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* [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, [[DirtyOldMan slept with his son's wife and manipulated Gwen Stacey to sleep with him,]] coerced her kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. It's fairly stable canon that the Goblin formula doesn't make him evil; it just makes him think he can ''get away'' with being evil, along with enhancing existing mental instability.
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** [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, [[DirtyOldMan slept with his son's wife and manipulated Gwen Stacey to sleep with him,]] coerced her kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. It's fairly stable canon that the Goblin formula doesn't make him evil; it just makes him think he can ''get away'' with being evil, along with enhancing existing mental instability.
** [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, [[DirtyOldMan slept with his son's wife and manipulated Gwen Stacey to sleep with him,]] coerced her kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. It's fairly stable canon that the Goblin formula doesn't make him evil; it just makes him think he can ''get away'' with being evil, along with enhancing existing mental instability.
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* [[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan Mac Gargan, aka The Scorpion]] is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is a nihilistic [[ReligionOfEvil chaos-worshipping]] serial killer who feels absolutely no empathy for anyone or anything except his symbiote and ''maybe'' Shriek. And to top it off he's an [[AxCrazy extremely insane]] diagnosed psychopath who takes delight in murder. The 2011 "Carnage", 2012 "Carnage USA", and 2013 "Superior Carnage" story arcs revealed that the symbiote he's bonded with is even worse, but appears to have a soft spot for its host as it kept Kasady alive after the Sentry ripped him in half and left him in space, and goes to extreme lengths to get him back when they're separated.
* Solus, patriarch of the Inheritors, is a clear example, as he travels around the multiverse killing [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal-themed heroes]] simply to prolong his own life, and got his kids to help out by forcibly transforming them into life-vampires like himself.
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is a nihilistic [[ReligionOfEvil chaos-worshipping]] serial killer who feels absolutely no empathy for anyone or anything except his symbiote and ''maybe'' Shriek. And to top it off he's an [[AxCrazy extremely insane]] diagnosed psychopath who takes delight in murder. The 2011 "Carnage", 2012 "Carnage USA", and 2013 "Superior Carnage" story arcs revealed that the symbiote he's bonded with is even worse, but appears to have a soft spot for its host as it kept Kasady alive after the Sentry ripped him in half and left him in space, and goes to extreme lengths to get him back when they're separated.
* Solus, patriarch of the Inheritors, is a clear example, as he travels around the multiverse killing [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal-themed heroes]] simply to prolong his own life, and got his kids to help out by forcibly transforming them into life-vampires like himself.
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** The Thousand is quite possible the worst out of all of them. He cares for absolutely nothing but himself and only takes pleasure in hurting others, to the point he murdered his own parents for fun (but not before raping his father). As well, he has a grandiose sense of self and is extremely entitled, viewing it as a personal slight against him that Peter is a beloved superhero and he isn't despite doing nothing to warrant it.
--> '''Spider-Man:''' Doesn't life... mean anything...//
'''The Thousand:''' [[ShutUpKirk I'm drinking this idiot's liquefied brain. Does that answer your question?]]
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** The [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate]] version of Magneto takes it even further. He has a massively inflated ego, shows no empathy for anyone, treats his underlings as disposable, and literally views baseline humans as animals to be exploited and killed.
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** The [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001 Ultimate]] version of Magneto takes it even further. He has a massively inflated ego, shows no empathy for anyone, treats his underlings as disposable, and literally views baseline humans as animals to be exploited and killed.
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* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Longshot seems to be one of these, judging by the way he manipulates the X-Men (and Colossus in particular) during his time with them.
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* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001'': Longshot seems to be one of these, judging by the way he manipulates the X-Men (and Colossus in particular) during his time with them.them.
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* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one of the mooks, who claimed his sociopathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- Frank offs him before he gets to the final floors.
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* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one ComicBook/ThePunisher: The vast majority of the mooks, who claimed his sociopathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- villains [[VigilanteMan Frank offs him before he gets to Castle]] has faced over the final floors.years are characterized by being terrifyingly sociopathic, {{sadist}}ic, and violent, but [[ArchEnemy Barracuda]] from the [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX MAX]] continuity stands out in particular. Taken to disturbingly unsettling levels that could only rival [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], Barracuda is a brutal and twisted psychopath, utterly devoid of any kind of morality, ethics, or conscience. As the epitome of AxCrazy, he consistently commits crimes [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]]. [[FauxAffablyEvil Like a typical psychopath who can be charming and even entertaining]], [[LaughablyEvil he's always ready with a humorous joke]], but not even that conceals the sadistic monster he truly is.
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* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan The Scorpion]]'' is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
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* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan [[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan Mac Gargan, aka The Scorpion]]'' Scorpion]] is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
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* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGaragan The Scorpion]]'' is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
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* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGaragan ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan The Scorpion]]'' is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
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* [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, [[DirtyOldMan slept with his son's wife and manipulated Gwen Stacey to sleep with him,]] coerced her kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it doesn't change the fact that Norman was ''never'' a good person.
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* [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, [[DirtyOldMan slept with his son's wife and manipulated Gwen Stacey to sleep with him,]] coerced her kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The It's fairly stable canon that the Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it formula doesn't change make him evil; it just makes him think he can ''get away'' with being evil, along with enhancing existing mental instability.
** The original Hobgoblin is also a clear case of sociopathy. He cares for absolutely nothing but money, and eventually manages to get away with retiring because he licensed thefact that Norman was ''never'' Hobgoblin identity, giving him a good person. way to profit off lunatics becoming dangerous supervillains.
** Minor Spider-man villain White Rabbit is an exceptionally incompetent one; she's a bored young rich woman who decided to dress up in an ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' costume and commit crimes for the hell of it.
* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGaragan The Scorpion]]'' is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
** The original Hobgoblin is also a clear case of sociopathy. He cares for absolutely nothing but money, and eventually manages to get away with retiring because he licensed the
** Minor Spider-man villain White Rabbit is an exceptionally incompetent one; she's a bored young rich woman who decided to dress up in an ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' costume and commit crimes for the hell of it.
* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGaragan The Scorpion]]'' is a clear case of low-functioning sociopathy. He loves hurting people and the main stumbling block to his villainous ambitions his [[StupidEvil extremely poor impulse control]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' villain Bullseye, who lives solely to kill people.
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* [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, slept with his son's girlfriend, forced Gwen Stacey's kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it doesn't change the fact that Norman was ''never'' a good person.
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* [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, [[DirtyOldMan slept with his son's girlfriend, forced wife and manipulated Gwen Stacey's Stacey to sleep with him,]] coerced her kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it doesn't change the fact that Norman was ''never'' a good person.
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* Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin), Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, slept with his son's girlfriend, forced Gwen Stacey's kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it doesn't change the fact that Norman was ''never'' a good person.
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* [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin), Goblin)]], Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, slept with his son's girlfriend, forced Gwen Stacey's kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it doesn't change the fact that Norman was ''never'' a good person.
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* Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin), Spider-Man's ArchEnemy. He's a ruthless, unscrupulous and bigoted schemer who constantly uses everyone around him, hurts innocents with hardly any remorse, slept with his son's girlfriend, forced Gwen Stacey's kids to hate Peter and tricked them into thinking he was their father (when ''he'' was) and goes out of his way to make Peter's life miserable. The Goblin persona makes him ''even worse'' than he normally would be. While he does have one or two lines he won't cross and (DependingOnTheWriter) may love his son Harry, it doesn't change the fact that Norman was ''never'' a good person.
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** The [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate]] version of Magneto takes it even further. He literally views baseline humans as animals to be exploited and killed.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'''s son ComicBook/{{Daken}}; he hates his father and cares for no-one but himself, and compared to X-23 he believes in using his powers to get what he wants, and kill off anyone who gets in his way.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one of the mooks, who claimed his socipathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- Frank offs him before he gets to the final floors.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one of the mooks, who claimed his socipathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- Frank offs him before he gets to the final floors.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'''s son ComicBook/{{Daken}}; he hates his father and cares for no-one but himself, and compared to unlike X-23 he believes in has no problem using his powers to get what he wants, wants and kill off anyone who gets in his way.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one of the mooks, who claimed hissocipathic sociopathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- Frank offs him before he gets to the final floors.
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* Alfie O'Meagan from ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja'' is a textbook example: he tortures small animals, shamelessly lies and shifts the blame to others, has sudden outbursts of anger and arrogance, and lacks any sympathy or empathy for others. Problem is, he's also a RealityWarper and the most powerful being on Earth.
* There is ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, who wants nothing more than to torment Wolverine and kill as many people along the way with glee. But he has had a select very few people he cared for. It's been stated he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas loved his mother]], and financially took care of her after he killed his [[AbusiveParent father]]. He also visited her every two weeks, and put her in the best nursing home in the country when she got ill. Another example would be Bonnie, a human woman he had a brief relationship with after saving her. They spent the night together afterward, and Sabretooth promised to keep her safe with him. He ends up having to kill her-- the only woman he cared for who felt the same way about him-- which shattered him.
* DependingOnTheWriter, ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. While his intentions are far more noble than most characters on this list (at least post-Creator/ChrisClaremont CharacterDevelopment) he is also consistently written to Charles Xavier's {{Foil}}, and while Charles is (ironically) a MagneticHero who makes his X-Men a FamilyOfChoice, Magneto is more often than not a BadBoss who, in spite of his lofty goals, treats the actual ''people'' supporting him as little more than expendable pawns on his chessboard. A special mention should be made for his characterization under Creator/GrantMorrison, who chose to write Magneto as an ''obvious'' sociopath, so much so that he crossed the line into blatantly StupidEvil. This characterization proved to be too much for fans to swallow, and a quick RetCon established the Morrison Magneto as an impostor.
** The [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate]] version of Magneto takes it even further. He literally views baseline humans as animals to be exploited and killed.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' villain Bullseye, who lives solely to kill people.
** Purple Man, also from Daredevil, has mind control phermones, which he uses to rape and kill [[FortheEvulz for fun]]. He tortured ''ComicBook/JessicaJones'' by raping women in front of her, and using his powers to [[ForcedToWatch make her watch him]]. He also once made an entire restaurant stop breathing.
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is a nihilistic [[ReligionOfEvil chaos-worshipping]] serial killer who feels absolutely no empathy for anyone or anything except his symbiote and ''maybe'' Shriek. And to top it off he's an [[AxCrazy extremely insane]] diagnosed psychopath who takes delight in murder. The 2011 "Carnage", 2012 "Carnage USA", and 2013 "Superior Carnage" story arcs revealed that the symbiote he's bonded with is even worse, but appears to have a soft spot for its host as it kept Kasady alive after the Sentry ripped him in half and left him in space, and goes to extreme lengths to get him back when they're separated.
* ComicBook/RedSkull, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Captain America's]] ArchEnemy, fits the bill of a textbook sociopath to a T - LackOfEmpathy, TheUnfettered, [[TheCorrupter a]] [[TheCharmer charismatic]] [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]], EvilCannotComprehendGood and unable to form meaningful relationships. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded here]] by Captain America himself.
-->'''Captain America''': His eyes, unfathomably empty, [[LackOfEmpathy devoid of all compassion]]... [[TheUnfettered all humanity]]... No one has eyes like that... no one!
* Dr. Zander Rice, the surgical head and lead scientist on the Facility's attempt to recreate [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Weapon X]]. He tortures and abuses the preteen ComicBook/{{X 23}} with beatings, treating her as if she were just a thing or animal, exposure to lethal doses of radiation to jump-start her healing factor, by performing the surgery to bond her claws with adamantium a few weeks later by ''refusing'' her anasthesia, subjecting her to brutal TrainingFromHell, and using electric shock and waterboarding to condition her to the trigger scent. Rice is shown to be sleeping with his boss's, Martin Suuter's, wife, even though Sutter ''practically raised him'' after Wolverine killed his father, and eventually fathered a child with her. He tests the trigger scent on X-23's martial arts instructor, one of the only people who treated her like an actual human being, precisely for ''that reason''. After a botched attempt to have X-23 killed, he manipulates Sutter to gain control of the program for himself, and then has him ''and'' have his inconvenient mistress killed when she threatens to confess to their affair, by sending X-23 to kill Sutter, his wife, and their son (even though he knows the boy is ''his own child''). And then he arranges to have X-23's creator and mother killed by tainting her with the trigger scent to wrap up the last loose end on the project. And throughout the entire project, Rice has Sutter wrapped so tightly around his finger by playing the loving foster son that Sutter is completely blinded to what Rice ''really'' is. He [[KickTheDog kicks one dog after another]], to the point even Wolverine killing his father isn't enough to make him sympathetic.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'''s son ComicBook/{{Daken}}; he hates his father and cares for no-one but himself, and compared to X-23 he believes in using his powers to get what he wants, and kill off anyone who gets in his way.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one of the mooks, who claimed his socipathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- Frank offs him before he gets to the final floors.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Longshot seems to be one of these, judging by the way he manipulates the X-Men (and Colossus in particular) during his time with them.
* Alfie O'Meagan from ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja'' is a textbook example: he tortures small animals, shamelessly lies and shifts the blame to others, has sudden outbursts of anger and arrogance, and lacks any sympathy or empathy for others. Problem is, he's also a RealityWarper and the most powerful being on Earth.
* There is ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, who wants nothing more than to torment Wolverine and kill as many people along the way with glee. But he has had a select very few people he cared for. It's been stated he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas loved his mother]], and financially took care of her after he killed his [[AbusiveParent father]]. He also visited her every two weeks, and put her in the best nursing home in the country when she got ill. Another example would be Bonnie, a human woman he had a brief relationship with after saving her. They spent the night together afterward, and Sabretooth promised to keep her safe with him. He ends up having to kill her-- the only woman he cared for who felt the same way about him-- which shattered him.
* DependingOnTheWriter, ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. While his intentions are far more noble than most characters on this list (at least post-Creator/ChrisClaremont CharacterDevelopment) he is also consistently written to Charles Xavier's {{Foil}}, and while Charles is (ironically) a MagneticHero who makes his X-Men a FamilyOfChoice, Magneto is more often than not a BadBoss who, in spite of his lofty goals, treats the actual ''people'' supporting him as little more than expendable pawns on his chessboard. A special mention should be made for his characterization under Creator/GrantMorrison, who chose to write Magneto as an ''obvious'' sociopath, so much so that he crossed the line into blatantly StupidEvil. This characterization proved to be too much for fans to swallow, and a quick RetCon established the Morrison Magneto as an impostor.
** The [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate]] version of Magneto takes it even further. He literally views baseline humans as animals to be exploited and killed.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' villain Bullseye, who lives solely to kill people.
** Purple Man, also from Daredevil, has mind control phermones, which he uses to rape and kill [[FortheEvulz for fun]]. He tortured ''ComicBook/JessicaJones'' by raping women in front of her, and using his powers to [[ForcedToWatch make her watch him]]. He also once made an entire restaurant stop breathing.
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is a nihilistic [[ReligionOfEvil chaos-worshipping]] serial killer who feels absolutely no empathy for anyone or anything except his symbiote and ''maybe'' Shriek. And to top it off he's an [[AxCrazy extremely insane]] diagnosed psychopath who takes delight in murder. The 2011 "Carnage", 2012 "Carnage USA", and 2013 "Superior Carnage" story arcs revealed that the symbiote he's bonded with is even worse, but appears to have a soft spot for its host as it kept Kasady alive after the Sentry ripped him in half and left him in space, and goes to extreme lengths to get him back when they're separated.
* ComicBook/RedSkull, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Captain America's]] ArchEnemy, fits the bill of a textbook sociopath to a T - LackOfEmpathy, TheUnfettered, [[TheCorrupter a]] [[TheCharmer charismatic]] [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]], EvilCannotComprehendGood and unable to form meaningful relationships. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded here]] by Captain America himself.
-->'''Captain America''': His eyes, unfathomably empty, [[LackOfEmpathy devoid of all compassion]]... [[TheUnfettered all humanity]]... No one has eyes like that... no one!
* Dr. Zander Rice, the surgical head and lead scientist on the Facility's attempt to recreate [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Weapon X]]. He tortures and abuses the preteen ComicBook/{{X 23}} with beatings, treating her as if she were just a thing or animal, exposure to lethal doses of radiation to jump-start her healing factor, by performing the surgery to bond her claws with adamantium a few weeks later by ''refusing'' her anasthesia, subjecting her to brutal TrainingFromHell, and using electric shock and waterboarding to condition her to the trigger scent. Rice is shown to be sleeping with his boss's, Martin Suuter's, wife, even though Sutter ''practically raised him'' after Wolverine killed his father, and eventually fathered a child with her. He tests the trigger scent on X-23's martial arts instructor, one of the only people who treated her like an actual human being, precisely for ''that reason''. After a botched attempt to have X-23 killed, he manipulates Sutter to gain control of the program for himself, and then has him ''and'' have his inconvenient mistress killed when she threatens to confess to their affair, by sending X-23 to kill Sutter, his wife, and their son (even though he knows the boy is ''his own child''). And then he arranges to have X-23's creator and mother killed by tainting her with the trigger scent to wrap up the last loose end on the project. And throughout the entire project, Rice has Sutter wrapped so tightly around his finger by playing the loving foster son that Sutter is completely blinded to what Rice ''really'' is. He [[KickTheDog kicks one dog after another]], to the point even Wolverine killing his father isn't enough to make him sympathetic.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'''s son ComicBook/{{Daken}}; he hates his father and cares for no-one but himself, and compared to X-23 he believes in using his powers to get what he wants, and kill off anyone who gets in his way.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher once got into the super-secure apartment tower of a prostitution ring with the help of one of the mooks, who claimed his socipathic tendencies were actually what got him the job. And indeed, he does nothing but enjoy the show floor after floor, smirking as his colleagues are offed in ever-more inventive ways (Frank posed as a janitor to get in). He doesn't enjoy it for long though- Frank offs him before he gets to the final floors.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Longshot seems to be one of these, judging by the way he manipulates the X-Men (and Colossus in particular) during his time with them.
