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Fictional serial killers

  • Joker (character)The Joker was nearly killed off in his second comic appearance. An editor saved him with a hastily drawn panel.
  • Carnage (character)Carnage, the Marvel Comics supervillain, has a favorite calling card: the words "Carnage Rules," written in blood for others to follow. The character is a symbiote, an amorphous alien parasite that bonds with a living host and grants…
  • Ramsay BoltonIn 2016, The New York Times called Ramsay Bolton arguably the most hated man on television. The paper also named him the signature Game of Thrones villain, a position that Joffrey Baratheon had held before him. Ramsay is a fictional…
  • Sabretooth (character)Sabretooth, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is believed to be Victor Creed, makes a point of finding Wolverine on his birthday. Writer Chris Claremont described the ritual in his own words. On every one of his birthdays, he said,…
  • 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…
  • Vega (Street Fighter)Street Fighter II's Vega never removes his mask, and a Shakespeare character helped explain why.
  • 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…
  • Hush (character)Hush is a DC Comics supervillain who first appeared in Batman #609 in January 2003. Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee created him for the twelve-issue storyline Batman: Hush. He was designed as a mirror held up to Batman. His background runs parallel…
  • Solomon Grundy (character)Solomon Grundy is a DC Comics supervillain, and now and then an antihero, who took his name from a 19th-century nursery rhyme. He first lurched onto the page in All-American Comics #61, dated October 1944. Writer Alfred Bester created him…
  • 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…

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