Sandbox.Alpha Red Vs Blue
Sandbox.STARCRUSHER 99 Monster
Sandbox.United States Of Monsters Characters
Sandbox.When Stormy Weather Comes Around
Because I do quite a few things on this site, particularly on the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads, I've created an easy sandbox for myself:
Current CM cleanup project:
Sandboxes that have been cleaned:
- Monster 1800 Missing
- Monster: 2000 AD
- Monster 24
- Monster: Ace Attorney
- Monster: Alien vs. Predator
- Monster: American Horror Story
- Monster: Archie Comics
- Monster: Arrowverse
- Monster: Assassin's Creed
- Monster: Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Monster: Batman
- Monster: Battlefield
- Monster: Bellisarioverse
- Monster: Ben 10
- Monster: Berserk
- Monster: The Bill
- Monster: Bionicle
- Monster: Black Clover
- Monster: Bleach
- Monster: Blood Books
- Monster: BloodRayne
- Monster Bob Morane
- Monster: Buffyverse
- Monster: Call of Duty
- Monster: Castlevania
- Monster: Charmed (1998)
- Monster: City Hunter
- Monster: The Closer
- Monster: Code Lyoko Fan Works
- Monster: Comics' Greatest World
- Monster: Conan the Barbarian
- Monster: Criminal Minds
- Monster: Critical Role
- Monster: The Crow
- Monster: CSI-verse
- Monster: Cthulhu Mythos
- Monster: Cutey Honey
- Monster: Daredevil
- Monster: DC Animation
- Monster: DC Fan Works
- Monster: DC Films
- Monster: DC Literature
- Monster: DC Series
- Monster: The DCU
- Monster: DC Video Games
- Monster: Devilman
- Monster: Diablo
- Monster: Diagnosis Murder
- Monster: Dick Tracy
- Monster: Die Hard
- Monster: Digimon
- Monster: Dirty Pair
- Monster: Discworld
- Monster: Disney
- Monster: Disney Fan Works
- Monster: Doom
- Monster: Dragon Age
- Monster: Dragon Ball
- Monster: Dragon Quest
- Monster: Dungeons & Dragons
- Monster: EC Comics
- Monster: The Elder Scrolls
- Monster: Elfes et Nains
- Monster: Evil Dead
- Monster: The Expanse
- Monster: Fables
- Monster: Fairy Tail
- Monster: Fan Games
- Monster: Fanscription
- Monster: Fan Works Crossovers
- Monster: Far Cry
- Monster: FBI
- Monster Fear Street
- Monster: Final Fantasy
- Monster: Fist of the North Star
- Monster: Flash Gordon
- Monster: Fullmetal Alchemist
- Monster: Gamebooks
- Monster: GARO
- Monster: Ghostbusters
- Monster: Ghost Rider
- Monster: G.I. Joe
- Monster: Godzilla
- Monster: Goosebumps
- Monster: Green Arrow
- Monster: Grimm
- Monster: Grimm Fairy Tales
- Monster: Gundam
- Monster: Halloween
- Monster: The Hardy Boys
- Monster: Harry Potter
- Monster: Hellblazer
- Monster: Hellboy
- Monster: Hellraiser
- Monster: Herc-Xenaverse
- Monster: Highlander
- Monster: How to Train Your Dragon
- Monster Hunter NBC
- Monster: The Incredible Hulk
- Monster In Death
- Monster: Indiana Jones
- Monster: Inuyasha
- Monster: Jack Reacher
- Monster: James Bond
- Monster: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Monster: Jonah Hex
- Monster: Judge Dredd
- Monster: Kamen Rider
- Monster: Kim Newman
- Monster: King Kong
- Monster: Law & Order
- Monster: League of Legends
- Monster: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
- Monster: The Legend of Zelda
- Monster: The Legend of Zelda Fan Works
- Monster: Lupin III
- Monster Maciste
- Monster: Magic: The Gathering
- Monster: Marvel Animation
- Monster: Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Monster: Marvel Comics
- Monster: Marvel Films
- Monster: Marvel Literature
- Monster: Masters of the Universe
- Monster: Matthew Reilly
- Monster Max Steel
- Monster: Mazinger Z
- Monster: Mega Man
- Monster: Metal Gear
- Monster Metal Heroes
- Monster: Metroid
- Monster: Miami Vice
- Monster: Midsomer Murders
- Monster: Mighty Max
- Monster: Milestone Comics
- Monster: Moon Knight
- Monster: Morseverse
- Monster: Mortal Kombat
- Monster: Mortal Kombat Fan Works
- Monster The Mummy
- Monster: My Little Pony Fan Works
- Monster: Naruto
- Monster: Nasuverse
- Monster: A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Monster Night Huntress
- Monster: Ninja Gaiden
- Monster: One Piece
- Monster: O-Parts Hunter
- Monster: The Otherworld
- Monster: Planet of the Apes
- Monster: Pokémon
- Monster: Pokémon Fan Works
- Monster: Power Rangers
- Monster: Preacher
- Monster: Pretty Cure
- Monster: The Punisher
- Monster: Ratchet & Clank
- Monster: Red Sonja
- Monster: Redwall
- Monster: Resident Evil
- Monster: RoboCop
- Monster: RuneScape
- Monster: RWBY
- Monster: RWBY Fan Works
- Monster: Sailor Moon
- Monster: Scream
- Monster: Sherlock Holmes
- Monster: Shin Megami Tensei
- Monster: Silent Hill
- Monster: Silent Witness
- Monster Simon R Green
- Monster: Skulduggery Pleasant
- Monster: The Slender Man Mythos
- Monster: A Song of Ice and Fire
- Monster: A Song of Ice and Fire Fan Works
- Monster: Sonic the Hedgehog
- Monster: Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Works
- Monster: Spawn
- Monster: Spider-Man
- Monster: StarCraft
- Monster: Star Trek
- Monster: Star Wars
- Monster: Star Wars Fan Works
- Monster: Stephen King
- Monster: Street Fighter
- Monster: Suda51
- Monster: Superman
- Monster: Super Mario Bros. Fan Works
- Monster: Supernatural
- Monster: Super Sentai
- Monster: S.W.A.T. (2017)
- Monster: Sword Art Online
- Monster: Tales Series
- Monster: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Monster: Terminator
- Monster: Tolkien's Legendarium
- Monster: Tomb Raider
- Monster: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
- Monster: Top Cow Productions
- Monster: Transformers
- Monster: Ultra Series
- Monster: The Ultraverse
- Monster: Valiant Comics
- Monster: The Vampire Diaries Universe
- Monster Voltron
- Monster: Waking the Dead
- Monster Wallander
- Monster: Warcraft
- Monster: Warhammer
- Monster The Witcher
- Monster: Whoniverse
- Monster: The World of Darkness
- Monster: XIII
- Monster: The X-Files
- Monster: X-Men
- Monster: Ys
- Monster: Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Monster: Zorro
Add non-MB Buffy villains to your post here
EPs As I'm Writing Them
Notes for future EPs
Assists Falcone in a gang war against Penguin by bringing in Joker explosives and Apokolyptian weapons
Has the player blow up cop cars and patrolmen
Contaminates venom supplies on the street and has Bane's guys overdosed just to see what happens
Has the police in the funhouse both gassed and set on fire
Releases Clayface in the SCU, destroys their mainframe, has their exobytes stolen, then gasses their party
Goes after T.O. Morrow before going back to Brainiac
Captures an audience full of people, then executes a row of them for no reason before gassing all of them
In-game:
Standard Brainiac ritual of bottling cities then destroying the planets
Uses his exobytes to strip metahumans of their powers
Uses the Queen Bee's HIVE to recover his exobytes, who uses her pollen to create her own mind controlled army
Comes close to bottling Gotham city after capturing citizens to digitize them
Captures the data in Brother EYE for data on all the superpowers people
Creates a robotic copy of Joker that goes after the real one
Has the Metahuman hospital wing conducting illegal experiments with Doctor Psycho - including implanting them with a chip that makes them easier to capture
Is willing to leave his scientists to HIVE if they fail him
Helps out with Gorilla Grodd's entire plan, including vaporizing STAR Labs employees and destroying their generators, forcefully devolving humans into gorillas, and ultimately taking out both Flashes
Helps Sinestro take on the Green Lanterns, including letting him think the Lanterns are the ones sabotaging his rings and having the protagonist outright kill many of them
Gathers information on Superheroes through Brother Eye, including killing several OMAC victimsReleases Sinestro from prison, including having the protagonist blow up cars and terrorize civilians to charge up their rings
Steals dozens of souls from the Gotham University
Sabotages the resurrection spell for Isis to steal Black Adam's power - it makes the protagonist have to kill her again
Jane connects Victoria to Lucien and goes to him, then escapes Hell with Alex
Jane drags Maria to the woods, finds Alex's phone, takes down the kelpie by bombarding it with psychic energy
Finds Alex, who tracks Clara's phone to find the Lodge
Jane taunts the Wolf into letting her inside, then later comes up with the "plan" to sell Lucien out on the spot
Helps take the Wolf down and helps incriminate and arrest Marcus, having put together the pieces herself
Second book:
Jane forces her mother to testify against Marcus, sending her to witness protection
Jane saves Alice's life and kills the Griffon
Jane sees a vision of the future then quickly saves Lucien's life - Lucien quickly has her taken down and breaks the weapon, then Jane bombards her with visions of Hell
Jane and Alex banish a specter from Jones' hotel room - Jane outright says the best part of keeping Clara alive was because she's useful
Jane tells Robyn about her mother, and keeps to her theory about Robyn's father even when Robyn disagrees - but she manages to persuade her against killing her mother
Jane proves knowledgeable about death magic and how spirits "age", then lets Yolanda talk to her son to get her to help and lies about which religions are correct with a Star Wars quote
Jane calls down a storm as the battle with the Seven breaks out
Jane kills the Visigoth when it puts its guard down
Jane exercises Judith and contemplates killing David to save Yolanda
Jane disarms Andy Taylor - says she'll pistol whip him, then kills Dave the unicorn
Jane quickly adapts to the second test, changing the water around her to magic and becomes the god of the area
Jane takes Robyn's life and feelings and forces them into the Dryad
Jane stalls Jones then attacks after Robyn distracts him and breaks the Devil Gun
Jane brutally kills Marcus with a voodoo doll, taking her time exploding his heart
Third book:
Jane realizes the Stranger is bad just before he shoots Lucien - she asks Emma to shoot through her
Jane manages to defeat the stranger again
Jane ends up stabbed and in hell, then just snarks about having a pitchfork and attacks Phillip
Jane escapes from the boggart by stabbing it in the eye with her heel, then fights Shears despite the power disparity
Escapes from the slaugh nurses who almost cremate her before Lucien guns them down
Jane catches Alice and Preacher talking about restoring their master
Jane gets attacked and stabbed by Jesse, but she powers through and stabs her back, then restrains her with force and exercises her
Jane stabs Preacher during the confrontation, taking advantage of William's distraction, and manages to shoot her in the resulting confrontation - she proves willing to kill the Boogeyman's host to stop it
Jane gets desperate enough to heal Janet that she prays to Raguel for healing
Jane then manages to stall when Janet makes her move too early and exercises Alex while he fights from the inside - she then proceeds to actually dodge bullets
She stands up to Phillip right up to the bitter end no matter what he promises her, then smacks him with the book of Midnight and tells everyone to either attack or run away.
It's revealed that Jane sucks as a shaman so much because Kim Su was sabotaging her
Jane and Lucien leave Bright Falls, with Jeanine becoming Shaman
Short story:
Jane nonchalantly shoots Roland and Charlesmagne, then fights Roland one-on-one
Alex recruits Jane on the spot
Alex and Jane escape Hell
Alex tracks Clara's phone to find the Lodge
Few days later, Alex already knows about Judy's crimes and hides them from Lucien, then sends them to Kim Su
They take the Red Wolf down together
They coordinate to incriminate and arrest Marcus
Second book:
Alex sends hunters after Jane and Emma, then appears on the crime scene himself
Alex lies to Jones' face about not having the Merlin Gun
Alex resists Robyn's charm and sends her to Jane
Alex sends the hunters to Lucien to kill Jones and his cult - Lucien enchants everyone to stop the fight
Alex gets arrested for Jones' murder
It's revealed that Alex sends Yolanda and Larry after supernaturals that the FBI won't touch
Alex lets Clara believe he killed Jones and fixes Jane's rune
Alex encouraged Lucien's vengeance mission and killed supernaturals for years - no innocents, but people who didn't have to die
Alex rejects David's help while Jane informs him of her vision of his death
Jane and Alex banish a specter from Jones' hotel room
Alex apparently made a deal with the personification of America for protection
Alex recovers from his anger at Jane fast and calls Lucien to battle
Alex leads the group and realizes that the Seven are coming for Robin, then reveals that he and Lucien got Robyn's son to safety
Alex engages the Visigoth with his powers
Alex kills the other dragon with his magic
Alex sacrifices Steve Caldwell to save Yolanda, then guides Robyn and Jane into the Grove while Lucien guards it
Alex reveals that Andy's the Guardian of the Grove then heals him
Alex lies that Dave wasn't Robyn's biological father
Alex reveals he knew Phillip is actually alive and intends to beat Jones until he finds out where, then resists the Dryad's charm
Alex saves Kim Su as Jane fights Jones
Third book:
Alex and Lucien go on the warpath against Phillip off page, killing many of their agents and labeling him an enemy of the state
Lucien and Alex stay behind to fulfill Lucien's blood oath while Jane retreats
It's revealed that Alex imprisoned Phillip in Darkwater Lake
Alex is training Janet in sorcery to keep her away from Phillip - he sealed the book with his spirit away by stealing the true name of reality from Archangel Gabriel - he also already knew Samantha was alive
Lucien not only has his allies watch the cast and crew, but has his allies watch each other to cover his bases - he gives Jane a charmed amulet so she can sleep
Alex and Lucien team up to send Phillip to Hell
Lucien pulls his "recordings are porn" thing, Alex arrives not long after
Lucien helps gets Alex and Jane out of Hell, then arrives in the forest to help fight the Wolf
Lucien briefly attacks them on the Red Wolf's urging, but resists and is talked down
They take the Red Wolf down together
They coordinate to incriminate and arrest Marcus
Second book:
Lucien harvests Hell's energies for his nightclub, turning it into a den of consequence-free vice
Lucien quickly has Preacher taken down and breaks the weapon
Lucien reveals that he essentially rebuilt the town from the ground up, then shoots Anne's ear out and bonds her with her own chains to bargain with Clara
Lucien arrives in the forest with Gerald, having fudged the truth to get him there, enchanted to protect him from the sun
Lucien transforms and engages his fellow dragon
Lucien protects Judith and David from Jones' spirit
Third book:
Alex and Lucien go on the warpath against Phillip off page, killing many of their agents and labeling him an enemy of the state
Lucien comes up with a plan to make a movie to cover up for money laundering to pay off the vampires and recruits Jane for security
He got a restaurant by breaking the previous owner's hands - he maintains he had it coming
Lucien was wearing enchanted Kevlar and realizes the attacker was a slaugh (nightmare fae)
Lucien resets his arm like a champ
Lucien and Alex stay behind to fulfill Lucien's blood oath while Jane retreats
They go ahead with the movie plan, even after Lucien straight up says he'll kill Judy and hires Arthur Morgan as director
Lucien reveals he went to the Vampire Nation to cover Alice's debts
Lucien puts together that the unknown killer has access to his script and is a fan of Halloween, but shoots down Arthur due to pragmatism and is filming at the lake because it's easily defensible
Lucien not only has his allies watch the cast and crew, but has his allies watch each other to cover his bases - he gives Jane a charmed amulet so she can sleep
Lucien has been resisting Preacher's love spells
Lucien immediately deduces what happened with Alice and Preacher and reveals he survived a zombie attack
He then decides to go on the offensive to kill both Phillip and the evil god at once
Lucien reveals he saw through Preacher and just didn't know what to do, but is going to New Detroit to take more power
Lucien brushes off Janet's confession of her involvement because they need to stick to the plan - then walks through Hell to Alex
He is then not surprised when Janet is revealed to be Samantha, only to get shot.
Alex and Lucien team up to send Phillip to Hell
Encouraged Alex's vengeance fueled hunting spree, leading to his career as a hunter and Lucien's life of crime
Keeps Jane informed throughout their mission to kill Dr. Jones, including of his forces
Approves of Jane's use of Hell memories to fight Preacher
Encourages Jane to kill Marcus, but tells Jane to hold off on the Dryad
Manipulates Emma into picking it up to kill the Stranger
Leaves to go fight on behalf of Heaven in an upcoming battle, giving Jane some final encouragement before leaving.
He later answers Jane's prayers to heal Janet, expressing disappointment for using the Hell gun
When he comes back, he reveals that Bloody Mary's plans gave her a pyrrhic victory
Nightmare on Elk Street
Appears as Lucien's prime accountant, unrepentant of the fact that he decides who is guilty and who is not
Reveals he knows about the deal between Phillip and the Boogeyman and intends to hunt down the doppelgangers
Kills Alice O'Henry for planning to kill the cast and crew, but gets shot by Preacher
Distracts Preacher for Jane to stab her, then grapples with the Boogeyman
Who is Rupert Giles? What does he do?
Is he Magnificent?
This guy is easily the smartest character in the entire show and maybe even the entire franchise.
Is he a Bastard?
This is perhaps the first character where is he a Bastard at all is the question since he’s one of the show’s heroes, but he’s definitely got the required ruthlessness to qualify. In no particular order, he:
Beats the hell out of a physically harmless noncombatant, Ethan Rayne, in order to make him reverse his spell
Lets the group think Angelus has returned in order to suss out Faith
Suffocates Ben, a Tragic Villain whose only crime was wanting to get away from Glory, while he’s already been rendered harmless, in order to take Glory with him
Uses Faith as an assassin against a rogue Slayer
Orchestrates an attempt to kill Spike after he’s already gotten his soul back and wants to redeem himself
Puts the entire world in danger in order to defeat Dark Willow
Tortures one of Glory’s mooks, albeit with a discretion shot, in order to make him talk. Keep in mind that all of them are Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains
Threatens to burn down a benevolent demon’s workplace in order to make him cooperate
Is the only one willing to sacrifice Dawn if it means saving the world on Glory’s Big Day
So yes, he is most definitely on the side of good, but he has more than enough ruthlessness to qualify, especially with his Dark Willow gambit.
Any mitigating factors?
So here’s the thing - at the beginning of his run, Giles is more than useless. He’s a British stick in the mud who, while trying his best, tends to get knocked unconscious more than he helps. However, if there were a single character who defines the idea of growing into this over time, it is Rupert Giles.
Final verdict?
An absolute yes from me - what about you?
Has Dana following Johnny after he wakes from his coma, using him to spread the faith in a higher power
Uses Dana to spread recruitment for the Faith Heritage Alliance
Covered up Vera's death to protect her legacy
Releases the protagonist from Brainiac's captivity, then helps them escape the ship
Serves as Mission Control for the villains, including during missions where he clearly realizes the flaws in the plan
Guides the protagonist through Intergang, including taking out cameras and ultimately getting the Crime Bible
Helps decrypt the Batman-level Brother Eye logs to use the info in them against Oracle
Manages to get you to one of Brainiac's hideouts, using Brainiac's codes against him
Manages to circumvent the Monitor and send a robot to fight the Batman Who Laughs
Writeups
Sandboxes I'm Currently Working On
- Magnificent Bastard Anime And Manga
- Magnificent Bastard Comic Books
- Magnificent Bastard Fan Works
- Magnificent Bastard Animated Films
- Magnificent Bastard Live Action Films
- Magnificent Bastard Literature
- Magnificent Bastard Live Action TV
- Magnificent Bastard Music
- Magnificent Bastard Tabletop Games
- Magnificent Bastard Video Games
- Magnificent Bastard Visual Novels
- Magnificent Bastard Western Animation
- Magnificent Bastard Other Media
- Magnificent Bastard Castlevania
- Magnificent Bastard DC Universe
- Magnificent Bastard Digimon
- Magnificent Bastard Disney
- Magnificent Bastard Dungeons And Dragons
- Magnificent Bastard Final Fantasy
- Magnificent Bastard Fire Emblem
- Magnificent Bastard Fullmetal Alchemist
- Magnificent Bastard GI Joe
- Magnificent Bastard Gundam
- Magnificent Bastard Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure
- Magnificent Bastard Masters Of The Universe
- Magnificent Bastard Marvel Comics
- Magnificent Bastard Marvel Animation
- Magnificent Bastard Nasuverse
- Magnificent Bastard The Neverkind Saga
- Magnificent Bastard The New Order Last Days Of Europe
- Magnificent Bastard Pokemon
- Magnificent Bastard Shin Megami Tensei
- Magnificent Bastard Sonic The Hedgehog
- Magnificent Bastard Star Trek
- Magnificent Bastard The Venture Bros
- Magnificent Bastard Whoniverse
- Magnificent Bastard Yu Gi Oh
A ray of hope is a Lost fanfic written by baroquedreamss. In it, the author adds three original characters to the story: Melissa Sharpe, Natália, and Bruna, a trio of thieves who were once investigating the mythical story of the Island only to end up crashing on it on Oceanic Flight 815. After largely spending their time minding their own business within the group, they get irrevocably entangled in the conflict with the Others when Melissa starts making friends with Henry Gale, the fake identity of Benjamin Linus.
The story can be read here at Archive of Our Own.
This work contains examples of:
- Adaptational Context Change: In the show, the apparition of Christian that appears in Jacob's cabin is never explained, even after the reveal that the Man in Black can take the form of dead people. Here, it's confirmed to be the MIB manipulating Locke into moving the Island in order to put the candidates in danger.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the show, while Ben killing Keamy also killed everyone on the Freighter, he was still portrayed very sympathetically, as he was blinded by rage over his daughter's death. Here, Alex survived the attack, so we get a very clear glimpse of his thought process as he knowingly condemns everyone on the Freighter to death as long as he can guess that Melissa isn't on it.
- Armor-Piercing Question: After Ben and Melissa clear the air regarding their mutual stabbings and why Ben thought he was betraying her, she asks him a question that finally makes him actually think about himself: though she concedes that this incident was an accident, will he still feel just as jealous and angry if she actually hears Jacob's voice?
- Contrived Coincidence: When Melissa and Ben are trapped in a tree during a boar attack, the boar keeping them there stays long enough for them to discuss their past and reconcile their relationship. The moment that they work everything out, the boar immediately leaves, with the narration noting that it's almost like the Island wanted them to reconcile.
- Foreshadowing: When Ben kills Keamy, the narration mentions that out of Melissa, Nat, and Bruna, only two of them made it onto the helicopter. Two chapters later, we learn that Nat stayed behind for what she thought would be a brief period, only for the Island to move before the helicopter got back.
- Green-Eyed Monster: After a lifetime of being Jacob's puppet and having to sacrifice everything, Ben gets insanely jealous at even the implication that he's showing favoritism to anyone other than him. Even the mere thought that he was reaching out to Melissa was enough to make him forsake his feelings for her and hold a gun on her.
- Spanner in the Works: The Man in Black intends for Locke to move the Island, as Locke is the easiest to manipulate out of the group and moving the Island would endanger the candidates. Unfortunately for him, Ben interprets the instruction to mean that he needs to move it, which leaves Locke on the Island to eventually stabilize it before any more candidates can die.
- What You Are in the Dark: After escaping the Island, Ben has the perfect chance to kill Gabriel guilt-free, since he's about to be targeted in a drive-by and all he has to do is just not do anything. However, he can't bring himself to let Melissa be hurt again and saves his life.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: As always, the Man in Black is an expert at adapting his plans on the spot. In particular, when Melissa goes to enter the cabin with Locke (which would expose "Jacob" as an imposter), he quickly takes his smoke form, drags Nat away so that Ben and Melissa chase after her, then drops her in the jungle so he can quickly head back to the cabin and take Christian's form.