History Main / EvilChef

* Subverted in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 4 when Antonio "Tonio" Trussardi seems to be using his Italian cooking - [[spoiler:and Stand ability]] - to physically harm his customers. Anyone who eats his cooking, [[spoiler:such as Nijimura Okuyasu]], briefly seems to experience a nasty wound to some part of their body, only for that body part to be cured of an ailment. [[spoiler:Turns out he means well despite how creepy he is!]]

* In ''Film/{{Titus}}'' - a film adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' - Titus' role as a chef when he serves up Tamora's sons to her [[ImAHumanitarian in a pie]] is played up by having Creator/AnthonyHopkins dressed in the chef's traditional white smock and toque (while sporting a SlasherSmile and carrying [[AnAxeToGrind a large cleaver]]).

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* Umami of ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'' is {{Orochi}}'s head chef. At least until Charity was kidnapped and forced into the job. Instead of hatching a plan to help her escape and reclaim her position as head chef, she finds it more beneficial to [[ImAHumanitarian cook her]].
* The Black Dragon Group from ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''. Their leader Jinkai plans to use the Moon Bird Recipe for some sort of [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination plan]] through cooking. Though by the end of the Cook-Off minigames, he got better and was implied to have mended his ways.
* The Baby Dragon Chefs from ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' and ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends''.
* ''VideoGame/DonDokoDon'' has a few enemies of this sort in the food-themed world, including ones that throw exploding cupcakes or candies.
* The murderer in Case 3 of ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'', [[spoiler:Dane Gustavia]]. Even outside of the murdering, he's still a tremendous dick. [[spoiler:Especially to his own son]]. He at least has the decency to respect a WorthyOpponent in the cooking game, and his only regret was that said worthy opponent ended up being blamed for his crime when he was trying to frame someone else. [[spoiler:The man he killed [[AssholeVictim wasn't much better]], but also wasn't really a chef]].
* Knjakr of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' is a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] [[AxCrazy chef]], he lives in the Ratway and invites the others into his cell, only to attack the visitor and eat them.
* In the Arcade Game of the film ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the first end boss is the Butcher, a [[FatBastard chubby]] pirate chef armed with a knife and a frying pan.
* In the game ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', protagonist Carl Johnson is sent to question chef who apparently has connections to an enemy gang. He is more than uncooperative, and CJ is forced to kill him in self-defence. The chef is later revealed to be a hired killer.
* The indie game ''Free Ice Cream'' has a chef as the villain. He uses an ice cream truck labeled "Free ice cream" to attract kids he can kidnap. He than butchers them for meat to use in his cooking.
* Mr. Mix from ''Advanced Education With Viktor Strobovski'' is a FauxAffablyEvil school cafeteria chef. He at first seems like a NiceGuy; smiling at you, complementing your skills in cooking, and rewarding you with money if you do good enough. If you don't see him often enough to help him out with his cooking and/or continue to be bad at cooking though, he will become angry with you and proceed to kill you by boiling you in his cauldron to use your meat in his cooking, something he appears to have done with several students in the past judging by the bloody remains in his cooking area.

* Shirota Masakage from ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'', the episode villain from the 1st anime episode and chapters 4-6 of the manga.

* There was an evil (not to mention really gross) chef named Wanze in ''Manga/OnePiece''. He fought Sanji using noodles, some of which came out of his nose.
** Later on, we have [[spoiler:Charlotte Pudding]], a dessert chef who [[spoiler:gets engaged to marry Sanji...or that's what it looks like on the outside. The truth is that Pudding ''used'' to be a normal kid [[WoobieDestroyerOrWorlds but snapped after being abused by everyone]], and is scheming with her EvilMatriarch to assassinate Sanji and his entire family at the wedding in an effort to seize Sanji's family's assets.]] Her skills as a chef, while unrelated to her evilness, are genuine though: Luffy and Chopper voraciously consumed a chocolate project of hers, which she enjoyed witnessing. [[spoiler: And yet she cannot bring herself to kill Sanji when he's genuinely kind ot her.]]

* Xellos from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' invokes this trope intentionally when he creates a soup "potent enough to kill a Gold Dragon with one bite."

* The villains of ''Manga/FightingFoodons''.

* Digitamamon and Vegiemon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. The former does a HeelFaceTurn in the sequel series, but remains a bit of a JerkAss.
* There is the aptly-named Hell's Chef of ''Anime/GregoryHorrorShow'', given his tendency to try to kill people for smoking (as it dulls taste buds) and for rejecting his food even if they're not hungry.
* Manga/{{Toriko}}, being solely about over muscled men finding, fighting and eating delicious food, is bound to have these on the villain's side. Most of Gourmet Corporation consists of sinister chefs out to assassinate and sometimes even cook their victims, though except for a few holdouts, their allegiances switche to good or at least neutral when [[GreaterScopeVillain Neo]] becomes the antagonist.
* Subverted in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 4 when Antonio "Tonio" Trussardi seems to be using his Italian cooking - [[spoiler:and Stand ability]] - to physically harm his customers. Anyone who eats his cooking, [[spoiler:such as Nijimura Okuyasu]], briefly seems to experience a nasty wound to some part of their body, only for that body part to be cured of an ailment. [[spoiler:Turns out he means well despite how creepy he is!]]
* In ''Manga/FoodWars'', Erina Nakiri's ArchnemesisDad Azami intends to make his style of cooking the only type of cooking allowed in restaurants in Japan and possibly the entire world. His plan to do such a thing begins with [[spoiler:forcibly becoming the new dean of Totsuki Academy, Japan's premier cooking school, and expel anyone who doesn't comply with his techniques.]]
* In a Hoenn-era episode of the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime "Hail to the Chef", Team Rocket run into a Sneasel serving as cook in a restaurant. Being a Dark-type Pokemon, it takes an instant dislike to Meowth, trading insults with him and them tainting his food, and then beating him soundly when he confronts it. Meowth, himself a bad guy and a Pokemon-napper, loathes the Sneasel enough that he actually objects when Jessie and James capture it.

* Literature/CaptainUnderpants once fought cafeteria ladies who were aliens in disguise trying to turn the schoolchildren into zombies.

* ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' #16 saw ComicBook/TheJoker kidnap an aspiring cartoonist and force him to illustrate his exploits for a series of comic books. One of his capers involved infiltrating a banquet and (while [[PaperThinDisguise "disguised"]] in a toque and a white smock) slipping paralytic Joker venom into the diners' soup. ("Poisonous? That would be the poison. [[FauxAffablyEvil It complements the cilantro nicely, don't you think?"]]) The poison didn't actually kill anyone who took a slurp of the soup, but it ''did'' leave them [[SlasherSmile compulsively grinning]] - and paralyzed long enough for Joker to saunter right up to all them and beat them senseless with a large mallet. (And, of course, Joker being [[MonsterClown who he is]], he did this all ForTheEvulz - and in this case also for publicity.)
* Kryppen the Poisoner in the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Devil's Asylum'' one-shot. He uses his [[MasterPoisoner knowledge of poisons]] and cooking to poison everyone in Arkham Asylum, planning to withhold the antidote until Batman murders an inmate.

* A similar chef can be seen for a few seconds (although in shadow) in the earlier animated Disney film ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' during the scene where Duchess, Thomas O'Malley, the kittens, and the Gabble sisters run into Uncle Waldo.

* Quasimodo from ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' is the hotel's chef and he constantly tries to cook Jonathan after realizing he's a human.

* In the ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' trilogy, Milo the Serbian druglord. He fancies himself a great cook, and tries to feed people his creations, but they're not very good. In fact, he accidentally gives all his thugs [[LethalChef food poisoning]] in the third film, leaving him rather defenseless to a brewing gang war.
* Pamela Voorhees of the original ''[[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'' was the cook of Camp Crystal Lake. Her villainy was in no way related to her cooking though, but involved [[KnifeNut knifing]], [[AnAxeToGrind axing]], and occasionally arrowing people to death in revenge for her son, who drowned in Crystal Lake because the counselors who were supposed to be watching him were [[DeathBySex getting it on instead]].

* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheHams'': Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza was locked up after processing human carcasses for his pizzas. Hell, he didn't even try to hide it--he'd just have a foot sticking out of the crust!
* The odd flick ''Panman'' is about a demonic Russian chef who kills people with the pots and pans that he wears on his head, hands, and feet.
* Carlos, the chef on the train in ''Film/BreakheartPass'', is part of the conspiracy and makes good use of his skill with knives when he attempts to kill Deakin during a TraintopBattle.

* Swelter from the ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'' novels (and TV mini-series). He exercises ruthless control over the kitchens, takes a perverse interest in the boys under his control, and hatches several plots against his enemies. He is also hinted to be [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]].

* Faquarl from ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' can transform into any shape he chooses, but is inexplicably fond of taking the form of a meat-cleaver wielding chef. Bartimaeus recalls that he's been doing this since they met in Babylon, circa 700 BC. It has something to do with all the sharp objects just lying around in kitchens.
* Harry Kressing's novel ''The Cook'' features the mysterious Conrad, who uses his cooking skills to win over and then control his victims.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has the ghost story of the Rat Cook of the Nightfort, who chopped up a visiting prince and fed him to his father in a pie. For breaking SacredHospitality, the gods turned him into a giant albino rat who eats his young.

* Shockeye, from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]". He's obsessed with finding out what things taste like, up to and including [[ImAHumanitarian human beings]], and "tenderises" one of the Doctor's companions - ignoring all the screaming as being completely irrelevant.
** And the Kandy Man from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]" who uses confectionery as a means of execution.

* Those who watch ''Series/HellsKitchen'' might pick out several worthy contenders. Any example however pales in comparison to Amy's Baking Company in ''Series/KitchenNightmares,'' who between being proud of the evil acts they perform and brag about firing hundreds of employees [[KickTheDog (while forcing them not to work anywhere else)]] they are a RealLife example that makes most fictional ones look like saints.
** Amy seems to like to passively-aggressively "pay back" complaining customers -- when a pizza is returned undercooked, she deliberately burns it... when a customer complains a dish isn't seasoned enough, she intentionally [[EvilIsPetty makes it super spicy, hoping it will hurt him]].
* In one episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', the murderer the FBI team is looking for turns out to be the chef at a town's local community events. His favorite food to serve is chili, [[spoiler:whose meat is that of his victims]]. To the agents' horror, he does this solely for the pleasure of seeing other people unwittingly [[spoiler:[[IAmAHumanitarian eat other humans]]]]. A later episode had an increasingly insane food court chef who started sneaking pieces of his first victim into the meals that he served customers.
%%* The Penguin is this on a few occasions:
%%** An episode of “Gotham” shows him as a cannibal. Granted his victims deserved it, but that’s a side of him you NEVER want to see.
%%** One comic book has him selling DRUGS to CHILDREN in the guise of popsicles. Catwoman later forces him to eat one.
%%** There’s also a comic where the Joker sold poisoned cotton candy.

* In the DVD for the Volkerball tour, Till Lindemann of Music/{{Rammstein}} dresses up as one of these during ''[[ImAHumanitarian Mein Teil]]''. He then proceeds to "cook" [[TheChewToy Flake Lorenz]].

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Mrs. Lovett encourages Sweeney Todd's RoaringRampageOfRevenge for [[ImAHumanitarian humanitarian purposes]].

* Plenty in the ''Mario'' series, but Chef Torte from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' comes to mind. He fights in a boss battle and (unknowingly) creates a giant [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere spellcasting wedding cake]].
* Large Fry in ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', a giant Cheep Cheep who happens to be one of the occasional {{Flunky Boss}}es who happen to be quite strong on their own (which is ''extremely'' annoying, since he never stops calling down his buddies. ''Ever'').

* Chef Kawasaki was one of these in the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games, but not so much in the anime.
* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' has the Wonder Chef who is good and will teach the party recipes (effects vary by game, but are usually along the lines of post-battle healing), but ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' had a short sidequest involving the Wonder Chef's arch-nemesis- the evil Dark Chef.
* The first Boss in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFight Final Fight 2]]'' is a brute named Won-Won, who, [[AllThereInTheManual according to his description in the game's instructions]], is a sushi chef.

* In ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark2'', the undead [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate Gangster]]s have a chef called T-Bone and his helpers, the "Cookies." T-Bone looks a-lot this page's image, but has a bushier mustache and a [[AffablyEvil cheery smile]], whilst the cookies are clean shaven and short sushi chefs with a dour expression. Both have UndeathlyPallor and [[GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath glowing eyes]]. T-Bone duels the player with a [[FryingPanOfDoom Frying Pan]], whilst the cookies attack with meat cleavers. Interestingly its stated in the past, T-Bone killed the prior chef of the pirates to obtain his position.

* Gourmand, one of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/PowerStone 2''. For whatever reason, his SuperMode involves donning a dinosaur/dragon costume that allows him to [[DinosaursAreDragons breathe fire]].
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has a few Evil Chef monsters, such as the Knob Goblin Master Chef, the War Frat Grill Sergeant, and the War Hippy Baker.
** With a sufficiently deranged player and/or sufficiently large dose of AlternateCharacterInterpretation, the Pastamancer and Sauceror classes could fall under this trope as well.

* The aptly-named multi-part ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' quest "Recipe for Disaster" involves the PC [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally freeing an evil food-based magician]] known as the Culinaromancer.

* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'', the player will sometimes be attacked in Nod bases by flamethrower-wielding chefs.
* Yodai [[LargeHam "Now we're BOILING!"]] Higashizawa of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

* The ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' series features two evil chefs: Larry Chiang from the first game, and Antoine Thomas from [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 the second game]]. Larry intends to turn an injured [[BigBad Carlito Keyes]] into mincemeat, and Antoine is attempting (and, it is heavily implied, has even succeeded) [[ImAHumanitarian to turn survivors into "the perfect dish"]].

* Mr. Mix from ''Advanced Education With Viktor Strobovski'' is a FauxAffablyEvil school cafeteria chef. He at first seems like a NiceGuy; smiling at you, complementing your skills in cooking, and rewarding you with money if you do good enough. If you don't see him often enough to help him out with cooking and/or continue to be bad at cooking, he will become angry with you and proceed to kill you by boiling you in his cauldron to use your meat in his cooking, something he appears to have done with several students in the past judging by the bloody remains in his cooking area.

* Averted by Larry London in ''Film/TheFreshman''. He's initially presented as an eccentric and rather sinister chef who makes a fortune serving the meat of critically endangered animals to the wealthy for extraordinary sums of money. It's later revealed that he never kills the animals that he displays, and serves beef, pork or chicken in their place (of course, one could argue that he's still an evil character because he's a scam artist, albeit a humane one).

* The Penguin is this on a few occasions:
** An episode of “Gotham” shows him as a cannibal. Granted his victims deserved it, but that’s a side of him you NEVER want to see.
** One comic book has him selling DRUGS to CHILDREN in the guise of popsicles. Catwoman later forces him to eat one.
** There’s also a comic where the Joker sold poisoned cotton candy.

* In the Arcade Game of the film ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the first end boss is the Butcher, a chubby pirate chef armed with a knife and a frying pan.

* In ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'', Erina Nakiri's ArchnemesisDad Azami intends to make his style of cooking the only type of cooking allowed in restaurants in Japan and possibly the entire world. His plan to do such a thing begins with [[spoiler:forcibly becoming the new dean of Totsuki Academy, Japan's premier cooking school, and expel anyone who doesn't comply with his techniques.]]

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* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ([=PETA=]) tends to portray any chef who cooks with meat in this manner. Just take a look at their ''VideoGame/CookingMamaMamaKillsAnimals'' Thanksgiving game.
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* Louis (the seafood chef who sings "Les Poissons" from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'') is only evil insofar as aquatic animals are concerned. In context, that's evil enough. For bonus evil, he even has a [[DastardlyWhiplash twirly]] [[GoodHairEvilHair mustache.]]

* A similar chef can be seen for a few seconds (although in shadow) in the earlier animated Disney film ''Disney/TheAristocats'' during the scene where Duchess, Thomas O'Malley, the kittens, and the Gabble sisters run into Uncle Waldo.

* Long John Silver was the ship's cook in ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', as well as the Disney [[{{Steampunk}} space-and-steam]] ''Disney/TreasurePlanet''.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has a few EvilChef monsters, such as the Knob Goblin Master Chef, the War Frat Grill Sergeant, and the War Hippy Baker.

* Monsieur Goan in the ''Anime/{{Kirby|of the Stars}}'' anime.

* You have to defeat one of these in the game ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark2''.

May overlap with the ChefOfIron, if the Evil Chef fights his or her enemies using cooking implements as weapons or suchlike. May also overlap with MadArtist if you consider cooking an art form, and especially if the character's goal is to make the best food possible through any means. Also see IAteWhat, and StabTheSalad. Most rivals in a CookingDuel are merely an OpposingSportsTeam, who may not even be negatively characterized; but there can obviously be an incentive to make such a character into an actually evil enemy. Contrast SweetBaker.

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* The heroine of ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' had one of these as her [[MyBelovedSmother mom]].

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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh''
** The game has an old card called The Bistro Butcher, a Fiend-Type monster that seems to be this. Its Japanese name is "Devil Chef".
** The chef depicted on the ritual spell card "Hungry Burger Recipe" is probably this considering you have to sacrifice monsters to summon an evil burger with the card, with all of the implications that follows as to ''how'' this works.
** The much newer [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Number_59:_Crooked_Cook Number 59: Crooked Cook]] might qualify, although the only indication is the name. (Evil or not, he doesn't seem the [[Series/IronChef type anyone would want to mess with]].)
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* In his "A Date With Markiplier" series of ChooseYourOwnAdventure videos, LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} has a run in with one of these in the restaurant where he and his date first meet. Markiplier forgot his wallet and if his date chooses not to pay the bill for him, the chef abducts them both and (depending on the next choice) either abandons them in the desert, or locks them up in an abandoned building with the intent to make them [[IAmAHumanitarian make them the main course]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': From the point of view of his ingredients many of whom are sentient and even human beings, Cajun Fox easily qualifies as one. Cooking (more than eating) is his biggest passion which along with a policy to never question his recipe book's suggestions make a recipe for disaster.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter grows a beard to become rugged, and is believed to be his hero Action Hank. He later teams up with Action Hank to fight beard-themed villains, one of which is a chef with a beard that acts like a blade.
* Lunch Lady Ghost in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''.

* Chef Hatchet from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is probably better known as a LethalChef but he certainly gets a lot of enjoyment out of tormenting the campers.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Sizzlor! Who subjected Zim to torturous servitude in the bowels of the planet Foodcourtia.
* The Breadmaster in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', along with his sidekick Buttery Pat, had a recipe for evil.

* TheButcher and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Man from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''.
* Piecemeal from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' is a criminally insane chef.

* Corvax gets demoted from EvilChancellor into one in ''Muzzy Comes Back'', the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland''.

May overlap with the ChefOfIron, if the Evil Chef fights his or her enemies using cooking implements as weapons or suchlike. May also overlap with MadArtist if you consider cooking an art form, and especially if the character's goal is to make the best food possible through any means. Also see IAteWhat, and StabTheSalad. Most rivals in a CookingDuel are merely an OpposingSportsTeam, who may not even be negatively characterized; but there can obviously be an incentive to make such a character into an actually evil enemy.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': From the point of view of his ingredients many of whom are sentient and even human beings, Cajun Fox easily qualifies as one. Cooking is his biggest passion which along with a policy to never question his recipe book's suggestions make a recipe for disaster.

* Grandma Stuffums from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' (who attacked with waves of living food such as liver and vegetables).
** Nurse Claiborne, who first appeared in the episode ''Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E.'', was both this ''and'' a BattleAxeNurse. As a school nurse who seemed sweet and friendly, her apple crumbles were popular among the students, even Numbuh Two. Then, it turned out that she was behind the mystery epidemic of pinkeye going around the school, simply so she could use the eye crust from her patients as topping for the crumbles. She escaped at the end of the episode, but didn't learn her lesson. Her second appearance had her go into the cereal business [[spoiler: by making the sweet bits from Rainbow Monkey dolls. Including one of Numbuh 3's most prized dolls]]. Kuki was not amused.

* In the Arcade Game of the film ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the first end boss is the Butcher, a chubby pirate chef armed with a knif and a frying pan.

* In the Arcade Game of the film ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the first end boss is the Butcher, a chuffy pirate chef armed with a knif and a frying pan.