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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicBook/RedSkull He]] '''''actually''''' [[WouldHurtAChild kills this baby]]...after his demands have been met!]]

->You think I do this [kill people] for '''money'''?! I've been gettin' paid for high-end jobs since... '''forever'''. Have you ever seen me '''spend''' any of it? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if I have more money than '''you''', at this point. No, Norman... I stopped doing this for money '''a long time ago'''. I do it because it's '''fun'''.
-->--'''Bullseye''', ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' v4 #12

A list of {{Complete Monster}}s in Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} and Creator/IconComics.

!!Examples with their own pages

[[index]]
* Monster/ThePunisher
* Monster/SpiderMan
* Monster/XMen
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!Marvel
* ''Literature/AnitaBlake'': From the comic book adaptation we have Dominga Salvador, aka the Senora. 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 AndIMustScream 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.
* ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'': [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Annihilus]] becomes this. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out in the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave, consuming whole star systems and devouring worlds. Implementing ghastly tactics like having worlds and their people broken down for fuel on board his Harvesters, Annihilus's attacks make the Skrulls an endangered species and cause the extinction of many other races. After brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus even succeeds in having Galactus captured and uses his energy to fuel his superweapons with which he has one goal: [[OmnicidalManiac to obliterate everything that lives and reign over the void.]]
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'':
** Cap’s ArchEnemy is ComicBook/RedSkull. [[BigBad Johann Schmidt]] from the main continuity is a BastardUnderstudy to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself. Once a bitter, psychotic street kid, this eventual DiabolicalMastermind began as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare petty criminal]] with a violent streak. After having his romantic advances rejected by a Jewish girl who'd been nice to him otherwise, Schmidt flew into a rage, killed her, and finding he liked murder, set out to commit it again. Convincing a friend to try and assassinate Hitler, Schmidt stepped in and saved Der Fuhrer's life. He then donned a Skull-shaped mask and took on the role of a grateful Hitler's [[TheSpymaster spymaster]]. Trapped in suspended animation by Cap, Schmidt awakened in the modern era and resumed his old ways. Firmly convinced that DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and that everyone needs somebody to [[TheBully bully]], Schmidt has committed every crime in the proverbial book, from the [[EvilIsPetty petty]] to the grandiose. He made several attempts at gaining WorldDomination through the use of the Cosmic Cube (killing thousands of people every time), attempted to transplant Adolf Hitler's brain into Captain America's body, tried to [[GrandTheftMe bodyjack Cap himself on several occasions]], and fought ComicBook/TheKingpin for control of the New York drug trade. He has manipulated the Scarlet Witch as part of a plan to [[FinalSolution exterminate the world's mutant population]], used his [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Dust of Death]] to gruesomely kill any subordinate who [[YouHaveFailedMe fails him]] or [[BadBoss looks at him funny]], and has been the mover and shaker behind countless Neo-Nazi movements, fascist governments, and terrorist cells, most notably ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} and AIM. In a BadFuture he became GodEmperor and spent his time triggering natural disasters, then showing up to inform people that he would ''not'' be saving them. When his daughter, Sin, was born, Schmidt planned to kill her for the crime of being a girl. While in a relationship with Mother Night, he [[DomesticAbuser brutalised her constantly]]. With an end goal of reducing society to its most primitive, [[SocialDarwinist dog-eat-dog levels]], Schmidt is universally despised in both the superhero and [[EvenEvilHasStandards supervillain]] communities.
** [[ComicBook/TheUltimates The Ultimate Red Skull]] is [[UpToEleven even WORSE]]. Ultimate Skull is the son of Captain America, and therefore has a version of his powers. He's a killing machine, although that doesn't sum up the [[ForTheEvulz sick delight]] he takes in what he does. His list of atrocities includes: killing two hundred people, followed by skinning his own face at the age of seventeen, training terrorists and working with numerous historical monsters, including infamous mass-murderer and cannibal Idi Amin, [[WhoShotJFK shooting Kennedy]], just to send a message, and using the Cosmic Cube to force the members of A.I.M. to eat each other. And then there's his most infamous moment: he gives a woman (later [[ComicBook/TheWasp the Red Wasp]]) a SadisticChoice: kill her husband with a pair of scissors or he'd kill her baby. She did it. The ComicBook/RedSkull then [[WouldHurtAChild chucked the baby]] [[DestinationDefenestration out a window]] and let his three thugs gang-rape her.
** Besides Skull, we have Arnim Zola, MadScientist extraordinaire. Zola was a Nazi biochemist in his human years. To escape mortality, Zola used his cybernetic brilliance to digitize himself and survive inside robotic shells to continue his experiments. One of his worst acts was to create the monstrous Hate-Monger, and afterwards he continued to complete multiple experiments for the ComicBook/RedSkull, his usual employer and master. Rick Remender however, shows that Zola was a monster just waiting to cut loose. When he and Captain America were lost in Dimension Z, Zola becomes its dictator, and its [[AGodAmI God.]] He inflicts horrible experiments amongst the people, overwriting their minds to be loyal to him alone and turns others into horrible mutants that he sics on those who don't accept his rule. Even his own children there are nothing but pawns, his affection to them fake to manipulate them and he is more than willing to kill them if they do not conform to his wishes. Zola, to end his long war with Captain America created a way to get back to Earth, with a bomb that would kill countless innocents before Zola sent his mutants, with the intent of overwriting the minds of the people of earth and mutating others, a process that would kill ''billions.''
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} has fought several abhorrent monsters, but a few have gone the extra mile.
** Besides ComicBook/TheKingpin, Daredevil’s ArchEnemy is [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]]. One of the world's most talented, famous and feared [[ProfessionalKiller assassins]], Bullseye has revealed he rarely spends the money from his assassinations, preferring to kill [[ForTheEvulz because of the fun involved]]. Bullseye led a string of murders and assassinations that culminated in the death of his nemesis Daredevil's lover Elektra. Consumed with hatred after being defeated by Daredevil, Bullseye made it a mission to murder any of Daredevil's friends or loved ones, including his later girlfriend Karen Page. After Bullseye was [[BackFromTheDead killed by Daredevil and revived]], he was rendered a paralyzed invalid in a metal case. In retaliation, Bullseye recruited several killers to his cause and began a systematic campaign to drive Matt insane by threatening the lives of his friends, lovers, ex-wife and anyone he held dear, proving that even being a [[EvilCripple cripple does nothing to stop his evil]] or his willingness and ability to destroy whatever Matt loves. When recruited by ComicBook/NormanOsborn, Bullseye took advantage of his position on the Dark Avengers to torment and kill innocents on a whim. Combining {{sadis|t}}m with [[ItsAllAboutMe twisted narcissism]] and LackOfEmpathy for anyone, Bullseye sets the standards of evil for hitmen in the Marvel-verse and serves as an inspiration to many of its killers and monsters.
** Purple Man (aka Zebediah Killgrave) might not have the most intimidating moniker, but he more than makes up for it with what he does. During his first outing he took control of Matt's girlfriend, Karen Page, and tried to rape her. He's only gotten worse since. Later on, revamped by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis in his series ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'' into an amoral sociopath, Killgrave defeated the young superheroine Jessica Jones and made her his mental slave, forcing her to watch him commit crimes and assist him, while he heaped physical, verbal and mental abuse on her, but stopped short of outright rape because she "wasn't worthy" of him. Not content with humiliating her, he forced her to watch him do things like mentally order people to stop breathing when it annoyed him. He forced Jessica to stand at his bedside and watch as he used his powers to [[SerialRapist date rape women]], helpless to do anything about it. Killgrave is what happens when you give someone who thinks ItsAllAboutMe is a code to live by, remove any empathy for other beings, and give them mind control powers and a serious desire to hurt others.
** The third Mister Fear, Larry Cranston, assumed the identity of Mister Fear after the deaths of the first two holders. A college rival of Matt's, Cranston resents Matt Murdock for having done better in law school than he did, and tries to ruin his life, using fear gas to induce panic attacks in his victims. Following his return in the 90s after a lengthy hiatus, Mister Fear III triggered a prison riot with his fear gas and escaped, leaving numerous dead. He also freed SerialKiller Charles Burroughs and supervillain Molten Man, and caused them to both go on rampages, while framing Karen Page, Matt's then LoveInterest for murder to boot (he later executed Burroughs for "[[ControlFreak going off script]]"). It was during Creator/EdBrubaker's run, however, that Fear III showed just how low he could go. He provided Lily Lucca with a perfume that permanently altered her body chemistry the men around her to go insane and kill each other, promising to fix her if she aided him (he lied; there is no cure). He then used his fear gas to drive reformed supervillain Melvin Potter/Gladiator into a psychotic break, leading to the deaths of dozens after a rampage through Chinatown. While all this is going on, he takes the place of Milla Donovan—Matt's wife's—psychatrist, and drives her into a paranoid breakdown, leaving her institutionalised. This is without getting into his discovery that he can use his fear gas (which he now secretes from his pores) to [[SerialRapist force women to sleep with him]], something he does many times through the arc. Effectively impossible to punish, Mister Fear III was last seen in prison, forcing the other inmates to do his work, and raping a female prison guard.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': Strange's ArchEnemy [[BigBad Dormammu]] ([[RedBaron also known as]] [[TheDreaded The Dread One or Dread Dormammu or Dread Lord]]) is the [[DimensionLord ruler of the Dark Dimension]], where he established a dictatorship with his sister Umar, who he has attempted to destroy on more than one occasion. After Strange bested him once, Dormammu has never stopped brooding on that slight and has endlessly attempted to destroy Strange and everything he loves. The obliteration of Earth and its people have been attempted by Dormammu, but those who survive his conquests have it far worse. The Dark Dimension is run like his personal hell, the denizens enslaved and tormented constantly, with only a small resistance against him. To oppose Dormammu is to risk the endless torture of your soul should you fall into his hands alive. He remains one of the few of Strange's many otherworldly foes to have earned the sorcerer's hatred.
* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'':
** [[AxCrazy Ebenezer Laughton]], known as [[SerialKiller The Scarecrow]], is a longstanding enemy of Ghost Rider. Originally trained as a contortionist, Laughton found a life of crime more exciting. Sinking further into madness and depravity, the Scarecrow began to [[WouldHurtAChild target children as murder targets]], the younger the better. He once gruesomely murdered a mother and her baby with his pitchfork. Afterwards, the Scarecrow attempted a "masterpiece" by creating a building out of human beings, stitching his victims together. Some where lucky enough to be already dead. Others weren't. When Ghost Rider confronted him, the Scarecrow attempted to blackmail him into avoiding a fight by stabbing the walls of the building, murdering the still living victim and threatening to kill more if Ghost Rider didn't surrender and let Scarecrow torture him to death.
** Zadkiel, the ArchEnemy in the Jason Aaron series, is a truly monstrous excuse for an angel. The lord of the [[EvilArmy Black Host]], Zadkiel was also the angel in charge of the Spirits of Vengeance and began to desire to use them to overthrow both God and humanity. Zadkiel subtly influenced the lives of Johnny Blaze and Dan Ketch, destroying those close to them to make them vulnerable to the Ghost Rider spirits. Zadkiel, as TheManBehindTheMan, negotiated multiple deals with demons and other monsters on earth, allowing them to prey upon those they wished, while directing his other minions to murder multiple innocents in addition to those who could prove problematic--and everyone close to them as well. Even death brought no respite as Zadkiel showed a penchant for annihilating the souls of his defeated enemies. While manipulating Danny Ketch, Zadkiel showed no remorse slaughtering and torturing his angelic brethren until he finally had the powers of the Riders and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness banished Ketch and Blaze to earth to die in the apocalypse he would create]]. Zadkiel succeeded in conquering heaven and began to [[AGodAmI achieve omnipotence]] with his final goal to become the new God and then commence genocide on all of humanity and all other beings who didn't worship him.
* Mephisto, the most prominent {{Demon Lord|sAndArchdevils}} in the Marvel Universe and the most evil, is ComicBook/GhostRider's boss, but his actions spread far beyond just Ghost Rider. Mephisto powers his realm and his person by the souls he imprisons, often by making a [[DealWithTheDevil pact with the victims.]] Mephisto doesn't play fair and is fond of [[JackAssGenie ruining the wish]] by playing off ExactWords. Mephisto has been known to cure a loved one's terminal illness, only to have the beneficiary killed the next day. Not making a deal is no guarantee of safety and Mephisto has been known to torment, torture and kill those he can. In one instance, he captured the brother of an [[WorthyOpponent enemy]] of Thor to force the Thunder God to enter his domain. Mephisto had already fed his hostage to his realm's fires and contented himself with crushing Thor's spirit before sending him back to earth. During the ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' crisis, Mephisto chose to encourage Thanos to destroy more and more, while plotting to [[TheStarscream seize ultimate power himself.]] During [[ComicBook/FearItself the attack of the Serpent]], Mephisto wandered into a bar to vent to the barkeep. When the man asked to be immortal, Mephisto ground him into nothing and used his blood to write letters: words are immortal, after all. Finally, Mephisto is also a hideously [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] to his 'son' and creation Blackheart: mentally and physically torturing the younger demon until Blackheart snapped and became as dangerous as his father.
* ComicBook/IncredibleHulk:
** [[EvilMeScaresMe The Maestro]] is a [[FutureMeScaresMe future version]] of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. [[BadFuture 90 years in the future]] after [[AfterTheEnd the world is devastated by nuclear war]], the Hulk has changed his name to the Maestro and builds a city state called Dystopia out of the wreckage of New Year City. In Dystopia, the Maestro rules as a [[EvilOverlord dictator]], taking whatever he wants from his subjects and hoarding almost all the food and resources for himself. When Maestro sees a woman he fancies, he forces her to become his [[SexSlave slave]]. The outside of his palace is littered with corpses of those who have defied or displeased the Maestro. The Maestro has his SecretPolice patrol the streets, killing anyone who would oppose him. After the Maestro's forces have captured one of Rick Jones' rebels, the Maestro [[MindRape subjects the rebel to a machine which forcibly scans a person's mind, which puts him in a vegetative state]]. Afterwards, Maestro kills him with his own hands, because the rebel had insulted him earlier. When Rick Jones uses Dr. Doom's [[TimeMachine time machine]] to bring the Hulk to the future to defeat the Maestro, the Maestro takes one of his slave girls hostage to force Hulk to surrender to him. He then proceeds to paralyze the Hulk by [[NeckSnap breaking his neck]] and forces one of his slave girls to [[RapeByProxy perform sexual acts on him]] without the Hulk's permission, [[ItAmusedMe all apparently for his own sick amusement]]. The Maestro even murders an elderly Rick Jones, the man who was once his best friend, for opposing him. The Maestro also tells the Hulk he prefers his harem of slaves to his former wife Betty Ross, because his slaves don't talk back to him or have opinions of their own. The Maestro is devoid of anything that made the Hulk sympathetic and is considered by the Hulk to be one of the most detestable foes he ever had to contend with.
** ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' gives us Angmo-Asan, [[TheRedBaron the Red King]]. When the Hulk first challenged him, he first casually kills off the rest of a gladiatorial bout's survivors (save for Miek); and, after Hulk gains the upper hand, he [[JustYouAndMeAndMyGuards sends his guards on him]] and [[DirtyCoward shoots him in the back]]. Later, we see him firsthand casually ordering the death of all people who say something against his high tributes and dismissing the complaints of his peasants, because he doesn't see them as anything more than animals. During the second Arena Fight of Hulk and his Warbound, he decides to [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem screw the rules]] and tries to [[KillEmAll nuke them]] (together with the whole audience), which only fails because Hulk contains the blast. He even attempts to make them kill one of their Warbound-members via MindRape. After the heroes confront him with his crimes, he doesn't even care one bit, rolls his eyes and smugly proclaims: "Yes. I killed them. As is my Right. As is my Duty. As is [[ForTheEvulz my Pleasure]]." And when he is finally defeated, he [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to destroy the whole planet in response]]. The only way to make him remotely good was shown later when they made him into a cyborg and [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood programmed him into behaving]]. Plus, Caeira's flashback of him as a child. In the comic, he saves her life but immediately enslaves her. In the animated film, [[IOweYouMyLife she offers her loyalty willingly]] but the kid Red King turns out to have been still just as villainous when he reveals he ordered the Spike attack on Caiera's village specifically so he could capture her.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': After seeing his father shoot himself during a game of RussianRoulette, Obadiah Stane reached two conclusions: that life was a game you had to win at, no matter the cost, and that his father was a weakling who left too much to chance. During a childhood chess match, when paired against a boy who was his equal or better, Stane slit the boy's pet dog's throat to make sure his mind wasn't on the game. Becoming a CorruptCorporateExecutive, Staned defeated Tony Stark in a corporate buyout, and engineered his psychological breakdown, reducing Tony to living on the streets as a homeless, alcoholic vagrant. When Tony returned as Iron Man, Stane wasted no time in kidnapping his friends and loved ones, going so far as to try and brainwash one of Tony's former girlfriends into becoming his lover, not out of interest, but to drive in the fact that he had won; he then set off a bomb at the Circuit Dome to kill Tony with no compunction about collateral damage. When Tony arrived to confront him, Stane revealed he'd set up a chamber with Tony's loved ones subject to receiving electric shocks should he take a step to free them, intending to force Tony to starve to death in the room. When Tony beat Stane's game, Stane played his last trump card: Tony would surrender or Stane would use his own suit to [[WouldHurtAChild crush a baby's skull]]. Once beaten, Stane opted to hurt Tony and deny him victory the only way he could: [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]].
* ''Franchise/{{Marvel 2099}}'': Of all the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate leaders]] in this universe, John Herod is easily the worst. After SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom conquers America and limits the power of the corporations, the corporate leaders turn to John Herod to kill Doom and return them to the old the status quo. Herod comes up with a counter offer: He will kill Doom for them, but only if they make him their leader. Herod also wants to strip mine the Earth and have all the corporate leaders relocate to Mars within 5 years, leaving the Earth an empty barren husk. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the other corporate leaders balk at this plan]], Herod threatens to kill them if they do not go along. Herod then launches a devastating campaign against Doom and his government. He attacks the White House and destroys Doom's [[FloatingContinent floating city, Libera Cielo]]. However Herod truly crosses the MoralEventHorizon, when he kills everyone in Latveria with chemical weapons and sends a video tape of the Latverians dying to Doom, [[ForTheEvulz just to rub salt in Doom's wounds]]. Once Herod takes power, he takes measures to [[ThePurge kill most of the remaining superheroes]].
* ''ComicBook/RomSpaceknight'': Hybrid is the mutant son of a human woman and a Dire Wraith. He took to the lessons in evil and power that his Dire Wraith tutors taught him so well that his father (who had reformed out of love for Hybrid's mother) feared that he was ''worse'' than his fellow Wraiths. Since the Dire Wraiths are in general pretty bad themselves, that's saying something. In his debut, Hybrid murders his parents, pits Rom and the X-Men against each other by [[WoundedGazelleGambit pretending to be a helpless child]], and tries to kidnap Kitty Pryde so he can ''rape'' her as part of his plan to breed an army of hybrids like himself. He also plans to do the same thing to all other female mutants. All at the age of ''fifteen''. When Hybrid shows up again in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', he is just as evil and ''more powerful''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'': [[ArchEnemy Cobweb]] is a demon that invades the minds of humans and drives them insane with his lies, all while plotting to invade and enslave the Earth, framing Sleepwalker in the process. Cobweb [[ManipulativeBastard turned people against Sleepwalker]], while corrupting their minds, all the while using invading forces to wreak havoc and devour innocents' minds. Cobweb [[MasterOfIllusion planned to have]] Sleepwalker's host, Rick Sheridan, [[MindRape cross]] the DespairEventHorizon and betray Sleepwalker, which would allow Cobweb to turn Rick into a portal to Earth and wreak destruction there. Since the denizens of the Mindscape don't need to devour people's minds to survive, Cobweb stands out as a monster amongst his own species.
* ''ComicBook/SupremePower'': Redstone is invulnerable, super strong, has heat vision, and uses these powers to kill innocent bystanders in the most horrifically graphic ways imaginable. He tears off limbs, hurls cars, boils people in swimming pools with his heat vision, threatens Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb while having the most pleasant facial expression imaginable. He is, essentially, Franchise/{{Superman}} without a conscience and with an extremely violent and depraved personality ''before'' gaining his power.
* Villains from Thor's storylines:
** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Malekith the Accursed]] is the [[TheCaligula cruel ruler of the dark elves of Svartalfheim, whom even his people hate and fear]]. Serving as the harbinger of Surtur, Malekith hunts for the [[ArtifactOfDoom Casket of Ancient Winters]], murdering any who get in his way. Malekith in his spare time also hunts down goodhearted, virtuous people and devours their souls, as [[EvilTastesGood the souls of the virtuous are a delicacy for him]]. When he grows to hate Thor, Malekith is only too happy to sacrifice or torture his own people to get at the Thunder God. He unleashed the Casket of Ancient Winters to plunge Earth into a frozen wasteland to hurt Thor and unleash Surtur. Malekith plans to let Surtur burn every realm, with no care if his fellow Dark Elves are caught in the blaze, as long as he profits from it. Before his eventual return to the throne after [[DeathIsCheap he was revived]], many Dark Elves viewed him as a despised figure. Later on, after being freed from imprisonment in Hel, Malekith set about to seize control of the Dark Elves, butchering any Dark Elf who wouldn't join him and calling for his followers to "burn the old, flay the young and bring me the eyes of those who will not see." Malekith killed Queen Alflysse, counting on the fear of his people to lead them to offer him the throne to stop his homicidal rampages. Not content with tormenting his own race, Malekith tried to drive Thor mad by infecting him with a mind-altering parasite to get him to destroy his own allies.
** ''Thor: Vikings'': This Creator/GarthEnnis miniseries, from the [[DarkerAndEdgier MAX imprint]], features the {{sadist}}ic, [[AxCrazy psychotic]] [[BloodKnight Harald]] [[MeaningfulName Jaekelsson]], who embodies the worst stereotypes of Vikings. In 1003 AD, Harald leads his men to [[RapePillageAndBurn rape and slaughter all inhabitants of a village]] before setting sail for the new world. Cursed by a wise man to sail for a thousand years, Harald and his men arrive at New York as nigh-invincible zombies. Setting about to slaughter, pillage and rape all they find, Harald and his comrades turn New York into a near death camp (which we see in [[BloodierAndGorier all its gore]]) with Harald selecting the seat of his new throne built of human bones at the Empire State Building. When he faces Thor, Harald tries to humiliate the God and taunts him to go die a coward's death before casting him into the Hudson River. Despite only having a brief appearance, Haralad marks himself as one of the most truly vile beings the God of Thunder has ever faced.
* ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'': [[BigBad Lord Mar-Vell]] of the Marvel Cancerverse is the EvilCounterpart of the heroic Captain Mar-Vell. In this universe, when Mar-Vell got cancer, he performed an arcane ritual that killed Death itself and brought the [[EldritchAbomination Many Angled Ones]] their universe. When the Nova Corps tried to stop him from doing so, he killed all of them and proceeded to let the Many Angled Ones enslave every living being in the universe, turning them into hideous parodies. Mar-Vell's main goal is to unleash the Many Angled Ones upon many universes by killing the Avatar of Death, Thanos, destroying Death for good and leaving everything that exists as the slaves to him and his dark masters. To do this, he manipulates ComicBook/AdamWarlock's EvilCounterpart the Magus into detonating multiple inhabited worlds to open the gap between the universes and kills him when he learns the Magus hasn't located the Avatar of Death. In his search, he captures a number of heroes suspected to be the Avatar of Death and tortures them for the location of Thanos when he learns that they aren't. Having left all of his nobility behind, Lord Mar-Vell stands as a shockingly monstrous villain who will torture and kill to gain what he desires and overthrow the universe's natural order.
* ComicBook/{{Ultron}}: Created by [[ComicBook/AntMan Dr. Henry Pym]] and frequent rival (if not ArchEnemy) of ComicBook/TheAvengers, he gained a malignant intelligence and came to the conclusion that morality was irrelevant and humanity was flawed. To this end, Ultron sought to destroy or replace humanity with androids like himself. Ultron created androids such as The Vision and Jocasta as a surrogate son and bride, but both rejected his monstrosity, resulting in Ultron attempting to kill them on multiple occasions. When an alternate model turned good and embraced Pym as its father, Ultron destroyed it out of disgust. After creating his new son, Victor Mancha, Ultron mind controlled him to make him murder his friends and executed Victor's mother in front of him. In other instances, Ultron would take over a country and massacre the population, using the corpses to form a model of his face large enough to see from space. While typically a threat limited to earth, Ultron's intelligence was absorbed by and then took over the Phalanx in ''Annihilation Conquest'' before ruthlessly conquering and assimilating the Kree Empire, destroying and torturing all those who would resist. A fully self aware being, Ultron simultaneously believe himself to be above humanity while succumbing to the worst of human emotion, ego and cruelty and directed his Phalanx army at earth, vowing to destroy it solely to spite his "father," Dr. Pym. For Hank, the worst thing about Ultron is that its thought patterns are based on Hank's own mind. Hank really doesn't like what that might imply about him.
* ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'': Belaric Marcosa was a shockingly dark villain for even a 70s [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] Marvel horror series. In life, Marcosa was [[AristocratsAreEvil an evil aristocrat]] who lured victims to his manor to use dark sorcery to drive them into 'lewd depravity' before he sucked their lives and souls out before having them murder one another for his amusement. He then kept their souls trapped in his manor. After his death, Marcosa had more victims lured to the manor so he could torture them as well, playing dark mind games and driving his victims to distrust and murder one another before revealing himself and attempting to add their souls to his collection.
* Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, ComicBook/NickFury's ArchEnemy (as well as frequent rival of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/IronMan, and Franchise/TheAvengers), has the dubious honor of being both a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi war criminal]] and an international terrorist as the leader of ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}. A German noble who subscribed to racial superiority, Strucker achieved a high rank in the Death's Head and earned a personal enmity with ComicBook/NickFury himself. In a crowning moment of monstrosity on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Strucker found a race of benevolent, empathic aliens that crashed near the small German town of Gruenstadt. To cover his tracks, Strucker killed the entire population of the town and planned to manipulate the aliens into providing him their technology. As head of HYDRA, Strucker ordered countless terrorist attacks throughout the globe that claimed the lives of many, many innocent people, all the while secretly controlling ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} through [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Life Model Decoys]] and playing his enemies to get many agents killed while HYDRA continued its plans unabated. Strucker's ultimate goals are [[TakeOverTheWorld global domination]] and genocide of all "lower races," and he made many attempts at both. When informed his son Andreas had been murdered by ComicBook/NormanOsborn, Strucker's only response was that he owed Osborn a favor. He also [[OffingTheOffspring killed his eldest son]] with the Death Spore Virus, which is just as awful as it sounds: it has bonded to Strucker’s body and allows him to kill personally through his body. In addition, he was once TheDragon to RedSkull.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}'': Delron Krumsky is the psychopathic FatBastard lieutenant for a drug kingpin. After getting freed from prison in order to track down a load of heroin that the protagonists, Leo and Greta, had inadvertently stolen from an evidence van, Delron murdered the latter’s elderly mother and took her daughter as leverage. After tracking Greta down, he [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured her]] for the location of the heroin by driving nails into her palms, and eventually killed her in spite of his partner's attempts to stop him. When Leo found him at a motel with Greta’s daughter, we learn that he was planning to sell the little girl to Russian slavers. Upon discovering Leo, Delron naturally tries to beat him to death before getting killed himself. Everyone who Delron works with sees him as a psycho and a pervert, and it’s not hard to see why.
* ''ComicBook/{{Nemesis}}'': The [[VillainProtagonist title character]] is what you’d get if SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker had Franchise/{{Batman}}'s resources. Much like the Joker, Nemesis wants nothing more than to [[ForTheEvulz cause as much havoc and death as he can]]. The comic begins with Nemesis blowing up a SWAT team and the building they were in, killing a police chief, and causing a subway train to derail, killing everyone inside. He then turns his attention to the President of the United States, and to an inspector named Blake Morrow, who he claims caused his father to hang himself when Morrow tried to arrest him. He hijacks Air Force One and purposefully crashes it into a densely populated area of Washington, D.C., killing hundreds; then he takes the President hostage. After that, he uses poison gas to kill 20,000 people at the Pentagon, with the exception of Morrow and his partner, and releases many government secrets online. He then lets himself be captured, only to break out of prison, killing dozens of guards with his bare hands, and releases all of the prisoners into the city, blowing up the prison on his way out. Nemesis then kidnaps Morrow’s children, inseminates his daughter with his son’s sperm and [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext rigs his daughter’s womb to collapse if an abortion is attempted]]. Then he leads another SWAT team into a deadly trap. When Morrow’s partner reveals that he had been working for Nemesis the whole time, Nemesis casually shoots him, and it’s hinted that [[BadBoss he kills all of his henchmen]] when they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlive their usefulness]]. He also reveals that he was lying about his family and his past--he has no FreudianExcuse, he’s just, as he puts it, [[ItAmusedMe “rich and bored”]]. Finally, he shows Morrow that he tied bombs to the President and to Morrow’s wife, and tries to make Morrow [[SadisticChoice choose which one dies]]. An utter maniac, Nemesis proves himself to be nothing but a sadistic, psychotic freak in all of his appearances.

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* Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, ComicBook/NickFury's ArchEnemy (as well as frequent rival of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/IronMan, and Franchise/TheAvengers), has the dubious honor of being both a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi war criminal]] and an international terrorist as the leader of ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}. A German noble who subscribed to racial superiority, Strucker achieved a high rank in the Death's Head and earned a personal enmity with ComicBook/NickFury himself. In a crowning moment of monstrosity on World War 2, Strucker found a race of benevolent, empathic aliens that crashed near the small German town of Gruenstadt. To cover his tracks, Strucker killed the entire population of the town and planned to manipulate the aliens into providing him their technology. As head of HYDRA, Strucker ordered countless terrorist attacks throughout the globe that claimed the lives of many, many innocent people, all the while secretly controlling ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} through [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Life Model Decoys]] and playing his enemies to get many agents killed while HYDRA continued its plans unabated. Strucker's ultimate goals are [[TakeOverTheWorld global domination]] and genocide of all 'lower races', and he made many attempts at both. When informed his son Andreas had been murdered by Norman Osborn, Strucker's only response was that he owed Osborn a favor. He also killed his eldest son with the Death Spore Virus, which is just as awful as it sounds: it has bonded to Strucker’s body and allows him to kill personally through his body. In addition, he was once TheDragon to ComicBook/RedSkull.

* Franchise/SpiderMan: With the franchise having been [[LongRunner around so long]], ComicBook/SpiderMan has faced [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGallery many foes]]. However, a few members of Spidey's RoguesGallery stand out.
** ComicBook/NormanOsborn: Also known as The Green Goblin, Norman, one of Spidey's [[ArchEnemy Arch-Enemies]] (along with ComicBook/DoctorOctopus and ComicBook/{{Venom}}), graduated to Complete Monsterdom following his resurrection in TheNineties. Once a TragicVillain who suffered from a SplitPersonality that forced him to become the Green Goblin, Norman was apparently slain after he threw Spider-Man's girlfriend, [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy]] [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied off a bridge]], in what many fans saw as his MoralEventHorizon. Brought BackFromTheDead in the nineties, Norman revealed that he had been the mastermind behind ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', [[{{buried|Alive}} Aunt May alive]] and killed Peter's clone, Ben Reilly, while gloating that he could now remember all the crimes he'd committed as the Goblin and was proud of them. Since then, he has gone on to be a major player in the Marvelverse, masterminding the creation of the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Dark Avengers]]. During this time period, he kept the Sentry in line via drug addiction (then had his wife killed), planned to have the caputred Songbird decapitated (so that he could mount her head on the wall and masturbate to it), and deliberately triggered a war with Asgard by having the U-Foes attack Agardian warrior [[BoisterousBruiser Volstaag]] in a football stadium, resulting in thousands of casualties. During this time, he also seduced and impregnated his son Harry's girlfriend, then plotted to have [[OffingTheOffspring Harry killed]], because he thought Harry's tragic death would earn him public sympathy. These, by the way, are all actions committed by the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Norman Osborn]] persona; the Green Goblin persona remains an AxeCrazy MadBomber who regularly endangers/kills hundreds of civillians during his battles with Spider-Man, and, in commemoration of Gwen Stacy's death, tried to recreate the tragedy with Mary-Jane Watson, Peter's then LoveInterest, as the victim. As [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Norman Osborn]] he's a cold-blooded, [[TheChessmaster calculating]] [[TheSociopath psychopath]] who treats everyone as a means to an end. As the Green Goblin he's a violent lunatic who threatens every person in the vicinity.
** ComicBook/{{Carnage}} (pre-''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}''): Cletus Kasady was a [[AxCrazy psychotic]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], prolific SerialKiller even before he bonded with a bloodthirsty alien symbiote and took the name of [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]]; as a child, he killed his grandmother and pet dog, tortured his mother, killed the headmaster of his orphanage with a lead pipe, and then burned the orphanage down, and pushed a girl he had a crush on in front of a bus because she rejected him. As Carnage he became one of the worst enemies of Venom and Spider-Man both with his psychotic killing sprees through New York where he murdered anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path and if not for Venom and Spider-Man he would have killed thousands more. During the ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' event, Carnage created a "family" of fellow super villains, using their powers to drive New York into homicidal insanity and to capture his "father" Venom, in whose captivity Carnage subjected to horrible torture. Not even his own family was safe from Carnage's psychosis and he brutalized his "wife" Shriek for ignoring his instructions before murdering their "son" Doppleganger when he tried defending her. Carnage has a habit of returning from death, always nastier than before, and the intense evil of Cassidy and the Symbiote together results in one of Peter Parker's most murderous enemies.
** ''Spider-Man's Tangled Web'''s first three issues feature one-shot villain [[SmugSnake Carl]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare King]], a.k.a. {{The|Swarm}} [[TheWormThatWalks Thousand]]. [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp A particularly vicious childhood tormentor of Peter Parker]] who happened to be at the demonstration where Pete was bitten by a certain radioactive spider, he quickly put two-and-two together and decided to get spider-powers of his own by eating said spider. Instead, he was transformed into [[HiveMind a colony of a thousand oversized spiders]] [[OrificeInvasion with the ability to crawl into a human body]], [[BodyHorror eat the host's organs, musculature, and bones from the inside out]], [[ParanoiaFuel and wear their skin like a suit, mimicking both the victim's mannerisms and voice]]. The first person Carl "possessed" in this fashion ''was his own mother''; the second, who he killed intentionally [[ForTheEvulz and for no reason]], was his father, [[FridgeHorror and the imagery implies that he killed his dad after having sex with him]]. Since then, he has come to the conclusion that ''he'' should have been Spider-Man rather than puny Parker, [[ImAHumanitarian and has gone through around a dozen bodies every year, several of which were children]], in order to become strong enough to overpower Spidey and steal both his body and his life.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'': [[LegacyCharacter Vulture 2099]] is one of the vilest of villains Spidey had to face in the DarkerAndEdgier [[CyberPunk 2099 era]]. After [[VillainousRescue saving]] Spider-Man from members of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Public Eye]], Vulture offers Spider-Man membership in his gang, the Freakers. However Spider-Man soon discovers that the Vulture is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]. Vulture killed the Public Eye officers chasing Spider-Man and cooked them up for dinner. Disgusted, Spider-Man refuses to join the Vulture's gang and Vulture attacks him. While Spider-Man is fighting Vulture, Spider-Man discovers Vulture's [[CannibalLarder meat locker]], containing several corpses on meat hooks that Vulture intended to eat later. After his initial defeat Vulture later returned and convinced a group of Thorites (a group that worships Thor) to have a Spiderite (a group that worships Spider-Man) [[ManOnFire burned alive]]. In his last appearance, Vulture discovers that Spider-Man is Miguel O'Hara and attempts to murder one of his friends. After Spider-Man foils Vulture, he sets off several bombs at the [[MegaCorp Alchemax]] building (Miguel is a high-level employee at Alchemax), intending to destroy it and not caring how many civilians are in the building.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'':
*** [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Otto Octavius]], a.k.a. [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Octopus]], stands in stark contrast to his occasionally noble 616 counterpart. Born a cripple, Octavius used his genius to create mechanical limbs to compensate. Also a follower and worshiper of the Nazi philosophy, Octavius kidnaps innocent black men, knowing the police won't devote much effort to their disappearances, and practices horrific experiments on them, that kill them or leave them drooling vegetables. He displays no remorse for this whatsoever, viewing them as less than human. He isn't above straight murder when it suits his purposes, either.
*** The Crime Master is the inheritor of "[[ComicBook/NormanOsborn The Goblin]]" and even more evil. The new up and coming mobster is introduced directing his [[TheDragon enforcer]], the Sandman, to [[YourHeadAsplode squeeze a man's head until it explodes]], with ruthless extortion and murder being part of his normal functions. What sets him apart from other mobsters is when he, with his Nazi benefactors, begins having black citizens kidnapped and given to [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Otto Octavius]] for his torturous experiments. When he realizes the authorities are on to them, the Crime Master opts to try to murder the civilians, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain calling them “livestock,”]] by [[ManOnFire forcing them into a furnace]]. Also the boyfriend of Felicia Hardy, when he discovers her relationship with Spider-Man, he viciously tortures her and scars her face hideously with a shard of glass.

** ComicBook/NormanOsborn, one of Spidey's [[ArchEnemy Arch-Enemies]] (along with ComicBook/DoctorOctopus and ComicBook/{{Venom}}), graduated to Complete Monsterdom following his resurrection in TheNineties. Once a TragicVillain who suffered from a SplitPersonality that forced him to become the Green Goblin, Norman was apparently slain after he threw Spider-Man's girlfriend, [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy]] [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied off a bridge]], in what many fans saw as his MoralEventHorizon. Brought BackFromTheDead in the nineties, Norman revealed that he had been the mastermind behind ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', buried Aunt May alive and killed Peter's clone, Ben Reilly, while gloating that he could now remember all the crimes he'd committed as the Goblin and was proud of them. Since then, he has gone on to be a major player in the Marvelverse, masterminding the creation of the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Dark Avengers]]. During this time period, he kept the Sentry in line via drug addiction (then had his wife killed), planned to have the caputred Songbird decapitated (so that he could mount her head on the wall and masturbate to it), and deliberately triggered a war with Asgard by having the U-Foes attack Agardian warrior [[BoisterousBruiser Volstaag]] in a football stadium, resulting in thousands of casualties. During this time, he also seduced and impregnated his son Harry's girlfriend, then plotted to have [[OffingTheOffspring Harry killed]], because he thought Harry's tragic death would earn him public sympathy. These, by the way, are all actions committed by the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Norman Osborn]] persona; the Green Goblin persona remains an AxeCrazy MadBomber who regularly endangers/kills hundreds of civillians during his battles with Spider-Man, and, in commemoration of Gwen Stacy's death, tried to recreate the tragedy with Mary-Jane Watson, Peter's then LoveInterest, as the victim. As Norman Osborn he's a cold-blooded, [[TheChessmaster calculating]] [[TheSociopath psychopath]] who treats everyone as a means to an end. As the Green Goblin he's a violent lunatic who threatens every person in the vicinity.
** ''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}'''s pre-''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'' Cletus Kasady was a [[AxCrazy psychotic]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], prolific SerialKiller even before he bonded with a bloodthirsty alien symbiote and took the name of [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]]; as a child, he killed his grandmother and pet dog, tortured his mother, killed the headmaster of his orphanage with a lead pipe, and then burned the orphanage down, and pushed a girl he had a crush on in front of a bus because she rejected him. As Carnage he became one of the worst enemies of Venom and Spider-Man both with his psychotic killing sprees through New York where he murdered anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path and if not for Venom and Spider-Man he would have killed thousands more. During the ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' event, Carnage created a "family" of fellow super villains, using their powers to drive New York into homicidal insanity and to capture his "father" Venom, in whose captivity Carnage subjected to horrible torture. Not even his own family was safe from Carnage's psychosis and he brutalized his "wife" Shriek for ignoring his instructions before murdering their "son" Doppleganger when he tried defending her. Carnage has a habit of returning from death, always nastier than before, and the intense evil of Cassidy and the Symbiote together results in one of Peter Parker's most murderous enemies
** Oneshot villain [[SmugSnake Carl]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare King]], a.k.a. {{The|Swarm}} [[TheWormThatWalks Thousand]], definitely fits the bill. [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp A particularly vicious childhood tormentor of Peter Parker]] who happened to be at the demonstration where Pete was bitten by a certain radioactive spider, he quickly put two-and-two together and decided to get spider-powers of his own by eating said spider. Instead, he was transformed into [[HiveMind a colony of a thousand oversized spiders]] [[OrificeInvasion with the ability to crawl into a human body]], [[BodyHorror eat the host's organs, musculature, and bones from the inside out]], [[ParanoiaFuel and wear their skin like a suit, mimicking both the victim's mannerisms and voice]]. The first person Carl "possessed" in this fashion ''was his own mother''; the second, who he killed intentionally [[ForTheEvulz and for no reason]], was his father, [[FridgeHorror and the imagery implies that he killed his dad after having sex with him]]. Since then, he has come to the conclusion that ''he'' should have been Spider-Man rather than puny Parker, [[ImAHumanitarian and has gone through around a dozen bodies every year, several of which were children]], in order to become strong enough to overpower Spidey and steal both his body and his life.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'': [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Otto Octavius]], a.k.a. [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Octopus]], stands in stark contrast to his occasionally noble 616 counterpart. Born a cripple, Octavius used his genius to create mechanical limbs to compensate. Also a follower and worshiper of the Nazi philosophy, Octavius kidnaps innocent black men, knowing the police won't devote much effort to their disappearances, and practices horrific experiments on them, that kill them or leave them drooling vegetables. He displays no remorse for this whatsoever, viewing them as less than human. He isn't above straight murder when it suits his purposes, either.
** The Crime Master, also from ''Noir'', is the inheritor of “[[ComicBook/NormanOsborn The Goblin]]” and even more evil. The new up and coming mobster is introduced directing his [[TheDragon enforcer]], the Sandman, to [[YourHeadAsplode squeeze a man's head until it explodes]], with ruthless extortion and murder being part of his normal functions. What sets him apart from other mobsters is when he, with his Nazi benefactors, begins having black citizens kidnapped and given to [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Otto Octavius]] for his torturous experiments. When he realizes the authorities are on to them, the Crime Master opts to try to murder the civilians, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain calling them “livestock,”]] by [[ManOnFire forcing them into a furnace]]. Also the boyfriend of Felicia Hardy, when he discovers her relationship with Spider-Man, he viciously tortures her and scars her face hideously with a shard of glass.

** The Maestro is a [[FutureMeScaresMe future version]] of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. [[BadFuture 90 years in the future]] after [[AfterTheEnd the world is devastated by nuclear war]], the Hulk has changed his name to the Maestro and builds a city state called Dystopia out of the wreckage of New Year City. In Dystopia, the Maestro rules as a [[EvilOverlord dictator]], taking whatever he wants from his subjects and hoarding almost all the food and resources for himself. When Maestro sees a woman he fancies, he forces her to become his [[SexSlave slave]]. The outside of his palace is littered with corpses of those who have defied or displeased the Maestro. The Maestro has his SecretPolice patrol the streets, killing anyone who would oppose him. After the Maestro's forces have captured one of Rick Jones' rebels, the Maestro [[MindRape subjects the rebel to a machine which forcibly scans a person's mind, which puts him in a vegetative state]]. Afterwards, Maestro kills him with his own hands, because the rebel had insulted him earlier. When Rick Jones uses Dr. Doom's [[TimeMachine time machine]] to bring the Hulk to the future to defeat the Maestro, the Maestro takes one of his slave girls hostage to force Hulk to surrender to him. He then proceeds to paralyze the Hulk by [[NeckSnap breaking his neck]] and forces one of his slave girls to [[RapeByProxy perform sexual acts on him]] without the Hulk's permission, [[ItAmusedMe all apparently for his own sick amusement]]. The Maestro even murders an elderly Rick Jones, the man who was once his best friend, for opposing him. The Maestro also tells the Hulk he prefers his harem of slaves to his former wife Betty Ross, because his slaves don't talk back to him or have opinions of their own. The Maestro is devoid of anything that made the Hulk sympathetic and is considered by the Hulk to be one of the most detestable foes he ever had to contend with.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' : With ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' being DarkerAndEdgier, and the BlackAndGrayMorality of Frank Castle being an AntiHero who's willing to kill, to be a CompleteMonster, one must really stand out. And these foes, all from the even more DarkerAndEdgier MAX imprint, definitely fit the bill.
** Nicholas "Nicky" Cavella is no ordinary [[TheMafia Mafioso]]. Renowned as a gangster whose crew has killed more people than Saddam Hussein, Nicky started his career in murder when he was [[EnfanteTerrible just a little boy]] by [[SelfMadeOrphan executing his parents]] and 12 year old sister, conspiring with his aunt to gain control of the family. When getting a start in the family, Nicky dealt with a particularly obstinate Chinese gangster by murdering the man's elder sons after having fed the man [[IAteWhat his junior high-aged boy after butchering and cooking him]]. Upon his return to New York following Frank Castle's rampage amongst the Cesare family, Nicky slaughters multiple people, betraying his own allies and throwing them to Frank to cover his own escape while also having his right hand psychopath Pittsy torture and castrate a CIA agent for information. When he returns later, Nicky enrages Frank further by digging up the remains of his family and filming himself pissing on them. When his schemes meet a predictable end, Nicky attempts to escape by using a little boy as a hostage with a gun to his head. A sniveling coward under a tough guy exterior, Cavella was nevertheless the worst of the gangsters Frank had to face.
** [[DepravedBisexual William Rawlins]] (who had an affair with, and worked with, Cavella) was a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], {{greed}}y {{CIA}} operative who made his living as a leech in war zones. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Betraying any ally]] for a quick buck, Rawlins once even threw his wife overboard to the Taliban rather than give up a shipment of heroin, knowing full well she'd be tortured and raped. Going deep undercover in Saudi Arabia, Rawlins created a terrorist cell and used them to hijack a civilian airliner for a suicide attack on Moscow to create the illusion of a terrorist attack. When he later heads to Afghanistan on business, he has no compunction committing more betrayals and trying to see his vengeful ex-wife dead with Frank Castle. Betraying his benefactor, Rawlins [[SlashedThroat slits the man's loyal second in command's throat]] and promises to [[WouldHurtAChild find the man's young son and rape him to death]] in Moscow. Described as a parasite who lives only to make the world a hellish place he could profit from, Rawlins thought nothing of murder, betrayal or any other crime as long as he could earn more from it.
** Tiberiu Bulat, his son Cristu Bulat, and their associate Vera are the villains of ''The Slavers'' storyline. Tiberiu and Cristu were part of an Eastern European militia responsible for ethnic cleansing, slaughtering entire villages until Cristu got the idea to take young women captive. They forced them into sexual slavery and went to the United States to export the business. Tiberiu is a trigger-happy madman who'll kill anyone at the slightest provocation while Cristu and Vera are calculating business types who routinely have the girls raped, with Vera coming up with the strategy of "rape them to break them."
** [[ScaryBlackMan Barracuda]], one of Frank Castle's most resilient and persistent enemies, is always ready with [[FauxAffablyEvil a laugh or a joke]] to conceal the black-hearted, soulless monster he truly is. Showing his nasty side by trying to feed Castle and a gangster who failed to pay him on time to a great white shark, 'Cuda later betrayed a man who had worked with him for years simply because he got a better offer. After being defeated by Frank once, Barracuda hunted down an ally of Frank's and murdered him and the man's wife for information before [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping Frank's infant daughter]] to torture her to death in front of Frank. In ''ComicBook/FuryMyWarGoneBy'', Barracuda was revealed as even worse: a [[SociopathicSoldier former Green Beret]] in Nicaragua, Barracuda executed members of the government by {{chainsaw|Good}} after trying to psychologically torture them; he also assisted in the atrocities of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Nicaragua}} Contras]] for extra cash. To prove a point of how little the US uniform meant to him, he kicked a decapitated child at Nick Fury. Defined by [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]], cruelty and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder his willingness to betray anyone]] for [[{{Greed}} a buck]], not even the “Barracuda charm” can disguise what a savage he truly is.
** [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]] begins as a mob boss's bodyguard with a scheme to manipulate the mob and The Punisher to make himself the Kingpin of New York. Fisk is steadily revealed as a callous monster who paralyzed his abusive father and let rats eat his face. After he was [[PrisonRape raped in prison]], he tracked down the perpetrator's innocent wife, [[DisproportionateRetribution allowing the filthiest bums and crackheads he could find to rape her]] before he murdered her, and sent the photos to her husband. When Fisk's schemes unravel, his innocent child is held at knifepoint by Fisk's former boss. Fisk coldly allows his son's throat to be slit and icily informs his wife they can simply have another, admitting he never truly loved his son. As the Kingpin, Fisk is brutal, killing lieutenants and foes alike, and exiling his grieving wife. In his final battle with Castle, Fisk reveals himself as a [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered egomaniac who believes he owns the city and has the right to do what he wishes with it]].
** [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]] is presented as a truly vile killer in the MAX series. Initially [[ProfessionalKiller an assassin]] who loves his job perhaps a little too much, Bullseye becomes obsessed with getting inside Frank Castle's head. To this end, he begins targeting happy families, murdering the husband, raping the wife and taking her and the kids out on a 'picnic' where he has his goons gun them all down to recreate the scene when Castle lost his family. When he finally confronts and battles Castle, Bullseye shows nothing but unmitigated bliss at being the one criminal who can truly mentally rattle him.

* ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'': Belaric Marcosa was a shockingly dark villain for even a 70s [[TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] Marvel horror series. In life, Marcosa was [[AristocratsAreEvil an evil aristocrat]] who lured victims to his manor to use dark sorcery to drive them into 'lewd depravity' before he sucked their lives and souls out before having them murder one another for his amusement. He then kept their souls trapped in his manor. After his death, Marcosa had more victims lured to the manor so he could torture them as well, playing dark mind games and driving his victims to distrust and murder one another before revealing himself and attempting to add their souls to his collection.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': After seeing his father shoot himself during a game of RussianRoulette, Obadiah Stane reached two conclusions: that life was a game you had to win at, no matter the cost, and that his father was a weakling who left too much to chance. During a childhood chess match, when paired against a boy who was his equal or better, Stane slit the boy's pet dog's throat to make sure his mind wasn't on the game. Becoming a CorruptCorporateExecutive, Staned defeated Tony Stark in a corporate buyout, and engineered his psychological breakdown, reducing Tony to living on the streets as a homeless, alcoholic vagrant. When Tony returned as Iron Man, Stane wasted no time in kidnapping his friends and loved ones, going so far as to try and brainwash one of Tony's former girlfriends into becoming his lover, not out of interest, but to drive in the fact that he had won; he then set off a bomb at the Circuit Dome to kill Tony with no compunction about collateral damage. When Tony arrived to confront him, Stane revealed he'd set up a chamber with Tony's loved ones subject to receiving electric shocks should he take a step to free them, intending to force Tony to starve to death in the room. When Tony beat Stane's game, Stane played his last trump card: Tony would surrender or Stane would use his own suit to [[[[WouldHurtAChild crush a baby's skull]]. Once beaten, Stane opted to hurt Tony and deny him victory the only way he could: [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]].

** ''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}'''s Cletus Kasady was a [[AxCrazy psychotic]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], prolific SerialKiller even before he bonded with a bloodthirsty alien symbiote and took the name of [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]]; as a child, he killed his grandmother and pet dog, tortured his mother, killed the headmaster of his orphanage with a lead pipe, and then burned the orphanage down, and pushed a girl he had a crush on in front of a bus because she rejected him. As Carnage he became one of the worst enemies of Venom and Spider-Man both with his psychotic killing sprees through New York where he murdered anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path and if not for Venom and Spider-Man he would have killed thousands more. During the ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' event, Carnage created a "family" of fellow super villains, using their powers to drive New York into homicidal insanity and to capture his "father" Venom, in whose captivity Carnage subjected to horrible torture. Not even his own family was safe from Carnage's psychosis and he brutalized his "wife" Shriek for ignoring his instructions before murdering their "son" Doppleganger when he tried defending her. Carnage has a habit of returning from death, always nastier than before, and the intense evil of Cassidy and the Symbiote together results in one of Peter Parker's most murderous enemies

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': With this work being DarkerAndEdgier, and the BlackAndGrayMorality of Frank Castle being an AntiHero who's willing to kill, to be a CompleteMonster, one must really stand out. And these foes, all from the even more DarkerAndEdgier [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX MAX imprint]], definitely fit the bill.

* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'': [[ArchEnemy Cobweb]] is a demon that invades the minds of humans and drives them insane with his lies, all while plotting to invade and enslave the Earth, framing Sleepwalker in the process. Cobweb turned people against Sleepwalker, while corrupting their minds, all the while using invading forces to wreak havoc and devour innocents' minds. Cobweb planned to have Sleepwalker's host, Rick sheridan cross the DespairEventHorizon and betray Sleepwalker, which would allow Cobweb to turn Rick into a portal to Earth and wreak destruction there. Since the denizens of the Mindscape don't need to devour people's minds to survive, Cobweb stands out as a monster amongst his own species.

** The Maestro is a [[FutureMeScaresMe future version]] of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. [[BadFuture 90 years in the future]] after [[AfterTheEnd the world is devastated by nuclear war]], the Hulk has changed his name to the Maestro and builds a city state called Dystopia out of the wreckage of New Year City. In Dystopia, the Maestro rules as a [[EvilOverlord dictator]], taking whatever he wants from his subjects and hoarding almost all the food and resources for himself. When Maestro sees a woman he fancies, he forces her to become his [[SexSlave slave]]. The outside of his palace is littered with corpses of those who have defied or displeased the Maestro. The Maestro has his SecretPolice patrol the streets, killing anyone who would oppose him. After the Maestro's forces have captured one of Rick Jones' rebels, the Maestro [[MindRape subjects the rebel to a machine which forcibly scans a person's mind, which puts him in a vegetative state. Afterwards, Maestro kills him with his own hands, because the rebel had insulted him earlier. When Rick Jones uses Dr. Doom's [[Main/TimeMachine time machine]] to bring the Hulk to the future to defeat the Maestro, the Maestro takes one of his slave girls hostage to force Hulk to surrender to him. He then proceeds to paralyze the Hulk by [[NeckSnap breaking his neck]] and forces one of his slave girls to [[RapeByProxy perform sexual acts on him]] without the Hulk's permission, [[ItAmusedMe all apparently for his own sick amusement]]. The Maestro even murders an elderly Rick Jones, the man who was once his best friend, for opposing him. The Maestro also tells the Hulk he prefers his harem of slaves to his former wife Betty Ross, because his slaves don't talk back to him or have opinions of their own. The Maestro is devoid of anything that made the Hulk sympathetic and is considered by the Hulk to be one of the most detestable foes he ever had to contend with.
** ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' gives us Angmo-Asan, [[TheRedBaron the Red King]]. When the Hulk first challenged him, he first casually kills of the rest of a gladiatorial bout's survivors (save for Miek); and, after Hulk gains the upper hand, he [[JustYouAndMeAndMyGuards sends his guards on him]] and [[DirtyCoward shoots him in the back]]. Later, we see him firsthand casually ordering the death of people who say something against his high tributes and dismissing the complains of his peasants, because he doesn't see them as anything more than animals. During the second Arena Fight of Hulk and his Warbound, he decides to [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem screw the rules]] and tries to [[KillEmAll nuke them]] (together with the whole audience), which only fails because Hulk contains the blast. He even attempts to make them kill one of their Warbound-members via {{Mind Rape}}. After the heroes confront him with his crimes, he doesn't even care one bit, rolls his eyes and smugly proclaims: "Yes. I killed them. As is my Right. As is my Duty. As is [[ForTheEvulz my Pleasure]]." And when he is finally defeated, he [[TakingYouWithMe attempts to destroy the whole planet in response]]. The only way to make him remotely good was shown later when they made him into a cyborg and [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood programmed into behaving]]. Plus, Caeira's flashback of him as a child. In the comic, he saves her life but immediately enslaves her. In the animated film, [[IOweYouMyLife she offers her loyalty willingly]] but the kid Red King turns out to have been still just as villainous when he reveals he ordered the Spike attack on Caiera's village specifically so he could capture her.

** ComicBook/NormanOsborn, one of Spidey's [[ArchEnemy Arch-Enemies]] (along with ComicBook/DoctorOctopus and ComicBook/{{Venom}}), graduated to Complete Monsterdom following his resurrection in TheNineties. Once a TragicVillain who suffered from a SplitPersonality that forced him to become the Green Goblin, Norman was apparently slain after he threw Spider-Man's girlfriend, [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy]] [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied off a bridge]], in what many fans saw as his MoralEventHorizon. Brought BackFromTheDead in the nineties, Norman revealed that he had been the mastermind behind ComicBook/TheCloneSaga, buried Aunt May alive and killed Peter's clone, Ben Reilly, while gloating that he could now remember all the crimes he'd committed as the Goblin and was proud of them. Since then, he has gone on to be a major player in the Marvelverse, masterminding the creation of the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Dark Avengers]]. During this time period, he kept the Sentry in line via drug addiction (then had his wife killed), planned to have the caputred Songbird decapitated (so that he could mount her head on the wall and masturbate to it), and deliberately triggered a war with Asgard by having the U-Foes attack Agardian warrior [[BoisterousBruiser Volstaag]] in a football stadium, resulting in thousands of casualties. During this time, he also seduced and impregnated his son Harry's girlfriend, then plotted to have [[OffingTheOffspring Harry killed]], because he thought Harry's tragic death would earn him public sympathy. These, by the way, are all actions committed by the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Norman Osborn]] persona; the Green Goblin persona remains an AxeCrazy MadBomber who regularly endangers/kills hundreds of civillians during his battles with Spider-Man, and, in commemoration of Gwen Stacy's death, tried to recreate the tragedy with Mary-Jane Watson, Peter's then LoveInterest, as the victim. As Norman Osborn he's a cold-blooded, [[TheChessmaster calculating]] [[TheSociopath psychopath]] who treats everyone as a means to an end. As the Green Goblin he's a violent lunatic who threatens every person in the vicinity.

** [[TheSociopath Cletus Kasady]] was a [[AxCrazy psychotic]], prolific SerialKiller even before he bonded with a bloodthirsty alien symbiote and took the name of [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]]; as a child, he killed his grandmother and pet dog, tortured his mother, killed the headmaster of his orphanage with a lead pipe, and then burned the orphanage down, and pushed a girl he had a crush on in front of a bus because she rejected him. As Carnage he became one of the worst enemies of Venom and Spider-Man both with his psychotic killing sprees through New York where he murdered anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path and if not for Venom and Spider-Man he would have killed thousands more. During the ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' event, Carnage created a "family" of fellow super villains, using their powers to drive New York into homicidal insanity and to capture his "father" Venom, in whose captivity Carnage subjected to horrible torture. Not even his own family was safe from Carnage's psychosis and he brutalized his "wife" Shriek for ignoring his instructions before murdering their "son" Doppleganger when he tried defending her. Carnage has a habit of returning from death, always nastier than before, and the intense evil of Cassidy and the Symbiote together results in one of Peter Parker's most murderous enemies

** Cap’s ArchEnemy is ComicBook/RedSkull. [[BigBad Johann Schmidt]] from the main continuity is a BastardUnderstudy to AdolfHitler himself. Once a bitter, psychotic street kid, this eventual DiabolicalMastermind began as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare petty criminal]] with a violent streak. After having his romantic advances rejected by a Jewish girl who'd been nice to him otherwise, Schmidt flew into a rage, killed her, and finding he liked murder, set out to commit it again. Convincing a friend to try and assassinate Hitler, Schmidt stepped in and saved Der Fuhrer's life. He then donned a Skull-shaped mask and took on the role of a grateful Hitler's [[TheSpymaster spymaster]]. Trapped in suspended animation by Cap, Schmidt awakened in the modern era and resumed his old ways. Firmly convinced that DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and that everyone needs somebody to [[TheBully bully]], Schmidt has committed every crime in the proverbial book, from the [[EvilIsPetty petty]] to the grandiose. He made several attempts at gaining WorldDomination through the use of the Cosmic Cube (killing thousands of people every time), attempted to transplant Adolf Hitler's brain into Captain America's body, tried to [[GrandTheftMe bodyjack Cap himself on several occasions]], and fought ComicBook/TheKingpin for control of the New York drug trade. He has manipulated the Scarlet Witch as part of a plan to [[FinalSolution exterminate the world's mutant population]], used his [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Dust of Death]] to gruesomely kill any subordinate who [[YouHaveFailedMe fails him]] or [[BadBoss looks at him funny]], and has been the mover and shaker behind countless Neo-Nazi movements, fascist governments, and terrorist cells, most notably ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} and AIM. In a BadFuture he became GodEmperor and spent his time triggering natural disasters, then showing up to inform people that he would ''not'' be saving them. When his daughter, Sin, was born, Schmidt planned to kill her for the crime of being a girl. While in a relationship with Mother Night, he [[DomesticAbuser brutalised her constantly]]. With an end goal of reducing society to its most primitive, [[SocialDarwinist dog-eat-dog levels]], Schmidt is universally despised in both the superhero and [[EvenEvilHasStandards supervillain]] communities.

** [[ComicBook/TheUltimates The Ultimate Red Skull]] is [[UpToEleven even WORSE]]. Ultimate Skull is the son of Captain America, and therefore has a version of his powers. He's a killing machine, although that doesn't sum up the [[ForTheEvulz sick delight]] he takes in what he does. His list of atrocities includes: killing two hundred people, followed by skinning his own face at the age of seventeen, training terrorists and working with numerous historical monsters, including infamous mass-murderer and cannibal Idi Amin, [[WhoShotJFK shooting Kennedy]], just to send a message, and using the Cosmic Cube to force the members of A.I.M. to eat each other. And then there's the incident in the page image: he gives a woman (later [[ComicBook/TheWasp the Red Wasp]]) a SadisticChoice: kill her husband with a pair of scissors or he'd kill her baby. She did it. The ComicBook/RedSkull then [[WouldHurtAChild chucked the baby]] [[DestinationDefenestration out a window]] and let his three thugs gang-rape her.

** [[ComicBook/TheUltimates The Ultimate Red Skull]] is [[UpToEleven even WORSE]], as demonstrated in the image above. Ultimate Skull is the son of Captain America, and therefore has a version of his powers. He's a killing machine, although that doesn't sum up the [[ForTheEvulz sick delight]] he takes in what he does. His list of atrocities includes: killing two hundred people, followed by skinning his own face at the age of seventeen, training terrorists and working with numerous historical monsters, including infamous mass-murderer and cannibal Idi Amin, [[WhoShotJFK shooting Kennedy]], just to send a message, and using the Cosmic Cube to force the members of A.I.M. to eat each other. And then there's the incident in the page image: he gives a woman (later [[ComicBook/TheWasp the Red Wasp]]) a SadisticChoice: kill her husband with a pair of scissors or he'd kill her baby. She did it. The ComicBook/RedSkull then [[WouldHurtAChild chucked the baby]] [[DestinationDefenestration out a window]] and let his three thugs gang-rape her.

** Nicky Cavella is no ordinary mafioso, but he murdered his mother, father and 12 year old sister as a child and when he became a full blown Mafia soldier, chopped up and fed a Triad boss' son to him, killed a cop he'd taken hostage, and started the "Up Is Down, Black Is White" arc by digging up and urinating on the skeletons of the Punisher's wife and children, then deliberately sent the video to the nightly news so that Castle would see it, with Cavella himself clearly identified as the culprit. While it succeeded as intended in throwing off the Punisher's self-preservation instinct, former associate Rawlins pointed out that there was no way that ''mere'' gangsters could actually take advantage of this. He met his end following a botched attempt to finish the job himself after losing Teresa (sister of the henchman Pittsy from the first arc), Rawlins, and his entire gang to the Punisher -- who'd killed so many of Nicky's men that he couldn't threaten those who wanted out -- and O'Brien.
** Rawlins dumped a crewman (killed) and his wife O'Brien overboard to be raped by the Taliban so that his helicopter would be able to stay airborne with him and the drug shipment, activates a terrorist group to hijack an airliner and fly it at the Kremlin ''as a diversion'' for another operation, and when he murders Zakharov's right-hand man (who seemed, along with Zakharov, to recognize the sniveling Jerkass underneath the SmugSnake exterior), he taunts the dying bodyguard by vowing to rape his son to death.

** [[ComicBook/TheUltimates The Ultimate Red Skull]] (pictured above) is [[UpToEleven even WORSE]], as demonstrated in the image above. Ultimate Skull is the son of Captain America, and therefore has a version of his powers. He's a killing machine, although that doesn't sum up the [[ForTheEvulz sick delight]] he takes in what he does. His list of atrocities includes: killing two hundred people, followed by skinning his own face at the age of seventeen, training terrorists and working with numerous historical monsters, including infamous mass-murderer and cannibal Idi Amin, [[WhoShotJFK shooting Kennedy]], just to send a message, and using the Cosmic Cube to force the members of A.I.M. to eat each other. And then there's the incident in the page image: he gives a woman (later [[ComicBook/TheWasp the Red Wasp]]) a SadisticChoice: kill her husband with a pair of scissors or he'd kill her baby. She did it. The ComicBook/RedSkull then [[WouldHurtAChild chucked the baby]] [[DestinationDefenestration out a window]] and let his three thugs gang-rape her.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'': [[LegacyCharacter Vulture 2099]] is one of the vilest of villains Spidey had to face in the DarkerAndEdgier [[CyberPunk 2099 era]]. After [[VillainousRescue saving]] Spider-Man from members of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Public Eye]], Vulture offers Spider-Man membership in his gang, the Freakers. However Spider-Man soon discovers that the Vulture is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]. Vulture killed the Public Eye officers chasing Spider-Man and cooked them up for dinner. Disgusted, Spider-Man refuses to join the Vulture's gang and Vulture attacks him. While Spider-Man is fighting Vulture, Spider-Man discovers Vulture's [[CannibalLarder meat locker]], containing several corpses on meat hooks that Vulture intended to eat later. After his initial defeat Vulture later returned and convinced a group of Thorites (a group that worships Thor) to have a Spiderite (a group that worships Spider-Man) [[ManOnFire burned alive]]. In his last appearance, Vulture discovers that Spider-Man is Miguel O'Hara and attempts to murder one of his friends. After Spider-Man foils Vulture, he sets off several bombs at the [[MegaCorp Alchemax]] building (Miguel is a high-level employee at Alchemax), intending to destroy it and not caring how many civilians are in the building.