History Sandbox / MonsterLiveActionTVGToO

* ''Series/{{The Incredible Hulk|1977}}'''s "The Snare": Michael Sutton became bored with hunting animals, and so decided to start HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. He finds whatever men he can and invites them over to his own island, only to drug them to sleep and put them through deadly obstacles as he hunts them down, succeeding at least 5 times, and seeing it all as a "game"; he intends to do the same to [[TheProtagonist David Banner]]. It's implied that the reason he's so successful is because he doesn't play fair, a fact David calls him out on, insisting that a real hunter plays fair and that all Sutton cares about is winning. When Sutton discovers David's inner beast, he becomes obsessed with it and tortures David with the intent of bringing it out and killing it, only to kill himself by accident. At the end of the episode, it turns out even in death Sutton can't stand losing, as it's revealed he {{Booby Trap}}ped David's escape boat in preparation for the hero's victory. Ruthless, psychotic, and a cheater at his own game, Michael Sutton was unlike any other villain on the show, who were motivated by either tragedy or simple financial gain.

* ''Marianne'' (2019 French series): The titular [[BigBad Marianne Basselin]] is a [[WickedWitch Satanist witch]] born in 16th century France who married a demon for power and struck her home village with a slew of tragedies, even [[OffingTheOffspring murdering her own three children]] and human husband before being hanged for her crimes. Returning centuries later after a teenaged [[TheProtagonist Emma Larsimon]] and her friends summon Marianne during a seance, she horrifically kills the younger sister of Emma's friend. Tormenting Emma through adulthood, Marianne forces the now-author Emma to write her as the antagonist of her ''Lizzie Lark'' stories and [[RealityWarper uses her demonic powers to reach the real world]] and kill victims in the same manner as her literary counterpart. Possessing villagers of Emma's hometown while trapping their souls in hell, Marianne rages when Emma refuses to continue writing and tries to coerce her by threatening her loved ones; trying to force children to hang themselves; and kidnapping the son of Emma's friend to devour.

* ''Nature Of The Beast'': In this 2007 Creator/ABCFamily original film, [[BigBad Donovan Warder]] is an AxCrazy [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent alpha werewolf]] who [[SavageWolves commits wanton violence and murder]] solely [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]]. Disguising himself as an unassuming college professor who teaches [[TheProtagonist Rich]], Donovan reveals his true nature as the Alpha werewolf upon slaughtering Rich's friend and cursing Rich to become a werewolf himself. What makes this action worse is that, unlike other werewolves, Donovan has [[WolfMan full control over his transformations]] and has free will all the while, killing Rich's friend and cursing him to lycanthropy solely for sadism. Later attending a dinner Rich and his fiancé Julia invited him to, he forcefully turns Rich into a werewolf and tries to make him kill Julia and her family. When Rich resists, Donovan discards him and tries to kill Julia's family in front of both of them himself, but not before [[TheCorrupter trying to corrupt him]] into succumbing to his inner beast so Rich would become like him. It's also heavily implied Donovan's responsible for the mass murder of innocents, such as killing a man because he wanted his house. A {{sadist}} who reveled in acts from the [[EvilIsPetty petty and spiteful]] to the hateful and murderous, Donovan was a fine example of a beast as monstrous on the inside as he was on the outside.

** [[DirtyCop Captain Seamus Lancaster]] is the brutal, corrupt and racist officer who has designs on rising in his lodge at the Sons of Adam, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introducing himself]] by subjecting Letitia "Leti" Lewis to a "rough ride" as a form of torture and interrogation. Having delivered multiple victims for the [[PlayingWithSyringes horrific experiments]] of Hiram Epstein, Lancaster has an immortal body that he maintains by having black men abducted and murdered so he can take their body parts and organs to replace his own, even infecting young Diana with a curse to murder her should she not obey him.
** "[[Recap/LovecraftCountryS1E3HolyGhost Holy Ghost]]": [[MadScientist Hiram Epstein]], years ago in the basement of the [[HauntedHouse haunted Winthrop house]], captured eight black men and women and tortured them to death in a variety of ghastly experiments. Hiram kept the souls of his victims trapped in the Winthrop house in torment for years afterward, among his mutilated victims a woman [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on railway spikes]] and a football player whose head has been reduced to a wailing infant through a deranged time travel experiment.

* ''Murder in Coweta County'': This 1983 MadeForTVMovie told the true story of John Wallace, a wealthy Meriwether County, Georgia land baron and moonshine runner who, in the 1940s, virtually ruled the county with an iron fist and had the sheriff in his back pocket. Wallace would brutally abuse his sharecroppers; such as when he put a man's hands and feet in doorjambs and slammed the door on them, all while [[VillainWithGoodPublicity appearing to be a kind charitable man.]] When Wilson Turner, who ran shine for Wallace, made a little too much money and made his runs a little too often, Wallace beats him severely and orders him off of his land. Knowing that Wallace had several judges in his pocket, Turner steals a prized cow from Wallace's pasture. Wallace then has Turner arrested, released "on a lack of evidence", then ambushed at the gas station. Turner tries to flee but soon runs out of gas, and is beaten to death by Wallace and his thugs. When Wallace is finally arrested and sentenced to death, his last statement is: "Almighty God, only You know my true heart. Prepare to receive me into Your House."

* ''Night Stalker'' (2005 remake of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker''):
** "The Five People You Meet in Hell": [[KnightTemplar Damon Caylor]] is "a UsefulNotes/CharlesManson wannabe" who founded a cult made up of weak-willed people who he [[ManipulativeBastard brainwashed into believing]] that society needed to be purged of anyone deemed "a moral hypocrite" by Caylor. After a few of his followers were arrested for publicly beheading an oil executive, Caylor [[TilMurderDoUsPart strangled his own wife]], who had been convinced to testify against him by reporter Perri Reed. Placed in solitary confinement after being blinded by a fellow inmate, Caylor eventually developed PsychicPowers, which he set out to use against everyone responsible for his imprisonment, including Reed. Caylor forces his trial's prosecutor and judge to murder their respective spouses by having visions of their dead loved ones warp their perception of reality before setting them off with the trigger phrase, "You know what you have to do." The prosecutor hangs himself in despair over killing his own wife, and one of Caylor's arresting officers nearly shoots his before being snapped out of Caylor's control by Kolchak. Caylor tells Reed and Kolchak that the murders will stop if his manifesto is published, but the journal turns out to be blank, having been nothing more than bait that Caylor used to get close enough to Kolchak so that he could try to psychically force him to kill Reed.
** "Timeless": [[ImmortalityImmorality Marlene Harmon]] is a vain immortal who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps herself alive]] by [[ImAHumanitarian feeding on the pituitary glands of young women]], whose faces she gnaws through to get to their brains after [[AndIMustScream paralyzing]] them with an anesthetic. Marlene commits three murders every thirty-five years, with the earliest known killings being in 1900. In 1970, Marlene had her son, Luke, assist her with the latest murders, but when Luke began to crack under the pressure of what he was doing, Marlene [[OffingTheOffspring shot him in the face]], made it look like [[NeverSuicide he committed suicide]], and fooled everyone into believing that he was sole perpetrator of the "serial killings" being investigated by the LAPD. In 2005, Marlene has her other son [[VillainousIncest and implied lover]], Aaron, help her with the latest batch of killings, which attract the attention of Kolchak and Reed. Marlene sets her own devoted boyfriend up to take the fall for the deaths, and when Aaron confronts her over the circumstances of his brother's suicide, Marlene admits to having killed the "weak" Luke. Even though Marlene had reassured him that she would never harm him, Aaron ends up shooting her to save Reed, convinced that Marlene was lying and that it was only a matter of time before she disposed of him like she did her boyfriend and Luke.

* ''Series/TheGuFamilyBook'': In this KoreanDrama, the [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] nobleman [[ForTheEvulz Jo Kwan Woong]] destroys a man who was his friend and sends the man’s daughter to be turned into a state ''gisaeng'', or prostitute. He then attempts to rape her himself, stating that defiling her would be no fun if she didn't struggle, before discovering she has escaped. In retribution, he executes her brother and later engineers her betrayal of her ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumiho Kumiho]]'' husband Wol-Ryung. 20 years later, Kwan Woong has a number of people in high level positions purged and murdered, and conducts a series of further murders, even killing the goodhearted Lord Park, brainwashing Park's son that it was his foster brother and raping Park's daughter. When Wol-Ryung returns as an amnesiac demon, it says a lot that Kwan Woong comes off as the worse of the two by manipulating him for his own purposes. Even at the end, Kwan Woong confesses his actions were all to [[ItAmusedMe alleviate the tedium of life]], with no remorse for his evil deeds.

* ''Series/MadanSenkiRyukendo'': [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Baron Bloody]] from this {{Tokusatsu}} series is a demonic robot scientist who, in his first appearance, sets up the death of [[NobleDemon Jack Moon]] in order to use his body in his own experiments. Later, it is revealed that he is responsible for the death of [[SixthRanger Koichi Shiranami's]] parents when they tried to stop him from blowing up Europe. When confronted by Koichi, he proudly takes responsibility and casually refers his parents as "foolish couple". Where the other villains still have some sense of humor in their plans, Bloody's plans are downright vicious.

** "[[Recap/MonkS4E7MrMonkGoesToAWedding Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding]]": "Theresa Scott" is a BlackWidow murderer trying to marry into Natalie's family via her brother Jonathan. In truth, Theresa has a habit of marrying wealthy men, murdering them, and vanishing, with at least three prior victims. When a photographer notices something awry, Theresa knocks him over the head and leaves him to drown in a mudbath before trying to kill a private eye who was working a previous husband's case. Finally caught, she tries to hold a knife to Jonathan's throat to make good on her escape.

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** "Beat The Devil": Martin Walker is a SerialKiller and [[ColdBloodedTorture torturer]]. At first, he gains Lightman's notice when seeing photos of women being tortured arouses him. It comes out Walker is a vicious murderer who gets his kicks by waterboarding young women. He then forces them to dig their own graves before murdering and burying them in them. The waterboarding is related to how he allowed his sister to drown as a child, allowing her to drown merely because he wanted her bike.

* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'''s "The Snare": Michael Sutton became bored with hunting animals, and so decided to start HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. He finds whatever men he can and invites them over to his own island, only to drug them to sleep and put them through deadly obstacles as he hunts them down, succeeding at least 5 times, and seeing it all as a "game"; he intends to do the same to [[TheProtagonist David Banner]]. It's implied that the reason he's so successful is because he doesn't play fair, a fact David calls him out on, insisting that a real hunter plays fair and that all Sutton cares about is winning. When Sutton discovers David's inner beast, he becomes obsessed with it and tortures David with the intent of bringing it out and killing it, only to kill himself by accident. At the end of the episode, it turns out even in death Sutton can't stand losing, as it's revealed he {{Booby Trap}}ped David's escape boat in preparation for the hero's victory. Ruthless, psychotic, and a cheater at his own game, Michael Sutton was unlike any other villain on the show, who were motivated by either tragedy or simple financial gain.

** [[SerialRapist Roland Haldane]], from the series premiere [[Recap/Numb3rsS01E01 "Pilot"]], is known for branding his victims--of which he has around 13--and then raping them. His latest rape escalated into a murder, and he later kills another of his previous victims. He is found by the FBI, who rescues his latest victim, who had a bag over head and was close to suffocating to death.
** [[DarkMessiah Abner Stone, aka The Prophet]], from season 3's "[[Recap/Numb3rsS03E12 Nine Wives]]", is the head of the [[{{Cult}} Apostolic Saints]], a {{polygamy}} cult. The Saints are infamous for "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil marrying]]" teenagers to grown men. During the final confrontation, Stone surrenders, but not before causing the building his followers are in to explode, making "martyrs" of at least a dozen or so.
** [[DirtyCop Blaine Cleary]], from season 4's "[[Recap/Numb3rsS04E12 Power]]", pulls women over and then, usually after offering them [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink water laced]] with the DateRape drug Rohypnol, [[SerialRapist rapes them]]. He has done this to at least 7 women, and is about to have another victim when the FBI finds him and chases him. When finally arrested after said chase, his only reaction is "It's just sex, guys. Not that big a deal."
** [[SerialKiller Robert Posdner]], from season 5's "[[Recap/Numb3rsS05E21 Disturbed]]", is a stealth predator who changes victims, methods, and even locations to avoid leaving a clear pattern, while also killing anyone [[LeaveNoWitnesses who might have seen him]]. Posdner's murders started approximately 20 years before the episode, in high school, when he stalked and killed a fellow student who rejected him, before threatening the girl's then-boyfriend. All in all, Posdner is responsible for at least 4 onscreen murders, attempts to murder a couple, can be tied to a few more, and has a TrophyRoom linking him to potentially many, many more.

** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Isla]], from season 7's "[[Recap/OnceUponATimeS7E19FlowerChild Flower Child]]", is a [[AristocratsAreEvil spoiled aristocrat]] who [[FantasticRacism despises magical beings]]. For her genocide crusade, Isla seemingly befriends the young Gothel, only to have her humiliated and bullied and has the tree nymphs' home invaded, ordering the slaughter of all magical beings, including Gothel's family, and leading to the creation of the land without magic. With Gothel driven to villainy through her actions, the indirect consequences of Isla's cruelty [[SmallRoleBigImpact cause further turmoil throughout the work]].

** [[TheFundamentalist Tomas]], from the first two seasons, is a cruel and manipulative Prolethean fanatic, as well as Helena's [[AbusiveParents adoptive father and mentor]]. Believing project LEDA clones to be an abomination, Tomas adopted one of them, Helena, and used physical, psychological and emotional abuse to groom her into a killer and keep her under her thumb, lying to her that she is the original to motivate her. Helena would go on to kill other clones at Tomas's behest, and Tomas would often [[YouHaveFailedMe torture her for failure]]. Learning of Helena and Sarah's connection and of Sarah's daughter Kira, Tomas orders Helena to kill Sarah and abduct Kira, locking her in a small cage when she refuses. During a later confrontation, it's made clear that Tomas intends to put Kira through the same treatment as he did Helena, which ultimately turns Helena against him. When later rescued by the Johanssen branch, Tomas makes it clear that he sees Helena as another abomination, and his only objection to the idea of Helena having children is his belief that those children will be monsters as well.
** [[AbusiveParents Henrik "Hank" Johanssen]], from season 2, is the leader of a branch of [[Characters/OrphanBlackTheProletheans the Prolethean cult]], operating on a ranching community. Separating from the Prolethans' more traditional views in favor of [[ForScience scientific curiosity]], Johanssen operates his branch, and seemingly peaceful community, as a BreedingCult, where women are artificially inseminated and children are regularly abused. When Henrik gets his hands on Helena, discovering she's a rare fertile clone, Hank has her handler Tomas killed so he can keep her. He proceeds to drug and forcibly marry Helena before taking her ovaries and [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate fertilizing them with his sperm]], planning to implant those embryos in multiple women. When Helena escapes with the help of Hank's teenage daughter Gracie, Henrik has Gracie locked in a cage and her [[MouthStitchedShut mouth sewn shut]] as punishment; it's implied this is a usual punishment for her. When Helena returns, Henrik has her inseminated with their embryos before proceeding to do the same with Gracie. He keeps them locked in a nursery, holding them at gunpoint and sends his wife to find more women for him to impregnate. Henrik's motivations are that since a fertile clone is a scientific impossibility, he's the only one worthy of fathering children with them and spreading his genes in "miracle babies."
** [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Evie Cho]], the BigBad of season 4, is the ambitious, high-ranking, [[Characters/OrphanBlackTheNeolutionists Neolutionist]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [=BrightBorn=]. A survivor of a birth defect, Cho developed a perfectionist view, which inspired her goal to control the future of human evolution. Cho developed mechanical, worm-like devices to alter people's DNA and can quickly but painfully kill it's host if ruptured. When Beth Childs was investigating the Neolutionists, Cho tried to get her to kill Susan Ducan, so she can usurp Duncan as leader of Neolution. Failing that, Cho blackmails her into killing herself by threatening the other clones. It's also revealed that she had Delphine Cormier shot at the end of season 3. When Cosmia explores [=BrightBorn=] facilities, she discovers Cho is keeping pregnant women in maternity labs for illegal human experiments. When these experiments result in the babies being born deformed, or any other imperfection such as blindness, Cho would have the [[WouldHurtAChild babies euthanized]] to cover it up. Cho has Cosmia's research to help cure the clones diseases destroyed, and has Kendall killed and incinerated in front of Cosmia, making it impossible for the clones to find cures. To further wound her, Cho tells Cosmia that Delphine is dead. She plans to put her devices into millions of people and alter their DNA without their consent. She has Donnie arrested with threats of having him killed in jail to blackmail Allison. When two women escape her maternity lab with evidence that could expose her, she sends assassins after them. When exposed and given the option to resign and absolve [=BrightBorn=] of any wrongdoings, she refuses, her VillainousBreakdown when the project might move forward without her showing she doesn't so much care about controlling human evolution, as much as she cares that [[ItsAllAboutMe she's the one doing it]].

** [[SerialKiller Wayne Haas]], from season 1's "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E9LivingHell Living Hell]]", is a vicious murderer who targets women. Several years before, he had a neural transmitter installed in his brain which inadvertently allows Haas to [[ElectronicTelepathy share his thoughts with any person who possesses the same implant]], although Haas is mistakenly believed to have since died. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first shown]] chasing a woman through the woods and killing her, before deciding to play around with the corpse when he notices his "audience," the episode's protagonist Ben Kohler. He later hires a prostitute, and, for fun, [[ForcedToWatch forces Ben to witness]] how he gruesomely stabs her to death in his bathtub. When Ben investigates Haas's apartment with the doctor responsible for the implant, Haas kidnaps her to cut out her brain and leaves Ben behind to take the blame for the other women the police claim he murdered over the previous months.
** [[NaziGrandpa Karl Rademacher]], from season 5's "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E12Tribunal Tribunal]]", during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, was the SS commandant of an [[PoWCamp Auschwitz subcamp]] made up to look like a "model" camp for inspections by the Red Cross. When they leave, he usually has the prisoners [[DeadlyGas gassed by the hundreds]]. The episode opens in 1944 as Rademacher makes his daily rounds to select a prisoner to execute in front of the rest, which he considers "the only joy I get from this miserable job". When he selects a random man, the wife begs him not to, so he selects her instead and shoots her in front of her husband and daughter, later having [[WouldHurtAChild the child gassed to death]]. He gives instructions to the prisoners to write letters to their relatives to tell them how wonderful they have it there. When one man objects, Rademacher orders him sent outside and shot, before amending the order so he can personally shoot the prisoner. After the war this unrepentant war criminal lives incognito for many decades in the United States. Rademacher's cruelty and brutality ultimately becomes his own doom when, thanks to a TimeTravel device, he is sent back to his own camp dressed up as an inmate. When his younger version runs into him, he demands that the rowdy old man beg for his life before [[KarmicDeath he kills his older self for being Jewish]].
** In season 5's finale "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E22BetterLuckNextTime Better Luck Next Time]]", two {{Energy Being}}s have been living on Earth for centuries, [[BodySurf stealing host bodies]] and using them to commit murder after murder for amusement and to alleviate boredom; [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E11Ripper Ripper one of said energy beings]] was UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself. Detectives Terri and Girard end up each working with an alien, both claiming they are officers sent to hunt down the killer. At the end, the truth is revealed: the two are partners in crime and have been playing the officers for fun with the only excuse being how bored they are as immortals. The two have been spending centuries playing their games and corrupting good people into killing their friends and partners out of paranoia; they plan to hijack Terri's body after she mortally wounds Girard and use her police connections to have even more fun. When Terri and her dying partner mortally wound both killers' host bodies, Terri opts to kill herself to prevent them from stealing her body, knowing they can't survive long without hosts and unwilling to allow them to continue their rampage.

** [[AttentionWhore Wayne Williams]], from season 2, is the "Atlanta Monster", a SerialKiller who targets young black [[WouldHurtAChild boys]]. Luring the boys to him by promising to make them music stars, Williams murdered them by strangulation, killing possibly over a dozen this way. Taunting the police during their investigation of him, Williams kills a boy and dumps his body in a location the police had previously searched just to mock them, and plans to flee the country to escape with his crimes. Eventually caught and convicted for murdering two adult men in the area as well, Williams, despite smugly maintaining his innocence, is described by the BSU as a {{narcissist}}ic psychopath, killing his victims just because he had failed in life, and wanted someone else to blame it on, choosing young children as his targets to satisfy his ego.

** Sidney Fletcher, from season 2, [[FauxAffablyEvil seems to be a charming man]], but he actually runs a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil white-slavery operation]] wherein he scouts out "sinful" young women held at a convent and buys them, only to smuggle them out of Australia and into {{sex slave}}ry. When one young woman escapes, Fletcher decides she's not worth the trouble and has her murdered before having her dumped in the river. When Phryne Fisher investigates, Fletcher catches her and demonstrates willingness to kill her and her friends in order to keep his sickening trade going.
** Nicholas Mortimer, from season 2's "Murder Under the Mistletoe'', is the most prolific murderer in the series. When he discovered that a mine which he partially owned had gold in it, Mortimer sent in miners who were trapped in a cave-in. When a ten-year-old boy escaped and told Mortimer, Mortimer personally [[WouldHurtAChild murdered him]] and rigged a second cave in to kill the miners so as not to have to tell anyone else about the gold. Years later, Mortimer learns that Phryne's aunt Prudence wants to sell her stake in the mine and begins murdering everyone at the hotel they're at to deal with Prudence and any witnesses. Just for a sadistic flair, he bases his murders around the 12 days of Christmas song, knowing the song tormented Prudence when she thought she heard the trapped miners singing it. Mortimer even murders his own wife as not to share the wealth with her, admitting that he did it all for [[{{Greed}} money]] and [[ForTheEvulz fun]].

* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': Janos Passik, from season 1's "The Carriers", takes 200 people into his mission to become as American as possible. "Teaching" them into becoming American, he travels with the trainees to America and give them jobs as well as hotels to stay on; each job has many employees, including one becoming a cook, one a dancer, etc. However, it is revealed that he uses this as a way of killing, and has been spreading a [[SyntheticPlague highly lethal disease]] which he will infect the agents with, who will infect their colleagues on their jobs, and so on, fully knowing how many people it will kill. While he shows signs of love against one of the protagonists [[FemmeFatale Cinnamon Carter]], he still has no problems with trying to kill her by trying to infect her with the disease. At the end, he plays a game of RussianRoulette when he discovers that they are planning on stopping his plan, including Cinnamon. In such a [[VileVillainSaccharineShow campy, silly show]], Passik is a surprisingly dark villain and mass murderer, with one of the protagonists confirming that the disease could possibly kill over five million people when taking everything into account.

** Natasha, from season 1's "Pool Sharks", is a seductive FemmeFatale vampire who, [[MustBeInvited needing an invitation from her victims]], challenges them to a game of pool with high stakes. Concealing her nature, Natasha neglects to mention her victory can mean an agonizing end at her fangs. Having killed countless innocent men, including the brother of the hero Gabe, Natasha tries to murder Gabe as well, promising he will suffer hideously for defying her.
** [[DirtyCop The inspector]], from season 3's "Leavings," is actually the mastermind behind a criminal conspiracy infesting even the department he presides over. When two cops, Parkhurst and Mancini, find a series of [[BodyHorror grotesque, patchwork people]], the inspector reveals he's been kidnapping dozens of easily-missed people, dismembering them and stitching their body parts into mindless, amalgamated creatures loyal to the department. The inspector creates a "perfect cop" out of these people he intends to use to replace every cop in the department, closing the episode by having it gun down Parkhurst and Mancini for their revolt to his operation.

** [[AWolfInSheepsClothing Cecily McKinnon]], from season 8's [[Recap/MurdochMysteriesS8E1OnTheWaterfrontPart1 two]]-[[Recap/MurdochMysteriesS8E2OnTheWaterfrontPart2 part]] premiere "On the Waterfront", pretends to be a harmless businesswoman, but in reality, she ruthlessly controls Toronto's waterfront through her psychopathic [[CoDragons henchmen]], the O'Shea brothers. When Inspector Brackenreid investigates the extortion and violence on the docks, [=McKinnon=] has the brothers savagely beat him and leave him for dead. When a fellow businessperson uncovers [=McKinnon's=] HumanTrafficking business and tries to stop it, she has him beaten to death and tries to frame him for her own crimes, nearly succeeding in selling off seven innocent women into a life of slavery. When Brackenreid confronts [=McKinnon=], she is utterly shameless about her atrocities, making a final attempt to murder him before being subdued. Hiding her monstrous nature beneath a benign facade, [=McKinnon=] stands out as one of the most callous and heinous criminals ever faced by the police of Station House No. 4.

** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Alex Close]], from season 7's "Dark Chocolate", was an immoral small-time businessman whose cleaning companies operated through exploiting and overworking illegal immigrants. Even viler in secret, Close was also a SerialRapist who used his business's contracts to find victims. In 1992, he raped Jean Saunders at the chocolate factory where she worked, and then a few months later raped Eileen Harrison, permanently traumatizing her. Exposed for his abuse of illegal immigrants in 2001, Close fled the country to Poland. Returning nine years later, he started a new business, this time exploiting Polish immigrants, and immediately resumed his spree. Failing to get a bakery contract, the undeterred Close resorted to regularly going as a customer, until he knew the layout well enough to rape Helen Vestry.
** [[HeroismAddict George Mackie]], from season 7's "Where There's Smoke", was a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity talented and respected fire investigator]] who was privately a [[PyroManiac serial arsonist]], claiming to having started 64 separate fires. He would place homemade firebombs in his targets, then turn up afterwards to analyze and [[GloryHound bask in the praise he received for his "insight"]]. In 1996, he burned the Union club to the ground, killing four people, including the club's owner, and causing seven hospitalizations. Shortly afterwards, Mackie retired and thus the fires stopped. UCOS's re-investigation into the Union fire inspiring him to come out of retirement, Mackie tracked down a survivor of the Union Club fire who had been left with third-degree burns over half his body and burned his home down. Later, he set another bomb in Stuart Russel's house, this one nearly killing him along with Jack, Brian and Gerry. Underneath all his charm and seeming helpfulness, Mackie was nothing more than a shameless AttentionWhore, happy to commit wanton destruction and kill innocent people just to stroke his own ego.
** [[AWolfInSheepsClothing Annabel Skinner]], from season 10's "The Little Brother", is a former associate of the notorious [[ConMan Larry Goftman]]. Desiring Florence Epstein's money, [[TheVamp Skinner seduced her husband Jonathan]] until he was under her spell. They tortured Florence's bank details out of her, before bludgeoning her to death with a hammer. No longer needing him, Skinner turned Jonathan over to the police. However, when Goftman double-crossed her and ran off with the money, Annabel vowed vengeance against him and Peter Sale, [[MisplacedRetribution despite him not being involved in their plan and being cheated himself]]. She violently murdered Sale's sister Margaret Kirby and stole her identity. Six years later, after finding Goftman but being unable to find Sale, Skinner acquainted herself with Esther Lane. Playing the role of the caring sister, she set Brian on the trail to find Sale. Skinner than strangled Goftman, leaving his body for Brian to find. Finally finding Sale, Skinner eliminated the constable guarding him and tried to murder him. When Brian interrupted her, she tried to strangle him too. A manipulative violent sociopath, Skinner even described herself as "[[CardCarryingVillain fundamentally nasty]]".

** [[KnightTemplar Damon Caylor]], from "The Five People You Meet in Hell", is "a UsefulNotes/CharlesManson wannabe" who founded a cult made up of weak-willed people who he [[ManipulativeBastard brainwashed into believing]] that society needed to be purged of anyone deemed "a moral hypocrite" by Caylor. After a few of his followers were arrested for publicly beheading an oil executive, Caylor [[TilMurderDoUsPart strangled his own wife]], who had been convinced to testify against him by reporter Perri Reed. Placed in solitary confinement after being blinded by a fellow inmate, Caylor eventually developed PsychicPowers, which he set out to use against everyone responsible for his imprisonment, including Reed. Caylor forces his trial's prosecutor and judge to murder their respective spouses by having visions of their dead loved ones warp their perception of reality before setting them off with the trigger phrase, "You know what you have to do." The prosecutor hangs himself in despair over killing his own wife, and one of Caylor's arresting officers nearly shoots his before being snapped out of Caylor's control by Kolchak. Caylor tells Reed and Kolchak that the murders will stop if his manifesto is published, but the journal turns out to be blank, having been nothing more than bait that Caylor used to get close enough to Kolchak so that he could try to psychically force him to kill Reed.
** [[ImmortalityImmorality Marlene Harmon]], from "Timeless", is a vain immortal who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps herself alive]] by [[ImAHumanitarian feeding on the pituitary glands of young women]], whose faces she gnaws through to get to their brains after [[AndIMustScream paralyzing]] them with an anesthetic. Marlene commits three murders every thirty-five years, with the earliest known killings being in 1900. In 1970, Marlene had her son, Luke, assist her with the latest murders, but when Luke began to crack under the pressure of what he was doing, Marlene [[OffingTheOffspring shot him in the face]], made it look like [[NeverSuicide he committed suicide]], and fooled everyone into believing that he was sole perpetrator of the "serial killings" being investigated by the LAPD. In 2005, Marlene has her other son [[VillainousIncest and implied lover]], Aaron, help her with the latest batch of killings, which attract the attention of Kolchak and Reed. Marlene sets her own devoted boyfriend up to take the fall for the deaths, and when Aaron confronts her over the circumstances of his brother's suicide, Marlene admits to having killed the "weak" Luke. Even though Marlene had reassured him that she would never harm him, Aaron ends up shooting her to save Reed, convinced that Marlene was lying and that it was only a matter of time before she disposed of him like she did her boyfriend and Luke.

* ''Series/MartialLaw'': [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this {{crossover}}, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

** [[LackOfEmpathy Gorzi]], from season 1's "Guesthouse Pearl", is a greedy former human trafficker turned human smuggler who, while not initially heinous, stands out due to his cruel methods and overall disregard for the people he is smuggling. His ways of smuggling consists of him using vulnerable immigrants, taping a bottle of cerium on them, which can explode at anytime, and then placing them on cruisers, not caring if the cerium blows up. In his final scene, he abuses one of the people he was smuggling, and threatens to kill him for no reason.
** [[AxCrazy Dag Sjöberg]], from the season 2 premiere "The Price of Revenge", is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] killing two cops after stealing bombs and weapons with his two main associates, the first cop Dag had previously tried to arrest due to "assault", the second one being completely innocent. Both of his associates are shocked by this, debating on whether or not they should really cooperate with him. Dag proceeds to taunt [[AntiHero Gunvald Larsson]], who was friends with the cop Dag killed. He then threatens to kill his own associate Santos, just because the latter thought Dag went too far. The trio's true goal is to bomb an entire building just so that they can see the explosion. The next time Dag is shown, he is disguised as a policeman and kills three policemen, not caring when the true police come and arrest his two associates Santos and Victor. He manages to run away in the woods, until he sees a farm, where he kills the farmer who lives there and then threatens his wife inside the house, terrorizing her and her child Elin. When the police finally come, he [[WouldHurtAChild holds the child hostage]], and even when the police offer to make him torture Gunvald instead of the child, he takes the offer, only to [[ILied still keep her]]. He reminds Gunvald of his friend dying and how he wasn't able to help him, playing Russian roulette with him, terrorizing the little girl, all with [[PsychopathicManchild childish glee]]. Once he realizes that he'll get arrested either way, he does the one thing Gunvald didn't want him to do: commit suicide.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Klas Mellgren]], from the season 2 finale "The Last Witness", is the security chief for a big company named Landexa, which is trying to find a cure for AIDS. Forcing one of the top scientists of the company, Lillemor "Limo" Franson, to charm Beck and manipulate Beck into giving them information about how the case is going, Klas is behind five murders which included him testing the cure on prostitutes, despite fully knowing that the cure wasn't ready, and then making them blind from the medicine, effectively ruining their lives, He then hires a man named [[AxCrazy Teddy]] to brutally disfigure the girls' faces in order to cover the fact that the medicine made them blind, and then kills them. When one of the girls tell the truth, one of Teddy's assassins, [[TheStoic Juri]], gets hired to kill her and do the same thing to her. When Limo tells Beck about everything, Klas nearly strangles her to death and tells her that it is [[NeverMyFault all her fault]]. When he realizes he will never make it, he [[TakingYouWithMe blows up the entire Landexa building]] using his lighter. While lacking the body count of other villains, Klas makes up for it by being responsible for some of the most gruesome and brutal murders in the entire series.

** The sociopathic SerialKiller Cale Sylvan, from season 2's "Blood Money", makes his living as a [[PsychoForHire hitman]] to get paid for his disgusting hobby. Connected to the "mysterious" deaths of seven people, Sylvan's most recent victim is District Attorney Kelly Flower, who he took the time to videotape begging for her life as a trophy to keep for himself. Although arrested, Sylvan is released and later found in his murder house, with a terrified captive man he plans to kill, and after Sylvan's own death, multiple bodies are found in the yard of the property.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Thomas "Tommy" Volker]], from season 5, is a greedy executive responsible for slaughtering over 300 Amazonian tribesmen for refusing to relinquish their land to be used for his geothermal project. When a journalist links him to the massacre, Volker manipulates an old friend into sabotaging her car, having the journalist suffocated, the evidence stolen and his "friend" left as the fall guy. After CBI Agent Teresa Lisbon convinces Volker's secretary to provide evidence against him, Volker has his assassin strangle her to death while he looks on, smiling, and planning to have the same done to another employee of his who planned to go public with Volker's crimes. Later having his own assassin killed in a drive-by shooting, along with two innocent bystanders, for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness becoming inconvenient]], Volker also plans to kill another of his own goons for being interrogated by the police and attempts to personally [[WouldHurtAChild murder a young boy]] who witnessed one of his own crimes when even his own hitman is too disgusted to do so. Loyal to no one, Volker is a disgusting man who embodies avarice.

* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Elio Escobar, from season 1’s "The Maze", is the most sinister, AxCrazy member of his drug dealing family. A murderer, thief, drug trafficker and vandal, Escobar murders a detective and has people taken hostage in a hotel, including a baby, with intent to murder them later. When he sees a girl he likes, Escobar tries to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape her]]. When his brother Georges sees this, he tries to reason with and stop Elio. Elio simply murders his brother in response to this. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his brothers are disgusted by his utter psychosis]].

** [[FauxAffablyEvil Zachariah]], from season 1's "Lemuel, Unchained", Lem's sire, is a charismatic but selfish vampire. Meeting in the 1800s, after turning Lem, they roamed the country together, leaving trails of bodies everywhere they went, Zachariah building himself a nest of vampires. By 1959 he settled down in Midnight and terrorized the town, slaughtering and feasting on the citizens. When Lem was granted the ability to feed off of energy rather than blood, he offered it to the clan as freedom from the blood lust, only for Zachariah to revealing that [[{{Sadist}} he loved the killing]], seeing humans as nothing but prey, and tried to have Lem killed. Returning to Midnight in the present, Zachariah pretended to have changed to trick Lem into letting them settle in Midnight. When Lem refused, he poisoned his old friend and chains him up so that he will slowly die as the sun rises, whilst ordering his followers to kill everyone else in the town.
** The [[FaceStealer Faceless]], from season 1's "Last Temptation of Midnight", is a mysterious beast who serves and worships Colconnar. Ordered by his master to provide him a great sacrifice to feed him enough that he may finally break free, the Faceless happily obliges. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] murdering a kindly old priest by [[SlashedThroat slitting his throat]], then cutting his face off whilst he was still alive,, the Faceless proceeded to go on a rampage, murdering numerous people for the sacrifice, all in his gruesome signature manner, at one point killing a friendly trucker simply cause he needed a larger vehicle to transport the bodies. The Faceless openly admits to [[PsychoSupporter only be serving Colconnar for the chaos he will bring]], looking forward to a new world "where we find pleasure from pain, joy from suffering" and boasting about his role in bringing about the apocalypse.
** [[EvilMatriarch Grace Barrone]], from season 2's "I Put A Spell On You", is a cruel, greedy woman, who runs a gang that kidnaps supernaturals and [[GladiatorGames force them to fight to death]]. Imprisoning them in cages and keeping them in line with shock collars, Grace allows people to bet on the outcome of fights, dismissing her captives as "[[FantasticRacism animals]]", who she regularly abuses and electrocutes for no good reason, only caring about the money they can make her. When her daughter Shelia falls for one of her captives Mike, a Weretiger, and ends up impregnated by him, Grace declares her a traitor who tainted their "bloodline" and [[AbusiveParents imprisons her in chains, keeping her alive only so she can use the child, her own granddaughter, in the fights]]. When the Midnighters try to rescue Mary and her father, Grace electrocutes all her captives threatening to carry on until it eventually kills them all. Despite being pure human, Grace was easily one of the most [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters depraved things the Midnighters ever encountered]].

** The killer from season 7's "The Straw Woman"--Agnes Waterhouse--is a sociopath obsessed with the "perfect death" with a liking for [[ManOnFire burning their victims]] alive. To eliminate potential obstacles, the killer traps the local consulate in a straw woman to have him burned alive and screaming; murders the consulate's gay lover and attempts the life of a doctor by setting their clothes alight with phosphorous; and murders the innocent schoolteacher Liz Francis by bludgeoning her with a candlestick and setting her alight. The killer tosses the blame on their rival and nearly commits murder-suicide with her ward Alan Clifford, and when asked why they murdered Liz by a grieving Dan Scott, the killer's only response is a cheerful smile and a remorseless affirmation of "I had to".
** The killer from season 12's "The Black Book"--Patricia Blackstone--seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, they track down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and torture her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, they tie him up and spend a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, they confess their intention was to make sure their own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses many other killers.
** The killer from season 13's "Master Class"--Sir Michael Fielding--is a seemingly genial, supportive figure who in fact is a [[EvilutionaryBiologist twisted eugenicist]]. Convinced that concentrating his genes would breed a superior child, he repeatedly [[ParentalIncest raped his daughter]] Molly, who [[DrivenToSuicide drowned herself to escape]]. Eighteen years later, the killer is obsessed with impregnating his daughter/granddaughter, eliminating anyone whom he perceives as an obstacle: almost crushing Inspector Tom Barnaby to death; hanging a young student for flirting with the granddaughter; [[SlashedThroat slits a kindly priest's throat]] for attempting to protect her; and [[VehicularSabotage engineers a car crash]] in an attempt to kill her adopted parents. Caught, the remorseless killer boasts his elitism, claiming the country is descending into idiots and degenerates, and "someone had to take a stand".
** The killer from season 14's "Echoes of the Dead"--David Orchard--is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, the killer snaps and begins a killing spree, posing their victims in the style of famous murder cases. The killer brutally murders those they deem to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even attempting one last kill before being stopped. Upon capture, the killer attempts to play themself as a victim, but is called out by Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
** The killer from season 15's "Schooled in Murder"--Hayley Brantner--to assure they aren't seen as "weak" by the town, turns to murder to feel empowered. The killer targets everyone whom they feel has put them down in the past, crushing an old schoolmate's skull with a wheel of cheese; garroting another man to death; stabbing her husband through the heart with a cheese needle; and leaving a woman and her guiltless husband to be trampled to death by cows. After their final two attempted murders are foiled, the killer's self-pitying MotiveRant is thrown right back in their face as a shallow excuse for their uniquely long line of victims.
* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'': [[TheProfiler Frank Black]] has faced many [[SerialKiller killers]] and other [[MonsterOfTheWeek villains]]. These are the absolute worst.
** Raymond Dees, from season 1's "[[Recap/MillenniumE06522666 522666]]", is a MadBomber who [[{{Sadist}} derives sexual pleasure]] from the numerous deaths he causes. He initially blows up a crowded bar while watching the scene from afar. He later plants bombs in an office building, killing dozens more, and then participates in the rescue of the wounded simply so he can be [[GloryHound hailed as a hero]] by the community. When Frank Black eventually discovers his true identity, Dees realizes that his game is up and arranges to be killed by the Feds so he can become notorious as a criminal instead, but not before taunting Frank with the possibility that he's rigged Frank's car to explode.
** Yaponchik (aka Sergei Stepanovich, real name unknown), from season 1's "[[Recap/MillenniumE21Maranatha Maranatha]]", is a mass murderer who sees himself as an [[TheAntichrist Antichrist figure]] whose mission it is to spread evil in the world. Taking inspiration from the Literature/BookOfRevelation, he causes the [[GoingCritical Chernobyl disaster]] to kill many people and poison the land. A decade later in the United States, he [[CopKiller kills a police officer]] and several people who tried to appease him, to re-establish his status as TheDreaded to the Russian community. He kills one of the two Russian officers who had been tracking him ever since Chernobyl by shooting him in public. He later goes on a killing spree in a bathhouse, before using religious fear to convince his nemesis Surova to [[KarmaHoudini help him escape]] so that he can continue his rampage elsewhere.
** Avatar, from season 2's "[[Recap/MillenniumE35TheMikado The Mikado]]", is a SerialKiller who terrorized the streets of San Francisco in the 1980s, claiming nineteen victims before eluding the authorities. He eventually returns to [[MurderDotCom broadcast his latest murders over the internet]], kidnapping several women and presenting them on a website with a counter indicating the time until their deaths. He leads the cops to a remote trailer, planting deadly boobytraps after killing the previous occupant. When Frank Black finds Avatar's new lair, he tries to kill Black as well before [[DisguisedHostageGambit disguising his latest victim as himself]] in the hopes that Black will shoot her by mistake. Avatar [[SilentAntagonist never speaks]], but his huge body count and his {{sadist}}ic games make him one of the show's most heinous villains.

*** UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself, from the series premiere "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE1TheRipper The Ripper]]", is a SerialKiller who is at first believed to be a [[JackTheRipoff Ripper copycat]], but is soon revealed to be something far more sinister. First seen butchering numerous women, mostly hookers and strippers, throughout Milwaukee and Chicago, the Ripper cannibalized his third victim in Chicago, carving out her kidneys to eat. Sending taunting letters of his crimes to the press, the Ripper arranges a meeting with a young reporter while claiming he won't kill anyone the night they would meet, however [[ILied he kills her anyway]]. After escaping police custody and brutalizing many officers and innocents who try to restrain him, the Ripper is revealed to be the actual Jack the Ripper, having spent the past decades traveling the world and always murdering 5 women in each location he terrorizes, having killed over 70 women over the years. Jack the Ripper was a mysterious figure whose crimes were never given justification beyond sheer sadism and hatred.
*** [[CorruptPolitician Robert Palmer]], from "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE7TheDevilsPlatform The Devil's Platform]]", is a senator obsessed with gaining as much personal power as possible, and to this end, made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Prince of Darkness]] for supernatural abilities. Using these abilities, for which he pays for by regularly sacrificing animals and "higher forms of life", Palmer kills off all of his political opponents, with their wives and friends being casualties as well. When Palmer's campaign manager plans to reveal his crimes to the public, Palmer [[ElevatorFailure sends the elevator his manager is on plummeting to the ground]], killing him and the numerous other innocents onboard. A secretary, aware of Palmer's part in the elevator crash, tries to blackmail him into paying her to keep quiet about it, and Palmer responds by trying to maul her in his {{hellhound}} form; when she survives and is sent to the hospital, Palmer pursues and [[SickbedSlaying kills her in her weakened state]]. After murdering another of his opponents in a car crash, Palmer tries to manipulate Kolchak into signing his soul over to Palmer, and wastes no time in trying to butcher Kolchak when he refuses. [[SmugSnake Smug]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]], Robert Palmer stood out even to Kolchak as one of the most wicked villains he ever faced.
*** [[UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar Helen of Troy]], alias Helen Surtees, from "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE19TheYouthKiller The Youth Killer]]", has the longest HistoricalRapSheet in the series. A beautiful demigoddess who made a deal with the powerful goddess Hecate for [[ImmortalityImmorality eternal life]], Helen is required to drain the life out of physically perfect individuals on a regular basis to retain her youth, a process that inevitably kills her victims, something sadist she takes pleasure from. Having lived for hundreds of years, Helen uses a computer dating service in the present to find victims, and drains the life out of three of them throughout the episode, nearly getting Kolchak killed when he tries to interfere. Defined by her callousness and lust for beauty, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful, and [[ItsAllAboutMe most self-centered]], foe Kolchak ever faced.

* ''Series/TheLastKingdom'': [[BadBoss Sverri]], from season 2, is an Icelandic [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] notorious for working and torturing his slaves to death. Having his slaves row to Iceland for days without food, Sverri [[EvilIsPetty forces them to fight over an apple he's already taken a bite out of]]. After recapturing Uhtred and Halig after their failed escape attempt, Sverri has the latter bound to the prow of his ship and forces Uhtred and the other slaves to row the roaring seas, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly killing Halig]].

** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Anne [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Hannity]], from season 3's "[[Recap/LeverageS03E03TheInsideJob The Inside Job]]", wanted to kill off the world's wheat market with a super-plague, willing to starve the whole planet, so that her own plague-resistant super-wheat would make her and, by extension, her company [[{{Greed}} money]]. She also threatens Archie Leach's family to make him help her, and tries to kill the Leverage team when they find her out, asking them how they would like to be killed ("[[TheDragon Mister Voorhees]] is flexible.") On a show where most villains are interested in stealing patents and building strip malls she, and her [[TheDragon Dragon]], cold-blooded Security Chief Voorhees, really stand out.
** [[{{Greed}} Darren Hoffman]], from season 3's "[[Recap/LeverageS03E05TheDoubleBlindJob The Double Blind Job]]", is the new [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of a drug company. He plans on increasing profit by releasing a drug known as HT-1 under the new name Vioplex. HT-1 is known to cause things like liver failure and death in many of the drug trial participants, so Hoffman added some chemical delays to Vioplex, which will result in people dying in months maybe years after taking it rather than weeks. He kills one doctor who he couldn't bribe to keep quiet about the drugs being the same and wiped the records of a group of people who also died from HT-1 from the internet. When confronted by Sophie, under the guise of an FDA agent, about the seriousness of the fines assessed for bad drugs, Hoffman laughs it off as those fines are typically around 15% of the drug's profit yield.

** [[ItsAllAboutMe Mr. McGuire]], from season 1's "[[Recap/TheLibrariansS1E06AndTheFablesOfDoom ...and the Fables of Doom]]", is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly old librarian]] who discovers a [[ArtifactOfDoom magic book]] that can give strength to the user. Using it to drain the life of a little girl and more innocents, he begins unleashing fairy tales on the local town to terrorize them, all while continuing his "stories" to the child. [=McGuire=] reveals he intends to kill everyone in the town via [[ImmortalityImmorality harvesting their lives]], gloating that he has given so much to the town and now they can give him their lives in turn.
** [[PsychopathicWomanchild Katie Bender]], from season 1's "[[Recap/TheLibrariansS1E08AndTheHeartOfDarkness ...and the Heart of Darkness]]", is the true master of the House of Repose. Once a member of the monstrous SerialKiller Bender family, Katie stumbled upon the wish-granting house and enslaved it, using it to travel time and space to lure in men, women and children so she can sadistically toy with and eventually murder them. Luring in the Librarians via playing an innocent child, Katie soon reveals her own monstrous nature, revealing the grand total of her victims makes her the most prolific murderer in history.
** [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] himself, from season 2's "[[Recap/TheLibrariansS2E07AndTheImageOfImage ...and the Image of Image]]", is {{the hedonist}}ic owner of Club Effigy. Having bound his soul into a painting to achieve {{immortality|Immorality}}, Dorian lures in innocents to the club so he may trick them into painfully absorbing his own sins from the painting to destroy them, all while he remains young and beautiful. Dorian seduces and tempts people into the club, exposing them to his magic, while also keeping the young woman Eve magically bound to him. Despite his claims of victimhood, Dorian is a vicious, hedonistic sociopath willing to destroy and damn countless innocents so as to [[ItsAllAboutMe not lose an eternity of enjoyment]].

** Andrew Jenkins, from season 1's "Blinded", is a SerialRapist whose crime spree involved raping 12 women. When he was done, Jenkins would focus their gaze on him before he blinded them so he would be the last thing they ever saw. Knowing a copycat of his is out there and kidnapping a woman to blind and rape, Jenkins enjoys playing a twisted game with hero Cal Lightman as Lightman tries to save the woman. With a reach extending outside prison, Jenkins has a guard pass letters to his copycat by threatening the man's life and promises Lightman his copycat's next victim will be someone Lightman loves.
** From the same episode comes Jenkins's {{copycat|Killer}}, Paul Russell, who is also a SerialRapist who collaborates with Jenkins to gain as many rape victims as possible, whom he blinds in the same way Jenkins' did. Before becoming Jenkins' acolyte, he married one of Jenkin's victims so he could always be close to one of Jenkins' "masterpieces."
** Martin Walker, from season 2's "Beat The Devil", is a SerialKiller and [[ColdBloodedTorture torturer]]. At first, he gains Lightman's notice when seeing photos of women being tortured arouses him. It comes out Walker is a vicious murderer who gets his kicks by waterboarding young women. He then forces them to dig their own graves before murdering and burying them in them. The waterboarding is related to how he allowed his sister to drown as a child, allowing her to drown merely because he wanted her bike.

** [[ArmsDealer Thaddeus Roarke]], from season 1's "[[Recap/LoisAndClarkS1E11HoneymoonInMetropolis Honeymoon in Metropolis]]", is a tycoon who runs a company called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Apocalypse Consulting]]. After losing a military contract to Lex Luthor to develop a coastal defense system for the Navy, Roarke plans to sabotage Luthor's system so that the Navy will pick his system. Roarke is working with a [[CorruptPolitician Congressman Ian Harrington]] who works on the House Subcommittee on Defense and is giving Roarke information about Luthor's system. Roarke eventually reveals his scheme to Harrington, that he plans to cause a massive disruption in Luthor's system that will result in it creating a giant tidal wave which will destroy Metropolis and several cities on the coast, [[EvenEvilHasStandards which horrifies Harrington]]. When Roarke discovers Lois Lane and Clark Kent have been spying on him, he tries to kill them by putting a bomb in their hotel room.
** "[[MasterOfDisguise Anonymous]]", from season 3's "[[Recap/LoisAndClarkS3E8ChipOffTheOldClark A Chip Off The Old Clark]]", is a [[PsychoForHire mercenary]] who works for the highest bidder. Anonymous is hired by terrorists to destroy an ongoing peace process between two countries, Tanzor and Fostonia. Anonymous learns of a young boy named Jesse who has some of Superman's powers and kidnaps him. Anonymous hires a hacker to hack into Tanzor's nuclear defense system and then shoots the hacker so he does not have to pay him. Anonymous has Jesse kidnap the President of the Tanzor and uses truth serum to force him to reveal Tanzor's nuclear launch codes, [[NukeEm planning to launch a nuke at Fostonia's capital city]]. Lois Lane arrives and tries to trick Anonymous into surrendering by pretending to have a gun, but Anonymous tricks Jesse into pressing the launch button. Discovering that Jesse has lost his powers, Anonymous decides he is no longer useful and tries to use poison gas to kill Lois, the President and [[WouldHurtAChild Jesse]].
** [[ThoseWackyNazis Steve Law]], from season 3's "[[Recap/LoisAndClarkS3E9SuperMann Super Mann]]", is a Nazi who [[DeepCoverAgent awakens from suspended animation]] in present-day Metropolis to help lead the world into the Fourth Reich. Establishing himself as the nastiest of his three compatriots, Law tries to have a Western sympathizer in his inner circle murdered when he tries to renege and unflinchingly executes his own associate when he tries to abandon the mission as well. Law spearheads the mission to crush the world himself by threatening to detonate bombs in Metropolis, Washington, and LA if America's government doesn't surrender, trying to detonate the bombs as soon as he's able and even dismissing all of his own men who will be caught up in the explosions as "martyrs to the cause".
** [[MadScientist Professor Jefferson Cole]], from season 4's "[[Recap/LoisAndClarkS4E6ThePeopleVersusLoisLane The People vs. Lois Lane]]" and "[[Recap/LoisAndClarkS4E7DeadLoisWalking Dead Lois Walking]]", is a narcissistic, brilliant mind expelled from S.T.A.R. laboratories after he attempted to sell weapons technology to those who would misuse it. Breaking out of jail years later and possessed of a vendetta toward the people who locked him away, especially Lois Lane, Cole frames Lois for murder by rigging a gun to go off in her hands and [[BadBoss kill his own henchmen]], later using his illusory technology to further discredit Lois until she's sentenced to death. Cole murders one of his own minions who tries to clear Lois's name in remorse and reveals his trump card is to rain down hybrid-Kryptonite on Metropolis to horribly kill its entire populace, all out of [[EvilIsPetty petty spite]] for the city having "shunned his genius".
* ''Series/{{Lore}}'': [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Peter Stump]], from "The Beast Within", is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] serial killer in 1589 Bedburg, Germany who has already preyed upon 18 women and children. He would kidnap these victims from the woods and take them to his hideout, where he would then proceed to chop them up while they're still alive and eat the severed heads and limbs, [[CreepySouvenir keeping the bones as trophies]]. He also took advantage of the werewolf hysteria of that time by leading the villagers to wild goose chases in search of a werewolf as way detract their suspicions away from him while he would continue to claim more lives. When he notices Greta Hetfelderz and recognized her as one of his victims who managed to escape his clutches six years ago, he proceeds to kidnap her and take her to his hideout where he attempts of chop off her left arm he scarred back then. Ultimately, the savagery of Peter Stump would later become one of the greatest inspirations behind the infamous werewolf folklore.

** Anthony Cooper, from the first three seasons, was the [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of John Locke, whom he sired with a teenager half his age, and was a notorious ConMan who formerly earned his money by having affairs with married women, scamming them out of their money, then ditching them once he had what he wanted. Flashbacks reveal that he was the man who scammed Sawyer's parents, resulting in Sawyer's father murdering his wife then committing suicide, [[{{Jerkass}} something he's completely unapologetic about when he meets Sawyer as an adult.]] When he finally meets his son, John Locke, whom he had neglected before, [[BitchInSheepsCLothing he comes off as a kindly man and the father Locke has always wanted.]] In reality, [[BaitTheDog it's just another scam.]] Cooper's kidneys are failing and the nice guy act was just a ruse to get Locke to donate a kidney to him, after which he coldly dumps his son, telling him he wants nothing to do with him. Later on, Locke is approached by a man named Peter Talbot, the son of a wealthy woman that Cooper is planning to marry for her money. When Talbot expresses a desire to stop the wedding to protect his mother, he later ends up mysteriously murdered. When Locke confronts his father on killing Talbot, his father responds by [[OffingTheOffspring attempting to kill Locke himself]], throwing him out of an eight-story-window and paralyzing him.
** [[SociopathicSoldier Martin Keamy]], from season 4, works for [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Charles Widmore]], who sent [[PsychoForHire Keamy and his mercenary team]] to attack the island, capture Benjamin Linus, and kill anybody else. Keamy, despite being informed that [[WouldHurtAChild a baby is among the innocents there]], wages an all-out assault on the Barracks where Linus is held up; at least three survivors are killed before he arrives in front of Ben's house. There he brings out the 16-year-old Alex, Ben's foster daughter, and threatens to kill her if Ben doesn't leave the house by the time Keamy finishes his countdown. When Ben tries to resist Keamy's threats and negotiate instead, [[KickTheDog Keamy forgoes the rest of the countdown and coldly shoots the young girl in the head while her father watches]]. Keamy kills and threatens to kill several other innocent people, including one by [[SlashedThroat slashing his throat]], and also shows no emotion when he [[AccidentalMurder inadvertently kills]] his own [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]] [[TheDragon dragon]] Omar by kicking an active grenade that landed at his own feet over in Omar's direction. Upon being gravely wounded by Ben, Keamy reveals he has [[DeadMansSwitch a bomb on the freighter he arrived on that's rigged to go off in the event of his death]], [[TakingYouWithMe just so he can kill as many people as possible when he goes out.]]. The [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] Keamy had the distinction of being one of the few villains in the series [[{{Sadist}} who just enjoyed killing people]].
* ''Series/LostGirl'': [[MadScientist Dr. Isaac Taft]], from season 3, proves HumansAreTheRealMonsters in a show full of vicious Fae. Desiring to [[IJustWantToBeSpecial become a powerful Fae himself]], Taft has multiple Fae kidnapped and subjected to hideous and torturous experiments before dumping their corpses into a mass grave. One of the few survivors is left mentally scarred and nearly insane. Taft captures the succubus heroine Bo's ex-boyfriend Dyson and has him experimented on as well, planning to blackmail Bo's current lover Lauren into experimenting on Dyson to transport his essence into Taft. Interested only in his own advancement, Taft believed that with [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney billions of dollars, he could do anything he desired]].
* ''Series/LostTapes'': [[AxCrazy Charles Weatherly]], from ''Poltergeist'', was a sadistic man who murdered his [[DomesticAbuse wife]] and [[OffingTheOffspring children]] before turning the knife on himself. After his death, Charles began haunting his home as a poltergeist. When the Golden family moved in, Charles began haunting their son, Troy. After an incident in which Charles pushed a bookcase on top of Troy's older sister, a paranormal investigation team was called in. When the team witnessed a sleeping Troy's stuffed panda being turned into a knife, they moved the family out of the house and began their investigation. During the investigation, Charles [[DemonicPossession possessed one of the investigators]], demanding they leave before killing her. When the leader of the investigators, Jeremy, made it clear they weren't going to leave, he killed the other member of the team and placed his body like a statue. When Jeremy concedes after the deaths of his followers, Charles leads him to Troy's room where he stabs him to death.

** [[CopKiller Terry Lynch]], from the second episode, is an ex-military officer who was thrown in prison for murdering a police officer in a scuffle. Upon being denied parole, [[AbusiveParents Lynch]] gives his abused son Owen plans and schemes to act out in a quest for both freedom and revenge. Having Owen begin systematically murdering police officers around the city, including sniping and bombing them, Lynch ultimately gets more than a dozen officers killed and injured. Lynch hopes to get a reduced sentence in exchange for stopping his son, revealing Owen has been instructed to continue killing until Lynch says stop, and when confronted by the possibility of Owen dying, Lynch simply laughs and reveals [[ItsAllAboutMe he doesn't care about his son, only his freedom]].
** [[SerialKiller Cameron Pell]], from season 2's first two episodes, is a failed artist who admires the likes of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper and Spring-heeled Jack for the fear and infamy they've amassed over the centuries. [[FameThroughInfamy Wanting that same fame for himself]], Pell [[MalevolentMaskedMan dons a mask]] and begins murdering innocent people by strangling them and slashing their throats open. After failing to kill DCI John Luther, Pell kidnaps the man's partner, DS Justin Ripley, and subjects him to brutal torture that he broadcasts to the entire police station. Pell's master plan is to [[WouldHurtAChild murder over a dozen schoolchildren]], dissolve their bodies, and ship the corpses out of the country, leaving the parents of the children forever in agony at never knowing what happened to their kids, and cementing Pell into London's most monstrous of villains.
** [[RetiredMonster William Carney]], from season 3's second episode, is a particularly vicious SerialKiller and sexually violent criminal who killed many women several years ago, starting with middle-class wives before moving onto [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]]. After failing to kill two teenage girls and a mother, Carney was arrested and locked away. In the present, Carney [[EvilMentor manipulates Paul Ellis]], the son of one of his victims, into carrying on his murders, sending the disturbed man after victims who got away from Carney in the past, resulting in many more brutal deaths. When confronted about his crimes, Carney can only laugh and reveals his crimes were committed [[ForTheEvulz just because he enjoyed them]], and he attempts to make his final victim one of his own nurses simply because he hated being seen as "weak" by her.

** Colonel Emmett Anderson, from the series premiere "Ghosts of the Confederacy'', attacks an innocent tribe of Seminole Natives, intending on slaughtering them if they do not give him gold they don't have, even lighting a cannon and aiming it at women and children until the chief relents and tells him of a defunct mine. Returning later to claim the "gold", Anderson tries to massacre the tribe and all within when it turns out they could not produce. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards one of his own men objects]], Anderson denounces him as a coward for being unable to shoot Anderson and tries to murder him as well.
** Wickes, from season 1's "Working Girls", is the cruel owner of the tent town Wickestown, tempting girls into prostitution and keeping them enslaved as his property in debt to him, raping them himself for pleasure and beating any who speak up half-to-death. Wickes's only concern when he thinks he sees his girls die is the monetary loss this will cause, and kidnaps Mrs. Travis, threatening her son and indicating he'll enslave her as well after killing him.
** Earl, from the season 2 premiere "The New Law", is an enigmatic [[PsychoForHire gun-for-hire]] whose job description is wiping entire towns off the map. Earl forces the citizens of the town out of their homes as he pillages and torches the community–unless they "give him grief", in which case he kills them all with the town. Earl murders the new marshal appointed to guard the Seven's town before having his men pillage it, even trying to burn down the town ahead of time with people still in it when he hears the army is headed his way.
** Rupert Brauner, from season 2's "Chinatown", is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive railroad executive]] who embezzles from his employers by stealing the money from his Chinese laborers. Keeping the laborers as abused slaves and allowing HumanTrafficking, Brauner has any who speak out against the theft murdered and buried in shallow graves. When he realizes the Seven are drawing too close for comfort, Brauner simply attempts to start a riot and have the workers massacred, all to feed his greed.
* ''Series/{{Maigret}}'':
** [[TheCorrupter Jean "Dacourt"]], real name Jean Tellière, from season 1's "Maigret's Dead Man", [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates a group]] of drug-addicted, unemployed Czech nationals into murdering and robbing wealthy families with him. Having the only man with evidence of his involvement killed, Dacourt orders his lackeys to kill anyone even possibly aware of his crimes and [[BadBoss tries to murder them as well]] the [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness second they become problematic]]. Revealed to have abandoned his own wife and children to revel in luxury with a new mistress, Dacourt misses no opportunity to display just how callous he is to human suffering, as long as his life remains opulent.
** [[SerialKiller Oscar Bonvoisin]], from season 2's "Maigret in Montmartre", is a runty pimp and killer who blackmailed exotic dancer Arlette, real name Marie, into becoming his prostitute when she was an emotionally devastated young woman with the knowledge of her helping her kill an employer in self defense. When Marie escaped him, Oscar tracked her down, and when she refused to return, he murdered her. Mortally wounded in their struggle, Oscar killed others connected to Marie, including her old employer the Countess; a taxi driver to take his car; and Marie's former employer, while planning on murdering the man's wife in front of Maigret before killing himself to go out on his own terms. With [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil one of the most disgusting crimes]] in the series, Maigret denounces Oscar for turning the devastated Marie into a prostitute simply to make himself more comfortable, declaring Oscar is "beyond contempt" and "beyond mercy".

** [[MasterComputer The City Eye]], from "The Eyes Beyond", was a supercomputer that was designed to help the police of Port Columbia deal with the increase in crime that occurred after Mantis disappeared into a time warp in 1994. The Eye eventually grew beyond its original parameters [[AIIsACrapshoot and developed a mind of its own]], as well as [[RoboticPsychopath a sadistic and power-hungry personality]] that prompted it to take over Port Columbia. The Eye isolated the city from the rest of the world, took control of everything from the food supply to the [[BrainDrain distribution of knowledge]], and enslaved everyone in Port Columbia. Anyone who tries to escape or who reaches a certain age is killed, while anyone who opposes the Eye is either terminated on the spot, imprisoned and tortured, or executed on the long-running state program ''[[BreadAndCircuses 3 Strikes and We Inject You!]]'' When the time-displaced Mantis reappears in 2026, the Eye arranges to have his old ally, Taylor Savage, executed in order to draw him out, and has its forces gun down Mantis's friend John Stonebrake when he and Mantis try to rescue Taylor. After capturing Mantis, the Eye reveals that it is going to destroy his mind by integrating his brain and his suit's system into itself in order to further increase its capabilities and control over Port Columbia.
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Doctor Marissa Savoy]], from "The Sea Wasp", was a marine biologist who was obsessed with creating a jellyfish-based MasterRace called ''[[FishPeople Chironex Sapien]]''. After splicing her own DNA with a jellyfish, Savoy used her new pheromone powers to [[LivingAphrodisiac seduce]] her superior, Allan, and three young men named Mark, Richard, and Troy, who she used as guinea pigs and henchmen after mind-controlling them into "volunteering" to also become ''Chironex Sapiens''. Since the transformation is unstable, Savoy has Allan fund further experiments to perfect it while she has the others murder and harvest genetic material from over a dozen homeless people all over Port Columbia. When Allan immunizes himself to the pheromone, Savoy kills him, and later does the same to Richard when he proves to still be "[[TranshumanTreachery too human]]" for her tastes by being unwilling to murder anyone else for Savoy. After Mark commits suicide due to his mutation going out of control, Savoy coldly orders Troy to throw his body into the sea, and threatens to kill Troy like she did Richard when he hesitates to dispose of Mark.

** Darphus, from season 1's "The Gauntlet" and "Unchained Heart" (as well as an AlternateContinuity in Part 2 of season 4's "Armageddon Now), is the former [[TheDragon second in command]] of Xena before her HeelFaceTurn. Darphus earns Xena's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disfavor]] by sacking innocent villages and slaughtering women and children [[ForTheEvulz for fun.]] When Xena objects, Darphus stages a [[TheStarscream coup on her]] after trying to force her to murder a baby. When Xena survives the gauntlet to leave the army, Darphus tries to have her killed anyways. After being killed by Xena, Darphus is [[BackFromTheDead revived by Ares]] and carries on a brutal campaign of slaughter where he also has care of Ares's monstrous pet. Darphus feeds innocent victims to said monster and shows no hesitation in killing his own men as well just for displeasing him.
** [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Mayhem]], from season 4's "Prodigal Sister", is the leader of a renegade band of Amazons that routinely terrorizes the countryside in Greece and massacres entire villages, except for the little girls she turns into her weapons. Most Amazons who did raids would go for minimal loss of life, and are appalled by Mayhem's actions. She personally [[WouldHurtAChild blinds Ruun]]--just after killing his parents and kidnapping his sister who she turns into a mindless killing machine--who's only five years old. Fast forward years later, when most of the renegade Amazons have rejoined the Amazonian Nation, Mayhem still leads raids which RapePillageAndBurn entire villages for fun. When confronted by Hercules, she laughs off that her actions will lead to an Amazon Civil War which will be crushed by the outside world. And finally, when confronted on what she did to Ruun and his sister Siri after she is beaten by Hercules she flat out says "[[ItsAllAboutMe So what, I turned her into the greatest Amazonian Warrior!]]"

** [[ManipulativeBitch Caroline Denby]], from season 3, stole her adoptive sister Harriet's identity and [[HijackedDestiny destiny]], all while locking her up in a mental institution. Working at the school under her sister's name, she masquerades as Robert Frobisher-Smythe's "Keeper" and thus a key component to his being reawakened. Her impure heart corrupts the ceremony, but despite this, she forces it to occur, even threatening the students so they're forced to take part. Robert awakens evil and she continues working with him, despite that his new goal is to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cause the apocalypse]] and unleash an evil goddess. As the only member of Team Evil to never [[TheSoulless lose her soul]], she's the only one to commit these evil acts for her own personal glory and status, all while intentionally trying to [[TheCorrupter corrupt]] innocent people--often using cruel emotional manipulation to do so. Even her own sister isn't immune from the apocalypse she'd be creating, not that she really seems to care either way, as she let her get turned into a sinner during the climax. Cruel and power-hungry to the core, Caroline cares only about her own personal status, even if it means turning the world into a living hell.

* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'': Michael Sutton, from season 3's "The Snare", became bored with hunting animals, and so decided to start HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. He finds whatever men he can and invites them over to his own island, only to drug them to sleep and put them through deadly obstacles as he hunts them down, succeeding at least 5 times, and seeing it all as a "game"; he intends to do the same to [[TheProtagonist David Banner]]. It's implied that the reason he's so successful is because he doesn't play fair, a fact David calls him out on, insisting that a real hunter plays fair and that all Sutton cares about is winning. When Sutton discovers David's inner beast, he becomes obsessed with it and tortures David with the intent of bringing it out and killing it, only to kill himself by accident. At the end of the episode, it turns out even in death Sutton can't stand losing, as it's revealed he {{Booby Trap}}ped David's escape boat in preparation for the hero's victory. Ruthless, psychotic, and a cheater at his own game, Michael Sutton was unlike any other villain on the show, who were motivated by either tragedy or simple financial gain.

** [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny Ashe Crowe]], from season 5's "Obsession", is a twisted puritan who was discharged from the army after he was outed as a [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]]. [[StalkerWithACrush Becoming obsessed]] with a Sparta schoolteacher named Jeanette, Crowe begins stalking her, with his harassment of her alternating between affectionate gestures like sending her gifts to manic SlutShaming. After he murders one of her lovers, Crowe meets with Jeanette, and makes it clear to her that he has no actual affection for her, he merely wants total dominion over a woman who he is sexually attracted to due to being a misogynist ControlFreak. Eventually deciding that Jeanette is a lost cause, Crowe tries to kill her by planting a military-grade bomb in her classroom, without any care at all for all of the people that it will maim and kill alongside Jeanette.
** [[DarkMessiah Marcantony Appfel]], from season 7's two-part finale "Give Me Your Life", is the {{narcissist}}ic leader of the [[{{Cult}} Church of the Celestial Influence]]. Appfel has his followers sign all of their possessions over to him, and keeps his congregation compliant with drugs, which he also uses to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] his devotees' [[WouldHurtAChild children]], with his latest sexual abuse victim being a girl named Clarice. After Clarice is saved from him and outs him as a predator, Appfel barricades himself and his disciples in his church, and has two of his subordinates kidnap Clarice. Appfel then has his men execute a captured reporter and engage in a gun battle with the Sparta PD. It is soon revealed that Appfel intends to martyr himself by blowing himself and all of his mostly oblivious followers up with a bomb; while the police are able to defuse the bomb and save most of the church members, several are still killed when a hidden second bomb is detonated by Appfel.

** [[StarterVillain Simon Gunther]], from the premiere "New Girl in Town", is a misogynistic SerialKiller seeking to "unmask" women who are new to Los Angeles, [[TearYourFaceOff carving off their faces]] and degloving the hands of his victims to erase their identities as his way of "making them into nothing". Manipulating a mentally handicapped man to search for victims, Gunther has killed eight women using the same method. After the bipolar lead profiler on his case commits suicide and is replaced by Rebecca Locke, Gunther kidnaps another woman and sends a live video of her to the authorities, rigging the server with a delay to [[HopeSpot give them the hope]] that she would still be alive. Revealing his identity to Rebecca and planning on making her his next victim, Gunther threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild shoot a boy]] and his mother if she doesn't comply to his demands.
** [[AbusiveParents Arlen Dallas]], from "Gem", is a wealthy developer living a double life as a [[WouldHurtAChild child pornographer]]. Dallas [[ParentalIncest molested his own son]], Jason, when he was still a child and cheated on his wife with a maid, fathering Angelica and forcing Jason to abuse his own half-sister in a long-running series of homemade videos that captured her pain as she matured, making Angelica a "star" in the world of child pornography, starting when she was at least six. When the mentally unstable Jason betrays his father to have Angelica for himself, Dallas sends the VCU after him by playing the victim and pinning the blame on Jason, leading to his death. Indifferent to the death of his son and the suffering that he caused to his daughter, Dallas was one of the worst criminals encountered by the VCU despite not being directly involved in any murder.
** [[FatBastard Ronald Ewing]], from the finale "Skin and Bone", is a repulsive [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] preying on vulnerable girls and luring them to his home via a pro-anorexia website. Suspected to have [[SiblingMurder eaten his own sister]] in the past, Ewing installs {{shock collar}}s on his victims and forces them to be his friends, eating them when the girls don't have what he calls "house manners", killing at least twelve women and hiding their bones under the floor. When Rebecca, posing as an anorexic woman, investigates the missing girls by herself, Ewing captures her and a promises to be a "friend who understands", but quickly drops the façade once she tries to escape, calling her names to mock her supposed weight problem despite being an obese man himself. With dozens of victims to his name, Ewing was the most prolific SerialKiller introduced in the show.
* ''[[Series/IlCommissarioMontalbano Inspector Montalbano]]'': [[WouldHurtAChild Baddar Gafsa]], from season 5's "Il giro di boa" ("Turning Point"), is an infamous Tunisian criminal and the leader of a HumanTrafficking ring which specializes in smuggling children. The conflicts in North Africa giving him a steady supply of victims, Gafsa sets up his latest base just outside Vigata. Smuggling the children into Sicily on fishing boats, through a local LoanShark, he blackmails a paramedic to act as his courier, taking them to an abandoned tuna factory to be processed, under the guard of his vicious goons. Gafsa then sells the children onto illegal adoptions, TheMafia, pedophiles and, for the healthiest children, to be [[OrganTheft harvested for their organs]]. Originally having tasked the notorious fugitive Ernesto Errera to manage things in Vigata for him, Gafsa eventually has Errera drowned and arrives to personally take over in preparation for the latest, largest shipment of children. When one eight-year-old boy manages to escape, Gafsa, to ensure his activities remain secret, has the boy fatally run over. Upon Montalbano attempting to rescue the children, a furious Gafsa almost kills him.

* ''Series/JackRyan'': [[TheDragon Mateo Bastos]], from season 2, is [[PresidentEvil President Nicolas Reyes]]'s head of security, but manages to surpass Reyes in cruelty. Participating in the bombing that led to the deaths of Senator Jim Moreno and countless others, Bastos would murder the family of a bodyguard whom his associates bribed, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], before attempting to kill the bodyguard himself. He also captures a group of rebels and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] them into making false confessions, and murders US soldier Matice before having his men defile Matice's corpse. He later kidnaps James Greer and tortures him at his prison camp, where he holds numerous Venezuelan political prisoners to torture and kill, including the husband of Gloria Bonalde, Reyes' main political rival. Bastos takes Greer to Reyes' mansion for further interrogation while ordering his men to execute his remaining 41 prisoners. When Greer frees himself and tries to shoot Bastos, he uses one of his own men as a HumanShield. A ruthless servant of a dictator, Mateo Bastos represents the worst of the Venezuelan regime.

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': [[SmugSnake Nick "Nicky" Augustine]], from season 4, is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] yet sociopathic crime lord who is dispatched to Harlan County by [[Characters/JustifiedDetroitMob Detroit Mob]] boss Theo Tonin to handle the Drew Thompson situation. Immediately executing his childhood friend Jerry Barkley for [[YouHaveFailedMe failure]] upon arriving in Harlan, Augustine arranges for a hitman to target a variety of men on the small chance they could be Drew Thompson, an old enemy of Theo's who Augustine plans to capture and have tortured to death to gain Theo's approval. Using Boyd Crowder and Wynn Duffy as pawns who he threatens with torture and death should they fail him, Augustine has Constable Bob tortured for information; tries to bomb a federal convoy; and plans to murder a hooker, all in various attempts to take out Drew. When Raylan Givens consistently thwarts Augustine's schemes, Augustine targets the man's pregnant ex-wife Winona, sending his goons to try to torture the woman to death and [[TraumaticCSection rip her baby out of her]], and even after Raylan saves Winona, Augustine just brags that he'll keep trying until Raylan's entire family is dead, cementing himself as such a heartless bastard that Raylan broke his moral code to arrange for Augustine's death.

** Though a minor villain, [[WouldHurtAChild Goldie]], from the 2nd through 4th episodes of season 3, establishes his pronounced depravity and wickedness by beating and raping the teenage Bullet for breaking into his apartment. Caught by the cops, it is discovered Goldie is both a distributor of child pornography and a SerialRapist of underage girls himself, before he manages to humiliate the police and [[KarmaHoudini weasel his way out of the punishment he deserves]].
* ''Series/KillingEve'': [[DiabolicalMastermind Aaron Peel]], from season 2, uses his intellect and resources to find countless women and lure them to his hotel room in Rome, where he proceeds to gruesomely [[SerialKiller kill them]] while using his security cameras to [[SnuffFIlm record]] his murder so he could watch them for his own enjoyment. Peel also hires the Ghost to [[{{Patricide}} kill his own father]], along with four other people, so he could take over his company. Peel plans to use the company's resources to create as a cyber-weapon that would allow him find people to spy, blackmail, torment, and kill on a global scale and later [[ArmsDealer auction it off to the highest bitter]]; he tells all of this to a journalist following him before murdering him and dumping his corpse in the sewers. Peel later attempts to have Villanelle kill Eve Polastri while intending to have her commit more murders for him.

* ''Series/KnightRider'': [[WesternTerrorists Charles Zurich]], from season 4's "[[Recap/KnightRiderS4E4SkyNight Sky Knight]]", ex-agent and leader of the New Dawn movement, is a FauxAffablyEvil extremist vying for the release of 197 "political prisoners" under the threat of murdering a plane full of innocent people. Zurich's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist seemingly good intentions are a farce]], as he secretly intends to use these prisoners--all of them merely cutthroat murderers—-as his own private army to wage wars upon and take over any small country he wants. Gleefully attempting to execute Michael Knight's love interest with the intent to hurt him, Zurich finally just tries to wipe out all the hostages with a nuclear doomsday device, even [[BadBoss leaving his own men to die]] the second they hesitate.

** [[MadDoctor Dr. Francis Dulmacher, aka the Dollmaker]], from season 1, is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected]], soft-spoken surgeon who works with rich clients, and is the mastermind of a human trafficking ring, which he uses to harvest organs for his experiments. He often sends his thugs to abduct people, then takes them to his facility on a private island where said thugs keep them hostage. Early in the season, he sends two of his lackeys to abduct [[WouldHurtAChild street children]] to such a fate, using charity as a lure. When his plan is exposed and the children are sent into protective care, he tries to have his lackeys hijack the convoy. Later on in the season, crime boss Fish Mooney finds herself in Dulmacher's clutches, with him intending to [[EyeScream take her eye]]; later he shows what happens to those who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail or cross him]], as he shows her his former lackeys disassembled and reassembled with female parts.

** [[TheDreaded Lazlo Valentin]], aka [[AnimalMotifs Professor Pyg]], from season 4, is a [[PsychoForHire sadistic hitman]] known for copying the MO of multiple {{serial killer}}s. He arrives in Gotham and makes himself known to the GCPD by [[CopKiller killing many of its cops]] in various brutal ways, which include slashing some with a cleaver; having one blown up by a grenade; and having many get shot by a machine gun. He later kills six homeless people, bakes them into meat pies, and forces the Gotham socialites to eat said pies. Upon being caught and sent to Arkham Asylum, he viciously kills an inmate for interrupting his music leisure, and kills multiple staff while escaping the Asylum. He then kills crime boss Carmine Falcone on Sofia Falcone's behest, and attempts to kill Commissioner James Gordon himself before Sofia shoots him.

** [[JackTheRipoff James Rancourt]], from "Alias the Scarf", was a SerialKiller who terrorized the city decades ago, killing numerous victims by garroting them with a scarf in order to join the "great company" of Jack the Ripper, Attila the Hun and Bluebeard in [[FameThroughInfamy immortality through fame]], before disappearing and adopting the identity of an unassuming researcher at a wax museum. After a statue of The Scarf is placed in his museum's chamber of evil, he begins killing again, pretending to be his own wax statue. He starts by attempting to kill his partner and apparent friend at the museum, then rampages through the street, killing a [[DisposableVagrant man sleeping on a public bench]] and trying to kill several more before the police intervene. When confronted by a [[EvenEvilCanBeLoved girl he used to confide in and who loved him]] he attempts to kill her as well to ensure his "immortality" by killing her, right before the Green Hornet and Kato apprehend him.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Eric Mabouse]], from the two-part series finale "Invasion from Outer Space", is an ex-military researcher who now seeks ultimate power. [[ScoobyDooHoax Pretending to be an alien]] and kidnapping Lenore Case to get Britt Reid and the police to clear the roads, he and his gang steal a hydrogen bomb, with Mabouse fully intending to set it off simply for the power trip. When Ms. Case escapes, he orders her hunted and killed, and [[BadBoss sets one henchman up to die with the Green Hornet and Kato]] in a DeathTrap when he suspects him of disloyalty. When the police close in, Mabouse simply decides to leave the warhead outside the city and [[NukeEm detonate it to destroy the city once he's gotten clear]], and leaves another henchman behind to die simply for objecting.

** "Book of the Dead": Andre Barzun was a wicked {{necromancer}} in life who authored the tome of the title. Andre Barzun is eventually resurrected through the deaths of multiple innocent people by the efforts of his granddaughter Lucy. Barzun attempts to [[ZombieApocalypse have all life on the planet consumed by hordes of ravenous zombies]], happily throwing Lucy's horrified husband to the ghouls moments after he's revived.

** [[BigBad Lennart Gavling]], also known as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste The Money Man]], is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and the ArchEnemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later [[WouldHurtAChild kill their newborn baby]] and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being DrivenToSuicide, something Gavling takes full [[CardCarryingVillain credit]] for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal, something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous, below-mentioned Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium--which can explode at any time--using immigrants. In his final appearance, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness later kill him]] when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in [[CopKiller killing Beck himself]].

* ''Gap-dong''/''Gab-dong'': [[BigBad Gap-dong himself]], in truth [[spoiler:[[KillerCop police chief Cha Do-hyeok]]]], is responsible for a wave of [[SerialKiller serial murders]] that saw multiple women throttled to death after being assaulted. Gap-dong helped to [[FrameUp blame]] a mentally handicapped man for the crime, resulting in [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide]]. In present, Gap-dong inspires new killers, seeking to have his copycats blamed so he can continue murdering without the burden of the Gap-dong name, and when caught intends on escaping via the statute limitations while mentally torturing the only victim who escaped him after he forced her and two other women to play rock-paper-scissors to determine who would live. He then attempts to have the witnesses against him murdered, and is so egotistical, he has one of his erstwhile protégés killed for daring to say he surpassed him.

** [[TeensAreMonsters Jerome Valeska]] is a psychopath introduced being placed in Arkham Asylum for [[{{Matricide}} murdering his own mother]], laughing at his crime when interrogated. Recruited along with other inmates by Theo Galavan to form the Maniax, Jerome functions as their leader, committing crimes such as taking hostages and throwing them off a rooftop; attempting to set fire to a bus full of cheerleaders; [[CopKiller shooting up the Gotham City Police Department]], personally killing [[spoiler:their Commissioner]]; [[{{Patricide}} killing his own father]]; and taking those in attendance at a children's charity hostage, killing the deputy mayor of Gotham. Tormenting the [[WouldHurtAChild thirteen-year-old Bruce Wayne]], Jerome slowly begins slitting his throat, trying to kill him. After being killed and resurrected, Jerome [[TheCorrupter encourages his followers]] to spread death and chaos as he announces his return and straps his own follower, Dwight, to a bomb, detonating it and killing him. As the chaos spreads through the city, Jerome again goes after Bruce, making it entertaining for himself by taking Bruce to a twisted carnival he's set up, tormenting Bruce before trying to kill him yet again. Taking over Arkham along with other criminals, Jerome has Jonathan Crane produce an insanity-inducing PsychoSerum, then chooses to [[spoiler:kill himself to deny Commissioner Gordon arresting him. Sending a package of his Venom to his twin brother, Jerome ensures his nefarious legacy lives on]] in the creation of [[ComicBook/TheJoker Gotham's most infamous criminal]].

** [[TheDreaded Lazlo Valentin]], aka [[AnimalMotifs Professor Pyg]], from season 4, is a [[PsychoForHire sadistic hitman]] known for copying the MO of multiple {{serial killer}}s. He arrives in Gotham and makes himself known to the GCPD by [[CopKiller killing many of its cops]] in various brutal ways, which include slashing some with a cleaver; having one blown up by a grenade; and having many get shot by a machine gun. He later kills six homeless people, bakes them into meat pies, and forces the Gotham socialites to eat said pies. Upon being caught and sent to Arkham Asylum, he viciously kills an inmate for interrupting his music leisure, and kills multiple staff while escaping the Asylum. He then kills [[spoiler:crime boss Carmine Falcone]] on Sofia Falcone's behest, and attempts to kill Commissioner James Gordon himself before [[spoiler:Sofia shoots him]].
** [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] is Jerome's seemingly orderly twin brother and a powerful but suspicious businessman. According to Jerome, Jeremiah is just as bad as he is and plans to make him his heir; when seemingly DrivenToMadness by a special gas, Jeremiah states it did nothing but alter his appearance, and that he intends to usurp Jerome's legacy to gratify his own ego; Jeremiah starts off with a plan to detonate powerful bombs all over Gotham, before incinerating his new followers after he fails, and has his lover Ecco shoot herself to prove her loyalty. Jeremiah later teams up with ComicBook/RasAlGhul to destroy all the bridges out of Gotham and turn the city into a lawless despot. Obsessed with Bruce Wayne, Jeremiah does anything to become the center of his world, including shooting Selina Kyle; torturing a decoy of Alfred to self-mutilate; attempting to recreate the night of the Wayne murders with brainwashed victims, before trying to use Jim and Leslie as a substitute; and attempting to unleash chemicals onto the city to ruin it beyond repair. Emerging ten years later, Jeremiah eventually [[spoiler:kills Ecco, stating they'll be others like her]], before kidnapping and trying to drop Jim Gordon's [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter]] into a vat of chemicals.

* ''Series/{{Greyzone}}'': [[LargeAndInCharge Al-Shishani]], real name [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Rami Wahid]], is one of the world's most dangerous terrorists and the cold, no-nonsense leader of the terrorist cell Iyad Adi Kassa] works for, though stands in stark contrast to the [[TragicVillain sympathetic]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] Iyad as a cruel man. In the present, Shishani has Iyad hold the drone inventor Victoria Rahbeck hostage and use her technological knowledge to help them create a drone, under the threat of killing her son Oskar. In his very first physical appearance, Shishani stabs a Muslim priest who worked for their organization for being an informant to the police. When Victoria tries copying a drone despite not having the authority to do so, her colleague and friend Linda comes and tries stopping her, leading Shishani to order one of his operatives to [[spoiler:strangle and kill Linda]]. When the police investigate a room the terrorists recently were in, Shishani has a bomb planted in a backpack which explodes, [[CopKiller killing dozens of officers in the process]]. In the final episode, Shishani [[spoiler:changes the coordinates of their terrorist attack from the original target—a conference which was supposed to be full of {{Asshole Victim}}s but which ended up being empty--to rigshospitalet, the biggest hospital in Denmark; [[TerroristsWithoutACause just because]]. When [[NeverHurtAnInnocent Iyad]] betrays the group after the cruel change of plans and decides to spare Victoria and Oskar after Shishani orders them executed, Shishani coldly shoots him]].

* ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'': [[VillainProtagonist Francis J. "Frank" Underwood]] is a [[CorruptPolitician scheming, charming, and monstrous politician]] who seeks ultimate power and legacy. After feeling betrayed by President Garrett Walker, Frank begins a brutal campaign to institute himself as President, leading Frank to ruin countless people's lives and personally murder [[spoiler:Zoe Barnes and Peter Russo, the latter after destroying his sobriety and utterly breaking his spirit]]. Upon becoming President, Frank's crimes only worsen as [[PresidentEvil he goes to any lengths to secure power and wipe out his enemies]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill bombing civilian-populated villages to kill a single terrorist]], allowing an innocent man be killed on live video, and faking bomb threats all being par for the course. To further drive fear into America's soul and convince the people they need him as their leader, Frank organizes cyber attacks that lead to numerous horrible riots and accidents, and sits idly by as [[DeadlyGas sarin gas]] is deployed against countless innocents, simply to use the gas attacks as a PretextForWar. Frank considers compassion and love a weakness, and slowly but surely forgets about, ditches, or outright murders those who he considers "friends", culminating in him planning to coldly murder [[spoiler:his wife Claire]] if she even thinks about betraying him. Frank Underwood is a vile, depraved man who uses [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil facades]] to convince hapless victims that he is a good man, only to always pull the rug out from under them and reveal [[WolfInSheepsClothing who he truly is]]: A self-serving sociopath with delusions of grandeur.

** [[AbsoluteXenophobe Dolly Durkins]] is the BigBad of Season 5. Despite coming across as a seemingly nice, albeit anti-zombie activist, Dolly is secretly the [[FantasticRacism bigoted]] leader of a terrorist organization. Dolly has one of her cronies post a fake video of a woman getting mauled by zombies online just to cause more tension between humans and zombies, before sending the man to kill Fillmore Graves soldiers in a [[SuicideAttack suicide bombing]]. She later pollutes the processing plant distributing brain tubes so hundreds of zombies develop Alzheimer's disease, thus causing various Fillmore Graves soldiers to be rendered inoperable. Later on, Dolly orders her men to kidnap Sloane Mills, General Mills's daughter, before [[spoiler:starving her and her boyfriend, and releasing them as feral zombies to attack innocents during an annual pie festival before they're put down]]. After being contacted by Mills and given assault weapons, Dolly uses said weapons to massacre humans and zombies alike at a memorial, and later goes on a killing spree with her cohorts gunning down any Fillmore Graves employee they can find. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist While she claims to care about humanity]], Dolly had several human beings endangered or killed during her quest to eradicate all zombies.

** The Pied Piper, real name [[spoiler:James Skinner]], ArcVillain of season 3, poses as an innocuous family man while moonlighting as a SerialRapist and SerialKiller of dozens upon dozens of [[WouldHurtAChild young girls]]. When spotted in the act by a young boy, the Piper makes plans to kill him but ends up murdering the child's mother and framing his father for the deed. Killing Bullet for discovering his identity, the Piper is eventually cornered by Sarah Linden and tries to goad her into murdering him by boasting the girls he killed were "garbage" undeserving of being seen as human beings. With his claim of not harming children shattered by his vast number of young female victims, the Piper is a hypocritical, misogynistic psychopath with an ego so large none of his deplorable crimes elicit any measure of human emotion from him.

* ''Series/{{Krypton}}'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, known as [[TheCollector the Collector of Worlds]], is an [[RoboticPsychopath android]] who travels through the galaxy to abduct cities and shrink them for his collection, often resulting in the destruction of their planet. While he publicly claims to bring immortality for the people he takes, in actuality they are put into a paralyzed stasis [[AndIMustScream while remaining conscious forever]]. Having already inflicted this fate to countless cities and setting sight on Kandor from planet Krypton, Brainiac sends a sentry that possesses and kills an innocent woman before infecting the dictator of Kandor, whom Brainiac remotely controls. After defeating a coup, he brainwashes the rebels into his loyal guards and forces chief magistrate Daron-Vex to execute his co-conspirators, including Daron's own daughter Nyssa. To replenish his forces, Brainiac regularly feeds on the birth facility, [[HumanResources draining embryos as batteries]]. He then slaughters any opposition with his psychic powers and turns a little girl into a living bomb he sends upon her friend Seg-El. [[spoiler:Defeated and cast away into the Phantom Zone, Brainiac drags Seg along in his doom.]]

** From the same episode comes Jenkins's copycat, [[spoiler:Paul Russell]], who is also a SerialRapist who collaborates with Jenkins to gain as many rape victims as possible. Not content with just raping and blinding women, he married one of his victims later so he could always be close to one of his "masterpieces." Eventually, he also murdered one of his victims in his quest to become more famous than his mentor as a rapist psychopath.

** [[TheDon Tommy Hunter]] is a crime lord who runs a street gang that deals in drugs, prostitution, and murder. Upon learning of rival drug dealers in his territory, Tommy has three of them [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured to death]]. After his money launderer, Jacquelyn Laverty, comes under investigation from the police, Tommy has her murdered and [[FrameUp frames]] her boyfriend, DCI Tony Gates. Afterwards, Tommy blackmails Gates to work for him or else he'll deliver Laverty's body and the murder weapon to the police. When DS Steve Arnott starts to uncover Tommy's organization, Tommy forces Gates to lure him into a trap, where his men torture and nearly kill him. After [[spoiler:Gates commits suicide and Tommy is exonerated of his crimes]], Tommy continues with his schemes, using fifteen-year-old Carly Kirk as a prostitute so he'll be able to {{blackmail}} DCC Michael Dryden. When this fails and Carly runs away, Tommy orders his men to capture her so he can resume using her as a SexSlave.
** [[TeensAreMonsters Ryan Pilkington]] is one of Tommy's dealers [[MouthOfSauron who serves as his mouthpiece]]. Showing to be just as sadistic as Tommy, Ryan and his acquaintances torture drug dealer Wesley Duke by [[{{Fingore}} cutting off all his fingers]] and lynching him. He later assists in kidnapping and blackmailing Tony Gates, and personally tries to cut off Steve Arnott's fingers when Tommy's gang kidnaps him. Ryan returns several years later in series 5, still in league with the same gang. As a young adult, Ryan assists in [[CopKiller gunning down three police officers]]; stealing from a convoy transporting assault weapons; robbing a police depot filled with contraband; and helping the gang smuggle women in a [[HumanTraffickers sex trafficking ring]]. Once undercover officer John Corbett tries to help some of the women being smuggled, Ryan [[spoiler:slashes Corbett's throat and lets him slowly bleed to death]].

** [[BigBad Lennart Gavling]], also known as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste The Money Man]], is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and the ArchEnemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later [[WouldHurtAChild kill their newborn baby]] and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being DrivenToSuicide, something Gavling takes full [[CardCarryingVillain credit]] for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills [[spoiler:Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal]], something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous, below-mentioned Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium--which can explode at any time--using immigrants. In his final appearance, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness later kill him]] when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in [[CopKiller killing Beck himself]].

** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Klas Mellgren]], from the season 2 finale "The Last Witness", is the security chief for a big company named Landexa, which is trying to find a cure for AIDS. [[spoiler:Forcing one of the top scientists of the company, Lillemor "Limo" Franson, to charm Beck and manipulate Beck into giving them information about how the case is going]], Klas is behind five murders which included him testing the cure on prostitutes, despite fully knowing that the cure wasn't ready, and then making them blind from the medicine, effectively ruining their lives, He then hires a man named [[AxCrazy Teddy]] to brutally disfigure the girls' faces in order to cover the fact that the medicine made them blind, and then kills them. When one of the girls tell the truth, one of Teddy's assassins, [[TheStoic Juri]], gets hired to kill her and do the same thing to her. When [[spoiler:Limo]] tells Beck about everything, Klas nearly strangles her to death and tells her that it is [[NeverMyFault all her fault]]. When he realizes he will never make it, he [[TakingYouWithMe blows up the entire Landexa building]] using his lighter. While lacking the body count of other villains, Klas makes up for it by being responsible for some of the most gruesome and brutal murders in the entire series.

** [[OverarchingVillain Red John]]--[[spoiler:Sheriff Thomas [=McAllister=]]]--is Patrick Jane's [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] and a sociopathic SerialKiller responsible for torturing and killing dozens of women. When Jane, then a phony psychic, insulted Red John while offering to help the police catch him, Red John murdered Jane's wife and young daughter. Years later, Red John, although retired, commits a number of murders to silence loose ends or torment Jane. Some of his worst crimes include kidnapping and brainwashing Kristina Frye into believing that she's dead; trying to force Jane to kill his best friend and LoveInterest, Teresa Lisbon; killing a woman because Jane had a happy memory of her; and beheading the therapist who helped Jane recover after his family's death. The mastermind of [[spoiler:the Blake Association, a criminal conspiracy and protection racket for corrupt law enforcement officials]], and leader of his own group of psychotics and serial killers, Red John regularly kills his minions or drives them to suicide when he has no further need of them. A raging narcissist driven by an [[FameThroughInfamy intense need for attention]], Red John revels in the power he feels by holding thousands of lives in his hands.

** The killer from season 7's "The Straw Woman"--[[spoiler:Agnes Waterhouse]]--is a sociopath obsessed with the "perfect death" with a liking for [[ManOnFire burning their victims]] alive. To eliminate potential obstacles, the killer traps the local consulate in a straw woman to have him burned alive and screaming; murders the consulate's gay lover and attempts the life of a doctor by setting their clothes alight with phosphorous; and murders the innocent schoolteacher Liz Francis by bludgeoning her with a candlestick and setting her alight. The killer tosses the blame on their rival and nearly commits murder-suicide with [[spoiler:her ward Alan Clifford]], and when asked why they murdered Liz by a grieving Dan Scott, the killer's only response is a cheerful smile and a remorseless affirmation of "I had to".
** The killer from season 12's "The Black Book"--[[spoiler:Patricia Blackstone]]--seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, they track down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and torture her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, they tie him up and spend a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, they confess their intention was to make sure their own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses many other killers.
** The killer from season 13's "Master Class"--[[spoiler:Sir Michael Fielding]]--is a seemingly genial, supportive figure who in fact is a [[EvilutionaryBiologist twisted eugenicist]]. Convinced that concentrating his genes would breed a superior child, he repeatedly [[ParentalIncest raped his daughter]] Molly, who [[DrivenToSuicide drowned herself to escape]]. Eighteen years later, the killer is obsessed with impregnating his daughter/granddaughter, eliminating anyone whom he perceives as an obstacle: almost crushing Inspector Tom Barnaby to death; hanging a young student for flirting with the granddaughter; [[SlashedThroat slits a kindly priest's throat]] for attempting to protect her; and [[VehicularSabotage engineers a car crash]] in an attempt to kill her adopted parents. Caught, the remorseless killer boasts his elitism, claiming the country is descending into idiots and degenerates, and "someone had to take a stand".
** The killer from season 14's "Echoes of the Dead"--[[spoiler:David Orchard]]--is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, the killer snaps and begins a killing spree, posing their victims in the style of famous murder cases. The killer brutally murders those they deem to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even attempting one last kill before being stopped. Upon capture, the killer attempts to play themself as a victim, but is called out by Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
** The killer from season 15's "Schooled in Murder"--[[spoiler:Hayley Brantner]]--to assure they aren't seen as "weak" by the town, turns to murder to feel empowered. The killer targets everyone whom they feel has put them down in the past, crushing an old schoolmate's skull with a wheel of cheese; garroting another man to death; [[spoiler:stabbing her husband through the heart with a cheese needle]]; and leaving a woman and her guiltless husband to be trampled to death by cows. After their final two attempted murders are foiled, the killer's self-pitying MotiveRant is thrown right back in their face as a shallow excuse for their uniquely long line of victims.

* ''Series/MrRobot'': [[AxCrazy Fernando Vera]] is a vicious criminal who [[AmbitionIsEvil will do anything to become powerful]]. A petty drug dealer in season 1, Vera has his ex-girlfriend Shayla, who also works for him as a drug dealer, kidnapped when she refuses to go on a date with him; Vera then [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil drugs and rapes her]]. When [[TheHero Elliot Alderson]] sees this, he hacks Vera's computer and tips the police off about his activities, leading to Vera's arrest. But when Vera finds out that Elliot is behind the tip, he blackmails him into hacking the custody he is in so that he can get out, or else he'll murder Shayla. Elliot complies, but as it turns out Vera had already murdered Shayla and she was dead all along. He also orders his right-hand DJ to murder his brother Isaac for plotting to have him murdered once he's out. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Returning in season 4]], Vera [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness shoots his right-hand DJ to death]] in front of a young child for not being "detail-oriented" enough. He plots to have Elliot become the architect of his crime empire by breaking him mentally and then taking control of him, using Elliot's psychologist Krista Gordon to [[spoiler:reveal that Elliot was molested by his father as a child in order to break him. While holding Krista hostage, he threatens to have her raped and murdered when Elliot grabs Vera's gun, only sparing her because he needs her to carry through his plans]].

* ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'': "[[EvilSorcerer The Cloaked Man]]", the BigBad of season 2--actually [[spoiler:Vice Principal Stern]]--is an arrogant, cold-hearted, and [[FantasticRacism genocidal]] wizard. Desiring to wipe out all vampires, despite knowing that they are not all evil--and that some are even [[spoiler:his students]]--he starts his operations by summoning the breath of death, a demonic mist that drives all infected vampires mad and forces them to kill each other, before [[TheHero Ethan]] foils his plan. In retaliation The Cloaked Man stalks Ethan into an alternative dimension and tries to directly murder him and his friends. Upon finding out Ethan is a Seer, The Cloaked Man curses Ethan to hallucinate everyone is dead and that he’s failed them all, just to make sure he doesn't cross him as his plans near fruition. The Cloaked Man also gets his hands on the Lucifactor, an energy-draining weapon of incredible power, and goes on a killing spree before planning on using the Caller beacon to project the Lucifactor's energy, wiping out vampires en masse. During the climax, to prevent Ethan and Sarah interrupting him he uses his magic to force Ethan's friend [[IneptMage Benny]] to try and kill them.

* ''Series/{{Notorious 2016}}'': [[{{Jerkass}} Alan Wells]], at 24 years old, raped his own sister Sarah when she was only 17. As a result, she ends up pregnant and he later threatens to have the baby girl, who's been adopted, taken away, in order to [[KickTheDog force Sarah to pay off his gambling debts]]. When she eventually refuses to continue, Alan conspires with her husband Oscar Keaton against her and [[spoiler:murders her in a brutal stabbing]]. When the blame is turned onto Oscar's publicist Levi Young, it results in [[spoiler:Levi [[DrivenToSuicide shooting and killing himself]]]]. When Jake Gregorian's affair with Sarah comes to light and he becomes a suspect, Alan tricks Jake into going to a storage locker where he's hidden the knife so he can [[FrameUp set Jake up]]. When Julia George and Jake later figure out the truth, Alan proves to [[ItsAllAboutMe only be out for his own self-preservation and cares nothing for those lives ruined by his actions]].

** [[ImmortalitySeeker Percival T. "P.T." Westmoreland]], aka [[spoiler:John Matheson]], the BigBad of the 5th and final season, is the [[GreaterScopeVillain ultimate villain of the series]], [[spoiler:posing as]] the founder of Neolution and has been [[TheManBehindTheMan behind all its atrocities]]. [[spoiler:Stealing the real Westmoreland's identity]], he goes on to create a {{cult}} to his name on an isolated island while he runs Neolution behind the scenes. Seeking {{immortality|Immorality}}, he sustains himself by taking the blood of the [[WouldHurtAChild children]] of his cult, resulting in some of them dying, and even experiments and tortures a boy named Yanis, driving him feral before eventually killing him in front of Cosima. His next plans is to find, harvest and fertilize eight year old Kira's eggs, to spread and study the "Fountain of Youth" gene in her offspring, something he is steadfast in [[spoiler:even when his true identity as Matheson is exposed]]. Viewing the project LEDA clones as little more than experiments, he feigns a fatherly affection to Rachel, while secretly spying on her every action through her prosthetic eye. When the truth of Neolution is exposed, he becomes more unhinged; has Helena abducted to force her to give birth to her twins for further experiments; kills [[spoiler:his backers]] to [[HeKnowsTooMuch cover his tracks]] as much as possible; and has Dr. Virginia Coady kill [[spoiler:Mark]] now that the project CASTOR clones [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness served their purpose]]. It's revealed his end goal is to create a serum that would permanently reverse cell damage for the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain upper class]]--mainly himself--and have the rest sterilized by the CASTOR pathogen. Ultimately, [[spoiler:John Matheson]] is little more than a selfish madman that manipulates an ideology and orchestrated atrocities for little more than his personal power, and the expansion of his own life.

** [[TheDreaded Lazlo Valentin]], AKA [[AnimalMotifs Professor Pyg]], from season 4, is a [[PsychoForHire sadistic hitman]] known for copying the MO of multiple {{serial killer}}s. He arrives in Gotham and makes himself known to the GCPD by [[CopKiller killing many of its cops]] in various brutal ways, which include slashing some with a cleaver; having one blown up by a grenade; and having many get shot by a machine gun. He later kills six homeless people, bakes them into meat pies, and forces the Gotham socialites to eat said pies. Upon being caught and sent to Arkham Asylum, he viciously kills an inmate for interrupting his music leisure, and kills multiple staff while escaping the Asylum. He then kills [[spoiler:crime boss Carmine Falcone]] on Sofia Falcone's behest, and attempts to kill Commissioner James Gordon himself before [[spoiler:Sofia shoots him]].

** The aforementioned [[PsychoForHire Mr Gryle]] is a Banshee and sadistic assassin working for Gilt, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly describing himself]] as "the Post Office curse". Having killed the four Postmasters before Moist von Lipwig in ways [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mistaken for gruesome accidents]], Gryle also murders John Dearheart, Adora Bella's brother, just after sarcastically announcing his presence, and mocking him before detaching his safety harness and letting him fall to his death. Later told by Gilt that Moist is a "nuisance", Gryle burns down the Post Office--nearly suffocating Tolliver Groat--and attempts to savagely kill Stanley while bragging about [[ImAHumanitarian eating his own grandmother]]. Finally confronting Moist when he attempts to rescue Stanley from the blaze, Gryle gleefully confesses to his previous murders--uncaring that this gives Gilt away--and brags that John "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied squealed like a pig]]" as he tries to complete his "collection" of Postmasters by ending Moist's life.

** [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] is the aforementioned Jerome's seemingly orderly twin brother and a powerful but suspicious businessman. According to Jerome, Jeremiah is just as bad as he is and plans to make him his heir; when seemingly DrivenToMadness by a special gas, Jeremiah states it did nothing but alter his appearance, and that he intends to usurp Jerome's legacy to gratify his own ego; Jeremiah starts off with a plan to detonate powerful bombs all over Gotham, before incinerating his new followers after he fails, and has his lover Ecco shoot herself to prove her loyalty. Jeremiah later teams up with ComicBook/RasAlGhul to destroy all the bridges out of Gotham and turn the city into a lawless despot. Obsessed with Bruce Wayne, Jeremiah does anything to become the center of his world, including shooting Selina Kyle; torturing a decoy of Alfred to self-mutilate; attempting to recreate the night of the Wayne murders with brainwashed victims, before trying to use Jim and Leslie as a substitute; and attempting to unleash chemicals onto the city to ruin it beyond repair. Emerging ten years later, Jeremiah eventually [[spoiler:kills Ecco, stating they'll be others like her]], before kidnapping and trying to drop Jim Gordon's [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter]] into a vat of chemicals.

** The aforementioned [[FauxAffablyEvil Dr. Botanus]] is an egotistical alien [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate scientist and surgeon]] hired by Emperor Guillotine to help him conquer Earth. Working with Commander Spider, he kidnaps Dr. Dorian to force him to grow a [[BotanicalAbomination Gargoyle Vine]], a dangerous plant that can destroy the world. When Dorian refuses to help him grow the plants, Botanus alters Dorian's brain to put him under MindControl, ordering him to grow Gargoyle Vines. When Dr. Dorian returns to normal, Dr. Botanus mocks Dorian for unwittingly helping to create Gargoyle Vines. Later attacking oil production on the Middle East with Commander Spider, he lets his men massacre oil workers simply to force their foreman to give him the blueprints of a drill. He later kidnaps 60,000 people from a soccer game, where he gives Japan 24 hours to surrender to Guillotine or else he will kill the hostages. When one of his men begs Botanus to release his brother, who is among the hostages, [[BadBoss Botanus coldly calls him an idiot, telling him that he will die with the rest of the hostages]]. Other acts include ordering the monster Amberon to destroy Tokyo; kidnapping and brainwashing the Unicorn Kyoto branch leader to attack a Unicorn conference; and using another Gargoyle Vine to cover the Earth in lava. Defined by his willingness to kill thousands with a feeling of smug satisfaction, Dr. Botanus represents the worst of Gargoyle.
** [[MasterOfDisguise Harlequin]] is a brutal Gargoyle commander who appeared after the death of Commander Spider. [[FalselyReformedVillain Initially appearing to be a Gargoyle deserter seeking help getting his kids from Gargoyle custody]], he lures Johnny and Jerry into a trap to be killed by the monster Dublion. When Jerry begs him to release the kids, Harlequin says [[WouldHurtAChild that he doesn't care]], as he had already [[BadBoss killed two of his men to get the duo into his grasp]]. Later working with the aforementioned Doctor Botanus to attack a Unicorn conference, he kidnaps the Unicorn Kyoto branch leader, and personally controls his monster Lygon to attack the conference. Later he demolishes a Unicorn base in the arctic with Dracolon. After Johnny and Jerry investigate, he kidnaps them, and then attacks Tokyo under Guillotines orders, decimating Tokyo in a flood of sand. In his final appearance, he breaks Dr. Botanus out of Unicorn custody be sneaking in the monster Amberon into Unicorn headquarters, which kills multiple agents. When Johnny and another Unicorn agents Mari investigate, he ties them to trees and prepares to [[ShotAtDawn kill them with a firing squad]] before he is stopped.

** The aforementioned [[FaceStealer Faceless]], from season 1's "Last Temptation of Midnight", is a mysterious beast who serves and worships Colconnar. Ordered by his master to provide him a great sacrifice to feed him enough that he may finally break free, the Faceless happily obliges. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] murdering a kindly old priest by [[SlashedThroat slitting his throat]], then cutting his face off whilst he was still alive,, the Faceless proceeded to go on a rampage, murdering numerous people for the sacrifice, all in his gruesome signature manner, at one point killing a friendly trucker simply cause he needed a larger vehicle to transport the bodies. The Faceless openly admits to [[PsychoSupporter only be serving Colconnar for the chaos he will bring]], looking forward to a new world "where we find pleasure from pain, joy from suffering" and boasting about his role in bringing about the apocalypse.