Category:Psychopath

"Thank you, Schmidt, for making it clear how obviously mad you are."

- A Nazi officer to the Red Skull. "Your words are no different than Caster's senseless and insane rants. It appears he isn't the only Servant to have gone completely mad."

- Saber compares Caster to Gilgamesh after the latter claims all treasures of the world, including the Holy Grail, belong to him "Why doesn't he just tell you what he wants? Because he's insane. You don't say!"

- Batman and Adam Hamasaki on the Riddler Psychopaths are villains who exhibit a constellation of traits which include antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships and extreme egocentricity. They also do not learn from failure and take it out on others.

Psychopaths are often confused with sociopaths, however, they are not synonomous. A sociopath is simply an individual who has antisocial personality disorder. However, psychopathy is an umbrella term. There are different types of psychopaths - antisocial psychopaths, narcissistic psychopaths, and borderline psychopaths. Psychopaths have traits and characteristics that are common to the Cluster B personality disorders (Antisocial personality, borderline personality, histrionic personality and narcissistic personality).

Psychopathic traits include: To be classed as a psychopath, one must have at least one Cluster B personality disorder. Either borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, or antisocial personality disorder. A psychopath can have all three disorders, or he/she may have two.
 * 1) Extreme Egocentricity
 * 2) Lack any form of both Empathy and Sympathy towards others
 * 3) Highly charismatic
 * 4) Capable liars, to the point of almost never being called out
 * 5) Inability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships
 * 6) Complete disregard for the rights of others
 * 7) High Intelligence
 * 8) Normally impulsive
 * 9) Is emotionally unstable and will fly into a violent rage if things start to go wrong
 * 10) Ability to manipulate others

Psychopaths are not always killers or violent criminals, in fact many are capable businessmen and women but have a lack of remorse and do not socialize well with others,: Sociopaths (antisocials) also have a lack of remorse but their disdainful attitudes are largely an acquired trait rather than a hereditary trait.(especially in fiction).

Neither Psychopathy nor Sociopathy are accepted by modern psychiatrists yet the terms are still widely used in fiction and in the public eye. It is possible to qualify as both a psycho and sociopath, if for example, you are afflicted with antisocial personality disorder (antisocial psychopathy). Villains that qualify for both must exhibit the excessive narcissism and victim seeking pleasure of a sociopath with the cold-heartedness and cunning of a psychopath. These villains often qualify for Complete Monsters, such as Henry Evans and the Red Skull.

It should also be noted that, even though it's very unusual, not all villains who qualify for one or even both are necessarily Complete Monsters. Examples are Peter & Stewie Griffin.