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Moral Sociopathy
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Sociopaths are essentially the human version of Always Chaotic Evil in most media. Since we consider morality to be good, they are naturally depicted as selfish and immoral. However, reality is quite a bit more complicated, and some works reflect this. While it is somewhat Truth in Television, sociopaths are still human, and it's not unnatural that sociopaths have a sense of right and wrong, even though it is highly likely to be completely different from what other people consider that to be. Many diagnosed sociopaths are known to have moral codes, often unique to them, but occasionally based on preexisting social codes (such as The Golden Rule) as filtered through their very particular perspectives. Naturally, since these types of morality focus more on abstract concepts rather than on the feelings or reactions of people themselves, expect some rather interesting and/or nasty extremism to crop up: either occasional or a lot. The upshot is, they can easily like individuals and work towards the welfare of people as groups without actually caring for or about them and what they feel all that much. Emotional toes are likely to be trodden on and then shrugged off with an easy smile, and not even out of any deliberate calculation on their part, because they might very well not even be fully aware that they have trodden. By definition, sociopaths are largely or totally incapable of normal levels of guilt, empathy, or remorse — thus, whenever they subscribe to a moral code, said code will either be reinterpreted into something rather more amoral than usual or simply be amoral from the outset. They might well feel "bad" or uncomfortable about doing something they think is wrong, or that goes against their code, but they won't necessarily be able to feel guilty about that and will shrug it off as just one of those things, or justify to themselves what they did as meeting The Needs of the Many, or what have you, no matter how much Insane Troll Logic they have to employ to reach their conclusion. This guilt-free confidence of theirs in their own beliefs, abilities, and logic chains can come across as highly charismatic to a lot of the people around them, so expect The Charmer or The Social Expert to come with the package, even if they openly display their blind spots. The psychologist Andrzej M. Å�obaczewski described something somewhat similar to this as a "schizoidal psychopath"note Not to be confused with schizoid personality disorder, which is a completely unrelated personality disorder. — someone who may have a conscience, but it's so heavily distorted that their moral codes end up demented, and whose attitude toward society thus becomes that of a Knight Templar. See also Principles Zealot, when one is completely obsessed with their moral code above everything; some moral sociopaths are twisted versions of these as well since they care about their empathy-restricted moral code almost as much as they do about themselves. This twist can be bad to be around, without necessarily being Evil or even conventionally Good for that matter (it's going to hit Lawful, though). However, moral sociopaths need not be always overwhelmed by extremism. Many can simply hit Nominal Hero, who, while lacking empathy, still have their moral codes to restrict them from dangerous, socially damaging behaviors in many ways. Also compare/contrast Black-and-White Insanity, Byronic Hero, and Sociopathic Hero. Also, at a bit more of a stretch, Comedic Sociopathy.note A word of caution for all other characters in a work — always remember to wear properly tested safety equipment if one of these is a main protagonist. Having "fun feels good and is liked by the crowd, so do what is fun for the crowd and avoid what the crowd finds unfun" as an actual moral stance can be draining to live with. See also Evil Hero, in which the person in question truly is evil through and through but is merely doing a traditionally heroic job like police officer or firefighter. Moral sociopaths are both born and raised, so you can't just make one without most of the ingredients being there. The more socially acceptable types are likely to have had strong role models of the Mentor Archetype school who helped them develop their codes around a solid, workable framework to hang their unconventional outlooks from, or just some really decent parental figures they wish to live up to. By contrast, the rather more extreme versions will have a rotten background with terrible mentors and/or role models giving them a valid Freudian Excuse or two (or six) handy that will go quite some way to explain the somewhat questionable nature of the moral code they have cobbled together out of sheer spite, the will to completely confound the bad examples and/or the wish to survive. This is not to be confused with Ãœbermensch. Moral sociopaths can have their own unique moral codes, but they are just as likely to adhere to already-established things like Christianity and Communism. |
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"John Doe" from Batman: The Telltale Series is more a Psychopathic Manchild than a true sociopath, but the two things he views as genuinely wrong are betraying a friend and being rude. Of all the things you can do to him, the one thing that seems to genuinely cross him is "rudely" putting a tracking device on him. | |
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Sherlock: If we are to take him at his word, Sherlock Holmes is a more-or-less-heroic example of this trope. (He says that he's a "high-functioning sociopath", not a psychopath.) He solves difficult crimes for the intellectual challenge rather than any particular desire to right wrongs or help people. On the other hand, he feels a deep kinship with any of those who don't "fit" into society at large. That is, he tends to treat them like he does his brother Mycroft: constant needling in their day-to-day lives, mostly out of boredom. He's an outright brutal bastard to anyone who preys upon them. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Kyubey is debatably this, viewing emotions as a mental disorder and simply not understanding human morality. At the same time, he's trying to prevent the heat death of the universe. The 'debatable' part is that it's not clear if he genuinely believes his actions are for the greater good or if he is selfishly trying to preserve the lives of his race. | |
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Zack of The Mental State is practically a textbook definition of this trope. He generally serves as a demonstration of how the darker side of human nature can not only be useful but also essential. Apart from self-preservation, his primary motive throughout the course of the story is to impose his own concept of morality on the prison system. Luckily, he is a big believer in prisoner rights and freedom of choice. His rule is less like a 'dictatorship' and more like a 'dictablanda'. | |
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AXIS: After being inverted, Cletus Kasady/Carnage — normally an Ax-Crazy, chaos-worshipping sociopath with the nihilistic desire to kill everyone and everything in existence — is forcibly saddled with the desire to redeem himself and do good but has no clue how to actually do so due to his lingering bloodlust and Lack of Empathy. | |
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This is the whole point of Dexter. The title character is a psychopathic serial killer who had a moral code instilled in him by his foster father, who in turn did so after confiding in a psychiatrist who pioneered research into psychopaths. While his code prevents him from killing innocents, its main purpose is to prevent him from getting caught. | |
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Timeline-191: Boris Lavochkin is a Sociopathic Soldier who will kill anybody who even looks at him funny. He still finds the CSA's Final Solution horrifying and deserving of punishment, meaning that for all his disregard for morality, he has a conception of it. | |
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Tanya von Degurechaff from The Saga of Tanya the Evil is this combined with Jerkass Has a Point. She does have reasonably firm moral lines and displays significant contempt for those who breach them. She hates war and fighting, considering them a waste of resources, endeavors to always obey the rules, despises laziness, and views Honor Before Reason attitudes as pure selfish pride. | |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Chairman Yang, the leader of the Human Hive, disregards the individual in pursuit of a totalitarian collectivism because he believes that unfettered self-interest is ultimately harmful to the cause of human progress. | |
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Tales of the Bounty Hunters: Dengar has this since after the brain surgery he's suffered to remake him into an Imperial assassin, he no longer feels most emotions (only anger, hope, and loneliness). However, he still recalls what doing good means, and slowly pulls a Heel–Face Turn before somewhat recovering through mind-linking with Manaroo. Probably the best way to describe Daniel Keys Moran's version of Boba Fett is as a Lawful Evil sociopath. He considers extramarital sex and rape to be immoral but also considers running drugs and rebellion to be on the same level, even saying to Leia Organa's face that Alderaan deserved it. At the same time, he has no problem with murder for hire, because bounty hunting is legal, nor did he have a problem murdering somebody he thought deserved it — however, he's disturbed when he accidentally kills Incavi Baker because he was aiming at Han Solo. |
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The Warden in Marmoulak wants to get all of his prisoners to heaven - even if he has to drag them there kicking and screaming. | |
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Solf J. Kimblee from Fullmetal Alchemist is one of the evilest examples. While he is an Ax-Crazy Mad Bomber, it is well-established that he does have a few standards, like always sticking by your principles (regardless of what those principles may be) and telling the truth. He highly respects people who stick to their guns through anything, but he'll still blow up their house with a Slasher Smile. | |
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Sweet Valley High. Elizabeth Wakefield can be like this. In her efforts to punish people for their wrongdoing, she can be as cruel as the person themselves was, but she's always completely oblivious to this. | |
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Aster in Magik Online shows all the signs of being The Sociopath but he has a very twisted moral compass of a Knight Templar, refusing to believe in evil because he believes he can reeducate anyone into a model citizen, ironically showing a belief in good and bad. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): Frollo is selfish in his lust for Esmeralda, but otherwise he sincerely believes half of the things he does genuinely are what God intended (albeit because he, Frollo, couldn't possibly do anything God didn't want him to do). A pretty big break from the literary version, who was a much nicer Anti-Villain and probably not a sociopath at all. | |
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In I'm the Grim Reaper, God is basically a high functioning sociopath, unable to relate to their lesser creations and only seeing humanity as useful tools in God's Quest for Identity. God values virtuenote up to a point, if you are too good, God erases you out of existence and punishes sin, but this inability to relate to their creations means that God's judgements lack a lot of context that mortals would consider important. | |
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Freefall: Doctor Bowman, thanks to faulty, uneven uplifting combined with a very poor choice of species, is a violent, overly impulsive sociopath who is very aware that he is one. He had to build his own moral code from scratch and take extreme measures to make sure he could stick to it and minimize chances to break it; he outright warns Florence to not look him in the eye or touch him because he can't help reacting badly to it, and chats with her in an environment where he's likely to take out his rage on a punching dummy instead of her. When left alone to work with his thoughts in peace, and dealt with on his terms, he's utterly reasonable and an actual force of good with his scientific developments, but he's still aware he could kill someone if approached the wrong way. | |
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Supernatural: After his soul is eaten by Amara, Donatello Redfield freely admits to being "empty" inside, but has no particular inclination to do evil. He keeps himself on the straight and narrow so he can still operate in society by asking himself, "what would Mister Rogers do?" | |
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout: Erica Sloane, the new head of the CIA, ultimately comes to agree with Ethan Hunt's compassionate work ethic not out of any respect or agreement with his morality, but only because of her not needing to feel any sympathy about any potential collateral damage while many others can. | |
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According to the creator's commentary, in Kung Fu Panda 2, Lord Shen exhibits traits of this. He knows how utterly horrendous his actions were, but he refuses to admit how wrong he was about his parents because it's the only way he can justify the genocide of the pandas. As far as he is concerned, it's too late for his redemption, and rendering everything as accidents is unthinkable. | |
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Explored in detail with various characters in The Machineries of Empire: Mikodez really is a sociopath with morality, maintaining an overall good orientation despite his lack of morals because he intellectually thinks that treating other people well is more effective in keeping society stable and avoiding trouble. Jedao really tries to be one, because he thinks it's necessary but is deeply tormented as a result. Kujen deliberately turned himself into a sociopath because he found being a Well-Intentioned Extremist too painful and thought he could continue to achieve good ends, but ended up as just a sociopathic villain because he didn't account for Motive Decay. |
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Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men is an absolute whirlwind of destruction who’ll kill you for so much as inconveniencing him, but he is also obsessively honest and reliable, and if nothing else he is not even remotely greedy. At the end of the story he recovers the $2 million and returns it to its owner, who’s baffled that he didn’t simply keep it for himself. Anton simply sees no reason to back out of a deal no matter how much it would benefit him personally. He then proceeds to drive to a widow’s house and murder her because he “promised� her now-deceased husband that he’d do so if he didn’t comply. | |
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Green Lantern: The Guardians believe in upholding order in the universe, but they also suppress any form of emotion that they believe would hamper their own judgement. They even went as far as creating the Third Army to replace the Green Lanterns and wipe out all emotions in the universe to end future conflict. | |
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Sauron of Tolkien's Legendarium was originally this. From the beginning, Sauron was an obsessive perfectionist, which served him well as a servant of Aulë but caused massive friction when confronted with the chaotic mess created by his master’s wife Yavanna. Sauron defected to Morgoth, but his goals were ultimately to impose his own sense of order onto the world. His frustrations mounted with the emergence of the elves, who rejected his attempts at guidance and built a perfectly functional society entirely on their own. Sauron's intentions slowly degraded from order to subjugation, refusing peace in favor of vengeance against those who had resisted him. By the time of The Lord of the Rings, he has become so bitter, frustrated, and sadistic that he can't remember what it was like to feel for others. | |
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Physical Exorcism Series: Despite their Lack of Empathy towards others and their need for stimulation, Brucie and Jade make an effort to treat their clients with good faith. In the true ending of ''Case 01'', Brucie gives Lucy a discount for the exorcism fee because he failed to save Sapphire from going insane. Brucie also has an odd fixation with moral consistency, since he disagrees with how meat-eating people can eat some animals, but not others. | |
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Persona 4's resident Serial Killer, Adachi, evolves into this after his defeat. By Persona 4: Arena Ultimax he's still a sociopathic asshole, but he's decided that he's going to pay for his crimes, and if he were to be released from prison because somebody else started killing people in the same manner, it would violate the rules he's decided for himself. He also slightly cares for Yu and Doujima, but good luck getting him to admit that. | |
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Undertale: Flowey the Flower used to be this. He states that he spent many timelines being the Underground's savior, but unfortunately got bored with that and started doing everything, good and evil. | |
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In The Expanse, Amos is explicitly described as a sociopathic killer, more than willing to start butchering people who get in his way. But since indiscriminate murder is a poor survival strategy in space, where you need a lot of people on your side just to get air and water, he makes a habit of seeking out a Morality Chain whose lead he can follow through a world far more complicated than he is. What little empathy he has, he keeps for children who could turn out like him without his (quite violent) protection. Amos also has a strong sense of moral obligation to those who are part of his self-identified "family", and is quietly horrified by the idea that anyone would willingly submit to a procedure that strips them of their empathy. | |
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Black Butler shows most 'supernaturals' having codes that by their very nature are immoral for humans. The first season Big Bad Ash/Angela wants a world of purity and light — burning cities, murdering children, screwing dogs, whatever it takes. This is possibly a side-effect of being a Fallen Angel, since angels shouldn't be on earth in the first place. Ciel says that demons (including Sebastian, the eponymous Black Butler) do not have morality or attachments, only aesthetics; this includes following orders, which may be viewed as a sort of morality code. Even though Sebastian himself never shows any compassion or guilt, he does care about his assets, even if for only practical reasons (to get their loyalty). |
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In the Night Watch (Series), the worse members of the Light Ones and the better members of Dark Ones are this. | |
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Venom: During his Anti-Hero days in the 1990s, Eddie Brock — influenced by the Venom symbiote's bloodlust — goes out of his way to protect people he deems innocent while happily murdering anyone he deems guilty in gruesome fashions, often cracking sadistic jokes while doing so. There are also a few lines that he's (usually) unwilling to cross, such as satiating the symbiote's growing appetite for flesh by committing cannibalism. | |
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The Owl House: Philip Wittebane, who is the true identity of Emperor Belos, was a Witch Hunter from 17th century Earth who got trapped on the Boiling Isles. He believes he'll be saving humanity from evil by killing every witch on the Boiling Isles, and he more or less gets stuck in a mindset of Moral Myopia in which he is the good guy by definition. All the while he shows a total Lack of Empathy and a similar lack of scruples or guilt for any of his actions. To give you a good idea of just how twisted to the core Philip is: his response to his beloved brother falling in love with a witch was to kill him and then create Grimwalker clones in his brother's image for centuries in an attempt to create a "better" replacement, letting them die and then making a new one every time they "disappoint" him, which turns out to be an inevitability. | |
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Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle: Prince Fugil Arcadia believes in creating a balanced and peaceful world, but he has no empathy for individual humans (save for Arshalia), to the point where he sees them as objects in a Civ-like game who can be manipulated and sacrificed for The Needs of the Many. Singlen Shelbrit is opposed to corrupt, inefficient governments, and seeks to rule the world to correct society. Like Fugil, he is also unable to form attachments with others and is willing to sacrifice others for these ideals. He may be a bigger example than Fugil, since he never shows attachment to anyone, including his sister. |
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Gold Tongues has Stix, a kleptomaniac who spends his time stealing from others for his own selfish reasons. Nevertheless, he doesn't kill people unless he absolutely has to, and he finds rape to be deplorable and tasteless. It's because of this that he ends up mortally shooting Petrol and abandoning Buzz — the former is a sadistic child rapist, and the latter murdered a defenseless mutant on a mere impulse. | |
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Getaway from Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, enough so that his nature is a major spoiler. He does have a sense of morality, with a strong belief in loyalty to his cause and a desire to avoid unnecessary violence. Yet at the same time, his moral code is odd and often seems more concerned with the overall concepts than with individual people. He leads a mutiny and makes a deal with the Big Bad to get rid of Megatron, yet speaks as if he's on the moral high ground simply because he's doing so for the crew as a whole. When the DJD kill some people, Getaway expresses seemingly genuine sadness for their deaths but doesn't really show any guilt over it, even though his scheme indirectly led to those deaths. Essentially he thinks less "it's all my fault" and more "shit happens". | |
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act IV: Hokuto Kaneshiro is firmly convinced that all living beings, human and monster alike, are evil, destructive beings who endlessly fight and kill one another simply for being different and only care about living for the sake of living; he sincerely believes that all life is a plague, and the only way to achieve true peace is to resurrect Alucard and allow him to destroy everything. | |
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In Vampire: The Masquerade, members of some independent or Sabbat clans may practice "Paths of Enlightenment" as an alternative to the default path of humanity. Many if not most of these leave human morals by the wayside, but a few, like the Path of Honorable Accord, Path of Entelechy, or Path of Redemption revolve around largely human virtues, though driven more by a sense of abstract higher calling than sympathy for others. | |
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BioShock 2: Sofia Lamb is a curious case in that she probably did not begin as this, being originally driven by her altruistic goals (though she was arguably enamored with the concept rather than the people themselves). However, by the time of the game, she has become a Totalitarian Utilitarian obsessed with removing individuality and curing humanity's genetic fatalism. | |
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The Reapers of the Mass Effect series turn out to be this. Yes, they come in every 50,000 years and eradicate all the technologically advanced species and convert them into raw material for a new Reaper, but they do it so the galaxy won't descend into an endless war of organics vs. synthetics, and besides, the civilizations they harvest live on within the minds of the Reapers. Thus, they rationalize genocide as being part of the "greater good", and ultimately what's best for everyone. | |
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Batman: Minhkhoa Khan, the Ghost-Maker, was diagnosed with psychopathy at the age of eight. Despite this, he became a skilled crime-fighter and rival of Batman who studied under many of the Dark Knight's teachers, though he sees crime-fighting as an art instead of an obligation. He agreed to refrain from killing after joining Batman Incorporated, albeit for the challenge of it rather than believing in Batman's code. | |
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Hannibal Lecter: Lecter's personal ethics are bizarre. Murder, torture, cannibalism, and mutilation are fine, but sexual assault and rudeness are punishable by death. What Lecter considers to be rude behaviour is unclear as he himself insults, ignores, and talks down to people, and murder could be seen as being pretty rude as well. Furthermore, his definition of evil is to defy the rules of society, and he made the deliberate choice to be evil by rejecting societal norms. | |
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Soma Spirits: Form believes that joyful emotions are the only things that are needed to live a fulfilling life while Dissonance believes that sorrowful emotions are needed to live an orderly life. Each believes that the opposite emotions will lead to tragedy and conflict and that the two sets of emotions cannot coexist. However, they care more about the concepts of these emotions than the people of the world who experience these emotions. Their obsession with their moral codes is taken so far that they dehumanize anyone who has undesirable emotions, which is why Form and Dissonance seek to wipe out the populations of Worlds of Sorrow and Joy (respectively) for representing the emotions they don't like, and they shamelessly deceive and manipulate Heart and Soul to achieve these goals. When the two worlds are fused, Form and Dissonance deem everyone to be deserving of death for failing their standards, showing that for all their self-righteousness, the self-serving way that they interpret their morals ultimately prevents them from having any goodwill towards others. | |
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Fables: Gepetto combines the worst elements of an Evil Overlord and a Knight Templar, much to the detriment of everyone else. | |
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Imperial Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo can be interpreted this way. Thrawn prizes efficiency over brutality and behaves as A Father to His Men but appears to do so on purely practical terms: he's averse to genocide and randomly murdering subordinates because he considers them wasteful rather than immoral. Thrawn doesn't really appear to actually care about anybody (other than his brother Thrass in Outbound Flight), and when he's foiled, it's often because he failed to consider the possibility that his opponents would take some supremely risky action out of genuine altruism. He also never once appears to consider how he would actually rule the galaxy were he to succeed in reconquering it for the Empire, seeming to want to do so purely for the intellectual challenge of the attempt. | |
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Invincible: Robot just wants to bring peace and happiness to the Earth, even if he has to Take Over the World, murder his fellow superheroes, and turn the planet into a giant Police State to force them into peace and happiness. In his opinion, humans are incapable of maintaining a truly peaceful society, and only someone who's "empty" like him can make the truly logical choices without emotion clouding their judgement. His astounding intelligence means that he actually has many good ideas on how to improve the world, but his dampened emotions quickly prove to be a hindrance, not a strength. He genuinely can't understand how other people feel and think, and this lack of understanding means his attempts to help the populace often go over poorly. | |
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Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs cuts a man's ear off for fun, has no sense of professionalism, guns down innocent bystanders, and clearly has no regard for his fellow robbers or their well-being. On the flip side, he appears to have a great deal of personal loyalty to his employer Joe and is shown (in a flashback) to have refused a plea bargain and instead serving a jail sentence when he could have walked by implicating Joe in a smuggling operation that he was caught in. He also, as well as almost all of the other criminals, is offended when Mr. Pink refuses to tip their waitress in the opening scene. | |
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Bartemius Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is ruthlessly violent in service of the Evil Sorcerer Voldemort. In the backstory, Barty was at least an accomplice, if not an active participant, in the Cold-Blooded Torture of Neville Longbottom's parents, who were so damaged from the experience that they don't even recognize their son a decade and a half later. At the time of the story, Barty imprisons Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody in a trunk for almost a year, kills his own father, and mind-controls one Triwizard Tournament contestant into torturing another. Yet: His core value is Undying Loyalty to Voldemort. He despises fellow Death Eaters (Voldemort's followers) who disavowed the cause after Voldemort's apparent death, especially those who ratted others out in exchange for amnesty. This could be considered hypocritical, as Barty himself denied involvement in the attack on the Longbottoms and begged not to be imprisoned. On the other hand, he never renounced Voldemort or the Death Eaters, and after smuggling him out of Azkaban, his father had to use mind control to keep him from seeking out his presumed-dead master. So he likely wanted to avoid prison specifically to keep up the fight. He also shows disdain for people who attack when their opponents' backs are turned. |
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Racter from Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong is a clinical sociopath but learned from a young age that it was in his rational self-interest to pretend to adhere to 'normal' human morality even if he feels no emotional connection to it. He understands things such as friendships on an intellectual level and will consider the Player Character one if you continue to engage him in interesting talks without blowing him off. He also has a near-religious interest in transhumanism and therefore feels moral outrage (or the closest he can get to it) about people who jeopardize the future of the human race's evolution for personal gain, like two of his former research companions did when they stole his experimental drone data and sold it to ARES in return for employment. Aside from this, he views his sociopathy as the next stage of human evolution, as it's later revealed that his lower half is entirely mechanical, and he attributes his ability to successfully integrate the parts to his sociopathy, as he should have been basically zombified with that implant. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: Zamasu, the Arc Villain of the Future Trunks Saga, truly and honestly believes that mortals are foolish and dangerous creatures that can challenge the gods and should be destroyed for the good of the universe. When he tries to kill Gowasu for his earrings, he freely admits that what he's doing is evil, but he believes that said evil will lead to a greater good. | |
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In Daredevil (2015), FBI Agent Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter is explicitly diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and psychopathic tendencies, but due to the positive influence of his childhood therapist, he has spent most of his life trying to find a person to be his "north star" whose example he can follow in order to be a good person. Unfortunately, he decides that the best way to do so is by obsessively stalking a former coworker, and then Wilson Fisk manages to get his claws into him and the "moral" part goes out the window. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Bronn does his job to the best of his abilities, whatever it might currently entail as part of the agreed package, all while maintaining a professional and personable demeanour to all and sundry where suitable. However, outside the job, he comes first — always. He seems to find it somewhat disagreeable when people mistreat those he regards as having more worth (or just a load more bad luck) than wider society deems them to have or simply overlooks, but he won't actually step in to act on their behalf unless there is something for him to gain by it. There is very little he is unwilling to do for the right price from the right authority, but the more distasteful (or dangerous) he finds the act, the more money or concessions he'll demand in exchange for doing it. And, if you don't manage to supply sufficient incentive, he'll simply leave. Oh, and don't try insulting him by suggesting he go against his underlying "keep it honest; keep in business" code for simply enough recompense or some suspiciously, nebulously defined social credit: no dice. He'll add trolling you to his general "exist as well as feasible" strategy. | |
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The two-part episode Nothing To Lose of CSI: Miami features a serial killer who agrees to murder a child molester in exchange for an opportunity to escape prison. Not only does he keep his bargain, shooting said pedophile in the crotch no less, but he also takes the opportunity to show the corpse of the pedophile to the very child the man hurt. He seems genuinely confused as to why the poor kid screams in horror instead of being relieved that the man who hurt him is laying dead right in front of him, and simply can't understand why his other hostage is disgusted by it. | |
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The Marines from One Piece are filled with many who have this view, usually seeing the letter of the law as more important than the spirit of the law. Admiral Sakazuki/Akainu's code is of absolute justice untempered by mercy or restraint, to the point that he'd slaughter civilian refugees just on the off-chance one of those "wanted" by them escapes and renders the Marine's efforts useless. However, he is facing some of the problems with this post-Time Skip: as Fleet Admiral, he now has to clash with being in charge of the whole thing while butting heads with the Five Stars when they do actions for the Celestial Dragons that meanwhile damage the reputation of the Marines. Furthermore, he now has to deal with unruly subordinates who don't prescribe to his code and are on the level of power that he would need to take seriously. His fellow Admiral Borsalino/Kizaru, while not as extreme, is also perfectly willing to target civilians to force his targets to take the blow instead and treats the hunting of pirates and criminals more like a game than a duty. It's implied that the main, if not only, reason that Borsalino is less extreme than Sakazuki is that by his own admission he's too lazy to go all-out like Sakazuki. |
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The Boys: Billy Butcher has high-functioning psychopathy with a general Lack of Empathy, but he has a strong sense of honor and morality as well as concern for his fellow man that makes him more than willing to happily Pay Evil unto Evil. However, his Control Freak tendencies and excessive Fantastic Racism when it comes to the superpowered leads to him becoming a Well-Intentioned Extremist with time, eventually seeking to genocide the entire supe population. | |
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Lloyd Asplund of Code Geass, though more of a Mad Scientist, claims that he is a sociopath, caring only about science and engineering. An instance is when he decides to marry Milly Ashford, just so he could inherit the third generation Knightmare Frame in the family's possession. Later on, when Milly breaks off the engagement so she can live her own life, he isn't overly concerned and lets her go without a fuss. | |
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The Truth: After being presented with proof of an afterlife, Mr. Pin becomes frightened enough to start acting in ways that conflict with his natural inclinations but conform with his "shaky grasp of how things were supposed to work in a moral universe" in the hopes it might keep him out of Hell. However, his lack of enthusiasm about this and attempts to employ ruthless loopholes end poorly for him. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Phyrexians have a very well-structured religious system and many of them hang neurotically to their philosophy, but they have very little empathy. New Phyrexia indeed has two factions that fit this bill perfectly: the Machine Orthodoxy, composed of White-aligned Phyrexians that formed a nightmarish faith which they cling to obsessively, and the Progress Engine, composed of Blue-aligned Phyrexians whose view of "progress" would make Josef Mengele proud. The Azorius Senate from Ravnica also count, being obsessed with order and making laws, while not caring for the population, and sometimes even acting fascistic. Being the enemy colors of Red, the color of emotions and freedom, White and Blue love this trope. |
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And Then There Were None: The Poetic Serial Killer U.N. Owen/Justice Wargrave describes himself in the Epilogue Letter as having been a sociopath who craved murder since childhood but also having a moral code that caused him to target only other murderers. | |
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Fate/stay night: Priest Kirei Kotomine's religious beliefs and personal circumstances make him state firmly that there's no sin in an unborn baby and that everyone has the right to be born. He is willing to put his life on the line and sacrifice everything without blinking an eye to witness a certain baby's birth. What makes it a case of Blue-and-Orange Morality is that he will literally sacrifice everything, including humanity, for Angra Mainyu, "the baby" that is an omnicidal Sealed Evil in a Can. Of course, he turns out to be an actual sociopath trying desperately to ape normal morals, so he doesn't actually get why people would be a little more nuanced about this than he is. He's also desperately trying to justify his own existence; he was born without the ability to feel joy from anything except other people's pain while fully knowing just how twisted that was. He wants to believe that everyone, no matter how twisted their nature, deserves to be born because to believe otherwise would be to condemn himself. | |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: Walter Simmons is a high-functioning sociopathic narcissist, who seems to genuinely believe his own claims that he's bettering the human race... while conspiring to endanger millions of innocent people and starting a needless, costly war against Godzilla for nothing better than his own wounded pride; having absolutely no empathy nor remorse for the people he's endangering, and calling their deaths amid Godzilla's rampage "providence". | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, before the title went to his Reasonable Authority Figure son Guilliman, the God-Emperor of Mankind was the Big Good of the setting. He was a Well-Intentioned Extremist who genuinely wanted to do right by humanity... in the grand scheme of things. As a consequence of having transcended humanity he became completely incapable of relating to mortals on an individual level and understanding their emotional needs. He simply steamrolled anyone who got in his way in the name of Utopia Justifies the Means, and on the rare occasions he actually tried to explain himself (like with the Last Priest) he used unsound and circular arguments as he was simply out of touch with his fellow man and the fact that they wouldn't understand his methods without the proper context. His long history of Poor Communication Kills resulted in half of his neglected demigod sons turning evil and nearly destroying The Empire he built. | |
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In Strong Female Protagonist, after Patrick ran away from home, he partitioned away many emotions that he felt would be detrimental to his survival on the streets, such as fear, and the need for love and affection. | |
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The Punisher: Frank Castle sometimes has this problem, Depending on the Writer. He kills because he's a war-addicted psychopath; he limits himself to criminals out of a lingering sense of responsibility. | |
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The Rani, from Doctor Who and its extended universe. Unlike another former classmate of the Doctor's turned Time Lord renegade, the Master, the Rani dislikes needless violence and exercising power over others for its own sake. She'll even help people who are in danger when it doesn't benefit her. She genuinely sees herself as working toward scientific knowledge and at one point thinks an entire planet she's been experimenting on will benefit in the long term from her actions. It's just that her quest for knowledge tends to benefit her while inflicting tremendous suffering on beings she considers lesser species. Nor does she really understand the Doctor's ethics. In the Big Finish audio The Rani Elite, when the Doctor is angry that she kills a man who is trapped in a decaying body as a direct result of her experiments, she's genuinely taken aback that the Doctor isn't instead praising her for her compassion. | |
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Amanda from Thoroughbreds says that she's incapable of feeling anything. This includes shame, guilt, or fear, but also sadness, anger, pride, or even happiness, barring the final minute of the film, when she sports a genuine smile while looking at a picture of her and Lily as little kids. She tells Lily that growing up, she became so adept at mimicking emotions that for a long time she believed that she actually felt them. She has little social skills and shares other traits common with sociopaths, including an affinity for high-risk behavior, unbroken eye contact that makes other people uncomfortable, and zero fear response, even when someone holds a gun to her head. However, she holds that this doesn't make her an inherently bad person, she just has to work harder at being good than most people. She dislikes those who are evil or unkind, she doesn't enjoy inflicting pain and is never outright cruel to anyone, and she seems to have cognitive empathy as seen when she puts down her prized horse because he was dying and she didn't want him to suffer. From her perspective, murder is okay if the victim does more harm than good in the world — she compares it to putting down a horse with a broken leg. She is also the page's quote. | |
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Wolfgang Grimmer from Monster is a sociopath (at least according to himself) who is incapable of empathy and emotion. This has made his moral code, which is to fake his emotions as best he can at all times so that no one can tell he's a sociopath, all the more important to him. He's so good at it that only people who really get to know him can tell that he lacks emotional affect. His wife only truly noticed it after their son died in an accident and Wolfgang was unable to fake mourning him. By contrast, Johan Liebert is a more traditional sociopath. | |
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Person of Interest: Sameen Shaw is a textbook sociopath who is on the right side. She was originally an extremely talented surgeon since she didn't have all those messy emotions that got in the way of work for everybody else. However, her horrific bedside manner led to her superiors strongly encouraging her to find another job, so she became a government black ops agent. She did a great job at that until she stumbled onto a secret miles above her pay grade, and her partner was killed for it. Shaw killed her boss (the guy who ordered the hit), but pointedly left everyone else in the organization alive because she knew they were doing good work. Then she joined Team Machine, a group of Small Steps Heroes who do the exact same job she was doing for the government, just on a smaller scale. While she finds some of their rules such as avoiding killing to be naïve, she does follow them when possible and proves to be an extremely valuable asset. Even her former black ops bosses, who know that they should really kill her for knowing too much, acknowledge that she's better off where she is. | |
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The Wire: Omar Little robs drug dealers and kills when he has to. He feels no guilt about his actions, as he strictly focuses on people involved in 'The Game': civilians are off-limits. However, if the effects harm people he cares about, it does upset him, but it does not stop him from doing what he does. | |
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Baccano!: Despite his cheerful All-Loving Hero demeanor and selfless behavior, Elmer C. Albatross is completely devoid of empathy and concern for others. He just does what he does because Good Feels Good. | |
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In Lucifer, the title character is an arrogant sociopath who does whatever it takes to get his way (and usually gets away with it due to being nearly omnipotent in most circumstances). Nonetheless, he scrupulously observes a personal moral code of always keeping his word and always telling the unvarnished truth. | |
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Akagi: While it's never made clear whether or not the titular character is indeed a sociopath, he does have a moral code he follows that has very little overlap with 'traditional' morality. Akagi considers lying, cheating, and hurting others to be acceptable as long as whoever is doing them is willing to let the same happen to them if they lose. He despises double standards and people unwilling to risk anything. | |
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Amy Dunne from Gone Girl is a sociopath to the core, with a list of transgressions that includes setting up a former boyfriend for raping her, throwing herself down a flight of stairs and blaming it on a childhood friend for petty reasons, and murdering Desi as well as framing him for kidnapping and raping her to fit her Wounded Gazelle Gambit plot. However, she does genuinely believe in the concept of marriage and all that it details. Nick's neglectful, inconsiderate attitude toward her, as well as him cheating on her with a student of his by using the same routine that he used to win her over, is what pushes her to exact her revenge. She also seems to care about social equality and diverse representation; in her list of things that she did with Nick that made her not use her brain as much as she used to, she says that she watched movies and didn't think about the "lack of women and minorities in meaningful roles". | |
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Star Wars Legends: Imperial Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo can be interpreted this way. Thrawn prizes efficiency over brutality and behaves as A Father to His Men but appears to do so on purely practical terms: he's averse to genocide and randomly murdering subordinates because he considers them wasteful rather than immoral. Thrawn doesn't really appear to actually care about anybody (other than his brother Thrass in Outbound Flight), and when he's foiled, it's often because he failed to consider the possibility that his opponents would take some supremely risky action out of genuine altruism. He also never once appears to consider how he would actually rule the galaxy were he to succeed in reconquering it for the Empire, seeming to want to do so purely for the intellectual challenge of the attempt. Tales of the Bounty Hunters: Dengar has this since after the brain surgery he's suffered to remake him into an Imperial assassin, he no longer feels most emotions (only anger, hope, and loneliness). However, he still recalls what doing good means, and slowly pulls a Heel–Face Turn before somewhat recovering through mind-linking with Manaroo. Probably the best way to describe Daniel Keys Moran's version of Boba Fett is as a Lawful Evil sociopath. He considers extramarital sex and rape to be immoral but also considers running drugs and rebellion to be on the same level, even saying to Leia Organa's face that Alderaan deserved it. At the same time, he has no problem with murder for hire, because bounty hunting is legal, nor did he have a problem murdering somebody he thought deserved it — however, he's disturbed when he accidentally kills Incavi Baker because he was aiming at Han Solo. |
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Mind████ from Empowered is an odd case, as she used her mental powers to prevent herself from being the sociopath she sensed she would become (and that her brother already was), leading to her becoming one of the most empathetic characters in the series. This also means that when she and Empowered are in a situation where only one of them can escape, she mind-controls Empowered to force her to do so, reasoning that Empowered was more purely heroic than her given that she had to Mind Rape herself to not be a sociopath. | |
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Franklin Killers in Mage: The Awakening have had their moral code screwed up by exposure to the Franklin Working, the creation of a very conservative, homophobic, and sex-negative mage. As a result, they tend to have very firm personal codes, in which premarital sex or minor crime is likely considered morally worse than violence, so they may see nothing wrong with stabbing a jaywalker. | |
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Fantastic Four: Doctor Doom subscribes to a personal code of honor that concerns always keeping his word, repaying any debt he owes to another, looking after the welfare of the people of Latveria, working to eradicate poverty, famine, disease, and war via world domination, and ruthlessly avenging any and every insult to his character, real or imagined. Depending on his mood (and, thus, Depending on the Writer), he can abuse the hell out of all of these — Exact Words, Revenge Before Reason, Disproportionate Retribution, Evil is Petty, Ungrateful Bastard, It's All About Me, and a serious Lack of Empathy are all characteristics of the man that his code doesn't get in the way of, and Latveria is sometimes depicted as a brutally efficient Police State. As his worst, Cold-Blooded Torture, Would Hurt a Child, and mass-murder are all fair game. It should be noted that while using Exact Words when he was younger, when he was called out on it, he did acknowledge it and thus became more inclined to follow on the spirit of the word. | |
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Patrick Jane from The Mentalist once pretends to have become an example of this trope. To trick a killer into a revealing admission, he pretends that an experimental device has switched off his conscience and threatens to shoot a group of suspects on the grounds that it's his job to identify criminals and they aren't cooperating. | |
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In RCN, Adele Mundy's personal bodyguard is said to be a Sociopathic Soldier who acts moral not because of any personal code, but because of the legal consequences of doing otherwise. | |
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Jade Curtiss in Tales of the Abyss is a heroic version. He has no empathy whatsoever, but is troubled by this, and always tries to do the right thing even though his concept of right and wrong can be a little skewed. Far, far less so in his backstory, where he was a Creepy Child. | |
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Nil from Horizon Zero Dawn loves killing, and was formerly a soldier of The Empire, which he had no particular problem with. He was jailed after the fall of the regime (which he thinks is fair enough), and when he emerged decided that killing citizens of established tribes wasn't worth the ire it raised. Thus, Aloy can find him scouting various bandit camps. | |
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Burn Notice: Michael Weston is a former CIA agent regarded by many of his colleagues to be one of the best field agents they have, and it shows in his work; he is an expert at emotionally manipulating targets and tricking them into giving him what he wants, whatever that may be. Many of his tactics such as deliberate gaslighting and the ease with which he lies edge into some sociopathic tendencies. He also struggles to relate to his friends and family on an emotional level, his cold calculated approach frequently alienating people he genuinely cares for. These tendencies are further highlighted in a conversation with his mother, in which she reveals that even as a child she could see something dark in him. It worried her so much she forged his father's signature to let him join the military, thinking they would help him forge that darkness into a tool for good. Despite the emotionless deadpan he usually displays, he has strict morals about how he handles situations, what sort of jobs he's willing to take, and he only ever takes a life if absolutely necessary. | |
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