YMMV / The First Rule of Survival

• Complete Monster:
  • The First Rule of Survival: While outwardly a respected criminologist and psychologist, Nicholas Steinhauer is in fact a sadistic Control Freak and pedophile. Having very likely murdered his younger brother when they were teenagers, Nicholas would manipulate his other brother and an emotionally disturbed cop into kidnapping three young boys before listening in via audio as the boys were raped for years by up to 6 men. During the investigation Nicholas would go on TV and purposefully spread false theories both to throw off the police and to gain publicity to fuel his ego. When Marc commits suicide to avoid arrest, Nicholas's only concerns are using Marc as fodder for his next book, and when the operation is shut down Nicholas simply plans to repeat his crimes, stopped only when Vaughn's friend carries out an extrajudicial killing. Despite having a Freudian Excuse in his abusive father, Nicholas would ultimately exceed the man in evil.
  • The History Of Blood: Tony "White Mamba" Uys is a former member of the AWB determined to fund his revolution against the ANC. Angered by what he saw as the politicians disregarding his sacrifice by giving away the country, Tony would turn to crime in order to right what he saw as an egregious wrong. Beginning his crusade by murdering an anti-apartheid politician, Tony would graduate to animal poaching and human trafficking. In the former he would allow mass death on a debilitating scale while having anyone who wouldn't be cowed into submission murdered; in the later he would facilitate the recruitment of countless white girls who would be raped, forced to swallow cocaine and then sent to Thailand where they were condemned to either a lifetime of sexual slavery or the vicious local prisons. After Vaughn confronts him in his home, Tony abducts Vaughn's youngest daughter to send a message, leaving her alive purely to avoid attracting too much heat. Despite his claims that he was fighting for a higher cause, Tony Uys was ultimately little more than a thug who trafficked in human misery.