History Monster / Morseverse

* Season 6: [[DirtyCop Detective Sergeant Alan Jago]] is the hidden [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the season. Beneath his [[TheDogWasTheMastermind unassuming exterior]] lies a calculating, power-hungry crook who is the root of both the Thames Valley police corruption and the cities drug crisis. Exploiting the fallout of Ames's and Nero's war, Jago murdered Detective Constable George Fancy and stole Nero's heroin supply. Using connections he'd built up during his career, Jago subverted numerous officers, including his own boss DCI Ronnie Box, creating a culture of bribery and brutality, and with the help of his partners took over Nero's empire of protection rackets and dealers. To increase his profits Jago cut the heroin with quinine, drastically increasing its lethality, and murdered a man for his car so his courier could deliver the drugs. His actions plunged Oxford into a drug crisis resulting in at least fourteen deaths, all to Jago's [[LackOfEmpathy utter apathy]]. Contacted by his partners to stop Morse's investigations, Jago attempted to murder Morse, along with Thursday, Strange, Bright and Doctor Max DeBryn, then frame them all for corruption. Self-serving and corrupt to core, Jago was both a dark reflection and the embodiment of everything Morse stood against.

* "[[Recap/EndeavourS6E04Deguello Degüello]]": [[CorruptPolitician Councillor Clive Burkitt]], a smarmy senior local politician, and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive George McGryffin]], a smug belligerent construction magnate, are the partners of Jago. Ensuring his reelection by promising modern homes for the poor people of Oxford, Burkitt secretly conspired with McGryffin to [[CrookedContractor use unsafe, cheaper building materials]] to construct the Cranmer House apartment tower and split the excess profits. When the local borough surveyor Hollis Binks discovered their scam, the pair [[BuriedAlive buried him alive]] in the foundation. When construction was complete, the two basked in the good publicity the project brought them. Upon discovering that Hollis's friend Osbert Page was investigating his disappearance, McGryffin had one his goons stab him to death. Because of the shoddy construction, following a year of decay, Cranmer House collapsed one afternoon, killing 16 residents, including multiple children, and injuring numerous others. Only caring about their reputations, Burkitt quickly got to work to bury their involvement in the disaster. After bribery and blackmail failed to shake off Morse's investigations, the pair attempted to assassinate Superintendent Bright and kidnapped Doctor DeBryn to lure Morse out to be murdered. Upon arrest, Burkitt immediately turned on his partner to ensure a lighter sentence.

%% NOTE 2: A CompleteMonster is an individual character, not a collective. Therefore a faction cannot be listed as one. %% A faction can attract Complete Monsters and can have them among its members, but cannot be one in and of itself.

-->--'''Opera Phantom (impersonating Dr. Daniel Cronyn)''', on the '''Phantom''', ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'', "[[Recap/EndeavourS1E02Fugue Fugue]]"

* Season 5: [[AmbitionIsEvil Cromwell Ames]] is a reckless, ambitious [[TheYardies West Indian Gangster]]. A [[FromNobodyToNightmare minor player who no one had ever heard of]], Ames has his sights set on taking over [[TheDon Eddie Nero]]'s empire, even if this means [[MobWar burning Oxford to the ground]]. Attempting to muscle Nero out, Ames organizes several arsons on properties owned by Nero, including an apartment building full of multiple families, and viciously murders Nero's enforcer Liam Flynn. Having his gang hijack a goods lorry, Ames sadistically and pointlessly beats the terrified elderly driver, Bert Hobbs, to the point his injuries kill him, but only after several hours of agony. When one of Ames's dealers, Lloyd Collins, unknowingly spoke to an undercover policeman, despite not telling them anything, Ames had Collins {{gutted|Like A Fish}}, leaving him to bleed to death. [[Recap/EndeavourS5E05Quartet Growing more brazen in his attacks]], Ames assaulted Nero's businesses in broad daylight, opened fire on him and his wife in public, and [[Recap/EndeavourS5E06Icarus finally attacked Nero's base]]. Ames's overconfidence resulted in the deaths of everyone involved, wiping out both their organizations, including himself and Nero.
* Season 6: [[DirtyCop Detective Sergeant Alan Jago]] is the hidden [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the season. Beneath his [[TheDogWasTheMastermind unassuming exterior]] lies a calculating, power-hungry crook who is the root of both the Thames Valley police corruption and the cities drug crisis. Exploiting the fallout of Ames's and Nero's war, Jago murdered Detective Constable George Fancy and stole Nero's heroin supply. Using connections he'd built up during his career, Jago subverted numerous officers, including his own boss DCI Ronnie Box, creating a culture of bribery and brutality, and with the help of his partners took over Nero's empire of protection rackets and dealers. To increase his profits Jago cut the heroin with quinine, drastically increasing its lethality, and murdered a man for his car so his courier could deliver the drugs. His actions plunged Oxford into a drug crisis resulting in at least fourteen deaths, all to Jago's [[LackOfEmpathy utter apathy]]. Contacted by his partners to stop Morse's investigations, Jago attempted to murder Morse, along with Thursday, Strange, Bright and Doctor Max [=DeBryn=], then frame them all for corruption. Self-serving and corrupt to core, Jago was both a dark reflection and the embodiment of everything Morse stood against.

** [[SerialKiller The Towpath Killer]], Carl Sturgis, aka Johnny Linden, seems normal, but is in fact an animalistic maniac with a taste for inflicting cruelty and a fondness for [[CallingCard whistling "Antonio"]]. Enjoying [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals hurting and killing animals]] since childhood--his abuse permanently damaging his sister Phyllis's mental state--at [[EnfantTerrible ten years old]] he murdered his peer George Fontayne. To cover up the crime, Johnny set his family's pub alight, killing his Aunt Beth, Uncle Joe, Cousin Kevin and Sister Doris, [[FakingTheDead faking his own death]] in the blaze. Suspecting his abused girlfriend of cheating, he began a killing spree. On New Year's Eve 1970, he murdered Molly Andrews by breaking her neck. A few months later he slit Tony Jakobssen's throat with a swordstick. Killing Bridget Mulcahy, he bit into her throat to drink her blood. Unhealthily obsessed with Phyllis, Johnny kidnapped and imprisoned her, also drinking her blood, pushing her into a mental breakdown. Discovered, he attempted to kill Sergeant Strange plunging his swordstick into his stomach, and attacking Morse attempted to rip his throat out with his teeth.

* "[[Recap/EndeavourS6E04Deguello Degüello]]": [[CorruptPolitician Councillor Clive Burkitt]], a smarmy senior local politician, and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive George McGryffin]], a smug belligerent construction magnate, are the partners of Jago. Ensuring his reelection by promising modern homes for the poor people of Oxford, Burkitt secretly conspired with [=McGryffin=] to [[CrookedContractor use unsafe, cheaper building materials]] to construct the Cranmer House apartment tower and split the excess profits. When the local borough surveyor Hollis Binks discovered their scam, the pair [[BuriedAlive buried him alive]] in the foundation. When construction was complete, the two basked in the good publicity the project brought them. Upon discovering that Hollis's friend Osbert Page was investigating his disappearance, [=McGryffin=] had one his goons stab him to death. Because of the shoddy construction, following a year of decay, Cranmer House collapsed one afternoon, killing 16 residents, including multiple children, and injuring numerous others. Only caring about their reputations, Burkitt quickly got to work to bury their involvement in the disaster. After bribery and blackmail failed to shake off Morse's investigations, the pair attempted to assassinate Superintendent Bright and kidnapped Doctor [=DeBryn=] to lure Morse out to be murdered. Upon arrest, Burkitt immediately turned on his partner to ensure a lighter sentence.

* [[AmbitionIsEvil Cromwell Ames]] is a reckless, ambitious [[TheYardies West Indian Gangster]] whose impact was felt throughout the entirety of season 5. A [[FromNobodyToNightmare minor player who no one had ever heard of]], Ames has his sights set on taking over [[TheDon Eddie Nero]]'s empire, even if this means [[MobWar burning Oxford to the ground]]. Attempting to muscle Nero out, Ames organizes several arsons on properties owned by Nero, including an apartment building full of multiple families, and viciously murders Nero's enforcer Liam Flynn. Having his gang hijack a goods lorry, Ames sadistically and pointlessly beats the terrified elderly driver, Bert Hobbs, to the point his injuries kill him, but only after several hours of agony. When one of Ames's dealers, Lloyd Collins, unknowingly spoke to an undercover policeman, despite not telling them anything, Ames had Collins {{gutted|Like A Fish}}, leaving him to bleed to death. [[Recap/EndeavourS5E05Quartet Growing more brazen in his attacks]], Ames assaulted Nero's businesses in broad daylight, opened fire on him and his wife in public, and [[Recap/EndeavourS5E06Icarus finally attacked Nero's base]]. Ames's overconfidence resulted in the deaths of everyone involved, wiping out both their organizations, including himself and Nero.
* [[DirtyCop Detective Sergeant Alan Jago]] is the hidden [[BigBad main antagonist]] of season 6. Beneath his [[TheDogWasTheMastermind unassuming exterior]] lies a calculating, power-hungry crook who is the root of both the Thames Valley police corruption and the cities drug crisis. Exploiting the fallout of Ames's and Nero's war, Jago murdered Detective Constable George Fancy and stole Nero's heroin supply. Using connections he'd built up during his career, Jago subverted numerous officers, including his own boss DCI Ronnie Box, creating a culture of bribery and brutality, and with the help of his partners took over Nero's empire of protection rackets and dealers. To increase his profits Jago cut the heroin with quinine, drastically increasing its lethality, and murdered a man for his car so his courier could deliver the drugs. His actions plunged Oxford into a drug crisis resulting in at least fourteen deaths, all to Jago's [[LackOfEmpathy utter apathy]]. Contacted by his partners to stop Morse's investigations, Jago attempted to murder Morse, along with Thursday, Strange, Bright and Doctor Max [=DeBryn=], then frame them all for corruption. Self-serving and corrupt to core, Jago was both a dark reflection and the embodiment of everything Morse stood against.