History Main / EvilChef

* In his "A Date With Markiplier" series of interactive 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]].

** ''Ride/HellsKitchen'' from 1994 had demonic, cannibalistic chefs butchering human beings.

* 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 [[PsychoKnifeNut 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]].

* 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]]).

* TheButcher and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Man from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' are both recurring villains who happen to be in professions that involve preparing food.
* Gaston Gourmand from ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' also fits the trope - even though his evilness is limited to wanting to prepare food only of endangered animals.

%%** The heroine of had one of these as her [[MyBelovedSmother mom]].

** There's the minor villain Hibachi Devil, who looks like an evil chef, though is never shown doing anything related to cooking.

* Titanium Chef and Oleander from ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack''. Titanium Chef even has an [[TomeOfEldritchLore evil recipe book]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'': During the gang's trip to medieval times in "Have Time, Will Travel", Birdie finds herself at the mercy of a chef who wants to bake her into a pie and doesn't appear to care that she is a sapient avian.

%%* Chef from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' became one in his last appearance.

%%* TheButcher and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Man from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''.

* The final boss of the 'Delicious Last Course' in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is [[spoiler:Chef Saltbaker, the patisserie chef who had sent the protagonists out on the hunt for the Wondertart ingredients in the first place; he quickly reveals the Wondertart would grant powers over the "astral plane" and it's very evident the thought of having that power went to his head. It turns out that each of these required ingredients are sentient, and he mercilessly butchers them throughout the first phase of the fight against him. Moreover, the last ingredient required is revealed to be a living soul, and he accosts whoever of the protagonists that's presently in astral form for use to this end. After he's defeated, his bakery is destroyed, and he's sentenced to community service. In time, however, he rebuilds his bakery and reintegrates into society.]]

* The final boss of the 'Delicious Last Course' in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is Chef Saltbaker, the patisserie chef who had sent the protagonists out on the hunt for the Wondertart ingredients in the first place; he quickly reveals the Wondertart would grant powers over the "astral plane" and it's very evident the thought of having that power went to his head. It turns out that each of these required ingredients are sentient, and he mercilessly butchers them throughout the first phase of the fight against him. Moreover, the last ingredient required is revealed to be a living soul, and he accosts whoever of the protagonists that's presently in astral form for use to this end. After he's defeated, his bakery is destroyed, and he's sentenced to community service. In time, however, he rebuilds his bakery and reintegrates into society.

* The final boss of the 'Delicious Last Course' in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is Chef Saltbaker, the patisserie chef who had sent the protagonists out on the hunt for the Wondertart ingredients in the first place. It turns out that each of these ingredients are sentient, and he mercilessly butchers them throughout the first phase of the fight against him. Moreover, the last ingredient required is revealed to be a living soul, and he accosts whoever of the protagonists that's presently in astral form for use to this end. After he's defeated, his bakery is destroyed, and he's sentenced to community service. In time, however, he rebuilds his bakery and reintegrates into society.

* The final boss of the 'Delicious Last Course'' in ''{{Cuphead}}'' is Chef Saltbaker, the patisserie chef who had sent the protagonists out on the hunt for the Wondertart ingredients in the first place. It turns out that each of these ingredients are sentient, and he mercilessly butchers them throughout the first phase of the fight against him. Moreover, the last ingredient required is revealed to be a living soul, and he accosts whoever of the protagonists that's presently in astral form for use to this end. After he's defeated, his bakery is destroyed, and he's sentenced to community service. In time, however, he rebuilds his bakery and reintegrates into society.

** There is also the main boss from the food world of Videogame/SuperMarioOdyssey, whose main attack moves are related to cooking instruments and foods.

Not to be confused with LethalChef, as characters listed on that page are not always evil. Nor are the characters listed here always actually bad at cooking. This is for evil/killer cooks who cause death and destruction, often by their cooking (and deliberately) while LethalChef is for people who cannot cook that often accidentally cause various effects because of how bad their cooking is. Chefs make great villains because they work with lots of different types of big [[KnifeNut knives]] and various things easily converted to weapons ([[FryingPanOfDoom frying pans]], [[RollingPinOfDoom rolling pins]], meat tenderizers...).

* 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]].

* One of the villains from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' was the Lunch Lady Ghost, the ghost of a lunch lady who goes psycho when people refuse her food.

* 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, TheSecretOfLongPorkPies, 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. Compare AngryChef, which this trope may also overlap with. Contrast SweetBaker.

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

* Monsieur Goan in ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa''.

* There was an evil (and really gross) chef named Wanze in ''Manga/OnePiece''. He fought Sanji using noodles, some of which came out of his nose.

** The heroine of had one of these as her [[MyBelovedSmother mom]].
** There's also the minor villain Hibachi Devil, who looks like an evil chef, though is never shown doing anything related to cooking.

* Louis (the seafood chef who sings "Les Poissons" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'') 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.]]
** He does seem to have an unusual pleasure in chopping up the animals he cooks, though. But as he puts it: "Don't hurt, 'cause you're dead!"
** 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.

* 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.
* The Frenchman in ''Series/GoodEats'' may qualify for this.
* 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]].
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s Soup Nazi? Well, not so much evil as oppressive to customers...
** Also, in "The Pie", the man who George competes with for the suit is revealed to be a chef at the end, and attempts to poison him with a piece of pie.
* An episode of the mini-series ''Series/ShakespeareReTold'' starred James [=McAvoy=] as a chef named Joe Macbeth.

* Wildcat in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' is not only an evil chef, he's also ThatOneBoss.

** In ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', "Chefs" were a character class, with weaponized frying pans and cooking powers.

** With a sufficiently deranged player and/or sufficiently large dose of AlternateCharacterInterpretation, the Pastamancer and Sauceror classes could fall under this trope as well.
* Chef Kawasaki was one of these in the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games, but not so much in the anime.

* The Baby Dragon Chefs from ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' and ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends''.

* Yodai [[LargeHam "Now we're BOILING!"]] Higashizawa of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

** 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 in "Operation: H.O.M.E." 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.
*** Claiborne is one of the few villains who is regarded as being insane ''even in-universe'', which is hard to do, considering what the KND's RoguesGallery is like. ''All'' of them would be labeled criminally insane if put into any remotely realistic context.

** There is also a story where Homer becomes a food critic, and the other critics tell him he gives too many good reviews so he starts insulting everyone's food (not just restaurants, but Marge, too). This makes the restaurant owners angry and a bunch of them get together to kill him with a poisoned eclair at a food fair.
** Also, in the episode ''Yokel Chords'' Bart makes up one called Dark Stanley as a prank in order to get some lunch off the kids at school- according to him, Stanley was the school cook until he went crazy from being teased about never getting a college degree and created a new dish: Kids' Heads Soup.
* Chef from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' became one in his last appearance.

* TheButcher and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Man from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''.
* Gaston Gourmand from ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' also fits the trope - even though his evilness is limitzed to wanting to prepare food only of endangered animals.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* ''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.)

* Largely averted by Larry London in ''Film/TheFreshman1990''. 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 slaughters the exotic animals that he displays, and serves beef, pork or chicken in their place as an elaborate scam. Of course, one could argue that being a scam artist makes him evil in a different way.

* ''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!
* Drayton Sawyer from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', who does all of [[CannibalClan the family's]] cooking, and even wins a state cook-off for [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies his chili]]. In fact, he credited only as "The Cook" in the [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 first]] [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 two]] films, despite being named in the second.

* The music video to "''Asylum''" by Music/{{Disturbed}} features a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic chef who keeps body parts in his fridge]]. While the protagonist is escaping from the doctors, the chef upon seeing him [[ChainsawGood chases him down with a chainsaw]], cuts him up in a GoryDiscretionShot and tosses his remains in a bloody cooking pot. The dish resulting is a stew made up of ambiguous red meats [[EyeScream garnished with an eyeball]]. [[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness This entire situation turns out to be a delusion of the patient who's actually back in his padded cell...]] [[OrWasItADream except a second later]] he's served and then [[ForceFeeding force-fed]] the same stew by the doctors [[note]]Due to the nature of the video, this is probably also a delusion and he's actually being fed normal food while the chef he saw was likely a normal chef trying to help him[[/note]]]].

* 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]].

*** On another note, Claiborne is one of the few villains who is regarded as being insane ''even in-universe'', which is hard to do, considering what the KND's RoguesGallery is like. Pretty much ''all'' of them would be labeled criminally insane if put into any remotely realistic context.

* ''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.

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. Compare AngryChef, which this trope may also overlap with. Contrast SweetBaker.

* Piecemeal from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' is a criminally insane chef.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"My meals are to ''die'' for!"]]

* Bianchi is an assassin from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' who intentionally uses her status as a LethalChef to full effect.
* Monsieur Goan in ''Anime/{{KirbyRightBackAtYa}}''.

* 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.