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->''"The one great evil is here. It's part of that creature that was with her. Oh, we've sensed him. Everyone on Olympus has. This... this force of darkness spells the end of all of us—gods and man alike."''
-->— '''Ares''' on '''Dahak''', ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E13ArmageddonNowPart1 Armageddon Now: Part 1]]"
[[Franchise/HercXenaverse A time long ago, a time of myth and legend, when the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering]]. The world cried out for heroes. These are [[CompleteMonster the worst]] that Series/{{Hercules|TheLegendaryJourneys}}, Series/{{Xena|WarriorPrincess}}, and their companions have ever faced, whether [[JerkassGods god]], [[TheConqueror warlord]], or [[EvilOverlord king]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:The entire Herc-Xenaverse]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Dahak]], lord of [[GodOfChaos chaos]] and [[GodOfEvil evil]], is a god who predates even the Titans themselves. Seeking to plunge the world into chaos to [[KillAllHumans destroy most of humanity]], Dahak is responsible for sowing evil through his cults and countless murders and cruelties. When the prophet Zarathustra refused to murder his family, Dahak killed them and cursed Zarathustra with immortality to never forget. Dahak rapes Xena's companion Gabrielle to beget the child Hope so he may use her to spawn a race of monsters to wipe out humanity and allow Dahak's coming upon earth. Dahak [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the former hero Gilgamesh to destroy the world, with the latter killing Hercules's companion Iolaus. Dahak then tries to trick Hercules into damning Iolaus's soul while preparing to arrive upon Earth and enact his schemes of eternal chaos.
[[AC:Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys]]
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E12TheGauntlet The Gauntlet]]" & "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E13UnchainedHeart Unchained Heart]]": Darphus is the former [[TheDragon second in command]] of Xena before her HeelFaceTurn. Darphus earns Xena's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disfavor]] by sacking innocent villages and slaughtering women and children [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. When Xena objects, Darphus stages a [[TheStarscream coup on her]] after trying to force her to murder a baby. When Xena survives the gauntlet to leave the army, Darphus tries to have her killed anyways. After being killed by Xena, Darphus is [[BackFromTheDead revived by Ares]] and carries on a brutal campaign of slaughter where he also has care of Ares's monstrous pet. Darphus feeds innocent victims to said monster and shows no hesitation in killing his own men as well just for displeasing him.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS3E9AStarToGuideThem A Star to Guide Them]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Maliphone]] is the ruler of Bethos along with her husband King Polonius. Wanting her own children to reign over Bethos, Maliphone helps to spearhead rounding up any child under a year old when she learns of a prophecy that Polonius's children will be displaced. Summoning monsters from Hera and testing their power by having them kill her own guards, Maliphone eventually decides to simply have [[WouldHurtAChild every baby in the kingdom murdered]] just to ensure that the prophesied child is absolutely eliminated.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E7ProdigalSister Prodigal Sister]]": [[DarkActionGirl Mayam]] is the leader of a renegade band of Amazons that routinely terrorizes the countryside in Greece and massacres entire villages, except for the little girls she turns into her weapons. Most Amazons who did raids would go for minimal loss of life, and are appalled by Mayam's actions. She personally [[WouldHurtAChild blinds Ruun]]—just after killing his parents and kidnapping his sister who she turns into a mindless killing machine—who's only five years old. Fast forward years later, when most of the renegade Amazons have rejoined the Amazonian Nation, Mayam still leads raids which RapePillageAndBurn entire villages for fun. When confronted by Hercules, she laughs off that her actions will lead to an Amazon CivilWar which will be crushed by the outside world. And finally, when confronted on what she did to Ruun and his sister Siri after she is beaten by Hercules she flat out says "[[ItsAllAboutMe So what, I turned her into the greatest Amazonian Warrior!]]"
[[AC:Series/XenaWarriorPrincess]]
* TV series:
** [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
** "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
** "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
** "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
* [[ComicBook/XenaWarriorPrincess 2006]] Creator/DynamiteComics series: [[EverybodyHatesHades Anubis]], the Myth/{{Egyptian|Mythology}} God of the Dead, has designs on [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the entire planet for himself]]. Manipulating a [[DivineConflict conflict]] between the Egyptian and Greek pantheons, Anubis takes advantage of the chaos to usurp Hades by poisonous, god-suppressing snakes while he tortures Hades [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Amassing an army of the dead, Anubis plans to unleash them on the world, killing every living thing to add to the ranks of the dead while he swells in power till everything submits or dies.
* [[VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess Video Game]]: [[GodOfEvil Kalabrax]], the Goddess of Dark Sorcery, is expelled from Olympus because of her power-hungry nature and sadistic tendencies. Kalabrax intends to sacrifice Xena's companion, Gabrielle, in a ritual which will bring Kalabrax's strength to a whole new level, allowing her to conquer the realms of gods and mortals. Arranging for her worshipper, [[TheDragon King Valerian]], into bribing a band of pirates to massacre a village, Kalabrax had Valerian abduct Gabrielle for her while Xena is distracted fighting the pirates. After Xena rescues Gabrielle and attempts to uncover the truth, Kalabrax sics her legion of BrainwashedAndCrazy Amazonian cultists into attacking the heroes, forcing Xena and Gabrielle to kill most of them, before recapturing Gabrielle and having Xena [[DraggedOffToHell cast into Hell]]. With Xena's absence, Kalabrax then has her followers wipe out and capture entire villages to establish her dominance, and as Xena escapes Hell to confront Kalabrax one last time, she then takes on [[OneWingedAngel a demonic monstrous form]] and tries to trample over Xena.
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->''"The one great evil is here. It's part of that creature that was with her. Oh, we've sensed him. Everyone on Olympus has. This... this force of darkness spells the end of all of us—gods and man alike."''
-->— '''Ares''' on '''Dahak''', ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E13ArmageddonNowPart1 Armageddon Now: Part 1]]"
[[Franchise/HercXenaverse A time long ago, a time of myth and legend, when the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering]]. The world cried out for heroes. These are [[CompleteMonster the worst]] that Series/{{Hercules|TheLegendaryJourneys}}, Series/{{Xena|WarriorPrincess}}, and their companions have ever faced, whether [[JerkassGods god]], [[TheConqueror warlord]], or [[EvilOverlord king]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
----
[[AC:The entire Herc-Xenaverse]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Dahak]], lord of [[GodOfChaos chaos]] and [[GodOfEvil evil]], is a god who predates even the Titans themselves. Seeking to plunge the world into chaos to [[KillAllHumans destroy most of humanity]], Dahak is responsible for sowing evil through his cults and countless murders and cruelties. When the prophet Zarathustra refused to murder his family, Dahak killed them and cursed Zarathustra with immortality to never forget. Dahak rapes Xena's companion Gabrielle to beget the child Hope so he may use her to spawn a race of monsters to wipe out humanity and allow Dahak's coming upon earth. Dahak [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the former hero Gilgamesh to destroy the world, with the latter killing Hercules's companion Iolaus. Dahak then tries to trick Hercules into damning Iolaus's soul while preparing to arrive upon Earth and enact his schemes of eternal chaos.
[[AC:Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys]]
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E12TheGauntlet The Gauntlet]]" & "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E13UnchainedHeart Unchained Heart]]": Darphus is the former [[TheDragon second in command]] of Xena before her HeelFaceTurn. Darphus earns Xena's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disfavor]] by sacking innocent villages and slaughtering women and children [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. When Xena objects, Darphus stages a [[TheStarscream coup on her]] after trying to force her to murder a baby. When Xena survives the gauntlet to leave the army, Darphus tries to have her killed anyways. After being killed by Xena, Darphus is [[BackFromTheDead revived by Ares]] and carries on a brutal campaign of slaughter where he also has care of Ares's monstrous pet. Darphus feeds innocent victims to said monster and shows no hesitation in killing his own men as well just for displeasing him.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS3E9AStarToGuideThem A Star to Guide Them]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Maliphone]] is the ruler of Bethos along with her husband King Polonius. Wanting her own children to reign over Bethos, Maliphone helps to spearhead rounding up any child under a year old when she learns of a prophecy that Polonius's children will be displaced. Summoning monsters from Hera and testing their power by having them kill her own guards, Maliphone eventually decides to simply have [[WouldHurtAChild every baby in the kingdom murdered]] just to ensure that the prophesied child is absolutely eliminated.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E7ProdigalSister Prodigal Sister]]": [[DarkActionGirl Mayam]] is the leader of a renegade band of Amazons that routinely terrorizes the countryside in Greece and massacres entire villages, except for the little girls she turns into her weapons. Most Amazons who did raids would go for minimal loss of life, and are appalled by Mayam's actions. She personally [[WouldHurtAChild blinds Ruun]]—just after killing his parents and kidnapping his sister who she turns into a mindless killing machine—who's only five years old. Fast forward years later, when most of the renegade Amazons have rejoined the Amazonian Nation, Mayam still leads raids which RapePillageAndBurn entire villages for fun. When confronted by Hercules, she laughs off that her actions will lead to an Amazon CivilWar which will be crushed by the outside world. And finally, when confronted on what she did to Ruun and his sister Siri after she is beaten by Hercules she flat out says "[[ItsAllAboutMe So what, I turned her into the greatest Amazonian Warrior!]]"
[[AC:Series/XenaWarriorPrincess]]
* TV series:
** [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
** "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
** "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
** "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
* [[ComicBook/XenaWarriorPrincess 2006]] Creator/DynamiteComics series: [[EverybodyHatesHades Anubis]], the Myth/{{Egyptian|Mythology}} God of the Dead, has designs on [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the entire planet for himself]]. Manipulating a [[DivineConflict conflict]] between the Egyptian and Greek pantheons, Anubis takes advantage of the chaos to usurp Hades by poisonous, god-suppressing snakes while he tortures Hades [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Amassing an army of the dead, Anubis plans to unleash them on the world, killing every living thing to add to the ranks of the dead while he swells in power till everything submits or dies.
* [[VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess Video Game]]: [[GodOfEvil Kalabrax]], the Goddess of Dark Sorcery, is expelled from Olympus because of her power-hungry nature and sadistic tendencies. Kalabrax intends to sacrifice Xena's companion, Gabrielle, in a ritual which will bring Kalabrax's strength to a whole new level, allowing her to conquer the realms of gods and mortals. Arranging for her worshipper, [[TheDragon King Valerian]], into bribing a band of pirates to massacre a village, Kalabrax had Valerian abduct Gabrielle for her while Xena is distracted fighting the pirates. After Xena rescues Gabrielle and attempts to uncover the truth, Kalabrax sics her legion of BrainwashedAndCrazy Amazonian cultists into attacking the heroes, forcing Xena and Gabrielle to kill most of them, before recapturing Gabrielle and having Xena [[DraggedOffToHell cast into Hell]]. With Xena's absence, Kalabrax then has her followers wipe out and capture entire villages to establish her dominance, and as Xena escapes Hell to confront Kalabrax one last time, she then takes on [[OneWingedAngel a demonic monstrous form]] and tries to trample over Xena.
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* [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
* "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
* "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
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* TV series:
** [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
* ** "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
* ** "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
* ** "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
** [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I am at your service, Lord Yodoshi." "You most certainly are. An eternity of playing the whore to service my appetite for souls."]]
->''"The one great evil is here. It's part of that creature that was with her. Oh, we've sensed him. Everyone on Olympus has. This... this force of darkness spells the end of all of us—gods and man alike."''
-->--'''Ares''' on '''Dahak''', ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E13ArmageddonNowPart1 Armageddon Now: Part 1]]"
[[Franchise/HercXenaverse A time long ago, a time of myth and legend, when the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering]]. The world cried out for heroes. These are [[CompleteMonster the worst]] that [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Hercules]], [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]], and their companions have ever faced, whether [[JerkassGods god]], [[TheConqueror warlord]], or [[EvilOverlord king]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:The entire Herc-Xenaverse]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Dahak]], lord of [[GodOfChaos chaos]] and [[GodOfEvil evil]], is a god who predates even the Titans themselves. Seeking to plunge the world into chaos to [[KillAllHumans destroy most of humanity]], Dahak is responsible for sowing evil through his cults and countless murders and cruelties. When the prophet Zarathustra refused to murder his family, Dahak killed them and cursed Zarathustra with immortality to never forget. Dahak rapes Xena's companion Gabrielle to beget the child Hope so he may use her to spawn a race of monsters to wipe out humanity and allow Dahak's coming upon earth. Dahak [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the former hero Gilgamesh to destroy the world, with the latter killing Hercules's companion Iolaus. Dahak then tries to trick Hercules into damning Iolaus's soul while preparing to arrive upon Earth and enact his schemes of eternal chaos.
[[AC:Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys]]
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E12TheGauntlet The Gauntlet]]" & "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E13UnchainedHeart Unchained Heart]]": Darphus is the former [[TheDragon second in command]] of Xena before her HeelFaceTurn. Darphus earns Xena's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disfavor]] by sacking innocent villages and slaughtering women and children [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. When Xena objects, Darphus stages a [[TheStarscream coup on her]] after trying to force her to murder a baby. When Xena survives the gauntlet to leave the army, Darphus tries to have her killed anyways. After being killed by Xena, Darphus is [[BackFromTheDead revived by Ares]] and carries on a brutal campaign of slaughter where he also has care of Ares's monstrous pet. Darphus feeds innocent victims to said monster and shows no hesitation in killing his own men as well just for displeasing him.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS3E9AStarToGuideThem A Star to Guide Them]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Maliphone]] is the ruler of Bethos along with her husband King Polonius. Wanting her own children to reign over Bethos, Maliphone helps to spearhead rounding up any child under a year old when she learns of a prophecy that Polonius's children will be displaced. Summoning monsters from Hera and testing their power by having them kill her own guards, Maliphone eventually decides to simply have [[WouldHurtAChild every baby in the kingdom murdered]] just to ensure that the prophesied child is absolutely eliminated.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E7ProdigalSister Prodigal Sister]]": [[DarkActionGirl Mayam]] is the leader of a renegade band of Amazons that routinely terrorizes the countryside in Greece and massacres entire villages, except for the little girls she turns into her weapons. Most Amazons who did raids would go for minimal loss of life, and are appalled by Mayam's actions. She personally [[WouldHurtAChild blinds Ruun]]--just after killing his parents and kidnapping his sister who she turns into a mindless killing machine--who's only five years old. Fast forward years later, when most of the renegade Amazons have rejoined the Amazonian Nation, Mayam still leads raids which RapePillageAndBurn entire villages for fun. When confronted by Hercules, she laughs off that her actions will lead to an Amazon CivilWar which will be crushed by the outside world. And finally, when confronted on what she did to Ruun and his sister Siri after she is beaten by Hercules she flat out says "[[ItsAllAboutMe So what, I turned her into the greatest Amazonian Warrior!]]"
[[AC:Series/XenaWarriorPrincess]]
* [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
* "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
* [[ComicBook/XenaWarriorPrincess 2006]] Creator/DynamiteComics series: [[EverybodyHatesHades Anubis]], the [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian]] God of the Dead, has designs on [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the entire planet for himself]]. Manipulating a [[DivineConflict conflict]] between the Egyptian and Greek pantheons, Anubis takes advantage of the chaos to usurp Hades by poisonous, god-suppressing snakes while he tortures Hades [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Amassing an army of the dead, Anubis plans to unleash them on the world, killing every living thing to add to the ranks of the dead while he swells in power till everything submits or dies.
* [[VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess Video Game]]: [[GodOfEvil Kalabrax]], the Goddess of Dark Sorcery, is expelled from Olympus because of her power-hungry nature and sadistic tendencies. Kalabrax intends to sacrifice Xena's companion, Gabrielle, in a ritual which will bring Kalabrax's strength to a whole new level, allowing her to conquer the realms of gods and mortals. Arranging for her worshipper, [[TheDragon King Valerian]], into bribing a band of pirates to massacre a village, Kalabrax had Valerian abduct Gabrielle for her while Xena is distracted fighting the pirates. After Xena rescues Gabrielle and attempts to uncover the truth, Kalabrax sics her legion of BrainwashedAndCrazy Amazonian cultists into attacking the heroes, forcing Xena and Gabrielle to kill most of them, before recapturing Gabrielle and having Xena [[DraggedOffToHell cast into Hell]]. With Xena's absence, Kalabrax then has her followers wipe out and capture entire villages to establish her dominance, and as Xena escapes Hell to confront Kalabrax one last time, she then takes on [[OneWingedAngel a demonic monstrous form]] and tries to trample over Xena.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I am at your service, Lord Yodoshi." "You most certainly are. An eternity of playing the whore to service my appetite for souls."]]
->''"The one great evil is here. It's part of that creature that was with her. Oh, we've sensed him. Everyone on Olympus has. This... this force of darkness spells the end of all of us—gods and man alike."''
-->--'''Ares''' on '''Dahak''', ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E13ArmageddonNowPart1 Armageddon Now: Part 1]]"
[[Franchise/HercXenaverse A time long ago, a time of myth and legend, when the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering]]. The world cried out for heroes. These are [[CompleteMonster the worst]] that [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Hercules]], [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]], and their companions have ever faced, whether [[JerkassGods god]], [[TheConqueror warlord]], or [[EvilOverlord king]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:The entire Herc-Xenaverse]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Dahak]], lord of [[GodOfChaos chaos]] and [[GodOfEvil evil]], is a god who predates even the Titans themselves. Seeking to plunge the world into chaos to [[KillAllHumans destroy most of humanity]], Dahak is responsible for sowing evil through his cults and countless murders and cruelties. When the prophet Zarathustra refused to murder his family, Dahak killed them and cursed Zarathustra with immortality to never forget. Dahak rapes Xena's companion Gabrielle to beget the child Hope so he may use her to spawn a race of monsters to wipe out humanity and allow Dahak's coming upon earth. Dahak [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the former hero Gilgamesh to destroy the world, with the latter killing Hercules's companion Iolaus. Dahak then tries to trick Hercules into damning Iolaus's soul while preparing to arrive upon Earth and enact his schemes of eternal chaos.
[[AC:Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys]]
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E12TheGauntlet The Gauntlet]]" & "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E13UnchainedHeart Unchained Heart]]": Darphus is the former [[TheDragon second in command]] of Xena before her HeelFaceTurn. Darphus earns Xena's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disfavor]] by sacking innocent villages and slaughtering women and children [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. When Xena objects, Darphus stages a [[TheStarscream coup on her]] after trying to force her to murder a baby. When Xena survives the gauntlet to leave the army, Darphus tries to have her killed anyways. After being killed by Xena, Darphus is [[BackFromTheDead revived by Ares]] and carries on a brutal campaign of slaughter where he also has care of Ares's monstrous pet. Darphus feeds innocent victims to said monster and shows no hesitation in killing his own men as well just for displeasing him.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS3E9AStarToGuideThem A Star to Guide Them]]": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Maliphone]] is the ruler of Bethos along with her husband King Polonius. Wanting her own children to reign over Bethos, Maliphone helps to spearhead rounding up any child under a year old when she learns of a prophecy that Polonius's children will be displaced. Summoning monsters from Hera and testing their power by having them kill her own guards, Maliphone eventually decides to simply have [[WouldHurtAChild every baby in the kingdom murdered]] just to ensure that the prophesied child is absolutely eliminated.
* "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS4E7ProdigalSister Prodigal Sister]]": [[DarkActionGirl Mayam]] is the leader of a renegade band of Amazons that routinely terrorizes the countryside in Greece and massacres entire villages, except for the little girls she turns into her weapons. Most Amazons who did raids would go for minimal loss of life, and are appalled by Mayam's actions. She personally [[WouldHurtAChild blinds Ruun]]--just after killing his parents and kidnapping his sister who she turns into a mindless killing machine--who's only five years old. Fast forward years later, when most of the renegade Amazons have rejoined the Amazonian Nation, Mayam still leads raids which RapePillageAndBurn entire villages for fun. When confronted by Hercules, she laughs off that her actions will lead to an Amazon CivilWar which will be crushed by the outside world. And finally, when confronted on what she did to Ruun and his sister Siri after she is beaten by Hercules she flat out says "[[ItsAllAboutMe So what, I turned her into the greatest Amazonian Warrior!]]"
[[AC:Series/XenaWarriorPrincess]]
* [[AntagonisticOffspring Ming Tien]], debuting in "The Debt" [[Recap/XenaS03E06TheDebtPartI two]]-[[Recap/XenaS03E07TheDebtPartII parter]], is the son of Ming Tzu, who grew up despising his "weak" father after the latter's assassination at the hands of Xena. Ming Tien grows up to be a cruel tyrant who personally tortured his own mother Lao Ma to death to take the throne, sadistically gloating to Xena how she refused to fight back against her own son the entire time even as Ming tore out her still-warm heart. [[Recap/XenaS03E12TheBitterSuite After his demise]], Ming's spirit is kept intact through the power of sheer hatred and [[Recap/XenaS05E07BackInTheBottle attempts to burn all of Chin to the ground with black powder]] in revenge.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E02TheHauntingOfAmphipolis The Haunting Of Amphipolis]]": {{Mephistopheles}} is the first true ruler of Hell. A depraved demon who subjects every being in his realm to [[AndIMustScream an eternity]] of [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible torture]], Mephistopheles masterminded the death of Xena's mother and seeks to take over the Earth to turn it into a brand new hell. Attempting to trick Xena with [[MindRape horrific mental torments]], Mephistopheles plans to break the [[{{Hellgate}} barrier]] by having Xena kill her own innocent baby to unleash him upon the world.
* "[[Recap/XenaS06E04WhosGurkhan Who's Gurkhan?]]": Gurkhan TheMagnificent is the mysterious warlord responsible for the death of Gabrielle's parents in order to get at their other daughter, Sarah. Gurkhan regularly [[RapePillageAndBurn loots villages]] for would-be wives, [[{{Polyamory}} marrying women by the dozens]] while having any who fail to please him [[DomesticAbuse beaten to a bloody pulp]] and left in the dungeons to die. Not even longtime loyalty guarantees Gurkhan's favor, as Gurkhan orders Sarah murdered and her head put up on a platter on a whim after Sarah spent years clawing her way into Gurkhan's graces.
* "A Friend in Need" [[Recap/XenaS06E21AFriendInNeedPart1 two]]-[[Recap/XenaS06E22AFriendInNeedPart2 part]] SeriesFinale: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yodoshi]] was a Japanese warlord in life who, after being slain by his own daughter Akemi after he murdered every other member of his family, was rejected from the underworld for being too evil. Yodoshi [[SoulEating feasts upon the souls]] of anyone he comes across, in one case devouring all 40,000 lives of a town Xena accidentally destroyed, keeping them [[AndIMustScream enslaved and in perpetual torment]] within him. Yodoshi even devours the soul of Akemi in the final battle, and promises Xena that he'll personally tear Gabrielle's head off her shoulders after he's done devouring Xena's soul.
* [[ComicBook/XenaWarriorPrincess 2006]] Creator/DynamiteComics series: [[EverybodyHatesHades Anubis]], the [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian]] God of the Dead, has designs on [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the entire planet for himself]]. Manipulating a [[DivineConflict conflict]] between the Egyptian and Greek pantheons, Anubis takes advantage of the chaos to usurp Hades by poisonous, god-suppressing snakes while he tortures Hades [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Amassing an army of the dead, Anubis plans to unleash them on the world, killing every living thing to add to the ranks of the dead while he swells in power till everything submits or dies.
* [[VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess Video Game]]: [[GodOfEvil Kalabrax]], the Goddess of Dark Sorcery, is expelled from Olympus because of her power-hungry nature and sadistic tendencies. Kalabrax intends to sacrifice Xena's companion, Gabrielle, in a ritual which will bring Kalabrax's strength to a whole new level, allowing her to conquer the realms of gods and mortals. Arranging for her worshipper, [[TheDragon King Valerian]], into bribing a band of pirates to massacre a village, Kalabrax had Valerian abduct Gabrielle for her while Xena is distracted fighting the pirates. After Xena rescues Gabrielle and attempts to uncover the truth, Kalabrax sics her legion of BrainwashedAndCrazy Amazonian cultists into attacking the heroes, forcing Xena and Gabrielle to kill most of them, before recapturing Gabrielle and having Xena [[DraggedOffToHell cast into Hell]]. With Xena's absence, Kalabrax then has her followers wipe out and capture entire villages to establish her dominance, and as Xena escapes Hell to confront Kalabrax one last time, she then takes on [[OneWingedAngel a demonic monstrous form]] and tries to trample over Xena.
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