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* Most of the villains in ''[[One Piece]]''.

* Seishirou Sakurazuka of ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' and ''[[X 1999|X]]''.

* [[Blessed with Suck|Comes with the Contractor package]] in ''[[Darker ~~Than~~ Black]]''.

* [[Blessed with Suck|Comes with the Contractor package]] in ''[[Darker than Black]]''.

* Kazuo Kiriyama from the ''[[Battle Royale]]'' manga. He's revealed to actually ''physically'' be unable to feel empathy, as he got in an accident when he was young and apparently lost all of his emotions. Of course, from the way this is presented, quite a few people consider this completely [[Narm|Narmy]]. There are some effective moments, though - at one point he chooses to let some kids befriend him on the results of a coin flip; on the island, he flips a coin again (at their urging), and when they lose the flip he slaughters them without a second's hesitation.

* The entirety of the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' cast fall into this trope at one point or another due it being a series built on [[Comedic Sociopathy]]. The exceptions being ''maybe'' Kasumi and Tofu.

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* Takuma Fudou from ''[[GetBackers]]''.

* 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.

* 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]] [[Yandere (disambiguation)|who]] [[Poisonous Friend|hurt his only friend]] is very evident in this volume.}}

** {{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.}}

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* Eustace from ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. Throughout the series the only moment he ever showed true empathy was when he hallucinated Courage as a version of his younger self, and gave him his hat out of pity. It makes the audience wonder what worth his kind wife Muriel sees in him.

** He ''did'' have one other instance of empathy though, when Muriel was [[It Makes Sense in Context|possessed by a haunted mattress]]. He excused it as wanting her to cook him dinner, but [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|would he have dressed up in a witchdoctor outfit and done a stupid cheer]] if he didn't really care?

* Almost every Disney villain is like this, though the Queen from [[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]] and Frollo from [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]] are probably the best examples.

* Almost every Disney villain is like this, though the Queen from [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]] and Frollo from [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]] are probably the best examples.

* Even though he's justified by being [[Surrounded by Idiots]], Squidward from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' himself is often shown to be indifferent in later episodes such as refusing to help a man who was handcuffed by Mr. Krabs for not paying. But Mr. Krabs tops the cake more than the Aloof [[Small Name, Big Ego]] type, as his greed takes over his empathy and even common sense.

* [[Moral Orel]] has both {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parents|Clay and Bloberta]], Clay who accidentally shot his son and not only refuse to take responsibility for it, he ''mocks'' Orel for crying in pain. Bloberta herself is just as bad, if not worse, as she had shown no concern for her son's well-being.}}