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5[[caption-width-right:300:Nothing illustrates [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic friendship]] better than [[DarkestHour hopelessness]], {{Nightmare Face}}s, and [[CoveredInGunge green slime]].]]
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7->''"[The game has] a sense of timeless nostalgia... there's innocence to it as well, cosmic horror not withstanding."''
8-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''
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10So you're watching a kids' show taking place in a SugarBowl with cute characters and a jolly, lighthearted tone. Then a villainous character is introduced into the plot. But given how inoffensive the work has been up to this point, surely the villain will be a goofy HarmlessVillain?
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12Except sometimes, these works will have villains who are ''legitimately intimidating and frightening''. Maybe they try to destroy all positive emotions, maybe they turn people into [[AndIMustScream twisted shambling abominations]], or maybe they're outright [[FinalSolution plotting genocide]].
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14Point is, they're serious, threatening, and/or creepy villains in normally lighthearted fiction that are so disturbing, so terrifying, that they clash harshly with the tone of the work. Because of this type of villain's ability to alter the mood of the story they're in, this trope overlaps with TheKilljoy, KnightOfCerebus (if the character causes a lasting tonal shift in a work or series), or even CompleteMonster. If a series has a lot of villains like this, then it's taking a ride on the CerebusRollercoaster. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Done well]], it provides a powerful contrast. Many family-friendly and SliceOfLife shows have episodes that choose to take a turn down Nightmare Road by presenting disturbing imagery, creepy characters and dark situations as [[NightmareSequence a figment of some character's imagination or nightmares]]. This doesn't count, however, as the characters aren't real in that universe either; they merely represent the fears and the anxieties of some individuals.
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16Said LighterAndSofter cases might also showcase the villain still having ''some'' level of [[NotSoAboveItAll whimsy or comedic qualities]] to tone them down. To still apply as this trope, they retain a relative sense of menace against the rest of the universe. A LaughablyEvil LargeHam villain that nonetheless wants to murder the protagonists in cold blood will still stick out within a SliceOfLife series with minimal lethal threats.
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18It's important to note that when the vile villain meets the saccharine world, the CerebusSyndrome and MoodDissonance are in full effect during the story of the work. A violation of [[{{Consistency}} Genre Consistency]]. May overlap with CrapsaccharineWorld, especially when that same villain [[BigBad is the main reason]] (or one of the main reasons) ''why'' the world in question is... well, crapsaccharine. Also compare WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids. A major cause of SugarApocalypse. See also VileVillainLaughableLackey, which this often overlaps with. See also EvilCannotStandCuteness. For dark ''episodes'' of light-hearted works (which may or may not overlap with this), see UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode.
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22!!Examples subpages:
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25* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow/AnimatedFilms Films — Animated]]
26* VileVillainSaccharineShow/VideoGames
27* VileVillainSaccharineShow/WesternAnimation
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30!!Other examples:
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33[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
34* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' is a light-hearted and comedic romcom that's as ridiculous as its name implies. The story itself has NoAntagonist, and the majority of troublesome characters tend to be on an OpposingSportsTeam or are motivated by love for their own loved ones. Despite this, there is one exception to this so far: the pharmaceutical spy in Chapter 74. He poisons Kusuri's parents in order to coerce her into working for him, clearly intending to use her drugs for unsavory purposes. He's played completely seriously by the narrative and is willing to shoot Rentarou to stop him from interfering.
35* After the first few chapters, ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'' settles into being an {{ecchi}} {{work com}}edy about the adult entertainment industry, once main character Misora's agency stops trying to get her to move from gravure to hardcore porn anyway. But then there's Dr. Ikezaki Gensuke, a surgeon who turns out to be a sexual sadist: he's introduced having savagely beaten Rea after hiring her to sleep with him on the side, then starts trying to take a bloody revenge on Misora after [[WifeBasherBasher she breaks his hand for it]]. [[spoiler:First he hires a {{yakuza}} assassin to kill her with a sword, then after that fails he kidnaps her and sets her up to play the starring role in a snuff film.]]
36* ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'' has a really notable case with Colonel Muska, especially for a Creator/HayaoMiyazaki film. For most of the film, the antagonists were Dola and her fairly comical crew, and even later on, General Muro was a bit of a blowhard. Colonel Muska has no comical traits, being a FauxAffablyEvil government agent treated very seriously by the protagonists. What makes him truly qualify as the evilest and most despicable Hayao Miyazaki antagonist was massacring an entire army that helped him conquer Laputa, laughing maniacally as he watches them die.
37* ''Literature/DateALive'' is generally a lighthearted romantic comedy, but all that changes with the introduction of [[BigBad Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]], who is quite possibly one of the most ruthless villains in light novel history.
38* ''Franchise/DeathNote'': Beyond Birthday/BB from ''[[Literature/AnotherNote Death Note: Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases]]'' stands out as an unusually horrific, disturbing and dark villain, ''even by Death Note standards''. Make no mistake, Death Note is by no means a family-friendly story, but much of its dark and sinister tone is balanced by its continued {{Shonen}} elements, with Light Yagami's [[EvilIsHammy entertainingly hammy speeches]], and occasional humorous or lighthearted moments. [[KnightOfCerebus Any trace of lightness or levity disappears whenever BB is involved in the plot of Another Note]], however. If anything, this is exactly what you would expect from an AxCrazy SerialKiller and {{sociopath}} who carries out a series of elaborate and brutal murders, adding a new element of darkness to the already somber tone of the franchise and pushing the series into BloodierAndGorier territory never before seen in the main series, almost bordering on a GenreShift.
39* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
40** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' starts off fairly lighthearted, then we meet Devimon, a cunning, devil-like monster with the power to brainwash friendly and peaceful Digimon into rampaging, savaging berserkers.
41*** Myotismon is even worse. A sinister, Vampiric Digimon with a sadistic streak a mile wide. Myotismon treats his underlings awfully, having taken Gatomon in when she was young and abused her until she was a killing machine. When his henchmen fail him, he eagerly destroys them. When two harmless minions couldn't bring themselves to harm children, Myotismon declared them useless and killed them immediately. When he invaded Tokyo, he proceeded to destroy much of it and held a number of children captive to identify the final child connected with Gatomon. Not only that, but he figured that if it took too much time, he'd simply kill them all. Myotismon also proceeded to attack multiple young women and drain their blood. Any minions he hadn't already killed were cannibalized to fuel his Mega transformation. Myotismon's spirit survived to return as the final villain of the next season as [=MaloMyotismon=]. Using Oikawa's sadness and despair to make him a pawn, he proceeded to consume him from within and upon manifesting anew, Myotismon repaid his perfectly loyal ally Arukenimon by sadistically torturing her to death and brutally killing Mummymon when he tried to avenge her.
42*** Machinedramon is a cold-hearted, brutal, gigantic KillerRobot who speaks, though rarely, with a growling, hateful, metallic voice and mostly acts like a lifeless machine, unless he's on a murder rampage. He also enslaves and kills a bunch of Numemon, and just like Vamdemon and Puppetmon, he's not someone you want to work for.
43*** Puppetmon has shades of this despite being LaughablyEvil. He's a dark version of Pinocchio who thinks he can make friends by killing and enslaving everyone around him, and uses a revolver to "play" a cruel version of hide-and-seek with T.K. and kills his minions, Mushroomon and Blossomon, with it because he thought they lied. Some countries edited the scenes with Puppetmon killing Mushroomon and Blossomon and holding the gun during the TV run of the series. It's a living puppet pointing a gun at an eight-year-old child!
44*** And then there's Piedmon, a psychopathic, sadistic, [[PsychopathicManchild childish]] MonsterClown who enjoys toying with his opponents and sadistically inflicts pain and fear upon them before finishing them off, which culminates in him transforming the kids and their Digimon into keychains one by one in a series of sequences that seem to come straight out of a horror movie. It's no wonder his voice in the English dub was intended as an impression of Creator/TimCurry in Film/It1990.
45** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' is LighterAndSofter than the previous two seasons, so when Quartzmon, an EldritchAbomination Digimon shows up and takes over the entire world, absorbs every human and Digimon there into its body (in a clearly AndIMustScream state) and uses them as hostages against Tagiru, it sticks out.
46** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' has a modern urban setting that wouldn't look too odd for a SliceOfLife anime (and a sizable portion of most episodes are spent on SliceOfLife moments), heavily contrasting the war stories common within the franchise. But many hostile Digimon, even the redeemable ones before they reform, attempt kidnapping, mass murder or other grisly attacks with dozens to hundreds of victims on average (one even kills 1,000 Digimon before being killed himself), and pretty much any Digimon can be the [[MonsterOfTheWeek culprit of the week]], including things like ''Myotismon or Piedmon'' and worse Digimon can show up. Despite ostensibly a [[SpookyKidsMedia kid-friendly horror anime]], the Digimon incidents can be genuinely terrifying even for adult audiences.
47* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
48** Most villains were dealt with comically, and only a few were shown to pose a serious threat to Goku and his friends. Then came Tao Pai Pai, a PsychoForHire who cares only about profit and ruthlessly and remorselessly wipes out anyone who gets in his way with his bare hands. After he murders Upa's father and defeats Goku in battle, he laughs at Upa and tells him that he's lucky that he's still alive, meaning that he has absolutely no problem killing children. When he returns to Karin's Tower to look for the one Dragon Ball he neglected to find, he grabs Upa and throws him against the tower (fortunately, he was saved by Goku). One time he forced a tailor to overwork on making an outfit for him in about three days... which he rewarded by killing him. After his defeat, he was rebuilt into an AxCrazy cyborg who wanted nothing more than the deaths of both Goku and Tenshinhan.
49** King Piccolo and his children. King Piccolo's arrival [[KnightOfCerebus marked the series's complete shift to a much more serious tone]], which carried over into the SequelSeries ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
50* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is an adorable series about a cute high school girl who befriends a lot of pretty boys and the hi-jinks that ensue. Then we are introduced to Akito, who we learn has been committing various forms of physical and psychological abuse on various family members, and has no problem with doing the same to any "outsiders" who look like they're butting in. Later, [[spoiler:Akito actually becomes ''sympathetic'' when her mother, Ren, is revealed to be even ''worse''.]]
51* Although it's about UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' manages to be pretty goofy while focusing on the general incompetence of the nations. While there is fighting, it's portrayed as comical punches and cartoonish damage. In the movie ''Paint it, White!'', we are introduced to invading aliens called the Pictonians. The Pictonians quickly conquer nearly all of Earth, transform most of humanity into their species, and abduct them as slaves. Everything the nations do to fight them fails, [[spoiler:and they very nearly lose at the end, when all of them but Italy are turned into Pictonians. While screaming.]]
52* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': [[spoiler: Jeanne is a unnervingly realistic depiction of an emotionally AbusiveMom. She withholds affection from her six-year-old daughter Sophie, uses her as a therapist that she often takes out her anger on, and sets her up as a pawn against her personal enemies to sway them emotionally. When Sophie asks an innocent question or speaks back to her, Jeanne angrily berates her and accuses her of holding her back. Sophie is constantly reduced to tears whenever she's thinking about her. On top of that, she's a ManipulativeBitch who knows Sophie's biggest fear is being sent back to France, and threatens her with it to keep her in line]]. For reference, this anime is a {{kodomomuke}} that's driven by selling merchandise to little girls.
53* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': [[BigBad Croix Meridies]] is entirely responsible for the second cour being DarkerAndEdgier than the first by a long stretch and episode 21 doesn't help matters. She wants [[BigGood Chariot]] to [[ForTheEvulz suffer, all for no reason]] other than [[EvilIsPetty Croix not]] [[DrivenByEnvy having the Shiny Rod]] and seeks to destroy "her last dream" by messing with Akko's quest for the words. She even attempts to make [[TheHero Akko]] distrust Ursula and later has her machines attack Akko while she's trying to prevent Chariot from helping her, and her reveal provides a CerebusRetcon to Akko's previously goofy inability to keep up.
54* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' is known for its campiness and can also be kinda cheesy at times. The main threat is a vile EldritchAbomination known as the Dark Gundam (AKA Devil Gundam in Japan) that can take control of people and animals via metallic cell replication that covers the victim's body over time. Not to mention it can [[BodyHorror mutate its own body into grotesque forms]] and [[LovecraftianSuperpower grabs people with creepy tentacles that sprout out of it.]] Its master plan is to [[WellIntentionedExtremist rid the world of humanity all to save the planet.]]
55* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'' is cheerful and wacky and the enemies usually are the TerribleTrio. When they're not, there's Reda, with his bloodstained wings and a fondness for driving people to suicide and [[ChestBurster subjecting things to splooshy transformations]]. The English GagDub toned him down and edited some scenes.
56* ''Manga/PhantomThiefPokemon7'' starts out as a cute story about a PhantomThief boy and his Lucario. That is until we learn about an especially aggressive Team Galactic. We find out his twin sister who was kidnapped years ago has been brainwashed and is one of the strongest Galactic grunts. As she doesn't remember him she has no issues beating ''him'' and his Pokemon to a pulp. [[spoiler:She gets better though.]]
57* ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' is about a WildChild named Hareta, who has more than a few [[{{expy}} resemblances]] to [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]], going on a journey. It's all fun and games except for Team Galactic, who is presented just as intimidating as they are in the games and then some. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that his best friend Mitsumi is an ex-Galactic member (and a [[TykeBomb ferociously strong]] one at that) who is blackmailed into rejoining and gives his Pokemon a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown]].
58* ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'' plays this trope straight with Team Rocket as a whole, in a stark contrast to their [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain general depiction]] in the anime. Just like the games, they actually kill Pokémon, and they're shown conducting horrible experiments on them, too. Giovanni's reasoning for doing all this? Because a Pokemon-based society is a business, and Pokemon are tools for business.
59* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]] has a goofy and incompetent TerribleTrio composed of two delinquents and a talking Meowth as the primary antagonists most of the time, but it still has:
60** The coldhearted DiabolicalMastermind Giovanni, the non-so-incompetent Rockets Butch and Cassidy, and the psychic Gym Leader with a split personality Sabrina, in [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries the Kanto Saga]].
61** The intimidating Mewtwo in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', who, while eventually redeemed, has a body count, mind-controlled people, and planned to commit total human and trained Pokemon genocide leaving only his clones remaining.
62** The merciless Pokémon Hunter J, the OmnicidalManiac Cyrus and his evil organization Team Galactic, and the abusive JerkAss trainer Paul in [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl the Sinnoh Saga]].
63** The Iron Masked Marauder, Grings Kodai, and Alva in the [[Anime/Pokemon4Ever 4th movie]], [[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions 13th movie]], and [[Anime/PokemonVolcanionAndTheMechanicalMarvel 19th movie]] respectively.
64** In ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite Black and White]]'', the usually goofy, incompetent TerribleTrio [[TookALevelInBadass isn't so goofy and incompetent anymore]] until the ''Episode N'' arc (where they revert back to their old personality), but has [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Ghetsis]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Colress]], and Team Plasma to fill in the gaps. Whenever they show up, expect the mood to drop dramatically and the battles to get more intense.
65** Team Flare in the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY XYZ]]'' arc of the anime are this as well; largely eschewing the campier aspects of their game counterparts in favor of a darker rendition more in line with that of BigBad Lysandre, who is portrayed accurately. They are even the first villain team in the anime to devastate a major city on screen.
66** The ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon Sun and Moon]]'' series is very much DenserAndWackier than previous seasons... until the likes of Nihilego or Necrozma show up, upon which things get nightmarish, and ''fast''.
67** The Explorers group debut early on in ''Anime/PokemonHorizonsTheSeries'' and are very much a no-nonsense set of antagonists in the vein of Team Galactic, Plasma, and Flare.
68** The race of Unown, which are a borderline EldritchAbomination. In [[Anime/{{Pokemon3}} the third movie]] they absorb a person alive and befriend a lonely girl which lets her do quite scary things, like turning the entire city into crystal (and, it was hinted, spread the crystallization over the entire planet), as well as kidnapping and brainwashing the hero's mother into thinking ''she's'' her MissingMom.
69** ''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker'', otherwise one of the [[LighterAndSofter lightest and softest]] Pokemon movies, has an [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever enormous]] failed clone of Groudon with CombatTentacles that absorb any nearby lifeforms into its body to sustain itself.
70* The {{Big Bad}}s of the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise are usually like this. One of them is an entity that existed before everything and wants to plunge everything into nothingness, another is a life-hating EldritchAbomination that turns every planet he visits into sand dunes, yet another is a monster born out of humanity's collective negative emotions, still another is a jilted ex-lover from the future who wants to stop time to prevent suffering, etc etc... This is a series that is (supposedly) for little girls in elementary school.
71** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Joker/Rascal, is TheHeavy of the story and TheDragon to Emperor Nogo/Pierrot. Unlike many villains of the franchise, including the others on the same series, Rascal doesn't have any sympathetic backstory or reason for doing what he does, he is simply a totally evil, sadistic, and psychotic being that takes pleasure in inflicting despair in the world. In keeping with the intent behind the series, which is to be simpler than others of the franchise, Rascal is a simple villain, who does things simply because he is just that evil.
72* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' as a whole is a laid-back MilitaryMoe series starring CuteGirlsDoingCuteThings. And then the last two episodes introduce its BigBad, Colonel Hopkins, a brutal warmongering ColonelKilgore who ''wiped out three entire cities'' in the backstory- with a flashback showing some of the carnage- and wants to spark war between Helvetia and Rome just for his own enjoyment.
73* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': While the series involves a spy and an assassin as main characters, with their work being depicted plenty seriously, for the most part it's light-hearted and comedic. That said, some of the antagonists are shown to be vile and corrupt monsters that heavily clash against the standard tone:
74** Donovan is the psychotically paranoid head of what is implied to be an extreme right-wing political faction, an emotionally abusive father to Damian, and has aspirations of controlling other nations to the extent of being a threat to national security.
75** Keith stands out for being one of the most vicious antagonists in an otherwise light-hearted story. His crimes include strapping explosives to a pack of dogs to be sent after Minister Brand, attempting to kill Anya for eavesdropping on him and his co-conspirators, callously threatening the lives of Ostanian civilians, and [[spoiler: nearly killing Twilight with a booby trap]].
76**  <Snoops> somehow manages to be the most evil person among a Carnival of Killers that wants to assassinate a mother and her infant son. Snoops planned to kill everybody, including his own cohorts, with the bombs he planted on the cruise ship, intending to frame Westalian terrorists for his own crimes, and expressed a desire for the soon-to-be sinking ship to "serenade" him with the screams of the passengers.
77** Despite initially playing this trope straight, Billy Squire of the Red Circus ultimately ends up playing with this trope. He's portrayed as both dangerous and scary, particularly since he and his accomplices take a bus full of children hostage. That said, we soon learn that he has ''some'' standards, in that the explosive collars he put on Anya and Damian [[spoiler:were fake, and he never had any intention of harming any of the children (unlike his accomplices, who have no such issues)]]. In fact, in the climax of his arc, he has some rather comical reactions as Anya talks him down. What really makes him a "playing with tropes" example is the fact that his backstory and current actions also bring to the forefront the most dangerous aspects of Ostania's totalitarian government, revealing just what it's willing to do for the sake of maintaining the illusion of peace.
78* ''Anime/SwordArtOnline'''s second arc features the characters in Alfheim Online, which is full of cute elves who are trying to rescue the princess from an evil villain, until the princess discovers that he has been experimenting on 300 people in real life, he sexually assaults her, tortures Kirito when he comes to save her, and attempts to kill him in the real world with a knife.
79* Despite ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' being a lighthearted adventure comedy, [[SpacePirate Tarant Shunk]] still tries to behave as a real and scary {{Ruthless Modern Pirate|s}}, though it [[ButtMonkey doesn't help him much]]. Kagato from the original OVA and ''Tenchi Universe'' was no slouch himself.
80** Kain from the first movie (''Tenchi Muyo In Love'') was significantly darker than most other villains of the franchise, being an OmnicidalManiac EldritchAbomination LivingShadow whose presence [[KnightOfCerebus sucked out all of the regular wacky hijinks]] the franchise is usually known for.
81* ''Anime/TomicaHyperRescueDriveHeadKidouKyuukyuuKeisatsu'' is a very lighthearted anime aimed at preschoolers, and that just makes [[AIIsACrapshoot The Evil AI]] seem all the more horrifying. [[spoiler:Aside from the fact that its ultimate goal is to KillAllHumans, the way that it turns the humans it assimilates into metal looks particularly gruesome.]]
82* ''Anime/TheFantasticAdventuresOfUnico'' is a lighthearted film about a baby unicorn who wishes to make friends and thrives on ThePowerOfLove. The second half quickly becomes darker once Baron De Ghost is introduced, who gives Unico's friend Katy drugged wine in order to do God knows what to her, and the climax has him turn into a giant demon that attempts to kill the heroes.
83** The sequel, ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'', gives us Lord Kuruku, an abused marionette brought to life through ThePowerOfHate whose presence makes the film much [[DarkerAndEdgier darker and creepier]] than one would expect, especially since his plan involves turning people into living puppets that are used for building the walls of a castle.
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87* This can happen by RoguesGalleryTransplant. Characters like [[{{Satan}} Mephisto]], [[DreamWeaver Nightmare]] and [[EldritchAbomination Shuma-Gorath]] in Marvel are all really dark villains, but they also moved from antagonizing characters like ComicBook/GhostRider and ComicBook/DoctorStrange, where they aren't out of place, and are now general threats to the entire Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Which means sometimes they can show up in much lighter series, while retaining all their usual qualities (though Mephisto and Nightmare can ramp up BlackComedy a bit to fit better). Case in point, Mephisto showed up in the abovementioned ''Loki: Agent of Asgard'' (how it went could be described as OutGambitted with liberal doses of YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame and {{pun}}s), Nightmare was an antagonist in a pretty comedic ComicBook/FantasticFour story and a one-shot issue of ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl (an all-ages comic), and Shuma-Gorath fought the ComicBook/MightyAvengers in a straight superhero adventure.
88* ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' is a seemingly kid-friendly comic book, involving a world where everyone has been turned into children following a magical accident. The characters are typically comical (though [[LetsGetDangerous they do have moments]] of badass), and the universe even more. But let's have a look at the main villains:
89** [[ArchEnemy Darkhell]] is a homicidal, megalomaniac, cruel EvilSorcerer (and formerly SorcerousOverlord) who made insane experiments, was TheDreaded for years in his world and causes a large amount of death each time he shows up. While he was scary already as an [[EvilOldFolks adult]], [[EnfantTerrible being returned to childhood only makes him more disturbing]].
90** [[ManipulativeBastard Skroa]] is a bird-like demonic sorcerer that used to be Darkhell's rival and frequently uses the protagonists as pawn for his plans. He's shown slaughtering a group of armed human beings of his own. He once ''cut his own arm off'' as a part of his plan.
91** Anathos is the comic's version of {{Satan}}, being an OmnicidalManiac GodOfEvil that succeeded in destroying the world a long time ago and almost succeeded a second time. He came back by [[DemonicPossession reincarnating in one of the protagonists]] and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown literally crushed the remaining heroes in their first fight]], leaving them scarred for life.
92** [[TheChessmaster Abyss]] is introduced as a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly extremely nice person]] in his first appearance, [[TheReveal only to be revealed later]] as a {{Yandere}} [[IncestSubtext who seems to have a thing for his foster sister]], to the point of forcing her to join his side by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing her]] through PuppeteerParasite.
93* There is ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' comic "Serpent Teen". The Moray are a race similar to merpeople however they were long thought to be a myth, and they thought merpeople were too. The king and princess capture Ariel and force her to be their pet. Aquata, Ariel's oldest sister and the heir to the throne, tries to rescue Ariel but is captured and almost fed to a sea-serpent. In the end Triton has to come and threaten to destroy the kingdom if they don't free his daughters.
94* Just like in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the TV show]], ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has some surprisingly creepy villains, and lets the villains from the show do things not permitted by the TV rating.
95** The return of Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings, has her implied to have [[KickTheDog brutally killed a cute, loving kitten-like creature]], [[HarmfulToMinors right in front of the Cutie Mark Crusaders]], and presents exactly what happens when a country is taken over by Changelings. "Disgusting" [[SicklyGreenGlow doesn't even begin]] [[CoveredInGunge to describe it]]. Ironically, this same arc also sees Chrysalis used for comedy pretty often (due to her interactions with the aforementioned CMC), while in the show she was played completely straight at all times.
96** Another arc presents a MirrorUniverse, featuring Celestia and Luna as taunting, vengeful antagonists. King Sombra is the one capable of holding his own against them, and despite his best efforts, the Princesses had ravaged and destroyed much of the land already, with this universe's counterpart to Discord being ''dead''.
97** Goldcap, Decepticolt and Zappityhoof from ''Friends Forever #25'' are a trio of unicorn ponies who are jealous of Twilight's ascension to Princess and want to overthrow her by making themselves alicorns. To do this, they drug Rainbow Dash and ''[[OrganTheft cut off her wings]]'' while she's unconscious, intending to use them to brew a wing-growing potion.
98** Issues 75-78 introduce the draconequus Cosmos, Discord's ex-girlfriend from his days of villainy. Her brand of chaos goes far beyond Discord's antics; [[EvilTaintedThePlace the world and buildings mutate in horrible ways in her wake]], she's not above torturing or even ''killing'' ponies to get her kicks, and she's too powerful for Discord to stop her on his own. Once Discord stops seeing eye-to-eye with her and tries to reign her in, she's more than happy to lay her abuse on ''him'' too. [[spoiler:As the Spirit of Malice, the intent to do harm, she believes the Spirit of Chaos is a natural match for her, but she's fine cowtowing him by force if he resists her.]]
99** The ''Generations'' series resurrects the Smooze, a villain from the G1 continuity, into the modern G4 world. It's no longer slime and instead streamer ribbons, but ponies cursed by its touch are far more hateful and violent; Ponyville is practically in ruins by the time the Witches arrive. Worse, ItCanThink and is actively planning Equestria's downfall instead of being a mindless monster like before. Once it possesses [[spoiler:Violet Shiver]], it becomes too powerful for the ponies to stop it, [[spoiler:forcing the Witches to intervene]].
100* The "Ghoul's Out for Summer" arc of the ''WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother'' comic had two. One is Tinkeree, Scary Godmother’s mentally ill and down-on-her-luck school friend who kidnaps and drugs SG in order to steal her identity. The other is The Master, an insane vampire who uses LaserGuidedAmnesia to enslave, starve, mutilate and kill a bunch of teenage vampires, until Orson and Hannah stop him.
101* There is in the "Untidaled" comic arc one of the darkest villain in any of ''Franchise/SpongeBobSquarePants'' media, The Kraken. To give you an idea he stands out for being by far the most evil and sadistic villain [=SpongeBob=] and company has ever come across, even surpassing Pankton, Dennis, and the Cyclops in terms of complete and utter depravity. Being a SerialKiller who drains the entire ocean and uses Krabby Pattys to lure in his victims in order to devour them, and forcing Mr. Krabs to watch as he holds his daughter Pearl hostage forcing him into compliance.
102* Parodied in Steph Cherrywell's ''ComicBook/WidgeyQButterfluff'', with Lord Meanskull and his Hench-Witches.
103* ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' is a light-hearted series by Marvel standards, yet the BigBad is [[spoiler:Old Loki, a version of the main character from a BadFuture, trying to force young Loki to become him, like it or not.]] Worth noting that that series gets a GutPunch thanks to ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'' and then [[CerebusSyndrome takes a nose first dive into darkness]].
104* ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'': While [[BigBad Anthracite]] has some comedic moments, he is a rather vicious villain for a light-hearted, colorful series involving talking animals. His crimes include frequently murdering his own accomplices once they have outlived their usefulness, introducing the local equivalent of cannibals in Coquefredouille, and eventually becoming a dictator.
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108* Both versions of ''Fanfic/BattleFantasiaProject'', by virtue of being crossovers between series which ''abound'' with these. The above-mentioned villains from ''Anime/PrettyCure''? They're in the story, and ''they're '''not''' the most evil guys around here''.
109* Vasile, a particularly murderous kind of poltergeist, serves as the ArcVillain for the third story of the [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]] series. He takes both his villainy and his political status very seriously, and is targeted by the heroes because he's killed ''children''. Unfortunately for him, this is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' fanfic, which means he has to put up with an awful lot of nonsense - both from his surroundings in general and that character in particular.
110* The BigBad from the crossover story, ''Fanfic/TheBridge''. True, [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} one half]] of said crossover is far from a sugar bowl, but isn't so mature that it's not safe for kids. So what is the villain for a crossover between {{Kaiju}} and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equines?]] A demonic, RealityWarping, EldritchAbomination who's an OmnicidalManiac with millions of kills under his belt. Considering it's [[spoiler:Bagan]], this should be expected.
111* ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'':
112** [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/art/Darigus-the-Sane-760073503 Darigus]]; a PhysicalGod MuckMonster whose body is composed of an ink/slime/sludge substance which smells like a rotting corpses, is at least partially acidic, and Darigus barely even making a sound unless he needs to speak, which his regular idle sounds being just an unusual pulsation of his own body as he "feeds" off of the air and poisons whatever is in range with his otherworldly body composition. Darigus is effectively unable to truly be killed when introduced; only be warded off to which even Ultimorian Deity Grandis needed to intervene because otherwise Darigus would've cheated and tried to kill someone flat out; a risk that's always present with Darigus' status as a HeroKiller in his conceptual appearances, due to that being a traditional role associated with Darigus, alongside his SatanicArchetype nature in addition to being the son of an EldritchAbomination who in the lore of his own universe of origin is {{Satan}} himself. To make matters worse, in the description of the picture linked above, he's being discussed as having been actively stalking two girls who have been having nightmarish encounters with Darigus in their own homes, or have had nightmares directly fueled by Darigus' presence if they still slept through him showing up.
113** [[Anime/DigimonTamers Ruki's biological father]] in the form of an OCStandIn with a ''massive'' case of AdaptationalVillainy to the point he's a WalkingSpoiler. [[spoiler:In terms of human villains in the overall continuity, when compared to Roy, Megalodon, or Enric, Roy is a LargeHam, Megalodon is a FunnyForeigner, and Enric is a ComedicSociopath, all of which are attempts to provide some levity into their characters; all of which Besiege lacks because he's described by those same three characters as a "[[KnightOfCerebus joyless]] {{Sociopath}}" who engages in {{Ephebophile}} DateRape and normally is a ProfessionalKiller [[SociopathicSoldier who just wants to fulfill his]] BloodLust [[SociopathicSoldier in killing people]], and [[PerverseSexualLust his lust for]] [[ParentalIncest his own daughter]] while leading her into [[ComplexityAddiction a deliberately designed]] CluelessMystery which is meant to manipulate her into being his successor and future bedmate. He's effectively ''Digimon Re: Tamers''[='=] [[{{Expy}} ans]][[CaptainErsatz wer]] to the [[BigBad Mysterious Man]] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri''.]]
114** GreaterScopeVillain Dr. Devoniak also qualifies due to how uncannily {{Stoic}} he is when compared to all of the other antagonists, who in some ways fall victim to the SeriesFic's nature of being a partial WorldOfHam; Dr. Devoniak isn't hammy in any way whatsoever, not even when engaging his ArchEnemy Grandis. Considering he's NighInvulnerable to mostly everything, he exploits TheSlowWalk very often as he doesn't fear or gets fazed by anything that crosses his path, and as a near 10 foot tall humanoid he tends to intimidate people simply by standing next to them. He's also more of TheSpook than other villains in the fics, considering so little is known about him despite being a TimeAbyss who has existed since the original incarnation of the Greater Multiverse, and even other KnightOfCerebus characters in the series ''[[TheDreaded outright fear Dr. Devoniak in particular.]]'' It's a testament to how dark of a villain he is when you also consider [[spoiler:[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he's the only character whom]] [[ThouShallNotKill Grandis]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness outright killed on purpose.]]]] Did we mention [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/art/Dr-Victor-Devoniak-765162949 his design]] resembles a reanimated corpse?
115** Blackheart, the Omegamon Zwart D that represents Raiga's long-term desire to maintain her Fusion indefinitely. While it is true that Blackheart is depicted as a mindless, genocidal killing machine at her most reasonable, in any other ''Digimon'' fic within this SeriesFic, Blackheart would normally be nothing out of the ordinary in regards to villains. However, as Blackheart is the resident KnightOfCerebus in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', which is mostly PornWithPlot and SliceOfLife at most, [[OutsideGenreFoe Blackheart's existence]] forms the catalyst to the entire MythArc that forms the actual plot part of the aforementioned genre this fic is.
116* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanartist Kosperry often reimagines the story in a Creator/DonBluth style, and in true Don Bluth fashion, this trope is in full effect. While the main four (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy) are depicted as good guys and Mangle is portrayed as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, the same can't be said about Purple Man and Springtrap, who are portrayed as being every bit as vicious and evil as they are in canon.
117* ''Fanfic/FrozenTurtles'' has the seemingly innocent [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Arendelle]] facing the threat of a [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invincible]] OmnicidalManiac in the form of [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the Shredder]], with several scenes emphasizing how the royal family can't understand the scale of Shredder's evil.
118* ''Fanfic/AFutureOfFriendshipAHistoryOfHate'' is yet another ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example. It maintains the OriginalFlavour of the show very well, but [[BigBad Ruinate]] is a rather horrifying EldritchAbomination who intends to turn Equestria into a CrapsackWorld before [[OmnicidalManiac destroying it]], and even manages to temporarily [[spoiler:''[[EmptyShell destroy Twilight Sparkle's soul]]'']]. Also, his [[CoDragons heralds]], who know perfectly well his final goal and serve him anyway, are willing to do terrible things in his name.
119* ''Fanfic/GettingBackOnYourHooves'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic that strongly goes for OriginalFlavour with the original series. The BigBad, [[KnightOfCerebus Checker Monarch]] is based off real life {{Sociopath}}s. This was intentional on the part of the writer to emulate how the TV series has disproportionately dark major villains.
120* Pom Pom's Eleven features the main ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' characters trying to get back at Homeschool Winner for stealing from them. Since it's Homestar Runner we're speaking of, one would expect them to be as comedic as ever and Homeschool Winner to be an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. Though the Homestar Runner characters are as comedic as ever, Homeschool Winner turns out to be a legitimate and rather cunning threat to the cast. For starters, he was responsible for their website closing down as he had secretly been embezzling from their website for years, and he had also stolen precious possessions from the cast when they were forced to sell them to pay off their debts. If that wasn't enough, he also turns out to have tricked Marzipan into breaking up with Homestar. And when his crimes have been revealed, he proceeds to stab Homestar Runner in the chest with a knife.
121* ''Blog/{{Moonstuck}}'' is a story about a pony on the moon meeting lots of friends and going on silly adventures [[MST3KMantra that you shouldn't take seriously]]. Its villains are a [[RegentForLife usurping, tyrannical regent]] who fully intended to ''[[WouldHurtAChild kill]]'' Woona and her friends, Woona's EnemyWithout that delivers multiple {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s and vicious [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speeches]], and [[spoiler:Discord]], who is just as nasty as his canon self with ''none'' of the comedy, often falling into full-blown EldritchAbomination territory.
122* ''Fanfic/MagnaClades'', a ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic, gives us [[BigBad Zoisite]], an EvilChancellor who is willing to exterminate humans because he thinks of them as [[FantasticRacism dirty animals]]. At one point, he even ''[[spoiler:rapes Connie]]!''
123* ''Fanfic/MischiefMHA'': The story may be a little upsetting at some points, but is primarily a comedy with plenty of SliceOfLife sprinkled through it, with main villains like Hirona and Loki receiving room to show their HiddenDepths. Other villains, however, really make the story take a dark turn.
124** Gorr is the first genuine threat faced by the students, his galatic rampage leaving bodies behind, his wicked sense of humour and his willingness to destroy anyone for the sake of his revenge make him a perfect example of it. He brutally murders Yoroi Musha during the Internships arc and laughs of it.
125** [[spoiler:Kraven the Hunter and Taskmaster. These guys may work for the League of Villains here, but they clearly outclass all of them, Lady Nagant being the exception, and they are a serious danger to anyone unfortunate enough to cross them. Shishido ended on the short end of the stick during chapter 49, being quickly defeated by Kraven before being executed by Taskmaster.]]
126** [[spoiler:Ultron. From the moment he is ''mentioned'' by David Shield, all levity from the story vanishes, or at the very least is diminished. Then he debuts during I-Island arc, and everything about him is seriously PlayedForHorror.]]
127* ''[[Fanfic/BloomingMoonChronicles One Wish For Nothing]]'' is one of the more light-hearted stories in ''Songs of Lost Children'', even being the only story in the 99 Worlds Verse to have a comedy tag. However, its main antagonist, [[spoiler:Stronghold Halfdragon]], is one of the most dangerous and vengeful villains in the entire series.
128* [[BigBad Siegmund Schnee]], Weiss' grandfather from ''Fanfic/WeissReacts''- a CardCarryingVillain who outright attempts to ''kill'' Weiss and her team- and that's not even going into what he ''did'' in the backstory. Keep in mind that the Reactsverse tends to be SliceOfLife oriented, and that up until then, the villains had PokeThePoodle evil and acted like [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] at best.
129* ''Fanfic/PersonaTheSougawaFiles'', while having its dark moments, is generally lighthearted in tone, with the Shadow Selves even having comedic quirks that keep them from getting too dark. However, all that goes out the window with two villains:
130** Nobuyuki Itou is the biggest crime lord in Sougawa and seeks to seize control of it, controlling the Shadows and ruling with an iron fist. He's played seriously each time he's onscreen, and proves how dangerous he is by [[spoiler:trashing Rina's house and beating her sister to near-death]].
131** [[spoiler:Yuudai Honda, the true antagonist of the story, initially seems like a LaughablyEvil bumbling idiot meant to play comedically off Nobuyuki, but it turns out he has greater ambitions than his boss ever did. While his motives are understandable and to some extent agreeable, he's hands down responsible for some of the darkest moments in the story, including the reveal of ''everything'' he did to [[TheDragon Satomi]], his brutal CurbStompBattle against Rina, and his gruesome final battle. At the very least, he's a GracefulLoser]].
132* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': While still somewhat played for laughs, Cell is treated as a more serious threat than the other villains and is given a creepy and unnerving rapist vibe. The episodes leading up to his introduction play his arrival with a lot of menace, with a character outright noting a change in tone.
133* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]’s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' [[ModernAUFic modern day]] fanfics (set after the ''Gakuen Basara'' anime), we’ve got UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi serving as the [[StarterVillain first main antagonist]] and his [[DaddysLittleVillain daughter]] Kagehime. Whereas most ''SB'' villains have [[AdaptationalNiceGuy toned down]] and have [[PlayedForLaughs laughable]] moments, she’s almost as dark as her Warring States counterpart, attempting to get revenge through the usage of [[BlackMagic witchcraft]] on UsefulNotes/DateMasamune and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Sanada]] [[MisterSeahorse Yukimura]]’s son Masa for the latter’s SplitPersonality Sei for wiping out the Toyotomi syndicate as payback for Oyamada Nobushige’s murder, even if it inflicts death.
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137* ''A Very Brady Sequel'': Trevor Thomas was the associate of archaeologist Roy Martin, Carol’s first husband. Trevor resorted to cutting the fuel line to their boat and leaving Roy and the six others on board to die (though from the sound of things, they may have been stranded on a desert island instead). He later poses as Roy to get into the good graces of the Bradys and resorts to kidnapping Carol and threatening people with a gun to get what he wants, which is their antique horse valued at about $20 million.
138* The 1995 Australian kid's film ''Napoleon'' is mostly about a cute puppy's adventures in the Australian outback...except when it's about an insane feral cat trying to murder him.
139* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy is a fairly lighthearted for the most part, with even the BigBad Tannen family being LaughablyEvil. The same cannot be said for the [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Libyan Terrorists]], who are played dead serious. Even ignoring how their plan of developing nuclear bombs is by far the darkest and most dangerous crime in the franchise, they ruthlessly murder Doc Brown in the original timeline and then attempt to do the same to [[WouldHurtAChild Marty]] before the latter travels back in time.
140* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has some seriously devious villains compared to the lighthearted romp it is for the most part, though most of them had pretty lukewarm plans (as Burglar Bill planned to steal Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII's [[MacGuffin handbag]], not the Queen herself). Even the Grand High Witch had some malicious intents, even mentioning about "boiling children".
141* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' is for the most part lighthearted - but the Child Catcher more than makes up for that lightheartedness. Seriously, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast his name kind of says it all]].
142* ''Film/ClockStoppers'': Henry Gates. This is a movie about kids freezing time and not a sci-fi thriller about manipulating the device to be used by an EvilCorporation, yes? No? Gates is dead serious in pretty much all of his scenes and clearly cares nothing for what the potential consequences of manipulating time could be. He's willing to use anyone who is of value towards his goals and is more than capable of having those who interfere stomped out if he deems necessary.
143* ''Daigoro vs Goliath'' certainly has its dramatic moments (such as the death of Daigoro's mother or trying to deal with the kaiju's growth and difficulty keeping him fed), but is overall lighthearted and comical...until the title villain Goliath enters the picture. Not only is his introductory scene ominous, with a storm appearing out of nowhere and the music taking on a darker air, but Goliath promptly beats Daigoro nearly to death before rampaging across Japan, all of which is treated much more seriously than the first half of the film.
144* ''Film/DennisTheMenace'': Switchblade Sam is a dirty, dark and crooked thief who through the course of the movie steals money and jewelry from people's houses, steals a little girl's antique doll, steals a kid's apple right out of his hand and threatens kids with his knife in general. Even though he was made the ButtMonkey at the end of the movie, he was so dark for an otherwise very whimsical comedy that Siskel & Ebert each cited him as the main reason why they weren't recommending the movie. One would think with the performance that Christopher Lloyd gave in this movie that he thought he was auditioning for ''Cape Fear''!
145* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is a lighthearted ActorRoleConfusion comedy with endearingly innocent aliens and the cast of a ''Star Trek'' {{Expy}}... and the villain Sarris is a sadistic, genocidal maniac, not above murdering underlings who fail him, who takes a specific glee in forcing Jason to BreakTheCutie.[[note]]Fun Fact! He's named after a movie critic, Andrew Sarris.[[/note]]
146* ''Film/GhostBusters1984'': A classic lighthearted 80s comedy with a fun bunch of characters—at least, until Gozer and company start to show up. Then again, Gozer's manifestation ends up being, while giant, a cartoon junk food mascot.
147* ''Film/GoodBurger'': Kurt Boswell, though somewhat over-the-top and a little bit of a LargeHam, is incredibly vicious and uncompromising in how he deals with his business, insubordinate employees and crushing any unwanted competition. In a movie based on an ''All That'' comedy sketch of all things, he goes as far as to try to poison Good Burger's customers in order to ruin the business. In a sketch it might have been a small thing, but in the movie, the consumption of that poison was likely to either cause severe illness or death. While there were villainous characters on ''All That'' who would threaten others and succeed in taking lives, it was always PlayedForLaughs. In this case, it's not.
148* While often gentle and comedic in tone, ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'''s Mary Lou Maloney [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath graphically burns to death]], later to [[VengefulGhost return]] [[DemonicPossession from the grave]] on a murderous [[MindOverMatter psychokinetic]] rampage - whose consequences are played unflinchingly for horror.
149* The villains in ''Film/TheLoveBug'' movies are usually laughably evil, but the 1997 TV movie introduces Horace the Hate Bug, Herbie's downright sadistic EvilTwin who was created with ThePowerOfHate.
150* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
151** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' is generally pretty lighthearted and fun... with the exception of [[KnightTemplar Ronan the Accuser]] who is introduced with him literally bathing in the blood of executed Xandarians like some kind of perverse baptism. He is a genocidal maniac and brutal zealot who thinks that wiping out an entire planet as retribution for two deaths is a totally acceptable course of action.
152** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' amps up the comedy and features [[spoiler: [[ItsAllAboutMe Ego the Living Planet]], who killed thousands and thousands of his own children, murdered the woman he loved by giving her cancer because she was distracting him from his master plan: to assimilate and absorb all planets in the universe and turn them into an extension of himself.]]
153** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is a lighthearted, 80s-inspired space opera for the most part, but [[BigBad Hela]] is a blood-crazed, ultra-violent galactic conqueror and OmnicidalManiac who quite literally lives for nothing except razing everything to the ground and slaughtering everyone in sight, and it is clear that once she gets her revenge on Asgard, she will set her sights on the entire universe.
154** Considering how ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' is the first movie set after ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', it is still quite lighthearted and is generally a coming-of-age tale much like its predecessor. Unlike Vulture (who was a decent, honest man given a raw deal who just wanted to give his family a comfortable lifestyle and ensure that his employees could do the same for their own, who, at worst, lost his way), however, [[EvilAllAlong Quentin Beck]] aka Comicbook/{{Mysterio}} is a disgusting human being who is all too willing to commit mass murder and wide-scale destruction just to satisfy a ridiculously petty personal grudge and shit all over Tony Stark's legacy, all while being completely and utterly unrepentant.
155** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'' is not without its comedic moments, but it is a much more personal and somber story than the previous two films, and the biggest reason for that is its villain: the [[MadScientist High Evolutionary]]. Every scene with him darkens the mood of the story completely, with no comedy from him or other characters. Even the usually snarky and funny Guardians become dead serious in his presence and want nothing but his horrible and painful death.
156* ''Film/TheMask'' is a comedy mostly focused on the zaniness of its "live-action cartoon" protagonist. Yet the antagonist, Dorian Tyrell, is a ruthless mobster who would be welcome in the [[Comicbook/TheMask very violent bordering on comedy horror comic]], particularly in how scary he gets once he puts on the mask.
157* While ''Film/AMillionWaysToDieInTheWest'' is ''not'' a saccharine movie by any means, it is still a comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously, but all of the comedy abruptly ''stops'' once Clinch Leatherwood comes onscreen, and everything he does is treated dead seriously.
158* ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is probably the campiest, most lighthearted film in the Film/JamesBond franchise. And yet, its BigBad, Hugo Drax is possibly the most diabolical villain in the franchise. As a cold, snobbish, understated executive, Drax wishes to exterminate the human race, except for those he considers "superior beings", being ANaziByAnyOtherName where his character in the novel was an actual Nazi. To this end, Drax captures men and women whom he sees as physically perfect, planning to keep these people in his giant space station while he covers the Earth in a rare toxin that will kill every human being on the planet.
159* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'':
160** ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' is a silly, good natured road movie that tells approximately how The Muppets got started, when Kermit meets Fozzie, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, etc, as they join him on a cross country road trip to Hollywood. Then we meet Doc Hopper, a greedy restaurateur who wants Kermit to be the new spokesperson for his struggling chain of frog leg restaraunts. After Kermit refuses his offers, Hopper relentlessly pursues him for nearly the whole trip, resorting to increasingly vicious means such as holding Piggy for ransom, hiring a MadScientist to have him brainwashed, and finally hiring assassins to hunt him down and kill him. Even as Kermit gives a heartfelt speech to try and reason with him, Hopper is [[RedemptionRejection unmoved]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk still orders him killed]]. He might have succeeded had not Animal, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever having grown to the size of a giant, thanks to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew,]] [[BigDamnHeroes appeared and let out such a]] MightyRoar [[BigDamnHeroes at Hopper and his men]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere that they flee for their lives]].
161** ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' has Constantine, a criminal mastermind [[CriminalDoppelganger who bears a strong resemblance to Kermit]] (save for a mole on his left cheek). He escapes from a maximum security prison in Siberia, Russia, sets Kermit up to look like Constantine and have him arrested, and replaces him for the Muppet World Tour, in order to fool the Muppets and use them for his EvilPlan to steal the Crown Jewels of England and frame them for the crime. Eventually, to get closer to the Crown Jewels, he [[spoiler:proposes to Miss Piggy and has the wedding held at the Tower of London, and then attempts to kill her with a time bomb disguised as a wedding ring, which could've killed the rest of the Muppets as well]].
162* In ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', there is Evanora, [[spoiler:The Wicked Witch of the East, who manipulates her formerly good sister Theodora, turning her into the Wicked Witch of the West.]]
163* ''Film/Paddington2014'' introduced a CruellaToAnimals villain who wanted to kill Paddington and stuff him, and who also tortured a cab driver and outright tried to murder Paddington's human family, leading to a [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/10/kids-films-villains-paddington newspaper article]] complaining in general about why film versions of gentle kids' stories always seem to introduce a murderous villain to [[BigDamnMovie make the story "bigger"]].
164** Notably, ''Film/Paddington2'' averted this with a much LighterAndSofter villain.
165* In the farcical crime comedy ''Film/RaisingArizona'', one of Creator/TheCoenBrothers' more optimistic movies, the possibly demonic biker Leonard Smalls stands out as a genuinely menacing villain amid a cast of bumbling crooks and other residents of rural Arizona's {{Cloudcuckooland}}.
166* ''Film/RomancingTheStone'': Ira and Ralph, even if they kidnapped Joan's sister and [[spoiler:just appear to be]] the BigBadEnsemble of the movie, are pretty much low in threat level (Ira, even if a DirtyCoward and a drug dealer, is also a man of his word and lets Joan and her sister go the moment he has the stone, as he promised). Zolo, however, is a homicidal psychopath that uses the country's SecretPolice as his private army and Ira and Ralph both repudiate and ''are afraid'' of him.
167* ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' may be the most lighthearted film in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga, but [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]] is easily the most threatening villain in the entire saga, being TheSociopath who [[CardCarryingVillain embraces his evil openly]], [[KinSlayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil manipulates a father and son into nearly killing each other]], and [[{{Sadist}} enjoys electrically torturing a young man in front of his father using the Force]]. [[FatBastard Jabba the Hutt]] is not quite as vile as Palpatine, but he is still an example being an extremely gluttonous and sadistic letch who enjoys [[GoGoEnslavement enslaving young women as performers]] and [[EatenAlive feeding people he does not like to various monsters]].
168* While ''Film/Shazam2019'' is easily the most lighthearted entry in the DCEU, things take a turn whenever the demonically-enhanced Dr. Sivana is on-screen. The PunchCatch he performs on Billy in their first encounter signals that shit is about to gets real following Billy's goofy antics. His very presence turns the movie from a wacky coming-of-age comedy into a supernatural horror movie.
169* ''Film/SomethingWild'' is a quirky comedy--till Ray Liotta makes his entrance.
170* Dr. Robotnik from ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' is an interesting example. While the film itself is a lighthearted buddy comedy film and Dr. Robotnik is a LaughablyEvil LargeHam who provides a few humorous moments himself, he is depicted as a cruel and sociopathic being whose main goal in the film is to capture and kill Sonic.
171* ''Film/SuperheroMovie'' is an irreverent, Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg-esque comedy (actually from ''Film/ScaryMovie'' alumni Craig Mazin and David Zucker) which spends most of its time pastiching and lampooning 2000's-era superhero movies, up to its idiotic protagonist [[SpiderManSendUp being an expy of]] [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man.]] Despite this, the villain -- a LifeDrinker named Hourglass -- is taken very seriously, [[KnightOfCerebus having very few comedic beats and played as an actual threat with legitimately imposing powers]]. He's competent and original enough that he probably could make a decent villain in a more dramatic, non-parodic superhero film.
172* For most of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', it is indeed a light-hearted, jokey romp of the titular martial arts reptiles...until whenever The Shredder enters. Every scene he's in is ''not'' played for laughs (even when the Turtles don't take him seriously at first and crack wise), is more than willing to let Splinter rot to death in chains, and the flashbacks show Oroku Saki outright murdering Hamato Yoshi and his wife in cold blood. Leonardo is certainly about to face the same fate until Splinter's arrival.
173-->'''Shredder''': ''[pins Leonardo down at swordpoint]'' He dies!
174-->''[the Turtles stop in their tracks]''
175-->'''Shredder''': Weapons! Now!
176-->''[the Turtles reluctantly throw their weapons aside]''
177-->'''Shredder''': Fools! The three of you might have overpowered me with the loss of but one! Now your fate...WILL BE HIS! ''[readies the strike]''
178* For the most part ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' is a happy-go-lucky musical in the vein of ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. "For the most part" means "except for the parts with Mrs. Meers, a woman who kidnaps people and sells them into a human trafficking ring."
179* The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' have several movies of its own, and while some of the movies are LighterAndSofter, they tend to feature rather horrifying villains.
180** The ''Film/UltramanZearth'' movies are basically a parody of the archetypal Ultramen show, featuring the inexperienced Ultraman rookie, Zearth bumbling around through his day job as a janitor, getting into trouble, being an accident-prone ButtMonkey and a {{Hypochondriac}} that hilariously freaks out at the slightest sign of dirt, and being a complete klutz in both movies. Yet the villains of each movies are the Benzene aliens, a husband-wife team of planet destroyers and universal conquerors. Benzene of the first movie intends to suck up all the gold resources in the world to be fed to his monster, Cotton-pope, which will make the monster powerful enough to unleash an EarthShatteringKaboom that reduce the entire planet into debris; while in the sequel Lady Benzene is capable of hypnotizing and abducting entire populations of cities, and intends to turn everyone on earth as her own army of brainwashed, mindless drones.
181** ''Film/UltramanGaiaTheBattleInHyperspace'' is a spin-off movie of the ''Series/UltramanGaia'' series, and a SliceOfLife movie that is set in ''our'' world instead of the Ultramen universe. Yet it features the dangerous monster, Kingmons, who almost wipes out the entirety of Tokyo in an exceedingly long city destruction scene, with the movie's climax featuring children nearly getting killed by the monster's rampage.
182** ''Film/UltramanCosmos2TheBluePlanet'': A spin-off movie from ''Series/UltramanCosmos'', probably the lightest and most optimistic installment in the series at its time, and yet the BigBad of the film is Sandros, an OmnicidalManiac and PlanetKiller who had wiped out entire populations of every planet it has ravaged, is a {{Plaguemaster}} of a monster who instantly turns entire oceans on Earth into wastelands, and is the most powerful and dangerous monster Cosmos and the earth has faced at that point of the series.
183* Judge Doom from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. The film initially seems like a classical family movie until we meet him. We discover that not only is he responsible for all the bad things that happen in the movie, [[spoiler:but he's also the same psychopathic murderous toon who killed Eddie Valiant's brother long ago and he was planning the genocide of his own species to profit him]].
184* The 1939 film version of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' portrays the Land of Oz as a SugarBowl, but the Wicked Witch of the West is even worse than her literary counterpart, openly planning to kill Dorothy and with ''much'' more powerful magic.
185* ''Film/BeverlyHillsChihuahua'' is otherwise a lighthearted movie about [[TalkingAnimal talking dogs]], but El Diablo, a vicious trained Doberman who can kill people, [[WouldHitAGirl has no qualms on beating a female chihuahua]], and in the sequel, [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to kill puppies]], it's a NightmareFuel source (after all, [[BilingualBonus his name in Spanish]] means "The Devil").
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189* ''Birdsong'', a children's picture book by Gale Haley, is as saccharine as they come, being the story of a HeartwarmingOrphan who can communicate with birds, illustrated in beautiful watercolor paintings. Its villain, Jorinella, has no humorous or light-hearted aspects whatsoever. She's a sadistic [[EvilPoacher poacher]] who deceives and abuses the heroine to boost her bird-trapping operation.
190* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'', by Creator/RoaldDahl, has the sudden intrusion of a HordeOfAlienLocusts into an outer space sequence that until then is mostly whimsical.
191* ''Literature/FreakTheMighty'': Max's father “Killer Kane” is a wife murdering sociopath that gave Max PTSD when he killed his mother, kidnaps him from his grandparents, calls him a dumb animal when he accidentally trips and falls, ties him up so he can’t escape, nearly strangles one of his friends to death when they try to help Max escape, and would have killed Max too if Freak haven’t arrived to save them. As you can imagine Killer Kane notably darkens the tone of the book whenever he is mentioned or seen.
192* ''Literature/GoodnightMisterTom'': The character of [[AbusiveParent Will's mother]] feels as though she belongs in some form of dark tragedy/drama, rather than this mostly warm-hearted children's story. She's a deranged [[TheFundamentalist Christian fundamentalist]] who frequently beats and abuses Will to the point that he's barely functional and severely traumatised when [[ParentalSubstitute Tom]] first meets him, then [[spoiler:[[ClosetPunishment locks him in a cupboard with his infant sister to starve]] (killing the baby and nearly killing Will too) when he returns to London, then [[DrivenToSuicide offing herself]] not too long after that.]] Yeesh.
193* ''Literature/GorgoTheOgre'' is, overall, a child-friendly story, but the King of the Black Ogres is really a [[{{Sadist}} despicable]], [[PsychopathicManchild childishly cruel]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] willing to [[BadBoss kill his subjects]] on the slightest whim, even when they're doing the right thing, and tries to disintegrate the protagonist with a series of magical stones. Not to mention his horrible appearance.
194* ''Literature/TheGreatBrain:'' Most of the stories either play Tom's antics for laughs or focus on the sense of community in Adenville. However, the villains can be genuinely terrifying and nasty.
195** Buzz Beeler, from ''Mama's Boarding House,'' is a sadistic logging boss who relishes beating up people who are minding their own business (once to the point where his victim dies from the beating) out of boredom, racism, or RevengeByProxy strikes at his enemies. At fifteen, he killed his abusive guardian and framed a black man (who was lynched) for the crime. When the Fitzgeralds keep him [[TorchesAndPitchforks from being lynched for his crimes]], Beeler comes out of the experience [[TheFarmerAndTheViper unrepentant and seeking revenge. He even goads the paraplegic Will Fitzgerald into a gunfight]], while sporting a SlasherSmile.
196--> '''Buzz Beeler:''' Only one thing I hate worse than gre*ser, and that's a n*gger.
197** Cal Roberts (from ''Me and My Little Brain''), kills two guards to break out of prison and seek revenge against the judge, prosecutor, and jury foreman who convicted him (with the jury foreman being Mr. Fitzgerald). Roberts tries to lynch the judge and then [[spoiler:kidnaps four-year-old Frankie as a hostage, planning to kill him afterward.]] He even makes a dismissive WeHaveReserves comment upon hearing that several of them have been killed in a shootout.
198* The third ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' novel, ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', introduces two villainous factions that are surprisingly dark for such a wacky series:
199** The Krikkiters are a culture of {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s who want to destroy the life on all other planets, purely because finding out that they weren't alone in the universe caused an existential shock. [[spoiler:It turns out that they were directed onto this path by [[MasterComputer Hactar]], who wanted them to become a force of genocidal destruction purely out of spite.]]
200** [[ArchEnemy Agrajag]], the [[UnknownRival unknown nemesis]] of Arthur Dent, is a soul who remembers all their previous incarnations, all of whose deaths were (unwittingly) caused by Arthur. They eventually [[OneWingedAngel incarnate]] as a [[BatOutOfHell hideous bat creature]] and abduct Arthur to their Cathedral of Hate in order to kill him. [[spoiler:Then Arthur accidentally causes their death again.]]
201* Tove Jansson's ''Literature/TheMoomins'' take place in Moominvalley which is, at least at a very quick glance, somewhat of a saccharine world in the early novels and some of the adaptations. Then we are introduced to the [[WalkingWasteland Groke]]. The revelation in later stories that she's a TorturedAbomination rather than consciously evil may make her less, or even more, horrifying depending on your taste.
202* ''Literature/RileyMcDaniels'': There is an optimistic tone to the story and plenty of whimsical moments and characters, but the villains are vicious gangsters who are poisoning an old woman. Also, the only reason they WouldntHurtAChild after capturing the narrator and his family is because they could make money selling those kids into modern-day slavery picking cotton (with it being subtly implied they plan to sell the boys’ mother into sexual slavery).
203* In some fairytales by Creator/SofiaProkofieva, especially nasty villains can appear in especially unexpected surroundings.
204** ''[[Literature/RulerOfTheMagicalKeys The Island of Captains]]''. There is the Fairytale Ocean, full of lovely islands such as the Lunch Break Island, on which everything is ringing, the Hide-and-Seek Island, which dives underwater whenever a ship approaches it, or the titular Island of Captains, populated by the captains and crews of toy ships. And there is a ruthless pirate leader who prepares to take over the Island of Captains and slaughter the crew of every toy ship that comes there.
205** ''Freckle'' is a lighthearted tale of a sun ray that comes alive and makes friends with a girl, and the main antagonist is the heroine's unpleasant neighbor who can do little actual damage. However, the ray decides to [[NestedStory explain how he got torn off the sun]]. That story involves a FatBastard of a duke who tries to rape a peasant girl and only agrees to let her go if her fiancé brings him a chest of gold before the sun sets; thanks to that duke, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the ray clings to a bell-tower and painfully breaks off from the sun]].
206* ''Literature/TatuAndPatu'': Dr. Void, the villain of "Tatu and Patu as Superheroes", plans to replace the citizens of Ylivetola with robots, with the implication that he's going to kill them. Most of the books don't have antagonists at all, and the only other major ones, the space giant from "Tatu and Patu's Space Adventure" and the Halver from "Tatu and Patu as Detectives" are only ObliviouslyEvil and a little girl who never does anything more evil than cutting and hiding some things, respectively.
207* ''Literature/TeenPowerInc'': There are kid friendly [[AnAesop Aesops]], a lot of humor, and CharacterDevelopment, but a surprisingly large number of villains are explicitly stated to have killed someone. [[spoiler:Recurring villain the Wolf]] is easily the worst of them, as Zim says everyone else who ever crossed him in the past turned up dead and [[spoiler:the Wolf later has his goons kidnap the whole gang while planning to gas them to death once he gets a chance to gloat in person]].
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211* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' had Lambert, who stood out as a SerialRapist played straight in a ''sitcom''. While the show had several other dark episodes, no other character reached the same level of depravity.
212* ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' is a surreal children's show that runs on pure silly camp. Then in the season finale Space Monster M shows up [[spoiler:murders superheroes before the team's eyes, devastates a city, and vows to destroy the earth.]]
213* ''Series/Batman1966'' had Mr. Freeze. Unlike all the other villains, who merely wanted to rob banks and [[HarmlessVillain play pranks]] and the like, Freeze only wanted to ''kill Batman out of revenge'' - in his first appearance, anyway.
214* ''Series/BigBadBeetleborgs'' had Shadowborg, who appeared in the much more lighthearted first season of the show. Whereas most of the Magnavores were LaughablyEvil {{Harmless Villain}}s, Shadowborg is powerful, frighteningly competent, and has little to no humor except for sarcasm and deadpan one-liners mocking the heroes. He not only curbstomps the Borgs in his first appearance without even trying and served as an ImplacableMan for most of his arc, his attack on the town is portrayed as dead serious as opposed to the more petty crimes his fellows committed, with him actively trying to hurt innocent people, resulting in Heather being hospitalized with a broken leg. Until [[KnightOfCerebus Nukus]] showed up, Shadowborg was the most serious villain the show got.
215* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
216** Jake's cellmate in Florida, Caleb the Cannibal, who moved across the country multiple times and killed and ate children. He refers to their blood as "sauce". In a twist, however, he isn't actually the ''villain'' of the episodes where he appears; he's rather friendly and helpful to Jake, who is a little disturbed by how likeable he finds Caleb.
217** Dr Tate in Season 6's "The Therapist." He slept with his patient, murdered her husband and framed him for it, and reveals in a single offhand remark that he murdered a previous couple after sleeping with the wife and "nobody misses them."
218** Lt. Hawkins, a badass CowboyCop that Jake and Rosa were fanboying over who [[BrokenPedestal turns out to be]] a [[DirtyCop ruthless bank robber]]. She ends up framing them for her crimes, causing a rare TheBadGuyWins DownerEnding for such a lighthearted show
219* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': The show is a goofy sitcom about seven people suffering the problems of being trapped on a very wacky uncharted island. Jonathan Kinkaid, the titular character from "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS3E18TheHunter The Hunter]]", outstrips most of the antagonists in nastiness and quickly changes the episode into an unexpectedly dark one. He starts off as just another visitor to the island. However, once it sinks in that no one knows the Castaways are on the island, he decides with disturbing rapidity to see what it's like to hunt and kill a human.
220* ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' is a sweet story about friendship, kindness, loyalty, a bright utopian future, time travels and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick two murderous space pirates who don't hesitate to torture a child and plan to take over the world]]. Actually lampshaded in the torture scene by one of the pirates, who provides quite a bit of comic relief in the earlier episodes:
221-->We are not so funny after all...
222* ''Series/HopeAndFaith'': One episode had Hope serving on a jury, while Faith watches the trial. It's revealed that the defendant is being framed for attempted murder by her husband and daughter. These two would be more at home in a SoapOpera, not a family friendly sitcom. Appropriately, Faith who uncovered their plot, is a soap opera star.
223* ''Franchise/KamenRider'': Even when the series gets lighter, the villains tend to stay just as threatening.
224** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' is a LighterAndSofter High School version of ''Franchise/KamenRider''. The monsters, known as Zodiarts, are actually fellow students--many of them having lots of psychological issues--alongside the teachers who actively are giving them the means to become evil. It has the ''most'' amount of monsters out of all the Kamen Rider Series with a total of at ''least'' eight that are trying to kill teenagers.
225** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' is an optimistic story that ranks with ''Fourze'' when it comes to lighter seasons of ''Kamen Rider''. The villains? An OmnicidalManiac who wants to create a world of suffering [[ForTheEvulz purely to entertain himself]] and a SatanicArchetype bent on [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum putting an end to everything]] out of nihilism.
226* ''Series/KickinIt'''s Sensei Ty started out this way; in ThePilot he ordered a student to break Jack's leg. Let me restate that - ''he ordered a teenage martial artist to break another, younger one's leg in tournament play''. He's gotten broader and sillier since.
227* ''Series/LostInSpace'': Dr. Smith in a sense, particularly if watched out of order. Smith became increasingly clownish as the show went on and it can be quite startling to go from a season 2 or 3 episode back to the beginning of season 1, where [[spoiler: he was a cold blooded spy who attempted to murder the Robinson family. He also may have murdered a guard who caught him.]]
228* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has Grandma Ida. While she is PlayedForLaughs, there's no denying that she's probably the most evil character on the show.
229* ''Series/OddSquad'': Most of the villains seen on the show aren't terribly evil. While they most definitely WouldHurtAChild and frequently antagonize agents, a majority of their attacks are harmless and their motives are more or less to cause oddness ForTheEvulz. However, there have been villains who are far more threatening and actively seek to harm Odd Squad and its agents.
230** By far the biggest example is Odd Todd. A former diligent agent of Precinct 13579 who was also [[spoiler:the former partner of Olive,]] he is an EvilGenius whose skill in the realm of mathematics exceeds that of his coworkers. [[spoiler:Back when he was an agent named Todd, he was so skilled at solving cases that he got bored and did a FaceHeelTurn, going to the side of oddness. Eventually he was fired for intentionally letting Tiny Dancer cause oddness, which was the final nail in the coffin for him to become a villain and attack Precinct 13579.]] He is the catalyst for Olive's trauma and constantly bullied her when the two worked at the precinct, he was known as TheDreaded among the agents of the precinct before his debut, and he has no problem going after and physically harming other agents as well as citizens of the town. Even after his HeelFaceTurn, he still keeps some of the traits he had as a villain, and ''Film/OddSquadWorldTurnedOdd'' shows exactly how terrifying the world would have been had he succeeded in defeating Odd Squad. He is easily the most iconic villain in the entire franchise, and it shows.
231** The Season 2 finale has [[spoiler:Otis and his duck family. While they don't have any powers, Brother Quack, the leader of the ducks and ostensibly Otis' adoptive father, and the rest of the duck family managed to build a machine that would bring the Earth closer to the sun in an attempt to permanently stop winter from coming. Otis, realizing that this would kill everyone on the planet including the ducks, betrayed his family and worked together with Odd Squad in order to stop them, pulling a HeelFaceTurn. As a result of his betrayal, Otis suffers from an AbsurdPhobia of ducks that lasts throughout the season, as he is afraid that his family will want vengeance on him for what he did. Luckily, they aren't vengeful and all and come to realize that Otis was only protecting them, and Brother Quack reconciles with his adopted son, pulling a HeelFaceTurn of his own.]]
232** There's also Ohlm from Season 2. A seemingly-harmless agent who's loyal to Odd Squad and is by far the biggest [[TheDitz ditz]] around. However, it's merely a facade. [[spoiler:His ''true'' personality is that of TheSmartGuy who [[ObfuscatingStupidity faked his stupidity]] in order to take over Odd Squad because he wasn't immediately promoted to the position of the Big O upon graduating the Odd Squad Academy and was instead made an Investigation agent. He made a FaceHeelTurn and became an EvilGenius instead, vowing to use his smarts to destroy the organization and stealing practically anything of benefit he could get his hands on in order to give it to various villains so they could commit acts of oddness and break into Precinct 13579's Headquarters. Despite numerous setbacks, he gains the upper hand when Oprah and Otis gets themselves fired and exiled from Odd Squad, as he is promoted to the Management position of the precinct in place of the former. In his new position, he enacts his ultimate plan to build a black hole out of ''every single gadget in the precinct's possession'' -- 10,000 of them in total -- and suck every single agent into it, effectively killing them. It's very telling that he's the only BigBad of the franchise that doesn't get redeemed in any manner, as when he's defeated by Olympia, Otis, Oprah and Oona and has his life saved by them, he refuses to give up, [[UngratefulBastard doesn't even thank them for saving his life,]] and ends up being placed in the hands of his parents, who [[YouAreGrounded ground him and send him to his room.]]]]
233** Season 3 has The Shadow, yet another EnfantTerrible BigBad who could easily stand toe-to-toe with Odd Todd for just how nasty and clever she is. [[spoiler:Her first major appearance has her hacking into the Odd Squad Mobile Unit van and attempting to drown it in the Lake of Goo, while also attempting to take ''the Mobile Unit themselves'' down with it. When that fails, she decides to change course and uses Odd Squad's ''modus operandi'' against them, forming the [[VillainTeamUp Villain Network]] comprised of every single villain in existence in order to take down the organization using the power of teamwork. Opal, confused as to who "The Shadow" is, eventually finds out her true identity and her true name: Olizabeth, her younger sister. However, having her identity exposed doesn't deter the villainess in the slightest, as she continues to push on with her plan to have the villains in the Villain Network release oddness through the tubes at Tube Central Station to reach all of the Odd Squad precincts in the world by funnelling their powers into a single cube connected to the tubes. Even when Opal tries to convince her to stop what she's doing, admitting that she was too overprotective and telling her sister that she has lots of potential, she refuses to listen...that is, until Opal plays an entry from her CaptainsLog saying how she is "the smartest person Odd Squad has ever been up against", at which point it finally sinks in. While she does pull a HeelFaceTurn and reforms, she's easily considered one of the most threatening villains the show has ever had and gives Odd Squad quite the difficult time.]]
234* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'' is notably LighterAndSofter than the series it spun off from. The BigBad, however, is Jafar, bastard son of the Sultan of Agrabah, EvilSorceror, and all-around monster. Every episode has him doing something despicable: torture, murder, attempted murder, manipulation, and turning his lover into his serpent staff. He also has a particularly dark backstory that features his equally horrible father attempting to drown him when he was a child among other things.
235* Polish SoapOpera ''Plebania'' (eng: presbytery) was an optimistic and kind, sometimes to the point of naivety, show about daily lives of people in small village and efforts of a local parson and his new vicar to solve their small problems. Yet not only it had a recurring villain, it was one of the vilest characters in Polish TV, a sadistic, petty, ruthless gangster with a bone to pick with God, who loved to crush peoples hopes and dreams while rubbing in their faces he is rich enough to get away with it. Years after the show went off air he achieved MemeticBadass status due to how over-the-top cruel he could be.
236* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
237** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' tried this with Lord Zedd, contrasting the ineffectual WickedWitch Rita Repulsa with a ''seriously'' villainous and terrifying boss. MoralGuardians complained that he was [[ButNotTooEvil too evil]], and he was repeatedly toned down and softened through various devices until his villain family had become a comedy sketch act. Later villains are even darker than Zedd.
238** [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Queen Bansheera]] was a cruel ruler who obsessed only on restoring her kingdom and [[BadBoss punished anyone who failed her]], [[AbusiveParents even her own son]]. When he was seemingly destroyed, she laughed it off, [[EvenEvilHasStandards something even the demons who hated him were unsettled by]].
239** In a season with a robot armadillo being kicked like a soccer ball or the leader of the rangers who was raised in the jungle, [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Master Org]] was the first villain in the series to get away with onscreen murder of humans that was never undone.
240** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' is notoriously known to be one of the more panned seasons, yet it has another disturbing villain in the form of [[ManipulativeBastard Vrak]]. Vrak is a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{Chessmaster}} who also happens to be the youngest son of a GalacticConqueror. He is known to cheerfully manipulate and use his own allies like pawns, and frequently tricks them to their deaths, even his own admiral. His menacing cyborg form only shows that he has become delusional and egotistical enough to be totally [[LackofEmpathy uncaring]] towards the people who have been nothing but loyal to him, as shown when he practically told Metal Alice, who did nothing but rebuild him and serve him faithfully, that she meant nothing to him and left her to die without any remorse, an act which especially disgusted the Rangers.
241* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' for a lot if not most part is a slice-of-life sitcom about a little girl and her hijinx with her newfound family and friends. Most of it is relatively harmless, until the UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode two-parter "The Perils of Punky", where an evil spirit torments poor Punky Brewster by taking away her friends and turning them into horrifying abominations, showing her darkest fear of being abandoned by her guardian Henry, and when Punky finally confronts the evil spirit, he plans to literally kill her, which thankfully Punky overcomes this and defeats the evil spirit by showing positive emotions. Still, this two-parter is the darkest episode for these reasons.
242* Not that anybody in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' is a particularly good person, but at least most of the cast are generally harmless. Crazy Joe Davola, on the other hand, is an extremely unstable maniac who becomes obsessed with Elaine, leading to a pretty frightening scene where she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with him]] in his apartment and he seems ready to hurt her. The fact he dresses up as a [[MonsterClown clown]] on one occasion doesn't help matters.
243* ''Series/{{Skins}}'' has Dr. John Foster, from season 4. [[KnightOfCerebus Any trace of levity or comedy disappears whenever he is involved in the plot of the episodes]]. While the series from its inception always had its fair share of heavy themes and/or serious moments, the tone of the series was mostly toned down given that it is a TeenDrama with some elements of {{Dramedy}}, BlackComedy and SliceOfLife. The arrival of this guy, however, marks a before and after, being an outlier even among the series' nastiest characters, not to mention the fact that he is the first and only antagonist to kill someone important from the main cast. He is certainly one of the few villains on the show to pose a true and active threat to the main characters.
244* An in-universe example appears on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' with the ShowWithinAShow ''The Adventures of Flotter'', a series of fantasy holonovels for children. One of the title adventures involves a character called the Ogre of Fire, who shows-up, ''vaporizes the main character in front of the child's eyes'', and then torches the setting to the ground.
245* ''Franchise/SuperSentai''
246** ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' is a much more light-hearted show in comparison to ''Series/KamenRider'', but while the villains may wear [[CoolMask Colorful and outlandish masks]], they're still a ruthless terrorist organization who have no problem maiming women or children in pursuit of their goals, and occasionally carry out attacks that are shockingly realistic given the setting.
247** ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' is a pretty goofy season, and for the most part the villains reflect that, but there are two exceptions: Tau Zant, the BigBad, a megalomaniac bent on killing everyone in the universe and remaking it into one where [[AGodAmI he reigns supreme]], and Sandaaru, TheDragon, a cold ProfessionalKiller and OneManArmy responsible for one of the most impactful deaths in the series. [[spoiler:And then there's the EldritchAbomination the two try to summon...]]
248** Yogoshimacritein - The true BigBad in ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''. Not only is he more evil than his son, but he's also a ''very'' BadBoss, [[spoiler:killing off his two minions once they double-cross him to help the Go-Ongers]]. He also has access to a device that ''deletes'' people from existence.
249* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' has the Hood, who regularly causes disasters that could potentially kill hundreds or thousands of people, just to force International Rescue into action so that he can try to copy their technology.
250* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' is a typical KidCom, albeit with slightly more risqué humour than usual. However, one episode involved the protagonists going to the country of [[{{Ruritania}} Yerba]], which was ruled by a dictatorial Chancellor. Said Chancellor ends up arresting the protagonists after he is accidentally blinded. Also, the country is in the middle of a CivilWar. The audience is shown this when the military arrests a man off the street and the sound of gunfire can be heard at times. While the show does treat this humorously, this isn't the typical villain you'd expect from this kind of show.
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254* ''Podcast/PokemonAdventuresInTheMillennium'' starts with Starr, who is incredibly cruel to her allies and enemies and is implied to have [[spoiler: killed her abusive father]]. She's later usurped by [[spoiler: The Logos Corporation, who believe humanity and Pokemon can only be saved by culling the weakest of the population]].
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258* Surprisingly, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. In 2005, he [[CerebusSyndrome went from]] being a vaguely comedic character to a monster determined to take Wrestling/ReyMysterio's son away from him, not to mention beating Rey to a bloody pulp and ripping off his mask - all because [[TheGreenEyedMonster he was envious of Mysterio's success]].
259* Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} was also always generally funny, but that ended when in 2008 he cheated on his wife - ''on their wedding day'' - and was forced to face Wrestling/TheUndertaker in Hell in a Cell in retaliation. He suffered a VillainousBreakdown, leading to him dropping Wrestling/MickFoley through a table from a great height and stalking and jumping various members of his family and laying black roses on their unconscious bodies before launching a sneak attack on the rest in the ring and announcing he was going to [[TakingYouWithMe drag them all down to hell with him]].
260* It may be a bit inaccurate to call WWE "saccharine," but when most of the bad guys are just cowardly {{Smug Snake}}s and brutish {{Jerk Jock}}s, it definitely made Wrestling/TheWyattFamily - a cult of deranged hillbillies lead by a madman who may be possessed by The Devil (or something [[EldritchAbomination even worse]]) - stand out. Their leader, Wrestling/BrayWyatt, got even worse when he was rebranded to be a DepravedKidsShowHost with a SuperpoweredEvilSide which he calls "The Fiend".
261* [[LighterAndSofter After switching to a PG rating]], the Wrestling/{{WWE}} has had a strict [[BloodlessCarnage "No Blood" policy]]. Someone probably ''tried'' to give Wrestling/BrockLesnar the memo, but the guy most likely [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the messenger into a bloody pulp.]]
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265* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'', for which the premise is to take the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', a setting rivaled only by ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' when it comes to being a CrapsackWorld and throw cute, idealistic {{Magical Girl}}s as the protagonists.
266* ''WebOriginal/Brighthammer40000'', the [[LighterAndSofter Lighter and Softer]] parody of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', transforms the [[BlackAndGrayMorality ordinarily grim and gritty factions]] into nicer and and genuinely heroic people, with the exception of the Tau who are presented as a brutal fascist empire utilizing mind control, genocide, and cannibalistic troops. [[AdaptationalVillainy This is in contrast to the canon Tau]] who were the closest thing in the [[CrapsackWorld 40k galaxy]] that are [[TokenGoodTeammate good guy factions]]. The joke ? Apart from slightly exaggerating some of their questionable [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans motives]] and [[HeelFaceBrainwashing tactics]] from the original game, Brighthammer 40 000's Tau are pretty much identical and only look evil by contrast.
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270* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': The series primarily centers around meta-commentary and satirical humor, alongside many casual interactions and mischievous protagonists. Despite this, the villain, Monokuma/[[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]], darkens everything with the killing game and the motives provided to make the participants kill one another, and constantly gets in the way of the "saccharine" elements of the series. The same applies to the ones who work for the main villain too, following the events where [[spoiler:Monokuma's controller, Junko Enoshima, dies and then has her role taken by a successor of some sort.]]
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274* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'':
275** Flower was a huge {{Jerkass}} since episode 1, however, [[spoiler:in the finale she destroyed all the Recovery Centers (which are the reason DeathIsCheap in that universe) and promptly killed Bubble, making the latter the first person in the series to be KilledOffForReal (although she is back alive 3 episodes later). [[LaserGuidedKarma She is crushed by a UFO moments after]].]]
276** [[spoiler:Leafy also undergoes a FaceHeelTurn in that episode, stealing Dream Island from the winner [[note]] more precisely, buying it from the Announcer without Firey's consent [[/note]], nearly turns into Evil Leafy, and later throws knives at several character for disturbing her.]]
277** [[AscendedExtra Evil Leafy]] also deserves special recognition, being a murderous, silent, on-the-brink-of-EldritchAbomination and just generally disturbing creature who [[ImAHumanitarian eats people she catches]]. It’s notable as unlike the two above, she is ''[[KnightOfCerebus never]]'' [[KnightOfCerebus played for laughs]], which is surprising considering the series is a comedy.
278* ''WebAnimation/HanazukiFullOfTreasures'' presents a world with bright colors, cute creatures that represent emotions, and an overarching villain known as the Big Bad, a black hole-like, all-consuming cosmic force with the ability to ravage moons of all life and turn them into a barren wasteland. The first moments of the show display its capability for destroying moons in mere seconds. Three Moonflowers end up facing this the hard way, Kiazuki, in addition to everything on her moon being destroyed, loses almost all her creatures to the depths of space except one (Zikoro) as her sole companion, and Maroshi [[spoiler: loses his moon by having the water that makes up much of the land turn to ice and then explode]]. As for the cute emotion creatures, as we see with Red Hemka, prolonged exposure to the Big Bad causes them to suffer an illness [[spoiler: that makes them fade into nonexistence if not treated.]] The only thing that can protect a moon from such a destructive being is the presence of Treasure Trees, and even then they need to be healthy and have a variety of colors shown, as Kyoshi’s forest of black (despair) trees are powerless.
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282* While ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' is an over-the-top horror comedy with a plethora of likeable and fun characters, there are a few villains that stand out from the crowd. One of them includes {{J|erkass}}ay, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters an absolutely monstrous and loathsome human patient]] the protagonist encounters in the maze of planks outside the titular hospital's surgical ward. He even treats her like dirt when they first meet and is an AbsoluteXenophobe who won't hesitate to violently murder non-humans and even some friendly staff members of the Hospital and bury them in the walls, [[RetGone never to be remembered by anything again.]] And it's revealed he's done the same to dozens, if not hundreds of fellow patients! His actions are played much more seriously than most of the antagonists in this comic, adding even further to his KnightOfCerebus status.
283** There's also the equally ominous and even more mysterious Parliament of the Old Flesh, [[AssimilationPlot who intends to condense all of existence into one single intelligence]], the way it once was and where they originated from.*
284* ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'' The ShowWithinAShow ''Warrior Unicorn Princess'' is an example. The toys of it make it look like a girly show about colorful unicorns in pretty princess dresses. The actual show has the titular character facing skeleton unicorn knights, demons with heart-shaped heads and giant fire-breathing sunflowers, all commanded by a mysterious robed figure. Erma's babysitter even lampshades that the toys are false advertising.
285* Like other ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' examples on this page, ''Webcomic/StarMares'' villains are almost as bad (if a trifle less overtly deadly) as their ''Franchise/StarWars'' equivalents - [[spoiler:with the added bonus of most of them being familiar fallen heroes.]]
286* ''Webcomic/SurvivorFanCharacters'' included a fan character from ''{{Franchise/Barbie}}'' in its ninth season, a cheerful girl with blonde hair, InnocentBlueEyes, and a [[PinkMeansFeminine frilly pink dress]]... [[spoiler:who turns out to use her [[BitchInSheepsClothing "sweet, innocent girl" façade]] to get away with [[MoralEventHorizon morally reprehensible acts]] such as [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accusing her loving boyfriend of rape]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to get him voted out]] and ''laughing'' when being called out on it, and deliberately breaking a player's leg in a challenge to get him medically evacuated and being ''disappointed'' when his leg didn't even get infected.]]
287** Before that, Season 5 had Maria, a quiet and not-aggressive girl... and Mo, her SplitPersonality [[JekyllAndHyde which would scare the breakfast out of a psycho hospital]]. Among other things, [[spoiler:she is also the very first person on the show to be ejected for violence, and not just ordinary violence, but a ''murder attempt''.]]
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291* Website/ChannelAwesome:
292** Much of the time, ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' has the same tone as the rest of the site; definitely not for children and sometimes resorting to RefugeInAudacity, but still comical and not taking danger very seriously. However, this doesn't hold true when Malachite -- an apparent complete sociopath who murders multiple innocent people just for using technology -- is on screen. While most of the site's villains are [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] [[BlackComedy Dark Comedy]], Malachite is almost always PlayedForDrama. That said, he isn't taken ''completely'' seriously; in fact, a side video released after the film reveals [[spoiler: Malachite has been cursed to the eternal fate of working as a cashier at a cafe where he's comedically kicked around by his boss]].
293** The RoguesGallery of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' has several baddies more serious than others on the site. These include Linkara's EvilCounterpart Mechakara, the grim warrior Lord Vyce, and a [[TheMultiverse worlds]]-[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIT destroying]] EldritchAbomination know only as The Entity. Mechakara also appears in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', where he is the only villain in the film who never behaves comically.
294* Website/{{Cracked}} presents: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17129_7-badass-cartoon-villains-who-lost-retarded-heroes.html 7 Badass Cartoon Villains Who Lost to Retarded Heroes.]] It must be added though that the list gives more emphasis on the sugar-ness of their nemeses rather than of the settings.
295* The Creepypasta ''Literature/CandleCove'' is partially based on this trope - it describes a low-budget pirate-themed puppet show for children, featuring a talking ship and a live-action little girl as the main character, yet features villains such as the Skin-Taker, an evil skeleton who does [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly]] [[FlayingAlive that]]. It's also hinted that there are even darker forces in play.
296* ''Literature/ChasingButterflies'' is a light-hearted science-fantasy romp with more focus on the humorous and beautiful elements of its EldritchLocation setting, all until its BigBad Mr. Hive walks in. Hive is a slaving trickster implied to have murdered dozens of xenos like the young, naive hero Sal and eventually ups his game to the attempted destruction of a harmless, SugarBowl snail city. His CoDragons, the Gentlemen, are more minor examples who herald some of the only real scenes of dark violence in the story.
297* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' Is a very cute and lighthearted show, where most of the villains are either [[HarmlessVillain harmless]] or [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain complete buffoons]]. And then we have [[spoiler:Darkseid]], a megalomaniacal despot who wants to turn the entire universe into a DarkWorld and [[WorldOfSilence turn everyone else into clones of himself with no personality or free will of their own]]. Fittingly, he's the final villain the girls face and effectively the BigBad of the entire series.
298* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'':
299** While the series has always had vile villains (Adolf Hitler was in the second episode, after all), most of the time their atrocities are brought up in a way that CrossesTheLineTwice. Jack the Ripper, however, never plays his crimes for anything other than pure horror. There is never even a hint of BlackComedy in his verses.
300** To a lesser extent, his opponent, Hannibal Lecter. While Lecter gets more LaughablyEvil moments than Jack, he's still played more for horror than villains in the rest of the series.
301** Before either of them, the S2 finale gave us UsefulNotes/JosephStalin. Like Lecter, his verses still had some amount of BlackComedy, but his crimes were far more played for horror in contrast to earlier villains.
302** UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler is in a similar boat as Stalin; he does have a few moments of BlackComedy in his verses, but overall he is presented as a dead-serious villain and his crimes are played for grimdark horror.
303** [[spoiler: Creator/WaltDisney, of all people, may be the darkest and most genuinely scary villain in the entire season, with a verse dedicated to the Disney company's absolute power and world domination with nothing played for laughs.]]
304* Sephiroth in ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged''. In a series full of goofy, almost cartoonish villains, he stands out by being just as awful if not moreso than his canon counterpart. [[spoiler:After all, Sephiroth in canon didn't single out Cloud's mother and murder her to make Cloud "[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor just like him]]".]]
305* While ''Series/FlandersCompany'', being a show about a [[WeirdTradeUnion Company providing]] [[VillainProtagonist supervillains]], tends to have some amount of violence, it's usually played as black comedy, and the first antagonists (introduced in season 2) were more comical than serious... until the finale, where [[PsychoElectro Carla Burnelle]] almost annihilates the protagonists. Then come season 3, and we get [[KnightOfCerebus Aegis]], a group of [[GodModeSue overpowered]] {{Knight Templar}}s who want to wipe out supervillains from Earth (despite supervillains being harmless {{Punch Clock Villain}}s in this universe). They actually killed 75 of them, and it was not played for laughs.
306* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' is mostly a fun, lighthearted romantic comedy set in a WorldOfSnark. George Wickham is a JerkJock who [[spoiler:previously took advantage of Gigi Darcy for her money, and then proceeds to emotionally abuse Lydia and isolate her from her family, before attempting to sell a sex tape of them without her knowledge or consent. He's stopped, but [[KarmaHoudini he never gets punished for it, either]].]] Oh, and he's heavily implied to be an out-and-out ''[[TheSociopath sociopath]]''.
307* Most ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' villains are LaughablyEvil, but [[BigBad plot villains]] tend to be [[KnightOfCerebus really EVIL]].
308* ''AudioPlay/RefletsDAcide'' is a fantasy AffectionateParody of HeroicFantasy, with heroes arguing with each others led by a LovableCoward for a mission they don't clearly know themselves what it consist into. Most characters are either comically incompetent or {{Deadpan Snarker}}s. Then you get [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Alia-Aenor]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Belial]]. The former is a FauxAffablyEvil BitchInSheepsClothing who enjoys killing people [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill with a mass-murder necromantic spell]]; the latter is a KnightOfCerebus and a Demonlord with ''no'' comical quirk, AbusiveParent tendencies and tendencies to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
309* Most episodes of ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'' take place in a SugarBowl and are fun and light-hearted... other than when [[BigBad [=HitTheTarget=]]] attacks, which leads to [[DarkerAndEdgier far more action-packed and intense]] [[UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode episodes]] which can involve anything [[spoiler:from kidnapping to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind control]] to outright [[AndIMustScream torture]]... the latter of which has happened ''on more than one occasion'']]. Oh, and his main plot to TakeOverTheWorld involves [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals animal abuse]], and TheDragon's villain arc kicked off with [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute betrayal]] and the summoning of an EldritchAbomination]]. WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids
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