History Monster / Buffyverse

* ''The Book of Fours'' novel, by Nancy Holder: [[BigBad Cecile Lafitte]] is a [[HollywoodVoodoo voodoo priestess]] who serves the horrific demon known as the Gatherer, harvesting souls to [[SoulEating give to him]]. Tormenting and experimenting on countless souls to make them into zombies, Cecile uses her descendants to return to life. In one case, upon returning to life, Cecile seduces plantation owner Duvalier, making him her servant, and has him burn his own family alive. In the present day, she aims to find and destroy Slayers to offer her master their special souls. Cecile destroys the Watcher of the previous Slayer Kendra before coming to Sunnydale, unleashing the Gatherer with the knowledge it will [[OmnicidalManiac devour the world and all existence]], keeping every soul it takes in [[AndIMustScream unending torment]] within.

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* [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer 1992 film]] & ''[[https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Origin The Origin]]'':
** [[BigBad Lothos]] is an ancient vampire, famous and [[TheDreaded feared]] for [[HeroKiller killing numerous Slayers]] over the centuries. Arriving in Los Angeles, Lothos starts a new killing spree to track down Buffy and take over the city, having his follower Amilyn turn numerous people into his vampiric army for him and bring him new victims to feed on, even turning one of Buffy's friends to find her and killing another. During his first confrontation with Buffy, Lothos kills her watcher Merrick by turning his stake onto him, letting Buffy go at the time as he was expecting more of a challenge. Later, Lothos leads his minions on an attack at the school, killing several students. Lothos is [[LackOfEmpathy completely indifferent towards his followers and their deaths]], as seen when he refuses to save Amylin when Buffy stakes him, giving him an unsympathetic smile as he mockingly plays a fiddle. After Lothos fails to hypnotize and/or seduce Buffy, he stops his flirtatious advancements in favor of going in for the kill, putting his sadistic personality on full display as he notes to the rest of the students that he will kill them all himself once he's done with Buffy.
** [[TheDragon Amilyn]] is Lothos's right-hand vampire and just as cruel as his master. Having served Lothos with immense bloodshed for centuries, Amilyn proceeds to convert numerous humans into vampires to build Lothos a "new family", also having them kill multiple other humans while bringing victims to Lothos himself. Harboring an intense grudge to the human Pike for ruining his jacket and left arm, Amilyn intends to kill him slow and eventually leads a vampire attack on prom, with orders to kill everyone inside while he lures Buffy to Lothos.
* ''[[https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Past_Lives Past Lives]]'' {{crossover}} comic: [[Characters/BuffyverseAngel Angelus]] remains as creatively vile as he always is. After meeting the vampire hunter Andrew Landry and deeming him arrogant, Angelus decided to break the man in every way he could. Beginning by murdering his fellow hunters, Angelus would then spend 15 years killing everyone the man so much as knew, including by shooting them full of arrows and [[DecapitationPresentation presenting their decapitated heads]] on Andrew's front gates. When his plan began winding down, Angelus sneaks into Andrew's home and sires his wife, forcing Andrew to murder her and rendering him insane. Paying him one final visit in an asylum, Angelus reveals that he spared Andrew's son Alex in order to [[CruelMercy keep Andrew sane enough to comprehend what was done to him]], alongside ensuring that Alex would grow up alone and miserable, [[DisproportionateRetribution all because Andrew once reminded him of his own father]].

* ''Oz'' comic, written by Christopher Golden: [[AxCrazy Muztag]] is a demon BlackMarket trader who endeavors to control the entire Asian market. After previously being defeated by Master Shantou, Muztag gathered an army and stormed his monastery, killing or [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil mystically enslaving]] everyone there [[CruelMercy except for him]], just to spite his enemy. With Shantou crippled, Muztag begins [[RapePillageAndBurn rampaging across the countryside]], destroying at least two villages within days and killing dozens of people in each one. After killing a prisoner who refuses to be enslaved by him, Muztag captures Shantou, intending to have him executed by one of his former students out of a sadistic sense of irony.

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* The [[GreaterScopeVillain Senior Partners]], originally known as [[Characters/BuffyverseWolframAndHart the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart]], were three demons who envisioned a way to become the strongest of their kind: by [[TheCorrupter corrupting institutions]] and fomenting evil within the hearts of man and other races. Establishing [[OccultLawFirm Wolfram & Hart]] across multiple worlds, the trio [[HistoricalRapSheet cause murder, oppression, war, and genocide]] to feed themselves, with their servitors doing all they can to proliferate evil in all its forms. Attempting to corrupt Angel himself, the Senior Partners plunge LA into hell and force the spirit of Angel's friend Wesley to aid them, torturing him if he refuses. Intent on eventually turning the Apocalypse to their own ends, the Senior Partners stand as a dark contrast to the Powers That Be.

* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]": The demon known as "[[BadSamaritan Ken]]" poses as a friendly man who runs a shelter for troubled teenage runaways. In truth a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]], Ken lures them in and takes them to his dimension where they are tortured and enslaved in backbreaking labor. Not content with this, Ken has them [[MindRape mentally tormented]], grinding down their self-esteem and forcing them to admit they are "no one", killing any who resist. After decades of work in his dimension, Ken throws them to the streets of LA, [[EmptyShell broken and insane]], to die when they cease to be of use, gloating that his realm is hell solely for the pure absence of hope those who enter it suffer.

* "Bargaining" [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E1BargainingPart1 two]]-[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E2BargainingPart2 parter]]: [[BadassBiker Razor]] is the leader of the [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels Hellions]], a demon biker gang who goes from city to city causing as much destruction as they possibly can. After learning that the Hellmouth is unguarded, Razor has his gang assault Sunnydale, throwing the entire city into complete anarchy overnight. Once he's moved in, Razor's gang [[RapePillageAndBurn captures, kills, and rapes]] anyone they happen to come across, with Spike revealing this is the routine they've pulled all over the country. After dismembering the Buffybot with his motorcycles to christen their homecoming, Razor then confronts the Scooby Gang, intending to [[RapeAsDrama rape Tara and Anya to death]] with his gang.
* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Dirty Girls]]" through "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]": [[HeManWomanHater Caleb]] is a [[SinisterMinister defrocked priest]] who serves as the [[PsychoSupporter right-hand-man]] of the First Evil. Having already been a SerialKiller of [[WouldHitAGirl young women]], Caleb uses the trust people have in him to get close to his victims, utilizing the same trick in [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his first appearance]] to gut a Potential Slayer as a message for Buffy. As the First's primary conduit, Caleb slaughters a church of innocents in search of the Slayer Scythe; blows up the Watcher's Council to kill most of its members; and coordinates the attacks on the Potential Slayers, resulting in numerous deaths and Faith being attacked in prison. When Buffy tries to fight him, Caleb nonchalantly kills multiple Potentials himself, then [[EyeScream gouges out Xander's eye]] for no reason, all while making sadistic jokes about his methods. When Buffy finds the Scythe, Caleb willingly lets himself be bolstered by the First's evil power so he can take her on one more time, then murders the last Guardian of the Scythe to spite her. As a [[StrawMisogynist vile misogynist]], Caleb believes that his victims deserve what he does to them and willingly sets the apocalypse in motion, wanting nothing more than to annihilate all who don't share his insane beliefs.

* "[[Recap/AngelS02E20OverTheRainbow Over the Rainbow]]" [[Recap/AngelS02E21ThroughTheLookingGlass through]] "[[Recap/AngelS02E22TheresNoPlaceLikePlrtzGlrb There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb]]": [[SinisterMinister Silas]], the head of the [[ReligionOfEvil Covenant of Trombli]], is the dictator of Pylea and the primary leader of its [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil human slave trade]]. Alongside enslaving every human that enters Pylea, Silas is also affiliated with [[Characters/BuffyverseWolframAndHart the Senior Partners]], intending to ensure the visions of the Powers that Be end up under his control. When Cordelia arrives and has a vision, Silas tortures her to determine if she has the sight, then, in accordance with a prophecy, makes her princess of the dimension, then reminds her who is really in charge by [[DecapitationPresentation decapitating Lorne and showing Cordelia his head]] out of spite. After almost forcing Cordelia to mate with the Groosalugg and killing one of his own slaves, Silas manipulates "Groo" into attempting to kill Angel just to torment her some more. When the rebels arrive, Silas moves to kill all of the slaves under his control, gloating about the power he wields over the "cows" he's captured.

* Season 4: [[TheBrute The Beast]] is [[TheDragon the chief enforcer]] of the fallen Power Jasmine. One of the most powerful demons to walk the earth, the Beast roamed the world in search of wanton slaughter, encountering Angelus when it tried to get him to kill the Svea Priestesses (Svear) before they could banish him. Returning to massacre the Svear, the Beast initiates a huge HumanSacrifice to unleash a rain of flames over LA, and slaughters most of Wolfram & Hart to kill the Ra-Tet and drain them. [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Blackening out the sun]] over LA with the intent [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil to spread it over the world]] and causing a rampage of supernatural monsters, the Beast intends to unleash Jasmine to enslave the world and devour countless innocents.

* ''Oz'', written by Christopher Golden: [[AxCrazy Muztag]] is a demon BlackMarket trader who endeavors to control the entire Asian market. After previously being defeated by Master Shantou, Muztag gathered an army and stormed his monastery, killing or [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil mystically enslaving]] everyone there [[CruelMercy except for him]], just to spite his enemy. With Shantou crippled, Muztag begins [[RapePillageAndBurn rampaging across the countryside]], destroying at least two villages within days and killing dozens of people in each one. After killing a prisoner who refuses to be enslaved by him, Muztag captures Shantou, intending to have him executed by one of his former students out of a sadistic sense of irony.
* "Die Blutgrafin", by Yvonne Navarro, from ''Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, the titular "Blood Countess", is a [[AristocratsAreEvil fiendish noblewoman]] who begins to abuse her servants before moving onto [[SerialKiller murder]]. Kidnapping hundreds of servant girls, Báthory has them starved and abused in squalid, filthy conditions. Savoring their pain, Báthory later has them tortured to death through various methods like the IronMaiden, to which she subjects the heroine of the story, Slayer Ildikó Géllert. Báthory is a monstrous human who believes that [[BloodBath bathing in the blood of her victims]] will give her immortality.

* [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer 1992 film]] & ''The Origin'' comic(s): [[BigBad Lothos]] is an ancient vampire, famous and [[TheDreaded feared]] for [[HeroKiller killing numerous Slayers]] over the centuries. Arriving in Los Angeles, Lothos starts a new killing spree to track down Buffy and take over the city, having his follower Amilyn turn numerous people into his vampiric army for him and bring him new victims to feed on, even turning one of Buffy's friends to find her and killing another. During his first confrontation with Buffy, Lothos kills her watcher Merrick by turning his stake onto him, letting Buffy go at the time as he was expecting more of a challenge. Later, Lothos leads his minions on an attack at the school, killing several students. Lothos is [[LackOfEmpathy completely indifferent towards his followers and their deaths]], as seen when he refuses to save Amylin when Buffy stakes him, giving him an unsympathetic smile as he mockingly plays a fiddle. After Lothos fails to hypnotize and/or seduce Buffy, he stops his flirtatious advancements in favor of going in for the kill, putting his sadistic personality on full display as he notes to the rest of the students that he will kill them all himself once he's done with Buffy.

->'''Kurt Rendor''': This is no mere human with whom you must deal, nor is it a feral beast of blood with little to consider beyond its hunger. The countess is no doubt the worst of both the light and dark worlds, a human with a soul who walks in the day, but who possesses the black heart of a devil.\\
'''Ildikó Géllert''': It is hard to believe such a person exists. To slaughter so and be without conscience -- perhaps she is in league with a vampire, or under the spell of a demon. Because to be so evil and still function beneath the eye of God in the sunlight...

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* [[OmnicidalManiac Drusilla]], reimagined here as both more intelligent and [[AdaptationalVillainy far more brutal]], is an ancient vampire who seeks to cause as much destruction as she possibly can. Arriving in Sunnydale looking for a way to become invulnerable, Drusilla quickly abandons this goal in favor of emotionally breaking Buffy as much as possible. Catfishing Xander into believing he's going on a date with Buffy, she mentally breaks him until he agrees to be sired, ultimately leaving him to die on Giles's doorstep. Seeking to open the Hellmouth, Drusilla threatens an entire room full of innocents to receive the necessary tools, then [[DomesticAbuse stabs Spike]] in order to open the Hellmouth with his blood. After draining another innocent girl to finalize the ritual, she is betrayed and imprisoned by the Hellmother, yet still takes the time to [[ManipulativeBitch turn Angel and Buffy against each other]], willing to doom all of Earth [[ForTheEvulz just because she can]].

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Amongst the [[Characters/{{Buffyverse}} numerous vampires, demons, and other creatures inhabiting]] the Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} are some [[CompleteMonster loathsome villains]], whether [[Characters/BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads Big Bads]], {{arc villain}}s, or [[MonsterOfTheWeek one-shot villains]]. Some are actual monsters, while others are [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters just monstrous]].

* Season 9: [[AxCrazy Simone Doffler]] initially started out as a rebellious Slayer who didn't see the value of the lives of others and believes that Slayers are superior to normal people, and therefore [[TakeOverTheWorld should rule over them]]. In an attempt to soften her she was put under the watch of Andrew Wells; instead she goes rogue and steals a demon to use as a weapon and asks Buffy to turn over Andrew, who she wants to kill since [[DisproportionateRetribution he annoyed her]]. She also led a small but growing army of rogue Slayers who set up base on a small island, where Simone [[UngratefulBastard beat up an old woman who gave them food and shelter]]. Simone's gang would later commit acts of terrorism, including raiding a military base and killing their general, relishing in the fearsome reputation it gave the Slayers. Later Simone learned of the zompires, and plotted to find a way to become one and keep her mind intact, for the sole sake of killing Buffy, with which she has become obsessed. To experiment, she feeds her own followers to them. When she learns Buffy's sister Dawn is dying, she [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates their friend Xander]] with a chance to save her by finding the deeper well. Her true intention was to awaken the Old One, Maloker, so that he would sire her into a vampire.

* "[[Recap/AngelS03E06Billy Billy]]": [[StrawMisogynist Billy Blim]], [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse despite appearing to be a normal young man]], is a half-demon with the ability to incite violent misogyny in other men through touch or contact with his bodily fluids, causing them to become extremely violent towards anyone female. Despite claiming to have never harmed a woman himself, he deliberately uses his powers on unsuspecting men, resulting in a number of women being badly injured and killed. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain A vile misogynist himself]], Billy believes that all men hate women as much as he does, and that all victims of his abilities deserve what they get. After being freed from a hell dimension by Lilah's machinations, Billy [[UngratefulBastard thanks her]] by using his powers on her rival, Gavin, causing him to savagely beat Lilah. Later allowing himself to be arrested, Billy causes a male cop to assault his female partner in order to escape. Billy goes on to blackmail his cousin into arranging for Billy to flee the country by threatening to use his powers at a crowded party. Confronted by Cordelia and Angel, Billy first tries to use his powers to force Angel to kill Cordelia, then beats down Angel himself when this fails. Essentially a one-man HatePlague, Billy is a smug sadist driven by [[HeManWomanHater a pathological hatred for women]] and [[ForTheEvulz the sheer amusement]] he derives from the carnage he causes.

** [[SoftSpokenSadist Amarkax]] is a demon that thrives off of human vanity. After spending centuries lurking in mirrors and paintings, Amarkax moves on to [[SocialMediaIsBad social media]], tricking his victims into opening a link that makes them bring death to themselves and others. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] when he takes advantage of a young girl's self-esteem issues to make her burn her house down with herself and her parents inside, he goes on to possess Brewster, attempting to make her kill Fred to prevent Angel from forming the team he needs. When Angel enters Amarkax's dimension, he's found using [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses dozens of his previous victims]] as a throne, sending apparitions of Angel's previous victims and dead friends to [[MindRape mentally torment]] the vampire into giving up and staying in his hell for all eternity.

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* "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]": [[RepulsiveRingmaster Darin MacNamara]] is a greedy ringmaster and, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters despite being only human, is one of the most monstrous villains]] that Angel has ever faced. Running an arena where he kidnaps other demons and [[GladiatorGames forces them to fight to the death]], Darin refuses to let any of them go until they've had their 21st kill. Anyone who tries to escape gets [[ExplosiveLeash incinerated by an electric bracelet]] they are forced to wear, and anyone who refuses to fight gets tortured. After kidnapping Angel, he holds Darin's brother and partner-in-crime hostage as a way of forcing him to let them go, stating "he's your brother". Darin, without any hesitation or look of remorse, [[SiblingMurder shoots his brother to death]], simply explaining, "Now he's my dead brother", and has Angel tortured afterwards. After Angel refuses Darin's offer to be let free for his own financial gain, Darin, believing Angel had outlived his usefulness, puts him in a fight against the ruling "champ", who's at his 21st fight, in hopes of him getting killed. Greedy, ruthless, and even seeing his own brother as a mere tool, Darin proved to be more monstrous than any of his demonic contenders.

* [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer 1992 film]]: [[BigBad Lothos]] is an ancient vampire, famous and [[TheDreaded feared]] for [[HeroKiller killing numerous Slayers]] over the centuries. Arriving in Los Angeles, Lothos starts a new killing spree to track down Buffy and take over the city, having his follower Amilyn turn numerous people into his vampiric army for him and bring him new victims to feed on, even turning one of Buffy's friends to find her and killing another. During his first confrontation with Buffy, Lothos kills her watcher Merrick by turning his stake onto him, letting Buffy go at the time as he was expecting more of a challenge. Later, Lothos leads his minions on an attack at the school, killing several students. Lothos is [[LackOfEmpathy completely indifferent towards his followers and their deaths]], as seen when he refuses to save Amylin when Buffy stakes him, giving him an unsympathetic smile as he mockingly plays a fiddle. After Lothos fails to hypnotize and/or seduce Buffy, he stops his flirtatious advancements in favor of going in for the kill, putting his sadistic personality on full display as he notes to the rest of the students that he will kill them all himself once he's done with Buffy.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Recap/AngelS04E15Orpheus It's no big mystery, man. (Humans) suffer, they die. That's what they're there for.]]"]]

Amongst the [[Characters/{{Buffyverse}} numerous vampires, demons, and other creatures inhabiting]] the Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} are some [[CompleteMonster loathsome villains]], whether [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads Big Bads]], {{arc villain}}s, or [[MonsterOfTheWeek one-shot villains]]. Some are actual monsters, while others are [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters just monstrous]].

* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerAngel Angelus]], born Liam, set the gold standard for evil in the Buffyverse. For well over a century he was the scourge of Europe, with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. When he returned home, fresh from the grave, his little sister who opened the door remarked that he "had returned to her an angel". After [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed slaughtering his entire village]], he adopted the Latinate of angel, [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Angelus]], as his name to mock that comment. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and baby son, turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing Drusilla, a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to [[MadArtist preserve his insane, broken work of art]] forever. When his soul is lost again, Angelus delights in [[MindRape psychologically tormenting]] his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, [[OfCorpseHesAlive leaving the corpse]] for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous -- then torturing Giles for information with her apparition. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture]], solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]].

* "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]": [[AristocratsAreEvil Matthias "The Reaper" Pavayne]] was a MadDoctor and SerialKiller who was sacrificed by [[Characters/AngelWolframAndHart Wolfram & Hart]] to deconsecrate the holy ground on which they built their Los Angeles office. Enduring as a ghost, Pavayne avoids his fate of being sent to hell by [[FateWorseThanDeath torturing the souls of others]] who died in the building, condemning them to hell in his place and reveling in his power over others. Cheating damnation for over two hundred years, Pavayne targets a ghostly Spike as his latest victim, tormenting him with visions of Pavayne's past victims before revealing himself and moving on to physical and psychological torture. When Angel and his team bring in a psychic to help Spike, Pavayne gruesomely murders her to avoid detection. When Fred tries to make Spike corporeal again to save him, Pavayne starts strangling her, intending to force Spike to [[SadisticChoice choose between saving himself or saving Fred and allowing Pavayne to send him to hell]].

'''Ildikó Géllert''': It is hard to believe such a person exists. To slaughter so and be without conscience--perhaps she is in league with a vampire, or under the spell of a demon. Because to be so evil and still function beneath the eye of God in the sunlight...

* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerAngel Angelus]], born Liam, set the gold standard for evil in the Buffyverse. For well over a century he was the scourge of Europe, with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. When he returned home, fresh from the grave, his little sister who opened the door remarked that he "had returned to her an angel". After [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed slaughtering his entire village]], he adopted the Latinate of angel, [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Angelus]], as his name to mock that comment. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and baby son, turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing Drusilla, a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to [[MadArtist preserve his insane, broken work of art]] forever. When his soul is lost again, Angelus delights in [[MindRape psychologically tormenting]] his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, [[OfCorpseHesAlive leaving the corpse]] for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous--then torturing Giles for information with her apparition. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture]], solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]].

* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Dirty Girls]]" through "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]": [[SinisterMinister Caleb]] is a defrocked priest turned murderer of young women, who uses the trust that people have in him to get closer to his victims, before torturing and killing them. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first appearance]], he guts one of the Potential Slayers and leaves her at the side of the road, as a message for Buffy. He then kills another one of the girls during a battle, mangles the arm of another, and puts out Xander's eye, cracking bad jokes the entire time. He also coordinates the actions of the Bringers, organizing the bombing of the Watcher Council's headquarters, resulting in most of their deaths; arranging the assaults on numerous Potentials; and trying to have Faith killed while she was in prison. A [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] sadist, who believes that all women are whores and deserve what he does to them, Caleb is The First Evil's right-hand man, and [[PsychoSupporter lives for the oncoming apocalypse]], seeing {{the end of the world|As We Know It}} as a way to dispose of all those who do not share his mad religious convictions.

* "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]": Darin [=MacNamara=] is a {{greed}}y ringmaster and, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters despite being only human, is one of the most monstrous villains]] that Angel has ever faced. Running an arena where he kidnaps other demons and [[GladiatorGames forces them to fight to the death]], Darin refuses to let any of them go until they've had their 21st kill. Anyone who tries to escape gets [[ExplosiveLeash incinerated by an electric bracelet]] they are forced to wear, and anyone who refuses to fight gets tortured. After kidnapping Angel, he holds Darin's brother and partner-in-crime hostage as a way of forcing him to let them go, stating "he's your brother". Darin, without any hesitation or look of remorse, [[SiblingMurder shoots his brother to death]], simply explaining, "Now he's my dead brother", and has Angel tortured afterwards. After Angel refuses Darin's offer to be let free for his own financial gain, Darin, believing Angel had outlived his usefulness, puts him in a fight against the ruling "champ", who's at his 21st fight, in hopes of him getting killed. Greedy, ruthless, and even seeing his own brother as a mere tool, Darin proved to be more monstrous than any of his demonic contenders.

Amongst the [[Characters/{{Buffyverse}} numerous vampires, demons, and other creatures inhabiting]] the Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} are some [[CompleteMonster loathsome villains]]. Some are actual monsters, while others are [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters just monstrous]].

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* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerAngel Angelus]], born Liam, was described by one of the most ancient, powerful and evil vampires--Buffy's season 1 BigBad, TheMaster--as "The most vicious creature (he'd) ever met", and set the gold standard for evil in the Buffyverse. For well over a century he was the scourge of Europe, with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. When he returned home, fresh from the grave, his little sister who opened the door remarked that he "had returned to her an angel." After slaughtering his family, he adopted the Latinate of angel, Angelus, as his name to mock that comment. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild baby son]], turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing Drusilla, a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to preserve his insane, broken work of art forever. When his soul is lost again, Angelus delights in [[MindRape psychologically tormenting]] his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, [[OfCorpseHesAlive leaving the corpse]] for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture]], solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]].

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* "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]": Darin [=MacNamara=] is a {{greed}}y ringmaster and, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters despite being only human, is one of the most monstrous villains]] that Angel has ever faced. Running an arena where he kidnaps other demons and [[GladiatorGames forces them to fight to the death]], Darin refuses to let any of them go until they've had their 21st kill. Anyone who tries to escape gets [[ExplosiveLeash incinerated by an electric bracelet]] they are forced to wear, and anyone who refuses to fight gets tortured. After kidnapping Angel, he holds Darin's brother and partner-in-crime hostage as a way of forcing him to let them go, stating "he's your brother". Darin, without any hesitation or look of remorse, [[SiblingMurder shoots his brother to death]], simply explaining, "Now he's my dead brother", and has Angel tortured afterwards. After Angel refuses Darin's offer to be let free for his own financial gain, Darin, believing Angel had outlived his usefulness, puts him in a fight against the ruling "champ", who's at his 21st fight, in hopes of him getting killed. greedy, ruthless, and even seeing his own brother as a mere tool, Darin proved to be more monstrous than any of his demonic contenders.

'''Ildikó Géllert''': It is hard to believe such a person exists. To slaughter so and be without conscience--perhaps she is in league with a vampire, or under the spell of a demon. Because to be so evil and still function beneath the eye of God in the sunlight...

* Liam, aka [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerAngel Angelus]], described by one of the most ancient, powerful and evil vampires--Buffy's season 1 BigBad, TheMaster--as "The most vicious creature (he'd) ever met," set the gold standard for evil in the Buffyverse. For centuries he was the scourge of Europe, with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. When he returned home, fresh from the grave, his little sister who opened the door remarked that he "had returned to her an angel." After slaughtering his family, he adopted the Latinate of angel, Angelus, as his name to mock that comment. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild baby son]], turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing Drusilla, a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to preserve his insane, broken work of art forever. When his soul is lost again, Angelus delights in [[MindRape psychologically tormenting]] his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, [[OfCorpseHesAlive leaving the corpse]] for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture]], solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]].

* "Die Blutgrafin", by Yvonne Navarro, from ''Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, the titular "Blood Countess", is a [[AristocratsAreEvil fiendish noblewoman]] who begins to abuse her servants before moving onto [[SerialKiller murder]]. Kidnapping hundreds of servant girls, Báthory has them starved and abused in squalid, filthy conditions. Savoring their pain, Báthory later has them tortured to death through various methods like the IronMaiden, to which she subjects the heroine of the story, Slayer Ildikó Géllert. Báthory is a monstrous human who believes that [[BloodBath bathing in the blood of her victims]] will give her immortality.

'''Ildikó Géllert''': It is hard to believe such a person exists. To slaughter so and be without conscience--perhaps she is in league with a vampire, or under the spell of a demon. Because to be so evil and still function beneath the eye of God in the sunlight...

* [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Season]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E19EmptyPlaces 7's]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E20Touched final]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E21EndOfDays five]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen episodes]]: [[SinisterMinister Caleb]] is a defrocked priest turned murderer of young women, who uses the trust that people have in him to get closer to his victims, before torturing and killing them. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first appearance]], he guts one of the Potential Slayers and leaves her at the side of the road, as a message for Buffy. He then kills another one of the girls during a battle, mangles the arm of another, and puts out Xander's eye, cracking bad jokes the entire time. He also coordinates the actions of the Bringers, organizing the bombing of the Watcher Council's headquarters, resulting in most of their deaths; arranging the assaults on numerous Potentials; and trying to have Faith killed while she was in prison. A [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] sadist, who believes that all women are whores and deserve what he does to them, Caleb is The First Evil's right-hand man, and [[PsychoSupporter lives for the oncoming apocalypse]], seeing {{the end of the world|As We Know It}} as a way to dispose of all those who do not share his mad religious convictions.

* "Die Blutgrafin", by Yvonne Navarro, from ''Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, the titular "Blood Countess", is a [[AristocratsAreEvil fiendish noblewoman]] who begins to abuse her servants before moving onto [[SerialKiller murder]]. Kidnapping hundreds of servant girls, Báthory has them starved and abused in squalid, filthy conditions. Savoring their pain, Báthory later has them tortured to death through various methods like the IronMaiden, to which she subjects the heroine of the story, Slayer Ildikó Géllert. Báthory is a monstrous human who believes that [[BloodBath bathing in the blood of her victims]] will give her immortality.

'''Ildikó Géllert''': It is hard to believe such a person exists. To slaughter so and be without conscience--perhaps she is in league with a vampire, or under the spell of a demon. Because to be so evil and still function beneath the eye of God in the sunlight...

* "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]": [[AristocratsAreEvil Matthias "The Reaper" Pavayne]] was a MadDoctor and SerialKiller who was sacrificed by [[OccultLawFirm Wolfram & Hart]] to deconsecrate the holy ground on which they built their Los Angeles office. Enduring as a ghost, Pavayne avoids his fate of being sent to hell by [[FateWorseThanDeath torturing the souls of others]] who died in the building, condemning them to hell in his place and reveling in his power over others. Cheating damnation for over two hundred years, Pavayne targets a ghostly Spike as his latest victim, tormenting him with visions of Pavayne's past victims before revealing himself and moving on to physical and psychological torture. When Angel and his team bring in a psychic to help Spike, Pavayne gruesomely murders her to avoid detection. When Fred tries to make Spike corporeal again to save him, Pavayne starts strangling her, intending to force Spike to [[SadisticChoice choose between saving himself or saving Fred and allowing Pavayne to send him to hell]].

* "Die Blutgrafin", by Yvonne Navarro, from ''Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1'': UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, the titular "Blood Countess", is a [[AristocratsAreEvil fiendish noblewoman]] who begins to abuse her servants before moving onto [[SerialKiller murder]]. Kidnapping hundreds of servant girls, Báthory has them starved and abused in squalid, filthy conditions. Savoring their pain, Báthory later has them tortured to death through various methods like the IronMaiden, to which she subjects the heroine of the story, Slayer Ildikó Géllert. Báthory is a monstrous human who believes that [[BloodBath bathing in the blood of her victims]] will give her immortality.

->''"He's a bloody king of torture, he is. Humans, demons, politicians, makes no difference. Rumor has it he invented several of the classics, but he won't tell me which ones. Beneath the cool exterior, you'll find he's rather shy... except with kids. You like kids, don't you Marcus? Well, 'likes to eat' and other nasty things."''
-->--'''Spike''', about '''Marcus''', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In the Dark]]"

* [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Season]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E19EmptyPlaces 7's]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E20Touched final]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E21EndOfDays five]] [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen episodes]]: [[SinisterMinister Caleb]] is a defrocked priest turned SerialKiller of young women, who uses the trust that people have in him to get closer to his victims, before torturing and killing them. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first appearance]], he guts one of the Potential Slayers and leaves her at the side of the road, as a message for Buffy. He then kills another one of the girls during a battle, mangles the arm of another, and puts out Xander's eye, cracking bad jokes the entire time. He also coordinates the actions of the Bringers, organizing the bombing of the Watcher Council's headquarters, resulting in most of their deaths; arranging the assaults on numerous Potentials; and trying to have Faith killed while she was in prison. A [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] sadist, who believes that all women are whores and deserve what he does to them, Caleb is The First Evil's right-hand man, and [[PsychoSupporter lives for the oncoming apocalypse]], seeing {{the end of the world|As We Know It}} as a way to dispose of all those who do not share his mad religious convictions.
* Season 9: [[AxCrazy Simone Doffler]] initially started out as a rebellious Slayer who didn't see the value of the lives of others and believes that Slayers are superior to normal people, and therefore [[TakeOverTheWorld should rule over them]]. In an attempt to soften her she was put under the watch of Andrew Wells; instead she goes rogue and steals a demon to use as a weapon and asks Buffy to turn over Andrew, who she wants to kill since [[DisproportionateRetribution he annoyed her]]. She also led a small but growing army of rogue slayers who set up base on a small island, where Simone [[UngratefulBastard beat up an old woman who gave them food and shelter]]. Simone's gang would later commit acts of terrorism, including raiding a military base and killing their general, relishing in the fearsome reputation it gave the Slayers. Later Simone learned of the zompires, and plotted to find a way to become one and keep her mind intact, for the sole sake of killing Buffy, with which she has become obsessed. To experiment, she feeds her own followers to them. When she learns Buffy's sister Dawn is dying, she [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates their friend Xander]] with a chance to save her by finding the deeper well. Her true intention was to awaken the Old One, Maloker, so that he would sire her into a vampire.

* "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In the Dark]]": [[TortureTechnician Marcus]] is [[PsychoForHire hired by Spike]] to extract information from Angel on the whereabouts of the Gem of Amarra, a magical ring that gives Vampires complete invulnerability from harm and their usual weaknesses, such as sunlight. A man obsessed with the "art" of torture, Marcus is rumored to have inspired some of the more favored and gruesome techniques used through history. [[DissonantSerenity Serenely, playing Mozart in the background]], Marcus falls into a rhythm of torturing Angel, impaling him with hot pokers then asking Angel what he truly wants. When Angel refuses to answer, the cycle begins again, each time with Marcus hoping to truly break Angel and lay his soul bare. He also burns Angel with sunlight and forces him to suspend himself in the air with his chains in order to avoid being incinerated. Marcus is also a pedophile who specializes in [[WouldHurtAChild feeding on and molesting children]], and, after Marcus betrays Spike and takes the ring for himself, the first thing he does with his newfound invulnerability is attempt to murder a group of girl scouts, only being stopped due to the timely arrival of Angel.
* "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]": Darin [=MacNamara=] is a greedy ringmaster and, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters despite being only human, is one of the most monstrous villains]] that Angel has ever faced. Running an arena where he kidnaps other demons and [[GladiatorGames forces them to fight to the death]], Darin refuses to let any of them go until they've had their 21st kill. Anyone who tries to escape gets [[ExplosiveLeash incinerated by an electric bracelet]] they are forced to wear, and anyone who refuses to fight gets tortured. After kidnapping Angel, he holds Darin's brother and partner-in-crime hostage as a way of forcing him to let them go, stating "he's your brother". Darin, without any hesitation or look of remorse, shoots his brother to death, simply explaining, "Now he's my dead brother", and has Angel tortured afterwards. After Angel refuses Darin's offer to be let free for his own financial gain, Darin, believing Angel had outlived his usefulness, puts him in a fight against the ruling "champ", who's at his 21st fight, in hopes of him getting killed. {{Greed}}y, ruthless, and even seeing his own brother as a mere tool, Darin proved to be more monstrous than any of his demonic contenders.
* "[[Recap/AngelS03E06Billy Billy]]": [[StrawMisogynist Billy Blim]] [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse despite appearing to be a normal young man]], is a half-demon with the ability to incite violent misogyny in other men through touch or contact with his bodily fluids, causing them to become extremely violent towards anyone female. Despite claiming to have never harmed a woman himself, he deliberately uses his powers on unsuspecting men, resulting in a number of women being badly injured and killed. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain A vile misogynist himself]], Billy believes that all men hate women as much as he does, and that all victims of his abilities deserve what they get. After being freed from a hell dimension by Lilah's machinations, Billy [[UngratefulBastard thanks her]] by using his powers on her rival, Gavin, causing him to savagely beat Lilah. Later allowing himself to be arrested, Billy causes a male cop to assault his female partner in order to escape. Billy goes on to blackmail his cousin into arranging for Billy to flee the country by threatening to use his powers at a crowded party. Confronted by Cordelia and Angel, Billy first tries to use his powers to force Angel to kill Cordelia, then beats down Angel himself when this fails. Essentially a one-man HatePlague, Billy is a smug sadist driven by [[HeManWomanHater a pathological hatred for women]] and [[ForTheEvulz the sheer amusement]] he derives from the carnage he causes.
* "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]": [[AristocratsAreEvil Matthias Pavayne]], also known as "The Reaper", is a malevolent ghost haunting the L.A. office of [[OccultLawFirm Wolfram & Hart]]. A MadDoctor and SerialKiller in life, Pavayne performed fatal surgeries on his victims before moving on to dismembering them in ritualistic killings for over twenty years. Sacrificed by Wolfram & Hart to deconsecrate the holy ground on which they were to build their Los Angeles office (a task which required a particularly evil soul), Pavayne's spirit endured as a ghost. To avoid his fate of being sent to hell, Pavayne tortures the souls of other people who died in the building, condemning them to hell in his place. Exploiting the HighTurnoverRate at Wolfram & Hart, Pavayne spends over two hundred years cheating damnation and reveling in his power over others, with Wolfram & Hart being completely devoid of other ghosts by the time Pavayne's presence is uncovered. When Spike becomes a ghost bound to Wolfram & Hart, Pavayne targets him as his latest victim, [[MindRape tormenting Spike]] with visions of Pavayne's past victims. When Angel and his team bring in a psychic to help Spike, Pavayne [[YourHeadAsplode gruesomely murders her]] to keep from being detected. After revealing himself to Spike, Pavayne physically and psychologically tortures him before trying to throw him into hell. When Fred tries to make Spike corporeal again to save him, Pavayne starts strangling her, intending to [[SadisticChoice force Spike to choose]] between saving himself and letting her die, or saving Fred and allowing Pavayne to send him to hell. A terrifying and [[SoftSpokenSadist sadistic]] psychopath, Pavayne condemns countless souls to hell in order to save himself, and takes a deep pleasure in doing so.

* The demon known as "[[BadSamaritan Ken]]", from the season 3 premier "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]", poses as a friendly man who runs a shelter for troubled teenage runaways. In truth a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]], Ken lures them in and takes them to his dimension where they are tortured and enslaved in backbreaking labor. Not content with this, Ken has them [[MindRape mentally tormented]], grinding down their self-esteem and forcing them to admit they are "no one", killing any who resist. After decades of work in his dimension, Ken throws them to the streets of LA, [[EmptyShell broken and insane]], to die when they cease to be of use, gloating that his realm is hell solely for the pure absence of hope those who enter it suffer.
* [[SinisterMinister Caleb]], from season 7's last five episodes, is a defrocked priest turned SerialKiller of young women, who uses the trust that people have in him to get closer to his victims, before torturing and killing them. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first appearance]], he guts one of the Potential Slayers and leaves her at the side of the road, as a message for Buffy. He then kills another one of the girls during a battle, mangles the arm of another, and puts out Xander's eye, cracking bad jokes the entire time. He also coordinates the actions of the Bringers, organizing the bombing of the Watcher Council's headquarters (resulting in most of their deaths), arranging the assaults on numerous Potentials, and trying to have Faith killed while she was in prison. A [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] sadist, who believes that all women are whores and deserve what he does to them, Caleb is The First Evil's right-hand man, and [[PsychoSupporter lives for the oncoming apocalypse]], seeing the end of the world as a way to dispose of all those who do not share his mad religious convictions.
* [[AxCrazy Simone Doffler]], the BigBad of season 9, initially started out as a rebellious Slayer who didn't see the value of the lives of others and believes that Slayers are superior to normal people, and therefore [[TakeOverTheWorld should rule over them]]. In an attempt to soften her she was put under the watch of Andrew Wells; instead she goes rogue and steals a demon to use as a weapon and asks Buffy to turn over Andrew, who she wants to kill since [[DisproportionateRetribution he annoyed her]]. She also led a small but growing army of rogue slayers who set up base on a small island, where Simone [[UngratefulBastard beat up an old woman who gave them food and shelter]]. Simone's gang would later commit acts of terrorism, including raiding a military base and killing their general, relishing in the fearsome reputation it gave the slayers. Later Simone learned of the zompires, and plotted to find a way to become one and keep her mind intact, for the sole sake of killing Buffy, with which she has become obsessed. To experiment, she feeds her own followers to them. When she learns Buffy's sister Dawn is dying, she [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates their friend Xander]] with a chance to save her by finding the deeper well. Her true intention was to awaken the Old One, Maloker, so that he would sire her into a vampire.
* The unassuming [[CorruptPolitician White House Press Secretary Joanna Wise]], from season 11, is really the [[BigBad orchestrator]] of the Supernatural Crisis Act and the [[{{Magitek}} Pandora Project]]. Summoning a Chinese storm dragon, Wise [[MonsterProtectionRacket sets it loose on San Francisco]] alongside a giant tsunami, killing thousands. The backlash resulting in increased hate crimes against magical beings and practitioners of Wicca and the government cracking down on magic users, having them detained in the hellish "Safe Zone" prison and stripping them of their human rights. Putting the detainees to work on a magical draining device, Wise is apathetic to the fact many species need magic to survive. After a breakout in the Safe Zone, Wise has a town eradicated to frame an army of escaped vampires, increasing tensions; and when the Scooby Gang investigate the Pandora Project, they discover Wise conducts experiments on humans and animals to create her own brainwashed army and intends to use satellites to have her machine drain magic across the world. A [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans depraved megalomaniac]] who ultimately intends to rule a world where [[StrawHypocrite only she has access to magic]], in her final fight with Buffy, Wise even drains her own dragon to bolster her magical strength.

* [[TortureTechnician Marcus]], from season 1's "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In the Dark]]", is [[PsychoForHire hired by Spike]] to extract information from Angel on the whereabouts of the Gem of Amarra, a magical ring that gives Vampires complete invulnerability from harm and their usual weaknesses, such as sunlight. A man obsessed with the "art" of torture, Marcus is rumored to have inspired some of the more favored and gruesome techniques used through history. [[DissonantSerenity Serenely, playing Mozart in the background]], Marcus falls into a rhythm of torturing Angel, impaling him with hot pokers then asking Angel what he truly wants. When Angel refuses to answer, the cycle begins again, each time with Marcus hoping to truly break Angel and lay his soul bare. He also burns Angel with sunlight and forces him to suspend himself in the air with his chains in order to avoid being incinerated. Marcus is also a pedophile who specializes in [[WouldHurtAChild feeding on and molesting children]], and, after Marcus betrays Spike and takes the ring for himself, the first thing he does with his newfound invulnerability is attempt to murder a group of girl scouts, only being stopped due to the timely arrival of Angel.
* Darin [=MacNamara=] from season 1's "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]" is a greedy ringmaster and, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters despite being only human, is one of the most monstrous villains]] that Angel has ever faced. Running an arena where he kidnaps other demons and [[GladiatorGames forces them to fight to the death]], Darin refuses to let any of them go until they've had their 21st kill. Anyone who tries to escape gets [[ExplosiveLeash incinerated by an electric bracelet]] they are forced to wear, and anyone who refuses to fight gets tortured. After kidnapping Angel, he holds Darin's brother and partner-in-crime hostage as a way of forcing him to let them go, stating "he's your brother". Darin, without any hesitation or look of remorse, shoots his brother to death, simply explaining, "Now he's my dead brother", and has Angel tortured afterwards. After Angel refuses Darin's offer to be let free for his own financial gain, Darin, believing Angel had outlived his usefulness, puts him in a fight against the ruling "champ", who's at his 21st fight, in hopes of him getting killed. {{Greed}}y, ruthless, and even seeing his own brother as a mere tool, Darin proved to be more monstrous than any of his demonic contenders.
* [[StrawMisogynist Billy Blim]], from season 3's "[[Recap/AngelS03E06Billy Billy]]", [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse despite appearing to be a normal young man]], is a half-demon with the ability to incite violent misogyny in other men through touch or contact with his bodily fluids, causing them to become extremely violent towards anyone female. Despite claiming to have never harmed a woman himself, he deliberately uses his powers on unsuspecting men, resulting in a number of women being badly injured and killed. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain A vile misogynist himself]], Billy believes that all men hate women as much as he does, and that all victims of his abilities deserve what they get. After being freed from a hell dimension by Lilah's machinations, Billy [[UngratefulBastard thanks her]] by using his powers on her rival, Gavin, causing him to savagely beat Lilah. Later allowing himself to be arrested, Billy causes a male cop to assault his female partner in order to escape. Billy goes on to blackmail his cousin into arranging for Billy to flee the country by threatening to use his powers at a crowded party. Confronted by Cordelia and Angel, Billy first tries to use his powers to force Angel to kill Cordelia, then beats down Angel himself when this fails. Essentially a one-man HatePlague, Billy is a smug sadist driven by [[HeManWomanHater a pathological hatred for women]] and [[ForTheEvulz the sheer amusement]] he derives from the carnage he causes.
* [[AristocratsAreEvil Matthias Pavayne]], also known as "The Reaper", from season 5's "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]", is a malevolent ghost haunting the L.A. office of [[OccultLawFirm Wolfram & Hart]]. A MadDoctor and SerialKiller in life, Pavayne performed fatal surgeries on his victims before moving on to dismembering them in ritualistic killings for over twenty years. Sacrificed by Wolfram & Hart to deconsecrate the holy ground on which they were to build their Los Angeles office (a task which required a particularly evil soul), Pavayne's spirit endured as a ghost. To avoid his fate of being sent to hell, Pavayne tortures the souls of other people who died in the building, condemning them to hell in his place. Exploiting the HighTurnoverRate at Wolfram & Hart, Pavayne spends over two hundred years cheating damnation and reveling in his power over others, with Wolfram & Hart being completely devoid of other ghosts by the time Pavayne's presence is uncovered. When Spike becomes a ghost bound to Wolfram & Hart, Pavayne targets him as his latest victim, [[MindRape tormenting Spike]] with visions of Pavayne's past victims. When Angel and his team bring in a psychic to help Spike, Pavayne [[YourHeadAsplode gruesomely murders her]] to keep from being detected. After revealing himself to Spike, Pavayne physically and psychologically tortures him before trying to throw him into hell. When Fred tries to make Spike corporeal again to save him, Pavayne starts strangling her, intending to [[SadisticChoice force Spike to choose]] between saving himself and letting her die, or saving Fred and allowing Pavayne to send him to hell. A terrifying and [[SoftSpokenSadist sadistic]] psychopath, Pavayne condemns countless souls to hell in order to save himself, and takes a deep pleasure in doing so.

* Liam, AKA [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerAngel Angelus]], described by one of the most ancient, powerful and evil vampires--Buffy's season 1 BigBad TheMaster--as "The most vicious creature (he'd) ever met," set the gold standard for evil in the Buffyverse. For centuries he was the scourge of Europe, with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. When he returned home, fresh from the grave, his little sister who opened the door remarked that he "had returned to her an angel." After slaughtering his family, he adopted the Latinate of angel, Angelus, as his name to mock that comment. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild baby son]], turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing Drusilla, a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to preserve his insane, broken work of art forever. When his soul is lost again, Angelus delights in [[MindRape psychologically tormenting]] his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, [[OfCorpseHesAlive leaving the corpse]] for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture]], solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]].

''[[AC:Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (both [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the TV series]] and [[ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the comic]])

* In [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the 1992 film]], [[VampireMonarch Lothos]] is a vampire king, famous and [[TheDreaded feared]] for [[HeroKiller killing numerous Slayers]] over the centuries, whom Buffy has haunting dreams and visions of. Arriving in Los Angeles, Lothos starts a new killing spree to track down Buffy and take over the city, having his follower Amilyn track down and turn numerous people into his vampiric army for him and bring Lothos new victims to feed on, even turning one of Buffy's friends to find her and kills another. During his first confrontation with Buffy, Lothos kills her watcher Merrick by turning his stake onto him, letting Buffy go at the time as he was expecting more of a challenge. Later, Lothos leads his minions on an attack at the school, killing several students. Lothos is [[LackOfEmpathy completely indifferent towards his followers and their deaths]], as seen when he refuses to save Amylin when Buffy stakes him, giving him an unsympathetic smile as he mockingly plays a fiddle. After Lothos fails to hypnotize and/or seduce Buffy, Lothos stops his flirtatious advancements in favor of going in for the kill, putting his sadistic personality on full display as he notes to the rest of the students that he will kill them all himself once he's done with Buffy. Despite the campy style of the movie, which is considerably more lighthearted than the following series, Lothos manages to be a remarkably serious and evil villain as the first BigBad Buffy ever faced.

* Liam, AKA [[TheDreaded Angelus]], described by one of the most ancient, powerful and evil vampires--Buffy's season 1 BigBad TheMaster--as "The most vicious creature (he'd) ever met," set the gold standard for evil in the Buffyverse. For centuries he was the scourge of Europe, with countless murders, rapes and torture to his name. When he returned home, fresh from the grave, his little sister who opened the door remarked that he "had returned to her an angel." After slaughtering his family, he adopted the Latinate of angel, Angelus, as his name to mock that comment. Refusing to kill a longstanding nemesis vampire hunter, Angelus contented himself by murdering the man's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild baby son]], turning his young daughter into a vampire to force her own father to destroy her. His self-admitted masterpiece was seducing Drusilla, a pious, tormented girl with psychic powers, murdering her family and driving her to a convent before slaughtering everyone in the walls and turning her into a vampire to preserve his insane, broken work of art forever. When his soul is lost again, Angelus delights in [[MindRape psychologically tormenting]] his former beloved Buffy's friends and family out of disgust for the human feeling Buffy gave him. The ultimate culmination of this was his brutal murder of Jenny Calendar, [[OfCorpseHesAlive leaving the corpse]] for her lover Giles to find in a parody of a romantic rendezvous. Angelus's evil extended to his hope of awakening a demon to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt suck all of humanity into a hell dimension for eternal torture]], solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]].