis themselves.
• Lady Battle Cop (1990): Major Phantom is in charge of leading Team Phantom and spreading terror across Neo Tokyo for The Cartel. Starting the movie by committing a massacre at a club, he invades the National Scientific Laboratory and executes the workers before bombing the entire place, allowing one of his men to molest Kaoru Mikoshiba. Infiltrating a large commercial building with his crew, they plant grenades filled with poison gas in three different locations, resulting in countless civilian casualties. Going after Kaoru in her own home, he leaves his female companion behind even after she inadvertently saved him and uses a civilian as a Human Shield in a last attempt to save his own skin.
• The Lady Hermit: Black Demon is a renegade martial artist who leads a group of bandits to murder, rob and destroy what they can. When the heroine, the titular Lady Hermit, confronted him, the Black Demon defeated and nearly killed her. Now hiding out as a household servant, the Lady Hermit tries to protect the people from the Black Demon who initiates a scheme to have his men pose as "ghosts" to murder the populace at their whim so people pay "offerings" to the gods, in reality the Black Demon's money laundering front using a temple. When he learns of the Lady Hermit's location, the Black Demon has his men slaughter her entire household before he tries to kill her and her friends.
• Lady Of Csejte (aka Blood Countess) (2015): Countess Elizabeth Bathory is a wealthy noblewoman whose courteous demeanor masks a sadistic monster. Taking in orphaned children under the guise of providing them with a home, the Countess in truth imprisons them in her underground cellars, where they are subjected to a series of grotesque tortures and mutilation until they die from their injuries, with the Countess having inflicted this fate upon hundreds of victims. When one child, Mischa, discovers her ledger where she keeps illustrations of her tortures, Bathory murders a cook to keep him from learning the truth, then imprisons Mischa within her cellars, intending to torture him later. Later confronting Mischa's sister, Aletta, who had learned of Bathory's crimes, Bathory gleefully admits to having forced Aletta's sister, Katja, to partake in her horrific activities. Later capturing Aletta, Bathory attempts to butcher her as well, and fatally wounds Mischa before finally being subdued.
• Lady Snowblood: Gishirō Tsukamoto is the villainous bandit lord who inspired Yuki Kashima's quest for vengeance. Years ago, Tsukamoto lead his men in murdering Sayo's husband and young son, then raping and torturing Sayo for days before selling her as a Sex Slave. Ripping off an entire town to become an opium and Arms Dealer, Tsukamoto fakes his death to continue his evil schemes. When he learns that Yuki is hunting him and has befriended his son Ashio, Tsukamoto subjects his own son to torture to lure Yuki into a trap; murders one of his former allies to cover his tracks; and forces a minion to be a Human Shield. Tsukamoto even kills Ashio when his son tries to protect Yuki.
• Laid to Rest duology: The masked Serial Killer, ChromeSkull, real name Jesse Cromeans, tapes his murders and sends the videos to the police. Responsible for the deaths of dozens before the film in a variety of ways, ChromeSkull sets his sights on the drug-addicted prostitute, Princess. Locking her in a coffin at the funeral home of a mortician who aids him, ChromeSkull murders his partner-in-crime as soon as he becomes a liability. When Princess escapes, ChromeSkull tracks her to her friend's house, where he goes on to kill anyone he can before seemingly being killed. Returning in the sequel, ChromeSkull continues his murder spree, breaking into the house of a disabled woman, killing her friend and many of the cops who try to stop him.
• The Lair of the White Worm: The vampiric, serpentine Lady Sylvia Marsh poses as an erudite Woman Of Wealth And Taste to lure in victims. A servant of the snake god Dionin, Sylvia was incensed when Christianity came to Britain, spurring on the slaughter of holy men and women with nuns raped and impaled in massive numbers. In the present, Sylvia spreads her venom to create more snakelike monsters, murdering those she deems useless, and plots to sacrifice a woman in her annual ceremony for Dionin, the sacrifice achieved via being violated by Sylvia with a sharp object.
• Land of the Dead: Paul Kaufman is the crook ruling Fiddler's Green, a sociopathic socialite who has let the city become a Wretched Hive where the poor suffer in squalor. Kaufman has the zombies outside his city—as well as any threats to his regime—killed by his Secret Police, and when their leader Cholo refuses to knuckle under Kaufman's demands, Kaufman declares You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. Kaufman also forced one of the heroes, Slack, into prostitution before deciding to throw her to the zombies for a cruel laugh. When the zombies finally break through, Kaufman leaves everyone to die, and doesn't even hesitate to shoot one of his own allies just to make his escape a little bit easier.
• Largo Winch II (2011): General Kyaw Min is a Burmese military leader who oppresses the Karen people. Bribed by Winch Group executive Thomas Ajung, Min leads the massacre of the village of Kay Pu, having its inhabitants slaughtered, raped, and deported before killing Ajung who was unable to keep his end of the bargain. Joining a conspiracy aiming to frame Largo Winch for his own war crimes, Min compels Malunai to testify against the billionaire while keeping her young son Noom hostage, and later brutalizes the woman when she rejects his advances. Pointing his gun at Noom, Min orders Largo to transfer his money to his bank account, fully intending to kill both Largo and Malunai afterward.
• Laser Mission:
  • Colonel Kalashnikov is a brutal KGB colonel who has multiple people murdered to steal the Virbeck diamond, also enslaving the kindhearted genius Dr. Braun to force him to use the diamond to create a super weapon to initiate devastating attacks on the West. Using slave labor in Africa to work on the weapon site, Kalashnikov takes the heroine Alissa hostage and later attempts to rape and kill her. Upon the completion of the project, Kalashnikov then attempts to massacre his slave workers to keep anyone from talking.
  • Eckhardt, Kalashnikov's vicious mercenary henchman, is a German killer who lives in Africa and also uses slave labor on his estate while working to make Kalashnikov's plans of mass-murder a reality. Stealing the Virbeck diamond by gassing an auction, it is revealed that Eckhardt regularly massacres anyone in his way when he takes a job and has a darker hobby. When threatening Braun to work on Kalashnikov's project, Eckhardt reveals his Trophy Room consisting of a large amount of human heads, with a promise Braun's daughter will join the collection should Braun refuse to work.
• Last Action Hero: The Ripper is a Serial Killer who enjoys targeting children, and is Jack Slater's most personal enemy. In the movie world, he takes an entire class of elementary schoolers hostage, including Slater's son Andrew, and threatens to kill them all with an axe. When the police try to intervene, the Ripper kills any officers who get too close, and though Slater tries to save his son by shooting the Ripper, the Ripper drags Andrew off a rooftop with him to ensure the boy dies. Brought into the "real world" by Benedict, the Ripper targets actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to destroy Slater's existence, and murders an innocent movie agent in the process. The Ripper then takes Slater's new friend, young Danny, as a hostage and tries to replicate Andrew's death just to torture Slater.
• The Last American Soldier (1988): Colonel Vlassov is a Russian soldier working for the Viet Cong, hoping to use them as a way to expand his enterprises. With Roger "Commander" Craig freeing Vietnamese prisoners, Vlassov orders one of his guards to be tortured for information regarding Roger's whereabouts, before traveling to Roger's village and massacring everyone there, including children, taking Roger's pregnant wife Cho Lin after murdering her parents. Promising Roger Cho in exchange for his stolen equipment, Vlassov hands Roger a deceased Cho and captures him, torturing him by repeatedly drowning him and whacking him with small bamboo sticks, taking him to a river bloated with the corpses of his enemies. When Roger leads a raid on his base, Vlassov leaves his men to die while he tries to kill Roger with a tank.
• The Last Boy (2019): Priest is a survivor of the "wind" who uses his position of power to force women into being his abused sex slaves lest he feed them to the wind. Treating his harem as toys to hurt and rape as he pleases, Priest tries to force the young boy Sira into assisting him in further controlling the wind and responds to the boy's refusal by using his friend Lilly as bait to be fed to the wind, threatening one of his women with the same fate when she expresses hesitance in endangering Lilly.
• The Last Broadcast: Director David Leigh is the real murderer of the documentary crew. Having sneaked into the woods after them, Leigh brutally slaughtered the crew and framed the last member, Jim Suerd, resulting in Suerd's conviction and eventual death. Upon being uncovered by film expert Michelle "Shelly" Monarch, Leigh murders Monarch and proceeds to plot a new "movie" with more bodies.
• The Last Castle: Colonel Ed Winter presents himself as a reasonable, benevolent warden of the military prison he runs, but is in truth a smug and sadistic Control Freak. Regularly using cruel manipulation and brutal abuse on the prisoners for petty fun, Winter flat out murders multiple men and frames them as "accidents" to avoid repercussions. Angry at his idol, Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin, for shaming his military collection, Winter dedicates himself to breaking Irwin completely by torturing and even murdering the friends the man makes in prison. When Irwin stages a near-bloodless prison uprising to overthrow Winter's harsh reign, Winter threatens to execute hundreds of prisoners just for saluting Irwin, then lethally shoots Irwin In the Back just for trying to raise a flag against Winter's wishes. Though claiming to care about his men and only use necessary evil when called for, Winter's facade is torn down and he's exposed for the spiteful bully he is, willing to abuse and threaten both prisoners and his own employees just for mild disrespect.
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1959): Gallinus is a disreputable Praetorian who happily tortures a thief and attempts to rape the blind slave Nydia at a party before being stopped by the hero Glaucus. A far darker man than he appears, Gallinus is involved in the conspiracy to frame the Christians, leading black-hooded men to invade homes and slaughter all the families, murdering a child himself in the process while leaving crosses on the walls. Gallinus is in charge of rounding up and torturing Christians en masse, some even dying due to his brutal treatment. Gallinus then happily sends them to feed the lions with no care for any ideals but his own greed.
• The Last Horror Movie (2003): Max Parry is a cynical, self-aware psychopath and a prolific Serial Killer who mocks the concept of a Freudian Excuse. Keeping himself off the radar by constantly changing his MO, Max amassed a body count of over 50 victims in the span of five years, starting by saving the life of a suicidal man and then killing once he grew tired of his self-destructive misery. Recording himself killing his own assistant manager, Max came up with the idea of creating a feature-length film documenting his murderous activities, recruiting a young man to be his cameraman. Killing dozens more in a variety of ways, Max kidnaps a man who had just gotten married and burns him alive. After Max "promotes" his accomplice, he offers him a chance to kill a woman but kills her himself when he hesitates, killing the accomplice shortly after and disposing of the evidence by cooking his dismembered body and serving it to his own family. Inserting his own footage over a slasher movie and placing it in a video rental store, Max stalks those who buy it and adds them to his project once they finish watching.
• Last House On Dead End Street: Terry Hawkins is an ex-convict released from jail after having served time for drug charges. Convinced that the audience today "want more" he decides to make snuff films and sell them. He gathers psychotic and sadistic men and women as his crew and henchmen while lying to the producers that the movies are all fake. The first victim is a blind man whom Hawkins personally strangles. He kills a young actress, first stigmatizing her across her chest and then slashing her throat. He decides to kill the producers as well, starting by beating the pornography director to death and later dismembering his wife's legs with an hacksaw before eviscerating her with hedge clippers. He shows the film executive the corpse of the blind man and welcomes him "back to the edge." He then forces him to perform an oral sex on a dismembered goat hoof held between his henchwoman's legs before killing him with a power drill. Hawkins is motivated simply by greed and especially sadism, and still remains one of the most maniacal and deranged villains of the exploitation genre.
• The Last House on the Left: Krug Stillo, the leader of a group of murderous rapists. After he and his gang escape prison for their previous crimes, they kidnap, rape, torture, and kill two teenage girls. The parents of one of the girls find out when the criminals incidentally stop at their house, leading to a bloodbath between Krug's group and the parents. Aside from leading a group of horrible rapist scum, Krug also brainwashed his own son and kept him hooked on drugs as a kid as a means to control him. Near the end of the film, he convinces said son to kill himself.
• The Last Legion:
  • Wulfila is the right hand of chieftain Odoacer. Leading an attack on the Roman villa, Wulfila has everyone within massacred to the last save the young Emperor Romulus, whom he encourages Odoacer to kill. Hunting Romulus and the sorcerer Ambrosinus, Wulfila has designs on overthrowing Odoacer while assisting Vortgyn in slaughtering his way over Britannia, and finally tries to kill young Romulus as well as every living thing in the area.
  • Vortgyn is a brutal warlord and Ambrosinus's Arch-Enemy. Desiring the sword of Caesar, Vortgyn scarred Ambrosinus with his medallion when he wouldn't tell him its whereabouts. Decades later, Vortgyn now terrorizes Britannia, wiping out villages and killing dozens of innocents. Allying himself with the Goths, Vortgyn threatens a village harboring Ambrosinus and a young Romulus, killing the blacksmith's family, including his children. Vortgyn then sends his army to wipe out everyone at Hadrian's Wall. In the bloodshed that ensues, Vortgyn tries to kill Ambrosinus moments before suffering a fiery demise. Ruthless and tyrannical, Vortgyn desired nothing but power and the annihilation of anyone who resisted him.
• Last Man Standing (1996): Hickey is the scarred, emotionless enforcer of Doyle. Dreaded even among the hardened criminals forming Jericho's population and rumored to have murdered his own father and torched the orphanage he was sent to, Hickey makes his first on-screen appearance slaughtering the men of rival boss Strozzi men and the corrupt Mexican chief they are dealing with, then tricks the border guard into thinking he's surrendering before shooting him dead. A cheerful accessory to Doyle's ongoing war with Strozzi, Hickey personally captures "John Smith" after he releases Doyle's charge Felina to safety and, with a serene expression on his face, oversees the brutal torture of Smith. Near the climax of the film, Hickey participates in an outright massacre of Strozzi's hideout where most of his men are burned alive or shot dead—with Hickey gunning down Strozzi himself—and even the eventual death of Doyle himself fails to garner any reaction out of Hickey. A loose cannon just as evil as his boss and lacking any of his redeeming qualities, Hickey is feared even on his own side and is every bit the walking nightmare many claim him to be.
• The Last Matinee (2020): The nameless, eye-eating killer attends a screening at the matinee theater, killing the usher to lock his victims in with him. Stealing into the theater, he proceeds to butcher teenagers and everyone else he finds, gruesomely and painfully killing them while delighting in their fear and pain. Taking their eyes to consume, he even attempts to murder the young child Tomas and escape after he finishes killing everyone in the movie theater.
• Last Night in Soho: Jack is a vile pimp hiding under the façade of a handsome gentleman in the underworld of 1960s London. Offering to become the manager to the young singer Alexandra "Sandie" Collins, Jack begins forcing her to sleep with his clients—as he is implied to have done to other girls—and abuses her when she resists. Eventually forcing Sandie to give herself to over one hundred predators, Jack attempts to viciously stab her to death when she pushes back one too many times.
• Last Rampage (2017): In this film based on the 1978 Tison v. Arizona case, Gary Tison is a convicted Cop Killer who is busted out of prison by his sons, along with his cellmate Randy Greenawalt. Although his family believes him to be a compassionate man who was wrongly convicted, Tison quickly reveals his true colors when he guns down an innocent family of four, including two children, horrifying his own sons. Going on to hold up a honeymooning couple, Tison forces his eldest son Donny to watch as he and Greenawalt execute the couple, and then threatens Donny with death if he questions his "authority". When his brother Joe sells him out to the police, Tison immediately attempts to murder him and his wife, and when an attempt to escape the police ends in Donny's death, Tison is completely indifferent, abandoning his sons and Greenawalt to be arrested while he tries to flee punishment. A remorseless sociopath who only cares about his own self-preservation, Gary Tison lives up to Sheriff John Cooper's description of him as "real evil".
• Last Shift: John Michael Paymon is a potentially supernatural cultist who follows the true devil, hinted to be Paimon the King of Hell who reigned long before Lucifer was cast from heaven. With his "family", Paymon kidnapped multiple innocents and brutally tortured them to death before killing the police who tried to stop them. Committing suicide in his cell, Paymon's wicked soul haunts the condemned precinct where he torments Jessica Loren, a rookie officer whose father died stopping him. Driving Jessica insane and into the murder of innocents, Paymon arranges her death and ends the film about to claim her soul.
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter: Dracula is portrayed as a more feral beast than usual, but no less monstrous and sadistic. Once a man who spilled enough blood in life to make a pact with the Devil, Dracula has haunted Transylvania and surrounding countries for centuries, feeding on entire villages. With the population whittled down so much by his attacks that he needs new feeding grounds, Dracula charters the Demeter to carry him to England, planning to slake his thirst on the ride by keeping his latest victim, Anna, locked in a coffin and only released for him to drink the blood of. When Anna is found by the crew, Dracula decides to massacre everyone onboard down to young Toby, either tearing them to pieces or turning them into undead slaves. Dracula takes a personal enjoyment in mocking his victims' last words, and by the end has left the Demeter a lifeless vessel, with all of England now his playground.
• The Last Witch Hunter: The Witch Queen was defined by her contempt towards humanity, which she wished to destroy. Centuries ago, she created The Black Death as a means of eradicating humanity; this would go on to cause the deaths of millions of people in Europe, Kaulder's wife and daughter included. When it seemed as though Kaulder had defeated her, the Queen curses Kaulder with immortality. Years later, she was revived by Belial, and tries to unleash swarms of demonic black flies onto the populace of New York by using the inmates of the Witch Prison to complete the Chant. When one of the witches was severed from the chant, the Witch Queen compensated for this by linking Chloe, a Dream Walker, to the Chant. She also takes her time to psychologically torment Kaulder by bringing up his past guilt, and by showing him visions of a world devoid of humans.
• Las Vegas Bloodbath: Sam Butler starts out as a regular guy who finds out that his wife was cheating on him. He snaps, kills both his wife and her lover and cuts off her head. He becomes a women-hating psycho who thinks they all deserve to die and proceeds to go on a sadistic rampage throughout the city. He kills a random bartender after showing his wife's head to him. He ties up a hooker, mutilates her jaw with a knife, then rips her leg off by roping it to the bumper of his car and driving away. He later ties up six women and kills them all individually, despite one of them being pregnant. He cuts the fetus out of the woman in question and rips the arm off of another. He kills another guy who tried to stop him while he was attacking one of the women. Lastly, he shoots a cop, while bathing in the blood and body parts of his victims.
• The Laughing Dead (1989): Dr. Um-Tzec is a gleeful servant to the Mayan Death God of the same name who hopes to reincarnate his master and unleash a wave of bloodshed upon the Earth. Making a habit of purchasing children from their parents and sacrificing them in Um-Tzec's name, Dr. Um-Tzec has cheerfully killed dozens of children for his god. Setting his sights on Father Zeke O'Sullivan, Dr. Um-Tzec tricks him into becoming Um-Tzec's vessel, having him kill anybody he can get a hold of and attempt to sacrifice his long-lost son Ivan to commence Um-Tzec's reawakening.
• The Laughing Policeman (1973): Henry Camerero murdered his wife years ago when she found out he was gay, to keep from being outed by the community. Gus Niles provided an alibi for him that kept him from being arrested, but years later, Henry murders him and the cop that was following him on a bus filled with innocent bystanders to cover his tracks. When officers Jake Martin and Leo Larsen catch on to him, he tries to murder Martin on another bus filled with innocents.
• Law Abiding Citizen: Clarence Darby stands in stark contrast to the relatively sympathetic Clyde Shelton. Darby instigates Clyde's Roaring Rampage of Revenge when he and his accomplice, Rupert Ames, rob his home. Darby rapes and kills Clyde's wife before murdering their daughter, all while Ames yells at him to stop. In court, Darby lies and says Ames did it, resulting in Ames being sentenced to death while Darby get a slap on the wrist. When Clyde sabotages Ames's execution so he dies a slow and painful death and frames Darby for it, Darby chuckles when he hears about Ames's painful death on the news, and shoots at the police when they try to arrest him. He's about to murder an officer for no reason before it turns out to be Clyde in disguise, who tortures and kills Darby.
• Lawless: Charlie Rakes is an utterly corrupt Special Deputy of the commonwealth who demands a cut of the profits of the bootlegger heroes, The Bondurant Brothers Forrest and Jack. Rakes initiates brutal beatings and torture to get his way, and sends two mobsters to cut the eldest brother's throat and rape his girlfriend, who he later taunts by saying he never "drinks from a greasy cup." After another conflict with the Bondurants, Rakes captures their friend Cricket and snaps his neck, simply because he's angry they called him a "nance."
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The elusive Fantom, actually Professor James Moriarty, wishes to engulf the world in war, just so he can line his pockets. Killing British and German citizens to increase tensions, the Fantom tries to attack a peace conference by sinking all of Venice, where it was taking place. Founding the titular League while acting as "M", claiming it to be a counterterrorist organization, he gathers a group of individuals with superpowers and advanced technology, planning to replicate them to sell to the highest bidder in the war he plans. At his secret base, he houses hundreds of scientists, forcing them to work around the clock to recreate the League's abilities, while keeping their families hostage in overcrowded cells.
• The Leech Woman: Bertram Garvay, a vain, racist British trail guide in South Africa, is hired by an American couple, June and Paul Talbot, to search for a secretive tribe who claim to know the secret to reversing the human aging process. Discovering that the process works, but requires the extraction of the pineal fluid of a sacrificial victim, Garvay persuades the emotionally unstable June to offer the abusive Paul as the next sacrifice and take the treatment herself, after which he will run away with her. He then attempts to destroy the tribal village and everyone in it with dynamite to cover his tracks, and despite all his promises, abandoned June when the age regression treatment wears off the next day.
• The Legend II (originally titled Fong Sai Yuk II) (1993): Yu Chun-hoi is the second-in-command of the Red Flower Society. A thug, murder and rapist even before joining, Yu was enraged when his father chose another man as the successor of the society over him. Intending to take control, Yu schemes and murders his way to the top, sabotaging the hero Fong Sai-yuk in a way that will result in him being beaten into being a cripple. When his own son tries to call Yu out for his actions, Yu beats him without remorse, trying to murder him. He later overthrows the Society to make it a criminal organization, intending on doing away with any who oppose him. When he faces Fong Sai-yuk, Yu even has the hero's mother tied with a noose around her neck and tries to shove her to hang anyways, just to spite his opponent.
• The Legend of Hercules: King Amphitryon is much worse than his depiction in the original mythology, being a cruel tyrant bent on conquering and subjugating everything around him. Favoring his eldest son over Hercules, Amphitryon sends the latter to join a military platoon led by Captain Sotiris before having a group of mercenaries ambush and massacre them all. When Hercules and Sotiris survive, Amphitryon sells them off as slaves to become fighters in the Gladiator Games. Amphitryon later kills his own wife after finding her praying to Hera, and has Hercules flogged in public when he rises up against him.
• The Legend of Tarzan: Captain Léon Rom is the ambitious envoy to the colonialist King Leopold II of Belgium. Dispatched to steal the Congo's diamonds by his bankrupt king, Rom makes a deal with a local warlord who hates John Clayton III, aka Tarzan, to bring him Tarzan for the jewels. With 800 Congolese slaves forced to build a railway, Rom uses them to lay the ground to bring in a mercenary army, capturing another ten slaves along with Jane to lure out Tarzan. Taking the diamonds, Rom goes to make the payment for the mercenaries, motivated to enslave the whole nation for the glory for saving Leopold's economy.
• The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires: Count Dracula himself kills and possesses the body of the Seven Golden Vampire priest Kah, setting about to raise an army of the undead. Kidnapping numerous women to be drained of blood as sacrifices, Dracula kills those who come close to his plans and comes into conflict with Professor Van Helsing. Finally pursuing him to a rural village, Dracula has it massacred with intent to sweep across the world with his undead army, killing and enslaving all in his path.
• Legend of the Red Reaper: Ganesh is a demon king who rapes a woman before forcing her to give the resulting daughter Aella to him. He then spends the next forty years abusing her to his heart's content, before she's rescued by the Reapers. Some time later, Ganesh manipulates some humans into taking Aella's blood so they'll become superhuman berserkers. He then has them raid the Reapers' castle, slaughtering anybody they see. As his goons Rape, Pillage, and Burn their way across the village, Ganesh orders the few prisoners who have survived killed before confronting Aella to make her his plaything once more.
• Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon (1990): Go Ranjuji is an alien disguised as a Yakuza boss who seeks world domination. Searching for Shinobu Nindo so that he may impregnate her with a thousand alien eggs, he has his two Co-Dragons massacre a Yakuza meeting, where he kills Shinobu's father and personally tears a man's face off. Having Shindo kidnapped and brought to him and his sex slaves, he has his cohorts murder Ryu's friends before trying to kill Ryu himself.
• The Legend of Wasco: Wasco is the leader of a group of Serial Killer clowns. Having incorporated within the town circus, Wasco and his henchmen kidnapped, raped and killed the Mayor's daughter. Outraged, the residents of the town decided to take vigilante justice and killed them. Several decades later, Wasco and his men rose from the grave to continue their killing spree. Having targeted a high school, Wasco kills two of the female students, all the while taunting them with a sadistic puppet show. He then kills two teenage lovers by the lake, as well as tracking down and murdering an old lady when she tries to tell the main characters how to stop them. Breaking into the house where Tyler, his brother-in-law Byron, and Tyler's fiancée Christy live, Wasco begins tormenting the family. He beats them with pipes and paints on their faces, and when Byron and Tyler start fighting back, Wasco takes Christy to the basement and starts taking advantage of her while she's seemingly unconscious. Incredibly sadistic and utterly without ethics, Wasco made a game out of conducting murder and rape.
• The Legend Of William Tell (1934): Governor Gessler is the cold, iron-handed Austrian bailiff in charge of annexing the Swiss lands from their people, making slaves of the Swiss to abuse them in every way possible. Under Gessler's reign, women are raped, houses are burned, and a man hiding his rebel son has his eyes put out, all under Gessler's oversight. At one point, overseeing the construction of a gigantic tower through the slavery of hundreds, Gessler decides to order both the tower and the dungeons to be built bigger than they already are, simply to spite the Swiss rebellion. When Gessler's attempt to force a local village to pay tribute to his helmet is stopped by the brave William Tell, Gessler forces Tell to precariously shoot an apple off his own son's head, before ordering him arrested and executed after he pulls it off anyway for concealing a second arrow meant for Gessler's heart.
• Legion of the Dead: High Priestess Aneh-Tet is an ancient Egyptian worshipper of Set, exiled to the Americas for trying to overthrow the Pharaohs. After she died, she had her tomb filled with fatal booby traps and an incantation to resurrect her so she can use powerful magic to rule over the living and the dead in a wave of destruction. After being awakened in the modern day, Aneh-Tet starts killing her way through an archaeological dig by draining the water from their bodies, eventually planning to use their souls to resurrect six mummy warriors. These warriors are then sent to procure a Virgin Sacrifice for the final ritual to awaken Set and massacre the rest of the motel their chosen victim is staying at. When the protagonists try to rescue the sacrifice, Aneh-Tet stabs one of them through the heart after detecting his virginity, while her goons kill some cops who also intervened.
• Lesson Of The Evil: In this Takashi Miike film, Seiji Hasumi is seemingly a mild-mannered teacher, but is in fact a dangerous and sadistic Serial Killer. Wicked even as a youth, Hasumi brutally murdered his own parents when he was a child after they realized his evil nature. After teaming up with a killer in America as an adult, Hasumi killed numerous people in the states before murdering his partner as well, pinning all of their crimes together solely on him. At his school in Japan, Hasumi manipulates numerous students into sleeping with him and attacking each other, and later starts torturing and killing said students along with any "overbearing" parents who annoy him. When his students begin to become suspicious of him, Hasumi decides to massacre everyone at his school one night with a shotgun, and kills dozens of innocent students in the process. Even when caught, Hasumi decides to fake insanity to escape responsibility in court as a new game. A murderous madman who masked his monstrosity with seeming politeness and concern, Seiji Hasumi was a truly depraved individual who killed and manipulated anyone he wanted for his own sick pleasure.
• Less Than Zero: Rip is a slimy drug dealer whose crooked slinging of abusive substances leads to the ruination of addict Julian's life. Always prowling around for new young people to addict to drugs and rack up profits, Rip allows Julian to drive up such a debt to him that Julian spends most of his time depressed and broke, at which point Rip takes advantage of the drugged up Julian to forcibly turn him into a prostitute and pimp him out to wealthy men. Even when Julian tries to get clean and pay Rip back, Rip just manipulates Julian into using again and once more forces him into prostitution, all while threatening Julian's friends. Julian eventually dies from all the horrible abuse he's been through, something Rip callously predicted would come to pass earlier in the film with casual indifference.
• Lethal: Anatoly Federov is an Arms Dealer for the Russian mafia who has acquired US government secrets and plans to sell them to terrorists. After the secrets are stolen from him, he kills the thief and tortures his boss for information, killing two of his agents when they fail to get the secrets back. Coming to believe that mercenary Samantha Stewart knows how to get a hold of the secrets, Federov bombs an FBI base and kidnaps Sam's sister to make Sam steal the secrets. While holding Sam's sister hostage, Federov tries to have sex with her despite knowing she's underage, and declares that he intends to kill both sisters after getting what he wants. When Sam arrives to take Federov down, he intends to torture her to death.
• Lethal Weapon series:
  • Original film: General Peter McAllister and his vicious right hand, Mr. Jack Joshua, are the leaders of a corrupt military drug trafficking organization called Shadow Company that ships heroin from VC Government bases they raided and massacred in The Vietnam War. When one of their allies, Michael Hunsaker, tries to back out and expose the operation, the General sends Joshua to assassinate several people, including Hunsaker, his daughter, a prostitute, and Martin Riggs, to prevent the police from stopping the operations, all of which Joshua approaches with personal sadism. The General then sends Joshua to kidnap Roger Murtaugh's daughter, Rianne, resulting in Joshua murdering Mark, the boy Rianne was dating, while they sexually abuse Rianne in their custody. The two then kidnap Riggs and Murtaugh and torture them relentlessly for what Hunsaker told them, during which the General threatens to rape Rianne in front of Murtaugh. When the abductees escape, the General and Joshua endanger civilians numerous times, completely disregarding the casualties of innocents. Even after the General dies, Joshua escapes to Murtaugh's house and attempts to break in and slaughter Murtaugh's whole family before trying to beat down and kill Riggs, killing two police officers throughout.
  • Lethal Weapon 2: Arjen Rudd and his bloodthirsty head of security Pieter Vorstedt are powerful drug traffickers who double as the ones responsible for the death of Martin Riggs' wife. Arjen Rudd hides his criminal activities under his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs from apartheid South Africa, and has no qualms unleashing Vorstedt to kill anyone in his way, from one of his failed minions to nearly an entire precinct of cops, the carnage of which Vorstedt approaches with casual vicious glee. Arjen Rudd even has Riggs's current girlfriend Rika drowned by Vorstedt, smugly trying to claim "diplomatic immunity" at the end when Vorstedt is dead and he's defeated.
• Let Us Prey: Sergeant Jim MacReady is a police sergeant who hides behind his devout Catholicism to act out on his murderous lusts. Having claimed the lives of several young men, MacReady brutally beat his latest victim to death all with his bare hands while calling him a "slut", keeping the dismembered remains of his victims in his house. After Six discovered his secret, MacReady loses whatever sanity was holding him together, setting fire to the police station and violently murdering two of his constables and an inmate. Zealous and depraved, it speaks volumes that even Satan himself viewed MacReady as irredeemable.
• Lift (2024): Lars Jorgensen is a wealthy businessman who became a feared terrorist mastermind, financing terrorist attacks around the world for his own monetary gain, including staging an attack on a New Zealand plane that killed 183 people. Jorgensen then starts planning with the hacker group Leviathan on staging a massive global flooding that would kill millions of innocent people. When Arthur Tigue rats him out, Jorgensen has his right-hand Cormac kidnap and torture him before having Arthur Eaten Alive by Cormac's attack dog. To have proof of Leviathan's abilities, Jorgensen has them flood Madrid, resulting in many deaths. Jorgensen then has his men board a commercial airliner going to Zurich that contains the gold with which Jorgensen will pay Leviathan, and Cormac takes Cyrus and his thieves with him, along with the gold, to Jorgensen's estate in Italy. When the plane crash lands on his estate and the Leviathan leader finds out one of the thieves is Interpol, Jorgensen shoots and kills her when she attempts to back out of the deal, and attempts to kill the rest of the thieves.
• The Light at the Edge of the World: Captain Jonathan Kongre and his pirate crew kill a lighthouse keeper and his assistant, before capturing Will Denton and killing his pet monkey in front of him. Kongre and his crew extinguish the lighthouse's light when a ship arrives near the shore, causing it to crash and allowing them to kill the passengers for their cargo. Kongre spares a woman named Arabella, but at times, allows his crew to do whatever they want with her, with it being implied at these points that they rape her. Denton manages to save a member of the passenger crew named Montefiore, but Kongre later captures him and has him flayed to the point that Denton has to give him a Mercy Killing. Finally, he kills his first mate, who was the last of his crew, after Denton lies that he will tell people that Kongre helped him defeat the pirates.
• Lights Out (2016): Diana Walter, a sociopath since the day she was born, is sent to a mental institution after she played mind games with her father, ultimately causing him to kill himself. While there, she manipulates a depressed Sophie into becoming friends with her, and became physically abusive towards her, going as far as to break her legs when she heard that Sophie might be getting released. As a ghost, she latches herself onto Sophie, enslaving her in the process. Wanting Sophie to herself, she murders both of her husbands when they attempted to heal their wife's mind, and she stalks and terrorizes Sophie’s children Rebecca and Martin, eventually opting to kill them in utter defiance of Sophie's demands. When two police officers are alerted on a potential break in, they go to investigate; Diana savagely murders both officers, and attempts to kill Rebecca in front of Sophie. Self-serving and hostile, Diana sought complete control over Sophie's body, and would murder anyone who came in her way.
• The Limehouse Golem: The titular golem, a monstrous Serial Killer, is in truth Lizzie Cree. Hungry for fame by way of murder, the Golem first guts a prostitute and also gouges out her eyes, later carrying out more attacks with escalating violence and savagery, even graduating to crucifying prostitutes and attacking Jewish men in anti-Semitic murders. The Golem shows no compunction using murder for personal protection, killing a blackmailer, a dwarf who caused the Golem personal offense and others, with an escalating body count that culminates in the Golem gleefully butchering a father, his wife and their two young children with clear sadistic relish at their fear. Finally the Golem poisons her own husband John Cree when he discovers her identity. While acting as a downtrodden victim, the Golem is in truth, a monstrous, sadistic psychopath out to achieve fame by any means necessary.
• The Lincoln Lawyer: From the film adaptation, we have Louis Roulet, the rich, spoiled sadist who believes he can do whatever he wants. Roulet enjoys beating on women, particularly prostitutes, as he knows they'll never be believed over him in court and he has the best representation money can buy. Roulet is soon revealed as the real murderer in a case the Amoral Attorney protagonist, Mickey Haller, had defended years ago, and Roulet is positively gleeful over an innocent man rotting in jail for his crime. Roulet keeps Haller as his defense by threatening him, as well as his ex-wife and young daughter, knowing Haller is obliged to do the best for his client. Haller puts an informant on the stand to acquit Roulet of the assault, but the testimony puts Roulet under suspicion for his previous murder. In a rage, Roulet later makes his way to Haller's ex-wife, intending on murdering her and her daughter.
• Lion Man (aka The Sword and the Claw): Kumandan Antuan is a ruthless warlord who took over Sultan Suleyman Shah's palace by posing as a gift-bearing ambassador, before having his soldiers ambushing the palace and slaughtering everyone in it, with Antuan personally killing Shah by hacking off his arms and taunting that he will hunt down Shah's pregnant wife to terminate his bloodline. When Antuan's mistress, with his newborn child, rejects him over what he had done, Antuan responds by having his family thrown into a dungeon, desiring power over having loved ones, before taking over the kingdom and ruling with an iron fist, having other lords who opposed him executed and crucified in public. When the Sultan's newborn son, Aslan, turns out to be alive and return decades later to seek revenge, Antuan retaliates by having entire villages thrown into dungeons for being affiliated with Aslan, forcing Aslan and his new friend Altar to duel each other in exchange for the villagers' lives. When Antuan's mistress reveals the truth behind Aslan's heritage, Antuan responds by stabbing her, and later tortures Aslan by pouring acid onto his fingers, causing Aslan to fall to his near-death, and plots to have all of Aslan's captured allies tortured and killed.
• Lisa (1990): Richard, the Candlelight Killer, is a charismatic restaurateur whose good looks serve to hide a cunning, yet childish psychopath. A murderous stalker and rapist, Richard has already murdered six women before his involvement with Lisa and wastes no chance in killing another, always leaving a threatening message on their answering machines and collecting the tapes as trophies. After discovering where Lisa lives, Richard attacks her mother and attempts to do his usual "ritual" with the fourteen-year-old Lisa.
• Little Big Man: General George Armstrong Custer is a genocidal, hateful officer in the American army. First encountering protagonist Jack Crabb when the latter is an army muleskinner, Custer leads a brutal attack on Native villages, massacring women and children. Later leading a second attack that butchers a whole village, including Crabb's wife and daughter, Custer spares Crabb only to savor his anguish at being unable to kill Custer. Later forcing Crabb into being a scout, Custer decides to attack what he assumes is a helpless group of women and children.
• Little Deaths (2011): Victoria and Richard Gull, from "House and Home", are a seemingly wholesome couple who pick up young, desperate women in poverty and take them home. After drugging them, the two proceed to rape, sexually torture and abuse them physically and mentally to enjoy themselves, which befalls the young woman named Sorrow. Victoria has Richard assault Sorrow before attempting to do so herself, unaware Sorrow is far more than she lets on.
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane: Frank Hallet, son of Cora Hallet, the wealthiest woman in town, is a remorseless pedophile who instantly centers on Rynn Jacobs when he sees her alone. Constantly harassing and attempting to assault Rynn, Frank murders her pet hamster and tries to abuse her friend and Love Interest Mario. Frank is well known in town for assaulting girls, having once been stopped by Officer Ron Miglioriti from assaulting a child he dragged into the bushes. When he learns his mother is dead, Frank's only concern is using it to blackmail Rynn into becoming his Sex Slave.
• The Living Skeleton: Tanuma, aka Father Akashi, is a cold sociopath who led a robbery of gold on the freighter Dragon's King, during which he coldly shoots newlywed Yoriko after she begged him to spare her husband's life, before he and his goons massacre everyone on board. Three years later, taking the guise of a priest, upon learning that Yoriko's sister, Seiko, is killing the men responsible for her sister's death, he tries to strangle her and hide her body in a suit of armor. When her dog Johnny sniffs around the armor, Tanuma clubs him to death with a candlestick. When he and the last surviving pirate decide to board the adrift Dragon's King, he doesn't care for the death of his partner when he is dissolved by acid.
• La Llorona (aka The Weeping Woman): Don Enrique Monteverde was the former dictator of Guatemala, responsible for the genocide of the indigenous Mayan Ixil people. Convicted of genocide with the conviction later overturned by corrupt courts, prompting the haunting of La Llorona, flashbacks reveal Don Enrique ordered mass slaughters of the Mayan people, having his forces completely exterminate entire villages with torture being common. Enrique himself participates in such raids, having one Mayan woman's children drowned before her as an interrogation technique before executing her.
• Lockout: Hydell is a convict on the Space Station cryo-prison who takes charge of the uprising with his brother Alex. In contrast to his more pragmatic brother, Hydell is a bloodthirsty lunatic more interested in killing and causing as much mayhem as possible even when it's clear he's actually hindering his own chances to escape. He makes no distinction between friend or foe either, killing several other prisoners for no real reason. He tries to rape Emilie as soon as the riot starts and becomes obsessed with having her after his brother stops the attempt. When Alex can't find Snow and Emilie after their escape fast enough for his liking, Hydell contacts her through the space station's intercom and starts shooting a hostage every three seconds until she reveals her location, then kills them all anyway after she does. He even kills Alex near the end for a final chance to get at Emilie.
• A Lonely Place to Die: Mr. Kidd & Mr. Mcrae are a pair of kidnappers who abduct a little girl named Anna and bury her alive with only a breathing tube, planning to extort her wealthy mother of all they can get. They have abducted children before only to murder them if the parents refuse to pay. Murdering hikers who stumble across them, and a pair of poachers to get their guns, Kidd and Mcrae hunt down the hikers who rescue Anna, murdering police and civilians alike n town before ultimately going on a full rampage to kill all in their path to recover the girl.
• The Lone Ranger films:
  • The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981): Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish, known as "Butch The Butcher", leads his men to kill and rob in 1800s Texas. Massacring the village of the hero John at the film's start, Butch is shown to execute his own men for petty reasons, killing those who speak out against him and organizing a near complete massacre of the Texas Rangers, all to help his true plan of kidnapping President Grant to take over the US.
  • The 2013 film has the Big Bad and his Dragon:
    • Latham Cole is a sinister railroad tycoon and the brother to the vicious Butch Cavendish, and despite their mutual loathing, enables much of Cavendish's evil. Having massacred Tonto's people in the past, Cole seeks to build a future of wealth and status by having Butch's men slaughter settlements while dressed as Comanche to provoke a massacre of the natives. Cole orders the slaughter of the Comanche warriors, harvesting the silver from the rivers to build his empire, boasting that soon, nobody will know the Comanche existed.
    • Butch Cavendish himself shows why he is rumored to be a Wendigo when, after gunning down John Reid's brother Dan, Butch cuts out his heart and eats it. Butch uses fear to oppress any hint of rebellion and will kill at any hint of complaint. At one point, Butch even kills a laborer for nothing more than saying the entrance of a cave he wanted entry to was blocked. Butch conspires to start a war with, and wipe out, the Comanche people for the silver in the mines by leading attacks on innocent people in settlements, framing the Comanche. In the past, when the Comanche saved Butch's life, he repaid them by slaughtering them, earning Tonto's undying hatred.
• Lone Star (1996): Sheriff Charlie Wade was the racist, crooked chief lawman of 1950s Rio County. Focusing on minority criminals, Charlie forces them to cut him in on their activities and wracks up bodies to the point his mere person causes dread. To get away with his murders, Charlie tricks his victims into "showing" him their weapons, giving reason to claim they were armed while he was "forced" to shoot them, trying so on a young man and forcing his disgusted underling to kill Charlie to free the citizens from him.
• Lone Wolf McQuade: Rawley Wilkes, a crime lord and total sociopath, is the smooth-talking Arch-Enemy of the titular Texas Ranger Jim McQuade. Rawley murders anyone who gets in the way of his deals, from fellow criminals who attempt to turn on him, to innocent witnesses, having his men hospitalize McQuade's daughter Sally and murder her boyfriend after they see his men enact a murderous hijacking of a military convoy. Rawley personally murders Texas Ranger Dakota and criminal Snow once Snow lets loose on Rawley's own deals, sees McQuade's pet wolf shot by his goon as a warning, and buries McQuade alive in his own car after he continues to intrude on his business. Once McQuade continues to interfere, Rawley kidnaps his daughter and later mortally wounds his own girlfriend Lola, who confesses Rawley killed her husband and forced her to be his partner under the threat of her life.
• The Long Kiss Goodnight: Timothy is a sociopathic psychological operations agent who's the former lover, and target, of the amnesiac heroine. Early on, we see Timothy torturing a man who, knowing his reputation, just begs for a quick death. Timothy doesn't grant it. When pursuing his ex, Charlie, she uncovers his plan with his Knight Templar boss: to stage a terrorist attack and kill over four thousand Americans to "blame the Muslims" and get funding. While Leland is doing what he sees as right for the country in the end, Timothy is in for the money and the fun. When he has Charlie hostage with her 8-year-old daughter, he plans to throw them in a meat locker to freeze to death. Charlie informs him the girl, Caitlin, is Timothy's child. He confirms this by seeing she has his eyes—and then angrily locks her in the meat locker to die anyways.
• A Long Ride from Hell (1968): Bill Savage is the aptly named warden of Yuma Penitentiary, the so called "Hell on the hill". Savage runs Yuma as a slave camp, merrily torturing the prisoners—innocent or otherwise—at every given opportunity and giving the guards free right to do likewise. When Mike Sturges and his helpless younger brother Ray arrive in Yuma, Savage tortures Ray into insanity before killing him, and pledges to Mike's face that he'll break like his brother. Savage's atrocity escapes even Yuma when he attempts to rape a prostitute friend of Mike's on a violent whim.
• Looper: Abe is the leader of the Looper organization and a heartless criminal who happily tortures his own men by breaking and mutilating their hands at any hints of defiance. Having his Loopers kill numerous victims sent back by the victim, Abe views every Looper as disposable, putting them into the loop so that they will inevitably execute themselves. When any future self escapes, Abe has his elites abduct the younger Loopers and carve them apart, holding them in agony for decades while executing their older selves.
• Lord of Illusions: Nix, known as The Puritan, is the leader of a fanatic cult and begins the movie by kidnapping a little girl to sacrifice for power, displaying a sadistic streak by letting his pet Mandrill attack her. His former apprentice, Philip Swann, thankfully stops him and kills him. A monster while alive, Nix becomes far worse after his cultists resurrect him. Nix immediately kills his cultists out of disgust for their slavish devotion to him, sneering that while they've waited like lambs for him, "I'm not your shepherd". When he tries to lure Swann back to his side, Nix is so disgusted Swann feels love for beings who are "just flesh" that he brutalizes and fatally wounds Swann. Nix reveals his true intent is to murder the world and show it the terror of the grave.
• Lord of War: Andre Baptiste Sr. and Jr. are a father-son pair of wannabe dictators of Liberia, and represent the absolute worst kind of person Yuri Orlov deals weapons to. Andre Sr. is a cold-blooded sociopath who executed one of his own soldiers to test a weapon, while Andre Jr. is a hollering lunatic who drives around town firing on random civilians with his machine guns. The duo leading a bloody Civil War that costs countless lives while indoctrinating Child Soldiers into their regime, Andre Sr. shows his harshest colors when he sends a batch of weapons to allies of his to massacre innocent refugee camps of men, women and children; Andre Jr. hopes to personally lead the charge, and tries to gun down an entire family for giggles when the opportunity arises.
• The Losers: Max is a high-ranking government operative, seeking to secure his power base and bring the world into a new order of his design. Opening the film by betraying and trying to kill the titular "Losers" team for outliving their usefulness, Max endangers then murders dozens of children due to his own trigger-happy negligence, after which he frames the Losers for the crime and marks them for death. Kidnapping and forcing a group of scientists to develop sonic weapons capable of leveling entire cities, Max dubs the weapons "Snukes" and plans to sell them on the Black Market so as to kickstart wars across the world, after which himself and his government will take control in the name of "order". Killing his own assistant just for stumbling while shading him from the sun and regularly threatening the lives of his own henchman and other soldiers, Max eventually targets a Snuke at Los Angeles, executes the hostage scientists, and, when confronted by the vengeful Losers, tosses the Snuke's remote deactivator into the ocean to give himself time to flee.
• Lost Boys: The Thirst: Peter is known publicly as the brother of vampire novelist Gwen Lieber but is secretly is the Alpha Vampire and her alleged lover. He is seemingly held hostage by DJ X, who used Peter's blood to make a drug to create vampires. However, once DJ X was killed, Peter took control of the consumers, nearly sending them into a feeding frenzy. Upon being revealed as the Alpha Vampire, we are treated to a flashback of him leading a vampire attack of a village. He offered Gwen a chance to become a vampire if she brings him Edgar and Alan Frog, and once she does the task, he kills her. He reveals that his true intentions all along were to turn Edgar and Alan into vampires themselves, so they can be his personal hitmen and cull the expanding vampire race, so there can be more people to feed on. Since Alan was already transforming, Peter uses his partial control over Alan to force him to fight Edgar.
• The Lost Empire (1984): Lee Chuck is a man who sold his soul to the Devil for immortality. Becoming the Devil's "hatchet man" tasked with collecting him a soul every 24 hours, Chuck would go on to kill thousands of people by instigating events such as the Chicago Fire; the Titanic; the Hiroshima bombing; and Jonestown. Desiring to conquer the world, Chuck establishes a Satanic cult under the name Dr. Sin Do on Golgatha island, sending his men out to steal the Eyes of Avatar to power his laser cannon and use it to send more souls to his master. Also establishing an all-female terrorist organization where they fight each other to the death for his viewing pleasure, the losers are either made into meals for Chuck, or sent to "The Pit", where they're brainwashed and sold as Sex Slaves.
• Lost River: Bully is a feared thug who controls the town, allowing it to degrade and ruin plenty of lives as more and more houses of the poor and unfortunate are foreclosed on. Bully spreads fear amongst the town by carving out people's lips, including a small child's, even doing so to his henchman Face after he fails to stop Bones from stealing his car parts. Hunting down Bones, Bully decapitates Bones's neighbor Rat's pet rat Nick to make her stay away from him, and has Rat's house set on fire to kill her, her grandma, and Bones's little brother Franky.
• Lost in Space: Dr. Zachary Smith was already a self-serving sociopath who tried to murder the entire Robinson family just to make a quick buck. However, it isn't until later, through the means of time travel, that we see how truly monstrous he can become. When the botched assassination ended with him stranded on an alien planet with the family, Smith mutated into a monstrous spider-like creature who murdered and possibly ate the defenseless Maureen, Judy, and Penny Robinson, then manipulated young Will into building a time machine in order to save his family from death, all the while making Will see him as a father figure. When Smith meets his past self, he mocks him for lacking "true ambition" before attempting to murder him. After Will completes the time machine nearly two decades later, Smith tries to kill him while revealing his master plan to use the machine to travel to Earth, then unleash a horde of spider monsters to ravage the planet and rule over them as a god. In a sharp contrast from his original humorous and clumsy incarnation, Dr. Smith is a truly wicked individual who cares for nothing but himself.
• Love And Monsters: Captain "Cap" Brooks Wilkinson, the leader of a trio of scavengers, hides his callous personality behind a front of friendly civility. Visiting colonies, Cap manipulates them into thinking that he's providing them a new life out in the world whereas in fact he's only after their supplies. Having captured a giant mutated crab and keeping it under constant abuse via Electric Torture, Cap has it devour the settlement's inhabitants once he's done stealing their loot. Drugging the people of Settlement 3022, a colony of mostly elders, Cap has them tied up to be devoured alive by the crab—also ordering one of his subordinates to shoot at Joel's dog when the latter tries to hinder his plans.
• Love Lies Bleeding: Lou Langston Sr. puts up an act as a kindly family man, but is in truth a ruthless mobster who will discard anything he supposedly loves for his own selfish gain. Running illegal guns to and from Mexico, Lou Sr. has long murdered anyone who stood in his way, dumping their bodies in a canyon that is littered with the remains of his victims. When his daughter Lou and her lover Jackie begin meddling in his affairs, Lou Sr. manipulates a drugged-out Jackie into killing a witness before trying to murder her. Despite his seeming care for his family, Lou Sr. allows his other daughter Beth to stay trapped in a horribly abusive relationship because it's profitable; is heavily indicated to have murdered his wife when she was going to turn witness for law enforcement; and not only forced Lou to commit murder in his name, but tries to torture and kill her as well when Lou Sr. decides she is too stricken by conscience.
• The Lovely Bones: The film version of George Harvey is an antisocial loner as well as a depraved Serial Killer, whose victims are female and preferably children. At the beginning, Harvey lures and murders Susie Salmon, after which he decided to continue kidnapping and killing until it becomes a habit. Harvey later tries to kill Susie's sister Lindsey after she obtains evidence proving his guilt. While watching from Heaven, Susie sees that over the years, Harvey murdered several other girls, including his landlady and a six-year-old. Moments before his death, Harvey attempts to lure another victim to her death.
• Lovely But Deadly: "Honest" Charley Gilmarten is a local businessman who moonlights as a drug lord. Using the local high schools to distribute, Charley sells highly addictive strains to anybody, including minors as young as middle school age, not caring about the epidemic of overdoses and accidental deaths that ensues. He also hosts parties where he pimps out teenage girls while paying them in drugs. His methods of dispatching his enemies are also quite brutal, and include boiling his dragon alive on suspicion of betraying him and locking The Hero in a shipping crate to starve to death.
• Lowlife (2017): Teddy "Bear" Haynes is a local crime boss in Los Angeles, who uses his taco business as a front to harvest the organs of the illegal immigrants he kidnaps. Additionally, he selects the young women from the people he captures to turn them into sex slaves. When Dan is in need of a kidney transplant, Teddy offers to donate his daughter Kaylee's kidney and extort money from him, despite the fact that she's pregnant and such an operation would kill the baby. Coercing Keith and Randy into kidnapping Kaylee under the threat of killing their families, Teddy takes Kaylee for himself to deliver the baby, planning to sell it into prostitution and kill Kaylee, implicitly to continue his organ trafficking business.
• Lucy: Mr. Jang is a Korean mob boss and drug kingpin. At the beginning of the film, he has Lucy's boyfriend shot and killed to take his drugs, the experimental CPH4. After having finished personally torturing two people to death, he forces Lucy and three others to become drug mules by sewing the bags of CPH4 into their abdomens so they can smuggle it to Europe under threat of having their families killed. When Lucy gains superpowers and confronts Jang to get the rest of the drugs she needs, he orders the other mules killed to extract his cargo and has his men kill numerous bystanders and cops who get in the way. When Lucy is close to achieving godhood, he collects what remains of his gang and storms the university building where Lucy's ascension is taking place, killing several more cops so he can murder Lucy himself.
• Lured (1947): Julian Wilde is an apparently friendly ally to Robert Fleming, but is actually the "Poet Killer" responsible for a series of murders. Wilde selects a woman and sends the police a taunting letter with clues about her appearance, knowing they will never solve it before he swoops in and kills his target. With nearly 10 women dead by his hand, Wilde murders Sandra Carpenter's best friend and tries to make Sandra herself his next victim while framing Fleming for it all.
• Luther: The Fallen Sun: David Robey is a self-proclaimed sadist and psychopath with designs to create a legendary nightmare around his name. A monster who has raped, tortured, and killed dozens of people over the years and discarded their bodies in a frozen lake, Robey crippled and horribly burned his wife so he could keep her captive and forced to listen as he tells her of his crimes. Robey introduces himself to Luther by kidnapping and torturing 8 teenagers to death, letting the families find the corpses, and then sending recordings of the teens' final moments to their parents. Later using blackmail material to force multiple people to commit suicide in the middle of a crowded street and cause even more deaths through car crashes, Robey uses his blackmail-gathering ability to force other crimes be committed, notably manipulating a man into raping another for Robey's glee. Robey's final plan is to a red room where dozens of men, women, and children will be tortured to death in front of a live online audience, and to ensure his plans work out, Robey kidnaps Odette's daughter and threatens to rape and kill her lest Odette and Luther torture one another. When he is beaten, Robey tries to burn Odette, her daughter, and his own loyal minion to death to cover his tracks.

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