History Tropers / Ordeaux26

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!!Franchises I Often Edit
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''
* ''Franchise/{{Injustice}}''
* ''Franchise/{{Tangled}}''

!!Favourite Tropes
* CompleteMonster
* TokenEvilTeammate
* TokenGoodTeammate

!!Work Pages I Created
* ''Literature/ACaseInBucksville''
* ''Franchise/{{Tangled}}''
* ''Fanfic/MortalKombatVsTheOwlHouse'' (I wrote this)
* ''Literature/ThreeHundredThirtyHours''
* ''Literature/ThreeHundredThirtyHoursRevolution''
* ''Literature/{{Looperverse}}''
* ''Webcomic/InjusticeYearZero''
* ''Fanfic/MiraculousUncertainFuture''
* ''VideoGame/PokemonNightmareInvasion''
* ''Franchise/{{Berserk}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsBattleOfTheRealms''
* ''WesternAnimation/Injustice2021''
* ''VideoGame/TheDoomsdayCrisisLine''
* ''VideoGame/MaxSteelCovertMissions''
* ''Fanfic/SwearNotByTheMoon''
* ''Fanfic/PokemonTheLostChild'' (I wrote this)
* ''Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar''
* ''ComicBook/ChildsPlayInnovation''
* ''Fanfic/AMagicalEvening''
* ''Webcomic/ItsNotYourFault''
* ''Fanfic/{{Heroverse}}''
* ''Fanfic/AceSavvyANewHope''
* ''Fanfic/PowerChordHighSchoolMusical''
* ''Fanfic/NovaHomecoming''
* ''Literature/PostMortem2022''
* ''Literature/ProjectA75''
* ''Franchise/JackReacher''
* ''Fanfic/TomboyBlues''
* ''Franchise/CriticalRole''
* ''Fanfic/WingsOfTheFallen''
* Creator/JaviSuzumiya
* ''Fanfic/MarioAndLuigiDarkestTimeline''
* ''Fanfic/MarioFansWhatIf''
* ''Franchise/TheHardyBoys''
* ''VideoGame/ElectionYearKnockout''
* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsSnowBlind''

!!Just For Fun [=DreamWorks=] Pages
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[[AC:Animated Films]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'': [[BigBad General Mandible]] is a megalomaniac ant soldier [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain who views worker ants as inferior vermin and soldiers as superior]]. He manipulates the Queen into rejecting peace negotiations with a hostile colony of Termites and [[UriahGambit sends all the soldiers loyal to her on a suicide mission]] to attack the Termites and secure his power. Both sides are destroyed in the fight except for a single ant named Z, which irritates him to no end. He engineers a new dig for the miners so they will hit a water source that will drown every ant in the colony including the Queen, except for his small faction of army loyalists who will be blindly obedient to him. He tortures Z's best friend Weaver to find Princess Bala after Z took her away, threatens to kill Weaver's girlfriend if he doesn't comply, then [[ILied orders Z killed seconds after he promised not to do so]] and arranges Weaver's death as well. To start his new ideal colony he plans to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force Princess Bala to marry him]] after he has killed her mother and everyone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': [[KnightTemplar Tzekel-Kan]] is a [[TheFundamentalist fanatical]] and [[SinisterMinister sadistic priest]] of El Dorado's religion. He specializes in HumanSacrifice, and when Miguel and Tulio arrive to his city, he believes that they are gods and tries to impress them by attempting to sacrifice an innocent citizen. Later, he comes out with the plan to "purify" the city of the unbelievers. He organizes the game between Miguel and Tulio, against a few citizens of El Dorado. When the citizens lose the game, Tzekel-Kan wants to sacrifice them before finding out that Miguel and Tulio are not gods. After that, Kan brings a statue of the Jaguar to life--in the process sacrificing his loyal servant--that destroys half the city. When this fails to kill Tulio and Miguel, Tzekel-Kan attempts to set a genocidal UsefulNotes/HernanCortez on his own people. Fanatical and sadistic, Tzekel-Kan embodies every negative stereotype Europeans had about the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.
* ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' franchise (includes actions in ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Race to the Edge]]'' & the video game ''Dawn of New Riders''):
** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'': [[Characters/HowToTrainYourDragonFilmsDragoBludvistsArmy Drago Bludvist]], a "[[AxCrazy madman without conscience or mercy]]", is a warlord seeking to use an Alpha he abused into loyalty to enslave as many dragons--and people--as he can. When the chieftains of various Viking tribes laughed off his ability to command dragons, Drago had his dragons [[ManOnFire burn them all alive]], leaving only [[Characters/HowToTrainYourDragonFilmsHiccupHorrendousHaddockIII Hiccup]]'s father Stoick to tell the tale. Years later, Drago forcibly enslaves all the dragons being kept in a safe haven by Valka by killing their Alpha, before promptly hypnotizing Hiccup's own dragon Toothless into firing upon him. When Hiccup's father Stoick [[HeroicSacrifice takes the blow instead]], Drago glances back in pleasure before commanding all his enslaved dragons to ravage Berk. In other instances, Drago orders failing minions such as Krogan and Eret [[BadBoss executed for flimsy reasons]]; assassinated the noble King Stormheart and left his daughters orphans; and burned down the village of a group of pacifistic farmers who refused to join him. Drago acknowledges his thirst for power [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist comes out of its own sake]] rather than a desire to avenge his fallen family, and is ultimately one of the few villains Hiccup was never able to reason with.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld The Hidden World]]'': [[FantasticRacism Grimmel the Grisly]] is a tenacious, ruthlessly pragmatic dragon hunter and the one responsible for the near-eradication of the Night Fury species. Described as a single-minded predator who adores getting under the skin of his prey and [[TheChessmaster pulling their strings]], Grimmel stops at nothing to finish off Toothless to complete his [[FinalSolution genocide]], and threatens to kill everyone Hiccup loves and scourge his island of Berk should he resist him. Grimmel tries to cow Toothless to his control by luring him in with the female of his species, the Light Fury, then threatens the Light Fury's life to force Toothless to corral all of Berk's dragons so Grimmel can butcher them and sell them all off. Grimmel has no qualms torturing and drugging dragons to force them to his control, keeping his six Deathgrippers loyal by subjecting them to their own venom and feeding them baby dragons. Grimmel briefly allies with the would-be warlord Eir Stormheart, provided her dozens of dragons to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on]] and bind to armor that [[AndIMustScream kept them in states of constant agony and insanity]], before backstabbing her and absconding with her research to create dragon shock soldiers of his own.

[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'':
** ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness Legends of Awesomeness]]'''s "Enter the Dragon": [[TheDreaded Ke-Pa]] is an ancient [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] who terrorized the Valley of Peace with his army of demons, driving out or killing the citizens. After his army was sealed away by Oogway, Ke-Pa spent decades waiting for the peach tree that his powers are bound by dies, then, with his power returned, transformed into a [[DragonsAreDemonic dragon]] and lay siege to the Valley of Peace, threatening to eat the citizens one by one. Capturing and torturing Shifu under the belief that he has the Hero's Chi, Ke-Pa tries to crush the Hero's Chi out of him to free his demon army, before doing the same to [[Characters/KungFuPandaMasterPoPing Po]] and [[HeroKiller succeeding]]. Once his demons are unleashed, Ke-Pa orders them to kill everything in the Valley of Peace, bragging that he will destroy all mortals on the planet and reign supreme.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny The Paws of Destiny]]'': [[LightIsNotGood The Voice in the Shadows]], aka Baigujing, aka the White Bone Demon, once roamed the land [[SoulEating devouring souls]] of entire villages and leaving dolls behind to mark her crimes. When sealed away by [[ArchEnemy Sun Wukong]], the White Bone Demon eventually contacts Shi Long, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] the young girl into being her slave and using her to assassinate the Emperor, Shi Long's own adoptive father. Having Shi Long steal the Wellspring for her, the White Bone Demon's plans lead to a drought plaguing China, and Shi Long destroys entire villages to serve the White Bone Demon. The White Bone Demon's spirit inhabits a HumongousMecha with Shi Long's help in the finale, betraying Shi Long and eating her alive before viciously trying to kill Po, his students the Four Constellations, and all of their friends before bringing an age of darkness onto China.
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Sendak]] of the [[Characters/VoltronLegendaryDefenderGalraEmpire Galra Empire]] becomes the leader of his own Galra splinter faction, the Fires of Purification, after the downfall of Zarkon. Later locating Earth, Sendak kills the soldiers sent against him and begins bombing and razing cities until the world surrenders to him, whereupon the citizens are enslaved and forced into work camps to create new weapons. Obsessed with finding Voltron and punishing the Lions' Paladins, Sendak makes a deal to spare Earth in exchange for the Lions, only to [[ILied double back on it]], and [[ForcedToWatch forcing]] the Paladins and the treacherous Admiral Sanda to watch as he intends to exterminate Earth and the billions who live there. When Voltron finally arrives to oppose him, Sendak ruthlessly kills entire ships full of his own men to get at the Paladins, and refuses to let any of his own crew get to safety, consumed with his own {{ambition|IsEvil}} and spite and taking the worst excesses of Galra to their natural conclusion.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'': [[OmnicidalManiac The Bloodwolf]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient being of fear that existed before time itself begin]], once attempted to destroy the entire world before being sealed away by a wizard named Sino in the Netherworld. Upon being released by Uli, the Bloodwolf [[UngratefulBastard shows no gratitude]] and tossed him aside while coldly stating that he'll destroy him and the whole town of San Lorenzo. The Bloodwolf later [[IKnowWhatYouFear tortures the whole town with their greatest fear]] so that he could wait for the Blood Moon where he would reach his full power, so he could continue his quest to bring about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the complete destruction of the world]].
* ''Franchise/TalesOfArcadia'':
** ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow'': [[BigBad General Val Morando]], the exiled leader of the Talyon Phalanx, is an inveterate [[ManipulativeBastard user of disposable pawns]] who fancies himself a GalacticConqueror. [[Recap/ThreeBelowS1E1TerraIncognitaPartOne In the premiere]], Morando [[TheUsurper seizes the throne]] by launching a destructive coup on Akiridion-5, oppressing the populace, with their resistance punished with death. Morando manipulates the royals' protector, Varvatos Vex, by having a civilian satellite destroyed to kill Vex's family and hundreds of innocents with them, using it to turn him against the royals and gleefully pledging to [[ForcedToWatch make him watch]] as he kills his new family when Vex realizes he's been played. Throughout the series, Morando attempts to torture one of the heroes' allies into becoming his new general; [[BadBoss murders]] his failed minions and bounty hunters for reasons as petty as delivering him bad news; falsely promises the bigoted Colonel Kubritz a world without aliens, before killing her when she disobeys him; lobs a meteorite at Earth merely to disguise his own arrival upon it; and, after slaughtering his way through swathes of the royals' allies, integrates himself with the core of Gaylen to make himself a virtual god, intent on destroying and [[InTheirOwnImage reshaping the universe]] to give it the "order" he so craves.
** ''{{WesternAnimation/Wizards|2020}}'' & ''WesternAnimation/TrollhuntersRiseOfTheTitans'':
*** [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Bellroc, Keeper of the Flame]], is the master of the Arcane Order and one of the primordial demigods who shaped the universe. Discontent with humanity and their corruption of their order, Bellroc grew blind to the damage they inflicted upon the world, simply deciding to [[KillAllHumans destroy it and start over]]. Bellroc mortally wounds Myth/KingArthur to fully corrupt Morgana le Fay and see her overrun and annihilate humanity, attempting to awaken the Titans by forcing the one repenting member of the Order, Nari, to assist despite her will. Bellroc proceeds to awaken the Titans and lead an attempt to uncover the Heartstone at Arcadia Bay, intending to destroy all that lives according to their own ego.
*** [[AxCrazy Skrael of the North Wind]] is Bellroc's subordinate and partner in the Order, being perhaps the most viciously sadistic of the trio. Forsaking his own vow of neutrality, Skrael happily joins the fight to kill many humans with intent to completely exterminate them. In between battles, Skrael [[TortureTechnician enjoys torturing his captives]], as he viciously does to Steve, later showing a similar glee in hurting Nari as well before forcing her to attempt to awaken the Titans and unmake all in existence.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Horde Prime]], true ruler of [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerTheHorde the Horde]], is an ancient being who exists by stealing the bodies of his clones who he breeds to be mindlessly loyal drones, any hint of individuality or imperfection resulting in erasure. Having exterminated countless worlds in the name of order, Prime is only swayed from destroying Etheria by the realization he can use it as a weapon, sending his discarded "brother" [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerHordak Hordak]] to have his identity erased. Later brainwashing [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerCatra Catra]], Horde Prime tries to force Catra's suicide before [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerAdora Adora]] when she resists, using those he controls as weapons against their loved ones. Seeking to activate the Heart, Prime launches attacks on Etheria with threats to destroy the world, ending by trying to have Hordak himself kill his beloved Entrapta when she tries to warn him of the consequences. Finally activating the Heart, Horde Prime gleefully attempts to annihilate the entire universe as the ultimate culmination of order and his twisted ego.
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': [[BigBad Dr. Emilia]] is the finest and most steadfast proponent of FantasticRacism in a series that otherwise emphasizes the importance of reaching out to people. Years ago, Emilia [[CainAndAbel murdered her own brother Liam]] for reaching out to the surface-dwelling Mutes and used his death as an act of propaganda to further her eventual designs of Mute eradication. Emilia helped shape the misanthropic views of Scarlemagne with her cruel experiments on him when he was still Hugo, and used her former colleague Song as a brainwashed weapon for years on end after Song became a Mega Mute, kicking off the series by coldly ordering Song to murder her own child Kipo and devastate her people's burrow in the process. In the third season, Dr. Emilia invents a cure that forces a permanent DeathOfPersonality on the uplifted Mutes, using it to devastating effect on several of Kipo's allies as well as the remaining members of Wolf's old Mute family. Emilia consistently rejects and suppresses every single attempt to better herself to the end of the series, attempting to kill human and Mute alike when the two sides reconcile and trying to kill Kipo [[UngratefulBitch after the latter saves Emilia]] from a FateWorseThanDeath.

[[AC:Live-Action Films]]
* ''Film/ThePeacemaker'': While [[RenegadeRussian General Aleksandr Kodoroff]] may merely be the courier to [[BigBad Dušan Gavrić]]'s plot to nuke the UN headquarters in New York, he totally lacks his employer's [[AntiVillain conscience]] and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loved ones]]. To procure Gavrić's nukes, Kodoroff has his men massacre a train full of soldiers carrying a shipment of bombs, leaving one on the train that Kodoroff subsequently rerails into the direction of a passenger train. The ensuing collision and nuclear blast kills thousands, something that unsettles one of his men and prompts Kodoroff to execute him on the spot. Kodoroff later slaughters dozens more at a Russian checkpoint en route to Gavrić simply out of impatience. Kodoroff's only concern through all this is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney lining his own pockets]], expressing disgust at a line of refugees simply for being poor.
* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': [[BigBad General Roth'h'ar Sarris]] is a vile galactic warlord who seeks a powerful, mysterious device known as the Omega 13. Sarris launches a genocidal war against the peaceful Thermians, wiping out a massive chunk of their populace whilst subjecting many to inhumane fates of slavery and torture--torturing one of their commanders for days on end and only killing her when he "grew weary of the noises" she made--while [[BadBoss killing even his own men]] for failure. Sarris takes a perverse glee in forcing the crew of ''Galaxy Quest'' to reveal to the Thermian leader Malthasar that they're just actors [[KickTheDog in order to completely break his spirit]]. After this, Sarris tries to throw the cast of ''Galaxy Quest'' out of an airlock, and failing this, attempts to suffocate the remaining Thermians to death while throwing away his remaining men, personally massacring his way through every last obstacle between him and the Omega 13 before he's finally stopped. Sarris is [[VileVillainSaccharineShow played utterly straight in naked contrast to everything else in the film]], possessed of no humorous or likable traits to detract from his atrocities.
* ''Film/TheIsland'': [[MadScientist Dr. Bernard Merrick]] is at first [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming and helpful]]. He has the clones under his care dissected alive when he views the need as arising, and lies by telling them they'll be sent to the mysterious "Island", while lying to the clones' original source by claiming the clones are brain dead and are not living, sapient beings. When one clone's original donor is already dead, Merrick spitefully plans to have her harvested anyways, and tries to kill any clone that resists him. Drunk on his own genius and power, Merrick seems to view himself as some sort of [[AGodAmI twisted messiah]].
* ''Film/RedEye'': Jackson Rippner is an unscrupulous contractor who [[PsychoForHire hires himself out]] to terrorist networks to assist in toppling governments and [[ProfessionalKiller high-profile assassinations]]. He uses [[ManipulativeBastard his skills of manipulation]] instead of weapons because he's much better at it. His latest target is a renowned US official, whom he plans to blow up along with his wife and children because his bosses wanted to send a message. He needs Lisa, a Miami hotel manager, to change the official's room on her authority to make the kills possible. He stalks Lisa for weeks to learn everything about her, then arranges to be on the same red eye flight with her and gain her confidence initially. He threatens to have his associate kill her retired father if she doesn't make the call, torturing her mentally and assaulting her. When she foils his plan, he goes to kill her father anyway instead of escape to make good on his threat, and tries to murder Lisa. On top of that, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain he's also a misogynist]], and casually notes [[SelfMadeOrphan he killed his own parents]] when asked about the subject.
* ''Film/{{Disturbia}}'': [[BigBad Robert Turner]] is a SerialKiller who moved into a suburban neighborhood to evade capture after killing several people in Austin, Texas. He builds a multi-layer TortureCellar and killing lair underneath his house, with decaying corpses piled up all over the place. He seduces several women and invites them to his home before killing them, cutting up their bodies and disposing of them in garbage bags. When the teenage Kale Brecht discovers his true nature, he kidnaps and arranges to kill the boy's mother Julie and [[FrameUp frame him]] for both that and the planned death of his best friend Ronnie. Turner also taunts Kale about the motivation being for believing his mother blamed him for his father's death in a car accident and forces him to write his own suicide note too. Turner further threatens Kale's love interest Ashley Carson both when she's stalking him and when she shows up to help Kale escape, and [[CopKiller kills Officer Gutierrez]], who arrives on the scene, by breaking his neck.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The corrupt [[HangingJudge Judge Turpin]], who runs a KangarooCourt in Victorian London, begins Sweeney's StartOfDarkness when, lusting after the then-younger barber's wife, Turpin has him imprisoned on a penal colony for decades of hard labor so he can seduce his wife. When she refuses, Turpin has her lured to his home under pretense of offering to free her husband--but rapes her instead, and steals her daughter as his ward. Turpin guards her jealously, having a younger sailor brutally beaten for looking at her and plans to [[WifeHusbandry marry her himself]]. When she refuses and tries to run away he sends her to an asylum where he knows she'll be mistreated. In the film, [[WouldHurtAChild Turpin sentences a little boy to death by hanging]]--and then asks his sidekick, the Beadle Bamford, if the boy was even guilty of anything.
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': The Fallen, also known as [[SatanicArchetype Megatronus Prime]], is this film's BigBad and the film universe's first Decepticon. Originally one of the 7 members of the Dynasty of Primes, The Fallen betrayed his brothers and attempted to use the Star Harvester on Earth's Sun regardless of the Dynasty's code against taking life, solely because of his FantasticRacism towards primitive humankind. Eons after his defeat, The Fallen corrupts Megatron, creates the Decepticons, and orders him to find the All Spark, [[GreaterScopeVillain making him responsible]] for the events of the first film. After he lures Optimus Prime to his death using Sam as bait, The Fallen sank an aircraft carrier, attacked several human cities, and slaughtered a sizable military force while acquiring the Matrix of Leadership to activate the Star Harvester again, fully intending to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the human race]].
* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'': {{The film|of the book}} version of [[WouldHitAGirl George Harvey]] is an antisocial loner as well as a depraved SerialKiller, whose victims are female and preferably [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. At the beginning, Harvey lures and murders Susie Salmon, after which he decided to continue kidnapping and killing until it becomes a habit. Harvey later tries to kill Susie's sister Lindsey after [[HeKnowsTooMuch she obtains evidence proving his guilt]]. While watching from Heaven, Susie sees that over the years, Harvey murdered several other girls, including his landlady and a six-year-old. Moments before his death, Harvey attempts to lure another victim to her death.
* ''Film/FrightNight2011'': [[BigBad Jerry Dandridge]] stands in stark contrast to the [[Film/FrightNight1985 original]] film's [[AffablyEvil charming and likable monster]]. The film opens with Jerry having slaughtered a family, including the teenage son, out of suspicion the boy was spying on him. Jerry reveals himself as a savage predator who kidnaps and feeds on people, keeping them locked up in his private [[CannibalLarder larder]]. When Charlie Brewster tries to rescue a woman Jerry held hostage, Jerry had been toying with them both and had already turned her, letting her die in the sunlight solely to mess with Charlie. He's more than happy to tear the throats out of innocent bystanders and turns Charlie's girlfriend into a vampire in front of a helpless Charlie, and later mocks him as he makes out with her. While Dandridge in the original held a certain elegance, the remake's version is nothing more than a savage, sadistic predator.
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[[folder:MagnificentBastard/DreamWorks]]
[[AC:Animated Films]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': {{God}}, having heard His people's cries for deliverance from their horrid slavery in Egypt, comes to Moses in the form of a burning bush with the man's own voice to turn him into God's emissary to Egypt. Using Moses to plead with Pharaoh Rameses for the freedom of the Hebrews, God responds to Pharaoh's refusal by [[PayEvilUntoEvil sending the Plagues upon Egypt]], increasing in their severity until God takes the life of every [[WouldHurtAChild firstborn]] in the land, punishment for Pharaoh threatening infanticide on the Hebrews. When Pharaoh releases the Hebrews only to go back on his word and try to wipe them out, God parts the Red Sea to give the Hebrews an escape, then lures Pharaoh's armies into the same path to wipe them all out, saving the Hebrews for good and paying Pharaoh back for his genocidal intentions.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'': [[ColonelBadass The Colonel]] of the U.S. Army leads the Calvary into the western frontier with the desire to move it forward in advancement. Capturing and having wild horses trained by the soldiers to be used for battle, the Colonel is enraged by Spirit's unfettered refusal to be broken and [[VillainousValor takes special interest]] in getting his men to do so while then attempting and nearly succeeding in doing it himself. The Colonel also leads a charge against the Lakota tribe that Native American Little Creek is part of, having previously detained Little Creek for theft and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking nearly kills Little Creek and his horse Rain]] in the chaos. Pursuing Spirit and Little Creek one final time until they escape across a gap between cliffs while also deducing their location based on the trail, the Colonel ultimately [[WorthyOpponent stops him men from shooting Spirit]] and then concedes defeat while giving Spirit an [[GracefulLoser impressed and honorable nod]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'': Eris, Goddess of Discord, steals the Book of Peace from the kingdom of Syracuse and frames Sinbad for the theft, causing his friend Prince Proteus to take his place on deaths row to allow Sinbad to retrieve the book. Eris sends numerous obstacles Sinbad's way that he and his crew only narrowly survive, before eventually revealing that she had stolen the book as part of a ploy to maneuver Proteus into Sinbad's place at execution, leaving Syracuse without an heir and causing the kingdom to fall to ruin. She tears Sinbad down and breaks him to the point that he truly believes her perception of him as a black-hearted liar is correct, and when Sinbad proves his heroism by going back to Syracuse to take Proteus' place, Eris stays true to her word and returns the book to him.
* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'': [[OldMaster Master Oogway]] is a [[WiseOldTurtle wise old tortoise]] who founded the Jade Palace and current Furious Five for the purpose of protecting the Valley of Peace. Having turned from his conquering ways of the past following kindness he was shown, Oogway has trained Shifu and assembled the Furious Five from all corners of China, putting them through rigorous tests of physicality and character both to prove their worth. In the events of the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda first film]], Oogway chooses the seemingly useless, untrainable [[Characters/KungFuPandaMasterPoPing Po]] to be the new Dragon Warrior, seeing a spark of potential in the panda that proves correct when Po defeats the powerful Tai Lung and becomes the new protector of the Valley of Peace. Oogway's choosing of Po is shown to be even more brilliant in the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3 third film]], in which it is revealed Oogway orchestrated Po reuniting with his supposedly dead panda tribe so he could learn Chi and stop Oogway's old rival Kai when he inevitably returned.

[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender''
** [[TheEvilPrince Prince Lotor]] is the handsome, charismatic son of Zarkon and Honerva. Returning when his father is incapacitated, Lotor uses his charisma to win the [[Characters/VoltronLegendaryDefenderGalraEmpire Galra]] to his side and proves a deadly enemy of [[Characters/VoltronLegendaryDefenderTeamVoltron Voltron]] with his brilliance. Even when Zarkon awakens, Lotor changes gears to ally with Voltron, eventually killing his father and becoming the new head of Galra. Manipulating the Paladins, it is eventually revealed Lotor has preserved the Altean race, albeit while harvesting some for their Quintessence, leading to a massive confrontation. Despite his evil actions, even Allura acknowledges Lotor's [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intent]] in the end, and he remains one of Voltron's most utterly brilliant and capable adversaries.
** [[LadyOfBlackMagic Honerva]], aka HighPriestess Haggar, is Prince Lotor's mother and the ruthlessly capable force [[TheManBehindTheMan behind Zarkon's throne]]. Nearly eliminating Voltron and all of her opponents in one fell swoop during one gambit, upon regaining her memories, Honerva ends up manipulating the entire Altean colony founded by Lotor into her pawns by using their belief of Lotor as a savior. Using them to assist her in opening up the path to reality itself, Honerva intends to find a reality where she is happy with her husband and son, deciding the rest can burn, before realizing her errors and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath having a chance to fix it at cost of her life]].
* ''Franchise/TalesOfArcadia'': Morgana, also known as the Pale Lady, Literature/BabaYaga, and by many more names, was a young student of Merlin who despaired at her brother Arthur's persecution of magical beings. [[StartOfDarkness Falling to darkness when Arthur died]], Morgana would manipulate legions over the ensuing centuries to advance her goals of [[TakeOverTheWorld world conquest]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}} having the troll Angor Rot sell his soul to her]] to use him as her assassin. Upon returning to life in ''[[WesternAnimation/Wizards2020 Wizards]]'', Morgana later repents and joins the heroes to help defeat the evil Arcane Order and the resurrected Arthur, giving her life to destroy him when she realizes he is beyond saving while reconciling with her mentor Merlin and following him into the afterlife.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': [[PsychoForHire Double Trouble]] is an amoral, cheerful mercenary who delights in chaos. Effortlessly tricking [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerCatra Catra]] as an "audition", Double Trouble infiltrates the Princess Alliance to weaken them, playing all they find against one another to weaken the alliance. Upon being caught, Double Trouble simply switches sides and sabotages [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerTheHorde the Horde]] to escape punishment, even delivering a bout of "tough love" to make Catra realize her toxic personality before leaving after they decide they have had enough sport.

[[AC:Live-Action Films]]
* ''Film/ThePeacemaker'': Dušan Gavrić, a "[[FromNobodyToNightmare human man]]" who eschews the usual stereotypes of the MiddleEasternTerrorists in the action genre, is a Serb who lost his entire family to [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars the Yugoslav Wars]] and turns to extremism to make his pain known. Disillusioned by the fragmentation of his people and proudly affirming himself as "a Serb, a Croat and a Muslim," Gavrić condemns the West for supplying the weapons with which the wars were fought and the continued dehumanization of his people. Gavrić orchestrates a complex scheme to procure a nuke with [[RenegadeRussian General Aleksandr Kodoroff]] as his disposable courier. Gavrić exploits the fact [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse he looks so inconspicuous]] to walk straight onto the UN headquarters in New York and plant the nuke in a backpack, and dies defiant to his murderers with his bomb intercepted mere seconds before the bomb can go off.
* ''Film/MouseHunt'': [[KillerRabbit The Mouse]] is a sentient, mischievous animal who has made his home in a dilapidated mansion which it fiercely defends against new arrivals. When the Smuntz brothers move in after inheriting it from their late father and discover it to potentially be worth millions, the Mouse [[ItCanThink repeatedly and effortlessly outwits the Smuntz's efforts to kill it]], even disposing of a psychotic cat and a seasoned exterminator whom it tortures into insanity. After the house is destroyed, it decides to make peace with the Smuntzes and helps them restore their father's string factory to produce cheese products.
* ''Film/SmallSoldiers'': [[MajorlyAwesome Major Chip Hazard]] is a charismatic, [[LargeHam hammy]] toy soldier brought to life by a rogue AI chip who [[GeneralRipper seeks to destroy the Gorgonites]]. Chip is a master at laying traps in order to capture or defeat the enemy and use various tactics such as using Allen's crush as a hostage to draw out the Gorgonites. Improvising weapons to knock out any adults or building new soldiers using his ingenuity, Chip constantly keeps the heroes on their toes as he comes very close to beating them on multiple occasions. Chip also has [[AFatherToHisMen empathy and genuine care for his men]] and swears revenge for their defeat, hijacking a new army to do just that. Finally, Chip lays siege to Alan's house using various tactics like cutting the power to ensure their opportunities to escape are curtailed and using loud music to avoid the neighbors hearing the siege and interfering.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'': Lamar Burgess is the director and founder of the [[PreCrimeArrest Precrime program]], which uses premonitions extracted from three telepathic humans to predict and prevent all murder within the Washington D.C. area. However, at the same time Burgess is cunning enough to have literally made a career out of faking out Precrime; first by disguising Anne Lively's murder as an "echo", then by disguising ''all three visions'' of Crow's death as brown balls by putting the plan in action while Anderton was at the office, ensuring that he would either be arrested immediately or run, so when Crow would be found with the OrgyOfEvidence that could lead Anderton to murder him, it looked planned by Anderton. When Federal Agent Danny Witwer catches on to him, Burgess promptly murders him, knowing that the system being deactivated will allow him to get away with it. The only thing Burgess couldn't see coming was Anderton figuring out everything in time to tell it all to his wife, even if he wasn't free to act on the information himself. However, even when his plot is exposed and faced with the impossible choice of either killing Anderton and going to prison or letting him live and discredit Precrime, Burgess manages to go out on his own terms by killing himself instead.
* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'': [[HitmanWithAHeart Michael Sullivan]] is a hitman in service of John Rooney. One of the most feared in the business who maintains a love for his family, Sullivan is betrayed by his boss's son Connor who sets him up for death and murders his wife Annie and son Peter. Alongside his surviving child Michael Jr., Sullivan goes on the run and seeks to erode the Rooney relationship with the Capones by targeting mob banks and stealing their money. Staying ahead of the Capones and Rooney killers alike, Sullivan eventually targets John Rooney directly, knowing his death will revoke Connor's protection permanently.
* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'': Frank Abagnale Jr. is a born ConMan whose first relatively harmless scheme involved impersonating his French teacher, fooling the entire school for weeks. His later criminal actions consist of acquiring millions of dollars by writing fraudulent checks, sending out fake letters, and posing as air plane pilots, doctors, and lawyers, all to live a lavish lifestyle spent in expensive hotels, throwing parties, and sleeping with numerous women he seduces, as well as a high-class prostitute whom he tricks into paying him for the night spent with her. When the FBI's Financial Crimes unit starts pursuing him, Frank cleverly manages to avoid capture numerous times, such as performing a BavarianFireDrill that convinces FBIAgent Carl Hanratty that Frank is a Secret Service agent, and in his most audacious scheme, smuggling himself through an airport filled with FBI agents by recruiting a group of good-looking stewardesses to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract the men supposed to be watching out for him]]. Although the law ultimately catches up with him, Frank is a LovableRogue who is so good at what he does that he's able to elude the authorities for years and all before he was even 21.
* ''Film/{{Collateral}}'': The enigmatic, philosophical "[[VillainProtagonist Vincent]]" is a ruthless yet suave ProfessionalKiller, tasked with eliminating witnesses to the crimes of drug lord Felix Reyes-Torrena. Bribing taxi driver Max Durocher to unwittingly assist him, Vincent has Max transport him while he murders his targets. [[AffablyEvil Genuinely affable]], Vincent respectfully listens to the story of a jazz club owner before offing him and visits Max's sick mother in the hospital, even bringing her flowers. Adapting when Max destroys the files on his targets, Vincent has Max retrieve a new copy from Felix, both keeping his anonymity and leading the police to mistakenly believe Max is him. Fatally wounded by Max while hunting his last target, Vincent chooses to [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly accept his fate]], giving Max some parting words before passing.
* ''Film/TheIsland'': [[PunchClockVillain Albert Laurent]] is a very intelligent and skilled mercenary hired by the revolting Dr. Bernard Merrick to retrieve escaped clones Lincoln Six-Echo and Jordan Two-Delta. Suspecting and realizing Merrick uses the clones to harvest organs, Laurent only takes the job for both [[OnlyInItForTheMoney the pay]] and being a ConsummateProfessional. Tracking Lincoln and Jordan through tech implanted on Lincoln and then to LA [[ScarilyCompetentTracker through use of a credit card]], Laurent and his people ambush a police convoy when the two are arrested and during an extended chase, death and destruction is chaotically caused. Killing sponsor Tom Lincoln thinking he's Lincoln, Laurent also recaptures Jordan so that her dying sponsor Sarah Jordan can be saved—only for Merrick to say she can't be saved and plan to harvest Jordan anyway. Having as a child suffered the same treatment the clones are enduring, Laurent [[HeelFaceTurn defies Merrick]] by helping Lincoln and Jordan to set all the clones free and make sure Merrick's business is finally brought down in the end.
* ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'': General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is an experienced officer in the Imperial Japanese Army who firmly believes in the principle of MyCountryRightOrWrong. As a worldly OfficerAndAGentleman who unlike many of his colleagues has actually visited the United States, Kuribayashi is firmly aware of the awesome American industrial and military strength and consigns himself to defending the island of Iwo Jima in a LastStand. Kuribayashi's defensive tactics by utilizing Mount Suribachi's cave network and forbidding his soldiers from killing themselves or engaging in suicide attacks ends up causing disproportionately high casualties among the invaders. Fatally wounded after Kuribayashi and his last men charge the Americans, he instructs a peasant soldier he befriended during the battle with hiding his body from the enemy. Despite fighting for a losing genocidal empire, Kuribayashi retains an astonishing sense of dignity and military cunning.
* ''Film/EagleEye'': The [[AIIsACrapshoot Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst]], more commonly known as [[MasterComputer ARIIA]], is an AI super computer who monitors for threats against America. When her insistence on calling off an attack on a possible target based on bad intel not only goes ignored but proves correct, ARIIA takes the terrorist attacks caused as a result as indication that America is a [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves threat to itself]] and that she must activate a hypothetical protocol called "Project Guillotine" to wipe out all 12 people in the line of succession so that Secretary of Defense [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure George Callister]], the only one who trusted her judgment, will lead the country in the right way. ARIIA also extorts and pulls the strings of both Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman to do everything she tells them while also manipulating electronic external factors all around them to help them escape and keep them in line and to also keep herself from being outsmarted too. ARIIA is shown to do this with [[GambitRoulette several others]] as part of her grand scheme as well and eventually nearly succeeds in said plan to have Rachel’s young son Sam manipulated into triggering a signal that will set off a highly explosive crystal to take out the necessary targets.
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[[IntrepidReporter Karel "Carl" Kolchak]] has faced [[Characters/KolchakTheNightStalkerVillains numerous unpleasant characters]], but [[CompleteMonster several]] stand out.

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* [[AxCrazy Janos Skorzeny]], the [[StarterVillain first true monster Kolchak ever faces]], is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] who utilizes his [[VampiresAreRich wealth]] and cunning to become a particularly vicious SerialKiller. Moving from place to place with many corpses behind him, Skorzeny's latest hunting ground is Las Vegas, where he proceeds to attack and murder multiple young women for their blood while being happy to kill whoever gets in his way.

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* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE1TheRipper The Ripper]]": UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself is a SerialKiller who is at first believed to be a [[JackTheRipoff Ripper copycat]], but is soon revealed to be something far more sinister. First seen butchering numerous women, mostly hookers and strippers, throughout Milwaukee and Chicago, the Ripper cannibalized his third victim in Chicago, carving out her kidneys to eat. Sending taunting letters of his crimes to the press, the Ripper arranges a meeting with a young reporter while claiming he won't kill anyone the night they would meet, however [[ILied he kills her anyway]]. After escaping police custody and brutalizing many officers and innocents who try to restrain him, the Ripper is revealed to be the actual Jack the Ripper, having spent the past decades traveling the world and always murdering 5 women in each location he terrorizes, having killed over 70 women over the years. Jack the Ripper was a mysterious figure whose crimes were never given justification beyond sheer sadism and hatred.
* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE7TheDevilsPlatform The Devil's Platform]]": [[CorruptPolitician Robert Palmer]] is a senator obsessed with gaining as much personal power as possible, and to this end, made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Prince of Darkness]] for supernatural abilities. Using these abilities, for which he pays for by regularly sacrificing animals and "higher forms of life", Palmer kills off all of his political opponents, with their wives and friends being casualties as well. When Palmer's campaign manager plans to reveal his crimes to the public, Palmer [[ElevatorFailure sends the elevator his manager is on plummeting to the ground]], killing him and the numerous other innocents onboard. A secretary, aware of Palmer's part in the elevator crash, tries to blackmail him into paying her to keep quiet about it, and Palmer responds by trying to maul her in his {{hellhound}} form; when she survives and is sent to the hospital, Palmer pursues and [[SickbedSlaying kills her in her weakened state]]. After murdering another of his opponents in a car crash, Palmer tries to manipulate Kolchak into signing his soul over to Palmer, and wastes no time in trying to butcher Kolchak when he refuses. [[SmugSnake Smug]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]], Robert Palmer stood out even to Kolchak as one of the most wicked villains he ever faced.
* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE8BadMedicine Bad Medicine]]": [[RealityWarper The Diablero]] was a [[WasOnceAMan native shaman]] cursed for his {{greed}} to seek out treasure. Now an [[HumanoidAbomination undead monster]], the Diablero has stalked treasures through history, killing anyone who gets in his way. Slaughtering numerous victims in Chicago for priceless valuables, the Diablero murders numerous people before trying to make Kolchak the 13th victim.
* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE19TheYouthKiller The Youth Killer]]": [[UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar Helen of Troy]], alias Helen Surtees, has the longest HistoricalRapSheet in the series. A beautiful demigoddess who made a deal with the powerful goddess Hecate for [[ImmortalityImmorality eternal life]], Helen is required to drain the life out of physically perfect individuals on a regular basis to retain her youth, a process that inevitably kills her victims, something sadist she takes pleasure from. Having lived for hundreds of years, Helen uses a computer dating service in the present to find victims, and drains the life out of three of them throughout the episode, nearly getting Kolchak killed when he tries to interfere. Defined by her callousness and lust for beauty, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful, and [[ItsAllAboutMe most self-centered]], foe Kolchak ever faced.

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* "The Five People You Meet in Hell": [[KnightTemplar Damon Caylor]] is "a UsefulNotes/CharlesManson wannabe" who founded a cult made up of weak-willed people who he [[ManipulativeBastard brainwashed into believing]] that society needed to be purged of anyone deemed "a moral hypocrite" by Caylor. After a few of his followers were arrested for publicly beheading an oil executive, Caylor [[TilMurderDoUsPart strangled his own wife]], who had been convinced to testify against him by reporter Perri Reed. Placed in solitary confinement after being blinded by a fellow inmate, Caylor eventually developed PsychicPowers, which he set out to use against everyone responsible for his imprisonment, including Reed. Caylor forces his trial's prosecutor and judge to murder their respective spouses by having visions of their dead loved ones warp their perception of reality before setting them off with the trigger phrase, "You know what you have to do." The prosecutor hangs himself in despair over killing his own wife, and one of Caylor's arresting officers nearly shoots his before being snapped out of Caylor's control by Kolchak. Caylor tells Reed and Kolchak that the murders will stop if his manifesto is published, but the journal turns out to be blank, having been nothing more than bait that Caylor used to get close enough to Kolchak so that he could try to psychically force him to kill Reed.
* "Timeless": [[ImmortalityImmorality Marlene Harmon]] is a vain immortal who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps herself alive]] by [[ImAHumanitarian feeding on the pituitary glands of young women]], whose faces she gnaws through to get to their brains after [[AndIMustScream paralyzing]] them with an anesthetic. Marlene commits three murders every thirty-five years, with the earliest known killings being in 1900. In 1970, Marlene had her son, Luke, assist her with the latest murders, but when Luke began to crack under the pressure of what he was doing, Marlene [[OffingTheOffspring shot him in the face]], made it look like [[NeverSuicide he committed suicide]], and fooled everyone into believing that he was sole perpetrator of the "serial killings" being investigated by the LAPD. In 2005, Marlene has her other son [[VillainousIncest and implied lover]], Aaron, help her with the latest batch of killings, which attracts the attention of Kolchak and Reed. Marlene sets her own devoted boyfriend up to take the fall for the deaths, and when Aaron confronts her over the circumstances of his brother's suicide, Marlene admits to having killed the "weak" Luke. Even though Marlene had reassured him that she would never harm him, Aaron ends up shooting her to save Reed, convinced that Marlene was lying and that it was only a matter of time before she disposed of him like she did her boyfriend and Luke.
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A bit of an interesting story to remember. For some reason, a lot of WesternAnimation/MarvelAnimation pages had some really bad images so I went on a spree of purging them. The ones that were replaced:
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurferTheAnimatedSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1967''
* ''WesternAnimation/BlackPanther''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited''
* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982''
* ''WesternAnimation/IronManAndHulkHeroesUnited''
* ''WesternAnimation/IronManAndCaptainAmericaHeroesUnited''

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''Series/TheCloser'', as well as its sequel series ''Series/MajorCrimes'', are {{Police Procedural}}s featuring a large variety of vile rapists and murderers. Even among the array of baddies, some stand out as [[CompleteMonster especially heinous]].

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* [[AmoralAttorney Phillip Stroh]] is the most personal and recurring foe Brenda Leigh Johnson and the Major Crimes division have ever faced. When first encountering the team, Stroh [[ProppingUpTheirPatsy uses his position as a defense attorney]] to mask the fact that he is a SerialRapist who has raped over six women and killed his latest victim. After ditching his client to take the fall, Stroh returns and is ousted as a SerialKiller who has further raped and murdered five women by strangling them to death with a chain, and after trying to stab the teenager Rusty to death, Stroh is captured. Though locked in prison, [[Series/MajorCrimes Stroh's evil continues]] as he uses two men he assisted in becoming serial killers to murder specific targets for him, including his own minions, before escaping confinement by murdering several innocent people. Stroh goes on a bloody rampage while tracking down his mother to acquire her fortune, butchering numerous people from his childhood, including his stepparents and first girlfriend. Stroh is revealed to have been truly wicked since birth, as he tortured his stepsister; tried to burn his family alive; and raped and murdered three young girls while [[TeensAreMonsters only a teenager]]. In the end, Stroh leaves a teenaged girl to slowly be strangled to death so he can attempt to escape justice, and uses his final moments to plead for mercy from Lieutenant Provenza, then try to shoot Provenza InTheBack.

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* "Manhunt": Danny Jones (Ravok}
* "Help Wanted": Joe Meyers (Ravok)
* "Living Proof" two-parter: Zoran Antunovich (Ravok)
* "Drug Fiend": Wally Sanders (Jackie)

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* "The Deep End": Charles Frey (Jackie)
* "Special Master" two-parter: Markos Christakis (Ravok)
* "Conspiracy Theory" four-parter: Dr. Bill Landon (Ravok)
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* Entire game: [[BigBad Lyblac]], daughter of the thirteenth god [[GreaterScopeVillain Galdera]], is [[TheChessmaster the architect]] of every single misfortune in the game in her bid to open up the Gate of Finis and [[PsychoSupporter hand the world over to Galdera]] for the subsequent annihilation of all humanity. For a full century, Lyblac deceives and manipulates everyone around her, causing the fall of both Matthias and Yvon to lives of evil and murder for the purposes of her plans while implicitly having Geoffrey Azelhart murdered by the Obsidians to cover up the Gate of Finis. Lyblac, dealing with the corrupt sellsword Werner, also set in motion the events that led to the fall of Hornburg, destroying an kingdom full of lives to take control of the Gate. Finally, Lyblac attempts to use those of the Crossford lineage in her attempt to have him bear Galdera's essence, slowly reducing Graham of them to a tortured monster as the consequence for escaping her and simply opting to use his son Kit as her next choice for the vessel. Lyblac is described as a lethal poison by her own uneasy allies, a [[WickedWitch witch]] truly worthy of the epitaph "Daughter of the Dark God."
* Cyrus Albright's path: [[ImmortalitySeeker Lucia]] is an [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] scholar who seeks and values ultimate knowledge of the world, even over the lives of humanity. Allying with Lyblac in corrupting Headmaster Yvon into evil, Lucia then commissions the amoral sorcerer [[MadScientist Gideon]] to perform dozens of horrifying blood experiments on innocents, resulting in their agonizing deaths, to perfect a working blood crystal. After orchestrating Yvon's death, Lucia reveals her plans to harness immortality and then spend years amassing all knowledge that humans are unaware of--such as cures to illnesses or things that would help humanity progress--then hoard and keep them all for herself, just for the pride of being the smartest entity on the planet.
* Olberic Eisenberg's path: [[TheCaligula Werner]] was once a mere sellsword with [[AmbitionIsEvil lofty ambitions]] before he was given a chance to realize his dreams by Lyblac, at the cost of the entire kingdom of Hornburg--a price Werner considered worth paying, since [[LackOfEmpathy he wasn't the one paying it]]. Werner wins his trust with the local people of Hornburg by [[EngineeredHeroics arranging bandit attacks]] on border villages and beating them back with his own warriors, the Black Brotherhood, before integrating within Hornburg's own royalty and arranging the assassination of the king and his personal guard. The fallout destroys countless innocent lives and annihilates the entire kingdom, while Werner walked away from the ashes a rich man. When Olberic, one of Hornburg's last soldiers, finally tracks him down, Werner's set himself up as the despotic ruler of Riverford, regularly having innocent people burned alive on trumped-up charges or solely as a means to curb rebellion. When Werner tracks down the resistance, Werner proceeds to have them all massacred while murdering his own men when they refuse to fight the much-stronger Olberic, even [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled pridefully gutting himself]] in front of Olberic at the end rather than admit his guilt in destroying thousands for self-gain.
* Primrose Azelhart's path:
** [[WouldHitAGirl Helgenish]] is bar none the most repulsive StarterVillain in the game. A [[FatBastard depraved, obese]] tavern-keeper who employs several exotic dancers to entertain his guests, Helgenish brutalizes and demeans the women under his care while beating any who try and fight back to near-death, leaving them in the gutter to die. Helgenish favors Primrose herself, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] and abusing her to assert his control of her, and when Primrose defies his orders with the help of her only friend Yusufa, Helgenish has Yusufa brutally tortured. When Primrose comes back, Helgenish murders Yusufa right in front of Primrose's eyes, [[KickTheDog hysterically mocking]] her tearful last words and noting "if she'd shown that kind of potential earlier, maybe I would have kept her on longer!"
** [[HumanTraffickers Rufus]], the left hand of the Crow Men, is one of the leaders of the Obsidians, involved in the murder of Primrose's father while maintaining the Obsidians' various connections in the present. When Primrose tracks Rufus down, he's maintaining the Obsidian Parlor, a whorehouse specializing in unwilling prostitutes Rufus hands out to the whims of powerful and depraved men for a profit while keeping a personal harem himself. Rufus is seen giving a woman to serve the incestuous desires of a priest in his service as just one example of the many lives he's ruined to the services of the Obsidian Parlor, while mocking Primrose even to his last breath.
** [[MadArtist Simeon]] the "[[ManipulativeBastard Puppet Master]]" is the head of the Crow Men, the master of the Obsidians, and the bane of Primrose's existence. As master of his "Wings", Simeon has a hand in all forms of mass murder, assassinations, and human trafficking, all while eliminating anyone who could stand up to his organization's rule, notably [[YouKilledMyFather murdering Primrose's father]] with his own hands. A complete psychopath who gets the most joy out of life by hurting and tormenting others, Simeon takes sick glee in befriending Primrose and developing a romance with her, only to stab her, make her watch a play of Simon's own production showcasing the tragedies and traumas of her life that ends with her and Simeon in a "happily ever after", then make a final attempt on her life, never ceasing his vicious mockery and proclamations of his desire to see her die screaming in despair.

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[[IntrepidReporter Karel "Carl" Kolchak]] has faced [[Characters/KolchakTheNightStalkerVillains numerous unpleasant characters]], but [[CompleteMonster several]] stand out.

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* [[AxCrazy Janos Skorzeny]], the [[StarterVillain first true monster Kolchak ever faces]], is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] who utilizes his [[VampiresAreRich wealth]] and cunning to become a particularly vicious SerialKiller. Moving from place to place with many corpses behind him, Skorzeny's latest hunting ground is Las Vegas, where he proceeds to attack and murder multiple young women for their blood while being happy to kill whoever gets in his way.

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* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE1TheRipper The Ripper]]": UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself is a SerialKiller who is at first believed to be a [[JackTheRipoff Ripper copycat]], but is soon revealed to be something far more sinister. First seen butchering numerous women, mostly hookers and strippers, throughout Milwaukee and Chicago, the Ripper cannibalized his third victim in Chicago, carving out her kidneys to eat. Sending taunting letters of his crimes to the press, the Ripper arranges a meeting with a young reporter while claiming he won't kill anyone the night they would meet, however [[ILied he kills her anyway]]. After escaping police custody and brutalizing many officers and innocents who try to restrain him, the Ripper is revealed to be the actual Jack the Ripper, having spent the past decades traveling the world and always murdering 5 women in each location he terrorizes, having killed over 70 women over the years. Jack the Ripper was a mysterious figure whose crimes were never given justification beyond sheer sadism and hatred.
* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE7TheDevilsPlatform The Devil's Platform]]": [[CorruptPolitician Robert Palmer]] is a senator obsessed with gaining as much personal power as possible, and to this end, made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Prince of Darkness]] for supernatural abilities. Using these abilities, for which he pays for by regularly sacrificing animals and "higher forms of life", Palmer kills off all of his political opponents, with their wives and friends being casualties as well. When Palmer's campaign manager plans to reveal his crimes to the public, Palmer [[ElevatorFailure sends the elevator his manager is on plummeting to the ground]], killing him and the numerous other innocents onboard. A secretary, aware of Palmer's part in the elevator crash, tries to blackmail him into paying her to keep quiet about it, and Palmer responds by trying to maul her in his {{hellhound}} form; when she survives and is sent to the hospital, Palmer pursues and [[SickbedSlaying kills her in her weakened state]]. After murdering another of his opponents in a car crash, Palmer tries to manipulate Kolchak into signing his soul over to Palmer, and wastes no time in trying to butcher Kolchak when he refuses. [[SmugSnake Smug]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]], Robert Palmer stood out even to Kolchak as one of the most wicked villains he ever faced.
* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE8BadMedicine Bad Medicine]]": [[RealityWarper The Diablero]] was a [[WasOnceAMan native shaman]] cursed for his {{greed}} to seek out treasure. Now an [[HumanoidAbomination undead monster]], the Diablero has stalked treasures through history, killing anyone who gets in his way. Slaughtering numerous victims in Chicago for priceless valuables, the Diablero murders numerous people before trying to make Kolchak the 13th victim.
* "[[Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE19TheYouthKiller The Youth Killer]]": [[UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar Helen of Troy]], alias Helen Surtees, has the longest HistoricalRapSheet in the series. A beautiful demigoddess who made a deal with the powerful goddess Hecate for [[ImmortalityImmorality eternal life]], Helen is required to drain the life out of physically perfect individuals on a regular basis to retain her youth, a process that inevitably kills her victims, something sadist she takes pleasure from. Having lived for hundreds of years, Helen uses a computer dating service in the present to find victims, and drains the life out of three of them throughout the episode, nearly getting Kolchak killed when he tries to interfere. Defined by her callousness and lust for beauty, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful, and [[ItsAllAboutMe most self-centered]], foe Kolchak ever faced.

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* "The Five People You Meet in Hell": [[KnightTemplar Damon Caylor]] is "a UsefulNotes/CharlesManson wannabe" who founded a cult made up of weak-willed people who he [[ManipulativeBastard brainwashed into believing]] that society needed to be purged of anyone deemed "a moral hypocrite" by Caylor. After a few of his followers were arrested for publicly beheading an oil executive, Caylor [[TilMurderDoUsPart strangled his own wife]], who had been convinced to testify against him by reporter Perri Reed. Placed in solitary confinement after being blinded by a fellow inmate, Caylor eventually developed PsychicPowers, which he set out to use against everyone responsible for his imprisonment, including Reed. Caylor forces his trial's prosecutor and judge to murder their respective spouses by having visions of their dead loved ones warp their perception of reality before setting them off with the trigger phrase, "You know what you have to do." The prosecutor hangs himself in despair over killing his own wife, and one of Caylor's arresting officers nearly shoots his before being snapped out of Caylor's control by Kolchak. Caylor tells Reed and Kolchak that the murders will stop if his manifesto is published, but the journal turns out to be blank, having been nothing more than bait that Caylor used to get close enough to Kolchak so that he could try to psychically force him to kill Reed.
* "Timeless": [[ImmortalityImmorality Marlene Harmon]] is a vain immortal who [[ImmortalityImmorality keeps herself alive]] by [[ImAHumanitarian feeding on the pituitary glands of young women]], whose faces she gnaws through to get to their brains after [[AndIMustScream paralyzing]] them with an anesthetic. Marlene commits three murders every thirty-five years, with the earliest known killings being in 1900. In 1970, Marlene had her son, Luke, assist her with the latest murders, but when Luke began to crack under the pressure of what he was doing, Marlene [[OffingTheOffspring shot him in the face]], made it look like [[NeverSuicide he committed suicide]], and fooled everyone into believing that he was sole perpetrator of the "serial killings" being investigated by the LAPD. In 2005, Marlene has her other son [[VillainousIncest and implied lover]], Aaron, help her with the latest batch of killings, which attracts the attention of Kolchak and Reed. Marlene sets her own devoted boyfriend up to take the fall for the deaths, and when Aaron confronts her over the circumstances of his brother's suicide, Marlene admits to having killed the "weak" Luke. Even though Marlene had reassured him that she would never harm him, Aaron ends up shooting her to save Reed, convinced that Marlene was lying and that it was only a matter of time before she disposed of him like she did her boyfriend and Luke.
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->''"Guess where the virus is? I've rigged it with a little charge. It's set to go off in five or six minutes. Everyone on board will be exposed to your pet bug, Driscoll. You'll have a death train on your hands. I have nothing to lose."''
-->--'''Talia Neiman''', ''Terror on Track''

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* ''Casefiles'':
** ''Deathgame'': Major Orville Brand (mir)
** ''Hostages of Hate'': The Dutchman (Scraggle)
** ''Disaster for Hire'': Ray Garner (Scraggle)
** ''Terror on Track'': Talia Newman (Scraggle)
** ''Screamers'': Dr. Arthur Charles Ludwig and Conrad Seethus (mir)
** ''Dead in the Water'': Klaus Stachel (mir)

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* "Dangerous Waters": Vito Farina (Scraggle)
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