“ | I was driven by Venom... it controlled me, not the other way around. I meant to break you. I meant to rule your city. But the Venom weakened my judgement and I lost everything. Now I know that you were never my enemy. My enemies were lined against me before I was born. | „ |
~ Bane telling how his addiction affected him. |
“ | I gotta tell you, Orel. (drinks liquor) Your cup is always half-empty. | „ |
~ Clay Puppington showing Orel his addiction to Liquor in "Nature (Part 1)". |
Other villains are addicted to substances or even certain activities and behaviors. Villains who are Addicts can thus be considered Tragic because most addictions are beyond their control. However, they can become much less sympathetic if their addictive behavior disproportionately harms others and they willingly refuse treatment to the point of becoming Pure Evil at worst.
Mental illnesses are worsened by drug abuse which is one of the reasons for these villains to be violent and sometimes psychotic if coupled with dissociations and/or schizophrenic disorders. Likewise, prolonged use can cause illnesses to manifest as well as the obvious dangers of chemical addictions (which in the case of alcohol is known as alcoholism).
Despite the fact that addiction is classed as an illness, it is stigmatized in societies with many seeing Addicts as drunkards or low-lives who bring misery upon themselves; some use this as justification to abuse and/or kill such individuals as Social Darwinist and/or Harbinger for Rebirth ideals, some Serial Killers specifically targeting such people in order to "purify" the worlds they live in; this makes Addicts a complicated matter for Heroes and societies as a whole with varying degrees of sympathy being put forth depending on factors. Due to this, many works generally show that regardless of what they are addicted to, they still must help themselves before expecting others to help them.
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- Sir (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
- Sir Raleigh
- Sister Jude
- SkankHunt42
- Skaven
- SkekAyuk
- SkekLach
- SkekOk
- SkekSil
- Skeksis
- SkekSo
- SkekUng
- Skeletor (The Purge)
- Skinny Pete
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- Skyler White
- Slaanesh
- Slim Shady
- Slug (Coronation Street)
- Slug (Marvel)
- Smile Dog
- Smoke (Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue)
- Snake (PSA Commercial)
- Sniper Wolf
- Snowball Merriman
- Snowflame
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- Soldier Boy (TV Series)
- Sonya Herfmann
- Sora Siruha
- Sorhed
- SPANKed-up Madmen
- Spazz Maticus
- Spider (Birdboy)
- Spider Monkey
- Spike (Buffyverse)
- Splicers (BioShock)
- Spooge
- Spooge's Lady
- Sports Maxx
- Spy (Team Fortress 2)
- Stacy (Dick Figures)
- Stan (Eminem)
- Stan and Heff
- Stan Beals
- Stan Liddy
- Stanley Kowalski
- Stanley Poole
- Stephanie (Quadrophenia)
- Stephanie Mulroney
- Stephen Kemp
- Stephen Paddock (Darkness)
- Stephen Stotch
- Steve Abnesti
- Steve Martell
- Steve Sextram
- Sticks (Spawn)
- Stingy Jack
- Straw Banki
- Stretch (Harry Brown)
- Stripe (Gremlins)
- Strobaya
- Subject 3
- Suitors
- Sully Bowden
- Sultan Murad IV
- Sun Wukong (Journey to the West)
- Super Rape
- SuperJail's Inmates
- Susan LeClerc
- Suzie Toller
- Sweet Tooth (The New Adventures of Batman)
- Sweetcheeks
- Sylvester (Talking Kitty Cat)
- Syuen
- T-Rick
- Takada
- Talosian Keeper
- Tarn
- Tate Langdon
- Tatiana Krumula
- Tattaglia Family
- Taylor Milos
- Teacher (There's A Man in the Woods)
- Ted Jones
- Ted Spankoffski
- Teddy Benavidez
- Teddy Kuznetsov
- Teddy McGiggle
- Teddy Sanders
- Teenage Kix
- Tek Knight
- Telly
- Teppei Hojo
- Terrance Muncy Hatchett
- Terrorists (Postal)
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- Terry Hawkins
- Terry Lynch
- Terry Milkovich
- Terry Thorpe
- Test Subjects (The Russian Sleep Experiment)
- Tetsuo Shima
- Tetta Kisaki
- Thad Messimer
- Thanquol
- That Guy with the Glasses
- The Beast (Advance Wars)
- The Blight
- The Blood
- The Boss (Saints Row)
- The Champion (The Champion)
- The Clown (Dead by Daylight)
- The Count (Arrowverse)
- The Devil (McJuggerNuggets)
- The Doctor (Superjail!)
- The Dog (Duck Season)
- The Drunk
- The Duke (Layer Cake)
- The Eye
- The Family (WhisperedFaith)
- The Fans
- The Father (A Safe Place)
- The Fox (Criminal Minds)
- The Gang (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
- The Gaoler
- The General (Hotline Miami)
- The Ghoul (Fallout)
- The Goons
- The Gulper
- The Homeless Man
- The Innocentz
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- The Janitor (Kindergarten)
- The Kid (Stephen King)
- The Lieutenant (Bad Lieutenant)
- The Maelstrom
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- The Mother (Among the Sleep)
- The Narrator (The Tell-Tale Heart)
- The Nazi Officer
- The Neo-Nazis (Class of 1984)
- The New Dawn
- The OD
- The Official
- The Postal Dude
- The Protagonist (Arrest of a Stone Buddha)
- The Protagonist (The Horror of Our Love)
- The Queen (Qumi-Qumi)
- The Rajah of Sarawak
- The Rattler (Dr. Henry Bingham)
- The Reaper (Criminal Minds)
- The Seven (comics)
- The Sheriff (Holes)
- The Sisters (Shawshank Redemption)
- The Skinz
- The Smileys
- The Soldier (Running Gun Blues)
- The Son
- The Thug Tug Gang
- The Truth (Grand Theft Auto)
- The Twin Chefs
- Theodore Victor Allen
- Thomas Burke
- Thomas Hickey
- Thomas Logan
- Thomas Pendrew
- Thor (God of War)
- Throt the Unclean
- Tighten
- Tim Heidecker (On Cinema)
- Tim Stoltefuss
- Tim Williamson
- Tobias Beecher
- Tobias Hankel
- Toby Carlson
- Todd Ford
- Todd Ianuzzi
- Todd Packer
- Todd Williams
- Tom (Eddsworld)
- Tom Cooper
- Tom Hedden
- Tom Henderson
- Tom Nissen & John Lotter
- Tom Parker
- Tom Rivas
- Tom Wambsgans
- Tomaru Sawagoe
- Tommy Cole
- Tommy Lee (Smallville)
- Tommy Lee Royce
- Tommy Tombolopolus
- Tommy Udo
- Tony Montana (original)
- Tony Montana (Scarface: Scarred for Life)
- Tony Prince
- Tony Redwood
- Tony Rowe
- Tony Soprano