About me
I'm pretty much a Death Troper hanging out in the the Death Seeker,Omnicidal Maniac and Who Wants to Live Forever? sections and sometimes the Nietzsche Wannabe. I'm also a philanthropic antinatalist.
Contributions:
Omnicidal Maniac
- Jenny Fractal from the Wildstorm universe. She is the twin sister of The Authority's Jenny Quantum, kidnapped at birth by the Chinese government. She was put in an assassin program where she was forced to watch humanity's evil deeds: rape, murder, genocide, etc... She has the power to fracture/alter reality and wants to use the Earth as the center of a black hole to implode and collapse the entire multiverse. Her reasons for doing this: "It's the only way to save them".
- Winter of Stormwatch (also from the Wildstorm universe) becomes this after he flew an Alien-infested Skywatch space station into the sun to save the world. Being an energy absorber, Winter became one with the sun. Trapped by eternal agony he lures out The Authority so they can finally put an end to his life; when it's deemed impossible to kill him without destroying the sun and ending the world, he became enraged. Disgusted by humanity's cruelty, he yells "Your world does not deserve to live" and lashes out. He's eventually stopped by using the Carrier's technology to seal baby universes and was condemned to burn for billions of years. Later on he's released by the new Doctor and revived in his previous normal state. In the latest Stormwatch issues it was revealed he still holds some of the sun's power.
- "The Man Without Hope"(MWH) from the Wildstorm Universe. He comes from the future and with his superior technology he's a match for The Authority. The future is grim, blank and full of suffering and he wants to prevent it from happening by ending existence all together. Swift receives knowledge from the mythical "gods" about the dark future and how to prevent it. She mentions how the MWH with all his technology couldn't figure out the problem and fix it. The MWH commits suicide when his plan is ruined by The Authority and a new unknown time line is birthed yet he is still convinced that everyone is screwed. The issue ends with the words "beginning of the end" hinting that the MWH was probably talking about human nature being the problem seeing it's the central theme of the graphic novel, "human on the inside".
- Ujo Dasa is a dark sorcerer from the Frazettaverse. He planned to free the Oblivion God "Mirahan" by sacrificing a half-breed human/demon and begin the end of everything. When confronted by his former teacher Dreovid, he says it's better to have "cool darkness than searing light". In the end it was revealed that Ujo was the half-breed and son of Mirahan. The Oblivion God swapped his throne of netherhell with Ujo and we watch him rest in peace.
- John "Grimjack" Gaunt walks away from Heaven to save his friends. The consequences were that he was denied any afterlife and was doomed to be reborn remembering his memories for all eternity. His soul was bound to the pan dimensional city known as Cynosure. Cynosure was build to harvest the energies of the multiverse to an entombed supreme being called Dis (firstborn of the multiverse) until it was ready to repeat the birthing process in an unending cycle. Grimjack's latest incarnation travels back in time to warn himself of the doom and to break it he has to end the multiverse by destroying Cynosure. Future Grimjack succeeds in manipulating present John in freeing the Supreme being from his sleep. In Grimjack's second incarnation we see the Supreme being walking around in mortal form giving the demons the chance to end his life and let the multiverse die in entropy. They fail. A huge hint that the multiverse might end up destroyed can be seen in Grimjack's supposedly real father, his uncle Jack. He is a Fey and can look into the future. He describes to a young grimjack the complete dissolution of the multiverse, saying there will be "nothing" after that and also that Grimjack's death would be the most interesting of all. We never see if future Grimjack succeeds because the series ended with the death of the second incarnation.
- Maelstrom from the Marvel universe. He's the champion of Oblivion and constantly schemes to destroy everything.
- Amodeus Q. Termineus from the Marvel universe sought the shattered fragments of the Nexus of all Realities. With them in possession he could destroy the Multiverse.
- The Cult of Entropy seeks to speed up the destruction of the Marvel Universe/Multiverse.
- The Mad Angel Apolyon from the Chaos!Multiverse stole secret knowledge from God and uncovered the truth that nothing really matters. Lucifer fearing this truth imprisoned and tortured Apolyon for a thousand years. After he was released God confided in him that for Heaven to exist, there must be a Hell. Apolyon betrays God and wants to destroy all of creation beginning with Hell. Without its counterpart, Heaven will fall and in turn so will God. In the end as Apolyon said, there will be nothing!
- Talita from Terror,Inc was trapped between life and death in a void of blackness for 800 years. She went completely mad and came to love the Void. After she was resurrected she feared her commitment to the Void: "I feel...a strength coursing through me...yes...yes..I worried i might lose faith as the pain left me. I feel joy,strength,lust all raging through me...ALL PALE BEFORE THE EMPTINESS". Before she ends the world she wants to taste life followed by nothing.
- Aban, a plague carrying immortal young boy wants to die but can't so in his frustration he wants to end the world hoping it would kill him. He refers to himself as a true nihilist and enjoys killing.
- The Reverend Jeremiah Hatch from the DCU. A brilliant student but mentally unstable he was dismissed from seminary and flunked out. He went to Vietnam pretending to be a chaplain. The ugliness of the war he witnessed broke him and he started hearing a malicious voice. Jeremiah realized that life is a nightmare from which there is no awakening and he threw away his cross followed by butchering both allies and enemies alike. His new mission is to serve the Almighty by serving his enemy:"To hasten the corruption,to nurture the foulness until the Almighty has no choice but to rain down fire and brimstone and end the ugliness,the pain, the suffering". His corruption of the Mayor of Hub City was to get him into the White House and start a War.
- Fenris is assisted in his endaveour to end all of creation by the gods Abonsam and Bet Jo'gie. Abonsam infused with the essence of Fenris willingly gave his life to perform his greatest trick and ultimately dooming Yggdrasil. Bet fails in her attempt to seduce Charlie and dies by his hands.
- The Barrowjane Conspirators to destroy Creation,dethrone God and punish him included Lilith, Sandalphon, The Silk Man and Berim from the Jin En Mok. All had their own reasons for participating: Lilith wanted vengeance against God and Heaven for casting her out of Eden, Sandalphon wins the victory that was denied to Lucifer, The Silk Man wants his own universe and when creation ends the Jin En Mok will finally be reborn as themselves.
- Master Darque from the new Valiant Universe. After destroying countless worlds he is coming for Earth. He wants to use the souls in Deadside to break down the barriers between worlds and kill every living being. Using all the souls to become a God: "Every creature on this world raises its head against a background of infinite carnage and smiles at the sun and declares the world good. We are all monsters. Because the Universe we live in is monstrous. But we are blind to it. We do not see the endless horror that underpins our lives. Because God is a sadist. The perversity of this reality is undeniable proof of both his existence and his malice. And it is our duty to become his superior. I will find him. I will challenge him. I will free us. I will make him pay for what he has done. I will break the wheel. I will end all suffering. And you would stop this?". Darque only wants Godhood so he can erase all of existence and bring blessed Oblivion to everything, himself included.
- Deadside in the old Valiant Universe was a terrible place where all souls eventually come no matter how they lived be it good or evil.There is no Heaven nor Hell. Billions upon billions of souls trapped for all eternity screaming in madness. In the new Valiant Universe it seems to be toned down a bit but it's still a terrible place where lost souls find no peace. Darque also comments on the nature of souls and its curse: "Even the smallest of them. There is something in all of use that persists beyond death. You would call this a soul. The essence of a thing that is indestructible. Something that survives. Something that fears. Something that suffers. This is cruelty. This is madness. To know that your suffering will never end. Because that is the point of the soul. Suffering without limit. Without Surcease."
- Pain, the servant of Desire schemed to end the world/reality/time by manipulating Adam Case. He was not alone as he was backed by a group of mythological powers:
- Coatlicue, the Aztec earth mother goddess suffers immensely because of the pollution of the earth. The only way to stop the poison coursing through her veins is to destroy the world and she would gladly give her life for that purpose.
- Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of night and confusion,betrayal,divination,etc...grew tired of life and decided to team up with Pain to obtain his one way to ticket to that "permanent vacation". He changes his mind at the end of the series when he has found fun in screwing with people on "a personal level". His lover "Leatherette" follows suit and betrays Pain .
- Leatherette, a demon who works directly under Pain and shares Tezcatlipoca's reason for ending the world. The two eventually find purpose in raising hell on earth and betray Pain.
- Tantalus was cursed by having immense desire and never be able to fulfill it. He was betrayed at the last battle and found momentary peace at the hands of Enna when he shot him up with heroin.
- Enna, an old Babylonian Plague God has adapted to the modern times and delivers plagues of pharmecuetical origin like heroin. Only when he has dipped into his own pharmacuetical supply does he refuse to help Pain end time. His new plan is to destroy Pain but is stopped by Desire herself.
- Yuki-Onna and Hephaestus.
Death Seeker
- Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse from Scalped has an unconscious death wish. He constantly throws himself in dangerous gunfights with psychopaths and always alone. It's hinted that he suffers from ptsd (child abuse, fighting in Kosovo and witnessing a massacre), suicidal behaviour (flashback to a young Dashiell cry and put a gun to his temple, second time he does the same thing when he could've prevented the murder of a young boy) and from deep seated anger (his fists are bruised most of the time and we see him slamming his fists against his own truck). When Dash is confronted by his father, the conversation between them pretty much confirms all of this and more importantly his death wish.
- Kaine, the imperfect clone of Spider-Man. He's not the typical death seeker as he sometimes changes his mind or even runs from a fatal fight. In the grim hunt back stories it's revealed he's too much of a coward to commit suicide yet when he has a pre-cog vision about his own death at the hands of Kraven the Hunter he still challenges him.He finally got what he wanted by duping the Kravinoff hunters into thinking he was Spider-Man. They sacrificed him to revive Kraven the hunter. Afterwards Kaine is resurrected with tarantula features, and is ultimately reborn possessing Spider-Man's enhanced powers from Avengers Disassembled. (NOTE: LAST PART WAS EDITED BY OTHERS AS THE CHARACTER KAINE EVOLVED)
- Deadpool wants to die. Death is in love with him and vice versa, so jealous Thanos cursed him with eternal life. In the Age of Stryfe, an alternate future timeline Deadpool is still alive because of the curse and not his healing factor. The voices in Deadpool confirm his deathwish among other things :the only reason he desperately wants to be accepted is so his friends will care and put him out of his misery. If that doesn't work out he antagonizes them so they can extract their revenge on him. The later "Dead" storyline finally gives this to him via Spider-Man villain Tombstone. However, it doesn't stick - he comes back, but he loses his healing factor, but his body is totally healed and he's regained his true face. More importantly, he doesn't want to die anymore. (NOTE: LAST PART WAS EDITED BY OTHERS AS DEADPOOL DOES NOT WANT TO DIE ANYMORE).
- Kraven the Hunter's main reason for hunting was to escape the harshness of life:"in the midst of pursuit..or a kill...I do not exist..all the petty pain of living falls away..all unrealized desires...until only the hunt is left". In the end he killed himself with a rifle in his mouth but he was resurrected years later against his wishes by the remaining kravinoff members. The ceremony of resurrection was corrupted so Kraven cannot die. Only the antithesis of a hunter (the spider) can kill him, so he hunts down spiders. Looking for a way to die with honor he went after Spider-man but he refused to kill him.
- God in the Fallen Angel series. The Alpha is ready for the Omega, complete oblivion. He's being denied the ultimate rest because people keep praying to him. Enraged he punishes mankind with all kind of disasters so they will finally realise that their god does not care and so he can finally sink into the sweet surrender of nothingness. He refrains from destroying the human race entirely because he doesn't want to admit that his creation was an utter failure. If the worship eventually doesn't stop, he is not above omnicide so he can finally get some peace and quiet.
Who Wants To Live Forever
Nietzsche Wannabe/Straw Nihilist
- TAO from the Wildstorm Universe. As mentioned in Ed Brubaker's Sleeper: "The Tactical Augmented Organism (TAO) looked at life and saw Chaos and Order. Humanity's denial of Chaos appalled him. So he would tear it all down and fill the world with chaos,if only to watch mankind cling to their illusions as they burned around them."
- Grimjack's Uncle Jack. As a Fey he can see into the future and knows how he will die. Not only that it's hinted he has observed the ending of the entire Multiverse. A young grimjack asks why he doesn't change anything if he knows so much. He responds by saying that "nothing we do matters, not in the long run.Nothing we achieve or destroy matters. Love,friendship, family, honor, wisdom, knowledge,power,— none of it really matters, because none of it lasts. It's all mortal, every endeavor,every accomplishment. Even our Gods become food for worms. Some day even the worms will end, and there shall be nothing". It explains why he's still living with his brother's family mooching off and hardly working or doing anything for that matter. He also drinks alot to forget how he will die. Eventually his older brother finds out he slept with his first wife and smashes his face repeatedly on the stone fireplace, one eye popping out, his jaw splitting open falling on the floor.
Driven To Suicide
- Minuteman Jack "The Monster" Daw from 100 Bullets. He's addicted to self destructive tendencies: alcohol, heroin, and violence. He makes remarks about wanting to die yet he teases death with the needle or the gun as Graves puts it. The gun being a metaphor for violence. Jack got clean but he hasn't really changed since he keeps seeking the kick (violence) that diverts him from facing his pain. There is a moment where he avoids violence and seems to be getting better. Jack "relapses" (violence); kills a guard by squeezing his head with his foot followed by challenging candidate-minuteman Crete. Jack dies fighting crete when alligators devour them both. It shows us that he stayed married to his self destructive nature until the end.
- Minuteman Milo "The Bastard" Garret. He earned that nickname by being the most ruthless of the minutemen. In sleeper mode he worked as a private detective and when he was reactivated he didn't like who he was. Disguised in bandages he commits
Fighting With Chucks
- Dashiel "Dash" Bad Horse from Scalped uses nunchaku to beat up the hoods on the Rez.
