Kevin is a young cannibalSerial Killer who acts as a hitman for Cardinal Roark when he's not murdering and eating prostitutes — and even worse is that he eats them piece by piece, keeping the women alive as long as possible and making them watch, as evidenced when he got his hands on Lucille, Marv's parole officer, who was found by Marv and survived, but lost one of her hands to him before the two escaped, ending up as pretty much the Trope Codifier for Forced to Watch,. However, he gets one of the most gruesome, over-the-top, terribly long, and yet poetic punishments imaginable from the Sociopathic Hero Marv...and even then, he smiles all the way while being eaten by his pet wolf, and even when Marv saws off his head to finish him, he doesn't give out a single scream.
Roark Junior is the son of a US Senator with the appearance of a handsome young playboy (at first; see the top image for what he looks like afterwards). In reality, he is a sadistic pedophile with a penchant for raping and murdering pre-teen girls and who Loves To Hear Them Scream. These horrible crimes are covered up by his corruptSenator father (brother of the aforementioned Cardinal, natch), which means that no one on the police force is willing to take him down until John Hartigan saves his latest victim, Nancy Callahan, and goes through eight long years of prison for it because of the vengeful Senator dad. Near the end, it's revealed that Roark Junior is impotent unless he hears little girls scream in pain and that there were hundreds of victims.
Arguably, Cardinal and Senator Roark qualify even more, for being sane, yet still willingly covering up the horrible crimes of these two. After all, you can't expect anything better from sociopathic Serial Killers, but when you see people in power covering for these Serial Killers, you know that Sin City is a truly screwed up place.
Ava Lord from A Dame to Kill formanipulates Dwight into shooting her husband only to shoot him herself as part of a scheme to become the richest woman in Sin City. It is later revealed she has done this to many men in the past, using her body to get what she wants. She is highly implied to be a succubus, but seeing as the person saying this is Manute...
Seth from The Authority fits this perfectly. A sadistic (implied) child rapist, he calls himself the "six billion dollar bastard". Tired of the Authority's interference in their affairs and afraid of their influence on the world (particularly after the Doctor ruined two presidential candidates by causing them to make out in public), a coalition of interests decided to develop a living weapon capable of defeating the Authority. To this end, they either acquired or kidnapped Seth, an skinny, ignorant, and unambitious hillbilly with an apparent history of being sexually abused by his uncles, transformed him into a cybernetically-enhanced monstrosity, then set him loose inside the Carrier. Armed with over 1,000 post-human abilities, Seth very quickly neutralized all of the Authority, with the sole exception of the Midnighter and Jenny Quantum, who managed to steal a jet and crash it into the side of the Carrier. Despite this, Seth ripped the Carrier from its orbit and scuttled it in Antarctica. Convinced that Midnighter and Quantum were dead, the coalition allowed Seth to retire to a residence within the White House with a harem of prepubescent girls. The surviving Authority members, meanwhile, were all dumped into degrading new lives while the team was replaced by a new team approved by the seven richest governments on Earth. Unbeknownst to all at the time, Seth's scuttling of the Carrier tore a hole in the Bleed.
Kid Miracleman, as re-envisioned by Alan Moore and John Totleben, is both so powerful and so psychotic that his alter ego, the young and innocent Johnny Bates, resists uttering his transformation word. When Johnny finally does so to stop the boys in his group home from raping him, Kid Miracleman tears apart his assailants and momentarily considers sparing the one nurse who'd been kind to him. Then he reconsiders, lest people say he's "going soft", and punches the top half of her head into a fine red mist. And that's just the beginning: he then rampages through London, creating possibly the most visceral Scenery Gorn in history by massacring tens of thousands and desecrating their corpses by draping their flayed skins from clothes lines, creating a chessboard with breasts as pieces, and making a rain of severed hands and feet. During his destructive rampage, he prefers to mutilate the children in his path rather than kill them outright.
Tomoe Ame's cousin Noriko is known as The Blood Princess. She's had homicidal tendencies since childhood, enjoys humiliating her defeated opponents (especially if her opponent is Tomoe), and uses beheading as a morale booster. She's revealed as Tomoe's half-sister and her considerable rage stems from being rejected by both her stepfather (who she poisoned for being "weak-willed") and Tomoe's father, her biological father (who she stabbed in the back after he told her he would never accept her as his daughter out of respect for their families, and probably because he also suspected her Complete Monstrosity). Naturally, Noriko reveals this information while beating Tomoe up. She later gets a Karmic Death.
Willy Pete, from Empowered, was a man once and is now a fire elemental. But he still has a man's appetites and satisfies them with rape and killing, which, in his case, are one and the same, thanks to his constantly superheated body.
And, as we later learn, through cannibalism. Because all normal food is incinerated on contact with him, he resorts to eating superheroes/villains. The worst part is that he doesn't even need to eat'; he just does it because he likes the taste.
Oh, and he still manages to top himself at the end of volume five. Instant death of ten supers, followed by throwing as much fire as he could through the portal they came through without even knowing what was on the other end, thereby forcing Emp and Mindfuck into a Sadistic Choice from hell? As if the bastard wasn't already bad enough...
Might as well throw in Mindfuck's older brother, who used his powers to force her to cut out her tongue and gouge out her eyes with a rusty pair of scissors and would have made her go after other body parts if Mindfuck hadn't been restrained...Oh yeah, and for extra creepiness, he thought he was helping her by forcing her to use her psychic powers instead of being able to see or speak.
And it's implied and suspected that he's the one who psychically "constructed" Willy Pete's personality.
Now that he's actually been shown as something other than a vaguely defined "heavy hitter" of a supervillain, Deathmonger definitely deserves to go on this list. Killing Superheroes in the world of Empowered is bad enough. But then Volume 6 tells us that the only reason he kills them is to see if they're one of the few who come back to life after getting killed. If they do, he enslaves them with his superscience and necrotech to serve him however he wants. Forever. The worst part is, he leaves most of them fully conscious of what has happened, but unable to do anything to help themselves. There's really no other category for someone who decapitates a still presumably conscious hero, turns where his head was into a mobile command center, then forces him to use his indestructible severed skull as a weapon. To top that, though, he did it again to said hero's sister who came to try and rescue him. For such a lighthearted series, Empowered sure manages to get a lot of brutal villains.
For extra evil, it's implied that Deathmonger doesn't even need them conscious to control them. If there's enough of them left to be aware, he seems to just prefer them conscious.
Dr Finitevus was once a fellow scientist of a race of prosperous echidnas, until a freak accident changed his looks and intelligence. Despite his new-found genius, he was declared mentally unstable and was to be put down. He escaped and later sold out his home to Dr. Robotnik. Everyone who had once lived there died later.
Furthermore, this guy manipulated four whole sides in a war (Dingoes, Echidnas, and two Dark Legion factions) into providing the fuel for the fire of his master plan, which is basically him deciding the world is hopelessly corrupt and he wants to purify it...in fire. He, to this end, manipulated Dimitri, a head in a jar, into providing secrets and information, and then manipulated Knux into becoming Knuxerjak and starting a battle with his former friends after the whole corruption from power thing. Finitevus' expression at the scene where Knux becomes Enerjak shows he is not only mad, but completely delighted, even as his betrayed allies watch on and denounce him.
Dr. Robotnik, also from the Archie Sonic series, delights in causing suffering, is fiercely obsessed with power, and is willing to deprive creatures of their free will to make them work in his factories. Don't mistake his occasional brief team-ups with the heroes for redemption; he just cooperates with them when he thinks it will be to his own benefit. And his humor doesn't excuse his atrocities either.
To elaborate as to why Robotnik belongs on this list, here are a few examples of his activities. During the Great War, he intended to test weapons he'd developed for the government on his own people and fled to the Mobians side when he was to be punished for his actions. While acting as Warlord for King Acorn, he secretly captured a peaceful village of mobian monkeys and utilized them in an early attempt to create mechanical slaves by surgically implanting cybernetics, and of that entire village only one survived the process. Afterwards, he sabotaged the roboticizer developed by Charles Hedgehog just as it was to be used on his wounded brother Jules, making him think he'd turned his own brother into a mindless drone. When Jules' wife discovered the truth, Robotnik had Jules toss her into the Roboticizer and transformed into a robian as well, orphaning Sonic and crushing Charles' spirit to the point of retiring from being a Science Minister to running a chilidog stand. He then did similarly to Tails' father Amadeus on the day of his birth, making it seem as though Amadeus could care less for his newborn son and subsequently shattering his wife's heart, throughout which Robotnik maintained a straight face. Afterwards followed his betrayel of King Acorn and the takeover of mobius, during which countless families were broken and millions enslaved, and over the course of a decade, he'd wreak havoc upon planet Mobius, destroying the ecology and even pushing more than a few mobian breeds to the brink of extinction. And just prior to his death, he displayed a deeply disturbing relish at the thought of murdering one of his own kind and was positively gleeful when he got the chance to use his latest and greatest weapon on a fellow overlander.
And then there is his successor, Eggman, who hailed from a Mobius where he eventually conquered and destroyed everything and then decided to head to Mobius Prime to replace his deceased doppleganger and re-live the thrill of conquering Mobius out of boredom, and is still pretty much the reigning king of evil on Mobius. Though he's gone through several bouts of Villain Decay, when he comes back, he comes back BIG! His evil is, if anything, even more affable than his predecessor, which, if anything, makes him even more of a Complete Monster. One of the most unnerving of his many, many atrocious acts, is the creation of the Egg Grapes. Like his old plans of powering robots with animals, but on a bigger scale. These things sucked the life force from Mobians—sucked them completely dry, in fact—to power his city. He basically reeradicated the Echidna race with these things alone. Ten seconds in the process was enough to render Charmy Bee a semi-coherent loon. One of his (now deceased) minions actually asked Eggman if there wasn't some more efficient energy source he could use. He agreed there probably was, but "Where was the fun in that?" Really quite chilling. Before that, he pretended to be a savior to a displaced group of his race—including his own brother—when he was letting them get fatally poisoned by radiation with the intent of robotosizing them later. He was especially gleeful about doing this to his aforementioned brother. And all the stuff written about his predecessor above? He did almost all of that, too, in his home dimension.
Likewise, Robotnik from (British) Sonic The Comic has shades of this, and instead of teaming up with the heroes to help stop a greater threat and protect his rule, he decides to lure Chaos to them so that they can all finally die for thwarting his plans for so long, even though it also means his own death. Not to mention trying to destroy the entirety of Mobius simply because he was tired of losing to Sonic (though having his entire empire destroyed may have had something to do with it). He's not the only monster in the series, either. Dr. Zachary stole the Master Emerald from the Floating Island in order to get some form of revenge on the other Echidnas, leaving the (inhabited) island to fall out of the sky onto the mountains below, and he was hoping it would land on some where inhabited. And that's not even mentioning SuperSonic.
Dark Enerjak is also from the Archie Sonic series and is the tyrannical ruler of another dimension. He is actually a version of Knuckles the Echidna whose Chaos Powers went out of control, also fueled by a desire to make the world a better place. While he started out noble, he gradually went more and more insane as time went on, before he considered everyone an enemy. Among his atrocities are: the sinking of an entire continent, likely causing countless deaths; the destruction of several enemy cities, such as Station Square, as punishment for their defiance; and the capture of his strongest opponents and ripping their soul out - victims including Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Amy, Sally, and just about all the villains, including the previously-mentioned Eggman and Finitevus.
As if to re-affirm his evil, you get a full shot of many of his more prominent victims after he demonstrates the process on his newest captive. He turns the souls into robotic slaves known as "Prelates" with his power. His soulmate was one of his victims, and he made sure not to use her soul to form a Prelate until the final battle...he summoned her to fight their daughter, much to said daughter's disbelief. He also announced how it would be "unfortunate" to suck his daughter's soul out too, showing he's beyond gone.
Upon getting his power taken away, he pretends to be sane again, hoping his daughter will give it back. Fortunately, she's wise to his complete monster status and promptly shatters the very sword that makes it possible to transfer such great power between individuals.
Ironically, despite his and Fin's clashing in the Prime timeline, they both seem to think they are heroes, rather than raving, destruction-hungry lunatics.
That said, he admits he does what he does for amusement, despite saying how much of a hero he is at other times. He allowed the Freedom Fighters (the ones that didn't have their souls ripped out from them, anyway) to exist to give him something to do, sent soldiers to other dimensions to try and find new worlds to conquer, continued to indulge Silver because of his power to actually give the living God a challenge (one of his questions to Silver was if the latter's universe had more "fun" beings like Silver, naturally to the hedgehog's anger). He derives joy from people's suffering, as seen with how he forces his own daughter to fight her mother and his former mate and how, upon seeing how upset Silver is at Enerjak using the souls to make his Prelate Army...he summons them all at once.
Another one from the Archie Sonic series is General Kage Von Stryker, the leader of the Eggman-backed Dingo Regime. After ousting his father from power, Kage led his people in conquering Angel Island, imprisoning the Echidnas in what were clearly concentration camps, which led to countless deaths. The one good thing to come of Knuckles becoming Enerjak (not to be confused with Dark Enerjak above) was that he atomized this bastard and wiped his city off the map.
Dominga Salvador (aka the Senora) from Anita Blake. In order to stop the rampage of a zombie killer, Anita tries to enlist the aid of this powerful voodoo priestess, but discovers she has been taking souls and forcing them back into their dead bodies to stop the process of rotting, but at the cost of leaving the souls painfully aware of their situation in an And I Must Scream scenario. To prove her theory, she explains to Anita how she returned the soul to a zombie, then took it out to leave it to rot, then put it back into the body to see if it will stop decaying. Not only does she use these zombies to make money in the prostitution ring, under the excuse that she has legal possession of the bodies from families who paid to see them suffer, but plans to sell her knowledge to the highest bidder. "Amoral, cold-hearted bitch" doesn't even begin to describe this woman.
The Duke of Lorraine from Rex Mundi. At first, Lorraine seems a decent guy, if a bit harsh with his dead wife, his daughter hating him and trying to win the affections of heroine Genevieve. He soon reveals himself as a vicious monster who masterminds a murderous secret society for the purpose of seizing power in France and launching a bloody crusade to conquer all he can, expelling or just murdering Muslims, massacring anyone who stands in his way, and launching bloody pogroms of 'unfit' minorities. (Nazi allegories very much in effect.) Lorraine crosses the Moral Event Horizon from the massacres he orders, then by ruthlessly shooting the PREGNANT Genevieve when she reveals the child she's carrying is hero Julien Sauniere's.
Tujiro of the Grendel comics is a mass-murdering Japanese Vampire/Kabuki Actor involved in human trafficking and a recurring villain for the Grendels. The Grendels themselves may do terrible things, but they either have a Morality Pet (like Hunter Rose) or a very good excuse (like Orion Assante).
The Garth Ennis miniseries Crossed, from Avatar Press, mixes Zombie Apocalypse with this trope. A plague turns infected humans into unrestrained monsters determined to act out their darkest desires while retaining all their knowledge and intellect. In one scene, a group of infected rape half their captives before imprisoning them in a shipping crate, knowing that watching the results of the infection and the captives turning on each other will be more entertaining.
The daughter-raping fundamentalist cult-leading Pratt family patriarch from the second series Family Values and the titular sadistic Serial Killer Harold from the third series Psychopath definitely count, and in some ways are worse than the crossed, as, unlike the latter, they weren't made that way by the infection.
Chantique from the Crucible: she throttles a man to death, forces the protagonist to experience over 1000 years of suffering and pain, screws with his head and makes him drive his friend away too late to realize that he's been used, mocks him after his friend kills himself rather than murder Zayne (she simply says "Meaningless, Wasn't It?"), shows a disturbing lust for violence, revels in death, and it's heavily implied that every one of her atrocities are simply to get revenge on Jarael. The worst thing? She killed her fellow students by BURYING THEM ALIVE. The crucible as a whole also qualifies for turning pacifists into complete killers, and for enslaving people. From the exact same comic is Antos Wyrick, aka Demagol. He sells his own daughter into slavery simply because she is disruptive to his school (which causes his wife to kill herself). He also performs Josef Mengele style experiments on men, women, and children simply to replicate his work (which kills many), puts Rohlan Dyre into a chemical coma for most of the series and allows him to take the fall for his atrocities, commits two brutal double homicides, and is apparently so foul that even the Mandalorians, who have a rather dubious moral compass, have adopted his name as a substitute for "complete and utter Monster". The death of these two monsters was incredibly well deserved.
Fun fact: Demagol is Chantique's father. She's the one he sold to slavers. Talk about In the Blood.
Another KOTOR example is Haazen. While his skills as a manipulatorare certainly impressive, he has little sympathy because of the sheer selfishness of his crimes. To make a long story short, he causes every atrocity in the first 35 issues, turns Zayne's mentor into a colossal dick, and tries to destroy the Jedi just to piss on the grave of a man he already murdered 33 years before.
A minor Star Wars character who only physically appears in one comic of the "Dark Times" series (which depict the aftermath of Episode 3, when Palpatine has all but total power in the galaxy) manages in his brief screentime to become a "shining" example of the trope as well: Dezono Qua. He even has a Meaningful Name tipping off readers knowledgeable in Native-American myths about his nature. (He Eats Babies. Literally.) Even Jedi Master Dass Jennir was so appalled at his horrific crimes and callous attitude that he decided to just shoot him dead.
Let's also give a nod to Durge of the Clone Wars series. He crosses the Moral Event Horizon right off by committing mass genocide of colonies with poison gas, gloating "Today I get to kill four Jedi. Add that to the colonists I've already murdered and the hostages I'm gonna kill later and it's a DAMN good week." Few Star Wars characters are shown to take such unashamed joy in killing anyone and anything, and Durge- given his normally gentle species' lifespan of thousands of years - has been at it for a VERY long time. His death where Anakin Skywalker traps him in an escape pod and launches him into a star? Incredibly well-deserved.
That death didn't really stick according to Star Wars Galaxies.
Star Wars comics have a long history of complete monsters in their ranks. Let's also give nods to Naga Sadow, Exar Kun, and Freedon Nadd of the Old Republic era...Naga Sadow is cruel, treacherous, and monstrous by the standards of the SITH who masterminds an enormous war, manipulates a tortured boy into helping him do so, and blows up an entire sun rather than be captured. Nadd, as Naga's apprentice, is a fallen Jedi who delighted in running a genocidal dictatorship. Exar Kun, though? Well, from masterminding the Sith War to murdering his kind old master to essentially living to corrupt everything he could...
And Kun's idea of fun is to corrupt a too-proud aspiring Jedi and then incinerate him with his own anger or throw an ace pilot around until he looks like an amphistaff's chew toy and then Mind Rape him across the Despair Event Horizon — and he would have succeeded were it not for a passing Sith operative-turned-smuggler-turned-Jedi.
In Legacy, we have Vul Isen, the guy who callously murdered 80% of all life on Mon Calamari. He enjoys every minute and is PROUD of his abilities to commit genocide. How bad is he? His cruelty causes the HUTTS to consider joining the GA and IR to take the Sith down, and Cade's agenda in the final three issues is capturing Isen and bringing him to justice. He's not even high ranking and he still owns his fellow Sith in the evil department.
Legacy has its share of these. Most of the One Sith are atrociously evil, but Darth Krayt takes the cake. Even if he was a good man before becoming a Sith, Krayt sabotages a mass terraforming project that leads to horrible fates for countless beings, uses the aftermath of the disaster to trigger a galaxy-wide war, then launches a coup to take over the victor and, by extension, the galaxy. When one Mon Calamari senator stands against him, Krayt, on the spot, orders the execution of every Mon Calamari with the summary execution of ten percent of the population, with the rest herded into work camps. Krayt eventually grows to believe the galaxy must suffer 'death and rebirth' as well and becomes an Omnicidal Maniac.
Jango Fett's archnemesis, Tor Vizsla, founder of the Death Watch extremists bent on returning the Mandalorians to their worst warmongering ways and the reason for every tragedy in his life. When Jango was a young boy, his entire family was killed by Vizsla and his men when they got caught in the crossfire of his war with Jaster Mereel and the True Mandalorian faction. Later on, when Fett had succeeded Mereel as leader of the True Mandalorians, Vizsla conspired to trick the Jedi into believing that the True Mandalorians were slaughtering political dissidents (the "dissidents" were actually armed insurgents) along with women and children. The evidence for the latter was provided by Vizsla's men. The result? A horrific battle between the Mandalorians and a task force of Jedi that left almost everyone on both sides dead. His brutal death via mauling by predatory felines was well-deserved and extremely satisfying.
A fairly minor example compared to the ones listed above, but the young brother of Plourr Ilo, Prince Harran, qualifies. Though he couldn't have been more than 10 years old, he was known to be a monster even by his family. He spent a great deal of time torturing small animals, and his greatest hero, his idol, was Darth Vader. When Vader came to visit Prince Harran, it was the greatest day of his life. After Vader left, the twisted sickness in Harran's mind had been replaced by something cold and calculating. Shortly thereafter, he was involved in the brutal murder of the rest of his family by revolutionaries. Plourr was the only one to escape, but Harran chased after her and attempted to hold her down until the assassins came to kill her. Plourr ended his shouts permanently when she swung a rock into his temple.
There's also Imperial Major Stafuv Rahz from the obscure one-shot comic "Bring Me the Children". He's one of the Gektl people, native to a planet that boats vast ore reserves which has a planetary shield to keep greedy corporations away, and it was Rahz's job to maintain that shield. But the Empire, ever in search of worlds to exploit and aliens to be dicks to, greases his palm, so he deactivates the shield. The result? All the Gektl but him are sold into slavery. As the title of the story implies, he later goes after a bunch of kids whose teacher is a member of the Allience, threatening to film their live executions if the Rebels don't agree to a hostage trade. It's mentioned that Darth Vader hates this guy, presumably due to his own past as a slave.
Hyde himself is a literal monster, an incredibly depraved creature with inhuman strength. However, he grows obedient after a while in the league, having developed a soft spot for Mina, the only person he's ever met who isn't afraid of him.
Fantomas of Les Hommes Mysterieux is described by Mina as a more horrifying creature than Dracula himself; in her mind, at least Dracula was human at some point and had human feelings and passions. She characterizes Fantomas as "a thing" and feels he's always been one.
Basically all of the characters in Wanted. We're talking about people who, when they take breaks from secretly running the Ancient Conspiracy that keeps a Crapsack World in its current state, amuse themselves by going on killing sprees and raping random people and sometimes take sojourns to other dimensions, where they can also kill and rape. They all hate and fear Mister Rictus, whose fondness for occasionally eating people may be the least worrying thing about him. Not even because he's more evil than them, but because he's sounpredictable - no one can tell what he might do next and he could (and eventually does) turn on them as well. Basically the same reasons why other DCU villains hate and fear the Joker - which makes sense, since Rictus is basically a Captain Ersatz version of the Joker to begin with.
The Governor and Thomas in The Walking Dead. The former is an insane despotic leader of a small town of survivors, who feeds any survivors from outside the town to the zombies in order to keep them docile so he can run "fights" between people in his town with the zombies surrounding them. And this is only the start of all the sick shit he does during his run in the series, which includes raping one of the main characters repeatedly, leaving his own daughter "alive" as a zombie so he can basically keep her as a pet, and being responsible for the deaths of the vast majority of the cast in issue # 48. The latter killed two children at the prison, brutally ending what had been a decent run of Infant Immortality in the comic up until that point.
Requiem Vampire Knight...Boy howdy. In that series, the dead are reincarnated on the BizarroCrapsack World of Resurrection as monsters and undead depending on their sins and their justifications for them (the more horrible the better). The ruling class of Resurrection are the vampires, who are the reincarnations of the very worst of the worst among humanity, those who not only smashed across the Moral Event Horizon, but did it For the Evulz. Of course, Dracula is the ruler of the most powerful nation, with the greatest number of vampires, including a custom-made "royal family" composed of historical luminaries such as Elizabeth Bathory, Caligula, Nero, Attila, and Aleister Crowley being the biggest bastards they can be. And that's not counting all the non-vampires who also count...
Borgia, a Eurocomic by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara found in Heavy Metal Magazine, is an account of Rodrigo Borgia (a.k.a. Pope Alexander VI)'s rise and rule of the papacy, with every single nasty element of the story (substantiated by historical records or not) turned Up to Eleven. The Borgias are almost all utterly amoral and depraved, and they're not the only ones either. Late medieval Rome looks like it was pretty damn crappy to live in. When the subtitles for the collections are, for example, "Blood for the Pope" and "Power and Incest", it's not hard to see where the story will go.
The Unfunnies: Troy Hicks, Troy Hicks, TROY HICKS. He intentionally turns an entire cartoon world into a horrifying Crapsack World for shits and giggles. He knows they're not just drawings, since he switched places with a poor sucker from that world to escape death row, where he was on due to his being a child molester/killer. In addition, as far as we know, he getsaway withEVERYTHING.
Not a superhero comic (from Mad Magazine, to be exact), but both of Monroe's parents fall under this. Even though everything that everyone does to Monroe is Played for Laughs, they (and I should also mention Dylan, the bully) fulfill all criteria required. Let's see: insisting on chaperoning him on a plane trip to Hawaii, just so they could humiliate him (causing him to leave the plane before it takes off)? Check. Shutting him outside the house in the eye of a hurricane, demanding that he sing something before he be let in? Check. Forcing him to push their broken down car up a hill, when Dad could have called a tow truck? Check. Sending him off to Survivor Jr. against his will? Check. Leaving him to fend for himself and his baby cousin at home while they go to a water park? Check. An entire list of their atrocities would go on forever. The only reason they're not in jail is because Monroe is the titular Butt Monkey in a Sadist Show. Seriously, I can't imagine any redemption coming from them and, non-canonically, one would hope this boy would give them a good speech about thinking about what they've done at some point and just never take care of them in their old age or attend their funeral. (And we thought the Moral Event Horizoncouldn't be played for laughs!)
The best example of this from Hack Slash is probably the scientist working with the Black Lamp Society. Most slashers at least have the "excuse" of being brain-damaged, insane, Always Chaotic Evil undead monsters. This guy was just a sadistic bastard, with the same going for the also completely normal human gang leader in The Coldest Dish.
For a slasher example, there's Ashley Guthrie. While admittedly amusing here and there, he's still a child sociopath who, even before he became a member of The Undead, did things like strangle a litter of kittens to death (he was annoyed his cat was spending so much time with them) before caving his baby brother's skull in (he was annoyed he was always playing with his toys). After becoming a slasher, his first acts were to cause his father to commit suicide and drive his mother insane.
Gideon Gordon Graves. When someone's profession is Asshole, you know he's not a good person, but good Christ! His power is trapping people inside their own heads, basically Mind Fucking them until they do what he wants, and while spying on Scott jacked with his memories just for his own amusement. He also keeps his Exes in cryo, kidnapping them and taking them away from whatever lives they had just so he can date them all at the same time. And god knows what else he's done to them while they're unconscious. Not to mention, he KILLS Scott and Ramona, treats Envy like garbage, and planned to put Ramona in cryo too. The fact that he gets killed in the end helps.
The original G.I. Joe comic, first under Marvel, now with IDW, has Doctor Venom. Where Cobra Commander at least had one or two humanizing moments, Venom was pure evil incarnate distilled into paint thinner. Invented a machine whose sole purpose was mind-raping prisoners, which was then adapted into brainwashing them. Had to team up with Kwinn and Snake Eyes for their mutual survival, yet never missed a chance to back-stab one or both of them and would repeatedly end up begging for his miserable life if cornered. If that's not enough, when Destro went into a Heroic BSOD at the sight of Baroness making an apparent Heroic Sacrifice to save him, Venom commented to Cobra Commander, "Doesn't he realize love is just the overestimation of one woman's value over another?" within earshot of Destro! Not only did he never show remorse, he never showed anything but child-like glee when inflicting suffering on others and anger if they survived.
Dr. Nikken, the man responsible for the program that created Hip Flask and the other Elephantmen, shows absolutely no remorse for kidnapping and horrifically killing thousands of women or for creating a race of sentient beings whose sole intended purpose was war. In fact, he’s rather proud of his accomplishments.
For an upbeat, generaly optimistic comic, Gold Digger has some villains who can be utterly atrocious like Dreadwing, the Lich King, Gothwrain, and The Dynasty of the Stars.
Judge Dredd has featured several examples, among them the megalomaniac Judge Cal (who sentenced the entire population of Mega-City One to be executed in alphabetical order) and the Omnicidal Maniac Judge Death (who did the same for his entire planet). Note that, while all Dark Judges are genocidal psychopaths, Judge Death's Origins Issue revealed that he was already invoking the Complete Monster trope when he was still alive.
Red Mist/Motherfucker from Kick-Ass. While the movie adaptation made him more sympathetic, he was just as much of a bastard as his father in the comics. For one, he expressed sadistic glee when he thought he killed Hit Girl. But if that weren't enough, issue 4 of the sequel had him cross a bigger Moral Event Horizon: he killed a group of children after they told him where Kate lived, had his goons kill an entire neighborhood of people, killed Kate's father, and then raped her with his other cohorts. Even his own lackeys thought they went too far. If he didn't lose his fans before, he definately lost them now.
The Plutonian in Irredeemable, after his Face Heel Turn, seems to be determined to be the biggest one of these he can be. The essential purpose of the book is to ask the question of "What would happen if Superman suddenly turned evil?' Given how the first thing we see him do is murdering a mother and her baby, and that's not even the first thing he's done to cross the Moral Event Horizon, the answer seems to be 'He'd fit in this trope pretty nicely, actually.' The aforementioned atrocity obviously being just a beginning, he also partially and painfully lobotomized his former teen sidekick, knowing full well that he is effectively immortal and will have to suffer eternal brain damage. He later allows his former compatriots to choose only ten out of millions of Singaporeans to rescue from a massive tsunami (that he triggers, natch) prior to his absolute destruction of Singapore. His reason for devastating Singapore? The UN-representative of the aforementioned country wasn't entirely honest about why his country wanted to elect him as their absolute monarch. After being captured by the Vespa, he is shown to dream of reversing all the horrible things he did - implication being not because he was punished, but out of regret. Except, subsequently, when given the opportunity to redeem himself i.e accepting the telepathic alien's offer to help him, he mercilessly refuses it. As a first thing he does upon returning to Earth, he carves his initials into the USA, uses the new paradigm as projectiles, arranges a kinky threesome with Cutter and Belle Noir, and promises rivers of blood to his followers. Not to mention, Burrows, the man who made a town commit suicide, chooses to kill himself rather than face the Plutonian's plans for earth.
To nobody's surprise, it turns out that the Plutonian's arch-nemesis, Modeus, is one of these as well.
It should be noted that the main theme of the series seems to be asking the question what it takes to make somebody trully irredeemable. Its spin-off, Incorruptible, asks the opposite question - what it takes to redeem yourself. Max Damage was a Complete Monster before he realized that if somebody won't take Plutonian's place, human race may soon face extinction. It's rather clear he doesn't have the slightest idea how to be a good guy, aside from being totally opposite of how he was before.
Ignatz the Mouse from Krazy Kat, due to his horrifying and constant abuse of the main character.
Thorgal has it's share of these, many of which are evil aristocrats or other rulers. Shardar from The Fall of Brek Zarith is especially nasty, deciding that rather than just surrender his rule to the rightful heir to the throne, it's better to poison his own court and destroy all his treasures, leaving the kingdom bankrupt, hoping that, to restore it, the new ruler will be forced to become as big a tyrant as him, while he escapes and plans to start new conquest, using the psychic powers of the baby he kidnapped.
One of the more notable is Volsung of Nichor, a Dirty Coward introduced and killed in the third album of the series. In The Guardian of the Keys, he is brought back to life by evil lesser diety, Nidhogg, who turns him into a perfect doppleganger of Thorgal. The deal is simple - he will seduce another diety who happened to have a soft spot for Thorgal, the titular Guardian, steal her magic belt, and bring it to Nidhogg, who will return him to his real form and grant him new life. What Volsung does? He steals the belt, returns to Midgard, kills Thorgal, takes his place, and, using magic powers of the belt, takes over the control of his village, murdering the current chief, rapes both his wife and Aaricia, and threatens to smash the head of the latter's baby daughter, all to destroy Thorgal's good name and avenge his own death...that he had brought upon himself - Thorgal's only crime was being there when Volsung got himself killed, he hadn't move a finger to help it and couldn't have stop it in any way.
Kriss of Valnor would be one of these if it wasn't for her Heroic Sacrifice to save Thorgal, his family, and her son. Her own spin-off series reveals that it stands out among the numerous atrocities she had commited so much that it puzzles even the Gods, forcing her to reveal her backstory to Freya, up to the moment when she had meet Thorgal for the first time. It involves threeComplete Monsters - her abusive step-father, who made her his slave and started renting her out to work for a beer; his newphew, who, when Kriss started killing people in the village, murdered his own father, assaulted Kriss, raped her, and planned to kill her and blame his old man's death on her; and the spoiled daughter of an aristocrat that was kidnaping beautiful girls, forcing them to be her dolls, and subjecting them to deadly abuse, did so with Sigwald's daughter and offered to free her if he will perform one of his juggling tricks with a bowl of incadescent coal, only to knock him down and thrust his face into the coal, almost burning him to death. It's no wonder Kriss grew up to be howweallknowher.
