User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-366087-20160301034444/@comment-2059440-20160301034900

to be frank most depictions of mentally ill villains are far more sociopathic than psychopathic (loud, attention-seeking, needlessly cruel and so on).. while the cold, calculating traits of psychopaths are much rarer..

I'll take Game of Thrones as an example, for every Twyin (who was arguably a psychopath) there are a billion Joffreys (openly insane, violently uncaring of being seen as such) in fiction.