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| 9 | * TheSociopath/JamesBond |
| 10 | * TheSociopath/MarvelCinematicUniverse |
| 11 | * ''TheSociopath/PowerRangers'' |
| 12 | * ''TheSociopath/StarWars'' |
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| 18 | * ''Film/TenToMidnight'': Warren Stacy, a guy who rapes and murders women who reject him. He's creepy when doing normal interactions, but manipulative in court, perfectly willing to claim a SplitPersonality to get off. Stacy shows little emotion most of the time, lies quite well, and has zero empathy toward others. |
| 19 | * ''Film/TwentyTwoJuly'': Breivik never shows remorse for the victims of his actions. He even calls the teenagers at the camp traitors. |
| 20 | * ''Film/AbductedInPlainSight'': The documentary presents Robert Berchtold, a sexual predator, as a sociopath who was able to charm and manipulate his victim as well as her emotionally vulnerable family. |
| 21 | * ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': Patrick Bateman. A perfect example. On the starpulse.com article about the most believable sociopaths in film, Bateman scored higher on the APD/sociopathy checklist than [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] and [[Film/TheDarkKnight the Joker]]. |
| 22 | * ''Film/AmericanPsycho2AllAmericanGirl'': Rachel shows no empathy toward anyone else, seeing them as only means to her ends or simply obstacles she must eliminate. She's also utterly obsessed with the idea that she'll achieve this no matter what. Her internal monologue reveals little emotion, though Rachel's skilled at faking this outwardly. Rachel's also a skilled liar and misleads many people. She's also completely convinced of her own importance and abilities. Eric, who's a psychiatrist, realizes that she's a sociopath after a single session with him. |
| 23 | * ''Film/AndroidCop'': [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs pretends to be a dedicated public servant, but is so apathetic to the well-being of his citizenry that he poisons an entire section of his city because he doesn't feel like spending the money to test food rations, and is perfectly willing to kill his own daughter to cover it up.]] |
| 24 | * In ''Film/{{Andhadhun}}'', Simi has no problems framing an innocent man for murder, murdering her neighbor, and blinding Akash to save her own skin. She gets upset with Manohar for bringing his gun to their tryst -- not because it resulted in her husband's death, but because his death caused them a lot of trouble. When Akash calls her out on murdering Mrs. D'Sa in cold blood, [[NeverMyFault she rhetorically asks whether he and the people helping him are a bunch of saints and starts trying to justify herself]]. She deceives Sophie into thinking Akash cheated on her, breaking her heart and driving a wedge between them for no apparent reason besides pettiness. When she and Akash find themselves in a pickle, she comes up with a [[CooperationGambit plan to cooperate]] and tries to kill him when he has helped her and is no longer useful to her. In short, she lies, manipulates, and double-crosses people unhesitatingly when it suits her purposes, only looks out for herself, is wantonly cruel, and shows no remorse for any of her crimes including murder. |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Angst}}'': The unnamed killer is practically a textbook example of a low-functioning psychopath. He has zero remorse or guilt for any of his crimes, and indeed gains pleasure from the murders he commits. He shows no control of his impulses, selecting victims on random whims and making up poorly thought-out plans on the fly. His functioning is so poor that unlike other example of criminal psychopaths, he can't present himself as even remotely normal, constantly making others uneasy around him. |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Arachnicide}}'': The unnamed drug lord, who is positively chipper as he talks about having his enemies torn apart by giant spiders. |
| 27 | * Captain Robert E. Walton in ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'', a coldhearted Confederate officer who has no loyalty to the rebellion beyond a desire to win and is willing to kill his own men to achieve that. He doesn't even blink when killing a child. |
| 28 | * ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': Biff Tannen. At face value he's a BarbaricBully, but subsequent scenes show a lot of inclinations towards darker crimes with the only thing holding him back being self-preservation. In [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 the first film]], he tries to run over "Calvin Klein" (really Marty [=McFly=]) in public for tripping him and attempts to rape Lorraine Baines. Things hit their zenith in [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII the second film]]; when a younger Biff gets hold of an almanac handed to him by an older version of himself, he uses the knowledge to enrich himself, singlehandedly turn Hill Valley and other parts of the world into a CrapsackWorld, murders George (even crowing that no one will ever find out who did it because he has the cops in his pocket), and forces Lorraine to marry him, abusing him and her kids as much as he can. When the 1955 version sees "Calvin Klein" again near the end of the film, he attempts to run him over again, with an abject look of glee on his face. |
| 29 | * Kit from ''Film/{{Badlands}}'', who goes on a cross-country murder spree, and his vacuous girlfriend Holly. Kit is obvious, given the casual and untroubled way he goes about murdering people. But one of the more interesting things about the film is the suggestion that Holly is just as bad a sociopath as Kit is, and maybe worse. There's her narration, which throughout the film casts their story as a fairy-tale romance while Kit is going around murdering people. She shows nothing but DullSurprise as Kit's body count mounts, except for one time when she slaps him after he kills her father. She has an idle and pointless conversation with Cato while a gut-shot Cato bleeds to death. And while Kit at least has an emotional connection to her, she doesn't seem to love him that much at all, and she eventually casts him off when she gets bored. As they are living a quiet existence in the woods for a few days following her father's murder, Holly says of Kit: |
| 30 | -->''"At times I wished he'd fall in the river and drown, so I could watch."'' |
| 31 | * ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' adaptations: |
| 32 | ** ''Film/TheBadSeed1956'': Rhoda Penmark, a seemingly perfect child who is secretly a petty murderer. When she wants something, and somebody is in the way of her getting it, she simply kills them and takes it. She doesn't even blink after murdering someone, wanting to play and have a snack not an hour after drowning a boy for his penmanship medal. She can play the innocent child, successfully manipulating her mother who knows she's a skillful liar. However, even her manipulations are punctuated by bouts of violent rage. |
| 33 | ** The 2018 remake directed and starring Creator/RobLowe out of its way to show how much of a sociopath Emma Grossman is. From practicing how to charm people in the mirror, to manipulating the adults around her, to showing clear signs of this to her father until he comes to the conclusion that she is this, even sending her to a psychiatrist, who she is able to fool. [[spoiler: And Emma setting up her father for the murders she committed after she confessed to him and [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it, which is different from the other endings.]]]] |
| 34 | * Catherine Tramell of the ''Film/BasicInstinct'' series is a rare example of a female sociopath in popular culture. A charismatic, seductive, [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] author, FemmeFatale, pathological liar and SerialKiller, she manipulates and causes the deaths of nearly everyone in the story, including many of her lovers and her own parents, largely for her own personal gain, amusement and to inspire her novels with no real remorse whatsoever. She is even described as such by multiple characters in the films. |
| 35 | * ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': |
| 36 | ** Most portrayals of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] depict him as one of these, but ''Film/Batman1989'' shows Jack Napier, the man who becomes The Joker in this film, as a cold-blooded PsychoForHire who murders people for money and fun and treats everyone he encounters as victims, tools, or obstacles even ''before'' his transformation into The Joker. Said transformation merely loosens his ability (or desire) to hide this aspect of his personality in public. |
| 37 | ** [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyTheJoker The Joker]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is easily one of the most accurate depictions of a sociopath/psychopath in modern cinema. The Joker [[FauxAffablyEvil is talkative, convincing, a great conversationalist]] and even [[LaughablyEvil funny]], so he's fully capable of earning the trust of others with his wit and cunning; Possesses high self-perception and a sense of self-efficacy, which is quite typical of malignant {{narcissist}}s; He commits crimes [[ForTheEvulz to satisfy his sadism and his tendency to boredom]]; He's a [[ConsummateLiar pathological liar]] who routinely deceives, lies, swindles and manipulates to advance his plans, [[{{Sadist}} or even to play with the minds of his victims]]; Shows zero remorse or guilt for his actions, lacks realistic goals by leading a nihilistic and misanthropic lifestyle, his behavior is unpredictably murderous and unpremeditated; And doesn't keep his promises, betrays anyone, and generally has no rules. He also rationalizes his crimes under a cynical, nihilistic and self-centered viewpoint, which is quite common in sociopaths the inability to accept responsibility for their actions. |
| 38 | ** Arthur Fleck/Joker in ''Film/Joker2019'' has become this by the final act. His capacity for empathy has drained away completely; he not only feels no remorse for any of his murders but actually seems to take pride in them and revels in destruction and chaos. He most likely kills his therapist, the only victim of his who's never wronged him. |
| 39 | ** [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyBane Bane]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' is an interesting case of someone who acquired sociopathic/psychopathic traits thanks to his upbringing and background, even if his loyalty to Talia seems like a very underdeveloped empathy. Since we learn his backstory, he was literally born in one of the worst prisons in the world, and that trauma has certainly hardened him to the point of making him an individual with frank traits of sociopathy/psychopathy: the man is a great talker, a [[ConsummateLiar pathological liar]], an [[ManipulativeBastard exceptional manipulator]], never expresses any remorse or guilt for everything he does, possesses a [[FauxAffablyEvil prominent superficial charm]], is arrogant, possesses high self-perception and a sense of self-efficacy, and seeks strong emotions ([[ThrillSeeker need for stimulation]]). He's also [[AxCrazy incredibly sadistic and violent]], has nihilistic life aspirations, rationalizes his actions, minimizes the consequences of his actions [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans under the guise of bringing justice]], and has no problem committing acts of terrorism, genocide and mass murder. That said, if he's a ''real'' sociopath, he would certainly be a sociopath with shades of MoralMyopia. |
| 40 | ** ''Film/TheBatman2022'': |
| 41 | *** The Riddler turns out to be a low-functioning example despite his exceptional intelligence. He has poor emotional maturity, and while his plans are calculated, he's personally very immature and impulsive in committing his acts of violence and destruction and feels no remorse and shame over his actions. He has a very black-and-white perspective on whose justified or not, [[spoiler:and he's incredibly self-assured about his actions being beneficial and that only his perspective matters at the end of it all.]] |
| 42 | *** Carmine Falcone. Behind that charming persona is a heartless murderer who seeks to maintain himself as the top dog of Gotham. [[spoiler:He blackmailed Thomas Wayne with a reporter's death, looted the Renewal funds after Thomas' death, staged a phony drug sting operation so he could monopolize the drug business, and killed several innocents who unwittingly stumble on his dirty little secrets. He even treats his biological daughter, Selina, as trash, attempts to murder her with no hesitation, and proudly boasts of how he killed her mother while strangling her.]] |
| 43 | * The ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' remake [[AdaptationalVillainy version of Gaston]]. He is very [[TheCharmer charismatic]], especially when attempting to woo Belle and offering to help Maurice rescue her, but [[FauxAffablyEvil it's clear that he only acts this way for his own benefit.]] As a [[SociopathicSoldier former army captain, he misses the war he fought in (his happy thoughts involve blood, explosions, countless widows)]], so much that he hunts [[ForTheEvulz for no reason other than to have things he can kill]] and [[GlorySeeker gain a "hero" reputation from it]]. What's worse, he admits that he has no qualms of hunting in the most inhumane ways possible, but even worse, when Maurice rightly refuses to let him marry Belle, he leaves him to die at the jaws of the wolves. And finally when accused of the crime, he uses his charm to dismiss Maurice as a madman, therefore saving his own skin. Not to mention, he speaks of his courtship with Belle in hunting metaphors, referring to her as prey. When Belle proves the Beast's existence, Gaston, rather than responding solely to clues of Belle's feelings for the Beast, [[RabbleRouser immediately starts riling the villagers up and painting the Beast as a danger that needs to be killed]], showing that [[BloodKnight he really wants something to kill and is using the Beast as a target for his homicidal urges.]] What makes him truly terrifying, is that whether it's [[WouldHarmASenior leaving an old man to the wolves]], [[KickTheDog abusing and]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betraying a loyal friend]], [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe forcing marriage on a girl who has no interest in him]], and killing a innocent creature, Gaston is [[TheUnfettered willing to commit all these crimes]] [[LackOfEmpathy without a shred of guilt]] whatsoever in order to get what he wants. |
| 44 | * ''Film/{{Bit}}'': Vlad Manfred Castaneta, a hedonistic vampire who has spent centuries making women into sex slaves with no regard for the trauma they go through. When he escapes from his imprisonment, he goes on an entitled rant about how he was showing his victims love, and shows absolutely zero issue treating the other vampires like literal puppets, showing he sees them as nothing more than possessions. |
| 45 | * ''Film/BlackButler'': [[spoiler:Lady Hanae Wakatsuki acts like Shiori's kindly aunt, but is secretly a terrorist mastermind willing to kill anybody who gets in the way of immortality. She also has no problem selling out her co-conspirators to save her own skin, and is pretty convincing at faking remorse.]] |
| 46 | * ''Film/TheBlackRoom'' has Gregor de Berghman, who murders his brother for the barony and proceeds to use his newfound power to kill random women and cover it up. |
| 47 | * ''Film/BloodAndBlackLace'': [[spoiler:Massimo Morliacchi murders his supposed best friend to marry the guy's wife and take his money. When he's blackmailed by one of his employees, he murders her before cutting his way through various other women to get a diary with incriminating information. His ills are deliberately brutal in order to make the police think it's a sex maniac, and he pretends to be a cop to trick his wife into falling to her near-death, before trying to gaslight her when she does live.]] |
| 48 | * ''Film/TheBridesOfSodom'': Lord Dionysus, a ruthless vampire who flat admits he "collects people's weaknesses." He has no problem lying through his teeth, and only seems to care about his own society's laws when breaking them would be bad for him. He sees everybody as a possession, gaining leverage over people whenever he can and having a collection of sex slaves to satisfy his every desire. |
| 49 | * ''Film/{{Brightburn}}'': The titular supervillain Brandon Breyer has all of the major criteria. He has a massive superiority complex as evidenced by his comparison of a wasp during class; he is extremely intelligent; he lacks any genuine emotions and goes as far to fake them in order to knock the suspicion off of him; and he ultimately feels no remorse for any of his atrocities. It could also be a byproduct of his alien race under the interpretation that they sent him to Earth to conquer it. |
| 50 | * ''Film/BubbaTheRedneckWerewolf'': The Devil acts like a smooth-talking salesman, while [[JerkassGenie gleefully twisting every deal]] and causing random chaos for his own amusement. |
| 51 | * ''Film/CastADeadlySpell'': [[spoiler:Amos Hackshaw, a sorcerer who is willing to sacrifice his own daughter and summon the Old Gods to destroy the world so long as he can rule over the ashes.]] Considering that he's a former detective turned ruthless crime boss who is perfectly fine with having people murdered in horrible ways, and is knowingly and willingly working with the above in exchange for power, it's safe to say that Harry Bordon is one as well. |
| 52 | * ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'': Charles "Chucky" Lee Ray was a sadistic SerialKiller in life before transferring his soul into a Good Guy doll through voodoo. Chucky exhibits artificial charm when dealing with whoever he tried to transfer his soul into; he lacks empathy for any of his victims which even extends to his girlfriend Tiffany and children; and ultimately has no regrets for any of his many murders. |
| 53 | * ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': Sweet Pete shows no remorse for disfiguring and enslaving countless toons for his mockbuster empire. Once his plan gets thwarted, he spitefully attempts to ''murder'' Chip and Dale, all the while completely disregarding the safety of his workers and the innocent bystanders in his path. |
| 54 | * ''Film/CitizenX'': Andrei Chikatilo, who vents his feelings of inadequacy by raping and murdering children. |
| 55 | * Vincent from ''Film/{{Collateral}}''. He's even described as such, in-story. |
| 56 | * ''Film/Conspiracy2001'': |
| 57 | ** Nazi official UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich shows all of the classic traits: Superficial charm, glibness, personal manipulation, compulsive recklessness ("the secret to enjoying life is to live dangerously," he says), and an utter lack of empathy. Creator/KennethBranagh came away from the role convinced that inside the man, there was no principle, no passion, and no emotion except for a desire to dominate others. He went so far as to say that Heydrich didn't even seem especially anti-Semitic: The man simply lusted after power, and the fact that said power meant the murders of six million Jews was incidental. |
| 58 | ** Karl Eberhard Schöngarth enjoys bullying others and has no apparent empathy. However, Heydrich's bullying relies on subtle threats and is coated in impeccable manners, while Schöngarth is more blunt, uses his imposing stature to intimidate others, and is openly rude and mocking to anyone he considers beneath him. Heydrich is a sociopath who masks his true nature, which Schöngarth either cannot or does not bother to do. |
| 59 | * ''Film/Criminal2016'': Jericho, due to brain damage suffered as a child. He doesn't feel hate, love and empathy, leading him to commit a long string of senseless crimes. By the time he gets used as a guinea pig in the film's experiment, he's spent most of his life in prison. |
| 60 | * ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': The Baroness lays out her philosophy late in the film: Everyone else is an obstacle, and if you care about what an obstacle wants or feels, you're dead. At one point she carelessly cuts Estella's arm while observing her work, and not only doesn't apologise, but even casually looks at the injury and tells one of her assistants to find a shade of red that matches Estella's blood. It's later revealed by John that [[spoiler:the Baroness hated becoming pregnant and even tried to have the child ''killed'' because she found it impossible to care for or love anyone other than herself]]. |
| 61 | * ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'': Mayor Wharton, who is perfectly willing to ruin the lives of the poor and people of colour for political gain, and [[spoiler:only repents when threatened with Hell]]. |
| 62 | * Hans Gruber in ''Film/DieHard''. Ruthless, totally lacking in empathy, charismatic, intelligent but prone to DisproportionateRetribution. He's got it all. Creator/AlanRickman took note of this for his performance. His idea was that Gruber wasn't especially malicious towards others or even outright evil; he just wanted money and if heads rolled because of it than no skin off his back. |
| 63 | * In ''Film/DoctorSleep'', the True Knots are a group of quasi-immortal beings who inflict torture on children with the Shining as a means of feeding off their life essences, which is dubbed steam. |
| 64 | * ''Film/Dracula1931'': Count Dracula presents himself as a genteel aristocrat, but the slightest provocation reveals him to be a predator in human skin, barely capable of passing in human society and thinking nothing of draining a child's blood or mind controlling people for minor tasks. |
| 65 | * ''Film/{{Dread}}'': Quaid acts like a normal guy, even somewhat charismatic. However, he's completely obsessed with conquering fear, and has no lines he won't cross to do it. The MaskOfSanity starts to slip when he attacks a woman for lying to him; soon after he starts torturing his friends to get better results. Even his FreudianExcuse of watching his parents die has nothing to do with any kind of care so much as fearing for his own life. |
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| 69 | * [[PsychoForHire Agent Kruger]] from ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' is explicitly described as a human rights violator, with multiple accounts of murder and rape, a reputation he gleefully lives up to in the film itself. He really gets his jollies out of messing with people in the most horrible of ways and when he finds out that [[spoiler:Max has the codes to overturn the system on the station itself]], Kruger intends to steal them and [[spoiler:turn Elysium into his own private little hell]]. |
| 70 | * ''Film/EscapePlan'': Hobbes, while nominally on the side of "The Law," fits into this like a comfortable pair of slippers. He displays an utter lack of concern for basic human dignity, or indeed the ''lives'' of prisoners and guards alike who he views as possessions rather than people, indulges in no real emotions except for taking a cold and analytic pleasure in absolute control and causing suffering (symbolized by his meticulously maintained and lifelessly-beautiful taxidermy butterfly collection), and is '''so''' disconnected from basic human feeling that he showed the same calm, almost amused, indifference [[spoiler: to not only his hired men, but towards his own imminent fiery death at the film's end]]. |
| 71 | * Nathan from ''Film/ExMachina'' lacks empathy and seems to crave stimulation and control over other people. |
| 72 | * Geaer Grimsrud from the film ''Film/{{Fargo}}''. A laconic, nearly emotionless man with a love of pancakes, he reveals his true colors when he murders a police officer and several innocent people nonchalantly, and later [[spoiler:kills an innocent woman for simply making too much noise and shoves his partner into a wood chipper for mouthing off to him]]. He does all of this [[DissonantSerenity without changing his emotionless demeanor whatsoever]]. |
| 73 | * ''Film/FireWithFire'': David Hagan, a neo-Nazi who robs and kills with impunity, going after the families of anybody who tries to stop him. He shows absolutely no true feelings for anyone, and loves to hurt people. |
| 74 | * ''Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023'': |
| 75 | ** [[spoiler:Steve Raglan a.k.a.]] William Afton is a manipulative, psychopathic SerialKiller. He feels neither empathy nor remorse over his many crimes, which include butchering several children and trapping their souls. He perceives his crime spree as a childish game, like his kills are toy collections. [[spoiler:Even attacking and stabbing [[OffingTheOffspring his own daughter]] only horrifies him for a few seconds before he completely gets over it]]. He can act superficially charming enough to lure multiple children away to their deaths; he rants and raves and resorts to violence when he can't get his own way. |
| 76 | ** [[EvilAunt Aunt Jane]], though not a SerialKiller, ticks off many of the boxes for a textbook sociopath herself. She sees her only known surviving relatives, her niece and nephew, as nothing more than a means to covet extra money for herself and a hindrance to that goal, respectively; she cares nothing for the well-being of either of them; she shamelessly uses manipulative tactics, including CrocodileTears, to get what she wants; and she has no compunctions against resorting to criminality to get her own way (or discussing it in front of her laywer). |
| 77 | * ''Film/TheFleshEaters'': Professor Peter Bartell, a scientist sent to study Nazi war experiments. When he discovered that some of them made flesh-eating microbes, he took the data and went to a deserted island for further research, putting the microbes into the water so he could study their attacks firsthand. When outsiders land on his island, Bartell pretends to be kind for long enough to stab them in the back. |
| 78 | * ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'': Dr. Viktor Frankenstein, who took his father's offhanded comments about human efficiency far too literally and decided to make all of humanity into crude automatons that serve only him. When his dad tried to have him committed as a child, he murdered him without question, and eventually started working for Nazi Germany despite being Jewish himself. That said, he has no true loyalty to the Nazi cause, and ends up using them in his experiments as well. |
| 79 | * Dave "Diamond" Matthews from the 2009 made-for-television movie ''Film/{{Freefall|2009}}'' is most likely one. He sells mortgages to families, whether they can repay it or not and cheerfully laughs after concluding a sell. In the movie, he runs into an old schoolmate named Gus and sells a mortgage to his family as well, leading to the destruction of Gus' life. When confronted by the latter, he shows no shame or remorse for what he did, and after his company goes bankrupt, he just finds another similar job and continues to destroy lives. His success is also due to his apparent charm and concern for his clients immediately establishing himself as a guy who just wants to help and "feels distress for the destruction of society because of men who only care about money" (although he is the exact same kind of person whom he pretends to protects his clients from). While he also has a girlfriend, he doesn't hesitate to cheat on her with ''two'' women in a bar earlier in the film. |
| 80 | * ''Film/{{Freeway}}'': Bob Wolverton pretends to be a kindly psychiatrist, but moonlights as a necrophiliac SerialKiller of teenage girls. His motive is pure hatred, viewing his victims as "garbage people." When one of his victims fights back and cripples him, Bob plays the victim and uses the courts to destroy her life. Even his wife is nothing but an accessory, with him showing no affection to her whatsoever. |
| 81 | * ''Film/{{Frontiers}}'': Karl von Geisler, Sr., a Nazi who fled to France and founded a hotel where he started a CannibalClan. He views his family as henchmen, only liking Karl Jr. because he's competent, and kidnapped a little girl to use as his personal SexSlave. |
| 82 | * ''Film/TheGalaxyInvader'': Joe Montague is a low-functioning example, a redneck who spends most of his life abusing his family and lazing about. When he learns there's an alien nearby, he sends all his friends to their deaths without blinking to get ahold of it. [[spoiler:When his family finally try to escape his madness, he simply takes out his shotgun and prepares to kill them all.]] |
| 83 | * In ''Film/GetOut2017'', while we have some profoundly evil bad guys, [[spoiler:Rose underneath her nice girl persona is disturbingly empty and serene, responsible for the fates of a lot of innocent people. Even after she's the last of her family standing, she seems to not care about their deaths on any level, even after seeing her brother's corpse.]] |
| 84 | * ''Literature/TheGirlNextDoor'': Aunt Ruth is charismatic, manipulating her own children and some of the neighborhood children into torturing Meg Loughlin in return for alcohol and cigarettes. She lacks empathy towards Meg and her sister Susan, and she has the impulsive need to abuse Meg, even for things that Meg had not done. |
| 85 | ** Her sons are a ZigZagged case. While they lack empathy and their only real emotions they display are rage and sadistic joy, they clearly care for their mother especially when one of the boys try to kill David when he killed Ruth. |
| 86 | * A convincing case can be made about [[TheDon Michael Corleone]] of ''Franchise/TheGodfather'', in distinct contrast to his father, Vito. Michael is extraordinarily cold and ruthless, lacks empathy, is perfectly willing to murder his own family members [[spoiler: (Carlo and Fredo)]], and ultimately ends up destroying nearly all of his personal relationships due to his selfishness, possessiveness, and pursuit of power. On the other hand, he can also be very superficially charming and is a skilled manipulator and liar. |
| 87 | * ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]] cares nothing for other lifeforms, except for going out his way to kill and toy with humans for his own sadistic amusement and using Earth's Titans as extensions of his will (and fighting them to the death if they're able to oppose him); he forces all of Earth's Titans to aid his HostileTerraforming of the very planet which they normally maintain natural balance on, and he's completely okay with devastating an entire planet and all its native life to serve his own goals (not only that but he actively seems quite happy to do so, and it's suggested he's doing what he is not out of necessity but merely because he loves killing). |
| 88 | * Amy from ''Film/GoneGirl'' is a film study of this. She pretty much ticks off all the boxes; superficial charm, lack of empathy, penchant for manipulation, [[spoiler: and she'll go to whatever lengths she thinks are necessary to get what she wants/needs. Her narration during the mid-film PlotTwist has her all but admit this. Her husband Nick also shares a lot of these traits, and admits it as well. The attorney Nick hires to represent him when the whole country thinks that he killed her tells him that he and Amy are the most fucked up people he's ever met.]] |
| 89 | * ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'': Michael Myers, a SerialKiller who wants to slaughter his family and anybody who stands in his way for no apparent reason. While some continuities provide a supernatural explanation, most simply interpret him as pure, unrelenting evil. |
| 90 | * ''Film/{{Heathers}}'': J.D. is a tragic example. He's initially seen as charming, but he's also reckless and has poor impulse control, manipulates and lies to people around him, doesn't consider other people's feelings beyond what they mean to him personally, and has a constant need for stimulation and gets off on the murders he commits. It's emphasized that his horrible life partly made him what he is, though, and ultimately in his own twisted sense of morality he believes that he's doing people a favor. The musical downplays this, as he has shown to be capable of love and remorse for his actions. |
| 91 | * ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'': Frank Cotton, a depraved occultist who willingly summons demons to experience the height of pleasure and pain, and kills people to get his body back when he gets sick of it. He shows nothing but contempt for his brother, and lust for his niece, but can pretend to love his brother's wife to make her help him. That said, he has nothing but a sadistic joke when he mistakenly kills her. |
| 92 | * ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'' gives us the titular serial killer, Henry. As if his "hobby" alone wasn't enough of a clue, he displays an extremely limited emotional capacity, and unlike many of the examples above, is completely uncharismatic and fairly unintelligent; he's clever enough to kill people without getting caught, but even in that regard he's more of an idiot savant. |
| 93 | * ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt'': [[VillainProtagonist Jack]] is a SerialKiller with a body count roughly in the sixties, and has a grandiose sense of self-importance, trying to excuse his multiple murders as being statements on art. He also admits to Verge that the whole concept of empathy has always eluded him. |
| 94 | * ''Film/IAmNotASerialKiller'' has [[MeaningfulName John Wayne Cleaver]] as the main character, a teenager diagnosed with sociopathy who tries to figure himself out by following a serial killer who is a literal monster. |
| 95 | * ''Film/TheIceman'': Kuklinski, but even more so with Pronge, who goes out of his way to murder a 17-year-old girl and casually offers to kill his partner's wife and children on the condition that he kills his family in return. |
| 96 | * ''Film/TheInvisibleMan2020'': Adrian Griffin physically, mentally, and emotionally abuses his ex-girlfriend Cecilia and [[spoiler: fakes his death]] in order to drive her to insanity to force her to come back. He even [[spoiler: sabotages her birth control to make her pregnant]] against her will. |
| 97 | * ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': Henry Waters. A corrupt and merciless businessman who's also a SerialKiller who kills people who interfere with his ambitious plans (and ForTheEvulz as well) with no remorse at all. [[spoiler: In the alternate timeline we finds out he's also killed Jimmy, driving his father to madness and becoming another Angel Killer under his control, and he has no qualms in killing his own brother after find out he planned to transfer out of town.]] |
| 98 | * ''Franchise/JohnWick'': |
| 99 | ** ''Film/JohnWick'' |
| 100 | *** Iosef Tarasov. He beats up John Wick [[EvilIsPetty for refusing his offer to buy John's car]], [[KickTheDog kills his puppy out of spite]], and shows no remorse over it. Even after his father tells him the puppy was a gift from John's late wife, he clearly could not care less. He even has no problem [[DirtyCoward having innocent people killed to slow John's pursuit of him]]. |
| 101 | *** Ms. Perkins. While Wick and the other villains have personal reasons for wanting to kill each other, Perkins's only motivation is money. She willingly breaks The Continental's rules in order to get her target, even murdering a colleague [[spoiler:(Harry)]] in cold blood, and shows absolutely no remorse doing it. On top of that, she plays up the superficial charm with Wick and even takes [[{{Sadist}} sick pleasure]] in watching [[spoiler:Marcus]] get tortured and killed. |
| 102 | ** ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'': Though affable at first glance, the Marquis is very unempathetic and arrogant; he repeatedly goes out of his way to commit atrocities just to demonstrate his own power, and overall, he is only concerned with his own advancement. |
| 103 | * ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' remake [[AdaptationalVillainy version of Shere Khan]]. Even for a tiger, he is [[AxCrazy bloodthirsty]] to the point that he will simply kill [[ForTheEvulz for no other reason but sport and fear]]. He can [[FauxAffablyEvil be charming, reasonable and polite, and then kill someone a second later]], as he shows with [[spoiler:Akela]]. He is [[TheUnfettered all too happy to break the Law of the Jungle]], but if it benefits him, he will refer to it. His grudge with Mowgli is far greater than would be reasonable as he refuses to leave the man-cub be after Mowgli leaves the wolf pack. He blames humanity for half-blinding him even though it would not have happened if he had just left [[spoiler:Mowgli and [[PapaWolf his father]]]] be. And he also refuses to accept any blame for his actions, along with showing disgust to the wolf pack for adopting Mowgli. |
| 104 | * ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': A case could be made to identify the ''Velociraptors'' as sociopaths, raised in an alien environment with no natural socialization (possibly even deliberately in order to make them act the way the park management wants them to act for the amusement of tourists), which leads to them breaking out of their cage and hunting down anything that moves. |
| 105 | * ''Film/TheLastSeduction'': Bridget shows pretty much all of the classic traits. She lies, manipulates, and discards others for her own gain, expresses no remorse for any of her actions -- including at least one murder and ruining another man's life -- and requires stimulation by mentally toying with people out of boredom or rather shamelessly using them to get off, and the only time she ever discusses morality she seems to regard it as an alien concept. |
| 106 | * ''Film/LeaveHerToHeaven'': Ellen Berent Harland who becomes obsessed with author Richard Harland to the point that she indirectly murders his paraplegic younger brother by allowing him to drown in the lake; deliberately tosses herself down the stairs to kill her unborn child out of fear that the child would take her husband's attention; and poisons herself after forging a letter incriminating her half-sister Ruth of murder. |
| 107 | * The [[BigBad Big Bads]] of Creator/SergioLeone's {{Spaghetti Western}}s films tend to be this: [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars Ramon Rojo]], [[Film/ForAFewDollarsMore El Indio]], [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Angel Eyes]], [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest Frank]] and the [[Film/AFistfulOfDynamite col. Reza]]. All these villains show a complete lack of empathy, guilt or remorse, and some of them commit atrocities ForTheEvulz. |
| 108 | * ''Film/LittleSweetheart'': Thelma, a 9-year-old girl who is willing to blackmail, steal, spy and [[spoiler:murder her best friend]] to get her way. |
| 109 | * Butch Cavendish from ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', whose primary motivation is to fulfill his own selfish desires and murder anyone who so much as annoys him. |
| 110 | * ''Film/{{Ma}}'': Sue Ann appears to be friendly and charismatic at first despite her reclusive demeanor, but she is quickly revealed to be a psychotic woman who constantly pushes for Maggie and her friends to party at her house to feed her need for stimulation. She lies frequently [[spoiler: one example being when she lied about having pancreatic cancer to keep the teens wrapped around her finger]]. She did not have an iota of remorse for any of her misdeeds, and despite claiming to love her daughter [[spoiler: Genie]], she nevertheless had no qualms with [[spoiler: drugging her to keep her from leaving the house]], and subsequently [[spoiler: attempting to throw her into the fire]]. |
| 111 | * ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': [[BigBad Immortan Joe]] exhibits the traits of one. He's highly charismatic, having built up a cult around himself and convinced hundreds of people to [[DeathSeeker martyr themselves for him]]. He also treats everyone around him as resources and objects; he forces people with O-negative blood to serve as donors and beautiful, healthy women to be his [[SexSlave Wives]]. While he's distraught when [[spoiler:Angharad, his favorite Wife, is mortally wounded]], he clearly cared about her as a valued possession rather than a human being, seeing as he imprisoned and raped her, and doesn't bat an eye when [[spoiler:she and her unborn child finally succumb to their wounds, and in a deleted scene leaves her body for the crows like it's a piece of trash]]. His aforementioned outburst is also quite brief, and he's otherwise driven solely by wounded pride. |
| 112 | * ''Maleficent duology'': |
| 113 | ** [[AdaptationalVillainy Stefan]] is portrayed as this in ''Film/{{Maleficent}}''. Years after befriending the titular fairy, he learns whoever will kill her will be made king, Stefan lures her away, and cuts off her wings. He spent years in fear of Maleficent's retaliation, and when it does arrive, and his daughter Aurora has to go into hiding, Stefan [[SanitySlippage only gets]] [[FromBadToWorse worse from there]], becoming more obsessed with his need to kill Maleficent to be concerned with his dying wife and the safety of his own men. When Aurora is finally reunited with Stefan, [[spoiler: he has her locked up while preparing an elaborate trap to torture and kill Maleficent]]. |
| 114 | ** He's even more evil in the novelization of the film, which shows [[spoiler: him manipulating Maleficent from the start, letting her think he was giving her a jewel he had when he had another in his pocket. There is also a scene in the novel, where after taking Maleficent's wings, the king laughs that Stefan for thinking he had a shot at becoming king -- so Stefan suffocates him and coerces the other nobles into going along with it, daring them to deny him the crown when they all heard the king promised the throne to the man who killed Maleficent. He also claims to feel remorse over what he's done to Maleficent, but during the final fight, he subverts this by stating he regrets ''not'' killing her when he had the chance]]. |
| 115 | ** In ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'', Stefan's successor as BigBad, Queen Ingrith, is even worse and a much straighter example. She has no love for her own family, has no issue of any sort with committing murder or genocide, proves capable of ''faking'' affection, is AxCrazy, and has been shown to be ''exellent'' at lying and manipulating. While Stefan suffered ''massive'' AdaptationalVillainy compared to his animated counterpart, he at least [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuinely cared about his daughter]], regretted physically harming Maleficent at first, and [[PetTheDog didn't appear to]] harbor FantasticRacism for fairies. Ingrith doesn't even have ''those'' virtues -- showing no love for her family, no remorse for her actions, and a virulent hatred of fairies. |
| 116 | * ''Film/{{Malignant}}'': Gabriel manipulates Madison's visual cortex to make her think she was living her life normally while he took the wheel. That, and he would pretend to be friendly to his twin sister only to subtly push her to commit increasingly heinous actions. He is greatly self-centered and part of his resentment towards Sydney had to do with him feeling obsolete. But it is made crystal clear that he only values Madison because he needs her body to survive and thinks nothing of psychologically tormenting her. While he was motivated primarily to take out the doctors who performed the surgery to remove him from Madison, all the other murders suggest a form of stimulation on his end. And, naturally, he had no remorse for any of his monstrous behavior, instead trying to pin the blame on others. |
| 117 | * Dave in ''Film/TheManFromLaramie'', who understands nothing beyond his desires. He arranges to deliver a whole wagon load of rifles to the Apache, just so they can take out Will and Kate Canady's rival ranch. When Vic points out that they'll surely also massacre the town of Coronado with its women and children, Dave spits back "They're not mine!" |
| 118 | * ''Film/MarsAttacks'': All of the Martians are sociopathic by nature. They engage in pointless violence and killing ForTheEvulz, have no conscience or morals, constantly lie about coming in peace and wanting to be allies to trick the Earthlings, are highly hedonistic, and show narcissism by rearranging Mount Rushmore to resemble them, and they can fake emotions. The one bit of criteria they do not check is that they [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily actually seem to care about each other]]. |
| 119 | * ''Film/{{Martyrs}}'': [[spoiler:The Mademoiselle acts like an affable philosopher, but thinks nothing of torturing people to death in an obsessive quest to find the secrets of the afterlife.]] |
| 120 | * ''Film/MenBehindTheSun'': Dr. Shiro Ishii, who has wormed his way back into commanding Unit 731 despite being demoted for corruption prior. After taking command, he turns the unit into a nightmarish group of torturers, conducting medical experiments for his own advancement. And it ''is'' solely for his own advancement, as his sending subordinates to die because they know of his prior corruption shows. |
| 121 | * [[Creator/DarrenAronofsky Darren Aronofsky's]] ''Film/Mother2017'': |
| 122 | ** [[GodIsEvil Him]], mother's husband, is a charismatic figure allowing waves of people into the house so he could bask in their worship. Even when he claims to love mother, Him is otherwise emotionally strained by her, and expresses impulsive tendencies where he craves more praise despite knowing of the cyclical nature of the setting. |
| 123 | ** Humanity as a whole is an AlwaysChaoticEvil race who suffer from impulsiveness which they satiate by committing atrocities such as murder, slavery, warring. Humanity also unwittingly cause the death of mother and Him's baby only to solidify their perversions by [[TwistedEucharist eating the slain baby]]. |
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| 127 | * ''Film/NaziOverlord'': [[spoiler:Dr. India Eris, a British scientist who joined up with the Nazis to do horrifying experiments. She can torture dozens of people without blinking, admits she has no real attachment to anything and is always looking for new stuff, and only expresses any kind of morals to try and make the heroes look like hypocrites.]] |
| 128 | * ''Film/{{Nekrotronic}}'': Finnegan, post-demonic corruption, cares for nothing but her apocalyptic schemes and sadistically devours souls on the regular, but can pretend to be a loving mother to manipulate people. |
| 129 | * Alistair in ''Film/NewTownKillers''. When Sean asks him why he has been [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting and killing people]], Alistair reply is a simple "Because I can". |
| 130 | * ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'': Dr. Philip Decker, a PsychoPsychologist who kills families because he despises humanity, gaslights Boone into thinking he did them, and declares war on the Nightbreed for no apparent reason. Throughout all this, he remains deathly calm, seemingly feeling nothing but hatred. |
| 131 | * [[VillainProtagonist Louis Bloom]] from ''{{Film/Nightcrawler}}''. Although never outright confirmed, it is fairly apparent that Lou is a sociopath. All of his human interactions appear to be faked, with the intention of getting what he wants out of the people around him. He quickly shows that he's perfectly comfortable stealing, cheating and killing to get what he wants, never showing an ounce of remorse. He tells Nina that "A friend is a gift you give to yourself," which is intended as a feel-good aphorism, but is also literally relevant to the way Lou uses people to suit himself. Toward the end of the film, Lou outright states that he hates people and is willing to hurt them for his own gain. |
| 132 | --> '''Lou:''' What if my problem wasn't that I don't understand people, but that I don't like them? What if I was the kind of person who was obliged to hurt you for this? I mean physically. I think you'd have to believe afterward, if you could, that agreeing to participate and then backing out at the critical moment was a mistake. Because that's what I'm telling you, as clearly as I can. |
| 133 | * ''Film/{{Nighthawks}}'': Wulfgar, Wulfgar, '''WULFGAR'''. He is a cold, manipulative terrorist who easily fakes being [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly and charming]], but shows absolutely no real feeling toward anyone, even his comrades. |
| 134 | * Anton Chigurh from ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''. He seems to view people much like cattle, and shows absolutely no remorse or consideration for any of the horrible deeds he performs throughout the movie. Real life psychological professionals actually listed Anton as [[https://www.businessinsider.com/famous-psychopaths-study-400-movies-most-realistic-2017-12 the most accurate depiction of a psychopath ever put on film]]. |
| 135 | -->''"What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?"\ |
| 136 | "I don't think that's how I'd describe him."\ |
| 137 | "Well, how ''would'' you describe him?"\ |
| 138 | "I guess I'd say he...doesn't have a sense of humor."'' |
| 139 | * ''Film/PainAndGain'': Daniel Lugo has exactly ''zero'' redeeming characteristics and feels no remorse for any of his actions. |
| 140 | * ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': Captain Vidal, a soldier willing to torture and kill as many partisans as he has to to make sure fascists take power in Spain. He cares for nothing but his own power and legacy, not even blinking when he [[spoiler:shoots his adopted daughter]] to keep his biological son under his thumb. |
| 141 | * ''Film/PerfectAssassins'': Dr. Samuel Greely, who performs psychologically abusive experiments on children to turn them into assassins, frames his assistants to prevent himself from being caught, and laughs at his victims being beaten. |
| 142 | * Lord Ambrose D'Arcy in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1962'' is cold and cruel, seeing everyone around him as merely tools to be manipulated and used for his own benefit. He cares for no one but himself, and it doesn't matter to him who he hurts in order to get what he wants. During the production of "his" opera, he dismisses anyone who has a bad thing to say about his conduct (in one scene he dismisses literally ''all'' the members of the orchestra). He acts charming to Christine, who he plans to make the lead soprano... until she refuses to [[SleepingWithTheBoss sleep with him]] and thus is promptly dismissed. The opera itself is later revealed to have not been D'Arcy's own work, but stolen from a struggling composer who came to him for help in getting it published (and would later become the titular Phantom). D'Arcy has no qualms whatsoever about taking credit for the opera, and no remorse for ''any'' of his villainous actions. |
| 143 | * Norman Stansfield of ''Film/TheProfessional'' is a low-functioning kind of sociopath despite somehow being a [[DirtyCop DEA agent]]. He has a HairTriggerTemper, [[FauxAffablyEvil can appear superficially charming but can't maintain it]], and shows no empathy for human life whatsoever. |
| 144 | * ''Film/RedWerewolfHunter'': Gabriel, a werewolf who believes he should be able to kill humans for fun, and decides to turn the opposition's boyfriend into one of him just to spite her. In fact, he's so inhuman that he's the first werewolf to be able to turn at will. |
| 145 | * ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles'': Lieutenant Mueller, a cold-hearted Nazi who doesn't even blink at the thought of killing children as an interrogation tactic. |
| 146 | * ''Film/{{RIPD}}'': Bobby Hayes, who thinks nothing of killing his partner and supposed best friend, afterwards shamelessly comforting his grieving wife. [[spoiler:He also turns out to be an undead abomination that seeks to unleash the dead upon the Earth, and is absolutely chipper when telling said grieving wife that she'll be his sacrifice to do it.]] |
| 147 | * Archibald Cunningham from ''Film/RobRoy''. Archibald Cunningham is a thief, a philanderer, a rapist and a murderer who makes his way in life off of other peoples' money. Superficially charming enough to get most women into bed, but doesn't give a damn about them beyond sex -- including if they kill themselves out of shame afterwards. He betrays and robs his own patron, then gets him to frame another man for his own crime. A smug, spoilt, unloved {{Psychopathic Manchild}} who is used to others covering for his misdeeds, he ultimately gets cut in half for his laundry list of crimes and nobody -- including his own ally -- mourns for him afterwards. |
| 148 | * ''Film/TheSadist'': Charlie Tibbs is a SerialKiller ForTheEvulz who gets his jollies from his victims' helpless terror, and spends most of the movie toying with three [[spoiler:(then two, then just one)]] stranded motorists. [[spoiler:He gets his own taste of helpless terror when he stumbles into a den of rattlesnakes, as the film's only surviving character gets away]]. |
| 149 | * ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': |
| 150 | ** Other than a sliver of affection for [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Jill]] and his apprentices excluding Hoffman, John Kramer doesn't seem to be capable of empathy anymore, placing numerous people in {{Death Trap}}s that, while survivable, inflict permanent physical and psychological wounds, and [[NeverMyFault adamantly refusing to acknowledge]] his culpability in their deaths; as far as he's concerned, he only sets up situations where others will either fail to survive or their choices will be responsible for the deaths of others. Lampshaded by one of his victims, Anna, who while no saint by any means, calls him out for his lack of compassion. While corrupting Hoffman early on in their relationship, he even explicitly states that purging feelings of empathy or remorse are necessary to do what he does. |
| 151 | ** Mark Hoffman, John's successor as the Jigsaw Killer, seriously surpasses his mentor on how many lines he's willing to cross. While the former had a moral lesson in mind with his doings and gave his victims a chance to survive, he makes half his traps inescapable in the belief that murderers can't redeem themselves, being hypocritical in that statement while claiming so, while the other half force their victims into making sadistic choices, where one can live only at the expense of another's death. His partner Amanda Young is a BrokenBird with standards and was horrifyingly blackmailed by him simply because he didn't like her. He's also willing to murder people whom he worked with for over 20 years just to get away, as well as putting Special Agent Peter Strahm in an inescapable trap and blaming him for the murder he himself committed in ''Saw V''. He fully crosses the line when he murders his mentor's ex-wife with a Reverse Bear Trap in ''Saw 3D''. Also, unlike John, he's a {{sadist}} who enjoys the carnage he causes and people suffering in the games and [[AtLeastIAdmitIt openly admits as such]]. |
| 152 | ** Anna, one of John's earliest victims as shown in ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', is revealed to be a high-functioning example. From the get-go, she's nothing if not resourceful and a team player, going out of her way to help the other people in the game survive when she could have easily let them die... but then it's revealed that most of this was [[ManipulativeBitch an act]] to get the other victims to trust her and help her escape, and she's one of the most vile characters in the entire ''franchise''. To wit, she [[OffingTheOffspring smothered her own baby in a fit of rage]] and then made it look like her husband had accidentally rolled on top of and thus suffocated the baby, leading to him [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself in prison out of crippling guilt]]. Anna never once shows any remorse or sadness over the mess and refuses to accept responsibility for her actions, even when John directly confronts her with it, and when outed and left in the final room, she drops the act completely and doesn't hesitate to try to kill Ryan, the only other survivor, to save herself. |
| 153 | * ''Film/Scarface1983'': Alejandro Sosa, a cartel boss who thinks nothing of having a man hanged from a helicopter, ordering a lawyer's wife and child killed to make sure he's eliminated, or [[spoiler:sending an army of goons to kill the man who stops it]]. |
| 154 | * ''Film/SchindlersList'': Goeth and Höss are standout examples. The former murders people on a whim to alleviate boredom, the latter is annoyed by all the paperwork that comes with being a mass-murderer. |
| 155 | * ''Film/{{Scream}}'': |
| 156 | ** ''Film/Scream3'': [[spoiler:Roman Bridger. He has a complete LackOfEmpathy toward Maureen on account of her rape, taking to masterminding her murder, simply because she didn't welcome him with open arms when they meet again. This carries on towards his half sister Sidney, who he grows jealous over because she survived two killing sprees, became famous over them, and wanted the fame for himself, so he uses them against her. He has a pretty high sense of self worth, pretending to be the victim, refusing to take responsibility for his choices. Everyone else is gore fodder for him. When he and Sidney seemingly connect before his death, it's a distraction.]] |
| 157 | ** ''Film/Scream4'': [[spoiler:Jill Roberts is even ''worse'' than Roman. She is willing to murder all of her friends and even ''[[{{Matricide}} her own mother]]'' simply to recieve FifteenMinutesOfFame. She even kills her [[TheDragon cohort Charlie]] after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he was done with fulfilling her plan]]. She then [[CainAndAbel stabs her cousin Sidney]] and [[WoundedGazelleGambit mutilates herself to play victim]]. She also has no problem with trying to finish off Sidney ''who is in intensive care'' and is willing to kill ''[[HeKnowsTooMuch anyone]]'' who knows her secret.]] |
| 158 | * Mob enforcer [[TheDreaded Don Logan]] from ''Film/SexyBeast'' is a particularly potent sociopath, [[NoSocialSkills completely lacking in social skills]] and [[MarriedToTheJob having nothing in his life other than his job]]. He also has a nasty HairTriggerTemper and is so disliked that [[spoiler: when his boss figures out he's been killed he doesn't even care and seeks no vengeance against the person that did it]]. |
| 159 | * Uncle Charlie from ''Film/ShadowOfADoubt'' is a very realistic example. He can easily turn on [[FauxAffablyEvil superficial charm]] to impress or manipulate people, but when the mask slips -- as it does with increasing frequency throughout the film -- he reveals a cold, ruthless personality, a complete lack of regard for others' feelings, and his firm belief that HumansAreBastards hiding underneath. And, as his niece Charlie discovers, [[spoiler:he's a serial killer who uses his charm to lure rich widows into marriage before strangling them and running off with their money, regarding his victims as little more than fat, useless animals ripe for slaughter. He has equally little regard for his own family; after realizing what Young Charlie knows, Uncle Charlie first ruthlessly manipulates her by playing with her emotions, then tries to murder her to protect his secret even after she promises not to turn him in so long as he leaves town.]] This is combined with WeirdnessCensor to chilling effect, as most people either shrug off or outright don't register their glimpses BeneathTheMask. |
| 160 | * ''Film/Shazam2019'': Sivana doesn't bat an eye over any of the people he has killed. He'll go as far as [[WouldHurtAChild shoving Billy's head underwater]] when he's not in his superhero form, not bothered about the fact that he's trying to murder a kid. |
| 161 | * Professor Moriarty is portrayed as such in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. People are just pawns to him, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness employment termination involves life termination ("No loose ends")]], he has a ginormous ego, [[FauxAffablyEvil has superficial charm]], and is completely ruthless. Holmes lampshades this by diagnosing him with "moral insanity", a dated term for ASPD. |
| 162 | * ''Film/{{Smiley}}'' gives us [[spoiler: a ''group'' of them. It turns out "Smiley" was a group of students trying to spread the urban legend of the titular killer by pranking the protagonist, Ashley. When they think the drove her to suicide, the ''celebrate'' and congratulate themselves for a job well done. One of them ''does'' briefly question the morality of their actions, before getting killed by the ''real'' Smiley]]. |
| 163 | * ''Film/SSDoomtrooper'': Dr. Ullman, a coldhearted MadScientist doing experiments to make Nazi super soldiers. He does not care about his bosses' cause, only that he can win the war and revolutionize genetics at the same time. |
| 164 | * ''Film/Stitches2001'': Mrs. Albright, a demon who manipulates people into fulfilling their desires so she can trap their souls in eternal torment and [[spoiler:intends to do this to the entire world on a bet with the Devil]]. |
| 165 | * ''Film/{{Stoker}}'': [[spoiler: Uncle Charlie is one of these in the screenplay, superficially glib, manipulative and charming, but he seems to have a seriously low threshold for physical aggression and beats several people to death with his bare hands or whatever's handy. He also seems to be incapable of leading a functional adult life independently of others. His affection for his niece is more as an extension of himself than anything else. India seems to be likewise, but she's more of the Hollywood, unnaturally-cool-and-collected variety]]. |
| 166 | * ''Film/TheStrangeThingAboutTheJohnsons'': In public, Isaiah is a charming, successful man with a promising marriage. In private, he is a cold-hearted rapist who has been treating his father as his personal plaything for years and is unwilling to admit that it's his fault for doing so. |
| 167 | * ''Film/Strays2023'': Doug is not only extremely immature and selfish, but he is also [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals horrendously abusive and neglectful towards his dog, Reggie]], showing no remorse for abandoning him over and over again. [[spoiler:He will go as far as attempting to ''kill'' Reggie with a baseball bat with no hesitation whatsoever.]] |
| 168 | * ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'': Thor is psychotic even by the standards of his largely-emotionless race. He's introduced murdering a puppy simply because he ''saw it'', and then goes on a rampage once ordered to retrieve a deserter. He has no loyalty to anyone, not even his superiors, blatantly violating orders whenever he decides he wants to. Anyone he sees as useful, he beats into submission and obedience; anyone who ceases to be useful dies by his hand. |
| 169 | * ''Film/{{Thursday}}'': Out of Nick's old friends from his [[ReformedCriminal former life of crime]], Dallas is the most likely to qualify. She murders a cashier for annoying her in the opening scene. Later, she brings up aspects of Casey's former life, ruining his chances at adoption, just to hold him captive. She decides she wants to have sex while waiting for Nick to show up, making it clear to Casey [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil she doesn't care that he's married and he has no choice in the matter]]. She also brags about the possibility that he'll father her child after she makes him orgasm and kill him. This woman has no sense of morality and it's a good thing that she never has that child [[spoiler: thanks to a bullet in the head]]. |
| 170 | * ''Film/TigersAreNotAfraid'': El Chino, a politician who leads a brutal cartel that deals drugs and HumanTrafficking. He shows no real regard for anybody, executes his own men when it suits him, and can't even feign kindness when he's letting people live, instead simply acting completely indifferent to them once they meet his ends. |
| 171 | * In ''Film/TheTwoFacesOfDrJekyll'', Hyde feels neither remorse for his crimes nor hatred for Jekyll, viewing him and everyone else as either toys to be played with or obstacles in the way of his plans. |
| 172 | * ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'': |
| 173 | ** Creator/DannyMcBride only [[ItsAllAboutMe cares about himself]], eventually turning into a serial cannibal and brutally murdering James Franco. |
| 174 | ** Creator/JonahHill may [[FauxAffablyEvil appear kind and compassionate]], but his hatred for Creator/JayBaruchel is [[IrrationalHatred irrational]] and drives him to want to kill him. He also attempted to push Jay into the hellhole and purposefully tossed a knife at him to make it appear like an accident. |
| 175 | * ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'': |
| 176 | ** Chad Morgan, a misogynist who fixates on his English professor, drugging her so he can take compromising photos and blackmail her into a relationship. He flat-out admits that he does not care what she feels about anything, only his own needs. |
| 177 | ** [[spoiler:Julie Eldridge, who pretends to be a mild-mannered English teacher and perfect victim for predatory men, only to manipulate them until she gets bored and kills them. She does not do this out of any moral objection to sexual predation, but solely for her own amusement.]] |
| 178 | * ''Film/{{Us}}'': Two (or three) fold: |
| 179 | ** [[BigBad Red]] who is leading a campaign of wiping out the counterparts of the Tethered and taking over the surface world. She also has no affection for any of her Tethered family, outright calling Umbrae a monster and [[spoiler: exhibits no emotional pain at seeing Pluto self-immolate himself]]. |
| 180 | ** [[spoiler: The Adelaide we had been following throughout the film]] is actually a Tethered who [[spoiler: strangled and imprisoned the real Adelaide/Red in the Tethered society while she took her place]]. However, she seemed to have outgrown that. |
| 181 | ** The Tethered in general are a psychotic race of clones that the government had created to control the populace above ground but were abandoned because they shared the same soul with their host. They take psychotic glee in murdering their counterparts and actively kill anyone else who got in their way. The one that stands out aside from the aforementioned [[spoiler: fake Adelaide]] is Umbrae who laughs maniacally in nearly every scene she appears in, murders a random man while chasing after Zora, and [[spoiler: even when she is horribly mangled and bleeding out]], she laughs giddily throughout. |
| 182 | * ''Film/{{Valentine}}'': Paige Prescott is a high-functioning, non-criminal type that nonetheless has some unnatural aspects to her behavior. She generally has a glib, deadpan reaction to everything, has a need for stimulation that manifests through [[ReallyGetsAround promisciousness]], lures a guy by promising sex only to tie him up and pour wax on his crotch when he proves not to her liking, participated in framing Jeremy Melton for assault as a pre-teen and shows no remorse for ruining his life when the truth comes out, instead blowing off the threat even though it's heavily implied Jeremy killed one of her friends. |
| 183 | * ''Film/{{Vampirella}}'': Vlad Dracula, who kills the king of his planet because he believes drinking artificial blood has made vampires soft, and then goes to Earth with his army to prey on humanity. |
| 184 | * Raymond in ''Film/TheVanishing'' is a textbook, chillingly realistic example of this. He even admits it to Rex. |
| 185 | * ''Film/TheWarriors'': Luthor from the Rogues kills the gang leader Cyrus, and blames it on the Warriors, all because he felt like doing it. |
| 186 | * ''Film/WarDogs'': Efraim Diveroli. Beneath the exterior of a [[BigFun jovial]] [[SelfMadeMan entrepreneur]] is a ''deeply'' selfish person who is willing to [[ManipulativeBastard say whatever he thinks the person he's talking to wants to hear]] and throw those he supposedly cares about under the bus to save his own skin. One of the first major hints to his true nature is a scene where, having just shamelessly used their shared Jewish identity to help win over a skeptical investor hours before, immediately tries to spin a story involving his being a devout Christian to calm down an angry client. Towards the end of the film, he tells his [[WeUsedToBeFriends former childhood friend and business partner David]] a sob story about watching their old favorite movie Scarface in a last ditch effort to get him to overlook his numerous acts of corporate backstabbing and manipulation. When David [[ShutUpHannibal cuts him off,]] he cheerfully admits Scarface wasn't even on. |
| 187 | -->'''David:''' Are you ever ''not'' acting? |
| 188 | ** It should also be mentioned that the beginning of his downfall was when, despite easily having enough money to pay what they agreed, [[EvilIsPetty Efraim rips off a contractor]] [[LaserGuidedKarma who subsequently rats them out to the government.]] |
| 189 | * ''Film/WerewolvesOfTheThirdReich'': |
| 190 | ** Dr. Josef Mengele, who giddily experiments on humans and wolves to make werewolves for the Nazis to take over and only disapproves of other tortures because they're a waste of test subjects. He emotionally neglects his wife, only to order her adulterous lover become his first werewolf in a possessive rage. [[spoiler:Despite all this, he abandons her to be blown to Hell with the base when it's made clear he'll lose.]] |
| 191 | ** Officer Hess, a brutish thug who abuses the prisoners for his own amusement, and is introduced making a guy shoot himself under threat of killing his family, only to eliminate them the second his victim dies. He's a more low-functioning example, showing utter ignorance of all social mores down to the expectation of privacy when changing clothes. |
| 192 | * ''Film/WhatKeepsYouAlive'': [[spoiler:Jackie, a BlackWidow who murders her wives partly for the insurance money and partly in a desperate attempt to feel ''something''. She's such a textbook sociopath that we see her practicing a grief reaction in front of a mirror.]] |
| 193 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Judge Doom, the sadistic and heartless high judge of Toontown whom he rules over with an iron fist, occasionally horribly killing any toon he feels like by melting in the Dip regardless of whether they've actually committed any crimes. While he claims to do it to bring order among toons, this is actually an excuse to vent his xenophobic prejudice against them. The worst part however [[spoiler: is that 1) Doom is a toon himself under human disguise, 2) He's the one truly responsible behind all the bad things that happen in the movie, 3) He was planning the genocide of his own race for pure profit, 4) He's the same psychopathic toon criminal who killed Eddie Valiant's brother by smashing him with a piano.]] |
| 194 | * ''Film/WillysWonderland'': [[spoiler:Jerry Robert Willis]] is a [[ImAHumanitarian serial cannibal]] who fed on unsuspecting customers in his restaurant alongside his crew. After he and his crew transmitted their souls to the animatronics via Satanic ritual, he continued to devour the townspeople of Hayesville, Nevada. The worst part is that the majority of his victims were ''[[ChildEater children]]''. |
| 195 | * Christine Vole from ''Film/WitnessForTheProsecution''. She has no reaction to her husband Leonard's arrest for murder (then a capital crime in England), does not visit him, and has no sympathy for his plight while he is clearly relying on her for support. She brushes off any suggestion that she should offer any; the most sentiment she has is that she's grateful he married her so [[CitizenshipMarriage she could get out of postwar Germany]]. She also carried on an affair and plotted to testify against him so she could run away with her lover (whom she manipulated into attacking his ex; said ex sells this information to barrister Sir Wilfred). [[spoiler:So she'd have you believe. In reality it's all a plot to get Leonard acquitted for the murder he really did commit. ''He'' turns out to be quite the sociopath: an admitted drifter with an unsuccessful invention who let a lonely, wealthy widow fawn over him before convincing her to put him in his will and then murdering her. Then, he discards Christine even though she loves him enough to cover up his murder and perjure herself without question -- for a woman that he ran into outside a travel agency. He casually brushes off Sir Wilfred and Christine's horrified reactions when he reveals all this. No wonder Christine stabs him]]. |
| 196 | * ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': |
| 197 | ** [[spoiler:Akikazu's daughter Kanako]] is extremely successful in manipulating anybody (setting up the narrator, convincing classmates into a [[spoiler:prostitution ring]], using people to commit murders), without taking any responsibility or regretting anything. |
| 198 | ** Aikawa is a dirty cop who is ordered to kill Kanako's classmate Nagano and is very willing to do this and shows strong signs of sadism and pleasure while committing evil acts. Akikazu asks him why he doesn't kill his infant son (who is nearby in a car) and while this never happens, Aikawa seems to be ready to do it whenever he feels like it. |
| 199 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 200 | ** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Sebastian Shaw [[FauxAffablyEvil displays politeness whenever he has to]], but has no empathy whatsoever, manipulates humans and mutants alike for his own agenda, and commits his atrocities with either zero remorse or barely-concealed glee. |
| 201 | ** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Francis "Ajax" Freeman can't feel anything both in the sense of not feeling any pain and in the sense of feeling no emotional response. Deadpool calls him a psychopath, which is something different. |
| 202 | ** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': |
| 203 | *** Dr. Zander Rice is a heartless MadScientist who is responsible for killing off the entirety of the mutantkind for greed, treating the mutant children like objects, ordering the X-24 mutant to massacre an entire innocent family while he gleefully witnesses it, and having absolutely no sense of compassion whatsoever. |
| 204 | *** Donald Pierce does the majority of Rice's dirty work, and any funny scenes he has are in such a darkly twisted manner that they bring nothing but discomfort to the audience. |
| 205 | ** ''Film/XMenDarkPhoenix'': Vuk shows no qualms about killing multiple people, manipulates Jean for her own agenda, and does not show any empathy to anyone. She also has a disdain for emotional attachments, believing them to make people weak. |
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