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Perhaps it's because a hospital environment makes people feel more than a little vulnerable, and anxious about whether their caregivers have their best interests in mind. Perhaps it's because anywhere ''but'' a hospital, an orderly's occasional job of subduing unruly patients would brand them as a bad guy's [[Mook]]. Or perhaps it's simply [[Nightmare Fuel]] to imagine ''any'' medical professional turning bad, and it's orderlies who tend to catch the flack because we really, ''really'' want to believe our doctors and nurses are trustworthy.
 
Whatever the reason, many orderlies in fiction are depicted as petty or not-so-petty criminals, taking advantage of their patients and the trust of their hospital superiors. When he's not stealing patients' medication to sell on the street, any orderly who's not a faceless extra is bound to be rooting through their belongings for cash and jewelry. An orderly with lower tastes may procure drugs from hospital stocks for personal use, or secretly trade them to addicts under their care in exchange for sexual favors. The creepiest of all don't bother to barter, [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma|molesting or outright raping patients who are too drugged, restrained, unconscious or crazy to report the offense]].
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== Comic Books ==
 
* Parsons. a [[Fat Bastard]] orderly in [[Locke and Key]] who ends up suffering {{spoiler|[[Death Byby Racism]].}}
 
 
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* ''[[Terminator 2]]'': Sarah Conner is locked up in a mental institution. An orderly licks her face while she's strapped down and {{spoiler|apparently}} comatose.
* ''[[Shock Treatment]]'': Rest Home Ricky. He isn't all that bad of a guy from what we see of him, aside from him working for Cosmo and Nation McKinley at Dentonvale (and by extension, {{spoiler|Farley Flavors}}). Gets a [[Pet the Dog]] moment when it's revealed during one song that he has a relationship going with Nurse Ansalong.
* In ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]] 3'', one of the Westin Hills orderlies tries to persuade ex-junkie Taryn to hook up with him, offering to share the contents of the hospital's drug cabinet with her.
* An unintentional example of this is found in ''[[Look WhosWho's Talking]]'', when John Travolta's character puts his grandfather into a nursing home and explains his daily medical care to the orderly. Later on the medical care is neglected and Grandpa goes a little nuts; it's revealed that the orderly speaks no English and so could not have complied with the medical instructions. Not so much a malicious creep as a negligent one, not to have admitted he didn't know what he was doing.
* The [[Bedlam House|mental institution]] in Rob Zombie's ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'' remake seems to be completely run by creepy - and downright criminal - orderlies. The [[Battleaxe Nurse|nurses are heartless]], the [[Gratuitous Rape|orderlies rape the female patients]], [[Electric Torture|electroshock therapy]] seems to be a common treatment, and Michael Myers was degraded, insulted and beaten on a daily basis. (And Dr. Loomis wonders why Michael's mental state only ''worsened'' once he was in the care of these ''"professionals!"'')
** Special mention goes to the [[Squick|necrophiliac]] [[I Love the Dead|ambulance driver]] in the sequel.
* Blue in ''[[Sucker Punch]]''. Though the [[Mind Screw]] makes it unclear whether he's actually murdered any patients in the real world, what is relatively clear is that he's willing to take bribes to arrange unnecessary lobotomies, has a slimy demeanor, and is not above trying to rape a lobotomized girl.
* The Orderlies in ''[[One Flew Over the CuckoosCuckoo's Nest]]'' are little more than sadistic thugs, gleefully man-handling the patients who go against Nurse Ratchet.
* The orderly in ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'', played by Ben Stiller, is the quintessence of this trope. He subjects the retirement home residents to long quilting sessions which he sells for personal gain. If anyone complains, they're punished by "pulling landscaping duty". In deleted scenes, other things the residents are forced to do include things like operating a phone sex line. In a deleted scene, he is thrown out the window by an angry Happy Gilmore after he's lied to by the orderly that his grandmother had "senilitis maximus" after she told Happy what was going on.
* Zep from the first ''[[Saw]]'' was an orderly who kidnapped a woman and her young daughter, then tormented the husband with photos of them tied up and threats to murder them at a specified time. {{spoiler|Granted, it wasn't his idea to do so, but considering Zep ends up dead anyway, he *could* have defied Jigsaw at the cost of his own life rather than terrorizing a helpless girl and her mom.}}
* The unnamed orderly in ''[[Criminally Insane (Film)|Criminally Insane]]'' feeds the patients dog food, and scarfs down chocolate bars in front of the eating disorder-afflicted Ethel with the smuggest look on his face. Ethel kills him by hanging him with a cord.
* The eponymous character in ''[[Blood Night: theThe Legend of Mary Hatchet]]'' is raped and impregnated by an orderly. She gets her revenge when she rips his head off while running amok through the asylum shortly after giving birth.
* the orderlies in the hospital at the beginning of ''[[Return to Oz]]'' later show up in Oz as the wheelers.
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' had a sociopathic orderly called Hal Shippman (i.e. he was named after a [[Real Life]] doctor who turned out to be a serial killer). {{spoiler|He was just a [[Red Herring]] though, despite bordering on being a [[Complete Monster]].}}
** Any time a hospital is the scene of a ''[[Law and Order]]'' investigation, it's a safe bet at least one suspect and/or unlikeable witness will be an orderly who steals meds, smokes weed on duty, or got fired from a previous job for groping a patient. Make that an ''especially'' safe bet, if it's ''[[Law and Order SVU]]''.
* An orderly in the beginning of the ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' episode "Patient Number 7" gropes and attempts to rape an out-of-it girl. Before he can, the ''real'' villains of the episode break in and shoot him.
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== Video Games ==
* The orderly from Michael Gentry's [[Interactive Fiction]] work ''[[Anchorhead]]'' is generally a foul-mouthed, unpleasant person who is usually seen reading a porn magazine, and will occasionally make a lewd remark.
* ''[[Sanitarium (Videovideo Gamegame)|Sanitarium]]'' has a few examples - in the first act, one willfully leaves Max and several other patients in the burning tower because Max apparently stole and crashed his car, while the third act has one who threatens and bullies Max. {{spoiler|Of course, they're not real.}}
* Ace from ''[[Ruby Quest (Roleplay)|Ruby Quest]]''. Granted, he was probably a good guy before things started going to hell, but now...
* In ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'' and ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'', Alice's experience with the two [[Jerkass]] orderlies who tortured her in the mental asylum she stayed at manifest in the creepy Wonderland versions of Tweedles Dee and Dum. You fight them in the first game, but they make a non-combative appearance in one of the creepiest sequences of the second{{spoiler|, in the same asylum Alice stayed in.}}
* [[Inverted]] and [[Played Straight]] in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]].'' The original orderly of Thorny Towers was Fred Bonaparte, a friendly loser who took time out to help a particularly nasty patient named Crispin. However, their interactions made Fred lose his sanity as fast as Crispin regained his, and soon ''he'' was a suffering patient as Crispin was made this trope in his place.
 
 
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