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Film.TheRipper

'''What's the work?'''

''Film/TheRipper'' (with Creator/TomSavini in the role!) involves the [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper titular serial killer]] binding his soul to a magic ring so he can return to life. In the 80s an English professor buys it and tries to make a return to keep killing while the hero tries to stop him.

'''Who is the Ripper? What has he done?'''

After his historical murders we learn during a famous crimes lecture that yesterday a prostitute...

[[quoteblock]]''"[B]ought the farm in ''um''... the same kinda deal that you were talking about... ''uh''... earlier."''[[/quoteblock]]

''Anyways''... after she's chopped up, our hero, Professor Richard Harwell, happens upon a ring found in the same alley and he begins dreaming he's Jack targeting women.

Coinciding with Richard's dream, Jack begins killing again, having cut up a woman in a theater as he dreamed of his girlfriend and shortly after another is killed, while Richard finds he's unable to remove the ring. Shit gets weird and he keeps passing out, letting Jack come into reality and kill more women. This culminates in the murder of the girlfriend of a student/friend of Richard's and Richard begins to suspect Jack's original killings had something to do with soul transference and gaining immortality.

Possessing Richard and hamming it up as he takes his girlfriend captive, Jack prepares to kill her as the final sacrifice to gain immortality but has his ring finger cut off and is gunned down by the cops... [[HereWeGoAgain only for some kids to find his ring later on]].

5-14 grizzly murders while alive and another 5 attempted upon returning.

He's a vicious misogynist seeking immortality through murder, what do you think?

Keeper with a little fun {{narm}} to him.
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ComicBook.TheUnfunnies
[[folder:Monster]]
'''Who is Despicable? What has he done?'''

Dr. Despicable is Mark Millar doing his damnedest to write an evil doctor. The dude introduces himself talking a reluctant mother into having her 10-year-old drug dealing daughter dealt with by his "late term abortion" specialist... casually implying it's a service he regularly contacts.

Later he pops up after down-on-his-luck actor Pussywhisker is referred to him. Diagnosing his patient with testicular cancer, Despicable has the poor man's genitals removed, destroying his life as Pussywhisker's asshole wife starts making him find her men to fuck her. Panning to Despicable alone in his office he reveals this was part of a contest to get 100 healthy testicles with a fellow MadDoctor. Disqualified for having taken two balls rather than one from Pussywhisker, Despicable quickly suggests a new contest for healthy kidneys: planning to make single mother Birdseed Betty his first victim.

'''Heinousness?'''

Of all Troy Hicks' comic characters, Despicable is by far the worst. There are references to murderers and rapists but the furthest we actually get on page is a reference to Moe the Crow molesting one boy and then a series of abusers he himself suffers under in prison (classy work, I know).

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He's a comic character and ACI can lead one to feel they don't have agency but in practice the characters adjust to what's happening and interact with the newer, darker setting. By all accounts Despicable is only shown as a particularly malevolent player on the stage.

'''Verdict?'''

Literature.LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes

'''What's Braunschweig doing here?'''

The same asshole redesigned as a FatBastard to emphasize his self-centered nature, this take of the Duke like his original starts off staying on the sidelines, speaking ill of Reinhard even as the young commander wins scores of victories against the Free Planet Alliance while Braunschweig enjoys high society functions, doing all he can to groom his daughter for the throne and raise his standing in the Galactic Empire even further (Currently second only to Kaiser Friedrich IV).

Mostly just a bigoted, unpleasant nuisance, Braunschweig shows his true colors when Friedrich suddenly dies of a heart attack and his grandson, rather than Braunschweig's daughter, is named the next Kaiser. Enraged, Braunschweig launches a coup, signed at the Lippstadt forest alongside his rival-turned-begrudging ally Marquis Littenheim and countless others. After a failed AssassinationAttempt on Reinhard, they take their forces to Geiersburg Fortress and prepare to do battle with the young Reinhard and his forces in the name of the Goldenbaum Dynasty that lets Braunschweig oppress and abuse commoners as he wishes.

Throughout the war he displays a massive ego and stunning lack of strategic knowledge, making ridiculous decisions and expending forces for his glory. Amongst these, he sends the politically inconvenient Littenheim away from the fortress, along with millions of their men, something that costs nearly all of their lives as the cowardly Littenheim fires on his own supply ships to clear an escape path and is eventually killed by a suicidal, abused soldier. Braunschweig also falls into Oberstein's trap when his captured admiral is released back to him, killing the man out of a paranoid belief he's turned traitor and pushes on with his absurd war.

The worst comes when his soldiers, raiding his own territories to supply their side, cause dissent on one of the planets in Branschweig's domain and they rise up in rebellion, killing his nephew presiding over the territory. Infuriated that commoners he "owns" would stand up against him and his family, Braunschweig orders the infamous Westerland Massacre, killing the three million people who live there, which Oberstein makes a point of filming and broadcasting to the rest of the Empire, ending support for the Goldenbaum Dynasty and causing mass defection and suicide amongst Braunschweig's ranks.

Fearing consequence, Braunschweig makes a hilarious attempt to convey to his aide Ansbach how he'll survive his war crimes by promising the hand of his daughter to Reinhard and acknowledging his victory... Ansbach points out the Duke has no hope of quelling Reinhard, who now seeks to stamp out the Goldenbaum supporters which Braunschweig publicly embodies the worst excesses of. In a cathartic show of his own cowardice, Braunschweig begs Ansbach to find a way to save him which his loyal but far more understanding of reality aide has the struggling Duke drink poisoned wine, having his body cut open by surgeons to stuff it with a weapon in a final attempt to kill Reinhard for his dead master.

A flashback adds even more though! After the disgraced Marquis Klopstock tries to kill Braunschweig and Kaiser Friedrich at a party, Braunschweig leads a campaign to kill Klopstock when he refuses to surrender. Encouraging his High Noble followers to RapePillageAndBurn while ignoring the advice of his far more intelligent military commanders even after Klopstock commits suicide, Braunschweig winds up in confrontation with Mittermeyer after the latter kills a Noble for viciously cutting open the throat of a young woman in the Klopstock's family for swallowing a family heirloom when he tried to take it from her. This puts him into contention with Mittermeyer whom he wrathfully tries to execute until Reinhard manages to use his strings to save Mittermeyer and force Braunschweig to remain silent on the whole incident through arbitration.

The Westerland Massacre alone would be enough along with the senseless mass murder of the Lippstadt Rebellion in general but ''Die Neue These'' adds more to his strike back against Klopstock, instilling a reign of terror on the entire planet within his domain. ''Galactic Heroes'' is fucking dark but he's the worst present day war criminal by far and this version has gotten even more mass murder attributable to him, even if there's no indication about poisoning one of Friedrich's mistresses to cause her to miscarry.

I added an AdaptationalNiceGuy entry for him since he does technically ask if his family's been led to safety following Reinhard closing in on Geiersburg but thinking this through it's not like his stage play version who cries at the death of his nephew.

In the scene when he learns of a family member's actual death, his reaction is that of a man angry some''thing'' was taken from him. He snarls at Flegel for questioning his orders at one point and tries to throw his daughter as a prize to Reinhard to save his own skin. Ultimately nothing's played straight for love.

Keeps as well as his original.

Theatre.Metropolis1989

''Theatre/Metropolis1989'' is a play based on [[Film/{{Metropolis}} the groundbreaking, sci fi codifying film]] by Creator/FritzLang. As in the original, our protagonist Steven (Freder in the original) is the son of the city's founder and a member of the upper class who falls in love with the beautiful working class revolutionary Maria.

Interesting to note is the roles the villainous characters play get shifted about: Warner (the Rotwang standin) is practically heroic and John Freeman (aka Joh Fredersen and our hero's ArchnemesisDad) gains a litany of crimes and without reference to his dead wife becomes one of the nastiest villains put to the stage... but makes it clear he holds some affection for his son. To enact his plan however, he ropes in Warner's creation, "Futura", who proves a far more knowingly sadistic force of evil than her original, working under the elitist Freeman rather than the more heroic Warner here.

'''Who is Futura? What has she done?'''

Originally just a faceless robot made by Warner as the prototype for Freeman's plot to replace the city's workers with machines, Freeman sees use in using her to disrupt the rebellion brewing thanks to Maria. Capturing and delivering the beautiful RebelLeader to Warner, Freeman has the ReluctantMadScientist graft Maria's likeness onto Futura. To test her capabilities, Freeman shows her off at a party for the city's "elitists", where her beauty wows the crowd and decides to use her to destroy the rebellion-to-be.

Ordering her to venture to the city's lower levels and pretend to be Maria, Futura immediately sets about manipulating the children who Maria had been teaching into letting her negotiate with the adult workers. Claiming to have come to an agreement with the upper levels, Futura presents them with the asinine "generous" offer to be allowed a single day they may gaze upon the son in return for having the children work on the deadly machines, as Freeman had desired. Infuriating the workers... this distracts them from working on their machines which begin depleting the quarters' oxygen supply.

Futura gleefully proclaims the lower levels can be damned, ecstatic to watch them go up in flames and takes a little girl hostage to keep them from attacking her. Steven approaches her in an attempt to stop her madness but she stabs him, wounding him badly. Steven is rescued from Futura and the furious crowd grab her, throwing the cackling machine into the furnace and destroying her as she laughs till the end about the destruction she's set off and the lower levels are rendered uninhabitable.

Sadly Freeman hears mistaken reports she killed Steven and decides to flood the city in his rage and grief, forcing the lower class to leave their home as it is all destroyed. Though Steven escapes with the workers the upper class is wiped out in Freeman's grief as he decides the city is his to die alongside him.

Freeman is a total bastard working people to death, not allowing slaves so much as to gaze upon the sun and hopes to one day replace them all with machines.

Futura however is punching out of her weight class as TheDragon, directly and gleefully carrying out the scheme to ruin Maria's reputation and uses his order to get through to "use the children" to get to the workers to instead distract them in the hopes of wiping them all out, much to her excitement:

[[quoteblock]]"All this chaos, isn't it fine? This destruction is divine! Who gives a damn? Burn in Hell! I love the burning, I love the smell!"[[/quoteblock]]

In the original her origins are too sketchy to list but here she's actually designed by a good hearted scientist and while Freeman guides her somewhat, her gleeful insanity and [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker]]-like wish to watch the "lesser" people of the city burn paints the picture of a knowing sadist.

Additionally while she's employed by Freeman, she manages to make his plan worse by trying to wipe out the workers and even tries to kill the one thing he cares about, Steven and indeed the belief that she succeeded is what drives him to destroy Metropolis. The one and only redeeming quality of her employer is nowhere to be seen in this psycho.

Proud yes.

Franchise.{{Metropolis}}

'''What's the work?'''

The legendary Creator/OsamuTezuka wrote a manga called and inspired by ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''... very loosely (and was in turn adapted into a [[Anime/Metropolis2001 2001 anime film]] only loosely based on ''it''). [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Michi]] wanders the futuristic city to discover their origins alongside hero Kenichi. The one-shot's villain to follow!

'''Who is Duke Red? What has he done?'''

A man with a SinisterSchnoz, Red leads the Red Party, a group of terrorists, who orders the brilliant Dr. Lawton to create Michi as a beautiful super human robot. Knowing he means to use the being for evil, Lawton stows Michi away to raise as his own child. Michi wanders off with new friend Kenichi and Red discovers they're still alive, confronting and fatally wounding Lawton before being driven off by the Japanese Detective Moustachio (he's got a killer stache!)

Moustachio happens to be Kenichi's uncle, who fills Michi in and prepares to train them to fight against the Duke. The police receive a report about people being killed by monsters and Moustachio discovers Red's secret lab hidden by the park where the attacks are taking place. Red tries to have Moustachio killed but a kind robot helps him hide, revealing Red is working them to death and planned to use Michi as the ultimate worker prototype. When Red finds the robot helping Moustachio, he painfully melts it to death, as it implores Moustachio to stop Red.

Plotting to melt the ice caps and make a new base in Antarctica, when the captive Moustachio refuses to deliver him Michi, he tries to kill Moustachio by testing a deadly gas on him, though Moustachio escapes. The monsters are revealed to be giant mutated rats existing due to Red's raising world temperatures, with people being killed all around the globe in similar cases. After Moustachio escapes, Red fools the police superintendent and has him arrested by his own Red Party allies [[DirtyCop on the force]].

Going abroad to hunt for the traveling Michi, Red is caught by the rebelling robots and tossed screaming into an incinerator, Michi and the machines aiming to destroy Metropolis in the final act.

The manga might end with Michi's FaceHeelTurn nearly leading to her destroying Metropolis but Red is responsible for their hateful attitude, creating robots as a SlaveRace to work to death and happily lets people die around the globe thanks to his screwing with world temperatures.

He's subject to some slapstick but his plans and demeanor are played straight when he's getting diabolical.

Simple keeper.
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Film.FrightNight
[[folder:Monster]]
'''Who is Jacob Hinnault? What has he done?'''

Allegedly a heroic vampire killer and father of Charley's new girlfriend Natalia, Jacob was actually made a vampire after being taken away from his daughter and became the leader of the diabolical and worldwide vampiric Legion of Endless Night. The ultimate master of organized vampires, Jacob plots to resurrect Jerry, the eldest and greatest of all vampires and bring back their other dead to [[TheUnmaskedWorld step out of the shadows]] and reduce humanity to food.

Plotting to kill any vampires who don't go along with his schemes, Jacob uses the witch Constance Beauegard to implant Jerry's soul in another vessel: hunting down said vessel when it runs off with Evil Ed after Constance's death and captures the heroes who invade his stronghold. Jacob uses them to kill off his disobedient followers plotting a coup and confronts them, including his sister Claudia and daughter, hypnotizing the latter into subservience after his scientists discover a way for vampires to walk in the day. Preparing to kill the heroes with Jerry, they're stopped by Claudia, who's discovered Jerry's bloodline as a Romanian vampire means he must count bird seed and must flee before she stakes him.

Heading to his villa in Europe, Jacob writes Natalia a letter asking her to come join him and begging for her forgiveness. Still loving her dad, she comes to reunite with him but it's a ploy to have Jerry make her another vampire slave. She escapes his attempt to bite her as she sleeps and distracts her father to finally stake him.

'''Heinousness?'''

TakeOverTheWorld is a pretty common plot in the comic but Jacob stands alone in his desire to make the Earth a caste of vampires culled to follow his whims while all of mankind is reduced to livestock.

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He plays the part of a loving father to Natalia in his letter but then tries to make her a vampire against her will and when she comes to him tries to read her to sleep so he can force her to be part of his new world and sounds annoyed with her in his thoughts.

'''Verdict?'''

I don't think his "redeeming" quality rings true and he's more than heinous enough.
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Film.TheRipper
[[folder:Monster]]
'''What's the work?'''

''Film/TheRipper'' (with Creator/TomSavini in the role!) involves the [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper titular serial killer]] binding his soul to a magic ring so he can return to life. In the 80s an English professor buys it and tries to make a return to keep killing while the hero tries to stop him.

'''Who is the Ripper? What has he done?'''

After his historical murders we learn during a famous crimes lecture that yesterday a prostitute...

[[quoteblock]]''"[B]ought the farm in ''um''... the same kinda deal that you were talking about... ''uh''... earlier."''[[/quoteblock]]

''Anyways''... after she's chopped up, our hero, Professor Richard Harwell, happens upon a ring found in the same alley and he begins dreaming he's Jack targeting women.

Coinciding with Richard's dream, Jack begins killing again, having cut up a woman in a theater as he dreamed of his girlfriend and shortly after another is killed, while Richard finds he's unable to remove the ring. Shit gets weird and he keeps passing out, letting Jack come into reality and kill more women. This culminates in the murder of the girlfriend of a student/friend of Richard's and Richard begins to suspect Jack's original killings had something to do with soul transference and gaining immortality.

Possessing Richard and hamming it up as he takes his girlfriend captive, Jack prepares to kill her as the final sacrifice to gain immortality but has his ring finger cut off and is gunned down by the cops... [[HereWeGoAgain only for some kids to find his ring later on]].

'''Heinousness?'''

5-14 grizzly murders while alive and another 5 attempted upon returning.

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He's a vicious misogynist seeking immortality through murder, what do you think?

'''Verdict?'''

Keeper with a little fun {{narm}} to him.
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ComicBook.TheUnfunnies
[[folder:Monster]]
'''Who is Despicable? What has he done?'''

Dr. Despicable is Mark Millar doing his damnedest to write an evil doctor. The dude introduces himself talking a reluctant mother into having her 10-year-old drug dealing daughter dealt with by his "late term abortion" specialist... casually implying it's a service he regularly contacts.

Later he pops up after down-on-his-luck actor Pussywhisker is referred to him. Diagnosing his patient with testicular cancer, Despicable has the poor man's genitals removed, destroying his life as Pussywhisker's asshole wife starts making him find her men to fuck her. Panning to Despicable alone in his office he reveals this was part of a contest to get 100 healthy testicles with a fellow MadDoctor. Disqualified for having taken two balls rather than one from Pussywhisker, Despicable quickly suggests a new contest for healthy kidneys: planning to make single mother Birdseed Betty his first victim.

'''Heinousness?'''

Of all Troy Hicks' comic characters, Despicable is by far the worst. There are references to murderers and rapists but the furthest we actually get on page is a reference to Moe the Crow molesting one boy and then a series of abusers he himself suffers under in prison (classy work, I know).

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He's a comic character and ACI can lead one to feel they don't have agency but in practice the characters adjust to what's happening and interact with the newer, darker setting. By all accounts Despicable is only shown as a particularly malevolent player on the stage.

'''Verdict?'''

Film.FullmetalAlchemist:

'''What's Father doing here?'''

TheManBehindTheMan to the happenings of the plot as one would expect, Father's origins remain the same as in the manga here. Born the "Dwarf in the Flask" hundreds of years back in Xerxes thanks to Hohenheim's blood, Father tricked the avaricious king into drawing the circles of blood needed for the nationwide transmutation circle. Promising him immortality, Father betrayed the king and devoured the souls of the million countrymen, dividing them between himself and a horrified Hohenheim as thanks for bringing him to life.

Founding Amestris, Father sets about grabbing even more power in the name of becoming a god, spawning his Homunculi out of his [[SevenDeadlySins seven desires]] and using them to sew chaos, Father even snuffs out seeds of descent by having Lust seemingly back the coup of General Hakuro... only to let him be devoured by the brainless, single-soul [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie-like Homunculus]]. Meanwhile he promises the "loyal" upper ranks of the military immortality at the cost of helping him with his Promised Day plan.

Much like in Xerxes, Father has "circles of blood"--wars--drawn out in key locations for his plans, including the brutal Ishvalan genocide and later a forced conflict between Amestris' northern Briggs fortress and the neighboring country of Drachma. When the heroes and Hohenheim attack him on the Promised Day, Father absorbs his former friend and forces Pride to use alchemy (something nearly deadly to perform for Homunculi) to create another "human sacrifice" for Father's plan.

Shrugging off the death of his children, Father opens the portal to God's domain to absorb its power and flies into a rage when Hohenheim's countermeasure forces him to release the souls of the millions he just ate in Amestris. Quickly looking to replenish himself, he abandons his favorite son Pride and begins blasting energy through Central, trying to consume all life to power himself until Ed manages to start wearing him down in combat and trickery from his rebellious son Greed weakens his body enough to be vanquished. Like in the original, he briefly begs Truth not to drag him back into the Gate before being sealed away forever.

Not even a question: Father's devoured a whole country of people, orchestrated multiple genocides, backed a violent coup just to out traitors and temporarily manages to end all life in Amestris.

Any care he had for Hohenheim has long since expired and he tries to remove all the souls keeping him alive within seconds of seeing him again and his children are just tools to him.

Keeps, though lacking in the nuance of the original.

Film.KillerJoe

''Film/KillerJoe'' is a BlackComedy crime movie by Creator/WilliamFriedkin based on a play of the same name. With a minimalist cast, we are told of the titular RabidCop who moonlights as a hitman. Called in to assist with drug dealer Chris Smith and his father Ansel's plot to kill Chris' mom/Ansel's ex for her insurance policy, the psychopath quickly proves that EvilIsNotAToy.

'''Who is Joe? What has he done?'''

Played chillingly by Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, Detective Cooper is an officer known by Chris to casually commit murder for the right price. A handsome, eerily quiet man, Joe meets with Chris and Ansel and refuses their job when they reveal they lack the funds to pay him in advance, before casually commenting he wouldn't mind being "given" Chris' sister Dottie as a "retainer".

After Chris reluctantly agrees to let Dottie on a "date", Joe arrives at the house and quickly goes full creep, forcing Dottie to undress in front of him. In a very uncomfortable setting, he has her imagine herself as a 12-year-old while he makes her roleplay his sexual whims before having sex with her.

Scared for his sister and realizing he's in over his head, Chris asks Joe to leave, only for Joe to reveal he's already killed Chris' mother and has Chris help him dispose of the body. Unfortunately, the next day Chris discovers he'd been set up by his mother's boyfriend Rex, the real beneficiary to her policy who'd also told him about Killer Joe to set Chris up.

Arresting Rex, Joe discovers his affair with Ansel's current girlfriend Sharla and reveals this to Ansel at dinner, choking Sharla into submission as he terrifies the couple. Implying he murdered Rex after taking him in, Joe starts beating and sexually assaulting Sharla with a chicken drumstick in front of her now apathetic husband, threatening to skin her face and wear it if she doesn't let him have his way with her. Knowing Chris means to return and take Dottie, Joe threatens Ansel and Sharla to help him stop Chris lest he murder them all.

When Chris returns home, Joe forces Ansel and Sharla to stage a family dinner and announces his plans to marry Dottie, intending to leave with her right after the meal. Chris tries to stop him, resulting in Joe trying to beat him to death with Ansel and Sharla's assistance. A distressed Dottie grabs Chris' loose gun, killing Chris, wounding Ansel and training it on Joe before saying she's pregnant, her finger hovering over the trigger as the film ends with an overjoyed Joe approaching her.

Minimalist as the setting is Joe's still an infamous hitman, even if his exact bodycount is never given, we do know he killed Chris' mom and her boyfriend Rex and threatens to kill the family of four if they try to help Chris stop him from taking Dottie. Besides he's a ruthless sociopath abusing power dynamics to have sex with the mentally ill and impressionable Dottie and later viciously rapes Sharla while sickly enjoying making Ansel watch.

Joe is a ''bizarre'' human being, the only time he really shows happiness is at the end when Dottie announces her pregnancy. That being said, he's characterized as a controlling monster who threatens and kills anyone who gets in his way, Dottie is just someone he thinks would make a submissive partner easy to control.

He has some strange FamilyValuesVillain traits in insisting the table be set up for a grace after brutalizing Sharla and his initial seduction of Dottie is just plain creepy, forcing her to undress in front of him before making her almost mechanically have sex with him. His rape scene with Sharla has him seeming to achieve ejaculation by stimulating oral sex after savagely beating her. I can't see this as anything but another step towards Joe getting a mentally broken mistress for him to lord over.

Nice creepy keeper and great performance!

Literature.LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes

'''What's Braunschweig doing here?'''

The same asshole redesigned as a FatBastard to emphasize his self-centered nature, this take of the Duke like his original starts off staying on the sidelines, speaking ill of Reinhard even as the young commander wins scores of victories against the Free Planet Alliance while Braunschweig enjoys high society functions, doing all he can to groom his daughter for the throne and raise his standing in the Galactic Empire even further (Currently second only to Kaiser Friedrich IV).

Mostly just a bigoted, unpleasant nuisance, Braunschweig shows his true colors when Friedrich suddenly dies of a heart attack and his grandson, rather than Braunschweig's daughter, is named the next Kaiser. Enraged, Braunschweig launches a coup, signed at the Lippstadt forest alongside his rival-turned-begrudging ally Marquis Littenheim and countless others. After a failed AssassinationAttempt on Reinhard, they take their forces to Geiersburg Fortress and prepare to do battle with the young Reinhard and his forces in the name of the Goldenbaum Dynasty that lets Braunschweig oppress and abuse commoners as he wishes.

Throughout the war he displays a massive ego and stunning lack of strategic knowledge, making ridiculous decisions and expending forces for his glory. Amongst these, he sends the politically inconvenient Littenheim away from the fortress, along with millions of their men, something that costs nearly all of their lives as the cowardly Littenheim fires on his own supply ships to clear an escape path and is eventually killed by a suicidal, abused soldier. Braunschweig also falls into Oberstein's trap when his captured admiral is released back to him, killing the man out of a paranoid belief he's turned traitor and pushes on with his absurd war.

The worst comes when his soldiers, raiding his own territories to supply their side, cause dissent on one of the planets in Branschweig's domain and they rise up in rebellion, killing his nephew presiding over the territory. Infuriated that commoners he "owns" would stand up against him and his family, Braunschweig orders the infamous Westerland Massacre, killing the three million people who live there, which Oberstein makes a point of filming and broadcasting to the rest of the Empire, ending support for the Goldenbaum Dynasty and causing mass defection and suicide amongst Braunschweig's ranks.

Fearing consequence, Braunschweig makes a hilarious attempt to convey to his aide Ansbach how he'll survive his war crimes by promising the hand of his daughter to Reinhard and acknowledging his victory... Ansbach points out the Duke has no hope of quelling Reinhard, who now seeks to stamp out the Goldenbaum supporters which Braunschweig publicly embodies the worst excesses of. In a cathartic show of his own cowardice, Braunschweig begs Ansbach to find a way to save him which his loyal but far more understanding of reality aide has the struggling Duke drink poisoned wine, having his body cut open by surgeons to stuff it with a weapon in a final attempt to kill Reinhard for his dead master.

A flashback adds even more though! After the disgraced Marquis Klopstock tries to kill Braunschweig and Kaiser Friedrich at a party, Braunschweig leads a campaign to kill Klopstock when he refuses to surrender. Encouraging his High Noble followers to RapePillageAndBurn while ignoring the advice of his far more intelligent military commanders even after Klopstock commits suicide, Braunschweig winds up in confrontation with Mittermeyer after the latter kills a Noble for viciously cutting open the throat of a young woman in the Klopstock's family for swallowing a family heirloom when he tried to take it from her. This puts him into contention with Mittermeyer whom he wrathfully tries to execute until Reinhard manages to use his strings to save Mittermeyer and force Braunschweig to remain silent on the whole incident through arbitration.

The Westerland Massacre alone would be enough along with the senseless mass murder of the Lippstadt Rebellion in general but ''Die Neue These'' adds more to his strike back against Klopstock, instilling a reign of terror on the entire planet within his domain. ''Galactic Heroes'' is fucking dark but he's the worst present day war criminal by far and this version has gotten even more mass murder attributable to him, even if there's no indication about poisoning one of Friedrich's mistresses to cause her to miscarry.

I added an AdaptationalNiceGuy entry for him since he does technically ask if his family's been led to safety following Reinhard closing in on Geiersburg but thinking this through it's not like his stage play version who cries at the death of his nephew.

In the scene when he learns of a family member's actual death, his reaction is that of a man angry some''thing'' was taken from him. He snarls at Flegel for questioning his orders at one point and tries to throw his daughter as a prize to Reinhard to save his own skin. Ultimately nothing's played straight for love.

Keeps as well as his original.

Theatre.Metropolis1989

''Theatre/Metropolis1989'' is a play based on [[Film/{{Metropolis}} the groundbreaking, sci fi codifying film]] by Creator/FritzLang. As in the original, our protagonist Steven (Freder in the original) is the son of the city's founder and a member of the upper class who falls in love with the beautiful working class revolutionary Maria.

Interesting to note is the roles the villainous characters play get shifted about: Warner (the Rotwang standin) is practically heroic and John Freeman (aka Joh Fredersen and our hero's ArchnemesisDad) gains a litany of crimes and without reference to his dead wife becomes one of the nastiest villains put to the stage... but makes it clear he holds some affection for his son. To enact his plan however, he ropes in Warner's creation, "Futura", who proves a far more knowingly sadistic force of evil than her original, working under the elitist Freeman rather than the more heroic Warner here.

'''Who is Futura? What has she done?'''

Originally just a faceless robot made by Warner as the prototype for Freeman's plot to replace the city's workers with machines, Freeman sees use in using her to disrupt the rebellion brewing thanks to Maria. Capturing and delivering the beautiful RebelLeader to Warner, Freeman has the ReluctantMadScientist graft Maria's likeness onto Futura. To test her capabilities, Freeman shows her off at a party for the city's "elitists", where her beauty wows the crowd and decides to use her to destroy the rebellion-to-be.

Ordering her to venture to the city's lower levels and pretend to be Maria, Futura immediately sets about manipulating the children who Maria had been teaching into letting her negotiate with the adult workers. Claiming to have come to an agreement with the upper levels, Futura presents them with the asinine "generous" offer to be allowed a single day they may gaze upon the son in return for having the children work on the deadly machines, as Freeman had desired. Infuriating the workers... this distracts them from working on their machines which begin depleting the quarters' oxygen supply.

Futura gleefully proclaims the lower levels can be damned, ecstatic to watch them go up in flames and takes a little girl hostage to keep them from attacking her. Steven approaches her in an attempt to stop her madness but she stabs him, wounding him badly. Steven is rescued from Futura and the furious crowd grab her, throwing the cackling machine into the furnace and destroying her as she laughs till the end about the destruction she's set off and the lower levels are rendered uninhabitable.

Sadly Freeman hears mistaken reports she killed Steven and decides to flood the city in his rage and grief, forcing the lower class to leave their home as it is all destroyed. Though Steven escapes with the workers the upper class is wiped out in Freeman's grief as he decides the city is his to die alongside him.

Freeman is a total bastard working people to death, not allowing slaves so much as to gaze upon the sun and hopes to one day replace them all with machines.

Futura however is punching out of her weight class as TheDragon, directly and gleefully carrying out the scheme to ruin Maria's reputation and uses his order to get through to "use the children" to get to the workers to instead distract them in the hopes of wiping them all out, much to her excitement:

[[quoteblock]]"All this chaos, isn't it fine? This destruction is divine! Who gives a damn? Burn in Hell! I love the burning, I love the smell!"[[/quoteblock]]

In the original her origins are too sketchy to list but here she's actually designed by a good hearted scientist and while Freeman guides her somewhat, her gleeful insanity and [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker]]-like wish to watch the "lesser" people of the city burn paints the picture of a knowing sadist.

Additionally while she's employed by Freeman, she manages to make his plan worse by trying to wipe out the workers and even tries to kill the one thing he cares about, Steven and indeed the belief that she succeeded is what drives him to destroy Metropolis. The one and only redeeming quality of her employer is nowhere to be seen in this psycho.

Proud yes.

Franchise.{{Metropolis}}

'''What's the work?'''

The legendary Creator/OsamuTezuka wrote a manga called and inspired by ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''... very loosely (and was in turn adapted into a [[Anime/Metropolis2001 2001 anime film]] only loosely based on ''it''). [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Michi]] wanders the futuristic city to discover their origins alongside hero Kenichi. The one-shot's villain to follow!

'''Who is Duke Red? What has he done?'''

A man with a SinisterSchnoz, Red leads the Red Party, a group of terrorists, who orders the brilliant Dr. Lawton to create Michi as a beautiful super human robot. Knowing he means to use the being for evil, Lawton stows Michi away to raise as his own child. Michi wanders off with new friend Kenichi and Red discovers they're still alive, confronting and fatally wounding Lawton before being driven off by the Japanese Detective Moustachio (he's got a killer stache!)

Moustachio happens to be Kenichi's uncle, who fills Michi in and prepares to train them to fight against the Duke. The police receive a report about people being killed by monsters and Moustachio discovers Red's secret lab hidden by the park where the attacks are taking place. Red tries to have Moustachio killed but a kind robot helps him hide, revealing Red is working them to death and planned to use Michi as the ultimate worker prototype. When Red finds the robot helping Moustachio, he painfully melts it to death, as it implores Moustachio to stop Red.

Plotting to melt the ice caps and make a new base in Antarctica, when the captive Moustachio refuses to deliver him Michi, he tries to kill Moustachio by testing a deadly gas on him, though Moustachio escapes. The monsters are revealed to be giant mutated rats existing due to Red's raising world temperatures, with people being killed all around the globe in similar cases. After Moustachio escapes, Red fools the police superintendent and has him arrested by his own Red Party allies [[DirtyCop on the force]].

Going abroad to hunt for the traveling Michi, Red is caught by the rebelling robots and tossed screaming into an incinerator, Michi and the machines aiming to destroy Metropolis in the final act.

The manga might end with Michi's FaceHeelTurn nearly leading to her destroying Metropolis but Red is responsible for their hateful attitude, creating robots as a SlaveRace to work to death and happily lets people die around the globe thanks to his screwing with world temperatures.

He's subject to some slapstick but his plans and demeanor are played straight when he's getting diabolical.

Simple keeper.
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Film.FrightNight
[[folder:Monster]]
'''Who is Jacob Hinnault? What has he done?'''

Allegedly a heroic vampire killer and father of Charley's new girlfriend Natalia, Jacob was actually made a vampire after being taken away from his daughter and became the leader of the diabolical and worldwide vampiric Legion of Endless Night. The ultimate master of organized vampires, Jacob plots to resurrect Jerry, the eldest and greatest of all vampires and bring back their other dead to [[TheUnmaskedWorld step out of the shadows]] and reduce humanity to food.

Plotting to kill any vampires who don't go along with his schemes, Jacob uses the witch Constance Beauegard to implant Jerry's soul in another vessel: hunting down said vessel when it runs off with Evil Ed after Constance's death and captures the heroes who invade his stronghold. Jacob uses them to kill off his disobedient followers plotting a coup and confronts them, including his sister Claudia and daughter, hypnotizing the latter into subservience after his scientists discover a way for vampires to walk in the day. Preparing to kill the heroes with Jerry, they're stopped by Claudia, who's discovered Jerry's bloodline as a Romanian vampire means he must count bird seed and must flee before she stakes him.

Heading to his villa in Europe, Jacob writes Natalia a letter asking her to come join him and begging for her forgiveness. Still loving her dad, she comes to reunite with him but it's a ploy to have Jerry make her another vampire slave. She escapes his attempt to bite her as she sleeps and distracts her father to finally stake him.

'''Heinousness?'''

TakeOverTheWorld is a pretty common plot in the comic but Jacob stands alone in his desire to make the Earth a caste of vampires culled to follow his whims while all of mankind is reduced to livestock.

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He plays the part of a loving father to Natalia in his letter but then tries to make her a vampire against her will and when she comes to him tries to read her to sleep so he can force her to be part of his new world and sounds annoyed with her in his thoughts.

'''Verdict?'''

I don't think his "redeeming" quality rings true and he's more than heinous enough.
[[/folder]]

Film.TheRipper
[[folder:Monster]]
'''What's the work?'''

''Film/TheRipper'' (with Creator/TomSavini in the role!) involves the [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper titular serial killer]] binding his soul to a magic ring so he can return to life. In the 80s an English professor buys it and tries to make a return to keep killing while the hero tries to stop him.

'''Who is the Ripper? What has he done?'''

After his historical murders we learn during a famous crimes lecture that yesterday a prostitute...

[[quoteblock]]''"[B]ought the farm in ''um''... the same kinda deal that you were talking about... ''uh''... earlier."''[[/quoteblock]]

''Anyways''... after she's chopped up, our hero, Professor Richard Harwell, happens upon a ring found in the same alley and he begins dreaming he's Jack targeting women.

Coinciding with Richard's dream, Jack begins killing again, having cut up a woman in a theater as he dreamed of his girlfriend and shortly after another is killed, while Richard finds he's unable to remove the ring. Shit gets weird and he keeps passing out, letting Jack come into reality and kill more women. This culminates in the murder of the girlfriend of a student/friend of Richard's and Richard begins to suspect Jack's original killings had something to do with soul transference and gaining immortality.

Possessing Richard and hamming it up as he takes his girlfriend captive, Jack prepares to kill her as the final sacrifice to gain immortality but has his ring finger cut off and is gunned down by the cops... [[HereWeGoAgain only for some kids to find his ring later on]].

'''Heinousness?'''

5-14 grizzly murders while alive and another 5 attempted upon returning.

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He's a vicious misogynist seeking immortality through murder, what do you think?

'''Verdict?'''

Keeper with a little fun {{narm}} to him.
[[/folder]]

Film.Suspiria2018
[[folder:Monster]]
'''What's the work?'''

''Film/Suspiria2018'' is a remake of the Argento [[Film/Suspiria1977 classic]] horror. Same protagonist, ballerina Susie Bannion gets sucked into a dancing program tied to the occult. A series of girls go missing and the never-seen director of the company, the mysterious Helena Markos, is behind it.

'''Who is Mother Markos? What has she done?'''

Claiming to be the supreme sorceress Mother Suspiriorum of the Three Mothers, Markos is the corrupt current head of the coven behind the Markos Dance Company. Discovered by dancer Patricia, Markos' followers "kill" her, leaving her in a crippled and pained state of undeath while the aging and decaying Markos prepares a ceremony to transfer her being into another body.

Susie becomes the ultimate target of Markos' bodysnatching scheme. Another girl Olga is torturously likewise placed in a state of suspended life and left to wait as Markos continues her ceremony.

Turning Susie's friend Sara into the last, tortured sacrifice, the rest of the dance troupe is hypnotized while Markos has Susie brought to her while the hypnotized dancers are used to prepare her body swapping spell. When Blanc tries to put an end to it Markos overpowers her with her magic, nearly decapitating and killing Blanc. Susie however casts down Markos' lies and reveals herself as the true Mother Suspiriorum, summoning death to kill Markos and her followers and put her friends out of their misery.

'''Mitigating factors?'''

Not one, Markos is a threatening, power hungry sociopath who fears losing control of the coven and horrifically maims young women to get a newer, stronger body. The coven isn't composed of heroes but their worst crimes are on her orders for her plan.

'''Heinousness?'''

Quality vs. quantity case. While her being the root of the coven's corruption is vague, this film is a standalone (RIP sales) and Markos makes up for the minimal body count with extending her victims' suffering for days to weeks in enchanted suffering before trying to claim a fourth young woman as her own vessel, in addition to the BadBoss behavior.

'''Verdict?'''

Feeling the extended cruelty lets her make it.
[[/folder]]

ComicBook.TheUnfunnies
[[folder:Monster]]
'''Who is Despicable? What has he done?'''

Dr. Despicable is Mark Millar doing his damnedest to write an evil doctor. The dude introduces himself talking a reluctant mother into having her 10-year-old drug dealing daughter dealt with by his "late term abortion" specialist... casually implying it's a service he regularly contacts.

Later he pops up after down-on-his-luck actor Pussywhisker is referred to him. Diagnosing his patient with testicular cancer, Despicable has the poor man's genitals removed, destroying his life as Pussywhisker's asshole wife starts making him find her men to fuck her. Panning to Despicable alone in his office he reveals this was part of a contest to get 100 healthy testicles with a fellow MadDoctor. Disqualified for having taken two balls rather than one from Pussywhisker, Despicable quickly suggests a new contest for healthy kidneys: planning to make single mother Birdseed Betty his first victim.

'''Heinousness?'''

Of all Troy Hicks' comic characters, Despicable is by far the worst. There are references to murderers and rapists but the furthest we actually get on page is a reference to Moe the Crow molesting one boy and then a series of abusers he himself suffers under in prison (classy work, I know).

'''Mitigating factors?'''

He's a comic character and ACI can lead one to feel they don't have agency but in practice the characters adjust to what's happening and interact with the newer, darker setting. By all accounts Despicable is only shown as a particularly malevolent player on the stage.

'''Verdict?'''

Of all Troy Hicks' comic characters, Despicable is by far the worst. There are references to murderers and rapists but the furthest we actually get on page is a reference to Moe the Crow molesting one boy and then a series of abusers he himself suffers in prison (classy work, I know).