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* Issues #42-48--"Salvation" arc: [[SmugSnake Odin Quincannon]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive meat magnate]] who [[TyrannicalTownTycoon terrorizes the town of Salvation]] through his allegiance to the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan. When Jesse becomes the sheriff, Odin makes a series of attempts on his life, even planting bombs throughout the town and threatening to destroy it all.

* "Naked City" 3-parter (issues #5-7): [[FauxAffablyEvil Simon "Si" Coltrane]] is the [[{{Sadist}} Reaver Cleaver]], a SerialKiller plaguing New York City. He is introduced having [[FlayingAlive flayed a man's face off]] and showing it to him before nailing it back on upside down. Coltrane sends a victim's scrotum to his widow, before attempting to frame his friend Cassidy for his own crimes, at which point it is revealed that Coltrane has a victim's head in his fridge and a [[TortureCellar secret room in his apartment]], filled with bloody butcher's tools and the still-living victim he flayed, who is begging Cassidy to kill him. Coltrane then attempts to murder Tulip and Jesse, stabbing Tulip through the hand and confessing to her that he has no reason to do what he does, other than finding it amusing.
* "Until the End of the World" arc's issues #8-12 (primarily):

* "Salvation" arc's issues #42-48: [[SmugSnake Odin Quincannon]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive meat magnate]] who [[TyrannicalTownTycoon terrorizes the town of Salvation]] through his allegiance to the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan. When Jesse becomes the sheriff, Odin makes a series of attempts on his life, even planting bombs throughout the town and threatening to destroy it all.

* Season 3: [[Characters/Preacher2016Angelville Marie L'Angelle]] bargained [[DealWithTheDevil with Satan himself]] to make herself immortal by consuming the souls of others, collecting on those who do not pay for her voodoo services to do so. When her daughter Christina eloped with John Custer, Marie [[OffingTheOffspring ordered her stomach cut open]] and for John's death, before [[GruesomeGrandparent forcing Jesse, her grandson, to suffer under her over the years]]. When Jesse returns seeking Marie's help to bring his LoveInterest, Tulip O'Hare, back to life, Marie forces him into a blood contract wherein she holds Tulip's soul as leverage and later takes Jesse's soul to force him to follow her orders.

** [[EvilMentor Jody]], Marie's enforcer, is a [[BloodKnight sadistic bully]] of a man. [[YouKilledMyFather Murdering Jesse's father]] in front of him, Jody sneers when the young boy bursts into tears. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Nailing Jesse's dog's head to a post]] for humping his leg, Jody savagely beats Jesse for attacking him, making him beg while twisting his arm so much the bone snaps out. When he recaptures Jesse and Tulip for Marie, Jody happily shoots and kills Tulip. In a rematch with Jesse, Jody tries to make Jesse suffer as much as possible, and when fatally wounded by Jesse, he feels nothing but pride as his abuses turned Jesse into a killer.

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