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Patrick Bateman of American Psycho springs to mind. There is something quintessentially disquieting about the idea of a vicious murderer blending in to ordinary life so easily. Nobody likes to think they’re standing in line at the grocery store behind a serial killer.

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A Song of Ice And Fire may not go down in history as great literature, but I think Ramsay Bolton and Joffrey Lannister are both very disturbing characters, where it’s a relief when they finally die.

One could argue that Tywin Lannister should be added to that list, but what makes Ramsay and Joffrey so disturbing is their utter lack of concern for the rule of law and for conventional morality. Tywin was a cold-hearted brute but he was mostly law-abiding, and he cared what other people thought of him and his family.

Ramsay and Joffrey, on the other hand, didn’t give a damn what anybody thought, whether a thing was legal, or whether there would be consequences to an impulsive action. They were the embodiment of Freud’s Id — I want it, I want it now, and I don’t give a damn what people thing or whether there are consequences. Full stop.

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Young Alex of A Clockwork Orange is certainly a disturbing character. We may come to pity him later on, but this is someone who is also an unrepentant, manipulative, narcissistic, vicious brute who takes delight in seeing others suffer.

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