Near pure evils who collect souls (literally and metaphorically). Usually, they use magic to extract the soul from the person, but sometimes they can use alchemy or some kind of machine. Most of the time, sometimes the villain may literally or figuratively eat the soul or leave it alive for another purpose, depending on the franchise. Sometimes, recovery of a person's soul is possible, but other times it is not.

Depending on the franchise, taking someone's soul can have different effects on the person's life. For example, it leaves the victim alive, but they are damaged, turn insane, or are turned into an empty shell or a mindless zombie (for example, in Harry Potter). When the soul is collected by the villain, it separates from the body, and the body dies but the soul remains on as a ghost (for example in Five Nights at Freddy's and Coraline). Lastly, the most common one is that the person and the soul just dies.