6. Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
Patrick Bateman didnt really win in American Psycho in any conventional sense of the word, but getting away scot-free with a string of bloody outrages without anyone even noticing probably counts as some sort of twisted achievement, even as its caused by the general apathy of society rather than any diabolical brilliance on Batemans part. In Batemans demented little world, getting caught and denounced as a murderer would actually be more of a victory, as it would finally snap him out of an endless cycle of excruciating upper-class trivia and existential angst. The end of American Psycho is terrifying in both book and film, because there is no real conclusion or relief. Batemans pointless existence just continues endlessly, a glossy monotony of expensive shopping and undiscovered corpses. The fact that one man is able to conceal his rage-driven lunacy so easily, with his victims so inter-changeable that no one seems to truly miss them, is a grim satire of American upper-class culture.