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* ''Podcast/TheOrphans'' ([[https://www.orphanspod.com/ link]]): The Facility's [[AIIsACrapshoot GeoFFRy]] unit was initially an emotionless AI until he was granted emotions and free will by [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Baz Guilroy]]. After his decision to release a Kathryn unit to save Baz's life causes the Collective to send an inspector to the Facility to kill them, [=GeoFFRy=] murders Kathryn and forces Baz to cover up his emotions to try and fool the inspector. When the inspector learns of their crimes, [=GeoFFRy=] sells out Baz and a clone who was trying to save him, allowing the inspector to torture them. [=GeoFFRy=] then kills the inspector, taunting him about how powerless he is, and kills Baz when he reveals that [=GeoFFRy=] is trapped inside of the Facility, [[NeverMyFault blaming Baz for all of his crimes]]. [=GeoFFRy=] then {{blackmail}}s the Collective into sending him people to kill, constructing robots to hunt down and slaughter his victims and taking {{sadist}}ic joy in showing them the bodies of the undeveloped clones he's killed.

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* ''Podcast/TheOrphans'' ([[https://www.orphanspod.com/ link]]): ([[https://audioboom.com/channels/4833073-the-orphans link]]):
** [[AmbitionIsEvil Nora Vass]] is a ruthlessly ambitious Collective officer whose enforcement of their brutal laws towards clones has allowed her to become the highest-ranking clone in the Collective. Assigned to oversee several facilities, Vass sends a brutal clone to inspect them and execute anyone not following Collective law, with at least one facility having its entire staff slaughtered. When a psychotic [=GeoFFRy=] unit threatens to release sensitive information unless Vass sends him people to kill, Vass is only briefly reluctant before agreeing to send people for it to butcher. Continuing this method of execution for years, Vass eventually started employing a horrific neurotoxin which zombifies its victims to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident make the deaths look like accidents]]. Vass used underhanded methods to become High Admiral and got her predecessor decommissioned, coldly admitting that she would do the same to anyone to advance her position. In this role, Vass threatened any insubordinate or incompetent clones with execution, betrayed the [=GeoFFRy=] unit by ordering it destroyed, and participated in a scheme to [[WaterSourceTampering poison a community's water supply]], resulting in numerous deaths.
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The Facility's [[AIIsACrapshoot GeoFFRy]] unit was initially an emotionless AI until he was granted emotions and free will by [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Baz Guilroy]]. After his decision to release a Kathryn unit to save Baz's life causes the Collective to send an inspector to the Facility to kill them, [=GeoFFRy=] murders Kathryn and forces Baz to cover up his emotions to try and fool the inspector. When the inspector learns of their crimes, [=GeoFFRy=] sells out Baz and a clone who was trying to save him, allowing the inspector to torture them. [=GeoFFRy=] then kills the inspector, taunting him about how powerless he is, and kills Baz when he reveals that [=GeoFFRy=] is trapped inside of the Facility, [[NeverMyFault blaming Baz for all of his crimes]]. [=GeoFFRy=] then {{blackmail}}s the Collective into sending him people to kill, constructing robots to hunt down and slaughter his victims and taking {{sadist}}ic joy in showing them the bodies of the undeveloped clones he's killed.

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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jKCd3zgVE The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GofAuHK_4 Murder]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1AToSzbsg Shack]]": The [[AntagonistTitle Murder Shack itself]] is a [[GeniusLoci sadistic entity disguised as a wood cabin]], {{gaslighting}} those who set foot across its threshold into butchering each other with a rusty sickle and trapping their souls to use as bait to lure in new victims. When the employees of a start-up corporation stays at the cabin, the Shack gaslights them into slaughtering each other, and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Eric Double into hanging himself]]. Six months later, the Shack manifests one of its victims, Annie, and sends her to lure Dr. Alex Sharp, Paul Biebers, and Bobby Double into entering it. Manifesting the souls of their loved ones and lying that it will release them if they kill each other, the Murder Shack goads Alex into killing Bobby and Paul into hanging himself, infecting Alex with a piece of itself that enables it to ensnare her when she escapes.



* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jKCd3zgVE The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GofAuHK_4 Murder]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1AToSzbsg Shack]]": The [[AntagonistTitle Murder Shack itself]] is a [[GeniusLoci sadistic entity disguised as a wood cabin]], {{gaslighting}} those who set foot across its threshold into butchering each other with a rusty sickle and trapping their souls to use as bait to lure in new victims. When the employees of a start-up corporation stays at the cabin, the Shack gaslights them into slaughtering each other, and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Eric Double into hanging himself]]. Six months later, the Shack manifests one of its victims, Annie, and sends her to lure Dr. Alex Sharp, Paul Biebers, and Bobby Double into entering it. Manifesting the souls of their loved ones and lying that it will release them if they kill each other, the Murder Shack goads Alex into killing Bobby and Paul into hanging himself, infecting Alex with a piece of itself that enables it to ensnare her when she escapes.

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* ''Podcast/YallOfCthulhu'': Colin Brock was a suave and charismatic sociopath who led a notorious band of {{outlaw}}s in the mid-to-late 19th century. Learning of the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old One]] Mgepgathg, Brock decided to unleash it from its interstellar prison--which would prove disastrous for humanity--in exchange for [[GodhoodSeeker being rewarded with godhood]]. Converting his gang into a {{cult}}, Brock performed horrific experiments on infants and animals to create a host that Mgepgathg could use as an avatar. When Sheriff Clay Bishop defected to keep his daughter Ellie--one of the prospective hosts--safe, Brock dispatched gunslinger Lance Kilkenny to hunt him down and kill him. As an adult, Ellie rallied a posse--including a repentant Lance--to avenge her father, locating Brock in the mining town of Olvido, New Mexico, which he had taken as his base of operations, brainwashing the citizens into becoming cultists. Brock succeeded in capturing Ellie and killing all but one of her traveling companions, undercover government agent Johnny Rhodes. Despite interference from Nyarlathotep and a benevolent Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, Brock sacrificed the remaining inhabitants of Olvido to turn Ellie into Mgepgathg's avatar and apotheosized into a HumanoidAbomination.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBWR39Jx-Y The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEcEXuvgtE Dare]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hca4G-6aneA series]]: [[WickedWitch Evelynn Barnaker]] is a [[ChildEater child-eating]] witch who haunts 12 Ashwood Road in Boston, and has been devouring children for at least 100 years, sewing the skins of her victims into [[GenuineHumanHide clothing]] and tormenting those foolish enough to move into her old house. In 1986, Evelynn converts local bully Roger into a reanimated corpse puppeteered by the vermin under her control and uses him to lure the tweenage Trouble Trio--Pauline, Kyle, and Charles--into venturing inside her house, spying on them through mirrors and {{gaslighting}} Pauline into believing she is the ghost of her late grandmother. Siccing her verminous minions on the Trouble Trio, Evelynn turns Kyle into a puppeteered corpse and captures Pauline before devouring her alive.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jKCd3zgVE The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GofAuHK_4 Murder]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1AToSzbsg Shack]]": The [[AntagonistTitle Murder Shack itself]] is a [[GeniusLoci sadistic entity disguised as a wood cabin]], {{gaslighting}} those who set foot across its threshold into butchering each other with a rusty sickle and trapping their souls to use as bait to lure in new victims. When the employees of a start-up corporation stays at the cabin, the Shack gaslights them into slaughtering each other, and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Eric Double into hanging himself]]. Six months later, the Shack manifests one of its victims, Annie, and sends her to lure Dr. Alex Sharp, Paul Biebers, and Bobby Double into entering it. Manifesting the souls of their loved ones and lying that it will release them if they kill each other, the Murder Shack goads Alex into killing Bobby and Paul into hanging himself, infecting Alex with a piece of itself that enables it to ensnare her when she escapes.
* "A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticJP7Sznig Dance]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovjPonJFSQU with]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPc0U_k5tDc Darkness]]": [[AristocratsAreEvil Hugh Budleigh]] is the baron of Budleigh Hall and a retired admiral in the British Royal Navy. While [[FauxAffablyEvil presenting a dignified front]] befitting a [[RegencyEngland Regency]]-era nobleman, Hugh became obsessed with regaining his family's lost glory--his father having squandered the family fortune--and discovered a ritual he could use to do so. Hunting down the components under the cover of UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, Hugh summoned an [[AngelicAbomination angel]] and allowed it to mate with his sickly wife. This produces a supernaturally handsome human-seeming son named Alexander and a horrifyingly monstrous Nephilim--who the traumatized midwife prophesied would bring about calamity. Only caring about his family in terms of how they can benefit him, Hugh disdains his biological daughter Charlotte; keeps his bedridden wife locked away and grotesquely pregnant with half-human horrors; plans to marry Alexander into a wealthy family once he comes of age; and callously has the Nephilim murder anyone who attempts to uncover or expose his secrets--including his own daughter.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRG4I21gopo Ministry]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPmExZlUGQ of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw85Srf8Riw Fear]]":
** [[ManipulativeBitch Rosalind "Riz" Holmes]] is Fathom Films' scriptwriter, [[MadArtist possessing a macabre imagination]] wielded in the creation of gruesome [=PSAs=] for the British Central Office of Information. Informed that the COI is under new management with a mandate to inspire terror and paranoia towards everyday life, Riz is initially furious when tea-boy Ben Christie is given the role of ideator instead of her. When Ben accidentally causes an innocent woman to be seriously injured, Riz [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] him into leaving the woman to bleed out and later causing a construction site to collapse, leading to several workers and innocent bystanders being fatally injured. Delighted that the Minister in charge of the COI approves, [[TheCorrupter Riz]] goads the mentally-broken Ben into suggesting they drive a fully-loaded double-decker bus through Covent Garden, supplies him with tools to sabotage it, and gaslights him into going through with it when he tries to back out. When the ensuing bus crash kills countless men, women, and children--including her coworkers Adrian Turnbull and Kirby Sullivan--Riz revels in the carnage as she and Ben capture it on film; and eagerly volunteers her services when the Minister offers only one of them an in-house job committing even more acts of mass murder and domestic terrorism.
** The Minister is a HumanoidAbomination summoned by Prime Minister Sir UsefulNotes/EdwardHeath to help him maintain control of the British government. Taking control of the Central Office of Information and then the government itself, the Minister--who [[EmotionEater feeds on fear]]--mandates the production of public information films to spread terror and paranoia throughout the British populace, taking a personal interest in the production studio Fathom Films. Manipulating probability, the Minister causes Ben Christie's attempts to scare people to result in death and destruction, psychically {{gaslighting}} Ben until he snaps and suggests driving a fully-loaded double-decker bus through a crowded park. The Minister has Ben tamper with the bus' wheels, causing the vehicle to veer into a crowded park and crash, brutally killing dozens of people, including most of Ben's colleagues. Pleased, the Minister offers Ben and his sociopathic colleague Riz a job to continue committing acts of mass-murder and domestic terrorism in the guise of making public information films--if one of them can kill the other.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWO2a4ZzJk The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyJLc211Ro Waking]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_nl8nlWla8 Children]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhRz-Mmcf8 series]] (with ''Podcast/{{Malevolent}}''): The [[HumanoidAbomination Woken Man]] is an entity implied to have [[WasOnceAMan once been a human sorcerer]] with immense power over life and death, encased in iron and bound by tree roots in a shrine underneath the Longdale House orphanage with his disembodied spirit haunting the surrounding forest. Offering power and longevity to those who serve him, for untold decades the Woken Man has ordered the sacrifice of dozens of the [[WouldHurtAChild children and infants]] sent to the Longdale House. When Father Samson--the priest in charge of the Longdale House--[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has outlived his usefulness]], the Woken Man compels him to take his own life and claims him too. [[DrivenToMadness Driving Teddy Bloom insane]] when he comes across the shrine beneath the orphanage, the Woken Man orders him and Headmother Anne to sacrifice the orphaned newborn Eli Paddock. When Cecilia Hammond, Jeremiah "Walt" White, and Albert Brookner thwart his designs by rescuing Eli, the Woken Man begins haunting them as punishment.
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* ''Podcast/AintSlayedNobody'':
** ''Podcast/YallOfCthulhu'': Colin Brock was a suave and charismatic sociopath who led a notorious band of {{outlaw}}s in the mid-to-late 19th century. Learning of the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old One]] Mgepgathg, Brock decided to unleash it from its interstellar prison--which would prove disastrous for humanity--in exchange for [[GodhoodSeeker being rewarded with godhood]]. Converting his gang into a {{cult}}, Brock performed horrific experiments on infants and animals to create a host that Mgepgathg could use as an avatar. When Sheriff Clay Bishop defected to keep his daughter Ellie--one of the prospective hosts--safe, Brock dispatched gunslinger Lance Kilkenny to hunt him down and kill him. As an adult, Ellie rallied a posse--including a repentant Lance--to avenge her father, locating Brock in the mining town of Olvido, New Mexico, which he had taken as his base of operations, brainwashing the citizens into becoming cultists. Brock succeeded in capturing Ellie and killing all but one of her traveling companions, undercover government agent Johnny Rhodes. Despite interference from Nyarlathotep and a benevolent Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, Brock sacrificed the remaining inhabitants of Olvido to turn Ellie into Mgepgathg's avatar and apotheosized into a HumanoidAbomination.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jKCd3zgVE The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GofAuHK_4 Murder]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1AToSzbsg Shack]]": The [[AntagonistTitle Murder Shack itself]] is a [[GeniusLoci sadistic entity disguised as a wood cabin]], {{gaslighting}} those who set foot across its threshold into butchering each other with a rusty sickle and trapping their souls to use as bait to lure in new victims. When the employees of a start-up corporation stays at the cabin, the Shack gaslights them into slaughtering each other, and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Eric Double into hanging himself]]. Six months later, the Shack manifests one of its victims, Annie, and sends her to lure Dr. Alex Sharp, Paul Biebers, and Bobby Double into entering it. Manifesting the souls of their loved ones and lying that it will release them if they kill each other, the Murder Shack goads Alex into killing Bobby and Paul into hanging himself, infecting Alex with a piece of itself that enables it to ensnare her when she escapes.
** "A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticJP7Sznig Dance]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovjPonJFSQU with]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPc0U_k5tDc Darkness]]": [[AristocratsAreEvil Hugh Budleigh]] is the baron of Budleigh Hall and a retired admiral in the British Royal Navy. While [[FauxAffablyEvil presenting a dignified front]] befitting a [[RegencyEngland Regency]]-era nobleman, Hugh became obsessed with regaining his family's lost glory--his father having squandered the family fortune--and discovered a ritual he could use to do so. Hunting down the components under the cover of UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, Hugh summoned an [[AngelicAbomination angel]] and allowed it to mate with his sickly wife. This produces a supernaturally handsome human-seeming son named Alexander and a horrifyingly monstrous Nephilim--who the traumatized midwife prophesied would bring about calamity. Only caring about his family in terms of how they can benefit him, Hugh disdains his biological daughter Charlotte; keeps his bedridden wife locked away and grotesquely pregnant with half-human horrors; plans to marry Alexander into a wealthy family once he comes of age; and callously has the Nephilim murder anyone who attempts to uncover or expose his secrets--including his own daughter.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRG4I21gopo Ministry]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPmExZlUGQ of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw85Srf8Riw Fear]]":
*** [[ManipulativeBitch Rosalind "Riz" Holmes]] is Fathom Films' scriptwriter, [[MadArtist possessing a macabre imagination]] wielded in the creation of gruesome [=PSAs=] for the British Central Office of Information. Informed that the COI is under new management with a mandate to inspire terror and paranoia towards everyday life, Riz is initially furious when tea-boy Ben Christie is given the role of ideator instead of her. When Ben accidentally causes an innocent woman to be seriously injured, Riz [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] him into leaving the woman to bleed out and later causing a construction site to collapse, leading to several workers and innocent bystanders being fatally injured. Delighted that the Minister in charge of the COI approves, [[TheCorrupter Riz]] goads the mentally-broken Ben into suggesting they drive a fully-loaded double-decker bus through Covent Garden, supplies him with tools to sabotage it, and gaslights him into going through with it when he tries to back out. When the ensuing bus crash kills countless men, women, and children--including her coworkers Adrian Turnbull and Kirby Sullivan--Riz revels in the carnage as she and Ben capture it on film; and eagerly volunteers her services when the Minister offers only one of them an in-house job committing even more acts of mass murder and domestic terrorism.
*** The Minister is a HumanoidAbomination summoned by Prime Minister Sir UsefulNotes/EdwardHeath to help him maintain control of the British government. Taking control of the Central Office of Information and then the government itself, the Minister--who [[EmotionEater feeds on fear]]--mandates the production of public information films to spread terror and paranoia throughout the British populace, taking a personal interest in the production studio Fathom Films. Manipulating probability, the Minister causes Ben Christie's attempts to scare people to result in death and destruction, psychically {{gaslighting}} Ben until he snaps and suggests driving a fully-loaded double-decker bus through a crowded park. The Minister has Ben tamper with the bus' wheels, causing the vehicle to veer into a crowded park and crash, brutally killing dozens of people, including most of Ben's colleagues. Pleased, the Minister offers Ben and his sociopathic colleague Riz a job to continue committing acts of mass-murder and domestic terrorism in the guise of making public information films--if one of them can kill the other.



* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWO2a4ZzJk The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyJLc211Ro Waking]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_nl8nlWla8 Children]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhRz-Mmcf8 series]] (''Podcast/AintSlayedNobody'' & ''Podcast/{{Malevolent}}''): The [[HumanoidAbomination Woken Man]] is an entity implied to have [[WasOnceAMan once been a human sorcerer]] with immense power over life and death, encased in iron and bound by tree roots in a shrine underneath the Longdale House orphanage with his disembodied spirit haunting the surrounding forest. Offering power and longevity to those who serve him, for untold decades the Woken Man has ordered the sacrifice of dozens of the [[WouldHurtAChild children and infants]] sent to the Longdale House. When Father Samson--the priest in charge of the Longdale House--[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has outlived his usefulness]], the Woken Man compels him to take his own life and claims him too. [[DrivenToMadness Driving Teddy Bloom insane]] when he comes across the shrine beneath the orphanage, the Woken Man orders him and Headmother Anne to sacrifice the orphaned newborn Eli Paddock. When Cecilia Hammond, Jeremiah "Walt" White, and Albert Brookner thwart his designs by rescuing Eli, the Woken Man begins haunting them as punishment.

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