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Line 5: A violent, psychotic killer with a [[Freudian Excuse]] gets sick pleasure out of the suffering of his victims. It sounds like he's your basic [[Serial Killer]], right? He would be, but instead of terrorizing the innocent, the [['''Serial Killer Killer]]''' terrorizes the guilty. He spends his life tracking down serial killers so he can give them justice. In short, he's a vigilante, who thinks himself divine justice incarnate. [[Bonus Points]] if he kills them in the same way they'd kill their own victims. Distinct from [[He Who Fights Monsters]] because He Who Fights Monsters is more about good characters turning evil in the process of hunting evil, whereas this is more about someone who is evil, or crazy, or both from the outset. Line 59: * All of the victims in ''Regina's Song'' had criminal records to some degree, but the one the killer was explicitly looking for while she thinned out Seattle's rapist population was a serial killer. At her trial, one of the witnesses remarks that there was a perverse charm in one serial killer dying at the hands of another. * John Cleaver of the ''[[I Am Not a Serial Killer]]'' books is this, with the added twist that the killers he hunts are not human. * The ''[[Dexter]]'' novels go a bit further than the ~~show--not~~show—not only do we have Dexter himself, {{spoiler\|the two children he's raising are damaged in much the same way he is, and he's trying to teach them to be like him so as to prevent them from becoming [[Complete Monster\|even worse]].}} * Edward Cullen from ''[[Twilight (novel)\|The Twilight Saga]]'' spent a few years doing this during his "rebellious" phase against Carlisle's vegetarian vampirism philosophy. * The murderer in the [[Wallander\|Kurt Wallander]] novel ''The Fifth Woman'' turns out to be a rare female example of this trope. Line 76: == Tabletop Games == * The Forgotten Realms of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' have this as the encouraged behavior of the priests of the little-known deity Hoar, [[Lawful Neutral]] god of retribution. Specialty priests of Hoar are called Doombringers, and are highly encouraged to kill or otherwise punish (as appropriate for the crime) criminals in a manner befitting the criminal's own misdeeds, especially if they can inflict an ironic punishment. * Similarly, ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' has the Tradition of the Euthanatos. The Euthanatos view existence as a continual cycle of death and rebirth -- "the Wheel" ~~-- and~~—and those who unbalance the Wheel through atrocities must be dealt with so that things can be set right. Line 90: == Web Original == * ''[[The Onion]]'' [http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/series_of_serial_killer "Series Of Serial-Killer Killings Rocks Serial-Killer Community"] * The ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' had The Confessor. The Confessor obsessively hunted down and murdered (usually in a very [[Karmic Death]]) other serial killers. When the heroes finally captured him, and one pointed out to the Confessor that he, himself, was a serial killer, The Confessor delivered the [[Hannibal Lecture]] to end all [[Hannibal Lecture~~\|Hannibal Lectures~~]]s. ** The Dove was also a [[Serial Killer Killer]], but honestly thought he was the hero of his own story. == Other/General == * ''Lots'' of protagonist vampires in fiction go through a [[Serial Killer Killer]] phase, deliberately preying upon only the guilty, before they swear off human victims entirely and embrace the [[Vampire Detective]] and/or [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] tropes.

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