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  • Ace Powers: "Heat" Devron, a gangster who robs a bank, impersonates an officer and orders the police to kill the rest of his gang so he can keep the loot.
  • In Back to Brooklyn, there are Churchill and Penny, who mocks Bob for his morals and is willing to have her own son raped and killed by Bob's paedophile brother For the Evulz, no less.
  • Buckskin: America's Defender of Liberty: Mr. Brockman, a spy who poses as a schoolteacher to indoctrinate kids into Nazism, and then kidnaps them to make their fathers sabotage defense factories. He, of course, intends to kill the kids anyways to keep them quiet.
  • Empowered gives us Mind████'s brother, although somewhat arguable as he "cared" enough about his sister to want to "help" her develop her psychic powers (by cutting out her eyes and tongue so she would have to rely on her powers more). Mind████ herself considers herself to have been one before psychically forcing herself into being good, although merely having the impulse to have done that might disqualify her from being a real sociopath (titular character Empowered certainly doesn't believe it).
  • The Eye Sees: Ganza, a mercenary who's hired to make a civil war worse for money, and poisons his own men so he doesn't have to share.
  • Gunsmoke: To fulfill his cattle rustling ambitions, Jim Carr manipulates a town into a giant range war and kills his own father in law, whose daughter he married entirely to better ingratiate himself into the community.
  • The Invisible Terror: De Pix is an international criminal who explicitly states that he'll do anything for enough money, tries to murder a child for insulting them, and leaves his goons to die when the Terror attacks.
  • K-Bar Kate: "Handsome" Hinson, a ranch hand who sexually harasses his boss's daughter and then decides to ruin the ranch when he's fired for his actions.
  • The Lone Warrior: Wilhelm, a Nazi spy who pretends to run a laundromat so he can treat military uniforms to burn their wearers alive.
  • Master Mystic: Rango of Slovenia tried to take over the world in the backstory, and decides that the proper retribution is to make himself into a giant monster and massacre all the countries that opposed him.
  • Megg, Mogg and Owl has Werewolf Jones, who is easily the most self-destructive screwup among an entire cast of self-destructive screwups. He's ridiculously violent and hedonistic, constantly breaks the law, and has nothing even remotely resembling impulse control. He treats his "friends" like shit, treats his kids even worse, and aside from a few rare moments of self-reflection he feels no empathy towards others. While he does desire friendship and companionship due to being a lonely soul, his idea of love is ridiculously one-sided and toxic.
  • Pat Patriot: America's Joan of Arc: Fritz Haubner, a Nazi spy willing to blow up twenty children to stop a film from being made. He doesn't even really care about his country, only doing it for the glory.
  • Max in Sam & Max: Freelance Police is described repeatedly in story as a sociopath, but Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Retcons him into having a conscience (who is highly repressed and suicidal).
    • Even before that, his behavior doesn't quite fit; he's more like a violent psychotic with psychopathic tendencies.
  • Scott Pilgrim gives us the seventh evil ex in Gideon Gordon Graves. He is a textbook case of a high-functioning sociopath. While charismatic and charming, underneath it all, he sees his desires and ambitions first and foremost, viewing Ramona as a muse and not being an attentive partner. Hell, it turns out that he wanted to capture her and add her to his collection of ex-girlfriends (Ramona being number 7 appropriately enough) so they may all fawn over him. He manipulates everyone around him and relies on mental manipulation and psychological warfare through The Glow (a literal case given how it traps people inside their heads with their vices and made millions with the military).
    • Somewhat lampshaded as when Scott attempts to infect him with the Glow, it fails since in Gideon's words, he was trapped inside his head since he was born. As such, he knows that he does not connect to people, but does not seem to understand how much it has screwed him up. Scott seems to be able to anyway, at least enough to gain a new weapon in The Power of Understanding.
  • Sin City has Senator Roark and his Serial Killer son as probably the best examples of sociopaths. There are plenty of crazy people but they show at least some remorse or have emotional attachments here or there.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
      • Despite his Laughably Evil qualities, Dr. Eggman is a ruthless egomaniac who sees everyone and everything around him, humans and Mobians alike, as tools to benefit him at best and things to conquer and/or destroy at worst, and has no problems committing mass murder or even genocide to either reach his goals or simply to be a sadistic asshole, often with his trademark Evil Laugh and a Slasher Smile. No better is this displayed than with his Egg Grape Chambers; Eggman killed hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent people by trapping them in the chambers and sucking their life force dry to power his machines and city, openly admitting he could easily find other power sources but finds this more fun. To drive the point home, Sonic and his friends have stated at least once that Eggman is an even more evil, cruel, and nasty villain than the original Dr. Robotnik ever was, and considering the list of atrocities Robotnik Prime managed to rack up before he was taken downnote , that's saying a lot.
      • The original Dr. Robotnik isn't much better. He only cares about himself and his empire; everything else is just something for him to use or destroy. Case in point: he was perfectly willing and able to use human test subjects for the Ultimate Annihilator, a weapon capable of erasing objects from existence. His backup plan for failure was also to just nuke the entire planet, finding no reason for any of Mobius to exist unless he got to rule over it. While Eggman is often stated to be even more evil and nasty than him on multiple occasions, even he still ended up having genuine Pet the Dog moments, whereas Robotnik never did.
      • Breezie the Hedgehog has shades of this. In the past, when Sonic points out how Tails' life and the whole world are at stake because of her working with Eggman, she brushes him off, stating that her own life and well-being are more important. When the whole world is at the brink of falling apart, she is more concerned with making profit out of the whole situation. And when Honey calls her out, she smugly dismisses her. Needless to say, Honey attempts to maintain a calm appearance but once she leaves the office, she is visibly horrified at how uncaring and manipulative Breezie is. The fact she realized this only after she signed her Deal with the Devil didn't help at all.
    • Sonic the Comic:
      • Taking after his SatAM incarnation, Robotnik only cares about himself and his empire, forcing his laws upon the people of Mobius and feeling none of the pain he causes others. He's intelligent and manipulative, easily using Knuckles to do his bidding and find Sonic's base, and eventually gets bored with just being a tyrant, trying to seize power through the Chaos Emeralds and become a god. Several of his plans are also devoted to simply making people suffer rather than any specific purpose, and near the end of the series, he tries to destroy Mobius and everything on it, including himself, out of spite.
      • Dr. Zachary possesses several traits of a high-functioning sociopath. He feigns politeness and reason to manipulate Knuckles into taking him to the Master Emerald, which he promptly destroys to gain its power, revealing himself as a madman with a severe Lack of Empathy who openly calls himself evil and enjoys the prospect of killing and wreaking carnage on a global scale. He freely admits he plans to "warm up" by destroying everyone on Mobius and was fully willing and able to let the Floating Island crash into the planet's surface as a "monument" to his genius.
      • Super Sonic, here depicted as Sonic's Superpowered Evil Side/Enemy Within, possesses all the traits of a low-functioning sociopath. He is completely incapable of experiencing empathy, incredibly sadistic, destroys and kills everything in his path, commits acts of evil out of boredom, and possesses almost nonexistent impulse control.
    • Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW):
  • Stardust the Super Wizard:
    • Rip-the-Blood, a Diabolical Mastermind who's perfectly willing to start a world war to make money.
    • The Mad Giant, who believes that the destruction of all of civilization is a just response to the abolition of slavery.
  • The Steel Fist: Heydrich pretends to be a kindly clock repairman. He's actually a Nazi spy who decided the best way to blow up factories is to make the workers do it themselves by rigging their time card machines.
  • The IDW continuity of Transformers (The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye) has three notable examples:
    • First up, Overlord. Inspired by the Gladiators of the growing Decepticon movement, he joined up and had his body upgraded to near invincibility (his first act was to crush the head of the scientist in charge of the procedure) and went on to become one of the most feared Decepticons. He had two main goals in life: kill things (get some genocide done) and to defeat Megatron. He started up a death camp at an Autobot prison, and when the heroes came to rescue them, he had all of the captured Autobots executed. He has a great need for stimulation, and when he learned of Megatron's (seeming) demise, he gave up immediately, wanting someone to kill him as he saw no purpose in his life anymore and was taken into custody. The minute he learned that Megatron is alive, he decided to go on a killing spree onboard an unsuspecting ship, and casually stomped to death a bot who accidentally bumped into him.
    • Next, there's Skyfall, an Autobot and a remarkably realistic depiction of a high-functioning sociopath, to the point that his very nature as one is a major spoiler. He puts on a very convincing facade of friendliness when in public and became friends with fellow engineer Ironfist, but actually cares nothing for those around him, attempting to frame Ironfist for a horrible crime and later orchestrating his death, not for any sort of personal grudge but simply to get Ironfist's workshop and prestige. In the end, he commits suicide upon having his crimes exposed, not out of guilt but out of a selfish fear that he would be attacked in Garrus-9 prison because of his abusive treatment of prisoners when he was a guard there. Ironfist notes that he considered not telling anyone and leaving Skyfall with a lifetime of remorse in a sort of Cruel Mercy, only to realize that Skyfall didn't feel guilt (possibly not even comprehending it) and wouldn't have cared in the slightest.
    • Finally, there's Getaway. He ticks all the boxes: superficial charm (which he generally oozes but ramps up especially for Tailgate's benefit), an inherently manipulative nature (which is subtly present in his interactions with the rest of the Lost Light), a need for stimulation (hence his constant Escape Artist antics), and a truly stunning Lack of Empathy or shame (which is codified in pretending to fall in love with Tailgate and plot his indirect murder while shitting on any such feelings people around him actually experience throughout).
  • Usagi Yojimbo: Noriko is a sadist who relishes in brutally humilaiting and torturing her opponents.
  • Wonder Man (Fox): General Attilla, a ruthless tinpot dictator whose response to his people starving is to take more food and massacre anybody who protests, including Red Cross personnel. When Wonder Man helps the people topple him, he simply decides that he's gonna start another war to take power again.
  • The Wraith: Joe Carroll decides to fake a ghost who scares his father to death so he can get his inheritance. He also has anybody who helped him annihilated so they can't talk, and laughs when he successfully kills his father.


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