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  • In The Acts of Caine series, Berne. At one point, he is revealed to have two sex slaves, one male and one female. He does not treat them gently. Oh, and they're twins.
  • In The Age of Innocence, Count Olenski, Ellen Olenska's husband, is implied by a snide comment to include men in his copious infidelities as well as women.
  • Tania in Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series — at least until her Power of Love-fueled Heel–Face Turn.
  • Asian Saga: Yabu from Shogun is an overly-ambiguous daimyo who has sex with a female and male prostitute at the same time while listening to the sounds of a guy being tortured to death on his orders.
  • Jadestone Doll from Aztec. She's the daughter of Ahuitzotl (the Mexica king) and the youngest wife of Nezahaulpili (the other most powerful king). She brings in male lovers and one female lover... then has them murdered and boils the meat off their skeletons to make clay statues.
  • Baccano!:
    • Graham Specter is Ax-Crazy, as in he considers taking things and people apart to be a beautiful goal in life. Also, he has No Sense of Personal Space around men and his bromantic fanboying of Ladd—and liking Jacuzzi—certainly says much, but he also stated that he prefers older woman. Also, his "first love" was his sister. He briefly takes a liking to Chane, but it has probably more or less to do with Chane being a beautiful girl and a Worthy Opponent and Graham having a bit of an In Love with Your Carnage moment while they were fighting. Also, in the light novels, he falls in love with Huey's homunculus, Sickle. There's also his offhand comments about other men's attractiveness ("Firo, or whatever his name was… Who could have expected such a cute face to ever be capable of such horrifying cruelty?")
    • Ladd Russo himself. In the licensed game, you can make him marry Claire, but he still admits that he still loves Lua, but not as much as Claire.
  • Beautiful Losers:
    • F., who sleeps with anyone, is a Mad Bomber and terrorist with vague Nazi allegiances who manipulates everyone around him.
    • One of F.'s goals seems to be to manipulate the narrator (who is also bisexual) into embracing perversity and depravity. He seems to have succeeded by the end, as the narrator has become a Dirty Old Man who preys on neighborhood children.
  • Blood Meridian: Judge Holden is, among other things, a Con Man whose Establishing Character Moment is fooling a mob into murdering a priest for crimes he made up on the fly. Later he tries his hand as scalp hunter and is also a pedophile rapist whose victims include boys and girls alike. The ending of the book implies that he might not even be human.
  • Russian assassin/terrorist Nadya Malovo from Robert K. Tanenbaum's Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi legal thriller novels. She actually prefers women over men, but she'll use her seductions on anyone in order to manipulate them.
  • In Chronicles of Blood and Stone, all the sorceresses automatically become this when they start using dark magic, except for their leader Failee who claims to have grown out of it and isn't much interested in sex at all.
  • Prince Bayard in The Chronicles of Magravandias. He kills without a care and is known to torture, beat, and rape people for not giving him what he wants. His lovers can't even be mentioned in polite company half the time.
  • John Parlabane of Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy rhapsodizes at length about his relationships with men in The Rebel Angels, and in The Lyre of Orpheus another character turns up claiming to be his son by a married woman. Parlabane's general attitude is that nothing ever goes well for him in life because no one can handle his intellect, his talent, or his lack of constraint by social mores. At the end of The Rebel Angels, it is revealed that he has been engaged in a kinky, drug-fuelled john/prostitute relationship with Urquhart McVarish, whom he subsequently murders before committing suicide. In his suicide note, he states that he did this in part to improve his chances of getting his novel published.
  • In The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov, after one of the nobles ruling Sark states that his personal secretary has been Mind Raped into complete obedience with a Psychic Probe, he briefly notes that another one of the nobles is reputed to have a taste for similarly Mind Raped sex slaves, both male and female.
  • It would be much easier to list all the characters who don't fit this bill in the works of the Marquis de Sade. Sade was himself a depraved bisexual who strove to live exactly as his characters did, and argued passionately for the decriminalization of every crime — including murder. In his stories, characters are either severely depraved bisexuals or become severely depraved bisexuals, and that's to say nothing of everyone else who fits neither category — condemned as wrong for having morals and then subjected to the most unimaginable tortures and murder purely for the sake of amusing someone else.
  • Both used and subverted in Dream Park. There are three confirmed bisexual characters, all male. One is a blackmailer who becomes a murder victim, the second is the blackmail victim and murderer, and the third is a perfectly well-adjusted guy who attempts to seduce practically the entire cast, but is always portrayed as nothing less than a perfect gentleman.
  • The Dresden Files:
    • Maeve, the Winter Lady.
    • A lot of the Raiths. They're happy to do whatever gives them sex power. At one point, Lara flirts with both Harry and Luccio in the same scene.
  • Oddly, every other character in Lloyd Rose's Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels. There are at least two villains who gently caress the Doctor while doing bad things to him, and the Doctor seems to have a bit of fun with this trope himself, flirting with Anti-Villain Sabbath and amplifying his usual No Sense of Personal Space. (The Doctor is also fairly clearly stated to be bisexual, but he's usually almost a Chaste Hero unless someone really catches his eye or he sees an opportunity to flirt annoyingly.) To be fair, Sabbath literally stole the Doctor's heart, and should have known a Pungeon Master like the Doctor wasn't going to let that one go lightly.
  • Malkar Gennadion (a.k.a. a lot of other things) is both the most prominent bisexual in Doctrine of Labyrinths as well its Big Bad. Aside from sex (invariably sadistic, manipulative, or both) with both men and women, he satisfies the "depraved" requirement by committing rape, Mind Rape, kidnapping, torture, and gruesome murder For the Evulz. Simon, although a less significant character, averts the trope — he's "janus" and a basically decent person.
  • Durarara!!:
    • Ran Izumii. He's threatened at least two women with rape after breaking their legs, and it's heavily implied he raped his little brother Aoba in addition to his physical abuse towards him.
    • After Erika discovers Anri is the wielder of Saika, she wastes no time in groping Anri and feeling all over her body to find that sword, all while Anri laughs because she's ticklish. Kadota ends up restraining her. Moreover, when Anri first tries to spill the beans about Saika, Erika assumes that she's trying to blurt out a "yuri confession" and she admits to liking both boys and girls. And later she fantasises about becoming Anri's familiar if Anri were to stab her with Saika. She also has a tendency to gush over guy love and has "hobbies" which includes acting out manga torture scenes.
    • Izaya is hinted to be interested in girls when he tells a girl who tries to kill him that he loves her and wants to become her boyfriend. He also "loves humanity" and has a mutual fascination with Mikado whom he calls "cute" and "humanity itself".
  • Characters in Bret Easton Ellis novels. A huge number of his characters are casually bisexual males from different ends of the spectrum, and almost all of his characters are completely morally depraved and shallow. This is most notable in The Informers where every male would appear to be a shallow, blonde, Californian bisexual boy toy who is possibly a vampire. However, some notable exceptions are Paul in The Rules of Attraction, Clay in Less Than Zero and Victor in Glamorama — all different sorts of bisexuals, and flawed as characters in several ways, but ultimately the heroes of their stories in their shallow little universe.
  • Empire of the Vampire: Whether vampires start out as straight, gay or anything in between, they all eventually tend to fall into this trope. As one of them puts it, after years of immortality, all the differences sink into eternity in their perception, physical beauty being the only deciding feature when it comes to lovers.
  • Eon: Dragoneye Reborn: Big Bad Sethon is infamous for frequently hosting orgies where he'd hire and abuse Blossom women (i.e. prostitutes). When the main characters try to infiltrate the palace by disguising as Blossom women, they are helped by a young eunuch who is implied to have been another victim of the Emperor's sexual abuse.
    "Sethon does not limit himself to Blossom women."
  • Gauron from Full Metal Panic!; Kalinin describes him as "dissolute and given up to hedonism", which is a nice way of saying "depraved" or "lax in morals". There are implications that his relationship with the twins Yu Fan and Yu Lan are not limited to the normal father-daughter kind: Being raised by him, they are shown to be rather knowledgeable at how to seduce men, they "wipe his body down," and are completely devastated when they learn that he doesn't have much longer to live; they willingly undertake a suicide mission at his behest rather than outlive him, and are shown to be completely devoid of happiness, save for what little they can gain from being reunited with their Sensei despite the circumstances. On the other hand, he canonically is obsessively in love with Sousuke (in his own twisted way), to the point where he was unable to forget about "beautiful" 12-year-old Sousuke since their first meeting five years ago. And if the implications of that weren't depraved enough, he also exhibits necrophiliac tendencies, having apparently fantasized fucking Sousuke's corpse after killing him. Though, in the novels, the twins are male.
    • In the novels, he once had a thing with a female scientist and strangled her on one occasion. They both seemed to get off on it, as Gauron even lampshades it by mocking her, asking her if she actually likes making him angry, and actually wants him to hurt her. He says this with a perfect mixture of "coldness and joy," and she responds by gasping with "pain and ecstasy."
    • In the novels, being the sick pervert he is, he shows interest in humiliating and possibly molesting/raping Tessa (to "break" her spirit, since he's annoyed with "righteous" people). He makes it very clear to the other submarine personnel that if they try to do anything, he will do "X-rated" things to the cute captain. When she acts defiant toward him, it "pleased him from the bottom of his heart," and he exclaims "Ohhh, she's cute!" and proceeds to jokingly ask the Mithril traitors if they're sure they want to leave since this place seems like a nice place to work.
  • Heavily implied with Rodrick Rand, the deranged movie star in Get Blank. Sure, he wanted to hunt a couple of people, but did he really need them in a bikini and a banana hammock?
  • William "Wild Bill" Wharton from The Green Mile doesn't just like little girls... he also likes annoying jerkasses like Percy Wetmore. He's the one who actually murdered the two girls who Coffey is on death row for.
  • Haruhi Suzumiya: The title character openly states she is bisexual, but sometimes she seems to take it a bit too far with Mikuru. At one point in the 8th novel, Haruhi also wrestled Kyon and stripped him of his blazer. The grappling techniques she used were mount and guard. Kyon thought "Is stripping Asahina-san not enough for you, you perverted girl!?" and called it "reverse sexual harassment". It leads to a classic Not What It Looks Like scene. In the novels, she also once actually reached up Mikuru's skirt before Kyon intervened.
  • From the Honor Harrington novella Let's Dance!, the commander of the Casimir depot, Edytá Sokolowska, is said to be into both physical and psychological torture of her "toys", including the threat of the prepubescent children of said "toys" being given to the station's XO, Julian Watanabe, who is no less of a torturer, if given more to the physical kind.
  • In the Hurog duology, the rapists seem to go after both sexes, and Ward suspects some of his male ancestors (who were married to women) to have raped their pretty slave boy. It remains unclear whether that is to drive home the point that rape is not about attraction but about cruelty, or whether those rapists are truly Depraved Bisexuals.
  • Luce Daggett, the villain of Colleen McCullough's Indecent Obsession. His backstory is as a gigolo who serviced both men and women regardless of his own preferences and is used as an example of his manipulative nature, but his bisexuality is also genuine and shown as part of his evil in itself, as he's an omnivorous sexual threat. His explanation to the heroine of why he's hitting on her when he hit on another man a few days ago is "young, old, male, female — it's all meat to me", which causes her to react with "revulsion" and tell him that he's damned. His final confrontation against Michael is also charged with sexual violence. In contrast, the homosexual characters in the book are portrayed as ranging from good to saintly.
  • Inkmistress: Ina has been with both a girl and boy. She's a ruthless girl who only used her lovers for her gain and grows increasingly bloodthirsty. It's downplayed however as her ex-girlfriend Asra is bisexual as well and isn't at all like this.
  • Charles Morel in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Given the time period, the Narrator and others hold homosexuality/bisexuality itself somewhat depraved (although he does at one point attempt to reconcile Morel and Charlus), but Morel in particular is exceptionally manipulative and callous, casually toying with Charlus's emotions and attempting to seduce Jupien's niece with the premeditated goal of making her fall in love with him just to harshen the blow of him leaving her. It's presented as ironic that at the end of the book(s) he's repaired his reputation completely, although it's not clear whether he's actually changed his ways.
  • Island in the Sea of Time (Series): The chief henchwoman of the Big Bad, William Walker, is Alice Hong, a psychotically dangerous, sadistic, and bisexual surgeon, nicknamed the Lady of Pain.
  • IT: Patrick Hocksetter fondles the girls in his class, masturbates Henry, and offers him oral sex.
  • Jaine Austen Mysteries: The killers of Dean Oliver in Murder Has Nine Lives turn out to be his wife Linda and his lover Camille Townsend, who have been hooking up for a while.
  • Max Aue from Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones is a homicidal sociopath (as well as a SS officer who took part in the Holocaust). As an added bonus, his preferences are the result of his obsessive love/lust for his twin sister.
  • Nicolas Bullen in The Kingdom of Little Wounds, who if he isn't attracted to men, he's willing to act like it if it gets him a step up the ladder. And then when that man dies, he's willing to act like that man's ten-year-old daughter attracts him instead.
  • Melisande Shahrizai, of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series. She is utterly evil and sadistic. Then again, everyone in Terre D'Ange is bi, so there was bound to be some evil people thrown in the mix. Aversions: Phedre, Alcuin, and Delaunay.
  • While Mercedes Lackey is quite happy to write sympathetic gay characters, she has strange ideas about bisexuality that verge on No Bisexuals - anyone she who she writes who enjoys sex with both men and women isn't really attracted to more than one but is actually out for the sense of power over their 'partners', and just doesn't want to limit that pool to half the population. Any such character she writes is a maniac who engages in every sort of sexual depravity possible aside from necrophilia, and that's only because they can't hurt someone who's already dead. Everything else is on the table: torture (the moment someone hints at the slightest interest in consensual bondage, they're destined to wind up as a brutal sadist), incest in every combination imaginable, mutilating people just to create novel sex toys, you name it. She always puts in an Abuse Discretion Shot but will still describe some things. Some notable examples:
    • The Big Bad of Heralds of Valdemar is in his "Falconsbane" incarnation in the Mage Winds trilogy. He's magically mutilated his daughter Nyara into a Sexy Cat Person whose response to being hurt is to go into a state of mindless lust; he also captures a Tayledras man and makes him into a Manchurian Agent mainly by means of Mind Rape and... regular rape, while Nyara is chained to the wall and made to watch. Both of those victims are rehabilitated when away from him.
    • In the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy, a previous incarnation of Falconsbane assaults an unnamed girl to throw her back to her community drooling and insensate as a show of his power and their inability to protect themselves from him. He's also very much attracted to Vanyel, saying that he'll have him with or without his mind.
    • The Endarkened in The Obsidian Trilogy are demons whose magic is fueled by death and torture, whether that's of captured humans and other races of the Light or their own kind, and they like to throw in sexual menace too. The greater focus is on Queen Savilla pairing off with her son, but they double-team a Dark Elf emissary and combine sleeping with him, torturing him, and consuming him.
    • The closest she's been to averting this is with Eric in the first Bedlam's Bard novel, who is straight but finds himself intensely attracted to the Elfeminate Korendil, who on top of that is also interested in the same witch Eric likes! By the end of the book they've all come together to make a happy throuple. However in the next novel, while they all live together and share a bed and a shower, Eric and Kory are attracted to Beth but don't seem interested in each other, not so much as touching when she's not present. In future novels Eric's amicably separated from Beth and in narration never regards Kory as anything other than a friend, making it a case of No Bisexuals. This same series includes an evil bisexual producer of snuff films, of course.
  • The Legend of Drizzt: Gauntlgrym contains one of the first, if not the first openly bisexual character in the Forgotten Realms novels. The character, Dahlia Sin'felle, was the victim of rape when she was a child, is a sexual sadist, a serial killer, and a rapist in her own right.
  • The Lost Symbol: While he's a depraved asexual by the time of the story, a throwaway line mentions that Mal'akh used to occasionally enjoy the company of young men in addition to women. Pretty much a classic example of this trope, as making Mal'akh bi doesn't serve any purpose other than to make him even "stranger".
  • The necromancer-villain of Deborah Turner Harris's Mages of Garillon series, Borthen Berigeld, almost certainly physically as well as morally seduced a secondary antagonist character Mage-Inquisitor Earlis ap Eadric into his service; though it's never explicitly confirmed, the character's behaviour — even to the point of turning upon Berigeld when he sees the necromancer later bedding a woman — is note-perfectly that of a mesmerized and then betrayed lover.
  • The Errant in the Malazan Book of the Fallen falls into the slightly less pathological type listed in the description. He sees sex as just one of the many tools he can use to manipulate people while he is trying to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. His official occupation in Midnight Tides is to be the First Consort of the queen, but he also shares the bed with other male servants and his own son, who, at least, doesn't know that he is his son. Chancellor Triban Gnol, the aforementioned son, on the other hand, is not above sating his own depraved tendencies on children, making even the Errant go Squick.
  • Mitsuko in Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's novel Manji (or Quicksand), a chilling sexual Chessmaster despite her tender age. With the help of a small-time ruffian (which she also sleeps with), she plays victim and manipulates the emotions of housewife Sonoko, and then, having also seduced Sonoko's husband, drives the couple into reciprocal suspicion. She reaps the benefit of their emotional wreckage, gains total control over their sex life, plus their adoration befitting a goddess.
  • George Mellis in the Sidney Sheldon novel Master of the Game is a sexual sadist to boot. His first scene is of him beating and sodomizing Eve Blackwell, who was perfectly eager to have sex with him before discovering his true nature — there are frequent descriptions of him going to bars and picking up women or men and leaving them broken and battered.
  • Millennium Series:
    • Lisbeth Salander is a rare sympathetic example, being simultaneously bisexual, Ax-Crazy, and awesome.
    • In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the long-dead Gottfried Vanger is revealed to have raped and groomed his two children Harriet and Martin into becoming serial killers/rapists like him. He succeeded with Martin, but not with Harriet, who escaped. Martin himself is a more downplayed example; all his victims were female and he doesn't seem interested in men normally, but when he has protagonist Mikael tied up in his murder basement he plans to rape him anyway because that's just how it works down there.
    • In The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, Benito Andersson — the Alpha Bitch at Flodberga Prison — has had a string of male and female lovers on the outside, and is grooming inmate Faria Kazi to be her sex slave.
  • There's a scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street: Suffer The Children that's quite... disturbing.
    Freddy Krueger: Come to daddy, Peter... [starts licking Peter's face and rubbing it with his bleeding stump of a hand]
  • In The Night's Dawn Trilogy, there is exactly one bisexual: the satanic cult member/anti-Christ/messiah of the coming apocalypse, Quinn Dexter, whose sexual depravity is constantly shown as being one of the most important facets of his character. He murders, tortures, rapes and mind rapes almost everyone he comes across and opens millions to possession by the spirits of the dead. In the third book, we finally meet the person who turned him into who he is now... a depraved hermaphrodite.
  • A top No. 6 official in Chapter 14 rather pervertedly hits on Dogkeeper because he thinks she's a prostitute and also hits on Nezumi. Nezumi puts him out of his misery.
  • Jennesta from Orcs is a tyrannical half-human half-Nyadd queen who gets her rocks off on raping both men and women of any species. It isn't purely for her sexual gratification, however — after she's finished with them, she proceeds to brutally murder them almost immediately, before devouring their hearts to replenish her magic.
  • Jonathan Randall in the Outlander book series, by virtue of being an equal opportunity sadistic rapist who, as confirmed by Word of God, only prefers men because they break better. The author is extremely careful to make this clear in the Outlandish Companion guidebook and seems somewhat disturbed that people take his depravity and bisexuality as being directly related.
  • Mrs. Jewkes from Samuel Richardson's Pamela:
    Every now and then she would be staring in my face, in the chariot, and squeezing my hand, and saying, Why, you are very pretty, my silent dear! And once she offered to kiss me. But I said, I don't like this sort of carriage, Mrs. Jewkes; it is not like two persons of one sex. She fell a laughing very confidently, and said, That's prettily said, I vow! Then thou hadst rather be kissed by the other sex? 'Ifackins, I commend thee for that!
  • Male Chatcaava in Paradox are pretty much an entire race of Depraved Bisexuals. Females are treated as possessions and sex toys/breeders, while males assert their dominance in the Empire's hierarchy by raping each other. In Even the Wingless the ambassador from the Alliance tries to understand this attitude and decides he needs to seduce the Emperor.
  • Penance:
    • Dolly is bisexual and apparently tortured Joan and set her on fire because she was flirting with Dolly's girlfriend Jayde. While that was the theoretic trigger, there's plenty more to it than that.
    • Matty from the (fictional) Cherry Creek massacre is heavily headcanoned as being bisexual by his in-universe loony fans. He is known to have asked out a girl, but he is also believed to have raped Brian, his co-conspirator in the shooting, as he died from a gunshot wound. Despite this, Matty and Brian are an extremely popular "ship" in-universe and Matty is portrayed as a brooding Byronic Hero.
  • In James Kirkwood's PS: Your Cat Is Dead, Jimmy sees Vito as a depraved bisexual initially. Crazy Carmine actually turns out to be depraved, however, or at least refuses to take 'no' for an answer until forced to.
  • Another early example was E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories. Hornung intended the stories to subvert the glamour of the Gentleman Thief and to provide Evil Counterparts to his brother-in-law Arthur Conan Doyle's characters, Holmes and Watson. Unlike most gentlemen thieves, Raffles is more Villain Protagonist than Anti-Hero, and steals to pay his bills. His relationship with victim/chronicler/Cowardly Sidekick Bunny is possibly a very close friendship, but is speculated by fans and critics alike to be a gay romance (especially since Raffles was based partly on Oscar Wilde and partly on LGBT activist George Ives). The way Raffles is shown relating to Bunny is fairly exploitative and emotionally abusive. Hornung was frustrated that his readers insisted on seeing Raffles as glamorous anyhow; his later stories, where he portrayed Raffles more brutally, were less popular. More recent takes on Raffles invariably go the Robin Hood, detective, or other hero route.
  • Kavinsky in The Raven Cycle: The Dream Thieves deals drugs, steals, street races, and that's not even getting into the kidnapping, blackmail, and attempted murder. He's been known as a user and abuser when it comes to women, but he also has positively massive amounts of subtext with Ronan. Whenever he's not fighting or goading Ronan, he's flirting with him.
  • The titular character in Rebecca is implied to be bisexual, and the unnamed narrator's fixation with every aspect of her, from her handwriting to her perfume, doesn't exactly give off straight vibes either. Daphne du Maurier herself was about as openly bisexual as you could be in that era, and had affairs with numerous women.
  • The Rose Of The Prophet: Auda is a coldly violent assassin who serves a brutal Religion of Evil. He hits relentlessly on Mathew (starting when he was Disguised in Drag but also afterward), a foreign Long-Haired Pretty Boy, and Zohra (a Tomboy Princess) as well. Also his affection toward Khardan easily comes off as likely more than just fraternal. He's rather complex though, as despite being evil Auda genuinely does love some people, with nobility in his way.
  • The Savior's Series: Kaleo is one of the main villains of the first two novels and is implied to be attracted to both men and women; in addition to being a sadistic Blood Knight, he makes some repulsive sexual comments towards Leila and threatens to rape Tobias at one point.
  • Second Apocalypse The Inchoroi are a depraved, intergalactic "race of lovers" who apparently explore every possible pleasure of the flesh, making them more omnisexual than bisexual.
  • In S. M. Stirling's Shadowspawn series, the entire titular race.
  • Lampshaded in A Song For Nero by Tom Holt. As Nero (on the run after faking his death in the Year of the Four Emperors) says: "When you're emperor of the known world, people expect things! You can't just say 'no, I'd rather sit down and read a book' when they bring on the Libyan eunuchs crawling around on all fours in tigerskins!"
  • Orson Scott Card's Songmaster includes a major character named Josif who is introduced as homosexual, enters a heterosexual relationship with the statement that he is '60% attracted to men, 38% attracted to women, and 2% attracted to sheep,' and ends his sexual career unable to control his urges toward a barely pubescent child, making him at least a homosexual hebephile. No meaningful counterexamples exist in the setting, in part because most of the book centers around pederasty.
  • A Song of Ice and Fire has several characters like this.
    • In-universe, Oberyn Martell is viewed as one by most of the other nobles of Westeros. He has a lot of bastards, is often said to have sex with men, and is not looked on favorably for his crippling of the heir to Highgarden at a tourney years ago, and his penchant for fighting with poisoned weapons. Also his long-term paramour — basically his wife, except they're not married — is a bastard daughter, which makes her a completely unfit consort for the brother of a great lord in the eyes of the rest of Westeros. It's hard to say Oberyn actually evil or crazy, though, and the judgment of his sexuality is largely a cultural clash between the looser Dornish and the more judgmental northern Westerosi.
    • By the time of A Dance With Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen has received this reputation of Depraved Omnisexual in Volantis and Slaver's Bay, courtesy of the many wild-running rumors about her. While Daenerys is a flawed person, she's generally one of the more compassionate and well-intentioned characters in the series. As for her lovers, she does have sexual encounters with her handmaiden Irri, but it's indicated to be a case of Situational Sexuality because she cannot trust the men around her, before giving in and taking Daario Naharis as her paramour.
    • Rorge loves to rape little girls and threatened to rape Arya when he thought she was a boy.
    • Cersei Lannister is a cruel, vain, self-absorbed queen who has affairs with several men (including her twin brother) and her lady-in-waiting Taena. She specifically has sex with Taena so she can experience what it's like to be 'the man' in a relationship (Cersei deeply resents how misogynistic Westeros is, though in her case it tends to manifest as internalized misogyny). However, Cersei doesn't much enjoy having sex with Taena.
    • Euron Greyjoy is among the most evil people in the series, which is really saying something considering the psychopaths like Ramsay Snow and Gregor Clegane. Euron is a serial rapist and he raped his brother’s wife which forced Victarion, in his Iron Islands style of honor, to kill his wife. But she wasn’t the first one. It’s implied and then revealed that Euron actually raped two of his own brothers, Aeron and Urrigon.
  • In S.L. Viehl's Stardoc series, Rico in Shockball is the most obvious example.
  • Star Wars Legends: In additionally to Jabba lusting over his female slaves as shown in the movies, the EU indicates he had male pleasure slaves too.
  • Time Scout, Jack the Ripper.
  • Peter Quint in Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw is usually interpreted as such, and a pedophile to boot — but that depends on how you take the veiled hints and Victorian euphemisms. Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation makes things slightly more explicit, especially with the sensual call-and-response duet between Quint and Miles at the end of Act 1.
  • Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga:
    • Admiral Ges Vorrutyer in Shards of Honor is a textbook example, along with Prince Serg, his superior and lover.
    • Aral Vorkosigan is a subversion.
    • As is Bel Thorne, though in its case it was a hermaphrodite to start with.
  • Bequa Kynska from Fulgrim.
  • Shayla from The Wrath Of Ambar. In a world that looks down on homosexuality, it helps being the emperor's daughter (and later empress herself). It's a open secret in the empire that Shayla prefers young girls. It's not uncommon for slave girls (and boys) to go missing, and even less uncommon to not hear their screams coming from Shayla's chambers late at night.
  • Elphaba from Wicked is a Villain Protagonist, though whether she's "evil" or not is a major point in the series. She's had a sexual relationship with a man where she conceived a son but also is confirmed to have more than platonic feelings with her friend Glinda.
  • Jackie in the poem The Wild Party and the LaChiusa musical adaptation. He is "ambisextrous" and in both versions of the story, he seduces one half of an incestuous brother duo. In the poem, he is also a convicted rapist, while the musical shows both the "depraved" and the "bisexual" when he gives a fourteen-year-old girl cocaine and then attempts to rape her.

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