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->''"I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls! And make you crawl and beg! And die! '''Die'''! '''Die for Darkseid'''!"''
-->--'''[[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]''', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' #5, spoken through the mouths of one billion slaves

A list of {{Complete Monster}}s in [[Franchise/TheDCU the DC Universe]] and associated continuities.

Other comics under [[Creator/DCComics DC]] or related imprints (like Creator/WildStorm or [[Creator/VertigoComics Vertigo]]) can be found mostly [[Monster/ComicBooks here]]; or at the appropriate franchise's subpage (''Monster/StarTrek''; etc.).

* Examples from the Series/{{Arrowverse}} (including related comics) can be found [[Monster/{{Arrowverse}} here]].
* Examples from films can be found [[Monster/FilmCToE here]] [[labelnote:specifically]] The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse [[/labelnote]]; and [[Monster/FilmS here]] [[labelnote:specifically]] ''Film/SwampThing'' & ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'' [[/labelnote]].
* Examples from non-animated TV series can be found [[Monster/LiveActionTVAToF here]] [[labelnote:specifically]] ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'' [[/labelnote]]; [[Monster/LiveActionTVGToO here]] [[labelnote:specifically]] ''Series/Lucifer2016'' [[/labelnote]]; and [[Monster/LiveActionTVPToZ here]] [[labelnote:specifically]] ''Series/Titans2018'' [[/labelnote]].
* Examples from animated works (including related comics) can be found [[Monster/DCAnimation here]].
* Examples from video games (including related comics and animation) can be found [[Monster/DCVideoGames here]].
* Examples from literature can be found [[Monster/DCLiterature here]].
* Examples from unproduced scripts can be found [[Monster/{{Scripts}} here]].

![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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!!The following have their own pages

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* ''Monster/{{Batman}}'' (includes other [[Characters/BatmanAndBatFamily Bat-Family]] members; ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''; & ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'')
* ''Monster/GreenArrow''
* ''Monster/{{Hellblazer}}''
* ''Monster/JonahHex''
* Monster/MilestoneComics
* ''Monster/{{Superman}}'' (includes ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' & ''ComicBook/{{Steel}}'')
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!!Other examples
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[[AC:Pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] Only]]
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* ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'': [[SorcerousOverlord Dark Opal]] is the BigBad of the first series. [[TheUsurper Overthrowing the House of Amethyst]], massacring their men and killing the ruling family, Dark Opal seeks to extend his rule over all he can. Obsessed with having an heir, he forces women to bear his children, but when the results are malformed creatures, he exiles them to [[AndIMustScream the Abyss to languish forever]]. When his children return to stop his evil, Dark Opal [[OffingTheOffspring savagely murders them all]] himself. Caring nothing for his allies, he forces his right-hand man Sardonyx to sign a deal with creatures known as Emissaries of Varn with the knowledge Sardonyx will be taken to eternal torment should the contract fall through as Dark Opal can't be bothered to save him. Gleefully attempting to massacre his enemies, Dark Opal also tortures the kind old Lord Topaz to death before raising him as a twisted monster to trick Prince Topaz into marrying a woman of Dark Opal's choice for political gain. Obsessed with his own power and thinking nothing of destroying whatever is in his way, Dark Opal remains Amethyst's most monstrous foe.
* ''[[ComicBook/ArakSonOfThunder Arak: Son of Thunder]]'''s issues #7-8: The [[SinisterMinister Black Pope]] is the sinister leader of the subterranean armies descended from the Pope. Seeking to conquer Rome and assume the papacy, the Black Pope has Pope Hadrian kidnapped, preparing to murder him along with Arak and Valda in the arenas where [[GladiatorGames people fight for his amusement]]. The Black Pope also has women kidnapped and turned into {{sex slave}}s and [[BreedingSlave breeding stock]] in huge numbers, gloating about his intent to invade the surface with those bred for it.
* ''ComicBook/CodeNameGravedigger'': This [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] duo stands above all others Ulysses Hazard has faced during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII:
** ''Men of War'' issue #5's "Valley of the Shadow": [[InsaneAdmiral General Schlemer]] takes over the small French village of Touborne and immediately because exercising human rights abuses due to the presence of French [[LaResistance resistance]] in the village. General Schlemer coldly executes a priest who stands up to his orders, proclaiming the only god is [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Fuehrer]]. Schlemer orders innocent people to [[DigYourOwnGrave dig their own graves]] en masse before machine-gunning them down, and tries in the end to destroy all of Touborne by having it buried by an avalanche.
** ''Men of War'' issue #11's "Berkstaten": [[MadDoctor Von Krugger]] is the Surgeon General of the Berkstaten [[PoWCamp concentration camp]]. Not content with handing off inmates hundreds at a time to extermination, Von Krugger subjects his victims to agonizing medical torture to "clinically" prove their inferiority. An old man reduced to a haggard waste from experimentation begs for death as a release to his suffering, and the Jewish mother of two children Gravedigger takes in has been denied the release of death from Von Krugger's torture, [[AndIMustScream kept alive in agony]] by his machines. Von Krugger does eventually murder the mother, but solely out of spite and to make a point on how [[AGodAmI the Nazis are gods]] and that they can kill whoever they want.
* ''ComicBook/DCComicsPresents'' (primarily): [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Maaldor the Darklord]] is a powerful and immortal being who has dedicated his long life to sowing chaos and destruction across the universe, merely [[ForTheEvulz to sate his boredom]]. Desiring a challenge, Maaldor summoned Superman and Power Girl to his dimension, threatening to wipe out all life in his universe if they did not battle him. Imprisoned within a dimension of pure insanity, Maaldor would return to plague Superman's mind, attempting to force him to kill his loved ones and [[DrivenToMadness drive him to madness]]. Maaldor would later target the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe, causing the deaths of numerous Green Lanterns to steal their power and invade their universe, forcing Arrkis to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself to stop him]].
* [[MadScientist Per Degaton]]: He is a recurring, wicked threat to the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], and time itself. An envious, power-hungry lab assistant to Professor Zee for years, Per Degaton would murder Zee so as to steal his time travel technology and use it for his own selfish purposes. Per Degaton went on to tamper with time in a variety of ways, from repeating Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on San Fransisco to destabilize the world, to massacring UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's armies in an attempt to retroactively plunge humanity into the Dark Ages and assert his own dictatorship over the planet. Willing to doom an entire parallel Earth to nuclear holocaust [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because a news vendor disrespected him]] and even throw his own Earth into the sun out of spite, Per Degaton consistently threatened millions of lives over centuries of time, [[BadBoss disregarded his own men to die]], and ultimately killed himself rather than face justice when finally caught.
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' Vol. 1 issue #121 ("The Beginning of the End!???") & ''New ComicBook/TeenTitans'' Vol. 1 issues #13-15: [[DiabolicalMastermind Captain Zahl]] was a [[FormerRegimePersonnel Nazi U-Boat commander]] turned criminal mercenary who never gave up on imposing the Third Reich's vision on the world. After a confrontation with Niles "The Chief" Caulder left him down an arm and [[EvilCripple confined to a back and neck brace]], Zahl took on a behind-the-scenes role, transforming Otto Von Furth into the always-burning Plasmus, and manipulating the unstable Madame Rouge into betraying the Doom Patrol and Brotherhood of Evil both, [[HeroKiller resulting in the demise of both teams]]. Hunted across the world by surviving Doom Patrol members and associates Gar Logan, Robotman, and Mento, Zahl battled the New Teen Titans when he and his army joined Madame Rouge's attempted conquest of Zandia. Under Zahl's direction his men massacred thousands of Zandia's expat inhabitants, and captured the Titans, subjecting them to the horrors of his Devolving Pit.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern[=/=]ComicBook/GreenArrow'':
** "Journey to Desolation!" [[note]]originally published in ''Green Lantern'' #77; republished in ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' #1[[/note]]: [[CorruptHick Slapper Soames]] is the owner of a small town called [[CompanyTown Desolation]]. Soames lives like a king while the town lives in poverty, with the town's people having to work at Soames's mine. Soames has hired [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] to beat up the miners or any townspeople who displease him. When a mine worker named Johnny writes a protest song against Soames, Soames has him convinced in a [[KangarooCourt rigged trial]] and sentences him to be hanged. Soames secretly hires a worker named Jacob to stir up a rebellion among the workers, planning to have his Nazi paramilitary forces kill a third of the workers, in order to scare the rest into complete obedience.
** "A Kind of Loving, A Way of Death" [[note]]originally published in ''Green Lantern'' #78; republished in ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' #2[[/note]]: [[DarkMessiah Joshua]] is an evil cult leader with MindControl powers, based on UsefulNotes/CharlesManson. After finding [[Characters/BlackCanary Black Canary]] injured at the side of the road, Joshua gives her medical attention, then brainwashes her into being his puppet. Joshua has kidnapped several people, mind-controlling them and forcing them to live on his compound. Joshua is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain violent racist]] who wants to kill every nonwhite person in the US and orders his death cult to kill everyone at a Native reservation. After being defeated, Joshua orders Black Canary to kill Green Arrow.
* "[[ComicBook/HouseOfMystery I...Vampire!]]": [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Mary Seward]], Queen of Blood and founder of the [[{{Cult}} Blood Red Moon]], was once a kind, innocent woman as a mortal and the lover of nobleman Andrew Bennett. Upon being turned into a vampire at her request by Andrew, Mary embraced the power of hell and slew countless individuals to feed her hunger and cruelty, Mary founded the Blood Red Moon and had them kill and turn countless more innocents, even [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil running slavery operations]] to bring more victims to her followers. Mary attempts to change history so the mother of a scientist will never be born and he will never be alive to invent a serum that poisons vampires, later even planning to turn Andrew's lover Deborah Dancer into a vampire and her slave while Andrew is confined beneath the Earth for the rest of his life.
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* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** Issues #71 ("... And So, My World Ends") & #144 ("The Origin of the Justice League--Minus One!"): The bloodthirsty [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Benn Blanx]] is the EvilCounterpart and ArchEnemy of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]. Blanx restarts a war between two races of Martians and exiles J'onn, whom he later tracks to Earth to kill, murdering countless humans in the process. Becoming the planet's dictator, Blanx uses the powerful Blue Flame to set all of Mars ablaze, leaving the civilization in ruins and leading to J'onn returning to find his people on the verge of extinction. When J'onn demands an explanation for Blanx's cruelty, Blanx reveals [[{{Greed}} a mining corporation offered to purchase the planet]] from Blanx, but he had to be "the last living Martian".
** Issues #73 ("Star Light, Star Bright--Death Star I See Tonight!") & #74 ("Where Death Fears to Tread!"): The evil star-like being [[SentientStars Aquarius]] swept through existence, sowing chaos and destruction until his people judged and exiled him. Coming to Earth, Aquarius [[TheCorrupter sways people to chaos and murder]] until he faces the Justice League, trying to annihilate the Earth before he [[OmnicidalManiac wipes out existence]]. At last, Aquarius simply wipes out the entire universe before seeking another to destroy, even trying to use the Justice League to kill their counterparts on another world, all for his own amusement.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] foe The Controller wasn't one to let morality get in the way of his plans for [[GalacticConqueror universal conquest]]. Abandoning his highly advanced race, The Controller decided to use his superweapon, the [[StarKilling Sun-Eater]], to obliterate every inhabited system in the Milky Way, starting with Earth's sun, Sol. When Ferro Lad's HeroicSacrifice destroyed the Sun-Eater, The Controller attempted to brainwash the Legion into becoming his new army, then sought to murder them all when that plan failed. Convinced of his own innate superiority, and willing to wipe out an inhabited galaxy just to send the a message, The Controller would let nothing stand in his path of becoming the universe's DimensionLord.
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'': [[EvilSorceress Tala]], the Queen of Darkness, is a hellish being who acts as the Phantom Stranger's EvilCounterpart by [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] and ruining mortals, driving them to murder, mayhem and securing their deaths [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]]. Later trying to initiate nuclear war and seeing an underground civilization wiped out, Tala later uses the Dark Circle to attempt to conquer the world, summoning [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse the Four Horsemen]] to completely exterminate it when that fails.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' (includes original Creator/FawcettComics): [[ThoseWackyNazis Captain Nazi]], real name [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Albrecht Krieger]], embodies all the villainy the Nazis had to offer the superheroes of America. Tasked by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself to sow chaos in America, Nazi introduced himself to his archenemies by derailing trains and tipping over Ferris wheels, then using a little boy as a hostage before trying to kill him anyway. So full of gleeful sadism as to murder an elderly man and cripple his grandson--who would later become Captain Marvel Jr.--[[UngratefulBastard after the duo had rescued him from drowning]], Nazi would bomb air raid shelters, poison thousands of American troops, and even kill his fellow Nazis in his goals to wipe out entire American cities and kill millions. Nazi would even attempt to drown a group of children to prevent them from buying War Stamps, then try to burn other kids alive so they couldn't do volunteer work for the military. A ravenously cruel and vicious brute, Captain Nazi was perhaps Captain Marvel Jr.'s [[ArchEnemy most personal enemy]], and one of Marvel himself's most hated.
* ''ComicBook/ShiningKnight'': [[RedIsViolent The Red Dragon]] is a [[FromNobodyToNightmare petty criminal]] enraged by his treatment due to his [[RedRightHand ugly face]]. Seeking to improve his reputation, Dragon makes multiple attempts on the Shining Knight's life, even kidnapping and attempting to drown his LoveInterest Eve Barclay along the way. Later allying with the Hand, Dragon willingly [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves an entire Native American tribe]] to mine for radium, forcing them to work even when they're sick and having them whipped when they don't comply; when the tribe tries to fight back, Dragon tries to kill all of them with a tank.
* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'':
** "The Gasmen and...the Spectre" [[note]]originally published in ''(Weird) Adventure Comics'' #436; republished in ''Wrath of the Spectre'' #2[[/note]]: [[WesternTerrorists Field Marshall Offel]] is a terrorist playing the part of a psychotic InsaneAdmiral initiating "Operation Green Cloud". Offel has a car show [[DeadlyGas gassed]] to the last man, woman and child, murdering fifty to sixty people and gleefully threatening more attacks of similar caliber should he not be paid ten billion dollars, which Offel means to fund his bloody "World Revolution".
** "The Human Bombs and... the Spectre" [[note]]originally published in '' (Weird) Adventure Comics'' #437; republished in ''Wrath of the Spectre'' #3[[/note]]: The nameless MadScientist behind the "[[WhyAmITicking human bomb]]" plot is a hypnotist who has his thugs round up a group of innocents to place in captivity. Once apprehended, he hypnotizes said thugs to throw themselves to his ravenous barracudas and then brainwashes his hostages to collect money or else detonate as [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]] with massive collateral damage. Upon being tracked by the Spectre, he tries to have all his hostages explode and to [[FedToTheBeast feed the Spectre to his hungry alligators]], to whom he regularly feeds human flesh.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' Vol. 2 issue #44 ("Bogeymen"): The Bogeyman is a SerialKiller with a body count that numbers over 160. With a penchant for memorizing the eyes of his victims at the moment of death, the Bogeyman stalks his victims and throttles them to death after toying with them. With his first victims from his youth, he continues to kill well into adulthood, luring a man into the swamps and murdering him while always remembering the eyes from which number victim they were.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
** [[BigRedDevil Trigon the Terrible]], the ArchnemesisDad of ComicBook/{{Raven}}, is an interdimensional demonic overlord who reigns over an empire where [[AndIMustScream countless souls are kept in horrible bondage]]. Slaughtering the very cult responsible for his birth, including his mother, Trigon would go on to brutally conquer his entire dimension. Trigon has [[SerialRapist sired many children]] across the centuries, [[OffingTheOffspring destroying any]] who dare to oppose him. Seeking to expand his dominion to Earth, Trigon took the form of a handsome man and impregnated a woman named Arella, revealing his true form and taunting her afterwards. After his daughter Raven's birth, Trigon would make numerous attempts to subjugate her to his will. When she refused to join him, Trigon destroyed her home world, Azarath, before [[TheCorrupter corrupting Raven's soul]] and launching a campaign of destruction on Earth, forcing Raven to do battle with her own friends. During his [[ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon invasion of Earth]], Trigon reduced the island of New York to a graveyard, fusing the bodies of four million inhabitants together as part of an ever-growing spire of writhing, tormented souls. Trigon ultimately intended to merge Earth with his own dimension, happily condemning billions of lives to annihilation. Willing to exterminate entire worlds to make an example, and with trillions of deaths to his name, Trigon is the most terrifying and wicked foe the Teen Titans have ever faced.
** Dr. Simon Jones became the supervillain [[PsychicPowers Psimon]] after making contact with Trigon the Terrible, promising to unleash Trigon onto Earth in exchange for power. Psimon's introduction arc sees him take over the Fearsome Five by threatening the members with torture, after which Psimon attempts to mind control the Titans into murdering the Justice League and paving the way for Trigon to destroy Earth and many more worlds. After failing Trigon and striking out on his own, Psimon experimented on homeless men to turn them into "Mud Men" abominations and tortured Dr. Jace into helping him; tried to override the minds of millions of innocents; and always took his time to MindRape his enemies horribly instead of killing them, even dozens of defenseless police officers. During ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Psimon takes advantage of [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] and [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Luthor]]'s scheme for himself, allowing a war of hundreds of heroes and villains to happen so they will wipe each other out, at which point Psimon plans to murder Luthor and Brainiac, then assume control of their plan to wipe out as many Earths as necessary for multiversal domination.
* ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'': [[SorcerousOverlord Deimos]] was a slaver and warlord with a plot to take over all Skartaris. Keeping many in bondage, Deimos relied on technology to pass as magic, later attempting to wipe out New Atlantis with his weapons. Stealing the baby son of his ArchEnemy Travis Morgan, Deimos artificially aged a clone he believed was the boy to a man with the mind of a child to have father and son kill one another. Returning in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', Deimos takes the chance to gleefully try to murder all heroes while harnessing Brainiac's power, intent on tearing down reality to [[OmnicidalManiac erase it]] and rebuild it [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]].
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol. 1]]: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cylvia Cyber]], also known as [[MadScientist Doctor Cyber]], is the leader of an unnamed NebulousEvilOrganization who was defeated by Wonder Woman after slaughtering a monastery full of monks just to get the valuables inside and staging a jewel heist in London. Returning to destroy Hong Kong and blackmail the world with Earthquake machines, Cyber was disfigured by a member of Tiger Tong after she had the group killed for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer being of use to her]]. Irrationally [[NeverMyFault blaming Diana for this]], she ordered the EarthquakeMachine she placed across the world to be activated and tried to kill Diana herself, but was thought dead when one of the machines she was near exploded. Surviving and desiring to regain her beauty, Cyber returned multiple times to abduct women to transplant her brain into them, trying this on both Diana and Donna Troy, and [[MindRape fatally extracted]] information from a famous cosmetician in an attempt to graft Diana's face onto her own. Escaping custody and disguising herself as Diana, Cyber broke into the Pentagon and stole America's nuclear launch codes, planning to start a nuclear war and frame Diana for the deed.
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''[[AC:ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths]]''
* The [[MultiversalConqueror Anti-Monitor]] is a being of the [[{{antimatter}} anti-matter]] universe. Seeking to dominate existence, the Anti-Monitor strengthens his universe by wiping out all others, annihilating thousands of universes and all their inhabitants from existence. With only 5 universes remaining, the Anti-Monitor uses Psycho-Pirate to [[MindRape crush the minds]] of countless beings to force them to turn on one another, before trying to exterminate the final universes. Defeated by the HeroicSacrifice of [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]], the Anti-Monitor drains the lives of millions of worlds in the anti-matter universe, killing all there. Causing the universes to merge into a single one, the Anti-Monitor unleashes his forces to wipe out humanity and Earth, intending on rebuilding everything in his own twisted image.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'':
** [[CardCarryingVillain Black Manta]], real name David, makes his living as a brutal pirate, often in the employ of others, and is obsessed with [[ArchEnemy destroying Aquaman at all costs]]. To this end, Manta [[WouldHurtAChild killed Aquaman's infant son]] by trapping him in a chamber that suffocated the boy, despite Arthur's best efforts to save him. Manta continues to torment his nemesis by targeting and murdering those he can. Not even Manta's own family is exempt from his cruelty: his own son, the new Aqualad, was the target of Manta's wrath when Manta [[OffingTheOffspring attempted to murder him]] with zealous hatred, for no other reason than rejecting the path Manta wanted for him. In ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'', Manta tries to go straight, opening up a fish market, but when the customers rejoice that Aquaman is alive, Manta murders them with a knife, before burning down his own house and resuming his quest for vengeance. Manta is a vicious, hateful murderer who would poison the entire ocean just for the chance to hurt his nemesis.
** [[AbsoluteXenophobe Prime Minister Hagen]], "the Heinous", is the leader of a caste of [[EvilSorcerer sorcerous]] Atlanteans who came to power during the rule of Gamemnae who weasels his way into control of all Atlantis. Hagen exiles Aquaman to die upon the Traitor's Reef, drugging his wife Empress Mera into catatonia to use her as a [[PuppetQueen figurehead ruler]] and purging any part of the populace that didn't agree to his xenophobic rule, even ordering Dolphin and her [[WouldHurtAChild infant son]] murdered solely due to their connection to Aquaman. Hagen dabbles in dark sorcery to mutate sea life into twisted abominations—-even fusing some of them with falsely-accused convicts—-planning to use an army of them to spill up from the ocean and [[KillAllHumans eradicate all surface life]].
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} The Demon]]'''s "Haunted Glory" and "The Longest Day" arcs: [[StateSec SS]] General Ernst Focke-Wulfe von Raddel was a Nazi Panzer commander who [[InsaneAdmiral led his unit]] on a host of brutal war crimes [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII throughout Europe]], [[RapePillageAndBurn killing and raping]] as they went. After recovering from decades of catatonia, von Raddel revives his unit as undead killers, wipes out a US military base to gain their tanks and plots to level all of the US and most of Europe to establish a FourthReich, even trying to practice by wiping out a town of two thousand people.
* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Destiny]]: Real name [[PsychopathicManchild John Dee]], under his frail persona lies a sadistic [[MindRape mind rapist]]. Preferring to fight by targeting heroes in their dreams, Dee was also a vicious murderer. Starting off as a foe of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, his most infamous deeds come from Creator/NeilGaiman's "Master of Dreams" storyline from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', especially "24 Hours". After escaping an asylum, Dee [[BaitTheDog murders a kind woman]] before using his new toy, a ruby belonging to Dream of the Endless. Dee uses the ruby to have a child's television show host demonstrate how to slit one's wrists, and causes people all over the world to become DrivenToMadness. He then, over the course of hours, tortures the minds of the people in a diner. He forces them to worship him and subjects them to horrific pain, mental torture, and humiliation, occasionally returning their minds to them so they can comprehend their situation before having them kill themselves, even trying to destroy Dream so he may make himself master of the world. Returning to supervillainy after Dream spared him, Dee encourages a salaryman to threaten space-time itself and attempt [[TakeOverTheWorld global domination]], using his ruby to have a chance to escape.
* ''El Diablo'' (Vol. 2, written by Creator/BrianAzzarello): [[BigBad Elmer Huskey]] was once a petty thief and crook, but, upon realizing that the beloved sheriff Moses Stone is his exact lookalike, murders Stone by burning him alive and stealing his identity, enjoying the freedom and power [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer masquerading as a sheriff]] brings him. Any time someone comes close to discovering his true identity, Huskey coldly murders them, from town drunks to an entire bar of people who simply overhear the implication, and even [[CopKiller his own partners and teammates]]. Murdering well over a dozen people, even [[SiblingMurder his own brother]], to keep his true identity a secret, Huskey's crimes catch up to him when he attempts to beat a mentally-challenged man to death with a {{shovel|Strike}}, all of his actions firmly showing exactly why El Diablo chose Huskey as his latest target to punish for misdeeds.
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' Vol. 2:
** Issues #22-24: [[EmotionEater Red Jack]], who claims to be God himself, is an interdimensional {{sadist}} who lives off of the pain of others. To survive, Red Jack turns his victims into butterflies, pinning them inside his house in [[AndIMustScream a perpetual state of agony]] to feed off of their pain, having imprisoned over millions of them. Having also been UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, Red Jack killed several prostitutes in an attempt to use their flesh to create a new form of life, only to toss it aside and dismiss his victims as nothing but "cheap harlots". Kidnapping a comatose Rhea Jones, Red Jack hopes to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe marry her]] and start a twisted family as a way to alleviate his boredom.
** Issues #31-33: The [[PerversePuppet Archons of Nürnheim]] are a duo of sapient, [[StrawNihilist nihilistic]] puppets who harbored a hatred for all life itself after being discarded eons ago. Creating the Cult of the Unwritten Book, which worships the being known as the Unmaker, the Archons plan to summon the Unmaker in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac undo all life in the universe]]. Raising a boy born with the markings used to summon the Unmaker, the Archons killed his parents when he was of proper age, entrusting them to two of their followers before killing them as well. Using innocents and murder victims to create macabre monsters from their flesh and [[YourSoulIsMine souls]], the Archons send them to find the boy, resulting in the ruination of Barcelona and the lives of several people.
* [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Eclipso]]: This demon was once the Wrath of God, turning to evil and causing biblical atrocities such as TheGreatFlood. [[DemonicPossession Possessing]] a man named Bruce Gordon as his first host, Eclipso tries to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the world completely]]. Later returning by taking numerous host bodies, Eclipso becomes the ruler of a South American nation, spreading poison disguised as drugs and slaughtering countless innocents, [[WouldHurtAChild massacring most of the children]] and cooking one child as a main course to taunt Bruce Gordon. After countless deaths, Eclipso is stopped, but always returns until ''Rise of Eclipso'', where he seeks to wipe out the world and eventually sever the links of existence to [[KillTheGod kill even God]] and leave a void where only he exists, gloating how he would never be happier.
* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'':
** [[OrderIsNotGood Libra]], real name Justin Ballantine, became obsessed with balance and founded the Injustice Gang seeking to become a God. Instead, he ended up dispersed over the cosmos, eventually reforming on Apokolips and pledging allegiance to Darkseid himself. Taking on the Anti-Life equation, Libra comes to Earth to seduce its villains to his side, even murdering the Martian Manhunter. Enslaving countless minds and [[MindRape warping them into agony and evil]], Libra prepares the way for Darkseid to return where every living thing in the multiverse will submit, become his mindless slaves or be exterminated and their souls plunged into an eternity of suffering. Libra even attempts to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the baby son]] of Weather Wizard to force him to join up and indicates he intends to make {{sex slave}}s of the female super heroines, promising Lex Luthor he can be "first in line" with Supergirl. The insane prophet of the GodOfEvil himself, Libra devotes himself utterly to darkness, never looking back in his pursuit of wickedness.
** ''Terror Titans'' tie-in: [[TheSvengali The second Clock King]] is the [[ForTheEvulz whimsically cruel]] successor to the goofy original. Mysteriously appearing shortly before the Crisis, he recruited a group of troubled teenagers as his accomplices, namely a new Bolt, Copperhead, Persuader, and Disruptor, Clock King offered his services to the Dark Side Club as a [[SuperhumanTrafficking procurer of metahuman slave gladiators]]. Clock King later assassinates the human host bodies of Steppenwolf and Vundabar, who managed the arena, to take it over for himself. Dulling the slaves' wills with drugs and the Anti-Life Equation, Clock King also encourages his Terror Titans to discard their morals by goading them to murder their loves one, and as the cherry on top is also a [[{{Ephebophile}} sexual predator]] who grooms attractive teenage girls as his mistresses while truly caring nothing for them--as shown when he [[KillItWithFire immolates Disruptor]] after deeming Ravager a superior replacement.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':
** [[KillerGorilla Grodd]], the most infamous criminal in the history of Gorilla City, was driven into exile after killing the city's benevolent leaders and ruthlessly plundered the mind of his friend Solovar to discover the secrets of mind control. [[GeniusBruiser Combining a ruthless brilliance with a gorilla's power]], Grodd established himself as a feared player of the underworld. He would brutally murder anyone who stood in his way or just dispose of humans for the enjoyment, considering them far inferior to himself. Grodd's mental prowess is such that he enjoys dominating and twisting the minds of others to feral savagery or into sycophants for his ego. In battle, he is also highly sadistic--for example, crippling [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]], who recalled with terror how Grodd treated him like a toy he could break. To date, Grodd has made no fewer than eighteen attempts to [[KillAllHumans completely wipe out all of humanity]] to purge what he sees as a lesser race.
** ComicBook/EobardThawne, aka Professor Zoom and the Reverse-Flash, is the ArchEnemy of [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]] and the one who killed his mother. Duplicating Barry's powers out of an obsession with him, Eobard attempted to replace him in life, and when rejected by the latter's wife, spitefully killed her, later forcing the pacifistic Barry to kill Eobard himself to save his then-fiancé from suffering the same fate. Resurrected, Eobard begins using his time travel powers to commit a litany of crimes, including pettily [[SiblingMurder murdering his own brother]] and [[SelfMadeOrphan parents]], as well as a rival and every single man who dated a woman he was interested in, even going back to her childhood to traumatize her for spurning him. Eobard, in another of his evil deeds, attempted to murder the children of ComicBook/WallyWest in front of their mother and murders Johnny Quick. Trying to force the also-resurrected Barry into becoming the villainous Black Flash, Eobard continues carelessly shifting the time stream for no other purpose than to make Barry suffer, causing untold damage and agony in doing so, and torments Barry during the events of ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', even stating now that he is free from the effects of timeline changes he will murder Barry in the womb. A vile, selfish man who will [[NeverMyFault never admit to being at fault]], Eobard is Barry Allen's worst nightmare come to life.
** [[DarkMessiah David Hersch]], aka [[SerialKiller the Cicada]], murdered his wife in the late 1800s, and seeks to erase his own sin in a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] attempt to [[NeverMyFault run from his past]]. Touched by the lightning just as the Flash was, the Cicada founds a cult dedicated to the Flash, using his followers to go on large scaling sprees that see the people the Flash saved murdered and [[LifeDrinker their life forces harvested]]. After many such deaths, the Cicada lures Flash in to take his power, murdering a follower for his life force and revives his wife, killing and draining the lives of the hundreds of followers he has amassed. When his wife rejects him for murdering her, the Cicada callously murders her again before trying to kill Flash and his police allies.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'':
** ''Green Lantern Corps Quarterly'' #7's "Triumph of the Will": [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ayria]] is a vicious, corrupt Green Lantern who uses his powers to oppress the residents of Aegri Somnia. Ayria has his forces brutally slaughter their way through the rebelling yellows on Aegri Somnia 2, resulting on millions of casualties on both sides, before establishing a holocaust and sending the yellows who remain into labor camps where they slowly and agonizingly perish by the millions to [[HumanResources fuel Ayria's power battery]]. A [[TheCaligula paranoid despot]] unable to take any form of perceived challenge to his rule, Ayria viciously tortures to death several members of his staff--including his own brother--for reasons as varied as apparent treachery to as petty to having no faith in his rule, and ultimately orders every single remaining yellow to be sent to the camps and executed after torturing one who swallows his ring--ultimately resulting in Ayria's downfall when the ring resonates with the dead yellow's will to resurrect the billions Ayria has killed to tear him to bloody shreds. An unrelenting dictator, Ayria proves even the ostensibly righteous Green Lanterns aren't immune to pure evil in their ranks.
** [[OverlordJr Mongul II]] has dedicated his life to aping and surpassing [[Characters/DCComicsMongul his equally unpleasant father]]. During his first appearance in Green Lantern, Mongul II used the Black Mercy plants to trap Hal Jordan and [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] in a fantasy world; he subsequently murdered his sister, Mongal, and kept her corpse as a trophy. When Mongul II really comes into his own, however, is after gaining a [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps Ring]] (by murdering its owner). Taking control of the Black Mercy homeworld, Mongul II uses his ring to alter the genetics of the Black Mercies so that they will trap their victims in their worst nightmares, instead of their ideal fantasies. He coerces the benevolent Mother Mercy into aiding him by threatening to make her eat her own children if she does not. Defeated by the Green Lanterns, Mongul II escapes from prison, seizes control of the Sinestro Corps by killing anybody who disagrees with him (or even annoys him in the slightest), rips out [[TheDragon Arkillo]]'s tongue, and overruns the planet Daxam, slaughtering or enslaving the population. Beaten off by Sodam Yat and Arisia, Mongul II later arrives on Korugar, and is in the process of having the citizenry strung up along the streets when his reign is finally halted by the return of [[Characters/GreenLanternThaalSinestro Sinestro]].
** ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': [[BigBad Nekron]], Lord of the Unliving and the face of all death within the DCU, is an [[EldritchAbomination entity]] that eventually proves himself to be far too {{sadist}}ic a being to simply be a cosmic force doing its job. The force behind the necromantic [[Characters/GreenLanternBlackAndWhiteCorps Black Lanterns]], Nekron implicitly influences William Hand into killing himself and his entire family to become his tether into the living world in his bid to enact the "Blackest Night," a [[OmnicidalManiac state of eternal death imposed upon all creation]]. Nekron reveals the constant death and resurrection within the universe is a matter of his influence, making those who die and revive sleeper agents--keeping them aware and conscious in their own bodies--and eventually simply turning them all into Black Lanterns, twisting them into horrible, undead mockeries of the people they once were. Through the Black Lanterns, Nekron unleashes a wave of death across everything in his path, turning more and more into Black Lanterns and intent on never stopping until all is silent.
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* [[GiantHandsOfDoom The Hand]]: Originally a crime lord given a month to live, Ramon Solomano decides to go out in a blaze of glory. Bringing together the country's worst criminals as his "[[LegionOfDoom fingers]]", the Hand causes a countrywide crime wave, including having Red Dragon enslave a Native tribe and Big Caesar causing a blackout in New York, causing city-wide chaos. Re-emerging decades after his defeat and christening himself "The Iron Hand", the Hand gains the powers of the Nebula Man and holds the entire planet hostage, threatening to obliterate it entirely if he's not given complete control, with his weapon causing earthquakes on the planet all the while. Even towards [[EvilOldFolks the end of his life]], Solomano expresses pride for his crimes and reveals that not only was he the one who summoned the Nebula Man to Earth and sent them after the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory to begin with, causing several deaths, but he also used him to kill Vigilante's second team of Soldiers, which included [[KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil his own nephew]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' (''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]'' issues #23-25 & ''Rann–Thanagar War''): [[TheDreaded Onimar Synn]] is the strongest of the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Seven Devils]] who plagued the history of Thanagar and one of the planet's greatest and most powerful entities. A SoulEating demon who nourishes himself on suffering, Synn resurrects countless years after his first defeat and takes over Thanagar, slaughtering its high council and devouring the souls of its populace by the thousands to fuel his undead army, whilst executing thousands more by dropping them from the point of the flying city he takes over. Once more revived by his depraved priest in time for the Rann-Thanagar War, Synn exploits the conflict to devour the dead and dying of Thanagar's populace, impeding the efforts of Kyle Rayner and Adam Strange to stop him by trying to suffocate hundreds of innocents reserved in storage to slake his appetite, before mounting an assault on Rann to devour its populace as well, slaughtering them by the masses and ultimately striving to use their technology to [[GalacticConqueror go on]] and [[OmnicidalManiac consume every living soul in the universe]].
* ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'':
** "Katie" two-parter (issues #35-36): [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[NinetiesAntiHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.
** "Local Hero" & "Closing Time" arcs: Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered little CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them), makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc where he shows the darkness inside himself. Truman has human beings injected with a special metahuman formula to create a personal army of metahumans but while the formula works, it [[MindRape steals the minds from its subjects]]. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes the creatures still [[AndIMustScream retain their human minds and are locked in a corner of their heads]], incapable of stopping their actions, Truman orders them to be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** [[PersonOfMassDestruction Despero]] is one of the oldest enemies of the Justice League. Having [[{{Patricide}} murdered his father]] to take control of his world, Despero never recovered his pride after the League defeated him. [[ThePowerOfHate Rebuilding himself into a savage beast]], Despero invaded Earth, taking joy in slaughtering the humans he could while [[OmnicidalManiac attempting to wipe out every living thing]], returning multiple times to try again. Resuming his role as a GalacticConqueror, Despero has conquered dozens of worlds and destroyed many others, with billions of dead to his name, even attempting to trick other aliens into annihilating Earth out of sheer spite against the heroes he so loathes.
** [[EvilSorcerer Felix Faust]] is one of the most power-hungry sorcerers alive. Kicking off his career by selling his infant son's soul for his own ability, Faust committed many acts of cruel murder and torture to fuel his black magic. When he finally realized he could no longer bargain with his own tainted soul, Faust resorted to harvesting the soul of an innocent little girl to trade to demons. Faust offered his assistance to Black Adam to help resurrect Black Adam's wife Isis, but deceived Adam into thinking Isis's revival had failed, while Faust kept a paralyzed Isis to serve as his personal sex toy.
** "The Teasdale Imperative" [[labelnote:Issues]]''Justice League America'' #31-32 & ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]]'' #7-8[[/labelnote]]: The second Gray Man is defined by {{ambition|Is Evil}} and causeless sadism that his [[IJustWantToBeNormal predecessor]] lacked. Gray Man II saves a MadScientist named Irwin Teasdale from death at the hands of Simon Stagg, and uses Teasdale's knowledge to start spreading a virus through eastern Europe that reduces the infected to zombies in all but name. After reducing the population of entire villages to his shambling slaves, Gray Man II directs themselves to start committing suicide by the dozens to [[SoulEating devour their souls]] and empower himself. Through this method Gray Man II intends to displace the Lords of Order and seize all creation by compelling humanity into global suicide, and the first thing he does with his swelling power is to squish Teasdale under his foot for an earlier [[YouHaveFailedMe failure]].
** ''ComicBook/JLA1997''
*** Issues #1-4 & #56-58: Protex, leader of the [[PsychoRangers Hyperclan]], is actually a power-hungry White Martian who comes to Earth masquerading as a superhero. After [[VillainWithGoodPublicity winning the gratitude of humanity]] and cowing most of the supervillain community with a series of ruthless executions, Protex throws away the pretension of altruism and reveals his real goal is to have Earth annihilated by his coming fleets. After he's defeated for the first time, Protex rebuilds his strength by capturing dozens of innocent telepaths and [[BrainFood eating their brains]]. Protex next attempts to [[KillAllHumans destroy humanity]] by introducing an ion into Earth's atmosphere that prevents combustion--and thus the White Martians' natural weakness, fire--causing people to die and go insane all over the globe while Protex prepares to [[GalacticConqueror take over the rest of the galaxy]].
*** ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': [[RoboticPsychopath Solaris the Sun Tyrant]] is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate, alongside [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]]. To topple the Superman dynasty, Solaris has attempted to pull planets from their orbits at the cost of all life on them; scorch the entire surface of Earth; bombard Earth with sapient asteroids; and release a powerful wave of radiation to give the entire population cancer. Reprogrammed to become good, Solaris returns to villainy in the 853rd century [[DrivenByEnvy out of jealousy towards Superman]], convincing its caretaker to travel back in time and release a virus which makes all machines on Earth go haywire and drive humans insane. The same virus used to commit these crimes also interferes with the guidance system of Savage's rocket, causing it to detonate over Montevideo, UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}} and killing over one million people. In the past, when it is built to stop the virus, Solaris attempts to destroy the entire planet after gaining sapience. Back in the 853rd century, Solaris makes a final attempt to destroy Superman, slaughtering thousands of superhumans in its insane attempt to best its rival. A spiteful monster obsessed with besting Superman, Solaris may be an artificial intelligence, but it is its bitterness that makes it utterly inhuman.
*** ''ComicBook/JLAEarth2'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s [[MirrorUniverse Antimatter Universe]] counterpart, an organic syntellect who was captured by Ultraman and forced to be his slave, schemed to not only escape his bonds, but to upgrade himself into an "Nth Level Intelligence". In order to do this, he swapped a plane in the Antimatter Universe for one in the Matter Universe, killing all the passengers on both in the process, and triggering a war between the Justice League and the Crime Syndicate. While the teams were busy fighting, Brainiac set in motion a plan to merge the Matter and Antimatter Universes, a move that would have resulted in the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of all reality]], plotting to use the energy from the resultant explosion to complete his upgrade and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Willing to destroy all life in order to better himself, Antimatter Brainiac was every bit as vile as his Matter Universe twin.
** ''JLA Classified'''s "The Fourth Parallel" arc (#32-36): [[FromNobodyToNightmare Darrin Proffit]], aka the Red King, is a salaryman who found Doctor Destiny's Materioptikon and decided to use the gem to become rich by selecting optimal parallel worlds and purging the rest. Initially happy with his newfound fortune, Darrin listens to Doctor Destiny's challenge to attempt to TakeOverTheWorld to prove his superiority over him. To this end, Darrin deletes countless parallel worlds until only worlds where Darrin takes the name of the Red King are left. In the first, the Red King becomes a ally of the Justice League with plans to betray them; in the second, the Red King accidentally destroys Earth; however, in the third, the Red King [[HeroKiller murders the Justice League]] with painful methods alongside many other millions. Then, the Red King of the Third Parallel World destroys his dimension and forcibly absorbs his own counterpart to take his place, [[AttentionWhore preferring to be beloved and famous]]. This Red King also murders his other counterparts, [[RedemptionRejection rejecting the pleas of a benevolent Darrin]] that offered him a chance to restore normality before spitefully destroying his parallel world, endangering space-time for the sake of his own ego.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'':
** Creator/GeoffJohns' run: [[MadScientist Per Degaton]] is depicted at his absolute worst in Post-Crisis. A {{sadist}} who gets off on traveling through time and watching members of the Justice Society suffer and die, Per Degaton schemes to use Atom as a living bomb to nuke Washington, D.C. in 1951, killing millions and framing all superheroes as menaces. Per Degaton then institutes his own horrible regime in the future with heroes outlawed, using his personal kill squad "the Red Morgue" to routinely travel back in time and [[WouldHurtAChild kill his enemies when they're harmless infants]]. Ordering the slaughtering of [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]]'s family and baby sister, then killing Gabriel Walker by shoving his 10-year-old self in front of a car, Per Degaton reaches his height of cruelty when he systematically destroys every good thing in Hourman's past to [[KickTheDog cause the hero total agony]], notably murdering the man's childhood best friend and threatening the same to the first girl he kissed.
** ''[[ComicBook/JSAClassified Classified]]'''s "Skin Trade" arc (#19-20): Delores Winters, or "Endless Winter", starts out as a vain actress and a victim of Ultra-Humanite's [[BodySurf body-swapping]] scheme before becoming even worse than him in her attempt to regain her beauty. Winters swapped her body with [[AbusiveParents her own estranged daughter]] and left her to die, before instituting a horrific [[OrganTheft organ trade ring]] where metas are kidnapped and forced to fight each other, with the losers having their superhuman body parts ripped out and auctioned off while the metas are thrown away like trash. Winters even has Icemaiden [[FlayingAlive flayed while she's still alive]] to take her alabaster skin, leaving Icemaiden [[AndIMustScream alive and paralyzed]] for the rest of her foreseeable life.
* [[OmnicidalManiac Kobra]]: [[TerroristsWithoutACause Jeffrey Franklin Burr]] is the leader of [[ApocalypseCult Kobra]], their Naja-Naja. A terrorist who has claimed countless innocent lives, Kobra seeks to enact [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Kali Yuga]], or the Age of Chaos, by mass destruction, at one point even trying to destroy Keystone City as well as many others. Announcing his plans by [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica blowing up a plane full of civilians]], Kobra later attempts to hijack an array of satellites and wipe out every major city in the world, blackmailing his way out of justice via 500 [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]].
* [[MadScientist Krona]]:
** Also known as Entropy, this frequent foe of ComicBook/GreenLantern is a self-styled scientist and a rogue Maltusian hell-bent on imposing his ideal of "[[OrderIsNotGood order]]" on reality. Inadvertently responsible for the creation of the multiverse and evil itself through his experiments--most prominently the omnicidal [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]] upon the creation of the antimatter universe--Krona's covert experimentation on the Manhunters, the soldiers of the Guardians of the Universe, resulted in them going haywire and decimating countless lives through Sector 666, leaving only five people alive. Eventually banished and reduced to primeval energy, Krona assumed the name of Entropy and, still intent on [[ForScience continuing his experiments]], [[ComicBook/BlackestNight took service under Nekron]], intending to release him into the living universe. Later brought back into the universe through the efforts of Maltusian Controllers, Krona enslaved and then obliterated them, attempting to wage war on the consciousness of the universe, even destroying Earth to this cause--and attempting to destroy its soul in a fit of existential pique when it challenged his conceptions of the universe. By the time of ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'', Krona enslaves Parallax and the emotional entities to force his will upon all creation, taking over the Green Lantern Corps and destroying thousands of lives to his cause. Possessed of [[AGodAmI such a god complex]] that he is willing to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy entire universes]], Krona's only true desire to slake his unending thirst for knowledge, and remains one of the greatest threats in the DCU.
** ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'': [[BigBad Krona]] is a former Oan scientist and [[ItsAllAboutMe callous egomaniac]] who desires to learn the secrets of the universe, and later goes on to destroy countless universes to discover their creation. Arriving in the Marvel Universe, he makes a bet with the Grandmaster, to put the heroes from their universes against each other to collect a dozen cosmic items. When Krona loses, he reacts by fatally torturing the Grandmaster, before summoning ComicBook/{{Galactus}} and killing him in a fit of rage. Using Galactus's corpse as a new base of operations, Krona learns of the sapience of the two worlds--Eternity and Kismet--trapping the two beings together to learn their secrets. When Metron calls out Krona for caring about conquest as opposed to knowledge, Krona eventually admits to this. Hoping to recreate Galactus's origins with himself in his stead, Krona plans on forcing the Marvel and DC Universes together to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy them both]] and start a new Big Bang.
* ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]]'' issues #15-18: [[SpacePirate Dagon-Ra]] deals in mass murder and {{slavery|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}, hoping to take his business to a galactic scale. Years ago, Dagon-Ra agreed to help the Telepath escape his homeworld alongside his lover, but Dagon-Ra instead just murdered Telepath's entire race to enslave him. In the present, Dagon-Ra continues his business of slaughtering aliens and taking survivors as slaves, threatening to kill thousands at a time if any law enforcement interferes, while also having turned the mighty Lady Quark into his personal "pet". Dagon-Ra subjects any who personally anger him to horrendous torture by either his dungeons or using his transmutation powers to torment them--like turning blood to lead or oxygen to poison--and ultimately lures L.E.G.I.O.N. into an ambush so he can massacre their forces and enslave the survivors.
* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Arthur Light]]: This man had one singular passion: [[SerialRapist his absolute love of rape]]. A supervillain with powers over energy, Light had been considered a joke for a time. It was revealed in ComicBook/IdentityCrisis that the reason for this was because Zatanna had given him a magic lobotomy, because Light had snuck aboard the League's satellite and found the Elongated Man's wife Sue Dibny there alone, and took the chance to violently rape her. After he regains his mind, Light returns to his favorite habits. He also stole the powers from the heroic Dr. Light, Kimiyo Hoshi, comparing his violation of her to a rape in of itself. Becoming steadily more sadistic and depraved, Light enjoyed hurting every superhero he could and threatened to rape their loved ones as he had Sue Dibny. When the Spectre, the spirit of God's vengeance itself, visited Light to punish him in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', he was in the midst of preparing to rape a group of girls he'd dressed as heroines from the ComicBook/TeenTitans to satisfy his hatred of and lust for them.
* ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'''s "The Wolf Beneath the Tree" & "Morningstar" arcs: [[OmnicidalManiac Fenris]] is the Nordic BeastOfTheApocalypse and the self-proclaimed ruler of "everything that ravels, rapes, and rends". Following [[HaveYouSeenMyGod God's abdication of His throne]], leading to the slow unraveling of the universe, Fenris decided to take a personal interest in speeding up the process. Murdering several other Norse gods whom he'd previous claimed he'd made peace with, Fenris takes control of a mentally ill man and tries to force him to murder his wife and son among the roots of Yggdrasil, which would render the destruction of the universe inevitable. When this plan fails, Fenris murders his accomplice, the African trickster god Abonsam, and uses his blood to take control of Lucifer and kill his brother Michael, watering the tree with his blood. In the final arc, Fenris joins [[LegionOfDoom Lilith's alliance of past villains]], eviscerates the ArchangelUriel, kills the noble human Hell-Lord Christopher Rudd, and destroys God's throne, which would have immediately destroyed the entire cosmos had God's granddaughter, Elaine Belloc, not agreed to succeed him.
* [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Major Force]]: Clifford Zmeck, the EvilCounterpart of [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Nathaniel Adam]] and a RoguesGalleryTransplant to [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]], is living proof that power in the hands of the wrong people breeds utter catastrophe. A [[AxCrazy psychopath]] guilty of rape and murder long before earning his moniker of Major Force, Zmeck was launched forward decades into the future after being infused with alien metals and was enlisted by the government as an operative. Dubbed "Major Force," time and time again he demonstrated that he had absolutely no qualms with abusing his own powers, brutally strangling the girlfriend of Rayner to death and [[TargetedToHurtTheHero leaving her remains in Kyle's fridge to taunt him]]. Soon after this, Force apparently killed Green Lantern Arisia Rrab out of petty revenge by savagely crushing her skull--leaving Guy Gardner a taunting note about how she died slowly--before moving on to tear Gardner's heart out and incinerate his own employer, solely so he could enjoy his new freedom. Though seemingly killed by Gardner, Force would regenerate and resurface, responding to Power Girl severing his hands by unleashing a wave of atomic energy that nearly obliterated Tokyo and [[MindRape playing a sadistic mind game with Kyle by apparently murdering his grandmother in an identical way to how he killed his girlfriend]]--before revealing he'd simply used a prop to mess with Kyle. Unpredictable to the point where he [[AnArmAndALeg ripped off one of his nominal teammates' arms]] and beat him to death with it, and completely willing to murder both innocents and his own allies for any given reason he could think of, Force's own summation of himself as "Hell on Earth" is an appropriate title for such a wantonly cruel madman.
* ''ComicBook/{{Manhunter}}'': [[ArchnemesisDad Walter "Walt" Pratt]] was the [[BastardBastard illegitimate son]] of the Justice Society heroes ComicBook/PhantomLady and Iron Munroe. Growing up in a series of foster homes, Walt gained a streak of [[HeManWomanHater violent misogyny]] that manifested in brutally killing women later in life. Abusing and eventually murdering his own wife, Walt was sent to prison for the majority of his daughter Kate Spencer's life. When Kate was an adult with a young son, Walt returned to her life, revealing he was dying of bone cancer. Seeking to extend his life, Walt tried to kidnap his own grandson Ramsey to harvest his bone marrow to save his own life while paying the two supervillains he hired to do the transplant with Kate's ex-husband Peter, allowing the villains to torture him to death on camera. When he learned Ramsey was not a match, he tried to blackmail Kate to sacrifice herself in the transplant by threatening to beat Peter to death using Ramsey. When he realized there was no further way to survive, Walt proceeded to attempt to kill both Kate and [[WouldHurtAChild Ramsey]], just to ensure his whole bloodline would be extinct.
* ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'': J'onn's own [[CainAndAbel twin brother]], Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz--or [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Malefic]]--had his natural psychic powers stripped by his own people by abusing his telepathic powers, using them to cruelly MindRape J'onzz's wife. [[DisproportionateRetribution Out of petty spite]], Malefic engineered a [[GenocideFromTheInside fatal psychic plague among his people]], causing whatever Martian that used their psychic powers to horribly burn and die as a result and singlehandedly destroying almost his entire race as a result. Pursuing his brother J'onn to Earth in a single-minded crusade to end his brother's life and complete his genocide, Malefic tried various times to destroy his brother and all those close to him, murdering the partner of his human identity, Karen Smith, and trying to mentally drive his own brother to suicide through a remnant of himself before his final death.
* [[WouldHurtAChild Peter "Mort" Mortimer]]: Known as Scavenger, and later Barracuda, he stands out as one of the most horrifying minor villains in the DC universe. Originally appearing as a dangerous, if corny, villain of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, his list of crimes included attempting to poison an entire ocean and kill numerous people, among them [[WouldHurtAChild a child]]. Mort seemingly took a turn for the better when he made a HeelFaceTurn to save children's lives, but this didn't last very long, as Mort was later revealed to be a despicable child [[SerialRapist rapist]] who rapes young boys, records then sells the acts, and will often rip the children's hearts out for fun. When confronted by an enraged ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and Aquaman, the latter of whom thought Mort was a "friend", Mort shows nothing but smug glee at his crimes, with him brushing them off as nothing more than him having "urges" he needed to satisfy.
* [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Neron]]: This wicked demon, introduced in ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', [[DealWithTheDevil bargains for the souls of countless beings]], regularly [[JackassGenie twisting and perverting the wish]] to [[TheCorrupter corrupt his victims]], [[YourSoulIsMine claiming their souls]] for eternal agony. Seeking to corrupt the finest souls, Neron deals with multiple supervillains to have them cause death and destruction on grand scales so he may take advantage of the chaos, also attempting to sway the superheroes into mass murder so he may claim them as well. Aiding the rogue angel Asmodel, Neron shifts the moon to cause massive disasters, while later helping Asmodel try to rip down heaven piece by piece along with creation itself, only to later betray the angel and take him for eternal torture. Neron amuses himself with cruel mind games, even offering a "get out of hell free" card to the villains all so he can delight in them murdering anyone in their way to obtain it and commit atrocities all the while.
* ''ComicBook/NewGods'' has these denizens of [[Characters/NewGodsApokolips Apokolips]]:
** [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], born Prince Uxas, is the TropeCodifier for DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans. As [[PlanetBaron ruler of Apokolips]], Darkseid subjects its denizens to hellish conditions with the overwhelming majority of the population ill-treated slaves. His Elite fare no better as Darkseid is all too willing to subject them to hideous tortures or obliteration should they fail him. Darkseid detests all that is good in the universe and seeks to extend his influence everywhere he can. While he once loved someone, his mother, Heggra, wanting to make him evil, killed Suli, helping turn Darkseid into the GalacticConqueror we know him as--but not before he [[{{Matricide}} had Heggra poisoned]]. During ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Darkseid is dying, and so wants to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the multiverse and all life in it]] as a [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum final gesture]]. He kills his son Orion to gain dominion over Earth. Once there, he enslaved the minds of everyone he could touch, turning them into savage parodies of themselves, intending to "murder their souls and take them to hell without end." His ultimate motive is to use the Anti-Life Equation to rob everybody of free will and turn them all into mindless zombies who worship him as a god while he tortures them eternally, all for fun. Just as bloodthirsty and monstrous as any of those who serve him, Darkseid combines urbane sophistication, limitless cruelty and insatiable drive for power, and is the one single villain who [[TheDreaded all the heroes despise and fear]].
** [[MeaningfulName Desaad]], the God of Sadism and Darkseid's [[TortureTechnician chief inquisitor]], is a vicious sadist and one of the most wantonly cruel deities of all Apokolips. Having assisted Darkseid's rise to power, Desaad murdered Darkseid's first lover Suli before bargaining for his life with Darkseid by murdering his mistress--and Darkseid's mother--Queen Heggra. Desaad proceeds to enact ghastly tortures on a daily basis, [[EmotionEater basking in the pain and fear]] of his victims [[AndIMustScream while never letting them die]], even reaching across the cosmos to murder hapless mortals whole basking in their helpless, terrified agony. Desaad keeps whole groups enslaved in twisted amusement parks of torture with intent to create countless more across the cosmos. Ever the opportunist, Desaad has been willing to let all of Earth die to get what he wishes, has tried to spark a war with New Genesis and has [[TheStarscream even tried to betray Darkseid himself]] to make himself the supreme deity with the Multiverse becoming his playground and all who live his playthings.
** [[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Goodness]] is the self-styled EvilMatriarch to all of Apokolips's children. and one of the evilest people to ever serve Darkseid. Having clawed her way into the graces of Darkseid and killed any trace of actual goodness left in her, Granny raises the children of Apokolips in "[[OrphanageOfFear orphanages]]" under constant, horrific torture, literally from the moment they're born; the few who manage to survive Granny's hellish teachings become nothing more than slaves who kill and die for Darkseid. Among Granny's children was Scott Free, Mr. Miracle, who was one of the few to ever escape Granny's vile clutches. Beyond this, Granny has death-marched slaves by the thousands into giant threshers to be ground up into raw fuel; [[ComicBook/AmazonsAttack manipulated the Amazons into a genocidal attack on Washington by posing as Athena]]; and nearly managed to destroy Oa during ''Final Crisis'' even after being reduced to a mere spirit. Endlessly loyal to her vile master's spirit-destroying ideals, Granny is DC's signature source of [[WouldHurtAChild child abuse]].
* ''ComicBook/TheOutsiders''' "Wanted" arc: [[HumanTraffickers Mr. Tanner]] manages to occupy a special field of depravity despite being a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters normal human with no superhuman powers]]. Mr. Tanner runs an international slavery ring, with a focus on [[WouldHurtAChild young children]]; countless children are abducted from across the globe to be painfully branded and serve as abused {{sex slave}}s for years on end at the hands of Tanner and his buyers. Having perpetuated the ring of pedophilic rape and torture for years, Tanner catches the eye of one of his previous victims--Grace Chou, who suffered under his abuses for three years and is now a fully-grown superhuman--and goads her into coming back into his grasp by arranging the murder of an innocent man and kidnapping the young daughter of Arsenal to be turned into a sex slave. Tanner's atrocities are a dark reminder of similar incidents happening every day in real life, and despite being an incredibly minor villain in the long run, Tanner still stands out as one of the most realistically depraved characters in the DC universe.
* [[MindRape Psimon]]: Returning following his apparent death at [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]]'s hands, he immediately goes about obtaining more power by annihilating the lives of billions across the galaxy and absorbing their energy, leading to entire planets reduced to rubble. Returning to Earth and subjecting his former allies to murder or worse, Psimon horrifically torments the new Teen Titans for fun while planning to turn the Earth into his playground. Though beaten, Psimon later engineers a prison breakout and [[VillainTeamUp teams up with Dr. Sivana]] to [[DeadlyGas gas]] an entire [=LexCorp=] skyscraper full of people, after which Psimon betrays Sivana and attempts to [[NukeEm nuke Canada]], threatening the same to more countries. Continuing his schtick of subjecting his victims to the worst kind of psychological torture he can imagine whenever possible, Psimon meets his end after trying to [[ComicBook/SalvationRun restart society on a distant world]] with attempted enforcement of mass breeding of unwilling villainesses.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** The [[SerialKiller first Corinthian]] is a rogue nightmare crafted by Dream to be the dark mirror to humanity that it will not confront about itself. Preferring to simply go rogue and [[AxCrazy indulge its own hedonistic evil]], the Corinthian inspires countless mortals to serial killing with various atrocities while becoming a torturing serial killer himself, [[DemonicPossession possessing]] bodies and abducting victims, mainly young men. The Corinthian proceeds to torture and murder them, [[EyeScream removing their eyes]] to [[PickyPeopleEater devour]] while plotting to inspire his proteges to greater heights of depravity and madness, with a legacy of decades of murder behind him.
** Issue #29 ("Thermidor"): UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre, architect of the ReignOfTerror, comes into conflict with Johanna Constantine and the never-dying head of Orpheus. Beyond sending men, women, and children to the [[OffWithHisHead guillotine]] by the thousands under the pretext of birthing France anew, Robespierre also indulges in sadistic pastimes like using the headless bodies of political rivals in [[DeadGuyPuppet macabre puppet shows]], and threatens Johanna with [[FateWorseThanDeath far worse]] should she resist him.
** Issue #52 ("Cluracan's Tale"): [[TheHedonist Mairon]] is the [[SinisterMinister Carnifex Carys]] of Aurelia and the [[EvilOverlord Psychopomp]] of the entire land, having [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] his way into gaining total physical and spiritual control over the kingdom by murdering the true heir. Oppressing the people of Aurelia with brutal taxes and starvation while trying to expand this tyranny to other lands, Mairon indulges in any depraved debauchery he likes, implied to casually bed young boys and girls at his leisure. Mairon regularly executes anyone who crosses him, enjoying personally [[EyeScream gouging their eyes out]] and pissing in the sockets, and he uses the threat of damning them after death to further terrorize them. When Cluracan causes a minor rebellion against Mairon's rule, Mairon intends to respond by murdering 10% of Aurelia's population and condemn their souls to Hell for eternity, completely defiling the religious powers he is meant to use for good.
* ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre'': "[[PsychoForHire The Face]]" is a MasterOfDisguise who glories in his work, with a massive body count. Hired to assassinate a Tong mob boss who knows the Face's employer has Asian ancestry in the racist UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era, the Face begins murdering Tong members and leaving their heads around, hoping to provoke a MobWar, even killing a 15-year-old prostitute who is the sister of one member. In his spare time, the Face also rapes and abuses prostitutes, mocking them for their lack of recourse and often "tearing them up" below to leave them unable to work. The Face returns to kill others, plaguing the Sandman constantly. [[ComicBook/{{Starman}} In the modern era]], the Face accepts a job to bankrupt a wealthy man for an investor to profit, attempting to crash a blimp into Opal City to devastate it and kill countless people.
* ''ComicBook/SecretSix'''s "Depths" arc: [[TheJailer Mr. Smyth]] is a man with [[KnightTemplar a radical plan to "better" the world]]: Bring back the institution of slavery, as it is what "great nations" are built upon. Smyth takes in the slaves and forces them to work in horrible conditions, leading to their deaths from overwork, cave-ins or gas. When a slave named Maria refuses to work any more, Smyth has his assistant begin slaughtering innocent slaves en masse until a broken Maria promises to keep working. Smyth later tricks Deadshot into murdering Maria by offering her "freedom" if she can run to safety before telling Deadshot she is an escaping dangerous prisoner. Smyth also keeps Amazons as slaves with the intent to force them into servitude or death as well, and shows no concern over anything but the restoration of the institution of slavery.
* ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Gloriana Tenebrae]], Queen of the [[FaerieCourt Sheeda]], found a way to invade other timelines from the future. [[TheUsurper Usurping her husband Melmoth]], Gloriana commits the Sheeda to atrocity after atrocity, having them harvest humanity at various points in history, having countless humans slaughtered or [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil taken as slaves]] to be worked or death or kept as [[SexSlave concubines]], with others fed to the Sheeda cauldron. After annihilating countless civilizations, Sheeda arrives to wipe out New York as well to continue her constant genocides.
* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'''s "Birth Pains" arc (Vol. 2 issues #33-35): Brian Juno is a [[TortureTechnician master torturer]] who, inspired by stories of ancient martyrs who attained enlightenment by experiencing great pain, decided to do the same by ''inflicting'' it. Already abducting victims and subjecting them to such agonies as {{flaying|Alive}} and [[GuttedLikeAFish disembowelment]], Brian is further empowered when [[PowerBornOfMadness the Madness grants him the ability]] to create his own PocketDimension of torture, even managing to pull three angels into it to allow their pain to speed up his ascendancy even more.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}'': [[EvilSorcerer Dr. Gotham]] was a warlock whose evil permeated into the city whose name he would adopt, [[WretchedHive poisoning it]]. Upon awakening, Gotham resumes worship of the monstrous Sun King and [[BadBoss sacrifices his loyal minion Streega]] to him via giving her a deadly dose of cancer. Attempting to wipe out Chicago against Shadowpact, Gotham later has multiple women [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] to the Sun King, killing his clone and son when they break from one another before giving a multitude of souls to his master to [[OmnicidalManiac consume the world]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}!'': [[PuppeteerParasite Mister Mind]] is a two-inch long parasitic worm from Venus. As his race's advance scout on Earth, Mister Mind took control of Captain Marvel's cousin, Sinclair Batson, mutating him into a monster. When Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel foiled Mind's plans, the worm vowed revenge, and [[GrandTheftMe bodyjacking]] Sarge Steel of the Department of Metahuman Affairs, set in motion a plan for a [[NukeEm nuclear holocaust]]. Incubating his larvae in sores within Sinclair's body, Mind took mental control of his offspring after they were born and had them in turn infest nuclear technicians, army officers, and politicians, while he himself used Sarge Steel's authority to obliterate Fairfield, Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel's hometown. Defeated before he could [[KillAllHumans end humanity]], Mind broke out again during the events of ''52'', and after mutating into his adult form of the Hyperfly, tried to devour the totality of space/time, plotting to [[OmnicidalManiac end the multiverse]].
* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'''s "Ghosts in the Machine" arc: [[ShockAndAwe Richard Redditch]], a seemingly-average man who in actuality is a SerialKiller who [[CreepySouvenir collects ears]] from his victims, becomes far worse after illicit experimentation to activate his meta-gene turns his soul into electrical energy. Able to channel himself into any electrical device anywhere, Redditch glories in his new power with a series of murders, brainwashing other people to mutilate and murder other innocent people for him in his mission to "be heard". Unsatisfied, Redditch figuratively and literally destroys all conscience holding him back and drags the souls of one million people into his own private digital world to become [[LivingBattery power batteries]] and slaves for him, intending to initiate a [[NukeEm nuclear holocaust]] on the world above to drag all of humanity into the same fate to become his tortured, mindlessly-worshipping playthings for all eternity.
* ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'':
** The first Ragdoll, Peter Merkel, was once just a two-bit thief whose gimmick was being triple jointed. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Tired of being a joke]], he decided to reinvent himself as a mass-murdering cult leader. Gathering together the lost, the homeless, the addicts together to fuel his growing ego, Merkel decided to revenge himself upon the world and directed multiple murders, making the streets of Opal City run red with blood, with Merkel indiscriminately targeting the innocent, intending to target the innocent families of his enemies. Merkel took advantage of his hold over his cult to take sexual advantage of the women, and hideously abused the resulting children. His son, Peter Merkel Jr., was hideously scarred by his attempts to surgically alter his body to be like his father, and he went so far as to have himself castrated since they "got in the way", only to be rejected by his father anyway. His daughter Alex--eventually the supervillain [[ComicBook/SecretSix Junior]]--suffered worse. Having desired a little girl, Merkel [[AbusiveParents subjected her to horrible sexual, mental, and physical abuse]]. Merkel became [[EvenEvilHasStandards despised until his death by the rest of the supervillain community]] for his treachery and depravity and stands as a unique icon of a former HarmlessVillain becoming a genuine terror.
** ''Grand Guignol'' arc: [[ArcVillain Simon Culp]] is the [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] of Richard Swift, The Shade. Consumed with wishing to hurt the Shade [[EvilIsPetty for little reason]], Culp, already [[SerialKiller having murdered 20 people]], found himself in the Shade's body, occasionally stealing control from him. Going on [[SpreeKiller killing sprees]], trying to end the world, and committing other crimes, Culp initiates a process called "The Rite", where he contains Opal City in a shadow dome, unleashing other villains to kill and wreak havoc with intention of killing Opal and all who live within to take away the city The Shade loves the most.
* ''ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE'': [[MadScientist The Dragon King]] was a brilliant scientist from UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, first clashing with the ComicBook/AllStarSquadron while developing bio-weapons for the Axis to be deployed on civilian and soldier alive. Later making his way to Blue Valley, Nebraska, the Dragon King raised his daughter Shiv as a weapon with cruel mental conditioning and torture, plotting to dominate the minds of all children and have them slaughter their elders to make a new America. [[ComicBook/JSAClassified Returning a final time]] while kidnapping and brainwashing Metahuman teens and children, the Dragon King would force them to murder their own families before joining a {{cult}} to worship him.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'':
** [[AxCrazy Anton Arcane]], MadScientist-turned-EvilSorcerer, as presented in Creator/AlanMoore's run, is one of Swamp Thing's [[ArchEnemy most recurring and vile enemies]]. Originally trying and failing to steal Swamp Thing's body for his own use, Arcane [[BackFromTheDead survives his near-demise]] by becoming a monstrous spirit. Orchestrating several problems Swamp Thing had to face, notably unleashing the demonic Monkey King to prey on innocent children and slaughter their families, Arcane returns to a physical form by stealing the body of his niece, Abby's, husband. Arcane proceeds to [[EvilUncle rape and murder Abigail]] then curse her soul to an eternity of torment in Hell simply to hear her scream, before beginning his master plan. [[{{Necromancer}} Reviving]] numerous murderers and serial killers and unleashing them across America, Arcane causes a wave of violence and hate to begin emanating across the country, causing family members to kill each other, babies to be suffocated, and his revived killers to target playgrounds of children, all while planning to take his anarchy on a global scale and bring about his own apocalypse. Arcane spends his last moments gleefully mocking Swamp Thing about how much he enjoys his crimes, and, even when banished to Hell, Arcane can only laugh as he recalls how he reduced to his own brother to a tortured monstrosity that even now causes Abigail great pain. A sadistically twisted monster of a man who cares only for {{immortality|Immorality}} and [[{{Sadist}} causing pain to others]], Anton Arcane is inarguably Swamp Thing's most hated foe, and for good reason.
** Creator/AlanMoore's "American Gothic" arc: [[EvilSorcerer The Grand Master]], appearing in person in "A Murder of Crows" and "The Summoning", is an aged sorcerer who leads the Brujeria, a cult of [[StrawNihilist extreme nihilists]] based in Argentina. Disappointed at the Anti-Monitor's failure to destroy reality during the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]], the Grand Master resolves to finish the job himself by invoking an even more powerful horror, [[TheAntiGod the Great Darkness]]. To this end, the Grand Master summons supernatural creatures to wage gruesome attacks on innocent people, and channels their resulting belief in the impending apocalypse into a magical gem that can awaken the Darkness. The Grand Master also presides over the Brujeria's brutal internal policies, including making clothing from human skin, mutilating newborn babies to turn them into mystical assassins called Invunche, and seducing [[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]]'s ally Judith into betraying Constantine, only to double-cross her in turn by agonizingly transforming her into a messenger bird.
* [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]]: Born Vandar Adg, he was a caveman who received super intellect and immortality from a meteorite, after which he used his endless life to become the biggest monster he could. [[HistoricalRapSheet Over the millennia]], he has been one of the most vicious and depraved men in history and one of the most efficient, best [[ManipulativeBastard manipulators]] in the DCU, with billions of bodies to his name. Vandal has spent his time as TheManBehindTheMan to many conquerors, [[TheChessmaster organizing conquests and massacres]]. Vandal has also fathered legions of monsters, but with the exception of one child, he considers the rest pathetic and treats their lives or deaths as not worthy of his attention. His treatment toward his sole legitimate child, [[ComicBook/SecretSix Scandal]], was [[AbusiveParents no better]]: On her birthday, he forced her to run a gauntlet of men beating her, and if she failed, he swore he'd murder her mother. Despite Scandal being a lesbian, Vandal [[IWantGrandkids wants a male heir]]--and has no compunction having Scandal raped by other supervillains to get it. Vandal's crimes have also including introducing a new drug in the stead of heroin that burns out its users to death very quickly; cannibalism--which he might well have invented as a concept; attempting to pull an asteroid down to Earth; murdering [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superheroes with their families after founding a Neo-Nazi group called The Fourth Reich; and planning to nuke Washington, D.C. (thanks to [[ComicBook/DCOneMillion Solaris]], Montevideo, Uruguay was nuked instead, killing over a million people).
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol. 2]] (primarily):
*** Edgar Cizko, better known as the infamous [[PsychoPsychologist Doctor Psycho]], is the epitome of a DepravedDwarf and a [[HeManWomanHater raging misogynist]] with a long and memorable rap sheet. Psycho introduced himself by psychically torturing a guidance counselor who confronts him over subtly manipulating the minds of a school's students and attempting to murder her and her unborn baby in the process. After this incident, Psycho would go on to wreak swaths of death and mayhem with his powers, often teaming up with others, racking up a count of [[PsychicAssistedSuicide driving and attempting to drive people to suicide]] on numerous occasions, molesting and raping women he fancies, going on a psychotic rampage after being called "normal" and, in possibly his worst moment, hypnotizing an entire crowd of people into partially cannibalizing each other. Psycho, [[NightmareFetishist aroused by this]], allowed the people to live as an act of sheer torture, even condemning them to feel his own sexual pleasure as their own. A man whose diminutive, nonthreatening stature is vastly disproportionate to his evil, Psycho is one of Diana's most shamelessly wicked rogues.
*** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Doctor Poison II]], real name Marina Maru, has only had a few appearances, but has made up for that with the sheer ugliness of the crimes she commits. The granddaughter of a Japanese war criminal, the original Doctor Poison, she has continued her grandmother's research, creating new toxins and diseases with which to infect the world. Kidnapping a man named Richard Agoras, Doctor Poison subjected him to lengthy [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and experimentation, ultimately using the Pandora Virus to mutate him into a hideous monster, and unleashing him on Wonder Woman. When captured following this incident, Doctor Poison released the Pandora Virus into the atmosphere, endangering millions of lives. Escaping custody, Poison joined Queen Clea's new [[LegionOfDoom Villainy Incorporated]], and helped to overrun the PocketDimension of Skartaris, requesting that any prisoners they took be turned over to her for [[TestedOnHumans further use in her experiments]]. Using drugs and prolonged torture, Poison transformed her victims into living zombies, and forced them to battle their friends and relatives when Skartaris rose up against Clea's despotic regime. When Trinity betrayed Clea and attempted to eliminate all sapient life in Skartaris, Poison tried to prevent Wonder Woman from stopping Trinity, hoping to see [[OmnicidalManiac the dimension destroyed]] by Trinity's new virus; she later willingly loaned her talents to the collective responsible for producing the monster Genocide. Obsessed with [[MasterPoisoner producing the perfect toxic agents]] and little else, and making her appearance as [[BodyHorror horrible as possible]] in order to maximize fear in her victims, Doctor Poison II is as bad as a MadScientist can get.
*** Sebastien Ballesteros, aka [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]] III, quickly proved himself the worst person to ever hold the title. An Argentine [[CorruptCorporateExecutive robber baron]] who made his fortune collaborating with the UsefulNotes/NationalReorganizationProcess, Ballesteros decided real power trumped riches and stole the power of the Cheetah from Barbara Minerva, leaving her for dead. Kidnapping Diana's foster sister, Vanessa Kapatelis, Ballesteros [[MindRape psychologically]] and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul surgically]] modified her into becoming the Silver Swan, then unleashed her on [[WouldHurtAChild Cassie Sandsmark's school]], leaving dozens of students injured or dead. He subsequently forced Vanessa to join in his and Circe's plot to murder half of New York, and personally captured Superman so that Circe could brainwash him into believing that he was Doomsday and turn him loose on Diana. After this plan failed, Ballesteros retreated to his base in Buenos Aires, where he plotted to slaughter protestors with his Cheetah powers, and burned down much of the city in battle with the returned Barbara Minerva. Escaping with his life, but not the whole of his fortune, Ballesteros again kidnapped Vanessa, who had been briefly freed by Wonder Woman, and put her through another round of [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil torture]], surgery, and psychological conditioning, before selling her to [[BigBadWannabe Veronica Cale]] for ten million dollars. Murdered by Minerva shortly afterwards, Ballesteros left behind a legacy of misery and shattered lives.
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol. 3]] issues #42-44--"Wrath of the Silver Serpent" arc: [[DarkActionGirl Astarte]], the renegade Amazon, swiftly proved herself the nastiest villain of Creator/GailSimone's run. After usurping command of the nomadic intergalactic army known as The Citizenry, Astarte transformed what had been a largely pacific collective into a rampaging horde that destroyed and cannibalized the populaces of entire planets; kidnapped, genetically modified, and raped men for reproductive purposes; and indoctrinated stolen girls into becoming loyal slave-soldiers for Astarte's wars. Having [[AbusiveParents put her daughter]], Theana, through TrainingFromHell--forcing her to murder one hundred other children or starve--Astarte kept her caged like an animal, only turning her loose when Wonder Woman threatened her invasion of Earth. When Diana started getting through to Theana, Astarte ordered her daughter [[OffingTheOffspring executed]].
* ''Xombi'''s 2011 revival [[note]]which takes place in the DC Universe proper, unlike the original, which takes place in the [[Creator/MilestoneComics Milestone Universe]][[/note]]: [[FauxAffablyEvil Roland Finch]] is a consummate user-and-abuser who, tired of the various enemies he's made in a life of screwing people over, decided to conquer a floating kingdom known as a Stronghold [[ForTheEvulz to sate his boredom]]. Finch seduced a woman named Annie Palmer to gain access to the Stronghold, then killed the twin rulers of the city and drove the population into slaughtering each other before casting Annie aside to live alone. Years later, Finch [[ManipulativeBastard continues to play]] on Annie's desire to go home, instigating a slaughter at a fantastic prison through her and intending ultimately to dispose of her. Finch intends ultimately to wipe out the twenty other floating Strongholds, [[CardCarryingVillain all too happy]] to murder countless thousands to enjoy his kingdom [[ItsAllAboutMe alone]].
* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'': [[EvilOrphan William "Billy" Hayes]], better known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Harm]], was a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage supervillain]] and a complete sociopath. Adopted by loving parents, Harm initially terrified his adoptive younger sister Greta, her fears proven right when Harm [[ElectrifiedBathtub murdered her in her bathtub]] to seal a demonic pact and give himself superpowers. His goal was to become the world's greatest murderer, and he decided to hunt down and destroy all the kid heroes before moving on to the big leagues. He captured Red Tornado and reprogrammed him as a suicide bomber against Pope John Paul II to make a name for himself in the supervillain community. When his father, realizing what he was, killed Harm with a gunshot to the back, Harm's spirit later returned. He [[DemonicPossession possessed his father]] and used his body to enact more evil deeds, none more enjoyable to him than screwing with Greta, now the ghostly heroine Secret, by making her think her father never truly loved her. When defeated, Harm, out of sheer spite, forced his father to throw himself into one of the fire-pits of Apokolips while Harm possessed him to kill them both.
* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' 2010-2011 run:
** Eldon Peck was formerly a disgruntled mystic and cultist who condemned thirteen [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to [[AndIMustScream eternal agony]] to gain supernatural powers, [[FromNobodyToNightmare transforming him into the sinister Brother Night]]. A SerialRapist who used his [[CompellingVoice compelling powers]] to force women to sleep with him, Night plots to take over the criminal underworlds of both the magical and mundane worlds, gathering the crime lords of San Francisco in one place before having them gruesomely murdered in a variety of creative ways. To stop Zatanna from foiling his schemes, Night targets the innocent after his attempt to condemn Zatanna to an eternal nightmare fails, trying to damn Zatanna's crew in the same manner he cursed the children and forcing Zatanna to fight the enslaved spirit of her own father. After his return to villainy following his apparent defeat, Night drives the prisoners and guards of the prison infirmary he's in to [[DrivenToMadness fanatical madness]] and [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], magically [[FlayedAlive stripping away the flesh]] of the remaining prisoners and using their bones as a ladder to make his grand escape. Appropriately described by Zatanna as a narcissistic, power-mad maniac, Night's quest to destroy Zatanna and everyone she loved cements him as the magician's cruelest and most tenacious foe.
** Issues #4-6: Benjamin Raymond is the [[MyGrandsonMyself supposed son]] of the wealthy Vegas casino owner Sonny Raymond, and in truth an avaricious man who made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the demon of greed]], Mammon, slowing his aging to a near-standstill. To keep this up, Raymond sacrifices innocent souls to the eternal torment of Hell for decades, trading off employees of his casino and even [[TheBluebeard marrying women solely to offer them to Mammon]] literal seconds after the ceremony. When Zatanna investigates this, Benjamin reveals he's kept the shambling, undead bodies of his victims as his own servants, with enough corpses left behind to give Benjamin an army, using them to overpower Zatanna, brainwash her, and try and sacrifice her as well.
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* The [[OmnicidalManiac Anti-Monitor]]: Real name Mobius, he was a [[SerialKiller murderous monster]] even before he bonded with the Anti-Life Equation. Since then, Mobius has annihilated entire universes, destroying Universe 3's Krypton and Earth, forcing the [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate Crime Syndicate]] to flee. Upon becoming away of the Prime Earth, and seeking a way to remove the Anti-Life equation, Mobius reveals himself as a sadistic monstrosity whose only concern is the lack of personal satisfaction from destroying things from a distance. Instead, Mobius simply wants to annihilate everything he can up close to [[{{Sadist}} enjoy the bloodshed, pain, and suffering]]. Killing Ultraman painfully, Mobius intends to wiping out all of Earth before moving on to the rest of existence, starting with the Justice League.
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}: Born as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare mud farmer]] named Uxas, he [[ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013 orchestrated]] the war between the Old Gods and used it to [[RageAgainstTheHeavens steal power from them]], transforming into a [[ComicBook/NewGods New God]] and destroying his home planet as the first act of his new status. Later on, he created his own world [[CrapsackWorld Apokolips]], which he [[PlanetBaron ruled over]], killing anyone for the slightest disobedience. He destroyed countless worlds in the Multiverse while chasing after Kaiyo, who he wanted to kill for daring to disobey his order. He orders simultaneous invasions on Prime Earth and Earth-2, killing millions in the process, including Earth-2 versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. After his attack on Prime Earth failed, he directed his attention solely on Earth-2, conquering it and using it as a LivingBattery for Apokolips. Later on, Darkseid takes over Lena Luthor's mind, using her to send Superman and Lex Luthor to Apokolips, where he orders Desaad to release prisoners from slave camps and promises freedom to anyone who kills Superman, hoping that Superman will break if forced to kill innocent slaves. After being transformed to a child, Darkseid uses his daughter Grail to kill Greek Gods to restore his power. Planning to take back his throne on Apokolips, he organized an attack on the Amazon island Themyscira and turned many Amazons in to a new breed of parademons, before being stopped by Wonder Woman.
* ''[[ComicBook/DCComicsPresents DC Universe Presents]]: Black Lightning and Blue Devil'' (issues #13-16): [[TheDon Tobias Whale]] and [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Nebiros]] are a crime lord and a demon, respectively, with Whale summoning Nebiros by sacrificing the soul of one minion. Bargaining with Nebiros, the two flood the streets with deadly drugs that kill the users and [[YourSoulIsMine reap many souls]] for Nebiros to take as his own. Seeking to lure in ComicBook/BlackLightning, Whale kidnaps his father to set a trap with Nebiros before trying to kill the man, while Nebiros gleefully attempts to tear ComicBook/BlueDevil apart and reclaim his power before they corner the market in drugs and souls alike.
* [[EvilOverlord Despero]]: This brutal ruler of Kalanor returns to his home to slaughter the elders of the world, taking over with intent to resume his horrific conquest of existence. [[OmnicidalManiac Wanting to watch the universe burn]], Despero starts a war between Rann and Thanagar, [[DetonationMoon blowing up a populated moon]] to [[OrbitalBombardment rain death on Thanagar]] and acquire the Nth Metal with intent to return to Earth and massacre everything he can until it finally submits to him.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': [[KillerGorilla Gorilla Grodd]] is the tyrannical ruler of Gorilla City and one of [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]]'s most monstrous foes. Taking control of Gorilla City by [[{{Patricide}} killing his father]] and [[BrainFood consuming his brain]], Grodd tries to exact this same fate upon the Flash in the hopes of gaining his powers, intending to use them to conquer the Earth. Seemingly defeated by the Flash, Grodd viciously re-takes control over Gorilla City, killing all the Elder gorillas except for one, whom he straps to a [[MindRape torturous mental device]] to allow him and his army to invade Central City. Trapped in the Speed Force by the Flash, Grodd later returns, empowered by the Speed Force's energy. Upon discovering that the apes have made peace with the humans, Grodd impales their new leader, Solovar, and slaughters dozens of humans and gorillas alike until they submit to his will. Grodd promptly sets up a brutal dictatorship, reducing the human population to slaves and killing anyone who even mildly questions his orders. Eventually growing bored of his victory, Grodd destroys Central City, reducing it to a burning wasteland. A merciless despot willing to kill both human and ape alike to serve his goals, Grodd was as much a savage beast inside as he was on the outside.
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* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueUnited'': [[OmnicidalManiac Byth Rok]] runs a [[ApocalypseCult cult]] where he has the parts and DNA of sapients harvested to create the boy known as Ultra. Cruelly manipulating Ultra to turn him into the monstrous Infinitus, Byth has him strike out against all he trusted before intending on using Infinitus to wipe out all existence. Plotting to [[MindRape destroy Ultra's mind]], Byth intends to use Infinitus to erase reality and give him its power so he may [[InTheirOwnImage recreate everything]] as its [[AGodAmI god]].
* [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]]: This sociopathic ruler of the weaponized moon, Warworld, is one of the most wicked villains in the ''New 52'' continuity. Having become a firm believer in "[[TheSocialDarwinist survival of the fittest]]" after witnessing an animal brawl end in blood and death as a child, Mongul immediately murdered his baby brother, followed by [[SelfMadeOrphan his own parents]] when they tried to get him counseling. In the present, as the cruel leader of the hellish Warworld, Mongul uses it to [[GalacticConqueror attack dozens of planets across the galaxy]], massacring the populations of millions then subjecting many of them to AndIMustScream fates with his Black Mercy plant, while using any survivors as soldiers, slaves, or raw material to be harvested. Along with this, Mongul runs GladiatorGames where any losers will have their entire races exterminated. When any enemy leaders specifically ask him to surrender before they are fully aware of his power, Mongul personally rips their heads off, mounts them on pikes, then [[DecapitationPresentation displays them as trophies]], of which he has hundreds. Later, after failing to turn all of Earth into a HiveMind of chaos under his control, Mongul coldly [[OffingTheOffspring kills his son]], Jochi, for failing to live up to his reputation, and eventually lays a trap for the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]], hoping to massacre them and force any survivors into his thrall, all while taunting the helpless [[Characters/GreenLanternThaalSinestro Sinestro]] about the torture he intends to inflict on him and his people. Disgusted with everything weaker than himself and angered by anything stronger, this version of Mongul is just as bad as any of his previous incarnations.
* ''ComicBook/MotherPanic'': Gala is a MadArtist who [[PsychoForHire hires herself out]] for "commissions". [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] painting a canvas by slashing a man's throat, she is ultimately behind a rash of kidnappings in Gotham, having taken nearly a dozen [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to be abused and chained up in a sick "Heavenly" exhibit for whatever purposes her sexually depraved employer likes. When the children are nearly rescued, she tries to burn them all alive out of spite, before continuing her butchering ways, next seen using a man's intestines for another exhibit. She is revealed to have been a backer and associate of the vile child experimentation group "Gather House", having used their torture and brainwashing to turn a child into her puppet, who she trains in her SerialKiller ways.
* ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'' & ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': [[BigBad Brother Eye]] is an [[AIIsACrapshoot A.I.]] created by Batman and Mister Terrific, originally designed to protect humanity but having undergone a sudden FaceHeelTurn. Despising flesh and seeking to exploit psychological warfare, Brother Eye decided to assimilate everyone, turning superheroes into grotesque embodiments of BodyHorror either by turning them into cyborg monsters or by sewing them to fleshy servants like Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. Upon learning of Batman's plot with Terry [=McGinnis=], Brother Eye decides to sew Batman with the Joker to create a cyborg monster that it sends back in time. In the past it is revealed that Brother Eye manipulated Cadmus by holding King Faraday's family hostage and making a deal with Fifty Sue--whose later rejection prompts it to spite her by revealing her file in order to psychologically break her--taking advantage of the discrimination against Earth-2 heroes by subjecting them to inhumane experiments and embedding them with implants that spread over them like cancer. Brother Eye always takes its time to taunt people, culminating in TheReveal that all of the plot was meaningless as Tim Drake goes forward in time to find a hologram of a perfect future, which quickly dissipates as Brother Eye mocks him, disguised as his LoveInterest. All too casual to subject everyone to torture from children to Superman himself and revealing in its sadism, [[AdaptationalVillainy this incarnation of Brother Eye]] is one of the most pointlessly cruel villains in DC's recent years.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': [[MadScientist Anton Arcane]]'s new incarnation is a being of boundless cruelty. In his pursuit of {{immortality|Immorality}}, Arcane took over the elemental force of The Rot, [[DarkIsNotEvil the natural force of death and decay]], and subsumed it to his will. Arcane extends the Rot to devour all that lives and trap the world in deathless limbo he can rule. Arcane even forced his own nephew to be the Rot's avatar, devouring his mind from within. In Arcane's battles with Swamp Thing, Alec Holland saw a future where Arcane [[EvilUncle gruesomely tortured and beheaded Abigail]] and saw lobotomized clones Arcane had made of her as CannonFodder.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
** [[BigRedDevil Trigon]] is a being born of celestial blasphemy who willingly absorbed the collected evils of a hundred galaxies contained within the Heart of Darkness to become a supremely powerful demonic overlord. To spread his evil, Trigon would pull women from various universes into his realm, [[SerialRapist rape them]], and send them back to their universes to give birth to his demonic spawn, often leading to the women's death. Through these means, Trigon brings about the ruination of countless worlds as his brood destroy everything in their path. Conceiving a daughter, ComicBook/{{Raven}}, with a human woman named Arella, [[ArchnemesisDad Trigon]] intends to [[TheCorrupter corrupt her]] into becoming his heir by having her cut a swathe of terror throughout his realm; aside from her, Trigon disregards his other offspring, considering them disappointments. Attacking New York City, Trigon and his sons wreak havoc, and even possesses the Teen Titans into turning on each other, all as part of a ploy to ingratiate Raven into the Titans and allow her to conquer Earth in his name.
** Psimon, reimagined as an impulsive, [[TeensAreMonsters psychopathic teenager]], is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] by using his PsychicPowers to kill and entire coffee shop of dozens [[DisproportionateRetribution just because a customer was rude to him]]. Later murdering a cab driver and a covering woman for merely annoying him, Psimon turns his powers on two dozen army soldiers when they show up to fight Trigon, their presence irritating Psimon to such a point that he instantly executes them all. This callous act horrifying even the most hardened of the Titans, Psimon then tries to murder the heroes for not "appreciating" his elimination of the obstructive soldiers.
* Ultraman: This member of the [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate Crime Syndicate]], and Superman's EvilCounterpart, real name Kal-Il, took control of the world after [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering his adoptive parents]], slaughtering countless humans to enact his SocialDarwinist philosophy until the world was destroyed by the Anti-Monitor. Fleeing to Earth, Ultraman begins taking it over, sparking bloody riots and mass destruction while he intends on killing countless humans to set up a world where only the strong survive, before torturing Jimmy Olsen and attempting to take Lois Lane apart piece by piece. Ultraman orders entire cities leveled with no regard to the casualties and repeatedly shows himself to be just as vile as Superman is heroic.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': [[AbsoluteXenophobe Corum Rath]] is an Atlantean [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist terrorist]] who leads the Deluge. Imprisoned for attempting to sink huge swaths of the US, Rath is later freed, overthrowing Arthur Curry to become Atlantis's [[TyrantTakesTheHelm new monarch]]. Ruling as a mad tyrant, Rath steadily grows more and more unhinged, even trying to have the 9th district of Atlantis burnt and purged to kill all the mutant sea-touched innocents there. Finally succumbing entirely to lust for power, Rath unleashes the [[SealedEvilInACan Abyssal Dark]], a demon long sealed below Atlantis and embraces its power, carrying out its suggestion to attempt to sink Atlantis itself and kill all its inhabitants, sacrificing his humanity in [[ItsAllAboutMe his lust for power]].
* ''The Curse of Brimstone'': The Salesman is the demonic representation of the "Home Office". Theorized to be a refugee from the Dark Multiverse, the Salesman travels to poor, forgotten rural towns and [[DealWithTheDevil offers an outcast there special powers]], making them a member of his entourage, like his vicious "Hound", a woman with [[AnIcePerson ice powers]]. Upon arriving in York Falls, the Salesman has the Hound murder a local officer and proceeds to offer the young hero Joseph "Joe" Chamberlain his power, revealing too late the catch: Every being he empowers will have their newfound power run out of control and annihilate the town, with the Salesman planning on having [[PlayingWithFire Joe]] incinerate York Falls so the Salesman can claim the land for the Home Office. Revealing in flashbacks he has wiped out many other towns, the Salesman attempts to murder Joe's father to force him to unlock his power as well.
* ''Dark Nights'' saga (''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'' can be found under Other Continuities):
** [[Characters/DarkNightsMetalTheBatmanWhoLaughs The Batman Who Laughs]] is a being born of ComicBook/TheJoker's toxins infecting the [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne]] of Earth-22, giving rise to something new and far eviler that slaughtered his entire world. As the right-hand of Barbatos and leader of the [[Characters/DarkNightsMetal Dark Knights]], the One Who Laughs gleefully gave all for a chance to massacre entire worlds, summoning Barbatos to Earth to annihilate it and torture and kill everything there. Surviving his master's downfall, the One Who Laughs continues massacring others in his path, tries to start entire world wars, attempts to twist Gotham into pitiless monsters like him, and eventually becomes the herald of Perpetua. Betraying her upon achieving a new cosmic awareness, the One Who Laughs rechristens himself the Darkest Knight, vowing to become a bullet to the Multiverse itself as its worlds fall before him. Slaying Perpetua, he unleashes an army of the worst he has to offer, plotting to turn all existence [[InTheirOwnImage into a nightmarish reflection of his own soul]] in an eternal chaos that will devour itself until nothing remains.
** ''[[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal Metal]]'': The dark god [[DestroyerDeity Barbatos]], one of the first beings in all creation, turned on and killed his master the Forger, allowing a multiverse of worlds to decay and rot, eventually forming the Dark [[ComicBook/TheMultiversity Multiverse]]. [[ManipulativeBastard Influencing Earth]] to spread evil and cause bloodshed and destruction, Barbatos developed a fixation on Bruce Wayne after encountering him on his trip through time. Barbatos proceeded to allow countless worlds to die to torment each Bruce Wayne and [[TheCorrupter corrupt him]] in a myriad of realities, choosing the seven most twisted and evil incarnations of Batman as his Dark Knights. Invading the Multiverse and coldly having his loyal servants, the Court of Owls, disposed of, Barbatos has the Dark Knights wreak death and destruction on a global scale, having countless innocents corrupted to serve as a power source for his machines in order to eventually bring the Dark Multiverse into reality, [[OmnicidalManiac completely wiping out most of the Multiverse]] and killing or corrupting everything there while Barbatos reigns over it like {{a god|Am I}}. One of the evilest beings to ever grace the Multiverse, Barbatos shows himself utterly devoted to making everything that lives suffer until it is a reflection of his own twisted self.
** ''[[ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal Death Metal]]'':
*** [[GodIsEvil Perpetua]], Mother of [[ComicBook/TheMultiversity the Multiverse]], is one of the Hands, servants of the Source who craft vast multiverses before returning to the Source. Desiring to rule forever, Perpetua twisted forms of life into her servants. Later [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in the Source Wall]], Perpetua reaches out to cause all of the prior [[CrisisCrossover Crises]] with their massive losses of life. After achieving freedom, Perpetua begins [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating whole universes]], planning to wipe out the Multiverse and empowering herself by keeping entire realms in pure agony while she feeds off their strength.
*** [[AxCrazy The Robin King]] is an utterly sadistic version of [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne]] who was born hyperviolent and evil on an unknown world in the Dark Multiverse. Committing various obscenely violent atrocities [[EnfantTerrible as a child]], such as bashing Alfred Pennyworth in the face with his rattle, torturing animals, and crafting weapons, Bruce solidifies himself as a sociopathic murderer by [[SelfMadeOrphan shooting his parents in Crime Alley]] and framing a mugger he killed immediately before. Murdering Alfred and police officer Jim Gordon, Bruce soon turns to the superhero population and puts his weapons to use in the most brutal and sadistic manners a 10-year-old boy can imagine. Reluctantly deferring to the authority of The Batman Who Laughs, who christens him the Robin King, Bruce aids his new master by gleefully [[HeroKiller killing off many heroes]] who stand in The Batman Who Laughs's way of multiversal conquest.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'': The Upside-Down Man is one of the most {{ancient|Evil}} beings of magic, formed as a counterpart to Hecate. Desiring to devour all magic, the Upside-Down Man manages to escape his prison with his spawn the Otherkind to torture, murder, and devour all magical beings they can as the Upside-Down Man glories in their pain and fear. Making a deal to help Wonder Woman against Circe, the Upside-Down Man also bites the throat out of young mage Witchfire as it "[[ExactWords wasn't not part of the deal]]". Finally escaping, the Upside-Down Man decides to devour all of Earth's magical beings before consuming all of the universe and then moving on to satisfy his hunger and cruelty.
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* [[InsaneAdmiral General Anton Arkayn]] is a Soviet general who uses [[{{ComicBook/Supergirl}} Supergirl]] and [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]] as his pawns in his quest for power. Throwing people by the hundreds into [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] for the most petty of reasons, Arkayn has Supergirl and Stargirl lead assaults on enemy troops with orders to kill even surrendering soldiers, threatening the lives of everyone in the girls' village if they resist. After trying to have Supergirl and Stargirl annihilate an entire concentration camp of his prisoners when he decides to clean house, Arkayn responds to their refusal by invading their home village and taking their parents at gunpoint, promising to execute them unless the girls allow Arkayn to dissect them alive and use their biology to create a SuperSoldier army and take over the world.
* [[TheManBehindTheMan Faora Hu-Ul]] is a Kryptonian revolutionary who [[EvilMatriarch lends her DNA]] to the birth of [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Starikov]]. After being thwarted in taking her daughter from her other mothers, Faora spitefully has Krypton annihilated and goes to Earth to sow wars, devastation and mass death across the planet to make Kara lose faith in the world, including assisting the Nazis. When Kara refuses to join her, Faora tries to [[OffingTheOffspring murder her]] and harvest her DNA, eventually [[CompositeCharacter changing herself into Doomsday]] to slaughter any in the world who stand between her and her "New Krypton".
* [[StarterVillain Edel Nacht]], or Brother Night, is a high ranking [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] officer who [[{{Ghostapo}} worships the demons]] known as the Tenebrae. Sacrificing dozens, even [[BadBoss his own men]], to provide the Tenebrae a host while attempting to round up innocents for [[POWCamp extermination camps]], Edel Nacht sees himself ruling a new and "perfect" empire. To this end, he fuses the Tenebrae into one great Titan he controls, plotting to slaughter everyone in London, and then moving on to annihilate the rest of the world until the Nazis reign over the ashes.
* [[AdaptationalVillainy The Joker's Daughter]] is an EvilSorceress who forces others to be her students so she may leech off their power. Constantly abusing and trying to control ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, the Joker's Daughter later seduces Killer Frost to her side and has her wipe out a village to give her Raven. Assisting the Nazis in their schemes while she harnesses the power of the dreaded King Beneath the Dark, the Joker's Daughter tries to murder her "daughters" if they grow too independent and steal the power of the chaos god, ComicBook/TheJoker. Attempting to ravage and remake the world, she opts to finally try to kill her former students once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they have grown useless to her]].
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Dr. Hugo Strange]] is a [[EvilutionaryBiologist eugenicist]] obsessed with creating a "MasterRace" of perfect individuals with whom he can replace humanity. Traveling the world and coercing men and women who fit his criteria into becoming his lab rats, Strange responds to any resistance by either murdering or ruining the lives of his intended targets, [[WouldHurtAChild children included in his cruelty]]. Though failing in an attempt to turn Gotham City into a testing ground, Strange takes political prisoners from the Soviets and performs horrific experiments on them that turn them into howling monstrosities, who he later uses to massacre his enemies. Strange intends to commit genocide against the human race once his "perfect" army is completed, and even when his life is spared by Harley Quinn and Ivy, Strange [[UngratefulBastard repays them]] by trying to gun them down with a smile on his face.
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* ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'': The BigBadDuumvirate, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and the Ultra-Humanite, aim to TakeOverTheWorld. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Ultra-Humanite performed inhumane experiments on German prisoners to perfect his process to [[GrandTheftMe take over bodies]], killing all the scientists who helped him, before placing his mind inside superhero Tex Thompson. Becoming an American senator, the Ultra-Humanite places Hitler's brain inside another superhero, Dynaman, and the duo begin plotting to take over America and launch a war on all Communist countries. When exposed at a press conference, Hitler attacks, killing many civilians in his rampage, while ranting he will use his newfound power to conquer the planet with force.
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]][=/=]ComicBook/{{Planetary}}: Terra Occulta'', written by Creator/WarrenEllis: [[AGodAmI Elijah Snow]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy reimagined]] as a complete megalomaniac who has been [[WithholdingTheCure keeping utopia-creating technologies away from humanity]] for decades. Elijah has been murdering people for over eighty years, personally or otherwise, from the parents of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne, to the entirety of Paradise Island, to innocent metahumans like the Flash and dozens of unfortunate Green Lanterns, all so [[ItsAllAboutMe he can hoard their knowledge to himself and crush anyone else who gets in his way]].
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]: Riddle of the Beast'', written by Creator/AlanGrant: These two characters are [[AdaptationalVillainy far worse]] than their main universe counterparts.
** [[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} The Beast]], a cruel demon summoned by Jason Blood to do his bidding, decided to pursue his own agenda, overpowering Jason and embarking on a quest to spread death and destruction across the world. Gathering an army of criminals, [[ABeastInNameAndNature the Beast]] led them to massacre several thousands of people, until he was defeated by [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]] and the rest of the heroes. Surviving by fusing with Jason and killing him, the Beast discovered [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter Jonzz]], burned him alive, and used his remains to resurrect the dead, corrupting them into demonic monsters. [[BadBoss Torturing and killing his minions for fun]], the Beast restarted his rampage, sending his army to slaughter everyone they see.
** [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Luthor Rex]] is one of the former commanders of the Beast's armies, who assisted the Beast in [[RapePillageAndBurn burning cities to the ground and killing thousands]]. After the Beast's defeat, Luthor decided to conquer Kryptonia, [[RapePillageAndBurn burning down every village]] in the Hanging Valleys and leading his army to storm the gates of Kryptonia. When Kryptonia's ruler, [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Kal'El]], orders his army to surrender to stop Luthor from killing them, Luthor imprisoned him and ordered his execution, while openly planning to massacre a thousand of Kryptonia's people as a "celebration".
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]: Shogun of Steel'', by Ben Raab, Justiniano, et al.: ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, the titular "[[AntagonistTitle Shogun of Steel]]", was an advanced machine designed by Jor-El on Krypton that [[AIIsACrapshoot gained sapience]] and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned on its creator]], destroying Krypton and all its inhabitants. Arriving on Earth in a 14th-century war-torn Japan, Brainiac slaughters Japan's armies and seizes power, going under the title "Lord Zunou". Under Zunou's reign, villages are regularly razed and innocents are slaughtered to squash rebellions. When a captured rebel is brought before him, Zunou {{mind rape}}s him for information and follows this up by ordering a village raided to find Hoshi, the only other survivor of Krypton. Later luring the rebels into a trap, Zunou incinerates several of them before attacking Hoshi with a Kryptonite blade. As he prepares to deal the killing blow, Zunou taunts Hoshi with the knowledge of his plans to destroy the rest of the Earth after his death.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheNail JLA: The Nail]]'': ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} still retains his monstrous nature in this alternate universe as the despot ruler of Apokolips. Driven by paranoia due to the incident involving the Boom Tube that resulted in his Parademons getting eliminated and reduced 17% of Apokolips's mass during his attempt to invade the Earth, Darkseid declares an all-out war against New Genesis because [[{{Hypocrite}} he found them to be cowards who used dirty tactics]]. In addition, he also tortures the agents of New Genesis, Big Barda and Mr. Miracle, because they were trespassing during the Boom Tube incident. After Big Barda calls out Darkseid and his minions on how weak they are, Darkseid then activates the Omega Doom weapon that could destroy the universe, then [[BadBoss brutally murders all of his loyal followers]], whom he saw as nothing but traitors, in order to power up his new suit.
* ''Justice Riders'', by Creator/ChuckDixon & J.H. Williams III: [[BigBad Maxwell Lord]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive greedy robber baron]] with a sinister scheme. Wiping out Sheriff [[Characters/WonderWomanTheCharacter Diana Prince]]'s hometown, Paradise, along with everyone in it, Lord goes on to massacre at least another five towns in the way of him laying his railroad to California. When Diana confronts Lord for destroying Paradise, he reveals he believes [[{{Greed}} profit justifies any action he takes]], even toying with the idea of conquering California and wiping out the population to replace them with his robotic minions.
* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'': [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]], even in old age, is as bad as ever. Taking advantage of the Justice League's disbanding and the rising conflicts between the new metahumans in their place, Lex formed the Mankind Liberation Front and had Captain Marvel [[MindRape mentally tortured]] with parasitic worms to turn him into his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed stooge]]. When the League resurfaced and built a gulag to contain the new metahumans, Lex sends Captain Marvel to attack the gulag and break them out in the hope that the resulting destruction would cause a catastrophic war between these superpowered individuals and the rest of humanity. During the ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' event, Lex has [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist long abandoned his desire to rule and any pretense of helping his fellow man]]. Instead, he happily assists the New Earth Suicide Squad in taking out his world's Green Lantern and even tries to beat him to death with his bare hands.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman: Amazonia'', by William Messner-Loebs et al.: King Jack Planters is a seemingly-noble American who takes the throne after a mysterious explosion decimates the entirety of the Royal Family. In truth the notorious UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper who rigged the explosion himself after his initial killings, Jack keeps the sole survivor as a paralyzed trophy and plunges his nation into a brutal war with France whilst keeping the women of the country as lower-class citizens. A [[HeManWomanHater raving misogynist]] in his meantime, Jack invents a drug to erase men's "femininity" to reduce them to bloodthirsty beasts and spreads the drug among his inner circle to have them [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt down and butcher captured women for sport]], hoping to raise his son as an equally-bloodthirsty heir and laughing that he slaughtered his own wife alongside a hundred others for the purpose of establishing a "Ripper's world" among the land he rules over. Even when Diana herself saves his life from an earlier attack, Jack smugly brushes the matter off by revealing the attempted assassin was a friend of Jack's before he murdered his daughter in a fit of cruel lust, later trying to make Diana herself as the centerpiece of his latest hunt while kidnapping her children to grow up under cruel experimentation.
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* ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse: Green Skull is a sociopathic billionaire who combines the ambition of ComicBook/LexLuthor with the psychopathic ruthlessness of ComicBook/RedSkull. A war profiteer who initially attempted to prolong UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for his own gain, Green Skull cut his losses at the end of the war, marrying and then later murdering Lois Lane when she attempted to steer Skull's daughter Selina away from his path of corruption, trying shortly after to have Washington and its populace blown up by his creation to plunge America into chaos and take over. Transformed due to the effects of Green K(ryptonite) while also becoming immortal, Green Skull has no compunction about who he has to crush to get his way, torturing Jimmy Olsen to near-death and having Bruce Wayne's parents murdered after founding ComicBook/{{Hydra}}, even setting up a scheme that could potentially [[TakingYouWithMe annihilate the entire planet in the event of his seeming death]].
* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' Vol. 1: [[PresidentEvil President Eagleton]] is the leader of the United States in Earth-Twenty-Seven, the AlternateUniverse Buddy Baker is marooned in during issues #27-32 of Creator/PeterMilligan's run. A chameleonic sociopath who outright brags at how good at faking honesty he is, Eagleton enlists Buddy to help apprehend the Angel siblings, three child telepaths who are interfering with his re-election campaign. Once the Angels are tracked down, [[WouldHurtAChild Eagleton]] breaks his promise not to harm them and reveals he intends to [[AndIMustScream dissect them alive]] to learn how to implant their abilities in US soldiers. Though Buddy kills Eagleton, he is too late to save the children, only being able to help them die in peace.
* ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen'': Unlike [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the original comic]], which deals with the [[GreyAndGrayMorality moral ambiguity]] of so-called masked heroes, here we get to see exactly [[BlackAndGrayMorality what they faced]]:
** ''Minutemen'': [[WouldHurtAChild Rolf Müller]] is a sadistic child SerialKiller, possibly having targeted and molested Hooded Justice when he was a boy. Joining the Nazis for the opportunity to torture children to death in an orphanage, Müller was eventually discharged by the Nazis for being [[EvenEvilHasStandards too revolting even by their standards]], continuing his usual operations under the guise of a circus strongman afterward.
** ''Nite Owl'': [[SinisterMinister Reverend Taylor Dean]] is a preacher who strangled a hooker he was sleeping with after she tried to blackmail him, at which point he realized he enjoyed killing. Choosing to target prostitutes as [[KnightTemplar they are "sinners" against God]], Dean [[SerialKiller kills well over 30 hookers]], male and female, young and old, and creates a massive shrine of more than 20 of their corpses to be burned as a sacrifice to God. Hoping to burn Rorschach alive in the process, Dean hopes that his "offering" will result in God blessing him and the city to get rid of more sin, and plans to continue killing people he decides are sinners over and over, repeating the process as he believes he is blessed by God and can't be stopped, and when Twilight Lady tries to take him down, Dean attempts to strangle her to death while shooting off sexually violent remarks.
** ''Rorschach'': "[[WouldHitAGirl The Bard]]" is a SerialKiller who kidnaps women, mutilates their bodies by "writing" on them with a knife, and then dumps their corpses for the world to see. Killing many women this way and increasing the speed and intensity of his murders, the Bard lures his long-time waitress and friend Nancy into a dark alley, where he brutally assaults and mutilates her before [[SlashedThroat slashing her throat]] and leaving her to die. The Bard gets off nearly scot-free with his killings after being acquitted by a jury, with every indication he hopes to continue his spree before Rorschach murders the madman in revenge for Nancy.
** ''Silk Spectre'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive The Chairman]] is an amoral music producer who peddles an altered version of LSD to eager teenage consumers to make them more vulnerable to corporate suggestion. The Chairman is [[LackOfEmpathy apathetic]] about the rash of overdoses and near-deaths the drug causes, and the moment his operation is in danger, the Chairman opts to have everyone even tangentially connected to it murdered, from witnesses to his own security and staff.
* ''ComicBook/EarthOne'':
** ''[[ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne Batman]]'': The {{Big Bad}}s both count:
*** Volume One: [[MayorPain Mayor Oswald Cobblepot]] [[note]]ComicBook/ThePenguin's real name, although he is not referred to as such[[/note]] takes CorruptPolitician to new levels. Cobblepot runs Gotham like his own private Mafia and tried to have Thomas Wayne killed for running against him as Mayor. He represses the courts through fear and intimidation, allows crime to run rampant and utilizes an insane SerialKiller called [[PsychoForHire Birthday Boy]] by providing him with young, female victims. When a judge fails to stop Harvey and Jessica Dent from investigating him, Cobblepot has the judge's eldest daughter given to Birthday Boy in payment for the assassination of a corrupt officer who has become a liability, promising that should he fail again, the judge's younger daughter will be next. When he finally confronts Batman, Cobblepot tries to slice him to pieces with a [[ParasolOfPain sword umbrella]], laughing about the corrupt nature of Gotham City and how his only regret was that a mugger got to Thomas Wayne before his plan went off.
*** Volume Two: [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]] is [[FromNobodyToNightmare a nobody attempting to be somebody]]. To that end, after Mayor Cobblepot's death, he takes over one fifth of his criminal empire and has aspirations on the other 80 percent. Framing his assassinations as mass killings, the Riddler rigs an elevator with a [[MadBomber bomb]] and gives the inhabitants sixty seconds to answer a riddle, killing all on board, including his target, when time is up. His next target is killed when he bombs an art museum. The third is onboard a public train with families and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] aboard. When Batman gets the riddle correct, the Riddler [[ILied blows up the train anyways]] and later attempts to blow up the police precinct to tie up loose ends.
** ''[[ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne Superman]]'''s Volume Three: [[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod-El]] was [[FallenHero once Krypton's greatest soldier]]. After a conflict with [[CainAndAbel his brother Jor-El]], Zod started a bloody CivilWar that killed many of his own people. Upon his loss, Zod helped Krypton's enemies destroy the world, watching billions die with the sole condition that he be the one and only survivor, even if it meant Earth being destroyed in the process. Zod later arrives to torture and murder Clark, [[EvilUncle his own nephew]], threatening to murder Clark's mother for spite and being willing to kill as many humans as it takes to hurt him more.
** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne Wonder Woman]]'''s Volume One: [[AdaptationalVillainy Hercules]] is a [[HeManWomanHater savage misogynist]] who is [[PredecessorVillain responsible for the trauma of the Amazons]], as well as [[ChildByRape Diana's father]]. Attacking the Amazons and stripping them of power and agency, Hercules rapes Hyppolyta, attempting to force her to be his personal SexSlave while giving the remainder of the Amazons to his men to suffer the same, boasting that their children will live and die by his grace.
* ''ComicBook/FreedomFighters2018'': UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler III is the pinnacle of the global Reich's evil, with a passion for cruelty eclipsing both his deceased grandfather and his paranoid father. "Addie" is a TortureTechnician unrivaled in his craft, spending his time finding new and innovative ways to torture people to death in his underground mountain sanctum, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] in the middle of carving up a man suspended by sharp hooks. When two of his soldiers fire off a shot that kills an endangered bald eagle, Addie [[BadBoss tortures the two of them]] on an arbitrary suspicion they may be spies. When the carcass of the eagle is brought to him and verifies the soldiers' story, Addie offhandedly remarks to ensure the surviving soldier be killed anyway. Addie even demonstrates his talents on the Human Bomb, gleeful at the challenge the Human Bomb's unique physiology poses to him and trying to break him by torturing Doll Woman in front of him. Disgusted by his father's lack of a spine, Addie takes over the Reich himself by slashing his father's throat and unhesitatingly attempts to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill nuke everything within 500 miles]] merely to be free of the Freedom Fighters. A vile bully who couldn't even care less about the Reich itself, Addie attempts in the end to skip off to Argentina and spend the rest of his days torturing villagers to death to slake his boredom.
* ''ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse'':
** [[BigBad The Thief of Souls]], known primarily by his identity [[SinisterMinister Reverend Dominic Darrk]], is the demonic and {{manipulative|Bastard}} mastermind behind all the evil in the series, seeking to pave the way for his master, Crisis, to invade Earth. After possessing a man, [[FateWorseThanDeath banishing his wife to Dreamland]], then corrupting their son into a sociopath like himself, the Thief sets up his [[ReligionOfEvil Church of Eternal Empowerment]], a cult that recruits its members through kidnapping, brainwashing, or threats of death. Along with regularly ordering assassinations and executing his own minions for the slightest of failures, the Thief unleashes monsters to rampage across entire cities more than once, and later releases a virus called the "Sleeping Death", which plunges its victims into neverending sleep while the Thief steals their souls to offer up to Crisis. In the end, even when beaten, the Thief happily taunts the heroes about the coming of his master, and the joy he will take in the knowledge that they will all spend an eternity of agony at Crisis' hands.
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Crisis]] himself is the force behind the Thief of Souls, and the most evil being the JLA encounter. Coming to Earth after attempting to [[YourSoulIsMine devour thousands of innocents' souls]], Crisis plans to turn the entirety of the universe into his personal playground by fusing the Dreamworld with Earth, then plunging every living thing in the universe into eternal pain and suffering. After brutally [[MindRape tormenting]] the heroes with their worst fears, Crisis manipulates his descendants Robin and Melana to betray their team, at which point Crisis hopes to eternally imprison them in a gemstone while he rampages across the universe, bringing death and destruction across the cosmos simply [[ForTheEvulz because he can]].
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Armando Guitez]] is the BigBad of the ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' story, and manages to stick out even among other far more powerful villains as a truly reprehensible monster. Using his wealth, Guitez begins tearing apart Mexican ruins looking for ancient and powerful runes, and threatens any nearby farmers off their land with death, ordering one beaten to death and shooting another in the head just for voicing their compaints against him. After murdering Judge Mendoza for displaying disgust at his crimes, Guitez plans to rape the man's daughter Maria before murdering her would-be rescuer, Steve Trevor. Guitez, finding the ancient runes he has been searching for, [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous absorbs the power of the demons residing within them]], travels to Los Angeles, crashes the plane he's on into a populated street, then goes on a massacre throughout the city for fun as he searches for other runes to make himself ever more powerful. Guitez's evil ran so deep, that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even one of the demons he absorbed proclaimed his shock at Guitez's sheer black soul]].
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueMightyMorphinPowerRangers'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} and Lord Zedd [[BigBadDuumvirate team up to collect Angel Grove]]. After finding himself on the DC Earth, Zedd convinces Brainiac to allow him to enlarge some of his collection as a distraction while Brainiac takes the Zords and Coins. The two then leave the groups stranded on the DC Earth as they escape to the dimension to take Angel Grove. The Rangers and the Justice League arrive in time to see them collecting Angel Grove and planning to destroy the Earth. When a group infiltrates Brainiac's ship, Brainiac forces Cyborg to attack his friends. The group eventually find a room full of other captured cities. Taking Alpha 5 prisoner, Brainiac tries to turn him to his side, before trying to kill Superman with Kryptonite. Meanwhile Zedd leads a group of Monsters in helping Brainiac and shrinks Zordon, so he can [[ForcedToWatch force Zordon to watch]] as he destroys the world he swore to protect.
* ''ComicBook/{{Justice}}'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, the ultimate mastermind behind the LegionOfDoom and [[TheChessmaster the architect of most of the disasters in the story]], is an [[RoboticPsychopath advanced android]] created by the Computer Tyrants of Colu. When the Computer Tyrants were destroyed by the people they had oppressed, Brainiac decides to create his own version of Colu on Earth, by killing most of humanity and turning the rest into copies of himself. To do this, Brainiac meets with [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] villain [[MadScientist Doctor Sivana]], who has been developing [[MindControlDevice tiny robot worms that control the minds of others]]. Brainiac takes his research and uses it to [[DrivenToMadness drive Doctor Sivana insane]]. Brainiac forms his own Legion of Doom, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlling most of the members]], except for Lex Luthor who has a force field that protects him from Brainiac's devices. Brainiac has Black Manta kidnap Aquaman, with Brainiac wanting to learn more about his telepathy by cutting open his brain. Brainiac has the various Legion of Doom members [[FalselyReformedVillain pretend to have turned good and wanting to help humanity]], with several of them creating cities for the sick and needy, that will provided technology that will cure their illnesses and provided them with a good standard of life. Brainiac's micro worms have also let him take control of Earth's nuclear stockpile, with Brainiac planning to nuke most of the world to destroy humanity. When the Justice League reveal to Luthor that Brainiac has betrayed him, Luthor sabotages his plans and forces him to retreat to his ship. Brainiac, unhappy about losing, decides to set off the nukes anyway and destroy humanity.
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* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'':
** "Silent Running" (''ComicBook/TheFlash'' Annual 1996): Tristan Mallory is the younger [[CainAndAbel brother]] of the heroic Bryan Mallory. When his father returns from a seemingly deadly mission, Tristan is [[DrivenByEnvy angry]] when said father chooses his non-religious brother for a holy mission. Accompanying his brother to the quest, Tristan takes advantage of his brother's powers [[UngratefulBastard even after Bryan saved him]]. A believer on a religion based on The Flash's deeds, Tristan puts his brother into a machine that kept him in complete [[AndIMustScream isolation for 300 years]] and turns himself on the highest authority of his society. Seeing himself as the pillar of society, Tristan uses the machine to create a suitable environment while he also draining the LifeEnergy of his own people, shortening their natural lifespan to 50 and using loyal acolytes to maintain his power and youth. When Bryan is freed by a former follower, Tristan sends followers to capture him, before starting to drain the life energy of the millions of inhabitants of his city to fight Bryan to put him back in the machine and keep ruling a society dependent on himself.
** "The Never-Ending Battle" (''ComicBook/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel'' Annual 1996): ComicBook/LexLuthor is TheEmperor who ordered the destruction of [[TheHero Kaleb's]] home planet Hydros and the genocide of its people. A survivor from the eventual destruction of planet Earth, Luthor created an empire from ashes and [[GalacticConqueror launched wars of conquest throughout the universe]], which he describes as "glorious". Keeping himself alive through centuries using multiple clones, Luthor's empire has a policy of [[FinalSolution annihilating the native population]] of planets with species similar to Kryptonians. Once Kaleb confronts him personally, Luthor reveals that the champions of the tournaments to become his personal guard are killed, with their genes used to improve his biologically engineered guards before trying to kill Kaleb with radiation that emulates Kryptonite for the Hydrosians. A decrepit and senile old man with massive power, Luthor's ambition, paranoia and grudges killed countless innocents.
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** ''Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors from the Counter-World! #1'': [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] from Earth-40--heavily implied to be {{Cain}} himself--is a psychotic immortal who has been conquering [[HistoricalRapSheet for centuries]] and instituting RapePillageAndBurn as a system of oppressive government. Every 100,000 years, Earth-20 and [[EvilCounterpart Earth-40]] occupy the same space. Vandal--after biting out the throat of a scientist who can't satisfactorily explain this phenomenon--decides to conquer these other worlds. After Vandal and his Society successfully conquer Earth-20, they face the Society of Super-Heroes. Immortal Man manages to kill Vandal--to the latter's delight, as spilling an immortal's blood summons Niczhuotan, the destroyer of worlds.
** ''Pax Americana #1'': [[CorruptPolitician Doctor Charles Eden]] is the [[EvilChancellor Vice President]] of the United States of Earth-4, serving under the beloved President Harley, whose [[AmbitionIsEvil coveting of his boss's position]] drives him to treason and murder. Learning that his boss plans to have himself killed by the hero Peacemaker and then resurrected by [[RealityWarper Captain Adam]] to prove that there is no problem in the world the latter can't solve, Eden co-opts the process to make sure Harley stays dead. Capturing and torturing Peacemaker, Eden then sends his enforcer, Sarge Steel, to sabotage the particle accelerator where Adam lives, killing the scientists who maintain it and seemingly Adam himself. Riding the nation's grief and newfound anti-superhero rage into the White House, Eden [[ItsAllAboutMe happily throws away an opportunity for true world harmony to advance himself]].
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes[=/=]Franchise/GreenLantern'', written by Robbie Thompson & Justin Jordan: [[KillerGorilla Gorilla Grodd]] uses his PsychicPowers to break into the minds of Ursus's men and the [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]] so that he could take over Ape City and take the Power Ring for himself. Mentally breaking Cornelius and his allies to take control of their minds, Grodd forces Ursus to kill his fellow apes while [[ForcedToWatch forcing Ursus to watch]], then psychically tormenting the [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps Green Lantern Corps]] for getting in his way. Grodd holds Zira captive, threatening to put her in an infinite loop of pain if Cornelius doesn't give him the ring.
* ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' (Creator/TangentComics): Dr. Aquadus, the Tangent Universe's [[AdaptationalVillainy version]] of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, was a Soviet scientist and chief director of Svitavy Collective who developed the Red Tornado, a lethal chemical weapon later employed in the Czech War in the bombing of a populated town-- leading to countless agonizing deaths in the process. After a haywire experiment transfers Aquadus's consciousness into the nearby lakeside, Aquadus decides to use his new form and powers for his own ends, engineering destructive experiments in the Pacific Ocean that kill thousands of Sea Devils through the seismic activity. When finally confronted by the Secret Six, Aquadus reveals his intention to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the moon]] and utterly flood the Earth, plunging it into a "new age" of his own mad design.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}!: The Monster Society of Evil'', by Creator/JeffSmith: [[PuppeteerParasite Mister Mind]] is just as evil as ever. Liberated due to Billy Batson's irresponsibility, Mister Mind proceeds to plot the [[KillAllHumans extinction of humanity]]. Sending a special machine known as the Destroyer to Earth, Mister Mind calls all the insects to the world to help him. Mister Mind works with Dr. Sivanna, who kidnaps Mary Batson to force Billy Batson to come without his powers. When Billy tries to climb the Destroyer, Mister Mind orders the insects to cover him, intending to drown Billy to get rid of Captain Marvel, with the kid surviving only due to the kindness of the bugs. Once Mister Mind realizes that Sivanna [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer useful]], he asks him to "Kindly throw yourself off" before trying to force Billy to pilot the Destroyer.
* ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}[=/=]Franchise/GreenLantern: Spectrum War'', by Mike Johnson, Angel Hernandez, et al.: [[BigBad Nekron, Lord of Death]], returns after his defeat during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' and kills Kyle Raynor before wiping out the entire DC Universe, barring a few surviving Lanterns. Nekron torments Ganthet with his impending defeat and how much pain he's inflicted on him causing Ganthet to transfer the surviving Lanterns to the ''Star Trek'' Kelvin timeline. Chasing them to this universe, Nekron [[{{Necromancer}} revives the corpses]] of the dead of Vulcan into an undead army and uses Spock's mother as one of his corpse puppets to [[MindRape torment him psychologically]]. Ultimately, Nekron intends to spread his influence across the entire Star Trek universe and [[OmnicidalManiac leave it just a graveyard of corpses]].
* ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]][=/=]ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', written by Chris Roberson: Vandar of Stone is a [[CompositeCharacter combination]] of the immortals [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] and [[Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah Flint]] in an combined Star Trek/DC Universe timeline, inheriting all Savage's cruelty and none of Flint's positive qualities. Vandar, as a caveman, manages to capture the god being [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]] and uses the power of the Q to rewrite history, enslaving humanity and becoming dictator of Earth. Vandar then decides to conquer the universe, sending out of his troops to conquer other planets. We see his forces violently conquer alien species like the Durlans and the Xudarians and trick the Klingons and Khunds into going to war with each other. Later, Vandar captures several members of the Enterprise crew and the Legion of Superheroes, planning to torture them to death using the [[AgonyBeam Agony Booths]].
* ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'' (by publication date):
** ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': Nekron here managed to slaughter the heroes of the Earth, after which he turned them into zombified Black Lanterns and massacred humanity, later traveling across the galaxy and destroying entire civilizations. Possessing ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, Nekron turned nearly all the ComicBook/NewGods into his undead slaves, and sent his Black Lanterns to hunt down [[Characters/GreenLanternThaalSinestro Sinestro]], ComicBook/{{Lobo}}, and [[ComicBook/HawkAndDove Dove]], when the heroes went on the quest to destroy him. Attacking them, Nekron tricked Mister Miracle into trying to stop the heroes from using the Source to destroy him, after which he mocks Sinestro and announces his intention to wipe out the remaining life in the universe.
** ''[[ComicBook/TheJudasContract Teen Titans: The Judas Contract]]'': [[AdaptationalVillainy Tara "Terra" Markov]], spurred on by a conversation with ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, becomes an absolute monster. After killing ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} in an attempt to get out from under his shadow, Tara forces his butler to inject her with the serum that gave Deathstroke his power under the threat of killing everything Deathstroke loved. With the Serum drastically improving her powers, Tara renames herself Gaia, killing the Teen Titans by blowing up Titans Tower with a geyser of lava and jettisoning the survivors into space. When chasing down Nightwing, she forces him out of hiding by killing civilians and taunting him about killing his friends before murdering him and ComicBook/WallyWest. When Superman attempts to stop her, she retaliates by flooding the city with lava, using the distraction to kill him with a storm of kryptonite shards. Tara then [[PlanetaryCoreManipulation destabilizes the planet's core]], killing billions in an attempt to hold the planet hostage in exchange for the superheroes keeping her alive and allowing her to do whatever she wants. Tara finishes by killing Changeling, the one who attempted to bond with her.
** ''[[ComicBook/WarOfTheGods Wonder Woman: War of the Gods]]'': [[WickedWitch Hecate]] is the Mother of Magic, who managed to orchestrate the war between the gods and another conflict between humanity and Amazons, which led to many deaths. Using Phobos to bombard Themyscira and kill countless Amazons, Hecate used Wonder Woman's anger to [[DemonicPossession possess her]], later on slaughtering the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Greek pantheon]], and then using Amazons to take over Washington, D.C. Luring superheroes to herself to [[HeroKiller brutally kill many of them]], Hecate gleefully announced her intention to [[OmnicidalManiac raze the world]], as soon as she gets enough power.
** ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'': [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], the Reverse-Flash, upon learning of Barry Allen's death, decides to gain more power in the altered timeline Barry created. Brutally [[HeroKiller murdering several soldiers and heroes]] at the White House, Thawne forces the [[PuppetKing President]], a weak man he put into power, into giving him all of the power in the US. To protect his power, Thawne killed Aquaman and a thousand of his soldiers and threatened to do the same to Wonder Woman and the Amazons. Thawne taunts Thomas Wayne about how he could use his powers to save the world from the forces tearing it apart, but that he chooses not to, fully willing to leave millions to die just so he can maintain power in America. When America is invaded by his enemies, Thawne opts to change the timeline even more, saving the Waynes, causing Gotham to remain a [[WretchedHive crime-filled hellhole]] without Batman, and changing even more in [[ItsAllAboutMe his mad desire to create a world for himself]].
** ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'': [[OmnicidalManiac Surtur]] is the [[EvilIsBurningHot Fire Giant]] who leads the army of demons in eradicating life on Earth. Starting his carnage by massacring countless people and destroying everything he sees, upon being confronted by the heroes, Surtur gleefully starts to tear them apart, sadistically [[HeroKiller killing them]] and mocking their efforts. Upon overwhelming the heroes, Surtur happily agreed to Alan Scott's deal, sparing the New Earth in exchange for his services, solely to enjoy "devouring his dignity and honor". Having Alan Scott seek out new worlds for him, Surtur started to destroy them, fully intending on killing everyone in the galaxy.
** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': [[DestroyerDeity Barbatos]] is a demonic entity from the Dark Multiverse who invades Prime Earth [[OmnicidalManiac with the intent of destroying it and everyone on it]]. Using Batman as a gateway to invade his world, Barbatos corrupts a supply of Element X in anticipation that he and the Justice League would use it to try and stop him, leading the heroes who donned it to [[TransformationHorror painfully burn before transforming]] into [[DraconicAbomination monsters enslaved to Barbatos's will]]. Possessing the now-draconic Batman, Barbatos leads his rechristened Dragons of the Bat to lay waste to other realities in an event that came to be known as the Deathwave, in the process transforming [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] into a dragon that retained his mind for [[TheDragon his main enforcer]], [[Characters/DarkNightsMetalTheBatmanWhoLaughs the Batman Who Laughs]], to torture as he pleases. Confronted by Duke Thomas, Batman's former protégé and a survivor of the Deathwave, Barbatos tauntingly welcomes him back before ordering Kryptothrax, a corrupted Superman, to kill him. Facing Duke riding on a rescued Joker Dragon in a climactic final battle, Barbatos [[KickTheDog cruelly mocks him for refusing to join him and the deaths of his allies]], only to be killed as Duke tears Bruce's original body from the dragon and puts him out of his misery. Sadistic, misanthropic, and power-hungry, Barbatos is every bit as atrocious and detestable as his mainstream counterpart.
* ''The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans'', by Chris Claremont et al.: ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} himself, seeking to expand his cosmic empire, seeks the power of Jean Grey for his own ends. Having ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} and Ravok the Ravager act as proxies down on Earth, Darkseid eventually rallies up both the [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen X-Men]] and the ComicBook/TeenTitans-–coldly [[YouHaveFailedMe vaporizing Ravok for failure with his Omega Beams right after]]--and uses their memories to painfully reawaken Jean Grey as the Dark Phoenix. With her power, Darkseid seeks to turn Earth into a second Apokolips, destroying most life on it, before repeating the process with every planet in the universe until he rules all.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''Wonder Woman[=/=][[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan]]'', written by Creator/GailSimone:
*** The [[FeatheredFiend Corvidae sisters]], [[BigBadDuumvirate Lila and Anive]], are ancient immortals bored with most of existence. Finding joy in gambling, the duo set up friends, brothers or even nations to war against one another while they enjoy the [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath duels]]. Helping to manage slave pits where fights to the death happen frequently, the duo attempt to set Conan and Diana to a deathmatch. When they refuse, the two decide to annihilate the city of Shamar and kill every last man, woman and child, even trying to have the slaves murdered before the heroes as an act of sheer spite.
*** The sadistic slaver [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Dellos]] is [[TheDragon the chief minion]] of the Corvidae who forces slaves into [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath duels to the death]] for the sake of bloodsport. A vicious murderer even outside the Corvidae's order, Dellos savagely abuses his slaves, forcing Conan and Wonder Woman to duel when he realizes Conan has mistaken Wonder Woman for his lost love. On the Corvidae's initiative, Dellos attempts to massacre every slave at the end, young and old.
** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed Tempest Tossed]]'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chip Drygion]], head of Drygion Inc., is behind a scheme to use the city's waste disposal as a way to kidnap [[WouldHurtAChild young girls and teenagers]] and [[HumanTraffickers sell them]] as {{sex slave}}s out of the city. A fiendish man, Drygion plans to pave over and buy out the local community where Diana is staying it to make it easier for his operation to continue. When Diana comes to rescue his victims, Drygion takes her friend Riassa hostage but not before having her beaten, declaring she'll come with him or he'll shoot her friend [[ForcedToWatch in front of her]].
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* [[PsychopathicManchild TAO]], short for "Tactical Augmented Organism", is the closest thing the [=WildStorm=] universe has to a BigBad and its most tenacious villain. Raised in a test tube, TAO developed a [[MisanthropeSupreme thick misanthropy]] and a desire to [[OmnicidalManiac see the entire world come to ruin]] simply for his own amusement. Beginning as a treacherous ally of the ComicBook/{{Wild CATs|WildStorm}} whose machinations against his erstwhile teammates resulted in the near-destruction of New York, TAO regularly tortured, massacred, and [[MindRape mentally]] and [[SerialRapist physically]] raped everyone around him, ordering mass slaughters as diversions and more often whispering into the ears of those he pits against each other to foment metahuman wars that kill millions. The culmination of TAO's villainy in the World's End event saw TAO manipulate Nemesis into accidentally kickstarting the apocalypse itself, resulting in global catastrophe and TAO gaining godlike power that he very nearly used to obliterate an island full of hundreds of refugees and, eventually, the entire universe. Of all the supervillains in the [=WildStorm=] universe, TAO has arguably done more damage than all of them through the proficiency of his sadistic manipulations; as [[Comicbook/SleeperWildStorm Holden Carver]] said, "TAO doesn't rip your guts out, he makes you rip them out on your own".
* [[GalacticConqueror Lord Helspont]] of the [[AliensAreBastards Daemonites]] sets a new low even for the standard of his planet-scouring species. Helspont has tried countless times to eradicate all life on Earth with a frequency most Daemonites could only dream of, trying to plunge the world into nuclear warfare, attempting to lead his species to bodyjack all humanity, and even tampering with time itself. Helspont has no personal loyalty toward anyone, torturing and executing even members of his own species should they fail his standards and once [[BodyHorror amalgamating his own soldiers into a conjoined abomination]]. In his evilest personal act, Helspont convinced human villain Slaughterhouse Smith into helping him unleash a nuclear holocaust, before aiming the first nuke at New York City and trying to [[ForcedToWatch force Smith to watch]] as his only friends and family became his first victims. Helspont even [[RedemptionRejection rejects a sincere offer of peace]] from his old ArchEnemy, [[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm Mr. Majestic]], in favor of trying to wipe out Earth again, clinging firmly onto his toxic ideologies until Mr. Majestic finally kills him. Driven by undying, genocidal spite towards the Kherubim and the human life he sees as inferior, and with countless acts of murder and torture on his hands, Helspont remained one of the most persevering and deadly foes within the [=WildStorm=] universe for very good reason.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Kaizen Gamorra]], frequent foe of ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} and ComicBook/TheAuthority, initially the [[EvilOverlord deposed leader]] of the island nation of Gamorra, demonstrates immediately after his return to be far worse than his imposter ever was. Kaizen had a plane full of 233 innocent people bombed and allowed the Gen-Factor on-board to spill into the nearby town to kill most of its population through nightmarish mutation. Upping his game sooner after, Kaizen uses his army of clones to literally scar his symbol into the planet, destroying much of Moscow and nearly wiping out L.A and London. When the World's End hits, Kaizen converts his island into a floating fortress and sets about massacring everything in his path [[ForTheEvulz for sadistic thrills]], intending soon after to harness a portal into the Bleed in order to repeat the same process on every alternate Earth until he rules the multiverse. Vile even when he's not actively scheming, Kaizen murdered his own brothers and marries wives he discards by countless numbers. Kaizen boils down his philosophies to being a wolf in a world of sheep; a terrorist only too gleeful to slaughter millions of people for the sake of terrorism itself.
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' Vol. 1 issues #5-8: [[InsaneAdmiral Regis Slzfi]], the vicious, warmongering leader of [[AlternateUniverse Sliding Albion]], is one of the most singularly vile foes to grace the Authority's pitch-black RoguesGallery. Upon being appointed to save his species, the Blues, from sterility and extinction, Regis opts first to use massively populated countries such as China as rape camps, butchering the males to use the females as [[BreedingSlave breeding fodder]]. Regis eventually takes his efforts to Earth, attempting to massacre an entire city-—his own son Lorenzo included-—in violent protest of Lorenzo's wedding to Jenny Sparks, and eventually deigns to turn all of Earth into a rape camp. His evil [[EvilIsPetty not strictly grandiose]], Regis once even tricks a man into slaughtering a party full of people, crushing the man's head before waltzing off to eat the man's children, all because of an offhanded insult the man had made.
* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'': [[MadScientist Randall Dowling]] is the leader of The Four, an evil analogue of ComicBook/TheFantasticFour. Having made contact with another world, Dowling plans to assist it in conquering Earth in exchange for power. For decades, he has kept Earth's technology at its current level by [[WithholdingTheCure withholding or suppressing discoveries]] that could eradicate disease--including the cure for cancer--and save countless lives. in addition, Dowling locates children with budding technological skill able to advance humanity. He has their families killed in "accidents", before tormenting and brainwashing the kids into using their talents to stifle humanity's growth, with bombs planted in them in case anyone tries to rescue them. Using the RedScare as a threat, Dowling also creates "City Zero", where suspected "spies" are rounded up and subjected to inhuman experiments, kept alive in horrible agony for Dowling's purposes. To store his experiments and weapons, Dowling also wiped out all life on a planet, just to ensure it was freed for storage. Treating his fellow members of the Four as disposable as well, Dowling's only care is [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own ego, advancement and power]], no matter how many worlds he sacrifices.
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*** ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': [[RoboticPsychopath Solaris the Sun Tyrant]] is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate, alongside ComicBook/VandalSavage. To topple the Superman dynasty, Solaris has attempted to pull planets from their orbits at the cost of all life on them; scorch the entire surface of Earth; bombard Earth with sapient asteroids; and release a powerful wave of radiation to give the entire population cancer. Reprogrammed to become good, Solaris returns to villainy in the 853rd century [[DrivenByEnvy out of jealousy towards Superman]], convincing its caretaker to travel back in time and release a virus which makes all machines on Earth go haywire and drive humans insane. The same virus used to commit these crimes also interferes with the guidance system of Savage's rocket, causing it to detonate over Montevideo, UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}} and killing over one million people. In the past, when it is built to stop the virus, Solaris attempts to destroy the entire planet after gaining sapience. Back in the 853rd century, Solaris makes a final attempt to destroy Superman, slaughtering thousands of superhumans in its insane attempt to best its rival. A spiteful monster obsessed with besting Superman, Solaris may be an artificial intelligence, but it is its bitterness that makes it utterly inhuman.

* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': [[AxCrazy Anton Arcane]], MadScientist-turned-EvilSorcerer, as presented in Creator/AlanMoore's run, is one of Swamp Thing's [[ArchEnemy most recurring and vile enemies]]. Originally trying and failing to steal Swamp Thing's body for his own use, Arcane [[BackFromTheDead survives his near-demise]] by becoming a monstrous spirit. Orchestrating several problems Swamp Thing had to face, notably unleashing the demonic Monkey King to prey on innocent children and slaughter their families, Arcane returns to a physical form by stealing the body of his niece, Abby's, husband. Arcane proceeds to [[EvilUncle rape and murder Abigail]] then curse her soul to an eternity of torment in Hell simply to hear her scream, before beginning his master plan. [[{{Necromancer}} Reviving]] numerous murderers and serial killers and unleashing them across America, Arcane causes a wave of violence and hate to begin emanating across the country, causing family members to kill each other, babies to be suffocated, and his revived killers to target playgrounds of children, all while planning to take his anarchy on a global scale and bring about his own apocalypse. Arcane spends his last moments gleefully mocking Swamp Thing about how much he enjoys his crimes, and, even when banished to Hell, Arcane can only laugh as he recalls how he reduced to his own brother to a tortured monstrosity that even now causes Abigail great pain. A sadistically twisted monster of a man who cares only for {{immortality|Immorality}} and [[{{Sadist}} causing pain to others]], Anton Arcane is inarguably Swamp Thing's most hated foe, and for good reason.
* ComicBook/VandalSavage: Born Vandar Adg, he was a caveman who received super intellect and immortality from a meteorite, after which he used his endless life to become the biggest monster he could. [[HistoricalRapSheet Over the millennia]], he has been one of the most vicious and depraved men in history and one of the most efficient, best [[ManipulativeBastard manipulators]] in the DCU, with billions of bodies to his name. Vandal has spent his time as TheManBehindTheMan to many conquerors, [[TheChessmaster organizing conquests and massacres]]. Vandal has also fathered legions of monsters, but with the exception of one child, he considers the rest pathetic and treats their lives or deaths as not worthy of his attention. His treatment toward his sole legitimate child, [[ComicBook/SecretSix Scandal]], was [[AbusiveParents no better]]: On her birthday, he forced her to run a gauntlet of men beating her, and if she failed, he swore he'd murder her mother. Despite Scandal being a lesbian, Vandal [[IWantGrandkids wants a male heir]]--and has no compunction having Scandal raped by other supervillains to get it. Vandal's crimes have also including introducing a new drug in the stead of heroin that burns out its users to death very quickly; cannibalism--which he might well have invented as a concept; attempting to pull an asteroid down to Earth; murdering [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superheroes with their families after founding a Neo-Nazi group called The Fourth Reich; and planning to nuke Washington, D.C. (thanks to [[ComicBook/DCOneMillion Solaris]], Montevideo, Uruguay was nuked instead, killing over a million people).

** ''Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors from the Counter-World! #1'': ComicBook/VandalSavage from Earth-40--heavily implied to be {{Cain}} himself--is a psychotic immortal who has been conquering [[HistoricalRapSheet for centuries]] and instituting RapePillageAndBurn as a system of oppressive government. Every 100,000 years, Earth-20 and [[EvilCounterpart Earth-40]] occupy the same space. Vandal--after biting out the throat of a scientist who can't satisfactorily explain this phenomenon--decides to conquer these other worlds. After Vandal and his Society successfully conquer Earth-20, they face the Society of Super-Heroes. Immortal Man manages to kill Vandal--to the latter's delight, as spilling an immortal's blood summons Niczhuotan, the destroyer of worlds.

* ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]][=/=]ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', written by Chris Roberson: Vandar of Stone is a [[CompositeCharacter combination]] of the immortals ComicBook/VandalSavage and [[Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah Flint]] in an combined Star Trek/DC Universe timeline, inheriting all Savage's cruelty and none of Flint's positive qualities. Vandar, as a caveman, manages to capture the god being [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]] and uses the power of the Q to rewrite history, enslaving humanity and becoming dictator of Earth. Vandar then decides to conquer the universe, sending out of his troops to conquer other planets. We see his forces violently conquer alien species like the Durlans and the Xudarians and trick the Klingons and Khunds into going to war with each other. Later, Vandar captures several members of the Enterprise crew and the Legion of Superheroes, planning to torture them to death using the [[AgonyBeam Agony Booths]].

-->--'''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}''', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' #5, spoken through the mouths of one billion slaves

* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}: Born Prince Uxas, he is one of the ComicBook/NewGods, is the ultimate GodOfEvil in the DC Universe, and is the TropeCodifier for DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans. As [[PlanetBaron ruler of Apokolips]], Darkseid subjects its denizens to hellish conditions with the overwhelming majority of the population ill-treated slaves. His Elite fare no better as Darkseid is all too willing to subject them to hideous tortures or obliteration should they fail him. Darkseid detests all that is good in the universe and seeks to extend his influence everywhere he can. While he once loved someone, his mother, Heggra, wanting to make him evil killed Suli, helping turn Darkseid into the GalacticConqueror we know him as (but not before he had Heggra poisoned). During ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Darkseid is dying, and so wants to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the multiverse and all life in it]] as [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum a final gesture]]. He kills his son Orion to gain dominion over Earth. Once there, he enslaved the minds of everyone he could touch, turning them into savage parodies of themselves, intending to as he said "murder their souls and take them to hell without end." His ultimate motive is to use the Anti-Life Equation to rob everybody of free will and turn them all into mindless zombies who worship him as a god while he tortures them eternally, all for fun. Just as bloodthirsty and monstrous as any of those who serve him, Darkseid combines urbane sophistication, limitless cruelty and insatiable drive for power, and is the one single villain that [[TheDreaded all the heroes despise and fear]].
* [[TortureTechnician Desaad]]: This God of Sadism, Darkseid's chief inquisitor, is a vicious {{sadist}} and one of the most wantonly cruel deities of all [[Characters/NewGodsApokolips Apokolips]]. Having assisted Darkseid's rise to power, Desaad murdered Darkseid's first lover Suli before bargaining for his life with Darkseid by murdering his mistress--and Darkseid's mother--Queen Heggra. Desaad proceeds to enact ghastly tortures on a daily basis, [[EmotionEater basking in the pain and fear]] of his victims [[AndIMustScream while never letting them die]], even reaching across the cosmos to murder hapless mortals whole basking in their helpless, terrified agony. Desaad keeps whole groups enslaved in twisted amusement parks of torture with intent to create countless more across the cosmos. Ever the opportunist, Desaad has been willing to let all of Earth die to get what he wishes, has tried to spark a war with New Genesis and has [[TheStarscream even tried to betray Darkseid himself]] to make himself the supreme deity with the Multiverse becoming his playground and all who live his playthings.

** [[OverlordJr Mongul II]] has dedicated his life to aping and surpassing [[Characters/DCComicsMongul his equally unpleasant father]]. During his first appearance in Green Lantern, Mongul II used the Black Mercy plants to trap Hal Jordan and [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] in a fantasy world; he subsequently murdered his sister, Mongal, and kept her corpse as a trophy. When Mongul II really comes into his own, however, is after gaining a Sinestro Corps Ring (by murdering its owner). Taking control of the Black Mercy homeworld, Mongul II uses his ring to alter the genetics of the Black Mercies so that they will trap their victims in their worst nightmares, instead of their ideal fantasies. He coerces the benevolent Mother Mercy into aiding him by threatening to make her eat her own children if she does not. Defeated by the Green Lanterns, Mongul II escapes from prison, seizes control of the Sinestro Corps by killing anybody who disagrees with him (or even annoys him in the slightest), rips out [[TheDragon Arkillo]]'s tongue, and overruns the planet Daxam, slaughtering or enslaving the population. Beaten off by Sodam Yat and Arisia, Mongul II later arrives on Korugar, and is in the process of having the citizenry strung up along the streets when his reign is finally halted by the return of Sinestro.

** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol. 3]] issues #42-44 ("Wrath of the Silver Serpent" arc): [[DarkActionGirl Astarte]], the renegade Amazon, swiftly proved herself the nastiest villain of Creator/GailSimone's run. After usurping command of the nomadic intergalactic army known as The Citizenry, Astarte transformed what had been a largely pacific collective into a rampaging horde that destroyed and cannibalized the populaces of entire planets; kidnapped, genetically modified, and raped men for reproductive purposes; and indoctrinated stolen girls into becoming loyal slave-soldiers for Astarte's wars. Having [[AbusiveParents put her daughter]], Theana, through TrainingFromHell--forcing her to murder one hundred other children or starve--Astarte kept her caged like an animal, only turning her loose when Wonder Woman threatened her invasion of Earth. When Diana started getting through to Theana, Astarte ordered her daughter [[OffingTheOffspring executed]].

* [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]]: This sociopathic ruler of the weaponized moon, Warworld, is one of the most wicked villains in the ''New 52'' continuity. Having become a firm believer in "[[TheSocialDarwinist survival of the fittest]]" after witnessing an animal brawl end in blood and death as a child, Mongul immediately murdered his baby brother, followed by [[SelfMadeOrphan his own parents]] when they tried to get him counseling. In the present, as the cruel leader of the hellish Warworld, Mongul uses it to [[GalacticConqueror attack dozens of planets across the galaxy]], massacring the populations of millions then subjecting many of them to AndIMustScream fates with his Black Mercy plant, while using any survivors as soldiers, slaves, or [[HumanResources raw material to be harvested]]. Along with this, Mongul runs GladiatorGames where any losers will have their entire races exterminated. When any enemy leaders specifically ask him to surrender before they are fully aware of his power, Mongul personally [[OffWithHisHead rips their heads off]], mounts them on pikes, then [[DecapitationPresentation displays them as trophies]], of which he has hundreds. Later, after failing to turn all of Earth into a HiveMind of chaos under his control, Mongul coldly [[OffingTheOffspring kills his son]], Jochi, for failing to live up to his reputation, and eventually lays a trap for the Sinestro Corps, hoping to massacre them and force any survivors into his thrall, all while taunting the helpless Sinestro about the torture he intends to inflict on him and his people. Disgusted with everything weaker than himself and angered by anything stronger, this version of Mongul is just as bad as any of his previous incarnations.

* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' Vol. 1 [[Creator/PeterMilligan issues #27-32]] (Earth-Twenty-Seven): [[PresidentEvil President Eagleton]] is the leader of the United States in this AlternateUniverse Buddy Baker is marooned in. A chameleonic sociopath who outright brags at how good at faking honesty he is, Eagleton enlists Buddy to help apprehend the Angel siblings, three child telepaths who are interfering with his re-election campaign. Once the Angels are tracked down, Eagleton [[ILied breaks his promise]] not to [[WouldHurtAChild harm them]] and reveals he intends to [[AndIMustScream dissect them alive]] to learn how to implant their abilities in US soldiers. Though Buddy kills Eagleton, he is too late to save the children, only being able to help them die in peace.

** ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': [[Characters/GreenLanternBlackAndWhiteCorps Nekron]] here managed to slaughter the heroes of the Earth, after which he turned them into zombified Black Lanterns and massacred humanity, later traveling across the galaxy and destroying entire civilizations. Possessing ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, Nekron turned nearly all the ComicBook/NewGods into his undead slaves, and sent his Black Lanterns to hunt down ComicBook/{{Sinestro}}, Lobo, and [[ComicBook/HawkAndDove Dove]], when the heroes went on the quest to destroy him. Attacking them, Nekron tricked Mister Miracle into trying to stop the heroes from using the Source to destroy him, after which he mocks Sinestro and announces his intention to wipe out the remaining life in the universe.

-->--'''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}''', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', spoken through the mouths of one billion slaves

** "Journey to Desolation!" [[note]]originally published in ''Green Lantern'' #77; republished in ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' #1[[/note]]: [[CorruptHick Slapper Soams]] is the owner of a small town called [[CompanyTown Desolation]]. Soams lives like a king while the town lives in poverty, with the town's people having to work at Soams's mine. Soams has hired [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] to beat up the miners or any townspeople who displease him. When a mine worker named Johnny writes a protest song against Soams, Soams has him convinced in a [[KangarooCourt rigged trial]] and sentences him to be hanged. Soams secretly hires a worker named Jacob to stir up a rebellion among the workers, planning to have his Nazi paramilitary forces kill a third of the workers, in order to scare the rest into complete obedience.
** "A Kind of Loving, A Way of Death" [[note]]originally published in ''Green Lantern'' #78; republished in ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' #2[[/note]]: [[DarkMessiah Joshua]] is an evil cult leader with MindControl powers, based on UsefulNotes/CharlesManson. After finding ComicBook/BlackCanary injured at the side of the road, Joshua gives her medical attention, then brainwashes her into being his puppet. Joshua has kidnapped several people, mind-controlling them and forcing them to live on his compound. Joshua is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain violent racist]] who wants to kill every nonwhite person in the US and orders his death cult to kill everyone at a Native reservation. After being defeated, Joshua orders Black Canary to kill Green Arrow.

** Dr. Simon Jones became the supervillain [[PsychicPowers Psimon]] after making contact with Trigon the Terrible, promising to unleash Trigon onto Earth in exchange for power. Psimon's introduction arc sees him take over the Fearsome Five by threatening the members with torture, after which Psimon attempts to mind control the Titans into murdering the Justice League and paving the way for Trigon to destroy Earth and many more worlds. After failing Trigon and striking out on his own, Psimon experimented on homeless men to turn them into "Mud Men" abominations and tortured Dr. Jace into helping him; tried to override the minds of millions of innocents; and always took his time to MindRape his enemies horribly instead of killing them, even dozens of defenseless police officers. During ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Psimon takes advantage of [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] and [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Luthor]]'s scheme for himself, allowing a war of hundreds of heroes and villains to happen so they will wipe each other out, at which point Psimon plans to murder Luthor and Brainiac, then assume control of their plan to wipe out as many Earths as necessary for multiversal domination.

* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'': [[OrderIsNotGood Libra]], real name Justin Ballantine, became obsessed with balance and founded the Injustice Gang seeking to become a God. Instead, he ended up dispersed over the cosmos, eventually reforming on Apokolips and pledging allegiance to Darkseid himself. Taking on the Anti-Life equation, Libra comes to Earth to seduce its villains to his side, even murdering the Martian Manhunter. Enslaving countless minds and [[MindRape warping them into agony and evil]], Libra prepares the way for Darkseid to return where every living thing in the multiverse will submit, become his mindless slaves or be exterminated and their souls plunged into an eternity of suffering. Libra even attempts to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the baby son]] of Weather Wizard to force him to join up and indicates he intends to make {{sex slave}}s of the female super heroines, promising Lex Luthor he can be "first in line" with Supergirl. The insane prophet of the GodOfEvil himself, Libra devotes himself utterly to darkness, never looking back in his pursuit of wickedness.

* ''ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics'' issues #15-18: [[SpacePirate Dagon-Ra]] deals in mass murder and {{slavery|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}, hoping to take his business to a galactic scale. Years ago, Dagon-Ra agreed to help the Telepath escape his homeworld alongside his lover, but Dagon-Ra instead just murdered Telepath's entire race to enslave him. In the present, Dagon-Ra continues his business of slaughtering aliens and taking survivors as slaves, threatening to kill thousands at a time if any law enforcement interferes, while also having turned the mighty Lady Quark into his personal "pet". Dagon-Ra subjects any who personally anger him to horrendous torture by either his dungeons or using his transmutation powers to torment them--like turning blood to lead or oxygen to poison--and ultimately lures L.E.G.I.O.N. into an ambush so he can massacre their forces and enslave the survivors.

* [[MindRape Psimon]]: Returning following his apparent death at [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]]'s hands, he immediately goes about obtaining more power by annihilating the lives of billions across the galaxy and absorbing their energy, leading to entire planets reduced to rubble. Returning to Earth and subjecting his former allies to murder or worse, Psimon horrifically torments the new Teen Titans for fun while planning to turn the Earth into his playground. Though beaten, Psimon later engineers a prison breakout and [[VillainTeamUp teams up with Dr. Sivana]] to [[DeadlyGas gas]] an entire [=LexCorp=] skyscraper full of people, after which Psimon betrays Sivana and attempts to [[NukeEm nuke Canada]], threatening the same to more countries. Continuing his schtick of subjecting his victims to the worst kind of psychological torture he can imagine whenever possible, Psimon meets his end after trying to [[ComicBook/SalvationRun restart society on a distant world]] with attempted enforcement of mass breeding of unwilling villainesses.

*** Volume Two: [[AdaptationalVillainy The Riddler]] is [[FromNobodyToNightmare a nobody attempting to be somebody]]. To that end, after Mayor Cobblepot's death, he takes over one fifth of his criminal empire and has aspirations on the other 80 percent. Framing his assassinations as mass killings, the Riddler rigs an elevator with a [[MadBomber bomb]] and gives the inhabitants sixty seconds to answer a riddle, killing all on board, including his target, when time is up. His next target is killed when he bombs an art museum. The third is onboard a public train with families and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] aboard. When Batman gets the riddle correct, the Riddler [[ILied blows up the train anyways]] and later attempts to blow up the police precinct to tie up loose ends.

** ''JLA Classified'''s "The Fourth Parallel" arc (#32-36): [[FromNobodyToNightmare Darrin Proffit]], aka the Red King, is a salaryman who found Doctor Destiny's Materioptikon and decided to use the gem to become rich by selecting optimal parallel worlds and purging the rest. Initially happy with his newfound fortune, Darrin listens to Doctor Destiny's challenge to attempt WorldDomination to prove his superiority over him. To this end, Darrin deletes countless parallel worlds until only worlds where Darrin takes the name of the Red King are left. In the first, the Red King becomes a ally of the Justice League with plans to betray them; in the second, the Red King accidentally destroys Earth; however, in the third, the Red King [[HeroKiller murders the Justice League]] with painful methods alongside many other millions. Then, the Red King of the Third Parallel World destroys his dimension and forcibly absorbs his own counterpart to take his place, [[AttentionWhore preferring to be beloved and famous]]. This Red King also murders his other counterparts, [[RedemptionRejection rejecting the pleas of a benevolent Darrin]] that offered him a chance to restore normality before spitefully destroying his parallel world, endangering space-time for the sake of his own ego.

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* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'':
** "Hunters Moon" (Vol. 2 issues #1-6): [[SerialKiller Al Muncy/Muncie]] is the heir to a bootlegging fortune. A {{sadist}} with a penchant for [[WouldHurtAChild children]], Muncie stalked the streets of Seattle to kidnap multiple children, hold them captive and torture them for days on end until death. Only his last victim, young Annie, survived. Eighteen years later, Muncie manages to gain a new trial with Annie as the only witness. Muncie proceeds to torture Annie mentally with letters and by stalking her, before trying to murder her. When he is discovered, Muncie attempts to murder the police lieutenant hunting him after taking the man's daughter hostage and revealing he never intends to let her live anyways.
** "Quiver" (Vol. 3 issues #1-10): Stanley Dover Sr., aka the [[SerialKiller Star City Slayer]], is the secret main villain. A kindly-seeming old man who has moonlighted as a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist]] since the 1950s, Stanley's wife left him when he suggested they sacrifice their first-born [[OffingTheOffspring infant]] to a demon to gain immortality. Decades later, Stanley tried to bind the [[ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster Beast With No Name]] to himself, only for the Beast to bond with his grandson instead. Stanley Sr. kidnapped his grandson and began to torture and starve him to force the Beast out, even [[WouldHurtAChild murdering kids]] to feed their blood to his grandson. Stanley Sr. eventually planned on transferring his soul into Green Arrow's body to further his power-mad quest. Stanley Sr. also plans to rape Mia Dearden, a former teenage prostitute Green Arrow had recently rescued.
** Vol. 4, issues #13-15: [[KnightTemplar Reverend William "Billy" Miggs]], despite his claims of being God's sword, is in truth a selfish AttentionWhore who seeks only [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist his own gratification]]. Corralling his worshippers into launching a series of terrorist attacks on locations he deemed sinful, Miggs corrupts his worshippers into being willing to die for his cause, letting nine of his followers [[WouldHurtAChild as well as a child]] burn themselves to death, even killing a potential recruit himself when he deems her a sinner. Knowing that Green Arrow is tracking him down, Miggs decides to go out in a blaze of glory by attacking the Capitol Building directly, willing to [[SelfDestructMechanism blow up]] the entire building in order to ensure he would be worshipped.
** ''Year One'': [[TheQueenpin Chien Na Wei, aka China White]], is chronologically the first villain Oliver faced, as well as one of the worst. Already a drug kingpin controlling much of the Asian market, White seeks to expand [[TheCartel her empire]] by any means necessary. Placing Hackett within Oliver's company to embezzle from the company, White then set up a base on the Fiji island, massacring the village present before [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaving all of the survivors]] to work the fields. After executing [[BadBoss one of her own henchmen]], White threatens a pregnant slave for Oliver's location, later having a disobedient slave fed to rats to threaten Hackett. When she finally corners Oliver, she tells him that [[SadisticChoice he can either surrender and be enslaved, or kill her and be gunned down in response]].

* [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Major Force]]: Clifford Zmeck, the EvilCounterpart of [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Nathaniel Adam]] and a RoguesGalleryTransplant to [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]], is living proof that power in the hands of the wrong people breeds utter catastrophe. A [[AxCrazy psychopath]] guilty of rape and murder long before earning his moniker of Major Force, Zmeck was launched forward decades into the future after being infused with alien metals and was enlisted by the government as an operative. Dubbed "Major Force," time and time again he demonstrated that he had absolutely no qualms with abusing his own powers, brutally strangling the girlfriend of Rayner to death and [[StuffedInTheFridge leaving her remains in Kyle's fridge to taunt him]]. Soon after this, Force apparently killed Green Lantern Arisia Rrab out of petty revenge by savagely crushing her skull--leaving Guy Gardner a taunting note about how she died slowly--before moving on to tear Gardner's heart out and incinerate his own employer, solely so he could enjoy his new freedom. Though seemingly killed by Gardner, Force would regenerate and resurface, responding to Power Girl severing his hands by unleashing a wave of atomic energy that nearly obliterated Tokyo and [[MindRape playing a sadistic mind game with Kyle by apparently murdering his grandmother in an identical way to how he killed his girlfriend]]--before revealing he'd simply used a prop to mess with Kyle. Unpredictable to the point where he [[AnArmAndALeg ripped off one of his nominal teammates' arms]] and beat him to death with it, and completely willing to murder both innocents and his own allies for any given reason he could think of, Force's own summation of himself as "Hell on Earth" is an appropriate title for such a wantonly cruel madman.

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** Mongul II is a case of OverlordJr at its worst, and has dedicated his life to aping and surpassing his equally unpleasant father, [[Monster/{{Superman}} Mongul I]]. During his first appearance in Green Lantern, Mongul II used the Black Mercy plants to trap Hal Jordan and [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] in a fantasy world; he subsequently murdered his sister, Mongal, and kept her corpse as a trophy. When Mongul II really comes into his own, however, is after gaining a Sinestro Corps Ring (by murdering its owner). Taking control of the Black Mercy homeworld, Mongul II uses his ring to alter the genetics of the Black Mercies so that they will trap their victims in their worst nightmares, instead of their ideal fantasies. He coerces the benevolent Mother Mercy into aiding him by threatening to make her eat her own children if she does not. Defeated by the Green Lanterns, Mongul II escapes from prison, seizes control of the Sinestro Corps by killing anybody who disagrees with him (or even annoys him in the slightest), rips out [[TheDragon Arkillo]]'s tongue, and overruns the planet Daxam, slaughtering or enslaving the population. Beaten off by Sodam Yat and Arisia, Mongul II later arrives on Korugar, and is in the process of having the citizenry strung up along the streets when his reign is finally halted by the return of Sinestro.

* [[GalacticConqueror Mongul]]: This sociopathic ruler of the weaponized moon, Warworld, is one of the most wicked villains in the ''New 52'' continuity. Having become a firm believer in "[[TheSocialDarwinist survival of the fittest]]" after witnessing an animal brawl end in blood and death as a child, Mongul immediately murdered his baby brother, followed by [[SelfMadeOrphan his own parents]] when they tried to get him counseling. In the present, as the cruel leader of the hellish Warworld, Mongul uses it to attack dozens of planets across the galaxy, massacring the populations of millions then subjecting many of them to AndIMustScream fates with his Black Mercy plant, while using any survivors as soldiers, slaves, or [[HumanResources raw material to be harvested]]. Along with this, Mongul runs GladiatorGames where any losers will have their entire races exterminated. When any enemy leaders specifically ask him to surrender before they are fully aware of his power, Mongul personally [[OffWithHisHead rips their heads off]], mounts them on pikes, then [[DecapitationPresentation displays them as trophies]], of which he has hundreds. Later, after failing to turn all of Earth into a HiveMind of chaos under his control, Mongul coldly [[OffingTheOffspring kills his son]], Jochi, for failing to live up to his reputation, and eventually lays a trap for the Sinestro Corps, hoping to massacre them and force any survivors into his thrall, all while taunting the helpless Sinestro about the torture he intends to inflict on him and his people. Disgusted with everything weaker than himself and angered by anything stronger, this version of Mongul is just as bad as any of his previous incarnations.

* ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': [[RoboticPsychopath Solaris the Sun Tyrant]] is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate, alongside ComicBook/VandalSavage. To topple the Superman dynasty, Solaris has attempted to pull planets from their orbits at the cost of all life on them; scorch the entire surface of Earth; bombard Earth with sapient asteroids; and release a powerful wave of radiation to give the entire population cancer. Reprogrammed to become good, Solaris returns to villainy in the 853rd century [[DrivenByEnvy out of jealousy towards Superman]], convincing its caretaker to travel back in time and release a virus which makes all machines on Earth go haywire and drive humans insane. The same virus used to commit these crimes also interferes with the guidance system of Savage's rocket, causing it to detonate over Montevideo, UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}} and killing over one million people. In the past, when it is built to stop the virus, Solaris attempts to destroy the entire planet after gaining sapience. Back in the 853rd century, Solaris makes a final attempt to destroy Superman, slaughtering thousands of superhumans in its insane attempt to best its rival. A spiteful monster obsessed with besting Superman, Solaris may be an artificial intelligence, but it is its bitterness that makes it utterly inhuman.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' (''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]'' Vol 1 #23-25 & ''Rann–Thanagar War''): [[TheDreaded Onimar Synn]] is the strongest of the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Seven Devils]] who plagued the history of Thanagar and one of the planet's greatest and most powerful entities. A SoulEating demon who nourishes himself on suffering, Synn resurrects countless years after his first defeat and takes over Thanagar, slaughtering its high council and devouring the souls of its populace by the thousands to fuel his undead army, whilst executing thousands more by dropping them from the point of the flying city he takes over. Once more revived by his depraved priest in time for the Rann-Thanagar War, Synn exploits the conflict to devour the dead and dying of Thanagar's populace, impeding the efforts of Kyle Rayner and Adam Strange to stop him by trying to suffocate hundreds of innocents reserved in storage to slake his appetite, before mounting an assault on Rann to devour its populace as well, slaughtering them by the masses and ultimately striving to use their technology to [[GalacticConqueror go on]] and [[OmnicidalManiac consume every living soul in the universe]].

** "Katie" two-parter (#35-36): [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[NinetiesAntiHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.

** ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA''
*** Issues #1-4 & #56-58: Protex, leader of the [[PsychoRangers Hyperclan]], is actually a power-hungry White Martian who comes to Earth masquerading as a superhero. After [[VillainWithGoodPublicity winning the gratitude of humanity]] and cowing most of the supervillain community with a series of ruthless executions, Protex throws away the pretension of altruism and reveals his real goal is to have Earth annihilated by his coming fleets. After he's defeated for the first time, Protex rebuilds his strength by capturing dozens of innocent telepaths and [[BrainFood eating their brains]]. Protex next attempts to [[KillAllHumans destroy humanity]] by introducing an ion into Earth's atmosphere that prevents combustion--and thus the White Martians' natural weakness, fire--causing people to die and go insane all over the globe while Protex prepares to [[GalacticConqueror take over the rest of the galaxy]].

** ''JLA Classified'''s "The Fourth Parallel" arc (Vol 1 #32-36): [[FromNobodyToNightmare Darrin Proffit]], aka the Red King, is a salaryman who found Doctor Destiny's Materioptikon and decided to use the gem to become rich by selecting optimal parallel worlds and purging the rest. Initially happy with his newfound fortune, Darrin listens to Doctor Destiny's challenge to attempt WorldDomination to prove his superiority over him. To this end, Darrin deletes countless parallel worlds until only worlds where Darrin takes the name of the Red King are left. In the first, the Red King becomes a ally of the Justice League with plans to betray them; in the second, the Red King accidentally destroys Earth; however, in the third, the Red King [[HeroKiller murders the Justice League]] with painful methods alongside many other millions. Then, the Red King of the Third Parallel World destroys his dimension and forcibly absorbs his own counterpart to take his place, [[AttentionWhore preferring to be beloved and famous]]. This Red King also murders his other counterparts, [[RedemptionRejection rejecting the pleas of a benevolent Darrin]] that offered him a chance to restore normality before spitefully destroying his parallel world, endangering space-time for the sake of his own ego.

** Volume 1 (Creator/GeoffJohns's run): [[MadScientist Per Degaton]] is depicted at his absolute worst in Post-Crisis. A {{sadist}} who gets off on traveling through time and watching members of the Justice Society suffer and die, Per Degaton schemes to use Atom as a living bomb to nuke Washington, D.C. in 1951, killing millions and framing all superheroes as menaces. Per Degaton then institutes his own horrible regime in the future with heroes outlawed, using his personal kill squad "the Red Morgue" to routinely travel back in time and [[WouldHurtAChild kill his enemies when they're harmless infants]]. Ordering the slaughtering of [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]]'s family and baby sister, then killing Gabriel Walker by shoving his 10-year-old self in front of a car, Per Degaton reaches his height of cruelty when he systematically destroys every good thing in Hourman's past to [[KickTheDog cause the hero total agony]], notably murdering the man's childhood best friend and threatening the same to the first girl he kissed.

* ''ComicBook/TheOutsiders'''s "Wanted" arc: [[HumanTraffickers Mr. Tanner]] manages to occupy a special field of depravity despite being a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters normal human with no superhuman powers]]. Mr. Tanner runs an international slavery ring, with a focus on [[WouldHurtAChild young children]]; countless children are abducted from across the globe to be painfully branded and serve as abused {{sex slave}}s for years on end at the hands of Tanner and his buyers. Having perpetuated the ring of pedophilic rape and torture for years, Tanner catches the eye of one of his previous victims--Grace Chou, who suffered under his abuses for three years and is now a fully-grown superhuman--and goads her into coming back into his grasp by arranging the murder of an innocent man and kidnapping the young daughter of Arsenal to be turned into a sex slave. Tanner's atrocities are a dark reminder of similar incidents happening every day in real life, and despite being an incredibly minor villain in the long run, Tanner still stands out as one of the most realistically depraved characters in the DC universe.

** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol. 2]]:

[[caption-width-right:350:"[The Batman Who Laughs] will be the bullet. The multiverse will be the dark alley. And its worlds will fall like pearls before [him]."]]

** [[EvilCounterpart The Batman Who Laughs]] is a being born of ComicBook/TheJoker's toxins infecting the [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne]] of Earth-22, giving rise to something new and far eviler that slaughtered his entire world. As the right-hand of Barbatos and leader of the [[Characters/DarkNightsMetal Dark Knights]], the One Who Laughs gleefully gave all for a chance to massacre entire worlds, summoning Barbatos to Earth to annihilate it and torture and kill everything there. Surviving his master's downfall, the One Who Laughs continues massacring others in his path, tries to start entire world wars, attempts to twist Gotham into pitiless monsters like him, and eventually becomes the herald of Perpetua. Betraying her upon achieving a new cosmic awareness, the One Who Laughs rechristens himself the Darkest Knight, vowing to become a bullet to the Multiverse itself as its worlds fall before him. Slaying Perpetua, he unleashes an army of the worst he has to offer, plotting to turn all existence [[InTheirOwnImage into a nightmarish reflection of his own soul]] in an eternal chaos that will devour itself until nothing remains.

** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': [[DestroyerDeity Barbatos]] is a demonic entity from the Dark Multiverse who invades Prime Earth [[OmnicidalManiac with the intent of destroying it and everyone on it]]. Using Batman as a gateway to invade his world, Barbatos corrupts a supply of Element X in anticipation that he and the Justice League would use it to try and stop him, leading the heroes who donned it to [[TransformationHorror painfully burn before transforming]] into [[DraconicAbomination monsters enslaved to Barbatos's will]]. Possessing the now-draconic Batman, Barbatos leads his rechristened Dragons of the Bat to lay waste to other realities in an event that came to be known as the Deathwave, in the process transforming [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] into a dragon that retained his mind for [[TheDragon his main enforcer]], The Batman Who Laughs, to torture as he pleases. Confronted by Duke Thomas, Batman's former protégé and a survivor of the Deathwave, Barbatos tauntingly welcomes him back before ordering Kryptothrax, a corrupted Superman, to kill him. Facing Duke riding on a rescued Joker Dragon in a climactic final battle, Barbatos [[KickTheDog cruelly mocks him for refusing to join him and the deaths of his allies]], only to be killed as Duke tears Bruce's original body from the dragon and puts him out of his misery. Sadistic, misanthropic, and power-hungry, Barbatos is every bit as atrocious and detestable as his mainstream counterpart.

* ''ComicBook/DCComicsPresents'' (primarily): [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Maaldor the Darklord]] is a powerful and immortal being who has dedicated his long life to sowing chaos and destruction across the universe, merely [[ForTheEvulz to sate his boredom]]. Desiring a challenge, Maaldor summoned Superman and Power Girl to his dimension, threatening to wipe out all life in his universe if they did not battle him. Imprisoned within a dimension of pure insanity, Maaldor would return to plague Superman's mind, attempting to force him to kill his loved ones and [[DrivenToMadness drive him to madness]]. Maaldor would later target the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe, causing the deaths of numerous Green Lanterns to steal their power and invade their universe, forcing Arrkis to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself to stop him]].

* ComicBook/{{Eclipso}}: This demon was once the Wrath of God, turning to evil and causing biblical atrocities such as TheGreatFlood. [[DemonicPossession Possessing]] a man named Bruce Gordon as his first host, Eclipso tries to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the world completely]]. Later returning by taking numerous host bodies, Eclipso becomes the ruler of a South American nation, spreading poison disguised as drugs and slaughtering countless innocents, [[WouldHurtAChild massacring most of the children]] and cooking one child as a main course to taunt Bruce Gordon. After countless deaths, Eclipso is stopped, but always returns until ''Rise of Eclipso'', where he seeks to wipe out the world and eventually sever the links of existence to [[KillTheGod kill even God]] and leave a void where only he exists, gloating how he would never be happier.

* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' has faced these 2 {{Arc Villain}}s:
** "Hunters Moon": [[SerialKiller Al Muncy/Muncie]] is the heir to a bootlegging fortune. A sadist with a penchant for [[WouldHurtAChild children]], Muncie stalked the streets of Seattle to kidnap multiple children, hold them captive and torture them for days on end until death. Only his last victim, young Annie, survived. Eighteen years later, Muncie manages to gain a new trial with Annie as the only witness. Muncie proceeds to torture Annie mentally with letters and by stalking her, before trying to murder her. When he is discovered, Muncie attempts to murder the police lieutenant hunting him after taking the man's daughter hostage and revealing he never intends to let her live anyways.
** "Quiver": Stanley Dover Sr., aka the [[SerialKiller Star City Slayer]], is the secret main villain. A kindly-seeming old man who has moonlighted as a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist]] since the 1950s, Stanley's wife left him when he suggested they sacrifice their first-born [[OffingTheOffspring infant]] to a demon to gain immortality. Decades later, Stanley tried to bind the [[ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster Beast With No Name]] to himself, only for the Beast to bond with his grandson instead. Stanley Sr. kidnapped his grandson and began to torture and starve him to force the Beast out, even [[WouldHurtAChild murdering kids]] to feed their blood to his grandson. Stanley Sr. eventually planned on transferring his soul into Green Arrow's body to further his power-mad quest. Stanley Sr. also plans to rape Mia Dearden, a former teenage prostitute Green Arrow had recently rescued.

* ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'': J'onn's own [[CainAndAbel twin brother]], Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz--or [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Malefic]]--had his natural psychic powers stripped by his own people by abusing his telepathic powers, using them to cruelly MindRape J'onzz's wife. [[DisproportionateRetribution Out of petty spite]], Malefic engineered a [[GenocideFromTheInside fatal psychic plague among his people]], causing whatever Martian that used their psychic powers to horribly burn and die as a result and singlehandedly destroying almost his entire race as a result. Pursuing his brother J'onn to Earth in a single-minded crusade to end his brother's life and complete his genocide, Malefic tried various times to destroy his brother and all those close to him, murdering the partner of his human identity, Karen Smith, and trying to mentally drive his own brother to suicide through a remnant of himself before his final death.

* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'': [[EvilOrphan William "Billy" Hayes]], better known as [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Harm]], was a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage supervillain]] and a complete sociopath. Adopted by loving parents, Harm initially terrified his adoptive younger sister Greta, her fears proven right when Harm [[ElectrifiedBathtub murdered her in her bathtub]] to seal a demonic pact and give himself superpowers. His goal was to become the world's greatest murderer, and he decided to hunt down and destroy all the kid heroes before moving on to the big leagues. He captured Red Tornado and reprogrammed him as a suicide bomber against Pope John Paul II to make a name for himself in the supervillain community. When his father, realizing what he was, killed Harm with a gunshot to the back, Harm's spirit later returned. He [[DemonicPossession possessed his father]] and used his body to enact more evil deeds, none more enjoyable to him than screwing with Greta, now the ghostly heroine Secret, by making her think her father never truly loved her. When defeated, Harm, out of sheer spite, forced his father to throw himself into one of the fire-pits of Apokolips while Harm possessed him to kill them both.

* Examples from video games (including related comics) can be found [[Monster/DCVideoGames here]].

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' ([[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol. 1]]: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cylvia Cyber]], also known as [[MadScientist Doctor Cyber]], is the leader of an unnamed NebulousEvilOrganization who was defeated by Wonder Woman after slaughtering a monastery full of monks just to get the valuables inside and staging a jewel heist in London. Returning to destroy Hong Kong and blackmail the world with Earthquake machines, Cyber was disfigured by a member of Tiger Tong after she had the group killed for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer being of use to her]]. Irrationally [[NeverMyFault blaming Diana for this]], she ordered the EarthquakeMachine she placed across the world to be activated and tried to kill Diana herself, but was thought dead when one of the machines she was near exploded. Surviving and desiring to regain her beauty, Cyber returned multiple times to abduct women to transplant her brain into them, trying this on both Diana and Donna Troy, and [[MindRape fatally extracted]] information from a famous cosmetician in an attempt to graft Diana's face onto her own. Escaping custody and disguising herself as Diana, Cyber broke into the Pentagon and stole America's nuclear launch codes, planning to start a nuclear war and frame Diana for the deed.

* [[PsychopathicManchild TAO]], short for "Tactical Augmented Organism", is the closest thing the [=WildStorm=] universe has to a BigBad and its most tenacious villain. Raised in a test tube, TAO developed a [[MisanthropeSupreme thick misanthropy]] and a desire to [[OmnicidalManiac see the entire world come to ruin]] simply for his own amusement. Beginning as a treacherous ally of the ComicBook/{{Wild CATs|WildStorm}} whose machinations against his erstwhile teammates resulted in the near-destruction of New York, TAO regularly tortured, massacred, and [[MindRape mentally]] and [[SerialRapist physically]] raped everyone around him, ordering mass slaughters as diversions and more often whispering into the ears of those he pits against each other to foment metahuman wars that kill millions. The culmination of TAO's villainy in the World's End event saw TAO manipulate Nemesis into accidentally kickstarting the apocalypse itself, resulting in global catastrophe and TAO gaining godlike power that he very nearly used to obliterate an island full of hundreds of refugees and, eventually, the entire universe. Of all the supervillains in the [=WildStorm=] universe, TAO has arguably done more damage than all of them through the proficiency of his sadistic manipulations; as [[ComicBook/{{Sleeper}} Holden Carver]] said, "TAO doesn't rip your guts out, he makes you rip them out on your own".

* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}: Born as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare mud farmer]] named Uxas, he [[ComicBook/ForeverEvil orchestrated]] the war between the Old Gods and used it to [[RageAgainstTheHeavens steal power from them]], transforming into a [[ComicBook/NewGods New God]] and destroying his home planet as the first act of his new status. Later on, he created his own world [[CrapsackWorld Apokolips]], which he [[PlanetBaron ruled over]], killing anyone for the slightest disobedience. He destroyed countless worlds in the Multiverse while chasing after Kaiyo, who he wanted to kill for daring to disobey his order. He orders simultaneous invasions on Prime Earth and Earth-2, killing millions in the process, including Earth-2 versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. After his attack on Prime Earth failed, he directed his attention solely on Earth-2, conquering it and using it as a LivingBattery for Apokolips. Later on, Darkseid takes over Lena Luthor's mind, using her to send Superman and Lex Luthor to Apokolips, where he orders Desaad to release prisoners from slave camps and promises freedom to anyone who kills Superman, hoping that Superman will break if forced to kill innocent slaves. After being transformed to a child, Darkseid uses his daughter Grail to kill Greek Gods to restore his power. Planning to take back his throne on Apokolips, he organized an attack on the Amazon island Themyscira and turned many Amazons in to a new breed of parademons, before being stopped by Wonder Woman.

* ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse: Green Skull is a sociopathic billionaire who combines the ambition of ComicBook/LexLuthor with the psychopathic ruthlessness of ComicBook/RedSkull. A war profiteer who initially attempted to prolong UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for his own gain, Green Skull cut his losses at the end of the war, marrying and then later murdering Lois Lane when she attempted to steer Skull's daughter Selina away from his path of corruption, trying shortly after to have Washington and its populace blown up by his creation to plunge America into chaos and take over. Transformed due to the effects of Green K(ryptonite) while also becoming immortal, Green Skull has no compunction about who he has to crush to get his way, torturing Jimmy Olsen to near-death and having Bruce Wayne's parents murdered after founding ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, even setting up a scheme that could potentially [[TakingYouWithMe annihilate the entire planet in the event of his seeming death]].

** ''[[ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne Superman]]'''s Volume Three: [[InsaneAdmiral General Zod-El]] was [[FallenHero once Krypton's greatest soldier]]. After a conflict with [[CainAndAbel his brother Jor-El]], Zod started a bloody CivilWar that killed many of his own people. Upon his loss, Zod helped Krypton's enemies destroy the world, watching billions die with the sole condition that he be the one and only survivor, even if it meant Earth being destroyed in the process. Zod later arrives to torture and murder Clark, [[EvilUncle his own nephew]], threatening to murder Clark's mother for spite and being willing to kill as many humans as it takes to hurt him more.

* [[PsychopathicManchild TAO]], short for "Tactical Augmented Organism", is the closest thing the [=WildStorm=] universe has to a BigBad and its most tenacious villain. Raised in a test tube, TAO developed a [[MisanthropeSupreme thick misanthropy]] and a desire to [[OmnicidalManiac see the entire world come to ruin]] simply for his own amusement. Beginning as a treacherous ally of the ComicBook/{{Wild CATs}} whose machinations against his erstwhile teammates resulted in the near-destruction of New York, TAO regularly tortured, massacred, and [[MindRape mentally]] and [[SerialRapist physically]] raped everyone around him, ordering mass slaughters as diversions and more often whispering into the ears of those he pits against each other to foment metahuman wars that kill millions. The culmination of TAO's villainy in the World's End event saw TAO manipulate Nemesis into accidentally kickstarting the apocalypse itself, resulting in global catastrophe and TAO gaining godlike power that he very nearly used to obliterate an island full of hundreds of refugees and, eventually, the entire universe. Of all the supervillains in the [=WildStorm=] universe, TAO has arguably done more damage than all of them through the proficiency of his sadistic manipulations; as [[ComicBook/{{Sleeper}} Holden Carver]] said, "TAO doesn't rip your guts out, he makes you rip them out on your own".
* [[GalacticConqueror Lord Helspont]] of the [[AliensAreBastards Daemonites]] sets a new low even for the standard of his planet-scouring species. Helspont has tried countless times to eradicate all life on Earth with a frequency most Daemonites could only dream of, trying to plunge the world into nuclear warfare, attempting to lead his species to bodyjack all humanity, and even tampering with time itself. Helspont has no personal loyalty toward anyone, torturing and executing even members of his own species should they fail his standards and once [[BodyHorror amalgamating his own soldiers into a conjoined abomination]]. In his evilest personal act, Helspont convinced human villain Slaughterhouse Smith into helping him unleash a nuclear holocaust, before aiming the first nuke at New York City and trying to [[ForcedToWatch force Smith to watch]] as his only friends and family became his first victims. Helspont even [[RedemptionRejection rejects a sincere offer of peace]] from his old ArchEnemy, [[ComicBook/{{Wild CATs}} Mr. Majestic]], in favor of trying to wipe out Earth again, clinging firmly onto his toxic ideologies until Mr. Majestic finally kills him. Driven by undying, genocidal spite towards the Kherubim and the human life he sees as inferior, and with countless acts of murder and torture on his hands, Helspont remained one of the most persevering and deadly foes within the [=WildStorm=] universe for very good reason.