Sandbox / Monster: Live-Action TV (A to F)

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• The 100 Seasons 6 & 7: Malachi kom Sangedakru, better known as Sheidheda, was a Commander known for his savage brutality who led his forces to massacre all those who refused to bow to him. Slaughtering many before his downfall, Sheidheda returned to corrupt the girl Madi, swaying her to evil while plotting to dispose of her before returning in a new body. Killing all those in his rise to power and launching a campaign of genocide and torture, Sheidheda even attempts to instigate a final brutal war to massacre all those who stand in his way at his rise to ultimate power.
• 9-1-1: Jeffrey Hudson is a depraved realtor who used a drone to spy on six women before breaking their home and raping them while recording each assault on camera. Caught while stalking his next target, Hudson ambushes Sergeant Athena Grant and brutally beats her to a bloody pulp. Escaping his trial during a blackout, Hudson murders his lawyer who helped him and decides to take revenge on Athena by abducting her young son Harry. He seals the boy in the wall of an abandoned house, condemning him to starvation, and then deliberately goads Athena into killing him by threatening her husband Bobby so that she will never be able to find her son.
• Airwolf's "Shadow of the Hawke" & "Moffet's Ghost": Charles Henry Moffett is the genius inventor of the attack helicopter Airwolf but also a brutal sociopath. Turning on the US, Moffett massacres a room full of personnel and later sells his services to Libya, using the Airwolf for terrorist attacks where he even wipes out an entire US battleship. Discovering a dancing girl is a spy for the agency called The Firm, Moffett tortures her in the desert where she eventually dies of thirst and exposure. Even after his death, it is revealed Moffett planned for the possibility and programmed the Airwolf to go berserk and fly itself to destroy everything it could if he did not enter a specific code to stop it, referring to it as his last jest upon an insane world.
• Akumaizer 3:
  • Original series: Mezalord is a cruel Akuma Clan regiment commander in charge of their surface invasion. Introduced torturing a group of humans, Mezalord orders that the "strong" be enslaved while those who collapsed be killed so their blood can be made into wine. When the humans are freed, Mezalord orders them all executed and even personally attempts to kill a child. When the Akumaizer 3 continually interfere, Mezalord holds Xavitan's mother hostage to force him to surrender, and murders her in front of him when she encourages her son to keep fighting. He later sends Majoruka to carry out a plan to scorch Tokyo and, to ensure her loyalty, installs Twin Demon Circuits in her and her sister Darunia's heads, so that if one sister defied him the other would feel pain. His other acts include killing Evil's girlfriend Diana when she defects to be with her love; kidnapping Kirinda's granddaughter to blackmail him into fighting the Akumaizer 3; and having his guards lacerate Namenameda. Even when ousted from power, Mezalord rallies his remaining forces for a final all-out attack to conquer the surface, a vile warmonger to the end.
  • Choujin Bibyun: Great Demon King Gulver is the true mastermind behind the Akuma Clan invasion, using his subordinates Mezalord and Geberu to lead them into attacking the surface. When the Akuma Clan reforms, Gulver sends Geberu on a destructive rampage with the Immortal Shield that results in the Demon Peace Party dying, and curses the Shield so the Akumaizer 3 lose their souls as blowback from killing Geberu. Gulver later unleashes the Youkai to terrorize humanity in another attempt to conquer the world, and sends his right-hand man to sacrifice the souls of children to him. After Shindo and Birin begin helping the Choujins, Gulver forces them to attack their new friends, and has Shindo killed when he tries to leave.
• Alcatraz:
  • Kit Nelson is a savage child-killer who is despised by all the other hardened inmates in Alcatraz. He murdered his younger brother when they were both kids by strangling him to death. Then he placed a flower on his brother's bed, adopting this method for all his subsequent murders. He breaks into young boys' bedrooms at night to abduct them at knifepoint, threatening to kill their families if they don't comply. He forces them to take part in his late brother's favorite hobbies for a few days, before strangling them to death with murderous glee. Afterwards he drops off the boys' bodies back in the place he abducted them from.
  • Paxton Petty plants mines in public places and enjoys watching people get blown to pieces. During The Korean War, he planted mines in the local children's playgrounds to eliminate potential Child Soldiers, for which he was arrested and sent to a military prison. After escaping Alcatraz, he starts to plant more mines around San Francisco—including in elementary schoolyards—to kill as many random civilians as possible. He traps Agent Hauser on one of these mines, but modifies the bomb in such a way that the bomb disposal expert who rescues Hauser would inevitably be killed during the dismantling procedure no matter what they did.
• Alex Rider (2020)
  • Season 1: Dr. Hugo Greif was in the past a research scientist in the field of cloning, before vanishing and showing up many years later. Greif admired several dictators, especially Adolf Hitler, and would found the Point Blanc academy with the intention of taking over the entire world. To do so, Greif would market his academy as a place for troubled teens, only grabbing the children of rich influential industrialists and replacing them with clones of himself surgically altered to look like the teens, killing the parents so they could never discover the swap. Greif locked the teens inside a basement in the academy and had them tortured for information that the clones could use, with many of them going insane as a result, with Greif planning to kill all of the teens once they were no longer useful to him. Greif's final plan was to wipe out 99% of the entire human population so only the strong could survive to curb overpopulation and create a better world for him to rule over.
  • Season 3: Julia Rothman presents herself as a polite, wealthy art patron, when in truth she's the effective leader of Scorpia. After having Scorpia back the dangerous plots of Dr. Greif and Damian Cray, Julia decides that Scorpia should carry out its own plan to assert their dominance. To this end, Julia devises Operation Invisible Sword, a way of covertly killing anyone in the world they desire. She then gives the UK deliberately unreasonable demands while threatening to kill hundreds of thousands of people if they aren't met, killing a football team as a demonstration. After this, Julia tries to kill everyone in the city of Bath to plunge Britain into chaos as an example to the world so she can threaten other countries with the same fate. Julia also takes an interest in Alex Rider, convincing him to join Scorpia like his father and that the Department had murdered him, when in truth Julia had him killed herself for being a mole from the Department, and she only wants to bring Alex in as revenge against his father and see the look on his face when she kills him.
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents' "Specialty of the House": Ms. Sbirro is the owner of the luxurious Sbirro's restaurant. Famed for her "specialty of the house", the incredible lamb, Sbirro is in truth cooking patrons into the meal. When Harry Laffler finds himself invited to the kitchen, Sbirro locks him in with her cleaver-armed chef and gleefully adds Laffler's picture to many other "absent friends" before adding she believes she can promise the specialty will be available the following week.
• Alien Nation's "The Game": Koulak, a sadistic Overseer guard, is infamous for having created a special "game." Since salt is corrosive to the skin of his species, Koulak designs a device that randomly fires out steam, water or salt water, forcing "players" to press buttons that blast them, with none knowing what will hit them until it's too late. Reveling in his authority, Koulak frequently taunted the series's hero, George, then known as Stangya, with the knowledge his turn would come to join the game, even selecting George's brother to play, resulting in his death. Upon the arrival on Earth, Koulak becomes a crime boss who continues his game in illegal underground betting rings, forcing those who owe him money to play, or just abducting others off the streets. In a series focusing on tolerance and equality, Koulak stands apart as the darkest the Overlords had to offer.
• All in the Family's "Edith's 50th Birthday": Lambert is a Serial Rapist who intends to make Edith his latest victim. Charming his way into the Bunker house by posing as a detective, Lambert attempts to force himself onto Edith while holding her at gunpoint. When Archie unexpectedly shows up, Lambert hides in the closet after instructing Edith to get rid of him, threatening to kill the both of them if she alerts Archie to his presence. Edith tries to get help by screaming, but Lambert taunts her by implying that screaming hadn't helped his past victims. While Edith escapes the encounter unharmed, the usually happy-go-lucky Edith is left traumatized and terrified of everything for weeks after, and her unwillingness to go to the police out of fear allows Lambert to rape yet another woman.
• All of Us Are Dead: Yoon Gwi-Nam here is portrayed no better than the original. Starting out as a cruel bully who exploits, beats, and sexually humiliates his peers, Gwi-Nam uses students as bait to escape zombies and murders his principal. After being bitten by the zombies, Gwi-nam becomes a hybrid who relentlessly hunts his enemy Lee Cheong-san and murders and tortures every student he sees with sadistic relish, devouring or turning others into zombies. Upon finding Cheong-san, Gwi-nam doesn't care if all the other students are torn apart as long as he gets to torture and kill his nemesis.
• Altered Carbon: Danica Harlan, the Big Bad of Season 2 and the ruthless governor of Harlan's World, murders her own father to take over Harlan's World and reigns with an iron fist. Favoring brutal execution methods, Danica is also responsible for initiating the Quellist Uprising, killing many individuals to drive up the price of Cortical Stack alloys to profit. In the modern day, Danica shows no hesitation in subjecting people to executions where they believe their loved ones are killing them, and upon encountering the last of the alien race, the Elders, Danica tries to kill him to seize control of the superweapon Angelfire and purge Harlan's World of any in her path.
• American Gothic (1995): Sheriff Lucas Buck is a devilish, corrupt lawman in the town of Trinity who kicks the plot off by raping a woman, later murdering her after she gives birth to his son, and then murders her daughter, framing and killing her husband before trying to claim the boy Caleb Temple for himself to raise in his image. A charming, charismatic man, Lucas is responsible for frequent disappearances of "outsiders", in one instance keeping a pesky reporter tied up and tortured until the man dies, and shows no hesitation in utterly destroying the lives of those who defy him on what he wants. In one such instance, a man who refuses Lucas's request to employ his sixteen-year-old daughter is steadily driven insane and tricked into murdering his own wife while a radio host who tries to blackmail Lucas finds his career and life utterly destroyed. Lucas attempts to corrupt Caleb, murdering people on seeming whims or to achieve long-reaching goals, and even tries to trick the ghost of Caleb's sister into killing a baby so she can return to life and destroy Caleb's faith in her.
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?:
  • "The Tale of the Captured Souls": Peter Kirlian III lives alone in a small inn. Keeping his youth and life after a century via the lives of others, Peter lures innocent people to his inn and uses mirrors to drain their lifeforce, keeping them listless and weak until they "check out" and he buries their bodies behind the inn, with a recorded body count of over twenty men, fifteen women, over thirty children, and ten dogs.
  • "The Tale of the Whispering Walls": Master Raymond is the creepy, eccentric owner of the Whisper Inn, a little hovel in the middle of nowhere that Raymond lures travelers off the highway to. Every leap year on the night of February 29th, Raymond convinces his victims to visit his seemingly-abandoned mansion for help, where he steals their souls and keeps them in the walls of his mansion to leech off their life force evermore. Raymond is also a vile, spiteful sadist who tries to add Claire Dickens, the young sister of protagonist Andrew, to his collection, not content with having already brainwashed their babysitter.
  • "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure" two-parter: Jonas Cutter was a former galley slave who led a mutiny and became a pirate captain. Adopting the surname "Cutter" for his love of murder, Cutter spilled oceans of blood to gather a treasure of his own, becoming infamous for the sheer number of murders he committed. Murdering the good-hearted pirate Ian Keegan when Ian tried to avenge the dead, Cutter eventually perished while his ghost hungered for a final battle. Kidnapping Max Keegan to lure his brother Rush into a final duel, Cutter wastes no time trying to murder both children to satisfy his insatiable thirst for blood.
  • "The Tale of the Closet Keepers": The Keeper is an alien administrator of an intergalactic zoo, whose only apparent motives are greed and sadism. To show off "biodiversity" in his zoo, he takes to having children abducted from all over the world and keeps them in line through torture. He does this using a device that will emit a sound that paralyzes its victim with agony and drives them insane, which he demonstrates on one of his henchmen. When he abducts Stacey and her friend Billy, he states that he kills children he finds deficient or clever, as he plans to do when he learns Stacey is deaf. When Stacey leads an escape and topples his operations, the Keeper takes Billy at gunpoint mockingly stating that she wouldn't dare hurt her friend when she threatens to use his torture device against him.
  • "The Tale of the Night Shift": "Margot" is a teenage girl who gets a job as a nurse at a hospital working on the night shift. We find out that "Margot" is actually a sadistic, ancient vampire who spends his time feeding on the hospital's staff and patients, one of whom is a young boy in a wheelchair, and attempting to turn them into his vampire slaves. When confronted by the episode's protagonist Amanda and her friend Colin, the vampire compares a hospital to a candy shop for him. When Amanda's recently turned friend Felix tries to help Amanda, the vampire attacks him too. During the climax of the episode, the vampire chases Amanda to the roof of the hospital and lifts her up, planning to drop her off and lick up what's left, all while relishing Amanda's screams, before deciding the old-fashioned way is a better way to kill.
• Argentina, Tierra de Amor y Venganza: Samuel Trauman runs a brothel filled with women forced into prostitution. These women are found by his agent Alfreda in European countries ravaged by wars, and brought under the pretense that they would get married to a rich landlord in Argentina. Once in the country, they are unpersoned, renamed to make it difficult to track them, and kept as prisoners inside the brothel, never allowed to leave. Trauman stays in business thanks to a network of Corrupt Politicians, Dirty Cops and trigger-happy bodyguards. When criticized, he argues that he is providing a public service, and that he is a benefactor who rescued those women from poverty and gave them a job. Trauman has an absolute contempt for everyone, including his wife and his Ignored Enamored Underling Madame Ivonne. As Aldo Ferretti managed to freed Raquel, one of his prostitutes, Trauman seduced Aldo's sister Ana to kidnap and sell her newborn baby first and try to force her into the prostitution network. Despite being a Jew, Trauman is a Persona Non Grata among the Jewish community and longs to be accepted in it; but when a rabbi gave him a chance to talk things he could not find a single sin to repent.
• Arthur of the Britons' "The Slaves": Rodolph is a brutal Saxon slaver who takes entire Celt and Briton villages, civilians forced to work to death in his quarries as Rodolph lays into them with his whip. With many killed, Rodolph happily orders more shipments, intending on building a mass slavery operation where countless innocents die.
• The A-Team:
  • "Bad Time on the Border": Prince and Border Patrol Lt. Jack Taggart run an illegal human smuggling operation. Helping desperate Mexican immigrants cross the border, Taggart robs them afterwards and keeps them in captivity. The two sell their captives as slave labor to numerous border town sweatshops, with Taggart even willing to let sick Mexicans die of illness to make more money.
  • "The A-Team is Coming! The A-Team is Coming!": Colonel Ivan "The Terrible" Padovich is a rogue Russian soldier who even the Soviet Union despises. Having gotten his nickname during his time in Vietnam by slaughtering several villages, Ivan hides in Los Angeles with plans to gain control of the Braxus satellite, which he'll use to blow up several Russian missiles and commence World War III. Willing to kill his own men should they go against his orders, Ivan leads a raid against the military base guarding the satellite controls, killing plenty of soldiers in the process.
  • "The Theory of Revolution": President Alexander Martien is the ruthless dictator of a South American nation, ruling via starvation, fear, terror, torture, and executions. Suspecting rebels, Martien opts to try to kill his way through entire villages to get to his targets. Martien likewise tries mass executions, happily selling his own country out to personally profit.
  • "The Crystal Skull": Brothers Marino and Francisco are a pair of mercenaries disguised as monks assigned to acquire an island's diamonds. Taking over the Toga Toga tribe by threatening their leader with death, Marino and Francisco have tribesmen from the rival Toga tribe kidnapped and enslaved, forcing them to work in the diamond mine under harsh conditions, even having them frequently whipped as punishment.
• Avenida Brasil: Santiago Moreira is the father of Carmen Lúcia. Although he looks like an innocent elderly doll repairer, Santiago reveals himself not only as a crime lord and jewelry dealer, but also as responsible for all the evil. To have the inheritance of his wife, Virginia, Carminha's mother, Santiago killed her, framing his lover Lucinda for the crime, after having caused a friction between his wife and his lover that resulted in the death of Lucinda's daughter and made her try to murder Virginia. In addition, he abandoned his own daughter, still a child, in the dump, besides implying that he raped her as a child. Her mother's death and abandonment at the dump made Carminha the main antagonist of the plot, while Lucinda's family life was also ruined and her husband, Nilo, became an alcoholic child abuser. At present, Santiago psychologically abuses his adult daughter; tries to prevent his redemption; beats his lover almost to death when the two were planning to flee; fatally poisons Nilo so that he cannot reveal the truth about the death of Santiago's wife; and kidnaps soccer player Tufão and the protagonist Nina, leaving them at gunpoint and still urging Carminha to choose which one should die first.
• Babylon 5:
  • President (William) Morgan Clark is the former Vice President and eventual dictator of Earth. Taking office after arranging his predecessor's assassination, Clark quickly establishes himself as a xenophobic fascist who justifies his naked power grabs by claiming they're done to protect Earth from alien sabotage. He creates the Nightwatch, turns news outlets into his propaganda machines, and conducts torture on political enemies so they confess to crimes they're innocent of. Upon enacting Martial Law, Mars refused to obey President Clark's decree. In retaliation, he bombed their civilian centers. When Babylon 5 secedes from Earth until President Clark is removed for his crimes, Clark wages war against Sheridan and the station. One of his most notable atrocities is slaughtering 10,000 refugees fleeing the war just to send a message. Clark also has no loyalty to his troops, trying to kill some in a False Flag Operation to turn public opinion against Babylon 5. When the war turns against him and his capture is imminent, President Clark opts to commit suicide, but not before enacting SCORCHED EARTH: With a final act of spite, Clark turned Earth's own defense grid against it to destroy the entire planet rather than allow anyone else to rule it.
  • Seasons 2 & 3: Lord Antono Refa is a Centauri nobleman and politician defined by his limitless ambition and utter willingness to murder millions of innocents for his own advancement. While he claims he wants to "return the Centauri to Glory", in reality he only cares about himself and plans on claiming the Imperial Throne. Refa sabotages his own people's military and economy to undermine his Emperor, Turhan, and stages the assassination of Turhan's loyal prime minister to remove resistance for Refa's candidate for emperor, the psychopathic Cartagia. Refa consolidates his own power by framing and executing political opponents for treason, disgracing their families, and exploiting the law to steal their property, such as what he attempted to do to a war hero who asked too many questions. Personally overseeing the Centauri's war against the Narns, Refa uses illegal mass drivers to bombard the Narn home world, targeted civilian centers, created death camps and initiated genetic cleansing programs. Throwing his lot in with the Shadows, Refa exploits the alliance by waging war against other alien worlds. Refa served as a dark shadow of Londo Mollari, showing what he would be if he cast aside all scruples in the pursuit of power.
  • Season 4: Emperor Cartagia is the psychopathic ruler of the Centauri Republic, a madman whose murderous and mercurial moods leave his courtiers living in perpetual terror. Those who disagree with, criticize or even annoy him with things as mundane as a constant cough, are decapitated, their heads kept in a secret room for Cartagia to converse with at his leisure. When a jester makes a joke at Cartagia's expense, he at first pretends to be unoffended, only to then kill him. After G'Kar is captured, Cartagia becomes obsessed with breaking him by making him scream, so he has him tortured for hours straight by his best torturer, then, when that fails to elicit a response, Cartagia tortures him personally. He only refrains from cutting off G'Kar's hands because he passed out and it wouldn't be fun without a reaction. Later, he has one of G'Kar's eyes plucked out because he didn't like the way G'Kar was looking at him. He then takes G'Kar to the Narn home world for a public trial and vivisection to crush the enslaved Narns' spirits. Cartagia's ultimate plan is to use his alliance with the Shadows to provoke their nemeses, the Vorlons, into destroying Centauri Prime. While the Centauri believe their emperors become gods upon death, Cartagia wants to become a god while alive, planning to be off world while his home world dies. Cartagia sees no problem with the eradication of his species since he thinks their lives would be meaningless without him, and wants Centauri Prime to burn as an inauguration pyre to mark his ascension into godhood.
  • "Deathwalker": Jha'Dur, known as Deathwalker is a Dilgar war criminal and the worst example her species had to offer. Known for performing gruesome experiments upon innocents, Jha'Dur finds herself upon Babylon 5, and when cornered, she unveils a grand scheme to offer immortality to the other planets' governments. Earth accepts her offer and Deathwalker reveals to Commander Jeffrey Sinclair that immortality would require cannibalism, forcing civilizations to fall upon and destroy each other. The sheer delight she took in watching others suffer was nearly unmatched in the series.
• Babylon Berlin:
  • Seasons 1 & 2: Trochin is a Soviet ambassador who is tasked with finding the train carrying gold and hunting down the Trotskyists. To this end, Trochin has his men massacre a printing shop, killing 15 people, while tracking down the sole survivor and torturing him until he gives up information about the train, at which point Trochin then kills him. When the train he locates is rigged with nerve gas, he leaves his men to die, while trying to save himself. Trochin has also collaborated with the Black Reichwehr to overthrow the current government of Germany, only to sell them out to avoid jail time for the atrocities he committed.
  • Season 3: Dr. Leopold Ullrich is a police analyst who turns on the force to achieve fame and glory for himself. After finding the identities of the individuals who murdered the first actress in a film lot, Ullrich blackmails them into committing more murders, before framing Walter Weintraub, just so Ullrich can "catch" him and be viewed as a hero. When Gereon Rath and Charlotte "Lotte" Ritter learn of Ullrich's crimes, he injects them with insulin, while also killing his own assistant once he catches on as well. He would then kidnap the police commissioner, Ernst "Buddah" Gennat, attempting to hang him while framing Gereon for Gennat's death.
• Bad Guys:
  • "Crazy Dogs" & "Outlaw": The nameless killer is a brutal psychopath who opens the series murdering a cop who tries to stop him. With his goal being to have the highest body count in the history of Korean serial killers, the killer kills 22 innocents, starting by bludgeoning them to death before graduating to using a knife. Due to his sloppiness, however, he leaves survivors: a young woman he scarred after murdering her sister and a woman and her young daughter. When the titular squad of "bad guys" are used by the police to hunt him down, the serial killer attempts to murder one of them and proceeds to try to hunt down and kill the past survivors, mocking one's pleas for mercy and saying he's going to kill her regardless.
  • "Human Market" & "Too Many Bad Guys": Hwang Gyeong-soon, a former pimp turned human trafficker, is a cruel woman who runs a massive smuggling operation, where women are kidnapped and sold into sex slavery, or simply have their organs harvested while they're still alive. Hwang also has people indebted to her, and takes various organs when they cannot pay her back. In one such instance, she cruelly taunts a child whose father is about to have his eyes removed, and when the "bad guys" invade her headquarters, she orders them killed as brutally as possible. The scope and scale of her operations disgust even hardened mobsters and hitmen such as Woong-chul and Tae-soo, the former of whom angrily comments that no matter how much one loves money, some lines should never be crossed the way Hwang does.
• Banshee: Banshee, PA, is inhabited by many unsavory characters, with these the worst.
  • The unnamed albino prisoner was hired to torment the man who would become known as "Lucas Hood", first by viciously beating the latter, then attempting to make Hood his Sex Slave for the remainder of his 15-year prison sentence. Dreaded by fellow inmates, "the Albino" has at least one forced partner, whom he brags was a straight man coerced into a relationship with him to assert dominance and is implied to have an entire unwilling harem. Enraged when Hood maims his boyfriend's face, making him less "pretty", the Albino angrily tries to orally rape Hood before cutting his throat.
  • Season 4: Declan Bode is a sadistic Serial Killer who has killed numerous women in Banshee. He would bring these women to his home where would cut them while they are still alive and they would painfully die from their wounds. He also leads a satanic cult, manipulating many people to join his cause; He also molested his female followers since they were children and persuades one to immolate herself in the Banshee sheriff's department. Kidnapping FBI agent Veronica Dawson, Sheriff Brock Lotus, and "Lucas Hood", Bode would leave the latter two at the mercy of his followers while he proceeds to make Dawson his next victim.
• Bates Motel Season 1:
  • Jake Abernathy, aka Joe Fioretti, the boss of a Sex Slave trade, operates his business out of several towns and supplies some of his subordinates with girls as a special compensation. When he learns that the operation in White Falls is compromised, Abernathy begins to stalk Norma Bates and threaten her to get the money he believes she has. When he is confronted by Sheriff Romero, Abernathy attempts to establish a new partnership with him to continue the slavery business and keep it going in White Falls.
  • Zach Shelby seems at first like a charming, likable guy who wants to help Norma Bates and her family out. It is soon revealed Shelby is a deadly, violent man who participates (along with Keith Summers, who is killed early on) in the sex slave operation under the direction of Jake Abernathy and just helped out the family so he could sleep with Norma. Shelby keeps an Asian sex slave named Jiao locked in terrible conditions in his basement where he regularly rapes her, and when he discovers the Bates family have helped her escaped, he attempts to murder them all. When he sees Jiao again, he tries to murder her as well, presumably succeeding, before he forces Norma, Norman and Dylan Bates into the motel so that he can kill them.
• Battlestar Galactica:
  • Original series pilot "Saga of a Star World": The first Imperious Leader is the ruler of the Cylon Empire. Ostensibly drawing up a truce with the Twelve Colonies of Man with the help of Count Baltar, the Imperious Leader instead masterminds an attack on the Colonies, destroying their military and civilian populations, leaving billions dead across 12 planets. In an unpleasant touch, Imperious Leader has the jamming lifted just in time so the crew of the battlestar Galactica is Forced to Watch their civilization be destroyed. Learning of the escape of many survivors, the Imperious Leader orders the extermination of whoever was unlucky enough to be left behind. When the refugees protected by the Galactica land on the planet Carillon, the Imperious Leader draws up a plan to destroy the warship and leave the rest of the humans to be fed on by his allies the Ovions before he's destroyed.
  • 2003 series:
    • Brother John Cavil, aka Number One, is the de facto leader of the Cylons, and the first model of the Significant Eight made by the Final Five, the progenitors of the race. Angered by his creators' decision to give him a human body, Cavil kills his brother Daniel out of jealousy, wiping out the line before wiping the minds of his five parents and placing them on the Twelve Colonies. Cavil then initiates a nuclear holocaust against the human worlds, killing most of humanity, and then afterwards spearheads the campaign to kill the survivors, killing a young orphan boy just because they were becoming friends. When his siblings vote for peace with humanity, Cavil perverts it by enslaving them on New Caprica, using a Scarpia Ultimatum to rape his mother, Ellen Tigh, while torturing and mutilating his father, Saul Tigh. As information on the Final Five is discovered, Cavil reacts by permanently boxing the Threes and lobotomizing the Raiders, wiping out the Sixes, Twos, and Eights when they object, leaving only a handful alive. When the Resurrection Hub is destroyed, Cavil kidnaps and tries to dissect little Hera Agathon to uncover the secret to Cylon resurrection. While John claims he wants to be a robot more than anything, he willfully succumbs to the lowest human instincts he so hates: vengeance, lust, and sadism.
    • "Black Market": Phelan, the ex-military mercenary turned crime lord, runs the titular market, which includes a child prostitution ring. Having Jack Fisk murdered for trying to get more compensation, when investigated by Lee Adama, Phelan kidnaps Shevan and her daughter Paya. Selling the latter into the ring, Phelan threatens to cut up the former in an attempt to get Lee to back down.
• Baywatch Nights:
  • "Vengeance": Johnny Larkin was a vicious killer who was caught by Garner Ellerby and his partner, Lea Broussard. During his trial, Johnny swore that he would get back at everyone involved in his conviction, and while in prison, he made a deal with a crime lord named Mohammed Aziz. Aziz would help Johnny get out of jail and provide him with everything that he would need for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and in exchange Johnny would eliminate a snitch named Ernie Watts. After murdering Watts, Johnny goes on a killing spree: He beats a judge to death with his own gavel after shooting the man's bailiff; crushes the throat of an ADA with a barbell; guns down two police officers before drowning a jury member in his own aquarium; and shoots Lea's guard in the back of the head before abducting Lea as bait for Garner, who he had previously assaulted while taunting him over how powerless he was to do anything other than "keep score" as Johnny rampaged through Los Angeles. During a subsequent gun battle with Garner, Johnny mocks him over how he will die being unable to save Lea from a Drowning Pit.
  • "Possessed": Richard Kempler was a charismatic sadist who was suspected of murdering over fifty women, with his final victim being the wife of Dr. Arnold Block. Kempler had converted his home into a blood-drenched Torture Cellar, which he decorated with parts of his victims, photographs of them being mutilated and tortured, and an altar dedicated to Satan. After dying in a pile-up, Kempler began possessing anyone who was exposed to his blood, with his first host being a man named Steven Buckland. Kempler turns Buckland's home into an exact recreation of his own house of horrors, and uses his body to butcher up to a dozen women before dying again in a shootout with the LAPD. Kempler proceeds to take over Donna Marco, who he has nearly kill a hitchhiker, before moving into a SWAT officer named Ray Reegun. Annoyed by Mitch Buchannon interfering with his possession of Donna, Kempler abducts his partner, Ryan McBride, and takes her to one of his old hideouts, where he amuses himself by disorienting Mitch with booby-traps before trying to murder him in front of Ryan.
• The Beast's "Nadia": Roman Petrescu is the son of a Romanian diplomat who uses his diplomatic immunity to partake in human trafficking. Trafficking women from Russia and Romania to America, Roman rapes them before prostituting them, while also illegally selling their children to adopting parents. When one of his men is caught accidentally assisting FBI agents Charles Barker and Ellis Dove in the takedown of his operation, Roman brutally beats him to death.
• Beast Master:
  • King Zad is the Big Bad for the first two seasons. The barbarian king of the violent Terrons, Zad is the man who destroyed The Beastmaster Dar's home city and killed his father King Eldar. Zad routinely has innocent villages massacred with the women taken for entertainment and other survivors forced to fight monsters and wild animals for Zad's amusement. Taking Dar's lover Kyra as a slave, Zad psychologically torments her while lusting after her, intending to break her and make her submit to him "willingly" for the pleasure of taking away Dar's beloved. Zad also kills his men on a constant basis for petty or imagined reasons with his other crimes including trying to kill the final unicorns, trying to murder children who may one day grow up to oppose him and even murders his own sister when she betrays him for her own power. Revealed as a servant of the demonic lord Balcifer, Zad plans to assist Balcifer in his conquest of the world and the extermination of everything besides Zad's own territories so Zad can reign over the last remnants of humanity.
  • Balcifer, Lord of Darkness, contacted King Zad years ago and convinced him to become his agent on Earth, and gave him his first task: The genocide of the entire Sula Tribe to eradicate the only bloodline that could actually harm him. At the start of Season 3, Balcifer casually kills the Ancient One and returns to check on Zad's progress, with it being revealed that all the crimes of the Terrons were at Balcifer's bequest. In the finale, Balcifer arrives in person, promptly devours an innocent woman's soul. Balcifer tries to corrupt Dar to become his new Dragon, seeing as he finds Zad to have outlived his usefulness. Balcifer then reveals his attempt to cover the world in darkness and exterminate all that lives save for himself.
• Being Human (UK):
  • William Herrick, John Mitchell's sire, is a truly nasty piece of work. Initially hiding under a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire facade, Mitchell learns the truth when he sees that Herrick has kept a larder for the vampires consisting of homeless people and teenage runaways where they are fed on relentlessly with no time to recover. When Mitchell protests, Herrick puts him firmly in the "minus" column and decides to kill him and everyone he loves. Later, Herrick casually slaughters a police station after he is resurrected and regains his memory. Before this, he stabs his pregnant nurse in the back, having considered sparing her but opting not to as he doesn't wish anyone to think he's gone soft. Even before he became a vampire, Herrick was a piece of work and was turned by his sire Hettie while trying to sell her to a brothel. Hettie looks ten.
  • "The Graveyard Shift" & "A Spectre Calls": Alfie Kirby is the ghost of a Serial Killer whose favored method of killing was to seduce women by pretending to be great with kids and then murder the families once they trusted him. He turns the housemates against each other through manipulation and shatters Annie the ghost her into pieces, before performing a celebratory Happy Dance and immediately trying to kill a baby.
  • "The Old Ones" prequel, "Making History", & "The War Child": Mr. Snow is the de facto leader of The Old Ones, the ruling class of vampires. Snow is so ancient he claims to have looked upon "Pharaohs and the son of the carpenter". First introduced when he forces a ship's crew to feed him a luckless young man with the chilling message "someone or everyone", Snow planned to launch a full war to enslave humanity and in the timeline where he isn't stopped, personally drained the British Prime Minister on live TV. Snow would preside over a regime where humans were enslaved and drained, all with nothing more than cheery good humor.
• Black:
  • Wang Yong-choon is a former hitman and sadistic Serial Killer who killed his wife for insurance money. Roped into the far-reaching conspiracy with the promise of a lofty payout, Wang killed many people for the conspiracy and murdered the father of Detective Ha-ram when he saved a child from Wang. After escaping a mental hospital, Wang begins taking revenge, torturing the hospital director to death and killing whoever else catches his fancy, even trying to revenge himself on Congressman Kim by locking him in a burning building with children, not caring if they all burn.
  • Congressman Kim Woo-shik is one of the masterminds of the conspiracy. Involved in a prostitution ring, Kim raped a teenage girl on camera, unaware he was being filmed. Having numerous people murdered to recover the tape and hide his crime, Kim personally murdered his blackmailer's boyfriend to keep the secret and in the present continues his crimes by eliminating even people close to him if they pose a danger in order to keep his political career alive.
• The Blacklist contains the most dangerous criminals to ever appear on the face of the Earth, but there are still a few that manage to stand out above the rest:
  • Season 6: Bastien Moreau, aka "The Corsican", is an assassin, No. 20 on the list, who forces surgeon Hans Koehler to give him a brand new face. Murdering Koehler and his team, then his own subordinates, Moreau intends to murder a diplomat by bombing the UN and killing everyone present even if it goes against his ideas of anti-globalism at the core, so he can keep the image. Moreau has a long history of terrorist attacks in the name of nationalism, murdering a German diplomat before realizing he is being used and attempting to turn on his employers and Reddington at the end.
  • "The Freelancer (No. 145)": Floriana Campo is one of the worst, despite not even being on the list. She acts as a human rights activist by day, fighting against the Everhardt Cartel, but by night actually runs said cartel, which is one of the largest slave trading cartels in the world. As the leader of the cartel, she has hundreds if not thousands of men, women, and children kidnapped, has her insignia branded on their back, and sells them to her wealthy clients either as sex slaves or as manual labor. Through these methods, she has ruined the lives of many, just so she could make her own life luxurious. When her husband gets too close to discovering the truth, she murders him in cold blood. She has proven to be so vile, even Reddington despises her.
  • "The Cyprus Agency (No. 64)": Owen Mallory, formerly Michael Shaw is No. 64 on the list. He runs a supposed adoption agency called the Cyprus Agency. Initially believing that the Agency kidnaps children just to sell them towards the wealthy, when FBI task force led by Elizabeth Keen delves into the agency's darkest secrets they find out the truth is far worse. Instead of kidnapping children, the agency kidnaps women all over the world regardless of age and puts them into comas, where Owen himself would rape them so they can produce children, even injecting sedatives to prolong the comas and the process. He has done this to many women, and if some of the women die he simply has his employees dispose of them. He also isn't very good to his employees either, as such when he has his employee kidnap a college girl and said employee makes a mistake, Mallory callously shoots him. When Elizabeth finally catches him she sees how many women he kept in comas and raped, which is in the dozens, and those are just the women still alive. When she asks him why he did all this, he says that as a child in the adoption system he felt that he wasn't perfect, and by kidnapping all these women to rape, they could make his children, thus "ensuring his legacy" and making it so he won't feel that way anymore.
• Black Mirror:
  • "Fifteen Million Merits": Judge Wraith, a vicious misogynist and the purveyor of the seedy WraithBabes, is the worst of the judges lording over the bleak society. When singer Abi Khan is judged by him on the idol show Hot Shots, Wraith pressures her into joining his porn channel, having her drugged and raped when she gives in, something he has done to countless other women. After Abi's friend threatens suicide to protest what became of her on live television, Wraith callously pushes for the man to open his throat.
  • "Men Against Fire": Arquette is an ardent supporter of the MASS system and its goal of exterminating the Roaches—including innocent children—by changing their appearance into grotesque mutants so soldiers would not hesitate to pull the trigger, despite acknowledging that they are civilians. A military psychologist who uses his position to direct genocidal attacks against the Roaches, Arquette is xenophobic enough to claim that the eugenics program is completely justified since the Roaches have "shit in their DNA". When Stripe begins to discover the truth behind the MASS system, Arquette imprisons him and gives him the Sadistic Choice to either have his memories erased and continue massacring Roaches or stay locked up and have his MASS system configured to replay the footage of him killing Roaches with their appearances intact in an eternal loop.
  • "USS Callister": Robert Daly is a sociopathic inventor who has created a special mod of the online game Infinity. By taking the DNA of his co-workers, Daly can create fully sapient digital clones in the game, which he uses to torture and mistreat to relieve all his frustrations. Endlessly abusing and humiliating them, Daly refuses to grant them any relief, at one point sealing Nanette Cole’s mouth to suffocate her and painfully transforming Shania Lowry into a monster when he wishes to make a point. Constantly putting them through endless pain and abuse, when one, Walton refused to play along, Daly got the DNA of his young son and threw the boy's clone out of the airlock with the threat he'd revive him and torture him worse if Walton didn't knuckle under. When the crew tries to escape, Daly vows to torture them even worse than before, starting with Walton's son, threatening how his punishment will be "biblical".
  • "Black Museum": Rolo Haynes is the owner of the titular museum and a manipulative sociopath who deliberately tricks people into participating in dangerous experiments. In his first anthology story, Rolo tricks a man into installing an implant which drives him to insanity, culminating in Rolo's pawn brutally killing a homeless man. In his second outing, Rolo fools a loving couple into sharing their consciousness to save the wife from a coma, ruining their relationship and eventually transferring her mind into the body of a stuffed monkey to amuse himself. Convincing wrongfully convicted murderer Clayton Leigh into giving Rolo his post-death consciousness by promising to help Clayton's family, Rolo turns him into a sadistic exhibit for racist guests to enjoy forcing the black Clayton to relive his execution again and again.
  • "Rachel Jack and Ashley Too": Catherine Ortiz is the wicked aunt of the pop star Ashley O who has been exploiting her niece all her life, abusing her whenever Ashley doesn't listen to her demands and drugging her to keep her more docile. Catherine would also develop millions of robotic dolls dubbed Ashley Too, all of whom are sapient copies of Ashley whom Catherine has trapped inside the dolls, giving the fully aware copies only 4 percent of all functions. Upon learning that Ashley is not taking Catherine's drugs, she drugs Ashley's food, deliberately putting Ashley in a coma and keeping her in that vegetative state as she forcibly probes her mind for music while destroying all the sapient Ashley Toos that were recalled. Creating the holographic Ashley Eternal after continuously exploiting Ashley's comatose state for six months, Catherine orders her own niece to be killed, believing her to be of no use to her.
  • "Loch Henry": Kenneth "Kenny" McCardle was a depraved Serial Killer who terrorized the remote town of Loch Henry. Hiding behind the façade of an honest policeman, Kenny and his wife, Janet, videotaped themselves raping, torturing, and killing eight people for nothing more than sadistic pleasure. Deciding to escape justice by framing his own protégé Iain Adair for the murders, Kenny massacred the entire Adair family simply to cut off loose ends.
  • "Demon 79":
    • Michael Smart, a charismatic and beloved conservative politician, is in fact a psychopathic fascist with nightmarish plans for Britain. As a child, Smart stoned a dog to death and only got worse from there. In a Bad Future where Smart is elected as Prime Minister, Britain falls under the totalitarian control of the Britannia Party, becoming a Police State where mass surveillance is implemented and the streets are in flames, with Smart's racist regime being responsible for an untold amount of deaths. The pinnacle of evil in the Black Mirror universe, Smart's cruelty is so great that even demons from Hell are said to admire him.
    • Tim Simmons initially appears to be a regular bystander, but Gaap shows Nida his true colors, revealing that Tim raped his own daughter for years every night, which will get so bad that the daughter will kill herself as an adult to stop the pain. Despite his brief appearance, Tim was so vile, the pacifist Nida barely hesitated to murder him in a rage.
• Black Sails' "IX" through "XI": Edward "Ned" Low, captain of the Fancy, outdoes any other pirate in series for evil and cruelty. Low waylays a ship called the Good Fortune that peacefully surrenders, but upon finding a valuable hostage on the ship, Low has the crew massacred and personally shoots the captain dead as the man pleads he has a family. Low sets up shop at Nassau and tries to intimidate the head of business Eleanor Guthrie with a speech of how his crew knows Low is a monster. He later fantasizes about raping Eleanor to within an inch of her life. When his quartermaster, Meeks, tries to ally with Eleanor, Low tortures and beheads him in full view of Eleanor's entire bar, then kills her bodyguard when the man tries to make him leave. Low makes clear he will eventually come for Eleanor and confesses he is a man driven solely by cruelty and instinct that he often surrenders to.
• Blake's 7:
  • "The Way Back": Dev Tarrant is a Federation security agent who has infiltrated the resistance. He sets up at least two massacres of around twenty unarmed dissidents and is also the one responsible for Blake being captured and brainwashed in the first place. When he discovers Blake can identify him, he instructs the Arbiter-General to discredit him, which he does by framing him for child abuse by implanting false memories of abuse in children's minds—then turns up at Blake's trial to gloat, so he knows how much the resistance is compromised. When Blake's defense lawyer realizes the truth and begins gathering up evidence of the massacre and framing, Tarrant has him and his wife killed.
  • "Space Fall": Raiker is the sub-commander of a prison ship transporting prisoners to a penal planet. He takes a sadistic attitude towards the prisoners, welcoming them with a threatening speech that ends "[t]here are other rules but you'll find out what they are when you break them." He has a reputation for taking female prisoners as his sex slaves for the trip, with it rumored that some prisoners are dumped en route. When his attempt to charm Jenna with offers of better treatment are immediately rebuffed, he immediately drops the act and strikes her, saying she'll come to him eventually. After an escape attempt led by Blake results in most of the prisoners being quickly recaptured but Blake and the ringleaders having control of the ship, Raiker responds by systematically shooting unarmed prisoners until Blake gives himself up. When he hears Blake has surrendered, he shoots one more For the Evulz. He then tries to order Jenna taken to his quarters, only to be overruled by his superior. He demonstrates greed as well: He is eager for the prize money when the crew stumble upon the Liberator drifting and, when a first attempt at boarding leaves two crewmen dead and one driven insane, his response is to use prisoners as a Suicide Mission to disable the defenses, threatening them with summary execution otherwise.
• The Bletchley Circle:
  • "Cracking a Killer's Code": Malcolm Crowley is an avid necrophile and murderer. Disturbed from birth, Crowley joined the British Special Operations Branch during World War II and demonstrated his psychopathy by creating material used to psychologically torture German troops. Trapped after a bomb destroyed the building he was in, Malcolm raped the corpse of a woman he was obsessed with and loved the experience. After he was rescued, Malcolm then murdered a man and set fire to his body to fake his own death, before embarking on a killing spree across England, abducting and killing 7 women and then raping their corpses before framing innocent men for the crime, resulting in their imprisonment and execution. Using the train lines of London as his latest hunting ground, Malcolm murdered an additional 4 women and framed the mentally handicapped ticket inspector Gerald Wiggins for the crime. Attracting the attention of the Bletchley Circle, Malcolm shot his former boss dead to tie up loose ends and, when Susan figured out his game, set a trap and attempted to "reward" her by making her his next victim.
  • "Uncustomed Goods": Marta is a brutal Maltese criminal who trafficks young girls. Luring in dozens of vulnerable teenagers from Eastern Europe with promises of a better life, Marta smuggles them through customs by bribing border guards and then sells them off to paying men as sexual slaves. Abducting Millie and her friend Jasper for selling contraband goods without her permission, Marta had Jasper beaten, tortured, and then slit his throat, disposing of his body in a place where Millie would find it just to break her mentally. Fooled into selling Millie and her friends more girls, Marta attempted to traffick in a dozen more, and upon being arrested threatened Millie with a death that would make Jasper's look like a kindness.
• Blindspot:
  • Season 5: Ivy Sands is an icy, sadistic Dabbur Zhan terrorist leader who stands out as the only main antagonist to lack any sympathetic traits. Forming an alliance with Madeline Burke, Ivy agrees to capture the team in exchange for Madeline providing her with chemical weapons in particular weaponized ZIP, which can cause death in high amounts, and even in low amounts causes complete memory loss and eventual death by mental degradation. Hunting the team throughout Europe, Ivy kidnaps, tortures, and murders multiple people in her relentless pursuit. Breaking her best soldiers out of prison, Ivy attempts to gas bomb ten European capital cities hoping to throw the whole continent into chaos. Capturing Kurt Weller, Ivy brutally tortures him with a specially designed cocktail of drugs and psychotics to break him. Following Madeline's defeat, Ivy carries on, attempting to set off the ZIP Bombs throughout America, using a local bomb maker to drastically increasing their fallout range and murdering the man who gave her information to them. Left with no more men, Ivy personally attempts to set off her remaining bomb in Times Square to kill millions of people.
  • "Rules in Defiance": Maxwell Tate is a rich and powerful man, who for at least seven years ran a forced prostitution ring. He has his agents in immigration select young women who are being deported back to Mexico then has his thugs abduct them. Taking them to a building he owns Tate throws elaborate parties for the rich and powerful where the women are repeatedly raped and abused for the guest's pleasure. When one woman, Paloma Diaz, was killed by a guest, Tate forced her friend Camila to dispose of the body, then had a false case built to frame Paloma's boyfriend Ronnie Vargas for abusing, raping and murdering her, guaranteeing Vargas would be executed. When Vargas tried to prove his innocence, Tate had Vargas's sister's home burned to the ground as a warning, almost killing her and her three children. When Tate discovers Tasha Zapata has infiltrated his organization, to cover up what he has been doing he simply has all the women, including Tasha, rounded into the basement where he kept them, then sets the building on fire, dismissing it as "I can't risk leaving any evidence".
  • "Draw O Caesar, Erase A Coward": Marjory Ellis is an auction house manager, who secretly set up, along with Mark Gelman, and masterminds a Human Trafficking operation. Supported and supplied by the Estevez Cartel, they smuggled dozens of kidnapped Mexican citizens into America. Upon arrival the Mexicans are imprisoned in a warehouse, chained to camp beds. The ones who prove to be matches have their organs harvested for Doctor Katz's Black Market transplants to his rich patients, with Marjory selling the rest to the Ukrainian Mafia. She manipulated Gelman into believing she loved him so he would stay loyal, then abandoned him following his arrest. Learning that the FBI have starting to investigate, Marjory tried to tie up all her loose ends, personally murdering Doctor Katz, then taking her last batch of a dozen victims, plus Kurt Weller and Roman Bridger who she kidnapped, to the Ukrainians for one final sale, before escaping. The worst member of the operation, Marjory possessed no regrets and was driven solely by the pursuit of wealth.
  • "Careless Whisper": Iris Bikelmyer is an auxiliary police officer who, after becoming unsatisfied making models out of dead rats, moonlights as a Serial Killer, dubbed "The New York Ripper". Over several years, she murdered 35 people in Long Island, becoming the deadliest serial killer in the state's history, with her MO ranging from slit wrists and drowning to torture and ritualistic killing. After each death she would carefully pose the bodies, make a strategic cut with a scalpel and set up the crime scene so CSU would find nothing out of place; for years no one connected the deaths. Realizing that true crime author Winston Pear was onto her, Iris broke into his home and bludgeoned him to death with his typewriter. Then from his notebook she tracked down his editor Frankie, slowly killing her while sewing her lips shut. Believing Jane Doe was the last persons he needed to eliminate; Iris kidnapped her planning to torture her to death. Sadistic and arrogant, when called out for crimes Iris claimed that her "subjects" should be honored that she chose to immortalize them.
• Bloodhounds: Kim Myung-gil, as an executive of Smile Capital private loan company, sends his henchmen to dupe the vulnerable, and displays extreme violence should they fail to return the money. When Hong Min-beom, an Iil Group Enterprise Executive, refuses to allow Myung-gil to build the casino on top of the former's proposed building, the latter ambushes Min-Beom at a car wash and forces him to strip as a source of blackmail should he attempt to defy his orders, and forces Min-Beom to do whatever he pleases. Myung-gil wants to build the casino in order to manipulate the gamblers, take all of their money, and continue his business while his business expands. When people threaten his plan, Myung-gil murders his former boss Tae-ho and his henchmen—likely including one's pregnant wife—and murders numerous others.
• Blue Bloods:
  • Season 6: Thomas Wilder's killing fields are discovered, where Danny Reagan finds the corpses of three women who have been beaten, raped and murdered. Hunting down clues, it is revealed Wilder has raped and murdered at least 18 women, with only one survivor who still suffers from what he has done to her. Later murdering her as well, Wilder continues killing in his spare time and even murders his own mother. Latching on to Danny Reagan, Wilder kidnaps his niece Nicky to kill her, too, and when Danny saves her, Wilder tricks Danny into shooting him unarmed just so his death will haunt Danny further.
  • "Re-Do": Richard Reed, a vicious Serial Killer and rapist of women, is a misogynistic sadist who thinks all women are his to use and abuse. He later has his conviction overturned because a lab tech screwed up the protocols. With help from his fan club, he terrorized his surviving victim into silence and decided to let one of his fanboys have her. Even his own kin are not safe as Richard beats his sister and ties her up for saying something she "shouldn't have." Later he slits a janitor's throat and attempts to perform his usual MO on Erin Reagan, the ADA who convicted him, before she is saved by Frank. Void of any redeeming qualities or mitigating factors, he stands as one of the very worst the Reagan family went against.
  • "The Bitter End" & "This Way Out": Santana is a vicious leader of the Los Lordes gang. He and his gang are responsible for turning the Bitterman projects into a hellhole and hounding the residents, making them scared for their lives to the point that one young mother commits suicide with her son to get away from him. After her death and Detective Danny Reagan's attempts to take them down, he declares war on the police department and arranges for ambushes, one of which kills Jamie's partner and friend Vinny. He later takes advantage of a mentally-impaired man by having him shoot Mayor Poole by having him think it would be a harmless prank. The shooting would leave Poole paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After his girlfriend is arrested with his drugs, he panics and puts out a failed hit on her in prison. Santana shows that under his calm and collected demeanor is someone who cares only about himself and would step on anyone who gets in his way.
• Boardwalk Empire Season 3: While other gangsters have shown shades of ruthlessness and callousness, Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti is an absolute lunatic of a mob boss who eclipses Nucky Thompson and any other gangster on the show for sheer, senseless and brutal violence. Introduced beating a man to death after the man fixed his car but made an offhand comment Rosetti interpreted as condescending, Rosetti soon all but declares war on Nucky and sadistically burns a man to death later after dousing him in gasoline. In an attempt on his life, Rosetti uses the waitress he was sleeping with as a Human Shield and soon beats a priest to rob his church. In a botched assassination attempt on Nucky, Rosetti bombs a restaurant on the Atlantic City boardwalk which Nucky frequents. Dozens of people are killed along with Nucky's mistress, which Rosetti taunts him with over the phone. When one of his men makes a comment indicating he knows more about nautical terms than Rosetti, Rosetti buries him up to his neck in the sand for the tide, but shows “mercy” when his bodyguard begs him to, as the buried man is said bodyguard's own cousin, by taking the shovel, walking to the man and then smashing his skull in with it.
• Bodyguard (UK 2018): Nadia Ali is a Middle Eastern Terrorist who led the train bombing operation, in an attempt to kill the hundreds of passengers aboard. Upon being caught by David Budd, she pretends to be a unwilling participant, while pinning her crime on her subordinate posing as her husband. Upon being recruited to Luke Aiken's conspiracy, Nadia would create a bomb for Aiken, that would later be used to kill Home Secretary Julia Montague and countless others caught in the blast radius. In return, Aiken would give Nadia more resources for her to create more bombs; she decides to test one out by having Aiken's men send her bomb to an elementary school that David's children attend, which ends up killing the police force sent to intercept it. Nadia would then spread false information about David, and later has Aiken strap a bomb vest onto David to frame him for all the bomb attacks.
• Bonanza's "Thunder Man": William Poole, the so-called "Thunder Man", is a friendly-seeming demolitions expert whose pleasant nature belies a violent Serial Rapist and murderer of women. When a helpless young woman crosses his path in the opening pleading for him to help her stroke-afflicted uncle, Poole uses the opportunity to rape and murder her on the spot. Poole attempts to murder the woman's paralyzed uncle afterward, silently gloating over the man with the knowledge he witnessed every moment of Poole's assault on his niece, and, when another young woman clues in that Poole was the murderer, Poole breaks her neck. Poole is confronted by Ben Cartwright at the end of the episode, who pieces together Poole's list of victims is hardly contained to the current day, to which Poole sneeringly declares himself untouchable by heaven or Earth and attempts to kill Joe with a vial of nitroglycerin.
• Bones:
  • The Gravedigger, true identity Heather Taffet, is a dark cross between a Serial Killer and a serial kidnapper. Taffet's modus operandi is to sneak up on victims, knock them out with a custom-made stun gun, and bury them in a hidden container with 24 hours of air; either the ransom is paid, or the victims die. The Gravedigger's introduced doing this on Dr. Brennan—not because Brennan is a threat, but just because. Taffet also traps Dr. Hodgins at the same time, cutting the available air to around 12 hours, just because he witnessed the kidnapping. When reappearing, Taffet then tries to similarly bury Booth alive to destroy evidence, plus tries to kill Brennan and Booth again. Taffet also kills a private investigator with a stun gun because the former thinks that there's a chance that said investigator might find her in the future. Several of the other victims are also sought, with the cruel circumstances behind them all played up. In the end, Taffet admits to just enjoying killing people and the effects that Buried Alive has on victims; the ransom money was immaterial.
  • Seasons 7-9: Christopher Pelant is a genius hacker and a brutal Serial Killer. His first murders his guidance counselor after forging a recommendation for him to go to Stanford. In his adult life he was under house arrest for hacking The Pentagon; he later escapes and retaliates against the government with a new killing spree. Always one step ahead of the Jeffersonian team, Pelant is not afraid of using brutal tactics against them, and proudly takes responsibility for his actions. Pelant would later frame Brennan for the murder of a friend and pulls strings to keep her friends from interfering. In a later appearance, he forces Hodgins to forfeit all his money or else he'll destroy a girls' school in Afghanistan with a military drone. He also cripples and later kills FBI agent Flynn, and brainwashes a girl into killing three FBI agents. When he develops an intellectual infatuation with Brennan, he coerces Booth into calling off their wedding, and not to tell her why, or else he'll continue to kill innocent people. When finally cornered in his hiding spot, Pelant takes to holding Brennan at gunpoint in a last desperate attempt to win. Intellectual, egotistical, controlling and vindictive, Pelant proves to be a dangerous enemy to the Jeffersonian team with his love for playing people like pawns, and killing those in his way.
  • "Mummy in the Maze": Pete Geller is an EMT who moonlights as a Serial Killer each Halloween. Luring in a wounded girl every year by using his position, Pete then kidnaps them to his secret lair in the subway, where he uses their worst fears to scare them to death; by the time he's identified, he's killed two girls through this method, burying one alive and leaving the other in a room of tarantulas. He then mummifies their corpses to leave them in horror attractions where random bystanders can see it, causing even more fear to those who find them. He intends to continue this haunted tradition with Megan Shaw, scaring her to death with snakes.
  • "Harbingers in the Fountain": Tom Fargood is both a cult leader and Con Man. Fargood cons a group of twelve sickly innocent people into giving him their money by promising them better lives. He then poisons them with antifreeze, which kills them, and then hides the evidence. Continuing his work after this, Fargood recruits the elderly into retirement schemes, when in reality he kills them after fleecing them of cash. Unrepentant of his crimes, Fargood smugly even mocks the investigators with the knowledge that they can't pin anything on him.
• Bordertown:
  • "The Fury": Iskariot Ranta, a vicious greedy gangster, is a major organiser in the world of illegal dog fights who infects the dogs with rabies to make the fights more brutal. Turning an undercover detective to become his champion, to cover up her disappearance Ranta drowned an innocent lookalike. Seeking even more money, Ranta turns to having people fight his hounds, roping in two desperate Russian sisters with the promises of money he never intended to pay them. Deliberately infecting them with rabies as an added incentive and to safeguard his secrets, Ranta abandoned the sisters to a slow agonising death once they served their part, utterly apathetic that his actions could cause a major epidemic. Already planning another fight, upon discovering Lena had infiltrated his operation, Ranta—also murdering his champion for a minor mistake—kidnapped Lena and her daughter Katia, trapping them both in a cage with a rabid dog so that Lena if Lena failed to kill the dog it would maul the tied-up Katia to death.
  • "The Bloodmaid": Olivi Hannas Eiskola is a cannibalistic Serial Killer who targets young women with a campaign of psychological terror to lure them into his clutches. Once there, Eiskola dissects them and consumes them, with a final victim rescued just before he can cut into her.
• Bosch Season 1: David Harris, aka Raynard Waits, is a psychopath who views himself and his crimes as his monument. After getting caught carrying a corpse in his van, he lies to the LAPD about being responsible for the death of Arthur Delacroix. When he is taken to an abandoned factory, he steals Detective Moore's gun and badge before he kills Detective Escobar and a truck driver and escapes to downtown L.A. Waits hides in his adoptive mother's house and goes on to spend the holidays murdering male prostitutes and constructing a catacomb filled with the skulls and bones of his victims. After his mother asks him to refill her medications, Waits smothers her with a pillow before leaving her corpse to rot on her bed. He also psychologically attacks Bosch, from waving to a security camera after brutally killing a cashier to mocking the death of Bosch's mother by murdering a woman, dressing her as a prostitute, and dumping her in a garbage bin. Determined to reach his endgame of Suicide by Cop, Waits forcibly takes a new mother to his catacomb, leaving her abandoned infant with a card reading "Raynard Waits wishes you a 'Happy New Year!'"
• Brave Woman (originally Salve Jorge): Livia Marini is the head of a criminal organization based on human trafficking, specifically women and babies. Besides kidnapping babies from their parents to sell them, Livia secretly sends her right-hand, Wanda, to lure poor women with the promise of a better life, only to have them enslaved and prostituted; one of these women is protagonist Morena Ribeiro, who along with others is subjected to various types of abuse, including rape. Livia also gets rid of anyone who crosses her path, killing Jéssica and Rachel by injecting them with heroine, and twice tries to kill the police officer Heloise. Having become interested in the protagonist's lover in Brazil and being rejected by him, Lívia plots to ruin his life and kill his other lovers, also kidnapping the infant daughter of Morena to sell her.
• Brimstone's "Slayer": Hasdrabul Skaras was a ruthless Carthaginian warrior who delighted in Rape, Pillage, and Burn. After escaping from Hell, Skaras tries to form an alliance with Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone, but when Zeke rebukes him, Skaras responds by going on a killing spree, during which he specifically targets the widows of police officers, using the victims' own blood to deface the scene of every murder with the Latin phrase "Vae victis" ("woe to the conquered"). During one confrontation with Zeke, Skaras threatens his wife, forces him to shoot a policeman, and leaves him to take the fall for all of the homicides. When Zeke manages to save one widow from him, Skaras kills the woman's elderly mother, and afterward viciously assaults Zeke's friend Father Horn.
• Broadchurch Season 3: In a show where almost every villain is given some kind of humanizing quality to balance out their actions, Leo Humphries stands out as an exception. Two years prior to the events of the third season, he knocked out, tied up, and raped a young woman called Laura Benson while filming the rape. Feeing empowered by the rape, he developed an addiction and did the same to two other women over the years. Upon meeting a troubled young man called Michael Lucas, Leo began corrupting him with pornography, and he eventually forced him to rape Trish Winterman at a party. During the ensuing investigation, he tried to frame Trish's boss Ed Burnett for the rapes. Arrogant, remorseless, and taking absolute pride in his actions, Leo is easily the most despicable character the entire show has to offer.
• Burn Notice:
  • Simon Escher was a Psycho for Hire for Anson Fullerton's organization who had been betrayed by them. When he got out of jail in Seasons 3 and 4, Simon embarked on a one man terrorism and murder spree, killing anyone in his way to get to Management, innocent or not. Simon's first appearance has him in a TV store, having shot the employee on duty dead and hacked all the Television in the store to show his grisly crimes, which includes bombings and shootings, and he forces Michael to help him by threatening to bomb a tourist hotel. The CIA later recruit him in the Season 7 finale and brings him in on an op to bring down a terrorist network. After eliminating both the extraction team and most of the enemy's men, he tortures the one prisoner they had and kills him in cold blood.
  • Seasons 5 & 6: Anson Fullerton is the leader of the Organization that burned Michael, which he founded with the old man known only as "Management". He resurfaced after Max and Michael began researching evidence of more agents, killing the former and framing the latter. With the cover-up foiled, he then orchestrated a plot to gain leverage on Michael: tricking Michael's girlfriend Fiona into thinking she killed two innocent people and recording her confession to blackmail Michael into continuing to work for him and later disposes of a useless asset by blowing the man up in front of his family. Anson eliminates and manipulates more people, even revealing he was the one behind the death of Michael's father. His ultimate moment was trying to bomb a plane to kill one passenger. Anson thinks of everyone as an asset, and there's only one response a ruthless man like him has to one he deems useless.

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• Caliphate (originally Kalifat) (2020 series): Ibrahim "Ibbe" Haddad poses as a Cool Teacher with a genuinely chill personality. In reality, he is a cold and calculating terrorist mastermind working for ISIS. Manipulating two students at the school, Sulle and Kerima, Ibbe plans to use them later if his terrorist attacks fail. Meanwhile, Ibbe manipulates two mentally retarded brothers who he orders to start gunfire at a subway station and kill as many people as possible. His second plan is to pose as a Christian Egyptian in order to arrange a meeting full of Christians, while having an explosive planted there, with the full intent of having people killed. Ibbe's third plan is to have a terrorist blow up a plane full of people. Ibbe's final terrorist attack consists of blowing up an entire apartment building. Ibbe's terrorist attacks are discovered by the Swedish Security Service because of an informant, which leads to them vacating the apartment that Ibbe was planning on blowing up. In order to escape, Ibbe murders an older woman who lives in the apartment and then dresses up as a woman, before blowing up the apartment anyway, despite no one being inside of it. Having failed with all of his terrorist attacks, Ibbe uses Kerima to do a suicide bombing at a concert full of teenagers. Ibbe promises that he will also do a suicide bombing at the same time so that they could die together, but is revealed to have lied.
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: OverMind is a supercomputer originally designed to end war, but after Dr. Lyman Taggart activated it, it decided that machines should rule the Earth. With Taggart, who eventually became Lord Dread, OverMind took control over all robots on Earth and used them to wage war on humanity, wiping out most of them by the series' beginning and digitizing others. Some humans were indoctrinated into becoming "Dread Youth" in order to carry out the will of the machines. Throughout the series, OverMind and Dread work towards "Project New Order", a scheme to drive many people insane with a toxin, launch a space station to digitize large amounts of people, and scorch the Earth's surface. When the project is stopped, OverMind and Dread resort to just wiping out the remains of humanity.
• Carnivàle: Varlyn Stroud is the sociopathic chief enforcer of the New Canaan Ministry. A convicted criminal even before being chosen to be the "Archangel" of Brother Justin Crowe, Stroud is tasked with capturing and delivering Henry Scudder to him. Taking the opportunity to cause as much mayhem as possible, Stroud murders multiple people; bombs a Templar lodge in New Mexico; and torches an entire carnival, endangering the lives of several workers. Fanatically devoted to the apocalyptic plans of his master, Stroud ultimately ensures that Crowe becomes the feared Usher of Destruction.
• Castle:
  • The final Big Bad, LokSat, real name Mason Wood, is the Greater-Scope Villain of the whole series. The silent partner to Senator William Bracken, LokSat provided him with hitmen to carry out political assassinations and covered up their crimes. Murdering Murdering Katherine Houghton "Kate" Beckett's former team for investigating his crimes, LokSat is ruthless about saving himself from facing justice for his crimes. Fearing for his own safety when Bracken is questioned by the heroes, LokSat has him eliminated and murders a woman to frame her for the crime, making it look like a suicide to close the case on him. Also a drug lord alongside the Senator and Vulcan Simmons, LokSat greedily continues the operations at the expense of societal misery even after the passing of his partners. When his coerced pawn Caleb Brown is persuaded to turn against him, LokSat has an innocent man burned to death to fake Caleb being killed, only sparing him for further use. In a final bid to save himself from the police, LokSat has Richard Castle tortured to try and get him to reveal the names of the others tailing him, intending to murder anyone who would stop him. A monster who thinks himself above the law, LokSat is a greedy criminal who shows himself to be the most threatening force ever faced by the protagonists.
  • "Tick, Tick, Tick...Boom!": Scott Dunn is responsible for the deaths of a string of prostitutes; caused the suicide of a man who he framed; and murdered a businessman to live off his identity. Calling Beckett to mock her each time he commits a murder, Dunn even sneaks a corpse into her apartment. Later sneaking a bomb into Beckett's apartment, Dunn is enraged when she manages to survive, murdering an innocent woman to vent his anger. Taking FBI Special Agent Jordan Shaw hostage when his identity is revealed, Dunn tries to lure the team into a building he plans to then blow up, killing them all.
  • "Kill Switch": Carol Jarvis is the superior of Paul Reeves at the Government Accountability Office (GAO). After learning that Latham Pharmaceuticals produced 10 million vaccines for a virus, but that there were only 1,000 cases of infection—which resulted in many vaccines ending up on the shelves—Carol decided to cause a epidemic so she could earn money. To this end, Carol had a sample of the virus stolen and put into the inhaler of Jared Stone, a hacker whose girlfriend and fellow hacker Erin Wilson had been prosecuted by Carol's husband. Carol then tricked Jared into believing that she wanted to help him free Erin. When Paul Reeves started to investigate the case, Carol sends an assassin to kill Paul. Further manipulating Jared, Carol told him—unaware about the virus in his body—to put on a suicide bomber vest and then attack a event with over 1,000 people to take them hostage, and take up time so the virus could spread.
  • "Hollander's Woods": The masked Serial Killer, Dr. Van Holtzman has spent over 30 years abducting young women, cruelly carving their faces before slitting their throats. Almost murdering an eleven-year-old Castle for seeing him disposing of a body, Holtzman only lets him live to avoid drawing attention to his crimes. When Castle and Beckett investigate his crimes years later, Holtzman tries to frame one of his mentally ill medical patients for his own murders. Confronting Castle in the barnhouse where he killed his victims, Holtzman expresses nothing but pride in his crimes, intending to kill Castle and Beckett painfully before resuming his spree of murders.
• Channel Zero Season 1:
  • Frances Booth at first seems to be a kind school teacher, but reveals herself to be, as she put it, "as sharp as a razor blade". Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life, she found one when the creator of Candle Cove cured her epilepsy with psychic powers. Developing a fanatic devotion for said Creator, Booth's willing to do anything to assist. She covered the serial murders of four children and gave them permission to kill her own son Jacob. After the Creator's death, Booth makes a new body by collecting human teeth. Twenty-eight years after the Iron Hill murders, Booth brainwashes her students into killing people through Candle Cove. She personally kills her former student Daphne Bells and sheriff's deputy Simon Grove by slashing their throats with a pirate hook and sends the children to stab to death Tim Hazel and Jessica Yolen. Upon being caught, Booth sends the children after Sheriff Amy Welsh and Gary Yolen and later attempts to murder Marla Painter for no reason.
  • The Creator of Candle Cove, Eddie Painter, as a child, made the puppet show to brainwash children and killed them to grow stronger. In 1988, the Creator compelled four kids into killing themselves after forcing them to remove their teeth, then trapped their souls in the realm of Candle Cove. Growing jealous of Jessica spending time with his brother Mike, the Creator ordered him to "take her to Candle Cove". When he refused, he threatened to kill him with his pirate hook. Thinking Eddie was acting under mind control, Mike had to kill his twin brother in order to stop the murders. Twenty-eight years later, the Creator forces child psychologist Mike Painter to return by compelling him to carve a message on his arm. They broadcast Candle Cove again to brainwash children, abduct a girl to take her teeth, compel the same girl to stab her brother and with the assistance of Mrs. Booth mind-control children to commit murders. It is then revealed that Eddie plans to take over Mike's body and trap his soul forever in Candle Cove with the company of the Skin-Taker. In order to gain his compliance, the Creator abducts Mike's daughter Lily and torments her in in his realm of Candle Cove. Even after Mike succeeds in ruining his plan of return, Eddie still tries to brainwash Lily.
• Chapelwaite: Jakub Boone is the leader of the Promised, a cult dedicated to the Worm. Seeking to force his distant relation, Charles, to bring him the book Die Vermiis Mysteries, Jakub has the Promised eternally bound to him with any seeking to flee in Jerusalem's Lot killed. Jakub has his followers kill multitudes of innocents, having Charles's young daughter Loa turned into a vampire, and attempts to have the town of Preacher's Corner slaughtered to gain his book. Attempting to summon the Worm, Jakub plans to end the world and create a utopia where vampires feast upon humans at will.
• Charlie's Angels (2011)'s "Angel with a Broken Wing": Nestor Rodrigo, aka Pajaro, is a tycoon who gained his fortune through decades of Sex Slave trading. In flashbacks, it's revealed that he lead a death squad assault on the orphanage that future Angels Eve French and Gloria Martinez were at as little girls, to abduct all the girls and have the boys and nuns shot dead. The episode opens with Gloria, along with Angels Kate Prince and Abby Sampson, rescuing a 16-year-old runaway whom Pajaro had had abducted to be sold. After that, he has Gloria killed with a car bomb both out of spite and when she finds out who he is; he tried to kill Kate, Eve and Abby by having Eve's boat shot up. When his assistant, who keeps track of all his business transactions, is abducted by the Angels and John Bosley, he tasers, beats and chokes Eve to find out where she is, and when that fails, he orders her to be shot. Later, when trying to escape, Pajaro tries to shoot at Eve and Abby in a car. Standing out as horrible in a show that didn't last long, Pajaro is undoubtedly rotten to the core.
• Cheo Yong:
  • "Ghost-Seeing Detective" two-parter: The Man in Black is a cruel head of a Human Trafficking ring that specializes in the organ trade. Having countless innocents abducted via a taxi cab, he has their organs harvested by a doctor he blackmails at a local hospital. When a young woman discovers the truth, the Man in Black murders her by snapping her neck, and then when an order comes in for her eyes, he decides to use her young son instead, before trying to harvest the organs of a detective who gets too close. Sentencing countless innocents to be murdered for his trade, the Man in Black sets the stage for some of the worst Cheo-yong has to face.
  • "Man Abandoned by God" part 2: Reverend Moon Doo-hyun is the head of a religious congregation who is secretly a corrupt monster. Extorting, terrorizing and manipulating his followers, Moon also rapes some of the female congregation, including the fiancee of a young man named Han-tae, escaping justice due to few being willing to accuse him. Deciding to cover his tracks, Moon has Han-tae murdered, and later kills his pregnant fiancee as well, which is the start of Han-tae becoming a murderous ghost. As a monstrous sexual predator, Moon stands as an example of the evil hiding under a veneer of righteousness.
  • "Venus" two-parter: Lee Cheol-gyu is a veterinarian obsessed with perfection. Seeking to create the perfect woman, he begins kidnapping beautiful women, murdering them and draining them of blood before dissecting their bodies to create the perfect female replica, using an assortment of body parts to create a preserved mannequin. Murdering multiple women and kidnapping a new victim, Cheol-gyu also murders a courier who gets too close to the truth before being forced to flee by Cheo-yong. Opting to hunt down his latest victim's twin sister instead, Cheol-gyu intends on using her head to crown his "perfect" masterpiece.
  • "Weathercock": Chairman Yang Eu-mok is the director of a major pharmaceuticals company who, along with the group's regional director, uses orphans as test subjects for volatile chemicals throughout Korea, Somalia and Russia. After experimenting on the children, they routinely have the children murdered, in one instance trapping them in the orphanage and burning it down. In the present, they attempt to eliminate a new batch of kids and have their orphanage director murdered, being some of the few villains to drive the normally relaxed Cheo-yong to sheer explosive fury.
  • "Memories of Murder": Chong Nam-ho murders women by snapping their necks after throttling them. Going on a spree of murders in the late 1990s, he targeted and murdered a kindly nursing home assistant who had been caring for the lead detective's aged mother, prompting said detective to abduct and murder Nam-ho. Returning by later possessing a hapless camper, Nam-ho resumes his activities, claiming new victims and carving a number into the roof of their mouths, ending up going for nearly twenty victims before he is caught, planning to continue his spree as long as he can now that he is a ghost who answers to nobody.
• Chiefs: Foxy Funderburke is a monstrous Serial Killer whose evil taints the town of Delano for decades. Foxy prowls the highways looking for vagrants and traveling teenage boys, who he lures into his car before driving them out to his isolated farm. Once his victims are in his clutches, Foxy indulges in his fetish for power and authority by dressing up as a police officer, then sexually assaulting and torturing the boys until he kills them. Foxy kills well over 40 teenagers over the years, always escaping exposure by the narrowest of margins through either dumb luck, or by murdering those who might know the truth—specifically targeting 3 separate police chiefs in Delano for trying to investigate him.
• Chou Sei Shin Series:
  • Chou Sei Shin Gransazer: Belzeus is the true mastermind behind Warp Monarch's invasion of Earth, smearing humans as descendants of the Bosquito in order to justify a cleansing of the planet so he can take it over and use it as a foothold to become a Galactic Conqueror. To further incentivize Warp Monarch to attack, Belzeus tricks his subordinate Luka into using her life force to bring back the Bosquito so it will overrun Earth. Eyeing Ran as a threat to his plans, Belzeus has his minion Brighton pose as a peace ambassador and say Ran is a descendant of the Bosquito, lying that the Warp Monarch will cease their invasion if she is killed. After having one of his minions suicide bomb Ruby before she could reveal the truth, Belzeus arrives on Earth personally to murder Ran and prevent any chance of the truth coming out before the Warp Monarch's fleet wipes out humanity.
  • Genseishin Justiriser has this sibling duo:
    • Kaiser Hades is an intergalactic warlord bent on conquering the universe and crushing the two planets that stand in his way, Earth and Riser. After destroying Riser, Hades wipes the memories of its hero Rigel to turn him into his loyal minion. Defeated and imprisoned on Earth by the Riser heroine Nolun, Hades resumes his conquest once he's unsealed in the present day, during which he subjects entire cities to repeated kaiju onslaughts and kills his own minions to inspire fear in his other subordinates. For his final plan, Hades attempts to destroy the Earth using the Magneshieldar, a weapon which first emits a powerful shockwave to raze everything on a planet's surface before drilling to the planet's core and causing it to implode on itself, to ensure the world is rendered completely lifeless. After capturing Mio, Hades traps her inside the Majin Statue and tries to trick her Love Interest Shinya into killing her.
    • Majin Daruga, later known as Dark Demon God Kurogane, is the older brother of Kaiser Hades and leader of the Daruga Imperial Army, as well as the one truly responsible for Planet Riser's destruction. Invading and destroying planets across cosmos, Daruga turns his army to Earth after taking an interest in the Justirisers' power. After stealing Shiro Jinno's Riser Power, the newly empowered Kurogane sends hordes of Bulgarios to lay waste to Tokyo and destroy everything in sight, in order to distract the Justirisers while he charges his Gigatron Cannon to destroy the planet. When the Gigatron Cannon is blown up, Kurogane assumes his gigantic true form and goes on a rampage, intent on ravaging Earth so he can rebuild it into the seat of his new empire.
  • Chousei Kantai Sazer-X: King Neo Descal is the ruler of Neo Descal and the one behind their galactic conquest, during which he had entire planets bombarded into darkness in the name of making the universe become one. Having sent Garade and Grouza back in time to stop Sazer-X and keep history the same, King Neo Descal marks his own arrival in the past by executing Garade for his failures. He then brainwashes his ancestor Cyclead and uses him to distract Sazer-X from his true plan—to use the Dark Alumer to terraform Earth with darkness and exterminate its inhabitants. He later executes his loyal right-hand woman Barreda for simply being of no more use to him before merging with Dark Geran to personally ensure Earth's devastation. Although he claims to want to bring peace, it's pointed out that all his plan will really do is dominate everyone with his own ego.
• Chucky: Charles Lee Ray, as a boy, killed his own mother to impress an active Serial Killer. Returning to Hackensack, Chucky falsely befriends Jake Wheeler and tries to corrupt him into murdering Lexi Cross, ultimately taking the matter into his own hands at the cost of inadvertently starting a house fire with several partygoers inside. Chucky murders Junior's mother and successfully perfects his Voodoo spell when he drove Junior to kill his father. He reveals his plan to massacre an audience at a charity event before distributing 72 possessed Good Guy Dolls nationwide with more bloodshed in mind, all to immortalize his depraved legacy as the worst serial killer in US history.
• City Homicide:
  • "In the Hands of Giants" two-parter: Dr. Sean McCready is a psychiatrist who kills over a dozen children by starting fires, each time making them look like electrical accidents. His motive each time is to punish his adulterous female patients, five of which later killed themselves, something he probably caused through his sessions with them. The one point of sympathy he gets is that his own children were killed in a fire when his wife was away with her own lover, but then it turns out that he started that fire as well. He dies at the end of the episode when he unsuccessfully attempts to pull one of his victims into the fire, after the other two had escaped.
  • "Family Planning": Frances Deerborne murders her husband John's rich family, from his parents down to his younger sister, his kid brother, and the housekeeper, to ensure that he receives his inheritance. She also hired a man to rob them first, pretending to be in love with him, and killed him afterward. It is suggested that she intends to kill John later and Make It Look Like an Accident.
  • "Flight Risk": Daniel Worthington is a misogynistic Serial Rapist who specifically targets strong women who he can't dominate in any other way. Worse, he drugs his wife and daughter during a movie night so that he can leave to commit his rapes, while ensuring that they'll provide an alibi for him. The only reason he fails to get away with it is because Claudia baits him during her interrogation of him, and he forgoes his overseas trip to target her.
• City of Men: Nefasto, a recurring enemy of Acerola and Laranjinha in the show before becoming the Big Bad of The Movie, proves that not all gangsters of Rio's slums are deserving of sympathy. Starting out as a particularly cruel enforcer for Madrugadão's gang, Nefasto—feeling that his boss constantly disrespected him—starts a bloody Mob War and leads an invasion of Sinuca's Hill to take power for himself, killing Madrugadão's innocent uncle out of spite. So bad is Nefasto's reputation that friends and families of Madrugadão's loyalists quickly escape the favela to avoid his petty wrath.
• The Consultant (2023): Regus Patoff is a supposed consultant who wanders the world finding companies on the brink of collapse, tricking the CEOs into signing their rights over to Patoff, and then murdering them to take over their business. Having previously done this to a Russian artificial limbs company—during which time he supernaturally increased the number of amputations country-wide—Patoff takes over CompWare after raping its CEO Sang and using a radicalized child to shoot him dead. Immediately firing dozens of employees for everything from their smell to being handicapped, Patoff ruins the life and engagement of Craig for disobeying orders, and slowly corrupts Elaine into a ruthless successor. In his grand scheme for CompWare, Patoff creates a mobile game that drives its users to self-harm on a massive scale, drawing in millions of downloads from the sheer horror of it, and he departs CompWare to continue his pattern on another hapless company.
• The Continental: Cormac O'Connor, the original ruler of the New York Continental, is a tyrant who corrupts young runaways and flaunts the rules of the underworld. Having taken in Winston Scott and his brother Frankie, Cormac once had them burn down a building heedless of the innocent family within. Having Frankie killed when he rebels, Cormac threatens a guard to leap to his death from a balcony lest Cormac murder his entire family and even beats a cellist to death when the man wishes to get a job elsewhere. Cormac tries to destroy the entire Continental and all in it to escape before trying to kill Winston himself.
• Copper pulls no punches in showing the gritty, brutal days of Civil War era New York and this is reflected in some of the city's most vile residents.
  • Season 2: Corrupt Politician and Corrupt Corporate Executive all in one, Brendan Donovan is the Tammany Hall Ward Boss for the Five Points who plans to create an aqueduct in New York. Cultivating a veneer of respectability, Donovan uses extortion and bribery to steal the lands of others, resorting to outright torture and murder if they refuse. We discover a variety of nasty and brutal beatings, tortures and murders Donovan is responsible for before we learn his plan: to level the Five Points heedless of the fate of its inhabitants, solely so he can profit from his new aqueduct.
  • "Surviving Death" & "Husbands and Fathers": Winfred "Winnie" Haverford, a pedophile and murderer, kills a 10-year-old girl in the pilot and rapes her corpse, an act that disgusts even the hardened Anti-Hero Kevin Corcoran. Winnie tries to track down the girl's sister, the witness to his crime, with intent of raping and murdering her to. He also visits a brothel to indulge his tastes in little girls. When his own wife discovers what he's done, she happily sells him out to Corcoran.
  • "I Defy Thee to Forget" & "A Morning Song": The Faux Affably Evil counterfeiter Philomen Keating, a ruthless gangster who despises centralized government, takes over a crowded police station full of cops and civilians. He proceeds to torture them physically and psychologically while having fun the entire time. Keating enjoys stripping them of humanity by injuring the police captain and saying anyone can save him, but they'll be injured in turn. When nobody steps up, he cheerfully mocks them on what they really are. He kills more innocent people, and at one point has a captive tenor sing a funeral dirge before slitting his throat in the middle of it just to see what it sounds like. When cornered by the police, Keating takes a little girl hostage with clear intent to kill her whether or not he's granted safe passage out.
• Coroner:
  • "LJND": Fred Wozniak, aka "LJND", is the hidden antagonist responsible all the suspicious "suicides" throughout Season 4. Formerly a low-level pretty criminal, everything changed upon Fred discovering Tim Whitman and his growing support group for people who suffered near-death experiences. Seeing an opportunity, Fred murdered Tim and stole his identity, using his skills to build Surmount into a major organisation that he ran secretly ran akin to a cult. Not content with all the legitimate money he was making, Fred themed the Surmounts philosophy around persuading his indoctrinated followers to recreate their near-death experience, convincing them it was the only way to overcome their trauma, ensuring this time they actually died so he could pocket their money. His actions resulted in 7 deaths, with methods ranging from poison to exsanguination. Upon Blake Zaler refusing to comply, Fred simply strangled him and framed his death as another suicide. Foiled in his attempt to drown Cassidy James by her ex-husband Detective McAvoy, Fred attempted to make Cassidy stab him to death.
  • "The Suburbs" & "Bridges": Gerald Henry Jones was a wealthy Bay Street banker who moonlighted as a serial killer that preyed upon the homeless. Growing up homeless, Jones hated his father for failing to provide for his family, seeing him as a deadbeat. At fifteen, Jones murdered his father, stabbing him to death with a chisel, then changed his name and enrolled in high school. For the next 23 years, Jones would murder roughly one homeless person a year in the same manner, carving his kill count in Roman numerals into their rib, slaughtering people all over Ontario, including five people in Tent City, Toronto, climaxing with him murdering Floyd Shipman. Imprisoned for Shipman's death, after twelve years Jones was released following Dr. Peterson's cases being reopened. Jones broke into Peterson's home, and stabbed him to death for causing his imprisonment, making Peterson his 24th victim. Stalking the investigation into him, when Jenny finding his father’s body, Jones murdered Scully, a forensic investigator, stealing his suit to break into the Coroner's office and waited until everyone else had left before trying to kill Jenny.
  • "Scattered" & "Quick or Dead": Dylan Lee and Randal "Storm" Jefferies are a pair of psychopaths unified by an obsession with death. Dylan is an intelligent, handsome, falsely charming sociopath who strangled his own mother Olivia, then trapped her still half-alive in a freezer to slowly freeze to death. Storm, meanwhile, is his creepy, quiet accomplice, possessing an unhealthy fascination with pain and strength. When a computer expert was unable to regain his novel The God Abyss, detailing his rampage fantasies, Dylan murdered him. The same night, upon being caught stealing computer equipment, Storm shot Professor Gideon through the head, then he and Dylan dismembered his body and dumped it in the woods. Realizing the police were on to them, Dylan and Storm decided to fully embrace their fantasies and become spree killers. Going on a rampage with machetes that started with them murdering Storm's parents, they proceeded to kill an electrician for being in their way, nearly killed Ross Cooper in an attempt to regain the manuscript and then a mechanic, all the while Dylan secretly planned to kill Storm and Dylan' girlfriend Amanda, to climax his fantasy with himself as the only survivor.
  • "Safe Space": Evan Bosch, a successful dance coordinator for the Toronto Ballet Consortium, is behind closed doors a vicious Control Freak, who subjects girls as young as 14 to brutal training regimes that push them to the brink. Evan only cares about moulding his students into the living embodiments of his ideas, and even worse, is a manipulative sexual predator who regularly grooms his students, taking advantage of their naivety to rape them multiple times. Even when caught by two of his former victims, after attempting to force them to give him a false alibi for raping his latest victim, Evan refuses to accept any blame for his crimes, cruelly mocking their suffering and taking satisfaction in depriving them of closure.
• Cowboy Bebop (2021):
  • Caliban is the de facto head of the three Elders, and the source of the solar system's current suffering at the hands of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. Running the Syndicate with bloody efficiency that results in daily assassinations and massive drug trafficking of the dangerous Red Eye, Caliban also implemented the brutal "Pits", a brutal underground fighting ring where homeless and orphaned children are made to fight each other—sometimes lethally—in exchange for shelter and food. A horrid excuse of a father and husband to his family, Caliban subjected his wife and son to such terrible abuse that his wife killed herself at Caliban's goading, an act Caliban made his son Vicious watch. Caliban then raised Vicious into a homicidal, raging sociopath that kills dozens to secure Syndicate reign, and when Vicious finally tries to stand up to his father, Caliban tries to kill Vicious and the man's lover Julia for crossing him.
  • "Session 6: Binary Two-Step": The AI Cy-Baba killed and absorbed the minds of 3,000 people in a jealous rage at humans for having bodies. Resurfacing as "Dr. Londes", when Spike Spiegel investigates its cult, Londes forces him to see repeated simulations of his lover turning to despise Spike before dying, hoping to break Spike's will and absorb his consciousness as its latest victim.
• Cracked (2013)'s "Ghost Dance": Reginald "Reg" Slater is a racist trucker who kills First Nations women, slowly bleeding his victims to death before dumping their bodies along the highway. Murdering Ellen Owens at the start of the episode, Reg returns to her sister Kaya Grey's truck stop to sexually harass Kaya, and ensure that she is maintaining his collection of photograph decorated mugs; unknown to Kaya, each photo depicts one of his victims. Snapping a photo of Kaya—and thus announcing his intent to kill her at a later date—Reg subsequently runs Lucy Mack and her children off the road, kidnapping Lucy and murdering her the same way he did Ellen. Linked to ten murders, and planning far more, Reg's killing spree is finally halted when Kaya Grey and Lazarus Keefe take the law into their own hands and put him out of action.
• Creeped Out's "Cat Food": The Koekoeken is a sadistic humanoid parasite that has prolonged its life for thousands of years by "winning" the bodies of children and teenagers—it makes them play a game for ownership of their bodies—before looking for more once they grow too old for its liking. Wanting a new host, the Koekoeken tries to steal the body of its young neighbor, Stu, even showing him pictures of the several other victims that it had through the years. Blackmailing Stu into challenging it, the Koekoeken loses to his dirty tactics but switches its attention to his sister out of spite, cheating at its own game to take over her body and mockingly thanking him for the trick.
• Creepshow:
  • "Times is Tough in Musky Holler":
    • Lester M. Barclay is the former mayor of the titular Musky Holler city. After a Zombie Apocalypse plagued the world, Lester came into Musky Holler offering his aid to the townsfolk. As soon as he was elected mayor, he used his power in office to overthrow and kill his predecessor, along with anyone else who challenged him. During his time as mayor, Lester had his followers spread propaganda about his laws, sanctioned his police force to rape and murder as they pleased, and imprisoned anyone who spoke out against him. Lester also created a sadistic, publicized game called "Live Pie", where a group of civilians would slowly be swarmed by zombies headfirst with no way of defending themselves.
    • "Sheriff" Deke is the chief supporter of Lester's horrific regime. Allowing his police to brutalize and torture the populace at will, Deke gleefully fed Lester's enemies to zombies and assisted in the purges to bring Lester to power. To take his position as Sheriff, Deke viciously beat the honest sheriff to death with his pistol, forcing the man's son to watch and also raping the man's young daughter.
  • "A Dead Girl Named Sue": Cliven Ridgeway is the corrupt son of the mayor who uses his position to abuse and brutalize the townspeople. Cliven is known to have gotten away with anything, including murder, arson, and rape while he gleefully taunts others with how untouchable he is. Ultimately too much for the moral Sheriff Foster is the reveal that Cliven had kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered a little girl named Sue.
• Criminal: Spain's "Carmen": Carmen's unnamed father is a vile excuse of a neglectful parent who subjects Carmen and her younger autistic sister to beatings if Carmen doesn't do what he wants. Carmen's father was also raping her, resulting in Carmen killing her younger sister upon learning her father's desires to rape the latter.
• Crossing Lines' "Desperation & Desperados": Gian Carlo, chief of security for Mafia boss Nicolo Conti, is assigned to rescue Conti's kidnapped daughter, Angela, after brothers Antonio and Paulo raid Conti's drug stash and capture her. After executing the warehouse guard, Gian Carlo tracks the brothers to a marketplace and opens fire; when Paulo and Antonio manage to make their escape, Gian Carlo instructs his men to kill the witnesses, slaughtering twenty-five people—including two children—in an effort to keep it quiet. He follows the brothers to Slovenia and kills another nine people at a gas station, before cornering them at a hospital where he murders Paulo, two hospital workers and two police officers who try to stop him. He subsequently runs Angela and Antonio off the road, fatally wounding Antonio in the process, shoots one of his men when he objects to the idea of hurting Angela, tries to kill Angela herself while ranting about how she doesn't appreciate what he's done for her, and then dies in a shootout with the police. Leaving a trail of human wreckage—including forty-two dead—throughout Italy and Slovenia, Gian Carlo did more damage in an afternoon than most gangsters do in their entire lives.
• Cursed: Father Carden is the leader of the Red Paladins, hoping to make a name for himself with the Pope by bringing the church into power in Camelot and wiping out the fey people. Carden is introduced having a fey boy taken to be killed, having wiped out twelve fey villages, including heroine Nimue's, which left few survivors. Carden has also taken and weaponized a young fey, Lancelot, into being the Paladins' top warrior for his ability to track other fey. Carden seeks out Nimue and the Sword of Power, having those who get in his way killed; notably, he has Nimue's friend Gawain tortured for information upon capture, and orders the torture of Nimue's child friend Squirrel when the latter tries to rescue Gawain, who dies of his injuries. Carden tries to play both sides of King Uther and Cumber's war, eventually siding with Cumber when Uther grants favour with the fey. As per their deal, Cumber's army is sent to massacre the fey refugees fleeing the kingdom, in return for the Paladins attacking Uther's camp, with Carden leading the latter attack. Carden then tries to personally execute Nimue when she's captured and brought before him.
• Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story's "God of Forgiveness, God of Vengeance": John Wayne Gacy is a sadistic Serial Killer and Serial Rapist. Enjoying feeling like a god to his victims, Gacy brutally beats, rapes, and kills one young man, doing the same to dozens more.
• Dalziel and Pascoe:
  • "The Wood Beyond": Captain Herbert Batty is a callous, smug Medical Corp officer focused only on his desire to create a new drug for the prestige it will bring him. Using World War I as a cover, Batty experimented on the wounded soldiers under his care, attempting to find the exact dosages needed to make anti-bacteria solutions out of lethal arsenic compounds, causing at least 23 deaths. Following Robert Pascoe stumbling onto his activities, Batty used his connections to have himself posted back in Yorkshire where he took over Wormwood House, his former family estate turned military hospital. Carrying on his experiments, Batty caused untold numbers of men to die in agony, passing off their deaths as result of infection and burying the surplus bodies in the woods. Murdering Robert Pascoe, Batty, just to twist the knife further, then framed him for desertion so to disgrace his family.
  • "Under Dark Stars": Michael Wheeler is a vicious, arrogant predator of vulnerable teenagers. Kidnapping 13-year-old Perdy, he horrifically abused her until she was brainwashed into believing his twisted ideology. Then, over four years, Wheeler used Perdy to help him abduct four boys whom he dismissed as "worthless scum". Imprisoning the children, Wheeler would put them through the same brutal abuses and punishments in an attempt to also recruit them. However, as they all kept resisting him, he simply ended up killing them, his latest victim being 14-year-old Jaimie Croft. Following his trial collapsing, Wheeler took to harassing Jaimie's parents with the secrets he'd tortured out of Jaimie and blaming them for their son's death, the strain of which drove Bridget Croft to kill herself. Focusing his attention on Dean Bennett, the one victim to escape him, Wheeler kidnapped Dean, determined to make him his latest victim.
• Dangerous Moms (Señoras del (h)AMPA): Carmona, the first season's Big Bad, is a crime boss who is introduced by cutting off one of her subordinate's ears to punish him for a failure that wasn't even his fault. After the mother protagonists unwittingly cause her to lose 50,000 euros, she kidnaps and tortures one of them until the rest of the group brings her the money, while in truth not planning to release her. When she learns that her gang had released her behind her back she decides to send a message by asking her mutilated subordinate to murder another group member's child, then tries to kill him when he refuses. Positively giddy at the thought of her mooks brutally massacring her enemies at their kids' first communion celebration, she fatally poisons one of them after learning that they had messed up by going to the wrong banquet hall. Ultimately deciding to forcibly make the protagonists into her new subordinates, she threatens to kill their families if they refuse, her last act before her defeat being to try to kill all of their children. Ruthless, vicious and bloodthirsty almost to the point of being outright addicted to killing, Carmona significantly darkens the tone of this Black Comedy whenever she appears.
• Daybreak (2019): Baron Triumph, actually Principal Burr, is introduced as a cannibalistic warlord roaming the post-apocalyptic lands, capturing teenagers to serve as slave labor under the threat of death, and keeping the rest as cattle for him. Before the apocalypse, Burr manipulated Ms. Crumble in her moments of emotional weakness to have sex with him. In the season finale, after he takes over the jocks through a coup, Burr claims to be helping them to go back to "normalcy" only to show his true colors when he turns all the Jocks into his new food supply. His true vileness is shown in the last episode when he reveals his ultimate plan: to detonate an inactive nuke to destroy all that's left of Glendale and start anew in a world fit to his image. When he's finally defeated for good, it's revealed that he never cared for any of the kids at the school even before the apocalypse, doing everything for entirely selfish reasons. With any of his supposed good qualities being all an act with ulterior intentions, Triumph proved himself to be an irredeemable monster from beginning to end, willing to do anything to get his way.
• The Day of the Triffids (2009): The man who takes the name "Torrence" is one of the few still with sight in the world after most of humanity is blinded. Stealing life preservers on a plane crash, even from children, to cushion his fall, Torrence takes over England as Prime Minister with a bloody coup and enacts a harsh regime to cling to power, causing bloody battles and murdering anyone in his way to stay on top. When encountering the heroes and their adopted children, Torrence abandons his men to die and tries to murder them for spite, even threatening to feed the little girls to the Triffids before trying to kill the hero Ben for pure spite.
• DCI Banks:
  • "Aftermath": Marcus Payne appears to be a kind, polite man Happily Married to his wife Lucy, but is in fact a vicious murderer who rapes and tortures teenage girls. Meeting his wife Lucy in a club, Payne sensed she had been abused as a child and formed a relationship with her to make her solely dependent on him, all while beating her for the slightest infraction and raping her whenever he could. Using Lucy to offer underage girls a lift late at night, Payne took four captive, whereupon he raped and tortured them for days; throttled them to death when he was finished; and killed a fifth in the car when she tried to resist. Having a domestic argument with Lucy, Payne attempted to kill her outright by bludgeoning her over the head and, after the police were called to investigate, killed an investigating officer by slashing his throat with a machete and then tried to kill his partner as well.
  • "What Will Survive": Maureen and Jason McCready are a twisted mother-son duo who run a human slavery ring. Preying on vulnerable immigrants who have overstayed their visa, the two provide them with jobs in their businesses before kidnapping them and keeping them captive on their farm. They are then made to work in concentration camp like conditions, beaten frequently and starved, with at least one man dying due to the treatment. After a woman called Katrin Vesik realized the duo had her sister and confronted them alongside her autistic friend Robbie, Jason gave chase and, when Robbie knocked her unconscious by accident, convinced Robbie that he had in fact killed her and let him go solely to frame him for the crime. Jason then horrifically buried Katrin alive with Maureen's full approval. Taken into custody after DCI Banks and his team investigated and exposed their operation, Maureen abandoned Jason solely to save herself.
• Dead of Summer:
  • Amy Hughes, a counselor at Camp Stillwater, is actually a remorseless psychopath. As a child, Amy murdered her parents and brother by purposefully closing a fireplace flue, allowing the carbon monoxide to suffocate them to death. Becoming enamored by Malphas, Amy manipulated her friend Margot Tate into accompanying her to a party, and personally dropped the latter to her death in order to acquire her position. With Amy's goal being to resurrect Malphas by becoming his vessel, she conspired against the counselors, killing them in gruesome fashions and used their corpses to create a pentagram. Allowing Malphas to re-enter into them after he was exorcised, Amy hacked the owner of the camp, Deb Carpenter, and Margot's friend to death when she was trying to warn the former. Realizing she couldn't leave the camp due to Holyoke implanting a fragment of his soul into Jessie Tyler, Amy reanimated the corpses of the slain counselors and sent them to kill her. In their rampage, Amy also killed a few police officers that were called to investigate, and mimicked one of their voices as a ploy to lure Jessie out from hiding. Despite a tragic backstory, Amy Hughes proves to be a manipulative sadist who successfully hid her sinister designs with a smile.
  • Malphas himself is the demonic instigator behind the dark history of Camp Stillwater. Imprisoned in the lake by Holyoke and his congregation, Malphas elects Amy Hughes as its perfect vessel because of her monstrousness. Driving its followers to slit their throats en masse as part of the ritual, Malphas sadistically taunts the remaining camp counselors before repossessing Amy and assisting her in her attempts to kill Jessie in order to escape the camp.
• Deadly Class: Chester "Fuckface" Wilson is an aspiring Serial Killer. After he murdered his father, he was sent to Sunset Boy's Home, where he often tormented Marcus Lopez Arguello. After Marcus detonated a bomb that disfigured his face, Wilson used the ensuing confusion to murder the residents and staff of Sunset Boy's Home. When Marcus is painted as the most likely suspect, Chester vows to hunt him down as vengeance for stealing his attention. He sets up base in Shabnam's house, where he holds Shabnam's parents and Dwight as slaves for him and his family to torture, as well as a few dogs for him to have sex with. When he begins his killing spree proper, he videotapes a random person he killed, and then kills a woman who witnessed what he did. He follows Marcus and the gang to Las Vegas and takes Chico's severed head to use as leverage to lure Marcus out.
• Deadwood:
  • George Hearst is presented as as Corrupt Corporate Executive who slaughtered the Cornish workers in his employ for unionizing; cut off Albert "Al" Swearengen's finger as a show of power; and attempted to have Captain Turner kill Dan Dority in a public street fight that is long and drawn out, both to emotionally torture Al and demonstrate that Hearst holds all the power in town. Hearst also hires an army of Pinkertons to terrorize the town, and sends Odell Marchbanks on a dangerous quest to find gold which ends up getting him killed. Hearst has the head Pinkerton Barrett savagely beat Merrick in response to posting a notice about the poor working conditions of Hearst's employ. Hearst then orders the death of heroic prospector Whitney Ellsworth to force Ellsworth's wife to sell the land Hearst wants to him. To demonstrate his power, Hearst also forces Al to murder his favorite prostitute for trying to assassinate Hearst. It's implied he may know Al killed a lookalike girl, but simply doesn't care, more than happy he broke Al completely.
  • Season 2: Mr. Lee is a Chinese Tong boss from San Francisco, allied with George Hearst to profit by spreading opium through Deadwood. Lee's main vocation is prostitution, with Chinese women trafficked into Deadwood to serve as prostitutes in such horrific, painful conditions that even Doc Cochran is left in open-mouthed horror. Lee intends on seizing control of all the Chinese quarter, with the girls forced to work as sex slaves until they die of the terrible treatment.
• Death in Paradise:
  • "Pilot of the Airways": Garfield Tourné, Saint Marie's most beloved television presenter and reporter, despite presenting himself as a charming, humble man of the community, is truthfully a narcissistic philandering sociopath driven only by lust and ego. Tourné regularly sexually harassed and attempted to assault the station's female runners, with him simply firing any who complained, and even attempting to assault his co-host Melanie Sparks. Discovering that Elmina Blondeau had lied about fixing the corrupted water pipes, meaning many residents were drinking contaminated water, Tourné struck a deal to bury the story and support her re-election campaign, in exchange for her authorising his latest vanity project of an entire college wing dedicated in honour of him. Discovering that Melanie was working to expose him, Tourné strangled her to death in her own home and attempted to stage it as a burglary gone wrong.
  • "Serving Up Murder": Stanley Drake, a famous celebrity chef and a successful hotelier, stands out as the least sympathetic victim ever investigated by the Honoré Police Department. Publicly presenting himself as a charming, attentive man who simply wanted to help others with their careers, behind closed doors Drake was really an abusive taskmaster and ruthless sexual predator who used his cooking contest to find young, vulnerable women for him to abuse. Thirty years previously, he raped Lucky Claybourne, traumatising her for life. Drake continued to prey upon an unknown number of victims, some as young as 19, up through the present. Looking for more publicity for his latest cooking contest, Drake tracked down Lucky, now herself a famous chef, and raped her again, then used the pictures to blackmail her into participating. The night before the contest, Drake went after his latest victim making it clear he would destroy her if she did not sleep with him.
• Deep State: William Kingsley, the Big Bad of Season 1, is the CEO of Kingsley Merchant Proctor Hall (KMPH) and a senior member of the conspiracy of other corrupt businessmen who are looking to create situations to recreate the fortune they made out of the Afghanistan war. Playing a key role in their plan to destabilize Mali by smuggling weapons to Al Molcar, Kingsley is also the mastermind and driving force behind the plan to start a war between American and Iran. Having infiltrated both the CIA and MI6, Kingsley used his agents to frame the Iranians for developing nuclear weapons, tricking MI6 operatives into assassinating multiple government scientists and launching a drone strike on a wedding to take out a single threat. Engineering the US sending in a covert team of scientist and soldiers into assess the truth of the claims, Kingsley has them massacred by his own men, then framing the Iranian National Guard. To ensure the war will occur, he plans to reroute a US missile to hit straight into Tehran. A ruthless, greedy man, Kingsley regularly casually disposed of his own loyal followers, to the point of killing nearly everyone involved the Tehran conspiracy after being forced to postpone it for a few years.
• Defiance is a world of Grey-and-Gray Morality, where heroes and villains alike have flaws and redeeming qualities in equal measure. The same cannot be said for the third season's two successive Big Bads:
  • General Rahm Tak, formerly of the Votanis Collective, is a brutal military commander also known as "The Beast". Despising humans, Rahm, after going rogue, sets out to destroy Defiance and slaughter it's human population as part of a genocidal crusade to create a purely Votan world. Slaughtering humans as he goes, Rahm keeps the heads of his victims on display in his camp, wipes out the McCawley family, and forces Datak and Stahma Tarr to act as his spies in Defiance by holding their son hostage. When Rahm's wife offers him clemency on behalf of the VC, Rahm murders her, drags her body through his camp, and sends her head back to his former superiors. Upon reaching Defiance, Rahm has his men slaughter hostages at the NeedWant and go on a killing spree throughout the town while his lieutenant infiltrates Defiance's militia to destroy it from within. Beneath a gregarious facade, sense of humor, and fondness for human culture, Rahm is a deranged madman, feared and despised by those who know him and who manages to darken an already grim series.
  • Eksu Tsuroz Kindzi is a particular vicious and sadistic Omec. Starting as a subordinate to her father T'evgin, Kindzi's first appearance has her try to eat an unconscious Nolan, and she later murders a curious child who poked her with a stick by stabbing the stick through his eye. After T'evgin takes in a wounded Stahma, Kindzi terrorizes her, even revealing the Omec's plans in the hope of forcing T'evgin to kill her. After cloning Doc Yewll, Kindzi hunts and slaughters the clones, moving on to citizens of Defiance when this grows boring, later using Omec technology to enslave the real Yewll. Disgusted by T'evgin's Heel–Face Turn, Kindzi mutinies against and ultimately murders her father, planning to conquer Earth and use its populace as slaves and food for the Omec. Kindzi then leads her followers in devouring innocent people, and tries to eat Stahma's baby grandson in front of her out of spite toward the Tarr family. Equally brutal to her own people, Kindzi goes on to kill one of her lieutenants for questioning her and forcing other Omec to eat his corpse, a taboo in their culture. Rejecting any notion of peace or compromise and considering all other races as nothing but cattle for the Omec to enslave or devour at will, Kindzi is nothing less than a savage animal, a monster even by the standards of her own people.
• The Deliberate Stranger: Ted Bundy is a seemingly nice, handsome man who is really a manipulative killer. In Seattle, Bundy grabs a woman off the street and kills her. Bundy later goes to the beach, lures a woman to his car, kidnaps another woman at the beach and kills them. Bundy goes to Salt Lake City to pursue a law degree and picks a female hitchhiker and murders her. Bundy also stalks a high school student and kills her. Bundy then goes to a ski lodge in Colorado and ends up kidnapping and killing a random woman. Bundy pretends to be a cop and tries to lure another woman into his car, where he tries to murder her, but she escapes. The police eventually capture Bundy and build a case against him. Bundy escapes from prison and escapes to Florida. There Bundy goes on a killing spree, going to a sorority and attacking four women there, leaving two dead. Bundy also kidnaps and murders a 12-year-old girl, before he is soon recaptured and put on death row.
• Demon Hunter Mitsurugi (Majin Hunter Mitsurugi):
  • Demon Scorpion, an otherworldly being intent on conquering Edo, sends multiple monsters at the capital to slaughter the population, with many casualties, even targeting population centers or trying to murder children. Relying on plagues and other schemes to ramp up the body count, Demon Scorpion eventually decides to summon the ultimate monster to kill as many as possible to place himself in charge of the world.
  • "Messenger of the Devil: The Scorpion Monster!": The Scorpion lieutenant Bachibachi is the worst of the mostly faceless Scorpion mooks. Bachibachi unleashes the Monster of the Week, Kabuton, on entire towns and villages, while kidnapping droves of people to feed it and mercilessly slaughtering everyone in his way. Bachibachi has picked one village so clean of people it has been reduced to a scared smattering of survivors, and gleefully attempts to feed the surviving children to Kabuton. When one old man creates a poison to kill Kabuton, Bachibachi dissolves him alive in it and tries to use it to poison Edo's water supply to kill its entire population. A Bad Boss who runs his own men through and looks the other way when they're poisoned besides, Bachibachi even manages to spitefully kill one final survivor of the desolated village before his own demise.
• Designated Survivor Season 3: Garrett Detwiler and Wouter Momberg are a pharmaceutical CEO and South African biochemist, respectively. Detwiler and Phil Brunton hire Momberg, a war criminal, to synthesize a biotoxin specifically for the purpose of infecting minorities and creating a mass sterilization so that the white demographic will be significantly higher in future elections. Detwiler also has a drug approved for one of his companies that he knows increases dependency so he can also have another sold that stops it. They have Aryans work on the toxin, and a scientist is fatally wounded and then burned alive when infected. In order to test the biotoxin, an OBGYN clinic that takes all minorities is targeted among others. Momberg then murders the Aryans and fatally poisons now CIA Agent Hannah Wells to cover their tracks, gleefully taunting her as she lays dying, and then later murders a scientist who catches onto him. When caught, he releases instructions for creating the toxin online and threatens FBI with the toxin, claiming infection is fatal.
• Desperate Housewives' "Children and Art" through "The Little Things You Do Together": Gloria Hodge is a sociopathic Control Freak hiding behind the appearance of a frail, religious woman. When her husband Edwin was discovered to have had an affair, Gloria murdered him in a staged suicide and pinned the blame on their son Orson. Through emotional blackmail, Gloria forced Orson to marry Alma following a pregnancy scare. When Orson found a lover in Monique Polier, Gloria staged Alma's disappearance to make everyone suspect Orson of having murdered her, she then killed Monique and forced Orson to help her dispose of the body, as well as run Mike over to cover their tracks. After Orson marries Bree, Gloria tricks her and Alma's way into Wisteria Lane, organizing her son's rape at the hands of Alma by drugging him so that the latter can conceive a child. When Orson tells Bree the truth about Monique's death, Gloria resolves to kill her as well, a decision that even Alma refuses to endorse. Gloria then locks Alma in the attic, not caring that she could be pregnant, and tries to kill a drugged Bree in another staged Bath Suicide before finally being stopped.
• Dexter:
  • Season 3: George Washington King, born Jorge Orozco and known as "the Skinner", was known as "the Blade" while in Nicaragua. While in pursuit of a drug dealer who owes him money, he finds anyone who might have information about said drug dealer's whereabouts and questions them while cutting off their skin; one of his victims was an innocent boy. When Dexter confronts the Skinner, he confirms that, despite the reasons the Skinner makes up for performing his grisly crimes, his only real reason is simply because he likes it.
  • Season 5: Jordan Chase, born Eugene Greer, has the front of a handsome motivational speaker but in truth is a depraved Control Freak who directs his friends to capture young women to torture and rape for months on end before disposing of them in barrels full of formaldehyde. All the while, Jordan looks on, occasionally holding his watch to the women's ears and whispering, "Tick tick tick. That's the sound of your life running out," to taunt them. Watching the video footage they took of what they did to the women was enough to make Debra root for the people who were tracking them down and killing them, with Dexter himself admitting that they sicken him. When Dexter and Lumen—the last victim who managed to get away—finally have Jordan at their mercy, he can't resist but get one last taunt out on Lumen about what he did to her, mocking her for being so "pathetic" and "helpless".
  • Season 8: Daniel Vogel, aka the Brain Surgeon, began his murderous career at 14 by drowning his younger brother so his mother would only pay attention to him. Escaping from a mental hospital, Daniel started a fire in the building in which 7 children burned alive. Traveling to Miami and starting a new life under the name Oliver Saxon, he began torturing and killing people, removing the piece of their brain associated with empathy, even murdering several of his own girlfriends and Dexter's young protege. When Dexter set up a trap for him, Daniel responded by killing his own mother and threatening to go after Dexter's family and step-family, later shooting Debra, mutilating a veterinarian and letting him loose as a distraction while he returned to the hospital to finish her off. Ultimately, his wounding Debra led to her suffering a stroke, forcing Dexter to euthanize her and crushing Dexter's spirit, leaving him an Empty Shell.
  • New Blood's "The Family Business": The clown known only as Mr. Wiggles is a particularly depraved child killer. A sadist who uses his job to find victims, Wiggles abducts, tortures, and murders them, with photos taken as trophies. Having killed near a dozen children, Wiggles is killed by Dexter just before he can abduct and murder a new victim.
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency:
  • Season 1: Jake Rainey is the founder of the Men of the Machine cult, using the Soul Exchanger he found to serve as a body-jacking device and, through both direct and indirect means, kicking off the plot of the season with his villainy. Rainey used the Exchanger to steal the bodies of dozens of people for himself over the years, maintaining his youth and killing the victims of his crimes for decades, and would regularly powerful people to Kill and Replace with his own foot soldiers. Subjecting his cult members to soul exchanging with animals for weeks on end to break their will and turn them into his "drones", Rainey also would callously dictate which bodies his servants would switch into and when, uncaring of their consent in the matter. Rainey soon declared war on Zackariah Webb for trying to retrieve the Exchanger, and murdered many of Webb's associates before assassinating the man's wife and threatening his young daughter, uncaring if his own cult died in the process as long as he secured his own power base over all he saw fit.
  • Season 2 has two Evil Sorcerers who ally to cause mayhem:
    • "The Mage" Kellum is an evil conqueror who has recently set his sights on the mystical land of Wendimoor and manipulates a conflict between two powerful families, the Trosts and the Dengdamors, hoping to cause enough bloodshed to weaken both sides such that he can wipe out the survivors with his own armies. To instigate the violence, the Mage sells guns from the real world to the Dengdamors and blames the kidnapping of one of their princes on the Trosts. The Mage also corrupts the mentally unstable Suzie Boreton in the real world into becoming his apprentice, who herself goes on to cause a slew of deaths. Realizing he is destined to be defeated in Wendimoor, the Mage cowardly abandons his conquest, instead choosing to satisfy his sadism by tormenting real world denizens, and tries to force a man to kill himself by driving a car full of explosives into the portal to Wendimoor to guarantee the Mage's safety. A self-centered tyrant, the Mage cared for nothing but sating his sick impulses and securing his own well-being.
    • Suzanne "Suzie" Boreton herself is seemingly a downtrodden working-class mother who reveals her true nature after receiving the Mage's apprentice wand. When called out as being responsible for every bit of misery in her own life, Suzie angrily incinerates the women reprimanding her and joins the Mage at the promise of being made Queen of Wendimoor. When the Mage abandons his own plans for conquest out of fear at losing, Suzie takes matters into her own hands, conducting a massacre in a hospital to murder a man prophesied to defeat the villain in Wendimoor. Taking command over the Mage's armies, Suzie continues his plan to manipulate the land's warring leading families into killing each other before having her men kill the surviving few. Declaring herself the most powerful being in existence, Suzie moves to murder the few who can stop her, proving herself a monstrous megalomaniac just like her mentor.
• Dollhouse:
  • "Ghost": The unnamed, pedophilic kidnapper is a Serial Rapist and killer of little girls. When twelve-year-old Davina Crestejo is abducted by him and his cohorts, the doll, Echo, is implanted with the artificially constructed personality of a hostage negotiator named Eleanor Penn, and sent by the Dollhouse to negotiate Davina's release. The personality of Ms. Penn was constructed partially from the memories of a little girl who was kidnapped as a child herself. When the time comes for the kidnappers to collect the ransom, however, Ms. Penn has a nervous breakdown upon seeing the face of one of the kidnappers and recognizing him as the same man who kidnapped her as a child. She then reveals this kidnapper's modus operandi. Kidnapping little girls, he ransoms them to their parents, then, after the money arrives, murders his partners and keeps the girls as his Sex Slaves, killing them when they grow too old for his tastes. When Echo informs his fellow kidnappers about what their partner's planning for Davina, they are so disgusted that they immediately try to kill him before allowing Echo to leave with Davina.
  • "Stage Fright" & "Man on the Street": Joe Hearn is The Handler for the doll Sierra, and at first seems nothing more than a callous Jerkass who doesn't care when the dolls under his care die. He proves himself to be far more evil, however, when it's revealed that he's been taking advantage of the blind trust dolls are implanted with towards their handlers and, while Sierra is in her neutral child-like state, has repeatedly forced her to have sex with him. His crimes close to being discovered, he tries to convince his superiors that the doll, Victor, is the true perpetrator and argues to have him sent to the Attic. When Hearn himself is revealed to be the culprit, his boss Adelle DeWitt issues him an ultimatum, either be sent to the Attic himself, or rape and murder Paul Ballard's girlfriend Mellie to deter him from investigating the Dollhouse. Hearn chooses the latter, and sets to the task with apparent glee. However, it turns out to be a set-up planned by DeWitt who was so repulsed by Hearn's actions that she had arranged it so Hearn would be killed by Mellie, who is a doll herself.
  • "Needs" & "Belonging": Nolan Kinnard was one of the corrupt corporate executives behind the Dollhouse program, and a psychotic Yandere who formed a disturbing obsession with a young artist named Priya Tsetsang. When his increasingly expensive attempts to seduce her fail, he tries, and fails, to flat-out rape her instead. In retribution for Priya's rejection, he arranges for her to be abducted, imprisoned in his hospital and regularly pumped her full of drugs which stopped her brain from producing adequate amounts of serotonin and dopamine. This caused Priya to suffer from visual and aural hallucinations, making her seem to the outside world like a paranoid schizophrenic. He then convinces the Dollhouse to take Priya on as an "altruistic" charity case, turning her into the doll Sierra, and, once they do, Kinnard frequently hires her out, having her imprinted with a personality that was hopelessly in love with him. He then uses this imprint to rape her over and over again, taking a picture of her after each engagement as a trophy of what he's done to her. When DeWitt and Topher Brink discover the truth behind Priya's transformation into the doll, Sierra, they are horrified and try to keep her away from Kinnard, only for him to use his pull with the Dollhouse to order her permanently imprinted with the love-struck personality to keep as his Sex Slave for the rest of her life. When Sierra is "delivered" to him, however, she reveals that she is imprinted with her original personality, slaps him across the face and tells him how much she hates him. In retribution, Kinnard beats her and comes after her with a knife, only stopping when Priya kills him in self-defense.
• Dopesick: Dr. Richard Sackler is portrayed in this docudrama as an emotionless, clinical sociopath driven by narcissism to "cure the world of its pain" and surpass his uncle Arthur in renown. Richard developed the drug OxyContin through Purdue Pharma and propagated the false claim that it is less addictive than other opioids, as he used bribery, blackmail, and incentives to convince doctors across the country to distribute the drug haphazardly. Though Oxy begins addicting countless people, Richard refuses to halt his production and pushing of the drug on a massive scale, maliciously ignoring or flat-out silencing concerns over the danger. When tens of thousands of people have their lives ruined or ended by Richard's mismanagement of Oxy and law enforcement begins investigating, Richard uses one of his own advisors as a scapegoat and continues to peddle Oxy without a single shred of remorse for his crimes, going so far as to develop an Oxy offshoot specifically meant to be marketed towards children.
• Dragnet:
  • 1967 series' "The Big Explosion": Donald Chapman is a Neo-Nazi who had many run-ins with the law due to his various hate crimes. When Chapman learns a local school is about to be racially integrated, Chapman steals a large supply of dynamite from a construction site. Chapman uses the dynamite to build a bomb and hides in the school, with the bomb wired to the school bells, to ensure it goes off when the children arrive. When detectives Joe Friday and Bill Gannon arrest Chapman, he stalls for time to prevent them from stopping his plan.
  • L.A. Dragnet's "Killing Field": John Wesley Fuller is pulled over by the LAPD one day on a shoplifting charge only to find his vehicle, the name on his ID, and several of his possessions are from missing people. Digging deeper quickly reveals the truth; Fuller is a Serial Killer responsible for torturing, raping, and murdering dozens of people in his homemade Torture Cellar, burying the bodies around his old house. Fuller had his accomplice record over 197 separate tapes of him torturing the eclectic variety of men, women, and children he filled his victim pool with, and one of the videos gleefully shows him promising to murder the child of a woman he's about to rape should she resist him. While his accomplice was twisted into evil by his abusive father, Fuller kills people simply to feel powerful.
• The Dresden Files' "Walls": Caleb is a former thief and killer who possesses the Hand of Glory. Corrupting those who use the Hand, Caleb makes them degrade morally while also rotting them from the inside to empower his spirit. Murdering a young woman who tries to contact Harry Dresden, Caleb later kills another member of the thief group using the Hand, and then one of the last members before trying to corrupt and kill the final one. Manifesting, Caleb reveals his intention to murder Harry and the last boy before going on a theft and murder spree to celebrate his revival.
• Due South: Francis Bolt is a criminal mastermind and precision expert. In "All the Queen's Horses", he has his brother Randal hijack a train carrying some Mounties to a horse show in the US. Under his brother's direction, Randal demands a ransom, but plans to crash the train into another train carrying spent fuel rods, nuking Chicago in the process. After his brother is captured, Francis himself appears in the episode "Red, White or Blue". Francis devises a plan to free his brother, working with his cousins, capturing Benton Fraser and Ray Vecchio in the process. Francis takes over the court his brother was being tried in, kidnaps the judge and jury, rigs them with explosives and uses them as hostages. Francis leaves Fraser and Vecchio in the court strapped to bombs that will explode if their heart rate gets too high. Francis is also using this rescue operation as a cover for a different crime, stealing some bonds that will be used as evidence in a different case. Francis and Randal knock out their cousins, hoping they will die in the explosion, so they would not have to share the bonds with them.
• Dupla Identidade (also known as Merciless): Eduardo Borges, or simply Edu, is a Serial Killer fascinated by the idea that lives don't matter, allowing him to kill everyone he wants without having to feel remorse. Originally an US citizen named Brian, he committed a series of killings in Florida that claimed the lives of four women. Escaping to Rio de Janeiro, Brian adopted a new name and became the right-hand man of a Corrupt Politician to better cover his tracks. Now as Edu, he continued to murder other people both for pleasure and to prove his nihilistic philosophy. His crimes included abducting a girl and sexually torturing her in his home; luring a crime enthusiast to the scene of one of his previous murders and killing her there; hanging a colleague upside down and leaving her body to be found by the police; and pushing a man from the top of a building. Edu's homicidal behavior culminated in a killing spree that ended the lives of three women in one single night: breaking a cat's neck in front of the owner; strangling her to death alongside another woman; and forcing a third woman to play a game of "live or die", smashing her head with a rock when she loses.

E - F

• Early Edition:
  • "Blowing Up Is Hard To Do": The unnamed terrorist duo are the representatives of an anti-governmental militia called the Brotherhood who try and blow up a newscaster with a car bomb when he refuses to read out their manifesto on air. Undeterred by the foiled plot, the terrorist duo up their scheme by attempting to blow up the Chicago Sun Times building and all the innocent people there, with one of them gleefully musing on how tame the 1861 Chicago Fire will seem in comparison to the devastation, being willing to murder anyone who impedes them.
  • "Fatal Edition" two-parter: Detective Savales is a seemingly good cop who is actually deeply corrupt. Savales is actually a hitman who has murdered 6 people in the last 2 years, making the deaths look like accidents so his clients can collect on life insurance policies and give him a cut. Savales uses blackmail to force the police coroner to help cover up these murders. When a reporter investigates this murder-for-hire scheme, Savales murders him and frames Gary Hobson for his crimes. Savales also tries to murder the informant the reporter used to research this story. When Armstrong and Brigatti, two other cops on the force, start to uncover Savales's corrupt dealings, Savales plans to murder them and frame Gary for their deaths.
• The End of the F***ing World: Clive Koch has the dubious honor of being the only irredeemable character in the show. Hiding behind the mask of a polite and charming philosopher, Koch is in truth a vile sociopath who records himself violently raping women and takes pictures of their bodies as morbid trophies, with not even Alyssa being safe from him. The second season revealed even more of his dark and twisted nature, as he had manipulated a mentally-fragile woman named Bonnie into falling in love with him, treating her as a sex object and ignoring her attempts to communicate with him from prison.
• The English: David Melmont was once the ambitious bookkeeper of Englishman Thomas Trafford. Allying with a group of vengeful soldiers, Melmont committed a brutal massacre on the innocent Cheyenne settlement of Chalk River with a helpless Trafford and Pawnee Scout Eli Whipp as the witnesses to his crime. Melmont then traveled to England to deceive Trafford's wealthy fiancée Cornelia Locke with false claims of Trafford being imprisoned and in need of 2,000 pounds to secure his release. Upon Locke realizing the truth, Melmont raped her and fled with the money to America. Unknowingly infected with syphilis by the rape, Locke raised the resulting child until he died of the disease years later. A respected businessman in Colorado, Melmont raped another woman without care of infecting her and their child as well. Upon meeting Locke again, Melmont can only express confusion on how she would care for the child while taking time to mock her relentlessly over her inability to kill him as the last living piece of her son.
• The Equalizer:
  • "The Lock Box": Francis DeGraumont is a smug, emotionless pimp who runs a high end, invitation-only brothel while working for intelligence services to provide blackmail material of diplomats in compromising positions. To do this, DeGraumont is happy to kidnap girls and let them be raped by his clients while secretly recording them. Upon being exposed, his handlers try to have him flee the country, and when a grieving father tracks him down, DeGraumont happily tries to murder him when he's helpless, claiming "self-defense".
  • "Unnatural Causes": The Orchid Killer, real name Goodheart, is a misogynist who targets middle-aged women, considering them parasites. Upon taking advantage of their loneliness, he gains access to their homes and throttles them with a cord, leaving an orchid upon the corpses. Killing several with a larger body count, Goodheart murders a friend of Robert McCall and later attempts to kill another when she poses as a woman seeking a date to entrap him.
  • "A Place to Stay":
    • Mr. Griswald is a street photographer who doubles as a child pornographer. Griswald takes in young runaways off the streets, gets them into modeling for his photography before slowly getting them to strip down, taking a disgusting pleasure in manipulating and grooming them all the while. Most of Griswald's victims end up turning to prostitution on the streets of New York where nothing waits for them but abuse and poverty at best and a cruel death at worst—a prostitute named Judy who befriended one of his latest victims who is later found dead with her skull cracked open was one of Griswald's former young charges. When his latest prey, a 13-year-old girl, discovers what he did to Judy, Griswald throws away any veneer of niceness and advances on her.
    • Peter Marstand is a magazine mogul serving as Griswald's boss. Alongside his legitimate business, Griswald peddles Griswald's child pornography across the criminal underworld, sampling pictures during work and at one point visiting Griswald personally during a photo shoot and impatiently urging him to get to what he considers the good part. A picture of Marstand in bed with one of the children evokes a murderous rage from Robert McCall seldom seen since and a promise that if Marstand should buy his way out, McCall will take care of him personally.
• ER:
  • "Do You See What I See?" through "Carter's Choice": Jack Miller (only appearing in "Carter's Choice") is a young Serial Rapist who preys on elderly women, who he brutally beats before sexually assaulting them, afterward using a marker to brand the victims with the word "WHORE". Jack's first known victim is 67-year-old Mrs. Larkin, with the second being a dementia sufferer named Ann. The third victim dies from her injuries, while the fourth one—who had "WHORE" carved directly into her flesh—nearly dies from wounds sustained from being strangled and thrown down a flight of stairs while trying to fight off Jack. Jack guns down a security guard who had interrupted his attack on the fourth victim, and is finally arrested after being shot during a standoff with the Chicago PD.
  • "Humpty Dumpty" through "The Domino Heart": Dean Rollins initially appears to just be a run-of-the-mill accident victim, but is soon discovered to be a vicious Serial Killer. While being treated for life-threatening injuries, Dean is forced by Doctor Lizzie Corday to reveal the whereabouts of his latest victim, Sandra. Sandra, who was raped and stabbed, dies while being treated at Cook County, with Dean proceeding to mock Lizzie over how his confession being coerced means that it had to be thrown out by the DA. He goes on to demean Lizzie by getting her to say that she cares about him "as a woman" in exchange for agreeing to undergo a lifesaving surgery, and later has her bring him Lindsey, the sister of a victim named Jenny, by falsely promising to reveal the whereabouts of Jenny's remains to Lindsey. He feigns sympathy for Lindsey, and then taunts her by saying, "If only I'd met you... I could've had you instead!" Eventually growing weary of being bedridden and largely powerless as he awaits his trial, Dean tries one final time to exercise control over Lizzie by attempting to coerce her into breaking her Hippocratic Oath by euthanizing him in exchange for information about Jenny.
  • "Where the Heart Is" & "Rampage": Derek Fossen is a temperamental man who once beat his girlfriend, and is now abusing his young son, Ben. After Ben is taken by social services at the behest of Doctor Mark Greene, Derek snaps and goes on a shooting rampage through Chicago in search of his son, while also attacking everyone who he blames for him losing custody of Ben. Derek shoots up a foster care facility full of children, guns a man down for his car, and opens fire on his neighbor and her son before running over a member of the Chicago PD. Derek makes a failed bid to murder Mark's family and shoots five more people before being wounded by a bystander and taken to Cook County, where he is allowed to die from his injuries by an enraged Mark.
• The Escape Artist: Liam Foyle, on trial for murdering a young woman and savaging her corpse, initially seems aloof—admitting he's "not a very nice person"—but soon shows himself to be much worse. After defense barrister William Burton gets him Off on a Technicality and refuses to shake Foyle's hand, the latter begins stalking Will's wife Kate, files fraudulent complaints to hamper his career, then murders Kate. Later, once Maggie Gardner also gets him off on a technicality, he begins stalking her and leaving her disturbing gifts by breaking into her flat, rendering her a gibbering wreck. When finally confronted for his actions, Foyle has little excuse for his extreme pettiness beyond the fact that he is the way he is, and claiming that society should somehow accept him as some sort of lion amongst the sheep.
• La Esclava Blanca (The White Slave):
  • Nicolás Parreño is a living embodiment of everything wrong with slavery. After losing a cargo of slaves, Nicolás engineers the deaths of Don Domingo Quintero and his wife in a fire before framing their slaves in order to kill any talk of reform, as well as ordering the death of their infant daughter Victoria when he learns that she survived. Years later, Nicolás would help a group of landowners opposed to abolition murder free blacks and slaves on the verge of gaining freedom, harshly punishing his son Miguel when he manages to get one of the conspirators punished in a court of law. When Nicolás discovers that Victoria survived his attempt to kill her and has in fact married Nicolás under a fake name, he rapes her, leaving her alive out of twisted obsession and a desire to make her watch her lover Miguel die. When Miguel counters Nicolás's treachery by trying to hold his mother hostage, Nicolás orders his men to shoot despite knowing his mother is in the line of fire before trying to kill Miguel, any good qualities he had long gone.
  • Capitán Francisco Granados of the Colombian Army is a violent domestic abuser. After publicly whipping one of his slaves to death for rebelling against the system, Granados joins a conspiracy of landowners that murders free blacks and slaves on the verge of gaining their freedom, offering up two of his own slaves and murdering a fellow member when the man becomes a liability. Angered by the slaves' increasing defiance, Granados violently beats his wife to the point that she's bedridden for undermining his authority. Granados also arranges the murder of the sister of a lawyer helping the slaves, planning to take his wife with him when he leaves despite knowing that her injured state means it's unlikely she'll survive the journey. Deteriorating even further when Miguel and his friends torture him and help his wife escape, Granados learns of the slaves' attempt to break out and decides to ambush them, causing a vicious massacre that claims the lives of many slaves before being put down himself. Despite considering himself a gentleman, Granados proved to be far more of a savage than the slaves he hated.
• Evil (2019):
  • Dr. Leland Townsend—real name Jacob "Jake" Perry—is a mild-mannered man who happens to be a remorseless Satanist hiding how pathetic he is by obtaining cruel power over others. Corrupting many people into embracing their dark urges in murder and bloodshed, including Orson LeRoux, Leland also endeavors to have them released to spread even more evil. Swaying a misogynistic young man into a mass shooting only foiled by a total lack of gun safety, Leland seduces Kristen's mother and sways her to evil, luring in victims to be drained of blood and devoured at Satanist masses.
  • "Genesis 1", "Justice x 2", & "Book 27": Orson LeRoux is a murderer who pretends to be possessed to cover up his crimes. Having attacked three families, LeRoux murdered the fathers, raped and murdered the wives, and even murdered the children. Utilizing his insanity and "possession" to escape justice, LeRoux begins stalking the heroine Kristen Bouchard, plotting to murder her four daughters.
• The Exorcist:
  • Season 1: The demon known as the Salesman—later revealed to be Pazuzu—possesses Casey Rance and torments her with horrific nightmares. The Salesman also engineered the car accident that killed her sister's girlfriend. He destabilizes Father Thomas Ortega and Father Marcus Kane and successfully frames Marcus for the abduction of Casey before killing two paramedics. The Salesman forces Regan, whom he molested when she was twelve, to give up herself to him threatening the life of her daughter and then kills her mother Chris by snapping her neck; encourages the Friars of Ascensions to pursue their plan of murdering the Pope; slaughters a convent, gleefully tortures Regan's husband and daughters; and inflicts Father Thomas with an illusion designed to goad him into suicide. Realizing that Angela survived the supposed "integration", the Salesman attempts to breaks her down by letting her hear the screams of her loved ones. In his last moments, the demon tries to kill Regan by snapping her spine.
  • Season 2: The Big Bad is a particularly vicious demon haunting Nachburn Island who targets families and coerces parents into murdering their own children over the centuries. After approaching his latest victim, foster guardian Andrew Kim, as a little girl named Grace then under the appearance of his deceased wife, the demon attempts to drop a blind boy into a well and compel a teenager to strangle his foster sister. Taking possession of Andy, he forces his host to relive the suicide of his wife and mind rapes him with horrific visions. He then stabs a woman to death, put exorcist Thomas in a trance and slaughters a couple of farmers. After abducting the four teenagers and social services representative Rose Cooper, the demon plots to execute them all one by one, starting by drowning Rose in the well.
• Faerie Tale Theatre's "Hansel and Gretel": Much like her literary counterpart, the Wicked Witch sets up a gingerbread to lure in innocent children, whereupon she captures them, fattens them up and eats them before using their carved out hearts to bake more gingerbread, stating that it's what she likes to do, so it is what she's going to do. Upon capturing Hansel and Gretel, she promptly cooks and eats a boy imprisoned with Hansel, planning on eating him and his sister for her coming feast day.
• Fallen (2006 miniseries): Lucifer Morningstar, lacking any of his redeeming qualities from the novels, manipulated his fellow angels into rebelling against Heaven by exploiting their desire for freedom, only to be abandoned by his allies and thrown into Hell after his defeat and true intentions were discovered. Lucifer caused countless wars and destruction, including World War II and the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to spite humanity for being the Creator's favorite creation and upon having a vision of him conceiving a Nephilim, Aaron Corbett, who can redeem fallen angels, Lucifer impregnates a human woman, knowing she will die once the child is born, and plans to use Aaron's power to send him back to Heaven, putting on a facade of remorse, and help him destroy the Creator and bring about the apocalypse.
• The Fall Guy:
  • "License to Kill" two-parter: Salem is an international terrorist and "murderous piece of slime" responsible for over ten years of political assassinations that have terrorized half the world. Having killed many men, women, and children in the name of any cause willing to pay him, Salem is tracked down by CIA Agent Ryker while planning to assassinate the president of San Samoa. Using his mole Agent Bradshaw to frame Ryker as a criminal and kill him and anybody who could stop him, Salem even tells Bradshaw to his face that he's willing to sell him out if need be.
  • "Prisoner": Sheriff Bates, feeling that he wasn't getting a big enough salary, sets up Cell Block 6 as his own illegal prostitution ring. Having innocent women kidnapped off the street and charged for false crimes, Bates allows his guards to assault and psychologically torment the prisoners until they'll agree to do anything to leave his prison. Bates has these women flown to foreign buyers, with his latest batch about to be sold to a South American general.
• Fantasy Island:
  • "The Victim": Michael Duvall is a charming, handsome man who owns his own property near Fantasy Island. In truth, Michael is a ruthless sex slaver who lures in beautiful women and imprisons them, subjecting them to starvation and beatings if they resist. When the young protagonist of the episode, Julie has her fantasy to meet Michael again, she finds herself trapped and introduced to the other women Michael uses to service his wealthy clientele, with Michael intending on imprisoning them as forced prostitutes for the remainder of their lives.
  • "With Affection, Jack the Ripper": Jack the Ripper himself, true identity Dr. Albert Z. Fell, is a sadistic misogynist who runs rampant through Victorian London, killing five innocent prostitutes for no greater reason than his disgust at them. When criminologist Lorraine Peters tries to learn his identity, Fell follows her back to Fantasy Island and attempts to murder the women at the resort before assaulting Lorraine and trying to drag her through to his time where he can make her the Ripper's sixth victim before traveling back and forth between time periods to visit his monstrous judgement on others.
• Fargo:
  • Season 1: Lorne Malvo is a mysterious hitman who, in his spare time, enjoys toying with hapless human beings and seeing how he can break them or turn them into murderers and monsters like himself for his own amusement. The downtrodden Lester Nygaard is only his latest corrupted victim, among dozens of others, all of whom he keeps recordings of in the moment they became killers, recordings which he regularly listens to when he is bored. Lorne is a sadistic, ruthless and efficient killer who has murdered countless people throughout his career, and racks up a body count that numbers in the dozens, including the slaughter of an entire building of people, to setting his partner up to be disturbingly killed in a faked Suicide by Cop when he outlives his usefulness. In one notable instance of Lorne's unpredictability and wicked nature, he disguises himself as a normal man to get close to an assassination target, and, after becoming engaged to a woman who loves him as part of his cover, Lorne murders his mark, the man's wife, and even his own fiancée with nothing more than wry amusement after Lester recognizes him. Combining utter heartlessness with dry humor and a fascination with the dark side of human nature, it's no surprise Lorne is frequently likened to a hungry predator.
  • Season 3 has two members of Narwhal:
    • V.M. Varga is an enigmatic supposed middle manager representing the Narwhal company. In reality, Varga's the head of a criminal enterprise who threatens his way into Emmit Stussy's company. To send a message to his unwilling business partner, Varga murders Emmit's lawyer, Irv, for merely trying to Google Varga. Antisemitic to the point of considering Jews "half-animals", Varga takes every opportunity to harass Emmit's Jewish best friend and business partner, Sy, which culminates in poisoning him, causing Sy's subsequent coma and brain damage. Whenever blood needs spilling, Varga unleashes Yuri and Meemo, and is apathetic to the excessive collateral damage they leave in their wake. One instance has an assassination attempt on a single woman leading to them derailing a prison bus and murdering numerous prisoners, police, and innocent bystanders for getting in their way. When Emmit confesses to accidentally killing his brother, Ray before Varga's done using him, Varga orders his men to murder anyone in the area with the last name Stussy in a convoluted plot to make Ray's death look like the work of a serial killer. Varga, a man defined by his insatiable greed, believes that the lives of the wealthy have inherently more value than poor ones, and is compelled to consume everything in his wake regardless of those he kills in the process.
    • Yuri Gurka, the more sadistic half of Varga's two Co-Dragons, murdered his girlfriend Helga years ago for "talking too much", framing an innocent man for the deed and leaving him for the broken prison system to consume. Years later Yuri, alongside his partner Meemo, is Varga's favored instrument of death, snuffing out any obstacles to Varga's vicious corporate takeovers. He murders an innocent attorney after gleefully terrorizing him with his bloodthirsty Cossack heritage, viciously beats up Nikki Swango, and later derails a bus full of police and prisoners for the sole purpose of killing Nikki. A petty sadist as well, Yuri kills a hunter and his teenage son to vent off steam and takes a disgusting glee in making Sy drink out of a mug that Varga has just rubbed his genitals in. Much crueler than his emotionless partner, Yuri is Varga's ideal minion, and is one of the most evil psychos for hire ever showcased in a series replete with them.
  • Season 4: Owney "Yiddles" Milligan was the boss of the Milligan Concern, which ruled Kansas City before the Italian Fadda family came along, who gained his seat of power by massacring his own predecessors, the Moskowitz Syndicate. Owney twice passed along his son Rabbi as a hostage to rival gangs in an exchange of firstborn sons and forced his young boy to personally pull the trigger on the youngest child of the Moskowitz don. Owney was even a pedophile whose abuse helped to warp the current head of the Faddas, Josto, who still claims "the Devil was an Irishman". Owney's abuse curses Rabbi to the life of a killer long after Owney dies, a life which Rabbi lives and dies in despite his attempt to escape with the boy who would grow up to be Mike Milligan.
  • Season 5: Roy Tillman, third-generation owner of the Tillman Ranch and Sheriff of Stark County, North Dakota, is the dirtiest cop Fargo has ever produced. A particularly nasty breed of constitutional sheriff, Tillman runs Stark County like his own medieval fiefdom, disposing of the casualties of his criminal business in a dedicated mass grave on the ranch. After murdering his long-abused first wife, Linda, Roy moved onto a teenage runaway named Nadine Bump, grooming her, marrying her, then raping and abusing her for the next two years before Nadine ran away. Roy obsessively hounds Nadine, now named "Dot" in the present day after remarrying, to place her back under his thumb as he feels is his right; at one point, Roy dispatches minions to capture Dot's innocent husband Wayne so he can torture him, and when his men capture the wrong person by accident, Roy irritably blows his brains out. After federal pressure comes down on him after he impulsively kills the lawyer of Dot's wealthy mother-in-law, Roy whips up a right-wing militia to kill as many cops as possible. Roy has no loyalty to anyone but himself in the end; he abandons his oldest son Gator after the latter is blinded, attempts to murder his third wife Karen after killing her dad—his own father-in-law—and abandons all of his own men to die in a suicidal last stand while he sneaks off through a secret escape tunnel. Hypocritical in every quality he calls virtuous, Roy is nothing but a despicable coward beneath his macho John Wayne image, a bully and a "baby" who steps on others to make himself feel big.
• Farscape:
  • Seasons 1 & 2: Selto Durka is a captain of the ironically-named Peacekeepers who is well-known for being a master of torturing people and enjoying torture far more than is healthy. He had kept and tortured Rygel for years before the story begins, and years later his presence utterly terrifies Rygel beyond reason. Durka enjoys torturing nearly everyone he sees, and when he captures Aeryn, he leaves a comm channel open so the rest of her crew can hear him about to torture her and burn her face off. Even worse, he tried to forcibly abort the living and sapient spaceship Moya's child so she'd be capable of going faster to take him to safety.
  • "Bringing Home the Beacon" through "The Peacekeeper Wars": War Minister Ahkna is the single most ambitious and brutal Scarran in the entire empire. Responsible for countless Scarran conquests with subjugation or extermination, Ahkna is the chief voice pushing for war against the Peacekeepers with full intent to exterminate the Sebacean race. Sabotaging peace talks via murder, Ahkna makes clear her ambition to succeed or overthrow Emperor Staleek and spitefully tries to murder the unborn child of Aeryn Sun and John Crichton. Hunting them for the Wormhole technology in Crichton's head, Ahkna fully intends to torture the weapon our of John so she might unleash it and create an intergalactic genocide until her empire stands supreme.
  • "Eat Me": Kaarvok is a Mad Scientist with a handheld cloning machine. Willing to do anything to satiate his hunger, Kaarvok clones his victims before killing one in front of the other, keeps Rovhu's traumatized Pilot alive so his regenerating limbs can be harvested for meat, and forces members of Moya's crew to breed with his degenerate clone army just so he'd have something tastier than clone-brains to look forward to.
  • "Incubator": Tauza is a Scarran noble who oversees their breeding program, where the humanoid Sebacean women are kidnapped—any families or loved ones with them are killed—and forcibly raped by Scarran soldiers. Tauza subjected 90 Sebacean women to this, with none surviving. One woman had a child, later named Scorpius. Tauza sought to purge the young half-breed of all "Sebacean weakness" by torturing him physically and mentally. Tauza lied to Scorpius, claiming he had a Scarran mother who had been raped by a Sebacean, but she later revealed the truth when Scorpius sought to rebel, showing him a video of his mother's violation to hurt him. Cruel, arrogant, racist, and vicious, Tauza embodied the worst of Scarran culture, and under her hand for all his formative years, it's no wonder Scorpius developed a genocidal hatred of the Scarrans.
• Father Brown: Father Brown himself, in his long career as a Amateur Sleuth, has encountered many killers and criminals. While the vast majority have been sympathetic individuals he managed to save, there have been some horrible exceptions:
  • "The Shadow Of The Scaffold": Ethel Fernsley, despite seemingly a harmless, grieving old woman, is truthfully a sociopathic attention seeker with one of the highest body counts of any killer. Faking being wheelchair bound solely to ensure she was constantly the centre of attention and could control others, for years Ethel murdered any of her farm's seasonal labourers who saw too much or threatened her facade—suffocating them by blocking the flue tube in the barn where they sleep and then feeding their bodies to her pigs. Working her daughter-in-law Violet like a slave, Ethel encouraged her vicious son Ivan's abuse of Violet—including him beating her into a miscarriage—and murdered the kind-hearted Piotr for trying to rescue Violet. Following her son Wilfred, who had discovered her method of murder, Ethel ran him over with the farm truck, crushing him to death. Finally caught, Ethel trapped Father Brown and Sid inside the barn to be devoured alive by the pigs.
  • "The Lair of the Libertines": Ana Demiachia is a self-described "hedonistic existentialist" obsessed with killing. Loving murder even as a child, Ana was previously a big game hunter before deciding to go after humans as her prey. Taking on the identity of Madame Chania, she lured her victims to a hotel, also being a physically abusive lover to her loyal maid Mimi. Throughout the stay of Father Brown, his friends, and some wealthy playboys, Ana kills a prostitute; leaves another one hospitalized after shooting her; tries to blow up Mrs. McCarthy and Lady Felicia; modifies one of her guests' guns to backfire and shoot him; shoots another with a crossbow; and kills the last guest before stringing him up as a twisted trophy, framing Mimi and leaving her lover to hang for her crimes. When Father Brown confronts her, Ana reveals her sadistic joy in the death she caused under her power after drugging him, before deciding to hunt him down while taunting him, ultimately falling victim to her own trap. A sociopathic, abusive hedonist who sees humans as mere animals, Ana left a body count almost never surpassed in the show, with Father Brown giving up on redeeming her.
  • "The Mask of the Demon": Vivian Wolsey, the head of Cardinal Pictures, while seeming just a smug and easily annoyed man is truthfully an abusive, petty predator, Control Freak, and voyeur. Constantly abusing and berating his staff throughout production, Wolsey blackmails Rex Bishop into being his leading man by threatening to expose his homosexuality and get him arrested, with Wolsey going out of way to make the experience all the more unpleasant for Bishop, simply because Bishop previously dismissed his films. The "King of the Casting Couch", Wolsey forces any woman who wants to be the lead in his films to sleep with him, while forcing himself on any who do not agree. Filming his rapes, Wolsey keeps them both for personal pleasure and blackmail material. Years earlier, when 17-year-old Bebe Fountain successfully resisted him, Wolsey, now obsessed with possessing her, subjected Bebe to a campaign of harassment and threats until she was worn down into marrying him. Wosley regularly abused Bebe throughout their marriage, while continuing to prey upon other women until his demise.
  • "The Eagle and the Daw" & "The Jackdaw's Revenge": Katherine Corven is a cold and calculating sociopath with an enjoyment for manipulating others. Arrested for poisoning her husband, Katherine manipulates her lover Raymond Worrall into suicide to frame Father Brown and have him executed. In her second appearance, Katherine threatens Vivian Hope to take the fall for her crimes by threatening her grandchildren. Katherine then plays sadistic mind games against Father Brown, killing a woman who had been a part of her imprisonment and attempting to incriminate Father Brown as the one responsible for her false imprisonment. Kidnapping Brown's close friend Bunty, Katherine orchestrates a setup where he would have to shoot her to save Bunty's life although secretly plotting to disguise Bunty as herself to make Father Brown shoot the wrong person and to have the priest arrested for the murder of his friend. Refusing to repent even when dying, Katherine's smug sadism reflects the darkness of her heart.
  • "The Devil You Know": Christina Worcester, real name Gerda Frick, was a guard in the Auschwitz concentration camp, responsible for the deaths of thousands, including women, children, the sick, and the infirm. When the Soviets arrived to liberate the camp, she took on the guise of a prisoner through a tattoo, also getting on with Eric, a forcefully conscripted Nazi, as her husband and taking on fake names in England. When Alec Frobisher tracked Gerda down and prepared to arrest her, she garroted him, and framed her husband for her crimes before murdering him and trying to escape. When Father Brown realizes the truth, Gerda holds him and Inspector Mallory at gunpoint and has them dig their graves. Father Brown's attempts to reason with her prove fruitless, as she fanatically believes that the Nazi cause was a just one, ranting about how the victor is the judge and the loser the accused. When they try to escape, Gerda catches up with them and attempts to execute them as she pulls a Redemption Rejection before dying. One of the few villains to earn Father Brown's complete contempt, Gerda was a fanatical, murderous Nazi who'd do anything and kill anyone to keep herself safe and escape justice.
  • "The Enigma of Antigonish": Finbar Finch is a petty, vindictive, egotistic sociopath who, four years previously, rewarded Elsie Peter's generosity in hiring him despite his lengthy criminal record by beating her senseless while robbing her, leaving Elsie disabled, traumatized, and suffering from daily seizures. Imprisoned for the assault, Finch vowed to kill everyone who testified against him. Faking repentance upon release, Finch faked his own death by fatally shooting the face off an innocent man with a shotgun, leaving false evidence at the scene to incriminate Elsie's sister Lola, ensuring she would hang. Exploiting Elsie's husband's allergies, Finch almost caused him to suffocate. Finally going after Elsie, when interrupted by Father Brown, Mrs. McCarthy, and Sid, Finch locked all four of them in a sauna to slowly cook them to death. Completely aware of his evil nature and flat-out admitting to hurting people simply for his enjoyment, even as he was dragged away by the police, Finch still vowed he would murder them all.
• Fear Itself was a short-lived anthology series that brought us these two Serial Killers:
  • "Eater": Duane Mellor is a Cajun murderer and "Eater" who was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using a voodoo ritual, devouring the souls of several officers with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because he enjoyed frightening his targets. When his patience is exhausted, Mellor simply goes for the kill.
  • "Something with Bite": Forest J. Caldwell, aka the Beast Killer, is a man obsessed with werewolves and becoming one, and stands in stark contrast with the benevolent werewolves seen in this episode. Donning a makeshift werewolf outfit, he goes around killing multiple people across the city in a manner which is mistaken as animal attacks; this is all to attract the attention of real werewolves and fulfill his dream of becoming one. In one instance, he mauls Kayla, a friend of such a werewolf named Wilbur, but is unable to kill her when he's scared off by police. When Wilbur confronts him, Caldwell questions if he's upset about Kayla, stating he intends to finish her off at the hospital.
• Firefly:
  • The Blue Gloves/"Hands of Blue" are a duo of independent contractors hired by the Alliance to capture the Tam siblings. The Blue Gloves hunt the Serenity across the 'Verse, killing anyone in their way as they go, and employ a variety of schemes to capture the two, notably allying with Dobson in an attempt to kill the entire crew. The most evil aspect of them, however, is their use of a sonic device that painfully kills their targets by rupturing their insides until they melt, which they use to kill an entire Alliance building, systematically checking all of the bodies and murdering any who still cling to life to ensure none survive the massacre, just because a couple of the guards had interacted with the Tams, and the Blue Gloves seek to keep all information possible to themselves.
  • Adelai Niska is a Soft-Spoken Sadist proud of his feared reputation amongst the criminal community, and is obsessed with ensuring the horror stories surrounding him are all true. When he first meets the crew of Serenity in "The Train Job", Niska shows off the mutilated corpse of his wife's nephew to solidify his reputation in their eyes and to show them what price they'll pay should they fail him in stealing a shipment of medicine intended for sick settlers. In his next appearance, in "War Stories," Niska carves up another failed employee, before getting his hands on Mal and Wash, whom he proceeds to torture for hours. Eventually Zoe, Mal's first mate and Wash's wife, offers to buy Niska's captives off of him, but Niska tells her that with the money she has, she can only afford one of them and tries to force her into a Sadistic Choice. When Zoe ruins his fun by immediately picking her husband, he responds by saying there is enough money for some of Captain Reynolds. He then cuts off Mal's ear and gives it to her. Niska then starts torturing Mal to death, only to use advanced technology to bring him back to life so Niska can have the pleasure of torturing Mal to death for days.
  • Jubal Early debuts in "Objects in Space" as an aloof yet sadistic Bounty Hunter seeking to turn in the Tam siblings for the reward on their heads. Incapacitating the crew of the Serenity and threatening to rape and torture Kaylee to keep some in line, Early is seemingly beaten after he is revealed to be a Psycho for Hire who only has his job because he enjoys hurting others. Returning in the comic book Serenity: Leaves on the Wind, Early kills an entire staff of security guards just for prohibiting him entry to a meeting, and later bombs a smuggler ship in another attempt to capture the crew of the Serenity, killing a dozen innocent people in the process. Despite his claims that he follows a code and is only doing his job for the money, Early is actually nothing but a cruel bully who views killing people as a "passion".
• First Wave:
  • The monstrous Mabus, ruler of the Gua, has guided them on conquests that inevitably become genocides, exterminating all life on multiple planets. When he arrives on Earth, Mabus kills any ranking officer who dares to defy his orders while attempting to push for the Second Wave to kill millions of human civilians. Mabus, when his husk is destroyed, begins bodyjacking other humans, painfully obliterating their minds when he burns them out, eventually taking over the heroine Jordan and hunting down and wiping out entire resistance cells. He then even rapes the hero Cade Foster in Jordan's body to conceive a child that will be his perfect host. Mabus attempts to bring about an invasion, intending on killing every human being alive, obsessed with his own power and glory and caring for nothing else—not even the other Gua.
  • Cain is Mabus's second-in-command and second only to his leader in depravity among the Gua. Serving as the sympathetic Gua Joshua's replacement, Cain kidnaps Cade to subject him to horrible mental torture to plumb the Book of Nostradamus from his mind, apathetic to his survival through the process. Cain murders several people along the way, from using a cop as a human bomb to murdering one of his own minions to pay for another's failure, and later tortures a man to death in order to find the location of resistance base Raven Nation. Cain's attempt to slaughter Raven Nation fails, but he gets away with murdering one of their leaders in the process out of spite. Cain's ultimate goal is to launch the Second Wave, which would kill 19 million initially and millions later, remaining suavely sadistic the whole while he's onscreen.
  • "Blind Witness": Dr. Reid is a twisted Gua scientist who believes humans are nothing but livestock. Running a hospital, Reid takes the human patients and performs agonizing experiments on them that either kill them or result in Reid having them disposed of when he's finished. Reid grafts new parts to them, or carves them up to find out what makes them tick, before attempting to murder his only success, a former blind woman, along with Cade himself.
  • "Unearthed": Logan Bishop poses as one of the heads of an archaeological dig to find the legendary Hammer of Thor, in actuality a Gua artifact. Working directly on orders from Mabus, Bishop murders the leader of the dig once his use wears out by snapping his neck and tries to torture the location of other agents out of Eddie. Bishop's true goal is to use the Hammer of Thor to annihilate all life on Earth, even sadistically mocking the heroes that they'll be at the forefront of the slaughter he'll unleash.
• The Five (2016): Jakob Marosi is a Serial Killer and Serial Rapist who preys on children. In the past, he filmed children that he would stalk, rape and murder on the tapes "Track", "Pain", and "Kill" respectively. He has done this to five children while intending to make Jesse Wells his sixth victim before his biological father saved Jesse. Locked up in the present day, he offers the police to show them where he "buried" Jesse, only to trick them into discovering an unidentified girl he had killed.
• The Flight Attendant: Feliks, aka Buckley Ware, is an assassin working for Lionfish, who gutted and hung several cats in his childhood, horrifying everyone at his boys home. Having killed countless people on Lionfish's behalf, women and children included, Feliks would murder Alex Sokolov, before stalking his one-night stand, Cassandra "Cassie" Bowden, back to New York, entering her life as Buckley Ware, and killing several other people Cassie comes into contact with, such as a woman whom Feliks throws off a building, an FBI agent whose throat Feliks slashes, and nearly killing Max by running him over with a car. Feliks would then attempt to kill Miranda and Cassie before tracking the latter down in Rome to strangle her there before stabbing both Miranda and Enrico, and would manipulate a woman to kill Cassie for him while he's still in prison.
• The Following: Professor Joseph "Joe" Carroll is a Serial Killer and falsely charming cult leader corrupting other killers. With a massive number of bodies behind him, Joe even raises his own son to become a murderer and tries to kill his ex-wife when she interferes. When his cult is dismantled Joe joins another one, killing their leaders and taking over to twist even more into following him in the ways of killing, and ushering in yet another spree. When a televangelist outs him on his show, Joe takes revenge by kidnapping the man's son as well as a church full of people and forces the televangelist to kill an innocent woman before slitting his throat. Attempting one final escape after his arrest, Joe kidnaps a group of people and threatens to kill them lest hero Ryan Hardy admit he loves killing as much as Joe does.
• Forever Knight:
  • "Bad Blood": Jack the Ripper himself was a surgeon-barber so evil his blood actually made the ancient vampire and Nick Knight's maker Lucien LaCroix sick. Upon becoming a vampire, Jack goes on a killing spree in Whitechapel before moving on from England. Jack spends the next centuries stalking the world, committing a string of horrific serial murders wherever he goes. Finally arriving in Toronto, Jack begins slaughtering innocent people again, ending his spree with the young police officer Bridget Hellman, who he drains before finally being destroyed by Nick and the vampire hunter Liam O'Neal. Easily the most savage and violent vampire on the show, and evil even before becoming a vampire, Jack demonstrates the most savage extremes of the nature of vampires in contrast to the repentant Nick.
  • "The Fire Inside": "Dragon", a masked murderer, is a businessman during the day who despises the homeless as "parasites" who scrounge for the money that "hard-working" men like him earn, and views himself as as an "exterminator" in wiping them out. Introducing himself by luring a homeless man over with loose change, Dragon proceeds to burn him alive, revealing he has been murdering the innocent homeless of Toronto and has tracked a small community of them to the sewers below the city. When Nick and his partner Don Schanke go to save them, Dragon burns a woman doing her laundry to death before attempting to kill every homeless person he finds, children included. When he encounters Nick, Dragon takes a homeless man hostage and attempts to burn him alive, too, mocking Nick for caring about "trash" and claiming only he can solve the "problem." In a world of murdering vampires, Dragon stands as a stark reminder that humans can sometimes be worse than nearly any supernatural monster.
• Four Lives: Stephen Port, appearing to be a harmless eccentric who lives a solitary lifestyle, is in truth a twisted Serial Rapist and Serial Killer. Luring multiple men to his flat using dating apps, Port drugged them with GHB and raped them, claiming seven victims. Deciding to murder them as well and rape the corpses, Port systematically drugged, raped, and murdered four more men, before callously dumping their bodies in locations near his flat. Deciding to torment the parents as well, Port sadistically abused one of them through anonymous text messages, telling them that they were a terrible father and that it was their fault their son was dead. Taken in for questioning, Port continued to deny everything and lied throughout to save his own skin.
• Frank Herbert's Dune & Children of Dune: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the disgustingly vile ruler of House Harkonnen. Seeking to acquire access to the Spice to further his rule across the universe, Harkonnen sets up shop on the Spice planet Arrakis, using his dimwitted nephew Rabban to submit the planet's inhabitants, the Fremen, to his whim through murder and fear, even having the Fremen hunted for sport. Hoping to have Rabban murdered by his "handsome" nephew Feyd-Rautha in order to gain the Fremens' trust, Harkonnen has many young slaves forced to fight Feyd in an arena for his viewing pleasure, with over a hundred dying by Feyd's hands, with Harkonnen even forcing some to sleep with him. Helping the Emperor orchestrate the destruction of House Atreides out of spite, even giving orders to Take No Prisoners, Harkonnen forces Dr. Yeuh to help him in return for his wife's freedom, only to reveal he murdered her beforehand and killing Yeuh afterward. Taking part in the Fremen genocide to crush their rebellion, despite perishing at the hands of his granddaughter Alia, Harkonnen returns many years later to possess Alia as an act of revenge, turning her into a paranoid dictator who attempts to have her mother and nephews assassinated.
• Friday the 13th: The Series:
  • Uncle Lewis Vendredi made a pact with the Devil himself to spread evil throughout the world. Responsible for the events of the series, Lewis locates and acquired multiple old items before he would personally curse them and distribute them, often in ways that showed a sadistic edge and made it so they would always result in death and chaos to gain hell more souls. When Lewis realized his pact with Satan was resulting in his immortal body aging too much, he tried to break the deal, resulting in his own death at Satan's hands. Returning as a ghost, Lewis attempts to return to life and murder his family members who are trying to regain the cursed objects so they can do no more harm. Eventually, Lewis tries to get back in Satan's good graces by opening the very gates of hell and allowing Satan access to Earth to consume or torture all of mankind.
  • "Double Exposure'': Winston Knight is an ambitious news anchor who uses a cursed camera to make a duplicate of himself that he must destroy within five hours by destroying the negative print. Winston, to boost his ratings, sends his duplicate out to murder women with a machete so he can cover the murders and portray himself as a hero, killing at least ten innocents with no sign of stopping. When the hero Ryan's girlfriend Cathy catches Knight with his duplicate, Knight makes her a victim as well. Realizing Knight is guilty, Ryan snatches the negative print, meaning Knight risks death if the five hours lapse. When the group offers a trade, Knight attacks their friend and mentor Jack and creates a double of him, intending to have the double murder Ryan and his cousin Micki so he can frame Jack as the murderer and continue his own rise into stardom.
  • "The Butcher": Horst Mueller and Oberst Rausch (alias Karl Steiner) are a pair of Nazi war criminals. During the war, Rausch, known as "The Butcher", was an infamous torturer and murderer who met his death at the hands of Jack Marshak. Mueller, using the occult, revived Rausch and despite being imprisoned as a war criminal, directs Rausch to murder the former members of Jack's squad using his signature barbed wire as a strangulation device. Promoting fascist and bigoted ideals as a radio host, Rausch mentally torments Jack and the other survivors while he prepares to murder them. When confronted, Mueller declares their ultimate objective is for Rausch to enter politics and eventually bring about a rebirth of the Nazi regime, both believing they are the Master Race, destined to rise anew.
  • "The Prophecies" two-parter: Asteroth is a Fallen Angel and priest of Satan who is devoted to freeing his lord and master. Attempting to fulfill dark prophecies, Asteroth aims to kill a pure-hearted nun, first by infecting the minds of other nuns to drive them homicidal before they die, then driving the animals of the village murderously insane. When this fails, Asteroth brainwashes Ryan and has him murder the nun, before having him abduct a crippled girl with unshakeable faith in God so Asteroth can sacrifice her to Satan and have his master manifest in her body as The Antichrist. When he confronts Jack on his motivations, Asteroth gleefully reveals his future vision of the world, showing Jack images of mass destruction, death and oppression on a global scale. Intending to end the entire world, Asteroth is without doubt one of the cruelest monsters ever faced by Ryan and Micki.
  • "Mightier Than the Sword": Alex Dent is a Serial Killer posing as a true crime author. Dent uses his magic pen to turn unwitting victims into serial killers, targeting whoever Dent chooses. He disposes of them by bringing them to justice for crimes they can't remember committing. Dent is introduced using this power on Clint Fletcher, whom he used to kidnap and murder 18 women. Dent sadistically reveals to Fletcher that he is about to be executed for Dent's own crimes, and enjoys watching him die. At a writers' talk, Dent taunts Clint's enraged brother Jerry just to revel in his own emotional cruelty. Dent then uses his pen on the priest who oversaw Fletcher's execution and uses him to tie up loose ends. He murders Jerry and a detective who grew suspicious of him, before leaving the priest amnesiac and ruining his life. He captures Micki and has her target his ex-wife Marion, who is attempting to blackmail him. He plans on making her death the worst he's ever done purely for her slight against him, and comes along to watch her murder personally. When Marion fights back, Dent throws her down the stairs to try and cripple her, so that she will be paralyzed and conscious as she is carved up.
• Fringe: Most villains have sympathetic motivations to their actions and/or redeeming qualities. Nevertheless, there have been exceptions.
  • Seasons 1 & 4: David Robert Jones, the head of ZFT utilizes bio-attacks with the Pattern, showcasing the danger of different types of powers via the innocent lives that are taken. Seemingly well-intentioned, Jones later completely abandons any pretense, happily murdering those in his trail, including the shapeshifter he supposedly "loved" just to make a point on how dangerous he is. Assisting William Bell, Jones plots to obliterate all of two timelines, leaving only the template for Bell's new world without any of Bell's more positive qualities or intents.
  • "Letters Of Transit" & Season 5: Captain Windmark is an Observer who led his kind to invade Earth in 2015. Conquering Earth, Windmark would oppress the humans living there for 21 years, conducting torturous experiments on them and making the planet's air toxic for them, causing many to become deformed or dying. When the Fringe team escape from their amber hibernation, Windmark mind rapes numerous people in his pursuit of the team, and murders Peter and Olivia's daughter Etta. When Windmark learns of the team's plan to use the Anomaly, Michael, to prevent the invasion from happening, Windmark capture Michael with plans to disassemble him, and mind rapes Phillip to near-death when he learns of his allegiance to the Fringe team. While most Observers use cold logic to justify their actions, Windmark admits pure hatred is the reason behind his, ending the series as one of its vilest villains.
  • "Pilot": Richard Steig is a former employee of Massive Dynamic who was asked to steal research into airborne viral contagions, research that had been conducted by the scientists Walter Bishop and William Bell decades earlier. Stieg was able to manufacture a flesh-melting contagion that causes the infected individual's skin to decompose in a matter of seconds. The contagion was then smuggled onto Flight 627 in his twin brother Morgan Steig's insulin pen. He chose Morgan to show his "commitment" for potential buyers for the toxin. Everyone on the plane died when the toxin made them crystalize.
  • "The Cure": David Esterbrook was the head of the pharmaceutical research division of the company INtREPUS. Esterbrook, to make money, created a program that would forcibly abduct and turn young women who suffered from a rare disease into unknowing radiation suicide bombers. He tested this on a cafe full of innocent people, causing their brains to boil and burst. After the first test, Esterbrook simply opted to repeat the process, showing no remorse or hesitation when confronted by Special Agent Olivia Dunham.
  • "The Bishop Revival": The artificially youthful Nazi Mad Scientist Alfred Hoffman was an unrepentant sociopath who survived the war and went into hiding. Decades later, Hoffman resurfaces with his greatest creation: a toxin he engineers to target specific genetic strains. He first tests it on a Holocaust survivor and her family at a wedding. He later tests it on a cafe to confirm its effectiveness and the fact he can use it to kill anyone not part of his "Master Race". Before Walter Bishop turns the toxin on Hoffman himself, Hoffman is about to deliver it at a human rights conference to kill everyone there.
  • "The Abducted": Reverend Marcus and Wyatt Toomy are responsible for the string of child kidnappings in the parallel universe. Wyatt, "The Candyman", would kidnap these children and along with Marcus would extract the hormones from their spines where Wyatt would use the hormones to make himself young while Marcus would use them to promote his cult, the Astoria Church, fueling his god complex; the kidnapped children would become disfigured and ill, even dying as a result of the duo's torturous experiments, with Phillip Broyles's son, Christopher, ending up blind. When Olivia Dunham kills Wyatt and rescues his latest victim, Marcus attempts to kill Christopher, only to be killed by Phillip himself.
• From Dusk Till Dawn:
  • Season 2: Lord Amancio Malvado is the eldest and most power-hungry of the Nine Lords of the vampiric Culebras. In the past, Malvado murdered the family of young girl Kisa and rechristened her "Santánico Pandemonium" to become his immortal Culebra Sex Slave, also having her lure in and devour countless people over the centuries, while killing and enslaving thousands at his leisure. In present, Malvado runs the biggest criminal empire from Texas to Mexico, overseeing everything from drugs and weapons to human trafficking. When Kisa escapes his clutches, Malvado summons the Regulator to kill anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts, skinning minions who disappoint him and ultimately hoping to spend an eternity in El Rey with Kisa his broken mistress.
  • Season 3:
    • Amaru, Queen of Xibalba, who once enslaved the entire Culebra race, takes the chance to jump into the dying body of Kate Fuller when her seal is weakened. Slaughtering the remaining Culebra Lords save one survivor, Amaru proceeds to torture and kill multiple culebras and humans, even murdering the human lover of Kisa just to hurt her out of belief that Kisa has no right to call herself a queen. Amaru spends the remainder of the season sending horrible demons after her enemies that cause incredible amounts of pain and suffering, and tries to kill Kate's loved ones to force her to watch as a prisoner in her own body. Causing several more massacres, Amaru regains her own original body, her influence driving an entire nearby town mad with the inhabitants of a hospital slaughtering one another. Amaru soon reveals her intent is to drag the entire human and culebra races into hell so she can torture their souls forever in revenge for her sealing.
    • Brasa is the Sun God of Xibalba and chief servant to Amaru. To bring about his Queen's desired apocalypse, Brasa leads the Xibalban demons to murder and manipulate thousands of innocents, as he has done in countless wars past. Poisoning the water supply of a town to reduce the citizens to mindless cannibals, Brasa cheerfully mocks the few who seek to stop him and delights in telling Seth Gecko how he looks forward to taking Seth's body as his latest vessel to celebrate the end of days.
• From The Heart (Mula Sa Puso): This Filipino series brings up Selina Pereira-Matias, the evil aunt of the heroine Via. Desiring the wealth of her deceased brother, Selina is responsible for a horrific acid attack on Via's mother that leaves her hideously scarred. When she hires a woman to pretend to be Via's mother, Selina later has this woman abducted, tortured, raped and murdered. Selina even sends a henchman to rape a woman simply for arguing with her over a custard. Selina later has her men plant a bomb on a bus full of people in the belief Via is on it, laughing hysterically at the result of the innocent passengers dying. Sadistic and evil, Selina would be remembered as one of the most monstrous villains in Filipino TV history.
• Frontier (2016):
  • Lord Archibald Benton is the governor of the Hudson Bay Company and seeks to dominate the fur trade. To this end, he arrests his predecessor on trumped-up charges and has him murdered before ruling the local town like a tyrant, antagonizing the local Cree peoples. Benton initiates a string of murders and torture to set the Lakewalker Cree against the French-Canadians in a war to wipe out or weaken them so he can take control of the trade. Upon capturing his arch-nemesis Declan Harp, whose family he tortured and killed, and is later revealed to have sold Harp's son into slavery, Benton tortures him, mocking him the whole while before attempting to have him executed. When his own superiors send soldiers to deal with him, Benton sequesters and attempts to starve them to death, showing his only allegiances are to his own ambition.
  • Season 3: Patrick O'Reilly is a snake who plays both sides of the conflict with the Hudson Bay Company and those who rebel against it. However, O'Reilly has found a lucrative business on the side: By kidnapping Native American women, O'Reilly has them starved, abused and tormented into converting to Christianity so he can sell them as wives, which was done to O'Reilly's own bride. Those who prove too troublesome are sold into brothels to be used as sex slaves, which triggers the sheer fury of the Cree warrior woman Sokanon to the point she refuses to lend her aid in the assault on Lord Benton unless her allies will consent to allow her to murder O'Reilly first.

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