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->''"More troubling to us must be the fact that this regime chose to swat an internal problem with a weapon of mass destruction in a way that we would surely know what had been done. As is the case with the Chinese population, we are meant to take away from this a sense of abject horror and fear: an understanding that this regime is capable of anything. And while the Chinese people, locked within the fortress created by thirty years of Communist rule, must grovel in fear to this insanity, we are now no less immune. We may not live under this Lesser Mao, but we could as surely be the victims of his madness should the whim strike. The man has made himself the master terrorist of the Earth through this single act."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RichardNixon''' on '''Mao Yang-jin''', better known as '''the Lesser Mao''', ''Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo''

{{Web Original}}s come in many forms, and are not bereft of [[CompleteMonster heinous villains]].

Examples from {{Webcomics}} can be found [[Monster/{{Webcomics}} here]]; examples from FanWorks can be found [[Monster/FanWorks here]]; examples from WebGames can be found [[Monster/VideoGames here]]; examples from Music can be found [[Monster/{{Music}} here]]

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!!The following have their own pages

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* ''Monster/TheArknMythos''
* ''Monster/{{Bionicle}}''
* ''Monster/CriticalRole''
* Monster/DCAnimation
* ''Monster/{{Diablo}}''
* Monster/MarvelAnimation
* ''Monster/MortalKombat''
* ''Monster/TheNeverkindSaga'' (''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils'' & ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'')
* ''Monster/{{Pokemon}}''
* ''Monster/PowerRangers''
* ''Monster/{{RWBY}}''
* ''Monster/SCPFoundation''
* ''Monster/{{Transformers}}''
* ''Monster/UltraSeries''
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!!Other examples

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* ''Literature/TheAngloAmericanNaziWar'': [[DragonAscendant Heinrich Himmler]], head of the [[StateSec SS]] and UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, succeeds UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as Germany's leader following the latter suffering a debilitating stroke. Overseeing UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, Himmler also executes political dissidents and kills tens of millions as he conquers much of Europe, going on to oppress the conquered Soviet Union with demands for slave labor and natural resources. Enacting a strict scorched earth policy to avoid the Allies being able to use resources of cities, Himmler causes millions to die and cares nothing for the countless European cultural and artistic works destroyed by his barbaric order. Using chemical warfare, Himmler devastates the UK and Italy, even as the latter surrenders. Facing revolt from both France and the Soviet Union, Himmler immediately responds by attacking both with nerve gas, killing hundreds of thousands and plunging the latter into a civil war. When the Allies move to conquer Germany, Himmler, unwilling to relinquish power, orders the bombing of any town planning to surrender.
* ''Literature/BeastOfTheAirwavesTheFallOfATelevisionIcon'' ([[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/beast-of-the-airwaves-the-fall-of-a-television-icon.412575/ link]]): UsefulNotes/TedBundy is a SerialKiller who becomes Washington State Press Secretary and then a popular talk show host. Continuing his activities during these careers, he moves his hunting grounds to New Jersey after his show relocates to New York City. After his car is stolen [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot and the body of a teenage girl is found in it by the police]], Ted manages to shift the blame onto [[TheScapegoat the carjacker]], getting the man falsely convicted of her murder. When his wife discovers a shoe box containing [[CreepySouvenir Polaroid pictures of many of his victims]], he tries to kill her as well to cover up his crimes. Having murdered at least 231 women and girls, Ted Bundy demonstrates just how terrible a celebrity can be.
* ''Literature/BlueSkiesInCamelot'': UsefulNotes/CharlesManson is a ruthless, megalomaniacal musician turned [[DarkMessiah cult leader]] who will use any means to get what he considers the power he deserves. To achieve this end, he gathers followers in the Los Angeles area, establishing an insular commune known as the Manson Family. After failing to have UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan assassinated, he decides to commit a serious of gruesome murders to start an apocalyptic race war he calls Helter Skelter, [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans then take the reins of power in the aftermath]]. He and his followers first kill a drug dealer and a music teacher in the hopes that doing so would spark a deadly conflict involving the Black Panthers, then graduate to slaughtering several celebrities and Canadian Prime Minister UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau in order to horrify the media and the general public. After following this up by killing a supermarket executive and his wife, Manson and his followers leave the Los Angeles area to commit more murders elsewhere, murdering an elderly ranch owner before they go in order to cover their tracks. As the law closes in on Manson while he attempts to flee to Mexico, he tries to get his lover "Mother Mary" Brunner to [[OffingTheOffspring kill their infant son Valentine]] to make their escape easier. [[FauxAffablyEvil Cruel and brutal behind his charming demeanor]], Charles Manson's horrific crimes sent two nations into shock and mourning.
* ''Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo'': The world in general in this AlternateHistory story has become a major CrapsackWorld, but some dictators outshine all others in heinousness.
** [[FromNobodyToNightmare Mao Yang-jin]], aka The Lesser Mao, is UsefulNotes/MaoZedong's successor as dictator of the Chinese People's Republic. Seeing himself as a second UsefulNotes/QinShiHuangdi, he manages to be even worse than his predecessor, banning literacy, instituting massive purges, and turning all of China into a horrifying hybrid of post-UsefulNotes/ColdWar era North Korea and Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia, with totalitarianism ramped up and the country turned into a giant death camp and killing field, where people are forced into making opium. He even starts a war in Southeast Asia to keep the heroin trade up and running. When the military rebels against him for his regime's excesses, he destroys the rebel-controlled city of Kwangsi with a nuclear missile. Later, he creates a virulent strain of influenza that kills the better part of a million people worldwide, none more so than in China itself. This creates the worst health year since UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu. By the end of the century, China and its people have become one giant ruin.
** [[AmoralAfrikaner Magnus Malan]] is a power-hungry [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] bent on killing or enslaving all that don't meet his racial standards. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Malan]] first launches a coup against the South African government, killing and imprisoning political dissidents, and greatly expands UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra to include non-Afrikaner whites, putting them in [[POWCamp concentration camps]]. Malan starts wars against all of South Africa's neighbors, regularly massacring civilians, and using chemical weapons and dirty bombs without regards for consequences or civilian casualties. When the tide of war begins to turn against him, Malan decides to use South Africa's nuclear arsenal to destroy its neighboring nations, killing tens of millions out of spite.
** [[TheFundamentalist Douglas Coe]], known among his followers as "The Great Teacher", is a fundamentalist preacher who seeks to spread his particular brand of Evangelical Christianity across the United States at all costs. Coe first works closely with President Rumsfeld, helping the President turn the country into a kleptocracy and remove political dissident. When Coe feels that Rumsfeld is no longer politically useful to him, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Coe arranges for the latter's impeachment and arrest]]. When Congress refuses to cooperate with him, Coe launches a coup that leads to destruction of the Capitol and numerous deaths of Washington's political leadership. Under his rule, Coe turns the US into the "Christian States of America", where dissent is outlawed, and non-Evangelical Christians and "degenerates" such as homosexuals or drug addicts are designated for death. In his campaign to bring the rest of the country to heel, Coe [[NukeEm has at least a dozen American cities destroyed with nuclear weapons]]. In order to stop a Cuban invasion of Florida, Coe uses several more nuclear weapons, indifferent to the millions of innocent people killed due to his actions. When the nuclear stockpiles begin to run low, Coe authorizes the use of chemical and biological weapons in his war against the resisting American populace. Believing himself to be [[KnightTemplar the messenger of God]], Douglas Coe created one of the most oppressive and violent regimes in American history.
* ''WebOriginal/TheFootprintOfMussolini'': UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, leader of [[RedChina Communist China]] during the UsefulNotes/ChineseCivilWar, creates the brutal fanatical Red Guards as his guerrilla forces and orders them to massacre refugees from his regime. Desperate to not lose the war, Mao orders his population to melt their own steel to use it as building material and weapons, causing a famine that kills 40 million citizens. Unable to admit defeat, Mao orders a brutal suicidal offensive during a temporary ceasefire for a festival. When the Nationalists reach Shanghai, Mao orders his men to turn Shanghai into a death trap where millions of soldiers [[WeHaveReserves are sent to die]] and anyone trying to escape is murdered, due to Mao's desire to traumatize his enemies and watch his men die, whilst [[{{ephebophile}} he has sex with teenage girls]]. Betrayed by the USSR and his own Party and given to the UN, Mao's last words before his execution are "I should have invaded Russia."
* ''Literature/HowSilentFallTheCherryBlossoms'' ([[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/how-silent-fall-the-cherry-blossoms.280585/ link]]): In the Timeline, this duo are some of the worst that UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan had to offer.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jisaburō_Ozawa Vice Admiral Jisaboro Ozawa]], nicknamed "[[InsaneAdmiral the Gargoyle]]", from the Imperial Japanese Navy, stands out as one of the worst war criminals of this timeline. Working with the infamous Unit 731, Osawa orders the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night]] and sends suicidal units to drop fleas with the Bubonic Plague virus in Los Angeles, infecting thousands, killing hundreds and causing riots in multiple cities in a futile effort to slow the American war effort, horrifying even his own Emperor. Overconfident at his initial success, Osawa personally convinces his German allies to try chemical warfare and--as part of the operation--tries to infect American crops with anthrax, stopped only for the timely response of the American health organizations. A stubborn man willing to let his compatriots die for the sake of his own pride, Ozawa committed suicide during the last days of the war after--[[SmallRoleBigImpact despite his small role in the biggest picture]]--managing the feat of changing the tone of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for the worse, having started the normalization of biochemical weapons in all sides.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiro_Ishii Shirō Ishii]] himself, the leader of Unit 731--infamous for their [[PlayingWithSyringes horrific experiments]] on humans, POW and civilian alike, and their use of biological weapons--is the intellectual author of Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night and works with Osawa to carry it. Continuing with his experimentation on humans in a region of China, Ishii is killed by Allied forces as part of Operation Frankenstein as revenge for his role on the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night as he was preparing to experiment with another prisoner.
* ''Literature/IcarusFalls'':
** UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev is the ruthless dictator of the Soviet Union and [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade reviled pariah]] in the international community. Escalating a border dispute with China into a major diplomatic crisis, Brezhnev assassinates UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, hoping to frame the United States for it and get the two nations to go to war. When this fails, Brezhnev sends over a hundred nukes to destroy China in the subsequent war, only refraining from launching more due to Western pressure. When an attempt at starting a purge devolves into a civil war, Brezhnev has towns and cities indiscriminately firebombed and has unarmed protesters massacred in the streets. When the war starts to turn against him, Brezhnev uses nuclear weapons on Grozny, Perm, and Central Asia, and [[TakingYouWithMe orders that every missile silo in the Soviet arsenal detonate their warheads if he loses]]. Personally executing people who refuse his orders or [[ShootTheMessenger bring him bad news]], Brezhnev is a sadistic tyrant who takes joy in killing people.
** [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Lin Biao]] becomes the Chairman of China after Mao Zedong is assassinated. Deciding to use nuclear weapons first in the Sino-Soviet war, Biao holds no concern over the prospect that the Soviet response will devastate China for decades. When famine and anarchy begin to break out in war-torn China, Biao threatens to attack any United Nations convoys attempting to bring badly needed food and medicine to the mainland. When rebellions against his rule start to break out, Biao [[WeHaveReserves throws masses of starved conscripts at them]], prepared to accept any price to crush the rebels. When the tide of the war turns, Biao uses every WeaponOfMassDestruction at his disposal, utilizing [[DeadlyGas poison gas]], biological weapons, and his last nuclear weapon, and throws ChildSoldiers armed with spears and knives to remedy his manpower shortage. When finally caught in inescapable retreat, Biao destroys any town in danger of falling to the rebels, via immolation or impalement, and orders his troops to conduct guerilla warfare, ensuring that the war continues for years after his death.
** [[WesternTerrorists Gerhard Von Schubert]] is the manager of [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazi]] mercenary group Paladin, [[PsychoForHire selling the group's services]] to various dictatorships around the globe. After becoming the group's leader, Gerhard sponsors several far-right terrorist attacks in Italy while on the run from the authorities. Buying a nuke from a corrupt CIA agent, Gerhard [[NukeEm launches the weapon at the Muslim holy city of Mecca]], killing a million people directly and planning on escaping in the ensuing chaos and religious violence that will consume the globe.
* ''Literature/NewDealCoalitionRetained'': [[TheCaligula Vladimir Kryuchkov]] is the head of the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] and the instigator of the [[TyrantTakesTheHelm 1985 coup]] against the reformist government of Alexander Yakovlev when the latter tried to reform the USSR away from [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Focoist ideology]]. Upon taking power, Kryuchkov helps other hardliners across the Warsaw Pact launch massive purges against their political opponents. In response to the failing Soviet economy, Kryuchkov takes advantage of border skirmishes between West and East Germany as a means to kickstart WorldWarIII. As the war progresses, Kryuchkov uses increasingly brutal tactics to achieve victory, such as using chemical weapons, leading to insurmountable loss of life and massive cultural damage. When the war starts turning in NATO's favor, Kryuchkov and the KGB resort to even more brutal tactics such as launching a massive purge of moderates across the Warsaw pact; using non-Russian Soviet minorities as {{human shield}}s; wiping out entire cities and villages; conscripting {{serial killer}}s from prisons to terrorize their subjects into submission; and launching a [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] attack on the East Coast to weaken the US. At the end of the war, with the fall of Moscow, Kryuchkov orders a nuclear strike at the US and other key NATO targets.
* ''Literature/PiecingTogetherTheAshesReconstructingTheOldWorldOrder'': The man known as "The Beast" was [[PresidentEvil the last American president]] before [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Deluge]]. A far-right American military leader, the Beast staged a coup against a leftist president to take control over the country. When Canada, Mexico and Cuba criticized said action, the Beast either ordered the overthrow of their governments and put friendly dictators in change or invaded the countries. When America was harshly sanctioned by the international community, the Beast threatened to unleash HellOnEarth, which he did by ordering the use of [[NukeEm multiple nuclear weapons]] throughout the world while believing himself a messenger of God, killing billions and causing the collapse of modern civilization. A brutal, petty bigot who tried to send American Muslims to [[PoWCamp reeducation camps]], the Beast's crimes made him feared and hated even generations after his death, with his figure becoming the personification of evil to future civilizations.
* ''Literature/{{Reds}}'':
** [[SinisterMinister William Dudley Pelley]] is the "President" of the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Free American State]] in a German-occupied Belarusian town of Maly Trostenets. Under Pelley's guidance, the Nazi collaborationist state recreates a twisted image of the pre-revolutionary America, where the ideals of National Socialism are upheld, the amended Constitution enforces racial oppression, and African-American prisoners of war are kept as slaves to emulate the idyll of the antebellum United States. The luxurious life of Pelley and other Nazi Americans in Maly Trostenets is maintained by oppression of the local population, subjecting the Soviet people to grueling forced labor and starvation rations. When the German defeat on the Eastern Front becomes apparent and food supply to the Free American State runs short, Pelley decides to cut rations for Soviet laborers even more in order to keep the parasitic existence of the Nazi American statelet undisturbed, leading to numerous deaths from hunger among the Slavic workforce. [[WhileRomeBurns To withdraw himself from the horrific reality of the incoming Nazi collapse]], Pelley [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil indulges in rape]], only to later shame the {{sex slave}}s for their "devilish temptations". When Pelley attempts to escape to [[GovernmentInExile American Havana]] after the German surrender, he is immediately brought back to the Soviet Union, as even the anti-Communist American state saw Pelley and his regime as a hideous disgrace to the American ideals.
** [[TortureTechnician Virgil Effinger]] is the leader of the [[LesCollaborateurs Schwarz Legion]], the military wing of the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Free American State]]. Serving as the "Secretary of War" of the Nazi American puppet government, Effinger is responsible for [[CrushingThePopulace repressing the native population of Maly Trostenets]], taking a sadistic pleasure in brutal and inhumane torture and killing of Soviet citizens and American prisoners of war. Effinger especially hates those "Aryan" prisoners of war who refuse to join the Nazi side, throwing them to basement and letting dogs maul them. Effinger personally tortures and murders slaves who collapse of starvation and executes one Belarusian for each who drops dead from labor. As the tide of war turns against the Germans, Effinger becomes [[VillainousBreakdown even more psychotic]], causing him randomly murdering Slavic servants and even [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves turning his gun against the Red American renegades]], blaming their "lingering Redness" for defeat. Effinger is assassinated shortly before the Soviet liberation of Maly Trostenets under mysterious circumstances. Whenever he was killed by his Belarusian maid, the SS members [[EvenEvilHasStandards who started to consider him "deranged and violent wastrel"]] or Pelley's goons who saw him as an obstacle for their evacuation, it is clear that everyone recognized Effinger as a deeply depraved and sadistic individual.
* ''Literature/TheRuinsOfAnAmericanPartySystem'': [[TheFundamentalist William Dudley Pelley]] is the leader of the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Silver Legion]], a far-right extremist paramilitary that is responsible for numerous assassination attempts against American politicians and public figures. When President Floyd Olson declares all his organizations illegal, Pelley assembles his hardcore believers at Galahad College, calling for a preemptive strike against the state of North Carolina. In doing so, Pelley orders the Silver Shirts to assault police stations and kidnap civilians across the city to hold them as [[HostageSituation hostages]]. When Galahad College is surrounded by the National Guard forces, Pelley proclaims that he is the [[AGodAmI only true Messiah]] and that he will not negotiate the release of prisoners unless the United States government agrees to segregate the Jews, burn down the large metropolises and abolish the secular Constitution. When his demands are not met, Pelley declares that he and his flock would rather die in flames than live under the reign of Anti-Christ and [[SuicideByCop provokes shooting from the soldiers]]. Falling down from gunshot wounds, Pelley drops his lit lamp at gasoline oil splashes, setting the whole building with hostages and his followers on fire. Orchestrating the horrible murder of 249 innocent victims in one day, as well as causing 144 deaths by the hands of the Silver Legion elsewhere, Pelley is remembered as the single most evil person in history by the American people.
* ''Literature/TwilightOfTheRedTsar'': UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, having survived the stroke that killed him in OTL, launches massive purges of Soviet society that kills hundreds of thousands, with many Soviet leaders, even loyal veterans, like Zhukov, being gruesomely executed. Continuing with the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot Doctor's Plot]]", amplified by his paranoia, Stalin orders a purge of Jews from Soviet society, included loyal followers, persecuting them badly enough to have his actions labeled as the "Soviet [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]]" or "The Great Pogrom". When the Sino-Soviet split happens due to disagreements with UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, leading to the Sino-Soviet war, Stalin uses chemical weapons, unleashes smallpox on the Chinese, and destroys many villages before finishing the war by nuking Chinese cities just to spite Mao as Stalin starts to feel his own death, killing 50 million Chinese in the war. Out of prejudice and paranoia, Stalin orders an [[FinalSolution ethnic cleansing campaign]] in the Caucasus region and the Baltic states, save Lithuania, deporting its indigenous people into prison camps in Siberia, killing hundreds of thousands. Having destroyed many nations due to ambition, hatred and paranoia, Stalin left a bloody legacy that eventually lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself, now the most hated nation in the world.
* ''Literature/WebersGermanyTheVeterinarianTotalitarian'': UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich is a top-ranking [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] and one of the party's vilest members. Controlling the Abwehr, Heydrich orchestrates the start of the Spring War by killing 20 people through the Danzig Crisis. Once tasked to organize the FinalSolution, Heydrich decrees the Jews and other races deemed as inferior will be [[PenalColony sent to Germany's African colonies and enslaved]], where they will gradually be exterminated by being worked to death or sterilized. After being sent to manage the colony of Kamerun, Heydrich places the laborers under brutal working conditions, liquidating entire towns and sending thousands of them to work near Lake Monoun to asphyxiate from its [[DeadlyGas volcanic gases]].
* ''Literature/WhatMadnessIsThis'':
** [[TheCaligula Prince Viktor]] is a violent, unhinged lunatic who becomes the leader of Russia and England once his parents die. Before becoming a world leader, Viktor [[SerialKiller murders three prostitutes for no reason]], and [[CainAndAbel kills his two brothers]] when he learns that he will be skipped in the line of succession due to his belligerent behavior. Once he obtains power, Viktor immediately sets out on a war of aggression with Persia and China with the intent on expanding his territory and power. Viktor organizes genocides in Afghanistan and Baluchistan, partly out of a desire to keep them in line and partly to fuel his own sadism. Viktor also organizes massive pogroms across Russia, killing many thousands of Jews. When England rebels against him due to his actions, Viktor orders his troops to raze London and kill every man, woman and child. When France and Sweden blockade Russia's ports to stop his depravity, Viktor seriously considers starting a global war with them, prompting the armed forces to launch a coup and have him killed.
** [[PresidentEvil Charles Oswald]], aka UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, is the "Beast of America" and the Republican Union's most hated and feared leader. [[SelfMadeOrphan Murdering his own family]] to take a new identity, Oswald takes to having people deemed inferior rounded up for mass execution and massacres southern civilians on whims to terrify them into obedience. Taking power with his predecessor's death, Oswald engages in [[FalseFlagOperation false-flag terrorist operations]] to excuse giving himself emergency power and eventually orders Rio [[NukeEm nuked]], killing over three million people. Using his military to conquer and oppress other nations, Oswald also turns his bigoted eyes on his own black population and puts many millions to death. When faced with open rebellion Oswald begins having his own cities nuked, eventually trying to destroy his own capital out of spite.
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[[folder:The Heaven Cycle]]
* [[TheHedonist Ashton "Ash" Sharpe]] is a despicable and depraved beast of a man defined by his thrill-seeking nature. A low-functioning sociopath with a constant craving for stimulation and a seeming [[LackOfEmpathy inability to feel empathy]] who has bullied his way through life, Ash joins up with Red Clover alongside his partner Chayne Summers in ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor''. Ash becomes one of the top scientists of the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. experiments, using his influence to torment the 100 test subjects as he pleases, culminating in him brutally raping and torturing the teenage girl Tango, leaving her mute and partially disabled. Throughout the story, Ash becomes addicted to the godlike sensations that come from contact with Heaven, becoming ever more unstable, ultimately resulting in him teaming with Chayne to unleash Heaven onto the Earth to wipe out humanity, after which he will kill Chayne herself to put in place his "perfect universe" of himself as a god. His crimes only increasing in the prequel story ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'', Ash is revealed to have conceived a son whom he horrifically [[AbusiveParents tortures and rapes]], and, as is revealed in ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'', forces the boy to do the same to sex slaves Ash buys. In his free time, Ash dabbles in human trafficking, subjecting his victims, often children to satisfy his pedophilic tastes, to dismemberment and flaying. Ash was a hedonistic monster who cared not for anyone or anything but how much fun he could get out of a situation, even if it meant dooming the entire Earth just to get his ultimate "high".
* [[ManipulativeBitch Alison "Alice" Witzenberg]] is a cold, amoral sociopath with a [[{{Sadist}} sick fascination with hurting others]] stemming from their own feeling of "weakness". Having grown up bullied and ignored, Alice becomes determined to never be overpowered again, and takes their first step towards this by befriending a homeless drunk, then driving him to suicide. Joining up with the human trafficker Scott Niles after abandoning their old life, Alice gleefully abused the slaves they were given charge over, until they brutally murdered Niles in a paranoid rage. Next signing up for the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. Project just for the fun and fortune it would bring them in ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'', Alice took to manipulating Jackson into becoming their "friend" and ruining his life, and later attempts to murder him. Returning in ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' after overpowering their new personality of Mint, Alice immediately sets an occupied hospital aflame to serve as a distraction before approaching then manipulating the mentally unstable Jango into leading a full-scale slaughter against the city of Haven. Alice's final plan is to have Haven's thousands of residents murdered, leave Jango to die in the process, then unleash the forces of Hell onto the city to trap the souls of the deceased and torture them for all eternity. After failing to trap Tango in their mind for all eternity to torture them for fun, Alice returns in ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' one final time and attempts to destroy Mint's conscience just to ruin their peaceful mindset. With a drive to be powerful and dominating at all times, Alice stands out as the youngest villain in the story, yet still one of the most wicked.
* ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'':
** The brutal [[KnightTemplar Uriel]], the lord of Heaven, is a [[LightIsNotGood violent, egotistical archangel]] who runs Heaven as a nightmarish dystopia. Any angel who puts a thought out of line or incurs his displeasure is used for [[HumanResources fuel]] in Heaven, with Uriel slaughtering countless angels in a fit of pique whenever he is displeased, as well as being the one backing the Children of Heaven and their evil activities. After [[DirtyCoward cravenly fleeing]] when Naberius is loosed upon Solomon, allowing trillions of Heaven's residents to die, Uriel returns to kick-start the war against Hell and sends his forces to massacre everything on Earth, along with every demon. Uriel begins killing countless humans himself, proclaiming that he alone is the will of Heaven and he intends to kill every human, demon and even angels who hesitate, murdering his loyal CoDragons Saraquel and Raguel just for delaying in a response to him. Intending to construct a new "utopia" of endless torture for all he deems below him as he builds a new order above it, Uriel proceeds to attempt to annihilate half of the universe, showcasing that an angel can be far worse than most demons.
** [[{{Sadist}} Naberius]], the Fallen Savager, the [[MadArtist Poet of Agony]], is a depraved Tulpa wicked by even their usually low standards. Having helped kick-start the Heaven Cycle that has led to trillions of deaths, Naberius uses his time to harvest, torture and murder countless innocents while also resurrecting the depraved Alice Witzenberg to commit their crimes. Naberius destroys the city of Solomon and trillions within before taking the chance at the final Cycle to collect as many humans as he can before revealing his PocketDimension where he keeps trillions of innocent being in [[AndIMustScream endless suffering]], in pain from [[TortureTechnician eternal tortures he devises]]. Naberius even forces them to breed so he will never run out of new victims to torture, and attempts to subject Tango and the others to the worst tortures he can think of. One of the worst beings in heaven or hell, Naberius constantly shows why his boast of being ten times worse than even Chayne Summers herself is nothing idle.
** ''The Ambition of Hell'': [[FatBastard Scott Niles]] is an obese, disgusting {{human trafficker|s}} who [[EvilMentor mentors young Alice in the ways of power and pain]]. Working in the slave trade for years, Niles sentences countless women to horrific lives of rape and torture, regularly "[[SerialRapist testing]]" the women out himself beforehand, and keeps several women in his makeshift dungeon to use and abuse at his leisure. Dealing in victims as young as [[WouldHurtAChild four years old]], Niles's cruelty and viciousness extend beyond torture, as he shoots a slave in the head for fun, cracking an awful pun about her ethnicity, and beats a child slave to death with a towel rack when learning that he is severely sick. Though terrified of Ashton Sharpe's psychotic savagery, Niles nevertheless sells him women and children, knowing they will be tortured to death. In his final appearance, Niles attempts to rape Alice in a drunken lust, and, though halting his advances when Alice fights back, Niles never once apologizes or shows remorse for the act, having earlier stated that he wouldn't care one bit if Alice lost their "precious virginity" while dealing in his business. Though lacking the supernatural resources of other villains, Niles is no less vile.
** ''The Radiance of Heaven'':
*** [[OmnicidalManiac Azazel]], [[SatanicArchetype Lord of Hell]] and one of the most powerful Tulpas alive, is a [[ManipulativeBastard ruthless, brilliant schemer]] hell-bent on seeing Hell rise supreme in the final cycle. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introducing himself]] to Tango and Mint by subjecting an innocent couple to a horrible death, Azazel steadily unveils his machinations: Having sacrificed billions to the twisted, murderous pleasures of his brother Naberius, Azazel manipulates Tango so he may place Naberius in the Heaven-controlled city of Solomon, extinguishing trillions of lives, angel soldier and civilian alike. Azazel also cultivates sects loyal to Hell so he may lead them to their deaths, taking the strongest and most rebellious and subjecting them to agonizing transformations to serve as demonic servants. Azazel further manipulates his adopted son Erebos, a survivor of a Greek city Azazel handed to Naberius, to strengthen Azazel's own position in Hell, planning to wipe out Heaven and lead the demons to exterminate all human life with only a few human survivors twisted into grotesque parodies of life, with no care of the cost to build his diabolical paradise.
*** [[SmugSnake Pluto]], born Lazaros, is the leader of the Children of Heaven and TheDragon to archangel Uriel. A vicious, depraved {{sadist}} who commits a multitude of grisly murders to further his master's goals, Pluto relishes using his [[MindRape mental powers to dominate others]], even having a nurse [[ClawingAtOwnThroat claw her own throat]] out--while she's aware of what she's doing--and attempting to force a child to eat his own mother alive. Pluto attempts to twist the soul of Mint, threatening to unleash the Phantom virus in a global pandemic to blame on Mint, and later murders Tango's father for sheer spite. During the Battle of Yonkers, Pluto sweeps through the city and has everyone within massacred just to be "done with these apes". Upon the start of the great war, Pluto leads the Children and indulges his sadism, having thousands kill and eat one another while leaving them enough self-awareness to be horrified at their actions, even [[BadBoss killing his own ally]] Leviathan when Leviathan loses against Tango. Pluto reveals he always intended on wiping out the other Children in his attempt to cleanse the Earth of life and rule it like a god, seeing Heaven itself as nothing more than a means to an end to deliver him the power he craves. Of all the villains in the Heaven Cycle, Pluto stands as one of the worst: a revolting, despicable man who'd sell the entire world to avoid facing up to the pathetic sadist he truly is.
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* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther: [[Podcast/BlackPantherSinsOfTheKing Sins of the King]]'': Viper, aka Madame Hydra, is the leader of ComicBook/{{Hydra}}, who wants to take over Wakanda's resources for herself. She teams up with Dr. Miremba Angom, health minister to Waknada's neighboring nation Rudyarda, who secretly has a grudge against Wakanda. Viper tells the supervillain Graviton that Rudyarda is developing a particle bridge, and Graviton kills thousands in Rudyarda's capital to try to obtain it. Then Viper takes the guise of Jennifer Lancaster, director of an NGO called Ruby that promises to rebuild Rudyarda with Wakanda's help. Viper lures Black Panther into a trap and captures him, taking him to a lab where Hydra has captured hundreds of superhumans, [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting on them to reproduce their powers]]. Viper has Black Panther tortured, but the latter escapes, later returning to learn that Hydra has invaded Wakanda. Black Panther and his allies defeat the Hydra army, but Viper has been working with Miremba to destroy Wakanda's population, with Miremba bringing back fallen Hydra soldiers as zombies, [[ZombieApocalypse planning to use them to kill everyone in Wakanda]]. When the Avengers try to help Black Panther, Viper forces the supervillain Thunderball to attack them, threatening to [[ExplosiveLeash blow up him with a bomb]] she placed on Thunderball if he refuses.
* ''ComicBook/BlackWidow: [[Podcast/BlackWidowBadBlood Bad Blood]]'': Jean-Paul Viscose, aka the [[SharkMan Shark]], is a criminal and biosmuggler working for [[WellIntentionedExtremist Alan Holt]], a billionaire who thinks he must kill off 80% of humanity to save the remaining 20% and is planning to spread a [[SyntheticPlague virus]] across the globe to achieve this goal. Viscose is willing to aid Holt's mass murder scheme, planning to use Holt's resources to conquer the remaining 20% of humanity after the virus is released. When Black Widow and Bucky Barnes confront Holt, Viscose has Holt killed, [[TheStarscream taking over the operation himself]]. Black Widow and Bucky manage to blow up Holt's lab, but Viscose takes a convoy of trucks with the virus and heads to Geneva, planning to spread the virus there, and [[BadBoss threatens to kill any of Holt's men who refuse to help him]].
* ''ComicBook/JessicaJones: [[Podcast/JessicaJonesPlayingWithFire Playing with Fire]]'': [[BigBad Selene Gallio]] is an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent immortal energy vampire]] who is always seeking new victims to prey on. Active since at least the 1930s, Selene sets various organizations throughout the decades to get access to people to [[LifeDrinker drain]]. In her latest venture, Selene has set up a youth commune called Nova Naledi to lure in young people with minor superpowers. After accidentally killing one of her followers, Jamie Greene and his friend Brenden, after overfeeding on them, she sticks Brenden's body in a freezer and dumps Jamie's body in an overpass. When Jessica Jones investigates Jamie's murder, she eventually discovers Selene is behind it. Selene manages to capture Jessica Jones and Sam, one of her followers, when Sam [[HeKnowsTooMuch learned too much]] and locks them in her basement. There Selene feeds on Sam and Jessica and [[MindRape mentally tortures]] Jessica. When Jessica and Sam escape, Selene flees to a retreat upstate, taking the youths in the commune with her, with Selene planning to feed on all her followers until they die.
* ''[[Podcast/MarvelsWastelandersOldManStarLord Marvel's Wastelanders]]'': ''[[ComicBook/OldManQuill Old Man Star-Lord]]'': [[FromNobodyToNightmare Brandon Best]] was Characters/DoctorDoom's press agent during the supervillain takeover of Earth. After Doom is injured by the Hulk, Best imprisons the weakened Doom and takes his resources, turning the Midwestern United States into his personal fiefdom. Best has his subjects believe Doom is in charge, when in actuality Best is the true ruler. Best forces his subjects to work in mines and factories for little pay and extracts exorbitant taxes from them. Best has his Doombots kill anyone who protests his dictatorship. Best also takes people who displease him and puts them on ''Deer on Spear'', a [[DeadlyGame broadcast]] shown to his subjects where Kraven the Hunter brutally kills people and then [[DeadGuyOnDisplay puts the bodies on trees]] as a warning.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]: [[Podcast/ThorMetalGods Metal Gods]]'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nihilator]] is an evil being from a universe of dark energy who he tried to enter our universe, but his body became incapacitated when he did, curling into a ball and [[GeniusLoci becoming a planet named Miskandar]]. Nihilator decided to create life on Miskandar to be worshiped; when his creations eventually stopped worshipping him, an enraged Nihilator destroys most of the people on Miskandar. Nihilator places his mind in a crown that [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] steals and gives to a mediocre singer named Sylvain. The crown corrupts Sylvain, who mind controls aliens and forms a cult around Nihilator. Thor and his allies defeat Sylvain and the cult, but Nihilator mind controls Thor and his allies. Nihilator plans to [[TheCorrupter corrupt Skarra]], a refugee from Miskandar, and use her mind to restore himself so he can [[OmnicidalManiac bring death and destruction to the universe]].
* ''Podcast/{{Wolverine}}: The Lost Trail'' (second season): These two villains stand out as particularly heinous, even in this dark setting:
** [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Jason Wyngarde]], aka [[MasterOfIllusion Mastermind]], is a mutant kidnapped by Weapon X so that they can make him into a weapon for the government. He is imprisoned with a mutant named Maureen, as well as Logan himself. Maureen designs a helmet to increase Wyngarde's powers, allowing the trio to escape, but Wyngarde uses his powers to incapacitate Logan, believing him too beastly to be allowed to roam free, allowing Weapon X to recapture him. Years later, Wyngarde is using his powers to kidnap people around New Orleans--at least dozens, possibly hundreds of them--turning them into [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled "zombies"]] and taking them to a community he is creating, Green Haven. At Green Haven, Wyngarde runs this community like a fiefdom, with humans acting like serfs for the mutants. When Weapon X sends an army of sentinels to capture him and Wolverine, Wyngarde has no intention of giving up his fiefdom, intending to have his mind-controlled "zombies" fight the Sentinels to the death, not caring if they die in the process. Wyngarde also exposes Wolverine to [[MindRape horrific illusions]] to break him and make him his pawn.
** [[BigBad Master Mold]] is the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] that controls the Sentinels for Weapon X and the true architect of Wolverine's misfortunes. Master Mold is using the Sentinels to kidnap mutants so that Weapon X can make them into weapons for the government. Master Mold is also stoking anti-mutant violence in America, by providing funds and support to anti-mutant groups like a biker gang known as the Cold Blooded. After Wolverine escapes Weapon X, Master Mold is dead set on recapturing him. Master Mold hires the Cold Blooded to capture Wolverine but has her Sentinel army [[BadBoss wipe them out]] when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they prove too chaotic to control]]. Master Mold sends her Sentinel army to Green Haven, ordering them to kill everything in their path until Wolverine is captured. After capturing Wolverine, Master Mold not only intends to make Wolverine her weapon, but also plans to use Wyngarde's mind control tech against the people who run Weapon X, [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters desiring to give orders, rather than follow them]].
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* Tropers/{{Beast}}'s duology:
** ''Literature/TheRedMaidenGracesStory'': [[BigBad The Chieftain]] is a 60-year old noble and the short story's main antagonist. Having a history of [[DomesticAbuse abusing his sixteen previous wives]] by mutilating them before leaving them to die when he was bored of them, the Chieftain married Grace and abused her just as much for seven months, fascinated by her innocence and wanting to destroy it. When protagonist Mac Luaithre tried to kill him and save her, the Chieftain ripped out his heart. A year prior, when a farmer couldn't pay his taxes, the Chieftain [[OffWithHisHead decapitated him]] and took his head and daughter as compensation, marrying and abusing the latter before pimping her out. After Grace's death and resurrection, the Chieftain only showed pride upon seeing the undead, vengeful Grace, proud of having turned her into a monster. Upon his death, the Chieftain returned as an undead, and when his followers captured the undead Mac and Grace, he tried to have them either BuriedAlive next to each other but separated by stone, or one of them forced to kill the other. Beneath his [[FauxAffablyEvil superficial, sarcastic politeness]], the Chieftain was depraved to the core.
** ''Literature/{{Awesiaki}}'': [[TheCaligula Greeshawn Chase]] is the [[AntagonisticOffspring greedy and egotistical son]] of Minister Benjamin Chase, who believes that it is his right to take from others. After acquiring control of [[TheDreaded the Devourer]]'s army, Greeshawn raids surrounding villages and either slaughters or [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] its population to work in his mines, while forcing his prisoners to become [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]]. When Benjamin discovers his crimes, Greeshawn [[{{Patricide}} strangles him]] and, after his romantic proposal is rejected by Mahalia, tries to claim that Mahalia is a witch who caused Benjamin's death. When the other colonists refuse to support his claim, Greeshawn uses several forest children as bait for his monsters and incites them to attack Awesiaki, uncaring of the casualties he causes. He then forces Jaralath to become the leader of his monster army, subtly threatening to kill Mahalia if he didn't. When Greeshawn discovers that Edith Müller has been leading a resistance movement, he executes many of its members and, when Erik betrays him, sentences him and the others to be tortured in the Pit. During the [[KangarooCourt trial of Jaralath]], Greeshawn blames him for all the crimes he committed as "Bloodletter" and, when Erik and Angelica resist him again, he sentences Erik to the Pit again and has Jaralath and Angelica [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured via cutting and leaving them to freeze in winter]].
* ''WebOriginal/CaseFileNo56'': [[AxCrazy Stitch]] is a murderous, undead entity responsible for [[SerialKiller a string of brutal murders]] in Seattle. In life, he was said to be a wicked man, punished for his crimes by drawing and quartering. He has killed many victims across the globe, and kicks off his spree in Seattle by stalking and ultimately [[CruelAndUnusualDeath ripping a woman to shreds]] in her own home; kills her cousin in the mental hospital shortly after; then murders a paranormal investigator. When the heroes of the story catch onto him, Stitch infiltrates their personal lives, stalking their homes and [[DreamWalker haunting their dreams]], and killing a helpful Redditor in front of the lead hero and his intern. One of the detectives goes into hiding, and he murders her along with her family. After the hero has the case taken out of his hands, Stitch reveals to him that he's kept him alive to provide him with victims by instilling fear in their hearts, driving him to [[MurderSuicide kill his intern and then himself]] out of shame.
* ''Literature/TheDayIWasForcedToBecomeAHitman'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2kojy1/the_day_i_was_forced_to_become_a_hitman_kill_1/ link]]): "[[MorallyBankruptBanker Ralph]]" is a SerialRapist who [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections uses his connections to get away with his crimes]]. He harasses at least one of his female employees and on one occasion rapes her. After this, he kidnaps her young daughter and another girl, keeps them caged in his mansion, and regularly [[WouldHurtAChild rapes them]] for a long period of time. When the protagonist breaks into his mansion, he finds evidence which heavily implies that "Ralph" has done the same thing to many other girls over the years and has later [[SerialKiller disposed of them]].
* ''Literature/TheDeepwoodSeries'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/NosleepIndex/comments/29n3i8/the_deepwood_series_uthe_dalek_emperor/ link]]): Jameson Scott, the trilogy's [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human antagonist]], appears to be a young and charismatic tech mogul, the head of a technology empire. In actuality, Jameson's true age is in his eighties and he has been [[ImmortalityImmorality maintaining his life and youth]] by committing {{human sacrifice}}s to the demon Metaraxes--a deed that subsequently erases the victim from history and memory to all but a few people. Scott initially claims to be doing what is necessary to satiate the demon, but when his cover is blown, he is revealed to be a [[ItsAllAboutMe power-hungry egotist out to expand his own empire]]. When Metaraxes asks for the protagonist Katie Ross to be sacrificed, Scott reveals to her that he brought the demon other girls with her name before they eventually found her. It is also revealed that [[OffingTheOffspring he sacrificed his own daughter]] to Metaraxes for his selfish ends. When Katie and Jamie manage to lure Metaraxes into a trap, Scott and his men try to stop and kill them.
* ''Literature/DoesAnyoneRememberChannel42'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/bhehv3/does_anyone_remember_channel_42/ link]]): [[ManipulativeBastard The One Who Walks In The Void]] is a horrific otherworldly being that attaches itself to an earnest TV station producer, Jonathan Torrence. Convincing Torrence that it is God, and making him his servant, it has Torrence kill numerous people, especially [[WouldHurtAChild children]], as {{human sacrifice}}s. After Torrence commits ritual suicide, the being takes the form and personality of [[MonsterClown Stitches the Clown]], creating a twisted broadcast of shows where he tortures, mutilates numerous people and creatures on his shows. As Stitches, he [[DepravedKidsShowHost uses his show]] to try to teach kids how to kill, commit cannibalism, and even prepare to surgically remove the brain of a captive child. It is implied that the people appearing on his shows are souls it collected from sacrifices. Seeking a greater audience, Stitches and his slaves would stalk and terrorize people who view the show to get them to spread the word, before cowardly begging Agent Helsing to spare his life when the latter realizes his weakness.
* ''Literature/DrMarginsGuideToNewMonsters'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/23d415/an_introduction_to_my_research/ link]]): [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/23s4go/dr_margins_guide_to_new_monsters_the_man_in_the/ The Man in the Mask]] sends an email to Doctor Michael Margin, a researcher into new monsters, taking him to a website of his own design filled with numerous videos of his victims--among them a [[WouldHurtAChild six-year-old child]]--which first show them begging to be released before cutting to them calmly admitting that they wish to die, at which point the [[MalevolentMaskedMan Man in the Mask]], without any resistance, [[SlashedThroat slits their throats]]. When asked what this was, the Man in the Mask replied that is was the "Theory of Preposterous Evil," the idea that some men are so evil that they are monsters in disguise. After the Man in the Mask kidnaps Michael, the Man gives his reason for killing people as being that they asked for it--when he had convinced them of this. After he kills himself and wipes all evidence of his crimes, save the video of his suicide, Michael realizes that the Man in the Mask had one good point: Some men can turn into monsters.
* ''Literature/EmergencyBroadcastCrimsonAlert'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/e07zgr/emergency_broadcast_crimson_alert/ link]]): [[BiblicalBadGuy Haman]] is the ruthless figure of [[Literature/BookOfEsther legends]]. Having attempted to exterminate the Jews in the past, Haman has continued atrocity after atrocity through the ages, killing countless people in the process, including assisting the Nazis with UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. Initiating the Crimson Alert to hand Earth over to demons and give it to the devil, Haman is also revealed to have [[OffingTheOffspring traded his sons]] for [[ImmortalityImmorality centuries of life]], uncaring who is damned or killed as long as he continues his genocidal aims.
* ''Literature/IDaredMyBestFriend'' series: [[TheChessmaster David King]] is the BigBad of this series and was a manipulative, murderous sociopath even as a child. In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/4q03fa/i_dared_my_best_friend_to_ruin_my_life_hes/ the first installment]], he obsessively tries to destroy the life of protagonist Zander Jones, threatening his girlfriend, killing one of his roommates, and then murdering his own mother to [[FrameUp frame Zander for it]], sending him to prison. After realizing that he'd get bored without his favorite target, David frees Zander from police custody to continue tormenting him, killing two cops in the process. He later kills his own accomplice and tries to kill Zander's girlfriend out of spite. Despite his death at the end of the first series, David's evil continues to drive the conflict of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/4ulqeq/i_dared_my_best_friend_to_end_my_life_part_1/ the sequel series]], with it being revealed that he had formed a group of similarly-sociopathic individuals that would systematically destroy the lives of complete strangers, including selling some people as sex slaves. Holding no loyalty to said group, David is all too willing to abuse or dispose of them once he grows tired of them.
* ''Literature/IHadToPsychologicallyEvaluateASerialKillerIDontKnowWhatToReport'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/4onkve/i_had_to_psychologically_evaluate_a_serial_killer/ link]]): Howard is a vicious sadist who enjoys ruthlessly torturing people. Starting first with [[AbusiveParents his son, Adam]], Howard [[ColdBloodedTorture regularly beats him, puts out cigarettes on his skin, and wraps his arms and legs in barbed wire]]. When Adam's mother tries to stop Howard's abuse, [[DomesticAbuse he strangles her to death]]. Fearing that Adam's SplitPersonality will go to the police with this information, Howard fulfils his sadistic desires by [[SerialKiller killing women he picks up at bars]], torturing them in the same manner he tortured Adam, killing a total of twenty two people. When Adam kills Howard in revenge, Howard simply comes back as a ghost, and demands that his son bring him more women to torture and kill. Adam and his split personality lures three women to their deaths in this manner, and once caught by the police, begs for the death penalty to escape his father's grasp.
* ''Literature/ItOnlyTakesTheGoodKids'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/9veihg/it_only_takes_the_good_kids/ link]]): The creature dubbed [[HumanoidAbomination the Dark Man]] is a mysterious but sadistic entity responsible for decades worth of [[WouldHurtAChild child murders]], having a sweet tooth for good children. In addition to being stated to [[ChildEater eat its victims]], the Dark Man has a habit of [[FrameUp framing]] mentally handicapped people for his crimes. When he learns that the protagonist and his friends are on to him, the Dark Man abducts the latter's younger brother--taking a break from his usual streak--to lure them. When confronted, it reveals he impaled said brother to slowly die, kills two of his friends before [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown battering the protagonist to an inch of his life]]. The Dark Man mocks the protagonist for trying to be a hero before leaving him and his brother to their fates. While the protagonist survives to adulthood, the Dark Man is implied to still be on the loose.
* ''Literature/IWasAProfessionalInternetTroll'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5hud9q/i_was_a_professional_internet_troll/ link]]): [[VillainProtagonist The story's narrator]], known by his online alias "Resisilobus", is an overzealous [[{{Troll}} internet troll]] who manages to be particularly vile even by those standards. Not content with simply being an unpleasant individual online, Resisilobus intentionally drives two people to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]] by relentlessly harassing them. He then befriends a teenage outcast and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the boy]] into killing seven of his classmates and then committing suicide. To indicate how little he values the lives of others, Resisilobus considers the "achievements" to be inferior to his comparatively minor hacking of a popular Bible app and the confusion it causes among Christians. A remorseless sadist who openly revels in the power his crimes make him feel, Resisilobus is an example of how internet anonymity can bring out the worst in people.
* ''Literature/IWasBornOnAChildFarm'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5dzvmt/i_was_born_on_a_child_farm/ link]]): [[BigBad Headmaster Ranon Xinon, real name Clark P. Ganes]], is a mysterious man with the power to [[VampiricDraining steal people's life force and experiences]]. Ganes targets people with good lives, stealing their precious memories and reverting them back to children with no sense of happiness. Ganes, as Xinon, [[WouldHurtAChild abducts hundreds of children and treats them like livestock on his farm]], [[ForTheEvulz poisoning and abusing them for fun]], and [[ChildEater devouring one child]] daily. When the authorities finally track down the farm, Ganes poisons half of the children's meals and hunts down the rest who escape to axe them off, even gloating how proud he is of everything he's taken from the children when he's killed.
* ''Literature/IWasClaimedByASkinwalker'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/c6eh3g/i_was_claimed_by_a_skinwalker/ link]]): The titular {{Skinwalker}} develops a fixation on the protagonist Jake, [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalking]] him and his friends on a camping trip. After picking off two of his friends, the Skinwalker possesses, or takes the skin, of Jake's beloved girlfriend Blair, before presenting the mutilated bodies of his friends. The Skinwalker did something to his friend Cori that Jake refuses to describe. Still wearing Blair's face, the Skinwalker proceeds to [[ColdBloodedTorture savagely torture]] and disfigure Jake, declaring him its property, before being driven off. In the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/mrcreeps/comments/ezjkv7/last_year_i_was_claimed_by_a_skinwalker_i_wish_it/ sequel]], the Skinwalker has been tormenting Jake for a year after he returns home, making him wish for death as he becomes a recluse, frequently appearing to him as Blair and mockingly mimicking her affectionate personality. As Jake gradually rebuilds his life and befriends a hotline worker named Lana, the Skinwalker tells Jake it will leave him alone from now on. As Jake gets his life back on track, the Skinwalker appears one more time to trick Jake into strangling Lana in his sleep before disappearing for good. This leaves Jake utterly broken, causing him to finally [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]].
* ''Literature/LittleWitchAndJackOLantern'': [[SerialKiller Timothy Clay]] is the [[DepravedKidsShowHost lead actor and showrunner]] of the titular show, and is implied to be an actual [[EvilSorcerer dark wizard]]. Running the show as a seemingly wholesome and educational program, the protagonist Logan would later learn the real horrors going on behind the scenes. Using his character Jack O'Lantern as an outlet, Clay ran a story time hotline for viewers to call, where Logan becomes a regular caller. Through these, it's gradually discovered that Clay is keeping his young co-star captive, being an abusive ControlFreak--it's even hinted he may have killed a previous co-star before taking her. If one of his story times is any indication, he may be a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] as well, having made soup out of one of his victims. Years after his mysterious death, the full truth of Clay's depravity is revealed after his mysterious death, as the bodies of his victims are discovered buried under his studio, including two families he murdered.
* ''Literature/MyBrotherDiedThreeWeeksAgo'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/bcvuzi/my_brother_died_three_weeks_ago_today_i_found_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x link]]): [[AbusiveParents The Man Upstairs]] is a menacing boogeyman figure and the reason for the titular brother's suicide. When Josh tries to investigate the true circumstances behind his brother Ade's death, it is ultimately discovered that the enigmatic "Man Upstairs" is none other than their unnamed father. With Ade's hidden journal discovered, it's revealed that Ade found his father digging through a secret bunker, and discovers his father is a serial [[WouldHurtAChild child murderer]] using the bunker to dispose of the bodies, with at least nine murders to his name. His father forces Ade to keep quiet by threatening not only to [[OffingTheOffspring murder him]] but [[PaterFamilicide the rest of his family as well]]. Ade spends months in silent torment with the Man Upstairs--who he no longer sees as his father--constantly watching him, and holding the threat over his head, until the fear and shame drives Ade to suicide. Afterwards, his father seems willing to use Ade as a scapegoat, and even when exposed and arrested, [[NeverMyFault tries to deny responsibility]].
* ''Literature/MyFatherStoodOutsideMyBedroomWindowHesBeenDeadFor5Years'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/bps3wo/my_father_stood_outside_my_bedroom_window_hes/ link]]): The titular [[AbusiveParents father]], later known as [[DemonOfHumanOrigin the Nightmaker]], is a twisted sadist defined by a desire to drive people to despair. In life, he rapes and impregnates a teenage girl, and then intimidates her into marrying him. Holding the girl captive for years, his horrific treatment of her leaves her maimed and near death when she escapes him, and the resulting trauma later causes her to hang herself. When the police raid his "church," they find many [[WouldHurtAChild dead, emaciated children]], seemingly sacrificed as part of a dark ritual. Though he is executed, he returns as the demonic Nightmaker. Appearing to protagonist Jack, his [[ChildByRape son from the rape]], the Nightmaker attempts to lead him to the church. When his efforts to MindRape Jack into opening his window and letting him in fail, the Nightmaker tries to push him into committing suicide.
* ''Literature/TheNewFish'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1qsnvw/the_new_fish/ link]]): In this story set in a prison, an inmate known as "the kid", an [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon inhuman and dreadful monster behind his beautiful appearance]], habitually kills and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizes]] prisoners and guards. Notable instances include causing a guard to commit suicide out of fear of him, and killing another who discovered his past. It's revealed that the kid lived back in the 1800's and was originally arrested for murders, cannibalism and Satanic rites before eventually being sentenced to death after additional killings inside. After a bungled attempt to execute him, revealing his supernatural side, the kid is eventually [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away in an unused room]]. Living onto the present day, the kid at one point goes on a murderous rampage during a blackout, butchering an entire wing of prisoners, mutilating and eating a terrified cop alive in front of the other prisoners. Years after hearing its story and being released, the narrator learns the kid killed some of his friends in prison, leaving one of their heads on a bed, and drove his surviving friend into [[DrivenToMadness having a nervous breakdown]].
* ''Literature/SomebodyTriedToKillMeWhenIWasYoungAMonsterSavedMyLife'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/jvj17c/somebody_tried_to_kill_me_when_i_was_young_a/ link]]): [[BitchInSheepsClothing Mr. Heinrich Gilad]] initially appeared to be a kind, caring figure towards the protagonist, Walter, helping the boy with issues with his troubled home life. However, Walter soon realizes that this masks his true dark intentions. In one of their previous talks, Gilad brings up how he always felt like he was putting up an act and holding back his instincts, deciding to act on them by [[EvilTeacher murdering his students]]. Gilad lures 23 students to the school's basement, [[MurderSuicide setting a fire that kills his students along with himself]], destroying the school and leaving the survivors and community shaken. It's revealed that to scare his captive students into silence, Gilad [[SlashedThroat slashed the throat]] of Walter's friend Oscar. Walter also realizes that Gilad's supposed kindness was an attempt to lure him to his death, and there were hints of Gilad's true intentions within the answers of a test he was writing.
* ''Literature/TommyTaffy'' series ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/53kgyr/his_name_was_tommy_taffy/ July 1969]]; [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5ozie0/the_night_i_met_tommy_taffy/ July 1987]]; [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/51bnu3/third_parent/ July 1989]]; [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/55qjdf/tommy_taffys_twins/ finale]]): The titular [[WouldHurtAChild Tommy Taffy]] is a [[HumanoidAbomination doll-like man]] who forcibly inserts himself into families' lives. Ostensibly there to help people raise their children as a "third parent", Tommy responds to any resistance to his presence with savage beatings. Angered at attempts to get rid of him, Tommy retaliates with further violence, going as far as to burn down an entire neighborhood on one occasion. Other notable incidents include Tommy forcing a broken broom handle down a man's throat and impaling him through the stomach while [[ForcedToWatch making the man's family watch]]; stuffing a little girl's mouth full of thumbtacks as punishment for phoning the police; and dangling a baby over a running garbage disposal. Tommy also has a habit of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping women]] who don't comply with him and [[MindRape playing mind games]] with parents by exhibiting sexual aggression towards their young children, knowing that the parents won't try to stop him for fear of incurring his wrath further.
* ''Literature/WeLostMyMotherDuringTheSouthLARiotsOf92'' ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/ircd4d/we_lost_our_mother_during_the_south_la_riots_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link]]): The story's [[BigBad antagonist]] is an unnamed and malevolent [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Loa spirit]] who attempts to [[EmotionEater feed off of]] the chaos and anger drawn out by the LA Riots. Summoned by the Johnson family, the Loa [[DemonicPossession possesses]] their mother, Terri, and secretly attaches itself to the younger brother Keldon. Physically tormenting a still-conscious Terri, it tries to have her [[OffingTheOffspring murder her children]] upon revealing itself. The loa begins relentlessly stalking the children throughout the streets of LA, slaughtering anyone that gets in its way, including a squad of several cops and Terri's sister Naomi. Reaching a church, the Loa continues its rampage against gangsters trying to protect the Johnson children. Upon revealing Keldon as its host, it murders a pastor trying to exorcise Terri, and threatens to kill Keldon if his sister Ashley tries to help him. Looking for a new host, the loa ends up possessing their friend Jamal and his gangsters. The loa then declares its plans to destroy the city, and attempts to bring the church down on everyone, before the gangsters show enough willpower to kill themselves to destroy the spirit.
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* ''Literature/NineteenNinetyNine'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Mr. Bear]], the owner of Caledon Local 21, was a SerialKiller who targeted [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. He [[DepravedKidsShowHost created several shows geared towards children]], and he would frequently invite his viewers to become guest stars on the show. He would then hold the children who came to his house hostage, and [[SnuffFilm filmed]] himself interacting with them, occasionally abusing them if they acted against his rules. After acquiring enough victims, Mr. Bear eventually drugged sixteen children before burning all of them alive and fleeing from the police, never to be seen again.
* ''Literature/ThreeTerrifyingTales'':
** [[CardCarryingVillain Heinrich Strauss]], the BigBad of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15213782/chapters/35285258 73 Years Later]]'', when sent by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to find the key to immortality, occupied a village in Norway, where he released captured Jewish families out in a field to be used as target practice; forced Harold to watch as his dogs killed his soldiers; and shot Harold in front of his boyfriend Alfred. Slipping into a coma, he killed the witch Alitha and decided to become immortal. In present day, he made himself look like Harold and killed Alfred himself, visiting his funeral just to spit on his grave. Desiring to kill Alfred's grandson Michael, he has Danielle lure them to his hideout, where he kills her and Michael's boyfriend Lucas. Resurrected in ''Electrocution'', Heinrich [[UngratefulBastard kills the scientists who brought him back to life]] and escapes with Vincent North. Establishing an underground concentration camp, Heinrich has Vincent torture a captured Michael for years while he gleefully executes captured survivors of all ages. Once Natalie Walker's men storm his base, Heinrich murders Vincent for failing him, leaves his men to die, and orders every one of his injured soldiers killed.
** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Vincent North]], debuting in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15659709 Cold Winter Nights]]'', is a SerialKiller who murders women of all ages by freezing them to death overnight, taking photos of their corpses and selling them on [[MurderDotCom the Dark Web]]. As a child, he let his injured mother die in the freezing cold, disappointed when her screams and suffering proved too quick. Resurrected alongside Heinrich in ''Electrocution'', Vincent killed the scientists there and escaped with Heinrich. Working with Heinrich in his underground concentration camp as his TortureTechnician, Vincent tortures Michael for three years, while also taking random women from the camp and freezing them to death, storing the frozen corpses in his room as trophies.
** ''Literature/{{Electrocution}}'': [[BigBad Natalie Walker]] is a selfish [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businesswoman]] who seeks to become [[AGodAmI the Earth's goddess]]. Finding a staff that resulted in a huge meteorite crashing into the Empire State Building, Natalie [[LackOfEmpathy cared nothing for the thousands of deaths]], and killed her girlfriend for witnessing the event. Cutting the breaks in her parents' car, she took over her father's company and began researching the meteorite's substances on animals. Using the serum on Heinrich and Vincent, she left her scientists to die by their hands, then decided to have people kidnapped, killed, and experimented on once she found that she could control the resurrected mutants. Unleashing these mutants onto New York, she establishes an underground base where its citizens view her as a goddess and the women are kept as {{sex slave}}s. Sending Maggie to kill Heinrich, she turns her men into mutants against her wishes, kills Michael, and tries to use Maggie and her soldiers as a way to spread her virus across the world.
* ''Literature/AlessasFantasies'':
** ''Literature/{{Alessa}}'':
*** [[BigBad Nicholas]], later revealed to be [[{{Satan}} Old Scratch himself]], is a sadistic FallenAngel. Cast out of Heaven after attempting to slaughter humanity, Nicholas joined forces with Alexander Brimstone and conspired with him to poison the young Princess Mary. When that plan failed, and Mary survived, Nicholas turned Alexander's men into demonic creatures and lead an assault against her kingdom, killing everyone there and leaving her as the SoleSurvivor and with amnesia. After tossing her into the ocean, Nicholas attacks the kingdom Mary washes up on, destroying the watchtowers that lined the coast and killing all the men inside. Striking a deal with Mary, now Alessa, Nicholas promised to spare the kingdom is she managed to get her powers back. Not only was [[ILied he lying]], he undermines the deal by sending Cynthia Wilson to kill both her and Lola before this happened. When Lola manages to help Alessa get her powers back, Nicholas, who had been watching them, panics. Killing Alexander when he talks back and strangling the HighPriestess to death, he attempts to slaughter the kingdom anyway. When Alessa arrives and forces his army to surrender, Nicholas kills them all in rage before attempting to kill Alessa himself.
*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Cynthia Wilson]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters vicious teenager]] with a nasty homophobic streak. Having caused several LGBT girls to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] prior to her first appearance, Cynthia is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] mocking Lola about her girlfriend, Faith, who she had earlier bullied into jumping off the roof. When Nicholas arrives and word spreads of his deal with Alessa, Cynthia, having no faith that Lola will successfully return her powers, makes a deal with Nicholas to kill them both to save herself, selling out her kingdom and killing her "friends" to seal the deal. Tracking Alessa and Lola to a village, she slaughters everyone and sadistically tortures the son of the innkeeper to the hotel the two stayed at. After the woman told her where they went, Cynthia killed them both anyway. Confronting Alessa and Lola, she takes the latter hostage. She then attempts to kill them both, bragging about what she did to the village all the while.
** ''Literature/AlessaAndTheKingdomOfShadows'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Shadow Queen]] is [[BigBad the wicked ruler]] of the Shadow Kingdom. Originally a queen who [[AGodAmI desired godhood]], she struck a deal with the dark forces to acquire power, relocating her entire kingdom to the dark world to achieve said power. Kidnapping numerous people for over a century, she either converts them into Shadows by showing them propaganda, or [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] young [[WouldHurtAChild girls]] to get the power she desires. Having little care for her own civilians, she allows corrupt policemen to kill anyone in their path and at one point blows up an entire block in an attempt to kill Alessa. With Alessa in her grasp, she plans to indoctrinate her in her army, where she will have her lead her soldiers to slaughter Annabel's kingdom once she's done sacrificing her.
** ''Literature/{{Phillip}}'': [[BigBad Dr. Samuel Valentine]] is a [[FantasticRacism vampire supremacist]] who seeks to inhabit the world with daywalkers in order to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent fully diminish humanity]]. To this end, Valentine kidnaps fifteen women and [[SerialRapist rapes them]] to produce {{dhampir}}s, with eight of them dying from their babies bursting out of the wound. When Phillip, Luna, and Serenata invade his hideout, Valentine has his six remaining captives doused in gasoline and threatened with being burned alive should they not let him go.
* ''Podcast/AliceIsntDead'':
** The mysterious [[CardCarryingVillain Police Woman]], also known as [[BigBad Thistle]], is a relentless hunter who hounds [[CharacterNarrator Keisha]] across the US to murder her for getting too close to the secrets of the [[HumanoidAbomination Thistle Men]] and Bay & Creek Shipping. Along the way, the Police Woman leaves a trail of bloodshed and destruction, killing multiple people to take their vehicles, with Keisha stumbling upon her gruesome [[CopKiller murder of a cop]] at one point. Upon capturing Keisha, the Police Woman reveals herself as a monstrous sadist who tries to force Keisha to "understand" everything, just so she can take cruel pleasure in her despair before killing her. Even after her supposed death, Thistle awakens later and reveals she is the one who creates the cannibalistic Thistle Men and sets them on the world to watch the carnage, gleeful about the murders and chaos she will continue to sow.
** [[EvilAllAlong Lucy]], a high-ranking member of [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront Bay & Creek]], is apparently a close friend of Keisha's wife Alice who cares for Keisha. In truth, Lucy is a willing participant of TheConspiracy to make others believe that her group are fighting the Thistle Men instead of working with them. Lucy betrays her own allies, letting them be murdered and directs the Thistle Men to claim more bodies before leading them to massacre Keisha, Alice and their group of survivors, showing no remorse in attempting to murder Alice and Keisha with her bare hands.
* ''AudioPlay/AlienAbductionRolePlay'':
** [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Evianporial]] is a colleague of Acktreal "Ackt" Domma, and an incredibly hateful [[FantasticRacism speciest]] who goes to any length possible to ruin Ackt's life. Evianporial at first hopes that Ackt eats her human test subjects before they are approved for consumption, only to find out later, to his disgust, that she fell in love with one of them instead. Instead of reporting her, Evianporial continues to wait, hoping that she succumbs to ChemicallyInducedInsanity from being around the humans for too long. When that fails, and when humanity is given full legal protection, Evianporial murders Victoria and spreads her blood and organs all over the holding bay in the hopes that the scent would [[DrivenToMadness drive Ackt insane]] and kill all the crew members on board, including the one surviving human test subject, the POV character.
** [[PsychopathicWomanchild Thi-Karje]] is an incredibly [[SmugSnake smug]], despicable SpacePirate who not only hijacks R9 shuttles to steal test subjects or specimens to sell on the presumably illegal "blood market", she also goes a step further and admits to being perfectly OK with [[HumanTrafficking trafficking]] sapient creatures as well, including humans. This admission is so shocking, this prompts the normally GentleGiant Hiboritch to kill both pirates by proxy by slicing open Subject 50499-A's arm and ordering the human to throw their blood on her and her partner Sosoren, causing Ackt to go feral again and devour both pirates.
* ''Podcast/TheAngelOfVine'': Samuel Tensch is an [[MadArtist artist]] who grew up in France. He was raised by a caretaker until one day he murdered her and tried to turn her into an art exhibit. Unsatisfied with his work, thinking it too crude, Tensch set the caretaker's body ablaze, burning down his house and [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his parents]] in the process. He moves to Los Angles and becomes a famous artist. He is secretly a SerialKiller, who murders 27 people and uses their blood to create several paintings; his ''masterpiece'' is his Angel of Vine, where he murdered a young actress named Marlene Evans, removed her spine and several other bones and used them to create a halo around her head.
* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'': [[KnightOfCerebus The Dark Lord]] was created with the intentions of protecting the Animator's computer from dangers such as TheChosenOne, but instead turned against his creator and teamed up with his target to destroy the Animator's computer, killing every sapient program in it. Upon escaping into the Internet, the Dark Lord would terrorize and slaughter the citizens of various websites, before creating an army of {{Computer Virus}}es with the intentions of destroying as many computers as he could [[ForTheEvulz for no particular reason]], uncaring of how many programs would die because of it. When the newly-redeemed Chosen One and other animations try to stop him, the Dark Lord tries to kill his years-long friend, temporarily [[HeroKiller kills the Fighting Stick Figures]], and brutally injures the Second Coming. Wanting nothing more than to cause as much destruction as possible, the Dark Lord proves himself to be the most ruthless villain of the series.
* ''Literature/TheAscension'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3043073/1/The-Ascension link]]): {{Satan}}, once known as [[FallenAngel Lucifer]], is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] angel who betrayed God by [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] humanity to sin because God didn't grant him a world to rule over. When condemned to Hell, Satan torments billions of souls there and later gives birth to [[TheAntiChrist King Antiochus Mabus]], who serves as his vessel on Earth. Through Mabus, he takes control of several Middle Eastern countries and launches an invasion on the rest of the region and Europe, creating famines and regional conflicts. He also unites every religion in the world that deifies himself and he executes millions who don't conform to it. Later on, he engineers a [[ThePlague new strain of the swine flu that kills two billion people]] and provides a supposed vaccine that actually turns people into zombies to kill another billion people, while also conquering the rest of the world. He also allies with other aliens and provides more humans to be experimented on and turned into homunculi. When he captures Ezequiel and several humans, [[PublicExecution he orders their executions and publicly displays several of their corpses]]. In the final battle, he kills Samantha and her pregnant baby and later burns countless humans, bragging to Ezequiel that [[IfICantHaveYou he'll destroy Earth if he can't rule it]].
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
** [[KnightOfCerebus Mechakara]] is a robot from an AlternateUniverse where Linkara's RobotBuddy Pollo turned evil, killed him, and robots overthrew humanity. His plans revolved around sending [[AntiHero Linkara]] into a mental breakdown; and, when that fails, he captures him and plans to kill him slowly, simply because his death went too fast the first time around. While that would normally make him just another killer robot, he stands out when, after getting the magic MacGuffin that he came for, he decides instead to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all organic life]] in the multiverse. During the ''Silent Hill Dead/Alive'' videos, Mechakara slowly mind rapes Linkara into thinking he's the (actually long dead) man who tortured his daughter to create Linkara's Magic Gun and almost convinces him to kill himself. In ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', Mechakara passes himself off as Linkara and infiltrates the USS Exit Strategy, intending to kill the entire crew with the help of the [[UnwillingRoboticisation forcibly assimilated]] Todd and Nostalgia Chick. Mechakara would later assimilate the crew of the Caelestis space station and drained the life force of one astronaut in an attempt to recharge the ship. Only working with others when his goals coincide with theirs and perfectly willing to kill them otherwise, Mechakara is fueled only by his hatred for Linkara and all organic life forms.
** "[[Recap/AtopTheFourthWallAStoryOfMagic A Story of Magic]]": [[AbusiveParents Margaret's parents]] were members of a {{cult}} that worshipped the [[EldritchAbomination Entity]] and [[TheFundamentalist sought to rid the world of any non-believers]]. Working with their sect to forge a weapon capable of smiting their enemies, the two had Margaret in the first place so [[PoweredByAForsakenChild her very life essence could be used to power the Magic Gun]]. When Margaret turned 13, her parents assisted in a ritual that saw their daughter tortured and tormented, laughing at her sobs of pain. When Margaret's blood and soul were drained into the Magic Gun, her parents immediately wielded it in the hopes of using it to kill in their god's name. The two showed no remorse when confronted by Margaret's vengeful spirit, believing their actions were fully justified even as they succumbed to madness and death.
* ''Literature/AttracopelVigilanteOfLondon'': Chief Harold [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Kruel]] is the [[DirtyCop corrupt police chief]] of London. Kruel got his way into power through cruel and illegal methods, including bribes and blackmail. When Kruel's wife found out and tried to report him, Kruel purposely rigged a car crash which [[TilMurderDoUsPart caused her death]]. Kruel then harshly [[AbusiveParents abused his daughter]], Sarah, trying to force her into being an unstoppable officer. One thing Kruel does, in particular, is murder her best friend in cold blood to limit her distractions. When Attracopel becomes public, Kruel immediately issues an arrest warrant for him just for being a vigilante and threatening him with death, even though he did nothing illegal; Kruel also brushes off the dangerous wolf hybrid, Wolfalco. Kruel even joins Dr. Twister in his quest to take over England, just so he can get stronger. It's later revealed that Kruel has killed tons of innocent people, and then [[FrameUp framed]] them as criminals.
* ''[[Podcast/BatmanTheBlindCut Batman: The Blind Cut]]'' ([[https://www.realm.fm/shows/batman link]]: [[BigBad Edmund Ellis]] is a Scottish [[AristocratsAreEvil duke]] who makes a deal with a witch named Lent to transfer his soul into other bodies, essentially making him immortal. Ellis forms a cabal with other rich elites to use Lent's magic to cheat death. Ellis and his cabal move to Gotham City and turn it into a crime-ridden cesspool. Ellis becomes a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive tycoon]] nicknamed "Crazy Quilt" for the unsafe sweatshops he ran. Ellis and his cabal need [[HumanSacrifice blood sacrifices]] to remain on Earth, so through the centuries they commit massacres, like poisoning several speakeasies during Prohibition. In modern times, Ellis and his cabal commit several bizarre murders, to gain magic talismans into which they trap the souls of their victims. Ellis captures [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] and tortures her to produce Galapagos, an addictive vegetable snack which is actually a slow-acting poison. Ellis plans to use Galapagos to commit a massacre at the Gotham casino as a blood sacrifice to maintain the magic that allows him to remain on Earth.
* ''WebVideo/BenDrowned'': [[ManipulativeBastard Matt Hubris]] is a high-ranking member of the [[ApocalypseCult Moon Children]], a fanatical pseudo-religious order that doubles as a front for the Eternity Project. A murderer even before joining the Moon Children, Matt--under the online handle of Ifrit--was complicit in crimes that range from praising suicide to inciting a school shooting. After his digitization into ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Matt came up with the idea to use [[DigitalAbomination the Father]] as a tool to destroy all of World Alpha and remake it as a nightmarish hellscape [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]]. To do so, Matt manipulated Sarah into activating the 4th Day glitch to release the Father, twisting World Alpha and killing its dozens of inhabitants before trying to dispose of the girl.
* ''Literature/BloodAfterMidnight'': [[BigBad Kelvin]] leads an [[ReligionOfEvil evil cult]] which seeks to summon a demon, Shadoth, to dominate the world. As the power of the summoning rests in one's right arm, Kelvin has dozens of innocents murdered with their arms taken to use for the ritual. When a reporter named Bryan Cyon gets too close, Kelvin has his friend Vivian murdered and causes a massacre at a hospital to abduct him, before revealing to his followers his [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist true intentions]] and [[BadBoss murdering them all]], intending on summoning the demon to control the world himself.
* ''Literature/TheBloodKeeper'' ([[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blood_Keeper link]]): The [[AntagonistTitle titular "blood keeper"]] was the leader of the Bloodlights, a {{cult}} of {{serial killer}}s from the 1800s. The blood keeper held a "[[DeadlyGame game]]" to serve as a trial for new recruits. The blood keeper kept vials filled with the blood of their murder victims, and divided the new recruits into two teams, as they tried to steal the blood from him. He told the recruits to kill any members of the opposing team they saw, as well as any innocent bystanders they came across. Any recruits who failed to steal the blood would be killed. In total, the blood keeper was responsible for more than 50 murders due to his game. The blood keeper was killed by a man who infiltrated the Bloodlights and forced a boy to lure the blood keeper out of his crypt. The blood keeper would have [[WouldHurtAChild killed the boy]] if the man hadn't have stopped him.
* ''WebAnimation/BluebeardAnAnimatedShort'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0VT1IYNoE link]]): In this prequel to the [[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} original fairytale]], Bluebeard is seen presenting his newest wife with a necklace with four heart symbols on it. After she moves into his castle, he warns her of a chamber that she must never enter. Months later, as he is about to leave on a business trip, she swipes the key from him and goes to search the room. Inside, she finds a MagicMirror that shows skulls in the reflections of the heart symbols of her necklace, revealing Bluebeard killed his previous four wives [[DisproportionateRetribution for disobeying his order to not enter the room]], and uses the heart symbols on the necklaces to [[KillTally tally his kills]]. Bluebeard returns and kills her before moving on to his sixth wife.
* ''Literature/{{Borrasca}}'': [[DirtyCop Sheriff Graham Walker]] seems like a caring family man and protective town sheriff at first, but later reveals himself to be a twisted and ruthless crime boss who runs a HumanTrafficking empire. Walker moves his family to [[TownWithADarkSecret Drisking]] to escape scrutiny for pimping out teenage girls, and to get involved, and take part in, Drisking's [[BabyFactory conspiracy]] of mass murder, abduction, rape and impregnation of numerous women; notably having his own young daughter Whitney kidnapped to be made his SexSlave, impregnating her dozens of times. When his son Sam learns of the operation, Walker has him framed for the battery of his friend Kyle. When Whitney herself dies, Walker murders his wife to remarry and have a new daughter in hopes of making a replacement sex slave. Walker also usurps the Prescott control of the operation, withholding the town's benefits of the operation for himself. When Sam and his friend Kimber (who Walker also raped) confront Walker, he beats Sam and intends to mold Sam into his heir and make Kimber a new sex slave, before attempting to kill them, telling Sam he could always have another son to replace him.
* ''Literature/{{Camouflage}}'': [[ArmouredClosetGay Argile]], the [[CorruptChurch corrupt Archbishop]] of Tigue, is initially portrayed as a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous]], [[BoomerangBigot hypocritical]] zealot obsessed with persecuting gay men and verbally abusing and mocking others, including his own clerics. He enters the story with his previous actions having a grim impact on the setting, and he later accepts Danilo's offer to pay for Luc's "crime" so Danilo can save Luc's life. Argile watches with glee as Danilo goes through with said offer, which is to have [[CripplingCastration one of Danilo's testicles removed]]. Even after the deed is done, [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo Argile sentences Luc to death anyway]] and blackmails Danilo to keep him under his control. It is later revealed that Argile has been [[SerialRapist raping the convicts]]--many of whom were also castrated under his orders--right before they are executed; Luc is also raped as well before his planned execution. Danilo finally confronts Argile and proposes to save Luc's life again by [[TakeMeInstead offering his body to him]]. Argile responds by sending his servant to strip and tie him, blackmailing him into getting raped anyways and not intending to save Luc's life at all. A complete sociopath with no altruistic qualities, Argile is seen by Danilo as a cautionary tale against homophobia, and what would happen if he did not fight for LGBT rights.
* ''WebAnimation/CaptainCanuck'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFinqPnt7So&index=2&list=PLD_1yOJ3r2Jf9LrmTPJ9wcm95bN-K7-du link]]): [[BigBad Mr. Gold]] is a petty ArmsDealer who wants to [[AmbitionIsEvil move on to grander things]], wanting to possess Captain Canuck's nano tech for himself. Mr. Gold lures Captain Canuck to Ottawa on Canada Day, planting a bomb at Parliament Hill, which endangers thousands of people. Gold does this so his henchman, Blue Fox can get some skin cells from Captain Canuck. When Blue Fox complains about Mr. Gold not telling her about the bomb, Mr. Gold attacks her. Although Mr. Gold claims he wants to use Captain Canuck's nano tech to make the world a better place, it's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist clear from his thirst for power and disregard for human life]] that he [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares about himself]].
* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'':
** [[BigBad Baron Vordenberg]] from season 2 is an elderly Austrian [[AristocratsAreEvil baron]] who is a member of the Silas Board of Directors. When he is first introduced, he [[FauxAffablyEvil seems to be a kind and friendly man]], despite [[FantasticRacism his apparent disdain for vampires]]. Once Laura gets him voted as the Chairman of the Board, he immediately shows his [[ANaziByAnyOtherName true colors]] by ordering a detainment of all vampires and anything supernatural in Silas University. He has some of the students, including Laura's friend Danny--to whom he lies that he will stop after arresting Carmilla and Mattie--recruited into his militia , and preaches anti-vampire propaganda. It is discovered that, despite the potential consequences, he intends to kill Lophiiformes, [[ItsAllAboutMe all to make a name for himself]]. After killing Lophiiformes, he intends to execute Carmilla and Mattie, along with any students protecting vampires; the attempted arrest indirectly leads to Mattie's death. After he almost callously shoots one of his men, Laura starts a resistance against him. In the battle, he has his henchman Theo betray them and kill Danny. In the finale, he has the other board members shot over the announcements and prepares to behead Carmilla, in front of Laura and their friends, taunting them all to their faces while doing so. Despite his seemingly [[ObfuscatingDisability doddering demeanor]], Vordenberg is far more dangerous than meets the eye, his claims of heroism being lies he tells to fuel his ego, not caring who he has to kill to live out his fantasies of personal glory.
** ''Film/TheCarmillaMovie'': [[BigBad Elle Sheridan]] was a noble woman who, discovering her lover Carmilla was a vampire, betrayed Carmilla to her mother before her death. Unable to cross into the afterlife with the other souls of the sacrifice victims, Elle grew to [[DrivenByEnvy resent Carmilla and Laura's life together]]. Elle began to torment Laura with nightmares, luring her, Carmilla, and her friends to her mansion. Gathering the souls, Elle manipulated them into preparing a ritual that would help them move on to the afterlife, with Carmilla willingly giving up her human life. Unbeknownst to them, Elle plans on stealing Carmilla's life for her own, and condemning the rest of the spirits back into the hell dimension forever. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Despite her past]], it's pointed out she wasn't the only sacrifice and the others never turned evil, with Elle admitting to her jealous and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] motives, with disdain and indifference to everyone else. Elle picks off Carmilla, Laura and their friends, trapping them in their nightmarish hell; Carmilla's in particular reliving Elle's betrayal over and over again. When Laura rescues her friends and the other ghosts to prepare the ritual, Elle makes one final attempt to disrupt them, holding a knife to Carmilla's throat. Originally seen as a tragic figure of Carmilla's past and even a benevolent force in the first season, Elle ended up becoming a dark far cry of her previous self.
* ''Literature/ChasingButterflies'':
** [[BigBad Mr. Hive]] is the sadistic operator of the looming Skycavity, traveling the endless time stream known as the Kinematic Envelope seeking those endowed with Steam. When Mr. Hive finds a lost xeno roaming the Kinematic Envelope, he offers them "[[DealWithTheDevil deals]]" for one of the antiques onboard his Vanity Rail, tricking them into giving up their Steam while leaving out the fact that it will kill them and trap their essences in his Steam cane, powering himself up in the process. Taking the xenos Feyf and Croque as abused slaves, Mr. Hive treats them like property and kills Croque when he rebels, later breaking Feyf's legs when she escapes from him, promising her that she'll never leave his side again. When his attempts to steal the Steam of the young xeno Sal fail, Mr. Hive goes on a hunt across the Kinematic Envelope for him, wiping out a ship of sailors and torturing the survivor for information before recruiting the murderous "Gentlemen" to his side and giving them free rein to go on a massacre of Xemidas. As Sal continues to evade him, Mr. Hive, [[BadBoss killing his own minions]] and promising to murder Sal's friends in front of him, threatens to drop the Skycavity on top of Xemidas and wipe out thousands of innocents, refusing to let anything stop him from cowardly sacrificing as many people as it takes to escape the Kinematic Envelope himself for good.
** The [[EvilDuo Kind and Rude Gentlemen]], nicknamed Kindly and Rudely, are a pair of [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent reptilian]] xenos. Despite their differing personalities, the two share an intense sadism, manifesting in their operation in the [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave trade]] while also [[PsychoForHire enjoying murder for hire and fun]], sometimes being paid in captives they can torture to death. Allying with the wicked Mr. Hive, Kindly and Rudely lead an attack on the peaceful city of Xemidas, crashing their chronofreighter into the gardens and [[BodyCountCompetition playing a game of who can slaughter the most innocents]] before the other. Even after Kindly's death, Rudely kidnaps Ransa to salvage a payday, mocking the other xeno how he will deliver him to a chef who enjoys cooking his victims alive.
* ''Literature/CondemningUsToHelp'' ([[https://fictionpress.com/s/2939780/1/ link]]): Even in [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors New Hope Academy for Behaviorally Challenged Adolescent Girls]], full of physically and mentally abusive staff, these two manage to be uniquely horrific:
** [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Paula]] is one of the doctors working in New Hope. Under her control, the girls are viciously abused physically and mentally, either by the aides working in the academy or by Dr. Paula herself, whose 3-hour long daily "sessions" with the girls are daily, personal humiliations of each girl by bringing up their past, with NoSympathy whatsoever for anything they went through--notably [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blaming Anah]], who was raped by her stepfather, for causing her own rape. Mental abuse also includes being isolated in a straitjacket. Physical abuse includes stripping and beatdowns for the pettiest of reasons, such as putting duct tape over Athena's mouth and hands, [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starving her for the entire day]], before removing the duct tape the next day, in full awareness that when ripped off the next day, the duct tape would remove skin. When Ursula refuses to break under her abuse, Dr. Paula has no problem abusing even more the other girls until she breaks. Despite claiming to have good intentions, Dr. Paula proves to be a delusional, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, homophobic and bigoted]] monster.
** Bryan is one of the aides working in the academy, and proves to be even worse than many of them. Alongside fellow aid Houston, Bryan is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] as an even more depraved aide than the already abusive Adam, Leonora, and Aaron trio, pinching and slapping any girl who looked at them and slapping, screaming at, and denying "privileges", such as food or only running six miles instead of more, for a day to any girl who cried. When unable to break Ursula, Bryan and Houston [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] Rivkah, Rhea, and Jessa. When Athena attempts to prevent them from raping Anah as well, Bryan strangles and almost kills her. Later killing the youngest girl, Claudia, Bryan [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even Houston]], and manages to stand out as horrific even amongst the monstrous aides.
* ''WebVideo/CryptTV'':
** ''Kinderfänger'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4pN4aym3a0 debut]]; [[https://crypttv.com/kinderfanger/ series]]): [[AntagonistTitle The titular Kinderfänger]] was once a mortal [[WouldHurtAChild child kidnapper]] before his eventual transformation into a demonic spirit, who feeds off of children's life force, with a sweet tooth for the abused and neglected. In the original short film, he kidnaps and brainwashes several children into a psychotic rage to rip their parents apart. In a tie-in short story, the Kinderfänger takes over an entire town, creating a cult of children who [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] their parents to his delight; he attempts to brainwash an older sister who resists him, forcing her to deafen herself. At the time of the series, the Kinderfänger takes dozens of children from a community and has them murder their parents to get a stronger hold over them. When Olivia tries to rescue her young friend Marcus, the possessive Kinderfänger steals him back before draining the life from him. In the ensuing showdown, Olivia fatally stabs the Kinderfänger with his pipe, before he spitefully pulls her onto his pipe, leading to Olivia eventually bleeding out.
** ''WebVideo/SunnyFamilyCult'': [[BigBad Roger]] is the ultimate villain of the series, and previous leader of the titular murder cult before being kicked out. Roger goes on an independent killing spree searching for his niece Taylor, [[EvilUncle tormenting her]] and her friend Janine and killing Janine's boyfriend. Roger also maims Allie Anne in an attempt to intimidate her and her mother. Posing as a friendly teacher and detective, Roger gets close to and abducts Taylor. When he first founded the cult, their goals to [[KnightTemplar kill the corrupt and cleanse society]] were [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist simply an outlet for his own misanthropy]], and ambitions to become one of the "Divine Beings of Darkness". Years prior, [[BigBrotherBully Roger]] used to bully and twist his younger brother Elias into a devout follower, and tries to kill him before being defeated; Roger declares the cult his family before disowning them when they exile him and pick Elias over him. In the present, Roger butchers the guests and staff of a motel, explaining his ritual needs Taylor broken to fulfill his prophecy. Roger fatally wounds Elias before Taylor finally kills him, starting Roger's transformation.
** ''WebVideo/FightNight'': [[BigBad Micah]] is the greedy and vicious manager of the titular [[GladiatorGames underground fight club]], with the MO of kidnapping monsters from across the country and fitting them with {{shock collar}}s to keep them in line; she then has humans kidnapped to go up against these monsters in a fighting ring where they are inevitably slaughtered. At one point, she uses her collars to torture Estelle (of ''Mohawk'') when she tries to escape, only relenting when she needed Estelle for a later match. While she claims to seek out criminals and the corrupt, it's purely for the entertainment of her audience and the money she'd get. In some cases she may even have people framed in order to dishonestly throw into the ring in order to sell a story; such is seemingly the case with a woman accused of killing her own baby. When Porter realizes the woman is innocent and tries to help her escape, Micah [[EyeScream gouges out one of his eyes]] and throws him in the ring in retaliation, and then tries to kill Porter herself when he frees Colossus.
** ''WebVideo/TheBirch'': [[TheDon Sebastian "Seb" Polks]] is a ruthless thug and drug dealer whose [[IOwnThisTown business runs his town]]. He laced his drugs with painkillers to make them more addictive, which gets several people killed on overdoses, including Evie Grayson's mother. He uses his nephew Thurston as a drug mule, frequently [[EvilUncle beating and maiming Thurston]] if the latter crosses him. When Seb learns that Evie could be interfering with his business by having his gang members killed, he maims her father to send a warning. When he finds out Thurston and Gavin are planning to run away, he tries to coerce Thurston into trying to kill Evie and her father, literally forcing Thurston's hand to shoot Evie's father. To get Gavin's compliance, Seb threatens to have the latter's mouth mutilated, claiming that's what he'd do to someone he "loves". When later confronted, he tries to kill and maims Thurston and Gavin with an electric saw.
** ''WebAnimation/WomanInTheBook'': [[StrawMisogynist Antonio Navarro]] is a renowned book publicist, known in his community as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity loving and generous man]], but behind closed doors, is a deranged and misogynistic [[DomesticAbuse abuser]]. [[HeirClubForMen Obsessed with having a male heir]], Antonio kept his wife, Christina, captive in a dungeon, continuously raping her, and beating her when he discovers her writing material. Whenever Christina would give birth to a girl, Antonio would [[OffingTheOffspring murder the infant]] and cover it up with a stillbirth claim, before starting anew. After Antonio murders six of their daughters, he sneeringly tells Christina he'll let the next one live if it's a boy. When a broken Christina ends up drowning their son, Antonio drowns and smothers her to death. He then discovers Christina and his Curandera were working to expose him, and that the Curandera cursed made a curse to that Christina would live on; Antonio locks the Curandera in his dungeon, leaving her to die as he starts his search for a new wife to give him a new son.
* ''Webcomic/DangerZoneOne'' audio dramas: [[MadBomber Drezz Vargo]] is a twisted {{Pyromaniac}} with a mile-long rap sheet of arson and destruction. Vargo [[PsychoForHire offered his services]] to those on the [=DarkNet=], such as supplying Mr. Jack with enough explosives to destroy six city blocks, anticipating the amount of death that would've ensued. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADr8CuuPgI After faking his death]] to ward off the police, Vargo decided to work for [[ConMan scam artist]] Len Fyzer on his plan to destroy unoccupied [=NewGen=] factories. Trapping Reena and Madison in a factory, Vargo reveals that he implanted an explosive that will destroy an entire city block, laughing as he leaves them to die. After getting fed up with Fyzer's conscience, Vargo tries to have him, Reena, and Madison killed in a collapsing warehouse with plans to murder [=NewGen=]'s boss Tyrone afterwards.
* ''Literature/DarkWar'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3036315/1/Dark-War link]]) & ''Literature/DarkWarApocalypse'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3053071/1/Dark-War-Apocalypse link]]): [[MisanthropeSupreme The Voice of the Legion]] was once a human beggar who [[MisplacedRetribution despised humanity for his poverty]] and believed that humanity should be exterminated and replaced with the Missionary. After [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cyberizing himself]] and taking command of the Missionary, he kidnaps many civilians to [[UnwillingRoboticisation forcibly convert them into more members of the Missionary]], painfully tearing away their flesh and turning them into mindless robots. With his army, he launched a war to [[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]], killing millions before being stopped. Years later, he returns by invading the city of Albatross, exterminating most of the populace and converting the rest into the Missionary. Afterwards, he resumes his genocidal campaign on the rest of the world, wiping out or enslaving more people.
* ''Podcast/DeadlyManners'' ([[https://deadlymanners.libsyn.com link]]): [[BitchInSheepsClothing William Billings]] is actually the murderer roaming the Billings manor during his wife Veronica's comeback party. [[FauxAffablyEvil Seemingly a kind and affable man]], William is in truth a [[DirtyCommunists fanatical communist]] out to bring down the US from within. Disgusted at the guests for their wealth and lack of standards, William conducts a series of murders, killing the magician and fortuneteller; the wealthy Feinstein couple; murders the cook by hanging her from a meat hook; and kills his supposed friend Roger Cross. William finally murders the maid Beatrice out of nothing but spite for her being Veronica's lover before an attempt to murder Veronica as well, with Veronica realizing he will either brainwash or murder their adopted daughter Olivia as well.
* ''Literature/TheDefiler'': [[FatBastard Y'golonac the Defiler]] is presented in as depraved a fashion as ever. A [[EldritchAbomination Great Old One]] who understands the worst perversions of human nature far too well, he [[DemonicPossession possesses the body]] of a nobleman seeking out pornographic literature and casts his soul into limbo. Using this body to [[WouldHurtAChild rape and murder children]] before [[ChildEater devouring them]] and allowing his worshipers to indulge in their most profane lusts imaginable, the Defiler leads another man to his house in the hopes of forcing him to release him from his earthly prison, attempting to eat him when he refuses before promising to "go defile some other poor sap" when his avatar is mortally wounded, and lets his followers die when his house collapses.
* ''Machinima/DeusExMachina2007'': [[StarterVillain Leonard Phillips]] is a [[MadScientist sociopathic scientist]] who seeks to develop a suit of power armor for his boss. To this end, he turns a Covenant elite into a killing machine, and then commits robberies to fund himself, having his assistant kill any witnesses. When he learns about Deus Ex Machina's exploits, he has a civilian killed as a warning and threatens to kill more.
* ''Podcast/DiceFunk'':
** "[[Recap/DiceFunkSeason3Ilium Ilium]]" (season 3): [[DirtyCop Gylan Cadun]] is a vile member of the Order of the Merciful Sword who uses his position to indulge his [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[FantasticRacism prejudices]]. In the past he ordered the destruction of a village of peaceful Orcs, and when his men refused, had Rolen Hawklight beaten and banished from the Order and destroyed the village anyway. When the vampire Count Danto attacked the Order, Gylan sold them out, killed any paladins that resisted, and willingly became a vampire servant of the tyrannical Danto. Gylan then began recruiting people to become vampires within the Order, allowing them to harass and murder whoever they please, and [[PeopleFarms having dozens of people held captive and drained of their blood]]. When Rolen and Veltari confronted him, Gylan attempted to [[{{Fingore}} cut off Rolen's fingers]], and then attempted to force a protesting Veltari to murder an innocent man.
** "[[Recap/DiceFunkSeason4Valentine Valentine]]" (season 4): [[ItsAllAboutMe Saint Luna]] is the God of Power, created by Semuanya when he died, who forsook the teachings of his father to [[ImmortalityImmorality pursue immortality]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil gain the power]] the old gods had. Founding the Crown Corporation, Luna created a system where people struggle to stay out of poverty, brutal PrivateMilitaryContractors oppress people in other countries, and the Heads of Crown force people to commit dangerous crimes for their amusement. Luna kept his true identity secret by magically [[PeoplePuppets puppeteering numerous people]] over the years to act in his stead. In his experiments to achieve immortality, Luna [[BrainUploading uploaded a man's mind into a computer]], deemed the experiment a failure, and locked the man away for months. Luna eventually created Project Eternity, which allowed people to upload their minds into new bodies. Luna [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] Catarina Brooks into murdering dozens of Crown employees. When Team Loser tried to track Luna down, Luna ruined William Graves's life before killing him and another man. When finally confronted by Team Loser, Luna revealed his plan to release Project Eternity to the public at such a high price that anyone who uses it will be stuck in endless debt, effectively becoming Luna's slave for eternity. After his death, it's revealed that Luna aided Aeron with a plan that got countless more people killed.
* ''WebVideo/DicingWithDeath'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPV88C9y83a5Re442_4LlAY8sSKu4HVYE link]]), hosted by Neal "[[https://www.twitch.tv/koibu Koibu]]" Erickson
** [[ForTheEvulz Solomon the Cruel]], as played by Neal Erickson, is a [[SinisterMinister depraved cleric]] of the [[GodOfEvil evil god Beelzebub]] who spread death and destruction in his wake [[PsychoSupporter in the name of his dark master]]. Starting small by burning down the temple and [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoning the food]] in a small village, Solomon moves on the city of Wodheim to spread ever greater chaos. In Wodheim, Solomon [[WaterSourceTampering poisons the city wells]] with the bodies of victims he murdered, crucifies innocents to the holy tree in the center of the city and sets it ablaze, and defiles the local church by murdering the priest and painting his god's name in blood. Hearing rumors of a ruined pyramid to his god across the sea, Solomon travels there while blowing up the library in the port city he left from. In the village of Ja'vis near the ruins, Solomon enslaves several innocents and provides [[HumanSacrifice ritual sacrifices]] to a local hag who lives there to allow him to study the pyramid. After capturing and torturing the village shaman in an effort to reveal the pyramid's secrets, Solomon is knocked out and drowned as punishment for his crimes, but later comes back as a vengeful undead monstrosity leading hordes of zombies against the village before being destroyed a final time.
** [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Malcifer Winter]], as played by Ryan Hufschmid, is the last of his noble house after his home island of Gadia was invaded by the kingdom of Eridon and who sought out the powers of {{necromancy}} to reclaim what he felt was his. Malcifer first gains control of his village of Winter's Reach by enslaving the populace through ritualistic marks of servitude and forcing them into the worship of the old gods of Gadia, the Winter Gods. To ensure their servitude, he goads them into a murdering a rowdy Eridonian knight despite several dying in the process. Using the village as a base from which to grow his undead hordes, Malcifer begins his conquest of Gade Isle by marching on the village of Sardinia and laying siege to the local lord's castle when they retreat there. Malcifer leads his undead to slaughter the hundreds on innocents in the castle and personally murders the lord and his [[WouldHurtAChild young daughter]]. What follows is a long campaign of death and destruction as Malcifer leads his army to [[RapePillageAndBurn lay waste]] to numerous villages as he slowly makes his way to the capitol of Pinespur. During this campaign, hundreds of villagers and soldiers are either devoured by the undead or have their [[YourSoulIsMine souls stolen]] by Malcifer to fuel his immortality. At Pinespur, Malcifer spares the local populace in exchange for the wholesale slaughter of any noble family of Eridonian descent and soon proclaims himself King Winter.
* WebVideo/DontTurnAround ([[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOTvG8GRkiteKcea98JxirQ/search?query=nancy+james link]]): Nancy James is a SerialKiller who targets [[WouldHurtAChild children]] and babysitters, amassing an enormous body count while delighting in [[MindRape tormenting her victims psychologically]], luring them into traps and dispatching them with great relish. Nancy places no age limit on her victims, even killing a baby at one point, and even writes a book to guide would-be child killers in achieving in their goals even easier. When she forms a deep enmity with FBI agent Warren, Nancy threatens a theme park with a bomb to lure Warren to his death before realizing Warren was faking to lure her out. Kidnapping another agent, Nancy threatens to murder him if Warren doesn't reveal himself--only to [[ILied dispatch the man regardless]] and taunting Warren over it.
* ''Literature/DresdensHauntedForest'':
** [[BigBad Magdalena/"DJ Maggie"]], the WickedWitch from the tale of "Literature/HanselAndGretel", surpasses her original counterpart in depravity. Planning to marry Charles V, the King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, [[AmbitionIsEvil solely for the political power it would bring her]], Magdalena kills a witch when she refuses to teach her, before stealing her spellbook. Upon Charles's marriage with the peasant girl Annabelle, Magdalena [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisons the food at the wedding party]], killing 50 people, Annabelle included. Magdalena, after marrying Charles, frames the peasants for the wedding incident, leading to a brutal slaughter and oppression of peasants. When they fight back, Magdalena starts personally killing them. Upon being found out, she settles in a forest, and learns about two rituals: summoning seven demons, Lords of Hell, and becoming a goddess through a mural from a million bodies; and killing several [[WouldHurtAChild children]], [[ChildEater eating]] them and drinking their blood to become immortal. For centuries, Magdalena kills anyone who enters the forest, including Hansel, Gretel and Reinhardt's best friend Heine. Befriending Reinhardt, DJ Maggie also kidnaps his parents and tries to force them to eat their own son, sadistically revealing to Reinhardt Heine's corpse and telling him that they were never friends to begin with.
** [[StarterVillain Joachim Dirlewanger]] is a former [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi Stasi]] member notorious for his cruelty towards political dissidents. After losing his job, he and his men attempted to stage a coup against Germany's current regime. Meeting Reinhardt and his friends in his hideout, he held them hostage, threatening them and ordering their parents to give them a huge ransom. It was revealed that Joachim intends to use the ransom to buy a bomb set to blow up several landmarks of Berlin and [[ILied kill all of the hostages when he got the ransom]]. When defeated, he spitefully attempts to blow up his hideout, fully aware that [[BadBoss it would kill his own men]].
* ''Literature/{{Eclipse}}'': [[InsaneAdmiral Freiherr Eighinn Stossuhl]] is a brutish, TriggerHappy thug who firmly believes that MightMakesRight. In his first appearance, he threatens to attack Cessair, a neutrally-aligned country if they failed to turn in the main character Alice Sitchri. When Sitchri actually leaves peacefully, Stossuhl attacks Cessair anyway, in a war that cost the lives of 86,492 people and eradicated Cessair's entire infrastructure. When he gets hit by a sniper, Stossuhl responds by destroying an entire building; he admitted that the sniper probably wasn't there anyway. He incinerates an entire platoon of his own soldiers when they took too much time to get through a maze. When an injured soldier grabbed his ankle, Stossuhl destroyed his entire upper torso because he was stopped from sprinting. When another soldier offers to patch him up after a fight, Stossuhl pushed his skull into his torso because "Real men never disarm themselves." When an informant reveals that all of his targets had escaped, Stossuhl immediately chokes the informant to death, [[InsaneTrollLogic while still demanding to know where they went]]. He proceeds to order the [[RageQuit eradication of Cessair]], and when his colleagues called him out on it, Stossuhl continues the shelling out of spite. At a public speech, Stossuhl attempted to divert his culpability in the invasion by claiming his colleagues supported it, when in fact they didn't. Finally, Stossuhl publicly executed close to a hundred Cessair prisoners--and his own bodyguards--by unleashing a stream of magma that morphed them into a mesh of dry, organic rock.
* ''Podcast/TheEdgeOfSleep'': The man known as the Trespasser is a SerialRapist who has been kidnapping girls, raping them, and then [[SerialKiller killing them]] with a drug overdose to hide his involvement. When people start dying in their sleep, the Trespasser taunts his latest victim that her mother is likely dead, before stealing a gun, clearly intending to hurt whomever he pleases. After he kidnaps Katie, he attacks the hospital where the other survivors are, capturing Dave in the process. He then [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable straps Dave onto a table]], intending to kill him slowly with the medical tools, and when Dave befriends him, he agrees to take Dave with him as he drives down the coast after kidnapping more girls. However, he first decides to [[CripplingCastration castrate]] Dave in order to make sure he has Katie all to himself. When the Trespasser is stopped, he insists that the girls were all "junkies" whom he didn't hurt and spends his final moments taunting Dave about the nightmares he'll have of their encounter.
* ''Literature/{{Evangeline}}'' ([[https://fictionpress.com/s/2960031/1/Evangeline link]]): The titular character is a [[EnfantTerrible 9-year old sociopathic girl]] who [[DeliberatelyCuteChild hides her inner unchildlike depravity under an innocent behavior]]. Killing her family's fishes and dog, Evangeline sexually molested her friend Emily, threatened to reveal the whole thing if Emily so much as talked, forced her to do her homework and give her money. Meanwhile, Evangeline abused her 6-year old sister Audrina as well, molesting her too, lying about her origins, and finally killing her when Audrina reveals to their mother Leslie Evangeline's abuse. When Leslie attempted to kill her in retaliation, Evangeline [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslit]] her into thinking she was the one to blame, before promptly [[FrameUp framing her]] for her crimes and [[KarmaHoudini getting away with her deeds]].
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* ''Podcast/FearFM'': [[SmallRoleBigImpact Prakash's father]] is the [[GreaterScopeVillain instigator]] for everything that happens in the series. A [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] primary school teacher who would frequently molest his students, he was found out by his wife and banished from his town. Frequenting multiple slums for victims, he was caught raping a little boy and beaten to a pulp. Blaming his ex-wife for ruining his life, he sought out sorceress Rudra Devi to awaken [[EldritchAbomination the Dakin]] to murder his ex-wife, gleefully hanging himself to complete the summoning. Even after his death, the Dakin, still loose, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom turns Rudra into the Lal Chudail]], which led to her killing children and countless others to return herself back to normal.
* ''Literature/FenterWoods'' ([[https://www.creepypasta.com/fenter-woods/ link]]): The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]], seemingly enigmatic Creature is a [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid entity]] responsible for numerous missing persons across the country. Revealing a human-like intelligence, the Creature kidnaps the kid protagonist's friend Jess, with the apparent intent of [[ChildEater devouring her]], flashing the protagonist a smile when it spots him. Venturing into the cave to rescue Jess, the protagonist notices it has made a "museum" of [[CreepySouvenir many trophies]] it took from its previous victims, as well as a spot where it bruised the bodies. The protagonist likens the Creature to playing a sick and twisted scavenger hunt. After the protagonist saves an imprisoned Jess and wounds the Creature, when the townspeople investigate the caves, the Creature has disappeared after fleeing with its trophies, later watching the protagonist from the forest. While the Creature isn't seen in Fenter Woods again, the protagonist speculates that it's still out there taking more victims.
* ''Literature/FindingHope'': "[[BigBad Jack Angel]]", beneath his [[FauxAffablyEvil devout, gentleman attitude]], is "[[KnightTemplar on a mission from God]]" to exterminate humanity on Earth, starting with the sheriffs. Targeting Sheriff Lee Peck as a result, he kills him and his wife Maude when the latter calls him out on his motives and attempts to kill Lee's [[WouldHurtAChild child]] Gerald before being stopped by "Nobody". When Nobody defeats him in a gunfight to bargain for Gerald's life, Angel uses Gerald as a HumanShield to save his own skin. When Nobody provokes him into a duel, Angel accepts, and later reveals that he killed a priest and took his hat because the priest told him he was a man of sin. When Nobody shoots him, Angel tries to kill him and Gerald despite their previous agreement. The end of the story also reveals that Jack killed Nobody's older sister Caroline. Sadistic, petty, hypocritical and delusional, Jack proved that his family name was anything but fitting.
* ''Literature/FirstDoNoHarm'': [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Even before he became a demon]], [[DomesticAbuse Marshall Eccelstein]] was a horrific monster of a husband who kept Violet chained to a wall naked and brutally beat her bloody every day. By the time of the story, he has figured out a way to reach Vanilla, Katherine, and Kidari, and sends specialized assassins to kill them and [[AbusiveParents capture his daughter Rosalina]], planning on making the assassins torture Violet to death afterwards. When Astaroth turns him into a demon, he rapes and kills Amy and then kills and zombifies Daniel, planning to force Vanilla to kill him. After he is expelled from his body and takes the name Cerununnos, he [[DrivenToMadness drives an entire military base insane]] before driving violent criminals insane and releasing them from prison, taking sick joy in the chaos that ensues. He then begins killing random officers and civilians [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] before being stopped by Vanilla's brother Shoji, learning that there are 16 alive members of the Jackson family in the process. Cerununnos, while planning to kill the Jackson family, encounters a bus and stops it, intending to slaughter everyone on the bus and then kill a family with the bus before being defeated.
* ''Literature/FleeingTheChildrensCrusade'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2415813/1/Fleeing-the-Childrens-Crusade link]]): [[SociopathicSoldier Sergeant Lessing]] is the cruel [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] leader of Otto Krueger's company, where [[DrillSergeantNasty his training exercises often leave his men with injuries like gashes and broken limbs]]. When he's later assigned to help Krueger's company suppress the Yugoslav resistance, he first beats and kills a random peasant they find. After the company arrives to a village, he nearly rapes an old woman they find and then kills her. Upon being ordered by his commander to exterminate the village, Lessing takes pleasure in hanging many of them, even having some villagers mauled by dogs or burned [[{{Sadist}} out of his own sadistic glee]]. When the Yugoslav resistance engages the German forces, Lessing [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes a woman he found to have an "Aryan quality" to her]].
* ''Literature/FourKingdoms'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2634424/1/Four-Kingdoms link]]) & ''Literature/FourKingdomsContinued'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2670280/1/Four-Kingdoms-Continued link]]): [[BigBad Karju]], the Head Boar of the Scrofa tribe, is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing an adulterous woman by [[GroinAttack shoving a hot rod into her womb]] before throwing her into the wilderness, where she dies. When Jabali, his then-fiancée, calls him out on this, he intimidates her before eventually [[DomesticAbuse beating her]] to force her to submit to his will until she runs away, with him giving chase. He proceeds to kill anyone who gets in his way and even stages an invasion of the Aves' city, killing even more people. He eventually has Jabali captured and brought to him, at which point he beats and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes her]]. He does this again the next two days; on the third day, he grows tired of her continued "disobedience", and takes a branding iron and brands her like a wild pig. When Jabali's husband, Cal, tries to rescue her, Karju fights him, taunting and toying with him all the while, nearly killing him before Cal's horse, Xanthus, steps in trying to protect Cal only to get himself killed by Karju.
* ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMeetsTheIceVampire'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm_lqz01gl0 link]]): The [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Ice Vampire is a giant bat monster with the head of a man and [[AnIcePerson powers to manipulate ice]]. Arriving in a town, he creates a snowstorm to block out the sun, allowing him to feed whenever he wants. He feeds on many people, including a [[WouldHurtAChild three-month-old baby]]. After the Ice Vampire kidnaps protagonist Maria's sister Sophie, she and her friend Boris ([[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} the Frankenstein monster]]) enter his lair to rescue Sophie and destroy the Ice Vampire. He taunts Maria by telepathically making her listen to Sophie's voice before showing Maria her half-dead sister and sending his undead victims after her and Boris. During their fight, he threatens to tear Boris's head off and drink all the blood from his neck.
* ''WebOriginal/FromHellIWrite'' trilogy: [[BigBad Eileen Hoffmister]] is a WickedWitch in [[PsychoSupporter direct service]] to {{Satan}} himself. She abducts people—-usually [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--and offers them to Satan to transform into zombie slaves [[AndIMustScream damned to Hell]] upon death. In the prequel, Eileen and her husband, Leo, capture Stella, a young girl who stumbled across their cottage in the woods. They throw her in a basement with their zombie servant, Lester, and attempt to offer her to Satan. When he rejects her, Eileen plans to [[ManOnFire burn her]]. In the original story, she and Leo force their adopted son, David, to participate in Satanic rituals and [[AbusiveParents abuse him]]. Eileen stalks Patrick Williams and his family; abducted his older brothers (and is implied to have castrated one of them); allows herself to be possessed; and chases Patrick and his 5-year-old sister Nancy and eviscerates their babysitter, Betty, when she tries to protect the children. The two are then brought back to the house, where Eileen kills Leo for disobeying her (he attempted to rape Nancy despite her not being ready), and is revealed to have zombified Patrick's family, along with missing children and finally Patrick himself. Twenty years later, in the sequel, Nancy finds a still-possessed Eileen in the home of her boyfriend Jackson, with Elieen making a final attempt to kill Nancy before going to Hell for good.
* ''Literature/GalaxyWar'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/754381/1/Galaxy-War link]]), ''Literature/GalaxyWarX'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/1211960/1/Galaxy-War-X link]]), ''Literature/GalaxyWarBitterAlliance'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2005907/1/Galaxy-War-Bitter-Alliance link]]): [[GalacticConqueror Deth]] is a [[TheDreaded feared]] alien warlord who's conquered a third of the galaxy and has thousands of crimes to his name, including war crimes, genocide, and slave trading. Wishing to conquer the plant "X," he orders Mnson to capture Simui to lure Nondel into a trap, in which Deth plans to interrogate him about the planet's security system in preparation for his invasion. When Nondel rescues Simui, Deth tries to [[FinalSolution wipe out all life on "X"]] by using an [[WaveMotionGun Armageddon Laser]] out of contempt for his previous defeat, starting an invasion that leads to thousands of casualties and later [[ForcedToWatch forcing Nondel to watch his own planet's destruction]].
* ''Literature/GoldTongues'': The unnamed drifter known only as "[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Petrol]]" is a disgusting creep and murderous [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]], roaming the wastelands AfterTheEnd looking for people to hurt and fun to be had. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] stomping a woman's throat and cannibalizing her corpse, Petrol later allies with a camp of survivors only to stab one of them to death and lure mutant bugs to the camp, leading to the murders of nearly the entire camp just so he can loot whatever he wants. After meeting a small family of survivors, Petrol murders the surrogate father Kyle and snaps young Billy's neck, before he rapes and murders the preteen Tessa, bragging later that she was his third child victim, noting that he had molested two young girls years ago during his time as a music teacher. Petrol then shoots and mocks Maggie over the death of her family, showing off Tessa's panties as a "trophy" to her and leaving the woman a gun loaded with a single bullet just to force her to [[SadisticChoice decide between killing herself, or dying a slow death in the desert]].
* ''Literature/TheGreyCasesBook1DarkStreets'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3127168/1/The-Grey-Cases-Book-1-Dark-Streets link]]): [[MisanthropeSupreme Narajit Malhotra]] was [[FromNobodyToNightmare once a lowly a sewage worker]] who made contact with deities called the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones]]. Learning that they were the former rulers of Earth and believing that they are its rightful rulers, he formed an ApocalypseCult dedicated to summoning the Old Ones and wiping out humanity. Needing to sacrifice over a million souls to summon them, he sent wights to murder innocent civilians and sacrifices a police detective by burning him alive. When his first wights are stopped by Alistair Martin, Narajit converts his entire cult into wights and sends them to New York City to slaughter its entire population and unleash the Old Ones. After being defeated by Alistair, Narajit opens a portal for the Old Ones, spitefully attempting to [[TakingYouWithMe wipe out humanity with his last breath]].
* ''WebAnimation/HarmonyAndHorror'': [[MonsterClown Martin Greywhinder]] was the co-founder of M&H Harmony Toys alongside his brother. Even before his [[SerialKiller truly horrible crimes]], he was reported to not be the best father and had several allegations of DomesticAbuse and [[AbusiveParents child abuse]]. He eventually became obsessed with creating the "perfect toy"; to this end he made a DealWithTheDevil, to make his toys lifelike, but in order to do so, he had to kill, a deal that would result in the deaths of several children. Martin would begin his quest by killing his entire family. He would eventually switch to murdering random kids using his multiple costumes to lure them, kidnap them, and finally murder them. After all of these killings, he would use Satanic rituals to bind their souls to toys where they would still be conscious but unable to die.
* ''Podcast/HisNightBegins'': In this world of violence, crime, and child trafficking, these two prove to be the worst [[AntiHero Virat Nariman]] has faced:
** Season 1: [[ArcVillain Ranjha Seth]] is a brutal brothel owner who takes part in the [[HumanTrafficking child trafficking]] operation to gain women and fortune. Having inherited the business from his father, Seth has farmers' wives and daughters kidnapped and sold to various men, getting others in debt so that they can be used as slave labor. Becoming partners with [[BigBad Sai Kali Bhakth]], Seth would hand him virgins to be used for his [[HumanSacrifice ritual sacrifices]] in return for his services, using him to kill anyone who gets in his way. Threatening a captured girl with mutilation and having a father trying to retrieve his daughter tortured to death, when Seth is tortured by Virat for information, Seth tries to lure Virat into a trap to kill him.
** Season 2: [[DirtyCop Inspector Rahman Tariq]], from episodes 6-9, is a violent brute working for the Border Protection Force who has taken control over Sanauli. Accepting bribes from criminals, he allows the town to become a [[CrapsackWorld crime-ridden dump]] filled with murder, drug and HumanTrafficking, and corruption. Abusing people around him, and even murdering his fellow policeman who dare try and snitch on him, Tariq is also a [[SerialRapist cruel rapist]], taking advantage of Sai Kali Bhakth's trafficking operation so that he may be given young, tranquilized women to have sex with.
** Season 3:
*** [[DiscOneFinalBoss Pepe Tidema D'Souza]] is the supposed leader of TheSyndicate, taking advantage of his position as Ahman's decoy to [[TheHedonist indulge in his own sadistic desires]]. Originally a small-time ArmsDealer, Pepe would gain access to the Syndicate and rise up in the ranks, crucifying their then-leader for sidelining him. Once Virat starts to recover from his coma, Pepe kills his wife and presents her disfigured corpse to him, later forcing him to kill the Syndicate's accountant to tie up loose ends with the intent to kill him once he's finished. After Virat outsmarts him, Pepe murders the kind farmer Sukado by dragging him across the pavement with his car and shooting Virat's friend Chetia. A nasty [[SerialRapist rapist]] in his spare time, Pepe has his bodyguard Minesh bring him young men to rape, sadistically strangling them to death right as he climaxes.
*** [[TheDon Ahman Gotwani]] is the [[ManBehindTheMan true leader]] of the Syndicate, and the [[GreaterScopeVillain architect behind all the atrocities of the series]], which include child and drug trafficking, torture, and countless murder. Believing that there's no point in reserving compassion for the less fortunate after witnessing his parents getting killed by {{loan shark}}s, Ahman began forming the Syndicate while [[ItsAllAboutMe only looking out for himself]]. Having Virat and his wife gunned down for disrupting his child-trafficking operation, Ahman has Pepe act as his decoy as he works behind the scenes corrupting all of India with his criminal enterprises, such as turning an entire city into a gangland warzone where minors act as drug addicts. Ahman later thanks Virat for killing Pepe by murdering his friends in front of him, threatening to kill his son and his biker friends should he not meet him at the Pastern Sanctuary on time, hoping to kill Virat and continue the Syndicate's operations.
* ''Literature/{{Hospitality}}'' ([[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Hospitality link]]): [[SiblingsInCrime Hansel & Gretel]] are [[AdaptationalVillainy a far cry from the heroic kids]] in [[Literature/HanselAndGretel the original tale]]. A pair of adult siblings and {{serial killer}}s, Hansel & Gretel had already shown sociopathic tendencies before starting their killing spree, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals pelting animals with rocks]] or trapping them inside holes and leaving them for dead. Trying to escape their poor upbringing, the siblings decided to kill wealthy old women for their money. Having killed and cut to pieces already 11 women and their own grandmother by the time the story starts, they wander around a forest, with Gretel wondering whether or not she should kill her own brother. Upon reaching an old woman's house, Hansel & Gretel attempt to kill her for her golden necklace. When their riches are stolen, the villainous siblings blame and attempt to kill each other. When the old woman trapped them and turns out to be a witch, Hansel attempts to sell out Gretel so that he could escape with his life. Despite their poor background, these siblings prove to be irredeemable, greedy beings.
* ''Literature/HowIEscapedFromACult'' ([[https://www.wattpad.com/314051644-creepy-facts-and-scary-stories-how-i-escaped-from link]]): [[DarkMessiah Charlie Stocke]] was the self-appointed prophet of the [[{{cult}} Third Reincarnation of the King]], as well as the alleged [[AGodAmI third reincarnation of Christ]]. Stocke convinced several of his followers into going with him into the wilderness, and he forced them to work eight hours a day. He placed most of the members on the "prayer list" as a means of breaking them into submission, and he purposefully starved them. He later sentenced a married couple to death when they tried to leave the cult, and he also executed the narrator's parents. Four more members died from execution while the remaining members of the TRK either died from starvation or resorted to cannibalism. Stocke eventually tried to orchestrate a mass suicide, but he was ultimately burned alive and eaten.
* ''WebVideo/TheHumanPet'': [[VillainProtagonist Sam Deercot]], also known as [[{{Troll}} The Codemaster]], is a cruel SerialKiller who's stalked, kidnapped, and murdered numerous people in the past. Targeting Eric for [[SleepingWithTheBosssWife an affair he had with his boss's wife]], he chooses to broadcast Eric's humiliation and torment to the world while allowing his audience to influence whether he lives or dies, and reveals the infidelity with private videos. Though a victim of parental abuse, which lead to the [[SelfMadeOrphan murder of his parents]], his actions since have only shown him to be just as heartless, with his known victims coming from abusive backgrounds themselves. Even the audience wasn't safe from his games, having been tricked by a third alias of his with strange messages and videos, only to distract and manipulate them away from their goal of saving Eric--who likely died offscreen, just another victim in Sam's long list.
* ''Literature/HyraaqTobit'' series, by K. Banning Kellum ([[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Hyraaq_Tobit:_The_Complete_Collection link]]): [[FauxAffablyEvil Mr. Thaddeus Pinkerton]] is the cruel master of the [[ReligionOfEvil Hyraaq Tobit cult]] and ultimate ruler of the city of Delphia. In addition to setting up centuries of religious practices that includes ritual suicide and mass cannibalism, Pinkerton also traps souls in the Red Star for [[AndIMustScream eternal torment]] for crossing or failing him. Pinkerton makes a deal with Blain Kellerman to save his comatose wife at the risk of losing his soul through a series of rigged tests, only reluctantly making good out of obligation when beaten, and sends his henchmen to the Red Star. Pinkerton also threatens to send [[HighPriest Father Lance Madison]], whom he corrupted centuries ago, to the Red Star for letting Derrick Reynolds escape, before sending the Sisters of Tobit to hunt down the protagonists and run Delphia. Pinkerton also hosts a show to preach to the children of Delphia, having the children eat two actors alive; he also helped facilitate the corruption of Tabitha Shaw into one of the Sisters of Tobit, and places Gregory Leary in Madison's place when the latter is killed. Pinkerton finally reveals Tobit to the world in order to start the apocalypse, and when the resistance topples his empire, Pinkerton summons Tobit to kill the survivors; it's then revealed that Tobit himself is the child of two godlike beings that Pinkerton befriended and manipulated to gain power, something that gets him sent to the Red Star as punishment.
* ''Literature/{{Inopticus}}'' series:
** ''Literature/{{Mirrorworld}}'': [[ForScience Syrile]]--real name Ishirō Hamada, a former member of [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar Unit 731]]--is a member of House Dusk and one of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Korva]]'s minions. Obsessed with perfecting the devoiding process, [[MadScientist Syrile]] resurrected hundreds of corpses and experimented on them, not caring that the reanimated bodies became sapient and were [[AndIMustScream fully aware]] of all the torture that Syrile put them through. Syrile even went as far as arranging fatal accidents on various inhabitants of Inoptica just so he could use their bodies for future experiments. After kidnapping Geiger, Syrile forces Vita to assist him with his plans, only to later take her hostage as a bargaining chip when House Midnight attacks House Dusk's stronghold. Eager to save his own hide, Syrile kills Razmin before teaming up with House Dawn and offering to expose the secrets of the other three Houses. Even after Syrile becomes human again and returns home, all he can think about are the ghastly experimentations he plans on conducting in the future.
** ''Literature/ClawingAtGlass'' prequel: [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Talvor]], the sadistic Batlord of House Noon, began his reign by savagely torturing the day-vamps of the House into [[FantasticRacism genocidal fanatics]], with some being irreparably broken by his abuse. Talvor [[ThePurge purged]] all those he deemed "weak" from House Noon, from the infirm to the [[WouldHurtAChild children]], to pile their corpses underneath the House. Launching his genocidal Red Dawn to butcher countless members of House Dusk, civilians and children included, Talvor extended his crusade to attempt to turn Dusk into a charnel house. Talvor planned to harness the flames of a power known as the Conflagration with full intent to unleash it and wipe out all the rest of Inoptica to build an empire out of the ashes and blood of the innocents he slaughtered.
* ''Literature/JoeMontanaSavesThePrincess'', by K. Banning Kellum ([[https://fictionlibrary.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_Montana_Saves_the_Princess link]])): [[SinisterMinister Father Haller]] is the leader of [[ReligionOfEvil the Foundation]], a cult that worships and seeks to release the demon lord Un and bring about HellOnEarth in exchange for world domination. The subject of UrbanLegend, the Foundation is rumored to conduct HumanSacrifice, and when Joe Lawrence investigates these rumors, Haller has him murdered. Seeking the last living female descendant of a king that stopped the Foundation's plans thousands of years ago, they track her down to Cynthia Tierney, and take advantage of her mother's cancer and families financial issues to lure her into a trap, seeking to use her blood to summon Un. When Joe's brother Brian investigates the cult, and befriends Cynthia, Haller eventually captures them both, and begins to slowly cut up Cynthia and force Brian to watch. When Brian and Cynthia fight back Haller defiantly tries to kill them while facing defeat, promising to make Joe's death seem more "merciful" in comparison to what he has in store for Brian.
* ''Literature/{{JTK}}'' (Creator/{{Slimebeast}}'s DarkerAndEdgier reimagining of ''WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller''): [[TeensAreMonsters Jeffrey "Jeff" Jones]] is a violent, [[LonersAreFreaks antisocial loner]] who idolized school shooters and fictional villains long before he snapped. Jeff routinely [[TheBully harassed and intimidated his fellow students]], all while planning a massacre by hiding knives all around the school months in advance. He eventually [[SelfMadeOrphan beat his own parents to death with a baseball bat]] and murdered dozens of his schoolmates and teacher, including [[SiblingMurder his own brother Louis]], who had only protected him up to that point.
* ''Literature/{{Kaduav}}: The Beginning of the End'': The wicked [[StarterVillain Windsor]] is a member of the Gilded Cross, a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Yeshu supremacist group]] who seek to murder any race who are deemed unclean. Tasked with slaughtering caravans containing Roja, Windsor kills plenty of Roja people--including [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--with sick glee, mocking his partner Jess for refusing to partake in the murders. After butchering another caravan, Windsor waits for Eden and Rachel to arrive and tries to kill them.
* ''WebAnimation/TheLastLamia'': [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Theodore Erswick]] is the sociopathic leader of Avatech's Project Ascension. After forming a [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian deal]] with a tribe of Lamias, he has them kidnapped from their beds at night to [[PlayingWithSyringes conduct excessive experiments]] and ElectricTorture on them, then wipe their memories so that his pact can remain intact. When instructed to commit genocide on the Lamia species, Erswick sadistically agrees and has their homes burned and the Lamias slaughtered with guns and poisoned blades. When he comes across the dying Lamia Sovereign, he tortures her by shooting her repeatedly, then burns her alive for his own amusement. He has his soldiers collect all the Lamia corpses to harvest for their DNA, and transports them back to the city of Brookhaven, where he experiments with his genetic rewriting by performing horrific and torturous experiments on innocent people just trying to survive, killing them or transforming them into [[AndIMustScream mindless monsters in constant agony]]. When Rebel leader Xander makes a deal with Erswick to turn over his allies in exchange for Erswick curing his sister Lani's fatal disease, Erswick betrays him and instead kidnaps all four members of the rebel group, injecting them with his experimental formula. He then mocks them as they succumb to the formula's effects, with Lani burning to death from the inside and technician Brec transforming into another monster. When Xander confronts Erswick, Erswick tortures and kills him with a Tesla coil. He then commands the monster to capture the survivor, Jason, for further experimentation.
* ''Literature/{{Legatum}}'':
** ''Literature/SmirvlaksStone'': [[SmugSnake Lorko Maeliss]] is the dreaded leader of the Yellow Fang, a [[HeinousHyena gnoll]] tribe which [[RapePillageAndBurn pillage, rape, and slaughter]] their way throughout the country of Glorsdale under his cruel direction. With a fondness for rape and torture, Lorko furiously pursues the Corveel brothers and their ally Stilyk after they rob him of a powerful magical stone, massacring the Corveel brothers' village and cutting a wide trail of mayhem and murder across the countryside with countless creatures slaughtered by his gnolls. Possessed of a propensity to [[BadBoss murder his own minions]] for any reason he can think of, Lorko tosses unending waves of them to their own deaths, personally butchers many of them for simply contending his authority, and enslaved his adviser after having massacred her family and "tamed" her by letting the other female gnolls rape her into terrified submission. In the end, after using what remains of his own band as suicide bombers to create a distraction wide enough for him to corner and rape Nickolas Corveel, Lorko reveals his designs to use the stolen stone to conquer the entire planet and annihilate millions, fancying himself [[AGodAmI the god of a new age]] where all who oppose him are crushed.
** ''Literature/HelpNotWanted'': [[BigBad Ogrell Syn'Gorrsh]], seemingly a simple-minded ogre in search of his missing daughter, harbors a much, much darker secret. Ogrell is in fact a SerialKiller, having already long ago butchered and ate [[OffingTheOffspring his own daughter]] after her whining annoyed him to the point of violence, following up with his wife and then countless innocents afterwards he lured in or kidnapped to brutally murder and eat. Not satisfied with simply killing and eating his victims, Ogrell [[MindRape psychologically]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] tortures them for weeks on end, with a priest Ogrell's left a skinned, maimed mess and a goblin Ogrell reduced to a feral monster only a few of his endless menagerie of victims. When the goblin contractors he lured in try and stop him, Ogrell beats a child to death in front of one of them to lure him out and later tries to simply murder them all himself after his first attempt to break them fails, laughing away their morals and simply telling them they're all animals at heart like him.
** ''Literature/ScrambledEgg'': [[UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness Trellorv]], a disgusting, monstrous troll who–-after having [[SelfMadeOrphan butchered his parents]] and his entire village for being punished for his first murder of a mentally-handicapped troll--had an existential crisis which led to him avowing himself to what he feels is the source of joy in life: wanton carnage. Trellorv dismembered a priest shortly after confessing his sins and went on to [[SerialKiller murder]] and [[SerialRapist rape]] hundreds of people for pleasure, even desecrating a settlement and leaving a portion of the populace not killed but maimed to near-death, begging to be [[MercyKill mercy-killed]]. After he met the omnicidal mage Sonya, Trellorv plans to betray her to take the mystical egg she's seeking and initiate an apocalypse of his own to bask in the everlasting suffering that follows.
* ''[[Podcast/LibertyTalesFromTheTower Liberty: Tales from the Tower]]'':
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R51L5cOAC9Y Missing]]": [[SerialKiller Mrs. Gibbard]], while appearing to be a [[BitchInSheepsClothing sweet, kind old lady]], is secretly a selfish, vicious [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] with [[ChildEater a sweet tooth for the flesh of children]]. Over the years, Mrs. Gibbard has lured numerous children into her apartment, proceeding to murder and butcher them and cooking their flesh to make her famous meals, regularly [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies sharing her extras with her unknowing neighbors]]. A mere day after having murdered her latest victim Lucius, upon his friend Cassia catching her in a lie, Mrs. Gibbard sadistically attempts to bludgeon the poor girl to death, all while boasting about how helpful and plump Lucius was.
** "Happiness": [[{{Sadist}} Doctor Plutarch Arman]], despite presenting himself as a [[BitchInSheepsClothing gentle, caring psychiatrist]], is in fact a vicious, twisted psychopath, who since childhood has taken a disturbing euphoria from inflicting pain and suffering on his fellow Atrian citizens. As a young man, Arman seduced a co-worker into following him into the tunnels, then strangled her; slowly beat a terrified man to death; and kidnapped a young couple, [[ColdBloodedTorture brutally torturing them until they expired]]. Still desiring more, Arman began to [[PsychoPsychologist abuse his patients]], using his skills at hypnosis so that upon hearing the TriggerPhrase, they would become mindless, violent lunatics. Upon discovering that Melina Krosos had been exposed to his twisted mind and damaged by it, Arman also began the same on her. Exposed and arrested, at his trial Arman activated all his patients at once, causing a massacre that left 47 people dead, all while he escaped to start the process again with a new unsuspecting victim.
* ''Literature/LifeHasNoGuarantees'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3007657/1/Life-Has-No-Guarantees link]]): Michael Andrews is a drug dealer and Elizabeth's boyfriend. Upon settling in Elizabeth's home, Michael became [[DomesticAbuse extremely abusive]] to Elizabeth and gave her beatdowns for the pettiest reasons, [[HarmfulToMinors not stopping even when Elizabeth's children are around or even watching]]. When alone with Elizabeth's 6-year old daughter Natalie, he made her "touch him". When Elizabeth's 14-year old daughter [[FirstPersonPerspective Caryn]] confronts him about it, Michael threatens to kill her and her whole family--and to rape Natalie as well--if [[ScarpiaUltimatum she doesn't have sex with him]]. Forced to flee when Elizabeth caught him in the act, Michael gives her another beatdown, scars her, kidnaps Natalie and threatens to kill Elizabeth's youngest child Shane if he reveals that he kidnapped Natalie. Viciously beating down Natalie, Michael leaves her for dead, with [[KarmaHoudini little comeuppance]] for his deeds.
* Literature/{{Looperverse}}:
** ''Literature/ThirtyDaysInSpring'' & ''Literature/ProjectA75'': [[VillainProtagonist Ryan Rhodes]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters sociopathic teenager]] who has been committing atrocities since [[EnfantTerrible childhood]], including murdering a disabled boy in fifth grade. After he and many other students are stuck in the woods during a class trip, Ryan joins up with three other boys to commit more atrocities [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. After beating a group of fourteen-year-olds to death, the boys gang-rape a girl to death and murder her boyfriend when he comes looking for revenge. The boys soon find gold, drowning two guys who found it and torturing others to death when they do the same, before burning a shack full of sixth-graders alive. Eventually, the other boys get tired of the violence, but [[BadBoss Ryan makes them keep going under pain of death]]. After forcing two girls to strangle each other, the gang is attacked by the rest of the students, and Ryan abandons his goons to their fate as he tries to escape. After being freed by Mr. Pink, Ryan helps him with glee, thinking he wants to [[KillAllHumans wipe out all of humanity]] which Ryan wants for the opportunity to kill more people for {{sadist}}ic thrills. During his fight with the heroes, Ryan murders Ralph and Adam and declares his intention to make Amelia his SexSlave.
** ''[[https://m.fictionpress.com/s/3344416/1/Unrequited-Love Unrequited Love]]'' ([[http://web.archive.org/web/20200304055537/https://m.fictionpress.com/s/3344416/1/Unrequited-Love archive]]): April, also known as Aoibheann and [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]], was [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the tyrannical queen]] of TheFairFolk. Enjoying causing chaos [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]], Aoibheann manipulated humanity, elves, leprechauns and fairies into fighting each other. When her lover Eoghan turned against her and killed her alongside 3 other heroes, Aoibheann swore revenge on him and his descendants, keeping her word by manipulating innocent virgin men into [[HistoricalRapSheet causing historical disasters]] in Ireland. Implied to have [[DrivenToMadness driven innocent men insane]] in the present day by seducing and luring them in a museum's Irish Mythology exhibit, April attempted to do the same thing with Darren Monaghan and killed his mother, his best friend and his best friend's wife when Darren refused. Kidnapping Darren's brother Paul, April told Darren to bring her [[WouldHurtAChild 30 children]] to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] to Azathoth if he wanted to save Paul. April planned to use these sacrifices to revive her body, and then give the entire world to Azathoth to eat, while she and Darren's soul ruled the remains. While her love for Eoghan was once genuine, it turned into a twisted obsession with him and Darren and a desire to want them all to herself.
** ''Literature/ACaseInBucksville'': [[BigBad Jacob Lucas]], aka the Strangler, is a high-functioning sociopath and [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]]. [[MurderInTheFamily Burning his parents and sister]] alive as a teenager because they annoyed him, Jacob became addicted to killing after killing his next victim, moving to different towns and [[SerialKiller killing a hundred children]] overall before settling in Bucksville as Jonathan Moore, journalist Karen Brown's assistant. While continuing his child-killing spree, the Strangler gave photos of the dead children to one of the suspects not to frame her, [[MindRape but to screw with the town further]], while he enjoyed "seeing parents cry, argue, blame each other, leave each other, even take their own lives" as a result of his killing spree.
** ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfASword'':
*** [[TheEmperor Emperor Ginold]] is a despotic tyrant who staged a coup against the leader of Northeast planet and afterwards [[EvilOverlord brutally tortured or killed those who dared oppose him]]. When Jordan, Arnie, and Gary acquire a book that could transform into a sword, Ginold throws his best friend into a [[SnakePit pit of snakes]] and [[BadBoss kills his fortuneteller and many of his guards in a fit of rage]]. When he discovers Morliss failed to capture the boys, he uses a kettlebell to bludgeon him, and while the protagonists are being chased by Ginold's army, they encounter a ruined city that had been raided and torched by Ginold and his army. The main characters encounter Ginold once again on Earth, by first using someone he killed as a vessel on their plane, and after attempting to drown them and everyone in their vicinity in his water form. Eventually, he manages to imprison Gary and Arnie in his castle, and kills one of Jordan's army men when the latter refuses to give crucial information. Ultimately, Ginold manages to [[KillItWithFire fatally burn Arnie]], subject Gary to a FateWorseThanDeath by trapping his soul inside a robot, turn on and kill Balthazar when [[HeelFaceTurn the latter has a change of heart]], and finally [[TheBadGuyWins kill Jordan and his army by duping Jordan]].
*** [[ImAHumanitarian Morliss the Mountain Giant]] is a top wrestling champion who has won every single match he has participated in. However, it soon comes to light that he is a sadistic monster who [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals ripped a dog in half]] in front of a boy, killed several partygoers by dumping kettlebells on their heads, and [[WouldHurtAChild hurled a baby in a creek]], all out of sadism. Worst of all, it is revealed that he [[ChildEater ate 72 children]] to [[CannibalismSuperpower grow extremely strong]]. After convincing the three protagonists to rest in his cabin so he could eat them, he reveals his vile nature by showing them pictures of his atrocities, and then sends his minion Parkskar to capture them for his consumption. When Parkskar fails to seize them, Morliss brutally ends him by impaling a spear through his neck. After, he shoots a man dead and devours his corpse.
*** [[PsychoSupporter Adrianna de la Santos]] is an obsessed fan of Emperor Ginold who, in life, attempted to impress him by [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering her own family]], killing 68 other people and [[CreepySouvenir keeping their skeletons as mementos]], and abetting in the homicide of Jordan's mother. Afterwards, she chopped off her hands and hung herself on an oak tree to frighten anyone who was unfortunate enough to encounter her corpse. As a [[GhastlyGhost ghost]], when the protagonists find her skeleton collection, she appears and tries to suffocate Jordan before being temporarily defeated. However, she attempts to kill them again by putting invisible pods on Jordan, which would coerce the victim into killing everyone around them and then themself. During the final battle, Adrianna brags to Jordan about how she killed eighty other people with the pods, before electrocuting Carl and [[RapidAging killing Olivia by reversing the effects of the de-aging seeds she consumed]].
* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'':
** [[BadBoss Jonah Magnus]], aka [[FauxAffablyEvil Elias Bouchard]], is the founder and head of the Magnus Institute, [[GrandTheftMe having stolen several of his worker's bodies to survive for centuries]]. Attempting to bring about the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]] for [[SinisterSurveillance the Eye]] in order to rule over the remains as its Avatar, Magnus conducts a ritual which destroys Milbank prison killing hundreds of inmates including his friend. Eventually realizing that the reason the rituals can't work is because the Fears are too interconnected to destroy the world alone, he manipulates Jonathan Sims into making contact with all of the Fears and uses him to bring about the apocalypse forcing him to read the ritual. Along the way, he murders anyone who gets too close to the truth and forces his employees to stay under the belief that if they leave or try to hurt him they will all die horribly, mentally torturing any who still try to rebel. This, along with him showing her father's horrible death to torture her, leads to Melanie King [[EyeScream stabbing her own eyes out to escape him]]. Cruel, [[SmugSnake smug]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe willing to stoop to any depth to preserve his own life and power]], Magnus manages to stand out in a setting full of evil gods, monsters, and other Avatars.
** [[AbusiveParents Mary Keay]] is a chillingly realistic example of a narcissistic abuser in a fantastical setting. Committing her [[EnfantTerrible first murder at a young age to gain power]], she murdered numerous others throughout her life, binding several spirits to her book, making their very existences agony, all to force them to help her. Among them is her [[DomesticAbuse long abused husband, Eric]], whose corpse Mary mutilated while his spirit was ForcedToWatch. Seeing her son Gerard as merely an extension of her legacy, Mary forces him to help her gain power, as well as using him as a genuine pig for her experiments. Refusing to accept her own mortality sometime in 2008, Mary attempts to kill herself in order to bind herself to the book with more power than the others had, making sure to [[KickTheDog give Eric's page away so Gerard would never see his father again beforehand]], continuing to force Gerard to serve her. Despite not working for the Fears, Mary is a frighteningly abusive mother who cares only for her own power, regardless of who she has to hurt and murder to obtain it.
** [[WouldHurtAChild Maxwell Rayner]], Avatar and chief servant of the Dark--and possibly [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Edmund Halley]]--is an arrogant, petty fanatic. Having failed to give the world to his master in 1715, Rayner spent the next 300 years preparing to ensure [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Extinguished Sun]] succeeded, expanding his lifespan by acquiring a series of children whom, upon his old body nearing the end, he would [[BodySurf transfer his essence into]], killing them. Creating [[ReligionOfEvil the People's Church of the Divine Host]], a massive international cult of Dark worshipers, Rayner directed them to perform countless ritualistic sacrifices to his master. Forcing Robert Montauk's killing spree, Rayner used their deaths to create the Still and Lightless Beast, and was the driving force behind the creation of the space station Daedalus, so that through months of torturous human experimentation he has Manuela Dominguez build him the Dark Sun. Convinced he was on the verge of victory, Rayner had his cult kidnap thousands of victims and subject them to "a week of horrors", sacrificing the victims one by one to empower the Dark Sun, to allow his master to spill out and consume the universe.
** [[WalkingWasteland John Amherst]] is a slimy, faux polite Avatar of [[TheVirus the Corruption]], known for his mocking grin, who delights in [[PlagueMaster spreading sickness and decay]]. Possessing [[ResurrectiveImmortality the unique ability to return from death]], Amherst, during the Boer War, caused several wounded men to die in agony and is implied to have worsened the disease outbreaks at the concentration camps. Over a century later, taking advantage of the closing of the Ivy Meadows Care Home, Amherst took over, infecting the residents, staff, and the building itself with a horrific disease that caused their bodies to slowly rot and flies to grow inside of them. Returning a final time, arriving in Klanxbüll, Amherst infected the entire town with his worst plague, causing the residents' flesh and muscles to grow progressively looser until they sagged off their bodies, leaving bones and organs exposed, and causing the rotting flesh to fuse to the ground. Not content, Amherst compelled many residents to drag themselves through the town, so he could meld them together to [[HumanArchitectureHorror form himself a twisted throne]], his victims alive and conscious throughout but unable to do anything but attempt to scream.
** [[Recap/TheMagnusArchivesSeasonTwo Season 2]]: The [[HumanoidAbomination Not-Them]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient creature]], the source of Changeling legends, that painfully murders its victims and [[RealityWarper bends reality]] so that it might take their place. It alters the memories of those around its victims, save for one unlucky soul who is left to remember. The Not-Them gleefully [[MindRape mentally tortures]] them to near insanity before moving on or murdering them, which it had done to several interview subjects testifying before the Magnus Institute. Having killed Sasha James and replaced her, the Not-Them proceeds to threaten the same agonizing end to Archivist John Sims.
** [[Recap/TheMagnusArchivesSeasonThree Season 3]]: [[MurderousMannequin Nikola Orsinov]] is a creature of the Stranger created to bring about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]] through the Unknowing. Murdering her creator because she found him "boring", Orsinov took over the Circus of the Other, [[RepulsiveRingmaster leading them to terrorize entire towns]]. In preparation for the ritual, Orsinov has her followers abduct and [[FlayingAlive flay]] potentially hundreds of people, keeping them alive for months, if not years; she personally skins several people, including Tim Stoker's brother. Orsinov is also behind Breekon and Hope delivering the Not-Them, causing the death of Sasha James and the invasion of the Archives. Delaying completing the ritual due to enjoying the sadistic fun too much, which makes even her own followers uncomfortable, Orsinov is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish sadist]] who lives only for her own sick pleasure.
** "Chosen" ([[Recap/TheMagnusArchivesSeasonFour Episode 139]]): [[CardCarryingVillain Eugene Vanderstock]] is an unpleasant, smug, thuggish Avatar of the Desolation, who despite his minor role stands out as the worst member of the [[ForTheEvulz Cult of the Lightless Flame]]. A sadist and a [[{{Pyromaniac}} serial arsonist]] even before joining the cult, at only [[EnfantTerrible 5 years old]], Vanderstock set buildings full of people alight during the Blitz, his fires providing targets for the Nazi bombers. Happily giving up his humanity to become an Avatar, Vanderstock was chosen to provide regular sacrifices for Agnes Montague, picking a nightmarish way to do so. Murdering his way up the corporate ladder at a steel factory, Vanderstock used his new authority to set up a secret "[[TortureCellar workshop]]". For decades, Vanderstock would kidnap vulnerable workers, often ones with the highest aspirations, melting their mouths shut. Dragging them to his workshop, he would slowly and agonizingly melt them down, molding special candles out of their liquid fat, which when lit would emit his still conscious victims' screams for several hours before burning to nothing. Vanderstock later admitted he didn't care if Agnes never received the candles due to the sheer enjoyment he got from creating them.
* ''WebVideo/MandelaCatalogue'': The Alternate of ArchangelGabriel--revealed to be {{Satan}} himself--is the progenitor of his kind and the mastermind behind the events of the story. Proclaiming himself to be the "[[DarkMessiah one true savior]]", Satan manipulates biblical figures and overthrows Jesus Christ, fooling humanity into worshipping him instead of God. In modern day, his Alternates are responsible for the deaths of countless people with their modus operandi of KillAndReplace. Satan is also the one to blame for the rise in Metaphysical Awareness Disorder (MAD), a fatal mental affliction with a staggeringly high [[DrivenToSuicide suicide rate]].
* ''Literature/TheManWhoNeverSmiled'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2362979/1/The-Man-Who-Never-Smiled link]]): An unnamed SerialKiller, going by the alias of John Cipher or Smileyface, was originally an assassin, where he killed a hundred people, including torturing and murdering a prostitute. [[AxCrazy Gaining a love for killing]], he unprofessionally began murdering and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] numerous victims, eventually gaining the enmity of Simon [=McGraw=] when he set fire to his barracks and killed 341 of his mercenaries. When Simon chases him in a hotel, Cipher tries to slow him down by setting off numerous explosions that kill dozens of people. Upon being captured and visited by Simon, Cipher kills him by ripping out his throat and face with his teeth. Escaping imprisonment, Cipher hunts down Spencer and shoots out both of his kneecaps to reveal his philosophy that he is a reflection of [[HumansAreBastards humanity's evil]]. As Spencer put it, Cipher didn't kill for revenge or to spread a message, but because [[ForTheEvulz he enjoyed it]].
* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'': [[BadBoss Derek Lucks]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt CEO of TASCorp]] who would partake in any unethical method to advance his company. A cruel boss, Lucks abuses his Meta Runners and remorselessly allows his top scientist Dr. Sheridan to experiment on Lucinia Porter, only to then cover up the incident when both supposedly perish. Lucks takes an interest in Tari for her game jumping abilities and forces her to join his company under the threat of killing her friends, demonstrating this by shooting off Masa Shimamoto's Meta Runner arm; destroying Theo's physical form, and [[AndIMustScream trapping him in a painful, corrupted version of his game]], to serve as a bargaining chip. Resorting to torture whether [[ForScience for scientific purposes]] or just to get what he wants, Lucks proves himself to be a self-serving sociopath [[BelievingTheirOwnLies believing his own lies]].
* ''Podcast/MidnightCharnelMass'': The unnamed [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] is the [[BigBad head]] of the Kalkin Corporation, and a man who wants to prove that gods don't exist. Traveling to the tent city of Tharwal, the CEO establishes his base of operations and lures the citizens into working for him. Needing a place to build his church, the CEO implants nightmares into the Tharwal citizens to make them believe the circus workers next door will murder them, leading the citizens to form a mob and kill all the circus workers. Summoning his new employees to the church once it's completed, the CEO has Tharwal burned to the ground, and [[BadBoss has his new employees brutally slaughtered]], their screams of pain transmitted to the heavens. Staring at the charred remains of Tharwal with a smile on his face, the CEO, after not getting a response from the gods, sees the experiment as a success, and prepares to do it all again in the next tent city.
* ''Literature/MistMan'' ([[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Mist_Man link]]): The [[AntagonistTitle titular mist man]] is a [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent malicious spirit]] on a several-century-long killing spree with a grudge against the Mallory bloodline. Living off the knowledge of his existence, he started out by killing farmers and visitors in a small town, driving Arthur Mallory to kill everyone in the town to prevent anyone from learning about him, and preventing his repeated suicide attempts. He continued to haunt the Mallory family for generations, smearing their name by killing people wherever they went. In the present day, he murdered Daniel Mallory's friends, leaving people to believe him to be the killings, eventually viciously massacring a hospital, [[WouldHurtAChild including babies]]. At the end, it's strongly implied that he soon plans to continue his savage butcheries until there's nobody left to kill, [[DrivenToSuicide driving Daniel to shoot himself]] out of guilt for perpetuating his massacre.
* ''Literature/ModernMagicalGirls'' ([[https://alexwarlorn.wordpress.com/ link]]): [[WickedWitch Mortgonna]] the Possessive Witch is a powerful, infamous witch. Mortgonna's MO is to possess hosts while leaving them helpless and watching inside their own bodies. In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Mortgonna would aid the Nazis with a massive DealWithTheDevil where those killed in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust would be sacrifices to her demonic contractors. Mortgonna would allow Dr. UsefulNotes/JosefMengele to dissect her previous host while [[ForcedToWatch forcing her current host Alma to watch]] her baby sister be killed in the gas chamber. Mocking the death of her friend, Mortgonna would capture, horrifically torture, and experiment on the Magical Girl Valkyrie. In the modern day, while possessing a little girl, Mortgonna would aid in summoning an Elder Fiend in the middle of a city to cause massive death and destruction.
* ''Literature/MoonlightRevenge'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3279050/1/Moonlight-Revenge link]]): [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Joffery]], supposedly a nice photographer from Arizona, is in truth a vicious SerialKiller of women, who goes to small towns, seduces girls that "no one will miss", and then kills them. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Seducing Lulu]], he later knocks her out when she shows some doubts regarding their relationship. When she wakes up, Joffery [[ColdBloodedTorture viciously tortures her]], before raping and killing her, all the while keeping [[FauxAffablyEvil an affectionate tone]]. He later attempts to make Izzy, Lulu's sister, go through a similar fate before a resurrected Lulu stops him.
* ''WebVideo/TheNightStriker'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cj-KYMGfXs link]]): Alisha Winko started out as a normal girl with a seemingly perfect family and childhood, but quickly became [[DrivenByEnvy murderously jealous]] of the orphan Joe, whom her parents adopted. After secretly wishing he'd die in infancy, when Joe grew into a healthy and normal child, Alisha planned to kill him, as well as [[SelfMadeOrphan her parents]] for caring about him in the first place. She tried to get her other brother in on it, before killing him for refusing and then killing her parents. Years later she escapes a psych ward, determined to hunt Joe down. Along the way, she kills numerous people, including her psychiatrist, the mother of a victim she decided to taunt, the sheriff and Joe's roommates. When she finally corners Joe, she explains her reason for her other murders were both to break him and [[ForTheEvulz for the fun]] of it. After seemingly shooting Joe to death, she faces arrest with a smile on her face, thinking that she won.
* ''Literature/NoManLeftBehind'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3324989/1/No-Man-Left-Behind link]]): [[OmnicidalManiac Unilife]] is an extraterrestrial [[AIIsACrapshoot artificial intelligence]] that wiped out its own homeworld by starting a [[NukeEm nuclear apocalypse]]. Unilife soon sought to [[GalacticConqueror dominate the entire galaxy]] by replicating itself and sending copies throughout the galaxy, where it would wipe out any sapient beings it encountered. One such copy wiped out all life in a solar system by starting a nuclear holocaust there. When Unilife tries to do the same to Earth, but faces resistance, it then [[StarKilling destroys the Sun]] to eradicate all life there, continuing its genocidal campaign when humanity flees.
* ''Literature/NoTrespassing'' ([[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/No_Trespassing link]]): [[EvilOldFolks The neighborhood gardener]] is revealed to be the one responsible for a string of disappearances in the protagonist's house. A smug sadist who [[ObfuscatingDisability plays up his advanced age]] to throw off suspicion, the gardener has [[SerialKiller murdered every one of the home's previous occupants]] over the span of four decades and hidden their bodies behind the walls. He is fully aware that the ghosts of his victims still haunt the house and try to warn the new occupants against suffering the same fate, as he snarks about his "shadow friends" keeping him company as he works on resealing the walls after stashing bodies inside of them. Though the protagonist is kind to him, offering assistance after the gardener falls victim to a teenager's prank, [[UngratefulBastard the old man only sees another victim]], and quips about the possibility of seeing a new ghost as he adds another corpse to his collection.
* ''Literature/OffenceReport'' (''Literature/GravenHunterFiles'' spinoff prequel): [[PosthumousCharacter Kyrie]] is a vicious and legendary [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]]. She first shows up at the orphanage to find her son Laures, in the process [[SlashedThroat cutting a boy's throat]] and killing a girl [[ILied despite agreeing to leave them alone]]. Kyrie then tracks down Laures and forces him to join her in her activities. At one point, she takes Laures to a farm, and he sees Kyrie restraining a terrified woman; Kyrie tells him that "her husband will have an unhappy life with a wreck by his side", and later brags about causing the woman to have a miscarriage. Kyrie then approaches a young girl, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills her cat]], has Laures restrain the girl, and begins feeling under her dress. After the murder, Laures, unhappy about this, pulls a knife out on Kyrie, only for her to threaten to rape him, bragging that she did so to his father. When Laures is paralyzed and begs Kyrie to protect him from a demon, she refuses and tells him to act as bait, [[AssholeVictim only to fall prey herself]]. A truly depraved woman who murdered kids for thrills, Kyrie remains infamous in the present day despite being long dead.
* ''Literature/OfTheAngels'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2107243/1/Of-the-Angels link]]): [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] was the top Angeli of the God of All Things, until the latter created humanity, a race that Lucifer thought was inferior. Lucifer [[RageAgainstTheHeavens rebelled against the God of All Things]] and then conquered Aearth, [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaving billions of humans]]. Simultaneously, Lucifer tore down cathedrals and other places of worship to God, executing the priests and the common people residing nearby those sites. Lucifer also places his human slaves in ghettos, where they are often abused and whipped for even minor infractions. When [[LaResistance the human resistance]] manages to [[SlaveLiberation rescue several of his slaves]], Lucifer orders his followers to kill both the resistance fighters and the unarmed freed slaves. Upon capturing Eve, Lucifer forces her to gather up the resistance forces for a final battle against his own army, threatening to slaughter all of her friends and allies if she doesn't comply.
* ''Podcast/OldGodsOfAppalachia'':
** [[AnimalisticAbomination The Thing Whose Name Sounds Like Horned Head, But Is Not]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient]] elder thing of the hills, not the oldest but perhaps the cruelest and [[EvilIsPetty pettiest]] of them all. As a great black stag crowned with amber antlers, Horned-Head leads countless settlements and camps to ruins and death while contriving to separate the Witch Queen Daughter Dooley from her mothers, granting her immortality that drains the lives of those about her while cursing her to [[MerlinSickness age in reverse]] so it may claim her and "raise her right" once her slate is wiped clean. Upon its defeat, Horned-Head resorts to [[ChildEater feeding on children]] to restore itself, finally returning to power after 140 years to commit to unleashing its masters upon an unsuspecting world.
** [[FauxAffablyEvil The Man from the Railroad]], in his [[ManOfWealthAndTaste charcoal suit]], is the cruel embodiment of progress and death, whose gleefully states his adeptness and efficiency in "bringing hell to you". Crafting [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] to secure laborers bound by contract to his masters regardless of how many will die in the process, the Railroad Man takes over the hunt for Vera Blevins in her flight to Pleasant Evenings, the brothel house owned by witch Marcie Walker. Deciding to wipe it out should they fail to give Vera over, the Railroad Man twists many of the town's people into monsters to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] over the protective wards, even murdering his associate, Judge Jerry Brotherton, as a sacrifice before attempting to have [[DisproportionateRetribution everyone in Pleasant Evenings massacred for the insult of refusing him]].
* ''Literature/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.
* ''Machinma/Outpost99'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPr42_BGEIeu-p8baZP1IDqrHaaLj6iP link]]):
** Season 1: Colonel Laura Taylor is [[TheDragon the right-hand woman]] of General Hawke. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] interviewing Captain Raine about the Codex before ordering his execution on a whim, after discovering the Flood, she intends to weaponize the parasite for Black Water Ops even after being warned by the Monitor Atlas about it wiping out all life. She proceeds to [[UngratefulBitch thank the Atlas]] by uploading a virus to kill him. Attempting to [[BadBoss use her own soldiers as hosts for the Flood]], she futilely [[TakingYouWithMe activates the Codex to release it in her dying moments]].
** Season 2: General Hawke is the [[BigBad leader]] of Black Water Ops, tasked with overseeing the research outposts of Forerunner structures. Realizing the power they hold, he initiates a Gamma Protocol purge of personnel who he deems disloyal, having his Shadowknife soldiers hunt down survivors. When Captain Raine is captured, Hawke threatens to [[ThrownOutTheAirlock eject his comrades into a nearby planet's atmosphere]] if he doesn't talk. Hawke's ultimate plan is to use the Apex to turn stars supernova in order to [[GalacticConqueror take over the universe]], having Black Water Ops fight the Covenant when they try to stop him. When Atlas tries to stop his plan, Hawke kills him.
* ''[[WebVideo/OutsideXbox The Oxventure]]'':
** [[EvilSorceress Lady Liliana]] is the ArchEnemy to the Oxventurers Guild after M. Channail's death. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced to the party]] running black market [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]] in "Spell Check", Liliana has her underlings steal the magic from any magic users they capture--a process which has killed at least all but one of a previous adventuring party--and sell any non-magic organs for extra profit. As part of the operation, Egbert's kidney is stolen to create a clone army, with her later ordering one mook to have his organs harvested for [[ShootTheMessenger bringing her a message]]; when this fails, she vows revenge before disappearing. After the clone army is destroyed, Liliana returns in "Sect Appeal" to found a cult she manipulates into kidnapping civilians to mutate and brainwash into her personal army, which she plans to use to conquer the Kingdom of Geth.
** Vex, the ArcVillain for "Peak Performance", is a sadistic woodsman and {{necromancer}}, and despite his limited screen time stands out as one of the nastiest foes the Oxventurers Guild have encountered, [[VileVillainSaccharineShow never being played for humor]]. Imbuing his traps with necromancy that will raise the corpse of anyone caught in them, even if said trap doesn't inflict fatal wounds, Vex [[TaxidermyIsCreepy taxidermizes]] any zombified being that returns to him, as shown by the extensive collection of displayed animals in his cabin. Far from doing this to survive, this is done purely out of sadism and inflated ego, as shown when he gleefully reflects on turning Merilwen's wildcat, Simon, into a hat despite its being buried--[[KickTheDog twisting the knife in the process and refusing to take the hat off despite the elf's visible grief]]--and then tries doing the same to the Guild by siccing a zombie bear on them. Despite his claims of doing this to get by, Vex truly saw himself as superior to all others and viewed any attempt to impede his activities as "cheating" him out of what he believed to be rightfully his.
** Eroan, the ArcVillain for "Elf Hazard", is the elder of Merilwen's village and a KnightTemplar obsessed with tradition, viewing any deviation as punishable by death. Initially appearing a [[BitchInSheepsClothing kind]] if unintentionally [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] leader of the village, he actually punishes any elf that refuses to change their name upon reaching adulthood by gifting them an iron brooch that is cursed to have banshees and other monsters hunt them down; when breaking into his house, Corazón discovers a ledger with multiple confirmed fatalities. Upon discovering the party have rigged the tombola to let Merilwen keep her name, he coldly attempts to condemn her and Corazón to death, only for the attempt to backfire and him to die in the process. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Unusually humorless for a comedic series]], Eroan stands out as one of the nastiest ''Oxventure'' villains despite solely featuring in one episode.
* ''Literature/Patient88'' ([[https://www.wattpad.com/57267991-creepypasta-on-hold-again-patient-88 link]]): The psychopathic Mr. Richards is a depraved SerialKiller who kidnaps women, locks them in his shed, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly starves them to death]] to see how long a human could last without food. He's repeated this process to at least eight women, and kickstarts the story when he ambushes and kidnaps the young Tavy Mord, the titular Patient 88, intending to do the same to her. Knocking her unconscious and dragging her to his basement due to the fact she couldn't talk to him, Richards begins starving her. When Tavy [[PeekABooCorpse finds the corpses]] of his previous victims, Richards beats her unconscious again and cuts out her eyes. Though the ultimate effect is [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom unintentional on his part]], when Tavy is finally found and Richards is arrested, Tavy has a fatal heart attack from the shock of the incident and the fact that Richards got off easy for his crimes, and she turns into [[FaceMonsterTurn the murderous, undead Patient 88]]. Motivated by little more than sick curiosity, Mr. Richards stood out even in the face of literal monsters, including the one he created.
* ''Literature/PenPal'': In the original Creepypasta, the protagonist's (nicknamed "Dathan") nondescript, unnamed {{stalker|With A Crush}} manages to establish himself as an irredeemable monster despite never even appearing in the story proper. A [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who happens to receive a letter from the protagonist as a kindergartner as part of a school project, this man spends the next ten years obsessively following him; [[CrazyJealousGuy jealously]] murders anyone whom the protagonist is close to, even his [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cat]]; tricks the protagonist's senile old neighbor into letting him into her house, then cuts her apart because she was kind to the protagonist; runs over and steals the phone from a girl the protagonist had a crush on, pretending to be her while texting him, as she dies in the hospital; and finally kidnaps the protagonist's best friend Josh and holds him captive for two years, forcing him to change his appearance to look like the protagonist and doing other things to him that are not elaborated upon. Finally, he tricks Josh's father into [[BuriedAlive burying him and Josh alive]]. When his crimes are discovered after his death, they scar the protagonist and those around him for life.
* ''Literature/PinotNoir'':
** [[SinisterMinister Kleetus Klementine]], true name [[WouldHurtAChild Christopher Cogswell]], is an ancient being surviving on the deaths of others. Having been UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper and [[HistoricalRapSheet responsible for a myriad of human atrocities]], Cogswell preys on innocence by holding children and [[HumanTraffickers giving them to clientele]] to rape, torture and eventually murder. Eventually killing his own stock and sacrificing a follower to take on the strength of Shub-Niggurath, Cogswell opts to bring the apocalypse and completely exterminate mankind.
** Greta Ludwig von Hertz, a would-be MadDoctor who burned down the institute that expelled her, has graduated since to the poisonous MadScientist of crime lord Big D, having influenced him to start Purge Night. While running Big D's OrganTheft ring, Greta leads [[PlayingWithSyringes twisted and torturous experiments]] on innocents for little reason than to gratify her own sadism, [[ImAHumanitarian snacking on human body parts]] regularly whilst horribly abusing her put-upon lackey Schultz day in and day out. With ambitions to launch a zombie apocalypse, Greta murders the child of Big D and manipulates his grief to control his crime empire, intent on deploying the virus in a series of major cities. Even when pointed out a full-out apocalypse will leave nothing to rule over, Greta shrugs it away and opts to burn the children she was planning to use as breakouts for the virus to soothe her frustration.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Crank Gibson]], the ArcVillain of Chapter 4, is a drug lord responsible for the creation of [[FantasticDrug Pleasure]], a drug with euphoric effects and hideous withdrawal. Gibson demands the production of Pleasure through cheap slave labor, keeping his "employees" motivated via threats to families he's already murdered and [[ExplosiveLeash detonating the hearts]] of any who resist. Gibson intends to facilitate Greta's ZombieApocalypse on the promise to rule what's left, murders his defiant minions, and when Pinot turns his operation against him, Gibson detonates the bombs implanted in every remaining slave's heart in a fit of hysterical laughter.
* ''Literature/ThePiratesCoveredInFur'': [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Captain Lyle Krinkor]] is the vicious captain of the wolf pirates who seeks to destroy Diamond City in order to make his own empire for him to be worshipped. Krinkor begins the story by massacring the residents of an island in order to gain access to a super weapon, an indestructible robot dragon; Krinkor proceeds to use said dragon to invade Diamond city while ordering his crew to RapePillageAndBurn all they can, causing mass swaths of death and destruction whilst Lyle keeps survivors as hostages. Later, Lyle instructs his crew member Marcus to blow up the bridge so as to trap the civilians in the city. Krinkor proceeds to [[HeroKiller murder several of Michum's friends]], taking a sadistic pleasure in his actions. When the heroes storm the hotel he's keeping the hostages at, Krinkor instructs [[TheDragon Pryllic]] to kill the rest of the hostages, having him kill several before the heroes save them. In his final confrontation with Michum and Tully, Lyle beheads Pryllic for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]], mortally wounds Tully, and taunts Michum over the loss of his friends.
* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'':
** [[PredecessorVillain Dread Empress Triumphant]][[note]]May She Never Return[[/note]], the evilest Tyrant to ever emerge from the Wasteland, was a prodigy Diabolist who climbed the Tower and cowed the High Lords into subservience through overwhelming might, with her [[TheLegionsOfHell hordes of devils and demons]] rechristening the Praesi Legions into the Legions of Terror. Within ten years Triumphant was able to conquer all of Calernia through dint of bloody massacre, with notable crimes including the release of a demon of Madness on Laure; the slaughter of a fifth of the Gigantes in a battle that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives as collateral damage; the slaying of a Seraphim summoned to stop her, after which she butchered a hundred different tribes for their defiance; and the extermination of two random cities in her fury at being denied the Golden Bloom. Triumphant's [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen reign]] was no better than her conquest, as she regularly forced children to show obeisance by crucifying their own parents, and her final act upon inevitably being overthrown was to bring down the Tower in an effort to [[TakingYouWithMe take her killers with her]]. Entertaining wide-scale torture and murder with an eye towards expanding her rule across all of Creation, [[TheDreaded Triumphant]] inspired such fear and terror that countless future generations of Praesi [[HorrifyingTheHorror pray for her to never somehow find a way to return from death]].
** [[GodhoodSeeker Kurisov]] was a jaklavar of the Empire Ever Dark, before allowing Rumena and Sve Noc to kill the Twilight Sages in hopes of taking over in the wars that would follow. Having learned how to come BackFromTheDead and usurp portions of Night from its followers when they are slain, the "Leech" clashed with Rumena seven times over the centuries, intentionally [[WeHaveReserves sacrificing thousands of warriors]] in every encounter to overwhelm Rumena's sigils and gorge itself on stolen Night. Continuing to use these horrid tactics when brought into the War on Keter, Kurisov takes advantage of Sve Noc's weakness in the wake of Night being ruined to poach two shards of the Gloom, [[AGodAmI declaring itself the divine Loc Ynan]] and making an alliance with the Dead King. While claiming to its followers that they will be left in peace for nine years so long as they stay out of the war and allow the dead to scour Calernia of all other life, Kurisov truthfully intends to ascend to godhood by [[FinalSolution wiping out the entire drow race]].
** Book 6: [[SerialRapist The Wicked Enchanter]] used his expertise in [[BrainwashedAndCrazy domination magics]] to [[RapePillageAndBurn murder, rob, and rape]] his way across the outskirts of the Brocelian Forest, with the tortures and rape he inflicted on one girl [[CreateYourOwnHero turning her into the Red Axe]]. At the advice of the Wandering Bard, the Enchanter joined the Truce and Terms for amnesty from his crimes, but not before taking his "court" to terrorize three more villages.
* ''Literature/ProjectZERO'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/459002/1/Project-ZERO link]]): [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor A]] is an alien pirate who sends androids to planets across the galaxy to [[FinalSolution exterminate all life there]] and sell its resources. Setting her sights to Earth, Doctor A first sends Zero, later named Nick, to continue her genocidal pursuit, but when he rebels against her, she sends other androids to finish Nick's goal. When One captures Nick, she orders One to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture him]] as punishment for his betrayal. After all of her androids are defeated, she decides to destroy Earth by [[OrbitalBombardment firing a beam from her spaceship]] to rupture its crust and create enough volcanic explosions to blow the planet into oblivion or lower the global temperature to freezing levels. After Nick defeats her, she still [[TakingYouWithMe tries to fire the beam onto Earth as one final act of spite]].
* ''Creator/ProyectoCabra'' stories: The creature that would be known as "[[HairRaisingHare Till]]" is the worst creation of TheCreator. Created using the agony of dying souls, the creature was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in the Dreamlands]] because of his violent behavior until a human named Brian liberates him by giving him the name "Till". Using his new name to escape, Till kills Brian's mortal body and later, when Brian's soul tries to escape the Dreamlands, Till devours him and his friend. Leaving the Dreamlands, Till manifests himself to countless humans in horrific situations to torture and kill them, leaving only three survivors to tell stories about him. Till also tortures Douglas, administrator of the afterlife, in the most painful way to force him to feel fear, an emotion that Douglas was previously unable to feel. When the former human Luna turns into a EldritchAbomination known as "Fear" because of Till's actions, Till proposes that he and Fear to join forces and [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil establish a new order]] to overthrow the Creator and feed on human hearts.
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* ''WebVideo/TheRakeVsDogman'', by Tom Sonski ([[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZyGr8QXqbO2Xp5dhGuvyVKfswAhLZjH link]]): [[RabidCop Officer Nathaniel Dixon]] is a DirtyCop of the highest order and the main [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human antagonist]] of the story. Quickly established to be a deranged and entitled psychopath, Dixon has a history of assault and [[KillerCop killings]] that were swept under the rug, and is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] as he is [[TheCorrupter encouraging a kid]] to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torture and mutilate a kitten]]; he briefly considers putting the kitten out of its misery, but quickly decides not to. Dixon holds a grudge against Murray Keeplin for battering and blinding him in the past when he attempted to kidnap her, and plans something "special" for her to get his revenge. When he and the others first encounter the pack of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf-like dogmen]], Dixon callously shoots his fellow officer Barclay and throws him to the pack. He makes his "arrest" of Murray his top priority, even in the face of all the danger they're in. When his crimes are exposed, he steals Rookie Henry Keller's gun as he's killed, and immediately shoots Janine. It's also discovered he tortured his former partner to death when she refused to help him kidnap Murray. Eventually, he tortures Jason with a pair of bolt cutters when he helps Murray and Holly escape, before stalking them through the woods in a desperate bid to kill them both.
* ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'':
** [[StupidJetpackHitler Professor Friedrich Von Schlitz]] is a Nazi MadScientist and the face of the Third Reich on the podcast. Even before his formal introduction as a villain he's suspected, and later confirmed, to have engineered a terrorist attack on an American-made zeppelin, having it hijacked and set to crash into Toronto as revenge against the theft of an invention of his when he'd been in the city, even excusing it as "an act of justified retribution for an insult against all of Germany". He takes glee in being able to avenge any slight, no matter how minor or major, yet he's also [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] enough that the moment he's cornered or it's otherwise in his interest to do so, he'll switch sides or [[VillainsWantMercy plead for mercy]]. All his declarations of loyalty to the Fuhrer and the Reich go out the window when he's captured by the Allies, both to save his neck and because Hitler had already started to tire of him.
** [[MadScientist Professor Zombie]], real name Antonia Zombanistro, commits her crimes by zombifying people to use as her muscle through Necronium 234, a compound of her own creation. She hits her stride when she launches a campaign of vengeance against the Red Panda, blaming him for her becoming zombified by her Necronium and seeking to kill and zombify all of the city of Toronto, invoking the very [[ZombieApocalypse apocalypse]] she once helped prevent. She makes multiple attempts to hit as large a group as possible; converting her Necronium into a street drug, trying to gas a huge crowd of parade watchers, or [[WaterSourceTampering introducing Necronium into the water supply]]. Once the Red Panda figured out how to reverse the zombification and thwarts her plans, Zombie rejects the Panda's efforts to save her, destroying a critical part of the cure and forcing the Red Panda to destroy her for good, as she's determined to succeed and she makes clear [[EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce she only has to win once]] for him to lose everything.
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In a universe that runs on ComedicSociopathy, these villains are more sociopathic than comedic.
** ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection The Recollection]]'' (seasons 6-8) & ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga The Project Freelancer Saga]]'' (seasons 9-10): [[AIIsACrapshoot Sigma]], representing the Alpha's [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]] and [[ManipulativeBastard creativity]], is the evilest [[Characters/RedVsBlueArtificialIntelligences AI]] in the Meta. Interested in becoming human, Sigma gradually took over the mind of Agent Maine and increased his violence. He also manipulated Agent Carolina into getting two AI, leading to a mental breakdown, and helped torture the Alpha. Using Maine, Sigma stole Carolina's AI before nearly killing her. As part of the Meta, Sigma hunted down other Freelancers for their equipment and AI. The AI would be forcibly implanted into the Meta, whether they were willing or not. He also slaughtered multiple simulation teams as well as any recovery agents encountered. In a final bid to steal the Alpha, Sigma and the Meta attacked Freelancer Command, killing everyone stationed there and cornering and almost killing Agent Washington. Even with his destruction by {{EMP}}, Sigma's manipulation ensured that the broken Maine would continue to act as the Meta.
** ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'' (seasons 11-13) has two members of [[Characters/RedVsBlueCharonIndustries Charon Industries]]:
*** [[WarForFunAndProfit Malcolm Hargrove]], the [[CorruptPolitician Chairman of the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee]], poses as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to hide his massive list of crimes. Using his position as the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Charon Industries, Hargrove illegally used UNSC soldiers as a private security force. Starting up an investigation against Project Freelancer, Hargrove used it to take Freelancer's technology for his own use while arresting anyone involved in the project, even going as far as releasing a SerialKiller from prison to help him. Finding alien artifacts on the planet Chorus, he hired a group of [[Characters/RedVsBlueSpacePirates space pirates]] to kill everyone on the planet by manipulating them into a CivilWar. Hargrove sent ships containing cargo for the mercenaries to use to the planet, where the mercenaries killed everyone on the ship and stole the cargo for their own use. When the Reds and Blues got involved, Hargrove took advantage by having them escalate the conflict with the intention to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill them when they were no longer necessary]]. When the mission was jeopardized, Hargrove threatened to kill his lead mercenaries by sending a new agent to finish the job. When exposed, Hargrove decided to kill as many of the people as possible out of spite rather than surrender.
*** [[Characters/RedVsBlueFelix Felix]], real name [[TheSocialDarwinist Isaac Gates]], is a [[AxCrazy psychopath with a love for killing]]. When he fought in the Great War, he never showed any mercy to his enemies, even those that were trying to surrender. When one of his teammates, [[Characters/RedVsBlueLocus Locus]], was broken by the war, Felix kept him from getting help and molded him into his partner. Hired by Hargrove as one of the space pirate leaders to create a civil war on the planet Chorus, the mercenary took pleasure in infiltrating one of the sides while he was leading them to their deaths. He also led the raid on a prison ship where the entire crew is killed and the prisoners who are not worthy to join forces with him [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected from the ship]]. Hearing about the Purge, a temple that could exterminate all life on the planet, Felix personally led the operation to activate it, dismissing the certain deaths of his own soldiers as acceptable losses. In the end, Felix proved to be unwilling to listen to any attempt at reasoning, whether it be from Washington, the Reds and Blues, or even his own partner.
** ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy The Shisno Trilogy]]'' (seasons 15-17): [[JerkassGods Genkins]], aka a TricksterGod, was part of a false pantheon of gods, the "[[Characters/RedVsBlueCosmicPowers Cosmic Powers]]", meant to trick other species into subservience. Desiring true godhood, he joined forces with Chrovos to remake the universe InTheirOwnImage. He proceeded to help manipulate the Reds and Blues into causing a TimeCrash, going as far as to exploit Wash's [=PTSD=] he gained from his neck injury and generating a mini black hole to sadistically murder Huggins when she tried to interfere. After the time crash, Genkins traveled around the time stream to cause further paradoxes to further weaken Chrovos's prison. Eventually, Genkins stole Chrovos's power to devour them alive, before trapping the Reds and Blues in the Labyrinth so they could be psychologically tortured to the point of committing suicide.
** ''Zero'' (season 18): [[MyHeroZero Zero]], the leader of [[Characters/RedVsBlueZerosSyndicate Viper]], desired revenge against the Alliance of Defense for dropping the project GLASS and taking away his chance to be the leader of Shatter Squad. Desiring the Ultimate Power, Zero attacked several bases in order to steal artifacts and coordinates for temples, viciously slaughtering those who got in his way, having Washington tortured, and only sparing those who he wanted to trounce again in the future. Finally achieving his goal, Zero declared his intention to [[OmnicidalManiac "burn the world down" and "destroy everything"]], all to show off his own strength [[PsychopathicManchild out of petty spite]].
* ''Literature/{{Relive}}'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2663055/1/Relive link]]): [[{{Hellhound}} Machea]] is a vicious demon who wishes to [[OmnicidalManiac spread destruction and death to every kingdom in the world]]. Wanting to steal Hitori Kennin's power to achieve this, Machea orders his forces to attack the Dredia kingdom, massacring countless citizens and [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing the survivors]] to [[SoulEating consume their souls]] and condemn them. When Machea discovers that Hitori escapes, he tries to [[DealWithTheDevil manipulate him into joining his side]], while also ordering him to massacre the village he just befriended. When Hitori refuses, Machea tries to kill him, swearing to condemn his soul for eternity as well.
* ''Risen and Fallen'': ''Literature/IntoInferno'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2889127/1/Risen-and-Fallen-Into-Inferno link]]) & ''Literature/IntoHeaven'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3105516/1/Risen-and-Fallen-Into-Heaven link]]): [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] was once a loyal angel to God, until he betrayed him for his creation of humanity, believing that they should be [[KillAllHumans exterminated]]. Lucifer first launches an attack on London, where he slaughters thousands of citizens and most of the royal family, before coercing Victoria into becoming imprisoned in the city of Baratrum. Lucifer then manipulated the start of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI both]] world [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII wars]], which led to the deaths of millions of people. Eventually, Lucifer attempts to kill Victoria and her friends by wiping out the city of Baratrum. In the sequel, Lucifer launches an invasion of Earth, where his followers massacre entire cities. After taking the souls of Derrik and Victoria, he revives them into his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mindless servants]] and sends them to kill hundreds of innocent citizens to both weaken the human resistance and to tarnish their reputation to their friends.
* ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'':
** [[EvilTeacher Ms. Jackson]] is the elementary school teacher monitoring [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-010 RPC-010]]. Living inside her class along with her 31 students for years, Ms. Jackson [[WouldHurtAChild tortures and murders the children]] on a daily basis if they fail to meet her expectations, using an anomolous object called the Happy Box to bring them back each time that they die in a [[AndIMustScream perpetual cycle of pain]]; Ms. Jackson has lashed a girl for failing her math quiz and strangled a boy to death when he began sleepwalking. Occasionally reading stories about disturbing topics such as rape and murder to her class, Ms. Jackson once did something so horrible to her new student that an Authority researcher requested an immediate transfer to another site [[EveryoneHasStandards out of disgust]].
** [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-142 RPC-142]]: Also known as "[[ResurrectiveImmortality Reanimator]]", he is a sadistic SerialKiller and SerialRapist who takes advantage of his immortality to [[StrawMisogynist satisfy his misogyny]] by going on killing sprees against women, having raped and murdered several over the years, with his MO involving the mutilation and dismemberment of his victims. After breaking into a strip club, the Reanimator slaughtered eight people inside with a hatchet and charged at the police officers when they tried to stop him; when he was killed by said officers, the Reanimator was caught days later trying to strangle a woman to death behind a bar. While under custody of the Authority, he had a brief conversation with a figure from his past, Jerome, whose loved one had been murdered by the Reanimator, mockingly commenting that he was "not the first guy whose got pissed at me over some bitch" before [[CardCarryingVillain admitting to be a monster]]. Eventually escaping and jumping from a bridge to his death, the Reanimator is currently free to resume his serial killings anywhere in the world.
** [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-239 RPC-239]]: Also known as "[[MonsterClown Bobo the Clown]]", he was once a mundane but sadistic SerialKiller named Lucas Walker Jr., having terrorized a town before his death. Lucas was soon resurrected in the body of a living clown [[PerversePuppet puppet]] by a mysterious entity called "Mother" for the purposes of freeing dangerous [=RPCs=], a job he's all too happy to do. He is also given the ability to [[DeathOfPersonality permanently erase the consciousness]] of those he makes physical contact with and turn them to his enslaved puppets, which he does to 17 personnel, and has an additional 109 killed in an attempt to start a mass containment breach. When foiled and detained, he recognizes a researcher interrogating him as the older brother of a boy he killed as a human, and repeatedly [[MockingTheMourner mocks him over it]].
** [[http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-913 RPC-913]]: Also known as "[[HumanoidAbomination the Crooked Man]]", this entity was captured by [[ThoseWackyNazis the GARD]], who made 15 sacrifices to it in the attempt to use a ritual to control it. RPC-913 soon manages to escape, killing everyone in the place where it was trapped but one person, who however [[MindControl has his memories messed up by the creature]]. Years later, the Authority and the FOA find RPC-913 [[ImAHumanitarian feeding on hikers and locals]] before it uses its powers to force several soldiers to shoot at each other and affect the remaining ones as well, going as far as forcing one to kill his own wife and daughters. Ultimately, RPC-913 is an entity whose only goal is [[{{Sadist}} causing as much suffering as possible]].
* ''Literature/{{Sacrifice}}'' ([[https://fictionpress.com/s/3342967/1/Sacrifice link]]): {{Satan}} is summoned by a [[NayTheist misotheistic]] woman called Rebecca Cecilia Mallory, who wanted him to resurrect her dead daughter Anastasia Hope Mallory. Requesting "[[DealWithTheDevil great personal suffering]]" in exchange, Satan first horribly destroyed Rebecca's eyes, ripped off her ears, destroyed her nose, ripped off her tongue, skinned her alive and permanently paralyzed her. Satan then fulfills his part of the bargain, resurrecting Anastasia, fully aware that the latter will not recognize her mother and flee of terror in front of her now-monstrous appearance, before leaving Rebecca, who is still [[AndIMustScream alive and conscious but unable to do anything]].
* ''WebAnimation/{{Sherwood}}'': [[CorruptPolitician The Sheriff of Nottingham]] is the ruler of the [[AfterTheEnd now-almost-entirely-sunken]] London. At some point in the past, he gained the trust of "King John" and imprisoned him, leading everyone to believe that the King's will was for him to rule in his absence. He wastes no time creating a totalitarian regime where the wealthy upper class uses [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian-like]] robots to steal rations and medicine from the lower classes, leaving them starved and prone to disease. Hating his dependence on the lower classes to survive, the Sheriff spends most of the series hatching a plan to make the Upper City mobile, which damages the ecosystem further in the process. Next, he sends his robots to steal all food and medicine, leaving the citizenry to suffer a particularly violent epidemic that makes the victim cough blood before dying. When the protagonists try to contain the explosion of a power reactor, the Sheriff, now accepting of death. refuses to help them. On top of everything, he is also an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], a sadist, and he attempts to kill his only ally once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he sees no more use for him]].
* ''WebVideo/ShoggyTheSeldomDog'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYiryPl-gw link]]): "[[ForTheEvulz Shane the Shy]]" is a mastermind who decided the best way to do evil would be to subtly engineer disasters, wars or famines by [[ManipulativeBastard deceiving adventurers]] and [[BitchInSheepsClothing posing as a harmless middleman]], then fleeing as disaster unfolds. Conning the party into unearthing historical documents that start a bloody war, then agricultural tools that cause famine via invasive flora, Shane flees while also [[FrameUp framing them]] for murder and engineering other disasters such as a gold rush to lure a Red Dragon into a kingdom, or sponsoring aspiring warlords. Once the party eventually traps and interrogates him, they discover Shane does this not out of brainwashing or because of an evil deity, but because he woke up one morning and decided that [[ItAmusedMe it'd be amusing]] to devote himself to making the world miserable.
* Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos:
** ''ARG/CaughtNotSleeping'': [[NoNameGiven The Showtime Killer]] is a merciless SerialKiller who views the Butterflies as his perfect victims. Having murdered at least 17 people in different cities from the West Coast prior to his involvement with [[TheHero Caught]], Showtime makes his presence known by invading chat rooms and demonstrating his knowledge of his targets' private lives. Following a Butterfly, Showtime sends him a disk containing a video titled "The Show Must Go On", which shows the bloodied corpse of one of his victims. In one of his "murder trips", Showtime goes to Seattle and abducts two Butterflies, taking them to a secluded location and torturing them with scissors and other tools while [[SnuffFilm filming their agony]]. Showtime stands in contrast to other antagonists as an entirely human threat who takes pleasure in hurting defenseless people.
** ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'': [[AxCrazy HABIT]] is a supernatural entity capable of taking control of people's bodies, using his powers to force his still-aware host to sadistically murder people for his own entertainment. While possessing Evan, HABIT forces him to strangle Daniel to death, brutally tortures Jeff and Steph over a protracted period of time before killing them, and eating the baby that Evan had fathered with Steph. When Evan is released from HABIT's grasp, HABIT gives him a HealingFactor that leaves him unable to die. When Vincent summons HABIT to get some answers, HABIT just insults him and forces Vince to lure in victims to torture and kill. HABIT then traps Vince in a room for two years, giving him a healing factor in order to psychologically torture him and prevent him from killing himself. On the blog ''Blog/CanYouSeeTheWords'', HABIT posts writings made by his victims where he would kill scores of people brutally and let Slender Man have the survivors, and reveals that [[HistoricalRapSheet several of the world's most notorious serial killers and war criminals]]--including [[SerialKiller Albert Fish]], UsefulNotes/JosefMengele, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper--were his doing. In the crossover with ''WebVideo/MLAndersen0'', HABIT tortures Shaun Andersen to death in a plot to lure in his brother Michael/Patrick. Standing in sharp contrast to the mysterious Slender Man and the animalistic Rake, HABIT is a sadist who enjoys what he does.
** ''WebVideo/StanFrederick'': [[BigBad Connor]], or [[HumanoidAbomination Lines]], is Stan's brother-in-law and his [[ArchEnemy most personal foe]]. The founding member of [=WeMustCollect=], Connor [[WouldHurtAChild harvests children]] for [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]] and despises Stan for feeling remorse for his actions as a member of [=WeMustCollect=]. Wanting to recruit new members, Connor hunts those who refuse to join him; Connor murdered a [=YouTuber=] and tortured a boy for declining his offer. Kidnapping his own sister Susan, Connor threatens to murder her if Stan doesn't harvest a child for him. Four years after his death, Connor returns as Lines and murders Stan's therapist, drives his friend into committing suicide and causes the death of a little girl that was affiliated with him.
** ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'': [[AbusiveParents Mary Asher]] is Milo's [[EvilMatriarch mother]] who was haunted by the Slender Man as a child and lived in fear of her future death. Once a member of the Slender Man-worshipping cult called the [[ReligionOfEvil Order]], she killed her two ex-husbands. The whole reason she had Milo in the first place was to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] him to the Slender Man in her place; she also tried to conceive more children as [[OffingTheOffspring extra sacrifices]]. Milo's journal elaborates more on this; she groomed and indoctrinated Milo into the Order, having them drink his blood; would use drugs and {{gaslighting}} to try to keep him in line, using physically aggressive methods at the slightest resistance; she also self-harms to get Milo institutionalized and implies she will have his beloved cat put down to punish him for standing up to her. Her methods to kill her family include setting her sister's house on fire while her young nephew Noah was asleep, burning his babysitter alive; helped bomb and capsize a boat dozens of people were on, killing her mother and another young nephew of hers in the process. Mary [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claims]] to be a victim trying to protect her family, but both Noah and Milo see right through her as a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] coward willing to sacrifice her family to ensure her own survival.
** ''WebVideo/WhisperedFaith'': [[BigBad The Speaker]] differs from other incarnations of WebOriginal/TheRake in the sense that he is not a mindless beast, but a cunning and malevolent mastermind. A HumanoidAbomination whose voice is capable of tempting and tormenting humans, The Speaker corrupts one of Lee's closest friends Sean, enslaving the boy by making him get addicted to his voice and resulting in him founding The Family, a {{cult}} created to worship him. Capturing Lee, The Speaker allows Sean to physically torture him for months while he could MindRape him with his voice to break his spirit. When Sean's right-hand Lexx usurps the position of Family leader in his absence, The Speaker disposes of both him and Lee's best friend Mo, trapping all of his deceased disciples in a Purgatory for him to feed upon for all of eternity.
* ''[[WebOriginal/{{Snarled}} Something Scary]]'':
** ''WebVideo/TheGatorManOfElmendorf'': The titular Gator Man, Joe Ball--loosely based on the real SerialKiller--seems to be a friendly bartender, who secretly lures or kidnaps women to feed to alligators on his farm. He is [[VillainWithGoodPublicity considered a local hero]] for leading the search for one of him youngest victims, earning the trust of said victim's family. Ball maims and kidnaps a man looking for his sister Ball kidnapped, intending to [[FedToTheBeast feed them both to the gators]]; said sister is being forced to participate in his crimes, and is seen feeding the gators a severed arm. When exposed, Ball intends to [[CopKiller kill the detective]] investigating him, and when incapacitated, throws himself into the gator pit to avoid being arrested, laughing maniacally as he's eaten alive.
** ''WebVideo/TheMonsterWhoMocks'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular monster]] of this shory--dubbed the Mimic--is a [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid shapeshifting creature]] who approaches a delinquent boy being disciplined at a boot camp. The Mimic [[DealWithTheDevil makes a deal]] with the boy and tells him it can give them both what they want before taking his form. The Mimic proceeds to set the boy up for a series of dangerous and deadly pranks around the camp, continuously getting him into trouble. When the boy goes to confront the Mimic, the true horror is revealed; the Mimic knocks the boy out and he awakens to find his school reduced to a flaming wreck, with the Mimic slaughtering and [[ToServeMan devouring]] staff and students alike, assimilating their body parts. The Mimic sarcastically thanks the boy for the opportunity, before disappearing into the woods.
** ''WebVideo/SpringHeeledJack'': The titular SpringHeeledJack is a demon that terrorizes [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian England]], [[WouldHurtAChild preying on children]] during night hours. Jack prides itself in the terror he instills in his victims, using their fear to strengthen himself. Capturing the brother of a girl he earlier kidnapped, Jack attempts [[ToServeMan to eat one of them]] and [[ForcedToWatch force the other to watch]]. Blown apart by his would-be victims, Jack vows to return to exact vengeance on them and their descendants for trying to stop him.
* ''Literature/TheStoryOfMyInvasion'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2636650/6/The-Story-of-My-Invasion link]]):
** Corporal Hauptmann is the overseer of the Auschwitz [[PoWCamp concentration camp]], where he [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust works its hundreds of thousands of prisoners to death and exterminates more via gassing and cremating]]. He cruelly treats his prisoners, such as shooting one prisoner when he has a bruise on his face, and executes those who are over the age of fifty-five, deeming them too weak to work. He later sends the children to the Birkenau concentration camp, where he shoots one prisoner for protesting this and the [[WouldHurtAChild children]] are [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]] and often killed, Georg gets specifically tortured via electrocution. He also supplies UsefulNotes/JosefMengele's experiments by giving him prisoners to experiment on. When a revolt breaks out in the camp, he orders the guards to kill every rioting prisoner, shooting even Georg during the crossfire.
** [[SociopathicSoldier Ivan Demjanjuk]] is the guard in charge of the Treblinka concentration camp, where he mass executes his prisoners by [[DeadlyGas gassing]] them in chambers and cremating their remains, with his victims including [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. He personally kills the pregnant mothers that survive the gas chambers, shooting them in the forehead and in their womb. Whenever operations halt in Treblinka, Ivan still [[{{Sadist}} murders his prisoners by shooting anyone he finds]]. On Jan's last day in Treblinka, Ivan receives a delivery of many young, naked girls, where he first considers letting the guards [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape them]], before simply having them shot.
* ''WebAnimation/SunsetParadise'': [[BigBad Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch]] is [[TheMobBossIsScarier the leader of the Port Aurora Crime Syndicate]]. Once a powerful crime boss, Benedict attempted to steal the Phoenix Egg to use it ashes to become immortal and make a criminal empire that will last forever, uncaring that this will cause death and ruin to come to Port Aurora. Benedict is stopped and sealed inside an egg-shaped body by Sheriff Aloysius Bori, but only after mortally wounding the latter. Returning 100 years later, Benedict forms a crime syndicate to help him with his plans, while also ordering the Spud Buds to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Aloysius' grandson, Auri Bori]], just to spite his deceased ArchEnemy. When Meggy and Auri interfere with his plans, Benedict has the Funky Fource [[FrameUp frame them for attempting to assassinate Mayora Bora]], before attempting to kill the duo with a bomb. Upon taking over Port Aurora's lighthouse, causing pain to several children in the process, Benedict has his minions rampage throughout the island, uncaring if anyone gets killed in the process. When confronted by Meggy and Auri, Benedict manages to kill Auri by attempting to shoot Meggy with a laser, forcing Auri to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] to save her, before proceeding to gloat about it and attempts to use the Phoenix Egg to restore himself to his original form and resurrect his criminal empire.
* ''Literature/TailsOfTheBountyHunter'' features these top members of the Quintuple Cartel:
** [[BigBad Olly "The Baron" Kurrmor]] is [[TheDon the leader]] of the Quintuple Cartel and an ice-cold sociopath of a fox since the day he was a pup; he murdered another child simply for refusing to share his popsicle. The Baron precedes over widespread [[ArmsDealer weapons trafficking]], organized murder, and [[PlayingWithSyringes awful scientific experimentation]], and kicks off the story offering his services to destroy nearly a billion lives on a moon threatening the empire his contractor represents-—planning to turn on and kill his own contractor afterwards to assure he isn't a threat later. The Baron's agents destroy entire cities and thousands of lives before he's finally stopped, and the Baron [[TakingYouWithMe in response]] opts to annihilate his entire empire and all of his men with it, even murdering one of his men after having the minion tell him all about his life, simply to demonstrate how easy it is to take it all away.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Vogar "The Chemist" Oblingor]] is a rapist and murderer who once violated and killed the family of one of his test subjects. Perfecting chemical weapons by [[PlayingWithSyringes testing them on innocent subjects]], the wicked crook hands them to the Cartel for widespread use. In his hideout, Vogar experiments on a large amount of innocent beings to make SuperSoldiers, subjecting them to agonizing procedures, with [[WouldHurtAChild not even children and infants being exempt]]. When cornered, Vogar happily unleashes his mutations on an innocent town to give himself leverage, gloating all the while how brilliant he is.
** [[SerialRapist Gobor "The Terrorist" Grizzer]] is a thuggish pit bull with a life of rape and murder trailing behind him, having gleefully dominated and violated everyone in his way. Weaseling his way into becoming [[DirtyCop chief of police]] of Knochen City, Gobor continues to rape and abuse everyone he can while abusing his power to cover himself, having countless dozens killed in organized attacks throughout Knochen City to [[FalseFlagOperation pin blame]] on a guerrilla movement called the Liberators. Eagerly taking part in the Cartel's plot to destroy hundreds of millions on a distant moon, Gobor tests out the compound meant to do so on a basketball stadium full of tens of thousands of people, forcing [[AntiHero Cale Tomlik]] to watch after having raped him and tortured his partner.
* ''Literature/TheTaleOfRobertElm'' ([[https://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_Robert_Elm link]]): [[BigBad Valentine Ambrose Lombard]] is the leader of the [[ReligionOfEvil Black Circle]]. While in its early days the cult was founded to prevent the spread of a plague, he seems to have taken up the mantle of leader for no other reason than as an exercise of his sadism and depravity. Lombard tampered with the mind of Robert Elm's lover, causing him to develop abusive tendencies, with the intention of luring him directly into the cult's arms to murder him and neutralize the threat he poses to his order. When Elm is assaulted by a zealous follower, Lombard nurses him back to health, all while slipping doses of human flesh into his meals--acquired from various captives held in a shack--to nullify Elm's power over him. Just as Elm is almost back on his feet, Lombard and his followers rehearse a ritual wherein he plans to sacrifice Elm, using the follower who assaulted Elm as practice, eating his liver after slaying him.
* ''[[AudioPlay/TalesFromBeyondThePale Tales from Beyond the Pale]]'''s "[[http://talesfrombeyondthepalearchive.com/tales/season-3/cannibals/ Cannibals]]": [[ImAHumanitarian Giovanni Falcone]] is an almost forgotten auteur horror director who is also a cannibalistic SerialKiller. Once a founding member of a cannibalistic {{cult}}, Falcone lures in many individuals, only to murder, cook and eat them himself. In one instance, Falcone took in a young actress, killing and eating her as well before seemingly "retiring" after a farcical trial. Arranging a meeting with a young director named Babe Bosco who seemingly "cannibalizes" his movies, Falcone reveals his intent to kill and eat Bosco before finding out the actress was his mother. Even as Bosco gets the better of him, Falcone's only remark on his old crime is to [[EvilGloating gloat how delicious Bosco's mother was]].
* ''WebVideo/TalesFromTheSpidersWeb'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxXnYWW28Ie-EAoMtEBVrA/videos link]]): [[TheHeavy Clowny]] is an utter monstrous PsychoForHire tormenting David and his friends for fun. A cannibalistic SerialKiller, Clowny was revealed to have been the one behind the disappearance of Madison White. Initially appearing to be a simple hacker, Clowny proved himself to be much more than that by visiting David's underage friend, Chance, and stabbing him to death, burning his parents alive in a house fire which he had started. Setting his eyes on Kyle, he did the same to his relative, savagely devouring his body afterwards. An animal in human skin, Clowny overshadows his compatriots in terms of sheer cruelty and brutality.
* ''Literature/TheTenRings'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2986830/1/The-Ten-Rings link]]), ''Literature/TheTombOfSyethis'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2999774/1/The-Ten-Rings-The-Tomb-of-Syethis link]]), ''Literature/TheIslandOfFog'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3011055/1/The-Ten-Rings-The-Island-of-Fog link]]): [[PsychoSupporter Baphoment]] is a [[GruesomeGoat goatman]] who becomes obssessed with reviving Tiamat to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]] and rule what was left. Recruiting Lucien and a tribe of {{skinwalker}}s, he sends them to massacre the town of Goldpiece to lure the Ten Rings away and allowing him to steal one shard needed to revive Tiamat, organizing numerous casualties. After murdering Father Lancaster to steal the shard, he then kills a gravedigger and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices him]] to summon Thanatos to steal another shard. Once he acquires all three shards, he revives Tiamat and spends his last moments boasting about how she'll kill the Ten Rings.
* ''Literature/TheToadmanSaga'':
** [[AntagonistTitle Keith "Toadman" Lesler]] was a SerialKiller who was executed for [[WouldHurtAChild murdering dozens of children]]. On the brink of death, [[EldritchAbomination the Shadowbeast]] offers him the opportunity to [[RegularlyScheduledEvil return every 30 years]]. In the first part, he targets Abram Linfeld, beheading his two friends Donny and Angie and tying their heads to his waist. He then attacks Abram, chopping off his leg, the former only surviving thanks to a crate of fireworks. In the second part, a policeman, Tyler Smith, comes to investigate the murders. When he and local beat cop Doyle Wheeler head down to the mine shaft, Doyle, under the influence of the Shadowbeast, attacks Tyler. When this fails, The Toadman beheads Doyle, and then forces Tyler to free the Shadowbeast.
** The [[GreaterScopeVillain Shadowbeast]] himself is an [[AliensAreBastards ancient alien]] who came to Earth and brought upon chaos and havoc, [[AGodAmI viewing himself as a god]]. Having been sealed away after [[WouldHurtAChild murdering and mutilating children]], the Shadowbeast made a deal with Keith "Toadman" Lesler to be resurrected every 30 years to act as his servant. Responsible for Keith's murders and possessions, the Shadowbeast [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] those into releasing him from his prison, and when one person, Doyle, refused, he summons Keith to kill him, forcing his friend Tyler to free him and doom the world.
* ''Podcast/TomorrowsMonsters'' ([[https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-tomorrows-monsters-77030509/ link]]): Cassandra Berkley is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive senior executive]] at a company called [=NextCorp=] and the [[TheManBehindTheMan real mastermind]] behind the events of the first season. After her boss, CEO Max Fuller, develops Shut Eye, a product that eliminates the need for sleep, Berkley convinces him to take it, affecting his mental health. Berkley uses Max as an assassin to kill anyone who gets in her way after that. Berkley begins [[TestedOnHumans human testing]], offering money to veterans to undergo testing, not caring if they die in the process. When a new employee named Jack Locke joins the company, Berkley forces Jack to take Shut Eye or get fired and reveals that Shut Eye allows her to control anyone who uses the product. Berkley has her mind-controlled pawns kill anyone who tries to stop her and even kills Finn Conelly, Max's business partner who wanted to stop this scheme. Berkley then [[MindRape mentally tortures]] Jack and reveals she plans to [[FrameUp pin all the murders on him]]. Eventually, Berkley blackmails her uncle, who is a powerful senator, into helping her introduce Shut Eye into the military, forcing recruits to take Shut Eye and become drones controlled by a HiveMind.
* ''Literature/{{TOT}}'': [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Maximus Slade]] is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish, sadistic]] werewolf with a love for all things destructive and whatever he deems "fun". His evil ways extending back to his childhood of [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torturing animals]] and ultimately strangling his best friend to death, Maximus was turned into a werewolf in his teenage years, and has spent all his time since indulging in whatever violent impulses his heart desires. On Halloween night in a small neighborhood, Maximus goes on a rampage, something he implies he has done plenty times before, slaughtering dozens of men, women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]], devouring parts of their bodies, and littering the streets with their corpses. Along the way, Maximus tries to force a teenager to murder his friends, [[CopKiller massacres an entire police station]], and decorates trees with children's disemboweled bodies. To make his night extra "fun," Maximus plays a sick game with a group of young friends, culminating in him ripping one's chest open and burning another alive while attempting to force his parents to listen as he dies. Though claiming numerous times to just be having fun and play games, Maximus is nothing but a vile monster who puts his own lust for carnage and killing over the lives of countless innocents.
* ''Literature/ToWelcomeOblivion'':
** [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]] is a wicked [[EldritchAbomination Outer God]] who has plunged trillions of lives into eternal agony within the Outer Planes, with entire civilizations driven to destroy themselves under his influence. On Earth, Nyarlathotep [[HistoricalRapSheet arranges events]] like TheBlackDeath and the rise of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler for his own amusement, and [[TheChessmaster manipulates the events of the plot]] by setting up the rise of both [[AntiVillain Peter Grallman]] and Dr. Lilith Madison into their positions, the former by killing his young sister Marissa. Arranging the opening of the Outer Gate as Noah T. Trepaly, Nyarlathotep eventually betrays both Grallman and Madison, torturing the latter into his possessed slave and unleashing the populace of the Outer Planes onto Rielington. Nyarlathotep slaughters thousands of people--such as tricking an cafeteria's worth of children into cannibalizing themselves and forcing hundreds of the Old Brotherhood's members to become either breeding fodder or food for the eldritch monsters he summons--and attempts to plunge the entire universe into the Outer Planes, and gloats to Grallman that he'll resurrect Marissa and torture and rape her for centuries in Grallman's form. With a mile-long sadistic streak underscored by a psychopathic sense of humor, Nyarlathotep commits every atrocity he does purely [[ForTheEvulz to satisfy his sense of amusement]], intent on one day betraying even the Outer Gods to torment the rest of the multiverse himself.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Lilith Madison]] is a callous sociopath of a scientist with an utter disdain for any life other than her own. Obsessed with finding out the secret to life at any cost, Madison turns to murder to stimulate herself, such as [[WouldHurtAChild deliberately suffocating an infant under her care]]. Upon finding a Deep One's carcass, [[BadBoss she kills her own research team]] to use it for her own ends and allies with the Old Brotherhood and its leader Grallman to kidnap hundreds of innocents and implant them with organs from the Deep One to spread Eldritch Energy across the world, resulting in the painful deaths of those forced to bear the transplants. Causing a series of bombings that lead to over 250 deaths to cover the actions of [[AxCrazy Rhett Talbot]], Madison eventually unleashes him onto Rielington to [[PsychoForHire slaughter and rape as he will]] to take care of the Seratin sisters and Robin Lockwood. Ultimately, Madison betrays Grallman and tries to open a gate to the Outer Planes to discover the secret of existence, fully willing to let the denizens of the Outer Planes pour out on Earth and ravage humanity in the process.
** [[SerialRapist Rhett Talbot]] is the sadistic ArchEnemy of Elara and Kaya Seratin. As a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Talbot [[WouldHurtAChild molested several children]] while posing as a babysitter. After he was taken by the Old Brotherhood and experimented on, he used his newfound powers to [[SelfMadeOrphan murder his parents]], and later conducted a series of massacres--one of which took place at a playground Kaya was playing at, where he cut off her arms and attempted to rape her. Several years later, Talbot goes after the Seratins again, where he murders several civilians and police officers in and around a restaurant. Talbot also participates in raping and killing members of the Brotherhood alongside the eldritch monsters in the breeding chamber, and when he's confronted by the Seratins again, he tries to rape Elara and kill them both, uncaring that Nyarlathotep is going to destroy the universe.
* ''[[Literature/LesTracesDuPasse Les traces du passé]]'' (''Traces of the Past'') ([[https://m.fictionpress.com/s/3331032/1/Les-traces-du-pass%C3%A9 link]]): [[WouldHurtAChild Sister Jeanne Belanger]], while claiming to be a woman of God, was far worse. While she founded her {{orphanage|Of Fear}} with genuinely good intentions, she started torturing the children all day, starving, dehydrating them or even whipping them into unconsciousness. She'd also bring the children to {{pedophile priest}}s, who would promptly rape and enslave them. When a group of orphans led by Sophie attempted to escape the orphanage, Belanger captured them at the last second and locked them in a cave, watching as they starved to death. Appropriately described by Luc De la Courbillère as the devil incarnate, Belanger, [[SmallRoleBigImpact despite her short-lived influence]], gave the children's ghosts a more than understandable FreudianExcuse for their actions.
* ''Literature/TheTrees'' ([[https://m.fictionpress.com/s/2675595/1/The-Trees link]]): [[GhastlyGhost Yum Cimil]] was a [[FromNobodyToNightmare former commoner]] who took over Tikal in 750 A.D. and ruled with an iron fist, conquering neighboring lands and killing anyone for petty slights. When a civilian uprising rose against him, Yum quelled it and had all of the conspirators dismembered so that he could [[DeadGuyOnDisplay hang their body parts on trees as a warning]]. Once he was deposed by another uprising, Yum laid a curse to return in spirit, where he designed [[ThePlague a black plague]] to ravage the entire world and kill countless people, solely to spite the rebels for overthrowing him. Returning centuries later, he concocts a more potent strain of tuberculosis to spread across the United States, killing thousands and ultimately planning to [[DepopulationBomb destroy much of the global populace]] so that he can rule the remains.
* ''Podcast/{{Trishul}}'':
** [[BigBad The Grandmaster]] is [[SinisterMinister the leader]] of the [[SouthAsianTerrorists Aidyan Conclave]] who seeks to bring India to its knees. Well known for sending [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]] to journalists and politicians who spread word of progress, the Grandmaster works for anarchist mastermind [[GreaterScopeVillain Chalikia]] to enact Pralaya, a man-made apocalypse that will dismantle the country's democracy. Seeking to poison Indore's water supply and kill thousands of those he deems weak, the Grandmaster sends one of his own to poison a village celebrating a religious holiday as a prelude to Pralaya, leading to over 120 deaths. Once Trishul get involved in his plans, the Grandmaster sends some gunmen out to commit mass shootings across Indore, leading to massive casualties in an attempt to distract Trishul from stopping his men from poisoning the city's water supply. When Trishul invade his base, the Grandmaster leaves his followers to perish as he attempts to make an escape.
** [[PsychoForHire Jagdeep]] is a hired mercenary working with the Aidyan Conclave to ensure Pralaya will happen. In truth a greedy gunman who [[OnlyInItForTheMoney cares more about getting paid]] than the Conclave's beliefs, Jagdeep is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] kidnapping a doctor's daughter in order to get important blueprints for the Conclave's plan, gutting the doctor and ordering his daughter to be killed once he's acquired them. Murdering any of the Conclave's followers who attempt to reveal their scheme, Jagdeep allows his men to partake in the mass shootings across Indore, and leads the Conclave's gunmen in their attempt to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the city's water supply]]. A sadist who's willing to kill thousands of people for the sake of a payday, Jagdeep proved himself far worse than his partner Ashuman.
* "Literature/TheUnbekanntMythos":
** ''Literature/HouseOfDarkness'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2972741/1/House-of-Darkness link]]) & ''Literature/WorldOfDarkness'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2984504/1/World-of-Darkness link]]): [[EldritchAbomination Annul Sjena]] is an interdimensional entity who, feeling inferior to his neighbors, decides to cruelly toy with humanity to give himself a [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex feeling of superiority]]. When Annul first arrived, he accumulated followers and tried to find a physical vessel so that he could create [[OmnicidalManiac endless death and destruction]] on Earth while [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans ruling what remains]]. When he was initially banished, he twisted the minds of thousands to turn them into his servants. After forcing James Marcen to be his next vessel, Annul enacts [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt his apocalyptic plan]], gleeful at the thought of killing billions. Even when Annul gets banishes by Allen Stone, he remorselessly taunts him about the mass destruction he's created.
** ''Literature/UnnaturalHistory'' ([[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2995559/1/Unnatural-History link]]): [[TheChessmaster Mlothonep]] is a creature from the World of Darkness who shared his father's hatred for humanity and arrived in Ancient Egypt, intent on [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]], until he was stopped by the Egyptian gods. Returning in the present day, he manipulates Apophis, Sobek, and Set to his cause, intending to use the energy from their presence on Earth to overload its core and destroy it, which would [[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity in the process]]. Upon discovering other dimensions containing humans, Mlothonep intends to [[MultiversalConqueror travel to those universes]] and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy them as well]]. When his plan is foiled by Zach and Ra, Mlothonep tries to kill them both, declaring that he'll lure in more Egyptian gods to Earth to resume his scheme.
* ''Literature/{{The Unwanteds|2016}}'' ([[https://fictionpress.com/s/3286901/ link]]): The [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent evil spirit]], implied to be named [[JackassGenie Maeve]], is summoned by teenagers Valerie "Val" [=McCoy=], Tabitha "Tabby" Meyer, Brooke and Leila Sanford, who hoped to see their respective wishes fulfilled. First accomplishing Leila's wish of being powerful and confident by possessing her, the spirit [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Leila into alienating herself from the rest of the group, before fully [[DemonicPossession possessing]] her and [[DeathOfPersonality killing any trace of Leila in her own body]]. Later on, when called forth by Tabby, Brooke and Val, the spirit accomplishes their wishes of gaining attention and being "set apart" from the expectations of school, social services and their families by slaughtering the latter, notably leaving Leila and Brooke's grandparents terrified even in death, with "only their faces left undamaged and free of blood".
* ''[[WebVideo/LeVisiteurDuFutur The Visitor From The Future]]'''s "The Missionaries" (season 3): [[ArcVillain Joseph]], the leader of the Missionaries, poses as a benevolent boss who sends his team in the past to avert disasters and prevent the Apocalypse. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist In actuality]], Joseph himself causes those disasters in a scheme to enrich himself. His true goal is to found a tyrannical empire by forcibly gathering the survivors of the Apocalypse, [[JoinOrDie threatening their life should they refuse]]. He sentences his loyal assistant Constance and the Visitor to the Necrophiliac Prison and [[ExplosiveLeash straps explosive bracelets to his employees to keep them in line]]. Abducting and reprogramming Henry Castafolt, Joseph has him create an army of robots and has them kill innocent civilians.
* ''AudioPlay/AVoiceFromTheDark'': The titular [[EldritchAbomination Voice from the Dark]] is the remnant of a powerful entity whose body decayed when it arrived from another dimension. Seeking to dominate all who could hear it and kill those who could not, the Voice reached out to Obed Scarsdale and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] him into building a mansion that could help rebuild its body. Scarsdale fought its influence and turned the catacombs of the manor into [[SealedEvilInACan a maze to trap it]]. During its construction, the Voice arranged for the deaths of several of Scarsdale's assistants and converted his maid Emma into one of his agents. Many years after Scarsdale boarded the manor up, the Voice was awakened by the presence of the producers gathered at the mansion and trapped them within the maze. It turned the party planners Linkara hired [[ZombifyTheLiving into zombies]] and sent them to tear apart the sound technicians who had managed to record its whispers. Upon being freed, the Voice possessed the body of H.P. Lovecraft and planned to possess [=ERod=] once his body had been [[PossessionBurnout burned up]] by his raw power.
* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' ("[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbsvgZhCM3c&t The Mysterious House]]"): [[SoftSpokenSadist The Pumpkin Rabbit]] is a robotic, masked [[HairRaisingHare rabbit]] who invites two children named Duckie and Tammy to his house to stay over for the night. In reality, however, he's a sadistic SerialKiller who has been [[WouldHurtAChild killing children]] like this for what's implied to be years. Once Tammy enters one of the rooms in the house, she finds the mutilated corpses of Duckie and three other kids who met the same fate before them. Once the Pumpkin Rabbit sees her, he kills and mutilates her corpse too, [[KarmaHoudini escaping without any punishment for his crimes]].
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** Deathlist is a psychopathic, NighInvulnerable {{cyborg}} who gets off on widespread carnage and considers the world to owe him a debt of pain. The most horrific thing he's done so far was to kidnap a mutant superheroine, jam a power-neutralizing device into her skull, then [[AnArmAndALeg hack off her arms and legs]] and give her to his troops as a sex toy. Then, when she died after more than a month of torture and rape, he impaled her corpse on a pole with a thank-you message to one of her former teammates carved into her chest. Not even his FreudianExcuse--that his parents tried to kill him by crushing him in a garbage compactor--nets him any sympathy after that.
** [[EvilSorceress Hekate]] is a wizardess supervillain-in-training whose rap sheet includes using a spell to enslave two of her classmates for a year, during which they were repeatedly raped and otherwise abused while [[AndIMustScream being completely aware of what was happening but powerless to stop it]], as well as the fact that the athamé she used in the spell was empowered by the ritual [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] of [[WouldHurtAChild two young children]]. Not only that, but during a magical battle with Fey, after trying and failing to ensnare her in the same enslavement spell, she summons a trio of iron elementals using the promise of dozens of future sacrifices. To top all that off, she used her athamé to stab Jade in the heart beforehand, just to torment Fey.
* ''Podcast/Wolf359'':
** [[EvilGenius Marcus H. Cutter]], officially [[AlmightyJanitor merely the Communications Director]] is, in fact, de facto dictator of [[MegaCorp Goddard Futuristics]] and the mastermind responsible for the events of the series. A calculating, manipulative pragmatic megalomaniac with a sickening faux sweet manner, Cutter has ruled Goddard from the shadows for decades, steering mankind's technological development in line with his "big picture". Creating the process where hundreds of sapient [=AIs=] are experimented on and "permanently decommissioned" if they fail to meet his standards, Cutter also secretly practices both [[PlayingWithSyringes physical]] and [[MindRape psychological]] human experimentation, often using a loyal employees as lab rats or otherwise discarding them as soon as they fail to be useful. Cutter personally enables Hilbert's research of the [[SyntheticPlague Decima Virus]], causing multiple slow, agonizing deaths. Cutter also installed upon every station and ship an advanced Neural Link device, which when activated would put the crew through a nightmarish series of tests drawn from [[IKnowWhatYouFear their own fears and insecurities]], tortured by the unwilling sapient virus Eris, with it requiring them to kill her to escape. Taking over the station, Cutter contacted the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Dear Listeners]], and threatening to release the Decima virus into the Earth’s air, wiping out all of humanity, he blackmailed them into giving him the process to create surrogates. Upon receiving it, Cutter snapped the neck of the Dear Listeners' avatar. Using his tech to force Lovelace to shoot Minkowski, Cutter revealed his plan to use the Surrogates to take complete control of humanity.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Miranda Pryce]] is Cutter's partner and Head of Goddard's AI program, responsible for designing each AI class, including Eris, effectively making her [[BenevolentAI Hera]]'s creator. Pryce created most of the technology that enabled Cutter, including the Neural Link, assisting his plans every step of the way. A sadistic egomaniac, Pryce denies her [=AIs=] rights--despite knowing they are fully sapient--regularly abusing her creations and openly enjoying breaking any resistance. In response to Hera's attempt to escape, Pryce reprogrammed Hera to believe her own mind was telling her she was "not good enough", giving her a massive inferiority complex. To starve off boredom, Pryce spent several months experimenting on the innocent Hermes crew, eventually killing them but leaving their bodies functioning and under her control. Using her [[MindControlDevice restraining bolts]] on the Hephaestus crew, Pryce put them to work preparing Cutter's plan, disabling their pain receptors to make them work harder, while also continuing her abuse of Hera, vastly restricting her freedoms and regularly punishing her. Upon discovering Eiffel had escaped, Pryce made Minkowski beat him senseless then tried to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide force her to walk out of the airlock without a spacesuit]], while Eiffel could only helpless watch. Ensuring Cutter's plan was successful, Pryce attempted to extract the information from Eiffel's mind, attaching him to another of her neural devices that would steal his memories, with her threatening to keep going until she found what she wanted.
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': [[KnifeNut Jack Slash]] is a psychopath obsessed with [[FameThroughInfamy being remembered as one of the most wicked people to have ever lived]]. The leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine, Jack tortures and murders the loved ones of the Nine to [[TheCorrupter corrupt]] and break them into his malleable pawns, and uses them to rampage across the world. Regularly wiping out thousands of people just for fun, Jack at one point targets a hospital and murders not only all of the staff and sickly patients, but the entire maternity ward as well, later threatening a hero's baby sister to keep him in line. Jack plans to use a superpowered army to bring mass murder upon the whole Earth, and uses one minion's specialty powers to subject victims to [[AndIMustScream truly horrific fates]]. Even when beaten, Jack manipulates [[PhysicalGod Scion]] into killing billions of people across the multiverse as a final act of villainy. Jack was the most purely evil being Taylor Hebert ever faced, a sadist who prided himself on his personal kill count of hundreds and who was happy to doom the multiverse just to satisfy his raging ego.
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* ''Podcast/BatmanTheBlindCut'': [[BigBad Edmund Ellis]] is a Scottish [[AristocratsAreEvil duke]] who makes a deal with a witch named Lent to transfer his soul into other bodies, essentially making him immortal. Ellis forms a cabal with other rich elites to use Lent's magic to cheat death. Ellis and his cabal move to Gotham City and turn it into a crime-ridden cesspool. Ellis becomes a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive tycoon]] nicknamed "Crazy Quilt" for the unsafe sweatshops he ran. Ellis and his cabal need [[HumanSacrifice blood sacrifices]] to remain on Earth, so through the centuries they commit massacres, like poisoning several speakeasies during Prohibition. In modern times, Ellis and his cabal commit several bizarre murders, to gain magic talismans into which they trap the souls of their victims. Ellis captures [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] and tortures her to produce Galapagos, an addictive vegetable snack which is actually a slow-acting poison. Ellis plans to use Galapagos to commit a massacre at the Gotham casino as a blood sacrifice to maintain the magic that allows him to remain on Earth.

* ''Literature/AsOneStarSetsAnotherRises'': [[ThoseWackyNazis Johann Ratka]], despite being a minor villain, stands out as among the worst of the Nazis. An [[StateSec SS]] officer in occupied Netherlands with a fanatical devotion to Hitler and the pagan Germanic deities, he's introduced [[KickTheDog sadistically taunting a group of forced laborers about how their "Jew-boy" hasn't come to save them]]. Just the week before, he had a group of clergymen, along with their families, tortured to death when they said they couldn't work on the Sabbath. When a group of laborers tried to take a stand, he has them all shot and tells the rest that if they rebel, he'll have there whole families murdered. In addition to murdering those who refuse to work, any rebellion is dealt with by means of extreme brutality. He particularly enjoys preying on the Christian population, due to his belief that Jesus was a "cowardly Jew" unworthy of worship. Remembered as a "modern day Herod" in the Netherlands and considered an example of a SerialKiller given a high position, Johann Ratka was the perfect representation of the evils of the Nazis.

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* Campaign 1 ([[Characters/CriticalRoleVoxMachina Vox Machina]] in [[Characters/CriticalRoleVillains Tal'dorei]]):
** ''Kraghammer Arc'': The mutated beholder, [[TheDreaded K'Varn the Mad]], is the ArcVillain of the Kraghammer Arc. After finding one of the horns of Orcus, K'Varn attacked and enslaved the cities of Emberhold and Yug'voril, intending to build up an army to launch an attack on the surface world. K'Varn launches attacks on Kraghammer while having his army capture as many dwarves and Underdark creatures as possible to [[MadScientist warp into horrific abominations]], his experiments resulting in countless deaths. When Lady Kima and a group of adventurers venture into the Underdark, K'Varn has nearly all of them slaughtered while having his men torture Lady Kima for days on end. When Vox Machina defeats Queen Ulara, [[HeKnowsTooMuch to ensure she can't give any information about him]] to the party, K'Varn kills her from the inside out.
** ''Vasselheim Arc'' (first appearance): The rakshasa [[SerialKiller Hotis]], a shapeshifter from the Nine Hells, is the second monster hunted by Vox Machina for the Slayer's Take. Disguised as a dwarf, Hotis creates an establishment for the rich named the Velvet Cabaret for the sake of gathering information about who the richest people in Vasselheim are. He then tracks them down and brutally mauls them to death before taking their belongings for himself. When discovered by members of Vox Machina and the Slayer's Take, Hotis tricks them into falling in a river of acid when they chase him down in an attempt to have them be slowly dissolved alive. When they survive, Hotis offers the party a deal to cease hostilities and work as business partners, intending to find an opportunity to kill them in the future. After finding himself at a disadvantage during the fight, Hotis promises to kill the loved ones of the party, [[WouldHurtAChild including Thorbir's young daughter]], all to spite them. After reforming when Vax kills him, Hotis attempts to exact revenge on Vox Machina. Hotis hires assassins from The Clasp to murder the rest of Vox Machina while Hotis disguises himself as Gilmore to lure Vax away from the group and tricks Vax into wearing a cursed robe that will slowly rip off his flesh in case Vax survives. Hotis then attacks Vax, taking pleasure in torturing the half-elf to near death. Despite his limited screen time, Hotis proves to be among the most vicious of minor villains within the series.
** ''Chroma Conclave Arc'' (primarily for Thordak):
*** The ancient red dragon, [[DragonsAreDemonic Thordak the Cinder King]], is the leader of the Chroma Conclave, a faction of chromatic dragons with the goal of destroying the system of order within the continent of Tal'Dorei and dividing it amongst themselves. Centuries ago, Thordak was the tyrannical ruler of the desert continent Marquet, regularly slaughtering its residents. When the city of Ank'Harel began to rise to prominence, Thordak unsuccessfully attempted to destroy the city. Hiding in the seas to recover, Thordak destroyed any ships that passed by before being captured and empowered by the necromancer Opash. Thordak then killed Opash and took over the Island of Viscan before deciding to expand his rule. Killing hundreds of innocents in his conquest, Thordak was eventually [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] within the Elemental Plane of Fire. When Raishan the Diseased Deceiver freed him, Thordak killed the majority of the Fire Ashari, and established the Conclave along with Raishan. Thordak then has the Conclave attack numerous cities in Tal'Dorei, costing countless lives. When Vox Machina leads an army to take back control of Emon, the capital of Tal'Dorei, Thordak attempts to create a volcanic eruption to wipe out enemy and ally forces alike.
*** The ancient green dragon, [[ManipulativeBitch Raishan the Diseased Deceiver]], is a powerful [[EvilSorceress sorceress]] and [[EvilGenius the most intelligent member of the Chroma Conclave]]. Prior to the story, Raishan murdered a group of followers of Melora, the Wildmother, [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]]. When a follower laid a deadly disease on Raishan before dying, Raishan pledged servitude to Thordak in exchange for a cure. Raishan establishes the Chroma Conclave, making her responsible for the lives lost due to the faction. When Thordak was sealed away, Raishan disguised herself as an outcast girl to deceive the Fire Ashari into taking her in before freeing Thordak, not caring that Thordak would wipe out the majority of the Fire Ashari. Later, Raishan and the Chroma Conclave destroy the city of Emon, Raishan kicking off the attack by murdering Sovereign Uriel and several council members. After coming to the conclusion that Thordak won't honor their bargain, [[TheStarscream Raishan betrays the Conclave and offers to help Vox Machina kill Vorugal and Thordak]]. When the party kills Thordak, Raishan steals Thordak's corpse and multiple dragon eggs, intending to use them to help her attack a different continent in the future.
*** Kevdak is Grog's [[EvilUncle uncle]], and the leader of the Herd of Storms. For years prior to the story, Kevdak had the Herd [[RapePillageAndBurn destroy countless settlements]], killing or enslaving as many inhabitants as they could. When Grog refuses to kill a helpless elderly gnome, Kevdak beats Grog to an inch of his life, and exiles him from the Herd, leaving him for dead. During the Chroma Conclave arc, after witnessing the might of Umbrasyl the Hope Devourer, Kevdak pledges servitude to the dragon [[TheStarscream with the intention of finding an opportunity to kill him in the future]]. Kevdak then has the Herd take over Westruun, killing any citizens who don't give offerings to either Umbrasyl or the Herd. Kevdak also has the Herd take citizens away from their families, having them work as slaves under the Herd or to be imprisoned and left to starve. When Kevdak finds out that his son Zanror is planning a revolt, Kevdak has him along with Zanror's pregnant mate Worra enslaved with intention of executing them both. When Grog calls the rest of Vox Machina to help him fight Kevdak, Kevdak orders the Herd to kill every innocent civilian in the area, [[WouldHurtAChild including a little boy]], all out of spite.
** ''Cult of Vecna Arc'': [[EvilSorcerer Vecna, the Whispered One]], is the [[GreaterScopeVillain mastermind]] behind the Briarwoods who revived Sylas as a vampire in exchange for him and Delilah going to Whitestone, massacring the de Rolo family and many innocents, all to revive Vecna. Upon his return, Vecna manages to [[PhysicalGod ascend to godhood]], killing Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan, before setting off to create a "miracle of terror" to make him [[TheDreaded feared]] across the world for more power. Vecna uses the loved ones of Vox Machina as shields, trying to trick them into killing those they care for, while intending to obliterate the city of Vasselheim and all within, wiping out a seat of power for good and condemning the entire world to evil and nightmares. The true villain of the first campaign, Vecna shows why he is the most wicked and monstrous foe Vox Machina encountered.
* Campaign 2 ([[Characters/CriticalRoleWildemountCampaign The Mighty Nein]] in [[Characters/CriticalRoleWildemountVillains Wildemount]]): [[{{Sadist}} Lorenzo]], leader of the Iron Shepherds, is a sadistic {{oni}} who enjoys nothing so much as causing pain. Capturing his victims, Lorenzo breaks them physically and psychological with mental and physical torture to [[HumanTraffickers sell them for profit]], even [[ChildEater eating children]] himself. Upon being challenged by the Mighty Nein, Lorenzo [[HeroKiller brutally kills one of their number]], Mollymauk, choosing to let the dwarf Keg go on as to carry that pain with her for the rest of her life.
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** ''Literature/ThirtyDaysInSpring'': [[VillainProtagonist Ryan Rhodes]] is a [[TeensAreMonsters sociopathic teenager]] who has been committing atrocities since [[EnfantTerrible childhood]], including murdering a disabled boy in fifth grade. After he and many other students are stuck in the woods during a class trip, Ryan joins up with three other boys to commit more atrocities [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. After beating a group of fourteen-year-olds to death, the boys gang-rape a girl to death and murder her boyfriend when he comes looking for revenge. The boys soon find gold, drowning two guys who found it and torturing others to death when they do the same before burning a shack full of sixth graders alive. Eventually the other boys get tired of the violence, but [[BadBoss Ryan makes them keep going under pain of death]]. After forcing two girls to strangle each other, the gang are attacked by the rest of the students who want revenge. Ryan abandons his goons to their fate as he tries to escape.

*** [[WarForFunAndProfit Malcolm Hargrove]], the [[CorruptPolitician Chairman of the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee]], poses as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to hide his massive list of crimes. Using his position as the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Charon Industries, Hargrove illegally used UNSC soldiers as a private security force. Starting up an investigation against Project Freelancer, Hargrove used it to take Freelancer's technology for his own use while arresting anyone involved in the project, even going as far as releasing a SerialKiller from prison to help him. Finding alien artifacts on the planet Chorus, he hired a group of SpacePirates to kill everyone on the planet by manipulating them into a CivilWar. Hargrove sent ships containing cargo for the mercenaries to use to the planet, where the mercenaries killed everyone on the ship and stole the cargo for their own use. When the Reds and Blues got involved, Hargrove took advantage by having them escalate the conflict with the intention to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill them when they were no longer necessary]]. When the mission was jeopardized, Hargrove threatened to kill his lead mercenaries by sending a new agent to finish the job. When exposed, Hargrove decided to kill as many of the people as possible out of spite rather than surrender.
*** [[EvilAllAlong Felix]], real name [[TheSocialDarwinist Isaac Gates]], is a [[AxCrazy psychopath with a love for killing]]. When he fought in the Great War, he never showed any mercy to his enemies, even those that were trying to surrender. When one of his teammates, Locus, was broken by the war, Felix kept him from getting help and molded him into his partner. [[PsychoForHire Hired]] by Hargrove as one of the space pirate leaders to create a CivilWar on the planet Chorus, the mercenary took pleasure in infiltrating one of the sides while he was leading them to their deaths. He also led the raid on a prison ship where the entire crew is killed and the prisoners who are not worthy to join forces with him [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected from the ship]]. Hearing about the Purge, a temple that could exterminate all life on the planet, Felix personally led the operation to activate it, dismissing the certain deaths of his own soldiers as acceptable losses. In the end, Felix proved to be unwilling to listen to any attempt at reasoning, whether it be from Washington, the Reds and Blues, or even his own partner.

* ''Literature/TheUnwanteds'' ([[https://fictionpress.com/s/3286901/ link]]): The [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent evil spirit]], implied to be named [[JackassGenie Maeve]], is summoned by teenagers Valerie "Val" [=McCoy=], Tabitha "Tabby" Meyer, Brooke and Leila Sanford, who hoped to see their respective wishes fulfilled. First accomplishing Leila's wish of being powerful and confident by possessing her, the spirit [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Leila into alienating herself from the rest of the group, before fully [[DemonicPossession possessing]] her and [[DeathOfPersonality killing any trace of Leila in her own body]]. Later on, when called forth by Tabby, Brooke and Val, the spirit accomplishes their wishes of gaining attention and being "set apart" from the expectations of school, social services and their families by slaughtering the latter, notably leaving Leila and Brooke's grandparents terrified even in death, with "only their faces left undamaged and free of blood".

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* ''WebOriginal/TheArknverse'' (Arknverse A):
** [[TheCaligula Gilga'mesh Xeth'i'stral]] used his fame and status as a war hero to become the first king of [[Characters/TheArknverseArkn the Arkn]]. A bigoted wife-beater behind closed doors, [[FantasticRacism Gilgamesh]] promotes the racist belief that all Dekn are "mistakes" of the Hethe and therefore inherently inferior to his race. Ruling over the Golden Cities with an iron fist, Gilgamesh began conducting [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]] and blaming them on the Dekn to keep the war going with him in power--in one notable instance, Gilgamesh razed Carrowind to the ground for supposedly harboring a single Dekn refugee, leaving no survivors. Seeking to punish Raziel for falling in love with a commoner, Gilgamesh had his children executed in front of him and then--fearing a revolution that could depose him--launched brutal purges in Paradisium to exterminate his community of magick practitioners. Having hypocritically allied himself with the Dekn Emperor--the legendary Carver--Gilgamesh sacrificed millions of humans and his own personal guard in a staged battle that ended with Gilgamesh faking his own death to help with the creation of [[{{Hell}} the Infernous]].
** Adam Spirit returns as the [[SerialKiller Hooks Killer]] and, while seemingly confined to a single timeline, is virtually identical to his non-canon counterpart in terms of his sadism, twisted nature, and love of atrocities--such that [[EvenEvilHasStandards the Carver himself]] refers to him as a "monster". This version of Hooks is also Carver's partner and, not content with simply freeing him into .Reality, he decides, [[ForTheEvulz just because he can]], to go public about the Arkn and Dekn--setting off the [[RealityBreakingParadox May 15th Catastrophe]], which causes a system-wide crash that obliterates multiple timelines and countless lives. The last time he's seen onscreen, he guts Michael Knight, sending him to the Infernous to be tormented by the Carver, who then claims him as a vessel. Hooks may be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters a mere human]], but he proves himself to be far more deplorable than most supernatural entities in the setting.
** Elius'Exe'Deus--simplified as [[TeensAreMonsters Elias Exodus]]--is a sociopathic half-Arkn boy and grandson of the Carver. As a {{Nephilim}}, he survived genocide by hiding in the Hybrid Grounds; once left to his own devices, Elias wasted little time in slaughtering all the other children and [[SoulEating absorbing their souls]]. In 2015, Elias returns as an amnesiac suffering from voices inside his head. Once his memories "return" when Vine saves him from committing suicide, Elias reveals that he's been faking his amnesia--the "voices" he hears are his victims screaming, [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming much to his delight]]--and thanks Vine for saving him by leaving him to rot in the Hybrid Grounds for eternity. After departing, Elias is intent on consuming both Arkn and Dekn to [[GodhoodSeeker become a living god]], bragging and laughing about having driven his own race to extinction.
** [[HornyDevils Reyn]] is a particularly sadistic lesser [[Characters/TheArknverseDekn Dekn]] who works for the Carver's empire as his own PsychoForHire. Often visiting Earth to [[WarForFunAndProfit instigate war and terror]] by turning mortal men against each other, Reyn has a nasty habit of gaining the trust of her victims by taking the shape of a woman [[ShapeshiftingSeducer that they lust for]] before executing her prey. When given the mission to wipe out an entire French family, Reyn seduces the patriarch and brutally murders him for failing to satisfy her in bed. When her brother decides to save a human baby, Reyn tries to kill the child herself and, furious at him for betraying her, personally leads a task force to hunt him down, with the implication that Reyn ultimately managed to find her brother and killed him for revenge.
* ''WebOriginal/TheArknMythosExtendedUniverse'' (Universe F):
** [[AxCrazy Adam Spirit]] is the millennial incarnation of the Hooks Killer, a depraved SerialKiller with a preference for torture and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. Having hundreds, if not thousands of victims to his name, Hooks jumps between various timelines and eras, reinventing himself under a different identity in every reality to ensure that he will never get caught. His HistoricalRapSheet includes inflicting torments on an entire kingdom as the English monarch Comshine Orok; murdering over a hundred people as the Wild West outlaw Barnabelt Kinnard; and helping fellow serial killer Alexander Tamil with the infamous [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man killings]]--when he was still Adam Spirit, he slaughtered his father's cult and eviscerated his own pregnant sister. In one of his final appearances, Hooks confesses onscreen to having committed hundreds of murders around New Comshine alone.
** [[AbusiveParents Christian Spirit]] is Adam's abusive father and the fanatical head of the [[ReligionOfEvil Cult of Coolificus Coolage]], a Dekn-worshiping sect that operates in the outskirts of New Comshine. Once a [[FromNobodyToNightmare regular local preacher]], Christian developed a dangerous obsession with the Dekn after becoming enamored with the teachings of one in human disguise. Gathering his followers and performing {{human sacrifice}}s in honor of the Dekn, Christian was the real mastermind behind the Three Blind Mice killings, in which he kidnapped a trio of mental patients, blinded them, and then ordered the cult to HuntTheMostDangerousGame, deciding to sacrifice his own son when he disobeyed him. In another branch of the timeline, Christian decapitated Adam's mother and began feeding him with the corpses of children, lacing them with fish hooks to torture him further.
* ''WebOriginal/ArknLegacy'' (Universe X): [[GodOfEvil De'ebolus]], the first [[Characters/ArknLegacyHetheOtherEntities Hethe]] and progenitor of the Dekn, is the GreaterScopeVillain. A cruel god that emerged from a dimensional rift in [[WebOriginal/ArknUnity Universe A]], De'ebolus entertained himself by playing with the lives of his own creations, starting the war between the Arkn and Dekn [[ForTheEvulz solely to satiate his boredom]] and worsening the situation whenever possible. Arriving in the new universe at the cost of losing his position to another Hethe, De'ebolus quickly returns to his old habits by causing an apocalyptic event that exposed the population of an entire Seed to otherworldly energy and forcibly mutated the survivors, recreating the Dekn in his own way and teaching them all manners of violence to make them wage war against the Arkn yet again.
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* ''Literature/IDaredMyBestFriend'' series: [[TheChessmaster David King]] is the OverarchingVillain of this series and was a manipulative, murderous sociopath even as a child. In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/4q03fa/i_dared_my_best_friend_to_ruin_my_life_hes/ the first installment]], he obsessively tries to destroy the life of protagonist Zander Jones, threatening his girlfriend, killing one of his roommates, and then murdering his own mother to [[FrameUp frame Zander for it]], sending him to prison. After realizing that he'd get bored without his favorite target, David frees Zander from police custody to continue tormenting him, killing two cops in the process. He later kills his own accomplice and tries to kill Zander's girlfriend out of spite. Despite his death at the end of the first series, David's evil continues to drive the conflict of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/4ulqeq/i_dared_my_best_friend_to_end_my_life_part_1/ the sequel series]], with it being revealed that he had formed a group of similarly-sociopathic individuals that would systematically destroy the lives of complete strangers, including selling some people as sex slaves. Holding no loyalty to said group, David is all too willing to abuse or dispose of them once he grows tired of them.

* ''Literature/FirstDoNoHarm'': [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Even before he became a demon]], [[DomesticAbuser Marshall Eccelstein]] was a horrific monster of a husband who kept Violet chained to a wall naked and brutally beat her bloody every day. By the time of the story, he has figured out a way to reach Vanilla, Katherine, and Kidari, and sends specialized assassins to kill them and [[AbusiveParents capture his daughter Rosalina]], planning on making the assassins torture Violet to death afterwards. When Astaroth turns him into a demon, he rapes and kills Amy and then kills and zombifies Daniel, planning to force Vanilla to kill him. After he is expelled from his body and takes the name Cerununnos, he [[DrivenToMadness drives an entire military base insane]] before driving violent criminals insane and releasing them from prison, taking sick joy in the chaos that ensues. He then begins killing random officers and civilians [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] before being stopped by Vanilla's brother Shoji, learning that there are 16 alive members of the Jackson family in the process. Cerununnos, while planning to kill the Jackson family, encounters a bus and stops it, intending to slaughter everyone on the bus and then kill a family with the bus before being defeated.

** The mysterious [[CardCarryingVillain Police Woman]], also known as [[BigBad Thistle]], is a relentless hunter who hounds [[TheNarrator Keisha]] across the US to murder her for getting too close to the secrets of the [[HumanoidAbomination Thistle Men]] and Bay & Creek Shipping. Along the way, the Police Woman leaves a trail of bloodshed and destruction, killing multiple people to take their vehicles, with Keisha stumbling upon her gruesome [[CopKiller murder of a cop]] at one point. Upon capturing Keisha, the Police Woman reveals herself as a monstrous sadist who tries to force Keisha to "understand" everything, just so she can take cruel pleasure in her despair before killing her. Even after her supposed death, Thistle awakens later and reveals she is the one who creates the cannibalistic Thistle Men and sets them on the world to watch the carnage, gleeful about the murders and chaos she will continue to sow.

* ''Podcast/DiceFunk'''s "[[Recap/DiceFunkSeason3Ilium Ilium]]" (season 3): [[DirtyCop Gylan Cadun]] is a vile member of the Order of the Merciful Sword who uses his position to indulge his [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[FantasticRacism prejudices]]. In the past he ordered the destruction of a village of peaceful Orcs, and when his men refused, had Rolen Hawklight beaten and banished from the Order and destroyed the village anyway. When the vampire Count Danto attacked the Order, Gylan sold them out, killed any paladins that resisted, and willingly became a vampire servant of the tyrannical Danto. Gylan then began recruiting people to become vampires within the Order, allowing them to harass and murder whoever they please, and [[PeopleFarms having dozens of people held captive and drained of their blood]]. When Rolen and Veltari confronted him, Gylan attempted to [[{{Fingore}} cut off Rolen's fingers]], and then attempted to force a protesting Veltari to murder an innocent man.