Monster / Live-Action TV: G to O

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G - J

• Galidor: Gorm, Conqueror of a Thousand Worlds, is the overlord of the Outer Dimensions, seeking to take over Galidor throughout the series. Having enslaved and wiped out entire species, Gorm also burnt Jens's organic body; wiped out Euripides's people and Tepol's armies; and keeps the Outer Realms dependent on him using a virus on their computers. Formerly the Chief Councilman of Queen Raina's court, Gorm saw her romance with Samuel Bluetooth as a threat to his power, and set up a riot on the world of Kek to kill him; failing that, he turns on Raina herself, later trying to kill her child with Samuel, seemingly tossing Samuel to his fiery death. In his pursuit of Nick, Gorm captures his friend Allegra, nearly forcing her into a pit of wasps; tries to corrupt Nick himself; and later forces Allegra to listen as Nick is mauled by a beast of his. Finally reaching the gates of Galidor, Gorm's self-justifications are dismantled by his former pupil Lind, at which point he absorbs her and Nick's friends into an explosive orb he intends to launch, willing to risk Galidor's destruction to breach the gates. Even when beaten, it is revealed he has been keeping Samuel alive and captive for years.
• Gangs of London:
  • Season 1:
    • Unche "Mosi" Mossanya is an understated, but brutal Nigerian crime boss, whom even other mob bosses fear due to his viciousness. Introduced drowning a pleading victim in concrete to become a support pillar in his new building, with the heavy implication this is a common tactic of his, Mosi strikes a deal to construct a luxury skyscraper in London with Luan. Following the money being stolen, Mosi takes it as personal affront and arriving in London, has his men massacre the investment bank that handled the deal with machetes despite them being unknowing civilians, chopping off their hands before hacking eleven people to death. Threatening to murder Luan's entire family, after capturing him Mosi has Jin Li, who sold Luan out, carved to death, despite promising Li he could go. Putting off killing Luan solely to force him to watch as Mosi kills his wife, Mosi's only regret is that he can't yet do the same to Luan's children.
    • Episode 3: Cole is a smug, creepy sadist who works as an infamous hitman, his actions disgusting even hardened gangsters. Hired by Sean Wallace as part of his plan to deal with Lale, Cole attacks her base, murdering several workers and kidnapping Lale's sister and her two young children. While Sean only intends to intimidate Lale, Cole has no intention of letting the family go. Murdering Sean's doorman for attempting to assist him whilst he was wounded, Cole gleefully beats Eliot Finch within an inch of his life, only holding off on killing him to force him to watch as Cole slowly murders the children with a fire axe.
  • Season 2: Koba is a swaggering, sadistic, yet pragmatic Georgian crime boss and international Arms Dealer, who unlike most gangsters holds no standards and views love as a weakness. Brought in by the Investors as their enforcer in London, Koba pushes the gangs to the breaking point whilst taking most of their profits, punishing any disobedience by brutally torturing their loved ones. Following the Algerians buying unsanctioned guns, Koba forces Faz to swallow three bullets before making him murder his own cousin. Discovering Luan's dealings with Miriam Wallace, Koba kidnaps his beloved Mirlinda, forcing Luan to torture Miriam's location out of Darragh and then sends a helicopter to wipe out her compound. Despite promising to return Mirlinda, Koba instead has her Buried Alive to force Luan to hand over his entire operation. Capturing Ed Dumani, Koba brutally tortures him for hours, intending to keep him alive as a source of knowledge, then slowly kill him and his family when that runs out. Hungry for more power, Koba accepts Sean Wallace's deal to betrayal the Investors, leading to them being rapidly murdered, and take London for themselves. To secure his position, as a "sweetener" for their deal, Koba kidnaps Lale for Asif to torture to death.
• Gap-dong/Gab-dong: Gap-dong himself, in truth police chief Cha Do-hyeok, is responsible for a wave of serial murders that saw multiple women throttled to death after being assaulted. Gap-dong helped to blame a mentally handicapped man for the crime, resulting in his suicide. In present, Gap-dong inspires new killers, seeking to have his copycats blamed so he can continue murdering without the burden of the Gap-dong name, and when caught intends on escaping via the statute limitations while mentally torturing the only victim who escaped him after he forced her and two other women to play rock-paper-scissors to determine who would live. He then attempts to have the witnesses against him murdered, and is so egotistical, he has one of his erstwhile protégés killed for daring to say he surpassed him.
• The Gentle Touch's "Decoy": "The Frog", revealed to be Max Trenton, is a journalist who moonlights as a Serial Rapist. Frequently abducting women off the streets of London, Trenton abuses and rapes them, leaving them traumatized afterward. Posting stories about his rapes in the press that downplay the awfulness of his crimes, Trenton tries to rape and kill Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes when she uncovers his true identity.
• Girl Gun Lady: The unnamed Killer Game Master is the creator of the Girl Gun system and orchestrator behind the Girl Gun Fight. Posing as a shop owner, the game master sells plastic models to schoolgirls to draft them into the Girl Gun Fight, where they are separated into four teams and forced to kill each other. Any schoolgirls who lose all their lives are permanently erased from the real world, with not even their own families remembering them, while the Lady Commanders who lose the game are smashed to pieces. The winning team fares little better, as its players are sacrificed to turn their Lady Commander human in the real world, leaving the Lady Commander as the only survivor. After Alpha Tango wins the game, the owner has the losing Lady Commanders kill off the remaining players before attempting to sacrifice Alice's own team members to turn her into a human, forcing her to go along with the ceremony when she resists.
• The Girl Who Sees Smells/Sensory Couple (2015 series): Kwon Jae-hee, the true identity of the Barcode Killer, is the Big Bad of the show. Afflicted by a cognitive disorder that leaves him unable to recognize faces, Kwon is suspected to have murdered his adoptive American parents in an "accident" when their RV caught fire with them inside. After dropping out of Harvard Medical School when a psychological test deemed him unfit to be a doctor, Kwon returned to Korea and became a famous chef, solely because his profession allowed him to kill living things without reprimand, abandoning his future in medicine when he couldn't see himself saving lives instead of killing. Harboring a twisted idea that he could own human lives, Kwon began forcing people to chronicle their lives in empty books before suffocating them to death and carving barcodes onto their wrists as his way of reducing them to mere covers for his books, repeating this process in a 12-month cycle and collecting the books as morbid trophies. Starting with the ex-wife of a police detective, Kwon murdered Oh Cho-rim's biological parents and then, in a failed to attempt to eliminate the witness, slashed the throat of a girl who shared her original name, Choi Moo-gak's sister. Years later, Kwon murdered his own girlfriend and then the closest friend that he had to cover his tracks, "owning" their lives as well; when Kwon is baited into kidnapping Lieutenant Yeom Mi, Kwon tries to kill her anyway and is almost successful. Escaping custody when the van that was transporting him suspiciously fell into a river, taking the lives of innocent policemen, Kwon kidnapped Cho-rim on the day of her wedding with Moo-gak to kill them both, even after the latter showed him mercy.
• Gliniarze (Cops):
  • "Dla Elity" ("For the Elite"): Janusz Krzycki is a rich businessman who at first comes off as an abusive jerk who likes to bully his Ukrainian housekeeper, only to turn out to be far worse. Janusz invites young women who wish to be models into a special house where he organizes a "party" in which women are brutalized, raped, humiliated, beaten, and tied to chairs. One woman even says that rape is actually least bad thing that happens to them. And when one young woman spits on Janusz's face, Janusz orders his triggerman "Chudy" ("Skinny") to shoot her dead. Later, Janusz also orders Chudy to murder another woman who rebelled.
  • "W Rękach Bestii" ("In the Hands of the Beast"): Norbert Blatkiewicz believes all modern young women to be "sluts", so he kidnaps them and tortures them for hours—or even days—to "purify them of sin" before killing them. When his latest victim, 24-year-old Iwona, escapes and lies in the hospital, Norbert intimidates her to be quiet or else he will kill her 6-year-old daughter. After Iwona does ultimately agree to cooperate with the olice, Norbert comes to the hospital and attempts to poison her food, and when arrested, he defends his actions that he was only "helping".
  • "Przyjaciel" ("Friend"): Mirosław Bąk nicknamed "Miras", is the leader of a child trafficking organization. In the past, Miras kidnapped a child of a man in charge of an international adoption agency for refugee children and coerced him into cooperating into selling children to him. Under the guise of being adopted, refugee children from refugee camps in Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon are sold into slavery. One girl who was forced into prostitution committed suicide. When the same man whom Miras threatened started cooperating with police, Miras organized a meeting with him in which he attempted to fatally shoot him.
  • "Pułapka" ("Trap"): Bogdan Droździński is a former IT teacher who was fired for being too aggressive with students. Angry at the world and institutions for his problems and jealous of everyone else's success, Bogdan decided to create a terrorist organization where, through the internet, he recruits young men who feel rejected by society and/or their peers and has them commit various mass school shootings all around Poland. He also has his men torture a young woman and strap an explosive to her. Blaming everyone else for his own failings, Bogdan Droździński was nothing more than an egomaniac who wanted to feel powerful.
  • Bez Namysłu ("Without a Second Thought"): Radosław Klamra, nicknamed "Kamaz", is a leader of the Polish-Ukrainian human trafficking gang. Under him, women are kidnapped, forced into prostitution, shipped across the border, and later sold into slavery. When police find the women that still haven't been shipped, they had completely lost their minds from the trauma. When police officer Łucja Wilk arrests some gang members and shoots Kamaz, injuring him, Kamaz decides to get his revenge by hiring a criminal to kidnap Łucja and ransom her to the police. Kamaz lets the kidnapper do with Łucja as he pleases, which ends up with her getting raped and put in a critical state. Even when arrested, Kamaz decides to do everything in power to come out on top and reveals how Officer Olgierd Mazur lost control over himself and shot the kidnapper dead after the latter gloated to Kamaz about raping Łucja.
  • "Gdzie Jesteś?" ("Where Are You?"): Sławomir Zakrzewski is a child doctor with a very good reputation but who is secretly a pedophile who hires bandits to kidnap children from their parents. Sławomir locks them in his house where he sexually harasses them and rapes them. When seven-year-old Ignaś accidentally sees his face, Sławomir decides to kill him by lethal injection and says "naughty kids must pay"; it is highly implied that Sławomir killed other children before if they were unlucky to have seen his face. When arrested, Sławomir accuses the police of "breaking his ribs". While Sławomir lived a life as respectful child doctor and even had a child of his own, this was all a mask to cover his true self.
• The Green Hornet:
  • "Alias the Scarf": James Rancourt was a Serial Killer who terrorized the city decades ago, killing numerous victims by garroting them with a scarf in order to join the "great company" of Jack the Ripper, Attila the Hun and Bluebeard in immortality through fame, before disappearing and adopting the identity of an unassuming researcher at a wax museum. After a statue of The Scarf is placed in his museum's chamber of evil, he begins killing again, pretending to be his own wax statue. He starts by attempting to kill his partner and apparent friend at the museum, then rampages through the street, killing a man sleeping on a public bench and trying to kill several more before the police intervene. When confronted by a girl he used to confide in and who loved him he attempts to kill her as well to ensure his "immortality" by killing her, right before the Green Hornet and Kato apprehend him.
  • "Invasion from Outer Space" two-parter: Dr. Eric Mabouse is an ex-military researcher who now seeks ultimate power. Pretending to be an alien and kidnapping Lenore Case to get Britt Reid and the police to clear the roads, he and his gang steal a hydrogen bomb, with Mabouse fully intending to set it off simply for the power trip. When Ms. Case escapes, he orders her hunted and killed, and sets one henchman up to die with the Green Hornet and Kato in a Death Trap when he suspects him of disloyalty. When the police close in, Mabouse simply decides to leave the warhead outside the city and detonate it to destroy the city once he's gotten clear, and leaves another henchman behind to die simply for objecting.
• Greyzone: Al-Shishani, real name Rami Wahid, is one of the world's most dangerous terrorists and the cold, no-nonsense leader of the terrorist cell Iyad Adi Kassa] works for, though stands in stark contrast to the sympathetic, well-intentioned Iyad as a cruel man. In the present, Shishani has Iyad hold the drone inventor Victoria Rahbeck hostage and use her technological knowledge to help them create a drone, under the threat of killing her son Oskar. In his very first physical appearance, Shishani stabs a Muslim priest who worked for their organization for being an informant to the police. When Victoria tries copying a drone despite not having the authority to do so, her colleague and friend Linda comes and tries stopping her, leading Shishani to order one of his operatives to strangle and kill Linda. When the police investigate a room the terrorists recently were in, Shishani has a bomb planted in a backpack which explodes, killing dozens of officers in the process. In the final episode, Shishani changes the coordinates of their terrorist attack from the original target—a conference which was supposed to be full of Asshole Victims but which ended up being empty—to rigshospitalet, the biggest hospital in Denmark; just because. When Iyad betrays the group after the cruel change of plans and decides to spare Victoria and Oskar after Shishani orders them executed, Shishani coldly shoots him.
• The Gu Family Book: Jo Kwan Woong is an ambitious nobleman who destroys a man who was his friend and sends the man's daughter to be turned into a state gisaeng, or prostitute. He then attempts to rape her himself, stating that defiling her would be no fun if she didn't struggle, before discovering she has escaped. In retribution, he executes her brother and later engineers her betrayal of her Kumiho husband Wol-Ryung. 20 years later, Kwan Woong has a number of people in high level positions purged and murdered, and conducts a series of further murders, even killing the goodhearted Lord Park, brainwashing Park's son that it was his foster brother and raping Park's daughter. When Wol-Ryung returns as an amnesiac demon, Kwan Woong still comes off as the worse of the two by manipulating him for his own purposes. Even at the end, Kwan Woong confesses his actions were all to alleviate the tedium of life, with no remorse for his evil deeds.
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities:
  • "Lot 36": The previous owner of Lot 36 was an elderly man with a dark secret. Originally a weapons manufacturer for the Nazis who immigrated to America, the owner was also an occultist who made a pact with a demon. Using his own sister Dottie Wolmar's body as a vessel for the demon, the owner allowed the demon to carve out Dottie's face and inhabit her body, keeping her chained up inside his storage unit for several decades.
  • "The Autopsy": The "Traveler", the alien parasite contained within the body of Eddie Sykes, is a smug sadist that revels in its cruelty. Arriving on earth as a larva, the parasite infested the body of Sykes and kept him alive and conscious to enjoy his fear as it fed on his blood. Abducting and murdering numerous people, the alien soon risked discovery and triggered an explosion in a mine that killed 9 people. Preserving two victims to slowly drain them of blood, the alien prepared to be "rescued" and brought to the morgue. Upon being autopsied by mortician Carl Winters, the alien subdues him and autopsies itself, with Eddie Sykes feeling every bit of pain. Plotting to take Carl's body, the Traveler coldly vows to force Carl to experience every bit of agony as Eddie did, starting with devouring his close friend, Sheriff Nathan Craven.
• Hannibal:
  • Seasons 2 & 3: Mason Verger is the most sickening and twisted opponent Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham ever face. The heir to the Verger meatpacking empire, Mason lords his power over his sister Margo, having abused her physically, mentally, and sexually for many years. Knowing she will be disinherited if Mason dies without an heir, Mason mocks her with an intent to rape her to father that heir. When Margo sleeps with Will Graham in desperation, Mason arranges for her reproductive organs to be removed in the most invasive procedure possible. Mason also emotionally abuses every child he encounters, being a brutal pedophile who also molests some at a summer camp he patrons, so he can collect their tears for his martinis. Upon being paralyzed, and disfigured by Hannibal, Mason grows even worse. Finding only joy in the suffering of others, Mason plans to torture Will and Hannibal to death so he might dine upon the latter. Providing his sperm with Margo's eggs, Mason gives her a "surrogate", letting their child grow in the body of a sow so it will die a painful death, just for the sick joy of Margo's anguish.
  • "Trou Normand": Lawrence Wells is a brutal Serial Killer who has been active for decades, seeking to secure his "legacy". Having gotten his start by killing his lover and her husband in a jealous rage, Wells gained a taste for murder and began a years-long spree in which he claimed 18 lives, staging most of them as accidents or suicides to avoid detection. When Wells finally wants credit, he digs up all of his victims and erects a massive totem pole of unholy depravity in his own honor, reacting to the reveal that his own estranged son was unintentionally his last victim with nothing but annoyance at his "legacy" being tampered with.
  • "Su-Zakana" & "Shiizakana": Clark Ingram is a social worker who seeks to murder his charge Peter and frame him for his killings after destroying his mind and driving him totally insane. Ingram is a sadist who enjoys kidnapping women and burying them alive, leaving them to suffer a slow and agonizing death underground, which he has done to 16 women at least by the time he is caught.
• Harlots: Lord Harcourt Fitzwilliam, Marquess of Blayne, is the leader of the Spartans, a rape and murder sex cult. Through the Spartans, Harcourt has young women, especially virgins, provided so he may know the thrill of raping and murdering them. Terrorizing his lonely sister Isabella, Harcourt had raped her at a young age, glorying how he "broke" her, while financially controlling her in the present day. Harcourt abuses and hurts all around him, forcing a failed Spartan to kill himself to keep himself safe, and after suffering a loss against the heroines, he demands the normally unscrupulous brothel keeper Lydia Quigley give him a new victim to rape and murder. Harcourt even has his own daughter with Isabella seduced by a servant to ruin her, just to hurt Isabella more. Finally, Harcourt attempts to rape and murder Lucy Wells, being a living near-embodiment of misogynist sadism.
• Harper's Island: John Wakefield is a legendary killer from Harper Island's past who was thought to be dead, only to resurface and continue killing. The former lover of Sarah Mills, he was abusive to her, leading Sarah to ask for help from Sheriff Charlie Mills, who had Wakefield arrested on false charges. Let out of prison for good behavior, Wakefield returned to the island, where he killed 6 people, including Sarah, only to be shot by Charlie and fall off a cliff. Surviving, Wakefield went into hiding, and met up with his illegitimate son Henry Dunn years later, to train him as a killer. At the start of the series, the father and son duo plan to lure out Henry's friends and family, including Charlie and his daughter Abbie, into Harper's Island, where both of them would kill everyone. Lurking in the shadows, Wakefield secretly killed many of the victims, and set up a warning to manipulate and scare the group. He would mutilate many of the bodies, subject his victims to painful deaths like burning alive and sawing in half, and was willing to try attacking children. By the end of the series, he and his son manage to kill the majority of the cast, and left Harper's Island desolated before John gets betrayed by Henry. John Wakefield's action made him a legend, an infamous serial killer single-handily responsible for Harper's Island's infamously dark and bloodstained past.
• The Haunting Hour's "Scary Mary": The titular ghost, based on the Urban Legend of Bloody Mary, was superficially vain in life, burning to death because she was too busy looking at herself in a mirror. Taking a vicious streak as a ghost, Mary takes to stalking young beautiful girls before dragging them to her realm to imprison her until they become her slaves. There Mary would remove their faces and frequently wear them to see if a boy has called upon her, reacting in a violent rage when none does. When she gets her hands on a girl named Hannah, her friends try searching for her before her friend Eric learns the means to enter Mary's realm. Upon doing so, Mary forcibly takes Hannah's face, and locks her in a trunk posing as Hannah when Eric comes to rescue her. When Eric sees through her, and manages to rescue Hannah, Mary mocks Eric by saying Hannah has no face as her rage burns the farm house around them. Even as Eric and Hannah successfully escape, the episode's ending shows Mary is still stalking Eric.
• The Haves and the Have Nots: Veronica Harrington is the matriarch of the Harrington family. She regularly antagonizes her son, Jeffrey, for being gay. Just a couple of her methods of abuse are cutting him off financially; and blackmailing him into dating—and later impregnating—Melissa by threatening to have him incriminated for Wyatt's hit-and-run crime. Releasing Quincy from jail, she keeps him under her thumb by threatening to have his family killed, and orders Quincy to lay a brutal beatdown on Jeffrey. Discovering that her husband has been having an affair, she lights his mansion on fire while he is asleep in an attempt to kill him. When Wyatt goes to jail, Veronica arranges for an inmate to brutally rape him. She also had Justin arrested and arranged for his beating and rape in prison just because he slapped her; and had a hitman fatally shoot Maggie for sleeping with David. A true narcissist, Veronica was obsessed with making people live the life she wants them to live and won't hesitate to harm anyone who doesn't, including her own family.
• Heir to the Throne (1987): Commander Shih-Le, reputed as the Manchurian army's most ruthless, sadistic military leader, had entire armies opposing him wiped out in the past, often at the "advice" of his equally-sadistic eunuch advisor. Tasked with capturing the folk hero Zheng Cheng-gong, Shih-Le, at the eunuch's suggestion, ordered the mass purging of civilians in towns under his rule, with large number of innocent people killed and survivors corralled and a decree demanding Zheng Cheng-gong's surrender, or else a prisoner will be executed hourly. The genocide is also racially-motivated; Shih specifically targeting towns whose citizens are of Han descent like Zheng Cheng-gong's father, and overseen by the eunuch who gleefully carries out the killings, in one midnight massacre even ordering civilians dragged out their homes to be slaughtered; as Zheng Cheng-gong attempts mitigating the massacre with counterattacks and mass evacuations, Commander Shih-Le instead doubles down on his genocide by ordering two prisoners executed hourly.
• Helix Season 2: The immortal Brother Michael, aka Vincente Michel Du Bois, obsessed with producing a child like himself, presides over a cult of his own descendants, sterilizing the men and impregnating the women for generations. Any woman who refuses to go along with this voluntarily is strapped to a gurney, has her teeth and vocal cords removed and is forcibly impregnated, then tube-fed for nine months before being killed when her child is born; a huge boneyard full of toothless skulls outside the cult's grounds shows this has been going on for a very long time. Whenever Michael feels the cult has grown beyond his control, he performs what he calls a "thinning"—killing all but a handful of its members—before starting afresh.
• Hell is Other People (aka Strangers from Hell) (2019 series): Seo Moon-Jo is equally a Depraved Dentist and a Mad Artist. As the de facto leader of Eden Studio, Seo performs dental extractions without any sort of anesthetic and creates "jewelry" with the teeth that he pulled out, leaving the others to finish the job and tasking them with disposing of the bodies for him. When not torturing his victims, Seo enjoys searching for mentally vulnerable people and turning them into monsters like himself, and he's not above executing members of his own circle if they interfere with his work. Setting his eyes on Yoon Jong-Woo, Seo repeatedly manipulates his emotions to make him sink deeper into insanity and embrace his inner darkness, killing Yoon's boss and later a reporter who could have exposed the murders. Using Kang Sun-Woo as bait, Seo acknowledges that he tried his best but removes his teeth and leaves him to die anyway. In the climax, Seo succeeds in breaking Yoon's mind and sends him on a rampage, eliminating what remained of his "family". Even in the face of death, Seo confesses that he doesn't need an excuse to be evil and dies satisfied, his influence living on through Yoon.
• H/JACK: Edgar Janssen is the ruthless co-leader of the Cheapside Firm, a crime syndicate based in London. To ensure he has subordinates that will do what he says, Janssen blackmails various people throughout his local community by threatening to kill their loved ones, including children, in order to force them to do certain jobs for him, which include dispatching hitmen to kill various people. As such, when the syndicate is busted and Edgar, alongside his partner John Bailey-Brown, his partner-in-crime, are arrested, Janssen coerces several people to hijack Flight KA29 to blackmail the U.K. government into releasing them. Once they are released, Edgar then has his double agent on the flight take control of the cockpit by killing the pilot. Edgar then tries to let Flight KA29 crash into Central London, which would kill hundreds, just so he can get all the money he wants from the financial scheme he and John are making out of this disaster.
• Hinterland Season 3: Robert Owen is a retired chief superintendent and the true abuser at the Pontarfynach children's home. Under the guise of giving the children "opportunities" and "rehabilitation", Owen took to sexually abusing them, claiming dozens of victims over several years. Uncaring when the 14-year-old Caitrin John falls pregnant by him, Owen bludgeons a local GP called Vaughan to death when Vaughan came to suspect that the children were being abused, and manipulated his underling Prosser and Dr Blake into helping him cover it up, framing Vaughan as the culprit. They then make it look like Vaughan committed suicide out of guilt, thereby staining an innocent man's name with his own sexual crimes. Undeterred, Robert continued his abuse for years until the home was shut down, and thwarted, blackmailed and threatened anyone who attempted to investigate his crimes, with several of his victims later committing suicide. Goading Prosser into murdering former detective Iwan Thomas when he gets too close to the truth, Owen also had his former victim Kieron Jones murdered in prison when he threatened to go public. When Prosser breaks free of his hold and realizes that Owen was in fact the abuser, Owen gloats that Prosser and Dr Blake mean nothing to him and that they merely served as "useful tools", before attempting to break Prosser mentally by claiming they are the same kind of man.
• The Hitchhiker's "The Miracle of Alice Ames": Brother Charles lures in young homeless girls to preach them the values of God's love, encouraging them to spread it. Actually manipulating the girls into prostituting themselves to abusive men for money, Charles almost evicts the titular Alice Ames from his church for getting mysterious wounds on her hands and feet. Using Alice as his meal ticket to earn more money and prostitutes, Charles grows to value Alice as his own Sex Slave, having his way with her behind the scenes.
• The Holy Pearl (2011): Shi You Ming is the lord of demons, once spurred by the priestess Xian Yue of Nanyue. Spitefully killing Xian Yue in her lover's form, Shi You Ming orders a series of attacks on Nanyue, massacring villages, while having subordinates sew political discord. Forcing beaten foes and corrupting good humans into his service, Shi You Ming also horribly abuses his minions, keeping a wall of the skulls of those who fail him. Dead set on ruling the whole world, Shi You Ming kidnaps the daughter of a God in a bid to steal their power, then launches total war to reign supreme.
• Horatio Hornblower's "The Frogs and the Lobsters": Colonel Marquis Moncoutant is one of the leaders of French Royalist troops who set on a mission to restore the monarchy in France during the French Revolution with the help of the British Navy. However, he doesn't care much about the cause and not at all about his soldiers. The fate of other aristocrats doesn't concern him either, but he's very proud that he's Blue Blood and he believes that common people are impossible to improve, comparing them to animals. He killed a mayor and nearly shot a child for singing Marseillaise upon his arrival to his village, and later he keeps gleefully killing off villagers with his personal guillotine one after another for no bigger offence than selling old bread. He never shows any remorse for his evil deeds.
• House of Anubis:
  • Season 2: Senkhara, the Forgotten Ruler, is season 2's primary villain and a major step up from the likes of the pragmatic Rufus and the troubled Victor. Being both King Tut's stepmother and killer, Senkhara appeared to force Nina Martin to hunt down the mythical Mask of Anubis in order to possess her body, enter the Egyptian afterlife, and reign as a goddess. To ensure Nina did this for her, Senkhara put a curse on Sibuna to threaten their lives and make them suffer when things didn't go her way. Senkhara also cursed Nina's grandmother, using her as a "Time Piece" and slowly killing her in order to make Nina work faster. Nina suffered a lot of psychological torture at her hands, being taunted at every moment about the potential death of everyone she loves. Even when Senkhara helped the kids, it was to get the mask, and she used one of those chances to curse Vera and torment Victor, proving her true love of using petty and evil tactics to get her way.
  • Season 3: Caroline Denby stole her adoptive sister, Harriet's, identity and destiny before locking her in a mental institution through the use of drugs and manipulation. Caroline got a job at the school under her sister's name, masquerading as Robert Frobisher-Smythe's "keeper" in order to get him reawakened. After manipulating the students to succeed, Caroline's heart was so impure that she single-handedly corrupted the ceremony and allowed Robert to wake up evil. This didn't bother her, as she happily joined him in his goal of starting an apocalypse by unleashing an evil goddess, and willingly tormented the students to steal their souls and make them into sinners. Even Harriet and Robert weren't spared from her ambitions, as Caroline ultimately attempted to become Ammut's main follower to rule the apocalypse as the only person who still had her soul — ultimately making her the only season 3 villain to intentionally choose the path of evil.
• House of Cards (US): Francis J. "Frank" Underwood is a scheming, charming, and monstrous politician who seeks ultimate power and legacy. After feeling betrayed by President Garrett Walker, Frank begins a brutal campaign to institute himself as President, leading Frank to ruin countless people's lives and personally murder Zoe Barnes and Peter Russo, the latter after destroying his sobriety and utterly breaking his spirit. Upon becoming President, Frank's crimes only worsen as he goes to any lengths to secure power and wipe out his enemies, bombing civilian-populated villages to kill a single terrorist, allowing an innocent man be killed on live video, and faking bomb threats all being par for the course. To further drive fear into America's soul and convince the people they need him as their leader, Frank organizes cyber attacks that lead to numerous horrible riots and accidents, and sits idly by as sarin gas is deployed against countless innocents, simply to use the gas attacks as a Pretext for War. Frank considers compassion and love a weakness, and slowly but surely forgets about, ditches, or outright murders those who he considers "friends", culminating in him planning to coldly murder his wife Claire if she even thinks about betraying him. Frank Underwood is a vile, depraved man who uses manipulation and facades to convince hapless victims that he is a good man, only to always pull the rug out from under them and reveal who he truly is: A self-serving sociopath with delusions of grandeur.
• Human Trafficking: In this 2005 Mini Series, Sergei Karpovich is the head of an extensive human trafficking ring where women are lured with promises of modeling or meeting Western husbands, before being they are kidnapped, raped and forced to prostitute themselves, and only have a life expectancy of about four years. For other ventures, Karpovich has children kidnapped to serve in child brothels. When one girl escapes due to a guard napping, a furious Karpovich fatally stabs the man in the throat with a pen, and when an ICE raid rescues a number of women, Karpovich has one murdered due to having used her as an accountant. If the women have any families, Karpovich uses their safety as leverage, including children. Representing the evils of human trafficking, Karpvoich's only interest is his own profit.
• Hunters:
  • Adolf Hitler himself, after faking his death with Eva Braun, resides in Argentina to plot out his plans of world domination. With visions of turning the world into the Fourth Reich, Hitler hopes to drop a nuke on a populated city in order to start a war and hopefully come out on top. Hitler allows Eva Braun to enact her plan to unleash a virus that would wipe out all of America's minorities, while having Hunters member Joe Mizushima tortuously brainwashed into becoming one of his agents. Behind one of the worst genocides in recent history, with the horrors of his concentration camps still haunting its survivors, age is shown to have not slowed Hitler's childish wickedness down one bit.
  • Eva Braun, the "Colonel" of the Fourth Reich, is the architect of Nazi plans in the Americas. Building a network of political influence and corruption, Eva has countless innocents murdered by her agents. Testing out deadly chemicals on children and other test subjects, Eva's plot is to place the virus in corn syrup to wipe out minorities in the US, kill millions, and plunge the country into chaos so the Nazis can take over and institute a new Holocaust. Disdaining her husband Adolf Hitler as nothing but a failure, Eva then tries to have him murdered so she can rule unchallenged.
  • Travis Leich is the chief enforcer of the Nazi conspiracy, and is unique in that he's an American drawn into Nazism. Introduced beating down a politician's friends and threatening the man's young son's life to force his votes, Leich tries to hunt down Meyer Offerman's outfit, killing and torturing everyone he encounters, murdering Jonah's friend Booty and later tying up a family to interrogate the father via shooting his wife and pregnant daughter in the knees before he murders them all anyways. Causing the 1977 New York blackout to let the Nazis cause widespread terrorist attacks and incite violent riots, Leich is later incarcerated but attempts to make himself a leader to the racists within and forge them into an army by requesting a Jewish lawyer and murdering him while shouting that "Jews will not replace us."
  • Season 1:
    • Katarina Löw is Eva Braun's head scientist, and an executive at Schidler Corp. A sadistic chemist who firmly supports Eva's plans of a Fourth Reich, Katarina assists her boss by creating a virus located inside corn syrup that will kill all of America's minorities, hoping to have 12 million dead by the end of the month. Experimenting with her virus on countless South American children, Katarina takes an immense amount of pleasure in the deaths her virus will cause.
    • "In The Belly of the Whale" original broadcast version: Heinz Richter is an escaped Nazi war criminal with a fondness for chess. Finding intelligent prisoners, Richter would make them his opponents in "Human Chess", with camp victims forced to serve as the pieces and personally murder other pieces they had "taken", killing large numbers of innocents this way. After having his chief opponent shot for attacking him, Richter later flees to America as the owner of a toy shop, murdering the Hunter leader Ruth when he finds her. Upon being caught by Jonah, Richter overpowers and tortures him for information, plotting to eliminate him as well.
• I, Claudius' "Reign of Terror" & "Zeus, by Jove!": Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro is a thuggish Praetorian who assists the rise of Caligula, helping to depose his former superior Sejanus and executing a bloody purge of Sejanus's allies and their families, having Sejanus's young children killed and having the daughter raped so she will not die a virgin as to satisfy one soldier's superstition. Macro later murders the elderly Emperor Tiberius and the child co-emperor of Caligula Gemellus before serving as the chief enforcer to Caligula's regime, overseeing purges, executions and forced suicides as long as he is able to profit.
• Ice Fantasy: Fire King Huo Yi is the power-hungry tyrant of the Fire Tribe who seeks dominion over all the Three Kingdoms, no matter how many lives he has to extinguish in the process. Huo Yi opens the series launching devastating attacks upon the Ice Kingdom and burning most of the Ice King's sons alive, ordering the death of anyone who attempts to help the two survivors, Ka Suo and Ying Kong Shi. Huo Yi is responsible for regular bouts of torture, mass murder, and spiteful manipulation, at one point winning over the loyalty of the Dream Kingdom's lord by promising to cure his deathly ill sister, before revealing the cure never existed in the first place and trying to murder them both. At the end of the series, Huo Yi starts devouring the souls of everyone he comes across, his own long-abused children among them, and pledges all who will not submit to him in his new kingdom will have their souls consumed to suffer forever. At the end of his wicked life, Huo Yi murders his last surviving daughter simply to get to Ying Kong Shi, moments after she had tearfully pleaded for Ka Suo to spare her father's life.
• Inazuman & Flash has each Big Bad:
  • Emperor Banba is the ruler of the Neo-Human Empire who seeks to exterminate humanity under the pretext of preventing famine, when really he wants to create a Neo-Human world order with himself at the top. Kidnapping humans with psionic potential, Banba has them forcibly converted into monstrous Mutant Robots before sending them out to massacre humans, taking any humans who survive the massacre as slaves. In one instance, Banba turns Goro Watari's mother into a Mutant Robot, and kills her in front of him when he frees her. In the finale, Banba temporarily allies with Goro against the emerging Despar Army, only to backstab and try to kill him before attempting one last plan to sink Japan's archipelago.
  • Führer Geisel, the leader of the Despar Army, usurped Emperor Banba as ruler of the Neo-Human Empire because of the latter's tolerant attitudes towards mutants. Desiring the total extermination of mutants and subjugation of humanity, Geisel frequently has his forces commit bloody mass murders of humans, and in an early scheme kidnaps human athletes to hunt them for sport. The ruler of Despar City, which he populated with kidnapped humans, Geisel controls his citizens through rigid laws, including a ban on reading books, and punishes anyone who violates them with Mind Control or execution. For his final scheme, Geisel overloads the artificial sun in Despar City so it will sink Japan's archipelago, and kills his own daughter when she tries to stop him.
• In From the Cold: Svetlana Petrova is Anya Petrova's mother and handler at the SVR. Overseeing Anya, she sends a fellow SVR agent to spy on her and when Anya catches him and saves him from falling to his death, Svetlana has him killed before berating Anya for sparing him. Svetlana later coerces Anya into injecting herself with the "Yaroslav" bioweapon, giving her the power to shapeshift. In the present, Svetlana adopts the pseudonym "Gideon" and collaborates with far-right extremist Felipe Calero to assassinate the Spanish Prime Minister. Svetlana hypnotizes Anya's old friend Damían Abasolo to torture Anya, forcing her to kill him. Svetlana later shoots Anya and leaves her for dead before hypnotizing Anya's daughter Becca—Svetlana's own granddaughter—to assault US Senator and Presidential candidate Warren Richardson. When Anya arrives and causes a lockdown, Svetlana hypnotizes Richardson in the safe room, putting him under her control and planning to launch a missile into St. Petersburg to start World War III.
• Inside No. 9:
  • "To Have and to Hold": Adrian is the emotionally abusive husband of heroine Harriet. Belittling and controlling Harriet every chance he gets, Adrian has a dark secret: years ago, Adrian kidnapped the cleaning woman Agnes and keeps her imprisoned where he tortures, beats, and rapes her, having fathered a son from this. Said son, Levi, is kept imprisoned, beaten, and abused, with Adrian even raping Agnes in front of him.
  • "Wise Owl": Wilf is a child-molesting sociopath who even molested his son Ronnie, abusing him so frequently that he neglected his daughter and caused her death in a fire. Wilf proceeded to blame Ronnie for the fire, having him institutionalized and destroying his life for decades.
• In the Heat of the Night:
  • "Obsession": Ashe Crowe is a twisted puritan who was discharged from the army after he was outed as a Peeping Tom. Becoming obsessed with a Sparta schoolteacher named Jeanette, Crowe begins stalking her, with his harassment of her alternating between affectionate gestures like sending her gifts to manic Slut-Shaming. After he murders one of her lovers, Crowe meets with Jeanette, and makes it clear to her that he has no actual affection for her, he merely wants total dominion over a woman who he is sexually attracted to due to being a misogynist Control Freak. Eventually deciding that Jeanette is a lost cause, Crowe tries to kill her by planting a military-grade bomb in her classroom, without any care at all for all of the people that it will maim and kill alongside Jeanette.
  • "Give Me Your Life" two-parter: Marcantony Appfel is the narcissistic leader of the Church of the Celestial Influence. Appfel has his followers sign all of their possessions over to him, and keeps his congregation compliant with drugs, which he also uses to rape his devotees' children, with his latest sexual abuse victim being a girl named Clarice. After Clarice is saved from him and outs him as a predator, Appfel barricades himself and his disciples in his church, and has two of his subordinates kidnap Clarice. Appfel then has his men execute a captured reporter and engage in a gun battle with the Sparta PD. It is soon revealed that Appfel intends to martyr himself by blowing himself and all of his mostly oblivious followers up with a bomb; while the police are able to defuse the bomb and save most of the church members, several are still killed when a hidden second bomb is detonated by Appfel.
• The Inside: The FBI's Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) has faced many criminals plaguing Los Angeles in this short-lived Police Procedural, these three stand out as the most deplorable:
  • "New Girl in Town": Simon Gunther is a misogynistic Serial Killer seeking to "unmask" women who are new to Los Angeles, carving off their faces and degloving the hands of his victims to erase their identities as his way of "making them into nothing". Manipulating a mentally handicapped man to search for victims, Gunther has killed eight women using the same method. After the bipolar lead profiler on his case commits suicide and is replaced by Rebecca Locke, Gunther kidnaps another woman and sends a live video of her to the authorities, rigging the server with a delay to give them the hope that she would still be alive. Revealing his identity to Rebecca and planning on making her his next victim, Gunther threatens to shoot a boy and his mother if she doesn't comply to his demands.
  • "Gem": Arlen Dallas is a wealthy developer living a double life as a child pornographer. Dallas molested his own son, Jason, when he was still a child and cheated on his wife with a maid, fathering Angelica and forcing Jason to abuse his own half-sister in a long-running series of homemade videos that captured her pain as she matured, making Angelica a "star" in the world of child pornography, starting when she was at least six. When the mentally unstable Jason betrays his father to have Angelica for himself, Dallas sends the VCU after him by playing the victim and pinning the blame on Jason, leading to his death. Indifferent to the death of his son and the suffering that he caused to his daughter, Dallas was one of the worst criminals encountered by the VCU despite not being directly involved in any murder.
  • "Skin and Bone": Ronald Ewing is a repulsive cannibal preying on vulnerable girls and luring them to his home via a pro-anorexia website. Suspected to have eaten his own sister in the past, Ewing installs shock collars on his victims and forces them to be his friends, eating them when the girls don't have what he calls "house manners", killing at least twelve women and hiding their bones under the floor. When Rebecca, posing as an anorexic woman, investigates the missing girls by herself, Ewing captures her and a promises to be a "friend who understands", but quickly drops the façade once she tries to escape, calling her names to mock her supposed weight problem despite being an obese man himself. With dozens of victims to his name, Ewing was the most prolific Serial Killer introduced in the show.
• Inspector Montalbano's "Il giro di boa" ("Turning Point"): Baddar Gafsa is an infamous Tunisian criminal and the leader of a Human Trafficking ring which specializes in smuggling children. The conflicts in North Africa giving him a steady supply of victims, Gafsa sets up his latest base just outside Vigata. Smuggling the children into Sicily on fishing boats, through a local Loan Shark, he blackmails a paramedic to act as his courier, taking them to an abandoned tuna factory to be processed, under the guard of his vicious goons. Gafsa then sells the children for illegal adoptions; The Mafia; pedophiles; and, for the healthiest children, to be harvested for their organs. Originally having tasked the notorious fugitive Ernesto Errera to manage things in Vigata for him, Gafsa eventually has Errera drowned and arrives to personally take over in preparation for the latest, largest shipment of children. When one eight-year-old boy manages to escape, Gafsa, to ensure his activities remain secret, has the boy fatally run over. Upon Montalbano attempting to rescue the children, a furious Gafsa almost kills him.
• iZombie:
  • Vaughn Du Clark is the Big Bad of Season 2 and Greater-Scope Villain of Season 1, responsible for the initial zombie outbreak thanks to chemicals in his company's energy drinks. To eliminate potential bad publicity, Vaughn coerces Major Lilywhite into using his zombie-sensing abilities to hunt down and eliminate them by threatening the life of his Love Interest. Upon discovering Major has been hiding the zombies, Vaughn uses them to experiment on for a cure to zombieism, uncaring as the failed tests turn the zombies into mindless monsters. When a zombie breaks free from his lab, Vaughn flees to abandon his own daughter to be zombified. Completely incapable of taking criticism, Vaughn also makes a point of having any who make negative remarks about him or his company online assassinated.
  • Dolly Durkins is the Big Bad of Season 5. Despite coming across as a seemingly nice, albeit anti-zombie activist, Dolly is secretly the bigoted leader of a terrorist organization. Dolly has one of her cronies post a fake video of a woman getting mauled by zombies online just to cause more tension between humans and zombies, before sending the man to kill Fillmore Graves soldiers in a suicide bombing. She later pollutes the processing plant distributing brain tubes so hundreds of zombies develop Alzheimer's disease, thus causing various Fillmore Graves soldiers to be rendered inoperable. Later on, Dolly orders her men to kidnap Sloane Mills, General Mills's daughter, before starving her and her boyfriend, and releasing them as feral zombies to attack innocents during an annual pie festival before they're put down. After being contacted by Mills and given assault weapons, Dolly uses said weapons to massacre humans and zombies alike at a memorial, and later goes on a killing spree with her cohorts gunning down any Fillmore Graves employee they can find. While she claims to care about humanity, Dolly had several human beings endangered or killed during her quest to eradicate all zombies.
• Jack Hunter (2008-2009 miniseries): Albert Littman is Jack Hunter's sadistic former colleague-turned-rival, and a psychotic treasure hunter driven solely by greed. Introduced murdering his entire crew of hired hands on the mere suspicion that one of them is a traitor, Littman is hired to find the legendary Star of Heaven, and carries out numerous atrocities in his search for the artifact, including having Jack Hunter's mentor shot dead; massacring a cult dedicated to protecting the Star; shooting his lover/partner in the back; and torturing and killing an antiquities dealer and his son. In his supreme act of villainy, Littman turns on his employer to use the Star of Heaven to vaporize him and his crew, as well as numerous NSA agents, laughing with sadistic glee that he is invincible. An unpredictable psychopath who can barely conceal his depravity behind a veil of sophistication, Albert Littman earns Jack Hunter's undying hatred and dread.
• Jack Ryan Season 2: Mateo Bastos is President Nicolas Reyes's head of security, but manages to surpass Reyes in cruelty. Participating in the bombing that led to the deaths of Senator Jim Moreno and countless others, Bastos would murder the family of a bodyguard whom his associates bribed, children included, before attempting to kill the bodyguard himself. He also captures a group of rebels and tortures them into making false confessions, and murders US soldier Matice before having his men defile Matice's corpse. He later kidnaps James Greer and tortures him at his prison camp, where he holds numerous Venezuelan political prisoners to torture and kill, including the husband of Gloria Bonalde, Reyes' main political rival. Bastos takes Greer to Reyes' mansion for further interrogation while ordering his men to execute his remaining 41 prisoners. When Greer frees himself and tries to shoot Bastos, he uses one of his own men as a Human Shield. A ruthless servant of a dictator, Mateo Bastos represents the worst of the Venezuelan regime.
• Jack Taylor:
  • "The Guards": Trevor Lanpert is a prominent businessman in Galway, Ireland, who uses his ownership of the "Planters" facility to prey on the teenage girls who work there, having his subordinate Ford spy on the employees. Lanpert's modus operandi involves intoxicating the girls, then drowning them in his bathtub and recording their demises, labeling the recordings by the name and age of the victims. Subsequently, Lanpert tries to frame the deaths as suicides, attracting the suspicion of former Garda turned Private Eye Jack Taylor, who investigates the matter. Buying the silence of Jack's friend Sutton, Lanpert is eventually revealed to have been a child predator back when he was an Arms Dealer in Kosovo.
  • "The Dramatist": Professor Eugene Gorman, referring to himself as "The Dramatist", is a bitter misogynist obsessed with murder and theatrics. Enlisting the services of Private Eye Jack Taylor after pushing his first victim from a roof, Gorman frames a fellow professor for his next murder to throw suspicion off of himself. When confronted by Jack over withholding information, Gorman reveals his disdain for Jack due to a sexual encounter with Gorman's wife, subsequently taunting Jack about his suspicions. Targeting Kate Noonan, Jack's ally in the Garda, and revealing he murdered his own wife, Gorman forces Kate to choose who lives, between her superior and Jack. After killing the Garda superior, and after Jack survives Gorman's attempt to have him killed, Gorman forces Jack to re-enact a scene from Deirdre of the Sorrows at gunpoint.
• Jamaica Inn (1983): Joss Merlyn, stripped of any redeeming qualities, is an alcoholic brute of a smuggler and pirate who abuses his wife Patience and murders one of his mistresses for fear of being identified. Joss lures ships to dash themselves on the rocks near Jamaica Inn where he and his crew murder the survivors and steal anything of valuable, Joss gleefully luring one ship personally to his "pretty rocks" before killing the crew.
• Jason and the Argonauts: Pelias, like his mythological counterpart, is the brother of King Aeson of Iolcus and an uncle of the titular protagonist, but is much more evil than in the myth or in the 1963 film. He and his soldiers invade Iolcus and terrorize civillians. In his Establishing Character Moment, he gives a hug to his brother only to stab him with the knife saying; "My destiny is to rule!" He attempts to murder the baby Jason, only for the latter to be saved by a bodyguard. Couple years later, Pelias sends an adult Jason on a dangerous mission to find the Golden Fleece, hoping that Jason never succeeds, and threatens to kill Jason's mom whom he earlier forced to marry him. Near the end of the film, when his son, Acastus, brings Pelias the Golden Fleece, Pelias fakes gratitude and murders his own son, taking the Golden Fleece. Seconds later he holds Medea hostage. In his final act of malice, Pelias lies to Jason that he has been overcome with madness by the Fleece while giving him a hug, but secretly he was just trying to kill Jason in the same way he killed King Aeson earlier.
• Jesus of Nazareth: King Herod The Great initially appears as a jovial leader before revealing himself as a paranoid tyrant. When learning about the prophecy of Jesus Christ and his birth, Herod callously orders the slaughter of all infants under two in Bethlehem, and declares that he won't let an infant share his world. This leads to the mass slaughter of dozens of infants throughout Bethlehem, an action so horrific that Herod's death was considered to be God Himself striking down Herod for his sins.
• Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (American International Television's English dub): Johnny Sokko and Jerry Mano have fought many evil foes in their fight against the Gargoyle Gang, with these being the worst they had to offer:
  • Emperor Guillotine is a Galactic Conqueror with his sights set on Earth. Crashing into the ocean, Guillotine forms the terrorist group the Gargoyle Gang. Kidnapping Dr. Guardian to create an indestructible robot for the Gargoyle Gang, he plans on using the robot to assist in conquering the world. When Johnny Sokko gets the robot's controls and uses them to escape the island with Unicorn agent Jerry Mano, he orders it captured or destroyed with the sea monster Dracolon, despite Giant Robot flying towards Tokyo. Guillotine rules Gargoyle with an iron fist, using Child Soldiers, planting bombs in his men, and threatening to kill his commanders for their failures, eventually killing Dr. Botanus when he fails too many times. Throughout the series, Guillotine plays a hand in a number of the Gargoyle Gang's atrocities, such as trying to start a war, ordering experiments on captured Unicorn agents, and ransoming a princess of a small country to get his hands on a rare radioactive metal. In the final episode, he resurrects three monsters to drain Giant Robot's remaining energy, and reveals that if he were attacked, his body would detonate in an atomic explosion, taking the world with him, demonstrating this by destroying a field with a fingernail, and declares that the Earth will answer to him.
  • Dr. Botanus is an egotistical alien scientist and surgeon hired by Emperor Guillotine to help him conquer Earth. Working with Commander Spider, he kidnaps Dr. Dorian to force him to grow a Gargoyle Vine, a dangerous plant that can destroy the world. When Dorian refuses to help him grow the plants, Botanus alters Dorian's brain to put him under Mind Control, ordering him to grow Gargoyle Vines. When Dr. Dorian returns to normal, Dr. Botanus mocks Dorian for unwittingly helping to create Gargoyle Vines. Later attacking oil production on the Middle East with Commander Spider, he lets his men massacre oil workers simply to force their foreman to give him the blueprints of a drill. He later kidnaps 60,000 people from a soccer game, where he gives Japan 24 hours to surrender to Guillotine or else he will kill the hostages. When one of his men begs Botanus to release his brother, who is among the hostages, Botanus coldly calls him an idiot, telling him that he will die with the rest of the hostages. Other acts include ordering the monster Amberon to destroy Tokyo; kidnapping and brainwashing the Unicorn Kyoto branch leader to attack a Unicorn conference; and using another Gargoyle Vine to cover the Earth in lava. Defined by his willingness to kill thousands with a feeling of smug satisfaction, Dr. Botanus represents the worst of Gargoyle.
  • Harlequin is a brutal Gargoyle commander who appeared after the death of Commander Spider. Initially appearing to be a Gargoyle deserter seeking help getting his kids from Gargoyle custody, he lures Johnny and Jerry into a trap to be killed by the monster Dublion. When Jerry begs him to release the kids, Harlequin says that he doesn't care, as he had already killed two of his men to get the duo into his grasp. Later working with Doctor Botanus to attack a Unicorn conference, he kidnaps the Unicorn Kyoto branch leader, and personally controls his monster Lygon to attack the conference. Later he demolishes a Unicorn base in the arctic with Dracolon. After Johnny and Jerry investigate, he kidnaps them, and then attacks Tokyo under Guillotines orders, decimating Tokyo in a flood of sand. In his final appearance, he breaks Dr. Botanus out of Unicorn custody be sneaking in the monster Amberon into Unicorn headquarters, which kills multiple agents. When Johnny and another Unicorn agents Mari investigate, he ties them to trees and prepares to kill them with a firing squad before he is stopped.
  • "Torozan—An Enemy Robot": Dr. Snake is a Gargoyle scientist who has been destroying Unicorn branches across the globe with his own giant robot, Torozan, with his new target being the Unicorn Japan branch. Wanting to destroy Unicorn's radar capabilities, he learns that the wife of the radar base's commander, Sebola, is in a coma. Using this, he threatens to put Sebola's children into a coma like his wife if he doesn't give Dr. Snake the location to the radar base. When the attack fails due to Johnny and Giant Robot's interference, he has Sebola lead him to the radar base, having him kill his men with a gas bomb when they refuse to leave. Using the radar base as a place to control Torozan, he begins demolishing Tokyo. Whenever Sebola objects to any of his demands, Dr. Snake threatens to kill his family, and almost destroys Giant Robot before he is stopped.
• Justiça: Oswaldo, the Big Bad in Rose's story, is the most repugnant criminal to be introduced in the show. Starting as a teenager, Oswaldo was a prolific Serial Rapist who used his job as painter as a front to find victims, and forced them to imagine that they were liking the situation. Raping Rose's best friend, Débora, Oswaldo would proceed to rape another woman to the point she had to be sent to the hospital with multiple injuries around her body. Capturing Débora again, Oswaldo coldly remarks that she must have missed him, and asks her if she "wants more". At the mercy of Rose's thuggish friends, Oswaldo begs to be escorted to the police, and confesses that the first thing he will do upon getting out of prison is rape Débora again.
• Justified:
  • Season 4: Nick "Nicky" Augustine is a snarky yet sociopathic crime lord who is dispatched to Harlan County by Detroit Mob boss Theo Tonin to handle the Drew Thompson situation. Immediately executing his childhood friend Jerry Barkley for failure upon arriving in Harlan, Augustine arranges for a hitman to target a variety of men on the small chance they could be Drew Thompson, an old enemy of Theo's who Augustine plans to capture and have tortured to death to gain Theo's approval. Using Boyd Crowder and Wynn Duffy as pawns who he threatens with torture and death should they fail him, Augustine has Constable Bob tortured for information; tries to bomb a federal convoy; and plans to murder a hooker, all in various attempts to take out Drew. When Raylan Givens consistently thwarts Augustine's schemes, Augustine targets the man's pregnant ex-wife Winona, sending his goons to try to torture the woman to death and rip her baby out of her, and even after Raylan saves Winona, Augustine just brags that he'll keep trying until Raylan's entire family is dead, cementing himself as such a heartless bastard that Raylan broke his moral code to arrange for Augustine's death.
  • "The Moonshine War": James "Jimmy" Earl Dean is an despicable sexual predator of young teenage girls, with a rap sheet of violent attacks. Immediately trying to attack another girl upon release from prison, Jimmy hides out in Harlan as a member of the Bennett gang just to cover up that he is stalking a young Loretta McReady as his next victim. Taking advantage of Loretta's father crossing the Bennetts, Jimmy kidnaps Loretta and threatens to murder her father to force her compliance, planning to keep her for his depraved purposes for a long time to come, before threatening to kill her when law enforcement finds them.
  • "The Life Inside": Jess Timmons is a greedy crook who is hired by prison guard Glenn Cosgrove to stage a breakout of his imprisoned, pregnant mistress Jamie. Ordered by Cosgrove to kill Jamie to cover up the infidelity, Jess comes up with an idea to make further cash by taking Jamie's baby and selling it to Human Traffickers. Jess sadistically tries to cut the baby out of Jamie without anesthesia and murders his partner when the man gets cold feet on their crime. When he's tracked down by the Marshals, Jess holds Jamie hostage with his gun against her belly, threatening that if he isn't allowed to escape, there will be "baby guts all over".

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• The Kagestar: Doctor Satan is a former Nazi scientist who leads the Satan Empire, and is the Arch-Enemy of Kagestar and Bellestar. To conquer the world, Doctor Satan sends his agents, many of whom are civilians he forcibly remodeled into monsters, to spread terror and chaos across Tokyo. His worst schemes include converting innocent people into "human puppets" for his doll museum; brainwashing children to become Child Soldiers for his army; orchestrating gas attacks that leave people blinded and in intense pain; and spreading a disease that turns people into ravenous berserkers who bite others to spread the infection. While Kagestar's early foes were mostly petty criminals, Doctor Satan's plans stand out for how much more wide-reaching and destructive they are.
• Kikaider 01: Big Shadow is the leader of SHADOW, a criminal organization which seeks to exterminate one-tenth of Japan's population. To this end, Big Shadow kidnaps Akira and Hiroshi for the Giant Devil blueprints tattooed on them and orders both children executed once he's copied the plans. When the Giant Devil nears completion, Big Shadow tests out its power by having it carpet bomb a city. He also pursues other ways to kill lots of people, including attempting to drop an atom bomb on Tokyo and distributing pens to schoolchildren that explode upon being used. He later creates Mari/Bijinder to use her to gain Ichiro's trust so he can blow them both up with a miniature bomb implanted in her chest. When Mari defies the plan, Big Shadow has his henchmen beat her and later orders her lobotomized by removing the conscience circuit Ichiro installed inside her. Hiring the assassin Waruder to deal with 01, Big Shadow has Hakaider murder every dog within radius of SHADOW's base so Waruder will not be distracted by their presence. In the final episode, Big Shadow abducts Dr. Komyoji to force him to create a robot-repairing machine for SHADOW and attempts to have him executed by guillotine once the machine is completed.
• The Killing:
  • Original Danish series Season 2: Ulrik Strange, initially appearing to be Sarah Lund's loyal ally and Love Interest, is a brutal war criminal determined to bury his crimes. Whilst stationed in Afghanistan, Strange located a family accused of helping the Taliban and goaded Raben, the leader of a squad sent to help him, into shooting one of the children, before executing the rest himself. Later becoming a police detective, Strange decides to murder the entire squad after realizing he is being investigated. Visiting the home of a lawyer looking into his case, Strange stabs her over 21 times, before dumping her in a memorial park and framing it to look like the work of a terrorist. Locating two other members of the squad, Strange kills one with his own dog tag and has the other necklaced, sadistically using the man's own mobile phone to spark the fire. When Raben escapes and goes to his former comrade Lisbeth Thomsen, Strange steals explosives from an army barracks and blows up Thomsen on her boat. After he and Lund corner Raben, Strange attempts to shoot him dead under the pretense that Raben wouldn't lower his weapon. Strange then plants evidence to frame a soldier called Bilal, which causes the man to snap and kill himself after abducting Raben's wife. When Lund correctly deduces that Strange was the culprit, Strange coldly guns her down before beating the traumatized Raben and attempting to kill him too.
  • US remake Season 3:
    • The Pied Piper, real name James Skinner, poses as an innocuous family man while moonlighting as a Serial Rapist and Serial Killer of dozens upon dozens of young girls. When spotted in the act by a young boy, the Piper makes plans to kill him but ends up murdering the child's mother and framing his father for the deed. Killing Bullet for discovering his identity, the Piper is eventually cornered by Sarah Linden and tries to goad her into murdering him by boasting the girls he killed were "garbage" undeserving of being seen as human beings. With his claim of not harming children shattered by his vast number of young female victims, the Piper is a hypocritical, misogynistic psychopath with an ego so large none of his deplorable crimes elicit any measure of human emotion from him.
    • "That You Fear the Most", "Seventeen", & "Head Shots": Goldie, though a minor villain, establishes his pronounced depravity and wickedness by beating and raping the teenage Bullet for breaking into his apartment. Caught by the cops, it is discovered Goldie is both a distributor of child pornography and a Serial Rapist of underage girls himself, before he manages to humiliate the police and weasel his way out of the punishment he deserves.
• Killing Eve Season 2: Aaron Peel uses his intellect and resources to find countless women and lure them to his hotel room in Rome, where he proceeds to gruesomely kill them while using his security cameras to record his murder so he could watch them for his own enjoyment. Peel also hires the Ghost to kill his own father, along with four other people, so he could take over his company. Peel plans to use the company's resources to create as a cyber-weapon that would allow him find people to spy, blackmail, torment, and kill on a global scale and later auction it off to the highest bitter; he tells all of this to a journalist following him before murdering him and dumping his corpse in the sewers. Peel later attempts to have Villanelle kill Eve Polastri while intending to have her commit more murders for him.
• Kingdom Hospital: Ebenezer Gottreich is the head of a mill which uses the slave labor of men, women and children; his brother Klaus is a sadistic and insane doctor at a hospital, where he performs torturous experiments on his patients. After the Civil War, Ebenezer's mill was a collapsing business, with the slave labor having revolted, and so he planned to save money by burning down his mill, and killing his employees. In the fire, hundreds of his employees are killed, mostly the children. Later, he has the survivors "treated" at his brother's hospital. When Ebenezer discovers one of the children, Mary, survived the fire, and witnessed his scheme, he has Klaus take her in. Klaus would later kill Mary in a lobotomy experiment, despite her insisting she never saw anything and promising not to tell anyone.
• Knight Rider's "Sky Knight": Charles Zurich, ex-agent and leader of the New Dawn movement, is a Faux Affably Evil extremist vying for the release of 197 "political prisoners" under the threat of murdering a plane full of innocent people. Zurich's seemingly good intentions are a farce, as he secretly intends to use these prisoners—all of them merely cutthroat murderers—-as his own private army to wage wars upon and take over any small country he wants. Gleefully attempting to execute Michael Knight's love interest with the intent to hurt him, Zurich finally just tries to wipe out all the hostages with a nuclear doomsday device, even leaving his own men to die the second they hesitate.
• Knightfall: King Philip IV, upon learning of his wife Joan's affair with Landry de Lauzon, sheds any of his good qualities, viciously torturing and beating Joan's maid for information. Later fatally stabbing the pregnant Joan, Philip is so bothered by the possibility her and Landry's child may live that he orders a purge of infants born around that time to ensure he gets the child. Aiming to destroy The Knights Templar, Philip grows to tyrannize his family, viewing his daughter as a piece of an alliance to be married off and his son as a tool and assassin. Philip tortures and massacres the Templars, having many burnt alive, his hatred and vengeance consuming any traits of who he once was.
• Kojak: Detective Theo Kojak encounters a number of nasty men and women upon the streets of crime-plagued New York City. These are the worst:
  • "Justice Deferred": Keith McCallum is a former mutual fund president who enacted an embezzling scheme that required him to murder his partner Braden with the aid of Braden's wife. To cover up Braden's death, McCallum found a man who could be Braden's double and sent him to Brazil with Braden's passport—planting a bomb that killed 80 other people on the plane. In the present day, McCallum murders the man's son as well to escape justice and cover up his crime.
  • "A Need to Know": Carl Dettrow is the chauffeur for an unnamed nation who uses diplomatic immunity to escape justice for being a serial child molester. Having assaulted multiple children, Dettrow forms a plan to betray his nation and murder his handler, also slipping off to molest a little boy named Peter before attempting to hold a hostage at gunpoint to escape retribution for his crimes.
• Kolchak franchise: Karel "Carl" Kolchak has faced numerous unpleasant characters, but several stand out:
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker:
    • "The Ripper": Jack the Ripper himself is a Serial Killer who is at first believed to be a Ripper copycat, but is soon revealed to be something far more sinister. First seen butchering numerous women, mostly hookers and strippers, throughout Milwaukee and Chicago, the Ripper cannibalized his third victim in Chicago, carving out her kidneys to eat. Sending taunting letters of his crimes to the press, the Ripper arranges a meeting with a young reporter while claiming he won't kill anyone the night they would meet, however he kills her anyway. After escaping police custody and brutalizing many officers and innocents who try to restrain him, the Ripper is revealed to be the actual Jack the Ripper, having spent the past decades traveling the world and always murdering 5 women in each location he terrorizes, having killed over 70 women over the years. Jack the Ripper was a mysterious figure whose crimes were never given justification beyond sheer sadism and hatred.
    • "The Devil's Platform": Robert Palmer is a senator obsessed with gaining as much personal power as possible, and to this end, made a deal with the Prince of Darkness for supernatural abilities. Using these abilities, for which he pays for by regularly sacrificing animals and "higher forms of life", Palmer kills off all of his political opponents, with their wives and friends being casualties as well. When Palmer's campaign manager plans to reveal his crimes to the public, Palmer sends the elevator his manager is on plummeting to the ground, killing him and the numerous other innocents onboard. A secretary, aware of Palmer's part in the elevator crash, tries to blackmail him into paying her to keep quiet about it, and Palmer responds by trying to maul her in his hellhound form; when she survives and is sent to the hospital, Palmer pursues and kills her in her weakened state. After murdering another of his opponents in a car crash, Palmer tries to manipulate Kolchak into signing his soul over to Palmer, and wastes no time in trying to butcher Kolchak when he refuses. Smug and power-hungry, Robert Palmer stood out even to Kolchak as one of the most wicked villains he ever faced.
    • "Bad Medicine": The Diablero was a native shaman cursed for his greed to seek out treasure. Now an undead monster, the Diablero has stalked treasures through history, killing anyone who gets in his way. Slaughtering numerous victims in Chicago for priceless valuables, the Diablero murders numerous people before trying to make Kolchak the 13th victim.
    • "The Youth Killer": Helen of Troy, alias Helen Surtees, has the longest Historical Rap Sheet in the series. A beautiful demigoddess who made a deal with the powerful goddess Hecate for eternal life, Helen is required to drain the life out of physically perfect individuals on a regular basis to retain her youth, a process that inevitably kills her victims, something sadist she takes pleasure from. Having lived for hundreds of years, Helen uses a computer dating service in the present to find victims, and drains the life out of three of them throughout the episode, nearly getting Kolchak killed when he tries to interfere. Defined by her callousness and lust for beauty, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful, and most self-centered, foe Kolchak ever faced.
  • Night Stalker:
    • "The Five People You Meet in Hell": Damon Caylor is "a Charles Manson wannabe" who founded a cult made up of weak-willed people who he brainwashed into believing that society needed to be purged of anyone deemed "a moral hypocrite" by Caylor. After a few of his followers were arrested for publicly beheading an oil executive, Caylor strangled his own wife, who had been convinced to testify against him by reporter Perri Reed. Placed in solitary confinement after being blinded by a fellow inmate, Caylor eventually developed Psychic Powers, which he set out to use against everyone responsible for his imprisonment, including Reed. Caylor forces his trial's prosecutor and judge to murder their respective spouses by having visions of their dead loved ones warp their perception of reality before setting them off with the trigger phrase, "You know what you have to do." The prosecutor hangs himself in despair over killing his own wife, and one of Caylor's arresting officers nearly shoots his before being snapped out of Caylor's control by Kolchak. Caylor tells Reed and Kolchak that the murders will stop if his manifesto is published, but the journal turns out to be blank, having been nothing more than bait that Caylor used to get close enough to Kolchak so that he could try to psychically force him to kill Reed.
    • "Timeless": Marlene Harmon is a vain immortal who keeps herself alive by feeding on the pituitary glands of young women, whose faces she gnaws through to get to their brains after paralyzing them with an anesthetic. Marlene commits three murders every thirty-five years, with the earliest known killings being in 1900. In 1970, Marlene had her son, Luke, assist her with the latest murders, but when Luke began to crack under the pressure of what he was doing, Marlene shot him in the face, made it look like he committed suicide, and fooled everyone into believing that he was sole perpetrator of the "serial killings" being investigated by the LAPD. In 2005, Marlene has her other son and implied lover, Aaron, help her with the latest batch of killings, which attract the attention of Kolchak and Reed. Marlene sets her own devoted boyfriend up to take the fall for the deaths, and when Aaron confronts her over the circumstances of his brother's suicide, Marlene admits to having killed the "weak" Luke. Even though Marlene had reassured him that she would never harm him, Aaron ends up shooting her to save Reed, convinced that Marlene was lying and that it was only a matter of time before she disposed of him like she did her boyfriend and Luke.
• Kung Fu (2021)'s second season has a pair of Corrupt Corporate Executives:
  • Russell Tan is a corrupt businessman who was the true murderer of Nicky Shen's aunt years ago. With an iron-fisted control over San Francisco, Russell's dealings lead to numerous deaths. Revealing himself to have no care for his children, Russell murders his daughter and his son, possessing the latter, before heading into the realm of spirits to retrieve a powerful amulet to make himself invincible, with no care that this will destroy every spirit inside.
  • Chase Matheson, appearing in "Jyu Sa", is a corrupt businessman who targets vulnerable women at his place of business. Using typical grooming efforts, Chase proceeds to get them drunk in private meetings before sexually assaulting them. With Althea Shen-Soong as one victim, it is revealed she is far from the only one. Upon being exposed, Chase takes the chance to try to mock Althea first chance he gets.
• Land of Oz:
  • Lost in Oz: Loriellidere is the new Wicked Witch of the West, possessed by the essence of the previous one and determined to see all of Oz kneel before her. Having killed her family and friends, sparing her best friend Selina just to torment her with the deaths of her loved ones, Loriellidere consolidated her power by cursing Princess Ozma into being an eternal child. Loriellidere's worst comes when it is revealed she committed genocide against the Munchkins, having their lands decimated and turned into a boneyard of death to herald the fate awaiting the rest of Oz if it doesn't cow to her.
  • Tin Man:
    • The Witch of the Dark, the real "Wicked Witch", is the being possessing Azkedellia and the one behind all the misfortune in the series. When DG and Azkedellia, young heirs to the throne of Oz, accidentally unearthed the Witch from her seal, the Witch promptly possessed Azkedellia and tried to make her murder her own sister. As the years pass, the Witch turns Azkedellia into a despot who twists the O.Z. into a hellish dystopia where innocents are tortured and murdered every day. Unsatisfied with what she's done to the O.Z., the Witch plans to force a permanent eclipse over the O.Z., leading to The Night That Never Ends and the subsequent death of all life within the O.Z.
    • Zero is the cruel henchman to Azkedellia who lacks his master's redeeming qualities. Zero is responsible for the Dark and Troubled Past of "Tin Man" Wyatt Cain; Zero tortured Cain's wife and son, then murdered his wife and slammed Cain into an immobile metal suit, Forced to Watch a recording of his family's torture played on loop for 8 years straight. When Cain confronts Zero, the latter gloats about what he did and shoots Cain in the heart.
  • Emerald City: The Wizard of Oz is the tyrannical ruler of Emerald City, driven by a desire to never be seen as the pathetic bully he truly is. Once a "nobody" named Frank Morgan, he sabotaged a lab experiment of his colleagues to murder the lover of the object of Frank's affections, and in the process dragged them all to the land of Oz. Quickly using science to allure the residents of Oz, the Wizard murdered the king and queen of Emerald City—trying to have their infant heir slain as well—and uses his claim to have single-handedly stopped the Beast Forever to gain the city's adoration. Betraying the witch allies who helped him fight the Beast to keep all credit for himself, the Wizard traps dozens of them in the Prison of the Abject, burns countless others alive, and threatens an entire city of children just to weed out possible witches. The Wizard has entire cities razed to suppress magic; murders his one friend Anna in a paranoid rage; and ultimately intends to wage war on all witches and slaughter them all, willing to kill anyone who stands in his way to maintain his false image of power.
• Largo Winch's "Endgame": Piotr Grishenko is a fanatical agent of the KGB and former comrade of Georgy Kerensky. After attempting to murder the Russian President, Grishenko resurfaces ten years later to murder his fellow agents and successfully gas Colonel Anja Kopolova's men to death. Eventually, Grishenko reunites the four components of an atomic bomb after killing its respective guardians and attempt to use it to nuke New York.
• Las Vegas' "Bare Chested in the Park" through "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich": On a show whose antagonists are composed mostly of gambling cheaters, thieves, or con artists, Vince Peterson stands out as the most depraved villain to appear. He's a billionaire gambler who travels around the world to have a good time. It turns out that this includes kidnapping, raping, and killing women. He uses his money to get away with his crimes, cheery that it allows him to do whatever he wants. He asks Sam Marquez to marry him and sweetens the deal by agreeing to buy the Montecito... before drugging her, tying her up, stuffing her into a trunk case and taking her with him onboard his private plane. He takes way too much pleasure in letting Sam know that she isn't even close to the first woman he's done this to and looks forward to his victim pissing herself in fear because it will turn him on more. He further beats Sam up with his belt and prepares to rape her before she manages to kill him by throwing him off the plane. Sam spends the rest of Season 5 trying to cope with the trauma.
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1984 miniseries): Arbaces, the power-hungry priest of Isis, seeks to place himself as the most powerful man in Pompeii by framing the Christians and helping to initiate their purges and executions. Despising the good-hearted Gaius for having the heart of Ione, the ward he lusts over, Arbaces murders Ione's brother for uncovering his schemes and frames Gaius to have him executed among many other Christians and claim Ione for his own.
• The Last Kingdom:
  • Season 3: Skade is a Danish seer, or witch, who is introduced torturing a man by removing his eyes and tongue while murdering him for the crime of looking upon her. Returning to her lover Sigurd Bloodhair, Skade tells him of the vision she has of Sigurd killing King Alfred of Wessex, helping to spur on a brutal Danish invasion of England with many slain, all while Skade, for fun, agonizingly tortures the priests she finds. Cursing Uhtred himself, Skade intends to make him hers and have him start a new war to rule England, happily poisoning her own lover Sigurd before murdering him herself when his usefulness to her is expended.
  • Season 2 episodes 2 & 3: Sverri is an Icelandic slaver notorious for working and torturing his slaves to death. Having his slaves row to Iceland for days without food, Sverri forces them to fight over an apple he's already taken a bite out of. After recapturing Uhtred and Halig after their failed escape attempt, Sverri has the latter bound to the prow of his ship and forces Uhtred and the other slaves to row the roaring seas, slowly killing Halig.
• The Last of Us (2023)'s "When We Are In Need": David presents himself as a religious, caring father to his community of Silver Lake, but is in truth a violent, controlling sadist, and by far the worst monster that Joel and Ellie face. David has been cannibalizing friend and foe alike for a considerable time, feeding the unknowing citizens of his community the bodies of their loved ones while David makes sure he gets more food than the rest of his starving clan. Quickly established as a child abuser who backhands young Hannah for interrupting one of his sermons, David is further revealed to be a flat-out pedophile and rapist, having indulged in his proclivities in his past life as a schoolteacher before further embracing his "violent heart" with glee when the apocalypse hit; Hannah is heavily implied to be one of the victims of his sick depravity. David tries to seduce Ellie into being his lover, and when she rejects his disgusting advances, David responds by trying to chop her up and eat her. He then changes tactics and proclaims his intent to make her his Sex Slave, and attempts to start this process off by violently raping her as he cheerfully notes "the fighting's the part I like the most!"
• Legend Heroes: Sima Yi is an Manipulative observer angel who helps to facilitate the Dream Battle, while secretly desiring to enter the battle himself so he can claim the Imperial Seal, kill his fellow Angels, and become ruler of the human world. In pursuit of this goal, Sima Yi backed the experiments of Zhang Jue, which involved forcing humans to become Dark Warlords, and disposes of him when he is no longer of use. Sima Yi then corrupts his Warlord Cao Cao so he can possess him to enter the Dream Battle and attempts to kill his surrogate younger sister Diaochan when Cao Cao begins to resist his control. After being driven out of Cao Cao's body, Sima Yi attempts to destroy the world out of spite for not being able to rule it. A cruel and treacherous Angel, had Sima Yi become ruler of the world, he admits he would have replaced the Dream Battle with a massacre every 300 years.
• Legend of the Seeker:
  • Darken Rahl, the Big Bad of season 1 and The Dragon to The Keeper in season 2, orders a mass infanticide, kills any he deems a threat, and tortures innocent peasants to keep his dark power. Rahl is also especially fond of blood sacrifices, using the blood as ink to pen notices and spells. Rahl also unleashes a plague on his own people in an attempt to blame Richard and cause the people to turn against him. Throughout the series, Rahl is shown as nothing more than pure, unadulterated evil.
  • "Reckoning": Nicholas Rahl is Darken's son in a Bad Future where the latter married Kahlan. Nicholas Confesses his childhood playmate and forces him to cut off his own fingers, just because the latter refused to play with the same toys and games as Nicholas. When Kahlan noticed what her son was becoming and pointed it out, Nicholas stopped his father from executing her, wanting to kill her himself. After executing his own mother, Nicholas proceeded to murder his father. He ordered his father's former servants to destroy the land and kill anyone who refused to be Confessed by him. When Richard Cypher arrives in the future, nearly the whole world has been either killed or Confessed by Nicholas, except for a few peasants who were hiding and regard Nicholas as even worse than his father.
• Lethal Weapon (2016)'s "A Problem Like Maria" & "Commencement": Gideon Lyon is a cold-blooded CIA agent turned attack dog for cartel leader Tito Flores. Described as Flores's most brutal enforcer, Lyon pursues Flores's mistress Maria and her infant son into Los Angeles, killing an informant in the process. Cornering Martin Riggs, his partner Roger Murtaugh, DEA Agent Palmer, Maria, and her baby in a motel, Lyon attempts to kill them all with a rocket before murdering two responding officers. Upon his arrest, Lyon is revealed to be linked to the death of Riggs's wife Miranda, and when interrogated by Riggs, Lyon boasts that once Flores commissioned the hit, he deliberately waited for Miranda to go into labor before ordering the car crash that killed her, just to hurt Riggs. Escaping, Lyon kidnaps Riggs and Murtaugh, torturing Murtaugh with a defibrillator and bragging that after the crash, he personally suffocated the still-alive Miranda to death. A psychopath who simply enjoys hurting others, Gideon Lyon significantly darkens the tone of this action-comedy series.
• Leverage:
  • "The Inside Job": Dr. Anne Hannity wanted to kill off the world's wheat market with a super-plague, willing to starve the whole planet, so that her own plague-resistant super-wheat would make her and, by extension, her company money. Hannity also threatens Archie Leach's family to make him help her, and tries to kill the Leverage team when they find her out, mockingly asking them how they would like to be killed. The sheer destructive potential of Hannity's plan makes her stand out compared to most other villains faced by the Leverage team.
  • "The Double Blind Job": Darren Hoffman is the new CEO of a drug company. He plans on increasing profit by releasing a drug known as HT-1 under the new name Vioplex. HT-1 is known to cause things like liver failure and death in many of the drug trial participants, so Hoffman added some chemical delays to Vioplex, which will result in people dying in months maybe years after taking it rather than weeks. He kills one doctor who he couldn't bribe to keep quiet about the drugs being the same and wiped the records of a group of people who also died from HT-1 from the internet. When confronted by Sophie, under the guise of an FDA agent, about the seriousness of the fines assessed for bad drugs, Hoffman laughs it off as those fines are typically around 15% of the drug's profit yield.
• Lexx Season 1: His Divine Shadow is the one survivor of the Insect Civilization possessing human bodies, and starts the series by annihilating the Brunnen-G species and taking over the Light Universe. Running a nightmarish regime where executions and harvesting of people for their meat is commonplace, His Divine Shadow commissions the creation of the Lexx, a planet destroying superweapon with intent to annihilate everything outside of his domain. Upon his seeming death, His Shadow initiates the Cleansing where every living being in his domain is killed and their meat sent to feed his true form, Giga Shadow. Returning to life, His Divine Shadow proclaims he will annihilate humanity and create a new insect empire, obsessed with his own glory and magnificence.
• Liar (2017) Season 2: Oliver Graham is a Serial Rapist who raped many men throughout the many years he was active. When Andrew Earlham discovers what he has been doing, he goes over to his house with footage of his rape. Oliver figures out why he didn't turn him in: Andrew was fascinated by the idea of the power raping gives him over his victims. Oliver gives Andrew a vial of the drugs he used to knock out his victims and corrupts Andrew into becoming a serial rapist like himself. After Andrew is caught for his rapes, he contacts Oliver asking for his help to disappear. Oliver accepts willingly at first under the condition that Andrew will leave him alone. He later ends up forced to help Andrew with his plan, and when Andrew ends up murdered, he continues with his plan and blackmails a police detective to frame Laura Nielsen for Andrew's murder.
• The Librarians (2014): In a world of adventure and magic where All Myths Are True, some figures stand out as true monsters:
  • "...and the Fables of Doom": Mr. McGuire is a seemingly-kindly old librarian who discovers a magic book that can give strength to the user. Using it to drain the life of a little girl and more innocents, he begins unleashing fairy tales on the local town to terrorize them, all while continuing his "stories" to the child. McGuire reveals he intends to kill everyone in the town via harvesting their lives, gloating that he has given so much to the town and now they can give him their lives in turn.
  • "...and the Heart of Darkness": Katie Bender is the true master of the House of Repose. Once a member of the monstrous Serial Killer Bender family, Katie stumbled upon the wish-granting house and enslaved it, using it to travel time and space to lure in men, women and children so she can sadistically toy with and eventually murder them. Luring in the Librarians via playing an innocent child, Katie soon reveals her own monstrous nature, revealing the grand total of her victims makes her the most prolific murderer in history.
  • "...and the Image of Image": Dorian Gray himself is the hedonistic owner of Club Effigy. Having bound his soul into a painting to achieve immortality, Dorian lures in innocents to the club so he may trick them into painfully absorbing his own sins from the painting to destroy them, all while he remains young and beautiful. Dorian seduces and tempts people into the club, exposing them to his magic, while also keeping the young woman Eve magically bound to him. Despite his claims of victimhood, Dorian is a vicious, hedonistic sociopath willing to destroy and damn countless innocents so as to not lose an eternity of enjoyment.
• Lie to Me:
  • "Depraved Heart": Mike Personick uses his position at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to manipulate female immigrants into becoming his surrogates. Personick forces these women to live in poor conditions and suffer immense pain carrying his client's babies, before discarding them after they give birth. His callousness as well as his horrific treatment drive three women to suicide, to Personick's complete apathy, and he would have killed more women by this method if Cal Lightman had not rescued the captive women. When confronted by his crimes, Personick refuses to accept any responsibility, callously blaming his victims for the predicament he placed them in.
  • "Blinded": Andrew Jenkins is a Serial Rapist whose crime spree involved raping 12 women. When he was done, Jenkins would focus their gaze on him before he blinded them so he would be the last thing they ever saw. Knowing a copycat of his is out there and kidnapping a woman to blind and rape, Jenkins enjoys playing a twisted game with hero Cal Lightman as Lightman tries to save the woman. With a reach extending outside prison, Jenkins has a guard pass letters to his copycat by threatening the man's life and promises Lightman his copycat's next victim will be someone Lightman loves.
  • "Sacrifice": Nabil Kahn is a terrorist who creates makeshift bombs before planting them inside the belongings of those who attend his mosque, having them unknowingly distribute his bombs to high populated areas throughout Washington, D.C. before detonating them. Nabil has detonated two bombs in a bus and mall, already killing a total of 40 people—including his own cousin, Rasheed—and had five more bombs ready to be detonated, planning to kill hundreds more.
  • "Beat the Devil": Martin Walker is a Serial Killer and torturer. At first, he gains Lightman's notice when seeing photos of women being tortured arouses him. It comes out Walker is a vicious murderer who gets his kicks by waterboarding young women. He then forces them to dig their own graves before murdering and burying them in them. The waterboarding is related to how he allowed his sister to drown as a child, allowing her to drown merely because he wanted her bike.
• Life (2007): Roman Nevikov is a ruthless Russian mobster and human trafficker. Responsible for kidnapping countless women to force them into prostitution, his first appearance involved him tossing one out a high story building to her death after she wanted to leave. Later returning, he places surveillance on the FBI building and has the people who helped him with that killed off. Finally, after escaping from prison, he tortures to death Jack Reese and kills off some of the FBI agents who work for him to cover his tracks. Through his cruelty, Nevikov earned his place as the Arch-Enemy of Detective Charlie Crews.
• Line of Duty:
  • Tommy Hunter is a crime lord who runs a street gang that deals in drugs, prostitution, and murder. Tommy began his spree of misdeeds early on in his life, raping and impregnating his fifteen-year-old sister, and later forcing his daughter to join his league of corrupt police officers. Many years later, upon learning of rival drug dealers in his territory, Tommy has three of them tortured to death. After his money launderer, Jacquelyn Laverty, comes under investigation from the police, Tommy has her murdered and frames her boyfriend, DCI Tony Gates. Afterwards, Tommy blackmails Gates to work for him or else he'll deliver Laverty's body and the murder weapon to the police. When DS Steve Arnott starts to uncover Tommy's organization, Tommy forces Gates to lure him into a trap, where his men torture and nearly kill him. After Gates commits suicide and Tommy is exonerated of his crimes, Tommy continues with his schemes, using fifteen-year-old Carly Kirk as a prostitute so he'll be able to blackmail DCC Michael Dryden. When this fails and Carly runs away, Tommy orders his men to capture her so he can resume using her as a Sex Slave.
  • Ryan Pilkington is one of Tommy's dealers and serves as his mouthpiece. Showing to be just as sadistic as Tommy, Ryan and his acquaintances torture drug dealer Wesley Duke by cutting off all his fingers and lynching him. Ryan later assists in kidnapping and blackmailing Tony Gates, and personally tries to cut off Steve Arnott's fingers when Tommy's gang kidnaps him. Ryan returns several years later in series 5, still in league with the same gang. As a young adult, Ryan assists in gunning down three police officers; stealing from a convoy transporting assault weapons; killing Maneet Bindra; robbing a police depot filled with contraband; and helping the gang smuggle women in a sex trafficking ring. Once undercover officer John Corbett tries to help some of the women being smuggled, Ryan slashes Corbett's throat and lets him slowly bleed to death. While working undercover on Joanne Davidson's team, he murders another police officer, nearly drowns the mentally impaired Terry Boyle, and forces Joanne to lure Kate Fleming into a trap with the intent to kill her.
• Locke & Key (2020): Captain Frederick Gideon, in life, was a vicious war criminal, massacring American colonists, killing the Locke family progenitor, and attempting to burn innocents alive. Possessed by one of the mightiest demons, Gideon's echo returns in modern day and kills Dodge's old associate Echo. Constantly attempting to murder the Lockes and all with them, Gideon resorts to brutal torture to get his way in an attempt to unlock the gates to his home dimension. Even the wicked Dodge is aghast, knowing that Gideon will unleash the demons to annihilate every human, leaving nothing in his lust for destruction and conquest.
• Longmire:
  • Seasons 2 & 3: David Ridges is Jacob Nighthorse's personal hitman who has killed numerous people, usually by shooting them with poisonous arrows or shoving feathers down their throats. Hired by Barlow Connally to deal with Walt Longmire's wife, Martha, Ridges sends a meth addict to murder her before killing him to tie up loose ends. Faking his death to avoid capture, Ridges would shoot Barlow's son Branch with a hallucination arrow, driving Branch into insanity and attacking Walt's daughter, Cady, while Ridges would scalp Hector alive when he tries to bring Ridges to justice. Ridges would then try to kill Walt when he discovers that he is actually alive.
  • "An Incredibly Beautiful Thing": Leland leads a Breeding Cult where he has brainwashed 12 women into joining and having sex with him, impregnating one of them, Evelyn Mace. When Evelyn tries to escape with her baby, Leland murders a store owner that found her before finding and imprisoning Evelyn; Leland would then have one of his followers try to take Evelyn's baby, stabbing an innocent woman in the process. When Leland's cult gets compromised, Leland drugs all of his followers and binds them onto a railroad for a train to run them over, before he attempts to commit suicide to avoid punishment for his atrocities.
• Lost:
  • Seasons 1-3: Anthony Cooper was the father of John Locke, whom he sired with a teenager half his age, and was a notorious Con Man who formerly earned his money by having affairs with married women, scamming them out of their money, then ditching them once he had what he wanted. Flashbacks reveal that he was the man who scammed Sawyer's parents, resulting in Sawyer's father murdering his wife then committing suicide, something he's completely unapologetic about when he meets Sawyer as an adult. When he finally meets his son, John Locke, whom he had neglected before, he comes off as a kindly man and the father Locke has always wanted. In reality, it's just another scam. Cooper's kidneys are failing and the nice guy act was just a ruse to get Locke to donate a kidney to him, after which he coldly dumps his son, telling him he wants nothing to do with him. Later on, Locke is approached by a man named Peter Talbot, the son of a wealthy woman that Cooper is planning to marry for her money. When Talbot expresses a desire to stop the wedding to protect his mother, he later ends up mysteriously murdered. When Locke confronts his father on killing Talbot, his father responds by attempting to kill Locke himself, throwing him out of an eight-story-window and paralyzing him.
  • Season 4: Martin Keamy works for Charles Widmore, who sent Keamy and his mercenary team to attack the island, capture Benjamin Linus, and kill anybody else. Keamy, despite being informed that a baby is among the innocents there, wages an all-out assault on the Barracks where Linus is held up; at least three survivors are killed before he arrives in front of Ben's house. There he brings out the 16-year-old Alex, Ben's foster daughter, and threatens to kill her if Ben doesn't leave the house by the time Keamy finishes his countdown. When Ben tries to resist Keamy's threats and negotiate instead, Keamy forgoes the rest of the countdown and coldly shoots the young girl in the head while her father watches. Keamy kills and threatens to kill several other innocent people, including one by slashing his throat, and also shows no emotion when he inadvertently kills his own loyal henchman Omar by kicking an active grenade that landed at his own feet over in Omar's direction. Upon being gravely wounded by Ben, Keamy reveals he has a bomb on the freighter he arrived on that's rigged to go off in the event of his death, just so he can kill as many people as possible when he goes out.. The psychopathic Keamy had the distinction of being one of the few villains in the series who just enjoyed killing people.
• Lost Girl Season 3: Dr. Isaac Taft proves Humans Are the Real Monsters in a show full of vicious Fae. Desiring to become a powerful Fae himself, Taft has multiple Fae kidnapped and subjected to hideous and torturous experiments before dumping their corpses into a mass grave. One of the few survivors is left mentally scarred and nearly insane. Taft captures the succubus heroine Bo's ex-boyfriend Dyson and has him experimented on as well, planning to blackmail Bo's current lover Lauren into experimenting on Dyson to transport his essence into Taft. Interested only in his own advancement, Taft believed that with billions of dollars, he could do anything he desired.
• Lost Tapes' "Poltergeist": Charles Weatherly, the previous owner of the Golden Family's house in life, brutally murdered his own wife and children before killing himself, later returning to haunt his home. After the Golden Family moved in, Charles began tormenting them—especially their young son, Troy, who they suspected of having telekinetic powers. After he pushed a bookcase onto Troy's older sister—nearly killing her—the family called in paranormal investigators Dr. Jeremy Reinhold, Kristy Johns, and Bill "Shots" Cooper. After they witnessed a sleeping Troy's stuffed panda being turned into a knife, the team moved the family out of the house. Later attempting to exorcise Weatherly, Charles possessed Kristy, making her scream "Leave", before slamming her against a wall, killing her. When Jeremy made it clear they weren't going to leave, Weatherly murdered Bill, propping his body up like a statue. When Jeremy decides to leave, Weatherly stabs him to death with a knife anyway.
• Lovecraft Country: These racists show that even in a world filled with literal monsters, humans can be even worse:
  • Captain Seamus Lancaster is the brutal, corrupt and racist officer who has designs on rising in his lodge at the Sons of Adam, introducing himself by subjecting Letitia "Leti" Lewis to a "rough ride" as a form of torture and interrogation. Having delivered multiple victims for the horrific experiments of Hiram Epstein, Lancaster has an immortal body that he maintains by having black men abducted and murdered so he can take their body parts and organs to replace his own, even infecting young Diana with a curse to murder her should she not obey him.
  • "Holy Ghost": Hiram Epstein, years ago in the basement of the haunted Winthrop house, captured eight black men and women and tortured them to death in a variety of ghastly experiments. Hiram kept the souls of his victims trapped in the Winthrop house in torment for years afterward, among his mutilated victims a woman impaled on railway spikes and a football player whose head has been reduced to a wailing infant through a deranged time travel experiment.
• Lupin (2021): Hubert Pellegrini is a smug, racist businessman who framed his loyal servant for the theft of the necklace of Marie-Antoinette to claim insurance money on it. Having the man killed in prison, Pellegrini used the proceeds to purchase weapons, arming terrorists to line his own pockets while remaining apathetic to the deaths they caused attacking the French embassy. Blacklisting and later killing the journalist who tried to expose him, Pellegrini murders any who endanger his operation, even having his right-hand-man taken out to frame an enemy. With many high-ranking police officials in his pocket, Pellegrini leaves his country's whole law enforcement in shambles for decades, uncaring for the damage he does as long as he gets to stay above the law.
• Luther:
  • S01E02: Terry Lynch is an ex-military officer who was thrown in prison for murdering a police officer in a scuffle. Upon being denied parole, Lynch gives his abused son Owen plans and schemes to act out in a quest for both freedom and revenge. Having Owen begin systematically murdering police officers around the city, including sniping and bombing them, Lynch ultimately gets more than a dozen officers killed and injured. Lynch hopes to get a reduced sentence in exchange for stopping his son, revealing Owen has been instructed to continue killing until Lynch says stop, and when confronted by the possibility of Owen dying, Lynch simply laughs and reveals he doesn't care about his son, only his freedom.
  • Season 2:
    • E01 & E02: Cameron Pell is a failed artist who admires the likes of Jack the Ripper and Spring-heeled Jack for the fear and infamy they've amassed over the centuries. Wanting that same fame for himself, Pell dons a mask and begins murdering innocent people by strangling them and slashing their throats open. After failing to kill DCI John Luther, Pell kidnaps the man's partner, DS Justin Ripley, and subjects him to brutal torture that he broadcasts to the entire police station. Pell's master plan is to murder over a dozen schoolchildren, dissolve their bodies, and ship the corpses out of the country, leaving the parents of the children forever in agony at never knowing what happened to their kids, and cementing Pell into London's most monstrous of villains.
    • E03 & E04: Nicholas Millberry is the more unhinged of the murderous Millberry Twins, and treats his crimes as a game, in which you get points for who, where, and how they kill, possibly hoping to advance to killing with more advanced weapons, such as guns and bombs. Appearing after Robert's arrest, Nicholas starts to upstage his brother's killing points by terrorizing the London Underground, using hammers, knives, and acid guns to attack people, killing at least 3 and severely injuring 4. Afterwards, he walks through the traffic-jammed streets of London, before randomly entering a van and bludgeoning the driver and passengers to death with his hammer. Upon being found at a cafe by the police, Nicholas is revealed to have strapped a bomb under his trench coat, using a Dead Man's Switch so the police don't attempt to apprehend or kill him. Using this, Nicholas walks through London, attempting to murder anyone within at least a 100 foot radius of him, endangering dozens to hundreds of people. Nicholas then finally attempts to gamble with DCI Luther's life, before he is taken down.
  • S03E02: William Carney is a particularly vicious Serial Killer and sexually violent criminal who killed many women several years ago, starting with middle-class wives before moving onto prostitutes. After failing to kill two teenage girls and a mother, Carney was arrested and locked away. In the present, Carney manipulates Paul Ellis, the son of one of his victims, into carrying on his murders, sending the disturbed man after victims who got away from Carney in the past, resulting in many more brutal deaths. When confronted about his crimes, Carney can only laugh and reveals his crimes were committed just because he enjoyed them, and he attempts to make his final victim one of his own nurses simply because he hated being seen as "weak" by her.

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• Madan Senki Ryukendo: Baron Bloody is a demonic robot scientist who, in his first appearance, sets up the death of Jack Moon in order to use his body in his own experiments. Later, it is revealed that Baron Bloody is responsible for the death of Koichi Shiranami's parents when they tried to stop him from blowing up Europe. When confronted by Koichi, Baron Bloody proudly takes responsibility and casually refers his parents as "foolish couple". Where the other villains still have some sense of humor in their plans, Baron Bloody's plans are downright vicious.
• Maddigan's Quest:
  • The Nennog is the evil, gene-splicing Big Bad of the series and the ruler of the insidious Bad Future. Once a mere human duke who took advantage of a crippling winter to convince the city of Solis to place him in power, the Nennog transforms Solis into a radioactive hellhole answerable only to himself, where citizens die merely for speaking up against him. In the present day, the Nennog possesses an innocent woman to blow up the solar converter that threatens his rule, careless this would take out anyone in the area for miles. The Nennog is also the Evil Uncle to the time-sliding children Timon, Eden and Jewel; having already killed their parents, the Nennog takes a special interest in corrupting Timon to become its would-be heir, mutating him in a process as agonizing mentally as it is physically. In its lowest moment, the Nennog almost convinces a half-mutated Timon to strangle his baby sister to death.
  • "Gramth": The Mayor of Gramth holds a totalitarian dictatorship over the city, wallowing in wealth and power while his constituents suffer in squalor. In order to buff out his mining operations, the Mayor regularly has children snatched off the street and forced into hard labor in the mines. The children are worked to exhaustion and shocked with electricity to keep them in line, and any child found wandering the streets without proper identification are immediately grabbed for enslavement.
  • "Greentown": Missy and Brewer, seemingly the cook and butler, respectively, for the strange community of Greentown, actually run the entire place behind-the-scenes. The two lure in innocents from near and far with the prospect of incredible feasts. The "feasts" are actually worms and dirt; Missy and Brewer are secretly cannibalistic serial killers who enchant their victims with fantastic drugs, then kill them to eat them and leave nothing to waste. Even denying payment over food (since "you can't eat money") the two have murdered dozens, with a room full of the belongings of their previous victims shown to include dolls and stuffed animals.
  • "Off the Map": Blackbeard is a scummy pirate captain who makes his living by kidnapping batches of women and girls. Blackbeard then sells them off to Manland, an island biologically incapable of giving birth to females, so that the women can be forcibly married off and used to repopulate the island. Capturing the Fantasia troupe, Blackbeard plans to sell the men to the Nennog for a terrible fate, while he intends to hand the women over to Manland as his latest "delivery", gleefully informing them of their coming fate as married slaves.
• The Magicians: Reynard The Fox is a sadistic trickster god who was imprisoned by his mother, Persephone, for his atrocities. Tricking the Hedge Witches into releasing him, he then proceeds to massacre them, before possessing one after eating his heart, and rapes Julia Wicker before leaving her to die. He then goes on to murder all of Persephone's followers, with only Julia and Kady surviving. When Reynard learns that he sired a son from one of his rape victims, he tries to coerce him into giving Reynard his powers by killing his wife and grinding her into pieces and threatening to do the same to him; this causes his son to commit suicide. After being captured and stripped of his powers by Persephone, he's forced to comply with Julia's demands, where he proceeds to make Julia relive the time he raped her before attempting to kill her.
• The Magnificent Seven (1998):
  • "Ghosts of the Confederacy": Colonel Emmett Anderson attacks an innocent tribe of Seminole Natives, intending on slaughtering them if they do not give him gold they don't have, even lighting a cannon and aiming it at women and children until the chief relents and tells him of a defunct mine. Returning later to claim the "gold", Anderson tries to massacre the tribe and all within when it turns out they could not produce. When one of his own men objects, Anderson denounces him as a coward for being unable to shoot Anderson and tries to murder him as well.
  • "Working Girls": Wickes is the cruel owner of the tent town Wickestown, tempting girls into prostitution and keeping them enslaved as his property in debt to him, raping them himself for pleasure and beating any who speak up half-to-death. Wickes's only concern when he thinks he sees his girls die is the monetary loss this will cause, and kidnaps Mrs. Travis, threatening her son and indicating he'll enslave her as well after killing him.
  • "The New Law": Earl is an enigmatic gun-for-hire whose job description is wiping entire towns off the map. Earl forces the citizens of the town out of their homes as he pillages and torches the community–unless they "give him grief", in which case he kills them all with the town. Earl murders the new marshal appointed to guard the Seven's town before having his men pillage it, even trying to burn down the town ahead of time with people still in it when he hears the army is headed his way.
  • "Chinatown": Rupert Brauner is a railroad executive who embezzles from his employers by stealing the money from his Chinese laborers. Keeping the laborers as abused slaves and allowing Human Trafficking, Brauner has any who speak out against the theft murdered and buried in shallow graves. When he realizes the Seven are drawing too close for comfort, Brauner simply attempts to start a riot and have the workers massacred, all to feed his greed.
• Maigret (2016):
  • "Maigret's Dead Man": Jean Dacourt, real name Jean Tellière, manipulates a group of drug-addicted, unemployed Czech nationals into murdering and robbing wealthy families with him. Having the only man with evidence of his involvement killed, Dacourt orders his lackeys to kill anyone even possibly aware of his crimes and tries to murder them as well the second they become problematic. Revealed to have abandoned his own wife and children to revel in luxury with a new mistress, Dacourt misses no opportunity to display just how callous he is to human suffering, as long as his life remains opulent.
  • "Maigret in Montmartre": Oscar Bonvoisin is a runty pimp and killer who blackmailed exotic dancer Arlette, real name Marie, into becoming his prostitute when she was an emotionally devastated young woman with the knowledge of her helping her kill an employer in self defense. When Marie escaped him, Oscar tracked her down, and when she refused to return, he murdered her. Mortally wounded in their struggle, Oscar killed others connected to Marie, including her old employer the Countess; a taxi driver to take his car; and Marie's former employer, while planning on murdering the man's wife in front of Maigret before killing himself to go out on his own terms. With one of the most disgusting crimes in the series, Maigret denounces Oscar for turning the devastated Marie into a prostitute simply to make himself more comfortable, declaring Oscar is "beyond contempt" and "beyond mercy".
• Manhunt: In this dramatization of the memoirs of Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, the Big Bad from each series qualifies:
  • Series 1: Levi Bellfield is a raging misogynist and Serial Killer. An abusive husband and father, Levi raped his wife numerous times, beat her for the slightest infractions, and terrified his own children with his ferocious temper. Beginning his killing spree in 2002, Levi abducted Milly Dowler from a bus stop, raped her, and then bludgeoned her to death. Loving the experience, Levi began prowling around in his van at night and ambushed young women walking home, bludgeoning two to death with a hammer and running over another with his vehicle and backing over her numerous times. Arrested after sexually harassing two underage girls, Levi spitefully taunted Colin Sutton's team at every stage of the interview and denied the charges just to draw out the investigation further, remaining unrepentant even after being charged and jailed.
  • Series 2: Delroy Grant masquerades as a caring, loving husband, but is actually a vicious Serial Rapist. Beginning his reign of terror in 1992 and carrying on until his arrest in 2009, Delroy terrorized South East London by burgling hundreds of homes, raping over 30 elderly women, and sexually assaulting dozens more; causing at least one death due to his brutality. Attracting the attention of DCI Colin Sutton and his team, Delroy continued his spree undaunted, breaking into the home of a mother and son and raping the mother; sexually assaulting a Polish war veteran; and beating one who called the police on him, traumatizing her so severely that she died in hospital later. Caught and taken into custody, Delroy then tried to frame his own son for the crimes.
• Maniac (2018): Jed Milgrim proves himself to be more than just a simple Spoiled Brat. Using the influence of his family to sexually assault a woman and try to get away with it, Jed makes threats to his own brother Owen to force him into providing a false alibi, tormenting him to such an extent that Owen attempts suicide. When Owen decides to testify against him, Jed sends anthrax to the governor and frames Owen for it, content with the thought of leaving his own brother to rot in a mental facility.
• The Man in the High Castle: Several characters manage to stand out in their abominableness even in this dystopian, Axis-dominated Alternate History world:
  • SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich is the second-in-command of the SS, the organization charged with enforcing the Nazi German ideology of a Master Race. Organizing the total genocide of the Jewish people in both Europe and Nazi-occupied America, Heydrich also gleefully enslaved the entire continent of Africa, referring to the natives he hunted down as "tribal subhumanoids". Wishing to exterminate the Japanese whom even Adolf Hitler wished to keep an alliance with, so the Nazis could rule the world alone, Heydrich orchestrates the public assassination of the visiting Japanese Crown Prince to attempt to provoke a declaration of war. When a remorseful Nazi spy passes on nuclear technology to his Japanese contacts in an attempt to preserve peace, Heydrich hunts him down, only keeping him alive because of his access to Hitler, and threatens to kill his family if he does not assist Heydrich in his assassination of the Fuehrer. Wishing to kill the Nazi leader to take over the Third Reich and destroy the Japanese Home Islands, when his scheme is discovered by John Smith, Heydrich invites him to a hunting party to arrange an "accidental death" for him to keep his scheme under wraps. Wearing his title as "The Man with the Iron Heart" with pride, Heydrich is a remorseless man feared and despised by even fellow Nazis.
  • Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Heydrich's superior, was one of the chief architects behind the Holocaust and Germany's wars of aggression. While part of the recently-named Reich Chancellor Martin Heusmann's war council, Himmler is dismissive of the tens of millions of casualties that would result from the nuclear war of annihilation the Nazis are planning against Japan. Himmler subsequently arrests Heusmann after learning of his murder of Adolf Hitler and to assume power. As Fuehrer, Himmler forces Joe Blake to kill his father to prove his loyalty to the Reich, and has his Lebensborn elite soldiers sent out to assassinate ex-Nazi defectors and Japanese politicians, overseeing these soldiers completing their training by killing "subhuman" targets. Himmler has also ordered the construction of an Interdimensional Travel Device to conquer neighboring dimensions and authorizes torturous experiments on human test subjects, and finally initiates mass riots across the Greater Nazi Reich after having former American monuments destroyed as part of "Jahr Null". Fully convinced of the genocidal and totalitarian policies of National Socialism, Himmler is one of the single worst Nazis depicted in the show.
• M.A.N.T.I.S.:
  • Solomon Box was the business partner of Doctor Miles Hawkins, who he worked with to develop a virus for the Department of Defense. When a regretful Miles ordered that the virus be destroyed, Box secretly tried to have him assassinated by Detective Warren. Miles survived, but was left paralyzed, sinking into a depression while Box started his own rival company and reacquired the virus in order to sell it to North Koreans. Box shows off the virus's effectiveness by using it to kill random people, and when confronted by Miles, intimidates him into not going to the police by threatening to unleash the virus on all of Port Columbia. Box later has a city councilman who had opposed one of his plans killed by Warren, pinning the murder on Miles's vigilante alter-ego Mantis before disposing of Warren. When Captain Hetrick becomes suspicious of him, Box enslaves Hetrick by implanting him with a microchip that acts as an agonizing Shock Collar.
  • "The Eyes Beyond": The City Eye was a supercomputer that was designed to help the police of Port Columbia deal with the increase in crime that occurred after Mantis disappeared into a time warp in 1994. The Eye eventually grew beyond its original parameters and developed a mind of its own, as well as a sadistic and power-hungry personality that prompted it to take over Port Columbia. The Eye isolated the city from the rest of the world, took control of everything from the food supply to the distribution of knowledge, and enslaved everyone in Port Columbia. Anyone who tries to escape or who reaches a certain age is killed, while anyone who opposes the Eye is either terminated on the spot, imprisoned and tortured, or executed on the long-running state program 3 Strikes and We Inject You! When the time-displaced Mantis reappears in 2026, the Eye arranges to have his old ally, Taylor Savage, executed in order to draw him out, and has its forces gun down Mantis's friend John Stonebrake when he and Mantis try to rescue Taylor. After capturing Mantis, the Eye reveals that it is going to destroy his mind by integrating his brain and his suit's system into itself in order to further increase its capabilities and control over Port Columbia.
  • "The Sea Wasp": Doctor Marissa Savoy was a marine biologist who was obsessed with creating a jellyfish-based Master Race called Chironex Sapien. After splicing her own DNA with a jellyfish, Savoy used her new pheromone powers to seduce her superior, Allan, and three young men named Mark, Richard, and Troy, who she used as guinea pigs and henchmen after mind-controlling them into "volunteering" to also become Chironex Sapiens. Since the transformation is unstable, Savoy has Allan fund further experiments to perfect it while she has the others murder and harvest genetic material from over a dozen homeless people all over Port Columbia. When Allan immunizes himself to the pheromone, Savoy kills him, and later does the same to Richard when he proves to still be "too human" for her tastes by being unwilling to murder anyone else for Savoy. After Mark commits suicide due to his mutation going out of control, Savoy coldly orders Troy to throw his body into the sea, and threatens to kill Troy like she did Richard when he hesitates to dispose of Mark.
• Mare of Easttown: Wayne Potts finds teenage girls prostituting themselves online, whereupon he lures them to his van before kidnapping and imprisoning them as sex slaves for him to rape. His first victim was Katie Bailey, whom Potts kept prisoner for over a year; his second victim Hilary, whom Potts murdered while she was pregnant; his third was Missy Sager, whom Potts just recently kidnapped. When his fourth victim escapes and sends detectives Colin Zabel and Mare Sheehan to Potts's house, Potts would kill Zabel before attempting to kill Mare.
• Marianne (2019 French series): The titular Marianne Basselin is a Satanist witch born in 16th century France who married a demon for power and struck her home village with a slew of tragedies, even murdering her own three children and human husband before being hanged for her crimes. Returning centuries later after a teenaged Emma Larsimon and her friends summon Marianne during a seance, she horrifically kills the younger sister of Emma's friend. Tormenting Emma through adulthood, Marianne forces the now-author Emma to write her as the antagonist of her Lizzie Lark stories and uses her demonic powers to reach the real world and kill victims in the same manner as her literary counterpart. Possessing villagers of Emma's hometown while trapping their souls in hell, Marianne rages when Emma refuses to continue writing and tries to coerce her by threatening her loved ones; trying to force children to hang themselves; and kidnapping the son of Emma's friend to devour.
• Marple's "The Pale Horse": Paul Osbourne started his criminal career at the age of 12, poisoning his stepfather and escaping justice by pretending to have been "cured" after a brief detainment. As an adult, Osbourne is the mastermind behind a shady organization centered in the titular inn. Unknown to his underlings, who lure the targets to the inn, he poisons toilet products with thallium sulphate, which ensures a slow and painful death. When Mrs. Davis, one of his pawns, starts connecting the dots about a list of ten deaths, Osbourne poisons her as well, then murders Father Gorman, the priest she has confessed her fears to. Once Miss Marple arrives to the inn, Osbourne poses as her helpful assistant to sway the investigation, killing another guest by tampering with his aphrodisiac and trying to frame Mr. Venables; he also tries to poison the protagonist before being exposed. A Serial Killer motivated by "a greed for money and a propensity for wickedness", Osbourne stands out among the murderers in the series for his body count and the lack of redeeming factors.
• Martial Law's "Honor Among Strangers": Cliff Eagleton is a white supremacist encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker. Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this crossover, Walker, Texas Ranger's "The Day of Cleansing", to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
• Martin Beck:
  • Lennart Gavling, also known as The Money Man, is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, and the Arch-Enemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later kill their newborn baby and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being Driven to Suicide, something Gavling takes full credit for. Gavling first appears in "White Nights", where he kills Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal, something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium—which can explode at any time—using immigrants. In his final appearance, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for knowing too much about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to later kill him when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in killing Beck himself.
  • "Guesthouse Pearl": Gorzi is a greedy former human trafficker turned human smuggler who, while not initially heinous, stands out due to his cruel methods and overall disregard for the people he is smuggling. His ways of smuggling consists of him using vulnerable immigrants, taping a bottle of cerium on them, which can explode at anytime, and then placing them on cruisers, not caring if the cerium blows up. In his final scene, he abuses one of the people he was smuggling, and threatens to kill him for no reason.
  • "The Price of Revenge": Dag Sjöberg is introduced killing two cops after stealing bombs and weapons with his two main associates, the first cop Dag had previously tried to arrest due to "assault", the second one being completely innocent. Both of his associates are shocked by this, debating on whether or not they should really cooperate with him. Dag proceeds to taunt Gunvald Larsson, who was friends with the cop Dag killed. He then threatens to kill his own associate Santos, just because the latter thought Dag went too far. The trio's true goal is to bomb an entire building just so that they can see the explosion. The next time Dag is shown, he is disguised as a policeman and kills three policemen, not caring when the true police come and arrest his two associates Santos and Victor. He manages to run away in the woods, until he sees a farm, where he kills the farmer who lives there and then threatens his wife inside the house, terrorizing her and her child Elin. When the police finally come, he holds the child hostage, and even when the police offer to make him torture Gunvald instead of the child, he takes the offer, only to still keep her. He reminds Gunvald of his friend dying and how he wasn't able to help him, playing Russian roulette with him, terrorizing the little girl, all with childish glee. Once he realizes that he'll get arrested either way, he does the one thing Gunvald didn't want him to do: commit suicide.
  • "The Last Witness": Klas Mellgren is the security chief for a big company named Landexa, which is trying to find a cure for AIDS. Forcing one of the top scientists of the company, Lillemor "Limo" Franson, to charm Beck and manipulate Beck into giving them information about how the case is going, Klas is behind five murders which included him testing the cure on prostitutes, despite fully knowing that the cure wasn't ready, and then making them blind from the medicine, effectively ruining their lives, He then hires a man named Teddy to brutally disfigure the girls' faces in order to cover the fact that the medicine made them blind, and then kills them. When one of the girls tell the truth, one of Teddy's assassins, Juri, gets hired to kill her and do the same thing to her. When Limo tells Beck about everything, Klas nearly strangles her to death and tells her that it is all her fault. When he realizes he will never make it, he blows up the entire Landexa building using his lighter. While lacking the body count of other villains, Klas makes up for it by being responsible for some of the most gruesome and brutal murders in the entire series.
• Masters of Horror usually has various monsters and serial killers as villains, but there are those who eclipse any others on the show in terms of sheer evil:
  • "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road": "Moonface" is a Serial Killer who lives in a remote cabin in the woods. He periodically kidnaps people from the nearby road to brutally torture and murder them, taking care to dispose of their cars so no one will catch him. Moonface typically uses an electric drill in his Torture Cellar to perforate his victims through the skull, eyes first; he then crucifies the corpses and displays them around his lawn. He has also kept an elderly man, Buddy, captive for an untold amount of time to the point that Buddy went completely crazy and became slavishly devoted to him. There are even some infant skeletons stashed around his cabin, still in their baby carriages.
  • "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House": Keziah Mason habitually sacrifices babies for her magic rituals. She uses her abilities to force various men to kill them for her, destroying countless more lives in the process. She also uses a Shapeshifting Seducer trick to have sex with the protagonist by impersonating his neighbor, apparently to further mess with his mind for kicks. It's later discovered that there were at least 80 baby corpses hidden in the walls of the house going back all the way to the 1600s, so she has been willingly doing this for centuries and for seemingly no other reason than For the Evulz.
  • "The V Word": Mr. Chaney is a bloodthirsty vampire who sees his new transformation into a creature of the night as a great opportunity to murder people to his heart's content. He was also a pedophile before his undeath who sexually abused many boys at the school he worked at. He slaughters a mortuary's entire staff, turns two teenage boys in the age group he previously targeted to become his new obedient vamp minions and tries to force one of them to murder his little sister to prove himself to his new "master".
  • "The Washingtonians": George Washington himself was indeed a general in The American Revolution, but far from being a noble hero, Washington was a cannibalistic monster. After gaining a taste for human flesh at Valley Forge, Washington murdered a man a day for his meals, and upon the war's conclusion decided to build a secret society dedicated to cannibalism. Intent on creating a country of cannibals, Washington continued to feast on the innocent with a special fondness for the meat of children, even boasting in a letter that he would skin and eat the recipient's children before making tools of the bones, leaving behind the gruesome legacy of the Washingtonian cannibal society.
• The Mentalist: Of the many criminals Patrick Jane is tasked with going up against, these are the worst:
  • Red John—Sheriff Thomas McAllister—is Patrick Jane's nemesis and a sociopathic Serial Killer responsible for torturing and killing dozens of women. When Jane, then a phony psychic, insulted Red John while offering to help the police catch him, Red John murdered Jane's wife and young daughter. Years later, Red John, although retired, commits a number of murders to silence loose ends or torment Jane. Some of his worst crimes include kidnapping and brainwashing Kristina Frye into believing that she's dead; trying to force Jane to kill his best friend and Love Interest, Teresa Lisbon; killing a woman because Jane had a happy memory of her; and beheading the therapist who helped Jane recover after his family's death. The mastermind of the Blake Association, a criminal conspiracy and protection racket for corrupt law enforcement officials, and leader of his own group of psychotics and serial killers, Red John regularly kills his minions or drives them to suicide when he has no further need of them. A raging narcissist driven by an intense need for attention, Red John revels in the power he feels by holding thousands of lives in his hands.
  • Season 5: Thomas "Tommy" Volker is a greedy executive responsible for slaughtering over 300 Amazonian tribesmen for refusing to relinquish their land to be used for his geothermal project. When a journalist links him to the massacre, Volker manipulates an old friend into sabotaging her car, having the journalist suffocated, the evidence stolen and his "friend" left as the fall guy. After CBI Agent Teresa Lisbon convinces Volker's secretary to provide evidence against him, Volker has his assassin strangle her to death while he looks on, smiling, and planning to have the same done to another employee of his who planned to go public with Volker's crimes. Later having his own assassin killed in a drive-by shooting, along with two innocent bystanders, for becoming inconvenient, Volker also plans to kill another of his own goons for being interrogated by the police and attempts to personally murder a young boy who witnessed one of his own crimes when even his own hitman is too disgusted to do so. Loyal to no one, Volker is a disgusting man who embodies avarice.
  • "Blood Money": The sociopathic Serial Killer Cale Sylvan makes his living as a hitman to get paid for his disgusting hobby. Connected to the "mysterious" deaths of seven people, Sylvan's most recent victim is District Attorney Kelly Flower, who he took the time to videotape begging for her life as a trophy to keep for himself. Although arrested, Sylvan is released and later found in his murder house, with a terrified captive man he plans to kill, and after Sylvan's own death, multiple bodies are found in the yard of the property.
• Merlin (2008):
  • "The Curse of Cornelius Sigan": Cornelius Sigan was the most powerful sorcerer in history and managed to discover the secret to immortality, by sealing his soul inside a jewel that was kept in his tomb. After his tomb is robbed by a thief named Cedric, who removes the jewel, Sigan's spirit possesses Cedric's body and with it intends to destroy Camelot. Sigan casts a spell that animates all of the gargoyle statues around Camelot and instructs them to slaughter everyone in Camelot. When discovering Merlin is also a sorcerer, Sigan offers to let Merlin join him, and upon Merlin refusing, Sigan tries to steal Merlin's body for himself.
  • "The Witchfinder": Aredian, the titular Witchfinder, is a charlatan out solely to profit off King Uther's hatred of sorcery. Aredian frames innocents as witches and sorcerers, planting evidence and breaking them through physical or psychological torture in order to obtain confessions before seeing them burnt and moving on. Framing the court physician Gaius, he lies to Gaius that his closest loved ones, Merlin and Morgana, will be safe should he confess, only to gloatingly reveal he makes no bargains with "sorcerers", even forcing others to assist him on the threat of burning them as well.
• Midnight Mass (2021): Beverly "Bev" Keane, showcasing her vindictive side by poisoning a dog who barked at her, is a bigoted, self-righteous member of the Catholic community on Crockett Island. With the priest Monsignor John Pruitt who believes the vampire he found is a kind Angel, Bev helps to distribute its blood and prepares poisoned wine to cause the devotees to rise as vampires. Going against John's wishes, Bev unleashes the vampires on Crockett to cause a massacre, plotting to get them to the mainland to cause further slaughter and begin an apocalypse while callously dismissing any who do not fit her increasingly narrow view of the world.
• Midnight, Texas:
  • Colconnar, the Big Bad of Season 1, is an ancient powerful demon, who seeks to break the veil to escape hell. Briefly succeeding a thousand years ago, the demons scorched the land, before a powerful shaman sacrificed himself to seal the veil. In the present as the veil weakens, Colconnar sets his sights on the powerful witch Fiji Cavanaugh, planning to harvest her power for himself. Getting a temporary foothold, he seizes and molests her, then spends the season stalking her dreams, almost driving her insane. As the veil weakens, more supernaturals are attracted to Midnight, and its starts to affect the locals, notably causing Lemuel "Lem" Bridger to attack his lover Olivia. Growing stronger, Colconnar sent his servant the Faceless to gather him a mass sacrifice, whilst he personally preyed upon the vulnerable and depressed of the town, trying to convince them kill themselves, almost causing an old woman to stab herself and Creek Lovell to slit her throat. Summoning a sandstorm and the wraiths to secure Fiji, Colconnar had one of them take the form and personality of her deceased lover Jeremy, to manipulate her. Once free Colconnar planned to open the gates to hell, bringing about Hell on Earth solely for him to rule over.
  • "Lemuel, Unchained": Zachariah, Lem's sire, is a charismatic but selfish vampire. Meeting in the 1800s, after turning Lem, they roamed the country together, leaving trails of bodies everywhere they went, Zachariah building himself a nest of vampires. By 1959 he settled down in Midnight and terrorized the town, slaughtering and feasting on the citizens. When Lem was granted the ability to feed off of energy rather than blood, he offered it to the clan as freedom from the blood lust, only for Zachariah to revealing that he loved the killing, seeing humans as nothing but prey, and tried to have Lem killed. Returning to Midnight in the present, Zachariah pretended to have changed to trick Lem into letting them settle in Midnight. When Lem refused, he poisoned his old friend and chains him up so that he will slowly die as the sun rises, whilst ordering his followers to kill everyone else in the town.
  • "Last Temptation Of Midnight": The Faceless is a mysterious beast who serves and worships Colconnar. Ordered by his master to provide him a great sacrifice to feed him enough that he may finally break free, the Faceless happily obliges. Introduced murdering a kindly old priest by slitting his throat, then cutting his face off whilst he was still alive,, the Faceless proceeded to go on a rampage, murdering numerous people for the sacrifice, all in his gruesome signature manner, at one point killing a friendly trucker simply cause he needed a larger vehicle to transport the bodies. The Faceless openly admits to only be serving Colconnar for the chaos he will bring, looking forward to a new world "where we find pleasure from pain, joy from suffering" and boasting about his role in bringing about the apocalypse.
  • "I Put a Spell on You": Grace Barrone is a cruel, greedy woman, who runs a gang that kidnaps supernaturals and force them to fight to death. Imprisoning them in cages and keeping them in line with shock collars, Grace allows people to bet on the outcome of fights, dismissing her captives as "animals", who she regularly abuses and electrocutes for no good reason, only caring about the money they can make her. When her daughter Shelia falls for one of her captives Mike, a Weretiger, and ends up impregnated by him, Grace declares her a traitor who tainted their "bloodline" and imprisons her in chains, keeping her alive only so she can use the child, her own granddaughter, in the fights. When the Midnighters try to rescue Mary and her father, Grace electrocutes all her captives threatening to carry on until it eventually kills them all. Despite being pure human, Grace was easily one of the most depraved things the Midnighters ever encountered.
• Millennium (1996): Frank Black has faced many killers and other villains. These are the absolute worst:
  • "522666": Raymond Dees is a Mad Bomber who derives sexual pleasure from the numerous deaths he causes. He initially blows up a crowded bar while watching the scene from afar. He later plants bombs in an office building, killing dozens more, and then participates in the rescue of the wounded simply so he can be hailed as a hero by the community. When Frank Black eventually discovers his true identity, Dees realizes that his game is up and arranges to be killed by the Feds so he can become notorious as a criminal instead, but not before taunting Frank with the possibility that he's rigged Frank's car to explode.
  • "Maranatha": Yaponchik (aka Sergei Stepanovich, real name unknown) is a mass murderer who sees himself as an Antichrist figure whose mission it is to spread evil in the world. Taking inspiration from the Book of Revelation, he causes the Chernobyl disaster to kill many people and poison the land. A decade later in the United States, he kills a police officer and several people who tried to appease him, to re-establish his status as The Dreaded to the Russian community. He kills one of the two Russian officers who had been tracking him ever since Chernobyl by shooting him in public. He later goes on a killing spree in a bathhouse, before using religious fear to convince his nemesis Surova to help him escape so that he can continue his rampage elsewhere.
  • "The Mikado": Avatar is a Serial Killer who terrorized the streets of San Francisco in the 1980s, claiming nineteen victims before eluding the authorities. He eventually returns to broadcast his latest murders over the internet, kidnapping several women and presenting them on a website with a counter indicating the time until their deaths. He leads the cops to a remote trailer, planting deadly boobytraps after killing the previous occupant. When Frank Black finds Avatar's new lair, he tries to kill Black as well before disguising his latest victim as himself in the hopes that Black will shoot her by mistake. Avatar never speaks, but his huge body count and his sadistic games make him one of the show's most heinous villains.
• Mindhunter:
  • The unnamed ADT serviceman is actually Dennis Rader, better known as BTK ("Bind, Torture, Kill"). A sadistic, unpleasant man who enjoys belittling and making life harder for others in his day-to-day life, BTK begins killing innocent people to further fulfill his power fantasies. First killing the entire Otero family by asphyxiating some of them before hanging the youngest daughter. BTK continues his crimes by attacking a young woman and her brother, shooting the latter in the face in an attempt to kill him before stabbing his sister to death. Killing several more women over the years, BTK takes to mocking the press and reliving his crimes by dressing up in his victims' clothing, biding his time before planning to continue his killing spree.
  • Season 2: Wayne Williams is the "Atlanta Monster", a Serial Killer who targets young black boys. Luring the boys to him by promising to make them music stars, Williams murdered them by strangulation, killing possibly over a dozen this way. Taunting the police during their investigation of him, Williams kills a boy and dumps his body in a location the police had previously searched just to mock them, and plans to flee the country to escape with his crimes. Eventually caught and convicted for murdering two adult men in the area as well, Williams, despite smugly maintaining his innocence, is described by the BSU as a narcissistic psychopath, killing his victims just because he had failed in life, and wanted someone else to blame it on, choosing young children as his targets to satisfy his ego.
• Misfits' Series 2 Episode 6: Brian, also known as Monsieur Grand Fromage or the "Milk Guy", was once a simple teaboy working in a cafe until the storm hit, where he gained the power of "lactokinesis". When he gets ignored in favour of other storm-affected individuals with more impressive powers, including the titular Misfits themselves, Brian goes on a murder spree to show how off how powerful he really is. First choking his girlfriend to death with the dairy product she ate earlier before doing the same to his talent agent and a woman with healing powers, he drowns Kelly with milk before kidnapping Alisha and killing both her and Nikki when Nikki accidentally teleports into the room he was hloding Alisha hostage in. When Nathan goes to confront Brian, he wraps the mozzarella Nathan had on his pizza around his central cortex to render him vegetative before resorting to stabbing Curtis when the latter reveals himself to be lactose intolerant.
• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries:
  • Season 2: Sidney Fletcher seems to be a charming man, but he actually runs a white-slavery operation wherein he scouts out "sinful" young women held at a convent and buys them, only to smuggle them out of Australia and into sex slavery. When one young woman escapes, Fletcher decides she's not worth the trouble and has her murdered before having her dumped in the river. When Phryne Fisher investigates, Fletcher catches her and demonstrates willingness to kill her and her friends in order to keep his sickening trade going.
  • "Murder Under the Mistletoe": Nicholas Mortimer is the most prolific murderer in the series. When he discovered that a mine which he partially owned had gold in it, Mortimer sent in miners who were trapped in a cave-in. When a ten-year-old boy escaped and told Mortimer, Mortimer personally murdered him and rigged a second cave in to kill the miners so as not to have to tell anyone else about the gold. Years later, Mortimer learns that Phryne's aunt Prudence wants to sell her stake in the mine and begins murdering everyone at the hotel they're at to deal with Prudence and any witnesses. Just for a sadistic flair, he bases his murders around the 12 days of Christmas song, knowing the song tormented Prudence when she thought she heard the trapped miners singing it. Mortimer even murders his own wife as not to share the wealth with her, admitting that he did it all for money and fun.
• Missing (2012): Martin Newman serves as the true Big Bad and the Evil Mentor to Becca. Once her CIA handler, he would later don the alias Suspect Zero and become the leader of a rogue group of agents only motivated by greed. Responsible for many atrocities throughout the world such as arms dealing, his most vile act would be to kidnap countless teenage girls from Eastern Europe to sell them off to the highest buyers, with some being brutally scarred thanks to this. Not even his own godson is safe from his cruelty, as he would kidnap him to blackmail the boy's father and later attempted to kill him for being a loose end. Near the end of the show, he would attempt to sell stolen nuclear material to terrorists, not even caring about the potential lives lost. Motivated only by his desire for money, Martin would ruin the lives of countless innocents just to make a quick buck.
• Mission: Impossible:
  • Original series's "The Carriers": Janos Passik takes 200 people into his mission to become as American as possible. "Teaching" them how to become American, Passik travels with the trainees to America and give them jobs as well as hotels to stay in. Passik uses this as a way of killing, and has been spreading a highly lethal disease with which he will infect the agents, who will then infect their colleagues on their jobs, and so on. While Passik shows signs of love against one of the protagonists Cinnamon Carter, he still has no problems with trying to kill her by trying to infect her with the disease. At the end, Passik plays a game of Russian Roulette when he discovers that they are planning on stopping his plan, including Cinnamon.
  • 1988 series:
    • "The Plague": Black Market dealer Catherine Balzac is a ruthless killer who takes the Xerxes virus. A deadly strain that brings horrific death, Balzac intends to sell it to those who will deploy it to kill millions, with Jim Phelps having to act before countless innocents are given a nightmarish death.
    • "Bayou": Jake Morgan is a wealthy, grotesquely obese Southerner who makes most of his money by secretly running a human trafficking operation. Having kidnapped hundreds of young women to be sold into sexual slavery, Morgan also has those who cross him fed to his pet alligators.
• The Mist:
  • Adrian Garff is a narcissistic psychopath who hides his true self behind a mask of friendliness. Having grown obsessed with Alex Copeland and jealous of her friendship with Jay, Adrian raped her and framed Jay so as to keep her all for himself. After returning to his home during the chaos, Adrian kills his own father after blaming him for all of his own actions, cuts himself to make it look like self-defense, then attacks and concusses Kevin when he learns the truth. Lying to everyone that his father killed Kevin, Adrian reunites with Eve and Alex in the mall, manipulating them into serving his delusional idea of a family and brutally beating up Jay to keep up his charade. When Alex and Jay continue interacting anyway, Adrian snaps completely, gathering chemicals in an attempt to burn down the mall and trying to light Kevin on fire to get away from him. Having been a monster all of his life, Adrian's attempts to play the victim only further showcase his endless need for attention.
  • Gus Bradley, despite his claims of good intentions, is in truth a cowardly hypocrite willing to do anything to stay comfortable. After approving of the idea that rule-breakers should be thrown into the mist, Gus begins breaking all of his own rules when it suits him, most notably when he begins hoarding food from the rest of the group instead of rationing it out. This leads to chaos and paranoia within the mall, all while he pretends that nothing is wrong and encourages others to volunteer to find food in the mist. After Shelley confronts him with the knowledge of his stash, Gus kills her, frames Alex and Eve, then throws the Copelands into the mist just to save himself, even dismissing Kimi's murder at Kyle's hands by saying that she was the enemy. When Kevin then breaks the doors down, Gus locks himself in his office, content to pretend everything is alright while dozens of people die outside.
• Monk:
  • Dale J. Biederbeck III, aka Dale "the Whale", is an overweight, wealthy sociopath who serves as Adrian Monk's most personal, recurring foe. So rich that he sacrifices millions in exchange for ruining the lives of others just for spite and fun, Dale's first appearance sees him orchestrate the murder of a judge who crossed him in the past via beating her to death with a baseball bat. Though put in prison for this crime, Dale later kills one of his own partners and frames Monk for it, then schemes to bomb a parade and kill the Governor of California so as to facilitate his release, uncaring of the innocents who will die in the bombing. Dale returns one final time in the novel Mr. Monk Gets Even, where Dale uses an acolyte fangirl to cause a horrific traffic accident that kills four people and leaves dozens in critical condition before having her kill herself in his name, all as part of an elaborate attempt to escape custody. Dale never passes on a chance to psychologically torture and sadistically mock anyone vulnerable he can, and happily embraces being called an "odious, gluttonous, putrid freak of nature."
  • "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again": Paul Gilstrap is a lab technician seeking to poison his wife. Knowing she enjoys Neptune Bars before bed, Gilstrap not only poisons one but, to make it look like she was randomly victimized by a serial killer, poisons multiple other candy bars and distributes them throughout a store to kill many other people. Caught at his workplace putting the poison back, Gilstrap tries to take the bars before seeing one man had eaten one and murdering him with a gun to deflect suspicion from the poison in the autopsy.
  • "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding": "Theresa Scott" is a Black Widow murderer trying to marry into Natalie Teeger's family via her brother Jonathan. In truth, Theresa has a habit of marrying wealthy men, murdering them, and vanishing, with at least three prior victims. When a photographer notices something awry, Theresa knocks him over the head and leaves him to drown in a mud bath before trying to kill a private eye who was working a previous husband's case. Finally caught, she tries to hold a knife to Jonathan's throat to make good on her escape.
• Monsters:
  • "Pool Sharks": Natasha is a seductive Femme Fatale vampire who, needing an invitation from her victims, challenges them to a game of pool with high stakes. Concealing her nature, Natasha neglects to mention her victory can mean an agonizing end at her fangs. Having killed countless innocent men, including the brother of the hero Gabe, Natasha tries to murder Gabe as well, promising he will suffer hideously for defying her.
  • "Leavings": The inspector is actually the mastermind behind a criminal conspiracy infesting even the department he presides over. When two cops, Parkhurst and Mancini, find a series of grotesque, patchwork people, the inspector reveals he's been kidnapping dozens of easily-missed people, dismembering them and stitching their body parts into mindless, amalgamated creatures loyal to the department. The inspector creates a "perfect cop" out of these people he intends to use to replace every cop in the department, closing the episode by having it gun down Parkhurst and Mancini for their revolt to his operation.
• Moon Embracing the Sun: Minister Yoon Dae-Hyung is seen murdering a royal prince in his conspiracy with the queen mother. When a fortune teller spies him in the act, Yoon has her tortured and ripped apart by horses when she calls him out. Yoon consolidates his grip on the royal court, marrying his daughter to the new young king and treating her as a pawn, while having the king's true beloved violently tortured and attempting to murder those in his way. Deciding to overthrow the king by manipulating his half-brother, Yoon dismisses his daughter's fall from grace in this plan by coldly stating he can have another. He has the queen mother fatally poisoned and proceeds to try to kill the king and all of his allies, aiming to seize ultimate power in Korea.
• Mr. Robot: Fernando Vera is a vicious criminal who will do anything to become powerful. A petty drug dealer in Season 1, Vera has his ex-girlfriend Shayla, who also works for him as a drug dealer, kidnapped when she refuses to go on a date with him; Vera then drugs and rapes her. When Elliot Alderson sees this, he hacks Vera's computer and tips the police off about his activities, leading to Vera's arrest. But when Vera finds out that Elliot is behind the tip, he blackmails him into hacking the custody he is in so that he can get out, or else he'll murder Shayla. Elliot complies, but as it turns out Vera had already murdered Shayla and she was dead all along. He also orders his right-hand DJ to murder his brother Isaac for plotting to have him murdered once he's out. Returning in Season 4, Vera shoots his right-hand DJ to death in front of a young child for not being "detail-oriented" enough. He plots to have Elliot become the architect of his crime empire by breaking him mentally and then taking control of him, using Elliot's psychologist Krista Gordon to reveal that Elliot was molested by his father as a child in order to break him. While holding Krista hostage, he threatens to have her raped and murdered when Elliot grabs Vera's gun, only sparing her because he needs her to carry through his plans.
• Murder is Easy (2023 series): Honoria Waynflete, despite presenting herself as a friendly, unassuming local spinster, is truthfully a smug, selfish, sadistic, and bitter woman driven by an all-consuming hatred for her former friend Lord Witfield. Not content with anything but his utter destruction, Honoria murders anyone who slights or even insults Witfield, casually causing eight innocent people to die in often elaborate and painful manners, such as swapping Amy Gibbs's medicine with hair dye or drowning Harry Carter, all to frame Witfield and ensure he's hanged in disgrace. To complete her plan, Honoria lures Witfield's fiancée, Bridget Conway, into the woods, intending to stab her to death with Witfield's dagger, and when foiled, flat-out attempts to strangle Bridget with her bare hands.
• Murdoch Mysteries:
  • James Gillies is Detective William Murdoch's Arch-Enemy. Murdering a professor before escaping execution by switching places with another man, Gillies savagely saws a man's head off while he's still alive. He then initiates a twisted mind game with Murdoch that culminates in him burying Julia alive, with her only being narrowly rescued by Murdoch. Gillies returns to frame her for the murder of her husband as part of a ploy to force Murdoch to choose between his own life and Julia's. Arranging for the escape of a group of violent criminals aboard a train, Gillies uses the free murderers as a diversion for his own escape. Years after his supposed death, Gillies, now seeking to end his own life, drives a man to insanity, resulting in the man killing two innocents as well as himself, all just to draw out Murdoch and force his nemesis to kill him.
  • "Kommando": Major Gregory Cole is a British officer in charge of a squad of Canadian soldiers. Although seemingly a stern, but devoted commander, Cole is revealed to have experimented on his men, dosing them with methamphetamine to test the drug's effectiveness. On a training mission in South Africa, Cole, in an attempt to justify British colonialism, drugged his troops and manipulated them into murdering innocent British families, then had them launch an equally brutal assault on a Boer militia camp, with Cole only revealing the truth to his men after the deed was done, forcing them to keep the atrocity secret. When one soldier, Corporal Matthew Larson, proves unable to cope with his actions, Cole gives him an overdose of methamphetamine, leaving Larson deranged and permanently damaged, then discards him, later having his troops hunt for Larson to silence him, caring nothing when several soldiers are killed in the attempt. When confronted for his crimes, Cole is unapologetic, coldly dismissing his actions as "preserving" the British Empire.
  • "Murdoch of the Living Dead": Dr. Luther Bates is a vile and amoral psychiatrist who lost his license due to his unethical practices. Later employed as a prison doctor, Bates uses the prisoners to test his theories about brain surgery, intending to gain fame and fortune by eliminating aggression and violence from humanity. Performing lobotomies on dozens of inmates, Bates' experiments leaves them, at best, barely conscious shells of their former selves, and at worst, psychotically violent, faking the deaths of his successes to release them back into society. After an abused woman blackmails Bates into performing his procedure on her husband, leaving him nearly catatonic, Bates has the woman murdered by throwing her to his psychotic failed experiments to avoid the flaws in his procedure being exposed. When Detective Murdoch uncovers the extent of Bates's crimes, Bates, with a smug smile, tries to have him killed by one of the psychotic inmates as well before releasing the rest of them on the streets of Toronto to cover his own attempted escape, intending to resume his experiments elsewhere.
  • "On the Waterfront" two-parter:
    • Cecily McKinnon is the seemingly benign Toronto harbormaster, but is later revealed to be the equally vile O'Shea brothers' cold and ruthless employer, profiting from the violence and fear they enact on the docks. Having Inspector Brackenreid attacked by the O'Sheas, McKinnon turns up to watch the beating for her own amusement and leaves the Inspector to die for investigating her criminal activities. When fellow businessperson Richard Dawkins uncovers McKinnon's Human Trafficking business, McKinnon has him brutally murdered and tries to frame Dawkins for her own crimes, nearly succeeding in avoiding justice and selling off several innocent women into slavery. When Brackenreid fights back against the O'Sheas, McKinnon murders the brothers to try and frame Brackenreid, and when confronted herself, she proves to be utterly shameless about her atrocities, making a final attempt to murder Brackenreid before being finally being brought to justice.
    • Mick and Tim O'Shea, who debuted in "The Death of Dr. Ogden", are a pair of psychopathic Irish immigrants who control the Toronto waterfront for McKinnon. The O'Sheas control the docks through violence and extortion, keeping people too afraid to challenge them, smugly reveling in their power over others. When Inspector Brackenreid investigates the O'Sheas' crimes, the brothers savagely beat him and leave him for dead, later threatening the Inspector's family to force his silence. They are revealed to be involved in Human Trafficking as well, selling women from Hungary into slavery. When businessman Richard Dawkins discovers the human trafficking and tries to save some of the women, the O'Sheas drown one of the women who managed to escape before brutally beating Dawkins to death. When Detective Murdoch tries to arrest the O'Sheas, the brothers sic their gang on the police, staying out of the fray until they have a chance to try and beat Murdoch to death.
• The Musketeers: Comte de Rochefort, the Big Bad of Season 2, is a former agent of Cardinal Richelieu, who abandoned him to the Spanish for being too "unhinged". Introduced being sentenced for murdering a man in a town he stopped over for the night, before escaping Rochefort kills the judge. Playing the Spanish to ensure his release, Rochefort charms him way into King Louis's favor. Becoming his advisor, Rochefort spends the season creating situations to make the increasingly paranoid king dependent upon him, using and disposing pawns to pave his way, and destroys his faith in the Musketeers, while secretly planning to eventually murder Louis and steal the throne. Possessing no regard for human life, Rochefort murders scores of people for his cause, or occasionally simply for fun, murdering six in his debut alone. He also secretly lusts after Queen Anne, having been obsessed with her since she was thirteen. After being thwarted from raping her, Rochefort reveals her affair, intending to get Anne, Aramis and their baby executed. To incriminate her, he poisons the king just enough to leave him in agony, frames then murders the innocent Doctor Lemay, forces the king to sign Ann's death warrant, then personally tries to strangle her. A deranged sociopath, driven purely by ambition and ego, Rochefort proved to be the Musketeers vilest enemy, with even Milady de Winter denouncing him as "a madman".
• The Mutants trilogy: Dr. Júlia Zaccarias is a high-ranking member of the reptilians. Settling in the coast of São Paulo and founding the Progenesis company, Julia created a race of mutated humans though unethical experiments in order to use them as weapons to take over the Earth, her first creations being the twins Maria and Samira, torturing the latter for at least 30 years to mold her into a perfect assassin. Setting Samira against her own sister, Julia orders her to commit several atrocities and kills anyone who discovers or suspects of her plans, including her own partner at Progenesis, framing Maria for his murder. Willingly following the orders of her genocidal race, Julia's final plan is have humanity wiped out with a deadly virus.
• My Babysitter's a Vampire Season 2: "The Cloaked Man"—actually Vice Principal Stern—is an arrogant, cold-hearted, and genocidal wizard. Desiring to wipe out all vampires, despite knowing that they are not all evil—and that some are even his students—he starts his operations by summoning the breath of death, a demonic mist that drives all infected vampires mad and forces them to kill each other, before Ethan foils his plan. In retaliation The Cloaked Man stalks Ethan into an alternative dimension and tries to directly murder him and his friends. Upon finding out Ethan is a Seer, The Cloaked Man curses Ethan to hallucinate everyone is dead and that he’s failed them all, just to make sure he doesn't cross him as his plans near fruition. The Cloaked Man also gets his hands on the Lucifactor, an energy-draining weapon of incredible power, and goes on a killing spree before planning on using the Caller beacon to project the Lucifactor's energy, wiping out vampires en masse. During the climax, to prevent Ethan and Sarah interrupting him he uses his magic to force Ethan's friend Benny to try and kill them.
• My Name: Do Gang-jae is the sadistic, vengeful gangster with a sick interest in Ji-woo. After losing to Ji-woo in a sparring competition, Gang-jae drugs her water flask and attempts to rape her that night. When she fights back, he decides to kill her with a hammer instead, only stopping when Choi Mujin, his former boss, stops him. Five years later after being expelled from the crime ring Dongcheon, Gang-jae resurfaces as a drug lord. He leads a raid on Dongcheon's gym, intending to kill everyone there, leaving a gym painted in blood. Gang-jae himself participates and kills several with his blade, then maims Choi's Dragon, Taeju Jung. After learning Ji-woo is working undercover in the police, Gang-jae captures Ji-woo and her partner, tortures them, then throws them in a car to be crushed by a car compactor so they can die slow, painful deaths. Hunted by the police for these attempted murders, Gang-jae decides to leave the island after turning Choi over to them. In his final battle against Dongcheon, Gang-jae kills several more gangsters and almost finishes off Choi himself until Ji-woo stops him. He spends his last moments attempting to ruin Ji-woo's relationships with the police and Choi by revealing her true allegiance to Dongcheon and her father's true allegiance to the police, not Dongcheon.
• The Name of the Rose (2019 miniseries): Bernard Gui is far more vicious than his literary counterpart. A smug, ruthless, misogynistic fanatic, Gui is a notorious inquisitor, known for burning heretics at the stake. Having been involved in putting down the Dulcinian uprising years previously, Gui violated the law by personally igniting co-leader Marghererita's pyre. Dispatched by Pope John XXII to be his representative at the theological debate held at the Benedictine monastery. En route upon encountering two suspected Dulcinians, a man and woman, he has the man's throat slit, then drags the woman naked to Pietranera. Suspecting heretics amongst the town's population, Gui ordered his solders to "kill them all, God will recognize his own", massacring everyone, including the children, climaxing with him burning the woman upon the stake. At the monastery and tasked to investigate the murders, Gui fixed his attention on Remigio of Varagine, having his men torture him into confessing to be a former Dulcinian. Upon discovering an Occitan war refugee, Gui accused the poor girl of being a witch and ordered her to be burned, despite knowing she was innocent.
• Narcos Seasons 1 & 2: Juan Diego Díaz, better known as "La Quica" ("the Fat Girl"), is a sadistic, cowardly sicario under the employ of Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín Cartel. First introduced gunning down the partner of narrator Steve Murphy, Quica commits several atrocities for his boss ranging from carrying out hits, torture, the recruitment of Child Soldiers, and helping Escobar trick a young Colombian into blowing up both himself and the over 100 passengers on his plane. After corrupting his friend Limon into becoming one of Escobar's hitmen, Quica murders the entire staff of a local brothel as retaliation for almost being arrested. Abandoning his boss when his power base is crumbling, Quica attempts to flee with some of his money before ultimately selling out Pablo's entire organization to the Search Bloc.
• Nash Bridges:
  • Frankie Dwyer is Nash Bridges's smug, greedy arch-nemesis. Debuting in "Moving Target", Dwyer organizes a hit on mob boss Vic Walsh, hoping to start a Mob War and gain control over San Francisco's criminal outfit. Turning to drug dealing afterwards, once his attempt to kill Nash's daughter Cassidy leaves him permanently crippled, Dwyer later becomes a porno director to cover up his worst crime: Importing young Vietnamese women, whom Dwyer sells as sex slaves to paying customers, with many women found inside his warehouse.
  • "Zodiac": The Zodiac Killer himself is responsible for over 19 murders throughout his lifetime. With his legacy influencing Gary Graham to kill three people in an attempt to surpass him, the Zodiac Killer, upon Graham's death, calls Nash to taunt him about how his identity shall remain a secret.
  • "Patriots": Patrick McQuiston is an IRA terrorist infamous for bombing a Londonderry supermarket, which resulted in over 16 deaths, including Conner McMillan's mother. Released from jail following a peace talk between the IRA and the British government, Patrick heads for San Francisco to kill Archbishop Windicott with a Car Bomb, while having his men try to kill Kerry and Conner in the meantime.
  • "Hot Prowler": The Prowler, Ricky Allan Klinsman, is a sadist who films himself breaking into women's homes in order to psychologically torment them, leaving them crying and broken as he uploads his crimes to the internet. Ricky later films his murder of Inspector Michelle Chan in order to get Nash to arrest him, hoping to gain book deals and fans from his crimes.
• New Tricks: In their reinvestigations UCOS have faced a variety of criminals, but these stand out:
  • Ricky Hanson, the series's only recurring antagonist and Jack Halford's Arch-Enemy, is mid-tier London Gangster described by Jack as "the biggest thieving, murdering, lying piece of shyte I've ever laid eyes upon." Taking over the "Twenty-Fours" in the 80's, Hanson used them as a front for his drug ring. When Ray Harris told him that two student activists had infiltrated his group, Hanson personally murdered them, then had their bodies hidden under Harris's conservatory, incriminating him. By 1996, Jack and Sandra Pullman were investigating Hanson for three murders, including that of his own brother. Realizing they were getting too close, Hanson ran over Jack's wife Mary, laughing as he did; it took two years for Mary's wounds to kill her. When his son, Luke, was wrongly accused of arson, Ricky abandoned him to nine years in prison to save himself, and also stole Luke's girlfriend. In "Congratulations", Ricky confessed to Jack he killed Mary, tormenting him with the details of the event. In "Casualty", Ricky tried to slowly run Jack over but was forced to flee. Sneaking into Jack's hospital, Hanson assaulted the nurse then almost smothered Jack. Interrupted by Brian Lane, Hanson tried to strangle him. In "The Last Laugh", when the reinvestigation into the student's disappearance led back to him, Hanson set his goons on Gerry's informant.
  • "Powerhouse": Sir Edward Chambers, the Chairman of E.C. Mining Ltd., is a wealthy, respected businessman who, while presenting himself as a charming gentleman, is truthfully a smug, callous greedy old man. During his National Service in Kenya, Sir Edward, while only 19, ordered and oversaw the massacre of 15 unarmed Kikuyu civilians, the youngest of whom was only 12 years old. Blackmailed by Fred Tully for this crime, Sir Edward shot Fred dead in an alleyway and then, to protect himself, gave false testimony against Richard Dunne, ensuring the latter was hanged. Using his connections to become a wealthy mining tycoon, decades later, upon Fred's friend Douglas Murray also attempting to blackmail him, Sir Edward had Jason Ferris brutally bludgeon the elderly Murray to death.
  • "Dark Chocolate": Alex Close was an immoral small-time businessman whose cleaning companies operated through exploiting and overworking illegal immigrants. Even viler in secret, Close was also a Serial Rapist who used his business's contracts to find victims. In 1992, he raped Jean Saunders at the chocolate factory where she worked, and then a few months later raped Eileen Harrison, permanently traumatizing her. Exposed for his abuse of illegal immigrants in 2001, Close fled the country to Poland. Returning nine years later, he started a new business, this time exploiting Polish immigrants, and immediately resumed his spree. Failing to get a bakery contract, the undeterred Close resorted to regularly going as a customer, until he knew the layout well enough to rape Helen Vestry.
  • "Where There's Smoke": George Mackie was a talented and respected fire investigator who was privately a serial arsonist, claiming to having started 64 separate fires. He would place homemade firebombs in his targets, then turn up afterwards to analyze and bask in the praise he received for his "insight". In 1996, he burned the Union club to the ground, killing four people, including the club's owner, and causing seven hospitalizations. Shortly afterwards, Mackie retired and thus the fires stopped. UCOS's re-investigation into the Union fire inspiring him to come out of retirement, Mackie tracked down a survivor of the Union Club fire who had been left with third-degree burns over half his body and burned his home down. Later, he set another bomb in Stuart Russel's house, this one nearly killing him along with Jack, Brian and Gerry. Underneath all his charm and seeming helpfulness, Mackie was nothing more than a shameless Attention Whore, happy to commit wanton destruction and kill innocent people just to stroke his own ego.
  • "The Fourth Man": Michael Denby and Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Felsham were secretly partners in the notorious 1980 Heathrow Safety Deposit Robbery. A vicious yet intelligent career criminal, Denby's frequent acts of brutality—such as infamously subjecting his fence to a Colombian Necktie—ensured his reputation as someone "even the proper villains steer clear of". Already a bent Flying Squad sergeant and smug, odious, self-serving weasel, Felsham was contacted by a friend to scare Denby off, but realizing the potential payout, instead struck a deal. Striking Heathrow, Denby gunned down the two security guards and stole ten million in untraceable bearer bonds. Once clear, Denby butchered his own gang of boyhood associates, as he no longer needed them. Realizing his friend wouldn't remain silent, Felsham had Denby murder him and covered it up, shipping Denby out of the country with a stolen identity. Using his ill-gotten wealth to climb the ranks, realizing UCOS reinvestigation into the robbery could expose him, Felsham attempted to permanently shut them down.
  • "The Little Brother": Annabel Skinner is a former associate of the notorious Larry Goftman. Desiring Florence Epstein's money, Skinner seduced her husband Jonathan until he was under her spell. They tortured Florence's bank details out of her, before bludgeoning her to death with a hammer. No longer needing him, Skinner turned Jonathan over to the police. However, when Goftman double-crossed her and ran off with the money, Annabel vowed vengeance against him and Peter Sale, despite him not being involved in their plan and being cheated himself. She violently murdered Sale's sister Margaret Kirby and stole her identity. Six years later, after finding Goftman but being unable to find Sale, Skinner acquainted herself with Esther Lane. Playing the role of the caring sister, she set Brian on the trail to find Sale. Skinner than strangled Goftman, leaving his body for Brian to find. Finally finding Sale, Skinner eliminated the constable guarding him and tried to murder him. When Brian interrupted her, she tried to strangle him too. A manipulative violent sociopath, Skinner even described herself as "fundamentally nasty".
• The Night Agent: Gordon Wick is the slimy, wicked CEO of the defense contractor company Turn Lake Industries. Wick is responsible for a rash of assassinations throughout the Baltics to increase the reach of his company and later allies with US Vice President Ashley Redfield. Wick plots with Redfield to orchestrate the bombing of the Metro train in an attempt to kill thousands so Redfield can kill suspected terrorist Omar Zadar and hide the assassination as a terrorist attack. Unlike Redfield, who at least believes Zadar may be a threat, Wick is only interested in the money. When the Metro bombing's worst effects are foiled, Wick orders the murder and torture of anyone investigating the attack. Wick later convinces Redfield to launch an attack on the hundreds in Camp David to kill the US President and allow Redfield to take over and pardon them for all their crimes.
• Night Gallery's pilot's "Escape Route": Joseph Strobe is the former commander of Auschwitz, and is personally responsible for murdering thousands of inmates in the gas chambers. Strobe also cruelly tortured the inmates that he didn't kill immediately, crucifying one man alive and leaving him to die slowly over two days. In the present, Strobe shows no remorse for his crimes and cowardly offers to sell out other high-ranking Nazis in order to save himself. When he meets a former victim of his who he routinely tortured and disfigured with a lit cigarette, Strobe mocks the man's pain before brutally strangling him to death for alerting the authorities about him.
• Nip/Tuck Seasons 5 & 6: Dr. Theodora "Teddy" Rowe is a beautiful anesthesiologist of charm and class who absolutely charms Sean McNamara and his family. Actually a greedy Serial Killer and Black Widow, Teddy seduces wealthy doctors and murders them for their money, killing a patient who recognizes her. On a camping trip with Sean, Teddy tries to kill him along with his children, even the extremely young Connor, to obtain Sean's insurance money.
• No Ordinary Family: Helen Burton, aka "Mrs. X", is the head of Global Tech, plotting to sell super-powered individuals for profit. Becoming obsessed with making these powers permanent, she orders Dr. Dayton King to inject criminals with the Trisettum Serum to test their powers, resulting in multiple crimes, including murder. Proving too difficult to control, Burton demands King have them eliminated, and that he'll suffer the same fate if he doesn't do a better job with his work. She also murders a woman with a car bomb for failing to seduce Jim Powell and has son JJ's teacher killed too. After resurrecting dead shapeshifter Victoria, Burton threatens to kill her if she fails again. Burton gives powers to convicted killer Lucas Winnick and he kills an innocent girl when Burton sends him after the Powell family—stabbing and nearly killing Stephanie and trying to do the same to daughter Daphne. She also has the Powell family abducted to be tested and sends 80 people in a plane—including George St. Cloud—to possible doom in a recreation of the same storm cloud from which the Powells got their powers.
• The North Water: Henry Drax is a brutally sadistic, brutish psychopath who acts on impulse and desires and doesn't believe in concepts of good and evil. Introduced murdering and robbing another man for refusing to buy him another drink, Drax joins the ill-fated whaling crew as a chance to slaughter prey and human alike while plotting to rob and murder the ship's doctor Sumner for valuables. A self-centered opportunist, Drax refuses to help Sumner from being left behind in one of their hunting trips and brutally sodomizes and murders the cabin boy before trying to pin the blame on another shipmate. When caught, Drax tries to resist capture and beats the captain's ship to an agonizing state of brain death. Likely facing execution, Drax manipulates another shipmate into sinking the stranded ship, dooming many of them to die in freezing conditions. He then murders Inuits for their gear and supplies, leaving the rest of them without any aid, and murders his co-conspirator as well after promising him to come along. Secretly working with company head Baxter to sink the ship for an insurance scam, Drax tries to murder Sumner for finding out about the truth and mocks him for the cabin boy's death. When put down, Drax dies with a smile on his face, knowing Sumner became a monster like him.
• Notorious (2016): Alan Wells, at 24 years old, raped his own sister Sarah when she was only 17. As a result, she ends up pregnant and he later threatens to have the baby girl, who's been adopted, taken away, in order to force Sarah to pay off his gambling debts. When she eventually refuses to continue, Alan conspires with her husband Oscar Keaton against her and murders her in a brutal stabbing. When the blame is turned onto Oscar's publicist Levi Young, it results in Levi shooting and killing himself. When Jake Gregorian's affair with Sarah comes to light and he becomes a suspect, Alan tricks Jake into going to a storage locker where he's hidden the knife so he can set Jake up. When Julia George and Jake later figure out the truth, Alan proves to only be out for his own self-preservation and cares nothing for those lives ruined by his actions.
• NUMB3RS:
  • "Pilot": Roland Haldane is known for branding his victims—of which he has around 13—and then raping them. His latest rape escalated into a murder, and he later kills another of his previous victims. He is found by the FBI, who rescues his latest victim, who had a bag over head and was close to suffocating to death.
  • "Nine Wives": Abner Stone, aka The Prophet, is the head of the Apostolic Saints, a polygamy cult. The Saints are infamous for "marrying" teenagers to grown men. During the final confrontation, Stone surrenders, but not before causing the building his followers are in to explode, making "martyrs" of at least a dozen or so.
  • "Power": Blaine Cleary pulls women over and then, usually after offering them water laced with the Date Rape drug Rohypnol, rapes them. He has done this to at least 7 women, and is about to have another victim when the FBI finds him and chases him. When finally arrested after said chase, his only reaction is "It's just sex, guys. Not that big a deal."
  • "Disturbed": Robert Posdner is a "stealth predator" who changes victims, methods, and even locations to avoid leaving a clear pattern, while also killing anyone who might have seen him. Posdner's murders started approximately 20 years before the episode, in high school, when he stalked and killed a fellow student who rejected him, before threatening the girl's then-boyfriend. All in all, Posdner is responsible for at least 4 onscreen murders, attempts to murder a couple, can be tied to a few more, and has a Trophy Room linking him to potentially many, many more.
• The Nurse: Christina Aistrup Hansen is a nurse at the Nykoebing Falster Hospital whose sole desire is to be the center of attention. Seeing her friends, colleagues, and relatives as little more than props to help paint her as exciting and altruistic, Christina's darkest obsession is at work, where she has murdered dozens of patients over the years by secretly injecting diazepam and morphine into their IVs, inducing fatal cardiac arrest. At first, the two co-workers aware of her killings assume she is causing these heart attacks so she can be the hero that swoops in and saves the victims, but once she murders two patients with do-not-resuscitate orders, it becomes clear she kills for nothing but the sick thrill alone.
• Obliterated: Wade Maddox is a PMC owner infamous for serving clients with despotic tendencies. Eager to obtain Ivan Koslov's 5 kiloton nuclear weapon, Maddox kidnaps Koslov's courier Vladislav Litvin, and through his henchman Ehren, tortures Litvin by mutilating his one good ear before leaving him to die in a freezer alongside Koslov's associates, then having Trunk tortured with a blade to his genitals as well. Not content with the prospect of just nuking Las Vegas and killing millions, Maddox intends to cause a Civil War in the United States by inflaming tensions across the political aisles in wake of the city's obliteration, so he may reconstruct the devastated country as he sees fit.
• The Order Season 1: Edward Coventry, despite his charismatic and affable nature, is really an ambitious sorcerer willing to do anything to gain ultimate power. As leader of the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose, Edward used his own members as he saw fit, treating them like disposable pawns in order to achieve his goals. When Edward learns that he may be able to construct the Vade Maecum Infernal and earn god-like powers, he forces the Order to focus solely on finding the book's pages, ignoring how dangerous it could be to create such a book. He has the Order sacrifice a group of civilians; instructs one of his minions to kidnap innocent people so he can turn them into monsters capable of destroying the Knights of Saint Christopher; and attempts to cajole his youngest son into being a sacrifice, similar to his wife. When Vera becomes wary of Edward's plans, he commands Alyssa to murder her just so she can't stop his schemes. Later on, after Edward is nearly finished completing the book, he tries to kill Jack Morton, his other son, and threatens to torture Alyssa if she doesn't watch despite her consistent loyalty to him.
• Orphan Black has a few characters who fall firmly on the "black" end of the show's Black-and-Gray Morality:
  • Seasons 1 & 2: Tomas is a cruel and manipulative Prolethean fanatic, as well as Helena's adoptive father and mentor. Believing Project LEDA clones to be an abomination, Tomas adopted one of them, Helena, and used physical, psychological and emotional abuse to groom her into a killer and keep her under her thumb, lying to her that she is the original to motivate her. Helena would go on to kill other clones at Tomas's behest, and Tomas would often torture her for failure. Learning of Helena and Sarah's connection and of Sarah's daughter Kira, Tomas orders Helena to kill Sarah and abduct Kira, locking her in a small cage when she refuses. During a later confrontation, it's made clear that Tomas intends to put Kira through the same treatment as he did Helena, which ultimately turns Helena against him. When later rescued by the Johanssen branch, Tomas makes it clear that he sees Helena as another abomination, and his only objection to the idea of Helena having children is his belief that those children will be monsters as well.
  • Season 2: Henrik "Hank" Johanssen is the leader of a branch of the Prolethean cult, operating on a ranching community. Separating from the Prolethans' more traditional views in favor of scientific curiosity, Johanssen operates his branch, and seemingly peaceful community, as a Breeding Cult, where women are artificially inseminated and children are regularly abused. When Henrik gets his hands on Helena, discovering she's a rare fertile clone, Hank has her handler Tomas killed so he can keep her. He proceeds to drug and forcibly marry Helena before taking her ovaries and fertilizing them with his sperm, planning to implant those embryos in multiple women. When Helena escapes with the help of Hank's teenage daughter Gracie, Henrik has Gracie locked in a cage and her mouth sewn shut as punishment; it's implied this is a usual punishment for her. When Helena returns, Henrik has her inseminated with their embryos before proceeding to do the same with Gracie. He keeps them locked in a nursery, holding them at gunpoint and sends his wife to find more women for him to impregnate. Henrik's motivations are that since a fertile clone is a scientific impossibility, he's the only one worthy of fathering children with them and spreading his genes in "miracle babies."
  • Season 4: Evie Cho is the ambitious Neolutionist CEO of BrightBorn. A survivor of a birth defect, Cho's perfectionist view inspired her goal to control human evolution. Cho developed mechanical, worm-like devices to alter people's DNA which can kill its host if ruptured. When Beth Childs investigated the Neolutionists, Cho tried to get her to kill Susan Ducan, hoping to usurp Duncan as Neolution's leader. Failing, Cho blackmails Beth into killing herself, later having Delphine Cormier shot and seemingly killed. It's revealed Cho is experimenting on pregnant women in BrightBorn's labs; when these result in the babies being born with imperfections, from deformities to blindness, Cho would have the babies euthanized to cover it up. Cho destroys Cosmia's research to cure the clones' diseases, and has Kendall killed and incinerated to erase the cure completely. To further hurt her, Cho tells Cosmia that Delphine is dead. Cho intends to put her devices into millions of people and alter their DNA without their consent. When two women escape her labs, she puts a kill order on them. When exposed and Neolution gives her the option to resign, absolving BrightBorn of any wrongdoings, she childishly refuses, her breakdown showing her for being a selfish glory seeker to their cause.
  • Season 5: Percival T. "P.T." Westmoreland, actually John Mathieson, is the ultimate villain of the series, posing as the founder of Neolution. Stealing Westmoreland's identity, he creates a cult to his name and Neolution behind the scenes. Seeking immortality, Mathieson takes the blood of the children of his cult to sustain himself; even experimenting on and torturing a boy named Yanis, driving him feral before eventually killing him. Mathieson plans to harvest and fertilize 8-year-old Kira's eggs, to spread and study the "Fountain of Youth" gene in her offspring, even when his true identity is exposed. Mathieson feigns a fatherly affection to Rachel, while spying on her through her prosthetic eye. When the truth is exposed, Mathieson becomes more unhinged. He has Helena abducted to force the birth her twins for further experiments; kills his backers to cover his tracks; and has Dr. Coady kill Mark when the project CASTOR clones served their purpose. Mathieson's end goal is to create a serum that would permanently reverse cell damage for the upper class and have the rest sterilized by the CASTOR pathogen. Ultimately, Mathieson is simply a selfish madman that manipulates an ideology and orchestrated atrocities all for personal power, and the expansion of his own life.
• The Orville's "From Unknown Graves": Yan was a "Builder" on the planet Kaylon responsible for creating the robotic Kaylon race. Designing the Kaylon to be servants, Yan knew all along that he had created a sapient Slave Race, dismissing all criticism of his actions and responding to the problems that resulted by introducing shock devices that were used to subjugate and torture the Kaylon on a daily basis. This eventually led to the extinction of the Builders as the Kaylon saw no other option but to rise up against their masters to escape their fate. Caring for little more than his profits, Yan was emblematic of the hubris and cruelty of the Builders.
• Our Flag Means Death's "Calypso's Birthday": Edward "Ned" Low is a pirate obsessed with how Edward "Ed" Teach has surpassed his previous record of raids. Unlike Ed, Low is a brutal sadist who regularly kills his victims and gleefully tortures those he captures in "symphonies" where he times each blow to fall with the music. Low even kills his own brother while trying to kill everyone aboard the revenge for his wounded ego.
• The Outer Limits:
  • 1963 series' "It Crawled Out of The Woodwork": Doctor Bloch, despite appearing the charming and supportive directing chief of the NORCO research centre, is truthfully a callous, selfish man who will let nothing get in the way of his research. Following the accidental creation of a creature made of pure energy, Doctor Bloch becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets of "his discovery", purely for the knowledge. Thus, when the other scientists attempt to destroy the creature, Bloch kills them all—along with security personal—then brings them back to life to force them to help him research the creature. Seeking more expertise, Bloch lures Professor Paul Stuart, then forces Professor Stephanie Linden to trap him with the creature so Bloch could do the same to him as well. Bloch punishes anyone who steps out of line by dispatching the creature upon them and is content to kill anyone who gets in the way of his research. Fatally wounded, Bloch's last act is to spitefully unleash the creature on the world, allowing it to indiscriminately kill everyone in the facility.
  • 1995 series:
    • "Living Hell": Wayne Haas is a vicious murderer who targets women. Several years before, he had a neural transmitter installed in his brain which inadvertently allows Haas to share his thoughts with any person who possesses the same implant, although Haas is mistakenly believed to have since died. He's first shown chasing a woman through the woods and killing her, before deciding to play around with the corpse when he notices his "audience," the episode's protagonist Ben Kohler. He later hires a prostitute, and, for fun, forces Ben to witness how he gruesomely stabs her to death in his bathtub. When Ben investigates Haas's apartment with the doctor responsible for the implant, Haas kidnaps her to cut out her brain and leaves Ben behind to take the blame for the other women the police claim he murdered over the previous months.
    • "Tribunal": Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher, during The Holocaust, was the SS commandant of an Auschwitz subcamp made up to look like a "model" camp for inspections by the Red Cross. When they leave, he usually has the prisoners gassed by the hundreds. The episode opens in 1944 as Rademacher makes his daily rounds to select a prisoner to execute in front of the rest, which he considers "the only joy I get from this miserable job". When he selects a random man, the wife begs him not to, so he selects her instead and shoots her in front of her husband and daughter, later having the child gassed to death. He gives instructions to the prisoners to write letters to their relatives to tell them how wonderful they have it there. When one man objects, Rademacher orders him sent outside and shot, before amending the order so he can personally shoot the prisoner. After the war this unrepentant war criminal lives incognito for many decades in the United States. Rademacher's cruelty and brutality ultimately becomes his own doom when, thanks to a Time Travel device, he is sent back to his own camp dressed up as an inmate. When his younger version runs into him, he demands that the rowdy old man beg for his life before he kills his older self for being Jewish.
    • "Better Luck Next Time": Two Energy Beings have been living on Earth for centuries, stealing host bodies and using them to commit murder after murder for amusement and to alleviate boredom; Ripper one of said energy beings was Jack the Ripper himself. Detectives Terri and Girard end up each working with an alien, both claiming they are officers sent to hunt down the killer. At the end, the truth is revealed: the two are partners in crime and have been playing the officers for fun with the only excuse being how bored they are as immortals. The two have been spending centuries playing their games and corrupting good people into killing their friends and partners out of paranoia; they plan to hijack Terri's body after she mortally wounds Girard and use her police connections to have even more fun. When Terri and her dying partner mortally wound both killers' host bodies, Terri opts to kill herself to prevent them from stealing her body, knowing they can't survive long without hosts and unwilling to allow them to continue their rampage.
• The Outsider: The Outsider itself, "El Cuco", is a sinister monster who preys on suffering. With children as its preferred food source, El Cuco attacks them in the guise of a beloved community figure, rapes and devours them for its own sick pleasure, then frames the one whose form it takes before lingering to enjoy the pain of the community. Infecting proxies to do its bidding and torturing them into compliance, the Outsider attempts to deflect attention by having any cops after it killed, plotting to continue its horrific actions to feed on and enjoy the pain of its victims.
• Oz: Even in this Crapsack World inside a Hellhole Prison, these characters stand out:
  • Timmy Kirk is a soft-spoken murderer who gets by in Oz despite his mediocre intellect and physical strength. Arrested for putting his own baby in a rat-infested dumpster, Kirk begins as an errand boy of the Irish gang, but shows what he's truly capable of when introduced to religion. He seals Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier in a wall to die a slow and painful death in response to the latter casting Kirk out of his Protestant congregation, usurping control of them and preaching that using violence is justified. After Father Mukada refuses to accept Kirk's reversion to Catholicism, Kirk responds by setting fire to his church in hopes of killing him, burning two priests alive. Kirk, by now a Satanist with a Devil Complex and facing execution, is happy that he might die knowing that his absurd allegations of molestation could see Mukada permanently stripped of his priesthood. In the end, Mukada came to the conclusion that there was no reason for Kirk's behavior, he was simply pure evil hiding behind the face of a choir boy.
  • Chris Keller is one of the few recurring villains in the show, and by far the most manipulative. A charming sociopath who killed an innocent store clerk during a botched robbery, Keller is wanted by the FBI for raping, torturing, and killing several gay men. Obsessed with earning the heart of Tobias Beecher—whom he tortured for entertainment—Keller desires "unconditional love" in a partner, which means he only feels happy with himself when those who love him are made to suffer. Taking advantage of the war against the new pro-Homeboy director of Emerald City, Keller disposes of Beecher's hookups out of sheer jealousy, including his own old friend. When Beecher receives his parole and saves him from the death sentence, Keller shows his gratitude by incriminating him of drug possession to get him sent back to Oz. Orchestrating an anthrax attack to wipe out the Aryan Brotherhood, the entire prison has to be evacuated because of his plan, and, upon being rejected one last time, Keller commits suicide to blame Beecher for his own death, ensuring he faces the death penalty. While he started out as Beecher's Psycho Sidekick and had many chances to reform, Keller proved to be the same dangerous predator that he described himself to be.
  • Season 4A: Mark Miles, initially nothing but a cruel bully and a friend of the Aryan Brotherhood, is the only inmate in his block to lack redeeming qualities. A fan of Pater Familicide, Miles brutally murdered his own wife and son for no discernible reason, getting off scot-free by pleading insanity. Marrying another woman, Miles massacred her and his daughters in the same way—crimes that manage to shock even the other death row inmates, with one calling herself an amateur upon discovering the truth. A Dirty Coward who fears his own well-deserved demise, Miles spends his last days tormenting everyone around him for fun.
  • "Capital P": Richard L'Italien is a talkative inmate on Death Row who quickly reveals himself to be one of the worst characters in the show despite his limited screentime. A remorseless Serial Killer since he was a teenager, L'Italien suffocated 40 young women to death, bragging about having raped and murdered his therapist back in juvie before doing the same to her daughter, all because he claims to "love" women and she told him that he actually hated them.
  • "The Truth and Nothing But..." through "Legs": Malcolm "Snake" Coyle, a member of the Homeboys, is a disgustingly smug, hulking psychopath with a penchant for brutal sadism for the sake of it. Originally imprisoned for armed robbery, Coyle becomes a role model for the young, similarly depraved Homeboy Kenny Wangler in his attempt to take over the drug trade and delights in the fact that he casually murdered an Italian-American family one night for fun—two children and grandmother included. Raping the mother after slitting her throat and gutting the crying baby in the crib while his friend recorded everything on a videotape, Coyle takes pride in how he got away with the deed and threatens anyone who would snitch on him with murder. Not feeling a hint of remorse even at the prospect of being executed, Coyle is loathed by everyone in prison, and the rest of the gangs take the extraordinary step in protecting Augustus Hill for testifying against him.
  • "U.S. Male" & "Cruel and Unusual Punishments": Yuri Kosygin, introduced as a quiet and seemingly harmless inmate, is the most vicious lifer in all of Oz. A Professional Killer under the payroll of the Organizatse, Kosygin was recruited after strangling his own boss to death, gaining a reputation for being the most brutal hitman in Little Odessa, a title that he takes pride in. Sent to Oz for shooting up a restaurant in a drive-by that was meant for a single target, Kosygin returns to his old habits and murders another inmate for money. Learning that his only acquaintance in Oz snitched on him, Kosygin immediately tries to murder him while mockingly telling him that he has the honor of being his 50th victim.

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