Sandbox / Magnificent Bastard Fan Works

"This Batman is a mystery. You cannot catch a mystery. I have to solve it."

"Steve Rogers. Your comrades have fallen by the wayside. You stand alone, the only bastion preventing me from slaughtering your comrades inside and obtaining the Time Stone from them. Your efforts are valiant, but they will prove futile. It is as this universe's version of me said to that pest of a trickster god. Dread it, run from it, destiny still arrives all the same. You have my respect, Captain. Surrender, and you will have my mercy."

— Thanos-842667, Avengers: Endgame (Dragonis Prime)

Fan creators have produced many witty, unscrupulous masterminds, be they versions of canon characters or their own original inventions.

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The following have their own pages:

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• Destinies of Remnant
• The New Order: Last Days of Europe

Creators with their own folders:

Coeur Al'Aran

Examples

• Professor Jaune Arc, through a mountain of lies and the power of his reputation, gradually proves himself as a genuine manipulator and strategist as time goes on. Coming into his own by forcing Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan to obey him, Jaune grows exponentially upon becoming Headmaster, managing to defeat Cinder Fall and place her powers into Pyrrha. Later pulling a similar gambit to defeat Adam Taurus by exploiting his rage, Jaune even gives the go-ahead for Cinder to steal the Winter Maiden powers, putting her under his control in the process. When Salem then tries to advance on Vale, Jaune manages to bluff her into a complete retreat with only a broom and a box of cigarettes, simultaneously tricking Cinder into compliance through a mountain of pre-written letters predicting her actions. After pulling a series of gambits to get Salem inside and convince her to spare humanity, Jaune later combats Hazel Rainart's usage of the Relics with his own, destroying him and saving all of humanity. Years later, during the Arc Royale, Headmaster Arc becomes a genuine master manipulator and plays both sides of the war against each other repeatedly, orchestrating multiple battles between the sides; gathering information on the other Jaunes to use to his advantage; having Roman and Neo infiltrate the Atlas airship to kill Ozpin when he loses a fight; and ultimately blows himself up alongside Null, forcibly ending the game in a draw and saving a second Remnant.
• Jaune Ashari, determined to prevent the Bad Future no matter the cost, becomes far more intelligent and ruthless than in the original timeline. Originally wandering the planet trying to bide his time for the future, Jaune begins taking active steps against Salem and proves himself her greatest opponent, not only taking out her forces one by one but sabotaging her future plans to prevent her from getting a foothold on Remnant. From uniting Vale's gangs under his own banner, destroying the White Fang in a single evening, using Hazel Rainart's death to pose as a mole for Salem's organization, converting Cinder to his side through promises of power, and even creating a new energy source out of Aura along the way, Jaune's resolve carries him for years, even when he learns that defeating Salem will kill him as well. Managing to steal and unite the Relics, Jaune defeats Salem once again despite her attempts to subvert Emerald, returning to the timeline he once abandoned and resolving to continue fixing the world once more. During the multiversal battle, Ashari keeps his head down and focuses on redeeming his daughter Emerald once more, managing to defeat Teams RWBY and JNPR literally singlehandedly and being the only person to ever scratch Knight; his death protecting Emerald then motivates her to kill Cinder in his name, completing her redemption.
• Jaune Xiong begins as a rejected student being beaten up in an alley and rises to the undisputed kingpin of Vale's underworld. Forced into leading the Xiong Clan by Cinder Fall, Jaune slowly learns the ropes of the criminal underworld before finally taking control when Laurie Laurette and Dominic Hands attempt to assassinate him. Massacring the attacking combatants, including executing several survivors, Jaune later leads the charge against Hannah Steele, killing everyone on his quest to the top of the Valean Alliance through False Flag Operations before executing Hannah herself. Put in charge of bombing Amity Colosseum by Cinder, Jaune works to undermine her, completely destroying her plans and ensuring her death. During the multiversal battle, Xiong allies with Headmaster Arc to manipulate both sides of the battle, once more killing all of the Xiong Clan's enemies, blackmailing the heroes into leaving him neutral by threatening to publicize the war and incite mass panic, and ensure Cinder's downfall by getting the Fall Maiden to the Malachite twins and away from her grasp, finally getting the chance to see her face as her plans collapse and laughing even as he's burned to death.
• Knight of Salem: Doctor Arthur Watts, shedding his usual petty and sadistic nature, is instead the only reason why Cinder remains a threat. While Cinder focuses on gaining power no matter the cost, Watts focuses on keeping her mission afloat, managing to keep her alive in spite of the damage the Grimm pools do to her and even serving as a successful spymaster to give her intel from her former allies and from Atlas. When she finally loses any shred of sanity or intelligence and attacks Vale, Watts takes advantage and sneaks back to Jaune, giving him the means to kill Cinder by preying on her predictable and power-hungry nature and happily returning to his former queen's service once she's dead.
• Null: General James Ironwood may have originally been too idealistic for his post, but once he makes his deal with Jaune Arc, he proves just how much of a strategic genius he really is. After learning that Ozpin has Amber Arc hostage, he responds by informing Blake Belladonna of the situation, causing her to ally with Jaune and kill Matthew Fields, just as he intended for her to do. Meanwhile, predicting a betrayal from his own forces, he has Clover empty out his own airship's weaponry, preventing the Council from framing him for mass murder and allowing him to blackmail them for his investigative powers back. To deal with Ozpin, he strikes a deal with Qrow and Glynda to lead Jaune straight to him and his sister; the resulting battle kills Ozpin and Cinder, ridding Ironwood of his two biggest enemies, and following the battle, he helps Jaune fake his death so that he, Jaune, and Neopolitan can continue killing anyone who tries to resurrect the conspiracy, as well as giving him a permanent method of balancing his idealistic self with his ruthless Semblance.
• Relic of the Future:
  • Raven Branwen, after confronting her cowardice and throwing her lot in with Jaune, proves to be just as intelligent as her partner. After using Jaune's mission to render the Relic of Knowledge inert to learn just who he is, Raven begins working both with him and independently to subvert Salem's plans, primarily by training his younger self in her brutal method of combat. Saving Jaune's life multiple times with her portals, Raven consistently plays her part in Jaune's plans to perfection and adds her own ideas, such as giving herself and Jaune alibis for Hazel's death, convincing Ozpin's forces that Nora Valkyrie is the Spring Maiden, using the Maiden powers on Atlas soldiers to provide cover for Watts' kidnapping, and summoning Summer to kill Oscar. Despite her emotional struggles and original cowardly nature, Raven is Jaune's most useful ally and contributes just as much to their partnership as he does.
  • Adam Taurus is the Only Sane Man of the White Fang who genuinely believes in the cause he's fighting for. After witnessing Jaune protect them from a mob with the threat of violence, Adam is inspired and helps radicalize the Fang, yet when he sees how far they've fallen, he refuses to sink to their level. Becoming the Fang's most useful operative despite his distaste for killing, Adam sees the writing on the wall and concludes the Fang will collapse on itself, seeking a way out for himself. After psychoanalyzing Jaune and attempting to save him in Menagerie, Adam later conspires with Winter Schnee to wipe out the Fang, preemptively betraying his soldiers before they can kill him and intending to lure the Atlas military to the Fang. Though Jaune kills them first, Adam gets out alive and un-captured with Blake, becoming Chieftan of Menagerie and working with Ironwood to make equality the law.
• The Self Made Man:
  • Tony Scarlamento is one of Jaune's top advisers and his most valuable teacher in the criminal underworld. Managing all of the Clan's detailed work, such as keeping track of their legitimate businesses and their moles in the police, Tony's advice ensures Jaune's continued survival against the rival gangs, with Tony even discovering and then tracking a rival gang encroaching on their territory. Later being the one to discover the Ravagers lacing their cocaine with Dust, Tony also utilizes the gang's information networks to find Tukson and unearth Blake Belladonna's past when it's needed. Later on managing the massive Dust payment Cinder requires and leading the charge at the handoff, Tony's advice is most valuable during the attack on the Club, where Tony manages the defenses and even sells the gas leak excuse for the police by blowing up part of the Club after clearing up the battlefield in less than an hour.
  • Lord Bon-Hwa of the East Dragon Company is a dangerously efficient enforcer of his gang. Carrying himself with a genuine sophistication and nobility, Bon-Hwa begins by deducing Kane's intention to have Jaune killed and warning him of such. When Jaune brings him evidence that the Ravagers are lacing their cocaine with Dust, Bon-Hwa wisely waits to prove it himself; as soon as he has, he massacres the entire gang in a single evening, with no innocents caught in the crossfire. Later on managing a 12-tonne order of Dust for Jaune and managing to secure it within a few days, Bon-Hwa also asks for payment in drugs to ensure it can be laundered effectively. Later on turning the tide for the Xiong Clan during their battle and ensuring their victory, Bon-Hwa is the exact type of crime lord Jaune models himself after as he rises to the top.

Franchises with their own folders:

Dragon Ball

Examples

• Abridged:
  • "There's Something About Maron": Maron is an agent working for the IRS investigating Krillin for insurance fraud. Masquerading as a Brainless Beauty, she pretends to be interested in Krillin and has him spend ludicrous amounts of money on her. After capturing Krillin admitting to committing fraud via a hidden recorder, Maron cheerfully admits her true intentions, but decides not to have him arrested out of pity. However, she still keeps the $500,000 Krillin spent on her for herself; leaving him in massive debt and forced to stay at Kame House for the foreseeable future.
  • The Christmas Tree of Might: Turles is a Saiyan survivor who leads a band of loyal criminals, whom he rescued from the Planet of Misfit Minions. Turles developed a burning hatred for Christmas, due to Santa Claus never visiting Planet Vegeta and robbing him of the joys of Christmas. As a result, Turles made it his life's mission to ruin Christmas on other planets by planting the Christmas Tree of Might, which would absorb all of the planet's Christmas joy, intending to do so on Earth. Meeting Gohan, Turles recognizes the boy as a Saiyan, where Turles pushes a Pressure Point to make Gohan's tail regrow, then tricks him into looking at an Artificial Moon he created. Gohan transforms into a Great Ape, with Turles pitting him against Goku, though when Goku halts his son's rampage by cutting off his tail, Turles commends Goku for this move. Fighting Goku, Turles gives himself the advantage by eating fruit from the tree, beating down and very nearly killing Goku.
  • Broly — The Legendary Super Saiyan: Paragus, after being stabbed and Left for Dead along with his son Broly by King Vegeta out of fear for the latter's power, desires revenge through the King's son. To do this, he recruits the Shamosians to build an infrastructure on a planet on a collision course with a comet before arriving on Earth and offering Prince Vegeta a planet to rule over, purposely taking advantage of his egotistical personality. When his plans are inevitably exposed, Paragus does not descend into a Villainous Breakdown but rather confesses his plans and backstory to the Z-Fighters. Even though he did not intend to trigger Broly's transformation — due to previously having wiped out the South Galaxy before — Paragus nevertheless showed pride in his son while letting him kill the Z-Fighters for him. Lacking the worst traits of his original counterpart, Paragus attempts to eliminate Vegeta not through brute strength but by knowledge and manipulations of the arrogant Prince.
• In Pursuit Of Vengeance (link): Dodoria proves to be significantly more intelligent than his canon counterpart. Tasked by Frieza to watch over the forcibly recruited Goku, Dodoria tricks him into purging a helpless alien race by taking advantage of Goku's grudge against Raditz. Over time, Dodoria begins to form a bond with Goku, and when the Saiyans betray Frieza, Dodoria deduces the existence of the Namekian Dragon Balls, intending to use them as a way to persuade Frieza to spare Goku for his treachery. Attacking Namek alongside Zarbon for its Dragon Balls, when Dodoria discovers Goku intends to use them to revive the purged Earthlings, he turns against Frieza and kills Zarbon by surprise. After shielding Goku from Captain Ginyu's body swap technique, Dodoria impersonates Ginyu to trick Frieza into thinking the Saiyans are still on Namek, buying Goku time to resurrect everyone on Earth. Dodoria then goes to Earth to train the revived Z-Fighters, allowing them to grow strong enough to protect the planet from Frieza's forces.
• Multiverse:
  • Captain Ginyu of Universe 8 was once the esteemed leader of the Ginyu Force, punished by Frieza for a past failure. Using his "Body Change" technique to fake his death, Ginyu goes into hiding and plots revenge against his former master. Taking over King Cold's body and usurping his place as leader of the Frost Demon empire, he keeps up the masquerade for decades and trains himself to control Cold's great power, even managing to unlock two new transformations in secret. In his battle against Bra of Universe 16 during the tournament, Ginyu takes advantage of the Saiyan girl's pride and arrogance to give himself an advantage in the fight, only losing due to Bra fighting dirty herself. Ginyu uses his Body Change technique to swap bodies with Bra and leaves her trapped in his old crippled body, only narrowly thwarted by virtue of Vegito's sheer strength. Even as Babidi's thrall, Ginyu is no less competent a fighter, making unorthodox use of his Body Change technique to make his enemies mutilate themselves before swapping them into one another's dying bodies.
  • Bardock of Universe 3 shows himself to be more than a low-class Saiyan thug. After foreseeing Frieza's genocide of the Saiyan race, Bardock successfully rallied the Saiyans to rebel against Frieza by overthrowing King Vegeta. The Saiyans under Bardock's new leadership then seized control of Frieza's empire, with Bardock using his precognitive powers to devise long-term plans to eliminate any competitors. To avoid any power struggles that would undo his work, Bardock willingly stepped down as king, instead becoming one of the empire's chief advisors to continue running affairs from behind the scenes, all the while adapting his plans to whichever Saiyan ascends to the throne.
  • Hanasia, Queen of the Saiyans: Snower is the second son of Emperor Blizzard of the Frost Demon Empire. Snower acts as the Empire's administrator to appoint his followers to important positions, while his efficiency makes him a trusted figure even as he secretly plots to seize total control in the future. When his brothers leave to seek revenge on Hanasia for the death of their brother Chilled, Snower takes advantage of their absence to enact his long-awaited coup. Snower covertly aids a group of rebels seeking to break free from the Empire, assassinating his father and older brother as well as Hanasia. Victorious, he offers the rebels a chance to join his ranks, or return home with their newly earned independence only to withhold any assistance to the independent planets unless they let themselves be annexed by his new empire.
• PRIMAL: Cooler is the brutal but charismatic leader of the Cooler Empire. A gifted scientist and martial artist since his youth, Cooler rejected his father King Cold's tyrannical methods and sought to conquer planets through more honourable means, fighting and earning the respect of their world's strongest fighters, first doing so on planet Hera and even helping some of their people escape when his father found out. Upon being disowned and exiled to a desolate planet, Cooler allies with the natives to create the Big Gete Star program and relocates the surviving Herans to assemble an army to combat the Frieza Force, traveling the cosmos and welcoming strong planets into his empire while purging weak worlds so the universe was strong and knowledgable enough to survive. Arriving on Earth upon learning of Frieza's defeat by Goku's hand, Cooler shows genuine care for his men and challenges Gohan all while offering him a place in his empire. After being defeated and fatally wounded, Cooler sincerely congratulates Gohan, proving himself more virtuous than the original film.
• What If Zamasu Did Nothing Wrong?: Zamasu in this fanwork still harbors some resentment for mortals but chooses a far different path upon being brought to Barbari by Gowasu. Instead of believing that mortals are universally irredeemable, he instead decides to prove his own worth as well as his belief that the gods should have a hands-on approach with mortals by civilizing them himself to his own standards. Using cunning and trickery, he's able to convince the Barbarians that he's an omnipotent being who created their world, all the while remaining hidden except from his chosen prophet. Through his guidance and teachings, the Barbarians' civilization grows considerably in only a few centuries. When the Barbarians split into two warring factions, Zamasu finds a new prophet in a ki-possessing Barbarian named Decraf, and together they are able to build an army strong enough to defeat the current prophet and unify the Barbarians. In the present day, Zamasu finds that his plan has worked and Barbari has become a space-age marvel. Deciding to replace the stubborn Rumsshi with Decraf, Zamasu manages to restore the latter's youth and convince Rumsshi to train him. In the end, having a new appreciation for mortals, Zamasu sacrifices himself in exchange for repairing the damage caused by his main timeline counterparts.

Hellsing

Examples

• Script Fic trilogy, by Logan Lattina (Hellsing; Hellsing 2; Hellsing 3):
  • Nosferatu Alucard, in truth Vlad the Impaler himself, is a gunslinging vampire dearly devoted to Integra Hellsing and her plan to save humanity from monsters. Previously foiling the Major's plans back in World War II, Alucard later murders Integra's corrupt uncle Richard to protect Integra and make her the true heir of the Hellsing Organization. Regularly killing humans and monsters alike who stand in his way, Alucard often uses his opponents weapons and strategies against them, frequently catching them off guard while doing what he can to spice up his fights. Eventually caught in the Major's trap that leads him to dissipate into nothingness after absorbing the blood of millions, Alucard slowly makes his way back to reality by picking out every personality inside of him, just to return to Integra and Seras.
  • Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing is the tactical leader of the Hellsing Organization. Sworn to protect humanity from monsters, while keeping their existence a secret to the public, Integra often uses her cunning to protect her men, from getting Anderson to stop killing Seras by letting him know his mission's already completed, to gunning Jan Valentine down before he could have a chance to slaughter her entire council. Later invited by the Major to witness Alucard's demise, Integra has Seras destroy the Major's protective shield, then shoots him with a gun she kept hidden inside her coat, killing him at the cost of her eye.
  • Walter C. Dornez, "The Angel of Death", is Integra's loyal retainer and retired fighter who assisted Alucard in taking down the Major's operation in the war. Hiding his combat skills behind a meek demeanor, Walter is able to easily dispatch Jan Valentine's ghouls during a mansion raid with several carefully planned traps and ambushes. Later kidnapped by the Major and forcefully turned into a vampire to fight Alucard, Walter chooses every option he can to ensure Integra and Seras's safety, afterwards tracking down the mad Doctor and holding him in place as a crate crushes him, even spending his final moments reflecting on his friends and family.
  • Father Alexander Anderson is an agent of the Iscariot Organization's Section XIII who views himself as Heaven's messenger. A Knight Templar dedicated to rid the world of monsters, Anderson shows disdain for the Hellsing Organization for hiring vampires. Showing himself to be a clever fighter who often traps his opponents in Bible-paged covered rooms to weaken them, while even out-matching Alucard on several occasions and earning his respect, Anderson displays standards by teaming up with Integra after his maddened boss Father Enrico Maxwell decides to side with Millennium and rid Britain of its humans and monsters. Harnessing his own army of rogue Iscariot troops to help him weaken Maxwell's forces, Anderson lures Alucard to London to kill Maxwell for him and to get one final chance to fight him with the power of Helena's Nail. Defeated, Anderson wishes Alucard good luck in his plan to stop the Major.
  • Second & Third scripts:
    • Captain Pip Bernadotte is the leader of Wild Geese. Hired by Integra to assist her in uncovering Millennium, Pip rids a hotel of its surrounding soldiers by killing some of them with sneak attacks, then plants a bomb that finishes them off. When Zorin Blitz invades the Hellsing mansion, Pip reveals to have set mines to take care of them, while also willing to allow himself and his men to die just as long as he can ensure Seras's survival.
    • The Captain is the honorable third member of the Millennium who lacks the sadism of his comrades. Kidnapping Walter by intercepting his deadly wires and knocking him out while he's distracted, the Captain, in truth a werewolf, ultimately longs for death. Engaging in a fight with Seras when she enters the Major's zeppelin, the Captain gets Seras to pull out his silver tooth and pierce his heart, dying with a smile.
• Abridged:
  • The witty, rambunctious Alucard was once Vlad the Impaler, abandoning God after his childhood rape at the hands of his Turkish captors. Offering his soul to Satan, he became the vampire Count Dracula, lazily empowering himself with the blood of the dead, becoming a near-unstoppable force until he was defeated and recruited by the Hellsing Organization. Their best and most loyal agent despite his rude, silly demeanor, Alucard proves their best asset in discovering and eradicating the Nazi remnant group Millennium's plot, even as he apathetically kills luckless civilians in the way.
  • Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing is the ruthless and iron-willed head of the Hellsing Organization, having taken command by killing her traitorous uncle at a young age. Commanding the fearsome Alucard through sheer respect and never hesitating to unleash him on her foes, Integra proves clever and brutal, convincing her financiers to continue funding her organization through intimidation, trapping and killing the vampiric invader Jan Valentine, devising a method to attack an inaccessible ship via stealing resources from the British government, and keeping up with the schemes of both her rivals the Iscariot Organization and the secret organization Millennium, never lacking a dry quip or a display of valor, even foiling a coup with utter nonchalance. Able to constantly improvise and devise tactics to outplay her opponents, Integra personally confronts and executes Millenium's leader The Major despite Alucard temporarily dying, and goes on to rule the Hellsing Organization for years to come.
  • Much as in the original story, Alexander Anderson is an Iscariot agent defined by his brilliant tactical mind and being nearly unstoppable in combat. Ambushing Alucard and Seras at the start and putting a beatdown on them both, Anderson escapes the arriving Hellsing and continues to cause mischief for them and Millennium alike. Later saving Sir Integra from Millennium's forces and allying with her, Anderson helps take down his former boss Maxwell despite having raised Maxwell himself. After a failed attempt to forgive Alucard his sins and send him to God for judgment, Anderson accepts his own dying fate and earns Alucard's friendship, even trying to offer the vampire parting words of help in his final moments.
  • The parody version of Pip Bernadotte remains the Wild Geese's genius mercenary captain. Pip quickly shows his skills to Hellsing by killing off a group of Millennium-affiliated corrupt police officers. Later holding Zorin Blitz's vampires at bay, Pip outwits the psychopath and even dies empowering his lover to massacre his killer and her remaining forces.
  • The Major is the insidious head of the Millennium Organization, and a much more comical character than his canon counterpart. Spending countless years in the shadows and organizing a vicious attack by using vampiric Nazi soldiers merely as a means to end, finding the Nazi ideology distasteful, the Major tests the waters with multiple agents before sending out his lieutenant Rip van Winkle, knowing Hellsing will send Alucard with no way to return him to London. Once Alucard is gone, the Major sends his army upon London with dramatic flair, orchestrating the invasion brilliantly and dismissing the mass casualties on every side when Alucard arrives, even using Schrodinger to temporarily kill the vampire. When confronted on his zeppelin, the Major tells Integra and Seras that he did as he did to snap a warlike humanity out of their complacency and challenge his own tactical skill, dying happy to have achieved his goals.

RWBY

Examples

• Children of Remnant: Cinder Fall is Queen Salem's chief strategist, put in charge of ensuring her war with humanity begins. To that end, she manipulates the Claimed to earn their trust, whispering in Jaune's ear to attempt to trick him into war. Behind the scenes, she hires Dr. Merlot to trick the Schnees and Belladonnas into attempting to assassinate Jaune, utilizing her spies to ensure they go through with the plan; simultaneously, she raises public tensions against the Claimed by assassinating anti-Grimm speakers and advocating for war. When her plan ultimately fails and she learns of how she was manipulated by Salem, she turns against her former master and tells Jaune the truth of their "mother", ultimately dying while defeating Tyrian and taking the identity of the Summer Maiden to the grave.
• Resurgence: Raven Branwen is a huntress and a former member of Team STRQ. Upon discovering a mystical pool that allowed her to see various possible futures, Raven realized that desperate measures would have to be taken to ensure the one future where humanity survived. To this end Raven made the painful decision to abandon her family so that they could achieve their full potential. Taking the alias Krymsen, Raven approached Cinder Fall and used her access to the Pool of Life to help her carry out her plans, all the while manipulating her to ensure that the heroes of Remnant had a fighting chance. Upon deciding that the pieces were in place Raven reveals her true intentions to Team RWBY before mortally wounding Cinder with the aid of Neo. When Salem is defeated, Raven absorbs her power and decides to stay in the netherworld, both to ensure the balance and to serve penance for her crimes.
• War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology (Volume 4's "Yellow" arc): Hector Blaze is an older Patch detective who, after his son is killed by Carter Pillar and saving an infant Sapphire Ensley from him, became a vigilante. If his targets confess to their crimes and turn themselves in, he lets them live. If they refuse or they are Beyond Redemption, he simply kills them. After Yang comes to him after learning of Carter's part in the murder of Sapphire's parents, he teams up with her to take down Carter and his operations. Even in his old age, he's able to brutally and effortlessly kill off several of Carter's men without a scratch when taking out Carter's drug lab. Helping Yang get her drive back while playing the devil on her shoulder, they kill Carter and put an end to his operations for good, ending the night burning every single one of his properties down.

Other examples:

Anime & Manga

My Hero Academia

• Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: Izuku Midoriya, aka Mastermind, was once a Quirkless teenager with dreams of becoming a Pro Hero but a combination of his dreams being crushed by All Might and discrimination against the Quirkless preventing him from getting a legitimate job ultimately drive him to become the title character, selling plans to other villains to make a living. His excellent analytical abilities and the high-quality plans he provides to villains via said abilities quickly make him into The Dreaded within months, becoming responsible for the deaths of hundreds, including more than a dozen Pro Heroes. He takes full advantage of his public life to throw off the police, letting him evade capture for more than two years. On top of that, he made plans in the event he does end up captured and incarcerated in Tartarus.
• Nemesis: Two years after faking his suicide, Izuku Midoriya, aka Mischief, calls Bakugou out as his nemesis, and ropes him into a "game" of Heroes and Villains with nearly a dozen hostages' lives on the line, remaining one step ahead of him all the way and psychologically tormenting him all the while. In the end, he gets his revenge, not just by breaking Bakugou's psyche, but by exploiting his Inferiority Superiority Complex to strip any pride he could feel from achieving his life-long dream of becoming the number one Hero.

Naruto

• Echoes: In a fanfiction full of characters and universes, these characters have distinguished themselves through their morally dubious, but brilliant feats:
  • Sasori, eclipsing his canon counterpart, is "The Puppet Master" in more ways than one. Promoted to chunin as a child after single-handedly killing 50 enemies by poisoning their water supplies, Sasori, in adulthood, joined the Arashi clan with his student Chibaku and his subordinate Kabuto. Sasori proved to be valuable; in Kitsune's world, he effortlessly blackmailed the Hokage into handing the Kyuubi-possessed Naruto over to him. Through quick thinking, he forces Tsukiyomi to reveal more of his techniques even though he was losing, which proved to be useful when fighting Amaterasu, who has similar abilities, in the Wave-Verse, briefly crippling him. When most of the Arashi clan was imprisoned in a nigh-inescapable prison in the Cloud-Verse, he and Chibaku successfully broke out the entire group from the prison with their plan. He discovered most of the truth about the Dystopia-Verse by spying on an ANBU and had the perfect seal to defeat its dictator. When the Third Kazekage tries to use Sasori's body against Chibaku, Sasori self-destructed to save Chibaku. Called a Magnificent Bastard by Chibaku, Sasori has more than lived up to the name.
  • Amaterasu, AKA Kitsune's world's Madara Uchiha, promised to his dying little brother he would remain a samurai and follow the Bushido code to his last breath. Desiring to get back at his clan for "betraying" their former virtues and becoming ninjas, to destroy Konoha for "betraying" him and to throw the world in a state of perpetual warfare to supposedly help mankind improve, Amaterasu orchestrated the Kyuubi's attack on Konoha. Despite the attack's failure, Amaterasu manipulated Fugaku and Mikoto, counting on their coup attempt in Konoha to fulfill his objectives throughout the ensuing chaos. When he discovers Shisui spying on them, Amaterasu gives him a Breaking Lecture, leading Shisui to foil the coup by killing the clan, but still giving a victory to Amaterasu. Recruited by his counterparts Susanoo and Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu formed with them the Madara Trio. In the trio's attempts to harness Kazama's power, Amaterasu shined through his sheer strength, honor, adaptability and contingency plans, killing the Wave-Verse Kyuubi and knowing which one of his 100 weapons he had to use to adapt to his enemies' techniques. When finally defeated, he congratulated his killers, acknowledged his mistakes and peacefully passed on.
  • Tsukiyomi, AKA Kazama's world's Madara Uchiha, deserves his name of "The Deceiver". Wanting to harness Kazama's power and to destroy Konoha for "betraying" him, Tsukiyomi formed the Madara Trio and successfully destroyed Kazama's devotion to Konoha through Half Truths, also implanting Amatsu-Mikaboshi inside Kazama to further corrupt him. When Kazama was separated from his friends and ended up in the Ame-Verse alongside Susanoo and Tsukiyomi, the latter pulled an Enemy Mine with Kazama and both trained and manipulated him, resulting in both Kazama taking over Ame and finally snapping and destroying Konoha, thus fulfilling Tsukiyomi's life-long objective. Having grown to sincerely care for Kazama, he followed him in the "Road to Ninja" world and sacrificed himself to help Kazama overcome Amatsu-Mikaboshi. Willing to negotiate, affable, polite and ruthless, Tsukiyomi was the most successful villain in the entire fanfiction.
• Redemption (link): Muraki Nikko, a former Kusa kunoichi, swore revenge against the five great shinobi villages after their neglect led to the death of her family. Testing her Kekkei Tota, Blossom Style, Muraki uses it as a drug to infect her former village with a mysterious illness, aware of her old village's status as the smallest ninja village to avoid unwanted attention. When Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno come to investigate, Muraki attempts to infect the two through different ploys, succeeding twice with Sasuke before leaving to Suna, planning to infect the five major shinobi villages and let them blame each other, starting a world-wide conflict she'll then take advantage of by revealing an antidote she'll sell to the highest bidder, thus controlling them and making them go through the pain her and her village went through. When Sasuke and Sakura manage to catch up to her in Suna and fight her, Muraki manages to paralyze them, nearly killing Sakura by the time Sasuke defeats her. After Sasuke and Sakura convince her to stop, Muraki accepts her defeat and starts making up for her crimes by working in Suna's medical unit.
• White Eyes:
  • Itachi Uchiha and Neji Hyuuga keep their canon genius and go much further. Ordered to massacre the Hyuuga clan, with the exception of Hinata, to prevent the Uchiha coup attempt, with Neji taking the sole blame for it and subsequently leaving Konoha, Itachi and Neji launch Operation: White Eyes to protect Konoha and the world in the long run. For this purpose, they manipulate their own loved ones, various nations and politics all over the world, successfully infiltrating and spying on Akatsuki for Konoha, and defeat potential Akatsuki recruits. When Fugaku attempts to become Hokage, Itachi helps Hinata stall him long enough for Tsunade to return and take the set instead. When Hinata gives up on vengeance against Neji, the latter kidnaps her summon and forces her to fight and kill him in a location away from Konoha, keeping her safe from Pain's assault on the village. By the time it was completed, Operation: White Eyes left a long-lasting impact on the entire world, leading to the Toneri threat being neutralized, Hanabi surviving the Hyuuga massacre, Danzo's death, Kabuto and Edo Tensei's defeat and helping Team 7 defeat Madara and prevent the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
  • Madara Uchiha retains much of his canon counterpart's backstory and motives, but proves to be more powerful, brilliant and ruthless. Successfully reviving the Ten-Tails despite Obito Uchiha's attempts to slow down Madara's Eye of the Moon Plan, Madara—as an Edo Tensei—also out-gambits Obito by not immediately sealing Kurama's Yang half, contrary to what the latter expected, leading to Obito going berserk when the latter absorbed the Ten-Tails in an attempt to outsmart Madara. After the Ten-Tails' extraction from Obito's body, leading the latter to fully resurrect Madara in an attempt to blind and weaken him, Madara uses Hashirama's Sage chakra and Black Zetsu to keep fighting. Sending Black Zetsu to distract Hinata, Madara becomes the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki in the meantime. Keeping the advantage against Team 7 through a combination of sheer power and smarts, Madara is only defeated when Team 7 proves to be just as resourceful. Every bit the Well-Intentioned Extremist he was in canon, Madara ultimately agrees to resurrect all of the Fourth Shinobi World War's victims at the cost of his own life.

Others

• Berserk Web Video Abridged: Griffith, charismatic leader of the Band of the Hawks, manages to press Guts into the Band before taking the lead in Midland's Hundred-Year War. Using his command of tactics and the proper battle music to set them to, Griffith leads them to victory after victory before taking the impenetrable Doldrey fortress. Luring out its corrupt Governor who lusts after Griffith's place in his Escaflowne cosplay group, Griffith then fakes his death to catch the Queen of Midland in a plot and burns her and her co-conspirators alive. When the time comes to sacrifice the Hawks to the Godhand, Griffith can only refuse and tells the demon lords to leave him and his friends alone before recovering and setting off to become king.
• Cowboy Bebop Fanfic Two Dragons: This version of Vicious remains a composed, nihilistic, Darwinist assassin. The most effective of the Red Dragon Syndicate's agents, Vicious kills scores of their enemies and sets up a drug deal to have his own mentor assassinated, allowing him to frame Spike Spiegel and stage his best friend's "execution" to murder the Van and take control of the Syndicate. In the following month Vicious proves an unmatchable tactician, spreading the Red Dragon's influence across Mars and when Spike tries to flee with his girlfriend Julia, sets up a trap to force Spike to fight him, wishing to die facing the ultimate opponent.
• Death Note Fanfic Liability (link): Misa Amane, once given her memories back via the Death Note, decides to take the chess match between Light Yagami and L Lawliet and "flip the board over". To that end, she begins by forcing Mikami to call the Task Force and confess to being Kira before committing suicide, simultaneously subjecting Light and Takada to death by fire so that they can take the Death Note with them. Immediately afterwards, she relinquishes her ownership and hence memories of the Death Note, ensuring that she can't incriminate herself as the 2nd Kira. With Soichiro forces to save his wife and daughter from a house fire, L investigates Mikami's death and finds two notes: one supposedly written by Mikami confessing to all of Light's crimes, and another for L's eyes only in which Misa details her plan, not identifying herself but warning L that going after her won't end well for him. With the power of Kira gone from Earth and herself left blissfully unaware, Misa retires with L to Wammy's House.
• One Piece Fanfic This Bites!:
  • Rob Lucci is the deadliest agent of Cipher Pol No. 9. After abducting Nico Robin and Franky from Water 7, Lucci sets off explosives around the island to keep most of the people of Water 7 from helping the Straw Hat Pirates pursue his team to Enies Lobby. At Enies, Lucci fights Luffy and nearly wins. Upon being offered a job working for the New World Masons, Lucci accepts only after Captain T-Bone defeats him in single combat, whereupon he commends T-Bone as a Worthy Opponent. Lucci then begins subverting and recruiting the other Cipher Pol units, and by the Battle of Marineford, he has recruited all but CP0. At Marineford, Lucci and his subordinates help save Luffy and Ace from the Marines, and afterward Lucci agrees to put Marguerite through Training from Hell in the Six Powers in exchange for her teaching Haki to him and his men.
  • Vice-Admiral "White Feather" Komei is one of the most intelligent members of the Marines, having discovered the existence of the New World Masons multiple times and having chosen to let Tsuru erase his memory each time. Having been assigned to guide Sabaody and the entrance to the New World, Komei establishes a highly effective blockade, forcing the Thirteen Supernovas and dozens of other pirate crews to work together to break the blockade. Using privateers as meat shields, Komei slows down the Supernovas in order to let the weaker pirates shatter against his vanguard, forcing the Supernovas to engage the main force of the blockade with limited backup. With his blockade force only being broken by the Straw Hats' previously-unknown secret weapon, Komei simply acknowledges his failure as a learning experience and moves on from it.
  • Magellan is the Warden of Impel Down and the most powerful combatant on its staff. Despite being a cruel man in command of a cruel prison, Magellan's devotion to his justice is absolute; he will not break the rules of his prison under any circumstance. When Luffy breaks into Impel Down, Magellan defeats him in combat, dealing him several blows that almost kill him. Later, when Luffy and the prisoners he has recruited attempt to break out, Magellan faces them again, but chooses to let them go after Luffy survives his Poison Goetia so he can better fight Blackbeard, reasoning that they're sailing to their deaths at Marineford. Magellan proceeds to win his fight with Blackbeard, and is only prevented from killing the Blackbeard Pirates by the accidental involvement of "Wet-Haired" Caribou. Upon receiving inarguable proof that the World Government's justice is corrupt, Magellan agrees to join the New World Masons, taking a seat among the Zodiac of the Damned as a sign of independence, and begins re-evaluating his prisoners' sentences with the help of the Revolutionaries.
• Synépeies - A Collection Of NTR Consequences Chapter 17: "Retaliation": The protagonist Kosuke, upon realizing that his wife Yui has been cheating on him with, and impregnated by, his own father, decides to seek revenge. Taking his father out for drinks to celebrate "his" child, he gets himself just drunk enough to convince his also-drunk father to drive. Then he hijacks the car and crashes it into a location he carefully calculated to allow him to survive but kill his father, also having shorted out the airbag beforehand. In the hospital, after learning his father survived, he keeps calm and tricks Yui and the Doctor into thinking it was a drunk driving accident, then learns his father has been rendered a vegetable and takes the opportunity to torture him. Finally, he hires an attorney, gathers evidence of the affair, divorces Yui, and wins custody of Aya while financially devastating Yui and his father, going on to raise Aya as his little sister.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Fanfic Agents Of Light (link): Professor Lyman Banner is even more cunning and devious than in canon. Seeking the power of the Sacred Beasts to create the Philosopher's Stone, Banner teams up with Kagemaru. Hiding his allegiance with the Shadow Riders from Duel Academy, Banner orchestrates the disappearance of several students, including Atticus. Needing Jaden for his strong duel energy, Banner foils every attempt the protagonists make to get him expelled. Manipulating a group of students into reviving Jinzo into the human world, he makes a deal with Jinzo to kill the protagonists. Banner lures Ghassan into a cave and holds his soul hostage to blackmail Scott and Damian into dueling Zane. Anticipating that one of them would come after him, Banner fakes his death at Jinzo's hands and leaves Jinzo behind to kill Damian. Being defeated by Zane, Banner reveals that Camula has been watching them the whole time, revealing the true method of reviving the Sacred Beasts to her, Banner calmly blackmails all of them before gracefully accepting his death.

Comic Books

Batman

• Control Premium (link): Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, is a bookkeeper and enforcer for the Wesker gang. As an expert forger and financial wizard, he plays a major role in keeping the gang solvent, also playing a role in various negotiations. Despite his ruthless criminality, Oswald has a number of humanizing qualities, such as his care for his mentally ill mother and his genuine friendship with his boss's nephew Arnold. When one meeting goes south due to some members of the outfit being revealed to have been bribed to turn traitor by the leader of a rival gang, Oswald resolves not to go out without a fight, and starts thinking of ways to save himself even as he is led outside to be executed. Unexpectedly saved by Arnold, Oswald tricks the rival gang's leader, Mr. Goode, into becoming his hostage and turns his own henchmen against him. After sending Goode fleeing to Europe, Oswald and Arnold make an agreement to share power, while he resolves to make his nickname a name of fear.
• The Gotham City Society of Fireproof Women: Cassandra Wayne is the daughter of assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva, raised since birth to be a perfect killing machine. Running away after her first murder, Cassandra sought redemption by joining Batman as "Orphan," getting adopted by Bruce and incarcerating her parents. Eventually chosen to be his successor, Cassandra returns the legend of the Dark Knight to its urban myth roots as a monster lurking in the shadows, leaving armies of broken mobsters in her wake. Upon learning of Ra's al Ghul and the Arkham Knight's plan to destroy Gotham, Cassandra anonymously feeds Astrid information—even allowing her to capture and brutally murder an oblivious Nightwing—to ensure the Arkham Knight won't kill the rest of her family and endanger the unknown mole, before secretly resurrecting Dick with a Lazarus Pit. Willing to leave her grieving comrades in the dark to ensure her plan's success but ultimately never swaying from her dad's one rule, Cassandra sabotages the pair's scheme before it even gets off the ground, ruthlessly proving once and for all why she is the worthiest successor to the mantle of Batman.
• Batman: New Times: The Joker schemes to pull off the greatest stick-up the world has ever seen. Taking advantage of the crowd that will gather for New Year's, Joker springs a trap involving armed thugs and a weaponizes jack-in-the-box to force the crowd to hand over the valuables, distracting Batman the whole time by having Harley run rampant in a van. Making his escape with the loot via helicopter, Joker reveals he planned for Batman's arrival by forming an alliance with Catwoman, and works with her to nearly destroy the Dark Knight once and for all.

Marvel Universe

• Civil War:
  • Civil War Hulk: Loki is the puppetmaster of the events leading up to the Civil War, working with Baron Mordo to drive the Scarlet Witch insane that led to The Avengers disbanding, trapping the world's heroes in a dream where mutants are the world’s dominant species, and manipulating The Illuminati into exiling Hulk into space. Using the introduction of the Superhuman Registration Act to his advantage, Loki killed and impersonates Maria Hill to drive a further wedge between the pro and anti-Registration sides, planning to take over Earth once the dust settles. Even with the unexpected arrival of Hulk and his Warbound, Loki successfully bargains with the Hulk into leaving Earth be once he gets his revenge on The Illuminati, leaving Loki with one less threat and a weakened Earth for him to conquer. Opportunistic as always, Loki adapts to any situation before him and is only thwarted by Thor's unexpected revival.
  • Not A Typical Civil War (link): Doctor Doom is the mastermind behind the Superhero Registration Act and the resulting Civil War. Seeking to turn the world's heroes against each other, Doom hired Nitro to fight the New Warriors in Stamford, leading to the deaths of over eight-hundred civilians and causing the public to turn against the superhero community, with Doom working with Maria Hill to escalate tensions between the pro and anti-Registration sides. With the info gathered from the Registration Act, Doom learned all of the heroes' secret identities and the locations of their loved ones. Doom eventually trapped both sides of the conflict in the Negative Zone and released the supervillains from Prison 42 to kill them. He then sent The Sentry to attack New York City, planning on killing him so he could be hailed as a savior and be given control of the Earth. Focused solely on his dream of world conquest, Doctor Doom nearly rid himself of the world's superheroes by turning their own ideals against them.
• The Punisher Fan Video Do Not Fall in New York City (link): Frank Castle aka the Punisher, discovered that his former friend, who saved him during The Vietnam War, Joe, killed his wife and now is on the run from the police. Deciding to kill him, to prevent the media from "dragging him through the mud", Frank quickly and easily destroyed the camera of the reporter and then effectively eliminated the SWAT team, that was sent to capture Joe. Tracking Joe down and killing him, Frank tells him "it's OK Joe, I caught you", mirroring what Joe said to him in Vietnam.

Films

• Avengers: Endgame Fanfic Avengers: Endgame (Dragonis Prime): Thanos-842667 maintains the guile of his canon counterpart in this alternate telling of the film. After wiping out half of all life in the universe, Thanos retired to the Garden in peace. When the Avengers arrive seeking revenge, Thanos destroys all but the Reality Stone to prevent them from undoing his work. After he's killed by Thor, the Thanos of an alternate timeline learns about the history of his counterpart and sets about to assemble his Infinity Gauntlet more efficiently. He helps start Ragnarok to kill Thor, and murders Eitri before he could forge a weapon that could kill him. Thanos fails to collect the Time Stone and spends the next few years balancing worlds one at a time while crushing the rebellion led by the surviving Avengers. Realizing the main timeline would have the Time Stone he needs, Thanos travels to the Avengers Compound and tries to recruit Steve Rogers to his side. When that fails, he strips Carol Danvers of her powers and has Ebony Maw destroy his home dimension to keep him focused on his new goal of wiping out half of all life across the entire multiverse.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy Fan Film Batman: Puppet Master: Edward Nigma is an FBI agent brought in to take down Batman, who has become dedicated to "bringing the Dark Knight into the light." Nigma unleashes Mr. Zsasz into Gotham to distract Batman while Nigma robs Arkham Asylum of a case for the mobster Scarface. After arranging a meetup with Scarface to exchange the case, Nigma reveals he has a bomb to keep Scarface in line as he offers a team-up and instigate a gang war so massive it will tire out Batman and wipe out all other crime families in the city. Having planned ahead for Batman to intervene in the sit-down, Nigma skillfully evades the hero's weaponry and stabs himself in the leg to frame Batman further. Nigma promises Scarface that by the time their scheme is done, the city will belong to the mobster, and Batman will fall before Nigma's superior intelligence.
• Fanboy Prewrites the MCU Spider-Man College Trilogy, by troyoboyo17 (link): Wilson Fisk is the former Kingpin of Crime in New York City, looking to regain his lost power. Debuting in a meeting full of criminals who were invited by Lonnie "Tombstone" Lincoln, Fisk easily gains everyone's attention by offering his henchman the Chameleon quintuple the paycheck that Tombstone was offering. Fisk and Tombstone both compete over who can obtain the Venom Symbiote, but that was just a distraction in order to buy out Tombstone's territory. He would then set up bombs in the area to frame him for mass murder in order to look like a hero, thus, securing his title as the Kingpin of Crime. This plan nearly results in his victory, only failing because of the surprise return of Spider-Man in the eleventh hour.
• Fanscription:
  • "What if the Joker Was in 'The Dark Knight Rises'?" two-parter: Bane and Talia al Ghul, the children of Ra's al Ghul, take over the League of Shadows following his death. Together, they seek to destroy Gotham and get revenge on Bruce Wayne for their father's death. Bane attacks a stock exchange and costs Bruce his fortune by using his finger prints. Meanwhile Talia takes the identity of Miranda Tate in order to gain access to Bruce's fusion reactor and control of his company. Having Selina Kyle lead Bruce into a trap, Bane easily bests him in a fight, breaking his back and imprisoning him in the Pit, before taking over Gotham and cutting it off from the rest of the world. When the Joker is released, Bane engages him in a gang war, managing to keep him contained to the Narrows. Though ultimately defeated, Talia informs the heroes that she flooded the reactor room to prevent them from defusing the bomb. Proving worthy successors to their father, Bane and Talia come with in a hair's breadth of winning.
  • "What If Harvey Dent Was In 'Batman Returns'?" & "What If Tim Burton Directed 'Batman Forever'?" two-parter: Catwoman, real name Selina Kyle, once again is the slippery and smooth operator she was in her film appearance. Fulfilling all the same actions she did in the film in her first appearance: such as joining forces with the Penguin to frame Batman for the attack on the Ice Princess, whom Catwoman didn't plan on getting killed; undermining Max Shreck and eventually killing him too, Catwoman once again survives and ends triumphant. In her second appearance, while Selina is incognito for the majority of the story and doesn't come back until the very end, she reveals she's kept tabs on Bruce and has recently provided the evidence that officially clears Batman of all wrong-doing she set him up for—"to make Gotham's nightlife a little more interesting"—before once again slipping away into hiding.
• Godzilla Neo: King Ghidorah is an ancient space monster created by the Garoga to help perpetuate their The Social Darwinist ideology by wiping whole planets clean of life. After being defeated twice by Earth's guardians, he plotted for decades to get more power. Discovering a powerful young psychic, Ghidorah mentally influenced and manipulated him for decades, eventually leading the boy to ally with the alien Kilaaks, turn himself into a human-Ghidorah hybrid called Monster X, and invade Earth. Killing Monster X to take his power, Ghidorah turned into his Super Mode Kaiser Ghidorah, requiring a Heroic Sacrifice from Zilla and a Desperation Attack that seemingly killed Godzilla to be taken down. Capitalizing on the greed and fear of the Earth Union leaders, the nearly dead King Ghidorah still manages to hijack their plans to rebuild as Mecha-King Ghidorah, killing nearly all the heroic kaiju under the guise of protecting humanity before fleeing into space with his pilot Emi Kano. Returning to earth when Godzilla was reborn as Super Godzilla, King Ghidorah learned he had been replaced with the monster Bagan by the Garoga. Realizing that he will never be able to destroy the Earth however hard he tries, he joined the fray to aid Godzilla, weakening and restraining Bagan long enough for Godzilla to kill them both, but not before ejecting Emi so she would survive. Defined as much by calculating intellect and limitless patience as much as sheer strength, King Ghidorah stands as the greatest of Godzilla's rogues gallery.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) Fanfic What REALLY Happened (link): Clopin Trouillefou is the leader of the Romani population of Paris who seeks revenge on Claude Frollo, France's Minister of Justice, and also wishes to end gypsy persecution. To this end, he makes an arrangement with an old rival of Frollo's named Jean-Michel du Champs who wants to be Minister of Justice. The night after the Feast of Fools, Clopin imprisons Frollo in his own dungeons and replaces him with a disguised Jean-Michel, who begins sullying Frollo's name by persecuting many Parisans. Learning of Jean-Michel's plans to betray him, Clopin outplays him by subtly getting Quasimodo and Phoebus on his side, resulting in Jean-Michel's death. Even after being paralyzed in a violent incident at the Court of Miracles, Clopin still refuses to give up and is soon working on new plans. Only failing due to things he had no reasonable way of knowing about, Clopin proves a genuinely cunning and compelling antagonist.
• Star Wars Fanfics:
  • Roger, Roger: 711 quickly proves an adept commander. Mounting a defense of the mines of Khorm, 711 baits the Republic troops into an ambush and defeats them quickly and efficiently, only losing the mines because the local warlord's failed attempt to destroy the Jedi along with Ventress and 711 allows the Jedi to destroy the weather control machine keeping Republic reinforcements at bay, which Ventress and 711 make the warlord pay dearly for. 711 then builds the Network, which turns the droids under his command into a frighteningly effective fighting force, and goes on a campaign of capturing Republic ships with ruthless efficiency. After 711 soundly wins the battle of Iraknya but fails to keep Admiral Himler from destroying the Iraknian capital, 711 hands Himler and his men over to the Iraknians to convince them to join the Separatists. After being assigned to take part in the attack on Kamino, 711 mounts a highly effective siege, defeating the reinforcing Republic ships even when severely outnumbered, severely damaging Tipoca City and crippling its cloning facilities, and almost destroying it completely, with only the Jedi's last-minute intervention saving the city.
  • Star Wars REDONE: General Grievous becomes much more of a threat here than in canon, thanks to his intelligence and greater sense of honor. Now serving as the leader of the Confederacy and The Dragon to Darth Sidious/Sheev Palpatine, Grievous is first established as being a Jedi-killing machine who also leverages his nonhuman origins to sway thousands of nonhuman worlds into joining the Confederacy, reduced the Confederacy prior leadership to Authority in Name Only, and above all else, wishes to kill as many Jedi as possible. On Nelvaan, he hacks R2-D2 to trail and easily capture Obi-Wan Kenobi, whom he then subjects to torture solely to break him, while also gaining the genuine respect of Jango Fett with their mutual hatred for the Jedi. When Mace Windu shows up with a hundred Jedi to rescue Obi-Wan from Nelvaan, Grievous eagerly fights and cuts down dozens of them in spite of being outnumbered, and makes the Jedi's victory at the Battle of Nelvaan come at an especially heavy price. Near the end of the Clone Wars, Grievous spearheads the attack on Coruscant, where he fakes the kidnapping of Palpatine and effortlessly kills an entire platoon of Clone Troopers, then leaves Palpatine for dead on the Invisible Hand while it is crashing onto the planet, who only survives thanks to Anakin's piloting skills. Later on, Grievous correctly suspects Sidious of planning to betray him during the Battle of Kashyyyk, and plans his escape from the battle as a contingency, only being interrupted at the last minute by Obi-Wan Kenobi in a duel that ends up being his last. After Sidious confirms that he intended to betray Grievous, Grievous decides to go down fighting against an army of Clones, and in his dying moments, reveals to Obi-Wan the true identity of the Sith Lord the Jedi have been searching for, and dies while gloating to Obi-wan that he achieved the one thing that brings him solace: "a future with no Jedi".
  • The Fall Of The Infinite Empire (link): Zhed-Hai is one of most influential Elders of the Rakata Infinite Empire. A genius genetic engineer who created many species populating the galaxy, Zhed-Hai grows dedicated to destroying the Infinite Empire and make sure no other species rises to terrorise the galaxy. Capturing two of Kwa and their Calestial master, Zhed-Hai works with Kwa to create substance to take Force away from Rakata, remorsefully sacrificing the lives of thousands of Rakata in his experiments. Zhed-Hai takes an interest in Tatooinian humans and works to foster Force-sensitivity amongst them. He takes a large number of humans from Tatooine to his research facility on Lenoh and obscures his true goals from the Council of Elders. He grooms Force-sentive human Myra into a leader while pushing for the extermination of the Sith, seeing in them too much potential to become the next scourge of the galaxy. When an attack on the Sith homeworld fails, Zhed-Hai he decides to kill Adas and send the Sith back into a civil war. Zhed-Hai plans to unleash the Old One Bogan. Using his treacherous attendant Fa-Rush to get a way to Belsavis where Bogan's prison is located, Zhed-Hai plans to use kolto to rob Rakata of the Force and distribute it to species under Rakata's rule. Manipulating Bogan into killing Adas, Zhed-Hai sacrifices himself to kill Bogan and help humans escape Lenoh, paving the way for both Jedi Order and Galactic Republic.
  • This Place Was Home webcomic: Jango Fett and Zam Wesell prove to be a clever and capable duo outside of the affable "found family" dynamic displayed when raising Boba. When their mission to assassinate Padmé fails and Zam is caught, the two arrange for Zam to fake her death with a poison that simulates a death-like state, allowing her to slip away and ensure no one can follow her back to Kaminoa. Though Obi-Wan tracks Jango through other means, the Mandalorian is nonetheless able to viciously ensure his family's safety; implanting two clones with his and Boba's memories, Jango allows them to be pursued and torn apart in the harrowing events of Attack of the Clones, spiriting away Zam and Boba in the aftermath so they can finally experience a normal, happy life.
  • What If Anakin Skywalker Was A Mandalorian Jedi (link): After being adopted by the Kryze family, Anakin Skywalker starts learning Mandalorian warrior ways while discovering his Force sensitivity. After being given the writings of Tar Vizsla by Bo Katan, Anakin learns Force powers greater than most Jedi and concludes it is Mandalore’s destiny to rule the galaxy. Joining with Death Watch, Anakin wins the Darksaber from Pre Vizsla and leads the Watch in a coup on Mandalore. He rallies Mandalorians to join the Clone Wars and, when the Republic sends Obi Wan to Mandalore to negotiate, he challenges the Jedi to a duel before killing him to raise morale of his warriors. Organising a meeting with the leaders of the Jedi Order and the Republic purely to measure their threat level, Anakin leads the Mandalorians into war against both the Republic and the Separatists. During the war, Anakin personally slays large number of Jedi and even personally kills General Grievous, while leading the army to conquest with the goal of taking Coruscant. Anakin personally leads combined Mandalorian forces to attack Coruscant and destroy the Jedi Order, facing Yoda and uses Mandalorian assassins to defeat him, before facing Darth Sidious and revealing that he suspected the Sith were behind the Clone Wars and prepares a weapon against them. Anakin kills Palpatine and takes command of the Republic and the galaxy, while making his pacifistic sister Satine head of the government to help Mandalore rule the galaxy.
  • The Will of the Empire: Darth Vader experiences a premonition of his fate at the Battle of Endor and resolves to make his death mean something. Transferring his most trusted officer Admiral Piett to another Star Destroyer to increase his chances of survival, Vader develops a contingency plan for the Empire to survive without the Sith. Mortally wounded after killing Emperor Palpatine to save his son Luke, Vader declares himself Emperor and establishes that Luke shall succeed him, then broadcasts his last moments to Piett's ship as confirmation of his orders before dying peacefully in Luke's arms. Vader's plan, drawing together disparate parties all over the Empire, results in the deaths of thousands of the worst the Empire has to offer, leaving Luke with few challengers to take the throne. Vader also attempts to atone for the Empire's mistreatment of the Noghri by revealing the Empire's indifference to their plight and giving them a chance to save their planet by banking on his children's characters, while serving as a Spirit Advisor to Luke about who he can trust amongst the Empire and how to beat Force-wielding assassins.

Literature

Battle Royale

• Folie A Deux (link): Kazuhiko "Kaz" Yamamoto and Sakura Ogawa are leagues more devious than their canon counterparts. Causing a crime wave through Shiroiwa, they hid their true selves behind a friendly facade and framed the town's local gangs and criminals for their deeds. Forced to participate in the Program alongside their classmates, Kaz and Sakura decide to play until finding a way out and manipulate their way through the Program, teaming up with Yuka Nakagawa and Satomi Noda against Kazuo Kiriyama, poisoning the Lighthouse Girls and surviving an encounter with Mitsuko Souma when she saw through the latter plot. Figuring out how the explosive collars work by inspecting Satomi's, Kaz and Sakura find a way to remove theirs without setting them off. When taken by surprise by Shogo Kawada, Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nanahara, Kaz and Sakura remove their collars as well, recruiting them and escaping to the mainland after the Program was finished by creating fake identities. Assigning the trio to different jobs suiting their talents to better benefit their criminal careers and torturing Yonemi Kamon to death to avenge their deceased classmates in the Program, Kaz and Sakura get away with their schemes.
• Heads Is Heads (link): Kazuo Kiriyama is a cold-hearted gangster known for his inability to feel empathy and ruthless tactics. After flipping a coin to destroy The Program, Kiriyama immediately sets to working against his captors, recruiting students, killing foes, and bonding with Izumi Kanai despite his icy demeanor toward her. Using his analytical talent, Kiriyama deduces that one of his recruits, Sho Tsukioka, is a murderer who plans to pick them off one by one, and disposes of him right in front of the others. Launching an attack on The Program's headquarters, Kiriyama and his recruits destroy The Program and make off with a boat to escape the government. Always pragmatic yet never cruel, Kiriyama ends the story safe in another country, perhaps having even regained the empathy he didn't know before.

Harry Potter

• The Umbrella of Almightiness: Rubeus Hagrid is revealed to be the true mastermind behind the events of the work. He realizes very early that the world would never accept a half-giant such as him, and decides the world therefore needs to be radically changed and a war is the best way to invoke it. Masquerading as naive and simple-minded so that nobody would take him seriously, he subtly manipulates the events that culminate in the Second Wizarding War, starting from pushing Riddle down the slippery slope and ending with motivating Harry for their final battle by conjuring an Afterlife Antechamber scene with himself posing as Dumbledore. After the victory, he continues to stay in the shadows and happily observes Hermione, now Minister of Magic, ensure equality for all the magical creatures—the very thing Hagrid had strived for.
• Wish Carefully: Harry Potter himself is the architect behind the Death Eaters' downfall. Concluding he could not face Lord Voldemort in a prolonged war, Harry cut a deal with the Death Eaters where they would be allowed to rule Wizarding Britain, free from those who did not share their beliefs, while requiring the Death Eaters to not interfere with the Muggle world as Harry personally arranged for the departure and relocation of non-Voldemort supporters. Through this deal, Harry doomed Voldemort, the Death Eaters, and their descendants to a slow death as their country collapsed piece-by-piece through their own racist beliefs, knowing that Voldemort would repulse new blood and showing the world how foolish the concept of pureblooded elitism was. It is believed that Harry is banking on Voldemort being foolish and sadistic enough to attack a Muggle, whereupon he would lose his power and be arrested or killed due to his body being made by magic.

The Hunger Games

• Cheating Death: Those That Lived:
  • Jack Tylos is a self-proclaimed "master thief" who engages in this trade out of necessity, thrill-seeking, and altruism at various points. He's forced to volunteer for the 21st Hunger Games after trying to steal the head peacekeeper's wallet. He steals a taser which he uses against his opponents in the arena and constantly and publicly brings up the circumstances behind his volunteering as a successful gambit to get the head peacekeeper arrested or executed. After winning, he gloatingly reveals his use of the taser, but is horrified when several innocent residents of District 7 are executed. Despite Panem's status as a heavily surveilled police state and his own open ties to the underworld, Jack continues stealing and is never caught unless it's on purpose for a Batman Gambit. He is a devoted mentor and will rob banks to get sponsor money for tributes he feels especially attached to. During the rebellion, Jack supplies the victors caught in the Capitol with a stash of guns he stole and hid over the years and goes down fighting so his allies can escape.
  • Porsche London is an orphaned District 6 tribute who survives by working as a runner for a brutal drug gang. She is a morphling addict who is underestimated in the buildup to her games, but dominates it without ever using a weapon. Porsche is a camouflage expert who hides herself in the gymnasium during the training sessions, reveals herself to the gamemakers and dictates the training score she wants-respectably high but not high enough to invoke Tall Poppy Syndrome—as they gape in shock. During the Games, Porsche initially tries to protect her district partner then sets out to avenge him. She spends days using her camouflage skills to live in the Careers camp and steal or ruin their food without being found. She uses mathematics to monitor the train schedules of the railyard arena and diverts the train tracks at just the right time to run the Careers over. Afterward, she becomes part of the victors sequel, before being reaped for the 3rd Quarter Quell and performing a Heroic Sacrifice.

• Checkmate (Anla'Shok): Wolfe is an unstable but brilliant and charismatic District 2 victor who the rebellion selects as a tribute due to correctly believing that he can win the 66th Hunger Games and that his victory will motivate neutral outlier districts to become more resolved in hating the Hunger Games. Wolfe initially agrees to play his part in this plan because it appeals to his ego, but later becomes more committed to "leveling the power field" due to loyalty to his mentor Lyme and anger at being maimed and losing friends in the arena. As a tribute, he is a calculating manipulator and fierce warrior who terrifies Caesar Flickerman with some choice words and an intense stare, but nonetheless fights honorably against people he respects. During the rebellion, Wolfe helps to save Lyme and his surrogate brother Bahamut (her first Victor) from a cave-in. After the war, a bored Wolfe hacks into mutt controls to murder dozens of detestable Capitolites and presents a report on the security weaknesses to the authorities while convincing them to make him a Boxed Crook. He spends the rest of his life chasing down dangerous criminals while being idolized by the next generation.
• The Victors Project:
  • Ben Cooper is the son of a Hunter Trapper from District 9 and aides his father in protecting the District and making a good living for themselves. When Ben is reaped, he ignore the advice of his mentors, kills a Career and replaces his victim in the Career alliance. He proves his loyalty to the Careers by helping them track down and kill his district partner and four others, then poisons them during a meal. Ben then kills five wolves sent by the gamemakers, despite being injured in the process, and goes on to mercilessly hunt and kill the remaining outliers. When the last of them cuts off two of his fingers, Ben fakes being helpless before finishing her off. As a victor, Ben becomes an influential celebrity and a good mentor until he retires in favor of the first tribute he saved. Ben comes out of retirement to successfully mentor Abram Mills, who might be his son from a one night stand. Ben sides with the rebellion and dies on a mission that helps save several of his fellow victors in the Capitol.
  • Jade Boleyn grows up as a Blue Blood in a toxic environment, indirectly maims a childhood enemy and is sent to the DAEYD. She uses a Sherlock Scan to deduce that a murder took place and helps Ermine violently avenge her dead friend at least partially to amuse herself. In the arena, she achieves many impressive archery kills, plays the members of her alliance against each other and kills them all singlehandedly. While Jade expresses little remorse for that part of her life, she becomes a rebel, and aids in intricate plans to win District 1's freedom. Jade does an expert job of avoiding suspicion and treats her fellow victors aloofly, but shows occasional warmth and helpfulness even to people who dislike her, and mourns for dead friends. Jade uses her knowledge of Panem's legal code to take back some control during her Kangaroo Court trial after the new regime turns on her, buying time for a Character Witness to arrive. Jade sacrifices a chance to kill Coin—who nevertheless tries to Jade—to ensure the safety of a friend, having one vowed not to let anymore people die when she can save them and later takes part in the mission to rescue Katniss.
  • Halibut "Hal" Shore is feared both inside and outside of the arena for his ruthless, detached attitude toward killing. He poisons his closest ally in the arena, Copper, both to avoid a fight, and so that Copper's girlfriend won't be any more upset by his death than she has to be—which earlier caused Hal to assume the role of executioner for himself rather than have her watch Copper drown a helpless tribute. He defeats the rest of his alliance with additional Combat Pragmatist methods and a jagged harpoon he receives as a sponsor gift. Hal is viewed as a frightening and unstable person, but he can show a friendlier side around victors like Berenice and Ares. When his son dies in the arena, Hal is devastated, but continues to mentor future tributes to the best of his ability, while showing protectiveness toward his son's district partner Annie. During the rebellion, He kills half-a-dozen peacekeepers while protecting Annie, before dying form thirty stab wounds, with his death inspiring the district to fight harder.
  • Cashmere Delacroix attends the DAEYD with her brother to keep from being separated once their family decides one of them needs to be a victor to save the family from bankruptcy. Cashmere has to be forced into volunteering for the games. She becomes a broker of information and favors who is capable of having her tributes perform Mercy Kills or sabotaging an arena. Cashmere helps her brother control his growing bloodlust by drugging, kidnapping, and torturing Capitolians but keeps him from killing his victims. Cashmere threatens to arrange the deaths of fifty people in a blackmailer's district to make her leave Gloss alone. Upon finding out about the Rebellion's plan to save Katniss and Peeta, Cashmere audaciously forces her way into the rebellion to get revenge on Snow and end his reign of evil. When asked to play the role of a villain rather than openly aide the rebellion, she agrees and reluctantly asks for a list of expendable victor-tributes who can be killed without jeopardizing the plan before requesting that the rebels kill her and Gloss to sell the charade and keep her brother from completely losing his humanity.
• The End of the World: Harris Greaves is a District 4 career tribute who competes in the 59th Hunger Games while his mother is being held for questioning over the murder of a Capitol worker. Harris wins the Games with his no-nonsense leadership of the Career pack, shrewd swamp survival tactics, willingness to kill dispassionately (including drowning a District 12 tribute), and combat skills that let him win the Games without a single injury even when he fights multiple human opponents at a time and is repeatedly attacked by aggressive mutants. In his time as a mentor, he is willing to accept his tribute's premeditated betrayal of her district partner Finnick. Still, he later becomes friendly with Finnick after he becomes a victor. The Capitol's evil eventually causes Harris to rebel, and he gets along well with Haymitch and helps implement his strategies as they mentor together during the 3rd Quarter Quell and plot to help people escape from the arena. When the rebel plot is exposed, a bare-handed Harris holds his own against armed Peacekeepers before being shot In the Back while making a Tactical Withdrawal.

Others

• A Practical Guide to Evil fanfic A Callowan Tale (link): The Warlord, implied to be a mythicized Hakram Deadhand, leads the orcs in raiding the bordering Kingdom. A calculating warrior, the Warlord easily outwits the Knight of the Kingdom and the Lord of the East when they come to stop his pillaging; the Warlord challenges the former to a duel, easily slaying the overconfident Knight with an axe enchanted to cut anything, and replaces the latter's magical amulet with a cursed fake that leaves him fatally ill when he blusters and threatens with his armies. However, the Warlord proves to not be unreasonable; when confronted by the Princess of the West, the Warlord accepts her offer to settle their conflict through less violent means, negotiating mutually beneficial trade agreements to ensure his people's prosperity and peacefully end their raids.
• The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors fanfic The Ghosts of the Old Castle: Aunt Aksal, seemingly an ordinary cook, is a spymaster in service to Most Chief Minister Abazh. Via her agents, she learns that Abazh's main enemy, Chief Minister Nushrok, has fallen in love with his own daughter Anidag who is disgusted by him, which allows Abazh to manipulate Anidag into trying to poison Nushrok and to poison her himself. Meanwhile, Aksal encounters Olya and Yalo, idealistic girls from another world, and instantly realizes the potential in them. Easily gaining, she helps them rescue their friend from the royal prison, while in truth her goal is to have them steal the Puppet King's symbol of power. Despite the girls' numerous mistakes, Aksal's plan succeeds, and she lets the girls leave unharmed: she reasons they are from such a distant land they can't pose any danger. Aksal personally poisons the king, while Nushrok is ultimately killed by Anidag's loyal servant, clearing the way to the throne for Abazh. However, Abazh refuses to promote Aksal and, tormented by ghosts, grows insane, so Aksal allies with the late king's brother. After Abazh finds out about her betrayal, Aksal firmly tells him he'll die next if he kills her — which is exactly what happens: the day after Aksal is strangled in her sleep, her agents poison Abazh, allowing the late king's brother to ascend the throne. A resourceful and perceptive woman hiding behind a kindly motherly façade, Aksal pulls the strings in high-tier politics and doesn't let even her own assassination stop the successful completion of her last gambit.
• A Song of Ice and Fire Fanfic Of Gold and Iron:
  • Tywin Lannister, lacking his canon counterpart's unsavory acts, remains just as brilliant and ruthless. During his time as a soldier, Tywin engaged in shady tactics like burning crop fields to destabilize enemy supplies and crashing the economy of Braavos to prevent them from interfering. When Arya Stark arrives in his manor disguised as "Beth Rivers", Tywin sees through her within weeks and begins unraveling the Faceless Men's conspiracy, even allowing the Brotherhood Without Banners to attack his train to see what she's capable of. After defeating Petyr Baelish and torturing him for any information he can get, Tywin deduces the source of the conspiracy and arranges for his company to succeed when he resigns. When Jaqen then tries to kill him in spite of their deal, Tywin is able to negotiate with the Iron Bank for a lower price, ending the series in the best possible position even when the conspiracy killed all of his former allies.
  • The Spider is the name of a brilliant hacker who knows everything there is to know within King's Landing. Reaching out to Bran Stark following Joffrey's death, the Spider soon helps them find Sansa Stark in exchange for a way to contact the Faceless Men, keeping his identity secret all the while and even throwing in more information than he promised as a reward. Reappearing during the Long Night crisis, the Spider uses Oberyn Martell as a middle man to put Bran in contact with Mance Rayder, sending all of them into a battle with the Night King in order to kill the drug lord. When Bran demands a favor in return, the Spider concedes that he went above the call of duty and rewards him with Arya's true location, not only circumventing the Faceless Men but ensuring their final defeat before helping Bran and Oberyn guard the city for the foreseeable future.

Live-Action TV

• Arrowverse fanfic To Hell and Back:
  • Malcolm Merlyn, aka the Dark Archer, is a former member of the League of Assassins who fled the League following a massacre by Talia al Ghul. Endeavoring to better Starling City and avenge his wife's death, Malcolm masterminded the Undertaking, an attempt to destroy the Glades and make the city better. Upon coming into conflict with the Green Arrow, Malcolm schemes against him, yet ultimately proves to be little threat to the fellow archer before the Undertaking's failure. However, upon being captured by Talia and having Tommy's life threatened, he proves his manipulative abilities: first by convincing Tommy that Talia had his lover Isabel murdered, including leaving out his correct assumption that they were working together because Tommy would never believe him, then turning Tommy to his side and having him murder Talia, passing control of the League of Shadows onto him. After killing those who helped him because they might betray him as well, Malcolm then plants a Body Double so effective that even ARGUS is fooled, faking his death so he can lay low while Tommy helps him scheme against the Green Arrow further.
  • Amanda Waller is the director of ARGUS and the true leader of the Justice League. Quickly deducing the heroes' identities, Waller blackmails all of them into working for her under the threat of exposing them. She also works with the Queens to scapegoat Frank Chen into confessing to the Undertaking, allowing them to get off scot free in exchange for stopping Malcolm Merlyn, while also revealing that she's aware of Malcolm and Oliver's relation yet is happy to keep it secret. Upon learning of the Dominator threat, Waller leads the human resistance in arming and preparing everyone capable of resisting the threat, later proving vital to repelling the invasion with her scientists. Upon becoming aware of Zoom's threat, Waller tortures Killer Frost to learn everything she can, making Deathstorm cave within moments. She then unleashes her signature creation, Task Force X, to rescue Barry and save his father from Zoom. Lacking any powers yet brave enough to insult Zoom to his face, Waller is one of the few people able to control the various heroes that work for her with nothing but her intelligence and information.
• Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul What IF:
  • "What If Lalo Salamanca Beat Gus?":
    • Lalo Salamanca executes Gus Fring in the superlab instead of letting him speak, averting his own death while proving Gus's betrayal to the Cartel. Expecting reinforcements, Lalo hides to ambush Victor and Tyrus, killing them quickly before forcibly recruiting Mike Ehrmantraut to his organization. With Mike and Saul Goodman cleaning up the mess in Albuquerque, Lalo returns to the Cartel and raises the Salamanca name to new heights, becoming Don Eladio's right-hand man. For years, Lalo runs New Mexico's Cartel work flawlessly, then breaks into the meth business by recruiting Heisenberg and rakes in profits for several months. After getting Hank's information to the Twins and killing Jesse Pinkman himself to avenge Tuco's death, Lalo is ultimately killed when Mike and Walt work together to stop him, but he goes down fighting and kills Walt before he dies.
    • Mike Ehrmantraut, despite being blackmailed into Lalo's service, works to undermine him immediately. Beginning by buying Dr. Caldera's black book in order to fake Kim Wexler's death, Mike spends years working to get close enough to kill Lalo with no success, proving such an invaluable ally that Lalo respects him enough to get him directly on the Cartel payroll. Maintaining his skills as a "private detective", Mike gets Lalo the information on both Walter White and Hank Schrader, ensuring the former is recruited and the latter is killed. When their first face-to-face meeting goes wrong, Mike works with Walt to wipe out the entire Cartel with poisoned tequila, even tricking Lalo into giving him Walt's shot to both save Walt's life and trick the Cartel into drinking it. Mike refuses to save his own life if it means risking the plan, and he ultimately dies after killing Lalo to ensure his family will be safe from his wrath forever.
  • "What if Hank Didn't Survive The Salamanca Twins Ambush?": Gus Fring chooses to let Hank Schrader be killed by the Salamanca Twins, then has Mike finish off the surviving Leonel stealthily while Gus throws a party for the police in the hospital lobby. Taking Mike's advice, Gus tells Walt and Jesse the truth of his past with the Salamancas, relating to their grief over loved ones being killed by the Salamancas while hiding that he's the reason for their loved ones' deaths. With Walt and Jesse in on the plan to wipe out the Cartel, the mass poisoning goes perfectly, and the trio kill Hector Salamanca together, completing Gus's thorough revenge against his worst enemy flawlessly. With no more adversaries, Gus turns his empire international with Lydia's help, lets Jesse leave the business provided he trains Gale as a replacement, and continues to rake in endless profits and never face justice for his crimes.
  • "What If Mike Didn't Go To Belize?":
    • Mike Ehrmantraut escapes his final encounter with Walter White and goes into hiding, managing to track Walt with bugs and trackers while successfully evading the Aryan Brotherhood's attempts to find and kill him. Spending months following Walt hoping to find an opening, Mike follows Walt into the desert and, predicting that Walt will get lucky, takes a sniping position before the Aryans begin a shootout with Hank Schrader and Steve Gomez. As the shootout ends, Mike singlehandedly wipes out the entire gang from afar, then rescues Jesse and shoots Walt in the shoulder before letting him be arrested. Predicting that Walt will sell them out, Mike uses Ed Galbraith's services to disappear to Utah, ending the video learning that Walt has died while planning to watch his granddaughter grow up with no enemies to track him down.
    • Ed Galbraith is the Disappearer, a vacuum repairman who moonlights in getting criminals new identities away from Albuquerque. When Mike, Jesse Pinkman, and Saul Goodman request his services, Ed comes up with three new identities for them overnight, sending them all over the country and hiding them so thoroughly that Walt is incapable of finding them after six months. When Walt tries to threaten him for their locations, Ed is utterly fearless, threatening to call the police to force him to leave.
  • "What if Mike was around During the End of Season 4?": Mike Ehrmantraut returns to Alburquerque after helping eliminate the Juarez Cartel and detains Walter White for 24 hours until Walter's brother-in-law Hank Schrader is killed by Gus Fring's men, forestalling all attempts to contact him. After Hank's death, Mike helps Jesse Pinkman persuade Walter to accept his firing as meth cook by telling him he's being given a ticket to escape a life of crime without dying. A few months later when Walter attempts to destroy the lab to avenge his pride, Mike stops Walter in his tracks, killing him and ensuring he's never found before placing himself in charge of Jesse, getting him to produce more meth than Walter ever did. When Jesse asks about Walter's disappearance, Mike tells him that Walter sealed his own fate through his crime addiction, then promises Jesse a way out and vets him properly as an asset to Gus' organization.
• Downton Abbey Fanfic The Curious Case of Mr. Pamuk: Evelyn Napier is an acquaintance of the Crawleys with long ties to the British Secret Service. Assigned to keep an eye on Turkish attaché Kemal Pamuk, Napier is also ordered to assassinate Pamuk to prevent him voting against Albanian independence in a plot to weaken the Ottoman Empire. Selecting Downton Abbey as the site, Napier finds his old friend John Bates working at Downton and has him lace Pamuk's brandy with an overdose of aconite, poisoning him and making it look like Napier "accidentally" poisoned Pamuk by mistake. While Pamuk throws off the plan by dying in Lady Mary's bed, Napier banks on the aristocratic fear of scandal to ensure that all those who know how Pamuk died can be trusted to keep silent.
• Victorious Fanfic Diamond Eyes (link): Jade West, desiring to make her and her friends rich, decides to form a gang after reading books about the old ways of crime. Deducing that the local guards won't be able to handle a form of crime they are unfamiliar with, Jade has the Stonehearts start off small by robbing banks before moving on to robbing a museum and casino to get the Council to acknowledge them as a threat. Letting her friend out of the gang when it gets to be too much for her, Jade makes sure to have a way to monitor her to keep her safe. Later wiping out a part of the army, Jade swears revenge on the Council and two government assassins when the latter kill Cat Valentine, calling the Chairmen to intimate him before blowing up the Las Vegas sign. Jade later tracks down and kills one of the assassins in his safe house before killing the other in a fair fight. Later killing the Council, Jade ends the story continuing her quest to make money and getting engaged to her girlfriend, Tori Vega.

Tabletop Games

• Warhammer 40,000 Fanfics Hammerfall, Von Goettern und Inquisitoren & Wer zuletzt lacht, by Weltenwandler77: Ylnera/Ylerna is one of the deadliest and most skilled Eldar Harlequins. Manipulating an Imperial army into attacking a Dark Eldar camp, Ylnera sneaks in and tries to kill the Dark Eldar Lord Morthial, tricking a human slave she freed into crashing Morthial's ship before backstabbing him and pretending to be the Emperor to trick Morthial's favorite slave into trying to murder her master. Later becoming a Death Jester, Ylnera hunts down Inquisitor Daniels, she nearly tricks Imperial forces into mistakenly killing him and when that fails, she still manages to escape, saving many of her people's soulstones along the way. Under Cegorach' instructions, Ylerna pulls off the most daring heist in Eldar history by infiltrating the home planet of the Ultramarines, stealing a container of Gene-Seed and preserving it when she is captured by swallowing it. After returning to Cegorach, she outsmarts him on several occasions when he tries to kill her, seemingly allies with his enemies while plotting to kill them to gain back Cegorach's favor before changing her plans and deciding she needs to defeat him for good.

Video Games

Ace Attorney

• A Burned Man Walks Down The Desolate Corridor:
  • Shelly de Killer is the same honorable assassin as in canon. Seeking revenge for being framed for the LY-17 incident, de Killer sets out to reclaim the honor of his family name by killing the true culprits. de Killer starts off his revenge by killing Detective Wright and impersonating him with no one the wiser. Upon recieving a request to kill Amelia Wonderley, he informs her that she is about to be killed and helps fake her death by using his position as a detective to take over the investigation of her death and replace the blood of the fake Amelia with that of the real one. Later murdering Detective Sternwood, de Killer leaves his calling card at the scene and takes over that investigation as well, manipulating events so that he can get his final target, Klavier Gavin in the police station to easily kill him.
  • Amelia Wonderley is the sister of Shelly de Killer and is just as crafty as her brother. Learning from her brother that her roommate Helen Nell intends to kill her, she proceeds to fake her death by replacing all her sleeping pills with candy and killing a woman that looks similar to her so that she can take her place after Nell "kills" her. Having been dating Kristoph Gavin to watch over Apollo Justice, Amelia later sends a note to Apollo tipping him off about the location of de Killer's hideout so that he can bust Nell and Kristoph for their crimes, later giving him a gun so that he's not defenseless against her brother. She then rearranges Detective Sternwood's files to place LY-17 at the front to get Apollo to remember the promise that they made to eachother fifteen years prior.
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution: Paul Strings, the Chief Justice, is a shrewd, cunning figure with a mind for philosophy and a Self-Made Man par excellence. In the past, Strings rose to prominence in the legal system by taking part in a conspiracy to catch the Mysterious Bust Killer, forging a psychological profile of the defendant, Robert Erlenmeyer, in exchange for power. Secretly believing in Erlenmeyer's innocence, Strings leaks the profile to Erlenmeyer's defense attorney, sparing him the death penalty. Strings kicks off the events of the game by faking Erlenmeyer's death and framing the corrupt Judge Chambers for his "murder". This elaborate prison break not only frees Erlenmeyer from the insane asylum, but also stops Chambers from making any more unfair rulings and allows him to install his more upstanding son in Chambers's place. When Strings's plot is unravelled, he willingly admits defeat, fully convinced that he did what needed to be done. At the climax, Strings leverages his position while still in prison to get a search warrant for the real Mysterious Bust Killer, allowing Apollo Justice to conclusively reveal the truth of the case and clear Erlenmeyer's name once and for all.
• A Game Of Turnabouts (link): Arkus Strater is the host of the murder mystery party who has a hidden agenda for his actions. Seeking justice for his murdered daughter Isla, Arkus sets up the party with the exact same circumstances as her murder and invites the four possible suspects to the party, using blackmail he has on all of them to force them to participate. Knowing of Phoenix Wright's propensity to solve complex murder cases, Arkus invites him and his fellow lawyer Athena Cykes to the party so that they can find the true culprit. Though dying in the process, Athena manages to find out who murdered Isla through his murder trial, accomplishing his mission from beyond the grave.
• Turnabout Revivals: The Fortune Teller is the enigmatic man who owns the Pequod. In truth, he is actually Zak Gramarye, having faked his supposed death at Kristoph Gavin's hands with the assistance of Phoenix Wright. Upon learning that the plagiarist Roger Finn and his brother intend to take Valant Gramarye to court over the rights to the Gramarye magic, he begins scheming to prevent that from happening. Drugging the passengers of the Pequod in order to move them to an identical ship and trick them into thinking they've been on the move the entire time, he and Valant drive one of the Finn brothers to an empty parking lot, where he executes him. Upon Valant getting arrested for the death of the first Finn, Zak contacts Phoenix in order to defend him while he steals the body of the first Finn and disposes of it before killing the second aboard the Pequod. Leaving basically no evidence behind leading to him, Zak is able to escape into the night scot-free.

Five Nights at Freddy's

• Final Nights 4: Fates Entwined: In the past, the Puppet Master was just one of the animatronics at Fredbear's Family Diner. However, the Puppet Master is the mastermind behind all the events in the franchise that seeks to bring about the downfall of William Afton. The Puppet Master was the one who gave life to the murdered children and sent the reaper animatronics to the hurricane hospital which ended up failing. However, in 2017, The Puppet Master finally gets his chance to complete his mission by controlling a paranormal investigator named Max Donavan. The Puppet Master uses him to one-by-one free the spirits of the remaining animatronics, learn the truth of what happened, and undo his mistake. After everything is done, the Puppet Master orders Max Donovan to burn down Fazbear's Fright and kill Afton inside Springtrap, which he does, but at the cost of his life.
• TheHottest Dog Special Strike Series (link): Glitchtrap is reimagined as The Dragon to The_End, who seeks to turn the entire multiverse into meme-spouting puppets. Under his masters orders, he sets up Golden Freddy's transformation into "The Chief", secretly kidnapping characters while spying on the main cast undetected. Upon a chunk of the cast being killed by the resulting battle, he searches for the Chief's corpse to revive him into a powerful minion, adapting to being ambushed by the survivors by convincing them that he's another survivor. When a slip up results in Chester and the Penguin arriving with reinforcements, Glitchtrap uses the resulting chaos to retrieve his syringe and control the Chief with it, willingly mutating himself with it to aid him in the fight.
• Joy Of Creation (link): Goldie Fazbear was the titular star of The Amazing Goldie Show until he was decommissioned and left wandering Freddy Fazbear's Pizza as a spirit. Once Freddy Fazbear and his friends try to kill five children so Goldie won't be alone, the bear saves one of the kids, Mike Schmidt, and lets him escape the animatronics. Decades later, Mike would become the night guard at Freddy's, leaving Goldie to take the identity of "the Phone Guy" to teach Mike how to survive, while scaring him about the dangers of the job and faking his death. Once Mike destroys Freddy, Goldie reveals that he kept saving Mike because the boy called him his best friend on his final show, and says that he wants Mike to reconstruct the animatronics and bring the "Joy of Creation" to everyone, all while comforting him about how he will get over the horrors he experienced and become happy again soon. The epilogue shows that Goldie was right and Mike would help in building the Toy Animatronics, although not without losing some of his sanity.
• Mike's New Ghostly Family:
  • Nightmare is a ruthless Hell Lord and the leader of the Nightmare demons. Exploiting his status as one of the more "Moral" demons, which allows him more access to Earth, he uses it to secretly advance his mysterious goals, while also taking wagers with his victims in exchange for sparing them of torture. Taking one such bet with William Afton to break apart the Schmidt family, his disgust of how he treats his own family leads him to intentionally tighten the bond of the family via his brutally accurate speeches and winning the bet. Gaining a genuine respect towards Mike Schmidt after being bested by him, he later willingly aids the family on occasion, from organizing the brutal defeat of an escaped Afton alongside Mike to helping destroy Glitchtrap's copies while locating the one that escaped via manipulating Fazbear Entertainment, all while subtly advancing his own agenda.
  • Old Man Consequences is a guardian of the Crimson Lake, and the warden of Hell's demons. Though normally neutral to affairs of Earth, Old Man Consequences orchestrates the downfall of William Afton by exposing his deceased son Evan to his atrocities and turning him into Shadow Freddy to serve as a guide to his brother Michael, whose redemption he kickstarted by sending the Nightmares to viciously torture him to develop his survival skills and resolve to atone for his sins. A being superior to Nightmare, Old Man Consequences guides the demon lord into foiling Afton's escape attempt and, after warning Mike Schmidt about Fazbear Entertainment's revival, tasks Nightmare with minimizing the threat of multiple Glitchtraps the corporation inadvertently created, having him perform a normally-forbidden ritual to destroy all but one of Glitchtrap's copies, rewarding Nightmare when the demon succeeds, and keeping him in line with the threats of horrible consequences to prevent his disobedience.
• POPGOES: Simon is a intelligent robot made by Jeremy "Fritz" Fitzgerald to revive his brother, only to be locked away by fear, causing Simon to hatch an escape plan to take revenge and gain freedom. Practicing his skills by setting up puzzles for the robotic night guard Strings, he tricks Fritz into connecting him to the mainframe by promising to bring back his daughter that Fritz accidentally killed, using it to rebuild The Blackrabbit, killing him and freeing Simon. He then makes his escape, but not before thanking Strings for his help, shutting down the guard in the process.

Pokémon

• Brain and Brawn (link): The Trickster Pokémon Illruse and the Mighty Pokémon Sthormr are the two Mascot Legendaries of the Fyrún region. Growing weary of the treatment that humans had on Pokémon, the two of them decided to take matters into their own hands, since they believe Fyrún to be their rightful kingdom and want a better place for Pokemon to live in. To do this, Illruse and Sthormr each created a cult that supported their ideals, with Illruse creating Team Brain, and Sthormr creating Team Brawn. From there, they promoted their ideals while secretly plotting against their followers. The Player Character, and the rest of Team Brain and Team Brawn, are merely their pawns. Eventually, after the player and their rival rise in the ranks and become the leader of their respective teams, they use their respective legendary for one last battle. Illruse and Sthormr try to brainwash them, but the player is able to break free from it, as is their rival. Noticing the friendship between the player and their rival as well with their Pokemon, Illruse and Sthormr have a Heel Realization in that Pokemon are perfectly happy living with humans, and agree to fight alongside the player and their rival for a good old fashioned battle.
• Fan Game Reborn: Ace is the goofy yet cunning Manager and an Agent of Team Meteor, who constantly comes at odds with the player, but never shows any true malevolence. Showing legitimate standards, Ace saves Amaria from Lin, and keeps his word whenever they make a deal with another. Eventually deciding to try to get Lin expunged from Team Meteor, they are put in an And I Must Scream state by Terra. Ace, however, manages to defy it and saves ZEL from the PULSE Magnezone’s Defeat Equals Explosion, and completely ruins Terra’s Deadly Game in Labradorra City by making Florinia and The Player immune to her abilities, ensuring the latter reaches and defeats Lin, despite not being physically present.
• Red and Blue Fan Game Kanto Origins (link): Giovanni is the Boss of the Team Rocket and leader of the Viridian City Gym. Part of the Ancient Conspiracy of the Elite Four to control the region, Giovanni wishes to restore Kanto's former glory by any means. Creating Mewtwo as the first step of a series of experiments to create stronger Pokemon, Giovanni manipulates the Player Character to be his beta-tester while slowly becoming fond of him. Intending to overthrow the Elite Four, Giovanni invades the Indigo Plateau with his most loyal followers, dedicated to slowing the player as much as possible. A Graceful Loser as in the original games, Giovanni is partially aware of the fictional nature of the Protagonist and congratulates him for his victory against him, allowing the player character to defy the ultimate being, the Kanto Spirit.
• Reset Bloodlines:
  • Belladonna Tyrian is a Poison heart bloodliner whose primary interests lie in living the way she wants to and helping those she cares for, primarily her girlfriends and Pokemon. After being turned out by her homophobic mother, she began wandering around the world and supporting herself through crime. When she learns how her girlfriend Aurora was disowned by her father, she comes up with a plan to kill the hospitalized man while making it look like an indirect consequence of a wild Pokemon attack. When Ash attempts to interfere, she quickly captures him, only sparing him because she suspects they may be long-lost half siblings. Once she knows Aurora's father is dead, she discovers evidence of more half-siblings and begins an investigation into her father's identity, temporarily pausing her search for information to help save Ash from Sabrina's clutches. Doing as she pleases and marching to the beat of her own drum, Belladonna provides a compelling look at how Ash might have turned out had things been different.
  • Sabrina is a ruthless Psychic heart bloodliner who operates as Saffron City's Gym Leader and is known for sparing challengers who prove their worth. As a child, she came to the conclusion that people needed some kind of incentive for improvement, so she terrorized her hometown to test her theory. Considering her ideas vindicated when a previously complacent young bug catcher finally stood up to her, she spent the next several years embarking on various schemes to improve or eliminate various people, all for her eventual goal to build a truly meritocratic world. She eventually kidnaps Ash and forces him to fight his way through her gym with the intention of forcing him to shed his reluctance to go all-out. She proves an extremely capable opponent during this fight, adjusting to virtually every new development and constantly keeping Ash on his toes. Very persuasive when she wants to be and balancing her villainy with genuine moral standards, Sabrina proves to be one of the most brilliant and dangerous adversaries Ash has to deal with on his second journey.
• The Sun Soul: Mewtwo is a powerful Psychic-type Pokémon and the true mastermind behind the entire story. Initially created by Team Rocket to retrieve the Sun Soul, Mewtwo rebelled when he learned he was designed to die within a year. Believing humanity was too selfish to share the world with Pokémon, Mewtwo decided to wipe out humankind. Using the Sun Soul to amplify his powers, Mewtwo modifies millions of Pokémon to serve as his personal army. Reaching out to Professor Elm, Mewtwo convinces him that he will be spared if he amasses an army to help wipe out the Kanto region. Although he is opposed at every turn by Team Rocket, Mewtwo is able to manipulate Ash Ketchum into dismantling their operations. By convincing Ash to free Sabrina from captivity, Mewtwo is able to break her hold over Zapdos and uses it to devastate the armies gathered to stop him. Mewtwo manages to concentrate Kanto's forces to more easily wipe them out and offers to spare Ash due to his fascination his Savant powers. Eventually, Ash uses the Sun Soul to fuse his consciousness with Mewtwo's, and the two agree to work together to help restore balance to the world.

Sonic the Hedgehog

• Fan Games:
  • Sonic GT (link): Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, once again the Arch-Enemy of Sonic and friends, plans to use Mighty the Armadillo's highly durable shell as a basis for his next line of "ultra-heavy" Badnik superweapons. To achieve this, he kidnaps Mighty's best friend Ray the Flying Squirrel, uses a ransom note to bait the armadillo into being overwhelmed by an ambush of robots, and collects a sample of Mighty's shell in the ensuing struggle. As Eggman predicted, Mighty eventually tracks down Ray with the assistance of Sonic and Tails, and upon the trio's arrival at his pyramid base, the doctor reveals his intent to finally secure victory over the heroes using the Hard Boiled EGG Tank, a weapons platform reverse-engineered from the collected sample of Mighty's shell. Despite expressing shock and disbelief when Sonic and Mighty manage to defeat it, Eggman quickly regains his composure before escaping, leaving Metal Sonic behind to seemingly deal with anyone who sticks around.

  • Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble 16-Bit: Metal Sonic is far more prominent and competent than he was in the original game. Attacking Knuckles the Echidna before the events of the game, Metal Sonic then takes his appearance to trick Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower into thinking Knuckles had been duped into fighting them once again. Antagonizing the duo through the game in his efforts to defeat them and gain their Chaos Emeralds, Metal Sonic develops a backup plan after one too many defeats, retreating before waiting for Sonic and Tails to defeat Dr. Eggman, before ambushing them while they have all seven Chaos Emeralds and while their guard is down. Using the Chaos Emeralds' negative energy, Metal Sonic achieves a new transformation and nearly kills Sonic and Tails, who only lived thanks to Knuckles and even Fang the Sniper's timely intervention.

  • Sonic Omens: Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, once again the brilliant arch-nemesis of Sonic, figures out The Exiled's plan and is dedicated to stopping it. Spending a month stealing the Chaos Emeralds while evading G.U.N, he stays one step ahead of Sonic, Tails and Shadow when they get involved, snagging the Emeralds before they can arrive while leaving behind robots to slow them down. When the Exiled manages to steal them in an ambush, Eggman manages to escape while rescuing Sonic, teaming up with him to stop Exiled so that he can Take Over the World instead. Locating his base and providing a distraction so Sonic and Tails can slip in, Eggman plays a sizeable role in stopping Exiled's plans, parting peacefully with Sonic for the time being.
• Web Video Sonic Forces: REWRITTEN, by Charriii5 (link) Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is once again Sonic's most brilliant enemy. Convincing the mercenary Zero to join him, later rebuilding the mercenary into the terrifying Infinite using the Phantom Ruby. Eggman tests the Phantom Ruby and tricks Knuckles into removing the Master Emerald, before then using Infinite to defeat Sonic, trap him in Null Space, and take over most of the world. Setting the heroes up for failure, Eggman lets them hunt the Chaos Emeralds, even positioning his best Death Egg Robot so that the heroes will inadvertently power it with the Master Emerald, and setting things up so that if the Resistance power up the Eclipse Cannon, he can hold the entire planet under his thumb with it. Upon all his defenses being breached by sheer force, Eggman activates a final measure, having merged the Phantom Ruby and Master Emerald, and engages his Chaos-empowered foes in a final, drawn-out battle. Once defeated, Eggman calmly looks on as his empire fades away completely, pondering with pathos that even when he had everything, he still lost.

Super Mario Bros.

• Mario & Luigi fanfic Darkest Timeline:
  • Bowser is once again the King of Koopas and the ruler of his kingdom. In the opening parts of the fic, Bowser found out about a spy in his ranks and fed the spy false info in order to distract the Mario Brothers so he could steal Professor E. Gadd's time machine and get rid of the Mario Brothers for good. When Bowser ends up in the future, he heads toward his future counterpart and through a series of deductions is able to figure out that the demon helping Emperor Bowser is the one who has manipulated everything. When Mephistopheles offers Bowser a similar deal as he offered Bowser's future counterpart in the past, this Bowser, having learned how pointless trying to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom is, refuses his offer. After returning to the present, Bowser acknowledges Mario and Luigi as Worthy Opponents and walks away to do something different with his life.
  • The Bad Future version of Mario himself proves to be much more manipulative and ruthless than his past counterpart. In this reality, Mario formed a resistance after Emperor Bowser conquered the Mushroom Kingdom and was able to keep going for many years. When Mario and Luigi from the past arrive, Future Mario enacts his plan to finally take down Emperor Bowser. A few days ago he had Luigi Captured on Purpose so that he can have his rebels attack Bowser's castle, sacrificing a majority of them to use as a distraction so Luigi can sneak out of jail and wipe out the rest of Emperor Bowser's army with a bomb leaving Emperor Bowser with nothing left.
• What If Fawful Absorbed the Dark Star?: Instead of partially absorbing the power of the Dark Star, Fawful learned enough to absorb it fully. Fawful first frees and grants Midbus a place by his side and power as a reward for his loyalty. Fawful brainwashes Bowser then has Bowser's minions take over the Mushroom Kingdom, then has them lead a false attack against the Beanbean Kingdom so that he can convince Peasley he is trying to help. At the same time, Fawful trapped the heroes inside the pipe system so they could not interfere. Fawful plays the Beanbean and Mushroom Kingdoms against each other to weaken both armies to conquer the world. When the heroes escape, Fawful stuns the Beanbean army, so they can't help. Fawful nearly wins and is only stopped by Starlow's Heroic Sacrifice.

The Walking Dead (Telltale)

• Dreadful Truths (link): Julian is a former hitman who joins the church out of respect for his dead religious brother. Disillusioned when the corrupt priest tries to kill the well-meaning Kenny, Julian shakes the priest's followers' faith in him before killing the priest, exiled for his murder but leaving the flock under the reaccepted Kenny.
• Something to Fight For (link): Clementine, unlike her original incarnation, is far more cunning and pragmatic. Believing that only the strong and wise can survive in the apocalypse, Clementine resorted to killing Kenny and Jane for being a liability, and even went as far as sacrificing AJ to a herd of walkers because he wouldn't stop crying. Upon reuniting with Lilly years later and discovering she's now in league with raiders harassing teenagers at the Ericson school, Clementine usurped the leadership of Ericson and plotted to have Lilly and her group killed. After pretending to nearly kill Tenn to convince his sister, Minerva, to give up Lilly, Clementine murders Minerva and leads the teenagers to storm Lilly's hideout. When she gets captured, Clementine distracts Lilly and her raiders in order to let the other teenagers escape, and also to prevent her from disarming the hidden bomb that subsequently detonates and eradicates Lilly and her crew.

Others

• Bendy and the Ink Machine Fan Animation "Welcome Home" (link): Bendy the Ink Demon himself is the complete antithesis of his barbaric and feral canon counterpart, using playful tricks to deter Henry's escape, such as popping up behind him, using a trap door to get him tangled in rope, and creating a gaggle of clones to distract Henry while he's trying to leave the workshop, all while singing a snazzy tune and showing off his smooth dance moves. Though clearly a devious little devil, there is an air of sympathy in his nature as well, as his ultimate goal is to get back on Henry for abandoning him and his fellow cartoons.
• Bloodborne Fan Webcomic Lady Maria And The Old Hunters link): Alice of Cainhurst is the childhood friend of Maria. Left behind in the hellish domain of Cainhurst, Alice becomes a Hunter for the monstrous Queen Annalise and relies on her old friendship with Maria to gain access to Byrgenwerth. Playing the part of a sweet and kind, curious girl, Alice steals the blood of Queen Yharnam for Queen Annalise and sets up a duel with Maria while intending to force Maria to liberate her through death. Using the lives of innocents as leverage to pressure Maria into using her true power, Alice secures her duty to the Queen and achieves her freedom, dying with a final kiss and proclamation of love to Maria, saying she will never be far from her heart.
• The Campaign Trail mod 1972d: Gus Hall is the leader of the Communist Party USA. Following Conservative Democrat John Connally's nomination at the Democratic National Convention, Hall decides to take matters into his own hands when it became clear the Democratic Party would not nominate left-leaning progressives. Capitalizing on on dissent against the Vietnam War, continued Civil Rights struggles, and opposition to both political parties, Hall would make Marxism-Leninism a more viable ideology within the United States. When his own friend Morris Childs sells him out to the FBI, Hall uses Childs' betrayal to whip up anti-FBI sentiments and turn many Americans against the institution. In many endings, Hall empowers the Communist party significantly to the point where they establish themselves as a key leading force on the American far-left and could potentially become a threat to the political establishiment as a whole.
• Chrono Trigger Fan Game Prophets Guile: Magus is a sorcerer displaced in time from the Kingdom of Zeal who intends to kill Lavos by any means necessary. Upon his botched summoning bringing him back to his original time period, Magus realizes he has another chance to kill Lavos and immediately acts upon it. Disguising himself as a prophet, he uses his knowledge of the future to climb Queen Zeal's ranks and eliminate any obstacle to his plans. Using his position to get rid of the Three Gurus, Magus successfully gets Gaspar and Belthasar to flee the kingdom while he imprisons Melchior in ice on Mount Woe. Being assigned to oversee the finishing touches over the Ocean Palace, he is ambushed by Dalton but manages to fend him off and tear out his eye, warning him not to cross him again lest he lose his chance at immortality.
• Fallout: New Vegas mod Race to the Bottom (link): Hosea is the leader of The Vultures, a resistance movement dedicated to preserving the Mojave’s independence from the NCR. A former Follower of the Apocalypse, Hosea grew disillusioned with the Followers’ pacifism and took to raiding supply caravans to both weaken the NCR and attract recruits by distributing the supplies to the people of New Vegas. Hosea is willing to take the fight to civilians if necessary, robbing and later murdering Ella Hawthorne to send a message to NCR citizens to leave Freeside. After discovering the hydroponic farms in Vault 23, Hosea suggests the Courier kill NCR troops to keep their location secret, then will make plans to distribute the farms’ produce to the poor, both for its own sake and to recruit more people to the Vultures. Hosea’s end goal is to weaken the NCR enough that after they defeat the Legion at Hoover Dam, they will be weakened enough that the people of the Mojave can force them out. While he proves multiple times that he is not without kindness, Hosea is nonetheless willing to kill as many as he has to to keep the NCR from taking control of Vegas.
• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn Fanfic Queen of Sorrow:
  • Elincia, Queen of Crimea, was once a kind princess who became a jaded and ruthless ruler after suffering tragedies, desiring to protect her kingdom by any means. Losing Lucia, Elincia determines to become a strong queen to prevent tragedy from ever happening again, reluctantly dirtying her hands when forced by others for her kingdom's future, having Bastian assassinated, holding former friends as political hostages and even using her broken uncle as a living weapon. Embracing her inner evil, Elincia begins holding control over her own fate, having her enemies crushed with underhanded tactics, gambits, and massacres or kneeling to her with the Blood Pacts, culminating in a final battle against Begnion, Gallia, and Ike where she singlehandedly wins with her cunning use of Lehran's Medallion. Forcing every nation under the Blood Pacts, Elincia uses her new power as Queen of Tellius to enforce peace and reformation to end war and prejudice with intent to destroy the Blood Pacts when it's all over. Even knowing she would be remembered as evil as her tormentors, Elincia doesn't stray as long as she can be a strong queen for her people.
  • Volke is an infamous assassin known as the "Fireman" who can kill even the most powerful people in the world. Hired by Elincia to kill his regular client Bastian, Volke shows his mastery over the world of cloak and dagger and easily becomes a hire of Elincia thanks to his ruthlessness on the job. Hired once more by Elincia to kill Lekain and steal his Blood Pacts, Volke manages to successfully infiltrate one of the most secured bases in the land and kill one of the most powerful men in the world through his repertoire of special equipment and pure talent, finishing the job and unlocking the door for Elincia to take over the whole nation to protect Crimea.
• Half-Life Fan Game Hunt Down the Freeman: The G-Man is portrayed as a powerful trickster. During Black Mesa incident he has Adam beat Mitchell up with a crowbar and frame Gordon Freeman for this. Afterwards he makes a deal with a gravely wounded Mitchell, promising him authority, power and time in exchange for killing Gordon. During the Seven Hour War the G-Man indirectly kills anyone with a rank higher than Mitchell's. Twenty years later, he coerces Mitchell into starting the hunt and joining the Combine. Later on, the G-Man orders Adam to kill Sasha and frame Mitchell up. When confronted, the G-Man reveals that since Mitchell is wanted by the Combine, Gordon Freeman will have much less trouble to deal with in City 17 and leaves Mitchell to his fate. Always keeping his charm, the G-Man manages to intertwine the deals he made with others to get the outcome he and his employers wanted.
• Hearts of Iron Game Mods:
  • Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg:
    • Emperor Pedro III is the emperor of Brazil, ascending to power after the way was cleared for his ascent to the throne by the Brazilian Integralists. Upon taking power he launches a massive purge of the Syndicalists and establishes the paramilitary Imperial Green Guards to suppress the far left and enforce religious fundamentalism, while indoctrinating the population through the distribution of Integralist propaganda and the creation of youth movements to indoctrinate the youth. Despite these measures however, Pedro III stands out as one of the more benevolent National Populist dictators in the setting, using his powers to weaken the powers of local governors and oligarchs in order to give the population as much individual rights and freedoms as possible; ruling through charisma and . Emperor Pedro is also noteworthy for his anti-racist policies, as he institutes laws protecting indigenous tribes and Afro-Brazilians from racial discrimination within Brazil in order to create a new cosmopolitian culture blending both Portuguese and Afro-Brazilian traditions.
    • Huey Long—also known as The Kingfish—is a populist from Louisiana who despises syndicalists while also desiring to save the American economy with his "Share the Wealth" program, which he perceives as America's only defense against Syndicalism. Popular in the American South due to his bombastic style, Long allies with the far right in order to create a anti-syndicalist power bloc in the form of the America First Party despite his relatively tolerant views for his time, being so charismatic that his death would mean its dissolution. When the Second American Civil War starts, as either due to him either using Reed's assassination to his advantage, rebelling against either a social democratic Progressive government or a Reed presidency, or due to Douglas MacArthur's military coup against him in office, Long serves as the face of the American Union State. If the AUS wins, Long declares himself President for Life and purges the opposition, while allowing his Minutemen to harass Syndicalists. While the sincerity of his motivations are left ambiguous by the narrative, Long's charisma and relative benevolence made him stand out from most National Populist dictators.
    • John "Jack" Reed is the candidate of the American Socialist Party in the 1936 presidential elections. In the leadup to the elections, Reed takes advantage of the political chaos in the US to consolidate his own support; effectively flipping the state of Minnesota to the Socialist side if the Progressives collapse. Assuming Reed wins the 1936 elections, he either tries to enact his policies via court packing and executive orders or he tries to suppress the American First movement via the use of the national guard before he's ousted by a military coup. If he loses the election however, Reed continues to agitate against the US government; taking advantage of Huey Long's assassination assuming it occurs to turn public opinion against the US government and launch an uprising. Once the Second American Civil War begins, Reed can enact measures such as War Syndicalism as well as enact ruthless means to deal with political opponents in order to bolster the war effort of the Combined Syndicates of America. If the Combined Syndiates are victorious, Reed steps down in favor of the next generation of socialists, content with leading the revolution to victory and letting new leadership decide the future of the a Socialist America.
    • Kurt von Schleicher, known as "the Red General" is the incumbent Prussian Minister of War in the German Empire, a position that he acquired through multiple political connections. Appointed to the position of Chancellor following a deadlocked election in the wake of Black Monday, Schleicher would use a worker's uprising in the Ruhr region as pretext to pass the Enabling Act to be granted the power to supress the uprising. Seeing the uprising as a provocation from the Syndicalist Internationale, Schleicher would ally with ultranationalist elements of the German army and play off both the German states and all political factions within the German Empire against each other to consolidate power, while undermining the efforts of the democratic opposition, the far-right, and the Bavarian government to remove him from power. If Totalists come to power in France and Britain, Schleicher would co-opt their measures to militarize Germany further. While his methods ultimately cause the destruction of German democracy, Schleicher sees his machinations as a worthwhile cost to prepare Germany for the coming war against the Internationale.
  • Kaiserredux: Earl Browder is one of the leaders of the Vanguardist faction in the Combined Syndicates of America. Emerging as a key player upon the victory of Combined Syndicates of America in the Second American Civil War, Browder seeks to implement Communism in a way that upholds American culture while bringing fourth an authoritarian state protecting the revolution from internal enemies. If emerging victorious over the Syndicalists and the rival Vanguardists, Browder enacts measures strengthening the presidency and merging all far-left parties into a "Popular Front" to co-opt their ideas. Upon consolidating power, he dispatches his enemies through underhanded means such as subverting anti-Browderite movements from within and then purging their leadership when they are exposed. In order to gain the support of the population, Browder re-appropriate popular holidays with a socialist twist and uses the radio to broadcast propaganda to Americans. These measures win over much of the surviving American populace to his brand of Communism, leading to him being affectionately called "the Boss" by enthusiastic supporters.
• Henry Stickmin fanfiction Burdens of a Timeline Traveler: The Entity is the enigmatic, cruel and manipulative deity who masterminded the events of the story. Goading the naive Henry Stickmin into a pact that allowed him to reset time at will, with the only conditions being that he complete every path given to him and that The Entity could laugh at him for his failures. The Entity would proceed to pull a fast one on Henry, sabotaging his good endings and causing them to end in tragedy before forcing him to pick one of the three worst timelines as his permanent residence. At the end of the story, The Entity reveals that everything he had done had been part of a test to see if Henry could use what he learned to craft the best timeline he reasonably could without The Entity's assistance. The Entity ends his monologue by stating that Henry had passed the test with flying colors, earning his respect in the process.
• Kingdom Hearts III: Re:Written: Maleficent reunites her old villain council with a plot to acquire the Book of Prophecies, and shows that she values them as friends and genuinely cares for Riku. She goads Sora into attacking her to confirm that he has lost his power, then sends Zurg and Warp Darkmatter to fight him when she sees that he is becoming a threat to her plans again. In order to open a portal to Scala ad Caelum, she swiftly locates the New Seven Hearts and has her council kidnap six of them. Convincing Dark Riku to join her side, she has him lure Kairi into a trap so that she can use all Seven Princesses as well as Master Xehanort's summoning of Kingdom Hearts to open the door. Overpowering Sora, Riku and Kairi, she takes the Book of Prophecies for herself, getting away scot free and only being summoned back to help Sora stop Master Eraqus from purging the worlds.
• Minecraft fan work Topcraft (Jazz's story): Jazzghost AKA The Golden Rabbit is the true mastemind behind the events of the series. Seemingly an average and friendly citizen from Topcity, he actually schemes the put chaos in Topcity through manipulating and turning people against to prove the theory of chaos. He simultaneously helps Lggj and Apuh during the Netherrack revolution behind both's back, starting a rivalry that will define the history of the server and late joining both PSI and Mustaches. When the Masked Avenger endagered his donkey, he framed him to make him pay after discovering his identity, later helping Apuh find the stolen diamonds in Dlet's journal. In his hardest mission, he convinced Nogal to use the mask in order to prove Lggj's innocence, confusing Apuh and making him quit trying to uncover the Golden Rabbit's identity. After discovering the Dark Lichen and thanks for a Warden he found, he decides that the city needs to be "purified" and infecting people with the potion, but showed a human side when he didn't infect Sam with the potion. Jazzghost corrupts Lggj and convinces him to join the Golden Rabbit clan after disbanding his association. During his time as Pedrux's assistant, when the scientist created an interdimensional portal, he uses it to kickstart the end of Topcity by opening the Dark Lichen dimension, spreading the substance through the overworld. Managing the final battle between Lggj and Apuh, he congratulates Lggj when he defeated Apuh and gives the original mask to him, succeeding at installing the chaos in Topcity.
• Omoito: Yuuka Kazami "Flower Master of the Four Seasons" is a youkai who lives in the Field of the Sun with a strong connection to flowers. As the only one privy to Alice's grimoire causing strange occurrences in Gensokyo, Yuuka pays Alice a friendly visit to search her house and then take her on a hike so she can study her now sentient dolls, using Exact Words and misdirection to avoid Alice's suspicion. In need of more research, Yuuka and her friend Medicine Melancholy attack Alice's house to draw out her doll Hourai, with Yuuka blasting Alice out of disgust with her insensitive behavior towards her doll. Having baited and guided everyone such that Alice and Hourai start a fight that will confirm Yuuka's suspicions about the grimoire hiding itself in the doll, Yuuka fights against Marisa to ensure she doesn't interfere and then takes advantage of a tender moment between Alice and Hourai to attempt to kill Hourai and seal the grimoire away. Despite things not going how she wished, at the end of it all, Yuuka's only regret is that she couldn't find Medicine more doll friends, but still expresses hope that she can befriend Alice and Marisa.
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time mod Plants vs. Zombies 2 ECLISE: Dr. Edgar George Zomboss is a cunning mastermind who commands his army through his invasions, plotting unique forms of attacks to defeat the homeowner. His tactics include hidden undead surprises in his barrels and beneath the tides, building challenging undead threats to tackle players with new strategies that bring freshness to his gameplay day in and out. He is determined to achieve his victory, regaining his composure despite his defeat, and proven to be an artist of planning his goals.
• Starbound Fanfic Crystallic's Starbound Trilogy:
  • Ethyl Countrisyde is an outlaw dedicated to ending discrimination, shooting anyone who discriminates. Joining a crew to stop his former partner Desert Tumbler, Ethyl arrests his rival and becomes the captain of their group, the Black Nebula. Stopping a genocide and freeing a captive teammate, Ethyl decimates his enemies and later returns to force his enemy Moonquill into releasing his crew by threatening to kill her own cherished followers. Tricked by Xochtal, Ethyl still saves his own crew and pulls one over on Xochtal himself, faking his own death and fooling Xochtal into engineering its own demise. In the final story, Ethyl leads the new protectorate against Stormlance successfully for over a month, keeping his forces hidden until they can gather and grow their legions, returning in the thousands. Fighting Stormlance alongside the rest of his crew, Ethyl pulls off one final trick in having Stormlance open up the Backup Plan, then enters and shuts himself inside, destroying Stormlance's ship by crashing it into a star, heroically giving his life in the process.
  • Moonquill is the princess of the glitch empire and the adopted daughter of King Stormlance. Gaining self-awareness, Moonquill becomes one of her father's most effective minions, repeatedly posing as a rebel to catch dissidents. Pursuing the Black Nebula, Moonquill only relents to save her beloved crew, returning again to plant trackers on the Black Nebula's replacement parts and eventually capturing the crew. Retaining her wits even after her personality is muddled with her influencing chip destroyed, Moonquill shows her brilliance again by tricking her adversaries into splitting up, leaving her father able to invade their star system. Taking a liking to the system, when Moonquill learns her father is committing murders behind her back she releases the heroes from prison, leaving the glitch empire with them. Joining the new protectorate, Moonquill uses her knowledge of the empire to combat it, defeating her father himself and becoming the new Glitch Queen, ready to lead her people to a brighter future.
  • King Stormlance is the ruler of the Glitch Empire and a formidable conqueror. After seeing the chaos across the universe and losing his kingdom to an anarchistic rebellion, Stormlance vows to bring peace and order no matter the means. He revives and reprograms a random glitch guard into Ironwall, his right-hand, and the two usurp a glitch kingdom by rewriting the citizens' memories and killing the royal family. Stormlance forms the empire and takes over dozens of star systems and planets, including Solunar Nexus, rewriting their memories and personalities entirely to fit in his peaceful reality. One day, he meets an abandoned baby Moonquill, who he adopts and lovingly raises, training her into a formidable ally, while chipping her and hiding his worst actions from her to ensure her loyalty. Stormlance controls his territories with ease, covering up awakenings by executing rebels and dismissing it as a plague to his citizens. As a last resort, he tries to destroy every star system he has yet to control. In his final moments, he realises the wrongs in his ways, accepts his defeat and commends the heroes, before ordering Moonquill to execute him for his crimes and succeed him as the queen of the glitch to right all his wrongs.
• Crash Maul's Team Fortress 2 videos:
  • Rise of the Epic Scout & The Fight for Sawmill: Matthew Bryce, once an ordinary BLU Scout, became something far greater after his dying body came into contact with alcohol and a can of Bonk!. Now "The Epic Scout," fully capable of super speed and intelligence, Bryce is able to take control of Watchtower by using the RED Team’s weapons against them to his advantage, while manipulating their Spy, Agent 35, into lowering his guard by stealing his Dead Ringer watch to help fake his death. Becoming the BLU Team’s best player as he leads them to several wins, Epic Scout is able to go toe-to-toe with the equally intelligent Cowboygineer and his pet Rabid Heavy, surviving their encounter and plotting payback.
  • Meet The Rabid Heavy Taming Engineer & The Fight for Sawmill:
    • The Cowboygineer is a RED Engineer who turned down from his profession to hunt down and tame the fabled Rabid Heavy. Successfully taming the beast to the point where he’s become his loyal pet, the Cowboygineer sends his pet out to steal BLU Team’s intelligence and retrieve the RED’s as well. An expert gunslinger as well, Cowboygineer is able to defeat incoming enemy fire from the BLUs with his gunplay and wits, his skills netting the cornered RED Team a successful win. Meeting his equal in the form of Epic Scout, the Cowboygineer ultimately comes out on top, while a bit saddened by his enemy’s supposed death.
    • The Rabid Heavy is a wild animal whose feral brutality hides a cunning mind. Tamed by the Cowboygineer and displaying obedience toward his master, Rabid Heavy is sent to steal the BLU Team’s intelligence and retrieve the stolen RED’s as well. With bullets and stabbings doing nothing to slow him down, Rabid Heavy’s able to nab both intelligences and save his master from the BLU Sniper by bending his gun sideways before he could fire the fatal bullet. Getting into a confrontation with the Epic Scout and surviving one of his traps, Rabid Heavy wins the fight by punching the Scout into an exploding building, while still feeling sorrowful for his actions.
• Undertale Fan Webcomic Negativetale: Sans the Skeleton proves himself to be one of the lesser evils within the underground. Growing resentful of his brother Papyrus for his constant abuse, he plots a scheme to take him out for good. Manipulating the fallen child Frisk into following his lead before telling Papyrus of their approach, he strikes his brother down mid-battle, killing him and effectively pinning the blame on the human. Spending the rest of the comic showing off his skills as an expert conman and pickpocket, Sans manages to evade consequences for his actions, getting away with his crimes and being one of the few characters who manages to make it out alive in the end.

Web Videos

• Madness Combat Fan Video Madness: Ascend: Hank J. Wimbleton is more noble compared to his canon counterpart. First seen ramming the entrance of the Alive Factory, Hank slaughters his way to the top of the tower. Not intending to come out alive, Hank straps himself with a bomb which detonates after Jebus kills him, taking down both him and the factory in the process, allowing Nevada to return to normal.
• Mystery Skulls Animated Fan Animatic Revenge Creates More Revenge (link): ??? is a mysterious, malevolent ghost with unknown ties to Mystery and Shiromori, the latter of whom he wants his hands on. Seeing an opportunity when the Mystery Skulls explore a cave he's taken residence in, ??? possesses Arthur and pushes Lewis to his death, knowing Mystery would unleash his full power to save him, unintentionally drawing Shiromori out. After a forceful exorcism, ??? covertly tails the gang, waiting for either Shiromori to find them or for Lewis' ghost to come and kill Arthur, believing he could again prove useful as a spirit. Upon Arthur's death, ??? offers to join with him to take revenge against Lewis, reminding him of the many sleepless nights he spent searching for his supposed "best friend", then telling him Lewis left Vivi to die when Arthur falters. Arthur snaps and vows to tear Lewis apart, too angry to care when ??? tells him they'll be going for his own target afterward, ??? gladly waiting a little longer for what he wants now that he has a powerful wraith at his side.

Western Animation

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Avatar: The Last Airbender Fanfic The Fall of the Fire Empire:
  • High Minister Qing Xi is the head of the Fire Empire's bureaucracy and its Secret Police, the Hidden Flame, whose long years as Minister coincide with his effectiveness. Tasked with finding an heir for Dragon Empress Azula, Qing Xi falsifies evidence of a government coup just to test the mettle of the young protagonist Jiazin. Discovering that Azula intends to drag the entire world into a Civil War of titanic proportions, Qing Xi betrays Azula by teaming with High General Xia, poisons Azula's head bodyguard, and has an agent trick another bodyguard into killing Azula herself, accepting his forced retirement with only a declaration that he will be needed one day.
  • High General Xia is the commander of the Fire Empire's military, having spent his life serving the Fire Empire he believed in through triumphs and atrocities while climbing Up Through the Ranks. Teaming with High Minister Qing Xi when he hears Azula's plans, Xia is ordered to retake the city of Long Du Shi from rebels, but turns on Azula and allies with them instead. Persuading Jiazin to accept the title of Fire Lord to prevent a Succession Crisis, Xia leads the defense of the city and holds out long enough for Azula to be defeated.
• The Legend of Korra Fanfic Varium Fortune: Asami Sato is the seductive daughter of Hiroshi Sato, and is reimagined here as a Femme Fatale. Desiring to destroy the Triads after witnessing her mother's murder years ago, Asami tricks Korra into tracking down the murderer and kills him using Korra's gun. Travelling to Ba Sing Se, Asami tries to get the Earth Queen to lend her some Dai Li to train an army that she plans to have Korra lead. Recruiting Mako and Bolin, Asami plans to blow up a bank in Gaoling and frame the brothers for it. Even when Korra has her at gunpoint, Asami manages to calmly make peace with her and kills the Dai Li agents spying on them. Seeking to unite Republic City, Ba Sing Se and Gaoling for an impending war with the Fire Nation, Asami and Korra agree to help Suyin Beifong reconnect with her sister Lin. Every bit as smart as her canon counterpart, Asami ends the story managing to get Korra to agree to lead her revolution.

Code Lyoko

• Bataille pour l'espoir (link): Andrew Streep was originally one of many young graduates hired by the French government to work in Project Carthage on quantum mechanics. When Youbakou Senja took over the project for his nefarious purposes and attempted to kill Streep, the latter found help within the French government who protected him in exchange for total cooperation, leading to Streep becoming the General Alexandre Hussinger. Hussinger then engaged in multiple schemes to stop Senja, such as killing the Prime Minister and staging a coup to take over France and use it's resources against Carthage and save the captured Lyoko-warriors, faking his death, send Léopold to rescue the Lyoko-warriors and using the Lyoko-warrior Jérémie as The Mole to kill Senja — a near success —, and figuring out how the Grande Arche works and telling his subordinate Kiichi how to breach it. Even when mortally wounded by Senja, Hussinger remained unshakable and determined to stop Carthage at all costs, successfully killing Senja and ordering the Eiffel Tower's destruction, aware it could cause a city-wide blackout disorienting Carthage's planes now unable to see their targets.
• The Games Of Moriarty (link):
  • Jérémie The Eternal and Omnipotent is the result of Moriarty's mind-rape of Jérémie in the first chapter and Jérémie being kicked out of the group for releasing XANA from William's mind. Becoming obsessed with destroying Moriarty at all costs, Jérémie creates the "Holmes" program to do so. When he realizes Holmes is also damaging the entire Internet (thus causing bugs and damaging the nations' relations with each other), he reasons that he must become humanity's guide/god/master to ensure that they stop fighting each other. As such, when Holmes is on the brink of starting a nuclear war, Jérémie plans to virtualize himself in the Network, destroy Holmes, Moriarty and Odd (Moriarty's unwilling minion), and then conquer the world as he would be seen as humanity's savior, all of this while remaining under the radar. When his former teammates discover his evil plan, Jérémie uses the power he previously gave himself to easily defeat them, despite them having Moriarty's help. His failure was only caused by errors he made dues to his insanity. As smart as he was unstoppable, Jérémie's short villainous moments left a permanent mark on his teammates, the entire world and Moriarty's plans.
  • XANA, the main villain of the original series, was not only created by Franz Hopper to destroy Carthage, but also Moriarty. Long after Season 4, after barely escaping death by hiding inside William, XANA is still obsessed with destroying Moriarty. Manipulating William and Jérémie into freeing it from the former's body, XANA easily defeated the Lyoko-warriors and Moriarty, and would've killed them if it wasn't for William Fighting from the Inside. Despite being depowered and stuck inside William, it made an alliance with William, and proved to be a valuable, if evil, ally, giving him pixelized human powers to take on Moriarty on Earth, and often saving him from death through sheer power or quick thinking, such as when it noticed a high-voltage metal box that was used to kill Dark Yumi, who was about to kill a depowered William. Defeating the Dark Lyoko-warriors with William, XANA played an important role in Moriarty's defeat. Ruthless, brutal, unfettered and above all, efficient, XANA was the most competent character of the entire fanfiction.
• Trente Degrés (link): Aelita Schäffer, after losing her fellow Lyoko-warriors Jérémie, Ulrich, Odd and Yumi to the XANA-possessed William, decides to destroy any remnant of XANA by killing William. When she learns he's in Melbourne, Australia, she goes there and befriends him once again. When she realizes he's amnesiac, she decides to jog his memory by committing two murders in front of him, before fleeing with him to her place, where she leaves him alone, since she kept all of the Lyoko-warriors' belongings, allowing William to remember what happened by inspecting them. Luring him to a beach, she revealed the truth to him before shooting him dead, killing XANA at the same occasion. Upon succeeding in her mission, Aelita commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill.

Miraculous Ladybug

• CONSEQUENCES: The version of Gabriel Agreste who appears in SEXUAL HARASSMENT is the most brilliant by far. Secretly the villainous Hawk Moth, his life completely turns around when he finds Lila Rossi attempting to sexually assault his son. After comforting Adrien, he spends hours finding evidence of Lila's many crimes, seeking to find as much rope as possible to hang her with. When confronted by Lila's angry mother, he calmly disproves the lies she was told and grants the apologetic woman the time needed to apologize to all her daughter's victims before pressing charges himself. Taking the opportunity to akumatize Lila, he sabotages her to make the ensuing fight a one-sided beating which results in Lila being sent to prison for among her other crimes attempting to aid Hawk Moth. Ending the story reviving his wife without stealing the miraculous, he stands out as the only version of Gabriel to get a happy ending.
• Cut My Life Into Pieces, This Is My Last Resort: Hawk Moth, civilian identity Gabriel Agreste, is the Arch-Enemy of Ladybug and Chat Noir, the latter secretly being his own son Adrien, who seeks to use their Miraculous to resurrect his comatose wife Emilie. After one of his Akumas seemingly kills Marinette, Hawk Moth chooses to use less destructive Akumas to prevent it from ever happening again. And the event also causes him to reflect on how bad of a father he's been, striving to treat Adrien better. Eventually, he learns that Lila Rossi has been sexually harassing Adrien. After angrily firing her, he takes the opportunity to Akumatize her. Using his Scarlet Moth mode, he creates other Akumas to distract the heroes from her while using her ability to create illusions to weaken Chat Noir using his grief over Marinette's death. If she or the other Akumas actually get the Miraculous from the weakened heroes, he wins, if not, they've angered Chat Noir enough to become Akumatized, giving Scarlet Moth his Miraculous anyway. This only fails due to Marinette actually having only faked her death, therefore being able to calm Chat down as Multimouse. Afterwards, he approaches Adrien with the Peacock Miraculous. Sincerely apologizing to Adrien for Marinette's death, and offering to resurrect her as well. After Adrien refuses, he proves to be very understanding. And even in defeat, Gabriel manages to negotiate with the heroes as the Guardians heal his wife to turn himself in in exchange for a reduced sentence, eventually reconciling with Adrien and Emilie, ending the story on a mostly high note. Intelligent, adaptable, and ruthless but not without a conscience, Gabriel proves to be a genuinely compelling antagonist.
• Hero Chat: Techno-Pirate, real name Mike Rochip, is a technology-stealing supervillain and enemy of the United Heroes. He operates by performing quick thefts to grab parts for weapons and then taking hostages when going after his main target. Escaping custody within a day of his arrest (implied to be a frequent occurrence) he steals the Eagle Miraculous from a museum. He fights Team Miraculous, Sparrow, and Uncanny Valley evenly and throws Chat Noir so that his Cataclysm damages Uncanny Valley. Wearing the Eagle Miraculous, he pretends to surrender and then uses Liberation on the United Heroes to make them give in to their whims, then threatens to launch a nuclear missile at Paris to blackmail Team Miraculous for their Miraculouses. The heroes are only able to defeat him by recruiting Sabrina to use the Dog Miraculous to disable his tech.

Total Drama

• Despair Island: Justin, the "Eye Candy", is significantly more cunning than in canon. A model born into the Serbian mafia, Justin aims to win Total Drama Island and reunite with his family by any means necessary. To that end, he cultivates the image of a dumb pretty boy obsessed with his looks to make the others underestimate him, charms several female contestants into doing what he wants, and manipulates events to get several contestants eliminated. Proceeding to lay low and slip beneath suspicion, Justin beats fellow manipulator Alejandro, forms friendships with other campers for his benefit, and eventually manages to win the competition. Despite this, he feels regret for his heinous deeds and forms genuine bonds with his allies, especially Geoff whom he apologizes to. When the Canadian military saves the remaining campers, Justin amiably parts with Geoff and the others and goes on the run from the Serbian mafia, remaining untouchable to the end.
• Disventure Camp: James is a highly strategic TikTok influencer, knowing that the main couple of the last season became a fan favorite he seduces Aiden into an alliance and Publicity Stunt Relationship. James uses Aiden to expose Karol's intentions to eliminate one of the girls in Rosa Maria's alliance, getting her eliminated and manipulates a tie vote between Yul and Maggy. When Yul tries to poison Aiden, James tricks Yul into eating the poison mushroom instead getting him medically evacuated. Following Karol's return, James sees through her facade and records a video of her admitting her intentions to eliminate him and Aiden, leading to them sabotaging her and causing her elimination. Growing genuine feelings for Aiden, the two help each other in the final challenge where James goes on to win the season.
• Sky's Quest (link): Sky was the original winner of Pahkitew Island before a Christmas wish sends her back to the middle of the season. Taking a more strategic and pragmatic approach this time, Sky works with Jasmine to ensure that their team wins, and when the merge occurs, Sky distracts Sugar in the eating challenge to prevent her from obtaining immunity. When Dave wins and is made the tagger for the Hide-and-seek challenge, Sky lets herself be caught before helping him find the other contestants, including Scarlett, whom Sky has voted off. When the Island malfunctions, Sky prevents Sugar from de-activating the self-destruct sequence, allowing Dave to win and making Sugar vulnerable to eliminate. Reaching the finale, Sky convinces Chris McLean to bring back the eliminated contestants, including Scarlett, whom Sky predicts would put everyone in danger, preventing Chris from initiating his final part of the challenge. Teaming up with fellow finalist Jasmine to stop Scarlett, Sky takes her loss with grace when Jasmine is declared the winner.
• Total Shuffled Island Series: Noah is considerably more devious and manipulative than in canon. Serving as the Big Bad of the fourth season, Revenge of the Island, Noah keeps a low profile while subtlety sabotaging the competition. He causes Leonard and Justin's eliminations by writing them anonymous notes, stroking the former's ego and making the latter butt heads with Lindsay throughout the challenge. Upon Courtney being given the power to decide who to eliminate, Noah gets Zoey eliminated by her by forging a diary framing Zoey as a two-faced hypocrite planning to betray everyone. Successfully eliminating Courtney and Jasmine and making it to the finale, Noah becomes the first villain to win a season by using a variety of traps and weapons to wear down Harold's Powered Armor and defeat him.

Others

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fanfic The Captain Goodking Saga: The silly-seeming Sacanas manages to be Captain Goodking's most competent adversary. Swaying his future apprentice to his side after tricking the apprentice's father into being turned to stone, Sacanas later uses time magic to evade guards keeping the spells he wanted to teach Sanies. Though eventually betrayed and murdered by Sanies, Sacanas returns to life with style: leading an alien invasion to act as a diversion while he traps the heroes in dream worlds catering to their greatest desires and convinces Stygian to once again become the Pony of Shadows to become Sacanas' personal attack dog. Though eventually defeated, Sacanas shows remorse for his actions and gracefully accepts being sent back to the time of his death, even laughing as he goes.
• Rick and Morty Fan Animation Meeseeks vs Meeseeks (1, 2, and 3): The Kirkland Meeseeks is the more competent and efficient out of the two Meeseeks Rick Sanchez assigns tasks to. When Rick asks him to dispose of one of his deceased clones, he disguises it as a druggie and calls the cops, making it look like they shot the clone. When Rick asks him to get him some money to buy a soda, the Kirkland Meeseeks stakes out a bank, becomes a VP, and steals a briefcase of cash, setting the building alight as he walks out. When Rick asks him to break him out of prison, he instigates a prison riot by sowing tension in the midst of the prisoners and teaching them to create shanks, using the chaos as a cover to sneak Rick out of his cell.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Fanfic Hegemony: Hordak, warlord of the Horde, is the ruler of the Fright Zone aiming to mentor Catra into one day taking his spot. Through his brilliant campaigns, Hordak has become a force to be reckoned with against the Hegemony and uses clever gambits such as forcing an attack from the Hegemony, all to expose a mole in his own group. Upon finding his former "Brother", Horde Prime, Hordak sees the folly of his old plan and leaves him to his seal, opting instead to raise Catra to true leadership of the Horde.
• Thomas & Friends fan video All Eyes on Dennis: The black tank engine is a former shunter on the Island of Sodor whose hard work got Thomas to shape up, and after being scrapped on the mainland returned as a ghost to continue shunting in Sodor's yards and prove it is still really useful. When Dennis repeatedly neglects to do his shunting duties, the ghost of the black tank engine invades his dreams to give him a horrific nightmare and sets him up to crash upon waking up, causing a terrified Dennis to finally start working hard. When Rosie lets Dennis stop working early, the ghost invades his dreams again and displays more terrifying features in an effort to keep him from slipping back into old habits. After Dennis stands up to the ghost and makes it clear he has changed for good, the black tank engine's ghost leaves a reformed Dennis in peace and relocates to Vicarstown to continue its work.

Crossovers

• Battle Royale, Maine (Battle Royale & Carrie) (link): Carrietta "Carrie" White is a Composite Character of her original canonical self and Kazuo Kiriyama, and proves to be as sympathetic as the former and as implacable and cunning as the latter. Forcibly inducted in the Battle Royale Program with her classmates and bullies, Carrie, determines to slaughter them, putting to good use the skills she developed after being tormented for so long, staying hidden from her classmates for extended periods of time and being prepared for several possibilities. These skills allowed Carrie to sneak up on her classmates on several occasions, double-tap Steve Deighan when he tries to fake his death, discover Henry Blake's bulletproof vest and take it for herself and wait for the remaining survivors to kill each other when there were few enough. When the last one, her biggest bully Christine "Chris" Hargensen nearly kills her, Carrie pretends to succumb to her attack while being protected by her bulletproof vest, before taking down Chris as well, winning the Program. Taking advantage of the legal privileges granted to Program winners, Carrie then proceeds to kill her abusive mother Margaret White, fully completing her revenge.
• Child of the Storm (Massive Multiplayer Crossover): Doctor Stephen Strange aka Taliesin is the Sorcerer Supreme whose Purpose-Driven Immortality is based on defeating Thanos and will take any means necessary to save as many people as he possibly can. Carefully crafting a "reputation for omniscience" over millennia, he uses his inability to lie, abilities a Seer, and careful word choice to ensure people will react as he intends, Strange plays heroes and villains alike, even breaking Lucius Malfoy, a dangerous mastermind who had brought the world to its knees, in a single speech. Setting up his pieces perfectly, Strange has the world organized exactly as he needs for his plans and even tricks Chthon into taking the worst possible host, purging him from the universe. In the sequel, Strange adapts to the temporary loss of his seer powers and manages to destroy various threats to himself and the world, while making amends and earning a happy ending for Maddie Pryor, whom he believes he failed more than anyone else. Regretful of his own necessary evil but resolved to defeat Thanos no matter what it takes, Strange showcases remarkable ingenuity and charm through all his appearances.
• Code Lyoko: EG (Code Lyoko & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls): Sunset Shimmer, while a Composite Character of her original canon self and William Dunbar, eclipses them both in dastardly brilliance. Joining an hacktivist group in her youth, Sunset worked with it to hack into large corporations, driving one to bankruptcy and nearly giving the same fate to 12 of the biggest government-funded companies. On the run after the group was sold out to the police, Sunset hacked into wealthy people's bank accounts for a living. Recruited by the Lyoko 6 after proving her worth, Sunset proves to be an invaluable member of the team, an effective leader during Twilight Sparkle's absence, tricking XANA into revealing to her his IP address and thus his Replikas, figuring out XANA's modus operandi, using her own crush on one of the Dazzlings to keep an eye on them when they infiltrate the Lyoko 7, and sending a hidden mail containing the anti-XANA program to Twilight while tricking XANA into stealing a fake, securing his final defeat in the long run.
• Drakigo (Bram Stoker's Dracula & Kim Possible): Once the leader of the Transylvanian knights, Shego Dracula forsakes God and willingly becomes a vampire after her beloved Elizabeta kills herself. Years after killing the vampire that turned her, Shego tricks Ronald Stoppable into selling her a house. Turning him over to her brides, Shego journeys to London and runs into Stoppable's fiance, Kimberly. Determined to woo Kimberly, Shego takes her on dates and eventually turns her friend Monique into a vampire after feeding on her. Upon being betrayed and wounded, Shego is prepared to fight to the death. Snarky and clever, Shego manages to live the rest of her life with her beloved.
• Equestria at War (Hearts of Iron IV Game Mod of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic):
  • Genevieve Guildedwing is one of the councilors of Skyfall and the niece of Ghislain Guichard, the Iron Chancellor. Noticing the growth of both the oligarchs’ power and the social inequality in Skyfall, Genevieve warns her uncle of the threat while also imploring him to help the people. If Guichard listens, Genevieve will set up charity events and meetings for him to take part in, slowly but surely showing him the gift of kindness. When Guichard unexpectedly dies of old age and she is named her successor in his will, Genevieve outplays the now-rebellious oligarchs and crime lords through allying with the moderate opposition groups, spreading her informants across Skyfall, funding the police to crack down on crime hubs, and even secretly ordering the sabotage, robbing, and slander of the oligarchs and their industries. With all opposition to her dealt with, Genevieve builds a free democratic Skyfall enshrining welfare for the poor, proving herself a worthy successor to her late uncle.
  • Mayor Rokenhar is the elderly mayor of Las Pegasus. If the Lunar Civil War breaks out, Rokenhar will be forced by short-sighted business interests to declare Las Pegasus’ independence from Equestria at the cost of its stability as socialists, the PCA, and anti-independence factions arise. With his power almost gone, Rokenhar decides to play all the opposing factions by secretly funneling support to both the socialists and the PCA to weaken the anti-independence movement and each other while taking advantage of the political situation in Equestria to bolster his own support. If his gambit succeeds, Rokenhar restores order to Las Pegasus, only to learn that the stress of the earlier situation has left him with only one year left to live. Even with this knowledge in hand, Rokenhar spends the last of his days tending to the newborn Las Pegasus, ensuring its position for years to come.
  • Pea Shooter is an Equestrian-born arms dealer traveling the world to make money to bring home to his family. Landing in Tobuck with his associates intending to sell his guns to the now-dead Storm King, he instead uses said contacts to seize the weapons stockpile there. Working with his best ‘friend’ Vasile to establish the Republic of Tobuck from Zarantia with a puppet president, Pea Shooter makes a secret deal with the Zarantians to leave him alone for one more year, after which he’ll cede Tobuck back to them. In that time, Pea Shooter sells his guns to criminals, his associates, and whoever wants to buy them, while distracting said associates from the truth with a variety of tactics. Whether or not he’s found out, Pea Shooter sails back home with the money he’s filtered overseas, leaving no trace of his crimes for the Equestrian government to prosecute him for. Far away from the people he betrayed and safe within Equestria, Pea Shooter walks away from Zebrica a free pony.
  • Vasile cel Tradat is a Brodfieldian-born smuggler and Pea Shooter’s best ‘friend’. Working with Pea Shooter to establish the Republic of Tobuck, Vasile slowly builds connections with the local elite there, playing at greater ambitions than merely selling guns and escaping. If Pea Shooter is found out and no warlord has enough influence to establish dominance, Vasile will quickly pin the entire situation on him before becoming President through dubious means. Once in power, Vasile can either create a semi-legitimate republic with the Harmonists, doing a lot of good for the average Tobuckian while slowly taking over the economy behind the scenes, or a mafioso state that squeezes the country for all its worth, making himself fabulously rich and powerful. If Pea Shooter isn’t found out, Vasile will throw his lot in with the Zarantians, making himself useful as an advisor while slowly getting close to the Aguellid’s daughter and masterminding an assassination plot on the Aguellid herself. If the plot succeeds, Vasile will slowly manipulate and drug the newly-crowned Aguellid until she is little more than a mindless puppet. After the enraged Zarantian populus revolts against him, Vasile embezzles what is left of the country’s coffers before taking a boat out of Zarantia, gracefully admitting defeat to himself with his wealth intact. Ruthless and clever, Vasile seizes any opportunity he can find to enrich himself, be it at the benefit or expense of everyone else.
  • Protectoress Lilac is the ruler of the Manehattan Protectorate, made to assist with the occupation of Equestria. As the Protectoress, Lilac slowly stabilizes the region bit by bit through various programs and orders, while reining in the more brutal and illogical ideas of the Changeling garrison there. If her efforts lead to a stalemate with the resistance, Lilac will bait out the resistance by plunging the country into chaos, greatly crippling them for Chrysalis to crush. If she manages to fully cement her authority, Lilac can subtly move Manehattan away from Chrysalis, building a native army to match hers, until eventually outright declaring independence from her. Along the way, Lilac grows to genuinely care for the pony citizens in her country, giving them equal rights with the Changelings. Although still ruling as a dictator and crushing dissent with force, by the end of her tree Lilac becomes the respected leader of Manehattan by pony and Changeling alike.
• Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Jackie Chan Adventures & W.I.T.C.H.):
  • Charles Ludmoore, the King Smuggler, is Meridian's most notorious trader of secrets and artifacts of power. Through his brothers Cedric and Cyrus, he manipulates both sides of the civil war for his family's Long Game. Using the Oni masks as distractions to cover his acquisition of even more powerful items, he shores up a great deal of power for himself that few can match. Once Cedric tracks down Phobos's sister Elyon, he has Cedric manipulate Phobos into attacking him to give himself an excuse to join the Rebellion, where he proves invaluable to many of the Rebellion's operations. When Daolon Wong betrays Phobos, Ludmoore arranges to place himself in a position to save Wong's life, taking all of Wong's magic in exchange. He later arranges the events that set Elyon against Phobos, leading to Phobos's downfall and putting him in a position to shape the future of Meridian even further.
  • Harold Hale, aka Arthur Pendragon, is Cornelia's father and a member of the Dark Hand. After pretending to be unaware of the Dark Hand, he betrays Jackie Chan to Bartholomew Chang, who blackmails Jackie into working for the Dark Hand. Knowing that Jackie is infiltrating the Dark Hand for Section 13, Hale seemingly switches sides in order to give Section 13 control over the American branch of the Dark Hand, along with helping them arrest Chang, only to reveal to the renegade Quentin Ross that the Dark Hand and Section 13 were both created, in part by Hale himself, for the purpose of manipulating the world's governments into using magic to protect Earth from extradimensional threats, before killing Ross. He then meets with the other leaders of the Dark Hand, revealing to the readers that everything from his defection to his takeover of the American Dark Hand was all part of his plan.
• "Heroes" Series (Massive Multiplayer Crossover):
  • Doctor Doom of Earth-10005 is the most competent adversary the heroes ever face and the only one to succeed in his goals multiple times. Seeking the power to protect his universe no matter the cost, Doom uses his intelligent mind and magical abilities to keep the heroes on their toes, keeping his motives hidden and always having a backup plan to escape. Even in his alliance with Lex Luthor, Doom simultaneously engineers his own success and his partner's downfall, briefly gaining control of the Phoenix Force thanks to a plan he set in motion decades prior. Later on tricking Morgana into giving him her powers, Doom also singlehandedly destroys the Seed of Wonder, trapping the Senior Partners in their dimension. With genuine respect for his adversaries and destructive yet will-intentioned methods, Doom is the heroes' most dangerous foe and the only one they genuinely fear.
  • Moon Knight is simultaneously a billionaire philanthropist, a brilliant detective, and a brutal vigilante. Called in by Daredevil to investigate Gwen Stacy's disappearance, Moon Knight tracks down Rhino and tortures him for her location, even threatening Rhino's mother to make him sell out Norman Osborn. Using a business meeting to plant a bug on him and later defeating Silver Sable in one-on-one combat, Moon Knight then holds off Osborn long enough for the other heroes to defeat him. Later repeating his brutal techniques on Lindsey McDonald, Moon Knight gathers information on the entire Circle of the Black Thorn, proving instrumental to its downfall in the process. Despite his eccentric nature, Moon Knight is a dangerous man to cross, both intellectually and physically.
• I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (DC Comics & Marvel Comics): Lex Luthor is the mastermind behind "After Hours" and one of the craftiest supervillains in the series. After creating Lance to spy on the heroes over at Stan's Place, Luthor kidnapped Stan Lee and replaced him with an Life Model Decoy. He intended on using Doctor Doom's time machine to fix all the mistakes the studios had made with the other villains' films. However, Luthor was surprised when they all refused to risk losing what little they had. Believing the heroes of the Marvel universe had created a culture content with remaining unambitious, Lex sought to travel back in time and prevent Stan Lee from creating Marvel Comics. After his plan was foiled by Superman, Luthor learned that the Joker had initiated "Plan Q"; a plan he had previously scrapped that led to Darkseid learning he was a fictional character. Believing Lance was the key to stopping him, Luthor recruited the Green Goblin to retrieve his head back from the heroes. Thanks to the warnings from his future self, Lex teamed up with the heroes to repair Lance and help them stop Darkseid's forces. Managing to persevere no matter the odds, Lex Luthor proves he still is the most ambitious criminal mind among both Marvel and DC.
• Kira Yoshikage's Little Sister (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure & Pippi Longstocking) (link): Pippi Longstocking is reimagined as Koichi Hirose's former classmate and Yoshikage Kira's little sister, consequently renamed Pippi Kira. Well aware and supportive of her older brother's true nature as a serial killer, Pippi helps him cover up his crimes to ensure he continues living the peaceful life he strives for. When Yoshikage is forced to become Kosaku Kawajiri, Pippi tasks her father Yoshihiro Kira to look after her brother before waiting for Josuke Higashikata, Okuyasu Nijimura, Koichi and Jotaro Kujo to come to the Kira house to investigate. Keeping hidden her Stand Black Queen's versatile abilities unless she's gradually forced to reveal them, Pippi manages to keep up with the group despite being aware she has little chances of winning, nearly killing her classmate and Okuyasu on separate occasions. Even when defeated and mortally wounded by Jotaro, Pippi refuses to tell him any information about Yoshikage and takes advantage of her opponents dropping their guard to transfer part of her power to her brother, empowering him.
• Love at First Sight (Once Upon a Time) (Mr. Right & Once Upon a Time): Emma Swan is a quirky ex-CIA agent and ex-assassin who went rogue and now kills her clients out of both boredom and belief that they are bad people. Introduced killing a woman who hired her to kill said woman's husband and easily taking out a group sent to kill her, Emma eventually meets Regina Mills and instantly falls in love with her. During her relationship with Regina, Emma is constantly dodging assassination attempts and killing those sent to kill her, all the while being completely honest with Regina about her profession. Emma later easily takes out most of Jekyll and Hyde's men, even befriending some, before letting Regina join her in her assassination business, even promising to help Regina kill her cheating ex-boyfriend, Robin.
• Madame Malfoy Or A Forced Marriage (Harry Potter & Don Quixote): Pansy Parkinson is Draco Malfoy's calculating mistress and much more resourceful than in canon. When Madman in the Attic Lucius Malfoy deliriously claims she is his bride and Draco orders her to distract him until Draco fetches the mediwizards, Pansy goes from shock and fear to the development of a plan. She allows herself to be married to Lucius and follows him on his Don Quixote-style quest across Wizarding Britain, playing along with his crazy fantasies and deftly explaining the situation to everyone they meet, sometimes with a mere couple of gestures. Finally, she devises a plan to get Lucius to St. Mungo's and puts it into action with the help of Gringotts goblins. Lucius is subdued but the case is pronounced hopeless. Pansy triumphantly tells Draco that since he never bothered to get his father to a hospital before, her marriage to the latter is valid, but now that Lucius is officially declared insane, Pansy as the wife receives all his possessions. Leaving Draco with only the manor but no money or valuables, Pansy leaves the country for her new villa in the Canaries.
• Megami no Hanabira (A Kiss for the Petals & Shin Megami Tensei): Cypher is the mysterious guide of the heroines, helping Demon Tamers by unlocking new functions of the Demon Summoning Program to help them to survive the demon outbreak in the city of Kazamino, while also causing the Flock's controlled outbreak to become uncontrollable. Guiding the protagonists to the server hosting the Demon Summoning Program, Cypher later contacts with the protagonist disguised as Sister Danica, telling them about the real nature of the Flock. Actually Lucifer, he also summons the Fiends (apocalyptic demons) and unleashes them in Kazamino, hoping to find Tamers strong enough to defeat them. Revealing the real nature of the Flock to the world with the heroines, Danica tests them to give them the power to defeat The Flock. Saving the heroines from Sister Collete after they defeat Father Phillips, Danica breaks her remaining convictions in a speech before closing the server and revealing herself as Lucifer to the heroines, offering them the privilege of being his Godslayers and fighting God's Servants throughout the many worlds. After they refuse, Lucifer accepts their choice, leaving their world and taking pleasure in the fact that—at least in that world—God has lost.
• No More Turnabout (Ace Attorney & No More Heroes) (link): The polite and playful Henry Cooldown is the true murderer behind the crime that his twin brother, Travis Touchdown, finds himself framed for. Worried that Travis's relationship with Henry's ex-wife, Sylvia Christel, will lead Travis down to ruin, Henry formulates a plan to make Travis believe Sylvia was the one who framed him for the murder, and lead to the end of their relationship. Henry hires renowned assassin, Shelly de Killer, to attack Diane Heifer at the cemetery and make it seem as if the true crime scene occurred there before having him bring her body to the video store for Henry to murder. Henry then poses as an assistant and bodyguard to Phoenix Wright after saving his life from hitmen who Henry himself hired, and subtly leads Phoenix and Maya to misleading pieces of evidence. Henry successfully manages to put Sylvia under suspicion by having de Killer fake a slip-up about his client's identity. Even after Phoenix discovers that Henry is the murderer, Henry nearly gets away with his crimes by presenting proof of an alibi at the time the murder was thought to occur at the cemetery. When finally defeated, Henry accepts defeat with dignity and openly admits to being wrong when he finds out that Sylvia truly cares for his brother.
• One Helluva Broken Day (Helluva Boss and SCP Foundation): SCP-1879-2 is the mysterious salesman put in charge of evacuating SCPs to hell. Appearing at Lucifers door and coming back after being thrown out the window, 1879-2 uses his hammy persona, the promise of a powerful monster under his command, and Lilith hurrying Lucifer to secure the sale. Successfully finishing what he claims to be the biggest sale of his career, 1879-2 departs right before the Devil himself realizes that he's been had.
• Purpose (Elfen Lied & Saw) (link): John Kramer and his apprentice Lucy, aka Kaede, are the philosophical Jigsaw Killers:
  • John Kramer maintains his deeds from the film series and goes to abduct Lucy, forcing her into a Death Trap in an effort to make her regain her appreciation for life. After she survives, John is impressed and speaks to her, shutting down her nihilistic worldview and earns her loyalty in the process. So great is John's influence that even after his death Lucy takes up his work.
  • Lucy inherits John's title and continues his modus operandi after his passing. A Well-Intentioned Extremist just like her predecessor, Lucy continues his work while evading the police for five years through cunning. Abducting the vile Director Kakuzawa, Lucy still abides to the rules of John's game and encourages Kakuzawa to overcome the trap, only killing him when he loses thanks to his own ego.
• Remnant's Bizarre Adventure (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure & RWBY):
  • Neo Politan is the adoptive daughter and personal assassin for Roman Torchwick. She is a highly skilled and dangerous fighter, frequently able to take on multiple trained warriors at a time. When Koichi Hirose is kidnapped by Anjuro Katagiri, Neo rescues Koichi and the two defeat the infamous murderer, with Neo being impressed by Koichi's courage and forming a Villainous Crush. Neo successfully prevents Jotaro from taking Emerald Sustrai prisoner during the Dance, and when Joseph Joestar is brought to Vale to find Torchwick, she attempts to assassinate him and is nearly successful. During the Breach, Neo escapes her imprisonment the very moment her guards attempt to transfer her from her cell, leaving their bodies in her place. Sneering at egotists and cowards, Neo proves that she is one of Remnant's most capable criminals.
  • Eleven Men is one of the enforcers hired by Whitesnake to facilitate the Breach, and is cunning, pragmatic, and unfailingly polite. Despite having a seemingly weak Stand, Eleven Men proves himself a deadly opponent when he fights Yang Xiao Long, scoring a definitive victory over the blonde brawler, and only being prevented from killing her by the intervention of Raven Branwen. Despite being outmatched by Raven, Eleven Men remains as professional as ever, successfully escaping the train with Jotaro and Team RWBY having been unable to avert the Breach.
• The Requiem of Remnant (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind & RWBY): Giorno Giovanna remains as magnificent as ever. Even despite being Trapped in Another World without his Requiem powers, Giorno sets out to take over the criminal underworld in hopes of killing Cinder Fall and gaining the resources to return home. When confronted by Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black, Giorno defeats the master assassins with relative ease, with the two of them only barely managing to escape death at his hands. For months he robs Roman Torchwick blind, culminating in him stealing Roman's best weapons at his own White Fang rally. After escaping from Team RWBY in a high-speed chase, Giorno defeats Roman and Neo Politan in battle and lets them escape with the idea that he has an entire organization backing him. Giorno is an expert at manipulating people by subtly changing his behavior, and tricks his enemies into coming to the conclusions that he wants them to reach. When confronted on his motives, Giorno states that he won't be satisfied until he's the one in control.
• Sleepy (Bleach & RWBY) (link): Tier Harribel, the Tres Espada, becomes King of Hueco Mondo after Sosuke Aizen's defeat and shines through her leadership, becoming one of Ruby Rose, Coyote Starrk and Lilynette Gingerbuck's most brilliant allies. Using fellow Arrancar Ruby Rose to establish links with Remnant, she has her collect Grimm as the newest Hollow food instead of the Hollows' cannibalism and establishes a ceasefire with Soul Society by sending Ruby there – risking the latter's life in the process – with a record of Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Zaraki Kenpachi's incursion within Soul Society, using that same record to fasten the negociations with Atlas by convincing them to build shared defenses against Soul Society. Establishing secret alliances with Remnant in several aspects such as soul research, transportation and Grimm harvesting, Harribel and several Arrancars assist Vale during the Fall of Beacon, making hers and Hueco Mondo's existence public as heroes after successfully foiling Cinder Fall's plans.
• The Spiral of Descent (Bleach & Naruto) (link): Sasuke Uchiha, having learned about Madara Uchiha's status as the Soul King in his Infinite Tsukuyomi-created Soul Society, wants to stop him to save the shinobi world. Infiltrating the Gotei 13 as Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke quickly became a beloved shinigami Captain. Teaming up with his best friend Naruto Uzumaki and the latter's lover Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, Aizen has the latter join the Espada with a middle rank to avoid too much attention. Committing most of his canon deeds, Aizen masterminds and starts a war in his supposed target Karakura Town to draw Soul Society's attention away from Naruto and Nelliel, whom Aizen sent to destroy Los Angeles to create the required King's Key to reach Madara and kill him to dispel the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Upon successfully doing so, Naruto, Nelliel's soul and Aizen engage Madara in the real world, defeating him and successfully saving the shinobi world. A combination of his canon self's sympathetic traits, talent and ruthlessness with Aizen's mastery of strategy and tactics, Sasuke proves to be nobler than the canon Aizen.
• To My Death I Fight (Bleach, Hellsing & Kill la Kill): Sosuke Aizen, while retaining his canon cruelty, is driven by genuinely good intentions. Discovering the Original Life Fiber's existence and omnicidal intentions in the 19th century, Aizen started plotting against it, committing his canon deeds to empower his Hogyoku and kill the Soul King in the hopes of taking down the Original Life Fiber. When freed from the Muken by Kisuke Urahara, Aizen works with Ichigo Kurosaki, Ryuko Matoi, Satsuki Kiryuin and their allies against Ragyo Kiryuin, coming up with several strategies and teamwork tactics either in the long run or on the fly, using psychological warfare and excellent teamwork with Satsuki against Ragyo — forcing the latter to go all out to defeat them —, nearly sealing the Original Life Fiber with the help of Seras Victoria and Kinue Kinagase, masquerading as Satsuki and working with Ryuko to trick Ragyo into getting close enough for Aizen to severely injure her, later on successfully outsmarting Ragyo and leading to her death, and finally work with Ichigo, Ryuko, Satsuki and Nui Harime to send the Original Life Fiber to Hueco Mondo to give the former three a field advantage, allowing them to achieve victory.
• This War of Mine (Dragon Ball & RWBY) (link) : Future Son Goku and Future Piccolo, while long dead, remain the fighting geniuses they were in canon. Coming up with a plan to take down Future Cell and save Earth and Remnant, Goku and Piccolo brutally train Ruby Rose for months after her death in the Fall of Beacon, significantly increasing her overall strength and skills. Allowed to return to the mortal world for a day for his good deeds, Goku used that reward to use the Namek Dragon Balls to resurrect Ruby and Piccolo, bringing back the Earth Dragon Balls for later use. Teleporting to Remnant to rescue his son Future Son Gohan, Ruby and their allies from Perfect Cell, Goku engages Cell, while ensuring Gohan could observe Cell's fighting style. Left with little time before going back to the afterlife, Goku manipulates Cell into setting up the Cell Games in a week, allowing Gohan, Ruby and their allies to train in the Room of Spirit and Time to become strong enough to confront Cell by then, willing to risk innocent lives to save them and ensure the new generation could measure up.
• Touhou Battle Royale (Touhou Project & Battle Royale): Reimu Hakurei, one of the Battle Royale Program's participants, proves to be far more ruthless and brilliant than in canon. Determined to ensure her best friend Marisa Kirisame's victory in the Program, Reimu fakes Marisa's death at the very beginning of the Program, psyching up every other participant and leading to them having much less hesitations in targeting each other. Reimu also takes advantage of the ensuing bloodbath to hide the unconscious Marisa from everyone else, only being found out by two participants who are ultimately impressed by her resolve and ultimately help her hide Marisa. Later on, when one last dying Program participant attempts to kill Marisa, Reimu takes the bullet and dies having succeeded in her goal, securing her best friend's victory. No-nonsense, cunning and determined, Reimu openly admits she's willing to "deceive, trick or kill anyone", even herself, to make sure Marisa stay alive.

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