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| 6 | * ''Film/MacheteKills'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Luther Voz]], the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive founder and head]] of Voz Tech--"the world's premier space technology and weapons manufacturer"--first shows up in disguise during an arms deal and kills Machete's LoveInterest, ICE Agent Sartana Rivera. He's also given a missile to crazed Mexican revolutionary Marcos Mendez, which is attached to a DeadMansSwitch and which Mendez plans to use to destroy Washington, D.C. Voz claims to "have a Mendez everywhere"--including North Korea and Russia--and plans to have them all fire missiles, as he believes the "world must end in order for a more perfect one to emerge"; Voz plans to [[DarkMessiah take his followers and start said perfect world up in space]]. While the missiles are stopped, saving millions if not more, Voz manages to escape to space with his supporters; Luz, who's frozen in carbonite; as well as surviving members of the Network, who he plans to use for slave labor, along with the current Mexican migrants who are already slaves. |
| 7 | * ''Film/TheMadGhoul'' (1943): [[MadScientist Dr. Alfred Morris]], [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting]] with his nerve gas, turns his assistant Ted Allison into a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]] that must subsist on human hearts to remain alive. Allowing him to perform a series of murders, including a journalist who was a potential problem, Morris centers in on his assistant's former fiancée Isabel Lewis, obsessed with [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty forcing her to be his]] so much that he attempts to [[MurderTheHypotenuse have her lover murdered by his ghoul]] before planning to eliminate the latter. |
| 8 | * ''Film/TheMadmanChronicles'' (2012): [[BigBad The Video Killer]] is a SerialKiller who [[SnuffFilm records his murders and posts them online]]. He is suspected to have killed over 100 people over the course of a year, with the police unable to catch him due to his habit of constantly changing his MO, as well as him always committing the murders when there are no witnesses around. Throughout the film, he murders various people, and kidnaps a girl named Kelly Wells after killing her mother. He locks Kelly up in his basement with another girl named Jennifer Abaid, with it being revealed that he occasionally kidnaps girls and locks them up for long periods of time before killing them. Jennifer states that there were several other women down there, but that he killed them all over time. The killer eventually murders Jennifer, and steals clothing from a home to force Kelly to wear, stabbing an officer in the neck on the way out. |
| 9 | * ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': [[WastelandWarlord Immortan Joe]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]], [[EvilCripple sickly]], brutal tyrant who has forged a kingdom in the Wasteland. In the prequel comic, it is revealed Joe was a marauder who murdered others for their supplies, enslaving the women and killing the men and children. Upon founding his kingdom, Joe selects people to join it, but forces the women to become {{breeding slave}}s so their milk may be harvested, and the men to run along treadmills to power the turbines. Joe indoctrinates the strong young men into the Warboys: drug-addicted cultist fanatics who long to die in his cause. The most beautiful women are kept as Joe's personal [[SexSlave sex slaves]] and forced to bear his children; after three failed attempts at bearing a healthy boy, they find themselves exiled to certain death in the desert wastes. When several of his wives escape, Joe spares no resource to hunt them down and return them, though he is willing to kill one rather than allow her to be rescued, showing that he views them solely as his property. |
| 10 | * ''Film/TheMadMonster'': [[VillainProtagonist Dr. Lorenzo Cameron]] is a medical doctor who was [[TheyCalledMeMad ostracized by his peers]] for wanting to create werewolves via blood transfusion. Plotting vengeance, he experiments on [[KindheartedSimpleton his gardener Petro]] to give him lycanthropy. Declaring his experiments a success after his werewolf [[WouldHurtAChild slaughters a child]], Cameron returns to his hometown for revenge. After killing the first professor, Cameron notices that Wolf!Petro is starting to break control. Only not killing Petro [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou due to needing him for the scheme]], Cameron orders him to cause a car crash, mortally wounding another of his targets, and later plans to kill three more professors. |
| 11 | * ''Film/Madhouse1974'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Herbert Flay]] becomes enraged when Paul Toombes is cast in ''Dr. Death'' as the title role over himself. Failing to get the part after killing Toombes's fiancée to [[DrivenToMadness cause him a mental breakdown]] and leave him unable to act, Herbert tries again years later, convincing Toombes to try for the part again in a TV series about ''Dr. Death''. Causing a slew of [[ThemeSerialKiller serial murders based on]] ''Dr. Death'', Herbert tries to {{frame|Up}} and then kill Toombes to take advantage of a clause that he would get the part if anything happened to Toombes. |
| 12 | * ''Film/{{Magadheera}}'' (aka ''The Great Warrior''): [[TheUsurper Ranadev Billa]] is the [[EvilNephew power-hungry nephew]] of King Vikram and jealous cousin of Princess Devi, who not only lusts after the princess, but also wants the throne for himself. After Ranadev tries forcing Princess Devi to accept him at knifepoint, only to be caught red-handed by the warrior Kala Bhairava, Ranadev attempts to have Kala Bhairava killed in a chariot race by sending mercenaries to sabotage Bhairava's chances of winning and knocking Bhairava into quicksand. [[CheatersNeverProsper Losing the race and subsequently expelled]], Ranadev Billa defects to the rival Shere Khan Empire and personally leads the Shere Khan army to invade, days before the wedding of Kala Bhairava and Princess Devi, with Ranadev personally killing King Vikram and ordering his army to massacre everyone in the palace. Even after Kala Bhairava accepts a challenge to battle a hundred Shere Khan warriors and winning, convincing the [[GracefulLoser Emperor of Shere Khan]] to withdraw, Ranadev still insists on fighting the badly injured and exhausted Kala Bhairava. When Ranadev ultimately loses the duel, in a last act of spite, [[IfICantHaveYou he kills Princess Devi with a flung dagger]], forcing the lovers Kala Bhairava and Princess Devi to be separated for 400 years. |
| 13 | * ''[[Film/MaggieMoores Maggie Moore(s)]]'' (2023): [[PsychoForHire Kosco]] is a sadistic hitman contracted by Jay Moore to scare the latter's wife Maggie after she finds out about Jay's criminal activities. Killing Maggie and grinning about it to the panicked Jay, Kosco takes more contracts when Jay comes up with a plot to murder another woman named Maggie Moore to mask his own wife's death as an accidental killing. Dispatching the second Maggie, Kosco goes on to [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit murder a man to frame him as the killer]]. Posing as a civilian and attacking his interviewing officers when they turn their backs, Kosco [[CopKiller shoots the younger of the two policemen dead]]. Killing Jay in a rage, Kosco [[HostageSituation takes Jay's neighbor Rita hostage]] to escape, cruelly gloating to his captive that he will kill her after getting away. |
| 14 | * ''The Magic Serpent'' (1966): |
| 15 | ** [[BigBad Daijo Yu{u}ki]] is [[TheCaligula the evil ruler]] of the Omi Kingdom. Previously Lord Ogata Samanosuke's power-hungry general, he organized a raid on the Ogata clan that killed everyone, with Daijo killing Ogata himself. With Ogata's son Ikazuchimaru escaping, Daijo orders Orochimaru to kill him. As ruler, he has women kidnapped from villages to serve as his {{sex slave}}s. Finding out that Ikazuchimaru is still alive, he arrives at a village and kills the farmer Zenbei, ordering his men to behead his daughter and [[WouldHurtAChild young son]] in front of the village [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as a lesson]] for anyone who dares try and help Ikazuchimaru, be it woman or child, before kidnapping Saki to add to his harem. Cornered by Ikazuchimaru, he begs for mercy and tries to kill him. |
| 16 | ** [[TheHeavy Orochimaru]] is Daijo's shape shifting [[TheDragon second-in-command]], and Ikazuchimaru's ArchEnemy. Assisting in Daijo's raid on the Ogata clan, he murders Lord Ogata's wife and tries to kill the young Ikazuchimaru. Ordered by Daijo to kill his own mentor Dojin Hiki, he poisons and fatally wounds him. Desiring to [[TheStarscream kill Daijo]] in order to secure the throne himself, he spreads the news of Ikazuchimaru's arrival so that he can kill and pose as him for when he becomes ruler. Finding out that Tsunade iss his daughter, he takes advantage of her closeness to Ikazuchimaru by ordering her to poison and stab him when he's unconscious, insulting and disowning her when she refuses to do so. Killing Momobe for betraying him, he heads to Ogata castle and tries to kill Ikazuchimaru himself. |
| 17 | * ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'': |
| 18 | ** ''Guns of [[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 the Magnificent Seven]]'' (1969): [[BigBad Colonel Diego]] is a [[InsaneAdmiral mass-murdering Mexican colonel]] cracking down on revolutionary activity. Diego kills prisoners by the dozens, having them dragged behind running horses until they die, or [[BuriedAlive burying them up to their necks]] and having their exposed heads trampled by horses. Diego even [[ForcedToWatch forces one of the heroes to watch]] one of these "ceremonies" while promising more and more for each day he doesn't talk. |
| 19 | ** [[Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016 2016 film]]: [[BigBad Bartholomew Bogue]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive ruthless, amoral industrialist]] who, [[{{Greed}} seeking to add even more wealth to his criminal empire]], takes over the mining town of Rose Creek, murdering the citizens willing to stand up to him. After the titular Seven liberate the town from Bogue's goons and dispatch the dirty sheriff to tell him about it, Bogue, after shooting the sheriff dead, returns in force, sending his mercenary army to destroy the resistance. When the heroes start winning, he has Rose Creek shot up with a Gatling gun, [[BadBoss willingly mowing down his own men]] for a chance to win. Even when alone and on the verge of defeat he remains vile, never straying from his ideology that [[TheSocialDarwinist the weak are to be dominated by the strong]]. |
| 20 | * ''Film/TheMalayChroniclesBloodlines'': [[FallenHero Kamawas]] was once a proud student of a martial arts school, but since [[FaceHeelTurn turned to the side of evil]] after discovering the power of BlackMagic and sorcery and how it can make him invincible. Turning all the pupils of the school to join him as killers, with those who oppose him hunted down and killed, Kamawas will establish his own legion of pirates called the "Garuda" (Eagles), where they spend decades terrorizing the straits of Malaysia and Indonesian islands, [[RapePillageAndBurn killing and raping by the hundreds]]. It was during one of those raids where Kamawas kills the hero Merong's family, turning Merong into a drifter, and in another raid Kamawas rapes Merong's LoveInterest Embun before leaving her for the dead, simply for fun. As Merong and the heroes leads a brave final assault on Kamawas's island stronghold, Kamawas personally kills several resistance fighters and takes pleasure in killing Admiral Liu in a long, slow, extensively drawn-out way before ripping out Liu's throat. |
| 21 | * ''Film/{{Malignant}}'': [[AxCrazy Gabriel]] is a psychopathic, vestigial [[EvilTwin twin]] inhabiting the body of Madison "Emily" Lake. After being imprisoned in the back of Madison's mind during an operation, Gabriel subliminally attempts to direct Madison to commit violent acts, including nearly carving her unborn sister Sydney from her adoptive mother's womb. Replenishing himself by feeding on Madison's fetuses--thus being responsible for her miscarriages--Gabriel [[SplitPersonalityTakeover pilots her body]] to exact his bloody vengeance, gruesomely killing the doctors responsible for the operation and [[CopKiller massacring his way through a police department]] to accomplish his final act of revenge unopposed. Gabriel kidnaps his birth mother and holds her hostage, and later [[ForcedToWatch forces her to watch him]] gleefully kill Sydney before finishing her off. |
| 22 | * ''A Man Alone'' (1955): Clanton is the [[PsychoForHire hired gun]] of [[BigBad Stanley]]. When Clanton, together with Stanley's partner, Luke Joiner, robs a stagecoach, Clanton murders all five passengers, [[WouldHurtAChild including a little girl]], [[LeaveNoWitnesses to keep them silent]]. Clanton and Stanley murder Luke after he [[EvenEvilHasStandards expresses disgust at what Clanton did]], and proceed to lie that [[TheHero Wes Steele]] is responsible for the stagecoach massacre and Luke's murder. Finally, along with Stanley and his gang, Clanton tries to kill Steele during the climax. |
| 23 | * ''A Man Called Blade'', aka ''Mannaja'' (1977): [[TheHeavy Theo Voller]] is the right-hand man to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive mining magnate Ed McGowan]], using his position to abuse power and threaten anyone he pleases. Revealed to actually be out for his own power, Voller betrays [=McGowan=] and slaughters a stagecoach group to kidnap [=McGowan's=] daughter Deborah as a "hostage", truthfully a willing lover and partner to Voller. When the outlaw Blade stands in his way, Voller tortures the man, threatens [[LoveInterest Angela]] for information from him, then stabs Angela to death anyway and [[BuriedAlive buries Blade alive]] after nailing his eyelids open. Voller goes on to ramp up his abuse of the mining community until they demand better treatment, which Voller responds to by having many of them shot dead and using the ensuing massacre as a distraction to [[TheStarscream murder McGowan and secure his own power]]. |
| 24 | * ''Film/TheManFromNowhere'': |
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| 26 | *** [[TheHedonist Jong-seok]] is the younger brother, and junior partner, of the crime lord Man-seok. While his icy older brother may [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes care for his well-being]], Jong-seok only cares about having as good a time as possible. Sent to recover drugs stolen by Jeon So-mi's mother, Jong-seok sadistically tortures her with a blow dryer and then kidnaps the mother and daughter, killing the woman to [[OrganTheft traffic her organs]] and having the girl brought into the brothers' drug ring, using children as runners. After he and Man-seok betray their former boss, Jong-seok sends their bloodthirsty mercenary [[PsychoForHire Ramrowan]] to sadistically murder him and his remaining followers. When a little girl involved in their drug operation passes out, Jong-seok [[WouldHurtAChild has her dragged off]] so her organs can be harvested and sold, as they have done to countless others. Jong-seok even uses his last moments alive to brag to Cha Tae-sik about how he has failed So-mi as badly as the Seok brothers have. |
| 27 | *** [[MadDoctor Oh Sang-man]], aka "500", is the Seok brothers' wicked surgeon in their organ trafficking business. Having chosen his moniker to reflect his number of intended victims, 500 cuts up countless men, women, and even children for the Seoks, [[MockingTheMourner mocking one little girl]] for having killed her mother before planning to operate on her as well. |
| 28 | ** ''Film/RockyHandsome'' (2016 UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} remake): |
| 29 | *** Luke Ferriera is the [[SiblingsInCrime brother of Kevin]] and a ruthless drug dealer who usurps control of the operation from his boss by leaving him to be killed by the hero Kabir Ahlawat, aka Rocky Handsome. Luke, finding that a woman named Anna has stolen their drugs, kidnaps and tortures Anna's [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter Naomi]], before murdering her to feed their other trade, [[OrganTheft organ harvesting]]. Luke uses child slaves for his drugs before harvesting them and other innocent people to make money on the BlackMarket, attempting to harvest little Naomi. |
| 30 | *** The Ferriera brothers' [[MadDoctor surgeon]] cuts up still living people for their organ trafficking operation. When the young girl Naomi asks what became of her mother he killed, the surgeon mockingly says she's "with God" before trying to [[EyeScream cut out the girl's eyes]]. |
| 31 | * ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'': [[TortureTechnician Rudi von Trüsch, known almost entirely as Uncle Rudi]], is the uncle of Gaby and secretly [[ThoseWackyNazis an unrepentant Nazi]] in league with the Vinciguerra crime family. Once a bullied little boy who concluded from his torment that the masters of life were pain and fear, Uncle Rudi put his skills to use in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the second World War]], using the carnage to torture as many people to death as he could in as many possible ways to document them in his scrapbook. So prolific his name has been mistaken for three different artists, Trudi has no care as to what his employers want, torturing Napoleon Solo [[ForTheEvulz purely for the fun of it]] when he has him in his clutches and [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] selling off everyone tangentially connected to him when he's captured. |
| 32 | * ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'': King UsefulNotes/LouisXIV himself is a [[RoyalBrat hedonistic brat]] who lives lavishly in Versailles while his people starve and suffer. Engaging his forces in bloody wars throughout Europe, when Louis lusts after the beautiful Christine, he has her fiancé Raoul [[UriahGambit sent to die in battle]] so he may coerce Christine into being his mistress by promising help to her family. Upon ordering rotten food sent to the people, Louis deflects blame by ordering his chief adviser executed for it and then orders the next rioters be shot. Upon the legendary Musketeers trying to replace him with his twin Philippe, Louis attempts to murder them and send Philippe back to the Bastille in his hated iron mask. Knowing it will be a FateWorseThanDeath for Philippe, Louis angrily demands he "wear it until you love it" and later accidentally murders Captain D'Artagnan while attempting to murder Philippe when he thinks he's lost. |
| 33 | * ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'': [[BigBad Donaka Mark]], a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt businessman]] and violence aficionado who runs an underground fight ring, and sells his audience, not on the fights themselves, but on the chance to watch a good person become a killer. When Chi-Tak, one of his fighters, refuses to kill his defeated opponent, Donaka enters the ring and personally breaks the neck of the loser. He then stabs Chi-Tak to death in the locker room, as his refusal to murder makes him a rat in Donaka's eyes. Discovering Tai Chi specialist Tiger Chen, Donaka convinces the government to sell off his master's temple, to make Tiger desperate for money; he then offers him a job in his fight ring. Placing cameras throughout Tiger's home, Donaka gives his audience the opportunity to watch Tiger's mental disintegration as the fights take their toll on his psyche. When Tiger, driven to the brink, still refuses to kill mercenary Uri Romanoff, Donaka executes Uri. He sends Tiger into another fight, with an Indonesian fighter; when Tiger tries to back out, Donaka gives the Indonesian the kill order. He also sends assassins after Detective Sung Jinshi, when she closes in on his ring. Ultimately found out by the police, Donaka flees and leaves his men in the lurch, only to reappear at Tiger's temple and force him into a Duel to the Death, declaring, "You owe me a life!" When Tiger is forced to kill him, Donaka displays only a sense of satisfaction at having made Tiger a murderer. |
| 34 | * ''Man of Vendetta'' (2010): [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse Choi Byeong-chul]] is a SerialKiller with an affinity for [[WouldHurtAChild targeting children]] and [[WickedCultured appreciating classical music]] whose [[EvilIsPetty sole motive]] is wanting enough ransom money to buy a rare sound amplifier. Taking advantage of his job as a church acoustics specialist to kidnap Pastor Joo Young-soo's daughter, Hye-rin, Choi raises her for eight years, giving her dirt for lunch and forcing her to chew on rocks. Kidnapping other children, Choi uses Hye-rin to lure another little girl into his car and murders her even after her mother gives him money, keeping mementos from his victims as trophies. When a pair of workers find Hye-rin, Choi brutally murders one with a hatchet and runs over the other in their truck. After finally obtaining the money he needed to buy the sound amplifier, Choi visits its owner and murders him when he refuses to sell it to him, later killing a police detective who was suspicious of him. After Joo discovers where his daughter is being held, Choi tries to strangle Hye-rin to death out of spite. |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheManWhoSavesTheWorld'': [[EvilSorcerer The Wizard]] is an evil, immortal sorcerer who deigns to destroy Earth no matter what. The Wizard has [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved]], [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], and mass-murdered innocents for centuries and seeks a special golden brain to complete his conquest and destruction of the Earth. The Wizard also [[ImmortalityImmorality sustains his immortality in a particularly cruel way]]: kidnapping [[WouldHurtAChild children]] after murdering their parents, then drinking their blood to sustain himself. |
| 36 | * ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists 2'': This sequel brings us the cruel taskmaster Master Ho, master of the Beetle Clan. Ho rules the village with an iron fist, forcing the people to toil in the silver mines. In [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his opening scene]], when several miners have made complaints about the tools, Ho publicly [[OffWithHisHead beheads one]]. When several assassins try to kill him, Ho uses two members of his harem as {{human shield}}s before daring the killers to face him in the arena. When they do, Ho just has his soldiers butcher them, and later has a miner murdered who defeated a Beetle Clan member in the ring. When the man's brother tries to challenge Ho, Ho has him stabbed before the match to give himself an advantage. Ho also preys on the village women, selecting young women to join his harem, and even gives some women to the mysterious Lord Pi, who proceeds to drain them of life. |
| 37 | * ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'': After being kicked out of the German Navy, UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich is hired by UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler to join the [[StateSec SS]]. After the appointment of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as Chancellor of Germany, Heydrich is tasked with [[ThePurge annihilating Hitler's enemies in the German political sphere]]. Having been made Governor of Bohemia-Moravia for his efficiency and competence, Heydrich begins a brutal campaign of war crimes to make his territory the first to [[FinalSolution exterminate its Jews]], ordering the crimes filmed for his later enjoyment. After setting his methods up in the rest of Germany, thus kickstarting UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, Heydrich works to put down a rebellion against his governance, killing enough resistance fighters to fill up a mass grave and torturing many more. |
| 38 | * ''Film/{{Manborg}}'': [[BigBad Count Draculon]], the demonic ruler of Hell, seeks to [[KillAllHumans eradicate humanity]] and replace it with demons. Having been accidentally summoned by [[AntiVillain Dr. Scorpius]] to Earth, he leads a war against humankind that kills billions of them, personally murdering Manborg and his brother. Becoming the ruler of Earth, he turns it into a dystopia where demonic cops arrest humans and place them in gladiator pits, where the humans' blood is used to give Draculon power, with his demons having taken the lives of thousands. Desiring Manborg's death, he has Dr. Scorpius capture him, later [[HighVoltageDeath electrocuting him to death]] when he frees Manborg. Having kidnapped a friend of Mina's, he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes her]], names her Shadow-Mega, and forces Mina to fight her. When Manborg invades his lair, Draculon tries to murder him, eviscerating the entire stadium audience watching the fight, and even murders Mina, causing Manborg to sacrifice himself to resurrect her. |
| 39 | * ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' film serial (1939): The evil criminal mastermind [[BigBad the Wasp]], real name Dr.Andre Bennett, seeks to dominate the US's communication grids, using a series of bombings that target populated areas, including a dam. He also seeks a special radium device to give him the ultimate power he desires. When he tries to eliminate Mandrake, the Wasp even targets populated areas such as a train or large building with his bombings. In addition, the Wasp is also a [[BadBoss terrible boss]], gassing his subjects for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] or even for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his organization, willing to stop at nothing to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 40 | * ''Film/Mandy2018'': [[BigBad Jeremiah Sand]] is the vicious, cowardly leader of the Children of the New Dawn cult. Having [[SelfMadeOrphan murdered his parents]] and moved to Los Angeles to indulge in music and drugs, Jeremiah would form countless cults centered around himself to satisfy his [[{{Narcissist}} narcissism]]. Working with the demonic Black Skulls biker gang, he makes them his personal attack dogs and allows them to murder and rape whomever they please, holding their chemist hostage to help continue their murder sprees. Taking an obsessive liking to Mandy Bloom, he has the Black Skulls kidnap her and her husband Red Miller, sacrificing one of his men to them as thanks. With the couple in hand, he has Mandy drugged and [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her]], while he has Red hung up with barb wire and stabbed in the side, and is ForcedToWatch Mandy burned alive after she tarnishes Jeremiah's ego by laughing at him. |
| 41 | * ''Film/ManiacCop2'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Steven Turkell]] is a SerialKiller who targets and stalks [[DisposableSexWorker strippers]] before breaking into their homes and strangling them. After his failure to claim a victim, Turkell is rescued by [[KillerCop Matthew Cordell]] and [[VillainTeamUp teams up with him]] to use him as a bodyguard while he's out on his own killing spree. Escaping from police captivity, he drives Cordell to Sing Sing Prison in the hopes of releasing and building an army of death row inmates to terrorize the city, recklessly hitting other cars on the way. Once Cordell makes it clear that he has no interest in his ambitions, Turkell attempts to stab him with his own blade. |
| 42 | * ''[[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Manos]]'' trilogy: |
| 43 | ** TheMaster is an undead, immortal occultist who serves the [[GodOfEvil evil god Manos]] by happily performing {{human sacrifice}}s for his deity, keeping a harem of wives which he [[TilMurderDoUsPart disposes of as he sees fit]]. Having killed his first servant Vassago for stealing one of his wives, the Master later brainwashes a man named Torgo to act as his newest servant. When a small family is later lured into his Lodge by Torgo, the Master [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills the family dog]], before chopping off Torgo's hand for touching his wives in their sleep. He later forces both Michael's wife Margaret and his little daughter Debbie to become his new brides. Keeping people's spirits in a perpetual limbo, the Master's spirit continues to loom over the Lodge, brainwashing more women to become Manos's brides, having forced Debbie to become his replacement as she continues to sacrifice those in the name of Manos. |
| 44 | ** ''The Rise of Torgo'': [[GodOfEvil Manos himself]], [[DarkIsEvil God of Primal Darkness]], is [[GreaterScopeVillain the instigator]] for everything that happens in the trilogy. Having chosen TheMaster to become his immortal slave, Manos has him carry out his desires for HumanSacrifice, having him brainwash women to serve as the wives of Manos. After the Master kills his servant Vassago, Manos chooses the innocent Torgo as his new servant, brainwashing and threatening him with 1,000 deaths of darkness should he go against him. |
| 45 | * ''Film/MarathonMan'': [[NaziGrandpa Christian Szell]], known as the [[IronicNickname White Angel]] because of his [[WhiteHairBlackHeart hair]], was a Nazi [[DepravedDentist dentist]] working at [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Auschwitz]], and used to falsely promise protection to the Jewish prisoners in exchange of their gold hidden in their teeth, before sending them to the gas chambers. After escaping UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Szell sells out most of his Nazi comrades to a shadow government agency in exchange for protection and assistance in his diamond smuggling--the ones he stole from the Jews. When Szell goes to New York to claim a box of diamonds, he becomes increasingly paranoid for his safety, ordering the couriers working for him killed and having Thomas "Babe" Levy and his girlfriend beaten and robbed, and then killing Babe's brother Henry "Doc" Levy, one of his collaborators, believing him to be a traitor. Szell then kidnaps Babe and, wanting to know "(i)s it safe," cruelly [[TheToothHurts tortures him with his dental instruments]], first digging a hole in his cavity and then drilling a healthy tooth "until (he) reach(es) the pulp", all the while [[FauxAffablyEvil maintaining a friendly attitude]]. After Szell convinces himself Babe doesn't know anything, he orders the latter to be killed anyway, later using a retractable knife to slash the throat of a Holocaust survivor who recognizes him. |
| 46 | * ''Film/{{Marauders|2016}}'' (2016): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeffrey Hubert]] is a [[MorallyBankruptBanker callous banking executive]] who [[MurderIsTheBestSolution uses murder to get ahead in life]]. When [[CainAndAbel his sensitive brother Alexander]] was poised to inherit the bank, Hubert manipulated a special ops team to slaughter a host of innocents to also catch Alexander in it before having the team massacred as well, with only one survivor he tries to have murdered to [[HeKnowsTooMuch cover his dealings]]. |
| 47 | * ''Mardi Gras Massacre'' (1978): [[KnightTemplar John]] is a SerialKiller who considers strippers and prostitutes evil for the sinful ways they use their bodies to make money. John ties them to a table in his apartment to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] them by cutting them with a blade, driving it through their right hands and digging deep into their left feet, before cutting out their hearts in ritual murders to serve as sacrifices to a Peruvian god. John murders three women in this manner, and is intent on murdering three more before the police arrive and stop him. |
| 48 | * ''Film/{{Marighella}}'' (2019): [[PsychoForHire Lúcio]], the [[TortureTechnician chief torturer]] of the UsefulNotes/BrazilianMilitaryRegime, is a cruel detective who joined the SecretPolice to satiate his [[BigotWithABadge thirst for racist violence]]. Introduced murdering a pair of petty thieves solely because they were Black, Lúcio leads the manhunt for Carlos Marighella, torturing and murdering several people along the way. Not satisfied with leaving corpses on the streets, Lúcio also lords over a house of pain where dissidents are taken to be tortured. |
| 49 | * ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil'': |
| 50 | ** [[BigBad Lord Cumberland]], the mentor of protagonist Christian von Meruh, is a [[TheWitchHunter notorious witchfinder]] whose [[EgocentricallyReligious façade of piety]] decays as the film goes on. Cumberland tortures his way from town to town on spurious accusations of witchcraft, leaving in his wake victims who are both [[BurnTheWitch physically]] and [[MindRape psychologically]] maimed. An impotent sadist who is losing the battle against his own lust, Lord Cumberland sexually assaults a woman to take out his frustration, then orders Christian executed when he finally chafes under Cumberland’s evil. When he's attempting to escape, Cumberland spitefully orders his soldiers to butcher anyone who fights back against his oppressive policies, whether they're man, woman, or a mere child. |
| 51 | ** [[SerialRapist Albino]], Cumberland’s predecessor as the local witchfinder, is a licentious sadist who doesn't even care about due process before sentencing his victims to death. Albino uses his position as witch hunter to coerce women to his bed or burn, attempting to have his way with the maid Vanessa and vowing to see her burn when she rejects him. Albino tries to rape a woman in her own house—having killed her husband shortly before this—and is only stopped by Cumberland, whom Albino sees as a rival to his evil. |
| 52 | * ''Film/MarkedForDeath'': [[ScaryBlackMan Screwface]] is a feared Jamaican [[BigBad crime boss]] rumored to have supernatural powers. Known to savagely murder anyone who he feels crosses him, Screwface has the members of a rival gang shot up in an occupied bar by his men and later murders with his own hands the woman who helped the gang's leader. When retired cop John Hatcher subdues one of his men, Screwface orders a hit on him and his entire family, succeeding in almost fatally wounding his [[WouldHurtAChild young niece]] and stripping and marking his sister Tracy for death in her own home. Screwface continues to mercilessly torment Hatcher, attempting to [[ManOnFire burn him alive]] and vowing never to stop until his entire family is dead. Screwface uses murder, sacrifice, and immoral drug trade through his posse, and his cruelty is so immense [[TheMobBossIsScarier his own minions prefer suicide rather than confronting him for their failures]]. |
| 53 | * ''Marrowbone'' (2017): Simon Fairborn, a SerialKiller known as The Beast of Bampton, was betrayed to the authorities by his eldest son. When his wife flees with their four children, Simon eventually breaks out of prison to hunt them down at his wife's childhood home. When his son Jack attempts to return Simon's money, Simon tries to kill him and breaks into the home where he murders his three younger children, only to be sealed in the attic by Jack. Surviving six months there, Simon murders the first man to open the attic and then tries to kill both Jack and Jack's LoveInterest, showing absolutely no feeling or guilt in [[OffingTheOffspring massacring his own children]]. |
| 54 | * ''Film/{{Marshland}}'': Sebastián Rovira Galvez and JoaquÃn "Quini" Varela are a pair of twisted {{Serial Rapist}}s and [[SerialKiller killers]] stalking the marshlands for teenage victims. Quini seduces [[WouldHurtAChild young girls]] into being his lovers, then manipulates them into participating in underage pornography so he can {{blackmail}} them into sexual slavery with Sebastián. When they grow tired of their slaves, Sebastián and Quini [[ColdBloodedTorture heinously torture them to death]] and discard their naked bodies for police to find. When police investigate their activities, Sebastián tries to murder the trio who attempt to arrest him. |
| 55 | * ''Martial Law'' (1991): [[BigBad Dalton Rhodes]] is a crime boss and ArmsDealer who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opens the film]] brutally executing a subordinate for power. Killing many victims with his bare hands and organizing [[FightClubbing illegal fighting tournaments]], Rhodes happily [[BadBoss kills any minion]] to keep cover, executing the hero's troubled younger brother who has been working for him. When the time comes to steal a gun shipment, Rhodes has his men kill the crew transporting them, before massacring all the men with him on the job just to ensure he doesn't have to split any money with more middlemen than necessary. |
| 56 | * ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': Lin Yung Chi is the [[BigBad leader]] of the masked cult, and leads his men in the [[RapePillageAndBurn rape, pillage and murder]] of everyone they encounter in the countryside. Flashbacks reveal the group ostensibly formed as an order of martial arts using assassins, but he made his true intent clear by kidnapping a man and his sister, torturing the man to death, and instructing his soldiers to rape the woman, [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusting his second-in-command]], who promptly fled the organization. When a group of inspectors investigate, he steadily murders members of the group, along with innocent hostages and civilians, even employing horrible traps such as acid, to kill his enemies when they attack his hideout. |
| 57 | * ''The Masked Marvel'' (1943): [[BigBad Mura Sakima]] is a Japanese saboteur who is trying to thwart America's efforts to win a war. He has his men murder Warren Hamilton and steal documents that could have exposed Sakima. Sakima goes on to have his men try and mix a chemical compound with gasoline that will be delivered to America's allies, making it so that when the people go to use the gasoline in their planes, they will explode. Sakima also has his men blow up a cargo ship and attempt to destroy a train. He has his men kidnap [[LoveInterest Alice Hamilton]] and threaten to [[SquashedFlat crush her under an elevator]] if she dose not tell them where they can find the diamonds she has hidden, and has a henchman [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness executed]] so he can't be interrogated by the enemies. Finally, he activates a bomb to try and kill The Masked Marvel [[TakingYouWithMe along with himself]]. |
| 58 | * ''Film/TheMaskOfFuManchu'': |
| 59 | ** The wicked [[DiabolicalMastermind Doctor Fu Manchu]] intends to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]] upon stealing the blade and mask of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. Taking the Egyptologist Lionel Barton, Fu Manchu [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]] with ringing bells to gain information, eventually causing his death. Capturing Lionel's daughter, and her fiancé Trevor, Genghis Khan has Trevor savagely tortured by his sadistic daughter Fah Lo See and intends to have him become Fah Lo See's broken slave. Intending on sacrificing the beautiful Sheila, Fu Manchu intends on using his doomsday weapons to rally his warlords and slaughter the Western World, with their women [[SexSlave given to his lieutenants]]. |
| 60 | ** [[DragonLady Fah Lo See]], Fu Manchu's [[DaddysLittleVillain equally twisted daughter]], is a [[TortureTechnician torture enthusiast]] who delights in being the enforcer of her father. Upon capturing her victims, Fah Lo See has them brutally tortured and [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped]], being implied to force herself upon them after in what her father describes as her "customary" procedure. Upon subjecting Terry to this and stopped before she can complete her plans, Fah Lo See plans to subject him to a potion to [[MindRape break his mind]] and keep him as a plaything until she grows bored of and "discards" him. |
| 61 | * ''Massacre in Dinosaur Valley'' (1985): [[FatBastard China]] is the leader of an illegal mining camp in the Amazon jungle. Taking precious stones with the help of his own militia, China also [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil runs a slavery operation]] to force other people into working in the mines under terrible conditions; those who try to escape are put behind cages and left without water or food for days. Seemingly [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly]] when he's introduced, China invites Kevin, Eva and Belinda to stay at his base, revealing himself to be sadistic monster who plans on using the girls as [[SexSlave sex slaves]], informing Kevin that he could either work in the mines or get slowly EatenAlive by pigs. Setting his eyes on Eva, China rapes her and gives Belinda to be molested by his henchwoman; when Belinda tries to escape, China executes her with a smile on his face. |
| 62 | * ''Film/MasterZIpManLegacy'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Owen Davidson]], [[VillainWithGoodPublicity seemingly a kind pillar of the community]], is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] criminal and crime lord who does business by [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten forcing a gangster to shoot his friend to join him]], before laughing and admitting he didn't actually care or need the test. Later abducting one hero, Fu, Davidson [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures and brutally beats him to death]], with his goal being to flood Hong Kong with heroin heedless of the deaths and ruined lives this will cause. |
| 63 | * ''Matar para Vivir'' (''Kill to Live'') (2013): [[WouldHurtAChild The Captain]] and [[SociopathicSoldier Torres]] are members of the [[InternalDeathSquad Sinchis]] that appear in a rural village and kill a elderly man to kidnap local children, who are savagely beaten in the process. Before leaving the town, the Captain orders Torres to frame the old man as a Shining Path terrorist, a order that Torres obeys while mocking the corpse. The Sinchis then force the children to travel across the wilderness while Torres constantly subjects them to physical and psychological torture, and the Captain shows complete apathy as they starve. When Hans proves to be too sturdy, the Captain orders his execution to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem set a example]] and [[ForcedToWatch force the children to watch]] as the soldiers hang him. Once the children decide to rebel and kill in self-defense, the Captain kills Chucho and mocks the surviving children as he prepares to kill them. While the children managed to survive, the epilogue reveals that a surviving Torres continued to hunt the children, leaving Benjamin with permanent scars across his body. |
| 64 | * ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' films: |
| 65 | ** [[Film/{{Matilda}} 1996 film]]: [[EvilPrincipal Agatha Trunchbull]] has [[WouldHurtAChild all of her book crimes]], plus some ones unique to the movie. When Mr. Wormwood sells her a dodgy car, the Trunchbull blames Matilda for it and throws her into the [[IronMaiden Chokey]]. When Matilda and Ms. Honey sneak into her house, the Trunchbull grabs her hammer-throwing equipment and hunts them down with the intent to kill them--albeit she didn't know it was them. When Matilda humiliates her for the final time, the Trunchbull throws a boy out a window and charges at Lavender a few minutes later, intending to injure or even kill her. When Ms. Honey stands up to her, she threatens that she [[EvilAunt broke her arm once]] and can do it again. |
| 66 | ** ''Film/RoaldDahlsMatildaTheMusical'': [[SadistTeacher Agatha Trunchbull]] is the despotic headmistress of Crunchem Hall and the abusive [[EvilAunt step-aunt]] of Ms. Jennifer Honey. In the past, Trunchbull forced her pregnant stepsister and brother-in-law to perform a deadly acrobatic act, which resulted in her stepsister falling to the ground, and her eventual death while giving birth to her daughter. Trunchbull abuses her step-niece, and it's heavily implied that she killed her brother-in-law when he went to confront her about it. As Headmistress, Trunchbull would subject the students to horrible torture, with her regularly sending them to the claustrophobic outhouse known as the Chokey. When Trunchbull promises to forgive Bruce Bogtrotter for eating her cake If he ate every last crumb of another cake, [[ILied she sends him to the Chokey anyway]] after he finishes it. After Matilda destroys her Chokey, Trunchbull forces Matilda's class to do a spelling bee and threatens to send them to a new Chokey, and when they stand up to her, Trunchbull unveils a dozen Chokeys to put the students in. An utterly horrible woman, Trunchbull admits she's cruel and likes troublemakers because she can break them, both [[BreakTheCutie emotionally]] and [[WouldHurtAChild physically]]. |
| 67 | * ''Film/MatKilau'' (2022): |
| 68 | ** The cruel warrior [[PsychoForHire Toga]] is an easterner who knows the Malay people well, utilizing his knowledge to exploit and murder them for the British colonizers. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Opening the film]] by laying siege to a village and torturing the people for information, Toga happily leads the slaughter of them when none will talk. Toga is seen to manage slave quarries, regularly torturing and killing workers while also attempting to draw Mat Kilau out by slaughtering innocent Malaysians across the nation. |
| 69 | ** [[SociopathicSoldier Haji Muhammad]], one of Captain Syer's top-ranked soldiers, leads several village massacres in his quest to help the British colonize Malaysia. Humiliated by Mat Kilau at a jetty marketplace while trying to oppress the villagers, Muhammad later leads an assault on the marketplace, killing countless people there. Seeking information on Mat Kilau's rebellion, Muhammad abuses Wahid's pregnant wife for information, allowing Toga to kill her for refusing to cooperate. |
| 70 | * ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' franchise: |
| 71 | ** [[Film/TheMatrix First film]]: [[ItsAllAboutMe Cypher]], [[TheMole the treacherous member]] of [[Characters/TheMatrixNebuchadnezzar Morpheus's crew]], ends up [[FaceHeelTurn selling out his comrades and Morpheus]] so he may reenter the Matrix as "someone important" without his memories. Setting up his team to die and Morpheus to be abducted by the Agents, Cypher is fully aware of the machines intending to wipe out the final bastion of humanity, Zion, while beginning to murder the remaining team members with nothing short of sadistic relish. |
| 72 | ** ''[[Film/TheMatrixResurrections Resurrections]]'': [[BigBad The Analyst]] is a manipulative and power-hungry [[Characters/TheMatrixPrograms program]] that usurps control of the Matrix. After he takes over, the Analyst conducts a purge of programs, killing the Architect, the Oracle, Kamala, and Rama Kandra, an event that orphans Sati. Reviving Neo and Trinity to power his new Matrix, the Analyst traps them in new identities and [[{{Sadist}} takes pleasure]] in his efforts to keep them separated. Assuming the guise of a [[PsychoPsychologist therapist]], the Analyst traps Neo within the Matrix, prescribing him blue pills to suppress his reality-questioning doubts. Upon Neo's awakening, the Analyst torments Neo by revealing his scheme before ultimately unleashing a horde of [[SuicideAttack suicidal bots]] to kill an awakened Trinity. Defiant and lacking remorse for his actions, the Analyst arrogantly declares that he won't be deleted and demonstrates a firm belief in the superiority of control over freedom. |
| 73 | * ''Maximum Conviction'' (2012): [[BigBad Chris Blake]] is a corrupt mercenary concerned solely with [[{{Greed}} lining his own pockets]]. Arranging for the death of a CIA courier named Samantha with valuable information and sending Samantha into a private military prison, Blake invades the prison and takes control of it to find Samantha. Torturing the warden by [[{{Fingore}} hacking off his finger]], Blake has his men make their way through the prison and kill whomever they come across, later murdering the warden himself and coldly ordering Samantha killed when he gains the information. [[DirtyCoward Ditching his own men]] to die in the final shootout, Blake sneers "I'm the fucking bad guy" just before he meets his own death. |
| 74 | * ''Maximum Force'' (1992): [[BigBad Max Tanabe]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO of Tanabe Industries]], secretly controls all the crime in Los Angeles through his funds and connections. He enforces police brutality; makes sure fellow criminals--like child rapists--walk untouched by the law; and presides over the arms and drugs trade and prostitution throughout the city, with whoever witnesses his illegal schemes brutally murdered. Making a point of his ruthlessness by randomly suffocating one of his unfaithful minions to death, Tanabe further orders the family of a man whose partner he had killed murdered before having the compound of the heroes destroyed, with two of them dying to slake his lust to make them suffer. |
| 75 | * ''Maximum Impact'' (1992): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Huntsacker]] is the head of [[EvilInc Huntsacker Industries]], a criminal organization that supplies people with whatever twisted entertainment they want, from [[WouldHurtAChild child pornography]] to {{snuff film}}s. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] fondly recounting a story to his underling Bernie about how he once castrated a man and gutted him during his time as a Mafia hitman, Huntsacker used his ties to the pimp Jameson to secure the young Tonya for himself, having also sold her younger brother to child pornographers. After a snuff film goes poorly, resulting in Tonya's escape with the salesman Jerry, Huntsacker shoots Bernie and sends his men out to get her back, resulting in the death of Jerry's girlfriend. Viewing his men as mere tokens, Huntsacker later holds Tonya at gunpoint in an attempt to kill Jerry. |
| 76 | * ''Film/MaxPayne'': [[BigBad B.B. Hensley]] is chief of security of the Aesir Corporation and proves himself to be [[AscendedExtra worse than his game counterpart]]. Near the end of the movie, it was revealed that he was responsible on selling a drug known as Valkyr across New York; Valkyr causes horrible side effects and result in the consumer DrivenToMadness. It was also revealed that he killed Max Payne's [[HeKnowsTooMuch wife]] and his infant child by sending 3 junkies to his house, sadistically enjoying murdering them. B.B. is also responsible for the atrocities of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Jack Lupino]], the former test subject of Valkyr. After Max discovers his secrets, B.B. then tries to drown Max in the river under the pretense that the latter died by a drug-induced suicide in the river. |
| 77 | * ''May the Devil Take You Too'' (2020): The [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist Bak Ayub]] learned how he could sacrifice [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to Satanic forces for power, and after his wife died, had free rein to delve into pure evil, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] the children in his care regularly. Returning as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] and [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] one of the children into serving him, Ayub tortures and kills one of the now-grown children before attempting to do the same to the others to deliver their souls to damnation for his own benefit. |
| 78 | * ''Film/TheMazeRunnerSeries'': [[DragonInChief Assistant Director Janson]], debuting in ''[[Film/MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials The Scorch Trials]]'', is a cold, self-serving man who serves as the chief operative of WCKD, helping to oversee the Maze experiments with many dozens of children immune to the Flare virus exposed to the horrors of WCKD's Mazes, with countless numbers of them killed. Trying to trick the survivors into letting their organs be harvested under the false pretense of giving them refuge and aiding in an attack on the Right Arm while personally executing Mary, one of their leaders, Janson comes into his own in ''[[Film/MazeRunnerTheDeathCure The Death Cure]]'', where he becomes even more ruthless in trying to procure a cure to the Flare. Janson orders a crowd of protesters fired on by cannons to get at Thomas, smugly implores Thomas to shoot Teresa when he takes her at gunpoint, and having Thomas's friend Minho exposed to [[MindRape horrible, potentially lethal psychological experiments]] to lure him out. Janson ultimately murders WCKD's head Dr. Paige himself and, with the cure revealed to be in Thomas's blood, reveals his true goal to [[AGodAmI build a future of his own design]] by selecting who gets to be cured while leaving all the rest of humanity to be driven insane and slowly die from the Flare. Even in an organization of mad scientists with little regards to [[WellIntentionedExtremist how far they have to plunge to root out a cure to the Flare]], Janson stands out as an utter sociopath with no scruples or benevolent intentions whatsoever. |
| 79 | * ''Film/MeatballMachine'' duology: [[AliensAreBastards The unnamed alien duo]], appearing at the end of the first film, are two intelligent extraterrestrials who stand out amongst their chaotic race as the [[GreaterScopeVillain masterminds]] behind the [=NecroBorgs=]. Creating the [=NecroBorgs=] as a source of entertainment, the duo send their parasitic kind out to [[TheAssimilator take over humans' minds]] and transform them into rabid killing machines that kill plenty of humans of all ages. At the end of the first film, the duo create the titular Meatball Machines from protagonist Yoji and Sachiko's corpses, making sure to [[AndIMustScream keep their consciousnesses intact]] in order to enhance their emotional drive to make more entertaining fights. In ''Kodoku'', the [=NecroBorgs=] would go on to assist other aliens with their plan to destroy over 300 cities to create [[HumanResources energy drinks]], massacring Tokyo before everybody is murdered completely. |
| 80 | * ''Film/MechanicalViolatorHakaider'': [[LightIsNotGood Gurjev]] is the angelic dictator of Jesus Town, ruling it as a totalitarian state. A firm believer in TheEvilsOfFreeWill, Gurjev orders his StateSec to capture any dissenters for him to lobotomize--even [[WouldHurtAChild innocent children]]--removing all of their emotions and willpower. Revealed to have been Hakaider's original creator, Gurjev saw the android as a "failure" and abandoned him, replacing him with an obedient and loyal weapon. After successfully massacring LaResistance, Gurjev tries to kill Hakaider even after the latter had spared his life. |
| 81 | * ''Film/{{Medieval}}'': Torak, mentor of UsefulNotes/JanZizka, is a [[SociopathicSoldier soldier]] and supporter of the vicious [[GreaterScopeVillain Sigismund]]. With Sigismund's ruthless attempts to control Bohemia, Torak is the enforcer of his will. [[WouldHurtAChild Murdering Jan's child nephew]], Torak proceeds to [[RapePillageAndBurn wage a campaign]] of terror and slaughter against the local peasantry. Innocents are butchered, impaled on stakes, and children taken hostage, with one having his throat slit by Torak as a message. |
| 82 | * ''Meeting Evil'' (2012): [[AxCrazy Richie]] is a psychopathic assassin who shows up at John's door after his car is stalled. Upon John giving him a push, the two pull over at a convenience store where Richie gets into a confrontation with the manager that ends with him killing everyone inside. When a phone dealership clerk refuses to let him and John use the store phones, he kills her and runs over her husband. When they find a seemingly abandoned home Richie kills the old lady inside [[WouldHurtAChild as well as her grandson]]. He kills a sheriff and takes his car and uniform. Upon entering a diner he kills the waitress as well as a navy veteran. He makes it clear that he is quite willing to kill John's family. Despite claiming John to be his "[[FalseFriend friend]]"--even refusing to kill him like he was hired to because of such--he only cares about him in the sense that [[TheCorrupter he sees potential in molding him to be as psychopathic as him]] and has no problem having [[FrameUp John take the fall for his crimes]]. |
| 83 | * ''Film/MeganIsMissing'': Josh is a disturbingly brutal example of an online predator. Josh [[FauxAffablyEvil masks himself as a charming individual]] who meets the titular Megan online. Exploiting her desire to be loved, Josh convinces Megan to see him behind a diner. When she goes missing, her friend Amy decides to prop further into it, even after Josh directly threatens her. Josh ends up kidnapping Amy from under a bridge, tossing away her camera, and taking her to his cellar where the extent of his [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil horrible deeds]] [[ColdBloodedTorture is revealed]]. Josh force-feeds Amy dog food, viciously rapes her, then shoves Amy into a barrel with Megan's rotting corpse, who he tortured to death, and buries her alive in the middle of a forest. Josh is a twisted excuse for a human being who represents the dangers of meeting people online. |
| 84 | * ''Memoir of a Murderer'' (2017): [[KillerCop Officer Min Tae-ju]] is a depraved SerialKiller of women who stands in stark contrast to fellow serial killer [[PayEvilUntoEvil Kim Byung-Su]]. With a body count of three women by the film's start, Min becomes obsessed with Kim, who suspects him of being a murderer. Seducing Kim's daughter Eun-Lee to get closer to his adversary, Min attempts to [[{{Gaslighting}} play into the man's dementia]] to turn Eun-Lee against him, and when this fails, he simply decides to frame Kim for his own murders and expose the man as a serial killer. Killing an acquaintance of Kim's and kidnapping Eun-Lee, Min pins the blame on Kim, and when Kim supplies evidence of Min's guilt to the chief of police, Min coldly [[CopKiller strangles the chief to death]]. When confronted by Kim, Min sadistically beats him down, and tries to force Kim to watch as he kills Eun-Lee. Though he attempts to justify his actions by claiming his father abused him, Min subverts this excuse by [[MoralMyopia targeting innocent people who have nothing to do with this abuse]], and thus reveals himself to be nothing more than a misogynistic brute who kills others for personal satisfaction. |
| 85 | * ''Film/MenInBlack3'': [[BigBad Boris]], known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Animal]], is by far the most [[AxCrazy murderously sadistic]] villain in the films, and easily the most personal. He is introduced being freed from prison by [[MonsterFangirl his girlfriend]], whom he lets die when she is blown out into space, and kills another prisoner whom he promised to take with him. He travels back in time to eliminate K as personal revenge for destroying his arm when he was captured, causing a present day invasion by his race of [[PlanetLooters Boglodites]] to consume everyone on Earth, which is his ultimate goal. Boris despises his nickname of the Animal, and will kill anyone who refers to him by it. A remorseless butcher who isn't afraid to kill anyone in his way, he kills a number of targets in the past, finds his past self so pathetic he only refrains from killing him because he would be erased from time, and murders J's father out of spite for being thwarted by K. |
| 86 | * ''Film/MenOfWar'': [[PsychoForHire Keefer]] is a former Special Ops [[SociopathicSoldier soldier]] who once served alongside [[TheHero Nick Gunar]]. Introduced overseeing a local police force, Keefer [[BadBoss shoots one of his men dead]] to pin a murder on Nick and goad him into a fight. Keefer has his men aim their guns at the villagers he was "protecting" as well as Nick's team, threatening to kill them all if Nick tries to fight back, using this opportunity to brutally pummel him. After Nick refuses to carry out his employers' orders to strip mine an island of innocent natives, Keefer strong-arms Nick's employers into hiring him instead, seeing there's money to be made. Teaming up with his former superior and father figure Colonel Merrick, Keefer leads an army of mercenaries to storm the island. He [[AxCrazy takes sadistic delight]] in the [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughter of the natives, women and children included]], as it reminds him of the glory days in [[NoodleIncident Angola]]. However, when Merrick decides to pull out his forces after seeing the futility of such carnage, an enraged Keefer deems Merrick's actions as cowardice. Keefer shoots Merrick with a rocket launcher before proceeding to challenge Nick to a final duel to the death, showing he's nothing more than a [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty sadist who can't live without war]]. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'': [[PsychoForHire Grigori Babishkov]] is a former [[SerialRapist mass rapist]] and [[BigBad Ulrika]]'s sadistic right-hand man who joined Ulrika to satisfy his bloodlust and sadism. Introduced leading an ambush slaughtering Elise's security detail and capturing Elise, Grigori later taunts a captured Elise by slashing open the throat of a lunch lady who showed kindness towards Elise while sniffing the woman as she bleeds out; when the lunch lady's teen sister was caught breaking in, Grigori had her raped before imprisoning her. Capturing two of the mercenaries, Kat and Mei-Lin, Grigori tortures them in a prison filled with his personal {{sex slave}}s, and when the mercenaries manage to free everyone, Grigori grabs a minigun to gleefully massacre all his captives, even trying to [[AttemptedRape force himself upon Kat]] when she relieves him of his weapon. |
| 88 | * ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'': [[BigBad He Ying]], the only child of a wealthy executive, [[{{Patricide}} had her father assassinated]] for his wealth and then hired the titular mercenaries to execute her potential competitors in Southeast Asia under the pretense of investigating her father's death. When the mercenaries return to Hong Kong, having suffered casualties among their ranks, Ying instantly has them double-crossed and tries to kill them all. She [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] Sing into turning on the other mercenaries, the closest he have to a family, and make the mercenaries kill each other. Ying's worse act is the kidnapping of Lei's DelicateAndSickly daughter whom she used to intimidate the mercenaries, only to [[WouldHurtAChild have the child killed]] when things don't go her way. |
| 89 | * ''Film/MercuryRising'': [[BigBad Lt. Colonel Nicholas Kudrow]] is an NSA superior who oversaw the creation of the military code Mercury, which protects overseas American undercover agents. [[ItsAllAboutMe His ego is hurt]] when he finds out that 9-year-old autistic boy Simon Lynch can read it easily and later calling him "one of Nature's mistakes," claims that he needs to die to protect National Security. Kudrow sends [[TheDragon Peter Burrell]] to Simon's house and has his parents Martin and Jenny killed. Burrell continues to hunt Simon and Art Jeffries, the FBI agent protecting him, on Kudrow's behalf. When Dean Crandell tries to inform Jeffries about what's going on, he's shot and killed, and when Leo Pedranski tries to inform the Senate Oversight Committee, he's killed too. Kudrow eventually tries to personally [[WouldHurtAChild kill Simon]] himself, has Burrell shoot at FBI agents when they show up to try to stop him, and tries to kill Jeffries when he interferes again. Despite its purpose, Kudrow's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist only rooting interest in the code]] is proven to be that he gets all the credit for how effective it is and would take the blame for its failure as well. |
| 90 | * ''Film/MermaidDown'': [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Beyer]] is the head of a mental health clinic for women, and a predatory SerialKiller using his position to prey on his patients. Happening upon a fishing boat that captures and maims a mermaid, Beyer kills her captor to steal her for himself, keeping her in a tortured state for his morbidly curious study. Beyer uses his basement as a torture dungeon for his victims, who he'd [[FedToTheBeast feed to his ravenous guard dog]]. When the mermaid soon regrows her tail, Beyer soon realizes the jig is up and begins coldly gunning down his fleeing and hiding staff and patients. Taking the restored mermaid aboard his boat, Beyer plans to dissect her "[[MermaidProblem fish parts]]" to see how they work, desperately trying to [[TakingYouWithMe take her rescuers down with him]] when beaten. |
| 91 | * ''[[Film/MohammadMessengerOfGod The Message]]'': Amr ibn Hisham, better known as Abu Jahl, the father of ignorance, is one of the leaders of the Quraishyi tribe that resides in Mecca and one of the biggest dissenters of UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad's teachings. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] threatening Muhammad's uncle, Abu Talib, by trying to restrain Muhammad by himself, he then also threaten to whip one of Muhammad's followers, Amar, if he still follows Muhammad's words. After Muhammad's followers began a revolution, Abu Jahl then instigated the Mecca citizens under the pretense that their religion will be destroyed in order to pit them against Muhammad's followers. Seemingly stopped, Abu Jahl then captures all of Muhammad's followers who started the rebellion, planning to torture them one by one. He also [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and [[MindRape mentally]] tortured Amar by whipping him and [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]] as his mother was racked by Abu Jahl. When the mother spit on Abu Jahl's face, he then impaled her with a spear. Merciless and fanatical to the old tradition that he devotes himself into, Abu Jahl represents the worst ancient Arabic culture has to offer. |
| 92 | * ''Film/MessageFromSpace'': [[TheEmperor Emperor Rockseia XXII]] is a [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who grew to lead the Gavanas Empire after [[TheUsurper overthrowing the rightful rulers]]. Leading the Gavanas on a campaign of conquest, Rockseia ensures that any world that resists is all but annihilated by his forces. After having destroyed the latest, Rockseia attempts to conquer Earth and [[DetonationMoon destroys the moon]] to show how serious he is, with a threat to do the same to Earth should they resist. |
| 93 | * ''Film/MessageFromTheKing'': [[DepravedDentist Paul Wentworth]] is heavily involved in Duke's prostitution ring with many of his patients also prostitutes; one of them is Bianca King. Hired by Mike Preston to deal with Bianca, Wentworth [[ColdBloodedTorture viciously tortures]] her before beating her to death. Wentworth would then hire [[DirtyCop cops]] to kill Bianca's brother Jacob and would kill Preston's employee when he arrives at Preston's home to collect the money for killing Bianca. |
| 94 | * ''Film/MetalstormTheDestructionOfJaredSyn'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Jared-Syn and his cold cyborg son Baal are two intergalactic criminals who come to the planet of Lemuria to establish themselves as complete rulers. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating]] the native Cyclopean people into waging a "holy war" against the humans of the planet, Jared-Syn and Baal drain the souls of hundreds of people, either killing them personally or having their Cyclopean followers slaughter them, and [[AndIMustScream keep them locked within a crystal in perpetual agony]]. Jared-Syn's rhetoric about bringing glory back to the Cyclopeans [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is only a ruse]] meant to secure the Cyclopeans' loyalty before he enslaves them, and even the eventual death of Baal fails to upset him much. |
| 95 | * ''Film/Midnight2021'': [[SerialKiller Do-shik]] is a {{sadist}}ic killer who stalks the streets looking for victims. Do-shik uses a variety of bladed implements to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath mutilate his victims to death]], and he murders people [[ForTheEvulz just for fun]]. When his latest attack on a woman named Seo-jung is spotted by Kyung-mi and her elderly mother, both deaf women, Do-shik begins a cruel cat-and-mouse chase across the city in which he drags out his terrorizing of them and psychologically torments them. After tricking Jong-tak into abandoning Kyung-mi in exchange for information on his sister, Seo-jung, Do-shik reveals that Seo-jung is bleeding out and refuses to actually fulfill his promise, just mocking Jong-tak that his sister will die due to Do-shik's attack on her. After he fails to kill Jong-tak and Kyung-mi, Do-shik tries to spitefully [[ForcedToWatch force Kyung-mi to watch]] as he kills her mother. |
| 96 | * ''Film/MidnightExpress'': [[WardensAreEvil Hamidou]], the brutish and abusive chief guard of the [[HellholePrison hellish]] Sağmalcılar prison, uses his job as a mean to frequently beat, torture and rape the inmates. When the American Billy Hayes steals a blanket during his first night in prison to cover himself from the cold, Hamidou sadistically beats him and then hangs him upside down in order to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape him]]. He forces his two sons [[ForcedToWatch to watch him]] while he [[WouldHurtAChild tortures some young boys]] by hitting them on their feet with his stick. When Jimmy, one of Billy's friends, is caught trying to escape, Hamidou beats him so bad he causes him a severe hernia and makes him lose a testicle. Toward the ending Billy tries to bribe him to into taking him to the sanitarium. Hamidou takes the money, but he brings him instead in another isolated room where he prepares to beat him and rape him once again. |
| 97 | * ''Midnight FM'' (2010): [[StalkerWithACrush Han Dong-soo]] is a psychopathic stalker obsessed with radio host Ko Sun-young, and, when she makes the claim that she appreciates the character of vigilante Travis Bickle from ''Film/TaxiDriver'', Dong-soo becomes a SerialKiller of petty crooks and pimps to gain the attention of Sun-young. When Sun-young plans to leave radio hosting after one last show to spend more time with her deaf child Eun-soo, Dong-soo murders Sun-young's replacement before taking Sun-young's sister, Ah-young, plus her daughter and Eun-soo hostage. Forcing Sun-young to broadcast increasingly harder content as the night goes on, Dong-soo first motivates her by sending her a video of him lopping off one of Ah-young's [[{{Fingore}} toes]], following up her next failure by slashing Ah-young's throat and threatening Sun-young's [[WouldHurtAChild daughter and niece]] next. After [[CopKiller rmurdering two police officers]] and a bystander to escape with Eun-soo and her cousin, Dong-soo locks the two children in a cage that is slowly dropping in temperature, before ordering Sun-young to execute a man he claims is a criminal lest he let the kids freeze to death. Once the kids escape and Sun-young refuses to kill the likely innocent man, Dong-soo murders the man himself, attempts to gun down the children, then makes one last attempt on Sun-young's life, proclaiming that if he can't have her, no one will. |
| 98 | * ''Midnight Man'' (aka ''Blood for Blood'') (1995): [[AmbitionIsEvil Prince Samarki]] is the vicious hitman of the Cambodian mafia who demonstrates his ruthlessness by executing a failed minion while forcing the man's uncle to watch. Ruthlessly competent in his job of assassinating all the mafia's enemies, Samarki demonstrates none of the honor of his boss [[HonorAmongThieves Mao Mak]] and his counterparts, [[CopKiller butchering a series of cops]] to send a message and even killing any other innocents he finds on the premises. Samarki graduates to [[NeckSnap snapping the neck]] of protagonist Detective John Kang's best friend, kills Mao Mak to take power himself, and kidnaps Lang's wife and child to goad him into a proper final fight. |
| 99 | * ''The Midnight Man'' (2016/2018): [[AntagonistTitle The Midnight Man]] is a vicious bogeyman and Pagan entity who relishes torture. Bound by the Midnight Game, the Midnight Man [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opens the film]] sadistically murdering a group of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] before taking the only survivor and making her a [[MindRape mind-ravaged shell]] of herself, using her to lure victims to him, including her own daughter years later. In a new Midnight Game, the Midnight Man targets the players with [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst fears]], even cheating at his own game to get his way, boasting it only matters they can't stop him. The Midnight Man uses his former victim as a proxy to kill those not playing the game, even changing time on the clocks to lure his victims into a false sense of security while gloatingly telling him their tears "mean nothing to me!" |
| 100 | * ''Film/{{Midnight Mass|2003}}'' (2003): Father Alberto Palmeri, once a PedophilePriest who ruined Father Joseph "Joe" Cahil's life by [[FrameUp framing him]] for the rape of a young boy, sold out humanity to the incoming vampires and became "[[TranshumanTreachery the worst of the bunch]]". Now acting as the leader of the New Jersey vampires, thus responsible for all the bloodshed and mayhem throughout the city, Palmeri regularly hosts {{human sacrifice}}s, with the bodies of his many victims littering the congregation. Sensing Joe trying to kill him, Palmeri kidnaps him and gives him the [[SadisticChoice choice]] to either become a vampire or watch as Palmeri drops Joe's friend Gwen on a wooden stake. |
| 101 | * ''Film/MidnightMovie'': [[MadArtist Ted Radford]], creator and star of the horror film ''[[FilmWithinAFilm The Dark Beneath]]'', was institutionalized after he began killing people to instill true fear. Conducting a ritual to possess his film, Radford became the killer he once played, then killed all the patients and staff of the psychiatric ward. Resurfacing when a theater plays ''The Dark Beneath'', Radford uses his PsychicPowers to seal the exits, then begins slaughtering the moviegoers and staff, [[WouldHurtAChild including a child]]. Radford pulls his last two victims into the film world, where it's revealed he keeps the spirits of the people he kills alive and tormented from their mortal wounds, then proceeds to remove Bridget's gag so he can [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming listen to her screams]] as he tortures her. |
| 102 | * ''Film/MidnightRunners'' (2017): [[KnightOfCerebus Yang-choon]] is a menacing criminal who darkens the tone of the film immensely. A {{human trafficker|s}} who deals in high school girls, Yang-choon kidnaps dozens of girls to imprison, drug, and abuse while routinely harvesting their eggs to sell on the BlackMarket to fertility clinics. When the girls inevitably wear out and approach death, Yang-choon has them cut open and [[OrganTheft all of their organs harvested]]. When Park Ki-joon and Kang Hee-yeol discover the trafficking ring, Yang-choon [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown viciously beats them unconscious]], sets them up to be carved into for their organs, and tries to hurriedly harvest his latest batch of eggs so he can dispose of all his prisoners. |
| 103 | * ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' (1998 remake): [[BigBad Andrei Strasser]] is a [[EvilPoacher poacher]] who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes his ruthlessness]] by killing the titular ape's mother as well as mortally wounding Dr. Ruth Young. Twelve years later, Andrei runs a supposed wildlife preserve wherein he sells organs of the animals he's harnessed over the black market. When he recognizes Joe as the ape that bit his fingers off years prior, Andrei--intent on selling the primate's body parts for a profit--goads Jill Young--Ruth's daughter--into giving him Joe, claiming he would be safe at his refuge. Strasser demonstrates his indifference towards the lives of others when a missed shot intended for Jill causes a deadly fire to spread throughout the carnival, endangering a child trapped in a Ferris wheel. Believing that he won, Strasser gloats whilst preparing to finish what he started with Jill's mother by murdering her. Valuing [[{{greed}} monetary gain]] above all else, Strasser exemplifies everything wrong with illegal hunting. |
| 104 | * ''Film/{{Mikey}}'': [[EnfantTerrible Mikey Holt]] is a 9-year-old SelfMadeOrphan, who previously [[EvilOrphan murdered his families]] and [[SnuffFilm filmed them]]. Put into the care of his foster mom's sister, Mikey starts anew with his new family, acting as the perfect son. After becoming infatuated with his best friend's sister, Jessie, Mikey targets her family and friends. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Personally killing Ben's frog and Jessie's cat]], Mikey makes it appear Jessie's boyfriend David had accidentally killed the cat. He murders David, and later kills his foster mom Rachel, his principal, and his teacher once they become suspicious of him. Mikey tries to kill Jessie after being rejected by her. Lastly, filling his house up with gas, he murders his father by blowing him and the house up. While the police believe Mikey died in the resulting explosion, Mikey survives, posing as an amnesic kid named Josh already in the care of a new family, who prayed for a son like Josh. |
| 105 | * ''Film/Mile22'': [[TheHeavy Axel]] is the [[FictionalCountry Indocarrian]] agent in charge of catching Li Noor. When Overwatch is escaping with Noor, Axel blows up one of their trucks, killing several agents. When Overwatch hides in a cafe, Axel blows it up, killing all of the civilians inside, [[WouldHurtAChild including a little girl]]. Axel later executes agent Douglas when he makes a stand against Axel's agents. In the following fight, Axel's men nearly kill agent Alice and a little girl. Despite his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly persona]], Axel is continuously shown to [[LackOfEmpathy not care]] who he has to hurt to get the job done. |
| 106 | * ''Militia'' (2000): [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic George Armstrong Montgomery]], "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mad Monty]]", is a far-right radio host plotting the overthrow of the US government. Set on overturning the natural order, Montgomery is happy to kill anyone in his pursuit of a [[ThePlague powerful strain of anthrax]] and missiles to deliver them. Plotting a strike to [[AssassinationAttempt kill the President and his closest advisers]], Montgomery plans for the attack to kill half of LA, intending on a massive government crackdown so he can lead a CivilWar to conquer the nation. |
| 107 | * ''Literature/MillenniumSeries'' film adaptations: |
| 108 | ** ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'': Much as in the original novel, these members of the Vanger clan are utterly depraved: |
| 109 | *** [[FauxAffablyEvil Martin Vanger]] is a polite, charming CEO who uses his position in society to cover up the fact that he is a SerialKiller and rapist of women, kidnapping them and spending days raping and torturing them before ending their lives. Martin has been committing his atrocities for decades, and his victim count handily reaches into the hundreds. Even worse is the reveal that Martin was raised to be a killer by his equally repulsive father, Gottfried, and though potentially tragic, it is made explicitly clear that Martin just enjoys raping and killing, made all the more obvious by turning [[VillainousIncest his own sister]] into his personal sex and torture slave after his father is out of the picture. Martin tries to subject Mikael Blomkvist to the same torments of his previous victims in the end, and simply excuses his crimes by proclaiming it is his hobby and he is living a "complete life". |
| 110 | *** [[SerialKiller Gottfried Vanger]] is a fanatical [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Nazi]] with an obsession for mimicking and mocking the Bible. Gottfried murdered more than 6 women in horrific ways [[ThemeSerialKiller resembling punishments from the Book of Leviticus]], always subjecting them to brutal rape and torture beforehand. Be it by bashing their skulls in or raping them to death with farming tools, Gottfried perpetrated his acts with zeal, and took his own personal sadism to such a level that he [[AbusiveParents sexually abused his own son and daughter]], helping the former--Martin--realize his love for killing while turning the latter--Harriet--into his toy to be tortured until he finally tired of this and attempted to [[OffingTheOffspring murder her]]. |
| 111 | ** ''Film/TheGirlInTheSpidersWeb'': [[PsychoForHire Jan Holtsen]], once a subordinate of Lisbeth Salander's HumanTrafficking, mass murdering father Zalachenko, is now [[TheDragon the right hand]] of her twin sister Camilla. [[TortureTechnician Mutilating and torturing]] anyone who gets on his bad side, Holtsen murders a programmer who created Firefall, which gives access to the world's nuclear codes. Leading further death and torture, Holtsen plans to deliver it to Camilla to burn the world for his own advancement, and happily tortures Mikael Blomqvist for the end result. |
| 112 | * ''Film/{{Mindcage}}'' (2022): [[MadArtist Arnaud Lefeuvre]] is a SerialKiller called "the Artist", who [[{{Matricide}} murdered his mother]] and began targeting women who engaged in sex work. Arnaud would kill women and then hang their bodies up as "art" across the city, and when he was finally caught, Arnaud used his latent psychic powers to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide force an arresting detective to burn himself alive]]. Though imprisoned, Arnaud's mental capabilities enabled him to possess the body of Detective Doyle, using him as a puppet to carry out more slayings as a "copycat". After mentally tormenting Detective Kelly, Arnaud forces her to kill Doyle and complete the FrameUp, planning to then continue his spree by possessing Kelly's body. |
| 113 | * ''Film/{{Mindhunters}}'': [[SerialKiller Lucas Harper]], Sara Moore's best friend, [[TheChessmaster infiltrates and plays cat and mouse games]] with a group of FBI profiler trainees on a field mission to a deserted island used as a training ground by the bureau, where the trainees must solve a case involving a fictional serial killer called "the Puppeteer." He sets the island up with [[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts an array of booby traps and puzzles]] to kill the trainees, while watching from within the group to turn them against each other and [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame give himself good sport]]. His cruelest murders include a victim being slowly killed with liquid nitrogen from the feet up, and another one burned to death from the inside out by way of acid-laced cigarettes. He kidnaps the trainees' supervisor, who had been monitoring the group in secret, and proceeds to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture him]] for days before preparing his corpse and hanging it up for the trainees to find as a sort of [[DeadGuyPuppet perverse puppet]]. It's only after his identity is revealed that the [[ManipulativeBastard true level of his manipulation]] becomes apparent, and Lucas frankly admits he started his murder spree by [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his parents as a child]] and now simply enjoys a good hunt for new and more intelligent victims. |
| 114 | * ''Miner's Massacre'' (originally titled ''Curse of the Forty-Niner''): [[BigBad Jeremiah Stone]] is a gold miner driven mad by {{Greed}}. Having become a SerialKiller, he's implied to have [[ImAHumanitarian eaten his wife and child]] before kidnapping the local preacher's daughter. After a search party find the two, Stone brags about raping the girl before [[SlashedThroat slicing her neck open]]. He's gunned down for his crimes, but binds his soul to his stash of gold. Having thusly become a phantom called "the Forty-Niner", Stone kills anybody who takes his treasure. His cursed soul pursues the protagonists of the film, killing them in sadistic ways which demonstrate precisely why Stone [[CardCarryingVillain calls himself the Devil]]. |
| 115 | * ''The Minion'' (1998): [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Minion]] is a demonic entity with a penchant for [[BodySurf hijacking bodies]]. Desiring to release TheAntichrist from [[SealedEvilInACan his imprisonment]], the Minion gleefully sets out to acquire [[ArtifactOfDoom a key]], knowing that doing so would result in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the destruction of the world]]. The Minion takes possession of several hosts during its pursuit of the key. Whether it's using a police officer to [[CopKiller massacre the entirety of the police department]] or forcing a possessed Bernhard into decimating UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar, the Minion left a trail of death in its wake. Realizing that [[BadassPreacher Lukas Sadorov]] and Mohawk archaeologist Karen Goodleaf were intending on disposing of the key at a nuclear waste facility, the Minion murders Michael Bear--Karen's grandfather--and [[KillAndReplace masquerades]] as him in a feeble attempt at deceiving Lukas into giving him the key. [[PsychoSupporter Fanatical and vicious]], the Minion desired nothing less than pure, unadulterated chaos. |
| 116 | * ''Film/MinnesotaClay'' (1964): Fox, [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]] of the titular AntiHero, framed Clay for murder and had him locked away in a silver mine for 20 years, all because he was jealous that Clay's wife Elizabeth preferred him over Fox. During the 20 years that Clay rots in prison, Fox worms his way into becoming sheriff of a town and reduces it to a WretchedHive with a giant ProtectionRacket, keeping Ortiz, the leader of the local bandits, in his pocket while allowing him to indiscriminately terrorize and murder innocents. Believing the only way to rule is through fear and force, at one point, Fox even has a man randomly shot dead just to make an example to anyone else who might defy him. Fox disposes of Ortiz and his gang when he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've outlived their usefulness]], then when Ortiz's girlfriend has a change of heart, Fox guns her down too. Fox stoops to his lowest at the end when he takes advantage of Clay's ailing eyesight to try and trick him into shooting his own daughter. |
| 117 | * ''[[Film/MiracleAtStAnna Miracle at St. Anna]]'' (2008): [[LesCollaborateurs Rodolfo Berelli]] is far from the patriotic [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly Italian Partisan rebel ]]he presents himself as. Having betrayed the village of St. Anna to the Nazi forces, Rodolfo is responsible for the total massacre of nearly everyone there. Betraying another village to see it slaughtered, Rodolfo kills the partisan leader and a German defector to escape, emigrating to America with none aware for decades that he is a war criminal. |
| 118 | * ''Film/{{Misconduct}}'' (2016): |
| 119 | ** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Arthur Denning]] is a a morally bankrupt pharmaceutical executive who only cares about money and his pride. For years, Denning has run illegal, illicit drug trials that cover up the dangerous qualities of the medicines so he can release them to the public and rake in the dough. These faulty drugs have killed hundreds of people in horrifying ways, something Denning [[LackOfEmpathy cares nothing about]], as he only values [[{{Greed}} the profits]] his drugs bring him. Denning is also an emotional abuser to his girlfriend, and he works with his ally Abrams in using murderous methods to cover up their actions. |
| 120 | ** [[AmoralAttorney Charles Abrams]] is a seemingly benevolent attorney, but is actually in league with Dennning. Abrams has used his position to destroy evidence and throw cases against Denning for years, helping Denning's heinous pharmaceutical crimes run rampant simply so Abrams can line his pockets with bribes. When rookie lawyer Ben begins investigating Denning, Abrams tries to [[FrameUp frame him]] for murder, then dispatches "the Accountant" to kill Ben, his wife Charlotte, and an innocent neighbor to silence them all. |
| 121 | * ''Missing'' (2009): [[BigBad Pan-Gon]] is a brutal serial kidnapper of young women who he keeps as "[[SerialRapist pets]]" until they start to bore him, at which he [[SerialKiller brutally kills them]]. Starting the film by kidnapping Hyeon-ah, Pan-Gon kills her boyfriend with a shovel before turning the girl into his slave to be raped and abused at his leisure. Giddily noting that he has done this same thing to three other women before, Pan-Gon later pulls out all of Hyeon-ah's teeth before feeding her into a meat grinder while she is still alive, ending the girl's life. Later viciously killing two men who attempt to thwart him, Pan-Gon kidnaps Hyeon-ah's sister, Hyeon-jeong, and, after failing to rape her, spends his final moments gleefully boasting about [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied what he did to her sister]]. |
| 122 | * ''Film/TheMissing'': The evil [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native American "witch"]] Pesh-Chidin, aka El Brujo ("The Sorcerer"), is a {{sadist}}ic murderer who leads a group of killers through the territories where he ritualistically murders those he encounters and kidnaps attractive young ladies to sell into {{sex slave}}ry in Mexico. Chidin has the women mistreated, his only concern being he fears seven is an "unlucky number, " making him opt to capture an eighth girl before they go to Mexico. When he learns a girl has killed herself thanks to the aid of another, Chidin restrains himself from beating the girl only because he won't gain money for a swollen face, but forces sand into her mouth while snarling "this is what the rest of your life will taste like." Chidin murders a photographer via a powder that makes him bleed out through his ears, eyes, nose and mouth, [[TeamKiller slaughters his Mexican partners]] when they anger him and finally simply attempts to murder the heroes. A vicious, brutal monster [[TheDreaded feared even by other Native tribes]], Chidin is a loathed figure to all who know him. |
| 123 | * ''Film/MissingInAction'' series: |
| 124 | ** ''Missing in Action 2: The Beginning'': [[DirtyCommunists Colonel Yin]] is the sadistic Vietnamese commander of the POWCamp where James Braddock is sent. Yin mistreats and [[TortureTechnician routinely tortures]] the prisoners of the camp, a favorite tactic of his being to play RussianRoulette with his prisoners. Having spent most of his supply of prisoners over years of torture, Yin is determined to completely break Braddock and those remaining. Yin tortures Braddock in a variety of ways, from forcing a sack over his head with a savage rat inside, to making Braddock watch as he burns a fellow prisoner dying of malaria alive--with the extra kick that Yin [[ILied had earlier promised to save him]]. Yin also murders a photographer who stumbles across the camp with his Russian Roulette game, and kills his own partner just to acquire his helicopter. |
| 125 | ** ''Braddock: Missing in Action 3'': [[TortureTechnician General Quoc]] is another evil Vietnamese commander who, in the first half-hour of the movie, murders Braddock's wife in front of him and his estranged son Van. After capturing Braddock and Van, Quoc boasts about his long history of torture and has Van and Braddock subjected to [[ColdBloodedTorture his specialty]]: suspending Braddock by a rope and gleefully [[ElectricTorture electrocuting]] him, all whilst attached to a trigger that, when Braddock submits, will [[WouldHurtAChild blow his own son's head off]]. After Braddock and Van escape, Quoc takes Reverend Polanski's orphanage of American-Asian children {{hostage|Situation}} to lure Braddock into his clutches, all of which he's happy to murder to get to Braddock. |
| 126 | * ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'': [[TheHero Ethan Hunt]] and company have faced [[Characters/MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesVillains numerous terrorists and other criminals]]. The following, however, are the worst of the worst: |
| 127 | ** ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'': |
| 128 | *** [[TerroristsWithoutACause Owen Davian]] is a sociopathic, powerful international ArmsDealer who is notorious for selling to different terrorists. Davian wants to find the Rabbit's Foot, a highly dangerous weapon which Davian is going to give to John Musgrave and start a [[WarForFunAndProfit war in the Middle East which would kill many people]]. When he captures an agent who is spying on him, he brutally tortures her and plants a bomb inside of her head, detonating the bomb when she is finally rescued. When Davian is interrogated by Ethan Hunt, he gloats about killing the agent, saying that the only real reason he did it was [[ForTheEvulz because it was fun]], before threatening to do the same to Ethan and his wife, no matter what, which he attempts to do multiple times, even going as far as to disguise his own security chief as Ethan's wife, and then killing her, just to torture Ethan. In his final moments, he keeps his promise, and decides to kill Ethan's wife, with Ethan ForcedToWatch. |
| 129 | *** [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist John Musgrave]], the [[Characters/MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesIMFLeadership IMF]]'s [[MoleInCharge Director of Operations]], [[FalseFriend poses as a friend to Ethan]] while plotting for war in the Middle East out of racism. [[TheManBehindTheMan Contracting Davian]] to locate the Rabbit's Foot, Musgrave intends on reporting the weapon's sale to terrorists to justify an invasion, while ready to replace Davian with any other merchant of death should Davian fail. Callously manipulating his fellow IMF colleagues, Musgrave boasts of his plan to a captive Ethan while threatening to have Davian kill his innocent fiancée. |
| 130 | ** ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'': [[PsychoForHire Sabine Moreau]] is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller contract killer]] who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduces herself]] by shooting Agent Hanaway to swipe his briefcase, leaving him on the cusp of death so he'll die in his lover's arms. The contents of the briefcase are nuclear launch codes that Moreau plans to sell to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Kurt "Cobalt" Hendricks]], so he can use them to kickstart a nuclear holocaust. When she meets who she believes to be Cobalt, Moreau tries to have his henchman executed to prove she's serious about the deal. Moreau doesn't care about Cobalt's cause or the billions who will die from the nuclear codes, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney simply wanting diamonds for her services]]. |
| 131 | ** ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' & ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'': [[AnarchyIsChaos Solomon Lane]] is a former [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] operative who, after realizing his own sociopathic nature, became enraged and went rogue with [[Characters/MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesTheSyndicate the Syndicate]] to cover up his own deficiencies. Using the Syndicate to carry out devastating terrorist attacks while committing murders himself, Lane was defeated and arrested by Ethan Hunt and his team. Two years later, Lane uses his ally John Lark--aka August Walker--to get free, now [[RevengeBeforeReason hell-bent on revenge]] against Ethan. To that end, he uses stolen plutonium to rig two nuclear bombs to go off in Kashmir, at a medical site where Ethan's ex-wife Julia is working just out of spite. The nukes will irradiate the water supplies of China, India and Pakistan, affecting a third of the Earth's population while Lane is fine dying in the blast so long as he knows Ethan is framed for being Lark and will rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life haunted by the guilt of Julia's death. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Abandoning all pretense of good intentions]], Lane shows that he is a [[EvilCounterpart dark mirror]] to Ethan himself, stopping at nothing to achieve his ends, no matter how many have to die. |
| 132 | * ''Mission Kashmir'' (2000 UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film): [[BigBad Hilal Kohistani]] is a brutal Islamic terrorist dedicated to carrying out "[[TitleDrop Mission Kashmir]]." [[ManipulativeBastard Brainwashing]] young boys who have lost people to violence, Kohistani has them carry out terrorist attacks for him to kill the innocent. When one is injured, Kohistani murders him to deceive the authorities with fake plans on the corpse and tells the other young men the victim killed himself for the cause. It is revealed Kohistani's Mission Kashmir is to bomb the holiest Muslim and Hindu sites in [[UsefulNotes/TheKashmirQuestion Kashmir]] when they are full of worshippers so as to start a religious war to rip India apart. |
| 133 | * ''Film/MissionOfJustice'': [[BigBad Somi]], previously Chiang Tai Su, and his ever-grinning right-hand man, [[TheDragon Hans]], are a pair of drug and [[ArmsDealer weapon]] smugglers on the run from the Hong Kong military. Hiding out in the Golden Triangle, Hans is introduced massacring the Quincy gang for stealing his and Somi's "stuff". Seeking to expand his operation from Thailand to China, Somi partners with the pimp Yie Feng to take him to a river to conduct his latest deal. Arriving at a village to rest up, Hans rapes and murders a mute woman and tortures and kills her mom, while Somi rapes Feng, having developed a [[VillainousCrush morbid crush]] on her. Upon reaching their destination, Hans double-crosses Somi and Feng, partnering with a goon to steal their [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney briefcase of money]], not even caring when his newfound partner is killed by Feng. |
| 134 | * ''Film/MississippiBurning'': |
| 135 | ** [[BigotWithABadge Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell]] has long used his position to enable and encourage [[TheKlan Ku Klux Klan]] hate crimes to happen across Jessup County. Pell regularly holds Black men in jail cells until nightfall, then releases them so that the Klan can ambush and brutally assault the men. When the order is passed down from the Grand Dragon to eliminate three young activists promoting equality, Pell takes charge and works with Frank Bailey in murdering the three men and disposing of the bodies. Pell continues to oversee various Klan hate crimes even as the FBI investigates, and he [[DomesticAbuse viciously beats his wife]] to the point of hospitalization when he learns she talked to the FBI. |
| 136 | ** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Frank Bailey]] is the worst of the street-level Klan members in Jessup County, leading his gang in routine assaults on minorities. Bailey is the one who, alongside Pell, pulls the trigger on the trio of young activists, sneering antisemitic and racial slurs as he kills them. Bailey further takes part in an ambush of an entire church of Black people, [[WouldHurtAChild brutally kicking a small child]] praying for mercy while his men sexually assault and beat adults around him. In his determination to ensure Black voters' voices are never heard, Bailey firebombs a variety of churches and voting booths to silence them, and even lynches a farmer after setting his home ablaze and nearly burning his wife and children alive. |
| 137 | * ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'': Mr. Barron is a shapeshifting Peculiar who strives for {{immortality|Immorality}}. Once a Peculiar who was part of a splinter group who sought to live outside the loops, Barron and his minions were mutated into the monstrous Hollowghasts as a result of a failed experiment involving stealing the essence of an ymbryne. Barron, however, finds an especially vile manner of regaining his humanity: raiding loops, killing all the Peculiars within--[[WouldHurtAChild specifically children]]--and [[EyeScream devouring their eyes]]. Barron repeats this process with several other loops, with the ultimate goal to find the loop of Ms. Peregrine and use her and several other ymbrynes to start the experiment anew. Once he does, Barron coerces Peregrine into coming with him under the threat of [[TheHero Jacob]]'s life, and soon leaves all the children under her care to the mercy of the approaching Hollowghasts. [[BadBoss Even the deaths of his closest minions don't sadden, faze, or even annoy him in the slightest]]. |
| 138 | * ''Film/MisterFrost'': Mister Frost is a [[FauxAffablyEvil charming]], ruthless figure who claims to be {{Satan}} made flesh, out to destroy his doctor Sarah. A SerialKiller who tortured dozens to death, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], Frost allows himself to be arrested and sets to ruining and manipulating others, causing suicides and madness to prove his power and the nature of evil. At last [[TheCorrupter swaying Sarah into corruption]] to murder him, Frost promptly possesses her in his victory. |
| 139 | * ''Molly'' (2017/2018): [[BigBad Deacon]], a smug, arrogant leader of some of the last bastions of civilization in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]], keeps control by kidnapping others and injecting them with drugs to turn them into feral "Supplicants", which are then [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath made to fight to the death]] for [[GladiatorGames the amusement of Deacon and his followers]], which he demonstrates by destroying the minds of a couple who came to beg him for medicine for their daughter. Deacon tries to capture the heroine Molly to turn her into a superpowered Supplicant, even [[BadBoss having the process done on a loyal minion]] just because he's running short on fighters. When things collapse around him, Deacon murders his loyal right-hand woman before going after Molly again, with every supplicant being a reminder of a life Deacon has destroyed. |
| 140 | * ''Mom'' (1991): [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Nestor Duvalier]] is a monstrous "[[ImAHumanitarian flesh-eater]]" and SerialKiller who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opens the film]] attacking a pregnant woman and ripping her apart agonizingly to eat her unborn child, something routine for him in his murders. Later turning his sweet old landlady Emily into a monster like him, Duvalier leads her to murder others for meat, and later kills a neighbor for the sport and food in it. When Emily's son Cody confronts him, Duvalier attempts to gleefully murder him as well. |
| 141 | * ''Film/Momentum2015'': |
| 142 | ** [[BigBad The Senator]] is a CorruptPolitician [[AmbitionIsEvil scheming his way into the Oval Office no matter what it takes]]. He concocts a plan to blow up a large chunk of Chicago and "make [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] look like Macy's parade", [[FalseFlagOperation frame it on another country]], and ignite a blood war so he can be elected. After hiring a group of thieves to rob the bank that the flash drive containing his plans is located in, the Senator orders them all be killed, unleashing his elite hit squad to torture and murder anyone in their way to retrieve the drive. When his squad fumbles in their quest, the Senator dispatches another agent to silence them, too. |
| 143 | ** "[[PsychoForHire Mr. Washington]]" is a sadistic, cheerful killer hired to retrieve the Senator's flash drive. After executing a woman, Washington subjects her partner, Fuller, to [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]] to learn the location of the flash drive. Washington calmly threatens to have Fuller's wife raped to death and his [[WouldHurtAChild child]] sold to HumanTraffickers; when Fuller dies from the torture, Washington tries to follow through on the threat. Capturing Alex, Washington has her electrocuted, her leg crushed in a vice, and her thigh gashed open to extort information on the drive out of her, and later tries to kill her while murdering multiple bystanders to tie up all loose ends. |
| 144 | * ''Film/MoneyTalks'': [[FrenchJerk Raymond Villard]] is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters violent French gangster]] who has a penchant for killing people and stole millions of dollars worth of diamonds in London before getting arrested. In order to escape, Villard had his men raid the transfer bus he was on and [[CopKiller blow up the bus]], setting all the prisoners on fire, and to slaughter all other surviving prisoners and police officers. When a prisoner cuffed to his arm, Franklin Hatchett, proves to be irritating, Villard and his men attempt to throw him out of a helicopter to death and shoot him when he makes it to water. Putting the lives of Hatchett and a journalist named James Russell in danger, Villard makes many attempts on their lives through his henchmen, as well as even shooting an innocent store owner to death and framing Hatchett and James. When Hatchett and a rich friend outbid him at the Auto Expo where Villard had previously hidden the diamonds, Villard has his right hand lead a public car chase through the streets to catch Hatchett, but not before [[HostageForMacGuffin Villard kidnaps and tortures Russell]] in order to get back the diamonds. When Villard meets Hatchett at a stadium and runs into numerous groups wanting the diamonds, Villard has his men open fire on them all and attempts to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get away in a helicopter and leave his men to be arrested when the police arrive]]. |
| 145 | * ''Film/TheMongols'' (1961-1966): [[BloodKnight Ogatai Khan]] is a man defined by his perpetual lust for war and the bloodthirsty legacy [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan his father]] has left him. When his father attempts to make peace with Europe, Ogatai sabotages the effort, [[FalseFlagOperation slaughtering his own allies]] just to make his FrameUp of the local Polish ambassador seem more convincing. Under Ogatai's [[RapePillageAndBurn command]], countless hundreds are processed to the dungeons to be tortured to death, hundreds of thousands more are slaughtered as Ogatai leaves entire cities behind him as ruins, and eventually he forsakes conquering Poland for the option of annihilating it out of spite. Even after his father dies and he's left to caretake the Khan legacy, Ogatai admits he only cares about what he himself wants in the end, and he dies after his dreams of conquering the world and drowning it in blood are dashed. |
| 146 | * ''Film/MonkeyMan'': |
| 147 | ** [[BigBad Baba Shatki]] is an [[SinisterMinister insidious spiritual guru]] who hides his cruelty behind a mask of faith. A [[VillainWithGoodPublicity celebrity amongst the populace]] who rose from nothing, Baba uses his ties to the rising Sovereign Party to spread corruption across India, encouraging violence against trans citizens and non-Hindus in order to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain purify his country of undesirables]], while secretly profiting off of Queenie's prostitution and drug running operations. Baba has several villages wiped out by his police squads in order to build factories over the lands, even converting surviving villagers into members of his cult and using them for slave labor. Baba's thirst for power has ultimately ruined the lives of many, with Kid's village being one of many he's destroyed. |
| 148 | ** [[TheDragon Rana Singh]] is the [[DirtyCop crooked chief of police]] who assists Baba Shatki in his plans. Carrying out Baba's corruption by allowing his cops to abuse trans civilians and Muslims in return for drugs and women, Rana also [[KillerCop leads the massacres]] of several villages in order to build Baba's factories over their land. Rana even [[AttemptedRape attempted]] to {{rape|IsASpecialKindOfEvil}} Kid's mother during a previous pillage, and when she retaliated, Rana angrily strangled her to death and burned her body for good measure. |
| 149 | * ''Film/TheMonster'': [[MadDoctor Dr. Gustave Ziska]] is an escapee from an insane asylum who took the place over. Having once been a surgeon who went mad, Ziska began to kill multiple people to [[ImmortalityImmorality discover the source of immortality]] and swapped souls between bodies, which inevitably resulted in the death of his victims. Running out of victims in the asylum, Ziska resorts to trapping passersby to use for his [[PlayingWithSyringes ghastly experiments]]. |
| 150 | * ''Monster'' (2014): [[TheUnfettered Tae-soo]], the titular monster, is [[PsychoForHire hired]] to recover a cellphone from a blackmailer and makes the simple operation a living hell for everyone involved. A natural born killer since he was a [[EnfantTerrible child]], Tae-soo is fond of [[SerialKiller murdering people for no reason]], cremating the bodies, and then using their ashes to make pottery for his vast collection of trophies, claiming over a hundred victims. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Properly introduced]] killing a couple in front of his own brother, Tae-soo sabotages the mission by killing the blackmailer and trying to do the same to her 10-year-old little sister for fun, slaughtering any obstacles and witnesses along the way. A soulless savage in human skin, Tae-soo was even willing to murder his own adoptive family. |
| 151 | * ''Film/MonsterHunt'': [[BigBad Lord Ge Qian Hu]] is the regional warlord and owner of the Heaven Restaurant. Disgusted by the Monster Hunter Bureau's fall into obscurity and wishing to revitalize it, Hu places a bounty on the Monster Queen's unborn child, relishing in the potential chaos that would ensue. Discovering that monsters were hiding in the Yongying Village, he captures the monsters, and takes them to his restaurant, where his employees would cook them into several dishes. Hu intended to eat the young monster king, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Wuba]], only to be stopped by Tianyin and Xiaolan. Taking Xiaolan and Tianyin's grandmother hostage, Hu gives Tianyin the [[SadisticChoice option]] of either giving him the baby before he stopped counting, or to let both of his loved ones die a gruesome death. As the Monster King, he was responsible for [[TheUsurper orchestrating a civil war]], and disguised himself as a human in order to eradicate the remnants of the old king's supporters. [[BoomerangBigot Hypocritical]] and having a taste for power, Ge wished to suppress his fellow monsters and humans alike. |
| 152 | * ''Film/TheMonsterProject'': [[BigBad Devon Adams]] is revealed to be {{Satan}} himself, having staged a ritual to unleash HellOnEarth as a documentary where he and a film-making crew interview three supposedly real monsters. Over the course of the film, he has Bryan kill the demon-possessed Shiori, leaves Murielle to die alone after she is bitten by a vampire, and mocks Bryan's beliefs when he reveals his true nature. When questioned if he actually loved Murielle, he claims that love is about sacrifice, but it's clear he saw her as nothing more than a tool to use and dispose of, and then has one of his followers [[SlashedThroat slash Bryan's throat]] to [[TheBadGuyWins complete the ritual]]. |
| 153 | * ''Film/{{Monstrous}}'' (2020): [[BitchInSheepsClothing Alex]] is a friendly young woman with knowledge of [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Sasquatch]] and is apparently an expert in avoiding the beast even as "Squatch" claims numerous bodies. In truth, Alex herself is the [[SerialKiller murderer]] who enjoys seducing, abducting, and eventually [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beating her victims to death]]. When heroine Sylvia tries to find her missing friend Dana, Alex turns out to be the murderer who records her killings as sick trophies and has another victim imprisoned for later. When she later executes the other woman before trying to kill Sylvia, Alex's only explanation of her crimes is "[[ForTheEvulz why not]]?" |
| 154 | * ''Film/MoonWarriors'': [[TheEvilPrince The 14th Prince]], [[BigBad Lord Lan-ling]], is the treacherous brother of the 13th Prince who desires to [[TheUsurper kill his good-hearted brother and rule as an unabashed tyrant]]. Lan-ling has the entire population of a fishing village put to the sword in order to kill the Prince and his allies and personally manages to kill the innocent Princess Moon. A [[BadBoss hideously heartless boss]], Lan-ling [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduces himself]] using his bowstring to decapitate an unfortunate minion and later kills his abused second-in-command the second she redeems herself. |
| 155 | * ''Film/MortalEngines'': [[BigBad Thaddeus Valentine]] is the Deputy Lord Mayor of London who seeks the weapon [=MEDUSA=] for [[AmbitionIsEvil his own twisted ambitions]]. Prior to the story, Thaddeus murdered Pandora Shaw, the mother of his daughter Hester, before scarring Hester's face. To stop the heroes from interfering with his plans, Thaddeus unleashes the dangerous criminal [[PsychoForHire Shrike]] to tail and dispose of them. Thaddeus's ultimate plan with [=MEDUSA=] is to use its power to turn the settlement of Shan Guo into his hunting ground, later killing London's Lord Mayor Magnus Crome when Crome discovers his plans. With his plans of utilizing [=MEDUSA=] rendered for naught, Thaddeus has the London control crew slaughtered and attempts to ram London into Shan Guo's wall, uncaring of the countless innocents that would be wiped out in the ensuing destruction. |
| 156 | * ''Film/TheMortuaryCollection'': Charlotte Gibbons, the [[SerialKiller Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy]], is a twisted murderer who [[WouldHurtAChild preys on children]], with over ten victims murdered and cannibalized with a tooth removed as part of her [[CreepySouvenir trophy collection]]. Revealed as the "babysitter", under the guise of Sam, babysitting a boy named Logan, Charlotte murders the real babysitter and kills Logan before setting him in the oven for [[ImAHumanitarian her dinner]]. Coming to the Raven's End mortuary to retrieve a trophy, she attempts to murder mortician Montgomery Dark before becoming the new keeper of the Mortuary and its stories, still preying on the children who fall into her clutches when she can. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TheMostAssassinatedWomanInTheWorld'': Jean De Lancry is a SerialKiller who murders women and sells their corpses to the Grand Guignol theatre for the special effects. Having [[AttemptedRape tried to rape]] the actress Paula Maxa in the past before [[MurderersAreRapists raping and killing]] her sister Aimée, Jean regularly sends her death threats and has her perform a scene based on her tragedy. After trying to kill Paula, Jean successfully escapes justice and continues to murder women who resemble the actress. |
| 158 | * ''Film/TheMostDangerousGame'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Zaroff]] is an EgomaniacHunter who grew bored with big game, and decided to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame go after humans instead]]. To this end, he periodically shifted signal buoys to cause ships to wreck on his island, and takes any survivors to hunt, ostensibly letting them go if they evade him until sunrise. Before the hunt, he locks his victim in his trophy room for a few hours so the victim will be scared enough for a sporting chase. When [[ActionSurvivor Sanger "Bob" Rainsford]] becomes his latest foe, he threatens to make [[DamselInDistress Eve Trowbridge]] into his sex slave if he wins. After Rainsford wins and he and Eve escape the island, Zaroff tries to shoot them both, showing that he has no honor at all. |
| 159 | * ''Film/TheMother'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Hector Alvarez and Adrian Lovell]] are, respectively, an ArmsDealer and former SAS agent introduced to one another via their mutual lover, "[[ActionGirl the Mother]]". Allying to distribute arms for money, the two soon realized some clients liked "something extra" and began engaging in mass [[WouldHurtAChild child]] sex [[HumanTraffickers trafficking]] for the money. When the pregnant Mother tried to give them up to the FBI, the two slaughtered a group of agents to silence her. Years later, the two mastermind a kidnapping of her daughter Zoe to draw her out of hiding, murdering her FBI friend William Cruise with no compunction over killing Zoe as well. |
| 160 | * ''Film/Mother2017'': [[GodIsEvil Him]], Mother's husband, is a poet who [[ItsAllAboutMe values only the insatiable adoration of all around him]]. Hungry for the love of his fans, Him lures in numerous fans and allows them to descend into violence, slavery, sexual assault, and murder. [[DomesticAbuse Abusing his devoted wife]], Him takes their child and allows his followers to [[WouldHurtAChild rip the baby apart]] and [[EatsBabies eat it]]. At the end, with everyone dead, Him murders Mother as well and begins the cycle over again, as he has done countless times before. |
| 161 | * ''[[Film/MotherAndroid Mother/Android]]'' (2021): [[RoboticPsychopath Arthur]] is the worst of the android servants who have [[AIIsACrapshoot turned against humanity]] and [[RobotWar declared war on the human race]]. Arthur pretends to be a human and [[BitchInSheepsClothing kindly stranger]] who helps people in need. He helps a pregnant woman Georgia escape from attacking androids and saves her boyfriend Sam from being tortured by the androids, but Arthur ordered Sam to be tortured and allowed Georgia to save Sam to gain their trust. Arthur helps Georgia and Sam go to Boston and get past the city's defenses to get safety. Arthur plans to disable Boston's defenses so the androids can overrun Boston and kill everyone in the city, and threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Georgia's baby]] if she tries to stop him. |
| 162 | * ''[[Film/MrHell Mr. Hell]]'' (2006): Harold "Harry" Eugene Loveless, the titular Mr. Hell, is a SerialKiller in service to Satan, promising him souls in the form of eyeballs in return for immortality. Traveling from city to city and racking up a high body count, Harry regularly carves out the eyes of his victims, [[AndIMustScream keeping them inside a container]] as he [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming relishes their screams]]. With his latest stop being a bio lab in Houston, Harry kills his boss for letting his daughter Tyler off the hook after she tries to steal his eyeball container, then tries to kill Tyler himself. Returning many years later after being presumed dead from an acid bath, Harry initiates a mass killing spree among the lab foremen and invading terrorists, hoping to finally murder the now adult Tyler and continue his murders. |
| 163 | * ''Film/MulanRiseOfAWarrior'': [[TheEvilPrince Mengdu]], prince of the Rouran tribes, is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first seen]] ordering some prisoners slaughtered for fun. After being forced to stop by his father, Mengdu suggests that they use their recently-united army to conquer China, kicking off a war that's so severe that China must conscript one man from every military family. After twelve years of fighting, and the men tired of war, Mengdu kills one general who tried to convince the others to go home, [[{{Patricide}} kills his father]] to take over the army, declares that the war will continue, and [[VillainousIncest forces his sister to marry him]]. After Mengdu finds Mulan's army weakened by a sandstorm, he decides to stop them by torturing his [=POWs=] to draw the soldiers out and killing them as they do. Soon, Mengdu gets impatient and orders the prisoners slaughtered, only stopping when a prince who happened to be in the army offers himself as a hostage. |
| 164 | * ''[[Film/MurderInc Murder, Inc.]]'' (1960): |
| 165 | ** [[BigBad Louis "Lepke" Buchalter]] is the head of MurderInc who recruits Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Bug Workman to the group and sends them out to murder a resort owner. With Murder, Inc. as his weapon, Lepke has dozens, if not hundreds, murdered throughout his reign, piling so many bodies the police and local politicians are absolutely aghast. When the police close in, Lepke has his own gangs wiped out and the hero Joseph "Joey" Collins's innocent wife Edith "Eadie" Collins murdered to cover his tracks. |
| 166 | ** [[KosherNostra Abe "Kid Twist" Reles]] is a member of Murder, Inc. and a [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] who strong-arms hero Joey Collins into helping with a murder. Building an empire for Lepke on countless innocents killed, Reles also [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes]] Joey's wife Eadie when she insults him. |
| 167 | * ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'': [[AssholeVictim Lanfranco Cassetti]] is a notorious murderer and {{blackmail}}er who kidnaps people, murdering them when the authorities close in but still collecting the ransoms, [[WouldHurtAChild Cassetti]] was the murderer of a little girl named Daisy, having continued to exploit her family days or even weeks after he had already killed the girl. Uncaring of how this killed four innocent people, from Daisy's mother dying from grief in premature labor with her new baby, to her father's [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] and an innocent maid killing herself when she was falsely accused of complicity, Cassetti cares only for escaping justice and was so evil that even the heroic Poirot feels obliged to [[LetOffByTheDetective cover for his killers]]. |
| 168 | * ''Film/MurderousTrance'' (aka ''The Guardian Angel'') (2018): Bjørn Schouw Nielsen is a {{smug|Snake}} hypnotist who loves controlling others. Once a Nazi collaborator who helped arrange the capture of a group of Jews trying to flee from [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the hateful regime]], Nielsen takes up hypnotism to satisfy his lust for power. He subjects Palle Hardrup to months of indoctrination and brainwashing, [[MindRape forcing the man to live through a vision of murdering his own mother over and over again]]; Neilsen then "tests" Hardrup's conditioning by forcing him to let Nielsen brutally assault and rape Hardrup's wife. Nielsen then uses Hardrup to carry out a bank robbery and double murder of innocents for cheap thrills, and when he risks being caught, Nielsen threatens to plunge Inspector Olsen's wife into a permanent coma unless he [[FrameUp frames Hardrup]] solely for the crimes. |
| 169 | * ''Film/MurderParty'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Alexander]] is a sinister, seemingly wealthy man who [[BigBad organizes]] the titular "Murder Party" that lures in [[ExtremeDoormat Chris]] [[IneffectualLoner Hawley]], before taking him hostage. Alexander then asserts his dominance over the group of artists present and instructs them how to murder Christopher in a group effort. As the night goes on, Alexander plays sadistic mind games with the group and [[EmptyPromise eventually reveals]] he's just a fry cook named Tim who planned to trick them all into committing a gruesome murder before killing all of them to steal their artwork and make it more valuable to sell when they were all dead. He immediately attempts to kill everyone present following this revelation. |
| 170 | * ''Film/MurdersInTheZoo'': [[VillainProtagonist Eric Gorman]] is a millionaire zoologist and big game hunter who is homicidally possessive of his wife Eveleyn. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] [[MouthStitchedShut sewing closed the mouth]] of a colleague who kissed Evelyn and leaving him out in the wilderness to be slaughtered by wild animals, Eric plots to dispose of Roger Hewitt after he catches Evelyn's eye and fatally poisons him with mamba venom at a feast. When Evelyn threatens to expose his crimes, Eric tosses her into a pit to be torn apart by alligators with not an ounce of hesitation. Eric quickly poisons Dr. Woodford afterwards once he catches onto Eric's murders and tries to kill his assistant in a fit of rage after she saves Woodford's life. Even in spite of his charms, Eric is a senselessly violent psychopath whose crimes shocked audiences back in the 1930s and continue to stand out in depravity years later. |
| 171 | * ''Murphy's Law'' (1986): The psychopathic [[BigBad Joan Freeman]], upon being released from jail, intends on bloody retribution against detective Jack Murphy for putting her behind bars. Murdering Murphy's ex-wife and her boyfriend and framing Murphy for it, Freeman begins systematically slaughtering everyone who had anything to do with her incarceration, with the intention of destroying Murphy's good name and leaving him for last. Finally, Freeman tries to kill Murphy's friend Isabella with an arrow, proclaiming her undying hate for Murphy before attempted to kill him with an ax. |
| 172 | * ''Film/TheMusketeer'': Febre is a sadistic BloodKnight who lives for combat and destruction. [[YouKilledMyFather Murdering D'Artagnan's parents in front of him as a child]], Febre becomes the [[TheDragon pet psychopath]] of Cardinal Richelieu and carries out his unsavory work. Febre murders many who cross his path and incites a riot to create political tension. Febre blackmails the queen by threatening a child's life to lure her and the Duke of Buckingham together to murder them both and frame the King of France. Febre then reveals his true goal: to start a giant war between France, Spain and Britain simply for the laughs of all the lives that will be lost. When Richelieu [[EvenEvilHasStandards calls him mad for this]], Febre remarks this is the third time he's been called insane in a night. [[InsultBackfire "It must be so!"]] |
| 173 | * ''Film/MutantGirlsSquad'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Kisaragi]] is the mutant leader of a HILKO resistance group who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares for himself]]. He takes in HILKO girls shunned by society, training them to become soldiers. Sacrificing innocent humans for Izanami in return for power, he later leads an attack on an anti-HILKO meeting, forcing Rin to kill three innocent humans afterwards, disappointed when she refuses. The next morning, he sends all of his girls out to act as [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]], killing thousands of humans in the process. During the attacks, Kisaragi kidnaps the anti-HILKO Prime Minister, using his blood to make Izanami grant him a mutant power suit. When the police lead a raid on the HILKO hideout, Kisaragi, using his new suit, gleefully [[CopKiller kills them all]], declaring himself the new leader of Japan. After Rin and Rei figure out his motives, Kisaragi tries to kill them, seeing them as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness having served their purpose]]. |
| 174 | * ''Film/Mute2018'': Duck is an [[BackAlleyDoctor underground doctor]] who works alongside Cactus Bill to use their services as {{torture technician}}s for mobsters. Though seemingly a kind prosthetic doctor for children in public, Duck is a [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who uses his position to abuse the children in his care. When Bill finds out and threatens Duck over it, Duck sets up Bill to die and [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch]] with his last breaths as Duck kidnaps Bill's daughter to molest. Duck then horribly tortures Leo while [[MockingTheMourner mocking him over the death of his lover]]. |
| 175 | * ''Mute Witness'' (1995): |
| 176 | ** [[BigBad The Reaper]] is the head of a powerful ring of [[SnuffFilm snuff filmmakers]]. A [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly kind old man]], the Reaper organizes massive operations where poor or immigrant women are lured in for pornography only to be beaten and painfully murdered on camera, with a truly massive operation. Ordering a mute woman killed when she is a witness, the Reaper later tries to have his seemingly loyal police mole killed with a [[ExternalCombustion car bomb]] to keep things as secret as possible. |
| 177 | ** [[PsychoForHire Lyosha & Arkadi]] are the most prominent of the henchmen that the Reaper employs. Lyosha is the brains of the operation, making sure to capture every grizzly detail, while Arkadi kills the unexpecting targets. Both also work as crew members for a low-budget slasher film being made in Russia. One night, mute make-up artist Billy Hughes is accidentally left behind and catches the duo filming their snuff film. The duo stalks Billy throughout the empty film studio, nearly catching her a few times. Lyosha is able to convince the police that the "murder" was staged, showing the police a "fake" knife, and manages to give the slasher film being filmed in order to evade suspicion. Arkadi kills the night janitor that finds him burning the body of the woman he's killed and later tries to kill Billy, stalking her in her own home. |
| 178 | * ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'': [[SpreeKiller Harry Warden]], the original Miner, is [[AdaptationalVillainy a lot more violent and brutal]] than his counterpart in [[Film/MyBloodyValentine the original film]]. Already a [[{{Jerkass}} thoroughly unpleasant man]] from the beginning, Warden murdered his fellow miners to conserve his own oxygen after an explosion in the mine, butchers the patients in a hospital, and slaughters a number of partygoers at the mine all while making his way towards Tom, who he blames for the explosion. His attempted murder of Tom traumatizes the latter, inspiring him to go on [[JackTheRipoff another Valentine's Day killing spree]] years later while seeing Warden committing the murders. |
| 179 | * ''Film/MyNameIsPecos'' (1966): Joe Clane, "murderer of women and babies", is a cruel bandit who reinvented himself as the SmallTownTyrant of Houston after he [[FamilyExtermination wiped out the titular hero's family]]. Clane turns Houston into a [[WretchedHive virtual ghost town]], either running out or killing the majority of the population, extorting and terrorizing the few who remain. When Clane gets his hands on Pecos' LoveInterest, he tortures her, [[ForcedToWatch makes her watch]] as her father is killed in front of her, and gloats that he plans to strip her nude and force her to serve him and his gang hand-and-foot for his evil pleasure. |
| 180 | * ''Film/MySoulToTake'': The Riverton Ripper is a malevolent spirit [[note]]Either the soul of a killer or a split personality who became a separate being[[/note]] who caused a schizophrenic man named Abel Plenkov to unknowingly commit a series of murders in his town. When Abel discovered him, the Ripper took full control, killing Abel’s doctor and pregnant wife, and attempting to kill several others, including Abel’s young daughter before seemingly disappearing, but actually [[DemonicPossession jumping into the body of a baby]]. Sixteen years later, when the Riverton Seven, the teenagers who happened to be born on the day the Ripper vanished, fail to complete a ritual meant to keep the Ripper away, the Ripper returns and begins killing them off. After killing five of the seven, leaving only Bug and his friend Alex, and having also killed Bug’s foster mother and a policeman, the Ripper reveals that his soul had been in Alex, and he tries to make a deal with Bug to kill Bug’s sister and pin the murders on the recently-deceased Jerome so that they would be seen as heroes. When Bug refuses, the Ripper tries to kill him as well. |
| 181 | * ''Film/MysteriousSkin'': [[CreepyGymCoach The coach]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seeming friend]] to all children, but in reality is a despicable [[SerialRapist pedophile]] who uses his position to [[WouldHurtAChild molest boys]] in his care. The coach has subjected many boys to his depraved actions, brainwashing young Neil and forcing him to lure in other boys and engage in sexual activity with Coach. [[PosthumousCharacter Though The coach has since disappeared from the lives of the boys he abused]], his vile actions tainted and tormented them all for life. |
| 182 | * ''Film/MysteryMen'': In the otherwise-comedic film, the vicious [[BigBad Casanova Frankenstein]] is released from the asylum he's been in for twenty years. Showing he hasn't changed in the slightest, Casanova promptly blows the Asylum up and abducts his old nemesis Captain Amazing, who had him released in the first place out of boredom. Planning to create the greatest act of evil Champion City has ever seen, Casanova unveils the Psycho-Frakulator that will [[CruelAndUnusualDeath painfully warp reality and kill]] every citizen in the city. [[CardCarryingVillain Delighted by his own evil]], Casanova even [[BadBoss kills his own henchmen]] just to prove a point to the heroes when they try to stop him and abducts hero Mr. Furious's girlfriend with obvious lewd intentions before attempting to annihilate the city with them. |
| 183 | * ''Film/{{Mythica}}'' series: [[BigBad Szorlok]] the {{Necromancer}} killed many people to find the Darkspore, which grants ultimate power over the death, even [[BadBoss sacrificing his loyal acolytes]] to power it. Defeated, Szorlok went into exile, but later kills many to recover the separated fragments of the Darkspore. Upon taking center stage, Szorlok drains the life of his former friend and mentor Gojun Pye, raising armies of the undead to slaughter all in their path while Szorlok destroys the Gods to [[AGodAmI take their place]], intending to make everyone worship him or die. When the heroine Marek resists him, Szorlok attempts to drain the life of every mortal on the planet to fuel himself, laughing how he will rule over a "world of death". |
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| 187 | * ''Film/TheNakedCage'' (1986): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Smiley]] is a prison guard who moonlights as a part-time [[HumanTrafficking pimp]] and [[SerialRapist vile sexual predator]]. Prowling the prison and raping his prisoners as a way to keep himself entertained, Smiley [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming loves hearing his victims scream]], with his latest victim Ruby [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself afterwards]], to Smiley's apathy. Harboring a grudge against Michelle for calling him a "Penitentiary Pansy Man", Smiley does what he can to rape her, and when that fails, he happily goes along with the warden’s plan to murder Michelle, killing the Black prisoners' leader Brenda as a distraction to do so, along with several other prisoners when they chase after him in retaliation. |
| 188 | * ''Film/NakedFear'': [[SerialKiller Colin Mandel]] is an egomaniacal {{sadist}} with an enjoyment for [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting humans like animal prey]]. Having over half a dozen victims who he viciously tortured, stripped, and chased down in the wilderness before executing, Colin kidnaps Diana Kelper as his latest target and murders an entire family--even [[WouldHurtAChild the children]]--when they interfere in his hunt of Diana. Colin later tries to shoot two motorists dead for helping Diana while making one last attempt to continue his killings. |
| 189 | * ''Film/NakedWeapon'': Madam M, real name Madeline Ho, is the leader of [[MurderInc a mysterious organization of female assassins]]. After [[BadBoss killing her own top assassin]], she seeks a replacement by [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping young girls]] from all over the world and bringing them to her island, where they are shot should they try to escape. After 6 years of [[TrainingFromHell grueling training and kill-or-be-killed exercises]], the girls are forced by Madam M into a deathmatch that leaves only three of the original 40 alive. Afterwards, she drugs the surviving girls and has them brutally raped in order to "prepare" them for having to use their bodies to commit assassinations. She has them commit many murders all over the world, and when one of them tries to reconnect with her long-lost mother, Madam M tries to have said mother killed. |
| 190 | * ''Film/NamAngels'': [[BigBad Chard]] is a [[FormerRegimePersonnel former member]] of the Nazi "Devil's Legion" who, after being rescued from near-death by an indigenous Vietnamese tribe, convinces them to prop him up as {{a god|AmI}}. His rule is brutal and isolationist, slaughtering any outsiders who stumble upon his tribe and selling [=POWs=] to [[PlayingBothSides both sides]] of the ongoing civil war. His men treated little better, Chard orders a village of his own loyalists slaughtered when one of them helps [[TheHero Lieutenant Vince Calhoun]] rescue his men, whom Chard had captured earlier. When Calhoun and the Hells Angels he's recruited attack Chard's hideout, the tyrant decides to sell them to the North Vietnamese Army in the hopes they'll be hunted for sport, while murdering one of the bikers himself and bringing his tattered coat back to taunt Calhoun. |
| 191 | * ''The Nameless Knight'' (''Adsız Cengaver'') (1970): [[EvilOverlord Shah Al-Kabbar]] is the tyrannical Lord of Bukhara who rules the kingdom with an iron fist. Learning of a prophecy that his newborn son will take over his throne, Al-Kabbar [[OffingTheOffspring orders his son to be executed]], and when his concubine who bore him his child [[MosesInTheBulrushes sent the baby in a cradle down a river]], Al-Kabbar personally chokes and drowns his concubine with his bare hands. Brutally reigning over the kingdom for decades, when finding out his baby son had grown into adulthood as the titular Knight, Adsiz, Al-Kabbar sends his soldiers on a killing spree, slaughtering innocent families in order to flush Adsiz out of hiding, killing Adsiz's adoptive family in the process, as well as having a [[YouHaveFailedMe failed]] mercenary thrown into a burning pit. Al-Kabbar's tyranny even disgusts his captain, Altinay, who eventually defects to support Adsiz and the rebels and saves Adsiz whom Al-Kabbar had arrested and is intending to execute; in the penultimate duel, after Adsiz had defeated Al-Kabbar and opts to spare the tyrant's life, Al-Kabbar tries to stab Adsiz InTheBack. |
| 192 | * ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose'' (1986): [[AdaptationalVillainy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui]] is the [[KnightTemplar sadistic fanatic]] whose savagery forced William of Baskerville to leave the Inquisitors. Roaming the countryside, Gui takes those he believes might be "[[TheHeretic heretics]]" or witches and tortures them into confessions before [[BurnTheWitch burning them alive]]. Arriving at the abbey, Gui tortures the hunchback Salvatore into a [[FalseConfession confession]], accusing him, an innocent peasant girl, and another man of witchcraft to burn them while also jumping at the chance to declare William the murderer and kill him as well. |
| 193 | * ''Film/NateAndHayes'': Ben Pease was once the partner of William "Bully" Hayes until Bully caught Ben subjecting innocents to slavery. The resulting fight had Bully [[CripplingCastration shoot off Ben's private parts]], and as a result, Ben has left a trail of murder across the seas to [[FrameUp frame Bully for his crimes]]. Attacking a mission, Ben murders everyone except those he abducts to sell into slavery, and when the heroine Sophie takes one of his men hostage, Ben simply [[BadBoss shoots the man]] to deprive her of a hostage. Allying with imperial Germany, Ben intends to supply them with slaves for their mines while also making an alliance with a cannibal tribe by giving them barrels full of severed heads and Sophie to use as a HumanSacrifice. Even at the end, Ben attempts to frame Bully for everything and see his nemesis hang in Ben's place. |
| 194 | * ''Film/TheNativityStory'': [[BigBad King Herod the Great]] is the tyrannical and blasphemous ruler of Judea, who ruthlessly taxes his already impoverished people to fund the construction of his own temples and palaces, and orders that anyone who cannot pay have their families forced into slavery or their animals slaughtered. However, he is most concerned with a prophecy that a Messiah will arise from the town of Bethlehem, ordering a census so he may track any men of power returning there, outlawing speak of the prophecy by punishment of [[ColdBloodedTorture crucifixion]], and even threatening his own son with death if he does not continue to prove himself useful. When TheThreeWiseMen tell him that the Messiah they seek is a child, Herod lies and says he is looking for the Messiah too, and that they should return to him after he is found. When the Wise Men do not return, Herod commands that all the [[WouldHurtAChild children under the age of two in Bethlehem be slaughtered]]. |
| 195 | * ''Film/NaziOverlord'': [[MadScientist Dr. India Eris]] is a British scientist who defected to [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis]] and was tasked with making bioweapons. She had them stage a kidnapping so the Allies would send her test subjects in the form of rescue teams, meanwhile also experimenting on civilians near the base she's stationed in, [[WouldHurtAChild children]] included. These experiments are meant to create a plague to spread amongst non-Aryan peoples so that [[ZombieApocalypse they'll go mad and eat each other alive]]. She intends to transfer the virus via bug bites, but those test subjects keep exploding. After Captain Adam Rogers and his team are captured by her benefactors, Eris has them be ForcedToWatch as she conducts these experiments, eventually setting some zombies on them when they break free. While she is killed in this final battle, she managed to infect Rogers beforehand, thus ravaging the Earth even after death. |
| 196 | * ''Film/{{Nazis at the Center of the Earth}}'' (2012): |
| 197 | ** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself, resurrected in a new [[StupidJetpackHitler mechanical body]], seeks to restart his genocidal campaign by establishing a FourthReich. Upon resurrection, Hitler decapitates one of the kidnapped researchers, and leads his army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the planet]]. Hitler would blow up a military aircraft and its pilots with it, and tries to kill the rest of the researchers when they tried to escape. His ultimate plan is to infect the planet with [[SyntheticPlague flesh-eating bacteria]], with which he'll bombard several countries to further his megalomaniacal goals of conquest. |
| 198 | ** UsefulNotes/JosefMengele is a [[MadScientist genius scientist]] and military commander who seeks to bring Hitler back to life and create the Fourth Reich by bombing every non-Aryan country with a flesh-eating bacteria and an army of technologically advanced Nazis. Escaping to Antarctica during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Mengele prolongs the lifespan of his organization and forces a doctor named Riestad to bring a "constant supply" of victims to him, so he could vivisect them to keep him and his army alive. Abducting a group of researchers, Mengele keeps a skinless man alive for hours and executes another who he suspected was a Jew. Selecting a group of women, Mengele gives one to be raped by his men and lobotomizes another, removing her brain with his own hand in a fit of anger. After reviving Hitler by allowing Riestad to kill his own unborn child and take his stem cells, Mengele plans on bringing the rest of the researchers to surgery so [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they could not be liabilities anymore]]. |
| 199 | * ''Film/NeedfulThings'' extended edition: [[SouthernGothicSatan Leland Gaunt]] seems to be a [[FauxAffablyEvil charming, kindly old salesman]], but is actually [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]]. For centuries, Gaunt has walked the Earth and [[HistoricalRapSheet sowed all manner of mayhem]], from plagues; to world wars; to the atom bomb, feeding off the mass misery he instills. In his latest form, Gaunt travels to small towns and [[TheCorrupter slowly corrupts the population]] by offering them magical, valuable items that they feel compelled to own, and requesting a "[[DealWithTheDevil favor]]" in return. Gaunt uses these "favors" to force the citizens to hurt and turn on each other, culminating in citywide chaos and murder that Gaunt revels in. Arriving in Castle Rock and [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday beginning his usual procedure]], Gaunt uses the young boy Brian as a stooge to carry out his will, and when two women kill each other thanks to Gaunt, [[WouldHurtAChild Gaunt]] goads Brian into [[PsychicAssistedSuicide attempting suicide]] out of guilt for his part in things. After raping the fiancée of Sheriff Pangford, Gaunt tries to drive Castle Rock into tearing itself apart and, failing at this, tries to use another corrupted puppet to simply kill the entire town in a [[SuicideAttack suicide bombing]]. |
| 200 | * ''Film/TheNeonDemon'': [[WouldHurtAChild Hank]] the motel owner is a sleazy and callous predator who pimps out young runaways, showing a delight over doing so to a 13-year-old who falls into his clutches, which he refers to as "real Literature/{{Lolita}} shit." Jesse receives a premonition of Hank violently assaulting her with a knife and locks the door to keep him out, only for Hank to attack and rape the young teen girl next door. |
| 201 | * ''Film/NeverTooYoungToDie'': [[BigBad Velvet Von Ragner]], the ArchEnemy of the Stargroves, is an evil transvestite crime lord: 50% man, 50% woman, 100% wicked to the core. Velvet opens the film bombastically announcing his intention to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the water supply]] of L.A. with a "worse than lethal" toxin that will contaminate it for 10,000 years, demanding extravagant ransom to stave that threat off. A gleeful sadist and murderer besides, Velvet guns down Lance Stargrove's secret spy father while attempting to have Lance's girlfriend cooked and Lance himself beaten to death. Velvet demonstrating a recurring nasty liking for "the finger", using his poisoned nails to [[SlashedThroat fatally gouge out the throats]] of captured secret spies and his own [[YouHaveFailedMe failed minions]] alike–-a nail that ends up jammed in his own neck on his battle with Lance atop a dam, mere minutes after gloating he'll ensure all of the millions of homes downstream will obliviously be receiving the toxic water after his ransom plot is foiled. |
| 202 | * ''Film/NewDragonInn'': Both versions of the classic wuxia villain [[BigBad Tsao/Cao Siu-yan]] count: |
| 203 | ** ''Dragon Inn'' (''Dragon Gate Inn'') (1967): [[EunuchsAreEvil Tsao]] is an asthmatic, merciless eunuch and the chief of the Dong Chang, allowing them to murder and terrorize people with full impunity. Besting and executing his political rival, the noble Minister Yu, Tsao has Yu's [[WouldHurtAChild children]] ruthlessly hunted down, having his men conduct a full massacre of the people within and around the titular inn to set up an ambush. Revealed to have [[CripplingCastration castrated]] and press-ganged two of Yu's remaining sympathizers after they paid respects to the late Minister's grave, Tsao ultimately murders the border officer with his own sword en route to the inn and tries to slaughter everyone between him and the children himself. |
| 204 | ** ''Dragon Inn'' (''New Dragon Gate Inn'') (1992): No less evil than his original incarnation, [[EunuchsAreEvil Tsao]] here is a power-hungry eunuch who subverts the Emperor's authority to pursue power himself, having prisoners used as target practice by his men and having all of his politically rivals systematically captured and horribly killed. Personally [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing Minister Yang Yu-xuan to death]] and having his entire family murdered, Tsao spares only his two young children for the purpose of luring in the noble general Chow and his men so he can wipe them [[WouldHurtAChild all]] out at once. His men pursuing Chow and the children to the Dragon Gate Inn, Tsao rides in himself and has his archers fire through both rebels and [[BadBoss Dong Chang soldier]]s alike, ultimately coming down himself to kill the children and all of their sympathizers and successfully killing Mo-yan himself before his own death. |
| 205 | * ''The New Kids'' (1985): [[TeensAreMonsters Eddie Dutra]] is a smug, homicidal {{Jerkass}} who goes above and beyond the norm for 80s high school bullies. The cruel leader of a gang of rednecks who he [[BadBoss keeps in line with threats and abuse]], Dutra becomes obsessed with bedding the young teenager Abby [=McWilliams=], responding to her rejection by assaulting her brother Loren and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals slitting the throat of her pet rabbit]]. Eventually escalating in his evil, Dutra kidnaps Abby and attempts to gang-rape her while setting parts of her on fire, later trying to [[ForcedToWatch force her to watch]] as he has her beloved uncle Charlie mauled to death by Dutra's pet dog. Shooting both Charlie and his own dog when things get out of his control, Dutra callously gets one of his gang members killed without remorse, and tries one last time to kill Abby and Loren by burning them alive, cackling all the way. |
| 206 | * ''Film/TheNewLegendOfShaolin'': [[BigBad Ma Ling-Yee]] is a brutal government enforcer. Once a [[EvilFormerFriend close ally]] of [[TheHero Hung Hei-Kwun]], Ling-Yee betrayed his former friend and sided with the corrupt government out of {{greed}}. He led the government army in slaughtering Hei-Kwun's village, with his infant son being the only survivor. After seemingly being killed by Hei-Kwun, Ling-Yee was healed and made "invincible". Years later, Ling-Yee and the government forces sought out a map tattooed on the backs of several children, hoping it would lead them to the rebel treasure. In his quest, Ling-Yee and the government forces wiped out a temple of monks, personally killing his old master. He tracks the children to a village and captures them, including Hei-Kwun's son. When the children are freed, Ling-Yee pursues them to a rebel hideout, wiping out the rebels living there. Even when the government forces are defeated, Ling-Yee continues to pursue Hei-Kwun and the children to a ghost village and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to kill them all]]. |
| 207 | * ''Film/NewYorkNinja'' (2021): [[BigBad The Plutonium Killer]] is an ex-UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} agent who was [[NuclearMutant caught in a radiation experiment]]. Becoming an international criminal afterwards, the Plutonium Killer establishes an international [[HumanTraffickers prostitution ring]], where women are kidnapped and sold to sadists and torturers. In his spare time, the Plutonium Killer [[SerialKiller prowls the night sadistically murdering women]] with his radiation and leaving their rotting bodies for the police to find. |
| 208 | * ''Film/TheNextKill'' (2018): [[MadBomber The Time Keeper]] and [[SerialKiller the Cutter]] are a pair of killers who cause wanton mayhem throughout Lincoln City. Eager to complete a hit list in a short span of time, the Time Keeper broke the Cutter out of prison, threatening to kill him with a bomb if he didn't finish the list. Once free, the Cutter goes around the city slaughtering dozens of people, while the Time Keeper forces the mayor to prevent police interference or else he'll set off multiple bombs around the city. Hoping to tie off loose ends, the Time Keeper [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness tries to kill the Cutter anyway once he completes his tasks]]. After the Cutter discovers the Time Keeper's treachery, the Cutter kills the Time Keeper with his own bomb and tries to flee the city. |
| 209 | * ''Film/TheNiceGuys'': "[[ProfessionalKiller John Boy]]" is a ruthless hitman hired by the Detroit mob to silence Amelia Kuttner and tie up loose ends connected to her. Arriving in Los Angeles and immediately murdering two businessmen who had dealings with Amelia, John Boy tracks Amelia to the home of Holland March, where John Boy threatens and nearly murders March's [[WouldHurtAChild daughter and her best friend]] for standing in his way. Killing Amelia with wry amusement, John Boy later stages an attack on the Los Angeles Auto Show to prevent Amelia's filmed exposure of Detroit's criminal dealings from airing, brutally beating the teenage film projectionist and leaving him for dead in his search. Tossing a grenade into a crowd and killing innocents to cause panicked chaos, John Boy tries to kill March and his partner Jackson Healy, as well as anyone else who gets in his way, notably executing three harmless security guards after dispatching them. |
| 210 | * ''Film/NickOfTime'': "[[AxCrazy Mr. Smith]]" is a [[PsychoForHire psychopathic assassin]] who, with his compatriot Ms. Jones, strongarms everyman Gene Watson into carrying out a political assassination under the threat of his little girl Lynn's life. The nastier and the more unstable between himself and Ms. Jones, Mr. Smith beats, threatens, and hounds Gene at every opportunity, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness clearly intending to leave him to face the heat regardless of whether or not he successfully carries out the hit]]. When his target's assistant [[SheKnowsTooMuch clues into too much for her own good]], Smith shoots her in the head without blinking, and when his target escapes, Smith fires wildly into a populated crowd just to get her, hitting numerous other innocent people. To do nothing more than blow off some steam after the plan goes up in smoke, Smith tries to [[WouldHurtAChild personally kill Lynn]] as well. Even when Gene shoots him in retribution for this, Smith is nothing but happy he's made the man take a life, proudly claiming "I told them I could make a killer out of you!" |
| 211 | * ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'': |
| 212 | ** Dr. Philip Decker is [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters far eviler than any of the actual monsters in the film]]. He masquerades as a [[PsychoPsychologist renowned psychologist]], but is actually a masked, bayonet-wielding SerialKiller who butchers families--including the children--women he comes across; and anyone else he can get his hands on. He sees himself as a Death-like figure on a mission to [[MisanthropeSupreme stop the continuation of mankind]]. After Decker's psychiatric patient Aaron Boone tells him his dreams of the Nightbreed civilization, he frames Aaron for his crimes and gets Aaron killed by the police. When he learns of Aaron's resurrection and the existence of the Tribes of the Moon, he tries to [[VanHelsingHateCrimes exterminate the civilization of magical creatures]] as the ultimate extension of his mission to cleanse the world. |
| 213 | ** Director's cut: [[RabidCop Police Captain Eigerman]] is [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the worst humanity has to offer]] alongside Dr. Decker. A GloryHound who cares nothing for the truth of Decker's murders, Eigerman later leads his forces into the city of Midian with intent to slaughter the Tribes of the Moon. Initiating a brutal purge of even the Nightbreed [[WouldHitAGirl women]] and [[WouldHurtAChild children]], Eigerman uses explosive charges, flamethrowers, and guns on Nightbreed civilians, gleeful about the chance to butcher as many as he possibly can before demanding the transformed Reverend Ashberry follow him in murdering the survivors. |
| 214 | * ''Film/TheNightComesForUs'': [[TheHeavy Chien Wu]] is a cruel member of [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs the Six Seas]] who happily takes orders from [[GreaterScopeVillain his unseen bosses]]. Having a helping hand in orchestrating the massacre of a "shithole village" because they were siphoning his gang's money, Chien Wu tries to have the traitor Ito killed alongside the survivor [[WouldHurtAChild Reina]]. Getting Ito's crew killed in an apartment massacre, Chien Wu tasks Ito's former friend Arian to kill him in return for a position in the Six Seas, only to [[YouHaveFailedMe have him viciously gunned down once he fails to do so]]. |
| 215 | * ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'': [[VillainProtagonist Louis "Lou" Bloom]] is what is known as a "Nightcrawler", a [[ImmoralJournalist reporter]] who prowls the nights for the most gruesome footage he can gather. Louis is also a total sociopath who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opens the film]] by attacking and perhaps murdering a security guard for his watch. Once he discovers the money in reporting, Louis devotes himself wholeheartedly to the endeavor. He [[SexualExtortion blackmails his boss into sleeping with him]] once his position is secure, knowing that she needs his footage. Lou sabotages the brakes of a van belonging to a rival so he can film said rival dying on a stretcher. Lou later reports gang violence as a home invasion so he can create a panic-laden story of urban crime creeping into the suburbs, and later engineers a confrontation with the police in a crowded diner so he can film the resulting carnage as gang members, police and innocent civilians die. Finally, Lou follows a car chase and when one of the gang members crashes, Lou lies to his assistant Rick that the gangster is dead, causing Rick to be shot dead by the gangster once he goes over to film the body; the motive was Rick wanted more of the profits. [[KarmaHoudini A media sensation with his new company of Video Production News]], Lou covers his lack of humanity with a [[FauxAffablyEvil seemingly friendly mask]], all the while promising his new employees [[ExactWords he'd never ask any of them to do something he wouldn't do himself]]. |
| 216 | * ''Film/{{Nighthawks}}'': Heymar Reinhardt, alias "Wulfgar," is a terrorist who manipulates everyone around him and kills the people who help him. Even his employers don't like him, as evidenced by one of them [[EvenEvilHasStandards refusing to pay him because several children were killed by his last attack at the beginning of the movie]]. He doesn't care who his actions injure or kill, even if the victims are children. He takes a frail old woman hostage at a subway, and before that, he killed the flight attendant he was staying with after she looked in his briefcase, calmly telling her that everything was okay, before killing her offscreen. Later on, he takes more hostages, including an eight-month-old infant. The only reason that he lets the infant live is because he knows that doing so would make him seem more employable to future or potential terrorist organizations, provided he can escape his current predicament alive. |
| 217 | * ''Film/TheNightingale2019'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Lieutenant Hawkins]] is a representation of [[SociopathicSoldier the worst of the British soldiery]]. After heroine Clare Carroll requests he free her from servitude, Hawkins [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes her]], later leading a gang rape of her and murdering her husband Aidan when he blames her for losing out on a promotion, resulting in one of his men murdering her baby Bridget. When heading to Launceston to secure a captaincy, Hawkins accepts his Sergeant Ruse abducting a native woman named Lowanna to use as a SexSlave, raping her before leaving her for Ruse. Abandoning his men and murdering Lowanna during an Aboriginal attack, Hawkins tries to have Clare's guide "Billy" Mangana murdered. When a young boy convict named Eddie cannot shoot Billy, Hawkins abandons the former, mocking him over extending his sentence, and finally [[WouldHurtAChild shooting Eddie dead]] when the latter won't stop begging for another chance. |
| 218 | * ''Film/NightmareAlley2021'': [[SmallRoleBigImpact Clement "Clem" Hoately]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly avuncular]] carnival operator who controls his carnies with special moonshine so they might never leave him. To obtain his Geeks, the lowest of the low, Clem finds men who have nothing left and painfully addicts them to opium, using withdrawal to torture them into the mistreated, barely human Geeks until addiction and ill treatment take their toll, whereupon he [[LeftForDead abandons them to die]] and begins breaking in a new Geek. |
| 219 | * ''Film/NightmareAtNoon'': The enigmatic foreign agent simply known as "the Albino" is a mute MadScientist who [[WaterSourceTampering infects the water supply]] of the small town of Canyonland to [[HatePlague drive them all into murderous insanity]]. The Albino oversees countless dozens turn upon and kill each other with a clear air of pleasure, having a harmless witness to his schemes [[LeaveNoWitnesses executed]] and even murdering all of his minions when he decrees [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they're a liability to him]]. |
| 220 | * ''Film/NightmareCinema'' (2018): [[AntagonistTitle Mashit]], from the story of the same name directed by Ryūhei Kitamura, is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon drawn to lust and incest]], punishing the perpetrators and torturing all around them [[ForTheEvulz for sheer sadistic glee]]. Coming to the home of Father Benedict Abuelo, who is having an affair with the nun Patricia, Mashit [[WouldHurtAChild forces a child's suicide]] and begins to torment the duo until they believe a girl named Dani is possessed. Instead, Mashit takes her mother Cindy and tortures Dani while also mentally dominating the other children to use them as weapons to die against Father Benedict until he is killed. Mashit has Cindy kill herself before [[DemonicPossession taking over]] Sister Patricia, gleefully planning to move on and continue the evil work. |
| 221 | * ''Film/TheNightmareNeverEnds'': [[HollywoodSatanism Olivier]], a demonic ManOfWealthAndTaste—heavily implied to be the demon Moloch—and leader of a Satanic {{cult}}, has been involved in [[HistoricalRapSheet many wars over the centuries]]. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] interrupting a Nazi dinner party to inform a man that he hasn't met his quota with Hitler for three weeks before gunning down the women onstage. He kills the alleged clairvoyant who showed Claire Hansen the vision of him in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. Weiss, a survivor of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust who lost his family to Olivier, attempts to hunt him down when he finds out that he sees him on TV, only for Olivier to brutally murder him. Olivier then rapes a girl, Annie, in his club and kills her boyfriend when he goes looking for him. He then sets his sights on the Claire's husband, Nobel Prize-winning atheist author, James Hansen, who just released a book entitled ''God Is Dead''. He forces James into a meeting and attempts to recruit him to his cult, and [[DisproportionateRetribution melts his face when he refuses]]. When Lieutenant Sterne investigates him, Olivier kills his partner by filling his car with smoke and causing it to blow up when Sterne gets near. Then he goes after Claire, who's been tasked to kill him and remove his heart. She—along with Annie—captures him and tries to cut his heart out on an operating table, but Claire discovers that she killed Annie in his place, [[TheBadGuyWins and Olivier murders her]]. |
| 222 | * ''Film/TheNightOfAThousandCats'': [[VillainProtagonist Hugo]], disturbed playboy SerialKiller, routinely stalks the women of Acapulco in his helicopter, seducing them and bringing them to his mansion whereupon he strangles and kills them. Hugo, as an avid collector in the fashion of his ancestors, keeps the [[CreepySouvenir heads]] of his victims in glass cases in his basement, feeding the rest to his pen of ravenous cats--saving the bits he [[ImAHumanitarian eats himself]]. Hugo further murders a doctor in fury who causes him to lose one of his victims, and even tosses his loyal servant Dorgo to his death for [[DisproportionateRetribution beating him in chess]]. |
| 223 | * ''Film/TheNightOfTheGenerals'': Wilhelm Tanz is a fanatical [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] and an unrepentant SerialKiller who [[WouldHitAGirl targets women]] and [[PsychoKnifeNut uses knives]] to kill them in sexually depraved manners. Tanz's first known victim to the German army at large is in 1941, initiating an investigation by the far saner and more humane Major Grau. Tanz's brutal tactics with civilians make him stand out among his fellow officers, but Grau is alerted three years later when Tanz kills another woman and [[FrameUp frames his driver Hermann]] for it. When Grau confronts Tanz, having deduced he is the killer, Tanz murders him and frames him as a member of a coup against Hitler. Finally, in the 1960s, Tanz's murder of another woman prompts a reopening of the cold case, finally resulting in Tanz brought to justice. |
| 224 | * ''Film/{{Night of the Hunted}}'' (2023): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain The Sniper]] is a sadistic and misogynist [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic conspiracy theorist]] who stalks Alice for seemingly no reason other than wanting to. Setting up on a billboard across a desolate gas station, the sniper murders the cashier clerk and Alice's affair partner John before he sadistically toys and taunts Alice through a radio as he fires at her, spending hours raving misogynistic and patriotic rants as he attempts to kill her, giving the woman [[HopeSpot false hope]] before ripping it away each time. Killing any help that arrives to try and save her, the sniper kills an elderly couple stopping for gas, making their suffering last as he coldly kills them, before he attempts to have Alice [[SadisticChoice decide]] to either have herself be killed or the elderly couple's granddaughter murdered, before he decides to go down and kill them himself. A PsychopathicManchild who has multiple reasons on why he could be like this, in which all are debunked, the sniper is a hateful coward who simply hates the state of the world and wishes to be left alone to do what he wants. |
| 225 | * ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'': [[TheBluebeard Harry Powell]], a SerialKiller and [[SinisterMinister self-appointed preacher]], is introduced reminiscing about his previous murders as he was fleeing the sight of his latest murder. After sharing a cell with a bank robber, he gets out of prison and marries Willa, the bank robber's wife, believing her children knew where the stolen money was hidden. He [[ManipulativeBastard skillfully endears himself to the town]], and [[DomesticAbuse practically brainwashes Willa into believing his every word]]. When she overheard him asking the children about the money, he [[SlashedThroat slits her throat]] as she was laying in bed, dumps her body into the river, and makes up a story to cover for it. In order to get the children to tell him where the money was, he [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to murder the son, John]], while his sister watched. While pursuing them, he kills a farmer, steals a horse and chases them across the state. Believing that God wanted him to murder women, Powell was a chilling psychopath who is unfettered when it comes to what he wants. |
| 226 | * ''Night of the Running Man'' (1995): [[PsychoForHire Sadistic hitman David Eckhart]] is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] in bed with a lover, only to [[NeckSnap snap her neck]] when she attempts to ask him personal questions. Later blinding a mugger for amusement and wasting his time, Eckhart goes on the trail of cab driver Jerry Logan who, by chance, has ended up with a million dollars. Capturing a waitress Logan befriended, Eckhart dangles her over a dam's edge and drops her even when she gives him what he wants to know. Having Logan tortured by his partner Mills to keep him from running, the promise of the money eventually makes Eckhart murder his employer and his employer's wife and kill the "snitch" who informed him to get back in the local mob boss's good graces while keeping the money. Eckhart promptly betrays Logan's deal, tries to kill him and his girlfriend, and even murders Mills as not to share the wealth, gloating all the while about the "rush" he is getting from his excitement. |
| 227 | * ''The Night Stalker'' (1986-1987): [[BigBad Chuck Summers]] is a former mercenary who discovered an ancient Chinese way of healing himself. Finding out that [[ImmortalityImmorality killing others grants him immortality]], Chuck became a SerialKiller, gleefully murdering innocents to [[YourSoulIsMine transplant their souls and strength into him]]. Moving to LA, Chuck started [[DisposableSexWorker killing prostitutes]] for his rituals, murdering countless others who stand in the way on his quest for eternal life. |
| 228 | * ''Film/NightSwim'': The nameless creature is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic entity]] that actively hunted mankind since the 17th century. Dwelling within the spring that provides water for the family pool, it has made [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] with countless humans desperate to heal their sick at the cost of the [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] of a loved one. In 1992, it lures and drowns Rebecca Fuller, trapping her soul in another dimension alongside the hostile spirits of its previous victims. When the Waller family moves into the Fullers' former residence, the creature kills the family cat and targets Elliot as its next victim. After "healing" Ray, it [[DemonicPossession takes full possession]] of him, compelling him to nearly drown a boy during a neighborhood pool party, and attempts to violently kill his daughter Izzy, all while sadistically delighting in its cruelty. |
| 229 | * ''Film/NightTeeth'': [[BigBad Victor]] is a [[VampireMonarch vampire lord]] who, tired of abiding by the human-vampire truce, seeks to overthrow his superiors to hunt humans with impunity. Violating the truce by slaughtering humans in Boyle Heights and kidnapping Jay's girlfriend, Victor uses the subsequent chaos to allow him and his followers Zoe and Blaire to pick off the vampire lords and anyone else who gets in their way. Meeting Jay, Victor reveals he had all his men killed and his girlfriend ground up into meat, before capturing him and locking him away as a living blood bag, of which he has multiple. When Blaire turns on him in defense of Benny, Victor casually orders her killed before biting Benny, infecting him with vampirism. |
| 230 | * ''Night Terrors'' (1993): The charismatic cult leader, [[BigBad Paul Chevalier]], is a descendant of the Creator/MarquisDeSade himself who has dedicated his life to embracing and upholding his ancestor's deranged teachings. Chevalier leads sadomasochistic orgies among his cult while fixating on a young woman named Genie who bears resemblance to de Sade's own lover, terrorizing her by sadistically murdering her friends and tormenting them with her bodies. Chevalier eventually has Genie kidnapped, her father murdered and his head brought to torment her, while killing the man who brought Genie to him in the first place. When Genie remains defiant of him, Chevalier decides to torture her to death in whatever way his whims decree, horribly murdering even his own lover who tries to protect Genie from Chevalier's psychopathic intentions. |
| 231 | * ''Film/NightTrap'' (1993): "[[SerialKiller Bishop]]" is an enigmatic [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist]] who has been alive for over 800 years, murdering women as {{human sacrifice}}s each year around the time of Mardi Gras. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] hurling a woman out a window after tearing out her tongue, Bishop goes on to make a personal game of destroying the life of Mike Turner, the cop who pursues him, killing Turner's partner and then forcing Turner into a SadisticChoice involving the lives of his ex-wife and his friend. Bishop murders several other innocent people throughout the movie, only too happy to drag anyone near Turner to their demise, all out of sadistic spite. |
| 232 | * ''Night Wars'' (1988): [[SociopathicSoldier McGregor]] is a sadistic U.S. soldier who became a mercenary for the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Viet Cong]]. Betraying his own platoon, [=McGregor=] served as the TortureTechnician of a POWCamp, gleefully tormenting his former comrades. Trapping Jhonny in the camp with him for nine years, [=McGregor=] regularly tortures Trent and Jim when they go back in time to save their friend, taking advantage of the camp's supernatural properties in an attempt to torture the three for eternity. Invading the present, [=McGregor=] sexually assaults Trent's wife before stabbing her to death. |
| 233 | * ''Nightwatch'' (1997): [[KillerCop Inspector Thomas Cray]] is a despicable SerialKiller with [[ILoveTheDead a fetish for dead people]]. Once a nightwatchman for a morgue, Cray was fired for having sex with the dead bodies as they came through, and, after trying to sate his desires by hiring hookers to play dead while he had sex with them, decided to escalate his fantasy. Cray began murdering prostitutes, having sex with their corpses, then scooping out their eyeballs as trophies, something he repeats 5 times across his career, and, when getting tired of evading police, prompts to [[FrameUp frame an innocent man]] for his crimes. After murdering a 17-year-old prostitute and framing the hapless Martin Bells as the killer, Cray tries to kill both Martin and his girlfriend with a buzzsaw to their skulls after [[CopKiller beating his police partner to death]] with [[BatterUp a baseball bat]]. A psychopath with a disturbing fixation on the dead, Thomas Cray's evil ran so deep that he actively defied having any reason for his crimes. |
| 234 | * ''Film/NineDead'': [[AssholeVictim Coogan]] shows himself to be the worst of the nine captives. A self-admitted [[WouldHurtAChild child molester]] and SerialKiller whose "travels" have taken him all over the country, he does a bit in San Quentin for grand theft auto since the authorities couldn't find the bodies he disposed of. Having infected the Shooter's son with HIV by [[PrisonRape raping him in prison]], Coogan is a remorseless piece of work who [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts every other person in the room]], even otherwise hardened criminals like Sully and Leon. |
| 235 | * ''Film/{{Ninja}}'': [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil Masazuka]] was the second-best student of the Takeda ninja dojo until he was expelled for trying to kill [[{{Ninja}} Casey Bowman]]. In response, Masazuka became a hitman in the employ of [[EvilInc Temple Industries]]. Later, he tries to claim the Yoroi Bitsu, a box containing the Takeda school's founder's weapons, slaughtering most of the school in the process. After killing [[TheObiWan Sensei Takeda]] in his interrogation, Masazuka learns that his quarry is in New York City, and has Temple send some assassins after them. Killing the sole survivor of the goons' failed attempt, he seeks Casey and [[LoveInterest Namiko Takeda]], killing most of the police precinct they're in and capturing the latter. During the final battle, Masazuka poisons Namiko just to get an edge on Casey. |
| 236 | * ''Ninja III: The Domination'' (1984): The evil, [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] [[BigBad Black Ninja]] opens the film by killing a couple at a golf course and everyone else he sees. When the police arrive, the ninja spends his time killing them as well before being mortally wounded. Stumbling upon a young woman, the evil ninja [[DemonicPossession possesses her]] and begins using her body to [[CopKiller murder the police officers]] who killed him and [[LeaveNoWitnesses anyone nearby to witness him]]. Being barely stopped from killing his host's boyfriend, the Black Ninja is exorcised by the ninja Yamada, [[YouKilledMyFather whose father was murdered by the Black Ninja]], and takes his old body as an undead killer who immediately attempts to mind control or massacre everyone in the temple they're in before engaging Yamada in a final battle. |
| 237 | * ''Film/NinjaAssassin'': Lord Ozunu is the ruthless leader of the Ozunu clan, a clan which takes in orphaned children and raises them as ChildSoldiers by putting them through [[TrainingFromHell intense training regimes]], where he [[WouldHurtAChild routinely abuses them]]. Such abuse includes whipping them to the point of leaving scars on their bodies and forcing them to compete in brutal sparring matches where they beat each other to a bloody pulp, [[TykeBomb all for the purpose of making them the perfect ninja assassins]]. These assassins would go after their targets via black sand in a letter as a calling card, striking in the dark or dimly lit places killing not only the targets but anyone allied or unfortunate enough to be in the same room as the target as to leave no witnesses. Years prior to the film, when Kiriko had tried to leave the clan Ozunu had her captured and killed and nearly does the same to Raizo when he betrays him as well. During his final confrontation with Raizo, Ozunu he nearly kills Mika by stabbing her [[HeartInTheWrongPlace where her heart is supposed to be]], with a cold, apathetic look on his face. |
| 238 | * ''The Ninja War of Torakage'' (2014-15) has both halves of the BigBadEnsemble: |
| 239 | ** [[EvilChancellor Rikuri]] is the chancellor for Princess Mizuki, and, [[BewareTheSillyOnes despite his goofy personality]], proves himself to be a reprehensible figure. Murdering Mizuki's father to secure his position, Rikrui brainwashes Mizuki with magic water that allows him to easily manipulate her. Through Mizuki, Rikuri imposes cannibalism and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] upon the citizens of Jesus city, and has rebellious citizens of all ages [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] to non-existent gods in order to keep everyone in line. When Torakage and Tsukikage attempt to snatch Rikuri's golden scroll, Rikuri accepts Torakage's plan to keep Tsukikage hostage while he steals him the silver scroll, casually attempting to molest Tsukikage in the meantime. When Tsukikage harms him, Rikuri attempts to sacrifice her, and even strangles Mizuki when she defects against him. |
| 240 | ** [[{{Greed}} Gensai Shinonome]], Torakage's former master, is a greedy ninja leader who desires both the silver and golden scroll to obtain hidden treasure. Assigning one of her ninjas to steal the silver scroll, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she kills him for accomplishing his task]] and seeks Torakage. Previously [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] Torakage [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], she threatens to kill his son should he and Tsukikage fail to steal the golden scroll. With the scrolls in hand, Gensai doesn't care if she has to slaughter the people of Jesus City to gain the treasure. Attempting to kill Torakage after he steals her scrolls, she floods Jesus City by blowing up their dam, and holds Tsukikage hostage in exchange for Torakage's life. |
| 241 | * ''Film/NinjaZombie'' (1992): [[BigBad Spithrachne]] is a zombie spider cultist who seeks the [[MacGuffin Urn of Prometheus]] to restore his body and TakeOverTheWorld. Spithrachne murders the titular ninja, Alex--who is quickly resurrected as a zombie bound to a magic ring--and soon after sets about sending his minions, the "Eight Legs", against Alex and his friends, [[BadBoss ruthlessly executing any of his Eight Legs]] who fail. In his spare time, Spithrachne sucks the life from prostitutes and webs their bodies up like dead flies. When he has the heroes under his control, Spithrachne tries a variety of ways to torture them; he makes the ninja zombie's human friend Orlan eat spider eggs that hatch inside him and slowly eat him alive, then tries to subject him to leech torture. When both of these fail, Spithrachne whips out a red-hot iron poker and attempts to [[GroinAttack rape]] the zombie's girlfriend with it. |
| 242 | * ''Film/NoContest'' duology: |
| 243 | ** Original 1995 film: "[[BigBad Oz]]", real name Raymond Brice, is a former drug lord out for revenge on [[CorruptPolitician Senator Donald Wilson]], his former partner who sold him out to the police. Attacking a beauty pageant Candy, Wilson's daughter, is entered in Oz's men massacre the staff, Oz himself killing the pageant queen before taking the other contestants hostage. Fitting the hostages with explosives, Oz laughs when a terrified girl tries to run and is blown apart. When one of Oz's men is seduced by a captive and she escapes, Oz sadistically tortures him before killing him. Even after Senator Wilson pays him his demanded ransom money, Oz still spitefully tries to kill Candy. |
| 244 | ** ''Face the Evil'' 1997 sequel: [[BigBad Erich Dengler]], posing as a philanthropic art donor named Eric Dane, is really a criminal trying to steal nerve gas canisters hidden in a museum statue. Each canister having the power to wipe out a country, Dengler plans to sell these to terrorists, thrilled at the potential bloodshed and profit. Taking a film crew as hostages, Dengler sadistically has one actor recite Shakespeare lines and shoots him whenever he finds the performance lacking before finally killing him. Keeping two hostages alive to demonstrate his horrific gas, Dengler is a greedy sociopath who would [[{{Greed}} endanger the whole world just for profit]]. |
| 245 | * ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'': [[{{Ubermensch}} Anton Chigurh]] is a [[PsychoForHire hired assassin]] defined by his [[TheFatalist fatalistic]] personal code. Compared to [[TheBlackDeath the Bubonic Plague]] by his former associate Carson Wells, Chigurh is an [[DissonantSerenity emotionless]] killer with no regard for human life, occasionally deciding his victims' fates with a [[DiceRollDeath coin toss]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] by [[CopKiller strangling a police officer]] to death with handcuffs, Chigurh proceeds to murder an innocent man to steal his car, repeating this crime later in the film. Employed to recover $2 million lost in a drug deal gone bad, Chigurh murders two of his employer's men and relentlessly hunts for Llewelyn Moss to retrieve the money. Along the way, Chigurh murders several Mexican criminals who are also pursuing Moss, shooting one of them as he surrenders, and later kills a hotel clerk and a random motorist who get caught in a gunfight between Chigurh and Moss. Chigurh later kills Wells and the man who hired them both, intending to keep the money for himself, and promises to kill Moss's wife Carla Jean unless Moss surrenders the money, making it clear that he intends to kill Moss regardless; Wells had previously commented that even if Moss gave up the money, Chigurh would kill him anyway for "inconveniencing him". After Moss is killed, Chigurh murders Carla Jean, attempting to justify this senselessly cruel act by claiming to be keeping his promise. A chilling psychopath devoid of humanity, Chigurh is presented as an unstoppable force of evil, a monster [[LackOfEmpathy without empathy]] or remorse. |
| 246 | * ''Film/NoDeadHeroes'': [[BigBad General Ivan Dimanovitch]] is introduced at a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Viet Cong]] base, taking pleasure in tormenting captured American and South Vietnamese captives, gleefully abusing prisoners, beating captives to death with his bare hands, and ripping out an American POW's fingernails with pliers. After the botched POW rescue mission where Ivan captured William Sanders's best friend Harry Cotter, Ivan later had Harry converted into his personal killing machine via [[NeuralImplanting microchip in the brain]], whose effectiveness Ivan executes firstly by sending Harry back to America to execute his entire family, and later on controlling Harry into firing an Uzi in a church full of people, slaughtering everyone. Using Harry as a pawn for covert assassination assignments, Ivan intends to frame the CIA for the murders while overthrowing entire governments for him to reshape the world [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]], and when William gets captured trying to stop Ivan, Ivan had William's LoveInterest Barbara subjected to being raped while William is forced to listen. |
| 247 | * ''Film/NoDisrespect'' (2023): [[AbusiveParents Bull]] is a drug lord who runs his city's streets with an iron fist, causing the deaths of several people. Prior to the events of the film, [[DomesticAbuser Bull]]'s abused girlfriend Loretta ran away with her lover, Malcolm. Bull, having tracked Loretta down, forces her to kill Malcolm under threat of [[WouldHurtAChild killing their baby]]. Bull would later go on to regularly beat Loretta because of this. Fifteen years later, Bull, upon being released from jail, seeks to regain his control over the streets, and intends to [[OffingTheOffspring kill all of his sons]]. Starting by killing Milk's gang and continuing his beatings on Loretta, Bull, when Zay stands up to him, strangles Zay until he almost dies and kills his other son by manipulating his wife into shooting him and the woman he was sleeping with. Bull attempts to have Milk killed by the girlfriend Bull paid to get close to him, gleefully gloating about how he wanted to kill Milk since he was born. |
| 248 | * ''Film/NoEscape1994'': [[TheHeavy Walter Marek]] is the [[FauxAffablyEvil cultured, yet savage]], leader of the Outsiders on the [[PrivateProfitPrison prison island]]. Keeping them savage and devoted to violence and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], Marek also forces others into [[GladiatorGames gladiator fights]] for amusement, and to keep a [[HellholePrison brutal system]] going. When he is humiliated before his men, he promptly kills one who questions him and heads to massacre the more peaceful Insiders. After being repelled, he later [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forces two of the heroes to fight to the death]], before attempting to slaughter the Insiders once again. |
| 249 | * ''Film/NoGoodDeed2014'': Colin Evans is a narcissistic murderer who kills a prison guard and driver on his escape from jail. When he flees, he tracks down his former fiancee who had cheated on him and brutally murders her for it. Later, [[TheHero Terri]] allows Colin into her home after he'd been supposedly lost in the rain. Colin proceeds to toy with her best friend Meg before [[ShovelStrike beating her to death with a shovel]] and taking Terri and her young children hostage. Colin [[CopKiller shoots a police officer]] who comes to investigate and brings Terri and the kids to where he left his own fiancee's body with the revelation that Terri's husband was cheating on her with Colin's fiancee. For the sake of his offended pride, he plans to kill Terri [[WouldHurtAChild and her children]] before he kills her husband just as a harsh lesson about how nobody touches what's his. |
| 250 | * ''Film/NoRetreatNoSurrender2'': [[DirtyCommunists Colonel Yuri]] is the leader of the Spetsnaz supplying weapons to insurgents, deliberately prolonging a war in the Cambodian-Vietnamese border causing dozens of [=POWs=] to be executed on a daily basis. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] interrogating a group of [=POWs=] near [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile a crocodile pit]], Yuri, upon learning one of the prisoners is a fighter, offers the captive the chance fight for freedom, only to deliver a long and brutal beatdown, where Yuri is clearly prolonging his victim's suffering for fun, before allowing the prisoner to leave only to [[ILied change his mind]] mere seconds later, shooting the prisoner twice InTheBack and throwing him to the crocodiles. Kidnapping Scott's girlfriend Sulin Ngyuen to force General Ngyuen to sign a treaty allowing the Soviets to continue their involvement in the war, Yuri had Sulin, and later Terri, hung by their wrists above the crocodile pit and slowly lower them, coldly telling them they will be eaten "from the legs first". As Scott and Mac raids the base in a daring rescue mission, Yuri abandons his troops, only to show up later trying to ambush the protagonists with a machine-gun, killing Terri in the process. |
| 251 | * ''Film/NoTearsForTheDead'': [[PsychoForHire Byeon/Byun]] is the main villain [[BigBad John Lee]]'s [[TheDragon second-in-command]] and serves him and Ventura Corporation in return for a promised massive payday. When they fear their corruption is exposed, Byeon immediately puts hitmen on the job to murder the wife of an attempted whistleblower who he already had murdered by the protagonist Gon--also resulting in the death of the couple's young daughter. Byeon carries out multiple murders of suspected leakers himself and organizes a team of hitmen to go after Gon when he betrays them to save the widow, resulting in numerous innocents dying. When Byeon's liaison in the police force, implied to be his brother, demands more money for his efforts, Byeon stabs him to death and later even murders Lee when it turns out he won't be paid. He then proceeds to try to rape the heroine Mo-gyeong out of spite and retribution for the trouble she's caused him. |
| 252 | * ''Film/NocturnalAnimals'': In the titular [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe novel]], [[AxCrazy Ray Marcus]] is a sadistic thug hiding behind a veneer of smug innocence. Running the Hastings family off the road on an abandoned highway, Ray terrorizes the family alongside his gang before kidnapping, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violently raping]], then murdering Laura and her teenage daughter India. Attempting to kill the father, Tony, in the process, Ray goes on to continue his crime spree before feigning ignorance when confronted by Detective Andes on his past rape charges and attack on the Hastings. Upon finally dropping all pretense of innocence, Ray [[EvilGloating cheerfully brags]] to Tony that he raped and killed the man's family out of mere pride and because "[[ForTheEvulz killing is fun]]", before trying to bludgeon Tony with a fireplace poker. |
| 253 | * ''Film/{{No Exit|1995}}'' (aka ''Fatal Combat''): [[SoftSpokenSadist Houston Armstrong]] is the billionaire host of No Exit, an illicit underground fighting tournament where reluctant contestants are kidnapped and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight to their deaths]] for the entertainment of Armstrong and his paying clients. After [[BadassPacifist John Stoneman]] becomes a media sensation, Armstrong arranges Stoneman's abduction alongside Stoneman's teen student Jason, forcing Stoneman to fight for his and Jason's freedom, attempting to break Stoneman's will by ordering his henchman Darcona to maim and beat up Jason, gleefully mocking Stoneman by claiming to be "a reasonable man... because Jason is still breathing". Eventually ordering Jason killed in a failed escape--despite promising to spare the boy]]--Armstrong had [[IHaveYourWife Stoneman's wife kidnapped as well]], making Stoneman partake in a [[FixingTheGame rigged cage fight where he's expected to lose]], even [[ForcedToWatch forcing Stoneman's wife to watch]] her husband being subjected to a beating, casually gloating that he sends multiple people to their deaths with each No Exit tournament ''all the time'' if it means maintaining his large subscriber base and subsequent income. |
| 254 | * ''Film/NonStop'': [[TheDragon Zack White]] sends anonymous text messages to [[TheHero Bill Marks]] demanding $150 million, threatening to kill someone every 20 minutes if the money is not transferred. While his boss, [[BigBad Tom Bowen]], is trying to cause a catastrophe that will [[WellIntentionedExtremist inspire people to increase air security]], Zack is OnlyInItForTheMoney. After causing the deaths of three people, the two activate a bomb to blow up the plane and kill everyone on board. Zack goes to get parachutes so he and Tom can escape and leave everyone else to die. Although Zack does try to stop Tom when he learns that Tom planned for them to die on the plane as well, it's only out of concern for his own safety, and after Tom dies, Zack tries to kill Marks to get a parachute, once again attempting to leave the other passengers to their fate. |
| 255 | * ''Film/NoneShallEscape'': [[VillainProtagonist Wilhelm Grimm]] is introduced as a bitter, crippled German soldier returning from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI who, disillusioned with his country, takes out his frustration by raping a college student and framing a young man who insults him for the deed. Fascinated by the blooming Nazi Party, Grimm eventually demonstrates his loyalty by selling out his own brother Karl into a [[POWCamp concentration camp]]. Grimm takes Karl's son and his nephew Willie to corrupt into an extension of his legacy, and climbs the reins of the Nazi Party until he becomes Reichskommissar of western Poland, destroying thousands of lives either in the camps or in [[SexSlave sexual slavery]] to "entertain" German officers. Grimm shoots rabbis, has protests mowed down with machine guns, tries to toughen up Karl by sending his girlfriend to the officers' club, and finally shoots his own nephew dead when Karl recants the Nazi ideology in disgust. Those who have survived Grimm's tortures paint him as a monster who chose the path he walked down out of pride, and he ends the film as a perfect study of [[FromNobodyToNightmare a man's evolution into the quintessential Nazi]]. |
| 256 | * ''North Star'' (1996): [[BigBad Sean McLennon]] is a ruthless land baron who murders other landowners to steal their land. Seeking to murder a group of Native American landowners, the family of hero Santeek, [=McLennon=] later sees his wife abducted by Santeek. While initially seeming concerned by her, upon her recovery, [=McLennon=] denounces her as a "whore" and banishes her into the woods to die, even [[BigBad killing his own men]] when they ask to turn back, and [[CopKiller murdering an entire posse of law enforcement officers]] and his own Native American guide when the man discerns [=McLennon=] is part Native American himself. Later arrested, he breaks out of jail by murdering his guards and heads to murder his wife himself. |
| 257 | * ''Film/NorthmenAVikingSaga'': The vicious [[SociopathicSoldier Hjorr]] is the {{sadist}}ic [[TheDragon second in command]] of The Wolf Pack under his older brother Bovarr. Hjorr's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opening scene]] in the film is to seize a soldier Bovarr was chastising for leaving a battle alive and shove his head into an [[ManOnFire open pit of flames]] until he is dead. When they learn Vikings have kidnapped their patron's daughter, Hjorr, knowing her disfavor towards the Wolf Pack and wanting to keep his employment, comes up with the idea to simply murder her. Hjorr informs his soldiers the King's orders are to simply murder his daughter. When the Vikings and their warrior priest try to hold off the Wolf Pack with a wall of flames, Hjorr grabs one luckless soldier and shoves him through the fire to get to them. Hjorr constantly relishes dealing as much pain to his victims as he can before killing them and even when dealt a mortal wound, spends the final moments of life trying to drag the Viking leader to the grave with him. |
| 258 | * ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'': [[LooksLikeOrlok Count Orlok]], the eponymous "Nosferatu," one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count tries to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and Orlok later kills the crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague-bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. He uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Ellen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her HeroicSacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast that can barely pass as a human being. |
| 259 | * ''Nothing Bad Can Happen'' (2013): [[FalseFriend Benno]] is a mood-swinging sociopath who serves as a toxic influence on everyone around him. Befriending Tore and accepting him into his home, Benno initially presents himself as a loving family man to hide his obsession with [[KickTheDog breaking Tore's spirit and making him lose faith in Jesus Christ]], molesting his fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, Sanny, for spending time with Tore. Gradually revealing his true personality as a possessive and abusive monster, Benno does his best to make Tore's life a living hell by using every form of torture at his disposal; Benno [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals drowns his cat]] in front of him and [[ForceFeeding force feeds]] him rotten food after having starved the man. After Tore returns from the hospital, Benno begins leaving him at an erotic nightclub to be a SexSlave, gladly mocking the sexual abuse. Challenging Tore to suffocate him with a pillow, Benno tries to attack Sanny for trying to kill him and then savagely beats Tore for defending her even after he had saved him, culminating with his murder. |
| 260 | * ''Film/TheNovemberMan'': In this film, based on the seventh book (''There Are No Spies'') of [[Literature/TheNovemberMan Bill Granger's series]], [[BigBad Arkady Federov]] is a ruthless Russian military man turned politician who is running for President of Russia. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity In order to do so]], Federov begins purging associates and witnesses of his atrocities during the Chechen War. As a commander in Chechnya, Federov was part of a FalseFlagOperation that killed thousands of his own soldiers so he could have an excuse to go to war and [[{{Greed}} profit from an oil pipeline]]. Federov killed many civilians, including the family of a surviving victim whom Federov kept as a sex toy to rape and abuse. When confronted by her in the present, he gloats "making her a woman" is his fondest memory. |
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