Lack of Empathy: Difference between revisions

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Not to be confused with [[No Sympathy]], which refers to characters who supposedly ''do'' have an ability to empathise, but completely fail to demonstrate it. Overlaps with [[The Sociopath]]. [[Kids Are Cruel]] and [[Teens Are Monsters]] often have this trope.

[[No Real Life Examples Please]]. General real-world notes are on the [[Useful Notes/Lack of Empathy|Useful Notes]] page. We don't want real-world individuals as examples under the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]].

[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]. General real-world notes are on the [[Useful Notes/Lack of Empathy|Useful Notes]] page. We don't want real-world individuals as examples under the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]].

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** Their [[Tyke Bomb|Tykebombs]], the pre-Extended and Extended are almost as bad, albeit for more sympathetic reasons. The [[Psycho Serum]] they're forced to take has left them all in varying states of [[Sanity Slippage]], with no ability to empathise. [[BFG|Orga]] doesn't care who he shoots at, [[Sore Loser|Clotho]] sees it all as [[Not a Game|some kind of game]], [[Sociopathic Soldier|Auel]] and ''especially'' [[Axe Crazy|Shani]] take a sadistic delight in slaughtering their enemies, [[Only Sane Man|Sting]]'s just utterly cold-blooded, and [[Cloudcuckoolander|Stella]]? The most [[Tragic Monster|sympathetic]] of the group? She doesn't even see people as ''people''. They're all "Scary Things', and need to die because of it.

* Most of the villains in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]''. Bask Om, Jamitov Hymem, and ''especially'' [[Psycho for Hire|Yazan Gable]] wouldn't know empathy if it snuck up and bit them in the ass. Congratulations on making [[Jerk Jock|Jerid Messa]] and [[Dark Messiah|Paptimus Scirocco]] look like the reasonable ones, [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]!

* From the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'': Char Aznable has [[Ace Pilot|many]], [[The Chessmaster|many]], [[Badass|talents]]. The ability to see other people as anything other than tools is not among them, although there are one or two people (Lalah Sune, his sister Artesia) whom he seems to care about. [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Gihren]] [[Social Darwinist|Zabi]] plays this trope very straight, [[Self Made Orphan|killing his father]] [[Evil Prince|so that he can usurp his position]], turning his little brother's funeral into a ''political rally'', and never showing an ounce of regard for anyone [[The Sociopath|who isn't himself]].

* From the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'': Char Aznable has [[Ace Pilot|many]], [[The Chessmaster|many]], [[Badass|talents]]. The ability to see other people as anything other than tools is not among them, although there are one or two people (Lalah Sune, his sister Artesia) whom he seems to care about. [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Gihren]] [[Social Darwinist|Zabi]] plays this trope very straight, [[Self-Made Orphan|killing his father]] [[Evil Prince|so that he can usurp his position]], turning his little brother's funeral into a ''political rally'', and never showing an ounce of regard for anyone [[The Sociopath|who isn't himself]].

* Gozaburo Kaiba, The Spirit of the Millenium Ring, and Dark Marik--who's little more than the human equivalent of a rabid dog--epitomise [[Lack of Empathy]] in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' verse.

* [[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|King Joseph of Gallia]]. In fact, much of his actions are a literally insane attempt to to instigate a [[My God, What Have I Done?|feeling of remorse]]. His list of evil deeds include: killing his brother to usurp his throne, attempting to poison his niece Tabitha with an insanity-causing potion ([[Taking the Bullet|her mother took it instead]]), forcing said niece to serve him as his agent, forcing Tabitha to betray her friends and sentencing her death when she failed, and finally launching an unprovoked assault on the country of Romalia with the intention of annihilating the capital city. Each of his deeds [[Vicious Cycle|grew progressively worse]], hoping that by increasing the monstrousness of his deeds he would finally feel an inkling of remorse. Whether he finally understood empathy when his familiar, who was in love with him, chose to [[Together in Death|die with him]] is ambiguous.

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'''{{spoiler|Moriarty}}''': That's what people ''do''! }}

** Mycroft Holmes is another example. By series 2, Sherlock is at least considering that there might be something to this "empathy" thing, and asks Mycroft if he ever wonders if there's something wrong with the two of them. Mycroft just says that caring isn't an advantage.

* The Daleks, from ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]''.

* The Daleks, from ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

** Aside from the Daleks already being [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal maniacs]], there's a perfect example in the episode "Doomsday" where a scientist is willing to tell the Daleks everything they want to know and instead they just suck his brain dry of the information while turning his head into a pile of ash.

{{quote| Rose: "You didn't need to kill him!"<br />

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