If you watched batman the red hood movie youd think joker was truly messed up...
As far as being a true sadist getting off on harming people? Or even yourself however the term may be... If its yourself id mention penance... When speedball hurt himself he got stronger as a result...
__________________ Quotes from Hia8:
"I claimed that the science is sometimes faulty."
"You don't understand. This is fiction. That means none of this stuff really happened."
"There is no writer to purposely ignore a character's natural ability just because it suits the story."
"in some cases because the writer knows that Character A will dominate Character B easily and refuses to allow this to happen for the sake of the story."
Sadism is taking pleasure from dishing out pain
Masochim is when you take pleasure from receiving pain
Sadomasochism is when you derive pleasure from dishing out pain and receiving it