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* ''[[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]], ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' novels by John Shirley:

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', by Dennis O'Neil (''Film/BatmanBegins'' & ''Film/TheDarkKnight'') & Greg Cox (''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''): [[PsychoPsychologist Jonathan Crane]], aka [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow the Scarecrow]], started out using several of his students as test subjects, [[DrivenToMadness driving them mad]] in the process. In the present, Crane allies with the [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyLeagueOfShadows League of Shadows]], creating and supplying them with [[IKnowWhatYouFear Fear Gas]] so as to unleash it onto Gotham and drive the city to tear itself apart. Along the way, Crane [[PlayingWithSyringes performs more experiments in fear]] on his hapless patients at Arkham; orders the murder of a nosy attorney; and drives his partner, Carmine Falcone, insane to silence him. During the attack on Gotham, Crane led a prison riot, murdered a police officer, and tried to run down Rachel Dawes and a child she is protecting. Crane then becomes a drug dealer and kills a junkie as a test run for a lethal hallucinogen. In his final appearance, Crane takes a spot in [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyBane Bane]]'s conquered, anarchy-filled Gotham, presiding over a KangarooCourt where everyone from corrupt politicians to innocent people are forced to walk across the icy river of Gotham, invariable leading to their deaths as they break through the ice, much to Crane's delight.

* ''Film/{{Shazam|2019}}!: The (Deluxe) Junior Novel'', by Calliope Glass: [[Characters/DCEUDoctorSivana Dr. Thaddeus Sivana]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayed worse in the novel than in the film]]. Bullied and disrespected as a child by his family, Sivana was offered a chance at heroic power by the Wizard, but instead tried to embrace the Seven Deadly Sins for their darker, more ambitious power. Rejected by the Wizard for this evil in his heart, Sivana grew up scouring for ways to return to the Sins, and upon finding a way, he immediately embraces the Sins into himself to become a [[PhysicalGod god]]. Sivana proceeds to slaughter the dozens of people at a Christmas party held by his family, and then tears his way through a mall, endangering many civilians while trying to kill Shazam. Taking [[Characters/DCEUShazam Billy Batson]]'s, aka Shazam's, foster siblings hostage and threatening them with torture and death, Sivana hopes to drain Shazam of his powers and then run rampant on Earth as an all-powerful being. Sivana is fully onboard with the Sins's plans to wipe out mankind, and even when Billy tries to empathize with Sivana's past, Sivana just [[RedemptionRejection cruelly taunts the boy]] and reiterates that he was never a "good" person, just one who wanted power.

* ''Film/{{Shazam|2019}}!: The (Deluxe) Junior Novel'', by Calliope Glass: [[Characters/DCEUDoctorSivana Dr. Thaddeus Sivana]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayed worse in the novel than in the film]]. Bullied and disrespected as a child by his family, Sivana was offered a chance at heroic power by the Wizard, but instead tried to embrace the Seven Deadly Sins for their darker, more ambitious power. Rejected by the Wizard for this evil in his heart, Sivana grew up scouring for ways to return to the Sins, and upon finding a way, he immediately embraces the Sins into himself to become a [[PhysicalGod god]]. Sivana proceeds to slaughter the dozens of people at a Christmas party held by his family, and then tears his way through a mall, endangering many civilians while trying to kill Shazam. Taking [[Characters/DCEUBillyBatson Billy Batson]]'s, aka Shazam's, foster siblings hostage and threatening them with torture and death, Sivana hopes to drain Shazam of his powers and then run rampant on Earth as an all-powerful being. Sivana is fully onboard with the Sins's plans to wipe out mankind, and even when Billy tries to empathize with Sivana's past, Sivana just [[RedemptionRejection cruelly taunts the boy]] and reiterates that he was never a "good" person, just one who wanted power.

* ''[[Literature/TheForensicFilesOfBatman The Forensic Files of Batman]]'''s "Cutting and Culling", by Creator/DougMoench: [[AdaptationalNameChange Anton]] Zsasz is a sadomasochistic SerialKiller obsessed with pain and blood. A [[AxCrazy maniac]] who has butchered over 60 confirmed victims--with hundreds more implied--Zsasz's method involves torturously suspending his victims in the air for days, then stabbing them to death and [[BloodBath showering in their blood]] before carving a [[KillTally tally mark]] into his body. Having carved a path of death across the country, Zsasz continues his spree in Gotham to claim half a dozen more women before Batman catches him, set to become one of Batman's most depraved villains in the coming future.

** ''Literature/HarleyQuinnReckoning'': [[SerialRapist Dr. Aaron Nelson]] seems to be a [[BitchInSheepsClothing kindly professor]] at Gotham University who encourages a young [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harleen Quinzel]] and other young women to excel in science, but is actually a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil repulsive]] sexual predator. Dr. Nelson has been receiving fear gas from an unknown party at Arkham Asylum in exchange for blood samples. Nelson schedules interviews with young female co-eds, promising to help them with scholarships, then in private, Nelson sprays them with fear gas and rapes them. The fear gas leaves Nelson's victims too scared to testify against him, with the fear gas causing permanent [[MindRape psychological damage]].

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', by Dennis O'Neil (''Film/BatmanBegins'' & ''Film/TheDarkKnight'') & Greg Cox (''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''): [[PsychoPsychologist Jonathan Crane]], aka [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow the Scarecrow]], starts out using several of his students as test subjects, [[DrivenToMadness driving them mad]] in the process. In the present, Crane allies with the [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyLeagueOfShadows League of Shadows]], creating and supplying them with [[IKnowWhatYouFear Fear Gas]] so as to unleash it onto Gotham and drive the city to tear itself apart. Along the way, Crane [[PlayingWithSyringes performs more experiments in fear]] on his hapless patients at Arkham; orders the murder of a nosy attorney; and drives his partner, Carmine Falcone, insane to silence him. During the attack on Gotham, Crane led a prison riot, murdered a police officer, and tried to run down Rachel Dawes and a child she is protecting. Crane then becomes a drug dealer and kills a junkie as a test run for a lethal hallucinogen. In his final appearance, Crane takes a spot in [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyBane Bane]]'s conquered, anarchy-filled Gotham, presiding over a KangarooCourt where everyone from corrupt politicians to innocent people are forced to walk across the icy river of Gotham, invariable leading to their deaths as they break through the ice, much to Crane's delight.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' by Dennis O'Neil (''Film/BatmanBegins'' & ''Film/TheDarkKnight'') & Greg Cox (''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''): Unlike his more passive film counterpart, the novel version of [[PsychoPsychologist Jonathan Crane]], aka [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow the Scarecrow]], is presented as a [[AdaptationalVillainy terror-loving maniac]]. Starting out using several of his students as test subjects, [[DrivenToMadness driving them mad]] in the process, Crane allies with the League of Shadows in the present, creating and supplying them with [[IKnowWhatYouFear Fear Gas]] so as to unleash it onto Gotham and drive the city to tear itself apart. Along the way, Crane performs more experiments in fear on his hapless patients at Arkham, orders the murder of a nosy attorney, and drives his partner, Carmine Falcone, insane to silence him. During the attack on Gotham, Crane led a prison riot, [[CopKiller murdered a police officer]], and tried to run down Rachel Dawes and [[WouldHurtAChild a child]] she is protecting. Crane then becomes a drug dealer and kills a junkie as a test run for a lethal hallucinogen. In his final appearance, Crane takes a spot in Bane's conquered, anarchy-filled Gotham, presiding over a KangarooCourt where everyone from corrupt politicians to innocent people are forced to walk across the icy river of Gotham, invariable leading to their deaths as they break through the ice, much to Crane's delight.

* ''[[Literature/WhichWayBooks Super Powers Which Way Books]]'':

* ''[[{{Gamebooks}} Super Powers Which Way Books]]'':

** ''[[Literature/BlackCanaryBreakingSilence Black Canary: Breaking Silence'', by Alexandra Monir: [[VillainousLegacy Chester Cobblepot]] is the nephew of the criminal mastermind [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin the Penguin]] and is even viler than his uncle. Twenty years ago, Cobblepot assisted the Court of Owls in a coup, killing most of the superheroes and transforming Gotham City into a dictatorship, with Cobblepot being made [[MayorPain mayor]] for life. Cobblepot is an [[StrawMisogynist extreme misogynist]], denying women any sort of rights, even making it illegal for women to play music. Cobblepot has anyone who defies the Court of Owls arrested and sent to Arkham Asylum, where they are tortured to death. Cobblepot has several of the corpses displayed in a secret room under Arkham and experiments with the dead bodies, transforming them into the Court of Owls's [[NightOfTheLivingMooks undead soldiers]], the Talons, forcing his dead victims to become instruments of his will.

-->-- '''Rhama Bgyn''', to '''William X. Malady''', ''Batman: The Ultimate Evil''

* ''The Batman Murders'', by Craig Shaw Gardner: [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] is once again Batman's ArchEnemy and a cruel psychopath. Joker has been kidnapping civilians and has a scientist [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash]] them until they think they are Batman. Joker than has the fake Batmen try to stop a robbery and die in the process and is keeping several of his victims imprisoned in a makeshift prison until he is ready to use them. Joker also sets up a cult to help generate money, with the cult [[MindRape psychologically torturing]] its members until they become mind-warped zombies. Joker, growing bored, decides to turn people into Jokers, transforming some of his goons into Jokers. After failing to capture Commissioner Gordon, Joker captures Dick Grayson, transforms him into a Joker, and has him fight Batman.
* ''The Ultimate Evil'', by Andrew Vachss: [[BigBad William X. Malady]] is the leader of a [[WouldHurtAChild child pornography ring]]. When Thomas and Martha Wayne started investigating his crimes, Malady hires a killer to gun them down, after which he fled to Gotham City. Taking up residence in the foreign country of Udon Khai, Malady immediately installs a private military group that he uses to regularly kidnap innocent children from poor villagers to use them as {{sex slave}}s and selling them to pedophiles all across the world. In order to prevent moles from infiltrating his organization, he has instituted an initiation protocol where, if one wishes to gain access, they must rape a child on film.
* ''The Stone King'', by Creator/AlanGrant: [[AntagonistTitle The Stone King]] was an ancient shaman from neolithic times who became obsessed with power. Forsaking the ways of his people, the Stone King demanded they worship him as {{a god|Am I}}, [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] innocents to his name and even demanding they sacrifice [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to him. After being entombed, his spirit is awakened and goes on a killing spree, even paralyzing members of the League with pure fear. It is revealed the Stone King plans to cleanse the earth of all he sees as unworthy, using primordial energies to trigger earthquakes, volcanoes and more that will [[OmnicidalManiac kill every living thing on the planet]] in order to reclaim his lost godhood.
* "Cutting and Culling", from ''The Forensic Files of Batman'', by Creator/DougMoench: [[AdaptationalNameChange Anton]] Zsasz is a sadomasochistic SerialKiller obsessed with pain and blood. A [[AxCrazy maniac]] who has butchered over 60 confirmed victims--with hundreds more implied--Zsasz's method involves torturously suspending his victims in the air for days, then stabbing them to death and [[BloodBath showering in their blood]] before carving a [[KillTally tally mark]] into his body. Having carved a path of death across the country, Zsasz continues his spree in Gotham to claim half a dozen more women before Batman catches him, set to become one of Batman's most depraved villains in the coming future.

** ''Dead White'', by John Shirley: [[BigBad White Eyes]], also known as "Big White", real name Hiram Bunch, is the absolute leader of the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain supremacist Bavarian Brotherhood]] in Gotham. A steroid-abusing brute of a man who fancies himself the avenger of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, White Eyes proceeds a wave of crime violence, arms dealings, and murders through Gotham to unsettle the nation before unveiling his real goal: destroying key points all over America to throw the country into chaos and allow him to take over as supreme dictator, before spreading out to the rest of the world with the intention of [[FinalSolution erasing all of the "mud-races" from the planet]]. In preparation for this, White Eyes keeps a gallery of enslaved minorities and forces them into grueling and inevitably fatal work for months at a time in an abandoned gold mine; [[BadBoss executes his own minions]] for reasons as varied as simple failure to simply use them as test subjects for his weapons; and kidnaps a young woman named Beth, intending to use her as "breeding stock" and [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape her]] out of frustration once his base is infiltrated by Batman. Once his plan is toppled, White Eyes simply elects to abandon the rest of his men and blow up the capitol himself, murdering his most trusted henchman once he refuses to abandon the others and taking an entire family hostage to deter Batman from pursuing him.
** ''Inferno'', by Alex Irvine:

* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn: Mad Love'', by Creator/PaulDini & Pat Cadigan: [[TheDon Bruno Delvecchio]] is a particularly brutal mob boss who helped shape [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harleen Quinzel]] into the supervillain she becomes. After Harleen's father steals from Delvecchio, Delvecchio has him beaten and tortured before leaving him to be locked in prison, after which he kidnaps his daughter Harleen. Delvecchio plans to lure Harleen's mother to him with her fortune, kill the woman, then sell Harleen to a pedophilic criminal, something [[WouldHurtAChild Delvecchio]] reveals he has done before to other children.

** ''War Lord'': [[BigBad Dyzigi]], actually the demon G'Broag'Fram, fosters much of the conflict of the Servants of Transfiguration in his bid to cause a global war. Keeping the owner of the body he possesses [[AndIMustScream in constant torment]] within him, Dyzigi orders wide bloodshed and terrorism as one of the heads of the SOT, and furthermore captures and abominates [[MadDoctor Josef Mengele]] into a psychic abomination he keeps in a jar, feeding it with severed heads. Dyzigi initially captures a young woman named Mercury for her psychic powers, [[MindRape tormenting her]] with apocalyptic visions--before deciding to have her killed when she becomes a liability, allowing his compatriot to rape her beforehand before tracking her down when she escapes and massacring an entire camp of Sudanese soldiers. Dyzigi's ultimate goal is to kickstart a [[WorldWarIII third World War]] and devastate the planet, killing billions, all for the prospect of a subrealm as a reward from his master Nergal.
** ''Subterranean'': [[BigBad Iain Culley]], a [[EvilSorcerer centuries-old sorcerer]] known as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Gloomlord]], captured and tortured a powerful elemental known as Lord Stone to master an underground kingdom. Keeping humans enslaved below ground, used as labor and eventual food when their use runs out, Culley intends on expanding the kingdom. Starting by sinking the village Tonsell-By-The-Sea, Culley reveals he powers his kingdom and fuels his eternal youth by [[HumanResources locking victims in devices that leech off their power and vitality]], [[AndIMustScream keeping them alive and in horrible pain]]. Not content with this kingdom, Culley intends to develop a plague to poison the earth's oceans, killing countless millions while forcing everyone else underground to be his slaves.

** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}: Dawnbreaker'', by Matt de la Peña: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corey Mankins]] is the heir to the powerful Mankins Corporation, and Dr. Wesley is the company's [[MadScientist lead scientist]]. Though the Mankins Corporation [[VillainWithGoodPublicity seems benevolent]] and seems to be adding to Smallville's economy and performing charitable deeds, Corey Mankins and Dr. Wesley are secretly engaged in sinister deeds. They have been buying farms to collect the kryptonite meteors beneath them. They have also been secretly kidnapping Mexican immigrants and [[PlayingWithSyringes experimenting on them]] with a combination of kryptonite and a steroid called Dawnbreaker. Corey Mankins and Dr. Wesley want to turn their victims into SuperSoldiers so they can sell them to the highest bidder, using drugs and propaganda to break their free will. When Lana Lang confronts Corey Mankins about this, Corey kidnaps her and plans to set off a bomb during a festival at Smallville's town square, willing to kill hundreds to distract authorities from their human experimentation operation.
** ''ComicBook/BlackCanary: Breaking Silence'', by Alexandra Monir: [[VillainousLegacy Chester Cobblepot]] is the nephew of the criminal mastermind [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin the Penguin]] and is even viler than his uncle. Twenty years ago, Cobblepot assisted the Court of Owls in a coup, killing most of the superheroes and transforming Gotham City into a dictatorship, with Cobblepot being made [[MayorPain mayor]] for life. Cobblepot is an [[StrawMisogynist extreme misogynist]], denying women any sort of rights, even making it illegal for women to play music. Cobblepot has anyone who defies the Court of Owls arrested and sent to Arkham Asylum, where they are tortured to death. Cobblepot has several of the corpses displayed in a secret room under Arkham and experiments with the dead bodies, transforming them into the Court of Owls's [[NightOfTheLivingMooks undead soldiers]], the Talons, forcing his dead victims to become instruments of his will.