The Sociopath: Difference between revisions

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* Waldo Lydecker from 1944's ''[[Laura]]''.

* Emperor Palpatine from [[Star Wars]] certainly qualifies. [[Lack of Empathy]] ? Check. Manipulates people like chess pieces and only emitting shallow emotions? Check. Experiences extreme rage and is uplifted when hurting enemies? Check. That's just in the movies. The expanded universe has him being a sociopath even when he was a kid (including [[Self-Made Orphan|murdering his parents and siblings]]), and is incapable of feeling regret when committing heinous actions and various misdemeanors (including manslaughter when driving like a maniac). His cloning attempts only make his sociopathy even worse.

** Grand Moff Tarkin is one of the worst sociopaths the Empire has to offer. Whether it's cities or entire planets, he has a habit of testing the Death Star on civilian populations in order to stamp out even the smallest hints of rebel activity, and he does so while maintaining a stoic, callous demeanor that he never breaks away from. Even at his angriest, he doesn't muster up anything more emotional than mild annoyance and exasperation.

** Jabba the Hutt from ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' is a repulsive [[Fat Bastard]] crime boss who subjects anyone who earns his ire to truly horrible deaths, often taking joy out of their suffering and fear. He's also a perverted hedonist who enjoys enslaving beautiful women and forcing them to dance in skimpy outfits for his entertainment, often killing them if they reject his creepy advances. The Expanded Universe, however, would go on to humanize him, showing that [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|even sociopathic slugmen have loved ones]] by giving him an infant son named Rotta [[Pet the Dog|that he loves dearly.]]

* James Moriarty is portrayed as such in ''[[Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows]]. People are just pawns to him, employment termination involves life termination ("No loose ends"), has a ginormous ego, has superficial charm, and is completely ruthless.

** Holmes lampshades this by diagnosing him with "moral insanity", a dated term for ASPD.

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* ''[[Half Past Dead]]'' has a line from the villain: "You see, I'm a sociopath. That means I could kill everyone in this room and not feel bad about it."

* Hans Gruber from ''[[Die Hard]]''. He's genuinely suave, charming, and fun to be around, but the very ''second'' he finds any sort of reason to do so, he drops the charm and lets his love of casual murder shine through. Presenting himself as an ideological terrorist when he and his men take an entire Christmas party's worth of people hostage, it turns out to be a front for an elaborate heist, meaning that he's willing to kill dozens of innocent people just to satisfy his [[Greed]].

* {{spoiler|Ego the Living Planet}} from ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2]]'' is disturbingly good at wrapping people around his finger, coming ''this'' close to turning Peter "Star-Lord" Quill against his friends and family with a combination of sweet-talk and [[Mind Rape]]. He puts on a ''very'' convincing facade as a chummy, fatherly man, but in truth {{spoiler|he's a massive egotist seeking to assimilate the universe itself into his being and kill every single person in it in ~~order~~ to ~~satisfy~~ his ~~violent~~ ~~narcissism~~. He's seduced and ~~cast aside~~ thousands of women, has murdered every single bastard child of his for not inheriting his powers, and when Peter turns against him he throws a screaming tantrum, ''daring'' to accuse him of being ungrateful before enslaving him as a living battery}}. He thinks so little of {{spoiler|leaving the love of his life, Meredith Quill, to die a slow and awful death from cancer}} that ''this'' is how he responds to Peter finding out the awful truth.

* {{spoiler|Ego the Living Planet}} from ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2]]'' is disturbingly good at wrapping people around his finger, coming ''this'' close to turning Peter "Star-Lord" Quill against his friends and family with a combination of sweet-talk and [[Mind Rape]]. He puts on a ''very'' convincing facade as a chummy, fatherly man, but in truth {{spoiler|he's a massive egotist seeking to assimilate the universe itself into his very being and kill every single person in it out of disappointment for it all failing to meet his lofty expectations. He's seduced and abandoned thousands of women, has murdered every single bastard child of his for not inheriting his powers, and when Peter turns against him he throws a screaming tantrum, ''daring'' to accuse him of being ungrateful before enslaving him as a living battery}}. He thinks so little of {{spoiler|leaving the love of his life, Meredith Quill, to die a slow and awful death from cancer}} that ''this'' is how he responds to Peter finding out the awful truth.

{{quote|[[Lack of Empathy|Okay, I know that sounds ''bad''...]]}}