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10	->''"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. After ten years you thought you'd seen it all, but the shadows always dished up more. You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibly sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."''
11	-->-- '''Commander Samuel Vimes''''s thoughts on '''Carcer Dun''', ''Literature/{{Night Watch\| Discworld}}''
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13	''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'' is a [[LongRunningBookSeries long-running]] fantasy series which runs on the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality. Among its [[Characters/DiscworldVillains villains]] are [[CompleteMonster these]], who put the others to shame.
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18	* ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'': [[EvilSorcerer Ipslore the Red]], having been thrown out of Unseen University for taking a wife and having children, vowed revenge, his obsession causing him to [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget discard his previous love]]. Siring his eighth son [[RealityWarper Coin]], a [[MagicalSeventhSon sourcerer]]--a wizard cable of creating magic granting them near unlimited power--merely as a tool for revenge, Ipslore cheated Death by binding his spirit to Coin's staff, threatening to [[OffingTheOffspring kill the boy]] should Death remove him. Over ten years [[AbusiveParents Ipslore]] molded Coin into an utterly dependent killing servant, punishing even the slightest defiance with ElectricTorture. Using Coin to murder several wizards to gain him control of the university, as well as killing one for being kind to his young child, Ipslore sets the university loose against the city, turning Lord Vetinari into a lizard and letting the wizards terrorize the helpless population of Ankh-Morpork. Under Ipslore's rule, anyone who attempts to interfere is killed regardless of their inability to stop Coin. Letting his hubris overtake him and still hungry for more power, Ipslore has Coin freeze the Discworld pantheon, now desiring to rule the entire disc, completely uncaring his actions could bring about the collapse of reality itself from the Ice Giants arising or the excess magic attracting the [[EldritchAbomination Things from the Dungeon Dimensions]].
19	* ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'': [[TautologicalTemplar Lilith de Tempscire]], formerly Lily Weatherwax, is the vain and wicked elder sister of [[GoodIsNotNice Esmeralda "Granny" Weatherwax]], who uses her belief that she's the "good witch" to seek power no matter the cost. Understanding that stories hold great power, Lilith takes over the kingdom of Genua by poisoning its former ruler Baron Saturday, replacing him with a frog she turned into a human prince, and raising his young daughter Ella as a scullery maid to replicate the story of Cinderella. Turning Genua into a "perfect" fairy tale kingdom by watching it through her MagicMirror, Lilith forces the people [[HappinessIsMandatory to always be happy]] and adhere to fairy tale stereotypes or be tortured or murdered for their defiance. When Granny and her coven arrive to rescue Ella and ruin Lilith's plot at the behest of voodoo witch Mrs. Gogol, Lilith [[ForcedToWatch forces Ella to watch]] as she [[ForcedTransformation transforms her innocent stagecoach drivers into bugs]] and [[YouHaveFailedMe squashes them for failing to bring Ella to the ball]]. Ultimately defeated by a zombified Baron Saturday, Lilith [[RedemptionRejection rejects her sister's offer of redemption]] and tries to murder her and her coven one last time.
20	* ''Literature/InterestingTimes'': [[EvilChancellor Lord Hong]] is the Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire and seeks to become the Emperor so he can invade the outside world and consume their culture after growing bored from [[TheAce mastering every aspect]] of his stagnant society. Hong secretly backs a rebel army that he seeks to scapegoat the Emperor's assassination and manipulates his fellow nobles into leading massacres of entire cities to popularize the rebels. Inviting Rincewind after his previous adventures made him a legend, Hong sought to frame him as a foreign backer of the rebels to justify a bloody conquest of the Discworld. [[VisionaryVillain Seeking to end the Empire's stagnancy]] for {{pragmatic\|Villainy}} and [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist selfish reasons]], Hong still intended to enforce the Agatean caste system where commoners are treated as less than human and executed for the pettiest of reasons. Ultimately undone by Cohen the Barbarian and Rincewind, a furious Hong tries to kidnap and murder Rincewind as a final act of spite for his ruined ambitions.
21	* ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'': [[TheatrePhantom Salzella]] is the deadpan and harsh music director of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House and the false killer Ghost seeking the opera's ruin to satiate his hate and greed. Despising opera, its performers, and its watchers, Salzella is secretly embezzling a massive profit while taking the guise of the Ghost after threatening the mentally challenged real Ghost Walter with murdering his mother. The false Ghost destroys equipment to hide his thefts while murdering or attempting to murder multiple people who might discover his schemes. When Granny Weatherwax uncovers Walter's alter ego, Salzella [[FrameUp frames the innocent young man]] and sends a mob out to murder him. On the verge of exposure, Salzella attempts to drop a [[FallingChandelierOfDoom massive flaming chandelier]] during a packed performance to doom hundreds to a fiery death to hide his heinous crimes and escape justice.
22	* ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': [[PsychopathicManchild Jonathan Teatime]] is a [[PsychoForHire sadistic assassin]] feared even amongst hardened criminals. Implied to have [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his own parents]], Teatime has a penchant for excessive slaughter. In one instance, Teatime nailed his target's pet dog to the ceiling for barking too much and killed his servants because he didn't want them to barge in on him. After the Auditors hire Teatime to kill [[SantaClaus the Hogfather]], Teatime abducts a tooth fairy to use her magic to make all the children in Discworld stop believing in the Hogfather in order to kill him, causing a void in Ankh-Morpork's magic that wreaks havoc in the process. Teatime, unlike other members of the Assassins' Guild, shows no regard for the lives of civilians or his own men, in one instance killing a stagecoach driver out of boredom while chatting with him and in another instance having a locksmith working for him dropped down a long spiral staircase to a painful death [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when he's no longer useful]]. When Death and Susan foil his assassination attempt, Teatime tails them to the nursery Susan works at in an attempt to kill Death.
23	* ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'': [[AxCrazy Wolfgang von Uberwald]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent sadistic werewolf]] who is [[FantasticRacism obsessed with the purity of bimorphic werewolves]], even [[SiblingMurder murdering his own sister]] for failing this test. A SerialKiller who savors hunting helpless human prey, Wolf allows them glimpses of hope by fleeing him, only to set upon them and rip them to shreds. Wolfgang does not bother to play by the rules, relishing in the sadistic slaughter of those he hunts. Leading a werewolf conspiracy to plunge Uberwald into war, Wolfgang intends on creating a widespread slaughter more for the fun of it than any true advantage or power.
24	* ''Literature/{{Night Watch\| Discworld}}'':
25	** [[AxCrazy Carcer Dun]] is a sociopathic CopKiller initially wanted for murdering three of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, who is sent back in time along with [[TheHero Sam Vimes]] after feigning surrender and temporarily blinding him. Murdering John Keel, [[YouWillBeBeethoven forcing Vimes to take his identity]], Carcer enlists with the Unmentionables and teaches them a new torture trick, later threatening to kill "Young Sam" to destabilize time further. Escaping from an assault, he threatens to torture a child and uses the information obtained to force two unwilling commanders of the army into a full-frontal assault on the Treacle Mine Road barricade, in a deliberate attempt to maximize casualties and spite Vimes's attempts at damage control, which escalates into dozens of deaths and injuries. Once promoted to Captain by Lord Snapcase and ordered to lead a death-squad on "Keel", Carcer defies orders and orders he and Young!Vimes be taken alive while instructing his men to kill anyone else, including Reg Shoe who posed no threat. Upon returning to the present, Carcer vandalizes the tribute to Keel just to spite his rival and makes a final attempt on Vimes's life [[ForTheEvulz for no reason but his own amusement]].
26	** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Captain Findthee Swing]], the leader of the [[SecretPolice Cable Street Particulars]], is the reason his time period is so corrupt and oppressive. Swing is a TautologicalTemplar obsessed with craniometrics, using people's head measurements arbitrarily to decide whether someone is good or bad in his eye, even taking on Carcer Dun as his sergeant. Responsible for ensuring [[TheCaligula Homicidal Lord Winder]]'s dominion, Swing has any suspected dissidents disappeared to his cells and sent his men out to incite violence against the city's watch and militia's on and around the Glorious 25th May, sparking several riots. Upon entering the Particular's headquarters, Vimes discovers a dungeon full of people who Swing had physically and mentally tortured into confessing to his accusations; one person so broken that he does not resist when Vimes [[MercyKill kills him]] without hesitation. Murdering his own torturer to destroy the evidence of his crimes, Swing attempts to kill Vimes even as his headquarters burns.
27	* ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'': The Cunning Man was a [[TheWitchHunter witch-finder]] in life, but persisted as a [[ResurrectedMurderer spirit]] of [[ThePowerOfHate pure hatred]] after his original body disappeared, and resurfaces every few decades to target new witches after each defeat, killing them if they lose. Cunning Man targets the Chalk with his HatePlague, turning them against heroine Tiffany Aching and framing her for the death of the previous Baron, while also making the Baron's son, Roland, turn against her and engineering a situation so a drunken cook falls to her death and Tiffany is blamed. Upon discovering Roland's fiancée Letitia is also a witch, Cunning Man attempts to murder them both multiple times, then possesses a criminal and has it kill its canary for no reason, before making a final attempt on Tiffany, Letitia, Roland and Preston's lives. [[KnightTemplar Seeking to end witchcraft once and for all and uncaring of whose lives he ruins in the process]], the Cunning Man is fueled by sheer malice unmatched by any other foe Tiffany faces.
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30	* ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': [[PsychopathicManchild Jonathan Teatime]], a [[PsychoForHire deeply disturbed psychopath]] in tune with his "inner child", is hired by the Auditors of Reality to assassinate the Hogfather. With a massive reputation of sadism and brutality already left in his wake, Teatime happily murders a coach driver out of sheer boredom, before breaking into the Tooth Fairy's castle and murdering the many guards to gain access to the teeth of all the children of the world. Teatime uses these teeth for a spell to kill the Hogfather by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve making children stop believing in him]], while casually threatening his gang of hired mooks into continuing to help him. Upon killing his gang's lockpicker by throwing him down the castle's stairs when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he outlives his usefulness]], Teatime cheerily attempts to murder Susan for her interference, later trying to repeat the process with her and her grandfather in front of her young charges.
31	* ''Literature/GoingPostal'': Both the BigBad and [[CoDragons one of his chief lieutenants]] are [[AdaptationalVillainy much worse in this adaptation than in the source material]]:
32	** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Reacher Gilt]] is the corrupt head of the Grand Trunk after the Dearhearts are bankrupted, running it into the ground to [[{{Greed}} line his own pockets]]. Having multiple Postmasters and the uncovered spy John Dearheart assassinated by Mr Gryle, Gilt half-heartedly attempts to dissuade Moist von Lipwig from restoring the defunct Ankh-Morpork Post Office and then orders Gryle to burn the office down and kill Moist and his staff when this fails. As the rivalry between Trunk and Post Office heats up, Gilt [[SanitySlippage slowly loses his grip on sanity]], [[BadBoss beating his chief accountant Horsefry to death for keeping records too meticulously and threatening to drop employees to their deaths]] when wrongly suspecting them of sabotage, not caring when his chief engineer Mr Pony protests that the employee is his niece and later threatening her if the Clacks loses its race with the Post Office. When seeming to have won, Gilt tries to speed up Moist's scheduled demise, and when finally exposed as a criminal, spitefully smashes an omniscope, [[LackOfEmpathy uncaring]] of the potential harm to everyone and almost causing Moist to be hanged.
33	** [[PsychoForHire Mr Gryle]] is a Banshee and sadistic assassin working for Gilt, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly describing himself]] as "the Post Office curse". Having killed the four Postmasters before Moist von Lipwig in ways [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mistaken for gruesome accidents]], Gryle also murders John Dearheart, Adora Bella's brother, just after sarcastically announcing his presence, and mocking him before detaching his safety harness and letting him fall to his death. Later told by Gilt that Moist is a "nuisance", Gryle burns down the Post Office--nearly suffocating Tolliver Groat--and attempts to savagely kill Stanley while bragging about [[ImAHumanitarian eating his own grandmother]]. Finally confronting Moist when he attempts to rescue Stanley from the blaze, Gryle gleefully confesses to his previous murders--uncaring that this gives Gilt away--and brags that John "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied squealed like a pig]]" as he tries to complete his "collection" of Postmasters by ending Moist's life.

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