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* '''Azmodus'''. One of if not the most horrendous of the Spectre's rogue gallery who happens to be a former of host of the Spectre. His debut featured some pretty graphic violence and death due to Azmodus' obsession with gaining power from despair by inducing mass suicide and manic slaughter.

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* '''Azmodus'''. One of if not the most horrendous of the Spectre's rogue gallery who happens to be a former of host of the Spectre. His debut featured some pretty graphic violence and death due to Azmodus' obsession with gaining power from despair by inducing mass suicide and manic slaughter.
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* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, but leaving him very much alive and conscious (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats to eat the scientist.)

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* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, [[AndIMustScream but leaving him very much alive and conscious conscious]] (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats to [[EatenAlive eat the scientist.scientist]].)
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Considering the Title Character goes by ''The Spirit of Vengeance'' you can bet there's an endless well of Nightmare Fuel to be gained from him. Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream without actually killing them]].That's when he's just tethered to a human host. Check out [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/354/ these highlights]] from the 1970s comics.

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Considering the Title Character goes by ''The Spirit of Vengeance'' you can bet there's an endless well of Nightmare Fuel to be gained from him. Put it this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream without actually killing them]].That's when he's just tethered to a human host. Check out [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/354/ these highlights]] from the 1970s comics.

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* Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream without actually killing them]].Check out [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/354/ these highlights]] from the 1970s comics.

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Considering the Title Character goes by ''The Spirit of Vengeance'' you can bet there's an endless well of Nightmare Fuel to be gained from him.
Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream without actually killing them]].That's when he's just tethered to a human host. Check out [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/354/ these highlights]] from the 1970s comics.comics.
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* The Spectre's rampage to destroy magic during the ''Day of Vengeance'' arc is nothing less than horrific as it shows the Spectre annihilating countless mages and killing even the Wizard Shazam and Lord of Order Nabu himself while being an essentially unstoppable force of nature. It really rams home that without a host to keep it contained and no God pulling the leash, the Spectre is basically an InvincibleVillain.

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* The Spectre's rampage to destroy magic during the ''Day of Vengeance'' arc is nothing less than horrific as it shows the Spectre annihilating countless mages mages, Curbstoming even the most powerful magicians and an amped-up Captain Marvel, and killing even the Wizard Shazam and Lord of Order Nabu himself while being an essentially unstoppable force of nature. It really rams home that without a host to keep it contained and no God pulling the leash, the Spectre is basically an InvincibleVillain.InvincibleVillain that no one but God could stop.
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* The Spectre's rampage to destroy magic during the ''Day of Vengeance'' arc is nothing less than horrific as it shows the Spectre annihilating countless mages and killing even the Wizard Shazam and Lord of Order Nabu himself while being an essentially unstoppable force of nature. It really rams home that without a host to keep it contained and no God pulling the leash, the Spectre is basically an InvincibleVillain.
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* Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream without actually killing them]].

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* Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream without actually killing them]].Check out [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/354/ these highlights]] from the 1970s comics.
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* '''Azmodus'''. One of if not the most horrendous of the Spectre's rogue gallery who happens to be a former of host of the Spectre. His debut featured some pretty graphic violence and death due to Azmodus' obsession with gaining power from despair by inducing mass suicide and manic slaughter.
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* Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING THEM]].

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* Put this way. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING THEM]].without actually killing them]].
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** A horrific example of their presentation of the kinds of punishment the Spectre can dish out is when the Spectre decided to burn every person within the entire country of Vlatava alive because he realized both sides involved in its civil war were guilty. It's shown in vivid detail and is every bit as terrifying as it sounds.
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* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, but leaving him very much alive and conscious (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats.)

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* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, but leaving him very much alive and conscious (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats.rats to eat the scientist.)
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* John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake ''loved'' combining this with KarmicDeath during their '90s run on the character. Basically if you died horribly by fire or stabbing you were getting off light with them.

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* John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake ''loved'' combining this with KarmicDeath during their '90s run on the character. Basically if you died horribly by fire or stabbing stabbing, you were getting off light with them.
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* Put this way. In the SilverAge, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING THEM]].

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* Put this way. In the SilverAge, UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING THEM]].
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* John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake ''loved'' combining this with KarmicDeath during their '90s run on the character. Basically if you died horribly by fire or stabbing you were getting off light with them.
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* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, but leaving him very much alive and conscious (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats.)

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* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, but leaving him very much alive and conscious (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats.))
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* Put this way. In the SilverAge, his entire shtick was killing people [[AndIMustScream WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING THEM]].
* ''Everything he does'' is this. Even the LighterAndSofter ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' series has him turning a MadScientist into cheese, but leaving him very much alive and conscious (and then releasing the scientist's hundreds of trained rats.)

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