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Monster: Cartoon Network

While most villains from Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are mostly Jerkasses at their worst, there are some who take their villainy to the next level.

Note: Due to the controversial nature of this trope, any changes (additions, removals, edits) should be discussed here.

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Adult Swim

Moral Orel
- Clay Puppington, the father of series protagonist Orel Puppington, arguably ascends to this position in season 3, with his Jerkassery being heightened beyond regular standards. Although Clay has very sympathetic reasons for why he ended up the way he did (having been psychologically abused by his father, who blamed him for the death of his wife (and Clay's mother) and essentially forced into a married life he despised by a desperate Bloberta), Clay's actions go well beyond the realm of the sympathetic and can only be described as pure evil. In the season 2 finale "Nature", Clay takes Orel on a hunting trip. When kind-hearted Orel doesn't want to kill any animals, an increasingly intoxicated Clay takes this as a sign of weakness and berates Orel with increasing frequency. The terrible but fateful night culminates in an argument which ends with Clay accidentally shooting Orel, his own son, in the leg. Instead of getting help or even asking if he's all right, Clay actually mocks his son while he's in agonizing pain before passing out. He drank the bottle of disinfectant that Orel brought in his first aid kit. He even says to him to leave it. It doesn't end there, either — Orel is forced to protect his unconscious father from a bear that night (again, after having been shot in the leg) whom Orel is forced to shoot, despite not wanting to. Clay wakes up with no memory of the night before. The incident results in Orel having a limp for the rest of his life. What really takes the cake, however, is that it's subtly implied that Clay does remember what he did, but both refuses to take responsibility for it and seems not to hold any regret over it whatsoever. The event is so traumatic that it changes the very tone of the entire series for the remainder of its run to a much more straightforwardly dark one.
- As if that wasn't bad enough, Clay has no love in his heart for anyone. He openly despises everyone in town, never even tries to make up with his son, and his homosexual affair with Coach Stopframe is really nothing more than an attempt for him to find happiness for himself. Although Stopframe is far from a saint himself, after befriending Orel and becoming perhaps Orel's first genuine father figure, he realizes the emptiness of Clay's affection and turns him down...despite the fact that he originally tried to get close to Clay himself to begin with. Perhaps the true tragedy of the whole thing is that Clay is fully aware of how much of a monster he is, but he just doesn't care. He's that unhappy with his life. However, in an ironic sense, Clay is really the source of so much of his own misery. He's alone because he makes it that way, and it's a miserable fate Orel thankfully manages to dodge in his own adulthood.
- Bloberta Puppington herself. It was Bloberta, after all, who started Clay's alcoholism and eventually became the source of so much of both his and her own misery. A tragic trait the two share is that while they're both the sources of their own unhappiness, they could probably change things if they chose to. Instead, they retreated into a life of constant denial, using the Christian religion and conservative pretenses as a mere cover-up for their own misery. The completely selfish disregard of their children's own happiness and well-being by indulging in this behavior is really what makes both Clay and Bloberta complete monsters in their own right.
- Had the series not been canceled, the unmade episodes would have Clay and Bloberta going through Character Development and making their own redemptions in some way, or at least not be doomed to complete misery.
- Miss Censordoll, Moralton's librarian, is a hypocrite and plotter and feels no remorse for steamrolling over others to get her way. While she, like the other characters, has a decent Freudian Excuse (harsh relationship with her mother, mainly involving her reproductive organs being removed at an early age), it's nowhere near as valid as Bloberta's or Clay's. It's shown briefly in the series that she has powers similar to voodoo or witchcraft that she uses to get her way, both times influencing Clay into becoming her puppet. If the series has a Big Bad, she's it.
  - It says something about Clay and Bloberta when "her mother removing her reproductive organs at an early age" is less valid an excuse for their actions.
Metalocalypse has Eric von Weichlinghammer, played by Ihsahn of the black metal band Emperor, who makes "special leather" from the skin of models.
- To put that in perspective, this is a band that is routinely (indirectly) responsible for mass deaths on a global scale. Seeing him working is their Nightmare Fuel.
- Toki's father is a Sinister Minister who took physical abuse up to outright torture, according to his son's memories of him. Then again, considering that Toki's birth is stated to be unholy...
- The Metal Masked Assassin who leads the Revengeancers. He tears people apart with his bare hands and his hobby is human vivisection, and numerous acts of terrorism and brainwashing. Once, in order to simply walk through a crowd, he took out blades and killed everyone in his path.
- Liz Bane, Pickles' publicist, was credited with starting dozens of cults, brainwashing her followers into committing murder and/or suicide, then running off with their money.
- Alfred Belmer, the baby-eating, Dethklok-hating death row inmate they inadvertently let back into public on Dethcutions
- And somehow, Pickles's lowlife brother Seth is worse than all of them.
Dan Halen from Squidbillies. He is, in one episode, actually called the personification of evil and a blight on the human race that predates recorded history. Actual examples are shown, such as being a ranking officer in Hitler's Third Reich, spreading the bubonic plague in medieval Europe, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, and nailing Jesus to the cross. He also overloaded the Large Hadron Collider to intentionally create a black hole to dispose of a prostitute's body, then throws his own mother in as an afterthought.
Dan Halen: Do you think this is the only illegal thing I have to do today?
- Early Cuyler routinely crosses the line from Jerkass to Complete Monster depending on the episode; the Christmas episode, wherein he kidnaps and holds Santa Claus hostage (and tortures the living shit out of him) is a glaring example. Freshly smoked reindeer jerky, anyone?
The Boondocks has Ed Wuncler Sr. who starts out as a seemingly friendly business man who's mildly racist. By his 2nd appearance we see the man for what he truly is: a greedy monster who will go to any lengths and sink to any depths to get what he wants. What act cemented this you ask? He tricked an 8-year old girl into working in sweatshop conditions, threatened her father when he tried to get her back, lied about the pony he promised her, and finally stuck her with a $300 bill while he peddled his cruelty-free lemonade.
- Later, he gave Robert his dream of a soul food restaurant while knowing the whole time what would happen. The restaurant's food was so addictive that people lost their jobs, crime rose, and property values lowered. They eventually got into a lawsuit that shut down the restaurant but Wuncler got what he had planned on: the deed to the nearby Meadowlark Park so he could develop it.
- Another episode involved him fixing a game of kickball so Huey would start to lose and get agitated in the process and unwittingly hurting a little girl. Then he made Huey think that he had gave said girl a permanent limp so he would leave the sport and Wuncler's own team would win again. And when he wanted Huey to return for his own benefit, he was willing to blackmail him. Ed Wuncler Sr., ladies and gents: a greedy monster deserving of his last name.
- He had his grandson and his friend set up bombs in a building to kill ONE man. Then, as a result of the building's destruction and the man's death, he would have released merchandise about the single man just to make MORE money than he all ready did, never mind the fact that he's the richest bastard in the entire town. Plus, when his Grandson is dragged out of the house at gunpoint, screaming for his grandpa to help him, Wuncler's response? "Well, go ahead, SHOOT HIM!" Sure, it sounded like an empty threat, but really, deep down, knowing Wuncler, he would have let him shoot his grandson and not have cared in the least.
- In "Smokin' With Cigawettes", we had Lamilton Taeshawn, who was a slight parody, but still monstrous none the less, and only at the tender age of seven. What made him so horrible you may ask? He recklessly drove around endangering people's lives and refused to apologize when his grandmother asked him to. He proceeded to VIOLENTLY BEAT HER WHEN SHE REFUSED TO BUY HIM FRIED CHICKEN. After that atrocity, he used the same car to spray a combination of urine and hot sauce at innocent people and dropped a doll off a freeway just to cause traffic problems. If that wasn't enough, he then stole her handgun and used it to blackmail Riley into being his friend, planned to rob Ms. Van Housen's house for no reason, and then shot her dog. He shot her dog because he claimed it would bite him, despite the fact that it was chained at the time and nowhere near him. His psychiatrist, Dr. Doomis (a spoof of Dr. Loomis from Halloween), tried rehabilitate him by spending the last 2 years trying to get him into the system and away from society. When said psychiatrist finally turned him into the police for the dog shooting, he blamed Riley, stalked him, and tried to strangle him to death. In the end, he was so evil that the aforementioned psychiatrist leaped from a building just to finish him off after he had fallen off it. You wanna know the real kicker? It happened all in the course of one episode.
  - No, the real kicker is that Lamilton is based on an actual kid, who really did take a joyride in his grandmother's hummer and later attacked her over chicken wings. Some of the things Lamilton says in the episode are quoted from him.
Professor Impossible from The Venture Brothers. On the surface, he's a dorky Mr. Fantastic expy. But then you find out he keeps his wife isolated because, unlike the Fantastic Four, their powers were useless. Then, when Doctor Venture nearly has an affair with his wife, he responds by leaving him to die in the cold. Brock is barely able to save him, and when he tries to get Ventures son, Hank, treatment (he'd recently swallowed a serum that made him a living bomb), rather than help him, he was ready to shoot. Then, in his second appearance, he's still keeping Sally imprisoned and acting artificial and cold towards his own infant son and forgetting he even exists. Then he breaks down when his wife finally leaves him and is coerced into becoming a supervillain by Phantom Limb, who says it's not much of a stretch for Impossible. He's not joking (pun aside).
- And a later episode reveals that he's been using Sally's brother Cody, who's skin bursts into flames when it comes into contact with air, as a power source by constantly keeping him awake, and therefore in constant pain. And he doesn't even show the slightest hint of guilt. Bastard.
Robot Chicken had a few.
- In one segment, called Sunny Muffins, a pegasus is tortured by a little girl. He was caught in a bear trap, and she later cuts off his wings and drugs him. She then whips him and forces him to have a new name. Now, in reality, black slaves were forced to have new names. And she presumably also tortured a griffin.
- The parody of The Great Pumpkin in The Day of the Great Pumpkin counts as well. He eats Charlie's friends. See [1].
- The parodies of Hobbes, John Arbuckle, and Dora also count as these.

Cartoon Network

Eddy's brother from Ed, Edd n Eddy. Eddy has always talked about how good his brother is and how awesome he is. After one of Eddy's failed scams awoke the wrath of the cul-de-sac kids, the Eds tried to find Eddy's brother to get his help. When they found him, he acted likes a normal big brother and acts like he's going to protect Eddy, that was, until he shows off his True Colors. First, he forced Eddy to play "uncle", in which Eddy's brother twisted Eddy's foot while he laughed his ass off. Then he beats up Eddy by throwing him on the iron door of his car house, which causes Eddy much physical pain. When Eddy tells his brother to "give it up", he just pretends to act shocked and says he thought Eddy wanted to hang around with his "hero", while smirking. Eddy is at cracking point by this time but he still attempts to play the nice little brother and says he does. Edd had enough of the abuse he witnessed and attempted to call out the bro, but he just gives him the most epic Slasher Smile in cartoon history and then beats up Edd too, with Eddy used as a club, but not before he proudly admit he had bullied Eddy in his whole life. The cul-de-sac kids and the Kanker sisters, who were witnessing all this, had enough and gang up on Eddy's brother, but it's Ed who defeats him by doing something smart this time. Eddy is saved but he's already emotionally broken and all his secrets about his brother and his jerkass facade are revealed from his mouth. The horrors the cul-de-sac kids witnessed gives them the heart to accept the Eds, while Eddy's brother is left for the Kankers, who plans to give him "mouth-to-mouth".
- Adding to it, he comes right out and says this abuse is what he'd done to Eddy his entire life. And he is proud of doing so. To drive the point further home, the cul-de-sac kids had spent the entire movie chasing the Edds down take revenge on them. After seeing Eddy's Brother do this to him and Edd, they completely accept them after realizing what Eddy's childhood must've been like living with this monster. Even the Kanker Sisters are disgusted by him.
- Oh, and where does all this transpire? Where does this guy live? A trailer at an amusement park. Yes, the implication is obvious: he gets to torment kids every single day. His whole LIFE is just getting off on bullying those smaller and weaker than him.
Katz from Courage the Cowardly Dog. Since the show has Negative Continuity, his motives tend to change. In his first appearance, he ran a Hell Hotel where he fed all his guests to spiders for no explained reason. In a later episode, he ran a health spa where he transformed his guests into machines and forced them to fight for his own amusement. In both of these appearances, he didn't seem to get much gain for these action, but did them all with a Slasher Smile on his face. In short, he's an Ax Crazy Serial Killer played straight...on a kid's show!
- For the record, what does he do when Courage escapes the prison and beats his death trap? Tries to strangle him with his bare hands.
- There was also that one time he got tired of winning second place at the annual sweets baking contest. His plan to prevent this from happening? Kidnapping the champion and turn her into taffy.
  - What makes Katz even worse is the fact that the family is heavily implied to just be the first in a long line of victims to fall into his clutches.
- There is also the case of the cruel vet, who would be the main reason why Courage was abandoned in the first place and how he lives with the Bagges. In his first and only appearance during a flashback, he kidnaps Courage's parents into a rocket headed towards the moon due to a science research. He later tried to do the same to Muriel and Eustace until Courage once again intervenes and succeeds, instead sending the vet himself into the moon. During his appearances, he forces them against their will and locks them up in the rocket despite their protests, and he does this with a Slasher Smile and pure delight.
- Mad Dog from "The Mask". An abusive, possessive, and violent gangleader bent on outright murdering his girlfriend Bunny's best friend, solely because she's her best friend, and buries Bunny up to her neck when she tries to run away the first time. The next time, he runs her down with a car when she tries to escape with Courage. He seems to show compassion to Bunny once, but the rest of his behavior makes it rather obvious that he's just trying to manipulate her into remaining under his paw, a tactic used commonly by abusers in real life. Considering his actions have driven Kitty to be completely unable to face reality and believe all dogs are pure evil, it's frightening to imagine just what he was like to her to make her like that. What makes him stand out is, like Katz, he's played dead straight with no real element of comedy to his character. The most terrifying thing about Mad Dog is that his abuse is played so disturbingly straight that he resembles a real-life abuser...
- Benton Tarantella from "Everyone Wants to Direct". An undead serial killer who once, with help from his partner Errol (who was pretty bad himself too), posed as an amateur movie director wanting to direct in his victims' homes. After they (the victims) let the 2 in, they would kill them. Now he plans to bring Errol back to life so they could continue their killing spree, starting with Muriel and Eustace. That episode did an about-face to hilarious in the last minute, where Courage defeats the pair by adding lines about them returning to the grave into the script. Which they immediately go along with. Even Benton, even though he knows he didn't write that. For added bonus, as they're climbing back into the grave they're both volleying insults at each other.
Ben 10 has a few of these.
- Vilgax, who would cut off a child's arm for an all powerful watch, destroyed a planet for no reason other than to test out a weapon he obtained and, in an episode that ended the series, was going to kill Ben's parents. He was severely decayed and derailed for the Sequel Series, though, a change that many fans continue to argue about.
- Kevin, who'd destroy 2 trains of innocents for cash, likely killed a police officer with no regrets and whose attacks on Ben and his family are more vicious than most foes, save for the other examples on this page. He also turns down 2 chances at redemption (with Ben even calling him out on how his Freudian Excuse can no longer be a valid way of excusing away his crimes), and afterward when he and Ben are forced to work together, he ends up trying to kill Ben through impaling him. And if you think that's bad, in an Alternate Timeline in the distant future, he tried to murder Ben's son and would've likely killed his own son just to do it.
  - While he later becomes a hero in later seasons produced by people other than the original creators, the gap in continuity causes them to act like 2 different characters. The new Kevin is an Anti-Hero, and a good one, but the original Kevin...shudder. Even after Ultimate Alien's Character Rerailment, people will always be divided about Kevin.
- Ghostfreak, who'd possess Ben's cousin Gwen and threatened to make her commit suicide in order to get to Ben and has tried to permanently damage and mutate the Earth to rule over it. And the mutation of Earth is shown on screen and it really isn't pretty.
- Zombozo, a zombie vampire clown that feeds on laughter, and when he got the chance, he kidnapped Gwen, a 12 year old girl, eating her laughter, the result of which is shown to be her shriveling up and dying slowly. Ironically, he was taken out by Ghostfreak, who'd escape the watch and turn into a Complete Monster on his own. He returns in Ultimate Alien, just as evil as ever. He threatens to kill Ben's parents, and his own hired hands (Charmcaster and Vulkanus) think he's a creepy bastard.
- From the new Ben 10: Ultimate Alien series, we have Aggregor, who kidnaps aliens from different planets to zap their powers and use them as his own. What cements him as a Complete Monster is when he kills a peaceful turtle alien, all on SCREEN, and then turns its powers against its brethren before kidnapping the main one. And then he kills the plumber from Season 2 of AlienForce by stabbing him in the back when he found the prisoners. And he managed to top himself, learning of the Omnimatrix, he tries to force Ben into a form he wanted after a no-holds-barred shock down by stabbing him right in the Omnimatrix icon with his spear and twisting it. If not for the Heroic Sacrifice of the jellyfish alien, Ben would have died, since both Kevin and Gwen were down.
- Diagon, who's an Expy of the original series' Vilgax in characterization, only with the Cthulhumanoid played up to the ultimate extent. He's also the one who a temporarily corrupted Charmcaster offers 600,000 living souls to in exchange for a wish. Many speculate he even had a hand in Charmcaster being corrupted to start with!
- If you're the seasonal Big Bad for any Ben10 series, you're probably a Complete Monster.
Trigon from Teen Titans doesn't actually do much, as he likes to slouch villainously and let his minions do his work. Still, the first thing he does when making his entrance is killing everyone on Earth (don't worry, they got better). He's also the incarnation of all evil, so it's natural that he's as evil as evil comes.
- One could argue that Slade and Blackfire count too. Slade likes to manipulate and corrupt the Titans (especially Robin and Terra), either to advance his plans or just For the Evulz, and laces it with disturbing rapelike subtext. Blackfire, meanwhile, breaks out of prison, and her first instinct is to take over her entire planet and rule it with an iron fist. Why? For revenge against Starfire? Nope. She says it herself: she did it for kicks. That, and she was willing to kill her own sister and father figure to get what she wants. Both of these villains are definitely examples of The Sociopath.
The one-shot villain Dick Hardly from The Powerpuff Girls may be even more of a complete monster than most villains of the show, and with no traces of parody or comedy. When he made a factory to create Evil Knockoffs of the Girls, one of the knockoffs was a perfect replica of Buttercup. Dick simply told his workers to take her and melt her down for Chemical X. That wasn't where it ended; when the Girls found out about the whole operation, he placed them into a machine and drained their Chemical X, slowly killing them, while their father was watching. He's arguably one of the show's most evil and memorable villains despite only appearing once in the entire show. That may explain why he's the sole human character to die in the entire show.
- The only recurring villain considered to be even close to pure evil is H i m, who's actively described as the most evil being out there. That's right: in the context of the Powerpuff Girls universe, Dick Hardly is worse than the Devil.
Generator Rex
- Van Kliess. Held New York City after he had his men get nanite rich soil from his realm underneath it, all the while abusing his Diplomatic Immunity so Rex and Six couldn't touch him. Drinks the blood of Evos who outlived their usefulness or failed him and views everyone and everything as pawns. He even kills a few cops on screen and nearly kills Rex, Six, and their Five-Man Band. Also implied to be behind the entire disaster. Karma caught up to him, though. Twice. First he "dies" when he tries taking some super advanced nanites. Second, when he comes back, Rex pulls off a masterful Xanatos Gambit - have him rein the out of control nanites into line, then claim he's doing a Face Heel Turn...then he cures Kliess, rendering him completely human and powerless. Very. Satisfying.
- Hunter Cain is a fantastic racist who kills Evos left and right even when Rex is trying to cure them. Then he uses his goon squad to piss Rex off in an attempt in discrediting him, and finally, he clones Evos to lure Rex out, was prepared to sacrifice his own men, and then tried to ''murder'' Rex when he was unarmed. In his next appearance, he tries to slaughter a whole lot of children.
- Quarry. He appears 3 times. The first as a gang boss, manipulating several children, and killing underlings who fail him. The next time, he gets a device to destroy organic matter, and decides to blow things up. Later, after a run in with the Big Bad, which put him in pretty bad shape, he reappears, using mind control devices from Providence to make any runaway work for him. He plans to create an army of controlled Evos, then he tries to control Rex, and finally crush him after that fails. To top it off, he's voiced by Mark Hamill.
- Branden Moses who announced a breakthrough in nanite research that allowed him to dramatically reverse E.V.O. mutations and gave a faux demonstration using an E.V.O. and either an actress with a set of prosthetic tentacles or an E.V.O. with tentacles, playing the part of the "cured E.V.O." Having convinced hundreds, possibly thousands, of people (including Dr. Holiday, who added her sister Beverly Holiday to Brandon's ranks) that he had made a breakthrough, dozens of intelligent but physically deformed, incurable E.V.O.s lined up to be cured. Instead, they were kidnapped and brought to a lab in the Arctic circle where their mutations were amplified and were ready to be auctioned off to the warlord with the deepest pockets.
- The shapeshifting EVO from episode 14. Hired by Providence to spy on the team, he infiltrates the group. He even accomplishes his mission in the first five minutes...but stays around to psychologically torture Rex, Six, and Holiday. He crosses the Moral Event Horizon by taking Six's appearance and giving Rex a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and kissing Holiday to get both off guard. He even nearly has all 3 of them kill each other, shaking Rex to the core...all for the Lulz.
In Sym-Bionic Titan, we have General Modula (despite the fact that it remains to be seen if he is truly in control or the same one they once knew), who is making himself into a big one. First of all, he betrayed his own homeworld, slaughtered and enslaved the inhabitants, and actively hunted down any resistance he could find. He treats his own mooks as cannon fodder, and if they fail to meet his expectations, he kills them without even moving from his spot.
Codename Kids Next Door
- Grandfather from Operation Zero. While the rest of the villains were too silly to be viewed as real threats, although some did cross the Moral Event Horizon, such as Mr. Boss sending his employees' daughters to Pluto or Grandma Stuffum force feeding children until they explode. They are still all either too Lawful Stupid and/or Stupid Evil to be taken seriously. The rest are either Card Carrying Villains or, in Toilenator's case, a Harmless Villain, and their crimes aren't heinous at all. Even Father suffered from Villain Decay, but not Grandfather...He's an Evil Overlord who ruled the world with an iron fist a long time ago, before being defeated by Numbuh Zero. His first act after being revived is to try to turn everyone in the entire world into SenorCitizombies just because kids annoy him, and that's not even going into how much of an Abusive Parent he is. Some of the other villains are shown to at least like their own kids; he's the reason Father is the person he is now, and in one episode, we see Grandfather somehow left him a completely traumatized vegetable, for crying out loud! Even his favorite son isn't free from his abuse: when he tried to stand up to him, he tried to incinerate him with no remorse.
- What's even worse is that children were shown working like slaves in his Industrial Age factories, and to anyone who paid attention in history class, that actually did happen and it was a Fate Worse than Death.
  - Made even worse because, in Real Life, the factories were at least building something useful. Grandfather made them work like slaves to create tapioca pudding, solely for his own consumption. He made children work like slaves for something completely trivial and solely for himself.
- Nurse Claiborne. Her first appearance is infecting kids with a debilitating form of pink-eye so she can harvest the crusts to make into the topping for apple crumbles. Alright, really bad both in-universe and out, but not pure evil. Her second appearance has her running a "retirement home" for Rainbow Monkeys (extremely popular toys within the show), which is a front for grinding them into breakfast cereal. OK, that's truly terrible enough in-universe to put her on the list, but that's not the worst. The worst is trying to do the same thing to Numbuh 3, with a smile on her face! She then smiles as she tells Numbuh 5 that she's next! Some villains in this show are willing to hurt, maybe even kill children, but she was one of the few who attempted to brutally murder one in cold blood and enjoyed it. One can only hope the KND locked her up for good after they were done forcing her to sew all her victims back together by hand...
- Chester, who runs money-making schemes not caring about the children involved in the slightest. His worst scheme involved turning children into hamburgers and feeding them to sharks.
Adventure Time
- The Lich is mentioned in passing at the end of Season 1, in reference to his defeat at the hands of the hero Billy. Then we meet him in person in the Season 2 finale. He's an Omnicidal Maniac, not because of some great tragedy in his past that's explained to us - he just wants to wipe out all life. He almost takes control of Finn with his Compelling Voice and takes up Body Surfing at the destruction of his physical body, turning Princess Bubblegum into an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever Eldritch Abomination. While the show's other villains are sympathetic or comedic, he's played deadly straight and voiced by Ron Perlman. He makes a point of targeting any weapon that was effective against him in the previous battle, so he stands above the show's other villains in competence as well. Finally, he's freaky - especially when his skull is about to break and he just starts laughing...
- Then you have Me-Mow, a little kitten who tried murdering Jake and Wildberry Princess by trying to poison them.
- Stag the Freak Deer who had not only broken Finn's legs and damaged Jake's brain, but also kept all of the candy citizens trapped in his lair and slowly devoured them.
- Ash, Marceline's ex-boyfriend and an abuser played straight. He got dumped for selling the teddy bear he knows she likes just to buy something to impress her. When this miraculously backfires in his face, he takes up the disguise of the Rag Wizard to trick Finn and Jake into allowing him into getting the memory removed. The latter alone earns him this entry, but as if that isn't enough, when he gets back to Marceline after being distracted away by Jake, he just tells her to make him a sandwich. Needless to say, the beating he gets thanks to Marceline having recovered the memory is VERY satisfying.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars gives us Cad Bane. Replacing the Noble Demon Jango Fett as the galaxy's most dangerous bounty hunter, he lacks the empathy and compassion that Jango had. He's a ruthless killer who will do anything for the right price. In his first appearence, he holds a large group of Senators hostage for the release of Ziro the Hutt. After Ziro's release, Bane promptly pulls a I Lied and tries to kill them all anyway for no good reason. He gets worse. Among other crimes in his later appearances, he sold out his ally, kidnapped and tortured a Jedi to death, and ultimately kidnappped infants for Darth Sidious, knowing full well how much of a Complete Monster he's working for and not even caring. Even carrying out a hit on someone who hired him in the past isn't below him. The worst part is that he shows no emotion even when electrocuting an innocent person to death.
- During the Umbaran four-parter, we see General Pong Krell. Essentially a Fantastic Racist Jerkass who abuses the clones and treats them like cannon fodder, perfectly willing to throw them away with strategies bound to fail. In the end, he reveals that he knew what he was doing was wrong and declares himself a Sith, willing to join Dooku just to escape his premonition of Order 66.
Regular Show has a lot of villains, but few of them have motives truly evil enough to qualify. That is, until The Night Owl from the episode of the same name showed up. At first, he's just a Jerkass trying to become famous using a contest Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and High-Five Ghost are involved in and turning them against each other to lengthen it. Then he's pushed into this by freezing the boys in liquid nitrogen for at least 2,000 years to keep the contest going just to become famous. When they finally get free and he (now reduced to a disembodied head in a robot body) tries to stop them, outright saying that he doesn't give a darn about them and all he cares about is keeping them frozen in order to keep the contest going forever so he can remain a superstar. When they finally manage to travel back in time, it's revealed that this was his plan from the beginning. What's worse is, in a series where Eldritch Abominations are Monsters of the Week, a mere human manages to be one of the most evil villains in the entire show! He gets his in the end when the boys return to the present, destroying his billboard and car, thus foiling his plot before they could fall victim to it. To rub salt in the wound, Muscle Man gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome by punching him out as he rants about how much his now destroyed plan cost him.
Believe it or not, Scooby-Doo has had these!
- The Snow Ghost/Mr. Greenway. When you try to slice a 15-year-old girl in half with a lumber saw just to ensure you keep making money, there's really no going back for you. Notably, he's played completely seriously, with not a gag in sight.
- Zen Tuo/ Mr. Fong was just as bad, except replace Velma with Shaggy and "sliced in half" with blown up. Exact same motive as Greenway, too, and exact same lack of funny.
- The last-revealed villain of Zombie Island, Jacques. He seems like a nice guy at first, a jolly old Mr. Exposition. Don't let it fool you. The cheerful ferryman thing? A lure to get people to trust him, so he can take them to Moonscar Island where he and his accomplices suck out their souls, turning them into zombies and gaining immortality. What's especially jarring is the contrast between him and the other 2 antagonists of the piece; specifically, they are Woobies Destroyers of Worlds who were cursed by accident, and now have to kill to live. This guy, though, accepted the curse willingly, it's implied to stave off his old age, and with full knowledge of the fact that he'd have to kill probably thousands. It seems rather unfair, then, that his accomplices share in his punishment.
- Mayor Fred Jones Sr. from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is more or less the PG version of Clay Puppington, and in some ways, he's WORSE. When the series starts, he's easily the worst of all of the kids' Abusive Parents, caring more about how much money the town is making from tourism than whatever damage the "monsters" are doing or even the safety of his son, even thinking of using him as bait for a monster that said it would kill him and his friends. It Got Worse in the season finale, where it's revealed that HE'S the person who chased away the original Mystery Incorporated, teaming up with Professor Pericles to blackmail them into leaving so he could find the treasure (that, as Fred Jr. points out, may not even exist) without them interfering. He frames Pericles for the whole thing and has him locked up in an asylum, where he became the Pericles the gang knows today, and tries to do the same to the new Mystery Inc. His only redeeming quality is that he does seem to care about Fred, but that redemption flies out the window when it's revealed that he kidnapped Fred as a baby from his real parents, Brad and Judy of the original Mystery Inc., so he could blackmail them again. Not even saving Fred's life could make anyone sympathize for him at that point.
Dudee in Dexter's Laboratory seemed more brutal than the normal Dee Dee. He tosses Dexter at one of his machines and it electrocutes him, and he also tossed Dexter down the stairs, catches him like a football, and makes a strike with him. Who knows what would've happened to Dexter had he not turned him back into a girl.
The Secret Saturdays: V.V. Argost, big time. He has absolutely no problem trying to kill a 12 year old boy in cold blood with no remorse. When he finds out said boy is the Cryptid God he's been searching for, he comes up with a plan that requires killing him! And it gets worse come the final. He murders Zak Monday, Zak Saturday's Evil Counterpart, onscreen to steal his powers. It's then revealed that Argost is actually a mass murdering Yeti who killed a large number of people for fun. When confronted by this, his reply is that he can't remember the screams of every person he's killed! He's easily one of the most evil villains ever to be seen on Cartoon Network. To make it worse, the only reason he loses is because he wins.
XANA from Code Lyoko probably counts, big time. His plots revolve around murdering a group of kids and escaping his prison to Destroy All Humans!. His attacks get progressively more horrifying as the series goes on, including trying to inflict absolutely horrible deaths on school children. This includes the ones that he doesn't need to kill for his plans. Eventually, this expands to just attacking humans in general (even though his main targets are still the kids who keep trying to stop him). But what REALLY pushes him into this is what he did to Wi ll iam. XANA imprisoned William in the internet and brainwashed him so completely that it was nearly impossible to free him without the use of a very powerful, one-shot program designed specifically for that purpose. XANA is a computer AI, but he's clearly sentient and able to think and choose on his own. Nowhere in his original prime directive was anything that included his motives, actions, and attitude towards humanity. He's decided to do everything he's done all on his own, and nobody knows why.
Krytus, the 3rd Big Bad from Hot Wheels Battle Force 5. He's known as the most malicious being in the entire multiverse (this was said by another Big Bad!) and evil incarnate. He restarted a eons old war between the Red and Blue Sentients simply because he saw the Blues as weak and inferior and desired to conquer the entire multiverse. When Sage froze the Red Sentients, the war continued and Krytus carried out a genocide on the Blues. At one point, it's revealed that he had several thousand Blue Sentients tortured to death and the one who managed to enter hibernation to escape him was punished by having his body sabotaged, dooming him when he woke up. Krytus's first action after being freed from his prison is to throw the one who released him off a cliff! He then spends most of the series trying to kill Sage (his own sister), who is a pacifist who only wants peace. At one point, after being forced into an Enemy Mine with Vert to escape the Shadow Zone, he sets up an ambush for Vert the moment they're out of it, unlike previous villains who normally had the honor to let the Battle Force 5 go after an Enemy Mine. Not even the other villains are safe from his wrath, as he starts an Enemy Civil War among the Vandals through Grimian. But what solidifies this is at the season finale, when he and Sage finally have a confrontation. After asking Sage Was It Really Worth It? to imprison the Red Sentients, she replies that if she hadn't, Krytus would've endangered not only the Blue Sentients, but the entire multiverse. Krytus actually agrees with her, fully admitting that not only does he know what he's doing is evil and wrong, he doesn't care so long as he can conquer the multiverse. The only reason he tried to free the Red Sentients was because he wanted an army to conquer the multiverse with, not out of concern for them. He's also the sole Big Bad to earn a Fate Worse than Death, being imprisoned in ice on another world for all eternity.
Machamish the old bear from The Corgin episode of Scaredy Squirrel. He tried cooking Scaredy and Dave alive, and worse yet, at the end of the episode, he knew where Scaredy lived.
The ACAFC woman from the Washingtoon episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, full stop. She a Knight Templar who tries stopping cartoon violence by sucking out the souls of the residents of Acme Acres.
Would you believe Totally Spies! had one? Helga Von Guggen is a greedy fashion designer who, to save money on materials, decides she'll start making "seamless" fur coats. How does she go about this? By kidnapping innocent people, injecting them with a serum that turns them into Petting Zoo People, then skinning them alive in what appears to be a giant industrial crusher. Is it any wonder that she became one of the show's main villains? Seriously, how's this for an Establishing Character Moment?
Helga: Do you like the coat? It's genuine lawyer.
The aptly-named Atrocitus from Green Lantern The Animated Series. He is the leader of the Red Lanterns and the reason that Razor's wife is dead.

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