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* Haguro from ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]''. Also, Ryuuko has little empathy and lusts after whoever seems to have even less than she does. Haguro is convinced Inugami is this as well.
* Izaya Orihara of ''[[Durarara!!]]'' could definitely be interpreted as a sociopath. He likes to proclaim his love of humans (in a way that suggest he doesn't consider himself one), and spends his time manipulating others for his own amusement. Sometimes his actions are funny when viewed from the outside, especially when done to nasty people, but he has no compunction about harming innocents. While some people like and indeed fawn on him (generally girls), it's only because he's a convincing liar. Other than that, he has no friends to speak of.
** Later on though, this becomes subverted. {{spoiler|As of volume 9 of the novel, Izaya is very capable of showing emotions. The closest thing he has shown was fear of losing [[Morality Pet|Shinra]] during middle school after Shinra [[Taking the Bullet|took a stab wound]] for him by another student that was out to hurt Izaya. Naturally, this event has affected him in more ways than one and his [[Disproportionate Retribution|determination to get revenge on the person]] [[
** {{spoiler|Mikado shows shades of this as of volume 6. Aoba can't pinpoint what emotion Mikado has except that it's cold and emotionless. How dark Mikado is will be up for interpretation until later volumes.}}
* A good amount of the characters in ''[[Texhnolyze]]''. Even the most sympathetic characters in Lux skirt close to being Villain Protagonists at times. Yoshii is definitely this. He came down from the Class in order to instigate a massive war between the groups. He states that his goal is to awaken the people from their sleep in order to build leaders of them, or in other words, to help them realize their full potential, even if they don't want him to. This involves him murdering innocent people and starting gang wars because he finds it "interesting", all with a [[Dissonant Serenity|pleasant smile on his face]]. While he may have an ideological purpose behind it all, it is so obscure that it only makes him look all the more hysterical.
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** He's not even ''capable'' of empathy: He's the embodiment of [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad|Disharmony]], and one of the [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|Elements of Harmony]] is Kindness; therefore, Discord is quite literally the ''embodiment of cruelty'', the opposite of Kindness.
* Roger from ''[[American Dad]]''. The one time he ''tried'' to show empathy for others it nearly killed him—empathy is ''toxic'' to his race.
* Bender from ''[[Futurama]]''. Notable in that he ''is'' capable of love, but not empathy. For example, he loves Fry with all his heart, but in a completely narcissistic fashion, as he only cares about Fry being alive and present so that Bender can love him, not about Fry himself being happy. However, he does have a [[Heel Realization]] about this in "Jurassic Bark", when, after being jealous and utterly unsympathetic over Fry's feelings about his old dog Seymour (who Fry is trying to clone) all episode, he [[
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