Monster / Live-Action TV: P to Z

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• Pagan Peak Season 1 (originally Der Pass): Gregor Ansbach is a mountain-loving computer expert, whose charm, good looks and intellect hide a twisted psychopath. Years previously Ansbach viciously bludgeoned his boss to death for complaining about his inappropriate behavior. Separated from his girlfriend and son, after he locked them in the cellar for two days, almost killing them for disobeying him, Gregor discovered the philosophy of Sebastian Brunner, who preached that society's decadence would bring its downfall. Using the ideology to fulfill his conflicting narcissism and sadism, Ansbach became the Krampus Killer, dedicating himself to bringing about "the red time of the year". Attacking individuals linked to societal problems in both German and Austrian, solely for the fame it would bring him, Ansbach tortured two men to death and hanged a young internet celebrity in the forest. Thwarted from murdering a nationalistic politician for insulting him, Ansbach took out his frustration by viciously beating his assistant to death. Having spent weeks flooding social media sites to ensure a shopping center would be packed, Ansbach set off a homemade bomb on site. Realizing a young immigrant he'd taken him was a threat, he strangled her. Failing his goal, Ansbach switched focus to an obsession he had developed toward Elle Stocker. Feeling his story was sufficiently publicized, he poisoned them both so she would be his "forever".
• Parallax: Betti, the Evil Twin sister of Veronica, wishes to "blandish" every world of the Parallax to make it perfect, with the blandishing process involving tainting a world's water to disintegrate the portion of the outcast population deemed "aberrants" while those who remain get brainwashed into acting overly happy. If a world resists her, Betti responds by wiping out all life on said world, leaving it a barren lifeless wasteland, like she did to Desert World. In the process of blandishing Techno World, Betti sends armies of Krellicks and Welkin to attack, desiring to kill Ben, while also attempting to secure Veronica's allegiance. When outsmarted, Betti attacks Ben's world out of spite.
• Passions: Alistair Crane is the megalomaniacal Big Bad driven by a need for control. Besides being an abusive father and a Bad Boss, he has forced his grandson to rape his granddaughter; physically and sexually abused his wife; tried to kill everyone in his family; committed several counts of rape, including a 14-year-old girl; faked the deaths of two of his grandchildren, his daughter's lovers, his ex-wife, and her sister; left his daughter to believe that she killed her mother; arranged his daughter to have electroshock therapy; and tricked Whitney into believing she had slept with her brother. He committed most of these crimes for two reasons, to find a suitable heir or simply because doing things For the Evulz amused him.
• Peaky Blinders:
  • Seasons 1 & 2: Inspector Chester Campbell, originally assigned to recover the stolen guns from the Peaky Blinders, first comes into contact with the gang when he has his men terrorize a community under its protection before beating up gang member Arthur Shelby. When he learns that Arthur's brother Thomas "Tommy" Michael Shelby is the leader, he makes his presence known to him by demanding the location of the stolen guns with the threat of death to him and family, including Tommy's pregnant sister. Campbell later tortures and kills a suspect under his custody. Despite recovering the guns he becomes enraged when he learns that his mole, Grace actually fell in love with Tommy; he takes his rage out at a prostitute by brutally raping her. He later incites a gang war between the Peaky Blinders and a rival gang in hopes that Tommy dies, uncaring if innocents die, and attempts to kill Grace himself. Upon being promoted to Major, Campbell orchestrates an plan to have Tommy assassinate Henry Russell, and later burns a man alive under a pile of searing charcoal when he interferes. When Tommy deviates from Campbell's plan he has Tommy's brother and cousin thrown in jail and beaten up only releasing them if Tommy's aunt Polly has sex with him; he later rapes Polly when she tries to back out. After Tommy assassinates the target, Campbell attempts to have Tommy executed once he had outlived his usefulness. While claiming to be fighting for justice, Campbell is nothing more than a sadist, who abuses his authority to bully the weak.
  • Season 3: Father John Hughes is a member of The Economic League and by far its most vile member. A Pedophile Priest who raped the children under his "care", he notably disgusts even the hardened Tommy. When Tommy tries to kill Hughes, Hughes orders his men to ambush and beat Tommy up to the point his skull gets crushed. He later has Tommy "apologize" for trying to kill him in front of the League before being revealed to have molested Tommy's cousin, Michael Gray, in his childhood. He then has Tommy blow up a train full of innocents, so that he and the league could profit from its destruction. Should Tommy not do the deed, Hughes will rape and kill Tommy's son whom he's holding hostage.
• Penny Dreadful:
  • Original series:
    • Satan, after his failed rebellion against God, seeks to destroy humanity, dethrone God, and rule over his new creation. Satan enlists Evelyn Poole and scars every Nightcomer with his claws. Fighting against his brother Dracula over the Mother of Evil, Satan corrupted and possessed Vanessa Ives and tortured her into submission, eventually leading her to be sent in an asylum. He also granted Dorian Gray immortality in exchange for his service and has him kill people to prolong his life. In the continuation comics, Satan, possessing Vanessa's body takes over the British government and compels them to war against other nations. He allows his followers to kill and rape anyone they want; pollutes the air of London; leads his army of demons to slaughter their way in a coven and the White Tower; and coldly disposes both his underlings Belial and the Duke of Kent when they fail him. Satan tricks Ethan into sleeping with him to conceive The Antichrist and then tries to murder the man upon his refusal to follow him. Later Satan brainwashes Ethan and forces him to kill his lover Lily. After giving birth to twin daughters destined to rule over his creation, Satan sets Heaven on fire, raining down destruction on Earth and then announces that anyone who won't worship him will die. During the final battle, Satan rejects Dracula's offer for peace and reconciliation before attacking him.
    • Season 2's Big Bad is Madame Kali, whose real name is Evelyn Poole. She is revealed to be far more than a simple medium, and is actually a powerful servant of Satan. Evelyn is a witch who rules the coven of The Nightcomers, and her true nature is introduced with her in a bath of blood and a young woman's corpse close by. Evelyn promptly thereafter kills one of her own witches for failure and sends her sadistic daughter Hecate to murder a family—including a baby—so Evelyn can harvest the child's heart to create a ritual doll. One top of this, it is revealed Evelyn has dozens of these dolls, each one powered by the heart of a dead infant. Evelyn later enslaves the mind of Sir Malcolm and mentally tortures Malcolm's wife into killing herself, simply to make Malcolm hers. When Malcolm breaks free, she simply inflicts the same spell as she inflicted on Malcolm's wife so that Malcolm is tormented by visions of his dead children. It is also revealed Evelyn had framed her own sister as a witch so that she would be burned alive. Ruthlessly dedicated to the service of Satan, Evelyn stops at nothing to achieve her goals and indeed causes a great deal of torment, misery, and damage before she is finally undone. It's further revealed that Evelyn forced her daughter Hecate into Lucifer's servitude when Hecate was just five years old, with a description that sounds disturbingly like Lucifer raping her.
  • City of Angels: Magda believes that humanity's true nature is as of a monster and they simply need to be told so to embrace it. Starting the series by burning multiple humans alive, Magda provokes tensions in 1930s LA, starting bloody race riots and manipulating multiple key players. As "Rio", she exacerbates tensions between the Latin community and police, having her gang murder a rapist officer to enrage the LAPD and later lynch the suspected officer. Magda murders the head of the Pachuco gang to give the leadership to a pawn, while her guise, Elsa's lover Peter is manipulated to eventually begin supplying weaponry to the growing Nazi factions, with Magda intending on a grand war to erase humanity.
• The Penthouse: War in Life: Most of the major villains, even the Big Bad, have redeeming traits. This does not apply to the following pair of organ harvesters from Season 1:
  • Congressman Jo Sang-heon is a member of the Happy Future Party of Korea who harvested organs from children raised at Somang Orphanage and sold them to wealthy people. In addition, he made dirty money by adopting Min Seol-ah to the Lee family as a tool for a Logan Lee bone marrow transplant—completely uncaring when he hears about Min's death—and he nearly killed Shim Su-ryeon.
  • Min Hyung-sik is the director of Somang Orphanage and a greedy abuser who sees children only as a means of earning money. Together with his boss, Jo Sang-heon, he sold children's organs to wealthy people, and forced the children into labor. He also starved the children, and assaulted Min Seol-ah with a broom.
• Person of Interest:
  • "Mission Creep": Sam Latimer is a bartender and ex-soldier who recruits cash-strapped veterans to conduct high-end robberies. While playing the role of A Father to His Men in public and to his gang, it's revealed that the gang avoids breaking up because Latimer murders the crews every few heists, then recruits another batch, even telling his crew to kill recruits if they don't like them. When hired by the mob to steal evidence from a police lockup, Latimer shows up once again as the crew attempts to escape, killing half of them before being forced to flee and being killed by the mob to tie up loose ends, just like Latimer did with his crews.
  • "Cura te Ipsum": Andrew Benton is an investment banker who frequently drugs his victims before raping them, then putting pictures of the two of them together on the internet, taunting them about the night they had "together". One victim is a coworker of Benton's, who describes him sneering at her whenever they're at work together but feeling forced to continue with her job because she needs the money. Another of his victims, Gabrielle Tillman, committed suicide out of shame for what he did to her; years later, Gabrielle's sister Megan described observing Benton while he was out on a date, without a hint of remorse for what he had done. In a series full of murderers, extortionists, and malevolent AIs, Benton stands out with his unique series of crimes.
  • "Proteus": Alex Declan kills his victims and steals their identities. After recently murdering Special Agent Alan Fahey, his eighth victim, he steals his identity as well and later assists Finch and Reese in trying to uncover the killer on Owen Island to divert any suspicion from himself. During the investigation, Declan murders the island's deputy, framing a Marine in the process and endangering several civilians. When Finch discovers that Declan is the imposter, Declan takes Finch hostage and attempts to murder him so he can steal his identity like he did his other victims. Although Declan believes the identities he stole were being "wasted" and that he "did them justice", Finch ultimately deduces that he kills people because he enjoys it.
  • "Last Call" & "Sotto Voce": The Voice is an enigmatic Psycho for Hire who makes his debut hired by Ron Kincaid to destroy any evidence of Tara's murder. To this end, the Voice has Aaron Hollander, an innocent child, kidnapped to force 911 operator Sandra Nicholson to erase Tara's call, and 30,000 others, threatening to kill Aaron should Sandra refuse—first saying that he'll chop off Aaron's limbs before deciding to blow him up. The Voice decides to kill Aaron and Sandra, detonating the bomb attached to the former and sending his subordinates to the 911 building to kill the latter while endangering thousands of lives when the Voice shuts down the building's power. Returning upon learning hitman Amir Siddiq knows his identity, the Voice assumes the alias "Terry Easton" to sneak into the 8th Precinct to kill Amir while luring a SWAT team to a secluded warehouse before blowing up the building. After killing Amir, The Voice orders his gang to kill John Reese and Detective Lionel Fusco while he personally attempts to kill Harold Finch.
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' "Real Life": In the real world, Colin is a psychopathic crime lord who in the past carried out a horrific massacre that claimed at least 15 police lives and seriously traumatized the heroine Sarah. Although he was easily caught when he suggested to his colleagues to attack the city hall with nuclear weapons, his actions ruin Sarah's life, driving her into a coma and dooming her to eternal suffering.
• Poirot:
  • "Hallowe'en Party": Michael Garfield is the seemingly friendly garden caretaker for Rowena Drake but is in fact a narcissistic sociopath trying to obtain her family's inheritance. Seducing her and manipulating her to help him with his crimes, Michael killed Rowena's husband and helped her poison her aunt to help gain the inheritance. Michael then forced Leslie Ferrie to forge a fake will before killing him once he has it. When caught by Poirot, Michael tries to kill everyone present, including his and Rowena's daughter. Despite Rowena genuinely loving Michael, Michael reveals he only used her for his own desires and planned to abandon her as a scapegoat for the crimes.
  • "Murder on the Orient Express": Lanfranco Cassetti is a ruthless gangster out to escape justice. A blackmailer who kidnaps people, murdering them when the authorities close in but still collecting the ransoms, Cassetti was the murderer of a little girl named Daisy, having continued to exploit her family days or even weeks after he had already killed the girl. Uncaring of how this killed four innocent people, from Daisy's mother dying from grief in premature labor with her new baby, to her father's suicide and an innocent maid killing herself when she was falsely accused of complicity, Cassetti cares only for escaping justice and was so evil that even the heroic Poirot feels obliged to cover for his killers.
• Poldark Seasons 3 & 4: Reverend Osborne "Ossie" Whitworth is secretly a lecherous creature who will stop at nothing to satisfy his urgings. Teaming up with George Warleggan to coerce Morwenna Chenowyth into marrying him to spite Drake in lieu of hanging him, he wastes no time getting it on with her in brutal fashion. Eventually, they have a child, John Conan, but he continues to rape her despite Dr. Enys warning him it could kill her eventually, proving to be a hypocrite when the next season he claims to be concerned about John Conan's life. Deprived for a while of satisfaction from Morwenna, Reverend Whitworth bides his time by pursuing an adulterous affair with her sister, Rowella, and helping George bankrupt Pascoe, one of the few remaining moral bankers in Cornwall, by extracting a confession of embezzlement from Pascoe's dying partner, Nathaniel Pearce, and casually cursing both Rowella and Nat the instant their usefulness ends, and is all too ready to resume his abuse of Morwenna at full force.
• Poltergeist: The Legacy's "Brother's Keeper": The Soul Chaser Demon is a hulking demon with centuries of hunting down escapees from Hell to return them to eternal torment. Having left trails of bodies across the centuries, the Demon hunts down the escaped Jimmy, brother of Nick, and promptly massacres those who cross his path. Upon reaping Jimmy's soul, the Demon decides to claim Nick's as well for the enjoyment of damning a good man.
• Possessed (2019): Hwang Dae-doo was a Serial Killer who murdered 30 innocents in 5 years, with an MO of killing loved ones to watch the suffering of his victims. After he is returned to life by a fanboy, Dae-doo becomes a powerful evil spirit, betrays and kills his partner and begins harvesting the souls of his victims. Killing more innocents, Dae-doo fixates on detective Kang Pil-sung, even enacting a game where he murders people to force Pil-sung to kill his Love Interest Hong Seo-jung to stop Dae-doo. Dae-doo, in a new host body, experiments on innocents with drugs to cause a near-murderous zombie outbreak, and when he realizes the soul of his old nemesis Detective Kim Nak-cheon is back, he targets Kim's family to seduce his daughter, before attempting to murder her. After losing his current body in a shooting spree, Dae-doo kidnaps the loved ones of two of Pil-sung's officers to force one to kill the other by a certain time—only to kill both hostages because the chief was off by a single minute. Later forcing Pil-sung to kill Seo-jong to save a little girl, Dae-doo kills Pil-sung's adoptive mother in his quest to "judge God" as well, not caring that his unnatural presence is bringing the end of the world itself before the final battle with Pil-sung. Evil, remorseless and hellbent on proving anyone can be as twisted as he is, Hwang Dae-doo delights in destroying all he encounters.
• The Practice's "Hide And Seek": Gordon rapes and murders two boys aged four and five respectively, before having sex with their corpses. While running from the police, he takes a woman hostage. After his arrest, he agrees to help the cops find the bodies solely so that he can be given a chance at parole in the future, and takes joy in seeing the mother of the boys break down in tears upon seeing their bodies. He later reacts with rage after being denied a possibility of parole.
• Prime Suspect: In her distinguished career, Jane Tennison of the London Metropolitan Police and her many teams have investigated some of the worst criminals imaginable; these are the very worst:
  • "Operation Nadine": Jason Reynolds, despite seeming a charming, innocent young man, is really a vicious, bigoted predator with a Hair-Trigger Temper. Obsessed with photography from a young age, as he grew older Jason's perversions manifested through desiring to have complete control over his models. At just 16 years old, Jason raped Joanne Fagunwa, then beat her to death in a fit of rage, hitting her so hard he shattered her skull. Developing an MO of finding naïve and impressionable teenagers on the coast, Jason would charm and seduce the girls, some as young as 14, until they agreed to pose for him. Roping them into increasingly explicit poses, Jason would take advantage of their vulnerable state to rape them while continuing to photograph as he did so. Afterwards, he discarded the girls and sell the images as illicit pornography. Carrying on for six years, racking up dozens of victims, following Joanne's body being discovered Jason took to stalking the only remaining witness—whose brother, traumatized by the experience, had recently killed himself—attempting to intimidate her into silence before proceeding to rape his latest victim.
  • "Keeper of Souls":
    • Edward Parker-Jones, the titular "Keeper of Souls", is a charming, wealthy businessman who presents himself as an attentive social activist with a long history of helping vulnerable youths. In reality, Parker-Jones is an utterly corrupt pedophile who spent over a decade abused his positions and connections to find victims, all the while embezzling funds set up for the children. As the manager of several children's homes, Parker-Jones spent years raping numerous children, some as young as five years old, having all his activities covered up by his partner ADC John Kennington; some children were traumatized so badly that one attempted suicide out of fear of the mere possibility of Parker-Jones coming after him. Moving down to London to manage an Advice Centre, Parker-Jones used his connections to set up a pedophile ring based in Soho, exclusively catering to Upper Class pedophiles. Collecting homeless children, Parker-Jones kept them in his buildings to ensure a constant supply of victims, with himself also regularly raping them. When his former victim, 17-year-old Connie Jenkins, stole several incriminating photos, Parker-Jones tracked him down, leaving a paralyzed Connie to burn to death.
    • James "Jimmy" Jackson is a smug, uncouth local thug who works for Parker-Jones, acting as his enforcer and recruiter for the pedophile ring. While not a pedophile himself, Jackson happily enables the rape and abuse, only caring about ensuring he gets paid. Targeting unaccompanied children at train stations, Jackson charms them into accompanying him, then drugs and keeps them until he needs to deliver them to the ring's members or his employer. Jackson likewise keeps the children in line through regular threats and beatings, ensuring that they're all too afraid of him to talk to the authorities. As well as supplying the ring, Jackson also runs his side businesses for extra cash, acting as an abusive pimp to the local transsexual prostitutes and forcing children into extreme pornography, often involving rape or brutal assault, having converted a room in one of Parker-Jones's properties into a twisted sex dungeon. Sent out by Parker-Jones to find Connie, Jackson nearly beats 14-year-old Martin Fletcher to death for information and, later convinced that Red was talking to the police, Jackson attempted to drown her.
  • "Errors of Judgement": Clive Norton, aka The Street, is a cocky Manchester gang leader who, despite his cultivated image, is really a psychopath with a love for especially cruel murders. A criminal since he was 10 years old, The Street became the area's dominant gangster, using vulnerable teenagers as his dealers and running drugs through the city's poorer areas, all while secretly passing information on his rivals to DCS Ballinger. When a dealer's murder disrupted his business, The Street kidnapped a rival's associate. Despite accepting the man didn't know anything, The Street still subjected him to his favorite execution, having him ripped apart by vicious Rottweilers, uncaring it could spark a Mob War. His right-hand man unable to cope with the brutality, The Street strangled him for talking to the police. Finding 15-year-old Campbell Lafferty to be the murder culprit, The Street forced Michael Johns to perform the execution at gunpoint. Michael's unwillingness leads to a brutal, dragged-out affair that took six bullets to kill Campbell, all while the boy pleaded for mercy. Later blaming Michael for his problems, The Street trapped his girlfriend in an elevator shaft, where he planned to leave her to slowly die. Catching Tennison at gunpoint, The Street attempted to kill her and Ballinger.
  • "The Last Witness": Dragan Yankovich/Jankovic is a falsely charming, sadistic Serbian war criminal known for his constant mocking smile. The commander of a paramilitary unit, Yankovich cared nothing for the politics, enjoying the power the position gave him and the excuse to "hunt Muslims". When Yankovich's unit captured a bus full of Bosniak civilians attempting to flee the conflict, Yankovich, after pleasantly greeting them all, he had 26 men and boys massacred and gave the women to his men. Personally taking two sisters, Jasmina and the 12-year-old Samaria, Yankovich raped and brutalized them for four days before ordering them to be shot. After the war, Yankovich fled to Britain, where he strangled fellow Serb Milan Lukic and stole his identity, then set up an arrangement with the Home Office that he would root out other war criminals in exchange for protection. Discovering the two sisters had survived, Yankovich, so that they could not expose him, tortured then strangled Samaria and sent his loyal sergeant Duscan Zigic to kill Jasmina. When the police investigation got close to exposing him, Yankovich set Zigic up to die at the hands of the authorities.
• Primeval's Season 2: Oliver Leek is the ARC's treacherous second-in-command. Allying with Helen Cutter, Leek set about capturing dangerous predators from the anomalies and neural clamping them, intending to use them to Take Over the World. Amassing a secret army, Leek placed a dozen predators at locations across the UK, planning to release them and kill as many people as possible to cause chaos. Smuggling a future predator into the ARC, Leek massacred all of the staff present and then attempted to kill James Lester, toying with him the whole time to try and draw out his death as long as possible. As a demonstration of power, Leek then unleashed a deadly Silurian scorpion onto a crowded beach, killing numerous people. Abducting the team, Leek attempts to feed them alive to a Smilodon whilst forcing Professor Nick Cutter to watch the whole thing. His plans foiled, Leek then corners Cutter with his future predators and threatens to dismantle him joint by joint unless Lester calls off his men.
• Prison Break:
  • Christina Rose Scofield, who first appears in Season 4 but is mentioned earlier, is a high-ranking leader of the Company and along with General Krantz is revealed to have been behind most of the events in the show. A sociopath who only cares about her own advancement, she sacrifices her whole family: She abandoned both her sons Lincoln and Michael while they were kids without saying a word; rejected her husband after he turned on the Company and had him hunted down; and arranged for her adopted son Lincoln (whom she despised for his relative lack of intelligence) to be framed and executed for a staged political assassination of Terence Steadman. She tries to kill General Krantz to steal a device called "Scylla" and sell it for its profitable military use, then kills her conspirator when he botches the hit. She pretends to sell the technology to a renowned Indian scientist/politician, but instead has him assassinated in public and frames Lincoln again, along with Michael, Mahone and Don Self. Christina intends to unleash a decades-long war between India and China so she can sell the tech to both sides for a quick profit, knowing that it would quickly escalate into a global conflict. When Michael steals Scylla back from her, she kidnaps Lincoln and gives Michael an ultimatum for its return by shooting Lincoln in the lung to watch him die slowly. She later tries to kill Michael when he's ruined her plans one too many times.
  • Jacob Anton Ness is a noted economics professor from the University of Ithaca who is also known as Poseidon, a narcissistic deep-cover CIA agent who serves as the Big Bad of the 2017 revival. Revealed to be The Man Behind the Man of the Direct to Video movie The Final Break, he tries to press Michael Scofield into faking his death and joining his rogue cell 21 Void by threatening to imprison Michael's family and friends for life without parole. When Michael initially refuses, Jacob has Michael's pregnant wife Sara Scofield incarcerated for Christina Scofield's death. After Michael is forced to fake his death, Jacob enslaves him into breaking out terrorists and rogue agents—including the head of Yemen's ISIS—who act against America's interests. Knowing Michael would eventually betray him, Jacob kills CIA Deputy Chief Harlan Gaines and frames Michael for Gaines's death before he leaves him to die in Yemen's Ogygia prison. Over the next four years, he erases Michael's identity and marries his wife. During this time he proceeds to gaslight her into believing Michael is dead, going as far as framing Kellerman for hacking her phone after he has him killed and hiring his henchmen A&W and Van Gogh to terrorize her and Michael's son Mike before having the henchmen imprisoned to prove Jacob's "innocence." When she finds out Jacob is indeed Poseidon, he kidnaps Mike and Sara and tricks Mike into teaching him how to draw maps in the shapes of child-like drawings, all while planning to have Michael and Sara trapped and killed in a vacation home. When they escape the home, Jacob abducts Mike and brainwashes him into believing that Sara died in the house and that Michael is a terrorist named Kaniel Outis.
  • Season 4: Wyatt Mathewson is a hitman working for the Company under its leader General Jonathan Krantz. He's the worst and most chilling assassin the Company has to offer, with nearly every scene involving him killing someone or torturing people to death while talking to them in a calm, soothing tone. He kills or tortures many people (mainly, anybody working against Krantz); this includes women and even murdering Cameron Mahone and blowing the child's head off post-mortem to mutilate the corpse just to spite his father Alexander Mahone further. When he's given intel on Scofield and his crew by Roland, he promises to give Roland $1 million and to let him go in exchange for the others. Once there, Wyatt progressively shoots Roland in the kneecap, then his thigh, and then in his stomach to watch him bleed out.
• Profiler: The Jack of All Trades, real name Albert Newquay, is a sinister Serial Killer who functions as the Arch-Enemy of FBI Profiler Samantha Waters. After a killing spree with no set MO—hence his moniker—Jack became obsessed with Sam and murdered her husband, later targeting people she knew to isolate her when she returned to the FBI. Murdering more people, Jack proceeded to frame Sam's mentor Bailey Malone for a murder, drugged Sam and tricked her into committing murder, thinking she was killing Jack in self defense. Abducting a fangirl of his, Jack tortured and brainwashed her into the Jill of All Trades, initiating a new killing spree with her. When Jill was captured by the police, Jack arranged her death and had a man he'd brainwashed into believing himself to be Jack of All Trades arrested by the police before later revealing his true identity to Sam and kidnapping her to make her a killer like himself. When this failed, he attempted to kidnap her daughter Chloe to turn Chloe against Sam forever and make it so Sam truly had nobody left. Sadistic, manipulative, and committed to making Sam his own, Jack sets the standard for killers on the show, with a body count few killers can even dream of.
• Psych's "Mr. Yin Presents..." & "Yang 3 in 2D": Mr. Yin, also known as Karl Rotmensen, is a suave, depraved sociopath and one of Shawn Spencer's most personal enemies. After grooming his partner and daughter Yang into becoming a killer like him, the pair would force the police to play twisted games with an innocent person's life on the line. When Yin first appears, he makes his presence known by murdering a waitress and posing her corpse like a yin-yang symbol. He then goes on to stab police consultant Mary Lightly to death before kidnapping Shawn's friend Juliet and his girlfriend Abigail, and forcing him to choose between preventing the former from falling to her death or saving the latter from drowning. When he reappears, Yin lures Shawn and his best friend Gus to his home, where he forces Shawn to watch as he tries to poison Gus while promising him a "special" death afterwards. A heartless madman who kills for the thrill of it, Yin's appearances severely darken the tone of what's an otherwise lighthearted buddy comedy show.
• The Purge (2018):
  • Season 1:
    • Good Leader Tavis is the charismatic leader of the Mercy Cult, preaching the benefits of letting others Purge upon you. In truth, Tavis is a member of the NFFA, paid to round up youth the government has deemed "disposable" and systematically wipe them out. Operating for years, Tavis takes in youth with nowhere else to go, grooms them to believe in her cause, then has them ritualistically sacrifice themselves on Purge Night, even when the victims begin to doubt their mission and beg to live. With the youth she targets being brutally murdered, assaulted, or even trafficked to the Carnival of Flesh, Tavis is a despicable figure even among the NFFA.
    • David Ryker is the CEO of Ryker Moore Equity and hides his monstrous sexism behind a charming façade. Believing that Purge Night is the time for him to reclaim his status as a man, David has women kidnapped off of the street and tied up for his "living art gallery", where he and other men are free to molest them to their heart's content to make up for the fact that he can't do so any other day of the year, threatening to kill them if they don't go along with it. When Jane arrives, he has her tied up as well, taking vindictive pleasure in telling her that he knows she'll never recover from his abuse of her before molesting her as well.
  • Season 2: Ben Gardner is a college student who gets his first kill on Purge night, unlocking a repressed bloodlust within him. Outside of the Purge, Ben murders a farmer for supposedly shortchanging him, and when he learns that the NFFA covered it up to protect Purge statistics, he decides that this means he can get away with murder. Ben begins killing people more often, first another college student, then his best friend; later on, he chokes his already dying girlfriend to death to protect his secret. On the next Purge night, he massacres his frat house because they express concern for his mental state, including duct taping Turner's hands to a machete and forcing him to kill his friend out of spite. When he's injured after killing several other Purgers and is saved by doctors, Ben slaughters as many of them as he can, taking offense to them robbing Purgers of their kills before attempting to kill Marcus for attempting to "play God". Fully intending to continue killing everyone in sight outside of Purge Night, Ben serves as the living embodiment of everything wrong with the Purge.
• Quantum Leap: Sam Beckett and Al Calavicci have faced various evil people throughout their time travel adventures, but these are the worst:
  • "Unchained": Boss Cooley runs Talawaga prison in the cruelest ways. Keeping the prisoners in subhuman conditions, with beatings and forced labor on the chain gang, Cooley punishes any who resist in the sweltering Punishment Pit, with the option of murdering any who still trouble him. When Sam, in the body of a prisoner named Cole, and his friend, wrongfully accused prisoner Jazz, draw Cooley's ire, it is revealed Cooley is involved in a string of robberies that Jazz is accused for. Cooley murders the robber to cover his tracks and then reveals he regularly hosts "cockfights", where prisoners are forced to fight for the death. When Sam and Jazz survive this, Cooley intends to hunt them down and kill them himself.
  • "Killin' Time": Leon Randolph Stiles is the single most evil leapee Sam Beckett ever leaps into. An illiterate drifter and murderous hick, Stiles is a Serial Killer who lured and brutally murdered prostitutes to sate his urges, with no compunction about killing anyone else in the way as he murdered the daughter of the sheriff pursuing him. Sam leaps into Stiles as he's bartering with the lives of an innocent woman and her young daughter, while Stiles himself breaks out of custody by threatening to gun down everyone in his way while immediately trying to resume his killing spree in the futuristic city outside.
  • "Evil Leaper trilogy": Alia's hologram, Zoey, is far worse than her sympathetic compatriot and one of the most monstrous adversaries Sam ever meets. Zoey, in her service to the malicious A.I. Lothos, steers Alia to leap from person to person across time, utterly ruining their lives and stringing countless bodies behind them, while Zoey does her best to break and utterly corrupt Alia all the while. Zoey is first met trying to frame a mentally impaired man for rape to have him committed while urging Alia to murder Sam when they cross paths, later seen trying to have a reckless student killed in a chicken race and vowing to kill Alia herself when she reneges with Sam. In the final episode of the trilogy, Zoey takes over the body of a corrupt warden to find Alia and Sam, coldly ordering a trembling, claustrophobic woman (inhabited by an amnesiac Alia, unbeknownst to Zoey) tossed into solitary confinement and indicates she's going to use her male body's "equipment" to rape Sam's leapee herself.
• Quincy, M.E.'s "Stolen Tears": Otto Rottermeyer is a Nazi who was nicknamed "Der Teufel"—German for "The Devil"—because his treatment of the prisoners at Auschwitz was "worse than Hell". When two inmates named Isaac Kroviak and Hyam Sigerski tried to bribe Otto into sparing them and their families, Otto took the bribe, and then made Isaac and Hyam watch as he raped their wives before shooting them and every other member of the two men's families, who were among the thousands of Jews who Otto proudly claims to have murdered during The Holocaust. After the war ended, Otto fled to America, where he lived under the name Charlie Wilson. When Isaac recognizes him on the street one day, Otto steals a car owned by a Jewish man named Leopold Ackerman and uses it to run over Isaac. He then kills Ackerman and leaves him to take the fall for murdering Isaac before going after Hyam. After Hyam is saved from him, Otto agrees to testify on his behalf in a libel lawsuit that was filed against Hyam by a Holocaust denier named Cornelius Sumner. Otto is not remorseful or looking for a deal, he merely wants to brag about his crimes, and call out men like Sumner who have the audacity to question the existence of the Final Solution, which Otto proclaims was "the most courageous act in modern history."
• Raised by Wolves (2020) Season 1: Otho was a Mithraic cleric who raped multiple women and girls while they were in hypersleep on the Ark, until the Mithraics learned about his crimes and sentences him to death. Escaping his punishment when Mother destroys the Ark, Otho attaches a severed android head onto his Explosive Leash to prevent his helmet from killing him and when discovered by Caleb and his soldiers, Otho exploits Caleb's Sanity Slippage to convince Caleb to spare him; Otho would attempt to kill Mother on Caleb's command by burning her alive. Otho would encounter Mother again where she would drain blood from him until Otho reverses the procedure, significantly weakening Mother while gaining Super-Strength, which Otho would use in an attempt to kill all of the children under Mother's care before strangling Tempest, the girl Otho impregnated when he raped her.
• Relic Hunter:
  • "Run Sydney Run": Tsarlov is a Russian colonel who, having developed a taste for taking lives during combat, became a Serial Killer after retiring, one who specializes in Hunting the Most Dangerous Game. Together with his henchman, Yuri, Tsarlov abducts people and hunts them down like animals, operating with impunity due to all of the disappearances and deaths being attributed to the Second Chechen War. When Sydney Fox and her assistant, Nigel Bailey, visit Russia in search of the Sword of Ateas, Tsarlov guns down every member of their military escort and kidnaps them, locking Nigel up with another captive named Tatiana. Impressed by Sydney, Tsarlov tries to convince her to become his partner, and when she refuses, he forces her to agree to be his latest quarry by threatening to kill Nigel. After an arduous chase, the two agree to settle things in hand-to-hand combat, which Tsarlov eventually cheats at by trying to pull a gun on Sydney.
  • "Under the Ice": Rollin Harley was one of eight people stationed at an Arctic facility that had unearthed the mummified remains of an Anasazi Native. After discerning that the mummy contained an ancient virus, Harley defrosted it—killing a co-worker who had walked in on him doing so—and then, to see if the disease was still potent and thus viable as a WMD, proceeded to infect all of his other co-workers with it, afterward murdering them when it became clear that the virus was an effective Hate Plague. As Harley was preparing to make his getaway with the mummy, the base was visited by Sydney, Nigel, and two men named Knowles and Simpson. Harley kills Knowles and Simpson, tries to freeze Sydney, and when he discovers that a surviving co-worker named Eleanor was unaffected by the virus due to being The Immune, tries to take off with her and the mummy, overjoyed that he now had both the source and the cure to the catastrophic plague that he was going to reintroduce to the world all in the name of greed.
• Reservation Dogs' "Deer Lady": James Minor was once the head of a residential school. Subjecting the children there to the loss of culture and horrific torture, Minor had them starved and beaten. Choosing a child nightly to be dragged to his office to be tortured and savaged, Minor was responsible for the deaths of numerous innocent Indigenous children, which still haunts the now-supernatural Deer Lady decades later.
• Riget: Exodus: Grand Duc, an avatar of Beelzebub, is an owl demon out to open the gates of Hell. Spreading chaos around the Kingdom along the way, Grand Duc strangles the hospital director to death and reverts the Exodus ritual to orchestrate an invasion of evil spirits upon the world. Grand Duc concludes his task by destroying the foundations of the Kingdom and obliterating the entire hospital, claiming the entire world as a "New Babylon" for Satan to rule over.
• Ringer: Bodaway Macawi is a ruthless crime lord who deals in drugs, prostitution, and murder. When prostitute Bridget Kelly sees him brutally kill a stripper, Bodaway tries to have her murdered as a witness. Having killed many before, Bodaway kidnaps Bridget's sponsor Malcolm in her drug program, tortures him for days, and then injects him with heroin. Hunting Bridget down, Bodaway murders the proxy he enlisted to help before trying to finally murder Bridget as well.
• Rizzoli & Isles: Charles Hoyt, Jane Rizzoli's Arch-Enemy, was a Serial Killer known as the Surgeon. Preferring to target couples and loving to install fear in his victims, Hoyt would rape his female victims, forcing the male to watch, then kill them both. Hoyt managed to kill three couples as well as a family. Forming an obsession with Jane, Hoyt murdered Alexander Ghent and kidnapped his wife to lure Jane into a trap to kill them both. He used his scalpels to leave permanent scars on Jane's hands. Though captured, Hoyt continued to be a menace through his apprentices. Hoyt would go on to temporarily break out of jail and murder one couple with his first apprentice, John Stark; threaten to rape Maura Isles when she interviewed him while he was in custody; murdered the husband of Emily "Lola" Stern, his second apprentice; had Lola take Jane's brother, Frankie, hostage; and used his third apprentice Rod Mason to kill an inmate to lure Jane to him so he could have one last attempt at killing her before he died of pancreatic cancer. Just before his final attempt on Jane's life, he began to slit Maura's throat just so Jane could watch her best friend die before killing her.
• Robin Hood:
  • Robin of Sherwood:
    • Season 3: Gulnar, Fenris's priest, is introduced as a ruthless sorcerer presenting a potion to allow his master to rape Maid Marian by removing her free will. Upon being defeated, Gulnar revives the village of Crom Cruach so he may resurrect its namesake, a horrific demon, and burn the village down to again kill everyone there, while sacrificing some villagers for the plan. Later leading the Sons of Fenris to enact the apocalyptic Time of the Wolf, Gulnar attempts to massacre or condemn to starvation large swaths of land while seeking to kill the benevolent god Herne so none may stop the rapacious wolf.
    • "The Swords of Wayland" two-parter: Morgwyn of Ravenscar is a powerful witch and leader of the Cauldron of Lucifer coven. To set about gathering the Swords of Wayland to summon Lucifer from hell, Morgwyn kidnaps villagers and brainwashes them into an elite troop known as the Hounds. She sends the Hounds to kill and be killed by their own people and bring her the swords. One young man fails to recognize his own parents and kills himself upon being captured. Morgwyn kidnaps the outlaws and attempts to Mind Rape them into killing Robin himself. Finally, Morgwyn plans on sacrificing them in a ceremony to summon her dark master Lucifer himself to cause the Apocalypse and consume the world.
  • The New Adventures of Robin Hood's "The Devil's Bride": The Dark Lord Balor is a demonic being who corrupts the knight Groliet to raid villages and kill people to gather potential "brides" for him. Unsatisfied with the current crop of women, Balor sets his sights on Maid Marian with a threat that he will torture her to death for a hundred years should she refuse to be his. Balor intends to brainwash Marian into his loyal bride, spawning The Antichrist to destroy the entire world.
  • 2006-2009 series Season 3: Prince John, the younger brother of King Richard, took control of the throne in his brother's absence and plunged England into tyranny. When Prince John visits Nottingham, he individually orders Sheriff Vaizey and Guy of Gisbourne to kill the other to prove their loyalty to him. When asked by peasants to bless a wedding, he follows up by burning down the church where the wedding is held, while peasants are still inside. In a bid to make the people love him, Prince John cuts off the people's water supply during a drought, so that he could supply them with barrels of water for them to purchase. He orders Gisbourne to kill his own sister Isabella for being a traitor, and when Gisbourne fails, Prince John has him fired and branded an outlaw. In a final scheme to be crowned king, Prince John uses a wax replica to fake Richard's death so he can be coronated. Callous and cruel, while deluding himself into believing he is benevolent, Prince John proves himself to be the vilest character on the show.
• Robot Detective's "The Demonic Suds in a Disappearance?!": Moguraman stands out among the BAD Robots for his ruthless and self-serving nature. Testing out his corrosive foam by using it to kill two children, Moguraman proceeds to use it to disintegrate an entire school bus of preschool children after they become witnesses. Teaming up with two bank robbers, Moguraman attempts to kill a young boy when he catches them stealing money. After K foils his attempts to kill the boy, Moguraman lies to his partners that he succeeded so he can claim his share of the money anyway.
• Roland Hassel's "The Blackmailers": Jeff Dureya, after being fired from his job as an FBI Agent because of mob connections, decided to become a criminal. Dureya sets a bomb inside of a life vest, and sending a letter to a man named Nils, ordering him to send roughly 355,000 dollars, or else he'll not only blow up a plane, but also kill his wife. Nils cannot afford that much money, so Dureya does what he said he was going to do. He manages to track down Nils and his wife Maria, shooting Maria while Nils was swimming, and blowing the plane up at the same time. Dureya's next victim is a wealthy family living in a big house. He takes advantage of the fact that their neighbors currently aren't home, and sneaks into the house while aiming through the window. Roland Hassel comes to stop Dureya, but Dureya hits Roland in the head with his gun, temporarily paralyzing him. Dureya proceeds to shoot through the window, and successfully kills two family members. His final victim is a man named Jan Calmers, who he threatens to kill his wife and destroy the plant that he works at if he won't pay him 1,1 million dollars. Despite Calmers's paying him this, Dureya had already prepared to do these things. He puts a smaller explosive inside of his wife's lighter, and lets the person he is working for blow up Calmers's plant. Once he collects his 1,1 million, the police notices that the briefcase is identical to Calmers's. Dureya proceeds to walk into his car and calls the person he is working for, basically saying that the mission is complete.
• The Rookie (2018):
  • Rosalind Dyer is a Serial Killer notorious for her complex gambits, and is driven by a combination of sadism and an obsession with attention. Over two years, Rosalind enacted a series of vicious murders by torture and mutilation with no set victim type, killing random men and women of every race and ethnicity, making her the most prolific killer in the history of California. Imprisoned, Rosalind, upon meeting up with "Caleb Wright", had him enact a twisted plan to keep her game going, first burying the women he killed amongst her still-missing victims, whilst she played mind games with the LAPD, finally having Caleb go after Detective Nick Armstrong who arrested her. Returning for her new trial, Rosalind escaped by corrupting her lawyer into murdering a deputy in exchange for slaughtering her parents, carrying on her murder spree until deciding she wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, she imprisoned Nolan's girlfriend Bailey in a Drowning Pit, attempting to force Nolan to kill her to prove "even saints can become murders".
  • "The Dark Side" & "Day of Death": "Caleb Wright" is Rosalind's sadistic protégé and fellow Serial Killer. An identity thief and professional criminal who admired Rosalind's fame, Caleb stole a guard's identity to meet her. Enacting her plan, Caleb murdered Bryan Coleman and stole his identity. His MO was to kidnap one woman every three months, tattoo her with DOD (Day of Death) and that date, then slowly suffocate her inside an oil barrel so that she would die screaming. Having already succeeded in killing two women, Caleb's third victim was rescued by the police. Catching Officer John Nolan, Caleb attempted to drown him in a water tank, repeatedly pulling him out to prolong the brutal experience. Following a chance encounter, he turned his attention on Officer Lucy Chen, who he kidnapped then buried in an oil drum in the desert. Capturing Armstrong, Caleb intended to make him watch Lucy die before killing him in the same manner. Fatally wounded, Caleb interfered with the attempts to save him just to ensure Lucy would also die, his final words being him laughing that it was already too late.
  • "In the Line of Fire" through "Fire Fight": Marcus Lindsey, despite cultivating the image of a friendly but shy man, is secretly a grandiose Serial Killer motivated purely by sadism, gleefully boasting that "if I could kill a person every day, I'd be the happiest man on earth". Targeting recovering addicts, Marcus would disable them by running a stolen car into them, often breaking their legs, then taking them to a condemned building where he would viciously brutalize his helpless victim, before setting the building alight, leaving them to burn to death. For ten years, Marcus carried out his killing spree, moving around the country to stay off the authorities' radar before setting up shop in LA. Realizing the police were getting too close, Marcus framed his neighbor, LAFD Lieutenant Fred Mitchell, then murdered Fred with a bomb. Realizing John Nolan was on to him, Marcus trapped Nolan unarmed and injured inside an abandoned factory, so that he could enjoy the thrill of a proper hunt before skipping town.
  • Feds' "I Am Many": Foster Mills is a brilliant yet narcissistic psychopath, who dresses up his murderous sadism beneath the illusion of righteousness. In 2004, Foster, a self-admitted angry man, became a terrorist, sending letters laced with anthrax to his targets, killing multiple people. Gaining a sense of focus from his death sentence, Foster vowed not to die without leaving his mark on the world and reinvented himself as a cult leader. Creating "I Am Many", based around twisting religious philosophy into "even God requires the devil to act", Foster, smuggling messages out of the prison, converted multiple disenfranchised individuals into fanatics willing to kill themselves rather than fail him. The day before his execution, Foster had them carry out two hydrogen cyanide gas attacks, causing ten people to agonisingly choke to death. This was merely a prelude to his real plan, whereupon the day of his execution, his zealots would carry out multiple simultaneous gas attacks on major cities, writing the anniversary of his death into the history books with their blood, with his final target being the one victim to survive his original anthrax attacks for "defying" him.
• Roots: The Big Bad of Part 4 is Frederick Murray, a proud Confederate major who is defined by his Lack of Empathy for his family, slaves, and subordinates. When Chicken George visits his family at the Murray family's plantation, Frederick plots to have George re-enslaved by refusing to notify him of North Carolina's 30 day limit for freedmen. A vehement racist even by Southern standards, especially compared to his father, Frederick accuses Chicken George's son Tom of lying when a failed cannon test kills some of his men, and later lets his men gangrape Tom's wife. While Frederick supposedly loves Nancy Holt, he sends men to die in Nancy's and Jerusalem's trap despite knowing Nancy was an abolitionist spy for the Union. After Jerusalem is captured, Frederick orders his men to slowly lynch him even after Nancy reveals the truth about her and her friend's backgrounds. To his father's despair, Frederick then brutalizes and lynches Nancy after she puts Jerusalem out of his misery. A deluded sadist even after the war, Frederick declares that blacks will never be equals before he tries to kill Tom in front of his own family.
• Roswell: Agent Daniel Pierce, the main villain of Season 1, is the head of the FBI Special Unit, a ruthless organization answerable to nobody which is hunting the teenage aliens. He considers membership of the organization to be for life, and when one of his agents tries to leave, he kills him "piece by piece" as an example to the others. He subjects Kathleen Topolsky, the agent he sent undercover at the teens' school, to a brutal debrief that leaves her on the verge of insanity, then locks her away in a mental hospital. When she tries to warn the teens, he takes her back there, then sets fire to it, killing not only her but five innocent patients. When he finally captures the lead alien Max, he subjects what is essentially a normal teenage boy with a few odd abilities to hours of torture about the aliens' plans, origin and technology—none of which he knows anything about. While Pierce tries to portray himself as a Knight Templar protecting humanity from an alien invasion, in fact the alien enemies only exist in his mind and he is pursuing complete innocents who just want to be left alone. When Max escapes, Pierce abandons any pretense of not enjoying his work, making a plan to kill not only the four alien teens but also the three human teens who have befriended them and telling his apparent ally Sheriff Jim Valenti to go in shooting.
• Rush Hour's "Knock, Knock ... House Creeping!": Thomas "Tommy" Shea is a failed actor and secretly a violent psychopath who became a brutal Serial Killer. Kidnapping, torturing, and killing at least 7 young women—some only teenagers—at an exclusive hotel in Los Angeles, police attempted to arrest him, at which point Shea opened heavy fire on them and wounded an officer before sadistically killing Captain Cole's lover. Next, to avoid arrest, Shea set his hotel room on fire to fake his death, gloating about how no one's gonna miss his victims, let alone find them. After 12 years, Shea resurfaces after kidnapping another young woman named Destiny Lamb. However, it's revealed he already killed several other young women in the last five years, burning their remains until only bone was left. When he is found to still be alive, Shea attempts to kill Cole, Lee, Carter, and Destiny when they find her, beating Lee to the ground and attempting to shoot Cole before the latter shoots him.

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• Sąd Rodzinny (Family Court)'s "Bestia" ("Beast"): Tomasz Radwan is a teenager fascinated with American serial killers and what it would be like to see someone die. After failing to persuade a friend to murder said friend's little sister, Radwan instead kidnaps another girl, the 9-year-old Aleksandra Kaliciak, imprisoning and brutally torturing her for an entire day. The next day, Radwan first chokes her before throwing her into a river where the young girl drowns. Upon his trial, Radwan shows absolutely no remorse, with the judge claiming to find it difficult to even call him human.
• 'Salem's Lot:
  • 1979: Richard Straker, given more screentime and importance in the miniseries, is the wicked familiar of "The Master", Kurt Barlow. A murderer who relishes in evil, Straker smuggles Barlow into the town of Jerusalem's Lot, kidnapping the child Ralphie Glick to give to Barlow before providing more victims to the vampire master to spread the plague further. Under Straker, most of the Lot are killed or turned into vampires, with Straker even leading an attempt to eliminate a boy named Mark, challenging the priest Father Callahan to face Barlow himself, "faith against faith", smugly watching as Barlow murders the priest when he is unable to put down his cross.
  • 2004: Kurt Barlow is the same vampire hiding a brutal sadist beneath a well-spoken veneer as in the novel. A being that has lived for centuries and consumed countless lives, Barlow opens the series having reached out and used his dark powers to make Hubie Marsten become a child killer before killing the man for failing him. Barlow then arrives in 'Salem's Lot and dispatches his servant Richard Straker to find victims for Barlow to feast upon, turning children and adults alike into his vampiric slaves then letting them loose onto the town to devour or turn more innocents. Barlow's evil results in swathes of men, women, and children being reduced to raw meat or creatures of the night, after which Barlow horribly breaks and enslaves Father Callahan in a "battle of faiths", forcing the man to murder those who stand against Barlow while Barlow personally targets the loved ones of his enemies.
• Santa Clarita Diet: Dobrivoje Poplović, the Big Bad of Season 3, is a sadistic Serbian who has an obsession with the undead. He frequently has had undead people abducted and attempted to experiment on them while they're alive—and possibly has mistakenly abducted regular humans that he's tortured anyway. Until Poplović gets a lead in Santa Clarita, at least two undead break free and kill themselves to avoid being dissected. Poplović cares nothing for having incompetent employees murdered or threatened, threatening one of his new men by suffocation with a plastic bag, driving two to eventually quit due to being abused continuously. Believing Joel Hammond to be the undead he's looking for, Poplović threatens to kill everyone at his and wife Sheila's party if he doesn't go with him. Poplović then impales Sheila to a wall when discovering she's the true undead, stating his intention to kill Joel and use her and other undead people to harvest their blood for a cure to aging that he can profit from.
• Scholar Who Walks the Night: Gwi is an evil vampire who was once promised dominion over the night in return for helping the king rise to found his dynasty. Gwi lurks in the palace, preying upon the innocent and killing them as he wishes. When one prince tries to oppose him, Gwi murders him and his own former teacher who has arrived to stop Gwi. When this teacher turns a young scholar into a vampire, Gwi causes the death of the man's lover and the two enter into a 120-year conflict where Gwi tortures and murders another prince, uses innocents as bait to draw his rival out and has suspected collaborators tortured. When he grows sick of hiding in the shadows, Gwi declares himself king and turns multiple people into vampires so they will lead attacks on and kill the innocent, whereupon Gwi will heroically ride in and save the day so the people will adore him. When this fails, Gwi simply attempts to destroy everything he can. Utterly lacking in humanity, and responsible for at the very least several hundred deaths, Gwi is a vicious predator who relishes his monstrous nature.
• The Secret Circle:
  • Eben is the leader of the witch hunters. He's first seen in a flashback that reveals that he and his men murdered the members of the old Circle by pretending to want peace and tried to kill John Blackwell. He gets even worse when he turns out to have survived the fire, only with nasty scarring, and proves bent on killing every witch alive, even those who have never heard of him, just because. He doesn't bat an eye at using magic provided by a resurrected and psychotic Nick to brainwash Cassie into trying to kill her father and to escape an attack by the Circle that should've killed him outright. Later, he summons and absorbs multiple demons for their power, no doubt driving him even crazier. This is after he sacrifices one of his own men to a demon and using him to lure Blackwell and the Circle into a death trap that just barely fails. According to another witch hunter, he's even killed off Isaac. Then he kidnaps Faye, fully intending to murder her and her covenmates.
  • John Blackwell is a warlock who prefers dark magic, and visited the town of Chance Harbor years earlier for one reason-to have children-and achieved this goal by seducing and impregnating members of the previous circle of witches. He returns to manipulate his daughter Cassie and her half-sister Diana. He has all the other Crystal Skulls destroyed so one more could be created. He uses magic to torture Jake Armstron, and summons demons to provide people for them to possess. He doesn't care for his own children, seeing them as only a means of getting power. Season 1's finale, "Family," reveals his master plan to use the Crystal Skull to kill all witches without Balcoin blood and create a truly dark Circle using his children. He even tries to kill his daughter’s friend Adam, who's already dying from a spell John casted earlier, in front of a helpless Cassie and Diana.
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager's "The Father and the Son" & "That's Enough of That": Robert "Bob" Underwood is Ricky's abusive father, taken to some of its worse extremes; his abuse caused his wife Nora to take up a drug habit and start neglecting Ricky, at which point Bob spent years sexually molesting his son, telling him that's the problems of being a man. After getting released on parole years later, Bob discovers that Ricky has fathered a baby with Amy Juergens, and pretends to go straight, claiming to have his family's best interests at heart. Bob intends to sell his grandchild to Human Traffickers, under the guise of finding an adoptive family. Bob's reasons for this is both to support his own drug habit and his way hurting Ricky for getting him arrested, stating he'll always be a part of his life until then.
• Secret Smile: Brendan Block is an extremely manipulative and jealous abuser who flies into a rage when Miranda Cotton dumps him for his possessive nature. An utter sociopath whose past is littered with hints of his malevolence, such as his parents dying in a fire that his own sister believes he caused, Brendan begins stalking Miranda for breaking up with him. Integrating himself into the woman's life by hooking up with her sister, Brendan uses his position to manipulate Miranda's entire family into hating her, simultaneously pushing her teenage brother Troy into killing himself and psychologically torturing Miranda all the while. Later taking Miranda's best friend Laura as a new girlfriend, Brendan abuses and eventually kills her when she tries to escape him, soon after dating a new woman who he also violently beats. Brendan ultimately corners and rapes Miranda, threatening that she'll sooner die than ever escape his clutches.
• Sędzia Anna Maria Wesołowska (Judge Anna Maria Wesolowska):
  • "Morderca z Kempingu" ("Murderer from Camp"): Emilian Kozłowski is a trade representative with the highest body count in the series. Emilian has been accused of kidnapping a young woman and locking her in the trunk of his van; it was later revealed that he had done this to many other women, who he raped and killed. When of the survivors of the kidnapping testified against him, he acted like he didn't know who she was, but as soon as his wife finally presented evidence against him, he stated that he should have done the exact same thing to her as he did to all the women he killed.
  • "Śmierć na żywo" ("Live Death"): Arleta Szewczuk and Hubert Matkowski are a duo of snuff filmmakers who kidnapped a young girl, and brutally tortured her. Arleta would come with various torture methods while Hubert, who had previously raped a woman, would use them, killing her in the end. During their trial, it has been revealed they have done similar tortures to other young women, with each blaming the other. Sadistic and completely emotionless, the duo stood as some of the very worst Judge Anna Maria has judged.
• Sense8: Dr. Milton Bailey Brandt, aka Whispers, is the most prominent figure of BPO and known in Sensate circles as "The Cannibal" for having hunted down his seven clustermates and consumed them to grow stronger. Allying with BPO, Whispers hunts Sensates and takes them to torture, dissect, and lobotomize, with many dying and others left as drones Whispers can project his consciousness through, with one victim being a 10-year old girl. Introducing himself by hijacking one such body's mind to murder his superior at BPO, Whispers is relentless in hunting the Sensates and trying to erase their minds in his bid to forever cheat death.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017)'s "The Slippery Slope" two-parter & "The Penultimate Peril, Part 2": The Man with A Beard but No Hair and The Woman with Hair but No Beard are the arson loving heads of the dark side of V.F.D. who are the ones who orchestrated the schism from behind the scenes. Years prior to the events of the series, they manipulated an vulnerable Olaf into becoming the arson-loving madman he is today so he can accomplish their goals. Years later, they would burn down V.F.D. Headquarters to prevent anyone from learning its secrets and to eliminate an potential survivor of an recent fire. After making an introduction by attempting to kill Kit Snicket and steal the Sugar Bowl from her, they would proceed to murder the Circus Freaks just so to see if Olaf would care. After criticizing Olaf for his antics and failures, they would then order him to throw Sunny Baudelaire off of an cliff just to prove his villainy. They would then proceed to kidnap an group of Snow Scouts so they can force them to work for them and steal their fortunes, while also killing their parents by burning down their homes in an city-wide fire. They would later appear at Olaf and the Baudelaires' trial as judges where they try to have the Baudelaires declared guilty and have them arrested for the murder of Dewey Denouement. An pair of cruel, emotionally abusive arsonists whose aura of menace frightens even Olaf himself, The Man with A Beard but No Hair and The Woman with Hair but No Beard played an major role in Count Olaf's descent to villainy.
• Seven Star Fighting God Guyferd: Zodiac is the true leader of Crown, using them to perform human experiments with Fallah in the name of his twisted belief in natural selection. Desiring to use Fallah to reshape humankind to his liking, Zodiac creates a computer system to spread Fallah across the world and forcibly mutate humanity, and allows his subordinate Shion to die so he can extract her brain to power the system. After this plan is thwarted, Zodiac attempts to use the Gaia Net to wipe out absolutely everyone on Earth, so he can create a new species to populate the planet and rule over them as god.
• Shadow Chasers' "Parts Unknown": Doctor Randall is the head of an organ trafficking ring that is operating out of Long Island. Using a health club called the Fitness Factory as a front, Randall fakes the deaths of the club's healthiest patrons by exposing them to a paralytic neurotoxin so that he can later dig up their graves and kill for them real by harvesting their organs for sale on the Black Market. When a pair of teenagers stumble onto the latest grave exhumation, it forces Randall's henchmen to quickly rebury the victim, who suffocates while trying to claw his way out of his coffin; the incident attracts the attention of Jonathan MacKensie and Edgar "Benny" Benedek of the Paranormal Research Unit. Randall is shown personally cutting the organs out of one of his abductees before having her disposed of, and he later tries to gun down both Jonathan and Benny to prevent his criminal enterprise from being exposed by PRU.
• The Shannara Chronicles:
  • Season 1: The Dagda Mor was originally a dark druid who empowered himself with dark magic to wreck genocide on the Four Lands, becoming a demon master before being sealed away. As the Elcryss begins to die, the Dagda Mor awakens and begins to spread his demonic servants across the Four Lands, slaughtering entire villages and anyone else who gets in their way while hunting the heroes. Using his servant, the Changeling, the Dagda Mor orchestrates the murder of all but one of the Chosen, as well as the King. The Dagda Mor frames the druid Allanon for deception to turn the royal family against him, and steals the soul of his apprentice Brandon, trapping him in a pit of torture; when Brandon is freed, the Dagda Mor successfully influences him into going down a dark path. Luring Princes Ander and Arion into a trap, he gloatingly reveals how he manipulated them, before killing Arion, and resurrected him as an possessed and enslaved soldier in his army. The Dagda Mor would then led his army to the Elcryss, intending on creating a world full of death.
  • Season 2: The Warlock Lord was a heartless druid who attempted conquest on the Four Lands before being killed by Wil's father, Shea. It's revealed that the Warlock Lord made a bargain with Queen Tamlin to kill her husband and give her the throne, in exchange for getting access to Heaven's Well. Upon his resurrection, the Warlock Lord dispatches numerous soldiers of the Crimson, before ripping off General Riga's head. At Bandon's request, the Warlock Lord resurrects his girlfriend Catania, only to brainwash and seduce her in front of Bandon before having him kill her, and kills Bandon for turning against him. The Warlock Lord's plans for Heaven's Well is to use his blood to taint the Silver River, having his dark magic consume the land. When the key to Heaven's Well is passed down to Lyria, the Warlock Lord uses Eretria's demonic heritage to brainwash her and track Lyria down. Finding them at the Enclave, the Warlock Lord personally slaughters dozens who stand in his way, including a young boy, before killing Allanon. During the final fight, he fatally wounds Wil as the two impale each other.
  • "Pykon": Dontes "Remo" Remikin was the head of the titular prison camp during the War of the Races, wherein numerous prisoners of war were tortured and murdered. When Pykon was decommissioned, Remo stayed in the Fort and developed a habit of kidnapping and killing passing travelers, keeping his daughter Mag isolated from the world. When the heroes arrive at the camp for shelter, Remo treats them as guests before drugging them, and after he watches Amberle and Eretria take a bath. He picks out Amberle, whom he intends to turn into a lobotomized Sex Slave, as he did with Mag's mother. Before Wil overpowers him, Remo threatens to cut out one of his eyes so he'd watch as he rapes Amberle, and in his final attempt to kill the heroes, mortally wounds Mag with no remorse.
• Shark: Wayne Callison is a Serial Killer who tortures women to death, hiding their bodies underneath the deck of his younger brotherm whom he goaded into raping a girl at the tender age of 15. He then threatens Stark's daughter during questioning just to enrage the guy to the point of attacking him, then tries to get him thrown off the case for it. When that doesn't work, he drives his one escaped victim to suicide and uses a loophole from that to get off scot-free—for the time being.
• She-Wolf of London:
  • "Moonlight Becomes You": Dr. Hatchard is a scientist who discovered the existence of werewolves and decides to get rich off of it. Kidnapping an innocent werewolf, Hatchard keeps him in horrible conditions, forcing a change on him that results in extreme agony. Hatchard proceeds to take other prisoners and inject them with the serum he's made from the werewolf prisoner's blood to create a "Super-Soldier", a process which inevitably results in agonizing death when the victims' muscles self-destruct. Hatchard has done this to many people, and when he captures the heroine Randi Wallace and her partner Professor Ian Matheson, he decides to murder his prisoner and replace him with Randi, before attempting to subject Ian to his serum, intending only to profit off the deaths of as many innocents as it takes.
  • "Can't Keep a Dead Man Down" two-parter: Samantha Stevens is the dean of Ian's college who is obsessed with reclaiming the Staff of Gilgamesh to grant herself dominion over the dead. She begins by raising the dead, resulting in the zombies devouring innocent people. Stevens is seemingly stopped and killed, but turns out to be alive and stabs Ian to death, later raising him as a freshly dead zombie to use his still-intact intellect. Stevens sends her zombies after another piece of the staff at a crowded museum, resulting in a security guard being eaten alive and many other people nearly killed as well. Intending to sacrifice Randi to complete the power of the staff, Stevens plans to revive the dead all over and use them to overwhelm the living until she reigns supreme over the world.
• Sh15uya: Igaya is the chairman of an educational project that takes rebellious teenagers—specifically 15-year-olds—to a virtual replica of Shibuya, where they are made to believe that they are rival street gangsters fighting in a turf war, leading to them beating and even killing each other while Igaya terrorizes the district with a security program that assumes the form of an unstoppable Serial Killer named Piece, using him to brutally kill those who break the laws of his world before respawning the victims and giving them brand new memories to repeat the entire process again. Despite putting up the façade of a respectable and professional man trying to recondition his students into better members of society, Igaya is secretly a Psychopathic Manchild himself; lording over his "precious" Shibuya; trying to punish the protagonists for helping their classmates escape out of sheer spite; and is all but stated to have murdered the original developer of Shibuya in the real world when he got in his way.
• The Shield takes place in a Crapsack World of corrupt cops and horrible criminals, but the following take it even further:
  • Margos Dezerian is a hitman working for the Armenian Mafia. Overseeing the organization's heroin shipments, Margos keeps the syndicate in line by threatening and/or murdering anyone who proves to be a liability for even the slightest of reasons. In his debut episode "Blowback", he murders a young man for consuming his sample of heroin and later snaps an inmate's neck after said inmate insulted him. After escaping police custody, Margos returns in Season 3 to track down and kill everyone who stole from the syndicate's money train operation. Margos ends up slaughtering nearly a dozen people during his quest, torturing them and chopping off their feet after killing them. When the Strike Team tries to rescue a teenage girl whom Margos has been holding hostage to force her older sister to work for the Armenians, Margos stabs the girl in the back of the neck, leaving her to die as punishment for the Strike Team's interference.
  • Season 2: Armando "Armadillo" Quintero is a vicious Mexican drug lord who compensates for his youth with his cruelty. Armadillo is introduced by uniting several gangs under his control by having their leaders "necklaced"—imprisoned in tires and burned alive. A Serial Rapist, Armadillo tattooed the symbol of a dove onto the faces of each victim, and even did this to the 12-year-old sister of one victim. When he returns later, Armadillo uses children as drug mules for his tainted heroin, leading to the death of a toddler who consumes the drug under the belief it is candy. When he discovers his brother Navaro may be "greenlit" in prison to testify against him, Armadillo has Navaro murdered with no remorse before "greenlighting" Vic Mackey, his team, and their entire families for death.
  • "Cherrypoppers": Kurt Schmidt is a film editor responsible for the "Cherry Popper" films where young teen girls, mostly poor and immigrant, are raped on camera. When one such girl is found murdered, Vic Mackey tracks the filming to find a great deal of tapes circulating, with one being made via a girl raped on stage for the approving lust of the pedophile audience.
  • "Dragonchasers": Sean Taylor is possibly the worst villain faced by Detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach. A monstrous Serial Killer obsessed with being "special", Sean started his murderous career by killing a friend of his while they were on a hunting trip as teenagers, and framed it as an "accident". Continuing to kill over the years in various ways to avoid capture and claiming 23 lives—including that of a 12-year-old prostitute—Sean is eventually singled out as a suspect, and uses his time in interrogation with Dutch to psychologically tear him down before cheerfully admitting to his murders with smug satisfaction.
• Skins' "Effy" & "Everyone": Dr. John T. Foster, Effy's counselor after she attempts suicide, reveals himself to be a twisted Stalker with a Crush for his teenage patient. Knowing Effy's mental issues, Foster steadily makes them worse while alienating her from her family and friends to break her down to virtually a Blank Slate to rebuild as he likes. When her lover Freddy stumbles upon Foster's secret, Foster ambushes him with a baseball bat and beats him to death before attempting to manipulate Effy further into his clutches. When Freddy's friend, the delinquent boy Cook, discovers the truth of Freddy's death, Foster attempts to murder him as well.
• Slasher Season 4—Flesh & Blood: "The Gentleman", the woman using the name Persephone Trinh, was an "end-of-life specialist" who was an outright murderer, bringing her to the attention of the dying Spencer Galloway. Hired to give Spencer a peaceful death and weed out the "weak" of the Galloway family, Trinh butchers a sailor to help fake her own death and kills Spencer by injecting acid to his heart. Trinh proceeds to stalk and murder everyone she can, making the deaths as horrifically violent as possible, having young Jayden's limbs torn off; pouring molten metal down the throat of his mother Grace; and attempting to simply butcher the others once the competitions seem at their end.
• Sled:
  • "The Pit Snake's Bite": Vyacheslav Volkov, at first only known as the Organist, is a successful psychotherapist who is inspired by a book about an ancient deadly cult to kill eighteen children. Volkov kidnaps and fatally poisons 17 kids, cutting out the kidneys and liver of each victim to leave no trace of the poison. At the same time, Volkov frames one of his patients and eventually pressures him into confessing to the murders. On the run with his eighteenth already-poisoned victim, Volkov is intercepted by the FES and shoots Kruglov with a poisoned dart. Even then he brags that, being The Social Expert, he will weasel his way out of prison, so Maysky, in the chaos, stabs him with one of the remaining darts and lets him die of the same poison Volkov used for his killings.
  • "The Roma Woman": Stepan Vorobyov is a crime boss and a leader of a small but brutal gang who frightened the witnesses at his trial into silence and got a much lighter sentence than he deserved. Stepan pretends to be a reformed, respectable man, but never really changes, mentally tormenting his son Andrey. After learning Andrey has a Roma girlfriend, Stepan threatens to burn the entire Roma camp unless he breaks up with her. When Andrey refuses, Stepan makes good on his threat and not only burns down the camp but stands by with his goons and shoots the survivors who try to flee, killing at least 18 people this way. Stepan bribes the government and the police into recording all the deaths as accidental, and Andrey's girlfriend Nina, the only one to escape the massacre, later remarks that Stepan isn't human at all.
  • "Silence": Maxim Brusnikin is a wealthy businessman whose daughter was seemingly kidnapped four years ago. In fact, Maxim held her hostage in his house, all the while he was hiding behind a mourning father's façade. Maxim has two kids with his own daughter while constantly raping her, one of whom is a newborn baby he kills. Maxim murders the people who suspect something about his daughter missing: his daughter's ex-boyfriend, the mother of said boyfriend, the state prosecutor who investigated her case, and his own son.
  • "Night Witness": Dmitry Tsukanov is a sadistic police officer who sees himself as a crusader against filth. His M.O. is raping sex workers and killing them by driving over them with his SUV, making his victims run. Claiming four victims this way, Tsukanov murders another policeman and shoots up a police precinct, killing and endangering several people to eliminate the one witness to his crimes.
  • "The Dead Hour": Gleb Khovrin is a spy planning to sabotage a priceless hybrid plant at an institute of biotechnology. For that purpose, Gleb gets a job at a children's camp organized by the institute and tells two unsuspecting boys to release several bees—carrying a virus that would kill the hybrid—into the institute's greenhouse. When they falsely tell him that they did it, Gleb decides to Leave No Witnesses and escape: he drowns the camp's director, with whom he slept to gain her trust, and then infects the entire camp with a genetically-modified cholera Vibrio that nearly kills the children and staff and almost starts a nationwide epidemic. Gleb is killed in a confrontation with the FES, but not before fatally shooting a 9-year-old Child Prodigy—the one who figured him out first and prevented the sabotage—when the latter takes the bullet to protect his friends.
  • "The Sign": Max is a brilliant biologist. He marries Natasha, who has escaped a totalitarian cult, and learns that as the cult leader's stepdaughter, she is set to inherit a lot of money. To get his hands on that money, Max infiltrates the cult and uses bacteria culture to write signs on the walls. When the signs appear, the cultists believe them to be signs from Heaven and die in a mass suicide. Since the cult leader's sister manages to escape, Max captures her and chains her up in the cold to die, so that she wouldn't claim any part of the inheritance. He infects his wife, who loves and trusts him completely, with a rare lethal disease, and believes that as a genius of science, he is Above Good and Evil.
  • "The Dead Wedding": Darya Ugreyeva is Oleg Muranov's girlfriend. When he dumps her, she decides to frame him for mass murder in revenge. Oleg has delivered several boxes of wine to a lavish wedding, so Darya substitutes part of the bottles with poisoned fake wine, killing 34 people. Seven years later, posing as a schoolgirl, Darya is tracked down by Oleg's stepsister and kills both her and a policeman who tries to help her. Fearing the FES are on her trail, Darya tries to escape again, and to ensure she would Leave No Witnesses, she poisons the berry drink at the school canteen, landing several staff members in intensive care and setting the scene for the possible death of hundreds of children.
  • "Triumph": Oleg Nikiforov is a seemingly unassuming young man from a family of rich businessmen who defrauds multiple people out of money and frames his uncle for it. Afraid of getting sued by his uncle, Oleg decides to kill both the latter and Oleg's own father. Oleg manipulates party organizer Krasikov into filling balloons with sarin, killing the intended victims and 22 more people at a birthday party. Oleg has one of his fraud victims, Zudin, frame and kill Krasikov, and then murders Zudin himself. Oleg frames his mentally disabled sister Maryana as the crimes' mastermind, planning to get her institutionalized and mooch off of her inheritance forever.
  • "Black on White" two-parter: Grigoriy Zubkov is a pedophile who marries women with teenage daughters in order to molest the daughters. Having done this to at least five families, Zubkov has Viktor Lysenko assault his stepdaughter Tatyana Belaya, prompting her to leave her hometown so Zubkov can sexually abuse her younger sister to the point of her suicide. Zubkov kills Lysenko for outliving his purpose and when Tatyana, now an FES Detective, investigates his death, Zubkov attempts to murder her.
  • "Houris of Our Town": Nikifor Yushkin is a bookkeeper who hires a prostitute named Ulyana Anisimova, assaulting her when he saw scars on her fingers. After Ulyana fights back and escapes, Nikifor tortures and murders women out of resentment, possibly raping them and mutilating their fingers to resemble Ulyana's scars. Nikifor keeps 12 of his victims in a garage, and tracks down Ulyana to murder her before his demise.
  • "The Lost Little Ones": Mikhalych is a ruthless crime boss with female beggars under his control. For the purpose of child begging, Mikhalych buys babies from drunks and hobos. Posing as struggling single mothers, the beggars are sent into the streets with the babies in their arms. Mikhalych forces them to keep the children on drugs to make sure they stay quiet. With the drugs and without proper childcare, the infants frequently die, with at least eighteen bodies found by the FES in a mass grave. Even after his arrest, Mikhalych feels no remorse, showing that he views the babies and his adult subordinates as nothing but assets in making money.
• Sleepy Hollow:
  • Seasons 1 & 2: Moloch aims to unleash the apocalypse to destroy and subjugate all who live. As guardian of Purgatory, it is Moloch who devises all the tortures its prisoners suffer. Trapped in Purgatory, Moloch steadily corrupts humans to act as his servants, including hero Ichabod Crane's best friend Abraham Van Brunt, who becomes the Horseman of Death in return for Moloch promising him Ichabod's beloved Katrina, whom Moloch holds prisoner in Purgatory. Moloch spends centuries manipulating events, turning numerous humans into monsters and orchestrating murder after murder, punishing failure with brutal execution or torture. Moloch attempts to steal Ichabod and Katrina's infant son Jeremy, then waits nearly two centuries to liberate Jeremy from being Buried Alive to turn him into his the Horseman of War and set him against his parents. While Jeremy comes to see Moloch as a father, Moloch viciously abuses and manipulates him, informing Jeremy that he is only a servant who should follow his will before sending him on a potential suicide mission.
  • Season 3: Etu Ilu, the Hidden One was a cruel, arrogant, hot-tempered deity, driven by lust for power and a hatred of mankind. Ten thousand years ago, due to his evil nature his fellow gods banished him to the Catacombs, where he seduced Pandora and tried to manipulate into slaughtering his fellow deities using a box which could steal a god's power, only for the humans to use it to instead imprison him in the Catacombs. Awakened in the present by Pandora with his power source lost, the Hidden One has his minions summon monsters from all over world to Sleepy Hollow so he could feed off them, causing many deaths. Murdering The Kindred and The Kindress after they falled in love them, the Hidden One abuses and tortures Pandora and cursed Jenny Mills's boyfriend Joe Corbin to become a Wendigo, forcing Jenny to kill Joe. Finally regaining his former powers, the Hidden One imprisoned Pandora then bragged how he would wipe mankind out gradually, so he could bask in their fear and suffering.
  • Season 4:
    • Malcolm Dreyfuss was an internet tech billionaire obsessed with gaining immortality. After being forced into a Deal with the Devil, to avoid keeping his end of the deal Malcolm sought the Philosopher's Stone, causing numerous deaths, including Diana Thomas's partner Eric, and attempting to sacrifice over 100,000 people. Becoming immortal, Malcolm decided to conquer America and raised The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. For Pestilence, Malcolm spread a supernatural plague through Washington, D.C., causing multiple deaths through spontaneous combustion or having their soul devoured; for Famine, Malcolm released a Chinese hunger demon which killed several people through either starvation or cannibalism; for War, Malcolm turned Diana, effectively killing her. Malcolm then attacked Camp David and used the Four Horsemen to slaughter the entire US Army, forcing the government to crown him immortal dictator of America. Malcolm proceeded to ruthlessly suppress all freedoms and execute all dissidents, using the Four Horseman as his personal hit squad. Unable to kill the Witnesses, Malcolm had Crane imprisoned and adopted Diana's daughter Molly, rechristening her Laura; he spent years lying to and manipulating Laura, until upon one assault to wipe out the last of the resistance she learned the truth.
    • Jobe, a "Prince of Pain from the sixth circle of Hell", served as Malcolm's assistant, bodyguard, and assassin. Implementing the majority of Malcolm's plans, Jobe never missed an opportunity to commit murder, often choosing particularly painful methods for his victims. It was Jobe who originally shanghaied Malcolm into a deal for his soul, setting him off on the path to becoming a monster. Without Malcolm's knowledge, Jobe manipulated the terms of the deal to also send his best friend, the completely innocent Ansel, to hell. Jobe personally joined his fellow demons in torturing Ansel for 20 years, even carving his name into Ansel's chest. Assisting Malcolm every step of the way, Jobe murders Mr. Wong in such a brutal manner it's mistaken for an animal attack; tortures Jake Wells for information, partially through physical pain, partially by giving him a nightmarish vision of him murdering Alex; and raised an army of Hessians as Draugurs to restore the Headless Horseman. Having no more use for them, he sent them to burn Sleepy Hollow to the ground. Disliking the prospect of serving Malcolm for eternity, Jobe helped bring about his downfall, and happily dragged the screaming Malcolm into Hell.
  • "Go Where I Send Thee": The Pied Piper is an extremely sinister demon who is known for mass slaughter of soldiers and for what it does with children. Each generation, the Piper preys on a daughter of the Lancaster family; the child, when she turns 10, is kidnapped and taken to the Piper's lair to await her fate, which is usually her bones being made into the Piper's instruments—but only after being starved to death. Out of nothing but spite, when the girl is rescued, the Piper proceeds to infect all the girl's siblings with a fatal illness to force the parents to either return the chosen girl to the Piper or watch their other children die.
• Sliders:
  • "Fever": Dr. Darren Morton is a scientist responsible for releasing a deadly plague on to his world. Dr. Morton secretly inflected this world's version of Quinn Mallory with a virus he designed, giving him a clean bill of health and letting him infect millions of people with this virus. Dr. Morton reason for releasing this plague is to kill off the poor, with the poor being left to die in the streets or sent to concentration camps, while the rich live in comfortable. The agency Dr. Morton runs, the California Health Commission, is given emergency powers to deal with this situation, effectively turning California into a police state. Dr. Morton manages to capture the original Quinn Mallory and experiments him to see if he has any of the virus left in his system. When another scientist helps Mallory escape, Dr. Morton has her shot.
  • "The Dream Masters": Master Cardoza and his chief lieutenant Gerald Thomas uncovered the power to master dreams themselves and turn San Francisco in their horrific kingdom. Cardoza, believing in ruling through fear, brutally suppresses dissent with anyone who proves a problem tortured and destroyed. Gerald is a vicious sadist who murders a man by mental torture just for bumping into him, and when he pursues heroine Wade to no avail, he attempts to torment and destroy her with her worst fears. It is revealed that Gerald and Cardoza, along with their followers, also throw those who oppose them into irreparable comas, and then attempt to kill the Sliders team to keep their stranglehold on San Francisco, believing their powers allow them to do all they want.
  • "California Reich": Governor Schick is the governor of California frequently likened to Adolf Hitler by the Sliders. In a world without World War II, Schick rises to power blaming minorities for crime and restricts their rights, even having them interned. Not satisfied with this, Schick has them lobotomized and mutilated to make them into android slaves on a grand scale, even children not exempt from his policies. Schick, planning to ride a wave of bigotry to the Presidency and enact his policies there, is one of the most sickening enemies the Sliders have ever faced.
• Slow Horses:
  • Dame Ingrid Tearney, First Desk of MI5, is a stone-cold schemer who desires the security of her position above all else. Already established as a ruthless leader in Season 1 when she orders the elimination of all witnesses to Hassan Ahmed's false flag kidnapping and has a reporter murdered for seeking the truth, Tearney is revealed to be much worse in Season 3. She tested a volatile, unsanctioned device in Istanbul that would enable her to wirelessly hack any computer system in the world, and when the device malfunctioned and hospitalized dozens of people, Tearney's only concern was covering up her hand in it. After killing MI5 agent Alison Dunn and framing it as a suicide, Tearney later learns that Alison's siblings, as well as her lover Sean, are trying to expose the truth. Tearney responds by ordering the cold-blooded executions of not just Sean and Alison's siblings, but also the entire Slough House team and anyone else in proximity of the truth. Hiding behind platitudes of serving her country, Tearney only values her personal power and is willing to kill anyone to maintain it.
  • Season 1: "Curly" is easily the most unhinged of the quartet of kidnappers calling themselves the "Sons of Albion". With the others, Curly kidnaps a student named Hassan based on his Pakistani ethnicity and announces Hassan will be decapitated on a livestream the following morning, ignoring Hassan's pleas that he was born and raised in Britain. Although the kidnapping is a False Flag Operation and Hassan isn't meant to be in danger, Curly is genuinely intent on killing Hassan so he can graduate from an "armchair soldier" to a real killer. In short order, Curly takes an axe to the face of one of the other Sons after figuring out he's a mole; shoots the other through the face for not wanting to go ahead with the plot; and tries to kill the last one for attempting to help Hassan escape. Curly also comes close to committing a horrific massacre at a gas station just to terrorize Hassan into compliance, in particular promising to make a mother watch as he decapitates her two toddlers, then her.
• Sons of Anarchy:
  • Seasons 2 & 3: James "Jimmy O" O'Phelan is a member of the True IRA, a Northern Irish terrorist organization and criminal syndicate mainly involved in gunrunning. O'Phelan previously ran current SAMCRO member Chibs out of the IRA and stole Chibs's wife and daughter (Fiona and Kerianne), years later threatening to dump Fiona and marry Kerianne next to Chibs's face. He goes rogue in the third season after receiving a demotion back in Ireland. He tries to kill all of SAMCRO and SAMBEL in an explosion, and after his family escapes his wrath he kills an IRA member in a failed attempt to get them back before torturing and executing another one to find Jax Teller's kidnapped baby son Abel. He murders the adoptive family Abel was placed with and takes the child to ensure his escape to the States, before exchanging him for another hostage whom he later kills.
  • "Sweet and Vaded": Alice Noone is Venus's horrendously abusive mother. It's revealed that when Venus, as Vincent, was ten and confused she was part of having Venus constantly drugged and raped, and from there it grew into a lucrative child porn ring. Alice later kidnaps Venus's son, drugs him, and is going to have him raped. When SAMCRO track him down to the studio they are sickened by portraits of the children that Alice had taken to be raped, the videos on the computers and a video camera aimed at a crib. When Alice arrives, she threatens that Venus is a freak and Venus's son is going to kill himself over it, until Jax blows her brains all over the wall. Venus is left a wreck over the emotional torture, and a crooked cop says he would have killed Alice if Jax hadn't.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand:
  • Gods of the Arena & Vengeance: Cossutius is a smug Roman aristocrat, highlighted for his hedonistic and morally bankrupt nature. A Serial Rapist, Cossutius is known for repeatedly raping his own slaves, referring to himself "not having any virgin slaves". At the House of Batiatus, Cossutius has the slave girl Diona brutally raped by a filthy gladiator to prove that "ugliness and beauty co-exist" before raping Diona himself. Cossutius later shows glee at Diona's execution and revels in the gladiators' bloodshed. Cossutius later appears taking immense pleasure in torturing captured rebel Acer by tearing off his flesh.
  • Vengeance & War of the Damned: Nemetes proves that not even the rebels are devoid of evil in their ranks. Initially a callous jerk of the German slaves, Nemetes would repeatedly attempt to execute Roman prisoners once the rebels have taken a Roman city despite Spartacus doing his best to ensure that the prisoners are treated with every respect and courtesy. Nemetes kidnaps a Roman Domina and rapes and tortures her for sport, prostituting her to be tortured or brutalized by soldiers he knows will go for it. When Julius Caesar is disguised amongst the rebels, Nemetes demands he show his loyalty by hurting the brutalized girl even more, which horrifies even the hardened Roman and forces him to deliver a Mercy Kill. When Caesar sheds his façade and puts Nemetes at sword point, Nemetes simply tries to bargain to betray Spartacus and turn over all the armies and civilians with them to the Romans if he can escape, an offer Caesar rejects.
• Spectros (2020 Netflix series): Alberto Severo was the racist Torture Technician of a secret Po W Camp, taking sadistic pleasure in interrogating potential Axis spies—even if they were innocent—and comparing himself to the Devil. An abusive father to his own son, Mário, Severo returns from death as a body snatcher, possessing a police investigator to infiltrate the local law enforcement and massacring his fellow officers, including his partner. Eager to torture a little boy for fun against Mário's wishes, Severo leaves his host dead and remorselessly jumps into his son's body, planning on creating an army of enslaved ghosts to satiate his pathological need to have control over others.
• Spooks:
  • "Looking After Our Own": Robert Osbourne is a far-right white supremacist planning a series of race riots to force Parliament to crack down on immigration. Alongside instigating riots, Osbourne is also connected to a human smuggling operation so he can choke off asylum centers; said smugglers frequently have people thrown overboard from ships and drowned. When Osbourne realizes one of his contacts betrayed him for MI-5, Osbourne has him murdered, and later tortures agent Helen Flynn by forcing her hand and head into a deep fat fryer.
  • "Nest of Angels": Mohammed Rachid is a radical mullah who has taken over a mosque in Birmingham, England, replacing the kind and moderate imam who founded the mosque. Rachid hates all Westerners and uses the Mosque as a recruitment ground to convince disaffected Muslim teenagers to become suicide bombers. When Rachid discovers one of his young followers is a mole for MI-5, he has the young man beaten with sticks and thrown out a window. Rachid sees his suicide bombers as disposable pawns in his mission against the West and has no intention of endangering his own life for that mission. Rachid's ultimate target for his suicide bombers is a playground full of children.
  • "The Seventh Division": Rafael "Rafa" Morientes is the leader of the Colombian Chala Cartel. As cartel leader, Rafa would frequently deal drugs, money, and arms with terrorists around the world. Rafa also ordered terrorist attacks as well, such as setting off a bomb in a Spanish club, and killed anyone who stood in his way before taking keepsakes from his victims. One of his victims was Mariela Hernandez, whose entire family was slaughtered when she was fifteen before Rafa forced her to be his lover. When Customs & Excise start investigating Rafa, he has eight of their officers mutilated and murdered as a warning to back off. Later on, after he discovers Mariela betrayed him to assist MI-5, Rafa stabs Mariela several times and leaves her to slowly bleed to death.
  • "The Special" two-parter: Owen Forster is the leader of the Eco-Terrorist cell called Shining Dawn. Unlike many other Shining Dawn members who genuinely believe humanity must be culled to save the world, Owen only cares about exploiting the terrorists' goals to fuel his bomb-making obsession. In an attempt to compel law enforcement to release their leader, Michael Munroe, Owen and his cell detonate a bomb in a public venue, killing a few dozen civilians. They later plant bombs inside of a subway station and an apartment complex; when both bombs are defused, Owen continues his vendetta, ordering his men to attack a hospital next and strapping the final bomb to an innocent woman so she can't escape. Even after he's arrested, Owen stubbornly refuses to give up the password to defuse the bomb, fully willing to let hundreds of innocents die out of spite.
  • "World Trade": Gabriel Sekoa is the corrupt leader of West Monrassa. After journalist George Kadala tries to publish that Sekoa was siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from the government, Sekoa has his plane shot down and made it look like a plane crash. Several years later, after Sekoa gained more political power, he used his resources to drive thousands of villagers into a shantytown so he could use biological agents to gas the whole town and neighboring cities. Knowing other countries would attempt to stop the genocide, Sekoa agrees to sign the Havensworth trade agreement solely so he'll be free to massacre anyone he wants without any other countries interfering.
• Spooksville: Madeline Templeton, far worse than in the books, was originally a witch who was going to be burned at the stake but escaped her fate via the Raven's Eye. Her only living descendant is Ann Templeton, who is really a slave of her supposed dragon Moorpark, who in turn works for Madeline, and makes Ann do various villainous deeds, such as afflicting Adam's friend Sally with a curse that nearly kills her. In "The Dark Corner", Ann tries to use a spell to reunite Adam with Laurel, his Missing Mom. The spell takes them to a Parallel Universe where Madeline rules and has ruined most of the world with a Zombie Apocalypse. The gang manages to rescue Laurel, but she remembers little about how she got stuck there. In one episode, we find out a crazy homeless guy who calls himself "The Mayor" really was the Mayor, until Madeline used a spell to drive him insane. At the end, we find out Madeline has survived so long by transferring her spirit into her descendants, which basically erases their personality and makes them a copy of her, and that all the evil things Ann did were either under duress or an attempt to avoid getting possessed herself. We also find out that Madeline either somehow possessed Laurel or is her in disguise.
• Squid Game: Jang Deok-su is the worst of the contestants in the brutal games. A former gangster out to get the money for himself, Deok-su has participated in murder, forced prostitution, and rape with his thugs. In the game, Deok-su initiates a riot to cull as many players as possible; beats a man to death for objecting to Deok-su taking his food; and betrays his ally Han Mi-nyeo while believing it will mean her death. Relishing slaughtering another team in the Tug-Of-War game, Deok-su repeatedly enjoys the deaths of other players, and upon the glass bridge, he attempts to force other players to risk almost certain death or to die when he refuses to advance himself.
• Stalker (2014):
  • Ray Matthews is a highly intelligent but brutish psychopathic killer obsessed with Lieutenant Beth Davis. Originally her controlling boyfriend, back when she was Michelle Webber, in his attempts to get her back after she left him, Ray accidentally burnt her entire family to death. Released twelve years later by Perry Whitley, Ray embarks on a twisted plan to isolate Beth so she would have no choice but turn to him. Stalking her until he learned all he needed, Ray hospitalizes Amanda Taylor to scare Beth, then kidnaps Beth's closest friend Tracy, beating the man she was staying with into a coma. Challenging the police to find Tracy as a distraction so he can kidnap Beth, Ray beats Perry and another man to death with his bare hands, eliminates a patrolman and shoots Ben Caldwell, leaving him to bleed to death. Murdering a tenant to use his cabin as a base, Ray attempts induce Stockholm Syndrome on Beth, and strangles a friendly old woman on the off chance she saw his picture on the news. His efforts failing and accepting he's unable to brainwash her, Ray decides to cut his losses and murder Beth. Capturing Jack, Janice and Beth but trapped by their reinforcements, Ray sets the building alight, attempting to take them all with him.
  • "Love Hurts" & "Love Kills": Nathan Grant, born Nicholas Kosta, is a notorious Philadelphia criminal who fled to LA after murdering his wife. He became secretary of a support group for love and sex addicts, using the meetings to find cases that reminded him of his wife. Upon finding a victim, Grant would stalk the women for information and sexual gratification. Upon learning enough he would break into their homes, steal a knife and stab them to death becoming a meticulous Serial Killer and allowing him to relive killing his wife again and again. Grant then left their exes to take the fall for his crimes. Successfully murdering four women in this manner over six years, his cooling off period rapidly deteriorated between each kill. Following killing his fifth victim, Grant immediately began stalking Pam Tyler; two days later he attempted to kill her but was fought off. Undeterred, a few days later he killed his sixth victim, engineering events so the terrified woman ran straight to him. Realizing the police were after him, Grant framed another group member, and attempted to silence Special Agent Vicki Gregg.
• The Stand miniseries both have Randall Flagg:
  • 1994 series: "The Dark Man", Randall Flagg, is a diabolical emissary of evil who helps orchestrate the unleashing of the Captain Trips virus and its subsequent decimation of humanity. Causing suffering everywhere he goes, Flagg establishes his own fiefdom in Las Vegas where he encourages utter depravity while torturing and executing anyone who opposes his rule. Flagg arranged the bombing of the town hall of peaceful, rival community Boulder, and he plans to use nuclear weapons to wipe out all life in Boulder, then hold any other pockets of humanity hostage under similar threat if they don't cow to him. Willing to cripple, mutilate, and murder his own minions for the pettiest reasoning, Flagg oversees the cruel deaths of multiple lead characters, and personally rapes Nadine so viciously that she becomes an Empty Shell whom Flagg hopes to use as nothing but a broodmare.
  • 2020 series: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man, is a demonic being who unleashes the Captain Trips virus, killing off 99% of the world's population. Building his own society from the remains of Las Vegas, Flagg allows his citizens to engage in all sorts of hedonistic debauchery, from rampant orgies to sexual slavery, even forcing innocents to engage in bloody gladiator matches for his people's viewing pleasure, while crucifying those who go against him. Doing what he can to kill Mother Abagail and her Free Zone residents, Flagg plants Nadine and Harold as spies tasked to destroy them, while also planning to acquire a nuke to drop on the Zone. Brutally murdering his underlings for any mistakes made, Flagg later impregnates Nadine to birth his spawn, knowing she'll die from childbirth. With Abagail's spies in his grasp, Flagg attempts to drown them in front of his people, while murdering those who try to speak out against him. Killed by the hand of God, Flagg attempts to return to the mortal world by possessing a near-dead Frannie in return for her family's protection, only to arrive in an alternative world to restart his entire plan again.
• Stargateverse:
  • Stargate SG-1:
    • Sokar is a Goa'uld System Lord who is wicked even by the standards of his tyrannical brethren. While most Goa'uld bask in worship, Sokar delights in terror and models himself after the Devil and Gods of Death. Having once overthrown Ra himself, Sokar tormented all worlds under his control and erased all life from some while gleefully subjecting others to life-threatening monsters. Turning one of his moons into a prison, Sokar sends his enemies there to be tortured eternally, including rival System Lord Apophis, before preparing to wage a brutal scorched earth campaign to claim the territories of the other System Lords.
    • Nirrti is a ruthless System Lord who fancies herself a Mad Scientist. Well known for depleting populations of humans under her control so much that she had to begin poaching the slaves of other System Lords, Nirrti seeks to create the perfect host, and regularly depopulates entire planets in her domain. In one such instance, Nirrti left only a little girl alive, implanting a bomb inside her to explode in Stargate command. Later arriving with fellow lords Cronus and Yu under a flag of truce, Nirrti plotted to assassinate Cronus and start a war between the Goa'uld and Earth so she could seize Cronus's domain. In her final appearance, Nirrti is revealed to be using gene manipulation, devastating and torturing another population of innocents in her endless hunt for perfection.
    • Anubis is by far the most evil and dangerous of the Goa'uld System Lords. As Selmak said in "Last Stand", "he was banished by the System Lords because his crimes were unspeakable, even to the Goa'uld"; this is a race of megalomaniacal Puppeteer Parasites who think nothing of torturing their dethroned rivals to death, then bringing them back to life and repeatedly doing it again. He tricked Oma Desala, a wise higher-dimensional being, into helping him ascend so that he could become an immortal Energy Being, making sure to rub it into her face how she is unable to stop his evil acts. His subsequent plans after his return include repeatedly annihilating civilizations and replacing the Jaffa warriors with mindless super soldiers. After his stable form is destroyed, he starts possessing random people to hold him until their bodies completely decay after a few days. His ultimate plan before he finally got taken out was to wipe out all life in the galaxy with an Ancient super weapon — all of it, including his own race and his army — so he could use the Ancient knowledge he retained to recreate a galaxy's worth of races that would unquestionably worship him as a god.
    • "RepliCarter" is a human form Replicator created by Fifth in the image of Samantha Carter and half of the Big Bad Ensemble for Season 8, along with Anubis. Despite initially presenting herself as an ally to the SGC and a victim of Fifth's abuse while secretly working for Fifth, RepliCarter soon shows her true colours. Manipulating Carter and Fifth into trusting her, RepliCarter ultimately betrayed them both, using the former to become immune to an anti-Replicator weapon and killing the latter with no remorse to take over the Replicator army, deriding Fifth as weak and pathetic afterwards. Intending to destroy organic life and rule the Milky Way, RepliCarter leads her army in a genocidal campaign, killing countless innocents. Kidnapping and torturing Daniel Jackson, RepliCarter tried to force him to give up knowledge of a weapon that could destroy her, planning to destroy it so she could not be stopped. Despite promising to leave Earth alone, RepliCarter dispatched Replicators to consume the planet, then killed Daniel when she had no more use for him. A merciless killing machine in the shape of a renowned galactic heroine, RepliCarter is devoid of the loyalty or morality of the real Carter, making for a coldly ambitious machine hell-bent on galactic domination.
  • Stargate Atlantis: Even amongst the monstrous Wraith species, these two stand out:
    • Michael Kenmore is a former Wraith who guiltlessly kidnaps one of the humans who had helped him, in order to painfully feed on her energy when he rediscovers his origins. Although his attempts to give Atlantis to his species fail when they try to kill Michael for his time as a human, he returns as an experimenter trying to create a "perfect" race that is mindlessly obedient to him. Creating a race of Animalistic Abominations, Michael engineers them by having human test subjects fatally drained of their life energy. Releasing a virus on multiple inhabited worlds, Michael kills countless humans and spitefully leaves the survivors infected to poison any Wraith who attempt to feed on them. Michael also creates a clone of a deceased person, which he tortures and experiments on for months; and kidnaps an entire tribe of people to turn them into his new violent experimental race, the "Hybrids". Kidnapping a pregnant woman, Michael plans to harvest the baby's unique DNA for his Hybrid project and kill the mother after birth. When Michael manages to gain control over Atlantis, he again attempts to kidnap the woman and her now-born baby, and spitefully blow up everyone else on board.
    • "Sateda": The Wraith "King" or "General" is a sadistic Blood Knight who commands a Hiveship, having committed the taboo of murdering his Queen to usurp control of it from her. Harvesting countless planets over the centuries, the King has destroyed Ronon's home world, annihilating the entire population , including Ronan's lover. Implanting a tracking device in Ronon to hunt him from planet to planet for sport, the King destroys any world where he takes shelter. Returning to Ronon's home world to kill him on it, the King mocks him for the death of his people.
• The Storyteller's "The Three Ravens": The nameless, Wicked Witch seduces a good-hearted king and attempts to usurp his kingdom by changing his sons into ravens. The king helps his daughter escape, but she is rendered mute for three years in order to break the enchantment. The witch murders the king and seduces another who is the father of the princess's future husband. Every time the princess has a baby, the witch takes the children and attempts to murder them by throwing them down a well, unaware that the raven princes are saving them. The witch then frames the princess herself for the murders and attempts to have her burned as a witch, knowing she can't speak a single word to save herself.
• The Strain (TV series):
  • The Master is the youngest of the Ancient vampires with a legacy of death going back millennia. Killing and feeding at his whim, The Master ends up in New York after stowing away aboard a plane, killing and turning everyone on board before sending the newly-made vampires after their own loved ones to spread his new strain. In the past, the Master also used concentration camps as a feeding ground, and when the carpenter Abraham Setrakian tried to kill him, the Master broke his hands to leave him to suffer and die now that he would be useless to the Nazis. Using his vampires to kill and convert countless innocents in New York, the Master directs a number of blind children to be turned by his right-hand man Thomas Eichhorst to serve as "hunters" before attempting to overwhelm entire neighborhoods with his armies. When his ally Eldritch Palmer annoys the Master, the Master kills his lover Coco just to prove a point. Finally having his "brothers" killed, the Master and Eichhorst attempt to use a nuke to blot out the sun to allow the vampires to completely overwhelm New York. After taking over New York, the Master slowly slips further into madness and fury and in an attempt to get to Ephraim and the others, decides to end his "facade of cooperation", unleashing his strigoi to kill the entire human population "borough by borough" until he has found his enemies.
  • Thomas Eichhorst is a former Nazi-turned-vampire who acts as the right-hand man of the Master. Even prior to his transformation, Eichhorst was a despicable human being who declined to help a Jewish former co-worker he had a crush on, instead lying to his superiors about her being a thief and allowing her and her family to be hanged. Eichhorst was eventually made the commandant of a concentration camp, and at some point became aligned with the Master. Unlike the animalistic vampires that make up the Master's army, Eichhorst retains his mind and his sense of sadism, which he displays through actions like vampirizing Setrakian's wife to force Setrakian to kill her, and attempting to rape/eat Dutch with his stinger. In addition to setting nukes and vampirizing blind children for the Master, Eichhorst also oversees the creation of slaughterhouses to drain humans of blood as efficiently as possible. When one of his employees doesn't see the difference in using a dummy to test the system instead of a live person, Eichhorst illustrates his point by impaling another employee on a meat hook, then timing it so he's subjected to the draining process.
• Stranger Things Season 4: Warden Melnikov, the dictator of Kamchatka prison, is a petty sadist who enjoys having his inmates subjected to horrible labor with regular beatings and tortures. Those who are condemned or "worn out" are thrown to a captive Demogorgon. Deciding on a new spectacle, Melnikov organizes gladiator matches for the sick thrill of watching the prisoners try to fight back against the Demorgogon before being torn apart.
• Strike Back: Project Dawn: While most of the villains in the series have loved ones or some form of honor, these two have neither:
  • Latif, a Pakistani terrorist leader, is the mastermind behind "Project Dawn", which aims to strike back at the West for "Trojan Horse" ^note a plan involving planting nerve gas in Iraq, possibly to justify the US invasion of Iraq; his actions, however, would possibly kill thousands of innocent people. After kidnapping and executing John Porter from the first season, Latif poses as a Pakistani intelligence officer so he can assist Section 20. He also sends a group of terrorists to storm a hotel in hopes of finding a scientist named Mahmood, with dozens killed in the chaos. After the crisis is resolved, Latif reveals himself to Mahmood and proceeds to interrogate and kill her. With the assistance of several mercenaries, Latif uses the intelligence he gained from Mahmood to find hidden caches of VX nerve gas around the world. He then conspires with drug and Arms Dealer Fatmir Hasani to construct an organ farm so that his doctor, Irina Mullova, will have plenty of candidates to aid him with his plans. Once Latif acquires the location of the final nerve gas cache from Joseph Allen, he immediately has Allen killed, shortly before having Fatmir killed as well for taking a risk that nearly exposed him to Section 20. With Mullova's help, Latif plants the nerve gas with two suicide bombers so they can attack a World Summit. Latif murders Mullova after her work is done, lures his men to Section 20 where they kill most of their personnel, and then kidnaps Colonel Grant and Pakistani presidential candidate General Akmal Ramiz. Furious over their knowledge of Trojan Horse, Latif demands that they confess to the operation on camera, or he'll set off one of the two bombs. He murders Ramiz after he refuses, but Grant complies. Even after she confesses, Latif activates the bomb anyway in hopes of killing thousands.
  • Episodes 5 & 6: Tahir is the leader of a group of Janjaweed rebels who Rape, Pillage, and Burn as they please, also kidnapping children in hopes of raising them to be soldiers. After Tahir's rebels kidnap Dr. Clare Somersby, the daughter of Gerald Crawford, and her entourage, Tahir guns down Clare's fiancé, deeming him invaluable. When Tahir agrees to give Clare back to her father in exchange for the weapons he promised him, Tahir responds by cutting off her right ear upon discovering that Crawford is still short on the weapons. He brings Clare back to his camp and spends his time tormenting her; he dares her to dig through a mass grave in order to find her fiancé's body, and later tries to seduce her, all while his soldiers are getting ready to gang rape Clare's friend. After Stonebridge and Crawford storm Tahir's camp and rescue Clare, he gathers what soldiers he has left to try and hunt them all down.
• Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: Kilokhan is a rogue government A.I. seeking world domination. It's implied Kilokhan's first act upon becoming self-aware was to murder his creators. Teaming up with antisocial artist Malcolm Frink to create his monsters, Kilokhan would routinely demean, abuse, and insult the boy any chance he gets, even possessing his body while leaving his mind trapped in a Mega Virus Monster. Kilokhan would often raise Malcolm's already dangerous plans from petty to potentially cataclysmic, often without Malcolm's consent. Among his very very long list of crimes, Kilokhan would get countless innocent people unlawfully arrested; attempt to slowly kill Sam's class with unrelenting heat; desire to use Gramm to freeze the world's hearts and plunge it into a global war; brainwash Servo into his slave and force him to fight his friends; cut off the global food supply to starve humanity to death, Malcolm included; digitize people and trap them aware in floppy discs; trap Sam in total isolation within a camera and nearly drive him insane with the intent to do the same to the rest of humanity; and turn the entire town's water supply into hydrochloric acid. Among his absolute worst crimes is attempting to launch the world's nuclear arsenal and plunge the world into an apocalyptic nuclear war, an act that horrifies even Malcolm. Tricking Malcolm into powering him up to the point of no longer needing him, Kilokhan erases the minds of Sam's friends and promises a slow, painful death to him and the now-useless Malcolm. Mortally wounding Sam, Kilokhan intends to destroy humanity with his newfound power. Caring for none but himself, Kilokhan's ultimate goal is for himself to be all that remains on Earth.
• Sweet Diva: Josiane "Jô" Sobral Ramirez Matheus is the elitist and sociopathic daugher of Maria da Paz Sobral Ramirez. Hating her own mother for being a cake maker, Josiane steals her money to become a digital influencer and sabotages the cake's production, ordering the burning of the warehouse where the cake ingredients were stored. Josiane also begins an affair with her mother's fiancé, killing a butler and his boyfriend when the two discover and blackmail her. Convincing her mother to put the entire property in her name, after production has been sabotaged, Josiane takes everything from her mother and throws her out of the house. She tries to murder her boyfriend when he finds out her true nature, and injures him with an icepick, even though he promises not to report her, and tries again to kill him in the hospital. When the digital influencer company fired her for not bringing in enough money, she threatens to kill a photographer. Sent to jail, Josiane pretends to be redeemed in order to have her sentence reduced, becoming evangelical. But at the end, she kills her mother's ex-fiancé, who wanted to marry her, in order to marry a richer man, proving that she never redeemed herself and that she is nothing more than a sociopath willing to do anything to get what she wants.
• Sweet Home (2020): Hwang Seung-jae is a mild-mannered tenant in the apartment with a dark secret. Seung-jae is in truth a manipulative pedophile and Serial Killer who abducts little girls, molests and kills them, taking photos as trophies in turn in a twist that disgusts even hardened assassin Sang-wook.
• Sweet/Vicious: In a series that deals with on-campus rape culture, and a system more interested in protecting sexual predators and their own reputation over victims, two perpetrators stand out:
  • Landon Mays is the son of the Darlington University President and a Serial Rapist to the campus and township. A particularly smug and sadistic predator, Landon has an accomplice who drugs girls at parties and bars, using his job as a driver to pick these girls up. He would take them to an isolated location, have his partner restrain them, and rape them while they're barely conscious, using his connections to avoid investigation. When Jules and Ophelia try to lure him into a trap, Landon takes Ophelia to a different location, where he nearly rapes her before being fought off. In a later confrontation, Landon acts as a victim when Ophelia ends up stabbing him in front of several witnesses, putting the campus on lockdown while police and security hunt them down. Escaping punishment, when Nate Griffin's reputation is ruined at the end of the season, Landon approaches Nate, proposing a team up to get revenge on the vigilantes.
  • "Tragic Kingdom": Chloe Freeman is the ruthless leader of the Kappa Kappa Phi sorority, an elitist house on Darlington University's campus, while running cruel hazing rituals of dozens of pledges on a weekly basis. The hazings include extreme verbal and physical abuse of their victims, as well as regular sexual assault and hospitalization; with Chloe releasing a video of a pledge forced to strip while throwing misogynistic taunts at her. When Ophelia infiltrates the Kappas, one of the hazing rituals she's put through is being locked in a room with the other pledges and forced to consume multitudes of alcohol and cigars. When one passes out from this, Chloe apathetically remarks this happens all the time. It's soon revealed that Chloe films the abuse of her pledges and posts it to a torture porn site to make a profit.

T – Z

• Taken: Owen Crawford is a Colonel of the United States Air Force and the head of their secret UFO Project. Owen used his charming demeanor to convince his superior's daughter, Anne, to marry him in order to further his career and gain control of the UFO Project, blackmailing him with an alien artifact found by his girlfriend Sue who he beats to death to keep quiet. When trying to reverse-engineer the spaceship they found, he has a pair of psychic twins attempt to pilot the craft, leaving them in there longer than humanly safe which leads to their deaths, remarking that they were already dead when they arrived. Owen then goes after the half-alien child Jacob Clarke, having an affair with Jacob's mother Sally, using her loneliness to get to Jacob so he can have him fly the ship and then kill and dissect him to discover the source of his powers. He is also a cruel and horrible leader, husband and father, threatening to send his wife to an asylum for her alcoholism and treating his son Eric with little respect or love, and forsakes the life of Dr. Kreutz. When Anne reveals his secrets to their sons, Owen has her sent away to a hospital, only to kill her and Bowen and frame their deaths on the latter. A cruel and unfeeling sociopath, Owen would do anything to learn the aliens' secrets, even sacrificing his own family and loved ones to do so.
• Tarzan: The Epic Adventures:
  • "Tarzan and the Leopard Queen": Sheeta the Leopard Woman is a vicious demon who inhabits innocent beings and has them round up countless innocents to be murdered on her sacrificial altars. Depopulating whole villages with her bloodlust, Sheeta also enjoys mocking those close to her victims in how they cannot dislodge her without murdering a friend.
  • "Tarzan and the Lost Legion": "Emperor" Claudius, a descendant of Julius Caesar himself in line for the throne to the lost Roman city Casta Mare, took power by exiling his brother Augustus and his family in a brutal coup. Claudius crucifies anyone who opposes his reign, and turned the circus from a place of amusement to a place of slaughter, instituting brutal gladiator fights that kill even more people for the sake of his amusement. Claudius throws Augustus to die in the arena and, when a guard sympathetic to Augustus refuses to execute him, Claudius has his his champion Casca kill them both. Claudius even kills Casca after Tarzan beats him in a gladiator match, and tries to break Tarzan's will by making him fight his own friend Themba in the arena.
  • "Tarzan and the Beast of Dunali": Dr. Wheeler is a seemingly amicable doctor moonlighting as a freakish Mad Scientist with a hankering to create something more than both human and ape. Dr. Wheeler turned himself into a monstrous ape-man hybrid using a formula of his own creation and kidnaps several women to inject them with the formula in an effort to find himself an "Eve", leading to the death of nearly every single one of them. Wheeler is even happy to leave the gorillas he supposedly considers beautiful take the fall for his grisly murders, leaving them to be lynched by angry townsfolk while he continues sacrificing women to his disturbed curiosity.
• Taxi Driver (2021) Season 2: Park Min Geon, aka the Bishop, was responsible for kidnapping numerous children, putting them in a orphanage, and gaslighting them into thinking they were abandoned by their parents. The Bishop then brainwashed them into becoming his protégés, killing the children he considered "weak". One of the kids, Kim Dan Woo, later On Ha Joon, was manipulated into killing his own father as initiation. The Bishop schemed for many years revenge against the Rainbow crew, wanting to spitefully eradicate them so he could continue his evil deeds. In addition, the Bishop had disturbing obsession with Kim Do-Ki and, wanting to destroy him, lured him into a trap, and cruelly reminded him of his mother's murder.
• Teen Wolf:
  • Gerard Argent is the cold-blooded head of the Argent family and de facto leader of the werewolf hunters. Prior to the series, he ordered his daughter Kate to seduce a young Derek Hale, before killing his family. In his first appearance, Gerard murders an innocent werewolf before declaring all werewolves in Beacon Hills will be indiscriminately killed, even forcing his son Chris to kill Chris's wife Victoria when she is bitten. Gerard then tries to manipulate his granddaughter Alison into becoming a ruthless hunter herself. Killing the master of a dangerous beast to take control of the monster, Gerard uses it to hold an unwitting crowd hostage. Despite claiming to be avenging his daughter Kate, Gerard reveals his true plan was to get bitten by a werewolf, to cure his cancer and take his powers and declares he would kill his own son for the sake of his survival. When his plans backfires, Gerard simply orders his monster to kill everyone. In the past, when a werewolf tried to negotiate peace between the wolves and the hunters, Gerard murdered both the werewolf pack and his own men, framing the innocent werewolf for the massacre. In Season 6, Gerard takes advantage of the spreading fear in Beacon Hills to amass an army of hunters to simply wipe out not just the supernaturals in Beacon Hills, but the whole world as well. In the series finale, Gerard rounds up Scott's loved ones with the intent to kill them, and having used Kate, now a werejaguar, coldly attempts to kill her for being "one of them."
  • Season 3B & The Movie: The Nogitsune possessing Stiles Stilinski, self-named "Void", psychologically torments him, hurting his friends, and those around them as a "game". Decades ago, it was summoned by Kira Yukimura's mother at an internment camp to avenge her American lover, but instead massacres the camp, prisoners and guards alike, before being imprisoned. In the present, it sets up multiple traps, sabotages an electric cable killing several people and rendering Isaac Lahey comatose; has a bomb go off in the Sheriff's station, all while initially pretending to be Stiles. When separated from Stiles, it takes control of the Oni, having Allison Argent killed, before leading a massacre at the hospital and police station. It plans on having Scott McCall kill Stiles, for its "game" will end. Returning years later, at the behest of Adrian Harris, to take revenge on Scott's loved ones, the Nogitsune has Allison resurrected with fractured memories. It then tries to manipulate her into killing her friends, planning for Scott to die in Allison's arms like she died in his.
  • Season 5: The Beast of Gévaudan, Sebastien Valet, is history's most famous and vicious werewolf. In the sixteenth century, he was credited with killing 112 people, but it was claimed to be closer to 500, including children. His true identity—along with the corpses of his victims in a hidden stash—was discovered by his sister Marie-Jeanne Valet. When Marie opposed him, Sebastian spends three years trying to kill her. Throughout all this, he claimed to be proud of his crimes, and being remembered for his horrors. In the present day, the Beast is resurrected by the Dread Doctors, but doesn't remember his former identity. As he pieces his memory together, he goes on a new killing spree. Fully resurrected, he is content with erasing his vessel, Mason Hewitt, and kills the Dread Doctors, dismissing his loyal friend, Marcel, who did so much to bring him back, even expressing annoyance at Scott and Liam for being heroic werewolves as he prepares to pick off where he left off. A vicious egomaniac obsessed with having a murderous legacy, Sebastian is seen as a Beast throughout history, for both being a literal monster, and the Beast representing his true personality.
  • Season 6A: "Garrett Douglas" is the assumed identity of Der Soldat, a werewolf hybrid with a löwensmensch (werelion), who was part of Ahnenerbe. In World War II, Douglas used the Nazi Party as for his own ends and he learned of the Ghost Riders, which he sought to use to create an army under his control. Killing another officer who mocked his plans and forcing one of his men to open the rift into the Riders' world, they end up wiping out Douglas's soldiers. After being kept in suspended animation for decades, Douglas broke free and assumed the identity of a harmless high school teacher, secretly killing people and eating the pineal gland of their brains. When the Wild Hunt arrive in Beacon Hills, Douglas helps Scott's pack capture one of the riders, before killing said rider, devouring its pineal gland and taking its powers. With these powers, Douglas begins reaping souls, and seeks to brainwash Parish to use his Hell Hound powers to enter the Riders' world and amass an army from the souls the Riders claimed. Douglas keeps Corey locked up with wires and electronics hooked into his body, using his powers to merge the Riders' world with Earth to bring about his army.
  • Season 6B: The Anuk-Ite is a malevolent entity that delights in spreading fear through infestations, turning it to murderous desire as communities tear themselves apart. Imprisoned in the Wild Hunt, when it escapes, the Anuk-Ite first drives the head doctor of Eichen House to kill his patients. The Anuk-Ite plays up the growing fear among Beacon Hills human population, making the genocidal war Gerard is starting even worse to draw power from it, directly influencing most of his soldiers. It uses Miss Monroe's cruel tests of flushing out supernaturals, to find the one who hosts its other half, killing those it can't use; its other half is in a young werewolf named Quinn whose pack it kills, before having Aaron kill Quinn and becoming full once again, whereupon it turns those who cross its path into statues, before making a deal with Gerard to battle Scott. In the finale, the Anuk-Ite picks off Scott's allies, using hallucinations and their emotions—particularly of loved ones—against them, and it's revealed the people turned to statues are still alive within them. During its final confrontation with Scott, the Anuk-Ite mocks Scott with Alison's death.
• The Terror: "Cornelius Hickey" of the HMS Terror is in truth a stowaway who murdered the real Cornelius Hickey and stole his identity. On the HMS Terror, Hickey would blackmail a sailor into having sex with him and would attempt to murder the Inuit shaman "Lady Silence". Abandoning the HMS Terror when it gets stuck on Arctic ice, Hickey would murder his own hunting party and frame an innocent Inuit family for the deed resulting in their murders, children included. Separating from Captain Francis Croizer and kidnapping Dr. Henry "Harry" Goodsir, Hickey would kill his own sexual partner and force Goodsir to butcher the body for Hickey and his men to eat, threatening to do such to Goodsir if he doesn't comply to Hickey's demands. Finding Goodsir to have committed suicide, Hickey mutilates Goodsir's corpse and forces Crozier to partake in the cannibalism before having him and his own men in chains to use as bait for the Tuunbaq while Hickey attempts to control the Beast. The Tuunbaq would die trying to devour Cornelius Hickey because of how utterly vile Hickey's soul truly was.
• TerrorVision's "One of a Kind": Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin appear to be the delightful owners of the One of a Kind fashion store in need of models. In truth, the two lure young women to their store to turn them into still-living mannequins unable to move or speak. With over eight mannequins acquired, the Benjamins successfully trick the bright-eyed Brenda into becoming one of their new mannequins, with hopes of doing the same to her friend Joan.
• THEM (2021): Satan himself is the source behind the Black Hat Man. A chaos-lover who despises Black people, Satan poses as a small child in the 1800s to get the attention of the kindhearted Reverend Hiram Epps. Satan strands a Black couple in the town of Eidolon, and proceeds to cause Epps's eyesight to deteriorate until he can only see Black people as monsters. Driving Epps into such paranoiac insanity that he subjects the Black couple to torture, lynching, and burning, Satan forges a deal with the dying Epps to make Black people suffer, or else his soul will be condemned to Hell. Now a ghoulish spirit under the service of Satan, Epps spends centuries driving Black mothers into killing their families and sending them to insane asylums.
• Thieves of the Wood: Jean-Joseph Coffijn is the mayor of Flanders. A corrupt autocrat who taxes and mistreats the people, Coffijn has no compunction having them tortured or executed to get closer to capturing Jan de Lichte. Plotting to use outlaws as slaves who will be executed should they resist, Coffijn's worst deed is his "Fawn Hunt", in which young women are abducted and chased into the forest to be raped by him and any other participating noble.
• Thriller's "The Incredible Doktor Markesan": Uncle Konrad Markesan is a scientist whose own genius allowed him to return from the dead using a formula derived from the mold found in graves. In rage at his former colleagues at Penrose University disbelieving his theories, Markesan revives them after their deaths, spending each night torturing and tormenting the three, forcing them to relive their "crimes" against him as they suffer in pain from being revived while begging him to be allowed to die. When Markesan's nephew Fred and his wife Molly surprise him, Markesan allows them to stay, but plots to dispose of them as well. Capturing Fred at the end, Markesan plans to murder him and it is only after he is killed for good that Fred discovers Markesan has already murdered Molly and transformed her into one of his undead slaves.
• The Tick (2016):
  • The Terror, Season 1's Big Bad, is an elderly, childish supervillain who serves as the driving force behind all villainy in the series. An abominable psychopath who is introduced massacring the Flag Five—sparing Straight Shooter only to cripple him—then laughing in the face of young Arthur Everest after getting his father killed, the Terror is later shown to have annihilated entire cities and lead brutal attacks on others throughout his extensive career. After controlling all crime in the City for many years from the shadows, the Terror returns to the spotlight by having Ms. Lint murder his minion Ramses and slashing a man's throat in front of an audience. The Terror's master plan is to turn the Very Large Man into a living bomb to blow up his Arch-Enemy Superian, an act that will wipe out a huge chunk of the City and its thousands of innocents in the process, and, when Arthur and the Tick foil this plan, the Terror stoops to attempting to murder Arthur's parents as revenge, torturing a disgusted Ms. Lint into compliance the whole way. Despite his hilarious and zany personality, the Terror is treated as the shockingly vile monster he is, committing his atrocities for no other reason than his own amusement and an insane desire to make life itself into a theater production.
  • The Duke/Agent Doctor Hobbes, Season 2's Big Bad, is a treacherous A.G.E.I.S. scientist who is secretly a Super Tech black market Arms Dealer. Angered at Commander Rathbone for allowing Overkill, a Category, into what he saw as a "proud human organization", the Duke engineered the extermination of the entire Phoenix Squadron of A.E.G.I.S. agents and framed Overkill as a traitor. Resurfacing years later, the Duke began a new trade of human furniture, kidnapping dozens of innocent people and leaving them conscious but unable to move or speak, all to test his mind control chips. Upon her capture he ordered Lobstercules transferred to his lab for experimentation refusing to believe she isn't an animal. Kidnapping Overkill, he painfully inserts a chip into his brain then has him assassinate Commander Rathbone, allowing him to assume control of A.G.E.I.S. He then attempts to kill Lobstercules babies, and everyone who could know his secret. Implanting another Chip into Lobstercules he orders her and Overkill to kill their friends, planning to insert chips into every Category on Earth, allowing him to control them all. Seemingly an affable and somewhat eccentric individual, beneath his claims of helping humanity, the Duke proved to be nothing more than a bigoted, paranoid, hypocritical Control Freak.
• Tidelands (Netflix): Adrielle Cuthbert is the ruthless Queen of the Tidelanders, siren-human hybrids living in the settlement of L'Attente. Introduced purchasing fragments of an ancient horn which is capable of causing tidal floods, Adrielle, driven by ambition and prejudice, plans to decimate humanity using the past massacre of Tidelanders as a pretext. Subsequently sexually battering her business partner, drug smuggler Augusto "Augie" McTeer after he tries to confront her over the death of his subordinate, when Adrielle finds out that Augie's sister, Calliope "Cal" McTeer has returned to nearby Orphelin Bay, she sends her subordinate, Dylan, to seduce Cal, later removing the eye of a child who spied on her. Keeping her predecessor captive as a seer, Adrielle frequently extracts the seer's blood to see the future. Later, to have her authority acknowledged, Adrielle performs a Human Sacrifice to summon sirens. When an exiled Tidelander rescues the seer, Adrielle kills the seer, then publicly executes the outcast. Eventually luring Cal to L'Attente by capturing Augie, Adrielle claims to want the best for her community, but Cal calls her out on her tyranny and bloodshed.
• Timecop: In this series spun off from the film, Ian Pascoe is a time traveller from the near future who, after killing both his parents in 2007, has traversed time and space to Make Wrong What Once Went Right throughout history, funding mob bosses, causing disasters and personally murdering countless people. In his first episode he kills the original Jack the Ripper to take his place, and proceeds to work on achieving Jack's bodycount five times over. When the protagonist tries to stop him, Pascoe ties a time-detonated bomb to a prostitute's neck before escaping. He reappears in 1950s Hollywood, where he electrocutes a famed actress's boyfriend before trying to crush her by tying her up and dropping a safe on her head. When the timecops arrest him, he stages a prison breakout, killing a psychologist and kidnapping the protagonist's colleague on his way out. He meets up with Al Capone in 1928 after previously having made him boss, and forces Capone back into his service. When Capone orders one of his goons to keep tabs on Pascoe, the latter murders the minion and gives Capone the man's bodyparts stuffed into a briefcase. Living solely for the thrill of murder, Pascoe's only goal was to become and remain "the greatest killer in history."
• Timeless's "The World's Columbian Exposition": H.H. Holmes is far worse than any member of Rittenhouse. After abandoning his own wife and children, Holmes will go on to con and murder many women, eventually setting up a hotel during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair equipped with many death traps used to kill unsuspecting victims such as poisonous gas and soundproof isolation chambers designed to kill people through oxygen deprivation. When Rufus and Wyatt fell afoul of one of his traps after being tricked by Garcia Flynn to enter the World's Fair Hotel, Holmes would disguise himself as an unsuspecting victim imprisoned with them named George Henry just to see his victims expressing fear in their final moments. After Lucy saves them with the help of Harry Houdini, Holmes kidnaps and subsequently tortures Lucy when she discovers Henry's true identity, planning to kill himself and Lucy to avoid capture. When his plan was thwarted by Wyatt, Holmes makes one last con, lying about wanting to confess his murders to his victims' families in order to save his own skin.
• T.J. Hooker:
  • "Sweet Sixteen and Dead": Eddie Pearl is the owner of Pearl Enterprises who controls all crime on the Sunset Blvd, from drugs, to under-aged prostitution. Frequently bribing a councilman aide with money and girls to allow his criminal activities to continue, Eddie makes a habit of luring young women and pimping them out, even boasting the number of women he's gotten hooked into prostitution and drugs. When the prostitute Kelly Hobbs learns about his bribes, Eddie fatally wounds her, then tries to have her vengeful brother Gordie killed via overdose.
  • "Requiem for a Cop": Denson is an arsonist hired by Frank D'Costa to burn down condemned buildings to collect the insurance money. Taking his job further than necessary, Denson makes sure to burn down the buildings with people still inside them to fuel his sadism. Having previously killed a couple inside a factory, Denson starts the episode burning down a building with homeless people still inside, killing four people, with two kids almost perishing in the flames. Murdering Sgt. T.J. Hooker's old partner Max Silver to cover up the conspiracy, Denson later tries to kill his own girlfriend and a cop trailing him to continue his arsons.
  • "Carnal Express": Virgil Dobbs is an ambulance driver who moonlights as a human trafficker. Having his cohort Malek kidnap women with criminal records and sell them as sex slaves to paying customers, with four women missing thanks to him, Dobbs has Hooker's reformed female friend kidnapped and sold to a buyer in Mexico. Interested in the disguised Officer Stacy Sheridan, Dobbs has her knocked out with hopes of selling her to his favorite client, smugly professing that he'll "almost" miss her.
  • "The Cheerleader Murder": George Laszlo is a porn producer who specializes in "Teeny Bops". Having his director Miles Dickson scout for under-aged girls, Laszlo has them hooked on drugs with the promise of giving them more should they act in his pornos, which results in one of his stars dying of an overdose. Killing anybody close to him who could potentially get him arrested, Laszlo even tries to have Dickson arrested in his place as he tries to leave everyone behind.
  • "Trackdown": Robert Marshall is a Serial Rapist and murderer who's been arrested several times for his many assaults. Embarking on a cross-country rape and murder spree, Marshall kidnaps a woman named Yvonne Winslow to use her to lure women to him so that he can rape and kill them, threatening to kill Yvonne, her husband, and her sick baby if she doesn't comply. After failing to nab a girl, Marshall forces Yvonne to be his new bride and continue his spree, killing her when she tries to escape from him and making Stacy his new bride.
• Tokyo Vice: Shinzo Tozawa is a sickly Yakuza boss, yet exceptionally cruel, even for the underworld of Tokyo. Tozawa is ruthless in dealing with his subordinates, best displayed when he executes one for turning police informant and forces another to kill himself as punishment for failure. A nasty misogynist who threatens, abuses, and even kills his mistresses if they displease him, Tozawa's mistreatment of women extends to his corrupt Yoshino sex cruise, where he forces women indebted to him to prostitute themselves out in his name. Tozawa's most heinous act is running a phony insurance company where he tricks dozens of people into taking out life insurance on themselves, then harasses and terrorizes them until they are Driven to Suicide. When Jake Adelstein and Detective Hiroto Katagiri try to investigate his crimes, Tozawa has Jake nearly murdered and threatens to kill Katagiri's entire family down to his small children, all to secure his own dangerous meth peddling empire.
• Touched by an Angel: Satan is the source of all evil and darkness, and seeks to tempt those into falling to sin. In "In the Name of God", he attempted to incite a race war while disguised as an authority figure, causing one angel, Tess, to lose her powers and be temporarily replaced. In "Netherlands", he attempted to corrupt a weakened Monica after a terrorist bombing killed dozens of people. In the series finale, he causes an explosion within a school, killing dozens of children and several teachers. He then accuses an innocent man named Zack (really God in disguise) of being the culprit. Arrogant and prideful, Satan desired nothing less but to destroy everything that God valued out of petty spite.
• Touching Evil's US series:
  • "Pilot": Ronald Hinks is a predatory Serial Killer of children. A psychopath since he was a boy, Hinks let his friend drown in an icy pond just to see what it felt like. As he grew up, Hinks became obsessed with recreating the death to an even greater extreme and used his wealth to create a completely airtight, soundproof room, before abducting children and locking them in until they died, killing at least two as well as numerous untold others. Hinks abducted three additional boys in the present and did everything he could to thwart Detective David Creegan's investigation by posing as a fake witness, eventually proving to be so evil that an investigating officer shot him dead when it looked like he would get away with his crimes.
  • "Slash 30": Jeremy Carver is an animalistic psychopath with a violent hatred of women. Hell-bent on repaying women for a perceived lifetime of rejection, Carver began murdering any who snubbed him by violently assaulting them and them snapping their neck, claiming at least 10 lives. Approached by a corrupt journalist named Stephan Laney, the two men concoct a plan: Carver will become a Serial Killer called the "Hangman", and Laney in turn will make him famous by creating sensational headlines about him. Eagerly agreeing, Carver went on to kill at least six other women by abducting them, psychologically torturing them by dangling them from their neck at a high height, and then hanging them with a noose, only being stopped by the team after gleefully murdering his ex-girlfriend and then boasting about his crimes.
  • "Grief": Dr. Warren Robbins, appearing to be a friendly, empathetic grief counselor, is a sadistic Serial Killer sexually aroused by grief. Embittered by social rejection, Robbins decided to take revenge on men he deemed more successful than him and get sexual satisfaction in the process. Warren strangled and cut the hearts out of six women before leaving them in a place where their husbands would find them, breaking them psychologically so that Warren could gain sexual satisfaction from their trauma. Doing this to a seventh woman while Creegan and his team investigated, Warren ingratiated himself with them solely to brag about his crimes and cover his activities, before attempting to stab Rivers to death when Robbins suspected Rivers knew what he was doing.
• A Touch of Frost:
  • "No Other Love": Captain Charlie Lawson is a retired military man and a dominating patriarch, whose appearance of seeming just a stuffy controlling old man hides his true, monstrous nature. He has abused his son Peter for years, terrifying Peter well into his adulthood, while also regularly raping his granddaughters, having done so since they were in their preteens. Driving the oldest Joanna to run away, he started raping his middle granddaughter Rachel, getting her pregnant before sixteen, while waiting for his youngest, Suzanna, to come of age to rape her too. Captain Lawson kept his family under control through fear, threatening to kill them if they told anyone the truth, except for his wife, who was in denial. Fearing the police investigation may be enough for Peter to break, Captain Lawson murders him. Upon Inspector Frost realizing the truth, Captain Lawson holds him at gunpoint. Treating everything up to this point as a game, he proves to have no remorse for his crimes against his family. Intending to kill Frost, DS Clive Bernard walks in at the wrong moment and Captain Lawson shoots him. Inspector Frost stated that at heart Lawson was just a sick and weak man, who controlled and abused others just because he couldn't cope with never being anything more than that.
  • "Held in Trust": Anton Caldwell is a psychopathic sexual predator. Freshly released from prison for sex offences, Caldwell hatches a plan with two pedophiles to abduct and rape children in the area. Kidnapping a local boy named Bobby Palmer, Caldwell bludgeons one of his accomplices to death when they grow uneasy with the plan, before running him over multiple times with his own vehicle. Along with his surviving accomplice, they abuse Palmer so severely that he dies. When he is arrested and interrogated, Caldwell threatens to find and rape DS Reid's children. After being released from custody, Caldwell tries to forcibly abduct another child and boasts that he was going to teach the child what "real love" meant, provoking an enraged Frost into punching him. Facing life imprisonment, Caldwell attempts to blackmail Frost by threatening to tell his superiors about the assault, destroying Frost's career if he doesn't give him a lighter sentence. Openly proud of his depraved nature, Caldwell was considered by Frost to be one of the worst people he ever dealt with.
  • "Near Death Experience": Bill Ford, initially appearing to be a gentle and pious individual and a caring relative, is actually a brutal psychosexual Serial Killer responsible for murdering five women. Using his job in construction to find attractive middle-aged women and get a copy of their keys, Ford would break into their homes, he would latch their hands and ankles together, degrade and even lightly cut his victims, and then stab them to death. Afterwards, he took a small lock of their hair and would set off the burglar alarm to ensure someone would find his handywork. Breaking into the home of his sister-in-law Lucy, he smashes his own fifteen-year-old niece Helen's head against a wall, critically injuring her, before murdering Lucy in his usual manner. During the police investigations, he murdered a seventh victim. Upon discovering Martine Philips was helping the police, Ford attacked her, gloating they couldn't stop him, only sparing her because as she didn't fit his pattern and so he wouldn't get pleasure from her death. Attempting to kill his eighth victim and stumbling into Frost's trap, a deranged Ford stabs him. Captured, he reveals his belief that attractive women rejected nice guys like him, so "...you show them BITCHES what a man can do..." A twisted mixture of ego, hypocrisy, misogyny, and brutality, Ford was one of the vilest people Frost ever faced.
• Training Day: Of all the crooks faced by Detectives Frank Rourke and Kyle Craig in the Wretched Hive of Los Angeles' underbelly, a few stand out as true monsters.
  • "Apocalypse Now": Enrique Rios is a swaggering gang boss who has taken over the local crime scene following the disappearance of his former boss Menjivar. Immediately hanging the multiple other lieutenants and slaughtering their families down to the children to secure his power, Rios makes the city more violent than ever before with his reign. After initiating a streetwise shootout to kill the returning Menjivar, killing multiple cops and civilians in the process, Rios tries to wipe out Frank's entire unit to cement his rule.
  • "Trigger Time": The Human Traffickers of present and past:
    • Alexi Koslov is a ruthless human trafficker from Russia who takes girls and places them into sex slavery en masse. Women are kidnapped and taken into the country where they are forced to work as abused prostitutes until death. Koslov is only too willing to kill any woman who proves an issue, with the heroes starting by locating a new transport of victims. One escaped victim is brought to Koslov, with him intending to skin her alive as punishment.
    • The crime boss known only as "Brokenclaw" was a sadistic slaver. Capturing the 7-year-old Rebecca Lee, Brokenclaw delighted in tormenting her—showing possible licentious intent of his own—while intent on selling Rebecca on the Black Market for sex work and organ removal.
  • "Faultlines": ATF Agent Gerald Lynch is secretly an Arms Dealer who murders gangsters to sell their weapons across America. With a massive network, Lynch is even responsible for the deaths of many police officers, including Kyle's former partner when he supplied the cartel boss Rios. When Kyle's squad rescues his proxy he set up to die to tie up loose ends, Lynch threatens to dismember two captive officers and later tries to murder them all to continue his crimes uninterrupted.
• Transporter: The Series:
  • "Beacon of Hope": Basem Al-Harazi is a ruthless African warlord who cuts into the relief efforts of aid worker Zac Preston, buying off supplies he intends to use a for orphaned children he's taking care of. When Zac starts to defy him, Al-Harazi furiously tries to pinpoint his location, prying Zac's location out of a local man by shooting his friend dead and later murdering the man himself. Out of spite for Zac's defiance of him, Al-Harazi intends to murder Zac and every single one of the children he's taking care of, brutally torturing Frank Martin when he learns he's allied with Zac and even threatening to personally blow out the brains of one of the children to make him talk.
  • "Euphro": Anatole Reichenberg is a seemingly-benevolent, charitable pharmaceutical head who in reality is a greedy sociopath who sells deliberately faulty medicine to hospitals to rake in the cash, regardless of the many sick children who start dying from his fake medicine. Anatole enforces police brutality and keeps the head of the police in his pocket by quietly threatening the man's pregnant wife, and later plans to send out a massive shipment of his fake medicine, causing untold death, all for the purpose of lining his pockets. When Frank Martin tries to stop him, Anatole takes two of his friends hostage and smugly dares Martin into shooting him, fully believing himself to be above any consequence for his monstrous actions.
  • "Sex, Lies and Videotape": Gary Landsman is a hedonistic film director who sets up his own prostitution ring in Prague to make more money. Buying or otherwise kidnapping women, even teenage girls, to force them into sexual slavery, Landsman callously murders any who try to escape his clutches. As prostitution is legal in Prague, Landsman uses his prostitutes to seduce politicians and wealthy businessmen, secretly videotapes their encounter, then uses it to blackmail the clients into making sure no new laws prohibiting prostitution are enacted.
  • "Chimera": Louis Tien is a drug dealing crime lord who graduates to arms dealing when he discovers the formula for a deadly biovirus. After murdering his lab head when the man refused to assist him, Tien forces the man's son Lim to create the biovirus—dubbed Chimera—for Tien, constantly mocking him about his father's death. Proudly proclaiming that Chimera will be able to wipe out Chicago in mere minutes, Tien plans to sell it to the insane extremist Blake, knowing he will use it to wipe out numerous cities and kill countless innocents, and only laughs at the fact that he'll be rich enough to continue his operations indefinitely.
• True Blood:
  • Seasons 1 & 2: Maryann Forrester is a maenad, a hedonistic creature devoted to bringing about the god Dionysus, and enjoys spreading violence and lust in her wake with ritualistic orgies and mass brainwashing. Posing as a caring and wealthy social worker, Maryann takes Tara in from her mother, trying to keep Tara dependent on her and brainwashing her into an abusive relationship with her other patient Benedict, who has been unwittingly brainwashed into killing people and carving out their hearts at Maryann's behest; Maryann would then bake these hearts into her food and serve them to her guests. Years ago, Maryann raped a teenage Sam Merlotte, and in the present sets her sights on him as her sacrifice. Maryann sends a shapeshifter named Daphne to get close to Sam and lure him, but when she fails, Maryann has her killed to frame Sam. Maryann uses her influence to brainwash all but a few of the town of Bon Temps into a hedonistic cult. When Sookie and her friends arrive to save their town, Maryann deflects a bullet intended for her into her henchmen Karl's head, dismissing his death before brainwashing Sookie's human friends. Maryann tries to use Sookie to lure Sam to her, and when Sookie foils the ritual, Maryann tries to sacrifice all her followers and kill Sookie in a mad rage.
  • Seasons 5 & 6: Lilith, the primordial vampiric "god", is the personification of the evils of vampirism. Believing vampires to be above humans, Lilith's followers commit atrocities in her name to prevent peace with humans, with Lilith directly influencing members of the Authority to her own ends. Under Lilith's influence, the Authority has massacred numerous people and committed terror attacks on Tru Blood factories, abducting and imprisoning hundreds people to feed on in an effort to start a war. Lilith appears to members of the Authority convincing them they are to be her vessel, with Bill killing all of them before she possesses him. When Godric's spirit reaches out to Eric and Nora to warn them of Lilith's true nature, Lilith appears and decapitates Godric. Lilith has Bill conduct experiments with fairy blood to further empower the vampires; it's revealed Lilith's previous attempt was when she seduced and turned Mackyn Warlow into a vampire and the monster he is today. When Bill's experiments work and he's successful in saving captive vampires, Lilith sends her sirens to try to kill him, now that he fulfilled his purpose. Despite claiming to be above other vampires and morality, the characters who see through her, see her as a devil figure with Bill blaming her for the misery of their world.
  • "Me and the Devil" & "I Wish I Was the Moon": Don Santiago was a vampire who infiltrated the Catholic Church's hierarchy in the 15th century. A sadistic monster who abducted suspected witches, Santiago would feed from them, torture them and rape them along with his allies and progeny before killing them or having them burnt alive. With the witch Antonia, Santiago murders her coven members and has Antonia tortured and violently raped by his own progeny Luis before sentencing her to the pyre as well.
• True Detective Season 1: Reverend Billy Lee Tuttle, son of the founder of the Tuttle Cult of the Yellow King, inherited a key position from his grandfather, and leads the Cult, using the Tuttle Schools to find victims. Countless children are sexually abused, tortured, and murdered with the cult conducting its horrific rituals on countless children and young women in videos and photos Tuttle himself keeps as trophies.
• Truth Seekers: Dr. Peter Toynbee is a paranormal metaphysician who sought immortality on another dimension called Eternis using the page from the Praecepta Mortuorum. Manipulating paranormal investigator Emily Roberts into aiding him, Toynbee murders her when she ceases to be useful. Forming a cult with the lie that he will bring humanity to an eternal Eden, Toynbee treats his followers as little better than pawns, killing one of them to test his nanobots and manipulating his loyal assistant into trapping her consciousness in a machine. Brainwashing over 200 people with nanobots, Toynbee plans to sacrifice them all, his followers included, to fuel his own ascension to Eternis. Despite his talk of bringing peace and freedom to humanity, Toynbee reveals himself as nothing more than a sociopath concerned only with his own pretensions of divinity.
• Twin Peaks:
  • Killer BOB (Beware of BOB) is an entity native to the Black Lodge with a horrifying tendency of rape and murder. Created long ago as a byproduct of the Trinity nuclear tests, BOB accesses the material place by possessing hapless victims and forcing them to engage in sprees of rape, torture, and serial murder to nourish himself off of their agony. Responsible for the murder of Laura Palmer that drives the series, BOB committed the deed by possessing Laura's father Leland when Leland was a child, resurfacing to have Leland molest his own daughter through her youth before using him to finally rape and murder Laura. When cornered, BOB forces Leland to kill himself, and later saddles onto Dale's doppelganger at the end of the first series while leaving Dale trapped for decades within the Black Lodge in its stead.
  • Windom Earle is an obsessive sociopath who serves as Dale Cooper's most personal foe and a testament to the belief that some humans are no better than the entities residing inside the Black Lodge. Formerly Cooper's best friend and a celebrated FBI special agent before falling in love with the evil of the Black Lodge, Earle moonlighted as a prolific Serial Killer, murdering his own wife Caroline once she found out the horrible truth. Caring only for his desire to become Cooper's greatest enemy and the rewards that the dark forces of the Black Lodge could offer him, Earle starts another killing spree in order to play a twisted game of chess against Cooper, one where Earle's victims are the chess pieces. Earle's need to humiliate others extends to his only companion, the mentally-impaired Leo Johnson, whom he regularly abuses and eventually murders to cut off loose ends. Once Earle has entered the Black Lodge and taken Cooper's soul as a trophy, Earle intends on harnessing its demonic spirits to give himself the power to reshape the Earth itself to his own liking.
  • The Doppelgänger, aka "Mr. C.", born from Cooper's entrance in the Black Lodge at the end of the original series, cut a slew of human suffering across America for 25 years. He houses the previous Big Bad, BOB, and the pair gorge themselves on the pain they cause. Upon his emergence, he tracks down Major Briggs, one of the few to realize his deception and kills him. He later visits the comatose Audrey Horne and rapes her, conceiving Richard Horne, before dropping off the grid. When he reemerges, he poses as Cooper to get close to Coop's old secretary, Diane, manipulating and raping her before imprisoning her in the Black Lodge. From there he builds a criminal empire with a number of extortions and murders to his name. When he learns that his girlfriend Darya is plotting against him, he beats and murders her. When Cooper reappears he orders his subordinate, Duncan Todd, to kill him and when Todd fails The Doppelgänger has Todd and his assistant killed. When he encounters his son, Richard, years later, he puts the young man into a trap meant for him and watches emotionlessly as the latter is electrocuted to death.
• Twisted: Vikram Desai, Danny's father, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the murders and the one responsible for ruining his son's and family's lives and reputations. Vikram had numerous affairs, and as part of a coverup, murders his own sister—Danny's aunt—by strangulation, emotionally manipulating a young Danny into taking the blame. Years after Danny is released from juvie, Vikram has since faked his death and been having a secret affair with Gloria Crane, blackmailing the latter's teenage daughter Regina into silence and implicitly having an affair with her too. When Regina says that she will reveal the truth to Danny, Vikram has her beaten to death, and comes up with a plan to have Danny framed with the help of both Gloria and a corrupt investigator. When Danny finally confronts him, Vikram insists he did was for the good of his family and loved ones, while Danny shoots down his claims and says Vikram is only out for himself. Vikram then attempts to kill Danny's friend Jo, and attacks Danny telling him that it's all his fault.
• Two Sentence Horror Stories:
  • "Squirm": Doug drugs the women under his employment before raping their unconscious bodies. He would then take photos of his atrocities and send them to his victims with a note suggesting he infected them with parasites, chipping away at their sanity as they inflict Self-Harm; he brags about his deeds to his most recent victim, Keisha, while gloating that she won't be able to prove what he's done.
  • "Little Monsters": The shapeshifting demon enjoys eating children, having already eaten many. When the demon learns that a trio of kids knows of its sadistic appetite, the demon kidnaps one of them, Marcus, and attempts to eat him. When the kids rescue Marcus, the demon follows them to Khalil's home and shapeshifts into Khalil's mother before attempting to devour the children and the mother.
  • "Instinct": Patrick lures women into his apartment where he would sedate and bind them to torture and murder. He would then take pictures of his kills, already having pictures of six different women. When his latest victim, Anika, happens to be The Paranoiac and calls 911, Patrick would gaslight her in front of the police, making them believe that Anika is insane before leaving, at which point Patrick would then attempt to kill her.
  • "Essence": Kora runs a beauty salon where she poisons her female workers causing them to become severely ill. She would then take organs from her sick employees to consume to make herself look young while leaving them to die; the jar is shown to full of organs confirming a high body count, and when seen by Mina, Kora kills her when she attempts to expose her.
  • "Teatime": Angela Manderley has demonic powers that she uses to forcibly transform people into dolls, having them endure agony as she tortures and mutilates them. Angela forces her parents to lure people into their home for her to convert, on the threat that she'll turn them into dolls if they don't comply; she had already plasticized some of their body parts. When babysitter Sam escapes from Angela's grasp, Angela orders her dolls to attack Sam before attempting to transform Sam.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019): The Handler is a high-ranking member of the Commission tasked with keeping the timeline preserved. Planning to allow an apocalypse to happen in 2019 because of her stubborn refusal to believe in changing fate, the Handler sends agents Hazel and Cha-Cha to kill Five and his siblings for attempting to prevent Armageddon. Supposedly killed by Hazel, the Handler finds herself demoted by newly appointed Commission director AJ Carmichael. Seeking revenge against Carmichael and the Hargreeves, the Handler once again tries to prevent the Hargreeves from stopping another apocalypse, sending the Swedes out to kill them; when they start slacking, the Handler has one of them killed, pinning the blame on Diego. Sending Five to kill the young Lila's parents, the Handler adopts and raises Lila to act as her superpowered weapon. Using Five to assassinate Carmichael and the entire board of directors to take their place, the Handler uses her new position as Commission head to impose harsher rules and make those against her "vanish". Once she finds the Hargreeves' location, she kills the one who informed her of their location; allows hundreds of Commission agents to die by Vanya’s hand; manipulates Lila into attacking the Hargreeves; and tries to kidnap the young, super powered Harlan to be raised as her newest weapon.
• Unbelievable: Christopher McCarthy is a Serial Rapist who breaks into the homes of women, ties them up and violates them for hours, taking pictures as trophies for himself. This is what befalls Marie Adler at the beginning, with McCarthy operating across state lines to be, as he believes, untraceable over different jurisdictions. When caught, it is revealed McCarthy has many more victims than is first believed, with possibly dozens hidden in the trophies on his hard drive. Utterly remorseless, McCarthy refuses any semblance of guilt for the lives he damaged for his own gratification.
• The Untouchables's "The White Slavers": Mig Torrance, Al Capone's chief white slaver, is a ruthless pimp who values power and control. Getting women addicted to drugs and forcing them into prostitution to feed their addiction, Mig often punishes his stock by either throwing acid at their face, or having them scarred. When the Untouchables attempt to intercept his men smuggling a dozen women from Tijuana, Mig orders the women to be killed to cover the evidence. When his brother Ernie wants out of his operation, Mig, after threatening to kill him, promises to let him go should he bring him Eliot Ness for him to kill, hoping to surpass Capone and become mayor of Chicago.
• V: Diana is the former lover of the Visitors' militaristic Leader and the real power in the invasion force. Diana is the architect of the plot to harvest humans for food after draining Earth's water, dealing with any potential threats via the horrific "conversion procedure" where she personally oversees these tortures, during which the victim is haunted with vivid nightmares until they've either been brainwashed into obedience or rendered a vegetable. Diana delights in performing experiments on her prisoners, organizing the discrediting or murder of any who may pose a threat to the Visitors while performing further painful brainwashing procedures. When cornered, Diana shows no compunction murdering her own people to escape and survive.
• The Valhalla Murders: Pétur Alfreðsson appears to be a charming, dedicated state prosecutor, but is in fact a sadistic predator. Co-founding the Valhalla Boys Home in the late eighties, Pétur bribed the abusive staff into allowing him to regularly rape the boys. Afterwards, Pétur would scar each victim with a heated hook knife just to ensure they could never forget what he did to them. Following Tommi trying to fight back, Pétur murdered him, covering it up by bribing Police Commissioner Magnús into falsifying a report. Following Valhalla's shutdown, Pétur covered up the abuses, the trauma ruining many of the boy's lives and driving several to suicide. Continuing to rape children whenever the opportunity presented itself up to the present day, Pétur crimes ended up inspiring the Valhalla Murderer to seek retribution. Discovering that a temporary worker at Valhalla was going to expose him, Pétur stabbed him to death in his own home. His attempts to block Kata's investigation into the corruption failing, Pétur attempted to drown her and sadistically beat then left Magnus for dead when he refused to turn a blind eye.
• The Vampyr: A Soap Opera: Ripley is a powerful businessman and crime boss, while secretly a sadistic devil-worshipping vampire. When told that he must sacrifice three women before his Faustian bargain expires, Ripley slaughters and mutilates two women while having sex with them. To get a new sacrifice he has his eyes on his business partner Davenent's daughter Miranda, learning of Davenant's financial issues and offering to take care of them in exchange for marrying Miranda. Incidentally, Miranda happens to be the girlfriend of Ripley's young and lower class protégé Alex, and when this comes to their attention, Ripley mockingly reveals with his true nature and intentions to Alex. He then threatens to take Alex to damnation with him should be interfere. Throughout all this, Ripley praises the devil, offering the souls of his victims, mocks God for being seemingly unable to stop him, and fantasizes about what he'll do to Miranda. When Alex musters up the courage to expose Ripley at the wedding, Ripley makes a final and desperate attempt to kill Miranda himself in revenge.
• Van Helsing (2016):
  • Sam, seemingly a friendly and sweet man at first, is in truth a depraved Serial Killer who keeps the fingers of victims as trophies and delights in sowing discord among his survivor group, leading to the deaths of innocents. As a vampire, Sam becomes far worse, killing and torturing numerous innocents while forcing his young friend Mohamad to watch so Mohamad might be forced to love Sam for what he truly is. After killing so many people, Sam realizes he truly loves Mohamad, but likewise hates him for the feeling of humanity. Declaring that love is nothing he is meant to feel, Sam murders Mohamad to seal his transformation into an Elder and see the world overrun by darkness.
  • Season 1 & "Began Again": Rebecca, lieutenant of vampire lord Dmitri, is a treacherous killer who participates in the regime of using humans as slaves or food. Rebecca has a habit of forcing human men into bed, murdering them when they fail to please her. Other women are subjected to breeding and pregnancy experiments, only to be sent as "feedbags" when they fail. Rebecca also orchestrates the slaughter of numerous humans and vampires alike so she might seize power.
  • Seasons 4 & 5: The Dark One, taking the identity of Dracula, is the progenitor of vampires and responsible for all the evil they have committed. Centuries past, the Dark One used Olivia von Dracula as a host, keeping her imprisoned in her own body to see the atrocities she committed, turning her husband Alibor into a vampire slave and having numerous villagers slaughtered. Returning in modern day, the Dark One takes over the United States with Martial Law, executions, and brutal repression, showing a full willingness to destroy the minds of her Brides to force them into eternal servitude. The Dark One ultimately plots to cover the world in eternal night, so humanity is eternally subjugated to the whims of vampires.
• Vengeance Unlimited's "Security": General Rumano and his right-hand man, Colonel Oscar Ponce, both were military officers in El Salvador who led brutal, horrific purges of local populations. Massacring entire villages, with women raped and mass graves filled, the two later fled to the US under new identities. When a survivor named Elena recognized Ponce, he tries to murder her on the spot. When the hero Mr. Chapel gets involved to bring them to justice, Rumano shows no remorse in trying to have all the survivors murdered, along with their innocent families just to lay the matter to rest. Neither shows any remorse for all the innocent people they've murdered, and stand as the worst people Mr. Chapel has ever attempted to bring down.
• Vera's "Little Lazarus": Danny Hale is a psychopathic young man out to get revenge on a woman called Carla Davies. Growing up in care, Hale developed an instant hatred for Carla due to her good looks and likeable personality, and tortured and raped her for years, traumatising her well into adulthood. Moved to a young offenders' institute after Carla reported him, Hale swore revenge. Tracking her down and discovering that she had had a baby son called Adam, Hale threatened to murder Adam in his pram. Scarred in the face when Carla defended herself, Hale spent years in pursuit and, upon catching her, bludgeoned her to death with a baseball bat and attempted to do the same to Adam. Discovering Adam had survived after he successfully hid, Hale pursued him again and pointlessly gunned down one of Adam's neighbours for being in the way, only being stopped when Vera arrested him. In a world full of sympathetic murderers and tragic villains, Hale stood out as a brutal exception.
• Veronica Mars Season 3: Mercer Hayes stands out as one of the vilest rapists in the setting whose crimes are not treated as backstory. Hayes selects college girls with his accomplice who sets it up for him to drug random girls at the local parties, creating a panic on the campus. Hayes rapes the girls in their dorm bedrooms and shaves their heads afterwards just to humiliate them further. Hayes's reasoning for his depraved activities amounts to "getting into a girl's pants the normal way takes too long" and he doesn't see his accomplice as anything but a useful tool, beating him when the guy starts to worry that they'll be caught for their crimes.
• Voice:
  • Season 1:
    • Mo Tae-goo is the son of the wealthy Sungwoon Express Chairman and a vicious murderer. Seeing his father's criminal activities, Mo declares himself a righteous executioner and uses a kettlebell to brutally beat his victims to death, killing over 30 people before being caught.
    • Hwang Kyung-il was bullied in high school by a rumor about his mother's affair. After seeing the truth, Hwang gains a hatred for women, before murdering his mother by torching her home, ruining the lives of the Eun-byul family. Hwang makes films of him raping women on his site, resulting in some of his victims committing suicide. Hwang tries to rape Park Eun-byul out of petty revenge before trying to kill Kang, Jin-hyuk, and Eun-byul in the school building when they try to find him before being caught for his crimes.
  • Voice 2: Yeom Ki-tae raped children for his own amusement. Yeom was imprisoned for raping Hwang Hee-Joo in the past, resulting in her gaining PTSD and her family suffering from his actions. After being released from prison, Yeom gets revenge on Hee-Joo by trying to rape her younger brother Hwang Ji-Wook. Yeom kidnaps Ji-Wook on his way home from kindergarten before raping him on the spot. Yeom once again tries to rape him, before attempting to kill Ji-Wook when he escapes and contacts the police, leading to Yeom being arrested.
  • Voice 3: Masayuki Kaneki has been a murderer since his youth. Sating his sadism by maiming animals, Masayuki is adopted by the Kaneki household where he begins breaking his adoptive brother into becoming a killer like him. Later becoming a professor at Sokpo Alternative School, Masayuki uses his position to destroy lives: brainwashing a student into cutting his own tongue out; trying to kill young Kang Kwon-joo multiple times; dismembering his own wife Yukiko to eat her corpse; attempting to do the same to his own devoted right-hand woman; and ordering one student to kidnap another, later forcing the hostage to kill himself. Discovering that his father-in-law Shoichi Makio suspects that Masayuki killed Makio's daughter, Masayuki kills Makio and another man to cover his tracks and later continues trying to twist his brother into becoming a murderer to continue his work.
• V Wars: Calix Niklos, a high-ranking scientist with the Department of National Security (DNS), furthers an anti-Blood agenda in pursuit of an authoritarian state and later worsens the conflict for his own personal gain after joining the Blood Nation to be on the "right side of history". Presenting himself as a good-hearted man searching for a way to stop the outbreak, Calix assassinates his own closest friend just because she could a nuisance to his plans and gladly supports her replacement, the radical figurehead General William May, watching as he denounces all Bloods as terrorists on live television. Overseeing the DNS in running concentration camps for those suspected of being Blood, Calix's soldiers forcibly take hundreds of people from their homes and execute civilians along the way, plotting with the corrupt Senator G. Smythe to make these camps "official" and killing Kaylee's boyfriend when she threatens to leak information. Infecting himself after Luther exposes him in court, Calix is involved in the poisoning of BludSub batches to disrupt a truce, leading to countless Blood casualties and inciting widespread violence against humans. Usurping control of the Blood Nation, Calix exposes over 30 million people to the infectious substance by tainting the water supplies of several major cities and declares war on humanity to reduce them to mere cattle.
• W11--Wydział Śledczy (W11—Department of Investigation):
  • "Zapis Zbrodni" ("Crime Record"): Michał Pilawski is a crime boss who has his doctors perform illegal experiments that involve either evisceration of young women or harvesting the organs of children. When a young woman named Karolina accidentally discovers children being experimented on and killed, Pilawski murders her despite her begging otherwise.
  • "Karate": Marek Nester, a karate coach who is very tough on his students, is revealed to be much more sinister. Nester sexually harasses all of his students, and when underage boys undress, Nester tends to come to the changing room where he offers to "help" them when, in reality, he tends to molest them. When boys take a shower, Nester goes after them where he continues to sexually harass them. During camping trips, Nester is revealed to take youngest boys to his bed where he has sex with them. When 13-year-old Maciek Słodowski, one of Nester's most vulnerable students, tries to escape from him, Nester chases him and pushes him out of the window, which results in the boy's death. Nester later takes Maciek's best friend Kamil, who witnessed the murder, to the forest where he promises to kill the boy if he tells the police anything. When the police arrive, Nester tries to use his karate abilities to fight them off before being overpowered and arrested.
  • "Roksana" two-parter: Faith Adalet is a leader of a Turkish gang in Germany and owns a brothel where he imprisons women he kidnapped. Adalet comes to Poland and abducts lots of young women all over specifically for his brothel. First he and his men drug the girls, and then lock them in the van, with the girls brutally raped and otherwise abused; some girls die from a drug overdose. When the police suspect which van Adalet and his men use, the gang attacks an ambulance and kill the driver. If Adalet and his men weren't allowed to cross Polish-German border, they would likely kill all the young women to get rid of all evidence.
  • "Nożownik" ("Cutthroat"): Wiktor Matczak, nicknamed "Nożownik," is a journalist during the day and Serial Killer in his spare time. Wiktor befriends lonely young women and starts "dating" them, later taking them to the forest where he rapes them and stabs them 13 times. He has done it a lot of times and collects images of the various serial killings he committed. When police officer Joanna Czechowska deduces Wiktor's identity as Nożownik, he attempts to murder her, before slipping on stairs and dying.
  • "Bestialstwo" ("Inhumanity"): Mirosław Bizoń is a psychopath who enjoys torturing and killing people, including his own family. When Bizoń was only 14, he murdered his own parents, stabbing his mother 50 times and slitting his father's throat. He also constantly bullies and rapes his younger sister until she is just a shell of a human being. When his grandmother calls him a "Devil who should burn in hell", Bizoń has her tied up and starved to death. Kidnapping 20-year-old Maciek, as well as the latter's girlfriend and her younger brother who is only a kid, Bizoń and his two equally sadistic friends plan on brutally killing them all, succeeding with Maciek by having him burned alive. Later, Bizoń has Maciek's girlfriend raped and he plans on brutally killing her as well before being captured by police.
  • "Bagno" ("Marshes"): Tadeusz Mancewicz acts as a doctor who helps kids when, in reality, he is a Serial Killer of little girls, as young as 6 years old. Tadeusz kidnaps them, rapes them, and throws them into a marsh, where they drown. Tadeusz has at least 10 victims all over Poland before he is caught by the police, at which point Tadeusz hangs himself.
  • "Lalki" ("Dolls"): Henryk Goryński adopts a little girl Weronika with his wife but once his wife died, he showed his true colors as a pedophile of little girls. He has Weronika locked up in the room in his basement with nothing but a bed and dolls, where he routinely rapes her. He later kidnaps 12-year-old Alicja as a "friend" to Weronika, and rapes her frequently as well; he has been doing this for years. When Weronika becomes old enough to give birth, Henryk drowns the baby in a pond.
  • "Smierć za Nic" ("Death for Nothing"): Adam Mielik is a seller of body lotion, with prostitutes a major clientele. He is also revealed to be a Serial Rapist and killer of them. Adam kidnaps prostitutes and takes them to the forest where he ties them up, rapes them, and later cruelly chokes them to death with the rope. Adam has done it to at least 7 in the city of Kielce before moving into small town where he continued to do so. In the past, he also choked his own mother to death after she was arguing with him before moving out.
  • "Tato" ("Dad"): Jerzy Frankowski is a parole officer who watches after delinquent underage boys. In reality, he is a pedophile who initially takes them to movies or restaurants, makes them call him dad, and later makes them his sex slaves. Jerzy takes each one of them to an apartment that he rents where he routinely rapes them. To some, Jerzy has been doing this for years. When 14-year-old Łukasz is decides to leave Jerzy, Jerzy chases him and throws him under the car with the intent of murdering him, putting Łukasz in a coma. Jerzy's pedophilia even disgusts Łukasz's abusive alcoholic father who has his friends rape his own wife, and he calls Jerzy "pervert" and wants to kill him with his bare hands.
  • "Uprowadzone" ("Kidnapped"): Łukasz Skowron, nicknamed "Młody" ("Young"), is a pimp who runs a prostitution ring. Through Aldona Michalczyk, young women are recruited under the promise that they will be able to work abroad. Instead, they are forced into prostitution and rounded up and sold into slavery. Any woman who defies Młody is executed. Any time police track the women, they are killed. Młody also kills his business partner and his bodyguard and completely takes over the operation. When caught, Młody attempts to shoot the police officers before being injured.
• Walker, Texas Ranger:
  • "Cowboy", "The Return of LaRue", & "Trial of LaRue": Victor LaRue is a psychopath who was dishonorably discharged from the military and who kidnaps and kills others seemingly at random. When he captured Alexander "Alex" Cahill, amongst other hostages, he attempted to rape her. When he is released from prison, he begins stalking Alex to drive her insane and leaves his two guards to burn to death, before again attempting to rape Alex. At his trial, LaRue feigns insanity while implying he may have killed his mother. He then uses his military training, he gets a gun at his trial and murders several people—including his own lawyer and the judge—before taking the courtroom hostage. While waiting for Walker to arrive, LaRue presides over the court as a "judge". In his insane whims, he orders a divorced couple to get back together for their child, but when the child contradicts LaRue, he decides to "reopen" the hearing, planning to murder the kid and killing his other ally when the man is disgusted by this]]. Finally, LaRue attempts to rape Alex for the third time before Walker busts in and guns him down.
  • "The Day of Cleansing": Cliff Eagleton, debuting in the Martial Law episode "Honor Among Strangers", is a white supremacist encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker. Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this crossover to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
• Warehouse 13:
  • "Lost & Found" through "Endless Terror": Paracelsus is an alchemist born in the 16th Century who desired immortality and tested his experimental Philosopher's Stone on his brother's own family to see the results despite knowing the danger. In an effort to achieve immortality, he was responsible for the destruction of a whole village, claiming "sacrifices must be made". Paracelsus was frozen in bronze for centuries until being awoken in 2013 when his brother's family was tired of their immortality and wanted him to remove it. Out of spite, Paracelsus decides to murder his brother's son in front of him, instead killing his brother's wife. Escaping, Paracelsus went around to hospitals to cure people, but later drained all of them of life to fuel his immortality. Using time travel, Paracelsus crafts a Bad Future with him in charge, allowing him to experiment on countless innocents in his unfettered quest for scientific knowledge.
  • "Endless Terror" & "Cangku Shisi": Alternate Benedict Valda is Paracelsus's Number Two in the Alternate Timeline and readily takes part in the experimentation of innocent people, at one point trying to have the same done to Artie. Valda, surviving the destruction of his timeline, concocts a plan to remake the Warehouse to his way of thinking; to this end, he makes a deal with the Chinese government to relocate the Warehouse there in exchange for giving them artifacts to use as weapons. Kidnapping Claudia's sister Claire to be his new caretaker, Valda uses an Artifact to control her, painfully torturing her when she doesn't obey. Valda later demonstrates the destructive power of the artifacts, by trying to kill a park full of people slowly and painfully. When the Warehouse agents try to stop him, Valda thanks them for destroying his reality, before ordering Claire to kill them, including her own sister, slowly.
• Warrior:
  • "The Tiger and the Fox": Zan is a particularly vile Human Trafficker who deals in Chinese women and girls. Zan kidnaps dozens of women to be sold into sex work, and as he transports them across the ocean to America, he gives his crew free reign to rape the slaves as they please. After forcing young Lai's father to sell her off to clear an oath, Zan sells her at a higher price to Ah Toy thanks to her virginity, only to then try to go behind Ah Toy's back and let a client rape Lai to make an extra buck.
  • "Enter the Dragon": Tully is a disgruntled Irishman who blames the Chinese for the loss of his job. Tully would rally his fellow Irishmen to attack the police officers holding the Chinese Jacob, where Tully hangs Jacob before having his angry mob rampage throughout Chinatown killing every single Chinese man, woman, and child that they come across; Tully would then try to kill Richard Lee when he sees him saving a Chinese woman.
• Wednesday: Joseph Crackstone—the founder of Jericho—is a vile, puritan Witch Hunter and the darkest of all the franchise's villains. Seeking the extermination of any and all outcasts, Crackstone constantly held trials and persecuted numerous innocents—especially when he has many of them chained up in a church and then has it set on fire. Centuries after his demise at the hands of Wednesday's ancestor Goody Addams, Crackstone is resurrected by his descendant Marilyn Thornhill/Laurel Gates to destroy Nevermore Academy and all the outcasts that inhabit it. First leaving Wednesday for dead after stabbing her, Crackstone then unleashes fiery, demonic powers with the intention of incinerating all the outcasts and to continue that plague on the rest of the world as well.
• Werewolf (1987): Janos Skorzeny, thought to be the progenitor of the werewolf bloodline, is a brutal predator who turns people into werewolves and delights in seeing them lose their humanity. Unlike most werewolves, Skorzeny is entirely in control of his bestial nature and delights in hurting others. A sailor by trade, Skorzeny uses his profession to arrive in new locations, slaughter everything he can, and then flee before suspicion can fall on him. When Eric Cord seeks to kill Skorzeny to lift the werewolf curse, Skorzeny treats him with amusement and attempts to kill Eric's girlfriend for fun. Skorzeny slaughters multiple other innocent people for fun, including a ship's captain who asks too many questions, and five prostitutes for his own enjoyment. When Skorzny mocks Eric by pointing out Eric is also attempting to murder him for selfish reasons, Eric states that Skorzeny is no longer truly human: he is simply a wolf who's sometimes a man instead of the other way around.
• Westworld Season 4—The Choice: The Host created in the image of William, the new Man in Black, begins as a counterpart to the host Charlotte, helping to gather support for her from the shadows and murdering humans to cover his tracks. Forcibly reprogramming Clementine to serve Charlotte, the Host ultimately has a crisis of existence, exacerbated by its talks with the original William. Embracing a cruel nihilistic philosophy, the Host William kills the real one, slaughtering its way through Charlotte, Maeve, and Bernard to ultimately set off a device and force every human and Host to kill each other in an orgy of violence, proclaiming that nothing will be left, save for roaches.
• The Wild Wild West: James West and Artemus Gordon have faced many killers, supervillains and criminal masterminds in their career in the secret service, these are the very worst:
  • "The Night of the Double-Edged Knife": Major General Ball is a treacherous former member of the US Army, angry at not getting the recognition he feels entitled to. Ball decides to rob the railroads and government, murdering five workers daily and framing the nearby Natives to inspire a ransom and let the Army wipe the Natives out. Upon Jim West investigating, Ball tries for a massacre to keep his cover while robbing a train and attempting to murder all aboard it.
  • "The Night of the Howling Light": Doctor Arcularis is a deranged psychologist who, fascinated by the discovery of conditional reflexes in animals, transfers the process onto humans. Through a combination of sensory torture and clear instructions, he develops a brainwashing procedure. For one victim, Arcularis imprisons him in a cage depriving him of water for several days, having conditioned him to throw away any he's given. Having already performed his cruel process upon five innocent people, Arcularis turns them into his mindless slaves who he regularly abuses, even breaking one victim's arm for a deception. Arcularis is contacted by Ahkeema, who wants him to brainwash Jim into killing Chief Ho-Tami, wrecking the peace negotiations. Uncaring about the brutal war this will cause, Arcularis is thrilled to further his experiments. Kidnapping Jim, he tortures him for over an entire week, attempting to break him. Capturing Artemus as well, Arcularis brainwashes him to murder Jim to clean up loose ends. Quick-witted and haughty, driven by a combination of scientific curiosity and sadism, Doctor Arcularis was easily one of the worst men the duo ever encountered.
  • "The Night of the Druid's Blood": Doctor Tristam and his associate Astarte are responsible, with the help of the magician the Great Asmodeus, for orchestrating the deaths of nine of the nation's greatest scientists and scholars, including Jim's friend and former teacher Professor Robey. Astarte seduces the men, until they are wrapped around her finger, enjoying using and killing them, while Tristam is the hidden mastermind. Astarte marries Senator Waterford so they can exploit his connections. When it becomes apparent Jim won't stop his investigations, using an elaborate con they make it appear he has gone insane. Initially suspecting a kidnapping ring, the truth is much more horrible. Doctor Tristam has discovered the secret of how to keep the brain alive without a body, leaving the geniuses constantly conscious but trapped, granting him the combined intelligence of the Nation's greatest minds. If any prove unwilling to answer his demands, he simply electrocutes them into compliance. No longer needing Waterford they attempt to burn him alive. Following Jim foiling the plan, Astarte attempts to trick the senator into killing him.
  • "The Night of the Brain": Braine, despite his cheerful good humor and pretense of good intentions, is a megalomaniac with a god complex. Unhappy with how "discorded" the world is, Braine plans to kill the five major heads of state and replace them with his disguised followers, then plunge the entire world into chaos—having the Spanish loot Africa, the American's attack South America, the Russians loot India, etc.—until the entire world is at war, so that Braine can take over whatever survives. Fearing the existence of a security measure that will ruin his plan, Braine implements an unnecessary cruel plot to lure James West to him, sending them newspapers predicting their friends' deaths, then implementing the predictions, blowing up beloved entertainer Almeric and arranging for Jim's former commander to fatally shoot himself; in both cases ensuring Jim could only watch helplessly. No longer needing the printer, Braine has him stabbed to death. Finally capturing Jim, Braine executes a loyal follower for missing a button from his uniform, then engages in another pointless test involving the life of his loyal assistant Voulee. In the end, Braine decides to simply hurt Jim until he tells him what he wants to know.
  • "The Night of the Undead": Doctor Articulus is a callous, self-serving chemist. Eighteen years prior to the episode, his experiments on special mold sample resulted in multiple deaths. Following his colleagues, doctors Armbruster and Dr. Paul Eddington, alerting the authorities, Articulus missed his wedding, with his bride eventually marrying Armbruster. Retreating to the Bayou, Articulus discovered using the mold he could create a mind-control potion. Using to turn numerous people, including Armbruster, into his zombie slaves, he forced them to work nonstop refining the mold, with two goons whipping to work faster, right up until they collapsed from exhaustion, Articulus dismissing a man drowning with "many more will take his place", and with the implication his victims were fully aware the entire time. To scare off anyone who might discover his operation, Articulus staged voodoo ceremonies, one of which led to the death of John Little. Having Eddington's teenage daughter Mariah drugged, Articulus planned to forcibly marry her to right "the wrong which was done to me", then send Mariah back to murder her father. Angered by their interference, Articulus attempts to murder Jim and Artie with Ammonia gas. Defeated, he attempted to strangle Jim.
• Willow (2022): The Crone, once known as Lili, is the chief servant of the Wyrm and The Corrupter of Queen Bavmorda. Having kidnapped and brainwashed Bavmorda, the Crone was responsible for all the bloodshed and strife committed to kill baby Elora Danan. Surfacing as the true threat to the land, the Crone has the heroic guardsman Ballantine possessed to kill those near to him along with trying to kill Ballantine's adopted daughter Jade. Luring the heroes into aiding her with a disguise, the Crone then reveals herself with true plan: to summon the Wyrm and ravage the land with the deaths of every human being.
• The Wire:
  • Marlo Stanfield, the final Big Bad, wages war against the Barksdale organization after a member makes him an offer to join their coalition, seeing the partnership as a sign of weakness and preferring the bloody combat that ensues. A ruthless sociopath, Marlo orders Junebug and his whole family killed in response to an alleged verbal insult; orders Snoop to kill the 14-year-old Michael, on the mere suspicion he was a snitch; and murders his own mentor after feeling he is of no further use to him. Revealed to keep vacant houses as "tombs" for the bodies of people he orders killed, over 20 corpses are found in them, both of Marlo's enemies and innocents. Egging on a security guard by purposefully committing petty theft in front of him, when the man tells Marlo he would rather avoid confrontation and just wants to support his family, Marlo orders him killed for "talking back".
  • "Collateral Damage": "Sailor Sam" Choksey, a crewman on the Atlantic Light, is a human trafficker with "the Greeks", handling the import of young women for the sex trade. With a shipment of 14 girls, Sam began to pimp them to the sailors for money until one girl resisted. Having murdered the girl or covered her death up, Sam panics and proceeds to lock the others in a container to suffocate, all to save his own hide when "the Greek" himself seeks answers.
• Wisting:
  • Season 1A: Robert Godwin is the Highway Killer, a vicious and sadistic international Serial Killer. Godwin abducts young women along main roads within a five-hour stretch from his base, then imprisons them for up to 72 hours, sometimes raping them multiple times, before killing them and dumping their bodies in abandoned wells. Confirmed to have killed six women in his native Minnesota, and suspected of at least eleven more, Godwin, realizing the FBI was closing in, abandoned America for Norway. Killing Norwegian native Ole Linge, Godwin stole his identity. He then disposed of the two people who would notice, having Viggo Hansen institutionalized and killing Cato Tangen in a fire. Over the next 22 years in his new identity, Godwin carried on his killing spree in Norway and occasionally across the border in Sweden, murdering at least 15 more victims. To protect his assumed identity, Godwin murdered Hansen when he discovered the truth, and later his former colleague Peter Crabb. Realizing he'd been discovered, Godwin kidnapped Line Wisting, determined to make her his next victim, and fled. Even after being shot, Godwin's last act was to attempt to murder William Wisting.
  • Season 3: Alek Begi is an aggressive ruthless former US soldier turned drug trafficker. A major distributor of heroin throughout Europe, Begi operates by forcing vulnerable child refugees to smuggle his drugs into the country and if something goes wrong, he personally saws the child's head off whilst they were still alive, planting it on a stake as a warning to those who fail him, having done so at least three times already. Expanding into Norway, following his latest victim, 14-year-old Layla, losing his shipment of heroin, Begi shot dead a psychiatrist who tried to protect her and murdered Layla in his signature manner. Realising one of his men had become a liability, Begi forcibly fatally overdosed him, and to retrieve his drugs tried to kidnap another young refugee Sammy, threatening to kill him if Line was unable to retrieve them within 24 hours. Discovering from his mole a former victim was cooperating with the police, Begi attempted to silence him by having his goons shoot up a café full of patrons, nearly killing said mole in the process, Begi content to kill any number of people to protect his profits.
• Witchblade:
  • Vorschlag Industries CEO Kenneth Irons is the cold-blooded Big Bad of the entire series, tormenting Sara Pezzini at every turn in his quest for the Witchblade. Throughout the first season, Irons is revealed time and again to be behind many of the show's villains, be it a government group that drugged and experimented on people to turn them into super-soldiers or a Mad Doctor who artificially inseminated several women to clone himself, until finally, Irons takes center stage, murdering all of Sara's friends and loved ones in a mad gambit to manipulate her into his servitude. When this fails, Irons acquires the Longinus Lance, using it to slaughter two of his own men who leaked his secrets after giddily displaying that he murdered their families for their "betrayal", and later attempts to cut Sara down then use the Lance to wipe out all who would stand against him. Returning from the grave as a spectral entity following his death at Sara's hands, Irons continues his machinations, influencing his son Ian Nottingham, who he has abused since childhood, into continuing his crusade against Sara, killing several bystanders in the process. In the finale, Irons's evil reaches its peak as he uses the website Cyberfaust to "download" himself into hundreds of people across America, then control them into committing vicious murders of all those nearby, claiming countless victims, adult and child alike. Kenneth Irons was the pinnacle of villainy in Sara's conflicts, with the only thing matching his eternal life being his depths of depravity.
  • "Nailed": In a series filled with magical foes, demonic entities, and insane immortals, Carl Dalack stands out as the sole ordinary foe Sara faces, yet nevertheless one of the most wicked. Dalack is a despicable Serial Killer and rapist of young teenage girls, who he tortures by ripping out their fingernails to satisfy his fetish for hands. Having claimed eight victims by the time he is released from police custody on a technicality, Dalack immediately begins stalking and terrorizing several young girls, mocking an entire class of them by reminiscing about some of his victims' screams, later killing one of these schoolgirls as the restart of his spree. To get revenge on Detective Danny Woo, the one who originally busted him for his crimes, Dalack kidnaps the man's young niece, molesting then preparing to torture and kill her just to hurt Danny, and, when Danny captures him once again, Dalack attempts to goad Danny into killing him to ruin both his conscience and his life.
• The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window: Emma Coleman, Neil's sweet little daughter, is secretly a bloodthirsty Serial Killer. A vicious sociopath since she was born, Emma murdered her pregnant mother and her unborn sibling to remain an only child and subsequently murdered her teacher. In the present, Emma stabbed her father's girlfriend Lisa in the throat for refusing to buy her candy and tries to frame her neighbor Anna Whitaker for the murder using one of her stolen palette knives. Emma ultimately murders her own father and attempts to kill the handyman Buell before trying to murder Anna as well, planning to pin everything on her.
• World Without End's TV adaptation:
  • Ralph Fitzgerald, the sadistic would-be Earl of Kingsbridge, shows how cruel he is when he kills a man simply for challenging his authority in public. When a woman insults Ralph and wounds his bride, he responds by raping her and is condemned for it in court, only to escape by taking the King's pardon to fight a war in France. Ralph returns even crueler than before, taxing and working the townspeople brutally and confiscating their lands. He blackmails a woman into sleeping with him in exchange for her husband's lands but reneges on the deal anyways. He then petitions the queen when he is ousted so he may attack Kingsbridge himself, and then blackmails a woman into marrying him. Ralph leads the attack on Kingsbridge, intending to kill everyone there and tries to kill his own brother who is defending the city.
  • Brother Godwyn is a Holier Than Thou hypocrite who seeks to rise to control of the Kingsbridge priory no matter what. Godwyn blackmails his way into his position, and has his mother murder her brother so he is unopposed. He sabotages any attempt to help victims of the plague and tries to have his own cousin Caris hanged as a witch. When this fails, he later attempts to rape her and begins hanging women in the town he views as "whores." When he learns Ralph Fitzgerald is his half brother, he turns on his mother as "just a whore," and during the sack on Kingsbridge attempts to murder Caris with his bare hands.
• Wounded Past: Magnólia Costa Leitão is Pedro's Wicked Stepmother, and the "saint" of São Dimas who hides pure evil under a mask of religiosity and godliness. When young, Magnólia deceived Tião Bezerra and burned him with iron, leading him to become a cruel, abusive man. Magnólia cheats on her husband with Ciro, whom she corrupts to the point of deceiving his blind mother and also have him marry her own daughter. Her affair having been discovered, Magnólia kills her daughter-in-law and threatens her baby granddaughter's life, and later kills a sociologist named Beth. Hastening the death of her husband's former wife, Magnólia marries him out for greed, only to twice try to have him killed, resulting in the death of his secretary. When her granddaughter's boyfriend finds out that she killed Beth, Magnólia kills him in cold blood and later tries to kill her granddaughter. When arrested, Magnólia kills the head of the inmates and runs away with the help of her son, who despite doing everything for the mother is despised and humiliated by her. Then, Magnólia kidnaps Pedro's pregnant wife, torturing her and leaving her in an isolated house to die.
• Wynonna Earp's "Walking After Midnight" & "Two-Faced Jack": Jack of Blades is the last of the Seven and the nastiest Revenant in the series. A Serial Killer who killed multiple women before being put down by Wyatt Earp, Jack celebrates his return by murdering a woman on the side of the road, then promptly sets about killing whoever he can while corrupting a young doctor by convincing him that rearranging patients' organs can cure them of diseases, while Jack sits back and watches the carnage. Disposing of his erstwhile student, Jack attempts to vivisect Wynonna herself before being defeated. At the end, Jack proceeds to gloat she had succeeded where all of Scotland Yard failed: defeating Jack the Ripper himself.
• Years and Years: Clive "Woody" Woodward is Stephen Lyons' "old school friend", who the latter turns to out of desperation to escape his soul-crushing job as a bicycle courier. Woody agrees to find work for Stephen, and proves to be far worse than a mere jerk when he delights in winning a government contract for maintaining two of Vivienne Rook's "Erstwhile Sites"—concentration camps—for housing refugees and illegal immigrants. Woody knows that this makes him complicit in the torment and death of hundreds if not thousands of innocent people, but simply doesn't care, even admitting that he plans not to do any "maintenance" whatsoever, pocketing the cash while leaving the camps' residents to rot in squalid conditions.

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