Category talk:Fictional serial killers

Light Yagami
Why is Light Yagami from Death Note not on the list? is he not a serial killer? He murders criminals over a span of several years... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.248.253.35 (talk) 22:24, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

What the hell? After i typed that, I realized shinigami from Death Note were on the list...

Okay, why is Light Yagami lacking it? He's more of a serial killer than any extra-dimensional beings that only kill to survive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.248.253.35 (talk) 22:26, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Jason Vorhees
I am a newbie to wiki, and wasn't sure how, but someone should place Jason Vorhees on this list
 * Welcome to Wikipedia. According to his article, Jason is a mass murderer. He's already in the fictional mass murderers category. -- AnemoneProjectors (talk) 09:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hannibal
Hannnibal Lecter is not listed here. I know, he's a cannibal, but you must kill someone to eat them. unless you're extra-demented.

Shredder ?
Does anyone other than myself consider the Shredder a serial killer? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.244.187.117 (talk) 13:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

Absolutly not. No way.

serial killer x
I do not see Serial Killer X listed on this page, I am not sure completely how to link things on Wiki so I just thought I'd note that it was missing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.4.253 (talk) 00:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Nicole Wallace
Why was Nicole Wallace from L&O:CI removed from this page? eb (talk) 04:49, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You'd be better off asking on that article rather than here since the category was removed from the page rather than the page being removed from the category. But it's probably because it was redirected to a list of characters. Anemone  Projectors  11:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Paul Millander CSI serial killer
Paul Millander should be on this list. Gil Grissom's arch nemises early on in CSI-Vegas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.108.45 (talk) 06:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Are comic book charactors considered as being serial killers?
I doubt that's what the writers had in mind. Whats more, they don't have a Modus operandi or anything like that, and on the actual pages of the comic book charactors there is no indication whatsoever that they are fictional serial killers at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.20.9 (talk) 18:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Kletus Cassidy from Spiderman was specifically referenced as a serial killer. In the comic book, he tortured his dog, killed his grandma. Then he was sent to a home for boys. He burned down the home and killed the diciplinarian administrator and a girl who refused to date him. After becoming Carnage, Cassidy killed people at random (sometimes picking their names out of a phone book) and left the word Carnage on the walls as his calling card. William slattery (talk) 06:06, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Smallville
Is Davis Bloome from Smallville considered a serial killer. He had an urge to kill and often ripped his victims apart in a simular fashion. He killed several people in a night club, ripped at least 2 people apart in one night, smothered someone to death on 2 seperate occasions, broke someones neck and at unknown points in time, killed and buried enough people to fill a substansial area of a field. All of this within the span of about 8 months. William slattery (talk) 06:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Iffy distinction between "mass" and "serial" fictional killers
You write up a very neat distinction between categories but things are rarely this black and white. In fiction, a killer might kill 4+ people in multiple situations...does that make him a "mass murderer" or a "serial killer"?

For example, Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger or Jason...if you are going to take one film (or one book or TV episode) as an "incident", then they are fit your mass murderer category. But considering that there are many movies within the film series, these killings, as a whole, cover a wide range of time (not an isolated incident) which would make them a "serial killer".

And in practice, even if your distinction was crystal clear, most people are not reading and considering your thoughtful words. They come across either the "mass" or "serial" category and apply it to fictional characters who've killed multiple people, regardless of how many incidents the murders cover. 69.125.134.86 (talk) 16:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Conversation is going on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_July_22#Murderers_and_serial_killers.3F_Or_both.3F 69.125.134.86 (talk) 11:19, 24 July 2013 (UTC)