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** ''ComicBook/TheFlash'':
*** [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Professor Zoom (Eobard Thawne)]] is addicted to using his TimeTravel powers to get what he wants and abuse people he feels have slighted him. He once crushed on a woman and, as a consequence, went back in time to erase her husband and ''every man she had ever dated'' from history just to keep her all to himself. When she ''still'' rejects him, he goes back in time and does [[NothingIsScarier something]] that leaves her catatonic into the present day.

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** ''ComicBook/TheFlash'':
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''ComicBook/TheFlash'': This is [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne / Professor Zoom (Eobard Thawne)]] Zoom]]'s defining trait.
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is addicted to using his TimeTravel powers to get what he wants and abuse people he feels have slighted him. He once crushed on a woman and, as a consequence, went back in time to erase her husband and ''every man she had ever dated'' from history just to keep her all to himself. When she ''still'' rejects him, he goes back in time and does [[NothingIsScarier something]] that leaves her catatonic into the present day.
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** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] is just as bad as Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for the umpteenth time simply because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfriend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.

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** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] is just as bad as Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for the umpteenth time simply because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by to be one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, girlfriends and slept with him, recorded it, and sent it to his then said girlfriend causing them to break up and at an early point in her history she Mystique was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her then boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact that Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.



* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': The League of Evil Exes, who were all romantic partners of Ramona Flowers at one point. They attack any guy who shows an interest in Ramona to control her love life. the League's founder and leader, Gideon Graves, is probably the worst of them, as shown in his MotiveRant; [[spoiler: He already had 6 past girlfriends whom he put into stasis, wanting Ramona to be the seventh. When Ramona left him, he went on a bender and posted a drunken rant on Craig's List. He was legitimately surprised when he got replies, but that didn't stop him. Subverted in the [[Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff anime]], all the exes get AdaptationalSympathy with the show fairly pointing out as unhinged and petulant as they are, they exes are still people who were heartbroken by Romana — who has to concede that she was a poor girlfriend and selfishly cruel to a bunch of people who opened their hearts to her.]]

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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': The League of Evil Exes, who were all romantic partners of Ramona Flowers at one point. They attack any guy who shows an interest in Ramona to control her love life. the League's founder and leader, Gideon Graves, is probably the worst of them, as shown in his MotiveRant; [[spoiler: He already had 6 past girlfriends whom he put into stasis, wanting Ramona to be the seventh. When Ramona left him, he went on a bender and posted a drunken rant on Craig's List. He was legitimately surprised when he got replies, but that didn't stop him. Subverted in the [[Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff anime]], all the exes get AdaptationalSympathy with the show fairly pointing out as unhinged and petulant as they are, they exes are still people who were heartbroken by Romana Ramona — who has to concede that she was a poor girlfriend and selfishly cruel to a bunch of people who opened their hearts to her.]]



** Edward Blake aka The Comedian along with being an AxCrazy sadist and rapist is disgustingly petulant, as seen when he brutally beats up and attempts to assault Sally Jupiter for just scratching his cheek when he was propositioning her. Also when Hooded Justice beats the shit out of him for said attempted rape, the Comedian salty at being defeated insinuates Hooded Justice is gay, which while judging by HJ’s reaction is correct — is no less pathetically petty.

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** Edward Blake aka The Comedian along with being an AxCrazy sadist and rapist is disgustingly petulant, as seen when he brutally beats up and attempts to assault Sally Jupiter for just scratching his cheek when he was propositioning her. Also when Hooded Justice beats the shit out of him for said attempted rape, the Comedian salty at being defeated insinuates that Hooded Justice is gay, which while judging by HJ’s reaction is correct — is no less pathetically petty.
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** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] is just as bad Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for umpteenth time because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.

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** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] is just as bad as Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for the umpteenth time simply because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend girlfriend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.
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** ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': Black Manta will go to great lengths to murder and abuse anyone who associates themselves with the aquatic hero. When he learns that Aquaman has returned after a long period of absence, he kills everyone in the butcher shop that he was working at for being happy at the news, blows up his house, and goes back to tormenting his archenemy.

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** ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': Black Manta will go to great lengths to murder and abuse anyone who associates themselves with the aquatic hero. When he learns that Aquaman has returned after a long period of absence, he kills everyone in the butcher shop that he was working at for being happy at the news, blows up his house, and goes back to tormenting his archenemy. And, as seen in the page image, he stole a guy's Subway sandwich and refused to share with Ocean Master.
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[[caption-width-right:350: When no one was looking, [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Black Manta]] stole a foot-long. He stole a foot-long. [[Literature/TheSuperdictionary That's as long as 12 inches]]. AndThatsTerrible.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: When no one was looking, [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Black Manta]] stole a foot-long. He stole a foot-long. [[Literature/TheSuperdictionary [[Literature/TheSuperDictionary That's as long as 12 inches]]. AndThatsTerrible.]]



*** ''Literature/TheSuperdictionary'': And he once stole [[AndThatsTerrible forty cakes]] from the school bake sale in his youth ''[[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded because the school administration wouldn't let him enter a fission-powered toaster in the science fair]]!''

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*** ''Literature/TheSuperdictionary'': ''Literature/TheSuperDictionary'': And he once stole [[AndThatsTerrible forty cakes]] from the school bake sale in his youth ''[[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded because the school administration wouldn't let him enter a fission-powered toaster in the science fair]]!''

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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': The League of Evil Exes, who were all romantic partners of Ramona Flowers at one point. They attack any guy who shows an interest in Ramona to control her love life. the League's founder and leader, Gideon Graves, is probably the worst of them, as shown in his MotiveRant; [[spoiler: He already had 6 past girlfriends whom he put into stasis, wanting Ramona to be the seventh. When Ramona left him, he went on a bender and posted a drunken rant on Craig's List. He was legitimately surprised when he got replies, but that didn't stop him.]]

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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': The League of Evil Exes, who were all romantic partners of Ramona Flowers at one point. They attack any guy who shows an interest in Ramona to control her love life. the League's founder and leader, Gideon Graves, is probably the worst of them, as shown in his MotiveRant; [[spoiler: He already had 6 past girlfriends whom he put into stasis, wanting Ramona to be the seventh. When Ramona left him, he went on a bender and posted a drunken rant on Craig's List. He was legitimately surprised when he got replies, but that didn't stop him. Subverted in the [[Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff anime]], all the exes get AdaptationalSympathy with the show fairly pointing out as unhinged and petulant as they are, they exes are still people who were heartbroken by Romana — who has to concede that she was a poor girlfriend and selfishly cruel to a bunch of people who opened their hearts to her.]]




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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** Edward Blake aka The Comedian along with being an AxCrazy sadist and rapist is disgustingly petulant, as seen when he brutally beats up and attempts to assault Sally Jupiter for just scratching his cheek when he was propositioning her. Also when Hooded Justice beats the shit out of him for said attempted rape, the Comedian salty at being defeated insinuates Hooded Justice is gay, which while judging by HJ’s reaction is correct — is no less pathetically petty.
** [[spoiler: Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias is a subtle showcase of this, overlapping with NotSoAboveItAll. For all his grandiose, well-meaning and opulent motivations and schemes, a good amount of the reasoning behind his WellIntentionedExtremist actions is actually quite petty. When Veidt first became a superhero after years of training he ran into the Comedian on a case who kicked his ass. This loss left Ozy bitter and massively soured any heroics he did after as he now perceived the day-to-day crimefighting as hollow, aided by the Comedian’s gloating at the Crimebusters meeting that with looming threat of nuclear doomsday Veidt will be “the smartest man on the cinder”. In response to all this, Veidt concocts a plan that will prevent America and Russia going to war by killing three million people in New York and staging it as an alien invasion and as a bonus kills the Comedian personally when he finds out. Yes that’s right, he killed millions of innocent lives to achieve peace partly because one asshole in the past made him look foolishly inadequate and weak as a ScienceHero and SelfMadeMan.]]
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** Characters/{{Mystique}} is just as bad Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for umpteenth time because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.

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** Characters/{{Mystique}} [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] is just as bad Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for umpteenth time because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.
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** Characters/{{Mystique}} is just as bad Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for umpteenth time because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, with her reaction to her new son-in-law Gambit correctly pointing out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.

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** Characters/{{Mystique}} is just as bad Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for umpteenth time because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, with her reaction to as seen when her new son-in-law Gambit correctly pointing points out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached attached, unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.
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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': The League of Evil Exes, who were all romantic partners of Ramona Flowers at one point. They attack any guy who shows an interest in Ramona to control her love life. the League's founder and leader, Gideon Graves, is probably the worst of them, as shown in his MotiveRant; [[spoiler: He already had 6 past girlfriends whom he put into stasis, wanting Ramona to be the seventh. When Ramona left him, he went on a bender and posted a drunken rant on Craig's List. He was legitimately surprised when he got replies, but that didn't stop him.]]

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** ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] is most famous for his truly grisly acts of evil, including a wanton love of slaughter and casual cannibalism. However, he can also be a truly ''colossal'' dick. All he really wants out of life is an endless string of opportunities to make ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} miserable and gets the same kind of joy out of following Wolverine into a diner and eating the pie he just ordered, then wandering off, as he gets from setting up an elaborate ploy to make Wolverine kill all of the bastard children he'd unknowingly fathered. Under Creator/ChrisClaremont, at least, he also makes it a hobby to find Wolverine every year, on Wolverine's birthday, and do whatever he can to make sure that day is miserable for Wolverine. Most of the time, he settles for "only" beating Wolverine into a coma. And then there's the time [[https://i.imgur.com/mQrFelY.jpg he did this]].

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** ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] is most famous for his truly grisly acts of evil, including a wanton love of slaughter and casual cannibalism. However, he can also be a truly ''colossal'' dick. All he really wants out of life is an endless string of opportunities to make ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} miserable and gets the same kind of joy out of following Wolverine into a diner and eating the pie he just ordered, then wandering off, as he gets from setting up an elaborate ploy to make Wolverine kill all of the bastard children he'd unknowingly fathered. Under Creator/ChrisClaremont, at least, he also makes it a hobby to find Wolverine every year, on Wolverine's birthday, and do whatever he can to make sure that day is miserable for Wolverine. Most of the time, he settles for "only" beating Wolverine into a coma. And then there's the time [[https://i.imgur.com/mQrFelY.jpg he did this]].this]].
** Characters/{{Mystique}} is just as bad Sabretooth when it comes to this as she cannot go a minute without screwing someone over and betraying her allies and children for umpteenth time because she gets a massive kick out of it and even admits to it. She once she murdered a bunch of people and pinned it on a young mutant to teach her “a valuable life lesson”, pretended by one of Wolverine’s girlfriends, recorded it, and sent it to his then girlfrend causing them to break up and at early point in her history she was so pissed at Ms. Marvel foiling her schemes she pretended to be Carol to fool her boyfriend Michael and then beat him to death as Carol. There’s also her abusing her children Rogue and Nightcrawler out of infuriation over them not obeying her wilfully ignoring the fact she’s given them ample reason not to trust “mama”. Her mistreatment of Rogue in particular is extremely petty as it’s inferred she just hates the fact Rogue loves other people rather than just her and Destiny and actively tries to sabotage Rogue’s relationship with Gambit, just because. Sadly Destiny herself gets in on in the action in Krakoa, with her reaction to her new son-in-law Gambit correctly pointing out the reason she loathes him is simply because her daughter genuinely loves and trusts him with no strings attached unlike with Rogue’s relationship with her moms — at which Destiny makes a strangle gesture and mutters “Hate. You.” as Gambit walks away.
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*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]]/the Green Goblin started off with a plan to take over the criminal underworld of New York by killing Spider-Man and gaining a rep. By his second appearance, he was in it just to kill Spidey, but even that changed. For the next forty years, he existed for the sole purpose of screwing with Peter, going so far as to orchestrate ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' just to mess with his head. If he committed that much effort into taking over the world, he probably would have become a major Marvel villain much earlier than ''ComicBook/DarkReign''.

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*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]]/the Green Goblin started off with a plan to take over the criminal underworld of New York by killing Spider-Man and gaining a rep. By his second appearance, he was in it just to kill Spidey, but even that changed. For the next forty years, he existed for the sole purpose of screwing with Peter, going so far as to orchestrate ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' just to mess with his head. If he committed that much effort into taking over the world, he probably would have become a major Marvel villain much earlier than ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. During ''Dark Reign'' he also hires the Taskmaster to raid Tony Stark's vault and retrieve... a photo of Tony as a child with his parents. The only photo Tony had of said parents, which he gleefully burns. The Taskmaster [[EvenEvilHasStandards is so boggled and enraged]] that Norman wasted so much time and money in getting the intel to raid Stark's vault just to steal and destroy a childhood memento that he told Osborn he would never work for him again.
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*** At one point the Flash asks him outright why he keeps tormenting him and Thawne says it's the only time [[LoonyFan Barry pays attention to him]]. His campaign, at least in that continuity, started because he overheard Barry repeat a motivational phrase to someone else and immediately decided that meant the moment they shared together where he said that to him [[WasItAllALie was a lie]] so he's been tearing him down ever since.

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