The Black Dahlia: Sergeant Friedrich Charles "Fritz(ie)" Vogel is a Dirty Cop whose malice and vileness stand out even in the dark, corrupt halls of the LAPD. A brutal sadist who enjoys "interrogating" suspects, Fritz frequently tortures confessions out of people with no care for if they are truly guilty, simply wanting to accomplish arrests. Going so far as to try to pin the Black Dahlia murder on an innocent party by torturing a group of men into confession, Fritz's nastiest act is revealed to be the time he raped an entire brothel of women out of spite because he contracted syphilis while sleeping with hookers. Fritz spreads the STD to all of the women he raped, and even blinded two of his victims by rubbing his infected genitalia on their eyes.
L.A. Confidential & Perfidia prequel: Pierce Morehouse Patchett uses his public persona as an eccentric, successful businessman to mask his crimes, covering up a series of murders of children by the insane son of a media mogul. Patchett later allows for Japanese attacks during World War II, including Pearl Harbor, and even engineers more, so the festering prejudice will allow him to purchase Japanese-American owned properties cheap. With his Fleur-de-Lis prostitution ring, Patchett pimps to wealthy associates, even having young boys and girls pose in sexual photos for his depraved clients. Patchett also uses his background in chemistry to modify heroin and create more potent batches to flood the streets and even modifies some doses to have his partner overcome police truth serum. Batches of his new concoctions are tested on one of his runners, and when the man fails to kill an investigating police officer, Patchett tortures him by injecting him with a series of bad strains.
This Storm: Salvador "Salvy" Abascal, head of the Mexican Sinarquista party, poses as a fascist to profit off of World War II. Once having participated in a gold heist, Salvy comes to his current office with the proceeds and radicalizes hopeful operatives by demanding they each commit three murders. With thousands enslaved in his plants, Salvy allies with Dudley Smith in a plot to run Mexican and Japanese slaves to America, along with heroin, to continue lining his pockets. Betraying Dudley, Salvy uses the opportunity to run saboteurs along with their slaves, plotting to eradicate rival fascist factions and violently rob Americans to line his own pockets.
Evil Is Cool: No matter what a reprehensible asshole that Dudley Smith is, he's absolutely one of the smartest and most capable characters in the series.
