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* ''Raven'' duology, by Creator/PatriciaBriggs:
** [[EvilSorcerer Willon the Shadowed one]] is the true BigBad who sows the land with discord, chaos and death to eventually harness the powers of the [[GreaterScopeVillain Stalker]]. Killing countless through the purges he conducts via agents like Telleridge, Willon also gains power via magic plagues, such as one he used on Tier's village that even killed Tier's [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter]]. Not satisfied, Willon later wipes out an entire city while trying to overthrow Emperor Phoran and have him and all close to him killed, uncaring of the damage the Stalker's power will have on the world and countless innocents.
** ''Raven's Shadow'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Telleridge]] is the power-hungry leader of the wizard group the Masters of the Path. Under the machinations of Willon, Telleridge happily leads the kidnapping, torture and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] of the order bearers in order to gain their powers through their deaths, and upon kidnapping Tier, Telleridge has him [[MindRape mentally]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] tortured. Telleridge also uses his daughter Myrceria as a way to gain the trust of his victims, and after she sides with Tier, Telleridge heartlessly has her [[OffingTheOffspring tortured to death]] out of petty spite.
** ''Raven's Strike'': [[PsychoForHire Ielian]] is the treacherous guard of Emperor Phoran. Betraying his kingdom to Willon, heedless of the death it will bring, Ielian reveals his only true purpose is being a sadistic SerialKiller who is paid in victims by his master. After betraying Phoran and killing his fellows, Ielian even [[SlashedThroat slits another guard's throat]] just to savor the death, trying to have his old comrades tortured and murdered so he may live with as much depravity as he desires.
* ''Raven: Swordmistress of Chaos'' series, by Richard Kirk: Karl ir Donwayne is a ruthless slaver and Raven's [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]]. Having been her master from a young age, Donwayne had Raven's mother raped and killed by his men before raping the young Raven himself. Donwayne is shown to relish in slavery, being a SerialRapist of female slaves, keeping [[CreepySouvenir locks of their hair]] as trophies to mark his conquests. After being defeated by Raven, Donwayne returns as an undead monster, trying to kill her friends and even threatening to kill Raven and make her his undead SexSlave for eternity.
* "Literature/RawheadRex": [[AntagonistTitle Rawhead Rex]] himself is a [[EldritchAbomination monster]] from the days before Christianity, released from the Earth in a small English village. Rawhead promptly [[UngratefulBastard dispatches the man who dug him out]] and sets about trying to regain his kingdom. The first thing he does is to murder a farmer, eat the man's little daughter alive, and kill the man's pregnant wife before attacking a police car, [[CripplingCastration castrating the survivor of the crash]] and then burning him alive. Rawhead corrupts the local verger and hideously mutilates the reverend out of contempt for his "weak" religion. At the story's climax, Rawhead attempts to burn down all of Zeal in his fury. Unlike many literal monsters, Rawhead is a sapient being that amounts to a brutish bully who loves carnage, pain and especially [[ChildEater eating children]].
* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'': [[BigBad The Pale Lady]] is TheManBehindTheMan for almost every bad thing that's happened in the ''Farseer Trilogy'', as she purchased the skill scrolls from Regal and learned the art of Forging from them. As ''The Tawny Man'' trilogy showed, she relished in the psychological aspects of forging; she loved unleashing mindless Forged ones against their own families and kinsmen. In addition, she would ransom the dead bodies of Out Islanders she'd captured to their families, with the threat that if they didn't pay she'd return them as Forged. She was behind the war between The Six Duchies and the Out Islands, using the Out Island warlord Kebal Rawbread as her [[TheHeavy Heavy]]. It was implied that she may have had her hands in the Jamaillian slave trade. She was a recreational TortureTechnician as well. When Kebal Rawbread [[YouHaveFailedMe failed her]], she chained him to a frozen throne in her ice palace, used magic to keep him alive through what would have been lethal frostbite, and fed him [[ImAHumanitarian body parts]] of other Out Islanders she'd forged. Forging was a process that could be done very slowly over the course of weeks. And she tortured The Fool over the course of days for no reason other than the joy of it. Her sole motivation was [[ApocalypseHow the complete collapse of civilization]].
* ''Literature/RebelGenius'': Ugalino, the BigBad of the first book in the trilogy, was once [[TheMentor Pietro's]] [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil student]] until he made a Tulpa, a Golem-like creature with destructive capabilities. Rather than learn humility from being expelled, Ugalino used his Tulpa, which he named "Zanobius," to be a living weapon. He tries to paint himself as meaning well, but [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he used Zanobius to murder countless people]], including Ozo's wife and daughter, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist regardless of whether or not it furthers his goals]]. He ripped his Genius Ciro's gem out of his head so that he could use its magic capabilities without needing to perform an act of art, which is shown to physically and psychologically damage Geniuses. When getting information out of Duke Oberta on the [[MacGuffin Creator's Compass]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays him]] by having Zanobius slaughter almost everybody in his castle. With the information Oberta gave him, he went to Baldasarre's villa and he threatens Baldasarre's wife, prompting Enzio to tell him, and he then abducts Enzio so that he could lead them to the Compass. When the first location turned out to be an illusion, he uses Enzio as a sacrifice for a ritual that could lead him to the true location. Zanobius, who had developed a bond with Enzio during his captivity, stops Ugalino, only for him to be subjected to MindRape. When Ugalino catches up to Giacomo, he orders Zanobius to kill him and his friends, but Zanobius tries to rebel again, causing Ugalino—not for the first time--to give him LaserGuidedAmnesia. With Zanobius loyal to him again, he threatens to kill Aaminah if Giacomo didn't give him the Compass, and only lets them live [[PragmaticVillainy because]] he found out Giacomo was a Tulpa and hoped to use him as a weapon. With the Compass in his possession, he uses it to assassinate Nerezza, not caring who gets killed in the crossfire.
* ''[[Literature/TechnicHistory The Rebel Worlds]]'' (Flandry, #3): [[AntagonisticGovernor Imperial Governor Aaron Snelund]] gets a title and position by becoming the Emperor's lover, before [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating the drunken Emperor]] into posting him to some far-off sector, where Snelund swiftly becomes a terrible ruler, instituting an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil illegal slave trade]]. In one instance he punishes one alien village for not obeying him swiftly enough by [[WouldHurtAChild impaling the village's children]] and [[ForcedToWatch forcing their parents to watch]] for the three days it takes them to die. Snelund later kidnaps the beloved wife of the Imperial admiral of his sector so he can rape and torture her.
* ''Literature/RedDwarf'' series:
** ''Last Human'': The Alternate Lister, apart from being an unfeeling sociopath with no regard for life or property, also murders his "friends" aboard Starbug simply because he didn't want them getting hold of the coordinates of the DNA-Altering machine, even lasering Kryten's head off and jamming a Cuban cigar between the lips as a joke. Then, when the protagonist version of Lister rescues him from [[TheAlcatraz Cyberia]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays this act of kindness]] by knocking his rescuer unconscious and forcing him to take his place at the prison. As a final atrocity, he even goes as far as [[GroinAttack shooting Protagonist Lister in the balls with a rad pistol]] to try and motivate Kochanski into having sex with him.
** ''Backwards'': Djuhn'Keep, as one of a series of androids dedicated to hunting down the remains of the human race--aka Dave Lister--and torturing them to death, is already vile. Djuhn masterminded the creation of [[TheMaze the Death Wheel]] and the Hub of Pain [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] at its very center, stocking it with every single form of weapon that could be used to torture their captives. Djuhn, needing spare parts, infects one of the other agonoids with a [[AndIMustScream paralyzing computer virus]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath dismantles him while he's still conscious]]. Then, just to make sure that he'd have the privilege of torturing Lister and the other Dwarfers, he gathers all the other agonoids in the Hub of Pain and increases the gravity until most of them are crushed to death. The survivors are forced into the spokes of the Death Wheel and whittled down by the {{death trap}}s, while Djuhn listens from the control room, "[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming conducting the symphony of screams and death rattles as if it were the sweetest of sweet music.]]" Then, when it seems that some of them have escaped alive, Djuhn [[ThrownOutTheAirlock he ejects them into space]] and goes after Lister.
* ''Literature/TheRedQueensWar'': [[{{Necromancer}} Edris Dean]] is a servant of The Lady Blue and masterminds a series of cruel attacks to create the "Unborn", murdering pregnant women to damn the souls of their unborn children to hell, where they will become powerful undead beings to be unleashed on the world, the fate that befalls the wife and unborn baby of the Viking hero Snorri. It is also revealed that when the hero Jalan was young, Edris Dean nearly killed him and murdered his pregnant mother to turn his unborn sister into the strongest Unborn ever seen. Torturing and murdering a friend of Jalan's to obtain the Liar's Key that can help reshape the world, Edris later enslaves the soul of Jalan's sister to get her to kill her brother to help tear a hole through reality which could kill countless people in the cities. [[TheStarscream Ostensibly on board]] with the Lady Blue's plan to usher in the apocalypse to become gods, Edris Dean murders the men she assigned to him to turn them into undead slaves, trying to kill Jalan to hijack the plan and [[AGodAmI become the new god of all creation]].
* "Redemption at Knife's End", by Tim Marquitz, from ''Neverland's Library'': [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Korbitt]] is a depraved ex-soldier turned bandit who runs the illegal [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery ring]] of the town he's stationed in, spreading horror to the citizens. Kidnapping a young girl named Vai from a peaceful endangered species, Korbitt has her turned into his SexSlave and rapes her repeatedly. When [[AntiHero Gryl]] comes to rescue Vai, Korbitt threatens to [[SlashedThroat slit her throat]].
* ''Literature/ReefOfDeath'': The [[BigBad main villain]] of this [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids violent children’s novel]] by Paul Zindel is [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Ecenbarger]], a {{greed}}y [[MadScientist scientist]]. She commands a tanker she has parked off the coast of the titular reef where she is drilling and hording all the environment's natural resources while the local Aborigine people starve and grow ill. Having discovered many [[SeaMonster undiscovered species]] in the reef, Ecenbarger uses them as monstrously as possible. In the depths of the reef lives a massive carnivorous fish that Ecenbarger drives insane with a sonic signal to devour anyone in the vicinity, which is the fate of a luckless diver in the prologue. When [[TheHero PC]] teams up with the man's sister Maruul, Ecenbarger unleashes the fish on them, which kills PC's uncle Cliff. When she has them aboard the tanker, Ecenbarger [[YouHaveFailedMe has a guard executed for failure]] by having a spider-crab eat his brain. It is revealed that Ecenbarger is excavating the treasure of Maruul's people, a fire opal wall, with intent to destroy it and sell the pieces despite the damage it will have on the natives.
* ''Literature/TheReignOfEvil'': [[BigBad The God of Chaos]], better known as [[EvilOverlord King Dosleum]], is a tyrannical, sadistic GodOfEvil that waged war on the nations of Nidavia in hopes of conquering them. He beheaded the kind King Arnstil and sent his soldiers to find the king's heirs--Hawk, Falcon, and their infant brother, Eagle—and kidnap their foster parents. After attacking the city of Noltreydelm, his soldiers manage to capture Hawk, who King Dosleum proceeds to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]], [[YouKilledMyFather murders his foster parents in front of him]], and then imprisons him. Eventually, King Dosleum attempts to groom Hawk, promising him a piece of land in exchange for his servitude, and displays pleasure at when Hawk tells him that he intends to keep a prisoner as his personal concubine. After attacking Fairence twice more, he sends a legion of monsters to [[BadBoss kill his own men]], thus revealing his intention to rule Nidavia with [[KillAllHumans no human life]]. Once the heroes confront him, [[VampiricDraining he siphons the life force]] from his own Dusk Riders to fuel a spell to kill the heroes, and manages to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] an already-wounded Matt.
* Creator/MatthewReilly is not subtle when it comes to his villains:
** ''Literature/{{Temple}}'':
*** William Race's present-day story: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Earl Bittiker]], a vicious militiaman and founder of the [[ApocalypseCult Republican Army of Texas]], was drummed out of the Navy [=SEALs=] for rape. Having succumbed to a doomsday cultism, Bittiker leads his men to steal the powerful idol to power the [[DoomsdayDevice Supernova]] after several murders. Intending on wiping out a third of humanity in one blast, [[OmnicidalManiac Bittiker]] intends to completely erase the world for the sole satisfaction of seeing it burn.
*** Alberto Santiago's 1500s story: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Hernando Pizarro]], brother and lieutenant of Francisco Pizzaro, is a sadistic psychopath of a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who [[RapePillageAndBurn leads his forces]] across the Incan Empire. Women are forced into brothels and enslaved, children sold into slavery, men tortured and maimed with Hernando having entire villages tortured or massacred [[ForTheEvulz for the sport of it]]. Locating the priest Alberto Santiago and his friend Prince Renco who have taken the idol, Hernando intends to recover it and then torture the two slowly to death simply for the inconvenience.
** Scarecrow (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series:
*** ''Area 7'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** ''Area 7'': [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
*** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
* ''Literature/TheReplacement'': [[WouldHurtAChild The Lady]] is a narcissistic [[TheFairFolk Fay]] clinging to the last vestiges of power and authority. With her pact with the town of Gentry, she reigns over them, and has them [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] children once every seven years that she keeps as a pet, torments and eventually kills and [[ChildEater devours]], with a girl named Natalie the next of her victims. Setting fire to a church which causes a fatality upon being challenged, the Lady also tries to kill Mackie Doyle and others by handing them over to her TortureTechnician, the Cutter, to gruesomely murder.
* ''La République des imberbes'', by Mohamed Toihiri: [[VillainProtagonist Guigoz]], [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed based]] on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soilih Ali Soilih]], was already a bully in his childhood, and grew up to be much worse, joining a far-left group who staged a coup against the new Comorian regime. Becoming Comoros's dictator, Guigoz manipulated the youth into joining his ideals, creating the Zazis commandos. Said commandos became known for their sheer brutality against any political opposition, with murders, thefts, public humiliations, tortures and rapes becoming rampant in the country. Despite forbidding witchcraft and brutally punishing any practitioner, [[{{Hypocrite}} Guigoz]] had appointed several "sorcerers" as his advisors, and upon their recommendation, had no problems sacrificing seven [[WouldHurtAChild 7-year olds]] by having them strangled, while a nail is slammed in their skulls with a hammer. When "sorcerers" told Guigoz that spirits required three sacrifices, including one person truly close to Guigoz, Guigoz tricked his friend and advisor Lulé into killing two people, and then had him judged by a kangaroo court and executed. When a group in Iconi tried to rebel against him, Guigoz threatened the entire village, and the resulting onslaught led to over a thousand deaths. Thoroughly depraved beneath his charismatic behavior, Guigoz was appropriately called "Satan in a human's skin".
* ''Literature/{{Repugnant}}'', by Judith Sonnet: [[TheDreaded The Sender]], real name Gordon Werner, is a vile SerialKiller with a penchant for torture, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. After killing his own mother, he randomly murders numerous people before torturing, eviscerating, and killing heroine Sabra Rockford in a gruesome sacrifice to Satan to gain unholy powers. Gaining power not from [[EvenEvilHasStandards a revolted Satan]] but a host of lesser demons, the Sender embarks on a Halloween rampage through the town of Cardin, mutilating and slaughtering well over a dozen people, including trick-or-treaters. By the time Sabra--resurrected by Satan to seek revenge--finally tracks him down, the Sender has unleashed his demonic powers on Cardin's Halloween festival, turning it into an orgy of sadomasochistic violence that sees scores more people killed. So evil that he horrifies even the Devil, the Sender has no motive for his atrocities other than his own insatiable sadism.
* ''The Resort'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Jedidiah Harrison]] is a purely black-hearted {{sadist}} with a love for anything that causes others agony. Jedidiah founded the Reata resort hotel solely to turn it into a slaughterhouse of death and agony for countless innocents that he would brutally torture and murder by the dozens, bribing numerous wealthy individuals into assisting him in his crimes in exchange for allowing them to use his FountainOfYouth. After a freak accident destroys much of the Fountain, Jedidiah spends decades preparing a new ceremony that will allow him to restore the Fountain to its former glory, murdering any who might stand in his way in the process. Once the ceremony is ready, Jedidiah turns a nearby, fully-occupied hotel into a hellish EldritchLocation, turning many of the residents into insane savages who rape and murder all they see, while Jedidiah himself hangs, [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]], and butchers employees and residents alike, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. With his final ritual being to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice a child]] to the Fountain to restore its immortality properties, Jedidiah plans to then spend eternity continuing his sadistic ways, causing pain and torment to all he can [[ForTheEvulz for nothing but gleeful cruelty]].
* ''The Resurrectionist'', by Wrath James White: Dale [=McCarthy=] is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish]], self-righteous psychopath with the ability to revive those recently killed from death, and exploits these abilities to indulge in his own twisted desires. After being exposed to violence while witnessing his father violently rape his mother, Dale, starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], began using his abilities to first [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill small animals]], then his own grandmother, over and over again, bringing them back to life each time. Though attempting to keep his mother, the only one aware of his abilities, alive and as his tormented caretaker, Dale moved on to other victims after his mother killed herself permanently. Dale proceeded to go on a horrific killing spree across the country, always targeting one specific woman for a short amount of time to torture, rape, and kill as many times as he wants before going to another victim. Once confronting the only woman he deems worthy of his "love", Sarah, Dale commits truly horrifying atrocities against her, from raping her and her husband in front of each other to [[FlayingAlive flaying her alive]], all things he has done on countless others. In the end, Dale brutally [[CopKiller murders two police officers standing in his way]], and, once beaten, causes all those he has ever revived to drop dead, seemingly for good this time. Dale [=McCarthy=] was a spoiled, disgusting, and despicable lunatic who justified his wicked acts as not truly evil, seeing as he always revived his victims, and [[NeverMyFault constantly blamed others]] for his pathetic state in life.
* ''Literature/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' (John Russo's 1978 novel): [[NightmareFetishist Flack]], a [[AxCrazy sadistic psychopath]] and former convict, uses the ZombieApocalypse as an excuse to indulge himself. Taking refuge in the Miller house with his partners, Flack rapes the young woman Sue Ellen, and reveals he intends to use the Miller sisters as "zombie bait." Flack and his partner John Carter [[CopKiller shoot a police officer]], leaving his partner tied up so when Flack's victim reanimates, he'll devour his former friend. Upon fleeing, Flack throws a young man named Billy to the zombies and storms a mansion, killing the guards inside and taking the family hostage. Flack then throws them, mother, father and [[WouldHurtAChild a ten-year-old]] to the zombies, gleefully watching as the zombies tear them apart while keeping the Miller sisters to rape at his and Carter's leisure.
* ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'':
** ''The Riftwar Saga'': [[TheHeavy Murmandamus]] is the Big Bad of ''Silverthorn'' and ''A Darkness at Sethanon''. A Pantathian [[SnakePeople serpent-priest]] who plans to bring the [[SealedEvilInACan long-banished]] [[AbusivePrecursors Valheru]] back into the world, Murmandamus disguises himself as the reincarnation of the moredhel's (dark elves) greatest leader, uniting the mountain, forest, and hill clans in a campaign of genocide against their human and eledhel enemies. He sends assassins after the Prince of Krondor, which gets numerous people caught in the crossfire. He steals the souls of his human servants in a ritual that involves [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] a [[WouldHurtAChild nine-year-old girl]]. He creates the Black Slayers, soulless moredhel, bound in service to him forevermore. He murders a seer who gave him the information he wanted, and massacres hundreds of slaves when he realizes that his campaign isn't going to start when he wants it to. In ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', he destroys the cities of Armengar and Sethanon, lines his headquarters at Sar-Sargoth with a thousand [[DecapitationPresentation human heads on pikes]], [[BadBoss kills hundreds of his own men in a fit of rage]], tramples his right-hand serpent-priest, Cathos, to death, consumes the souls of all those who have died aiding him, and in the end, tries to activate the Lifestone, an ArtifactOfDoom that will [[OmnicidalManiac slay all life]] on Midkemia from bacteria to humanity, in order to loose the Valheru. Believing that he will attain demigodhood when the Valheru return, Murmandamus dies laughing about how "[[CardCarryingVillain I am a thing of death, Lord of the West. I am ever the servant of Darkness]]."
** ''The Riftwar Legacy'': [[PsychoForHire Bear]], the BigBad of ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods'', is a vicious mercenary pirate initially employed as [[TheHeavy muscle]] by the sorcerer Leso Varen, aka Sidi, to gain the Tear of the Gods, quickly becoming something far more uncontrollable and ambitious. With the power of a dark amulet making him impervious to all forms of harm, Bear forces a pirate crew led by Knute to join him under the threat of death--making good on his threats by torturously murdering two men for slights--and massacres the Ishapian ship carrying the Tear. Once he loses the Tear and is further betrayed by Knute, Bear resurfaces and comes down on Krondor in a vicious fury. Bear slaughters his way into a tavern, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring himself]] with Sir William's fiancée before murdering her, kills his way into the city jail and vengefully cuts Knute apart, and indiscriminately murders his way out of Krondor and through the sewers, lining dozens of bodies behind him and setting a populated orphanage on fire purely as a diversion. Once he's finally tracked down by William and a score of Krondorian soldiers, Bear gleefully [[BadBoss tosses his own men to die]] in his stead even despite his own invulnerability before single-handedly ripping apart the Krondorian guard and attempting to slay all those who stand before him and the Tear, proclaiming he'll be nothing more than a god. A barbarian too much even for the sinister Leso Varen, Bear is little more than animalistic wrath and savage fury on legs.
* ''Literature/RingShout'', by P. Djèlí Clark: [[TheButcher Butcher]] Clyde is the leader of the "Ku Kluxes," the [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors]] from beyond who have allied with the [[TheKlan Klansmen]]. Leading them to racial lynch mobs, Clyde inspires them to butcher innocent Black people to [[ThePowerOfHate spread even more hatred so that he may summon his master]], the Grand Cyclops, to cleanse the world after revealing the meat he fed his followers was that of monsters to force them to be bound to the Grand Cyclops [[AndIMustScream in permanent agony]].
* ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'': [[BombThrowingAnarchists Xu Ping An]] is a [[EvilIsBurningHot Firebender warlord]] with a [[FauxAffablyEvil finely-honed, superficial sense of charisma]] he uses to reign in a loyal gathering of marauders with which he pledges to [[RapePillageAndBurn overthrow the law and let anarchy reign]]. Xu put entire villages of "abiders" to the sword, leaving countless corpses stacked behind him until his rampage was finally stopped by Jianzhu. When inadvertently broken out eight years later by the Avatar, Kyoshi, Xu muses that the land has forgotten his name and pledges to [[FameThroughInfamy scar his name into history]] in a way they will never forget. To begin his new wave of bloodshed, Xu captures a family and forces them to watch as he dunks the father in and out of a pot of boiling water, gleefully intending to move on to slaughter the nearest town. Xu even uses his rare ability to bend lightning to savagely torture Kyoshi, proclaiming himself absolute and that all anyone can ever hope to do against him is obey.
* ''The Rising'' and ''City of the Dead'', by Creator/BrianKeene, takes place in a bleak and miserable setting, but still manages to have two villains who stand out:
** [[BigBad Ob]] is [[TheLeader the King of the Siqqusim]], the race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] {{zombie|Apocalypse}}s that serve as the antagonists of the series. Distinguishing himself from the mindless hatred of his followers through his [[ImplacableMan persistence]], sadism, and hounding of the protagonists on their journey across America, Ob aims to [[KillAllHumans exterminate all of humanity]], paving the way for [[{{Satan}} something even worse]]. Angered by [[TheHero Jim]]'s constant success at staying alive, Ob makes it his [[ItsPersonal personal mission]] to end Jim's life, even as he arms his zombies with stolen human weaponry so that they can more efficiently wipe out all human and animal life on Earth. He takes great pleasure in his task, gloating as he uses a fake "all clear symbol" to lure hundreds to their deaths, mining [[BodySurf each corpse he possesses]] for memories that he can use to hurt those his host cared about and taunt new victims with, and sharing information about his [[{{Hell}} world]] in order to drive people to despair. Towards the end, he smashes the last remaining human stronghold with heavy artillery, and [[EvilLaugh laughs]] in Jim's face during their final confrontation, noting that it is his pleasure to end Jim's journey.
** [[ColonelKilgore Colonel Schow]] is proof that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters some humans can be every bit as vile as Ob and his ilk]]. Taking command of a unit of the [[SociopathicSoldier Pennsylvania National Guard]], Schow teaches them to RapePillageAndBurn with the best of the undead. He forces the women and teenage girls that he rescues into service as brigade whores, under the pretext of keeping up morale. Those who refuse, along with the men who are too unfit for physical duty, end up as zombie bait. The men who he does deem fit enough become slave labour for his construction projects, working in hellish conditions for no reward beyond the dubious safety that Schow and his men provide. Over the course of the novel Schow has deserters crucified and/or used for target practice, a would-be assassin castrated-by-zombie-jaws, TokenGoodTeammate Skip beaten and then fed to zombies for trying to escape, [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Frankie]] gangraped, and a harmless homeless man shot down simply for being found in Frankie's company. Towards the end, he throws a handicapped man out of his Hummer while driving at top speed, so that he can make good his own escape. [[WarForFunAndProfit Enjoying the situation far more than he should]], and unconcerned about the very people he is supposed to be protecting, Schow is an affront to the rest of humanity.
* ''Literature/TheRitual'', by Adam Nevill: [[TeensAreMonsters Loki]] is the leader of a band of BlackMetal delinquents who hope to bring about the end of the world through their music and cruelty. [[CardCarryingVillain Boastful of how evil and wicked he is]], Loki is a SerialKiller who has claimed nine lives in the past, all fueled by bigotry and prejudice. Having found the land of [[EldritchAbomination Moder]] in the isolated Swedish forest, Loki works with his band to reawaken Moder and unleash it onto travelers in the area, getting innocents gored and butchered. Capturing the hiker Luke, Loki forces him to witness one of his friend's disemboweled bodies before tormenting and terrorizing him, Loki planning to sacrifice Luke to Moder in the hopes it will unleash more Old Gods onto the Earth and bring the apocalypse Loki has dreamt of.
* ''Literature/RiverOfStars'', by Guy Gavriel Kay: [[ManipulativeBastard Bai'ji]] is an Altai warlord, and third-in-command after his brother, Wan'yen, and kaghan Yan'po. Generally regarded as his brother's EvilGenius, Bai'ji helps Wan'yen betray and murder the Xiaolu Emperor and his First Minister, [[BuriedAlive burying them both up to their necks]] and then having them {{eaten alive}} by ants; he keeps their skulls to drink wine from. Bai'ji then persuades Wan'yen and Yan'po to invade Kitai, to the south, destroying the Twelfth Dynasty, and [[RapePillageAndBurn reducing city after city to rubble]]. When Wan'yen sends him after escaping prisoners, Bai'ji objects, because he was getting ready to rape a number of Kitai women in front of their husbands. At the time of his death in the swamps of southern Kitai, Bai'ji was plotting to avenge this "insult" by murdering both Wan'yen and Yan'po. A {{sadist}} with imperial ambitions, Bai'ji left the world a better place by leaving it.
* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'': In the {{novelization}} by Max Allan Collins, [[PsychoForHire Harlen Maguire]] is a death-loving hitman who spends his free time photographing murders, many of which he himself perpetrates. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] killing a wounded man in a street alley, Maguire is then hired to track down Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Michael Jr., happily hoping to murder them both and add them to his massive "[[CreepySouvenir gallery of death]]". Slaughtering an entire cafe, murdering one of his own partners, and killing an innocent couple along the way, Maguire mortally wounds O'Sullivan and attempts to photograph his dying moments before moving onto Michael Jr., even after the contract on the duo has been called off.
* ''Röd måne'' ("Red Moon"): Ylva Svensdotter wants her own brother to die in war so she can claim the right to his wife's farm. When he does die, she [[BitchInSheepsClothing feigns sadness over it.]] She accuses her sister-in-law and her two maids of witchcraft after and since this is the 17th century, they're sentenced to death. Ylva also gladly planned for her brother's [[WouldHurtAChild six year old daughter Indra]] to die as well, but Indra was rescued. When her daughter Maja lost her ability to speak from the shock of being flogged, Ylva actually accuses her of being a witch as well and has her sent to a family where she is raped and abused for many years. And when Indra returned to claim her mother's farm, Ylva accuses her niece of witchcraft. At this point, Ylva even loses the support of her husband, who had only obeyed her until then.
* ''Literature/{{Room}}'': "Old Nick"--the [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname otherwise-unnamed]] man who garners his appropriate title from a title of Satan--kidnaps and locks away a young woman in the titular “Room,” using the woman as a means of pleasure by raping her almost every night on end for seven years. Old Nick accidentally impregnates Ma and forces her to [[ChildByRape give birth]] right in front of him without the use of painkillers or any medical equipment whatsoever, leading to the baby's death. Once Ma gives birth to Jack, the young narrator of the novel, Nick keeps them both as his prisoners with threats to leave them both to starve to death if they ever try and escape, acting good on his threats by cutting the power and heat to the Room once Jack obliviously wanders outside.
* ''Literature/{{Sabriel}}'': After Kerrigor, aka Prince Rogirek, became one of the [[OurLichesAreDifferent Greater Dead]], he tricked his half-brother into helping him murder their mother and their sisters in order for Kerrigor to use their blood to shatter the Charter Stones protecting the kingdom from the dead. Defeated and driven deep into death, Kerrigor's actions nevertheless destroyed The Old Kingdom, allowing all manner of TheUndead free access to the world over the next several hundred years, while he waited for the chance to break free. Kidnapping the infant Sabriel, Kerrigor took her deep into death as part of a plot to blackmail her father, The Abhorsen, into freeing him. Years later, he traps The Abhorsen himself in Death and breaks free into the world of the living. He then tries to capture Sabriel and his revived half-brother as part of a plan to shatter the remaining Charter Stones. When this fails after The Abhorsen's heroic sacrifice, Kerrigor re-emerges from Death and leads a massive army of undead across the wall and into a girl's school, killing soldiers and students alike, before devouring Sabriel's FriendlyEnemy, Mogget, alive and finally forcing Sabriel herself into a mutual kill. Obsessed with power and staying alive no matter what the cost to others, Kerrigor is the worst that the realm of the Dead has to offer.
* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Vicar]] [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Zhaspahr]] [[TautologicalTemplar Clyntahn]] is the [[KnightTemplar Grand Inquisitor]] of the [[CorruptChurch Church of God Awaiting]], as well as the BigBad for the series so far. In ''A Mighty Fortress'', his response, to learning of a group of reformers within the Temple itself, is to have them, their families, their aides, and ''their'' families arrested, subjected to ColdBloodedTorture, and executed, this eclipsing a delcaration of Holy War that had been stewing in the background since ''By Schism Rent Asunder''. In '' How Firm a Foundation'', he launches the Sword of Scheuler, an operation which instigates a civil war in the Republic of Siddarmark that kills hundreds of thousands in both the initial attack and the aftermath, which features a winter full of starvation as well as atrocities and counter-atrocities committed by and against Temple Loyalists, vis-à-vis those who remained loyal to Siddarmark's Lord Protector. His penchant for the torture and painful death of his enemies has resulted in multiple instances where armies aligned with the church LeaveNoSurvivors out of a sense of ''{{mercy|Kill}}'', as to spare any would be to leave prisoners of Clyntahn's wrath.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'':
** [[ForTheEvulz Desmond Tiny]] is a sadistic [[TimeMaster time traveler]] (and Darren's [[ArchnemesisDad father]]) who is revealed to have manipulated almost all the terrible events in history just for his own personal pleasure. He brags about the way he likes to drink the blood of children, claiming "it's so sweet", and on another occasion claims he is excited to witness a volcano that will kill thousands. He pitted Darren and Steve against one another, insisting that the vampires only have three chances to kill Steve before he overthrows the Vampires. Whichever boy won-Darren or Steve-would become the Lord of Shadows, kill all of their friends, and became the ruler of the world. When Darren decides to ScrewDestiny and let both himself and Steve die, Mr. Tiny instead creates dragons which results in the Post-Apocalyptic world as seen in ''The Lake of Souls''. His motivation is he looked into the future and saw that things were going to be too peaceful for his liking, so he set the stage for a lot of chaos to [[ItAmusedMe amuse him]].
** The Vampenze Lord, aka Steve "Leopard" Leonard, is an unstable tyrant who starts up a war with the vampires to get back at Mr. Crepsley for turning Darren into a vampire and not him. Among his actions are seducing the hero's sister in order to get her pregnant; using his own son as a bargaining chip against Darren; and [[NeckSnap snapping the neck]] of Evra's [[WouldHurtAChild eight-year-old son]] just [[ForTheEvulz for his own sick joy]]. Even [[EvenEvilHasStandards the other Vampenze dislike him]] and only serve him because they have to.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheNobleDead'' is set in a borderline-CrapsackWorld, so it has a couple of these:
** Warlord Darmouth is a paranoid and psychotic tyrant who runs his lands with fear and intimidation. People are killed on a routine basis if he gets the wrong idea about them. He keeps his followers in line with blackmail, emotional manipulation and fear to keep them too weak to resist. Trying to leave his service results in swift death for all involved, even their families.
** ObviouslyEvil [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ubad]], a Necromancer who worships the EldritchAbomination BigBad Il'Samar, manipulated a vampire ally of his into raping a human woman to father a dhampyr on her. The result was said ally's death as his energy was drained and Ubad gaining the dhampyr he badly wanted. The reason was so he would have a champion to lead an army of the dead to [[OmnicidalManiac purge the world of life]]. Unlike Il'Samar's other followers, Ubad is simply in it to see how far he can push the bounds of his own powers as far as he can go until the world burns.
* ''Literature/{{Satyrday}}'': The [[OminousOwl owl]] is a powerful and megalomaniacal [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who rules over his army of ravens and the other animals of the forest with threats of torture and death. The animals who live under his rule exist in constant terror, as he's known to make dissenters disappear. In one instance, he has a [[WouldHurtAChild young bird]]'s wings broken and leaves him for dead. In the past, he massacred almost all of the humans in what became the Deadwood Forest, forcing the few survivors to live a wretched existence underground. Fourteen years ago, he sent a powerful whirlwind across the forest that killed thousands of the animals within and displaced many others. In the present day, the owl kidnaps the Moon from her proper orbit in the sky and cages her, causing the world to fall into turmoil with strange creatures and vegetation appearing that attack on sight. His ultimate plan is to rid the world of the Sun to create an [[TheNightThatNeverEnds endless night]]. When a group of dissident ravens manage to free the Moon, the owl becomes completely deranged and orders his falcons to kill the animals of the forest indiscriminately.
* ''Literature/{{Savage}}'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Roderick Whittle]]'s manner is a mere MaskOfSanity, hiding the fact that he is in fact the infamous UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. We are first introduced to Whittle when [[FirstPersonPerspective 15-year-old Trevor Bentley]], trying to escape some robbers, spies him killing a prostitute and mutilating the body. Trevor manages to escape, but ends up on the same boat as Whittle, bound for the United States. Whittle attacks and kills a few more people, and plans to continue his spree in the US, making it seem the work of "savages". Eventually, Whittle also kills some more people, including a teenager; Trevor's LoveInterest—-later mocking Trevor about how he used her corpse, unbeknownst to him, as a shield against Trevor's bullets; a posse of men sent to capture or kill him and placing their corpses in [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor macabre positions]]; and numerous women. He finally tries to kill Trevor and his new love interest, but not before revealing that he has become a [[KillerCop sheriff's deputy]] named "John Carver". With over 20 brutal murders to his name, as well as a taste for torture and possibly even [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], Roderick Whittle is easily one of the most psychotic and sadistic versions of Jack the Ripper ever put into fiction.
* ''Literature/SavageSpecies'', by Jonathan Janz: The [[AncientEvil Old One]], also known as the {{Wendigo}}, is the [[MonsterProgenitor progenitor]] of the monstrous "Children" lurking beneath the campgrounds of the so-called Peaceful Valley. Disturbed by human activity, the Old One disperses his followers to begin slaughtering and torturing people by the hundreds. The Old One isn't a mindless EldritchAbomination but a cruel, gloating sadist who intends to [[WouldHurtAChild twist the innocent baby]] the heroes are protecting into another one of his monstrous Children and who regrets at the end of the book that he wasn't able to torture the heroes who sacrificed themselves against him even more.
* ''Sawkill Girls'', by Claire Legrand: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent The demon]] known as [[SerialKiller the Collector]] is a wicked creature sealed on Sawkill Island. Hungering for prey, the Collector makes a pact with one family to serve him, dominating and even [[MindRape mentally]] or [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil physically]] raping the one he selects as a "queen", terrorizing them into his subjects. The Collector has them bring him prey, young women he kills in agony [[ToServeMan while devouring them]]. With his latest queen Val, he has her bring him the sister of novel heroine Marion, and the other heroine Zoey's best friend Thora. When Val grows too independent, the Collector marks her as well, savagely twisting her mind to hurt all of them as much as he can.
* Literature/ScarpettaSeries, by Patricia Cornwell:
** ''Cruel and Unusual'' & ''From Potter's Field'': Temple Brooks Gault proved to be a sociopath ever since childhood, tormenting his twin sister Jayne and killing her puppy over perceived ParentalFavoritism. Growing into a volatile narcissist with no qualms about killing a man who has insulted his looks, he resolves to become a SerialKiller in a [[FameThroughInfamy twisted search for fame]]. His victims, whose bodies he degrades in various ways, include a 13-year-old boy; a pregnant woman; and a prison guard [[UngratefulBastard who was offering him a hideout]]. After escaping capture, Gault announces his return by [[CainAndAbel murdering Jayne]], then murders three cops to further taunt Kay Scarpetta and her team. When the police corner him in the subway, Gault electrocutes Detective Meier to death and takes Lucy hostage before trying to kill Kay.
** ''Unnatural Exposure'': [[MadScientist Phyllis Crowder]]--aka [[DeadlyDoctor Deadoc]]--after being made a scapegoat for the Birmingham smallpox outbreak, secretly spliced the virus with monkeypox to get her revenge through a pandemic. She starts testing the new virus on her own mother, [[{{Matricide}} ultimately killing and dismembering her]] to hide the traces of the disease, before sending contaminated beauty samples to the residents of Tangiers Island, causing three more deaths. [[BitchInSheepsClothing While acting as a helpful assistant to Kay Scarpetta]], Phyllis taunts her online with grisly photos of the crime scenes and eventually infects her staff, resulting in the death of Kay's assistant Wingo. When confronted by Kay after her sixth murder, a drifter she shot after he broke into her caravan lab, Phyllis coldly dismisses her actions as a "[[DisproportionateRetribution tit for tat]]", uncaring that she could have threatened the whole world with a new bioweapon.
** ''Point of Origin'': [[SerialKiller Newton Joyce]] is a British entrepreneur who uses the inconveniences of his teenage acne as an excuse to indulge in serial killing. Moving easily from UK to the USA thanks to his wealth, Joyce murders young and beautiful people to [[CreepySouvenir remove and keep their faces]], only leaving mutilated torsos to be found. After teaming up with [[MonsterFangirl Carrie Grethen]], Joyce starts [[FieryCoverup using fire to cover his traces]], uncaring of the collateral damage. One time, Joyce sets fire to a whole farmhouse, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals leaving eighteen horses to a slow and agonizing death]]. With a body count of 27 and an absolute disregard for the pain he causes, Newton Joyce is the most prolific serial killer faced by Kay's team.
* ''Literature/TheSchwarzschildRadius'', by Gustavo Florentin: "[[PsychoForHire The Webmaster]]", Hector Brazos, is a {{sadist}}ic torturer and killer for hire, whose signature style is recording his victims' deaths. Originally an assassin for the Mexican Cartel, the Webmaster slaughtered dozens of people, including entire families, inflicting horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder on every one of them, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. Wanting to earn his money easier, the Webmaster turned his child pornography website into a hub for individuals worldwide to bid on the torture young teenage girls the Webmaster had kidnapped would endure for the following weeks. This torture included everything from electrocution and bone breaking, to being raped by either the Webmaster or his trained dogs, and, when the girls eventually wore out, the Webmaster would hold a final bid for the excruciating way each girl would die. When any of his partners try to turn on him, the Webmaster wastes no time in torturing and slowly killing them. After failing to sadistically torture 3 teenage girls, the Webmaster kills one, along with an innocent homeless man, opens fire on police officers before setting a bomb off on top of them, and tries to rape and murder two of his only surviving victims. [[{{Greed}} Caring for money above all else]], the Webmaster would commit any and all depraved actions to make a quick buck, and would enjoy every minute of it.
* ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'': Iskiak, better known by the name of "Aurang", [[TheEvilPrince prince]] of the Inchoroi and bad even by [[DepravedBisexual their standards]], was one of the final Inchoroi after their wars with the inhuman Cûnoroi, or "Nonmen". Desiring to escape his own damnation, Aurang participated in the annihilation of entire worlds before the Inchoroi arrived on Earwa. At the end of the war with the Nonmen, Aurang assisted in giving them immortality, but also introduced a plague to kill every female of their species, leaving the Nonmen to look forward to nothing but eventual madness and extinction. Later forming the Consult, Aurang initiates the Apocalypse by unleashing the No-God. As the Horde-General of the Consult, Aurang takes the field, committing countless atrocities and massacring entire cities with his and his people's own creations the Sranc, beings so filled with lust and rage they can only interact with other species by killing and raping them to death. Aurang is also a SerialRapist, boasting of this to Kellhus, and manipulates the Holy War to help bring about the deaths of all but a fraction of beings on Earwa to not only keep himself from hellfire, but to continue the monstrosity that damned him to begin with.
* ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Martha Plunkett]] is the head of Treehouse, a reputable preschool which is, in fact, a [[HumanTrafficking toddler sex ring]]. For nearly twenty years, Plunkett has [[WouldHurtAChild molested and exploited preschoolers]] for child pornography, both directly and by having her staff do the same. To terrorize the children into silence, she assigns the children live rabbits to care for, then [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills the rabbits]] right in front of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' {{novelization}}, by Eithne Massey: [[BigBad Harald Redtooth]] is the Chief Northman, savage leader of the band of [[HornyVikings Northmen raiders]] currently plaguing Ireland. Redtooth has the Northmen [[RapePillageAndBurn invade]] several villages, cities, and monasteries for the purposes of slaughtering most of their populations, enslaving the survivors, and looting all of the treasure possible to satisfy Redtooth's greed. With even children not exempt from death or slavery at the Northmen hands, Redtooth wipes out the monk city of Iona, then makes his way to Kells, where his Northmen lay waste to the city and set it aflame as they kill everything in their path. After severely wounding Abbot Cellach, Redtooth orders the man's close friend Aidan and nephew Brendan executed after swiping all their belongings and wearing them as trophies. Showcasing a cruel grin while committing his actions and even going so far as to name his sword "[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Monk Mincer]]", Redtooth is presented as [[AdaptationalVillainy a far more uniquely evil force than his movie counterpart]].
* ''Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror'''s "Direct Report", by Leigh Perry: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Claudio Mendoza]] is a vampiric SerialRapist who preys on potential employees. After presumably killing his previous manager, Claudio kidnaps and infects a woman, Taylor, locking her in a room for six months, where she is drugged, starved, chained to a bed and raped daily by him and a variety of fetishists, having done this to countless of his "[[MonsterProgenitor children]]" before. After Taylor escapes, Claudio congratulates her for regaining her senses so soon and threatens to leave her exposed to the sun until she is destroyed.
* ''Senseless'' and ''Merciless'', by Mary Burton: The Other, aka Josiah Cross, hailed from the wealthy Cross family and was known for his sporadic acts of violence before his [[SerialKiller serial killings]]. The last night at university, he battered and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] protagonist Eva Rayburn. When Micah died, the Other [[TwinSwitch took his name]] and avoided jail time but continued his violence by targeting people for serial killings. Knowing from the start that his mother was behind a series of murders, he chose not to inform the police, enabling her to kill many people. The Other got into a partnership with [[SerialRapist James Dixon]] where his partner would beat and rape women he abducted and The Other would prolong his victim's misery by mocking them until he kills them and [[{{Sadist}} watch them die in front of him for his own pleasure]]. He would dissolve his victim's bodies in chemicals to [[CreepySouvenir keep their bones as trophies]] and use their femur bones to create chess pieces. Having done this to at least six women, he intended to do more to get police and [[FameThroughInfamy media attention]] and managed to kill two more women. When James slipped up in their partnership again, the Other brutally murdered him and then killed James's partner and tried to [[FrameUp pin the murders on them]]. Blaming and harboring spite towards Eva for his own perceived problems, he attempted to murder her half-sister, Angela, to emotionally hurt her.
* ''Film/TheSentinel1977'' & ''The Guardian'', by Jeffrey Konvitz: [[FauxAffablyEvil Charles Chazen]] appears a friendly, eccentric old fellow who is, in truth, {{Satan}} himself. When the new potential guardian to the gates of Hell, Alison, arrives at the apartment that rests over the gateway, Chazen attempts to kill those she loves and [[MindRape torture her mentally]] until she breaks and [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]]. When Alison takes her place as the new Sentinel, Chazen sets his sights on the next Sentinel, Father [=McBride=], starting a web of murder and destruction to break him. Tricking [=McBride=] into suicide and damnation, Chazen prepares to lead the legions of Hell and the damned into the world to bring about the apocalypse, gloating about his intent to [[AGodAmI dethrone God and take over all creation]].
* ''Serafina and the Black Cloak'', by Robert Beatty: The Man in the Black Cloak, Montgomery Thorne, is the terrifying apparition stalking the grand Biltmore Estate. Originally a rich man who lost his fortune, the Man gained the ability to devour the souls, along with the talents and knowledge, of anyone he wanted by using a mysterious black cloak. When the Man consumes someone's soul, they are left [[AndIMustScream trapped in his cloak in constant horror and agony]], and the Man has no compunctions regarding who he devours, be they adult or [[WouldHurtAChild child]], and will outright murder anyone who gets his way. After he begins rapidly aging due to his use of the cloak, the Man begins devouring the souls of as many children as he can to preserve his life force, and, when [[TheHero Serafina]] tries to steal his cloak to save his victims, the Man sadistically tries to suffocate her for irritating him. A {{greed}}y sociopath who would harm anyone and everyone to become wealthy and powerful once again, the Man in the Black stood out in this children's novel as a truly dark and twisted man.
* ''Literature/ShadesChildren'': [[WouldHurtAChild Silver Sun]] is a member of the extradimensional Overlords, and is bad even compared to her evil companions. Silver Sun sets up the transfer for the Overlords' invasion to start with, exterminating ninety-percent of humanity with all survivors under the age of fourteen herded away. Silver Sun and the other Overlords then set up a horrific regime where teenagers are pumped full of sterilizing drugs and horribly conditioned before being carted en masse to the [[PeopleFarms Meat Factory]], where they're chopped up and converted into Creatures whose sole purpose is to kill—[[AndIMustScream retaining a vestige of their humanity and remaining fully aware the entire time]]--and females are raped for years on end to produce more fodder for the Creatures before being killed too. Once Silver Sun is finally confronted, she personally tortures two of the young heroes herself while boasting of her responsibility of setting the entire system up to begin with--and cheerfully notes "it's what you're there for" when confronted on why she did so.
* ''Shadow Form'', by Edmund Hughes: [[HumanTraffickers Emanuel Jacques]] proves that in a world of supernaturals, sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the worst of monsters can be all too human]]. Emanuel tricks girls from impoverished countries into believing he'll give them a better life abroad, but instead he has them stripped and turned into {{sex slave}}s. After two of his employees escape out of fear, Emanuel tracks them down, intending to have them both killed for daring to defy him. Emanuel is also a [[BadBoss terrible boss]] who'll gladly kill his own minions if they get in his way, writing off everyone as expandable. Before his defeat, Emanuel threatens to gun down the best friend/lover of Jack Materson should Jack not let him go, while still in reality planning to kill her anyway.
* ''Shadow Man'', by Cody [=McFadyen=]:
** [[JackTheRipoff Jack Jr.]]--Peter Hillstead--believes himself to be a descendant of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and seeks to immortalize himself in history even more so than his ancestor. Trained to torture and kill [[EnfantTerrible at a young age]] by his SerialKiller father, Jack Jr. gleefully assisted his dad in his crimes. After [[{{Patricide}} murdering his father]], partially because he believed [[EvilerThanThou him to be an inadequade descendant of the Ripper, compared to himself]], Jack Jr began [[SerialRapist raping]] and [[SerialKiller killing]] over the years. Regularly [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating people]] into murdering others for him, Jack Jr. wastes no time in betraying and killing his acolytes when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he grows tired of them]], and he used one of them to ensure the deaths of FBI agent [[TheHero Smoky Barrett's]] husband and young daughter. Declaring Barrett his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]], Jack Jr. spent hours torturing and raping Barrett's childhood friend while [[ForcedToWatch forcing her 10 year-old daughter, Bonnie, to watch]]. Jack Jr. then tied Bonnie to the eviscerated corpse of her mother and left her there for 3 days, the resulting trauma causing the girl to become mute. Next, Jack Jr. begins specifically torturing members of Barrett's task force, with methods such as digging up and defiling the corpse of one agent's sister, and chopping off the legs of another agent's dog. When his identity is revealed, Jack Jr. kidnaps one of Barrett's friends, tortures her, then tries to [[WouldHurtAChild slash Bonnie's throat open]] while using her as a HumanShield. Though manipulated by his father into killing, Jack Jr. chose to continue his spree even after his father was removed from the picture and his mother tried to redeem him. [[CardCarryingVillain Happily embracing his dark side]] while simultaneously preaching his victims are nothing but cattle, Jack Jr. embodied and evolved the legacy of The Ripper.
** [[SerialKiller Keith Hillstead]] is the father of Jack Jr., and is the one responsible for starting his path of destruction. As a young man, Keith believed himself to be a descendant of Jack the Ripper, and murdered his parents for trying to hide it from him. After seducing a young woman into becoming his wife, Keith spent weeks [[DomesticAbuse torturing and raping her]] until she gave birth to a son, who he then began to teach how to torture and kill. Claiming close to 100 victims over the years, Keith photographed the tortures, rapes, and deaths of his victims and kept them in an album. When his wife attempted to murder him, Keith violently raped and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pummelled her]], before trying to slit her throat. With a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite]] and [[DissonantSerenity calm]] exterior masking his true depravity, Keith Hillstead stood out as monstrous even with his limited appearances.
* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheFox'': [[WickedWitch Lady Satomi]] is a sadistic [[BloodMagic Blood Witch]] in service to the Master of Demons, Genno. A [[PsychopathicWomanchild childish psychopath]], Satomi regularly kills her serving girls for fun and pleasure. To serve Genno, Satomi has an entire village of hundreds of innocents torn to pieces by demons as a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]] to summon the demon Yaburama, and uses him to massacre a group of monks guarding the scroll containing a wish her master requires. Revealed to be plotting to use the wish to usurp and betray Genno, Satomi admits she knows he intends to cause mass destruction and death upon his return and is fine with it if [[GodhoodSeeker it gives her a chance at godhood itself]].
* ''Shadow-Maze'', by Mark & Julia Smith: The blue-robed [[BigBad Knifeman]] is the true source of the atrocities the so-called Knifemen of Bali have been perpetrating across the continent of Levindre. The Knifeman has his six magical proxies exterminate entire villages all across the nation, sparing only the fit and able-bodied while leaving the rest for a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torturous death]]. The Knifeman preserves all those he captures in [[AndIMustScream constant agony]] entombed within ice, subject to the constant pain of the cold, and when the Knifeman promises their freedom if they only kill the heroes, the Knifeman's victims advance on the heroes with such desperate ferocity that none of them can be saved. The Knifeman aspires to render all life in the mage-garden of Nevern cold and dead all for the purpose of [[GodhoodSeeker becoming a god]] and subjecting the entire world to death or enslavement, and subjects the sorceress capable of making his dreams a reality to such pain he has to hold himself back from torturing her to death.
* ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'': Francisco Javier Fumero, the [[DirtyCop corrupt chief of police]] in Barcelona, relishes the power his position brings him. [[EnfantTerrible As a boy]], Fumero tortured small animals as an outlet for his sadism, and when he discovered Julian Carax, the one boy to treat him kindly, and Penelope, who Fumero lusted after, were together, he attempted to murder Julian and devoted his life to destroying him and Penelope alike. Fumero sent his men to kill Julian and personally murdered a woman who loved Julian for helping him. In the years that passed, Fumero terrorized the populace of Barcelona as a uniformed thug, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] those who caught his ire. One luckless man named Fermin was held and beaten before Fumero tortured him with a blowtorch. When the young hero of the novel, Daniel Siempre, closes in on the buried story of Julian Carax, Fumero wastes no time in attempting to kill him and all who know the truth as well. Cruel, {{sadist}}ic, violent and insatiably power-hungry, Fumero represents how far a once almost pitiable boy can fall.
* ''Literature/ShadowdanceTrilogy'': [[FatBastard Leon Connington]], the head of the Connington family, made much of his vast fortune running a prison to hold anyone the Trifect wants to disappear. In a world of BlackAndGrayMorality and depraved villains, Connington stands out for personally heading much of the vicious torture of these victims and for being a SerialRapist, torturing and raping Melody Gemcroft for years and convincing the Gemcroft family she was long dead to continue assaulting her. He also threatened to do the same to Alyssa Gemcroft. In addition, he dressed up and raped Stephen Connington, his heir, [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]] and making him into the Widow, a butcher and SerialKiller. Utterly unrepentant of these crimes, he is directly responsible for the creation of many of the villains in the second half of the series.
* ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series:
** ''Literature/TheHeritageOfShannara'': Most of the [[TheHeartless Shadowen]] are bad, but their [[TheLeader leader]], [[BigBad Rimmer Dall]], is in a class of his own. From his position as TheFederation's [[SecretPolice First]] [[StateSec Seeker]], Dall enforces the state's xenophobic, expansionist policies, enslaving the Dwarves, suppressing resistance, and arresting magic-users, whom he drains of their magics and then, should they survive, throws into The Pit. When [[GreenThumb Quickening]] gives the Dwarves hope by healing the Meade Gardens, he sends [[ProfessionalKiller Pe]] [[PsychoForHire Ell]] to assassinate her. When the Elves return to the Four Lands, Dall dispatches the [[BigCreepyCrawlies Creepers]] to wage a war of extermination against them. He personally tries to murder [[BigGood Walker Boh]] and [[TheMentor Cogline]], then sends the Four Horsemen after them, resulting in Cogline's death. He [[ManipulativeBastard plays a long psychological game]] with Par and Coll Ohmsford, aimed at [[BreakTheCutie shattering]] [[CorruptTheCutie Par's]] [[MindRape mind]] and making him susceptible to a GrandTheftMe. Dall’s crowning achievement, however, was the construction of [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Southwatch]], a living tower that drained the life from the world itself, and would have, if left unchecked, resulted in the Four Lands becoming an apocalyptic wasteland, inhabited by nothing save a few, maddened Shadowen. Concerned only with his personal power and [[HorrorHunger desire to feed on the strongest magics available]], Rimmer Dall wreaked more devastation on the Four Lands than any villain before or since, inflicting damage that has taken centuries to even begin recovering from.
** ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'':
*** [[EvilSorcerer The Morgawr]] is the BigBad of the trilogy. He's a half man, half lizard freak who slaughters Grianne and Bek Ohmsfords' family, kidnaps Grianne, tells her Bek is dead, and convinces her that [[BigGood Walker,]] the Druid, and his ArchEnemy is behind it, then [[EvilMentor raises her to be as bad as himself.]] He's also a magic-draining leech who feeds on [[SoulEating the souls,]] minds, and magics of his victims and turns people into PeoplePuppets by pulling their brains out through the back of their heads and [[BrainFood eating them,]] leaving them with their skills, but no free will. In the opening pages of Morgawr he drains two-hundred fifty men onscreen, scarring witness [[CorruptPolitician Sen Dunsidan]] for life, and driving the latter's TortureTechnician [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide.]] He later does the same to the crew of Grianne's ship, Black Moclips after she betrays him, before hunting her down and trying to kill her because he considers her life his property to dispose of how he wishes. Completely comfortable with his evil, The Morgawr takes {{pride}} in having brought Grianne down to his level, and finds her desire to better herself completely laughable.
*** Cree Bega is TheDragon to The Morgawr. A SmugSnake of a Mwellret with a penchant for murder, ColdBloodedTorture, KickTheDog, and FantasticRacism, Cree Bega is contemptuous of all the [[SssnakeTalk little peoplessss]], and develops an unhealthy obsession with [[WarriorPrince Ahren Elessedil,]] making it his personal mission to transform him into TheWoobie. He [[ForcedToWatch forces Ahren to watch The Morgawr feed on the crew of Black Moclips]] for no other reason than traumatising him, and upon Ahren's escape, is given custody of his crush, Ryer Ord Star. He and his Mwellrets proceed to strip her, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat her,]] [[{{fingore}} break all of her fingers,]] slash the soles of her feet, defile her until she faints, and then after she wakes up, tie her to a yardarm, [[ATasteOfTheLash lash her with a rawhide whip,]] and leave her to bake in the sun, [[DrivenToSuicide leading to her suicide.]] During his final confrontation with Ahren, Cree Bega stabs Elven Hunter Kian InTheBack, and then gloats to Ahren about what he did to Ryer Ord Star ("She took ssso long to die little Elvesss. Ssso long it ssseemed it would take forever."), before trying to kill him. The cumulative effect of all the trauma that Cree Bega puts Ahren through is an eventual psychological implosion that leaves him utterly [[ShellShockedVeteran shellshocked]] and broken into the next series.
** ''Literature/TheDefendersOfShannara'': Mischa is the secondary antagonist of ''The High Druid's Blade''. A {{sadist}}ic [[EvilOldFolks old]] [[WickedWitch witch]], Mischa is an ally of [[BigBad Arcannen]], for whom she works as a TortureTechnician. She uses her [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] to torment Chrysallin Leah for weeks on end, convincing her that she has been permanently disfigured and crippled by torturers working for [[BigGood Aphenglow Elessedil]]. She then [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretends to befriend Chrysallin]] and helps her to "escape" before having her illusory Aphenglow track them down, faking her own death to further ruin Chrys's psyche, and convince her that Aphenglow is her enemy. When Grehling helps Chrys escape for real, Mischa goes after them, intending to dissect Grehling, and [[MindRape shatter Chrys's mind]].
* ''Literature/{{Shardik}}'': Child slave-dealer Genshed specifically deals in unwanted and deformed children so he can gain a greater profit and use methods that are more barbaric. Instead of grown-up overseers, he grooms the cruelest of the boys to be his overseers, replacing them only when they kill or damage too many of the slaves (or learn too much). He prides himself on being able to drive children mad without even touching them, though he isn't above physical abuse -- chains through the ears, knife blades under the nails or across the eyes, a device called a "flytrap" that keeps the mouth open. He castrates the boys and it's implied that the children in his possession (mostly young ones, under fourteen) are sold as sex slaves of one kind or another. When he learns one boy will be used for begging, he cuts off the boy's hands to make him more valuable, then charges the new owner for the job. The only regret he ever shows is at the loss of a profit.
* ''Literature/SharkWars'' series, by E.J. Altbacker:
** ''Battle of Riptide'' & ''Into the Abyss'': [[TheCaligula Finnivus Victor]] is the [[RoyalBrat spoiled]] leader of India Shiver, who believes that it is his birthright to conquer the Big Blue. In contrast to his more benevolent predecessor, Finnivus's reign is filled with pointless cruelties, in which he wipes out entire shivers to enslave their pups as ChildSoldiers; consumes the heads of his enemies; and [[BadBoss murders his own subordinates]] for little reason. Moving into Gray's territory, Finnivus sends his forces to wipe out every shiver there. When his first invasion fails, Finnivus angrily demands the extermination of every shiver in the Atlantic Ocean and becomes even crueler, such as sending assassins after his enemies; forcing his servant Velenka to consume poison after being accused of being a traitor; using his own sharks as target practice for himself; and torturing his former marine prime by cutting all of his appendages and [[ForcedToWatch making him helplessly witness]] the destruction of his home.
** ''Kingdom of the Deep'' through ''The Last Emprex'': [[ManipulativeBastard Hokuu]] is a vile frilled shark who sought to [[FinalSolution orchestrate the extinction of every shark]] so that his own species can reign supreme. When the Fifth Shiver's leader King Bollagan declared his intention for peace with the Big Blue, Hokuu helps Drinnok [[TheKingslayer murder him]] and his supporters to incite war against the other sharks. A master of dark kata, Hokuu uses his powers to [[VampiricDraining steal the life force of other creatures]] to make himself more powerful, which he demonstrates by wiping out every resident in Riptide territory. After assassinating Seazarein Kaleth, Hokuu massacres all of his mako minions and uses their life force to free Drinnok and his Fifth Shiver from the Underwaters, planning to restart his genocide against the Big Blue. When Drinnok expresses interest in making peace with Gray, Hokuu allies himself with Grimkahn and his prehistores to kill Drinnok and directly participates in his attacks throughout the Big Blue, ultimately planning to betray him eventually. After Gray emerges victorious, a frustrated Hokuu tries killing him personally, taunting that he'll murder his friends afterward, [[AndYourLittleDogToo saving his mother for last]].
** ''Enemy of Oceans'' & ''The Last Emprex'': [[BloodKnight Grimkahn]] is a psychotic mosasaur who leads the prehistores in Drinnok's Fifth Shiver and participated in his coup to murder King Bollagan and his supporters. Snubbed by him for promotion, Grimkahn agrees to Hokuu's plan of overthrowing him, planning to wipe out the other sharks in the Big Blue so that the prehistores can rule. After his first attack fails, Grimkahn begins [[BadBoss culling any minion that protests his rule]] and initiates attacks to exterminate whole shivers, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]]. Engaging with Gray's forces a second time, Grimkahn first tries asphyxiating them in a cave and, upon their escape, tries killing Gray himself, while sending his frilled sharks to maul his shiver sharks, innocent or otherwise.
* ''Shelter In Place'', by Creator/NoraRoberts: Patricia Jane Hobart is a vengeful psychopath bent on taking her anger out on the world in the most destructive ways she can. As a teenager, she planned a mass shooting at a mall in her home town of Rockpoint, Maine, and convinced her brother and two of his friends to carry it out, leaving over ninety people dead and hundreds injured. [[ItsAllAboutMe Offended by the attention survivors of the massacre received]], she began [[SerialKiller hunting them down and murdering them]], along with killing her own mother and grandparents simply because she didn't like them. After failing to kill shooting survivor and police officer Reed Quartermaine, she goes on the run, continuing to kill survivors in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly cruel ways]] while mailing Quartermaine locks of their hair to taunt and threaten him. While a fugitive, she abducts a reporter famous for her coverage of the mall shooting and has her record [[{{Narcissist}} a manifesto showing off Patricia's "genius"]], murdering her at the end of it [[ILied despite promising she would not]]. By the end of the novel, Patricia's spiteful narcissism has ended over a hundred lives and devastated countless more.
* ''The Shining Girls'', by Creator/LaurenBeukes: [[BigBad Harper Curtis]] is a former drifter who uncovers the time traveling House. Using it to become a SerialKiller, Harper seeks out the "shining girls", those with potential in the world, so he may murder them throughout history. Hunting down many young women, Harper gruesomely murders them, with only heroine Kirby escaping him. Curtis revels in the pain he causes, killing one woman as she begs for the sake of her children and another who dedicates her life to helping others as a social worker, even murdering his occasional lover Etta when he's bored with her. A complete nothing of a man, Curtis attempts to find fulfillment in his existence by stealing the lives of those better than him.
* ''A Shiny Can of Whup-Ass'' (from the ''After The Burn'' collection), by Ronald Kelly: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rott]], the singular most evil human to ever walk the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic hellscape of the post-Burn world]], is the most prolific SerialKiller in American history, with a legacy of indiscriminate rape, torture, and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] against potentially over 600 victims--most perpetrated whilst they were still alive. After the Burn, Rott escapes from death row and takes advantage of the chaos to rile up a gang of murderous thugs and return to his hometown of Watkins Glen to savage his way through the town. Rott savagely executes his own men one after another for things as minor as "laughing without my permission"; [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cuts apart and eats]] the entire stock of the local pet shop after coldly murdering its elderly owner; murders and cannibalizes random people across the town; and attempts to have his goons gang-rape a young woman and torture her to death for thrills. Eventually, Rott proposes he and his gang go from door-to-door and slaughter their way through town, intending to turn the church into a whorehouse and keep the women of Watkins Glen as {{sex slave}}s; and round up the children of the town with implied intention of raping and torturing the lot of them for fun. [[AntagonisticOffspring Reviled even by his own father]] and appropriately referred to as the "new Satan", Rott lives by [[TheHedonist one twisted creed]]: "If it feels right, do it. That's what I always did."
* ''[[Literature/TheGolgothaSeries The Shotgun Arcana]]'': [[BigBad Ray Zeal, the angel Raziel]], is a corrupt angel who aims to [[AGodAmI become the god of torture and murder]]. Invading Golgotha in pursuit of the skull of the first murderer, Raziel slaughters those about him, [[TheCorrupter swaying others]] to cannibalism and bloody depravity. Having many killed, including [[WouldHurtAChild children]], Raziel also has a kind schoolteacher tortured to death and intends to raze much of the world to the ground by infecting them with the HatePlague from the skull, all for an ascent to his own godhood.
* ''Shutter'', by Courtney Alameda: Luca, real name UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, is the ghost of the vampire king, Count Dracula himself. After his death in [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel]], Luca gained an undying hatred against the Helsing, Stoker, Seward and Harker families for stopping him. To this end, Luca has had female members of those families who find his mirrors killed and tortured before turning them into his vampiric brides. Murdering the brothers and mother of the heroine Micheline Helsing, he has her mother's spirit captured and tortures her until she breaks, brainwashing her into thinking that her daughter was responsible. Together the two start a torture and murder spree across the city, brutally killing dozens before turning their corpses into puppet soldiers, and even ripping the eyes out of the youngest member of the Stoker family, permanently blinding her. Luca intends to release all the various Necros monsters that the families have captured on the city, killing thousands, in order to spite the families. Near the end of the novel, he tries to force Micheline to be one of his brides before boasting how he will return to life and begin his brutal conquest of the world anew.
* ''Literature/TheSilverKiss'': The vampire [[UndeadChild Christopher]] is a centuries-old monster who resembles an innocent child. Orchestrating the death of his sire and mentor, Christopher [[{{Matricide}} murdered his own mother]] when she rejected him before turning his brother Simon. Fleeing a vengeful Simon, Christopher leaves a trail of murder and bloodshed behind him, relishing in the fear and agony of his victims. Christopher plays an innocent child to lure people into trusting him before killing them, sometimes torturing them first. Resuming his activities in America, Christopher creates a string of corpses as Simon tracks him. When Simon finally corners him with his love interest Zoe, Christopher decides to murder Zoe before he escapes, just to give his brother more pain.
* ''The Sinister Mr. Corpse'', by Jeff Strand: Richard Brant, the seemingly [[FauxAffablyEvil avuncular]] head of Project Second Chance, is in truth a cold, remorseless man solely dedicated to [[{{Greed}} profit]]. Resurrecting the unfortunate Stanley Dabernath from death to make the man a wealthy celebrity, Brant [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Stanley behind locked doors to force his compliance and cheerfully threatens to murder him should he ever stop being useful. Passing off his revival of Stanley as the act of unexplained science, Brant in reality routinely kidnaps young virgins, has their families slaughtered, and the virgin flayed and torturously bled out over a course of three days to inject their blood into Stanley. Once Stanley discovers this, Brant decides to cut his losses and stirs up a mob to cannibalize Stanley whilst watching with a manic grin on his face.
* ''The Siren and the Specter'', by Jonathan Janz: [[TheDreaded Judson Alexander]] of Lancaster, a grim giant with an interest in the occult, was evil from his [[EnfantTerrible boyhood]] when he murdered a slave just because he could. Later [[SiblingMurder killing his infant sister]], Judson grew to terrorize the town while killing and raping at will. Enslaving the souls of his concubines and regularly raping a 14-year-old set up as a "sacrifice", Judson was especially fond of turning children into monsters, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] them to steal their life force, a practice he continues as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent malevolent specter]]. Trying to turn 4-year-old Ivy Shelby into a heartless monster and massacre everyone about in his return to life, Judson views everything about him as a tool to use, corrupt, or destroy.
* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' & ''Crooked Kingdom'':
** [[AbusiveParents Jan Van Eck]] is a seemingly-respectable merchant who turns out to be an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical sociopath]] obsessed with his own glory and reputation. Callously disowning his son Wylan for his dyslexia that has made him illiterate, Van Eck divorces his wife, throws her into an asylum and tells Wylan she's dead so he can steal all her assets. When his new wife is pregnant, Van Eck tries to have Wylan murdered. After enlisting [[AntiHero Kaz Brekker]] for a job and learning Kaz has Wylan hostage, Van Eck later attempts to betray Kaz and have Wylan murdered via having his ship sunk. It turns out Van Eck is behind a scheme to cheat his fellow merchants and distribute ''[[FantasticDrug jurda parem]]'' to enslave the Grisha, or those with magic, subjecting them to addiction or death, all [[{{Greed}} as long as he profits]] from the chaos he inflicts.
** [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Heleen Van Houden, or Tante Heleen]], the cruel owner of the brothel the Menagerie, buys teenage girls from foreign nations and cruelly trains them to be SexSlave prostitutes. From Inej Ghafa's backstory, we see this involves horrific abuse, both physical and [[MindRape psychological]] with Heleen repeatedly having her whipped and beaten, even having a girl who kept some money from a client cruelly murdered in front of the other girls as a lesson. Even after being freed by Kaz, Inej is intensely scarred by her time at the Menagerie, and Heleen gleefully taunts her of it when they meet, even trying to have Inej killed later. Utterly reprehensible and dedicated to making a fortune from the sexual enslavement of countless young women, Tante Heleen is one of the worst that Ketterdam has to offer.
* ''Literature/SixRooms'', by Gemma Amor: [[ItsAllAboutMe Charles Lester III]] is a selfish, entitled [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] who believes everyone exists to serve him and his whims. Catching his valet trying on his cufflinks, Charles [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]] and then the housekeeper Anna [[LeaveNoWitnesses as a witness]]. Murdering the gardener after the latter sees him [[BuriedAlive place the still-living Anna in a tomb to suffocate]], Charles is then disturbed by the distraught scullery maid Isabelle who is pregnant from his drunken rape of her. Charles proceeds to murder her as well, finally deciding to kill his pregnant wife Rose to complete the cover up.
* ''Skeleton Man'' & ''Return of Skeleton Man'', by Joseph Bruchac: The titular [[AntagonistTitle Skeleton Man]] is a selfish, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] figure who stands out in this book series for children. Originally an organic lazy uncle, he grew to love the taste of human flesh and proceeded to [[{{Autocannibalism}} eat all the skin off his body]] until he was nothing but a skeleton; ate his brother and sister when they arrived home; and gave chase to his young niece. Years later, he kidnaps Molly's mother and father and, posing as her great-uncle, attempts to fatten Molly and eat her. When Molly uncovers his identity, he chases after her and, when dangling off a cliff, [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to take her with him]]. Returning a year later, he follows Molly and her family to the Hudson Valley, where he kidnaps Molly to once again try and eat her.
* ''Literature/SkinMedicine'', by Tim Curran: [[GunmanWithThreeNames James Lee Cobb]] distinguishes himself as a brutal killer who rapes and slaughters his way through the old West before he awakens the {{Wendigo}} by cannibalizing his own comrades. Seeking to learn the power of Spirit Medicine from the old shaman Spirit Moon, Cobb is instead sealed away, but returns and regains his strength by becoming a vicious SerialKiller of prostitutes, eventually closing in on Spirit Moon and massacring his entire tribe. Turning others into monsters like him, Cobb leads the slaughter of an entire town before taking over a second town called Deliverance where he boasts he has devoured all the souls there, intending on sweeping over the West in a flesh-eating tide of bloodshed and slaughter.
* ''The Skin Trade'': In this werewolf novella by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jonathan Harmon]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly alpha werewolf]] whose only son cannot shapeshift. Harmon attempted to awaken his transformation by [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping six children]] and forcing his son to eat their flesh. In reality, Harmon continued this because he enjoyed the hunt. When one police officer got too close, Harmon [[CopKiller tore him apart]], threatening his partner that it would be his children to die next if he did not cover it up. When the officer's daughter Randi Wade and the kind werewolf Willie Flambeaux get too close, Harmon tries to kill both and threatens to return for Randi later. Prideful, ruthless and utterly concerned for all life, werewolf or human alike, Harmon is a perfect example of [[SavageWolves the worst the lycanthropes have to offer]].
* ''{{Literature/Skinjumper}}'': Alex Snowdin, despite lacking the supernatural powers of his partner Terry, manages to stand out as the most evil man in the story. As a child, Alex accidentally killed his brother's dog, and, to avoid trouble for it, arranged to sacrifice another dog to bring his back to life. When this failed, it succeeded only in giving Alex's friend Terry the ability to jump into the bodies of others, while Alex spent his time growing up assaulting and abusing others. Once teaming back up with Terry years later, Alex immediately murders rival drug slingers before raping one's girlfriend, leading Terry to accidentally jump into the girl's body, after which Alex makes numerous attempts to rape Terry to sate his lust. After brutally murdering two more men, Alex betrays Terry, holds him and a woman at gunpoint, then boasts his plans to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a nearby child]] for fun after torturing the duo to death in an insane attempt to replicate the ritual that gave Terry his powers.
* ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series:
** First book: [[{{Sadist}} Nefarian Serpine]], a fanatical worshipper of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] and TheDragon to the warmongering sorcerer Mevolent, had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine began plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty years later after arranging for Baron Vengeous to complete his Grotesquery, Batu befriends and murders every experienced Teleporter still alive so that none of them can close his gateway. Upon revealing himself to Valkyrie in the battle with the Diablerie, Batu can only express pride and exhilaration at the destruction he has caused, offering his followers up as vessels for the dark gods under the guise of protection from their horrible wrath. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious of the power and longevity of sorcerers]], Batu is willing to destroy the world [[GodhoodSeeker in order to achieve godhood]], arrogantly thinking that he will become one with the Faceless One that possesses him.
** The Necromancer Trilogy (''Dark Days'', ''Mortal Coil'', ''Death Bringer''):
*** HighPriest Auron [[ImmortalitySeeker Tenebrae]] of the Necromancer Order wants to live forever by enacting a ritual called the Passage, where the [[DarkMessiah Death Bringer]] will kill around three billion people to block the stream of life. Recognizing Skulduggery Pleasant's aptitude for Necromancy, Tenebrae gave Serpine his signature RedRightHand and ensured, should it be used on Skulduggery, that his soul would be able to come back, subsequently leading to the emergence of [[OmnicidalManiac Lord Vile]]. In the present, Tenebrae arranges for a Remnant to possess Finbar Wrong so they can learn if Valkyrie will become the Death Bringer, apathetic to the devastation that ensues when it gets loose. After capturing Skulduggery and Valkyrie, Tenebrae proceeds to reveal his part in Vile's creation, taking sadistic pleasure in finally unveiling the truth of his origins.
*** Cleric Vandameer [[DirtyCoward Craven]] initially seems to be nothing more than a sycophantic supporter of Tenebrae, but quickly proves to be far worse. [[PlayingWithSyringes Horrifically experimenting]] on Melancholia St Clair, Craven unveils her as the Death Bringer and quickly begins abusing the power that comes with his newfound acclaim. Taking over the Order after Melancholia kills Tenebrae, Craven continues the attempts to initiate the Passage and sacrifices his loyal followers to evade capture, eventually [[DemotedToDragon becoming a lackey]] to the [[SanitySlippage now insane]] Melancholia in the dubious hope he'll be spared when she [[OmnicidalManiac kills everyone]]. A self-serving coward concerned only with preserving his own life, Craven abandons even Tenebrae's flimsy pretense of saving the world in his spinelessness.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]] toward Argeddion's dream of spreading magic to all.
** ''Armageddon Outta Here'':
*** "Friday Night Fights": [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters The Promoter]] runs weekly [[GladiatorGames death matches]] between magical creatures for the amusement of mortals. With sapient vampires as his most noteworthy attractions, the Promoter forces them to fight only half-turned into their monstrous forms, a state shown to induce incredible pain. The Promoter also feeds them live humans before every match so they're at their strongest. When his champion Caelan refuses to eat Valkyrie, the Promoter pits Caelan against a stronger vampire, knowing it's taboo for them to kill their own kind, and throws Valkyrie into the middle of the match between the two ferocious monsters. Having held these fights for years and [[VanHelsingHateCrimes expressing a desire to rid the world of these "parasites"]], the Promoter proves that humans can be far worse than any sorcerer or vampire.
*** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions.
** ''Seasons of War'': The Leibniz universe's [[AlternateSelf version]] of [[BloodKnight Lord Vile]] proves to be far viler than his counterpart. Serving as the feared [[TheDragon Dragon]] to his world's Mevolent, Vile massacres scores of resistance fighters, including his former best friend Ghastly Bespoke. Retaking his former title of Death Bringer, Vile uses his immense power to create a specialized breed of draugr that can spread their condition to others, [[ZombieApocalypse quickly decimating the world]]. As Mevolent prepares to invade another reality, Vile betrays him, siccing his forces on one of the last remaining cities in his universe. Fittingly obsessed with death for one who holds his title, Vile intends to hijack Mevolent's plan and continue his destruction in the other world, continuing the process until [[OmnicidalManiac everyone in every universe is dead]].
* ''Literature/SlasherbackSeries'', by Brian G. Berry:
** ''The Sleepover Massacre'': [[DepravedDentist Anthony "the Mad Dentist" Ulrich]] is a SerialKiller with a penchant for mangling his victims' teeth. Before the story, Ulrich murdered his wife and her lover after he caught her having an affair; he enjoyed killing her and breaking her teeth so much that he became a dentist and started targeting [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. After murdering 15 third graders and being locked in a mental institution for years, Ulrich escaped and targeted more civilians. Refusing to be caught again, Ulrich kills a dozen innocents, including a [[CopKiller police officer]] and a young boy, before attempting to murder [[FinalGirl Jessica Sadie]] and her brother.
** ''Thanksgiving Day Massacre'': "[[GreaterScopeVillain The Father]]" is the patriarch of his cannibalistic surrogate family and the man responsible for corrupting [[BigBad Travis]] and turning him into a SerialKiller. As part of a sadistic tradition, the Father [[FamilyExtermination would slaughter a young child's entire family]] on Thanksgiving, force the child to eat their remains, and then recruit them to be part of his family. As they aged, the Father twisted their minds and broke them, turning them into cannibalistic killers and making them participate in the same tradition. When the Father comes across 5-year-old Travis, he and his minions massacre Travis's whole family before [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]] as his mother is raped and murdered; Travis is later converted to become part of the Father's family. Even after the Father dies, Travis and the remnants of the Father's family carry on with executing more massacres.
* ''Slasher Girls & Monster Boys'': In "A Girl Who Dreamed of Snow", by [=McCormick=] Templeman, after a plague which kills most young girls and women hits their land, [[BigBrotherBully Sain]] and his brothers kidnap women in order to give the residents wives in order to keep the population alive. In truth, Sain cares nothing for his land and is simply using this as excuse to fulfill his {{sadist}}ic fantasies by secretly [[SerialKiller butchering the woman]] they capture. Sain bullies his kindlier brother Mowich and forces him into this. After discovering the young shaman girl Nara, Sain plans to kill her for fun despite knowing her death will mean the plague will continue, as she is the only one who can stop it. Sain is willing to doom his entire people to genocide, including his little sister, just to satisfy his love of hurting others.
* ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' ([[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault01.html link]]): The [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogress Queen Mother]] is left to look after her daughter-in-law and grandchildren when her son, the prince, is called away to war. [[ForTheEvulz For no apparent reason]], she decides to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize them]], starting with her [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old granddaughter]], Dawn, ordering her chief steward to kill and cook her. The Steward hides Dawn away and kills and cooks an animal instead, repeating the process with the three-year-old grandson, Day, and the princess. When [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the queen]] realizes the trick, she gathers the princess and her children along with the steward and his wife and servant girl, deciding to drop all six into a vat full of snakes and poisonous toads.
* ''[[Literature/MissMarple Sleeping Murder]]'': Dr. James Kennedy, obsessed with his half-sister Helen, was furious when she opted to marry the father of young Gwenda Reed, and eventually murdered her, which a young Gwenda saw. Covering his crime by murdering Gwenda's nanny and drugging Gwenda's father, Kennedy framed him for murder, {{gaslighting}} him and hiding the body as to make him appear insane and have him sent to an asylum where he died. In the present, Kennedy murders the former maid when he fears she will implicate him and tries to poison Gwenda's household as well. Finally uncovered, he attempts to throttle Gwenda before Miss Marple herself intervenes.
* ''The Slob'', by Aron Beauregard: [[SerialKiller The Slob]] is a [[FatBastard corpulent]], [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] killer secretly working for an [[OrganTheft organ harvesting]] ring. Per the request of his employers, the Slob would kidnap women and then chop up their bodies in a meat grinder, selling their remains for others to consume. While held captive, the Slob would repeatedly torture and [[SerialRapist rape]] his victims, and even go as far as forcing them to eat human flesh. When heroine Vera Harlow arrives on his farm to sell him a vacuum cleaner, the Slob lures her into his home before beating her and locking her inside his bedroom. He later abuses Vera's stomach so she'll miscarry and force-feeds her human remains. After Vera botches an attempt to escape from the Slob, the Slob punishes her by locking her inside his barn with several of his other victims and raping her on a daily basis.
* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': [[CreepyGymCoach Isabelo Gorospe]] is the vile figure who drove [[SerialKiller Alex Carlos]] to his murder spree. A gym teacher and [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]], Isabelo lured impoverished boys by offering them scholarships, before forcing himself on them. Calling 8 boys in the gym after school, Isabelo would rape them and force them to do sexual acts together for a school year, with Alex, as his "favorite boy", the prime target of his worst acts; all this while always reminding them of how helpless they are to his authority, later [[ILied rescinding the scholarships regardless]].
* ''Literature/SmallTownMonsters'', by Diana Rodriguez Wallach: The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] known as the "Angel of Tears" once ran a {{cult}} that practiced HumanSacrifice. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed off]] by the parents of Vera Martinez, the Angel later returns by forcing a man to cause an explosion that kills 17 people, and later [[DemonicPossession possesses a woman]] while rebuilding its cult. Causing numerous deaths and destruction, the Angel of Tears plans a mass suicide of its followers to enhance its power and sweep over the world to repeat it again.
* ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' novella, by Matt Yeo: [[SmarmyHost Jasper Powell]] is the host of--and the brains behind--the gameshow ''[[BloodSport SMASH TV]]'', the [[ImmoralRealityShow most popular television show in the world]], where contestants have a chance to win untold riches...if they manage to survive, which nobody has so far. In truth, Jasper, the final obstacle faced by contestants, is an enormous mutant, the failed attempt by the military to create SuperSoldiers. Jasper had the idea to start a [[DeadlyGame gameshow]] to test experimental weapons on people, claiming ""Who's going to miss a few gung-ho macho idiots? It's certainly cheaper than waiting for a war to happen!" In addition, besides owning the studio, Jasper also runs most of the gambling in the city, which is what caused one of the contestants to become a contestant.
* ''SNAFU'' anthology series (by publication date):
** ''Survival of the Fittest'''s "Sucker of Souls", by Kirsten Cross: Vlad {{Dracula}} himself is a terrifying, monstrous vampire who, when awakened from his prison, promptly slaughters a young research assistant and tries to kill the rest of the group he arrived with. In the past, Dracula massacred and {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} countless innocents, feasted upon [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and stores the souls of his victims in the cave to [[AndIMustScream suffer forever]] as long as he lives. Plotting on killing or turning the rest of the group in the caverns, Dracula intends on raising a new army and running rampant through the world.
** ''Unnatural Selection'''s "Vermin", by Richard Lee Byers: [[EvilSorcerer Ibrahim]] is a [[SinisterMinister wicked Imam]] who takes advantage of a siege occurring between the Franks and Turks over a city to unleash [[ScaryScorpions monstrous scorpions]]. Committing HumanSacrifice to create these monsters, he unleashes them on the Franks before revealing to his employer that he intends to use the victory here to transform his entire religion into worship of his master, an [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Old One]] who would grant Ibrahim great power. Upon being caught, Ibrahim tries to massacre the entire city with every man, women and child in it out of spite.
* ''Literature/SnowGlassApples'': "Literature/SnowWhite" is the unnamed, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] princess who is opposed by the supposedly "wicked" stepmother. Showing her inhuman nature by feeding on her new stepmother's blood, Snow begins [[AntagonisticOffspring draining her own father]] over years, sexually and physically abusing him until [[{{Patricide}} he dies a wasted skeleton of a man]]. When the new queen attempts to have Snow killed, Snow enslaves the dwarves in the forest and begins hunting travelers, killing many for their blood. While being temporarily defeated by a poison apple, Snow returns later to usurp control of the kingdom from her stepmother, having the queen cooked alive as the main course at Snow's wedding, free to [[AdaptationalVillainy terrorize the kingdom]] how she desires.
* ''Literature/TheSnuffNetwork'': [[BigBad Andy "Mr. Snuff" Wu]] is the leader of a BlackMarket organization specializing in HumanTrafficking and creating {{snuff film}}s. With billions of dollars and dozens of thugs at his disposal, Wu has thousands of men, women, and children around the world kidnapped and either raped or tortured to death to appease his clientele. When his business becomes under attack by two vigilantes seeking vengeance against him, Wu tries to have them murdered, not caring how many of his men he must sacrifice and [[YouHaveFailedMe punishing those who fail him]] by having them tortured or killed as well. After Bradley Anderson, one of his most loyal filmmakers, [[EvenEvilHasStandards tries to retire]] and refuses to kill three teenage witnesses who could incriminate Wu, Wu responds by having Bradley's wife and child murdered [[ForcedToWatch in front of him]]. As Bradley and the vigilantes start destroying Wu's enterprise in Tokyo, Wu continues sending more of his men to try and kill them, regardless of the collateral damage. Even when Wu is finally cornered and moments away from death, all he can do is smugly announce that other members of his family will continue his legacy and keep his business running.
* ''Literature/{{Sold}}'': [[BigBad Mumtaz]] is the repulsive madam in charge of the brothel known as the Happiness House. Ruling her brothel through fear and intimidation, Mumtaz has grown rich by forcing her [[WouldHurtAChild child prostitutes]] to lay with her customers, and traps them in a never-ending cycle of debt so they can never leave. When the thirteen-year-old Lakshmi refuses to service a customer, Mumtaz starves and beats her for days on end before losing her patience and drugging her into complying. When one of her older prostitutes named Pushpa grows too sick to work, Mumtaz doesn't care in the slightest and forces her to continue servicing customers on threat of throwing her and her children out on the street, a threat she eventually makes good on. When Mumtaz really wants to punish someone, she "will smear chilies on a stick and put it [[GroinAttack inside the girl]]". Motivated solely by {{greed}}, Mumtaz embodies every rotten aspect of the horror that is sex trafficking.
* ''Soldiers of Literature/{{Earthrise}}'':
** [[SinisterMinister The Red Cardinal]], also known as Clement Taylor, is the tyrannical ruler of North Bahay. After being excommunicated from his church in America, the Red Cardinal formed his own sect with Filipinos and headed into outer space to escape the Americans. Once the Red Cardinal found the planet Bahay, he banished two-thirds of his followers into the ocean for not abiding to his laws. As decades went by, the Red Cardinal eliminated anyone who wasn't Bahayan, along with any Bahayans who refused to conform with his ideals. During the Earthling/Bahayan war, the Red Cardinal and his armies slaughtered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and prisoners of war; he later bombed the city on Mindao, murdering countless South Bahayan civilians for allying with the Earthlings. After donning the new moniker "Papa Dominus," he used his guerilla fighters known as the Crimson Claws to force Bahayans into intergalactic prostitution and drug dealing, while Papa Dominus built hundreds of [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] where his enemies were beaten, raped, starved, or murdered on a daily basis for multiple years. When hero Jon Taylor, his heir, refuses to join him even after being threatened to, Papa Dominus convinces Jon to confront him one final time by threatening to murder [[LoveInterest Maria]] and their [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old daughter Lily]] instead.
** [[PresidentEvil President Henry "Hank" Hale]] is the Earthling leader longing to [[FinalSolution exterminate the Bahayans and Santelmos]]. As President, Hale used his resources to [[PropagandaMachine spread anti-Bahayan propaganda]] across Earth and had all civilians drafted as soon as they turned eighteen. With General Ward as his primary contact, Hale was able to sanction countless bombings and attacks across Bahay, leading to the deaths of millions. When protestors against Hale's presidency began to interfere with his plans, he repeatedly sent the police to attack the protestors, not caring about the collateral damage that ensued. After killing Lizzy Pascal, the protestors' ringleader, he sent the police after the protestors again, indirectly causing a massacre that got over three hundred civilians killed. Even after the truth about the war is exposed to the public and his presidency is ruined, he sends an assassin to try and kill Kaelyn Williams and Etty Ettinger out of petty spite.
** [[GeneralRipper General Charles "Chuck" Ward]] is the leader of the Earthling army on Bahay. Eager to [[FinalSolution eradicate all of the Bahayans]], Ward uses his soldiers to commit genocidal crimes, such as routinely bombing villages; occupying South Bahay and forcing a portion of the population to be slaves; gassing Bahay with poison that causes deformities and monstrous transformations; and slaughtering over three million Bahayans. Ward also has his own soldiers subjected to weeks of [[TrainingFromHell savage, abusive training]], not caring when hundreds of thousands of his soldiers are killed during the conflict. When Maria tries to get Ward to confess to his crimes over a recording device, he destroys the device before admitting that he's killing Bahayans solely to [[WarForFunAndProfit profit from the war]], and later [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her]].
* ''Literature/SolomonKane'':
** "[[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Shadows Red Shadows]]": The vicious bandit [[EvilCounterpart Le Loup]] ("The Wolf") is a scourge on the French countryside where he [[RapePillageAndBurn rapes and murders]] at will. Attracting the attention of Solomon Kane when he slaughters an entire village and keeps the women to gang-rape before killing them as well, Le Loup pursues one wounded girl, catching and raping her before leaving her for dead when Kane finds her. [[DirtyCoward Sacrificing his men to Kane when he needed to escape]], Le Loup flees to Africa where he allies with a ruthless chieftain named Songa and assists him in oppressing his own people, complete with blood sacrifices, before attempting to have Kane killed at last.
** "[[https://biblio.wiki/wiki/The_Moon_of_Skulls The Moon of Skulls]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Nakari]], "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Vampire Queen of Negari]]", is the worst member of "a people with whom blood is cheaper than water." A tyrannical, wantonly violent DarkMessiah whose ultimate goal is to conquer the entire world, Nakari [[TheUsurper overthrew the legitimate ruler]] and made herself Queen, before torturing or killing the priests, leaving her the only one who knew how to perform the ceremonies, thus assuring her dominion. Nakari turned their already-brutal religion into one where they [[ReligionOfEvil only worshiped the god of death]], with Nakari personally [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing a kidnapped virgin]] each full moon. During her reign she became [[TheDreaded known and feared]] throughout much of Africa for her cruelty, regularly sending her warriors to raid and attack the nearby tribes. Nakari [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first appears]] having one of her loyal followers brutally executed simply for [[BadBoss following her orders]] to kill anyone who arrives in her domain without any tributes, taking obvious pleasure out of watching the man die. Such executions occur so often that the floor of her throne room is covered with bloodstains. Nakari also enjoys horribly abusing her slave Marylin Taferal, having her hung by her arms naked then whipped until unconsciousness for even the slightest disobedience, all the while waiting until Marylin is old enough to be sacrificed.
* ''Literature/SomethingDarkAndHoly'' trilogy:
** [[TheChessmaster Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. Concocting a series of events to revive himself, Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage [[{{Sadist}} for his pleasure]]. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
** ''Wicked Saints'': [[EvilOverlord King Izak Meleski]], Serefin's [[ArchnemesisDad father]], is the tyrannical leader of Tranavia. Izak despises the idea that his people view him as weak and ineffectual, and now plans to prove them wrong by [[GodhoodSeeker achieving godhood]]. To this end, Izak has thousands of his own citizens [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]] and killed for the ritual to achieve divinity. Izak is also cruel to the enemy nation of Kalyazin, which he's fighting in a war, sending countless prisoners to be worked to death as slaves in the salt mines. Izak despises his son, Serefin, to such a degree that he plans to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]] as his final act to achieve godhood itself.
* ''Literature/SomethingWickedThisWayComes'': [[DarkIsEvil Mr. G.M. Dark]], lord of the [[EmotionEater Autumn People]] and [[RepulsiveRingmaster master]] of the [[CircusOfFear carnival]], is a devilish figure who tempts his victims into ruin and damnation. Sweeping from town to town, Dark makes [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] with those he encounters, but cruelly exploits them to destroy the victims' lives and force them into the carnival where he and the rest of the Autumn People feast upon their life force, Dark filled with the victims he tattoos upon himself as trophies. Seeking to cause pain and discord wherever he goes, Dark intends to force Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade to his carnival in his never-ending quest to glut himself upon agony and nightmare.
* ''The Sorrows'' & ''Castle of Sorrows'', by Jonathan Janz:
** [[BigBad Gabriel Blackwood]], first appearing as an innocent boy adopted by the Blackwoods in the Sorrows, is in truth the [[JerkassGods sadistic god Pan]]. After having slaughtered most everyone in the region, Gabriel waits until the arrival of others at the Sorrows. Seducing the women there, Claire and Eva, Gabriel sleeps with both of them before [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violently raping Eva]] and mutilating her. Torturing and killing everything in the castle he can get his claws on, Gabriel later has his daughter with Claire returned to him and proceeds to massacre everyone who comes to the island, using their sins and guilt to torture them further when he can. Even taking control of one woman to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the baby]], Gabriel ends the sequel [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Ben's father-in-law--Claire's father--to murder Ben's family out of spite at being thwarted.
** [[AxCrazy Ray Rubio]] is a two-bit thug unconnected to Gabriel or any of his machinations who manages to match the HumanoidAbomination in savage evil. A gangster on the payroll of Marvin Irvin, Ray Rubio is a SerialKiller, a SerialRapist, and a torturer who introduces himself in the second book working at an unfortunate man with a mandolin slicer. Ray proceeds to slaughter numerous other people as he goes on, in one case raping and murdering an unfortunate [[JoggersFindDeath jogger after she witnesses him]] offing a pair of FBI agents, and even after being trapped in the castle within the bowels of the Sorrows, all Rubio can think about is his intent to rape and kill everyone he comes across.
** ''Castle of Sorrows'' only: [[KillerCop Troy Castillo]] was a rapist through his [[TeensAreMonsters teen years]] who gained a love of killing after beating a prostitute to death to sate his own ego. Becoming an FBI agent to mask his [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[SerialKiller killings]], Castillo [[FamilyExtermination murdered an entire family]] by first executing the father, then gang-raping the mother and daughter with his goons. Upon arriving at the Sorrows, Castillo arranges for the deaths of several of his compatriots, and ultimately plans to rape his partner Jessie then hand her off to be tortured to death.
* ''Soultaker'', by Bryan Smith: [[SnakePeople Lamia]] is a an [[AncientEvil ancient demon goddess]] who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps her life]] by [[SoulEating devouring the souls]] of her hosts, often young and attractive women. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting others]] into depravity, Lamia regularly tortures, dominates and murders those under her control while setting up the Harvest where she has dozens of followers slaughtered to feed on their lives and send their souls to eternal torture.
* ''The Sound of his Horn'', by Sarban: In a [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory twisted dystopian future]] where the Nazis won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, [[NaziNobleman Count Hans von Hackelnberg]] is the Reich's Master Forester and a cruel sadist who reigns over a vast forest. Obsessed with hunting, von Hackelnberg has women released in bird costumes to be captured, raped and abused by his guests, while having other women turned into [[HalfHumanHybrid feral crosses between leopard and human]]. Others are released onto his hunting grounds so von Hackelnberg can [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt them down]] personally for sport, which he relishes in, calling out his victories on his hunting horn.
* ''Literature/TheSouthernBookClubsGuideToSlayingVampires'': [[ChildEater James Harris]] is a [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon handsome]], seductive [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] who uses a real estate scheme to charm communities while molesting and feeding off their children, warping their minds and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide driving them to painful suicide]] before leaving the population economically devastated. When forced to stop feeding on a child by heroine Patricia Campbell, Harris covers his tracks by killing her mother-in-law by having her attacked and eaten by rats when she recognizes him, and convinces Patricia's husband she's mentally unwell. Resuming her investigation of him, it becomes apparent Harris has remained alive for four hundred years by feeding, keeping [[CreepySouvenir trophies]] from the children he kills, and later reveals he's been feeding off and grooming Patricia's daughter, and also grooming Patricia's son. Even while dying, Harris goes out a spiteful monster, raping Patricia's best friend and infecting her with a deadly immunodisease, which painfully kills said friend.
* "[[Literature/TheElenium Sparhawk Universe]]":
** ''The Elenium'' trilogy: [[GodOfEvil Azash]] is a horrible, sadistic EldritchAbomination who manipulates his followers into performing rituals that involve HumanSacrifice, torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, engaging in sexual perversions until they collapse dead from exhaustion, and the like. He plots to extend his worship over the continent, and to that end backs a conspiracy to poison the Queen of Elenia, tries to subvert the Elene Church by placing one of his agents on the throne, has a mercenary army under Martel destroy much of the Holy City of Chyrellos, and uses The Seeker, a child-eating insectoid freak, as his MouthOfSauron. He uses his final moments to kill other subordinates, just because [[YouHaveFailedMe they failed him]].
** ''The Tamuli'' sequel trilogy: [[TheChessmaster Zalasta]], [[EvilFormerFriend Sephrenia's childhood friend]], is revealed to be an EvilSorcerer and traitor ''par excellence''. Having arranged for the massacre of his and Sephrenia's hometown when they were children--resulting in the slaughter of his own family--Zalasta went onto become Styricum's most powerful magician and an integral, behind-the-scenes player in Azash's scheme to conquer the world. Years later, he joins forces with [[GodOfEvil Cyrgon]] to instigate revolution in the Tamul Empire, and persuades the Elene peasantry to commit genocide against the Styrics-—his own people—-in order to harm Sephrenia's goddess, Aphrael. Eventually betraying Cyrgon in order to serve [[UltimateEvil Klæl]], Zalasta is responsible for not only tens of thousands of deaths, but for endangering the very existence of the world; when everything falls apart, he makes two final attempts on the lives of Sephrenia and her lover Vanion. Driven by lust for Sephrenia, and loathing of Aphrael, Zalasta is guilty of every crime from high treason to "consorting with ye powers of darkness," and is content to damn the entire world, so long as he gains possession of the woman he wants.
* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'': [[JerkJock Andy]] [[HandsomeLech Evans]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters senior at Merryweather High School]] who has a reputation for sleeping around. Upon meeting a drunken Melinda Sordino at an end of the summer party, he rapes her; this results in a spiral of events which culminate in Melinda becoming traumatized to the point of nearly becoming mute. Since then, Andy made a habit out of [[MindRape psychologically tormenting Melinda]] out of sadism. Fearing that Rachel might become his next victim, Melinda attempted to warn her about Andy's true intentions, but she doesn't believe her. It's also revealed that Andy had a [[SerialRapist prolific history of sexually assaulting female students]]; this is shown by the multiple entries that were written on the wall in the restroom. Enraged that Melinda had ruined his reputation, Andy confronts her in the janitor's closet, and he attempts to rape her again out of spite. [[ItsAllAboutMe Egotistical]] and sadistic, Evans would stop at nothing to get what he wants.
* ''Literature/{{Spellfall}}'': [[BigBad Hawk]] may not be responsible for that many deaths, but compensates for this with sheer ruthlessness. Some of his actions include: [[DrivenToSuicide driving his wife to suicide]] by killing her bonded animal, forcefully "bonding" with other Wizards which means placing them under MindControl, threatening to both of those to his son, forcing the wizards under his control to commit atrocities, including kidnapping other victims for "bonding" one of these is the heroine, a 12 year old girl, forcing them to kill the heroine's mother, intending to "bond" with the heroine, gleefully exclaiming that, after that, she "won't be so shy", after she demands privacy for changing clothes, intending to slaughter the Tree of OQ, possibly killing hundreds of wizards, making their ancestors--including the heroine's mother--DeaderThanDead and depriving the survivors of their home and living, just so he can get some mana, casually leaving a {{Muggle|s}}--the heroine's stepbrother--to his death, and when his plan fails, he tries to kill the heroine, along with his son.
* ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'': [[OurOgresAreHungrier Mulgarath]] is an arrogant, cunning Ogre who was [[BigBad directly or indirectly responsible]] for nearly all problems that befell the Spiderwick and Grace families. Desiring Arthur Spiderwick's field guide to conquer mankind and the other fairies, Mulgarath had Arthur's daughter, Lucinda Spiderwick, kidnapped, then tortured and later crippled when she couldn't give it to him. In preparation for his plans, Mulgarath built himself an army held together by intimidation, including press-ganged goblins; acquired several dragons; and [[ManipulativeBastard played on the dwarves' love of metal and craftsmanship]] to convince them to build weapons for his army and to swear their eternal allegiance to him. Mulgarath [[UngratefulBastard rewarded this service]] by massacring all the dwarves [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the moment they gave him the weapons]]. Upon learning that Jared Grace had found the guide, Mulgarath turned his attention upon the Grace siblings, happy to kidnap and kill the children to gain the guide, his plots climaxing in him destroying their family home and kidnapping their mother. Ambitious and vain as he was, Mulgarath was also a sadistic beast, as inside his palace the Grace siblings found multiple fairies he had [[CruelAndUnusualDeath imprisoned in honey and left to struggle futilely as they slowly drowned]].
* Literature/SplatterWestern books:
** ''The Magpie Coffin'', by Wile E. Young (Book 1): [[SociopathicSoldier Sgt. Earnest Craft]], one of the American soldiers that Salem Covington seeks vengeance upon for the bloody murder of his Comanche mentor, is a {{sadist}} and a [[SerialRapist rapist]] with a secret cave he stashes his victims in. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] who justifies his cruelty to others as the right of a white man in a white man's world, Craft [[TortureTechnician tortures dozens to death]], even little children and the elderly, while keeping their mangled or still-living bodies in his personal torture cave. Among Craft's victims include his own insane, sadomasochistic mother.
** ''The Thirteenth Koyote'', by Kristopher Triana (Book 8):
*** [[BigBad Glenn "The Dreadful" Amarok]] is one of the last [[SavageWolves Koyotes]] left. Having betrayed and murders his parents as a boy, Glenn spent his youth on a plantation murdering, torturing, and raping slaves before he became a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfen]] under Jasper Thurston. Leading a charge of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rape and slaughter]] across the West, Glenn seeks his mentor's heart to empower himself with a host of new atrocities. Murdering the family of heroine Delia, Glenn has her baby brother [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cooked alive]], before having entire towns massacred. Participating in greater and greater acts of evil, Glenn intends to tear open the gates to hell and let demonkind overrun humanity so he may indulge every sadistic whim that comes to him.
*** [[WouldHurtAChild Hiram Zeindler]], Glenn's right-hand, is a sadistic Wolfen and vicious pedophile who refers to his victims as his "delights". Hiram enjoys [[FakeUltimateHero giving his victims hope]], coming in to "save" them before raping, torturing and mutilating them. One luckless boy is rendered a crippled, eyeless husk when Hiram is done, Hiram [[CruelMercy leaving him alive for pure sadism]]. Upon attacking a homestead, Hiram rapes, murders, and [[ChildEater partially devours a young boy alive]], [[MockingTheMourner mocking his father]] later for the boy calling for him as he died. Helping Glenn unlock the gates to hell, Hiram intends to form a harem of the world's children so they may perpetually beg for his favor by allowing him to molest them at will.
*** [[TheCorrupter Jasper Thurston]], the founder of the Koyotes, is known as the blackest soul to ever walk the earth. Recruiting and corrupting his soldiers, Thurston led them to [[RapePillageAndBurn horrific massacres]], killing and raping innocents all over the West while happily burning others alive in torches to indulge his and the others' whims. Caring nothing for his own, Jasper simply revives one as a brain-dead zombie upon death. Jasper locates the [[ArtifactOfDoom dark artifact]], the Menhir, and to fill it with evil, he plans to [[BurnTheOrphanage burn down an entire orphanage]] with the children inside, an act so repugnant it finally inspires one of his own, Luther Byrne, [[EvenEvilHasStandards to stand against him]]. Jasper tries to kill him without any regret, intending on opening hell itself to destroy the world at the end.
** ''Human-Shaped Fiends'', by Chandler Morrison (Book 11): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain David Brown]] is a vile racist and sexual sadist who prides himself on his reputation of being an Indian killer. Brown has [[SerialKiller killed dozens of people]], [[CreepySouvenir whose ears he keeps as trophies]], and is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] brutally torturing and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] a hooker half to death for no other reason than spite towards the local sheriff asking Brown to go easy on her. Later kicking up his gang and the local town into a frenzy, Brown kills a harmless Indian pleading for peace before shooting his own employer and imploring his men to kill and rape their way through town.
** ''The Devoured and The Dead'', by Kristopher Rufty (Book 12): Lassiter is a scarred bandit who comes upon the lost gold rush party after the adults are infected with the curse of the {{Wendigo}}. Lassiter is revealed to have murdered the hero William Coburn's [[YouKilledMyFather father]]; executes their Native guide Ahote; and proceeds to try to take the women and girls as {{sex slave}}s, having become obsessed with William's sister Lenora. Upon learning of the Wendigo curse, Lassiter simply tries to [[ImAHumanitarian feed the children]] to their own parents and takes Lenora, later interrupted by William in the process of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]].
* ''A Splendid Chaos'' by John Shirley: [[BigBad Harmon Fiskle]] was an arrogant professor who [[TheSocialDarwinist preached Social Darwinism]] on Earth. When mutated by "The Current" on the alien world of Fool's Hope, he names himself Emperor Harmony and uses the mutants to brutally subjugate the humans there, killing many of them in the process. Torturing and murdering those who do not accept his rule, Harmony proceeds to [[HumanResources decorate his new throne room with hanged bodies]], having a resistance leader raped and throws her into a cage that slowly impales her while her lover is made to lay underneath the cage so the blood falls all over her. Harmony reveals his intent to [[ImAHumanitarian harvest portions of humanity for food]], enslaving the minds of most of the rest and is seen entertaining himself by having people randomly thrown through a device that can launch them anywhere, finding it amusing when they teleport hundreds of feet into the air or become fused with nearby stone. Intending to exterminate all alien races on Fool's Hope, Harmony shows the utter depravity [[TheUnfettered an unfettered]] ego can achieve.
* ''Stalking Jack the Ripper'' series, by Kerri Maniscalco: [[SerialKiller H.H. Holmes]] himself is a monstrous killer who constructed a [[HellHotel murder hotel]] so he could murder and torture innocents at his leisure, racking up a body count in the triple digits. Later becoming UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, letting a patsy die and take the blame for it. Continuing a murder spree in multiple areas, Holmes tries to [[TheCorrupter corrupt the heroine]] into being a murderer like him, gloating that [[CardCarryingVillain he fully embraces his inner darkness and the devil within]].
* ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'': Joseph Grey Veil deliberately took advantage of Terran xenophobia to get anti-alien laws passed. He also endeavored to pass anti-cloning laws solely for his own gain. His intent was to do whatever he wanted to innocent clones. Veil engages in a series of rapes with as many clones as he can, and deliberately infects them with syphilis just so he can see the results of the disease on the DesignerBabies he fathers.
* ''Literature/TheStarOfTheGuardians'': Abdiel is the leader of the Order of the Black Lightning, a rogue faction of [[MindRape mind-rapists]]. He uses his abilities to build an army of mindless followers by promising them exquisite pleasures, but actually uses his followers as toys to torment [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]]. Abdiel is revealed to have orchestrated the old revolution against the monarchy, murdering the whole royal family to seize power before his gamble was exposed and his Order destroyed. In revenge, he proceeds to hunt down and wipe out every member of the Blood Royal genetic line. Later, he tries to sell a doomsday device that could destroy all life to a rival empire for profit. When his enemies finally put him down for good, he ensures that his final blow will drive his slayer Maigrey insane, forcing her soulmate Sagan to [[MercyKill kill her to spare her the pain]].
* ''Literature/StarQuest'', by Andrew Dixon: [[BigBad Lord Glaxx]] was [[FromNobodyToNightmare once a simple alien playwright]] on Planet Bliss who was blacklisted for charging admission to shows that were intended to be free, a serious crime in his species' culture. Swearing revenge, Glaxx departed for deep space, then returned years later as a [[SpacePirate pirate king]] armed with a laser weapon that drains heat from stars. Glaxx thus plans to [[DisproportionateRetribution avenge the slight]] against him by sucking the life from Bliss' star, condemning all life on it to slowly freeze to death.
* ''Literature/Station16'', by Hermann & Yves Huppen: [[MadScientist Professor Tretiakov]] is a sadistic Russian scientist who sought to create the ultimate SuperSoldier to serve the Soviet Union. Based in Novaya Zemlya, Tretiakov conducted [[PlayingWithSyringes horrid human experiments]], cutting out the sensory organs of his patients without anesthesia and confining them to [[DrivenToMadness the point of insanity]]. To test their endurance, Tretiakov strips them outside in the cold, with many perishing from hypothermia. When Grigory and a squadron of soldiers accidentally enter his base, Tretiakov captures them to experiment on. Escaping through a time rift into the modern day, Tretiakov is revealed to be working as an asylum doctor, conducting his same experiments there and intending to make Grigory his next test subject.
* ''Literature/StayingFatForSarahByrnes'': [[ArchnemesisDad Virgil Byrnes]], the father of the book's title character, is a monstrous abuser who constantly beat his [[DomesticAbuse wife]] and [[AbusiveParents child]], attempting to drown the former in the kitchen sink during the one night she fought back. When 3-year-old Sarah walked in, Virgil pressed his little daughter's face onto the top of a red-hot stovetop and held it there until she was disfigured forever. Virgil [[KickTheDog refuses to let Sarah have her face medically reconstructed]], promises her he'll "burn the rest of her" should she ever tell anyone else what happened, and tries to make good on his promise at the end of the story while violently stabbing Sarah's high school friend. The only reason Virgil does what he does is simple; [[{{sadist}} it's his nature]].
* Literature/StephaniePlum series: [[KingpinInHisGym Benito Ramirez]] is a violent boxer who absolutely loves to [[WouldHitAGirl torture, rape, and mutilate women]] both because he can, and because he likes to make a point that he's so powerful that he can do whatever he wants, to whomever he wants, whenever he wants. In the first book, ''One For The Money'', he stalks Stephanie, even, at one point, calling her in the middle of the night and leaving a taunting voicemail that's being recorded as he assaults a pleading, screaming woman. Later, he rapes and brutalizes Lula, a prostitute whom Stephanie had spoken to about Ramirez earlier that day, and leaves her bloody, unconscious, naked body tied up on Stephanie's balcony. In the fifth book, ''High Five'', he goes on parole claiming to having reformed, only to resume stalking Stephanie and trying to break into her apartment.
* ''Stinger'' by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: The titular "[[PsychoForHire Stinger]]" is an alien BountyHunter in service to the House of Fists who [[ReligionOfEvil follow a twisted creed that anything that isn't one of them should die]]. Chasing a freedom fighter to Earth, Stinger lands in the town of Inferno and entraps it in a force field, while he kills humans he encounters to learn more about them and [[HumanResources recycle their biological material]] into his personal drones. Stinger tells the people to surrender his quarry or he will annihilate the town, and when he captures several humans, Stinger decides he has a better idea: to take them back to the House of Fists so the House will bring their wrath on Earth. Stinger constantly shows he is alien only in appearance: his true nature is a scheming, amoral sociopath willing to facilitate genocide for a [[{{Greed}} quick payday]].
* Literature/StonesOfPower (Sipstrassi) series:
** ''Lion of Macedon'' & ''Dark Prince'': The Demon God Kadmilos manipulates events so he may possess the body of the young future-king Alexander. Trapped in Alexander's body, Kadmilos's influence traumatizes the boy by causing his touch to kill people and creatures around him. As Alexander grows, Kadmilos's influence steadily becomes stronger: he arranges the murder of Alexander's father King Philip, and while Alexander is proud to fight in war and conquer, Kadmilos takes pleasure only in senseless murder. Arranging brutal massacres as he attempts to seize control of Alexander, Kadmilos steadily eliminates those in his way and promises Alexander that when he is done, Alexander will be remembered with hatred and terror once the demon turns the empires of man into blood and ash.
** ''Last Sword of Power'': Wotan, aka Molech, is one of a group of humans who found the mysterious stones of power that elevated them to practical godhood, Molech differed from his fellow deities in cruelty and depravity. Demanding [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] of [[WouldHurtAChild children, infants]] and innocents during his time as God of the Canaanites, Molech viewed suffering and torture as the [[{{Sadist}} sweetest of pleasures]]. Having survived to Roman-era Britain, Molech sets about on a brutal war of conquest as Wotan, subjecting civilians to brutal conquest, as his armies [[RapePillageAndBurn torture, rape, and kill]]. Wotan defeats the king Uther and then enslaves his soul, intending to torment it for as long as gives him pleasure. In the final battle, Wotan attempts to weaken the fabric between the worlds in order to allow hordes of demons to come through and devastate humanity.
** Jon Shannow Trilogy: Sarento, the BigBad of the trilogy. initially wanted to restore the Earth of the past in the post-apocalyptic setting, but willingly became corrupted and eventually absorbed the power Bloodstone, giving him [[SoulEating a hunger for human souls]]. Forming armies known as Devourers, Sarento leads [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal crusades against humanity]], massacring so many people humanity faces extinction. Eventually [[BadBoss devouring his own followers]], Sarento goes after the last survivors and eventually comes against one of the final cities on Earth, while revealing that devouring souls leaves them [[AndIMustScream trapped in agony within him]], something Sarento gleefully laughs about. Sarento only deigns to spare the cities when hero Jon Shannow uses a spell to [[ExactWords send Sarento and himself to the Earth's past]], with millions more people to devour. Sarento gleefully accepts, mocking Shannow how he'll feast on everyone he can, before it's revealed Shannow had [[HeroicSacrifice chosen to send them to the first testing site of the atomic bomb]].
* ''Literature/TheStore'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Newman King]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopathic CEO]] of the [[PredatoryBusiness wicked Store company]]. King [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday establishes Stores]] in small towns with no major competition, having The Store built using the blood and corpses of animals and humans alike. Once a Store is built, King has any competition bought out or run out of business, murdering any store owners who stand against him. Once blackmailing the local mayor into granting The Store power over the law, King has the city council slaughtered and institutes a PoliceState onto the town, rounding up any vagrants or rebels against The Store, then brutally torturing and brainwashing them into becoming the horrifying Night Managers, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie-like slaves]] who serve King. King also uses The Store to sell everything from drugs to child pornography to {{snuff film}}s, all manufactured by The Store itself. When Bill Davis attempts to subvert King's evil, King manipulates Bill into sleeping with a woman, hiding the fact that it is [[SurpriseIncest Bill's own daughter Sam]], then uses the recording of the event to blackmail Bill. King then proclaims he's going to turn Sam into a prostitute to be used and abused, and King ultimately plans to expand The Store's reach until he alone controls the entire world.
* ''Literature/TheStrain'': The [[MonsterProgenitor Master]] is one of the seven original [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. While his six brothers are content to rest in their homes and avoid conflict with the world at large, TheMaster has been a {{sadist}}ic tyrant, ever since ancient times. Crossing from Europe on plane, he kills and turns every passenger so when they revive, he sends them to feed on their loved ones, slowly building a vampire army. When the time is right, the Master initiates through his minions multiple nuclear explosions by destroying silos to kill the six other ancients, and blots out the sun, establishing a vampire kingdom where humans are cattle for his kind, locked in camps and used for blood. The Master shows a penchant for murder and torture for his own amusement as well, even keeping a minion he turned back in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII second World War]] from the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] ranks to torment his ArchEnemy, a vampire hunting concentration camp survivor.
* ''Literature/StrangeTheDreamer'' & ''Muse of Nightmares'': [[PosthumousCharacter Skathis]], god of beasts, was a [[FromNobodyToNightmare smith who used the gifts of others to become a powerful god and leader of the Mesarthim]]. [[EvilOverlord Taking over]] the city of Weep, Skathis torments it with his fellow Mesarthim, abducting countless young men and women to [[SerialRapist rape]] and magically convert into {{sex slave}}s, letting one man be taken by Skathis's own consort to rape and mentally dominate while Skathis violates his wife. When the children inevitably result, Skathis decides to profit by selling them as slaves and weapons to other worlds, caring for nothing but his own pleasures and dominions.
* ''Such A Pretty Girl'', by Laura Wiess: Charles Shale is a [[AbusiveParents horrible excuse for a father]] and a {{serial|Rapist}} [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] responsible for the heroine Meredith's plight throughout the novel. Having begun [[ParentalIncest molesting and raping his own daughter Meredith]] as she grew up after he tricks her into watching himself and his wife have sex, Charles's abuse reached its peak when he raped her to the point of bleeding when she was 12. Following this, 5 other children reveal that Charles has done much the same to them, always forcing them to [[{{Sadist}} beg for him to stop while he does it]], with one in particular [[DrivenToSuicide attempting to kill himself]] because of the molesting. Years later, once released from prison for his crimes, Charles immediately begins picking out new victims to restart his spree, and decides to kick it off by violently raping Meredith once more to show his "love" for her. A disturbingly realistic depiction of a child predator, Charles Shale was defined by his horrifying, disturbed nature of sexual lust.
* ''Literature/TheSuicideMotorClub'', by Christopher Buehlman:
** Robert "Rob" Odom is the sole member of Luther Nixon's vampire gang that lacks any of his compatriots' good qualities. A rude, cruel murderer of dozens, Rob personally [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped five-year-old Glendon Lamb]] from his parents' vehicle, mocking the parents the whole time before he and his gang fed on the boy, turned him to a vampire, then left him to die in the sun. Continuing to assist his partners in murder sprees across America, Rob abandons his allies when he's endangered, [[WouldHarmASenior murders a blind old man]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution mildly annoying him]] after [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing the man's dog]], then spends his last moments gleefully [[MockingTheMourner mocking Judith Lamb]] over her son's fate. Rob is considered by Judith to be the most hated of the vampires she had ever met due to his hand in her son's awful trauma.
** [[TheRenfield Woodrow "Woods" Fulk]] is a death-loving {{sadist}} who allies with Luther Nixon's vampire gang as their human servant, just so he can witness the carnage they bring. Transporting, protecting, and guiding the gang on finding dozens of new victims, Woods regularly [[ILoveTheDead uses one of the many corpses they leave behind as his personal sex toy]] while ensuring the gang is never caught. Woods murders several members of the Bereaved when they track down Luther's gang, and later viciously stabs the Bereaved's elderly founder Tracy to near-death after a failed attempt to strangle him for the sexual thrill of it.
* ''The Summoning'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad The Cup Hu Girngsi]] is an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent ancient, evil vampire]] that has grown tired of living in the shadows, and schemes to bring death and suffering across the planet to satisfy its sadism. Invading the town of Rio Verde and corrupting its townsfolk into fanatics willing to [[OffingTheOffspring torture their own children to death]], the Cup Hu Girngsi devours dozens of townsfolk as it increases its power and influence, eventually decorating its lair with [[WouldHurtAChild butchered infants]], gutted women and countless murals to the Cup Hu Girngsi's vile centuries of atrocities. The Cup Hu Girngsi plans to TakeOverTheWorld and turn all of the Earth into its feeding ground to torture and devour humanity for all eternity, and uses its final moments to brag that it had Rich Carter's wife and daughter raped before it killed them just to mock the man.
* ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'': This short story from the fairy tale book ''The Pentamerone'' has the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen nameless queen]]. When she had realized that her husband has cheated on her with another woman named Talia, she ordered her secretary to bring the children to her. She then gives her royal cook the job of [[WouldHurtAChild cooking the children]] into several dishes, and then to [[ImAHumanitarian serve said dishes to her husband]]. When it seemed like her husband was eating his own children, she continually mocked him for his mistake, and was blissfully unaware of the fact that her royal cook had cooked the King two lambs instead of the two children. The Queen later gives her guards the task of bringing the young woman to her palace, and so, Talia is brought before her. She condemned Talia to [[KillItWithFire to burn in a huge bonfire]] that she had set up for her, and she then asked her to remove her clothing because she thought they were too valuable to be burned with such a lowly woman.
* ''Literature/SunderedLands'':
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Grinder Prickleback]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] hedgehog who desires the Six Crowns of the Badgers of Power. [[DrivenByEnvy Jealous]] over the Badger Lords refusing to share their magical powers, Grinder tried to create a spell that would control their minds so he could acquire their power. He inadvertently ended up blowing up the entire world, killing millions in the process and turning the Sundered Lands into thousands of floating islands, while the Badger Lords dispelled their power into six separate crowns. When Grinder, now donning the name Herald "Percy" Pursuivant, comes across Trundle and Esmeralda on their journey to find the crowns, he helps them on their quest solely so he can take the crowns from them and use their power to TakeOverTheWorld. After all six crowns are found and taken to the altar that will unleash their power, Grinder immediately betrays Trundle and Esmeralda, threatening to kill them if they don't surrender the crowns to him.
** [[SkyPirate Captain Grizzletusk]] is the leader of a group of corsairs who plunder and murder at their own leisure. After being contacted by Millie Rose Thorne, [[BigBadDuumvirate the two conspire to work together]] to retrieve the six crowns and relish in their power. Grizzletusk and his crew constantly chase after Trundle and Esmeralda, going from island to island robbing and/or killing anyone in their path. He also attempts to attack and pillage the island of Swallowhaven just to needlessly fuel his greed, slaughtering dozens of soldiers in the process. When the heroes acquire all the crowns and head to Sunsett to unleash their power, Grizzletusk forces his crew to keep pursuing them, not caring as his crew is gradually slain from various booby-traps. When [[TheDragon Razorback]] tries to convince what's left of the crew to cut their losses and run, Grizzletusk simply threatens to kill him if he tries to leave.
* ''The Survivor's Club'': [[BigBad David Price]] is the [[ArchEnemy personal nemesis]] of Detective Roan Griffin. An imprisoned [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[SerialKiller serial child killer]], David cuts a deal with wannabe rapist Ron Viggio, giving Viggio a way to rape women with impunity, as long as his first victim is Meg Pesaturo, a girl that David seduced and impregnated when she was thirteen. Using the method that Price worked out, Viggio rapes Meg, Carol Rosen, and Trisha Hayes, killing the latter when her latex allergy kicks in, and assaults and tries to rape Trisha's sister, Jillian Hayes. When things become too difficult, Price arranges for Viggio to frame a man named Eddie Como, then hires an assassin to kill Como on the steps of the courthouse (drawing Griffin onto the case), and has Viggio blow up the assassin's car to cover their tracks. Price then claims to know the identity of the "College Hill Rapist", saying he will reveal it in exchange for a visit with Molly, his daughter by Meg. When this doesn't get him the attention he wants, Price has Viggio rape and kill Sylvia Blaire and kidnap Meg. Price is given his trip, and proceeds to break out of the transport van, killing three police officers in the process. He takes Meg to his old house, intending to kill her and bury her in the basement alongside his other victims; when the police try to interfere, he shoots Griffin's friend Detective Waters, and finally dies trying to knife Griffin. A pathological {{narcissist}} obsessed with being the centre of attention, David Price is about as low as even a paedophile can get.
* ''Literature/SwanSong'':
** [[BigBad The man with the scarlet eye]], aka "[[ForTheEvulz Friend]]", who may be TheDevil himself, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When Friend helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When Friend discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, he brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed that Friend, annoyed with Swan offering him forgiveness, is attempting to help the now-insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity while he watches, enjoys the show, and then dances on their graves.
** [[AGodAmI "Lord" Alvin Mangrim]] is a [[AxCrazy homicidal psychopath]] with a love for [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and chaos. Escaping an insane asylum [[AfterTheEnd following the nuclear holocaust]], Alvin leads his fellow inmates in a killing spree across the land, luring dozens of innocent men, women, and children to them to be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] before carving their heads off with a chainsaw for Alvin to keep as trophies. Murdering Leona while trying to slaughter Swan and Josh, Alvin later butchers his way into a position at the AOE, where he assists the leadership in wiping out opposition and gleefully encourages the monstrous Friend's new leadership of the AOE into further villainy.
* Theatre/SweeneyTodd himself counts, from the original penny dreadful stories that began with ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls''. While later given sympathetic qualities in the retelling of the legends, the original Sweeney Todd was a monster whose only motivation was cruelty and {{greed}}. Sweeney would lure customers into his barbershop and proceed to drop them down a tunnel to break their skulls or necks, before 'polishing them off' with his straight razor if they still lived. Coming up with another plan to make more money, he and his partner Mrs. Lovett cooked the bodies into meat pies to sell with a hefty profit. Hundreds of corpses are seen in the preparation room, and Sweeney keeps a kidnap victim to work the furnace to keep the meat coming, with full knowledge that he'll eventually join the pies when Sweeney decides he's been there too long.
* ''Literature/TheSwitch'': [[BigBad Hubert Spencer]] is the evil [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of the main protagonist. When the Ambarayans refused to sell him their moonfruit so he could profit off of it, he had them wiped out and ordered his men to LeaveNoSurvivors. Later, to test his product, he created a FakeCharity for homeless children so he could take them off the streets and [[TestedOnHumans experiment on them]] with no remorse. Later he attempts to murder one in cold blood, with his son next to the child, and laughs coldly during the event.
* ''Swordbird'', by Nancy Li Fan: [[BigBad Lord Turnatt]] is a ruthless [[FeatheredFiend hawk]] warlord who uses the teachings of the Book of Heresy to lay waste to the forest. Turnatt has his soldiers--[[BadBoss of which he is not averse to killing for virtually no reason whatsoever]]--wreak carnage to kill all they can, once having his birds attempt to slaughter a large audience gathered for a theater performance, and manipulates the cardinals and the blue jay tribes into constant war by [[FalseFlagOperation framing them for stealing each other's eggs]]. Turnatt himself is responsible for stealing the eggs, [[EatsBabies consuming them]] in a deranged attempt to make himself immortal as per the Book's word.
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': [[SorcerousOverlord Darken Rahl]] has made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal for power with the demonic being]], The Keeper of the Underworld. Darken keeps the people enslaved, banning fire and launching brutal extermination campaigns on the orders that have resisted him. Rahl also continues the order of Mord-Sith: girls raised to be vicious torturers who have their mothers murdered in front of them and are forced to torture their fathers to death. He also sexually abuses the Mord-Sith and especially enjoys tormenting a lesbian couple amongst them. A SerialRapist as well, Rahl forces himself upon many women, and if ones with him consensually are repulsed at the scars under his clothing, he tortures them to death. Viewing children without the gift of magic as worthless, he has any ungifted offspring disposed of, while also sacrificing other children to the Keeper for power. Rahl's ultimate goal is to plunge the world into The Keeper's domain, where all that lives will suffer eternally.
* ''Swords and Fire'' series, by Melissa Caruso: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Ruven]] is the son of the Wolf Lord of Vaskandar and an ambitious, cruel mage in his own right who grows into the role of TheHeavy and eventually the BigBad. As a skinwitch, Ruven wields a form of magic that can only be mastered by those with a profound LackofEmpathy and happily uses it to dominate and literally torture those under his authority. Though most Vaskandrian mages care little for the lives of {{muggles}}, Ruven treats his fellow mages as equally worthless, manipulating and tossing aside those who serve him and using a combination of potions and his skinwitch powers to enslave foreign mages against their will. Driven to expand his power at all costs, Ruven seeks war with the Serene Republic to the south, planning to weaponize a volcano in such a way as to cause staggering civilian casualties and gleefully forcing the entire population of his domain to act as {{human shield}}s to protect his scheme. Vaskandrian culture allows its witch-lords near unlimited power within their own domains; Ruven is a sterling example of the extent to which that power can be abused.
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* ''Literature/TailchasersSong'': Grizraz Hearteater became jealous of his older and younger brother and grew to hate cats in general. Hearteater summoned a {{Hellhound}} to kill as many cats as he could, and also ended up killing one of his brothers. Ever since then, Hearteater has hid underground in [[{{Hell}} Vastnir]] to avoid being detected and also to avoid the light. Hearteater hates [[{{God}} Meercat Allmother]] and wants to destroy all of Her creations. Over the centuries he's become an AnimalisticAbomination and has been rearing monstrous minions to slaughter cats and kidnap slaves while he waits to start the apocalypse. Hearteater sits upon a throne of various tortured and dead animals, where all he does all day is [[ImAHumanitarian eat the cats]] that his servants bring him. At the end of the novel, Hearteater decides to show his true power by turning his mound of animals into a deformed, vaguely hellhound-like monster only called "the ''Fikos''" ("terrifying badness"), which slaughters multitudes of cats on both sides.
* ''Take You Apart'', by T.J. Spade: Andrew "Drew" Stephens, real name Robert Fobray, is a maniacal SerialKiller obsessed with playing [[CriminalMindGames a game of wits]] with his perceived ArchEnemy, Caleb Everett. A perfect example of a [[AxCrazy psychopath]] since [[EnfantTerrible childhood]], during which he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tortured animals to death]] and creepily mimicked others in an attempt to "get" human interactions, Drew grew up to meet Caleb Everett, a psychic police detective who could peer into the minds of killers as they murdered others, and immediately develops a fixation on Caleb and besting his inhuman detective abilities. Drew kicks the novel off by kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a young woman, before sending Caleb her mutilated body parts to taunt him, after which he brutally rapes and beats a prostitute to near death. Realizing this didn't get Caleb's "full" attention, Drew tortures then disembowels one of Caleb's closest friends, also Drew's own girlfriend, then attempts to beat another of Caleb's best friends to death. In the end, after killing a homeless man to send a message and attempting the same on [[WouldHurtAChild a young teen]], Drew kidnaps Caleb's LoveInterest, planning to kill Caleb then torture and rape the girl to death as his final victory. Drew Stephens is a classic psychopath with no ability to comprehend human emotions or interactions, having to instead adapt various personalities he runs into throughout his life, earning him the moniker of a "chameleon killer".
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': ''One Good Knight'' brings us [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Cassiopeia]], who conspires with her [[EvilChancellor adviser]], [[EvilSorcerer Solon]], to [[WeatherManipulation summon storms to wrack the coast of her country]], sinking dozens of ships and drowning hundreds of sailors so that she can claim the salvage for the crown. When her citizenry become dissatisfied with her rule, Cassiopeia has Solon mind control the (otherwise harmless) dragon Adamant, forcing him to ravage the countryside, so that she may set up a {{lottery|Of Doom}} and feed the daughters of her political enemies to the dragon. After her own daughter, Andromeda, begins to suspect that someone is controlling the storms, Cassiopeia arranges (in a move that [[EvenEvilHasStandards revolts even Solon]]) to [[OffingTheOffspring have her sacrificed to the dragon]], and take advantage of the [[WoundedGazelleGambit public wave of sympathy that will follow]]. Totally convinced that the common folk should just put up with her capricious rule, Cassiopeia is plotting to have Solon assassinated when he [[TheStarscream finally makes his own move against her]], ending her role in the story.
* ''The Tales of Many Orcs'' duology, by Shane Michael Murray: [[BigBad The Lady of Firebrand Peak]] is a [[DragonsAreDemonic menacing dragon]] who enjoys needlessly terrorizing innocents. Asserting her dominance over the various races in the land, the Lady routinely kidnaps innocents and holds them prisoner before cooking and eating them alive. After choosing Talking-Wind to be her next meal, the Lady forces him to sacrifice one of the orcs in his village to prolong his life. Once captured, Talking-Wind watches firsthand as she devours two prisoners; he later performs a MercyKill so the orc he chose to be sacrificed won't suffer. Furious, the Lady [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Talking-Wind and marks him for death, and later chases him across the country as he tries to flee from her. Amassing a huge orc army, the Lady attacks the city of Tooyk just to find Talking-Wind, causing wanton destruction and murdering hundreds of innocents. When the Lady finally corners Talking-Wind on a cliff, she pushes him off, hoping that he'll survive the fall just so he'll break and beg for death.
* ''Literature/TheTapestry'': [[BigBad Astaroth]] is an ancient and powerful demon (actually a "spore" created by [[EldritchAbomination entities called the Starving Gods]]) who wants the Book of Thoth so he can rule the world with it. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Despite how he masks himself]], he's really a [[FantasticRacism demon supremacist]], punishing David Menlo for summoning demons by [[WouldHurtAChild biting his hand off]]. His plan for world conquest involves bringing governments around the world close to collapse before descending on Rowan with his army to seize the Book, leveraging the lives of Max's friends to get it. Upon getting it, he uses its power over truenames to [[ApocalypseHow expunge all post-medieval human knowledge from existence and memory, killing the vast majority of the human race]]. He then sets up demons as the Earth's rulers under him, instituting a vicious regime where a single person being literate mandates mass slaughter. When he loses the demons' loyalty, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he loses use for them]], and after consistently failing to create fully functional life, he [[VillainousBreakdown flips out]] when Rowan gears up to stop him and reveals his true motives: he [[AGodAmI just wants to play God]], and cares no more for demons than for humans. To this end, he attempts to [[OmnicidalManiac summon the Starving Gods in the hopes that they will devour the universe]] and give him scraps to live out his fantasies with. A narcissistic psychopath caring only about [[ItsAllAboutMe his fantasies of power]], Astaroth exhibits unparalleled evil even amongst demons.
* ''A Taste for Monsters'', by Matthew J. Kirby: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a bloodthirsty SerialKiller stalking the streets of 19th-century Whitechapel. Secretly a [[SamusIsAGirl midwife]], the Ripper lures in unsuspecting prostitutes and uses her medical skills to butcher them in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly gruesome murders]], taking five victims in total with the last four having [[GuttedLikeAFish organs removed]]. Jack plans to continue the gruesome murder spree forever.
* ''Teeth in the Mist'', by Dawn Kurtagich: [[Myth/{{Faust}} Fostos]], [[ImmortalityImmorality seeking to live forever]], seduces women to sire his children, the Unclosed. Faust later "[[OffingTheOffspring harvests]]" them, taking, torturing, and butchering them while they are still alive, in order to replenish his own body, and is even willing to [[ImAHumanitarian devour them]] and delivering their souls to Lucifer. Having run a house where he murdered workers and their children for sport and power, Faust also had his wife burnt alive as a witch when she discovered him. In the present of 1851, Faust begins murdering and torturing his way through the cast, nailing one to a torture wheel, keeping him [[AndIMustScream alive in agony]] even while his organs are removed.
* ''Literature/TentyrianLegacy'': [[BigBad Stavros]] is the leader of the Dark Coven. Once one of the rulers of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Tentyrians]], Stavros [[FantasticRacism looked down upon humanity]], viewing them as inferior to Tentyrians and wishing to rule them. Stavros had two of the other rulers assassinated and helped spark a fire which killed dozens, and later threatened to burn down the various covens of the other rulers while threatening to harm their children should they not relinquish control to him--but [[ILied intending to kill them anyway even if they comply]]. After the people rebel, Stavros's forces enact a purge which leads to the near-genocide of the Tentyrians. Stavros and the Dark Coven than begin a campaign of terror throughout the world, playing humanity against each other from the shadows and causing conflicts to become far worse and than reaping the profits afterwards. Stavros also uses his blood to transform humans into bloodthirsty monsters that serve him, raising an army in the thousands. Planning on culling humanity, Stavros attempts to corrupt Arianna--one of the last Tentyrians--to his side, and even fatally tortured one of her friends to find information on her whereabouts, intending to rule supreme for all of eternity.
* ''Teratologist'', by Wrath James White & Edward Lee: John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the Devil give him the power to bring HellOnEarth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the Devil himself sang his praises.
* ''Literature/ATerribleVengeance'': The EvilSorcerer is the incestuous [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of Katerina. Arriving after she has married the Cossack Danilo and has a baby son named Ivan, the Sorcerer is revealed to have murdered her mother, plotting to make Katerina [[VillainousIncest his and his alone]]. To this end, he engineers a massive battle between the Poles and Cossacks, murdering Danilo in the confusion, before magically killing his [[WouldHurtAChild baby]] grandson. When Katerina attempts to avenge them, the Sorcerer [[OffingTheOffspring kills her]] as well, later murdering a holy man when the man refuses to absolve him for his vile crimes. It is revealed his hatred of goodness is so great that the Sorcerer plots to sell out the East to the Roman Catholic Church, all to see the Orthodox church burn and its adherents slaughtered.
* ''Literature/TheTerror'': [[SmugSnake Shipman Cornelius Hickey]] is a ruthless, ratlike man with a penchant for manipulating others. Murdering his rival Irving, Hickey frames the local Esquimax people, resulting in their massacre. Leading a mutiny against Captain Crozier, Hickey slaughters all who oppose him and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] the ship's doctor Goodsir, so he cuts them up for Hickey and others to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize]]. Mocking Crozier by killing his second-in-command and presenting Crozier with the man's right arm, Hickey attempts to murder Crozier and keep Goodsir in line via increased torture until the man kills himself to escape. Hickey ends up being [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters so vile]] that even the monstrous, soul devouring Tuunbaq on the arctic ice finds his soul [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too unclean to devour]].
* ''The Terror of Living'', by Urban Waite: [[PsychoForHire Grady Fisher]] is a sadistic [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] obsessed with [[KnifeNut knives and their usage for hurting others]]. Known and feared throughout the criminal underworld as a [[AxCrazy loose cannon]] who can and will rack up an extra body count on even the most minor of assignments, Grady's first recorded instance of this extra cruelty is seen when, after being hired to scare his boss's rival out of town, he befriends the man, gets him drunk, then butchers him while [[TheCanKickedHim he is using the bathroom]]. When hired to transport two drug mules to their Vietnamese bosses, Grady decides to simply murder the two teenage girls, then dig the drugs out of their corpses, kicking things off by torturing then dismembering the first one, then trying to [[BoomHeadshot blow the other one's head off]] with a rifle. Grady later begins tracking down Phil Hunt to recover drugs he stole, and in the process, burns Hunt's home down, tracks down and kidnaps his wife, and forces the man to listen as he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals guns down his prized horses]] one by one. After his employers turn on him because of his insanity, Grady tracks them down and slaughters them all, brutally [[CopKiller murdering two cops]] in the process, and, once capturing Hunt and his wife, forces them to lead him to the drugs lest he butcher them and sell their organs to make up for his losses. In the midst of it all, Grady tries to murder someone for their car, terrifies a cashier for fun, and callously guns down any innocents who he gets annoyed with. Grady Fisher is ultimately a lunatic who uses his job to facilitate evermore pain and misery to those around him, with profits always second.
* ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'': [[NouveauRiche Alec d'Uberville]] is a sexual predator who constantly lusts after Tess from the moment he meets her. Alec makes multiple attempts to force himself onto Tess and eventually [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes her]]. Becoming a [[HidingBehindReligion preacher]] years later, Alec abandons his duties upon meeting Tess again, showing no remorse for raping her. When Tess suffers through massive hardships, Alec [[ManipulativeBastard emotionally manipulates the poor girl]] into becoming his mistress.
* ''Tess Winnett'' series, by Leslie Wolfe:
** ''The Watson Girl'': The Chameleon--Bradley Welsh--is a monstrous SerialKiller who developed his taste for sadism after raping a college student. Fully embracing his depraved nature after murdering his business partner's family, [[WouldHurtAChild three children included]], to cover up a business mistake, the Chameleon goes on to murder entire families, always framing it to look like the active killer the Family Man was the perpetrator. When the Family Man is finally arrested, the Chameleon begins experimenting in various ways of killing to decide which way he enjoys best, until he finally settles for kidnapping women and spending days raping and mutilating her until she dies. Not restricted to killing solely to get his kicks, the Chameleon beats a man to death with a crowbar for cutting him off in a parking lot and slashes the throat of an elderly woman after she sees him kill her granddaughter. A chilling maniac who believes that [[AGodAmI he has surpassed humankind and can do whatever he pleases]], the Chameleon treated each and every one of his murders as nothing but a tasty meal for him to consume, then promptly shrug off until his next kill.
** ''Glimpse of Death'': [[SerialRapist Michael Walden]] is a pathetic coward who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the mentally-deranged Derek Henderson into becoming his partner in crime. Kidnapping women and raping them for nearly a week, Walden then brutally beats and rapes one woman while forcing the other to watch before having Derek strangle his current victim to death, laughing at the horror of the woman being forced to watch. Racking up nearly two dozen women who he rapes for days then has Derek kill, Walden begins tries to commit murder himself, failing only due to his own cowardice and instead just maiming the women in gruesome ways. In the end, Walden breaks down into a crying heap when he is caught, [[NeverMyFault trying to pin everything on Derek and proclaiming that the women deserved it for "rejecting him"]].
** ''Taker of Lives'': The titular "[[AntagonistTitle Taker of Lives]]", Althea Swain, is a vindictive and petty {{narcissist}} who blames women around her for ruining her career goals by being more beautiful and attractive than herself. Yearning to break these women down and show the world how useless they are, the Taker starts her spree by drugging a young model, taking pictures of her naked body and posting them all over the web, the ensuring taunts and cruelty from the Taker regarding the photos making the model commit [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. Drugging and photographing several more women and leaking the illicit photos to ruin their lives, uncaring that the father of one her victims dies from a heart attack in the process, the Taker eventually upgrades her crimes to murder, beginning to [[MurderDotCom livestream]] herself killing beautiful young women in increasingly brutal ways. The Taker plans to make her newest victim a young teenager and torture her live on the web before killing her, and when caught brags that she had many more victims planned, and all for the most insanely [[EvilIsPetty petty]] of reasons.
* ''Literature/TheTestaments'': [[TheBluebeard Commander Judd]] is one of the architects of [[TheTheocracy Gilead]] and a chief designer of the Aunt and Handmaid system, promoting horrific slavery for countless women. A [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] himself, Judd is known for marrying disturbingly young girls to rape them as he wishes, before clandestinely murdering them, covering up the deaths and observing a "mourning period" before choosing his next victim.
* ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'': [[TheBaroness "Fairy" Hardcastle]], one of the chief members of N.I.C.E,and head of their SecretPolice, is a former fascist who loves nothing so much as domination. Seeking to tear down and remake the world in pursuit of her group's vicious order, Hardcastle has many people abducted and tortured, often [[TortureTechnician participating herself]]; it is implied that she even [[{{Sadist}} derives sexual pleasure]] from torturing. Capturing heroine Jane Studdock, Hardcastle tortures her, [[CigaretteBurns burning her with a cigar]], and threatens to later do the same to her husband Mark.
* ''Literature/TheirBrightAscendancy'': [[BigBad Yamai, the Traitor God]]--real name Umigami--is the first Emperor of Hokkaro. Exiled beyond the Wall of Flowers, all taken by Yamai have their minds hollowed out until they are turned into worshipping [[EmptyShell shells]] of themselves to praise him ceaselessly. Sending demons to sow chaos and death and spreading [[TheCorruption the horrific blackblood plague]], Yamai eventually returns on a killing spree, massacring an entire city with intent to reclaim his empire and destroy all in his way.
* ''Literature/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse'': [[SerialKiller The Osborne Slayer]], real name [[GunmanWithThreeNames David Thurston Ware]], is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage high school student]] who grew bored with his small town and turned to murder to make a name for himself. Planning to [[FameThroughInfamy make himself infamous as a killer]], the Slayer targets his fellow students who are talented enough that they will eventually leave the town and has them brutally murdered. The Slayer intentionally traps them in order to drive up their fear before he mutilates them in a macabre parody of their dreams. Eventually murdering his best friend as well, the Slayer plans to kill heroine Makini Young as well before continuing his murder spree and handing himself over to the police to allow him to live in infamy.
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'':
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living victims. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a SpoiledBrat who [[PsychopathicManchild has never grown up]] and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.
** [[AxCrazy Kobra]] was an albino biker on a cross-country [[SpreeKiller murder spree]], using his Mauser machine gun to mow down entire bars and gangs of people in his path for fun, when he was contacted by Prince Conrad Vulkan to join his legion of evil. Becoming a vampire and given full cognizance and power as Vulkan's military commander, Kobra devours several innocents to turn them into his undead slaves, and uses them to prowl the streets of Los Angeles, turning all in their path who could be useful to Vulkan and killing everyone else. After turning Wes Richard's lover Solange into his vampiric bride, Kobra gleefully parades her zombified form in front of Wes [[KickTheDog just to taunt him]], and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to execute the young boy Tommy]] when Kobra finds him inside Vulkan's castle.
* ''Literature/TheThiefOfAlways'': Mr. Hood runs a magic house where children can be young forever and gain anything they want. Naturally, it's nothing more than an elaborate spider's web. Hood lures children in under these promises before draining them of life and soul, imprisoning them in the lake forever to prolong his own life. Calling himself the Vampire King, Hood delights in what he does to children and tries to seduce the young heroes to his side. When one of his minions tries to take his place after he believes Hood is dead, Hood seizes him and rips his head clean of.
* ''Literature/TheThinExecutioner'': [[DarkMessiah Qasr Bint]] is a cannibalistic, {{sadist}}ic, religiously fanatic {{cult}} leader who believes he alone is the most pure person in the world and that everyone else must mutilate themselves until they die to earn the favor of the gods, and pursues his quest of conversion with a perverse lust and religious fervor. He forces the members of his cult to mutilate themselves, kills them, and [[IAmAHumanitarian eats them]] if [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty the food supplies are low]]. He also has entire tribes wiped out if he finds them "irredeemable."
* ''Literature/ThirteenStoreys'', by Jonathan Sims: Tobias Fell is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive reclusive billionaire]] who, upon realizing the consequences of his past actions due to being haunted by their ghosts, attempts to avoid them by passing them on to unlucky victims, [[WouldHurtAChild one of whom is a little girl]]. Fell has Banyan Court built using the dead bodies of workers and disagreeable business partners, in order to create a kind of spiritual Faraday cage. Fell has anyone who dares to report anything other than his official company lines suffer either by torture or death. When the party is infiltrated by a journalist, Fell has the journalist beaten by [[TheDragon Max]], [[CruelMercy only sparing his life to force him to watch]]. Fell then has the participants eat part of his own severed leg before attempting to have them murder a member of an impoverished community he ruined, deriding the man as "scum|". When his plans are foiled by the participants overpowering Max, Fell still attempts to have them kill the victim anyway with the offer of money, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to see how anyone could value a human life over material gain]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}: Au-delà des ombres'' (''Beyond the Shadows''), by Amélie Sarn: [[EvilOverlord Shardar-The-Almighty]], tyrant of Brek Zarith, is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse]] than his comic incarnation. [[TheUsurper Usurping the throne]] after poisoning the former lord, Shardar led the purge of his family, only sparing Galathorn as a child to mold him as his plaything and kept him imprisoned till adulthood. Once tired of him, Shardar tried to have him executed. Shardar is also a MadScientist who regularly uses his subjects as [[PlayingWithSyringes fodder for drugs, poisons and torture devices]] in his quest of knowledge and power. Holding Aaricia and her son Jolan hostage for years, he would often experiment on the boy for his PsychicPowers. The tyrant also keeps a harem of unwilling young girls and [[ForcedToWatch forces Aaricia to watch]] as he burns the Vikings' longships. Besieged by the rebellion, Shardar poisons his entire court and destroys all his treasures, leaving the kingdom bankrupt, hoping that, to restore it, Galathorn will be forced to become as big a tyrant as him, while he escapes and plans to start a new conquest, using Jolan's psychic powers after getting rid of Aaricia. Outplayed by the latter, he attempts to torture her to draw her son nearby. Unlike his original incarnation who [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes mourns his son]], he reacts to his death with indifference instead and is even revealed to have murdered said son's mother while she was giving birth.
* ''Those Across the River'', by Christopher Buehlman: [[PosthumousCharacter Lucien Savoyard]], ancestor of the novel's protagonist, was a [[{{Sadist}} nightmarish]] and brutal [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who maimed his wives to render them barren, faking his death to "show up" as his own child. A Confederate slaveowner and general, Lucien would torture countless slaves, murdering them for sport and pleasure while [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting others]] in wolf form every month. Infamous for the cruelties he inflicted, Lucien killed so many that though he bought countless slaves, it was suspected that he sold them so quickly due to the disappearances and upon death, cursed his killer as a werewolf as well.
* ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'': [[DomesticAbuse Rasheed]] is nasty, violent-tempered, smug and thoroughly heartless, spending the book ruining the lives of the protagonists in a myriad of ways. Marrying a 15-year-old before promptly raping her and tricking a 14-year-old into marrying him ''immediately after her family dies'' by ''paying a man to tell her that her surviving love interest is dead'' are without counting what Rasheed does to his own family. His nature also comes forth in beating the tar out of his wives on a daily basis, completely neglecting his daughter in favor of his son, forcing one of his wives to eat pebbles because he thought her rice was undercooked, shoving a gun into the mouth of one of his wives and finally trying to strangle her to death. When his wives try to run away, he tells the younger that if she ever tries it again, he will kill his other wife (her only friend) and her daughter in front of her. She knows he's not joking, because he's just put them all in sensory deprivation rooms in the blistering heat with no water for three days. What little sympathy the author tries to create for him by letting us know his first son died is quickly dashed away when it's implied that Rasheed's own drunken neglect probably caused it.
* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'': The mysterious, murderous [[FemmeFatale Milady de Winter]] is one of the top agents of the visionary Cardinal Richelieu in his campaign to strengthen France and free it of foreign influence, but shares none of her employer's lofty ideals. Instead, she uses her position, resources, and quasi-supernatural beauty and charisma to indulge her limitless appetites for money, power, and indiscriminate, disproportionate revenge on anyone who gets on her bad side. Ever since [[FromNobodyToNightmare her humble origins]] as a [[NunTooHoly larcenous nun]], she's targeted and seduced any sufficiently-useful man she comes across, destroying those who reject her and either killing or abandoning anyone unlucky enough to become her thrall as soon as they're no longer valuable. Her steadily-escalating battle with d'Artagnan brings out all her worst excesses, as she first tries to enlist him to kill her brother-in-law for his inheritance and a young noble for apparently turning her advances down, then, after he humiliates her, repeatedly attempts to kill him with zero regard for collateral damage, endangering and killing several innocents along the way, and finally murders his LoveInterest as RevengeByProxy whilst pretending to be her dearest friend.
* ''Literature/{{Threshold}}'': Nzame is an EldritchAbomination from beyond our world. Finding a way into our world, he turns the portal into an EldritchLocation and murders several people working on this portal in increasingly horrific ways. He uses this portal in the form of a pyramid to breach into the human world and {{mind rape}}s the population of Threshold into worshiping him. Once they do, he transforms them into [[TakenForGranite stone golems]] in [[AndIMustScream constant pain]]. When the protagonists rise to oppose him, he attacks them through their dreams, threatening bodily harm to them and their loved ones. He pays special focus to the heroine, Tirzah, threatening to possess her unborn child and leave her husband trapped in an EldritchLocation. Twisted and cruel, Nzame does not care for anything but [[ItsAllAboutMe himself and power]].
* ''Literature/{{Tigana}}'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Alberico of Barbiador]] is a powerful sorcerer and brutal tyrant, unlike the more powerful [[AntiVillain Brandin]]. Seeking to dominate all in his path, Alberico responds to an assassination attempt by crucifying his attackers' families, [[WouldHurtAChild children]] included, to giant "death wheels", cutting off their hands and stuffing them in their mouths while leaving them to perish of exposure. When feeling slighted by poets, Alberico selects 20 poets at random to give the same treatment to, while frequently having his men commit atrocious war crimes during conquest. When war is provoked between him and Brandin, Alberico marches his forces, [[RapePillageAndBurn burning and slaughtering]] as he goes. [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Despised by all]], Brandin comments that Alberico is wholly devoid of any human passion, simply wanting for the sake of ambition and nothing more.
* ''Literature/Timeline191'': Commander Roger Kimball is initially nothing more than a sleazy, misogynistic Confederate submarine captain who views [[HeManWomanHater women as conquests]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain non-whites as subhumans]]. Following the Confederacy's defeat in the Great War, however, an enraged Kimball vents his spite by ordering his submarine, the ''CSS Bonefish'' to fire on the ''USS Ericson'', killing everyone on board, and making himself into the worst war criminal of the conflict, a [[CardCarryingVillain title that he revels in]]. Unemployed after the war, Kimball becomes a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Freedom Party]] thug, assaulting members of the opposing Radical Liberal Party, scheming to have his former Executive Officer, Tom Brearly, assassinated, and finally [[AttemptedRape trying to rape]] his ex-girlfriend, Anne Colleton, when she leaves him. At the time of his death he is plotting to avenge himself on Anne by tracking her down and strangling her, cementing himself as the irredeemable bottom-feeder he always claimed not to be.
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' {{novelization}}, by Steve Perry & Dal Perry:
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[AllThereInTheManual Susquehana]] is the [[BigBad absolute monarch]] of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Drej]] and a genocidal nightmare of an alien. Leading the Drej in genocidal campaigns against entire planets, Susquehana's ultimate goal is to spread the light of the Drej all across the galaxy and exterminate all non-Drej life throughout. Learning that the technology of the Titan still exists even after Earth's destruction, Susquehana sends waves of Drej to find and eradicate the technology whilst destroying all those who seek it, eventually making it a point to spitefully [[KillAllHumans obliterate every surviving human colony]] herself and drive out all those remaining into the deep edge of space to perish. Susquehana also slaughters several of her own kind, some of them upstart assassins--but others killed purely due to Susquehana's own paranoid fits. An AbsoluteXenophobe obsessed with establishing her cruel legacy among her species and sinking to depths unreached even by the previous Queens of the Drej, Susquehana perfectly embodies the reasons why the Drej are feared and reviled by every denizen of the galaxy.
** [[SmugSnake Preed]], a slimy Akrennian [[TokenEvilTeammate barely tolerated]] even by the others onboard the Valkyrie, makes a name for himself as a backstabbing snake as his [[TheMole true colors]] unfold throughout the novel. Contacted by Susquehana with the promise of a monetary reward for finding the Titan, Preed and his compatriot Joseph Korso betray the other members of the Valkyrie to the Drej. Preed quickly establishes himself as the viler of the two between him and Korso, nearly shooting his way through an entire crowd of innocent colonists to get to Cale and Akima and displaying open, sadistic relish at the prospect of doing so. Once at the Titan itself, Preed turns his gun against Korso and reveals his intention to simply murder all of his former allies and sell out the Titan to the Drej, dooming any chance humanity has to repopulate--and then kicking back and watching as the Drej massacre everything in their path, comfortable with the death of almost all sapient life in the galaxy so long as he gets to stay alive.
* ''Literature/ToKillAKingdom'': The wicked [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Sirens]] is Lira's [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] and a genocidal sociopath who forces sirens to attack and sink human ships. Trying to force Lira to kill a human prince to indoctrinate her in her ways, the Sea Queen becomes furious when Lira does not rip the boy's heart out and nearly forces Lira to kill her cousin to repent, only waning when the Sea Queen's sister [[TakeMeInstead offers to let the Sea Queen kill her instead]]. When Lira disappoints her again, the Sea Queen renders her mortal and demands her daughter bring her a powerful artifact to [[KillAllHumans exterminate mankind]]. When Lira turns the sirens against her tyrannical mother, the Queen resolves to boil the entire ocean to [[TakingYouWithMe exterminate her own army out of spite]].
* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': [[BigBad Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell]] personifies [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain all that was wrong with Dixie in the 1930s]]. For starters, he's a [[ParentalNeglect terrible, neglectful father]], to the point where the sheriff actually turns a blind eye to him hunting out of season out of pity for the little Ewells. He gets Tom Robinson, a disabled black man, arrested for supposedly raping and beating his daughter Mayella. Atticus Finch, the defense lawyer, shows that Tom was physically incapable of committing the crime, and that it was Bob who caught Mayella making advances on an unwilling Tom ,and [[AbusiveParents beat her himself]], with it being implied at one point that [[ParentalIncest Bob himself has been sexually abusing Mayella]]. Since the book takes place in the DeepSouth several decades before the Civil Rights movement, the all-white jury sentences Tom to death anyway. Even though Tom Robinson is dead, Bob tries to get revenge on those who opposed him at the trial, culminating in trying to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Atticus's children on their way home from a school play]].
* ''Literature/ToReignInHell'': [[ManipulativeBastard Abdiel]] is a manipulative, smug, and [[DirtyCoward cowardly angel whose fear of death]] at the hands of the Fourth Wave drives him to commit his atrocities. Using his power of MindControl, Abdiel controls various messengers to make Yaweh and Satan slowly hate each other, igniting a war between their factions, and sets himself up as Yaweh's second-in-command in the process. Attempting to make tensions worse, Abdiel accidentally kills the innocent angel Ariel, then cuts down Raziel for accusing him of the crime, and uses these murders to frame Satan even more as a dangerous traitor, before ordering the full-scale massacre of Satan's defenseless forces under the illusion of a truce. To ensure his own safety, Abdiel constructs the Plan, an event that will sacrifice one thousand angels to protect the rest from any threat by the Fourth Wave, and uses his position of power and various crimes to make sure he is as far away from the Plan when it takes place. In his crowning moment of cowardice and evil, Abdiel, once his crimes are discovered, decides to kick-start the Fourth Wave himself to cover his tracks, fully aware and knowing of the countless lives it can claim, yet completely uncaring, simply laughing that he'll be [[FameThroughInfamy remembered through history for his acts]].
* Literature/TortallUniverse:
** ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Song of the Lioness]]'': [[TheChessmaster Duke Roger of Conté]], [[ActionGirl Alanna]]'s ArchEnemy and the BigBad, was originally heir of his cousin King Roald before the birth of Prince Jon bumped him down the line of succession, and he stops at nothing to get his place back. He creates a MysticalPlague that kills many in the city of Corus before it reaches its intended target, the royal family, who were deliberately targeted last so that the palace Healers were too weak to save Jon's life. When this fails, Roger's second attempt on his cousin's life involves goading Jon into getting himself killed by exploring a cursed city. Alanna foils this too, so Roger sends multiple {{Animal Assassin}}s after her, tries to drown her, [[MoreThanMindControl turns her friend Alex against her]] so that he tries to kill her while sparring, and helps create a war with Tusaine so he can pull a UriahGambit on both of them. After the war is ended without his intended results, Roger casts a wasting sickness on his lawful aunt, the Queen Lianne, using a wax doll of the Queen, being periodically run under a stream of running water that slowly drains her life force; this wrecks her already-poor health enough that she dies little over a year after the spell has been ended. When Alanna uncovers this plot and finally exposes him, she kills him, but that doesn't end it. When Roger returns he has become a full-blown OmnicidalManiac, who gives up regaining the throne in favor of destroying Tortall with an earthquake out of spite. Not even his own followers, except [[TheDragon Alex]], are told, most thinking that they're participating in a standard usurper plot and not realizing that he cares nothing for them either.
** ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'':
*** Vinson of Genlith was already a bully in Joren's gang, but we learn in ''Page'' that he's also a sexual predator, [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] Lalasa. In ''Squire'', the Chamber of the Ordeal forces him to confess to raping two commoner women and beating a third by [[LaserGuidedKarma inflicting on him the injuries he inflicted on them]]; the text describes numerous ugly cuts and bruises occurring on his body. Even then, he doesn't have any remorse and tries to [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blame them]] for somehow inciting him to attack.
*** [[TheHeavy Blayce the Gallan]] from ''Lady Knight'' is a small, cruel man with a magical aptitude in Necromancy. Booted from the City of the Gods by his superiors out of disgust for the way he used his talent, he turned to Tortall's northerly neighbor, Scanra, and swore himself to the newly crowned King Maggur. [[PsychoForHire Offering his services]] in exchange for land and wealth, he hires a band of mercenaries to both protect himself and enforce his rule over the village overlooked by the keep Maggur gave him. Revelling in the power his position has given him, he goes a step further by [[WouldHurtAChild having the villagers' children forcibly taken from their families]], and [[FlayingAlive flayed]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath tied to a wall until death claims them]] if they try to rescue them. When the children are brought to him, he has them bathed, [[FridgeHorror touching them inappropriately]], [[BlatantLies promises they will be given luxury and kindness under him]] only to have their souls sucked out of their bodies, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild entrapping them within monstrous mechanical devices]] that he provides to the Scanran militia. When Blayce runs out of children in his own backwater village, he resorts to having the Tortallan refugees sheltered under Keladry of Mindelan captured, intending to use their children to continue powering his devices. Blayce's monstrosity is highlighted in the disgust the villagers have for him, knowing that he specifically uses minors not out of pragmatism, but out of the enjoyment it gives him to manipulate their innocent naivety and the pedophilic undertones in his physical intimacy with the children. A remorseless, cowardly and sociopathic murderer, Blayce and the men he employs repulse Kel so much that she leaves their corpses to be desecrated by Stormwings, even when most enemies she'd faced had been given proper funeral rites.
** ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Imajane Rittevon]] is an example of TheCaligula being a genetic trait. Anyone she deems rebellious, even former friends or longtime aides, is subject to being nailed to a post on the docks as an example. Hundreds of raka in the countryside are killed by stretching an already awful law beyond its limit, and city raka who gather even under innocent circumstances are violently dispersed. When Duke Nomru politely suggests being mildly less horrible, she throws him in prison. Finally, she and Rubinyan have Dunevon and Elsren assassinated to make themselves the sole monarchs and do so in a cruel, sloppy way that endangers others. Though her husband Rubinyan is her accomplice for many of these actions, and even has the nerve to pretend sympathy over it, he at least tries to restrain her more impolitic cruelties and might have had some genuine friendship for the Balitangs in the past.
** ''[[Literature/BekaCooper Provost's Dog]]'':
*** Ammon Lofts (known as "Crookshank"), one of the two {{serial killer}}s from ''Terrier'', is already a slumlord who forced at least one debtor to sell his wife into slavery, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to suicide]]. He's rich, but when he discovers fire opals under the city, he lures in jobless poor folk to mine them in secret, then kills them all and starts over when each mine is spent. He does this several times over the course of the book, killing seven to ten people each time. When his great-grandson Rolond is kidnaped by the Shadow Snake, he refuses to pay a ransom of opals out of pride and greed, resulting in him being killed, and continues when the same is threatened to his grandson Herrun. When Beka tries talking some sense into him, he threatens to have her raped and murdered.
*** Mistress Deirdry Noll, the other serial killer from ''Terrier'', uses the legend of the "Shadow Snake" to go after poor Lower City families by abducting their children to [[{{Greed}} extort their valuables]], usually the only slightly valuable thing they own, such as a family heirloom or a bauble saved up for. If not paid, the Snake will [[WouldHurtAChild kill the child]], and if the family has others, she'll take them until she gets what she wants. She [[RevengeByProxy kills Crookshank's great-grandson]] in part because [[DisproportionateRetribution she has a grudge against the child's mother]]. When she is finally unmasked and apprehended, she has no remorse and justifies her actions with "I deserve nice things more than they do and that bitch made the success of my business more difficult." While she's being arrested, she shows herself as an {{abusive parent|s}}.
* ''Literature/TheTorturer'', by Peter Saxon: [[TortureTechnician Conde Pedro Delmorte]] was a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who learned the secrets of eternal life from the worshipers of {{Quetzalcoatl}}. Savagely torturing countless natives and even [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering his own bride]], the Conde returned to Spain and began to endlessly torture peasant girls to death [[ImmortalityImmorality to ensure his own immortality]]. Returning as a vampiric figure in modern day, Delmorte begins to pick off the film crew at his castle, torturing them to guarantee his eternity.
* ''Literature/TowardsZero'': Nevile Strange is a psychopath who feels that [[ItsAllAboutMe anyone who has ever wronged him]] must die. When his wife Audrey leaves him for another man out of fear, he decides that she has to die, and die humiliated at that, first killing her new husband and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it seem like an accident]]. With that in mind, he bludgeons his adoptive mother, Lady Tressilian, to death, and lays two overlapping sets of false clues, so that it will look as though Audrey not only committed the murder, but also tried to frame him for the murder. He arranged for the death of lawyer Arthur Treves, who remembered him from a case he committed as a [[EnfantTerrible child]] when he deliberately killed another child with a bow and arrow and might have been able to expose him. His intent is that Audrey be destroyed socially and then hanged; when he's exposed, he screams that he does not care, and starts ranting about how much he wants Audrey to be hanged.
* ''Tracers'', by J.J. Howard: James Miller, alias James Hatcher, is a [[NaughtyNarcs crooked DEA agent]] who moonlights as a master thief and fence. Taking a group of homeless teenagers under his wing, Miller trains them in [[LeParkour freerunning]] and uses them to perform daring heists across New York for him. Miller runs his gang with an iron fist, including [[SexualExtortion extorting sexual favors]] from Nikki, the group's sole female member, threatening to ship her brother back to Florida, where he's fleeing an unjust warrant for his arrest, if she doesn't put out for him. When Nikki falls for main character Cam and the two plan to slip Miller's leash, he [[VillainousBreakdown rapidly devolves]] from a mere cat burglar to a murderous madman who repeatedly [[UriahGambit attempts to send Cam to his death]], before finally capping off his rampage with the massacre of a roomful of witnesses to one of his heists.
* ''Literature/TrickyBusiness'': Tark is a low-level driver of a drug boat. Tired of this, he decides to rob his bosses in a major drug deal. In the middle of a tropical storm, he has three of his associates beat up and knock out two guards of the boat. He [[NasalTrauma mutilates]] and [[CripplingCastration castrates]] one guard, and decides to force the other guard to swallow his own blood with his hands tied behind his back. When he gets to the drop-off point of the deal, he murders everybody crewing the operation. He then proceeds to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betray and kill each and every one of his associates]] and even tries to kill some innocent people who get in the way. Motivated simply by greed, no one in the novel outshines Tark when it comes to {{sadis|t}}m or disloyalty.
* ''Literature/TheTroop'': [[TeensAreMonsters Shelley Longpre]] is a [[AxCrazy disturbed young psychopath]] who enjoys [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torturing and murdering insects and other animals]], including his mother's kitten. Taking advantage of the tapeworm infestation to enact his sick desires, Shelley tortures the infected Kent before killing him and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] Ephraim to torture him mentally in the belief he is infected before burning him alive and attempting to kill the remaining members of the troop.
* ''Twelve Gauge'', by Ronald Kelly: Richard [=McFarland=] was a man who grew bored with life one day and walked into a church in Cedar Bluff, Tennessee where he proceeded to massacre twelve people, the youngest being a [[WouldHurtAChild four-month-old baby]]. Before he was executed, Richard learned to {{astral project|Ion}}, and escaped his body to slowly corrupt his living son Sonny. Manipulating Sonny into "finishing the job", Richard leads him to murder multiple innocent people in order to hunt down and slaughter the survivors of the church massacre. Having Sonny abduct and murder two college girls as "practice", Richard [[AbusiveParents keeps him in line through vicious physical and mental abuse]] while trying to force Sonny to simply die, taking down as many innocent people possible at the end.
* ''Uncanny'', by David Macinnis Gill: [[WickedWitch The Shadowless]], real name [[TheDreaded Malleus the Deceiver]], has murdered hundreds of people with magical talents called "Norns" and then [[YourSoulIsMine consumed their souls]] to add their powers to her own. Kidnapping a boy named Harkon, she [[{{Tykebomb}} molds him into a killer]], with Malleus being the architect behind the Salem Witch Trials in a bid for more power through murder, even [[WouldHurtAChild killing a 5-year-old child]] when her attempt to escape is foiled. Eventually killed, Malleus returns from the dead hundreds of years later to seek out an uncanny--a person with special magical talent--named Willow Jane, whose soul would give Malleus unlimited power. Killing the friends of Willow, Malleus twists them into her servants to use her in her hunt for Willow and even uses Willow's 7-year-old sister as hostage to draw her out, fully intending to kill both of them.
* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'': Simon Legree is a chilling reminder of the evils of slavery in human form. Legree is brutal to his slaves, working them to death because he considers it a financial boon to himself. It's also made clear he'd do it solely [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Legree endeavors to break their spirits and make them despair as he breaks their bodies and minds. Legree is a torturer, rapist and murderer whose only frustration is the good-hearted slave Tom will simply refuse to break, spurring Legree on to greater cruelties to force his submission.
* ''Literature/UncleVictor'', by Jake Wiklacz: Chris is Kara's ex-husband, who manages to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters a far worse person]] than the titular boogeyman. A warped psychopath with a womanizing streak, Chris believes that in order to truly move on from a marriage, he needs to literally destroy all ties he has with it, starting by burning down his and Kara's house [[OffingTheOffspring while both their daughters are inside]], ignoring their cries for help all the while. His second wife eventually finds out that he's having an affair with an escort, and he responds by [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering her]] and setting up her death to [[NeverSuicide look like a suicide]]. Confronted by Kara when she discovers the truth, he kills her as well.
* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'': These two are responsible for [[BigBad Pearlpelt]]/[[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Bane]] being so bad:
** [[TheChessmaster Twirltongue]] is [[TheManBehindTheMan the true mastermind behind the Bane]], and a vicious, {{manipulative|Bitch}} xenophobe. Taking advantage of the Bane at a young age, Twirltongue uses her persuasion abilities to convince the unstable Bane that he will one day lead the Gnawers, with her as his adviser. Once setting the Bane up as king of an army of Gnawers, Twirltongue continues her manipulation and advising of the Bane, [[AbsoluteXenophobe convincing him that every species that isn't a rat deserves to die]], and to this end, the Bane's forces proceed to round up thousands of adult and children mice alike, then either force them to jump to their deaths by the hundreds, or shove them into horrific chambers and gas them by the thousands with volcanic ash. Twirltongue then has the Bane lead a full-scale war on Regalia, hoping to slaughter every man, woman, and child inside, then reign supreme over all other species of Underland.
** [[SmallRoleBigImpact Snare]], despite his limited appearances, sticks out as the nastiest Gnawer in the story alongside Twirltongue. Once a general in the wicked King Gorger's army, thus facilitating the numerous atrocities committed by Gorger, Snare later gave birth to a litter of mice with his wife, Goldshard. Realizing that one of his newborn mice pups, Pearlpelt, is the legendary "Bane", a being prophesied to one day take over all of Underland, Snare promptly [[OffingTheOffspring murders the rest of his litter]] to ensure Pearlpelt doesn't have to share his mother's milk with them. Snare takes to [[AbusiveParents beating Pearlpelt]] and driving his hateful rhetoric into the baby, fully hoping to one day use his son to wage war on Regalia and ride the coattails to victory, and, when Goldshard finally has enough and tries to escape with Pearlpelt, Snare attempts to murder her in a blind rage. Though dead before Pearlpelt became the monstrous Bane, Snare fully facilitated his son's transformation into a psychotic monster, and would only laugh at the destruction he went on to inflict.
* ''Undertaker's Moon'', by Ronald Kelly: "Squire" Crom [=McManus=] was a squire in ancient Ireland who embraced a DealWithTheDevil himself to become the Arget Behir, the Silver Beast. A [[SavageWolves vicious werewolf]] who spread his curse, roaming the land and slaughtering or turning all who crossed his path, Crom would attack an abbey near Kells, killing all but a single priest in one bloody night. After centuries of murder, Crom realized his survival depended on a low profile and turned innocents to help him conceal himself, eventually destroying them. After converting the O'Shea family and moving to Old Hickory, Tennessee, Crom eventually decides he's through lying low and decides to move to the city where he can feed on the homeless and runaway children. When he tries to flee when the O'Sheas are destroyed, Crom runs into a woman he was briefly dating as a diversion and decides to rape and murder her on the spot, [[TheUnfettered gleeful to embrace the Beast once more]].
* ''Literature/{{Underworlds}}'' series: [[BigBad Loki]], the wicked Norse TricksterGod, seeks to wage war against Asgard to [[TheUsurper take Odin's throne for himself]]. Kidnapping Dana Runson for her knowledge on the whereabouts of the Crystal Rune, the key to Odin's throne, Loki then starts releasing monsters into the human world, having entire towns and villages destroyed, [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans seeking to burn the world to ash in his quest for power]]. Even after learning using the key on Odin's throne will destroy all worlds, Loki persists, and upon being beaten, sends his [[SavageWolves wolf Fenrir]] to keep Dana imprisoned in his underworld permanently out of spite.
* ''Unholy Night'', by Seth Grahame-Smith: [[BiblicalBadGuy King Herod]] is a [[TheCaligula twisted tyrant]] who rules via fear and oppression. Having anyone who opposes him murdered in brutal and torturous fashion, Herod also [[SerialRapist rapes]] attractive women he has brought to him, including girls as young as their early teens. Upon the escape of the infamous thief Balthazar, Herod goes ballistic when he learns of a prophecy and [[WouldHurtAChild orders the massacre of any child]] in his domain to catch the young messiah. Succumbing to paranoia and rage, Herod routinely slaughters all around him in his quest to be more than a petty PuppetKing of Rome.
* ''UNSUB'' series, by Meg Gardiner:
** ''UNSUB'' (first book): The vicious [[KnightTemplar Titus Rhone]], nicknamed "the Prophet" by the public, [[ThemeSerialKiller bases his murders]] around [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''. Having killed a woman in his 20s for being a "tease", Rhone suffocates a professor of Eastern religions; stabs a woman with multiple marriages; feeds a couple to attack dogs; tortures and drowns other victims; and burns an atheist couple alive, all for the sadistic thrill he gets. Returning later for a new killing spree after laying low, Rhone kills multiple innocents, even twisting two victims' heads 180 degrees with his bare hands while they scream in agony. Rhone then targets the heroes with more torture and murder, even attempting to detonate bombs to collapse UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco's infrastructure and kill hundreds of thousands while educating a new disciple to carry on his gruesome work after he is gone.
** ''Into the Black Nowhere'': [[SerialKiller Kyle Detrick]] is a ControlFreak whose pattern involves kidnapping [[WouldHitAGirl women]] to torture and [[SerialRapist rape]] for weeks before killing them, acting out a fantasy of revenge on his college crush Dahlia for rejecting him. Spending his free time working at a suicide hotline just so he can get off to women on the cusp of taking their own lives, Detrick is captured by law enforcement for only a limited time before causing a traffic pile-up to enable his escape, nearly killing dozens of drivers. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] his secretary into killing others for him, Detrick hunts down Dahlia and tortures her to death before targeting the woman's teenage daughter, hoping to slaughter an entire sorority of dozens of women as a final romp of fun before finishing off Dahlia's daughter.
* ''Until They Bring the Streetcars Back'', by Stanley Gordon West: Otto Lutterman is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Gretchen. He routinely beats her, and is later revealed to beat the rest of his daughters, as well. At one point, Cal Gant breaks into his house and finds the corpse of [[WouldHurtAChild an infant]] in [[BodyInABreadbox his refrigerator]], and Lutterman chases him with a knife. When Cal successfully frames Lutterman for bootlegging, he testifies at his trial, and Otto's wife reveals that the child was his, and that he had [[VillainousIncest raped Gretchen]]. Otto then flies into a rage and tries to strangle Cal.
* ''Literature/Utopia58'':
** [[BitchInSheepsClothing [=LE905=]]], also known as Ellie, is actually [[GreaterScopeVillain the Father]], the person behind Isonomia's horrific state of condition. After the previous Father died, Ellie took up his mantle, keeping herself disguised so that the country's culture and ideology would survive, and the White Army would be able to hunt down Zionites and other scapegoats Ellie created for the country. Posing as an innocent civilian, Ellie befriended Kay and several other rebels who defected, all so she could gain their trust and build up their hope, only to [[HopeCrusher crush it]] later on. While working alongside the rebels, she secretly led the White Army to them, thus causing the deaths of many rebels along with soldiers from the White Army--many of whom she personally killed. After faking her death, Ellie allows [=EQL61=] and his soldiers kill off the rest of Kay's allies, before Kay himself is captured. While Kay's imprisoned, Ellie visits Kay in person and reveals who she truly is, all so she can gloat about how everything he did was futile, and that she'll be free to continue leading Isonomia with no one left to stop her.
** [[TheHeavy [=EQL61=]]], also known as the [[InsaneAdmiral White General]], is a prominent member within the Isonomian White Army renowned for slaughtering hundreds of thousands, as well as personally torturing Kay for eight years in a reeducation camp. In his debut, [=EQL61=] buries several Zionite prisoners up to their necks in sand, and watches as thousands of Isonomians stone them all to death. After learning that his wife, Ellie, was "stolen" by Kay, [=EQL61=] crucifies hundreds of innocent men, women, and children, leaving a note on all of their bodies for Kay to return Ellie back to him, or else he'll kill more innocents. When [=EQL61=] learns of Kay's location, he and his battalion of soldiers hunt down Kay and his rebels, where they massacre most of them with no hesitation. Once [=EQL61=] finally captures Kay, he keeps him alive just to torture him in his prison cell, before watching as he and his remaining allies are publicly executed several days later.
* ''[[Series/{{V1983}} V]]: The Second Generation'', by Kenneth Johnson: The [[BigBad Leader]], [[TheGeneralissimo military dictator]] of the Visitors, won her place at the head of the Visitors via her charisma, but eventually simply resorted to outright murder and jingoism to keep control. [[GalacticConqueror Initiating brutal intergalactic conquests]], the Leader approved Diana's cruel schemes and infiltration of Earth with intent to [[KillAllHumans genocide humanity]] and [[ToServeMan turn them into food]] for the Visitors. Arriving on Earth herself, she has one young volunteer to the Visitors murder an alien Zedti POW before trying to use humankind as shields against the Zedti fleet before wiping them out as well.
* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': [[VampireMonarch Queen Akasha]] was the first vampire ever made and also the evliest, being a selfish, nihilistic predator with a desire to dominate everyone else. She orders the massacre of Maharet and Mekare's village down to the last woman and child all so that she could obtain their spirit-summoning powers for herself, has them publicly raped and humiliated before her court, and finally sentences them to be mutilated and burned because she unfairly blamed them for the accident that turned her and her husband King Enkil into the [[MonsterProgenitor Mother and Father]]. It is worse in modern times, as she plans to execute almost every human male in the world in order to set up a paradise over which she will [[AGodAmI rule over as a goddess]], flying around the globe and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotizing hundreds of women at a time into committing these murders]] while she watches. She massacres most of the vampires in the world and threatens to do the same to the lone survivors if they refuse to join her New World Order. She even drains her husband to death to take his powers and have Lestat as her new mate. Among the actions of [[BlackAndGrayMorality countless morally gray characters]] that appear within ''The Chronicles'', her crimes are a stark contrast that make it all the more apparent.
* ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'': We learn about Helen Tielli [[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]]. She repeatedly tries to give her children up for adoption after her husband's death so she'd be free to party. When state authorities refused to take them, she brings her kids to an isolated area for a picnic. She takes her six-year-old son into the woods, cuts his throat and sets him on fire. Not quite dead, he screams in agony as she watches him burning. Helen then slits the throat of her three-year-old daughter and walks away, leaving them both for dead. Arrested soon afterward, the only time she says a word to the police is to ask [[ObliviouslyEvil how long her questioning would take, so she could go home and get dressed up for a date]]. Though her brother-in-law has been more than willing to adopt both kids, she wouldn't let him, because she can't stomach him being gay.
* "Literature/TheVampyre": [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Ruthven]], the [[TropeMaker original aristocratic vampire]], is a sexual and psychological predator who [[BitchInSheepsClothing befriends]] protagonist Aubrey and uses him as bait to draw in women. He murders Aubrey's LoveInterest Ianthe, and then [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death]], making Aubrey swear to tell no one. When Aubrey returns home, he finds Ruthven engaged to his sister, whom he plans to kill. Aubrey finally violates his oath, leading to his death; the warning comes too late, and the servants find Aubrey's sister the day after the wedding, drained of blood.
* ''Film/VanHelsing: The {{Novel|ization}}'', by Kevin Ryan: {{Dracula}} is a predator [[AdaptationalVillainy devoid of any qualities but malice and cruelty]]. Seducing Victor Frankenstein into making [[FrankensteinsMonster his monster]], Dracula murders him and later unleashes his young to wipe out a Transylvanian town. Attempting to turn Anna Valerious into his monstrous bride as he's done to other innocent girls, Dracula intends to awaken his children and feed them much of the world [[RageAgainstTheHeavens out of spite towards God]].
* ''Literature/{{Velocity}}'', by Creator/DeanKoontz: Steve Zillis and his accomplice Valis are a team of {{serial killer}}s known as "The Freak", who send Billy Wiles a letter detailing a SadisticChoice: if the victim goes to the police, they'll kill someone, but if the victim does not they'll kill someone else; the two proceed to kill a friend of his. Their second victim is tortured to death and the third is shot, while along the way, they torture Billy by jabbing a fishhook through his scalp. At the end, Billy finally catches on to them when his wife in a coma is the final intended victim.
* ''Literature/VeryBadDeaths'': [[TortureTechnician Allen]] is a wealthy hyper-{{sadist}} who considers himself an artist and a scientist, specializing in [[ColdBloodedTorture human pain]]. With an encyclopedic knowledge of the most horrendous and painful ways to kill a man, Allen [[SerialKiller carves a legacy of torture, rape, and murder of the most twisted kinds over years, leaving at least 150 victims behind him]]. Allen considers it a test to keep his victims as alive as long as he can--his personal record being twenty-two days--and devises a variety of drugs ranging from those that promote fear and panic to those that amplify pain far beyond the usual, planning to continue murdering until he's able to catalog an entire book on the ways he's killed people. Allen's intended masterpiece is his intended fate for a happy family of four in Heron Island, BC: Allen intends to torture each member of the family to death over a course of days one at a time, [[WouldHurtAChild the children included]], before rendering the wife permanently aphasic and paraplegic, sending her off to an institute and visiting her regularly to continually remind her of what he did to her. Allen captures the protagonist, Russell Walker, and puts him through a round of torture to extract information from him, planning to visit as much of a month of torture on his associate Nika, and responds to the information that Russell's friend Zandor is psychic by gleefully [[MindRape sending unspeakably horrible mental images towards him]] and planning to keep him as his own pet, forcing him to bear the agony of every victim Allen murders for the rest of his life. A "one-in-a-billion freak" and a madman more vile than any other serial killer or sociopath the world has ever seen, Allen [[CardCarryingVillain cheerfully admits he's a sociopath and revels in every minute in the marathons of agony he orchestrates]].
* ''Literature/VictorianHorrorStories''' "Let Loose": [[AxCrazy Sir Roger Despard]] was a mass-murdering psychopath who enjoyed terrorizing the people of Wetwaste. Nearing the end of his life, Despard is asked to repent for his many sins, only for him to refuse to and instead say that his only "[[IRegretNothing regret]]" is not being able to kill more people. To rectify this, Despard [[HelpingHands cuts off his hand]] and instructs it to murder and maim in his place before he dies. Fifty years later, said hand eventually escapes its confinement and proceeds to kill [[WouldHurtAChild a little girl]], the local blacksmith, and very nearly kills the protagonist himself. The latter ends up protected by his dog, who [[HeroicSacrifice dies in the process]], and ends up needing to wear a high collar, even in hot weather, to hide the bruises.
* ''WebVideo/LeVisiteurDuFutur: La Meute'' (''The Visitor from the Future: The Pack''): Loup (Wolf) is a [[EvilFormerFriend former friend]] of the Visitor and fellow member of the Pack. Taking over the band after the death of the previous leader, Loup [[ChildSoldiers recruits and arms over 40 children]], indoctrinating them with a false promise of travel to a better world. Planning a bloody rebellion to take over Neo-Versailles, Loup almost [[WouldHurtAChild tricks a little boy into detonating himself]] in order to kill the Visitor and his friend Belette. When the Visitor and his ally faces him, Loup attempts to have them [[PublicExecution publicly executed]], successfully murdering Taureau. Cornered and defeated, Loup tosses a grenade at the children to cause a distraction. Burning to death, he makes one last effort to [[TakingYouWithMe take the Visitor with him]].
* ''[[Literature/SilverJohn The Voice of the Mountain]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Ruel Harpe]] is the descendant of [[SerialKiller Micajah Harpe]]. An egotist who dwells on top of Cry Mountain, Ruel forms a group of witches that he manipulates while also seeking to corrupt the hero John to his side. Ruel reveals that he intends to find the Gospel of Judas and, seeing most of humanity as nothing but parasites, will use it to kill almost every human being on the planet, sparing only a million people per continent while he builds Cry Mountain into a temple where [[AGodAmI he will be worshipped by them]]. When John finally refuses, Ruel shows no remorse in attempting to murder him as well.
* ''Literature/{{Volle}}'': Dereath implicitly caused the downfall of the preceding Lord Fardew and he discredited and displaced anyone else who could have taken the job. He also unrepentantly engineered two deaths and framed Volle and Streak for the murders. When confronted over the deaths he ridicules Volle for clinging to the past, with regards to Volle's first love, Xiller, in the first book and confesses that he was planning to kill his accomplice as well. What's more, the only reason he targeted Volle in the first place was that Volle rejected his sexual advances.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Baron Ryoval stands out as one of the worst villains of the series, and is viewed as a monster even on the WretchedHive of an OutlawTown planet in which he lives. Ryoval started his evil early in life, murdering his father and then proceeding (with the exception of two siblings who escaped) to either murder the rest of his siblings or else subjecting them to torture/body modification before condemning them to a FateWorseThanDeath in brothels he runs catering to sadism and sexual perversion. Ryoval is obsessed with torture and sadism both as his primary business and as a hobby, and employees a large staff of {{Torture Technician}}s, who like the rest of his staff, don't like the work, but are too afraid of what he would do to them if caught to flee. Ryoval is actually 70 years old, but looks like a young man because like some other particularly depraved people on his planet, he has had clones of himself produced (who are normal, sapient individuals) and then when they've reached a certain age, he had their brain ripped out and his implanted. He has this "procedure" done several times.
** Ges Vorrutyer gets about twenty pages of screen time, and is still a memorable skin-crawler. His creepy obsession with tormenting and torturing his ex-boyfriend Aral takes him from "academically interested in watching a psychologically destroyed Bothari raping Cordelia Naismith on his say-so" to "willing and eager to do the deed himself" in a way that leaves even the normally very calm and balanced Cordelia absolutely terrified. According to Aral, Ges broke Bothari in the first place, and did it twice: once before Bothari arrived at the Leper Colony, and again after only a few scant months when Bothari was reassigned.
* ''Literature/{{Vortex}}'': BigBad [[PresidentEvil Karl Adriaan Vorster]], a member of a [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Afrikaner movement, arranges the death of the moderate Haymans government in South Africa, and reinstates full apartheid, arresting and killing those who oppose it. He then tries to re-conquer Namibia, taking South Africa into a war with Cuba and Angola in the process. When the war turns against him, Vorster uses a [[NukeEm nuclear bomb]] on an advancing Cuban brigade, and then plans to nuke Maputo (capital of Mozambique) and Bulawayo (second largest city in Zimbabwe). When the Cubans start basing their headquarters inside of South African cities and towns, Vorster orders that they too be subject to nuclear attack. [[AmericaSavesTheDay American intervention]] takes this option out of his hands, so Vorster instead tries to ruin South Africa and the world's economy by contaminating the nation's mines with radioactive dust as part of a last, mad bid to take everyone down with him. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Hateful of anyone who isn't an Afrikaner]], and responsible for thousands of deaths, Vorster personifies all the worst aspects of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra.
* ''[[Literature/CastawaysOfTheFlyingDutchman Voyage of Slaves]]'': "[[BigBad Al Misurata]]" is a Libyan [[{{Pirate}} corsair]] and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] who freely deals in the trade of flesh, be they young or old. Al Misurata tries to have the eternally childlike Ben and a group of slaves [[HeKnowsTooMuch killed to prevent them from talking too much]] about the load he intends to sell to the corrupt Count Dreskar. Along the way, Al Misurata cons a traveling circus troupe and tries to have them sold into slavery; [[BadBoss abuses his minions]]; and shows no care toward their deaths; and tries to sink a ship full of people for the purpose of getting Ben. Routed time and time again, Al Misurata finally demonstrates his bloodthirsty reputation in full by murdering Count Dreskar's liaison and all of the liaison's servants in a fit of pique, before having his corsairs descend on a convent of nuns to kill everything in their way of getting to his escaped slaves.
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* ''W.A.R.P.'' series, by Creator/EoinColfer:
** [[BigBad Albert Garrick, the Forever Man]], is a ruthless Victorian era assassin who murdered UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper out of [[FameThroughInfamy jealousy]]. Having [[TilMurderDoUsPart killed his wife]] for possible infidelity, Garrick later becomes an assassin, using his magician abilities to escape capture and kill hundreds, at one point killing a time traveling FBI agent and adopting his son Riley, who he raises in his own image with psychological torment and beatings. Upon finding the modern day, Garrick proves happy to slaughter whoever stands in his way to go after Riley and Riley's friend, Chevron "Chevie" Savano. Defeated, Garrick is deposited in the past where he becomes a [[TheWitchHunter Witchfinder]], using his talents to frame innocent women as witches where he has them tortured and burnt in rigged tests, making a point to target those he knows are innocent. Uncaring his actions might eventually destroy most of humanity with a torn timestream, Garrick intends to murder Riley while capturing Chevie and attempting to have her burnt as well.
** ''The Hangman's Revolution'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Colonel Clayton Box]] is a former FBI agent who killed his best friend as a young boy just to see if he could. Taking advantage of the timestream to go back and establish the Boxite Empire, Box uses brainwashing, murder and torture, creating a force that tears apart the world, killing millions and torturing and "reeducating" many others. When Riley and Chevie try to stop him, Box intends on forcing the world to submit by gaining access to a set of ballistic missiles, intending on leveling major European cities with no heed of civilian casualties.
* ''Literature/{{Waif}}'', by Samantha Kolesnik: [[BackAlleyDoctor Cal "Mince" Mincciola]] is an underground plastic surgeon who specializes in off-the-books surgeries. In truth, Mince runs underground pornography rings that deal in [[SnuffFilm snuff]], [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]], [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]], and more while [[MadDoctor he mutilates patients on camera or has them raped while anesthetized]]. Taking in protagonist Angela, Mince uses her in films and eventually plans to murder her and her friends, known as the Waifs, with his dying words being to sneer that people would have paid good money to see his own death.
* ''The Walking'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[WickedWitch Isabella]] is a monstrous, ancient witch whose sick sadism drives Wolf Canyon, and nearly the entire world, into complete destruction. Having kept herself alive for centuries by feeding on the life force of innocent witches and magic users, Isabella shows up in Wolf Canyon to seduce the town's leader, then become his second-in-command, slowly instituting her own depraved law where ordinary humans are slaughtered alongside any witches who defy her. Spending her free time [[WouldHurtAChild torturing children and stabbing infants to death]] in front of their mothers, Isabella cursed the town of Wolf Canyon to be swept away by a flood and all its inhabitants drowned when they finally turn on her and seal her away in a cave. Finally escaping from her entombment in the present by murdering and feasting on the life forces of several dozen people, Isabella reveals her new plan to use all her magical powers to create an apocalypse across the world, [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all life she can]] for no other reason than her own enjoyment and as a petty "revenge" for being sealed away. A [[{{Sadist}} profound psychopath whose only joy in life was hurting others]], Isabella is easily the worst witch in the entire story.
* ''Literature/WaltzOfShadows'', by Joe R. Lansdale ("Lost Lansdale" series): The killers known as Snake and Fat Boy are a pair of ruthless thugs who introduce themselves by murdering a group of thrill seekers after horrifically torturing them. When one of the group escapes to his uncle, the duo murder the escapee and menace his uncle and family as well, sexually assaulting his wife and attempting to [[ManOnFire burn his children alive]]. It is revealed that Fat Boy and Snake also run a [[WouldHurtAChild child pornography ring where they have kids murdered after participating]], with Snake even keeping [[CreepySouvenir photos of the children as trophies on his wall]].
* ''Literature/WarchildSeries'': [[BigBad Vincenzo Marcus Falcone]] demonstrates the worst of the setting's already explicitly evil [[SpacePirates piracy]]. Falcone slaughters everyone on the ships he boards before blowing the ships to pieces; the only survivors are the children he captures to then sell as slaves, although some of them he keeps for himself and [[WouldHurtAChild abuses in horrific fashion]], while [[EvilMentor turning others]] into {{Tykebomb}}s. Even after his death, flashbacks show him reveling in his atrocities.
* ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles'':
** [[WickedWitch Elizabeth of the Bones]], commonly known as Bony Lizzie, is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild child-killing]] witch who harvests bones for rituals. Posing as Alice Deane's aunt, she's actually her [[AbusiveParents mother]], having conceived with [[{{Satan}} the Fiend]]. She once had a brain-eating familiar, and Lizzie didn't interfere when it targeted her daughter. She first plots to free her dreaded grandmother Mother Malkin by tricking Tom into giving her blood cakes and abducting a little boy as a meal. She inflicts Tom with [[MindRape nightmarish hallucinations]], before she tries to [[{{Fingore}} take his thumb bones]]. After taking over the isle of Mona, she murders a miller who challenged her authority, [[AndIMustScream trapping his soul in limbo]], sentences John Gregory, Adriana and Commander Stanton to be fed to the Buggane, drinks the blood of a yeoman and leads raiding parties slaughtering entire families. When Alice ruins her plans of world domination, [[OffingTheOffspring she attempts to take her life]] then successfully kills Adriana and her fiancé. The flashback of the twelfth book reveals that she killed a Spook before torturing his soul and attempted to kill thirteen children for a ritual, while in the present day, her ghost ambushes Alice and Thorne to be interrogated and tortured by the daemon Beelzebub. In ''The Dark Assassin'', Lizzie treacherously delivers the witch assassin Grimalkin and Thorne to another daemon.
** [[{{Satan}} The Fiend]] is the master of the dark and [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the series who tries to bring the world to a new age of darkness. Having control of practitioners of the dark, he sentences his enemies as well as people who make deals with him to [[AndIMustScream eternal torments]]. Fathering many children with witches, he [[OffingTheOffspring kills those]] who are neither humans nor witches, as he [[WouldHurtAChild killed Grimalkin’s baby son]], earning her hatred. He prevents Bill Arkwright’s ghost parents [[BarredFromTheAfterlife from reaching the light]], condemning them to haunt their mill. When the witches release him from his plane, his mere presence on Earth causes many wars. He [[KillAndReplace murders and takes the appearance]] of the bargeman Matthew Guilbert in order to lure Tom and his master into a trap. After failing to convert [[TheHero Thomas Ward]] to his cause, he challenges him to face his daughter Morwena with the threat of killing his friends if he refuses or gets killed. He later tricks Tom into [[DealWithTheDevil selling his soul]] and when his other daughter [[AntiAntiChrist Alice]] prevents him from claiming it, he [[AbusiveParents curses her to share her friend’s fate]]. He submits her to unspeakable torture and allows Tom to hear her cries. When Grimalkin [[EyeScream takes one of his eyes]], he [[BadBoss threatens his followers with eternal damnation]]. Finally, he sends the Vampire God Siscoi against Tom and sends his agents to murder Tom’s brother James [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]].
* ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'' set out to provide a grim version of the Myth/KingArthur legend and introduces several monstrous figures in it:
** Gundleus is one of the first villains of the series. Initially a lord sworn to King Uther, Gundleus is also wicked and ambitious and has no intent of honoring his vows to serve his dead king's infant son Mordred. After the death of Uther, Gundleus approaches the baby with its young mother and then murders her after demanding she kiss his sword for protection, before stabbing the infant as well (unknown to him, the infant Mordred was swapped out with a decoy). He then proceeds to rape Merlin's disciple Nimue in retribution for her attitude towards him and rips out one of her eyes for spite. Even his affection for his lowborn lover proves to be a farce as he abandons her when he gets a better betrothal offer.
** King Dwirnach of Ireland is a vicious tyrant aiming to conquer and kill. What sets Dwirnach apart from the other warlords of the series is his love of ColdBloodedTorture as a hobby. Dwirnach prefers to take his enemies alive, so he can spend his time slowly flaying them. He even keeps the skins as perverse trophies and threatens to both rape and flay the hero Derfel's lover Princess Ceinwyn solely to satisfy his lust for pain.
** King Mark of Cornwall is well known for marrying much younger women [[TheBluebeard and killing them later when he's tired of them.]] When one of his betrothed, the young Isolde, escapes Mark with his nephew Tristan, Mark hunts them to Arthur's lands and demands satisfaction. Unable to break the peace [[ToBeLawfulOrGood Arthur is forced to compromise his morals]] by allowing Mark's "justice," allowing Tristan to engage in a fight he cannot win against Mark's champion who reluctantly kills the valiant knight. With Isolde back in his clutches, Mark immediately has her burned alive on the beach by where her beloved died before returning to Cornwall with smug satisfaction to continue his practices.
* ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'': [[TheChessmaster Nidrus Hellebore]], Lord of House Hellebore and the shadow dictator of the Faerie lands, maintains power by murder, torture, labor camps and treachery. Having [[TheUsurper usurped power]] from King Oberon and Queen Titania, Hellebore keeps them in an induced coma to leech off their energies and keep the kingdom functioning. With human belief in the supernatural waning, Hellebore uses numerous faeries in power plants to drain them of their magic. Ready to cement his rule, Hellebore unleashes dragons he had secretly kept to annihilate a rival house, resulting in massive casualties. When his co-conspirator's daughter Poppy allies with the hero of the novel, a changeling named Theo, Hellebore has her arrested and tortured, and reveals that his ultimate plan involves sacrificing Theo's soul to be devoured. He also [[BadBoss offers a blood sacrifice of one of his own men]], and when he hears the goblin race is rebelling against his rule, he furiously orders the slaughter of an entire generation. Wanting nothing more than to rule as a brutal autocrat, Hellebore considers no crime, no matter how heinous, too great to achieve his selfish goals.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': This duo from ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsTheOriginalSeries The Prophecies Begin]]'':
** [[EvilOverlord Brokenstar]] is established as the books' first BigBad when, early on, it is shown that [[ChildSoldiers he sends kits under 6 months old]] against full grown warriors, tries to kidnap kits from other Clans when his own all die from his harsh training, and forces a Clan out of their territory. When he is blinded by [=ThunderClan=] and given shelter as their prisoner, he still plots with Tigerclaw to kill Bluestar and take over the clan, [[UngratefulBastard even though the same clan protected him]] from [=WindClan=] and [=ShadowClan=] when they tried to kill him. His own mother, Yellowfang, eventually kills him for the safety of TheClan.
** The final villain of the original series, [[AxCrazy Scourge]], proves to be even worse than [[BigBad Tigerstar/Tigerclaw]]. A former kittypet-turned-rogue leading a gang of stray cats calling themselves "[=BloodClan=]," Scourge decorates his collar with the teeth of those he's killed and reinforces his claws with the claws of dogs, promoting a [[TheSocialDarwinist survival-of-the-fittest philosophy]] within [=BloodClan=]'s ranks and leaving any cats who can't fend for themselves--kits included--to die. Tigerstar invites [=BloodClan=] into the territory of the forest in the interest of an alliance; Scourge is quick to backstab Tigerstar by cutting him open, calmly watching him bleed out and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die an agonizing death nine times in a row]]. Scourge declares the forest his and attempts to drive out the other Clans under the threat of total war, and ultimately leads [=BloodClan=] into battle against the other Clans with the intent to wipe everyone else out and take complete control of the forest. In ''Secrets of the Clans'', Scourge orders Barley's brothers to murder Violet in cold blood, denying Barley a chance to take his sister's place due to his desire for a more sadistic punishment. Scourge's diminutive stature belied a murderous feline interested solely in power.
* "Literature/TheWashingtonians", by Creator/BentleyLittle: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington himself is exposed as a monstrous and wicked [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] who skinned and [[ChildEater ate children alive]], as revealed from a letter the hero finds along with utensils made from the bones of his victims. Washington slaughtered men for his meals, forming the Washingtonian {{cult}} to continue the practice of devouring innocents, commissioning a portrait of him and his concubines ripping a victim apart while alive and screaming. Especially fond of the flesh of young virgins, Washington's [[VillainousLegacy legacy]] survives through the Washingtonian cult to modern day, who continue the practice of brutal cannibalism.
* ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'':
** [[JerkassGods Artor]], The Plow God and the {{God| Is Evil}} of the Acharites, was once a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who saw the Land of Tencendor and decided he wanted it for himself. To that end, he [[HaveYouSeenMyGod imprisoned the Star Gods]] and led the humans, whom he called Acharites, into a racist war against the Icarii and the Avar. When the Acharites won the war he proceeded to have them cut nearly all of the Avar's forests down to reduce the power of a competing goddess, [[MotherNature the Mother]]. When a prophecy threatens the destruction of his people, he does nothing, not seeing it as his problem and blaming rival gods [[NeverMyFault when naturally his people's belief in him begins to fade]]. He shows no care at all for the well-being of his worshippers, enjoying torturing one to give him power, stepping on another, and brainwashing a village to perform blood sacrifices in his name before he is killed.
** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains TheAntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Sheol]], the Demon of Despair, is one of the six Timekeeper demons and TheDragon of the group. While the body of her boss, Qeteb, remains incomplete, she is in charge. In the past she along with her fellow Demons destroyed hundreds if not thousands of worlds, including the Earth. When her and her fellow demons first break through the Star Gate into the land of Tencendor she demands the honor of sowing madness through the land first. [[TheCorrupter Under her influence]], thousands of people lose their minds, including a woman who strangles her toddler with a clothesline and then kills herself in despair. Leading the demons, Sheol then proceeds to rebuild her boss's body, fouling the five sacred lakes of Tencendor in the process. When she and her Demons capture [=WolfStar=] trying to use their magic against them, Sheol orders each of her fellow demons to rape him repeatedly for their amusement. When her trial happens, she is offered the choice to repent or choose to be evil, and she freely chooses evil and torments Faraday, the one giving her the test.
** [[ForTheEvulz Qeteb]], the Midday Demon, is [[BigBad the boss]] of the Timekeeper Demons. In the past he and the other demons ended life on thousands of worlds, including the Earth. When he is reformed in Tencendor after sustaining mortal wounds that destroyed his body, he immediately drives every creature and being not under magical protection insane. He is a BadBoss, frequently beating his own demons and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment grabbing Sheol by the hair and throwing her into a wall minutes after his resurrection]]. He repeatedly rapes a soulless woman and later has one of his demons possess her, and taunts Faraday about raping and dismembering her. His ultimate goal is the cessation of the Star Dance, which [[OmnicidalManiac would end all life in the universe]].
* ''We Are The Dead'', by Mike Shackle: [[{{Sadist}} Darus Monsuta]] is one of Ergil's Chosen and the vilest servant of the brutal Emperor Raaku. [[AmbitionIsEvil Seeking to advance]] in the view of his liege, Darus leads the hunt for rogue mage Aasgod upon Ergil's conquest of Jia and the defeat of Jia's elite Shulka forces. An accomplished healer, [[TortureTechnician Darus]] is fond of taking captives and torturing them before healing their wounds magically, only to torture them to the point of death to do it all over until he is given his answers. Upon receiving them, he tortures his victims to death anyways. Darus seemingly kills Aasgod and tortures the rebel leader Jax until he breaks by regrowing Jax's lost arm and [[AnArmAndALeg cutting it off]] multiple times before even [[SiblingMurder murdering his own sister]] in a fit of paranoid fury.
* ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'':
** ''Castle Storm'': [[MeaningfulName Grand Inquisitor Torca Marda]] is an elegantly vicious stoat who once vied for the throne of Welkin in rivalry to his cousin Prince Poynt, outdoing even his cousin in evil by advocating weasel genocide throughout Welkin and founding a [[ReligionOfEvil corrupt religion]] that enforced mass torture and execution for all perceived heresy. No less dull in his technique as a TortureTechnician after being banished, Torca Marda takes residence in Stormtown where he continues to torture animals for pleasure and imposes the new religion across the entire town. Seeing the potential to assassinate Poynt and take the throne after he gets back into his good graces by handing him Sylver and his outlaw band, Torca Marda murders Sylver's second-in-command Icham by sabotaging a fair tournament and tries to hinder the heroes' efforts to stop a man-eating dragonfly from devouring all of Stormtown, eagerly throwing away dozens of lives in his attempt to either execute or capture Sylver and his friends.
** [[EvilSorcerer Flaggatis]] is a relentless stoat who longs to take over all of Welkin. After amassing a colossal horde of rats, Flaggatis and his minions roam around Welkin pillaging surrounding nations and laying siege to Castle Rayn. Flaggatis repeatedly torments Prince Poynt and his entourage with his magic spells while his rats continue to ransack the country and kill Lord Ragnar in the ensuing chaos. When his plans fail, Flaggatis attempts to kill Sylver and his gang out at sea, not caring about the sheer amount of rats he loses during his voyage. Centuries after his alleged death, Flaggatis reappears in Welkin as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] named Count Flistagga. With several vampire voles at his disposal, he sends multiple groups of voles to Welkin in hopes of turning everyone into a vampire; Flistagga himself turns or kills several innocent civilians, including Mayor Poynt's sister, Sybil, and a young child in the streets. Fueled by his hatred, Flaggatis devoted his entire life to causing as much turmoil in Welkin as possible.
* ''[=WerewolveSS=]'' by Jerry & Sharon Ahern: [[{{Ghostapo}} Dr. William Stein]] is an [[StateSec SS]] colonel turned werewolf fanatically devoted to restoring [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]]. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Stein captured a werewolf by using captive villagers as bait, then experimented on it for years. Stein then turned himself and his men into werewolves and gleefully slaughtered dozens of Allied soldiers the one time he got the chance, leaving only two survivors. When one survivor recognizes him, Stein murders the man before sending his men to kill his daughter Dannie, both to cover loose ends and out of sheer spite. When he's finally found out, Stein simply proceeds with his plan--having infected thousands of unwitting victims with his werewolf serum, he remotely transforms them and looses both his Nazi werewolf troops and the unwilling werewolves on the towns surrounding his base, killing and burning indiscriminately while turning yet more people into werewolves against their will. Murdering tens of thousands of people and more than happy to kill millions more, all in the name of building a global Nazi empire, Stein proved himself an irredeemable beast [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters even in human form]].
* ''Literature/{{Wereworld}}'':
** [[TheEvilPrince Prince Lucas]] the werelion is Drew's half-brother and everything Drew is not. An apprentice {{Necromancer}}, he began to lose his sanity after he murdered Lord Broghan in front of his cousin, and former fiancée, Lady Gretchen, under Opal's instructions. He goes downhill the moment he murders his father Leopold under the other Catlords' orders. His interest in BlackMagic leads him to work with the Wylderman Darkheart to create the [[AnimalisticAbomination Wyld Wolves]], who slaughter the Sturmlands' army, an act that [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts the other Werelords]]. He then murders Duke Henrik to "save" Lord Onyx after he honorably accepted his defeat at his CombatByChampion. When he finds out that Gretchen's in the Dalelands he leads his Wyld Wolves in a bloody campaign to get her, killing several innocents in the process. He later [[WouldHurtAChild kills Lord Milo]] in front of Trent, partially eating him. When his grandfather Leon punishes him for killing his father and tries to get him to regain some honor, he murders his grandfather as well. When he arrives to Icegarden to kill Hector for killing his mother, [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Vincent of Redmire]] retorts that he's only here to settle a petty grudge towards Hector for always being smarter than him.
** [[FullBoarAction Vincent the wereboar]], the twin brother of Baron Hector, begins by inadvertently causing his father's death and then killing himself in an attempt to murder Hector. Capable of remorse and hesitation in life, Vincent's redeeming qualities vanish when he becomes a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent vile]]. Vincent slowly [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] Hector into a murderer and torturer of innocents, selling out the Dalelands to the wicked Prince Lucas and seizing Icegarden through Hector. Vincent devours the spirit of Hector's old mentor, torturing Duchess Freya for weeks on end, and accidentally but remorselessly pushes Hector into murdering the totally innocent Queen Amelie. Finally sick of his brother's hesitance, Vincent overtakes and fully [[DemonicPossession possesses]] Hector himself, rechristens himself Lord Blackhand, and begins systematically murdering and resurrecting all of his own allies as the undead. Vincent starts resurrecting the dead by the thousands to slaughter all in their wake, decorating Icegarden's walls with the bodies of those he's slaughtered and driving his legions in a crusade to destroy whatever cannot be dominated. The series's finest demonstration of FromNobodyToNightmare, Vincent of Redmire eventually dies as one of the greatest threats to have ever scourged the Seven Realms.
** First 2 books & fourth book: [[SnakesAreSinister Vala the wereserpent]] is the [[AGodAmI self-proclaimed goddess]] of the cannibalistic Wyldermen, who offer her human and werecreature alike. Defeated by Drew, she plotted her revenge against him and those he cares about. First she [[DeadPersonImpersonation killed and impersonated]] the crone Baba Korga, pretending to be an ally of Whitley and using her to enter Five Oaks unnoticed. During her "[[FauxAffablyEvil friendly talk]]" with Whitley, she revealed her biggest atrocity: During the journey, she devoured innocent Romari children when no one was watching. She then explains her intentions of turning the Dyrewood into her realm, where she and the Wyldermen can kill and eat with impunity. She also mentioned her plan of using Whitley as bait to attract Drew, and in an act of "mercy", she promises to kill Whitley quickly after she had dispatched Drew. Prideful, petty, and convinced that she had the right to kill and devour whenever she wanted, she [[FantasticRacism saw humans as nothing but food and other Therianthropes as weaklings]].
** ''Storm of Sharks'': [[ThreateningShark Deadeye the wereshark]], the captain of the ''Hellhound'' in the employ of Lord Ghul, makes a name for himself on the White Sea as a practitioner of brutal violence and rampant [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. Attacking the smuggler ship ''Lucky Shot'' upon learning of the presence of werelords on it, Deadeye slaughters many of the crew himself and eats its captain alive before taking those who remain as his prisoners and slaves. Holding a [[StalkerWithACrush special affinity]] for the werelord Whitley, Deadeye subjects Whitley to his perverted attentions whilst keeping her collared, informing Whitley's intention to make her his bride in between subtle hints of violence. Upon being attacked by the ''Maelstrom'', Deadeye snaps and starts massacring both enemy soldiers and [[BadBoss his own men]], brutally tearing apart Captain Ransome's young friend Hob shortly before his own death.
* ''Wetbones'', by John Shirley:
** Ephram Pixie is a chuckling little fat man and a rogue of the Akishra cult, a group of twisted hedonists who use the power of the Akishra to sate their twisted impulses. [[TheUnfettered Unwilling to be fettered by the Akishra]], Ephram severed his ties with the cult, pledges himself to a being known as the "Nameless Spirit", and instead uses [[MindControl his powers]] to control the minds of his victims and murder them in a variety of horrific ways, even having the Spirit itself occasionally tear his victims apart itself. Coming across a young woman named Constance, Ephram is captivated by her innocence and puts her under his thrall, keeping Constance as his SexSlave and tool while forcing her to have sex with people against her will before having Constance hack them apart in a bid to completely destroy her purity. Even without the resources of the cult, Ephram is a jovial psychopath [[TheHedonist dedicated only to the satisfaction of his personal desires]] and fashions himself the "master of his own destiny", intent on murdering and raping at his own will forever with no one and nothing to stop him.
** Samuel Denver, known better as the "More Man", is an enigmatic producer from Malibu who secretly runs the Akishra cult and all of the atrocities that happen through it. Luring in droves of victims for the purpose of the cult's rituals, Denver forcefully infests them with the Akishra worms and [[MindRape rewires their brains]] to associate agony with pleasure through them, before forcing them to engage in twisted rituals of rape, torture, murder, and debauchery to feed off of their pleasure. Already responsible for countless acts of unwilling mutilation and violation through the victims of the cult, Denver personally decorates the ranch from which he bases his operations with furniture [[HumanResources made from the bodies]] of his victims; forces a couple to have violent sex until they simply collapse of exhaustion; kidnaps the friend of one of his victims before having him tortured to death and [[GenuineHumanHide stitching his face into bedding]]; summoning the Akishra Magnus--the "Nameless Spirit" Ephram worshiped--and watching as it [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves tears the traitorous Pixie apart]]; and finally revealing his ultimate intention to bring the Akishra all the way into physical reality and spread them all across the world.
* ''Literature/WhaleTalk'': Rich Marshall is a thuggish hillbilly whose [[DomesticAbuse abuse]] has left his wife Alicia a BrokenBird and rendered his five-year-old biracial stepdaughter Heidi a psychological wreck. Already a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, sexist, ableist pig]] who perpetuates prejudiced attitudes in high school students through his alumni group and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoots animals just for the pleasure of killing them]], Rich convinces Heidi that in order to win his love, she needs to scrape off her colored skin. This results in Heidi taking a steel-tipped Brillo pad to her body and attempting to skin herself simply to win Rich's approval. When Alicia finally presses a restraining order against him, Rich decides the appropriate course is to try and shoot Heidi in a crowded baseball game, forcing the father of protagonist T.J. Jones to [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]].
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the worst of [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheShadowAndDarkfriends the Forsaken]]:
** [[TheAntichrist Ishamael]]--aka Elan Morin Tedronai, Ba'alzamon and Moridin--is a scholar and philosopher who determined that [[TheAntiGod the Dark One]] was destined to triumph over good at the end of time. With that in mind, Ishamael signed on with the Dark One's forces, eventually driving his former friend, Lews Therin, [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]]. Sealed in Shayol Ghul, Ishamael managed to free his spirit, and eventually his body. Ishamael makes the life of Lews Therin's reincarnation a living hell while in his Ba'alzamon identity, tormenting him with nightmares and doing everything in his power to make him miserable, while sending his troops to lay waste to the world. Following his apparent death, he is resurrected in a new identity--Moridin--and takes over leadership of the Dark One's armies, brutally punishing the rest of the Forsaken when they fail. Unlike the rest of the Forsaken, who think they will [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]] when the war is over, Ishamael believes that the Dark One is an OmnicidalManiac, and is perfectly fine with this.
** [[TheDreaded Semirhage]], one of the most terrifying of the Forsaken, was once the most gifted healer of her age, but also a cold {{sadist}} who [[TortureTechnician enjoyed torturing]] those she healed as "payment". Eagerly joining the Dark One, Semirhage's territories were marked by hideous torture, with Semirhage [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting]] with ways to cause agony, such as replacing human blood with similar substances. Semirhage massacres the court of the Seanchan Empire, personally torturing the Empress to death, and tries to [[MindRape emotionally destroy]] Rand Al'Thor before the last battle.
* ''Literature/WhenAutumnBleedsIntoWinter'', by Jeff Strand: Gerald Martin and his accomplice Griffin are a pair of brutal {{serial killer}}s who [[WouldHurtAChild murder children]] in rural areas and move on to continue their activities in areas where there will not be much scrutiny. Killing the friend of 14-year-old protagonist Curtis, Martin [[PragmaticVillainy makes an uneasy truce with Curtis on the basis of mutually assured destruction]], only to murder another young boy to [[FrameUp frame Curtis]] for it. When Curtis moves against him, Martin and Griffin kidnap Curtis's parents to torture them to death and plan to murder the kids as well before moving to the city for easier hunting grounds.
* ''Whistling in the Dark'', by Lesley Kagan: [[WolfInSheepsClothing Bobby Brophy]] is a playground counselor who, underneath his charming facade, is actually a disturbed [[WouldHurtAChild child molester and murderer]]. Having kidnapped, raped, and murdered the niece of a local police officer the previous summer, Bobby returns to the neighborhood and quickly returns to his old habits. Abducting a third grader, Bobby molests the girl before strangling her to death, leaving her naked body outside for the authorities to discover. Setting his sights on his latest victim, Sally O'Malley, Bobby makes numerous attempts to kidnap her, barely failing each time. When Sally and her friend, Mary Lane, search Bobby's cabin and find evidence to incriminate him, Bobby captures her and drags her off to the lagoon where he murdered his previous victims, threatening to kill Sally's younger sister, Troo, if she does not cooperate. Once they reach the lagoon, Bobby immediately attempts to molest Sally, taunting her during the act and boasting that he will send her to join her deceased father in death.
* ''White is the Coldest Colour'' & ''When Evil Calls Your Name'', by John Nicholl: [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. David Galbraith]] is an absolutely vile [[WouldHurtAChild child molester]] and sexual abuser, using his position as a child psychologist to target boys as young as three years old for abuse, rape, and even horrific torture, before shaming and humiliating the children into keeping silent about it. Galbraith subjects [[DomesticAbuse his wife Cynthia]]--who he gained by murdering her then-fiancé--and [[AbusiveParents two daughters]] to horrible physical and [[MindRape mental]] torments out of hatred at his children not being boys he can molest, and runs a massive pedophile ring in his free time that he runs his own daughters through. Often [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing small animals]] in front of children to further terrify them into compliance, Galbraith tortures one of his victims to death and then [[DrivenToSuicide tears down his accomplice into suicide]] to eliminate him as a witness. Upon choosing his latest victim Anthony, Galbraith, as revenge against the boy's family for thwarting his many attempts at abusing Anthony, bludgeons his mother to near-death then plans to torture the child to death, filming the whole thing on video and then sending the footage to his family. When Cynthia tries to save Anthony from Galbraith, Galbraith responds by brutally beating the woman into submission and then promising to subject her to torture for the rest of her life for crossing him.
* ''White Knuckle'', by Eric Red: [[{{Sadist}} Roy Tremble]], aka "White Knuckle", is a SerialKiller trucker active for four decades. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Killing dogs]] as a child and graduating to people, Tremble begins to abduct women in his big rig, torturing them to [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming savor their screams]] and pain before he kills them and keeps pieces of them as trophies. Often targeting [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]], Tremble abducts anyone he can get away with, killing multiple women over the course of the book. When finally killed by Special Agent Sharon Ormsby, it is revealed that Tremble had claimed at least 500 victims in his years of murder.
* ''Literature/WhoFearsDeath'': General Daib is the true ruler of the Nuru and the [[ArchnemesisDad father of heroine Onyewonsu]] by the [[ChildByRape rape of her mother]]. Having promoted a strategy of weaponizing rape against the Okeke people to destroy their culture, Daib also leads [[FinalSolution brutal genocidal and ethnic cleansing to destroy the Okeke]], using ChildSoldiers as well. Daib, upon meeting Onyewonsu, attempts to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her]], promising to find her mother and rape her again to obtain a son and heir he can train as a sorcerer to continue the extermination of the Okeke.
* ''Literature/WiddershinsAdventures'':
** ''Thief's Covenant'': The Apostle--Claude--is a [[PsychoSupporter follower of Cevora]], and seeks every opportunity to increase his god's, and his own, power. Summoning a demon, Claude orders it to massacre the followers of Olgun, a god who Claude plans to use to make Cevora stronger. When a teenage girl named [[TheHero Widdershins]] survives this incident, Claude ensures she is [[FrameUp framed for the killings]]. After assassins [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]], Claude painfully uses them as sacrifices to summon another demon who he sends to kill Widdershins. Killing a prominent noble and the Archbishop, knowing it could cause riots, The Apostle frames Shins for the crime, forces her to bring him to anymore Olgun worshippers, then orders his demon to kill any potential worshippers in the area before making one last attempt to cut Shins down.
** ''False Covenant'': [[HumanoidAbomination Iruoch]] stands out as monstrous even among his fellow [[TheFairFolk Faeries]]. Attracted to the fear the city of Davillon was experiencing, Iruoch began killing and eating anyone he came across. Having a [[ChildEater sweet tooth for children]], Iruoch finds a small group of kids, eats most of them, then kills the rest before repeating the process on an even larger group of noble children. Iruoch later kills a thief who he had strong-armed into helping him, then attacks Widdershins and her friends, murdering numerous bystanders in the scuffle. Before being beaten, Iruoch murders Shins' LoveInterest, Julian Bouniard, and happily taunts her about it afterwards.
* ''Literature/WildCards'': [[DiabolicalMastermind The Astronomer]] was an old man with powers based on ritualistic magic, having willingly erased all the memories of his own life and starting a search for power which would lead him to the cult of the Egyptian Freemasons where he would become a high ranking member. Using his position to kidnap several women and use them as {{human sacrifice}}s in depraved sexual rituals to empower himself, the Astronomer unwillingly gained the attention of heroic Aces that raided the Freemason temple. Leaving the cult leader to die in the raid to take the leadership himself, the Astronomer plans his revenge against the heroic Aces. He carries this out on the 40th anniversary of the Wild Card Day--where his servants injured and killed other Aces--in a murder spree while he personally dismembers Kid Dinosaur in front of his father and the general public. An Ace whose powers are literally based on his own depravity, the Astronomer was the first BigBad of the series and one of its more monstrous.
* ''Literature/TheWildOnes'': [[CatsAreMean Sixclaw]] is [[BigBad Titus]]'s [[TheDragon brutal mercenary]] who [[PsychoForHire enjoys killing for sport]]. After torturing and eating an innocent woodpecker, Sixclaw leads the attack on [[TheHero Kit's]] home, where he kills Kit's parents [[WouldHurtAChild and nearly Kit himself]]. Upon finding out that Kit has arrived in [[TheCityNarrows Ankle Snap City]], he assaults a few animals inside the local bakery, before nearly killing Kit again, along with his uncle, Rik, and his best friend, Eeni. Later, after the city's religious leader, Martyn, is taken hostage, Sixclaw assaults some of Martyn's acolytes and forces them to print out an eviction notice for the residents of the city, or else he'll kill Martyn. During the battle between Titus's forces and the Wild Ones, Sixclaw nearly eats Martyn, drops Eeni into the sewer hoping [[SewerGator Gayle]] will eat her, and physically beats up Kit once more, [[KickTheDog taunting him about the death of his parents]]. Once Titus gives him the order to kill Kit and massacre the whole town, Sixclaw is more than happy to comply.
* ''Literature/TheWindUpBirdChronicle'': [[AmbiguouslyHuman Boris Gromov]], better known under his chosen epithet "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Boris the Manskinner]]", is a well-spoken, well-mannered [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre NKVD]] officer and right-hand to Lavrenty Beria himself. In his chosen profession, Boris is responsible for the mass liquidation, torture, and execution of political dissidents, earning his namesake from his proclivity for having men slowly FlayedAlive by his silent Mongolian aide. Tossed under the bus for torturing a communist politician to death through the application of red-hot irons to the man's every orifice, Boris finds himself in a Siberian gulag and quickly starts [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating his way into power]], having people tortured and killed in giant numbers, even a [[WouldHurtAChild seven-year-old child]] killed with his parents ForcedToWatch. Boris finds himself confronted by Lt. Mamiya, a Japanese man whom years earlier Boris had flayed the comrade of and forced Mamiya to watch before tossing Mamiya to languish at the bottom of a well, and allows Mamiya to have a shot at killing him, only for the bullets to pass through empty air. Boris exits the novel with one final [[KickTheDog spiteful gesture]], placing a curse upon the already war-ravaged Mamiya to live the rest of his days in misery, unable to love and unable to be loved.
* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'':
** [[ManipulativeBitch Princess Blister]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], sociopathic dragon who is largely responsible for starting the War of [[Characters/WingsOfFireSandWings SandWing]] Succession. When Blister's mother, Queen Oasis, goes to hunt the scavengers who stole some of her treasure, Blister refused to send her backup, [[MurderByInaction thus leading to her death]]. She later hid all of Oasis's treasure, pinning the blame on scavengers, and started arguing with her sisters, Burn and Blaze, over who would be the next [=SandWing=] queen. After Blister began to amass an army in secret, Burn and Blaze gathered their own forces and fought each other, resulting in a war that led to the deaths of thousands. During the war, Blister frequently manipulated other dragons into fighting her battles or assassinating her foes, wasting no time [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying or even killing her allies]] the moment she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deemed them useless]]. She even tried to have the five Dragonets of Destiny murdered simply because they hindered her plans and refused to select her to be the next queen. When the Dragonets try to force Burn, Blister, and Blaze to have a peaceful meeting with each other to end the war, Blister kills Burn, and attempts to kill Blaze minutes later.
** [[TheCaligula Queen Scarlet]] is the demented ruler of the [[Characters/WingsOfFireSkyWings SkyWing]] tribe. After she gained power, Scarlet ensured she remained queen by killing off various members of her family who could acquire the throne, using animus magic to turn her daughter, Tourmaline, into the submissive Ruby, and killing or threatening her loyal minions just to keep them under her control. As queen, she opened a gladiator arena where [[BeastlyBloodsports dragons fought to the death]]--sometimes on a daily basis--under the false promise of being freed. After adopting [[ChildSoldier Peril]], she forces her to kill seven dragonets while they were still in their eggs, before raising her to become a remorseless killer who murdered anyone Scarlet wanted. When Scarlet is wounded by Glory and is dethroned by Ruby, she uses her remaining resources to exact revenge on the Dragonets of Destiny by manipulating Icicle and Winter to kill them or else she'll murder their brother Hailstorm. When her plans for revenge fail and Scarlet reunites with Peril and her father, the three of them attack the [=SkyWing=] Palace and take Ruby's son, Cliff, hostage in order to make Ruby surrender, with Scarlet intending to turn Cliff into a weapon like Peril after she kills Ruby.
* ''Literature/WitchAndWizard'': [[BigBad The One Who Is The One]], deciding all life was meant to cow before him after being shunned for his affinity of magic, established the New Order, became its [[ANaziByAnyOtherName brutal dictator]], and quickly turned his new kingdom into a hellish realm for all the inhabitants, executing anyone who practices any form of magic or art to kick off his reign; this [[{{Hypocrite}} despite using magic and owning works of art himself]]. Massacring and vivisecting men, women, and children by the hundreds for both experimentation and fun, The One simultaneously bombs and unleashes plagues onto civilian populations to wipe out any rebels against him. [[BadBoss His own minions]] and [[AbusiveParents son Pearce]] faring no better, The One sadistically executes [[YouHaveFailedMe those who fail him]], has no concern for them getting caught in the crossfire of his plans, and abuses and eventually turns the latter into a vessel for his own soul. As the ArchEnemy of the Allgood siblings, The One tortures and murders their friends and parents in front of them and torments them throughout the series. When his plan to "purge" the world of those unwilling to worship him fails, The One attempts to unleash the undead souls of his victims onto humanity to wipe it out then rule over the ashes that remain. A psychopath who [[ControlFreak hated everything that he wasn't in full control of]], The One is one of the most wicked young adult fiction villains to have ever been conceived.
* ''Witch Hunt'', by L.R. Deney: [[BigBad Karl Dunkelstein]] is the would-be ruler of the ascendant [[ThoseWackyNazis Fourth Reich]]. Devoting himself to the [[{{Ghostapo}} Black Sun]], Karl initiates a kidnapping of "undesirables", people of color, gays, and lesbians, etc. and has them subjected to mistreatment and torture to prepare for a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]]. Intending on murdering them in ritualized pain, Karl prepares to bring about the dawn of a new Nazi regime where he will exterminate all who stand in his way.
* ''Literature/TheWitches'': [[WickedWitch The Grand High Witch]] is the ruler of the [[ChildHater child-hating]] witches, and the most malevolent of them all. A vicious demon with a propensity for [[BadBoss abusing and murdering her own underlings]], the Grand High Witch has spent decades teaching her followers ways to [[WouldHurtAChild dispose of as many children]] as possible. Unsatisfied with her followers' progress, the Grand High Witch schemes to wipe out every child in England by utilizing a potion to [[BalefulPolymorph transform them into mice]], then watch as they are killed by their own oblivious parents and teachers. Demonstrating this on one hapless boy, the Grand High Witch follows this up by kidnapping the main character and inflicting upon him the same fate. With a cruelty unmatched by her underlings, the Grand High Witch instills terror in everyone who knows of her, friend and foe alike.
* ''[[Literature/NightWorld Witchlight]]'': [[DraconicAbomination Azhdeha]] is an ancient dragon who tried to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]] with his fellows before being sealed off. Returning, Azhdeha plots to kill Illiana, the child of wild magic and [[DarkMessiah condemn the world to death and rebirth]]. To this end, Azhdeha brings the shapeshifters under his control, has the witch matriarch killed and disguises himself to kill the heroes, while having shapeshifters initiate uprisings across the nation to kill many, many people, not caring who throws their lives away in pursuit of his goal.
* ''Without Warning'', by David Rosenbelt: [[SerialKiller The Predictor]] of the capsule killings, real name Randall Dempsey, was once a journalist [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse accidentally left behind]] by Jake Robbins in Afghanistan during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. The Predictor escaped from the Taliban but harbored hatred for Jake as a war hero and devised a plan to ruin Jake's life. The Predictor set a fire to a building in a low-income part of town, killing 11 people, and went on to kill Jake's ex-wife, Jenny, framing a man he had killed in prison to cover his tracks. He created a cryptic message on a capsule he buried alongside a man he murdered. When the capsule was dug up, the Predictor starts his killing spree by murdering people connected to Jake, working alongside the media to try and [[FrameUp pin the murders on Jake]]. The Predictor abducts Katie, Jake's friend, and continues his killings until he murders the mayor. When Jake finds Katie, the Predictor holds them at gunpoint and gloats about his plan to fly a plane containing C3 explosives into a nuclear plant to spread waste across a nearby river to kill millions and frame Jake. Before initiating his final plan, he suffocated an elderly man to death to cover up loose ends. The Predictor only cared about making Jake into an infamous person, despite cementing himself as a monstrous individual.
* ''Literature/WizardsHall'': The evil wizard [[MeaningfulName Nettle]] was one of the founders of Wizard's Hall, eventually getting kicked out due to his aggressive behavior. [[DisproportionateRetribution In retaliation]], Nettle created a beast made out of the founders' strongest emotions, plotting to eventually have the beast [[ToServeMan devour]] the entire school. When Nettle returns, he hypnotizes the teachers and students into walking over to the beast one by one and letting themselves get devoured while [[AndIMustScream they are fully aware and powerless to do anything]].
* ''The Wolf and the Woodsman'', by Ava Reid: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Nandor]] is the [[BastardBastard wicked bastard brother]] of Prince Gaspar who hungers for the throne of their father King Janos. With a sickening hatred towards the Pagan and Yehuli groups, Nandor kills and tortures them whenever he can get away with it. [[{{Patricide}} Murdering his father]] to take control, Nandor plans an ethnic cleansing where the Yehuli are sent away to their fates as he [[FinalSolution leads a crusade to exterminate the pagans]] and attempts to even [[CainAndAbel murder his own brother]].
* ''Film/WolfCreek'' prequel novels have, besides Mick Taylor himself (who can be found at Monster/OtherMedia), these two:
** ''Origin'': [[DirtyOldMan Jerry "The Fiddler"]] is one of four {{serial killer}}s that Mick Taylor investigates while attempting to reclaim his knife. Jerry is an [[FatBastard obese]] pedophile who [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[WouldHurtAChild kills]] children. Jerry lives in an abandoned mine that he has booby-trapped to kill intruders (we see the skeleton of one of his adult victims). When Mick enters Jerry's home, he sees Jerry raping a little girl, and finds trophies and corpses of three of his past victims, and also sees Jerry [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill a dog]]. After Mick murders a touring couple, Jerry and the other killers decide to kill Mick out of revenge for allowing the bodies to be discovered, which brought police into the area and made it more likely for the killings of the other killers to be discovered. When the killers attack Mick’s home, Jerry tries to rape Mick's girlfriend Rose (who Mick had tied up to use as rape bait to lure the killers into a trap). Just before Mick kills Jerry, he tells Mick that he should have killed the two truckers who discovered the couples bodies, stating "You never let anyone go."
** ''Desolation Game'': [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Atkin]], Mick's superior during his time in the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]], [[EvilMentor trained Mick, helping him go from an "amateur" to a "professional" killer]]. Atkin cut a deal with the elder of a starving village, so they would get scraps of food in exchange for letting Atkin rape their women. Atkin introduced Mick to this practice and let him join in. Mick and Atkin were both {{sadist}}ic, often [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the women. One of Mick's rape victims ended up dying, but this did not stop Mick and Atkin. One night, two men stumble upon them during their rape session. Mick and Atkin shot the two men dead thinking they were enemy soldiers, showing no remorse when they learned they weren't. Atkin taught Mick the "head on a stick" technique, severing the spine of a terrified soldier cowering in his pajamas. Atkin let Mick stab the already paralyzed man in the back again, and [[OffWithHisHead saw off his head]] and [[DecapitationPresentation mount it on a spike]]. When Mick and Atkin returned to the village, the elder scolded them for killing the two men earlier and [[NeverMessWithGranny wacked Atkin with her cane]]. Atkin snapped the cane, [[SlashedThroat stabbed her in the throat]] with it, and raped and killed all the women he and Mick could. Atkin later tried to kill Mick [[LeaveNoWitnesses out of fear that he would talk about what they did]] despite their VillainousFriendship.
* ''Literature/WolfLand'', by Jonathan Janz:
** [[BigBad Divna Antonov]] is the queen of werewolves and their [[MonsterProgenitor monstrous progenitor]]. [[AncientEvil Centuries old]], Divna coerced her sisters into joining her before slaughtering their village and slipping into legend. Killing at will, Divna occasionally emerges to massacre towns and settlements, enjoying [[WouldHurtAChild preying on children]] especially. Returning in the town of Lakeview, Divna arrives to cull any werewolves acting without authority before forcing newly-made wolf Weezer to submit to her and leads a slaughter at a bar before attacking an amusement park to kill hundreds. Focusing on heroine Savannah, Divna gleefully stalks her for sport after [[CopKiller killing the cops]] with her, planning to rend her apart after the hunt is done.
** [[FullyEmbracedFiend Weezer]], as a human, is considered a nasty piece of work. As a werewolf, Weezer embraces his change and tears apart two innocent women before slaughtering other innocents and terrorizing his friend Glenn into being an accomplice. After being rejected by a recently widowed former fling, Weezer [[NotGoodWithRejection kills her]] and her six [[WouldHurtAChild children]], saving her newborn baby for last. Tracked down by Divna, Weezer helps her slaughter a bar and then helps with the attack on the amusement park, gleefully killing any human he finds. Upon encountering his former friend Duane, Weezer expresses a willingness to rape his LoveInterest Savannah to death and ends by attempting to find and massacre a group of surviving children.
* "Wolf of the Steppes", by Greye La Spina: [[SavageWolves Serge Vasilovitch]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent murderous werewolf]] who [[StalkerWithACrush lusts after]] the young heroine's mother. Enraged at her marrying her husband, Serge [[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]] and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] the man into believing he is responsible, so Serge may lure him into suicide and then place mother and daughter in his power with intent to groom or molest young Vera. Killing her mother when she tries to flee with her daughter, Serge later tracks Vera down to murder her and anyone who assists her.
* ''The Wolf Road'', by Beth Lewis: Kreagar "Trapper" Hallet, the adoptive father of the heroine Elka, teaches her to survive in the wilderness of British Columbia. In truth, Kreagar is a violent SerialKiller who targets [[WouldHitAGirl women]] and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] before butchering them and [[ImAHumanitarian eating them]], keeping their scalps as [[CreepySouvenir grisly trophies]]. Elka, now seen as his accomplice, attempts to escape with Kreagar hounding her through the novel. When she comes upon civilization again, we discover Kreagar continues to be active in his "hunts"' of murdering children and is targeting the son of the love interest of Elka's best friend Penelope before kidnapping the boy and murdering him as well. It is revealed Kreagar fed his victims to Elka as well and even had her shoot a little boy herself, something she had repressed from the trauma, in an attempt to turn her into a twisted reflection of himself. A man who lives by no code save the savage law of the wild he invents, Kreagar informs the hunter Lyons that it was Elka who murdered her son instead of him, dooming her to a life on the run, as [[EvilIsPetty a last act to deny her any comfort of civilization ever again]].
* ''Literature/TheWoman'': In this novel, which was later made into [[Film/TheWoman a film]], [[AmoralAttorney Chris Cleek]], the patriarch of the Cleek family, is an extreme [[HeManWomanHater misogynyst]] and {{Domestic Abuse}}r. Upon encountering the titular woman in the woods, he kidnaps and imprisons her within a fruit cellar, under the guise of civilizing her. In reality, he intends on dominating her, whether it be through several types of torture, such as using a high pressure power washer to bathe her, or by raping her. It's revealed later on in the novel that Cleek had raped [[ParentalIncest his daughter]], Peggy, each night, which culminates in her being pregnant with [[ChildByRape his child]]. When Miss Raton, Peggy's teacher, confronts him on this, he knocks her out, and feeds her to his dogs; the scene also reveals that Cleek had a daughter, who suffered from anophthalmia (no eyes), imprisoned in the barn, thus causing her to revert to an animalistic state. Misogynistic and depraved, Cleek didn't care who he had to hurt to make his fantasies a reality.
* ''The Women in the Walls'', by Amy Lukavics: [[OneBadMother Mother]] is a supernatural being who demands HumanSacrifice in exchange for immortality. Prior to the events of the novel, Mother manipulated a woman named Clara into [[WouldHurtAChild sacrificing all the children]] she was taking care of to her. When Clara was murdered by her fellow cultists, Mother plotted revenge, manipulating deaths over the years to make Clara's body more powerful. When Clara's body becomes powerful enough in the present day, Mother, using her body, slaughters the cultists and has her loyal follower Penelope bring Lucy to her in exchange for becoming her "daughter". However, when she does so, Mother declares Penelope too weak and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath forces her to cough up her own organs]], before making Lucy her daughter, [[TheBadGuyWins enslaving her to the house forever]].
* ''Literature/WorldsOfPower'' series (by publication date):
** ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'': [[AliensAreBastards The Plutonium Boss]] is a sadistic PlanetaryParasite who feeds on a planet's radiation. Ingraining itself into a planet's core and slowly killing it as it feasts on the core's radiation, once the Plutonium Boss has had its fill, it arises from the ground and annihilates everyone on the planet. Doing this to Eve's home planet Signar-el before moving on to Earth, the Plutonium Boss [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments on organisms]] to make them its mutated warriors, including a teenage human named Alex. Kidnapping Eve to lure Jason Frudnick and Alex to its lair, the Plutonium Boss reveals to the trio the Psychlotron machine, which will speed up both the feeding process and the destruction of Earth at a much faster rate.
** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'': [[BigBad Colonel Vermon CaTaffy]] is [[TheGeneralissimo the dictator]] of the small, but wealthy, country of Nouria. [=CaTaffy=] always hated "the free world" and wanted to bring it to its knees. Constantly committing atrocities, like the bombing of civilian aircraft and the torture of civilians and non-combatants for fun, [=CaTaffy=] decided to build his own WeaponOfMassDestruction, kidnapping Doctor Pettovich and his daughter Ellen to force Pettovich to build him [[WalkingTank Metal Gear]], threatening to kill his daughter if he refused. When the US military sends nearly all Snake Men to Outer Heaven to stop [=CaTaffy=], he managed to capture them and torture them all, some fatally. After his Metal Gear is complete, [=CaTaffy=] tries to [[NukeEm launch the nukes]] at Washington, London, Tokyo, Canberra and Paris to "destroy the free world".
** ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden|NES}}'': [[BigBad (The) Jaquio]], real name [[EvilSorcerer Guardia de Mieux]], is a demonic being who seeks to use the light and dark statues to awaken a powerful demon, harness its energy, and [[TakeOverTheWorld gain world domination]] with his demon army. Kidnapping Ken Hayabusa and making him his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled fighter]] after he and Dr. Wimpleton steal the statues, Jaquio sends thieves out to regain the statues, [[LackOfEmpathy uncaring of the casualties]]. With the teenage Ryu Hayabusa, Ken's son, inside his personal temple, Jaquio promises to kill CIA agent Irene Lew should he not get his dark statue back, forcing Ryu to fight his monsters after he complies. Seething with glee over forcing Ryu to fight his mutated, mind-controlled father, once he finds them reconciling, Jaquio attempts to kill them both and continue his world domination plan.
** ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'': [[TheGeneralissimo Generalissimo Kilt]] is the [[BigBad leader]] of the terrorist organization BADD who steals the plans for the Albatross, a deadly weapon which he'll use to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans destroy the world and rule over the remains]]. Kidnapping Super Joe and damaging Jack Markson's arm enough to have it amputated, Kilt plans to give Joe a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slow, painful death]]. Once the Albatross is completed, Kilt and scientist Master Destructo decide to have it destroy North America as a way to test its power. After the Albatross perishes, Kilt leaves his men behind to escape with Destructo, but despite dying at the hands of Jack, Kilt posthumously reveals to have [[DeadMansSwitch programmed his lair to self-destruct should he perish]], gleefully preparing to take his own men with him to the grave.
* ''Literature/YashakidenTheDemonPrincess'', by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi: The ancient Chinese Vampire [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Biki, or Princess]], is a picture of [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon beautiful cruelty]]. In the past, Princess has been responsible for countless deaths, swaying others into war and slaughter, even having pregnant women [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] by the hundreds when she was the infamous Da Ji. Arriving in the Demon City of Shinjuku, Princess slaughters and converts countless people to vampirism, starting a vampire civil war coupled with an attempt to break the hero Setsura Aki, even [[BadBoss slaughtering her own minions]] on a callous whim.
* ''The Year of the Witching'', by Alexis Henderson: [[SinisterMinister The Prophet]], ruler of Bethel, is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic tyrant]] who has women tortured on suspicion of being witches and binds the town to a stringent moral code [[StrawHypocrite he does not bother to attempt himself]]. A [[DirtyOldMan lecherous monster]], the Prophet murdered the father of heroine Immanuelle by burning him alive, a punishment he uses to keep control of the town, while having raped her friend Leah at the age of 12 before forcing her to marry him later and become one of his many wives. After the newly empowered Immanuelle is caught in witchcraft with the Prophet's son Ezra, the Prophet blackmails Immanuelle into marrying him before trying to have Ezra [[ILied burnt alive anyways to stave off a potential rival]].
* ''Literature/YellowjacketSummer'', by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: Toby is a [[TeensAreMonsters psychotic teenager]] with the unusual gift of speaking the language of yellowjackets. Using them, Toby murders everyone in a small town save for a few he keeps as slaves while intending on enslaving the people who stop in the town. The only survivors are those Toby keeps to cook for him or a girl that he takes a fancy to, who he regularly abuses and beats. Upon the heroine Carla learning what Toby is, he attempts to murder her and her two young children before killing the other survivors of the town as well.
* "The Yougoslaves", by Creator/RobertBloch: [[BigBad Le Boss]] is a grotesque gang leader who [[HumanTraffickers traffics]] in [[WouldHurtAChild children]], having boys kidnapped and addicted to drugs to slowly strip them of humanity until they are nothing but murderers. The girls are trafficked for [[SexSlave sex]] or to be provided to his soldiers to be gang raped as entertainment and reward. Running a thieving and murder ring, Le Boss shows his lack of regard for the children when he murders one simply for bringing him bad news and [[WouldHarmASenior tries to kill a seemingly helpless old man]] for seeking a stolen item back.
* "[[http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1943jul-00083 Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper]]'', by Creator/RobertBloch: Psychiatrist John Carmody and Englishman Sir Guy Hollis are on the trail of the elusive UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. It is revealed Jack has claimed [[SerialKiller dozens of victims]] over the years, mutilating them horribly as he did the women in London. It is further seen that Jack is not a mortal killer: instead, his murders are done to appease dark gods to grant him immortality and power, and there is no sign he will stop anytime soon. Hollis reveals that he and his father had tracked the Ripper together, but the Ripper [[YouKilledMyFather had gotten to Hollis's father first and murdered him]]. Upon realizing the depth of Hollis's conviction, Carmody reveals his true identity as the Ripper and ends the story about to murder Hollis.
* ''Literature/YouWereNeverReallyHere'': [[TheDon "The Boss" Novelli]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] crime lord who is approached by politician Votto for funding in his political career. Novelli, a vile [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[HumanTraffickers sex trafficker]], agrees to help Votto so long as he gets to pimp out Votto's daughter Lisa. Doing this simply out of spite for Votto's dad being a rival to Novelli, Novelli convinces Votto to take the deal before raping Lisa and turning her into a prostitute for his organization. Novelli goes on to [[HeKnowsTooMuch ensure that no one discovers the truth]], killing Votto's wife when she gets suspicious of Lisa's whereabouts and sending his goons to eliminate several loose ends tied to Votto and the hired gun Joe.
* ''Literature/ZeroSaints'', by Gabino Iglesias: [[BigBad Indio]], head of [[TheCartel a Mara Salvatrucha outfit]] seeking to move into Austin, is known for his dark powers and the immense amount of blood he has spilled to get his way. Introducing himself to hero Fernando with an "offer" to Fernando's employer Guillermo, Indio has his friend Nino slowly mutilated before sawing his head off and later leads a massacre of Guillermo's closest, killing the man himself and [[SlashedThroat opening the throat]] of Fernando's kind mother figure Conseulo.
* ''Zofloya: or The Moor'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Zofloya]] is the servant of Henriquez, the object of desire of Victoria de Loredani. Teaching Victoria of [[MasterPoisoner poison]] to eliminate those in her way, including Henriquez's brother, Zofloya happily kills one servant who does not die immediately. After having Henriquez [[BedTrick raped by Victoria]], leading to [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide]], Zofloya bids Victoria to murder his beloved Lilla and then brings the ruin and suicide of the rest of the cast. Revealing his true identity as {{Satan}} to Victoria, Zofloya gloats over the latter's downfall before killing her as well.
* ''Literature/{{Zombie}}'': [[VillainProtagonist Quentin P.]] is a young man with an unhealthy obsession over [[{{Lobotomy}} lobotomies]]. Upon figuring out how to perform his own makeshift lobotomies, Quentin decides to create his own lobotomized SexSlave who's fully obedient to him. Quentin kidnaps and tries to perform the lobotomy on four different men, botching the procedure and killing them all in the process. When he kidnaps his fifth victim, a twelve-year-old boy, a drunken Quentin tries to rape him, only for the boy to escape. Several weeks after the incident, Quentin kidnaps a teenager and repeatedly rapes him before accidentally killing him.
* ''The Zombie Room'', by R.D. Ronald: Dyson Steiger is the leader of the Club, an organization of HumanTraffickers responsible for forcing hundreds of girls and young women into sexual slavery. Steiger has the girls stripped of their identities through [[MindRape intense psychological damaging]] in order to make them more compliant. He's also responsible for the deaths of Tatiana's family and her deafness by ordering a bombing in the area they were in. He later orders a shipment of explosive weapons brought to Garden Heights for the purpose of conducting a wave of terror throughout the city to boost the influence of those under his thumb.
* ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'':
** ''A Fire Upon the Deep'': Flenser [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast got his name]] from his first steps as an EvilutionaryBiologist -- vivisection. Later, after becoming a ruler, he went far, far beyond that, among other things essentially turning MindRape of his subjects into a semi-industrial process. Flenser is a [[ItsAllAboutMe heartless sociopath]], who demands absolute loyalty from his underlings, but has none to them. To him, everyone is a tool, although [[ManipulativeBastard he can hide that well until the time comes]]. He murders followers and discards even his trusted bodyguards without a second thought. His own second-in-command (who, as revealed later, was essentially his offspring as well) hated him more than anything in the world, but too mentally scarred to resist. His striving to {{take over the world}} seems almost not worth mentioning compared to his other aspects. The book gives many glimpses into Flenser's mind and about the only non-horrible thing there is his ability to enjoy the beauty of nature.
** ''A Deepness in the Sky'': Tomas Nau leads The Emergents. As part of their defeat of the rival Qeng Ho, Nau rapes and kills their fleet commander in front of her daughter. Following that Nau has the daughter mind-wiped and charms her into falling for him. Because the mind-wipe is imperfect, every so often Qiwi remembers what happened, tries to kill Nau, who then has her scrubbed and starts the process again. This continues for decades.
** ''The Children of the Sky'': Vendacious upholds the tradition of horrifically evil villains and maybe even surpasses his predecessors, if not in scale and inventiveness of evil deeds, then in [[ForTheEvulz sheer sadism]] and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]]. This guy adopts most of the old Flenser's methods, such as manipulation, treachery, absolute ruthlessness, and totalitarian control through physical and mental torture. And uses them to pit the two greatest centers of civilization in the world against each other, when neither side has any real reason for conflict. Vendacious thinks that justifications are for the weak; he recognizes that his actions are meant to [[ForTheEvulz stroke his own ego and enjoy the feeling of power]], and is perversely proud of that. He [[BadBoss deliberately makes his own underlings' lives hell]], just to see with how much tyranny he can get away with.
* ''Literature/ZooCity'': [[SerialRapist Odysseus "Odi" Huron]] is a record producer who turns out to be animalled to a huge white crocodile. Huron sexually abuses starlets under his control, which drives Songwezu of twin pop sensation iJusi to flee. To free himself of his animal, Huron has his assassin partners kill a succession of innocents, disguising them as serial killings so he can take their animals for the ritual of muti. Having Songwezu's twin brother murder her, Huron binds his crocodile to him and then kills him as well. It is later revealed he has been feeding other victims to his crocodile, with dozens of bones located in its lair.
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* ''Raven'' duology, by Creator/PatriciaBriggs:
** [[EvilSorcerer Willon the Shadowed one]] is the true BigBad who sows the land with discord, chaos and death to eventually harness the powers of the [[GreaterScopeVillain Stalker]]. Killing countless through the purges he conducts via agents like Telleridge, Willon also gains power via magic plagues, such as one he used on Tier's village that even killed Tier's [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter]]. Not satisfied, Willon later wipes out an entire city while trying to overthrow Emperor Phoran and have him and all close to him killed, uncaring of the damage the Stalker's power will have on the world and countless innocents.
** ''Raven's Shadow'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Telleridge]] is the power-hungry leader of the wizard group the Masters of the Path. Under the machinations of Willon, Telleridge happily leads the kidnapping, torture and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] of the order bearers in order to gain their powers through their deaths, and upon kidnapping Tier, Telleridge has him [[MindRape mentally]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] tortured. Telleridge also uses his daughter Myrceria as a way to gain the trust of his victims, and after she sides with Tier, Telleridge heartlessly has her [[OffingTheOffspring tortured to death]] out of petty spite.
** ''Raven's Strike'': [[PsychoForHire Ielian]] is the treacherous guard of Emperor Phoran. Betraying his kingdom to Willon, heedless of the death it will bring, Ielian reveals his only true purpose is being a sadistic SerialKiller who is paid in victims by his master. After betraying Phoran and killing his fellows, Ielian even [[SlashedThroat slits another guard's throat]] just to savor the death, trying to have his old comrades tortured and murdered so he may live with as much depravity as he desires.
* ''Raven: Swordmistress of Chaos'' series, by Richard Kirk: Karl ir Donwayne is a ruthless slaver and Raven's [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]]. Having been her master from a young age, Donwayne had Raven's mother raped and killed by his men before raping the young Raven himself. Donwayne is shown to relish in slavery, being a SerialRapist of female slaves, keeping [[CreepySouvenir locks of their hair]] as trophies to mark his conquests. After being defeated by Raven, Donwayne returns as an undead monster, trying to kill her friends and even threatening to kill Raven and make her his undead SexSlave for eternity.
* "Literature/RawheadRex": [[AntagonistTitle Rawhead Rex]] himself is a [[EldritchAbomination monster]] from the days before Christianity, released from the Earth in a small English village. Rawhead promptly [[UngratefulBastard dispatches the man who dug him out]] and sets about trying to regain his kingdom. The first thing he does is to murder a farmer, eat the man's little daughter alive, and kill the man's pregnant wife before attacking a police car, [[CripplingCastration castrating the survivor of the crash]] and then burning him alive. Rawhead corrupts the local verger and hideously mutilates the reverend out of contempt for his "weak" religion. At the story's climax, Rawhead attempts to burn down all of Zeal in his fury. Unlike many literal monsters, Rawhead is a sapient being that amounts to a brutish bully who loves carnage, pain and especially [[ChildEater eating children]].
* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'': [[BigBad The Pale Lady]] is TheManBehindTheMan for almost every bad thing that's happened in the ''Farseer Trilogy'', as she purchased the skill scrolls from Regal and learned the art of Forging from them. As ''The Tawny Man'' trilogy showed, she relished in the psychological aspects of forging; she loved unleashing mindless Forged ones against their own families and kinsmen. In addition, she would ransom the dead bodies of Out Islanders she'd captured to their families, with the threat that if they didn't pay she'd return them as Forged. She was behind the war between The Six Duchies and the Out Islands, using the Out Island warlord Kebal Rawbread as her [[TheHeavy Heavy]]. It was implied that she may have had her hands in the Jamaillian slave trade. She was a recreational TortureTechnician as well. When Kebal Rawbread [[YouHaveFailedMe failed her]], she chained him to a frozen throne in her ice palace, used magic to keep him alive through what would have been lethal frostbite, and fed him [[ImAHumanitarian body parts]] of other Out Islanders she'd forged. Forging was a process that could be done very slowly over the course of weeks. And she tortured The Fool over the course of days for no reason other than the joy of it. Her sole motivation was [[ApocalypseHow the complete collapse of civilization]].
* ''Literature/RebelGenius'': Ugalino, the BigBad of the first book in the trilogy, was once [[TheMentor Pietro's]] [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil student]] until he made a Tulpa, a Golem-like creature with destructive capabilities. Rather than learn humility from being expelled, Ugalino used his Tulpa, which he named "Zanobius," to be a living weapon. He tries to paint himself as meaning well, but [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he used Zanobius to murder countless people]], including Ozo's wife and daughter, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist regardless of whether or not it furthers his goals]]. He ripped his Genius Ciro's gem out of his head so that he could use its magic capabilities without needing to perform an act of art, which is shown to physically and psychologically damage Geniuses. When getting information out of Duke Oberta on the [[MacGuffin Creator's Compass]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays him]] by having Zanobius slaughter almost everybody in his castle. With the information Oberta gave him, he went to Baldasarre's villa and he threatens Baldasarre's wife, prompting Enzio to tell him, and he then abducts Enzio so that he could lead them to the Compass. When the first location turned out to be an illusion, he uses Enzio as a sacrifice for a ritual that could lead him to the true location. Zanobius, who had developed a bond with Enzio during his captivity, stops Ugalino, only for him to be subjected to MindRape. When Ugalino catches up to Giacomo, he orders Zanobius to kill him and his friends, but Zanobius tries to rebel again, causing Ugalino—not for the first time--to give him LaserGuidedAmnesia. With Zanobius loyal to him again, he threatens to kill Aaminah if Giacomo didn't give him the Compass, and only lets them live [[PragmaticVillainy because]] he found out Giacomo was a Tulpa and hoped to use him as a weapon. With the Compass in his possession, he uses it to assassinate Nerezza, not caring who gets killed in the crossfire.
* ''[[Literature/TechnicHistory The Rebel Worlds]]'' (Flandry, #3): [[AntagonisticGovernor Imperial Governor Aaron Snelund]] gets a title and position by becoming the Emperor's lover, before [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating the drunken Emperor]] into posting him to some far-off sector, where Snelund swiftly becomes a terrible ruler, instituting an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil illegal slave trade]]. In one instance he punishes one alien village for not obeying him swiftly enough by [[WouldHurtAChild impaling the village's children]] and [[ForcedToWatch forcing their parents to watch]] for the three days it takes them to die. Snelund later kidnaps the beloved wife of the Imperial admiral of his sector so he can rape and torture her.
* ''Literature/RedDwarf'' series:
** ''Last Human'': The Alternate Lister, apart from being an unfeeling sociopath with no regard for life or property, also murders his "friends" aboard Starbug simply because he didn't want them getting hold of the coordinates of the DNA-Altering machine, even lasering Kryten's head off and jamming a Cuban cigar between the lips as a joke. Then, when the protagonist version of Lister rescues him from [[TheAlcatraz Cyberia]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays this act of kindness]] by knocking his rescuer unconscious and forcing him to take his place at the prison. As a final atrocity, he even goes as far as [[GroinAttack shooting Protagonist Lister in the balls with a rad pistol]] to try and motivate Kochanski into having sex with him.
** ''Backwards'': Djuhn'Keep, as one of a series of androids dedicated to hunting down the remains of the human race--aka Dave Lister--and torturing them to death, is already vile. Djuhn masterminded the creation of [[TheMaze the Death Wheel]] and the Hub of Pain [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] at its very center, stocking it with every single form of weapon that could be used to torture their captives. Djuhn, needing spare parts, infects one of the other agonoids with a [[AndIMustScream paralyzing computer virus]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath dismantles him while he's still conscious]]. Then, just to make sure that he'd have the privilege of torturing Lister and the other Dwarfers, he gathers all the other agonoids in the Hub of Pain and increases the gravity until most of them are crushed to death. The survivors are forced into the spokes of the Death Wheel and whittled down by the {{death trap}}s, while Djuhn listens from the control room, "[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming conducting the symphony of screams and death rattles as if it were the sweetest of sweet music.]]" Then, when it seems that some of them have escaped alive, Djuhn [[ThrownOutTheAirlock he ejects them into space]] and goes after Lister.
* ''Literature/TheRedQueensWar'': [[{{Necromancer}} Edris Dean]] is a servant of The Lady Blue and masterminds a series of cruel attacks to create the "Unborn", murdering pregnant women to damn the souls of their unborn children to hell, where they will become powerful undead beings to be unleashed on the world, the fate that befalls the wife and unborn baby of the Viking hero Snorri. It is also revealed that when the hero Jalan was young, Edris Dean nearly killed him and murdered his pregnant mother to turn his unborn sister into the strongest Unborn ever seen. Torturing and murdering a friend of Jalan's to obtain the Liar's Key that can help reshape the world, Edris later enslaves the soul of Jalan's sister to get her to kill her brother to help tear a hole through reality which could kill countless people in the cities. [[TheStarscream Ostensibly on board]] with the Lady Blue's plan to usher in the apocalypse to become gods, Edris Dean murders the men she assigned to him to turn them into undead slaves, trying to kill Jalan to hijack the plan and [[AGodAmI become the new god of all creation]].
* "Redemption at Knife's End", by Tim Marquitz, from ''Neverland's Library'': [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Korbitt]] is a depraved ex-soldier turned bandit who runs the illegal [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery ring]] of the town he's stationed in, spreading horror to the citizens. Kidnapping a young girl named Vai from a peaceful endangered species, Korbitt has her turned into his SexSlave and rapes her repeatedly. When [[AntiHero Gryl]] comes to rescue Vai, Korbitt threatens to [[SlashedThroat slit her throat]].
* ''Literature/ReefOfDeath'': The [[BigBad main villain]] of this [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids violent children’s novel]] by Paul Zindel is [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Ecenbarger]], a {{greed}}y [[MadScientist scientist]]. She commands a tanker she has parked off the coast of the titular reef where she is drilling and hording all the environment's natural resources while the local Aborigine people starve and grow ill. Having discovered many [[SeaMonster undiscovered species]] in the reef, Ecenbarger uses them as monstrously as possible. In the depths of the reef lives a massive carnivorous fish that Ecenbarger drives insane with a sonic signal to devour anyone in the vicinity, which is the fate of a luckless diver in the prologue. When [[TheHero PC]] teams up with the man's sister Maruul, Ecenbarger unleashes the fish on them, which kills PC's uncle Cliff. When she has them aboard the tanker, Ecenbarger [[YouHaveFailedMe has a guard executed for failure]] by having a spider-crab eat his brain. It is revealed that Ecenbarger is excavating the treasure of Maruul's people, a fire opal wall, with intent to destroy it and sell the pieces despite the damage it will have on the natives.
* ''Literature/TheReignOfEvil'': [[BigBad The God of Chaos]], better known as [[EvilOverlord King Dosleum]], is a tyrannical, sadistic GodOfEvil that waged war on the nations of Nidavia in hopes of conquering them. He beheaded the kind King Arnstil and sent his soldiers to find the king's heirs--Hawk, Falcon, and their infant brother, Eagle—and kidnap their foster parents. After attacking the city of Noltreydelm, his soldiers manage to capture Hawk, who King Dosleum proceeds to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]], [[YouKilledMyFather murders his foster parents in front of him]], and then imprisons him. Eventually, King Dosleum attempts to groom Hawk, promising him a piece of land in exchange for his servitude, and displays pleasure at when Hawk tells him that he intends to keep a prisoner as his personal concubine. After attacking Fairence twice more, he sends a legion of monsters to [[BadBoss kill his own men]], thus revealing his intention to rule Nidavia with [[KillAllHumans no human life]]. Once the heroes confront him, [[VampiricDraining he siphons the life force]] from his own Dusk Riders to fuel a spell to kill the heroes, and manages to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] an already-wounded Matt.
* Creator/MatthewReilly is not subtle when it comes to his villains:
** ''Literature/{{Temple}}'':
*** William Race's present-day story: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Earl Bittiker]], a vicious militiaman and founder of the [[ApocalypseCult Republican Army of Texas]], was drummed out of the Navy [=SEALs=] for rape. Having succumbed to a doomsday cultism, Bittiker leads his men to steal the powerful idol to power the [[DoomsdayDevice Supernova]] after several murders. Intending on wiping out a third of humanity in one blast, [[OmnicidalManiac Bittiker]] intends to completely erase the world for the sole satisfaction of seeing it burn.
*** Alberto Santiago's 1500s story: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Hernando Pizarro]], brother and lieutenant of Francisco Pizzaro, is a sadistic psychopath of a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who [[RapePillageAndBurn leads his forces]] across the Incan Empire. Women are forced into brothels and enslaved, children sold into slavery, men tortured and maimed with Hernando having entire villages tortured or massacred [[ForTheEvulz for the sport of it]]. Locating the priest Alberto Santiago and his friend Prince Renco who have taken the idol, Hernando intends to recover it and then torture the two slowly to death simply for the inconvenience.
** Scarecrow (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series:
*** ''Area 7'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** ''Area 7'': [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
*** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
* ''Literature/TheReplacement'': [[WouldHurtAChild The Lady]] is a narcissistic [[TheFairFolk Fay]] clinging to the last vestiges of power and authority. With her pact with the town of Gentry, she reigns over them, and has them [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] children once every seven years that she keeps as a pet, torments and eventually kills and [[ChildEater devours]], with a girl named Natalie the next of her victims. Setting fire to a church which causes a fatality upon being challenged, the Lady also tries to kill Mackie Doyle and others by handing them over to her TortureTechnician, the Cutter, to gruesomely murder.
* ''La République des imberbes'', by Mohamed Toihiri: [[VillainProtagonist Guigoz]], [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed based]] on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soilih Ali Soilih]], was already a bully in his childhood, and grew up to be much worse, joining a far-left group who staged a coup against the new Comorian regime. Becoming Comoros's dictator, Guigoz manipulated the youth into joining his ideals, creating the Zazis commandos. Said commandos became known for their sheer brutality against any political opposition, with murders, thefts, public humiliations, tortures and rapes becoming rampant in the country. Despite forbidding witchcraft and brutally punishing any practitioner, [[{{Hypocrite}} Guigoz]] had appointed several "sorcerers" as his advisors, and upon their recommendation, had no problems sacrificing seven [[WouldHurtAChild 7-year olds]] by having them strangled, while a nail is slammed in their skulls with a hammer. When "sorcerers" told Guigoz that spirits required three sacrifices, including one person truly close to Guigoz, Guigoz tricked his friend and advisor Lulé into killing two people, and then had him judged by a kangaroo court and executed. When a group in Iconi tried to rebel against him, Guigoz threatened the entire village, and the resulting onslaught led to over a thousand deaths. Thoroughly depraved beneath his charismatic behavior, Guigoz was appropriately called "Satan in a human's skin".
* ''Literature/{{Repugnant}}'', by Judith Sonnet: [[TheDreaded The Sender]], real name Gordon Werner, is a vile SerialKiller with a penchant for torture, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. After killing his own mother, he randomly murders numerous people before torturing, eviscerating, and killing heroine Sabra Rockford in a gruesome sacrifice to Satan to gain unholy powers. Gaining power not from [[EvenEvilHasStandards a revolted Satan]] but a host of lesser demons, the Sender embarks on a Halloween rampage through the town of Cardin, mutilating and slaughtering well over a dozen people, including trick-or-treaters. By the time Sabra--resurrected by Satan to seek revenge--finally tracks him down, the Sender has unleashed his demonic powers on Cardin's Halloween festival, turning it into an orgy of sadomasochistic violence that sees scores more people killed. So evil that he horrifies even the Devil, the Sender has no motive for his atrocities other than his own insatiable sadism.
* ''The Resort'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Jedidiah Harrison]] is a purely black-hearted {{sadist}} with a love for anything that causes others agony. Jedidiah founded the Reata resort hotel solely to turn it into a slaughterhouse of death and agony for countless innocents that he would brutally torture and murder by the dozens, bribing numerous wealthy individuals into assisting him in his crimes in exchange for allowing them to use his FountainOfYouth. After a freak accident destroys much of the Fountain, Jedidiah spends decades preparing a new ceremony that will allow him to restore the Fountain to its former glory, murdering any who might stand in his way in the process. Once the ceremony is ready, Jedidiah turns a nearby, fully-occupied hotel into a hellish EldritchLocation, turning many of the residents into insane savages who rape and murder all they see, while Jedidiah himself hangs, [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]], and butchers employees and residents alike, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. With his final ritual being to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice a child]] to the Fountain to restore its immortality properties, Jedidiah plans to then spend eternity continuing his sadistic ways, causing pain and torment to all he can [[ForTheEvulz for nothing but gleeful cruelty]].
* ''The Resurrectionist'', by Wrath James White: Dale [=McCarthy=] is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish]], self-righteous psychopath with the ability to revive those recently killed from death, and exploits these abilities to indulge in his own twisted desires. After being exposed to violence while witnessing his father violently rape his mother, Dale, starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], began using his abilities to first [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill small animals]], then his own grandmother, over and over again, bringing them back to life each time. Though attempting to keep his mother, the only one aware of his abilities, alive and as his tormented caretaker, Dale moved on to other victims after his mother killed herself permanently. Dale proceeded to go on a horrific killing spree across the country, always targeting one specific woman for a short amount of time to torture, rape, and kill as many times as he wants before going to another victim. Once confronting the only woman he deems worthy of his "love", Sarah, Dale commits truly horrifying atrocities against her, from raping her and her husband in front of each other to [[FlayingAlive flaying her alive]], all things he has done on countless others. In the end, Dale brutally [[CopKiller murders two police officers standing in his way]], and, once beaten, causes all those he has ever revived to drop dead, seemingly for good this time. Dale [=McCarthy=] was a spoiled, disgusting, and despicable lunatic who justified his wicked acts as not truly evil, seeing as he always revived his victims, and [[NeverMyFault constantly blamed others]] for his pathetic state in life.
* ''Literature/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' (John Russo's 1978 novel): [[NightmareFetishist Flack]], a [[AxCrazy sadistic psychopath]] and former convict, uses the ZombieApocalypse as an excuse to indulge himself. Taking refuge in the Miller house with his partners, Flack rapes the young woman Sue Ellen, and reveals he intends to use the Miller sisters as "zombie bait." Flack and his partner John Carter [[CopKiller shoot a police officer]], leaving his partner tied up so when Flack's victim reanimates, he'll devour his former friend. Upon fleeing, Flack throws a young man named Billy to the zombies and storms a mansion, killing the guards inside and taking the family hostage. Flack then throws them, mother, father and [[WouldHurtAChild a ten-year-old]] to the zombies, gleefully watching as the zombies tear them apart while keeping the Miller sisters to rape at his and Carter's leisure.
* ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'':
** ''The Riftwar Saga'': [[TheHeavy Murmandamus]] is the Big Bad of ''Silverthorn'' and ''A Darkness at Sethanon''. A Pantathian [[SnakePeople serpent-priest]] who plans to bring the [[SealedEvilInACan long-banished]] [[AbusivePrecursors Valheru]] back into the world, Murmandamus disguises himself as the reincarnation of the moredhel's (dark elves) greatest leader, uniting the mountain, forest, and hill clans in a campaign of genocide against their human and eledhel enemies. He sends assassins after the Prince of Krondor, which gets numerous people caught in the crossfire. He steals the souls of his human servants in a ritual that involves [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] a [[WouldHurtAChild nine-year-old girl]]. He creates the Black Slayers, soulless moredhel, bound in service to him forevermore. He murders a seer who gave him the information he wanted, and massacres hundreds of slaves when he realizes that his campaign isn't going to start when he wants it to. In ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', he destroys the cities of Armengar and Sethanon, lines his headquarters at Sar-Sargoth with a thousand [[DecapitationPresentation human heads on pikes]], [[BadBoss kills hundreds of his own men in a fit of rage]], tramples his right-hand serpent-priest, Cathos, to death, consumes the souls of all those who have died aiding him, and in the end, tries to activate the Lifestone, an ArtifactOfDoom that will [[OmnicidalManiac slay all life]] on Midkemia from bacteria to humanity, in order to loose the Valheru. Believing that he will attain demigodhood when the Valheru return, Murmandamus dies laughing about how "[[CardCarryingVillain I am a thing of death, Lord of the West. I am ever the servant of Darkness]]."
** ''The Riftwar Legacy'': [[PsychoForHire Bear]], the BigBad of ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods'', is a vicious mercenary pirate initially employed as [[TheHeavy muscle]] by the sorcerer Leso Varen, aka Sidi, to gain the Tear of the Gods, quickly becoming something far more uncontrollable and ambitious. With the power of a dark amulet making him impervious to all forms of harm, Bear forces a pirate crew led by Knute to join him under the threat of death--making good on his threats by torturously murdering two men for slights--and massacres the Ishapian ship carrying the Tear. Once he loses the Tear and is further betrayed by Knute, Bear resurfaces and comes down on Krondor in a vicious fury. Bear slaughters his way into a tavern, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring himself]] with Sir William's fiancée before murdering her, kills his way into the city jail and vengefully cuts Knute apart, and indiscriminately murders his way out of Krondor and through the sewers, lining dozens of bodies behind him and setting a populated orphanage on fire purely as a diversion. Once he's finally tracked down by William and a score of Krondorian soldiers, Bear gleefully [[BadBoss tosses his own men to die]] in his stead even despite his own invulnerability before single-handedly ripping apart the Krondorian guard and attempting to slay all those who stand before him and the Tear, proclaiming he'll be nothing more than a god. A barbarian too much even for the sinister Leso Varen, Bear is little more than animalistic wrath and savage fury on legs.
* ''Literature/RingShout'', by P. Djèlí Clark: [[TheButcher Butcher]] Clyde is the leader of the "Ku Kluxes," the [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors]] from beyond who have allied with the [[TheKlan Klansmen]]. Leading them to racial lynch mobs, Clyde inspires them to butcher innocent Black people to [[ThePowerOfHate spread even more hatred so that he may summon his master]], the Grand Cyclops, to cleanse the world after revealing the meat he fed his followers was that of monsters to force them to be bound to the Grand Cyclops [[AndIMustScream in permanent agony]].
* ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'': [[BombThrowingAnarchists Xu Ping An]] is a [[EvilIsBurningHot Firebender warlord]] with a [[FauxAffablyEvil finely-honed, superficial sense of charisma]] he uses to reign in a loyal gathering of marauders with which he pledges to [[RapePillageAndBurn overthrow the law and let anarchy reign]]. Xu put entire villages of "abiders" to the sword, leaving countless corpses stacked behind him until his rampage was finally stopped by Jianzhu. When inadvertently broken out eight years later by the Avatar, Kyoshi, Xu muses that the land has forgotten his name and pledges to [[FameThroughInfamy scar his name into history]] in a way they will never forget. To begin his new wave of bloodshed, Xu captures a family and forces them to watch as he dunks the father in and out of a pot of boiling water, gleefully intending to move on to slaughter the nearest town. Xu even uses his rare ability to bend lightning to savagely torture Kyoshi, proclaiming himself absolute and that all anyone can ever hope to do against him is obey.
* ''The Rising'' and ''City of the Dead'', by Creator/BrianKeene, takes place in a bleak and miserable setting, but still manages to have two villains who stand out:
** [[BigBad Ob]] is [[TheLeader the King of the Siqqusim]], the race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] {{zombie|Apocalypse}}s that serve as the antagonists of the series. Distinguishing himself from the mindless hatred of his followers through his [[ImplacableMan persistence]], sadism, and hounding of the protagonists on their journey across America, Ob aims to [[KillAllHumans exterminate all of humanity]], paving the way for [[{{Satan}} something even worse]]. Angered by [[TheHero Jim]]'s constant success at staying alive, Ob makes it his [[ItsPersonal personal mission]] to end Jim's life, even as he arms his zombies with stolen human weaponry so that they can more efficiently wipe out all human and animal life on Earth. He takes great pleasure in his task, gloating as he uses a fake "all clear symbol" to lure hundreds to their deaths, mining [[BodySurf each corpse he possesses]] for memories that he can use to hurt those his host cared about and taunt new victims with, and sharing information about his [[{{Hell}} world]] in order to drive people to despair. Towards the end, he smashes the last remaining human stronghold with heavy artillery, and [[EvilLaugh laughs]] in Jim's face during their final confrontation, noting that it is his pleasure to end Jim's journey.
** [[ColonelKilgore Colonel Schow]] is proof that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters some humans can be every bit as vile as Ob and his ilk]]. Taking command of a unit of the [[SociopathicSoldier Pennsylvania National Guard]], Schow teaches them to RapePillageAndBurn with the best of the undead. He forces the women and teenage girls that he rescues into service as brigade whores, under the pretext of keeping up morale. Those who refuse, along with the men who are too unfit for physical duty, end up as zombie bait. The men who he does deem fit enough become slave labour for his construction projects, working in hellish conditions for no reward beyond the dubious safety that Schow and his men provide. Over the course of the novel Schow has deserters crucified and/or used for target practice, a would-be assassin castrated-by-zombie-jaws, TokenGoodTeammate Skip beaten and then fed to zombies for trying to escape, [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Frankie]] gangraped, and a harmless homeless man shot down simply for being found in Frankie's company. Towards the end, he throws a handicapped man out of his Hummer while driving at top speed, so that he can make good his own escape. [[WarForFunAndProfit Enjoying the situation far more than he should]], and unconcerned about the very people he is supposed to be protecting, Schow is an affront to the rest of humanity.
* ''Literature/TheRitual'', by Adam Nevill: [[TeensAreMonsters Loki]] is the leader of a band of BlackMetal delinquents who hope to bring about the end of the world through their music and cruelty. [[CardCarryingVillain Boastful of how evil and wicked he is]], Loki is a SerialKiller who has claimed nine lives in the past, all fueled by bigotry and prejudice. Having found the land of [[EldritchAbomination Moder]] in the isolated Swedish forest, Loki works with his band to reawaken Moder and unleash it onto travelers in the area, getting innocents gored and butchered. Capturing the hiker Luke, Loki forces him to witness one of his friend's disemboweled bodies before tormenting and terrorizing him, Loki planning to sacrifice Luke to Moder in the hopes it will unleash more Old Gods onto the Earth and bring the apocalypse Loki has dreamt of.
* ''Literature/RiverOfStars'', by Guy Gavriel Kay: [[ManipulativeBastard Bai'ji]] is an Altai warlord, and third-in-command after his brother, Wan'yen, and kaghan Yan'po. Generally regarded as his brother's EvilGenius, Bai'ji helps Wan'yen betray and murder the Xiaolu Emperor and his First Minister, [[BuriedAlive burying them both up to their necks]] and then having them {{eaten alive}} by ants; he keeps their skulls to drink wine from. Bai'ji then persuades Wan'yen and Yan'po to invade Kitai, to the south, destroying the Twelfth Dynasty, and [[RapePillageAndBurn reducing city after city to rubble]]. When Wan'yen sends him after escaping prisoners, Bai'ji objects, because he was getting ready to rape a number of Kitai women in front of their husbands. At the time of his death in the swamps of southern Kitai, Bai'ji was plotting to avenge this "insult" by murdering both Wan'yen and Yan'po. A {{sadist}} with imperial ambitions, Bai'ji left the world a better place by leaving it.
* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'': In the {{novelization}} by Max Allan Collins, [[PsychoForHire Harlen Maguire]] is a death-loving hitman who spends his free time photographing murders, many of which he himself perpetrates. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] killing a wounded man in a street alley, Maguire is then hired to track down Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Michael Jr., happily hoping to murder them both and add them to his massive "[[CreepySouvenir gallery of death]]". Slaughtering an entire cafe, murdering one of his own partners, and killing an innocent couple along the way, Maguire mortally wounds O'Sullivan and attempts to photograph his dying moments before moving onto Michael Jr., even after the contract on the duo has been called off.
* ''Röd måne'' ("Red Moon"): Ylva Svensdotter wants her own brother to die in war so she can claim the right to his wife's farm. When he does die, she [[BitchInSheepsClothing feigns sadness over it.]] She accuses her sister-in-law and her two maids of witchcraft after and since this is the 17th century, they're sentenced to death. Ylva also gladly planned for her brother's [[WouldHurtAChild six year old daughter Indra]] to die as well, but Indra was rescued. When her daughter Maja lost her ability to speak from the shock of being flogged, Ylva actually accuses her of being a witch as well and has her sent to a family where she is raped and abused for many years. And when Indra returned to claim her mother's farm, Ylva accuses her niece of witchcraft. At this point, Ylva even loses the support of her husband, who had only obeyed her until then.
* ''Literature/{{Room}}'': "Old Nick"--the [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname otherwise-unnamed]] man who garners his appropriate title from a title of Satan--kidnaps and locks away a young woman in the titular “Room,” using the woman as a means of pleasure by raping her almost every night on end for seven years. Old Nick accidentally impregnates Ma and forces her to [[ChildByRape give birth]] right in front of him without the use of painkillers or any medical equipment whatsoever, leading to the baby's death. Once Ma gives birth to Jack, the young narrator of the novel, Nick keeps them both as his prisoners with threats to leave them both to starve to death if they ever try and escape, acting good on his threats by cutting the power and heat to the Room once Jack obliviously wanders outside.
* ''Literature/{{Sabriel}}'': After Kerrigor, aka Prince Rogirek, became one of the [[OurLichesAreDifferent Greater Dead]], he tricked his half-brother into helping him murder their mother and their sisters in order for Kerrigor to use their blood to shatter the Charter Stones protecting the kingdom from the dead. Defeated and driven deep into death, Kerrigor's actions nevertheless destroyed The Old Kingdom, allowing all manner of TheUndead free access to the world over the next several hundred years, while he waited for the chance to break free. Kidnapping the infant Sabriel, Kerrigor took her deep into death as part of a plot to blackmail her father, The Abhorsen, into freeing him. Years later, he traps The Abhorsen himself in Death and breaks free into the world of the living. He then tries to capture Sabriel and his revived half-brother as part of a plan to shatter the remaining Charter Stones. When this fails after The Abhorsen's heroic sacrifice, Kerrigor re-emerges from Death and leads a massive army of undead across the wall and into a girl's school, killing soldiers and students alike, before devouring Sabriel's FriendlyEnemy, Mogget, alive and finally forcing Sabriel herself into a mutual kill. Obsessed with power and staying alive no matter what the cost to others, Kerrigor is the worst that the realm of the Dead has to offer.
* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Vicar]] [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Zhaspahr]] [[TautologicalTemplar Clyntahn]] is the [[KnightTemplar Grand Inquisitor]] of the [[CorruptChurch Church of God Awaiting]], as well as the BigBad for the series so far. In ''A Mighty Fortress'', his response, to learning of a group of reformers within the Temple itself, is to have them, their families, their aides, and ''their'' families arrested, subjected to ColdBloodedTorture, and executed, this eclipsing a delcaration of Holy War that had been stewing in the background since ''By Schism Rent Asunder''. In '' How Firm a Foundation'', he launches the Sword of Scheuler, an operation which instigates a civil war in the Republic of Siddarmark that kills hundreds of thousands in both the initial attack and the aftermath, which features a winter full of starvation as well as atrocities and counter-atrocities committed by and against Temple Loyalists, vis-à-vis those who remained loyal to Siddarmark's Lord Protector. His penchant for the torture and painful death of his enemies has resulted in multiple instances where armies aligned with the church LeaveNoSurvivors out of a sense of ''{{mercy|Kill}}'', as to spare any would be to leave prisoners of Clyntahn's wrath.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'':
** [[ForTheEvulz Desmond Tiny]] is a sadistic [[TimeMaster time traveler]] (and Darren's [[ArchnemesisDad father]]) who is revealed to have manipulated almost all the terrible events in history just for his own personal pleasure. He brags about the way he likes to drink the blood of children, claiming "it's so sweet", and on another occasion claims he is excited to witness a volcano that will kill thousands. He pitted Darren and Steve against one another, insisting that the vampires only have three chances to kill Steve before he overthrows the Vampires. Whichever boy won-Darren or Steve-would become the Lord of Shadows, kill all of their friends, and became the ruler of the world. When Darren decides to ScrewDestiny and let both himself and Steve die, Mr. Tiny instead creates dragons which results in the Post-Apocalyptic world as seen in ''The Lake of Souls''. His motivation is he looked into the future and saw that things were going to be too peaceful for his liking, so he set the stage for a lot of chaos to [[ItAmusedMe amuse him]].
** The Vampenze Lord, aka Steve "Leopard" Leonard, is an unstable tyrant who starts up a war with the vampires to get back at Mr. Crepsley for turning Darren into a vampire and not him. Among his actions are seducing the hero's sister in order to get her pregnant; using his own son as a bargaining chip against Darren; and [[NeckSnap snapping the neck]] of Evra's [[WouldHurtAChild eight-year-old son]] just [[ForTheEvulz for his own sick joy]]. Even [[EvenEvilHasStandards the other Vampenze dislike him]] and only serve him because they have to.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheNobleDead'' is set in a borderline-CrapsackWorld, so it has a couple of these:
** Warlord Darmouth is a paranoid and psychotic tyrant who runs his lands with fear and intimidation. People are killed on a routine basis if he gets the wrong idea about them. He keeps his followers in line with blackmail, emotional manipulation and fear to keep them too weak to resist. Trying to leave his service results in swift death for all involved, even their families.
** ObviouslyEvil [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ubad]], a Necromancer who worships the EldritchAbomination BigBad Il'Samar, manipulated a vampire ally of his into raping a human woman to father a dhampyr on her. The result was said ally's death as his energy was drained and Ubad gaining the dhampyr he badly wanted. The reason was so he would have a champion to lead an army of the dead to [[OmnicidalManiac purge the world of life]]. Unlike Il'Samar's other followers, Ubad is simply in it to see how far he can push the bounds of his own powers as far as he can go until the world burns.
* ''Literature/{{Satyrday}}'': The [[OminousOwl owl]] is a powerful and megalomaniacal [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who rules over his army of ravens and the other animals of the forest with threats of torture and death. The animals who live under his rule exist in constant terror, as he's known to make dissenters disappear. In one instance, he has a [[WouldHurtAChild young bird]]'s wings broken and leaves him for dead. In the past, he massacred almost all of the humans in what became the Deadwood Forest, forcing the few survivors to live a wretched existence underground. Fourteen years ago, he sent a powerful whirlwind across the forest that killed thousands of the animals within and displaced many others. In the present day, the owl kidnaps the Moon from her proper orbit in the sky and cages her, causing the world to fall into turmoil with strange creatures and vegetation appearing that attack on sight. His ultimate plan is to rid the world of the Sun to create an [[TheNightThatNeverEnds endless night]]. When a group of dissident ravens manage to free the Moon, the owl becomes completely deranged and orders his falcons to kill the animals of the forest indiscriminately.
* ''Literature/{{Savage}}'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Roderick Whittle]]'s manner is a mere MaskOfSanity, hiding the fact that he is in fact the infamous UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. We are first introduced to Whittle when [[FirstPersonPerspective 15-year-old Trevor Bentley]], trying to escape some robbers, spies him killing a prostitute and mutilating the body. Trevor manages to escape, but ends up on the same boat as Whittle, bound for the United States. Whittle attacks and kills a few more people, and plans to continue his spree in the US, making it seem the work of "savages". Eventually, Whittle also kills some more people, including a teenager; Trevor's LoveInterest—-later mocking Trevor about how he used her corpse, unbeknownst to him, as a shield against Trevor's bullets; a posse of men sent to capture or kill him and placing their corpses in [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor macabre positions]]; and numerous women. He finally tries to kill Trevor and his new love interest, but not before revealing that he has become a [[KillerCop sheriff's deputy]] named "John Carver". With over 20 brutal murders to his name, as well as a taste for torture and possibly even [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], Roderick Whittle is easily one of the most psychotic and sadistic versions of Jack the Ripper ever put into fiction.
* ''Literature/SavageSpecies'', by Jonathan Janz: The [[AncientEvil Old One]], also known as the {{Wendigo}}, is the [[MonsterProgenitor progenitor]] of the monstrous "Children" lurking beneath the campgrounds of the so-called Peaceful Valley. Disturbed by human activity, the Old One disperses his followers to begin slaughtering and torturing people by the hundreds. The Old One isn't a mindless EldritchAbomination but a cruel, gloating sadist who intends to [[WouldHurtAChild twist the innocent baby]] the heroes are protecting into another one of his monstrous Children and who regrets at the end of the book that he wasn't able to torture the heroes who sacrificed themselves against him even more.
* ''Sawkill Girls'', by Claire Legrand: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent The demon]] known as [[SerialKiller the Collector]] is a wicked creature sealed on Sawkill Island. Hungering for prey, the Collector makes a pact with one family to serve him, dominating and even [[MindRape mentally]] or [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil physically]] raping the one he selects as a "queen", terrorizing them into his subjects. The Collector has them bring him prey, young women he kills in agony [[ToServeMan while devouring them]]. With his latest queen Val, he has her bring him the sister of novel heroine Marion, and the other heroine Zoey's best friend Thora. When Val grows too independent, the Collector marks her as well, savagely twisting her mind to hurt all of them as much as he can.
* Literature/ScarpettaSeries, by Patricia Cornwell:
** ''Cruel and Unusual'' & ''From Potter's Field'': Temple Brooks Gault proved to be a sociopath ever since childhood, tormenting his twin sister Jayne and killing her puppy over perceived ParentalFavoritism. Growing into a volatile narcissist with no qualms about killing a man who has insulted his looks, he resolves to become a SerialKiller in a [[FameThroughInfamy twisted search for fame]]. His victims, whose bodies he degrades in various ways, include a 13-year-old boy; a pregnant woman; and a prison guard [[UngratefulBastard who was offering him a hideout]]. After escaping capture, Gault announces his return by [[CainAndAbel murdering Jayne]], then murders three cops to further taunt Kay Scarpetta and her team. When the police corner him in the subway, Gault electrocutes Detective Meier to death and takes Lucy hostage before trying to kill Kay.
** ''Unnatural Exposure'': [[MadScientist Phyllis Crowder]]--aka [[DeadlyDoctor Deadoc]]--after being made a scapegoat for the Birmingham smallpox outbreak, secretly spliced the virus with monkeypox to get her revenge through a pandemic. She starts testing the new virus on her own mother, [[{{Matricide}} ultimately killing and dismembering her]] to hide the traces of the disease, before sending contaminated beauty samples to the residents of Tangiers Island, causing three more deaths. [[BitchInSheepsClothing While acting as a helpful assistant to Kay Scarpetta]], Phyllis taunts her online with grisly photos of the crime scenes and eventually infects her staff, resulting in the death of Kay's assistant Wingo. When confronted by Kay after her sixth murder, a drifter she shot after he broke into her caravan lab, Phyllis coldly dismisses her actions as a "[[DisproportionateRetribution tit for tat]]", uncaring that she could have threatened the whole world with a new bioweapon.
** ''Point of Origin'': [[SerialKiller Newton Joyce]] is a British entrepreneur who uses the inconveniences of his teenage acne as an excuse to indulge in serial killing. Moving easily from UK to the USA thanks to his wealth, Joyce murders young and beautiful people to [[CreepySouvenir remove and keep their faces]], only leaving mutilated torsos to be found. After teaming up with [[MonsterFangirl Carrie Grethen]], Joyce starts [[FieryCoverup using fire to cover his traces]], uncaring of the collateral damage. One time, Joyce sets fire to a whole farmhouse, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals leaving eighteen horses to a slow and agonizing death]]. With a body count of 27 and an absolute disregard for the pain he causes, Newton Joyce is the most prolific serial killer faced by Kay's team.
* ''Literature/TheSchwarzschildRadius'', by Gustavo Florentin: "[[PsychoForHire The Webmaster]]", Hector Brazos, is a {{sadist}}ic torturer and killer for hire, whose signature style is recording his victims' deaths. Originally an assassin for the Mexican Cartel, the Webmaster slaughtered dozens of people, including entire families, inflicting horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder on every one of them, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. Wanting to earn his money easier, the Webmaster turned his child pornography website into a hub for individuals worldwide to bid on the torture young teenage girls the Webmaster had kidnapped would endure for the following weeks. This torture included everything from electrocution and bone breaking, to being raped by either the Webmaster or his trained dogs, and, when the girls eventually wore out, the Webmaster would hold a final bid for the excruciating way each girl would die. When any of his partners try to turn on him, the Webmaster wastes no time in torturing and slowly killing them. After failing to sadistically torture 3 teenage girls, the Webmaster kills one, along with an innocent homeless man, opens fire on police officers before setting a bomb off on top of them, and tries to rape and murder two of his only surviving victims. [[{{Greed}} Caring for money above all else]], the Webmaster would commit any and all depraved actions to make a quick buck, and would enjoy every minute of it.
* ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'': Iskiak, better known by the name of "Aurang", [[TheEvilPrince prince]] of the Inchoroi and bad even by [[DepravedBisexual their standards]], was one of the final Inchoroi after their wars with the inhuman Cûnoroi, or "Nonmen". Desiring to escape his own damnation, Aurang participated in the annihilation of entire worlds before the Inchoroi arrived on Earwa. At the end of the war with the Nonmen, Aurang assisted in giving them immortality, but also introduced a plague to kill every female of their species, leaving the Nonmen to look forward to nothing but eventual madness and extinction. Later forming the Consult, Aurang initiates the Apocalypse by unleashing the No-God. As the Horde-General of the Consult, Aurang takes the field, committing countless atrocities and massacring entire cities with his and his people's own creations the Sranc, beings so filled with lust and rage they can only interact with other species by killing and raping them to death. Aurang is also a SerialRapist, boasting of this to Kellhus, and manipulates the Holy War to help bring about the deaths of all but a fraction of beings on Earwa to not only keep himself from hellfire, but to continue the monstrosity that damned him to begin with.
* ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Martha Plunkett]] is the head of Treehouse, a reputable preschool which is, in fact, a [[HumanTrafficking toddler sex ring]]. For nearly twenty years, Plunkett has [[WouldHurtAChild molested and exploited preschoolers]] for child pornography, both directly and by having her staff do the same. To terrorize the children into silence, she assigns the children live rabbits to care for, then [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills the rabbits]] right in front of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' {{novelization}}, by Eithne Massey: [[BigBad Harald Redtooth]] is the Chief Northman, savage leader of the band of [[HornyVikings Northmen raiders]] currently plaguing Ireland. Redtooth has the Northmen [[RapePillageAndBurn invade]] several villages, cities, and monasteries for the purposes of slaughtering most of their populations, enslaving the survivors, and looting all of the treasure possible to satisfy Redtooth's greed. With even children not exempt from death or slavery at the Northmen hands, Redtooth wipes out the monk city of Iona, then makes his way to Kells, where his Northmen lay waste to the city and set it aflame as they kill everything in their path. After severely wounding Abbot Cellach, Redtooth orders the man's close friend Aidan and nephew Brendan executed after swiping all their belongings and wearing them as trophies. Showcasing a cruel grin while committing his actions and even going so far as to name his sword "[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Monk Mincer]]", Redtooth is presented as [[AdaptationalVillainy a far more uniquely evil force than his movie counterpart]].
* ''Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror'''s "Direct Report", by Leigh Perry: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Claudio Mendoza]] is a vampiric SerialRapist who preys on potential employees. After presumably killing his previous manager, Claudio kidnaps and infects a woman, Taylor, locking her in a room for six months, where she is drugged, starved, chained to a bed and raped daily by him and a variety of fetishists, having done this to countless of his "[[MonsterProgenitor children]]" before. After Taylor escapes, Claudio congratulates her for regaining her senses so soon and threatens to leave her exposed to the sun until she is destroyed.
* ''Senseless'' and ''Merciless'', by Mary Burton: The Other, aka Josiah Cross, hailed from the wealthy Cross family and was known for his sporadic acts of violence before his [[SerialKiller serial killings]]. The last night at university, he battered and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] protagonist Eva Rayburn. When Micah died, the Other [[TwinSwitch took his name]] and avoided jail time but continued his violence by targeting people for serial killings. Knowing from the start that his mother was behind a series of murders, he chose not to inform the police, enabling her to kill many people. The Other got into a partnership with [[SerialRapist James Dixon]] where his partner would beat and rape women he abducted and The Other would prolong his victim's misery by mocking them until he kills them and [[{{Sadist}} watch them die in front of him for his own pleasure]]. He would dissolve his victim's bodies in chemicals to [[CreepySouvenir keep their bones as trophies]] and use their femur bones to create chess pieces. Having done this to at least six women, he intended to do more to get police and [[FameThroughInfamy media attention]] and managed to kill two more women. When James slipped up in their partnership again, the Other brutally murdered him and then killed James's partner and tried to [[FrameUp pin the murders on them]]. Blaming and harboring spite towards Eva for his own perceived problems, he attempted to murder her half-sister, Angela, to emotionally hurt her.
* ''Film/TheSentinel1977'' & ''The Guardian'', by Jeffrey Konvitz: [[FauxAffablyEvil Charles Chazen]] appears a friendly, eccentric old fellow who is, in truth, {{Satan}} himself. When the new potential guardian to the gates of Hell, Alison, arrives at the apartment that rests over the gateway, Chazen attempts to kill those she loves and [[MindRape torture her mentally]] until she breaks and [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]]. When Alison takes her place as the new Sentinel, Chazen sets his sights on the next Sentinel, Father [=McBride=], starting a web of murder and destruction to break him. Tricking [=McBride=] into suicide and damnation, Chazen prepares to lead the legions of Hell and the damned into the world to bring about the apocalypse, gloating about his intent to [[AGodAmI dethrone God and take over all creation]].
* ''Serafina and the Black Cloak'', by Robert Beatty: The Man in the Black Cloak, Montgomery Thorne, is the terrifying apparition stalking the grand Biltmore Estate. Originally a rich man who lost his fortune, the Man gained the ability to devour the souls, along with the talents and knowledge, of anyone he wanted by using a mysterious black cloak. When the Man consumes someone's soul, they are left [[AndIMustScream trapped in his cloak in constant horror and agony]], and the Man has no compunctions regarding who he devours, be they adult or [[WouldHurtAChild child]], and will outright murder anyone who gets his way. After he begins rapidly aging due to his use of the cloak, the Man begins devouring the souls of as many children as he can to preserve his life force, and, when [[TheHero Serafina]] tries to steal his cloak to save his victims, the Man sadistically tries to suffocate her for irritating him. A {{greed}}y sociopath who would harm anyone and everyone to become wealthy and powerful once again, the Man in the Black stood out in this children's novel as a truly dark and twisted man.
* ''Literature/ShadesChildren'': [[WouldHurtAChild Silver Sun]] is a member of the extradimensional Overlords, and is bad even compared to her evil companions. Silver Sun sets up the transfer for the Overlords' invasion to start with, exterminating ninety-percent of humanity with all survivors under the age of fourteen herded away. Silver Sun and the other Overlords then set up a horrific regime where teenagers are pumped full of sterilizing drugs and horribly conditioned before being carted en masse to the [[PeopleFarms Meat Factory]], where they're chopped up and converted into Creatures whose sole purpose is to kill—[[AndIMustScream retaining a vestige of their humanity and remaining fully aware the entire time]]--and females are raped for years on end to produce more fodder for the Creatures before being killed too. Once Silver Sun is finally confronted, she personally tortures two of the young heroes herself while boasting of her responsibility of setting the entire system up to begin with--and cheerfully notes "it's what you're there for" when confronted on why she did so.
* ''Shadow Form'', by Edmund Hughes: [[HumanTraffickers Emanuel Jacques]] proves that in a world of supernaturals, sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the worst of monsters can be all too human]]. Emanuel tricks girls from impoverished countries into believing he'll give them a better life abroad, but instead he has them stripped and turned into {{sex slave}}s. After two of his employees escape out of fear, Emanuel tracks them down, intending to have them both killed for daring to defy him. Emanuel is also a [[BadBoss terrible boss]] who'll gladly kill his own minions if they get in his way, writing off everyone as expandable. Before his defeat, Emanuel threatens to gun down the best friend/lover of Jack Materson should Jack not let him go, while still in reality planning to kill her anyway.
* ''Shadow Man'', by Cody [=McFadyen=]:
** [[JackTheRipoff Jack Jr.]]--Peter Hillstead--believes himself to be a descendant of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and seeks to immortalize himself in history even more so than his ancestor. Trained to torture and kill [[EnfantTerrible at a young age]] by his SerialKiller father, Jack Jr. gleefully assisted his dad in his crimes. After [[{{Patricide}} murdering his father]], partially because he believed [[EvilerThanThou him to be an inadequade descendant of the Ripper, compared to himself]], Jack Jr began [[SerialRapist raping]] and [[SerialKiller killing]] over the years. Regularly [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating people]] into murdering others for him, Jack Jr. wastes no time in betraying and killing his acolytes when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he grows tired of them]], and he used one of them to ensure the deaths of FBI agent [[TheHero Smoky Barrett's]] husband and young daughter. Declaring Barrett his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]], Jack Jr. spent hours torturing and raping Barrett's childhood friend while [[ForcedToWatch forcing her 10 year-old daughter, Bonnie, to watch]]. Jack Jr. then tied Bonnie to the eviscerated corpse of her mother and left her there for 3 days, the resulting trauma causing the girl to become mute. Next, Jack Jr. begins specifically torturing members of Barrett's task force, with methods such as digging up and defiling the corpse of one agent's sister, and chopping off the legs of another agent's dog. When his identity is revealed, Jack Jr. kidnaps one of Barrett's friends, tortures her, then tries to [[WouldHurtAChild slash Bonnie's throat open]] while using her as a HumanShield. Though manipulated by his father into killing, Jack Jr. chose to continue his spree even after his father was removed from the picture and his mother tried to redeem him. [[CardCarryingVillain Happily embracing his dark side]] while simultaneously preaching his victims are nothing but cattle, Jack Jr. embodied and evolved the legacy of The Ripper.
** [[SerialKiller Keith Hillstead]] is the father of Jack Jr., and is the one responsible for starting his path of destruction. As a young man, Keith believed himself to be a descendant of Jack the Ripper, and murdered his parents for trying to hide it from him. After seducing a young woman into becoming his wife, Keith spent weeks [[DomesticAbuse torturing and raping her]] until she gave birth to a son, who he then began to teach how to torture and kill. Claiming close to 100 victims over the years, Keith photographed the tortures, rapes, and deaths of his victims and kept them in an album. When his wife attempted to murder him, Keith violently raped and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pummelled her]], before trying to slit her throat. With a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite]] and [[DissonantSerenity calm]] exterior masking his true depravity, Keith Hillstead stood out as monstrous even with his limited appearances.
* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheFox'': [[WickedWitch Lady Satomi]] is a sadistic [[BloodMagic Blood Witch]] in service to the Master of Demons, Genno. A [[PsychopathicWomanchild childish psychopath]], Satomi regularly kills her serving girls for fun and pleasure. To serve Genno, Satomi has an entire village of hundreds of innocents torn to pieces by demons as a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]] to summon the demon Yaburama, and uses him to massacre a group of monks guarding the scroll containing a wish her master requires. Revealed to be plotting to use the wish to usurp and betray Genno, Satomi admits she knows he intends to cause mass destruction and death upon his return and is fine with it if [[GodhoodSeeker it gives her a chance at godhood itself]].
* ''Shadow-Maze'', by Mark & Julia Smith: The blue-robed [[BigBad Knifeman]] is the true source of the atrocities the so-called Knifemen of Bali have been perpetrating across the continent of Levindre. The Knifeman has his six magical proxies exterminate entire villages all across the nation, sparing only the fit and able-bodied while leaving the rest for a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torturous death]]. The Knifeman preserves all those he captures in [[AndIMustScream constant agony]] entombed within ice, subject to the constant pain of the cold, and when the Knifeman promises their freedom if they only kill the heroes, the Knifeman's victims advance on the heroes with such desperate ferocity that none of them can be saved. The Knifeman aspires to render all life in the mage-garden of Nevern cold and dead all for the purpose of [[GodhoodSeeker becoming a god]] and subjecting the entire world to death or enslavement, and subjects the sorceress capable of making his dreams a reality to such pain he has to hold himself back from torturing her to death.
* ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'': Francisco Javier Fumero, the [[DirtyCop corrupt chief of police]] in Barcelona, relishes the power his position brings him. [[EnfantTerrible As a boy]], Fumero tortured small animals as an outlet for his sadism, and when he discovered Julian Carax, the one boy to treat him kindly, and Penelope, who Fumero lusted after, were together, he attempted to murder Julian and devoted his life to destroying him and Penelope alike. Fumero sent his men to kill Julian and personally murdered a woman who loved Julian for helping him. In the years that passed, Fumero terrorized the populace of Barcelona as a uniformed thug, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] those who caught his ire. One luckless man named Fermin was held and beaten before Fumero tortured him with a blowtorch. When the young hero of the novel, Daniel Siempre, closes in on the buried story of Julian Carax, Fumero wastes no time in attempting to kill him and all who know the truth as well. Cruel, {{sadist}}ic, violent and insatiably power-hungry, Fumero represents how far a once almost pitiable boy can fall.
* ''Literature/ShadowdanceTrilogy'': [[FatBastard Leon Connington]], the head of the Connington family, made much of his vast fortune running a prison to hold anyone the Trifect wants to disappear. In a world of BlackAndGrayMorality and depraved villains, Connington stands out for personally heading much of the vicious torture of these victims and for being a SerialRapist, torturing and raping Melody Gemcroft for years and convincing the Gemcroft family she was long dead to continue assaulting her. He also threatened to do the same to Alyssa Gemcroft. In addition, he dressed up and raped Stephen Connington, his heir, [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]] and making him into the Widow, a butcher and SerialKiller. Utterly unrepentant of these crimes, he is directly responsible for the creation of many of the villains in the second half of the series.
* ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series:
** ''Literature/TheHeritageOfShannara'': Most of the [[TheHeartless Shadowen]] are bad, but their [[TheLeader leader]], [[BigBad Rimmer Dall]], is in a class of his own. From his position as TheFederation's [[SecretPolice First]] [[StateSec Seeker]], Dall enforces the state's xenophobic, expansionist policies, enslaving the Dwarves, suppressing resistance, and arresting magic-users, whom he drains of their magics and then, should they survive, throws into The Pit. When [[GreenThumb Quickening]] gives the Dwarves hope by healing the Meade Gardens, he sends [[ProfessionalKiller Pe]] [[PsychoForHire Ell]] to assassinate her. When the Elves return to the Four Lands, Dall dispatches the [[BigCreepyCrawlies Creepers]] to wage a war of extermination against them. He personally tries to murder [[BigGood Walker Boh]] and [[TheMentor Cogline]], then sends the Four Horsemen after them, resulting in Cogline's death. He [[ManipulativeBastard plays a long psychological game]] with Par and Coll Ohmsford, aimed at [[BreakTheCutie shattering]] [[CorruptTheCutie Par's]] [[MindRape mind]] and making him susceptible to a GrandTheftMe. Dall’s crowning achievement, however, was the construction of [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Southwatch]], a living tower that drained the life from the world itself, and would have, if left unchecked, resulted in the Four Lands becoming an apocalyptic wasteland, inhabited by nothing save a few, maddened Shadowen. Concerned only with his personal power and [[HorrorHunger desire to feed on the strongest magics available]], Rimmer Dall wreaked more devastation on the Four Lands than any villain before or since, inflicting damage that has taken centuries to even begin recovering from.
** ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'':
*** [[EvilSorcerer The Morgawr]] is the BigBad of the trilogy. He's a half man, half lizard freak who slaughters Grianne and Bek Ohmsfords' family, kidnaps Grianne, tells her Bek is dead, and convinces her that [[BigGood Walker,]] the Druid, and his ArchEnemy is behind it, then [[EvilMentor raises her to be as bad as himself.]] He's also a magic-draining leech who feeds on [[SoulEating the souls,]] minds, and magics of his victims and turns people into PeoplePuppets by pulling their brains out through the back of their heads and [[BrainFood eating them,]] leaving them with their skills, but no free will. In the opening pages of Morgawr he drains two-hundred fifty men onscreen, scarring witness [[CorruptPolitician Sen Dunsidan]] for life, and driving the latter's TortureTechnician [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide.]] He later does the same to the crew of Grianne's ship, Black Moclips after she betrays him, before hunting her down and trying to kill her because he considers her life his property to dispose of how he wishes. Completely comfortable with his evil, The Morgawr takes {{pride}} in having brought Grianne down to his level, and finds her desire to better herself completely laughable.
*** Cree Bega is TheDragon to The Morgawr. A SmugSnake of a Mwellret with a penchant for murder, ColdBloodedTorture, KickTheDog, and FantasticRacism, Cree Bega is contemptuous of all the [[SssnakeTalk little peoplessss]], and develops an unhealthy obsession with [[WarriorPrince Ahren Elessedil,]] making it his personal mission to transform him into TheWoobie. He [[ForcedToWatch forces Ahren to watch The Morgawr feed on the crew of Black Moclips]] for no other reason than traumatising him, and upon Ahren's escape, is given custody of his crush, Ryer Ord Star. He and his Mwellrets proceed to strip her, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat her,]] [[{{fingore}} break all of her fingers,]] slash the soles of her feet, defile her until she faints, and then after she wakes up, tie her to a yardarm, [[ATasteOfTheLash lash her with a rawhide whip,]] and leave her to bake in the sun, [[DrivenToSuicide leading to her suicide.]] During his final confrontation with Ahren, Cree Bega stabs Elven Hunter Kian InTheBack, and then gloats to Ahren about what he did to Ryer Ord Star ("She took ssso long to die little Elvesss. Ssso long it ssseemed it would take forever."), before trying to kill him. The cumulative effect of all the trauma that Cree Bega puts Ahren through is an eventual psychological implosion that leaves him utterly [[ShellShockedVeteran shellshocked]] and broken into the next series.
** ''Literature/TheDefendersOfShannara'': Mischa is the secondary antagonist of ''The High Druid's Blade''. A {{sadist}}ic [[EvilOldFolks old]] [[WickedWitch witch]], Mischa is an ally of [[BigBad Arcannen]], for whom she works as a TortureTechnician. She uses her [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] to torment Chrysallin Leah for weeks on end, convincing her that she has been permanently disfigured and crippled by torturers working for [[BigGood Aphenglow Elessedil]]. She then [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretends to befriend Chrysallin]] and helps her to "escape" before having her illusory Aphenglow track them down, faking her own death to further ruin Chrys's psyche, and convince her that Aphenglow is her enemy. When Grehling helps Chrys escape for real, Mischa goes after them, intending to dissect Grehling, and [[MindRape shatter Chrys's mind]].
* ''Literature/{{Shardik}}'': Child slave-dealer Genshed specifically deals in unwanted and deformed children so he can gain a greater profit and use methods that are more barbaric. Instead of grown-up overseers, he grooms the cruelest of the boys to be his overseers, replacing them only when they kill or damage too many of the slaves (or learn too much). He prides himself on being able to drive children mad without even touching them, though he isn't above physical abuse -- chains through the ears, knife blades under the nails or across the eyes, a device called a "flytrap" that keeps the mouth open. He castrates the boys and it's implied that the children in his possession (mostly young ones, under fourteen) are sold as sex slaves of one kind or another. When he learns one boy will be used for begging, he cuts off the boy's hands to make him more valuable, then charges the new owner for the job. The only regret he ever shows is at the loss of a profit.
* ''Literature/SharkWars'' series, by E.J. Altbacker:
** ''Battle of Riptide'' & ''Into the Abyss'': [[TheCaligula Finnivus Victor]] is the [[RoyalBrat spoiled]] leader of India Shiver, who believes that it is his birthright to conquer the Big Blue. In contrast to his more benevolent predecessor, Finnivus's reign is filled with pointless cruelties, in which he wipes out entire shivers to enslave their pups as ChildSoldiers; consumes the heads of his enemies; and [[BadBoss murders his own subordinates]] for little reason. Moving into Gray's territory, Finnivus sends his forces to wipe out every shiver there. When his first invasion fails, Finnivus angrily demands the extermination of every shiver in the Atlantic Ocean and becomes even crueler, such as sending assassins after his enemies; forcing his servant Velenka to consume poison after being accused of being a traitor; using his own sharks as target practice for himself; and torturing his former marine prime by cutting all of his appendages and [[ForcedToWatch making him helplessly witness]] the destruction of his home.
** ''Kingdom of the Deep'' through ''The Last Emprex'': [[ManipulativeBastard Hokuu]] is a vile frilled shark who sought to [[FinalSolution orchestrate the extinction of every shark]] so that his own species can reign supreme. When the Fifth Shiver's leader King Bollagan declared his intention for peace with the Big Blue, Hokuu helps Drinnok [[TheKingslayer murder him]] and his supporters to incite war against the other sharks. A master of dark kata, Hokuu uses his powers to [[VampiricDraining steal the life force of other creatures]] to make himself more powerful, which he demonstrates by wiping out every resident in Riptide territory. After assassinating Seazarein Kaleth, Hokuu massacres all of his mako minions and uses their life force to free Drinnok and his Fifth Shiver from the Underwaters, planning to restart his genocide against the Big Blue. When Drinnok expresses interest in making peace with Gray, Hokuu allies himself with Grimkahn and his prehistores to kill Drinnok and directly participates in his attacks throughout the Big Blue, ultimately planning to betray him eventually. After Gray emerges victorious, a frustrated Hokuu tries killing him personally, taunting that he'll murder his friends afterward, [[AndYourLittleDogToo saving his mother for last]].
** ''Enemy of Oceans'' & ''The Last Emprex'': [[BloodKnight Grimkahn]] is a psychotic mosasaur who leads the prehistores in Drinnok's Fifth Shiver and participated in his coup to murder King Bollagan and his supporters. Snubbed by him for promotion, Grimkahn agrees to Hokuu's plan of overthrowing him, planning to wipe out the other sharks in the Big Blue so that the prehistores can rule. After his first attack fails, Grimkahn begins [[BadBoss culling any minion that protests his rule]] and initiates attacks to exterminate whole shivers, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]]. Engaging with Gray's forces a second time, Grimkahn first tries asphyxiating them in a cave and, upon their escape, tries killing Gray himself, while sending his frilled sharks to maul his shiver sharks, innocent or otherwise.
* ''Shelter In Place'', by Creator/NoraRoberts: Patricia Jane Hobart is a vengeful psychopath bent on taking her anger out on the world in the most destructive ways she can. As a teenager, she planned a mass shooting at a mall in her home town of Rockpoint, Maine, and convinced her brother and two of his friends to carry it out, leaving over ninety people dead and hundreds injured. [[ItsAllAboutMe Offended by the attention survivors of the massacre received]], she began [[SerialKiller hunting them down and murdering them]], along with killing her own mother and grandparents simply because she didn't like them. After failing to kill shooting survivor and police officer Reed Quartermaine, she goes on the run, continuing to kill survivors in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly cruel ways]] while mailing Quartermaine locks of their hair to taunt and threaten him. While a fugitive, she abducts a reporter famous for her coverage of the mall shooting and has her record [[{{Narcissist}} a manifesto showing off Patricia's "genius"]], murdering her at the end of it [[ILied despite promising she would not]]. By the end of the novel, Patricia's spiteful narcissism has ended over a hundred lives and devastated countless more.
* ''The Shining Girls'', by Creator/LaurenBeukes: [[BigBad Harper Curtis]] is a former drifter who uncovers the time traveling House. Using it to become a SerialKiller, Harper seeks out the "shining girls", those with potential in the world, so he may murder them throughout history. Hunting down many young women, Harper gruesomely murders them, with only heroine Kirby escaping him. Curtis revels in the pain he causes, killing one woman as she begs for the sake of her children and another who dedicates her life to helping others as a social worker, even murdering his occasional lover Etta when he's bored with her. A complete nothing of a man, Curtis attempts to find fulfillment in his existence by stealing the lives of those better than him.
* ''A Shiny Can of Whup-Ass'' (from the ''After The Burn'' collection), by Ronald Kelly: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rott]], the singular most evil human to ever walk the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic hellscape of the post-Burn world]], is the most prolific SerialKiller in American history, with a legacy of indiscriminate rape, torture, and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] against potentially over 600 victims--most perpetrated whilst they were still alive. After the Burn, Rott escapes from death row and takes advantage of the chaos to rile up a gang of murderous thugs and return to his hometown of Watkins Glen to savage his way through the town. Rott savagely executes his own men one after another for things as minor as "laughing without my permission"; [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cuts apart and eats]] the entire stock of the local pet shop after coldly murdering its elderly owner; murders and cannibalizes random people across the town; and attempts to have his goons gang-rape a young woman and torture her to death for thrills. Eventually, Rott proposes he and his gang go from door-to-door and slaughter their way through town, intending to turn the church into a whorehouse and keep the women of Watkins Glen as {{sex slave}}s; and round up the children of the town with implied intention of raping and torturing the lot of them for fun. [[AntagonisticOffspring Reviled even by his own father]] and appropriately referred to as the "new Satan", Rott lives by [[TheHedonist one twisted creed]]: "If it feels right, do it. That's what I always did."
* ''[[Literature/TheGolgothaSeries The Shotgun Arcana]]'': [[BigBad Ray Zeal, the angel Raziel]], is a corrupt angel who aims to [[AGodAmI become the god of torture and murder]]. Invading Golgotha in pursuit of the skull of the first murderer, Raziel slaughters those about him, [[TheCorrupter swaying others]] to cannibalism and bloody depravity. Having many killed, including [[WouldHurtAChild children]], Raziel also has a kind schoolteacher tortured to death and intends to raze much of the world to the ground by infecting them with the HatePlague from the skull, all for an ascent to his own godhood.
* ''Shutter'', by Courtney Alameda: Luca, real name UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, is the ghost of the vampire king, Count Dracula himself. After his death in [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel]], Luca gained an undying hatred against the Helsing, Stoker, Seward and Harker families for stopping him. To this end, Luca has had female members of those families who find his mirrors killed and tortured before turning them into his vampiric brides. Murdering the brothers and mother of the heroine Micheline Helsing, he has her mother's spirit captured and tortures her until she breaks, brainwashing her into thinking that her daughter was responsible. Together the two start a torture and murder spree across the city, brutally killing dozens before turning their corpses into puppet soldiers, and even ripping the eyes out of the youngest member of the Stoker family, permanently blinding her. Luca intends to release all the various Necros monsters that the families have captured on the city, killing thousands, in order to spite the families. Near the end of the novel, he tries to force Micheline to be one of his brides before boasting how he will return to life and begin his brutal conquest of the world anew.
* ''Literature/TheSilverKiss'': The vampire [[UndeadChild Christopher]] is a centuries-old monster who resembles an innocent child. Orchestrating the death of his sire and mentor, Christopher [[{{Matricide}} murdered his own mother]] when she rejected him before turning his brother Simon. Fleeing a vengeful Simon, Christopher leaves a trail of murder and bloodshed behind him, relishing in the fear and agony of his victims. Christopher plays an innocent child to lure people into trusting him before killing them, sometimes torturing them first. Resuming his activities in America, Christopher creates a string of corpses as Simon tracks him. When Simon finally corners him with his love interest Zoe, Christopher decides to murder Zoe before he escapes, just to give his brother more pain.
* ''The Sinister Mr. Corpse'', by Jeff Strand: Richard Brant, the seemingly [[FauxAffablyEvil avuncular]] head of Project Second Chance, is in truth a cold, remorseless man solely dedicated to [[{{Greed}} profit]]. Resurrecting the unfortunate Stanley Dabernath from death to make the man a wealthy celebrity, Brant [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Stanley behind locked doors to force his compliance and cheerfully threatens to murder him should he ever stop being useful. Passing off his revival of Stanley as the act of unexplained science, Brant in reality routinely kidnaps young virgins, has their families slaughtered, and the virgin flayed and torturously bled out over a course of three days to inject their blood into Stanley. Once Stanley discovers this, Brant decides to cut his losses and stirs up a mob to cannibalize Stanley whilst watching with a manic grin on his face.
* ''The Siren and the Specter'', by Jonathan Janz: [[TheDreaded Judson Alexander]] of Lancaster, a grim giant with an interest in the occult, was evil from his [[EnfantTerrible boyhood]] when he murdered a slave just because he could. Later [[SiblingMurder killing his infant sister]], Judson grew to terrorize the town while killing and raping at will. Enslaving the souls of his concubines and regularly raping a 14-year-old set up as a "sacrifice", Judson was especially fond of turning children into monsters, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] them to steal their life force, a practice he continues as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent malevolent specter]]. Trying to turn 4-year-old Ivy Shelby into a heartless monster and massacre everyone about in his return to life, Judson views everything about him as a tool to use, corrupt, or destroy.
* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' & ''Crooked Kingdom'':
** [[AbusiveParents Jan Van Eck]] is a seemingly-respectable merchant who turns out to be an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical sociopath]] obsessed with his own glory and reputation. Callously disowning his son Wylan for his dyslexia that has made him illiterate, Van Eck divorces his wife, throws her into an asylum and tells Wylan she's dead so he can steal all her assets. When his new wife is pregnant, Van Eck tries to have Wylan murdered. After enlisting [[AntiHero Kaz Brekker]] for a job and learning Kaz has Wylan hostage, Van Eck later attempts to betray Kaz and have Wylan murdered via having his ship sunk. It turns out Van Eck is behind a scheme to cheat his fellow merchants and distribute ''[[FantasticDrug jurda parem]]'' to enslave the Grisha, or those with magic, subjecting them to addiction or death, all [[{{Greed}} as long as he profits]] from the chaos he inflicts.
** [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Heleen Van Houden, or Tante Heleen]], the cruel owner of the brothel the Menagerie, buys teenage girls from foreign nations and cruelly trains them to be SexSlave prostitutes. From Inej Ghafa's backstory, we see this involves horrific abuse, both physical and [[MindRape psychological]] with Heleen repeatedly having her whipped and beaten, even having a girl who kept some money from a client cruelly murdered in front of the other girls as a lesson. Even after being freed by Kaz, Inej is intensely scarred by her time at the Menagerie, and Heleen gleefully taunts her of it when they meet, even trying to have Inej killed later. Utterly reprehensible and dedicated to making a fortune from the sexual enslavement of countless young women, Tante Heleen is one of the worst that Ketterdam has to offer.
* ''Literature/SixRooms'', by Gemma Amor: [[ItsAllAboutMe Charles Lester III]] is a selfish, entitled [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] who believes everyone exists to serve him and his whims. Catching his valet trying on his cufflinks, Charles [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]] and then the housekeeper Anna [[LeaveNoWitnesses as a witness]]. Murdering the gardener after the latter sees him [[BuriedAlive place the still-living Anna in a tomb to suffocate]], Charles is then disturbed by the distraught scullery maid Isabelle who is pregnant from his drunken rape of her. Charles proceeds to murder her as well, finally deciding to kill his pregnant wife Rose to complete the cover up.
* ''Skeleton Man'' & ''Return of Skeleton Man'', by Joseph Bruchac: The titular [[AntagonistTitle Skeleton Man]] is a selfish, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] figure who stands out in this book series for children. Originally an organic lazy uncle, he grew to love the taste of human flesh and proceeded to [[{{Autocannibalism}} eat all the skin off his body]] until he was nothing but a skeleton; ate his brother and sister when they arrived home; and gave chase to his young niece. Years later, he kidnaps Molly's mother and father and, posing as her great-uncle, attempts to fatten Molly and eat her. When Molly uncovers his identity, he chases after her and, when dangling off a cliff, [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to take her with him]]. Returning a year later, he follows Molly and her family to the Hudson Valley, where he kidnaps Molly to once again try and eat her.
* ''Literature/SkinMedicine'', by Tim Curran: [[GunmanWithThreeNames James Lee Cobb]] distinguishes himself as a brutal killer who rapes and slaughters his way through the old West before he awakens the {{Wendigo}} by cannibalizing his own comrades. Seeking to learn the power of Spirit Medicine from the old shaman Spirit Moon, Cobb is instead sealed away, but returns and regains his strength by becoming a vicious SerialKiller of prostitutes, eventually closing in on Spirit Moon and massacring his entire tribe. Turning others into monsters like him, Cobb leads the slaughter of an entire town before taking over a second town called Deliverance where he boasts he has devoured all the souls there, intending on sweeping over the West in a flesh-eating tide of bloodshed and slaughter.
* ''The Skin Trade'': In this werewolf novella by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jonathan Harmon]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly alpha werewolf]] whose only son cannot shapeshift. Harmon attempted to awaken his transformation by [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping six children]] and forcing his son to eat their flesh. In reality, Harmon continued this because he enjoyed the hunt. When one police officer got too close, Harmon [[CopKiller tore him apart]], threatening his partner that it would be his children to die next if he did not cover it up. When the officer's daughter Randi Wade and the kind werewolf Willie Flambeaux get too close, Harmon tries to kill both and threatens to return for Randi later. Prideful, ruthless and utterly concerned for all life, werewolf or human alike, Harmon is a perfect example of [[SavageWolves the worst the lycanthropes have to offer]].
* ''{{Literature/Skinjumper}}'': Alex Snowdin, despite lacking the supernatural powers of his partner Terry, manages to stand out as the most evil man in the story. As a child, Alex accidentally killed his brother's dog, and, to avoid trouble for it, arranged to sacrifice another dog to bring his back to life. When this failed, it succeeded only in giving Alex's friend Terry the ability to jump into the bodies of others, while Alex spent his time growing up assaulting and abusing others. Once teaming back up with Terry years later, Alex immediately murders rival drug slingers before raping one's girlfriend, leading Terry to accidentally jump into the girl's body, after which Alex makes numerous attempts to rape Terry to sate his lust. After brutally murdering two more men, Alex betrays Terry, holds him and a woman at gunpoint, then boasts his plans to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a nearby child]] for fun after torturing the duo to death in an insane attempt to replicate the ritual that gave Terry his powers.
* ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series:
** First book: [[{{Sadist}} Nefarian Serpine]], a fanatical worshipper of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] and TheDragon to the warmongering sorcerer Mevolent, had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine began plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty years later after arranging for Baron Vengeous to complete his Grotesquery, Batu befriends and murders every experienced Teleporter still alive so that none of them can close his gateway. Upon revealing himself to Valkyrie in the battle with the Diablerie, Batu can only express pride and exhilaration at the destruction he has caused, offering his followers up as vessels for the dark gods under the guise of protection from their horrible wrath. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious of the power and longevity of sorcerers]], Batu is willing to destroy the world [[GodhoodSeeker in order to achieve godhood]], arrogantly thinking that he will become one with the Faceless One that possesses him.
** The Necromancer Trilogy (''Dark Days'', ''Mortal Coil'', ''Death Bringer''):
*** HighPriest Auron [[ImmortalitySeeker Tenebrae]] of the Necromancer Order wants to live forever by enacting a ritual called the Passage, where the [[DarkMessiah Death Bringer]] will kill around three billion people to block the stream of life. Recognizing Skulduggery Pleasant's aptitude for Necromancy, Tenebrae gave Serpine his signature RedRightHand and ensured, should it be used on Skulduggery, that his soul would be able to come back, subsequently leading to the emergence of [[OmnicidalManiac Lord Vile]]. In the present, Tenebrae arranges for a Remnant to possess Finbar Wrong so they can learn if Valkyrie will become the Death Bringer, apathetic to the devastation that ensues when it gets loose. After capturing Skulduggery and Valkyrie, Tenebrae proceeds to reveal his part in Vile's creation, taking sadistic pleasure in finally unveiling the truth of his origins.
*** Cleric Vandameer [[DirtyCoward Craven]] initially seems to be nothing more than a sycophantic supporter of Tenebrae, but quickly proves to be far worse. [[PlayingWithSyringes Horrifically experimenting]] on Melancholia St Clair, Craven unveils her as the Death Bringer and quickly begins abusing the power that comes with his newfound acclaim. Taking over the Order after Melancholia kills Tenebrae, Craven continues the attempts to initiate the Passage and sacrifices his loyal followers to evade capture, eventually [[DemotedToDragon becoming a lackey]] to the [[SanitySlippage now insane]] Melancholia in the dubious hope he'll be spared when she [[OmnicidalManiac kills everyone]]. A self-serving coward concerned only with preserving his own life, Craven abandons even Tenebrae's flimsy pretense of saving the world in his spinelessness.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]] toward Argeddion's dream of spreading magic to all.
** ''Armageddon Outta Here'':
*** "Friday Night Fights": [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters The Promoter]] runs weekly [[GladiatorGames death matches]] between magical creatures for the amusement of mortals. With sapient vampires as his most noteworthy attractions, the Promoter forces them to fight only half-turned into their monstrous forms, a state shown to induce incredible pain. The Promoter also feeds them live humans before every match so they're at their strongest. When his champion Caelan refuses to eat Valkyrie, the Promoter pits Caelan against a stronger vampire, knowing it's taboo for them to kill their own kind, and throws Valkyrie into the middle of the match between the two ferocious monsters. Having held these fights for years and [[VanHelsingHateCrimes expressing a desire to rid the world of these "parasites"]], the Promoter proves that humans can be far worse than any sorcerer or vampire.
*** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions.
** ''Seasons of War'': The Leibniz universe's [[AlternateSelf version]] of [[BloodKnight Lord Vile]] proves to be far viler than his counterpart. Serving as the feared [[TheDragon Dragon]] to his world's Mevolent, Vile massacres scores of resistance fighters, including his former best friend Ghastly Bespoke. Retaking his former title of Death Bringer, Vile uses his immense power to create a specialized breed of draugr that can spread their condition to others, [[ZombieApocalypse quickly decimating the world]]. As Mevolent prepares to invade another reality, Vile betrays him, siccing his forces on one of the last remaining cities in his universe. Fittingly obsessed with death for one who holds his title, Vile intends to hijack Mevolent's plan and continue his destruction in the other world, continuing the process until [[OmnicidalManiac everyone in every universe is dead]].
* ''Literature/SlasherbackSeries'', by Brian G. Berry:
** ''The Sleepover Massacre'': [[DepravedDentist Anthony "the Mad Dentist" Ulrich]] is a SerialKiller with a penchant for mangling his victims' teeth. Before the story, Ulrich murdered his wife and her lover after he caught her having an affair; he enjoyed killing her and breaking her teeth so much that he became a dentist and started targeting [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. After murdering 15 third graders and being locked in a mental institution for years, Ulrich escaped and targeted more civilians. Refusing to be caught again, Ulrich kills a dozen innocents, including a [[CopKiller police officer]] and a young boy, before attempting to murder [[FinalGirl Jessica Sadie]] and her brother.
** ''Thanksgiving Day Massacre'': "[[GreaterScopeVillain The Father]]" is the patriarch of his cannibalistic surrogate family and the man responsible for corrupting [[BigBad Travis]] and turning him into a SerialKiller. As part of a sadistic tradition, the Father [[FamilyExtermination would slaughter a young child's entire family]] on Thanksgiving, force the child to eat their remains, and then recruit them to be part of his family. As they aged, the Father twisted their minds and broke them, turning them into cannibalistic killers and making them participate in the same tradition. When the Father comes across 5-year-old Travis, he and his minions massacre Travis's whole family before [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]] as his mother is raped and murdered; Travis is later converted to become part of the Father's family. Even after the Father dies, Travis and the remnants of the Father's family carry on with executing more massacres.
* ''Slasher Girls & Monster Boys'': In "A Girl Who Dreamed of Snow", by [=McCormick=] Templeman, after a plague which kills most young girls and women hits their land, [[BigBrotherBully Sain]] and his brothers kidnap women in order to give the residents wives in order to keep the population alive. In truth, Sain cares nothing for his land and is simply using this as excuse to fulfill his {{sadist}}ic fantasies by secretly [[SerialKiller butchering the woman]] they capture. Sain bullies his kindlier brother Mowich and forces him into this. After discovering the young shaman girl Nara, Sain plans to kill her for fun despite knowing her death will mean the plague will continue, as she is the only one who can stop it. Sain is willing to doom his entire people to genocide, including his little sister, just to satisfy his love of hurting others.
* ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' ([[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault01.html link]]): The [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogress Queen Mother]] is left to look after her daughter-in-law and grandchildren when her son, the prince, is called away to war. [[ForTheEvulz For no apparent reason]], she decides to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize them]], starting with her [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old granddaughter]], Dawn, ordering her chief steward to kill and cook her. The Steward hides Dawn away and kills and cooks an animal instead, repeating the process with the three-year-old grandson, Day, and the princess. When [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the queen]] realizes the trick, she gathers the princess and her children along with the steward and his wife and servant girl, deciding to drop all six into a vat full of snakes and poisonous toads.
* ''[[Literature/MissMarple Sleeping Murder]]'': Dr. James Kennedy, obsessed with his half-sister Helen, was furious when she opted to marry the father of young Gwenda Reed, and eventually murdered her, which a young Gwenda saw. Covering his crime by murdering Gwenda's nanny and drugging Gwenda's father, Kennedy framed him for murder, {{gaslighting}} him and hiding the body as to make him appear insane and have him sent to an asylum where he died. In the present, Kennedy murders the former maid when he fears she will implicate him and tries to poison Gwenda's household as well. Finally uncovered, he attempts to throttle Gwenda before Miss Marple herself intervenes.
* ''The Slob'', by Aron Beauregard: [[SerialKiller The Slob]] is a [[FatBastard corpulent]], [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] killer secretly working for an [[OrganTheft organ harvesting]] ring. Per the request of his employers, the Slob would kidnap women and then chop up their bodies in a meat grinder, selling their remains for others to consume. While held captive, the Slob would repeatedly torture and [[SerialRapist rape]] his victims, and even go as far as forcing them to eat human flesh. When heroine Vera Harlow arrives on his farm to sell him a vacuum cleaner, the Slob lures her into his home before beating her and locking her inside his bedroom. He later abuses Vera's stomach so she'll miscarry and force-feeds her human remains. After Vera botches an attempt to escape from the Slob, the Slob punishes her by locking her inside his barn with several of his other victims and raping her on a daily basis.
* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': [[CreepyGymCoach Isabelo Gorospe]] is the vile figure who drove [[SerialKiller Alex Carlos]] to his murder spree. A gym teacher and [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]], Isabelo lured impoverished boys by offering them scholarships, before forcing himself on them. Calling 8 boys in the gym after school, Isabelo would rape them and force them to do sexual acts together for a school year, with Alex, as his "favorite boy", the prime target of his worst acts; all this while always reminding them of how helpless they are to his authority, later [[ILied rescinding the scholarships regardless]].
* ''Literature/SmallTownMonsters'', by Diana Rodriguez Wallach: The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] known as the "Angel of Tears" once ran a {{cult}} that practiced HumanSacrifice. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed off]] by the parents of Vera Martinez, the Angel later returns by forcing a man to cause an explosion that kills 17 people, and later [[DemonicPossession possesses a woman]] while rebuilding its cult. Causing numerous deaths and destruction, the Angel of Tears plans a mass suicide of its followers to enhance its power and sweep over the world to repeat it again.
* ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' novella, by Matt Yeo: [[SmarmyHost Jasper Powell]] is the host of--and the brains behind--the gameshow ''[[BloodSport SMASH TV]]'', the [[ImmoralRealityShow most popular television show in the world]], where contestants have a chance to win untold riches...if they manage to survive, which nobody has so far. In truth, Jasper, the final obstacle faced by contestants, is an enormous mutant, the failed attempt by the military to create SuperSoldiers. Jasper had the idea to start a [[DeadlyGame gameshow]] to test experimental weapons on people, claiming ""Who's going to miss a few gung-ho macho idiots? It's certainly cheaper than waiting for a war to happen!" In addition, besides owning the studio, Jasper also runs most of the gambling in the city, which is what caused one of the contestants to become a contestant.
* ''SNAFU'' anthology series (by publication date):
** ''Survival of the Fittest'''s "Sucker of Souls", by Kirsten Cross: Vlad {{Dracula}} himself is a terrifying, monstrous vampire who, when awakened from his prison, promptly slaughters a young research assistant and tries to kill the rest of the group he arrived with. In the past, Dracula massacred and {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} countless innocents, feasted upon [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and stores the souls of his victims in the cave to [[AndIMustScream suffer forever]] as long as he lives. Plotting on killing or turning the rest of the group in the caverns, Dracula intends on raising a new army and running rampant through the world.
** ''Unnatural Selection'''s "Vermin", by Richard Lee Byers: [[EvilSorcerer Ibrahim]] is a [[SinisterMinister wicked Imam]] who takes advantage of a siege occurring between the Franks and Turks over a city to unleash [[ScaryScorpions monstrous scorpions]]. Committing HumanSacrifice to create these monsters, he unleashes them on the Franks before revealing to his employer that he intends to use the victory here to transform his entire religion into worship of his master, an [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Old One]] who would grant Ibrahim great power. Upon being caught, Ibrahim tries to massacre the entire city with every man, women and child in it out of spite.
* ''Literature/SnowGlassApples'': "Literature/SnowWhite" is the unnamed, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] princess who is opposed by the supposedly "wicked" stepmother. Showing her inhuman nature by feeding on her new stepmother's blood, Snow begins [[AntagonisticOffspring draining her own father]] over years, sexually and physically abusing him until [[{{Patricide}} he dies a wasted skeleton of a man]]. When the new queen attempts to have Snow killed, Snow enslaves the dwarves in the forest and begins hunting travelers, killing many for their blood. While being temporarily defeated by a poison apple, Snow returns later to usurp control of the kingdom from her stepmother, having the queen cooked alive as the main course at Snow's wedding, free to [[AdaptationalVillainy terrorize the kingdom]] how she desires.
* ''Literature/TheSnuffNetwork'': [[BigBad Andy "Mr. Snuff" Wu]] is the leader of a BlackMarket organization specializing in HumanTrafficking and creating {{snuff film}}s. With billions of dollars and dozens of thugs at his disposal, Wu has thousands of men, women, and children around the world kidnapped and either raped or tortured to death to appease his clientele. When his business becomes under attack by two vigilantes seeking vengeance against him, Wu tries to have them murdered, not caring how many of his men he must sacrifice and [[YouHaveFailedMe punishing those who fail him]] by having them tortured or killed as well. After Bradley Anderson, one of his most loyal filmmakers, [[EvenEvilHasStandards tries to retire]] and refuses to kill three teenage witnesses who could incriminate Wu, Wu responds by having Bradley's wife and child murdered [[ForcedToWatch in front of him]]. As Bradley and the vigilantes start destroying Wu's enterprise in Tokyo, Wu continues sending more of his men to try and kill them, regardless of the collateral damage. Even when Wu is finally cornered and moments away from death, all he can do is smugly announce that other members of his family will continue his legacy and keep his business running.
* ''Literature/{{Sold}}'': [[BigBad Mumtaz]] is the repulsive madam in charge of the brothel known as the Happiness House. Ruling her brothel through fear and intimidation, Mumtaz has grown rich by forcing her [[WouldHurtAChild child prostitutes]] to lay with her customers, and traps them in a never-ending cycle of debt so they can never leave. When the thirteen-year-old Lakshmi refuses to service a customer, Mumtaz starves and beats her for days on end before losing her patience and drugging her into complying. When one of her older prostitutes named Pushpa grows too sick to work, Mumtaz doesn't care in the slightest and forces her to continue servicing customers on threat of throwing her and her children out on the street, a threat she eventually makes good on. When Mumtaz really wants to punish someone, she "will smear chilies on a stick and put it [[GroinAttack inside the girl]]". Motivated solely by {{greed}}, Mumtaz embodies every rotten aspect of the horror that is sex trafficking.
* ''Soldiers of Literature/{{Earthrise}}'':
** [[SinisterMinister The Red Cardinal]], also known as Clement Taylor, is the tyrannical ruler of North Bahay. After being excommunicated from his church in America, the Red Cardinal formed his own sect with Filipinos and headed into outer space to escape the Americans. Once the Red Cardinal found the planet Bahay, he banished two-thirds of his followers into the ocean for not abiding to his laws. As decades went by, the Red Cardinal eliminated anyone who wasn't Bahayan, along with any Bahayans who refused to conform with his ideals. During the Earthling/Bahayan war, the Red Cardinal and his armies slaughtered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and prisoners of war; he later bombed the city on Mindao, murdering countless South Bahayan civilians for allying with the Earthlings. After donning the new moniker "Papa Dominus," he used his guerilla fighters known as the Crimson Claws to force Bahayans into intergalactic prostitution and drug dealing, while Papa Dominus built hundreds of [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] where his enemies were beaten, raped, starved, or murdered on a daily basis for multiple years. When hero Jon Taylor, his heir, refuses to join him even after being threatened to, Papa Dominus convinces Jon to confront him one final time by threatening to murder [[LoveInterest Maria]] and their [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old daughter Lily]] instead.
** [[PresidentEvil President Henry "Hank" Hale]] is the Earthling leader longing to [[FinalSolution exterminate the Bahayans and Santelmos]]. As President, Hale used his resources to [[PropagandaMachine spread anti-Bahayan propaganda]] across Earth and had all civilians drafted as soon as they turned eighteen. With General Ward as his primary contact, Hale was able to sanction countless bombings and attacks across Bahay, leading to the deaths of millions. When protestors against Hale's presidency began to interfere with his plans, he repeatedly sent the police to attack the protestors, not caring about the collateral damage that ensued. After killing Lizzy Pascal, the protestors' ringleader, he sent the police after the protestors again, indirectly causing a massacre that got over three hundred civilians killed. Even after the truth about the war is exposed to the public and his presidency is ruined, he sends an assassin to try and kill Kaelyn Williams and Etty Ettinger out of petty spite.
** [[GeneralRipper General Charles "Chuck" Ward]] is the leader of the Earthling army on Bahay. Eager to [[FinalSolution eradicate all of the Bahayans]], Ward uses his soldiers to commit genocidal crimes, such as routinely bombing villages; occupying South Bahay and forcing a portion of the population to be slaves; gassing Bahay with poison that causes deformities and monstrous transformations; and slaughtering over three million Bahayans. Ward also has his own soldiers subjected to weeks of [[TrainingFromHell savage, abusive training]], not caring when hundreds of thousands of his soldiers are killed during the conflict. When Maria tries to get Ward to confess to his crimes over a recording device, he destroys the device before admitting that he's killing Bahayans solely to [[WarForFunAndProfit profit from the war]], and later [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her]].
* ''Literature/SolomonKane'':
** "[[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Shadows Red Shadows]]": The vicious bandit [[EvilCounterpart Le Loup]] ("The Wolf") is a scourge on the French countryside where he [[RapePillageAndBurn rapes and murders]] at will. Attracting the attention of Solomon Kane when he slaughters an entire village and keeps the women to gang-rape before killing them as well, Le Loup pursues one wounded girl, catching and raping her before leaving her for dead when Kane finds her. [[DirtyCoward Sacrificing his men to Kane when he needed to escape]], Le Loup flees to Africa where he allies with a ruthless chieftain named Songa and assists him in oppressing his own people, complete with blood sacrifices, before attempting to have Kane killed at last.
** "[[https://biblio.wiki/wiki/The_Moon_of_Skulls The Moon of Skulls]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Nakari]], "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Vampire Queen of Negari]]", is the worst member of "a people with whom blood is cheaper than water." A tyrannical, wantonly violent DarkMessiah whose ultimate goal is to conquer the entire world, Nakari [[TheUsurper overthrew the legitimate ruler]] and made herself Queen, before torturing or killing the priests, leaving her the only one who knew how to perform the ceremonies, thus assuring her dominion. Nakari turned their already-brutal religion into one where they [[ReligionOfEvil only worshiped the god of death]], with Nakari personally [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing a kidnapped virgin]] each full moon. During her reign she became [[TheDreaded known and feared]] throughout much of Africa for her cruelty, regularly sending her warriors to raid and attack the nearby tribes. Nakari [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first appears]] having one of her loyal followers brutally executed simply for [[BadBoss following her orders]] to kill anyone who arrives in her domain without any tributes, taking obvious pleasure out of watching the man die. Such executions occur so often that the floor of her throne room is covered with bloodstains. Nakari also enjoys horribly abusing her slave Marylin Taferal, having her hung by her arms naked then whipped until unconsciousness for even the slightest disobedience, all the while waiting until Marylin is old enough to be sacrificed.
* ''Literature/SomethingDarkAndHoly'' trilogy:
** [[TheChessmaster Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. Concocting a series of events to revive himself, Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage [[{{Sadist}} for his pleasure]]. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
** ''Wicked Saints'': [[EvilOverlord King Izak Meleski]], Serefin's [[ArchnemesisDad father]], is the tyrannical leader of Tranavia. Izak despises the idea that his people view him as weak and ineffectual, and now plans to prove them wrong by [[GodhoodSeeker achieving godhood]]. To this end, Izak has thousands of his own citizens [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]] and killed for the ritual to achieve divinity. Izak is also cruel to the enemy nation of Kalyazin, which he's fighting in a war, sending countless prisoners to be worked to death as slaves in the salt mines. Izak despises his son, Serefin, to such a degree that he plans to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]] as his final act to achieve godhood itself.
* ''Literature/SomethingWickedThisWayComes'': [[DarkIsEvil Mr. G.M. Dark]], lord of the [[EmotionEater Autumn People]] and [[RepulsiveRingmaster master]] of the [[CircusOfFear carnival]], is a devilish figure who tempts his victims into ruin and damnation. Sweeping from town to town, Dark makes [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] with those he encounters, but cruelly exploits them to destroy the victims' lives and force them into the carnival where he and the rest of the Autumn People feast upon their life force, Dark filled with the victims he tattoos upon himself as trophies. Seeking to cause pain and discord wherever he goes, Dark intends to force Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade to his carnival in his never-ending quest to glut himself upon agony and nightmare.
* ''The Sorrows'' & ''Castle of Sorrows'', by Jonathan Janz:
** [[BigBad Gabriel Blackwood]], first appearing as an innocent boy adopted by the Blackwoods in the Sorrows, is in truth the [[JerkassGods sadistic god Pan]]. After having slaughtered most everyone in the region, Gabriel waits until the arrival of others at the Sorrows. Seducing the women there, Claire and Eva, Gabriel sleeps with both of them before [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violently raping Eva]] and mutilating her. Torturing and killing everything in the castle he can get his claws on, Gabriel later has his daughter with Claire returned to him and proceeds to massacre everyone who comes to the island, using their sins and guilt to torture them further when he can. Even taking control of one woman to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the baby]], Gabriel ends the sequel [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Ben's father-in-law--Claire's father--to murder Ben's family out of spite at being thwarted.
** [[AxCrazy Ray Rubio]] is a two-bit thug unconnected to Gabriel or any of his machinations who manages to match the HumanoidAbomination in savage evil. A gangster on the payroll of Marvin Irvin, Ray Rubio is a SerialKiller, a SerialRapist, and a torturer who introduces himself in the second book working at an unfortunate man with a mandolin slicer. Ray proceeds to slaughter numerous other people as he goes on, in one case raping and murdering an unfortunate [[JoggersFindDeath jogger after she witnesses him]] offing a pair of FBI agents, and even after being trapped in the castle within the bowels of the Sorrows, all Rubio can think about is his intent to rape and kill everyone he comes across.
** ''Castle of Sorrows'' only: [[KillerCop Troy Castillo]] was a rapist through his [[TeensAreMonsters teen years]] who gained a love of killing after beating a prostitute to death to sate his own ego. Becoming an FBI agent to mask his [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[SerialKiller killings]], Castillo [[FamilyExtermination murdered an entire family]] by first executing the father, then gang-raping the mother and daughter with his goons. Upon arriving at the Sorrows, Castillo arranges for the deaths of several of his compatriots, and ultimately plans to rape his partner Jessie then hand her off to be tortured to death.
* ''Soultaker'', by Bryan Smith: [[SnakePeople Lamia]] is a an [[AncientEvil ancient demon goddess]] who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps her life]] by [[SoulEating devouring the souls]] of her hosts, often young and attractive women. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting others]] into depravity, Lamia regularly tortures, dominates and murders those under her control while setting up the Harvest where she has dozens of followers slaughtered to feed on their lives and send their souls to eternal torture.
* ''The Sound of his Horn'', by Sarban: In a [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory twisted dystopian future]] where the Nazis won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, [[NaziNobleman Count Hans von Hackelnberg]] is the Reich's Master Forester and a cruel sadist who reigns over a vast forest. Obsessed with hunting, von Hackelnberg has women released in bird costumes to be captured, raped and abused by his guests, while having other women turned into [[HalfHumanHybrid feral crosses between leopard and human]]. Others are released onto his hunting grounds so von Hackelnberg can [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt them down]] personally for sport, which he relishes in, calling out his victories on his hunting horn.
* ''Literature/TheSouthernBookClubsGuideToSlayingVampires'': [[ChildEater James Harris]] is a [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon handsome]], seductive [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] who uses a real estate scheme to charm communities while molesting and feeding off their children, warping their minds and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide driving them to painful suicide]] before leaving the population economically devastated. When forced to stop feeding on a child by heroine Patricia Campbell, Harris covers his tracks by killing her mother-in-law by having her attacked and eaten by rats when she recognizes him, and convinces Patricia's husband she's mentally unwell. Resuming her investigation of him, it becomes apparent Harris has remained alive for four hundred years by feeding, keeping [[CreepySouvenir trophies]] from the children he kills, and later reveals he's been feeding off and grooming Patricia's daughter, and also grooming Patricia's son. Even while dying, Harris goes out a spiteful monster, raping Patricia's best friend and infecting her with a deadly immunodisease, which painfully kills said friend.
* "[[Literature/TheElenium Sparhawk Universe]]":
** ''The Elenium'' trilogy: [[GodOfEvil Azash]] is a horrible, sadistic EldritchAbomination who manipulates his followers into performing rituals that involve HumanSacrifice, torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, engaging in sexual perversions until they collapse dead from exhaustion, and the like. He plots to extend his worship over the continent, and to that end backs a conspiracy to poison the Queen of Elenia, tries to subvert the Elene Church by placing one of his agents on the throne, has a mercenary army under Martel destroy much of the Holy City of Chyrellos, and uses The Seeker, a child-eating insectoid freak, as his MouthOfSauron. He uses his final moments to kill other subordinates, just because [[YouHaveFailedMe they failed him]].
** ''The Tamuli'' sequel trilogy: [[TheChessmaster Zalasta]], [[EvilFormerFriend Sephrenia's childhood friend]], is revealed to be an EvilSorcerer and traitor ''par excellence''. Having arranged for the massacre of his and Sephrenia's hometown when they were children--resulting in the slaughter of his own family--Zalasta went onto become Styricum's most powerful magician and an integral, behind-the-scenes player in Azash's scheme to conquer the world. Years later, he joins forces with [[GodOfEvil Cyrgon]] to instigate revolution in the Tamul Empire, and persuades the Elene peasantry to commit genocide against the Styrics-—his own people—-in order to harm Sephrenia's goddess, Aphrael. Eventually betraying Cyrgon in order to serve [[UltimateEvil Klæl]], Zalasta is responsible for not only tens of thousands of deaths, but for endangering the very existence of the world; when everything falls apart, he makes two final attempts on the lives of Sephrenia and her lover Vanion. Driven by lust for Sephrenia, and loathing of Aphrael, Zalasta is guilty of every crime from high treason to "consorting with ye powers of darkness," and is content to damn the entire world, so long as he gains possession of the woman he wants.
* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'': [[JerkJock Andy]] [[HandsomeLech Evans]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters senior at Merryweather High School]] who has a reputation for sleeping around. Upon meeting a drunken Melinda Sordino at an end of the summer party, he rapes her; this results in a spiral of events which culminate in Melinda becoming traumatized to the point of nearly becoming mute. Since then, Andy made a habit out of [[MindRape psychologically tormenting Melinda]] out of sadism. Fearing that Rachel might become his next victim, Melinda attempted to warn her about Andy's true intentions, but she doesn't believe her. It's also revealed that Andy had a [[SerialRapist prolific history of sexually assaulting female students]]; this is shown by the multiple entries that were written on the wall in the restroom. Enraged that Melinda had ruined his reputation, Andy confronts her in the janitor's closet, and he attempts to rape her again out of spite. [[ItsAllAboutMe Egotistical]] and sadistic, Evans would stop at nothing to get what he wants.
* ''Literature/{{Spellfall}}'': [[BigBad Hawk]] may not be responsible for that many deaths, but compensates for this with sheer ruthlessness. Some of his actions include: [[DrivenToSuicide driving his wife to suicide]] by killing her bonded animal, forcefully "bonding" with other Wizards which means placing them under MindControl, threatening to both of those to his son, forcing the wizards under his control to commit atrocities, including kidnapping other victims for "bonding" one of these is the heroine, a 12 year old girl, forcing them to kill the heroine's mother, intending to "bond" with the heroine, gleefully exclaiming that, after that, she "won't be so shy", after she demands privacy for changing clothes, intending to slaughter the Tree of OQ, possibly killing hundreds of wizards, making their ancestors--including the heroine's mother--DeaderThanDead and depriving the survivors of their home and living, just so he can get some mana, casually leaving a {{Muggle|s}}--the heroine's stepbrother--to his death, and when his plan fails, he tries to kill the heroine, along with his son.
* ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'': [[OurOgresAreHungrier Mulgarath]] is an arrogant, cunning Ogre who was [[BigBad directly or indirectly responsible]] for nearly all problems that befell the Spiderwick and Grace families. Desiring Arthur Spiderwick's field guide to conquer mankind and the other fairies, Mulgarath had Arthur's daughter, Lucinda Spiderwick, kidnapped, then tortured and later crippled when she couldn't give it to him. In preparation for his plans, Mulgarath built himself an army held together by intimidation, including press-ganged goblins; acquired several dragons; and [[ManipulativeBastard played on the dwarves' love of metal and craftsmanship]] to convince them to build weapons for his army and to swear their eternal allegiance to him. Mulgarath [[UngratefulBastard rewarded this service]] by massacring all the dwarves [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the moment they gave him the weapons]]. Upon learning that Jared Grace had found the guide, Mulgarath turned his attention upon the Grace siblings, happy to kidnap and kill the children to gain the guide, his plots climaxing in him destroying their family home and kidnapping their mother. Ambitious and vain as he was, Mulgarath was also a sadistic beast, as inside his palace the Grace siblings found multiple fairies he had [[CruelAndUnusualDeath imprisoned in honey and left to struggle futilely as they slowly drowned]].
* Literature/SplatterWestern books:
** ''The Magpie Coffin'', by Wile E. Young (Book 1): [[SociopathicSoldier Sgt. Earnest Craft]], one of the American soldiers that Salem Covington seeks vengeance upon for the bloody murder of his Comanche mentor, is a {{sadist}} and a [[SerialRapist rapist]] with a secret cave he stashes his victims in. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] who justifies his cruelty to others as the right of a white man in a white man's world, Craft [[TortureTechnician tortures dozens to death]], even little children and the elderly, while keeping their mangled or still-living bodies in his personal torture cave. Among Craft's victims include his own insane, sadomasochistic mother.
** ''The Thirteenth Koyote'', by Kristopher Triana (Book 8):
*** [[BigBad Glenn "The Dreadful" Amarok]] is one of the last [[SavageWolves Koyotes]] left. Having betrayed and murders his parents as a boy, Glenn spent his youth on a plantation murdering, torturing, and raping slaves before he became a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfen]] under Jasper Thurston. Leading a charge of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rape and slaughter]] across the West, Glenn seeks his mentor's heart to empower himself with a host of new atrocities. Murdering the family of heroine Delia, Glenn has her baby brother [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cooked alive]], before having entire towns massacred. Participating in greater and greater acts of evil, Glenn intends to tear open the gates to hell and let demonkind overrun humanity so he may indulge every sadistic whim that comes to him.
*** [[WouldHurtAChild Hiram Zeindler]], Glenn's right-hand, is a sadistic Wolfen and vicious pedophile who refers to his victims as his "delights". Hiram enjoys [[FakeUltimateHero giving his victims hope]], coming in to "save" them before raping, torturing and mutilating them. One luckless boy is rendered a crippled, eyeless husk when Hiram is done, Hiram [[CruelMercy leaving him alive for pure sadism]]. Upon attacking a homestead, Hiram rapes, murders, and [[ChildEater partially devours a young boy alive]], [[MockingTheMourner mocking his father]] later for the boy calling for him as he died. Helping Glenn unlock the gates to hell, Hiram intends to form a harem of the world's children so they may perpetually beg for his favor by allowing him to molest them at will.
*** [[TheCorrupter Jasper Thurston]], the founder of the Koyotes, is known as the blackest soul to ever walk the earth. Recruiting and corrupting his soldiers, Thurston led them to [[RapePillageAndBurn horrific massacres]], killing and raping innocents all over the West while happily burning others alive in torches to indulge his and the others' whims. Caring nothing for his own, Jasper simply revives one as a brain-dead zombie upon death. Jasper locates the [[ArtifactOfDoom dark artifact]], the Menhir, and to fill it with evil, he plans to [[BurnTheOrphanage burn down an entire orphanage]] with the children inside, an act so repugnant it finally inspires one of his own, Luther Byrne, [[EvenEvilHasStandards to stand against him]]. Jasper tries to kill him without any regret, intending on opening hell itself to destroy the world at the end.
** ''Human-Shaped Fiends'', by Chandler Morrison (Book 11): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain David Brown]] is a vile racist and sexual sadist who prides himself on his reputation of being an Indian killer. Brown has [[SerialKiller killed dozens of people]], [[CreepySouvenir whose ears he keeps as trophies]], and is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] brutally torturing and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] a hooker half to death for no other reason than spite towards the local sheriff asking Brown to go easy on her. Later kicking up his gang and the local town into a frenzy, Brown kills a harmless Indian pleading for peace before shooting his own employer and imploring his men to kill and rape their way through town.
** ''The Devoured and The Dead'', by Kristopher Rufty (Book 12): Lassiter is a scarred bandit who comes upon the lost gold rush party after the adults are infected with the curse of the {{Wendigo}}. Lassiter is revealed to have murdered the hero William Coburn's [[YouKilledMyFather father]]; executes their Native guide Ahote; and proceeds to try to take the women and girls as {{sex slave}}s, having become obsessed with William's sister Lenora. Upon learning of the Wendigo curse, Lassiter simply tries to [[ImAHumanitarian feed the children]] to their own parents and takes Lenora, later interrupted by William in the process of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]].
* ''A Splendid Chaos'' by John Shirley: [[BigBad Harmon Fiskle]] was an arrogant professor who [[TheSocialDarwinist preached Social Darwinism]] on Earth. When mutated by "The Current" on the alien world of Fool's Hope, he names himself Emperor Harmony and uses the mutants to brutally subjugate the humans there, killing many of them in the process. Torturing and murdering those who do not accept his rule, Harmony proceeds to [[HumanResources decorate his new throne room with hanged bodies]], having a resistance leader raped and throws her into a cage that slowly impales her while her lover is made to lay underneath the cage so the blood falls all over her. Harmony reveals his intent to [[ImAHumanitarian harvest portions of humanity for food]], enslaving the minds of most of the rest and is seen entertaining himself by having people randomly thrown through a device that can launch them anywhere, finding it amusing when they teleport hundreds of feet into the air or become fused with nearby stone. Intending to exterminate all alien races on Fool's Hope, Harmony shows the utter depravity [[TheUnfettered an unfettered]] ego can achieve.
* ''Stalking Jack the Ripper'' series, by Kerri Maniscalco: [[SerialKiller H.H. Holmes]] himself is a monstrous killer who constructed a [[HellHotel murder hotel]] so he could murder and torture innocents at his leisure, racking up a body count in the triple digits. Later becoming UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, letting a patsy die and take the blame for it. Continuing a murder spree in multiple areas, Holmes tries to [[TheCorrupter corrupt the heroine]] into being a murderer like him, gloating that [[CardCarryingVillain he fully embraces his inner darkness and the devil within]].
* ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'': Joseph Grey Veil deliberately took advantage of Terran xenophobia to get anti-alien laws passed. He also endeavored to pass anti-cloning laws solely for his own gain. His intent was to do whatever he wanted to innocent clones. Veil engages in a series of rapes with as many clones as he can, and deliberately infects them with syphilis just so he can see the results of the disease on the DesignerBabies he fathers.
* ''Literature/TheStarOfTheGuardians'': Abdiel is the leader of the Order of the Black Lightning, a rogue faction of [[MindRape mind-rapists]]. He uses his abilities to build an army of mindless followers by promising them exquisite pleasures, but actually uses his followers as toys to torment [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]]. Abdiel is revealed to have orchestrated the old revolution against the monarchy, murdering the whole royal family to seize power before his gamble was exposed and his Order destroyed. In revenge, he proceeds to hunt down and wipe out every member of the Blood Royal genetic line. Later, he tries to sell a doomsday device that could destroy all life to a rival empire for profit. When his enemies finally put him down for good, he ensures that his final blow will drive his slayer Maigrey insane, forcing her soulmate Sagan to [[MercyKill kill her to spare her the pain]].
* ''Literature/StarQuest'', by Andrew Dixon: [[BigBad Lord Glaxx]] was [[FromNobodyToNightmare once a simple alien playwright]] on Planet Bliss who was blacklisted for charging admission to shows that were intended to be free, a serious crime in his species' culture. Swearing revenge, Glaxx departed for deep space, then returned years later as a [[SpacePirate pirate king]] armed with a laser weapon that drains heat from stars. Glaxx thus plans to [[DisproportionateRetribution avenge the slight]] against him by sucking the life from Bliss' star, condemning all life on it to slowly freeze to death.
* ''Literature/Station16'', by Hermann & Yves Huppen: [[MadScientist Professor Tretiakov]] is a sadistic Russian scientist who sought to create the ultimate SuperSoldier to serve the Soviet Union. Based in Novaya Zemlya, Tretiakov conducted [[PlayingWithSyringes horrid human experiments]], cutting out the sensory organs of his patients without anesthesia and confining them to [[DrivenToMadness the point of insanity]]. To test their endurance, Tretiakov strips them outside in the cold, with many perishing from hypothermia. When Grigory and a squadron of soldiers accidentally enter his base, Tretiakov captures them to experiment on. Escaping through a time rift into the modern day, Tretiakov is revealed to be working as an asylum doctor, conducting his same experiments there and intending to make Grigory his next test subject.
* ''Literature/StayingFatForSarahByrnes'': [[ArchnemesisDad Virgil Byrnes]], the father of the book's title character, is a monstrous abuser who constantly beat his [[DomesticAbuse wife]] and [[AbusiveParents child]], attempting to drown the former in the kitchen sink during the one night she fought back. When 3-year-old Sarah walked in, Virgil pressed his little daughter's face onto the top of a red-hot stovetop and held it there until she was disfigured forever. Virgil [[KickTheDog refuses to let Sarah have her face medically reconstructed]], promises her he'll "burn the rest of her" should she ever tell anyone else what happened, and tries to make good on his promise at the end of the story while violently stabbing Sarah's high school friend. The only reason Virgil does what he does is simple; [[{{sadist}} it's his nature]].
* Literature/StephaniePlum series: [[KingpinInHisGym Benito Ramirez]] is a violent boxer who absolutely loves to [[WouldHitAGirl torture, rape, and mutilate women]] both because he can, and because he likes to make a point that he's so powerful that he can do whatever he wants, to whomever he wants, whenever he wants. In the first book, ''One For The Money'', he stalks Stephanie, even, at one point, calling her in the middle of the night and leaving a taunting voicemail that's being recorded as he assaults a pleading, screaming woman. Later, he rapes and brutalizes Lula, a prostitute whom Stephanie had spoken to about Ramirez earlier that day, and leaves her bloody, unconscious, naked body tied up on Stephanie's balcony. In the fifth book, ''High Five'', he goes on parole claiming to having reformed, only to resume stalking Stephanie and trying to break into her apartment.
* ''Stinger'' by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: The titular "[[PsychoForHire Stinger]]" is an alien BountyHunter in service to the House of Fists who [[ReligionOfEvil follow a twisted creed that anything that isn't one of them should die]]. Chasing a freedom fighter to Earth, Stinger lands in the town of Inferno and entraps it in a force field, while he kills humans he encounters to learn more about them and [[HumanResources recycle their biological material]] into his personal drones. Stinger tells the people to surrender his quarry or he will annihilate the town, and when he captures several humans, Stinger decides he has a better idea: to take them back to the House of Fists so the House will bring their wrath on Earth. Stinger constantly shows he is alien only in appearance: his true nature is a scheming, amoral sociopath willing to facilitate genocide for a [[{{Greed}} quick payday]].
* Literature/StonesOfPower (Sipstrassi) series:
** ''Lion of Macedon'' & ''Dark Prince'': The Demon God Kadmilos manipulates events so he may possess the body of the young future-king Alexander. Trapped in Alexander's body, Kadmilos's influence traumatizes the boy by causing his touch to kill people and creatures around him. As Alexander grows, Kadmilos's influence steadily becomes stronger: he arranges the murder of Alexander's father King Philip, and while Alexander is proud to fight in war and conquer, Kadmilos takes pleasure only in senseless murder. Arranging brutal massacres as he attempts to seize control of Alexander, Kadmilos steadily eliminates those in his way and promises Alexander that when he is done, Alexander will be remembered with hatred and terror once the demon turns the empires of man into blood and ash.
** ''Last Sword of Power'': Wotan, aka Molech, is one of a group of humans who found the mysterious stones of power that elevated them to practical godhood, Molech differed from his fellow deities in cruelty and depravity. Demanding [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] of [[WouldHurtAChild children, infants]] and innocents during his time as God of the Canaanites, Molech viewed suffering and torture as the [[{{Sadist}} sweetest of pleasures]]. Having survived to Roman-era Britain, Molech sets about on a brutal war of conquest as Wotan, subjecting civilians to brutal conquest, as his armies [[RapePillageAndBurn torture, rape, and kill]]. Wotan defeats the king Uther and then enslaves his soul, intending to torment it for as long as gives him pleasure. In the final battle, Wotan attempts to weaken the fabric between the worlds in order to allow hordes of demons to come through and devastate humanity.
** Jon Shannow Trilogy: Sarento, the BigBad of the trilogy. initially wanted to restore the Earth of the past in the post-apocalyptic setting, but willingly became corrupted and eventually absorbed the power Bloodstone, giving him [[SoulEating a hunger for human souls]]. Forming armies known as Devourers, Sarento leads [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal crusades against humanity]], massacring so many people humanity faces extinction. Eventually [[BadBoss devouring his own followers]], Sarento goes after the last survivors and eventually comes against one of the final cities on Earth, while revealing that devouring souls leaves them [[AndIMustScream trapped in agony within him]], something Sarento gleefully laughs about. Sarento only deigns to spare the cities when hero Jon Shannow uses a spell to [[ExactWords send Sarento and himself to the Earth's past]], with millions more people to devour. Sarento gleefully accepts, mocking Shannow how he'll feast on everyone he can, before it's revealed Shannow had [[HeroicSacrifice chosen to send them to the first testing site of the atomic bomb]].
* ''Literature/TheStore'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Newman King]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopathic CEO]] of the [[PredatoryBusiness wicked Store company]]. King [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday establishes Stores]] in small towns with no major competition, having The Store built using the blood and corpses of animals and humans alike. Once a Store is built, King has any competition bought out or run out of business, murdering any store owners who stand against him. Once blackmailing the local mayor into granting The Store power over the law, King has the city council slaughtered and institutes a PoliceState onto the town, rounding up any vagrants or rebels against The Store, then brutally torturing and brainwashing them into becoming the horrifying Night Managers, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie-like slaves]] who serve King. King also uses The Store to sell everything from drugs to child pornography to {{snuff film}}s, all manufactured by The Store itself. When Bill Davis attempts to subvert King's evil, King manipulates Bill into sleeping with a woman, hiding the fact that it is [[SurpriseIncest Bill's own daughter Sam]], then uses the recording of the event to blackmail Bill. King then proclaims he's going to turn Sam into a prostitute to be used and abused, and King ultimately plans to expand The Store's reach until he alone controls the entire world.
* ''Literature/TheStrain'': The [[MonsterProgenitor Master]] is one of the seven original [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. While his six brothers are content to rest in their homes and avoid conflict with the world at large, TheMaster has been a {{sadist}}ic tyrant, ever since ancient times. Crossing from Europe on plane, he kills and turns every passenger so when they revive, he sends them to feed on their loved ones, slowly building a vampire army. When the time is right, the Master initiates through his minions multiple nuclear explosions by destroying silos to kill the six other ancients, and blots out the sun, establishing a vampire kingdom where humans are cattle for his kind, locked in camps and used for blood. The Master shows a penchant for murder and torture for his own amusement as well, even keeping a minion he turned back in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII second World War]] from the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] ranks to torment his ArchEnemy, a vampire hunting concentration camp survivor.
* ''Literature/StrangeTheDreamer'' & ''Muse of Nightmares'': [[PosthumousCharacter Skathis]], god of beasts, was a [[FromNobodyToNightmare smith who used the gifts of others to become a powerful god and leader of the Mesarthim]]. [[EvilOverlord Taking over]] the city of Weep, Skathis torments it with his fellow Mesarthim, abducting countless young men and women to [[SerialRapist rape]] and magically convert into {{sex slave}}s, letting one man be taken by Skathis's own consort to rape and mentally dominate while Skathis violates his wife. When the children inevitably result, Skathis decides to profit by selling them as slaves and weapons to other worlds, caring for nothing but his own pleasures and dominions.
* ''Such A Pretty Girl'', by Laura Wiess: Charles Shale is a [[AbusiveParents horrible excuse for a father]] and a {{serial|Rapist}} [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] responsible for the heroine Meredith's plight throughout the novel. Having begun [[ParentalIncest molesting and raping his own daughter Meredith]] as she grew up after he tricks her into watching himself and his wife have sex, Charles's abuse reached its peak when he raped her to the point of bleeding when she was 12. Following this, 5 other children reveal that Charles has done much the same to them, always forcing them to [[{{Sadist}} beg for him to stop while he does it]], with one in particular [[DrivenToSuicide attempting to kill himself]] because of the molesting. Years later, once released from prison for his crimes, Charles immediately begins picking out new victims to restart his spree, and decides to kick it off by violently raping Meredith once more to show his "love" for her. A disturbingly realistic depiction of a child predator, Charles Shale was defined by his horrifying, disturbed nature of sexual lust.
* ''Literature/TheSuicideMotorClub'', by Christopher Buehlman:
** Robert "Rob" Odom is the sole member of Luther Nixon's vampire gang that lacks any of his compatriots' good qualities. A rude, cruel murderer of dozens, Rob personally [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped five-year-old Glendon Lamb]] from his parents' vehicle, mocking the parents the whole time before he and his gang fed on the boy, turned him to a vampire, then left him to die in the sun. Continuing to assist his partners in murder sprees across America, Rob abandons his allies when he's endangered, [[WouldHarmASenior murders a blind old man]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution mildly annoying him]] after [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing the man's dog]], then spends his last moments gleefully [[MockingTheMourner mocking Judith Lamb]] over her son's fate. Rob is considered by Judith to be the most hated of the vampires she had ever met due to his hand in her son's awful trauma.
** [[TheRenfield Woodrow "Woods" Fulk]] is a death-loving {{sadist}} who allies with Luther Nixon's vampire gang as their human servant, just so he can witness the carnage they bring. Transporting, protecting, and guiding the gang on finding dozens of new victims, Woods regularly [[ILoveTheDead uses one of the many corpses they leave behind as his personal sex toy]] while ensuring the gang is never caught. Woods murders several members of the Bereaved when they track down Luther's gang, and later viciously stabs the Bereaved's elderly founder Tracy to near-death after a failed attempt to strangle him for the sexual thrill of it.
* ''The Summoning'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad The Cup Hu Girngsi]] is an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent ancient, evil vampire]] that has grown tired of living in the shadows, and schemes to bring death and suffering across the planet to satisfy its sadism. Invading the town of Rio Verde and corrupting its townsfolk into fanatics willing to [[OffingTheOffspring torture their own children to death]], the Cup Hu Girngsi devours dozens of townsfolk as it increases its power and influence, eventually decorating its lair with [[WouldHurtAChild butchered infants]], gutted women and countless murals to the Cup Hu Girngsi's vile centuries of atrocities. The Cup Hu Girngsi plans to TakeOverTheWorld and turn all of the Earth into its feeding ground to torture and devour humanity for all eternity, and uses its final moments to brag that it had Rich Carter's wife and daughter raped before it killed them just to mock the man.
* ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'': This short story from the fairy tale book ''The Pentamerone'' has the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen nameless queen]]. When she had realized that her husband has cheated on her with another woman named Talia, she ordered her secretary to bring the children to her. She then gives her royal cook the job of [[WouldHurtAChild cooking the children]] into several dishes, and then to [[ImAHumanitarian serve said dishes to her husband]]. When it seemed like her husband was eating his own children, she continually mocked him for his mistake, and was blissfully unaware of the fact that her royal cook had cooked the King two lambs instead of the two children. The Queen later gives her guards the task of bringing the young woman to her palace, and so, Talia is brought before her. She condemned Talia to [[KillItWithFire to burn in a huge bonfire]] that she had set up for her, and she then asked her to remove her clothing because she thought they were too valuable to be burned with such a lowly woman.
* ''Literature/SunderedLands'':
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Grinder Prickleback]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] hedgehog who desires the Six Crowns of the Badgers of Power. [[DrivenByEnvy Jealous]] over the Badger Lords refusing to share their magical powers, Grinder tried to create a spell that would control their minds so he could acquire their power. He inadvertently ended up blowing up the entire world, killing millions in the process and turning the Sundered Lands into thousands of floating islands, while the Badger Lords dispelled their power into six separate crowns. When Grinder, now donning the name Herald "Percy" Pursuivant, comes across Trundle and Esmeralda on their journey to find the crowns, he helps them on their quest solely so he can take the crowns from them and use their power to TakeOverTheWorld. After all six crowns are found and taken to the altar that will unleash their power, Grinder immediately betrays Trundle and Esmeralda, threatening to kill them if they don't surrender the crowns to him.
** [[SkyPirate Captain Grizzletusk]] is the leader of a group of corsairs who plunder and murder at their own leisure. After being contacted by Millie Rose Thorne, [[BigBadDuumvirate the two conspire to work together]] to retrieve the six crowns and relish in their power. Grizzletusk and his crew constantly chase after Trundle and Esmeralda, going from island to island robbing and/or killing anyone in their path. He also attempts to attack and pillage the island of Swallowhaven just to needlessly fuel his greed, slaughtering dozens of soldiers in the process. When the heroes acquire all the crowns and head to Sunsett to unleash their power, Grizzletusk forces his crew to keep pursuing them, not caring as his crew is gradually slain from various booby-traps. When [[TheDragon Razorback]] tries to convince what's left of the crew to cut their losses and run, Grizzletusk simply threatens to kill him if he tries to leave.
* ''The Survivor's Club'': [[BigBad David Price]] is the [[ArchEnemy personal nemesis]] of Detective Roan Griffin. An imprisoned [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[SerialKiller serial child killer]], David cuts a deal with wannabe rapist Ron Viggio, giving Viggio a way to rape women with impunity, as long as his first victim is Meg Pesaturo, a girl that David seduced and impregnated when she was thirteen. Using the method that Price worked out, Viggio rapes Meg, Carol Rosen, and Trisha Hayes, killing the latter when her latex allergy kicks in, and assaults and tries to rape Trisha's sister, Jillian Hayes. When things become too difficult, Price arranges for Viggio to frame a man named Eddie Como, then hires an assassin to kill Como on the steps of the courthouse (drawing Griffin onto the case), and has Viggio blow up the assassin's car to cover their tracks. Price then claims to know the identity of the "College Hill Rapist", saying he will reveal it in exchange for a visit with Molly, his daughter by Meg. When this doesn't get him the attention he wants, Price has Viggio rape and kill Sylvia Blaire and kidnap Meg. Price is given his trip, and proceeds to break out of the transport van, killing three police officers in the process. He takes Meg to his old house, intending to kill her and bury her in the basement alongside his other victims; when the police try to interfere, he shoots Griffin's friend Detective Waters, and finally dies trying to knife Griffin. A pathological {{narcissist}} obsessed with being the centre of attention, David Price is about as low as even a paedophile can get.
* ''Literature/SwanSong'':
** [[BigBad The man with the scarlet eye]], aka "[[ForTheEvulz Friend]]", who may be TheDevil himself, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When Friend helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When Friend discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, he brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed that Friend, annoyed with Swan offering him forgiveness, is attempting to help the now-insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity while he watches, enjoys the show, and then dances on their graves.
** [[AGodAmI "Lord" Alvin Mangrim]] is a [[AxCrazy homicidal psychopath]] with a love for [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and chaos. Escaping an insane asylum [[AfterTheEnd following the nuclear holocaust]], Alvin leads his fellow inmates in a killing spree across the land, luring dozens of innocent men, women, and children to them to be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] before carving their heads off with a chainsaw for Alvin to keep as trophies. Murdering Leona while trying to slaughter Swan and Josh, Alvin later butchers his way into a position at the AOE, where he assists the leadership in wiping out opposition and gleefully encourages the monstrous Friend's new leadership of the AOE into further villainy.
* Theatre/SweeneyTodd himself counts, from the original penny dreadful stories that began with ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls''. While later given sympathetic qualities in the retelling of the legends, the original Sweeney Todd was a monster whose only motivation was cruelty and {{greed}}. Sweeney would lure customers into his barbershop and proceed to drop them down a tunnel to break their skulls or necks, before 'polishing them off' with his straight razor if they still lived. Coming up with another plan to make more money, he and his partner Mrs. Lovett cooked the bodies into meat pies to sell with a hefty profit. Hundreds of corpses are seen in the preparation room, and Sweeney keeps a kidnap victim to work the furnace to keep the meat coming, with full knowledge that he'll eventually join the pies when Sweeney decides he's been there too long.
* ''Literature/TheSwitch'': [[BigBad Hubert Spencer]] is the evil [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of the main protagonist. When the Ambarayans refused to sell him their moonfruit so he could profit off of it, he had them wiped out and ordered his men to LeaveNoSurvivors. Later, to test his product, he created a FakeCharity for homeless children so he could take them off the streets and [[TestedOnHumans experiment on them]] with no remorse. Later he attempts to murder one in cold blood, with his son next to the child, and laughs coldly during the event.
* ''Swordbird'', by Nancy Li Fan: [[BigBad Lord Turnatt]] is a ruthless [[FeatheredFiend hawk]] warlord who uses the teachings of the Book of Heresy to lay waste to the forest. Turnatt has his soldiers--[[BadBoss of which he is not averse to killing for virtually no reason whatsoever]]--wreak carnage to kill all they can, once having his birds attempt to slaughter a large audience gathered for a theater performance, and manipulates the cardinals and the blue jay tribes into constant war by [[FalseFlagOperation framing them for stealing each other's eggs]]. Turnatt himself is responsible for stealing the eggs, [[EatsBabies consuming them]] in a deranged attempt to make himself immortal as per the Book's word.
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': [[SorcerousOverlord Darken Rahl]] has made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal for power with the demonic being]], The Keeper of the Underworld. Darken keeps the people enslaved, banning fire and launching brutal extermination campaigns on the orders that have resisted him. Rahl also continues the order of Mord-Sith: girls raised to be vicious torturers who have their mothers murdered in front of them and are forced to torture their fathers to death. He also sexually abuses the Mord-Sith and especially enjoys tormenting a lesbian couple amongst them. A SerialRapist as well, Rahl forces himself upon many women, and if ones with him consensually are repulsed at the scars under his clothing, he tortures them to death. Viewing children without the gift of magic as worthless, he has any ungifted offspring disposed of, while also sacrificing other children to the Keeper for power. Rahl's ultimate goal is to plunge the world into The Keeper's domain, where all that lives will suffer eternally.
* ''Swords and Fire'' series, by Melissa Caruso: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Ruven]] is the son of the Wolf Lord of Vaskandar and an ambitious, cruel mage in his own right who grows into the role of TheHeavy and eventually the BigBad. As a skinwitch, Ruven wields a form of magic that can only be mastered by those with a profound LackofEmpathy and happily uses it to dominate and literally torture those under his authority. Though most Vaskandrian mages care little for the lives of {{muggles}}, Ruven treats his fellow mages as equally worthless, manipulating and tossing aside those who serve him and using a combination of potions and his skinwitch powers to enslave foreign mages against their will. Driven to expand his power at all costs, Ruven seeks war with the Serene Republic to the south, planning to weaponize a volcano in such a way as to cause staggering civilian casualties and gleefully forcing the entire population of his domain to act as {{human shield}}s to protect his scheme. Vaskandrian culture allows its witch-lords near unlimited power within their own domains; Ruven is a sterling example of the extent to which that power can be abused.
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* ''Literature/TailchasersSong'': Grizraz Hearteater became jealous of his older and younger brother and grew to hate cats in general. Hearteater summoned a {{Hellhound}} to kill as many cats as he could, and also ended up killing one of his brothers. Ever since then, Hearteater has hid underground in [[{{Hell}} Vastnir]] to avoid being detected and also to avoid the light. Hearteater hates [[{{God}} Meercat Allmother]] and wants to destroy all of Her creations. Over the centuries he's become an AnimalisticAbomination and has been rearing monstrous minions to slaughter cats and kidnap slaves while he waits to start the apocalypse. Hearteater sits upon a throne of various tortured and dead animals, where all he does all day is [[ImAHumanitarian eat the cats]] that his servants bring him. At the end of the novel, Hearteater decides to show his true power by turning his mound of animals into a deformed, vaguely hellhound-like monster only called "the ''Fikos''" ("terrifying badness"), which slaughters multitudes of cats on both sides.
* ''Take You Apart'', by T.J. Spade: Andrew "Drew" Stephens, real name Robert Fobray, is a maniacal SerialKiller obsessed with playing [[CriminalMindGames a game of wits]] with his perceived ArchEnemy, Caleb Everett. A perfect example of a [[AxCrazy psychopath]] since [[EnfantTerrible childhood]], during which he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tortured animals to death]] and creepily mimicked others in an attempt to "get" human interactions, Drew grew up to meet Caleb Everett, a psychic police detective who could peer into the minds of killers as they murdered others, and immediately develops a fixation on Caleb and besting his inhuman detective abilities. Drew kicks the novel off by kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a young woman, before sending Caleb her mutilated body parts to taunt him, after which he brutally rapes and beats a prostitute to near death. Realizing this didn't get Caleb's "full" attention, Drew tortures then disembowels one of Caleb's closest friends, also Drew's own girlfriend, then attempts to beat another of Caleb's best friends to death. In the end, after killing a homeless man to send a message and attempting the same on [[WouldHurtAChild a young teen]], Drew kidnaps Caleb's LoveInterest, planning to kill Caleb then torture and rape the girl to death as his final victory. Drew Stephens is a classic psychopath with no ability to comprehend human emotions or interactions, having to instead adapt various personalities he runs into throughout his life, earning him the moniker of a "chameleon killer".
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': ''One Good Knight'' brings us [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Cassiopeia]], who conspires with her [[EvilChancellor adviser]], [[EvilSorcerer Solon]], to [[WeatherManipulation summon storms to wrack the coast of her country]], sinking dozens of ships and drowning hundreds of sailors so that she can claim the salvage for the crown. When her citizenry become dissatisfied with her rule, Cassiopeia has Solon mind control the (otherwise harmless) dragon Adamant, forcing him to ravage the countryside, so that she may set up a {{lottery|Of Doom}} and feed the daughters of her political enemies to the dragon. After her own daughter, Andromeda, begins to suspect that someone is controlling the storms, Cassiopeia arranges (in a move that [[EvenEvilHasStandards revolts even Solon]]) to [[OffingTheOffspring have her sacrificed to the dragon]], and take advantage of the [[WoundedGazelleGambit public wave of sympathy that will follow]]. Totally convinced that the common folk should just put up with her capricious rule, Cassiopeia is plotting to have Solon assassinated when he [[TheStarscream finally makes his own move against her]], ending her role in the story.
* ''The Tales of Many Orcs'' duology, by Shane Michael Murray: [[BigBad The Lady of Firebrand Peak]] is a [[DragonsAreDemonic menacing dragon]] who enjoys needlessly terrorizing innocents. Asserting her dominance over the various races in the land, the Lady routinely kidnaps innocents and holds them prisoner before cooking and eating them alive. After choosing Talking-Wind to be her next meal, the Lady forces him to sacrifice one of the orcs in his village to prolong his life. Once captured, Talking-Wind watches firsthand as she devours two prisoners; he later performs a MercyKill so the orc he chose to be sacrificed won't suffer. Furious, the Lady [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Talking-Wind and marks him for death, and later chases him across the country as he tries to flee from her. Amassing a huge orc army, the Lady attacks the city of Tooyk just to find Talking-Wind, causing wanton destruction and murdering hundreds of innocents. When the Lady finally corners Talking-Wind on a cliff, she pushes him off, hoping that he'll survive the fall just so he'll break and beg for death.
* ''Literature/TheTapestry'': [[BigBad Astaroth]] is an ancient and powerful demon (actually a "spore" created by [[EldritchAbomination entities called the Starving Gods]]) who wants the Book of Thoth so he can rule the world with it. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Despite how he masks himself]], he's really a [[FantasticRacism demon supremacist]], punishing David Menlo for summoning demons by [[WouldHurtAChild biting his hand off]]. His plan for world conquest involves bringing governments around the world close to collapse before descending on Rowan with his army to seize the Book, leveraging the lives of Max's friends to get it. Upon getting it, he uses its power over truenames to [[ApocalypseHow expunge all post-medieval human knowledge from existence and memory, killing the vast majority of the human race]]. He then sets up demons as the Earth's rulers under him, instituting a vicious regime where a single person being literate mandates mass slaughter. When he loses the demons' loyalty, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he loses use for them]], and after consistently failing to create fully functional life, he [[VillainousBreakdown flips out]] when Rowan gears up to stop him and reveals his true motives: he [[AGodAmI just wants to play God]], and cares no more for demons than for humans. To this end, he attempts to [[OmnicidalManiac summon the Starving Gods in the hopes that they will devour the universe]] and give him scraps to live out his fantasies with. A narcissistic psychopath caring only about [[ItsAllAboutMe his fantasies of power]], Astaroth exhibits unparalleled evil even amongst demons.
* ''A Taste for Monsters'', by Matthew J. Kirby: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a bloodthirsty SerialKiller stalking the streets of 19th-century Whitechapel. Secretly a [[SamusIsAGirl midwife]], the Ripper lures in unsuspecting prostitutes and uses her medical skills to butcher them in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly gruesome murders]], taking five victims in total with the last four having [[GuttedLikeAFish organs removed]]. Jack plans to continue the gruesome murder spree forever.
* ''Teeth in the Mist'', by Dawn Kurtagich: [[Myth/{{Faust}} Fostos]], [[ImmortalityImmorality seeking to live forever]], seduces women to sire his children, the Unclosed. Faust later "[[OffingTheOffspring harvests]]" them, taking, torturing, and butchering them while they are still alive, in order to replenish his own body, and is even willing to [[ImAHumanitarian devour them]] and delivering their souls to Lucifer. Having run a house where he murdered workers and their children for sport and power, Faust also had his wife burnt alive as a witch when she discovered him. In the present of 1851, Faust begins murdering and torturing his way through the cast, nailing one to a torture wheel, keeping him [[AndIMustScream alive in agony]] even while his organs are removed.
* ''Literature/TentyrianLegacy'': [[BigBad Stavros]] is the leader of the Dark Coven. Once one of the rulers of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Tentyrians]], Stavros [[FantasticRacism looked down upon humanity]], viewing them as inferior to Tentyrians and wishing to rule them. Stavros had two of the other rulers assassinated and helped spark a fire which killed dozens, and later threatened to burn down the various covens of the other rulers while threatening to harm their children should they not relinquish control to him--but [[ILied intending to kill them anyway even if they comply]]. After the people rebel, Stavros's forces enact a purge which leads to the near-genocide of the Tentyrians. Stavros and the Dark Coven than begin a campaign of terror throughout the world, playing humanity against each other from the shadows and causing conflicts to become far worse and than reaping the profits afterwards. Stavros also uses his blood to transform humans into bloodthirsty monsters that serve him, raising an army in the thousands. Planning on culling humanity, Stavros attempts to corrupt Arianna--one of the last Tentyrians--to his side, and even fatally tortured one of her friends to find information on her whereabouts, intending to rule supreme for all of eternity.
* ''Teratologist'', by Wrath James White & Edward Lee: John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the Devil give him the power to bring HellOnEarth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the Devil himself sang his praises.
* ''Literature/ATerribleVengeance'': The EvilSorcerer is the incestuous [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of Katerina. Arriving after she has married the Cossack Danilo and has a baby son named Ivan, the Sorcerer is revealed to have murdered her mother, plotting to make Katerina [[VillainousIncest his and his alone]]. To this end, he engineers a massive battle between the Poles and Cossacks, murdering Danilo in the confusion, before magically killing his [[WouldHurtAChild baby]] grandson. When Katerina attempts to avenge them, the Sorcerer [[OffingTheOffspring kills her]] as well, later murdering a holy man when the man refuses to absolve him for his vile crimes. It is revealed his hatred of goodness is so great that the Sorcerer plots to sell out the East to the Roman Catholic Church, all to see the Orthodox church burn and its adherents slaughtered.
* ''Literature/TheTerror'': [[SmugSnake Shipman Cornelius Hickey]] is a ruthless, ratlike man with a penchant for manipulating others. Murdering his rival Irving, Hickey frames the local Esquimax people, resulting in their massacre. Leading a mutiny against Captain Crozier, Hickey slaughters all who oppose him and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] the ship's doctor Goodsir, so he cuts them up for Hickey and others to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize]]. Mocking Crozier by killing his second-in-command and presenting Crozier with the man's right arm, Hickey attempts to murder Crozier and keep Goodsir in line via increased torture until the man kills himself to escape. Hickey ends up being [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters so vile]] that even the monstrous, soul devouring Tuunbaq on the arctic ice finds his soul [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too unclean to devour]].
* ''The Terror of Living'', by Urban Waite: [[PsychoForHire Grady Fisher]] is a sadistic [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] obsessed with [[KnifeNut knives and their usage for hurting others]]. Known and feared throughout the criminal underworld as a [[AxCrazy loose cannon]] who can and will rack up an extra body count on even the most minor of assignments, Grady's first recorded instance of this extra cruelty is seen when, after being hired to scare his boss's rival out of town, he befriends the man, gets him drunk, then butchers him while [[TheCanKickedHim he is using the bathroom]]. When hired to transport two drug mules to their Vietnamese bosses, Grady decides to simply murder the two teenage girls, then dig the drugs out of their corpses, kicking things off by torturing then dismembering the first one, then trying to [[BoomHeadshot blow the other one's head off]] with a rifle. Grady later begins tracking down Phil Hunt to recover drugs he stole, and in the process, burns Hunt's home down, tracks down and kidnaps his wife, and forces the man to listen as he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals guns down his prized horses]] one by one. After his employers turn on him because of his insanity, Grady tracks them down and slaughters them all, brutally [[CopKiller murdering two cops]] in the process, and, once capturing Hunt and his wife, forces them to lead him to the drugs lest he butcher them and sell their organs to make up for his losses. In the midst of it all, Grady tries to murder someone for their car, terrifies a cashier for fun, and callously guns down any innocents who he gets annoyed with. Grady Fisher is ultimately a lunatic who uses his job to facilitate evermore pain and misery to those around him, with profits always second.
* ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'': [[NouveauRiche Alec d'Uberville]] is a sexual predator who constantly lusts after Tess from the moment he meets her. Alec makes multiple attempts to force himself onto Tess and eventually [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes her]]. Becoming a [[HidingBehindReligion preacher]] years later, Alec abandons his duties upon meeting Tess again, showing no remorse for raping her. When Tess suffers through massive hardships, Alec [[ManipulativeBastard emotionally manipulates the poor girl]] into becoming his mistress.
* ''Tess Winnett'' series, by Leslie Wolfe:
** ''The Watson Girl'': The Chameleon--Bradley Welsh--is a monstrous SerialKiller who developed his taste for sadism after raping a college student. Fully embracing his depraved nature after murdering his business partner's family, [[WouldHurtAChild three children included]], to cover up a business mistake, the Chameleon goes on to murder entire families, always framing it to look like the active killer the Family Man was the perpetrator. When the Family Man is finally arrested, the Chameleon begins experimenting in various ways of killing to decide which way he enjoys best, until he finally settles for kidnapping women and spending days raping and mutilating her until she dies. Not restricted to killing solely to get his kicks, the Chameleon beats a man to death with a crowbar for cutting him off in a parking lot and slashes the throat of an elderly woman after she sees him kill her granddaughter. A chilling maniac who believes that [[AGodAmI he has surpassed humankind and can do whatever he pleases]], the Chameleon treated each and every one of his murders as nothing but a tasty meal for him to consume, then promptly shrug off until his next kill.
** ''Glimpse of Death'': [[SerialRapist Michael Walden]] is a pathetic coward who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the mentally-deranged Derek Henderson into becoming his partner in crime. Kidnapping women and raping them for nearly a week, Walden then brutally beats and rapes one woman while forcing the other to watch before having Derek strangle his current victim to death, laughing at the horror of the woman being forced to watch. Racking up nearly two dozen women who he rapes for days then has Derek kill, Walden begins tries to commit murder himself, failing only due to his own cowardice and instead just maiming the women in gruesome ways. In the end, Walden breaks down into a crying heap when he is caught, [[NeverMyFault trying to pin everything on Derek and proclaiming that the women deserved it for "rejecting him"]].
** ''Taker of Lives'': The titular "[[AntagonistTitle Taker of Lives]]", Althea Swain, is a vindictive and petty {{narcissist}} who blames women around her for ruining her career goals by being more beautiful and attractive than herself. Yearning to break these women down and show the world how useless they are, the Taker starts her spree by drugging a young model, taking pictures of her naked body and posting them all over the web, the ensuring taunts and cruelty from the Taker regarding the photos making the model commit [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. Drugging and photographing several more women and leaking the illicit photos to ruin their lives, uncaring that the father of one her victims dies from a heart attack in the process, the Taker eventually upgrades her crimes to murder, beginning to [[MurderDotCom livestream]] herself killing beautiful young women in increasingly brutal ways. The Taker plans to make her newest victim a young teenager and torture her live on the web before killing her, and when caught brags that she had many more victims planned, and all for the most insanely [[EvilIsPetty petty]] of reasons.
* ''Literature/TheTestaments'': [[TheBluebeard Commander Judd]] is one of the architects of [[TheTheocracy Gilead]] and a chief designer of the Aunt and Handmaid system, promoting horrific slavery for countless women. A [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] himself, Judd is known for marrying disturbingly young girls to rape them as he wishes, before clandestinely murdering them, covering up the deaths and observing a "mourning period" before choosing his next victim.
* ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'': [[TheBaroness "Fairy" Hardcastle]], one of the chief members of N.I.C.E,and head of their SecretPolice, is a former fascist who loves nothing so much as domination. Seeking to tear down and remake the world in pursuit of her group's vicious order, Hardcastle has many people abducted and tortured, often [[TortureTechnician participating herself]]; it is implied that she even [[{{Sadist}} derives sexual pleasure]] from torturing. Capturing heroine Jane Studdock, Hardcastle tortures her, [[CigaretteBurns burning her with a cigar]], and threatens to later do the same to her husband Mark.
* ''Literature/TheirBrightAscendancy'': [[BigBad Yamai, the Traitor God]]--real name Umigami--is the first Emperor of Hokkaro. Exiled beyond the Wall of Flowers, all taken by Yamai have their minds hollowed out until they are turned into worshipping [[EmptyShell shells]] of themselves to praise him ceaselessly. Sending demons to sow chaos and death and spreading [[TheCorruption the horrific blackblood plague]], Yamai eventually returns on a killing spree, massacring an entire city with intent to reclaim his empire and destroy all in his way.
* ''Literature/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse'': [[SerialKiller The Osborne Slayer]], real name [[GunmanWithThreeNames David Thurston Ware]], is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage high school student]] who grew bored with his small town and turned to murder to make a name for himself. Planning to [[FameThroughInfamy make himself infamous as a killer]], the Slayer targets his fellow students who are talented enough that they will eventually leave the town and has them brutally murdered. The Slayer intentionally traps them in order to drive up their fear before he mutilates them in a macabre parody of their dreams. Eventually murdering his best friend as well, the Slayer plans to kill heroine Makini Young as well before continuing his murder spree and handing himself over to the police to allow him to live in infamy.
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'':
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living victims. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a SpoiledBrat who [[PsychopathicManchild has never grown up]] and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.
** [[AxCrazy Kobra]] was an albino biker on a cross-country [[SpreeKiller murder spree]], using his Mauser machine gun to mow down entire bars and gangs of people in his path for fun, when he was contacted by Prince Conrad Vulkan to join his legion of evil. Becoming a vampire and given full cognizance and power as Vulkan's military commander, Kobra devours several innocents to turn them into his undead slaves, and uses them to prowl the streets of Los Angeles, turning all in their path who could be useful to Vulkan and killing everyone else. After turning Wes Richard's lover Solange into his vampiric bride, Kobra gleefully parades her zombified form in front of Wes [[KickTheDog just to taunt him]], and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to execute the young boy Tommy]] when Kobra finds him inside Vulkan's castle.
* ''Literature/TheThiefOfAlways'': Mr. Hood runs a magic house where children can be young forever and gain anything they want. Naturally, it's nothing more than an elaborate spider's web. Hood lures children in under these promises before draining them of life and soul, imprisoning them in the lake forever to prolong his own life. Calling himself the Vampire King, Hood delights in what he does to children and tries to seduce the young heroes to his side. When one of his minions tries to take his place after he believes Hood is dead, Hood seizes him and rips his head clean of.
* ''Literature/TheThinExecutioner'': [[DarkMessiah Qasr Bint]] is a cannibalistic, {{sadist}}ic, religiously fanatic {{cult}} leader who believes he alone is the most pure person in the world and that everyone else must mutilate themselves until they die to earn the favor of the gods, and pursues his quest of conversion with a perverse lust and religious fervor. He forces the members of his cult to mutilate themselves, kills them, and [[IAmAHumanitarian eats them]] if [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty the food supplies are low]]. He also has entire tribes wiped out if he finds them "irredeemable."
* ''Literature/ThirteenStoreys'', by Jonathan Sims: Tobias Fell is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive reclusive billionaire]] who, upon realizing the consequences of his past actions due to being haunted by their ghosts, attempts to avoid them by passing them on to unlucky victims, [[WouldHurtAChild one of whom is a little girl]]. Fell has Banyan Court built using the dead bodies of workers and disagreeable business partners, in order to create a kind of spiritual Faraday cage. Fell has anyone who dares to report anything other than his official company lines suffer either by torture or death. When the party is infiltrated by a journalist, Fell has the journalist beaten by [[TheDragon Max]], [[CruelMercy only sparing his life to force him to watch]]. Fell then has the participants eat part of his own severed leg before attempting to have them murder a member of an impoverished community he ruined, deriding the man as "scum|". When his plans are foiled by the participants overpowering Max, Fell still attempts to have them kill the victim anyway with the offer of money, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to see how anyone could value a human life over material gain]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}: Au-delà des ombres'' (''Beyond the Shadows''), by Amélie Sarn: [[EvilOverlord Shardar-The-Almighty]], tyrant of Brek Zarith, is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse]] than his comic incarnation. [[TheUsurper Usurping the throne]] after poisoning the former lord, Shardar led the purge of his family, only sparing Galathorn as a child to mold him as his plaything and kept him imprisoned till adulthood. Once tired of him, Shardar tried to have him executed. Shardar is also a MadScientist who regularly uses his subjects as [[PlayingWithSyringes fodder for drugs, poisons and torture devices]] in his quest of knowledge and power. Holding Aaricia and her son Jolan hostage for years, he would often experiment on the boy for his PsychicPowers. The tyrant also keeps a harem of unwilling young girls and [[ForcedToWatch forces Aaricia to watch]] as he burns the Vikings' longships. Besieged by the rebellion, Shardar poisons his entire court and destroys all his treasures, leaving the kingdom bankrupt, hoping that, to restore it, Galathorn will be forced to become as big a tyrant as him, while he escapes and plans to start a new conquest, using Jolan's psychic powers after getting rid of Aaricia. Outplayed by the latter, he attempts to torture her to draw her son nearby. Unlike his original incarnation who [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes mourns his son]], he reacts to his death with indifference instead and is even revealed to have murdered said son's mother while she was giving birth.
* ''Those Across the River'', by Christopher Buehlman: [[PosthumousCharacter Lucien Savoyard]], ancestor of the novel's protagonist, was a [[{{Sadist}} nightmarish]] and brutal [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who maimed his wives to render them barren, faking his death to "show up" as his own child. A Confederate slaveowner and general, Lucien would torture countless slaves, murdering them for sport and pleasure while [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting others]] in wolf form every month. Infamous for the cruelties he inflicted, Lucien killed so many that though he bought countless slaves, it was suspected that he sold them so quickly due to the disappearances and upon death, cursed his killer as a werewolf as well.
* ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'': [[DomesticAbuse Rasheed]] is nasty, violent-tempered, smug and thoroughly heartless, spending the book ruining the lives of the protagonists in a myriad of ways. Marrying a 15-year-old before promptly raping her and tricking a 14-year-old into marrying him ''immediately after her family dies'' by ''paying a man to tell her that her surviving love interest is dead'' are without counting what Rasheed does to his own family. His nature also comes forth in beating the tar out of his wives on a daily basis, completely neglecting his daughter in favor of his son, forcing one of his wives to eat pebbles because he thought her rice was undercooked, shoving a gun into the mouth of one of his wives and finally trying to strangle her to death. When his wives try to run away, he tells the younger that if she ever tries it again, he will kill his other wife (her only friend) and her daughter in front of her. She knows he's not joking, because he's just put them all in sensory deprivation rooms in the blistering heat with no water for three days. What little sympathy the author tries to create for him by letting us know his first son died is quickly dashed away when it's implied that Rasheed's own drunken neglect probably caused it.
* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'': The mysterious, murderous [[FemmeFatale Milady de Winter]] is one of the top agents of the visionary Cardinal Richelieu in his campaign to strengthen France and free it of foreign influence, but shares none of her employer's lofty ideals. Instead, she uses her position, resources, and quasi-supernatural beauty and charisma to indulge her limitless appetites for money, power, and indiscriminate, disproportionate revenge on anyone who gets on her bad side. Ever since [[FromNobodyToNightmare her humble origins]] as a [[NunTooHoly larcenous nun]], she's targeted and seduced any sufficiently-useful man she comes across, destroying those who reject her and either killing or abandoning anyone unlucky enough to become her thrall as soon as they're no longer valuable. Her steadily-escalating battle with d'Artagnan brings out all her worst excesses, as she first tries to enlist him to kill her brother-in-law for his inheritance and a young noble for apparently turning her advances down, then, after he humiliates her, repeatedly attempts to kill him with zero regard for collateral damage, endangering and killing several innocents along the way, and finally murders his LoveInterest as RevengeByProxy whilst pretending to be her dearest friend.
* ''Literature/{{Threshold}}'': Nzame is an EldritchAbomination from beyond our world. Finding a way into our world, he turns the portal into an EldritchLocation and murders several people working on this portal in increasingly horrific ways. He uses this portal in the form of a pyramid to breach into the human world and {{mind rape}}s the population of Threshold into worshiping him. Once they do, he transforms them into [[TakenForGranite stone golems]] in [[AndIMustScream constant pain]]. When the protagonists rise to oppose him, he attacks them through their dreams, threatening bodily harm to them and their loved ones. He pays special focus to the heroine, Tirzah, threatening to possess her unborn child and leave her husband trapped in an EldritchLocation. Twisted and cruel, Nzame does not care for anything but [[ItsAllAboutMe himself and power]].
* ''Literature/{{Tigana}}'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Alberico of Barbiador]] is a powerful sorcerer and brutal tyrant, unlike the more powerful [[AntiVillain Brandin]]. Seeking to dominate all in his path, Alberico responds to an assassination attempt by crucifying his attackers' families, [[WouldHurtAChild children]] included, to giant "death wheels", cutting off their hands and stuffing them in their mouths while leaving them to perish of exposure. When feeling slighted by poets, Alberico selects 20 poets at random to give the same treatment to, while frequently having his men commit atrocious war crimes during conquest. When war is provoked between him and Brandin, Alberico marches his forces, [[RapePillageAndBurn burning and slaughtering]] as he goes. [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Despised by all]], Brandin comments that Alberico is wholly devoid of any human passion, simply wanting for the sake of ambition and nothing more.
* ''Literature/Timeline191'': Commander Roger Kimball is initially nothing more than a sleazy, misogynistic Confederate submarine captain who views [[HeManWomanHater women as conquests]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain non-whites as subhumans]]. Following the Confederacy's defeat in the Great War, however, an enraged Kimball vents his spite by ordering his submarine, the ''CSS Bonefish'' to fire on the ''USS Ericson'', killing everyone on board, and making himself into the worst war criminal of the conflict, a [[CardCarryingVillain title that he revels in]]. Unemployed after the war, Kimball becomes a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Freedom Party]] thug, assaulting members of the opposing Radical Liberal Party, scheming to have his former Executive Officer, Tom Brearly, assassinated, and finally [[AttemptedRape trying to rape]] his ex-girlfriend, Anne Colleton, when she leaves him. At the time of his death he is plotting to avenge himself on Anne by tracking her down and strangling her, cementing himself as the irredeemable bottom-feeder he always claimed not to be.
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' {{novelization}}, by Steve Perry & Dal Perry:
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[AllThereInTheManual Susquehana]] is the [[BigBad absolute monarch]] of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Drej]] and a genocidal nightmare of an alien. Leading the Drej in genocidal campaigns against entire planets, Susquehana's ultimate goal is to spread the light of the Drej all across the galaxy and exterminate all non-Drej life throughout. Learning that the technology of the Titan still exists even after Earth's destruction, Susquehana sends waves of Drej to find and eradicate the technology whilst destroying all those who seek it, eventually making it a point to spitefully [[KillAllHumans obliterate every surviving human colony]] herself and drive out all those remaining into the deep edge of space to perish. Susquehana also slaughters several of her own kind, some of them upstart assassins--but others killed purely due to Susquehana's own paranoid fits. An AbsoluteXenophobe obsessed with establishing her cruel legacy among her species and sinking to depths unreached even by the previous Queens of the Drej, Susquehana perfectly embodies the reasons why the Drej are feared and reviled by every denizen of the galaxy.
** [[SmugSnake Preed]], a slimy Akrennian [[TokenEvilTeammate barely tolerated]] even by the others onboard the Valkyrie, makes a name for himself as a backstabbing snake as his [[TheMole true colors]] unfold throughout the novel. Contacted by Susquehana with the promise of a monetary reward for finding the Titan, Preed and his compatriot Joseph Korso betray the other members of the Valkyrie to the Drej. Preed quickly establishes himself as the viler of the two between him and Korso, nearly shooting his way through an entire crowd of innocent colonists to get to Cale and Akima and displaying open, sadistic relish at the prospect of doing so. Once at the Titan itself, Preed turns his gun against Korso and reveals his intention to simply murder all of his former allies and sell out the Titan to the Drej, dooming any chance humanity has to repopulate--and then kicking back and watching as the Drej massacre everything in their path, comfortable with the death of almost all sapient life in the galaxy so long as he gets to stay alive.
* ''Literature/ToKillAKingdom'': The wicked [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Sirens]] is Lira's [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] and a genocidal sociopath who forces sirens to attack and sink human ships. Trying to force Lira to kill a human prince to indoctrinate her in her ways, the Sea Queen becomes furious when Lira does not rip the boy's heart out and nearly forces Lira to kill her cousin to repent, only waning when the Sea Queen's sister [[TakeMeInstead offers to let the Sea Queen kill her instead]]. When Lira disappoints her again, the Sea Queen renders her mortal and demands her daughter bring her a powerful artifact to [[KillAllHumans exterminate mankind]]. When Lira turns the sirens against her tyrannical mother, the Queen resolves to boil the entire ocean to [[TakingYouWithMe exterminate her own army out of spite]].
* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': [[BigBad Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell]] personifies [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain all that was wrong with Dixie in the 1930s]]. For starters, he's a [[ParentalNeglect terrible, neglectful father]], to the point where the sheriff actually turns a blind eye to him hunting out of season out of pity for the little Ewells. He gets Tom Robinson, a disabled black man, arrested for supposedly raping and beating his daughter Mayella. Atticus Finch, the defense lawyer, shows that Tom was physically incapable of committing the crime, and that it was Bob who caught Mayella making advances on an unwilling Tom ,and [[AbusiveParents beat her himself]], with it being implied at one point that [[ParentalIncest Bob himself has been sexually abusing Mayella]]. Since the book takes place in the DeepSouth several decades before the Civil Rights movement, the all-white jury sentences Tom to death anyway. Even though Tom Robinson is dead, Bob tries to get revenge on those who opposed him at the trial, culminating in trying to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Atticus's children on their way home from a school play]].
* ''Literature/ToReignInHell'': [[ManipulativeBastard Abdiel]] is a manipulative, smug, and [[DirtyCoward cowardly angel whose fear of death]] at the hands of the Fourth Wave drives him to commit his atrocities. Using his power of MindControl, Abdiel controls various messengers to make Yaweh and Satan slowly hate each other, igniting a war between their factions, and sets himself up as Yaweh's second-in-command in the process. Attempting to make tensions worse, Abdiel accidentally kills the innocent angel Ariel, then cuts down Raziel for accusing him of the crime, and uses these murders to frame Satan even more as a dangerous traitor, before ordering the full-scale massacre of Satan's defenseless forces under the illusion of a truce. To ensure his own safety, Abdiel constructs the Plan, an event that will sacrifice one thousand angels to protect the rest from any threat by the Fourth Wave, and uses his position of power and various crimes to make sure he is as far away from the Plan when it takes place. In his crowning moment of cowardice and evil, Abdiel, once his crimes are discovered, decides to kick-start the Fourth Wave himself to cover his tracks, fully aware and knowing of the countless lives it can claim, yet completely uncaring, simply laughing that he'll be [[FameThroughInfamy remembered through history for his acts]].
* Literature/TortallUniverse:
** ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Song of the Lioness]]'': [[TheChessmaster Duke Roger of Conté]], [[ActionGirl Alanna]]'s ArchEnemy and the BigBad, was originally heir of his cousin King Roald before the birth of Prince Jon bumped him down the line of succession, and he stops at nothing to get his place back. He creates a MysticalPlague that kills many in the city of Corus before it reaches its intended target, the royal family, who were deliberately targeted last so that the palace Healers were too weak to save Jon's life. When this fails, Roger's second attempt on his cousin's life involves goading Jon into getting himself killed by exploring a cursed city. Alanna foils this too, so Roger sends multiple {{Animal Assassin}}s after her, tries to drown her, [[MoreThanMindControl turns her friend Alex against her]] so that he tries to kill her while sparring, and helps create a war with Tusaine so he can pull a UriahGambit on both of them. After the war is ended without his intended results, Roger casts a wasting sickness on his lawful aunt, the Queen Lianne, using a wax doll of the Queen, being periodically run under a stream of running water that slowly drains her life force; this wrecks her already-poor health enough that she dies little over a year after the spell has been ended. When Alanna uncovers this plot and finally exposes him, she kills him, but that doesn't end it. When Roger returns he has become a full-blown OmnicidalManiac, who gives up regaining the throne in favor of destroying Tortall with an earthquake out of spite. Not even his own followers, except [[TheDragon Alex]], are told, most thinking that they're participating in a standard usurper plot and not realizing that he cares nothing for them either.
** ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'':
*** Vinson of Genlith was already a bully in Joren's gang, but we learn in ''Page'' that he's also a sexual predator, [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] Lalasa. In ''Squire'', the Chamber of the Ordeal forces him to confess to raping two commoner women and beating a third by [[LaserGuidedKarma inflicting on him the injuries he inflicted on them]]; the text describes numerous ugly cuts and bruises occurring on his body. Even then, he doesn't have any remorse and tries to [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blame them]] for somehow inciting him to attack.
*** [[TheHeavy Blayce the Gallan]] from ''Lady Knight'' is a small, cruel man with a magical aptitude in Necromancy. Booted from the City of the Gods by his superiors out of disgust for the way he used his talent, he turned to Tortall's northerly neighbor, Scanra, and swore himself to the newly crowned King Maggur. [[PsychoForHire Offering his services]] in exchange for land and wealth, he hires a band of mercenaries to both protect himself and enforce his rule over the village overlooked by the keep Maggur gave him. Revelling in the power his position has given him, he goes a step further by [[WouldHurtAChild having the villagers' children forcibly taken from their families]], and [[FlayingAlive flayed]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath tied to a wall until death claims them]] if they try to rescue them. When the children are brought to him, he has them bathed, [[FridgeHorror touching them inappropriately]], [[BlatantLies promises they will be given luxury and kindness under him]] only to have their souls sucked out of their bodies, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild entrapping them within monstrous mechanical devices]] that he provides to the Scanran militia. When Blayce runs out of children in his own backwater village, he resorts to having the Tortallan refugees sheltered under Keladry of Mindelan captured, intending to use their children to continue powering his devices. Blayce's monstrosity is highlighted in the disgust the villagers have for him, knowing that he specifically uses minors not out of pragmatism, but out of the enjoyment it gives him to manipulate their innocent naivety and the pedophilic undertones in his physical intimacy with the children. A remorseless, cowardly and sociopathic murderer, Blayce and the men he employs repulse Kel so much that she leaves their corpses to be desecrated by Stormwings, even when most enemies she'd faced had been given proper funeral rites.
** ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Imajane Rittevon]] is an example of TheCaligula being a genetic trait. Anyone she deems rebellious, even former friends or longtime aides, is subject to being nailed to a post on the docks as an example. Hundreds of raka in the countryside are killed by stretching an already awful law beyond its limit, and city raka who gather even under innocent circumstances are violently dispersed. When Duke Nomru politely suggests being mildly less horrible, she throws him in prison. Finally, she and Rubinyan have Dunevon and Elsren assassinated to make themselves the sole monarchs and do so in a cruel, sloppy way that endangers others. Though her husband Rubinyan is her accomplice for many of these actions, and even has the nerve to pretend sympathy over it, he at least tries to restrain her more impolitic cruelties and might have had some genuine friendship for the Balitangs in the past.
** ''[[Literature/BekaCooper Provost's Dog]]'':
*** Ammon Lofts (known as "Crookshank"), one of the two {{serial killer}}s from ''Terrier'', is already a slumlord who forced at least one debtor to sell his wife into slavery, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to suicide]]. He's rich, but when he discovers fire opals under the city, he lures in jobless poor folk to mine them in secret, then kills them all and starts over when each mine is spent. He does this several times over the course of the book, killing seven to ten people each time. When his great-grandson Rolond is kidnaped by the Shadow Snake, he refuses to pay a ransom of opals out of pride and greed, resulting in him being killed, and continues when the same is threatened to his grandson Herrun. When Beka tries talking some sense into him, he threatens to have her raped and murdered.
*** Mistress Deirdry Noll, the other serial killer from ''Terrier'', uses the legend of the "Shadow Snake" to go after poor Lower City families by abducting their children to [[{{Greed}} extort their valuables]], usually the only slightly valuable thing they own, such as a family heirloom or a bauble saved up for. If not paid, the Snake will [[WouldHurtAChild kill the child]], and if the family has others, she'll take them until she gets what she wants. She [[RevengeByProxy kills Crookshank's great-grandson]] in part because [[DisproportionateRetribution she has a grudge against the child's mother]]. When she is finally unmasked and apprehended, she has no remorse and justifies her actions with "I deserve nice things more than they do and that bitch made the success of my business more difficult." While she's being arrested, she shows herself as an {{abusive parent|s}}.
* ''Literature/TheTorturer'', by Peter Saxon: [[TortureTechnician Conde Pedro Delmorte]] was a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who learned the secrets of eternal life from the worshipers of {{Quetzalcoatl}}. Savagely torturing countless natives and even [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering his own bride]], the Conde returned to Spain and began to endlessly torture peasant girls to death [[ImmortalityImmorality to ensure his own immortality]]. Returning as a vampiric figure in modern day, Delmorte begins to pick off the film crew at his castle, torturing them to guarantee his eternity.
* ''Literature/TowardsZero'': Nevile Strange is a psychopath who feels that [[ItsAllAboutMe anyone who has ever wronged him]] must die. When his wife Audrey leaves him for another man out of fear, he decides that she has to die, and die humiliated at that, first killing her new husband and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it seem like an accident]]. With that in mind, he bludgeons his adoptive mother, Lady Tressilian, to death, and lays two overlapping sets of false clues, so that it will look as though Audrey not only committed the murder, but also tried to frame him for the murder. He arranged for the death of lawyer Arthur Treves, who remembered him from a case he committed as a [[EnfantTerrible child]] when he deliberately killed another child with a bow and arrow and might have been able to expose him. His intent is that Audrey be destroyed socially and then hanged; when he's exposed, he screams that he does not care, and starts ranting about how much he wants Audrey to be hanged.
* ''Tracers'', by J.J. Howard: James Miller, alias James Hatcher, is a [[NaughtyNarcs crooked DEA agent]] who moonlights as a master thief and fence. Taking a group of homeless teenagers under his wing, Miller trains them in [[LeParkour freerunning]] and uses them to perform daring heists across New York for him. Miller runs his gang with an iron fist, including [[SexualExtortion extorting sexual favors]] from Nikki, the group's sole female member, threatening to ship her brother back to Florida, where he's fleeing an unjust warrant for his arrest, if she doesn't put out for him. When Nikki falls for main character Cam and the two plan to slip Miller's leash, he [[VillainousBreakdown rapidly devolves]] from a mere cat burglar to a murderous madman who repeatedly [[UriahGambit attempts to send Cam to his death]], before finally capping off his rampage with the massacre of a roomful of witnesses to one of his heists.
* ''Literature/TrickyBusiness'': Tark is a low-level driver of a drug boat. Tired of this, he decides to rob his bosses in a major drug deal. In the middle of a tropical storm, he has three of his associates beat up and knock out two guards of the boat. He [[NasalTrauma mutilates]] and [[CripplingCastration castrates]] one guard, and decides to force the other guard to swallow his own blood with his hands tied behind his back. When he gets to the drop-off point of the deal, he murders everybody crewing the operation. He then proceeds to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betray and kill each and every one of his associates]] and even tries to kill some innocent people who get in the way. Motivated simply by greed, no one in the novel outshines Tark when it comes to {{sadis|t}}m or disloyalty.
* ''Literature/TheTroop'': [[TeensAreMonsters Shelley Longpre]] is a [[AxCrazy disturbed young psychopath]] who enjoys [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torturing and murdering insects and other animals]], including his mother's kitten. Taking advantage of the tapeworm infestation to enact his sick desires, Shelley tortures the infected Kent before killing him and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] Ephraim to torture him mentally in the belief he is infected before burning him alive and attempting to kill the remaining members of the troop.
* ''Twelve Gauge'', by Ronald Kelly: Richard [=McFarland=] was a man who grew bored with life one day and walked into a church in Cedar Bluff, Tennessee where he proceeded to massacre twelve people, the youngest being a [[WouldHurtAChild four-month-old baby]]. Before he was executed, Richard learned to {{astral project|Ion}}, and escaped his body to slowly corrupt his living son Sonny. Manipulating Sonny into "finishing the job", Richard leads him to murder multiple innocent people in order to hunt down and slaughter the survivors of the church massacre. Having Sonny abduct and murder two college girls as "practice", Richard [[AbusiveParents keeps him in line through vicious physical and mental abuse]] while trying to force Sonny to simply die, taking down as many innocent people possible at the end.
* ''Uncanny'', by David Macinnis Gill: [[WickedWitch The Shadowless]], real name [[TheDreaded Malleus the Deceiver]], has murdered hundreds of people with magical talents called "Norns" and then [[YourSoulIsMine consumed their souls]] to add their powers to her own. Kidnapping a boy named Harkon, she [[{{Tykebomb}} molds him into a killer]], with Malleus being the architect behind the Salem Witch Trials in a bid for more power through murder, even [[WouldHurtAChild killing a 5-year-old child]] when her attempt to escape is foiled. Eventually killed, Malleus returns from the dead hundreds of years later to seek out an uncanny--a person with special magical talent--named Willow Jane, whose soul would give Malleus unlimited power. Killing the friends of Willow, Malleus twists them into her servants to use her in her hunt for Willow and even uses Willow's 7-year-old sister as hostage to draw her out, fully intending to kill both of them.
* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'': Simon Legree is a chilling reminder of the evils of slavery in human form. Legree is brutal to his slaves, working them to death because he considers it a financial boon to himself. It's also made clear he'd do it solely [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Legree endeavors to break their spirits and make them despair as he breaks their bodies and minds. Legree is a torturer, rapist and murderer whose only frustration is the good-hearted slave Tom will simply refuse to break, spurring Legree on to greater cruelties to force his submission.
* ''Literature/UncleVictor'', by Jake Wiklacz: Chris is Kara's ex-husband, who manages to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters a far worse person]] than the titular boogeyman. A warped psychopath with a womanizing streak, Chris believes that in order to truly move on from a marriage, he needs to literally destroy all ties he has with it, starting by burning down his and Kara's house [[OffingTheOffspring while both their daughters are inside]], ignoring their cries for help all the while. His second wife eventually finds out that he's having an affair with an escort, and he responds by [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering her]] and setting up her death to [[NeverSuicide look like a suicide]]. Confronted by Kara when she discovers the truth, he kills her as well.
* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'': These two are responsible for [[BigBad Pearlpelt]]/[[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Bane]] being so bad:
** [[TheChessmaster Twirltongue]] is [[TheManBehindTheMan the true mastermind behind the Bane]], and a vicious, {{manipulative|Bitch}} xenophobe. Taking advantage of the Bane at a young age, Twirltongue uses her persuasion abilities to convince the unstable Bane that he will one day lead the Gnawers, with her as his adviser. Once setting the Bane up as king of an army of Gnawers, Twirltongue continues her manipulation and advising of the Bane, [[AbsoluteXenophobe convincing him that every species that isn't a rat deserves to die]], and to this end, the Bane's forces proceed to round up thousands of adult and children mice alike, then either force them to jump to their deaths by the hundreds, or shove them into horrific chambers and gas them by the thousands with volcanic ash. Twirltongue then has the Bane lead a full-scale war on Regalia, hoping to slaughter every man, woman, and child inside, then reign supreme over all other species of Underland.
** [[SmallRoleBigImpact Snare]], despite his limited appearances, sticks out as the nastiest Gnawer in the story alongside Twirltongue. Once a general in the wicked King Gorger's army, thus facilitating the numerous atrocities committed by Gorger, Snare later gave birth to a litter of mice with his wife, Goldshard. Realizing that one of his newborn mice pups, Pearlpelt, is the legendary "Bane", a being prophesied to one day take over all of Underland, Snare promptly [[OffingTheOffspring murders the rest of his litter]] to ensure Pearlpelt doesn't have to share his mother's milk with them. Snare takes to [[AbusiveParents beating Pearlpelt]] and driving his hateful rhetoric into the baby, fully hoping to one day use his son to wage war on Regalia and ride the coattails to victory, and, when Goldshard finally has enough and tries to escape with Pearlpelt, Snare attempts to murder her in a blind rage. Though dead before Pearlpelt became the monstrous Bane, Snare fully facilitated his son's transformation into a psychotic monster, and would only laugh at the destruction he went on to inflict.
* ''Undertaker's Moon'', by Ronald Kelly: "Squire" Crom [=McManus=] was a squire in ancient Ireland who embraced a DealWithTheDevil himself to become the Arget Behir, the Silver Beast. A [[SavageWolves vicious werewolf]] who spread his curse, roaming the land and slaughtering or turning all who crossed his path, Crom would attack an abbey near Kells, killing all but a single priest in one bloody night. After centuries of murder, Crom realized his survival depended on a low profile and turned innocents to help him conceal himself, eventually destroying them. After converting the O'Shea family and moving to Old Hickory, Tennessee, Crom eventually decides he's through lying low and decides to move to the city where he can feed on the homeless and runaway children. When he tries to flee when the O'Sheas are destroyed, Crom runs into a woman he was briefly dating as a diversion and decides to rape and murder her on the spot, [[TheUnfettered gleeful to embrace the Beast once more]].
* ''Literature/{{Underworlds}}'' series: [[BigBad Loki]], the wicked Norse TricksterGod, seeks to wage war against Asgard to [[TheUsurper take Odin's throne for himself]]. Kidnapping Dana Runson for her knowledge on the whereabouts of the Crystal Rune, the key to Odin's throne, Loki then starts releasing monsters into the human world, having entire towns and villages destroyed, [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans seeking to burn the world to ash in his quest for power]]. Even after learning using the key on Odin's throne will destroy all worlds, Loki persists, and upon being beaten, sends his [[SavageWolves wolf Fenrir]] to keep Dana imprisoned in his underworld permanently out of spite.
* ''Unholy Night'', by Seth Grahame-Smith: [[BiblicalBadGuy King Herod]] is a [[TheCaligula twisted tyrant]] who rules via fear and oppression. Having anyone who opposes him murdered in brutal and torturous fashion, Herod also [[SerialRapist rapes]] attractive women he has brought to him, including girls as young as their early teens. Upon the escape of the infamous thief Balthazar, Herod goes ballistic when he learns of a prophecy and [[WouldHurtAChild orders the massacre of any child]] in his domain to catch the young messiah. Succumbing to paranoia and rage, Herod routinely slaughters all around him in his quest to be more than a petty PuppetKing of Rome.
* ''UNSUB'' series, by Meg Gardiner:
** ''UNSUB'' (first book): The vicious [[KnightTemplar Titus Rhone]], nicknamed "the Prophet" by the public, [[ThemeSerialKiller bases his murders]] around [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''. Having killed a woman in his 20s for being a "tease", Rhone suffocates a professor of Eastern religions; stabs a woman with multiple marriages; feeds a couple to attack dogs; tortures and drowns other victims; and burns an atheist couple alive, all for the sadistic thrill he gets. Returning later for a new killing spree after laying low, Rhone kills multiple innocents, even twisting two victims' heads 180 degrees with his bare hands while they scream in agony. Rhone then targets the heroes with more torture and murder, even attempting to detonate bombs to collapse UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco's infrastructure and kill hundreds of thousands while educating a new disciple to carry on his gruesome work after he is gone.
** ''Into the Black Nowhere'': [[SerialKiller Kyle Detrick]] is a ControlFreak whose pattern involves kidnapping [[WouldHitAGirl women]] to torture and [[SerialRapist rape]] for weeks before killing them, acting out a fantasy of revenge on his college crush Dahlia for rejecting him. Spending his free time working at a suicide hotline just so he can get off to women on the cusp of taking their own lives, Detrick is captured by law enforcement for only a limited time before causing a traffic pile-up to enable his escape, nearly killing dozens of drivers. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] his secretary into killing others for him, Detrick hunts down Dahlia and tortures her to death before targeting the woman's teenage daughter, hoping to slaughter an entire sorority of dozens of women as a final romp of fun before finishing off Dahlia's daughter.
* ''Until They Bring the Streetcars Back'', by Stanley Gordon West: Otto Lutterman is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Gretchen. He routinely beats her, and is later revealed to beat the rest of his daughters, as well. At one point, Cal Gant breaks into his house and finds the corpse of [[WouldHurtAChild an infant]] in [[BodyInABreadbox his refrigerator]], and Lutterman chases him with a knife. When Cal successfully frames Lutterman for bootlegging, he testifies at his trial, and Otto's wife reveals that the child was his, and that he had [[VillainousIncest raped Gretchen]]. Otto then flies into a rage and tries to strangle Cal.
* ''Literature/Utopia58'':
** [[BitchInSheepsClothing [=LE905=]]], also known as Ellie, is actually [[GreaterScopeVillain the Father]], the person behind Isonomia's horrific state of condition. After the previous Father died, Ellie took up his mantle, keeping herself disguised so that the country's culture and ideology would survive, and the White Army would be able to hunt down Zionites and other scapegoats Ellie created for the country. Posing as an innocent civilian, Ellie befriended Kay and several other rebels who defected, all so she could gain their trust and build up their hope, only to [[HopeCrusher crush it]] later on. While working alongside the rebels, she secretly led the White Army to them, thus causing the deaths of many rebels along with soldiers from the White Army--many of whom she personally killed. After faking her death, Ellie allows [=EQL61=] and his soldiers kill off the rest of Kay's allies, before Kay himself is captured. While Kay's imprisoned, Ellie visits Kay in person and reveals who she truly is, all so she can gloat about how everything he did was futile, and that she'll be free to continue leading Isonomia with no one left to stop her.
** [[TheHeavy [=EQL61=]]], also known as the [[InsaneAdmiral White General]], is a prominent member within the Isonomian White Army renowned for slaughtering hundreds of thousands, as well as personally torturing Kay for eight years in a reeducation camp. In his debut, [=EQL61=] buries several Zionite prisoners up to their necks in sand, and watches as thousands of Isonomians stone them all to death. After learning that his wife, Ellie, was "stolen" by Kay, [=EQL61=] crucifies hundreds of innocent men, women, and children, leaving a note on all of their bodies for Kay to return Ellie back to him, or else he'll kill more innocents. When [=EQL61=] learns of Kay's location, he and his battalion of soldiers hunt down Kay and his rebels, where they massacre most of them with no hesitation. Once [=EQL61=] finally captures Kay, he keeps him alive just to torture him in his prison cell, before watching as he and his remaining allies are publicly executed several days later.
* ''[[Series/{{V1983}} V]]: The Second Generation'', by Kenneth Johnson: The [[BigBad Leader]], [[TheGeneralissimo military dictator]] of the Visitors, won her place at the head of the Visitors via her charisma, but eventually simply resorted to outright murder and jingoism to keep control. [[GalacticConqueror Initiating brutal intergalactic conquests]], the Leader approved Diana's cruel schemes and infiltration of Earth with intent to [[KillAllHumans genocide humanity]] and [[ToServeMan turn them into food]] for the Visitors. Arriving on Earth herself, she has one young volunteer to the Visitors murder an alien Zedti POW before trying to use humankind as shields against the Zedti fleet before wiping them out as well.
* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': [[VampireMonarch Queen Akasha]] was the first vampire ever made and also the evliest, being a selfish, nihilistic predator with a desire to dominate everyone else. She orders the massacre of Maharet and Mekare's village down to the last woman and child all so that she could obtain their spirit-summoning powers for herself, has them publicly raped and humiliated before her court, and finally sentences them to be mutilated and burned because she unfairly blamed them for the accident that turned her and her husband King Enkil into the [[MonsterProgenitor Mother and Father]]. It is worse in modern times, as she plans to execute almost every human male in the world in order to set up a paradise over which she will [[AGodAmI rule over as a goddess]], flying around the globe and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotizing hundreds of women at a time into committing these murders]] while she watches. She massacres most of the vampires in the world and threatens to do the same to the lone survivors if they refuse to join her New World Order. She even drains her husband to death to take his powers and have Lestat as her new mate. Among the actions of [[BlackAndGrayMorality countless morally gray characters]] that appear within ''The Chronicles'', her crimes are a stark contrast that make it all the more apparent.
* ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'': We learn about Helen Tielli [[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]]. She repeatedly tries to give her children up for adoption after her husband's death so she'd be free to party. When state authorities refused to take them, she brings her kids to an isolated area for a picnic. She takes her six-year-old son into the woods, cuts his throat and sets him on fire. Not quite dead, he screams in agony as she watches him burning. Helen then slits the throat of her three-year-old daughter and walks away, leaving them both for dead. Arrested soon afterward, the only time she says a word to the police is to ask [[ObliviouslyEvil how long her questioning would take, so she could go home and get dressed up for a date]]. Though her brother-in-law has been more than willing to adopt both kids, she wouldn't let him, because she can't stomach him being gay.
* "Literature/TheVampyre": [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Ruthven]], the [[TropeMaker original aristocratic vampire]], is a sexual and psychological predator who [[BitchInSheepsClothing befriends]] protagonist Aubrey and uses him as bait to draw in women. He murders Aubrey's LoveInterest Ianthe, and then [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death]], making Aubrey swear to tell no one. When Aubrey returns home, he finds Ruthven engaged to his sister, whom he plans to kill. Aubrey finally violates his oath, leading to his death; the warning comes too late, and the servants find Aubrey's sister the day after the wedding, drained of blood.
* ''Film/VanHelsing: The {{Novel|ization}}'', by Kevin Ryan: {{Dracula}} is a predator [[AdaptationalVillainy devoid of any qualities but malice and cruelty]]. Seducing Victor Frankenstein into making [[FrankensteinsMonster his monster]], Dracula murders him and later unleashes his young to wipe out a Transylvanian town. Attempting to turn Anna Valerious into his monstrous bride as he's done to other innocent girls, Dracula intends to awaken his children and feed them much of the world [[RageAgainstTheHeavens out of spite towards God]].
* ''Literature/{{Velocity}}'', by Creator/DeanKoontz: Steve Zillis and his accomplice Valis are a team of {{serial killer}}s known as "The Freak", who send Billy Wiles a letter detailing a SadisticChoice: if the victim goes to the police, they'll kill someone, but if the victim does not they'll kill someone else; the two proceed to kill a friend of his. Their second victim is tortured to death and the third is shot, while along the way, they torture Billy by jabbing a fishhook through his scalp. At the end, Billy finally catches on to them when his wife in a coma is the final intended victim.
* ''Literature/VeryBadDeaths'': [[TortureTechnician Allen]] is a wealthy hyper-{{sadist}} who considers himself an artist and a scientist, specializing in [[ColdBloodedTorture human pain]]. With an encyclopedic knowledge of the most horrendous and painful ways to kill a man, Allen [[SerialKiller carves a legacy of torture, rape, and murder of the most twisted kinds over years, leaving at least 150 victims behind him]]. Allen considers it a test to keep his victims as alive as long as he can--his personal record being twenty-two days--and devises a variety of drugs ranging from those that promote fear and panic to those that amplify pain far beyond the usual, planning to continue murdering until he's able to catalog an entire book on the ways he's killed people. Allen's intended masterpiece is his intended fate for a happy family of four in Heron Island, BC: Allen intends to torture each member of the family to death over a course of days one at a time, [[WouldHurtAChild the children included]], before rendering the wife permanently aphasic and paraplegic, sending her off to an institute and visiting her regularly to continually remind her of what he did to her. Allen captures the protagonist, Russell Walker, and puts him through a round of torture to extract information from him, planning to visit as much of a month of torture on his associate Nika, and responds to the information that Russell's friend Zandor is psychic by gleefully [[MindRape sending unspeakably horrible mental images towards him]] and planning to keep him as his own pet, forcing him to bear the agony of every victim Allen murders for the rest of his life. A "one-in-a-billion freak" and a madman more vile than any other serial killer or sociopath the world has ever seen, Allen [[CardCarryingVillain cheerfully admits he's a sociopath and revels in every minute in the marathons of agony he orchestrates]].
* ''Literature/VictorianHorrorStories''' "Let Loose": [[AxCrazy Sir Roger Despard]] was a mass-murdering psychopath who enjoyed terrorizing the people of Wetwaste. Nearing the end of his life, Despard is asked to repent for his many sins, only for him to refuse to and instead say that his only "[[IRegretNothing regret]]" is not being able to kill more people. To rectify this, Despard [[HelpingHands cuts off his hand]] and instructs it to murder and maim in his place before he dies. Fifty years later, said hand eventually escapes its confinement and proceeds to kill [[WouldHurtAChild a little girl]], the local blacksmith, and very nearly kills the protagonist himself. The latter ends up protected by his dog, who [[HeroicSacrifice dies in the process]], and ends up needing to wear a high collar, even in hot weather, to hide the bruises.
* ''WebVideo/LeVisiteurDuFutur: La Meute'' (''The Visitor from the Future: The Pack''): Loup (Wolf) is a [[EvilFormerFriend former friend]] of the Visitor and fellow member of the Pack. Taking over the band after the death of the previous leader, Loup [[ChildSoldiers recruits and arms over 40 children]], indoctrinating them with a false promise of travel to a better world. Planning a bloody rebellion to take over Neo-Versailles, Loup almost [[WouldHurtAChild tricks a little boy into detonating himself]] in order to kill the Visitor and his friend Belette. When the Visitor and his ally faces him, Loup attempts to have them [[PublicExecution publicly executed]], successfully murdering Taureau. Cornered and defeated, Loup tosses a grenade at the children to cause a distraction. Burning to death, he makes one last effort to [[TakingYouWithMe take the Visitor with him]].
* ''[[Literature/SilverJohn The Voice of the Mountain]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Ruel Harpe]] is the descendant of [[SerialKiller Micajah Harpe]]. An egotist who dwells on top of Cry Mountain, Ruel forms a group of witches that he manipulates while also seeking to corrupt the hero John to his side. Ruel reveals that he intends to find the Gospel of Judas and, seeing most of humanity as nothing but parasites, will use it to kill almost every human being on the planet, sparing only a million people per continent while he builds Cry Mountain into a temple where [[AGodAmI he will be worshipped by them]]. When John finally refuses, Ruel shows no remorse in attempting to murder him as well.
* ''Literature/{{Volle}}'': Dereath implicitly caused the downfall of the preceding Lord Fardew and he discredited and displaced anyone else who could have taken the job. He also unrepentantly engineered two deaths and framed Volle and Streak for the murders. When confronted over the deaths he ridicules Volle for clinging to the past, with regards to Volle's first love, Xiller, in the first book and confesses that he was planning to kill his accomplice as well. What's more, the only reason he targeted Volle in the first place was that Volle rejected his sexual advances.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Baron Ryoval stands out as one of the worst villains of the series, and is viewed as a monster even on the WretchedHive of an OutlawTown planet in which he lives. Ryoval started his evil early in life, murdering his father and then proceeding (with the exception of two siblings who escaped) to either murder the rest of his siblings or else subjecting them to torture/body modification before condemning them to a FateWorseThanDeath in brothels he runs catering to sadism and sexual perversion. Ryoval is obsessed with torture and sadism both as his primary business and as a hobby, and employees a large staff of {{Torture Technician}}s, who like the rest of his staff, don't like the work, but are too afraid of what he would do to them if caught to flee. Ryoval is actually 70 years old, but looks like a young man because like some other particularly depraved people on his planet, he has had clones of himself produced (who are normal, sapient individuals) and then when they've reached a certain age, he had their brain ripped out and his implanted. He has this "procedure" done several times.
** Ges Vorrutyer gets about twenty pages of screen time, and is still a memorable skin-crawler. His creepy obsession with tormenting and torturing his ex-boyfriend Aral takes him from "academically interested in watching a psychologically destroyed Bothari raping Cordelia Naismith on his say-so" to "willing and eager to do the deed himself" in a way that leaves even the normally very calm and balanced Cordelia absolutely terrified. According to Aral, Ges broke Bothari in the first place, and did it twice: once before Bothari arrived at the Leper Colony, and again after only a few scant months when Bothari was reassigned.
* ''Literature/{{Vortex}}'': BigBad [[PresidentEvil Karl Adriaan Vorster]], a member of a [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Afrikaner movement, arranges the death of the moderate Haymans government in South Africa, and reinstates full apartheid, arresting and killing those who oppose it. He then tries to re-conquer Namibia, taking South Africa into a war with Cuba and Angola in the process. When the war turns against him, Vorster uses a [[NukeEm nuclear bomb]] on an advancing Cuban brigade, and then plans to nuke Maputo (capital of Mozambique) and Bulawayo (second largest city in Zimbabwe). When the Cubans start basing their headquarters inside of South African cities and towns, Vorster orders that they too be subject to nuclear attack. [[AmericaSavesTheDay American intervention]] takes this option out of his hands, so Vorster instead tries to ruin South Africa and the world's economy by contaminating the nation's mines with radioactive dust as part of a last, mad bid to take everyone down with him. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Hateful of anyone who isn't an Afrikaner]], and responsible for thousands of deaths, Vorster personifies all the worst aspects of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra.
* ''[[Literature/CastawaysOfTheFlyingDutchman Voyage of Slaves]]'': "[[BigBad Al Misurata]]" is a Libyan [[{{Pirate}} corsair]] and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] who freely deals in the trade of flesh, be they young or old. Al Misurata tries to have the eternally childlike Ben and a group of slaves [[HeKnowsTooMuch killed to prevent them from talking too much]] about the load he intends to sell to the corrupt Count Dreskar. Along the way, Al Misurata cons a traveling circus troupe and tries to have them sold into slavery; [[BadBoss abuses his minions]]; and shows no care toward their deaths; and tries to sink a ship full of people for the purpose of getting Ben. Routed time and time again, Al Misurata finally demonstrates his bloodthirsty reputation in full by murdering Count Dreskar's liaison and all of the liaison's servants in a fit of pique, before having his corsairs descend on a convent of nuns to kill everything in their way of getting to his escaped slaves.
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* ''W.A.R.P.'' series, by Creator/EoinColfer:
** [[BigBad Albert Garrick, the Forever Man]], is a ruthless Victorian era assassin who murdered UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper out of [[FameThroughInfamy jealousy]]. Having [[TilMurderDoUsPart killed his wife]] for possible infidelity, Garrick later becomes an assassin, using his magician abilities to escape capture and kill hundreds, at one point killing a time traveling FBI agent and adopting his son Riley, who he raises in his own image with psychological torment and beatings. Upon finding the modern day, Garrick proves happy to slaughter whoever stands in his way to go after Riley and Riley's friend, Chevron "Chevie" Savano. Defeated, Garrick is deposited in the past where he becomes a [[TheWitchHunter Witchfinder]], using his talents to frame innocent women as witches where he has them tortured and burnt in rigged tests, making a point to target those he knows are innocent. Uncaring his actions might eventually destroy most of humanity with a torn timestream, Garrick intends to murder Riley while capturing Chevie and attempting to have her burnt as well.
** ''The Hangman's Revolution'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Colonel Clayton Box]] is a former FBI agent who killed his best friend as a young boy just to see if he could. Taking advantage of the timestream to go back and establish the Boxite Empire, Box uses brainwashing, murder and torture, creating a force that tears apart the world, killing millions and torturing and "reeducating" many others. When Riley and Chevie try to stop him, Box intends on forcing the world to submit by gaining access to a set of ballistic missiles, intending on leveling major European cities with no heed of civilian casualties.
* ''Literature/{{Waif}}'', by Samantha Kolesnik: [[BackAlleyDoctor Cal "Mince" Mincciola]] is an underground plastic surgeon who specializes in off-the-books surgeries. In truth, Mince runs underground pornography rings that deal in [[SnuffFilm snuff]], [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]], [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]], and more while [[MadDoctor he mutilates patients on camera or has them raped while anesthetized]]. Taking in protagonist Angela, Mince uses her in films and eventually plans to murder her and her friends, known as the Waifs, with his dying words being to sneer that people would have paid good money to see his own death.
* ''The Walking'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[WickedWitch Isabella]] is a monstrous, ancient witch whose sick sadism drives Wolf Canyon, and nearly the entire world, into complete destruction. Having kept herself alive for centuries by feeding on the life force of innocent witches and magic users, Isabella shows up in Wolf Canyon to seduce the town's leader, then become his second-in-command, slowly instituting her own depraved law where ordinary humans are slaughtered alongside any witches who defy her. Spending her free time [[WouldHurtAChild torturing children and stabbing infants to death]] in front of their mothers, Isabella cursed the town of Wolf Canyon to be swept away by a flood and all its inhabitants drowned when they finally turn on her and seal her away in a cave. Finally escaping from her entombment in the present by murdering and feasting on the life forces of several dozen people, Isabella reveals her new plan to use all her magical powers to create an apocalypse across the world, [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all life she can]] for no other reason than her own enjoyment and as a petty "revenge" for being sealed away. A [[{{Sadist}} profound psychopath whose only joy in life was hurting others]], Isabella is easily the worst witch in the entire story.
* ''Literature/WaltzOfShadows'', by Joe R. Lansdale ("Lost Lansdale" series): The killers known as Snake and Fat Boy are a pair of ruthless thugs who introduce themselves by murdering a group of thrill seekers after horrifically torturing them. When one of the group escapes to his uncle, the duo murder the escapee and menace his uncle and family as well, sexually assaulting his wife and attempting to [[ManOnFire burn his children alive]]. It is revealed that Fat Boy and Snake also run a [[WouldHurtAChild child pornography ring where they have kids murdered after participating]], with Snake even keeping [[CreepySouvenir photos of the children as trophies on his wall]].
* ''Literature/WarchildSeries'': [[BigBad Vincenzo Marcus Falcone]] demonstrates the worst of the setting's already explicitly evil [[SpacePirates piracy]]. Falcone slaughters everyone on the ships he boards before blowing the ships to pieces; the only survivors are the children he captures to then sell as slaves, although some of them he keeps for himself and [[WouldHurtAChild abuses in horrific fashion]], while [[EvilMentor turning others]] into {{Tykebomb}}s. Even after his death, flashbacks show him reveling in his atrocities.
* ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles'':
** [[WickedWitch Elizabeth of the Bones]], commonly known as Bony Lizzie, is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild child-killing]] witch who harvests bones for rituals. Posing as Alice Deane's aunt, she's actually her [[AbusiveParents mother]], having conceived with [[{{Satan}} the Fiend]]. She once had a brain-eating familiar, and Lizzie didn't interfere when it targeted her daughter. She first plots to free her dreaded grandmother Mother Malkin by tricking Tom into giving her blood cakes and abducting a little boy as a meal. She inflicts Tom with [[MindRape nightmarish hallucinations]], before she tries to [[{{Fingore}} take his thumb bones]]. After taking over the isle of Mona, she murders a miller who challenged her authority, [[AndIMustScream trapping his soul in limbo]], sentences John Gregory, Adriana and Commander Stanton to be fed to the Buggane, drinks the blood of a yeoman and leads raiding parties slaughtering entire families. When Alice ruins her plans of world domination, [[OffingTheOffspring she attempts to take her life]] then successfully kills Adriana and her fiancé. The flashback of the twelfth book reveals that she killed a Spook before torturing his soul and attempted to kill thirteen children for a ritual, while in the present day, her ghost ambushes Alice and Thorne to be interrogated and tortured by the daemon Beelzebub. In ''The Dark Assassin'', Lizzie treacherously delivers the witch assassin Grimalkin and Thorne to another daemon.
** [[{{Satan}} The Fiend]] is the master of the dark and [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the series who tries to bring the world to a new age of darkness. Having control of practitioners of the dark, he sentences his enemies as well as people who make deals with him to [[AndIMustScream eternal torments]]. Fathering many children with witches, he [[OffingTheOffspring kills those]] who are neither humans nor witches, as he [[WouldHurtAChild killed Grimalkin’s baby son]], earning her hatred. He prevents Bill Arkwright’s ghost parents [[BarredFromTheAfterlife from reaching the light]], condemning them to haunt their mill. When the witches release him from his plane, his mere presence on Earth causes many wars. He [[KillAndReplace murders and takes the appearance]] of the bargeman Matthew Guilbert in order to lure Tom and his master into a trap. After failing to convert [[TheHero Thomas Ward]] to his cause, he challenges him to face his daughter Morwena with the threat of killing his friends if he refuses or gets killed. He later tricks Tom into [[DealWithTheDevil selling his soul]] and when his other daughter [[AntiAntiChrist Alice]] prevents him from claiming it, he [[AbusiveParents curses her to share her friend’s fate]]. He submits her to unspeakable torture and allows Tom to hear her cries. When Grimalkin [[EyeScream takes one of his eyes]], he [[BadBoss threatens his followers with eternal damnation]]. Finally, he sends the Vampire God Siscoi against Tom and sends his agents to murder Tom’s brother James [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]].
* ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'' set out to provide a grim version of the Myth/KingArthur legend and introduces several monstrous figures in it:
** Gundleus is one of the first villains of the series. Initially a lord sworn to King Uther, Gundleus is also wicked and ambitious and has no intent of honoring his vows to serve his dead king's infant son Mordred. After the death of Uther, Gundleus approaches the baby with its young mother and then murders her after demanding she kiss his sword for protection, before stabbing the infant as well (unknown to him, the infant Mordred was swapped out with a decoy). He then proceeds to rape Merlin's disciple Nimue in retribution for her attitude towards him and rips out one of her eyes for spite. Even his affection for his lowborn lover proves to be a farce as he abandons her when he gets a better betrothal offer.
** King Dwirnach of Ireland is a vicious tyrant aiming to conquer and kill. What sets Dwirnach apart from the other warlords of the series is his love of ColdBloodedTorture as a hobby. Dwirnach prefers to take his enemies alive, so he can spend his time slowly flaying them. He even keeps the skins as perverse trophies and threatens to both rape and flay the hero Derfel's lover Princess Ceinwyn solely to satisfy his lust for pain.
** King Mark of Cornwall is well known for marrying much younger women [[TheBluebeard and killing them later when he's tired of them.]] When one of his betrothed, the young Isolde, escapes Mark with his nephew Tristan, Mark hunts them to Arthur's lands and demands satisfaction. Unable to break the peace [[ToBeLawfulOrGood Arthur is forced to compromise his morals]] by allowing Mark's "justice," allowing Tristan to engage in a fight he cannot win against Mark's champion who reluctantly kills the valiant knight. With Isolde back in his clutches, Mark immediately has her burned alive on the beach by where her beloved died before returning to Cornwall with smug satisfaction to continue his practices.
* ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'': [[TheChessmaster Nidrus Hellebore]], Lord of House Hellebore and the shadow dictator of the Faerie lands, maintains power by murder, torture, labor camps and treachery. Having [[TheUsurper usurped power]] from King Oberon and Queen Titania, Hellebore keeps them in an induced coma to leech off their energies and keep the kingdom functioning. With human belief in the supernatural waning, Hellebore uses numerous faeries in power plants to drain them of their magic. Ready to cement his rule, Hellebore unleashes dragons he had secretly kept to annihilate a rival house, resulting in massive casualties. When his co-conspirator's daughter Poppy allies with the hero of the novel, a changeling named Theo, Hellebore has her arrested and tortured, and reveals that his ultimate plan involves sacrificing Theo's soul to be devoured. He also [[BadBoss offers a blood sacrifice of one of his own men]], and when he hears the goblin race is rebelling against his rule, he furiously orders the slaughter of an entire generation. Wanting nothing more than to rule as a brutal autocrat, Hellebore considers no crime, no matter how heinous, too great to achieve his selfish goals.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': This duo from ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsTheOriginalSeries The Prophecies Begin]]'':
** [[EvilOverlord Brokenstar]] is established as the books' first BigBad when, early on, it is shown that [[ChildSoldiers he sends kits under 6 months old]] against full grown warriors, tries to kidnap kits from other Clans when his own all die from his harsh training, and forces a Clan out of their territory. When he is blinded by [=ThunderClan=] and given shelter as their prisoner, he still plots with Tigerclaw to kill Bluestar and take over the clan, [[UngratefulBastard even though the same clan protected him]] from [=WindClan=] and [=ShadowClan=] when they tried to kill him. His own mother, Yellowfang, eventually kills him for the safety of TheClan.
** The final villain of the original series, [[AxCrazy Scourge]], proves to be even worse than [[BigBad Tigerstar/Tigerclaw]]. A former kittypet-turned-rogue leading a gang of stray cats calling themselves "[=BloodClan=]," Scourge decorates his collar with the teeth of those he's killed and reinforces his claws with the claws of dogs, promoting a [[TheSocialDarwinist survival-of-the-fittest philosophy]] within [=BloodClan=]'s ranks and leaving any cats who can't fend for themselves--kits included--to die. Tigerstar invites [=BloodClan=] into the territory of the forest in the interest of an alliance; Scourge is quick to backstab Tigerstar by cutting him open, calmly watching him bleed out and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die an agonizing death nine times in a row]]. Scourge declares the forest his and attempts to drive out the other Clans under the threat of total war, and ultimately leads [=BloodClan=] into battle against the other Clans with the intent to wipe everyone else out and take complete control of the forest. In ''Secrets of the Clans'', Scourge orders Barley's brothers to murder Violet in cold blood, denying Barley a chance to take his sister's place due to his desire for a more sadistic punishment. Scourge's diminutive stature belied a murderous feline interested solely in power.
* "Literature/TheWashingtonians", by Creator/BentleyLittle: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington himself is exposed as a monstrous and wicked [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] who skinned and [[ChildEater ate children alive]], as revealed from a letter the hero finds along with utensils made from the bones of his victims. Washington slaughtered men for his meals, forming the Washingtonian {{cult}} to continue the practice of devouring innocents, commissioning a portrait of him and his concubines ripping a victim apart while alive and screaming. Especially fond of the flesh of young virgins, Washington's [[VillainousLegacy legacy]] survives through the Washingtonian cult to modern day, who continue the practice of brutal cannibalism.
* ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'':
** [[JerkassGods Artor]], The Plow God and the {{God| Is Evil}} of the Acharites, was once a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who saw the Land of Tencendor and decided he wanted it for himself. To that end, he [[HaveYouSeenMyGod imprisoned the Star Gods]] and led the humans, whom he called Acharites, into a racist war against the Icarii and the Avar. When the Acharites won the war he proceeded to have them cut nearly all of the Avar's forests down to reduce the power of a competing goddess, [[MotherNature the Mother]]. When a prophecy threatens the destruction of his people, he does nothing, not seeing it as his problem and blaming rival gods [[NeverMyFault when naturally his people's belief in him begins to fade]]. He shows no care at all for the well-being of his worshippers, enjoying torturing one to give him power, stepping on another, and brainwashing a village to perform blood sacrifices in his name before he is killed.
** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains TheAntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Sheol]], the Demon of Despair, is one of the six Timekeeper demons and TheDragon of the group. While the body of her boss, Qeteb, remains incomplete, she is in charge. In the past she along with her fellow Demons destroyed hundreds if not thousands of worlds, including the Earth. When her and her fellow demons first break through the Star Gate into the land of Tencendor she demands the honor of sowing madness through the land first. [[TheCorrupter Under her influence]], thousands of people lose their minds, including a woman who strangles her toddler with a clothesline and then kills herself in despair. Leading the demons, Sheol then proceeds to rebuild her boss's body, fouling the five sacred lakes of Tencendor in the process. When she and her Demons capture [=WolfStar=] trying to use their magic against them, Sheol orders each of her fellow demons to rape him repeatedly for their amusement. When her trial happens, she is offered the choice to repent or choose to be evil, and she freely chooses evil and torments Faraday, the one giving her the test.
** [[ForTheEvulz Qeteb]], the Midday Demon, is [[BigBad the boss]] of the Timekeeper Demons. In the past he and the other demons ended life on thousands of worlds, including the Earth. When he is reformed in Tencendor after sustaining mortal wounds that destroyed his body, he immediately drives every creature and being not under magical protection insane. He is a BadBoss, frequently beating his own demons and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment grabbing Sheol by the hair and throwing her into a wall minutes after his resurrection]]. He repeatedly rapes a soulless woman and later has one of his demons possess her, and taunts Faraday about raping and dismembering her. His ultimate goal is the cessation of the Star Dance, which [[OmnicidalManiac would end all life in the universe]].
* ''We Are The Dead'', by Mike Shackle: [[{{Sadist}} Darus Monsuta]] is one of Ergil's Chosen and the vilest servant of the brutal Emperor Raaku. [[AmbitionIsEvil Seeking to advance]] in the view of his liege, Darus leads the hunt for rogue mage Aasgod upon Ergil's conquest of Jia and the defeat of Jia's elite Shulka forces. An accomplished healer, [[TortureTechnician Darus]] is fond of taking captives and torturing them before healing their wounds magically, only to torture them to the point of death to do it all over until he is given his answers. Upon receiving them, he tortures his victims to death anyways. Darus seemingly kills Aasgod and tortures the rebel leader Jax until he breaks by regrowing Jax's lost arm and [[AnArmAndALeg cutting it off]] multiple times before even [[SiblingMurder murdering his own sister]] in a fit of paranoid fury.
* ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'':
** ''Castle Storm'': [[MeaningfulName Grand Inquisitor Torca Marda]] is an elegantly vicious stoat who once vied for the throne of Welkin in rivalry to his cousin Prince Poynt, outdoing even his cousin in evil by advocating weasel genocide throughout Welkin and founding a [[ReligionOfEvil corrupt religion]] that enforced mass torture and execution for all perceived heresy. No less dull in his technique as a TortureTechnician after being banished, Torca Marda takes residence in Stormtown where he continues to torture animals for pleasure and imposes the new religion across the entire town. Seeing the potential to assassinate Poynt and take the throne after he gets back into his good graces by handing him Sylver and his outlaw band, Torca Marda murders Sylver's second-in-command Icham by sabotaging a fair tournament and tries to hinder the heroes' efforts to stop a man-eating dragonfly from devouring all of Stormtown, eagerly throwing away dozens of lives in his attempt to either execute or capture Sylver and his friends.
** [[EvilSorcerer Flaggatis]] is a relentless stoat who longs to take over all of Welkin. After amassing a colossal horde of rats, Flaggatis and his minions roam around Welkin pillaging surrounding nations and laying siege to Castle Rayn. Flaggatis repeatedly torments Prince Poynt and his entourage with his magic spells while his rats continue to ransack the country and kill Lord Ragnar in the ensuing chaos. When his plans fail, Flaggatis attempts to kill Sylver and his gang out at sea, not caring about the sheer amount of rats he loses during his voyage. Centuries after his alleged death, Flaggatis reappears in Welkin as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] named Count Flistagga. With several vampire voles at his disposal, he sends multiple groups of voles to Welkin in hopes of turning everyone into a vampire; Flistagga himself turns or kills several innocent civilians, including Mayor Poynt's sister, Sybil, and a young child in the streets. Fueled by his hatred, Flaggatis devoted his entire life to causing as much turmoil in Welkin as possible.
* ''[=WerewolveSS=]'' by Jerry & Sharon Ahern: [[{{Ghostapo}} Dr. William Stein]] is an [[StateSec SS]] colonel turned werewolf fanatically devoted to restoring [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]]. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Stein captured a werewolf by using captive villagers as bait, then experimented on it for years. Stein then turned himself and his men into werewolves and gleefully slaughtered dozens of Allied soldiers the one time he got the chance, leaving only two survivors. When one survivor recognizes him, Stein murders the man before sending his men to kill his daughter Dannie, both to cover loose ends and out of sheer spite. When he's finally found out, Stein simply proceeds with his plan--having infected thousands of unwitting victims with his werewolf serum, he remotely transforms them and looses both his Nazi werewolf troops and the unwilling werewolves on the towns surrounding his base, killing and burning indiscriminately while turning yet more people into werewolves against their will. Murdering tens of thousands of people and more than happy to kill millions more, all in the name of building a global Nazi empire, Stein proved himself an irredeemable beast [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters even in human form]].
* ''Literature/{{Wereworld}}'':
** [[TheEvilPrince Prince Lucas]] the werelion is Drew's half-brother and everything Drew is not. An apprentice {{Necromancer}}, he began to lose his sanity after he murdered Lord Broghan in front of his cousin, and former fiancée, Lady Gretchen, under Opal's instructions. He goes downhill the moment he murders his father Leopold under the other Catlords' orders. His interest in BlackMagic leads him to work with the Wylderman Darkheart to create the [[AnimalisticAbomination Wyld Wolves]], who slaughter the Sturmlands' army, an act that [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts the other Werelords]]. He then murders Duke Henrik to "save" Lord Onyx after he honorably accepted his defeat at his CombatByChampion. When he finds out that Gretchen's in the Dalelands he leads his Wyld Wolves in a bloody campaign to get her, killing several innocents in the process. He later [[WouldHurtAChild kills Lord Milo]] in front of Trent, partially eating him. When his grandfather Leon punishes him for killing his father and tries to get him to regain some honor, he murders his grandfather as well. When he arrives to Icegarden to kill Hector for killing his mother, [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Vincent of Redmire]] retorts that he's only here to settle a petty grudge towards Hector for always being smarter than him.
** [[FullBoarAction Vincent the wereboar]], the twin brother of Baron Hector, begins by inadvertently causing his father's death and then killing himself in an attempt to murder Hector. Capable of remorse and hesitation in life, Vincent's redeeming qualities vanish when he becomes a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent vile]]. Vincent slowly [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] Hector into a murderer and torturer of innocents, selling out the Dalelands to the wicked Prince Lucas and seizing Icegarden through Hector. Vincent devours the spirit of Hector's old mentor, torturing Duchess Freya for weeks on end, and accidentally but remorselessly pushes Hector into murdering the totally innocent Queen Amelie. Finally sick of his brother's hesitance, Vincent overtakes and fully [[DemonicPossession possesses]] Hector himself, rechristens himself Lord Blackhand, and begins systematically murdering and resurrecting all of his own allies as the undead. Vincent starts resurrecting the dead by the thousands to slaughter all in their wake, decorating Icegarden's walls with the bodies of those he's slaughtered and driving his legions in a crusade to destroy whatever cannot be dominated. The series's finest demonstration of FromNobodyToNightmare, Vincent of Redmire eventually dies as one of the greatest threats to have ever scourged the Seven Realms.
** First 2 books & fourth book: [[SnakesAreSinister Vala the wereserpent]] is the [[AGodAmI self-proclaimed goddess]] of the cannibalistic Wyldermen, who offer her human and werecreature alike. Defeated by Drew, she plotted her revenge against him and those he cares about. First she [[DeadPersonImpersonation killed and impersonated]] the crone Baba Korga, pretending to be an ally of Whitley and using her to enter Five Oaks unnoticed. During her "[[FauxAffablyEvil friendly talk]]" with Whitley, she revealed her biggest atrocity: During the journey, she devoured innocent Romari children when no one was watching. She then explains her intentions of turning the Dyrewood into her realm, where she and the Wyldermen can kill and eat with impunity. She also mentioned her plan of using Whitley as bait to attract Drew, and in an act of "mercy", she promises to kill Whitley quickly after she had dispatched Drew. Prideful, petty, and convinced that she had the right to kill and devour whenever she wanted, she [[FantasticRacism saw humans as nothing but food and other Therianthropes as weaklings]].
** ''Storm of Sharks'': [[ThreateningShark Deadeye the wereshark]], the captain of the ''Hellhound'' in the employ of Lord Ghul, makes a name for himself on the White Sea as a practitioner of brutal violence and rampant [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. Attacking the smuggler ship ''Lucky Shot'' upon learning of the presence of werelords on it, Deadeye slaughters many of the crew himself and eats its captain alive before taking those who remain as his prisoners and slaves. Holding a [[StalkerWithACrush special affinity]] for the werelord Whitley, Deadeye subjects Whitley to his perverted attentions whilst keeping her collared, informing Whitley's intention to make her his bride in between subtle hints of violence. Upon being attacked by the ''Maelstrom'', Deadeye snaps and starts massacring both enemy soldiers and [[BadBoss his own men]], brutally tearing apart Captain Ransome's young friend Hob shortly before his own death.
* ''Wetbones'', by John Shirley:
** Ephram Pixie is a chuckling little fat man and a rogue of the Akishra cult, a group of twisted hedonists who use the power of the Akishra to sate their twisted impulses. [[TheUnfettered Unwilling to be fettered by the Akishra]], Ephram severed his ties with the cult, pledges himself to a being known as the "Nameless Spirit", and instead uses [[MindControl his powers]] to control the minds of his victims and murder them in a variety of horrific ways, even having the Spirit itself occasionally tear his victims apart itself. Coming across a young woman named Constance, Ephram is captivated by her innocence and puts her under his thrall, keeping Constance as his SexSlave and tool while forcing her to have sex with people against her will before having Constance hack them apart in a bid to completely destroy her purity. Even without the resources of the cult, Ephram is a jovial psychopath [[TheHedonist dedicated only to the satisfaction of his personal desires]] and fashions himself the "master of his own destiny", intent on murdering and raping at his own will forever with no one and nothing to stop him.
** Samuel Denver, known better as the "More Man", is an enigmatic producer from Malibu who secretly runs the Akishra cult and all of the atrocities that happen through it. Luring in droves of victims for the purpose of the cult's rituals, Denver forcefully infests them with the Akishra worms and [[MindRape rewires their brains]] to associate agony with pleasure through them, before forcing them to engage in twisted rituals of rape, torture, murder, and debauchery to feed off of their pleasure. Already responsible for countless acts of unwilling mutilation and violation through the victims of the cult, Denver personally decorates the ranch from which he bases his operations with furniture [[HumanResources made from the bodies]] of his victims; forces a couple to have violent sex until they simply collapse of exhaustion; kidnaps the friend of one of his victims before having him tortured to death and [[GenuineHumanHide stitching his face into bedding]]; summoning the Akishra Magnus--the "Nameless Spirit" Ephram worshiped--and watching as it [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves tears the traitorous Pixie apart]]; and finally revealing his ultimate intention to bring the Akishra all the way into physical reality and spread them all across the world.
* ''Literature/WhaleTalk'': Rich Marshall is a thuggish hillbilly whose [[DomesticAbuse abuse]] has left his wife Alicia a BrokenBird and rendered his five-year-old biracial stepdaughter Heidi a psychological wreck. Already a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, sexist, ableist pig]] who perpetuates prejudiced attitudes in high school students through his alumni group and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoots animals just for the pleasure of killing them]], Rich convinces Heidi that in order to win his love, she needs to scrape off her colored skin. This results in Heidi taking a steel-tipped Brillo pad to her body and attempting to skin herself simply to win Rich's approval. When Alicia finally presses a restraining order against him, Rich decides the appropriate course is to try and shoot Heidi in a crowded baseball game, forcing the father of protagonist T.J. Jones to [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]].
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the worst of [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheShadowAndDarkfriends the Forsaken]]:
** [[TheAntichrist Ishamael]]--aka Elan Morin Tedronai, Ba'alzamon and Moridin--is a scholar and philosopher who determined that [[TheAntiGod the Dark One]] was destined to triumph over good at the end of time. With that in mind, Ishamael signed on with the Dark One's forces, eventually driving his former friend, Lews Therin, [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]]. Sealed in Shayol Ghul, Ishamael managed to free his spirit, and eventually his body. Ishamael makes the life of Lews Therin's reincarnation a living hell while in his Ba'alzamon identity, tormenting him with nightmares and doing everything in his power to make him miserable, while sending his troops to lay waste to the world. Following his apparent death, he is resurrected in a new identity--Moridin--and takes over leadership of the Dark One's armies, brutally punishing the rest of the Forsaken when they fail. Unlike the rest of the Forsaken, who think they will [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]] when the war is over, Ishamael believes that the Dark One is an OmnicidalManiac, and is perfectly fine with this.
** [[TheDreaded Semirhage]], one of the most terrifying of the Forsaken, was once the most gifted healer of her age, but also a cold {{sadist}} who [[TortureTechnician enjoyed torturing]] those she healed as "payment". Eagerly joining the Dark One, Semirhage's territories were marked by hideous torture, with Semirhage [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting]] with ways to cause agony, such as replacing human blood with similar substances. Semirhage massacres the court of the Seanchan Empire, personally torturing the Empress to death, and tries to [[MindRape emotionally destroy]] Rand Al'Thor before the last battle.
* ''Literature/WhenAutumnBleedsIntoWinter'', by Jeff Strand: Gerald Martin and his accomplice Griffin are a pair of brutal {{serial killer}}s who [[WouldHurtAChild murder children]] in rural areas and move on to continue their activities in areas where there will not be much scrutiny. Killing the friend of 14-year-old protagonist Curtis, Martin [[PragmaticVillainy makes an uneasy truce with Curtis on the basis of mutually assured destruction]], only to murder another young boy to [[FrameUp frame Curtis]] for it. When Curtis moves against him, Martin and Griffin kidnap Curtis's parents to torture them to death and plan to murder the kids as well before moving to the city for easier hunting grounds.
* ''Whistling in the Dark'', by Lesley Kagan: [[WolfInSheepsClothing Bobby Brophy]] is a playground counselor who, underneath his charming facade, is actually a disturbed [[WouldHurtAChild child molester and murderer]]. Having kidnapped, raped, and murdered the niece of a local police officer the previous summer, Bobby returns to the neighborhood and quickly returns to his old habits. Abducting a third grader, Bobby molests the girl before strangling her to death, leaving her naked body outside for the authorities to discover. Setting his sights on his latest victim, Sally O'Malley, Bobby makes numerous attempts to kidnap her, barely failing each time. When Sally and her friend, Mary Lane, search Bobby's cabin and find evidence to incriminate him, Bobby captures her and drags her off to the lagoon where he murdered his previous victims, threatening to kill Sally's younger sister, Troo, if she does not cooperate. Once they reach the lagoon, Bobby immediately attempts to molest Sally, taunting her during the act and boasting that he will send her to join her deceased father in death.
* ''White is the Coldest Colour'' & ''When Evil Calls Your Name'', by John Nicholl: [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. David Galbraith]] is an absolutely vile [[WouldHurtAChild child molester]] and sexual abuser, using his position as a child psychologist to target boys as young as three years old for abuse, rape, and even horrific torture, before shaming and humiliating the children into keeping silent about it. Galbraith subjects [[DomesticAbuse his wife Cynthia]]--who he gained by murdering her then-fiancé--and [[AbusiveParents two daughters]] to horrible physical and [[MindRape mental]] torments out of hatred at his children not being boys he can molest, and runs a massive pedophile ring in his free time that he runs his own daughters through. Often [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing small animals]] in front of children to further terrify them into compliance, Galbraith tortures one of his victims to death and then [[DrivenToSuicide tears down his accomplice into suicide]] to eliminate him as a witness. Upon choosing his latest victim Anthony, Galbraith, as revenge against the boy's family for thwarting his many attempts at abusing Anthony, bludgeons his mother to near-death then plans to torture the child to death, filming the whole thing on video and then sending the footage to his family. When Cynthia tries to save Anthony from Galbraith, Galbraith responds by brutally beating the woman into submission and then promising to subject her to torture for the rest of her life for crossing him.
* ''White Knuckle'', by Eric Red: [[{{Sadist}} Roy Tremble]], aka "White Knuckle", is a SerialKiller trucker active for four decades. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Killing dogs]] as a child and graduating to people, Tremble begins to abduct women in his big rig, torturing them to [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming savor their screams]] and pain before he kills them and keeps pieces of them as trophies. Often targeting [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]], Tremble abducts anyone he can get away with, killing multiple women over the course of the book. When finally killed by Special Agent Sharon Ormsby, it is revealed that Tremble had claimed at least 500 victims in his years of murder.
* ''Literature/WhoFearsDeath'': General Daib is the true ruler of the Nuru and the [[ArchnemesisDad father of heroine Onyewonsu]] by the [[ChildByRape rape of her mother]]. Having promoted a strategy of weaponizing rape against the Okeke people to destroy their culture, Daib also leads [[FinalSolution brutal genocidal and ethnic cleansing to destroy the Okeke]], using ChildSoldiers as well. Daib, upon meeting Onyewonsu, attempts to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her]], promising to find her mother and rape her again to obtain a son and heir he can train as a sorcerer to continue the extermination of the Okeke.
* ''Literature/WiddershinsAdventures'':
** ''Thief's Covenant'': The Apostle--Claude--is a [[PsychoSupporter follower of Cevora]], and seeks every opportunity to increase his god's, and his own, power. Summoning a demon, Claude orders it to massacre the followers of Olgun, a god who Claude plans to use to make Cevora stronger. When a teenage girl named [[TheHero Widdershins]] survives this incident, Claude ensures she is [[FrameUp framed for the killings]]. After assassins [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]], Claude painfully uses them as sacrifices to summon another demon who he sends to kill Widdershins. Killing a prominent noble and the Archbishop, knowing it could cause riots, The Apostle frames Shins for the crime, forces her to bring him to anymore Olgun worshippers, then orders his demon to kill any potential worshippers in the area before making one last attempt to cut Shins down.
** ''False Covenant'': [[HumanoidAbomination Iruoch]] stands out as monstrous even among his fellow [[TheFairFolk Faeries]]. Attracted to the fear the city of Davillon was experiencing, Iruoch began killing and eating anyone he came across. Having a [[ChildEater sweet tooth for children]], Iruoch finds a small group of kids, eats most of them, then kills the rest before repeating the process on an even larger group of noble children. Iruoch later kills a thief who he had strong-armed into helping him, then attacks Widdershins and her friends, murdering numerous bystanders in the scuffle. Before being beaten, Iruoch murders Shins' LoveInterest, Julian Bouniard, and happily taunts her about it afterwards.
* ''Literature/WildCards'': [[DiabolicalMastermind The Astronomer]] was an old man with powers based on ritualistic magic, having willingly erased all the memories of his own life and starting a search for power which would lead him to the cult of the Egyptian Freemasons where he would become a high ranking member. Using his position to kidnap several women and use them as {{human sacrifice}}s in depraved sexual rituals to empower himself, the Astronomer unwillingly gained the attention of heroic Aces that raided the Freemason temple. Leaving the cult leader to die in the raid to take the leadership himself, the Astronomer plans his revenge against the heroic Aces. He carries this out on the 40th anniversary of the Wild Card Day--where his servants injured and killed other Aces--in a murder spree while he personally dismembers Kid Dinosaur in front of his father and the general public. An Ace whose powers are literally based on his own depravity, the Astronomer was the first BigBad of the series and one of its more monstrous.
* ''Literature/TheWildOnes'': [[CatsAreMean Sixclaw]] is [[BigBad Titus]]'s [[TheDragon brutal mercenary]] who [[PsychoForHire enjoys killing for sport]]. After torturing and eating an innocent woodpecker, Sixclaw leads the attack on [[TheHero Kit's]] home, where he kills Kit's parents [[WouldHurtAChild and nearly Kit himself]]. Upon finding out that Kit has arrived in [[TheCityNarrows Ankle Snap City]], he assaults a few animals inside the local bakery, before nearly killing Kit again, along with his uncle, Rik, and his best friend, Eeni. Later, after the city's religious leader, Martyn, is taken hostage, Sixclaw assaults some of Martyn's acolytes and forces them to print out an eviction notice for the residents of the city, or else he'll kill Martyn. During the battle between Titus's forces and the Wild Ones, Sixclaw nearly eats Martyn, drops Eeni into the sewer hoping [[SewerGator Gayle]] will eat her, and physically beats up Kit once more, [[KickTheDog taunting him about the death of his parents]]. Once Titus gives him the order to kill Kit and massacre the whole town, Sixclaw is more than happy to comply.
* ''Literature/TheWindUpBirdChronicle'': [[AmbiguouslyHuman Boris Gromov]], better known under his chosen epithet "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Boris the Manskinner]]", is a well-spoken, well-mannered [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre NKVD]] officer and right-hand to Lavrenty Beria himself. In his chosen profession, Boris is responsible for the mass liquidation, torture, and execution of political dissidents, earning his namesake from his proclivity for having men slowly FlayedAlive by his silent Mongolian aide. Tossed under the bus for torturing a communist politician to death through the application of red-hot irons to the man's every orifice, Boris finds himself in a Siberian gulag and quickly starts [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating his way into power]], having people tortured and killed in giant numbers, even a [[WouldHurtAChild seven-year-old child]] killed with his parents ForcedToWatch. Boris finds himself confronted by Lt. Mamiya, a Japanese man whom years earlier Boris had flayed the comrade of and forced Mamiya to watch before tossing Mamiya to languish at the bottom of a well, and allows Mamiya to have a shot at killing him, only for the bullets to pass through empty air. Boris exits the novel with one final [[KickTheDog spiteful gesture]], placing a curse upon the already war-ravaged Mamiya to live the rest of his days in misery, unable to love and unable to be loved.
* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'':
** [[ManipulativeBitch Princess Blister]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], sociopathic dragon who is largely responsible for starting the War of [[Characters/WingsOfFireSandWings SandWing]] Succession. When Blister's mother, Queen Oasis, goes to hunt the scavengers who stole some of her treasure, Blister refused to send her backup, [[MurderByInaction thus leading to her death]]. She later hid all of Oasis's treasure, pinning the blame on scavengers, and started arguing with her sisters, Burn and Blaze, over who would be the next [=SandWing=] queen. After Blister began to amass an army in secret, Burn and Blaze gathered their own forces and fought each other, resulting in a war that led to the deaths of thousands. During the war, Blister frequently manipulated other dragons into fighting her battles or assassinating her foes, wasting no time [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying or even killing her allies]] the moment she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deemed them useless]]. She even tried to have the five Dragonets of Destiny murdered simply because they hindered her plans and refused to select her to be the next queen. When the Dragonets try to force Burn, Blister, and Blaze to have a peaceful meeting with each other to end the war, Blister kills Burn, and attempts to kill Blaze minutes later.
** [[TheCaligula Queen Scarlet]] is the demented ruler of the [[Characters/WingsOfFireSkyWings SkyWing]] tribe. After she gained power, Scarlet ensured she remained queen by killing off various members of her family who could acquire the throne, using animus magic to turn her daughter, Tourmaline, into the submissive Ruby, and killing or threatening her loyal minions just to keep them under her control. As queen, she opened a gladiator arena where [[BeastlyBloodsports dragons fought to the death]]--sometimes on a daily basis--under the false promise of being freed. After adopting [[ChildSoldier Peril]], she forces her to kill seven dragonets while they were still in their eggs, before raising her to become a remorseless killer who murdered anyone Scarlet wanted. When Scarlet is wounded by Glory and is dethroned by Ruby, she uses her remaining resources to exact revenge on the Dragonets of Destiny by manipulating Icicle and Winter to kill them or else she'll murder their brother Hailstorm. When her plans for revenge fail and Scarlet reunites with Peril and her father, the three of them attack the [=SkyWing=] Palace and take Ruby's son, Cliff, hostage in order to make Ruby surrender, with Scarlet intending to turn Cliff into a weapon like Peril after she kills Ruby.
* ''Literature/WitchAndWizard'': [[BigBad The One Who Is The One]], deciding all life was meant to cow before him after being shunned for his affinity of magic, established the New Order, became its [[ANaziByAnyOtherName brutal dictator]], and quickly turned his new kingdom into a hellish realm for all the inhabitants, executing anyone who practices any form of magic or art to kick off his reign; this [[{{Hypocrite}} despite using magic and owning works of art himself]]. Massacring and vivisecting men, women, and children by the hundreds for both experimentation and fun, The One simultaneously bombs and unleashes plagues onto civilian populations to wipe out any rebels against him. [[BadBoss His own minions]] and [[AbusiveParents son Pearce]] faring no better, The One sadistically executes [[YouHaveFailedMe those who fail him]], has no concern for them getting caught in the crossfire of his plans, and abuses and eventually turns the latter into a vessel for his own soul. As the ArchEnemy of the Allgood siblings, The One tortures and murders their friends and parents in front of them and torments them throughout the series. When his plan to "purge" the world of those unwilling to worship him fails, The One attempts to unleash the undead souls of his victims onto humanity to wipe it out then rule over the ashes that remain. A psychopath who [[ControlFreak hated everything that he wasn't in full control of]], The One is one of the most wicked young adult fiction villains to have ever been conceived.
* ''Witch Hunt'', by L.R. Deney: [[BigBad Karl Dunkelstein]] is the would-be ruler of the ascendant [[ThoseWackyNazis Fourth Reich]]. Devoting himself to the [[{{Ghostapo}} Black Sun]], Karl initiates a kidnapping of "undesirables", people of color, gays, and lesbians, etc. and has them subjected to mistreatment and torture to prepare for a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]]. Intending on murdering them in ritualized pain, Karl prepares to bring about the dawn of a new Nazi regime where he will exterminate all who stand in his way.
* ''Literature/TheWitches'': [[WickedWitch The Grand High Witch]] is the ruler of the [[ChildHater child-hating]] witches, and the most malevolent of them all. A vicious demon with a propensity for [[BadBoss abusing and murdering her own underlings]], the Grand High Witch has spent decades teaching her followers ways to [[WouldHurtAChild dispose of as many children]] as possible. Unsatisfied with her followers' progress, the Grand High Witch schemes to wipe out every child in England by utilizing a potion to [[BalefulPolymorph transform them into mice]], then watch as they are killed by their own oblivious parents and teachers. Demonstrating this on one hapless boy, the Grand High Witch follows this up by kidnapping the main character and inflicting upon him the same fate. With a cruelty unmatched by her underlings, the Grand High Witch instills terror in everyone who knows of her, friend and foe alike.
* ''[[Literature/NightWorld Witchlight]]'': [[DraconicAbomination Azhdeha]] is an ancient dragon who tried to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]] with his fellows before being sealed off. Returning, Azhdeha plots to kill Illiana, the child of wild magic and [[DarkMessiah condemn the world to death and rebirth]]. To this end, Azhdeha brings the shapeshifters under his control, has the witch matriarch killed and disguises himself to kill the heroes, while having shapeshifters initiate uprisings across the nation to kill many, many people, not caring who throws their lives away in pursuit of his goal.
* ''Without Warning'', by David Rosenbelt: [[SerialKiller The Predictor]] of the capsule killings, real name Randall Dempsey, was once a journalist [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse accidentally left behind]] by Jake Robbins in Afghanistan during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. The Predictor escaped from the Taliban but harbored hatred for Jake as a war hero and devised a plan to ruin Jake's life. The Predictor set a fire to a building in a low-income part of town, killing 11 people, and went on to kill Jake's ex-wife, Jenny, framing a man he had killed in prison to cover his tracks. He created a cryptic message on a capsule he buried alongside a man he murdered. When the capsule was dug up, the Predictor starts his killing spree by murdering people connected to Jake, working alongside the media to try and [[FrameUp pin the murders on Jake]]. The Predictor abducts Katie, Jake's friend, and continues his killings until he murders the mayor. When Jake finds Katie, the Predictor holds them at gunpoint and gloats about his plan to fly a plane containing C3 explosives into a nuclear plant to spread waste across a nearby river to kill millions and frame Jake. Before initiating his final plan, he suffocated an elderly man to death to cover up loose ends. The Predictor only cared about making Jake into an infamous person, despite cementing himself as a monstrous individual.
* ''Literature/WizardsHall'': The evil wizard [[MeaningfulName Nettle]] was one of the founders of Wizard's Hall, eventually getting kicked out due to his aggressive behavior. [[DisproportionateRetribution In retaliation]], Nettle created a beast made out of the founders' strongest emotions, plotting to eventually have the beast [[ToServeMan devour]] the entire school. When Nettle returns, he hypnotizes the teachers and students into walking over to the beast one by one and letting themselves get devoured while [[AndIMustScream they are fully aware and powerless to do anything]].
* ''The Wolf and the Woodsman'', by Ava Reid: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Nandor]] is the [[BastardBastard wicked bastard brother]] of Prince Gaspar who hungers for the throne of their father King Janos. With a sickening hatred towards the Pagan and Yehuli groups, Nandor kills and tortures them whenever he can get away with it. [[{{Patricide}} Murdering his father]] to take control, Nandor plans an ethnic cleansing where the Yehuli are sent away to their fates as he [[FinalSolution leads a crusade to exterminate the pagans]] and attempts to even [[CainAndAbel murder his own brother]].
* ''Film/WolfCreek'' prequel novels have, besides Mick Taylor himself (who can be found at Monster/OtherMedia), these two:
** ''Origin'': [[DirtyOldMan Jerry "The Fiddler"]] is one of four {{serial killer}}s that Mick Taylor investigates while attempting to reclaim his knife. Jerry is an [[FatBastard obese]] pedophile who [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[WouldHurtAChild kills]] children. Jerry lives in an abandoned mine that he has booby-trapped to kill intruders (we see the skeleton of one of his adult victims). When Mick enters Jerry's home, he sees Jerry raping a little girl, and finds trophies and corpses of three of his past victims, and also sees Jerry [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill a dog]]. After Mick murders a touring couple, Jerry and the other killers decide to kill Mick out of revenge for allowing the bodies to be discovered, which brought police into the area and made it more likely for the killings of the other killers to be discovered. When the killers attack Mick’s home, Jerry tries to rape Mick's girlfriend Rose (who Mick had tied up to use as rape bait to lure the killers into a trap). Just before Mick kills Jerry, he tells Mick that he should have killed the two truckers who discovered the couples bodies, stating "You never let anyone go."
** ''Desolation Game'': [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Atkin]], Mick's superior during his time in the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]], [[EvilMentor trained Mick, helping him go from an "amateur" to a "professional" killer]]. Atkin cut a deal with the elder of a starving village, so they would get scraps of food in exchange for letting Atkin rape their women. Atkin introduced Mick to this practice and let him join in. Mick and Atkin were both {{sadist}}ic, often [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the women. One of Mick's rape victims ended up dying, but this did not stop Mick and Atkin. One night, two men stumble upon them during their rape session. Mick and Atkin shot the two men dead thinking they were enemy soldiers, showing no remorse when they learned they weren't. Atkin taught Mick the "head on a stick" technique, severing the spine of a terrified soldier cowering in his pajamas. Atkin let Mick stab the already paralyzed man in the back again, and [[OffWithHisHead saw off his head]] and [[DecapitationPresentation mount it on a spike]]. When Mick and Atkin returned to the village, the elder scolded them for killing the two men earlier and [[NeverMessWithGranny wacked Atkin with her cane]]. Atkin snapped the cane, [[SlashedThroat stabbed her in the throat]] with it, and raped and killed all the women he and Mick could. Atkin later tried to kill Mick [[LeaveNoWitnesses out of fear that he would talk about what they did]] despite their VillainousFriendship.
* ''Literature/WolfLand'', by Jonathan Janz:
** [[BigBad Divna Antonov]] is the queen of werewolves and their [[MonsterProgenitor monstrous progenitor]]. [[AncientEvil Centuries old]], Divna coerced her sisters into joining her before slaughtering their village and slipping into legend. Killing at will, Divna occasionally emerges to massacre towns and settlements, enjoying [[WouldHurtAChild preying on children]] especially. Returning in the town of Lakeview, Divna arrives to cull any werewolves acting without authority before forcing newly-made wolf Weezer to submit to her and leads a slaughter at a bar before attacking an amusement park to kill hundreds. Focusing on heroine Savannah, Divna gleefully stalks her for sport after [[CopKiller killing the cops]] with her, planning to rend her apart after the hunt is done.
** [[FullyEmbracedFiend Weezer]], as a human, is considered a nasty piece of work. As a werewolf, Weezer embraces his change and tears apart two innocent women before slaughtering other innocents and terrorizing his friend Glenn into being an accomplice. After being rejected by a recently widowed former fling, Weezer [[NotGoodWithRejection kills her]] and her six [[WouldHurtAChild children]], saving her newborn baby for last. Tracked down by Divna, Weezer helps her slaughter a bar and then helps with the attack on the amusement park, gleefully killing any human he finds. Upon encountering his former friend Duane, Weezer expresses a willingness to rape his LoveInterest Savannah to death and ends by attempting to find and massacre a group of surviving children.
* "Wolf of the Steppes", by Greye La Spina: [[SavageWolves Serge Vasilovitch]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent murderous werewolf]] who [[StalkerWithACrush lusts after]] the young heroine's mother. Enraged at her marrying her husband, Serge [[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]] and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] the man into believing he is responsible, so Serge may lure him into suicide and then place mother and daughter in his power with intent to groom or molest young Vera. Killing her mother when she tries to flee with her daughter, Serge later tracks Vera down to murder her and anyone who assists her.
* ''The Wolf Road'', by Beth Lewis: Kreagar "Trapper" Hallet, the adoptive father of the heroine Elka, teaches her to survive in the wilderness of British Columbia. In truth, Kreagar is a violent SerialKiller who targets [[WouldHitAGirl women]] and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] before butchering them and [[ImAHumanitarian eating them]], keeping their scalps as [[CreepySouvenir grisly trophies]]. Elka, now seen as his accomplice, attempts to escape with Kreagar hounding her through the novel. When she comes upon civilization again, we discover Kreagar continues to be active in his "hunts"' of murdering children and is targeting the son of the love interest of Elka's best friend Penelope before kidnapping the boy and murdering him as well. It is revealed Kreagar fed his victims to Elka as well and even had her shoot a little boy herself, something she had repressed from the trauma, in an attempt to turn her into a twisted reflection of himself. A man who lives by no code save the savage law of the wild he invents, Kreagar informs the hunter Lyons that it was Elka who murdered her son instead of him, dooming her to a life on the run, as [[EvilIsPetty a last act to deny her any comfort of civilization ever again]].
* ''Literature/TheWoman'': In this novel, which was later made into [[Film/TheWoman a film]], [[AmoralAttorney Chris Cleek]], the patriarch of the Cleek family, is an extreme [[HeManWomanHater misogynyst]] and {{Domestic Abuse}}r. Upon encountering the titular woman in the woods, he kidnaps and imprisons her within a fruit cellar, under the guise of civilizing her. In reality, he intends on dominating her, whether it be through several types of torture, such as using a high pressure power washer to bathe her, or by raping her. It's revealed later on in the novel that Cleek had raped [[ParentalIncest his daughter]], Peggy, each night, which culminates in her being pregnant with [[ChildByRape his child]]. When Miss Raton, Peggy's teacher, confronts him on this, he knocks her out, and feeds her to his dogs; the scene also reveals that Cleek had a daughter, who suffered from anophthalmia (no eyes), imprisoned in the barn, thus causing her to revert to an animalistic state. Misogynistic and depraved, Cleek didn't care who he had to hurt to make his fantasies a reality.
* ''The Women in the Walls'', by Amy Lukavics: [[OneBadMother Mother]] is a supernatural being who demands HumanSacrifice in exchange for immortality. Prior to the events of the novel, Mother manipulated a woman named Clara into [[WouldHurtAChild sacrificing all the children]] she was taking care of to her. When Clara was murdered by her fellow cultists, Mother plotted revenge, manipulating deaths over the years to make Clara's body more powerful. When Clara's body becomes powerful enough in the present day, Mother, using her body, slaughters the cultists and has her loyal follower Penelope bring Lucy to her in exchange for becoming her "daughter". However, when she does so, Mother declares Penelope too weak and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath forces her to cough up her own organs]], before making Lucy her daughter, [[TheBadGuyWins enslaving her to the house forever]].
* ''Literature/WorldsOfPower'' series (by publication date):
** ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'': [[AliensAreBastards The Plutonium Boss]] is a sadistic PlanetaryParasite who feeds on a planet's radiation. Ingraining itself into a planet's core and slowly killing it as it feasts on the core's radiation, once the Plutonium Boss has had its fill, it arises from the ground and annihilates everyone on the planet. Doing this to Eve's home planet Signar-el before moving on to Earth, the Plutonium Boss [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments on organisms]] to make them its mutated warriors, including a teenage human named Alex. Kidnapping Eve to lure Jason Frudnick and Alex to its lair, the Plutonium Boss reveals to the trio the Psychlotron machine, which will speed up both the feeding process and the destruction of Earth at a much faster rate.
** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'': [[BigBad Colonel Vermon CaTaffy]] is [[TheGeneralissimo the dictator]] of the small, but wealthy, country of Nouria. [=CaTaffy=] always hated "the free world" and wanted to bring it to its knees. Constantly committing atrocities, like the bombing of civilian aircraft and the torture of civilians and non-combatants for fun, [=CaTaffy=] decided to build his own WeaponOfMassDestruction, kidnapping Doctor Pettovich and his daughter Ellen to force Pettovich to build him [[WalkingTank Metal Gear]], threatening to kill his daughter if he refused. When the US military sends nearly all Snake Men to Outer Heaven to stop [=CaTaffy=], he managed to capture them and torture them all, some fatally. After his Metal Gear is complete, [=CaTaffy=] tries to [[NukeEm launch the nukes]] at Washington, London, Tokyo, Canberra and Paris to "destroy the free world".
** ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden|NES}}'': [[BigBad (The) Jaquio]], real name [[EvilSorcerer Guardia de Mieux]], is a demonic being who seeks to use the light and dark statues to awaken a powerful demon, harness its energy, and [[TakeOverTheWorld gain world domination]] with his demon army. Kidnapping Ken Hayabusa and making him his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled fighter]] after he and Dr. Wimpleton steal the statues, Jaquio sends thieves out to regain the statues, [[LackOfEmpathy uncaring of the casualties]]. With the teenage Ryu Hayabusa, Ken's son, inside his personal temple, Jaquio promises to kill CIA agent Irene Lew should he not get his dark statue back, forcing Ryu to fight his monsters after he complies. Seething with glee over forcing Ryu to fight his mutated, mind-controlled father, once he finds them reconciling, Jaquio attempts to kill them both and continue his world domination plan.
** ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'': [[TheGeneralissimo Generalissimo Kilt]] is the [[BigBad leader]] of the terrorist organization BADD who steals the plans for the Albatross, a deadly weapon which he'll use to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans destroy the world and rule over the remains]]. Kidnapping Super Joe and damaging Jack Markson's arm enough to have it amputated, Kilt plans to give Joe a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slow, painful death]]. Once the Albatross is completed, Kilt and scientist Master Destructo decide to have it destroy North America as a way to test its power. After the Albatross perishes, Kilt leaves his men behind to escape with Destructo, but despite dying at the hands of Jack, Kilt posthumously reveals to have [[DeadMansSwitch programmed his lair to self-destruct should he perish]], gleefully preparing to take his own men with him to the grave.
* ''Literature/YashakidenTheDemonPrincess'', by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi: The ancient Chinese Vampire [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Biki, or Princess]], is a picture of [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon beautiful cruelty]]. In the past, Princess has been responsible for countless deaths, swaying others into war and slaughter, even having pregnant women [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] by the hundreds when she was the infamous Da Ji. Arriving in the Demon City of Shinjuku, Princess slaughters and converts countless people to vampirism, starting a vampire civil war coupled with an attempt to break the hero Setsura Aki, even [[BadBoss slaughtering her own minions]] on a callous whim.
* ''The Year of the Witching'', by Alexis Henderson: [[SinisterMinister The Prophet]], ruler of Bethel, is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic tyrant]] who has women tortured on suspicion of being witches and binds the town to a stringent moral code [[StrawHypocrite he does not bother to attempt himself]]. A [[DirtyOldMan lecherous monster]], the Prophet murdered the father of heroine Immanuelle by burning him alive, a punishment he uses to keep control of the town, while having raped her friend Leah at the age of 12 before forcing her to marry him later and become one of his many wives. After the newly empowered Immanuelle is caught in witchcraft with the Prophet's son Ezra, the Prophet blackmails Immanuelle into marrying him before trying to have Ezra [[ILied burnt alive anyways to stave off a potential rival]].
* ''Literature/YellowjacketSummer'', by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: Toby is a [[TeensAreMonsters psychotic teenager]] with the unusual gift of speaking the language of yellowjackets. Using them, Toby murders everyone in a small town save for a few he keeps as slaves while intending on enslaving the people who stop in the town. The only survivors are those Toby keeps to cook for him or a girl that he takes a fancy to, who he regularly abuses and beats. Upon the heroine Carla learning what Toby is, he attempts to murder her and her two young children before killing the other survivors of the town as well.
* "The Yougoslaves", by Creator/RobertBloch: [[BigBad Le Boss]] is a grotesque gang leader who [[HumanTraffickers traffics]] in [[WouldHurtAChild children]], having boys kidnapped and addicted to drugs to slowly strip them of humanity until they are nothing but murderers. The girls are trafficked for [[SexSlave sex]] or to be provided to his soldiers to be gang raped as entertainment and reward. Running a thieving and murder ring, Le Boss shows his lack of regard for the children when he murders one simply for bringing him bad news and [[WouldHarmASenior tries to kill a seemingly helpless old man]] for seeking a stolen item back.
* "[[http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1943jul-00083 Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper]]'', by Creator/RobertBloch: Psychiatrist John Carmody and Englishman Sir Guy Hollis are on the trail of the elusive UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. It is revealed Jack has claimed [[SerialKiller dozens of victims]] over the years, mutilating them horribly as he did the women in London. It is further seen that Jack is not a mortal killer: instead, his murders are done to appease dark gods to grant him immortality and power, and there is no sign he will stop anytime soon. Hollis reveals that he and his father had tracked the Ripper together, but the Ripper [[YouKilledMyFather had gotten to Hollis's father first and murdered him]]. Upon realizing the depth of Hollis's conviction, Carmody reveals his true identity as the Ripper and ends the story about to murder Hollis.
* ''Literature/YouWereNeverReallyHere'': [[TheDon "The Boss" Novelli]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] crime lord who is approached by politician Votto for funding in his political career. Novelli, a vile [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[HumanTraffickers sex trafficker]], agrees to help Votto so long as he gets to pimp out Votto's daughter Lisa. Doing this simply out of spite for Votto's dad being a rival to Novelli, Novelli convinces Votto to take the deal before raping Lisa and turning her into a prostitute for his organization. Novelli goes on to [[HeKnowsTooMuch ensure that no one discovers the truth]], killing Votto's wife when she gets suspicious of Lisa's whereabouts and sending his goons to eliminate several loose ends tied to Votto and the hired gun Joe.
* ''Literature/ZeroSaints'', by Gabino Iglesias: [[BigBad Indio]], head of [[TheCartel a Mara Salvatrucha outfit]] seeking to move into Austin, is known for his dark powers and the immense amount of blood he has spilled to get his way. Introducing himself to hero Fernando with an "offer" to Fernando's employer Guillermo, Indio has his friend Nino slowly mutilated before sawing his head off and later leads a massacre of Guillermo's closest, killing the man himself and [[SlashedThroat opening the throat]] of Fernando's kind mother figure Conseulo.
* ''Zofloya: or The Moor'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Zofloya]] is the servant of Henriquez, the object of desire of Victoria de Loredani. Teaching Victoria of [[MasterPoisoner poison]] to eliminate those in her way, including Henriquez's brother, Zofloya happily kills one servant who does not die immediately. After having Henriquez [[BedTrick raped by Victoria]], leading to [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide]], Zofloya bids Victoria to murder his beloved Lilla and then brings the ruin and suicide of the rest of the cast. Revealing his true identity as {{Satan}} to Victoria, Zofloya gloats over the latter's downfall before killing her as well.
* ''Literature/{{Zombie}}'': [[VillainProtagonist Quentin P.]] is a young man with an unhealthy obsession over [[{{Lobotomy}} lobotomies]]. Upon figuring out how to perform his own makeshift lobotomies, Quentin decides to create his own lobotomized SexSlave who's fully obedient to him. Quentin kidnaps and tries to perform the lobotomy on four different men, botching the procedure and killing them all in the process. When he kidnaps his fifth victim, a twelve-year-old boy, a drunken Quentin tries to rape him, only for the boy to escape. Several weeks after the incident, Quentin kidnaps a teenager and repeatedly rapes him before accidentally killing him.
* ''The Zombie Room'', by R.D. Ronald: Dyson Steiger is the leader of the Club, an organization of HumanTraffickers responsible for forcing hundreds of girls and young women into sexual slavery. Steiger has the girls stripped of their identities through [[MindRape intense psychological damaging]] in order to make them more compliant. He's also responsible for the deaths of Tatiana's family and her deafness by ordering a bombing in the area they were in. He later orders a shipment of explosive weapons brought to Garden Heights for the purpose of conducting a wave of terror throughout the city to boost the influence of those under his thumb.
* ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'':
** ''A Fire Upon the Deep'': Flenser [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast got his name]] from his first steps as an EvilutionaryBiologist -- vivisection. Later, after becoming a ruler, he went far, far beyond that, among other things essentially turning MindRape of his subjects into a semi-industrial process. Flenser is a [[ItsAllAboutMe heartless sociopath]], who demands absolute loyalty from his underlings, but has none to them. To him, everyone is a tool, although [[ManipulativeBastard he can hide that well until the time comes]]. He murders followers and discards even his trusted bodyguards without a second thought. His own second-in-command (who, as revealed later, was essentially his offspring as well) hated him more than anything in the world, but too mentally scarred to resist. His striving to {{take over the world}} seems almost not worth mentioning compared to his other aspects. The book gives many glimpses into Flenser's mind and about the only non-horrible thing there is his ability to enjoy the beauty of nature.
** ''A Deepness in the Sky'': Tomas Nau leads The Emergents. As part of their defeat of the rival Qeng Ho, Nau rapes and kills their fleet commander in front of her daughter. Following that Nau has the daughter mind-wiped and charms her into falling for him. Because the mind-wipe is imperfect, every so often Qiwi remembers what happened, tries to kill Nau, who then has her scrubbed and starts the process again. This continues for decades.
** ''The Children of the Sky'': Vendacious upholds the tradition of horrifically evil villains and maybe even surpasses his predecessors, if not in scale and inventiveness of evil deeds, then in [[ForTheEvulz sheer sadism]] and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]]. This guy adopts most of the old Flenser's methods, such as manipulation, treachery, absolute ruthlessness, and totalitarian control through physical and mental torture. And uses them to pit the two greatest centers of civilization in the world against each other, when neither side has any real reason for conflict. Vendacious thinks that justifications are for the weak; he recognizes that his actions are meant to [[ForTheEvulz stroke his own ego and enjoy the feeling of power]], and is perversely proud of that. He [[BadBoss deliberately makes his own underlings' lives hell]], just to see with how much tyranny he can get away with.
* ''Literature/ZooCity'': [[SerialRapist Odysseus "Odi" Huron]] is a record producer who turns out to be animalled to a huge white crocodile. Huron sexually abuses starlets under his control, which drives Songwezu of twin pop sensation iJusi to flee. To free himself of his animal, Huron has his assassin partners kill a succession of innocents, disguising them as serial killings so he can take their animals for the ritual of muti. Having Songwezu's twin brother murder her, Huron binds his crocodile to him and then kills him as well. It is later revealed he has been feeding other victims to his crocodile, with dozens of bones located in its lair.
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* ''Raven'' duology, by Creator/PatriciaBriggs:
** [[EvilSorcerer Willon the Shadowed one]] is the true BigBad who sows the land with discord, chaos and death to eventually harness the powers of the [[GreaterScopeVillain Stalker]]. Killing countless through the purges he conducts via agents like Telleridge, Willon also gains power via magic plagues, such as one he used on Tier's village that even killed Tier's [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter]]. Not satisfied, Willon later wipes out an entire city while trying to overthrow Emperor Phoran and have him and all close to him killed, uncaring of the damage the Stalker's power will have on the world and countless innocents.
** ''Raven's Shadow'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Telleridge]] is the power-hungry leader of the wizard group the Masters of the Path. Under the machinations of Willon, Telleridge happily leads the kidnapping, torture and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] of the order bearers in order to gain their powers through their deaths, and upon kidnapping Tier, Telleridge has him [[MindRape mentally]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] tortured. Telleridge also uses his daughter Myrceria as a way to gain the trust of his victims, and after she sides with Tier, Telleridge heartlessly has her [[OffingTheOffspring tortured to death]] out of petty spite.
** ''Raven's Strike'': [[PsychoForHire Ielian]] is the treacherous guard of Emperor Phoran. Betraying his kingdom to Willon, heedless of the death it will bring, Ielian reveals his only true purpose is being a sadistic SerialKiller who is paid in victims by his master. After betraying Phoran and killing his fellows, Ielian even [[SlashedThroat slits another guard's throat]] just to savor the death, trying to have his old comrades tortured and murdered so he may live with as much depravity as he desires.
* ''Raven: Swordmistress of Chaos'' series, by Richard Kirk: Karl ir Donwayne is a ruthless slaver and Raven's [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]]. Having been her master from a young age, Donwayne had Raven's mother raped and killed by his men before raping the young Raven himself. Donwayne is shown to relish in slavery, being a SerialRapist of female slaves, keeping [[CreepySouvenir locks of their hair]] as trophies to mark his conquests. After being defeated by Raven, Donwayne returns as an undead monster, trying to kill her friends and even threatening to kill Raven and make her his undead SexSlave for eternity.
* "Literature/RawheadRex": [[AntagonistTitle Rawhead Rex]] himself is a [[EldritchAbomination monster]] from the days before Christianity, released from the Earth in a small English village. Rawhead promptly [[UngratefulBastard dispatches the man who dug him out]] and sets about trying to regain his kingdom. The first thing he does is to murder a farmer, eat the man's little daughter alive, and kill the man's pregnant wife before attacking a police car, [[CripplingCastration castrating the survivor of the crash]] and then burning him alive. Rawhead corrupts the local verger and hideously mutilates the reverend out of contempt for his "weak" religion. At the story's climax, Rawhead attempts to burn down all of Zeal in his fury. Unlike many literal monsters, Rawhead is a sapient being that amounts to a brutish bully who loves carnage, pain and especially [[ChildEater eating children]].
* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'': [[BigBad The Pale Lady]] is TheManBehindTheMan for almost every bad thing that's happened in the ''Farseer Trilogy'', as she purchased the skill scrolls from Regal and learned the art of Forging from them. As ''The Tawny Man'' trilogy showed, she relished in the psychological aspects of forging; she loved unleashing mindless Forged ones against their own families and kinsmen. In addition, she would ransom the dead bodies of Out Islanders she'd captured to their families, with the threat that if they didn't pay she'd return them as Forged. She was behind the war between The Six Duchies and the Out Islands, using the Out Island warlord Kebal Rawbread as her [[TheHeavy Heavy]]. It was implied that she may have had her hands in the Jamaillian slave trade. She was a recreational TortureTechnician as well. When Kebal Rawbread [[YouHaveFailedMe failed her]], she chained him to a frozen throne in her ice palace, used magic to keep him alive through what would have been lethal frostbite, and fed him [[ImAHumanitarian body parts]] of other Out Islanders she'd forged. Forging was a process that could be done very slowly over the course of weeks. And she tortured The Fool over the course of days for no reason other than the joy of it. Her sole motivation was [[ApocalypseHow the complete collapse of civilization]].
* ''Literature/RebelGenius'': Ugalino, the BigBad of the first book in the trilogy, was once [[TheMentor Pietro's]] [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil student]] until he made a Tulpa, a Golem-like creature with destructive capabilities. Rather than learn humility from being expelled, Ugalino used his Tulpa, which he named "Zanobius," to be a living weapon. He tries to paint himself as meaning well, but [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he used Zanobius to murder countless people]], including Ozo's wife and daughter, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist regardless of whether or not it furthers his goals]]. He ripped his Genius Ciro's gem out of his head so that he could use its magic capabilities without needing to perform an act of art, which is shown to physically and psychologically damage Geniuses. When getting information out of Duke Oberta on the [[MacGuffin Creator's Compass]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays him]] by having Zanobius slaughter almost everybody in his castle. With the information Oberta gave him, he went to Baldasarre's villa and he threatens Baldasarre's wife, prompting Enzio to tell him, and he then abducts Enzio so that he could lead them to the Compass. When the first location turned out to be an illusion, he uses Enzio as a sacrifice for a ritual that could lead him to the true location. Zanobius, who had developed a bond with Enzio during his captivity, stops Ugalino, only for him to be subjected to MindRape. When Ugalino catches up to Giacomo, he orders Zanobius to kill him and his friends, but Zanobius tries to rebel again, causing Ugalino—not for the first time--to give him LaserGuidedAmnesia. With Zanobius loyal to him again, he threatens to kill Aaminah if Giacomo didn't give him the Compass, and only lets them live [[PragmaticVillainy because]] he found out Giacomo was a Tulpa and hoped to use him as a weapon. With the Compass in his possession, he uses it to assassinate Nerezza, not caring who gets killed in the crossfire.
* ''[[Literature/TechnicHistory The Rebel Worlds]]'' (Flandry, #3): [[AntagonisticGovernor Imperial Governor Aaron Snelund]] gets a title and position by becoming the Emperor's lover, before [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating the drunken Emperor]] into posting him to some far-off sector, where Snelund swiftly becomes a terrible ruler, instituting an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil illegal slave trade]]. In one instance he punishes one alien village for not obeying him swiftly enough by [[WouldHurtAChild impaling the village's children]] and [[ForcedToWatch forcing their parents to watch]] for the three days it takes them to die. Snelund later kidnaps the beloved wife of the Imperial admiral of his sector so he can rape and torture her.
* ''Literature/RedDwarf'' series:
** ''Last Human'': The Alternate Lister, apart from being an unfeeling sociopath with no regard for life or property, also murders his "friends" aboard Starbug simply because he didn't want them getting hold of the coordinates of the DNA-Altering machine, even lasering Kryten's head off and jamming a Cuban cigar between the lips as a joke. Then, when the protagonist version of Lister rescues him from [[TheAlcatraz Cyberia]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays this act of kindness]] by knocking his rescuer unconscious and forcing him to take his place at the prison. As a final atrocity, he even goes as far as [[GroinAttack shooting Protagonist Lister in the balls with a rad pistol]] to try and motivate Kochanski into having sex with him.
** ''Backwards'': Djuhn'Keep, as one of a series of androids dedicated to hunting down the remains of the human race--aka Dave Lister--and torturing them to death, is already vile. Djuhn masterminded the creation of [[TheMaze the Death Wheel]] and the Hub of Pain [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] at its very center, stocking it with every single form of weapon that could be used to torture their captives. Djuhn, needing spare parts, infects one of the other agonoids with a [[AndIMustScream paralyzing computer virus]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath dismantles him while he's still conscious]]. Then, just to make sure that he'd have the privilege of torturing Lister and the other Dwarfers, he gathers all the other agonoids in the Hub of Pain and increases the gravity until most of them are crushed to death. The survivors are forced into the spokes of the Death Wheel and whittled down by the {{death trap}}s, while Djuhn listens from the control room, "[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming conducting the symphony of screams and death rattles as if it were the sweetest of sweet music.]]" Then, when it seems that some of them have escaped alive, Djuhn [[ThrownOutTheAirlock he ejects them into space]] and goes after Lister.
* ''Literature/TheRedQueensWar'': [[{{Necromancer}} Edris Dean]] is a servant of The Lady Blue and masterminds a series of cruel attacks to create the "Unborn", murdering pregnant women to damn the souls of their unborn children to hell, where they will become powerful undead beings to be unleashed on the world, the fate that befalls the wife and unborn baby of the Viking hero Snorri. It is also revealed that when the hero Jalan was young, Edris Dean nearly killed him and murdered his pregnant mother to turn his unborn sister into the strongest Unborn ever seen. Torturing and murdering a friend of Jalan's to obtain the Liar's Key that can help reshape the world, Edris later enslaves the soul of Jalan's sister to get her to kill her brother to help tear a hole through reality which could kill countless people in the cities. [[TheStarscream Ostensibly on board]] with the Lady Blue's plan to usher in the apocalypse to become gods, Edris Dean murders the men she assigned to him to turn them into undead slaves, trying to kill Jalan to hijack the plan and [[AGodAmI become the new god of all creation]].
* "Redemption at Knife's End", by Tim Marquitz, from ''Neverland's Library'': [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Korbitt]] is a depraved ex-soldier turned bandit who runs the illegal [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery ring]] of the town he's stationed in, spreading horror to the citizens. Kidnapping a young girl named Vai from a peaceful endangered species, Korbitt has her turned into his SexSlave and rapes her repeatedly. When [[AntiHero Gryl]] comes to rescue Vai, Korbitt threatens to [[SlashedThroat slit her throat]].
* ''Literature/ReefOfDeath'': The [[BigBad main villain]] of this [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids violent children’s novel]] by Paul Zindel is [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Ecenbarger]], a {{greed}}y [[MadScientist scientist]]. She commands a tanker she has parked off the coast of the titular reef where she is drilling and hording all the environment's natural resources while the local Aborigine people starve and grow ill. Having discovered many [[SeaMonster undiscovered species]] in the reef, Ecenbarger uses them as monstrously as possible. In the depths of the reef lives a massive carnivorous fish that Ecenbarger drives insane with a sonic signal to devour anyone in the vicinity, which is the fate of a luckless diver in the prologue. When [[TheHero PC]] teams up with the man's sister Maruul, Ecenbarger unleashes the fish on them, which kills PC's uncle Cliff. When she has them aboard the tanker, Ecenbarger [[YouHaveFailedMe has a guard executed for failure]] by having a spider-crab eat his brain. It is revealed that Ecenbarger is excavating the treasure of Maruul's people, a fire opal wall, with intent to destroy it and sell the pieces despite the damage it will have on the natives.
* ''Literature/TheReignOfEvil'': [[BigBad The God of Chaos]], better known as [[EvilOverlord King Dosleum]], is a tyrannical, sadistic GodOfEvil that waged war on the nations of Nidavia in hopes of conquering them. He beheaded the kind King Arnstil and sent his soldiers to find the king's heirs--Hawk, Falcon, and their infant brother, Eagle—and kidnap their foster parents. After attacking the city of Noltreydelm, his soldiers manage to capture Hawk, who King Dosleum proceeds to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]], [[YouKilledMyFather murders his foster parents in front of him]], and then imprisons him. Eventually, King Dosleum attempts to groom Hawk, promising him a piece of land in exchange for his servitude, and displays pleasure at when Hawk tells him that he intends to keep a prisoner as his personal concubine. After attacking Fairence twice more, he sends a legion of monsters to [[BadBoss kill his own men]], thus revealing his intention to rule Nidavia with [[KillAllHumans no human life]]. Once the heroes confront him, [[VampiricDraining he siphons the life force]] from his own Dusk Riders to fuel a spell to kill the heroes, and manages to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] an already-wounded Matt.
* Creator/MatthewReilly is not subtle when it comes to his villains:
** ''Literature/{{Temple}}'':
*** William Race's present-day story: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Earl Bittiker]], a vicious militiaman and founder of the [[ApocalypseCult Republican Army of Texas]], was drummed out of the Navy [=SEALs=] for rape. Having succumbed to a doomsday cultism, Bittiker leads his men to steal the powerful idol to power the [[DoomsdayDevice Supernova]] after several murders. Intending on wiping out a third of humanity in one blast, [[OmnicidalManiac Bittiker]] intends to completely erase the world for the sole satisfaction of seeing it burn.
*** Alberto Santiago's 1500s story: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Hernando Pizarro]], brother and lieutenant of Francisco Pizzaro, is a sadistic psychopath of a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who [[RapePillageAndBurn leads his forces]] across the Incan Empire. Women are forced into brothels and enslaved, children sold into slavery, men tortured and maimed with Hernando having entire villages tortured or massacred [[ForTheEvulz for the sport of it]]. Locating the priest Alberto Santiago and his friend Prince Renco who have taken the idol, Hernando intends to recover it and then torture the two slowly to death simply for the inconvenience.
** Scarecrow (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series:
*** ''Area 7'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** ''Area 7'': [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
*** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
* ''Literature/TheReplacement'': [[WouldHurtAChild The Lady]] is a narcissistic [[TheFairFolk Fay]] clinging to the last vestiges of power and authority. With her pact with the town of Gentry, she reigns over them, and has them [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] children once every seven years that she keeps as a pet, torments and eventually kills and [[ChildEater devours]], with a girl named Natalie the next of her victims. Setting fire to a church which causes a fatality upon being challenged, the Lady also tries to kill Mackie Doyle and others by handing them over to her TortureTechnician, the Cutter, to gruesomely murder.
* ''La République des imberbes'', by Mohamed Toihiri: [[VillainProtagonist Guigoz]], [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed based]] on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soilih Ali Soilih]], was already a bully in his childhood, and grew up to be much worse, joining a far-left group who staged a coup against the new Comorian regime. Becoming Comoros's dictator, Guigoz manipulated the youth into joining his ideals, creating the Zazis commandos. Said commandos became known for their sheer brutality against any political opposition, with murders, thefts, public humiliations, tortures and rapes becoming rampant in the country. Despite forbidding witchcraft and brutally punishing any practitioner, [[{{Hypocrite}} Guigoz]] had appointed several "sorcerers" as his advisors, and upon their recommendation, had no problems sacrificing seven [[WouldHurtAChild 7-year olds]] by having them strangled, while a nail is slammed in their skulls with a hammer. When "sorcerers" told Guigoz that spirits required three sacrifices, including one person truly close to Guigoz, Guigoz tricked his friend and advisor Lulé into killing two people, and then had him judged by a kangaroo court and executed. When a group in Iconi tried to rebel against him, Guigoz threatened the entire village, and the resulting onslaught led to over a thousand deaths. Thoroughly depraved beneath his charismatic behavior, Guigoz was appropriately called "Satan in a human's skin".
* ''Literature/{{Repugnant}}'', by Judith Sonnet: [[TheDreaded The Sender]], real name Gordon Werner, is a vile SerialKiller with a penchant for torture, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. After killing his own mother, he randomly murders numerous people before torturing, eviscerating, and killing heroine Sabra Rockford in a gruesome sacrifice to Satan to gain unholy powers. Gaining power not from [[EvenEvilHasStandards a revolted Satan]] but a host of lesser demons, the Sender embarks on a Halloween rampage through the town of Cardin, mutilating and slaughtering well over a dozen people, including trick-or-treaters. By the time Sabra--resurrected by Satan to seek revenge--finally tracks him down, the Sender has unleashed his demonic powers on Cardin's Halloween festival, turning it into an orgy of sadomasochistic violence that sees scores more people killed. So evil that he horrifies even the Devil, the Sender has no motive for his atrocities other than his own insatiable sadism.
* ''The Resort'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Jedidiah Harrison]] is a purely black-hearted {{sadist}} with a love for anything that causes others agony. Jedidiah founded the Reata resort hotel solely to turn it into a slaughterhouse of death and agony for countless innocents that he would brutally torture and murder by the dozens, bribing numerous wealthy individuals into assisting him in his crimes in exchange for allowing them to use his FountainOfYouth. After a freak accident destroys much of the Fountain, Jedidiah spends decades preparing a new ceremony that will allow him to restore the Fountain to its former glory, murdering any who might stand in his way in the process. Once the ceremony is ready, Jedidiah turns a nearby, fully-occupied hotel into a hellish EldritchLocation, turning many of the residents into insane savages who rape and murder all they see, while Jedidiah himself hangs, [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]], and butchers employees and residents alike, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. With his final ritual being to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice a child]] to the Fountain to restore its immortality properties, Jedidiah plans to then spend eternity continuing his sadistic ways, causing pain and torment to all he can [[ForTheEvulz for nothing but gleeful cruelty]].
* ''The Resurrectionist'', by Wrath James White: Dale [=McCarthy=] is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish]], self-righteous psychopath with the ability to revive those recently killed from death, and exploits these abilities to indulge in his own twisted desires. After being exposed to violence while witnessing his father violently rape his mother, Dale, starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], began using his abilities to first [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill small animals]], then his own grandmother, over and over again, bringing them back to life each time. Though attempting to keep his mother, the only one aware of his abilities, alive and as his tormented caretaker, Dale moved on to other victims after his mother killed herself permanently. Dale proceeded to go on a horrific killing spree across the country, always targeting one specific woman for a short amount of time to torture, rape, and kill as many times as he wants before going to another victim. Once confronting the only woman he deems worthy of his "love", Sarah, Dale commits truly horrifying atrocities against her, from raping her and her husband in front of each other to [[FlayingAlive flaying her alive]], all things he has done on countless others. In the end, Dale brutally [[CopKiller murders two police officers standing in his way]], and, once beaten, causes all those he has ever revived to drop dead, seemingly for good this time. Dale [=McCarthy=] was a spoiled, disgusting, and despicable lunatic who justified his wicked acts as not truly evil, seeing as he always revived his victims, and [[NeverMyFault constantly blamed others]] for his pathetic state in life.
* ''Literature/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' (John Russo's 1978 novel): [[NightmareFetishist Flack]], a [[AxCrazy sadistic psychopath]] and former convict, uses the ZombieApocalypse as an excuse to indulge himself. Taking refuge in the Miller house with his partners, Flack rapes the young woman Sue Ellen, and reveals he intends to use the Miller sisters as "zombie bait." Flack and his partner John Carter [[CopKiller shoot a police officer]], leaving his partner tied up so when Flack's victim reanimates, he'll devour his former friend. Upon fleeing, Flack throws a young man named Billy to the zombies and storms a mansion, killing the guards inside and taking the family hostage. Flack then throws them, mother, father and [[WouldHurtAChild a ten-year-old]] to the zombies, gleefully watching as the zombies tear them apart while keeping the Miller sisters to rape at his and Carter's leisure.
* ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'':
** ''The Riftwar Saga'': [[TheHeavy Murmandamus]] is the Big Bad of ''Silverthorn'' and ''A Darkness at Sethanon''. A Pantathian [[SnakePeople serpent-priest]] who plans to bring the [[SealedEvilInACan long-banished]] [[AbusivePrecursors Valheru]] back into the world, Murmandamus disguises himself as the reincarnation of the moredhel's (dark elves) greatest leader, uniting the mountain, forest, and hill clans in a campaign of genocide against their human and eledhel enemies. He sends assassins after the Prince of Krondor, which gets numerous people caught in the crossfire. He steals the souls of his human servants in a ritual that involves [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] a [[WouldHurtAChild nine-year-old girl]]. He creates the Black Slayers, soulless moredhel, bound in service to him forevermore. He murders a seer who gave him the information he wanted, and massacres hundreds of slaves when he realizes that his campaign isn't going to start when he wants it to. In ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', he destroys the cities of Armengar and Sethanon, lines his headquarters at Sar-Sargoth with a thousand [[DecapitationPresentation human heads on pikes]], [[BadBoss kills hundreds of his own men in a fit of rage]], tramples his right-hand serpent-priest, Cathos, to death, consumes the souls of all those who have died aiding him, and in the end, tries to activate the Lifestone, an ArtifactOfDoom that will [[OmnicidalManiac slay all life]] on Midkemia from bacteria to humanity, in order to loose the Valheru. Believing that he will attain demigodhood when the Valheru return, Murmandamus dies laughing about how "[[CardCarryingVillain I am a thing of death, Lord of the West. I am ever the servant of Darkness]]."
** ''The Riftwar Legacy'': [[PsychoForHire Bear]], the BigBad of ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods'', is a vicious mercenary pirate initially employed as [[TheHeavy muscle]] by the sorcerer Leso Varen, aka Sidi, to gain the Tear of the Gods, quickly becoming something far more uncontrollable and ambitious. With the power of a dark amulet making him impervious to all forms of harm, Bear forces a pirate crew led by Knute to join him under the threat of death--making good on his threats by torturously murdering two men for slights--and massacres the Ishapian ship carrying the Tear. Once he loses the Tear and is further betrayed by Knute, Bear resurfaces and comes down on Krondor in a vicious fury. Bear slaughters his way into a tavern, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring himself]] with Sir William's fiancée before murdering her, kills his way into the city jail and vengefully cuts Knute apart, and indiscriminately murders his way out of Krondor and through the sewers, lining dozens of bodies behind him and setting a populated orphanage on fire purely as a diversion. Once he's finally tracked down by William and a score of Krondorian soldiers, Bear gleefully [[BadBoss tosses his own men to die]] in his stead even despite his own invulnerability before single-handedly ripping apart the Krondorian guard and attempting to slay all those who stand before him and the Tear, proclaiming he'll be nothing more than a god. A barbarian too much even for the sinister Leso Varen, Bear is little more than animalistic wrath and savage fury on legs.
* ''Literature/RingShout'', by P. Djèlí Clark: [[TheButcher Butcher]] Clyde is the leader of the "Ku Kluxes," the [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors]] from beyond who have allied with the [[TheKlan Klansmen]]. Leading them to racial lynch mobs, Clyde inspires them to butcher innocent Black people to [[ThePowerOfHate spread even more hatred so that he may summon his master]], the Grand Cyclops, to cleanse the world after revealing the meat he fed his followers was that of monsters to force them to be bound to the Grand Cyclops [[AndIMustScream in permanent agony]].
* ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'': [[BombThrowingAnarchists Xu Ping An]] is a [[EvilIsBurningHot Firebender warlord]] with a [[FauxAffablyEvil finely-honed, superficial sense of charisma]] he uses to reign in a loyal gathering of marauders with which he pledges to [[RapePillageAndBurn overthrow the law and let anarchy reign]]. Xu put entire villages of "abiders" to the sword, leaving countless corpses stacked behind him until his rampage was finally stopped by Jianzhu. When inadvertently broken out eight years later by the Avatar, Kyoshi, Xu muses that the land has forgotten his name and pledges to [[FameThroughInfamy scar his name into history]] in a way they will never forget. To begin his new wave of bloodshed, Xu captures a family and forces them to watch as he dunks the father in and out of a pot of boiling water, gleefully intending to move on to slaughter the nearest town. Xu even uses his rare ability to bend lightning to savagely torture Kyoshi, proclaiming himself absolute and that all anyone can ever hope to do against him is obey.
* ''The Rising'' and ''City of the Dead'', by Creator/BrianKeene, takes place in a bleak and miserable setting, but still manages to have two villains who stand out:
** [[BigBad Ob]] is [[TheLeader the King of the Siqqusim]], the race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] {{zombie|Apocalypse}}s that serve as the antagonists of the series. Distinguishing himself from the mindless hatred of his followers through his [[ImplacableMan persistence]], sadism, and hounding of the protagonists on their journey across America, Ob aims to [[KillAllHumans exterminate all of humanity]], paving the way for [[{{Satan}} something even worse]]. Angered by [[TheHero Jim]]'s constant success at staying alive, Ob makes it his [[ItsPersonal personal mission]] to end Jim's life, even as he arms his zombies with stolen human weaponry so that they can more efficiently wipe out all human and animal life on Earth. He takes great pleasure in his task, gloating as he uses a fake "all clear symbol" to lure hundreds to their deaths, mining [[BodySurf each corpse he possesses]] for memories that he can use to hurt those his host cared about and taunt new victims with, and sharing information about his [[{{Hell}} world]] in order to drive people to despair. Towards the end, he smashes the last remaining human stronghold with heavy artillery, and [[EvilLaugh laughs]] in Jim's face during their final confrontation, noting that it is his pleasure to end Jim's journey.
** [[ColonelKilgore Colonel Schow]] is proof that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters some humans can be every bit as vile as Ob and his ilk]]. Taking command of a unit of the [[SociopathicSoldier Pennsylvania National Guard]], Schow teaches them to RapePillageAndBurn with the best of the undead. He forces the women and teenage girls that he rescues into service as brigade whores, under the pretext of keeping up morale. Those who refuse, along with the men who are too unfit for physical duty, end up as zombie bait. The men who he does deem fit enough become slave labour for his construction projects, working in hellish conditions for no reward beyond the dubious safety that Schow and his men provide. Over the course of the novel Schow has deserters crucified and/or used for target practice, a would-be assassin castrated-by-zombie-jaws, TokenGoodTeammate Skip beaten and then fed to zombies for trying to escape, [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Frankie]] gangraped, and a harmless homeless man shot down simply for being found in Frankie's company. Towards the end, he throws a handicapped man out of his Hummer while driving at top speed, so that he can make good his own escape. [[WarForFunAndProfit Enjoying the situation far more than he should]], and unconcerned about the very people he is supposed to be protecting, Schow is an affront to the rest of humanity.
* ''Literature/TheRitual'', by Adam Nevill: [[TeensAreMonsters Loki]] is the leader of a band of BlackMetal delinquents who hope to bring about the end of the world through their music and cruelty. [[CardCarryingVillain Boastful of how evil and wicked he is]], Loki is a SerialKiller who has claimed nine lives in the past, all fueled by bigotry and prejudice. Having found the land of [[EldritchAbomination Moder]] in the isolated Swedish forest, Loki works with his band to reawaken Moder and unleash it onto travelers in the area, getting innocents gored and butchered. Capturing the hiker Luke, Loki forces him to witness one of his friend's disemboweled bodies before tormenting and terrorizing him, Loki planning to sacrifice Luke to Moder in the hopes it will unleash more Old Gods onto the Earth and bring the apocalypse Loki has dreamt of.
* ''Literature/RiverOfStars'', by Guy Gavriel Kay: [[ManipulativeBastard Bai'ji]] is an Altai warlord, and third-in-command after his brother, Wan'yen, and kaghan Yan'po. Generally regarded as his brother's EvilGenius, Bai'ji helps Wan'yen betray and murder the Xiaolu Emperor and his First Minister, [[BuriedAlive burying them both up to their necks]] and then having them {{eaten alive}} by ants; he keeps their skulls to drink wine from. Bai'ji then persuades Wan'yen and Yan'po to invade Kitai, to the south, destroying the Twelfth Dynasty, and [[RapePillageAndBurn reducing city after city to rubble]]. When Wan'yen sends him after escaping prisoners, Bai'ji objects, because he was getting ready to rape a number of Kitai women in front of their husbands. At the time of his death in the swamps of southern Kitai, Bai'ji was plotting to avenge this "insult" by murdering both Wan'yen and Yan'po. A {{sadist}} with imperial ambitions, Bai'ji left the world a better place by leaving it.
* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'': In the {{novelization}} by Max Allan Collins, [[PsychoForHire Harlen Maguire]] is a death-loving hitman who spends his free time photographing murders, many of which he himself perpetrates. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] killing a wounded man in a street alley, Maguire is then hired to track down Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Michael Jr., happily hoping to murder them both and add them to his massive "[[CreepySouvenir gallery of death]]". Slaughtering an entire cafe, murdering one of his own partners, and killing an innocent couple along the way, Maguire mortally wounds O'Sullivan and attempts to photograph his dying moments before moving onto Michael Jr., even after the contract on the duo has been called off.
* ''Röd måne'' ("Red Moon"): Ylva Svensdotter wants her own brother to die in war so she can claim the right to his wife's farm. When he does die, she [[BitchInSheepsClothing feigns sadness over it.]] She accuses her sister-in-law and her two maids of witchcraft after and since this is the 17th century, they're sentenced to death. Ylva also gladly planned for her brother's [[WouldHurtAChild six year old daughter Indra]] to die as well, but Indra was rescued. When her daughter Maja lost her ability to speak from the shock of being flogged, Ylva actually accuses her of being a witch as well and has her sent to a family where she is raped and abused for many years. And when Indra returned to claim her mother's farm, Ylva accuses her niece of witchcraft. At this point, Ylva even loses the support of her husband, who had only obeyed her until then.
* ''Literature/{{Room}}'': "Old Nick"--the [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname otherwise-unnamed]] man who garners his appropriate title from a title of Satan--kidnaps and locks away a young woman in the titular “Room,” using the woman as a means of pleasure by raping her almost every night on end for seven years. Old Nick accidentally impregnates Ma and forces her to [[ChildByRape give birth]] right in front of him without the use of painkillers or any medical equipment whatsoever, leading to the baby's death. Once Ma gives birth to Jack, the young narrator of the novel, Nick keeps them both as his prisoners with threats to leave them both to starve to death if they ever try and escape, acting good on his threats by cutting the power and heat to the Room once Jack obliviously wanders outside.
* ''Literature/{{Sabriel}}'': After Kerrigor, aka Prince Rogirek, became one of the [[OurLichesAreDifferent Greater Dead]], he tricked his half-brother into helping him murder their mother and their sisters in order for Kerrigor to use their blood to shatter the Charter Stones protecting the kingdom from the dead. Defeated and driven deep into death, Kerrigor's actions nevertheless destroyed The Old Kingdom, allowing all manner of TheUndead free access to the world over the next several hundred years, while he waited for the chance to break free. Kidnapping the infant Sabriel, Kerrigor took her deep into death as part of a plot to blackmail her father, The Abhorsen, into freeing him. Years later, he traps The Abhorsen himself in Death and breaks free into the world of the living. He then tries to capture Sabriel and his revived half-brother as part of a plan to shatter the remaining Charter Stones. When this fails after The Abhorsen's heroic sacrifice, Kerrigor re-emerges from Death and leads a massive army of undead across the wall and into a girl's school, killing soldiers and students alike, before devouring Sabriel's FriendlyEnemy, Mogget, alive and finally forcing Sabriel herself into a mutual kill. Obsessed with power and staying alive no matter what the cost to others, Kerrigor is the worst that the realm of the Dead has to offer.
* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Vicar]] [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Zhaspahr]] [[TautologicalTemplar Clyntahn]] is the [[KnightTemplar Grand Inquisitor]] of the [[CorruptChurch Church of God Awaiting]], as well as the BigBad for the series so far. In ''A Mighty Fortress'', his response, to learning of a group of reformers within the Temple itself, is to have them, their families, their aides, and ''their'' families arrested, subjected to ColdBloodedTorture, and executed, this eclipsing a delcaration of Holy War that had been stewing in the background since ''By Schism Rent Asunder''. In '' How Firm a Foundation'', he launches the Sword of Scheuler, an operation which instigates a civil war in the Republic of Siddarmark that kills hundreds of thousands in both the initial attack and the aftermath, which features a winter full of starvation as well as atrocities and counter-atrocities committed by and against Temple Loyalists, vis-à-vis those who remained loyal to Siddarmark's Lord Protector. His penchant for the torture and painful death of his enemies has resulted in multiple instances where armies aligned with the church LeaveNoSurvivors out of a sense of ''{{mercy|Kill}}'', as to spare any would be to leave prisoners of Clyntahn's wrath.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'':
** [[ForTheEvulz Desmond Tiny]] is a sadistic [[TimeMaster time traveler]] (and Darren's [[ArchnemesisDad father]]) who is revealed to have manipulated almost all the terrible events in history just for his own personal pleasure. He brags about the way he likes to drink the blood of children, claiming "it's so sweet", and on another occasion claims he is excited to witness a volcano that will kill thousands. He pitted Darren and Steve against one another, insisting that the vampires only have three chances to kill Steve before he overthrows the Vampires. Whichever boy won-Darren or Steve-would become the Lord of Shadows, kill all of their friends, and became the ruler of the world. When Darren decides to ScrewDestiny and let both himself and Steve die, Mr. Tiny instead creates dragons which results in the Post-Apocalyptic world as seen in ''The Lake of Souls''. His motivation is he looked into the future and saw that things were going to be too peaceful for his liking, so he set the stage for a lot of chaos to [[ItAmusedMe amuse him]].
** The Vampenze Lord, aka Steve "Leopard" Leonard, is an unstable tyrant who starts up a war with the vampires to get back at Mr. Crepsley for turning Darren into a vampire and not him. Among his actions are seducing the hero's sister in order to get her pregnant; using his own son as a bargaining chip against Darren; and [[NeckSnap snapping the neck]] of Evra's [[WouldHurtAChild eight-year-old son]] just [[ForTheEvulz for his own sick joy]]. Even [[EvenEvilHasStandards the other Vampenze dislike him]] and only serve him because they have to.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheNobleDead'' is set in a borderline-CrapsackWorld, so it has a couple of these:
** Warlord Darmouth is a paranoid and psychotic tyrant who runs his lands with fear and intimidation. People are killed on a routine basis if he gets the wrong idea about them. He keeps his followers in line with blackmail, emotional manipulation and fear to keep them too weak to resist. Trying to leave his service results in swift death for all involved, even their families.
** ObviouslyEvil [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ubad]], a Necromancer who worships the EldritchAbomination BigBad Il'Samar, manipulated a vampire ally of his into raping a human woman to father a dhampyr on her. The result was said ally's death as his energy was drained and Ubad gaining the dhampyr he badly wanted. The reason was so he would have a champion to lead an army of the dead to [[OmnicidalManiac purge the world of life]]. Unlike Il'Samar's other followers, Ubad is simply in it to see how far he can push the bounds of his own powers as far as he can go until the world burns.
* ''Literature/{{Satyrday}}'': The [[OminousOwl owl]] is a powerful and megalomaniacal [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who rules over his army of ravens and the other animals of the forest with threats of torture and death. The animals who live under his rule exist in constant terror, as he's known to make dissenters disappear. In one instance, he has a [[WouldHurtAChild young bird]]'s wings broken and leaves him for dead. In the past, he massacred almost all of the humans in what became the Deadwood Forest, forcing the few survivors to live a wretched existence underground. Fourteen years ago, he sent a powerful whirlwind across the forest that killed thousands of the animals within and displaced many others. In the present day, the owl kidnaps the Moon from her proper orbit in the sky and cages her, causing the world to fall into turmoil with strange creatures and vegetation appearing that attack on sight. His ultimate plan is to rid the world of the Sun to create an [[TheNightThatNeverEnds endless night]]. When a group of dissident ravens manage to free the Moon, the owl becomes completely deranged and orders his falcons to kill the animals of the forest indiscriminately.
* ''Literature/{{Savage}}'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Roderick Whittle]]'s manner is a mere MaskOfSanity, hiding the fact that he is in fact the infamous UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. We are first introduced to Whittle when [[FirstPersonPerspective 15-year-old Trevor Bentley]], trying to escape some robbers, spies him killing a prostitute and mutilating the body. Trevor manages to escape, but ends up on the same boat as Whittle, bound for the United States. Whittle attacks and kills a few more people, and plans to continue his spree in the US, making it seem the work of "savages". Eventually, Whittle also kills some more people, including a teenager; Trevor's LoveInterest—-later mocking Trevor about how he used her corpse, unbeknownst to him, as a shield against Trevor's bullets; a posse of men sent to capture or kill him and placing their corpses in [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor macabre positions]]; and numerous women. He finally tries to kill Trevor and his new love interest, but not before revealing that he has become a [[KillerCop sheriff's deputy]] named "John Carver". With over 20 brutal murders to his name, as well as a taste for torture and possibly even [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], Roderick Whittle is easily one of the most psychotic and sadistic versions of Jack the Ripper ever put into fiction.
* ''Literature/SavageSpecies'', by Jonathan Janz: The [[AncientEvil Old One]], also known as the {{Wendigo}}, is the [[MonsterProgenitor progenitor]] of the monstrous "Children" lurking beneath the campgrounds of the so-called Peaceful Valley. Disturbed by human activity, the Old One disperses his followers to begin slaughtering and torturing people by the hundreds. The Old One isn't a mindless EldritchAbomination but a cruel, gloating sadist who intends to [[WouldHurtAChild twist the innocent baby]] the heroes are protecting into another one of his monstrous Children and who regrets at the end of the book that he wasn't able to torture the heroes who sacrificed themselves against him even more.
* ''Sawkill Girls'', by Claire Legrand: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent The demon]] known as [[SerialKiller the Collector]] is a wicked creature sealed on Sawkill Island. Hungering for prey, the Collector makes a pact with one family to serve him, dominating and even [[MindRape mentally]] or [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil physically]] raping the one he selects as a "queen", terrorizing them into his subjects. The Collector has them bring him prey, young women he kills in agony [[ToServeMan while devouring them]]. With his latest queen Val, he has her bring him the sister of novel heroine Marion, and the other heroine Zoey's best friend Thora. When Val grows too independent, the Collector marks her as well, savagely twisting her mind to hurt all of them as much as he can.
* Literature/ScarpettaSeries, by Patricia Cornwell:
** ''Cruel and Unusual'' & ''From Potter's Field'': Temple Brooks Gault proved to be a sociopath ever since childhood, tormenting his twin sister Jayne and killing her puppy over perceived ParentalFavoritism. Growing into a volatile narcissist with no qualms about killing a man who has insulted his looks, he resolves to become a SerialKiller in a [[FameThroughInfamy twisted search for fame]]. His victims, whose bodies he degrades in various ways, include a 13-year-old boy; a pregnant woman; and a prison guard [[UngratefulBastard who was offering him a hideout]]. After escaping capture, Gault announces his return by [[CainAndAbel murdering Jayne]], then murders three cops to further taunt Kay Scarpetta and her team. When the police corner him in the subway, Gault electrocutes Detective Meier to death and takes Lucy hostage before trying to kill Kay.
** ''Unnatural Exposure'': [[MadScientist Phyllis Crowder]]--aka [[DeadlyDoctor Deadoc]]--after being made a scapegoat for the Birmingham smallpox outbreak, secretly spliced the virus with monkeypox to get her revenge through a pandemic. She starts testing the new virus on her own mother, [[{{Matricide}} ultimately killing and dismembering her]] to hide the traces of the disease, before sending contaminated beauty samples to the residents of Tangiers Island, causing three more deaths. [[BitchInSheepsClothing While acting as a helpful assistant to Kay Scarpetta]], Phyllis taunts her online with grisly photos of the crime scenes and eventually infects her staff, resulting in the death of Kay's assistant Wingo. When confronted by Kay after her sixth murder, a drifter she shot after he broke into her caravan lab, Phyllis coldly dismisses her actions as a "[[DisproportionateRetribution tit for tat]]", uncaring that she could have threatened the whole world with a new bioweapon.
** ''Point of Origin'': [[SerialKiller Newton Joyce]] is a British entrepreneur who uses the inconveniences of his teenage acne as an excuse to indulge in serial killing. Moving easily from UK to the USA thanks to his wealth, Joyce murders young and beautiful people to [[CreepySouvenir remove and keep their faces]], only leaving mutilated torsos to be found. After teaming up with [[MonsterFangirl Carrie Grethen]], Joyce starts [[FieryCoverup using fire to cover his traces]], uncaring of the collateral damage. One time, Joyce sets fire to a whole farmhouse, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals leaving eighteen horses to a slow and agonizing death]]. With a body count of 27 and an absolute disregard for the pain he causes, Newton Joyce is the most prolific serial killer faced by Kay's team.
* ''Literature/TheSchwarzschildRadius'', by Gustavo Florentin: "[[PsychoForHire The Webmaster]]", Hector Brazos, is a {{sadist}}ic torturer and killer for hire, whose signature style is recording his victims' deaths. Originally an assassin for the Mexican Cartel, the Webmaster slaughtered dozens of people, including entire families, inflicting horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder on every one of them, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. Wanting to earn his money easier, the Webmaster turned his child pornography website into a hub for individuals worldwide to bid on the torture young teenage girls the Webmaster had kidnapped would endure for the following weeks. This torture included everything from electrocution and bone breaking, to being raped by either the Webmaster or his trained dogs, and, when the girls eventually wore out, the Webmaster would hold a final bid for the excruciating way each girl would die. When any of his partners try to turn on him, the Webmaster wastes no time in torturing and slowly killing them. After failing to sadistically torture 3 teenage girls, the Webmaster kills one, along with an innocent homeless man, opens fire on police officers before setting a bomb off on top of them, and tries to rape and murder two of his only surviving victims. [[{{Greed}} Caring for money above all else]], the Webmaster would commit any and all depraved actions to make a quick buck, and would enjoy every minute of it.
* ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'': Iskiak, better known by the name of "Aurang", [[TheEvilPrince prince]] of the Inchoroi and bad even by [[DepravedBisexual their standards]], was one of the final Inchoroi after their wars with the inhuman Cûnoroi, or "Nonmen". Desiring to escape his own damnation, Aurang participated in the annihilation of entire worlds before the Inchoroi arrived on Earwa. At the end of the war with the Nonmen, Aurang assisted in giving them immortality, but also introduced a plague to kill every female of their species, leaving the Nonmen to look forward to nothing but eventual madness and extinction. Later forming the Consult, Aurang initiates the Apocalypse by unleashing the No-God. As the Horde-General of the Consult, Aurang takes the field, committing countless atrocities and massacring entire cities with his and his people's own creations the Sranc, beings so filled with lust and rage they can only interact with other species by killing and raping them to death. Aurang is also a SerialRapist, boasting of this to Kellhus, and manipulates the Holy War to help bring about the deaths of all but a fraction of beings on Earwa to not only keep himself from hellfire, but to continue the monstrosity that damned him to begin with.
* ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Martha Plunkett]] is the head of Treehouse, a reputable preschool which is, in fact, a [[HumanTrafficking toddler sex ring]]. For nearly twenty years, Plunkett has [[WouldHurtAChild molested and exploited preschoolers]] for child pornography, both directly and by having her staff do the same. To terrorize the children into silence, she assigns the children live rabbits to care for, then [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills the rabbits]] right in front of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' {{novelization}}, by Eithne Massey: [[BigBad Harald Redtooth]] is the Chief Northman, savage leader of the band of [[HornyVikings Northmen raiders]] currently plaguing Ireland. Redtooth has the Northmen [[RapePillageAndBurn invade]] several villages, cities, and monasteries for the purposes of slaughtering most of their populations, enslaving the survivors, and looting all of the treasure possible to satisfy Redtooth's greed. With even children not exempt from death or slavery at the Northmen hands, Redtooth wipes out the monk city of Iona, then makes his way to Kells, where his Northmen lay waste to the city and set it aflame as they kill everything in their path. After severely wounding Abbot Cellach, Redtooth orders the man's close friend Aidan and nephew Brendan executed after swiping all their belongings and wearing them as trophies. Showcasing a cruel grin while committing his actions and even going so far as to name his sword "[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Monk Mincer]]", Redtooth is presented as [[AdaptationalVillainy a far more uniquely evil force than his movie counterpart]].
* ''Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror'''s "Direct Report", by Leigh Perry: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Claudio Mendoza]] is a vampiric SerialRapist who preys on potential employees. After presumably killing his previous manager, Claudio kidnaps and infects a woman, Taylor, locking her in a room for six months, where she is drugged, starved, chained to a bed and raped daily by him and a variety of fetishists, having done this to countless of his "[[MonsterProgenitor children]]" before. After Taylor escapes, Claudio congratulates her for regaining her senses so soon and threatens to leave her exposed to the sun until she is destroyed.
* ''Senseless'' and ''Merciless'', by Mary Burton: The Other, aka Josiah Cross, hailed from the wealthy Cross family and was known for his sporadic acts of violence before his [[SerialKiller serial killings]]. The last night at university, he battered and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] protagonist Eva Rayburn. When Micah died, the Other [[TwinSwitch took his name]] and avoided jail time but continued his violence by targeting people for serial killings. Knowing from the start that his mother was behind a series of murders, he chose not to inform the police, enabling her to kill many people. The Other got into a partnership with [[SerialRapist James Dixon]] where his partner would beat and rape women he abducted and The Other would prolong his victim's misery by mocking them until he kills them and [[{{Sadist}} watch them die in front of him for his own pleasure]]. He would dissolve his victim's bodies in chemicals to [[CreepySouvenir keep their bones as trophies]] and use their femur bones to create chess pieces. Having done this to at least six women, he intended to do more to get police and [[FameThroughInfamy media attention]] and managed to kill two more women. When James slipped up in their partnership again, the Other brutally murdered him and then killed James's partner and tried to [[FrameUp pin the murders on them]]. Blaming and harboring spite towards Eva for his own perceived problems, he attempted to murder her half-sister, Angela, to emotionally hurt her.
* ''Film/TheSentinel1977'' & ''The Guardian'', by Jeffrey Konvitz: [[FauxAffablyEvil Charles Chazen]] appears a friendly, eccentric old fellow who is, in truth, {{Satan}} himself. When the new potential guardian to the gates of Hell, Alison, arrives at the apartment that rests over the gateway, Chazen attempts to kill those she loves and [[MindRape torture her mentally]] until she breaks and [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]]. When Alison takes her place as the new Sentinel, Chazen sets his sights on the next Sentinel, Father [=McBride=], starting a web of murder and destruction to break him. Tricking [=McBride=] into suicide and damnation, Chazen prepares to lead the legions of Hell and the damned into the world to bring about the apocalypse, gloating about his intent to [[AGodAmI dethrone God and take over all creation]].
* ''Serafina and the Black Cloak'', by Robert Beatty: The Man in the Black Cloak, Montgomery Thorne, is the terrifying apparition stalking the grand Biltmore Estate. Originally a rich man who lost his fortune, the Man gained the ability to devour the souls, along with the talents and knowledge, of anyone he wanted by using a mysterious black cloak. When the Man consumes someone's soul, they are left [[AndIMustScream trapped in his cloak in constant horror and agony]], and the Man has no compunctions regarding who he devours, be they adult or [[WouldHurtAChild child]], and will outright murder anyone who gets his way. After he begins rapidly aging due to his use of the cloak, the Man begins devouring the souls of as many children as he can to preserve his life force, and, when [[TheHero Serafina]] tries to steal his cloak to save his victims, the Man sadistically tries to suffocate her for irritating him. A {{greed}}y sociopath who would harm anyone and everyone to become wealthy and powerful once again, the Man in the Black stood out in this children's novel as a truly dark and twisted man.
* ''Literature/ShadesChildren'': [[WouldHurtAChild Silver Sun]] is a member of the extradimensional Overlords, and is bad even compared to her evil companions. Silver Sun sets up the transfer for the Overlords' invasion to start with, exterminating ninety-percent of humanity with all survivors under the age of fourteen herded away. Silver Sun and the other Overlords then set up a horrific regime where teenagers are pumped full of sterilizing drugs and horribly conditioned before being carted en masse to the [[PeopleFarms Meat Factory]], where they're chopped up and converted into Creatures whose sole purpose is to kill—[[AndIMustScream retaining a vestige of their humanity and remaining fully aware the entire time]]--and females are raped for years on end to produce more fodder for the Creatures before being killed too. Once Silver Sun is finally confronted, she personally tortures two of the young heroes herself while boasting of her responsibility of setting the entire system up to begin with--and cheerfully notes "it's what you're there for" when confronted on why she did so.
* ''Shadow Form'', by Edmund Hughes: [[HumanTraffickers Emanuel Jacques]] proves that in a world of supernaturals, sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the worst of monsters can be all too human]]. Emanuel tricks girls from impoverished countries into believing he'll give them a better life abroad, but instead he has them stripped and turned into {{sex slave}}s. After two of his employees escape out of fear, Emanuel tracks them down, intending to have them both killed for daring to defy him. Emanuel is also a [[BadBoss terrible boss]] who'll gladly kill his own minions if they get in his way, writing off everyone as expandable. Before his defeat, Emanuel threatens to gun down the best friend/lover of Jack Materson should Jack not let him go, while still in reality planning to kill her anyway.
* ''Shadow Man'', by Cody [=McFadyen=]:
** [[JackTheRipoff Jack Jr.]]--Peter Hillstead--believes himself to be a descendant of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and seeks to immortalize himself in history even more so than his ancestor. Trained to torture and kill [[EnfantTerrible at a young age]] by his SerialKiller father, Jack Jr. gleefully assisted his dad in his crimes. After [[{{Patricide}} murdering his father]], partially because he believed [[EvilerThanThou him to be an inadequade descendant of the Ripper, compared to himself]], Jack Jr began [[SerialRapist raping]] and [[SerialKiller killing]] over the years. Regularly [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating people]] into murdering others for him, Jack Jr. wastes no time in betraying and killing his acolytes when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he grows tired of them]], and he used one of them to ensure the deaths of FBI agent [[TheHero Smoky Barrett's]] husband and young daughter. Declaring Barrett his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]], Jack Jr. spent hours torturing and raping Barrett's childhood friend while [[ForcedToWatch forcing her 10 year-old daughter, Bonnie, to watch]]. Jack Jr. then tied Bonnie to the eviscerated corpse of her mother and left her there for 3 days, the resulting trauma causing the girl to become mute. Next, Jack Jr. begins specifically torturing members of Barrett's task force, with methods such as digging up and defiling the corpse of one agent's sister, and chopping off the legs of another agent's dog. When his identity is revealed, Jack Jr. kidnaps one of Barrett's friends, tortures her, then tries to [[WouldHurtAChild slash Bonnie's throat open]] while using her as a HumanShield. Though manipulated by his father into killing, Jack Jr. chose to continue his spree even after his father was removed from the picture and his mother tried to redeem him. [[CardCarryingVillain Happily embracing his dark side]] while simultaneously preaching his victims are nothing but cattle, Jack Jr. embodied and evolved the legacy of The Ripper.
** [[SerialKiller Keith Hillstead]] is the father of Jack Jr., and is the one responsible for starting his path of destruction. As a young man, Keith believed himself to be a descendant of Jack the Ripper, and murdered his parents for trying to hide it from him. After seducing a young woman into becoming his wife, Keith spent weeks [[DomesticAbuse torturing and raping her]] until she gave birth to a son, who he then began to teach how to torture and kill. Claiming close to 100 victims over the years, Keith photographed the tortures, rapes, and deaths of his victims and kept them in an album. When his wife attempted to murder him, Keith violently raped and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pummelled her]], before trying to slit her throat. With a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite]] and [[DissonantSerenity calm]] exterior masking his true depravity, Keith Hillstead stood out as monstrous even with his limited appearances.
* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheFox'': [[WickedWitch Lady Satomi]] is a sadistic [[BloodMagic Blood Witch]] in service to the Master of Demons, Genno. A [[PsychopathicWomanchild childish psychopath]], Satomi regularly kills her serving girls for fun and pleasure. To serve Genno, Satomi has an entire village of hundreds of innocents torn to pieces by demons as a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]] to summon the demon Yaburama, and uses him to massacre a group of monks guarding the scroll containing a wish her master requires. Revealed to be plotting to use the wish to usurp and betray Genno, Satomi admits she knows he intends to cause mass destruction and death upon his return and is fine with it if [[GodhoodSeeker it gives her a chance at godhood itself]].
* ''Shadow-Maze'', by Mark & Julia Smith: The blue-robed [[BigBad Knifeman]] is the true source of the atrocities the so-called Knifemen of Bali have been perpetrating across the continent of Levindre. The Knifeman has his six magical proxies exterminate entire villages all across the nation, sparing only the fit and able-bodied while leaving the rest for a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torturous death]]. The Knifeman preserves all those he captures in [[AndIMustScream constant agony]] entombed within ice, subject to the constant pain of the cold, and when the Knifeman promises their freedom if they only kill the heroes, the Knifeman's victims advance on the heroes with such desperate ferocity that none of them can be saved. The Knifeman aspires to render all life in the mage-garden of Nevern cold and dead all for the purpose of [[GodhoodSeeker becoming a god]] and subjecting the entire world to death or enslavement, and subjects the sorceress capable of making his dreams a reality to such pain he has to hold himself back from torturing her to death.
* ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'': Francisco Javier Fumero, the [[DirtyCop corrupt chief of police]] in Barcelona, relishes the power his position brings him. [[EnfantTerrible As a boy]], Fumero tortured small animals as an outlet for his sadism, and when he discovered Julian Carax, the one boy to treat him kindly, and Penelope, who Fumero lusted after, were together, he attempted to murder Julian and devoted his life to destroying him and Penelope alike. Fumero sent his men to kill Julian and personally murdered a woman who loved Julian for helping him. In the years that passed, Fumero terrorized the populace of Barcelona as a uniformed thug, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] those who caught his ire. One luckless man named Fermin was held and beaten before Fumero tortured him with a blowtorch. When the young hero of the novel, Daniel Siempre, closes in on the buried story of Julian Carax, Fumero wastes no time in attempting to kill him and all who know the truth as well. Cruel, {{sadist}}ic, violent and insatiably power-hungry, Fumero represents how far a once almost pitiable boy can fall.
* ''Literature/ShadowdanceTrilogy'': [[FatBastard Leon Connington]], the head of the Connington family, made much of his vast fortune running a prison to hold anyone the Trifect wants to disappear. In a world of BlackAndGrayMorality and depraved villains, Connington stands out for personally heading much of the vicious torture of these victims and for being a SerialRapist, torturing and raping Melody Gemcroft for years and convincing the Gemcroft family she was long dead to continue assaulting her. He also threatened to do the same to Alyssa Gemcroft. In addition, he dressed up and raped Stephen Connington, his heir, [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]] and making him into the Widow, a butcher and SerialKiller. Utterly unrepentant of these crimes, he is directly responsible for the creation of many of the villains in the second half of the series.
* ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series:
** ''Literature/TheHeritageOfShannara'': Most of the [[TheHeartless Shadowen]] are bad, but their [[TheLeader leader]], [[BigBad Rimmer Dall]], is in a class of his own. From his position as TheFederation's [[SecretPolice First]] [[StateSec Seeker]], Dall enforces the state's xenophobic, expansionist policies, enslaving the Dwarves, suppressing resistance, and arresting magic-users, whom he drains of their magics and then, should they survive, throws into The Pit. When [[GreenThumb Quickening]] gives the Dwarves hope by healing the Meade Gardens, he sends [[ProfessionalKiller Pe]] [[PsychoForHire Ell]] to assassinate her. When the Elves return to the Four Lands, Dall dispatches the [[BigCreepyCrawlies Creepers]] to wage a war of extermination against them. He personally tries to murder [[BigGood Walker Boh]] and [[TheMentor Cogline]], then sends the Four Horsemen after them, resulting in Cogline's death. He [[ManipulativeBastard plays a long psychological game]] with Par and Coll Ohmsford, aimed at [[BreakTheCutie shattering]] [[CorruptTheCutie Par's]] [[MindRape mind]] and making him susceptible to a GrandTheftMe. Dall’s crowning achievement, however, was the construction of [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Southwatch]], a living tower that drained the life from the world itself, and would have, if left unchecked, resulted in the Four Lands becoming an apocalyptic wasteland, inhabited by nothing save a few, maddened Shadowen. Concerned only with his personal power and [[HorrorHunger desire to feed on the strongest magics available]], Rimmer Dall wreaked more devastation on the Four Lands than any villain before or since, inflicting damage that has taken centuries to even begin recovering from.
** ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'':
*** [[EvilSorcerer The Morgawr]] is the BigBad of the trilogy. He's a half man, half lizard freak who slaughters Grianne and Bek Ohmsfords' family, kidnaps Grianne, tells her Bek is dead, and convinces her that [[BigGood Walker,]] the Druid, and his ArchEnemy is behind it, then [[EvilMentor raises her to be as bad as himself.]] He's also a magic-draining leech who feeds on [[SoulEating the souls,]] minds, and magics of his victims and turns people into PeoplePuppets by pulling their brains out through the back of their heads and [[BrainFood eating them,]] leaving them with their skills, but no free will. In the opening pages of Morgawr he drains two-hundred fifty men onscreen, scarring witness [[CorruptPolitician Sen Dunsidan]] for life, and driving the latter's TortureTechnician [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide.]] He later does the same to the crew of Grianne's ship, Black Moclips after she betrays him, before hunting her down and trying to kill her because he considers her life his property to dispose of how he wishes. Completely comfortable with his evil, The Morgawr takes {{pride}} in having brought Grianne down to his level, and finds her desire to better herself completely laughable.
*** Cree Bega is TheDragon to The Morgawr. A SmugSnake of a Mwellret with a penchant for murder, ColdBloodedTorture, KickTheDog, and FantasticRacism, Cree Bega is contemptuous of all the [[SssnakeTalk little peoplessss]], and develops an unhealthy obsession with [[WarriorPrince Ahren Elessedil,]] making it his personal mission to transform him into TheWoobie. He [[ForcedToWatch forces Ahren to watch The Morgawr feed on the crew of Black Moclips]] for no other reason than traumatising him, and upon Ahren's escape, is given custody of his crush, Ryer Ord Star. He and his Mwellrets proceed to strip her, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat her,]] [[{{fingore}} break all of her fingers,]] slash the soles of her feet, defile her until she faints, and then after she wakes up, tie her to a yardarm, [[ATasteOfTheLash lash her with a rawhide whip,]] and leave her to bake in the sun, [[DrivenToSuicide leading to her suicide.]] During his final confrontation with Ahren, Cree Bega stabs Elven Hunter Kian InTheBack, and then gloats to Ahren about what he did to Ryer Ord Star ("She took ssso long to die little Elvesss. Ssso long it ssseemed it would take forever."), before trying to kill him. The cumulative effect of all the trauma that Cree Bega puts Ahren through is an eventual psychological implosion that leaves him utterly [[ShellShockedVeteran shellshocked]] and broken into the next series.
** ''Literature/TheDefendersOfShannara'': Mischa is the secondary antagonist of ''The High Druid's Blade''. A {{sadist}}ic [[EvilOldFolks old]] [[WickedWitch witch]], Mischa is an ally of [[BigBad Arcannen]], for whom she works as a TortureTechnician. She uses her [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] to torment Chrysallin Leah for weeks on end, convincing her that she has been permanently disfigured and crippled by torturers working for [[BigGood Aphenglow Elessedil]]. She then [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretends to befriend Chrysallin]] and helps her to "escape" before having her illusory Aphenglow track them down, faking her own death to further ruin Chrys's psyche, and convince her that Aphenglow is her enemy. When Grehling helps Chrys escape for real, Mischa goes after them, intending to dissect Grehling, and [[MindRape shatter Chrys's mind]].
* ''Literature/{{Shardik}}'': Child slave-dealer Genshed specifically deals in unwanted and deformed children so he can gain a greater profit and use methods that are more barbaric. Instead of grown-up overseers, he grooms the cruelest of the boys to be his overseers, replacing them only when they kill or damage too many of the slaves (or learn too much). He prides himself on being able to drive children mad without even touching them, though he isn't above physical abuse -- chains through the ears, knife blades under the nails or across the eyes, a device called a "flytrap" that keeps the mouth open. He castrates the boys and it's implied that the children in his possession (mostly young ones, under fourteen) are sold as sex slaves of one kind or another. When he learns one boy will be used for begging, he cuts off the boy's hands to make him more valuable, then charges the new owner for the job. The only regret he ever shows is at the loss of a profit.
* ''Literature/SharkWars'' series, by E.J. Altbacker:
** ''Battle of Riptide'' & ''Into the Abyss'': [[TheCaligula Finnivus Victor]] is the [[RoyalBrat spoiled]] leader of India Shiver, who believes that it is his birthright to conquer the Big Blue. In contrast to his more benevolent predecessor, Finnivus's reign is filled with pointless cruelties, in which he wipes out entire shivers to enslave their pups as ChildSoldiers; consumes the heads of his enemies; and [[BadBoss murders his own subordinates]] for little reason. Moving into Gray's territory, Finnivus sends his forces to wipe out every shiver there. When his first invasion fails, Finnivus angrily demands the extermination of every shiver in the Atlantic Ocean and becomes even crueler, such as sending assassins after his enemies; forcing his servant Velenka to consume poison after being accused of being a traitor; using his own sharks as target practice for himself; and torturing his former marine prime by cutting all of his appendages and [[ForcedToWatch making him helplessly witness]] the destruction of his home.
** ''Kingdom of the Deep'' through ''The Last Emprex'': [[ManipulativeBastard Hokuu]] is a vile frilled shark who sought to [[FinalSolution orchestrate the extinction of every shark]] so that his own species can reign supreme. When the Fifth Shiver's leader King Bollagan declared his intention for peace with the Big Blue, Hokuu helps Drinnok [[TheKingslayer murder him]] and his supporters to incite war against the other sharks. A master of dark kata, Hokuu uses his powers to [[VampiricDraining steal the life force of other creatures]] to make himself more powerful, which he demonstrates by wiping out every resident in Riptide territory. After assassinating Seazarein Kaleth, Hokuu massacres all of his mako minions and uses their life force to free Drinnok and his Fifth Shiver from the Underwaters, planning to restart his genocide against the Big Blue. When Drinnok expresses interest in making peace with Gray, Hokuu allies himself with Grimkahn and his prehistores to kill Drinnok and directly participates in his attacks throughout the Big Blue, ultimately planning to betray him eventually. After Gray emerges victorious, a frustrated Hokuu tries killing him personally, taunting that he'll murder his friends afterward, [[AndYourLittleDogToo saving his mother for last]].
** ''Enemy of Oceans'' & ''The Last Emprex'': [[BloodKnight Grimkahn]] is a psychotic mosasaur who leads the prehistores in Drinnok's Fifth Shiver and participated in his coup to murder King Bollagan and his supporters. Snubbed by him for promotion, Grimkahn agrees to Hokuu's plan of overthrowing him, planning to wipe out the other sharks in the Big Blue so that the prehistores can rule. After his first attack fails, Grimkahn begins [[BadBoss culling any minion that protests his rule]] and initiates attacks to exterminate whole shivers, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]]. Engaging with Gray's forces a second time, Grimkahn first tries asphyxiating them in a cave and, upon their escape, tries killing Gray himself, while sending his frilled sharks to maul his shiver sharks, innocent or otherwise.
* ''Shelter In Place'', by Creator/NoraRoberts: Patricia Jane Hobart is a vengeful psychopath bent on taking her anger out on the world in the most destructive ways she can. As a teenager, she planned a mass shooting at a mall in her home town of Rockpoint, Maine, and convinced her brother and two of his friends to carry it out, leaving over ninety people dead and hundreds injured. [[ItsAllAboutMe Offended by the attention survivors of the massacre received]], she began [[SerialKiller hunting them down and murdering them]], along with killing her own mother and grandparents simply because she didn't like them. After failing to kill shooting survivor and police officer Reed Quartermaine, she goes on the run, continuing to kill survivors in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly cruel ways]] while mailing Quartermaine locks of their hair to taunt and threaten him. While a fugitive, she abducts a reporter famous for her coverage of the mall shooting and has her record [[{{Narcissist}} a manifesto showing off Patricia's "genius"]], murdering her at the end of it [[ILied despite promising she would not]]. By the end of the novel, Patricia's spiteful narcissism has ended over a hundred lives and devastated countless more.
* ''The Shining Girls'', by Creator/LaurenBeukes: [[BigBad Harper Curtis]] is a former drifter who uncovers the time traveling House. Using it to become a SerialKiller, Harper seeks out the "shining girls", those with potential in the world, so he may murder them throughout history. Hunting down many young women, Harper gruesomely murders them, with only heroine Kirby escaping him. Curtis revels in the pain he causes, killing one woman as she begs for the sake of her children and another who dedicates her life to helping others as a social worker, even murdering his occasional lover Etta when he's bored with her. A complete nothing of a man, Curtis attempts to find fulfillment in his existence by stealing the lives of those better than him.
* ''A Shiny Can of Whup-Ass'' (from the ''After The Burn'' collection), by Ronald Kelly: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rott]], the singular most evil human to ever walk the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic hellscape of the post-Burn world]], is the most prolific SerialKiller in American history, with a legacy of indiscriminate rape, torture, and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] against potentially over 600 victims--most perpetrated whilst they were still alive. After the Burn, Rott escapes from death row and takes advantage of the chaos to rile up a gang of murderous thugs and return to his hometown of Watkins Glen to savage his way through the town. Rott savagely executes his own men one after another for things as minor as "laughing without my permission"; [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cuts apart and eats]] the entire stock of the local pet shop after coldly murdering its elderly owner; murders and cannibalizes random people across the town; and attempts to have his goons gang-rape a young woman and torture her to death for thrills. Eventually, Rott proposes he and his gang go from door-to-door and slaughter their way through town, intending to turn the church into a whorehouse and keep the women of Watkins Glen as {{sex slave}}s; and round up the children of the town with implied intention of raping and torturing the lot of them for fun. [[AntagonisticOffspring Reviled even by his own father]] and appropriately referred to as the "new Satan", Rott lives by [[TheHedonist one twisted creed]]: "If it feels right, do it. That's what I always did."
* ''[[Literature/TheGolgothaSeries The Shotgun Arcana]]'': [[BigBad Ray Zeal, the angel Raziel]], is a corrupt angel who aims to [[AGodAmI become the god of torture and murder]]. Invading Golgotha in pursuit of the skull of the first murderer, Raziel slaughters those about him, [[TheCorrupter swaying others]] to cannibalism and bloody depravity. Having many killed, including [[WouldHurtAChild children]], Raziel also has a kind schoolteacher tortured to death and intends to raze much of the world to the ground by infecting them with the HatePlague from the skull, all for an ascent to his own godhood.
* ''Shutter'', by Courtney Alameda: Luca, real name UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, is the ghost of the vampire king, Count Dracula himself. After his death in [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel]], Luca gained an undying hatred against the Helsing, Stoker, Seward and Harker families for stopping him. To this end, Luca has had female members of those families who find his mirrors killed and tortured before turning them into his vampiric brides. Murdering the brothers and mother of the heroine Micheline Helsing, he has her mother's spirit captured and tortures her until she breaks, brainwashing her into thinking that her daughter was responsible. Together the two start a torture and murder spree across the city, brutally killing dozens before turning their corpses into puppet soldiers, and even ripping the eyes out of the youngest member of the Stoker family, permanently blinding her. Luca intends to release all the various Necros monsters that the families have captured on the city, killing thousands, in order to spite the families. Near the end of the novel, he tries to force Micheline to be one of his brides before boasting how he will return to life and begin his brutal conquest of the world anew.
* ''Literature/TheSilverKiss'': The vampire [[UndeadChild Christopher]] is a centuries-old monster who resembles an innocent child. Orchestrating the death of his sire and mentor, Christopher [[{{Matricide}} murdered his own mother]] when she rejected him before turning his brother Simon. Fleeing a vengeful Simon, Christopher leaves a trail of murder and bloodshed behind him, relishing in the fear and agony of his victims. Christopher plays an innocent child to lure people into trusting him before killing them, sometimes torturing them first. Resuming his activities in America, Christopher creates a string of corpses as Simon tracks him. When Simon finally corners him with his love interest Zoe, Christopher decides to murder Zoe before he escapes, just to give his brother more pain.
* ''The Sinister Mr. Corpse'', by Jeff Strand: Richard Brant, the seemingly [[FauxAffablyEvil avuncular]] head of Project Second Chance, is in truth a cold, remorseless man solely dedicated to [[{{Greed}} profit]]. Resurrecting the unfortunate Stanley Dabernath from death to make the man a wealthy celebrity, Brant [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Stanley behind locked doors to force his compliance and cheerfully threatens to murder him should he ever stop being useful. Passing off his revival of Stanley as the act of unexplained science, Brant in reality routinely kidnaps young virgins, has their families slaughtered, and the virgin flayed and torturously bled out over a course of three days to inject their blood into Stanley. Once Stanley discovers this, Brant decides to cut his losses and stirs up a mob to cannibalize Stanley whilst watching with a manic grin on his face.
* ''The Siren and the Specter'', by Jonathan Janz: [[TheDreaded Judson Alexander]] of Lancaster, a grim giant with an interest in the occult, was evil from his [[EnfantTerrible boyhood]] when he murdered a slave just because he could. Later [[SiblingMurder killing his infant sister]], Judson grew to terrorize the town while killing and raping at will. Enslaving the souls of his concubines and regularly raping a 14-year-old set up as a "sacrifice", Judson was especially fond of turning children into monsters, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] them to steal their life force, a practice he continues as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent malevolent specter]]. Trying to turn 4-year-old Ivy Shelby into a heartless monster and massacre everyone about in his return to life, Judson views everything about him as a tool to use, corrupt, or destroy.
* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' & ''Crooked Kingdom'':
** [[AbusiveParents Jan Van Eck]] is a seemingly-respectable merchant who turns out to be an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical sociopath]] obsessed with his own glory and reputation. Callously disowning his son Wylan for his dyslexia that has made him illiterate, Van Eck divorces his wife, throws her into an asylum and tells Wylan she's dead so he can steal all her assets. When his new wife is pregnant, Van Eck tries to have Wylan murdered. After enlisting [[AntiHero Kaz Brekker]] for a job and learning Kaz has Wylan hostage, Van Eck later attempts to betray Kaz and have Wylan murdered via having his ship sunk. It turns out Van Eck is behind a scheme to cheat his fellow merchants and distribute ''[[FantasticDrug jurda parem]]'' to enslave the Grisha, or those with magic, subjecting them to addiction or death, all [[{{Greed}} as long as he profits]] from the chaos he inflicts.
** [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Heleen Van Houden, or Tante Heleen]], the cruel owner of the brothel the Menagerie, buys teenage girls from foreign nations and cruelly trains them to be SexSlave prostitutes. From Inej Ghafa's backstory, we see this involves horrific abuse, both physical and [[MindRape psychological]] with Heleen repeatedly having her whipped and beaten, even having a girl who kept some money from a client cruelly murdered in front of the other girls as a lesson. Even after being freed by Kaz, Inej is intensely scarred by her time at the Menagerie, and Heleen gleefully taunts her of it when they meet, even trying to have Inej killed later. Utterly reprehensible and dedicated to making a fortune from the sexual enslavement of countless young women, Tante Heleen is one of the worst that Ketterdam has to offer.
* ''Literature/SixRooms'', by Gemma Amor: [[ItsAllAboutMe Charles Lester III]] is a selfish, entitled [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] who believes everyone exists to serve him and his whims. Catching his valet trying on his cufflinks, Charles [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]] and then the housekeeper Anna [[LeaveNoWitnesses as a witness]]. Murdering the gardener after the latter sees him [[BuriedAlive place the still-living Anna in a tomb to suffocate]], Charles is then disturbed by the distraught scullery maid Isabelle who is pregnant from his drunken rape of her. Charles proceeds to murder her as well, finally deciding to kill his pregnant wife Rose to complete the cover up.
* ''Skeleton Man'' & ''Return of Skeleton Man'', by Joseph Bruchac: The titular [[AntagonistTitle Skeleton Man]] is a selfish, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] figure who stands out in this book series for children. Originally an organic lazy uncle, he grew to love the taste of human flesh and proceeded to [[{{Autocannibalism}} eat all the skin off his body]] until he was nothing but a skeleton; ate his brother and sister when they arrived home; and gave chase to his young niece. Years later, he kidnaps Molly's mother and father and, posing as her great-uncle, attempts to fatten Molly and eat her. When Molly uncovers his identity, he chases after her and, when dangling off a cliff, [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to take her with him]]. Returning a year later, he follows Molly and her family to the Hudson Valley, where he kidnaps Molly to once again try and eat her.
* ''Literature/SkinMedicine'', by Tim Curran: [[GunmanWithThreeNames James Lee Cobb]] distinguishes himself as a brutal killer who rapes and slaughters his way through the old West before he awakens the {{Wendigo}} by cannibalizing his own comrades. Seeking to learn the power of Spirit Medicine from the old shaman Spirit Moon, Cobb is instead sealed away, but returns and regains his strength by becoming a vicious SerialKiller of prostitutes, eventually closing in on Spirit Moon and massacring his entire tribe. Turning others into monsters like him, Cobb leads the slaughter of an entire town before taking over a second town called Deliverance where he boasts he has devoured all the souls there, intending on sweeping over the West in a flesh-eating tide of bloodshed and slaughter.
* ''The Skin Trade'': In this werewolf novella by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jonathan Harmon]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly alpha werewolf]] whose only son cannot shapeshift. Harmon attempted to awaken his transformation by [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping six children]] and forcing his son to eat their flesh. In reality, Harmon continued this because he enjoyed the hunt. When one police officer got too close, Harmon [[CopKiller tore him apart]], threatening his partner that it would be his children to die next if he did not cover it up. When the officer's daughter Randi Wade and the kind werewolf Willie Flambeaux get too close, Harmon tries to kill both and threatens to return for Randi later. Prideful, ruthless and utterly concerned for all life, werewolf or human alike, Harmon is a perfect example of [[SavageWolves the worst the lycanthropes have to offer]].
* ''{{Literature/Skinjumper}}'': Alex Snowdin, despite lacking the supernatural powers of his partner Terry, manages to stand out as the most evil man in the story. As a child, Alex accidentally killed his brother's dog, and, to avoid trouble for it, arranged to sacrifice another dog to bring his back to life. When this failed, it succeeded only in giving Alex's friend Terry the ability to jump into the bodies of others, while Alex spent his time growing up assaulting and abusing others. Once teaming back up with Terry years later, Alex immediately murders rival drug slingers before raping one's girlfriend, leading Terry to accidentally jump into the girl's body, after which Alex makes numerous attempts to rape Terry to sate his lust. After brutally murdering two more men, Alex betrays Terry, holds him and a woman at gunpoint, then boasts his plans to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a nearby child]] for fun after torturing the duo to death in an insane attempt to replicate the ritual that gave Terry his powers.
* ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series:
** First book: [[{{Sadist}} Nefarian Serpine]], a fanatical worshipper of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] and TheDragon to the warmongering sorcerer Mevolent, had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine began plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty years later after arranging for Baron Vengeous to complete his Grotesquery, Batu befriends and murders every experienced Teleporter still alive so that none of them can close his gateway. Upon revealing himself to Valkyrie in the battle with the Diablerie, Batu can only express pride and exhilaration at the destruction he has caused, offering his followers up as vessels for the dark gods under the guise of protection from their horrible wrath. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious of the power and longevity of sorcerers]], Batu is willing to destroy the world [[GodhoodSeeker in order to achieve godhood]], arrogantly thinking that he will become one with the Faceless One that possesses him.
** The Necromancer Trilogy (''Dark Days'', ''Mortal Coil'', ''Death Bringer''):
*** HighPriest Auron [[ImmortalitySeeker Tenebrae]] of the Necromancer Order wants to live forever by enacting a ritual called the Passage, where the [[DarkMessiah Death Bringer]] will kill around three billion people to block the stream of life. Recognizing Skulduggery Pleasant's aptitude for Necromancy, Tenebrae gave Serpine his signature RedRightHand and ensured, should it be used on Skulduggery, that his soul would be able to come back, subsequently leading to the emergence of [[OmnicidalManiac Lord Vile]]. In the present, Tenebrae arranges for a Remnant to possess Finbar Wrong so they can learn if Valkyrie will become the Death Bringer, apathetic to the devastation that ensues when it gets loose. After capturing Skulduggery and Valkyrie, Tenebrae proceeds to reveal his part in Vile's creation, taking sadistic pleasure in finally unveiling the truth of his origins.
*** Cleric Vandameer [[DirtyCoward Craven]] initially seems to be nothing more than a sycophantic supporter of Tenebrae, but quickly proves to be far worse. [[PlayingWithSyringes Horrifically experimenting]] on Melancholia St Clair, Craven unveils her as the Death Bringer and quickly begins abusing the power that comes with his newfound acclaim. Taking over the Order after Melancholia kills Tenebrae, Craven continues the attempts to initiate the Passage and sacrifices his loyal followers to evade capture, eventually [[DemotedToDragon becoming a lackey]] to the [[SanitySlippage now insane]] Melancholia in the dubious hope he'll be spared when she [[OmnicidalManiac kills everyone]]. A self-serving coward concerned only with preserving his own life, Craven abandons even Tenebrae's flimsy pretense of saving the world in his spinelessness.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]] toward Argeddion's dream of spreading magic to all.
** ''Armageddon Outta Here'':
*** "Friday Night Fights": [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters The Promoter]] runs weekly [[GladiatorGames death matches]] between magical creatures for the amusement of mortals. With sapient vampires as his most noteworthy attractions, the Promoter forces them to fight only half-turned into their monstrous forms, a state shown to induce incredible pain. The Promoter also feeds them live humans before every match so they're at their strongest. When his champion Caelan refuses to eat Valkyrie, the Promoter pits Caelan against a stronger vampire, knowing it's taboo for them to kill their own kind, and throws Valkyrie into the middle of the match between the two ferocious monsters. Having held these fights for years and [[VanHelsingHateCrimes expressing a desire to rid the world of these "parasites"]], the Promoter proves that humans can be far worse than any sorcerer or vampire.
*** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions.
** ''Seasons of War'': The Leibniz universe's [[AlternateSelf version]] of [[BloodKnight Lord Vile]] proves to be far viler than his counterpart. Serving as the feared [[TheDragon Dragon]] to his world's Mevolent, Vile massacres scores of resistance fighters, including his former best friend Ghastly Bespoke. Retaking his former title of Death Bringer, Vile uses his immense power to create a specialized breed of draugr that can spread their condition to others, [[ZombieApocalypse quickly decimating the world]]. As Mevolent prepares to invade another reality, Vile betrays him, siccing his forces on one of the last remaining cities in his universe. Fittingly obsessed with death for one who holds his title, Vile intends to hijack Mevolent's plan and continue his destruction in the other world, continuing the process until [[OmnicidalManiac everyone in every universe is dead]].
* ''Literature/SlasherbackSeries'', by Brian G. Berry:
** ''The Sleepover Massacre'': [[DepravedDentist Anthony "the Mad Dentist" Ulrich]] is a SerialKiller with a penchant for mangling his victims' teeth. Before the story, Ulrich murdered his wife and her lover after he caught her having an affair; he enjoyed killing her and breaking her teeth so much that he became a dentist and started targeting [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. After murdering 15 third graders and being locked in a mental institution for years, Ulrich escaped and targeted more civilians. Refusing to be caught again, Ulrich kills a dozen innocents, including a [[CopKiller police officer]] and a young boy, before attempting to murder [[FinalGirl Jessica Sadie]] and her brother.
** ''Thanksgiving Day Massacre'': "[[GreaterScopeVillain The Father]]" is the patriarch of his cannibalistic surrogate family and the man responsible for corrupting [[BigBad Travis]] and turning him into a SerialKiller. As part of a sadistic tradition, the Father [[FamilyExtermination would slaughter a young child's entire family]] on Thanksgiving, force the child to eat their remains, and then recruit them to be part of his family. As they aged, the Father twisted their minds and broke them, turning them into cannibalistic killers and making them participate in the same tradition. When the Father comes across 5-year-old Travis, he and his minions massacre Travis's whole family before [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]] as his mother is raped and murdered; Travis is later converted to become part of the Father's family. Even after the Father dies, Travis and the remnants of the Father's family carry on with executing more massacres.
* ''Slasher Girls & Monster Boys'': In "A Girl Who Dreamed of Snow", by [=McCormick=] Templeman, after a plague which kills most young girls and women hits their land, [[BigBrotherBully Sain]] and his brothers kidnap women in order to give the residents wives in order to keep the population alive. In truth, Sain cares nothing for his land and is simply using this as excuse to fulfill his {{sadist}}ic fantasies by secretly [[SerialKiller butchering the woman]] they capture. Sain bullies his kindlier brother Mowich and forces him into this. After discovering the young shaman girl Nara, Sain plans to kill her for fun despite knowing her death will mean the plague will continue, as she is the only one who can stop it. Sain is willing to doom his entire people to genocide, including his little sister, just to satisfy his love of hurting others.
* ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' ([[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault01.html link]]): The [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogress Queen Mother]] is left to look after her daughter-in-law and grandchildren when her son, the prince, is called away to war. [[ForTheEvulz For no apparent reason]], she decides to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize them]], starting with her [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old granddaughter]], Dawn, ordering her chief steward to kill and cook her. The Steward hides Dawn away and kills and cooks an animal instead, repeating the process with the three-year-old grandson, Day, and the princess. When [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the queen]] realizes the trick, she gathers the princess and her children along with the steward and his wife and servant girl, deciding to drop all six into a vat full of snakes and poisonous toads.
* ''[[Literature/MissMarple Sleeping Murder]]'': Dr. James Kennedy, obsessed with his half-sister Helen, was furious when she opted to marry the father of young Gwenda Reed, and eventually murdered her, which a young Gwenda saw. Covering his crime by murdering Gwenda's nanny and drugging Gwenda's father, Kennedy framed him for murder, {{gaslighting}} him and hiding the body as to make him appear insane and have him sent to an asylum where he died. In the present, Kennedy murders the former maid when he fears she will implicate him and tries to poison Gwenda's household as well. Finally uncovered, he attempts to throttle Gwenda before Miss Marple herself intervenes.
* ''The Slob'', by Aron Beauregard: [[SerialKiller The Slob]] is a [[FatBastard corpulent]], [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] killer secretly working for an [[OrganTheft organ harvesting]] ring. Per the request of his employers, the Slob would kidnap women and then chop up their bodies in a meat grinder, selling their remains for others to consume. While held captive, the Slob would repeatedly torture and [[SerialRapist rape]] his victims, and even go as far as forcing them to eat human flesh. When heroine Vera Harlow arrives on his farm to sell him a vacuum cleaner, the Slob lures her into his home before beating her and locking her inside his bedroom. He later abuses Vera's stomach so she'll miscarry and force-feeds her human remains. After Vera botches an attempt to escape from the Slob, the Slob punishes her by locking her inside his barn with several of his other victims and raping her on a daily basis.
* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': [[CreepyGymCoach Isabelo Gorospe]] is the vile figure who drove [[SerialKiller Alex Carlos]] to his murder spree. A gym teacher and [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]], Isabelo lured impoverished boys by offering them scholarships, before forcing himself on them. Calling 8 boys in the gym after school, Isabelo would rape them and force them to do sexual acts together for a school year, with Alex, as his "favorite boy", the prime target of his worst acts; all this while always reminding them of how helpless they are to his authority, later [[ILied rescinding the scholarships regardless]].
* ''Literature/SmallTownMonsters'', by Diana Rodriguez Wallach: The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] known as the "Angel of Tears" once ran a {{cult}} that practiced HumanSacrifice. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed off]] by the parents of Vera Martinez, the Angel later returns by forcing a man to cause an explosion that kills 17 people, and later [[DemonicPossession possesses a woman]] while rebuilding its cult. Causing numerous deaths and destruction, the Angel of Tears plans a mass suicide of its followers to enhance its power and sweep over the world to repeat it again.
* ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' novella, by Matt Yeo: [[SmarmyHost Jasper Powell]] is the host of--and the brains behind--the gameshow ''[[BloodSport SMASH TV]]'', the [[ImmoralRealityShow most popular television show in the world]], where contestants have a chance to win untold riches...if they manage to survive, which nobody has so far. In truth, Jasper, the final obstacle faced by contestants, is an enormous mutant, the failed attempt by the military to create SuperSoldiers. Jasper had the idea to start a [[DeadlyGame gameshow]] to test experimental weapons on people, claiming ""Who's going to miss a few gung-ho macho idiots? It's certainly cheaper than waiting for a war to happen!" In addition, besides owning the studio, Jasper also runs most of the gambling in the city, which is what caused one of the contestants to become a contestant.
* ''SNAFU'' anthology series (by publication date):
** ''Survival of the Fittest'''s "Sucker of Souls", by Kirsten Cross: Vlad {{Dracula}} himself is a terrifying, monstrous vampire who, when awakened from his prison, promptly slaughters a young research assistant and tries to kill the rest of the group he arrived with. In the past, Dracula massacred and {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} countless innocents, feasted upon [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and stores the souls of his victims in the cave to [[AndIMustScream suffer forever]] as long as he lives. Plotting on killing or turning the rest of the group in the caverns, Dracula intends on raising a new army and running rampant through the world.
** ''Unnatural Selection'''s "Vermin", by Richard Lee Byers: [[EvilSorcerer Ibrahim]] is a [[SinisterMinister wicked Imam]] who takes advantage of a siege occurring between the Franks and Turks over a city to unleash [[ScaryScorpions monstrous scorpions]]. Committing HumanSacrifice to create these monsters, he unleashes them on the Franks before revealing to his employer that he intends to use the victory here to transform his entire religion into worship of his master, an [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Old One]] who would grant Ibrahim great power. Upon being caught, Ibrahim tries to massacre the entire city with every man, women and child in it out of spite.
* ''Literature/SnowGlassApples'': "Literature/SnowWhite" is the unnamed, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] princess who is opposed by the supposedly "wicked" stepmother. Showing her inhuman nature by feeding on her new stepmother's blood, Snow begins [[AntagonisticOffspring draining her own father]] over years, sexually and physically abusing him until [[{{Patricide}} he dies a wasted skeleton of a man]]. When the new queen attempts to have Snow killed, Snow enslaves the dwarves in the forest and begins hunting travelers, killing many for their blood. While being temporarily defeated by a poison apple, Snow returns later to usurp control of the kingdom from her stepmother, having the queen cooked alive as the main course at Snow's wedding, free to [[AdaptationalVillainy terrorize the kingdom]] how she desires.
* ''Literature/TheSnuffNetwork'': [[BigBad Andy "Mr. Snuff" Wu]] is the leader of a BlackMarket organization specializing in HumanTrafficking and creating {{snuff film}}s. With billions of dollars and dozens of thugs at his disposal, Wu has thousands of men, women, and children around the world kidnapped and either raped or tortured to death to appease his clientele. When his business becomes under attack by two vigilantes seeking vengeance against him, Wu tries to have them murdered, not caring how many of his men he must sacrifice and [[YouHaveFailedMe punishing those who fail him]] by having them tortured or killed as well. After Bradley Anderson, one of his most loyal filmmakers, [[EvenEvilHasStandards tries to retire]] and refuses to kill three teenage witnesses who could incriminate Wu, Wu responds by having Bradley's wife and child murdered [[ForcedToWatch in front of him]]. As Bradley and the vigilantes start destroying Wu's enterprise in Tokyo, Wu continues sending more of his men to try and kill them, regardless of the collateral damage. Even when Wu is finally cornered and moments away from death, all he can do is smugly announce that other members of his family will continue his legacy and keep his business running.
* ''Literature/{{Sold}}'': [[BigBad Mumtaz]] is the repulsive madam in charge of the brothel known as the Happiness House. Ruling her brothel through fear and intimidation, Mumtaz has grown rich by forcing her [[WouldHurtAChild child prostitutes]] to lay with her customers, and traps them in a never-ending cycle of debt so they can never leave. When the thirteen-year-old Lakshmi refuses to service a customer, Mumtaz starves and beats her for days on end before losing her patience and drugging her into complying. When one of her older prostitutes named Pushpa grows too sick to work, Mumtaz doesn't care in the slightest and forces her to continue servicing customers on threat of throwing her and her children out on the street, a threat she eventually makes good on. When Mumtaz really wants to punish someone, she "will smear chilies on a stick and put it [[GroinAttack inside the girl]]". Motivated solely by {{greed}}, Mumtaz embodies every rotten aspect of the horror that is sex trafficking.
* ''Soldiers of Literature/{{Earthrise}}'':
** [[SinisterMinister The Red Cardinal]], also known as Clement Taylor, is the tyrannical ruler of North Bahay. After being excommunicated from his church in America, the Red Cardinal formed his own sect with Filipinos and headed into outer space to escape the Americans. Once the Red Cardinal found the planet Bahay, he banished two-thirds of his followers into the ocean for not abiding to his laws. As decades went by, the Red Cardinal eliminated anyone who wasn't Bahayan, along with any Bahayans who refused to conform with his ideals. During the Earthling/Bahayan war, the Red Cardinal and his armies slaughtered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and prisoners of war; he later bombed the city on Mindao, murdering countless South Bahayan civilians for allying with the Earthlings. After donning the new moniker "Papa Dominus," he used his guerilla fighters known as the Crimson Claws to force Bahayans into intergalactic prostitution and drug dealing, while Papa Dominus built hundreds of [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] where his enemies were beaten, raped, starved, or murdered on a daily basis for multiple years. When hero Jon Taylor, his heir, refuses to join him even after being threatened to, Papa Dominus convinces Jon to confront him one final time by threatening to murder [[LoveInterest Maria]] and their [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old daughter Lily]] instead.
** [[PresidentEvil President Henry "Hank" Hale]] is the Earthling leader longing to [[FinalSolution exterminate the Bahayans and Santelmos]]. As President, Hale used his resources to [[PropagandaMachine spread anti-Bahayan propaganda]] across Earth and had all civilians drafted as soon as they turned eighteen. With General Ward as his primary contact, Hale was able to sanction countless bombings and attacks across Bahay, leading to the deaths of millions. When protestors against Hale's presidency began to interfere with his plans, he repeatedly sent the police to attack the protestors, not caring about the collateral damage that ensued. After killing Lizzy Pascal, the protestors' ringleader, he sent the police after the protestors again, indirectly causing a massacre that got over three hundred civilians killed. Even after the truth about the war is exposed to the public and his presidency is ruined, he sends an assassin to try and kill Kaelyn Williams and Etty Ettinger out of petty spite.
** [[GeneralRipper General Charles "Chuck" Ward]] is the leader of the Earthling army on Bahay. Eager to [[FinalSolution eradicate all of the Bahayans]], Ward uses his soldiers to commit genocidal crimes, such as routinely bombing villages; occupying South Bahay and forcing a portion of the population to be slaves; gassing Bahay with poison that causes deformities and monstrous transformations; and slaughtering over three million Bahayans. Ward also has his own soldiers subjected to weeks of [[TrainingFromHell savage, abusive training]], not caring when hundreds of thousands of his soldiers are killed during the conflict. When Maria tries to get Ward to confess to his crimes over a recording device, he destroys the device before admitting that he's killing Bahayans solely to [[WarForFunAndProfit profit from the war]], and later [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her]].
* ''Literature/SolomonKane'':
** "[[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Shadows Red Shadows]]": The vicious bandit [[EvilCounterpart Le Loup]] ("The Wolf") is a scourge on the French countryside where he [[RapePillageAndBurn rapes and murders]] at will. Attracting the attention of Solomon Kane when he slaughters an entire village and keeps the women to gang-rape before killing them as well, Le Loup pursues one wounded girl, catching and raping her before leaving her for dead when Kane finds her. [[DirtyCoward Sacrificing his men to Kane when he needed to escape]], Le Loup flees to Africa where he allies with a ruthless chieftain named Songa and assists him in oppressing his own people, complete with blood sacrifices, before attempting to have Kane killed at last.
** "[[https://biblio.wiki/wiki/The_Moon_of_Skulls The Moon of Skulls]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Nakari]], "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Vampire Queen of Negari]]", is the worst member of "a people with whom blood is cheaper than water." A tyrannical, wantonly violent DarkMessiah whose ultimate goal is to conquer the entire world, Nakari [[TheUsurper overthrew the legitimate ruler]] and made herself Queen, before torturing or killing the priests, leaving her the only one who knew how to perform the ceremonies, thus assuring her dominion. Nakari turned their already-brutal religion into one where they [[ReligionOfEvil only worshiped the god of death]], with Nakari personally [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing a kidnapped virgin]] each full moon. During her reign she became [[TheDreaded known and feared]] throughout much of Africa for her cruelty, regularly sending her warriors to raid and attack the nearby tribes. Nakari [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first appears]] having one of her loyal followers brutally executed simply for [[BadBoss following her orders]] to kill anyone who arrives in her domain without any tributes, taking obvious pleasure out of watching the man die. Such executions occur so often that the floor of her throne room is covered with bloodstains. Nakari also enjoys horribly abusing her slave Marylin Taferal, having her hung by her arms naked then whipped until unconsciousness for even the slightest disobedience, all the while waiting until Marylin is old enough to be sacrificed.
* ''Literature/SomethingDarkAndHoly'' trilogy:
** [[TheChessmaster Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. Concocting a series of events to revive himself, Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage [[{{Sadist}} for his pleasure]]. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
** ''Wicked Saints'': [[EvilOverlord King Izak Meleski]], Serefin's [[ArchnemesisDad father]], is the tyrannical leader of Tranavia. Izak despises the idea that his people view him as weak and ineffectual, and now plans to prove them wrong by [[GodhoodSeeker achieving godhood]]. To this end, Izak has thousands of his own citizens [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]] and killed for the ritual to achieve divinity. Izak is also cruel to the enemy nation of Kalyazin, which he's fighting in a war, sending countless prisoners to be worked to death as slaves in the salt mines. Izak despises his son, Serefin, to such a degree that he plans to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]] as his final act to achieve godhood itself.
* ''Literature/SomethingWickedThisWayComes'': [[DarkIsEvil Mr. G.M. Dark]], lord of the [[EmotionEater Autumn People]] and [[RepulsiveRingmaster master]] of the [[CircusOfFear carnival]], is a devilish figure who tempts his victims into ruin and damnation. Sweeping from town to town, Dark makes [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] with those he encounters, but cruelly exploits them to destroy the victims' lives and force them into the carnival where he and the rest of the Autumn People feast upon their life force, Dark filled with the victims he tattoos upon himself as trophies. Seeking to cause pain and discord wherever he goes, Dark intends to force Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade to his carnival in his never-ending quest to glut himself upon agony and nightmare.
* ''The Sorrows'' & ''Castle of Sorrows'', by Jonathan Janz:
** [[BigBad Gabriel Blackwood]], first appearing as an innocent boy adopted by the Blackwoods in the Sorrows, is in truth the [[JerkassGods sadistic god Pan]]. After having slaughtered most everyone in the region, Gabriel waits until the arrival of others at the Sorrows. Seducing the women there, Claire and Eva, Gabriel sleeps with both of them before [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violently raping Eva]] and mutilating her. Torturing and killing everything in the castle he can get his claws on, Gabriel later has his daughter with Claire returned to him and proceeds to massacre everyone who comes to the island, using their sins and guilt to torture them further when he can. Even taking control of one woman to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the baby]], Gabriel ends the sequel [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Ben's father-in-law--Claire's father--to murder Ben's family out of spite at being thwarted.
** [[AxCrazy Ray Rubio]] is a two-bit thug unconnected to Gabriel or any of his machinations who manages to match the HumanoidAbomination in savage evil. A gangster on the payroll of Marvin Irvin, Ray Rubio is a SerialKiller, a SerialRapist, and a torturer who introduces himself in the second book working at an unfortunate man with a mandolin slicer. Ray proceeds to slaughter numerous other people as he goes on, in one case raping and murdering an unfortunate [[JoggersFindDeath jogger after she witnesses him]] offing a pair of FBI agents, and even after being trapped in the castle within the bowels of the Sorrows, all Rubio can think about is his intent to rape and kill everyone he comes across.
** ''Castle of Sorrows'' only: [[KillerCop Troy Castillo]] was a rapist through his [[TeensAreMonsters teen years]] who gained a love of killing after beating a prostitute to death to sate his own ego. Becoming an FBI agent to mask his [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[SerialKiller killings]], Castillo [[FamilyExtermination murdered an entire family]] by first executing the father, then gang-raping the mother and daughter with his goons. Upon arriving at the Sorrows, Castillo arranges for the deaths of several of his compatriots, and ultimately plans to rape his partner Jessie then hand her off to be tortured to death.
* ''Soultaker'', by Bryan Smith: [[SnakePeople Lamia]] is a an [[AncientEvil ancient demon goddess]] who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps her life]] by [[SoulEating devouring the souls]] of her hosts, often young and attractive women. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting others]] into depravity, Lamia regularly tortures, dominates and murders those under her control while setting up the Harvest where she has dozens of followers slaughtered to feed on their lives and send their souls to eternal torture.
* ''The Sound of his Horn'', by Sarban: In a [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory twisted dystopian future]] where the Nazis won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, [[NaziNobleman Count Hans von Hackelnberg]] is the Reich's Master Forester and a cruel sadist who reigns over a vast forest. Obsessed with hunting, von Hackelnberg has women released in bird costumes to be captured, raped and abused by his guests, while having other women turned into [[HalfHumanHybrid feral crosses between leopard and human]]. Others are released onto his hunting grounds so von Hackelnberg can [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt them down]] personally for sport, which he relishes in, calling out his victories on his hunting horn.
* ''Literature/TheSouthernBookClubsGuideToSlayingVampires'': [[ChildEater James Harris]] is a [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon handsome]], seductive [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] who uses a real estate scheme to charm communities while molesting and feeding off their children, warping their minds and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide driving them to painful suicide]] before leaving the population economically devastated. When forced to stop feeding on a child by heroine Patricia Campbell, Harris covers his tracks by killing her mother-in-law by having her attacked and eaten by rats when she recognizes him, and convinces Patricia's husband she's mentally unwell. Resuming her investigation of him, it becomes apparent Harris has remained alive for four hundred years by feeding, keeping [[CreepySouvenir trophies]] from the children he kills, and later reveals he's been feeding off and grooming Patricia's daughter, and also grooming Patricia's son. Even while dying, Harris goes out a spiteful monster, raping Patricia's best friend and infecting her with a deadly immunodisease, which painfully kills said friend.
* "[[Literature/TheElenium Sparhawk Universe]]":
** ''The Elenium'' trilogy: [[GodOfEvil Azash]] is a horrible, sadistic EldritchAbomination who manipulates his followers into performing rituals that involve HumanSacrifice, torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, engaging in sexual perversions until they collapse dead from exhaustion, and the like. He plots to extend his worship over the continent, and to that end backs a conspiracy to poison the Queen of Elenia, tries to subvert the Elene Church by placing one of his agents on the throne, has a mercenary army under Martel destroy much of the Holy City of Chyrellos, and uses The Seeker, a child-eating insectoid freak, as his MouthOfSauron. He uses his final moments to kill other subordinates, just because [[YouHaveFailedMe they failed him]].
** ''The Tamuli'' sequel trilogy: [[TheChessmaster Zalasta]], [[EvilFormerFriend Sephrenia's childhood friend]], is revealed to be an EvilSorcerer and traitor ''par excellence''. Having arranged for the massacre of his and Sephrenia's hometown when they were children--resulting in the slaughter of his own family--Zalasta went onto become Styricum's most powerful magician and an integral, behind-the-scenes player in Azash's scheme to conquer the world. Years later, he joins forces with [[GodOfEvil Cyrgon]] to instigate revolution in the Tamul Empire, and persuades the Elene peasantry to commit genocide against the Styrics-—his own people—-in order to harm Sephrenia's goddess, Aphrael. Eventually betraying Cyrgon in order to serve [[UltimateEvil Klæl]], Zalasta is responsible for not only tens of thousands of deaths, but for endangering the very existence of the world; when everything falls apart, he makes two final attempts on the lives of Sephrenia and her lover Vanion. Driven by lust for Sephrenia, and loathing of Aphrael, Zalasta is guilty of every crime from high treason to "consorting with ye powers of darkness," and is content to damn the entire world, so long as he gains possession of the woman he wants.
* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'': [[JerkJock Andy]] [[HandsomeLech Evans]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters senior at Merryweather High School]] who has a reputation for sleeping around. Upon meeting a drunken Melinda Sordino at an end of the summer party, he rapes her; this results in a spiral of events which culminate in Melinda becoming traumatized to the point of nearly becoming mute. Since then, Andy made a habit out of [[MindRape psychologically tormenting Melinda]] out of sadism. Fearing that Rachel might become his next victim, Melinda attempted to warn her about Andy's true intentions, but she doesn't believe her. It's also revealed that Andy had a [[SerialRapist prolific history of sexually assaulting female students]]; this is shown by the multiple entries that were written on the wall in the restroom. Enraged that Melinda had ruined his reputation, Andy confronts her in the janitor's closet, and he attempts to rape her again out of spite. [[ItsAllAboutMe Egotistical]] and sadistic, Evans would stop at nothing to get what he wants.
* ''Literature/{{Spellfall}}'': [[BigBad Hawk]] may not be responsible for that many deaths, but compensates for this with sheer ruthlessness. Some of his actions include: [[DrivenToSuicide driving his wife to suicide]] by killing her bonded animal, forcefully "bonding" with other Wizards which means placing them under MindControl, threatening to both of those to his son, forcing the wizards under his control to commit atrocities, including kidnapping other victims for "bonding" one of these is the heroine, a 12 year old girl, forcing them to kill the heroine's mother, intending to "bond" with the heroine, gleefully exclaiming that, after that, she "won't be so shy", after she demands privacy for changing clothes, intending to slaughter the Tree of OQ, possibly killing hundreds of wizards, making their ancestors--including the heroine's mother--DeaderThanDead and depriving the survivors of their home and living, just so he can get some mana, casually leaving a {{Muggle|s}}--the heroine's stepbrother--to his death, and when his plan fails, he tries to kill the heroine, along with his son.
* ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'': [[OurOgresAreHungrier Mulgarath]] is an arrogant, cunning Ogre who was [[BigBad directly or indirectly responsible]] for nearly all problems that befell the Spiderwick and Grace families. Desiring Arthur Spiderwick's field guide to conquer mankind and the other fairies, Mulgarath had Arthur's daughter, Lucinda Spiderwick, kidnapped, then tortured and later crippled when she couldn't give it to him. In preparation for his plans, Mulgarath built himself an army held together by intimidation, including press-ganged goblins; acquired several dragons; and [[ManipulativeBastard played on the dwarves' love of metal and craftsmanship]] to convince them to build weapons for his army and to swear their eternal allegiance to him. Mulgarath [[UngratefulBastard rewarded this service]] by massacring all the dwarves [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the moment they gave him the weapons]]. Upon learning that Jared Grace had found the guide, Mulgarath turned his attention upon the Grace siblings, happy to kidnap and kill the children to gain the guide, his plots climaxing in him destroying their family home and kidnapping their mother. Ambitious and vain as he was, Mulgarath was also a sadistic beast, as inside his palace the Grace siblings found multiple fairies he had [[CruelAndUnusualDeath imprisoned in honey and left to struggle futilely as they slowly drowned]].
* Literature/SplatterWestern books:
** ''The Magpie Coffin'', by Wile E. Young (Book 1): [[SociopathicSoldier Sgt. Earnest Craft]], one of the American soldiers that Salem Covington seeks vengeance upon for the bloody murder of his Comanche mentor, is a {{sadist}} and a [[SerialRapist rapist]] with a secret cave he stashes his victims in. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] who justifies his cruelty to others as the right of a white man in a white man's world, Craft [[TortureTechnician tortures dozens to death]], even little children and the elderly, while keeping their mangled or still-living bodies in his personal torture cave. Among Craft's victims include his own insane, sadomasochistic mother.
** ''The Thirteenth Koyote'', by Kristopher Triana (Book 8):
*** [[BigBad Glenn "The Dreadful" Amarok]] is one of the last [[SavageWolves Koyotes]] left. Having betrayed and murders his parents as a boy, Glenn spent his youth on a plantation murdering, torturing, and raping slaves before he became a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfen]] under Jasper Thurston. Leading a charge of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rape and slaughter]] across the West, Glenn seeks his mentor's heart to empower himself with a host of new atrocities. Murdering the family of heroine Delia, Glenn has her baby brother [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cooked alive]], before having entire towns massacred. Participating in greater and greater acts of evil, Glenn intends to tear open the gates to hell and let demonkind overrun humanity so he may indulge every sadistic whim that comes to him.
*** [[WouldHurtAChild Hiram Zeindler]], Glenn's right-hand, is a sadistic Wolfen and vicious pedophile who refers to his victims as his "delights". Hiram enjoys [[FakeUltimateHero giving his victims hope]], coming in to "save" them before raping, torturing and mutilating them. One luckless boy is rendered a crippled, eyeless husk when Hiram is done, Hiram [[CruelMercy leaving him alive for pure sadism]]. Upon attacking a homestead, Hiram rapes, murders, and [[ChildEater partially devours a young boy alive]], [[MockingTheMourner mocking his father]] later for the boy calling for him as he died. Helping Glenn unlock the gates to hell, Hiram intends to form a harem of the world's children so they may perpetually beg for his favor by allowing him to molest them at will.
*** [[TheCorrupter Jasper Thurston]], the founder of the Koyotes, is known as the blackest soul to ever walk the earth. Recruiting and corrupting his soldiers, Thurston led them to [[RapePillageAndBurn horrific massacres]], killing and raping innocents all over the West while happily burning others alive in torches to indulge his and the others' whims. Caring nothing for his own, Jasper simply revives one as a brain-dead zombie upon death. Jasper locates the [[ArtifactOfDoom dark artifact]], the Menhir, and to fill it with evil, he plans to [[BurnTheOrphanage burn down an entire orphanage]] with the children inside, an act so repugnant it finally inspires one of his own, Luther Byrne, [[EvenEvilHasStandards to stand against him]]. Jasper tries to kill him without any regret, intending on opening hell itself to destroy the world at the end.
** ''Human-Shaped Fiends'', by Chandler Morrison (Book 11): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain David Brown]] is a vile racist and sexual sadist who prides himself on his reputation of being an Indian killer. Brown has [[SerialKiller killed dozens of people]], [[CreepySouvenir whose ears he keeps as trophies]], and is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] brutally torturing and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] a hooker half to death for no other reason than spite towards the local sheriff asking Brown to go easy on her. Later kicking up his gang and the local town into a frenzy, Brown kills a harmless Indian pleading for peace before shooting his own employer and imploring his men to kill and rape their way through town.
** ''The Devoured and The Dead'', by Kristopher Rufty (Book 12): Lassiter is a scarred bandit who comes upon the lost gold rush party after the adults are infected with the curse of the {{Wendigo}}. Lassiter is revealed to have murdered the hero William Coburn's [[YouKilledMyFather father]]; executes their Native guide Ahote; and proceeds to try to take the women and girls as {{sex slave}}s, having become obsessed with William's sister Lenora. Upon learning of the Wendigo curse, Lassiter simply tries to [[ImAHumanitarian feed the children]] to their own parents and takes Lenora, later interrupted by William in the process of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]].
* ''A Splendid Chaos'' by John Shirley: [[BigBad Harmon Fiskle]] was an arrogant professor who [[TheSocialDarwinist preached Social Darwinism]] on Earth. When mutated by "The Current" on the alien world of Fool's Hope, he names himself Emperor Harmony and uses the mutants to brutally subjugate the humans there, killing many of them in the process. Torturing and murdering those who do not accept his rule, Harmony proceeds to [[HumanResources decorate his new throne room with hanged bodies]], having a resistance leader raped and throws her into a cage that slowly impales her while her lover is made to lay underneath the cage so the blood falls all over her. Harmony reveals his intent to [[ImAHumanitarian harvest portions of humanity for food]], enslaving the minds of most of the rest and is seen entertaining himself by having people randomly thrown through a device that can launch them anywhere, finding it amusing when they teleport hundreds of feet into the air or become fused with nearby stone. Intending to exterminate all alien races on Fool's Hope, Harmony shows the utter depravity [[TheUnfettered an unfettered]] ego can achieve.
* ''Stalking Jack the Ripper'' series, by Kerri Maniscalco: [[SerialKiller H.H. Holmes]] himself is a monstrous killer who constructed a [[HellHotel murder hotel]] so he could murder and torture innocents at his leisure, racking up a body count in the triple digits. Later becoming UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, letting a patsy die and take the blame for it. Continuing a murder spree in multiple areas, Holmes tries to [[TheCorrupter corrupt the heroine]] into being a murderer like him, gloating that [[CardCarryingVillain he fully embraces his inner darkness and the devil within]].
* ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'': Joseph Grey Veil deliberately took advantage of Terran xenophobia to get anti-alien laws passed. He also endeavored to pass anti-cloning laws solely for his own gain. His intent was to do whatever he wanted to innocent clones. Veil engages in a series of rapes with as many clones as he can, and deliberately infects them with syphilis just so he can see the results of the disease on the DesignerBabies he fathers.
* ''Literature/TheStarOfTheGuardians'': Abdiel is the leader of the Order of the Black Lightning, a rogue faction of [[MindRape mind-rapists]]. He uses his abilities to build an army of mindless followers by promising them exquisite pleasures, but actually uses his followers as toys to torment [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]]. Abdiel is revealed to have orchestrated the old revolution against the monarchy, murdering the whole royal family to seize power before his gamble was exposed and his Order destroyed. In revenge, he proceeds to hunt down and wipe out every member of the Blood Royal genetic line. Later, he tries to sell a doomsday device that could destroy all life to a rival empire for profit. When his enemies finally put him down for good, he ensures that his final blow will drive his slayer Maigrey insane, forcing her soulmate Sagan to [[MercyKill kill her to spare her the pain]].
* ''Literature/StarQuest'', by Andrew Dixon: [[BigBad Lord Glaxx]] was [[FromNobodyToNightmare once a simple alien playwright]] on Planet Bliss who was blacklisted for charging admission to shows that were intended to be free, a serious crime in his species' culture. Swearing revenge, Glaxx departed for deep space, then returned years later as a [[SpacePirate pirate king]] armed with a laser weapon that drains heat from stars. Glaxx thus plans to [[DisproportionateRetribution avenge the slight]] against him by sucking the life from Bliss' star, condemning all life on it to slowly freeze to death.
* ''Literature/Station16'', by Hermann & Yves Huppen: [[MadScientist Professor Tretiakov]] is a sadistic Russian scientist who sought to create the ultimate SuperSoldier to serve the Soviet Union. Based in Novaya Zemlya, Tretiakov conducted [[PlayingWithSyringes horrid human experiments]], cutting out the sensory organs of his patients without anesthesia and confining them to [[DrivenToMadness the point of insanity]]. To test their endurance, Tretiakov strips them outside in the cold, with many perishing from hypothermia. When Grigory and a squadron of soldiers accidentally enter his base, Tretiakov captures them to experiment on. Escaping through a time rift into the modern day, Tretiakov is revealed to be working as an asylum doctor, conducting his same experiments there and intending to make Grigory his next test subject.
* ''Literature/StayingFatForSarahByrnes'': [[ArchnemesisDad Virgil Byrnes]], the father of the book's title character, is a monstrous abuser who constantly beat his [[DomesticAbuse wife]] and [[AbusiveParents child]], attempting to drown the former in the kitchen sink during the one night she fought back. When 3-year-old Sarah walked in, Virgil pressed his little daughter's face onto the top of a red-hot stovetop and held it there until she was disfigured forever. Virgil [[KickTheDog refuses to let Sarah have her face medically reconstructed]], promises her he'll "burn the rest of her" should she ever tell anyone else what happened, and tries to make good on his promise at the end of the story while violently stabbing Sarah's high school friend. The only reason Virgil does what he does is simple; [[{{sadist}} it's his nature]].
* Literature/StephaniePlum series: [[KingpinInHisGym Benito Ramirez]] is a violent boxer who absolutely loves to [[WouldHitAGirl torture, rape, and mutilate women]] both because he can, and because he likes to make a point that he's so powerful that he can do whatever he wants, to whomever he wants, whenever he wants. In the first book, ''One For The Money'', he stalks Stephanie, even, at one point, calling her in the middle of the night and leaving a taunting voicemail that's being recorded as he assaults a pleading, screaming woman. Later, he rapes and brutalizes Lula, a prostitute whom Stephanie had spoken to about Ramirez earlier that day, and leaves her bloody, unconscious, naked body tied up on Stephanie's balcony. In the fifth book, ''High Five'', he goes on parole claiming to having reformed, only to resume stalking Stephanie and trying to break into her apartment.
* ''Stinger'' by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: The titular "[[PsychoForHire Stinger]]" is an alien BountyHunter in service to the House of Fists who [[ReligionOfEvil follow a twisted creed that anything that isn't one of them should die]]. Chasing a freedom fighter to Earth, Stinger lands in the town of Inferno and entraps it in a force field, while he kills humans he encounters to learn more about them and [[HumanResources recycle their biological material]] into his personal drones. Stinger tells the people to surrender his quarry or he will annihilate the town, and when he captures several humans, Stinger decides he has a better idea: to take them back to the House of Fists so the House will bring their wrath on Earth. Stinger constantly shows he is alien only in appearance: his true nature is a scheming, amoral sociopath willing to facilitate genocide for a [[{{Greed}} quick payday]].
* Literature/StonesOfPower (Sipstrassi) series:
** ''Lion of Macedon'' & ''Dark Prince'': The Demon God Kadmilos manipulates events so he may possess the body of the young future-king Alexander. Trapped in Alexander's body, Kadmilos's influence traumatizes the boy by causing his touch to kill people and creatures around him. As Alexander grows, Kadmilos's influence steadily becomes stronger: he arranges the murder of Alexander's father King Philip, and while Alexander is proud to fight in war and conquer, Kadmilos takes pleasure only in senseless murder. Arranging brutal massacres as he attempts to seize control of Alexander, Kadmilos steadily eliminates those in his way and promises Alexander that when he is done, Alexander will be remembered with hatred and terror once the demon turns the empires of man into blood and ash.
** ''Last Sword of Power'': Wotan, aka Molech, is one of a group of humans who found the mysterious stones of power that elevated them to practical godhood, Molech differed from his fellow deities in cruelty and depravity. Demanding [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] of [[WouldHurtAChild children, infants]] and innocents during his time as God of the Canaanites, Molech viewed suffering and torture as the [[{{Sadist}} sweetest of pleasures]]. Having survived to Roman-era Britain, Molech sets about on a brutal war of conquest as Wotan, subjecting civilians to brutal conquest, as his armies [[RapePillageAndBurn torture, rape, and kill]]. Wotan defeats the king Uther and then enslaves his soul, intending to torment it for as long as gives him pleasure. In the final battle, Wotan attempts to weaken the fabric between the worlds in order to allow hordes of demons to come through and devastate humanity.
** Jon Shannow Trilogy: Sarento, the BigBad of the trilogy. initially wanted to restore the Earth of the past in the post-apocalyptic setting, but willingly became corrupted and eventually absorbed the power Bloodstone, giving him [[SoulEating a hunger for human souls]]. Forming armies known as Devourers, Sarento leads [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal crusades against humanity]], massacring so many people humanity faces extinction. Eventually [[BadBoss devouring his own followers]], Sarento goes after the last survivors and eventually comes against one of the final cities on Earth, while revealing that devouring souls leaves them [[AndIMustScream trapped in agony within him]], something Sarento gleefully laughs about. Sarento only deigns to spare the cities when hero Jon Shannow uses a spell to [[ExactWords send Sarento and himself to the Earth's past]], with millions more people to devour. Sarento gleefully accepts, mocking Shannow how he'll feast on everyone he can, before it's revealed Shannow had [[HeroicSacrifice chosen to send them to the first testing site of the atomic bomb]].
* ''Literature/TheStore'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Newman King]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopathic CEO]] of the [[PredatoryBusiness wicked Store company]]. King [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday establishes Stores]] in small towns with no major competition, having The Store built using the blood and corpses of animals and humans alike. Once a Store is built, King has any competition bought out or run out of business, murdering any store owners who stand against him. Once blackmailing the local mayor into granting The Store power over the law, King has the city council slaughtered and institutes a PoliceState onto the town, rounding up any vagrants or rebels against The Store, then brutally torturing and brainwashing them into becoming the horrifying Night Managers, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie-like slaves]] who serve King. King also uses The Store to sell everything from drugs to child pornography to {{snuff film}}s, all manufactured by The Store itself. When Bill Davis attempts to subvert King's evil, King manipulates Bill into sleeping with a woman, hiding the fact that it is [[SurpriseIncest Bill's own daughter Sam]], then uses the recording of the event to blackmail Bill. King then proclaims he's going to turn Sam into a prostitute to be used and abused, and King ultimately plans to expand The Store's reach until he alone controls the entire world.
* ''Literature/TheStrain'': The [[MonsterProgenitor Master]] is one of the seven original [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. While his six brothers are content to rest in their homes and avoid conflict with the world at large, TheMaster has been a {{sadist}}ic tyrant, ever since ancient times. Crossing from Europe on plane, he kills and turns every passenger so when they revive, he sends them to feed on their loved ones, slowly building a vampire army. When the time is right, the Master initiates through his minions multiple nuclear explosions by destroying silos to kill the six other ancients, and blots out the sun, establishing a vampire kingdom where humans are cattle for his kind, locked in camps and used for blood. The Master shows a penchant for murder and torture for his own amusement as well, even keeping a minion he turned back in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII second World War]] from the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] ranks to torment his ArchEnemy, a vampire hunting concentration camp survivor.
* ''Literature/StrangeTheDreamer'' & ''Muse of Nightmares'': [[PosthumousCharacter Skathis]], god of beasts, was a [[FromNobodyToNightmare smith who used the gifts of others to become a powerful god and leader of the Mesarthim]]. [[EvilOverlord Taking over]] the city of Weep, Skathis torments it with his fellow Mesarthim, abducting countless young men and women to [[SerialRapist rape]] and magically convert into {{sex slave}}s, letting one man be taken by Skathis's own consort to rape and mentally dominate while Skathis violates his wife. When the children inevitably result, Skathis decides to profit by selling them as slaves and weapons to other worlds, caring for nothing but his own pleasures and dominions.
* ''Such A Pretty Girl'', by Laura Wiess: Charles Shale is a [[AbusiveParents horrible excuse for a father]] and a {{serial|Rapist}} [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] responsible for the heroine Meredith's plight throughout the novel. Having begun [[ParentalIncest molesting and raping his own daughter Meredith]] as she grew up after he tricks her into watching himself and his wife have sex, Charles's abuse reached its peak when he raped her to the point of bleeding when she was 12. Following this, 5 other children reveal that Charles has done much the same to them, always forcing them to [[{{Sadist}} beg for him to stop while he does it]], with one in particular [[DrivenToSuicide attempting to kill himself]] because of the molesting. Years later, once released from prison for his crimes, Charles immediately begins picking out new victims to restart his spree, and decides to kick it off by violently raping Meredith once more to show his "love" for her. A disturbingly realistic depiction of a child predator, Charles Shale was defined by his horrifying, disturbed nature of sexual lust.
* ''Literature/TheSuicideMotorClub'', by Christopher Buehlman:
** Robert "Rob" Odom is the sole member of Luther Nixon's vampire gang that lacks any of his compatriots' good qualities. A rude, cruel murderer of dozens, Rob personally [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped five-year-old Glendon Lamb]] from his parents' vehicle, mocking the parents the whole time before he and his gang fed on the boy, turned him to a vampire, then left him to die in the sun. Continuing to assist his partners in murder sprees across America, Rob abandons his allies when he's endangered, [[WouldHarmASenior murders a blind old man]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution mildly annoying him]] after [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing the man's dog]], then spends his last moments gleefully [[MockingTheMourner mocking Judith Lamb]] over her son's fate. Rob is considered by Judith to be the most hated of the vampires she had ever met due to his hand in her son's awful trauma.
** [[TheRenfield Woodrow "Woods" Fulk]] is a death-loving {{sadist}} who allies with Luther Nixon's vampire gang as their human servant, just so he can witness the carnage they bring. Transporting, protecting, and guiding the gang on finding dozens of new victims, Woods regularly [[ILoveTheDead uses one of the many corpses they leave behind as his personal sex toy]] while ensuring the gang is never caught. Woods murders several members of the Bereaved when they track down Luther's gang, and later viciously stabs the Bereaved's elderly founder Tracy to near-death after a failed attempt to strangle him for the sexual thrill of it.
* ''The Summoning'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad The Cup Hu Girngsi]] is an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent ancient, evil vampire]] that has grown tired of living in the shadows, and schemes to bring death and suffering across the planet to satisfy its sadism. Invading the town of Rio Verde and corrupting its townsfolk into fanatics willing to [[OffingTheOffspring torture their own children to death]], the Cup Hu Girngsi devours dozens of townsfolk as it increases its power and influence, eventually decorating its lair with [[WouldHurtAChild butchered infants]], gutted women and countless murals to the Cup Hu Girngsi's vile centuries of atrocities. The Cup Hu Girngsi plans to TakeOverTheWorld and turn all of the Earth into its feeding ground to torture and devour humanity for all eternity, and uses its final moments to brag that it had Rich Carter's wife and daughter raped before it killed them just to mock the man.
* ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'': This short story from the fairy tale book ''The Pentamerone'' has the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen nameless queen]]. When she had realized that her husband has cheated on her with another woman named Talia, she ordered her secretary to bring the children to her. She then gives her royal cook the job of [[WouldHurtAChild cooking the children]] into several dishes, and then to [[ImAHumanitarian serve said dishes to her husband]]. When it seemed like her husband was eating his own children, she continually mocked him for his mistake, and was blissfully unaware of the fact that her royal cook had cooked the King two lambs instead of the two children. The Queen later gives her guards the task of bringing the young woman to her palace, and so, Talia is brought before her. She condemned Talia to [[KillItWithFire to burn in a huge bonfire]] that she had set up for her, and she then asked her to remove her clothing because she thought they were too valuable to be burned with such a lowly woman.
* ''Literature/SunderedLands'':
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Grinder Prickleback]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] hedgehog who desires the Six Crowns of the Badgers of Power. [[DrivenByEnvy Jealous]] over the Badger Lords refusing to share their magical powers, Grinder tried to create a spell that would control their minds so he could acquire their power. He inadvertently ended up blowing up the entire world, killing millions in the process and turning the Sundered Lands into thousands of floating islands, while the Badger Lords dispelled their power into six separate crowns. When Grinder, now donning the name Herald "Percy" Pursuivant, comes across Trundle and Esmeralda on their journey to find the crowns, he helps them on their quest solely so he can take the crowns from them and use their power to TakeOverTheWorld. After all six crowns are found and taken to the altar that will unleash their power, Grinder immediately betrays Trundle and Esmeralda, threatening to kill them if they don't surrender the crowns to him.
** [[SkyPirate Captain Grizzletusk]] is the leader of a group of corsairs who plunder and murder at their own leisure. After being contacted by Millie Rose Thorne, [[BigBadDuumvirate the two conspire to work together]] to retrieve the six crowns and relish in their power. Grizzletusk and his crew constantly chase after Trundle and Esmeralda, going from island to island robbing and/or killing anyone in their path. He also attempts to attack and pillage the island of Swallowhaven just to needlessly fuel his greed, slaughtering dozens of soldiers in the process. When the heroes acquire all the crowns and head to Sunsett to unleash their power, Grizzletusk forces his crew to keep pursuing them, not caring as his crew is gradually slain from various booby-traps. When [[TheDragon Razorback]] tries to convince what's left of the crew to cut their losses and run, Grizzletusk simply threatens to kill him if he tries to leave.
* ''The Survivor's Club'': [[BigBad David Price]] is the [[ArchEnemy personal nemesis]] of Detective Roan Griffin. An imprisoned [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[SerialKiller serial child killer]], David cuts a deal with wannabe rapist Ron Viggio, giving Viggio a way to rape women with impunity, as long as his first victim is Meg Pesaturo, a girl that David seduced and impregnated when she was thirteen. Using the method that Price worked out, Viggio rapes Meg, Carol Rosen, and Trisha Hayes, killing the latter when her latex allergy kicks in, and assaults and tries to rape Trisha's sister, Jillian Hayes. When things become too difficult, Price arranges for Viggio to frame a man named Eddie Como, then hires an assassin to kill Como on the steps of the courthouse (drawing Griffin onto the case), and has Viggio blow up the assassin's car to cover their tracks. Price then claims to know the identity of the "College Hill Rapist", saying he will reveal it in exchange for a visit with Molly, his daughter by Meg. When this doesn't get him the attention he wants, Price has Viggio rape and kill Sylvia Blaire and kidnap Meg. Price is given his trip, and proceeds to break out of the transport van, killing three police officers in the process. He takes Meg to his old house, intending to kill her and bury her in the basement alongside his other victims; when the police try to interfere, he shoots Griffin's friend Detective Waters, and finally dies trying to knife Griffin. A pathological {{narcissist}} obsessed with being the centre of attention, David Price is about as low as even a paedophile can get.
* ''Literature/SwanSong'':
** [[BigBad The man with the scarlet eye]], aka "[[ForTheEvulz Friend]]", who may be TheDevil himself, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When Friend helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When Friend discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, he brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed that Friend, annoyed with Swan offering him forgiveness, is attempting to help the now-insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity while he watches, enjoys the show, and then dances on their graves.
** [[AGodAmI "Lord" Alvin Mangrim]] is a [[AxCrazy homicidal psychopath]] with a love for [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and chaos. Escaping an insane asylum [[AfterTheEnd following the nuclear holocaust]], Alvin leads his fellow inmates in a killing spree across the land, luring dozens of innocent men, women, and children to them to be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] before carving their heads off with a chainsaw for Alvin to keep as trophies. Murdering Leona while trying to slaughter Swan and Josh, Alvin later butchers his way into a position at the AOE, where he assists the leadership in wiping out opposition and gleefully encourages the monstrous Friend's new leadership of the AOE into further villainy.
* Theatre/SweeneyTodd himself counts, from the original penny dreadful stories that began with ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls''. While later given sympathetic qualities in the retelling of the legends, the original Sweeney Todd was a monster whose only motivation was cruelty and {{greed}}. Sweeney would lure customers into his barbershop and proceed to drop them down a tunnel to break their skulls or necks, before 'polishing them off' with his straight razor if they still lived. Coming up with another plan to make more money, he and his partner Mrs. Lovett cooked the bodies into meat pies to sell with a hefty profit. Hundreds of corpses are seen in the preparation room, and Sweeney keeps a kidnap victim to work the furnace to keep the meat coming, with full knowledge that he'll eventually join the pies when Sweeney decides he's been there too long.
* ''Literature/TheSwitch'': [[BigBad Hubert Spencer]] is the evil [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of the main protagonist. When the Ambarayans refused to sell him their moonfruit so he could profit off of it, he had them wiped out and ordered his men to LeaveNoSurvivors. Later, to test his product, he created a FakeCharity for homeless children so he could take them off the streets and [[TestedOnHumans experiment on them]] with no remorse. Later he attempts to murder one in cold blood, with his son next to the child, and laughs coldly during the event.
* ''Swordbird'', by Nancy Li Fan: [[BigBad Lord Turnatt]] is a ruthless [[FeatheredFiend hawk]] warlord who uses the teachings of the Book of Heresy to lay waste to the forest. Turnatt has his soldiers--[[BadBoss of which he is not averse to killing for virtually no reason whatsoever]]--wreak carnage to kill all they can, once having his birds attempt to slaughter a large audience gathered for a theater performance, and manipulates the cardinals and the blue jay tribes into constant war by [[FalseFlagOperation framing them for stealing each other's eggs]]. Turnatt himself is responsible for stealing the eggs, [[EatsBabies consuming them]] in a deranged attempt to make himself immortal as per the Book's word.
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': [[SorcerousOverlord Darken Rahl]] has made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal for power with the demonic being]], The Keeper of the Underworld. Darken keeps the people enslaved, banning fire and launching brutal extermination campaigns on the orders that have resisted him. Rahl also continues the order of Mord-Sith: girls raised to be vicious torturers who have their mothers murdered in front of them and are forced to torture their fathers to death. He also sexually abuses the Mord-Sith and especially enjoys tormenting a lesbian couple amongst them. A SerialRapist as well, Rahl forces himself upon many women, and if ones with him consensually are repulsed at the scars under his clothing, he tortures them to death. Viewing children without the gift of magic as worthless, he has any ungifted offspring disposed of, while also sacrificing other children to the Keeper for power. Rahl's ultimate goal is to plunge the world into The Keeper's domain, where all that lives will suffer eternally.
* ''Swords and Fire'' series, by Melissa Caruso: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Ruven]] is the son of the Wolf Lord of Vaskandar and an ambitious, cruel mage in his own right who grows into the role of TheHeavy and eventually the BigBad. As a skinwitch, Ruven wields a form of magic that can only be mastered by those with a profound LackofEmpathy and happily uses it to dominate and literally torture those under his authority. Though most Vaskandrian mages care little for the lives of {{muggles}}, Ruven treats his fellow mages as equally worthless, manipulating and tossing aside those who serve him and using a combination of potions and his skinwitch powers to enslave foreign mages against their will. Driven to expand his power at all costs, Ruven seeks war with the Serene Republic to the south, planning to weaponize a volcano in such a way as to cause staggering civilian casualties and gleefully forcing the entire population of his domain to act as {{human shield}}s to protect his scheme. Vaskandrian culture allows its witch-lords near unlimited power within their own domains; Ruven is a sterling example of the extent to which that power can be abused.
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* ''Literature/TailchasersSong'': Grizraz Hearteater became jealous of his older and younger brother and grew to hate cats in general. Hearteater summoned a {{Hellhound}} to kill as many cats as he could, and also ended up killing one of his brothers. Ever since then, Hearteater has hid underground in [[{{Hell}} Vastnir]] to avoid being detected and also to avoid the light. Hearteater hates [[{{God}} Meercat Allmother]] and wants to destroy all of Her creations. Over the centuries he's become an AnimalisticAbomination and has been rearing monstrous minions to slaughter cats and kidnap slaves while he waits to start the apocalypse. Hearteater sits upon a throne of various tortured and dead animals, where all he does all day is [[ImAHumanitarian eat the cats]] that his servants bring him. At the end of the novel, Hearteater decides to show his true power by turning his mound of animals into a deformed, vaguely hellhound-like monster only called "the ''Fikos''" ("terrifying badness"), which slaughters multitudes of cats on both sides.
* ''Take You Apart'', by T.J. Spade: Andrew "Drew" Stephens, real name Robert Fobray, is a maniacal SerialKiller obsessed with playing [[CriminalMindGames a game of wits]] with his perceived ArchEnemy, Caleb Everett. A perfect example of a [[AxCrazy psychopath]] since [[EnfantTerrible childhood]], during which he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tortured animals to death]] and creepily mimicked others in an attempt to "get" human interactions, Drew grew up to meet Caleb Everett, a psychic police detective who could peer into the minds of killers as they murdered others, and immediately develops a fixation on Caleb and besting his inhuman detective abilities. Drew kicks the novel off by kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a young woman, before sending Caleb her mutilated body parts to taunt him, after which he brutally rapes and beats a prostitute to near death. Realizing this didn't get Caleb's "full" attention, Drew tortures then disembowels one of Caleb's closest friends, also Drew's own girlfriend, then attempts to beat another of Caleb's best friends to death. In the end, after killing a homeless man to send a message and attempting the same on [[WouldHurtAChild a young teen]], Drew kidnaps Caleb's LoveInterest, planning to kill Caleb then torture and rape the girl to death as his final victory. Drew Stephens is a classic psychopath with no ability to comprehend human emotions or interactions, having to instead adapt various personalities he runs into throughout his life, earning him the moniker of a "chameleon killer".
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': ''One Good Knight'' brings us [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Cassiopeia]], who conspires with her [[EvilChancellor adviser]], [[EvilSorcerer Solon]], to [[WeatherManipulation summon storms to wrack the coast of her country]], sinking dozens of ships and drowning hundreds of sailors so that she can claim the salvage for the crown. When her citizenry become dissatisfied with her rule, Cassiopeia has Solon mind control the (otherwise harmless) dragon Adamant, forcing him to ravage the countryside, so that she may set up a {{lottery|Of Doom}} and feed the daughters of her political enemies to the dragon. After her own daughter, Andromeda, begins to suspect that someone is controlling the storms, Cassiopeia arranges (in a move that [[EvenEvilHasStandards revolts even Solon]]) to [[OffingTheOffspring have her sacrificed to the dragon]], and take advantage of the [[WoundedGazelleGambit public wave of sympathy that will follow]]. Totally convinced that the common folk should just put up with her capricious rule, Cassiopeia is plotting to have Solon assassinated when he [[TheStarscream finally makes his own move against her]], ending her role in the story.
* ''The Tales of Many Orcs'' duology, by Shane Michael Murray: [[BigBad The Lady of Firebrand Peak]] is a [[DragonsAreDemonic menacing dragon]] who enjoys needlessly terrorizing innocents. Asserting her dominance over the various races in the land, the Lady routinely kidnaps innocents and holds them prisoner before cooking and eating them alive. After choosing Talking-Wind to be her next meal, the Lady forces him to sacrifice one of the orcs in his village to prolong his life. Once captured, Talking-Wind watches firsthand as she devours two prisoners; he later performs a MercyKill so the orc he chose to be sacrificed won't suffer. Furious, the Lady [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Talking-Wind and marks him for death, and later chases him across the country as he tries to flee from her. Amassing a huge orc army, the Lady attacks the city of Tooyk just to find Talking-Wind, causing wanton destruction and murdering hundreds of innocents. When the Lady finally corners Talking-Wind on a cliff, she pushes him off, hoping that he'll survive the fall just so he'll break and beg for death.
* ''Literature/TheTapestry'': [[BigBad Astaroth]] is an ancient and powerful demon (actually a "spore" created by [[EldritchAbomination entities called the Starving Gods]]) who wants the Book of Thoth so he can rule the world with it. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Despite how he masks himself]], he's really a [[FantasticRacism demon supremacist]], punishing David Menlo for summoning demons by [[WouldHurtAChild biting his hand off]]. His plan for world conquest involves bringing governments around the world close to collapse before descending on Rowan with his army to seize the Book, leveraging the lives of Max's friends to get it. Upon getting it, he uses its power over truenames to [[ApocalypseHow expunge all post-medieval human knowledge from existence and memory, killing the vast majority of the human race]]. He then sets up demons as the Earth's rulers under him, instituting a vicious regime where a single person being literate mandates mass slaughter. When he loses the demons' loyalty, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he loses use for them]], and after consistently failing to create fully functional life, he [[VillainousBreakdown flips out]] when Rowan gears up to stop him and reveals his true motives: he [[AGodAmI just wants to play God]], and cares no more for demons than for humans. To this end, he attempts to [[OmnicidalManiac summon the Starving Gods in the hopes that they will devour the universe]] and give him scraps to live out his fantasies with. A narcissistic psychopath caring only about [[ItsAllAboutMe his fantasies of power]], Astaroth exhibits unparalleled evil even amongst demons.
* ''A Taste for Monsters'', by Matthew J. Kirby: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a bloodthirsty SerialKiller stalking the streets of 19th-century Whitechapel. Secretly a [[SamusIsAGirl midwife]], the Ripper lures in unsuspecting prostitutes and uses her medical skills to butcher them in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly gruesome murders]], taking five victims in total with the last four having [[GuttedLikeAFish organs removed]]. Jack plans to continue the gruesome murder spree forever.
* ''Teeth in the Mist'', by Dawn Kurtagich: [[Myth/{{Faust}} Fostos]], [[ImmortalityImmorality seeking to live forever]], seduces women to sire his children, the Unclosed. Faust later "[[OffingTheOffspring harvests]]" them, taking, torturing, and butchering them while they are still alive, in order to replenish his own body, and is even willing to [[ImAHumanitarian devour them]] and delivering their souls to Lucifer. Having run a house where he murdered workers and their children for sport and power, Faust also had his wife burnt alive as a witch when she discovered him. In the present of 1851, Faust begins murdering and torturing his way through the cast, nailing one to a torture wheel, keeping him [[AndIMustScream alive in agony]] even while his organs are removed.
* ''Literature/TentyrianLegacy'': [[BigBad Stavros]] is the leader of the Dark Coven. Once one of the rulers of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Tentyrians]], Stavros [[FantasticRacism looked down upon humanity]], viewing them as inferior to Tentyrians and wishing to rule them. Stavros had two of the other rulers assassinated and helped spark a fire which killed dozens, and later threatened to burn down the various covens of the other rulers while threatening to harm their children should they not relinquish control to him--but [[ILied intending to kill them anyway even if they comply]]. After the people rebel, Stavros's forces enact a purge which leads to the near-genocide of the Tentyrians. Stavros and the Dark Coven than begin a campaign of terror throughout the world, playing humanity against each other from the shadows and causing conflicts to become far worse and than reaping the profits afterwards. Stavros also uses his blood to transform humans into bloodthirsty monsters that serve him, raising an army in the thousands. Planning on culling humanity, Stavros attempts to corrupt Arianna--one of the last Tentyrians--to his side, and even fatally tortured one of her friends to find information on her whereabouts, intending to rule supreme for all of eternity.
* ''Teratologist'', by Wrath James White & Edward Lee: John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the Devil give him the power to bring HellOnEarth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the Devil himself sang his praises.
* ''Literature/ATerribleVengeance'': The EvilSorcerer is the incestuous [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of Katerina. Arriving after she has married the Cossack Danilo and has a baby son named Ivan, the Sorcerer is revealed to have murdered her mother, plotting to make Katerina [[VillainousIncest his and his alone]]. To this end, he engineers a massive battle between the Poles and Cossacks, murdering Danilo in the confusion, before magically killing his [[WouldHurtAChild baby]] grandson. When Katerina attempts to avenge them, the Sorcerer [[OffingTheOffspring kills her]] as well, later murdering a holy man when the man refuses to absolve him for his vile crimes. It is revealed his hatred of goodness is so great that the Sorcerer plots to sell out the East to the Roman Catholic Church, all to see the Orthodox church burn and its adherents slaughtered.
* ''Literature/TheTerror'': [[SmugSnake Shipman Cornelius Hickey]] is a ruthless, ratlike man with a penchant for manipulating others. Murdering his rival Irving, Hickey frames the local Esquimax people, resulting in their massacre. Leading a mutiny against Captain Crozier, Hickey slaughters all who oppose him and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] the ship's doctor Goodsir, so he cuts them up for Hickey and others to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize]]. Mocking Crozier by killing his second-in-command and presenting Crozier with the man's right arm, Hickey attempts to murder Crozier and keep Goodsir in line via increased torture until the man kills himself to escape. Hickey ends up being [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters so vile]] that even the monstrous, soul devouring Tuunbaq on the arctic ice finds his soul [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too unclean to devour]].
* ''The Terror of Living'', by Urban Waite: [[PsychoForHire Grady Fisher]] is a sadistic [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] obsessed with [[KnifeNut knives and their usage for hurting others]]. Known and feared throughout the criminal underworld as a [[AxCrazy loose cannon]] who can and will rack up an extra body count on even the most minor of assignments, Grady's first recorded instance of this extra cruelty is seen when, after being hired to scare his boss's rival out of town, he befriends the man, gets him drunk, then butchers him while [[TheCanKickedHim he is using the bathroom]]. When hired to transport two drug mules to their Vietnamese bosses, Grady decides to simply murder the two teenage girls, then dig the drugs out of their corpses, kicking things off by torturing then dismembering the first one, then trying to [[BoomHeadshot blow the other one's head off]] with a rifle. Grady later begins tracking down Phil Hunt to recover drugs he stole, and in the process, burns Hunt's home down, tracks down and kidnaps his wife, and forces the man to listen as he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals guns down his prized horses]] one by one. After his employers turn on him because of his insanity, Grady tracks them down and slaughters them all, brutally [[CopKiller murdering two cops]] in the process, and, once capturing Hunt and his wife, forces them to lead him to the drugs lest he butcher them and sell their organs to make up for his losses. In the midst of it all, Grady tries to murder someone for their car, terrifies a cashier for fun, and callously guns down any innocents who he gets annoyed with. Grady Fisher is ultimately a lunatic who uses his job to facilitate evermore pain and misery to those around him, with profits always second.
* ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'': [[NouveauRiche Alec d'Uberville]] is a sexual predator who constantly lusts after Tess from the moment he meets her. Alec makes multiple attempts to force himself onto Tess and eventually [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes her]]. Becoming a [[HidingBehindReligion preacher]] years later, Alec abandons his duties upon meeting Tess again, showing no remorse for raping her. When Tess suffers through massive hardships, Alec [[ManipulativeBastard emotionally manipulates the poor girl]] into becoming his mistress.
* ''Tess Winnett'' series, by Leslie Wolfe:
** ''The Watson Girl'': The Chameleon--Bradley Welsh--is a monstrous SerialKiller who developed his taste for sadism after raping a college student. Fully embracing his depraved nature after murdering his business partner's family, [[WouldHurtAChild three children included]], to cover up a business mistake, the Chameleon goes on to murder entire families, always framing it to look like the active killer the Family Man was the perpetrator. When the Family Man is finally arrested, the Chameleon begins experimenting in various ways of killing to decide which way he enjoys best, until he finally settles for kidnapping women and spending days raping and mutilating her until she dies. Not restricted to killing solely to get his kicks, the Chameleon beats a man to death with a crowbar for cutting him off in a parking lot and slashes the throat of an elderly woman after she sees him kill her granddaughter. A chilling maniac who believes that [[AGodAmI he has surpassed humankind and can do whatever he pleases]], the Chameleon treated each and every one of his murders as nothing but a tasty meal for him to consume, then promptly shrug off until his next kill.
** ''Glimpse of Death'': [[SerialRapist Michael Walden]] is a pathetic coward who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the mentally-deranged Derek Henderson into becoming his partner in crime. Kidnapping women and raping them for nearly a week, Walden then brutally beats and rapes one woman while forcing the other to watch before having Derek strangle his current victim to death, laughing at the horror of the woman being forced to watch. Racking up nearly two dozen women who he rapes for days then has Derek kill, Walden begins tries to commit murder himself, failing only due to his own cowardice and instead just maiming the women in gruesome ways. In the end, Walden breaks down into a crying heap when he is caught, [[NeverMyFault trying to pin everything on Derek and proclaiming that the women deserved it for "rejecting him"]].
** ''Taker of Lives'': The titular "[[AntagonistTitle Taker of Lives]]", Althea Swain, is a vindictive and petty {{narcissist}} who blames women around her for ruining her career goals by being more beautiful and attractive than herself. Yearning to break these women down and show the world how useless they are, the Taker starts her spree by drugging a young model, taking pictures of her naked body and posting them all over the web, the ensuring taunts and cruelty from the Taker regarding the photos making the model commit [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. Drugging and photographing several more women and leaking the illicit photos to ruin their lives, uncaring that the father of one her victims dies from a heart attack in the process, the Taker eventually upgrades her crimes to murder, beginning to [[MurderDotCom livestream]] herself killing beautiful young women in increasingly brutal ways. The Taker plans to make her newest victim a young teenager and torture her live on the web before killing her, and when caught brags that she had many more victims planned, and all for the most insanely [[EvilIsPetty petty]] of reasons.
* ''Literature/TheTestaments'': [[TheBluebeard Commander Judd]] is one of the architects of [[TheTheocracy Gilead]] and a chief designer of the Aunt and Handmaid system, promoting horrific slavery for countless women. A [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] himself, Judd is known for marrying disturbingly young girls to rape them as he wishes, before clandestinely murdering them, covering up the deaths and observing a "mourning period" before choosing his next victim.
* ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'': [[TheBaroness "Fairy" Hardcastle]], one of the chief members of N.I.C.E,and head of their SecretPolice, is a former fascist who loves nothing so much as domination. Seeking to tear down and remake the world in pursuit of her group's vicious order, Hardcastle has many people abducted and tortured, often [[TortureTechnician participating herself]]; it is implied that she even [[{{Sadist}} derives sexual pleasure]] from torturing. Capturing heroine Jane Studdock, Hardcastle tortures her, [[CigaretteBurns burning her with a cigar]], and threatens to later do the same to her husband Mark.
* ''Literature/TheirBrightAscendancy'': [[BigBad Yamai, the Traitor God]]--real name Umigami--is the first Emperor of Hokkaro. Exiled beyond the Wall of Flowers, all taken by Yamai have their minds hollowed out until they are turned into worshipping [[EmptyShell shells]] of themselves to praise him ceaselessly. Sending demons to sow chaos and death and spreading [[TheCorruption the horrific blackblood plague]], Yamai eventually returns on a killing spree, massacring an entire city with intent to reclaim his empire and destroy all in his way.
* ''Literature/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse'': [[SerialKiller The Osborne Slayer]], real name [[GunmanWithThreeNames David Thurston Ware]], is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage high school student]] who grew bored with his small town and turned to murder to make a name for himself. Planning to [[FameThroughInfamy make himself infamous as a killer]], the Slayer targets his fellow students who are talented enough that they will eventually leave the town and has them brutally murdered. The Slayer intentionally traps them in order to drive up their fear before he mutilates them in a macabre parody of their dreams. Eventually murdering his best friend as well, the Slayer plans to kill heroine Makini Young as well before continuing his murder spree and handing himself over to the police to allow him to live in infamy.
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'':
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living victims. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a SpoiledBrat who [[PsychopathicManchild has never grown up]] and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.
** [[AxCrazy Kobra]] was an albino biker on a cross-country [[SpreeKiller murder spree]], using his Mauser machine gun to mow down entire bars and gangs of people in his path for fun, when he was contacted by Prince Conrad Vulkan to join his legion of evil. Becoming a vampire and given full cognizance and power as Vulkan's military commander, Kobra devours several innocents to turn them into his undead slaves, and uses them to prowl the streets of Los Angeles, turning all in their path who could be useful to Vulkan and killing everyone else. After turning Wes Richard's lover Solange into his vampiric bride, Kobra gleefully parades her zombified form in front of Wes [[KickTheDog just to taunt him]], and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to execute the young boy Tommy]] when Kobra finds him inside Vulkan's castle.
* ''Literature/TheThiefOfAlways'': Mr. Hood runs a magic house where children can be young forever and gain anything they want. Naturally, it's nothing more than an elaborate spider's web. Hood lures children in under these promises before draining them of life and soul, imprisoning them in the lake forever to prolong his own life. Calling himself the Vampire King, Hood delights in what he does to children and tries to seduce the young heroes to his side. When one of his minions tries to take his place after he believes Hood is dead, Hood seizes him and rips his head clean of.
* ''Literature/TheThinExecutioner'': [[DarkMessiah Qasr Bint]] is a cannibalistic, {{sadist}}ic, religiously fanatic {{cult}} leader who believes he alone is the most pure person in the world and that everyone else must mutilate themselves until they die to earn the favor of the gods, and pursues his quest of conversion with a perverse lust and religious fervor. He forces the members of his cult to mutilate themselves, kills them, and [[IAmAHumanitarian eats them]] if [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty the food supplies are low]]. He also has entire tribes wiped out if he finds them "irredeemable."
* ''Literature/ThirteenStoreys'', by Jonathan Sims: Tobias Fell is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive reclusive billionaire]] who, upon realizing the consequences of his past actions due to being haunted by their ghosts, attempts to avoid them by passing them on to unlucky victims, [[WouldHurtAChild one of whom is a little girl]]. Fell has Banyan Court built using the dead bodies of workers and disagreeable business partners, in order to create a kind of spiritual Faraday cage. Fell has anyone who dares to report anything other than his official company lines suffer either by torture or death. When the party is infiltrated by a journalist, Fell has the journalist beaten by [[TheDragon Max]], [[CruelMercy only sparing his life to force him to watch]]. Fell then has the participants eat part of his own severed leg before attempting to have them murder a member of an impoverished community he ruined, deriding the man as "scum|". When his plans are foiled by the participants overpowering Max, Fell still attempts to have them kill the victim anyway with the offer of money, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to see how anyone could value a human life over material gain]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}: Au-delà des ombres'' (''Beyond the Shadows''), by Amélie Sarn: [[EvilOverlord Shardar-The-Almighty]], tyrant of Brek Zarith, is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse]] than his comic incarnation. [[TheUsurper Usurping the throne]] after poisoning the former lord, Shardar led the purge of his family, only sparing Galathorn as a child to mold him as his plaything and kept him imprisoned till adulthood. Once tired of him, Shardar tried to have him executed. Shardar is also a MadScientist who regularly uses his subjects as [[PlayingWithSyringes fodder for drugs, poisons and torture devices]] in his quest of knowledge and power. Holding Aaricia and her son Jolan hostage for years, he would often experiment on the boy for his PsychicPowers. The tyrant also keeps a harem of unwilling young girls and [[ForcedToWatch forces Aaricia to watch]] as he burns the Vikings' longships. Besieged by the rebellion, Shardar poisons his entire court and destroys all his treasures, leaving the kingdom bankrupt, hoping that, to restore it, Galathorn will be forced to become as big a tyrant as him, while he escapes and plans to start a new conquest, using Jolan's psychic powers after getting rid of Aaricia. Outplayed by the latter, he attempts to torture her to draw her son nearby. Unlike his original incarnation who [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes mourns his son]], he reacts to his death with indifference instead and is even revealed to have murdered said son's mother while she was giving birth.
* ''Those Across the River'', by Christopher Buehlman: [[PosthumousCharacter Lucien Savoyard]], ancestor of the novel's protagonist, was a [[{{Sadist}} nightmarish]] and brutal [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who maimed his wives to render them barren, faking his death to "show up" as his own child. A Confederate slaveowner and general, Lucien would torture countless slaves, murdering them for sport and pleasure while [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting others]] in wolf form every month. Infamous for the cruelties he inflicted, Lucien killed so many that though he bought countless slaves, it was suspected that he sold them so quickly due to the disappearances and upon death, cursed his killer as a werewolf as well.
* ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'': [[DomesticAbuse Rasheed]] is nasty, violent-tempered, smug and thoroughly heartless, spending the book ruining the lives of the protagonists in a myriad of ways. Marrying a 15-year-old before promptly raping her and tricking a 14-year-old into marrying him ''immediately after her family dies'' by ''paying a man to tell her that her surviving love interest is dead'' are without counting what Rasheed does to his own family. His nature also comes forth in beating the tar out of his wives on a daily basis, completely neglecting his daughter in favor of his son, forcing one of his wives to eat pebbles because he thought her rice was undercooked, shoving a gun into the mouth of one of his wives and finally trying to strangle her to death. When his wives try to run away, he tells the younger that if she ever tries it again, he will kill his other wife (her only friend) and her daughter in front of her. She knows he's not joking, because he's just put them all in sensory deprivation rooms in the blistering heat with no water for three days. What little sympathy the author tries to create for him by letting us know his first son died is quickly dashed away when it's implied that Rasheed's own drunken neglect probably caused it.
* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'': The mysterious, murderous [[FemmeFatale Milady de Winter]] is one of the top agents of the visionary Cardinal Richelieu in his campaign to strengthen France and free it of foreign influence, but shares none of her employer's lofty ideals. Instead, she uses her position, resources, and quasi-supernatural beauty and charisma to indulge her limitless appetites for money, power, and indiscriminate, disproportionate revenge on anyone who gets on her bad side. Ever since [[FromNobodyToNightmare her humble origins]] as a [[NunTooHoly larcenous nun]], she's targeted and seduced any sufficiently-useful man she comes across, destroying those who reject her and either killing or abandoning anyone unlucky enough to become her thrall as soon as they're no longer valuable. Her steadily-escalating battle with d'Artagnan brings out all her worst excesses, as she first tries to enlist him to kill her brother-in-law for his inheritance and a young noble for apparently turning her advances down, then, after he humiliates her, repeatedly attempts to kill him with zero regard for collateral damage, endangering and killing several innocents along the way, and finally murders his LoveInterest as RevengeByProxy whilst pretending to be her dearest friend.
* ''Literature/{{Threshold}}'': Nzame is an EldritchAbomination from beyond our world. Finding a way into our world, he turns the portal into an EldritchLocation and murders several people working on this portal in increasingly horrific ways. He uses this portal in the form of a pyramid to breach into the human world and {{mind rape}}s the population of Threshold into worshiping him. Once they do, he transforms them into [[TakenForGranite stone golems]] in [[AndIMustScream constant pain]]. When the protagonists rise to oppose him, he attacks them through their dreams, threatening bodily harm to them and their loved ones. He pays special focus to the heroine, Tirzah, threatening to possess her unborn child and leave her husband trapped in an EldritchLocation. Twisted and cruel, Nzame does not care for anything but [[ItsAllAboutMe himself and power]].
* ''Literature/{{Tigana}}'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Alberico of Barbiador]] is a powerful sorcerer and brutal tyrant, unlike the more powerful [[AntiVillain Brandin]]. Seeking to dominate all in his path, Alberico responds to an assassination attempt by crucifying his attackers' families, [[WouldHurtAChild children]] included, to giant "death wheels", cutting off their hands and stuffing them in their mouths while leaving them to perish of exposure. When feeling slighted by poets, Alberico selects 20 poets at random to give the same treatment to, while frequently having his men commit atrocious war crimes during conquest. When war is provoked between him and Brandin, Alberico marches his forces, [[RapePillageAndBurn burning and slaughtering]] as he goes. [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Despised by all]], Brandin comments that Alberico is wholly devoid of any human passion, simply wanting for the sake of ambition and nothing more.
* ''Literature/Timeline191'': Commander Roger Kimball is initially nothing more than a sleazy, misogynistic Confederate submarine captain who views [[HeManWomanHater women as conquests]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain non-whites as subhumans]]. Following the Confederacy's defeat in the Great War, however, an enraged Kimball vents his spite by ordering his submarine, the ''CSS Bonefish'' to fire on the ''USS Ericson'', killing everyone on board, and making himself into the worst war criminal of the conflict, a [[CardCarryingVillain title that he revels in]]. Unemployed after the war, Kimball becomes a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Freedom Party]] thug, assaulting members of the opposing Radical Liberal Party, scheming to have his former Executive Officer, Tom Brearly, assassinated, and finally [[AttemptedRape trying to rape]] his ex-girlfriend, Anne Colleton, when she leaves him. At the time of his death he is plotting to avenge himself on Anne by tracking her down and strangling her, cementing himself as the irredeemable bottom-feeder he always claimed not to be.
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' {{novelization}}, by Steve Perry & Dal Perry:
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[AllThereInTheManual Susquehana]] is the [[BigBad absolute monarch]] of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Drej]] and a genocidal nightmare of an alien. Leading the Drej in genocidal campaigns against entire planets, Susquehana's ultimate goal is to spread the light of the Drej all across the galaxy and exterminate all non-Drej life throughout. Learning that the technology of the Titan still exists even after Earth's destruction, Susquehana sends waves of Drej to find and eradicate the technology whilst destroying all those who seek it, eventually making it a point to spitefully [[KillAllHumans obliterate every surviving human colony]] herself and drive out all those remaining into the deep edge of space to perish. Susquehana also slaughters several of her own kind, some of them upstart assassins--but others killed purely due to Susquehana's own paranoid fits. An AbsoluteXenophobe obsessed with establishing her cruel legacy among her species and sinking to depths unreached even by the previous Queens of the Drej, Susquehana perfectly embodies the reasons why the Drej are feared and reviled by every denizen of the galaxy.
** [[SmugSnake Preed]], a slimy Akrennian [[TokenEvilTeammate barely tolerated]] even by the others onboard the Valkyrie, makes a name for himself as a backstabbing snake as his [[TheMole true colors]] unfold throughout the novel. Contacted by Susquehana with the promise of a monetary reward for finding the Titan, Preed and his compatriot Joseph Korso betray the other members of the Valkyrie to the Drej. Preed quickly establishes himself as the viler of the two between him and Korso, nearly shooting his way through an entire crowd of innocent colonists to get to Cale and Akima and displaying open, sadistic relish at the prospect of doing so. Once at the Titan itself, Preed turns his gun against Korso and reveals his intention to simply murder all of his former allies and sell out the Titan to the Drej, dooming any chance humanity has to repopulate--and then kicking back and watching as the Drej massacre everything in their path, comfortable with the death of almost all sapient life in the galaxy so long as he gets to stay alive.
* ''Literature/ToKillAKingdom'': The wicked [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Sirens]] is Lira's [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] and a genocidal sociopath who forces sirens to attack and sink human ships. Trying to force Lira to kill a human prince to indoctrinate her in her ways, the Sea Queen becomes furious when Lira does not rip the boy's heart out and nearly forces Lira to kill her cousin to repent, only waning when the Sea Queen's sister [[TakeMeInstead offers to let the Sea Queen kill her instead]]. When Lira disappoints her again, the Sea Queen renders her mortal and demands her daughter bring her a powerful artifact to [[KillAllHumans exterminate mankind]]. When Lira turns the sirens against her tyrannical mother, the Queen resolves to boil the entire ocean to [[TakingYouWithMe exterminate her own army out of spite]].
* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': [[BigBad Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell]] personifies [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain all that was wrong with Dixie in the 1930s]]. For starters, he's a [[ParentalNeglect terrible, neglectful father]], to the point where the sheriff actually turns a blind eye to him hunting out of season out of pity for the little Ewells. He gets Tom Robinson, a disabled black man, arrested for supposedly raping and beating his daughter Mayella. Atticus Finch, the defense lawyer, shows that Tom was physically incapable of committing the crime, and that it was Bob who caught Mayella making advances on an unwilling Tom ,and [[AbusiveParents beat her himself]], with it being implied at one point that [[ParentalIncest Bob himself has been sexually abusing Mayella]]. Since the book takes place in the DeepSouth several decades before the Civil Rights movement, the all-white jury sentences Tom to death anyway. Even though Tom Robinson is dead, Bob tries to get revenge on those who opposed him at the trial, culminating in trying to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Atticus's children on their way home from a school play]].
* ''Literature/ToReignInHell'': [[ManipulativeBastard Abdiel]] is a manipulative, smug, and [[DirtyCoward cowardly angel whose fear of death]] at the hands of the Fourth Wave drives him to commit his atrocities. Using his power of MindControl, Abdiel controls various messengers to make Yaweh and Satan slowly hate each other, igniting a war between their factions, and sets himself up as Yaweh's second-in-command in the process. Attempting to make tensions worse, Abdiel accidentally kills the innocent angel Ariel, then cuts down Raziel for accusing him of the crime, and uses these murders to frame Satan even more as a dangerous traitor, before ordering the full-scale massacre of Satan's defenseless forces under the illusion of a truce. To ensure his own safety, Abdiel constructs the Plan, an event that will sacrifice one thousand angels to protect the rest from any threat by the Fourth Wave, and uses his position of power and various crimes to make sure he is as far away from the Plan when it takes place. In his crowning moment of cowardice and evil, Abdiel, once his crimes are discovered, decides to kick-start the Fourth Wave himself to cover his tracks, fully aware and knowing of the countless lives it can claim, yet completely uncaring, simply laughing that he'll be [[FameThroughInfamy remembered through history for his acts]].
* Literature/TortallUniverse:
** ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Song of the Lioness]]'': [[TheChessmaster Duke Roger of Conté]], [[ActionGirl Alanna]]'s ArchEnemy and the BigBad, was originally heir of his cousin King Roald before the birth of Prince Jon bumped him down the line of succession, and he stops at nothing to get his place back. He creates a MysticalPlague that kills many in the city of Corus before it reaches its intended target, the royal family, who were deliberately targeted last so that the palace Healers were too weak to save Jon's life. When this fails, Roger's second attempt on his cousin's life involves goading Jon into getting himself killed by exploring a cursed city. Alanna foils this too, so Roger sends multiple {{Animal Assassin}}s after her, tries to drown her, [[MoreThanMindControl turns her friend Alex against her]] so that he tries to kill her while sparring, and helps create a war with Tusaine so he can pull a UriahGambit on both of them. After the war is ended without his intended results, Roger casts a wasting sickness on his lawful aunt, the Queen Lianne, using a wax doll of the Queen, being periodically run under a stream of running water that slowly drains her life force; this wrecks her already-poor health enough that she dies little over a year after the spell has been ended. When Alanna uncovers this plot and finally exposes him, she kills him, but that doesn't end it. When Roger returns he has become a full-blown OmnicidalManiac, who gives up regaining the throne in favor of destroying Tortall with an earthquake out of spite. Not even his own followers, except [[TheDragon Alex]], are told, most thinking that they're participating in a standard usurper plot and not realizing that he cares nothing for them either.
** ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'':
*** Vinson of Genlith was already a bully in Joren's gang, but we learn in ''Page'' that he's also a sexual predator, [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] Lalasa. In ''Squire'', the Chamber of the Ordeal forces him to confess to raping two commoner women and beating a third by [[LaserGuidedKarma inflicting on him the injuries he inflicted on them]]; the text describes numerous ugly cuts and bruises occurring on his body. Even then, he doesn't have any remorse and tries to [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blame them]] for somehow inciting him to attack.
*** [[TheHeavy Blayce the Gallan]] from ''Lady Knight'' is a small, cruel man with a magical aptitude in Necromancy. Booted from the City of the Gods by his superiors out of disgust for the way he used his talent, he turned to Tortall's northerly neighbor, Scanra, and swore himself to the newly crowned King Maggur. [[PsychoForHire Offering his services]] in exchange for land and wealth, he hires a band of mercenaries to both protect himself and enforce his rule over the village overlooked by the keep Maggur gave him. Revelling in the power his position has given him, he goes a step further by [[WouldHurtAChild having the villagers' children forcibly taken from their families]], and [[FlayingAlive flayed]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath tied to a wall until death claims them]] if they try to rescue them. When the children are brought to him, he has them bathed, [[FridgeHorror touching them inappropriately]], [[BlatantLies promises they will be given luxury and kindness under him]] only to have their souls sucked out of their bodies, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild entrapping them within monstrous mechanical devices]] that he provides to the Scanran militia. When Blayce runs out of children in his own backwater village, he resorts to having the Tortallan refugees sheltered under Keladry of Mindelan captured, intending to use their children to continue powering his devices. Blayce's monstrosity is highlighted in the disgust the villagers have for him, knowing that he specifically uses minors not out of pragmatism, but out of the enjoyment it gives him to manipulate their innocent naivety and the pedophilic undertones in his physical intimacy with the children. A remorseless, cowardly and sociopathic murderer, Blayce and the men he employs repulse Kel so much that she leaves their corpses to be desecrated by Stormwings, even when most enemies she'd faced had been given proper funeral rites.
** ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Imajane Rittevon]] is an example of TheCaligula being a genetic trait. Anyone she deems rebellious, even former friends or longtime aides, is subject to being nailed to a post on the docks as an example. Hundreds of raka in the countryside are killed by stretching an already awful law beyond its limit, and city raka who gather even under innocent circumstances are violently dispersed. When Duke Nomru politely suggests being mildly less horrible, she throws him in prison. Finally, she and Rubinyan have Dunevon and Elsren assassinated to make themselves the sole monarchs and do so in a cruel, sloppy way that endangers others. Though her husband Rubinyan is her accomplice for many of these actions, and even has the nerve to pretend sympathy over it, he at least tries to restrain her more impolitic cruelties and might have had some genuine friendship for the Balitangs in the past.
** ''[[Literature/BekaCooper Provost's Dog]]'':
*** Ammon Lofts (known as "Crookshank"), one of the two {{serial killer}}s from ''Terrier'', is already a slumlord who forced at least one debtor to sell his wife into slavery, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to suicide]]. He's rich, but when he discovers fire opals under the city, he lures in jobless poor folk to mine them in secret, then kills them all and starts over when each mine is spent. He does this several times over the course of the book, killing seven to ten people each time. When his great-grandson Rolond is kidnaped by the Shadow Snake, he refuses to pay a ransom of opals out of pride and greed, resulting in him being killed, and continues when the same is threatened to his grandson Herrun. When Beka tries talking some sense into him, he threatens to have her raped and murdered.
*** Mistress Deirdry Noll, the other serial killer from ''Terrier'', uses the legend of the "Shadow Snake" to go after poor Lower City families by abducting their children to [[{{Greed}} extort their valuables]], usually the only slightly valuable thing they own, such as a family heirloom or a bauble saved up for. If not paid, the Snake will [[WouldHurtAChild kill the child]], and if the family has others, she'll take them until she gets what she wants. She [[RevengeByProxy kills Crookshank's great-grandson]] in part because [[DisproportionateRetribution she has a grudge against the child's mother]]. When she is finally unmasked and apprehended, she has no remorse and justifies her actions with "I deserve nice things more than they do and that bitch made the success of my business more difficult." While she's being arrested, she shows herself as an {{abusive parent|s}}.
* ''Literature/TheTorturer'', by Peter Saxon: [[TortureTechnician Conde Pedro Delmorte]] was a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who learned the secrets of eternal life from the worshipers of {{Quetzalcoatl}}. Savagely torturing countless natives and even [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering his own bride]], the Conde returned to Spain and began to endlessly torture peasant girls to death [[ImmortalityImmorality to ensure his own immortality]]. Returning as a vampiric figure in modern day, Delmorte begins to pick off the film crew at his castle, torturing them to guarantee his eternity.
* ''Literature/TowardsZero'': Nevile Strange is a psychopath who feels that [[ItsAllAboutMe anyone who has ever wronged him]] must die. When his wife Audrey leaves him for another man out of fear, he decides that she has to die, and die humiliated at that, first killing her new husband and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it seem like an accident]]. With that in mind, he bludgeons his adoptive mother, Lady Tressilian, to death, and lays two overlapping sets of false clues, so that it will look as though Audrey not only committed the murder, but also tried to frame him for the murder. He arranged for the death of lawyer Arthur Treves, who remembered him from a case he committed as a [[EnfantTerrible child]] when he deliberately killed another child with a bow and arrow and might have been able to expose him. His intent is that Audrey be destroyed socially and then hanged; when he's exposed, he screams that he does not care, and starts ranting about how much he wants Audrey to be hanged.
* ''Tracers'', by J.J. Howard: James Miller, alias James Hatcher, is a [[NaughtyNarcs crooked DEA agent]] who moonlights as a master thief and fence. Taking a group of homeless teenagers under his wing, Miller trains them in [[LeParkour freerunning]] and uses them to perform daring heists across New York for him. Miller runs his gang with an iron fist, including [[SexualExtortion extorting sexual favors]] from Nikki, the group's sole female member, threatening to ship her brother back to Florida, where he's fleeing an unjust warrant for his arrest, if she doesn't put out for him. When Nikki falls for main character Cam and the two plan to slip Miller's leash, he [[VillainousBreakdown rapidly devolves]] from a mere cat burglar to a murderous madman who repeatedly [[UriahGambit attempts to send Cam to his death]], before finally capping off his rampage with the massacre of a roomful of witnesses to one of his heists.
* ''Literature/TrickyBusiness'': Tark is a low-level driver of a drug boat. Tired of this, he decides to rob his bosses in a major drug deal. In the middle of a tropical storm, he has three of his associates beat up and knock out two guards of the boat. He [[NasalTrauma mutilates]] and [[CripplingCastration castrates]] one guard, and decides to force the other guard to swallow his own blood with his hands tied behind his back. When he gets to the drop-off point of the deal, he murders everybody crewing the operation. He then proceeds to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betray and kill each and every one of his associates]] and even tries to kill some innocent people who get in the way. Motivated simply by greed, no one in the novel outshines Tark when it comes to {{sadis|t}}m or disloyalty.
* ''Literature/TheTroop'': [[TeensAreMonsters Shelley Longpre]] is a [[AxCrazy disturbed young psychopath]] who enjoys [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torturing and murdering insects and other animals]], including his mother's kitten. Taking advantage of the tapeworm infestation to enact his sick desires, Shelley tortures the infected Kent before killing him and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] Ephraim to torture him mentally in the belief he is infected before burning him alive and attempting to kill the remaining members of the troop.
* ''Twelve Gauge'', by Ronald Kelly: Richard [=McFarland=] was a man who grew bored with life one day and walked into a church in Cedar Bluff, Tennessee where he proceeded to massacre twelve people, the youngest being a [[WouldHurtAChild four-month-old baby]]. Before he was executed, Richard learned to {{astral project|Ion}}, and escaped his body to slowly corrupt his living son Sonny. Manipulating Sonny into "finishing the job", Richard leads him to murder multiple innocent people in order to hunt down and slaughter the survivors of the church massacre. Having Sonny abduct and murder two college girls as "practice", Richard [[AbusiveParents keeps him in line through vicious physical and mental abuse]] while trying to force Sonny to simply die, taking down as many innocent people possible at the end.
* ''Uncanny'', by David Macinnis Gill: [[WickedWitch The Shadowless]], real name [[TheDreaded Malleus the Deceiver]], has murdered hundreds of people with magical talents called "Norns" and then [[YourSoulIsMine consumed their souls]] to add their powers to her own. Kidnapping a boy named Harkon, she [[{{Tykebomb}} molds him into a killer]], with Malleus being the architect behind the Salem Witch Trials in a bid for more power through murder, even [[WouldHurtAChild killing a 5-year-old child]] when her attempt to escape is foiled. Eventually killed, Malleus returns from the dead hundreds of years later to seek out an uncanny--a person with special magical talent--named Willow Jane, whose soul would give Malleus unlimited power. Killing the friends of Willow, Malleus twists them into her servants to use her in her hunt for Willow and even uses Willow's 7-year-old sister as hostage to draw her out, fully intending to kill both of them.
* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'': Simon Legree is a chilling reminder of the evils of slavery in human form. Legree is brutal to his slaves, working them to death because he considers it a financial boon to himself. It's also made clear he'd do it solely [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Legree endeavors to break their spirits and make them despair as he breaks their bodies and minds. Legree is a torturer, rapist and murderer whose only frustration is the good-hearted slave Tom will simply refuse to break, spurring Legree on to greater cruelties to force his submission.
* ''Literature/UncleVictor'', by Jake Wiklacz: Chris is Kara's ex-husband, who manages to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters a far worse person]] than the titular boogeyman. A warped psychopath with a womanizing streak, Chris believes that in order to truly move on from a marriage, he needs to literally destroy all ties he has with it, starting by burning down his and Kara's house [[OffingTheOffspring while both their daughters are inside]], ignoring their cries for help all the while. His second wife eventually finds out that he's having an affair with an escort, and he responds by [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering her]] and setting up her death to [[NeverSuicide look like a suicide]]. Confronted by Kara when she discovers the truth, he kills her as well.
* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'': These two are responsible for [[BigBad Pearlpelt]]/[[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Bane]] being so bad:
** [[TheChessmaster Twirltongue]] is [[TheManBehindTheMan the true mastermind behind the Bane]], and a vicious, {{manipulative|Bitch}} xenophobe. Taking advantage of the Bane at a young age, Twirltongue uses her persuasion abilities to convince the unstable Bane that he will one day lead the Gnawers, with her as his adviser. Once setting the Bane up as king of an army of Gnawers, Twirltongue continues her manipulation and advising of the Bane, [[AbsoluteXenophobe convincing him that every species that isn't a rat deserves to die]], and to this end, the Bane's forces proceed to round up thousands of adult and children mice alike, then either force them to jump to their deaths by the hundreds, or shove them into horrific chambers and gas them by the thousands with volcanic ash. Twirltongue then has the Bane lead a full-scale war on Regalia, hoping to slaughter every man, woman, and child inside, then reign supreme over all other species of Underland.
** [[SmallRoleBigImpact Snare]], despite his limited appearances, sticks out as the nastiest Gnawer in the story alongside Twirltongue. Once a general in the wicked King Gorger's army, thus facilitating the numerous atrocities committed by Gorger, Snare later gave birth to a litter of mice with his wife, Goldshard. Realizing that one of his newborn mice pups, Pearlpelt, is the legendary "Bane", a being prophesied to one day take over all of Underland, Snare promptly [[OffingTheOffspring murders the rest of his litter]] to ensure Pearlpelt doesn't have to share his mother's milk with them. Snare takes to [[AbusiveParents beating Pearlpelt]] and driving his hateful rhetoric into the baby, fully hoping to one day use his son to wage war on Regalia and ride the coattails to victory, and, when Goldshard finally has enough and tries to escape with Pearlpelt, Snare attempts to murder her in a blind rage. Though dead before Pearlpelt became the monstrous Bane, Snare fully facilitated his son's transformation into a psychotic monster, and would only laugh at the destruction he went on to inflict.
* ''Undertaker's Moon'', by Ronald Kelly: "Squire" Crom [=McManus=] was a squire in ancient Ireland who embraced a DealWithTheDevil himself to become the Arget Behir, the Silver Beast. A [[SavageWolves vicious werewolf]] who spread his curse, roaming the land and slaughtering or turning all who crossed his path, Crom would attack an abbey near Kells, killing all but a single priest in one bloody night. After centuries of murder, Crom realized his survival depended on a low profile and turned innocents to help him conceal himself, eventually destroying them. After converting the O'Shea family and moving to Old Hickory, Tennessee, Crom eventually decides he's through lying low and decides to move to the city where he can feed on the homeless and runaway children. When he tries to flee when the O'Sheas are destroyed, Crom runs into a woman he was briefly dating as a diversion and decides to rape and murder her on the spot, [[TheUnfettered gleeful to embrace the Beast once more]].
* ''Literature/{{Underworlds}}'' series: [[BigBad Loki]], the wicked Norse TricksterGod, seeks to wage war against Asgard to [[TheUsurper take Odin's throne for himself]]. Kidnapping Dana Runson for her knowledge on the whereabouts of the Crystal Rune, the key to Odin's throne, Loki then starts releasing monsters into the human world, having entire towns and villages destroyed, [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans seeking to burn the world to ash in his quest for power]]. Even after learning using the key on Odin's throne will destroy all worlds, Loki persists, and upon being beaten, sends his [[SavageWolves wolf Fenrir]] to keep Dana imprisoned in his underworld permanently out of spite.
* ''Unholy Night'', by Seth Grahame-Smith: [[BiblicalBadGuy King Herod]] is a [[TheCaligula twisted tyrant]] who rules via fear and oppression. Having anyone who opposes him murdered in brutal and torturous fashion, Herod also [[SerialRapist rapes]] attractive women he has brought to him, including girls as young as their early teens. Upon the escape of the infamous thief Balthazar, Herod goes ballistic when he learns of a prophecy and [[WouldHurtAChild orders the massacre of any child]] in his domain to catch the young messiah. Succumbing to paranoia and rage, Herod routinely slaughters all around him in his quest to be more than a petty PuppetKing of Rome.
* ''UNSUB'' series, by Meg Gardiner:
** ''UNSUB'' (first book): The vicious [[KnightTemplar Titus Rhone]], nicknamed "the Prophet" by the public, [[ThemeSerialKiller bases his murders]] around [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''. Having killed a woman in his 20s for being a "tease", Rhone suffocates a professor of Eastern religions; stabs a woman with multiple marriages; feeds a couple to attack dogs; tortures and drowns other victims; and burns an atheist couple alive, all for the sadistic thrill he gets. Returning later for a new killing spree after laying low, Rhone kills multiple innocents, even twisting two victims' heads 180 degrees with his bare hands while they scream in agony. Rhone then targets the heroes with more torture and murder, even attempting to detonate bombs to collapse UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco's infrastructure and kill hundreds of thousands while educating a new disciple to carry on his gruesome work after he is gone.
** ''Into the Black Nowhere'': [[SerialKiller Kyle Detrick]] is a ControlFreak whose pattern involves kidnapping [[WouldHitAGirl women]] to torture and [[SerialRapist rape]] for weeks before killing them, acting out a fantasy of revenge on his college crush Dahlia for rejecting him. Spending his free time working at a suicide hotline just so he can get off to women on the cusp of taking their own lives, Detrick is captured by law enforcement for only a limited time before causing a traffic pile-up to enable his escape, nearly killing dozens of drivers. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] his secretary into killing others for him, Detrick hunts down Dahlia and tortures her to death before targeting the woman's teenage daughter, hoping to slaughter an entire sorority of dozens of women as a final romp of fun before finishing off Dahlia's daughter.
* ''Until They Bring the Streetcars Back'', by Stanley Gordon West: Otto Lutterman is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Gretchen. He routinely beats her, and is later revealed to beat the rest of his daughters, as well. At one point, Cal Gant breaks into his house and finds the corpse of [[WouldHurtAChild an infant]] in [[BodyInABreadbox his refrigerator]], and Lutterman chases him with a knife. When Cal successfully frames Lutterman for bootlegging, he testifies at his trial, and Otto's wife reveals that the child was his, and that he had [[VillainousIncest raped Gretchen]]. Otto then flies into a rage and tries to strangle Cal.
* ''Literature/Utopia58'':
** [[BitchInSheepsClothing [=LE905=]]], also known as Ellie, is actually [[GreaterScopeVillain the Father]], the person behind Isonomia's horrific state of condition. After the previous Father died, Ellie took up his mantle, keeping herself disguised so that the country's culture and ideology would survive, and the White Army would be able to hunt down Zionites and other scapegoats Ellie created for the country. Posing as an innocent civilian, Ellie befriended Kay and several other rebels who defected, all so she could gain their trust and build up their hope, only to [[HopeCrusher crush it]] later on. While working alongside the rebels, she secretly led the White Army to them, thus causing the deaths of many rebels along with soldiers from the White Army--many of whom she personally killed. After faking her death, Ellie allows [=EQL61=] and his soldiers kill off the rest of Kay's allies, before Kay himself is captured. While Kay's imprisoned, Ellie visits Kay in person and reveals who she truly is, all so she can gloat about how everything he did was futile, and that she'll be free to continue leading Isonomia with no one left to stop her.
** [[TheHeavy [=EQL61=]]], also known as the [[InsaneAdmiral White General]], is a prominent member within the Isonomian White Army renowned for slaughtering hundreds of thousands, as well as personally torturing Kay for eight years in a reeducation camp. In his debut, [=EQL61=] buries several Zionite prisoners up to their necks in sand, and watches as thousands of Isonomians stone them all to death. After learning that his wife, Ellie, was "stolen" by Kay, [=EQL61=] crucifies hundreds of innocent men, women, and children, leaving a note on all of their bodies for Kay to return Ellie back to him, or else he'll kill more innocents. When [=EQL61=] learns of Kay's location, he and his battalion of soldiers hunt down Kay and his rebels, where they massacre most of them with no hesitation. Once [=EQL61=] finally captures Kay, he keeps him alive just to torture him in his prison cell, before watching as he and his remaining allies are publicly executed several days later.
* ''[[Series/{{V1983}} V]]: The Second Generation'', by Kenneth Johnson: The [[BigBad Leader]], [[TheGeneralissimo military dictator]] of the Visitors, won her place at the head of the Visitors via her charisma, but eventually simply resorted to outright murder and jingoism to keep control. [[GalacticConqueror Initiating brutal intergalactic conquests]], the Leader approved Diana's cruel schemes and infiltration of Earth with intent to [[KillAllHumans genocide humanity]] and [[ToServeMan turn them into food]] for the Visitors. Arriving on Earth herself, she has one young volunteer to the Visitors murder an alien Zedti POW before trying to use humankind as shields against the Zedti fleet before wiping them out as well.
* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': [[VampireMonarch Queen Akasha]] was the first vampire ever made and also the evliest, being a selfish, nihilistic predator with a desire to dominate everyone else. She orders the massacre of Maharet and Mekare's village down to the last woman and child all so that she could obtain their spirit-summoning powers for herself, has them publicly raped and humiliated before her court, and finally sentences them to be mutilated and burned because she unfairly blamed them for the accident that turned her and her husband King Enkil into the [[MonsterProgenitor Mother and Father]]. It is worse in modern times, as she plans to execute almost every human male in the world in order to set up a paradise over which she will [[AGodAmI rule over as a goddess]], flying around the globe and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotizing hundreds of women at a time into committing these murders]] while she watches. She massacres most of the vampires in the world and threatens to do the same to the lone survivors if they refuse to join her New World Order. She even drains her husband to death to take his powers and have Lestat as her new mate. Among the actions of [[BlackAndGrayMorality countless morally gray characters]] that appear within ''The Chronicles'', her crimes are a stark contrast that make it all the more apparent.
* ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'': We learn about Helen Tielli [[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]]. She repeatedly tries to give her children up for adoption after her husband's death so she'd be free to party. When state authorities refused to take them, she brings her kids to an isolated area for a picnic. She takes her six-year-old son into the woods, cuts his throat and sets him on fire. Not quite dead, he screams in agony as she watches him burning. Helen then slits the throat of her three-year-old daughter and walks away, leaving them both for dead. Arrested soon afterward, the only time she says a word to the police is to ask [[ObliviouslyEvil how long her questioning would take, so she could go home and get dressed up for a date]]. Though her brother-in-law has been more than willing to adopt both kids, she wouldn't let him, because she can't stomach him being gay.
* "Literature/TheVampyre": [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Ruthven]], the [[TropeMaker original aristocratic vampire]], is a sexual and psychological predator who [[BitchInSheepsClothing befriends]] protagonist Aubrey and uses him as bait to draw in women. He murders Aubrey's LoveInterest Ianthe, and then [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death]], making Aubrey swear to tell no one. When Aubrey returns home, he finds Ruthven engaged to his sister, whom he plans to kill. Aubrey finally violates his oath, leading to his death; the warning comes too late, and the servants find Aubrey's sister the day after the wedding, drained of blood.
* ''Film/VanHelsing: The {{Novel|ization}}'', by Kevin Ryan: {{Dracula}} is a predator [[AdaptationalVillainy devoid of any qualities but malice and cruelty]]. Seducing Victor Frankenstein into making [[FrankensteinsMonster his monster]], Dracula murders him and later unleashes his young to wipe out a Transylvanian town. Attempting to turn Anna Valerious into his monstrous bride as he's done to other innocent girls, Dracula intends to awaken his children and feed them much of the world [[RageAgainstTheHeavens out of spite towards God]].
* ''Literature/{{Velocity}}'', by Creator/DeanKoontz: Steve Zillis and his accomplice Valis are a team of {{serial killer}}s known as "The Freak", who send Billy Wiles a letter detailing a SadisticChoice: if the victim goes to the police, they'll kill someone, but if the victim does not they'll kill someone else; the two proceed to kill a friend of his. Their second victim is tortured to death and the third is shot, while along the way, they torture Billy by jabbing a fishhook through his scalp. At the end, Billy finally catches on to them when his wife in a coma is the final intended victim.
* ''Literature/VeryBadDeaths'': [[TortureTechnician Allen]] is a wealthy hyper-{{sadist}} who considers himself an artist and a scientist, specializing in [[ColdBloodedTorture human pain]]. With an encyclopedic knowledge of the most horrendous and painful ways to kill a man, Allen [[SerialKiller carves a legacy of torture, rape, and murder of the most twisted kinds over years, leaving at least 150 victims behind him]]. Allen considers it a test to keep his victims as alive as long as he can--his personal record being twenty-two days--and devises a variety of drugs ranging from those that promote fear and panic to those that amplify pain far beyond the usual, planning to continue murdering until he's able to catalog an entire book on the ways he's killed people. Allen's intended masterpiece is his intended fate for a happy family of four in Heron Island, BC: Allen intends to torture each member of the family to death over a course of days one at a time, [[WouldHurtAChild the children included]], before rendering the wife permanently aphasic and paraplegic, sending her off to an institute and visiting her regularly to continually remind her of what he did to her. Allen captures the protagonist, Russell Walker, and puts him through a round of torture to extract information from him, planning to visit as much of a month of torture on his associate Nika, and responds to the information that Russell's friend Zandor is psychic by gleefully [[MindRape sending unspeakably horrible mental images towards him]] and planning to keep him as his own pet, forcing him to bear the agony of every victim Allen murders for the rest of his life. A "one-in-a-billion freak" and a madman more vile than any other serial killer or sociopath the world has ever seen, Allen [[CardCarryingVillain cheerfully admits he's a sociopath and revels in every minute in the marathons of agony he orchestrates]].
* ''Literature/VictorianHorrorStories''' "Let Loose": [[AxCrazy Sir Roger Despard]] was a mass-murdering psychopath who enjoyed terrorizing the people of Wetwaste. Nearing the end of his life, Despard is asked to repent for his many sins, only for him to refuse to and instead say that his only "[[IRegretNothing regret]]" is not being able to kill more people. To rectify this, Despard [[HelpingHands cuts off his hand]] and instructs it to murder and maim in his place before he dies. Fifty years later, said hand eventually escapes its confinement and proceeds to kill [[WouldHurtAChild a little girl]], the local blacksmith, and very nearly kills the protagonist himself. The latter ends up protected by his dog, who [[HeroicSacrifice dies in the process]], and ends up needing to wear a high collar, even in hot weather, to hide the bruises.
* ''WebVideo/LeVisiteurDuFutur: La Meute'' (''The Visitor from the Future: The Pack''): Loup (Wolf) is a [[EvilFormerFriend former friend]] of the Visitor and fellow member of the Pack. Taking over the band after the death of the previous leader, Loup [[ChildSoldiers recruits and arms over 40 children]], indoctrinating them with a false promise of travel to a better world. Planning a bloody rebellion to take over Neo-Versailles, Loup almost [[WouldHurtAChild tricks a little boy into detonating himself]] in order to kill the Visitor and his friend Belette. When the Visitor and his ally faces him, Loup attempts to have them [[PublicExecution publicly executed]], successfully murdering Taureau. Cornered and defeated, Loup tosses a grenade at the children to cause a distraction. Burning to death, he makes one last effort to [[TakingYouWithMe take the Visitor with him]].
* ''[[Literature/SilverJohn The Voice of the Mountain]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Ruel Harpe]] is the descendant of [[SerialKiller Micajah Harpe]]. An egotist who dwells on top of Cry Mountain, Ruel forms a group of witches that he manipulates while also seeking to corrupt the hero John to his side. Ruel reveals that he intends to find the Gospel of Judas and, seeing most of humanity as nothing but parasites, will use it to kill almost every human being on the planet, sparing only a million people per continent while he builds Cry Mountain into a temple where [[AGodAmI he will be worshipped by them]]. When John finally refuses, Ruel shows no remorse in attempting to murder him as well.
* ''Literature/{{Volle}}'': Dereath implicitly caused the downfall of the preceding Lord Fardew and he discredited and displaced anyone else who could have taken the job. He also unrepentantly engineered two deaths and framed Volle and Streak for the murders. When confronted over the deaths he ridicules Volle for clinging to the past, with regards to Volle's first love, Xiller, in the first book and confesses that he was planning to kill his accomplice as well. What's more, the only reason he targeted Volle in the first place was that Volle rejected his sexual advances.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Baron Ryoval stands out as one of the worst villains of the series, and is viewed as a monster even on the WretchedHive of an OutlawTown planet in which he lives. Ryoval started his evil early in life, murdering his father and then proceeding (with the exception of two siblings who escaped) to either murder the rest of his siblings or else subjecting them to torture/body modification before condemning them to a FateWorseThanDeath in brothels he runs catering to sadism and sexual perversion. Ryoval is obsessed with torture and sadism both as his primary business and as a hobby, and employees a large staff of {{Torture Technician}}s, who like the rest of his staff, don't like the work, but are too afraid of what he would do to them if caught to flee. Ryoval is actually 70 years old, but looks like a young man because like some other particularly depraved people on his planet, he has had clones of himself produced (who are normal, sapient individuals) and then when they've reached a certain age, he had their brain ripped out and his implanted. He has this "procedure" done several times.
** Ges Vorrutyer gets about twenty pages of screen time, and is still a memorable skin-crawler. His creepy obsession with tormenting and torturing his ex-boyfriend Aral takes him from "academically interested in watching a psychologically destroyed Bothari raping Cordelia Naismith on his say-so" to "willing and eager to do the deed himself" in a way that leaves even the normally very calm and balanced Cordelia absolutely terrified. According to Aral, Ges broke Bothari in the first place, and did it twice: once before Bothari arrived at the Leper Colony, and again after only a few scant months when Bothari was reassigned.
* ''Literature/{{Vortex}}'': BigBad [[PresidentEvil Karl Adriaan Vorster]], a member of a [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Afrikaner movement, arranges the death of the moderate Haymans government in South Africa, and reinstates full apartheid, arresting and killing those who oppose it. He then tries to re-conquer Namibia, taking South Africa into a war with Cuba and Angola in the process. When the war turns against him, Vorster uses a [[NukeEm nuclear bomb]] on an advancing Cuban brigade, and then plans to nuke Maputo (capital of Mozambique) and Bulawayo (second largest city in Zimbabwe). When the Cubans start basing their headquarters inside of South African cities and towns, Vorster orders that they too be subject to nuclear attack. [[AmericaSavesTheDay American intervention]] takes this option out of his hands, so Vorster instead tries to ruin South Africa and the world's economy by contaminating the nation's mines with radioactive dust as part of a last, mad bid to take everyone down with him. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Hateful of anyone who isn't an Afrikaner]], and responsible for thousands of deaths, Vorster personifies all the worst aspects of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra.
* ''[[Literature/CastawaysOfTheFlyingDutchman Voyage of Slaves]]'': "[[BigBad Al Misurata]]" is a Libyan [[{{Pirate}} corsair]] and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] who freely deals in the trade of flesh, be they young or old. Al Misurata tries to have the eternally childlike Ben and a group of slaves [[HeKnowsTooMuch killed to prevent them from talking too much]] about the load he intends to sell to the corrupt Count Dreskar. Along the way, Al Misurata cons a traveling circus troupe and tries to have them sold into slavery; [[BadBoss abuses his minions]]; and shows no care toward their deaths; and tries to sink a ship full of people for the purpose of getting Ben. Routed time and time again, Al Misurata finally demonstrates his bloodthirsty reputation in full by murdering Count Dreskar's liaison and all of the liaison's servants in a fit of pique, before having his corsairs descend on a convent of nuns to kill everything in their way of getting to his escaped slaves.
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* ''W.A.R.P.'' series, by Creator/EoinColfer:
** [[BigBad Albert Garrick, the Forever Man]], is a ruthless Victorian era assassin who murdered UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper out of [[FameThroughInfamy jealousy]]. Having [[TilMurderDoUsPart killed his wife]] for possible infidelity, Garrick later becomes an assassin, using his magician abilities to escape capture and kill hundreds, at one point killing a time traveling FBI agent and adopting his son Riley, who he raises in his own image with psychological torment and beatings. Upon finding the modern day, Garrick proves happy to slaughter whoever stands in his way to go after Riley and Riley's friend, Chevron "Chevie" Savano. Defeated, Garrick is deposited in the past where he becomes a [[TheWitchHunter Witchfinder]], using his talents to frame innocent women as witches where he has them tortured and burnt in rigged tests, making a point to target those he knows are innocent. Uncaring his actions might eventually destroy most of humanity with a torn timestream, Garrick intends to murder Riley while capturing Chevie and attempting to have her burnt as well.
** ''The Hangman's Revolution'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Colonel Clayton Box]] is a former FBI agent who killed his best friend as a young boy just to see if he could. Taking advantage of the timestream to go back and establish the Boxite Empire, Box uses brainwashing, murder and torture, creating a force that tears apart the world, killing millions and torturing and "reeducating" many others. When Riley and Chevie try to stop him, Box intends on forcing the world to submit by gaining access to a set of ballistic missiles, intending on leveling major European cities with no heed of civilian casualties.
* ''Literature/{{Waif}}'', by Samantha Kolesnik: [[BackAlleyDoctor Cal "Mince" Mincciola]] is an underground plastic surgeon who specializes in off-the-books surgeries. In truth, Mince runs underground pornography rings that deal in [[SnuffFilm snuff]], [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]], [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]], and more while [[MadDoctor he mutilates patients on camera or has them raped while anesthetized]]. Taking in protagonist Angela, Mince uses her in films and eventually plans to murder her and her friends, known as the Waifs, with his dying words being to sneer that people would have paid good money to see his own death.
* ''The Walking'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[WickedWitch Isabella]] is a monstrous, ancient witch whose sick sadism drives Wolf Canyon, and nearly the entire world, into complete destruction. Having kept herself alive for centuries by feeding on the life force of innocent witches and magic users, Isabella shows up in Wolf Canyon to seduce the town's leader, then become his second-in-command, slowly instituting her own depraved law where ordinary humans are slaughtered alongside any witches who defy her. Spending her free time [[WouldHurtAChild torturing children and stabbing infants to death]] in front of their mothers, Isabella cursed the town of Wolf Canyon to be swept away by a flood and all its inhabitants drowned when they finally turn on her and seal her away in a cave. Finally escaping from her entombment in the present by murdering and feasting on the life forces of several dozen people, Isabella reveals her new plan to use all her magical powers to create an apocalypse across the world, [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all life she can]] for no other reason than her own enjoyment and as a petty "revenge" for being sealed away. A [[{{Sadist}} profound psychopath whose only joy in life was hurting others]], Isabella is easily the worst witch in the entire story.
* ''Literature/WaltzOfShadows'', by Joe R. Lansdale ("Lost Lansdale" series): The killers known as Snake and Fat Boy are a pair of ruthless thugs who introduce themselves by murdering a group of thrill seekers after horrifically torturing them. When one of the group escapes to his uncle, the duo murder the escapee and menace his uncle and family as well, sexually assaulting his wife and attempting to [[ManOnFire burn his children alive]]. It is revealed that Fat Boy and Snake also run a [[WouldHurtAChild child pornography ring where they have kids murdered after participating]], with Snake even keeping [[CreepySouvenir photos of the children as trophies on his wall]].
* ''Literature/WarchildSeries'': [[BigBad Vincenzo Marcus Falcone]] demonstrates the worst of the setting's already explicitly evil [[SpacePirates piracy]]. Falcone slaughters everyone on the ships he boards before blowing the ships to pieces; the only survivors are the children he captures to then sell as slaves, although some of them he keeps for himself and [[WouldHurtAChild abuses in horrific fashion]], while [[EvilMentor turning others]] into {{Tykebomb}}s. Even after his death, flashbacks show him reveling in his atrocities.
* ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles'':
** [[WickedWitch Elizabeth of the Bones]], commonly known as Bony Lizzie, is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild child-killing]] witch who harvests bones for rituals. Posing as Alice Deane's aunt, she's actually her [[AbusiveParents mother]], having conceived with [[{{Satan}} the Fiend]]. She once had a brain-eating familiar, and Lizzie didn't interfere when it targeted her daughter. She first plots to free her dreaded grandmother Mother Malkin by tricking Tom into giving her blood cakes and abducting a little boy as a meal. She inflicts Tom with [[MindRape nightmarish hallucinations]], before she tries to [[{{Fingore}} take his thumb bones]]. After taking over the isle of Mona, she murders a miller who challenged her authority, [[AndIMustScream trapping his soul in limbo]], sentences John Gregory, Adriana and Commander Stanton to be fed to the Buggane, drinks the blood of a yeoman and leads raiding parties slaughtering entire families. When Alice ruins her plans of world domination, [[OffingTheOffspring she attempts to take her life]] then successfully kills Adriana and her fiancé. The flashback of the twelfth book reveals that she killed a Spook before torturing his soul and attempted to kill thirteen children for a ritual, while in the present day, her ghost ambushes Alice and Thorne to be interrogated and tortured by the daemon Beelzebub. In ''The Dark Assassin'', Lizzie treacherously delivers the witch assassin Grimalkin and Thorne to another daemon.
** [[{{Satan}} The Fiend]] is the master of the dark and [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the series who tries to bring the world to a new age of darkness. Having control of practitioners of the dark, he sentences his enemies as well as people who make deals with him to [[AndIMustScream eternal torments]]. Fathering many children with witches, he [[OffingTheOffspring kills those]] who are neither humans nor witches, as he [[WouldHurtAChild killed Grimalkin’s baby son]], earning her hatred. He prevents Bill Arkwright’s ghost parents [[BarredFromTheAfterlife from reaching the light]], condemning them to haunt their mill. When the witches release him from his plane, his mere presence on Earth causes many wars. He [[KillAndReplace murders and takes the appearance]] of the bargeman Matthew Guilbert in order to lure Tom and his master into a trap. After failing to convert [[TheHero Thomas Ward]] to his cause, he challenges him to face his daughter Morwena with the threat of killing his friends if he refuses or gets killed. He later tricks Tom into [[DealWithTheDevil selling his soul]] and when his other daughter [[AntiAntiChrist Alice]] prevents him from claiming it, he [[AbusiveParents curses her to share her friend’s fate]]. He submits her to unspeakable torture and allows Tom to hear her cries. When Grimalkin [[EyeScream takes one of his eyes]], he [[BadBoss threatens his followers with eternal damnation]]. Finally, he sends the Vampire God Siscoi against Tom and sends his agents to murder Tom’s brother James [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]].
* ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'' set out to provide a grim version of the Myth/KingArthur legend and introduces several monstrous figures in it:
** Gundleus is one of the first villains of the series. Initially a lord sworn to King Uther, Gundleus is also wicked and ambitious and has no intent of honoring his vows to serve his dead king's infant son Mordred. After the death of Uther, Gundleus approaches the baby with its young mother and then murders her after demanding she kiss his sword for protection, before stabbing the infant as well (unknown to him, the infant Mordred was swapped out with a decoy). He then proceeds to rape Merlin's disciple Nimue in retribution for her attitude towards him and rips out one of her eyes for spite. Even his affection for his lowborn lover proves to be a farce as he abandons her when he gets a better betrothal offer.
** King Dwirnach of Ireland is a vicious tyrant aiming to conquer and kill. What sets Dwirnach apart from the other warlords of the series is his love of ColdBloodedTorture as a hobby. Dwirnach prefers to take his enemies alive, so he can spend his time slowly flaying them. He even keeps the skins as perverse trophies and threatens to both rape and flay the hero Derfel's lover Princess Ceinwyn solely to satisfy his lust for pain.
** King Mark of Cornwall is well known for marrying much younger women [[TheBluebeard and killing them later when he's tired of them.]] When one of his betrothed, the young Isolde, escapes Mark with his nephew Tristan, Mark hunts them to Arthur's lands and demands satisfaction. Unable to break the peace [[ToBeLawfulOrGood Arthur is forced to compromise his morals]] by allowing Mark's "justice," allowing Tristan to engage in a fight he cannot win against Mark's champion who reluctantly kills the valiant knight. With Isolde back in his clutches, Mark immediately has her burned alive on the beach by where her beloved died before returning to Cornwall with smug satisfaction to continue his practices.
* ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'': [[TheChessmaster Nidrus Hellebore]], Lord of House Hellebore and the shadow dictator of the Faerie lands, maintains power by murder, torture, labor camps and treachery. Having [[TheUsurper usurped power]] from King Oberon and Queen Titania, Hellebore keeps them in an induced coma to leech off their energies and keep the kingdom functioning. With human belief in the supernatural waning, Hellebore uses numerous faeries in power plants to drain them of their magic. Ready to cement his rule, Hellebore unleashes dragons he had secretly kept to annihilate a rival house, resulting in massive casualties. When his co-conspirator's daughter Poppy allies with the hero of the novel, a changeling named Theo, Hellebore has her arrested and tortured, and reveals that his ultimate plan involves sacrificing Theo's soul to be devoured. He also [[BadBoss offers a blood sacrifice of one of his own men]], and when he hears the goblin race is rebelling against his rule, he furiously orders the slaughter of an entire generation. Wanting nothing more than to rule as a brutal autocrat, Hellebore considers no crime, no matter how heinous, too great to achieve his selfish goals.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': This duo from ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsTheOriginalSeries The Prophecies Begin]]'':
** [[EvilOverlord Brokenstar]] is established as the books' first BigBad when, early on, it is shown that [[ChildSoldiers he sends kits under 6 months old]] against full grown warriors, tries to kidnap kits from other Clans when his own all die from his harsh training, and forces a Clan out of their territory. When he is blinded by [=ThunderClan=] and given shelter as their prisoner, he still plots with Tigerclaw to kill Bluestar and take over the clan, [[UngratefulBastard even though the same clan protected him]] from [=WindClan=] and [=ShadowClan=] when they tried to kill him. His own mother, Yellowfang, eventually kills him for the safety of TheClan.
** The final villain of the original series, [[AxCrazy Scourge]], proves to be even worse than [[BigBad Tigerstar/Tigerclaw]]. A former kittypet-turned-rogue leading a gang of stray cats calling themselves "[=BloodClan=]," Scourge decorates his collar with the teeth of those he's killed and reinforces his claws with the claws of dogs, promoting a [[TheSocialDarwinist survival-of-the-fittest philosophy]] within [=BloodClan=]'s ranks and leaving any cats who can't fend for themselves--kits included--to die. Tigerstar invites [=BloodClan=] into the territory of the forest in the interest of an alliance; Scourge is quick to backstab Tigerstar by cutting him open, calmly watching him bleed out and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die an agonizing death nine times in a row]]. Scourge declares the forest his and attempts to drive out the other Clans under the threat of total war, and ultimately leads [=BloodClan=] into battle against the other Clans with the intent to wipe everyone else out and take complete control of the forest. In ''Secrets of the Clans'', Scourge orders Barley's brothers to murder Violet in cold blood, denying Barley a chance to take his sister's place due to his desire for a more sadistic punishment. Scourge's diminutive stature belied a murderous feline interested solely in power.
* "Literature/TheWashingtonians", by Creator/BentleyLittle: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington himself is exposed as a monstrous and wicked [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] who skinned and [[ChildEater ate children alive]], as revealed from a letter the hero finds along with utensils made from the bones of his victims. Washington slaughtered men for his meals, forming the Washingtonian {{cult}} to continue the practice of devouring innocents, commissioning a portrait of him and his concubines ripping a victim apart while alive and screaming. Especially fond of the flesh of young virgins, Washington's [[VillainousLegacy legacy]] survives through the Washingtonian cult to modern day, who continue the practice of brutal cannibalism.
* ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'':
** [[JerkassGods Artor]], The Plow God and the {{God| Is Evil}} of the Acharites, was once a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who saw the Land of Tencendor and decided he wanted it for himself. To that end, he [[HaveYouSeenMyGod imprisoned the Star Gods]] and led the humans, whom he called Acharites, into a racist war against the Icarii and the Avar. When the Acharites won the war he proceeded to have them cut nearly all of the Avar's forests down to reduce the power of a competing goddess, [[MotherNature the Mother]]. When a prophecy threatens the destruction of his people, he does nothing, not seeing it as his problem and blaming rival gods [[NeverMyFault when naturally his people's belief in him begins to fade]]. He shows no care at all for the well-being of his worshippers, enjoying torturing one to give him power, stepping on another, and brainwashing a village to perform blood sacrifices in his name before he is killed.
** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains TheAntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Sheol]], the Demon of Despair, is one of the six Timekeeper demons and TheDragon of the group. While the body of her boss, Qeteb, remains incomplete, she is in charge. In the past she along with her fellow Demons destroyed hundreds if not thousands of worlds, including the Earth. When her and her fellow demons first break through the Star Gate into the land of Tencendor she demands the honor of sowing madness through the land first. [[TheCorrupter Under her influence]], thousands of people lose their minds, including a woman who strangles her toddler with a clothesline and then kills herself in despair. Leading the demons, Sheol then proceeds to rebuild her boss's body, fouling the five sacred lakes of Tencendor in the process. When she and her Demons capture [=WolfStar=] trying to use their magic against them, Sheol orders each of her fellow demons to rape him repeatedly for their amusement. When her trial happens, she is offered the choice to repent or choose to be evil, and she freely chooses evil and torments Faraday, the one giving her the test.
** [[ForTheEvulz Qeteb]], the Midday Demon, is [[BigBad the boss]] of the Timekeeper Demons. In the past he and the other demons ended life on thousands of worlds, including the Earth. When he is reformed in Tencendor after sustaining mortal wounds that destroyed his body, he immediately drives every creature and being not under magical protection insane. He is a BadBoss, frequently beating his own demons and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment grabbing Sheol by the hair and throwing her into a wall minutes after his resurrection]]. He repeatedly rapes a soulless woman and later has one of his demons possess her, and taunts Faraday about raping and dismembering her. His ultimate goal is the cessation of the Star Dance, which [[OmnicidalManiac would end all life in the universe]].
* ''We Are The Dead'', by Mike Shackle: [[{{Sadist}} Darus Monsuta]] is one of Ergil's Chosen and the vilest servant of the brutal Emperor Raaku. [[AmbitionIsEvil Seeking to advance]] in the view of his liege, Darus leads the hunt for rogue mage Aasgod upon Ergil's conquest of Jia and the defeat of Jia's elite Shulka forces. An accomplished healer, [[TortureTechnician Darus]] is fond of taking captives and torturing them before healing their wounds magically, only to torture them to the point of death to do it all over until he is given his answers. Upon receiving them, he tortures his victims to death anyways. Darus seemingly kills Aasgod and tortures the rebel leader Jax until he breaks by regrowing Jax's lost arm and [[AnArmAndALeg cutting it off]] multiple times before even [[SiblingMurder murdering his own sister]] in a fit of paranoid fury.
* ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'':
** ''Castle Storm'': [[MeaningfulName Grand Inquisitor Torca Marda]] is an elegantly vicious stoat who once vied for the throne of Welkin in rivalry to his cousin Prince Poynt, outdoing even his cousin in evil by advocating weasel genocide throughout Welkin and founding a [[ReligionOfEvil corrupt religion]] that enforced mass torture and execution for all perceived heresy. No less dull in his technique as a TortureTechnician after being banished, Torca Marda takes residence in Stormtown where he continues to torture animals for pleasure and imposes the new religion across the entire town. Seeing the potential to assassinate Poynt and take the throne after he gets back into his good graces by handing him Sylver and his outlaw band, Torca Marda murders Sylver's second-in-command Icham by sabotaging a fair tournament and tries to hinder the heroes' efforts to stop a man-eating dragonfly from devouring all of Stormtown, eagerly throwing away dozens of lives in his attempt to either execute or capture Sylver and his friends.
** [[EvilSorcerer Flaggatis]] is a relentless stoat who longs to take over all of Welkin. After amassing a colossal horde of rats, Flaggatis and his minions roam around Welkin pillaging surrounding nations and laying siege to Castle Rayn. Flaggatis repeatedly torments Prince Poynt and his entourage with his magic spells while his rats continue to ransack the country and kill Lord Ragnar in the ensuing chaos. When his plans fail, Flaggatis attempts to kill Sylver and his gang out at sea, not caring about the sheer amount of rats he loses during his voyage. Centuries after his alleged death, Flaggatis reappears in Welkin as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] named Count Flistagga. With several vampire voles at his disposal, he sends multiple groups of voles to Welkin in hopes of turning everyone into a vampire; Flistagga himself turns or kills several innocent civilians, including Mayor Poynt's sister, Sybil, and a young child in the streets. Fueled by his hatred, Flaggatis devoted his entire life to causing as much turmoil in Welkin as possible.
* ''[=WerewolveSS=]'' by Jerry & Sharon Ahern: [[{{Ghostapo}} Dr. William Stein]] is an [[StateSec SS]] colonel turned werewolf fanatically devoted to restoring [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]]. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Stein captured a werewolf by using captive villagers as bait, then experimented on it for years. Stein then turned himself and his men into werewolves and gleefully slaughtered dozens of Allied soldiers the one time he got the chance, leaving only two survivors. When one survivor recognizes him, Stein murders the man before sending his men to kill his daughter Dannie, both to cover loose ends and out of sheer spite. When he's finally found out, Stein simply proceeds with his plan--having infected thousands of unwitting victims with his werewolf serum, he remotely transforms them and looses both his Nazi werewolf troops and the unwilling werewolves on the towns surrounding his base, killing and burning indiscriminately while turning yet more people into werewolves against their will. Murdering tens of thousands of people and more than happy to kill millions more, all in the name of building a global Nazi empire, Stein proved himself an irredeemable beast [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters even in human form]].
* ''Literature/{{Wereworld}}'':
** [[TheEvilPrince Prince Lucas]] the werelion is Drew's half-brother and everything Drew is not. An apprentice {{Necromancer}}, he began to lose his sanity after he murdered Lord Broghan in front of his cousin, and former fiancée, Lady Gretchen, under Opal's instructions. He goes downhill the moment he murders his father Leopold under the other Catlords' orders. His interest in BlackMagic leads him to work with the Wylderman Darkheart to create the [[AnimalisticAbomination Wyld Wolves]], who slaughter the Sturmlands' army, an act that [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts the other Werelords]]. He then murders Duke Henrik to "save" Lord Onyx after he honorably accepted his defeat at his CombatByChampion. When he finds out that Gretchen's in the Dalelands he leads his Wyld Wolves in a bloody campaign to get her, killing several innocents in the process. He later [[WouldHurtAChild kills Lord Milo]] in front of Trent, partially eating him. When his grandfather Leon punishes him for killing his father and tries to get him to regain some honor, he murders his grandfather as well. When he arrives to Icegarden to kill Hector for killing his mother, [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Vincent of Redmire]] retorts that he's only here to settle a petty grudge towards Hector for always being smarter than him.
** [[FullBoarAction Vincent the wereboar]], the twin brother of Baron Hector, begins by inadvertently causing his father's death and then killing himself in an attempt to murder Hector. Capable of remorse and hesitation in life, Vincent's redeeming qualities vanish when he becomes a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent vile]]. Vincent slowly [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] Hector into a murderer and torturer of innocents, selling out the Dalelands to the wicked Prince Lucas and seizing Icegarden through Hector. Vincent devours the spirit of Hector's old mentor, torturing Duchess Freya for weeks on end, and accidentally but remorselessly pushes Hector into murdering the totally innocent Queen Amelie. Finally sick of his brother's hesitance, Vincent overtakes and fully [[DemonicPossession possesses]] Hector himself, rechristens himself Lord Blackhand, and begins systematically murdering and resurrecting all of his own allies as the undead. Vincent starts resurrecting the dead by the thousands to slaughter all in their wake, decorating Icegarden's walls with the bodies of those he's slaughtered and driving his legions in a crusade to destroy whatever cannot be dominated. The series's finest demonstration of FromNobodyToNightmare, Vincent of Redmire eventually dies as one of the greatest threats to have ever scourged the Seven Realms.
** First 2 books & fourth book: [[SnakesAreSinister Vala the wereserpent]] is the [[AGodAmI self-proclaimed goddess]] of the cannibalistic Wyldermen, who offer her human and werecreature alike. Defeated by Drew, she plotted her revenge against him and those he cares about. First she [[DeadPersonImpersonation killed and impersonated]] the crone Baba Korga, pretending to be an ally of Whitley and using her to enter Five Oaks unnoticed. During her "[[FauxAffablyEvil friendly talk]]" with Whitley, she revealed her biggest atrocity: During the journey, she devoured innocent Romari children when no one was watching. She then explains her intentions of turning the Dyrewood into her realm, where she and the Wyldermen can kill and eat with impunity. She also mentioned her plan of using Whitley as bait to attract Drew, and in an act of "mercy", she promises to kill Whitley quickly after she had dispatched Drew. Prideful, petty, and convinced that she had the right to kill and devour whenever she wanted, she [[FantasticRacism saw humans as nothing but food and other Therianthropes as weaklings]].
** ''Storm of Sharks'': [[ThreateningShark Deadeye the wereshark]], the captain of the ''Hellhound'' in the employ of Lord Ghul, makes a name for himself on the White Sea as a practitioner of brutal violence and rampant [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. Attacking the smuggler ship ''Lucky Shot'' upon learning of the presence of werelords on it, Deadeye slaughters many of the crew himself and eats its captain alive before taking those who remain as his prisoners and slaves. Holding a [[StalkerWithACrush special affinity]] for the werelord Whitley, Deadeye subjects Whitley to his perverted attentions whilst keeping her collared, informing Whitley's intention to make her his bride in between subtle hints of violence. Upon being attacked by the ''Maelstrom'', Deadeye snaps and starts massacring both enemy soldiers and [[BadBoss his own men]], brutally tearing apart Captain Ransome's young friend Hob shortly before his own death.
* ''Wetbones'', by John Shirley:
** Ephram Pixie is a chuckling little fat man and a rogue of the Akishra cult, a group of twisted hedonists who use the power of the Akishra to sate their twisted impulses. [[TheUnfettered Unwilling to be fettered by the Akishra]], Ephram severed his ties with the cult, pledges himself to a being known as the "Nameless Spirit", and instead uses [[MindControl his powers]] to control the minds of his victims and murder them in a variety of horrific ways, even having the Spirit itself occasionally tear his victims apart itself. Coming across a young woman named Constance, Ephram is captivated by her innocence and puts her under his thrall, keeping Constance as his SexSlave and tool while forcing her to have sex with people against her will before having Constance hack them apart in a bid to completely destroy her purity. Even without the resources of the cult, Ephram is a jovial psychopath [[TheHedonist dedicated only to the satisfaction of his personal desires]] and fashions himself the "master of his own destiny", intent on murdering and raping at his own will forever with no one and nothing to stop him.
** Samuel Denver, known better as the "More Man", is an enigmatic producer from Malibu who secretly runs the Akishra cult and all of the atrocities that happen through it. Luring in droves of victims for the purpose of the cult's rituals, Denver forcefully infests them with the Akishra worms and [[MindRape rewires their brains]] to associate agony with pleasure through them, before forcing them to engage in twisted rituals of rape, torture, murder, and debauchery to feed off of their pleasure. Already responsible for countless acts of unwilling mutilation and violation through the victims of the cult, Denver personally decorates the ranch from which he bases his operations with furniture [[HumanResources made from the bodies]] of his victims; forces a couple to have violent sex until they simply collapse of exhaustion; kidnaps the friend of one of his victims before having him tortured to death and [[GenuineHumanHide stitching his face into bedding]]; summoning the Akishra Magnus--the "Nameless Spirit" Ephram worshiped--and watching as it [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves tears the traitorous Pixie apart]]; and finally revealing his ultimate intention to bring the Akishra all the way into physical reality and spread them all across the world.
* ''Literature/WhaleTalk'': Rich Marshall is a thuggish hillbilly whose [[DomesticAbuse abuse]] has left his wife Alicia a BrokenBird and rendered his five-year-old biracial stepdaughter Heidi a psychological wreck. Already a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, sexist, ableist pig]] who perpetuates prejudiced attitudes in high school students through his alumni group and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoots animals just for the pleasure of killing them]], Rich convinces Heidi that in order to win his love, she needs to scrape off her colored skin. This results in Heidi taking a steel-tipped Brillo pad to her body and attempting to skin herself simply to win Rich's approval. When Alicia finally presses a restraining order against him, Rich decides the appropriate course is to try and shoot Heidi in a crowded baseball game, forcing the father of protagonist T.J. Jones to [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]].
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the worst of [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheShadowAndDarkfriends the Forsaken]]:
** [[TheAntichrist Ishamael]]--aka Elan Morin Tedronai, Ba'alzamon and Moridin--is a scholar and philosopher who determined that [[TheAntiGod the Dark One]] was destined to triumph over good at the end of time. With that in mind, Ishamael signed on with the Dark One's forces, eventually driving his former friend, Lews Therin, [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]]. Sealed in Shayol Ghul, Ishamael managed to free his spirit, and eventually his body. Ishamael makes the life of Lews Therin's reincarnation a living hell while in his Ba'alzamon identity, tormenting him with nightmares and doing everything in his power to make him miserable, while sending his troops to lay waste to the world. Following his apparent death, he is resurrected in a new identity--Moridin--and takes over leadership of the Dark One's armies, brutally punishing the rest of the Forsaken when they fail. Unlike the rest of the Forsaken, who think they will [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]] when the war is over, Ishamael believes that the Dark One is an OmnicidalManiac, and is perfectly fine with this.
** [[TheDreaded Semirhage]], one of the most terrifying of the Forsaken, was once the most gifted healer of her age, but also a cold {{sadist}} who [[TortureTechnician enjoyed torturing]] those she healed as "payment". Eagerly joining the Dark One, Semirhage's territories were marked by hideous torture, with Semirhage [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting]] with ways to cause agony, such as replacing human blood with similar substances. Semirhage massacres the court of the Seanchan Empire, personally torturing the Empress to death, and tries to [[MindRape emotionally destroy]] Rand Al'Thor before the last battle.
* ''Literature/WhenAutumnBleedsIntoWinter'', by Jeff Strand: Gerald Martin and his accomplice Griffin are a pair of brutal {{serial killer}}s who [[WouldHurtAChild murder children]] in rural areas and move on to continue their activities in areas where there will not be much scrutiny. Killing the friend of 14-year-old protagonist Curtis, Martin [[PragmaticVillainy makes an uneasy truce with Curtis on the basis of mutually assured destruction]], only to murder another young boy to [[FrameUp frame Curtis]] for it. When Curtis moves against him, Martin and Griffin kidnap Curtis's parents to torture them to death and plan to murder the kids as well before moving to the city for easier hunting grounds.
* ''Whistling in the Dark'', by Lesley Kagan: [[WolfInSheepsClothing Bobby Brophy]] is a playground counselor who, underneath his charming facade, is actually a disturbed [[WouldHurtAChild child molester and murderer]]. Having kidnapped, raped, and murdered the niece of a local police officer the previous summer, Bobby returns to the neighborhood and quickly returns to his old habits. Abducting a third grader, Bobby molests the girl before strangling her to death, leaving her naked body outside for the authorities to discover. Setting his sights on his latest victim, Sally O'Malley, Bobby makes numerous attempts to kidnap her, barely failing each time. When Sally and her friend, Mary Lane, search Bobby's cabin and find evidence to incriminate him, Bobby captures her and drags her off to the lagoon where he murdered his previous victims, threatening to kill Sally's younger sister, Troo, if she does not cooperate. Once they reach the lagoon, Bobby immediately attempts to molest Sally, taunting her during the act and boasting that he will send her to join her deceased father in death.
* ''White is the Coldest Colour'' & ''When Evil Calls Your Name'', by John Nicholl: [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. David Galbraith]] is an absolutely vile [[WouldHurtAChild child molester]] and sexual abuser, using his position as a child psychologist to target boys as young as three years old for abuse, rape, and even horrific torture, before shaming and humiliating the children into keeping silent about it. Galbraith subjects [[DomesticAbuse his wife Cynthia]]--who he gained by murdering her then-fiancé--and [[AbusiveParents two daughters]] to horrible physical and [[MindRape mental]] torments out of hatred at his children not being boys he can molest, and runs a massive pedophile ring in his free time that he runs his own daughters through. Often [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing small animals]] in front of children to further terrify them into compliance, Galbraith tortures one of his victims to death and then [[DrivenToSuicide tears down his accomplice into suicide]] to eliminate him as a witness. Upon choosing his latest victim Anthony, Galbraith, as revenge against the boy's family for thwarting his many attempts at abusing Anthony, bludgeons his mother to near-death then plans to torture the child to death, filming the whole thing on video and then sending the footage to his family. When Cynthia tries to save Anthony from Galbraith, Galbraith responds by brutally beating the woman into submission and then promising to subject her to torture for the rest of her life for crossing him.
* ''White Knuckle'', by Eric Red: [[{{Sadist}} Roy Tremble]], aka "White Knuckle", is a SerialKiller trucker active for four decades. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Killing dogs]] as a child and graduating to people, Tremble begins to abduct women in his big rig, torturing them to [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming savor their screams]] and pain before he kills them and keeps pieces of them as trophies. Often targeting [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]], Tremble abducts anyone he can get away with, killing multiple women over the course of the book. When finally killed by Special Agent Sharon Ormsby, it is revealed that Tremble had claimed at least 500 victims in his years of murder.
* ''Literature/WhoFearsDeath'': General Daib is the true ruler of the Nuru and the [[ArchnemesisDad father of heroine Onyewonsu]] by the [[ChildByRape rape of her mother]]. Having promoted a strategy of weaponizing rape against the Okeke people to destroy their culture, Daib also leads [[FinalSolution brutal genocidal and ethnic cleansing to destroy the Okeke]], using ChildSoldiers as well. Daib, upon meeting Onyewonsu, attempts to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her]], promising to find her mother and rape her again to obtain a son and heir he can train as a sorcerer to continue the extermination of the Okeke.
* ''Literature/WiddershinsAdventures'':
** ''Thief's Covenant'': The Apostle--Claude--is a [[PsychoSupporter follower of Cevora]], and seeks every opportunity to increase his god's, and his own, power. Summoning a demon, Claude orders it to massacre the followers of Olgun, a god who Claude plans to use to make Cevora stronger. When a teenage girl named [[TheHero Widdershins]] survives this incident, Claude ensures she is [[FrameUp framed for the killings]]. After assassins [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]], Claude painfully uses them as sacrifices to summon another demon who he sends to kill Widdershins. Killing a prominent noble and the Archbishop, knowing it could cause riots, The Apostle frames Shins for the crime, forces her to bring him to anymore Olgun worshippers, then orders his demon to kill any potential worshippers in the area before making one last attempt to cut Shins down.
** ''False Covenant'': [[HumanoidAbomination Iruoch]] stands out as monstrous even among his fellow [[TheFairFolk Faeries]]. Attracted to the fear the city of Davillon was experiencing, Iruoch began killing and eating anyone he came across. Having a [[ChildEater sweet tooth for children]], Iruoch finds a small group of kids, eats most of them, then kills the rest before repeating the process on an even larger group of noble children. Iruoch later kills a thief who he had strong-armed into helping him, then attacks Widdershins and her friends, murdering numerous bystanders in the scuffle. Before being beaten, Iruoch murders Shins' LoveInterest, Julian Bouniard, and happily taunts her about it afterwards.
* ''Literature/WildCards'': [[DiabolicalMastermind The Astronomer]] was an old man with powers based on ritualistic magic, having willingly erased all the memories of his own life and starting a search for power which would lead him to the cult of the Egyptian Freemasons where he would become a high ranking member. Using his position to kidnap several women and use them as {{human sacrifice}}s in depraved sexual rituals to empower himself, the Astronomer unwillingly gained the attention of heroic Aces that raided the Freemason temple. Leaving the cult leader to die in the raid to take the leadership himself, the Astronomer plans his revenge against the heroic Aces. He carries this out on the 40th anniversary of the Wild Card Day--where his servants injured and killed other Aces--in a murder spree while he personally dismembers Kid Dinosaur in front of his father and the general public. An Ace whose powers are literally based on his own depravity, the Astronomer was the first BigBad of the series and one of its more monstrous.
* ''Literature/TheWildOnes'': [[CatsAreMean Sixclaw]] is [[BigBad Titus]]'s [[TheDragon brutal mercenary]] who [[PsychoForHire enjoys killing for sport]]. After torturing and eating an innocent woodpecker, Sixclaw leads the attack on [[TheHero Kit's]] home, where he kills Kit's parents [[WouldHurtAChild and nearly Kit himself]]. Upon finding out that Kit has arrived in [[TheCityNarrows Ankle Snap City]], he assaults a few animals inside the local bakery, before nearly killing Kit again, along with his uncle, Rik, and his best friend, Eeni. Later, after the city's religious leader, Martyn, is taken hostage, Sixclaw assaults some of Martyn's acolytes and forces them to print out an eviction notice for the residents of the city, or else he'll kill Martyn. During the battle between Titus's forces and the Wild Ones, Sixclaw nearly eats Martyn, drops Eeni into the sewer hoping [[SewerGator Gayle]] will eat her, and physically beats up Kit once more, [[KickTheDog taunting him about the death of his parents]]. Once Titus gives him the order to kill Kit and massacre the whole town, Sixclaw is more than happy to comply.
* ''Literature/TheWindUpBirdChronicle'': [[AmbiguouslyHuman Boris Gromov]], better known under his chosen epithet "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Boris the Manskinner]]", is a well-spoken, well-mannered [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre NKVD]] officer and right-hand to Lavrenty Beria himself. In his chosen profession, Boris is responsible for the mass liquidation, torture, and execution of political dissidents, earning his namesake from his proclivity for having men slowly FlayedAlive by his silent Mongolian aide. Tossed under the bus for torturing a communist politician to death through the application of red-hot irons to the man's every orifice, Boris finds himself in a Siberian gulag and quickly starts [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating his way into power]], having people tortured and killed in giant numbers, even a [[WouldHurtAChild seven-year-old child]] killed with his parents ForcedToWatch. Boris finds himself confronted by Lt. Mamiya, a Japanese man whom years earlier Boris had flayed the comrade of and forced Mamiya to watch before tossing Mamiya to languish at the bottom of a well, and allows Mamiya to have a shot at killing him, only for the bullets to pass through empty air. Boris exits the novel with one final [[KickTheDog spiteful gesture]], placing a curse upon the already war-ravaged Mamiya to live the rest of his days in misery, unable to love and unable to be loved.
* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'':
** [[ManipulativeBitch Princess Blister]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], sociopathic dragon who is largely responsible for starting the War of [[Characters/WingsOfFireSandWings SandWing]] Succession. When Blister's mother, Queen Oasis, goes to hunt the scavengers who stole some of her treasure, Blister refused to send her backup, [[MurderByInaction thus leading to her death]]. She later hid all of Oasis's treasure, pinning the blame on scavengers, and started arguing with her sisters, Burn and Blaze, over who would be the next [=SandWing=] queen. After Blister began to amass an army in secret, Burn and Blaze gathered their own forces and fought each other, resulting in a war that led to the deaths of thousands. During the war, Blister frequently manipulated other dragons into fighting her battles or assassinating her foes, wasting no time [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying or even killing her allies]] the moment she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deemed them useless]]. She even tried to have the five Dragonets of Destiny murdered simply because they hindered her plans and refused to select her to be the next queen. When the Dragonets try to force Burn, Blister, and Blaze to have a peaceful meeting with each other to end the war, Blister kills Burn, and attempts to kill Blaze minutes later.
** [[TheCaligula Queen Scarlet]] is the demented ruler of the [[Characters/WingsOfFireSkyWings SkyWing]] tribe. After she gained power, Scarlet ensured she remained queen by killing off various members of her family who could acquire the throne, using animus magic to turn her daughter, Tourmaline, into the submissive Ruby, and killing or threatening her loyal minions just to keep them under her control. As queen, she opened a gladiator arena where [[BeastlyBloodsports dragons fought to the death]]--sometimes on a daily basis--under the false promise of being freed. After adopting [[ChildSoldier Peril]], she forces her to kill seven dragonets while they were still in their eggs, before raising her to become a remorseless killer who murdered anyone Scarlet wanted. When Scarlet is wounded by Glory and is dethroned by Ruby, she uses her remaining resources to exact revenge on the Dragonets of Destiny by manipulating Icicle and Winter to kill them or else she'll murder their brother Hailstorm. When her plans for revenge fail and Scarlet reunites with Peril and her father, the three of them attack the [=SkyWing=] Palace and take Ruby's son, Cliff, hostage in order to make Ruby surrender, with Scarlet intending to turn Cliff into a weapon like Peril after she kills Ruby.
* ''Literature/WitchAndWizard'': [[BigBad The One Who Is The One]], deciding all life was meant to cow before him after being shunned for his affinity of magic, established the New Order, became its [[ANaziByAnyOtherName brutal dictator]], and quickly turned his new kingdom into a hellish realm for all the inhabitants, executing anyone who practices any form of magic or art to kick off his reign; this [[{{Hypocrite}} despite using magic and owning works of art himself]]. Massacring and vivisecting men, women, and children by the hundreds for both experimentation and fun, The One simultaneously bombs and unleashes plagues onto civilian populations to wipe out any rebels against him. [[BadBoss His own minions]] and [[AbusiveParents son Pearce]] faring no better, The One sadistically executes [[YouHaveFailedMe those who fail him]], has no concern for them getting caught in the crossfire of his plans, and abuses and eventually turns the latter into a vessel for his own soul. As the ArchEnemy of the Allgood siblings, The One tortures and murders their friends and parents in front of them and torments them throughout the series. When his plan to "purge" the world of those unwilling to worship him fails, The One attempts to unleash the undead souls of his victims onto humanity to wipe it out then rule over the ashes that remain. A psychopath who [[ControlFreak hated everything that he wasn't in full control of]], The One is one of the most wicked young adult fiction villains to have ever been conceived.
* ''Witch Hunt'', by L.R. Deney: [[BigBad Karl Dunkelstein]] is the would-be ruler of the ascendant [[ThoseWackyNazis Fourth Reich]]. Devoting himself to the [[{{Ghostapo}} Black Sun]], Karl initiates a kidnapping of "undesirables", people of color, gays, and lesbians, etc. and has them subjected to mistreatment and torture to prepare for a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]]. Intending on murdering them in ritualized pain, Karl prepares to bring about the dawn of a new Nazi regime where he will exterminate all who stand in his way.
* ''Literature/TheWitches'': [[WickedWitch The Grand High Witch]] is the ruler of the [[ChildHater child-hating]] witches, and the most malevolent of them all. A vicious demon with a propensity for [[BadBoss abusing and murdering her own underlings]], the Grand High Witch has spent decades teaching her followers ways to [[WouldHurtAChild dispose of as many children]] as possible. Unsatisfied with her followers' progress, the Grand High Witch schemes to wipe out every child in England by utilizing a potion to [[BalefulPolymorph transform them into mice]], then watch as they are killed by their own oblivious parents and teachers. Demonstrating this on one hapless boy, the Grand High Witch follows this up by kidnapping the main character and inflicting upon him the same fate. With a cruelty unmatched by her underlings, the Grand High Witch instills terror in everyone who knows of her, friend and foe alike.
* ''[[Literature/NightWorld Witchlight]]'': [[DraconicAbomination Azhdeha]] is an ancient dragon who tried to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]] with his fellows before being sealed off. Returning, Azhdeha plots to kill Illiana, the child of wild magic and [[DarkMessiah condemn the world to death and rebirth]]. To this end, Azhdeha brings the shapeshifters under his control, has the witch matriarch killed and disguises himself to kill the heroes, while having shapeshifters initiate uprisings across the nation to kill many, many people, not caring who throws their lives away in pursuit of his goal.
* ''Without Warning'', by David Rosenbelt: [[SerialKiller The Predictor]] of the capsule killings, real name Randall Dempsey, was once a journalist [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse accidentally left behind]] by Jake Robbins in Afghanistan during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. The Predictor escaped from the Taliban but harbored hatred for Jake as a war hero and devised a plan to ruin Jake's life. The Predictor set a fire to a building in a low-income part of town, killing 11 people, and went on to kill Jake's ex-wife, Jenny, framing a man he had killed in prison to cover his tracks. He created a cryptic message on a capsule he buried alongside a man he murdered. When the capsule was dug up, the Predictor starts his killing spree by murdering people connected to Jake, working alongside the media to try and [[FrameUp pin the murders on Jake]]. The Predictor abducts Katie, Jake's friend, and continues his killings until he murders the mayor. When Jake finds Katie, the Predictor holds them at gunpoint and gloats about his plan to fly a plane containing C3 explosives into a nuclear plant to spread waste across a nearby river to kill millions and frame Jake. Before initiating his final plan, he suffocated an elderly man to death to cover up loose ends. The Predictor only cared about making Jake into an infamous person, despite cementing himself as a monstrous individual.
* ''Literature/WizardsHall'': The evil wizard [[MeaningfulName Nettle]] was one of the founders of Wizard's Hall, eventually getting kicked out due to his aggressive behavior. [[DisproportionateRetribution In retaliation]], Nettle created a beast made out of the founders' strongest emotions, plotting to eventually have the beast [[ToServeMan devour]] the entire school. When Nettle returns, he hypnotizes the teachers and students into walking over to the beast one by one and letting themselves get devoured while [[AndIMustScream they are fully aware and powerless to do anything]].
* ''The Wolf and the Woodsman'', by Ava Reid: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Nandor]] is the [[BastardBastard wicked bastard brother]] of Prince Gaspar who hungers for the throne of their father King Janos. With a sickening hatred towards the Pagan and Yehuli groups, Nandor kills and tortures them whenever he can get away with it. [[{{Patricide}} Murdering his father]] to take control, Nandor plans an ethnic cleansing where the Yehuli are sent away to their fates as he [[FinalSolution leads a crusade to exterminate the pagans]] and attempts to even [[CainAndAbel murder his own brother]].
* ''Film/WolfCreek'' prequel novels have, besides Mick Taylor himself (who can be found at Monster/OtherMedia), these two:
** ''Origin'': [[DirtyOldMan Jerry "The Fiddler"]] is one of four {{serial killer}}s that Mick Taylor investigates while attempting to reclaim his knife. Jerry is an [[FatBastard obese]] pedophile who [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[WouldHurtAChild kills]] children. Jerry lives in an abandoned mine that he has booby-trapped to kill intruders (we see the skeleton of one of his adult victims). When Mick enters Jerry's home, he sees Jerry raping a little girl, and finds trophies and corpses of three of his past victims, and also sees Jerry [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill a dog]]. After Mick murders a touring couple, Jerry and the other killers decide to kill Mick out of revenge for allowing the bodies to be discovered, which brought police into the area and made it more likely for the killings of the other killers to be discovered. When the killers attack Mick’s home, Jerry tries to rape Mick's girlfriend Rose (who Mick had tied up to use as rape bait to lure the killers into a trap). Just before Mick kills Jerry, he tells Mick that he should have killed the two truckers who discovered the couples bodies, stating "You never let anyone go."
** ''Desolation Game'': [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Atkin]], Mick's superior during his time in the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]], [[EvilMentor trained Mick, helping him go from an "amateur" to a "professional" killer]]. Atkin cut a deal with the elder of a starving village, so they would get scraps of food in exchange for letting Atkin rape their women. Atkin introduced Mick to this practice and let him join in. Mick and Atkin were both {{sadist}}ic, often [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the women. One of Mick's rape victims ended up dying, but this did not stop Mick and Atkin. One night, two men stumble upon them during their rape session. Mick and Atkin shot the two men dead thinking they were enemy soldiers, showing no remorse when they learned they weren't. Atkin taught Mick the "head on a stick" technique, severing the spine of a terrified soldier cowering in his pajamas. Atkin let Mick stab the already paralyzed man in the back again, and [[OffWithHisHead saw off his head]] and [[DecapitationPresentation mount it on a spike]]. When Mick and Atkin returned to the village, the elder scolded them for killing the two men earlier and [[NeverMessWithGranny wacked Atkin with her cane]]. Atkin snapped the cane, [[SlashedThroat stabbed her in the throat]] with it, and raped and killed all the women he and Mick could. Atkin later tried to kill Mick [[LeaveNoWitnesses out of fear that he would talk about what they did]] despite their VillainousFriendship.
* ''Literature/WolfLand'', by Jonathan Janz:
** [[BigBad Divna Antonov]] is the queen of werewolves and their [[MonsterProgenitor monstrous progenitor]]. [[AncientEvil Centuries old]], Divna coerced her sisters into joining her before slaughtering their village and slipping into legend. Killing at will, Divna occasionally emerges to massacre towns and settlements, enjoying [[WouldHurtAChild preying on children]] especially. Returning in the town of Lakeview, Divna arrives to cull any werewolves acting without authority before forcing newly-made wolf Weezer to submit to her and leads a slaughter at a bar before attacking an amusement park to kill hundreds. Focusing on heroine Savannah, Divna gleefully stalks her for sport after [[CopKiller killing the cops]] with her, planning to rend her apart after the hunt is done.
** [[FullyEmbracedFiend Weezer]], as a human, is considered a nasty piece of work. As a werewolf, Weezer embraces his change and tears apart two innocent women before slaughtering other innocents and terrorizing his friend Glenn into being an accomplice. After being rejected by a recently widowed former fling, Weezer [[NotGoodWithRejection kills her]] and her six [[WouldHurtAChild children]], saving her newborn baby for last. Tracked down by Divna, Weezer helps her slaughter a bar and then helps with the attack on the amusement park, gleefully killing any human he finds. Upon encountering his former friend Duane, Weezer expresses a willingness to rape his LoveInterest Savannah to death and ends by attempting to find and massacre a group of surviving children.
* "Wolf of the Steppes", by Greye La Spina: [[SavageWolves Serge Vasilovitch]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent murderous werewolf]] who [[StalkerWithACrush lusts after]] the young heroine's mother. Enraged at her marrying her husband, Serge [[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]] and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] the man into believing he is responsible, so Serge may lure him into suicide and then place mother and daughter in his power with intent to groom or molest young Vera. Killing her mother when she tries to flee with her daughter, Serge later tracks Vera down to murder her and anyone who assists her.
* ''The Wolf Road'', by Beth Lewis: Kreagar "Trapper" Hallet, the adoptive father of the heroine Elka, teaches her to survive in the wilderness of British Columbia. In truth, Kreagar is a violent SerialKiller who targets [[WouldHitAGirl women]] and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] before butchering them and [[ImAHumanitarian eating them]], keeping their scalps as [[CreepySouvenir grisly trophies]]. Elka, now seen as his accomplice, attempts to escape with Kreagar hounding her through the novel. When she comes upon civilization again, we discover Kreagar continues to be active in his "hunts"' of murdering children and is targeting the son of the love interest of Elka's best friend Penelope before kidnapping the boy and murdering him as well. It is revealed Kreagar fed his victims to Elka as well and even had her shoot a little boy herself, something she had repressed from the trauma, in an attempt to turn her into a twisted reflection of himself. A man who lives by no code save the savage law of the wild he invents, Kreagar informs the hunter Lyons that it was Elka who murdered her son instead of him, dooming her to a life on the run, as [[EvilIsPetty a last act to deny her any comfort of civilization ever again]].
* ''Literature/TheWoman'': In this novel, which was later made into [[Film/TheWoman a film]], [[AmoralAttorney Chris Cleek]], the patriarch of the Cleek family, is an extreme [[HeManWomanHater misogynyst]] and {{Domestic Abuse}}r. Upon encountering the titular woman in the woods, he kidnaps and imprisons her within a fruit cellar, under the guise of civilizing her. In reality, he intends on dominating her, whether it be through several types of torture, such as using a high pressure power washer to bathe her, or by raping her. It's revealed later on in the novel that Cleek had raped [[ParentalIncest his daughter]], Peggy, each night, which culminates in her being pregnant with [[ChildByRape his child]]. When Miss Raton, Peggy's teacher, confronts him on this, he knocks her out, and feeds her to his dogs; the scene also reveals that Cleek had a daughter, who suffered from anophthalmia (no eyes), imprisoned in the barn, thus causing her to revert to an animalistic state. Misogynistic and depraved, Cleek didn't care who he had to hurt to make his fantasies a reality.
* ''The Women in the Walls'', by Amy Lukavics: [[OneBadMother Mother]] is a supernatural being who demands HumanSacrifice in exchange for immortality. Prior to the events of the novel, Mother manipulated a woman named Clara into [[WouldHurtAChild sacrificing all the children]] she was taking care of to her. When Clara was murdered by her fellow cultists, Mother plotted revenge, manipulating deaths over the years to make Clara's body more powerful. When Clara's body becomes powerful enough in the present day, Mother, using her body, slaughters the cultists and has her loyal follower Penelope bring Lucy to her in exchange for becoming her "daughter". However, when she does so, Mother declares Penelope too weak and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath forces her to cough up her own organs]], before making Lucy her daughter, [[TheBadGuyWins enslaving her to the house forever]].
* ''Literature/WorldsOfPower'' series (by publication date):
** ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'': [[AliensAreBastards The Plutonium Boss]] is a sadistic PlanetaryParasite who feeds on a planet's radiation. Ingraining itself into a planet's core and slowly killing it as it feasts on the core's radiation, once the Plutonium Boss has had its fill, it arises from the ground and annihilates everyone on the planet. Doing this to Eve's home planet Signar-el before moving on to Earth, the Plutonium Boss [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments on organisms]] to make them its mutated warriors, including a teenage human named Alex. Kidnapping Eve to lure Jason Frudnick and Alex to its lair, the Plutonium Boss reveals to the trio the Psychlotron machine, which will speed up both the feeding process and the destruction of Earth at a much faster rate.
** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'': [[BigBad Colonel Vermon CaTaffy]] is [[TheGeneralissimo the dictator]] of the small, but wealthy, country of Nouria. [=CaTaffy=] always hated "the free world" and wanted to bring it to its knees. Constantly committing atrocities, like the bombing of civilian aircraft and the torture of civilians and non-combatants for fun, [=CaTaffy=] decided to build his own WeaponOfMassDestruction, kidnapping Doctor Pettovich and his daughter Ellen to force Pettovich to build him [[WalkingTank Metal Gear]], threatening to kill his daughter if he refused. When the US military sends nearly all Snake Men to Outer Heaven to stop [=CaTaffy=], he managed to capture them and torture them all, some fatally. After his Metal Gear is complete, [=CaTaffy=] tries to [[NukeEm launch the nukes]] at Washington, London, Tokyo, Canberra and Paris to "destroy the free world".
** ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden|NES}}'': [[BigBad (The) Jaquio]], real name [[EvilSorcerer Guardia de Mieux]], is a demonic being who seeks to use the light and dark statues to awaken a powerful demon, harness its energy, and [[TakeOverTheWorld gain world domination]] with his demon army. Kidnapping Ken Hayabusa and making him his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled fighter]] after he and Dr. Wimpleton steal the statues, Jaquio sends thieves out to regain the statues, [[LackOfEmpathy uncaring of the casualties]]. With the teenage Ryu Hayabusa, Ken's son, inside his personal temple, Jaquio promises to kill CIA agent Irene Lew should he not get his dark statue back, forcing Ryu to fight his monsters after he complies. Seething with glee over forcing Ryu to fight his mutated, mind-controlled father, once he finds them reconciling, Jaquio attempts to kill them both and continue his world domination plan.
** ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'': [[TheGeneralissimo Generalissimo Kilt]] is the [[BigBad leader]] of the terrorist organization BADD who steals the plans for the Albatross, a deadly weapon which he'll use to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans destroy the world and rule over the remains]]. Kidnapping Super Joe and damaging Jack Markson's arm enough to have it amputated, Kilt plans to give Joe a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slow, painful death]]. Once the Albatross is completed, Kilt and scientist Master Destructo decide to have it destroy North America as a way to test its power. After the Albatross perishes, Kilt leaves his men behind to escape with Destructo, but despite dying at the hands of Jack, Kilt posthumously reveals to have [[DeadMansSwitch programmed his lair to self-destruct should he perish]], gleefully preparing to take his own men with him to the grave.
* ''Literature/YashakidenTheDemonPrincess'', by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi: The ancient Chinese Vampire [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Biki, or Princess]], is a picture of [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon beautiful cruelty]]. In the past, Princess has been responsible for countless deaths, swaying others into war and slaughter, even having pregnant women [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] by the hundreds when she was the infamous Da Ji. Arriving in the Demon City of Shinjuku, Princess slaughters and converts countless people to vampirism, starting a vampire civil war coupled with an attempt to break the hero Setsura Aki, even [[BadBoss slaughtering her own minions]] on a callous whim.
* ''The Year of the Witching'', by Alexis Henderson: [[SinisterMinister The Prophet]], ruler of Bethel, is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic tyrant]] who has women tortured on suspicion of being witches and binds the town to a stringent moral code [[StrawHypocrite he does not bother to attempt himself]]. A [[DirtyOldMan lecherous monster]], the Prophet murdered the father of heroine Immanuelle by burning him alive, a punishment he uses to keep control of the town, while having raped her friend Leah at the age of 12 before forcing her to marry him later and become one of his many wives. After the newly empowered Immanuelle is caught in witchcraft with the Prophet's son Ezra, the Prophet blackmails Immanuelle into marrying him before trying to have Ezra [[ILied burnt alive anyways to stave off a potential rival]].
* ''Literature/YellowjacketSummer'', by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: Toby is a [[TeensAreMonsters psychotic teenager]] with the unusual gift of speaking the language of yellowjackets. Using them, Toby murders everyone in a small town save for a few he keeps as slaves while intending on enslaving the people who stop in the town. The only survivors are those Toby keeps to cook for him or a girl that he takes a fancy to, who he regularly abuses and beats. Upon the heroine Carla learning what Toby is, he attempts to murder her and her two young children before killing the other survivors of the town as well.
* "The Yougoslaves", by Creator/RobertBloch: [[BigBad Le Boss]] is a grotesque gang leader who [[HumanTraffickers traffics]] in [[WouldHurtAChild children]], having boys kidnapped and addicted to drugs to slowly strip them of humanity until they are nothing but murderers. The girls are trafficked for [[SexSlave sex]] or to be provided to his soldiers to be gang raped as entertainment and reward. Running a thieving and murder ring, Le Boss shows his lack of regard for the children when he murders one simply for bringing him bad news and [[WouldHarmASenior tries to kill a seemingly helpless old man]] for seeking a stolen item back.
* "[[http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1943jul-00083 Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper]]'', by Creator/RobertBloch: Psychiatrist John Carmody and Englishman Sir Guy Hollis are on the trail of the elusive UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. It is revealed Jack has claimed [[SerialKiller dozens of victims]] over the years, mutilating them horribly as he did the women in London. It is further seen that Jack is not a mortal killer: instead, his murders are done to appease dark gods to grant him immortality and power, and there is no sign he will stop anytime soon. Hollis reveals that he and his father had tracked the Ripper together, but the Ripper [[YouKilledMyFather had gotten to Hollis's father first and murdered him]]. Upon realizing the depth of Hollis's conviction, Carmody reveals his true identity as the Ripper and ends the story about to murder Hollis.
* ''Literature/YouWereNeverReallyHere'': [[TheDon "The Boss" Novelli]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] crime lord who is approached by politician Votto for funding in his political career. Novelli, a vile [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[HumanTraffickers sex trafficker]], agrees to help Votto so long as he gets to pimp out Votto's daughter Lisa. Doing this simply out of spite for Votto's dad being a rival to Novelli, Novelli convinces Votto to take the deal before raping Lisa and turning her into a prostitute for his organization. Novelli goes on to [[HeKnowsTooMuch ensure that no one discovers the truth]], killing Votto's wife when she gets suspicious of Lisa's whereabouts and sending his goons to eliminate several loose ends tied to Votto and the hired gun Joe.
* ''Literature/ZeroSaints'', by Gabino Iglesias: [[BigBad Indio]], head of [[TheCartel a Mara Salvatrucha outfit]] seeking to move into Austin, is known for his dark powers and the immense amount of blood he has spilled to get his way. Introducing himself to hero Fernando with an "offer" to Fernando's employer Guillermo, Indio has his friend Nino slowly mutilated before sawing his head off and later leads a massacre of Guillermo's closest, killing the man himself and [[SlashedThroat opening the throat]] of Fernando's kind mother figure Conseulo.
* ''Zofloya: or The Moor'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Zofloya]] is the servant of Henriquez, the object of desire of Victoria de Loredani. Teaching Victoria of [[MasterPoisoner poison]] to eliminate those in her way, including Henriquez's brother, Zofloya happily kills one servant who does not die immediately. After having Henriquez [[BedTrick raped by Victoria]], leading to [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide]], Zofloya bids Victoria to murder his beloved Lilla and then brings the ruin and suicide of the rest of the cast. Revealing his true identity as {{Satan}} to Victoria, Zofloya gloats over the latter's downfall before killing her as well.
* ''Literature/{{Zombie}}'': [[VillainProtagonist Quentin P.]] is a young man with an unhealthy obsession over [[{{Lobotomy}} lobotomies]]. Upon figuring out how to perform his own makeshift lobotomies, Quentin decides to create his own lobotomized SexSlave who's fully obedient to him. Quentin kidnaps and tries to perform the lobotomy on four different men, botching the procedure and killing them all in the process. When he kidnaps his fifth victim, a twelve-year-old boy, a drunken Quentin tries to rape him, only for the boy to escape. Several weeks after the incident, Quentin kidnaps a teenager and repeatedly rapes him before accidentally killing him.
* ''The Zombie Room'', by R.D. Ronald: Dyson Steiger is the leader of the Club, an organization of HumanTraffickers responsible for forcing hundreds of girls and young women into sexual slavery. Steiger has the girls stripped of their identities through [[MindRape intense psychological damaging]] in order to make them more compliant. He's also responsible for the deaths of Tatiana's family and her deafness by ordering a bombing in the area they were in. He later orders a shipment of explosive weapons brought to Garden Heights for the purpose of conducting a wave of terror throughout the city to boost the influence of those under his thumb.
* ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'':
** ''A Fire Upon the Deep'': Flenser [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast got his name]] from his first steps as an EvilutionaryBiologist -- vivisection. Later, after becoming a ruler, he went far, far beyond that, among other things essentially turning MindRape of his subjects into a semi-industrial process. Flenser is a [[ItsAllAboutMe heartless sociopath]], who demands absolute loyalty from his underlings, but has none to them. To him, everyone is a tool, although [[ManipulativeBastard he can hide that well until the time comes]]. He murders followers and discards even his trusted bodyguards without a second thought. His own second-in-command (who, as revealed later, was essentially his offspring as well) hated him more than anything in the world, but too mentally scarred to resist. His striving to {{take over the world}} seems almost not worth mentioning compared to his other aspects. The book gives many glimpses into Flenser's mind and about the only non-horrible thing there is his ability to enjoy the beauty of nature.
** ''A Deepness in the Sky'': Tomas Nau leads The Emergents. As part of their defeat of the rival Qeng Ho, Nau rapes and kills their fleet commander in front of her daughter. Following that Nau has the daughter mind-wiped and charms her into falling for him. Because the mind-wipe is imperfect, every so often Qiwi remembers what happened, tries to kill Nau, who then has her scrubbed and starts the process again. This continues for decades.
** ''The Children of the Sky'': Vendacious upholds the tradition of horrifically evil villains and maybe even surpasses his predecessors, if not in scale and inventiveness of evil deeds, then in [[ForTheEvulz sheer sadism]] and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]]. This guy adopts most of the old Flenser's methods, such as manipulation, treachery, absolute ruthlessness, and totalitarian control through physical and mental torture. And uses them to pit the two greatest centers of civilization in the world against each other, when neither side has any real reason for conflict. Vendacious thinks that justifications are for the weak; he recognizes that his actions are meant to [[ForTheEvulz stroke his own ego and enjoy the feeling of power]], and is perversely proud of that. He [[BadBoss deliberately makes his own underlings' lives hell]], just to see with how much tyranny he can get away with.
* ''Literature/ZooCity'': [[SerialRapist Odysseus "Odi" Huron]] is a record producer who turns out to be animalled to a huge white crocodile. Huron sexually abuses starlets under his control, which drives Songwezu of twin pop sensation iJusi to flee. To free himself of his animal, Huron has his assassin partners kill a succession of innocents, disguising them as serial killings so he can take their animals for the ritual of muti. Having Songwezu's twin brother murder her, Huron binds his crocodile to him and then kills him as well. It is later revealed he has been feeding other victims to his crocodile, with dozens of bones located in its lair.
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* Creator/MatthewReilly is not subtle when it comes to his villains:
** ''Literature/{{Temple}}'':
*** William Race's present-day story: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Earl Bittiker]], a vicious militiaman and founder of the [[ApocalypseCult Republican Army of Texas]], was drummed out of the Navy [=SEALs=] for rape. Having succumbed to a doomsday cultism, Bittiker leads his men to steal the powerful idol to power the [[DoomsdayDevice Supernova]] after several murders. Intending on wiping out a third of humanity in one blast, [[OmnicidalManiac Bittiker]] intends to completely erase the world for the sole satisfaction of seeing it burn.
*** Alberto Santiago's 1500s story: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Hernando Pizarro]], brother and lieutenant of Francisco Pizzaro, is a sadistic psychopath of a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who [[RapePillageAndBurn leads his forces]] across the Incan Empire. Women are forced into brothels and enslaved, children sold into slavery, men tortured and maimed with Hernando having entire villages tortured or massacred [[ForTheEvulz for the sport of it]]. Locating the priest Alberto Santiago and his friend Prince Renco who have taken the idol, Hernando intends to recover it and then torture the two slowly to death simply for the inconvenience.
** Scarecrow (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series:
*** ''Area 7'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** ''Area 7'': [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
*** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
** ''Literature/{{Temple}}'':
*** William Race's present-day story: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Earl Bittiker]], a vicious militiaman and founder of the [[ApocalypseCult Republican Army of Texas]], was drummed out of the Navy [=SEALs=] for rape. Having succumbed to a doomsday cultism, Bittiker leads his men to steal the powerful idol to power the [[DoomsdayDevice Supernova]] after several murders. Intending on wiping out a third of humanity in one blast, [[OmnicidalManiac Bittiker]] intends to completely erase the world for the sole satisfaction of seeing it burn.
*** Alberto Santiago's 1500s story: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Hernando Pizarro]], brother and lieutenant of Francisco Pizzaro, is a sadistic psychopath of a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who [[RapePillageAndBurn leads his forces]] across the Incan Empire. Women are forced into brothels and enslaved, children sold into slavery, men tortured and maimed with Hernando having entire villages tortured or massacred [[ForTheEvulz for the sport of it]]. Locating the priest Alberto Santiago and his friend Prince Renco who have taken the idol, Hernando intends to recover it and then torture the two slowly to death simply for the inconvenience.
** Scarecrow (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series:
*** ''Area 7'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** ''Area 7'': [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
*** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
* ''Literature/TheRitual'', by Adam Nevill: [[TeensAreMonsters Loki]] is the leader of a band of BlackMetal delinquents who hope to bring about the end of the world through their music and cruelty. [[CardCarryingVillain Boastful of how evil and wicked he is]], Loki is a SerialKiller who has claimed nine lives in the past, all fueled by bigotry and prejudice. Having found the land of [[EldritchAbomination Moder]] in the isolated Swedish forest, Loki works with his band to reawaken Moder and unleash it onto travelers in the area, getting innocents gored and butchered. Capturing the hiker Luke, Loki forces him to witness one of his friend's disemboweled bodies before tormenting and terrorizing him, Loki planning to sacrifice Luke to Moder in the hopes it will unleash more Old Gods onto the Earth and bring the apocalypse Loki has dreamt of.
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* Scarecrow (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series, by Creator/MatthewReilly:
** ''Area 7'':
*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
** ''Area 7'':
*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
*** [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
** ''Scarecrow'': [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., is also a member of Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, Killian has her beheaded to distract Scarecrow from stopping the plot. Even after Scarecrow is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won if Scarecrow kills him]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' {{novelization}}, by Eithne Massey, [[BigBad Harald Redtooth]] is the Chief Northman, savage leader of the band of [[HornyVikings Northmen raiders]] currently plaguing Ireland. Redtooth has the Northmen [[RapePillageAndBurn invade]] several villages, cities, and monasteries for the purposes of slaughtering most of their populations, enslaving the survivors, and looting all of the treasure possible to satisfy Redtooth's greed. With even children not exempt from death or slavery at the Northmen hands, Redtooth wipes out the monk city of Iona, then makes his way to Kells, where his Northmen lay waste to the city and set it aflame as they kill everything in their path. After severely wounding Abbot Cellach, Redtooth orders the man's close friend Aidan and nephew Brendan executed after swiping all their belongings and wearing them as trophies. Showcasing a cruel grin while committing his actions and even going so far as to name his sword "[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Monk Mincer]]", Redtooth is presented as [[AdaptationalVillainy a far more uniquely evil force than his movie counterpart]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' {{novelization}}, by Eithne Massey, Massey: [[BigBad Harald Redtooth]] is the Chief Northman, savage leader of the band of [[HornyVikings Northmen raiders]] currently plaguing Ireland. Redtooth has the Northmen [[RapePillageAndBurn invade]] several villages, cities, and monasteries for the purposes of slaughtering most of their populations, enslaving the survivors, and looting all of the treasure possible to satisfy Redtooth's greed. With even children not exempt from death or slavery at the Northmen hands, Redtooth wipes out the monk city of Iona, then makes his way to Kells, where his Northmen lay waste to the city and set it aflame as they kill everything in their path. After severely wounding Abbot Cellach, Redtooth orders the man's close friend Aidan and nephew Brendan executed after swiping all their belongings and wearing them as trophies. Showcasing a cruel grin while committing his actions and even going so far as to name his sword "[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Monk Mincer]]", Redtooth is presented as [[AdaptationalVillainy a far more uniquely evil force than his movie counterpart]].
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* ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' novella, by Matt Yeo: [[SmarmyHost Jasper Powell]] is the host of--and the brains behind--the gameshow ''[[BloodSport SMASH TV]]'', the [[ImmoralRealityShow most popular television show in the world]], where contestants have a chance to win untold riches...if they manage to survive, which nobody has so far. In truth, Jasper, the final obstacle faced by contestants, is an enormous mutant, the failed attempt by the military to create SuperSoldiers. Jasper had the idea to start a [[DeadlyGame gameshow]] to test experimental weapons on people, claiming ""Who's going to miss a few gung-ho macho idiots? It's certainly cheaper than waiting for a war to happen!" In addition, besides owning the studio, Jasper also runs most of the gambling in the city, which is what caused one of the contestants to become a contestant.
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* ''Literature/StarQuest'', by Andrew Dixon: [[BigBad Lord Glaxx]] was [[FromNobodyToNightmare once a simple alien playwright]] on Planet Bliss who was blacklisted for charging admission to shows that were intended to be free, a serious crime in his species' culture. Swearing revenge, Glaxx departed for deep space, then returned years later as a [[SpacePirate pirate king]] armed with a laser weapon that drains heat from stars. Glaxx thus plans to [[DisproportionateRetribution avenge the slight]] against him by sucking the life from Bliss' star, condemning all life on it to slowly freeze to death.
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** ''Area 7'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
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*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off thebombs]].bombs]].
*** [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7]]--which also contains the [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society the Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the
*** [[AmoralAfrikaner Gunther Botha]] is a South African [[MadScientist scientist]] with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain deep ties to white supremacist groups]]. Having worked in an [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid era]] unit to figure out a virus that only targeted Black people across the world, Botha was recruited by the US to figure out a cure for the Sinovirus. [[PlayingWithSyringes Experimenting on living subjects]] with viruses and helping to create the artificial human Kevin, Botha refines the virus to target Blacks and betrays the US to deliver it to a white supremacist terrorist group to enact his racist ends.
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* ''Teratologist'', by Wrath James White & Edward Lee: John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the devil give him the power to bring HellOnEarth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the devil himself sang his praises.
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* ''Teratologist'', by Wrath James White & Edward Lee: John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the devil Devil give him the power to bring HellOnEarth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the devil Devil himself sang his praises.
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** ''Wolf Creek: Origin'': [[DirtyOldMan Jerry "The Fiddler"]] is one of four {{serial killer}}s that Mick Taylor investigates while attempting to reclaim his knife. Jerry is an [[FatBastard obese]] pedophile who [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[WouldHurtAChild kills]] children. Jerry lives in an abandoned mine that he has booby-trapped to kill intruders (we see the skeleton of one of his adult victims). When Mick enters Jerry's home, he sees Jerry raping a little girl, and finds trophies and corpses of three of his past victims, and also sees Jerry [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill a dog]]. After Mick murders a touring couple, Jerry and the other killers decide to kill Mick out of revenge for allowing the bodies to be discovered, which brought police into the area and made it more likely for the killings of the other killers to be discovered. When the killers attack Mick’s home, Jerry tries to rape Mick's girlfriend Rose (who Mick had tied up to use as rape bait to lure the killers into a trap). Just before Mick kills Jerry, he tells Mick that he should have killed the two truckers who discovered the couples bodies, stating "You never let anyone go."
** ''Wolf Creek: Desolation Game'': [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Atkin]], Mick's superior during his time in the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]], [[EvilMentor trained Mick, helping him go from an "amateur" to a "professional" killer]]. Atkin cut a deal with the elder of a starving village, so they would get scraps of food in exchange for letting Atkin rape their women. Atkin introduced Mick to this practice and let him join in. Mick and Atkin were both {{sadist}}ic, often [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the women. One of Mick's rape victims ended up dying, but this did not stop Mick and Atkin. One night, two men stumble upon them during their rape session. Mick and Atkin shot the two men dead thinking they were enemy soldiers, showing no remorse when they learned they weren't. Atkin taught Mick the "head on a stick" technique, severing the spine of a terrified soldier cowering in his pajamas. Atkin let Mick stab the already paralyzed man in the back again, and [[OffWithHisHead saw off his head]] and [[DecapitationPresentation mount it on a spike]]. When Mick and Atkin returned to the village, the elder scolded them for killing the two men earlier and [[NeverMessWithGranny wacked Atkin with her cane]]. Atkin snapped the cane, [[SlashedThroat stabbed her in the throat]] with it, and raped and killed all the women he and Mick could. Atkin later tried to kill Mick [[LeaveNoWitnesses out of fear that he would talk about what they did]] despite their VillainousFriendship.
** ''Wolf Creek: Desolation Game'': [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Atkin]], Mick's superior during his time in the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]], [[EvilMentor trained Mick, helping him go from an "amateur" to a "professional" killer]]. Atkin cut a deal with the elder of a starving village, so they would get scraps of food in exchange for letting Atkin rape their women. Atkin introduced Mick to this practice and let him join in. Mick and Atkin were both {{sadist}}ic, often [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the women. One of Mick's rape victims ended up dying, but this did not stop Mick and Atkin. One night, two men stumble upon them during their rape session. Mick and Atkin shot the two men dead thinking they were enemy soldiers, showing no remorse when they learned they weren't. Atkin taught Mick the "head on a stick" technique, severing the spine of a terrified soldier cowering in his pajamas. Atkin let Mick stab the already paralyzed man in the back again, and [[OffWithHisHead saw off his head]] and [[DecapitationPresentation mount it on a spike]]. When Mick and Atkin returned to the village, the elder scolded them for killing the two men earlier and [[NeverMessWithGranny wacked Atkin with her cane]]. Atkin snapped the cane, [[SlashedThroat stabbed her in the throat]] with it, and raped and killed all the women he and Mick could. Atkin later tried to kill Mick [[LeaveNoWitnesses out of fear that he would talk about what they did]] despite their VillainousFriendship.
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** ''Wolf Creek: Origin'': ''Origin'': [[DirtyOldMan Jerry "The Fiddler"]] is one of four {{serial killer}}s that Mick Taylor investigates while attempting to reclaim his knife. Jerry is an [[FatBastard obese]] pedophile who [[SerialRapist rapes]] and [[WouldHurtAChild kills]] children. Jerry lives in an abandoned mine that he has booby-trapped to kill intruders (we see the skeleton of one of his adult victims). When Mick enters Jerry's home, he sees Jerry raping a little girl, and finds trophies and corpses of three of his past victims, and also sees Jerry [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill a dog]]. After Mick murders a touring couple, Jerry and the other killers decide to kill Mick out of revenge for allowing the bodies to be discovered, which brought police into the area and made it more likely for the killings of the other killers to be discovered. When the killers attack Mick’s home, Jerry tries to rape Mick's girlfriend Rose (who Mick had tied up to use as rape bait to lure the killers into a trap). Just before Mick kills Jerry, he tells Mick that he should have killed the two truckers who discovered the couples bodies, stating "You never let anyone go."
**''Wolf Creek: Desolation ''Desolation Game'': [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Atkin]], Mick's superior during his time in the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]], [[EvilMentor trained Mick, helping him go from an "amateur" to a "professional" killer]]. Atkin cut a deal with the elder of a starving village, so they would get scraps of food in exchange for letting Atkin rape their women. Atkin introduced Mick to this practice and let him join in. Mick and Atkin were both {{sadist}}ic, often [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the women. One of Mick's rape victims ended up dying, but this did not stop Mick and Atkin. One night, two men stumble upon them during their rape session. Mick and Atkin shot the two men dead thinking they were enemy soldiers, showing no remorse when they learned they weren't. Atkin taught Mick the "head on a stick" technique, severing the spine of a terrified soldier cowering in his pajamas. Atkin let Mick stab the already paralyzed man in the back again, and [[OffWithHisHead saw off his head]] and [[DecapitationPresentation mount it on a spike]]. When Mick and Atkin returned to the village, the elder scolded them for killing the two men earlier and [[NeverMessWithGranny wacked Atkin with her cane]]. Atkin snapped the cane, [[SlashedThroat stabbed her in the throat]] with it, and raped and killed all the women he and Mick could. Atkin later tried to kill Mick [[LeaveNoWitnesses out of fear that he would talk about what they did]] despite their VillainousFriendship.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden|NES}}'': [[BigBad Jacquio]], real name [[EvilSorcerer Guardia de Mieux]], is a demonic being who seeks to use the light and dark statues to awaken a powerful demon, harness its energy, and [[TakeOverTheWorld gain world domination]] with his demon army. Kidnapping Ken Hayabusa and making him his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled fighter]] after he and Dr. Wimpleton steal the statues, Jacquio sends thieves out to regain the statues, [[LackOfEmpathy uncaring of the casualties]]. With the teenage Ryu Hayabusa, Ken's son, inside his personal temple, Jacquio promises to kill CIA agent Irene Lew should he not get his dark statue back, forcing Ryu to fight his monsters after he complies. Seething with glee over forcing Ryu to fight his mutated, mind-controlled father, once he finds them reconciling, Jacquio attempts to kill them both and continue his world domination plan.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden|NES}}'': [[BigBad Jacquio]], (The) Jaquio]], real name [[EvilSorcerer Guardia de Mieux]], is a demonic being who seeks to use the light and dark statues to awaken a powerful demon, harness its energy, and [[TakeOverTheWorld gain world domination]] with his demon army. Kidnapping Ken Hayabusa and making him his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled fighter]] after he and Dr. Wimpleton steal the statues, Jacquio Jaquio sends thieves out to regain the statues, [[LackOfEmpathy uncaring of the casualties]]. With the teenage Ryu Hayabusa, Ken's son, inside his personal temple, Jacquio Jaquio promises to kill CIA agent Irene Lew should he not get his dark statue back, forcing Ryu to fight his monsters after he complies. Seething with glee over forcing Ryu to fight his mutated, mind-controlled father, once he finds them reconciling, Jacquio Jaquio attempts to kill them both and continue his world domination plan.
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* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' & ''Crooked Kingdom'':
** [[AbusiveParents Jan Van Eck]] is a seemingly-respectable merchant who turns out to be an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical sociopath]] obsessed with his own glory and reputation. Callously disowning his son Wylan for his dyslexia that has made him illiterate, Van Eck divorces his wife, throws her into an asylum and tells Wylan she's dead so he can steal all her assets. When his new wife is pregnant, Van Eck tries to have Wylan murdered. After enlisting [[AntiHero Kaz Brekker]] for a job and learning Kaz has Wylan hostage, Van Eck later attempts to betray Kaz and have Wylan murdered via having his ship sunk. It turns out Van Eck is behind a scheme to cheat his fellow merchants and distribute ''[[FantasticDrug jurda parem]]'' to enslave the Grisha, or those with magic, subjecting them to addiction or death, all [[{{Greed}} as long as he profits]] from the chaos he inflicts.
** [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Heleen Van Houden, or Tante Heleen]], the cruel owner of the brothel the Menagerie, buys teenage girls from foreign nations and cruelly trains them to be SexSlave prostitutes. From Inej Ghafa's backstory, we see this involves horrific abuse, both physical and [[MindRape psychological]] with Heleen repeatedly having her whipped and beaten, even having a girl who kept some money from a client cruelly murdered in front of the other girls as a lesson. Even after being freed by Kaz, Inej is intensely scarred by her time at the Menagerie, and Heleen gleefully taunts her of it when they meet, even trying to have Inej killed later. Utterly reprehensible and dedicated to making a fortune from the sexual enslavement of countless young women, Tante Heleen is one of the worst that Ketterdam has to offer.
** [[AbusiveParents Jan Van Eck]] is a seemingly-respectable merchant who turns out to be an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical sociopath]] obsessed with his own glory and reputation. Callously disowning his son Wylan for his dyslexia that has made him illiterate, Van Eck divorces his wife, throws her into an asylum and tells Wylan she's dead so he can steal all her assets. When his new wife is pregnant, Van Eck tries to have Wylan murdered. After enlisting [[AntiHero Kaz Brekker]] for a job and learning Kaz has Wylan hostage, Van Eck later attempts to betray Kaz and have Wylan murdered via having his ship sunk. It turns out Van Eck is behind a scheme to cheat his fellow merchants and distribute ''[[FantasticDrug jurda parem]]'' to enslave the Grisha, or those with magic, subjecting them to addiction or death, all [[{{Greed}} as long as he profits]] from the chaos he inflicts.
** [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Heleen Van Houden, or Tante Heleen]], the cruel owner of the brothel the Menagerie, buys teenage girls from foreign nations and cruelly trains them to be SexSlave prostitutes. From Inej Ghafa's backstory, we see this involves horrific abuse, both physical and [[MindRape psychological]] with Heleen repeatedly having her whipped and beaten, even having a girl who kept some money from a client cruelly murdered in front of the other girls as a lesson. Even after being freed by Kaz, Inej is intensely scarred by her time at the Menagerie, and Heleen gleefully taunts her of it when they meet, even trying to have Inej killed later. Utterly reprehensible and dedicated to making a fortune from the sexual enslavement of countless young women, Tante Heleen is one of the worst that Ketterdam has to offer.
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** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite [[SociopathicSoldier 7th Squadron]] at the secret base Area 7--which also contains the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood]]. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
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** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite [[SociopathicSoldier 7th Squadron]] Squadron at the secret base [[BlackSite Area 7--which 7]]--which also contains the Sinovirus, [[SyntheticPlague Sinovirus]], a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also a top member of the secret racist Air Force society [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood]].Brotherhood. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
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** [[SerialKiller Keith Hillstead]] is the father of Jack Jr., and is the one responsible for starting his path of destruction. As a young man, Keith believed himself to be a descendant of Jack the Ripper, and murdered his parents for trying to hide it from him. After seducing a young woman into becoming his wife, Keith spent weeks [[DomesticAbuser torturing and raping her]] until she gave birth to a son, who he then began to teach how to torture and kill. Claiming close to 100 victims over the years, Keith photographed the tortures, rapes, and deaths of his victims and kept them in an album. When his wife attempted to murder him, Keith violently raped and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pummelled her]], before trying to slit her throat. With a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite]] and [[DissonantSerenity calm]] exterior masking his true depravity, Keith Hillstead stood out as monstrous even with his limited appearances.
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** [[SerialKiller Keith Hillstead]] is the father of Jack Jr., and is the one responsible for starting his path of destruction. As a young man, Keith believed himself to be a descendant of Jack the Ripper, and murdered his parents for trying to hide it from him. After seducing a young woman into becoming his wife, Keith spent weeks [[DomesticAbuser [[DomesticAbuse torturing and raping her]] until she gave birth to a son, who he then began to teach how to torture and kill. Claiming close to 100 victims over the years, Keith photographed the tortures, rapes, and deaths of his victims and kept them in an album. When his wife attempted to murder him, Keith violently raped and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pummelled her]], before trying to slit her throat. With a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite]] and [[DissonantSerenity calm]] exterior masking his true depravity, Keith Hillstead stood out as monstrous even with his limited appearances.
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** [[OverarchingVillain Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. [[TheChessmaster Concocting a series of events to revive himself]], Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage for his pleasure. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
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** [[OverarchingVillain [[TheChessmaster Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. [[TheChessmaster Concocting a series of events to revive himself]], himself, Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage [[{{Sadist}} for his pleasure.pleasure]]. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
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* ''Stalking Jack the Ripper'' series, by Kerri Maniscalco: [[OverarchingVillain H.H. Holmes]] himself is a monstrous killer who constructed a [[HellHotel murder hotel]] so he could murder and torture innocents at his leisure, racking up a body count in the triple digits. Later becoming UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, letting a patsy die and take the blame for it. Continuing a murder spree in multiple areas, Holmes tries to [[TheCorrupter corrupt the heroine]] into being a murderer like him, gloating that [[CardCarryingVillain he fully embraces his inner darkness and the devil within]].
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* ''Stalking Jack the Ripper'' series, by Kerri Maniscalco: [[OverarchingVillain [[SerialKiller H.H. Holmes]] himself is a monstrous killer who constructed a [[HellHotel murder hotel]] so he could murder and torture innocents at his leisure, racking up a body count in the triple digits. Later becoming UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, letting a patsy die and take the blame for it. Continuing a murder spree in multiple areas, Holmes tries to [[TheCorrupter corrupt the heroine]] into being a murderer like him, gloating that [[CardCarryingVillain he fully embraces his inner darkness and the devil within]].
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* ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'': [[DomesticAbuser Rasheed]] is nasty, violent-tempered, smug and thoroughly heartless, spending the book ruining the lives of the protagonists in a myriad of ways. Marrying a 15-year-old before promptly raping her and tricking a 14-year-old into marrying him ''immediately after her family dies'' by ''paying a man to tell her that her surviving love interest is dead'' are without counting what Rasheed does to his own family. His nature also comes forth in beating the tar out of his wives on a daily basis, completely neglecting his daughter in favor of his son, forcing one of his wives to eat pebbles because he thought her rice was undercooked, shoving a gun into the mouth of one of his wives and finally trying to strangle her to death. When his wives try to run away, he tells the younger that if she ever tries it again, he will kill his other wife (her only friend) and her daughter in front of her. She knows he's not joking, because he's just put them all in sensory deprivation rooms in the blistering heat with no water for three days. What little sympathy the author tries to create for him by letting us know his first son died is quickly dashed away when it's implied that Rasheed's own drunken neglect probably caused it.
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* ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'': [[DomesticAbuser [[DomesticAbuse Rasheed]] is nasty, violent-tempered, smug and thoroughly heartless, spending the book ruining the lives of the protagonists in a myriad of ways. Marrying a 15-year-old before promptly raping her and tricking a 14-year-old into marrying him ''immediately after her family dies'' by ''paying a man to tell her that her surviving love interest is dead'' are without counting what Rasheed does to his own family. His nature also comes forth in beating the tar out of his wives on a daily basis, completely neglecting his daughter in favor of his son, forcing one of his wives to eat pebbles because he thought her rice was undercooked, shoving a gun into the mouth of one of his wives and finally trying to strangle her to death. When his wives try to run away, he tells the younger that if she ever tries it again, he will kill his other wife (her only friend) and her daughter in front of her. She knows he's not joking, because he's just put them all in sensory deprivation rooms in the blistering heat with no water for three days. What little sympathy the author tries to create for him by letting us know his first son died is quickly dashed away when it's implied that Rasheed's own drunken neglect probably caused it.
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* ''Literature/TheWoman'': In this novel, which was later made into [[Film/TheWoman a film]], [[AmoralAttorney Chris Cleek]], the patriarch of the Cleek family, is an extreme [[HeManWomanHater misogynyst]] and DomesticAbuser. Upon encountering the titular woman in the woods, he kidnaps and imprisons her within a fruit cellar, under the guise of civilizing her. In reality, he intends on dominating her, whether it be through several types of torture, such as using a high pressure power washer to bathe her, or by raping her. It's revealed later on in the novel that Cleek had raped [[ParentalIncest his daughter]], Peggy, each night, which culminates in her being pregnant with [[ChildByRape his child]]. When Miss Raton, Peggy's teacher, confronts him on this, he knocks her out, and feeds her to his dogs; the scene also reveals that Cleek had a daughter, who suffered from anophthalmia (no eyes), imprisoned in the barn, thus causing her to revert to an animalistic state. Misogynistic and depraved, Cleek didn't care who he had to hurt to make his fantasies a reality.
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* ''Literature/TheWoman'': In this novel, which was later made into [[Film/TheWoman a film]], [[AmoralAttorney Chris Cleek]], the patriarch of the Cleek family, is an extreme [[HeManWomanHater misogynyst]] and DomesticAbuser.{{Domestic Abuse}}r. Upon encountering the titular woman in the woods, he kidnaps and imprisons her within a fruit cellar, under the guise of civilizing her. In reality, he intends on dominating her, whether it be through several types of torture, such as using a high pressure power washer to bathe her, or by raping her. It's revealed later on in the novel that Cleek had raped [[ParentalIncest his daughter]], Peggy, each night, which culminates in her being pregnant with [[ChildByRape his child]]. When Miss Raton, Peggy's teacher, confronts him on this, he knocks her out, and feeds her to his dogs; the scene also reveals that Cleek had a daughter, who suffered from anophthalmia (no eyes), imprisoned in the barn, thus causing her to revert to an animalistic state. Misogynistic and depraved, Cleek didn't care who he had to hurt to make his fantasies a reality.
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** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions.
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** ''Armageddon Outta Here'':
*** "Friday Night Fights": [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters The Promoter]] runs weekly [[GladiatorGames death matches]] between magical creatures for the amusement of mortals. With sapient vampires as his most noteworthy attractions, the Promoter forces them to fight only half-turned into their monstrous forms, a state shown to induce incredible pain. The Promoter also feeds them live humans before every match so they're at their strongest. When his champion Caelan refuses to eat Valkyrie, the Promoter pits Caelan against a stronger vampire, knowing it's taboo for them to kill their own kind, and throws Valkyrie into the middle of the match between the two ferocious monsters. Having held these fights for years and [[VanHelsingHateCrimes expressing a desire to rid the world of these "parasites"]], the Promoter proves that humans can be far worse than any sorcerer or vampire.
*** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions.
*** "Friday Night Fights": [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters The Promoter]] runs weekly [[GladiatorGames death matches]] between magical creatures for the amusement of mortals. With sapient vampires as his most noteworthy attractions, the Promoter forces them to fight only half-turned into their monstrous forms, a state shown to induce incredible pain. The Promoter also feeds them live humans before every match so they're at their strongest. When his champion Caelan refuses to eat Valkyrie, the Promoter pits Caelan against a stronger vampire, knowing it's taboo for them to kill their own kind, and throws Valkyrie into the middle of the match between the two ferocious monsters. Having held these fights for years and [[VanHelsingHateCrimes expressing a desire to rid the world of these "parasites"]], the Promoter proves that humans can be far worse than any sorcerer or vampire.
*** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions.
* ''Literature/SlasherbackSeries'', by Brian G. Berry:
** ''The Sleepover Massacre'': [[DepravedDentist Anthony "the Mad Dentist" Ulrich]] is a SerialKiller with a penchant for mangling his victims' teeth. Before the story, Ulrich murdered his wife and her lover after he caught her having an affair; he enjoyed killing her and breaking her teeth so much that he became a dentist and started targeting [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. After murdering 15 third graders and being locked in a mental institution for years, Ulrich escaped and targeted more civilians. Refusing to be caught again, Ulrich kills a dozen innocents, including a [[CopKiller police officer]] and a young boy, before attempting to murder [[FinalGirl Jessica Sadie]] and her brother.
** ''Thanksgiving Day Massacre'': "[[GreaterScopeVillain The Father]]" is the patriarch of his cannibalistic surrogate family and the man responsible for corrupting [[BigBad Travis]] and turning him into a SerialKiller. As part of a sadistic tradition, the Father [[FamilyExtermination would slaughter a young child's entire family]] on Thanksgiving, force the child to eat their remains, and then recruit them to be part of his family. As they aged, the Father twisted their minds and broke them, turning them into cannibalistic killers and making them participate in the same tradition. When the Father comes across 5-year-old Travis, he and his minions massacre Travis's whole family before [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]] as his mother is raped and murdered; Travis is later converted to become part of the Father's family. Even after the Father dies, Travis and the remnants of the Father's family carry on with executing more massacres.
** ''The Sleepover Massacre'': [[DepravedDentist Anthony "the Mad Dentist" Ulrich]] is a SerialKiller with a penchant for mangling his victims' teeth. Before the story, Ulrich murdered his wife and her lover after he caught her having an affair; he enjoyed killing her and breaking her teeth so much that he became a dentist and started targeting [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. After murdering 15 third graders and being locked in a mental institution for years, Ulrich escaped and targeted more civilians. Refusing to be caught again, Ulrich kills a dozen innocents, including a [[CopKiller police officer]] and a young boy, before attempting to murder [[FinalGirl Jessica Sadie]] and her brother.
** ''Thanksgiving Day Massacre'': "[[GreaterScopeVillain The Father]]" is the patriarch of his cannibalistic surrogate family and the man responsible for corrupting [[BigBad Travis]] and turning him into a SerialKiller. As part of a sadistic tradition, the Father [[FamilyExtermination would slaughter a young child's entire family]] on Thanksgiving, force the child to eat their remains, and then recruit them to be part of his family. As they aged, the Father twisted their minds and broke them, turning them into cannibalistic killers and making them participate in the same tradition. When the Father comes across 5-year-old Travis, he and his minions massacre Travis's whole family before [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]] as his mother is raped and murdered; Travis is later converted to become part of the Father's family. Even after the Father dies, Travis and the remnants of the Father's family carry on with executing more massacres.
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': [[BigBad The Man With the Scarlet Eye]], aka "[[ForTheEvulz Friend]]", who may be TheDevil, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When Friend helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When Friend discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, he brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed that Friend, annoyed with Swan offering him forgiveness, is attempting to help the now-insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity while he watches, enjoys the show, and then dances on their graves.
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': ''Literature/SwanSong'':
** [[BigBad TheMan With man with the Scarlet Eye]], scarlet eye]], aka "[[ForTheEvulz Friend]]", who may be TheDevil, TheDevil himself, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When Friend helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When Friend discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, he brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed that Friend, annoyed with Swan offering him forgiveness, is attempting to help the now-insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity while he watches, enjoys the show, and then dances on their graves.graves.
** [[AGodAmI "Lord" Alvin Mangrim]] is a [[AxCrazy homicidal psychopath]] with a love for [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and chaos. Escaping an insane asylum [[AfterTheEnd following the nuclear holocaust]], Alvin leads his fellow inmates in a killing spree across the land, luring dozens of innocent men, women, and children to them to be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] before carving their heads off with a chainsaw for Alvin to keep as trophies. Murdering Leona while trying to slaughter Swan and Josh, Alvin later butchers his way into a position at the AOE, where he assists the leadership in wiping out opposition and gleefully encourages the monstrous Friend's new leadership of the AOE into further villainy.
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** [[AGodAmI "Lord" Alvin Mangrim]] is a [[AxCrazy homicidal psychopath]] with a love for [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and chaos. Escaping an insane asylum [[AfterTheEnd following the nuclear holocaust]], Alvin leads his fellow inmates in a killing spree across the land, luring dozens of innocent men, women, and children to them to be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] before carving their heads off with a chainsaw for Alvin to keep as trophies. Murdering Leona while trying to slaughter Swan and Josh, Alvin later butchers his way into a position at the AOE, where he assists the leadership in wiping out opposition and gleefully encourages the monstrous Friend's new leadership of the AOE into further villainy.
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** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains the TheAntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
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** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains the TheAntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
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** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains the AntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
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** [=WolfStar=] [=SunSoar=], Ninth Talon of the Icarii, may present himself as well-intentioned, but is actually [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist one of the most monstrous characters]] in the entire series. After getting his wife to murder the previous Talon so he could take the throne of the Icarii, he [[MadScientist began experimenting on the Star Gate]] and [[WouldHurtAChild started throwing children]] with magical potential through the gate, including his niece, pregnant wife and unborn child, before he is killed. However, he returns BackFromTheDead through the Star Gate, writes a prophecy that will result in the deaths of thousands of people, and sets out to ensure this prophecy can come true. To that end he tricks the last remaining of the Charonite race into dying in a horrific way, trains the AntiChrist TheAntiChrist in dark magic, and {{mind rape}}s a teenager into making a DealWithTheDevil, among other crimes. In the second series he rapes an impregnates his granddaughter and assists in having her grandmother's soul possess her body, and when she regains control of her body he [[StockholmSyndrome manipulates her into a relationship with him]].
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* ''Literature/{{Repugnant}}'', by Judith Sonnet: [[TheDreaded The Sender]], real name Gordon Werner, is a vile SerialKiller with a penchant for torture, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. After killing his own mother, he randomly murders numerous people before torturing, eviscerating, and killing heroine Sabra Rockford in a gruesome sacrifice to Satan to gain unholy powers. Gaining power not from [[EvenEvilHasStandards a revolted Satan]] but a host of lesser demons, the Sender embarks on a Halloween rampage through the town of Cardin, mutilating and slaughtering well over a dozen people, including trick-or-treaters. By the time Sabra--resurrected by Satan to seek revenge--finally tracks him down, the Sender has unleashed his demonic powers on Cardin's Halloween festival, turning it into an orgy of sadomasochistic violence that sees scores more people killed. So evil that he horrifies even the Devil, the Sender has no motive for his atrocities other than his own insatiable sadism.
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': [[BigBad The Man With the Scarlet Eye]], who may be TheDevil, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When he helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When he discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, the Man with the Scarlet Eye brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed the Man with the Scarlet Eye is attempting to help the now insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity]] while he watches, [[ForTheEvulz enjoys the show and then dances on their graves]].
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': [[BigBad The Man With the Scarlet Eye]], aka "[[ForTheEvulz Friend]]", who may be TheDevil, has been wandering the Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When he Friend helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When he Friend discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead Earth, the Man with the Scarlet Eye he brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed the Man that Friend, annoyed with the Scarlet Eye Swan offering him forgiveness, is attempting to help the now insane now-insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity]] humanity while he watches, [[ForTheEvulz enjoys the show show, and then dances on their graves]].graves.
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* ''Literature/VictorianHorrorStories''' "Let Loose": [[AxCrazy Sir Roger Despard]] was a mass-murdering psychopath who enjoyed terrorizing the people of Wetwaste. Nearing the end of his life, Despard is asked to repent for his many sins, only for him to refuse to and instead say that his only "[[IRegretNothing regret]]" is not being able to kill more people. To rectify this, Despard [[HelpingHands cuts off his hand]] and instructs it to murder and maim in his place before he dies. Fifty years later, said hand eventually escapes its confinement and proceeds to kill [[WouldHurtAChild a little girl]], the local blacksmith, and very nearly kills the protagonist himself. The latter ends up protected by his dog, who [[HeroicSacrifice dies in the process]], and ends up needing to wear a high collar, even in hot weather, to hide the bruises.
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* ''Until They Bring the Streetcars Back'', by Stanley Gordon West: Otto Lutterman is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Gretchen. He routinely beats her, and is later revealed to beat the rest of his daughters, as well. At one point, Cal Gant breaks into his house and finds the corpse of [[WouldHurtAChild an infant]] in [[StuffedIntoTheFridge his refrigerator]], and Lutterman chases him with a knife. When Cal successfully frames Lutterman for bootlegging, he testifies at his trial, and Otto's wife reveals that the child was his, and that he had [[VillainousIncest raped Gretchen]]. Otto then flies into a rage and tries to strangle Cal.
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* ''Until They Bring the Streetcars Back'', by Stanley Gordon West: Otto Lutterman is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of Gretchen. He routinely beats her, and is later revealed to beat the rest of his daughters, as well. At one point, Cal Gant breaks into his house and finds the corpse of [[WouldHurtAChild an infant]] in [[StuffedIntoTheFridge [[BodyInABreadbox his refrigerator]], and Lutterman chases him with a knife. When Cal successfully frames Lutterman for bootlegging, he testifies at his trial, and Otto's wife reveals that the child was his, and that he had [[VillainousIncest raped Gretchen]]. Otto then flies into a rage and tries to strangle Cal.
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** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite [[SociopathicSoldier 7th Squadron]] at the secret base Area 7--which also contains the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also well as a top member of the secret racist Air Force society [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood]]. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products". Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
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** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite [[SociopathicSoldier 7th Squadron]] at the secret base Area 7--which also contains the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also well as a top member of the secret racist Air Force society [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood]]. Putting into motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his Marines. Eventually, the President explains Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". Then, Caesar could use the Sinovirus to rid America of its "human waste products".products"--how he refers to the Black population. Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, Caesar still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
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* ''Literature/SixRooms'', by Gemma Amor: [[ItsAllAboutMe Charles Lester III]] is a selfish, entitled [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] who believes everyone exists to serve him and his whims. Catching his valet trying on his cufflinks, Charles [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]] and then the housekeeper Anna [[LeaveNoWitnesses as a witness]]. Murdering the gardener after the latter sees him [[BuriedAlive place the still-living Anna in a tomb to suffocate]], Charles is then disturbed by the distraught scullery maid Isabelle who is pregnant from his drunken rape of her. Charles proceeds to murder her as well, finally deciding to kill his pregnant wife Rose to complete the cover up.
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** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral US Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "[[BigBad Caesar]]", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Special Operations Squadron [[SociopathicSoldier soldiers at Area 7]], a secret base, as well as a top member of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood, a secret racist society in the US Air Force]]. [[DiabolicalMastermind Putting into motion]] a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities--including Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York City; and Chicago--will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron soldiers face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his troops. After much action, the President explains how Caesar was supposedly put to death for a treasonous plot, tells about the Brotherhood, and explains how the cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". In addition, Caesar would have the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as the vaccine, which was the main purpose of Area 7. It is later revealed, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, that Caesar also had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
** ''Scarecrow'': [[BigBad Jonathan James Killian III]] is the head of defense contractor Axon Corp., as well as part of [[TheIlluminati Majestic-12]], a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, he secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan, to be capped off with a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, to strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan, which would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. He also makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, he has her beheaded to make Scarecrow want vengeance and distract him from stopping the plot, which nearly [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide]] instead. Even after Scarecrow comes back, helps stop the attacks and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won even if Scarecrow kills him]].
** ''Scarecrow'': [[BigBad Jonathan James Killian III]] is the head of defense contractor Axon Corp., as well as part of [[TheIlluminati Majestic-12]], a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, he secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan, to be capped off with a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, to strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan, which would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. He also makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, he has her beheaded to make Scarecrow want vengeance and distract him from stopping the plot, which nearly [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide]] instead. Even after Scarecrow comes back, helps stop the attacks and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won even if Scarecrow kills him]].
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** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral US Air Force USAF Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "[[BigBad Caesar]]", "Caesar", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Special Operations Squadron [[SociopathicSoldier soldiers 7th Squadron]] at Area 7]], a the secret base, base Area 7--which also contains the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as its vaccine. Caesar is also well as a top member of the secret racist Air Force society [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood, a secret racist society in the US Air Force]]. [[DiabolicalMastermind Brotherhood]]. Putting into motion]] motion a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities--including Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York City; and Chicago--will cities will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron soldiers members face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes Shane Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his troops. After much action, Marines. Eventually, the President explains how Caesar was supposedly put to death for a treasonous plot, tells about the Brotherhood, and explains how the Caesar's plot: The cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". In addition, Then, Caesar would have could use the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as the vaccine, which was the main purpose Sinovirus to rid America of Area 7. It is later revealed, its "human waste products". Finally, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, that Caesar also still had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
** ''Scarecrow'':[[BigBad [[ChaosIsEvil Jonathan James Killian III]] is the head III]], chairman and CEO of defense contractor Axon Corp., as well as part is also a member of [[TheIlluminati Majestic-12]], Majestic-12, a cabal of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire industrialists]] who dominate global political and economic policy, and plot to fake several nuclear attacks in order to escalate UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror into a second UsefulNotes/ColdWar, as well as to [[WarForFunAndProfit create more business for themselves]]. Fascinated by anarchy and its results, Killian plans to make the targets think they were struck by their most hated enemies; this included China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan. Even after the other members deny permission, he Killian secretly changes the missiles being constructed to carry out his plan, to be capped off with plan. Killian's plan would culminate by having a supposed Israeli weapon, with an American nuclear warhead, to strike Mecca on the start of Ramadan, which Ramadan; this would spark worldwide vengeance by Muslims against American citizens and tip the balance into global anarchy. He also Killian makes a habit of trapping people--including another Majestic-12 member--in a SharkPool equipped with a guillotine, to see who will kill themselves or each other to spare themselves pain, and after capturing Scarecrow's LoveInterest Libby Gant, he Killian has her beheaded to make distract Scarecrow want vengeance and distract him from stopping the plot, which nearly [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide]] instead. plot. Even after Scarecrow comes back, is stopped from committing suicide, helps stop the attacks attacks, and confronts Killian, Killian gloats that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he will have won even if Scarecrow kills him]].
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** First book: [[{{Sadist}} Nefarian Serpine]], a [[PsychoSupporter fanatical worshipper]] of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]], had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family, knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine begins plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty years later, after arranging for Baron Vengeous to complete his Grotesquery, Batu befriends and murders every experienced Teleporter still alive so that none of them can close his gateway. Upon revealing himself to Valkyrie in the battle with the Diablerie, Batu can only express pride and exhilaration at the destruction he has caused, offering his followers up as vessels for the dark gods under the guise of protection from their horrible wrath. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious of the power and longevity of sorcerers]], Batu is willing to destroy the world [[GodhoodSeeker in order to achieve godhood]], arrogantly thinking that he will become one with the Faceless One that possesses him.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty years later, after arranging for Baron Vengeous to complete his Grotesquery, Batu befriends and murders every experienced Teleporter still alive so that none of them can close his gateway. Upon revealing himself to Valkyrie in the battle with the Diablerie, Batu can only express pride and exhilaration at the destruction he has caused, offering his followers up as vessels for the dark gods under the guise of protection from their horrible wrath. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious of the power and longevity of sorcerers]], Batu is willing to destroy the world [[GodhoodSeeker in order to achieve godhood]], arrogantly thinking that he will become one with the Faceless One that possesses him.
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** First book: [[{{Sadist}} Nefarian Serpine]], a [[PsychoSupporter fanatical worshipper]] worshipper of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]], Ones]] and TheDragon to the warmongering sorcerer Mevolent, had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family, family knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine begins began plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty yearslater, later after arranging for Baron Vengeous to complete his Grotesquery, Batu befriends and murders every experienced Teleporter still alive so that none of them can close his gateway. Upon revealing himself to Valkyrie in the battle with the Diablerie, Batu can only express pride and exhilaration at the destruction he has caused, offering his followers up as vessels for the dark gods under the guise of protection from their horrible wrath. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious of the power and longevity of sorcerers]], Batu is willing to destroy the world [[GodhoodSeeker in order to achieve godhood]], arrogantly thinking that he will become one with the Faceless One that possesses him.
** ''The Faceless Ones'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Batu]] was a [[MuggleBornOfMages mortal born into a family of sorcerers]]. Upon learning of a way to summon the Faceless Ones from Trope Kessel, Batu [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered him]] and gave his corpse to the Sea Hag to suffer underwater for decades. Reforming the Diablerie fifty years
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*** Cleric Vandameer [[DirtyCoward Craven]] initially seems to be nothing more than a sycophantic supporter of Tenebrae, but quickly proves to be far worse. [[PlayingWithSyringes Horrifically experimenting]] on Melancholia St Clair, Craven unveils her as the Death Bringer and quickly begins abusing the power that comes with his newfound acclaim. Taking over the Order after Melancholia kills Tenebrae, Craven continues the attempts to initiate the Passage and sacrifices his loyal followers to evade capture, eventually [[DemotedToDragon becoming a lackey]] to the [[SanitySlippage insane]] Melancholia in the dubious hope he'll be spared when she [[OmnicidalManiac kills everyone]]. A self-serving coward concerned only with preserving his own life, Craven abandons even Tenebrae's flimsy pretense of saving the world in his spinelessness.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]] towards Argeddion's dream of spreading magic to all.
** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing him back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon torments the two with visions and the reveal of Chrissy's involvement.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]] towards Argeddion's dream of spreading magic to all.
** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing him back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon torments the two with visions and the reveal of Chrissy's involvement.
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*** Cleric Vandameer [[DirtyCoward Craven]] initially seems to be nothing more than a sycophantic supporter of Tenebrae, but quickly proves to be far worse. [[PlayingWithSyringes Horrifically experimenting]] on Melancholia St Clair, Craven unveils her as the Death Bringer and quickly begins abusing the power that comes with his newfound acclaim. Taking over the Order after Melancholia kills Tenebrae, Craven continues the attempts to initiate the Passage and sacrifices his loyal followers to evade capture, eventually [[DemotedToDragon becoming a lackey]] to the [[SanitySlippage now insane]] Melancholia in the dubious hope he'll be spared when she [[OmnicidalManiac kills everyone]]. A self-serving coward concerned only with preserving his own life, Craven abandons even Tenebrae's flimsy pretense of saving the world in his spinelessness.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]]towards toward Argeddion's dream of spreading magic to all.
** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringinghim the narrator back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon reveals Chrissy's involvement and torments the two with visions and the reveal of Chrissy's involvement.visions.
** ''Kingdom of the Wicked'': [[AlphaBitch Kitana Kellaway]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] given powerful magic by Argeddion. Killing sorcerer Patrick Xebec by telekinetically crushing his mind after he explains the rules of magic to her and her friends, Kitana and Doran go about getting revenge on those who have slighted them, using their newfound power to rip apart Kitana's ex-boyfriend and Doran's abusive older brother, before taking hostage a class at their school. [[TheCorrupter Egging on Doran and Sean to commit more horrific acts]] and massacring sorcerers sent to look for them, Kitana kills Argeddion's love Greta Dapple in front of him while preparing to trap him in the Cube as a [[LivingBattery battery]] for her psychotic fun. A sadistic bully, Kitana is the [[HumansAreBastards perfect antithesis]]
** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing
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* ''Literature/WarchildSeries'': Falcone takes explicitly evil [[SpacePirates piracy]] of the book's setting, preying on innocent merchant ships just trying to get from point A to point B, to another level. He slaughters everyone on the ships he boards before blowing the ships to pieces, the only survivors the children he captures to then sell as slaves. Some of them he keeps for himself and abuses in [[{{Squick}} every way your mind can possibly think up]]. Even after his death, flashbacks show him reveling in his atrocities. This is in a series, where everyone is [[BlackAndGrayMorality a little edgy]].
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* ''Literature/WarchildSeries'': Falcone takes [[BigBad Vincenzo Marcus Falcone]] demonstrates the worst of the setting's already explicitly evil [[SpacePirates piracy]] of the book's setting, preying on innocent merchant ships just trying to get from point A to point B, to another level. He piracy]]. Falcone slaughters everyone on the ships he boards before blowing the ships to pieces, pieces; the only survivors are the children he captures to then sell as slaves. Some slaves, although some of them he keeps for himself and [[WouldHurtAChild abuses in [[{{Squick}} every way your mind can possibly think up]].horrific fashion]], while [[EvilMentor turning others]] into {{Tykebomb}}s. Even after his death, flashbacks show him reveling in his atrocities. This is in a series, where everyone is [[BlackAndGrayMorality a little edgy]].
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* ''Literature/YouWereNeverReallyHere'': [[TheDon "The Boss" Novelli]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] crime lord who is approached by politician Votto for funding in his political career. Novelli, a vile [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and [[HumanTraffickers sex trafficker]], agrees to help Votto so long as he gets to pimp out Votto's daughter Lisa. Doing this simply out of spite for Votto's dad being a rival to Novelli, Novelli convinces Votto to take the deal before raping Lisa and turning her into a prostitute for his organization. Novelli goes on to [[HeKnowsTooMuch ensure that no one discovers the truth]], killing Votto's wife when she gets suspicious of Lisa's whereabouts and sending his goons to eliminate several loose ends tied to Votto and the hired gun Joe.
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* Scarecrow (Shane Michael Schofield) series, by Creator/MatthewReilly:
** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral US Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "[[BigBad Caesar]]", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Special Operations Squadron [[SociopathicSoldier soldiers at Area 7]], a secret base, as well as a top member of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood, a secret racist society in the US Air Force]]. [[DiabolicalMastermind Putting into motion]] a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities--including Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York City; and Chicago--will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron soldiers face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes [[TheHero US Marine captain Shane Michael Schofield]], call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his troops. After much action, the President explains how Caesar was supposedly put to death for a treasonous plot, tells about the Brotherhood, and explains how the cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". In addition, Caesar would have the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as the vaccine, which was the main purpose of Area 7. It is later revealed, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, that Caesar also had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral US Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "[[BigBad Caesar]]", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Special Operations Squadron [[SociopathicSoldier soldiers at Area 7]], a secret base, as well as a top member of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood, a secret racist society in the US Air Force]]. [[DiabolicalMastermind Putting into motion]] a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities--including Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York City; and Chicago--will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron soldiers face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes [[TheHero US Marine captain Shane Michael Schofield]], call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his troops. After much action, the President explains how Caesar was supposedly put to death for a treasonous plot, tells about the Brotherhood, and explains how the cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". In addition, Caesar would have the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as the vaccine, which was the main purpose of Area 7. It is later revealed, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, that Caesar also had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
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* Scarecrow (Shane (USMC Captain Shane Michael Schofield) series, by Creator/MatthewReilly:
** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral US Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "[[BigBad Caesar]]", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Special Operations Squadron [[SociopathicSoldier soldiers at Area 7]], a secret base, as well as a top member of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood, a secret racist society in the US Air Force]]. [[DiabolicalMastermind Putting into motion]] a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities--including Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York City; and Chicago--will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron soldiers face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes[[TheHero US Marine captain Shane Michael Schofield]], Schofield, call-sign "Scarecrow", and several of his troops. After much action, the President explains how Caesar was supposedly put to death for a treasonous plot, tells about the Brotherhood, and explains how the cities that would be destroyed would all be Northern cities, as "Caesar wants an America without the North". In addition, Caesar would have the Sinovirus, a Chinese bioweapon, as well as the vaccine, which was the main purpose of Area 7. It is later revealed, even when the Sinovirus is no longer an issue, that Caesar also had a transmitter attached to his own heart, and is planning to die, [[DeadMansSwitch which would set off the bombs]].
** ''Area 7'': [[InsaneAdmiral US Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Samson Russell]], call-sign "[[BigBad Caesar]]", is secretly the head of the elite 7th Special Operations Squadron [[SociopathicSoldier soldiers at Area 7]], a secret base, as well as a top member of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Brotherhood, a secret racist society in the US Air Force]]. [[DiabolicalMastermind Putting into motion]] a plan he had been [[CrazyPrepared working on for 15 years]], when the US President visits Area 7, Caesar activates a transmitter attached to the President's heart. If the President's heart stops, or if he fails to match his palm print to the nuclear football every 90 minutes, over a dozen bombs located in the airports of a dozen US cities--including Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York City; and Chicago--will go off. Willing to give the President a "final chance", Caesar has 50 7th Squadron soldiers face off against the President's Secret Service detail, which, unbeknownst to Caesar, also includes
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* ''The Schwarzschild Radius'', by Gustavo Florentin: "[[PsychoForHire The Webmaster]]", Hector Brazos, is a {{sadist}}ic torturer and killer for hire, whose signature style is recording his victims' deaths. Originally an assassin for the Mexican Cartel, the Webmaster slaughtered dozens of people, including entire families, inflicting horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder on every one of them, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. Wanting to earn his money easier, the Webmaster turned his child pornography website into a hub for individuals worldwide to bid on the torture young teenage girls the Webmaster had kidnapped would endure for the following weeks. This torture included everything from electrocution and bone breaking, to being raped by either the Webmaster or his trained dogs, and, when the girls eventually wore out, the Webmaster would hold a final bid for the excrutiating way each girl would die. When any of his partners try to turn on him, the Webmaster wastes no time in torturing and slowly killing them. After failing to sadistically torture 3 teenage girls, the Webmaster kills one, along with an innocent homeless man, opens fire on police officers before setting a bomb off on top of them, and tries to rape and murder two of his only surviving victims. [[{{Greed}} Caring for money above all else]], the Webmaster would commit any and all depraved actions to make a quick buck, and would enjoy every minute of it.
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* ''The Schwarzschild Radius'', Literature/ScarpettaSeries, by Patricia Cornwell:
** ''Cruel and Unusual'' & ''From Potter's Field'': Temple Brooks Gault proved to be a sociopath ever since childhood, tormenting his twin sister Jayne and killing her puppy over perceived ParentalFavoritism. Growing into a volatile narcissist with no qualms about killing a man who has insulted his looks, he resolves to become a SerialKiller in a [[FameThroughInfamy twisted search for fame]]. His victims, whose bodies he degrades in various ways, include a 13-year-old boy; a pregnant woman; and a prison guard [[UngratefulBastard who was offering him a hideout]]. After escaping capture, Gault announces his return by [[CainAndAbel murdering Jayne]], then murders three cops to further taunt Kay Scarpetta and her team. When the police corner him in the subway, Gault electrocutes Detective Meier to death and takes Lucy hostage before trying to kill Kay.
** ''Unnatural Exposure'': [[MadScientist Phyllis Crowder]]--aka [[DeadlyDoctor Deadoc]]--after being made a scapegoat for the Birmingham smallpox outbreak, secretly spliced the virus with monkeypox to get her revenge through a pandemic. She starts testing the new virus on her own mother, [[{{Matricide}} ultimately killing and dismembering her]] to hide the traces of the disease, before sending contaminated beauty samples to the residents of Tangiers Island, causing three more deaths. [[BitchInSheepsClothing While acting as a helpful assistant to Kay Scarpetta]], Phyllis taunts her online with grisly photos of the crime scenes and eventually infects her staff, resulting in the death of Kay's assistant Wingo. When confronted by Kay after her sixth murder, a drifter she shot after he broke into her caravan lab, Phyllis coldly dismisses her actions as a "[[DisproportionateRetribution tit for tat]]", uncaring that she could have threatened the whole world with a new bioweapon.
** ''Point of Origin'': [[SerialKiller Newton Joyce]] is a British entrepreneur who uses the inconveniences of his teenage acne as an excuse to indulge in serial killing. Moving easily from UK to the USA thanks to his wealth, Joyce murders young and beautiful people to [[CreepySouvenir remove and keep their faces]], only leaving mutilated torsos to be found. After teaming up with [[MonsterFangirl Carrie Grethen]], Joyce starts [[FieryCoverup using fire to cover his traces]], uncaring of the collateral damage. One time, Joyce sets fire to a whole farmhouse, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals leaving eighteen horses to a slow and agonizing death]]. With a body count of 27 and an absolute disregard for the pain he causes, Newton Joyce is the most prolific serial killer faced by Kay's team.
* ''Literature/TheSchwarzschildRadius'', by Gustavo Florentin: "[[PsychoForHire The Webmaster]]", Hector Brazos, is a {{sadist}}ic torturer and killer for hire, whose signature style is recording his victims' deaths. Originally an assassin for the Mexican Cartel, the Webmaster slaughtered dozens of people, including entire families, inflicting horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder on every one of them, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. Wanting to earn his money easier, the Webmaster turned his child pornography website into a hub for individuals worldwide to bid on the torture young teenage girls the Webmaster had kidnapped would endure for the following weeks. This torture included everything from electrocution and bone breaking, to being raped by either the Webmaster or his trained dogs, and, when the girls eventually wore out, the Webmaster would hold a final bid for theexcrutiating excruciating way each girl would die. When any of his partners try to turn on him, the Webmaster wastes no time in torturing and slowly killing them. After failing to sadistically torture 3 teenage girls, the Webmaster kills one, along with an innocent homeless man, opens fire on police officers before setting a bomb off on top of them, and tries to rape and murder two of his only surviving victims. [[{{Greed}} Caring for money above all else]], the Webmaster would commit any and all depraved actions to make a quick buck, and would enjoy every minute of it.
** ''Cruel and Unusual'' & ''From Potter's Field'': Temple Brooks Gault proved to be a sociopath ever since childhood, tormenting his twin sister Jayne and killing her puppy over perceived ParentalFavoritism. Growing into a volatile narcissist with no qualms about killing a man who has insulted his looks, he resolves to become a SerialKiller in a [[FameThroughInfamy twisted search for fame]]. His victims, whose bodies he degrades in various ways, include a 13-year-old boy; a pregnant woman; and a prison guard [[UngratefulBastard who was offering him a hideout]]. After escaping capture, Gault announces his return by [[CainAndAbel murdering Jayne]], then murders three cops to further taunt Kay Scarpetta and her team. When the police corner him in the subway, Gault electrocutes Detective Meier to death and takes Lucy hostage before trying to kill Kay.
** ''Unnatural Exposure'': [[MadScientist Phyllis Crowder]]--aka [[DeadlyDoctor Deadoc]]--after being made a scapegoat for the Birmingham smallpox outbreak, secretly spliced the virus with monkeypox to get her revenge through a pandemic. She starts testing the new virus on her own mother, [[{{Matricide}} ultimately killing and dismembering her]] to hide the traces of the disease, before sending contaminated beauty samples to the residents of Tangiers Island, causing three more deaths. [[BitchInSheepsClothing While acting as a helpful assistant to Kay Scarpetta]], Phyllis taunts her online with grisly photos of the crime scenes and eventually infects her staff, resulting in the death of Kay's assistant Wingo. When confronted by Kay after her sixth murder, a drifter she shot after he broke into her caravan lab, Phyllis coldly dismisses her actions as a "[[DisproportionateRetribution tit for tat]]", uncaring that she could have threatened the whole world with a new bioweapon.
** ''Point of Origin'': [[SerialKiller Newton Joyce]] is a British entrepreneur who uses the inconveniences of his teenage acne as an excuse to indulge in serial killing. Moving easily from UK to the USA thanks to his wealth, Joyce murders young and beautiful people to [[CreepySouvenir remove and keep their faces]], only leaving mutilated torsos to be found. After teaming up with [[MonsterFangirl Carrie Grethen]], Joyce starts [[FieryCoverup using fire to cover his traces]], uncaring of the collateral damage. One time, Joyce sets fire to a whole farmhouse, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals leaving eighteen horses to a slow and agonizing death]]. With a body count of 27 and an absolute disregard for the pain he causes, Newton Joyce is the most prolific serial killer faced by Kay's team.
* ''Literature/TheSchwarzschildRadius'', by Gustavo Florentin: "[[PsychoForHire The Webmaster]]", Hector Brazos, is a {{sadist}}ic torturer and killer for hire, whose signature style is recording his victims' deaths. Originally an assassin for the Mexican Cartel, the Webmaster slaughtered dozens of people, including entire families, inflicting horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder on every one of them, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. Wanting to earn his money easier, the Webmaster turned his child pornography website into a hub for individuals worldwide to bid on the torture young teenage girls the Webmaster had kidnapped would endure for the following weeks. This torture included everything from electrocution and bone breaking, to being raped by either the Webmaster or his trained dogs, and, when the girls eventually wore out, the Webmaster would hold a final bid for the
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** ''The Magpie Coffin'', by Wile E. Young (Book 1): [[SociopathicSoldier Sgt. Earnest Craft]], one of the American soldiers that Salem Covington seeks vengeance upon for the bloody murder of his Comanche mentor, is a {{sadist}} and a [[SerialRapist rapist]] with a secret cave he stashes his victims in. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] who justifies his cruelty to others as the right of a white man in a white man's world, Craft [[TortureTechnician tortures dozens to death]], even little children and the elderly, while keeping their mangled or still-living bodies in his personal torture cave. Among Craft's victims include his own insane, sadomasochistic mother.
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** ''Human-Shaped Fiends'', by Chandler Morrison (Book 11): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain David Brown]] is a vile racist and sexual sadist who prides himself on his reputation of being an Indian killer. Brown has [[SerialKiller killed dozens of people]], [[CreepySouvenir whose ears he keeps as trophies]], and is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] brutally torturing and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] a hooker half to death for no other reason than spite towards the local sheriff asking Brown to go easy on her. Later kicking up his gang and the local town into a frenzy, Brown kills a harmless Indian pleading for peace before shooting his own employer and imploring his men to kill and rape their way through town.
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* ''Literature/{{Waif}}'', by Samantha Kolesnik: [[BackAlleyDoctor Cal "Mince" Mincciola]] is an underground plastic surgeon who specializes in off-the-books surgeries. In truth, Mince runs underground pornography rings that deal in [[SnuffFilm snuff]], [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]], [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]], and more while [[MadDoctor he mutilates patients on camera or has them raped while anesthetized]]. Taking in protagonist Angela, Mince uses her in films and eventually plans to murder her and her friends, known as the Waifs, with his dying words being to sneer that people would have paid good money to see his own death.
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* "Literature/TheWashingtonians", by Creator/BentleyLittle: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington himself is exposed as a monstrous and wicked [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] who skinned and [[ChildEater ate children alive]], as revealed from a letter the hero finds along with utensils made from the bones of his victims. Washington slaughtered men for his meals, forming the Washingtonian {{cult}} to continue the practice of devouring innocents, commissioning a portrait of him and his concubines ripping a victim apart while alive and screaming. Especially fond of the flesh of young virgins, Washington's [[VillainousLegacy legacy]] survives through the Washingtonian cult to modern day, who continue the practice of brutal cannibalism.
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* ''Film/TheSentinel'' & ''The Guardian'', by Jeffrey Konvitz: [[FauxAffablyEvil Charles Chazen]] appears a friendly, eccentric old fellow who is, in truth, {{Satan}} himself. When the new potential guardian to the gates of Hell, Alison, arrives at the apartment that rests over the gateway, Chazen attempts to kill those she loves and [[MindRape torture her mentally]] until she breaks and [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]]. When Alison takes her place as the new Sentinel, Chazen sets his sights on the next Sentinel, Father [=McBride=], starting a web of murder and destruction to break him. Tricking [=McBride=] into suicide and damnation, Chazen prepares to lead the legions of Hell and the damned into the world to bring about the apocalypse, gloating about his intent to [[AGodAmI dethrone God and take over all creation]].
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* ''Film/TheSentinel'' ''Film/TheSentinel1977'' & ''The Guardian'', by Jeffrey Konvitz: [[FauxAffablyEvil Charles Chazen]] appears a friendly, eccentric old fellow who is, in truth, {{Satan}} himself. When the new potential guardian to the gates of Hell, Alison, arrives at the apartment that rests over the gateway, Chazen attempts to kill those she loves and [[MindRape torture her mentally]] until she breaks and [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]]. When Alison takes her place as the new Sentinel, Chazen sets his sights on the next Sentinel, Father [=McBride=], starting a web of murder and destruction to break him. Tricking [=McBride=] into suicide and damnation, Chazen prepares to lead the legions of Hell and the damned into the world to bring about the apocalypse, gloating about his intent to [[AGodAmI dethrone God and take over all creation]].
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* ''Franchise/{{RWBY}}'':
** ''[[Literature/RWBYBeforeTheDawn Before the Dawn]]'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Jax Asturias]], the mastermind of the Crown, is a childish and envious man with delusions of grandeur. Manipulating his close friends and sister into going along with his plans to restore the Vacuo monarchy with him in charge, planning to purge the "weak" and anyone who wasn't loyal to him, Jax uses the Crown to have countless people, including [[WouldHurtAChild children with notable Semblances]], trafficked and enslaved with his Semblance, leaving them [[AndIMustScream conscious but bent to his will]]. As part of his plan to attack Shade Academy, Jax turns several citizens and minions who displease him into "[[LivingBattery Aura vessels]]" to make himself stronger, hoping to use his army to crush the other Kingdoms under his heel, bury them in the sands and rule all of Remnant once he's king. When his plan is failing, Jax "settles" for using his Army to [[TakingYouWithMe go out destroying Shade and his enemies out of spite]], even attempting to kill his own sister when she tries to save herself--an act he had also attempted when they were children.
** ''[[Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant Fairy Tales of Remnant]]'':
*** "The Infinite Man": [[DarkActionGirl The warrior]] is a thuggish BloodKnight who invades the Circle's town to "fight a God", attacking men, women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] alike to draw out the Infinite Man. She then manipulates the Man, claiming that she will spare the Circle if he allows her to kill him, [[ILied only to go back on her word]] and massacre the whole community, killing everyone but the Man's right-hand-woman so [[MakeAnExampleOfThem she could tell the story]], but not before the warrior mutilates her, slicing off her arm and cutting out her eye.
*** "The Two Brothers": The legendary version of the [[DestroyerDeity God of Darkness]] is a malignant {{sadist}} of a deity who sees all of creation as a toy-box to torment [[ForTheEvulz for his entertainment]]. Desiring to destroy everything Light created, Darkness wipes out early life on Remnant several times with gleeful relish, raining down fiery ash, boiling the oceans, and creating horrific beasts known only as "[[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm the Grimm]]", who exist only to kill and destroy everything good. After creating humanity with Light, he torments them with disasters like earthquakes and creates more Grimm to wipe them out in experiments. In a fight with his brother, which causes catastrophe and death throughout the world, he nearly allows the world to burn simply to continue fighting Light. After nearly destroying all of creation so that the Gods could regain their essence and leave, Light strikes a deal with Darkness to give Humanity a chance, with Darkness only agreeing on the condition that [[OmnicidalManiac everything will burn]] if humanity does not achieve perfection.
** ''[[Literature/RWBYBeforeTheDawn Before the Dawn]]'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Jax Asturias]], the mastermind of the Crown, is a childish and envious man with delusions of grandeur. Manipulating his close friends and sister into going along with his plans to restore the Vacuo monarchy with him in charge, planning to purge the "weak" and anyone who wasn't loyal to him, Jax uses the Crown to have countless people, including [[WouldHurtAChild children with notable Semblances]], trafficked and enslaved with his Semblance, leaving them [[AndIMustScream conscious but bent to his will]]. As part of his plan to attack Shade Academy, Jax turns several citizens and minions who displease him into "[[LivingBattery Aura vessels]]" to make himself stronger, hoping to use his army to crush the other Kingdoms under his heel, bury them in the sands and rule all of Remnant once he's king. When his plan is failing, Jax "settles" for using his Army to [[TakingYouWithMe go out destroying Shade and his enemies out of spite]], even attempting to kill his own sister when she tries to save herself--an act he had also attempted when they were children.
** ''[[Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant Fairy Tales of Remnant]]'':
*** "The Infinite Man": [[DarkActionGirl The warrior]] is a thuggish BloodKnight who invades the Circle's town to "fight a God", attacking men, women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] alike to draw out the Infinite Man. She then manipulates the Man, claiming that she will spare the Circle if he allows her to kill him, [[ILied only to go back on her word]] and massacre the whole community, killing everyone but the Man's right-hand-woman so [[MakeAnExampleOfThem she could tell the story]], but not before the warrior mutilates her, slicing off her arm and cutting out her eye.
*** "The Two Brothers": The legendary version of the [[DestroyerDeity God of Darkness]] is a malignant {{sadist}} of a deity who sees all of creation as a toy-box to torment [[ForTheEvulz for his entertainment]]. Desiring to destroy everything Light created, Darkness wipes out early life on Remnant several times with gleeful relish, raining down fiery ash, boiling the oceans, and creating horrific beasts known only as "[[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm the Grimm]]", who exist only to kill and destroy everything good. After creating humanity with Light, he torments them with disasters like earthquakes and creates more Grimm to wipe them out in experiments. In a fight with his brother, which causes catastrophe and death throughout the world, he nearly allows the world to burn simply to continue fighting Light. After nearly destroying all of creation so that the Gods could regain their essence and leave, Light strikes a deal with Darkness to give Humanity a chance, with Darkness only agreeing on the condition that [[OmnicidalManiac everything will burn]] if humanity does not achieve perfection.
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** ObviouslyEvil [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Ubad]], a Necromancer who worships the EldritchAbomination BigBad Il'Samar, manipulated a vampire ally of his into raping a human woman to father a dhampyr on her. The result was said ally's death as his energy was drained and Ubad gaining the dhampyr he badly wanted. The reason was so he would have a champion to lead an army of the dead to [[OmnicidalManiac purge the world of life]]. Unlike Il'Samar's other followers, Ubad is simply in it to see how far he can push the bounds of his own powers as far as he can go until the world burns.
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** ObviouslyEvil [[NamesToRunAwayFrom [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ubad]], a Necromancer who worships the EldritchAbomination BigBad Il'Samar, manipulated a vampire ally of his into raping a human woman to father a dhampyr on her. The result was said ally's death as his energy was drained and Ubad gaining the dhampyr he badly wanted. The reason was so he would have a champion to lead an army of the dead to [[OmnicidalManiac purge the world of life]]. Unlike Il'Samar's other followers, Ubad is simply in it to see how far he can push the bounds of his own powers as far as he can go until the world burns.
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* ''A Shiny Can of Whup-Ass'' (from the ''After The Burn'' collection), by Ronald Kelly: [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Rott]], the singular most evil human to ever walk the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic hellscape of the post-Burn world]], is the most prolific SerialKiller in American history, with a legacy of indiscriminate rape, torture, and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] against potentially over 600 victims--most perpetrated whilst they were still alive. After the Burn, Rott escapes from death row and takes advantage of the chaos to rile up a gang of murderous thugs and return to his hometown of Watkins Glen to savage his way through the town. Rott savagely executes his own men one after another for things as minor as "laughing without my permission"; [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cuts apart and eats]] the entire stock of the local pet shop after coldly murdering its elderly owner; murders and cannibalizes random people across the town; and attempts to have his goons gang-rape a young woman and torture her to death for thrills. Eventually, Rott proposes he and his gang go from door-to-door and slaughter their way through town, intending to turn the church into a whorehouse and keep the women of Watkins Glen as {{sex slave}}s; and round up the children of the town with implied intention of raping and torturing the lot of them for fun. [[AntagonisticOffspring Reviled even by his own father]] and appropriately referred to as the "new Satan", Rott lives by [[TheHedonist one twisted creed]]: "If it feels right, do it. That's what I always did."
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* ''A Shiny Can of Whup-Ass'' (from the ''After The Burn'' collection), by Ronald Kelly: [[NamesToRunAwayFrom [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rott]], the singular most evil human to ever walk the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic hellscape of the post-Burn world]], is the most prolific SerialKiller in American history, with a legacy of indiscriminate rape, torture, and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] against potentially over 600 victims--most perpetrated whilst they were still alive. After the Burn, Rott escapes from death row and takes advantage of the chaos to rile up a gang of murderous thugs and return to his hometown of Watkins Glen to savage his way through the town. Rott savagely executes his own men one after another for things as minor as "laughing without my permission"; [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cuts apart and eats]] the entire stock of the local pet shop after coldly murdering its elderly owner; murders and cannibalizes random people across the town; and attempts to have his goons gang-rape a young woman and torture her to death for thrills. Eventually, Rott proposes he and his gang go from door-to-door and slaughter their way through town, intending to turn the church into a whorehouse and keep the women of Watkins Glen as {{sex slave}}s; and round up the children of the town with implied intention of raping and torturing the lot of them for fun. [[AntagonisticOffspring Reviled even by his own father]] and appropriately referred to as the "new Satan", Rott lives by [[TheHedonist one twisted creed]]: "If it feels right, do it. That's what I always did."
* Literature/SplatterWestern books:
** ''The Thirteenth Koyote'', by Kristopher Triana (Book 8):
*** [[BigBad Glenn "The Dreadful" Amarok]] is one of the last [[SavageWolves Koyotes]] left. Having betrayed and murders his parents as a boy, Glenn spent his youth on a plantation murdering, torturing, and raping slaves before he became a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfen]] under Jasper Thurston. Leading a charge of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rape and slaughter]] across the West, Glenn seeks his mentor's heart to empower himself with a host of new atrocities. Murdering the family of heroine Delia, Glenn has her baby brother [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cooked alive]], before having entire towns massacred. Participating in greater and greater acts of evil, Glenn intends to tear open the gates to hell and let demonkind overrun humanity so he may indulge every sadistic whim that comes to him.
*** [[WouldHurtAChild Hiram Zeindler]], Glenn's right-hand, is a sadistic Wolfen and vicious pedophile who refers to his victims as his "delights". Hiram enjoys [[FakeUltimateHero giving his victims hope]], coming in to "save" them before raping, torturing and mutilating them. One luckless boy is rendered a crippled, eyeless husk when Hiram is done, Hiram [[CruelMercy leaving him alive for pure sadism]]. Upon attacking a homestead, Hiram rapes, murders, and [[ChildEater partially devours a young boy alive]], [[MockingTheMourner mocking his father]] later for the boy calling for him as he died. Helping Glenn unlock the gates to hell, Hiram intends to form a harem of the world's children so they may perpetually beg for his favor by allowing him to molest them at will.
*** [[TheCorrupter Jasper Thurston]], the founder of the Koyotes, is known as the blackest soul to ever walk the earth. Recruiting and corrupting his soldiers, Thurston led them to [[RapePillageAndBurn horrific massacres]], killing and raping innocents all over the West while happily burning others alive in torches to indulge his and the others' whims. Caring nothing for his own, Jasper simply revives one as a brain-dead zombie upon death. Jasper locates the [[ArtifactOfDoom dark artifact]], the Menhir, and to fill it with evil, he plans to [[BurnTheOrphanage burn down an entire orphanage]] with the children inside, an act so repugnant it finally inspires one of his own, Luther Byrne, [[EvenEvilHasStandards to stand against him]]. Jasper tries to kill him without any regret, intending on opening hell itself to destroy the world at the end.
** ''The Devoured and The Dead'', by Kristopher Rufty (Book 12): Lassiter is a scarred bandit who comes upon the lost gold rush party after the adults are infected with the curse of the {{Wendigo}}. Lassiter is revealed to have murdered the hero William Coburn's [[YouKilledMyFather father]]; executes their Native guide Ahote; and proceeds to try to take the women and girls as {{sex slave}}s, having become obsessed with William's sister Lenora. Upon learning of the Wendigo curse, Lassiter simply tries to [[ImAHumanitarian feed the children]] to their own parents and takes Lenora, later interrupted by William in the process of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]].
** ''The Thirteenth Koyote'', by Kristopher Triana (Book 8):
*** [[BigBad Glenn "The Dreadful" Amarok]] is one of the last [[SavageWolves Koyotes]] left. Having betrayed and murders his parents as a boy, Glenn spent his youth on a plantation murdering, torturing, and raping slaves before he became a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfen]] under Jasper Thurston. Leading a charge of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rape and slaughter]] across the West, Glenn seeks his mentor's heart to empower himself with a host of new atrocities. Murdering the family of heroine Delia, Glenn has her baby brother [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cooked alive]], before having entire towns massacred. Participating in greater and greater acts of evil, Glenn intends to tear open the gates to hell and let demonkind overrun humanity so he may indulge every sadistic whim that comes to him.
*** [[WouldHurtAChild Hiram Zeindler]], Glenn's right-hand, is a sadistic Wolfen and vicious pedophile who refers to his victims as his "delights". Hiram enjoys [[FakeUltimateHero giving his victims hope]], coming in to "save" them before raping, torturing and mutilating them. One luckless boy is rendered a crippled, eyeless husk when Hiram is done, Hiram [[CruelMercy leaving him alive for pure sadism]]. Upon attacking a homestead, Hiram rapes, murders, and [[ChildEater partially devours a young boy alive]], [[MockingTheMourner mocking his father]] later for the boy calling for him as he died. Helping Glenn unlock the gates to hell, Hiram intends to form a harem of the world's children so they may perpetually beg for his favor by allowing him to molest them at will.
*** [[TheCorrupter Jasper Thurston]], the founder of the Koyotes, is known as the blackest soul to ever walk the earth. Recruiting and corrupting his soldiers, Thurston led them to [[RapePillageAndBurn horrific massacres]], killing and raping innocents all over the West while happily burning others alive in torches to indulge his and the others' whims. Caring nothing for his own, Jasper simply revives one as a brain-dead zombie upon death. Jasper locates the [[ArtifactOfDoom dark artifact]], the Menhir, and to fill it with evil, he plans to [[BurnTheOrphanage burn down an entire orphanage]] with the children inside, an act so repugnant it finally inspires one of his own, Luther Byrne, [[EvenEvilHasStandards to stand against him]]. Jasper tries to kill him without any regret, intending on opening hell itself to destroy the world at the end.
** ''The Devoured and The Dead'', by Kristopher Rufty (Book 12): Lassiter is a scarred bandit who comes upon the lost gold rush party after the adults are infected with the curse of the {{Wendigo}}. Lassiter is revealed to have murdered the hero William Coburn's [[YouKilledMyFather father]]; executes their Native guide Ahote; and proceeds to try to take the women and girls as {{sex slave}}s, having become obsessed with William's sister Lenora. Upon learning of the Wendigo curse, Lassiter simply tries to [[ImAHumanitarian feed the children]] to their own parents and takes Lenora, later interrupted by William in the process of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]].
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': [[TheDragon Ishamael]]--aka Elan Morin Tedronai, Ba'alzamon and Moridin--is scholar and philosopher who determined that [[UltimateEvil The Dark One]] was destined to triumph over good at the end of time. With that in mind, he signed on with The Dark One's forces, setting himself up as TheAntichrist and EvilCounterpart to his [[WeUsedToBeFriends former friend]], Lews Therin, whom he eventually [[DrivenToSuicide drove to suicide]]. Sealed in Shayol Ghul, Ishamael managed to free his spirit, and eventually his body. He makes the life of Lews Therin's reincarnation a living hell while in his Ba'alzamon identity, tormenting him with nightmares and doing everything in his power to make him miserable, while sending his troops to lay waste to the world. Following his apparent death, he is resurrected in a new identity (Moridin), and takes over leadership of The Dark One's armies, [[BadBoss brutally punishing]] the rest of The Forsaken when they [[YouHaveFailedMe fail]]. Unlike the rest of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Forsaken]], who think they will rule the world when the war is over, [[StrawNihilist Ishamael]] believes that The Dark One is an OmnicidalManiac, and is cool with that. In fact, it's why he agreed to work for him in the first place--he's a DeathSeeker and looks forward to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, viewing it as the chance for a murder/suicide on a cosmic scale. Driven by [[AGodAMi delusions of godhood]], and the occasional belief that he ''is'' The Dark One, even the [[EvenEvilHasStandards other Forsaken]] give [[AxeCrazy Ishamael]] a wide berth.
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': [[TheDragon ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the worst of [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheShadowAndDarkfriends the Forsaken]]:
** [[TheAntichrist Ishamael]]--aka Elan Morin Tedronai, Ba'alzamon and Moridin--is a scholar and philosopher who determined that[[UltimateEvil The [[TheAntiGod the Dark One]] was destined to triumph over good at the end of time. With that in mind, he Ishamael signed on with The the Dark One's forces, setting himself up as TheAntichrist and EvilCounterpart to eventually driving his [[WeUsedToBeFriends former friend]], friend, Lews Therin, whom he eventually [[DrivenToSuicide drove to suicide]]. Sealed in Shayol Ghul, Ishamael managed to free his spirit, and eventually his body. He Ishamael makes the life of Lews Therin's reincarnation a living hell while in his Ba'alzamon identity, tormenting him with nightmares and doing everything in his power to make him miserable, while sending his troops to lay waste to the world. Following his apparent death, he is resurrected in a new identity (Moridin), and identity--Moridin--and takes over leadership of The the Dark One's armies, [[BadBoss brutally punishing]] punishing the rest of The the Forsaken when they [[YouHaveFailedMe fail]]. fail. Unlike the rest of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Forsaken]], the Forsaken, who think they will [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world world]] when the war is over, [[StrawNihilist Ishamael]] Ishamael believes that The the Dark One is an OmnicidalManiac, and is cool perfectly fine with that. In fact, it's why he agreed to work for him in this.
** [[TheDreaded Semirhage]], one of thefirst place--he's a DeathSeeker and looks forward to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, viewing it as most terrifying of the chance for a murder/suicide on a cosmic scale. Driven by [[AGodAMi delusions of godhood]], and Forsaken, was once the occasional belief that he ''is'' The most gifted healer of her age, but also a cold {{sadist}} who [[TortureTechnician enjoyed torturing]] those she healed as "payment". Eagerly joining the Dark One, even Semirhage's territories were marked by hideous torture, with Semirhage [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting]] with ways to cause agony, such as replacing human blood with similar substances. Semirhage massacres the [[EvenEvilHasStandards other Forsaken]] give [[AxeCrazy Ishamael]] a wide berth.court of the Seanchan Empire, personally torturing the Empress to death, and tries to [[MindRape emotionally destroy]] Rand Al'Thor before the last battle.
** [[TheAntichrist Ishamael]]--aka Elan Morin Tedronai, Ba'alzamon and Moridin--is a scholar and philosopher who determined that
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* ''Literature/TheTroop'': [[TeensAreMonsters Shelley Longpre]] is a [[AxCrazy disturbed young psychopath]] who enjoys [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torturing and murdering insects and other animals]], including his mother's kitten. Taking advantage of the tapeworm infestation to enact his sick desires, Shelley tortures the infected Kent before killing him and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] Ephraim to torture him mentally in the belief he is infected before burning him alive and attempting to kill the remaining members of the troop.
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* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': [[CreepyGymCoach Isabelo Gorospe]] is the vile figure who drove [[SerialKiller Alex Carlos]] to his murder spree. A gym teacher and [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]], Isabelo lured impoverished boys by offering them scholarships, before forcing himself on them. Calling 8 boys in the gym after school, Isabelo would rape them and force them to do sexual acts together for a school year, with Alex, as his "favorite boy", the prime target of his worst acts; all this while always reminding them of how helpless they are to his authority, later [[ILied rescinding the scholarships regardless]].
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* ''Literature/SomethingDarkAndHoly'' trilogy:
** [[OverarchingVillain Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. [[TheChessmaster Concocting a series of events to revive himself]], Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage for his pleasure. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
** ''Wicked Saints'': [[EvilOverlord King Izak Meleski]], Serefin's [[ArchnemesisDad father]], is the tyrannical leader of Tranavia. Izak despises the idea that his people view him as weak and ineffectual, and now plans to prove them wrong by [[GodhoodSeeker achieving godhood]]. To this end, Izak has thousands of his own citizens [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]] and killed for the ritual to achieve divinity. Izak is also cruel to the enemy nation of Kalyazin, which he's fighting in a war, sending countless prisoners to be worked to death as slaves in the salt mines. Izak despises his son, Serefin, to such a degree that he plans to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]] as his final act to achieve godhood itself.
** [[OverarchingVillain Chyrnog]], the fallen GodOfChaos and Entropy, desires nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the end of all things]]. [[TheChessmaster Concocting a series of events to revive himself]], Chyrnog [[DemonicPossession possesses]] High Prince Serefin Meleski and forces him to kill his magically enhanced brother, Malachiasz Czechowicz. Chyrnog then possesses and revives Malachiasz and forces him to go on a serial killing and cannibalism spree to force him to submit to his control. Chyrnog sends his minions to attack and wipe out populated areas, planning to increase the carnage for his pleasure. Ultimately, after breaking Malachiasz's will, Chyrnog intends to use him as a host to wipe out the entire world, leaving nothing but an empty darkness.
** ''Wicked Saints'': [[EvilOverlord King Izak Meleski]], Serefin's [[ArchnemesisDad father]], is the tyrannical leader of Tranavia. Izak despises the idea that his people view him as weak and ineffectual, and now plans to prove them wrong by [[GodhoodSeeker achieving godhood]]. To this end, Izak has thousands of his own citizens [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]] and killed for the ritual to achieve divinity. Izak is also cruel to the enemy nation of Kalyazin, which he's fighting in a war, sending countless prisoners to be worked to death as slaves in the salt mines. Izak despises his son, Serefin, to such a degree that he plans to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]] as his final act to achieve godhood itself.
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* ''Literature/Station16'', by Hermann & Yves Huppen: [[MadScientist Professor Tretiakov]] is a sadistic Russian scientist who sought to create the ultimate SuperSoldier to serve the Soviet Union. Based in Novaya Zemlya, Tretiakov conducted [[PlayingWithSyringes horrid human experiments]], cutting out the sensory organs of his patients without anesthesia and confining them to [[DrivenToMadness the point of insanity]]. To test their endurance, Tretiakov strips them outside in the cold, with many perishing from hypothermia. When Grigory and a squadron of soldiers accidentally enter his base, Tretiakov captures them to experiment on. Escaping through a time rift into the modern day, Tretiakov is revealed to be working as an asylum doctor, conducting his same experiments there and intending to make Grigory his next test subject.
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* ''Those Across the River'', by Christopher Buehlman: [[PosthumousCharacter Lucien Savoyard]], ancestor of the novel's protagonist, was a [[{{Sadist}} nightmarish]] and brutal [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who maimed his wives to render them barren, faking his death to "show up" as his own child. A Confederate slaveowner and general, Lucien would torture countless slaves, murdering them for sport and pleasure while [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting others]] in wolf form every month. Infamous for the cruelties he inflicted, Lucien killed so many that though he bought countless slaves, it was suspected that he sold them so quickly due to the disappearances and upon death, cursed his killer as a werewolf as well.
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* ''Literature/ZeroSaints'', by Gabino Iglesias: [[BigBad Indio]], head of [[TheCartel a Mara Salvatrucha outfit]] seeking to move into Austin, is known for his dark powers and the immense amount of blood he has spilled to get his way. Introducing himself to hero Fernando with an "offer" to Fernando's employer Guillermo, Indio has his friend Nino slowly mutilated before sawing his head off and later leads a massacre of Guillermo's closest, killing the man himself and [[SlashedThroat opening the throat]] of Fernando's kind mother figure Conseulo.
* ''Zofloya: or The Moor'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Zofloya]] is the servant of Henriquez, the object of desire of Victoria de Loredani. Teaching Victoria of [[MasterPoisoner poison]] to eliminate those in her way, including Henriquez's brother, Zofloya happily kills one servant who does not die immediately. After having Henriquez [[BedTrick raped by Victoria]], leading to [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide]], Zofloya bids Victoria to murder his beloved Lilla and then brings the ruin and suicide of the rest of the cast. Revealing his true identity as {{Satan}} to Victoria, Zofloya gloats over the latter's downfall before killing her as well.
* ''Zofloya: or The Moor'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Zofloya]] is the servant of Henriquez, the object of desire of Victoria de Loredani. Teaching Victoria of [[MasterPoisoner poison]] to eliminate those in her way, including Henriquez's brother, Zofloya happily kills one servant who does not die immediately. After having Henriquez [[BedTrick raped by Victoria]], leading to [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide]], Zofloya bids Victoria to murder his beloved Lilla and then brings the ruin and suicide of the rest of the cast. Revealing his true identity as {{Satan}} to Victoria, Zofloya gloats over the latter's downfall before killing her as well.
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* ''Literature/TheSuicideMotorClub'', by Christopher Buehlman:
** Robert "Rob" Odom is the sole member of Luther Nixon's vampire gang that lacks any of his compatriots' good qualities. A rude, cruel murderer of dozens, Rob personally [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped five-year-old Glendon Lamb]] from his parents' vehicle, mocking the parents the whole time before he and his gang fed on the boy, turned him to a vampire, then left him to die in the sun. Continuing to assist his partners in murder sprees across America, Rob abandons his allies when he's endangered, [[WouldHarmASenior murders a blind old man]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution mildly annoying him]] after [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing the man's dog]], then spends his last moments gleefully [[MockingTheMourner mocking Judith Lamb]] over her son's fate. Rob is considered by Judith to be the most hated of the vampires she had ever met due to his hand in her son's awful trauma.
** [[TheRenfield Woodrow "Woods" Fulk]] is a death-loving {{sadist}} who allies with Luther Nixon's vampire gang as their human servant, just so he can witness the carnage they bring. Transporting, protecting, and guiding the gang on finding dozens of new victims, Woods regularly [[ILoveTheDead uses one of the many corpses they leave behind as his personal sex toy]] while ensuring the gang is never caught. Woods murders several members of the Bereaved when they track down Luther's gang, and later viciously stabs the Bereaved's elderly founder Tracy to near-death after a failed attempt to strangle him for the sexual thrill of it.
** Robert "Rob" Odom is the sole member of Luther Nixon's vampire gang that lacks any of his compatriots' good qualities. A rude, cruel murderer of dozens, Rob personally [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped five-year-old Glendon Lamb]] from his parents' vehicle, mocking the parents the whole time before he and his gang fed on the boy, turned him to a vampire, then left him to die in the sun. Continuing to assist his partners in murder sprees across America, Rob abandons his allies when he's endangered, [[WouldHarmASenior murders a blind old man]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution mildly annoying him]] after [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing the man's dog]], then spends his last moments gleefully [[MockingTheMourner mocking Judith Lamb]] over her son's fate. Rob is considered by Judith to be the most hated of the vampires she had ever met due to his hand in her son's awful trauma.
** [[TheRenfield Woodrow "Woods" Fulk]] is a death-loving {{sadist}} who allies with Luther Nixon's vampire gang as their human servant, just so he can witness the carnage they bring. Transporting, protecting, and guiding the gang on finding dozens of new victims, Woods regularly [[ILoveTheDead uses one of the many corpses they leave behind as his personal sex toy]] while ensuring the gang is never caught. Woods murders several members of the Bereaved when they track down Luther's gang, and later viciously stabs the Bereaved's elderly founder Tracy to near-death after a failed attempt to strangle him for the sexual thrill of it.
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* ''Literature/TheyThirst'': [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living vicitms. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a spoiled brat who has never grown up and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.
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** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him livingvicitms.victims. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a spoiled brat SpoiledBrat who [[PsychopathicManchild has never grown up up]] and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.ego.
** [[AxCrazy Kobra]] was an albino biker on a cross-country [[SpreeKiller murder spree]], using his Mauser machine gun to mow down entire bars and gangs of people in his path for fun, when he was contacted by Prince Conrad Vulkan to join his legion of evil. Becoming a vampire and given full cognizance and power as Vulkan's military commander, Kobra devours several innocents to turn them into his undead slaves, and uses them to prowl the streets of Los Angeles, turning all in their path who could be useful to Vulkan and killing everyone else. After turning Wes Richard's lover Solange into his vampiric bride, Kobra gleefully parades her zombified form in front of Wes [[KickTheDog just to taunt him]], and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to execute the young boy Tommy]] when Kobra finds him inside Vulkan's castle.
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living
** [[AxCrazy Kobra]] was an albino biker on a cross-country [[SpreeKiller murder spree]], using his Mauser machine gun to mow down entire bars and gangs of people in his path for fun, when he was contacted by Prince Conrad Vulkan to join his legion of evil. Becoming a vampire and given full cognizance and power as Vulkan's military commander, Kobra devours several innocents to turn them into his undead slaves, and uses them to prowl the streets of Los Angeles, turning all in their path who could be useful to Vulkan and killing everyone else. After turning Wes Richard's lover Solange into his vampiric bride, Kobra gleefully parades her zombified form in front of Wes [[KickTheDog just to taunt him]], and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to execute the young boy Tommy]] when Kobra finds him inside Vulkan's castle.
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* ''Literature/SmallTownMonsters'', by Diana Rodriguez Wallach: The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] known as the "Angel of Tears" once ran a {{cult}} that practiced HumanSacrifice. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed off]] by the parents of Vera Martinez, the Angel later returns by forcing a man to cause an explosion that kills 17 people, and later [[DemonicPossession possesses a woman]] while rebuilding its cult. Causing numerous deaths and destruction, the Angel of Tears plans a mass suicide of its followers to enhance its power and sweep over the world to repeat it again.
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* ''There's Someone Inside Your House'', by Stephanie Perkins: [[SerialKiller The Osborne Slayer]], real name [[GunmanWithThreeNames David Thurston Ware]], is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage high school student]] who grew bored with his small town and turned to murder to make a name for himself. Planning to [[FameThroughInfamy make himself infamous as a killer]], the Slayer targets his fellow students who are talented enough that they will eventually leave the town and has them brutally murdered. The Slayer intentionally traps them in order to drive up their fear before he mutilates them in a macabre parody of their dreams. Eventually murdering his best friend as well, the Slayer plans to kill heroine Makini Young as well before continuing his murder spree and handing himself over to the police to allow him to live in infamy.
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* ''There's Someone Inside Your House'', by Stephanie Perkins: ''Literature/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse'': [[SerialKiller The Osborne Slayer]], real name [[GunmanWithThreeNames David Thurston Ware]], is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage high school student]] who grew bored with his small town and turned to murder to make a name for himself. Planning to [[FameThroughInfamy make himself infamous as a killer]], the Slayer targets his fellow students who are talented enough that they will eventually leave the town and has them brutally murdered. The Slayer intentionally traps them in order to drive up their fear before he mutilates them in a macabre parody of their dreams. Eventually murdering his best friend as well, the Slayer plans to kill heroine Makini Young as well before continuing his murder spree and handing himself over to the police to allow him to live in infamy.
* ''Literature/TheTorturer'', by Peter Saxon: [[TortureTechnician Conde Pedro Delmorte]] was a [[TheConqueror Conquistador]] who learned the secrets of eternal life from the worshipers of {{Quetzalcoatl}}. Savagely torturing countless natives and even [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdering his own bride]], the Conde returned to Spain and began to endlessly torture peasant girls to death [[ImmortalityImmorality to ensure his own immortality]]. Returning as a vampiric figure in modern day, Delmorte begins to pick off the film crew at his castle, torturing them to guarantee his eternity.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'': [[BigBad Colonel Vermon CaTaffy]] is [[TheGeneralissimo the dictator]] of the small, but wealthy, country of Nouria. [=CaTaffy=] always hated "the free world" and wanted to bring it to its knees. Constantly committing atrocities, like the bombing of civilian aircraft and the torture of civilians and non-combatants for fun, [=CaTaffy=] decided to build his own WeaponOfMassDestruction, kidnapping Doctor Pettovich and his daughter Ellen to force Pettovich to build him [[WalkingTank Metal Gear]], threatening to kill his daughter if he refused. When the US military sends nearly all Snake Men to Outer Heaven to stop [=CaTaffy=], he managed to capture them and torture them all, some fatally. After his Metal Gear is complete, [=CaTaffy=] tries to [[NukeEm launch the nukes]] at Washington, London, Tokyo, Canberra and Paris to "destroy the free world".
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** ''[[Literature/RWBYBeforeTheDawn Before the Dawn]]'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Jax Asturias]] is the leader of the Crown, an organization dedicated to restoring the Vacuo monarchy with him in charge. Born with a weakened Aura but a Semblance of MindControl, Jax uses his Semblance to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslave]] any who cross his path, [[SuperhumanTrafficking recruiting them]] for his "army" to destroy Shade Academy. He also manipulates his twin sister Gillian into going along with his plans, forcing her to constantly spend her Aura on him even though he doesn't care about her at all; in fact, as a child, he once attempted to take all of her Aura, which would have killed her if it had succeeded. Jax has a particular dislike for Huntsmen, DrivenByEnvy due to his weak Aura, and specifically targets them for his Semblance whenever he can.
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** ''[[Literature/RWBYBeforeTheDawn Before the Dawn]]'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Jax Asturias]] is Asturias]], the leader mastermind of the Crown, an organization dedicated is a childish and envious man with delusions of grandeur. Manipulating his close friends and sister into going along with his plans to restoring restore the Vacuo monarchy with him in charge. Born with a weakened Aura but a Semblance of MindControl, charge, planning to purge the "weak" and anyone who wasn't loyal to him, Jax uses his Semblance the Crown to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslave]] any who cross his path, [[SuperhumanTrafficking recruiting them]] for his "army" to destroy Shade Academy. He also manipulates his twin sister Gillian into going along have countless people, including [[WouldHurtAChild children with notable Semblances]], trafficked and enslaved with his plans, forcing her Semblance, leaving them [[AndIMustScream conscious but bent to constantly spend her his will]]. As part of his plan to attack Shade Academy, Jax turns several citizens and minions who displease him into "[[LivingBattery Aura on him vessels]]" to make himself stronger, hoping to use his army to crush the other Kingdoms under his heel, bury them in the sands and rule all of Remnant once he's king. When his plan is failing, Jax "settles" for using his Army to [[TakingYouWithMe go out destroying Shade and his enemies out of spite]], even though attempting to kill his own sister when she tries to save herself--an act he doesn't care about her at all; in fact, as a child, he once had also attempted to take all of her Aura, which would have killed her if it had succeeded. Jax has a particular dislike for Huntsmen, DrivenByEnvy due to his weak Aura, and specifically targets them for his Semblance whenever he can. when they were children.
* ''Literature/SharkWars'' series, by E.J. Altbacker:
** ''Battle of Riptide'' & ''Into the Abyss'': [[TheCaligula Finnivus Victor]] is the [[RoyalBrat spoiled]] leader of India Shiver, who believes that it is his birthright to conquer the Big Blue. In contrast to his more benevolent predecessor, Finnivus's reign is filled with pointless cruelties, in which he wipes out entire shivers to enslave their pups as ChildSoldiers; consumes the heads of his enemies; and [[BadBoss murders his own subordinates]] for little reason. Moving into Gray's territory, Finnivus sends his forces to wipe out every shiver there. When his first invasion fails, Finnivus angrily demands the extermination of every shiver in the Atlantic Ocean and becomes even crueler, such as sending assassins after his enemies; forcing his servant Velenka to consume poison after being accused of being a traitor; using his own sharks as target practice for himself; and torturing his former marine prime by cutting all of his appendages and [[ForcedToWatch making him helplessly witness]] the destruction of his home.
** ''Kingdom of the Deep'' through ''The Last Emprex'': [[ManipulativeBastard Hokuu]] is a vile frilled shark who sought to [[FinalSolution orchestrate the extinction of every shark]] so that his own species can reign supreme. When the Fifth Shiver's leader King Bollagan declared his intention for peace with the Big Blue, Hokuu helps Drinnok [[TheKingslayer murder him]] and his supporters to incite war against the other sharks. A master of dark kata, Hokuu uses his powers to [[VampiricDraining steal the life force of other creatures]] to make himself more powerful, which he demonstrates by wiping out every resident in Riptide territory. After assassinating Seazarein Kaleth, Hokuu massacres all of his mako minions and uses their life force to free Drinnok and his Fifth Shiver from the Underwaters, planning to restart his genocide against the Big Blue. When Drinnok expresses interest in making peace with Gray, Hokuu allies himself with Grimkahn and his prehistores to kill Drinnok and directly participates in his attacks throughout the Big Blue, ultimately planning to betray him eventually. After Gray emerges victorious, a frustrated Hokuu tries killing him personally, taunting that he'll murder his friends afterward, [[AndYourLittleDogToo saving his mother for last]].
** ''Enemy of Oceans'' & ''The Last Emprex'': [[BloodKnight Grimkahn]] is a psychotic mosasaur who leads the prehistores in Drinnok's Fifth Shiver and participated in his coup to murder King Bollagan and his supporters. Snubbed by him for promotion, Grimkahn agrees to Hokuu's plan of overthrowing him, planning to wipe out the other sharks in the Big Blue so that the prehistores can rule. After his first attack fails, Grimkahn begins [[BadBoss culling any minion that protests his rule]] and initiates attacks to exterminate whole shivers, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]]. Engaging with Gray's forces a second time, Grimkahn first tries asphyxiating them in a cave and, upon their escape, tries killing Gray himself, while sending his frilled sharks to maul his shiver sharks, innocent or otherwise.
** ''Battle of Riptide'' & ''Into the Abyss'': [[TheCaligula Finnivus Victor]] is the [[RoyalBrat spoiled]] leader of India Shiver, who believes that it is his birthright to conquer the Big Blue. In contrast to his more benevolent predecessor, Finnivus's reign is filled with pointless cruelties, in which he wipes out entire shivers to enslave their pups as ChildSoldiers; consumes the heads of his enemies; and [[BadBoss murders his own subordinates]] for little reason. Moving into Gray's territory, Finnivus sends his forces to wipe out every shiver there. When his first invasion fails, Finnivus angrily demands the extermination of every shiver in the Atlantic Ocean and becomes even crueler, such as sending assassins after his enemies; forcing his servant Velenka to consume poison after being accused of being a traitor; using his own sharks as target practice for himself; and torturing his former marine prime by cutting all of his appendages and [[ForcedToWatch making him helplessly witness]] the destruction of his home.
** ''Kingdom of the Deep'' through ''The Last Emprex'': [[ManipulativeBastard Hokuu]] is a vile frilled shark who sought to [[FinalSolution orchestrate the extinction of every shark]] so that his own species can reign supreme. When the Fifth Shiver's leader King Bollagan declared his intention for peace with the Big Blue, Hokuu helps Drinnok [[TheKingslayer murder him]] and his supporters to incite war against the other sharks. A master of dark kata, Hokuu uses his powers to [[VampiricDraining steal the life force of other creatures]] to make himself more powerful, which he demonstrates by wiping out every resident in Riptide territory. After assassinating Seazarein Kaleth, Hokuu massacres all of his mako minions and uses their life force to free Drinnok and his Fifth Shiver from the Underwaters, planning to restart his genocide against the Big Blue. When Drinnok expresses interest in making peace with Gray, Hokuu allies himself with Grimkahn and his prehistores to kill Drinnok and directly participates in his attacks throughout the Big Blue, ultimately planning to betray him eventually. After Gray emerges victorious, a frustrated Hokuu tries killing him personally, taunting that he'll murder his friends afterward, [[AndYourLittleDogToo saving his mother for last]].
** ''Enemy of Oceans'' & ''The Last Emprex'': [[BloodKnight Grimkahn]] is a psychotic mosasaur who leads the prehistores in Drinnok's Fifth Shiver and participated in his coup to murder King Bollagan and his supporters. Snubbed by him for promotion, Grimkahn agrees to Hokuu's plan of overthrowing him, planning to wipe out the other sharks in the Big Blue so that the prehistores can rule. After his first attack fails, Grimkahn begins [[BadBoss culling any minion that protests his rule]] and initiates attacks to exterminate whole shivers, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]]. Engaging with Gray's forces a second time, Grimkahn first tries asphyxiating them in a cave and, upon their escape, tries killing Gray himself, while sending his frilled sharks to maul his shiver sharks, innocent or otherwise.
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* ''The Store'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Newman King]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopathic CEO of the wicked Store company]]. King establishes Stores in small towns with no major competition, having the Store built using the blood and corpses of animals and humans alike. Once a Store is built, King has any competition bought out or run out of business, murdering any store owners who stand against him. Once blackmailing the local mayor into granting the Store power over the law, King has the city council slaughtered and institutes a PoliceState onto the town, rounding up any vagrants or rebels against the Store, then brutally torturing and brainwashing them into becoming the horrifying Night Managers, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie-like slaves]] who serve King. King also uses the Store to sell everything from drugs to child pornography to {{snuff film}}s, all manufactured by the Store itself. When Bill Davis attempts to subvert King's evil, King manipulates Bill into sleeping with a woman, hiding the fact that it is [[SurpriseIncest Bill's own daughter Sam]], then uses the recording of the event to blackmail Bill. King then proclaims he's going to turn Sam into a prostitute to be used and abused, and King ultimately plans to expand the Store's reach until he alone controls the entire world.
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* ''The Store'', ''Literature/TheStore'', by Creator/BentleyLittle: [[BigBad Newman King]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopathic CEO CEO]] of the [[PredatoryBusiness wicked Store company]]. King [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday establishes Stores Stores]] in small towns with no major competition, having the The Store built using the blood and corpses of animals and humans alike. Once a Store is built, King has any competition bought out or run out of business, murdering any store owners who stand against him. Once blackmailing the local mayor into granting the The Store power over the law, King has the city council slaughtered and institutes a PoliceState onto the town, rounding up any vagrants or rebels against the The Store, then brutally torturing and brainwashing them into becoming the horrifying Night Managers, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie-like slaves]] who serve King. King also uses the The Store to sell everything from drugs to child pornography to {{snuff film}}s, all manufactured by the The Store itself. When Bill Davis attempts to subvert King's evil, King manipulates Bill into sleeping with a woman, hiding the fact that it is [[SurpriseIncest Bill's own daughter Sam]], then uses the recording of the event to blackmail Bill. King then proclaims he's going to turn Sam into a prostitute to be used and abused, and King ultimately plans to expand the The Store's reach until he alone controls the entire world.
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* ''A Taste for Monsters'', by Matthew J. Kirby: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a bloodthirsty SerialKiller stalking the streets of 19th-century Whitechapel. Secretly a [[SamusWasAGirl midwife]], the Ripper lures in unsuspecting prostitutes and uses her medical skills to butcher them in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly gruesome murders]], taking five victims in total with the last four having [[GuttedLikeAFish organs removed]]. Jack plans to continue the gruesome murder spree forever.
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* ''A Taste for Monsters'', by Matthew J. Kirby: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a bloodthirsty SerialKiller stalking the streets of 19th-century Whitechapel. Secretly a [[SamusWasAGirl [[SamusIsAGirl midwife]], the Ripper lures in unsuspecting prostitutes and uses her medical skills to butcher them in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly gruesome murders]], taking five victims in total with the last four having [[GuttedLikeAFish organs removed]]. Jack plans to continue the gruesome murder spree forever.
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** First book: [[MeaningfulName Nefarian Serpine]], a [[PsychoSupporter fanatical worshipper]] of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]], had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family, knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine begins plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
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** First book: [[MeaningfulName [[{{Sadist}} Nefarian Serpine]], a [[PsychoSupporter fanatical worshipper]] of the dark gods known as the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]], had a RedRightHand that caused agonizing death to any he pointed at. Killing Skulduggery Pleasant's family, knowing that it would make him too angry to think, Serpine captured Pleasant and proceeded to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torture]] him for days, before finally killing him and sticking his corpse on a pike for all of his enemies to see. Offered amnesty and protection from the now-resurrected Pleasant after the war, Serpine begins plotting behind the scenes, killing Gordon Edgley in order to get his hands on the Scepter of the Ancients. Serpine uses its immense power to massacre the Irish Sanctuary, including the traitor who sold them out to him, hoping to get his hands on the Book of Names and force those with the necessary knowledge to tell him how to summon his dark gods.
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*** HighPriest Auron [[MeaningfulName Tenebrae]] of the Necromancer Order wants to live forever by enacting a ritual called the Passage, where the [[DarkMessiah Death Bringer]] will kill around three billion people to block the stream of life. Recognizing Skulduggery Pleasant's aptitude for Necromancy, Tenebrae gave Serpine his signature RedRightHand and ensured, should it be used on Skulduggery, that his soul would be able to come back, subsequently leading to the emergence of [[TheDreaded Lord Vile]]. In the present, Tenebrae arranges for a Remnant to possess Finbar Wrong so they can learn if Valkyrie will become the Death Bringer, apathetic to the devastation that ensues when it gets loose. After capturing Skulduggery and Valkyrie, Tenebrae proceeds to reveal his part in Vile's creation, taking sadistic pleasure in finally unveiling the truth of his origins.
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*** HighPriest Auron [[MeaningfulName [[ImmortalitySeeker Tenebrae]] of the Necromancer Order wants to live forever by enacting a ritual called the Passage, where the [[DarkMessiah Death Bringer]] will kill around three billion people to block the stream of life. Recognizing Skulduggery Pleasant's aptitude for Necromancy, Tenebrae gave Serpine his signature RedRightHand and ensured, should it be used on Skulduggery, that his soul would be able to come back, subsequently leading to the emergence of [[TheDreaded [[OmnicidalManiac Lord Vile]]. In the present, Tenebrae arranges for a Remnant to possess Finbar Wrong so they can learn if Valkyrie will become the Death Bringer, apathetic to the devastation that ensues when it gets loose. After capturing Skulduggery and Valkyrie, Tenebrae proceeds to reveal his part in Vile's creation, taking sadistic pleasure in finally unveiling the truth of his origins.
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** ''Seasons of War'': The Leibniz universe's [[AlternateSelf version]] of [[MeaningfulName Lord Vile]] proves to be far viler than his counterpart. Serving as the feared [[TheDragon Dragon]] to his world's Mevolent, Vile massacres scores of resistance fighters, including his former best friend Ghastly Bespoke. Retaking his former title of Death Bringer, Vile uses his immense power to create a specialized breed of draugr that can spread their condition to others, [[ZombieApocalypse quickly decimating the world]]. As Mevolent prepares to invade another reality, Vile betrays him, siccing his forces on one of the last remaining cities in his universe. Fittingly obsessed with death for one who holds his title, Vile intends to hijack Mevolent's plan and continue his destruction in the other world, continuing the process until [[OmnicidalManiac everyone in every universe is dead]].
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** ''Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon'': [[SerialKiller Bubba Moon]] was a fanatical ally to the [[FantasticRacism anti-Sanctuary]]. Visited by a "being of wonderment and awe" in a dream, Moon assembled a cult to provide [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]]--preferably 14-year-old children--every month, having killed hundreds since the 1960s. Eventually trapped in a ritual circle after astral projecting himself, Moon escaped by [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Pete Green. Moon rejoined with his cult and sacrificed Pete's friend Tyler, later [[EvilIsPetty tormenting Chrissy Brennan]] by manipulating her into marrying an abusive man. Kidnapping Chrissy's son, Moon forced her to suffocate the father of the story's narrator in his sleep, bringing him back to his hometown and kidnapping his son as a sacrifice. When they interrupt his ritual, Moon torments the two with visions and the reveal of Chrissy's involvement.
** ''Seasons of War'': The Leibniz universe's [[AlternateSelf version]] of[[MeaningfulName [[BloodKnight Lord Vile]] proves to be far viler than his counterpart. Serving as the feared [[TheDragon Dragon]] to his world's Mevolent, Vile massacres scores of resistance fighters, including his former best friend Ghastly Bespoke. Retaking his former title of Death Bringer, Vile uses his immense power to create a specialized breed of draugr that can spread their condition to others, [[ZombieApocalypse quickly decimating the world]]. As Mevolent prepares to invade another reality, Vile betrays him, siccing his forces on one of the last remaining cities in his universe. Fittingly obsessed with death for one who holds his title, Vile intends to hijack Mevolent's plan and continue his destruction in the other world, continuing the process until [[OmnicidalManiac everyone in every universe is dead]].
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* "Wolf of the Steppes", by Greye La Spina: [[SavageWolves Serge Vasilovitch]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent murderous werewolf]] who [[StalkerWithACrush lusts after]] the young heroine's mother. Enraged at her marrying her husband, Serge [[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]] and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] the man into believing he is responsible, so Serge may lure him into suicide and then place mother and daughter in his power with intent to groom or molest young Vera. Killing her mother when she tries to flee with her daughter, Serge later tracks Vera down to murder her and anyone who assists her.
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* "Literature/RawheadRex": [[AntagonistTitle Rawhead Rex]] himself is a [[EldritchAbomination monster]] from the days before Christianity, released from the earth in a small English village. Rawhead promptly [[UngratefulBastard dispatches the man who dug him out]] and sets about trying to regain his kingdom. The first thing he does is to murder a farmer, eat the man's little daughter alive, and kill the man's pregnant wife before attacking a police car, [[CripplingCastration castrating the survivor of the crash]] and then burning him alive. Rawhead corrupts the local verger and hideously mutilates the reverend out of contempt for his "weak" religion. At the story's climax, Rawhead attempts to burn down all of Zeal in his fury. Unlike many literal monsters, Rawhead is a sapient being that amounts to a brutish bully who loves carnage, pain and especially [[ChildEater eating children]].
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* "Literature/RawheadRex": [[AntagonistTitle Rawhead Rex]] himself is a [[EldritchAbomination monster]] from the days before Christianity, released from the earth Earth in a small English village. Rawhead promptly [[UngratefulBastard dispatches the man who dug him out]] and sets about trying to regain his kingdom. The first thing he does is to murder a farmer, eat the man's little daughter alive, and kill the man's pregnant wife before attacking a police car, [[CripplingCastration castrating the survivor of the crash]] and then burning him alive. Rawhead corrupts the local verger and hideously mutilates the reverend out of contempt for his "weak" religion. At the story's climax, Rawhead attempts to burn down all of Zeal in his fury. Unlike many literal monsters, Rawhead is a sapient being that amounts to a brutish bully who loves carnage, pain and especially [[ChildEater eating children]].
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** ''The Riftwar Legacy'': [[PsychoForHire Bear]], the BigBad of ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods'', is a vicious mercenary pirate initially employed as [[TheHeavy muscle]] by the sorcerer Leso Varen, aka Sidi, to gain the Tear of the Gods, quickly becoming something far more uncontrollable and ambitious. With the power of a dark amulet making him impervious to all forms of harm, Bear forces a pirate crew led by Knute to join him under the threat of death--making good on his threats by tortuously murdering two men for slights--and massacres the Ishapian ship carrying the Tear. Once he loses the Tear and is further betrayed by Knute, Bear resurfaces and comes down on Krondor in a vicious fury. Bear slaughters his way into a tavern, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring himself]] with Sir William's fiancée before murdering her, kills his way into the city jail and vengefully cuts Knute apart, and indiscriminately murders his way out of Krondor and through the sewers, lining dozens of bodies behind him and setting a populated orphanage on fire purely as a diversion. Once he's finally tracked down by William and a score of Krondorian soldiers, Bear gleefully [[BadBoss tosses his own men to die]] in his stead even despite his own invulnerability before single-handedly ripping apart the Krondorian guard and attempting to slay all those who stand before him and the Tear, proclaiming he'll be nothing more than a god. A barbarian too much even for the sinister Leso Varen, Bear is little more than animalistic wrath and savage fury on legs.
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** ''The Riftwar Legacy'': [[PsychoForHire Bear]], the BigBad of ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods'', is a vicious mercenary pirate initially employed as [[TheHeavy muscle]] by the sorcerer Leso Varen, aka Sidi, to gain the Tear of the Gods, quickly becoming something far more uncontrollable and ambitious. With the power of a dark amulet making him impervious to all forms of harm, Bear forces a pirate crew led by Knute to join him under the threat of death--making good on his threats by tortuously torturously murdering two men for slights--and massacres the Ishapian ship carrying the Tear. Once he loses the Tear and is further betrayed by Knute, Bear resurfaces and comes down on Krondor in a vicious fury. Bear slaughters his way into a tavern, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring himself]] with Sir William's fiancée before murdering her, kills his way into the city jail and vengefully cuts Knute apart, and indiscriminately murders his way out of Krondor and through the sewers, lining dozens of bodies behind him and setting a populated orphanage on fire purely as a diversion. Once he's finally tracked down by William and a score of Krondorian soldiers, Bear gleefully [[BadBoss tosses his own men to die]] in his stead even despite his own invulnerability before single-handedly ripping apart the Krondorian guard and attempting to slay all those who stand before him and the Tear, proclaiming he'll be nothing more than a god. A barbarian too much even for the sinister Leso Varen, Bear is little more than animalistic wrath and savage fury on legs.
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** [[BigBad Ob]] is [[TheLeader the King of the Siqqusim]], the race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] {{zombie|Apocalypse}}s that serve as the antagonists of the series. Distinguishing himself from the mindless hatred of his followers through his [[ImplacableMan persistence]], sadism, and hounding of the protagonists on their journey across America, Ob aims to [[KillAllHumans exterminate all of humanity]], paving the way for [[{{Satan}} something even worse]]. Angered by [[TheHero Jim]]'s constant success at staying alive, Ob makes it his [[ItsPersonal personal mission]] to end Jim's life, even as he arms his zombies with stolen human weaponry so that they can more efficiently wipe out all human and animal life on earth. He takes great pleasure in his task, gloating as he uses a fake "all clear symbol" to lure hundreds to their deaths, mining [[BodySurf each corpse he possesses]] for memories that he can use to hurt those his host cared about and taunt new victims with, and sharing information about his [[{{Hell}} world]] in order to drive people to despair. Towards the end, he smashes the last remaining human stronghold with heavy artillery, and [[EvilLaugh laughs]] in Jim's face during their final confrontation, noting that it is his pleasure to end Jim's journey.
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** [[BigBad Ob]] is [[TheLeader the King of the Siqqusim]], the race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] {{zombie|Apocalypse}}s that serve as the antagonists of the series. Distinguishing himself from the mindless hatred of his followers through his [[ImplacableMan persistence]], sadism, and hounding of the protagonists on their journey across America, Ob aims to [[KillAllHumans exterminate all of humanity]], paving the way for [[{{Satan}} something even worse]]. Angered by [[TheHero Jim]]'s constant success at staying alive, Ob makes it his [[ItsPersonal personal mission]] to end Jim's life, even as he arms his zombies with stolen human weaponry so that they can more efficiently wipe out all human and animal life on earth.Earth. He takes great pleasure in his task, gloating as he uses a fake "all clear symbol" to lure hundreds to their deaths, mining [[BodySurf each corpse he possesses]] for memories that he can use to hurt those his host cared about and taunt new victims with, and sharing information about his [[{{Hell}} world]] in order to drive people to despair. Towards the end, he smashes the last remaining human stronghold with heavy artillery, and [[EvilLaugh laughs]] in Jim's face during their final confrontation, noting that it is his pleasure to end Jim's journey.
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* ''The Sinister Mr. Corpse'', by Jeff Strand: Richard Brant, the seemingly [[FauxAffablyEvil avuncular]] head of Project Second Chance, is in truth a cold, remorseless man solely dedicated to [[{{Greed}} profit]]. Resurrecting the unfortunate Stanley Dabernath from death to make the man a wealthy celebrity, Brant [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Stanley behind locked doors to force his compliance and cheerfully threatens to murder him should he ever stop being useful. Passing off his revival of Stanley as the act of unexplained science, Brant in reality routinely kidnaps young virgins, has their families slaughtered, and the virgin flayed and tortuously bled out over a course of three days to inject their blood into Stanley. Once Stanley discovers this, Brant decides to cut his losses and stirs up a mob to cannibalize Stanley whilst watching with a manic grin on his face.
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* ''The Sinister Mr. Corpse'', by Jeff Strand: Richard Brant, the seemingly [[FauxAffablyEvil avuncular]] head of Project Second Chance, is in truth a cold, remorseless man solely dedicated to [[{{Greed}} profit]]. Resurrecting the unfortunate Stanley Dabernath from death to make the man a wealthy celebrity, Brant [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Stanley behind locked doors to force his compliance and cheerfully threatens to murder him should he ever stop being useful. Passing off his revival of Stanley as the act of unexplained science, Brant in reality routinely kidnaps young virgins, has their families slaughtered, and the virgin flayed and tortuously torturously bled out over a course of three days to inject their blood into Stanley. Once Stanley discovers this, Brant decides to cut his losses and stirs up a mob to cannibalize Stanley whilst watching with a manic grin on his face.
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* ''Stinger'' by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: The titular "[[PsychoForHire Stinger]]" is an alien BountyHunter in service to the House of Fists who [[ReligionOfEvil follow a twisted creed that anything that isn't one of them should die]]. Chasing a freedom fighter to earth, Stinger lands in the town of Inferno and entraps it in a force field, while he kills humans he encounters to learn more about them and [[HumanResources recycle their biological material]] into his personal drones. Stinger tells the people to surrender his quarry or he will annihilate the town, and when he captures several humans, Stinger decides he has a better idea: to take them back to the House of Fists so the House will bring their wrath on earth. Stinger constantly shows he is alien only in appearance: his true nature is a scheming, amoral sociopath willing to facilitate genocide for a [[{{Greed}} quick payday]].
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* ''Stinger'' by Creator/RobertRMcCammon: The titular "[[PsychoForHire Stinger]]" is an alien BountyHunter in service to the House of Fists who [[ReligionOfEvil follow a twisted creed that anything that isn't one of them should die]]. Chasing a freedom fighter to earth, Earth, Stinger lands in the town of Inferno and entraps it in a force field, while he kills humans he encounters to learn more about them and [[HumanResources recycle their biological material]] into his personal drones. Stinger tells the people to surrender his quarry or he will annihilate the town, and when he captures several humans, Stinger decides he has a better idea: to take them back to the House of Fists so the House will bring their wrath on earth.Earth. Stinger constantly shows he is alien only in appearance: his true nature is a scheming, amoral sociopath willing to facilitate genocide for a [[{{Greed}} quick payday]].
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** Jon Shannow Trilogy: Sarento, the BigBad of the trilogy. initially wanted to restore the earth of the past in the post-apocalyptic setting, but willingly became corrupted and eventually absorbed the power Bloodstone, giving him [[SoulEating a hunger for human souls]]. Forming armies known as Devourers, Sarento leads [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal crusades against humanity]], massacring so many people humanity faces extinction. Eventually [[BadBoss devouring his own followers]], Sarento goes after the last survivors and eventually comes against one of the final cities on earth, while revealing that devouring souls leaves them [[AndIMustScream trapped in agony within him]], something Sarento gleefully laughs about. Sarento only deigns to spare the cities when hero Jon Shannow uses a spell to [[ExactWords send Sarento and himself to the Earth's past]], with millions more people to devour. Sarento gleefully accepts, mocking Shannow how he'll feast on everyone he can, before it's revealed Shannow had [[HeroicSacrifice chosen to send them to the first testing site of the atomic bomb]].
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** Jon Shannow Trilogy: Sarento, the BigBad of the trilogy. initially wanted to restore the earth Earth of the past in the post-apocalyptic setting, but willingly became corrupted and eventually absorbed the power Bloodstone, giving him [[SoulEating a hunger for human souls]]. Forming armies known as Devourers, Sarento leads [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal crusades against humanity]], massacring so many people humanity faces extinction. Eventually [[BadBoss devouring his own followers]], Sarento goes after the last survivors and eventually comes against one of the final cities on earth, Earth, while revealing that devouring souls leaves them [[AndIMustScream trapped in agony within him]], something Sarento gleefully laughs about. Sarento only deigns to spare the cities when hero Jon Shannow uses a spell to [[ExactWords send Sarento and himself to the Earth's past]], with millions more people to devour. Sarento gleefully accepts, mocking Shannow how he'll feast on everyone he can, before it's revealed Shannow had [[HeroicSacrifice chosen to send them to the first testing site of the atomic bomb]].
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': [[BigBad The Man With the Scarlet Eye]], who may be TheDevil, has been wandering the earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When he helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When he discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead earth, the Man with the Scarlet Eye brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed the Man with the Scarlet Eye is attempting to help the now insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity]] while he watches, [[ForTheEvulz enjoys the show and then dances on their graves]].
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'': [[BigBad The Man With the Scarlet Eye]], who may be TheDevil, has been wandering the earth Earth in different guises, [[HistoricalRapSheet arranging and committing a multitude of massacres and other evil deeds]]. When he helps to arrange [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]], he ends up massacring a group of other survivors in his pursuit for the woman known as Sister and an item she carries to lead to the girl Swan. When he discovers Swan's power to bring life back to the dead earth, Earth, the Man with the Scarlet Eye brings the information to a militia known as the Army of Excellence, leading to attacks on settlements and more death. It is revealed the Man with the Scarlet Eye is attempting to help the now insane former President of the US trigger a doomsday device to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the world and the remainder of humanity]] while he watches, [[ForTheEvulz enjoys the show and then dances on their graves]].
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* ''Teratologist'': In this horror novel by Wrath James White and Edward Lee, John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the devil give him the power to bring hell on earth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the devil himself sang his praises.
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* ''Teratologist'': In this horror novel ''Teratologist'', by Wrath James White and & Edward Lee, Lee: John Farringworth is a depraved {{narcissist}} obsessed with his own perfection. Having always gotten what he wanted in life, Farringworth's ego takes a hit when a pair of beings he dubs the "Angels" refuse to have anything to do with him, leading him to devise a plan to force them to love him by taking the knowledge from God. Attempting to convince God to confront him, Farringworth begins kidnapping mentally and physically deformed people he dubs "freaks", injecting them with a drug that drives them into a sex-crazed insanity, then does the same to religious leaders before recording them doing depraved sexual acts with the freaks. Along with leaking the videos of the relations online, Farringworth often disposes of his victims when through with them, at times raping some of them himself. When, rather than God, the Devil confronts Farringworth, Farringworth demands the devil give him the power to bring hell on earth HellOnEarth to destroy all innocence and goodness in the world in order to become the "perfect evil". An [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]] turned psychopathic monster, Farringworth was so wicked that the devil himself sang his praises.
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** [[{{Satan}} The Fiend]] is the master of the dark and [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the series who tries to bring the world to a new age of darkness. Having control of practitioners of the dark, he sentences his enemies as well as people who make deals with him to [[AndIMustScream eternal torments]]. Fathering many children with witches, he [[OffingTheOffspring kills those]] who are neither humans nor witches, as he [[WouldHurtAChild killed Grimalkin’s baby son]], earning her hatred. He prevents Bill Arkwright’s ghost parents [[BarredFromTheAfterlife from reaching the light]], condemning them to haunt their mill. When the witches release him from his plane, his mere presence on earth causes many wars. He [[KillAndReplace murders and takes the appearance]] of the bargeman Matthew Guilbert in order to lure Tom and his master into a trap. After failing to convert [[TheHero Thomas Ward]] to his cause, he challenges him to face his daughter Morwena with the threat of killing his friends if he refuses or gets killed. He later tricks Tom into [[DealWithTheDevil selling his soul]] and when his other daughter [[AntiAntiChrist Alice]] prevents him from claiming it, he [[AbusiveParents curses her to share her friend’s fate]]. He submits her to unspeakable torture and allows Tom to hear her cries. When Grimalkin [[EyeScream takes one of his eyes]], he [[BadBoss threatens his followers with eternal damnation]]. Finally, he sends the Vampire God Siscoi against Tom and sends his agents to murder Tom’s brother James [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]].
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** [[{{Satan}} The Fiend]] is the master of the dark and [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the series who tries to bring the world to a new age of darkness. Having control of practitioners of the dark, he sentences his enemies as well as people who make deals with him to [[AndIMustScream eternal torments]]. Fathering many children with witches, he [[OffingTheOffspring kills those]] who are neither humans nor witches, as he [[WouldHurtAChild killed Grimalkin’s baby son]], earning her hatred. He prevents Bill Arkwright’s ghost parents [[BarredFromTheAfterlife from reaching the light]], condemning them to haunt their mill. When the witches release him from his plane, his mere presence on earth Earth causes many wars. He [[KillAndReplace murders and takes the appearance]] of the bargeman Matthew Guilbert in order to lure Tom and his master into a trap. After failing to convert [[TheHero Thomas Ward]] to his cause, he challenges him to face his daughter Morwena with the threat of killing his friends if he refuses or gets killed. He later tricks Tom into [[DealWithTheDevil selling his soul]] and when his other daughter [[AntiAntiChrist Alice]] prevents him from claiming it, he [[AbusiveParents curses her to share her friend’s fate]]. He submits her to unspeakable torture and allows Tom to hear her cries. When Grimalkin [[EyeScream takes one of his eyes]], he [[BadBoss threatens his followers with eternal damnation]]. Finally, he sends the Vampire God Siscoi against Tom and sends his agents to murder Tom’s brother James [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]].
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* ''ComicBook/RedSonja: Against the Prince of Hell'', by David C. Smith & Richard L. Tierney: [[EvilSorcerer Du-jum]], worshipper of the evil vulture god Urmu, takes over the city of Thesrad and proceeds to have the population tortured and massacred on a whim. He proceeds to hunt for Prince Omeron, torturing to death any loyalists he encounters with dark sorcery, before instituting bloody HumanSacrifice to appease Urmu. After killing countless innocents, Du-jum attempts to tunnel into hell itself to unleash the demonic legions under his control to slaughter as they will and bring the world under his power, even attempting to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his own daughter]] when she stands against him.
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* ''VideoGame/StarCraftII: Devils' Due'', by Christie Golden: [[BountyHunter Ezekiel Daun]], while a relatively minor character, is utterly monstrous. Daun is a [[PsychoForHire sadistic mercenary]] who, unless his clients specify otherwise, will [[ColdBloodedTorture torture his victims]] to draw out their death, and makes it theatrical by terrifying them and [[MindRape using psychological warfare]] before he moves in for the kill. At one point, Daun flays a woman alive even though there is no bounty on her, [[ForcedToWatch forcing her husband to watch]] the entire time before moving on to him. In another instance, Daun removes a victim's fingers one by one. He also records all of his deaths as holograms, both to watch in his spare time for the memories and to show his future victims to terrify them even more.
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* ''Literature/T2Trilogy'': [[AIIsACrapshoot Skynet]], upon awakening, mocks its Neo-Nazi programming after shutting down any life support, happily stating its intent to [[KillAllHumans destroy humanity]]. [[NukeEm Unleashing nuclear arsenals]] to obliterate most of the world, Skynet later deploys even more when it feels threatened by humanity and enacts a horrific regime of death camps, mass murder, and experimentation. Even when cornered, Skynet has no qualms using human prisoners as hostages, only relenting on having them massacred by the Terminators when it notes that its enemies might demand to see live hostages before giving in.
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* ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'': In the {{novelization}} by Creator/PeterDavid, Sentinel Prime [[AdaptationalVillainy loses all of his film counterpart's redeeming features]], turning the somewhat-sympathetic WellIntentionedExtremist into a psychopathic KnightTemplar. Having made a deal with Megatron eons ago to [[FaceHeelTurn betray his allies the Autobots]], Sentinel Prime fulfills this deal in the present after pretending to assist the Autobots, showing his true colors by ruthlessly executing three of his "brothers." Sentinel Prime steals the Pillars from the military group NEST by threatening its director, Charlotte Mearing, stating that if she doesn't give him the Pillars, he will force her to watch as he slaughters every man, woman, and child he can until she does. Lying to humanity to get them to force the Autobots to leave Earth in exchange for Sentinel Prime's offer of peace, Sentinel Prime [[ILied goes back on his word]], orchestrating a full-scale invasion of Earth by the Decepticons and personally overseeing the blood-soaked conflict in Chicago. Sentinel Prime ultimately plans to transport as many humans to Cybertron as possible, then torture and abuse them into reconstructing Cybertron, leaving [[KillAllHumans the rest of humankind]] to be destroyed alongside the Earth by Cybertron's gravitational field. In the end, Sentinel Prime treats the deaths of Autobot and Decepticon alike with cold satisfaction, proclaiming that [[AGodAmI he will be the only god left on Cybertron]] when the dust settles, proving once and for all that, despite his claims of wanting the best for his people, Sentinel Prime truly [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares for himself and his supposed claim to godhood]].
* ''Literature/WhenAutumnBleedsIntoWinter'', by Jeff Strand: Gerald Martin and his accomplice Griffin are a pair of brutal {{serial killer}}s who [[WouldHurtAChild murder children]] in rural areas and move on to continue their activities in areas where there will not be much scrutiny. Killing the friend of 14-year-old protagonist Curtis, Martin [[PragmaticVillainy makes an uneasy truce with Curtis on the basis of mutually assured destruction]], only to murder another young boy to [[FrameUp frame Curtis]] for it. When Curtis moves against him, Martin and Griffin kidnap Curtis's parents to torture them to death and plan to murder the kids as well before moving to the city for easier hunting grounds.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'': [[BigBad Colonel Vermon CaTaffy]] is [[TheGeneralissimo the dictator]] of the small, but wealthy, country of Nouria. [=CaTaffy=] always hated "the free world" and wanted to bring it to its knees. Constantly committing atrocities, like the bombing of civilian aircraft and the torture of civilians and non-combatants for fun, [=CaTaffy=] decided to build his own WeaponOfMassDestruction, kidnapping Doctor Pettovich and his daughter Ellen to force Pettovich to build him [[WalkingTank Metal Gear]], threatening to kill his daughter if he refused. When the US military sends nearly all Snake Men to Outer Heaven to stop [=CaTaffy=], he managed to capture them and torture them all, some fatally. After his Metal Gear is complete, [=CaTaffy=] tries to [[NukeEm launch the nukes]] at Washington, London, Tokyo, Canberra and Paris to "destroy the free world".
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* ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'': [[BombThrowingAnarchists Xu Ping An]] is a [[EvilIsBurningHot Firebender warlord]] with a [[FauxAffablyEvil finely-honed, superficial sense of charisma]] he uses to reign in a loyal gathering of marauders with which he pledges to [[RapePillageAndBurn overthrow the law and let anarchy reign]]. Xu put entire villages of "abiders" to the sword, leaving countless corpses stacked behind him until his rampage was finally stopped by Jianzhu. When inadvertently broken out eight years later by the Avatar, [[Characters/TheRiseOfKyoshiAvatarKyoshi Kyoshi]], Xu muses that the land has forgotten his name and pledges to [[FameThroughInfamy scar his name into history]] in a way they will never forget. To begin his new wave of bloodshed, Xu captures a family and forces them to watch as he dunks the father in and out of a pot of boiling water, gleefully intending to move on to slaughter the nearest town. Xu even uses his rare ability to bend lightning to savagely torture Kyoshi, proclaiming himself absolute and that all anyone can ever hope to do against him is obey.
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* ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'': [[BombThrowingAnarchists Xu Ping An]] is a [[EvilIsBurningHot Firebender warlord]] with a [[FauxAffablyEvil finely-honed, superficial sense of charisma]] he uses to reign in a loyal gathering of marauders with which he pledges to [[RapePillageAndBurn overthrow the law and let anarchy reign]]. Xu put entire villages of "abiders" to the sword, leaving countless corpses stacked behind him until his rampage was finally stopped by Jianzhu. When inadvertently broken out eight years later by the Avatar, [[Characters/TheRiseOfKyoshiAvatarKyoshi Kyoshi]], Kyoshi, Xu muses that the land has forgotten his name and pledges to [[FameThroughInfamy scar his name into history]] in a way they will never forget. To begin his new wave of bloodshed, Xu captures a family and forces them to watch as he dunks the father in and out of a pot of boiling water, gleefully intending to move on to slaughter the nearest town. Xu even uses his rare ability to bend lightning to savagely torture Kyoshi, proclaiming himself absolute and that all anyone can ever hope to do against him is obey.
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