History Monster / TheSaint

[[Franchise/TheSaint Simon Templar]] has made a career out of duping and defeating those he names the "[[MonsterOfTheWeek Ungodly]]." While most of these characters are everyday racketeers and thugs, a few of the Ungodly are [[CompleteMonster irredeemably corrupt]].

* "The Death Penalty": [[FatBastard Abdul Osman]] is a lecherous, corpulent Middle Eastern crime lord responsible for the "ruin and degradation of more human lives than can be imagined". Osman is the leader of a vice ring that stretches from Shanghai to Constantinople, dealing in everything from gambling dens, dope smuggling, and [[HumanTraffickers white slavery in miserable brothels]]. Osman cows a fellow crime lord named Galbraith Stride [[EvilerThanThou sheerly by being more vicious than him]], unnerving Stride by casually offing a minion [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness for outliving his usefulness]], and later demanding Stride's stepdaughter as a SexSlave as the price for Osman to stop blackmailing him. Osman also has a fancy for breaking people with horrible torture, usually favoring heroin withdrawal in combination with his whip; his "secretary" is a man named Clements who Osman broke so thoroughly that Clements is incapable of even killing himself, with Osman keeping Clements around to abuse whenever he sees fit.

* "The King of the Beggars": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Laura Wingate]] is a wealthy, harmless-seeming socialite who moonlights as the leader of a particularly vicious ProtectionRacket targeting beggars. Under the logic of picking one cent from one-hundred pockets every day, Laura targets homeless panhandlers solely because they're easy pickings, having anyone who refuses to split their meager earnings with her beaten half-to-death. After having multiple beggars tortured and many more pressed beneath her thumb, Laura graduates to murder when she has a blind old man beaten and shot to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem make an example out of him]], then later on drugs a mook who ratted on her to Simon with scopolamine, tortures him, then finally shoots him as well. After the curtain is pulled, Laura tries to arrange the death of Simon, actress Monica Varing, and Simon's friend Hoppy Uniatz, planning to frame the former two as a murder-suicide and the latter as a robbery gone wrong.

* Issue #19's "The Rescue of President Carden": UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler himself makes enemies with the Saint when the latter helps out the Slovenian resistance during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Himmler orders twenty innocent hostages executed for every Nazi killed, resulting in dozens of men, women, and children being killed by Himmler's [[StateSec SS]] thugs. Himmler vows to break the Slovenian spirit of resistance no matter what it takes, to threatening the life of one of their most famous aviators, to sending the Slovenian President to a [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] to suffer torture.

!!Television

[[AC:[[Series/TheSaint Original 1960s series]]]]

** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Julius]] is a terroristic DiabolicalMastermind whose ''modus operandi'' is to rove from country to country, gleefully inciting "incidents" to agitate pre-existing wars and conflicts so [[WarForFunAndProfit he can profit off of the resulting bloodshed]]. Among other such "incidents", Dr. Julius prolonged UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar when it was just about to conclude at a peaceful resolution, and incited terrorism in the Congo to profit off the death of thousands. Julius's latest goal is to provoke a bloody war in Southeast Asia and hand the region back to greedy colonists. To advance this, Julius kidnaps the daughter of a farmer whose land would make the perfect launching pad for this war, and forces him to cooperate under the threat of her life.
** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Max Valmon]] appears at first to be a friendly old British farmer and a [[BitchInSheepsClothing cheerful]] neighbor of the VictimOfTheWeek, fellow farmer Mr. Morland. Valmon is in reality a frothing pro-colonial racist who, in the words of the Saint, "makes [[Literature/UncleTomsCabin Simon Legree]] look like Santa Claus." Valmon tries to scare Morland off of his property by murdering the man's brother and his innocent employees, framing them on animal attacks and terrorist activity before the truth eventually comes to light. Valmon allies himself with Dr. Julius to foment a bloody war in Southeast Asia, all so he can topple the current government and return the region to British colonizers, and he threatens to kill Morland's daughter if he doesn't let Valmon use his property as a prime launching pad for the war. Valmon's only motivation for all of this atrocity is all just to return himself to the pampered lifestyle he was used to with the British in control.

* "The Armageddon Alternative": [[MadBomber Frederick Boiler]] is a brilliant but irredeemably {{narcissist}}ic nuclear physician. Stymied after being rejected for a job he wanted, Fred begins to target the professor who rejected him for the most [[DisproportionateRetribution over-the-top]] revenge possible. He almost single-handedly builds a working atomic bomb in his own garage--helped only by a getaway driver, whom Fred [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness poisons with radium after he's worn out his use]]---and threatens to [[NukeEm nuke London]] unless his sadistic terms are agreed to: He wants the professor's daughter guillotined on live TV and all of London ForcedToWatch. To prove he's not bluffing, Boiler sets off six smaller bombs all throughout the city, killing and maiming hundreds of people. When it becomes clear London won't cave to his demands, Fred decides to commit MurderSuicide with the entire population of London, sneering when Simon genuinely offers to help him turn over a new leaf: "If I'm going, I'm going in glory!"

[[AC:''[[Film/TheSaintFearInFunPark Fear in Fun Park]]'' (aka ''The Saint in Australia'') TVMovie]]
* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Nick Chan]] is a ruthless Chinese extortionist who has a man garroted to death after he fails to pay back one of Nick's [[LoanShark crooked loans]]. Nick's real evil comes in the form of his brothel, staffed entirely by young women who have been duped into lives of miserable prostitution and kept drugged up so they're too addled to resist. Nick hits his lowest when he has [[WouldHurtAChild a child]] abducted for his brothel, subjecting her to a horrible RapeDiscretionShot and vowing that he'll squeeze out any trace of resistance so he can mold the kid into a servile prostitute. The child prostitute eventually [[DrivenToSuicide hangs herself to escape her situation]], which finally prompts Nick's long-abused secretary--a woman who clawed her way into Nick's good graces after ten years of abuse--to shoot him dead.

!![[Film/TheSaint1997 1997 film & associated works]]

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* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ivan Tretiak]] is a Russian oil magnate who fancies himself the next UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Tretiak willingly causes a gigantic oil shortage and plunges all of Moscow into a deep freeze during the winter, resulting in scores of innocent people freezing to death on the streets and thousands more suffering. Tretiak hopes to use the anger he's fomented to MakeTheBearAngryAgain, hoping to discredit and frame his political rival Karpov and then ride the fallout into the President's seat, all while ordering the murders of anyone who could threaten him.

[[AC:Burl Barer's {{novelization}}]]

* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ivan Tretiak]] is even viler in this adaptation than he is in the film. An oil magnate whose "[[AmbitionIsEvil ambitions fill cemeteries]]", Tretiak plunges Moscow into an energy crisis in a plot to discredit and eventually murder his political rival President Karpov, letting dozens of people freeze in the streets [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain so he can ride their anger into the President's seat]]. Along the way, Tretiak dispatches his loose cannon of a son, Ilya, to kill Simon Templar and anyone else in his way, resulting in a slew of dead bodies. A [[BadBoss horrible employer]] as well, Ivan beats a [[DirtyCop corrupt cop]] on his payroll to death for letting Simon escape, and shoots his ReluctantMadScientist in the face for trying to escape his cruelty. As "sentimental as a rabid Doberman", Ivan intends to drag Russia back into a hellscape of "kangaroo courts, concentration camps [and] firing squads" that will rival the worst brutalities of the [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalinist]] regime, all so he can be on top.
* [[AxCrazy Ilya]], Ivan's son, is a Methedrine-addicted Neo-Nazi with a [[TriggerHappy loose trigger finger]]. Ivan's chosen enforcer whenever he needs somebody to die, Ilya has a sadistic streak that surpasses even his father's. While chasing Simon Templar, Ilya kills innocent bystanders one after another, whether for giving him lip or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. After Ivan's scheme goes south, Ilya impulsively kills numerous ''Rosgvardiya'' soldiers and sets off a firefight that endangers a huge crowd of people. Finally, Ilya [[{{Patricide}} murders his own father Ivan]], hoping to escape and one day slime into the Presidency himself after the dust settles.

* "The Death Penalty": [[FatBastard Abdul Osman]] is a lecherous, corpulent Middle Eastern crime lord responsible for the "ruin and degradation of more human lives" than can be imagined. Osman is the leader of a vice ring that stretches from Shanghai to Constantinople, dealing in everything from gambling dens, dope smuggling, and [[HumanTraffickers white slavery in miserable brothels]]. Osman cows a fellow crime lord named Galbraith Stride [[EvilerThanThou sheerly by being more vicious than him]], unnerving Stride by casually offing a minion [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness for outliving his usefulness]], and later demanding Stride's stepdaughter as a SexSlave as the price for Osman to stop blackmailing him. Osman also has a fancy for breaking people with horrible torture, usually favoring heroin withdrawal in combination with his whip; his "secretary" is a man named Clements who Osman broke so thoroughly that Clements is incapable of even killing himself, with Osman keeping Clements around to abuse whenever he sees fit.

* "The King of the Beggars": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Laura Stride]] is a wealthy, harmless-seeming socialite who moonlights as the leader of a vicious ProtectionRacket targeting beggars. Under the logic of picking one cent from one-hundred pockets every day, Laura targets homeless panhandlers solely because they're easy pickings, having anyone who refuses to split their meager earnings with her beaten half to death. Laura graduates to murder when she has a blind old man beaten and shot to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem make an example out of him]] and his obstinance, then later on drugs a mook who ratted on her to Simon with scopolamine, tortures him, then finally shoots him as well. After the curtain is pulled, Laura tries to arrange the death of Simon, actress Monica Varing, and Simon's friend Hoppy Uniatz, planning to frame the former as a murder-suicide and the latter as a robbery gone wrong.

!![[ComicStrip/TheSaint Newspaper comics]]

* "Hell" arc: Professor Zoran is an unusual OutsideGenreFoe for the Saint: a MadScientist with an army of [[TechnicallyLivingZombie technically-living zombies]]. On a warped quest to find out the secret of immortality, Zoran subjects hundreds of innocent people to experiments meant to make them live forever. Inevitably, the process utterly destroys their minds, leaving them {{empty shell}}s that Zoran reconditions to be his mindlessly obedient slaves. In a particular display of cruelty, Zoran orders one of these "zombies" to cut his own throat open to demonstrate to the Saint how thoroughly he controls them. Zoran also subjects the GirlOfTheWeek to a drug that leaves her a prisoner in her own body, helpless to resist his commands but torturously aware of every second she's kept under the drug's influence.
* "Valdor" arc: [[TheEvilPrince Prince Hugo]], the "most unscrupulous man in all of Valdor", [[TheUsurper usurps the throne]] of his country by assassinating his noble cousin Prince Paul. To rid himself of Paul's daughter Elaine, the last legitimate heir to the throne, Hugo attempts to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill bomb a commercial airliner filled with people just to get rid of her]], a disaster only narrowly prevented by the Saint. Hugo also has his own SecretPolice, which he uses to disappear any dissidents into a HellholePrison, where they will be tortured and inevitably executed.
* "Honolulu" arc: [[ManipulativeBastard Mr. Langley]] is a [[DirtyCommunists wicked communist]] who dupes a man named John Scott into finding a prime spot for a triumvirate of atom bombs in Hawaii. When Scott tried to cut himself loose from the scheme in horror, Langley cheerfully forced the man to jump off a hundred-foot-cliff at gunpoint, and attempts to do the same to the man's daughter and the Saint when they find out his lair. Langley intends for nothing less than [[NukeEm the complete destruction of Pearl Harbor]], seeking to finish what the Japanese started in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and he's only too gleeful to imagine the death of hundreds of thousands as the nukes hit.

!!Television

[[AC:[[Series/TheSaint Original 1960s series]]]]

* "The King of the Beggars": [[{{Greed}} The Contessa Dolores Marcello]] is every bit as contemptible as her literary counterpart Laura Stride. Dolores married a generous millionaire just for his money, admitting that for as devoted as he is to her she couldn't care less about him beyond abusing his wealth and resources behind his back. Dolores masterminds a ProtectionRacket that targets vulnerable, homeless beggars, forcing them to turn over half their earnings to a proxy lest she have them viciously tortured--or even killed, as one poor blind man who becomes the victim of a hit-and-run learns---by her sadistic thugs. Dolores is ruthless in [[LeaveNoWitnesses silencing every witness]] to her scheme, having a mook who says too much for his own good gunned down and personally attempting to lock the Saint and an innocent actress in a SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere to die.

* ''The Armageddon Alternative'': [[MadBomber Frederick Boiler]] is a brilliant but irredeemably {{narcissist}}ic nuclear physician. Stymied after being rejected for a job he wanted, Fred begins to target the professor who rejected him for the most [[DisproportionateRetribution over-the-top]] revenge possible. He almost single-handedly builds a working atomic bomb in his own garage--helped only by a getaway driver, whom Fred [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness poisons with radium after he's worn out his use]]—-and threatens to [[NukeEm nuke London]] unless his sadistic terms are agreed to: He wants the professor's daughter guillotined on live TV and all of London ForcedToWatch. To prove he's not bluffing, Boiler sets off six smaller bombs all throughout the city, killing and maiming hundreds of people. When it becomes clear London won't cave to his demands, Fred decides to commit MurderSuicide with the entire population of London, sneering when Simon genuinely offers to help him turn over a new leaf: "If I'm going, I'm going in glory!"