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16	* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
17	** ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': Nemesis himself is a bloodthirsty alien warrior who fights Torquemada primarily because he makes a good enemy.
18	** ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}'': Warlord Skulka, Supreme Khan of the Xorn Empire, lives only to kill as many as he can manage, as he loves conquering and destroying civilizations more than anything. In truth, he's become bored after he helped with the destruction of the Shakara, once the strongest species in the galaxy, as he doesn't feel anyone can match them.
19	** ''ComicBook/ButtonMan'': Harry Exton becomes a pretty notorious Button Man because he prefers to kill all his opponents, whereas wounding them is considered sufficient to win a match and actually preferred as it leaves the Button Man available for further matches.
20	** ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Aquila himself is an unstoppable war machine, but his "brother" The Spartan is an even better example. He was resurrected by the gods not because he prayed to them for mercy, but his sheer hatred from being denied the chance to kill again upon his own death impressed them so much that they turned him into an immortal warrior.
21	** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Dredd himself is happiest ([[TheStoic or the closest he can come to being happy]]) when he's on the streets of Mega City One, busting heads. He notes that Mega City One is the most violent, evil city on earth, but he loves it. It's the main reason he keeps turning down the office of Chief Judge.
22	* For a more [[BoisterousBruiser jolly and lovable version]], see Obelix in the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' books. ("I do hope Asterix explains this to me later, I generally like to know ''why'' we're fighting," just before KO-ing an entire village of other Gauls in ''Asterix and the Cauldron''.) In fact, most of the village act like this ("Hey, boys a fight!" "Come on, it'll be a change to fight each other!" leading to an all-village brawl in ''Asterix in Spain'', which would eventually become a RunningGag).
23	* In the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "The Dark Ages", there's a popular RealityTV show called "Rough Justice" that shows actual footage of {{Sociopathic Hero}}es [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally punishing]] assorted [[AllCrimesAreEqual criminals]].
24	* [[CaptainErsatz The]] [[SociopathicHero Midnighter]] from the Wildstorm series ComicBook/TheAuthority as he's about to destroy a city by ramming it with a 30 mile wide space ship aimed directly at the Villain of the Week:
25	-->'''Midnighter:''' I love being me.
26	* Cindy of ''ComicBook/CindyAndBiscuit'' does avoid genuinely harming entities that don't seem to be hostile, but she's mainly driven by a largely unadulterated love of fighting monsters to the death.
27	* ''ComicBook/CreatureCommandos'': Warren Griffith was a werewolf. Though he's a sheepish coward in human form, his wolf form carries with it a primal bloodlust that is never sated. He's always looking forward to the next battle, and never satisfied when it ends.
28	* The Spartans from ''ComicBook/{{Democracy}}'' are arguably this, being more aggresive than the Athenians, dismissing conversations and calling them more "whinny" than babies when they are trapped in Acropolis.
29	* ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer from the eponymous comic exhibits many of the characteristics: he will drop almost anything for a fray, and frequently chastises opponents who attempt to run away before he is finished slaying them.
30	* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', the Murder Fist branch of the Shun Leep style ''makes'' its users into Blood Knights by putting them into a state of nirvana when in combat with a skilled foe. This inevitably drives them towards the PsychoForHire category as they cease to care to exercise the control to not kill on purpose, while their skill continues to grow and grow from fighting powerful enemies.
31	* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}:''
32	** Battle Beast brought peace and prosperity to his homeworld by beating the crap out of any and all threats. Unfortunately, he developed a taste for combat and left his world to seek out worthy foes. Unfortunately for him and just about anyone he fights, he's one of the strongest beings in the universe. So far, Thragg, the strongest Viltrumite alive, is the only one who has ever defeated Battle Beast [[spoiler:by snapping his neck in an instant. And after he recovers, Battle Beast is eager for a rematch. When they do face again, Thragg gets his guts sliced open by a third party, not willing to accept any advantage Battle Beast cuts his guts open as well so it can be a fair match. Oh and the ensuing fight between Thragg and Battle beast ''lasted days'', even Thragg had developed some begrudging respect for BB before killing him.]]
33	** While most Viltrumites are ravenous imperialists eager to conquer and subjugate others, for [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans one reason]] or [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans another]], the champion Conquest is ''not'' one of these. As he eagerly admits to Invincible in the middle of their fight, he's not here to pontificate or convince anyone, and he's not there on Earth to do any ''actual'' conquest. He just came to Earth because he enjoys battle for its own sake, and actively wants the locals to put up a fight. Conqest actively ''thanks'' Mark at one point for becoming such an absolute nuisance to the Viltrum Empire that they let him cut loose without the usual restrictions.
34	* In ''ComicBook/SinCity'', Marv admits that he loves a good fight. Miho apparently does as well. Actually, you can add Dwight and the Girls of Old Town to the list as well, see ''The Big Fat Kill''.
35	-->'''Dwight''': The Valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure hateful bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter and so am I.
36	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
37	** Like his [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog video game counterpart]], Sonic is this, though for a completely different reason (he gets bored and restless when there's no new challenge or threat, and will often deliberately go seeking one out).
38	** E-123 Omega, who has gone so far as to unload his payload on a ''PhysicalGod'' and complain when he still had ammo to hit him with. He's even fallen in love (or close to it) with Blaze the Cat because of her own actions!
39	* The protagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Spiritus}}'', Kinju Dayal, is a world-champion MMA fighter. She took to the ring not necessarily to win, but to beat up her opponents as badly as possible. By all accounts she was very good at this.
40	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
41	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Bludgeon probably qualifies. He talks about a grand dream for the Decepticons conquering the universe but when they actually conquer a world... he's bored out of his mind and wondering when the Autobots are going to show up to stop them. Again, when he invades planet Earth, he's bored out of his skull (no pun intended) because Optimus Prime doesn't show up to fight him like he hoped he would. One suspects that if there were no Autobots he either wouldn't give a damn about the Decepticons or their plans to take over the world, or would ''start'' the Autobots in order to pick fights with the Decepticons.
42	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'': Overlord never cared about rank, glory, or the advancement of the Decepticon cause... he was happy as long as he had the opportunity to fight and slaughter as many Autobots and bystanders as he could. Megatron, however, wasn't happy with that -- [[TheStarscream upstart subordinates]] had given him too much experience with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to take it on faith that someone with that much power wouldn't make a power grab. So when Megatron tried to tighten the leash and take more control over Overlord's actions, Overlord re-purposed [[TheAlcatraz Garrus-9]] into a planetwide spectacle of violence and chaos to provoke Megatron into the one fight that Overlord has always wanted. [[spoiler:He has a VillainousBreakdown and surrenders when he finds out Megatron is (apparently) dead.]]
43	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'':
44	*** Overlord [[spoiler:immediately breaks out of the VillainousBSOD he was stuck in after ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' when he finds out Megatron isn't dead after all, meaning he might just get his fight.]]
45	*** Whirl's philosophy of life is, for the most part, that you should resort to violence both quickly and thoroughly. He never runs from a fight and goes on recreational violence sprees just for the hell of it.
46	---->'''Whirl:''' So this is what running away feels like? I'm not keen. It's like fighting, but in the wrong direction.\
47	'''Cyclonus:''' Rodimus told us not to engage.\
48	'''Whirl:''' He did, yes, he absolutely did. And I'm going to interpret that as a veiled order to attack... Care to join me?
49	* In ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', Nakamura Koji is a swordfighter who goes around looking for worthy opponents to duel with. There are other such characters in the series too.
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