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Villainous Aromantic Asexual

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Asexual and aromantic people (or characters implied to be so) appear in media usually when they are either "broken" abuse victims who needed to be "fixed" (compare Cure Your Gays) or, more commonly, evil villains.
Media that features characters with psychopathic traits often try to play up their inhuman nature as much as possible. Many decide a good way to hammer the point home is to have the character reject all forms of sexuality. It's considered the norm for humans to feel sexual (or at least romantic) attraction, so something must be fundamentally wrong when someone rejects such basic instincts. This trope also enforces the idea of heteronormativity, alongside similar tropes like Depraved Bisexual, Depraved Homosexual, and Psycho Lesbian.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Villainous Asexual and/or Aromantic characters often also dismiss friendships, familial relationships, and other human relationships as well. This usually means the villain Hates Everyone Equally. They tend to have a Lack of Empathy as well. Characters might be interested in nothing but their work or might have a near-sexual interest in sadism. If they ever have sex, it's only to further some agenda they have.
A character must fit at least one of the following criteria:
The villain is explicitly stated by Word of God to be asexual and/or aromantic.
Their lack of sexual and/or romantic interest is clearly stated (i.e. they openly show lack of interest or even disgust at relationships).
There are moments where sexual and/or romantic interest is expected, but they do not show any (e.g. marrying for political reasons or to spite someone).
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })All of these are not required, but they must at least have one to truly count. If the subject of a villain's romantic or sexual interests is simply not brought up, then it does not count as this.
Compare with Depraved Homosexual, Psycho Lesbian, and Depraved Bisexual for other villainous takes on non-heterosexual orientations. Contrast with Celibate Hero and Chaste Hero for positive examples of lack of sex, Good People Have Good Sex, Sex Is Good, Even Evil Has Loved Ones (for romantic relationships) for positive portrayals of sex, and Sex Is Evil, Unholy Matrimony, and Serial Rapist for negative portrayals of sex. For villains who, in addition to sex, abstain from other "vices", see Straight Edge Evil. When a villain is asexual due to lacking some or all sexual organs, see Eunuchs Are Evil. Related to Loners Are Freaks.
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Batman: Arkham Knight depicts The Riddler as this, showing disgust at human relationships, including Batman and Catwoman's unique relationship.
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Kars from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency is asexual, having a fondness for only nature. Upon evolving into the Ultimate Life Form, his asexuality is also taken to new heights where it's explicitly stated that for Kars, "SEX = USELESS". He disdains humanity and anything alongside it, like romantic or sexual relationships, and seeks to be above them.
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Batman: Arkham Series:
This is possibly true of Dr. Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City. In patient interviews, he seems particularly detached when talking about the relationships of the inmates and at one point states openly that he's never been in love. Though it could just be because he's a sociopath, but any difference between the two is never even noted.
Batman: Arkham Knight depicts The Riddler as this, showing disgust at human relationships, including Batman and Catwoman's unique relationship.
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The Joker tends to be portrayed as completely uninterested in sex, only caring about his "jokes" and schemes. While he is willing to partake in sex, he only ever does as part of an Evil Plan, manipulation, or because he wants to make a sick joke about it. For example, the self-titled graphic novel has him rape a woman named Shelly, the wife of one of his henchmen and the book's POV character, Jonny Frost, as a fucked up way of making things "even" between the two after Frost withheld the fact he had a meeting with Two-Face.
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Word of God states that Mayor Jones's love of treasure has turned him asexual.
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Hero Chat: Zoé theorizes that Lila is aromantic. Though this isn't used to make Lila more villainous, but less—she genuinely doesn't understand the point of relationships besides producing children and providing a stable home for them, so all that other stuff people do is probably just more lies and flattery like what she does herself, so she can't even see that what she does is wrong.
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Highlander: The evil Immortal Kalas. He feigns romantic interest in Duncan's female companion in the '20s, but that's just so he can get her alone and try to strangle her for revenge against Duncan. Later, he captures Amanda, and basically tells her she's wasting her time using her "not inconsiderable talents" on him. Kalas did spend most of his long life in a monastery, so at the very least, he's accustomed to going without having sex (although that didn't stop a lot of real monks).
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Harry Potter: According to Word of God, Lord Voldemort cannot feel love, romantic or otherwise, and he shows no sexual interest in the book canon—and this makes him magically twisted. Although Harry Potter and the Cursed Child reveals that he fathered one child, Delphini, this doesn't disqualify him being asexual, since it could have been simply to get an heir.
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Jack Vessallius from PandoraHearts. The only woman who ever had all of Jack's attention was Lacie, but he never pursued nor wished for a romantic or sexual relationship with her even though he wants to drop the world into the Abyss in her name. Out of curiosity, Lacie once tested how Jack reacted to physical intimacy with her and she got nothing. Furthermore, Jack confessed that his feelings for Lacie aren't based on love, but on addictive obsession and resentment. Jack's inability to feel any kind of genuine love for anyone serves to show how disturbing and twisted he is.
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James Bond:
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Zistopia: Word of God described Big Bad Nancy Goetz as a "self-serving asexual".
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Marvel Universe: The Olympian goddess Athena, just as in Greek Mythology, is both aromantic and asexual. Several characters also note that she can't be trusted, since she's always working toward her own ends for a perceived "greater good". She's also not above using her beauty and attractiveness to manipulate men (and women) into doing her bidding and then disappear moments later without reciprocating.
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Speaking of Slender-series, the Observer from Tribe Twelve claims to be this trope as well. Despite his Ho Yay tendencies when stalking and mocking his victims, he's unable to feel any sort of emotion relating to love or lust. He does, however, find Noah's reactions legitimately hysterical.
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This is possibly true of Dr. Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City. In patient interviews, he seems particularly detached when talking about the relationships of the inmates and at one point states openly that he's never been in love. Though it could just be because he's a sociopath, but any difference between the two is never even noted.
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The Diamond Authority from Steven Universe. Technically all gems (besides Rose) are Asexual due to having No Biological Sex, but gem culture seems to discourage all romantic relationships, fusing is only permitted as a battle tactic and fusing between different gem types is punishable by death, even if done accidentally.
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The Golden Touch: In the opening number, King Midas mentions that he has no interest in romance, simply because he Loves Only Gold. While he's not exactly villainous, he is shown to be a selfish Jerkass in this part, before his development later on.
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Walter from Because We're Here is a sociopath who does not care whether his fellow humans live or die. He is also the only non-romantic route option, his bio stating that he 'could not be less interested in friendship or romance.'
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In Death Note, Light turns down women left and right including a major supermodel. He only seems to ever date women when they're useful to his schemes. He uses a Porn Stash to distract people who are surveilling him, but he describes porn as boring. It's pretty clear his disinterest in such things is part of his disconnect to people in general.
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In the Masters of Horror episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", the albino serial killer Moonface is not interested in "sexual things" according to his longtime and crazed prisoner Buddy. He just enjoys inflicting pain.
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High Commander Jegran in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers tries to tempt Princess Althea with We Can Rule Together, but otherwise doesn't seem to have any physical or emotional desires. He merely wants to remake the world using his power, and since she's the princess — actually queen, since her father is dead — she is merely a stepping stone to give him the power he craves. After her refusal, he decides it doesn't matter since he sees himself as a god now.
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One interpretation of The Bible posits that The Antichrist will be aromantic and asexual. The basis for this comes from Daniel 11:37 (although some newer commentators think this refers to a Depraved Homosexual). Protestant Reformation leaders used this passage as ammo against The Pope.
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Metal Gear Solid: Psycho Mantis, FOXHOUND's most Ax-Crazy member, is asexual and rants about his disgust for the biological "need for breed". Unfortunately for him, he's psychic and can't help but pick up on the desires and fantasies of everybody around him.
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The Human Centipede: Josef from First Sequence is misanthropic to the point of being uninterested in sexual activity.
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Game of Thrones: In a series steeped in sexual politics, Joffrey Baratheon stands out as being a rather asexual character. Finding talk of sex to be boring, he only really brings it up as him needing to consummate his marriage with whoever his wife will be or threatening to rape Sansa, while showing no indication he'd enjoy it outside of seeing Sansa suffer. When Tyrion hires two prostitutes for Joffrey in hopes it'll calm him down, Joffrey only makes one beat the other up due to enjoying their pain more (and partly to spite his uncle.) This gives his villainy a colder bent than most characters in the series.
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In Leverage, one Black Widow Villain of the Week who runs a group of female grifters who seduce rich bachelors declares that there is no such thing as love. She’s very familiar with techniques that make people fall in love, and seems to only see love as a physical reaction she is immune to.
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Queen Chrysalis of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, despite being as close to a succubus as a G-rated cartoon will allow, views The Power of Love as strictly a source of power to make her stronger and balks at the idea of even so much as giving friendship a try. She actually seems completely incapable of actually befriending or falling in love with anyone or anything, and instead operates by either assuming the form of someone's ideal romantic partner or by replacing their true love and then sucking them dry when they love her without so much as a shred of reciprocating their feelings. Even when it's made explicitly clear to her, on numerous occasions, that genuinely loving someone would make her far more powerful than her one-sided love stealing she simply cannot comprehend the idea.
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Johan Liebert from Monster is completely uninterested in women or men, either emotionally or physically, and his obsessive relationships with Tenma and Nina are completely asexual. In fact, pretty much the only crime he doesn't commit is rape—he's so twisted he can't seem to bring himself to care.
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Wander over Yonder: Lord Dominator has absolutely no interest in pursuing a romantic relationship with anyone, despite not being afraid to employ feminine wiles to manipulate people. She explicitly makes this clear in her Villain Song, where she (cruelly) states she's not interested in dating Lord Hater or anyone else.
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Vargas from Thunderball does not drink, does not smoke, and does not make love. Instead, he is a cold, hardened killer without any human indulgences.
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Everyman HYBRID: HABIT, the series' main antagonist, is completely asexual and uninterested in romance, being an entity who gets pleasure out of causing others pain, rather than out of having sex. This gets even more disturbing later on when he claims to have raped Nick's mother, amongst other people during his long life, which was done to inflict suffering rather than to derive sexual pleasure, and also to breed himself a strong host to possess since normal human hosts tend to fall apart after being shot a few dozen times.
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