Judge Holden

Judge Holden is a villain from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. A complete list of all his horrendous atrocities - especially his crimes against children - would fill up several pages, but the scariest thing about him is his intelligence. The other mercenaries are barbaric killers, but the intellectual Judge is so terrifying because he has an inner peace. He understands what is happening and knows how wrong it is, but For the Evulz, he still is the driving force behind the gang's destruction of everything in their path.