Monster / Web Serial Novels

"More troubling to us must be the fact that this regime chose to swat an internal problem with a weapon of mass destruction in a way that we would surely know what had been done. As is the case with the Chinese population, we are meant to take away from this a sense of abject horror and fear: an understanding that this regime is capable of anything. And while the Chinese people, locked within the fortress created by thirty years of Communist rule, must grovel in fear to this insanity, we are now no less immune. We may not live under this Lesser Mao, but we could as surely be the victims of his madness should the whim strike. The man has made himself the master terrorist of the Earth through this single act."

— Richard Nixon on Mao Yang-jin, better known as the Lesser Mao, Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72

Much like their traditionally published counterparts, various forms of web literature have had many especially bad villains.

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The following have their own pages

• The Arkn Mythos
• BIONICLE
• Digimon
• The Heaven Cycle
• League of Legends
• The Neverkind Saga (The Kindness of Devils & The Never Mythos)
• Ninjago
• Parahumans (Worm & Ward)
• SCP Foundation
• The Slender Man Mythos

Other examples

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• 1999: Creepypasta: Mr. Bear, the owner of Caledon Local 21, was a Serial Killer who targeted children. He created several shows geared towards children, and he would frequently invite his viewers to become guest stars on the show. He would then hold the children who came to his house hostage, and filmed himself interacting with them, occasionally abusing them if they acted against his rules. After acquiring enough victims, Mr. Bear eventually drugged sixteen children before burning all of them alive and fleeing from the police, never to be seen again.
• 3 Terrifying Tales:
  • Heinrich Strauss, debuting in 73 Years Later, when sent by Adolf Hitler to find the key to immortality, occupied a village in Norway, where he released captured Jewish families out in a field to be used as target practice; forced Harold to watch as his dogs killed his soldiers; and shot Harold in front of his boyfriend Alfred. Slipping into a coma, he killed the witch Alitha and decided to become immortal. In present day, he made himself look like Harold and killed Alfred himself, visiting his funeral just to spit on his grave. Desiring to kill Alfred's grandson Michael, he has Danielle lure them to his hideout, where he kills her and Michael's boyfriend Lucas. Resurrected in Electrocution, Heinrich kills the scientists who brought him back to life and escapes with Vincent North. Establishing an underground concentration camp, Heinrich has Vincent torture a captured Michael for years while he gleefully executes captured survivors of all ages. Once Natalie Walker's men storm his base, Heinrich murders Vincent for failing him, leaves his men to die, and orders every one of his injured soldiers killed.
  • 73 Years Later: Danielle Drivas is the daughter of the town mayor, whose activist and pro-LGBT stance hides her as a violent rapist. Responsible for the rapes of 12 teenage girls, which she filmed and has tapes of, Danielle uses her connections and good appearance to paint the victims as liars and bigoted, leading to them being arrested and their lives being ruined, with one particular girl committing suicide over her actions. Completely unwilling to let her actions be found out, she works with Heinrich and lures Luke and Michael to be sacrificed by Heinrich.
  • Vincent North, debuting in Cold Winter Nights, is a Serial Killer who murders women of all ages by freezing them to death overnight, taking photos of their corpses and selling them on the Dark Web. As a child, he let his injured mother die in the freezing cold, disappointed when her screams and suffering proved too quick. Resurrected alongside Heinrich in Electrocution, Vincent killed the scientists there and escaped with Heinrich. Working with Heinrich in his underground concentration camp as his Torture Technician, Vincent tortures Michael for three years, while also taking random women from the camp and freezing them to death, storing the frozen corpses in his room as trophies.
  • Electrocution: Natalie Walker is a selfish businesswoman who seeks to become the Earth's goddess. Finding a staff that resulted in a huge meteorite crashing into the Empire State Building, Natalie cared nothing for the thousands of deaths, and killed her girlfriend for witnessing the event. Cutting the breaks in her parents' car, she took over her father's company and began researching the meteorite's substances on animals. Using the serum on Heinrich and Vincent, she left her scientists to die by their hands, then decided to have people kidnapped, killed, and experimented on once she found that she could control the resurrected mutants. Unleashing these mutants onto New York, she establishes an underground base where its citizens view her as a goddess and the women are kept as sex slaves. Sending Maggie to kill Heinrich, she turns her men into mutants against her wishes, kills Michael, and tries to use Maggie and her soldiers as a way to spread her virus across the world.
• Adventures of Paku the Dragon (link): Cithor is a horrid dragon responsible for the near extinction of several dragon species, including Paku's. However, he has redeeming features and eventually pulls a Heel–Face Turn. The following duo however completely lack any of those:
  • A Dragon's Hunt: Vossler the Slaughter is a monstrous dragon hunter and the trilogy's ultimate example of human evil. Vossler only joined Cithor to indulge in his own sadism and kill as many dragons as he could. Vossler is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of dragons, which he would often do in massacres of villages. Vossler also has a habit of smashing dragon eggs and killing the baby dragons inside, enjoying watching their parents suffer. After Cithior is imprisoned, Vossler ventures out on his own, first murdering the defenseless Antilles and enjoying it as he forces Paku and Ziva to watch, then attempting to have Paku and Ziva burned alive slowly. When his base is about to be attacked, Vossler only sees it as a chance to kill more and more dragons, and during the fight he mercilessly kills and plans to eat three baby dragons.
  • Age of the Dragon: Balvinath the Demon King is the Greater-Scope Villain of the trilogy, and was originally the Goblin King. Balvinath had a strong hatred of dragons and wanted to wipe them all out, along with anyone who opposed this idea. To accomplish this, Balvinath tapped into dark magic, and his soul ended up consumed by hell, turning him into the Demon King. Balvinath launched a massive attack resulting in thousands to millions of deaths until he was sealed in hell. Throughout the series, Balvinath would manipulate Cithor to nearly wipe out multiple species of dragons to weaken the seal around Balvinath's prison. Balvinath is awakened and quickly has his army conquer the Northlands, decimating it and killing hundreds of thousands before planning to conquer the Southlands. Balvinath has Guthag lead an attack on the Southlands, killing thousands of knights and innocent civilians in the process. Balvinath eventually murders Guthag as a punishment for his failure and takes the charge, planning to annihilate everything in his path until he can rule the world.
• Alessa's Fantasies:
  • Alessa:
    • Nicholas, later revealed to be Old Scratch himself, is a sadistic Fallen Angel. Cast out of Heaven after attempting to slaughter humanity, Nicholas joined forces with Alexander Brimstone and conspired with him to poison the young Princess Mary. When that plan failed, and Mary survived, Nicholas turned Alexander's men into demonic creatures and lead an assault against her kingdom, killing everyone there and leaving her as the Sole Survivor and with amnesia. After tossing her into the ocean, Nicholas attacks the kingdom Mary washes up on, destroying the watchtowers that lined the coast and killing all the men inside. Striking a deal with Mary, now Alessa, Nicholas promised to spare the kingdom is she managed to get her powers back. Not only was he lying, he undermines the deal by sending Cynthia Wilson to kill both her and Lola before this happened. When Lola manages to help Alessa get her powers back, Nicholas, who had been watching them, panics. Killing Alexander when he talks back and strangling the High Priestess to death, he attempts to slaughter the kingdom anyway. When Alessa arrives and forces his army to surrender, Nicholas kills them all in rage before attempting to kill Alessa himself.
    • Cynthia Wilson is a vicious teenager with a nasty homophobic streak. Having caused several LGBT girls to commit suicide prior to her first appearance, Cynthia is introduced mocking Lola about her girlfriend, Faith, who she had earlier bullied into jumping off the roof. When Nicholas arrives and word spreads of his deal with Alessa, Cynthia, having no faith that Lola will successfully return her powers, makes a deal with Nicholas to kill them both to save herself, selling out her kingdom and killing her "friends" to seal the deal. Tracking Alessa and Lola to a village, she slaughters everyone and sadistically tortures the son of the innkeeper to the hotel the two stayed at. After the woman told her where they went, Cynthia killed them both anyway. Confronting Alessa and Lola, she takes the latter hostage. She then attempts to kill them both, bragging about what she did to the village all the while.
  • Alessa and the Kingdom of Shadows: The Shadow Queen is the wicked ruler of the Shadow Kingdom. Originally a queen who desired godhood, she struck a deal with the dark forces to acquire power, relocating her entire kingdom to the dark world to achieve said power. Kidnapping numerous people for over a century, she either converts them into Shadows by showing them propaganda, or sacrifices young girls to get the power she desires. Having little care for her own civilians, she allows corrupt policemen to kill anyone in their path and at one point blows up an entire block in an attempt to kill Alessa. With Alessa in her grasp, she plans to indoctrinate her in her army, where she will have her lead her soldiers to slaughter Annabel's kingdom once she's done sacrificing her.
  • Kadu'av: The Beginning of the End: The wicked Windsor is a member of the Gilded Cross, a Yeshu supremacist group who seek to murder any race who are deemed unclean. Tasked with slaughtering caravans containing Roja, Windsor kills plenty of Roja people—including children—with sick glee, mocking his partner Jess for refusing to partake in the murders. After butchering another caravan, Windsor waits for Eden and Rachel to arrive and tries to kill them.
  • Phillip: Dr. Samuel Valentine is a vampire supremacist who seeks to inhabit the world with daywalkers in order to fully diminish humanity. To this end, Valentine kidnaps fifteen women and rapes them to produce dhampirs, with eight of them dying from their babies bursting out of the wound. When Phillip, Luna, and Serenata invade his hideout, Valentine has his six remaining captives doused in gasoline and threatened with being burned alive should they not let him go.
• The Anglo/American – Nazi War: Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and The Gestapo, succeeds Adolf Hitler as Germany's leader following the latter suffering a debilitating stroke. Overseeing The Holocaust, Himmler also executes political dissidents and kills tens of millions as he conquers much of Europe, going on to oppress the conquered Soviet Union with demands for slave labor and natural resources. Enacting a strict scorched earth policy to avoid the Allies being able to use resources of cities, Himmler causes millions to die and cares nothing for the countless European cultural and artistic works destroyed by his barbaric order. Using chemical warfare, Himmler devastates the UK and Italy, even as the latter surrenders. Facing revolt from both France and the Soviet Union, Himmler immediately responds by attacking both with nerve gas, killing hundreds of thousands and plunging the latter into a civil war. When the Allies move to conquer Germany, Himmler, unwilling to relinquish power, orders the bombing of any town planning to surrender.
• The Ascension (link): Satan, once known as Lucifer, is an ambitious angel who betrayed God by corrupting humanity to sin because God didn't grant him a world to rule over. When condemned to Hell, Satan torments billions of souls there and later gives birth to King Antiochus Mabus, who serves as his vessel on Earth. Through Mabus, he takes control of several Middle Eastern countries and launches an invasion on the rest of the region and Europe, creating famines and regional conflicts. He also unites every religion in the world that deifies himself and he executes millions who don't conform to it. Later on, he engineers a new strain of the swine flu that kills two billion people and provides a supposed vaccine that actually turns people into zombies to kill another billion people, while also conquering the rest of the world. He also allies with other aliens and provides more humans to be experimented on and turned into homunculi. When he captures Ezequiel and several humans, he orders their executions and publicly displays several of their corpses. In the final battle, he kills Samantha and her pregnant baby and later burns countless humans, bragging to Ezequiel that he'll destroy Earth if he can't rule it.
• Attracopel: Vigilante of London: Chief Harold Kruel is the corrupt police chief of London. Kruel got his way into power through cruel and illegal methods, including bribes and blackmail. When Kruel's wife found out and tried to report him, Kruel purposely rigged a car crash which caused her death. Kruel then harshly abused his daughter, Sarah, trying to force her into being an unstoppable officer. One thing Kruel does, in particular, is murder her best friend in cold blood to limit her distractions. When Attracopel becomes public, Kruel immediately issues an arrest warrant for him just for being a vigilante and threatening him with death, even though he did nothing illegal; Kruel also brushes off the dangerous wolf hybrid, Wolfalco. Kruel even joins Dr. Twister in his quest to take over England, just so he can get stronger. It's later revealed that Kruel has killed tons of innocent people, and then framed them as criminals.
• Beast of the Airwaves: The Fall of a Television Icon (link): Ted Bundy is a Serial Killer who becomes Washington State Press Secretary and then a popular talk show host. Continuing his activities during these careers, he moves his hunting grounds to New Jersey after his show relocates to New York City. After his car is stolen and the body of a teenage girl is found in it by the police, Ted manages to shift the blame onto the carjacker, getting the man falsely convicted of her murder. When his wife discovers a shoe box containing Polaroid pictures of many of his victims, he tries to kill her as well to cover up his crimes. Having murdered at least 231 women and girls, Ted Bundy demonstrates just how terrible a celebrity can be.
• The Black Tree (link): Jacqueline Strong is the beautiful but malevolent witch behind the Black Tree's curse. In life, it was reported how she'd make people she didn't like sick and loose poisonous, foreign snakes into her community. When sentenced to death, Jacqueline remarks she can easily escape, but had "a better idea"; starting with her executioner, her spirit would enchant numerous men into going to her hanging tree, where they would hang themselves and be found drained of blood. Centuries later, the protagonist would accidentally awaken Jacqueline's spirit, whereupon she would start a new string of suicides, at one point leaving live snakes in the bed of one victim's wife. Eventually, Jacqueline's spirit would visit the protagonist's house, luring his father to hang himself, regarding the boy with a mocking "shush". Even when her tree is destroyed, and the curse seemingly ends, when the protagonist revisits the forest years later, he sees a black sapling growing where the tree once stood.
• Blood After Midnight: Kelvin leads an evil cult which seeks to summon a demon, Shadoth, to dominate the world. As the power of the summoning rests in one's right arm, Kelvin has dozens of innocents murdered with their arms taken to use for the ritual. When a reporter named Bryan Cyon gets too close, Kelvin has his friend Vivian murdered and causes a massacre at a hospital to abduct him, before revealing to his followers his true intentions and murdering them all, intending on summoning the demon to control the world himself.
• The Blood Keeper (link): The titular "blood keeper" was the leader of the Bloodlights, a cult of serial killers from the 1800s. The blood keeper held a "game" to serve as a trial for new recruits. The blood keeper kept vials filled with the blood of their murder victims, and divided the new recruits into two teams, as they tried to steal the blood from him. He told the recruits to kill any members of the opposing team they saw, as well as any innocent bystanders they came across. Any recruits who failed to steal the blood would be killed. In total, the blood keeper was responsible for more than 50 murders due to his game. The blood keeper was killed by a man who infiltrated the Bloodlights and forced a boy to lure the blood keeper out of his crypt. The blood keeper would have killed the boy if the man hadn't have stopped him.
• Blue Skies in Camelot: Charles Manson is a ruthless, megalomaniacal musician turned cult leader who will use any means to get what he considers the power he deserves. To achieve this end, he gathers followers in the Los Angeles area, establishing an insular commune known as the Manson Family. After failing to have Ronald Reagan assassinated, he decides to commit a serious of gruesome murders to start an apocalyptic race war he calls Helter Skelter, then take the reins of power in the aftermath. He and his followers first kill a drug dealer and a music teacher in the hopes that doing so would spark a deadly conflict involving the Black Panthers, then graduate to slaughtering several celebrities and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in order to horrify the media and the general public. After following this up by killing a supermarket executive and his wife, Manson and his followers leave the Los Angeles area to commit more murders elsewhere, murdering an elderly ranch owner before they go in order to cover their tracks. As the law closes in on Manson while he attempts to flee to Mexico, he tries to get his lover "Mother Mary" Brunner to kill their infant son Valentine to make their escape easier. Cruel and brutal behind his charming demeanor, Charles Manson's horrific crimes sent two nations into shock and mourning.
• Borrasca: Sheriff Graham Walker seems like a caring family man and protective town sheriff at first, but later reveals himself to be a twisted and ruthless crime boss who runs a Human Trafficking empire. Walker moves his family to Drisking to escape scrutiny for pimping out teenage girls, and to get involved, and take part in, Drisking's conspiracy of mass murder, abduction, rape and impregnation of numerous women; notably having his own young daughter Whitney kidnapped to be made his Sex Slave, impregnating her dozens of times. When his son Sam learns of the operation, Walker has him framed for the battery of his friend Kyle. When Whitney herself dies, Walker murders his wife to remarry and have a new daughter in hopes of making a replacement sex slave. Walker also usurps the Prescott control of the operation, withholding the town's benefits of the operation for himself. When Sam and his friend Kimber (who Walker also raped) confront Walker, he beats Sam and intends to mold Sam into his heir and make Kimber a new sex slave, before attempting to kill them, telling Sam he could always have another son to replace him.
• Camouflage: Argile, the corrupt Archbishop of Tigue, is initially portrayed as a self-righteous, hypocritical zealot obsessed with persecuting gay men and verbally abusing and mocking others, including his own clerics. He enters the story with his previous actions having a grim impact on the setting, and he later accepts Danilo's offer to pay for Luc's "crime" so Danilo can save Luc's life. Argile watches with glee as Danilo goes through with said offer, which is to have one of Danilo's testicles removed. Even after the deed is done, Argile sentences Luc to death anyway and blackmails Danilo to keep him under his control. It is later revealed that Argile has been raping the convicts—many of whom were also castrated under his orders—right before they are executed; Luc is also raped as well before his planned execution. Danilo finally confronts Argile and proposes to save Luc's life again by offering his body to him. Argile responds by sending his servant to strip and tie him, blackmailing him into getting raped anyways and not intending to save Luc's life at all. A complete sociopath with no altruistic qualities, Argile is seen by Danilo as a cautionary tale against homophobia, and what would happen if he did not fight for LGBT rights.
• Case File No.56: Stitch is a murderous, undead entity responsible for a string of brutal murders in Seattle. In life, he was said to be a wicked man, punished for his crimes by drawing and quartering. He has killed many victims across the globe, and kicks off his spree in Seattle by stalking and ultimately ripping a woman to shreds in her own home; kills her cousin in the mental hospital shortly after; then murders a paranormal investigator. When the heroes of the story catch onto him, Stitch infiltrates their personal lives, stalking their homes and haunting their dreams, and killing a helpful Redditor in front of the lead hero and his intern. One of the detectives goes into hiding, and he murders her along with her family. After the hero has the case taken out of his hands, Stitch reveals to him that he's kept him alive to provide him with victims by instilling fear in their hearts, driving him to kill his intern and then himself out of shame.
• Chasing Butterflies:
  • Mr. Hive is the sadistic operator of the looming Skycavity, traveling the endless time stream known as the Kinematic Envelope seeking those endowed with Steam. When Mr. Hive finds a lost xeno roaming the Kinematic Envelope, he offers them "deals" for one of the antiques onboard his Vanity Rail, tricking them into giving up their Steam while leaving out the fact that it will kill them and trap their essences in his Steam cane, powering himself up in the process. Taking the xenos Feyf and Croque as abused slaves, Mr. Hive treats them like property and kills Croque when he rebels, later breaking Feyf's legs when she escapes from him, promising her that she'll never leave his side again. When his attempts to steal the Steam of the young xeno Sal fail, Mr. Hive goes on a hunt across the Kinematic Envelope for him, wiping out a ship of sailors and torturing the survivor for information before recruiting the murderous "Gentlemen" to his side and giving them free rein to go on a massacre of Xemidas. As Sal continues to evade him, Mr. Hive, killing his own minions and promising to murder Sal's friends in front of him, threatens to drop the Skycavity on top of Xemidas and wipe out thousands of innocents, refusing to let anything stop him from cowardly sacrificing as many people as it takes to escape the Kinematic Envelope himself for good.
  • The Kind and Rude Gentlemen, nicknamed Kindly and Rudely, are a pair of reptilian xenos. Despite their differing personalities, the two share an intense sadism, manifesting in their operation in the slave trade while also enjoying murder for hire and fun, sometimes being paid in captives they can torture to death. Allying with the wicked Mr. Hive, Kindly and Rudely lead an attack on the peaceful city of Xemidas, crashing their chronofreighter into the gardens and playing a game of who can slaughter the most innocents before the other. Even after Kindly's death, Rudely kidnaps Ransa to salvage a payday, mocking the other xeno how he will deliver him to a chef who enjoys cooking his victims alive.
• Condemning Us to Help (link): Even in New Hope Academy for Behaviorally Challenged Adolescent Girls, full of physically and mentally abusive staff, these two manage to be uniquely horrific:
  • Dr. Paula is one of the doctors working in New Hope. Under her control, the girls are viciously abused physically and mentally, either by the aides working in the academy or by Dr. Paula herself, whose 3-hour long daily "sessions" with the girls are daily, personal humiliations of each girl by bringing up their past, with No Sympathy whatsoever for anything they went through—notably blaming Anah, who was raped by her stepfather, for causing her own rape. Mental abuse also includes being isolated in a straitjacket. Physical abuse includes stripping and beatdowns for the pettiest of reasons, such as putting duct tape over Athena's mouth and hands, starving her for the entire day, before removing the duct tape the next day, in full awareness that when ripped off the next day, the duct tape would remove skin. When Ursula refuses to break under her abuse, Dr. Paula has no problem abusing even more the other girls until she breaks. Despite claiming to have good intentions, Dr. Paula proves to be a delusional, racist, homophobic and bigoted monster.
  • Bryan is one of the aides working in the academy, and proves to be even worse than many of them. Alongside fellow aid Houston, Bryan is introduced as an even more depraved aide than the already abusive Adam, Leonora, and Aaron trio, pinching and slapping any girl who looked at them and slapping, screaming at, and denying "privileges", such as food or only running six miles instead of more, for a day to any girl who cried. When unable to break Ursula, Bryan and Houston raped Rivkah, Rhea, and Jessa. When Athena attempts to prevent them from raping Anah as well, Bryan strangles and almost kills her. Later killing the youngest girl, Claudia, Bryan horrifies even Houston, and manages to stand out as horrific even amongst the monstrous aides.
• Dark War (link) & Apocalypse (link): The Voice of the Legion was once a human beggar who despised humanity for his poverty and believed that humanity should be exterminated and replaced with the Missionary. After cyberizing himself and taking command of the Missionary, he kidnaps many civilians to forcibly convert them into more members of the Missionary, painfully tearing away their flesh and turning them into mindless robots. With his army, he launched a war to exterminate humanity, killing millions before being stopped. Years later, he returns by invading the city of Albatross, exterminating most of the populace and converting the rest into the Missionary. Afterwards, he resumes his genocidal campaign on the rest of the world, wiping out or enslaving more people.
• The day I was forced to become a hitman (link): "Ralph" is a Serial Rapist working as a banker who uses his connections to get away with his crimes. He harasses at least one of his female employees and on one occasion rapes her. After this, he kidnaps her young daughter and another girl, keeps them caged in his mansion, and regularly rapes them for a long period of time. When the titular hitman, alias "Tyler", breaks into his mansion, he finds evidence which heavily implies that "Ralph" has done the same thing to many other girls over the years and has later disposed of them.
• The Death of Russia: Alexander Barkashov and Aleksandr Dugin are the true power behind the Nashist movement. After Alexander Nevzorov's Nashists seize control of Petrograd, Dugin would influence Nevzorov's politics in an increasingly ultranationalist direction while Barkashov exerts greater influence within the Nashist government. Under Barkashov's influence, the Nashists would instigate multiple genocides in the areas they control using chemical weapons, set up rape camps for captured women, and hold the Finns and Karelians in Karelia as hostages in exchange for food. Inspired by The Turner Diaries, Barkashov's most horrific action was Plan Zass, a plan to use nukes to both destroy the Stalinists and wipe out all non-Slavs from Russia. This plan was supported enthusiastically by Dugin under the belief that it would pave the return of the Hyperboreans to Russia and the start of the "Final War" against the West. Plan Zass would see the deaths of 35 million Russians and the complete eradication of entire ethnic groups. When NATO intervenes in Russia in the aftermath of Plan Zass, Barkashov would launch nukes at NATO in an effort to drag the world down with him.
• The Deepwood Series (link): Jameson Scott, the trilogy's human antagonist, appears to be a young and charismatic tech mogul, the head of a technology empire. In actuality, Jameson's true age is in his eighties and he has been maintaining his life and youth by committing human sacrifices to the demon Metaraxes—a deed that subsequently erases the victim from history and memory to all but a few people. Scott initially claims to be doing what is necessary to satiate the demon, but when his cover is blown, he is revealed to be a power-hungry egotist out to expand his own empire. When Metaraxes asks for the protagonist Katie Ross to be sacrificed, Scott reveals to her that he brought the demon other girls with her name before they eventually found her. It is also revealed that he sacrificed his own daughter to Metaraxes for his selfish ends. When Katie and Jamie manage to lure Metaraxes into a trap, Scott and his men try to stop and kill them.
• The Defiler: Y'golonac the Defiler is presented in as depraved a fashion as ever. A Great Old One who understands the worst perversions of human nature far too well, he possesses the body of a nobleman seeking out pornographic literature and casts his soul into limbo. Using this body to rape and murder children before devouring them and allowing his worshipers to indulge in their most profane lusts imaginable, the Defiler leads another man to his house in the hopes of forcing him to release him from his earthly prison, attempting to eat him when he refuses before promising to "go defile some other poor sap" when his avatar is mortally wounded, and lets his followers die when his house collapses.
• Does anyone remember Channel 42 (link): The One Who Walks In The Void is a horrific otherworldly being that attaches itself to an earnest TV station producer, Jonathan Torrence. Convincing Torrence that it is God, and making him his servant, it has Torrence kill numerous people, especially children, as human sacrifices. After Torrence commits ritual suicide, the being takes the form and personality of Stitches the Clown, creating a twisted broadcast of shows where he tortures, mutilates numerous people and creatures on his shows. As Stitches, he uses his show to try to teach kids how to kill, commit cannibalism, and even prepare to surgically remove the brain of a captive child. It is implied that the people appearing on his shows are souls it collected from sacrifices. Seeking a greater audience, Stitches and his slaves would stalk and terrorize people who view the show to get them to spread the word, before cowardly begging Agent Helsing to spare his life when the latter realizes his weakness.
• Dresden's Haunted Forest:
  • Magdalena/"DJ Maggie", the Wicked Witch from the tale of "Hansel and Gretel", surpasses her original counterpart in depravity. Planning to marry Charles V, the King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, solely for the political power it would bring her, Magdalena kills a witch when she refuses to teach her, before stealing her spellbook. Upon Charles's marriage with the peasant girl Annabelle, Magdalena poisons the food at the wedding party, killing 50 people, Annabelle included. Magdalena, after marrying Charles, frames the peasants for the wedding incident, leading to a brutal slaughter and oppression of peasants. When they fight back, Magdalena starts personally killing them. Upon being found out, she settles in a forest, and learns about two rituals: summoning seven demons, Lords of Hell, and becoming a goddess through a mural from a million bodies; and killing several children, eating them and drinking their blood to become immortal. For centuries, Magdalena kills anyone who enters the forest, including Hansel, Gretel and Reinhardt's best friend Heine. Befriending Reinhardt, DJ Maggie also kidnaps his parents and tries to force them to eat their own son, sadistically revealing to Reinhardt Heine's corpse and telling him that they were never friends to begin with.
  • Joachim Dirlewanger is a former Stasi member notorious for his cruelty towards political dissidents. After losing his job, he and his men attempted to stage a coup against Germany's current regime. Meeting Reinhardt and his friends in his hideout, he held them hostage, threatening them and ordering their parents to give them a huge ransom. It was revealed that Joachim intends to use the ransom to buy a bomb set to blow up several landmarks of Berlin and kill all of the hostages when he got the ransom. When defeated, he spitefully attempts to blow up his hideout, fully aware that it would kill his own men.
• Dr. Margin's Guide to New Monsters (link): The Man in the Mask sends an email to Doctor Michael Margin, a researcher into new monsters, taking him to a website of his own design filled with numerous videos of his victims—among them a six-year-old child—which first show them begging to be released before cutting to them calmly admitting that they wish to die, at which point the Man in the Mask, without any resistance, slits their throats. When asked what this was, the Man in the Mask replied that is was the "Theory of Preposterous Evil," the idea that some men are so evil that they are monsters in disguise. After the Man in the Mask kidnaps Michael, the Man gives his reason for killing people as being that they asked for it—when he had convinced them of this. After he kills himself and wipes all evidence of his crimes, save the video of his suicide, Michael realizes that the Man in the Mask had one good point: Some men can turn into monsters.
• Eclipse: Freiherr Eighinn Stossuhl is a brutish, Trigger-Happy thug who firmly believes that Might Makes Right. In his first appearance, he threatens to attack Cessair, a neutrally-aligned country if they failed to turn in the main character Alice Sitchri. When Sitchri actually leaves peacefully, Stossuhl attacks Cessair anyway, in a war that cost the lives of 86,492 people and eradicated Cessair's entire infrastructure. When he gets hit by a sniper, Stossuhl responds by destroying an entire building; he admitted that the sniper probably wasn't there anyway. He incinerates an entire platoon of his own soldiers when they took too much time to get through a maze. When an injured soldier grabbed his ankle, Stossuhl destroyed his entire upper torso because he was stopped from sprinting. When another soldier offers to patch him up after a fight, Stossuhl pushed his skull into his torso because "Real men never disarm themselves." When an informant reveals that all of his targets had escaped, Stossuhl immediately chokes the informant to death, while still demanding to know where they went. He proceeds to order the eradication of Cessair, and when his colleagues called him out on it, Stossuhl continues the shelling out of spite. At a public speech, Stossuhl attempted to divert his culpability in the invasion by claiming his colleagues supported it, when in fact they didn't. Finally, Stossuhl publicly executed close to a hundred Cessair prisoners—and his own bodyguards—by unleashing a stream of magma that morphed them into a mesh of dry, organic rock.
• Emergency Broadcast: Crimson Alert (link): Haman is the ruthless figure of legends. Having attempted to exterminate the Jews in the past, Haman has continued atrocity after atrocity through the ages, killing countless people in the process, including assisting the Nazis with The Holocaust. Initiating the Crimson Alert to hand Earth over to demons and give it to the devil, Haman is also revealed to have traded his sons for centuries of life, uncaring who is damned or killed as long as he continues his genocidal aims.
• The Eminence in Shadow: Crimson is a brutal vampire supremacist who corrupts and forces the kindly Elizabeth, the vampire progenitor, into waging war with humanity, leading to the destruction of several countries and countless dead. With Elizabeth sealed away, Crimson rules Outlaw City as a place of horrid atrocities as he awaits the time to revive her. Crimson sets his minions to kill off the humans of the city while planning to reawaken Elizabeth in order to cull humanity and put them under the foot of vampirekind.
• Evangeline (link): The titular character is a 9-year old sociopathic girl who hides her inner unchildlike depravity under an innocent behavior. Killing her family's fishes and dog, Evangeline sexually molested her friend Emily, threatened to reveal the whole thing if Emily so much as talked, forced her to do her homework and give her money. Meanwhile, Evangeline abused her 6-year old sister Audrina as well, molesting her too, lying about her origins, and finally killing her when Audrina reveals to their mother Leslie Evangeline's abuse. When Leslie attempted to kill her in retaliation, Evangeline gaslit her into thinking she was the one to blame, before promptly framing her for her crimes and getting away with her deeds.
• Eye Contact, by Zachary Rosenberg (link): Professor Love is an unearthly entity bent on evil and domination, who seeks to devour the minds of an entire college and institute her own order. Love sets herself up as a stern and caring teacher to the members of Eric Friedman's college, but in truth she uses eye contact to glut herself on the personalities, individuality, and very souls of her students, reducing them to mindless drones in her thrall. When Eric repeatedly resists her soul-draining process, she lures him to her office and forces him to watch as she performs her agonizing ritual on her latest hapless victim, having already done it to hundreds of students. Love then tries to consume Eric and his best friend Becca's souls to "fix" them, mocking their individual failings and personality disorders as proof of their "brokenness", out of petty sadism.

F – Q

• Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72: The world in general in this Alternate History story has become a major Crapsack World, but some dictators outshine all others in heinousness.
  • Mao Yang-jin, aka The Lesser Mao, is Mao Zedong's successor as dictator of the Chinese People's Republic. Seeing himself as a second Qin Shi Huangdi, he manages to be even worse than his predecessor, banning literacy, instituting massive purges, and turning all of China into a horrifying hybrid of post-Cold War era North Korea and Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia, with totalitarianism ramped up and the country turned into a giant death camp and killing field, where people are forced into making opium. He even starts a war in Southeast Asia to keep the heroin trade up and running. When the military rebels against him for his regime's excesses, he destroys the rebel-controlled city of Kwangsi with a nuclear missile. Later, he creates a virulent strain of influenza that kills the better part of a million people worldwide, none more so than in China itself. This creates the worst health year since The Spanish Flu. By the end of the century, China and its people have become one giant ruin.
  • Magnus Malan is a power-hungry white supremacist bent on killing or enslaving all that don't meet his racial standards. Malan first launches a coup against the South African government, killing and imprisoning political dissidents, and greatly expands The Apartheid Era to include non-Afrikaner whites, putting them in concentration camps. Malan starts wars against all of South Africa's neighbors, regularly massacring civilians, and using chemical weapons and dirty bombs without regards for consequences or civilian casualties. When the tide of war begins to turn against him, Malan decides to use South Africa's nuclear arsenal to destroy its neighboring nations, killing tens of millions out of spite.
  • Douglas Coe, "The Great Teacher", is a fundamentalist preacher hell-bent on spreading his Evangelical Christianity across the United States at all costs. Working behind President Donald Rumsfeld, Coe helps remove all rivals to their power before having Rumsfeld impeached and arrested after deciding his political use is done. Turning Pat Robinson into his next pawn with Robinson's 1988 victory, Coe continues to remain the true power behind the country and even orders the destruction of the Capitol when Congress refuses to cooperate with Coe's increasingly oppressive regime. Forming the "Christian States of America", Coe begins having political dissidents rounded up and marks non-Evangelical Christians and "degenerates" such as homosexuals and drug addicts for death. To consolidate power over the rest of the country, Coe begins unleashing nuclear weapons on resisting states and continues raining them down on Florida to hold off an invasion from Cuba, switching to chemical and biological weapons when nuclear stockpiles run low.
• Fenter Woods (link): The unnamed, seemingly enigmatic Creature is a humanoid entity responsible for numerous missing persons across the country. Revealing a human-like intelligence, the Creature kidnaps the kid protagonist's friend Jess, with the apparent intent of devouring her, flashing the protagonist a smile when it spots him. Venturing into the cave to rescue Jess, the protagonist notices it has made a "museum" of many trophies it took from its previous victims, as well as a spot where it bruised the bodies. The protagonist likens the Creature to playing a sick and twisted scavenger hunt. After the protagonist saves an imprisoned Jess and wounds the Creature, when the townspeople investigate the caves, the Creature has disappeared after fleeing with its trophies, later watching the protagonist from the forest. While the Creature isn't seen in Fenter Woods again, the protagonist speculates that it's still out there taking more victims.
• Finding Hope: "Jack Angel", beneath his devout, gentleman attitude, is "on a mission from God" to exterminate humanity on Earth, starting with the sheriffs. Targeting Sheriff Lee Peck as a result, he kills him and his wife Maude when the latter calls him out on his motives and attempts to kill Lee's child Gerald before being stopped by "Nobody". When Nobody defeats him in a gunfight to bargain for Gerald's life, Angel uses Gerald as a Human Shield to save his own skin. When Nobody provokes him into a duel, Angel accepts, and later reveals that he killed a priest and took his hat because the priest told him he was a man of sin. When Nobody shoots him, Angel tries to kill him and Gerald despite their previous agreement. The end of the story also reveals that Jack killed Nobody's older sister Caroline. Sadistic, petty, hypocritical and delusional, Jack proved that his family name was anything but fitting.
• First: Do No Harm: Even before he became a demon, Marshall Eccelstein was a horrific monster of a husband who kept Violet chained to a wall naked and brutally beat her bloody every day. By the time of the story, he has figured out a way to reach Vanilla, Katherine, and Kidari, and sends specialized assassins to kill them and capture his daughter Rosalina, planning on making the assassins torture Violet to death afterwards. When Astaroth turns him into a demon, he rapes and kills Amy and then kills and zombifies Daniel, planning to force Vanilla to kill him. After he is expelled from his body and takes the name Cerununnos, he drives an entire military base insane before driving violent criminals insane and releasing them from prison, taking sick joy in the chaos that ensues. He then begins killing random officers and civilians for fun before being stopped by Vanilla's brother Shoji, learning that there are 16 alive members of the Jackson family in the process. Cerununnos, while planning to kill the Jackson family, encounters a bus and stops it, intending to slaughter everyone on the bus and then kill a family with the bus before being defeated.
• Fleeing the Childrens Crusade (link): Sergeant Lessing is the cruel Nazi leader of Otto Krueger's company, where his training exercises often leave his men with injuries like gashes and broken limbs. When he's later assigned to help Krueger's company suppress the Yugoslav resistance, he first beats and kills a random peasant they find. After the company arrives to a village, he nearly rapes an old woman they find and then kills her. Upon being ordered by his commander to exterminate the village, Lessing takes pleasure in hanging many of them, even having some villagers mauled by dogs or burned out of his own sadistic glee. When the Yugoslav resistance engages the German forces, Lessing rapes a woman he found to have an "Aryan quality" to her.
• The Footprint of Mussolini: Mao Zedong, leader of Communist China during the Chinese Civil War, creates the brutal fanatical Red Guards as his guerrilla forces and orders them to massacre refugees from his regime. Desperate to not lose the war, Mao orders his population to melt their own steel to use it as building material and weapons, causing a famine that kills 40 million citizens. Unable to admit defeat, Mao orders a brutal suicidal offensive during a temporary ceasefire for a festival. When the Nationalists reach Shanghai, Mao orders his men to turn Shanghai into a death trap where millions of soldiers are sent to die and anyone trying to escape is murdered, due to Mao's desire to traumatize his enemies and watch his men die, whilst he has sex with teenage girls. Betrayed by the USSR and his own Party and given to the UN, Mao's last words before his execution are "I should have invaded Russia."
• Four Kingdoms (link) & Continued (link): Karju, the Head Boar of the Scrofa tribe, is introduced torturing an adulterous woman by shoving a hot rod into her womb before throwing her into the wilderness, where she dies. When Jabali, his then-fiancée, calls him out on this, he intimidates her before eventually beating her to force her to submit to his will until she runs away, with him giving chase. He proceeds to kill anyone who gets in his way and even stages an invasion of the Aves' city, killing even more people. He eventually has Jabali captured and brought to him, at which point he beats and rapes her. He does this again the next two days; on the third day, he grows tired of her continued "disobedience", and takes a branding iron and brands her like a wild pig. When Jabali's husband, Cal, tries to rescue her, Karju fights him, taunting and toying with him all the while, nearly killing him before Cal's horse, Xanthus, steps in trying to protect Cal only to get himself killed by Karju.
• From Hell I Write trilogy: Eileen Hoffmister is a Wicked Witch in direct service to Satan himself. She abducts people—usually children—and offers them to Satan to transform into zombie slaves damned to Hell upon death. In the prequel, Eileen and her husband, Leo, capture Stella, a young girl who stumbled across their cottage in the woods. They throw her in a basement with their zombie servant, Lester, and attempt to offer her to Satan. When he rejects her, Eileen plans to burn her. In the original story, she and Leo force their adopted son, David, to participate in Satanic rituals and abuse him. Eileen stalks Patrick Williams and his family; abducted his older brothers (and is implied to have castrated one of them); allows herself to be possessed; and chases Patrick and his 5-year-old sister Nancy and eviscerates their babysitter, Betty, when she tries to protect the children. The two are then brought back to the house, where Eileen kills Leo for disobeying her (he attempted to rape Nancy despite her not being ready), and is revealed to have zombified Patrick's family, along with missing children and finally Patrick himself. Twenty years later, in the sequel, Nancy finds a still-possessed Eileen in the home of her boyfriend Jackson, with Elieen making a final attempt to kill Nancy before going to Hell for good.
• Galaxy War (link), Galaxy War X (link), Bitter Alliance (link): Deth is a feared alien warlord who's conquered a third of the galaxy and has thousands of crimes to his name, including war crimes, genocide, and slave trading. Wishing to conquer the plant "X," he orders Mnson to capture Simui to lure Nondel into a trap, in which Deth plans to interrogate him about the planet's security system in preparation for his invasion. When Nondel rescues Simui, Deth tries to wipe out all life on "X" by using an Armageddon Laser out of contempt for his previous defeat, starting an invasion that leads to thousands of casualties and later forcing Nondel to watch his own planet's destruction.
• The Goddess of Everything Else (link): The Goddess of Cancer is the creator of life and is determined to have it exist only for her imperative to "KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER". She first creates amoebas and sets them into a never-ending battle. As her sister, The Goddess of Everything Else, continues to sway life from her cruel imperative, the Goddess of Cancer constantly works to get them back. In her attempts to regain control, The Goddess of Cancer causes many atrocities, from swaying cells to cause tumors, animals killing and devouring each other, and eventually all evil in human history, culminating in almost all life being destroyed in a nuclear war.
• Gold Tongues: The unnamed drifter known only as "Petrol" is a disgusting creep and murderous pedophile, roaming the wastelands After the End looking for people to hurt and fun to be had. Introduced stomping a woman's throat and cannibalizing her corpse, Petrol later allies with a camp of survivors only to stab one of them to death and lure mutant bugs to the camp, leading to the murders of nearly the entire camp just so he can loot whatever he wants. After meeting a small family of survivors, Petrol murders the surrogate father Kyle and snaps young Billy's neck, before he rapes and murders the preteen Tessa, bragging later that she was his third child victim, noting that he had molested two young girls years ago during his time as a music teacher. Petrol then shoots and mocks Maggie over the death of her family, showing off Tessa's panties as a "trophy" to her and leaving the woman a gun loaded with a single bullet just to force her to decide between killing herself, or dying a slow death in the desert.
• The Grey Cases Book 1: Dark Streets (link): Narajit Malhotra was once a lowly a sewage worker who made contact with deities called the Old Ones. Learning that they were the former rulers of Earth and believing that they are its rightful rulers, he formed an Apocalypse Cult dedicated to summoning the Old Ones and wiping out humanity. Needing to sacrifice over a million souls to summon them, he sent wights to murder innocent civilians and sacrifices a police detective by burning him alive. When his first wights are stopped by Alistair Martin, Narajit converts his entire cult into wights and sends them to New York City to slaughter its entire population and unleash the Old Ones. After being defeated by Alistair, Narajit opens a portal for the Old Ones, spitefully attempting to wipe out humanity with his last breath.
• Horus (link): Set, the Red King, is Horus's envious uncle and usurper of the throne of Kemet. Spitefully murdering his brother Osiris after Osiris accidentally slept with Set's wife, Set summons clouds over Kemet's capital which lead to famine. Set lets his Apsiu creatures enslave all members of their species who are incapable of flight and uses them as his army. Learning that Horus is fated to overthrow him, Set sends his army in search of Horus, leading to the massacre of Horus's entire village. Set attempts to have Apsiu who rebelled against him executed, and when Horus comes to the city with an army, attempts to sway his half-brother Anubis to his side.
• Hospitality (link): Hansel & Gretel are a far cry from the heroic kids in the original tale. A pair of adult siblings and serial killers, Hansel & Gretel had already shown sociopathic tendencies before starting their killing spree, pelting animals with rocks or trapping them inside holes and leaving them for dead. Trying to escape their poor upbringing, the siblings decided to kill wealthy old women for their money. Having killed and cut to pieces already 11 women and their own grandmother by the time the story starts, they wander around a forest, with Gretel wondering whether or not she should kill her own brother. Upon reaching an old woman's house, Hansel & Gretel attempt to kill her for her golden necklace. When their riches are stolen, the villainous siblings blame and attempt to kill each other. When the old woman trapped them and turns out to be a witch, Hansel attempts to sell out Gretel so that he could escape with his life. Despite their poor background, these siblings prove to be irredeemable, greedy beings.
• How I Escaped From a Cult (link): Charlie Stocke was the self-appointed prophet of the Third Reincarnation of the King, as well as the alleged third reincarnation of Christ. Stocke convinced several of his followers into going with him into the wilderness, and he forced them to work eight hours a day. He placed most of the members on the "prayer list" as a means of breaking them into submission, and he purposefully starved them. He later sentenced a married couple to death when they tried to leave the cult, and he also executed the narrator's parents. Four more members died from execution while the remaining members of the TRK either died from starvation or resorted to cannibalism. Stocke eventually tried to orchestrate a mass suicide, but he was ultimately burned alive and eaten.
• How Silent Fall the Cherry Blossoms (link): In the Timeline, this duo are some of the worst that Imperial Japan had to offer.
  • Vice Admiral Jisaboro Ozawa, nicknamed "the Gargoyle", from the Imperial Japanese Navy, stands out as one of the worst war criminals of this timeline. Working with the infamous Unit 731, Osawa orders the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night and sends suicidal units to drop fleas with the Bubonic Plague virus in Los Angeles, infecting thousands, killing hundreds and causing riots in multiple cities in a futile effort to slow the American war effort, horrifying even his own Emperor. Overconfident at his initial success, Osawa personally convinces his German allies to try chemical warfare and—as part of the operation—tries to infect American crops with anthrax, stopped only for the timely response of the American health organizations. A stubborn man willing to let his compatriots die for the sake of his own pride, Ozawa committed suicide during the last days of the war after—despite his small role in the biggest picture—managing the feat of changing the tone of World War II for the worse, having started the normalization of biochemical weapons in all sides.
  • Shirō Ishii himself, the leader of Unit 731—infamous for their horrific experiments on humans, POW and civilian alike, and their use of biological weapons—is the intellectual author of Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night and works with Osawa to carry it. Continuing with his experimentation on humans in a region of China, Ishii is killed by Allied forces as part of Operation Frankenstein as revenge for his role on the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night as he was preparing to experiment with another prisoner.
• Hyraaq Tobit series (link): Mr. Thaddeus Pinkerton is the cruel master of the Hyraaq Tobit cult and ultimate ruler of the city of Delphia. In addition to setting up centuries of religious practices that includes ritual suicide and mass cannibalism, Pinkerton also traps souls in the Red Star for eternal torment for crossing or failing him. Pinkerton makes a deal with Blain Kellerman to save his comatose wife at the risk of losing his soul through a series of rigged tests, only reluctantly making good out of obligation when beaten, and sends his henchmen to the Red Star. Pinkerton also threatens to send Father Lance Madison, whom he corrupted centuries ago, to the Red Star for letting Derrick Reynolds escape, before sending the Sisters of Tobit to hunt down the protagonists and run Delphia. Pinkerton also hosts a show to preach to the children of Delphia, having the children eat two actors alive; he also helped facilitate the corruption of Tabitha Shaw into one of the Sisters of Tobit, and places Gregory Leary in Madison's place when the latter is killed. Pinkerton finally reveals Tobit to the world in order to start the apocalypse, and when the resistance topples his empire, Pinkerton summons Tobit to kill the survivors; it's then revealed that Tobit himself is the child of two godlike beings that Pinkerton befriended and manipulated to gain power, something that gets him sent to the Red Star as punishment.
• Icarus Falls:
  • Leonid Brezhnev is the ruthless dictator of the Soviet Union and reviled pariah in the international community. Escalating a border dispute with China into a major diplomatic crisis, Brezhnev assassinates Mao Zedong, hoping to frame the United States for it and get the two nations to go to war. When this fails, Brezhnev sends over a hundred nukes to destroy China in the subsequent war, only refraining from launching more due to Western pressure. When an attempt at starting a purge devolves into a civil war, Brezhnev has towns and cities indiscriminately firebombed and has unarmed protesters massacred in the streets. When the war starts to turn against him, Brezhnev uses nuclear weapons on Grozny, Perm, and Central Asia, and orders that every missile silo in the Soviet arsenal detonate their warheads if he loses. Personally executing people who refuse his orders or bring him bad news, Brezhnev is a sadistic tyrant who takes joy in killing people.
  • Lin Biao becomes the Chairman of China after Mao Zedong is assassinated. Deciding to use nuclear weapons first in the Sino-Soviet war, Biao holds no concern over the prospect that the Soviet response will devastate China for decades. When famine and anarchy begin to break out in war-torn China, Biao threatens to attack any United Nations convoys attempting to bring badly needed food and medicine to the mainland. When rebellions against his rule start to break out, Biao throws masses of starved conscripts at them, prepared to accept any price to crush the rebels. When the tide of the war turns, Biao uses every Weapon of Mass Destruction at his disposal, utilizing poison gas, biological weapons, and his last nuclear weapon, and throws Child Soldiers armed with spears and knives to remedy his manpower shortage. When finally caught in inescapable retreat, Biao destroys any town in danger of falling to the rebels, via immolation or impalement, and orders his troops to conduct guerilla warfare, ensuring that the war continues for years after his death.
  • Gerhard Von Schubert is the manager of neo-Nazi mercenary group Paladin, selling the group's services to various dictatorships around the globe. After becoming the group's leader, Gerhard sponsors several far-right terrorist attacks in Italy while on the run from the authorities. Buying a nuke from a corrupt CIA agent, Gerhard launches the weapon at the Muslim holy city of Mecca, killing a million people directly and planning on escaping in the ensuing chaos and religious violence that will consume the globe.
• I Dared My Best Friend series: David King is the Big Bad of this series and was a manipulative, murderous sociopath even as a child. In the first installment, he obsessively tries to destroy the life of protagonist Zander Jones, threatening his girlfriend, killing one of his roommates, and then murdering his own mother to frame Zander for it, sending him to prison. After realizing that he'd get bored without his favorite target, David frees Zander from police custody to continue tormenting him, killing two cops in the process. He later kills his own accomplice and tries to kill Zander's girlfriend out of spite. Despite his death at the end of the first series, David's evil continues to drive the conflict of the sequel series, with it being revealed that he had formed a group of similarly-sociopathic individuals that would systematically destroy the lives of complete strangers, including selling some people as sex slaves. Holding no loyalty to said group, David is all too willing to abuse or dispose of them once he grows tired of them.
• I had to psychologically evaluate a serial killer; I don't know what to report (link): Howard is a vicious sadist who enjoys ruthlessly torturing people. Starting first with his son, Adam, Howard regularly beats him, puts out cigarettes on his skin, and wraps his arms and legs in barbed wire. When Adam's mother tries to stop Howard's abuse, he strangles her to death. Fearing that Adam's Split Personality will go to the police with this information, Howard fulfils his sadistic desires by killing women he picks up at bars, torturing them in the same manner he tortured Adam, killing a total of twenty two people. When Adam kills Howard in revenge, Howard simply comes back as a ghost, and demands that his son bring him more women to torture and kill. Adam and his split personality lures three women to their deaths in this manner, and once caught by the police, begs for the death penalty to escape his father's grasp.
• Inopticus series:
  • Mirrorworld: Syrile—real name Ishirō Hamada, a former member of Unit 731—is a member of House Dusk and one of Korva's minions. Obsessed with perfecting the devoiding process, Syrile resurrected hundreds of corpses and experimented on them, not caring that the reanimated bodies became sapient and were fully aware of all the torture that Syrile put them through. Syrile even went as far as arranging fatal accidents on various inhabitants of Inoptica just so he could use their bodies for future experiments. After kidnapping Geiger, Syrile forces Vita to assist him with his plans, only to later take her hostage as a bargaining chip when House Midnight attacks House Dusk's stronghold. Eager to save his own hide, Syrile kills Razmin before teaming up with House Dawn and offering to expose the secrets of the other three Houses. Even after Syrile becomes human again and returns home, all he can think about are the ghastly experimentations he plans on conducting in the future.
  • Clawing at Glass prequel: Talvor, the sadistic Batlord of House Noon, began his reign by savagely torturing the day-vamps of the House into genocidal fanatics, with some being irreparably broken by his abuse. Talvor purged all those he deemed "weak" from House Noon, from the infirm to the children, to pile their corpses underneath the House. Launching his genocidal Red Dawn to butcher countless members of House Dusk, civilians and children included, Talvor extended his crusade to attempt to turn Dusk into a charnel house. Talvor planned to harness the flames of a power known as the Conflagration with full intent to unleash it and wipe out all the rest of Inoptica to build an empire out of the ashes and blood of the innocents he slaughtered.
• It only takes the good kids (link): The creature dubbed the Dark Man is a mysterious but sadistic entity responsible for decades worth of child murders, having a sweet tooth for good children. In addition to being stated to eat its victims, the Dark Man has a habit of framing mentally handicapped people for his crimes. When he learns that the protagonist and his friends are on to him, the Dark Man abducts the latter's younger brother—taking a break from his usual streak—to lure them. When confronted, it reveals he impaled said brother to slowly die, kills two of his friends before battering the protagonist to an inch of his life. The Dark Man mocks the protagonist for trying to be a hero before leaving him and his brother to their fates. While the protagonist survives to adulthood, the Dark Man is implied to still be on the loose.
• I was a professional Internet Troll (link): The story's narrator, known by his online alias "Resisilobus", is an overzealous internet troll who manages to be particularly vile even by those standards. Not content with simply being an unpleasant individual online, Resisilobus intentionally drives two people to kill themselves by relentlessly harassing them. He then befriends a teenage outcast and manipulates the boy into killing seven of his classmates and then committing suicide. To indicate how little he values the lives of others, Resisilobus considers the "achievements" to be inferior to his comparatively minor hacking of a popular Bible app and the confusion it causes among Christians. A remorseless sadist who openly revels in the power his crimes make him feel, Resisilobus is an example of how internet anonymity can bring out the worst in people.
• I was born on a child farm (link): Headmaster Ranon Xinon, real name Clark P. Ganes, is a mysterious man with the power to steal people's life force and experiences. Ganes targets people with good lives, stealing their precious memories and reverting them back to children with no sense of happiness. Ganes, as Xinon, abducts hundreds of children and treats them like livestock on his farm, poisoning and abusing them for fun, and devouring one child daily. When the authorities finally track down the farm, Ganes poisons half of the children's meals and hunts down the rest who escape to axe them off, even gloating how proud he is of everything he's taken from the children when he's killed.
• I Was Claimed By A Skinwalker (link): The titular Skinwalker develops a fixation on the protagonist Jake, stalking him and his friends on a camping trip. After picking off two of his friends, the Skinwalker possesses, or takes the skin, of Jake's beloved girlfriend Blair, before presenting the mutilated bodies of his friends. The Skinwalker did something to his friend Cori that Jake refuses to describe. Still wearing Blair's face, the Skinwalker proceeds to savagely torture and disfigure Jake, declaring him its property, before being driven off. In the sequel, the Skinwalker has been tormenting Jake for a year after he returns home, making him wish for death as he becomes a recluse, frequently appearing to him as Blair and mockingly mimicking her affectionate personality. As Jake gradually rebuilds his life and befriends a hotline worker named Lana, the Skinwalker tells Jake it will leave him alone from now on. As Jake gets his life back on track, the Skinwalker appears one more time to trick Jake into strangling Lana in his sleep before disappearing for good. This leaves Jake utterly broken, causing him to finally commit suicide.
• Joe Montana Saves the Princess (link): Father Haller is the leader of the Foundation, a cult that worships and seeks to release the demon lord Un and bring about Hell on Earth in exchange for world domination. The subject of Urban Legend, the Foundation is rumored to conduct Human Sacrifice, and when Joe Lawrence investigates these rumors, Haller has him murdered. Seeking the last living female descendant of a king that stopped the Foundation's plans thousands of years ago, they track her down to Cynthia Tierney, and take advantage of her mother's cancer and families financial issues to lure her into a trap, seeking to use her blood to summon Un. When Joe's brother Brian investigates the cult, and befriends Cynthia, Haller eventually captures them both, and begins to slowly cut up Cynthia and force Brian to watch. When Brian and Cynthia fight back Haller defiantly tries to kill them while facing defeat, promising to make Joe's death seem more "merciful" in comparison to what he has in store for Brian.
• The Last Pine Barrener (link): The stranger—implied to be a humanoid manifestation of The Jersey Devil, if not Satan himself—is a devilish figure who appears to Everett Abernathy and gives him a life of pain and misery for his family as part of their pact. Abducting Everett's girlfriend Abigail when they were teenagers, the devil returns her in exchange for Everett's soul upon his death. Over years, the devil claims all but one of their children, from oldest to youngest, trough horrible deaths. Afterwards, he would have Abigail die of an agonizing blood disease over a decade, and would claim the life of their infant grandchild with that same disease. Everett concludes the devil is adding his family to their deal as "interest" until Everett finally dies; something that doesn't occur until Everett is 126 years old, living a long and miserable life after being abandoned by his family for decades.
• Legatum:
  • Smirvlak's Stone: Lorko Maeliss is the dreaded leader of the Yellow Fang, a gnoll tribe which pillage, rape, and slaughter their way throughout the country of Glorsdale under his cruel direction. With a fondness for rape and torture, Lorko furiously pursues the Corveel brothers and their ally Stilyk after they rob him of a powerful magical stone, massacring the Corveel brothers' village and cutting a wide trail of mayhem and murder across the countryside with countless creatures slaughtered by his gnolls. Possessed of a propensity to murder his own minions for any reason he can think of, Lorko tosses unending waves of them to their own deaths, personally butchers many of them for simply contending his authority, and enslaved his adviser after having massacred her family and "tamed" her by letting the other female gnolls rape her into terrified submission. In the end, after using what remains of his own band as suicide bombers to create a distraction wide enough for him to corner and rape Nickolas Corveel, Lorko reveals his designs to use the stolen stone to conquer the entire planet and annihilate millions, fancying himself the god of a new age where all who oppose him are crushed.
  • Help Not Wanted: Ogrell Syn'Gorrsh, seemingly a simple-minded ogre in search of his missing daughter, harbors a much, much darker secret. Ogrell is in fact a Serial Killer, having already long ago butchered and ate his own daughter after her whining annoyed him to the point of violence, following up with his wife and then countless innocents afterwards he lured in or kidnapped to brutally murder and eat. Not satisfied with simply killing and eating his victims, Ogrell psychologically and physically tortures them for weeks on end, with a priest Ogrell's left a skinned, maimed mess and a goblin Ogrell reduced to a feral monster only a few of his endless menagerie of victims. When the goblin contractors he lured in try and stop him, Ogrell beats a child to death in front of one of them to lure him out and later tries to simply murder them all himself after his first attempt to break them fails, laughing away their morals and simply telling them they're all animals at heart like him.
  • Scrambled Egg: Trellorv, a disgusting, monstrous troll who–-after having butchered his parents and his entire village for being punished for his first murder of a mentally-handicapped troll—had an existential crisis which led to him avowing himself to what he feels is the source of joy in life: wanton carnage. Trellorv dismembered a priest shortly after confessing his sins and went on to murder and rape hundreds of people for pleasure, even desecrating a settlement and leaving a portion of the populace not killed but maimed to near-death, begging to be mercy-killed. After he met the omnicidal mage Sonya, Trellorv plans to betray her to take the mystical egg she's seeking and initiate an apocalypse of his own to bask in the everlasting suffering that follows.
• Life Has No Guarantees (link): Michael Andrews is a drug dealer and Elizabeth's boyfriend. Upon settling in Elizabeth's home, Michael became extremely abusive to Elizabeth and gave her beatdowns for the pettiest reasons, not stopping even when Elizabeth's children are around or even watching. When alone with Elizabeth's 6-year old daughter Natalie, he made her "touch him". When Elizabeth's 14-year old daughter Caryn confronts him about it, Michael threatens to kill her and her whole family—and to rape Natalie as well—if she doesn't have sex with him. Forced to flee when Elizabeth caught him in the act, Michael gives her another beatdown, scars her, kidnaps Natalie and threatens to kill Elizabeth's youngest child Shane if he reveals that he kidnapped Natalie. Viciously beating down Natalie, Michael leaves her for dead, with little comeuppance for his deeds.
• Little Witch and Jack O'Lantern: Timothy Clay is the lead actor and showrunner of the titular show, and is implied to be an actual dark wizard. Running the show as a seemingly wholesome and educational program, the protagonist Logan would later learn the real horrors going on behind the scenes. Using his character Jack O'Lantern as an outlet, Clay ran a story time hotline for viewers to call, where Logan becomes a regular caller. Through these, it's gradually discovered that Clay is keeping his young co-star captive, being an abusive Control Freak—it's even hinted he may have killed a previous co-star before taking her. If one of his story times is any indication, he may be a cannibal as well, having made soup out of one of his victims. Years after his mysterious death, the full truth of Clay's depravity is revealed after his mysterious death, as the bodies of his victims are discovered buried under his studio, including two families he murdered.
• Looperverse:
  • 30 Days in Spring & Project A75: Ryan Rhodes is a sociopathic teenager who has been committing atrocities since childhood, including murdering a disabled boy in fifth grade. After he and many other students are stuck in the woods during a class trip, Ryan joins up with three other boys to commit more atrocities for fun. After beating a group of fourteen-year-olds to death, the boys gang-rape a girl to death and murder her boyfriend when he comes looking for revenge. The boys soon find gold, drowning two guys who found it and torturing others to death when they do the same, before burning a shack full of sixth-graders alive. Eventually, the other boys get tired of the violence, but Ryan makes them keep going under pain of death. After forcing two girls to strangle each other, the gang is attacked by the rest of the students, and Ryan abandons his goons to their fate as he tries to escape. After being freed by Mr. Pink, Ryan helps him with glee, thinking he wants to wipe out all of humanity which Ryan wants for the opportunity to kill more people for sadistic thrills. During his fight with the heroes, Ryan murders Ralph and Adam and declares his intention to make Amelia his Sex Slave.
  • Unrequited Love (archive): April, also known as Aoibheann and Nyarlathotep, was the tyrannical queen of The Fair Folk. Enjoying causing chaos for her own amusement, Aoibheann manipulated humanity, elves, leprechauns and fairies into fighting each other. When her lover Eoghan turned against her and killed her alongside 3 other heroes, Aoibheann swore revenge on him and his descendants, keeping her word by manipulating innocent virgin men into causing historical disasters in Ireland. Implied to have driven innocent men insane in the present day by seducing and luring them in a museum's Irish Mythology exhibit, April attempted to do the same thing with Darren Monaghan and killed his mother, his best friend and his best friend's wife when Darren refused. Kidnapping Darren's brother Paul, April told Darren to bring her 30 children to sacrifice to Azathoth if he wanted to save Paul. April planned to use these sacrifices to revive her body, and then give the entire world to Azathoth to eat, while she and Darren's soul ruled the remains. While her love for Eoghan was once genuine, it turned into a twisted obsession with him and Darren and a desire to want them all to herself.
  • A Case in Bucksville: Jacob Lucas, aka the Strangler, is a high-functioning sociopath and child killer. Burning his parents and sister alive as a teenager because they annoyed him, Jacob became addicted to killing after killing his next victim, moving to different towns and killing a hundred children overall before settling in Bucksville as Jonathan Moore, journalist Karen Brown's assistant. While continuing his child-killing spree, the Strangler gave photos of the dead children to one of the suspects not to frame her, but to screw with the town further, while he enjoyed "seeing parents cry, argue, blame each other, leave each other, even take their own lives" as a result of his killing spree.
  • The Adventures of a Sword:
    • Emperor Ginold is a despotic tyrant who staged a coup against the leader of Northeast planet and afterwards brutally tortured or killed those who dared oppose him. When Jordan, Arnie, and Gary acquire a book that could transform into a sword, Ginold throws his best friend into a pit of snakes and kills his fortuneteller and many of his guards in a fit of rage. When he discovers Morliss failed to capture the boys, he uses a kettlebell to bludgeon him, and while the protagonists are being chased by Ginold's army, they encounter a ruined city that had been raided and torched by Ginold and his army. The main characters encounter Ginold once again on Earth, by first using someone he killed as a vessel on their plane, and after attempting to drown them and everyone in their vicinity in his water form. Eventually, he manages to imprison Gary and Arnie in his castle, and kills one of Jordan's army men when the latter refuses to give crucial information. Ultimately, Ginold manages to fatally burn Arnie, subject Gary to a Fate Worse than Death by trapping his soul inside a robot, turn on and kill Balthazar when the latter has a change of heart, and finally kill Jordan and his army by duping Jordan.
    • Adrianna de la Santos is an obsessed fan of Emperor Ginold who, in life, attempted to impress him by murdering her own family, killing 68 other people and keeping their skeletons as mementos, and abetting in the homicide of Jordan's mother. Afterwards, she chopped off her hands and hung herself on an oak tree to frighten anyone who was unfortunate enough to encounter her corpse. As a ghost, when the protagonists find her skeleton collection, she appears and tries to suffocate Jordan before being temporarily defeated. However, she attempts to kill them again by putting invisible pods on Jordan, which would coerce the victim into killing everyone around them and then themself. During the final battle, Adrianna brags to Jordan about how she killed eighty other people with the pods, before electrocuting Carl and killing Olivia by reversing the effects of the de-aging seeds she consumed.
    • "Chapter 5": Morliss the Mountain Giant is a top wrestling champion who has won every single match he has participated in. However, it soon comes to light that he is a sadistic monster who ripped a dog in half in front of a boy, killed several partygoers by dumping kettlebells on their heads, and hurled a baby in a creek, all out of sadism. Worst of all, it is revealed that he ate 72 children to grow extremely strong. After convincing the three protagonists to rest in his cabin so he could eat them, he reveals his vile nature by showing them pictures of his atrocities, and then sends his minion Parkskar to capture them for his consumption. When Parkskar fails to seize them, Morliss brutally ends him by impaling a spear through his neck. After, he shoots a man dead and devours his corpse.
• The Man Who Never Smiled (link): An unnamed Serial Killer, going by the alias of John Cipher or Smileyface, was originally an assassin, where he killed a hundred people, including torturing and murdering a prostitute. Gaining a love for killing, he unprofessionally began murdering and raping numerous victims, eventually gaining the enmity of Simon McGraw when he set fire to his barracks and killed 341 of his mercenaries. When Simon chases him in a hotel, Cipher tries to slow him down by setting off numerous explosions that kill dozens of people. Upon being captured and visited by Simon, Cipher kills him by ripping out his throat and face with his teeth. Escaping imprisonment, Cipher hunts down Spencer and shoots out both of his kneecaps to reveal his philosophy that he is a reflection of humanity's evil. As Spencer put it, Cipher didn't kill for revenge or to spread a message, but because he enjoyed it.
• Mist Man (link): The titular mist man is a malicious spirit on a several-century-long killing spree with a grudge against the Mallory bloodline. Living off the knowledge of his existence, he started out by killing farmers and visitors in a small town, driving Arthur Mallory to kill everyone in the town to prevent anyone from learning about him, and preventing his repeated suicide attempts. He continued to haunt the Mallory family for generations, smearing their name by killing people wherever they went. In the present day, he murdered Daniel Mallory's friends, leaving people to believe him to be the killings, eventually viciously massacring a hospital, including babies. At the end, it's strongly implied that he soon plans to continue his savage butcheries until there's nobody left to kill, driving Daniel to shoot himself out of guilt for perpetuating his massacre.
• Modern Magical Girls (link): Mortgonna the Possessive Witch is a powerful, infamous witch. Mortgonna's MO is to possess hosts while leaving them helpless and watching inside their own bodies. In World War II, Mortgonna would aid the Nazis with a massive Deal with the Devil where those killed in The Holocaust would be sacrifices to her demonic contractors. Mortgonna would allow Dr. Josef Mengele to dissect her previous host while forcing her current host Alma to watch her baby sister be killed in the gas chamber. Mocking the death of her friend, Mortgonna would capture, horrifically torture, and experiment on the Magical Girl Valkyrie. In the modern day, while possessing a little girl, Mortgonna would aid in summoning an Elder Fiend in the middle of a city to cause massive death and destruction.
• Monsters Among Humanity: Derek Hunter is an egotistical and xenophobic hunter who believes all non-humans are weak. When Derek and his fellow hunters found some lamias living in the wild gathering together, he shot one of them, provoking all the other lamias and pressuring the other hunters into helping him massacre the lamias until most were dead, even killing one of his own hunters simply for refusing to kill a lamia. When Nesusi was fleeing with her egg, Derek chased her and shot her in the back, causing her to die in front of Joshua Scaleton. Derek then tried to convince the other villagers to help him wipe out every lamia left in the forest, but was arrested. Twenty years later, Derek escaped with Heather's help upon seeing Zephixa perform on stage, wanting to kill Zephixa out of spite. After Zephixa gets away, Derek threatens her that he would blow up part of their village with everyone in it if she didn't hand herself in, but it was made clear that he planned to blow it up anyway.
• Moonlight Revenge (link): Joffery, supposedly a nice photographer from Arizona, is in truth a vicious Serial Killer of women, who goes to small towns, seduces girls that "no one will miss", and then kills them. Seducing Lulu, he later knocks her out when she shows some doubts regarding their relationship. When she wakes up, Joffery viciously tortures her, before raping and killing her, all the while keeping an affectionate tone. He later attempts to make Izzy, Lulu's sister, go through a similar fate before a resurrected Lulu stops him.
• My Brother died three weeks ago (link): The Man Upstairs is a menacing boogeyman figure and the reason for the titular brother's suicide. When Josh tries to investigate the true circumstances behind his brother Ade's death, it is ultimately discovered that the enigmatic "Man Upstairs" is none other than their unnamed father. With Ade's hidden journal discovered, it's revealed that Ade found his father digging through a secret bunker, and discovers his father is a serial child murderer using the bunker to dispose of the bodies, with at least nine murders to his name. His father forces Ade to keep quiet by threatening not only to murder him but the rest of his family as well. Ade spends months in silent torment with the Man Upstairs—who he no longer sees as his father—constantly watching him, and holding the threat over his head, until the fear and shame drives Ade to suicide. Afterwards, his father seems willing to use Ade as a scapegoat, and even when exposed and arrested, tries to deny responsibility.
• My Father Stood Outside My Bedroom Window. He's been Dead For 5 years (link): The titular father, later known as the Nightmaker, is a twisted sadist defined by a desire to drive people to despair. In life, he rapes and impregnates a teenage girl, and then intimidates her into marrying him. Holding the girl captive for years, his horrific treatment of her leaves her maimed and near death when she escapes him, and the resulting trauma later causes her to hang herself. When the police raid his "church," they find many dead, emaciated children, seemingly sacrificed as part of a dark ritual. Though he is executed, he returns as the demonic Nightmaker. Appearing to protagonist Jack, his son from the rape, the Nightmaker attempts to lead him to the church. When his efforts to Mind Rape Jack into opening his window and letting him in fail, the Nightmaker tries to push him into committing suicide.
• My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered...:
  • Volume 5: Raiza is obsessed with finding a Worthy Opponent to give him a good fight, and to this end built a city to draw in challengers in the hope of eventually getting the fight he wanted. Raiza forces the martial artists of his city to fight in combat to produce an opponent. Unable to find a worthy foe, Raiza began attacking villages, killing people and raping women, hoping that people would train all their lives to become strong enough to challenge him. Raiza has produced children from the rapes he has committed over the years and sent them in their adult lives to also Rape, Pillage, and Burn villages in his name.
  • Volumes 10 & 11: Ultimate Extermination God (UEG) was the top goddess, and the ruler of the multiverse. At some point in time, UEG became obsessed with death and destruction and developed a bloodlust for it. A nigh-omnipotent Psychopathic Womanchild of a goddess, UEG became drunk with power and began erasing worlds one at a time. Eventually, two gods were sent to stop her; unable to best her in power, they used a special technique to seal UEG within another universe. After UEG is released, her goal is to erase all the other gods in existence. Though she could destroy the entire multiverse and space-time along with all the other gods in an instant, UEG chooses to slowly go around wiping out life slowly, due to her sadism. UEG goes around destroying cities and erasing people from existence, while looking for other gods to erase.
• New Deal Coalition Retained: Vladimir Kryuchkov is the head of the KGB and the instigator of the 1985 coup against the reformist government of Alexander Yakovlev when the latter tried to reform the USSR away from Focoist ideology. Upon taking power, Kryuchkov helps other hardliners across the Warsaw Pact launch massive purges against their political opponents. In response to the failing Soviet economy, Kryuchkov takes advantage of border skirmishes between West and East Germany as a means to kickstart World War III. As the war progresses, Kryuchkov uses increasingly brutal tactics to achieve victory, such as using chemical weapons, leading to insurmountable loss of life and massive cultural damage. When the war starts turning in NATO's favor, Kryuchkov and the KGB resort to even more brutal tactics such as launching a massive purge of moderates across the Warsaw pact; using non-Russian Soviet minorities as human shields; wiping out entire cities and villages; conscripting serial killers from prisons to terrorize their subjects into submission; and launching a poison gas attack on the East Coast to weaken the US. At the end of the war, with the fall of Moscow, Kryuchkov orders a nuclear strike at the US and other key NATO targets.
• The New Fish (link): In this story set in a prison, an inmate known as "the kid", an inhuman and dreadful monster behind his beautiful appearance, habitually kills and cannibalizes prisoners and guards. Notable instances include causing a guard to commit suicide out of fear of him, and killing another who discovered his past. It's revealed that the kid lived back in the 1800's and was originally arrested for murders, cannibalism and Satanic rites before eventually being sentenced to death after additional killings inside. After a bungled attempt to execute him, revealing his supernatural side, the kid is eventually sealed away in an unused room. Living onto the present day, the kid at one point goes on a murderous rampage during a blackout, butchering an entire wing of prisoners, mutilating and eating a terrified cop alive in front of the other prisoners. Years after hearing its story and being released, the narrator learns the kid killed some of his friends in prison, leaving one of their heads on a bed, and drove his surviving friend into having a nervous breakdown.
• No Man Left Behind (link): Unilife is an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence that wiped out its own homeworld by starting a nuclear apocalypse. Unilife soon sought to dominate the entire galaxy by replicating itself and sending copies throughout the galaxy, where it would wipe out any sapient beings it encountered. One such copy wiped out all life in a solar system by starting a nuclear holocaust there. When Unilife tries to do the same to Earth, but faces resistance, it then destroys the Sun to eradicate all life there, continuing its genocidal campaign when humanity flees.
• No Trespassing (link): The neighborhood gardener is revealed to be the one responsible for a string of disappearances in the protagonist's house. A smug sadist who plays up his advanced age to throw off suspicion, the gardener has murdered every one of the home's previous occupants over the span of four decades and hidden their bodies behind the walls. He is fully aware that the ghosts of his victims still haunt the house and try to warn the new occupants against suffering the same fate, as he snarks about his "shadow friends" keeping him company as he works on resealing the walls after stashing bodies inside of them. Though the protagonist is kind to him, offering assistance after the gardener falls victim to a teenager's prank, the old man only sees another victim, and quips about the possibility of seeing a new ghost as he adds another corpse to his collection.
• Offence Report (Graven Hunter Files spinoff prequel): Kyrie is a vicious and legendary child killer. She first shows up at the orphanage to find her son Laures, in the process cutting a boy's throat and killing a girl despite agreeing to leave them alone. Kyrie then tracks down Laures and forces him to join her in her activities. At one point, she takes Laures to a farm, and he sees Kyrie restraining a terrified woman; Kyrie tells him that "her husband will have an unhappy life with a wreck by his side", and later brags about causing the woman to have a miscarriage. Kyrie then approaches a young girl, kills her cat, has Laures restrain the girl, and begins feeling under her dress. After the murder, Laures, unhappy about this, pulls a knife out on Kyrie, only for her to threaten to rape him, bragging that she did so to his father. When Laures is paralyzed and begs Kyrie to protect him from a demon, she refuses and tells him to act as bait, only to fall prey herself. A truly depraved woman who murdered kids for thrills, Kyrie remains infamous in the present day despite being long dead.
• Of the Angels (link): Lucifer was the top Angeli of the God of All Things, until the latter created humanity, a race that Lucifer thought was inferior. Lucifer rebelled against the God of All Things and then conquered Aearth, enslaving billions of humans. Simultaneously, Lucifer tore down cathedrals and other places of worship to God, executing the priests and the common people residing nearby those sites. Lucifer also places his human slaves in ghettos, where they are often abused and whipped for even minor infractions. When the human resistance manages to rescue several of his slaves, Lucifer orders his followers to kill both the resistance fighters and the unarmed freed slaves. Upon capturing Eve, Lucifer forces her to gather up the resistance forces for a final battle against his own army, threatening to slaughter all of her friends and allies if she doesn't comply.
• Pact: The Hyena is a monstrous goblin that has left a trail of destruction in its wake since before the New World was settled. So vicious and sadistic that it is likened to a demon, the Hyena's signature is to maul its victims but only half-devour them, leaving hundreds of Others and the ghosts of its human victims in mutilated states that cause them to lash out in pain at anyone and everything around them. Taking its ruined slaves with it wherever it decides to hunt, the Hyena's latest haunt in Toronto leads to it chasing Evan Matthieu until the boy dies of exposure, with the goblin taking glee in forever continuing the torment with his ghost.
• Pale Lights: Augusto Cerdan, initially just another spoiled infanzon, turns himself into something much darker. Already widely hated for running House Cerdan's properties in Feria District, where he forces those unable to pay the exorbitant rent prices into bed with him, Augusto quickly becomes one of the most despised participants of the Watch's trials when he sacrifices his own servant to escape ravenous spirits, and tries to murder Angharad—along with his retainer, his brother, the woman he seeks to marry, and four others by proxy—when she swears to slay him for the treacherous act. Upon being left for dead for his backstabbing cowardice, Augusto makes a contract with the malevolent Red Maw and gains the power to heal his wounds by regularly draining the flesh of others, setting out to kill the rest of the trial-takers and destroy Cantica village in an alliance with the Red Maw's cultists. An honorless cur to the end, Augusto intends to keep his monstrous contract a secret by leading the cultists to slaughter every last member of the Watch in Three Pines, before sailing back to Sacromonte so he can continue feasting on flesh and take revenge on Ferranda Villazur's family for her vexing him.
• Patient 88 (link): The psychopathic Mr. Richards is a depraved Serial Killer who kidnaps women, locks them in his shed, and slowly starves them to death to see how long a human could last without food. He's repeated this process to at least eight women, and kickstarts the story when he ambushes and kidnaps the young Tavy Mord, the titular Patient 88, intending to do the same to her. Knocking her unconscious and dragging her to his basement due to the fact she couldn't talk to him, Richards begins starving her. When Tavy finds the corpses of his previous victims, Richards beats her unconscious again and cuts out her eyes. Though the ultimate effect is unintentional on his part, when Tavy is finally found and Richards is arrested, Tavy has a fatal heart attack from the shock of the incident and the fact that Richards got off easy for his crimes, and she turns into the murderous, undead Patient 88. Motivated by little more than sick curiosity, Mr. Richards stood out even in the face of literal monsters, including the one he created.
• Pen Pal: The mysterious stalker is a pedophile who happens to receive a letter from the narrator as a kindergartner as part of a school project, spending a decade obsessively following him; murdering anyone the narrator gets close to, even his cat; tricking the narrator's elderly neighbour into letting him into her house, and butchering her for being kind to the narrator; and running over and stealing the phone from a girl the narrator had a crush on, pretending to be her while texting him, as she dies in the hospital. The stalker kidnaps the narrator's best friend Josh, dolling him up to look like the narrator, with the text strongly implying that he spends the two years he holds Josh captive molesting him; before tricking Josh's father into burying himself and Josh alive. Responsible for all the pain and horror in the story, the stalker's obsession scars the narrator and those around him beyond measure.
• Piecing Together the Ashes: Reconstructing the Old World Order: The man known as "The Beast" was the last American president before The Deluge. A far-right American military leader, the Beast staged a coup against a leftist president to take control over the country. When Canada, Mexico and Cuba criticized said action, the Beast either ordered the overthrow of their governments and put friendly dictators in change or invaded the countries. When America was harshly sanctioned by the international community, the Beast threatened to unleash Hell on Earth, which he did by ordering the use of multiple nuclear weapons throughout the world while believing himself a messenger of God, killing billions and causing the collapse of modern civilization. A brutal, petty bigot who tried to send American Muslims to reeducation camps, the Beast's crimes made him feared and hated even generations after his death, with his figure becoming the personification of evil to future civilizations.
• Pinot Noir:
  • Kleetus Klementine, true name Christopher Cogswell, is an ancient being surviving on the deaths of others. Having been Jack the Ripper and responsible for a myriad of human atrocities, Cogswell preys on innocence by holding children and giving them to clientele to rape, torture and eventually murder. Eventually killing his own stock and sacrificing a follower to take on the strength of Shub-Niggurath, Cogswell opts to bring the apocalypse and completely exterminate mankind.
  • Greta Ludwig von Hertz, a would-be Mad Doctor who burned down the institute that expelled her, has graduated since to the poisonous Mad Scientist of crime lord Big D, having influenced him to start Purge Night. While running Big D's Organ Theft ring, Greta leads twisted and torturous experiments on innocents for little reason than to gratify her own sadism, snacking on human body parts regularly whilst horribly abusing her put-upon lackey Schultz day in and day out. With ambitions to launch a zombie apocalypse, Greta murders the child of Big D and manipulates his grief to control his crime empire, intent on deploying the virus in a series of major cities. Even when pointed out a full-out apocalypse will leave nothing to rule over, Greta shrugs it away and opts to burn the children she was planning to use as breakouts for the virus to soothe her frustration.
  • Crank Gibson, the Arc Villain of Chapter 4, is a drug lord responsible for the creation of Pleasure, a drug with euphoric effects and hideous withdrawal. Gibson demands the production of Pleasure through cheap slave labor, keeping his "employees" motivated via threats to families he's already murdered and detonating the hearts of any who resist. Gibson intends to facilitate Greta's Zombie Apocalypse on the promise to rule what's left, murders his defiant minions, and when Pinot turns his operation against him, Gibson detonates the bombs implanted in every remaining slave's heart in a fit of hysterical laughter.
• The Pirates Covered in Fur: Captain Lyle Krinkor is the vicious captain of the wolf pirates who seeks to destroy Diamond City in order to make his own empire for him to be worshipped. Krinkor begins the story by massacring the residents of an island in order to gain access to a super weapon, an indestructible robot dragon; Krinkor proceeds to use said dragon to invade Diamond city while ordering his crew to Rape, Pillage, and Burn all they can, causing mass swaths of death and destruction whilst Lyle keeps survivors as hostages. Later, Lyle instructs his crew member Marcus to blow up the bridge so as to trap the civilians in the city. Krinkor proceeds to murder several of Michum's friends, taking a sadistic pleasure in his actions. When the heroes storm the hotel he's keeping the hostages at, Krinkor instructs Pryllic to kill the rest of the hostages, having him kill several before the heroes save them. In his final confrontation with Michum and Tully, Lyle beheads Pryllic for failing him, mortally wounds Tully, and taunts Michum over the loss of his friends.
• Play with Me Reboot (link): Uncle Johnathan "Johnny" Williams, the uncle of Sally Williams, is seemingly a friendly and fun man who is revealed to have a sick and depraved side to him. Showing to despise Sally and becoming attracted to her due to spite against his brother Frank for marrying his crush, Sally's mother Marie, Johnny proceeds to sexually abuse Sally for four years, threatening her to keep silent. When Johnny finds out Sally and her friends have plans to expose him, Johnny chases her, threatening torture, before he murders her in a fit of rage, and when getting caught, refuses to take responsibility, proceeding to blame Frank and Marie for having the perfect life.
• A Practical Guide to Evil:
  • Dread Empress Triumphant^note May She Never Return, the evilest Tyrant to ever emerge from the Wasteland, was a prodigy Diabolist who climbed the Tower and cowed the High Seats into subservience through overwhelming might, with her hordes of devils and demons rechristening the Praesi Legions into the Legions of Terror. Within ten years Triumphant was able to conquer all of Calernia through dint of sheer bloody massacre, with notable crimes including the release of a Demon of Madness on Laure to exterminate the Alban dynasty completely; the slaughter of a fifth of the Gigantes in a battle that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives as collateral damage; the slaying of a Seraphim summoned to stop her, after which she butchered a hundred different tribes for their defiance; and the extermination of two random cities in her fury at being denied the Golden Bloom. Triumphant's reign was no better than her conquest, regularly involving children being forced to crucify their own parents, and her final act upon inevitably being overthrown was to bring down the Tower and unleash all her demonic contracts in an effort to take her killers with her. Having entertained wide-scale torture and murder with an eye towards expanding her rule across all of Creation, Triumphant inspired such fear and terror that countless future generations of Praesi pray she never finds a way to return from death.
  • Mighty Kurosiv, also known as "the Leech" and "the All-Knowing," was once a jaklavar noble of the Empire Ever Dark before he allowed Rumena and Sve Noc to kill the Twilight Sages, plunging their civilization into unending murder and horror in the hopes of taking over in the wars that would follow. Having learned how to come Back from the Dead and usurp portions of Night from its followers when they are slain, the Leech clashed with Rumena seven times over the centuries, intentionally throwing away the lives of thousands of warriors in every encounter to overwhelm Rumena's sigils and gorge itself on stolen Night. Continuing to use these horrid tactics when brought into the War on Keter, Kurosiv takes advantage of Sve Noc's weakness in the wake of Night being ruined to poach two shards of their Gloom, declaring itself the divine Loc Ynan and making an alliance with the Dead King. Telling its followers that they will be left in peace so long as the drow stay out of the war and allow the dead to scour Calernia of all other life, Kurosiv truthfully intends to sacrifice its entire race to finally ascend into the god it has always believed itself.
  • Book 6: The Wicked Enchanter used domination magics to murder, rob, and rape his way along the outskirts of the Brocelian Forest, with the tortures and rape he inflicted on one girl turning her into the Red Axe. On the advice of the Wandering Bard, the Enchanter joined the Truce and Terms for amnesty from his crimes, but not before taking his self-styled "court" to terrorize three more villages.
• Project ZERO (link): Doctor A is an alien pirate who sends androids to planets across the galaxy to exterminate all life there and sell its resources. Setting her sights to Earth, Doctor A first sends Zero, later named Nick, to continue her genocidal pursuit, but when he rebels against her, she sends other androids to finish Nick's goal. When One captures Nick, she orders One to torture him as punishment for his betrayal. After all of her androids are defeated, she decides to destroy Earth by firing a beam from her spaceship to rupture its crust and create enough volcanic explosions to blow the planet into oblivion or lower the global temperature to freezing levels. After Nick defeats her, she still tries to fire the beam onto Earth as one final act of spite.
• Proyecto Cabra stories: The creature that would be known as "Till" is the worst creation of The Creator. Created using the agony of dying souls, the creature was sealed in the Dreamlands because of his violent behavior until a human named Brian liberates him by giving him the name "Till". Using his new name to escape, Till kills Brian's mortal body and later, when Brian's soul tries to escape the Dreamlands, Till devours him and his friend. Leaving the Dreamlands, Till manifests himself to countless humans in horrific situations to torture and kill them, leaving only three survivors to tell stories about him. Till also tortures Douglas, administrator of the afterlife, in the most painful way to force him to feel fear, an emotion that Douglas was previously unable to feel. When the former human Luna turns into a Eldritch Abomination known as "Fear" because of Till's actions, Till proposes that he and Fear to join forces and establish a new order to overthrow the Creator and feed on human hearts.

R – Z

• The Red Maiden: Grace's Story: The Chieftain is a 60-year old noble and the short story's main antagonist. Having a history of abusing his sixteen previous wives by mutilating them before leaving them to die when he was bored of them, the Chieftain married Grace and abused her just as much for seven months, fascinated by her innocence and wanting to destroy it. When protagonist Mac Luaithre tried to kill him and save her, the Chieftain ripped out his heart. A year prior, when a farmer couldn't pay his taxes, the Chieftain decapitated him and took his head and daughter as compensation, marrying and abusing the latter before pimping her out. After Grace's death and resurrection, the Chieftain only showed pride upon seeing the undead, vengeful Grace, proud of having turned her into a monster. Upon his death, the Chieftain returned as an undead, and when his followers captured the undead Mac and Grace, he tried to have them either Buried Alive next to each other but separated by stone, or one of them forced to kill the other. Beneath his superficial, sarcastic politeness, the Chieftain was depraved to the core.
• Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline:
  • William Dudley Pelley is the "President" of the Free American State in a German-occupied Belarusian town of Maly Trostenets. Under Pelley's guidance, the Nazi collaborationist state recreates a twisted image of the pre-revolutionary America, where the ideals of National Socialism are upheld, the amended Constitution enforces racial oppression, and African-American prisoners of war are kept as slaves to emulate the idyll of the antebellum United States. The luxurious life of Pelley and other Nazi Americans in Maly Trostenets is maintained by oppression of the local population, subjecting the Soviet people to grueling forced labor and starvation rations. When the German defeat on the Eastern Front becomes apparent and food supply to the Free American State runs short, Pelley decides to cut rations for Soviet laborers even more in order to keep the parasitic existence of the Nazi American statelet undisturbed, leading to numerous deaths from hunger among the Slavic workforce. To withdraw himself from the horrific reality of the incoming Nazi collapse, Pelley indulges in rape, only to later shame the sex slaves for their "devilish temptations". When Pelley attempts to escape to American Havana after the German surrender, he is immediately brought back to the Soviet Union, as even the anti-Communist American state saw Pelley and his regime as a hideous disgrace to the American ideals.
  • Virgil Effinger is the leader of the Schwarz Legion, the military wing of the Free American State. Serving as the "Secretary of War" of the Nazi American puppet government, Effinger is responsible for repressing the native population of Maly Trostenets, taking a sadistic pleasure in brutal and inhumane torture and killing of Soviet citizens and American prisoners of war. Effinger especially hates those "Aryan" prisoners of war who refuse to join the Nazi side, throwing them to basement and letting dogs maul them. Effinger personally tortures and murders slaves who collapse of starvation and executes one Belarusian for each who drops dead from labor. As the tide of war turns against the Germans, Effinger becomes even more psychotic, causing him randomly murdering Slavic servants and even turning his gun against the Red American renegades, blaming their "lingering Redness" for defeat. Effinger is assassinated shortly before the Soviet liberation of Maly Trostenets under mysterious circumstances. Whenever he was killed by his Belarusian maid, the SS members who started to consider him "deranged and violent wastrel" or Pelley's goons who saw him as an obstacle for their evacuation, it is clear that everyone recognized Effinger as a deeply depraved and sadistic individual.
• Relive (link): Machea is a vicious demon who wishes to spread destruction and death to every kingdom in the world. Wanting to steal Hitori Kennin's power to achieve this, Machea orders his forces to attack the Dredia kingdom, massacring countless citizens and sacrificing the survivors to consume their souls and condemn them. When Machea discovers that Hitori escapes, he tries to manipulate him into joining his side, while also ordering him to massacre the village he just befriended. When Hitori refuses, Machea tries to kill him, swearing to condemn his soul for eternity as well.
• Risen and Fallen: Into Inferno (link) & Into Heaven (link): Lucifer was once a loyal angel to God, until he betrayed him for his creation of humanity, believing that they should be exterminated. Lucifer first launches an attack on London, where he slaughters thousands of citizens and most of the royal family, before coercing Victoria into becoming imprisoned in the city of Baratrum. Lucifer then manipulated the start of both world wars, which led to the deaths of millions of people. Eventually, Lucifer attempts to kill Victoria and her friends by wiping out the city of Baratrum. In the sequel, Lucifer launches an invasion of Earth, where his followers massacre entire cities. After taking the souls of Derrik and Victoria, he revives them into his mindless servants and sends them to kill hundreds of innocent citizens to both weaken the human resistance and to tarnish their reputation to their friends.
• The Rising of the Shield Hero:
  • Medea Pideth Machina is a sadistic goddess and the ultimate manipulator behind all of the villains in the story. Desiring ultimate power above all, Medea begins destroying 8 worlds to harness the energy of their inhabitants, all while using physical copies of herself to sow the seeds of distrust and chaos throughout the 8 worlds, simply because she enjoys hurting innocents. To compose herself an army, Medea revives and brainwashes the corpses of those killed through her machinations, with the psychopathic Tact being just one of her servants; Medea also has no care for this army, slaughtering them all when they fail her solely to hear them scream. In the end, Medea reveals her plans to extinguish all life in the universe one world at a time simply to boost her power level, before flying into a rage when beaten and simply trying to take down millions with her as she dies. A self-proclaimed sadist who committed her crimes for nothing but more power and always with glee, Medea was the root of every single evil in the story, something she proudly boasted of at every turn.
  • The King of Faubley is a grotesque pig of a man who abuses his position to gain new "playthings". Threatening other countries to send him women, the King is a Serial Rapist who takes brides to rape and torture them to death, a fate so horrible that many prospective brides opt for suicide if possible. Upon receiving the women, the King proceeds to "play" with them and have them healed to continue the fun, having 9,999 brides that he has raped and murdered. When the evil Princess Malty Melromarc is sent to him, hero Naofumi Iwatani cannot even watch the horrific recording of what the King does to her, despite Naofumi's hatred of Malty.
• The Ruins of an American Party System: William Dudley Pelley is the leader of the Silver Legion, a far-right extremist paramilitary that is responsible for numerous assassination attempts against American politicians and public figures. When President Floyd Olson declares all his organizations illegal, Pelley assembles his hardcore believers at Galahad College, calling for a preemptive strike against the state of North Carolina. In doing so, Pelley orders the Silver Shirts to assault police stations and kidnap civilians across the city to hold them as hostages. When Galahad College is surrounded by the National Guard forces, Pelley proclaims that he is the only true Messiah and that he will not negotiate the release of prisoners unless the United States government agrees to segregate the Jews, burn down the large metropolises and abolish the secular Constitution. When his demands are not met, Pelley declares that he and his flock would rather die in flames than live under the reign of Anti-Christ and provokes shooting from the soldiers. Falling down from gunshot wounds, Pelley drops his lit lamp at gasoline oil splashes, setting the whole building with hostages and his followers on fire. Orchestrating the horrible murder of 249 innocent victims in one day, as well as causing 144 deaths by the hands of the Silver Legion elsewhere, Pelley is remembered as the single most evil person in history by the American people.
• Sacrifice (link): Satan is summoned by a misotheistic woman called Rebecca Cecilia Mallory, who wanted him to resurrect her dead daughter Anastasia Hope Mallory. Requesting "great personal suffering" in exchange, Satan first horribly destroyed Rebecca's eyes, ripped off her ears, destroyed her nose, ripped off her tongue, skinned her alive and permanently paralyzed her. Satan then fulfills his part of the bargain, resurrecting Anastasia, fully aware that the latter will not recognize her mother and flee of terror in front of her now-monstrous appearance, before leaving Rebecca, who is still alive and conscious but unable to do anything.
• Sailor Nothing: In this dark Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction, Shoutan Himei, Komachi Aki, Kongou Shin, and their allies face multiple threats amongst the Yamiko, but it's the human or human-like nature of the following that makes them even more monstrous:
  • Dark General Radon, the very first Dark General, was freed from his Yamiko impulses by the priestess and tasked with training the Sailors to fight against the Yamiko and their Queen. Deciding to instead take the Yamikos for himself, Radon, as "Magnificent Kamen", recruits several girls as Sailors and Child Soldiers instead—such as the 11-year old Himei—and sends them against the Yamiko, only annoyed because they die before he could launch a final offensive. Kamen shows little hesitation in killing any eyewitnesses of the fight against the Yamiko. When Himei becomes too temperamental and traumatized, Kamen fires her in order to manipulate her into committing suicide. Defeated once more after this gambit's failure, Radon returns to the Queen's side, plotting to overthrow her, torture Himei for all eternity out of spite, kill her friends, and become the Yamiko leader. Upon fighting Himei's boyfriend Seiki, Radon taunts him about his insufficient skills and brags about how he'll make Himei his lover upon getting her back.
  • Kongou Akira is Shin's uncle and the CEO of Syber Investment Concern. Raping his niece when she was a child for the crime of annoying him, Akira used his connections to keep any evidence of his crime from reaching court, ensuring he'd walk away a free man. When Shin is shunned from hers and Akira's family after the event, she learns that Akira raped several other members of their family, and pressured them into staying quiet. With a hatred for children combined with pedophilic tendencies—as he got off on child pornography—and a shockingly personal depravity despite a near-nonexistent amount of screentime, Akira utterly outclassed most Yamiko in sheer wickedness.
• The Sandman's Pillow (link): Keith Hoffmann is the successful young founder of the Sandman Sleeper Pillow Corporation. Forced by his wealthy father to make his own fortune, Keith uses a magical storybook to summon The Sandman, and begins marketing sand-filled pillows as his company's gimmick. The sand causes anyone who sleeps on the pillow to fall into an irreversible sleep so deep that they are declared legally deceased, with at least 26 victims being claimed. Apathetic to this side effect, Keith hopes to eventually sell millions of pillows, and uses his connections to institutionalize anyone who attempts to hold him accountable.
• So I'm a Spider, So What?:
  • "D" is a powerful goddess charged with managing the Underworld, but is lazy and sadistic. Following a war with the dragons that left the Other World depleted of its magical energy and on the brink of collapse, D—who could have simply replenished it by herself—implemented the System, a JRPG-style cycle of reincarnation that only prolonged the Other World's degradation at the cost of millions of souls. Growing bored, D snuck off to Earth and masqueraded as a Japanese high-school student named Wakaba Hiiro until a Hero and Demon Lord destroyed the classroom in an attempt to assassinate her. Collecting the souls of her classmates, teacher, and a spider, D inserted them into the System while altering their reincarnations to play cruel pranks on them. When the spider—Kumoko—apotheosized into a goddess intent on avenging the suffering D had inflicted on everyone, D named her Shiraori to prevent her from doing so while sabotaging her plans to save the Other World. In the light novel, D further brainwashed Shiraori into slavishly falling in love with her to ensure her loyalty. When Shiraori is left in a severely-weakened state after dismantling the System, D captures her intending to keep her as a slave for further amusement.
  • Potimas Harrifenas's unethical experiments with MA energy in pursuit of immortality led to the creation of supernatural demihumans and predatory monsters; turned his daughter Ariel into a human-spider hybrid; and sparked a war between humans and dragons that led to most of the world's MA energy being siphoned—leaving it on the brink of implosion. Evolving himself into an elf, Potimas grew fearful of divine retribution and hid himself away, using clones and cyborg doppelgängers to continue his experiments in secret. Millennia later, Potimas discovered his second daughter Filimøs was the reincarnation of a human from another world and tricked her into helping him capture the other reincarnates, killing those he deemed a potential threat to his plans and intending to sacrifice the rest to attain godhood. When one of the reincarnates, Kumoko, allied with Ariel to oppose him, Potimas attempted to manipulate them into helping him seize control of a planet-destroying superweapon—callously sending thousands of elves to their deaths in the process—while repeatedly attempting to kill them out of spite. Continuing his MA energy experiments and superweapon development, Potimas manipulated the reincarnates he'd gathered into fighting to protect him when Kumoko—apotheosized into the goddess Shiraori—and Ariel led an army to stop his plans, intending to have his daughters fight to the death while he attempted to escape the planet.
• Somebody tried to kill me when I was young. A monster saved my life (link): Mr. Heinrich Gilad initially appeared to be a kind, caring figure towards the protagonist, Walter, helping the boy with issues with his troubled home life. However, Walter soon realizes that this masks his true dark intentions. In one of their previous talks, Gilad brings up how he always felt like he was putting up an act and holding back his instincts, deciding to act on them by murdering his students. Gilad lures 23 students to the school's basement, setting a fire that kills his students along with himself, destroying the school and leaving the survivors and community shaken. It's revealed that to scare his captive students into silence, Gilad slashed the throat of Walter's friend Oscar. Walter also realizes that Gilad's supposed kindness was an attempt to lure him to his death, and there were hints of Gilad's true intentions within the answers of a test he was writing.
• The Story of My Invasion (link):
  • Corporal Hauptmann is the overseer of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he works its hundreds of thousands of prisoners to death and exterminates more via gassing and cremating. He cruelly treats his prisoners, such as shooting one prisoner when he has a bruise on his face, and executes those who are over the age of fifty-five, deeming them too weak to work. He later sends the children to the Birkenau concentration camp, where he shoots one prisoner for protesting this and the children are experimented on and often killed, Georg gets specifically tortured via electrocution. He also supplies Josef Mengele's experiments by giving him prisoners to experiment on. When a revolt breaks out in the camp, he orders the guards to kill every rioting prisoner, shooting even Georg during the crossfire.
  • Ivan Demjanjuk is the guard in charge of the Treblinka concentration camp, where he mass executes his prisoners by gassing them in chambers and cremating their remains, with his victims including children. He personally kills the pregnant mothers that survive the gas chambers, shooting them in the forehead and in their womb. Whenever operations halt in Treblinka, Ivan still murders his prisoners by shooting anyone he finds. On Jan's last day in Treblinka, Ivan receives a delivery of many young, naked girls, where he first considers letting the guards rape them, before simply having them shot.
• Tails of the Bounty Hunter features these top members of the Quintuple Cartel:
  • Olly "The Baron" Kurrmor is the leader of the Quintuple Cartel and an ice-cold sociopath of a fox since the day he was a pup; he murdered another child simply for refusing to share his popsicle. The Baron precedes over widespread weapons trafficking, organized murder, and awful scientific experimentation, and kicks off the story offering his services to destroy nearly a billion lives on a moon threatening the empire his contractor represents-—planning to turn on and kill his own contractor afterwards to assure he isn't a threat later. The Baron's agents destroy entire cities and thousands of lives before he's finally stopped, and the Baron in response opts to annihilate his entire empire and all of his men with it, even murdering one of his men after having the minion tell him all about his life, simply to demonstrate how easy it is to take it all away.
  • Dr. Vogar "The Chemist" Oblingor is a rapist and murderer who once violated and killed the family of one of his test subjects. Perfecting chemical weapons by testing them on innocent subjects, the wicked crook hands them to the Cartel for widespread use. In his hideout, Vogar experiments on a large amount of innocent beings to make Super Soldiers, subjecting them to agonizing procedures, with not even children and infants being exempt. When cornered, Vogar happily unleashes his mutations on an innocent town to give himself leverage, gloating all the while how brilliant he is.
  • Gobor "The Terrorist" Grizzer is a thuggish pit bull with a life of rape and murder trailing behind him, having gleefully dominated and violated everyone in his way. Weaseling his way into becoming chief of police of Knochen City, Gobor continues to rape and abuse everyone he can while abusing his power to cover himself, having countless dozens killed in organized attacks throughout Knochen City to pin blame on a guerrilla movement called the Liberators. Eagerly taking part in the Cartel's plot to destroy hundreds of millions on a distant moon, Gobor tests out the compound meant to do so on a basketball stadium full of tens of thousands of people, forcing Cale Tomlik to watch after having raped him and tortured his partner.
• The Tale of Robert Elm (link): Valentine Ambrose Lombard is the leader of the Black Circle. While in its early days the cult was founded to prevent the spread of a plague, he seems to have taken up the mantle of leader for no other reason than as an exercise of his sadism and depravity. Lombard tampered with the mind of Robert Elm's lover, causing him to develop abusive tendencies, with the intention of luring him directly into the cult's arms to murder him and neutralize the threat he poses to his order. When Elm is assaulted by a zealous follower, Lombard nurses him back to health, all while slipping doses of human flesh into his meals—acquired from various captives held in a shack—to nullify Elm's power over him. Just as Elm is almost back on his feet, Lombard and his followers rehearse a ritual wherein he plans to sacrifice Elm, using the follower who assaulted Elm as practice, eating his liver after slaying him.
• The Ten Rings (link), The Tomb of Syethis (link), The Island of Fog (link): Baphoment is a goatman who becomes obssessed with reviving Tiamat to destroy the world and rule what was left. Recruiting Lucien and a tribe of skinwalkers, he sends them to massacre the town of Goldpiece to lure the Ten Rings away and allowing him to steal one shard needed to revive Tiamat, organizing numerous casualties. After murdering Father Lancaster to steal the shard, he then kills a gravedigger and sacrifices him to summon Thanatos to steal another shard. Once he acquires all three shards, he revives Tiamat and spends his last moments boasting about how she'll kill the Ten Rings.
• The Toadman Saga:
  • Keith "Toadman" Lesler was a Serial Killer who was executed for murdering dozens of children. On the brink of death, the Shadowbeast offers him the opportunity to return every 30 years. In the first part, he targets Abram Linfeld, beheading his two friends Donny and Angie and tying their heads to his waist. He then attacks Abram, chopping off his leg, the former only surviving thanks to a crate of fireworks. In the second part, a policeman, Tyler Smith, comes to investigate the murders. When he and local beat cop Doyle Wheeler head down to the mine shaft, Doyle, under the influence of the Shadowbeast, attacks Tyler. When this fails, The Toadman beheads Doyle, and then forces Tyler to free the Shadowbeast.
  • The Shadowbeast himself is an ancient alien who came to Earth and brought upon chaos and havoc, viewing himself as a god. Having been sealed away after murdering and mutilating children, the Shadowbeast made a deal with Keith "Toadman" Lesler to be resurrected every 30 years to act as his servant. Responsible for Keith's murders and possessions, the Shadowbeast manipulates those into releasing him from his prison, and when one person, Doyle, refused, he summons Keith to kill him, forcing his friend Tyler to free him and doom the world.
• Tommy Taffy series (July 1969; July 1987; July 1989; finale): The titular Tommy Taffy is a doll-like man who forcibly inserts himself into families' lives. Ostensibly there to help people raise their children as a "third parent", Tommy responds to any resistance to his presence with savage beatings. Angered at attempts to get rid of him, Tommy retaliates with further violence, going as far as to burn down an entire neighborhood on one occasion. Other notable incidents include Tommy forcing a broken broom handle down a man's throat and impaling him through the stomach while making the man's family watch; stuffing a little girl's mouth full of thumbtacks as punishment for phoning the police; and dangling a baby over a running garbage disposal. Tommy also has a habit of raping women who don't comply with him and playing mind games with parents by exhibiting sexual aggression towards their young children, knowing that the parents won't try to stop him for fear of incurring his wrath further.
• T.O.T.: Maximus Slade is a childish, sadistic werewolf with a love for all things destructive and whatever he deems "fun". His evil ways extending back to his childhood of torturing animals and ultimately strangling his best friend to death, Maximus was turned into a werewolf in his teenage years, and has spent all his time since indulging in whatever violent impulses his heart desires. On Halloween night in a small neighborhood, Maximus goes on a rampage, something he implies he has done plenty times before, slaughtering dozens of men, women, and children, devouring parts of their bodies, and littering the streets with their corpses. Along the way, Maximus tries to force a teenager to murder his friends, massacres an entire police station, and decorates trees with children's disemboweled bodies. To make his night extra "fun," Maximus plays a sick game with a group of young friends, culminating in him ripping one's chest open and burning another alive while attempting to force his parents to listen as he dies. Though claiming numerous times to just be having fun and play games, Maximus is nothing but a vile monster who puts his own lust for carnage and killing over the lives of countless innocents.
• To Welcome Oblivion:
  • Nyarlathotep is a wicked Outer God who has plunged trillions of lives into eternal agony within the Outer Planes, with entire civilizations driven to destroy themselves under his influence. On Earth, Nyarlathotep arranges events like The Black Death and the rise of Adolf Hitler for his own amusement, and manipulates the events of the plot by setting up the rise of both Peter Grallman and Dr. Lilith Madison into their positions, the former by killing his young sister Marissa. Arranging the opening of the Outer Gate as Noah T. Trepaly, Nyarlathotep eventually betrays both Grallman and Madison, torturing the latter into his possessed slave and unleashing the populace of the Outer Planes onto Rielington. Nyarlathotep slaughters thousands of people—such as tricking an cafeteria's worth of children into cannibalizing themselves and forcing hundreds of the Old Brotherhood's members to become either breeding fodder or food for the eldritch monsters he summons—and attempts to plunge the entire universe into the Outer Planes, and gloats to Grallman that he'll resurrect Marissa and torture and rape her for centuries in Grallman's form. With a mile-long sadistic streak underscored by a psychopathic sense of humor, Nyarlathotep commits every atrocity he does purely to satisfy his sense of amusement, intent on one day betraying even the Outer Gods to torment the rest of the multiverse himself.
  • Dr. Lilith Madison is a callous sociopath of a scientist with an utter disdain for any life other than her own. Obsessed with finding out the secret to life at any cost, Madison turns to murder to stimulate herself, such as deliberately suffocating an infant under her care. Upon finding a Deep One's carcass, she kills her own research team to use it for her own ends and allies with the Old Brotherhood and its leader Grallman to kidnap hundreds of innocents and implant them with organs from the Deep One to spread Eldritch Energy across the world, resulting in the painful deaths of those forced to bear the transplants. Causing a series of bombings that lead to over 250 deaths to cover the actions of Rhett Talbot, Madison eventually unleashes him onto Rielington to slaughter and rape as he will to take care of the Seratin sisters and Robin Lockwood. Ultimately, Madison betrays Grallman and tries to open a gate to the Outer Planes to discover the secret of existence, fully willing to let the denizens of the Outer Planes pour out on Earth and ravage humanity in the process.
  • Rhett Talbot is the sadistic Arch-Enemy of Elara and Kaya Seratin. As a teenager, Talbot molested several children while posing as a babysitter. After he was taken by the Old Brotherhood and experimented on, he used his newfound powers to murder his parents, and later conducted a series of massacres—one of which took place at a playground Kaya was playing at, where he cut off her arms and attempted to rape her. Several years later, Talbot goes after the Seratins again, where he murders several civilians and police officers in and around a restaurant. Talbot also participates in raping and killing members of the Brotherhood alongside the eldritch monsters in the breeding chamber, and when he's confronted by the Seratins again, he tries to rape Elara and kill them both, uncaring that Nyarlathotep is going to destroy the universe.
• Les traces du passé (Traces of the Past) (link): Sister Jeanne Belanger, while claiming to be a woman of God, was far worse. While she founded her orphanage with genuinely good intentions, she started torturing the children all day, starving, dehydrating them or even whipping them into unconsciousness. She'd also bring the children to pedophile priests, who would promptly rape and enslave them. When a group of orphans led by Sophie attempted to escape the orphanage, Belanger captured them at the last second and locked them in a cave, watching as they starved to death. Appropriately described by Luc De la Courbillère as the devil incarnate, Belanger, despite her short-lived influence, gave the children's ghosts a more than understandable Freudian Excuse for their actions.
• The Trees (link): Yum Cimil was a former commoner who took over Tikal in 750 A.D. and ruled with an iron fist, conquering neighboring lands and killing anyone for petty slights. When a civilian uprising rose against him, Yum quelled it and had all of the conspirators dismembered so that he could hang their body parts on trees as a warning. Once he was deposed by another uprising, Yum laid a curse to return in spirit, where he designed a black plague to ravage the entire world and kill countless people, solely to spite the rebels for overthrowing him. Returning centuries later, he concocts a more potent strain of tuberculosis to spread across the United States, killing thousands and ultimately planning to destroy much of the global populace so that he can rule the remains.
• Twig:
  • The Baron Richmond is the pinnacle of the Crown's depravity. Infamous for regularly unleashing his psychotic twin sisters to cause indiscriminate slaughter, the Baron is introduced gleefully participating in the complete extermination of the city of Lugh, only relenting with the promise of immortality from marrying Candida "Emily" Gage and Mauer's vow to assassinate his political enemies. In his spare time, the Baron rules tyrannically over the city of Warrick, killing whomever he pleases and filling churches with nailed-down and starved corpses of the faithful. When families are formed, the Baron takes their firstborn children to be auctioned off on the Block, replacing them with monstrous overseers whom he tells the parents are the firstborn transformed; said "Firstborn" are designed to fly into a rage and attack everyone in sight at the slightest hint of a conflict. To celebrate his marriage to his tortured bride, the Baron invites several upper-class families to Warrick, intentionally putting them and all of his subjects in danger of the Hair-Trigger Temper of the Firstborn should minor conflicts inevitably arise. Taking pride in his spiteful cruelty, the Baron happily throws away countless lives and backstabs anyone he can to attain the true power he craves.
  • The Lord Infante is introduced late in the series as the face of the Crown's atrocities in the Big Bad Ensemble. Fully complicit in the Block, where children are trafficked to either be used for experiments or be painfully transformed into the next generation of amoral Nobles, the Infante is also responsible for laying judgment on regions the Crown cannot control, having condemned a half-dozen other territories to genocide so that Crown loyalists can reclaim and repopulate them centuries later. When the rebel and plague-filled Crown States become too troublesome to manage, the Infante begins efforts to abandon the continent by directing the spread of the Ravage plague; using Black Wood to wipe out all organic matter; and releasing Tender Mercies to hunt down survivors. Falling in love with the taste of "total abandon" caused by the war, the Infante plots to wipe out the Lambs and their allies by forcing the Duke of Francis and his professors to march to their deaths on the threat of sending everyone they love to the Crown's pits, before personally infecting the loyal Crown armies duped by Sylvester with the plague for their unwitting betrayal. A monstrous antithesis to God, the Infante unflinchingly embraces his destructive purpose, madly seeking to prove the superiority of the Crown over all.
  • Dyed in the Wool & Black Sheep arcs: John Colby, aka "The Devil of Corinth", is the premier crime lord of Corinth. A warmonger who sold chemicals to both sides of conflicts, the Devil carved a bloody niche into the criminal underworld by visiting wildly disproportionate torture and murder onto any perceived disrespect or failure. Colby's signature business is peddling a drug that causes long-term damage to its users' bodies and polarizes their personalities, leaving them subdued one moment and magnifying their worst traits into bloodthirsty violence the next. When Sylvester demands recompense for the countless lives he's ruined—especially from the children he preys on and regularly traffics—the Devil responds by organizing mass attacks against the city's children and leaving bombs at a train station for the other Lambs. When faced with defeat, the Devil reveals he's bought entire wagons full of children from other cities to be "creatively" disposed of and has bounty hunters ready to wipe out all his enemies and associates, happily intending to take everyone else down with him.
• Twilight of The Red Tsar: Joseph Stalin, having survived the stroke that killed him in OTL, launches massive purges of Soviet society that kills hundreds of thousands, with many Soviet leaders, even loyal veterans, like Zhukov, being gruesomely executed. Continuing with the "Doctor's Plot", amplified by his paranoia, Stalin orders a purge of Jews from Soviet society, included loyal followers, persecuting them badly enough to have his actions labeled as the "Soviet Holocaust" or "The Great Pogrom". When the Sino-Soviet split happens due to disagreements with Mao Zedong, leading to the Sino-Soviet war, Stalin uses chemical weapons, unleashes smallpox on the Chinese, and destroys many villages before finishing the war by nuking Chinese cities just to spite Mao as Stalin starts to feel his own death, killing 50 million Chinese in the war. Out of prejudice and paranoia, Stalin orders an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Caucasus region and the Baltic states, save Lithuania, deporting its indigenous people into prison camps in Siberia, killing hundreds of thousands. Having destroyed many nations due to ambition, hatred and paranoia, Stalin left a bloody legacy that eventually lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself, now the most hated nation in the world.
• "The Unbekannt Mythos":
  • House of Darkness (link) & World of Darkness (link): Annul Sjena is an interdimensional entity who, feeling inferior to his neighbors, decides to cruelly toy with humanity to give himself a feeling of superiority. When Annul first arrived, he accumulated followers and tried to find a physical vessel so that he could create endless death and destruction on Earth while ruling what remains. When he was initially banished, he twisted the minds of thousands to turn them into his servants. After forcing James Marcen to be his next vessel, Annul enacts his apocalyptic plan, gleeful at the thought of killing billions. Even when Annul gets banishes by Allen Stone, he remorselessly taunts him about the mass destruction he's created.
  • Unnatural History (link): Mlothonep is a creature from the World of Darkness who shared his father's hatred for humanity and arrived in Ancient Egypt, intent on conquering the world, until he was stopped by the Egyptian gods. Returning in the present day, he manipulates Apophis, Sobek, and Set to his cause, intending to use the energy from their presence on Earth to overload its core and destroy it, which would exterminate humanity in the process. Upon discovering other dimensions containing humans, Mlothonep intends to travel to those universes and destroy them as well. When his plan is foiled by Zach and Ra, Mlothonep tries to kill them both, declaring that he'll lure in more Egyptian gods to Earth to resume his scheme.
• Uncle Peter lived inside the wall (link): "Uncle Peter" is a human-eating cryptid that takes over the Narrator's house to live inside a wall and torture his parents during the night. When the Narrator's maid tries to clean Peter's personal hole, Peter murders her and erases most memories of her. Despite seemingly showing a kinder side to the then-infant Narrator, Peter exposes him to violent and sexual content as preparation to force him and his family to participate in horrifying acts. Peter also isolates the Narrator by traumatizing his friends, and when the Narrator gets a girlfriend, Peter mutilates her in indescribable forms and casually eats her organs in front of him, making her one of the hundreds of victims that Peter killed over a decade. Eventually bored of his "family" after they tried to fight back, Peter leaves the Narrator's father permanently unable to use his legs and then frames the entire family for all his murders, smiling as they're arrested for his murders.
• The Unwanteds (link): The evil spirit, implied to be named Maeve, is summoned by teenagers Valerie "Val" McCoy, Tabitha "Tabby" Meyer, Brooke and Leila Sanford, who hoped to see their respective wishes fulfilled. First accomplishing Leila's wish of being powerful and confident by possessing her, the spirit manipulates Leila into alienating herself from the rest of the group, before fully possessing her and killing any trace of Leila in her own body. Later on, when called forth by Tabby, Brooke and Val, the spirit accomplishes their wishes of gaining attention and being "set apart" from the expectations of school, social services and their families by slaughtering the latter, notably leaving Leila and Brooke's grandparents terrified even in death, with "only their faces left undamaged and free of blood".
• A Very Lonely Road (link): Keaton is a vicious psychopath beneath his cocky fratbro exterior. Offering a ride to Amy and Julie after their car breaks down, Keaton begins instigating conflict with Amy to amuse himself, then physically attacks and threatens her when she tries to leave. Keaton has his two friends Billy and Peter take the girls to an abandoned barn in order to rape them, and twists a knife into Julie's arm in order to force Amy to make out with Billy. After Amy escapes, Keaton takes great pleasure in hunting her down, treating the ordeal like a game and gleefully attempting to stab her. He later tries to encourage Peter to rape Julie under the guise of helping him lose his virginity. Though Peter finds himself too nervous for this, he instead stabs Julie to death after being pressured into it by Keaton. In order to avoid punishment for his actions, Keaton intends to murder Amy and dump hers and Julie's corpses into a remote pond, something he is hinted to have done to others before.
• Weber's Germany: The Veterinarian Totalitarian: Reinhard Heydrich is a top-ranking Nazi and one of the party's vilest members. Controlling the Abwehr, Heydrich orchestrates the start of the Spring War by killing 20 people through the Danzig Crisis. Once tasked to organize the Final Solution, Heydrich decrees the Jews and other races deemed as inferior will be sent to Germany's African colonies and enslaved, where they will gradually be exterminated by being worked to death or sterilized. After being sent to manage the colony of Kamerun, Heydrich places the laborers under brutal working conditions, liquidating entire towns and sending thousands of them to work near Lake Monoun to asphyxiate from its volcanic gases.
• We lost our mother during the South LA Riots of 92 (link): The story's antagonist is an unnamed and malevolent Loa spirit who attempts to feed off of the chaos and anger drawn out by the LA Riots. Summoned by the Johnson family, the Loa possesses their mother, Terri, and secretly attaches itself to the younger brother Keldon. Physically tormenting a still-conscious Terri, it tries to have her murder her children upon revealing itself. The loa begins relentlessly stalking the children throughout the streets of LA, slaughtering anyone that gets in its way, including a squad of several cops and Terri's sister Naomi. Reaching a church, the Loa continues its rampage against gangsters trying to protect the Johnson children. Upon revealing Keldon as its host, it murders a pastor trying to exorcise Terri, and threatens to kill Keldon if his sister Ashley tries to help him. Looking for a new host, the loa ends up possessing their friend Jamal and his gangsters. The loa then declares its plans to destroy the city, and attempts to bring the church down on everyone, before the gangsters show enough willpower to kill themselves to destroy the spirit.
• Whateley Universe:
  • Deathlist is a psychopathic cyborg who has an obsessive desire to spread carnage for his own sadistic pleasure. Responsible for the horrific butchering of innocent men, women, and children, Deathlist reaches a new height of depravity when he kidnaps an innocent mutant superheroine. Removing her limbs and jamming a device into her skull, Deathlist has the mutant subjected to a month of torture and rape by his own troops. Deathlist later kills her and leaves her body as a taunt towards her teammates.
  • Hekate, real name Kallysta Thessellarean, is a sadistic sorceress who aspires to become something much worse. Sacrificing two children to learn a spell, Hekate uses her newfound magic to mentally enslave two of her classmates for a year, keeping them aware while they were raped and abused. Later trying to use the same spell on Fey, Hekate summons three iron elementals to brutalise her, promising them dozens of sacrifices. To spite Fey, Hekate stabs Jade in the heart, just to torment her foe.
• What Madness is This?:
  • Prince Viktor is a violent, unhinged lunatic who becomes the leader of Russia and England once his parents die. Before becoming a world leader, Viktor murders three prostitutes for no reason, and kills his two brothers when he learns that he will be skipped in the line of succession due to his belligerent behavior. Once he obtains power, Viktor immediately sets out on a war of aggression with Persia and China with the intent on expanding his territory and power. Viktor organizes genocides in Afghanistan and Baluchistan, partly out of a desire to keep them in line and partly to fuel his own sadism. Viktor also organizes massive pogroms across Russia, killing many thousands of Jews. When England rebels against him due to his actions, Viktor orders his troops to raze London and kill every man, woman and child. When France and Sweden blockade Russia's ports to stop his depravity, Viktor seriously considers starting a global war with them, prompting the armed forces to launch a coup and have him killed.
  • Charles Oswald, aka John F. Kennedy, is the "Beast of America" and the Republican Union's most hated and feared leader. Murdering his own family to take a new identity, Oswald takes to having people deemed inferior rounded up for mass execution and massacres southern civilians on whims to terrify them into obedience. Taking power with his predecessor's death, Oswald engages in false-flag terrorist operations to excuse giving himself emergency power and eventually orders Rio nuked, killing over three million people. Using his military to conquer and oppress other nations, Oswald also turns his bigoted eyes on his own black population and puts many millions to death. When faced with open rebellion Oswald begins having his own cities nuked, eventually trying to destroy his own capital out of spite.

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