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* "[[Recap/MiamiViceS1E17RitesOfPassage Rites of Passage]]": [[HumanTraffickers David Traynor]] is a wealthy "talent agent" who trafficks ignorant and desperate young women to work as [[HighClassCallGirl call girls.girls]]. Presenting it as a high-party lifestyle, Traynor ensures numerous women remain enslaved and uses violence and coercion at any sign of disloyalty or hesitation. When one of his girls proves a problem, Traynor has her murdered via overdose.
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* "No Exit": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle" two-parter: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
* "Golden Triangle" two-parter: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
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* "No Exit": "[[Recap/MiamiViceS1E08NoExit No Exit]]": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle"two-parter: [[Recap/MiamiViceS1E14GoldenTrianglePart1 two]]-[[Recap/MiamiViceS1E15GoldenTrianglePart2 parter]]: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
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* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who treats even his old friends as disposable assets. Cruz [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]] and tracks down his old associates in a one-million-dollar robbery, before [[SpreeKiller terrorizing everyone he comes across]]. Cruz [[CopKiller guns down multiple cops]], threatens to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death—and then attempts to set her alight even after she gives up the money—and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When he kidnaps Sonny Crockett, Cruz viciously tortures him and has to be talked against killing him so he has a hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury and again tries to rape the waitress he's kidnapped just to let off some steam.
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* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who treats even his old friends as disposable assets. Cruz [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]] and tracks down his old associates in a one-million-dollar robbery, before [[SpreeKiller terrorizing everyone he comes across]]. Cruz [[CopKiller guns down multiple cops]], threatens to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death—and death--and then attempts to set her alight even after she gives up the money—and money--and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When he kidnaps Sonny Crockett, Cruz viciously tortures him and has to be talked against killing him so he has a hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury and again tries to rape the waitress he's kidnapped just to let off some steam.
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->''"Do you honestly know what your father did? I once saw him murder a young woman and her two children. She clung to his knees, begging for mercy. She begged him to spare her children. So he shot the children first, while she watched. He is a monster, who kills innocent people."''
-->— '''Dr. Leo Krebs''' on '''Hans Kozak''', "Victims of Circumstance"
[[Series/MiamiVice In Miami]] through the years, [[CowboyCop James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs]] faced many criminals of various types. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Multiple Episodes]]
* "Back in the World" & "Stone's War": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal William Maynard]] is a so-called "patriot" and a former US Army colonel who [[CoffinContraband smuggled heroin in the body bags]] of his own deceased countrymen. Fully aware that his heroin has been contaminated by the wood alcohol used to preserve the bodies but wanting to [[{{Greed}} make a profit]] before it rots, Maynard starts a poison heroin epidemic in his first episode. After Ira Stone, a reporter who used to serve under Maynard, attempts to expose this atrocity, Maynard has Stone's wife murdered and tosses him the wedding ring just to mock him. In his next appearance, Maynard attempts to [[WarForFunAndProfit fund a bloody war]] in Nicaragua with his own paramilitary organization, and when video evidence of his soldiers murdering innocent people surfaces, Maynard once again begins murdering and torturing anyone else who would expose him, [[TheBadGuyWins ultimately leading to Ira Stone's death]].
[[AC:Season 1]]
* "No Exit": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle" two-parter: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
[[AC:Season 2]]
* "Junk Love": [[TheDon Juan Carlos Silva]] is a crime lord with a DarkSecret that sets him apart from others like him in the show. Obsessed with a young woman named Rosella, Silva has killed so many people within his own organization that [[MotiveMisidentification law enforcement suspects an internal purge]]; in truth, Silva is murdering anyone and everyone to whom Rosella tries to escape to, even a pimp when Rosella becomes desperate enough to turn to prostitution. Silva's horrible secret is revealed in the last few minutes: Rosella is his daughter, and Silva has been [[VillainousIncest raping her]] for years, enough so that [[TheDogBitesBack she finally snaps and kills him]].
* "Bought and Paid For": [[SerialRapist Nico Arroyo]] is the [[SpoiledBrat pampered son]] of a Bolivian general who is a danger to every woman he meets. Nico has a history of raping maids in his home as well as women he meets out clubbing. Having raped a maid named Odette who left the household, Nico later finds her and rapes her again in Gina Calabrese's apartment. When Odette accepts a payoff from Nico's father for the sake of her elderly mother, Nico declares she "owns" Odette, [[DrivenToSuicide tormenting her to suicide]]. Nico later attempts to rape Gina as well at knifepoint, stopped only by Gina luring him into a trap to shoot him dead.
[[AC:Season 3]]
* "When Irish Eyes Are Crying": [[WesternTerrorists Sean Carroon]] is an [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA terrorist]] so vicious and brutal that the Provos are willing to have him killed to stop his widespread attacks out of fear for the attention he'll bring. Sean has a history of people close to him ending up dead along with [[IrishExplosivesExpert bombings]] and once in Miami, he seduces Gina Calabrese and purchases missiles from an ArmsDealer. Intending on attacking the Miami airport and destroying the British Concorde jet, Sean tries to murder Gina when she attempts to stop him.
* "Baby Blues": [[AmoralAttorney Howard Famiglia]] is a wealthy, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] adoption lawyer who secretly runs a [[HumanTraffickers baby trafficking]] operation. Having Colombian babies stolen from their mothers and shipped to Miami, Howard illegally sells the babies to hundreds of adoptive families. [[LackOfEmpathy Uncaring]] if some of the babies die on the way to America, when his operation looks to be exposed by Crockett and Tubbs, Howard has his criminal associates killed, even attempting to kill one of the Colombian mothers himself to tie up loose ends.
* "Duty and Honor": [[HeManWomanHater The Savage]], real name Frank, an [[PsychoForHire assassin]] who was [[EunuchsAreEvil emasculated]] by a prostitute he abused and then murdered, retains a violent misogyny that he indulges on during his political assassinations. In every city he finds himself in, the Savage tracks down women with dark hair and [[SerialKiller brutally stabs them to death]], [[CouldntFindAPen writing obscenities in their blood]] after, with dozens of victims across the world. Upon his handler growing discontent with his thirst for blood, the Savage threatens him, sneering that [[DisposableSexWorker nobody cares about "dead hookers"]] before attempting to kill more.
[[AC:Season 5]]
* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who treats even his old friends as disposable assets. Cruz [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]] and tracks down his old associates in a one-million-dollar robbery, before [[SpreeKiller terrorizing everyone he comes across]]. Cruz [[CopKiller guns down multiple cops]], threatens to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death—and then attempts to set her alight even after she gives up the money—and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When he kidnaps Sonny Crockett, Cruz viciously tortures him and has to be talked against killing him so he has a hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury and again tries to rape the waitress he's kidnapped just to let off some steam.
* "Asian Cut": [[TortureTechnician H.G. Halliwell]] is an apparently friendly professor, but hides a [[{{Sadist}} secret love]] for the most creative methods of torture. Having attempted to implement his methods into the military years ago, Halliwell reacts to the lack of "recognition" for his work by taking to the streets to [[SerialKiller kidnap and torture young women to death]], often carving into their bodies to finish them off. Brutally murdering a local reporter [[HeKnowsTooMuch for discovering Halliwell's crimes]], Halliwell then tries to continue his "[[MadArtist art]]" by torturing undercover cop Trudy.
* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hans Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].
* "Freefall": [[TheGeneralissimo General Manuel Borbon]] is the dictator of Costa Morada who allows [[TheCartel the Medellin Cartel]] to run rampant across his nation. Distributing drugs, brutalizing people, and helping to keep his pockets filled, Borbon slaughters thousands of political prisoners in turn and starves his people while he lives in luxury. Upon planning to flee the country, Borbon murders his finance minister when the man realizes Borbon's intent before trying to fool the Vice squad and flee himself.
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->''"Do you honestly know what your father did? I once saw him murder a young woman and her two children. She clung to his knees, begging for mercy. She begged him to spare her children. So he shot the children first, while she watched. He is a monster, who kills innocent people."''
-->— '''Dr. Leo Krebs''' on '''Hans Kozak''', "Victims of Circumstance"
[[Series/MiamiVice In Miami]] through the years, [[CowboyCop James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs]] faced many criminals of various types. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Multiple Episodes]]
* "Back in the World" & "Stone's War": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal William Maynard]] is a so-called "patriot" and a former US Army colonel who [[CoffinContraband smuggled heroin in the body bags]] of his own deceased countrymen. Fully aware that his heroin has been contaminated by the wood alcohol used to preserve the bodies but wanting to [[{{Greed}} make a profit]] before it rots, Maynard starts a poison heroin epidemic in his first episode. After Ira Stone, a reporter who used to serve under Maynard, attempts to expose this atrocity, Maynard has Stone's wife murdered and tosses him the wedding ring just to mock him. In his next appearance, Maynard attempts to [[WarForFunAndProfit fund a bloody war]] in Nicaragua with his own paramilitary organization, and when video evidence of his soldiers murdering innocent people surfaces, Maynard once again begins murdering and torturing anyone else who would expose him, [[TheBadGuyWins ultimately leading to Ira Stone's death]].
[[AC:Season 1]]
* "No Exit": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle" two-parter: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
[[AC:Season 2]]
* "Junk Love": [[TheDon Juan Carlos Silva]] is a crime lord with a DarkSecret that sets him apart from others like him in the show. Obsessed with a young woman named Rosella, Silva has killed so many people within his own organization that [[MotiveMisidentification law enforcement suspects an internal purge]]; in truth, Silva is murdering anyone and everyone to whom Rosella tries to escape to, even a pimp when Rosella becomes desperate enough to turn to prostitution. Silva's horrible secret is revealed in the last few minutes: Rosella is his daughter, and Silva has been [[VillainousIncest raping her]] for years, enough so that [[TheDogBitesBack she finally snaps and kills him]].
* "Bought and Paid For": [[SerialRapist Nico Arroyo]] is the [[SpoiledBrat pampered son]] of a Bolivian general who is a danger to every woman he meets. Nico has a history of raping maids in his home as well as women he meets out clubbing. Having raped a maid named Odette who left the household, Nico later finds her and rapes her again in Gina Calabrese's apartment. When Odette accepts a payoff from Nico's father for the sake of her elderly mother, Nico declares she "owns" Odette, [[DrivenToSuicide tormenting her to suicide]]. Nico later attempts to rape Gina as well at knifepoint, stopped only by Gina luring him into a trap to shoot him dead.
[[AC:Season 3]]
* "When Irish Eyes Are Crying": [[WesternTerrorists Sean Carroon]] is an [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA terrorist]] so vicious and brutal that the Provos are willing to have him killed to stop his widespread attacks out of fear for the attention he'll bring. Sean has a history of people close to him ending up dead along with [[IrishExplosivesExpert bombings]] and once in Miami, he seduces Gina Calabrese and purchases missiles from an ArmsDealer. Intending on attacking the Miami airport and destroying the British Concorde jet, Sean tries to murder Gina when she attempts to stop him.
* "Baby Blues": [[AmoralAttorney Howard Famiglia]] is a wealthy, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] adoption lawyer who secretly runs a [[HumanTraffickers baby trafficking]] operation. Having Colombian babies stolen from their mothers and shipped to Miami, Howard illegally sells the babies to hundreds of adoptive families. [[LackOfEmpathy Uncaring]] if some of the babies die on the way to America, when his operation looks to be exposed by Crockett and Tubbs, Howard has his criminal associates killed, even attempting to kill one of the Colombian mothers himself to tie up loose ends.
* "Duty and Honor": [[HeManWomanHater The Savage]], real name Frank, an [[PsychoForHire assassin]] who was [[EunuchsAreEvil emasculated]] by a prostitute he abused and then murdered, retains a violent misogyny that he indulges on during his political assassinations. In every city he finds himself in, the Savage tracks down women with dark hair and [[SerialKiller brutally stabs them to death]], [[CouldntFindAPen writing obscenities in their blood]] after, with dozens of victims across the world. Upon his handler growing discontent with his thirst for blood, the Savage threatens him, sneering that [[DisposableSexWorker nobody cares about "dead hookers"]] before attempting to kill more.
[[AC:Season 5]]
* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who treats even his old friends as disposable assets. Cruz [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]] and tracks down his old associates in a one-million-dollar robbery, before [[SpreeKiller terrorizing everyone he comes across]]. Cruz [[CopKiller guns down multiple cops]], threatens to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death—and then attempts to set her alight even after she gives up the money—and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When he kidnaps Sonny Crockett, Cruz viciously tortures him and has to be talked against killing him so he has a hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury and again tries to rape the waitress he's kidnapped just to let off some steam.
* "Asian Cut": [[TortureTechnician H.G. Halliwell]] is an apparently friendly professor, but hides a [[{{Sadist}} secret love]] for the most creative methods of torture. Having attempted to implement his methods into the military years ago, Halliwell reacts to the lack of "recognition" for his work by taking to the streets to [[SerialKiller kidnap and torture young women to death]], often carving into their bodies to finish them off. Brutally murdering a local reporter [[HeKnowsTooMuch for discovering Halliwell's crimes]], Halliwell then tries to continue his "[[MadArtist art]]" by torturing undercover cop Trudy.
* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hans Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].
* "Freefall": [[TheGeneralissimo General Manuel Borbon]] is the dictator of Costa Morada who allows [[TheCartel the Medellin Cartel]] to run rampant across his nation. Distributing drugs, brutalizing people, and helping to keep his pockets filled, Borbon slaughters thousands of political prisoners in turn and starves his people while he lives in luxury. Upon planning to flee the country, Borbon murders his finance minister when the man realizes Borbon's intent before trying to fool the Vice squad and flee himself.
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* "Golden Triangle": Triangle" two-parter: [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
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* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hanz Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].
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* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hanz Hans Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].
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->''"Do you honestly know what your father did? I once saw him murder a young woman and her two children. She clung to his knees, begging for mercy. She begged him to spare her children. So he shot the children first, while she watched. He is a monster, who kills innocent people."''
-->--'''Dr. Leo Krebs''' on '''Hans Kozak''', "Victims of Circumstance"
[[Series/MiamiVice In Miami]] through the years, [[CowboyCop James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs]] faced many criminals of various types. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Multiple Episodes]]
* "Back in the World" & "Stone's War": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal William Maynard]] is a so-called "patriot" and a former US Army colonel who [[CoffinContraband smuggled heroin in the body bags]] of his own deceased countrymen. Fully aware that his heroin has been contaminated by the wood alcohol used to preserve the bodies but wanting to [[{{Greed}} make a profit]] before it rots, Maynard starts a poison heroin epidemic in his first episode. After Ira Stone, a reporter who used to serve under Maynard, attempts to expose this atrocity, Maynard has Stone's wife murdered and tosses him the wedding ring just to mock him. In his next appearance, Maynard attempts to [[WarForFunAndProfit fund a bloody war]] in Nicaragua with his own paramilitary organization, and when video evidence of his soldiers murdering innocent people surfaces, Maynard once again begins murdering and torturing anyone else who would expose him, [[TheBadGuyWins ultimately leading to Ira Stone's death]].
[[AC:Season 1]]
* "No Exit": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle": [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
[[AC:Season 2]]
* "Junk Love": [[TheDon Juan Carlos Silva]] is a crime lord with a DarkSecret that sets him apart from others like him in the show. Obsessed with a young woman named Rosella, Silva has killed so many people within his own organization that [[MotiveMisidentification law enforcement suspects an internal purge]]; in truth, Silva is murdering anyone and everyone to whom Rosella tries to escape to, even a pimp when Rosella becomes desperate enough to turn to prostitution. Silva's horrible secret is revealed in the last few minutes: Rosella is his daughter, and Silva has been [[VillainousIncest raping her]] for years, enough so that [[TheDogBitesBack she finally snaps and kills him]].
* "Bought and Paid For": [[SerialRapist Nico Arroyo]] is the [[SpoiledBrat pampered son]] of a Bolivian general who is a danger to every woman he meets. Nico has a history of raping maids in his home as well as women he meets out clubbing. Having raped a maid named Odette who left the household, Nico later finds her and rapes her again in Gina Calabrese's apartment. When Odette accepts a payoff from Nico's father for the sake of her elderly mother, Nico declares she "owns" Odette, [[DrivenToSuicide tormenting her to suicide]]. Nico later attempts to rape Gina as well at knifepoint, stopped only by Gina luring him into a trap to shoot him dead.
[[AC:Season 3]]
* "When Irish Eyes Are Crying": [[WesternTerrorists Sean Carroon]] is an [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA terrorist]] so vicious and brutal that the Provos are willing to have him killed to stop his widespread attacks out of fear for the attention he'll bring. Sean has a history of people close to him ending up dead along with [[IrishExplosivesExpert bombings]] and once in Miami, he seduces Gina Calabrese and purchases missiles from an ArmsDealer. Intending on attacking the Miami airport and destroying the British Concorde jet, Sean tries to murder Gina when she attempts to stop him.
* "Baby Blues": [[AmoralAttorney Howard Famiglia]] is a wealthy, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] adoption lawyer who secretly runs a [[HumanTraffickers baby trafficking]] operation. Having Colombian babies stolen from their mothers and shipped to Miami, Howard illegally sells the babies to hundreds of adoptive families. [[LackOfEmpathy Uncaring]] if some of the babies die on the way to America, when his operation looks to be exposed by Crockett and Tubbs, Howard has his criminal associates killed, even attempting to kill one of the Colombian mothers himself to tie up loose ends.
* "Duty and Honor": [[HeManWomanHater The Savage]], real name Frank, an [[PsychoForHire assassin]] who was [[EunuchsAreEvil emasculated]] by a prostitute he abused and then murdered, retains a violent misogyny that he indulges on during his political assassinations. In every city he finds himself in, the Savage tracks down women with dark hair and [[SerialKiller brutally stabs them to death]], [[CouldntFindAPen writing obscenities in their blood]] after, with dozens of victims across the world. Upon his handler growing discontent with his thirst for blood, the Savage threatens him, sneering that [[DisposableSexWorker nobody cares about "dead hookers"]] before attempting to kill more.
[[AC:Season 5]]
* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who treats even his old friends as disposable assets. Cruz [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]] and tracks down his old associates in a one-million-dollar robbery, before [[SpreeKiller terrorizing everyone he comes across]]. Cruz [[CopKiller guns down multiple cops]], threatens to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death--and then attempts to set her alight even after she gives up the money--and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When he kidnaps Sonny Crockett, Cruz viciously tortures him and has to be talked against killing him so he has a hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury and again tries to rape the waitress he's kidnapped just to let off some steam.
* "Asian Cut": [[TortureTechnician H.G. Halliwell]] is an apparently friendly professor, but hides a [[{{Sadist}} secret love]] for the most creative methods of torture. Having attempted to implement his methods into the military years ago, Halliwell reacts to the lack of "recognition" for his work by taking to the streets to [[SerialKiller kidnap and torture young women to death]], often carving into their bodies to finish them off. Brutally murdering a local reporter [[HeKnowsTooMuch for discovering Halliwell's crimes]], Halliwell then tries to continue his "[[MadArtist art]]" by torturing undercover cop Trudy.
* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hanz Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].
* "Freefall": [[TheGeneralissimo General Manuel Borbon]] is the dictator of Costa Morada who allows [[TheCartel the Medellin Cartel]] to run rampant across his nation. Distributing drugs, brutalizing people, and helping to keep his pockets filled, Borbon slaughters thousands of political prisoners in turn and starves his people while he lives in luxury. Upon planning to flee the country, Borbon murders his finance minister when the man realizes Borbon's intent before trying to fool the Vice squad and flee himself.
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%% NOTE: Due to the controversial nature of this trope, any changes (additions, removals, edits) should be discussed [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok here]].
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%% NOTE 2: A CompleteMonster is an individual character, not a collective. Therefore a faction cannot be listed as one. %% A faction can attract Complete Monsters and can have them among its members, but cannot be one in and of itself.
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%% Please avoid natter on the article. If an entry doesn't fit, take it to the forum to discuss why, not here.
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->''"Do you honestly know what your father did? I once saw him murder a young woman and her two children. She clung to his knees, begging for mercy. She begged him to spare her children. So he shot the children first, while she watched. He is a monster, who kills innocent people."''
-->--'''Dr. Leo Krebs''' on '''Hans Kozak''', "Victims of Circumstance"
[[Series/MiamiVice In Miami]] through the years, [[CowboyCop James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs]] faced many criminals of various types. [[CompleteMonster Some of them]] are particularly horrific.
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
----
[[AC:Multiple Episodes]]
* "Back in the World" & "Stone's War": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal William Maynard]] is a so-called "patriot" and a former US Army colonel who [[CoffinContraband smuggled heroin in the body bags]] of his own deceased countrymen. Fully aware that his heroin has been contaminated by the wood alcohol used to preserve the bodies but wanting to [[{{Greed}} make a profit]] before it rots, Maynard starts a poison heroin epidemic in his first episode. After Ira Stone, a reporter who used to serve under Maynard, attempts to expose this atrocity, Maynard has Stone's wife murdered and tosses him the wedding ring just to mock him. In his next appearance, Maynard attempts to [[WarForFunAndProfit fund a bloody war]] in Nicaragua with his own paramilitary organization, and when video evidence of his soldiers murdering innocent people surfaces, Maynard once again begins murdering and torturing anyone else who would expose him, [[TheBadGuyWins ultimately leading to Ira Stone's death]].
[[AC:Season 1]]
* "No Exit": [[DomesticAbuser Tony Amato]] is a wealthy international ArmsDealer who provides munitions all the way down America, to whoever lines his pockets the most. Having absconded with a cache of stolen Stinger missiles, Tony intends to sell them to clients he knows will use them on densely populated commercial airliners, going so far as to stage a demonstration for his client and educate him on how he can make these plane crashes [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Not only a consummate merchant of death, Tony Amato is the worst spousal abuser in the show, beating and tormenting his wife Rita to the point she almost hires a hitman on him just to be free. When she attempted to escape via a legal divorce, Tony had the divorce lawyer's wife [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and threatened that his daughter would be next if he didn't mind his own business.
* "Golden Triangle": [[EvilOldFolks General Lao Li]] is a drug lord from Lt. Castillo's past. Former owner of one of the largest suppliers of opium and heroin in Southeast Asia, Li massacred Castillo's men when they attempted to raid his base. Retiring to Miami with his [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]], Li has two men who tried to steal his travel visa killed and mutilated to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem serve as a lesson]] to those who wish to betray him. Using Castillo's long-lost wife and her husband as leverage over his opponent, Li attempts to [[GruesomeGrandparent have his two grandsons killed]] when they try and fail to get into the drug dealing market, all because [[HonorRelatedAbuse they brought shame to his family name]].
[[AC:Season 2]]
* "Junk Love": [[TheDon Juan Carlos Silva]] is a crime lord with a DarkSecret that sets him apart from others like him in the show. Obsessed with a young woman named Rosella, Silva has killed so many people within his own organization that [[MotiveMisidentification law enforcement suspects an internal purge]]; in truth, Silva is murdering anyone and everyone to whom Rosella tries to escape to, even a pimp when Rosella becomes desperate enough to turn to prostitution. Silva's horrible secret is revealed in the last few minutes: Rosella is his daughter, and Silva has been [[VillainousIncest raping her]] for years, enough so that [[TheDogBitesBack she finally snaps and kills him]].
* "Bought and Paid For": [[SerialRapist Nico Arroyo]] is the [[SpoiledBrat pampered son]] of a Bolivian general who is a danger to every woman he meets. Nico has a history of raping maids in his home as well as women he meets out clubbing. Having raped a maid named Odette who left the household, Nico later finds her and rapes her again in Gina Calabrese's apartment. When Odette accepts a payoff from Nico's father for the sake of her elderly mother, Nico declares she "owns" Odette, [[DrivenToSuicide tormenting her to suicide]]. Nico later attempts to rape Gina as well at knifepoint, stopped only by Gina luring him into a trap to shoot him dead.
[[AC:Season 3]]
* "When Irish Eyes Are Crying": [[WesternTerrorists Sean Carroon]] is an [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA terrorist]] so vicious and brutal that the Provos are willing to have him killed to stop his widespread attacks out of fear for the attention he'll bring. Sean has a history of people close to him ending up dead along with [[IrishExplosivesExpert bombings]] and once in Miami, he seduces Gina Calabrese and purchases missiles from an ArmsDealer. Intending on attacking the Miami airport and destroying the British Concorde jet, Sean tries to murder Gina when she attempts to stop him.
* "Baby Blues": [[AmoralAttorney Howard Famiglia]] is a wealthy, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] adoption lawyer who secretly runs a [[HumanTraffickers baby trafficking]] operation. Having Colombian babies stolen from their mothers and shipped to Miami, Howard illegally sells the babies to hundreds of adoptive families. [[LackOfEmpathy Uncaring]] if some of the babies die on the way to America, when his operation looks to be exposed by Crockett and Tubbs, Howard has his criminal associates killed, even attempting to kill one of the Colombian mothers himself to tie up loose ends.
* "Duty and Honor": [[HeManWomanHater The Savage]], real name Frank, an [[PsychoForHire assassin]] who was [[EunuchsAreEvil emasculated]] by a prostitute he abused and then murdered, retains a violent misogyny that he indulges on during his political assassinations. In every city he finds himself in, the Savage tracks down women with dark hair and [[SerialKiller brutally stabs them to death]], [[CouldntFindAPen writing obscenities in their blood]] after, with dozens of victims across the world. Upon his handler growing discontent with his thirst for blood, the Savage threatens him, sneering that [[DisposableSexWorker nobody cares about "dead hookers"]] before attempting to kill more.
[[AC:Season 5]]
* "Bad Timing": [[AxCrazy Cruz]] is a born sociopath who treats even his old friends as disposable assets. Cruz [[UngratefulBastard thanks the man who broke him out by shooting him dead]] and tracks down his old associates in a one-million-dollar robbery, before [[SpreeKiller terrorizing everyone he comes across]]. Cruz [[CopKiller guns down multiple cops]], threatens to burn a harmless old gas attendant to death--and then attempts to set her alight even after she gives up the money--and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] the waitress he's taken hostage. When he kidnaps Sonny Crockett, Cruz viciously tortures him and has to be talked against killing him so he has a hostage. When his old partner Doc Jerry reveals he's screwed Cruz out of the money, Cruz mows him down in a fury and again tries to rape the waitress he's kidnapped just to let off some steam.
* "Asian Cut": [[TortureTechnician H.G. Halliwell]] is an apparently friendly professor, but hides a [[{{Sadist}} secret love]] for the most creative methods of torture. Having attempted to implement his methods into the military years ago, Halliwell reacts to the lack of "recognition" for his work by taking to the streets to [[SerialKiller kidnap and torture young women to death]], often carving into their bodies to finish them off. Brutally murdering a local reporter [[HeKnowsTooMuch for discovering Halliwell's crimes]], Halliwell then tries to continue his "[[MadArtist art]]" by torturing undercover cop Trudy.
* "Victims of Circumstance": [[NaziGrandpa Hanz Kozak]] is a former Nazi official who oversaw a [[PoWCamp death camp]], abusing and sending countless people to their demises with smug glee. In one of his crowning moments of evil, when Kozak was begged by a mother to spare her two young children, Kozak responded by [[WouldHurtAChild killing the kids]] in front of the mother, before murdering her as well. Though having escaped justice for his crimes years ago, when Kozak learns of a group of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivors who hope to testify against Kozak and see him punished, Kozak orders his brainwashed daughter Helen Jackson to go on a killing spree of the Holocaust witnesses for him, resulting in the deaths of [[WouldHarmASenior several innocents]].
* "Freefall": [[TheGeneralissimo General Manuel Borbon]] is the dictator of Costa Morada who allows [[TheCartel the Medellin Cartel]] to run rampant across his nation. Distributing drugs, brutalizing people, and helping to keep his pockets filled, Borbon slaughters thousands of political prisoners in turn and starves his people while he lives in luxury. Upon planning to flee the country, Borbon murders his finance minister when the man realizes Borbon's intent before trying to fool the Vice squad and flee himself.
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