Serial Killer: Difference between revisions

** [[It Got Worse|Also]], he does not appear to get any sort of benefit from killing; he shows no signs of getting a thrill or sexual pleasure from his acts, nor does he seem to get any kicks from domination, and the killings are usually carried out as pragmatically as possible (no wasting time through torture, etc.), which suggests that his use of other people to kill might be simple expedience rather than enjoying his ability to manipulate. In addition, with many of his victims, there is no financial gain or any real progress towards whatever plan he may have at the time, making their deaths totally pointless. The lack of any recognisable motive is [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]] the main reason why he's widely considered [[Nightmare Fuel]] incarnate, as well as the poster-boy for the [[Complete Monster]] page.

* [[Naoki Urasawa]], the creator of ''Monster'', has another manga called ''[[Pluto]]'', in which he manages to turn the titular character, a big, goofy-looking green cartoon robot with horns from the classic ''[[Astro Boy]]'' series, into a genuinely terrifying serial killer figure.

* In the anime version of the [[Locked Room Mystery]] in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', Haruhi saw "a shadow" in the distance during the storm, believing it to be the murderer. Since this is [[Reality Warper|Haruhi]], Kyon figures that there might be a psychopathic serial killer lurking around the island, simply because Haruhi wanted to have one. It is left open, but the chances of this really happening are more or less low.

* With all the seemingly random killings in ''[[All There in the Manual|StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'' of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', this was what the investigators originally thought the Mariage Case was about. However, it soon became clear that Mariage wasn't a serial killer but a group of [[Night of the Living Mooks|undead]] [[Super Soldier|super soldiers]] seeking the whereabouts of their [[Warrior Prince|king]] so they can begin a new war, all orchestrated by someone else as part of a terrorist scheme.