History Main / SinisterSweetTooth

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Majin Boo is the BigBad of [[Recap/DragonBallZMajinBuuArc his own arc]], a monster revived by Babidi and his crew in order to conquer the world -- only to end up destroying it. Though he goes through various transformations, a common trait of Majin Boo is his taste for candies: most memorably, Fat Boo converts his opponents into chocolates and candies so he can eat them.

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[[caption-width-right:350:A perfect ice cream cone for the [[MonsterClown sinister clown]] driving [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Sweet Tooth]].]]

* In ''Anime/{{ODDTAXI}}'', Yano, a gangster and one of the main antagonists in the story, can often be seen sucking on a lollipop.

* In Creator/JohnConnolly's "The Cancer Cowboy Rides", Buddy Carson is not only a psychopathic HumanoidAbomination with [[{{Plaguemaster}} the ability to spread rapidly advancing cancer by touch]], but he lives almost entirely on sweet foods like candy bars and apple pie.

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', John Dee is an honesty-obsessed murderer with a delusional ambition to make a world without lies through the power of [[ArtifactOfPower Dream's Ruby]]. Also, he has something of a sweet tooth: in "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E05247 24/7]]," he takes advantage of [[MindRape the chaos]] he's caused at the diner to steal a huge tub of ice-cream from the kitchen and sits at the counter eating it [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting even as people start killing each other around him]].

* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''
** The primary target of "Death on the Mississippi" is [[FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit Skip Muldoon]], a riverboat captain, drug smuggler, and gang leader who's been carrying on with an [[VillainousIncest incestuous affair with his niece]] (possibly sans her consent [[spoiler: given that she's implied to be the client behind this mission]]). Muldoon is noted to have a taste for baked goods, especially cake: one of the easiest ways of getting close enough to kill him is to deliver a cake to Muldoon's office -- either poisoned, concealing a weapon, or both.

* In the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' "Hard Rain" campaign, it's suggested that the highly dangerous Infected variants known as [[DemonicSpiders Witches]] are attracted to sugar - hence why they've swarmed a sugar mill in large numbers. This is an AscendedGlitch; the "AI Director" has an issue in its code where it spawns massive numbers of Witches in that one location, but the design team and testers were so amused that they made it canonical and gave the Witches this trait to justify it.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

* In the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' "Hard Rain" campaign, it's suggested that the highly dangerous Infected variants known as Witches are attracted to sugar - hence why they've swarmed a sugar mill in large numbers. This is an AscendedGlitch; the "AI Director" has an issue in its code where it spawns massive numbers of Witches in that one location, but the design team and testers were so amused that they made it canonical and gave the Witches this trait to justify it.

** The main villain, Mukkelis Muuli, loves ice cream and forces his citizens to eat it, and is seen licking a lollipop in one scene.

[[caption-width-right:350:A perfect ice cream for sinister clown driving Sweet Tooth.]]

* ''Literature/PiilomaanPikkuAasi'': The evil witch Kuva Kuva is motivated to capture the heroes by Mukkelis Muuli promising her a castle made of chocolate, and also keeps a whole storage of ice cream. She however decides to turn good upon finding out that there's a whole chocolate mine under her mountain.

Compare and contrast the GeniusSweetTooth, in which the sugary preferences are used to identify intelligence rather than villainy. Contrast with StraightEdgeEvil, in which a villainous character abstains from unhealthy habits, which often includes sweets.

A possible trait of the VillainousGlutton and the PsychopathicManchild.

[[caption-width-right:350:A perfect ice cream for sinister man driving Sweet Tooth.]]

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** Hank "Buddy" Muldoon of "Til Death Do Us Part" is a CorruptHick just like his father, having inherited leadership of the Gators following his death and is soon to be married to his cousin (his father's ex-mistress [[spoiler:and the client behind this mission as well!]])... and just like Skip, he's got a sweet tooth: he just can't keep his fingers out of the wedding cake -- a very easy means of dispatching him if you've got a poison syringe with you.

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* In the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' "Hard Rain" campaign, it's suggested that the highly dangerous Infected variants known as Witches are attracted to sugar - hence why they've swarmed a sugar mill in large numbers.

Compare and contrast the GeniusSweetTooth, in which the sugary preferences are used to identify intelligence rather than villainy.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Majin Boo is the BigBad of [[Recap/DragonBallZMajinBuuArc his own arc]], a monster revived by Babidi and his crew in order to conquer the world - only to end up destroying it. Though he goes through various transformations, a common trait of Majin Boo is his taste for candies: most memorably, Fat Boo converts his opponents into chocolates and candies so he can eat them.

* In an [[GainaxEnding unexpected twist]] at the end of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', [[spoiler:the SweetTooth Stocking betrays her sister Panty by cutting her into pieces making a surprising FaceHeelTurn that even shocks their evil rivals Scanty and Kneesocks.]]

* In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho090YearOfThePig Year Of The Pig]]," Alphonse Chardalot is a VillainousGlutton with a thing for confection - to the point that he's stockpiled a mountain of cakes, chocolate biscuits, and dried fruit in his bathtub; he also turns out to be an alien scientist trying to capture and dissect Toby the Sapient Pig. Amusingly, though he disparages Toby's appetite, it doesn't take the Doctor and Miss Bultitude long to notice that Chardalot can't keep his hands off the dessert trolley. [[spoiler: This is an early hint that Chardalot is actually another sapient pig.]]

* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'': Calvin [[MeaningfulName Candie]], the tyrannical owner of the slave plantation Candyland, has a penchant for sweets. He's seen noshing on jelly beans at his club and white cake at home, and sports some ''spectacularly'' [[ScaryTeeth rotten teeth]] as a result. Notably, he becomes the enemy of Dr. King Schultz, the kindhearted bounty hunter and dentist who "doesn't go in for sweets."
* In ''Film/TheFly1986,'' one of the earliest signs that Seth Brundle's teleportation experiment is turning him into a monstrous fly hybrid is his growing taste for sugar: at first, he's merely ladling the stuff into his coffee and calling loudly for a cannoli to go with it; then, as he grows more violent and obsessive, he begins munching on chocolate bars while wandering the town in a rage. By the time [[BodyHorror his degeneration becomes plainly obvious]], his once-relatively tidy lab is littered with boxes of donuts - a sign that his humanity is undergoing a very steep decline.
* ''Film/TheGodfather III,'' Don Altobello is revealed to be working with a consortium of white-collar criminals to screw over the Corleone family. He also has a thing for cannoli, eating his way through an entire box of them over the course of the climactic opera. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, Connie Corleone had said cannoli poisoned as revenge for his part in the plot, allowing her to watch him expire in the final minutes of the opera.]]
* ''Film/HotFuzz:'' [[spoiler: Chief Frank Butterman, much like the rest of the Sanford police, has a weakness for ice cream and cake. He's also in charge of the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance that's secretly running the town from behind the scenes, ordering the assassination of anyone who dares spoil Sanford's image as the "perfect" village.]]

* In ''Film/RoadToPerdition,'' psychopathic assassin/crime scene photographer Maguire enjoys his coffee with a ''lot'' of sugar, and has the brown teeth to prove it.

* Augustus Gloop of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' is the first of the kids to find a golden ticket, and is said to get through so many chocolate bars a day, it'd be impossible for him ''not'' to find one of said tickets. On top of breaking the rules and drinking chocolate straight from Wonka's river, he's often portrayed as a bully in the adaptations.
* Alex of ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'' is a brutal teenage gang-leader with a taste for ultra-violence and rape... but on top of [[WickedCultured his love of Ludwig Van]], he also admits to have a "sladky tooth," practically shoveling sugar into his tea and adding jam to his egg-on-toast.
* In Creator/JohnConnolly's "The Cancer Cowboy Rides," Buddy Carson is not only a psychopathic HumanoidAbomination with the ability to spread rapidly advancing cancer by touch, but he lives almost entirely on sweet foods like candy bars and apple pie.

* ''Series/KillingEve'': Villanelle is a psychopathic assassin with some very saccharine tastes, befitting her characterization as a PsychopathicWomanChild: she puts ''honey'' on frying sausages, treats herself to ice cream, and places such value on high-quality pastries that she barely manages to hide her dislike of the heated fruitcake served by Frank's mother.
* The assassins Hazel and Cha-Cha of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'' love unwinding from assassinating and torturing people in the name of the Commission via regular visits to the local donut shop. [[spoiler: Ironically, this ends up forming the basis of Hazel's redemption when he falls in love with the owner/chef.]]

** The primary target of "Death On The Mississippi" is [[FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit Skip Muldoon]], a riverboat captain, drug smuggler, and gang leader who's been carrying on with an [[VillainousIncest incestuous affair with his niece]] (possibly sans her consent [[spoiler: given that she's implied to be the client behind this mission]]). Muldoon is noted to have a taste for baked goods, especially cake: one of the easiest ways of getting close enough to kill him is to deliver a cake to Muldoon's office - either poisoned, concealing a weapon, or both.
** Hank "Buddy" Muldoon of "Til Death Do Us Part" is a CorruptHick just like his father, having inherited leadership of the Gators following his death and is soon to be married to his cousin (his father's ex-mistress [[spoiler: and the client behind this mission as well!]])... and just like Skip, he's got a sweet tooth: he just can't keep his fingers out of the wedding cake - a very easy means of dispatching him if you've got a poison syringe with you.

* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' features the villainous Sweet Tooth; [[AmbiguousGender they]] not only enjoy candy in the traditional sense, but their main shtick is to hypnotise someone with a lollipop.

** [[{{Mummy}} Säid]] works for a crime syndicate known as [[TheNecrocracy the Kingdom]] and is known for being a [[{{Greed}} greedy]], [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant]], [[DirtyOldMan lustful]], [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] and generally [[LackOfEmpathy unempathetic]] NominalHero. [[spoiler: Plus, he's indirectly responsible for triggering the Tokyo Incident via an ill-advised deal with a death cult, one of the few things he's truly ashamed of.]] He also indicates that he's got a bit of a sweet tooth, given that he often conducts meetings at Zahra's Cafe (known for its cakes) and recommends that he and a client treat themselves to ice lollies.
** In Tokyo, it's revealed that [[OminousObsidianOoze the Filth]] has a taste for sugary Bingo! Cola. As it turns out, this is because it's actually under the control of [[EldritchAbomination the Black Signal]] AKA [[TomTheDarkLord John]], a disembodied intellect causing chaos and destruction all over Kaidan District... and, [[spoiler: when he was still human, the free Bingo! Cola was one of his favourite perks of being a member of the [[PathOfInspiration Fear Nothing Foundation]].]]

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Zigzagged with Nutty. His defining trait is that he's addicted to candy (or anything with sugar in it), and on various occasions, [[SkewedPriorities he has prioritized candy over the lives of other people]]. He's even stolen a lollipop from Cub without any remorse. However, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he can be rather friendly as long as no one gets between him and sweets.]]

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* Thog in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is a brutal murderous half-orc with the mind of a child, who is rather fond of ice cream. One strip shows that his handlers have to continually stock him with ice cream sundaes lest he go on a murderous rampage.

** Rick is undoubtedly an asshole and qualifies as either a NominalHero or a full-blown VillainProtagonist, having been known to do some of the most heinous things in the series out of anger, lust, greed, petty revenge, or pure sloth... and he's a fan of wafer cookies. "Mortyplicity" also features him electrocuting a small animal so it can excrete what appears to be a chocolate egg, which he immediately eats. Given Rick's noteworthy intelligence, this would also qualify as GeniusSweetTooth.
** The equally-unpleasant inhabitants of the [[AllianceOfAlternates Citadel of Ricks]] also enjoy wafer cookies... and are actively flavouring them with the mental secretions of a Rick who tried to opt out of the usual Rick lifestyle, keeping him [[FateWorseThanDeath unconscious and dreaming]] just so the cookies can feature "the impossible flavour of your own completion." In "The Ricklantis Mixup," the Shadow Council of Ricks can even be seen munching on a box of the stuff, celebrating the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild new flavor]] they've managed to acquire that day.

* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'': Calvin [[MeaningfulName Candie]], the tyrannical owner of the slave plantation Candyland, has a penchant for sweets. He's seen noshing on a whipped cream-covered drink at his club and white cake at home, and sports some ''spectacularly'' [[ScaryTeeth rotten teeth]] as a result. Notably, he becomes the enemy of Dr. King Schultz, the kindhearted bounty hunter and dentist who "doesn't go in for sweets."

Here, a taste for confection, chocolate or other sweet foods is clearly identified as a villainous trait. The reasons may vary: perhaps it's being used to highlight the villain's [[TheHedonist hedonistic side]]; it can be used as a TrademarkFavoriteFood in order to identify the villain while disguised; if RealMenHateSugar in this setting, it may even be used to set them apart from other, more heroic characters.

* In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho090YearOfThePig Year Of The Pig]]," Alphonse Chardalot is a VillainousGlutton with a thing for confection - to the point that he's stockpiled a mountain of cakes, chocolate biscuits and dried fruit in his bathtub; he also turns out to be an alien scientist trying to capture and dissect Toby the Sapient Pig. Amusingly, though he disparages Toby's appetite, it doesn't take the Doctor and Miss Bultitude long to notice that Chardalot can't keep his hands off the dessert trolley. [[spoiler: This is an early hint that Chardalot is actually another sapient pig.]]

* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'': Calvin [[MeaningfulName Candie]], the tyrannical owner of the slave plantation Candyland, has a penchant for sweets. He's seen noshing on a whipped cream-covered drink at his club and white cake at home, and sports some ''spectacularly'' [[ScaryTeeth rotten teeth]] as a result. Notably, he becomes the enemy of Dr. King Schultz, kindhearted bounty hunter and dentist who "doesn't go in for sweets."

* ''Film/TheGodfather III,'' Don Altobello is revealed to be working with a consortium of white collar criminals to screw over the Corleone family. He also has a thing for cannoli, eating his way through an entire box of them over the course of the climactic opera. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, Connie Corleone had said cannoli poisoned as revenge for his part in the plot, allowing her to watch him expire in the final minutes of the opera.]]
* ''Film/HotFuzz:'' [[spoiler: Chief Frank Butterman, much like the rest of the Sanford police, has a weakness for ice-cream and cake. He's also in charge of the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance that's secretly running the town from behind the scenes, ordering the assassination of anyone who dares spoil Sanford's image as the "perfect" village.]]

* ''Film/IronMan2'': Justin Hammer, the secondary villain of the film, loves ice creams and admits that he has a sweet tooth.

* In Creator/JohnConnolly's "The Cancer Cowboy Rides," Buddy Carson is not only a psychopathic HumanoidAbomination with the ability to spread rapidly-advancing cancer by touch, but he lives almost entirely on sweet foods like candy bars and apple pie.

** The primary target of "Death On The Mississippi" is [[FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit Skip Muldoon]], a riverboat captain, drug smuggler and gang leader who's been carrying on with an [[VillainousIncest incestuous affair with his niece]] (possibly sans her consent [[spoiler: given that she's implied to be the client behind this mission]]). Muldoon is noted to have a taste for baked goods, especially cake: one of the easiest ways of getting close enough to kill him is to deliver a cake to Muldoon's office - either poisoned, concealing a weapon, or both.

* In the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' "Hard Rain" campaign, it's suggested that the highly-dangerous Infected variants known as Witches are attracted to sugar - hence why they've swarmed a sugar mill in large numbers.

** [[{{Mummy}} Säid]] works for a crime syndicate known as [[TheNecrocracy the Kingdom]] and is known for being a [[{{Greed}} greedy]], [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant]], [[DirtyOldMan lustful]], [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] and generally [[LackOfEmpathy unempathetic]] NominalHero. [[spoiler: Plus, he's indirectly responsible for triggering the Tokyo Incident via an ill-advised deal with a death-cult, one of the few things he's truly ashamed of.]] He also indicates that he's got a bit of a sweet tooth, given that he often conducts meetings at Zahra's Cafe (known for its cakes) and recommends that he and a client treat themselves to ice-lollies.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal:'' One of the game's playable characters, Needles Kane, is both a SerialKiller and MonsterClown, and some incarnations has shown a great love for ice cream and other frozen treats. For good measure, he and his vehicle of choice are often referred to simply as Sweet Tooth.

** Rick is undoubtedly an asshole and qualifies as either a NominalHero or a full-blown VillainProtagonist, having been known to do some of the most heinous things in the series out of anger, lust, greed, petty revenge or pure sloth... and he's a fan of wafer cookies. "Mortyplicity" also features him electrocuting a small animal so it can excrete what appears to be a chocolate egg, which he immediately eats. Given Rick's noteworthy intelligence, this would also qualify as GeniusSweetTooth.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'': The episode "Candy Isn't Dandy" introduces Gary Gumdrop, who likes candy so much he's willing to steal it to get his next sweet tooth fix. However, as a result of his candy obsession, [[RealityEnsues his teeth are all rotten and he occasionally spits one out]]. Bitter at the next generation's healthy teeth, he invented the "Gary Gumdrop" persona and began giving out candy laced with concentrated gingivitis bacteria.

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Here, a taste for confection, chocolate or other sweet foods is clearly identified as a villainous trait. The reasons may vary: perhaps it's being used to highlight the villain's hedonistic side; it can be used as a TrademarkFavoriteFood in order to identify the villain while disguised; if RealMenHateSugar in this setting, it may even be used to set them apart from other, more heroic characters.