Animation has given us a lot of dark content over the years. The more experimental the
show, the most likely we would be granted a character that took on the role of a
murderer. So today, we wanted to discuss one type of killer in particular:
the serial killer. I’m Kyle with WickedBinge and
this is Cartoon and Animation Serial Killers: Evil to Most Evil.
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Now we want to specify what qualifies as a serial killer. According to the FBI website,
the now agreed criteria is someone who has killed three or more people with a
significant amount of time between the victims. That being said, we won’t be covering
spree killings or single massacres. At least, not for this particular list.
Today, we’ll be measuring how evil we consider each character based on a few factors.
First, though they may be responsible for a variety of deaths over a large amount of time,
we have to take that character’s intention into account. If they were neglectful and
wound up causing casualties as a result, that isn’t great, but it shows more grace than
being outright ruthless. Second, if a character has a large body count due to protection
or their work, they aren’t going to be featured on this list unless they use their power to
kill innocent people that inconvenience them. Third, and this kind of goes hand in hand,
we will be taking into account the overall amount of victims and the method used to kill
them. We also want to say that any character that suffers from a serious condition or
environment where things are past their control will get some leniency with the ranking.
Now, we’ll be starting with the least evil and working our way down to the most evil.
Earning the first spot on our list, we had to include Stan Smith. Now, most of the time,
Stan only kills because he has to. He’s even stated a few times that he doesn’t feel guilt
over his assinations because it’s to protect the people he cares about and the country
he loves. But we’ve also seen more than a few times that Stan has happily pulled a gun
on someone that simply gets in his way. And during a revealing call with his son, Stan
even talks about being detached from taking a human life, making the comment he can
pull the trigger while thinking about what to get for dinner. There was also an episode
where Stan reveals he hasn’t made a kill for the majority of his career in spite of
everyone thinking otherwise, leading to him being encouraged to end a life to pass
some sort of milestone. Stan, though reluctant, doesn’t refuse because he feels awful,
but because he doubts his own abilities to be successful, relating the taking of life to
being able to be manly. Next on our list we have Fat Tony
and the mob. The Simpsons don’t feature a lot of killers outside of their Treehouse of Horror
specials. The only constant threat, aside from Mr Burns taking over everything,
was being at the mercy of Fat Tony and his men. While we don’t get to see a lot of the dirty
deeds that take place, we do see them dispose of more than a few bodies throughout
the show and go through a few trials. The same could be said for the Donbot and his
henchmen in Matt Greonings other show Futurama.
Next we’re placing two chaotic forces together: Peter and the Giant Chicken. Now
Peter is a malicious jerk in a lot of later episodes, but that isn’t really why we had to
place these two on this list. Over the years, they have gotten into a lot of brawls, with
the fights quickly escalating to a massive level. They’ve had a hand in ruining not only
billions of dollars of equipment, but killing countless people in the crossfire of their
grudge. Had they only done this once, we would simply place them as mass killers. But
that isn’t the case. Instead we get multiple episodes resulting in crashed space
shuttles,exploding trucks, fires and collapsed buildings, all with a chance of hurting or killing
more than a few people. Next on our list is Lois’ brother Patrick.
After a traumatizing experience of walking in on his mother having sex with Jackie Gleason,
Patrick developed a distaste for anyone overweight. He saw them as immoral and evil,
needing to be taken out of society. We give some credit to Patrick, though. He
admitted he suffered from a sickness and willingly went back to Brookfield to help
overcome his issues. When he came back to the show, it was to help Chris avoid being killed,
helping the police to hunt down the person murdering campers.
Next we’re going to be ranking Morty and Summer together. They were a little tough to
place, but they have each taken part in some killing. Summer we see shoot several
people on the renegade planet while, on that same adventure, Morty took part in
pulverizing quite a few warriors with the help of Armthony. We also see Morty start to
get into the spirit of the purge planet and shoot Rick in a rage thinking the gun handed
to him was real. They both fall lower on the list for different reasons. Morty because he
has no healthy way to deal with his rage and so gets into the swing of taking life on
other planets when getting the chance. With Summer,
though similar, she shows far more detachment from the act.
It’s hard to mention one character in particular, but we did want to mention some of the
people in the show China, Illinois. To be specific, we want to cover some of the main
cast. Frank, Steve, Babycakes, the Dean and a few others have all taken part of gutting
someone open for...pretty insane reasons. In one instance, Frank is seen having a
breakdown and going into his happy place before going on a rampage, but only after he
and other teachers are pushed into a gruesome competition to try and keep their jobs.
While the actions are disgraceful and appalling, we concede that this behavior is pretty
accepted in their universe. Even when the police get involved, they don’t appear to do
much. Some people such as the students or background characters make comments
about the morality of sparing a life, leading us to believe that there is a huge lack of
compassion and human decency on campus. But hey, they even say in the theme song
that no one should ever come to this school. We regret reviving the memory, but next we
have King Tommy. For those that have seen this episode, you already know why
he’s placed on this list. Over the course of years, Tommy was able to survive by breeding
with the life in Froopyland to create weird hybrid children to feed on.
Now though Tommy clearly killed a lot of his offspringover the years, we don’t place him lower
because in order to stay alive he didn’t have much choice. Does it justify making the children
he created just accept the life he gave them and teach them to see him as a god? No.
It’s still very disturbing. But in times of survival, sometimes we do resort
to desperate measures. Next we want to mention Stan’s pet
Goldfish. Featured in an early season for a Halloween special, we can’t place the pet
lower on the list because it did come from a different reality where the rules were a bit
warped. But there is no doubt that this fish murdered several people in Stan’s home
and was more than happy to allow the small child to take the blame for the bodies.
The fish was shown to be somewhat aware of its surroundings, taunting Stan
throughout the episode. Up next we have Stewie Griffin.
Though he’s calmed over the years, Stewie has always been seen as the genius baby with
little regard for human life. He’s been seen making multiple attempts on his mother’s life,
even helping Peter to knock her out and leaving her to drown. He’s pulled guns on
other kids, joined Penelope to cause a variety of “natural disasters” for fun, has been seen
getting rid of “the man in white” and a few of the local highschool kids, and casually
waited for the school therapist to pass on. Though not as bent for world domination
as he once was, he has very few people he cares about. He still fantasizes about taking
out his entire family and has expressed that the only reason he hasn’t is because he still
had some growing up to do and some maturity to gain.
Next we have former hotdog eating champ Charles Yamamoto. After being defeated
by Chris in a competition, Charles had snapped. The only reason we don’t place him
lower on our list is because he hadn’t intended to kill more than just Chris. As Patrick
pointed out when helping police, Charles has mistakenly killed a few other people when
he confused them by their hair colour or by the fact that they wore a hat. That doesn’t
make Charles' actions okay, but it shows that he was driven by a specific goal and
would have stopped once he got rid of Chris. Had he paid more attention, he would
have only had one person as his body count. Taking our next spot is Eric Cartman. While
Eric has encouraged a lot of violent acts, there are two moments that get Eric placed
on this list. The first is very well-known among fans: the death of Scott Tenorman’s
parents. After being crossed by a bully, Eric sets things up to get Scott to literally get a
taste of his own medicine. Now some mayargue that Eric wasn’t the one that pulled the
trigger and actually shot Scott’s parents, but Eric was still the one who premeditated
the murder by setting them in a scenario that he knew would end their lives, even
if he wasn’t the one up and personal with them. The second instance was when Eric tried to get
involved with NASCAR, trying to come off as poor and stupid. On race day,
after lying to a driver to get him away from his car,
Eric makes his way into the racecar and runs over eleven people, killing them. We also
want to mention another instance when going through anger management. When a man
trying to provoke Eric calls him fat, Eric just starts texting, which we are quick to learn
was with the therapist’s wife, showing her information that led to her taking her own life
while on the phone. To be honest, it’s sort of amazing that Eric hasn’t had a hand in
hundreds of deaths through the show considering his temper and inability to let things
go. Next on our list is Cop Morty.
Shown to be unlike many of the other Mortys on the Citadel, he resents being seen as an inferior
and has been jaded from a long life among Ricks. He shows nothing but hostility and
hate towards any other Mortys, taking out his internal issues on anyone resembling himself.
It’s exposed that he was the one that killed his old partner and he was more
than willing to take out his new Rick if it meant not being exposed as a dirty cop accepting money
from Big Morty and his crew. We also see Cop Morty pull a gun on
another, shoving it in the teen’s mouth and even blows up a whole complex simply because he could,
coldly stating it was just “Mortys killing Mortys.”
Next up we have Matthew the Rb Killer. He had gone on a rampage simply because a
sandwich was discontinued, hoping his killings would lead to the menu item being
brought back. This man was clearly delusional, so we hesitate to place him much lower
on our list. And his methods wound up working when, after the killings stopped, RB did
bring back the Big Beef Blopper like Matthew wanted.
Next we have the Left-Hand Killer. He didn’t have much screen time, but we wanted to
mention him on this list. He was a one-time character on South Park and was shown to
be a very creepy and almost stereotypical murderer. To be honest, his behavior was
more of an exaggeration to show how incompetent the police of the small mountain
town could be. The most we gather is that the man was upset with Eric for not giving
him credit for his murders. Next up we have our main Rick,
C-137. Now many Ricks are shown to have a body count, but we see a lot more of it with our
focus scientist. We credit that much of his killing happens to protect his family or rebel
against the policies and restrictions of the Federation and Citadel, but Rick is also shown
to kill people simply because they betrayed or crossed him, as with the
Council. Not to mention the collateral damage caused on more than a few of the worlds
he visited. Rick is more accepting of death being a factor in space and dimensional travel,
which leads to him making comments about how he never comes back to a
dimension or planet he caused too much trouble on, not wanting to face the aftermath.
Next on our list is Penelope. A one-time character on Family Guy, she was a brief love
interest to Stewie. Even in the first few moments of her time on screen, she showed
how much of a monster she really was. She targets a young child that had picked on
Stewie, giving the other boy a piece of taffy filled with superglue that ended up cutting
off the child’s air and leaving him dead. We also learn that she was able to murder her
mother by sneaking up on her in the bathtub and also held a variety of weapons like
Stewie did. She starts encouraging Stewie to partake in some mass destruction with
her, even making a game of it by pairing each tragedy with a theme. When Brian tried
putting a stop to their friendship, Penelope attempted to kill Brian like she had so many
others. But luckily Stewie was able to put a stop to her killing the canine and she was
not featured on the show again. Considering her long track record of mayhem, we don’t
think she ever stopped her murderous ways.
Next up is the hitman Krombopulus Michael. While a polite enough guy and a
well-liked character, he was still ruthless. When handing his business card over to
Morty, he candidly explained his profession and stated that he was willing to take on
any target, be them men, women, children or the elderly. He didn’t care because he just
enjoyed killing. He wound up being a short lived character, with Morty’s sense of right
and wrong interfering, so we don’t see Krombopulus doing much that would make him
fall further. We ultimately just take his word for it, but his word is pretty awful.
Taking the next spot is the Evil Morty, now known as President Morty on the Citadel.
While we could rank him lower on this list, his motivations are where we cut him some
slack. As far as the show has revealed, this Morty is trying to use his new power to
reform the Citadel and how it treats Mortys compared to Ricks. And so he ends up
getting rid of anyone with a mentality he deems to be problematic so his goal isn’t
ruined. Now, we aren’t going to say killing off your enemies is the way to go aboutthings. But
this is a world run by Ricks and we see through the show that Ricks are
more than happy to kill off a nuisance when it comes up. So Evil Morty is really just
doing what he’s come to learn as a survival, which is why we give some leeway.
Next on this ranking is Goran the Mutilator. Upon first meeting, he comes off as a fun
activities director for a resort. He’s a burst of positive energy, awful at singing and is well
liked among guests and coworkers. But he is exposed as being a murder of hundreds of
people, if not more. We even see a picture Bullock pulls up, showing Goran standing on
a pile of bodies with a wide grin on his face. When Francine and Stan try to assassinate
him on Bullock’s order, Goran attempts to kill the couple as he tries to flee,
showing his true colours.
Though he is a lovable SOB, we have to place Roger next. This should not shock
anyone. We’ve seen Roger impale nails into people, smash vases and wrenches over
their heads, even take their skin. Roger is totally unconcerned with human life, to the
point that he was willing to end all life on Earth just because Stan insulted him. Not to
mention all of Roger’s various personas, some of which are more than happy to stab a
woman with a sword on her birthday or crush a man’s skull with his elbow.
Up next we have the talking gas Fart. He was freed by Morty after the teenager thought
that the alien was wrongfully locked up, but we soon see what sort of ability Fart had.
The gas was able to reach into a person’s mind and emotionally manipulate them. We
see that he uses this skill to get them away from police, with a few people willingly
crashing into buildings and into one another while others were casualties in the
madness. After they reach the opening to Fart’s homeworld, the gas exposes his intent
to return with all of his kind to eliminate all the inferior life they could. We know that the
gas could create precious metals, but we have a good idea that this isn’t the only
reason why this creature was locked away. Taking our top spot, we have The Warden from
Superjail. If you watched even part of a single episode of this series, there’s
a good chance you saw plenty of carnage. Superjail was a vision the Warden revealed
he came up with at a young age, seeing it as his own utopia. Frequently, the Warden
is seen bored out of his mind when the prisoners are behaving and so often
organized competitions where he promised freedom to the last man standing. We could
mention the prisoners themselves or the staff of the prison, but we feel it’s
more appropriate to place the blame for this environment solely on the Warden. Even when he’s
warned about the mayhem, he seesit as something delightful and treats the bloodbath as good news.
A truly insane man with a lot of power.
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