I made the original list of every generation's bad apples back in 2018, but since then, a lot has changed, and I realized that many of the people I originally added didn't really belong there because they weren't heinous enough and/or weren't that well known/relevant (example - many and arguably even most of the guys I added in my previous list were nothing more than controversial and usually irrelevant people). I'm not going to add every bad apple a generation has, for the reason that was mentioned in the latter part of the previous sentence. This is also going by American generations, although it may not be that accurate to apply them to other countries (like Russia or Germany).
Missionary Generation
Missionary Generation
- Henry Ford - influencer of Nazism, abuser
- Madison Grant - involved in race and intelligence controversy, eugenicist
- Joseph Stalin - mass murderer, genocide perpetrator, communist dictator
- Lothrop Stoddard - influencer of Nazism, eugenicist
- Benito Mussolini - fascist leader and dictator
- Adolf Hitler - mass murderer, genocide perpetrator and dictator
- Francisco Franco - dictator and mass murderer
- Mao Zedong - mass murderer and dictator
- Oskar Dirlewanger - genocide perpetrator, rapist, pedophile, war criminal, mass murderer
- Ferenc Szálasi - mass murderer, genocide perpetrator, corrupt official, war criminal
- Heinrich Himmler - mass murderer/genocide perpetrator
- Reinhard Heydrich - high ranking SS official, mass murderer
- Ed Gein - serial killer
- Josef Mengele - Nazi doctor/torturer
- Ne Win - dictator and mass murderer
- Augusto Pinochet - dictator and torturer
- Nicolae Ceausescu - corrupt leader, dictator, genocide perpetrator
- Idi Amin - dictator
- Pol Pot - mass murderer and dictator
- Fidel Castro - dictator, corrupt leader, war criminal, mass murderer
- Gertrude Baniszewski - child abuser and murderer
- Marshall Applegate - cult leader and mass murderer
- Jim Jones - cult leader and mass murderer
- Charles Manson - serial killer and cult leader
- Saddam Hussein - mass murderer, genocide perpetrator, torturer
- Kim Jong-il - dictator, mass murderer, torturer, corrupt leader
- John Wayne Gacy - serial killer, rapist, sex offender
- Ted Kaczynski/The Unabomber - domestic terrorist
- Paul Knowles - serial killer
- Ted Bundy - serial killer
- Gary Ridgway - serial killer
- Pablo Escobar - drug lord
- Roger Stone - corrupt official
- Vladimir Putin - dictator and corrupt leader
- Jeffrey Epstein - sex trafficker and pedophile
- David Berkowitz - serial killer
- Xi Jinping - CCP leader, genocide perpetrator, corrupt leader
- Recep Erdogan - corrupt leader, war criminal, terrorist, dictator
- Alexander Lukashenko - dictator and corrupt leader
- Jair Bolsonaro - corrupt leader, mishandling the pandemic (this may arguably make him a mass murderer as well)
- Terry Nichols - Oklahoma City bomber
- Aileen Wuornos - female serial killer
- Osama bin Laden - infamous Al Qaeda terrorist/leader
- Anthony Sowell - serial killer and rapist
- Jeffrey Dahmer - serial killer
- Richard Ramirez - serial killer
- Ghislaine Maxwell - sex trafficker and pedophile
- Viktor Orban - corrupt leader
- Bashar al-Assad - dictator
- Eric Rudolph - Olympic Park bomber
- Timothy McVeigh - Oklahoma City bomber
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - former ISIS leader
- Wade Michael Page - Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter
- Robert Bowers - Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
- Alex Jones - infamous conspiracy theorist and spreader of misinformation
- Marjorie Taylor Greene - My opinion only, but I think she is a corrupt official
- Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi - leader of ISIS
- Anders Breivik - Utoya shooter
- Eric Harris - Columbine shooter
- Dylan Klebold - Columbine shooter
- Kim Jong Un - corrupt leader, North Korea leader
- Jake Angeli/Qanon Shaman - January 6 insurrectionist (I know that many people participated in the January 6 insurrection, but I'm only listing the ones that are well-known/infamous enough)
- James Holmes - Aurora theater shooter
- Elliot Rodger - Isla Vista shooter
- Adam Lanza - Sandy Hook shooter
- Dylann Roof - Charleston church shooter
- James Alex Fields - Charlottesville car attack perpetrator (again, many people participated in the Charlottesville rally, and it's totally useless to add every single participant on here)
- Patrick Crusius - El Paso shooter
- Nikolas Cruz - Parkland shooter
- John Earnest - Poway synagogue shooter, arsonist
- Ethan Crumbley - school shooter
- "Bad apples" of the Lost and GI generations generally are dictators or at least involved in some kind of dictatorship.
- Silents have the most variety for bad apples.
- Serial killers are usually Silents or Baby Boomers (Ed Gein is an exception).
- Baby Boomers have a lot of corrupt leaders and officials.
- Gen X has a decent amount of terrorists and extremists.
- Millennial bad apples are generally mass shooters, people involved with far-right politics, or both.