Archetype:Serial Killer

Serial Killer
Jack the Ripper (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie) is humanity's most infamous and feared serial killer, and during the fourth round of Ragnarok, he manages to kill a God.
Archetype of:	Serial Killer

"My dad is a murderer...And I...am an accomplice."

― Jin Seon on father, Dongsoo Seon (Bastard)

"They called me a serial killer. I traveled around, hunting. Killed eight people. They even talked about me on TV! I was a real celebrity!"

― Shrieker (Bleach)

The archetype of serial killers.

Also Called

• Serial Murderer

Properties

User is a serial killer: a killer that commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a pattern of behaviors. They have a compulsive need to systematically hunt down individuals that fall under their specifications. They are proficient killers who know the best way of killing a target. They can scout opportunities and take advantage of them. They are also great at masking themselves and blending in with society.

Applications

• Apathy
• Enhanced Violence: user is notorious for their brutal killing methods, instilling fear into those who know their name.
  • Killing Instinct
    • Killing Intent
    • Killing Mastery
  • Peak Human/Enhanced Combat
    • Combat Specialism: serial killers will become skilled in combat from killing
    • Weapon Proficiency: serial killers usually use a certain weapon to kill victims with
• Predator Instinct
  • Disguise Mastery: Can pretend to be a normal person, hiding their true nature.
  • Enhanced Caution: Serial killers know what to do to avoid suspicion and how to do it.
  • Enhanced Charisma: Many serial killers have shown to be highly charismatic and use their charisma to manipulate others and earn their trust.
  • Enhanced Tracking: serial killers are skilled at tracking down their victims.
  • Opportunity Sense
  • Peak Human/Enhanced Intelligence: Many serial killers have shown to be very intelligent with evading the law, manipulating others into trusting them, planning out their murders, and avoiding suspicion.
  • Social Cloaking: Many serial killers have shown to blend into society.
  • Tracking Evasion: Serial killers are known for their evasion of the law.
  • Unnoticeability: Serial killers are known to freely interact with people and objects without being noticed, making this one of their most dangerous abilities.

Associations

• Divided Mind: Some Serial Killers are split personalities.
• Dark Magic: Some serial killers are deeply involved in the occult and commit ritualistic killings for eldritch purposes.
• Horror Survivor
  • Serial Killers will often create Horror Survivors. 
• Last Survivor
  • The last known survivor of a serial killer and is the ones to defeat them.

Variations

• Psychopaths
  • More commonly, serial killers can be psychopaths, being really intelligent, sadistic, violent/wrathful, highly manipulative, calculating, apathetic, unapologetic, ruthless, and remorseless in their actions, and can blend into society more effectively.
• Sociopaths
  • Some serial killers could be sociopaths, individuals that have a ruthless, cruel, violent/wrathful, impulsive, irresponsible, and a manipulative persona, though they are limited empathy towards certain individuals, and this arguably makes them more dangerous than a psychopath. As a result, they could form friendships/relationships with others, with them not knowing what sort of people they are.
• Slasher Villain
  • A supernatural killer that kills without discrimination and with no pattern or cause; more align with killers of fantastical traits and abilities rather than the more grounded serial killers we see in real life.

• Yandere
  • A variation of the serial killer. These characters are highly obsessed with a love interest and would commit extreme acts, up to and including homicide, for the sake of securing said love interest.

Flaws/Weaknesses

• Users can be eventually identified, tracked, and captured due to the predictable nature of their patterns and behaviors (note only applies to "traditional" serial-killers)
• Most serial killers are narcissistic, cruel and attention-seeking thus often toy with others, which can easily lead to them underestimating an opponent or falling prey to a smarter mind - who can track them due to their behaviors.
• Some serial killers are suffering from severe mental disorders and thus cannot control their urge to kill, these kinds of killers suffer a near-feral mind and may even devolve into true insanity - where they no longer try to hide their crimes.
• Even among criminal society serial-killers are deeply shunned, feared, and hated - so finding allies is very difficult, often once exposed a serial-killer becomes a complete social pariah and a "wanted man/woman" (to the point other criminals may try and kill them)
• Many are also deeply scornful of a group or society as whole (for example many male serial-killers are misogynistic, some are also misanthropic) - as a result they have extreme difficulty in situations where they have to work with those they deem "beneath" them or hold back their "instinct" to kill. (In other words, serial-killers do NOT "play well with others". unless on their own terms)

Example Characters

See Also: Serial Killer

• Hunter Zolomon/Zoom/Black Flash (Arrowverse)
• Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
• Issac "Zack" Foster (Angels of Death)
• Impostors (Among Us)
• Shrieker (Bleach)
• Kōga Kuchiki (Bleach)
• Kokutō (Bleach)
• Various Characters (Bones)
• Aion (Chrono Crusade)
• Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)
• Genocide Jack/Genocider Syo (Danganronpa)
• Sparkling Justice (Danganronpa 2)
• Korekiyo Shinguji (Danganronpa V3)
• Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
• David Hersh/Cicada (DC Comics)
• Joker (DC Comics)
• Victor Zsasz (DC Comics)
• Killers (Dead by Daylight)
• Light Yagami (Death Note)
• Demonic Toys (Demonic Toys series)
• Gaku Yashiro (ERASED)
• Pickman (Fallout 4)
• Gilles De Rais (Fate/Zero)
• Ryuunosuke Uryuu (Fate/Zero)
• William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s)
• Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal Lecter)
• Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill (Hannibal Lecter)
• Gabriel Gray/Sylar (Heroes)
• Suikotsu (InuYasha)
• Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Diamond is Unbreakable)
• Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
• Cletus Kasady/Carnage (Marvel Comics)
• Yuno Gasai (Mirai Nikki)
• Johan Liebert (Monster)
• Kombatants (Mortal Kombat)
• Cheon Ma (Myst, Might, Mayhem/Nano Machine)
• Freddy Kreuger (Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Jason Voorhess (Friday the 13th)
• Micheal Myers (Halloween)
• The Miner (My Bloody Valentine)
• SCP-035 - Possessive Mask (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-049 - The Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-106 - The Old Man (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-173 - The Sculpture (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-352 - Baba Yaga (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-953 - Polymorpher Humanoid (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-973 - Smokey (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-993 - Bobble the Clown (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1048 - The Builder Bear (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4975 - Time's Up (SCP Foundation)
• Jack the Ripper (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie)
• Jerry Blake (Stepfather)
• Jack the Ripper (Various Fictional (and the nonfictional) Interpretation of Jack the Ripper)
• Jeff the Killer (Creepypasta)
• HABIT (EverymanHYBRID)
• Siren Head (Trevor Henderson Mythos)
• Ayano Aishi (Yandere Simulator)
• Killer Toupée (The Simpsons)
• Itchy (The Simpsons)
• Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons)
• Stalker (Extinctioners)
• Lynx Wylde (Extinctioners)
• Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)
• The Hunter (Little Nightmares 2)
• Dennis Skinner (Skinner)
• SID 6.7 (Virtuosity)
• Tohru Adachi (Persona 4)
• Stanley Gimble (Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines)
• Bob Wolverton (Freeway)
• Thrax (Osmosis Jones)
• Eugene Victor Tooms (The X-Files)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Kōga Kuchiki (Bleach) became a serial killer who claimed many Soul Reapers and Rukongai citizens alike when he suffered a mental breakdown from being framed.

Aion (Chrono Crusade)

Light Yagami (Death Note) became a mass murderer serial killer who targeted criminals and whoever came after him upon receiving the Death Note, reasoning he was killing in the name of justice.

Servant Gilles De Rais (Fate/Zero) slaughtered hundreds of children out of the need to prove God was absent and as a result of madness from Jeanne's death. His mind is mentally distorted as a result he can only understand those with the same level of mindset like he is such as his master...

...Ryuunosuke Uryuu (Fate/Zero), who is a Japanese Serial killer that enjoys killing people, primarily women and children. He enjoys killing others as he is obsessed with death and dying, believing that death is forbidden knowledge and by killing people he can understand it.

Yuno Gasai (Mirai Nikki)

Whenever Cavendish (One Piece) falls asleep, his alternate personality, Hakuba awakens and slaughters everyone around him.

Suikotsu (InuYasha) developed a split personality that became a serial killer whose brutal skills at murder earned him a position within the Shichinintai.

Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Diamond is Unbreakable)

Johan Liebert (Monster)

Park Jinsong's (My School Life Pretending To Be a Worthless Person) "Absolute Murder" wraps him with the desires to kill on an uncontrollable level, causing him to turn from a naive, friendly, laid-back, and fun-looking person into a psychotic killer that only enjoys killing for fun.

Ichijou Reina (Genocide Online) is a girl who suffers from anti-social disorder that causes her to be incapable of feeling empathy. Developing a hobby of "playing" with others for no apparent reasons.

Johness (Hunter X Hunter) was a cruel and sadistic serial killer, who killed his victims by ripping them apart with his bare hands.

Shungiku Koikawa (Mushibugyō) is known as the Killer of 99.

Comics

The Joker (DC Universe) is one of the most infamous serial killers out there, all for the sake of his brand of comedy.

Victor Zsasz (DC Comics)

James Gordon Jr. (DC Comics)

Stalker (Extinctioners) is a sadistic serial-killer who kills for sheer pleasure.

Lynx Wylde (Extinctioners) is a feline serial-killer and has allied with Stalker, together the pair are considered the most sadistic enemies the group have yet faced.

Cletus Cassady/Carnage (Marvel Comics)

Literature

Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal series) is the quintessential serial killer, intelligent, calculating, and sadistic.

Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)

Judge Holden (Blood Meridian)

Live Television

Dexter Morgan (Dexter) is serial killer trained since his childhood to be skilled and efficient in his killing spree against criminals and other killers.

Gabriel Gray/Sylar (Heroes)

Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja (Kamen Rider Ryuki)

Movies

In life, Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) was a child killer who killed dozens of children and terrorized Elm Street, after his death however he became a supernatural killer known as a Slasher.

John Kramer (Saw)

Bob Wolverton (Freeway) is the I-5 Killer.

Video Games

Genocide Jack (Danganronpa) is the split personality of Toko Fukawa and is known as the Ultimate Serial Killer in the Danganronpa universe.

The Killers (Dead by Daylight) are all serial killers with supernatural powers granted by the Entity.

William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Kombatants (Mortal Kombat)

Tohru Adachi (Persona 4) is the one responsible for the murders in Inaba, with him using his position as a detective to secretly derail the investigation.

Web Original

HABIT (EverymanHYBRID)

Videos

No Country for Old Men 'The Deputy' (HD) - Javier Bardem MIRAMAX

Anton Chigurh Kills Rival Mexican Gang in Motel - No Country for Old Men (2007) Movie Clip HD Scene

Do You See Me? Anton Chigurh Office Accountee - No Country for Old Men (2007) - Movie Clip HD Scene

Anton Chigurh Kills Carson Wells in Hotel Room - No Country for Old Men (2007) - Movie Clip HD Scene

Angelo Kills Josuke's Grandfather

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Yoshikage Kira Revealed-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Kira's Picnic-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Kira Yoshikage and Killer Queen-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Killer Queen's Power-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Shigechi's Final Moments-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Sheer Heart Attack-2

Kira makes donuts Uncensored Version

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Kira Fights His Inner Self-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable Kira's Escape Plan

Don't mess with Kira Yoshikage Uncensored Version-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Kira Reveals His Own Name-2

ジョジョ- That's who Cioccolata and his pet Secco are 『HD』-2

Kogami vs Makashima - PSYCHO-PASS-2

Death Proof - Car Crash Scene-2

Final chase - Death Proof-2

Family Hunting Matters - Supernatural-2

'Morning Routine' Title Sequence - Dexter - SHOWTIME

Best of Caleb the Cannibal - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Crazy new killer in Dead By Daylight-2

SCP-001 - When Day Breaks SCP-106

The Old Man - SCP-106 (SCP Animation)

SCP-953 Polymorphic Humanoid (SCP Animation)

SCP-973 Smokey (SCP Animation)

SCP-993 Bobble the Clown (SCP Animation)

Mortal Kombat 1 Fatalities-2

Mortal Kombat 2 (SNES) - All Fatalities-2

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 *All Fatalities-Animalities-Friendships-Babalities* (HD)-2

Mortal Kombat 4 (Gold) - All Fatalities -HQ--2

Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers (Friday the 13th VS Halloween) - DEATH BATTLE!-2

Joker VS Sweet Tooth (DC VS Twisted Metal) - DEATH BATTLE!

Carnage VS Lucy (Marvel VS Elfen Lied) - DEATH BATTLE!

Supervillain Origins- Bullseye

Music

TVアニメ「終末のワルキューレ」 OP映像