"Perhaps I should be ashamed of myself; but as it stands, I am not, because for once in my life, I enjoyed a taste of power beyond my wildest dreams. For once in my life, I wielded the power of life and death over other people; and nothing you, the judge, or anyone else can do or say, not even God Himself, will make me regret my actions. Nothing anyone else can do or say will ever take away the raw power I felt coursing through my veins as I slaughtered all those people."
— Fraser Barton Colborne, Extreme Prejudice (2019)
Whether professional or otherwise, scripts can still have some irredeemably evil characters.
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- Asylum (link
): Lex Luthor and the Joker are a pair of ruthless supervillains who ally to utterly destroy their respective archenemies. Luthor, reviving Joker from the grave, gives him the means to pull off a terrorist attack, leading Joker to bomb a Metropolis memorial and nearly kill hundreds of people. Joker, manipulating a woman named Elizabeth into seducing and even marrying Bruce Wayne, later betrays and assassinates Elizabeth to torment his foe, all according to Luthor's plans. Later, after Joker nearly runs over a crowd of pedestrians and kills his own men, Luthor strangles his own lawyer and destroys the free will centers of two guards to escape prison, handing the guards over to Joker to be experimented on and turned into hulking brutes. Joker cheerfully tries to kill Batman and Superman while mocking both over his hand in their recent suffering, only for Luthor to show up, shove Joker off a building to his death, and try to kill the superhero duo himself. - Batman:
- The Batman (link): The Joker is a sadistic mobster who seeks to control Gotham City by any means necessary. Allying with Rupert Thorne to kill Thomas and Martha Wayne, the Joker relishes in cruelty, killing his own henchmen for no reason whatsoever and blowing up an innocent person because he thinks it's funny. After being defeated by Batman, Joker announces that he'll kill people any time he appears in public, then has one of his own men dress as Batman, giving him an excuse to murder the Mayor and the Flying Graysons. Later kidnapping Silver St. Cloud, Joker betrays Rupert and tries to murder her, tormenting her with sadistic mind games beforehand while making Batman watch.
- Year One, by Frank Miller (link): Police Commissioner Gillian Loeb is the ringleader behind Gotham's entire criminal underworld, enabling murder sprees, drug peddling, and Human Trafficking in order to gain power and line his pockets. Frequently bribing politicians and other crooked cops to further his control over the city, Loeb establishes himself as corrupt during a Hostage Situation, when he tries to have a mental patient shot despite knowing that he'll be killing a baby in the process. Having Jim Gordon beaten into submission for trying to stop crime, while chasing after the Bat-Man, Loeb has a supposedly abandoned apartment firebombed, only to act apathetic when he finds it actually filled with homeless people. With his empire collapsing, Loeb tries to kill Gordon's pregnant wife Ann to spite him.
- The Batman (link
- Blood Meridian film script (link): Judge Holden is a mysterious, sadistic prophet of war itself as a way of life, who serves as the epitome of evil the Kid encounters. Introduced butchering a pair of hapless outlaws, the Judge ingratiates himself into the Glanton gang and sets them to hunting and scalping Apaches, coercing Glanton himself into further acts of depravity as the gang slaughters an entire village of hundreds of Apache, including women and children. A murderer and possible rapist of children on his downtime, the Judge ignites a massive shootout between the Glanton gang and law enforcement before overseeing the gang in further robbery, slavery, and mass murder. After the dissolution of the gang, the Judge tries to murder the Kid and the other surviving members, and caps off his vileness by pointlessly framing a beloved pastor as a child molester, simply to invite chaos and violence into the congregation. Often compared to the Devil himself and blasphemously welcoming the comparison, the Judge views all of creation under his twisted code that anything he has no knowledge of nor use for, has no right to exist.
- Daredevil: The Man Without Fear:
- Christopher Columbus and Carlo Carlei's script (link):
- Wilson "the Kingpin" Fisk is a massive, violent brute who hides his twisted sadism behind a charitable demeanor. Previously a hitman for "The Fixer" who "killed more people than cancer", Fisk took over the gang after Daredevil killed Fixer. Allowing all types of crime to occur in Hell's Kitchen, from selling children drugs, to murder, Fisk instigates a gang war to expand his control, murdering one mobster himself when the latter speaks out against his plans. To secure rival criminals' turfs, Fisk orders Bullseye to burn down several apartments in order to lower the prices and buy them out, even threatening contractors with murdering their families should they choose to work with someone else. Killing his old friend Nikos Natchios for deciding to reform, Fisk hopes to marry his daughter Elektra to complete his revenge, revealing to her that years prior, he organized her kidnapping in Japan, which resulted in her mother dying from stress. Drugging Elektra to become his pet assassin and sending her out to kill anyone who stands in his way, Fisk hopes to become mayor in order to strengthen his grasp over the city, having Matt Murdock disbarred and supposedly killed so nobody can stop him.
- Bullseye, real name Juan del Toro, is a sadistic hitman who prefers the pleasure of killing over payment. Hired by Fisk to burn down apartments full of people in order to drive the prices down, Bullseye is properly introduced killing two nightclub bouncers for not letting him in and burning the club down to kill a target. Having a helping hand in the death of Nikos Natchios, Bullseye holds zero loyalty to anyone but himself, even letting Matt expose Fisk of his crimes to watch his boss suffer before resuming his assignment.
- J.M. DeMatteis's treatment (link): Baron Von Strucker is the head of arms company Hydra. Previously kidnapping a young Elektra Natchios and murdering her mother, Von Strucker would go on to sell dangerous weapons to numerous criminals, such as guns that can melt people's skin off. Bargaining with Kingpin to sell him weapons if he kills his friend Nikos, Von Strucker shows no care for the massive amount of lives his weapons take, just as long as he profits.
- Christopher Columbus and Carlo Carlei's script (link
- Dark City (1998) 1992 script, by Alex Proyas (link): The Mystery Men's leader, "Mr. Black", controls humanity by regularly having them "tuned" to rewrite their personalities and memories according to his wishes. When protagonist John White is awakened during his tuning to be remade into a Serial Killer, Black has the Mystery Men horribly murder White's intended victims—including a baby—to frame him, and drives an investigating inspector insane through sheer agony. Slowly skinning his own reluctant human scientist alive for betraying him, Black revives the corpses of the humans he killed to accuse White of murdering them and when White refuses to break, simply overpowers him in a psychic battle before tuning White with the monstrous personality.
- Django Unchained original script (link): Ace Woody is the overseer of Candyland's slave training pits, subjecting dozens of slaves to horrible training and killing any that fail. Introduced by executing multiple slaves just because they look weak, Woody forces others to do push-ups constantly and kills whoever gives up first. When his employer Calvin Candie is killed, Woody strings up Django and plans to castrate him as punishment before sending him off to the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company to live the rest of his days in agony.
- Doctor Strange's unproduced script (link):
- Dormammu, The Dreaded One, is the ruler of the Dark Dimension. Seeking to murder, enslave, and torture the people of Earth, Dormammu assigns Byron Mordo with the task of polluting it no matter how many people die, overseeing the destruction he and his demon acquaintances cause. Once his plot to enter Earth's dimension fails thanks to Doctor Strange, Dormammu has Mordo abduct Tanya Anders to lure Strange to the Dark Dimension. Once inside, Dormammu forces Strange to fight Mordo for Tanya's life, threatening to enslave their souls should he fail. Despite taking a liking to Strange's strength, even hoping to have him join his side once Mordo perishes, Dormammu still tries one last time to kill Strange and Tanya after Strange lets Mordo live.
- Byron/Baron Mordo is the CEO of Mordo Industries, and Dormammu's most loyal lackey. Once a student of the Ancient One Norlin Kandell who betrayed him to seek the path of darkness, Mordo sides with Dormammu, selling out the entire human race in return for power over the world. Tasked with spreading pollution across the globe, Mordo and his demonic companions take time to enact oil spills, arms dealing, and ozone depletions that cause loads of deaths. Bringing Tanya and a comatose Strange to Easter Island, Mordo tries to have Strange serve as the first of 200 billion promised human sacrifices dedicated to Dormammu.
- Event Horizon original script, by Philip Eisner (link): The entity possessing the Event Horizon—referred as "The Dark"—is a primordial being that attached itself to the ship following its descent into Hell, driving the crew to rape and mutilation. Finding more playthings in the rescue team, the Dark psychologically torments Justin until he's Driven to Suicide; has Peters fall to her death by posing as her son; and turns Dr. Weir into its minion, using him to vivisect another man. Torturing Captain Miller with visions of Hell, the Dark makes clear its intention to drag the survivors to Hell and torture them for eternity, all to prove that "nothing" is the reality of the universe.
- Gale Force (link):
- Captain Suggers is a vicious pirate who organizes numerous plunders and heists. Ordering his men to Leave No Witnesses, which results in a multitude of innocent casualties, Suggers hopes to rob the coastal town Fort Foster of its money during a hurricane. Upon finding out all his men were killed by Willie Peacock, Suggers launches a cannonball at the penthouse Willie and his family are residing in, which kills his friend Sandford, before threatening to level the entire town unless he gets his money.
- Edgar Jorgenson was a former Navy SEALs member and Willie Peacock's partner who turned to piracy because it was more profitable. Hiring himself out to Captain Suggers, Edgar took to plundering numerous ships and towns, killing any potential witnesses of all ages. Leading the robbery of Fort Foster's bank during a hurricane, Edgar bombs a police station to kill every cop inside. With Willie killing his men and taking his money, Edgar decides to hold his family and friends hostage, threatening to kill them should Willie not return the money. Intending on murdering everybody anyway, including Willie's injured nephew Lyle, Edgar gleefully promises to rape Lyle's mother Rye before killing her.
- Ghost Rider's unproduced script (link):
- Ambrose Starke, the Devil, wants to regain his old strength by way of murder and corruption. Approaching Johnny Blaze after his pregnant fiancée Roxanne gets caught in a fatal accident, Starke made a deal that changed him into Ghost Rider to save Roxanne's life, only to put her into a coma and her child to remain unborn. After saving the life of Nomi, Starke conceived a child with her named Rain, sending Nomi's abusive ex-husband Billy-Ray Carrigan out to acquire her. Killing a car dealer, his wife, and his son for stiffing him on a rental, Starke murders Nomi himself and grants the mortally wounded Carrigan with the power of decay, sending him out to once again acquire Rain, resulting in a church mission massacre.
- Billy-Ray Carrigan is a former blackjack dealer turned hired gunman for Ambrose Starke tasked with acquiring his ex-wife Nomi's daughter Rain. An abusive husband who previously tried to murder Nomi and Rain over the latter's birth, Carrigan becomes worse after he's killed by Ghost Rider. Resurrected by Starke as the Scarecrow, Carrigan invades a church mission looking for Rain, gleefully slaughtering and tearing apart dozens of priests in his path.
- The Iron Man, by Jeff Vintar & Stan Lee (link):
- MODOK was once a pitiful man who desired to become something more. Shedding his human past as a disgrace, MODOK decrees himself the supreme scientist and begins a plan to forcibly convert all of humanity into creatures like him that he can control, beginning with many of A.I.M.'s technicians. Having Jeremy Bland attempt to assassinate Tony Stark and converting Bland when he fails, MODOK later hacks the Redeemer armor to force Tony to obliterate a friendly banker, obliterating his own company's President out of rage; he later sends a robot police officer after Tony to blow up a ten-block radius. Even shedding tears of joy at the thought of the mass murder he intends, MODOK's claims of good intentions are a clear front for the sadistic madman he truly is.
- Whiplash is a particularly sadistic member of A.I.M's forces who uses his whip-like fingers to devastating effect on his enemies. When tasked with acquiring the Redeemer armor, Whiplash attacks the security in the building, slicing off several people's fingers while destroying their weapons; when his team is later threatened by Iron Man, Whiplash breaks the building supports to bring down the roof on a crowded party while they escape. Later on, while hunting down Tony for MODOK, Whiplash takes sadistic glee in massacring all of the technicians on the off chance that one of them is him, later returning to make one more attempt on Tony's life.
- It (2017)'s unused drafts both have the titular, eldritch, child eating, Ancient Evil known as IT or Pennywise the Clown:
- 2014 draft (link): IT, aka Pennywise the Clown, is the eldritch terror that has been devouring the lives of children and manipulating calamity in Derry for centuries. Among many other incidents, Pennywise once manipulated a terrifyingly massacre at the Black Spot bar in the early 1900s, whipping up a racist mob into burning dozens of innocent black people alive while Pennywise gleefully picked off survivors who fled to the canal. Pennywise remains as vile as his other adaptations, influencing massacres and twisting minds while popping up behind pianos and on TVs, and gleefully taunts young Bill on how much he enjoyed chewing up the muscles of Bill's little brother Georgie.
- 2015 draft (link): Pennywise, as sadistic as usual, has haunted Derry since its discovery. Feasting on the pilgrims' children, Pennywise struck a deal with the town leader's wife one night, promising to kill her and everybody in town unless she allowed him to devour her daughter, satisfied knowing that he's broken her spirit. Responsible for a series of catastrophes and disappearances throughout the centuries, Pennywise was also responsible for corrupting Beverly's father Alvin as a teenager, having spared him so that he can eventually molest his future daughter. Pennywise also collects the trinkets of his victims, keeping a large pile of souvenirs in his lair. Corrupting Travis Bowers into murdering his father, Pennywise attempts to have him killed for failing to stop the Losers.
- 2014 draft (link
- The L.A. Quartet:
- L.A. Confidential 1995 script (link): Captain Dudley Smith hides an even more despicable personality behind his false friendliness than his final version. Seeking to take control of the Los Angeles underworld after the fall of Mickey Cohen, Dudley personally beats a group of criminals into recounting their testimony against an officer he uses in his own work beating and killing rival criminals. Framing another group of criminals for his own murders of the Nite Owl patrons to steal back heroin from a treacherous subordinate, Dudley later kills many of his allies to escape justice and boasts of his racist plot to sell his drugs to minority communities to keep them under his control.
- White Jazz 2007 script, by Matthew Michael Carnahan & Joe Carnahan (link):
- Dan Wilhite is the Captain of the LAPD's Narcotics Division, who uses his status to run a criminal empire. Serving as the right-hand man to Fritz Koenig, Wilhite uses the gangster Hector Magdalena as a figurehead to control a large drug trafficking conspiracy, routinely murdering rivals and petty criminals as part of the enterprise. Having groomed and lusted after Hector's daughter Lucille since her youth, Wilhite takes advantage of the girl while her father is pimping her out, before orchestrating the murder of Hector and his son Tommy so Wilhite can have Lucille all to himself.
- Hector Magdelena himself was a violent drug dealer who informed to Wilhite in return for the LAPD turning a blind eye as he flooded the streets with poison. Also horribly abusive to his family, Hector regularly beat his wife and two children and even groomed his daughter Lucille to sleep with his criminal allies, Wilhite in particular using her for years.
- L.A. Confidential (unaired 2019 TV pilot script): Captain Dudley Smith is a charming yet utterly ruthless corrupt policeman. With a history of murder to consolidate the control of the Los Angeles underworld beneath him, Dudley uses the killing of a police officer to galvanize his men into killing the suspect without questioning, while Dudley steals the criminal's heroin to sell. Capturing the crook's partner, Dudley has the man beaten before agonizingly killing him with a knife to the artery, forcing information out of his victim and preparing to hunt for the missing drugs.
- L.A. Confidential 1995 script (link
- The Last Boy Scout (Shane Black's original script): Milo is significantly nastier than he is in the final product, even managing to eclipse his boss Sheldon Marcone. A director of snuff films on top of being a psychopathic hitman for Marcone, Milo routinely has young women tricked or kidnapped to be brutally murdered by his henchmen for the purpose of his films. Once Marcone orders the assassination of Senator Calvin Baynard, Milo kidnaps the hero Joe Hallenbeck and his wife Sarah and threatens to use Sarah as the next star in his snuff films if Joe doesn't kill Baynard, with full intent of simply burning Joe to death and using him to soak up guilt as he and Marcone walk off free. Along the way, Milo massacres an innocent family simply because they inconvenience him and, after murdering Baynard and all of his men before being defeated and scarred by Joe, murders his way back to Joe and tries to furiously gun down him and his entire family in revenge.
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter original script (link): Dracula, called almost exclusively "Nosferatu" here, is even worse than the final film product. A monster who has fed on countless lives and wiped out entire civilizations with his heinous plagues, Nosferatu charters the Demeter to carry him to England to find more victims, tiding himself over for the voyage by devouring a young child. Nosferatu grows weary of the ride and begins slaughtering the crew for his own amusement. He uses his thrall Ponari to assist him while lying that he will save Ponari's beloved daughter from death, before turning Ponari into a vampire to torment him further. After wiping out an entire Navy vessel that tries to save the crew, Nosferatu kills almost everyone onboard the Demeter and, upon his arrival in England, begins spreading his plague on the land.
- The Lost Boys: The Beginning: In the script written for the unproduced prequel of the original film, Vlad Tepsch is a legendary vampire king known as "The Impaler" for how he dispatches his victims. First arriving in America while butchering the crew of a ship he's aboard, after being mugged Vlad chases down the Lost Boys and begins to slowly turn them into vampires. Seeming to have their best interests at heart, Vlad helps make the boys rich and acquire ownership of a extravagant hotel, while killing random people all around him, from hotel guests, to a gang, to a unit of Marines. Later, Vlad reveals his intent to use the coastline of San Francisco to create armies of vampires and a worldwide empire for himself to rule over. When David tries to leave him, Vlad forcibly turns his girlfriend Anastasia Rostov into a vampire as a "gift", causing the girl to commit suicide out of terror, and makes it clear to the boys that he sees them as mere soldiers he can easily throw away.
- Mr. Brooks (Bruce A Evans and Raynold Gideon's original script): Thornton (here Thorton) Meeks is worse here than in the final film. A vicious Serial Killer of women known as "the Hangman", Meeks would torture his victims before hanging them and displaying their bodies for the public to find. Escaping prison at the start of the story, Meeks works with his partner to brutally torture and kill his former steroid dealer and his secretary. After a failed attempt to kidnap, torture, and likely rape Detective Atwood who caught him last time, Meeks ends up shooting his partner and then himself rather than face capture.
- Phantasm 2013 AD, by Roger Avary: The Tall Man, in this intended finale, unleashes the Bag Plague, which wipes out millions of lives all across America, turning the country into an apocalyptic wasteland. Using the corpses to create more dwarf slaves, the virus also turns people into Baggers, walking dead who murder countless others. After Reggie and the commandos arrive at his hideout, the Tall Man turns Lt. Linda Payne into a dwarf slave by injecting her with Bagger pus. When Reggie and Heckleman are taken to the Tall Man's mansion, Reggie finds that the Tall Man's kept the corpses of his friends and family preserved as hunting trophies, one of them being Mike. After Reggie and Heckleman supposedly kill the Tall Man and escaping his dimension, the Tall Man decapitates Heckleman and teleports Reggie back to his dimension, where he's dragged into infinite darkness.
- The Sandman (1989) script by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (link): The Corinthian is a nightmare who escapes the Dreaming to wreak havoc on the human realm for giggles. Becoming one of the world's first serial killers, the Corinthian devours the eyes of his victims and inspires dozens of other psychopaths to embrace their desire to kill innocents. The Corinthian murders his way to the powerful Ruby, twisting its capabilities to turn the world into one where serial killers like himself are able to run rampant and unimpeded. The Corinthian plans to alter all of reality to one where each and every psychopath like himself can cause infinite chaos and suffering to humanity, hosting an entire convention of serial killers to bask in the depravity he had cultivated. When Dream finally recovers enough power to fight for his Ruby, the Corinthian destroys the artifact rather than give it up, willing to destroy all life in universe and Dreaming itself out of spite.
- Sicario original script (link): Fausto Alarcon here lacks the genuine care for his family that the film version has. One of the top chiefs of the Sinaloa Cartel, Alarcon is likened to a virus plaguing all of Mexico; it's noted that any murders carried out by the Cartel are perpetrated "with his hand or with his blessing". Alarcon's murderous reign is so brutal that entire houses are filled to bursting with the bodies of his dozens of victims, and he personally had the wife and child daughter of Alejandro brutally tortured, raped, and murdered. When Alejandro comes seeking revenge, Alarcon tries to sacrifice his own wife to save his own skin, emotionlessly remarking "I love me more."
- Spider-Man:
- Spider-Man (Joseph Zito) (link): Doctor Otto Octavius, aka "Doc Ock", is a narcissistic Mad Scientist defined by his ego. Already callous to the lives of his students, as shown when his classroom nearly burns down and he dismisses the risks, Ock manages to view an alternate dimension, giving him a God complex that makes him decide to destroy the entire universe. In pursuit of this goal, Ock murders his former boss out of spite; has his henchman attack Peter's home and causes Uncle Ben's death; kidnaps Liz Allen and almost kills her to draw Peter out; and repeatedly tries to kill Spider-Man. Once his goal is set in motion, chaos erupts in the city, with a train derailing and cars floating, which causes many injuries. Coming within seconds of wiping out all life, Ock chooses himself when the portal to his "heaven" can only transport one person, believing only himself to be worthy of life.
- Amazing Spider-Man (link): Doctor Otto Octavius lacks his final product's much more tragic, complex characterization, presented in this draft script as a complete psychopath driven by his ego. Having murdered Richard and Mary Parker years ago for hiding the image refractor from him so as to prevent the completion of Octavius's dangerous fusion machine, Octavius takes their son Peter under his wing and manipulates the young man into the handing the refractor over before trying to kill him as well. After having his metallic tentacles fused with his torso, Octavius uses them kill his way out of a hospital and goes on a rampage through New York City, murdering several people and endangering dozens more. Octavius hopes to ally with foreign powers to complete his fusion reactor, fully willing to then hand it over to terrorists to use as a WMD so long as he gets to see it in use, and raids the wedding of Harry Osborn to obtain the final missing component to the machine, threatening the hundreds of guests with death if he doesn't get what he wants.
- Scriptment, by James Cameron (link): Carlton Strand is a selfish and Darwinistic supervillain who has used his electricity powers to become an unfathomably rich businessman. Getting his start as a lowly street crook who tested his new powers by slaughtering his gang, Strand ascended to power by forcing heart attacks onto anyone in his way and silencing any who tried to expose his corruption. Getting his kicks by electrocuting his abused lover to near-death then reviving her at his whim—culminating in him leaving her to die in this state when he's in a hurry—Strand later kidnaps Mary Jane Watson to torture and molest in an attempt to force Spider-Man to ally with him in bringing about a new age of superhumans to stand above humanity.
- Spider-Man (Joseph Zito) (link
- Superman Lives's unproduced scripts both have Brainiac:
- Dan Gilroy's script (link): Brainiac, an attention-craving computer program developed by Jor-El of Krypton, rebelled out of petty jealousy that Jor-El spent more time with his family than with Brainiac. Brainiac orchestrated the destruction of Krypton, personally trying to kill Jor-El's infant son Kal-El while making him watch, before settling for slaying Jor-El and his wife when Kal-El escapes. Spending decades tracking Kal-El down, Brainiac arrives on Earth and kills several innocent people before possessing the body of Lex Luthor, using it to discover that Kal-El is now the beloved hero Superman. Endangering dozens of schoolchildren to draw Superman out, Brainiac uses the monstrous Doomsday to kill Superman and tries to take his place as Earth's savior, flying into a spiteful rage when he realizes humanity will always love Superman, and deciding to destroy the entire planet. After kidnapping Lois Lane and her niece to use them as a "family" to spite the memory of Superman, Brainiac threatens their lives when Superman returns to face him, and uses his last moments to mock Superman on how his parents screamed when Brainiac killed them.
- Kevin Smith's script (link): Brainiac here is depicted as an ancient, digital entity that seeks godhood. Having arrived on Krypton under the illusion of protecting the planet, Brainiac actually drains its core of all power, leading to the planet's destruction. As Brainiac combs the universe looking for the legendary Eradicator robot so as to drain its power and become invincible, he regularly drains the life forces of aliens he comes across, and captures others to store as specimens in his "menagerie". Upon landing on Earth, Brainiac drains LexCorp security guards of their life forces and teams up with Lex Luthor, unleashing Doomsday onto Metropolis to kill Superman, uncaring of the many citizens Doomsday kills in his rampage. When Superman is seemingly killed, Brainiac betrays Luthor and kills the man's lover in front of him, before trying to wipe out hundreds of Metropolis civilians while declaring his new status as god over all human life.
- Dan Gilroy's script (link
- Venom's unproduced script (link) has both psychopathic, chaos-loving halves of Carnage:
- Cletus Kasady is a chaos-loving psychopath with a love of murder and mayhem. A bad seed who was sent to the St. Estes Psychiatric Hospital as a child after killing his mother, Cletus would later burn down the hospital—which resulted in five deaths—and hold the young Eddy Brock hostage as a way to escape. Spending the next twenty years on a cross country killing spree under the name "Carnage" that resulted in 87 claimed victims, Cletus would brag to Brock about his murders while sending him tape recordings of his victims. Getting arrested and put on death row, Cletus makes contact with the Blood Hunter symbiote and goes on a mass killing spree. Seeking to spread chaos across New York, Cletus goes on live television to encourage his fans to incite violent riots, and later causes a city-wide blackout, relishing in all the death and terror he's caused as both halves of Carnage.
- The Blood Hunter Symbiote arrives to Earth specifically to feed off of the fear of humans, viewing them as animals who can easily devolve into blind panic. Bonding with Cletus Kasady to spread chaos across New York, the Symbiote assists Cletus in his murder spree, helping incite Cletus's fans to start mass riots across the city and causing a city-wide blackout to further spread panic. Taking over Cletus's mind by feasting on his memories until he's nothing but a husk, the Symbiote plans to lay waste to the entire Earth just to feed on mankind's fear.
- The Wizard of Oz script (link): The Wicked Witch of the West herself was a darker character in the original screenplay. Having terrorized Oz for years with her sister, the Witch's only concern when her sister is killed by a house dropping on her is to attempt to loot her body for the powerful ruby slippers so she can rule Oz. When the slippers are placed on young Dorothy's feet, the Witch swears to kill her and her beloved dog Toto as well, stalking the girl as she makes her way across Oz and makes new friends. Threatening the entire Emerald City with death if they don't surrender Dorothy, the Witch eventually captures Dorothy and plans to painfully, slowly kill Toto and her entire group of friends while forcing Dorothy to watch before murdering the girl as well.
- Wonder Woman's unproduced scripts:
- Laeta Kalogridis's script (link): Ares is the Greek god of war who feeds off of conflict. Intent on becoming the most powerful god in the Greek pantheon, Ares manipulates mankind into sparking war with each other so that he can empower himself from the carnage, making him responsible for every single conflict and genocide in human history. Constructing the Doom's Doorway to hold the souls of his followers and then losing it to his sister Athena, Ares invades Themiscyra to acquire it, slaughtering all of the defending Amazonians and murdering his own wife and unborn daughter, Princess Diana. Upon returning to Themiscyra in the modern day, Ares, now Ares Buchanan, reveals to a revived Diana that he intends on kidnapping every world leader and placing the souls of his acolytes in their bodies, unleashing a slew of warmongers to start an eternal World War III so that he can bask in the endless chaos and rule supreme.
- Joss Whedon's script (link):
- Arabella Callas is the ruthless CEO of Spearhead, a company that masks an arms dealing, warmongering operation run by Callas. A devout servant of Ares who uses her influence to start and sustain wars across the globe, Callas only serves Ares to satisfy her own cravings for power and to dominate all beneath her heel. Working with Strife to create the Khimaera, eliminating any and everyone who stumbles across the truth about the ancient beast, Callas tests the Khimaera by having it level several buildings, all full of innocent people. After ordering Steve Trevor and his partners killed, Callas plans to use the Khimaera to destroy cities worldwide, killing thousands to throw the rest of the planet into such terror that she can swoop in with Spearhead and subtly take control of all life on Earth.
- Strife is the nephew of Ares, and a vicious, petty Blood Knight who gleefully lives up to his father's passion and lust for war. Strife works to unleash the Khimaera on the world with Callas, violently murdering potential witnesses and even nearly obliterating a large building full of homeless vagrant families. Strife, in retribution for being insulted, forces Diana to depower at the threat of Steve Trevor's life, leaves Diana to die with the specific shame of Dying Alone, and attempts to kill Steve shortly after anyway. Strife eventually hijacks the scheme for the Khimaera, sabotaging his own plans with Callas to instead directly use the Khimaera to wreak carnage and destroy all of Gateway City simply to show he's not bluster.
- Laeta Kalogridis's script (link
- X-Men Origins--Magneto (link): Dr. Kleinmein is a Nazi from Erik Lehnsherr's childhood during his time in Auschwitz. Kleinmein would perform nasty experiments on the camp's children, keeping their eyes in jars while configuring some into his own personal mutant soldiers, and upon getting his hands on Erik, proceeded to torture and study him to learn how his powers work. Escaping the camp and hiding out in South America, Kleinmein starts his own cabal of runaway Nazis with plans to create the Fourth Reich, sending his men out to cause as much havoc as possible around the world, while taking advantage of his ties to the CIA to continue his experiments on both human and mutant alike.
Other Original Scripts
- Brittle Bullets: The Fantom Killer, real name Kenneth Friedkin, is an artistically-inclined Serial Killer with a taste for butchering women and lobotomizing men into mindless sex dolls to be abused until death. Having terrorized his city for a long while with his massive trail of bodies and resulting blood-splattered artwork, the Fantom eventually seeks to attain true power through a criminal empire, and proceeds to orchestrate the murder of Alfredo Giancana's son so as to manipulate Alfredo into a bloody gang war with the Mayor. Simultaneously using the gang war as a springboard to torment "Mel" Johnson for rejecting and escaping him a year ago, the Fantom kidnaps Mel's lover to torment while siccing Alfredo onto Mel so as to eliminate Alfredo and leave his criminal enterprises for the taking. As a final, spiteful move towards Mel and to bring in his reign as crime kingpin, the Fantom attempts to burn an orphanage treasured by Mel to the ground with the children inside, just for fun and petty hatred.
- Extreme Prejudice (2019): Fraser Barton Colborne starts out as a mere Jerkass who becomes far worse. After being rude to his coworker Garth Mason, who was trying to help him deal with Madison Craig, a customer flirting with the unwilling Fraser, Fraser decides to take revenge on people who have wronged him, no matter how slight, as well as those who did nothing. After writing in his notebook that "human beings are inherently worthless" whose value is only how much they can hurt others, Fraser, who wants to wield the power of life and death over others, seduces Madison, before killing her, as well as killing her brother. He then goes to the local mall and proceeds to kill over 70 civilians—men, women, and children—as well as 6 police officers, before finally being arrested. Numerous excuses are offered for Fraser's actions, but his own foster sister refutes these, with Fraser himself admitting he knows his motivations are petty, but not caring.
- Migraine: Kenneth Jason Muntz is a sociopath desperate to earn money by any means necessary. Struggling to keep himself from being evicted from his apartment, Ken decides to venture onto the dark web, where he discovers that human flesh can be sold for a high price. Over the course of four months, Ken kidnaps and murders over half a dozen women before chopping up their bodies and selling their flesh on the black market. He also ruins his kind neighbors' relationship solely for his own amusement. After claiming another victim and encountering his neighbor Fred while he's disposing of the body, Ken nonchalantly reveals that he kills people for a living, and then strangles Fred to death when Fred realizes Ken ruined his relationship. Even after Ken earns enough money to get a new apartment, he decides to continue murdering people with no intention of stopping until he's caught or killed.
- Xanafix:
- Troman Deckard is the conscienceless CEO of Deckard Industries and the creator of the titular drug, which he touts as a miracle cure to stress and anxiety. Already unscrupulous, Troman comes to realize that one of his employees has sabotaged Xanafix to make it start mutating those who consume it into grotesque abominations. Troman is horrified by this development for all of a moment before gleefully deciding to profit off the creatures, first subjecting his own little son to Xanafix before preparing to desolate an entire town with the creatures. Troman's final vision for the world is an unending corporate nightmare, as he plots to distribute Xanafix worldwide and twist countless millions into mutant fodder for his greed.
- Carson Riggs is the chief of police who is secretly on Troman's payroll. With his most treasured memory being the time he murdered a pregnant civilian during The Vietnam War, Carson kidnaps teenager Conner Turner and his friends in order to bring them to Troman to die. Later on revealing that he's onboard with Troman's plan for the world because he believes the strong should rule over the weak, Carson murders all the cops in his squadron when one of them doesn't go along with it, then attempts to murder Conner, his friends, and his own son Brady to ensure his vision of the world.
