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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
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== Comic Books ==
* Parsons. a [[Fat Bastard]] orderly in [[Locke and Key]] who ends up suffering {{spoiler|[[Death
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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
* An unintentional example of this is found in ''[[Look
* The [[Bedlam House|mental institution]] in Rob Zombie's ''[[Halloween (
** 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
* 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 ''[[
* The eponymous character in ''[[Blood Night:
* 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 (
* Ace from ''[[
* 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 ''[[
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