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cherry_on_the_cake t1_iu5ns2d wrote

Ralphie is a total sociopath. Tony is a much more complex character.

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ian80 t1_iu5o2rk wrote

Lalo Salamanca comes to mind.

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redditaccount001 t1_iu5ooit wrote

Replying to cherry_on_the_cake (#293,369)

Yeah I feel like the whole point of Tony is that, despite his villainy, he’s not a sociopath and actually has a strong sense of right and wrong. It’s just that what’s right and wrong to Tony is a lot different than what’s right and wrong to someone who’s not a waste management consultant in North Jersey. >!At least that’s how he is at the beginning of the show. I think of Tony’s overall arc on the series as him gradually coming to terms with his own evil, especially given how his relationships with Chris and Dr. Melfi end!<

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redditaccount001 t1_iu5p5yo wrote

Chris Partlow and Snoop from The Wire. They’re the dictionary definition of emotionless, cold-blooded killers. >!Especially when they thought one guy might have badmouthed Marlo so they killed him and his family!<.

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spinspin t1_iu5r3ps wrote

The evening news had a damn-near lifelike portrayal of one every single night of the last administration...

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Nightgasm t1_iu5r7i6 wrote

Killgrave in Jessica Jones. You realize he is a complete sociopath but you also empathize with him a bit when you learn how he grew up and why he became the way he is.

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edub1783 t1_iu5rno5 wrote

Tony Soprano is a sociopath?

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Gommel_Nox t1_iu5u4jh wrote

Commander Waterford from the handmaid‘s tale.

Edit: it’s Waterford, not Waterson.

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Bubbagumpredditor t1_iu5w8dw wrote

The Nazi guy from inglorious bastards, you know the one.

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jakeba t1_iu62jom wrote

Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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Fat-Villante t1_iu6ft62 wrote

Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reilly in OZ deserves some love

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anasui1 t1_iu6jn6w wrote

Tim Roth's Reg Christie is the most chilling portrait of a completely deranged mind I've ever seen

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MGD109 t1_iu6lrt0 wrote

Its difficult to say, cause real life sociopathy is usually a lot less impressive than it is in the media.

The majority of real world sociopaths, whilst manipulative, aren't usually particularly intelligent, especially charming or successful. They often have poor impulse control and struggle to plan ahead.

I think the best example I ever saw was a one off antagonist from Waking the Dead. Whilst very dangerous, the guy was utterly consumed by ego and had no concept of perspective. He literally incapable of understanding other people existed outside their relation to him and only got so far cause his parents were still bailing him out into his thirties.

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The_suzerain t1_iu6n0kk wrote

Replying to cherry_on_the_cake (#293,369)

Neither of them are just ‘sociopaths’ in the medical sense. It’s just a label and often used as a blanket term for people lacking empathy. While yeah they both -do- lack empathy in general guilt about things eats at both of them. They are not -without- empathy, they make themselves believe they’re in the right of things and whatever violence they do “has to happen” b/c of their whole mafia mentality. The only one on the show i’d really label a ‘sociopath’ is the guy who clubbed vito’s brother and got smoked by bacala sr

Edit - and melfis rapist if you want to consider him a character

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NickyDee86 t1_iu6nmhj wrote

I really liked Jamie Dornan in The Fall

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ian80 t1_iu6w02j wrote

Replying to Gommel_Nox (#294,607)

This one popped into my mind too.

Though, there is a complexity there. He's really presented as an 'every man' who's allowed his position to go to his head. I see him as an allusion to the Nazi commanders who just fell into line, drank the coolaid, and believed what they were doing was right (because they were following orders). He occasionally shows humanity towards others, but his view of reality is totally screwed. (I guess that makes him a sociopath, haha).

I think Mrs. Waterford is equally as sociopathic. Maybe worse?

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inksmudgedhands t1_iu6x0jr wrote

Would anyone consider Bev from Midnight Mass a sociopath? She has all the earmarks of one. Lack of empathy. The desire for power and control. Manipulative. Hostile/Aggressive toward others. Sense of entitlement. A constant liar.

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