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** [[EvilFormerFriend Kyle Craig]], or [[DirtyCop The Mastermind]], is a former FBI special agent and Alex Cross's ArchEnemy. A violent individual since childhood, Kyle was responsible for multiple killings even before joining the FBI, including that of his own brother. As the Mastermind, Kyle perpetrates a series of bank robberies followed by murders in ''Roses Are Red'', making sure to dispose of his accomplices, and [[ILoveTheDead raping the women he had hired post-mortem]]. While his partners at the FBI are busy investigating the murderous robbers, Kyle rapes and kills a woman in a home invasion, and then sets his eyes on Alex's girlfriend, committing the same crime with her and mutilating the body afterwards. Kyle calls Alex to inform him about the horrendous death of his girlfriend, just so he could hear his reaction. Realizing in ''Violets Are Blue'' that he has been exposed, Kyle attempts to kill Alex's partner and later a woman he had saved from another killer, but is arrested and sent to death row. Assuming the identity of his attorney in ''Double Cross'', Kyle escapes and [[{{Matricide}} kills his mother]], using her money to travel around the world and murder more people, including the judge who had sentenced him to death. Failing to kill Alex, Kyle returns years later in ''Cross Fire'', this time posing as a FBI agent he had killed who had been assigned to work with Alex. Seeking to hurt Alex's loved ones, Kyle attempts to take his family hostage, and commits suicide upon defeat, dying in [[EvilCannotComprehendGood confusion to why Alex did not kill him]]. A merciless SerialKiller with an [[ILoveTheDead obsession for female bodies]] and being Alex's shadow, Kyle was one of the worst criminals Alex had to face in his career.

** ''Scorpia'': Julia Rothman is an executive board member of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Scorpia]]. Under orders from a client to spoil the special relationship between America and Britain, Rothman [[WouldHurtAChild infects every schoolchild]] in London with nanites containing cyanide, planning to make claims that she knows can't be satisfied and make a less extreme demand to America with the same consequence knowing that they will meet them after that. To demonstrate the weapon and show that she is not bluffing, Rothman kills a completely separate group of high school football players without giving them a chance to be saved. She also manipulates Alex into joining Scorpia by getting him to think his father worked for them and was killed by [=MI6=] when it was the other way around. Rothman is also an [[BadBoss awful boss]] who will frequently murder her own men [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] and kills a colleague via venomous snakes when he objects to her plan. When confronted by Alex, Rothman shrugs off the thousands of deaths that will occur, [[{{Greed}} all for the sake of money]].

** ''Scorpia'': Julia Rothman is an executive board member of [[Characters/AlexRiderScorpia Scorpia]]. Under orders from a client to spoil the special relationship between America and Britain, Rothman [[WouldHurtAChild infects every schoolchild]] in London with nanites containing cyanide, planning to make claims that she knows can't be satisfied and make a less extreme demand to America with the same consequence knowing that they will meet them after that. To demonstrate the weapon and show that she is not bluffing, Rothman kills a completely separate group of high school football players without giving them a chance to be saved. She also manipulates Alex into joining Scorpia by getting him to think his father worked for them and was killed by [=MI6=] when it was the other way around. Rothman is also an [[BadBoss awful boss]] who will frequently murder her own men [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] and kills a colleague via venomous snakes when he objects to her plan. When confronted by Alex, Rothman shrugs off the thousands of deaths that will occur, [[{{Greed}} all for the sake of money]].

** [[AxCrazy Esplin 9466 Prime]], better known to the cast as [[BigBad Visser Three]], is the only [[Characters/AnimorphsAndalites Andalite]]-Controller in existence, and is the sole [[Characters/AnimorphsYeerkEmpire Yeerk]] with the power to morph. Cruelly scorning his weaker twin, Esplin 9466 Lesser, and eventually sentencing him to exile to die of agonizing starvation, Esplin begins his career in the Hork-Bajir war where he is responsible for untold war crimes in his attempt to seize an Andalite body. Later claiming Prince Alloran Semitur-Corass as his host, Esplin uses Alloran's knowledge to launch a series of nightmarish attacks, killing countless Andalites and civilians in a wave of conquest and enslavement. Serving under Visser One on Earth, Visser 3 finally ends his rivalry with Prince Elfangor by devouring him alive. Having acquired countless monstrous Morphs through Alloran, the Visser is keen to use them to kill and torture. Forsaking all subtlety to embrace his personal [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and cruelty, the Visser [[BadBoss slaughters his own subordinates by the shipful]] for any real or imagined [[YouHaveFailedMe failures]], even morphing into a Yeerkbane, one of the few Yeerk natural predators to [[MonstrousCannibalism consume them]] in an ultimate taboo for his species. Behind the infestation and murder of numerous humans, Visser Three eventually arranges the downfall and agonizing execution by starvation of Visser One to [[TheStarscream seize control of her rank]] in order to lead the invasion and institute a fully armed assault to slaughter humanity into submission. Unwilling to be cowed, Esplin will sacrifice untold thousands of his own, planning the complete extinction or enslavement of the Andalites and countless others to satisfy his cruel ego and petty spite toward Elfangor.
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Crayak]] is an alien and member of [[Characters/AnimorphsTheHighestPowers The Highest Powers]] who acts as the series' GodOfEvil. A nearly omnipotent [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]], Crayak seeks to create a universe ruled by one species and one species alone. To that end, Crayak engineered the Howlers, a race of psychopathic {{child soldier}}s who think that killing is a game, and used them to gruesomely exterminate countless species, including the pacifistic Pemalites and Graffen's Children. In order to ensure that the Howlers' HiveMind is never contaminated by memories of defeat, Crayak obliterates any Howlers who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]]; he also destroys any Howlers who realise that their victims are people too. Not content with having created one of the most feared races in the galaxy, Crayak also lends his godlike might to other vicious species, secretly backing the Yeerks and other would-be {{galactic conqueror}}s; he plans, for example, to have the Yeerks enslave humanity, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only to then be wiped out by the Howlers]]. In a series filled with shades of grey, Crayak was as close to pure, unadulterated evil as one was likely to get.

* ''Literature/ArmageddonForce'': [[CardCarryingVillain Dr. Edgar Malbarn]], an utterly psychotic {{sadist}}, runs the Carvina Cooperation, an organization which takes wounded soldiers off of battlefields and [[PlayingWithSyringes conducts fiendish, torturous experiments]] on them. Malbarn, using only enough anesthesia to prevent Carvina victim Jon Heck from passing out, replaces Jon's blown-off arms with mechanical ones. Much to Jon's disgust, Malbarn plans to make Jon head of Malbarn's brainwashed army, which will spread chaos throughout the world. All the while, Malbarn taunts Jon, and lashes out when he gets angry, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him]] even beyond the experiments. Once Jon is rescued, both he and fellow Carvina victim [[ActionGirl Yui Shinozaki]] are haunted by nightmares of Malbarn, which continue even after Jon kills Malbarn.

* ''Literature/{{BZRK}}'': Lystra Ellen Alice Reid, aka [[BigBad Lear]], is the enigmatic founder and leader of the titular BZRK, and is the most morally reprehensible of the main antagonists in the series. Lear wishes to drive the world insane, simply ForTheEvulz. [[EnfantTerrible At a young age]], [[{{Matricide}} she murdered her mother]], and at the age of 9 got sent to a foster family, who she murdered in a car "accident" 7 years later. Two years later, she started tattooing all of her victims to her body with tortured expressions on their faces, covering up around half of her flesh. She starts buying out failing medical companies in order to get DNA samples from random people for her plan, getting at least 29,000 samples by the time the series starts. In the third book, she starts putting her plan in motion and begins instilling fear into the world by driving various renowned and well-known figures, such as the Pope and the Prince of England, insane, as well as a majority of attendants at big events such as movie premiers, and forcing Bug Man to help her by threatening him with madness. She brainwashes Plath into giving the command to blow up the Armstrong Twins hideout, the Tulip, and killing hundreds of innocents. Then she starts mass-producing biots and driving people mad, starting with 15 major cities so they can cause mass pandemonium, then military bases that hold nukes so they can fire them off en masse. Utterly remorseless and [[AxCrazy psychotic]], treating everything she does as a game, by the end of the series she has, either directly or indirectly, killed around 210 million people.

** [[BigBad Joseph Strorm]] is the [[AbusiveParents father]] of [[FirstPersonPerspective David Strorm]]. A [[SinisterMinister fanatical fundamentalist]], we first see Joseph's evil when he beats and whips David for an innocent childhood remark about needing a third hand. He then brutally whips David to get him to give up the location of his friend Sophie Wender so he can sterilize her. Upon Sophie's capture, he proceeds to smugly gloat about it in front of David, who is only 10 years old, just to hurt him. When it is discovered that David and his little sister Petra are telepathic, and therefore blasphemies, he personally leads a posse to kill his own children and torture them, even though he had previously tried to spoil Petra. A horrible fundamentalist who unnerves even the Inspector, whose job is to deal with blasphemies, Joseph represents [[FantasticRacism the worst of human intolerance]], seeing purity as more important than even his own children.

* ''Literature/TheAurelianCycle'' trilogy, by Rosaria Munda: [[AristocratsAreEvil Ixion Stormscourge]] is a sadistic, arrogant noble who will do anything to restore the Triarchy rule over Callipolis. Becoming Firestrider of the New Pythian air fleet after his sister's death, Ixion would abuse and humiliate any peasant under his command, such as locking their [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in high-profile military targets during an air raid [[IHaveYourWife to ensure their loyalty]]. Ixion launched airstrikes on Callipolis, killing countless civilians with dragon fire. After seizing power in Callipolis, [[EvilOverlord Ixion]] would begin to reinstate the old regime's brutal policies, as well as having several villages burned to the ground to make the peasants fall into line. Believing that peasants were inferior to nobles and were his property, Ixion represented the worst the Triarchy had to offer.

* ''Literature/TheChrysalids'': [[BigBad Joseph Strorm]] is the [[AbusiveParents father]] of [[FirstPersonPerspective David Strorm]]. A [[SinisterMinister fanatical fundamentalist]], we first see Joseph's evil when he beats and whips David for an innocent childhood remark about needing a third hand. He then brutally whips David to get him to give up the location of his friend Sophie Wender so he can sterilize her. Upon Sophie's capture, he proceeds to smugly gloat about it in front of David, who is only 10 years old, just to hurt him. When it is discovered that David and his little sister Petra are telepathic, and therefore blasphemies, he personally leads a posse to kill his own children and torture them, even though he had previously tried to spoil Petra. A horrible fundamentalist who unnerves even the Inspector, whose job is to deal with blasphemies, Joseph represents [[FantasticRacism the worst of human intolerance]], seeing purity as more important than even his own children.

*** ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Telsin Ladrian]]/[[TheHeavy Sequence]] is a ruthless member of the Set, and is the very worst of their ranks, [[CainAndAbel far from the sister Wax once knew]]. Overseeing the torture and experimentation of Malwish, Telsin fools her brother into thinking that she was an unwilling participant, even killing one of her own men to maintain the guise. Telsin ultimately uses this opportunity to shoot her own brother when he's off guard. After the search for the Bands of Mourning turns against her, Telsin promptly flees and leaves all her subordinates behind. Resurfacing six years later, [[ManipulativeBitch Telsin]] masterminds a plot to destroy the entire city of Elendel and its millions of inhabitants, claiming that it is necessary to stop an invasion from the god Autonomy, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when in reality]], her plan will be nearly as destructive as the invasion, and is actually intended to impress Autonomy enough [[GodhoodSeeker so that they will make Telsin a god]]. When it appears her plan will succeed, Telsin reveals to Wax that she has always hated him since childhood, and [[EvilGloating gloats]] about her success over him, revealing her to be nothing more than a petty and callous individual who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares]] about proving herself superior to her brother, indifferent to the countless lives that her actions take.

* ''Literature/TheBookOfDragons''' "The Last Hunt", by Aliette de Bodard: [[SocialClimber Lianlei and Ongjie]], part of a race of unnamed masters, lead their kind to [[PlanetLooters invade countless planets and deplete them]] of their resources until they're reduced to lifeless husks; Earth is an example of a planet they've thoroughly despoiled. Lianlei and Ongjie would also enslave each planet's population and [[PlayingWithSyringes subject them into experiments]] to turn them into their pets ,with very few surviving, and force them into hunting their own kind, with Lianlei attempting to kill Xuan Thao when the latter rebels against them.

** Geoffrey Shafer, known by law enforcement as the Weasel, is one of Cross's most personal enemies. A diplomatic staff member moonlighting as a SerialKiller, Shafer is playing a "game" with a few other men that he meet at the UsefulNotes/MI6, who style themselves after The Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, with Shafer playing the role of Death. He is introduced in ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', when he finds a prostitute and brutally kills her. He then puts on {{blackface}}, goes out in a cab, picks up a woman and murders her. He later goes out again, finds a man, and kills him too. Shafer stalks George Bayer, who plays Famine in the "game", murders the women he solicited, and leaves the bodies in a compromising position. Realizing the police are on to him he goes south to Maryland and kills a mother and her teenage daughter. Shafer then targets DC Detective and Cross's love interest Patsy Hampton and brutally kills her. Cross arrests him, but evidence being inadmissible due to [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] means he gets acquitted. Shafer then kidnaps Cross's fiancée Christine. He murders the other players of the "game". After a fight with Cross he apparently dies, but resurfaces in Europe and kill his wife. He reappears in ''London Bridges'' living in Brazil. Here he continues his murderous hobbies until The Wolf uses a streetwalker to draw him out, kidnap him, and get Shafer to work for him. Shafer bombs an army base, and then meets a sniper and has her kill the CIA Director. He later goes out and kill another prostitute. After that he goes and confronts his sister-in-law and children. He threatens them, asks them for a kiss, and when they refuse he only refrains from killing them because he states that he "does not have permission" to kill them.

* ''Literature/TheColdMoons'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Kronos]] desires to be leader of his large group of Cilgywn forest badgers, but only because he likes ruling over others. Kronos makes friends easily and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is liked by many]], but it's all an act as he needs support to get to the top of the council. Kronos also has a [[AGodIAm god complex]], and he convinced his brother Zoilos that he'd one day be a god. Kronos [[RemovingTheRival weeds out]] any badger that gets in his way of his goal. He is involved with the deaths of over four badgers, with two being leaders, but he [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident tries to make the deaths seem accidental]]: He "accidentally" trips Buckwheat into a river, has both Dandelion and an entire family of foxes killed while making it was a skirmish, and then has a boulder crush the current leader Eldon--while there were cubs around. Kronos ends up splitting the badgers into two groups, but he keeps his deserters in line by force. Those who try to escape are captured and tortured to death by Kronos and Zoilos. Oftentimes, even those that just behave in ways that Kronos dislikes are tortured and killed by his underling Vulcan.

* ''Literature/TheBottoms'', by Joe R. Lansdale: Cecil, the SerialKiller who plagues the Bottoms, is a seemingly-normal, affable member of society with a predilection to raping, torturing and killing young women. When the first victim is discovered, it is initially ignored by the town at large because the victim is black, which allows Cecil to prey on more women until he finally murders a white women, framing a black man for the crime and seeing him lynched. Cecil is finally caught when he attempts to kidnap and rape the hero's pre-teen sister, interrupted from assaulting her and trying to excuse himself by [[NeverMyFault blaming the girl]] for being too much a woman to resist.

** [[GreaterScopeVillain Lucius the Dark Knight]] is the traitorous general of the King who sought to overthrow his superiors and take over for himself. After this murderous coup resulted in his banishment, he sets his sights on the land of Arrethtrae, seeking to dominate it through any means simply because the King wants to bring peace to its people. Lucius employs a variety of evil tactics in his schemes, from mass murder to slavery to genocide, and fully endorses his nightmarish Shadow Warriors and the vile brands of evil they bring upon Arrethtrae. After his initial plan to conquer Arrethtrae and subject its people to an eternity of torment and dictatorship fails, Lucius returns with the goal of [[OmnicidalManiac wiping out all life in the world]] except himself and his army, his lust for power leaving thousands dead in his wake and attempted countless more.

** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Mr. John Whitby]] is a rich, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] gambler in Chicago who's secretly a rabid anti-Semite. Whitby looks down on the Jewish population of the city and wishes to purge it of them, which leads to him allying with the like-minded, insane SerialKiller Grigori. Whitby helps Grigori in his murders of innocent Jewish boys while planning to take their evil even bigger. Whitby plans to burn down the Jewish Corner of Chicago, and when confronted about how this could destroy the entire city and possibly kill thousands, Whitby only smugly sneers that as a gambler he doesn't care.

* ''Literature/TheCroning'': "[[ForTheEvulz Bronson Ford]]" is one of the Children of the Old Leech, a cult dedicated to a [[EldritchAbomination monstrous Dark One]]. Having been on Earth for centuries, including as Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}, Ford sows devastation, chaos, and murder simply because he savors the taste of human pain and anguish. When hero Donald "Don" Miller is on his trail, Ford makes clear that there is nothing Don can do and forces a [[SadisticChoice horrific choice]] on him: to become one of the Children with his wife Michelle forever, or Ford will kill and torture his entire family. The pact is to be sealed with Don's baby grandson, as Ford and the Children [[EatsBabies find children to be a delicacy]]. Ford admits he could take whatever he wants, but he enjoys the suffering of humans too much not to make the bargain.

** ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'': [[SmugSnake Lord Straff Venture]] is introduced in ''The Final Empire'' as a [[AristocratsAreEvil brutal noble]] ready to commit all manner of atrocities to cement his power. He systematically [[AbusiveParents abuses his children]] to force them to conform to his standards, even trying to have his son Elend assassinated. He sires illegitimate children to use as loyal assassins and spies, and discards his mistresses when they get too old--too old being late teens. In ''The Well of Ascension'', he allows an army of monsters, known for their ruthlessness and utter lack of mercy, to attack an enemy city, regardless of collateral damage. He later decides to allow the city's destruction, concluding he only cares about the Atium rumored to be hidden in the city. Caring for nothing but his own power and advancement, and seeing others as nothing but tools to use or obstacles to be destroyed, Venture stands out as one of the only [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]] in ''The Cosmere'' completely devoid of sympathy.
** ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': [[DiscOneFinalBoss Rayse]], the Shardborn who inheritred [[ThePowerOfHate the Shard of Hatred, Odium]], is a stern, tyrannical man who made it his mission to hunt down and sunder the other Shardborn. Heedless of who gets in his way, Rayse is willing to burn entire worlds to shatter the rest, having [[KillTheGod murdered those seen as "The Almighty"]] in the process while sowing his dark influence on worlds to create war and bloodshed until he can conquer or raze it to nothing. On the world the eries is set, Rayse's influence is responsible for the mental lobotomies and enslavement of the Parshendi race, the massive wars and the corruption of many others with [[BadBoss his own Fused being little more than slaves]] he will send to eternal damnation [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]]. Arriving himself, Rayse intends to slaughter everything in the world until all that is left are him and his own twisted armies, a process he will repeat through the cosmos.

* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': [[TheChessmaster Artemis Fowl]] and [[CowboyCop Holly Short]] have faced various deadly foes with these being the worst:

** Geoffrey Shafer, known by law enforcement as the Weasel, is one of Cross's most personal enemies. A diplomatic staff member moonlighting as a SerialKiller, Shafer is playing a "game" with a few other men that he meet at the UsefulNotes/MI6, who style themselves after The Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, with Shafer playing the role of Death. He is introduced in ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', when he finds a prostitute and brutally kills her. He then puts on {{blackface}}, goes out in a cab, picks up a woman and murders her. He later goes out again, finds a man, and kills him too. Shafer stalks George Bayer, who plays Famine in the "game", murders the women he solicited, and leaves the bodies in a compromising position. Realizing the police are on to him he goes south to Maryland and kills a mother and her teenage daughter. Shafer then targets DC Detective and Cross's love interest Patsy Hampton and brutally kills her. Cross arrests him, but evidence being inadmissible due to [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] means he gets acquitted. Shafer then kidnaps Cross's fiancée Christine. He murders the other players of the "game". After a fight with Cross he apparently dies, but resurfaces in Europe and kill his wife. He reappears in ''London Bridges'' living in Brazil. Here he continues his murderous hobbies until The Wolf uses a streetwalker to draw him out, kidnap him, and get Shafer to work for him. Shafer bombs an army base, and then meets a sniper and has her kill the CIA Director. He later goes out and kill another prostitute. After that he goes and confronts his sister-in-law and children. He threatens them, asks them for a kiss, and when they refuse he only refrains from killing them because he states that he "does not have permission" to kill them.

* ''Literature/TheBadSeed'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Bessie Denker]], born Schober, was a sociopathic murderer who systematically killed her own wealthy family members to her profit. [[SiblingMurder Dispatching her younger siblings]] as a child, Bessie soon after took the lives of her grandfather and [[SelfMadeOrphan both parents]]. Marrying a wealthy man to enrich herself by convincing him to take out an insurance policy, Bessie then [[BlackWidow killed him as well]], careful to keep up the façade of a sweet, caring community member to avoid suspicion. Later marrying the father of heroine Christine, Bessie killed him too, before being finally exposed by her cousin, killing said cousin and [[OffingTheOffspring three of her own children]]--Christine herself barely escaping her wicked mother--hoping to frame her dead cousin and escape justice until being caught and executed. Even long after her death, Bessie's memory haunts Christine well into adulthood and her genes give way to Christine's own daughter Rhoda taking up her grandmother's mantle as a budding psychopath in her own right.

** ''Brigands M.C'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Ralph "The Führer" Donnington]] is a Neo-Nazi in charge of the South Devon Chapter of the titular biker gang. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] trying to assault and possibly kill his [[AbusiveParents son Martin]] for spitting on a member's patch, only stopping when the member appeases him by having Martin fight the much more skilled Dante Scott. The Führer later threatens to kill Dante's father when he disagrees with his plans to have the clubhouse torn down for new facilities. When Dante's parents kill one of his thugs, he retaliates by killing them and their two older children, and the younger two only live when Dante escapes though the window with the baby, accidentally injuring said baby in the process. To [[LeaveNoWitnesses eliminate Dante as a witness]] he sends a gang member to try to bomb the foster home that Dante was staying at. When the Führer finds an undercover cop in his group he takes him to a field to execute him, until the cop tells him that he doesn't want a murder of a officer on his hands. Instead, the Führer has him cruelly dumped outside the house that Dante's family was murdered to [[KickTheDog mock him]] for failing to get justice for them. When protagonist James Adams gets a job as a server for the clubhouse, the Führer [[DisproportionateRetribution threatens to kill him for delivering tepid food]] as a sick joke, and admits he does this with every new server.

** Jared Drayke, the evil elder [[CainAndAbel half-brother]] of hero Martris "Tris" Drayke, is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] when Tris stops him from raping a servant. Later making a dark pact with the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vayash-Moru]] mage Foor Arontala, Jared [[TheUsurper launches a coup against his own family]], killing his father and destroying his soul, as well as Tris's mother and Jared's own younger half-sister. Becoming a vicious tyrant, Jared has his men slaughter entire villages for insufficient payment of taxes, while leading purges of magic users in the kingdom. Jared has members of the Sisterhood of mages slaughtered and tortured, while also butchering the other Vayash-Moru. Having others abducted, tortured and slowly {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}}, Jared also becomes a SerialRapist who abducts, tortures and rapes women regularly before murdering them. When he finally confronts Tris, Jared boasts that he will take Tris's beloved, Jared's former arranged fiancée, and rape her endlessly, [[OffingTheOffspring killing the first child she has]] to remove any issue with paternity.

* ''Literature/CityOfGod'': The prison gang leader only known as "[[MoreHateableMinorVillain Sheriff]]" stands out as a [[PrisonRape despicable monster]] despite not even being affiliated with [[BigBad Lil Zé]]. Ruling over his unit of the Lemos de Brito penitentiary with an iron fist, the Sheriff has implemented a system of [[SexSlave sexual slavery]] where weaker inmates are made to serve his gang as their "wives". A thuggish SerialRapist himself, the Sheriff spends years raping and torturing his personal slave for sadistic pleasure.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko Chronicles'' (AlternateContinuity): [[BigBad Hannibal "The Magician" Mago]], born Mark James Hollenback, was [[FromNobodyToNightmare a soldier from a poor background who became the founder of a terrorist organization]], Green Phoenix. He kidnapped Anthéa Hopper to force her husband Waldo Schaeffer to restart working on Project Carthage. When this failed, he brainwashed Anthéa for 20 years, abusing her in the meantime. Introduced [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shooting a horse]] on a racetrack so that he can win a bet, Mago has his [[TheDragon henchman]] kidnap Jérémie to force him to work for him, or he will kill Anthéa. He [[BadBoss has no empathy for his men]], merely lamenting that they lost their usefulness when they became insane upon virtualization. When X.A.N.A. offers to help Mago in exchange for helping X.A.N.A. become human, Mago accepts, while having no intention of keeping his promise, planning to keep X.A.N.A. as his weapon to TakeOverTheWorld, uncaring about the innocent lives lost in the process, and even planning to send France into chaos should it refuse to submit. He has X.A.N.A. attack [[WouldHurtAChild Kadic Academy]], so that he could retrieve taken a file containing part of Waldo's Code Down. Despite his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly demeanor]], Mago stood out as a perfect foil to X.A.N.A., who obtained the humanity Mago had long lost.

* ''Film/CountessDracula'' novel, by Guy Adams: [[VillainProtagonist Elizabeth Sasdy]] is a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] movie star who, after she starts to age, [[ImmortalityImmorality resorts to murder to keep her looks]]. After accidentally striking a maid and discovering that the maid's blood reversed her aging, Elizabeth, inspired by the crimes of the infamous Countess UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, decides to [[BloodBath bathe in blood]] to regain her youth. Bullying her husband Frank Nayland into helping her, the two murder dozens of prostitutes to gain their blood, all in Elizabeth's selfish search for eternal youth.

** ''Literature/ThePlayerOfGames'': [[TheEmperor Emperor-Regent Nicosar]] of Azad is a master player of the [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame ruthless game of Azad]] that determines everything in the empire's society. A [[AxCrazy sadistic psychopath]], Nicosar rules via torture, murder and brutality while broadcasting regular videos to the population with the "losers" facing mutilation, death or rape. Women are also seen as second-rate citizens, with abuse and violence towards them accepted, and any females who assault a male are summarily tortured to death. Despite his [[FauxAffablyEvil seemingly benevolent and passive façade]], Nicosar rules over the Empire with an iron fist, regularly executing any who would try to rebel against him, and [[BadBoss subjecting his own men to terrible torments]] should they cross him. When Nicosar plays the novel's hero Gurgeh, Nicosar is bested in Azad and orders his guards to massacre all the spectators, deciding if he has to go down, he'll [[TakingYouWithMe simply kill every single one of his own subjects in the process]].

* ''VideoGame/BabysitterBloodbath'' {{novelization}}, by Regina Watts: [[AdaptationNameChange Neoklaus]] Burr is given a more fleshed out personality, establishing him as a horrible {{sadist}}. Burr was originally just a normal man until one day he developed a sadistic desire to kill. Burr murdered his [[PaterFamilicide wife, daughter, and son]], and [[ImAHumanitarian ate his own son]] by biting his head off. Burr busted out of the hospital, murdering several of the nurses and staff while doing so. Burr began a [[SpreeKiller murder spree]], killing the entire Hugo family and then four other people. Burr would move on to the Johnson house to get the murder weapon of his family back so he could relive the moment he killed his entire family for his own sadism. Burr would several times attempt to kill Sarah and would succeed in murdering a few people in the house, including Sarah's friend Jill.

** ''[[Literature/TheCircleOpens Street Magic]]'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lady Zenadia doa Attaneh]] is a noblewoman [[EvilOldFolks in the senior years of her life]] who, finding nothing more in her regal life stimulates her anymore, turns to lording over a gang full of street orphans [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]]. Zenadia wins the loyalty of the children with money and clean clothing, dubs them the "Vipers", then sends them off to start causing [[MobWar gang wars]] regardless of how many people die in the process. Those she deems lacking "discipline" or who otherwise bore her are strangled to death by her mute assassin and used as fertilizer for her sapient plants, who gloat about how well fed they are. Zenadia elects to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled kill herself rather than face justice]] at the end of the novel, dismissing all the orphan children she's murdered as tools without value.

* ''Literature/ChainLetter'' duology: [[BigBad The Caretaker]] is a demonic entity who targets a group of teens who believe they had killed a man. She implants Neil with a lethal tumor that [[MindRape manipulates his mind]], forcing him to send the group a chain letter telling them to perform tasks that will eventually damn their souls. When Neil fights his possession upon being told to burn down his school, the Caretaker leaves him to die. Targeting the survivors a few months later, the Caretaker gives Fran and Kipp outrageous demands that will never be met, then brutally kills them, with Fran being [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] and Kipp being [[ManOnFire lit on fire]]. Posing as a nurse named Sasha, the Caretaker sabotages Alison's relationship with Tony, who she puts under MindControl. When Alison discovers the truth, the Caretaker gleefully orders Tony to kill her, gloating that even if Alison stops her, another Caretaker will take her place.

* ''Literature/ArcOfAScythe'' series: [[SinisterMinister Curate Mendoza]] is the [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], {{manipulative|Bastard}} curate of a Tone Cult. Initially a benevolent man who protected Greyson Tolliver from Scythes, Mendoza starts to show his true colors after the Thunderhead marked everybody but Greyson as Unsavory. Using Greyson as a prophet for the Cult, Mendoza attempts to use him as a figurehead so that [[TheManBehindTheMan he has all the power]]. Failing to control Greyson, Mendoza sought to gain Scythe Goddard's favor. Mendoza convinced a violent Tone Cult to attack Goddard's rival Tenkamenin. The attack leaves Tenkamenin, two other Scythes and countless innocents dead. Mendoza then travels with Greyson to the Cultists' home, and quietly watches as Greyson has the Cult's curate killed for the attack. After Goddard orders the genocide of the Cultists, Mendoza tries to start a war between the Scythedom and the Cults, which Greyson banishes him for. Mendoza then goes to Goddard, offering to kill more of his rivals in exchange for Goddard [[PragmaticVillainy sparing some cultists]], with Mendoza as their new leader.

** Foul's CoDragons, [[TheDividual the three Ravers]], are just as bad. They were originally three human brothers whose evil was so great it survived past the destruction of their physical bodies as incorporeal demons with a thing for [[DemonicPossession possessing people]]. In addition to being willing accomplices in all of Foul's crimes [[note]]WordOfGod says they think that when he breaks free of the Land, they can ride his metaphysical coattails into godhood themselves]][[/note]], and sharing his gleeful, psychotic sadism, each Raver has racked up a number of atrocities of his own. ''Moksha'' Jehannum Fleshharrower and ''Samadhi'' Sheol Satansfist both did stints as Foul's head general, massacring countless innocents--and [[BadBoss their own troops]]. Individually, ''Samadhi'', as Gibbon na'Mhoram, was the head of a PathOfInspiration that sacrificed countless lives while lying to the people of the Land that it would help reverse the AfterTheEnd conditions of the Sunbane, when in fact it was just making it worse; ''Moksha'' stalked Covenant over much of the Second Chronicles infecting him with venom in order to force him to use his ring at full power whether he wanted to or not, which would have destroyed the world, which was the plan. ''Turiya'' Herem Kinslaughterer doesn't show up as often as his brothers, but commits one of the single most appalling atrocities in the Chronicles: single-handedly committing genocide of the Giants of Seareach while they refused to fight back.

** Geoffrey Shafer, known by law enforcement as the Weasel, is one of Cross's most personal enemies. A diplomatic staff member moonlighting as a SerialKiller, Shafer is playing a "game" with a few other men that he meet at the UsefulNotes/MI6, who style themselves after The Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, with Shafer playing the role of Death. He is introduced in ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', when he finds a prostitute and brutally kills her. He then puts on {{blackface}}, goes out in a cab, picks up a woman and murders her. He later goes out again, finds a man, and kills him too. Shafer stalks George Bayer, who plays Famine in the "game", murders the women he solicited, and leaves the bodies in a compromising position. Realizing the police are on to him he goes south to Maryland and kills a mother and her teenage daughter. Shafer then targets DC Detective and Cross's love interest Patsy Hampton and brutally kills her. Cross arrests him, but evidence being inadmissible due to [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] means he gets acquitted. Shafer then kidnaps Cross's fiancée Christine. He murders the other players of the "game". After a fight with Cross he apparently dies, but resurfaces in Europe and kill his wife. He reappears in ''London Bridges'' living in Brazil. Here he continues his murderous hobbies until The Wolf uses a streetwalker to draw him out, kidnap him, and get Shafer to work for him. Shafer bombs an army base, and then meets a sniper and has her kill the CIA Director. He later goes out and kill another prostitute. After that he goes and confronts his sister-in-law and children. He threatens them, asks them for a kiss, and when they refuse he only refrains from killing them because he states that he "does not have permission" to kill them.

* ''Literature/TheBadSeed'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Bessie Denker]], born Schober, was a sociopathic murderer who systematically killed her own wealthy family members to her profit. [[SiblingMurder Dispatching her younger siblings]] as a child, Bessie soon after took the lives of her grandfather and [[SelfMadeOrphan both parents]]. Marrying a wealthy man to enrich herself by convincing him to take out an insurance policy, Bessie then [[BlackWidow killed him as well]], careful to keep up the façade of a sweet, caring community member to avoid suspicion. Later marrying the father of heroine Christine, Bessie killed him too, before being finally exposed by her cousin, killing said cousin and [[OffingTheOffspring three of her own children]]--Christine herself barely escaping her wicked mother--hoping to frame her dead cousin and escape justice until being caught and executed. Even long after her death, Bessie's memory haunts Christine well into adulthood and her genes give way to Christine's own daughter Rhoda taking up her grandmother's mantle as a budding psychopath in her own right.

* ''Literature/TheBookOfDragons''' "The Last Hunt", by Aliette de Bodard: [[SocialClimber Lianlei and Ongjie]], part of a race of unnamed masters, lead their kind to [[PlanetLooters invade countless planets and deplete them]] of their resources until they're reduced to lifeless husks; Earth is an example of a planet they've thoroughly despoiled. Lianlei and Ongjie would also enslave each planet's population and [[PlayingWithSyringes subject them into experiments]] to turn them into their pets ,with very few surviving, and force them into hunting their own kind, with Lianlei attempting to kill Xuan Thao when the latter rebels against them.

** ''Brigands M.C'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Ralph "The Führer" Donnington]] is a Neo-Nazi in charge of the South Devon Chapter of the titular biker gang. He is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] trying to assault and possibly kill his [[AbusiveParents son Martin]] for spitting on a member's patch, only stopping when the member appeases him by having Martin fight the much more skilled Dante Scott. The Führer later threatens to kill Dante's father when he disagrees with his plans to have the clubhouse torn down for new facilities. When Dante's parents kill one of his thugs, he retaliates by killing them and their two older children, and the younger two only live when Dante escapes though the window with the baby, accidentally injuring said baby in the process. To [[LeaveNoWitnesses eliminate Dante as a witness]] he sends a gang member to try to bomb the foster home that Dante was staying at. When the Führer finds an undercover cop in his group he takes him to a field to execute him, until the cop tells him that he doesn't want a murder of a officer on his hands. Instead, the Führer has him cruelly dumped outside the house that Dante's family was murdered to [[KickTheDog mock him]] for failing to get justice for them. When protagonist James Adams gets a job as a server for the clubhouse, the Führer [[DisproportionateRetribution threatens to kill him for delivering tepid food]] as a sick joke, and admits he does this with every new server.

** Jared Drayke, the evil elder [[CainAndAbel half-brother]] of hero Martris "Tris" Drayke, is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] when Tris stops him from raping a servant. Later making a dark pact with the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vayash-Moru]] mage Foor Arontala, Jared [[TheUsurper launches a coup against his own family]], killing his father and destroying his soul, as well as Tris's mother and Jared's own younger half-sister. Becoming a vicious tyrant, Jared has his men slaughter entire villages for insufficient payment of taxes, while leading purges of magic users in the kingdom. Jared has members of the Sisterhood of mages slaughtered and tortured, while also butchering the other Vayash-Moru. Having others abducted, tortured and slowly {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}}, Jared also becomes a SerialRapist who abducts, tortures and rapes women regularly before murdering them. When he finally confronts Tris, Jared boasts that he will take Tris's beloved, Jared's former arranged fiancée, and rape her endlessly, [[OffingTheOffspring killing the first child she has]] to remove any issue with paternity.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko Chronicles'' (AlternateContinuity): [[BigBad Hannibal "The Magician" Mago]], born Mark James Hollenback, was [[FromNobodyToNightmare a soldier from a poor background who became the founder of a terrorist organization]], Green Phoenix. He kidnapped Anthéa Hopper to force her husband Waldo Schaeffer to restart working on Project Carthage. When this failed, he brainwashed Anthéa for 20 years, abusing her in the meantime. Introduced [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shooting a horse]] on a racetrack so that he can win a bet, Mago has his [[TheDragon henchman]] kidnap Jérémie to force him to work for him, or he will kill Anthéa. He [[BadBoss has no empathy for his men]], merely lamenting that they lost their usefulness when they became insane upon virtualization. When X.A.N.A. offers to help Mago in exchange for helping X.A.N.A. become human, Mago accepts, while having no intention of keeping his promise, planning to keep X.A.N.A. as his weapon to TakeOverTheWorld, uncaring about the innocent lives lost in the process, and even planning to send France into chaos should it refuse to submit. He has X.A.N.A. attack [[WouldHurtAChild Kadic Academy]], so that he could retrieve taken a file containing part of Waldo's Code Down. Despite his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly demeanor]], Mago stood out as a perfect foil to X.A.N.A., who obtained the humanity Mago had long lost.

** ''Literature/ThePlayerOfGames'': [[TheEmperor Emperor-Regent Nicosar]] of Azad is a master player of the [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame ruthless game of Azad]] that determines everything in the empire's society. A [[AxCrazy sadistic psychopath]], Nicosar rules via torture, murder and brutality while broadcasting regular videos to the population with the "losers" facing mutilation, death or rape. Women are also seen as second-rate citizens, with abuse and violence towards them accepted, and any females who assault a male are summarily tortured to death. Despite his [[FauxAffablyEvil seemingly benevolent and passive façade]], Nicosar rules over the Empire with an iron fist, regularly executing any who would try to rebel against him, and [[BadBoss subjecting his own men to terrible torments]] should they cross him. When Nicosar plays the novel's hero Gurgeh, Nicosar is bested in Azad and orders his guards to massacre all the spectators, deciding if he has to go down, he'll [[TakingYouWithMe simply kill every single one of his own subjects in the process]].

* ''Literature/{{Birdman|JackCaffery1}}'': [[AxCrazy Malcolm Bliss]] is a sexually sadistic psychopath. Embittered against women due to his unattractive appearance, Bliss began [[SerialRapist serially raping women]] at a young age, claiming at least four victims every year. Meeting a woman called Joni and becoming sexually obsessed with her, Bliss decides to [[ILoveTheDead rape and mutilate dead prostitutes as a substitute]]. Roping a rich aristocrat called Toby Harteveld into his scheme, Bliss has Harteveld kill five prostitutes for him before mutilating the breasts of each one and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals sewing a bird inside the chest]] to mimic the sound of a dying heartbeat, raping the remains as the bird suffocates. When the bodies are discovered, Bliss abducts an innocent housewife and forces her to see pictures of a child being raped, before mutilating her breasts with no anaesthetic and dumping her in a dustbin. When Joni rejects Bliss due to his creepy behaviour, Bliss rips out her breast implants with a hacksaw and, when [[LoveInterest Rebecca]] interrupts them, abducts them both. Killing Joni by snapping her spine and shoving a broken bottle up her vagina, Bliss flees when the police corner him. Luring out DI Essex, Bliss slices off his limbs with a hacksaw, before [[EvilGloating gloating to Jack Caffery that he enjoyed torturing Rebecca to death]].

* ''Blackbeard's Pirates vs. The Evil Mummies'', by James Black: [[BigBad Sakhmet]] is a former Egyptian [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen]] who has become the ruler of the evil mummies. Feeding on the souls of her victims, Sakhmet kills many people to join her legions, massacres the crew of a Turkish ship when they hold her sarcophagus, and later targets UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}'s own crew. After killing many more people, Sakhmet possesses and kills Blackbeard's sister Mary before announcing her intentions of unleashing her armies on the world to reap and devour the souls of countless innocents until she reigns over what's left.
* ''Literature/{{Blacklands}}'' by Belinda Bauer: [[SerialKiller Arnold Avery]] is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]] with a penchant for [[SerialRapist rape]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]]. Having grown up a vicious bully to all around him, [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior torturing animals and fellow children alike]], Avery [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp continues this malicious streak into adulthood]], eventually kidnapping, raping, and murdering a child who reminded him of a victim who ratted him out in middle school. Discovering how enjoyable this was, Avery began routinely raping and murdering children, racking up 9 victims before he was caught. Taking time to send letters to his victims' families to mock them over their plight, Avery soon arranges a prison riot to escape from prison so as to track down the nephew of a child he once killed. Once tracking down the boy, Avery gleefully attempts to rape and murder him, hoping for nothing more than to continue his spree afterwards.