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* Golic in ''Film/{{Alien 3}}''. Even though he didn't kill the two inmates that the others suspect him of having murdered, he is still a homocidal nutcase. When he's contained in the infirmary in a straight jacket, he turns to Ripley and suddenly reminisces about a few women he knew back home. Then he looks her in the eye and says that she's gonna die too.
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* Ramon Rojo from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. He is extremely obsessed with a woman, is widely paranoid, torture and kill in cold blood. He is a dangerous psychopath and many of their massacres makes a SlasherSmile.

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* Ramon Rojo from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. He is extremely obsessed with a woman, is widely paranoid, torture and kill tortures and kills in cold blood. He is a dangerous psychopath and makes a SlasherSmile during many of their massacres makes a SlasherSmile.massacres.
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** Frank from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest''.
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* Okay, he's not human or anything close to it, but Franchise/{{Godzilla}} adversary Gigan is the poster boy for this. A forty-storey PsychoForHire, Gigan is best remembered by the fanbase for looking {{Badass}}, having [[SinisterScythe scythes]]--and subsequently {{chainsaw|Good}}s--for hands, and [[CombatSadomasochist his clear enjoyment in slowly carving chunks off of his opponents]]. In a series defined by giant monsters stomping all over Japan, Gigan is one of the few who is [[InLoveWithYourCarnage obviously getting a kick out of it]], and his very deliberate sadism makes his sanity rather questionable, even by this franchise's standards. Plus, anyone who puts a ''buzzsaw'' in their chest has got to be a lunatic.

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* Okay, he's not human or anything close to it, but Franchise/{{Godzilla}} adversary Gigan is the poster boy for this. A forty-storey PsychoForHire, Gigan is best remembered by the fanbase for looking {{Badass}}, having [[SinisterScythe scythes]]--and subsequently [[Film/GodzillaFinalWars subsequently]] {{chainsaw|Good}}s--for hands, and [[CombatSadomasochist his clear enjoyment in slowly carving chunks off of his opponents]]. In a series defined by giant monsters stomping all over Japan, Gigan is one of the few who is [[InLoveWithYourCarnage obviously getting a kick out of it]], and his very deliberate sadism makes his sanity rather questionable, even by this franchise's standards. Plus, anyone who puts a ''buzzsaw'' in their chest has got to be a lunatic.



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* Stinky Pete in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 2'' towards the climax when he tries to attack Woody with a pick axe.
** Also is Lots-o-Huggin' Bear in the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 third sequel]]. Although initially represents a relaxed personality, he, during the climax of the movie, hit the phone and Big Baby with the tip of his cane. In fact, he is so mentally unstable that even his subordinates fear him.

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** Generally implies in Rambo himself as well, specially when he is fighting in battle.
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* Major Tint from [[Rambo Rambo IV]].

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** Also is Lots-o-Huggin' Bear in the [[ToyStory3 third sequel]]. Although initially represents a relaxed personality, he, during the climax of the movie, hit the phone and Big Baby with the tip of his cane. In fact, he is so mentally unstable that even his subordinates fear him.

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* Luca Brasi from ''Film/TheGodfather''. He is responsible for quite sadistic acts, such as dismembering rival gangsters with an ax or a baby have gotten baked!

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** Also, Hector the Toad. In fact, forcing Tony to see his friend Angel being dismembered with a chainsaw.


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* Tony Montana himself from ''Film/Scarface''. While growing addiction to drugs increases, is getting increasingly aggressive and downright nasty.

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* Tony Montana himself from ''Scarface''. While growing addiction to drugs increases, is getting increasingly aggressive and downright nasty.

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* Ramon Rojo from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. He is extremely obsessed with a woman, is widely paranoid, torture and kill in cold blood. He is a dangerous psychopath and many of their massacres makes a SlasherSmile.
** Also, El Indio from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.



* Ramon Rojo from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. He is extremely obsessed with a woman, is widely paranoid, torture and kill in cold blood. He is a dangerous psychopath and many of their massacres makes a SlasherSmile.
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* El Indio from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.

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** Also is Lots-o-Huggin' Bear in the[[ToyStory3 third sequel]]. Although initially represents a relaxed personality, he, during the climax of the movie, hit the phone and Big Baby with the tip of his cane. In fact, he is so mentally unstable that even his subordinates fear him.

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** Also is Lots-o-Huggin' Bear in the[[ToyStory3 the [[ToyStory3 third sequel]]. Although initially represents a relaxed personality, he, during the climax of the movie, hit the phone and Big Baby with the tip of his cane. In fact, he is so mentally unstable that even his subordinates fear him.
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** Also, Hulk himself can qualify it, in spite of being heroic.
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* Tony Montana himself from ''Film/Scarface''. While growing addiction to drugs increases, is getting increasingly aggressive and downright nasty.

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* Luca Brasi from ''Film/TheGodfather''. He is responsible for quite sadistic acts, such as dismembering rival gangsters with an ax or a baby have gotten baked!
* Tony Montana himself from ''Film/Scarface''. While growing addiction to drugs increases, is getting increasingly aggressive and downright nasty.
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* ''Film/SleepawayCampIIUnhappyCampers'' and ''Film/SleepawyCampIIITeenageWasteland'' -- The almost perpetually chipper and cheerful [[spoiler:Angela Baker]] . Originally a kind of puritanical killer she just degenerated into killing for the sake of killing after a while.

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* ''Film/SleepawayCampIIUnhappyCampers'' and ''Film/SleepawyCampIIITeenageWasteland'' ''Film/SleepawayCampIIITeenageWasteland'' -- The almost perpetually chipper and cheerful [[spoiler:Angela Baker]] . Originally a kind of puritanical killer she just degenerated into killing for the sake of killing after a while.
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* Jonathan Brewster in the play and movie ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace''. He's murdered as many people as his two aunts combined, but did it far less calmly. He wants to kill again [[BodyCountCompetition just so he can be ahead in the count]].
** Arguably the old ladies are even worse, having killed 11 old men, and making it to the end of the story still convinced that what they've done is a form of charity.
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* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' movies - The almost perpetually chipper and cheerful [[spoiler:Angela Baker]] . Originally a kind of puritanical killer she just degenerated into killing for the sake of killing after a while.
-->'''[[spoiler:Angela Baker]]''': "I've never chopped wood before, but I've chopped other things!"

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* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' movies - ''Film/SleepawayCampIIUnhappyCampers'' and ''Film/SleepawyCampIIITeenageWasteland'' -- The almost perpetually chipper and cheerful [[spoiler:Angela Baker]] . Originally a kind of puritanical killer she just degenerated into killing for the sake of killing after a while.
-->'''[[spoiler:Angela Baker]]''': "I've I've never chopped wood before, but I've chopped other things!"things!
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* As almost everyone knows, Jack Torrance in ''Literature/TheShining''. "HEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!"

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* Chip Douglas in ''TheCableGuy''.

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* Mark Collins in ''{{Twisted}}''.
* J.D. from ''{{Heathers}}''.

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* J.D. from ''{{Heathers}}''.''Film/{{Heathers}}''.



* Detective Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional'' has the habit of murdering families while humming [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]], in fits of drug-induced lunacy (though it doesn't help that he is also a death obsessed psychopath).

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* Detective Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional'' has the habit of murdering families while humming [[LudwigVanBeethoven [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]], in fits of drug-induced lunacy (though it doesn't help that he is also a death obsessed psychopath).



* Jonathan Brewster in the play and movie ''ArsenicAndOldLace''. He's murdered as many people as his two aunts combined, but did it far less calmly. He wants to kill again [[BodyCountCompetition just so he can be ahead in the count]].

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* Jonathan Brewster in the play and movie ''ArsenicAndOldLace''.''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace''. He's murdered as many people as his two aunts combined, but did it far less calmly. He wants to kill again [[BodyCountCompetition just so he can be ahead in the count]].



* Travis Bickle slides into this throughout ''TaxiDriver''. No, no sir. I am not looking at you.

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* Bobby Thompson of ''Film/{{Targets}}''

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* Fouchet, in ''BadBoys''. His plan seemed to involve killing everyone he encountered. His first reaction when the cops arrive at the end? Shoot his partner.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. Muntz. Polite and reserved... but for the love of god, don't make him think for one second you're going to 'steal' Kevin, or else you'll find out [[NightmareFuel just how off his rocker he really is]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. Muntz. Polite and reserved... but for the love of god, don't make him think for one second you're going to 'steal' Kevin, or else you'll find out [[NightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} just how off his rocker he really is]].



* Queen Ravenna in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman''. Other versions have always been self-centered, vain, and downright cruel, but this version will kill anyone who defies her without a second thought. Plus the implication that she's killed plenty of kings in the past.

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* Queen Ravenna in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman''. Other versions have always been self-centered, vain, and downright cruel, but this version will kill anyone who defies her without a second thought. Plus the implication that she's killed plenty of kings in the past.
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* Kazuo Kiriyama from ''Literature/BattleRoyale'': He shoots down several unarmed girls, grabs their megaphone and puts it to one girl's mouth so everyone within hearing distance can hear the sounds she makes as she dies.

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* Kazuo Kiriyama from ''Literature/BattleRoyale'': ''Film/BattleRoyale'': He shoots down several unarmed girls, grabs their megaphone and puts it to one girl's mouth so everyone within hearing distance can hear the sounds she makes as she dies.
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* As almost everyone knows, Jack Torrance in ''Literature/TheShining''. "HEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!"
* "*Mrs.* X" [[spoiler:(Rose Michaels)]] in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' is a very literal example.
* So is a particular scene from ''Film/DonnieDarko'' -- though the character is Ax Crazy throughout.
* Captain [[MeaningfulName Nero]] from ''Film/StarTrek''. He wakes up in the morning looking for new shit to blow up. And with advanced tech from the future, he can actually accomplish this. Sometimes he switches it up a little and becomes a Bladed Romulan Sceptre Crazy, instead.
* TriggerHappy Lola from ''[[Film/TheTransporter The Transporter 2]]'' "Actually, my problem's not medical. It's psychological." (shoots the nurse.) And a few moments later: "What seems to be the problem?" "Me." (yet another burst of gunfire.)
* Geaer Grimsrud from ''Film/{{Fargo}}''. In fact, in one scene he actually uses an ax.
* John Ryder in ''Film/TheHitcher'' is one of the most chilling and disturbing examples.
* Chip Douglas in ''TheCableGuy''.
* Dadan in ''BlackCatWhiteCat''
* Mark Collins in ''{{Twisted}}''.
* J.D. from ''{{Heathers}}''.
* David Allen Griffin in ''Film/TheWatcher''.
* Arthur Burns from ''TheProposition'' is a well read and very deep WarriorPoet...who just happens to have a penchant for gang-rape and mass murder.
* Max Cady (especially De Niro's version) from both versions of ''Film/CapeFear''.
* Detective Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional'' has the habit of murdering families while humming [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]], in fits of drug-induced lunacy (though it doesn't help that he is also a death obsessed psychopath).
* Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega from ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' while certainly being [[EvilIsCool the embodiment of cool]], is a sadistic monster who nonchalantly murders and tortures innocent people for the hell of it while [[FauxAffablyEvil dancing to catchy tunes on the radio]]. Let's just say, the scene he is most famous for is a classic case of crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
* Elle Driver and Gogo Yubari (as well as the main cast) of ''Film/KillBill'' are excellent examples. Elle is a venomous, hateful, RivalTurnedEvil who distinguishes herself from the other ruthless killers of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad by being the only member who is genuinely evil and malicious, while Gogo is simply [[PsychoForHire a violent, sadistic sociopath]] who, quoting The Bride, [[LittleMissBadass "Makes up for her young age with madness."]]
* Harry Powell from ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''Film/{{Batman}}''.
* Norman Bates in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
* John Doe in ''Film/{{Se7en}}''.
* Max Zorin in the Film/JamesBond movie ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
** In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', [[spoiler:Dominic Green becomes this towards the end when James ruins his plans and destroys his entire facility, at which point, he completely snaps and uses an actual axe to try and chop Bond into pieces, all while screaming like a complete lunatic.]]
* [[spoiler:Sarah turns into this over the course of]] ''Film/TheDescent''. Differs from many examples in that [[spoiler:it wasn't a random attack so much as the Ax Crazy making her act on her motivations.]] Alternately, the movie purposely left open the possibility that [[spoiler:she had [[AllJustADream imagined the creatures]] and it was really just her slaughtering all her friends. Which would make her much more Ax Crazy, and throughout the whole movie.]]
** Only in the RevisedEnding. In the original ending, there's an additional scene [[spoiler:which shows her about to be killed by the very-much-not-imaginary creatures while hallucinating that she's back with her dead daughter.]]
* Frank Booth from ''Film/BlueVelvet''. One of the most memorably [[ClusterFBomb profane]] and sadistic psychopaths ever put to film.
* Jonathan Brewster in the play and movie ''ArsenicAndOldLace''. He's murdered as many people as his two aunts combined, but did it far less calmly. He wants to kill again [[BodyCountCompetition just so he can be ahead in the count]].
** Arguably the old ladies are even worse, having killed 11 old men, and making it to the end of the story still convinced that what they've done is a form of charity.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has Luigi Largo. He's been described as walking around with a flask and a knife, drinking and stabbing anything that gets in his way, including his own employees. He's also tried to strangle his brother in 'Mark It Up'.
-->I'm the smartest and the toughest!\\
I will find a hole and fuck it!\\
If there ain't one, I will make one!\\
Luigi don't take shit from no one!
* Heddy from ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale''. From the number of people she kills and impersonates she certainly seems to fall under the Axe Crazy heading.
* Kazuo Kiriyama from ''Literature/BattleRoyale'': He shoots down several unarmed girls, grabs their megaphone and puts it to one girl's mouth so everyone within hearing distance can hear the sounds she makes as she dies.
* Wooley from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead''. The guy just runs around the apartment building in the beginning of the movie shooting everybody in sight, whether they were zombified or not. He was so out of control, the SWAT had no choice but to kill him.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' - Never steal Dr. Frank N Furter's spotlight while he's holding a pickaxe. It may be the last thing you do. Meat loaf, anyone? He can also be pretty intimidating with an electric carving knife.
* Morrell in ''A Room for Romeo Brass'' appears to be just a lonely eccentric, but he soon reveals his true colours when he threatens a disabled boy with a knife for a harmless practical joke that made him appear foolish in front of the woman he is obsessively fixated upon, threatens to kill the boy's family, and then threatens to kill the boy's best friend (and brother of the object of his lust) when the woman rejects him. However, compared to several of the others on this list he's an unusually laughable and ultimately rather pathetic example; [[spoiler: his attempt to make good on his threats is put in its place when the best friend's estranged father -- who hasn't taken any of Morrell's shit throughout the movie -- charges in, gives Morrell a good kicking and sends him skulking away with his tail between his legs and the promise that, if the boy's father ever sets eyes on him again, ''he'll'' be the one who ends up dead.]]
* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' movies - The almost perpetually chipper and cheerful [[spoiler:Angela Baker]] . Originally a kind of puritanical killer she just degenerated into killing for the sake of killing after a while.
-->'''[[spoiler:Angela Baker]]''': "I've never chopped wood before, but I've chopped other things!"
* The eponymous killer from ''Film/TheStepfather'' films whose sanity is shaky at the best of times, going from perfect All-American dad to a ranting attacker who beats people to death with a wooden board or stabs them in them in the face with a rake at the drop of a hat.
* [[Film/{{Transformers}} Bonecrusher]] [[MemeticMutation hates axes]]. They're nice for hurting things he hates more, though.
* Ripper, a fairly generic ax-murderer, is one of the antagonists in ''Film/LastActionHero''. The fact that he's a hulking, semicoherent clone of every ''other'' Ax Crazy slasher on film is surely deliberate, as he's a fictional character from a rather trite series of lowbrow action flicks.
* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' adds a good dose of Ax Crazy to The Trunchbull in addition to her [[SadistTeacher cruel treatment of her students]]. The first thing she does when she suspects intruders in her house? She bull-charges from room to room, leaps down from the second floor, bringing down her chandelier in the process, and eventually starts ''swinging an Olympic hammer around'' and randomly smashing it into her possessions.
* ''Film/CemeteryMan''. [[spoiler:When the Grim Reaper tells you to kill people, you kill people.]]
* Travis Bickle slides into this throughout ''TaxiDriver''. No, no sir. I am not looking at you.
* Played for laughs in ''BabesInToyland'':
--->'''[[BigBad Barnaby]]''': Item 1: Kidnap Tom.\\
'''[[TheSpeechless Roderigo]]''': * Makes throat-slitting gesture* \\
'''Gorganzolo''': No, just kidnap him.\\
'''Barnaby''': Item 2: Throw him in the sea.\\
'''Roderigo''': * Repeats gesture* \\
'''Gorganzolo''': No, just throw him in the sea!\\
'''Barnaby''': Item 3: Steal the sheep.\\
'''Roderigo''': * Stabbing motions* \\
'''Barnaby''': ''No, just steal them!''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''
** Rumpelstiltskin. Don't be fooled by the trickster shell. Deep down, he's really a homicidal sociopath.
** Prince Charming in the ''Scared Shrekless'' story "Boots Motel", (a parody of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s Bates Motel) which Donkey and Puss in Boots make up.
* Bobby Thompson of ''Film/{{Targets}}''
* Chester of ''Film/{{DOA}}'' enjoys hurting people. He especially relishes the gutshot, since it kills people nice...and slow.
* The Yakuza with the Green Shirt (Kenji Mastuda) from Kitamura's ''{{Versus}}'' is a clear example of Ax Crazy. In fact, he seems to be utterly and completely unable to be serious or show any signs of normalcy through the movie; he constantly makes faces and sounds, laughs like a maniac, screams and overall draws attention to himself by simply being a nutjob in every scene where he's present.
* Hannibal Lecter in ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', when he escapes from his cage, bludgeons his captors to death with a cool, detached expression on his face.
-->"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and AGlassOfChianti. *hisses*"
** From the same film, Buffalo Bill, who tries to build a suit out of the skin of the women he murders.
* Fouchet, in ''BadBoys''. His plan seemed to involve killing everyone he encountered. His first reaction when the cops arrive at the end? Shoot his partner.
* Okay, he's not human or anything close to it, but Franchise/{{Godzilla}} adversary Gigan is the poster boy for this. A forty-storey PsychoForHire, Gigan is best remembered by the fanbase for looking {{Badass}}, having [[SinisterScythe scythes]]--and subsequently {{chainsaw|Good}}s--for hands, and [[CombatSadomasochist his clear enjoyment in slowly carving chunks off of his opponents]]. In a series defined by giant monsters stomping all over Japan, Gigan is one of the few who is [[InLoveWithYourCarnage obviously getting a kick out of it]], and his very deliberate sadism makes his sanity rather questionable, even by this franchise's standards. Plus, anyone who puts a ''buzzsaw'' in their chest has got to be a lunatic.
* Sykes and Don Lino from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.
* [[spoiler:King Malbert]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}''.
* The killer in ''7eventy 5ive'' is both crazy and uses an axe to kill people.
* El Indio from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.
* The title charcter from ''Caligula''. Tiberius also gets a couple of moments.
-->'''Tiberius:''' Do you think this boy has drunk enough wine?
-->'''Caligula:''' I think he's drunk enough, Lord.
-->'''Tiberius:''' So do I! *kills drunk man* Now he is happy.
* Rourke of ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' during his VillainousBreakdown when he attacks Milo with an ax as the hot air balloon transport is crashing. He himself admits that Milo has done what few people have, which is royally piss him off.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. Muntz. Polite and reserved... but for the love of god, don't make him think for one second you're going to 'steal' Kevin, or else you'll find out [[NightmareFuel just how off his rocker he really is]].
* Esther [[spoiler:(or better said, Leena Klammer)]] from ''Film/{{Orphan}}''.
* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Ratigan towards the climax, when he's enraged.
* ''The Adventure Of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina'': The Mole King towards the end when he chases down Tom and Thumbelina.
* Stinky Pete in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 2'' towards the climax when he tries to attack Woody with a pick axe.
* Pooh-Bear in ''The Salton Sea'' is both crazy and extremely dangerous.
* Frank in ''TheDeparted'' truly embodies this trope.
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Gaston during the final showdown with the Beast.
* Lord Barkis Bittern from ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' after finding out that Victoria is poor after he married her. He [[spoiler: murders Emily so that he can get her fortune]] and it is implied that he plans to do the same to [[spoiler: Victoria]]. He also attempts to kill Victor.
* Ursula of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. When she transforms into Vanessa, its implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming borderline Ax Crazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly kill a person had that been a human being, and then her cackling. She's most certainly Ax Crazy when she has her VillainousBreakdown after Ariel destroys her eel pets though.
** Actually its hinted that she was never sane to begin with...if you take notice of the fact that she has former mermaids as a polyp garden in the entrance to her cave...
* Alex of ''Film/FatalAttraction'' although she doesn't seem like it at first is this taken UpToEleven.
* Hopper and Thumper of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the latter even moreso.
* [[JerkassWoobie Zira]] from ''Disney/TheLionKing 2''. She's MUCH less composed and self-controlled than her predecessor Scar.
** The Hyenas from the previous film also qualify. They are known to crack jokes relating to eating their victims when they find prey, as evidenced by how they behaved in the previous film when they trapped Nala, Simba, and Zazu.
* Lord Shen from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''.
* Lola of ''Film/TheLovedOnes''.
* Debbie of ''Devil In The Flesh''. She is an Ax Crazy {{Yandere}} who kills numerous people and tries to kill her teacher's wife (she has an intense crush on her teacher).
* Mrs. Tweedy in ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' when she sees the chickens escaping and suffers a [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]].
* Rippner in ''Film/RedEye'' following Lisa stabbing a pen through his neck.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Judge Doom]]. For the most part, a calm, cool, and collected version. Then after he gets flattened he loses it.
* Loki, the [[BigBad main villain]] of ''Film/TheAvengers'', announces his arrival on Earth by killing a bunch of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with [[spoiler: the evil spear of doom that the Chitauri gave him]]. He then proceeds to kill a lot more people over the course of the movie. A ''lot'' more.
* Queen Ravenna in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman''. Other versions have always been self-centered, vain, and downright cruel, but this version will kill anyone who defies her without a second thought. Plus the implication that she's killed plenty of kings in the past.

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