* CompleteMonster:
** [[EvilSorcerer Lord Saker]] was the first man resurrected by Christ, and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever having had to endure the drudgery of his subsequent immortality]], turned to wicked sorcery. Saker conned otherworldly demons for dark power while [[HistoricalRapSheet participating in all of humanity's worst excesses]], from the Aztec massacres to the witch trials to [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]]. Saker also murders countless people throughout the ages to see if trace amounts of magical energy will resurrect them and turn them into beings like himself; many of them he leaves in states of [[AndIMustScream unending horror and living death]]. Saker ultimately attempts to use a horrible conglomeration of dark energy called the Shadowspear to kill off all but a handful of humanity, and even after his (supposed) defeat, the consequences of Saker's scheme would continue to threaten and ruin thousands.
** [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Shapeshifter]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient being]] who fancies itself the supreme predator, mimicking countless species through the start of life on Earth until taking the form of humankind. [[SerialKiller Hunting down and slaughtering countless victims]] for her amusement, Shapeshifter [[WarForFunAndProfit causes wars]] by holding the strings of power brokers and kings, including the Nazis, where she meets Lord Saker and assists him in his goals of destroying most of all life on Earth to create a perfect hunting ground for herself. Striking off on her own and posing as an angel to Reverend Skagg, she convinces him to torture 1,200 innocents to death to see whose powers awaken and cause enough negative energy to wield the Shadowspear to devastate the world. In her revenge on the Elementals, she takes the form of a handsome man named Eric to [[BedTrick seduce Morningstar]], marrying her and living with her as man and wife for years before revealing the deception to an emotionally violated and shattered Morningstar, leaving a gun for her to kill herself with or to live on with the knowledge of what Shapeshifter has done to her.
** [[FromNobodyToNightmare Stanley Swartzberg]] was a lonely accountant in life who, after dying and resurrecting after being bitten by a superpowered bat, decided to act on all his darkest impulses and dubbed himself "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Captain Cadaver]]". Cadaver begins his tenure by killing nearly a dozen women at his accounting firm to pleasure himself to their bodies, then after being resurrected from his first death promptly went on another massacre, in one case [[TraumaticCSection taking a huge bite out of a pregnant woman's belly]]. Cadaver's second rampage left 250 souls turned into vampires, with no reprieve to their condition aside from death.
** Issue #27: [[WouldHurtAChild Ferret and Tom]] are a pair of sleazy, pedophile HumanTraffickers operating out of Seattle. Luring in young ladies in their teens who have fled home, Ferret brings them to Tom where they are entrapped, imprisoned, starved, and locked away until they agree to prostitute themselves or make pornographic films for this sickening business.
* NightmareFuel: It's a horror comic at heart, despite all the superhero trappings, and as such it's often frightening.
** Anyone who gets powers in this superhero universe has to die first in a painful or traumatic way, and will come back later with powers typically linked to the manner of their death. When this becomes common knowledge, Jeremy Skagg gets civilian volunteers through his televangelical ministry and has all of them tortured to death in elaborate, individual ways. He ends up with six superhumans out of a total of ''twelve hundred''. He does this at the apparent behest of an beautiful, burning angel... who turns out to be Shapeshifter, who arranged the entire circus to create a counter for her own schemes against the Elementals, but mostly, [[ForTheEvulz for the sheer fun of it]].
** Shapeshifter's "death". [[WomanScorned Morningstar]], who she'd lured into lowering her guard by posing as a man who eventually became her fiancé, melted her down into burning slag, and then, before Shapeshifter's healing could kick in, filled a metal canister with the remains [[AndIMustScream and proceeded to weld it shut]].
* {{Squick}}: The level of violence is high and often explicit.
** The ''Elementals Sex Special'' spin-off books took on some of the main story's unfortunate implications head-on, including Tommy losing his virginity (even though he was legal at the time, he still had a 13-year-old's body) and Fathom's romance with a handsome, charming man [[spoiler:who is actually a dolphin [[VoluntaryShapeshifting who can take human form]].]]
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