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| 11 | [[caption-width-right:350:"[[YouCantFightFate Dread it, run from it... destiny arrives all the same.]] And now, it's here. Or should I say: '''[[BadassBoast I am.]]'''"]] |
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| 13 | ->''"First Prime, then Ultra Magnus, and now -- you. It's a pity you Autobots die so easily, or I might have a sense of satisfaction now."'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''Galvatron''' (to Hot Rod), ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' |
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| 16 | In many works of fiction TheHero isn’t the ''only'' hero doing good out there. These other heroes might be [[HeroOfAnotherStory recurring minor characters]] or part of TheOrder, and may have little impact on the central narrative, but they are heroes nonetheless, often the greatest warriors in the land, conquering evil without fear. |
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| 18 | That is, until the Hero Killer comes along. |
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| 20 | Exceptionally powerful, incredibly skilled, the Hero Killer has one purpose, which he pursues ruthlessly: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin kill the heroes.]] He will hunt down the greatest knights and he will slaughter them, one after the other. What makes him so powerful? Maybe he knows how to exploit heroes' weaknesses. Maybe he was engineered for that very purpose. Maybe he made a DealWithTheDevil. Maybe he is fueled by [[TheDeterminator exceptional determination]]. Regardless, he has earned a reputation for [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] heroes regularly and reliably, often without exception. Expect a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and/or CurbStompBattle should his prey be unprepared. |
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| 22 | Even the noblest, most powerful heroes [[TheDreaded will quake in fear]] at the sound of his name. This reputation is indeed key, as ironically they may never be ''seen'' actually killing anyone important first-hand because of the lack of a SacrificialLion or CListFodder to put in their way. Similarly, a hero can be killed by someone who isn't a Hero Killer, although their reputation might explode into [[BigBadWannabe being someone they are not]]. |
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| 24 | Closely related to TheDreaded: Their legend may inspire the heroes to train and improve their skills throughout the story, [[RunOrDie fleeing]] or [[KnowWhenToFoldEm avoiding]] the Hero Killer until such point as the hero is [[TiredOfRunning finally ready to face him;]] even then, they're probably going to need everything they have to stand a chance. If the hero gives the Hero Killer a run for his money, it may be a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome; if he wins, he's [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable defeated the undefeatable]]. With that in mind, remember character deaths are required for a character to qualify, be they in backstory or present plot. |
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| 26 | This character usually invokes TheWorfEffect and is often a grim reminder that AnyoneCanDie if the work is dark. If the work was fairly light-hearted before this guy appeared, then he's a KnightOfCerebus. He is very often the "Goliath" in a DavidVsGoliath scenario. If he's very dogged in his pursuit of heroes he overlaps with ImplacableMan. A CopKiller is this by default in {{Cop Show}}s and {{Police Procedural}}s. In video games, contrast ThatOneBoss, which is when it is the ''player'' and not necessarily the characters that has difficulty beating an enemy. Contrast VillainKiller, a hero who specializes in killing villains or has a reputation for doing so. |
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| 28 | !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]]. |
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| 30 | !!Examples: |
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| 32 | [[index]] |
| 33 | * HeroKiller/AnimeAndManga |
| 34 | * HeroKiller/ComicBooks |
| 35 | * [[HeroKiller/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 36 | * HeroKiller/WesternAnimation |
| 37 | [[/index]] |
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| 41 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 42 | * ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': |
| 43 | ** In chapter 10, half of Luz's team, Alpha Squadron, is wiped out by the Heaven's Devils and Foxtrot alliance, [[spoiler:special mention goes to Darlene who personally kills Julia Wittebane, Luz's FirstFriend.]] |
| 44 | ** In chapter 19, [[PsychoForHire Jonah Smith]], an assassin hired by Wittebane to [[spoiler:murder Camila Noceda]], after his colleagues fail to kill Luz. |
| 45 | ** When he was alive, All For One and his followers had become infamous for killing many heroes who tried to stop them, such as O'clock when he refused to join the villain. This is especially true of the holders of One For All: before All Might killed him in their last battle. [[spoiler:During the Ten-Year War in the Boiling Isles, he also maimed Lilith (costing the witch her right eye and arm), mortally wounded Eda (who only survived thanks to her curse's HealingFactor while PlayingPossum) and personally killed Harvey Park, one of Willow's dads, and many citizens of the Boiling Isles 14 years before the story began.]] |
| 46 | * The ''Fanfic/AzulaTrilogy'' has [[CastingAShadow Wei Ming]] and [[EvilOverlord Jian Chin]] [[spoiler: (when [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by [[TheManBehindTheMan Zhang Zhen]])]]. Ironically, they were designed to be this role to Azula, who as noted below in Western Animation, is herself one of these. |
| 47 | * In ''Fanfic/DigimonFusionKai'', Frieza's expy Burizalor has killed [[spoiler: Falcomon, Izzy, Matt and Sora]] near the end of the Spira arc. |
| 48 | * ''Fanfic/TheEndingOfTheEndLoveAndToleranceEdition'': [[BigBad Grogar]] outright ''vaporizes'' [[spoiler: Discord]] and alongside his LegionOfDoom, forces [[spoiler: Princess Celestia and Luna]] to make a HeroicSacrifice to buy time for Twilight and the others to escape, during the attack on Canterlot. [[spoiler: These deaths are all undone by the end.]] |
| 49 | * ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'': During the climatic fight in Chapter 32, Phobos ultimately kills [[spoiler: Uncle]] by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling him through the chest]]. |
| 50 | * ''Fanfic/HarmonyTheory'': Max Cash personally kills [[spoiler: Melody Drop, a former body guard who was out for {{Revenge}}, [[ItsPersonal after he destroyed her old life]],]] during her attempted BigDamnHeroes. |
| 51 | * In ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'', one of the first things [[MadGod King Titan]] does is to kill [[BigGood Princess Celestia]]. [[spoiler:Actually he just beats her within an inch of her life and gives her to [[AxCrazy Terra]] to torture, but he could full well have killed her.]] He is such a terrifying force that even his Puppet Avatars are enough to dominate [[PhysicalGod Princess Luna]]. |
| 52 | * ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'' has Darth Nihilus, who nearly wiped out the Jedi Order in his backstory. Throughout the fic's third act, Nihilus sets to work reestablishing his status as a Hero Killer by racking up a significant body count of Huntsmen. He starts by causing the violent deaths of [[spoiler:Qrow, Ivori, Kobalt, and Team ABRN. He also uses his telekinesis to crash Ironwood's airship into Beacon Academy, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Beacon's students, all of whom were studying to become future Huntsmen. During the final battle, he tops his previous accomplishments by brutally murdering Pyrrha, General Ironwood, and Penny.]] |
| 53 | * In the ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'' story ''Infinity Crisis Aftermath: An Amazing New Year'', it's revealed that the Miles Warren of Earth-8107 [[spoiler: had killed the Peter Parker of his Earth during the chaos causing by the Dusting out of a desire to avenge Gwen Stacy. He also indicates that he wishes to also kill this world's new Spider-Man: Miles Morales.]] |
| 54 | * ''Fanfic/KaijuRevolution'': |
| 55 | ** By the end of the first season, Ghidorah had killed the Adult Mothra, King Caesar, Titanosaurus, Zilla, Komodithrax, the male Manda, Radon, Varan, two of the Gorosaurus pack and possibly Ogra. |
| 56 | ** A recently awakened Gaw ambushes and kills the female Gorosaurus. She also killed Kong's parents in the past. |
| 57 | * In ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', Bass inspires fear in Mega Man, and manages to give both him and [=ProtoMan=] a good thrashing before ''barely'' losing or leaving due to outside circumstances. |
| 58 | ** Wily later builds Enker, Punk, and Ballade, the Mega Man Killers. They live up to their name; in-fighting is the only reason they don't succeed in their first encounter with Mega Man. |
| 59 | ** Later those two forces fight. Bass wins, and Mega Man is even more afraid. |
| 60 | * In ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic III'', Raven is ultimately the one to kill [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]]. |
| 61 | * ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'': The Steel Sabers are considered TheDreaded of Heroes all around, their army having killed 246 heroes in their many escapades. [[BigGood All Might]] and even [[SuperSupremacist Re-Destro]] were wary of these mercenaries. They were the best of the best [[SpannerInTheWorks until they crossed paths with]] [[OneManArmy the Slayer]]. |
| 62 | * ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'': Every fight had been a cavalcade of craziness for various "seasons". So how do the Cherubim establish that they are dangerous? By having the very first one that appears take on various Evangelions at the same time and win even with them using SuperMode, [[OnlyMostlyDead killing Shinji for a few seconds]] and nearly destroying Unit-01's core. It took the uncontrolled activation of Unit-01's Berserk Mode for NERV to win the fight... and the repercussions were still pretty hefty. |
| 63 | * ''Fanfic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': [[BigBad Cetus]] and [[TheDragon Eclipse]] are both this. They're able to take on Shining Armor and the Princesses evenly, and [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] the Mane Six and their Guards [[spoiler: including killing Strauss, Elo and Grovi]]. |
| 64 | * [[WesternAnimation/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasure Sailor John]] in the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' DarkFic ''Fanfic/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasureBadEnding'' succeeded in killing Thomas the Tank Engine himself. He also indirectly has Gordon’s death on his hands as well. [[note]] His murder of Thomas caused the Fat Controller to resign as he [[ItsAllMyFault blamed himself]] for [[PartingWordsRegret yelling at and scolding Thomas]] before his death, and before his resignation, he punished Gordon (also stricken with guilt for his earlier treatment of Thomas) by banning him from any work that isn’t pulling goods trains or shunting - permanently. [[HatedByAll Gordon became a hated pariah among the engines]], who blamed him for Thomas’ death, and he eventually got DrivenToSuicide. [[/note]] |
| 65 | * ''[[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509 Yognapped]]'': [[BigBad Sben]] of becomes this [[spoiler: once he's resurrected.]] |
| 66 | * ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': A few Decepticons have this reputation throughout the story. |
| 67 | ** [[Characters/CodePrimeMegatron Megatron]] has a number of Autobot deaths under his belt back on Cybertron, two of the most prominent being Alpha Trion, one of the original Primes, and Sentinel Zeta Prime, the Autobot leader before Optimus. [[spoiler:During the final battle he manages to kill Lelouch, but he's resurrected moments later thanks to the Primes and Marianne.]] |
| 68 | ** The Combaticons have a reputation for managing to wipe out many Autobot squadrons whether by themselves or as Bruticus. In the ''R2'' chapter ''Broken Walls'', they manage to kill Air Raid and Zi Dien, and force Urabe to commit a HeroicSacrifice to keep them from escaping with Red Energon. |
| 69 | ** Airachnid, being Megatron's chief interrogator, as well as being one of the most sadistic Decepticons, has slaughtered a number of Autobots, including Arcee's former partner Tailgate. During the Black Rebellion, [[spoiler:she injures Dreadwing to the point that he has to sacrifice himself to stop her and the Insecticons from reaching Suzaku, Euphemia and Cornelia.]] |
| 70 | ** One of the main reasons Trypticon's reactivation is feared is because he has killed more Autobots than any Decepticon. |
| 71 | ** [[spoiler:During the final battle, Shin Hyuga Shaing attempts to kill Akito, but instead kills Oigaros/Wizard, who takes the hit for Akito.]] |
| 72 | ** Through usage of the Damocles, Schneizel and Starscream manage to wipe out nearly half the Autobots and Black Knights' forces during the assault on New Kaon, with casualties including [[spoiler:Silverbolt, Chromia, Asahina, Hot Shot, Prowl, Marika, Leonhardt, Inoue, Sugiyama and Minami. Optimus is also seriously injured, but is revived with a new body later on.]] |
| 73 | * ''Fanfic/FairyMayCry'': During the Grand Magic Games Arc, it's revealed that [[spoiler:in addition to wiping out many dragons and driving said species to near-extinction, Acnologia was also the one who ultimately ended the life of the legendary Dark Knight Sparda.]] |
| 74 | ** There's also Nelo Angelo from the Edolas Arc. During his time in Edolas, he wiped out many guilds single-handedly, killed the Edolas Fairy Tail's master, and even Lisanna's Edolas counterpart. |
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| 77 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 78 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'': Otis' [[YouKilledMyFather father Ben's death]] is all thanks to Dag and his pack. |
| 79 | * As the GrandFinale for the ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' sees ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and his forces kill a ''lot'' of heroes. His forces kill ComicBook/{{Green Lantern}}s Hal Jordan and John Stewart, Mera, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, the ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Shazam}}, ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, most of the ComicBook/TeenTitans, ComicBook/{{Steel}}, ComicBook/{{Batwing}}, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, ComicBook/BlackOrchid, ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, ComicBook/LoisLane, and ComicBook/LexLuthor, and Darkseid himself kills ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, much of the rest of the Green Lantern Corps, and ComicBook/{{Robin}}. [[spoiler:Robin's death didn't stick thanks to Raven; before that, Robin himself used a Lazarus Pit in an attempted to bring ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} back, but Dick was driven insane; and Mera, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, Hawkman, and Martian Manhunter were resurrected as ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd''-style cyborgs along with ComicBook/WonderWoman, who didn't die, but did lose an arm thanks to the Paradooms.]] |
| 80 | * Bryagh, [[BigBad Ommadon's]] second in command from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'' is dreaded by even Sir Orrin and manages to literally kill off almost the entire FiveManBand, sparing only Peter because he wasn't there. Granted, they get better, but that does little to change it. |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'' has Sinestro slaughter a lot of Green Lanterns with his yellow ring during his coup against the Green Lantern Corps. |
| 82 | * ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'': Through sheer force and intimidation, Drago Bludvist coerces the dragons under his control into killing the good alpha dragon [[spoiler:and [[BigGood Stoick the Vast]]]]. |
| 83 | * Syndrome and his Omnidroid from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' are sort of a Hero-Killing team; Syndrome builds the robot, lures supers to his island, and repairs and upgrades the robot whenever it is defeated, while the Omnidroid does all of the actual killing as it was programmed. [[spoiler: Syndrome does this to eliminate competing supers so that he can exploit built-in weaknesses to publicly defeat the robot and look like a hero in the eyes of the people, but the Omnidroid [[AIIsACrapshoot figures out how to defeat Syndrome and tries to kill him too.]]]] |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' has President Business, the one who killed Metal Beard's crew and reduced Metal Beard to a head and robotics. He also kills [[spoiler:Vitruvius]]. |
| 85 | * Ultron in ''WesternAnimation/NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow''. In the backstory, Ultron has already killed several superheroes, including all but four members of the Avengers [[note]]Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, & Vision were the only survivors[[/note]]. Ultron has already conquered half of the world by the film's start and has killed millions of people. |
| 86 | * ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': The Big Bad Wolf [[spoiler: who is later revealed to be a physical manifestation of Death]] pursues Puss in Boots over the course of the movie. His only goal is to kill Puss, and he does not directly interact with any other character in the movie. |
| 87 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', while pirating a transporter, Starscream uses Megatron (in pistol-form) to kill [[spoiler:Brawn]] before Megatron transforms to kill [[spoiler:Ironhide]]. Then, during the invasion of Autobot City, Megatron slays [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]]. |
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| 90 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 91 | * ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Puxdool the troll, champion of Tummuz Orgmeen's arena, manages to [[spoiler:kill Nesessitas by crippling her via a lucky shot to the knee, stabbing her in the chest when she is eventually sapped of strength due to pain and blood loss and beheading her. Poor Nessi. Luckily, her death is soon avenged by Bazil]]. |
| 92 | * More than a dozen show up across ''Literature/TheBlackCompany.'' The first book has the Ten Who Were Taken, plus the Lady and the Dominator, with the Shadowmasters and the Voroshk turning up later. Of particular note: |
| 93 | ** The Limper kills literally thousands of extras, as well as [[spoiler: Bomanz and Silent.]] |
| 94 | ** Shapeshifter killed Tom-Tom at the start of the series. |
| 95 | ** The Dominator kills so many Company Brothers that the book ends with the Company's roster at [[spoiler: seven]] members. |
| 96 | ** Lisa Bowalk finally kills [[spoiler: One-Eye]] for his involvement in her mentor, Shapeshifter's, death, after more than twenty years of feuding. |
| 97 | ** The Goddess Kina Herself kills [[spoiler: Goblin]] personally and millions of others by proxy. |
| 98 | * An interesting in-universe example occurs in Anthony Ryan's novel ''Literature/BloodSong''. The protagonist, Vaelin al Sorna, kills another country's champion during an invasion and is subsequently dubbed "Hope Killer" (the guy he killed was the avatar of hope for the entire nation) by the enemy. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Nicodemus Archleone. He has killed at least a hundred Knights of the Cross and only two have ever gotten away with their lives, and of those, one was permanently crippled. |
| 100 | ** The one who escaped without being permanently crippled so angered Nicodemus that even after Nicodemus [[spoiler:had him tortured to death]] Nicodemus was willing to give the good guys a chance to stop his plan to [[spoiler:turn the Archive (a repository of all humanities knowledge, and thus possessor of the launch codes to every nuke on earth among other things) into a Denarian]] just to get the guy's sword, Fidelacchius. |
| 101 | * ''Literature/FateOfTheFortySixth'': The forces employed by Apex are deadly and really show why Apex is the best. Condor effortlessly defeats Wolf ''twice'', only leaving him alive because his contract says so and he doesn't what to kill off a good opponent with potential. The Justice, an extremely dangerous mech with six barrels filled with shotgun shells, and its pilot, Victory, claim the lives of [[spoiler:Andre, Caruso and Red]]. And finally, the nameless dragon at the end kills [[spoiler:Bob, Filch, Murray, Ry and Blaze]] with Baron, another dragon, finishes off [[spoiler:Roy]]. |
| 102 | * ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' trilogy contains the aptly named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Fenris the Feared]]. After radiating menace before the Open Council in ''The Blade Itself,'' he proves his status as a member of this trope toward the end of ''Before They Are Hanged,'' killing one of the most heroic characters in the series, [[spoiler:Rudd Threetrees]]. |
| 103 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 104 | ** If you are face to face with Lord Voldemort and your name isn't Albus Dumbledore (who is the one who HE fears), you either run like hell or kiss your butt goodbye. Let's just say that people are afraid to say his name for a reason. To quote Hagrid when he starts telling Harry about Voldemort: |
| 105 | --->"Nobody lived once he decided to kill 'em. No one except you! And he killed some of the best witches and wizards of the age. The [=McKinnons=]! The Bones! The Prewetts! And you was only a baby, and you lived." |
| 106 | ** Bellatrix Lestrange later became a Dragon form of this with several significant deaths ([[spoiler:Sirius, Dobby and Tonks (according to WordOfGod)]]) under her belt before she was taken out. Considering that she's one of the vilest characters in the series, this isn't much of a surprise. |
| 107 | ** A lesser one can be found with Antonin Dolohov, one of Voldemort's tougher underlings. In the first war, he was the Death Eater who slew Gideon and Fabian Prewett, who were both powerful and accomplished wizards. In the second, he seriously injured Mad-Eye Moody and almost kills ''Hermione'' in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' and is, according to WordOfGod, the person who slew [[spoiler:Lupin]] in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''. He also goes up against Harry, Ron and Hermione all by himself after his partner Thorfin was stunned in a cafe and subdues both Harry and Ron before Hermione body-binds him. |
| 108 | * ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Murtagh starts entering this role in the second book, especially at the climax, where he [[spoiler:slaughters the dwarf king and his magician bodyguards with a single spell before soundly trashing Eragon and Saphira, but letting them go in a moment of mercy.]] |
| 109 | * In the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' Kallor's first big hit is [[spoiler: Whiskeyjack]] in ''Literature/MemoriesOfIce''. Then he returns in ''Literature/TollTheHounds'' with the intention to 'get himself a throne', whoever stands in his way be damned. When [[spoiler: Spinnock does stand in his way]], he almost gets to cross the next hero off his kill list. |
| 110 | * [[EvilOverlord The Lord Ruler]] from ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'', figuratively and literally, as he takes down [[spoiler: Kelsier]] effortlessly immediately after the latter has his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by killing an [[TheDragon Inquisitor]]. [[spoiler: [[TheManBehindTheMan Ruin]] is this trope even moreso.]] |
| 111 | * In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', Jonathan Morgenstern plays the trope straight. He kills some shadowhunters. One of the first victims is the shadowhunter Sebastian Verlac. Later, he kills Max Lightwood and Hodge Starkweather. But he also kills vampires and werewolves, who are the allies of the shadowhunters. Two of his victims are Raphael Santiago and Jordan Kyle. |
| 112 | ** The prequel ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' has the demon Marbas who kills a female shadowhunter named Ella Herondale. |
| 113 | ** And the sequel ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' has the evil warlock Malcolm Fade. He kills two shadowhunters named John Carstairs and Cordelia Townsend. |
| 114 | * ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'': The Mirror from ''Day Watch'', who killed ''[[spoiler:Tiger Cub]]'' by literally stripping her flesh from her bones after incapacitating several other high-level Night Watch magicians. |
| 115 | * ''Literature/OldKingdom'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent Kerrigor]] in ''Sabriel'' is the most powerful Greater Dead in the history of the Old Kingdom and has spent the last several centuries waging a war of attrition against the Abhorsens, the lineage of necromancers tasked with laying the undead to rest. He spent most of that time ''winning'' [[spoiler:because he'd turned his mortal body into a SoulJar so that he could never be fully banished while it existed and hidden it ''very'' well]], and also wiped out the royal family [[spoiler:except for one member]] and threw the Kingdom into chaos while he was at it. In the end, he's defeated only after a grueling battle that nearly kills Sabriel and Touchstone [[spoiler:and even then, he's only turned into a SealedEvilInACan, not destroyed]]. |
| 116 | * ''Literature/ThePiratesCoveredInFur'' has the main villain, Captain Lyle Krinkor. Not including the DecoyProtagonist, he single-handedly kills ''four'' of the main protagonists--three of whom are killed in one chapter. And if he hadn't been playing with the VillainBall, he would've killed five by the time the story wrapped up. |
| 117 | * ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'': Lu Bu, the baddest ass in a WorldOfBadass. The big three heroes duel him all at the same time and are unable to defeat him. Ultimately they have to kill him with a HoneyTrap. |
| 118 | * In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'' is the vampaneze Glalda. He attacks with his group of vampanezes to an army of vampires (vampires are in these books [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire not bad]]). In the fight he kills several vampires (two in the books, three in the manga), and thereafter the female vampire Arra Sails. |
| 119 | ** Furthermore, since even the traitor Kurda Smalth. He kills the vampire Gavner Purl. |
| 120 | ** The main antagonist, Steve Leopard is very nasty and a half-vampaneze. He kills indirectly Larten Crepsley. |
| 121 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''Literature/NewJediOrder'', The Yuuzhan Vong basically have this (with a healthy dose of CombatSadomasochist on the side) as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. Even among the Yuuzhan Vong, the voxyn are notorious for this. They're introduced [[TheWorfEffect casually hunting down several Jedi]] and only go up from there. The mission to [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup kill the voxyn queen]] has the single largest MauveShirt casualty count in the series and kills no less a hero than [[spoiler: Anakin Solo]]. |
| 122 | * The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' has some examples. The Dreamwalker, a weapon from the Great War, has power over someone directly proportional to their magical talent, with a few exceptions. He can brutally mind-rape (in every possible sense of the expression) sorceresses and (off-screen) wizards, but he can barely touch any of the muggles (who all have some tiny amount of magical power anyway; only a few people in the world are truly devoid of any magic at all). |
| 123 | * ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': |
| 124 | ** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': [[TheBrute Gothmog]] only ever seems to appear when there is an Elf-Lord to kill. Under his belt are Fëanor, Fingon and Ecthelion, all badass warriors in their own right, though the last one was a MutualKill. |
| 125 | ** [[BigBad His master Morgoth]] gets in on the fun by killing Finwë and Fingolfin. |
| 126 | ** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Sauron kills Gil-Galad and the Dunedain king Elendil during the same battle. |
| 127 | ** ''Literature/BerenAndLuthien'': Carcharoth, a giant wolf bred by Morgoth specifically to be the biggest wolf ever, Carcharoth directly kills both Beren (one of the greatest Human warriors) and Huan, and indirectly causes the deah of Lúthien -the only non-divine being who manages to defeat Morgoth in a magic duel- shortly thereafter. |
| 128 | %%* In ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'', when the BigBad manages to fully manifest in the physical world, he effortlessly kills a dozen or so named characters - many of whom have been in the books since its first pages - within the first fifteen minutes of his rampage. |
| 129 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In ''Literature/BlackLegion'' the [[spoiler:clone of Horus]] starts killing heroes of the book the moment he arrives on scene. As Khayon puts it: |
| 130 | -->''And then we started to die.'' |
| 131 | * Leo Bonhart in ''Literature/TheWitcher'' saga, a PsychoForHire who managed to kill three [[HunterOfMonsters Witchers]], despite their magically enhanced abilities, just by being a MasterSwordsman. Other feats include killing [[spoiler:Ciri's highwaymen friends and lover]] despite being attacked six-on-one and effortlessly cutting down one of Geralt's TrueCompanions [[spoiler:Cahir]]. |
| 132 | * [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Findo Gask]] of ''Literature/TheWordAndTheVoid'', who specialises in killing Knights of the Word. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/WearingTheCape'' has Seif-al-Din, a superpowered terrorist who believes that his abilities were given to him by Allah. [[spoiler:He proceeds to fight and kill Ajax and Atlas, two heroes so powerful they had power categories named after them]]. |
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| 136 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 137 | * [[spoiler:[[TheMole Grant Ward]]]] in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. Out of all the villains, he's responsible for killing the most named characters on the show, including Victoria Hand, Eric Koenig, and (spoilers for Season 3) [[spoiler: Rosalind Price.]] He also inflicted an agonizing ColdBloodedTorture on Bobbi and while he didn't kill her, he almost broke her morale for the job. |
| 138 | * The first villain in ''Series/{{Bones}}'' to off one of the heroes was Jacob Broadsky. [[spoiler:He ''wanted'' to kill Booth, but he was aiming by calling Booth on the phone and aiming at whoever held the other end -- which, since Booth had passed the phone off to run a trace, was Vincent Nigel-Murray.]] |
| 139 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 140 | ** Spike himself has personally killed ''two'' Slayers, a fact he takes much pride in even after his HeelFaceTurn. |
| 141 | ** [[PhysicalGod Glory.]] The Scoobies spend the entire season running from her in terror. And her actions directly lead to Buffy's death in the Season 5 finale. |
| 142 | *** ''Almost'' an entire season running in terror. Glory's MindRape of Tara is what initiated Willow's ''first'' RoaringRampageOfRevenge. But the Scoobies still have to plan out literally every single step they take during the final battle with the Hell-bitch (the overall strategy of which amounts to "desperately try to keep her busy without getting killed for a few minutes"). |
| 143 | ** Vampire Xander kills Wishverse Angel. |
| 144 | ** TheMaster ''kills'' Buffy herself. ''Twice'', once in the real world, and once in the Wishverse. And [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] reveal that in the past he's killed one Slayer and sired another. |
| 145 | ** Warren fatally shoots [[spoiler:Tara]] and comes impressively close to killing Buffy herself. |
| 146 | ** The Angelus kills [[spoiler:Jenny Calendar]], and his actions indirectly lead to the death of [[spoiler: regular Angel.]] |
| 147 | ** Drusilla killing two slayers -- first Kendra and later Marianne. |
| 148 | ** Caleb. A fanatical, woman-hating defrocked preacher serving as The First Evil's right-hand man. In his debut, a trap he laid for Buffy's friends at the Shadow Valley Vineyard in Season 7's "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Dirty Girls]]", his rampage ends up killing two Potential Slayers -- Molly and an unnamed Potential. He also knocks out Buffy with one punch, overpowers Faith and Spike easily, breaks Rona's arm, and most infamously, gouges out Xander's eye with only his thumb, maiming one of the Scooby Gang's core members. It would take the combined efforts of both Buffy AND Angel to defeat him in later episodes. |
| 149 | ** Cyvus Vail, a demonic warlock, kills [[spoiler:Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.]] |
| 150 | ** Nash and Pearl are two half-demons who are very strong and very nasty. They kill in the battles against the protagonists, the three slayers Saabira, Cori and Vanessa. Later, in London, they kill a whole group of other slayers. |
| 151 | ** Even ''Harmony'' has one to her credit, killing Soledad. (Of course, it was [[LeeroyJenkins mostly Soledad's fault]], but the act ''did'' make Harmony a legit threat for quite a while, as it caused a lot of negative PR for Buffy's group.) |
| 152 | * John from ''Series/TheFades''. Before the other characters learn his name, he's known as the Angelic Killer because he's racked up such a high body count. In fact, he's responsible for the deaths of multiple major characters before the end of the first episode. |
| 153 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 154 | ** Ramsay Snow/Bolton outdoes his already terrifying book version, starting off by doing ''much'' worse to Theon Greyjoy than just killing him. He then nearly gets Theon's ActionGirl sister in Season 4 (despite Ramsay being half-naked, ambushed, and post-coital at the time), and personally smashes King Stannis's army in Season 5. He becomes this trope in Season 6, though, when he remorselessly kills [[spoiler: his own father, stepmother, and newborn baby brother. A couple of episodes later, he easily dispatches fan favourite Osha, too. This is followed by killing Rickon Stark and Wun-Wun the giant in the Battle of the Bastards.]] His kill count of unnamed characters is through the roof, and that's not even counting his offscreen destruction of the main characters' childhood home. |
| 155 | ** Ser Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane is the strongest man in the Seven Kingdoms and is deadly, bloodthirsty, and widely feared by other heavy hitters. He is notorious for raping and killing Elia Martell and her children during the Sack of King’s Landing. He’s also responsible for maiming and killing Ser Beric Dondarrion though [[BackFromTheDead he got better]] thanks to Thoros of Myr and slaying Ser Hugh of the Vale in a tournament. When Elia’s brother, Oberyn, dueled him in a TrialByCombat and nearly bested him, Gregor got the advantage to bring him down [[spoiler: and crushed his head]]. However, Gregor ended up braindead by Oberyn’s poison so [[MadScientist Qyburn]] turned him into some HumanoidAbomination who became Cersei’s loyal bodyguard. In Season 8, [[spoiler: he beheads Daenerys's close adviser, Missandei, and nearly kills his own brother, Sandor, by attempting to crush his head but Sandor stabs him in the eye and pushes him off The Red Keep along with himself]]. |
| 156 | ** [[HumanoidAbomination The White Walkers]] and their army of the wights, led by [[GreaterScopeVillain the Night’s King]]. At the start of the series, they demonstrate their [[TheDreaded dreadedness]] by killing two Night’s Watch rangers and turning them into wights. Later on, they raid Hardhome and slaughter many wildings. In Season 6, they kill several Children of the Forest [[spoiler: , Bran’s direwolf Summer, and Hodor]] with the Night’s King personally killing the Three-Eyed Raven. And by the end of Season 6, winter has finally come and the army of the dead marches south, ready to take out whatever’s left of the main cast. In Season 7, the Night King delivers a OneHitKill on [[spoiler: Viserion, one of Daenerys's dragons]] and destroys the entire [[spoiler: Eastwatch Castle with the use of the undead Viserion so that his army of the dead can finally match towards the Seven Kingdoms]]. In Season 8, [[spoiler: while they're finally stopped at Winterfell, they kill [[ActionSurvivor Dolorous Edd]], [[LittleMissBadass Lyanna Mormont]], [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Beric Dondarrion]] and [[KnightInShiningArmor Jorah Mormont]] before being defeated, with the Night King personally killing [[TheAtoner Theon Greyjoy]] before going down]]. |
| 157 | ** Euron Greyjoy is a terror in battle and, while "hero" is probably the last word most people think of for some of his kills, he still manages to murder Balon effortlessly, slay Obara and Nym in battle, and defeat his badass niece, Yara, in combat, resulting in him taking her hostage. [[spoiler:He also kills Daenerys's other dragon, Rhaegal, with a scorpion ballista and fatally stabs Jaime]]. |
| 158 | * Sylar from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', who besides being one of the most powerful characters in the show's mythology has also racked up by far the highest number of main character and supporting character kills. |
| 159 | * In the series ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' [[AnyoneCanDie anyone can be killed]]. In most cases, this is by a predator from prehistoric times (or from the future). However, there is also Helen Cutter, who becomes an antagonist over the course of the series, kills her husband Nick Cutter, and is indirectly to blame for Stephen Hart's death. |
| 160 | * ''Series/RobinHood'' [[PlayedStraight Played straight]] with [[spoiler: Isabella]], who deals a mortal blow to [[spoiler: her brother, Guy of Gisborne, after his HeelFaceTurn]] and poisons [[spoiler: Robin himself]]. |
| 161 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 162 | ** The demon Meg is an example of this trope. In Season 1 alone, she was able to come dangerously close to killing Sam, Dean, and [[spoiler: John]], kill two hunters, and capture John. Next season she killed another hunter and almost succeeded in killing Dean and Jo. She was later responsible for the deaths of [[spoiler: Ellen and Jo]]. It is also worth noting that she was the first demon to successfully defeat an angel. |
| 163 | ** Azazel also has killed his share of hunters, most obviously [[spoiler: Mary Winchester]] and everyone who knew her. He also killed [[spoiler: John]] twice, and has indirectly killed both Sam and Dean temporarily. In fact, since it was because of his influence that Sam got the power to [[spoiler:kill Lilith and free Lucifer]], he's also indirectly responsible for the deaths of [[spoiler: Ellen and Jo]], and the temporary deaths of Bobby and Castiel. |
| 164 | ** Also, Abaddon, who in her first appearance singlehandedly slaughtered the entire Men of Letters. |
| 165 | ** In "The End", Lucifer crushes the head of a future version of [[spoiler: Dean Winchester]]. In "Swan Song", Lucifer blows [[spoiler: Castiel]] to smithereens with the snap of his fingers, telekinetically breaks [[spoiler: Bobby]]'s neck, and [[spoiler: in order to defeat him, Sam is forced to [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu sacrifice himself by jumping in the Cage.]]]] |
| 166 | ** Dick Roman introduces himself as this in his first appearance when he and his Leviathans tear [[spoiler: Castiel]] apart from the inside out. This is temporary, but he does end up permanently killing both [[spoiler: Frank Devereaux]] and [[spoiler: Bobby Singer]]. In the Season 7 finale, [[spoiler:the explosion created by his death drags both Dean and Castiel to Purgatory.]] |
| 167 | * Though this trope in ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' is somewhat common, it's a massive shock when it happens in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', though most don't tend to stick. |
| 168 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', episode Power of Pink: Psycho Pink uses the power of Cassie's Morpher to unleash a red energy storm from the Savage Sword. Even though Psycho Pink gets destroyed by the combined efforts of the Galaxy and Space Megazords, it is too late to stop the Savage Sword's energy storm. With Cassie at risk of dying without her Morpher and the energy storm threatening Terra Venture, Kendrix sacrifices herself by destroying the sword herself. This results in her body being instantly incinerated by the energy released from the sword. Later, she is restored to life along with the residence of Mironi after the Rangers return the Sabers to their resting place in the season finale. [[note]] Actress Valerie Vernon had to leave the show to begin chemotherapy to treat her leukemia, necessitating a reason for her character to be written off. [[/note]] |
| 169 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'': The first episode shows the original Time Force Ranger, Alex being struck down by Ransik right before the rest of the team goes into the past after Ransik. This would lead to Wes taking his place, because he is the ancestor of Alex. Later, due to time shifting caused by the team and Ransik's presence in the past, Alex reappears alive in the past. |
| 170 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': Mirloc, one of the monsters of the week, is revealed to be the criminal who killed Sky's father, Officer Tate, who was a Red Ranger when Sky was a kid. This would motivate to enroll SPD with the intention of becoming the Red Ranger in honor of his father. |
| 171 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Both Daggeron and Leanbow were killed when they confronted Octomus the Master, only to be revived in the following episode. |
| 172 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'': In the finale, Mack faces off against Flurious. Using all his power, Mack was able to destroy the villain at the cost of his life. As an android, Mack could be rebuilt, the result would not be the same person the Rangers once knew. Fortunately, with the help of Sentinel Knight, Mack’s soul was brought back, this time fully human. |
| 173 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': After being freed from Vrak's control, Robo Knight went to his lair to save the captive Orion. Vrak, who was presented, wounded the already weak Robo Knight, before setting his underwater base to blow up. While he was able to get Orion out, Robo Knight perished in the lair's explosion, but not before transferring the last bit of his power to Orion, ensuring the Silver Ranger would get out safely. Averted in The Legendary Battle episode, where he is shown participating with the Mega Rangers in the final fight with the Armada fleet. |
| 174 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers: Steel also sacrifices himself in order to stop Evox from using his body as a vessel. For his bravery, the Morphin Mastes restored him to life, this time with a human body. |
| 175 | ** ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersOnceAndAlways'': The opening shows the Mighty Morphin team fighting the revived Rita Repulsa. During this confrontation, Trini ends up getting killed when she takes a fatal hit from Rita that was meant for Billy. And unlike the other examples listed, she does not come back to life. [[note]] Her actress, Thuy Trang, was killed in a car crash twenty years before this special. [[/note]] |
| 176 | * {{Kaiju}} in the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' that kill an Ultraman (or at least defeat them) in their debut series typically become notorious among fans and make many reappearances for this. The two greatest Hero Killers though are: |
| 177 | ** Zetton, the final MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', who killed Ultraman by absorbing his [[FinishingMove Specium Ray]] and [[AttackReflector shooting it back at him]]. In almost all his reappearances, he's considered TheDreaded and is never an easy opponent for an Ultra hero to defeat. |
| 178 | ** [[GiantFlyer Birdon]] from ''Series/UltramanTaro'' is infamous for having brutally stabbed Taro ''and Zoffy'' to death with his massive beak (they did get better in the end). Like Zetton, he's also usually TheDreaded in reappearances but is given a thankful AchillesHeel in the form of his wattle's venom sacs. |
| 179 | * A few antagonists in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' have managed to kill or at least be responsible for the deaths of multiple characters, some more prominent than others: |
| 180 | ** The Governor personally kills [[spoiler:Axel, Merle, Milton, and Hershel]] and causes the death of [[spoiler:Andrea.]] |
| 181 | ** Officer Dawn Lerner, while not around for as long as any of the other antagonists, does deal a crippling blow to the morale of Rick's group by [[spoiler:murdering Beth]] via BoomHeadshot. |
| 182 | ** Negan makes his introduction offing [[spoiler:both Abraham and Glenn.]] |
| 183 | ** Alpha shows she means business by [[spoiler:decapitating ''ten'' survivors from the various Washington communities and placing their heads on pikes for all to see. Among the casualties are major characters Tara and Enid as well as Carol's son, Henry.]] |
| 184 | ** Beta murders [[spoiler:reformed Whisperer Gamma and ex-Savior Laura.]] |
| 185 | ** [[spoiler:Undercover Whisperer Dante strangles Siddiq to death.]] |
| 186 | * ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': The Zardor in "Mind Stealers from Outer Space". It was a large, nearly mindless humanoid monster that the Skrill only kept with them for the few threats that they couldn't overwhelm with their laser weapons or mind-stealing technology. He was a serious threat to Wonder Woman. |
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| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 190 | * Myth/NorseMythology: |
| 191 | ** [[CanisMajor Fenrir]] and [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Jormungandr]] are likely the two best examples, as they are feared long before the apocalypse goes down, have established rivalries with the gods, and take the two strongest gods (Odin and Thor) with them when they go. |
| 192 | ** Surtr is more or less described as one in the mythos proper: "At the end of the world he will go and wage war and defeat all the gods and [[KillItWithFire burn the whole world with fire]]." He also personally kills Frey in the process. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 196 | * Wrestling/IvanKoloff: In 1971, the "Russian Bear" did what few people thought possible: defeat then-unbeatable WWWF World Champion Wrestling/BrunoSammartino cleanly, in the center of the ring, on his home turf at New York City's Madison Square Garden. Koloff completely dominated the match and, after knocking the Living Legend down with a clothesline, dropped the top-rope knee on his prone body. Surprisingly, an exhausted Sammartino never attempted to lift his shoulders. The crowd sat in stunned silence as Koloff celebrated in the ring with his manager, the evil Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano... and rumor had it that an announcement that Koloff was the new champion was never made for fear of angry fans starting a riot. |
| 197 | * Ox Baker had in fact already killed one man, but what really cemented him as one was the defeat he suffered to Ray Gunkel in August of 1971, as Gunkel succumbed to the injuries he had received at Baker's hands after being declared the victor, proving that even winning a match against Baker didn't mean it wouldn't be your last. |
| 198 | * Wrestling/TheIronSheik: Easily defeated then-WWF hero Wrestling/BobBacklund to win the WWF World Championship. Backlund, who had held the title for nearly six years, had been injured by the nefarious Sheik a few weeks earlier during a Persian club-lifting challenge, and when it came time for the title match, Backlund – who already had at least one nationally televised pinfall victory over the evil Iranian – was no match for the Sheik. [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Not to worry: a new hero was waiting in the wings … ]]. |
| 199 | * Wrestling/HulkHogan: Of course, the Hulkster had several wrestlers attempt to break him as well, most notably Wrestling/KingKongBundy, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]]. Even though both Bundy and Earthquake injured Hogan, and André scored a controversial win, Hogan always averted the trope … until one June day in 1993, when the Japanese sumo wrestler Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} flattened Hogan, in dominating style, in his final match during his most famous WWF run; Hogan sold being burned in the face as he was led from the ring following his loss … and for nine years, that was the last image WWF viewers had of him – a broken, defeated hero with the villain and his stooge, Wrestling/MrFuji, gloating in the ring over their victory. |
| 200 | * Wrestling/{{Vader}}'s run in WCW in the early 1990s began with him effectively squashing Wrestling/{{Sting}} in a decisive fashion, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Championship]]. He also sent Wrestling/NikitaKoloff into retirement, legitimately broke [[{{Jobber}} Joe Thurman's]] back and beat [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]] to a bloody pulp. He's widely considered the best monster heel in all of professional wrestling. |
| 201 | * In the dying days of Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/ScottSteiner was this, credited with putting Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage, Wrestling/KevinNash, Wrestling/BookerT and [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid Vicious]] out of action by "injuring" them.[[note]]At ''Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Clash of the Champions IX'', November 15, 1989, Steiner botched a fallaway slam on Sid during the Steiner Brothers-Skyscrapers (Sid and Wrestling/DanSpivey) match, resulting in a collapsed lung. Sid was out for months and was replaced by a young guy coming in from Memphis who was given the name [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker "Mean" Mark Callous]].[[/note]] |
| 202 | * This was essentially the point of Wrestling/RandyOrton's "Legend Killer" gimmick; he severely injured several of Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s most famous and legendary personalities, in some cases even forcing their retirement. He's been doing something similar with his head punt of DOOM, which has put several people on the injured/reserve list for months with concussions. It's wrestling, so you can't quite stretch {{Kayfabe}} to cover ''killing'' the {{face}}s, but Orton comes about as close as you can. |
| 203 | * Wrestling/MadisonRayne was infamously given a "career killer" gimmick, where Wrestling/{{TNA}} would credit the knockouts it released (Roxxi Laveaux and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]]) to her. Although she was eventually defeated by a released knockout TNA decided to bring back (Wrestling/AngelinaLove). |
| 204 | * Wrestling/MarkHenry in his heel turn. He took out Wrestling/BigShow and Wrestling/{{Kane}} by breaking their legs with a steel chair and a squash, leaving them out of action for weeks and a few months respectively. He even went to the point of even giving Wrestling/RandyOrton who was [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-h.html World Heavyweight Champion]] a hard time. The result at Night Of Champions? He becomes World Heavyweight Champion! |
| 205 | ** Before that, he had taken out the likes of Wrestling/KurtAngle, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, and Wrestling/{{Batista}}. |
| 206 | * Wrestling/BrockLesnar: 2014 is shaping up to be the former NCAA champion's greatest year in wrestling, and it's easy to see why. The Beast ended Wrestling/TheUndertaker's Wrestling/WrestleMania winning streak at 21, in arguably a hard-fought victory. But the greatest moment was yet to come, as he completely dismantled and dominated Wrestling/JohnCena to win the WWE World Championship at Wrestling/SummerSlam 2014; Lesnar rarely, if ever, sold any of Cena's offensive moves while crushing the now former champion with 16 consecutive suplexes. After both matches, Lesnar's manager, Wrestling/PaulHeyman, used SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome promos to put over Lesnar as a conquerer who cannot be beaten and that the fans' heroes are not only ineffective but inept in taking down the Conquerer. Following this, Lesnar rarely loses any of his matches and went several years defeating other top stars. |
| 207 | * Speaking of the Undertaker, he's one of the most notorious heels in the industry (prior to the Streak being broken in 2014 and his retirement in 2020), and a match against the Undertaker had a long-standing reputation of being almost certain doom for whatever poor babyface had gotten himself into it. |
| 208 | * Wrestling/ZackSabreJr used the 2018 New Japan Cup to establish himself as this, reaching the finals by defeating crowd favorites Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito, Wrestling/KotaIbushi and SANADA and winning the whole thing by ''making Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi submit''. |
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| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 212 | * ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'': |
| 213 | ** Lilith. Her wrath is inescapable, and every single character knows that when she appears, it is time to run. Even [[BigBad Valentine]] knows that he shouldn't mess with her. She is one of the few characters in the entire story that can fight on equal terms with an angel (and possibly win). She is completely ruthless and has absolutely no qualms about killing any of her own family: she shoved her hand through her son Umbra's chest, and squeezed his heart till it exploded, then dropped him unceremoniously onto the ground and laughed, all just so she could psychologically disturb the watching Resistance. |
| 214 | ** Oblivion eventually surpassed Lilith as the Hero Killer. While Lilith is powerful in her own right, it's revealed that she CAN be defeated by Umbra and Nicholas if they work as a team (Umbra distracting her while Nicholas powers her up and then hits her with a dragon made completely of fire and wind). Oblivion is no such thing. He beat Umbra within an inch of his life and tossed Nicholas aside. Even Puriel, who is the most powerful character on the Light side, is pushed to his limit whenever he meets Oblivion. It's really shown in the final battle, where Oblivion effortlessly kills Ra (a giant phoenix god-king who commands an [[GiantFlyer impressive army of 9-foot-tall phoenixes]]) in the first few moments of the final battle. Then he finally kills Nuriel, an angel of God who is, for all things considered, Shadowhunter Peril's God of Blizzards. This manages to drive [[TerrorHero Puriel]] into a HeroicBSOD. When Puriel snaps out of it, his ensuing battle with Oblivion rips up half the city and it only ends when Puriel manages to rip out Oblivion's heart and then finally kill him. And even then, there's evidence that he might not be totally dead. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 218 | * ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has the Huntsmen, which are specifically designed to hunt down and capture Changelings. They can remain indefinitely in the mortal world without difficulty and shift into any human form they like, they can craft snares that negate a changeling's ability to escape, and uniquely among Fae creatures they do not suffer from the bane of iron and can freely use it as a weapon. While they cannot actually ''break'' the protections granted by the seasonal Bargains, they know exactly how to exploit the chinks in those protections. And finally, a Huntsman's heart is not in his breast but hidden within the dreams of some mortal. If you actually kill him, he will be reborn within a month so long as the Heart remains undisturbed. |
| 219 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'', Adam Smasher is the tabletop equivalent of an SNKBoss and will initiate any HopelessBossFight on any edgerunner willing to fight him. [[spoiler:In ''Firestorm'' books, he brutally killed Johnny Silverhand with a shotgun before he attempted to kill Morgan Blackhand in their first standoff.]] |
| 220 | * Jasper Stone in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' (the dude on the cover of the main book). He ends up ''specifically assigned'' to this role by the [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bads]]. |
| 221 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' |
| 222 | ** It's only level 20, but the Heroslayer Hydra in 4e is meant to fill this role. It's designed to make "tank and spank" strategies useless or near-so by dishing out a lot of damage from multiple attacks, and getting a large damage bonus against anyone who "marks" it and tries to force it to attack them. The ability is appropriately enough called "heroslayer." |
| 223 | ** Mephistopheles from 4th and older editions of D&D. Other archdevils do as well, but Mephistopheles is the most visible. |
| 224 | ** If an entire dungeon can count, the classic Tomb of Horrors module and Forgotten Realms' Undermountain definitely belong on this page. |
| 225 | ** The Tarrasque was created as basically the single most powerful monster in the world that didn't live in another world. It was essentially Godzilla for D&D. |
| 226 | ** Orcus was supposed to be this in 4th Edition, but this mostly led to people custom-building parties to beat him and then bragging about it. |
| 227 | ** Dragons also tend to be more powerful than their Challenge Rating would suggest, partly so that encounters with them would be more memorable. |
| 228 | ** Elminster, the iconic wizard of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, manages to invert this; with many groups gathering their party for the not-terribly-difficult task of killing him despite his status as one of the strongest and most important people in the setting. The developer's official stance on this practice is [[ImplausibleDeniability "Nuh uh, he's too smart."]] |
| 229 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' features one of these in the corebook in the form of Octavian, a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Second Circle Demon]]. For comparison, the Solar Exalted are designed to be bastions of good, the righteous god-kings of Creation, with all the corporeal and celestial power that comes with the office. Octavian carries ''three'' of their severed heads on his belt -- and as a Second Circle, there's all the Third Circle Demons above Octavian even before you reach the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Yozis]]... |
| 230 | ** Hilariously, due to the glitchy nature of early Second Edition, he's only a [[InformedAttribute mild threat]], and thanks to sorcery, it's quite possible he never actually gets as far as a fight-a comic has an impatient [[CuteWitch Arianna]] blast him with Adamant Circle Banishment, sending him screaming back to Malfeas. One assumes he doesn't consider being banished an actual loss, since [[CombatPragmatist his opponent cheated]]. A better example would be the Wyld Hunt, the organization of [[SuperSoldier Dragon-Bloods]] devoted to, among other things, killing Celestial Exalts before they become a threat to [[TheEmpire the Realm]]. |
| 231 | ** This is also the primary role of Day Caste Abyssals and Scourge Caste Infernals. Unfortunately for their respective groups of {{Big Bad}}s, the signature Day Caste has as his primary goal getting into Harmonious Jade's pants, and the signature Scourge is so arrogant he even annoys ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality Adorjan]]''. |
| 232 | * Mechanically speaking, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=23321 Tsabo Tavoc]] of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. Her abilities stop other legendary creatures from damaging, blocking or even targeting her at all, and she can kill them easily with her activated ability. In the storyline, Gerrard beats her, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation despite this being all but impossible in-game]] for the aforementioned reasons. |
| 233 | ** For a storyline example, we have the vampire lord Crovax. He kills the cat-woman Mirri, his "guardian angel" Selenia, and repeatedly kills and tortures the immortal goblin Squee. He is the commander of the Phyrexian invasion of Dominaria, which winds up causing a lot of death and destruction. He even kills and eats the aforementioned Tsabo Tavoc when she fails to kill Gerrard Capashen. |
| 234 | * The ''TabletopGame/NecessaryEvil'' RPG, in which the SuperVillain [=PCs=] are LaResistance on VichyEarth, has Hero Killer ammunition, known as HK rounds. Basically, bullets designed for killing people who are ImmuneToBullets. |
| 235 | * [=OblivAeon=] in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' takes out Ra and the entire Ennead in an early appearance, causes the death of the Scholar (who gives his life to save Guise), and is such a massive threat that Nightmist has to sacrifice herself to buy a ''chance'' at beating him. He's even worse on the actual tabletop, where his game mode is best described as hurling hero cards into a meat grinder in order to buy a chance; it's extremely rare to defeat him without at least one incapacitation, and losing [[https://i.imgur.com/YM0HdMZ.png fourteen people]] ''in games the heroes win'' is not unheard of. |
| 236 | * This is the point of the 'character-killer' build for heroes in TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} and TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}. The Eldar Farseer's [[MindRape Mind War]] psychic power is a particularly good example. |
| 237 | ** Skulltaker from the Daemon books is quite literally made for this. The fantasy version has Killing Blow on 5+ and the 40k version wounds anything and inflicts Instant Death on 4+. Of course, a significant amount of characters are immune to Killing Blow or Instant Death, which reduces his utility somewhat. |
| 238 | *** The fantasy version also had Karnak, an who had the ability to mark an enemy unit and re-roll and failed hits or wounds against it. |
| 239 | *** Fantasy also has Wulfric the Wanderer, a champion of Chaos with the unique ability to force anyone to duel him one-on-one, allowing him to take out heroes not suited for melee such as wizards, or even just weaker heroes who would normally want to avoid fighting him. |
| 240 | ** There's also a whole style of magic in Fantasy based on this. The Lore of Death is packed full of some of the most powerful damage spells in the game, but they focus primarily on targeting heroes in a crowd and sniping them for massive, if not instantly fatal, damage. |
| 241 | ** The Blood Angels's Sanguinor has the ability to choose one enemy Independent Character and re-roll To Hit and To Wound dice in close combat against said character for the game's duration. |
| 242 | *** Also from the Blood Angels is Mephiston, who has an ability that forces an enemy character in contact with him to take a leadership test with a minus 4 modifier, and he gets to re-roll any failed To Hot and To Wound rolls for the round of combat if they fail, which coupled with the fact that he has Force Sword, means whatever he's fighting is likely to die in that unless it's not immune to instant death. Of course, Mephiston is strong that enemy characters will generally die against him regardless. |
| 243 | ** The 5th Edition Tyranid codex brings us the Swarmlord, a unique Hive Tyrant that the HiveMind reincarnates when a hive fleet can't beat its prey through normal means. Not only is the thing a [[TheChessmaster cunning strategist]], it [[MultiArmedAndDangerous wields four energy-charged swords]], and was capable of beating Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, in hand to hand combat (given, Hive Tyrants are ''large'', so that may not be as hard as it seems). |
| 244 | *** In game, the Swarmlord follows this in that is swords force an enemy to re-roll successful invulnerable saves and inflict instant death, though the Swarmlord is so expansive it's probably only worth using in an Apocalypse game. |
| 245 | ** The 7th edition Warriors of Chaos rulebook tends to somewhat encourage keeping hero killing in mind when building an exalted hero or chaos lord since they can roll on the eye of the gods table and, likely, get stronger from it. [[FridgeLogic Oddly a Chaos Lord getting rolls on this makes him stronger than a Daemon Prince]]. |
| 246 | ** 6th edition codex Chaos Space Marines brings us the Murder Sword, nominate a target, when the bearer is in base to base contact with the target, the sword becomes double strength, ignores armor, and gains instant death. Wait for enemy player to challenge, swap the challengee with a model in base to base with the challenger, [[CurbStompBattle laugh manically while your daemon prince has a fun time]] |
| 247 | ** In-universe, Fulgrim. So far, canonically, including the Literature/HorusHeresy novels, he's killed one Primarch, came within inches of killing a second (admittedly one on his side), and is ultimately going to mortally wound a third. Any Traitor Primarch could qualify if the loyalist heroes they've butchered get counted, but Fulgrim goes the extra mile by being the one with the most Primarch blood on his hands. |
| 248 | ** The Officio Assassinorum is the Imperium's answer to tough questions that need to answered a single, surgical attack against enemy leaders. The types of assassin include: |
| 249 | *** Callidus shapeshifting infiltrators that get close to targets to kill them with a special phase sword. |
| 250 | *** Culexus are humans with 'empty souls', psychic blanks that disorientate their targets. |
| 251 | *** Vindicare are extremely accurate sharpshooters. |
| 252 | *** Eversor assassins are drug crazed close combat monsters capable of ripping apart an entire enemy command structure, often finishing the job by literally exploding. |
| 253 | *** Venenum are infiltrating poisoners, often tasked with large scale secret massacres. |
| 254 | *** Vanus assassins are master intelligence gatherers, putting into JustAsPlanned actions that take out their targets without anyone even suspecting an assassin was involved. |
| 255 | ** Warhammer Fantasy now boasts three with Games Workshop finally changing the status quo, with [[OurLichesAreDifferent Arkhan the Black]], [[BodyHorror Otto Glott]] and [[CantArgueWithElves Tyrion]] killing several major characters in the End Times books along with several named playable characters including Eltharion, Kurt Helborg and Orion. |
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| 259 | * The premise of ''Island Under Siege'' during the 2002 ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] was ComicBook/{{Carnage}} leading an army of super villains and killing the Marvel heroes. |
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| 263 | * ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' has Mihaly A Shilage, a legendary OldSoldier of an enemy AcePilot. He hunts down [[spoiler:Brownie]] and shoots her down as you're helpless to do anything, with the game not even allowing you to lock on to him. Later, [[spoiler:Champ and Wiseman]] try taking him on in two separate encounters, both leading to their deaths at his hands. |
| 264 | * Vordred fits this trope to a T in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', and he has quite a list ahead of him. First off, he turns paladins undead and adds them to his "trophy collection", plus his skull-covered armor is almost invincible to any attack, even light-based attacks. Also, there's an area named after him where you fight him and find that he takes NO DAMAGE whatsoever, resulting in a HopelessBossFight (at least until the Doomwood Part 1 finale with the MultipleEndings and a challenge fight). And as if that's not enough, the experiment performed on him by [=ArcAttack=], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero with (believe it or not) help from the hero, manages to make him EVEN MORE POWERFUL]]. [[OhCrap Oh, snap.]] |
| 265 | * Shay Cormac, the protagonist of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' is a former member of the mostly heroic Assassin's Order, who defects to their archenemy, the Templars, making him a rare protagonist version of this trope. In the game, he ends up killing Adéwale, who was the protagonist of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedFreedomCry Freedom Cry]]'' and is responsible for reducing the Colonial Assassins down to simply Achilles, the mentor of ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedIII''. As the epilogue reveals, [[spoiler:he was the man responsible for killing Arno Dorian's father in ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedUnity'']]. |
| 266 | ** In the modern day, Otso Berg is the leader of Sigma Team, an elite squad dedicated to hunting down and eliminating Assassins. While he's been very capable in the past, a recent rash of failures have led some of his higher-ups to question his Hero Killer status. |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'' has Irenicus, who opens the game by whittling your party down from six members to four. You don't even stand a chance against him until the endgame, even though you are the child of a god. There's a part after the middle where you need to recruit a bunch of crazy wizards to attack him; if you try to face him without them, he'll insta-kill your whole party. He's level 30 in a game where your characters become really powerful because they can reach levels around 17. |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has Handsome Jack. One of the sidequests you get in the beginning of the game reveals that in-between games Jack killed [[spoiler:Helena Pierce]], a major NPC in the first game. Later on, he ends up killing [[spoiler:Bloodwing]] and more importantly, [[spoiler:Roland]]. There's also Wilhelm, who is stated to have been capable of defeating the Vault Hunters of the first game. |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'': |
| 270 | ** Vladimir Makarov in the VideoGame/ModernWarfare Trilogy. Every time he appears in the flesh, without exception, a PlayerCharacter either dies or gets critically wounded, usually along with other important characters as well. He [[spoiler: kills Allen at the end of "No Russian"]]; [[spoiler:he guns down Harkov when hijacking the President's plane]]; [[spoiler:he sets up the ambush that kills both Kamarov and Soap]]; [[spoiler: and he kills Yuri at the end of the third game]]. Basically, anytime Makarov appears, it is ''bad news''. In addition, [[spoiler:though he doesn't appear when he does it, he also detonates the nuke that kills Jackson and Vasquez in "Shock And Awe" and is responsible for the attack on London that kills the Davis family at the end of "Mind the Gap".]] |
| 271 | ** Nikita Dragovich in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''. One of his introduction in Reznov's flashback showing him killing Dimitri Petrenko, the PlayerCharacter of the previous game. Also his dragon, Kravchenko, tries to be one, but almost always foiled, even when he returned briefly in Black Ops 2, when he again, failed to kill Mason and Woods, even then he indirectly killed [[spoiler:Bowman]]. |
| 272 | ** Raul Menendez in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' is an even straighter example. Just count how many named characters he killed, more than half are playable. |
| 273 | ** Gabriel Rorke in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts''. While the only ones he killed onscreen are [[spoiler: Ajax and Elias]], it is implied that he killed many other Ghosts as well. He also [[spoiler: drowned in a burning train and shot in the chest]] and ultimately [[spoiler: [[ImplacableMan walked away just fine like nothing happened]] just minutes after that and kidnapped the player character about halfway after the credits roll.]] |
| 274 | * Misery from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' kills King and Balrog forces Toroko to eat the [[PsychoSerum Red Flowers]] which makes her go rabid and die. [[spoiler: However Misery and Balrog are being controlled by The Doctor who killed Arthur Toroko older brother so he’s technically more responsible]]. |
| 275 | * [[EldritchAbomination Lavos]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' [[spoiler:kills the ''main character'', Crono. It's entirely possible to proceed to beat the game without him, unless you carry out a sidequest to bring him back using the titular Chrono Trigger.]] |
| 276 | * In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' we have Captain Mako of the main villain group, Arachnos. Mako is by far the most figuratively and literally blood-thirsty member of the group (being a shark-like mutant), who is a former [[RuthlessModernPirates pirate]] and serial-killer, [[PsychoForHire hired onto Arachnos for his murderous ways]]. While Mako has other duties from time to time, his main employment purpose is to murder heroes, not "defeat", not "capture", not "foil", ''murder.'' His go-to-method is to [[TheSneakyGuy stalk his prey, wait for an opening]] and then tear them apart - he is [[LightningBruiser fast enough where the only time his slows down is for the kill]], so countering him is quite a challenge. He even wears a [[BattleTrophy necklace adorned with the teeth]], one from each hero he has killed - it's quite a large collection. |
| 277 | * Adam Smasher in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''. He kills Johnny Silverhand [[spoiler:(but not really as he just defeated runner and brought him in to be experimented on by Arasaka)]] and can potentially kill [[spoiler:Rogue or Saul in the final assault on Arasaka Tower]]. In ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', [[spoiler:he kills both Rebecca and David]], and in ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' [[spoiler:he's the one who attempts to kill Morgan Blackhand on top of Arasaka HQ.]] |
| 278 | * The Pursuer from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' is known to roam the land of Drangleic in order to track down and kill the [[PlayerCharacter Bearer of the Curse]], and, considering his quiver of weaponry, is implied to have been successful up until your arrival. Not only does he show up in various early-game locations to kill you at the most inopportune moment, but [[spoiler:there's more than one Pursuer if Castle Drangleic is anything to go by]]. |
| 279 | * ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'': Most of the Rival Corporation's robots are mainly used as defense against [[DeathWorld Hoxxes']] native wildlife and intruders such as the player Dwarves. However, the Nemesis is a robot that's designed with the ''explicit purpose'' of finding, luring in and killing the Dwarves, and is indeed very capable of doing so with its grab attacks that incapacitate up to two Dwarves and pretty much OneHitKill on higher difficulties. |
| 280 | ** And then there's the Detonators. Among giant spiders which can breathe fireballs tank nearly everything, these are known to be ''the'' most lethal giant gyphids in the entire species. The dwarves will ''freak out'' if they spot one, because they now have to deal with a giant monster that can explode the air around it, and after killing it they have to deal with the megaton self-destruction which spawns an additional cluster of exploding meteors (the latter of which is typically a lead cause of greenbeard death). Dreadnaughts may be more challenging, but at least they give off enough signatures for mission control to warn you that it's going to ruin your day. This thing can just ''show up'', dig out of the ground right next to you, and explode without warning. |
| 281 | * Doppelgangers in ''VideoGame/DotHackGU''. |
| 282 | ** Tri-Edge/Azure Kite. The dude is just... plain... unstoppable. Pretty much every appearance he makes involves someone getting Data Drained and comatose. He's only defeated twice in the series, which barely slows him down at all. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'': King Hydra, a multi-headed dragon who serves [[BigBad Zoma]] directly, is responsible for [[spoiler:the death of the Hero's father and predecessor, Ortega]]. |
| 284 | * The disciples of Rykard and Mogh in ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' all count. |
| 285 | ** Rykard's crew, based out of Volcano Manor, refer to themselves as Recusants. They deliberately hunt down Tarnished who attempt to become Elden Lord and end the Shattering. The Recusants reject the meddling of the Greater Will as embodied by Marika's Golden Order. By slaying would-be Elden Lords, they seek to prevent the Golden Order from regaining control of the Lands Between. The big issue here being that the PlayerCharacter is a Tarnished seeking to become Elden Lord. Unusually, you can join their order and kill your fellow Tarnished, at least until you kill their leader, Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy. Though, to be fair, you don't actually ''need'' to kill him to finish the game. |
| 286 | ** White-Faced Varre of Mogh's Dynasty also advocates killing other Tarnished. There are two major differences between Varre and Volcano Manor. The first is that, while he also opposed the Golden Order, he advocates killing other Tarnished for the challenge moreso than as a means to an end. The second is that Volcano Manor's quest line has you assassinating named [=NPCs=]. Varre's quest serves as the tutorial to Invasion multiplayer, and has you trying to invade and assassinate ''other players.'' |
| 287 | * In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series' backstory, the ancient [[BarbarianTribe Atmorans]] ({{Precursors}} of the modern [[HornyVikings Nords]]) went to war with Skyrim's native [[OurElvesAreDifferent Falmer (Snow Elves)]] after the Falmer sacked and slaughtered the Atmoran colony of Saarthal in Skyrim, with the Atmorans going so far as to [[FinalSolution attempt to drive the Falmer to extinction]]. After nearly wiping them out on the mainland, the Atmorans pursued the remaining Falmer to the barren, frozen island of Solstheim. During the Falmer's LastStand at the Battle of the Moesring, an individual known only as the [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Snow Prince]] [[OneManArmy single-handedly]] turned the tide of the battle, killing many prominent Atmoran heroes in the process including Ulfgi Anvil-Hand, Strom the White, Freida Oaken-Wand, and Heimdall the Frenzied. The Atmorans, despite their hatred of the Falmer, considered the Snow Prince such a WorthyOpponent for his deeds that, after his death, he was buried with full honors befitting any great warrior, with guards even stationed at his tomb, which would one day become Jolgeirr Barrow. |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' features an entire army of hero killers in the form of [=FOEs=]. Although they're not particularly important to the plot, they do get a textual introduction in each game warning the player [[DontAskJustRun not to foolishly try to fight them]], which in this series is not an empty threat. Players that don't get the hint often mistake the first FOE they come across for a particularly nasty EarlyBirdBoss (a mistake made easier by EO's general EarlyGameHell). Avoiding them requires three things: the realization that you are supposed to avoid them, knowledge of their movement pattern and prayer that regular enemies won't slow you down as you run the hell away. |
| 289 | * Because you play as a VillainProtagonist in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', this game [[{{Inverted|Trope}} inverts]] this trope: the five super agents are the only ones capable of permanently killing your henchmen. However, you can play this trope straight by doing special sidequests to permanently defeat each agent. |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' has Frank Horrigan, a titanic {{Power Armor}}ed super mutant, who's the Enclave's best soldier and the FinalBoss of the game. The first time he's seen is when he slaughters a random townsperson and his family. Whenever he shows up, somebody's going to die, including [[spoiler: the talking Deathclaws in Vault 13 (who he punches in half ''with his bare hands'') and Matt, the Brotherhood of Steel member manning the San Francisco outpost.]] When you finally go toe-to-toe with him at the end of the game (and you ''have'' to, because unlike the previous FinalBoss there is no talking your way out of it,) you find he has 999 HP (for comparison, the FinalBoss of the previous game had half that,) 10 of every stat ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation even though in-universe he's not particularly smart]],) and a plasma gun and melee weapon that are the most powerful energy and melee weapons in the game, respectively. Thankfully, the player can turn the Enclave base's turrets on him and gain the help of a nearby Enclave squad to help them out. |
| 291 | * The Emperor in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' racks up no small total of heroes slain. Most notable are [[spoiler:Cid, who is fatally wounded by the Emperor's Cyclone]], and [[spoiler:Ricard Highwind, whom the risen-from-Hell Emperor kills personally when Ricard pulls a YouShallNotPass]]. |
| 292 | ** The NotSoHarmlessVillain Count Borghen's actions lead to the fall of Fynn and the death of Prince Scott. He even has the distinct dishonour of being the first villain in the series to kill off a party member, [[spoiler:Josef, who [[HeroicSacrifice dies saving the others]] from Borghen's boulder trap]]. |
| 293 | * ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth. You spend most of the first disk following Sephiroth and observing dozens of bloody murders in his wake, including several key [=NPCs=], three impaled party members, and the [[SkippableBoss Midgar Zolom]] hanging from a tree. |
| 294 | ** While [[spoiler: he gets his actual significant kill]] in the game, it's really in the movie ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' that he shows the power backing up his claim for the title. As soon as he appears, he forces Cloud to stretch himself to twice as superhuman feats as he has so far (and that's saying something), while he himself doesn't even get out of breath. Especially in the extended version, where he beats Cloud within an inch of his life before the inevitable HeroicSecondWind kicks in. Cloud has already defeated opponents like the ridiculously powerful Remnants of Sephiroth and a gigantic dragon god, but his reaction upon first seeing Sephiroth can be described as "[[OhCrap Eep!]]". |
| 295 | ** The [[EvilInc Shinra Electric Power Company]] who Sephiroth previously worked for are technically responsible for more deaths than him. In Disc one they butcher Wedge, Biggs and Jessie of [[LaResistance AVALANCHE]] then kill everyone in Sector 7 families and children included. Not to mention gunning down dear Zack Fair in FlashBack. |
| 296 | * [[EldritchAbomination Sin]] from ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX''. Cuts a swathe of destruction and leaves nothing but ruins in its wake wherever it treads. Still, that does not deter the many organizations that rise up to Spira's defense and try to defeat him. [[spoiler:Just ask the Crusaders [[CurbStompBattle how well that went...]]]]. |
| 297 | * Alma in ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterassaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]''. It kind of helps that bullets do jack against ghosts. |
| 298 | ** Alma is a special case in that she's an accidental Hero Killer. In F.E.A.R. she just wants to HUG Point Man because he's [[spoiler:her son]] but her presence is so lethal that even such a harmless action can kill. It's kind of heartbreaking -- all she wants is a hug, but letting her do that will kill you, so you have no choice but to shove her off. And in Project Origin she's [[spoiler:got a gigantic crush on Beckett, and wants to mate with him]]. That, incidentally, is also why at several points in the game she actively lashes out against anyone who's even looking at you funny. [[spoiler:She ends up getting what she wants and nailing Beckett in the ending. He somehow survives the intimate contact with his life and body intact, which probably means he's the most badass character in the series, but unfortunately, his mind is likely a different story]]. |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'': Jaffar acts as TheBrute to [[BigBad Nergal]]. It stands to reason that he's dubbed [[RedBaron The Angel of Death]], and is the first Assassin class character in the series. To drive the point home [[spoiler:he kills Leila, a capable spy and thief that had integrated herself into the villains forces, effortlessly.]] |
| 300 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'''s Arvis kills [[spoiler: Sigurd]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist for the greater good.]] |
| 301 | ** The Black Knight in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' kills Greil, Ike's father. |
| 302 | * General RAAM from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar.'' He kills Minh Young Kim in his very first cutscene, and then, in the RAAM's Shadow DLC, he [[spoiler:offs Alicia Valera, and almost kills Jace Stratton, not to mention the countless Gears and Onyx Guards he murders.]] |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'' has an unusual example with [[spoiler:[[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Niko Bellic]]]], who kills [[spoiler:Johnny's friends Jason Michaels and Jim Fitzgerald, whose assassinations are missions in the original game!]] What makes this example strange, the first spoiler aside, is how [[spoiler:Niko]] never antagonizes [[TheHero Johnny]] and acts as an ally in two missions (where, in their final mission together, [[BadassBiker Johnny]] remarks that he wouldn't want to piss off [[spoiler:Niko]], after witnessing him slaughter dozens of mobsters on his own) and Johnny and the Lost never find out what he did. |
| 304 | ** And then in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', [[spoiler:Johnny himself]] shows up when the game introduces [[AxCrazy Trevor]]. He lasts about a minute before [[spoiler:Trevor hits him in the face with a bottle and, while he's on the ground, stomps his face in]]. |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/InfinityBlade'' has the God King. The initial mandatory tutorial places you as a nameless swordsman, bent on facing him. The prospect of your insisting to fight excites him, but he has his [[TheDragon guard "Dark Knight"]] fathom your potency instead. Once you strike him a few times (having learned some basic controls) he immediately disarms you, and an impressed God King then slays you. Cut to actual gameplay: twenty years later, you are the son of the tutorial protagonist and you have arrived at the castle of the God King (who anticipates and desires your arrival, hoping to kill someone stronger than your father) - [[PrepareToDie avenge]] [[YouKilledMyFather your father]]. That is the entire game. |
| 306 | * Witches in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. Normal zombies, even in a horde, are fairly easy to survive; smokers and hunters are usually just an annoyance; tanks are deadly and very scary, but an effective team can take them down without getting hurt; but the only appropriate response to a witch is DontAskJustRun. |
| 307 | ** As time goes by and people learned proper tactics for handling witches, serious VillainDecay set in. High level players outside of tournament matches have made a sport of killing witches in the most outrageous ways possible, such jumping over her, spinning around, and shooting her point blank with a shotgun for an instant kill. In competitive play, if something's going to kill an entire team of survivors, it will be a tank. |
| 308 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 309 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' takes place in the timeline where Ganondorf managed to kill ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime the Hero of Time]]'', resulting in him and the Sacred Realm being transformed to reflect his dark desires. |
| 310 | ** In the backstory to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', [[BigBad Calamity Ganon]] easily defeats [[spoiler: all five of Hyrule's champions upon his return -- Daruk, Revali, Mipha, Urbosa, and even Link himself -- despite them being the strongest warriors in the land who had been deliberately preparing to defeat him. Four of the champions were imprisoned in the Divine Beasts and presumed dead (they are), while Link was only kept alive by the swift actions of his allies and was forced to slumber for a full century in order to recover. Because Link failed in his duty to stop Calamity Ganon, many of the people he encounters blame him for the deaths of the others and the subsequent ravaging of the kingdom]]. |
| 311 | * ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' has a variation in its depiction of Kraven the Hunter, who has come to New York to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt the most dangerous game]]: the city's local villains. [[spoiler:He is shown brutally killing Scorpion, and he also has trophies from killing the Vulture and Shocker.]] |
| 312 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 313 | ** The Collectors in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' can be seen as this, though it depends a lot on player choice and skill. From the first scene, you know they're bad news when they kill your character from the first game. In later story encounters, they tend to be very difficult fights, and the team has to pull out a lot of stops just to survive; in the final mission against them, it's possible for ''[[AnyoneCanDie everyone]]'' to die, and without excellent planning, at least one or two characters ''will'' die. In one case a [[VillainOverride Harbinger-controlled Collector]] deals the deathblow. |
| 314 | ** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' gives us Kai Leng, who had previously established his credibility in the ''Mass Effect'' novels. Unfortunately his stealth-assassin skills don't translate well to direct confrontation, making him look less effective in the game proper and his competence is disproportionate to Shepard's, meaning that as long as the player keeps certain people alive and warns others of him they can make Leng look quite incompetent, with his only successful kill being [[spoiler:Thane Krios, a terminally-ill Drell that he was largely fighting to a stalemate because Thane is a badass. It should also be noted that Leng ''failed'' to kill his actual mark, the Salarian Councilor]]. |
| 315 | * Vile in his first appearance in ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' (though he suffers from VillainDecay in his subsequent appearances). He starts out the game utterly trashing X in a HopelessBossFight, requiring a BigDamnHeroes moment from Zero to drive him away. Near the end of the game, X has likely picked up tons of upgrades and gotten the weapons of all the other Mavericks... and he ''still'' can't beat Vile. In fact, this time Vile beats ''Zero'' beforehand, requiring Zero to pull a HeroicSacrifice after X's second beating just to destroy his Ride Armor and give X a fighting chance. |
| 316 | * Dark Samus of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption''. The game introduces three other bounty hunters. [[spoiler: By the end of the game, Dark Samus has killed and absorbed all three of them.]] |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/ModernCombat'': Edward Page kills numerous Phantom Unit soldiers, including Anderson, the main protagonist of the 2nd game and a major support teammate in the 3rd game. He also almost kills Walker, the main protagonist of the 3rd game, but gets killed by player character Blake in a sudden surprise attack. |
| 318 | * [=LeChuck=] from the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series. Though he plunders, tortures and even kills hundreds upon hundreds of people (and even forms his own skeletal army from these corpses), his plans to rule the entire Caribbean keep getting thwarted upon many defeats (and deaths) at the hands of the main protagonist Guybrush Threepwood. It is not until ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' that, [[spoiler:after spreading his own Pox on the entire Gulf of Melange (while becoming human himself), [=LeChuck=] proceeds to kill bounty huntress Morgan [=LeFlay=] by stabbing her with her own blade in Chapter 4, and then saves Guybrush's life from the gallows... only to kill him with the Cutlass of Kaflu later on in the chapter when all the Pox is absorbed from the entire Gulf of Melange into the legendary Esponja Grande, which [=LeChuck=] then uses to reabsorb the Voodoo powers back into himself and then, while using the power of his hypnotized monkeys, to gain his powers from the Crossroads and become the Pirate God capable of unleashing destruction upon the entire Carribean.]] |
| 319 | * ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': Shang Tsung (with the help of Quan Chi) [[OurHeroIsDead killed Liu Kang]], starting a multi-arc WhamEpisode spanning ''DA'', ''Deception'', and ''Armageddon''. |
| 320 | * In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'': |
| 321 | ** [[spoiler:a BrainwashedAndCrazy Sindel]] becomes one for all of thirty seconds. |
| 322 | ** [[spoiler:Shao Kahn delivers a NeckSnap to an unsuspecting Kung Lao. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Liu Kang paid him back in full.]]]] |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' introduces us to D'Vorah, who manages to kill [[spoiler:Baraka and Mileena]] in her debut. ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' has her kill the [[spoiler:present-timeline Hanzo Hasashi, AKA ''[[SeriesMascot Scorpion himself]]'']], earning her the hatred of a great amount of the fanbase. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'' has FU. As a stark contrast to every previous BigBad, he ''immediately'' goes after Travis and shows how ruthless he can be. He crippled [[spoiler:Shinobu]], then killed [[spoiler:Badman]] outright, while Travis only gets a cut on his stomach before he can do anything about it and passes out. All that just because Travis killed his servant Mr. Blackhole (whom, as it should be pointed out, FU had previously committed complete genocide on his homeworld, out of a whim). |
| 325 | * Nyx from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''. [[spoiler:Ryoji]] tells the heroes, at least half a dozen times, that "Nyx cannot be defeated." [[spoiler:He's ''right.'' There is no way to defeat Nyx. The main character puts his entire being into an ultimate attack, effectively commiting suicide, just to make her ''leave.'']] |
| 326 | * The chief antagonist in ''VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon'' can [[TakenForGranite turn Pokemon into stone]], and has their eyes set on [[OlympusMons Legendary and Mythic Pokemon]], who are some of the most powerful and respected/feared beings in their world. Rayquaza, the mediator between behemoths of land and the sea who also saves the world from the occasional meteor? [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Flees the planet while saying that it's the first time he ever felt fear after seeing it]]. Latios and Latias, twin dragons that can out speed jet planes and have enough psionic firepower to destroy a tsunami? [[SacrificialLion Literally dropping like rocks after they failed to escape]]. The Legendary Beasts, who over power and are feared by the protagonists? [[TheWorfEffect Petrified with zero fanfare]]. [[spoiler: Arceus, the very creator of the world? Well, what do you expect what happens to him at this point?]] |
| 327 | * The Dahaka in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' is a being whose only point in existence is to be this. When a being somehow avoids their own fate, in and of itself a rather admirable fate, a Dahaka is created to destroy them. The Prince can only defeat it with the InfinityPlusOneSword; otherwise he cannot even harm the beast. |
| 328 | ** The Dahaka is so well known for this, a lesser-known band called Merkabah actually has a song about it, appropriately named: "Dahaka". A transcript of the Metal Growled opening (lyrics are difficult to retrieve on the internet, and no easier to understand): "Sometimes it was whispered; sometimes it was read: the secret incantation that filled with the enemy with dread. If you knew it, if you used it, you could reach back to [unsure]. But stop and [think?; if one can see it]: Sole Master Of Your Destiny You Would Be. Dahaka is released. Dahaka: the Guardian of the Timeline. [A sentence; possibly "Eternal pursuer for fiddling with time."] NO ONE ESCAPES THE DAHAKA." |
| 329 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', interestingly enough, the player character ''is'' the hero killer, for a given value of 'hero', that is. The game compensates through timed missions and {{zerg rush}}es. |
| 330 | * In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' we have [[spoiler:Micah Bell, a career criminal and hitman, who is responsible for the downfall of the gang thanks to working with the Pinkertons as well partially responsible for Dutch's downward spiral and murdering Miss Grimshaw. He's also an absolute beast of a gunslinger. The final fight against him as John Marston is almost impossible because Micah is not only incredibly deadly, but he can No-Sell Dead-Eye and dynamite. Oh, and Micah will not hesitate to kill Arthur Morgan if the latter is low on honor as well]]. |
| 331 | * ZODIAC Virgo from ''VideoGame/RefleX'' establishes its danger credentials early on by [[OneHitKill one-shotting the most powerful boss]] the game had thrown at you thus far from offscreen. In subsequent stages it can be seen flying around in the background, getting chased and yet not destroyed by friendly forces, and finally effortlessly kills another boss that had been ''specifically built in order to counter it and destroy it''. At this point, you take it on, but [[spoiler:after a bit [[LetsGetDangerous it gets serious]] and kills you with an overwhelming barrage you have no hope of surviving. It's only by virtue of EleventhHourSuperpower activated upon your death that you (or, more accurately, your machine) gains the means to stop Virgo's rampage.]] |
| 332 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 333 | ** In the main series, [[BigBad Albert Wesker]] is responsible for the deaths of all S.T.A.R.S members with the five exceptions of Chris, Jill, Barry, Rebecca and Brad... the last of whom is killed by aforementioned Nemesis. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' Wesker almost kills Chris in a FlashBack making Jill do a HeroicSacrifice to stop him and Sheva tries to do the same before Chris saves her. |
| 334 | ** Implied in the novelization of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'': the book discusses the trope. Not knowing that [[ImplacableMan Neme]][[SuperPersistentPredator sis]] is the name of the monster, Jill refers to it as the "S.T.A.R.S. killer". Fittingly too, as his EstablishingCharacterMoment involves killing Brad with his bare hands, turning to you, [[ItCanThink ominously growling "STARS..."]], and proceeds to [[ImplacableMan stop at absolutely nothing to kill you too]]. |
| 335 | ** Alexia in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' [[PsychoSerum turns]] Steve into a massive monster and then kills him. |
| 336 | ** Saddler from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' kills Leon’s best buddy Luis and would have effortlessly killed Leon too, had Ada not shown up to harmlessly pump dozens of bullets into him before blowing up Leon's escape route instead. |
| 337 | * In ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'', there is Yaksha, [[spoiler: an EvilDoppelganger of Sakura Shinguji who ends up, near the end of the game, killing up Anastasia, Claris, Azami and Hatsuho in rapid succession.]] |
| 338 | * Mephiles the Dark from the infamous ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''. In the Last Story, [[spoiler:he actually kills ''Sonic'' to get Princess Elise to cry, setting the chain of events that ''nearly destroyed time itself''.]] |
| 339 | ** About 12 years later, there is Infinite from ''VideoGame/SonicForces''. Powered by the reality-warping Phantom Ruby, Infinite is Dr. Eggman's ultimate weapon and probably one of the most violent and sadistic characters ever in a Sonic game; he defeats and seemingly kills Sonic in their first battle, kills several Resistance fighters on-screen and enjoys graphically taunting characters about how painfully he's going to kill them. |
| 340 | * ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'': Sarah Kerrigan as Queen of Blades. She has used her Swarm to kill six people with major roles, all of whom were badasses of their own rights, was the mastermind behind the deaths of two more and drove a last one into suicide after defeating him in despite being seriously outnumbered. The sequel also sets up the Hybrid to be this, although they hadn't yet has the chance to present this, but whenever the protagonists encounter them, they are a source of fear and can cause NonStandardGameOver by killing your hero. |
| 341 | * Subverted with Akuma "The Raging Demon" from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' as, despite his reputation for murder, canonically he’s only killed about two dudes. For a while, it was a big deal that Akuma killed his brother Gouken Ryu and Ken’s [[OldMaster sensei]], but [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV SFIV]] reveals that Gouken put himself in a coma and woke up healthy. |
| 342 | ** Played straight with M. Bison, whom counting the Alpha series, the Udon comics and ''SFV'', has killed Charlie Nash five times. Bison also killed Chun-Li’s dad, Juri’s parents and T.Hawk’s dad, though for him [[ButForMeItWasTuesday it was all Tuesday]]. |
| 343 | *** Bison’s proud NumberTwo F.A.N.G killed Rashid’s female scientist friend, killed März one of the Dolls and poisoned Rashid himself. |
| 344 | * ''{{VideoGame/Suikoden}}'': Childrich of ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'' can serve as one, particularly [[spoiler: during the Final Duel against him. The player can elect to take along several other heroes with personal grudges against him, who then all try to call LeaveHimToMe at once; you can select which one fights him... and they can ''[[KilledOffForReal die]]'' if he beats them, forcing somebody else to step in and take up the fight.]] |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has [[TheStarscream Dimentio]], a MonsterClown with the ability to [[RealityWarper manipulate dimensions]] at his will. At the end of Chapter 6, he kills a hypnotized Luigi after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deciding that two failures is far enough]], then kills the rest of the playable cast [[WhamShot utterly out of the blue]]. Luckily, the heroes manage to get better; less luckily, [[BatmanGambit he counted on it]]. |
| 346 | * Barbatos Goetia from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny 2''. The first and foremost thing he's known for is killing the prequel's hero Stahn and he's off to claim the heads of other heroes, namely Philia and Garr. His legend as a Hero Killer has even stretched to ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', where he reappears as a bonus opponent in the battle arena and his name is ''Killer of Heroes''. Indeed, it turns out that [[spoiler:his ''entire purpose'' in life is to kill the heroes of the first game under the orders of the BigBad to remake the timeline]]. Nothing less can be expected of one voiced by Creator/NorioWakamoto. |
| 347 | * ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' has [[FinalBoss King ASGORE]], who Toriel informs you has caused the deaths of [[WouldHurtAChild every other fallen human before you]] - which doesn't *sound* impressive on paper until you recall that [[ScissorsCutsRock a human can easily defeat most Monsters just from having enough intent to kill.]] Him being able to defeat six other humans before you - one of which fell [[RevolversAreJustBetter armed with a gun]] - is no easy feat for one of his kind. [[spoiler:Ultimately, though, he [[DiscOneFinalBoss isn't even the biggest threat you have to face]] in the Neutral Route, and in [[LowLevelRun True Pacifist]] and Genocide he isn't even a battle at all.]] |
| 348 | ** In a rare [[InvertedTrope inversion]], [[spoiler:Sans]]. One conversation you can wind up having with Flowey has him describe to you all the trouble they have caused him and how they'd caused him [[OffscreenMomentofAwesome his fair share of resets]]. Should you decide to go on a genocidal path for yourself, you will find that [[ThatOneBoss they haven't weakened a bit since Flowey dealt with them, and that they are one of the hardest boss battles of the entire game.]] |
| 349 | * Arthas Menethil, The Lich King, from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. He killed many named characters and many of them are badass in their own right. |
| 350 | ** Although it comes back to haunt him in a big (not to mention literal) way. His runeblade Frostmourne steals and entraps the souls of everyone it kills (oh, and his, too). At the climax of his encounter in ''Wrath of the Lich King'' [[spoiler: Frostmourne is shattered by an attack and all the souls in question are freed -- ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone including his own]]''.]] |
| 351 | ** Warcraft lore also has Orgrim Doomhammer, who kills Sir Anduin Lothar in a CombatByChampion during the Second War. It proves to be a hollow victory, though, as Lothar's lieutenant Turalyon takes up Lothar's broken sword and defeats Orgrim, after blinding him with the Holy Light (it helps that Doomhammer unintentionally resolves Turalyon's CrisisOfFaith by revealing that Orcs aren't native to Azeroth). |
| 352 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' the [[WolfpackBoss Grustrag Three]] are meant to be this, given that they inspire such fear that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the normally calm and collected Lotus pleads for you to forget the mission and run]] when they're about to drop in. If you didn't bring your best gear they ''will'' uphold that reputation. |
| 353 | ** The Stalker also qualifies, at least in the early game, as an extremely rare [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of the trope. He is an AmbiguouslyHuman hunter who may or may not be [[RevenantZombie undead]], wearing [[EvilKnockoff a modified suit of Excalibur armor]] with unique weapons, [[NoSell immunity to the player's magic void powers]], and above all else a determined hatred for his target. Rather than being a specific boss fight, The Stalker has a 1.5% chance of interrupting any regular mission, so long as the player has a 'death mark' from killing a boss. It is no exaggeration to say a new player who's still stuck wearing their own Excalibur suit will die inside of four seconds, usually as little as two. |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has the [[EliteMooks Face Mechon]]. [[ArchNemesis Metal Face]] Kills [[spoiler: [[LoveInterest Fiora]] (she gets better, though, yet returns as a Mechon), Zanza [[note]]Even thought he is not a "hero" [[BigBad per se]][[/note]] and the [[OurElvesAreDifferent High-Entia Emperor]].]] [[TheBrute Bronze Face]] [[spoiler: devours the entirety of Colony 6 sans Sharla, Juju, and Otharon.]] |
| 355 | * Amante Furlair in ''[[VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders ZoE: Fist of Mars]]'' who is either [[GambitPileup directly or indirectly responsible for every single notable character death]] aside from [[spoiler: Ares and Ned]] and she's '''''only 15'''''. Amante is essentially the Azula of mecha games. It's a real shame the cast has not appeared in SRW, as she'd likely have a reputation equivalent to that of Simo Hayha with a ColonyDrop being the FIRST response to any sighting of her. She even mindrapes then kills TeamPet bishounen Philbright, turning him against you [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness before discarding him as being useless as a pilot.]] And to top it all off [[KarmaHoudini she gets away with it all too]] because Kojima got too wrapped up doing endless spinoffs of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' to have time to return to [=ZoE=]! In the end [[spoiler: she is revealed to be a top-ranking soldier of BAHRAM, the terrorist organisation from the original [=ZoE=], and inserted herself as the coquettish [[{{Yandere}} psycho clingy girlfiend to everyone]] merely to off BOTH sides of the civil war so BAHRAM could move in unopposed.]] While she isn't totally successful, considering the player's team is the only opposition remaining on Mars it's a good bet the BIS would have had an amazing uphill battle of Sisyphean proportions. |
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| 357 | |
| 358 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 359 | * [[DragonAscendant Blood Falcon]] of ''WebAnimation/CPUChampionshipSeries'' who is the ONLY killer in the series, [[spoiler: killing [[EnsembleDarkHorse Parsec Captain Falcon]], [[MemeticBadass King Dedede]] and ''[[TheHero VINCENT]]'', before he is defeated by [[HopeBringer Skillshare Kirby]].]] |
| 360 | * [[BigBad Mecha Sonic]] of ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ''. Every single fight he's picked with the heroes has been a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, starting from his first appearance where he very nearly ''killed'' Yoshi. Then later on with two chaos emeralds, he utterly annihilated the [[VideoGame/PaperMario Koopa Bros.]] and the [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG Axem Rangers]] within about two minutes of each other before completely wiping Yoshi's Island off the face of the Mushroom Kingdom. The heroes only narrowly managed to escape the same fate through a [[DeusExMachina conveniently-placed]] [[InvincibilityPowerUp Super Star]], because not even ''[[TheBigGuy Shadow]]'' could scratch him in a straight-up fight. And that's not even including what Mecha Sonic did to everyone on Mobius in the backstory... |
| 361 | * Any ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' winner who either is a villain or anti-hero, or has beaten a hero or anti-hero. |
| 362 | * The Meta from the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' ''Recollection'' trilogy, especially in the first part of the trilogy (''Reconstruction'') and the final episodes. He hunts down the Freelancers, an elite group of soldiers each a OneManArmy, and kills them himself, stealing their AI and Armor Enhancements. It takes the combined efforts of the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Red and Blue teams]] and one of the last few remaining Freelancers to finally bring him down for good. |
| 363 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 364 | ** In Volume 3, [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]] orchestrates [[RobotGirl Penny]]'s destruction, and personally kills Amber, [[BigGood Ozpin]], and [[TheAce Pyrrha]], the latter two within minutes of one another. In Volume 8, she kills the rebuilt Penny personally, this time for good, and drops most of the heroes into the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. They survived, but were presumed dead by almost everyone. |
| 365 | ** [[AxeCrazy Tyrian]] [[ScaryScorpions Callows]] and [[TheBrute Hazel]] [[NobleDemon Rainart]] kill almost every [[HunterOfMonsters Huntsman]] in the Kingdom of Mistral with aid from [[MoleInCharge Leonardo Lionheart]]. |
| 366 | ** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Adam]] [[PsychoExBoyfriend Taurus]] cuts off [[CoolBigSis Yang's]] [[AnArmAndALeg arm]] for trying to defend his ex Blake. He later kills Sienna Khan, who, as High Leader of the [[FantasticTerrorists White Fang]], [[DownplayedTrope wasn't quite a]] ''hero'', but was ALighterShadeOfBlack compared to Taurus' plans of [[FinalSolution wiping out humanity entirely]]. |
| 367 | ** And then there's [[HumanoidAbomination Salem]], who killed her daughters with Ozpin along with at least one of Ozpin's [[LegacyOfTheChosen incarnations]]. [[spoiler:Hazel pulls a HeelFaceTurn and HeroicSacrifice just to slow her down for a few hours]]. |
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| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 371 | * Lord Dragos from ''WebComic/TheBeastLegion'' falls invokes fear in everyone he comes across. |
| 372 | * 564 from ''Chiasmata''and the ChiasmARG counts. While mostly offing civilians, 564 has exactly one survivor from one of his attacks. He has a bodycount in the thousands, and is bar none the most powerful superhuman in the setting. He's more dangerous than a man who has turned the southwestern United States into a glass bowl. |
| 373 | ** Nilhil sat in the same place and still managed to kill waves and waves of would-be attackers. |
| 374 | * Psi-Void became this in ''Webcomic/DeviantUniverse'' by [[spoiler: killing Great Man with ease.]] |
| 375 | * PlayedForLaughs In ''Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie'', the titular ensign is nigh-perfect, unstoppable, and armored with the heaviest PlotArmor available. But there's one thing that can fell even such a nigh-omnipotent entity. [[spoiler:Give her a RedShirt and let nature take its course.]] |
| 376 | * Kore from ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' was [[TheDreaded feared]] by the main cast of goblin adventurers even before they had met him. In their first encounter with the dwarven paladin, they were barely able to wound him. Notably, that fight ended with the death of [[spoiler: Chief]]. |
| 377 | * [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack Noir]], the DiscOneFinalBoss of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', fulfills this role, along with being the KnightOfCerebus. His tally of protagonists killed includes Bro, [[TheHero John]] (''twice''), a second alternate universe Dave, the Dreamselves of most of the Trolls, a thousand Aradia clones, Mom and Dad, Rose, and Alpha universe Dave in [[WhamEpisode "Game Over"]]. He also killed his own king and queen, slaughtered two entire armies, destroyed three inhabited moons and twelve planets as well as all of the Exiles save PM and WV (the latter of whom only survives thanks to being healed by a dead alternate timeline Feferi), along with ''that entire universe''. |
| 378 | ** Gamzee, after [[SuddenlySober sobering up]], is a downplayed version of this trope. His killing spree sees two victims--[[spoiler:Equius and Nepeta]]--before he is calmed down, but he is still certifiably insane and his friends are constantly on edge since they never know when he'll snap again. [[spoiler: Later, in "Game Over", he also kills Karkat and at least plays a significant role in Terezi's death, considering she dies from receiving numerous injuries, most of which were inflicted by him. Thankfully, John's [[CosmicRetcon retcon]] powers are able to fix this so it doesn't happen in the new alpha timeline]]. In an alternate timeline he went crazy much earlier and was able to kill all of the other trolls without much trouble. |
| 379 | ** Once [[spoiler:Aranea]] comes back to life and is revealed to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, she becomes this in her extreme measures to defeat Lord English, since she fully believes her way is the only right way and is willing to kill anyone who opposes her in the name of the greater good. Her victims include [[spoiler:Jade, Jake, and Jane, and she, like Gamzee, is significantly responsible for Terezi, due to causing the latter to stab herself with her own sword; Terezi bleeds out later. Luckily, these deaths are also part of the "Game Over" timeline that John erases, meaning Aranea never gets the chance to be relevant at all to the new alpha timeline]]. |
| 380 | ** The Condesce, a.k.a. Betty Crocker, is certainly this as well. In the backstory of the post-Scratch (B2) version of Earth, she directly killed the B2 iterations of Rose, Dave, and Jade, and eventually caused almost all of humanity (save for Dirk and Roxy) to die out. [[spoiler:She later kills Kanaya and B1 Rose (and also Aranea, but she's a villain rather than a hero), though the former two deaths get retconned like the rest of "Game Over", and in the final battle, apparently kills at least Kanaya and Rose again (though they are revived by Jane), and possibly Jane as well (who is also healed).]] |
| 381 | ** Lord English tops them all. Technically, most of the people he's "killing" are already dead, but exist as sentient ghosts in dream bubbles; he is able to completely destroy these dream bubbles and [[DeaderThanDead erase all ghosts within them from existence]]. This includes the alternate universe Dave that Jack killed, the John from Davesprite's timeline, and countless versions of the trolls. |
| 382 | * 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe from ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''. The Prophecy of the Successor says that Zoss, the Conquering King, will fall from Heaven and pick his Successor to annihilate the [[BigBadEnsemble Seven Black Emperors]] who rule the universe. 6 Juggernaut Star is not one of them, but its job in the prophecy [[MentorOccupationalHazard is to kill Zoss]], which it accomplishes [[OffWithHisHead via decapitation]] on the sixth page of the comic. [[spoiler:The universe is eventually revealed to be stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop and 6 Juggernaut Star is one of the very few people to be aware of this fact, meaning it remembers every time it has had to kill Zoss [[TimeLoopFatigue and is by now pretty tired of the whole thing]]. As for the Successor, the ''reason'' the universe keeps getting reset is because OmnicidalManiac Jagganoth keeps killing him, requiring the GreaterScopeVillain to keep resetting the whole thing. Jagganoth, too, is (vaguely) aware of the time loop and knows he's fought and killed the Successor possibly billions of times.]] |
| 383 | * [[VillainProtagonist Levi Cole]] in ''WebComic/TheList'' is a professional superhero assassin. Though many heroes underestimate him, his reputation seems to have grown since the beginning of Season 2, when he killed [[spoiler:the second in command of the Superior Six]] |
| 384 | * [[BigBad Xykon]] from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has killed many heroes before the start of the series, including Lirian, Dorukan, and Fyron, that last one prompting Roy's father to pursue a quest of vengeance that Roy takes up upon his death. In the series itself, [[spoiler: Xykon kills Roy too, and then the entire Sapphire Guard]]. Later, he curb-stomps [[spoiler: [[DealWithTheDevil soul-spliced]] Vaarsuvius in spite of their insane power.]] |
| 385 | ** After the Order are seemingly killed, Hobgoblins hand out T-shirts saying, "I killed a PC and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." |
| 386 | * Pluton from ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'' was introduced as a villain who had killed 4 superheroes and 5 sidekicks before finally being subdued and taken to villain prison. |
| 387 | ** Metheos' group of villains turn into hero killers whilst collecting superpowers. |
| 388 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unordinary}}'': The shady organisation known as EMBER have recently been going around executing self-titled superheroes. |
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| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 392 | * Deathlist of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. He's got the name because of the huge list of superheroes he has already killed, including ''Champion''. The only person we know of who has survived this killer cyborg is Lady Astarte in the Halloween story, and she had help from [[spoiler: a RealityWarper, a precognitive, and a really huge blaster]]. She still couldn't polish him off. |
| 393 | * ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': |
| 394 | ** The EldritchAbomination Endbringers -- Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Simurgh. Before a fight against Leviathan a veteran hero notes that one out of every four [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual parahumans]] dying during the fight is considered a ''good day''. Leviathan and Simurgh both due their fair share of killing, but Behemoth is specifically referred to in-setting as the "Hero killer" due in large part to it's InstantDeathRadius. Most heroes who come to help against him don't even fight since they either can't do anything to him, they just use their powers for support and logistics. For meta points, [[WordOfGod Wildbow has revealed]] that for the first Endbringer appearance he rolled dice for every single character involved in the battle to see whether they'd live or die (yes, including the protagonist; he had a backup protagonist in mind in case she died). |
| 395 | ** The Slaughterhouse Nine collectively also qualify, as they are basically parahuman serial killers/terrorists. They tend to show up in areas that are struggling to survive in the wake of Endbringer attacks or similar disasters and kill more or less indiscriminately. Needless to say a lot of unpowered individuals die as a result of their actions, but whatever they're trying to accomplish is generally focused specifically on other capes. They also are fans of a FateWorseThanDeath, in particular, [[MadDoctor Bonesaw]] tortures and nearly kills [[spoiler:Grue]] soon after the Nine arrive in town and the former member Gray Boy had a power which had no function other than inflicting this on people. It's also revealed late in the story that their leader, Jack Slash, has [[spoiler: a second power that gives him both enhanced intuition and a degree of emotional control where parahumans are concerned]], which does explain his tendency to focus on other para humans. |
| 396 | ** Contessa is a parahuman who is informally known as "the boogeyman" among the cape community, in that pretty much every cape (hero or villain) that has ever tried to fight her has died or otherwise been defeated. It says something about her reputation when people with actual superpowers consider her an unstoppable monster, and one character's advice to the protagonist is DontAskJustRun when they know Contessa is in the area. In fairness, she's not actually all that violent, she's not wandering around killing capes at random, it's just that when your power is [[spoiler: knowing exactly how to accomplish any goal she sets her mind to]] trying to fight back is a pretty meaningless exercise. |
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| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 400 | * Similarly, [[MultiversalConqueror Lord Vyce]] from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' is a villain who is said to have killed the Champions of numerous universes before entering the Awesomeverse, and beats Linkara within an inch of his life in their first encounter. Not only that, but he remains a dangerous opponent through the entire Vyce Arc. Oh, and [[BackFromTheDead he comes back, too]]. |
| 401 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': |
| 402 | ** Raishan is both an Ancient Dragon and [[EvilSorcerer one of Exandria's most powerful wizards]]. Despite being the Chroma Conclave's SquishyWizard, she's tough enough to shrug off [[TheBigGuy Grog]]'s attacks and take off half of Vox Machina's health with a single BreathWeapon attack in her initial appearance. Even the DM believed confronting her before a certain point would have only resulted in a TotalPartyKill, and she makes good on that presumption, [[spoiler:causing a total of four PlayerCharacter deaths -- Vex, Percy, and Scanlan ''twice'' -- the most out of any foe the party has ever fought]]. |
| 403 | ** While he doesn't kill as many PlayerCharacters as Raishan, [[spoiler:Vecna]] deserves extra credit for how quickly he manages to do so. [[spoiler:Within seconds of Vox Machina engaging him, they realize they don't stand a chance when he kills Vax and Vex almost effortlessly- and killing the former in a way that makes resurrecting him ''[[DeaderThanDead impossible]]'' (for anyone short of "basically Gods")]]. |
| 404 | ** In the second campaign, we witness the first truly permanent player death at the hands of Lorenzo, who kills [[spoiler:Mollymauk]]. |
| 405 | ** In the third campaign, we meet [[ImplacableMan Otohan Thull]], who immediately establishes herself as this to an insane degree, at various different points in the campaign. To start with, she was behind the attack on the Air Ashari that killed Orym's husband Will. During the Hells' first real encounter with her, [[spoiler:she manages to permanently kill Laudna, and temporarily killed Orym and Fearne, [[CurbStompBattle all while demolishing the rest of the party.]]]] [[spoiler:After clashing with the party, she heads to Jrusar and murders Lord Eshteross, the party's employer, while the Hells are busy in Whitestone reviving Laudna.]] Then, during the battle at the Mallius Key, [[spoiler:she effortlessly took down Keyleth in seconds and would have killed her if not for the intervention of Vax, [[BatmanGambit which she and her master, Ludinus, had been expecting and even counting on to further their goals]]]]. Then, when the Hells' were forced to fight her again, [[spoiler:she immediately temporarily killed Chetney before engaging in another brutal CurbStompBattle that almost resulted in a TPK, [[HeroicSacrifce until Fresh Cut Grass blew himself up]] in order to [[TakingYouWithMe finally kill her]] resulting in the second truly permanent player death.]] |
| 406 | * [[KnightOfCerebus Malachite]] from ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''. Within his first scene he violently kills a man who annoys him, and his plot to destroy all technology in world is played much more seriously than [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Critic's]] [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl feud with the]] [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd Nerd]] or [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} the reviewers' attempt to invaded Molassia]]. Orlando Belisle's subtle acting marks a sharp contrast to [[Website/ChannelAwesome TGWTG's]] usual WorldOfHam. Also, he actually ''does'' kill [[spoiler:Ma-Ti]]. |
| 407 | * Monitors in ''WebVideo/TalesFromMyDDCampaign'' are uber-powerful [[FishPeople Kua-Toa]] {{Bare Fisted Monk}}s, legendary for their sheer ridiculous power. The one time a Monitor is seen in the videos, it {{One Hit Kill}}s a troll just because the troll happened to be in its way. |
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