History Main / EvilChef

%%* Chef Kawasaki was one of these in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games, but not so much in the anime.

%%* The Baby Dragon Chefs from ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' and ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends''.

* Plenty in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, like Chef Torte from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. He fights in a boss battle and (unknowingly) creates a giant [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere spellcasting wedding cake]]. There is also the main boss from the food world of ''Videogame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', whose main attack moves are related to cooking instruments and foods.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', being solely about over muscled men finding, fighting and eating delicious food, is bound to have these on the villain's side. Most of Gourmet Corporation consists of sinister chefs out to assassinate and sometimes even cook their victims, though except for a few holdouts, their allegiances switche to good or at least neutral when [[GreaterScopeVillain Neo]] becomes the antagonist.

* In his "A Date With Markiplier" series of interactive videos, LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} has a run in with one of these in the restaurant where he and his date first meet. Markiplier forgot his wallet and if his date chooses not to pay the bill for him, the chef abducts them both and (depending on the next choice) either abandons them in the desert, or locks them up in an abandoned building with the intent to [[ImAHumanitarian make them the main course]].

** In the 'Nightmare Cafeteria' segment of "Treehouse of Horror V", Lunchlady Doris becomes one of these when the faculty takes to [[ImAHumanitarian cooking the students]]. In the regular continuity, she's a LethalChef at worst.
** In one story Homer becomes a food critic, and the other critics tell him he gives too many good reviews so he starts insulting everyone's food (not just restaurants, but Marge, too). This makes the restaurant owners angry and a bunch of them get together to kill him with a poisoned eclair at a food fair.
** In the episode "Yokel Chords" Bart makes up one called Dark Stanley as a prank in order to get some lunch off the kids at school- according to him, Stanley was the school cook until he went crazy from being teased about never getting a college degree and created a new dish: Kids' Heads Soup.

* Mother Mae-Eye from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' episode [[AntagonistTitle of the same name]] was sort of a supervillain version of the WickedWitch in Literature/HanselAndGretel. She initially appeared as a grandmotherly old woman, but her true form was a hideous old hag with warty, green skin and three eyes. She was able to brainwash the Titans into thinking she was their mother using the magical - and addictive - pies she made, all the while planning to turn them into one, and when found out, was able to grow to giant size and use them as weapons. One curious thing about her was that she can somehow hide inside her own pies (so to enchant a victim who tries to eat it) and when defeated, is trapped in one until, again, someone tries to eat it.

* Chef Hatchet from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is probably better known as a LethalChef but he certainly gets a lot of enjoyment out of tormenting the campers.

* The [[PrimalFear Falling Devil]] in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' is a WickedCultured EldritchAbomination that dresses and acts like a Michelin five-star chef as it [[ToServeMan prepares humans as food for its fellow Devils]].

* In ''Manga/FoodWars'', Erina Nakiri's ArchnemesisDad Azami intends to make his style of cooking the only type of cooking allowed in restaurants in Japan and possibly the world. His plan to do such a thing begins with [[spoiler:forcibly becoming the new dean of Totsuki Academy, Japan's premier cooking school, and expel anyone who doesn't comply with his techniques.]]

* Subverted in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 4 when Antonio "Tonio" Trussardi seems to be using his Italian cooking - [[spoiler:and Stand ability]] - to physically harm his customers. Anyone who eats his cooking briefly experiences some kind of unsettling BodyHorror, [[spoiler: from [[EyeScream their eyes being physically drained of all their fluid]] to their internal organs physically exploding out of their body]], only to be immediately restored, good as new. [[spoiler: Despite the disturbing side effects, the dishes he prepares with his Stand are meant to heal, not harm!]]

** Later on, we have [[spoiler:Charlotte Pudding]], a dessert chef who [[spoiler:gets engaged to marry Sanji...or that's what it looks like on the outside. The truth is that Pudding ''used'' to be a normal kid [[WoobieDestroyerOrWorlds but snapped after being abused by everyone]], and is scheming with her EvilMatriarch to assassinate Sanji and his family at the wedding in an effort to seize Sanji's family's assets.]] Her skills as a chef, while unrelated to her evilness, are genuine though: Luffy and Chopper voraciously consumed a chocolate project of hers, which she enjoyed witnessing. [[spoiler: And yet she cannot bring herself to kill Sanji when he's genuinely kind to her.]]
* In a Hoenn-era episode of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime "Hail to the Chef", Team Rocket run into a Sneasel serving as cook in a restaurant. Being a Dark-type Pokemon, it takes an instant dislike to Meowth, trading insults with him and them tainting his food, and then beating him soundly when he confronts it. Meowth, himself a bad guy and a Pokemon-napper, loathes the Sneasel enough that he actually objects when Jessie and James capture it.

* ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' #16 saw ComicBook/TheJoker kidnap an aspiring cartoonist and force him to illustrate his exploits for a series of comic books. One of his capers involved infiltrating a banquet and (while [[PaperThinDisguise "disguised"]] in a toque and a white smock) slipping paralytic Joker venom into the diners' soup. ("Poisonous? That would be the poison. [[FauxAffablyEvil It complements the cilantro nicely, don't you think?"]]) The poison didn't actually kill anyone who took a slurp of the soup, but it ''did'' leave them [[SlasherSmile compulsively grinning]] - and paralyzed long enough for Joker to saunter right up to all them and beat them senseless with a large mallet. (And Joker being [[MonsterClown who he is]], he did this all ForTheEvulz - and in this case also for publicity.)
* Kryppen the Poisoner in the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Devil's Asylum'' one-shot. He uses his [[MasterPoisoner knowledge of poisons]] and cooking to poison everyone in Arkham Asylum, planning to withhold the antidote until Batman murders an inmate.

* In one episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', the murderer the FBI team is looking for turns out to be the chef at a town's local community events. His favorite food to serve is chili, [[spoiler:whose meat is that of his victims]]. To the agents' horror, he does this solely for the pleasure of seeing other people unwittingly [[spoiler:[[IAmAHumanitarian eat other humans]]]]. A later episode had an increasingly insane food court chef who started sneaking pieces of his first victim into the meals that he served customers.

* Those who watch ''Series/HellsKitchen'' might pick out several worthy contenders. Any example however pales in comparison to Amy's Baking Company in ''Series/KitchenNightmares,'' who between being proud of the evil acts they perform and brag about firing hundreds of employees [[KickTheDog (while forcing them not to work anywhere else)]] they are a RealLife example that makes most fictional ones look like saints. Amy seems to like to passively-aggressively "pay back" complaining customers -- when a pizza is returned undercooked, she deliberately burns it... when a customer complains a dish isn't seasoned enough, she intentionally [[EvilIsPetty makes it super spicy, hoping it will hurt him]].

* The music video to "''Asylum''" by Music/{{Disturbed}} features a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic chef who keeps body parts in his fridge]]. While the protagonist is escaping from the doctors, the chef upon seeing him [[ChainsawGood chases him down with a chainsaw]], cuts him up in a GoryDiscretionShot and tosses his remains in a bloody cooking pot. The dish resulting is a stew made up of ambiguous red meats [[EyeScream garnished with an eyeball]]. [[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness This situation turns out to be a delusion of the patient who's actually back in his padded cell...]] [[OrWasItADream except a second later]] he's served and then [[ForceFeeding force-fed]] the same stew by the doctors [[note]]Due to the nature of the video, this is probably also a delusion and he's actually being fed normal food while the chef he saw was likely a normal chef trying to help him[[/note]]]].
* In the music video of ''Bad Idea'' by Music/LemonDemon, one of the zombie {{Mook}}s appears to have been a chef.

* The murderer in Case 3 of ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'', [[spoiler:Dane Gustavia]]. Even outside of the murdering, he's still a tremendous dick. [[spoiler:Especially to his own son]]. He at least has the decency to respect a WorthyOpponent in the cooking game, and his only regret was that said worthy opponent ended up being blamed for his crime when he was trying to frame someone else. [[spoiler:The man he killed [[AssholeVictim wasn't much better]], but also wasn't really a chef]].

* ''VideoGame/BonniesBakery'': [[spoiler:The titular baker turns out to be killing her talking animal friends and [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies turning them into ingredients]] for her food.]]

* The final boss of the 'Delicious Last Course' in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is [[spoiler:Chef Saltbaker, the patisserie chef who had sent the protagonists out on the hunt for the Wondertart ingredients in the first place; he quickly reveals the Wondertart would grant powers over the "astral plane" and it's very evident the thought of having that power went to his head. It turns out that each of these required ingredients are sentient, and he mercilessly butchers them throughout the first phase of the fight against him. Moreover, the last ingredient required is revealed to be a living soul, and he accosts whoever of the protagonists that's presently in astral form for use to this end. After he's defeated, his bakery is destroyed, and he's sentenced to community service. In time, however, he rebuilds his bakery and [[HeelFaceTurn reintegrates into society]].]]

* One of the [[TrailersAlwaysLie chapter previews]] for ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' mentions that Etna must resist "the dark side of cooking"
* In ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', "Chefs" were a character class, with weaponized frying pans and cooking powers.

* Knjakr of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' is a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] [[AxCrazy chef]], he lives in the Ratway and invites the others into his cell, only to attack the visitor and eat them.
* One of the more annoying monsters in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'' were the Tonberry Chefs of Moschet Manor, which were... well, Tonberries dressed like chefs and using gutting knives as weapons.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', beating Tonberries got you their Chef's Knives as well.

* The indie game ''Videogame/FreeIceCream'' has a chef as the villain. He uses an ice cream truck labeled "Free ice cream" to attract kids he can kidnap. He than butchers them for meat to use in his cooking.

* In the Arcade Game of the film ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the first end boss is the Butcher, a [[FatBastard chubby]] pirate chef armed with a knife and a frying pan.

%%* Chef Kawasaki was one of these in the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games, but not so much in the anime.

* Plenty in the ''Mario'' series, like Chef Torte from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. He fights in a boss battle and (unknowingly) creates a giant [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere spellcasting wedding cake]].
** There is also the main boss from the food world of ''Videogame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', whose main attack moves are related to cooking instruments and foods.

* Frank Mason the local [[AxCrazy psychotic]] AngryChef [[ChefOfIron of]] [[MadeOfIron Iron]] SerialKiller from ''Webcomic/DeadWinter''. Even before the apocalypse he was a complete {{Jerkass}} to his employee Lizzie, but after she [[TakeThisJobAndShove quits on him]] and the ZombieApocaylpse kicks into high gear, he [[SanitySlippage completely loses his marbles]] and goes after lizzie with the intent of [[OffWithHisHead decapitating her]] and [[CreepySouvenir tying it to his belt]].

* In his "A Date With Markiplier" series of interactive videos, LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} has a run in with one of these in the restaurant where he and his date first meet. Markiplier forgot his wallet and if his date chooses not to pay the bill for him, the chef abducts them both and (depending on the next choice) either abandons them in the desert, or locks them up in an abandoned building with the intent to [[IAmAHumanitarian make them the main course]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter grows a beard to become rugged, and is believed to be his hero Action Hank. He later teams up with Action Hank to fight beard-themed villains, one of which is a chef with a beard that acts like a blade.

** In the episode ''Yokel Chords'' Bart makes up one called Dark Stanley as a prank in order to get some lunch off the kids at school- according to him, Stanley was the school cook until he went crazy from being teased about never getting a college degree and created a new dish: Kids' Heads Soup.

* Mother Mae-Eye from the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode [[AntagonistTitle of the same name]] was sort of a supervillain version of the WickedWitch in Literature/HanselAndGretel. She initially appeared as a grandmotherly old woman, but her true form was a hideous old hag with warty, green skin and three eyes. She was able to brainwash the Titans into thinking she was their mother using the magical - and addictive - pies she made, all the while planning to turn them into one, and when found out, was able to grow to giant size and use them as weapons. One curious thing about her was that she can somehow hide inside her own pies (so to enchant a victim who tries to eat it) and when defeated, is trapped in one until, again, someone tries to eat it.

* Pamela Voorhees of the original ''[[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'' was the cook of Camp Crystal Lake. Her villainy was in no way related to her cooking though, but involved [[PsychoKnifeNut knifing]], axing, and occasionally arrowing people to death in revenge for her son, who drowned in Crystal Lake because the counselors who were supposed to be watching him were [[DeathBySex getting it on instead]].

* In the DVD for the Volkerball tour, Till Lindemann of Music/{{Rammstein}} dresses up as one of these during ''[[ImAHumanitarian Mein Teil]]''. He then proceeds to "cook" [[TheChewToy Flake Lorenz]].

* Xellos from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' invokes this trope intentionally when he creates a soup "potent enough to kill a Gold Dragon with one bite."

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has an evil cafeteria lady; Buffy has to foil her plan to poison everyone.

* Series/DoctorWho:
** Shockeye from the serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]". He's obsessed with finding out what things taste like, up to and including [[ImAHumanitarian human beings]], and "tenderises" one of the Doctor's companions - ignoring all the screaming as being completely irrelevant.

* Series/{{Seinfeld}}:

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* Louis (the seafood chef who sings "Les Poissons" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'') is only evil insofar as aquatic animals are concerned. He may take what seems to be an unusual pleasure in chopping up the animals he cooks, but as he puts it: "Don't hurt, 'cause you're dead!" In context, given that the secondary characters include a fish and crab, that's evil enough. For bonus evil, he even has a [[DastardlyWhiplash twirly]] [[GoodHairEvilHair mustache.]]

** Nurse Claiborne, who first appeared in the episode "Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E.", was both this ''and'' a BattleAxeNurse. As a school nurse who seemed sweet and friendly, her apple crumbles were popular among the students, even Numbuh Two. Then, it turned out that she was behind the mystery epidemic of pinkeye going around the school, simply so she could use the eye crust from her patients as topping for the crumbles. She escaped at the end of the episode, but didn't learn her lesson. Her second appearance in "Operation: H.O.M.E." had her go into the cereal business [[spoiler: by making the sweet bits from Rainbow Monkey dolls. Including one of Numbuh 3's most prized dolls]]. Kuki was not amused. Claiborne is one of the few villains who is regarded as being insane ''even in-universe'', which is hard to do, considering what the KND's RoguesGallery is like. ''All'' of them would be labeled criminally insane if put into any remotely realistic context.