Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-27818776-20140921193906/@comment-1762629-20140922010647

Razim was a villain from the Alex Rider series. Though his crimes aren't anywhere near as widespread as Julia or Winston, he makes up for it by being the most personal foe in the series and one of the most vicious examples of a sociopath in modern literature. Razim strays from Scorpia's usual motive (which is primarily about money) kidnaps innocents and tortures them in cruel ways to measure pain, in a perversion of For Science!. He seeks to do the same to Alex, and in doing so, forces him to watch Starbright, a major character and the closest thing to a parental figure Alex has, be blown up. His only reaction to the ordeal and Alex's grief is that his emotional pain is so high, he may have to make a new measurement. After the plot continues, he also devises a scheme to assassinate the US Secretary of State and frame Alex for the ordeal so he'll be arrested and killed. His ultimate plan pales a little bit to his actual actions, but he still measures up in my opnion. As a kid, he strangled his dog to death, stabbed his nanny in the leg, and sold out his parents to Saddam Hussein. An easy qualifier in my eyes, even with the heinous standard considered.

Bryagh is the secondary villain of The Flight of Dragons, and is the literal dragon to the sorceror Ommadon. Aiding him in his goal to destroy the world, Bryagh doesn't do much until the climax, where he swoops into the final battle and kills almost the entire cast of heroes excepting the main protagonist. Now, one could say he was acting under Ommadon's orders, except Bryagh is obviously enjoying himself; he takes a moment to pause to laugh at the last survivor of his assault (after killing his love interest, no less) and it's clear he gets joy out of killing others. What seals it is his MEH, which is very similar to Turnatt's. Prior to the plot, Sir Orrin came across Bryagh eating an entire nest of unborn dragon eggs; Sir Orrin, understandably acting in disgust, defeated Bryagh and made mortal enemies with him. He could only save one egg. Part of Bryagh's motive is personal revenge, as seen when he kills Orrin's love interest and Orrin himself, but his violent streak doesn't extend only to him. Ultimately, he's littlle less than a sadist who gets joy out of murdering anything in his path.

So?