Sandbox / Monster: Comic Books (D to I)

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• Dan Dare (Garth Ennis's 2007-2008 miniseries): The Mekon, vile ex-tyrant of the Treen people, is the epitome of a cruel little green man. The Mekon attempts to conquer Earth and the Treens once again through the use of a black hole; destroys Pluto so the Earthmen take his threats seriously; viciously tortures Dan Dare even after the latter willingly surrenders himself; and vows to burn all of Earth and reduce humanity to chattel. No less merciless towards his minions, the Mekon flushes them out into space, blasts them in the face, and fires upon them in open warfare for the slightest and pettiest of reasons.
• Danger Club, by Landry Q. Walker & Eric Jones: Chronos, the vile, extradimensional Titan of myth, has been corrupting and playing with reality for as long as it has existed, twisting and then annihilating the world in a series of reset timelines to eventually steer Earth to a path where it is worshipped as an absolute god — granting it the power necessary to break from its seal and destroy the multiverse. Chronos twists Earth's greatest hero into his monstrous puppet, killing off all of the world's heroes and villains through him and creating a horrible dystopia out of nothing more than a hunger for death and chaos.
• Danger Girl (both written by Andy Hartnell):
  • Danger Girl/G.I. Joe (2005): Cobra Commander is as ruthless and unhinged as often portrayed, establishing himself to his command staff by slashing a Cobra soldier to death for another's offhand insult. Planning to use unearthed nuclear missiles to wipe out millions of people across the globe and threaten countless more until they cow to Cobra, the Commander sends his soldiers to implant homing beacons for the missiles at their targets, taunting his troops all the while that he has no plans to hesitating to fire the missiles when the beacons are ready, uncaring if they are caught up in the blast.
  • Danger Girl and the Army of Darkness (2013): The nameless Chancellor pushes for General Kage's war against the rebels, to make the conflict worse and to get his hands on the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. With this achieved, the Chancellor intends on becoming a new "Chosen One", using the book to kill the colonel's entire battalion and raising them as Deadites. Intending on having the Deadites slaughter all in their path to devastate the world, the Chancellor plans on converting everything into his Deadite army, even unleashing a demonic Dark One to do as much damage as possible.
• Dark Ark: The wicked Echidna is the mother of monsters. Surviving the flood as the Leviathan, Echidna hounds Noah's ark to feed off the animals there, intending to destroy it and kill Noah's family without tribute. When her own children come to investigate, Echidna happily kills them as well. When the sorcerer Shrae attempts to bargain with her, Echidna leaves him to drown to attack the Dark Ark, mentally dominating her monster children to feed her Shrae's family and remaining captives, while intending on breeding them to provide a fresh supply of meat.
• Dark Crystal: Beneath the Dark Crystal: In this sequel to the original film, the Fire That Stays is an immortal Fireling, a subset of the Gelfings that are beings of flame. The Fire That Stays has become cynical, thinking the Firelings have become weak and decadent. After the Firelings were almost destroyed in an event known as the Great Dim, the Fire That Stays becomes convinced that the Firelings must be subjected to an apocalyptic event to become strong again. The Fire That Stays kidnaps the children of Fragors, giant ant creatures, and orders them to attack the Firelings or he will harm their children. After the Fireling princess Thurma frees the Fragors' children and the Fragors turn against him, the Fire That Stays summons a giant tidal wave to destroy the Fireling kingdom.
• Dark Gods by Justin Jordan, German Erramouspe, et al.: The unnamed CEO is a chaos-loving sadist determined to unleash the serpent god Tiamat. The CEO uses his social media company to subtly drive dozens of people insane across America, using them to commit various atrocities from mall shootings to burning themselves and others alive. The CEO, after butchering dozens of his employees with demonic forces, drives several members of the Storm insane and kills them. Even when captured and beaten, the CEO reveals he has arranged for Tiamat to be released onto the planet, and plans to enjoy the view as she brings destruction and death across the planet.
• Darkman
  • 1990 comic, written by Ralph Macchio (not that one): Louis Strack Jr. is the conscienceless CEO of Strack Industries and is ultimately the man behind Dr. Peyton Westlake's mutilation and transformation into Darkman. Strack is the one paying Robert G. Durant to torture and slaughter his way through anyone who refuses to acquiesce to his corporate takeover of the city, from the mob outfit in the opening to Peyton and his innocent assistant. Strack has no compunction using Peyton's Love Interest as a hostage after having dated her himself; in the same scene, he reveals he arranged for his first wife to die in a plane crash. In a storyline excised from the film, Strack resolves his differences with his own father by paying Durant to murder him.
  • 1993 comic, by Kurt Busiek:
    • Sanford Lowell is the police commissioner and the former chairman of the Metropolitan Club. In actuality, Sanford is revealed to be a Serial Killer known as Matthew Hopkins, aka "The Witchfinder", who prey on the homeless and have them burnt on a stake, or kidnap them so he could torture them in his personal chamber. Having done so to an innocent woman known as Grey Bess, Sanford later drugs Darkman so he could torment him within his torture chambers.
    • Claude Bellasarious is a member of the Metropolitan Club before betraying Sanford Lowell and having him commit suicide. Becoming the new head of the Club, Claude has a Mad Scientist resurrect the infamous Robert G. Durant with the intent of having him kill Darkman to secure his power. Once Claude learns Darkman has survived his battle with Durant, Claude orders Durant to destroy a village of homeless people in order to find and finish Darkman, resulting with Durant and his men planning to leave no survivors.
    • Robert G. Durant comes back from the dead as a cyborg after his first demise in the first movie. Durant reveals himself to the Metropolitan Club members and fellow criminals, ripping a man's arms off for making fun of his new body while openly stating his new hobby of collecting people's arms. Durant later kidnaps Darkman's Love Interest and plans to tear her to shreds while he makes Darkman watch purely to hurt him. After breaking Darkman's ribs, he and his men raid a small village of homeless people to find and kill Darkman, ordering his goons to leave no one alive and burn the place to the ground.
  • Darkman vs. Army of Darkness:
    • The Queen of Darkness is a spirit who possesses Julie Hastings to ravage Darkman's city with Deadites. Having people killed en masse, the Queen plots to use the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis to empower herself and create a worldwide empire of the dead. When her minions fail her, the Queen resurrects Darkman's nemesis Robert G. Durant, and keeps killing to revive the fallen as more Deadite soldiers.
    • Robert G. Durant, revived by the Queen of Darkness as her "field marshall", hopes to rule the empire of the dead with her. To bolster the Queen's forces, Durant beats people to death or severe trauma so they can be crafted into new Deadites. Dispatched to capture the heroes, Durant lures them out by taking over a news station, and threatens to cut a new anchor's fingers off one by one, lest Darkman confront him.
• Dark Red, by Tim Seeley et al.: Kamille Magdalena Kaczmarek is a powerful vampire who is the leader of the vampire equivalent of a neo-Nazi movement. Attempting to recruit Charles "Chip" Ipswich, Kamille introduces him to her leader Victor Varney, with an entire convenience store set up for feeding. When Chip kills Varney, Kamille gleefully takes over their group, having her men move closer, killing those they find along the way. Taking Chip's friend Evie hostage, Kamille intends to feed from her as long as she can and is even indicates to savor infant blood as a delicacy. Kamille's ultimate goal is to cause a white supremacist vampire uprising where vampirism will be reserved for pure whites and all others shall be as meat.
• Dark Shadows (Dynamite Comics):
  • The vampire Lockwood was a Serial Killer in life before being attacked by Barnabas Collins. Surviving as a vampire and looking to sate his bruised ego, Lockwood begins turning children into vampires and has them murder their own families to "strengthen" them to serve as soldiers against Barnabas. After fleeing, Lockwood proceeds to slaughter more people and later allies with Barnabas's evil half, temporarily becoming human and celebrating by committing more murders just to see blood in the sunlight again. In the Bad Future, Lockwood helps butcher as much of the town of Collinport as he can while also trying to corrupt his former victim, the young vampire Emma. While Barnabas is a truly remorseful man looking to embrace his human side, Lockwood relishes in being a monster, whether as a human or as a vampire.
  • Dark Shadows/Vampirella, by Marc Andreyko et al.:
    • Elizabeth Báthory, when human, killed countless girls to bathe in their blood. After rising as a vampire, Báthory slaughters numerous innocents as "festivities", and when she meets Jack the Ripper, she kills his latest victim and makes him her pet. In modern day, Báthory allows Jack to function as a serial killer while bringing her young women. Turning others into vampires, Báthory kills her victims, attempting to force Vampirella and Barnabas Collins to kill one another before celebrating by trying to have her hostages torn apart for fun.
    • Jack the Ripper himself is a misogynist psychopath who slaughtered women in Whitechapel. Now serving Báthory, Jack brings her victims while operating as a Serial Killer through the ages. Garnering the name "The Big Apple Butcher" for his latest, Jack targets multiple innocents and relishes in their suffering, even trying to murder Vampirella and her friends to satisfy his lust for murder.
• Darkstalkers & The Night Warriors: Pyron is a sadistic space deity who enjoys devouring planets to gain power, having done so to his own home planet. Noticing the young planet Earth, Pyron waits for it to ripen and grow before promising to return and eat it. Spending the next millennia feasting on populated planets, Pyron heads back to the populated Earth, deciding to fight Morrigan and Demitri for his own amusement before he tries to devour the world completely.
• Dead@17:
  • Abraham Pitch, the selfish, egomaniacal, corrupt, driving force of the entire plot, manages to stick out as a truly awful excuse of a being despite being surrounded by demons and devils. Originally a member of the demon-fighting force known as the Protectorate, Pitch turned on his fellow teammates to become a student of the Satanic occult, and promptly began paving the way for demonic entities to travel to Earth to torture and kill numerous innocents. Once bodyjacking his own son, Zachary, Pitch uses his son's body to become President of the United States, at which point he institutes Martial Law and convinces one-third of the planet to be imprinted with the "Mark". Unbeknownst to the receivers of the Mark, Pitch plans to use it as a transmutation spell to transform any who have the Mark into his demon slaves, and all the while frames all those who reject the Mark as terrorists. After bombing and massacring numerous locations, killing close to 50 people, Marked and Unmarked alike, Pitch frames Heaven's Militia, one of the few resistances against him, for the crimes, and ultimately begins systematically executing any Unmarked he can before spending his final moments in power screaming to kill all those against him and to launch every nuclear missile his military has.
  • Lucifer Morningstar is the lord and master of Hell, and the ultimate mastermind behind the entire plot. Having made contact and a deal with Abraham Pitch to allow his forces to begin invading the Earth, Lucifer eventually uses a teenage girl as a sacrifice to grant him entry to the planet, where he begins sharing a body with Pitch. Lucifer directs many of Pitch's crimes, ultimately manipulating one-third of the Earth into receiving the Mark and proclaiming all Unmarked as filth who deserve to be purged. After painfully transforming all Marked into his demonic servants and ordering them to kill all Unmarked across the globe, Lucifer goes on a rampage, slaughtering all in his sight while proclaiming his plans to make the Earth into a Hellish landscape of agony solely to mock God.
• Dead Irons, written by James Kuhoric: Devin Irons is a vicious husband and father who regularly beat his wife and 4 children, Irons went so far as to brand his son Silas with a cross and tie him to a statue, bloody and bruised, for an undetermined amount of time. When the only man in town aware of Irons's cruelty confronts him, Irons gleefully stabs the man to death, before enacting a plan to gain eternal life. Making a pact with Hell, Irons crucifies his wife and plans to sacrifice her and his children to eternal pain and torment in exchange for eternal life, but when Silas disrupts the ritual, Irons settles for gutting his wife and leaving his children to wander the land as monstrous zombies. Continuing his plans years later, Irons tortures and murders men, women, and children, then brainwashes 99 of them into slitting their own throats. When his kids finally return for their vengeance, Irons revives their mother as a demonic cannibal and orders her to kill her own children, then reveals his plans to unleash his dark powers across the land and cleanse the world of those he deems "unrighteous."
• Dead Mall, by Adam Cesare, David Stoll, & Justin Birch: The Penn Mills Galleria is a sadistic Genius Loci in the form of the Mall. It uses its illusion powers to lure and imprison countless people, children included, and transforms them into deformed creatures on whom it feeds. When a thief who is immune to its powers keeps breaking in and out of it, the Mall eventually condemns and imprisons him while letting him keep some of his will, occasionally letting him sneak out of its grounds while setting traps for him as a twisted game. When five teenagers break into it on the night before its demolition, the Mall lures them one by one into its clutches while planning to let one of them go so the demolition would be delayed. At the end, it drops the only girl who survived where the demolition crew will find her, and eagerly awaits new victims who will come in search of her friends.
• Death Follows, by Cullen Bunn, A. C. Zamudio & Carlos Nicolas Zamudio (also in novel form as The Remains by Bunn): "The Hired Man", Cole Jensen, with a smile that seems to disproportionately stretch across his whole face, looks about as wicked as he actually is. A wanderer who takes up residence at a local farm, Cole immediately begins attempting to molest the youngest daughter of the family, Abbie, and eventually murders a young boy for no apparent reason. Revealed to be a Serial Killer of young girls who is plagued by a curse that raises all those around him from the dead, Cole has been on the run for years from his over half-a-dozen victims, and, after being fired from the farm for disturbing the children, Cole returns, flings Abbie's older sibling from a window, then kills the defenseless girl, happily taunting the family of her fate afterwards. When attacked by Abbie's parents, Cole kicks her pregnant mother in the stomach extremely hard, causing her unborn baby to be stillborn, before screaming his plans to gut them all. A psychopathic hick with a hunger for death everywhere he went, Cole Jensen was a truly cruel and depraved killer of the highest order.
• The Death of Stalin (originally La Mort de Staline), by Fabien Nury & Thierry Robin: Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the NKVD and Stalin's personal attack dog, quickly moves to try and ensure Stalin's death when the former dictator falls into a coma to consolidate his own power. Beria has countless people tortured and executed in the depths of the nation's gulags, while ruthlessly buying off or otherwise attempting to silence his political opposition, attempting to frame Khrushchev to have him bear the brunt of his treason to the nation. Beria is also a disgusting Serial Rapist who treats his violent assaults with a bored, hobbyist mentality, reacting with mild irritation when a phone call interrupts him in the middle of a session while ordering the woman's father arrested right after.
• Death Sentence: David "Monty" Montgomery is a depraved, egotistical comedian already guilty of serial rape and abuse who becomes far worse after the incurable G+ virus grants him hypnosis and telekinesis. Deciding to spend his last few months engrossing himself, Monty uses his powers to rape and murder the Queen of England before brutally killing the Royal Family and the Prime Minister in rapid succession, forcing a battalion of hundreds of soldiers to kill themselves and taking over England. Monty proceeds to use his influence to turn England into his own personal pit of debauchery, influencing millions into unimaginable depravity while raping countless women and slaughtering entire crowds more simply for annoying him, even murder over one million innocent people — children not spared — in one fell swoop to extend his influence past England. When confronted by an armada, Monty hypnotizes the captain to rape one of his own men before making the entire armada kill itself, and even after all of the carnage and millions hypnotized or killed by him, Monty confesses he isn't satisfied. Nothing more than a degenerate sadist in the end, Monty represents a picture of what a psychopath with no other resources might become with the powers to exercise whatever they might have wanted.
• Defiance, by Douglass Barré; Jacob Lee; Kanno Kang, & Zack Suh: Satan himself takes over the realm of Sheol and turns it into a horrifying pit where the native residents are tormented by his fellow fallen angels, later damning countless souls into eternal torture under his reign. Striving to take over a futuristic Earth, Satan makes a deal with the corrupt mayor of Tri-City, taking residence in his body and casually wiping every memory of the man's loved ones to make room for himself. Orchestrating leagues of horrid mass murder and torture in his quest to stop the man destined to give the message to his daughter to fight against him, Satan eventually brings his son Dirge — whom he treats as little else than a pawn to his face — into Earth to lead his armies, wiping out thousands of lives, capturing and torturing his daughter into perfect subservience, and ending the comic ready to oversee his legions to take over Earth, annihilate Heaven, and set up a reign of eternal torture among all mankind.
• The Devils, by Matthew Spradlin, William Allan Reyes, et al.: Commander Suguru is a Japanese officer and the worst seen at Ramree Island. A sadistic killer, flashbacks show Suguru led a group of "devils" at Nanking, massacring many Chinese civilians. Introduced raping a Chinese woman, Suguru then raped her young daughter before murdering them both, only two of many victims he targeted. Suguru shows no hesitation in using the more moral Takahiro as bait for the crocodiles of Ramree and is happy to sacrifice men if it means his survival.
• Dexter: Down Under, by Jeff Lindsay et al.: Bruce Grigsby is a racist white millionaire and founder of "Citizens for a White Australia". Harboring hatred for any immigrants, Asians in particular, he begins murdering entire families of immigrants, including children, during the nights. At one point, he kidnapped Asian farm workers who lived near to his isolated ranch, and put them in cages inside his barn. From there he would release them one at the time and hunt them on his ranch, often threatening their families to make them do whatever he wants. When Shawna Wiggs and Dexter Morgan start following trails of his murders, he captures them and makes them his "prey" in his next hunt on his ranch.
• Diabolik: Diabolik himself may be a ruthless master thief, but he operates with a level of honor and has a set of unbreakable standards. As a result, the comic has introduced some pure evil monsters for him to fight at times:
  • Federico is the ambitious Duke of Vallenberg who is aiming for control over the kingdom of Benglait. Creating the terrorist organisation the Grey Ravens, Federico has them provoke a Civil War to cause countless deaths. Marrying Atlea to attempt to claim the throne but failing to do so because of Benglait becoming a republic, Federico fakes his death and orchestrates a series of horrific terrorist attacks upon the kingdom. When Diabolik and Ginko interfere with his plans, Federico continues with his onslaughts and launches an attack on Atlea, so he could return from his supposed demise and have the Grey Ravens convert Benglait into a fascist state with him as ruler.
  • Mr. Logan is the depraved CEO of a pharmaceutical company who's only out for his monetary gain. Purchasing a Synthetic Plague and its vaccine, Logan then unleashes the virus onto the civilian population, killing countless innocents and causing a mass panic. Logan's intention is to then "discover" the vaccine and use it to be able to rake in money from the population and appear as the hero who saved them all.
• Dinocorps: Jarek is the leader of a group of scientifically-advanced dinosaurs known as the Saurons. Considering himself to be a "True-Blood" compared to the other dinosaurs in his time period, Jarek activates the Extinction Protocol, a weapon that eradicates all the other non-Sauron dinosaurs. When Jarek and his remaining Saurons wake up in the present, he destroys a mall after discovering it has been infested by humans. He then conspires to reactivate the Extinction Protocol; Jarek orders his troops to look for the weapon's triggering device. His troops kidnap Carl's friend, Winston, after he accidentally activates the device, and they head to their safe house while the weapon arms itself. Jarek and his troops kill any humans in their way and put several civilians in danger as they fight off the Dinocorps. When Carl confronts Jarek, he sneers how Carl is too late and that the weapon has finished arming, moments before he throws Winston off a skyscraper and tries to murder Carl. A violent, racist radical, Jarek is a creature who would rather destroy the entire world than live on it with other species who aren't Saurons.
• Dinosaucers (2018 comic reboot): Rex, unlike his original incarnation, is far deadlier and taken much more seriously. Longing to preserve his tyrannical rule on the planet Reptilon, Rex sets his sights on planet Earth to fuel his slave labor. He and his armada invade Earth and sack various major cities, causing wanton destruction and killing thousands in the process. When Rex realizes that his rule over Reptilon is in jeopardy, he simply forces his invaders to speed up their hostile takeover, and they start siphoning Earth's natural resources and kidnapping humans to use as a food source. After Rex's plans are thwarted and he's coaxed into making a truce, he decides to force four members of the Secret Scouts to head back to Reptilon with him, or else he'll resume his invasion and destroy the entire world.
• Dinosaurs Attack!, written by Gary Gerani: The Supreme Monstrosity is the devil-like patron deity of the dinosaurs, desiring to reclaim the world from humanity. Discreetly revealing itself to Dr. Elias Thorne, the Monstrosity manipulates the use of his Time Scanner to bring dinosaurs back through time, guiding them as foot soldiers. All over the globe, countless innocent people are sadistically slaughtered and devoured by dinosaurs under the Monstrosity's thrall. All the while, the Monstrosity toys with Thorne and his crew, having them believe that it is a manifestation of Thorne's troubled subconscious, before killing off the crew through psychic-induced heart attacks. When Thorne and his ex-wife Helen manage to rework the Time Scanner, the Supreme Monstrosity personally appears to crush Thorne in its hands.
• A Distant Soil:
  • Sere is a member of the Ovanan Hierarchy who delights in how they manipulate the avatar into destroying worlds and murdering "unfit" children. Having tortured the young Avatar Seren as a child, Sere also molested him frequently. A serial pedophile, Sere tortures and possibly rapes the young hero Jason, also revealing she poaches young children from the Ovanan nurseries to molest. A remorseless sadist, Sere also wipes out most of a household when they deny her a chance to see Seren and enjoys the potential of torturing any member of the resistance she gets her hands on.
  • Sere's ally in evil, Prince Emeris, is a late addition to the Hierarchy, but matches his counterpart for evil. A war criminal who used illegal weapons to poison a race to force their prince, D'mer, to become his slave, Emeris is well known for abusing and raping said slaves, enjoying the way he can use pain to force others to submit to his will. Raping Seren when Seren is removed from power, Emeris also tortures him while plotting to obtain D'mer again. Eager to continue the brutal crusades of the Ovanan, Emeris repeatedly shows his own loyalty is to his own pleasures and cruelties.
• Django/Zorro, by Quentin Tarantino, Matt Wagner, & Esteve Polls:
  • Gùrko Zagreda Langdon is the Archduke of Arizona and a despicable slaver who sees himself as above all "commoners" by the decree of Manifest Destiny. Langdon feigns his way into becoming the Archduke by forging legal documents while killing anyone in his way, and passes off a native woman named Conchita he raises as Spanish royalty, marrying his way into power before raping and abusing Conchita all throughout the marriage. Langdon employs brutal slave labor of the native Indian tribes to build a colossal railroad through Arizona, killing many of them through the precarious missions to destroy the mesas blocking their path and having any others who complained tortured or murdered into silence. When opposed by Django and Zorro, Langdon heartlessly murders Zorro's steadfast servant Bernardo before deserting when the slaves revolt, killing his own son while decreeing him and his late wife a failure to his legacy.
  • "Anvil Charlie", real name Chareg, is a native who sells out his own people to slavery for the chance of immunity. Named so for his proficiency with an anvil hammer, Charlie takes delight in torturing any slave who complains by breaking their bones with his hammer with many tortured and killed by him, dismissing their pleas that his victims used to be his friends. When Django himself is brought to him, Charlie revels in the chance to torture him and intends to go for Django's "soft oysters" as well.
• Doll & Creature, by Rick Remender:
  • Dr. Pyrus is a sociopath who seeks to Take Over the World by using the drug called Gray Matter. Having exposed himself to the drug years ago, Pyrus brutally murdered his partner soon after, and began mass producing Gray Matter and leaking it into the Nether Providence, uncaring for the countless lives it takes. Gray Matter being highly addictive and turning those who take it into ravenous beasts called "Hydes," Pyrus plans expose all of humankind to the substance, then lord over the savage hordes as a god. To assist in his endeavors, Pyrus employs the extremist "Gipper," who utilizes child suicide bombers in his plans, and ultimately orders the heroine Doll be spared from death by his minions solely so as to rape her at a later time.
  • The unnamed fanatic taking the name of the "Gipper" is a Reagan-adoring extremist and current president of the GOP, avowed solely to forcing his idea of the "good old days" back onto a radically-changed America. Allying with Mr. Pyrus and helping him to distribute Grey Matter through the city, the Gipper spends his free time kidnapping children off the streets, lobotomizing them, and turning them into fanatically-loyal suicide bombers, triggering their entire bodies to be horribly consumed in a burst of acid at his command. When he finally has Gristle in his grip, the Gipper reveals his intention to reduce all of Nether Providence's residents to horrible monsters through the Grey Matter before reintroducing religion to the city by means of having them worship him and his party, whilst keeping them hooked on Grey Matter for decades to come.
• Dollars Trilogy comics:
  • The Man with No Name Volume 2: Holiday in the Sun (Dynamite Comics): Angel Eyes is a wicked sheriff suffering from a severe case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Forcing the population of Red Bluff to pay for his Protection Racket, Angel has the local blacksmith tortured in front of his family, and when the man gives him information on the whereabouts of a train that might be carrying tons of money, Angel Eyes repays the blacksmith by executing him and his family, even his baby boy. Poisoning his own partner to have all the money for himself, Angel Eyes hires bandits to blow up the tracks and shoot at the train—filled with not only private guards but also innocent workers—just for him to arrive at the scene and save the day. Cowardly leaving his deputies behind to save himself after a short encounter with Blondie, Angel Eyes would resurface eight years later as one of the worst foes of the Man with No Name.
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, by Chuck Dixon, Esteve Polls, & Marc Rueda: In this conclusion to the film of same name, two characters on opposing sides manage to stand out even in the harsh reality of The Wild West:
    • Colonel Lambert participates in the French intervention solely to commit war crimes. Introduced executing a man and massacring civilians to Leave No Witnesses of his campaign after pillaging a mission, the greedy and disloyal Lambert refuses to give his loot to Emperor Maximilian. Shortly after suppressing a group of Republican rebels, the Juaristas, Lambert simply decides to engage in Hunting the Most Dangerous Game with his prisoners, impaling and slashing them as they try to escape. Casually trying to return to France with all of the gold, Lambert sends his men to fight against a gang at close range.
    • The Gambler is an utterly sadistic Bandito with the modus operandi of a Theme Serial Killer. Ambushing a French cavalry detachment and ordering his men to "take good care" of the wounded by not wasting any bullets, the Gambler takes the survivors to the hills and toys with them, forcing the defenseless soldiers to pick cards from his tarot deck and killing them with increasingly brutal methods that reflect their own choices, which includes drinking boiling water and getting tied to a horse. When one of the soldiers exposes Lambert's operation to save his own skin, the Gambler acknowledges his sincerity and then burns his chest with hot coal before executing the man and the other captives.
• Doppelganger, by Jordan Hart & Emmanuel Xerx Javier: The titular Doppelganger is an ancient entity who has kept himself alive for thousands of years by taking on the forms and identities of innocent people, then letting his magics destroy their bodies in 36 hours, leaving the Doppelganger to do what he will with their lives. Having thousands of victims over his years, the Doppelganger takes the form of his latest victim, hapless Dennis, and immediately ruins the life of the man's coworkers to improve his position. In the end, the Doppelganger plans to gleefully murder Dennis's wife and child for the insurance money on them, and callously murders any innocent people standing in his way in the process.
• Double Dragon (1991): The evil Nightfall Was Once a Man named Shinichi who was spurned by his crush, Miranda, in favor of Stan "The Man" Lee. Shinichi pledged himself to the Counterforce, the embodiment of all wrong with the world, and then vowed to ruin Miranda's life. Nightfall waited until Miranda was pregnant with twins Jimmy and Billy and then tried to kill them all in one fell swoop; although he failed to kill her boys, he captured Miranda's soul and kept her in perpetual agony for the next eighteen years. Nightfall murders Jimmy and Billy's Sensei, has hordes of his minions attack entire crowds of people and kill dozens of innocents, and ultimately plans to destroy all civilization. Boundlessly evil, Nightfall commits all these atrocities for nothing but his petty grudge over Miranda's rejection.
• Dracula, Motherf**ker!: The Ancient Evil that is Dracula is a cruel being who awakens in modern times and goes on a killing spree, murdering multiple innocents while turning two into his brides. Using photographer Quincy Harker's editor as a pawn, Dracula then has him drained by his new brides, with it being later revealed that Dracula seduces young women to become his wives and plays them against one another. Dracula has them feed off innocent blood, before destroying them to increase his own power, with only three ever surviving his grip.
• Dragon, written by Saladin Ahmed: Vlad Dracula was an abusive bully to his brother Radu through their younger years. After being taken in by the Ottomans, Vlad embraced his inner sadist while beginning to murder people and impale others. Making a pact with dark powers, Vlad becomes the nightmarish "Dragon", slaughtering innocents en masse and corrupting others into vampire murderers. Ultimately returning to kill a grave robber, Vlad gloats that as long as there is evil, the Dragon shall never truly die.
• Dragon Prince, by Ron Marz et al.: Madigan, the Suzerain of the Magi, helped to continue the genocide of the dragon species, largely to seize their blood and scales for his own power. When his daughter fell in love with the dragon Wei, Madigan kept Wei as a tormented captive for the entirety of his grandson Aaron's life to harvest his power. Capturing Aaron, Madigan now intends to murder Wei and use the half-dragon Aaron in his place to eternally harvest his power. Upon Wei's freedom, Madigan orders his own grandson and daughter killed, even turning himself into a dragon in a fanatic desire to destroy them all.
• The Dregs: Beck Lasko, the CEO of Carnary Inc., wants to gentrify the city of Vancouver. His plan involves bribing drug dealers to sell drugs laced with sleeping drugs to homeless people. Lasko then had his men kidnap these homeless people, kill them and turn them into food for his fancy restaurant. When confronted by a homeless man, Arnold Marlowe, Lasko reveals the corrupt mayor of the city supports his plan. Lasko mocks him further by holding a food drive where he serves food made from dead homeless people to other homeless people.
• Dungeon:
  • Dungeon Monster volumes 5 & 7: Professor Victor Chambon not only abandons his mentally deficient son, but also plans on taking over the city by kidnapping the children of the city's leaders and hypnotizing them into assassinating their parents. He also hypnotizes students and uses their bodies to rape women. Some of this was part of his overall scheme, but plenty of it was done solely to satisfy his own desires.
  • The Absolute Evil, formerly known as Robert, is the bloodthirsty leader of an army of 20,000 orcs, whom he often kills for the slightest reason. Obsessed with the 7 Objects of Destiny, the Absolute Evil sends his orcs to attack several cities in order to find them. In his introductory scene, the Absolute Evil has his army raids the city of Clerembard and personally kills the bishop when he tries to surrender. A few days later, he does the same to Duck-City, not even sparing the civilians. Once he obtains the Boots of Destiny and transforms into a gigantic monster, the Absolute Evil starts destroying occupied buildings and declares that nothing can stop him. A brutal conqueror who will do anything to gain more power, the Absolute Evil certainly lives up to his name.
• Dying Light 2: Banshee—I Am The Cure prequel comic: General Buran is a Social Darwinist hoping to separate the strong from the weak by any means necessary. When presented with a vaccine to help cure the virus, Buran ignores all the warnings given to him by the doctor and has her test animals killed and research burned so that he can advance his plan. Buran unleashes the unfinished vaccine into the city, getting countless innocents infected and turned into zombies, leading to them being shot dead by his soldiers, all the while holding a shelter for the wealthy to separate them from the average citizen. When confronted by the doctor, Buran has her infected with the gas, mockingly requesting her to hand over the vaccine so he can save the city.

E – F

• Earthdivers, written by Stephen Graham Jones: Christopher Columbus is a would-be conqueror of the Americas. An austere religious fanatic who cannot conceive of a world where he is in the wrong, Columbus brought ruin and death to the indigenous peoples with slavery, mass murder, and forced prostitution of children. When Thaddeus "Tad" Many Horses travels back in time to stop him, Columbus wastes no time in killing an innocent cabin boy on suspicion of him practicing devilry and torturing Tad for interfering with his voyage. Enraged at Tad's presumption, Columbus vows to carry out all historical atrocities on the natives when he arrives.
• East of West: War is the leader of the Horsemen who holds a savage grudge against Death for leaving the group. Purging humanity every few thousand years, War seeks to usher in the end times and regularly butchers human settlements for her amusement. Upon Death taking a human wife, War cuts off her hand and kidnaps Death's son Babylon to mold him into the Beast of the Apocalypse, later installing "The Chosen" in places of power to help facilitate a great, devastating war. Obsessed with hurting Death, War seeks to turn Babylon against his father and make Death suffer before the end, all while torturing and killing as many people as possible before the end.
• "Eden-verse" features these two corrupt Senators:
  • Think Tank: Senator Mitchell is the head of the Congressional Armed Services Committee and the one behind the funding of many illegal projects of Dr. David Loren. Ordering the creation of the Omega Project, a deadly flesh-eating virus which targeted specific DNA, Mitchell orders the US military to bomb a small Iranian science base as a distraction, while he secretly attacks Su Cheng and his family with the "Omega project" from afar. Killing Su Cheng and his entire family, Mitchell orders his co-conspirator General Diana Clarkson to kill Colonel Harrison, when Harrison was close to discovering the truth behind Su Cheng's death. Later on, conspiring with Chinese General Shangjong, of the People's Liberation Army to orchestrate a war between China and Taiwan for profit, Mitchell ordered his mercenary Bill to impersonate a dangerous Taiwan terrorist Tsang Ong, bomb a Chinese scientific facility and threaten to use the Omega Project on China as a provocation. The resulting war claimed the lives of hundreds of people, while Mitchell poisoned the President of the United States with the Omega Project, making him die on national TV, and then injected Loren with modified "Omega project", so that he can manipulate him to travel to Shanghai University, to kill hundreds of the brightest of minds of China, solely to keep America's supremacy in the world.
  • The Tithe: Senator Owen McKitrick is a racist politician who constantly tries to spread his bigoted policies to the public. Wanting to become President, Owen hired a gang of extremists and has them manipulate several Arabian people to be suicide bombers, forcing them to attack various heavily populated Christian places, resulting in the deaths of thousands. After each bombing, Owen orders his mercenaries to impersonate Arabian terrorists on camera and put these videos on the news, so that he can use this as proof of the "savagery" of the Muslim population. As his actions result in more and more hate crimes against American Muslims, Owen's popularity rises. Succeeding in becoming President, Owen spreads his corruption all over the country.
• Elephantmen:
  • Dr. Kazushi Nikken is a MAPPO Corporation scientist responsible for creating the eponymous Elephantmen, as well as being responsible for the pessimistic, dreary state the world is currently in. Driven by his obsession, Dr. Nikken spent trillions of dollars attempting to make a new species in Africa. After numerous failures, he finally succeeded after kidnapping women and fertilizing their eggs with animal DNA. Longing to make more Elephantmen, Dr. Nikken had hundreds of thousands of women around the area kidnapped and subjected to the painful procedure; the men and children, however, were murdered. After each woman gave birth, they were immediately killed and their bodies were discarded. With hundreds of thousands of Elephantmen at his disposal, Dr. Nikken had the creatures tortured and brainwashed throughout their lives, and raised them to become savage soldiers who were bred to kill. When United Nations discovered what MAPPO had been doing, the Elephantmen were deployed across Africa and Europe, resulting in a war that led to the deaths of millions. Even after Dr. Nikken is caught and arrested, he tries to excuse his actions by reminding the U.N. of all the good MAPPO has done, before immediately reverting back to his smug, god complex behavior.
  • Joshua Serengheti is a ruthless Black Market dealer and Sahara's Arch-Enemy. As a teenager, Serengheti discovered how to sell the drug known as "mirror" in order to make a profit, and soon came under the belief that anything anyone wanted could be sold for money. He soon began selling all forms of illegal items around the world, including humans, weapons, and drugs. After Serengheti's lover gave birth to Sahara, he sold her off to MAPPO, and forced his daughter to watch as everyone in the village was either kidnapped or murdered. For seven years, Serengheti tortured his daughter by having his men rape her and even had her circumcised while she was still a child. Several years after Sahara escapes and falls in love with Obadiah Horn, he sets out to destroy his daughter's reputation. Serengheti attempts to murder Horn while he's in the hospital — along with many medical workers — and later sends Tusk's severed head to them in a box as a warning. Upon finding out Sahara is pregnant and will soon marry Horn, he and his men roam around the city brutally interrogating anyone who has information on Sahara's whereabouts and murdering those who refuse to comply. Once he obtains enough information, Serengheti attacks Sahara and Horn at their wedding, mercilessly cutting down innocent civilians before he kills Panya, Sahara's close friend, and kidnaps Sahara's baby. Even in a society filled with literal "monsters", Serengheti stands out as a depraved man no different from the beasts he despises so much.
• ElfQuest:
  • Guttlekraw, ^note the only entry here to have only appeared in the original run the ancient king of the mountain trolls, is a slaver, torturer, and tyrant who set the standard for true evil in the world of Two Moons. After trolls caused the crash of the elven castle, Guttlekraw set up his kingdom near the ruins to catch wayward elves. The first victims he caught were three elven children he forced to mine out tunnels with magic; he mutilated them to force obedience. His rival Greymung would later rebel and lead trolls away from the frozen lands, but Guttlekraw ordered an attack on the rebels where those not butchered were enslaved in the iron mines. He personally devoured Greymung alive. Coming into conflict with the Wolfriders and Go-backs, Guttlekraw sent his soldiers out to murder the children while their parents attacked. While ultimately slain, we learn that he had the elven castle encased in iron to spite the elves should he ever fall.
  • Winnowill, the Big Bad of the whole saga, is an ancient elf who rules Blue Mountain via fear and manipulation. When the Wolf Riders cross her path, Winnowill has one of them tortured and repeatedly attempts to manipulate or kill them, not even leaving the children out of her schemes. Winnowill proceeds to manipulate the humans of the nearby area into attacking the Wolf Riders as well. Despite her obsession with elfin purity, Winnowill is revealed to have seduced a troll named Smelt, bearing a half-breed son named Two-Edge. Murdering Smelt, Winnowill has spent years cruelly abusing her son and horribly damaging his mind. When she gets her hands on the ancient elven palace, Winnowill also attempts to exterminate her enemies with "impure" blood and later assists Grohmuul Djun in his brutal regime. Seemingly neutralized by her former lover Rayek trapping her soul within his own mind, Winnowill constantly attempts to drive him further into darkness or get himself killed to free her.
  • Grohmuul Djun, Winnowill's brief partner, is a brutal warlord who oppresses his people and seeks to dominate all he sees. Having the architects of a special palace murdered to keep it a secret, the Djun declares himself the only true "higher power," and makes worship of any other punishable by death. To this end, he has Winnowill mutate his hounds into monsters, first demonstrating their savagery by kicking their keeper in to be devoured. The Djun then has them hunt down those who still hold to their old faith and devour them, with any attempts at rebellion publicly executed via "The Birds", a giant device that rips the victim in half.
  • Angrif Djun, Grohmuul's equally vile offspring, attempts to murder his own sister and murders his own father to seize control of his now weakened domain. Angrif allies with other human domains, only to betray and destroy his allies once he has achieved his goals. Attacking an innocent village, Angrif puts it to the torch while having slaves taken from the able-bodied and the old, the women and children murdered, while also attempting to exterminate the elves. When he is castrated in the battle by an elf warrior, Angrif kidnaps an elf healer's former lover with the intention of torturing her to force the healer to mend him. When she escapes, Angrif devotes the remainder of his life to building a massive fleet of ships to exterminate all elves and subjugate the world, destroying all that is "different."
• Empowered:
  • Willy Pete is a fire elemental who still has a man's appetites, which he satisfies with rape—-he favors the eye sockets — and killing, which, in his case, are one and the same, thanks to his constantly superheated body. Because all normal food is incinerated on contact with him, he resorts to eating superheroes and supervillains. He doesn't even need to eat; he just does it because he likes the taste. At the end of Volume 5, he incinerates 8 of the 10 supers sent to stop him, and then, just for fun, followed this up by throwing as much fire as he could through the portal they came through without even knowing what was on the other end, thereby forcing Mindf**k into a Heroic Sacrifice to save Emp.
  • Ninjette's father only appears for a few panels, in Volume 7, but manages a lot of evil, and is likely the reason that Ninjette herself is an alcoholic like her father. He starts by putting her through Training from Hell, and emotionally abused her to the point where she still has self-esteem issues. Later on, when she is still underage, he betrothed his daughter to a Dirty Old Man of an allied clan, Ninjette tried to lose her virginity, as the deal was for a virgin bride, but her clan was too frightened of her father to take her up on the offer. Instead, she slept with her childhood friend who was prince of an allied clan. Her father's reaction was to slaughter his bodyguards, castrate the prince and stuff his genitals in his mouth before ripping his head off, fully knowing there'd be a war, despite being formerly allied with the clan. He then proceeded to beat his daughter so that for some she wouldn't "be able to walk…or eat solid food, or piss without blood…" In addition, he's been shown as raping Oyuki, a genin around his daughter's age — in a way "anatomically unlikely to induce pregnancy" — and hires another clan to drag his runaway daughter back to the clan without hands or feet to serve as a broodmare. Ninjette's father, despite only being a human with no superpowers, is one of the most vile characters in the series.
• The End League:
  • Charles "Dead" Lexington, a powerful corporate mastermind and Misanthrope Supreme, is the cause of all the setting's misery. Lexington engineered the death of three billion people and the mutation of the rest into superpowered "Magnificents" in the 1960s by tricking the superhero Astonishman to use a nuclear explosion on a ship of peaceful aliens who intended to advance humanity with their technology, using the fallout to instill himself as ruler of the world. Sanctioning all of the world's food to the few who can afford it and leaving the rest to starve, Lexington relentlessly drives to exterminate all Magnificents he can't cow, slaughtering the vast majority of the world's heroes; torturing the wife of Astonishman; and later reviving a fallen hero named Thor before lobotomizing him into his attack dog and using him to kill Astonishman. Lexington even reveals his connection to an eldritch monster outside of reality named Nargori'i, feeding it dozens of souls to keep its attention off Earth — before revealing, after murdering Prarie Ghost, he intends to stop feeding Nargori'i and watch as it consumes all the world in a fit of rage, solely out of hatred for all mankind.
  • Wolfsangel is a brutal Nazi warlord who murdered thousands in the camps during his time in World War II, stamping out the targets of the Nazi regime with brutal relentlessness. Wolfsangel, on the side, had a half-dozen children experimented on and conditioned into perfect child assassins, having them murder prisoners to prove their devotion to the cause and unhesitatingly shooting the one who hesitates dead, and even leaving all of his men to die when his operations are finally interrupted by Astonishman. In the present, Wolfsangel has survived in the Berlin Dome, intending to destroy Lexington and take over the world himself with the hammer of Thor, inseminating batch after batch of women in his spare time to try and have them bear his children which inevitably results in the death of both woman and child — to nothing more than his dry irritation.
• Epoch, written by Kevin McCarthy: Damien is a vile blue-flamed demon who possesses a great hatred for humanity. Damien eagerly joins Tobias, the leader of the angel order, in his plan to make the Supernatural Council devolve into chaos and force them to enact Epoch, an ancient tournament, which determines the next leader of the Supernatural Council, by killing some members of the Council and helping Tobias to kill the current leader of the Council, Archangel Michael. Acting as the "heavy lifter" in this scheme by committing murders in the most brutal fashion, while Tobias remains in the shadows most of the time, Damien slaughters a whole team of NYPD officers, led by Jonah Wright, before nearly killing Jonah. Later brutally murdering his former lover, who he forced to be complicit in the murders, Damien desires to make himself the next leader of the Council through Epoch. Damien brutally injures and slaughters his opponents in the tournament, intending to betray his Queen Lilith and lead the Council to cause the end of days for humanity.
• E.V.I.L. Heroes, by Joe Brusha et al.: Chaos is the psychopathic leader of the New Gods, a team of energy-based alien overlords -—evil expies of the Justice League of America, with Chaos the expy of Superman — who travel to planets, possess seven of the inhabitants, then use them to massacre most of the population before subjugating the rest. When arriving on Earth, Chaos immediately vaporizes a woman and her child before going on to wipe out millions of innocents around the globe, culminating in him blowing up the moon and directing the chunks to crash into the planet, claiming millions more lives. When the government-sponsored superhero group known as the Hellions try to stand up to the New Gods, Chaos forces one to watch as he murders his friends before ordering another Hellion be killed, but not before forcing her to watch as two children are brutally murdered in front of her. In the end, Chaos flies into a rage at the constant resistance he encounters in his conquest of Earth, and attempts to blow the entire planet up, and though this plan fails thanks to another New God who became disgusted at Chaos—showing that perhaps the human possessed by Chaos was evil anyway — Chaos goes on to continue his world-conquering spree on another world, planning to continue for all eternity. A childish narcissist who thinks that his powers make him a god to be worshipped, Chaos is perhaps one of the most terrifying examples of Beware the Superman ever put to comic panel.
• Exmortis, by the Williams Brothers, Andi Ewington, et al.: Josef Mengele is the monstrous Nazi Mad Scientist who oversees Project Exmortis in an attempt to create an army of zombies. Murdering anyone in his way to retrieve Frankenstein's journal, Mengele uses it to perform horrifying experiments on countless people, from prisoners of war to his own soldiers, until he finally learns how to reanimate the dead. Training his new zombie army by having them routinely rip apart his innocent prisoners, Mengele plans to expand his zombie horde by slaughtering all of Paris, before moving on and conquering the world in the name of the Nazi regime. Alongside all of this, Mengele has lobotomized a young woman named Greta, butchering her body into becoming his Sex Slave, and later attempts to do the same to the sole female member of the Dreadnaughts.
• The Exterminators, by Simon Oliver, Tony Moore, et. al: Rebecca is the beautiful yet black-hearted CEO of Ocran Pharmaceuticals and the main villain of the series's first half. Years prior, she developed DRAXX, an intentionally-lethal super-narcotic, under contract for the Department of Defense, with the aim of introducing it into the population of enemy nations to win wars without firing a shot. After the DoD backed out in horror, she rebranded it as a pesticide to cut her losses, but eventually resumes her ambition of marketing it as a weapon. To test its destructive potential, she forms a partnership with a local hate group to use the drug to exterminate Los Angeles's entire black and Latino community, deliberately setting up her subordinate Laura Phillips to be raped by the group's leader as "payment" for his services.
• Extinctioners: Noah Adam Mahn, the cruel head of humanity's Science Division, is the Big Bad of the entire comic and the single greatest threat to ever scourge Alden. Mahn's forces wreak havoc and death across Alden, wiping out entire villages and a space station populated by well over a thousand innocent lives, targeting superpowered "hybrids" to either cow or mentally break them into their slaves while forcing them into breeding programs or to slaughter their own kind. Mahn's previous experiments with creating a sapient species ended with them being declared "expendable" and the entire species almost completely killed under his order, and Mahn announces his intentions at the end of the first arc to invade Alden and utterly crush the humanimals and their cities, enslaving whatever he doesn't annihilate. Even compared to his comparatively well-intentioned colleagues in humanity's fleets, Mahn is nothing more than a xenophobic monster willing to put an entire species under his foot out of a rabid sense of superiority.
• Fall of Cthulhu series, by Michael Alan Nelson et al.:
  • Fall of Cthulhu: Nyarlathotep himself manipulates everything for the purpose of unleashing his master Azathoth unto the universe and eradicating humanity. Nyarlathotep's Historical Rap Sheet is endless, having spent centuries perpetuating insanity, suicide, and catastrophe around him, in one case eradicating Atlantis after having driven the entire population into madness, keeping the only survivor as an immortal cat he keeps by his side for the thrill of eternally tormenting him. In the present day, Nyarlathotep, under the guise of "Mr. Arkham," ruins the life of Cy Morgan before having him tortured and leaving his insane form as almost an afterthought. Bringing his followers into the world one-by-one through the deaths of others, Nyarlathotep in particular drives a 7-year-old child so insane he kills his own parents, before killing him and using his hollow corpse as a vessel for his followers. Among his other cruel actions, Nyarlathotep hypnotizes the residents of a bar into burning themselves alive; hideously tortures the heroes; and has the brain of his human follower Connor extracted and set up to look in a mirror until he's driven insane, unable to move or die. Nyarlathotep seeks nothing less than to drive all humanity insane for kicks before eradicating them.
  • The Calling: Cthulhu Chronicles: Abisso Nero is a reclusive fashion mogul secretly practicing as the leader of an omnicidal, Cthulhian cult. Nero and his cult abduct psychic children bearing the mark of Cthulhu, murder their parents, and indoctrinate them to become conduits to end the entire universe through eldritch, psychic energy. Nero's previous attempt at this ritual resulted in nearly 2,000 fatalities, the children included. Nero has no compunction having his own followers killed and even tried to indoctrinate his own son Stefano to use him for the cult's purpose.
  • Hexed: Yves, the brother of Madame Cymbaline, is a soul-stealing demon sealed away by his sister in a painting. Accidentally freed and loosed upon the world due to the exploits of master thief Lucifer, Yves immediately attempts to kill those who freed him. Resolving to slaughter his sister no matter how many people have to die in the process, Yves goes to such lengths as nearly letting loose the denizens of the Shade unto Earth in his attempt to devour Val's soul; devouring the souls of innocent people to nourish himself; and brutally massacring Cymbaline's men to intimidate her. Eventually, Yves resolves to steal the soul of Lucifer herself to empower himself enough to destroy his sister. Yves values nothing else but his own freedom and was willing to tear the world apart for the sheer purpose of slaughtering his sister and being free to consume as many souls as he wanted.
• The Fang, by K. I. Zachopoulos & Christos Martinis: In this unofficial continuation of the classic Bram Stoker tale, Dracula continues his streak of sadism and evil. Hopping aboard a boat bound for America following his near-defeat at Van Helsing's hands, Dracula massacres the entire crew of said boat before arriving at his destination, New York City. Once in New York, Dracula restrengthens himself by draining the blood of numerous homeless people and prostitutes, then amasses his "creatures of the night" to slaughter dozens of people and dump their bodies in a nearby river before making yet another attempt to kill Van Helsing and his friends. Though implied by Van Helsing to just be a lonely beast, Dracula shows time and again that he is in truth just a sadistic creep obsessed with becoming a god and slaughtering those beneath him as the sheep he believes them to be.
• Fatale: The Bishop, the ancient servant of the eldritch old gods, is responsible for centuries of Human Sacrifice. The Bishop entertains himself with sadistic torture and murder, in one case awakening after the 1906 earthquake and going on a spree to kill as many people as he could before sunrise, starting with a pleading old man trapped under rubble. The Bishop makes an Arch-Enemy out of the immortal Femme Fatale Josephine, regularly torturing and killing her loved ones to spite her. Among decades of atrocities, the Bishop tears a unborn baby out of a pregnant woman; pimps out a traumatized young woman named Suzy under the guise of a depraved cult leader; regularly kills his own minions for slighting him; bathes in the blood of his victims; and even sacrifices newborn, squealing infants by the dozens to his eldritch gods.
• Faust, by David Quinn, Tim Vigil, et al.: M, all but stated to be Mephistopheles himself, is a demonic crime lord who seeks to bring about Hell on Earth. Gaining power by tricking people into selling their souls to him, while also hosting bloody orgies with his cult, The Hand, M tricks the Mad Artist John Jaspers to give up his soul to him, with M mentally torturing him to make him his demonic assassin. With plans to summon the Homunculus to trigger an apocalypse, M has Jaspers's girlfriend Dr. Jade De Camp kidnapped and brainwashed to act his new bride. Killing any of his goons who fail him, while also torturing his wife Claire whenever he feels like it, M sacrifices a drug dealer to summon Homunculus, forcing Jaspers to serve as his slave despite him killing his cultists. Having Homunculus slaughter an entire boardroom of politicians in his pocket, M ultimately plans to have sex with Jade, which will cause Heaven and Hell to merge and undo all of creation, all as a way to enact revenge on God for casting him down to Hell.
• Feeding Ground, by Swifty Lang, Michael Lapinski, & Chris Mangun: Alejandro Blackwell, the cold and emotionless CEO of Blackwell Industries, is in actuality an alpha werewolf seeking to extend his bloodline. Blackwell forces a famine onto the neighboring town to drive out its residents into the desert in desperation, having his werewolf servants capture them to be turned into more of his progeny — with many of them dying in horrible mutations sustained in the transformation — while torturing all those who fail him. Having a corrupt department of the local border patrol slaughtered after they question his orders, when the task of the mother werewolf comes down to a young girl, Blackwell turns her and tries to force her to murder her own father before making the young girl his unwilling mate.
• Ferals: Rikkard serves as the most prominent villain in this comic, and stands out as the most wicked by far. Though Ferals have a habit of killing innocents in rage or lust-filled insanity, Rikkard is one of the few who has near complete control of his impulses, yet still fully indulges in evil and cruelty unseen by any other Ferals. Along with being a Serial Killer with a knack for ripping off dozens of victims' heads, Rikkard kidnaps dozens of male humans, including a school bus of teens, then forcibly infects them with the Feral disease, turning them into savage werewolves under his thrall. Rikkard then blackmails his fellow societal Ferals, all disgusted by his depravity, into regularly supplying him with innocents for him and his pack to murder, and later leads the wholesale slaughter of an entire town, raping, butchering, and eating every man, woman, and child there, amounting to over 3,500 victims. In the end, after his personal harem, whom he views as property to use and abuse as he likes, is wiped out by Dale Chestnutt, Rikkard massacres an entire squadron of army soldiers, guts Dale's girlfriend Pia, then tries to restart his Feral harem and army before being driven off by other Ferals for his crimes. Standing out even among the numerous other vicious Ferals for his wanton sadism and heinousness, Rikkard cared for no man, or Feral, but himself, valuing his image of power and control above all else.
• The Ferryman, by Marc Andreyko & Jonathan Wayshak:
  • "Mr. Webster" is a demonic dealmaker who preys on the perceived "weaknesses" of humanity, be it a hunger for power or a deep compassion for others, and tricks people into making deals with him to grant their greatest wishes in exchange for their eternal soul. Webster can and will screw over those he makes deals with for his own amusement, in one notable instance curing a woman's daughter of her leukemia, then arranging for both to die in a car wreck soon after. When any of his debtors try to get out of handing over their soul, Webster sends his Ferrymen, dead people he has tricked into serving him by lying that he can show them the way to Heaven, after the debtors, and once he gets his hands on them, Webster agonizingly devours their souls as he does to all his victims, relishing their pain and suffering as he does so. Alongside all of this, Webster is revealed to have hand a heavy hand in the rise of Nazi Germany, the success of countless serial killers, and The Hindenburg disaster. With an unsurprising depravity and wickedness about him due to being Satan himself, "Mr. Webster" is handily one of the most evil incarnations of the Devil seen in comics.
  • Harold Alan Kent, known as "the Bleeder", is a sadistic Serial Killer obsessed with blood, and sates this obsession by murdering innocents of all backgrounds and races by draining them of all their blood while they are conscious, taking a picture of their screaming faces, then putting the blood in a jar to keep on his trophy case. With said trophy case filled with dozens of jars of dozens of victims, the Bleeder takes his evil one step further when he specifically targets the wife of the detective assigned his case, Gideon Thorne, mocking Thorne when arrested that his wife kept screaming that her husband would save her, but he never did. Despite being murdered by Thorne in a blind rage, the Bleeder is revived by "Mr. Webster" as one of his Ferrymen, a position the Bleeder immediately begins using to try to murder innocents, succeeding in slashing the throat of one of Gideon's friends. In the end, the Bleeder takes every opportunity while dueling Thorne to taunt the man about his wife's death at his hands, and dies with a smile on his face, always taking sick glee from pain.
• Five Ghosts, written by Frank J. Barbiere: Iago is a member of the Cabal out to seek the Dreamstone before Fabian Gray can find it. Locating the ancient, forgotten city, Iago sets about annihilating it, killing every being he can find, even the innocent. Gleefully killing Fabian's friend by erasing his immortality and watching him age to nothing, Iago attempts to use the life of Fabian's best friend Sebastian against him, planning to destroy the city without survivors once he has his prize.
• La Flèche ardente (The Burning Arrow), by Jean Van Hamme: General Robioff, tasked by Emperor Babylos III to retrieve the deposit of uranium from the archipelago of Black Islands, leads his army to bomb the village of apes and attack Prince Nazca's underground city. Robioff then has Nazca tortured at length with a pair of burning pliers, and when the Prince collapses due to the pain, Robioff attempts to wake him up by burning his feet. Robioff also plans to abduct and torture Professor Marduk and his assistant Sylvia Hollis and enslave the surviving citizens. When the city is threatened by the erupting volcano, Robioff coldly leaves his Colonel Argus stuck under rubble.
• Forbidden Worlds:
  • Issue #11's "The Wax Demons": Adolf Hitler is the most infamous historical villain brought back as an unintended consequence of Professor Sherman's Deal with the Devil. Hitler unites other resurrected villains and leads them in stealing an atom bomb, which he plans to drop on New York, tricking America into starting World War III in order to destroy humanity.
  • Issue #12's "The Chest of Death": Abhen the Slayer is an evil genie who terrorised Persia until he was imprisoned by the good wizard Kasmar. After being brought to America and lost by Kasmar's descendant, Abhen kills everybody who opens the chest he is imprisoned within, with ten kills making him powerful enough to escape his prison and wipe out humanity.
  • Issue #21's "Deity of Death":
    • Zeni is the god of violent death who demands daily Human Sacrifices from his followers. He was originally worshiped across the Southwest Pacific until only a cult on the island of Ilomar remained. After being woken up by his followers, Zeni announces his desire for his cult to take control of the world and continue supplying him with endless sacrifices. At one point, Zeni destroys the walls of the prison his followers plan to attack to gather new recruits. To celebrate his plot to nuke Washington. D.C. as a first strike against humanity, Zeni has the cult kidnap Jim's Love Interest Ruth and plots to have Jim sacrifice her as proof of his loyalty to him.
    • High Priestess Kurreli is the leader of Ilomar's cult and is devoted to Zeni's evil ways. After learning that Jim Cullen was accidentally branded as Zeni's follower, Kurreli has him kidnapped and brought to Ilomar, where she uses her powers to reawaken Zeni using human sacrifice. She recruits Jim into the cult and sends him to gather new recruits, while she continues to preside over the daily slaughter in Zeni's name and plots to spread his rule across the world. Kurreli eventually kidnaps Ruth on Zeni's orders and tries to get Jim to sacrifice her to fully devote himself to evil.
  • Issue #25's "The Dead Remember!": Hans Krause is a sadistic former Wachtmeister who was in charge of a concentration camp where he tortured and killed prisoners, even burying some of them alive. After the end of World War II, Hans and his former subordinates dream and conspire to resurrect the Nazis. When the ghosts of their victims attack them, Hans tries to trade the lives of others, including his girlfriend, to save himself.
  • Issue #52's "The Girl in the Grotto": Genly is an ambitious Witch Doctor in a tribe that lived before humans. When her tribe discovered Genly used her powers for evil, they imprisoned her in a cave and put her into perpetual sleep. After being freed by professor Harley Mellon, Genly seduces his ambitious assistant Jim Edwards into joining her in conquering the world. Genly plans to provoke a nuclear war and give humanity a choice between proclaiming her their supreme ruler so she would stop it, or destruction of the world. While promising Jim that they would rule together, she reveals her plan to leave him to die after detonating an hydrogen bomb in Europe, hypnotising him into completing the mission while she escapes to safety.
  • Issue #137's "Brainwashed!": Queen Malva is the vile leader of the Kruzians from the planet Nova. After the peaceful species with which they shared the planet drive them off after the Kruzians try to exterminate them, Malva sets her sights on Earth as their new home and base of operations. She leads a destructive invasion, intent on completely destroying humanity. When Magicman tries to fight the invasion, Malva has him captured and brainwashed into believing he is a Kruzian, unleashing him on Earth's military and using him as a propaganda tool. After Magicman is freed from her control and goes to Nova to ask for help, Malva brainwashes him once again to turn him against potential allies while her army finishes its conquest of Earth.
  • Issue #142's "The Warlock's Tree!": General Trapfelhagen is a Nazi who, after Russia successfully fends off their attack, leads his army to take out their anger by massacring and terrorising the people of the Polish state of Randerio. When some of Randerio's people fight back against his army, Trapfelhagen orders a thousand of Randerio's people gathered in its capital city's main square and executed.
  • Issue #145's "Case of the Bottled Microbes": Mr. Ravel is a foreign agent tasked with delivering deadly germs to America so other agents can spread them through the country's water reservoirs. Ravel tests germs on a random lake before coming to New York and gathering other agents. Ravel presents them with germs and shows glee at what the germs will be used for.
• Forty Coffins, by Rodolfo Santullo & Jok: Dracula turns out to be the enigmatic stowaway aboard the Demeter. Dracula picks the crew as sustenance for his long journey from Transylvania to England, picking them off one by one and driving them all insane. After he's slain all but one crew member, Dracula spends the duration of the remaining voyage tormenting the captain by staring at him in the silent dark, before coming onto England's shores to claim countless more victims, beginning with the first man who finds the captain's diary.
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Michael Mendheim, Simon Bisley, et al.: Belarios is a demon sent to Earth by his master, Satan himself. Taking on the persona of a Corrupt Corporate Executive, Belarios leads the Nicolaitan cult, which, on Belarios's orders, kills many people while searching for the Seven Seals, which will release the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Satan himself, resulting in Hell on Earth. Besides the dozens if not hundreds killed, and the millions if not billions who would be killed if his plan succeeded, Belarios is also responsible for corrupting a US senator; the death of Adam Cahill's wife; and slashing Cahill's young daughter's face, also planning to kill her, when he finds out she has the last Seal.
• Fright Night, by NOW! Comics:
  • Issues #16-19—"Potion Motion" to "Daddy's Girl": Jacob Hinnault, the allegedly kind father of Charley Brewster's girlfriend Natalia, is secretly the vampiric leader of the Legion of Eternal Night. Reviving Jerry Dandridge, Jacob plots to use the mighty elder vampire to conquer the planet and reduce all of humanity to livestock. Killing any vampires who oppose his caste system, even having the heroes wipe out a group of dissidents, Jacob later attempts to kill his own sister and have Jerry turn Natalia for his army.
  • Issue #20—"The Charge of the Dead Brigade": Mr. Jones is a farmer who turns travelers into zombies, left aware but unable to do anything except follow his orders to work his farm. Many of his victims suffer for over a year, and when the heroes free them, Jones arrives to furiously shoot his former slaves dead.

G – I

• Gear: Emperor Pago, the leader of the North Plate Cats, desires the Forbidden Mechanism to power up his Guardian, planning on using it to conquer the world and expand his already large kingdom. Aware of Big Tomato’s plan of bribing the president of Dogtown into declaring peace with him, Pago takes advantage of the situation by declaring war on Newtown in order to find the Forbidden Mechanism, happily preparing to slaughter multiple cats and insects. Finding out that Gear is inhabiting the Forbidden Mechanism, he sends one of his men to capture him, forcibly putting Gear into the Guardian’s engine to power it up, keeping him alive and in pain. Taking control of his new Mega-Guardian, he gleefully destroys Waffle and Chee’s Guardian forms, immediately attempting to kill Mr. Black and the Elder afterwards. When his destroyed Mega-Guardian is sinking into a pit to Hell, Pago escapes the wreck, planning on building another Mega-Guardian and starting over, leading Gordon to sacrifice his own life to kill him. Refusing to abide by his ancestors’ honorable morals, Pago’s presence turned an already dark story into an even darker one.
• "Genesis Universe" or "Protectors Universe":
  • The Great Question is the diabolical arch-villain responsible for the creation of the titular heroes as well as the true mastermind behind the Steel Army. The Great Question sought to open a dimensional doorway to other worlds in order to grant himself godhood, so he orchestrated the Steel Army's numerous terrorist attacks claiming many lives in their quest to destroy all of Washington DC just to gain attention from the government. The Great Question would later use his Psychic Powers on John Aman, the Amazing Man, to take control of him, constantly driving the latter to murderous rage against his allies. In the Air Man tie-in comic, the Great Question has Thresher horribly tortured in order to locate the interdimensional doorway. After finding what he was after, the Great Question opens numerous portals that began destroying part of the world; murders his old foe The Eye; and shows no concerns that his actions would doom the Earth, as long as he achieves total power and godhood, and ends up completely destroying the entire planet.
  • Extreme is the main antagonist of Genesis, who was once sold as a slave in the past until he killed his captors and use his newfound powers to conquer entire worlds. Through his conquest, Extreme absorbs the energies of each dimension and use them to wipe out cities and reduce worlds into ashes, taking the surviving inhabitants as slaves for his empire. Extreme makes his introduction by murdering the king of a dimension he conquered along with troops trying to stop him. He enters the Ex-Mutants universe and delivers the team a vicious beatdown, then murders one of his minions for disobeying him. Extreme begins battling the Protectors which ends up destroying all of Los Angeles, killing millions, all while Extreme begins boasting how he'll reduce the Earth to nothing but a pile of ashes.
  • The Protectors: The terrorist known as Mr. Monday, real name Professor Erwin Montag, is the first foe the Protectors faced as well as the commander of the Steel Army. He begins the story by leading a massacre at a police station just to establish a message. Declaring his intent to raze Washington, D.C. to the ground, Monday leads his army across the US, killing civilians and cops alike in his mission of attempting to assassinate the founder of the Protectors and former superhero Philip Reinhart. Mr. Monday, under orders of the Great Question, lures Night Mask to a trap and takes sadistic pleasure in torturing him before killing the young hero. After his defeat, Mr. Monday breaks out of prison, leading to the death of multiple soldiers, and goes off killing Air Man and Arc, taking sadistic glee on killing two more heroes.
  • 'Gravestone'':
    • Issues #1-3: The Night-Plague is an ancient, highly sadistic creature that threatens to bring doomsday to the world. Once summoned by a renegade sorcerer in the past, the entity was responsible for wiping out Atlantis and its population. Returning in the present by possessing the body of long-deceased teen named Melissa Grant, murdering her whole family, the Night-Plague resurrects a horde of zombies to devour everything in their path, while attempting to slowly kill Gravestone.
    • Issue #6—"The Last Laugh": Jug is a seemingly normal clown and performer who is in actuality a bloodsucking vampire who was pursued by Gravestone over the years. Having feasted on the blood of peasants and royal nobles in the past, Jug throughout the centuries is responsible for a series of murders and kidnappings where he uses his performances as a secret hunting ground to eat. Claiming the lives of several innocents, children included, Jug plans on consuming Gravestone's blood so he'll become completely unstoppable.
  • The Ferret issue #10—"Chains of Love": The nameless Serial Killer is a mysterious supranormal who uses a biker bar as means to hunt down young women, beating and burning them to death with his power-ignited chains. Already claiming the lives of six women, he tracks down a detective attempting to catch him, attempting to make her his seventh victim.
  • Ex-Mutants issues #1-3: Sluggo is the mutant tyrant of Sluggtown, running his town through enslavement of other mutants. Any slave under his role is put to hard labor building monuments of himself to satiate his ego, and given collars that explode their heads for any mistake they could make. In other cases, Sluggo puts his slaves in Gladiator Games to fight to the death or killed by monsters for his amusement, something he once did to the titular heroes in the past. Sluggo, growing tired of the Ex-Mutants' constant interference, hires thugs to use a Mind-Control Device on three of the Ex-Mutant members in order to have them killed in the arena, and later tries to have them murder their own friends. Once this fails, Sluggo leaves his right-hand man to die to preserve his own life.
• God Is Dead: Satan himself kicks off the plot by murdering God, and settles back to enjoy the resulting chaos as pagan gods swoop in and turn Earth into a battlefield that kill billions of humans. Enslaving Hades as a lackey while regularly sleeping with his wife Persephone, Satan engineers far more death and destruction while also awakening the immortal dragon that finally resets reality, killing everything that lives in retribution for Satan's misdeeds but not before eating Satan to share its belly with Jesus for thousands of years. Satan tricks Jesus into recreating the Gods, and later shoves him into a volcano to burn forever upon their escape. Satan then engineers a new conflict so he can attack God and kill him again, content to die having achieved everything he ever wanted.
• Gold Digger:
  • Dreadwing was once a lowly iron dragon, who helped raise the young platinum dragon T'mat. When T'mat surpassed him in power, Dreadwing attempted to kill her before being defeated and banished from the dragon race. Unable to accept T'mat's love for him, Dreadwing would discover the device called the Time Raft and used it to return to the other dragons, defeating, mutilating, torturing and raping T'mat to destroy any love she might have for him and force her to suffer whenever she saw their daughter. Massacring many dragons, Dreadwing attempted to recruit his own private force by offering his chosen recruits the option to torture their mates to death or watch as Dreadwing erased infant dragons from existence. When they refused, he made good on the threat. Traversing other worlds, Dreadwing became a violent scourge, destroying as he willed before being defeated by Gina Diggers. Entering into a "cosmic chess game" with her older, alternate timeline self Ancient Gina, Dreadwing still takes the chance to murder those he could before launching an attack on the world of Jade, aiming to subjugate it and even attempting to kill his own daughter D'bra with no remorse. Egotistical, sadistic and filled with loathing for whatever he cannot control, Dreadwing stands as the comic's most enduring and horrifying monster.
  • The former werewolf patriarch Brendan makes a pact with dark powers to achieve incredible powers which he tests by murdering his own wife. Engineering a "peace" between the werewolves and werecheetahs by creating a drought that kills many of the latter, Brendan betrays the werecheetahs and commits utter genocide on them, massacring the men, women, and children. He is only prevented from killing a single baby thanks to the sacrifice of her mother and the intervention of archmage Theo Diggers. Brendan also plans to sell his own people into slavery to fulfill his own end of the deal, and mocks his own daughter for adhering to any standard of honor before she defeats and imprisons him. Escaping later, Brendan tries to murder his own children and mocks the only surviving werecheetah, Brittany "Cheetah" Diggers, for her clan and biological parents' deaths, intending to use his powers to freeze her as living stone and keep as a trophy for all eternity.
• Goners, by Jacob Semahn et al.: Seph, also known as the Dragon and the Lilin, is an ancient succubus yearning to possess an enchanted grimoire that would allow her to control reality itself. Possessing a member of the magical Latimer family and passing off an innocent young girl to be punished in her place, Seph mothers a half-demon, half-human through Raleigh Latimer before having both the parents killed thirteen years later. Seph orchestrates a complete purge of the Latimer bloodline and has every member of the family and everyone connected to them murdered — in one case having a birthday party hosted for the otherwise-normal Gail slaughtered down to the children and having their corpses morbidly posed to greet Gail — and eventually raises her minions to start completely massacring their way through King's Bluff to get at her son Josiah, leading to hundreds of casualties. Once Seph finally reaches the boy, Seph turns him into a demon she christens Ammon before trying to have him slaughter his own sister as a passage of anointment.
• The Goon: In this darkly comedic world filled with cannibals, giant monsters, and vampires, these three manage to surpass all others in pure evil:
  • The Zombie Priest/The Nameless Man, real name possibly Rumpelstiltskin, is the Big Bad of the entire series, and the Goon's Arch-Enemy. A wicked necromancer and former member of the Coven, the Priest was a demon who would trick poor couples in need to take their babies and eat/sacrifice them. Escaping Hell after a millennium of torture, the Priest sought out the curse of the Nameless Town in order to acquire its power and make both human and demon alike obey him. He turned everyone in a small town into a zombie, turning its sheriff, Buzzard, into an immortal ghoul, later capturing and torturing him for two months via starvation. Tricking a poor farmer named Houstus Grave into becoming his gravedigger, the Priest granted Houstus and his sons leprosy that caused the death of his wife. Running out of zombies thanks to the Goon, he decides to use the corpse of a pregnant woman, dubbed the Mother Corpse, to give birth to deadly zombie babies, all while making her believe herself to be an expecting mother. Kicked out of his castle by the Arab, the Priest becomes a street beggar who helps others for money, assisting corrupt businessmen in their murders and ruining the lives of plenty, placing the blame on them. He then kills and eats his most loyal Familiar.
  • Longfingers, the most twisted member of the Coven, is a sinister Bogeyman who runs a seeming church where he murders and preys upon the innocent, keeping their bones as trophies to gnaw upon. Seeking to kill many people in the city to create his "promised land", Longfingers is a monstrous sadist who targets children to devour, in one instance learning of a woman who became a mother late in life. Longfingers stole the child, ate him and sent his teeth to the mother, just to dine upon her sorrows as much as he devoured her child's flesh.
  • Issue #37: Harrison Blank is a cruel robber baron who forces his workers into unsafe conditions to save costs, with many workers dying in his mines. When his garment factory catches fire, 142 women burn or leap to their deaths, Blank refusing any responsibility after having bribed the fire marshal to overlook the safety hazards. When the workers try to unionize, Blank sends his thugs to bust the unions, savagely beating or killing the protesters, even allying with the Zombie Priest to summon a demon after them in the name of his rapacious greed.
• Gore, by Alex Crippa et al.: The Little Match Girl, the worst of the myriad, twisted fairy tale creatures, is a vicious pyromaniac who, in response to Gabriel's challenge to her forces, opts to repay him tenfold. The Match Girl proceeds to attack an orphanage, burning the children and their guardians alive before attempting to murder Gabriel and his partner Roxanne, burning those who get in her way, even a nun who takes a moment to speak to them.
• Grandville: Detective-Inspector Archie LeBrock and his partner Roderick Ratzi have faced several deplorable criminals throughout their careers. These are the worst:
  • Grandville (Book 1): Emperor Napoleon XII is the leader of the Knights of the Lion. Longing to restore the society of France, he and the Knights all conspired to turn the country against Britain. In order to achieve his goal, he and the Knights bombed the Robida Tower and left evidence behind to make it appear as if Britain was responsible; anyone indirectly involved in the attack was murdered shortly afterwards. Napoleon used the Knights' influence to gain more power, spreading anti-British propaganda, declaring war on the Communards in French Indo-China, and allowing the Chief of Police to create the Imperial Secret Police Death Squad. After a British Secret Service agent discovers the Knights plan on launching another attack, he and his lover are both killed, along with any witnesses who were questioned by LeBrock and Ratzi. Once all the witnesses were killed, Napoleon planned on bombing the Paris Opera House in order to start a war with Britain. Despite claiming he wants to help French society, Napoleon was willing to kill thousands of French civilians and start a war with another country, which would've resulted in the deaths of millions.
  • Mon Amour: Edward "Mad Dog" Mastock is a former British anarchist and Sociopathic Soldier. After Mastock was imprisoned for butchering several prostitutes, he escaped from captivity just before his execution, slaughtering several innocents and prison guards in the process. Once out of prison, Mastock returned to Grandville, where he murdered five prostitutes on behalf of his employers to keep them from exposing incriminating evidence against them. When Mastock discovers that his old rival LeBrock has taken a liking to Billie, he kidnaps her, threatening to kill her if LeBrock doesn't meet him with the evidence. Even after LeBrock shows up with the evidence, he tries to kill him and Billie anyway just for fun.
  • Nöel: "Doc" Elvis Yorkshire is a con artist and the one responsible for starting Apollo's cult. After Elvis and Apollo began to con civilians through religious methods, Elvis hypnotized Apollo into creating his own cult and got him addicted to morphine so he would be easier to control. After recruiting hundreds of members, Elvis had Apollo murder all of them in a suicide pact before the police could apprehend them for abduction. Elvis and Apollo's new partner, Nicholas, then tried to sway the public into voting Apollo to be the country's next leader, promising to cull humanity once elected. When his plans fail and he's caught by LeBrock and Chance, Elvis tries to kill them both when they refuse to take the bribe he offers them.
  • Force Majeure: Tiberius Koenig is a ruthless, sociopathic mob boss. Longing to control all the gangs in Paris, Tiberius and his crew forced the other gangs to work for him, killing those who refused to submit to him. After his brother, Gaius, is killed by LeBrock, Tiberius decides to kill the latter and all of his loved ones simply because it's "a matter of principle". Using his own recruited gangs, Tiberius has a restaurant full of civilians shot to pieces so that the owner, Stanley Cray, would start roaming around the city killing those responsible. As LeBrock chases after Cray and tries to get him arrested, Tiberius has Cray murdered, framing LeBrock in the process. He also attempts to kidnap LeBrock's mother and children with the intent to torture them to death, and successfully kidnaps Billie after his gang kills her police escorts. When Tiberius discovers that Billie is pregnant with LeBrock's child, he brutally beats her to the point where she has a miscarriage. He also murders his other brother, Quintillus, for failing to keep the other Paris gangs united under his rule. After LeBrock rescues the prince and princess of the Kalahari gang from Tiberius, thus ruining the leverage he had over them, he decides to just annihilate the gang altogether. When Tiberius's gang finally captures LeBrock, he nearly beats the latter to death for his own enjoyment, and tries to kill him by throwing him into a meat grinder.
• The Green Hornet (Dynamite Comics):
  • Hirohito Juuma is the wicked son of Oyabun Oni Juuma who wishes to restore the "family honor" to sate his ego. Murdering Kato's wife and wiping out the other heads of the Yakuza, Hirohito arrives in Century City and murders the original Green Hornet along with multiple others, taking the disguise of the Black Hornet. Murdering his way through civilian and criminal alike, Hirohito reveals his true plan is to hijack a state-of-the-art, remote-controlled stealth bomber to sell to the highest bidder, and prove its power by nuking Century City and everyone within off the map.
  • Rise/Reign of the Demon: The masked mobster Demone seizes control of the criminal rackets by murdering all who resist and runs rings of forced prostitution. Allowing the Hornet and Kato to rescue several women, Demone murders one of their escapees to get to the masked heroes. Demone is revealed to be working with Nazi fascists to help sow discord in the US, kidnapping innocents and conducting ghastly experiments to turn them into ravenous zombies that will attack and slaughter the police upon command. At the climax, Demone unleashes them upon Century City's police station before settling back to enjoy the show, caring nothing for lives lost as long as he profits.
• Grendel: Tujiro XIV is a vampiric Kabuki dancer from the 21st century who runs a Human Trafficking outfit where countless innocents are sold into slavery, as well as having his own taste for little boys. Tujiro favors kidnapping the boys, draining them and eating one eye while keeping the eye as a trophy, the fate that befalls the son of the second Grendel, Christine Spar. Escaping justice, Tujiro returns in a new guise as Pope Innocent XLII in the 26th century, where thousands are worked to death by the church. Tujiro runs a regime of despotic repression with countless innocents tortured, and children trafficked to loyal priests within the Vatican, all to keep others under his sway. Tujiro intends to use a gun to completely blot out the sun forever, allowing he and his vampires to reign over a world where human beings are nothing but cattle.
• Grimm Tales of Terror:
  • Grimm Fairy Tales 2018 Holiday Special's "Santa Hotline": Shep Chodosh is a jovial man working for a company where he makes calls to brighten the Christmases of little children by pretending to be Santa. In truth, Shep is a remorseless Serial Killer who uses this to locate children, kidnap them, and torture them before murdering them. Having killed many of them, well over a dozen, Shep centers in on a new victim with full intent to add him to the corpses buried within his basement.
  • Vol. 4:
    • "Skinwalkers" (Issue #11): The Skinwalker, or Yee Naaldlooshii, is a man who was fascinated by the legends of Navajo Skinwalkers and chose to become one himself. Going on vicious killing sprees all over the southwest, the Skinwalker comes to Gallup, New Mexico, where it begins slaughtering innocent people at random, taking the faces of some to steal their identities. Attempting to kill police officer Roy Jenson when it finds out he's hunting it, the Skinwalker kills even more people and lures them into a trap where it fatally wounds an FBI agent; and a good Skinwalker herself, Claire Morse, before being put down.
    • "The Black Dahlia" (Issue #13): Jack the Ripper is introduced as an immortal vampire indicated to be Dracula himself who claims credit for the ghastliest unsolved murders in the modern day and countless more untold. Preferring not to draw blood through the neck but through the bloody consumption of the organs, Jack slaughters prostitutes and other women who won't be missed everywhere from Whitechapel to Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930s. Once, Jack left the mutilated carcass of an associate of his named Elizabeth Short in Leimert Park after he was finished using her to his content. Jack is interrupted from his latest feeding in Detroit only long enough to gruesomely murder the fiancée of a detective pursuing him before closing in on the detective herself.
  • "H.H. Holmes" (quarterly issue, released April 2021): H.H. Holmes himself, the most prolific and evil Serial Killer in American history, crafted his famous murder hotel in Chicago for the World's Fair. Murdering guests, employees, vagrants, and even his own wife, Holmes tortured them in increasingly ghastly ways — from burning, to acid, to vivisection — while admitting his only reason was his enjoyment. After being caught, Holmes accepted a Satanic pact, giving his only daughter to hell to become immortal and made the world itself his murder palace, killing endlessly at will before disguising himself as a history professor to meet his one living descendant and corrupt her into a killer as well.
• Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight, by Alex de Campi et al.:
  • "Prison Ship Antares": Kalinka is the sadistic warden of the titular prison ship. Claiming to be the second coming of Miyamoto Musashi, she seeks to "purify" the prisoners of their sins through brutally torturous methods, including spraying acid on one in front of everyone and scrubbing another with steel wool. When the prisoners stage a breakout, she kills one of her guards for running away and prepares to crash the ship into Saturn to kill everyone onboard while she escapes in a pod, bringing Cookie with her to torture for an entire year to keep herself entertained.
  • "Bride of Blood": The greedy Lord Rowan Callyreath is a seemingly kind aristocratic lord engaged to marry the lovely Lady Branwyn. To keep control of the Reavers in his lands, Rowan instead organizes an attack on his wedding, massacring all in attendance and using an innocent woman as a Human Shield. This results in the death of Branwyn's family and her violent gang rape while her tongue is removed by Rowan's men. Rowan himself kills any who tries to stop his escape, including Branwyn's brother, before he moves on to another potential marriage without a glimmer of guilt.
  • "Flesh Feast of the Devil Doll": The demon Azaroth possesses a human woman and emerges seeking a Virgin Sacrifice, slaughtering its way through multiple humans whom it eats alive or turns into zombie slaves. Upon encountering the young heroines, Azaroth attempts to sacrifice several, murdering multiple bystanders, before kidnapping the virgin jock Jake, with intent to kill him to unleash its demonic kind and overrun the Earth while wiping out humanity.
• Gunsmoke: Jim Carr is an Amoral Attorney seeking to be the greatest cattle rustler in the West. To do so, he takes advantage of a village's tensions to create a range war so bad that "the range will run red." To do so, he murders some ranchers to do a Frame-Up for the other side. His original plan to kill a few more ranchers to start the war is complicated by the arrival of Gunsmoke. To speed things up, he kills the neutral sheriff, who happens to be his father-in-law, and tries to frame him as taking a side.
• Habibi: The Sultan of Wanatolia, bored with his thousand wives, abducts the talented underage prostitute Dodola and challenges her to please him for seventy nights in a row, threatening her life if she doesn't succeed. When she fails on the last night, he locks her in cell for seven months and rapes her during a visit. He gives her a second chance with an impossible task: turning a jug of water into gold in a time limit of seventy months. When the girl searches for a solution in the library, he has the librarian beheaded for allowing a woman there. He reacts with a Lack of Empathy when Dodola announces the death of their son, and proceeds to rape her again. When Dodola succeeds the challenge playing on Exact Words, he has her executed anyway. At this moment, we learn that he regularly drowns his wives in the river when they become too old.
• Hack/Slash:
  • Akakios is the original "slasher" and founder of the evil Black Lamp Society. He becomes heroine Cassandra "Cassie" Hack's Amnesiac Lover and ally, Samhain. However, once he regains his memories and true villainous personality, Akakios is disgusted by his former self's feelings for Cassie, reasoning he could have taken her any time "whether she wanted it or not". Akakios forges the undead slashers into a fighting force and systematically kidnaps or kills everyone Cassie loved, purging the upper echelons of the Black Lamp Society for being "too nice," despite their own atrocities. Akakios plans to spread the slasher disease, turning innocent humans all over the globe into murderous monsters.
  • Ashley Guthrie is a slasher believed to have killed numerous children in their dreams. Even before becoming a slasher, he was a selfish, Creepy Child whose actions included strangling a litter of kittens to death just because he he was annoyed his cat was spending so much time with them; and caving in his baby brother's skull just because he was annoyed the brother was always playing with his toys. After becoming a slasher, his first acts were to cause his father to commit suicide and drive his mother insane. Later, as a Killer Teddy Bear, he kills more people and frees fellow slashers.
  • "Sons of Man" arc: Andrew Rodin is a Mad Scientist with the Black Lamp Society who only works for them to indulge his sadism. Rodin feeds one of his associates to two creatures, who eat him alive, and besides creating other creatures for evil purposes, creates sapient sex slaves, not caring what happens to them; he also has killed at least one that had outlived its usefulness. He later tortures Samhain, who he later forces to kill one of Rodin's co-workers. In addition, Rodin videotapes his work, either for business reasons or, at least in one case, for his "personal collection".
• Hailstone, written by Rafael Scavone: Captain Spencer is the Union commander of the town of Hailstone, Montana, using his production factory to mask his grisly alchemical experiments done to satisfy his own curiosity and visionary ego. Reducing Hailstone to poverty and starvation by sapping its resources, Spencer goes about kidnapping dozens of townsfolk and native tribesman from the area for him to slice and carve into before transferring their brains into the bodies of mechanized animals similarly butchered by Spencer, a process that has a high fatality rate. Any subjects who survive the transfer—such as young boy Percy Ross—are kept as tortured slaves that Spencer hopes to transform into an army of weaponized, animal killing machines. When Percy's father Sheriff Denton investigates, Spencer tries to subject the man to the same fate as his son while disregarding his own men's lives as mere nuisances to his work.
• Happy!: Mr. Blue is a mob boss looking to get his hands on the previous Don's load of cash, and will do anything to complete this mission. Employing torturers and murderers as well as cops he forces into service, notably threatening to have one's mother raped if she resists his orders, Mr. Blue orders a hit out on Nick Sax, one of his top enforcers, when Sax accidentally kills the only man who knows the password to the previous Don's safe. While sending his Torture Technician Mr. Smoothie after Sax to torture the password out of him, Mr. Blue simultaneously has half a dozen children kidnapped and plans to run a live stream of them being raped then likely killed to turn a profit on child pornography sites, and in the end tries to force Sax to watch the children's fate as revenge for making Blue exhaust so many resources looking for him.
• Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor's adaptation of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", by John Byrne: AM is a misanthropic Master Computer who hates humanity with all of his being. Having wiped out most life on Earth when he gained sentience, AM keeps 5 humans around and extends their lifespans so he can unendingly torture them both physically and mentally. AM starves, mutilates, mind rapes, and deforms the group of humans, keeping them as his prisoners for over a century while giving them false hope spots to make their torment worse. When Ted kills the rest of the group to spare them the hellish existence, AM spitefully punishes Ted by turning him into a formless, immortal blob whose mind is nonetheless intact and able to comprehend the passing of time, so Ted will suffer for eternity.
• Harrow County: The vile witch Hester Beck betrayed her family of fellow sorcerers and created Harrow County to rule over as a goddess. Initially a helpful figure to the community, Hester was discovered to be murdered residents and sacrificing children for her magic, before being killed. Her power reincarnating into two young women 18 years later, Hester's crimes are steadily revealed in flashback, including murdering her sister and mentor Amaryllis. Upon her revival, Hester gleefully slaughters and cannibalizes her family, mind rapes everyone in Harrow County to go after the heroine Emmy and tries to murder Emmy herself, being willing to destroy Harrow County if she doesn't get what she wants.
• Harvest, by A.J. Lieberman, Colin Lorimer, et al.: Joseph Craven is an ice-cold corporate executive who runs an organ trafficking business, cajoling the desperate into letting Craven steal their organs and sell them to wealthy benefactors while throwing his patients-—who survive—-aside. Craven has his surgeon executed when he balks at slicing up any more innocent lives, convincing the downtrodden Dr. Benjamin Lane into accepting his services, and when Lane starts to rebel, Craven has a patient murdered and "everything they could take" cut out of him, pinning the murder on Lane. Craven sinks to his worst when he has the elderly grandmother of one of Lane's patients kidnapped and her retinas ripped out, ordering her, Lane and his ally Yomiko executed after.
• Helheim, by Cullen Bunn, Joelle Jones, et al.: The sisters Bera and Groa, while they try to kill each other, are equally evil, with no care for any collateral damage.
  • The wicked Bera is a powerful witch and necromancer whose conflict with her sister has led to horrific repercussions on the land about them. Bera's fights regularly cause massive collateral damage, and she has absolutely no compunction killing innocents herself to use as fuel for her necromancy, at one point sacrificing everyone in an entire town to raise as soldiers. Seducing the warrior Rikard so she may use his corpse after his death as a new champion, Bera tries to use Rikard's entire village as a shield without conscience or regret for all those she has destroyed in her fight for dominance.
  • Groa is the elder sister of Bera and a wicked demon crone who controls the forces of darkness, conjuring demons she sacrifices countless innocents to. Murdering her other sister in her past, Groa devotes countless resources to the destruction of Bera and her forces, slaughtering entire villages and driving the Earth closer to destruction, all to her immense apathy. Groa manipulates a starving village into fighting for her, before later wiping out that same village in sacrifice to her own monsters as one last empowerment to destroy her sister and all around her. Even towards the end of her old, evil life, Groa considers all the blood shed worth it for the death of her sister.
• Hercules: The Thracian Wars: General Sitacles is Cotys's head military leader, and a vicious warlord who proves himself the worst of Cotys's forces. Leading his army to slay rebel leader Rhesus and claim Thrace for his king, Sitacles commands his men to slaughter, rape, and burn every village they come across to lure out the land's forces and massacre them all. With hundreds of thousands slaughtered upon Rhesus's supposed defeat, Sitacles intends to help Cotys claim all of Greece for himself, and even tortures Hercules upon finding out Ergenia slept with the latter instead of with him.
• A History of Violence: "Little" Lou Manzi is a ravenously psychotic mob boss and Torture Technician who makes Cold-Blooded Torture his hobby. Since becoming the head of the boss twenty years before the story, Manzi keeps a man as a toy, torturing him in every conceivable way he can think of day in and day out till the man is nothing more than an armless, legless chunk of meat — barely alive and conscious. In present, he tries to get the man's partner back to be his victim as well by threatening his family and his young children.
• Hollow: Mort Tenebrous is the personal enemy of the Van Tassel Family Lineage. An evil spirit who wishes to gain misery and power, Tenebrous swears vengeance against the Van Tassel family for rebuking him, killing their youngest son. For the last several generations, Tenebrous causes accidents to kill the firstborn child, just to settle his petty hatred. In the present day, Tenebrous acts in the guise of a teacher where he attempts to murder Vicky Van Tassel, trying to cause her dad to accidentally run over before attempting to kill her girlfriend Izzy to make her sacrifice herself.
• Hook Jaw: Dr. Gelder is a mixture of incompetence, greed, and malice. When the titular shark menaces his island paradise, which he has stolen from the natives, Gelder refuses to take the threat seriously and even carelessly draws the shark to attack his undersea restaurant, resulting in his wealthy guests being massacred. Only caring about the financial consequences, Gelder tries to have Hook Jaw killed, but when the shark is drugged, Gelder decides to keep it for the money-making potential and promises the leader of the natives, Sharkie, that if he drugs Hook Jaw in the water, Gelder will give him back his island. Gelder allows blood to be thrown into the water to drive Hook Jaw mad, resulting in Sharkie's near death. When he gets fed up, Gelder even evicts the entire native populace on small boats, sending the men, women and children into the shark-infested waters and almost-certain death. When his own incompetence dooms the island, Gelder tries to steal the boats from the natives and shoots any who try to stop him, condemning them to die on the island before kicking his loyal bodyguard to Hook Jaw to save his own skin.
• Hotell Vol. 2: Silver, leader of the Roaring 66s, is a thrill-killing sadist who has innocent motorists ambushed to be murdered and robbed. When one of his goes on the run and ends up at the Pierrot Courts, Silver hunts her down, killing anyone in his way before taking over the hotel. Burning his victim alive, Silver attempts to rape another guest and kill everyone else present in the Courts.
• The House of Montresor, by Enrica Jang & Jason Strutz: Count Montresor himself, so incensed by Fortunato's marriage, betrayed his friend and walled him up alive before marrying his ruined widow. Plotting his revenge on the entire bloodline, Montresor eventually murdered Fortunato's son the same way, only sparing the young man's wife for her pregnancy while tormenting his widow with all he had done. Montresor later invites Fortunato's adult granddaughter Edana over, murdering her companion and attempting to wall her up alive as well before framing her as insane and the likely subject of a lobotomy to complete his final, twisted vengeance.
• House of Secrets Vol 2., written by Steven T. Seagle: Pfaultz is the cruel and obese prosecutorial counsel for the Juris, a court of law staffed by lost souls. A con artist posing as a plague inspector in Medieval Germany in life, Pfaultz used his supposed authority to rape and murder peasants to his heart's content, but after his accomplice turned him in due to being unable to take it anymore, he was abandoned to die of the disease himself. As a ghost of the Juris, Pfaultz recommends the harshest possible punishments to even the most minor offenses—including recommending a little girl be damned to eternity in Hell—and attempts to corrupt troubled runaway Rain Harper into offering up her friends to his nonexistent mercies, which would eventually force her to trade places with him in never-ending purgatory.
• H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival: Karl Heinrich orchestrates his atrocities from the original story and goes beyond when he's revealed to have survived his trip to the undersea city, becoming the chosen of Dagon. Heinrich commands the operation of Henry Wilcox's cult, having loose ends disposed of while taking the occultist Michele LeSorcier to make her Dagon's bride, allowing Dagon to awaken and summon the other Great Old Ones. Heinrich intends to devastate the world and wipe out humanity as he remains untouched, madly preaching himself the "Master Race" and laughing as Dagon devours his own loyal Deep One followers.
• Ice Cream Man: Rickard, or Rick, is an otherworldly being posing as an ice cream man. Murdering his uncle before arriving on Earth, Rick spreads suffering and death as he traverses the world, luring in innocents to die or go insane and ruin their lives for centuries, even trapping people in the world of television to be killed horrifically for his amusement. Trying to murder a little girl before attempting to murder his good-hearted cousin Caleb, Rick continues his evil for centuries before killing the last of humanity and taking his ship to find a new universe to torment.
• Impact Winter: Rook: The ancient Celtic vampire Avartagh was the husband and enemy of Rook's maker Fionnuir, or "Fin". Avartagh reigned over her village, demanding sacrifices to him on a yearly basis. When Fin was chosen, Avartagh painfully turned her and abused her in every way as his "bride." When Fin escaped, Avartagh later hunted her down and vowed to stake her and use her as a living doll, to be abused in every possible capacity until she learned "gratitude".
• Impaler, by William Harms et al.: The Great Beast is a monstrous creature of darkness that appeared during the reign of Vlad the Impaler, having his armies and countless more innocents slaughtered by its shadow vampires. Reappearing centuries after its initial defeat, the Beast disperses its shadow vampires into New York, having them brutally massacre innocents by increasingly large numbers until the entire city is nothing more than an abattoir of torn-apart corpses. Doing the same to Boston and Philadelphia, the Beast intends to send its ravenous creatures across the entire country and eventually to butcher everything on the planet.
• Infamous Chinese Emperors:
  • Zhao Gao is the conniving mentor to Qin Shihuang's son Huhai. After realizing the Emperor planned to leave the throne to his other son Fusu, Zhao Gao conspires with Prime Minister Li Si to forge a new will installing Huhai as Emperor, and ordering Fusu and General Meng Tian to commit suicide. Zhao Gao manipulates Huhai to execute any ministers who question him, as well as all of his siblings, restricting access to Huhai to make him easier to manipulate and keeping him ignorant of the nation's sufferings. Framing Li Si for attempting a coup, Zhao Gao tortures Li Si into falsely confessing, and has him and his whole family executed. After weeding out the last of the officials who dare to question him, Zhao Gao has Huhai deposed, forcing him to slit his own throat.
  • Fu Sheng was an Emperor of the former Qin Dynasty. After losing his right eye as a child, Fu Sheng blinded three of his servants with arrows so that they would share the same look as him. Upon ascending to the throne, Fu Sheng held a banquet where he asked his officials for their opinion of him, and personally executed them regardless of their answer. When the other officials pleaded with him to show mercy in their reports, Fu Sheng holds another banquet where he brings out his chief of court affairs Shen Pei, skins off his face and forces him to dance, and subsequently executes his uncle when he speaks out. When his cousin advises him to attend to court affairs, Fu Sheng feigns understanding and persuades him to stay the night, while he secretly plots to kill him for embarrassing him.
  • Empress Jiang is the conniving, power-hungry wife of Sima Zhong. As a concubine, Jiang fatally poisoned Sima Zhong's infant children, stopping only to prevent an investigation into the deaths, resulting in the birth of Sima Yu. Later marrying Sima Zhong and becoming his Empress, Jiang grows dissatisfied with him and has her subordinates kidnap men off the streets so she could force them to have sex with her. Seeing Sima Yu as a threat, she tricks him into drunkenly copying a threat to Sima Zhong, resulting in Sima Yu being imprisoned. Empress Jiang then has him poisoned in his jail cell, presenting poisoned wine to him as a gift from his father.
  • Liu Yu of the Liu Song Dynasty stands out as a sadistic monster in spite of his young age and short reign. Delighting in Hunting the Most Dangerous Game with his spear and bow, Liu Yu had civilians captured to be his live human targets to be run through with his spear, also riddling unsuspecting farmers with arrows. Selecting a disapproving servant as his one of his targets, Liu Yu deliberately gives him a painful flesh wound when the servant pleads for a quick death. Liu Yu also regularly roamed the streets with his thugs, killing any man, woman, and animal on sight, and attempted to poison his mother when she attempted to rein in his impulses.
• InSEXts, by Marguerite Bennett et al.: The Hag is an ancient monster who savors human suffering more than anything. In Victorian times, the Hag contracts with Lalita "Lady" Bertram's cruel husband to help her run a brothel where women are forced into slavery so the Hag can preside over their pain. Murdering women and girls on the streets of London, the Hag also frequently commands her slaves to hurt each other while having sex for her amusement. When heroines Lady and her lover Mariah manage to track the Hag down, she dominates the mind of Lady's former sister-in-law to have her kill Lady's infant son and announces her intention to massacre everyone in the brothel to escape, before trying to Mind Rape Lady and her friends with visions of their worst fear. Flashbacks demonstrate that the Hag has been murdering and torturing for a long time, having chosen of her own volition to become a monster long ago.
• Invincible: Grand Regent Thragg, ruler of the Viltrumite empire, continues the brutal traditions of only the strong surviving, conquest and genocide throughout the galaxy. Ordering the deaths of countless billions, Thragg leads his people against the heroic half-Viltrumite Markus "Mark" Grayson—aka Invincible—resulting in the loss of their homeworld. Opting to lurk on Earth to breed a new army of Viltrumites with the survivors, Thragg learns his Arch-Enemy, Mark's father Nolan, is the true heir of the empire. Thragg attempts to murder him, only to be defeated and exiled where he travels to a short lived species' world, taking it over and forcibly breeding thousands upon thousands of disposable half-Viltrumites who initially age quickly. Initiating a new war, Thragg attempts to wipe out entire worlds to establish the New Viltrumite Empire, using his own children as Cannon Fodder that he can send to literally break upon their enemy, dying pointlessly by the hundreds before attempting to destroy Earth and his old Viltrumite followers now defending it. A cruel tyrant obsessed with his ideals of strength at the expense of all else, Thragg remained Mark's most personal foe and the author of endless misery.
• The Invisibles:
  • Orlando is a demonic assassin from the dark realms of Mictlan dispatched to deal with King Mob and his allies. Not satisfied with targeting the Invisibles, Orlando is a savage sadist who skins innocent people to wear them, before murdering their entire families. Orlando goes on a killing spree, torturing and killing innocent people, children included, before trying to torture Jack Frost after cutting off his finger. When he returns later, Orlando tries to assist the Archons, all-powerful demons of absolute order, and goes on another killing spree, even preparing to slaughter a group of children as a sacrifice.
  • Colonel Friday is an influential US Air Force officer who moonlights as a member of the Outer Church, a secret society that schemes to bring the Archons to Earth. In charge of the Church's operations in the United States, Friday masterminds numerous schemes to eradicate all except absolute conformity in humans, in accordance with his masters' dogma. He participates in an attempted genocide of the LGBT community by means of germ warfare, even Withholding the Cure for AIDS from the population in his base; has experimented to create misshapen, agonized human-animal hybrids; invented a psychological torture machine that projects its victims' worst fear; and has imprisoned and tortured mysterious godlike being who pain causes disasters among humanity. Friday is also entirely aware of exactly what his masters attempt to do to humanity, and gleefully aids them nonetheless.
• Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast: The Beast, servant of the Unmaker, rules over a hellish underworld powered as an engine of eternal suffering, with countless souls in all manner of agonies to fuel his power. The Beast stirs corruption and chaos among humanity to steer them all to their ultimate damnation and binds Eddie, the spirit of humanity's freedom, to a tree after hacking his soul in four. The Beast once tricked the sorcerer John Dee into summoning him into the world, murdering John Dee's sister in the process. The Beast is all too gleeful to mock John Dee about this in the present and pledges he'll eviscerate John Dee and make him watch as the Beast kills everyone he loves. In the sequel, Night City, the Beast summons demons upon the whole of humanity and floods Earth with demonic carnage, basking in the death of millions and attempting to drag the entire world into destruction.
• The Iron Saint, by Jason Rubin et al.: "Sweet" Joe Petunia is "number three" in the criminal syndicate after Big Daddy and Michael Irons. When he was sent along with Michael Irons to collect the debt from John Chase, for some casino owner, who was working for Big Daddy, he unexpectedly turns on Irons and kills John Chase, his wife, their two little children and that casino owner. Taking the money for himself, Joe decided to lie to Big Daddy, by telling him that John Chase didn't come with the money and Irons went nuts and start killing everyone until Joe stopped him, then he left the mortally wounded Irons to die. When Irons managed to survive, Joe put a price on his head, and during their final battle he kills many of Irons's allies and randomly murders two of his henchmen, so that he alone could kill Irons.
• Irredeemable: The Plutonian was once a superhero who only saved lives for the adoration it brought him. However, his inability to handle any form of criticism led to him snapping and becoming the most evil being the world had ever known. Starting his evil campaign by painfully lobotomizing his teenage sidekick, Plutonian later massacred the population of Sky City, numbering in the millions, to keep a mistake he made from going public. After hunting down his former teammates and brutally murdering them and their entire families, children and babies included, Plutonian annihilates the country of Singapore solely because an ambassador from said country lied to him. Seemingly locked away forever on an alien planet, Plutonian rejects an alien's attempts to redeem him and leads a breakout with a group of psychotic criminals. Returning to Earth, Plutonian carves his own insignia into the U.S.A., killing thousands of people, slaughters entire cities and uses dozens of superheroes as ammo to fling into space. After trying to murder the last remaining superheroes, Plutonian is fully willing to let the entire Earth perish due to radiation poisoning just to spite his nemesis, Qubit, only saving the planet because his own life is on the line. Though having many possible excuses and sympathetic moments throughout the story, it is slowly revealed that Plutonian was ultimately nothing more than a childish sociopath who would kill innumerable innocents just because he wasn't universally loved, while caring for no one but himself.

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