Recommend me stories with evil protragonists

[busterkeatonrules]

The Comedy of Terrors!

Vincent Price plays Waldo Trumbull, a corrupt undertaker who keeps his failing business afloat by murdering people in their sleep - so he can charge their relatives for burying them! This turns pear-shaped when he decides to murder his landlord who, unbeknownst to Trumbull, has a rare medical condition which sometimes causes him to enter a temporary and very death-like coma...

Spoiler: Here, I found you a preview!

Note also Peter Lorre as Trumbull's assistant - and BORIS KARLOFF as his father-in-law!

Oh, and Basil Rathbone as the landlord.

 

[natster43]

Well for shows I would say Dexter, and Death Note.
I can't think of any books, but then again I don't read often.
for games, I would say Crackdown 1 and 2.
I thought of a few others a minute ago but forgot them.

 

[Psykoma]

No deadpool mention? :*(

comics are stories, right? Right??

 

[Najal]

Riddick, from Pitch Black.
Ever seen American Psycho? Kind of a protagonist i guess.

 

[Candidus]

It's been mentioned, but Malus Darkblade is an excellent book with an 'evil' protagonist.

You get a lot of nose-picking assholes who'll look down on it for being a black library publication, but Malus is nothing short of an excellent, top-of-its-genre novel. I won't call it a classic, only because most fantasy 'classics' (as recommended by aforementioned nose-pickers) are dreary as hell.

Pick up Malus Darkblade. Pick it up!

 

[beastro]

Both Star Wars Trilogies, especially the first one.

 

[Dfskelleton]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. The book was written in order for the author to explore why people do some of the horrible things they do.

Huh, I just got that book for Christmas. Is it good? I've got a few other books to go through before I get to it (one of them being 1984, which I am coming to love), and from the looks of it, it seems really interesting.

OT: Another book I've been reading recently with a protagonist who really feels evil (due to his partial but direct connection to the reader his/herself) is Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker. It's this wonderful little exercise in breaking the 4th wall about a demon named Jakabok Botch who's literally trapped inside the pages of the book, and he repeatedly offers the reader his life story so long as they burn it afterwards and end his torment. As his threats and insults to the reader (you) become more and more violent, urging you to burn the book, and as he gives away more tales of his horrific deeds, you really grow to love/hate him. It's fantastic (so far), and I'd highly reccomend it.