Curated playlist
Fictional murderers of children
- Joker (character)The Joker was nearly killed off in his second comic appearance. An editor saved him with a hastily drawn panel.
- Frankenstein's monsterFrankenstein's monster has no name of his own. Within a decade of the novel, audiences used his maker's name.
- Darth VaderThe actor inside Darth Vader's suit never knew his voice would be replaced. James Earl Jones voiced him instead.
- PalpatinePalpatine's first name stayed off screen for decades. Fans learned it was Sheev only in the 2014 novel Tarkin.
- Gus FringGustavo Fring sells fried chicken in the American Southwest, and the chicken is the least dangerous thing he sells. He is a fictional character played by Giancarlo Esposito in the Breaking Bad franchise. He is one of the main antagonists…
- HomelanderGarth Ennis, who created Homelander together with the artist Darick Robertson, offered a blunt way to picture him. In Ennis's words: "It might help to think of the Homelander as having all the self-control of… let's say… a…
- Billy ButcherBilly Butcher hunts gods, and he does it with no superpowers of his own. He is a fictional character, one of the two main protagonists of the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. He leads a group of…
- Vecna (Stranger Things)Vecna kills by making his victims relive the worst moments of their lives. He is the main antagonist of the Netflix series Stranger Things, played by Jamie Campbell Bower. The character debuted in the show's fourth season as a malevolent…
- Judge HoldenJudge Holden may have been a living man, a borrowed name, or only a rumor that one soldier wrote down. The proof that he existed at all rests on a single memoir. More than a century after that memoir was finished, the novelist Cormac…
- Black NoirBlack Noir is the name shared by three characters in The Boys, a story created in comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Eric Kripke later developed it for television. In both versions, Noir belongs to the Seven, a hedonistic and…
- La LloronaLa Llorona, the Weeping Woman of Hispanic American folklore, turns up in the Florentine Codex, a text about the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519. It says: "The sixth omen was that many times a woman would be heard going along weeping and…
- Ghostface (Scream)Ghostface is the disguise worn by the killers of the Scream films, and it first announces itself through a telephone. In the opening scene of Scream in 1996, the teenager Casey Becker, played by Drew Barrymore, takes a call from a…