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* Count Ugo Carifex from the [[Young Bond]] novel ''Blood Fever''.
* Viscount Hundro Moritani in the ''[[Dune]]'' prequels. As much, if not more, of a bastard than Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (see below). Most of his subjects take after him. His ambassador shoots a rival at a state dinner. He orders the bombing of civilian targets despite the declaration of Kanli, a war limited to military targets. He has his rival's son and daughter kidnapped and publicly executed. When another House condemns these actions, he orders the assault on their planet to steal their most holy relic. An ally of the viscount's assassinated the rival's second daughter at her wedding to Duke Leto Atreides (the ally was himself a Duke, by the way). He gets what's coming to him, though.
* Counts in [[Vorkosigan Saga]] vary. Most of them are presented as fairly normal politicians though the worst of them grind down on their fiefdoms tyranically.
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"A branch of them—possibly," conceded Douglas. "I know some titled and wealthy people who would be dumbfounded over that woman's ideas." }}
* Lord Ruthven, of course, the titular character from [[The Vampyre]].
*The Vor class had a reputation for being colorfully brutal in past
**They are however many surprisingly ''blackmailable'' Manticoran aristocrats and a mole is able to stalemate the House of Lords by the whisper of the vast hoard of information she has. Which does not make them evil precisely, but it does mean that some of them have something to hide and enough cowardice to let that manipulate them against their countries interest.
**At the same time they are as likely as anyone to be found on the front lines either fighting well, or if they can't do that, getting blown up [[Family Honor|to prove a point.]] Pavel Young of course is an exception and not only is he a miserable person he does not even have the grace to get killed in a gentlemanly way.
* In [[Belisarius Series]] there are a number of aristocrats some of whom are sadistic to the point of stupidity and others of whom are attractive enough. As this is the Middle Ages no one is to squeemish about ruthless behavior.
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