malefactor

Both the failed hired kidnapper and unlikely rescuer of Juno Temple’s protagonist Dot, the centuries-old sin eater pursues his own peculiar morality, burning malefactors’ eyeballs and demanding pancakes along the way.

By the spring of 1348, rumors were circulating that malefactors were deliberately causing the plague by poisoning wells.

Chasing malefactors is how Melanie tries to outrun her past, but the job only bridges the distance, until she is forced to confront her own brokenness.

Superb casting makes "The Fallen Sun" watchable, and Serkis' villain matches and in some ways exceeds the series' most extreme malefactors and their capacity to make a person's skin crawl.

Presumably China, Russia and Iran, but no specific malefactors were mentioned.