History YMMV / AlexRider

** ''Scorpia'': Julia Rothman is an executive board member of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Scorpia]]. Under orders from a client to spoil the special relationship between America and Britain, Rothman [[WouldHurtAChild infects every schoolchild]] in London with nanites containing cyanide, planning to make claims that she knows can't be satisfied and make a less extreme demand to America with the same consequence knowing that they will meet them after that. To demonstrate the weapon and show that she is not bluffing, Rothman kills a completely separate group of high school football players without giving them a chance to be saved. She also manipulates Alex into joining Scorpia by getting him to think his father worked for them and was killed by [=MI6=] when it was the other way around. Rothman is also an [[BadBoss awful boss]] who will frequently murder her own men [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] and kills a colleague via venomous scorpions when he objects to her plan. When confronted by Alex, Rothman shrugs off the thousands of deaths that will occur, [[{{Greed}} all for the sake of money]].

Examples for the film go [[YMMV/{{Stormbreaker}} here.]]

!!YMMV Tropes for the ''Literature/AlexRider'' books:

!!YMMV Tropes for the ''Series/AlexRider'' TV series:
* CompleteMonster (Season 1): [[MadScientist Dr. Hugo Greif]] was in the past a research scientist in the field of cloning, before vanishing and showing up many years later. Greif admired several dictators, especially UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, and would found the Point Blanc academy with the intention of taking over the entire world. To do so, Greif would market his academy as a place for troubled teens, only grabbing the children of rich influential industrialists and replacing them with clones of himself surgically altered to look like the teens, killing the parents so they could never discover the swap. Greif locked the teens inside a basement in the academy and had them tortured for information that the clones could use, with many of them [[DrivenToMadness going insane]] as a result, with Greif planning to kill all of the teens once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful to him]]. [[EvilMalthusian Greif]]'s final plan was to wipe out 99% of the entire human population [[TheSocialDarwinist so only the strong could survive]] to [[EvilMalthusian curb overpopulation]] and create a "better" world for him to rule over.
* EvilIsCool: [[EnsembleDarkhorse Yassen Gregorivich]] has an expanded role in the adaptation of Point Blanc in the first season, and Thomas Levin delivers a highlight performance with his own subplot throughout the season. Being a scarily competent {{pragmatic|Villainy}} assassin with serious VillainRespect for the Riders, [[spoiler:being Scorpia's primary representative in their EarlyBirdCameo, and saving Alex's life by shooting his duplicate]] will do that.
* ParanoiaFuel:
** Ian Rider's death. From Alex's point of view, his only living relative has just suddenly died, and he's clearly being lied to about how it happened. When he investigates, he finds that his uncle has been lying to him all his life.
** [[spoiler:The Greif clones, on soooo many fronts.]]
*** So you send your rebellious son to a special boarding school to straighten him out. Now he's back, but he seems... different. Well, that's what you wanted, right? His tastes are different. Well, tastes change, don't they? He's perfectly cordial and polite, but he speaks to you like a stranger. It's nothing you can explain, even to yourself, but he ''seems'' like a stranger.
*** [[spoiler: After Alex survives the explosion that kills Eva Stellenbosch, he's rescued and taken home, but is acting strangely; he's cold and distant towards Jack and Tom. Probably PTSD, right? Cut to the ruins of Point Blanc, where another Alex emerges from the rubble. Wait... did they rescue the right Alex?!]]
*** [[spoiler: The first half of the final episode, where the duplicate is working to destroy Alex's life. He's wandering through Alex's house, wearing his clothes, talking to his loved ones who have no idea who he is. He easily lures Tom away somewhere to attack him and take him hostage.]]
* WinBackTheCrowd: After the failure of the 2006 movie, the 2020 TV series is praised by reviewers and book fans for being a faithful take on the novels and making them feel updated with the DarkerAndEdgier tone. Even the author himself much preferred the TV series.

** Razim crosses the line when he [[spoiler:kills Jack Starbright]] and forces Alex to watch. This might perhaps be the moment where Julius crosses the line too, as he's the one pulling the trigger on Razim's orders and gleefully rubbing it in.

* CompleteMonster (Season 1): [[MadScientist Dr. Hugo Greif]] was in the past a research scientist in the field of cloning, before vanishing and showing up many years later. Greif admired several dictators, especially UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, and would found the Point Blanc academy with the intention of taking over the entire world. To do so, Greif would market his academy as a place for troubled teens, only grabbing the children of rich influential industrialists and replacing them with clones of himself surgically altered to look like the teens, killing the parents so they could never discover the swap. Greif locked the teens inside a basement in the academy and had them tortured for information that the clones could use, with many of them [[DrivenToMadness going insane]] as a result, with Greif planning to kill all of the teens once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful to him]]. Greif's final plan was to wipe out 99% of the entire human population [[TheSocialDarwinist so only the strong could survive]] to [[EvilMalthusian curb overpopulation]] and create a "better" world for him to rule over.

* CompleteMonster (Season 1): [[MadScientist Dr. Hugo Greif]] was in the past a research scientist in the field of cloning, before vanishing and showing up many years later. Greif admired several dictators, especially UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, and would found the Point Blanc academy with the intention of taking over the entire world. To do so, Greif would market his academy as a place for troubled teens, only grabbing the children of rich influential industrialists and replacing them with clones of himself surgically altered to look like the teens, killing the parents so they could never discover the swap. Greif locked the teens inside a basement in the academy and had them tortured for information that the clones could use, with many of them [[DrivenToMadness going insane]] as a result, with Greif planning to kill all of the teens once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful to him]]. Greif's final plan was to wipe out 99% of the entire human population [[TheSocialDarwinist so only the strong could survive]] to curb overpopulation and create a better world for him to rule over.

** ''Scorpia'': Julia Rothman is an executive board member of [[Characters/AlexRiderScorpia Scorpia]]. Under orders from a client to spoil the special relationship between America and Britain, Rothman [[WouldHurtAChild infects every schoolchild]] in London with nanites containing cyanide, planning to make claims that she knows can't be satisfied and make a less extreme demand to America with the same consequence knowing that they will meet them after that. To demonstrate the weapon and show that she is not bluffing, Rothman kills a completely separate group of high school football players without giving them a chance to be saved. She also manipulates Alex into joining Scorpia by getting him to think his father worked for them and was killed by [=MI6=] when it was the other way around. Rothman is also an [[BadBoss awful boss]] who will frequently murder her own men [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] and kills a colleague via venomous scorpions when he objects to her plan. When confronted by Alex, Rothman shrugs off the thousands of deaths that will occur, [[{{Greed}} all for the sake of money]].

** "[[ProfessionalKiller Yassen Gregorovich]]", real name Yasha, is a ruthless and efficient [[Characters/AlexRiderScorpia SCORPIA]]-affiliated assassin. After escaping the destruction of his home village, he uses his wits to survive before being rescued by a SCORPIA assassin. During his training, he develops a friendship with an undercover John Rider, who encourages him to leave the organization. After finding out that Rider is an [=MI6=] agent, he decides to remain with SCORPIA, his first target being the man responsible for the destruction of his hometown. In the present day, despite his willingness to work alongside villains such as Herod Sayle and Damian Cray, he proves to have a [[NobleDemon moral code]], as he refuses to directly [[WouldntHurtAChild kill children]]. He shows a particular soft spot towards John's son Alex, telling him that he shouldn't be a spy and that he should be living like a normal 14-year-old.

* ValuesDissonance: Alex, on the whole, is a very well-adjusted child, but the narration has suggested that he seems to view [[CloningBlues clones]] as "freaks" and "creatures".

** ''Scorpia Rising'': [[TheChessmaster Abdul-Aziz Al-Rahim]], better known as just [[KnightOfCerebus Razim]], is another agent of Scorpia, and is affiliated with them purely to slake his sadistic curiosities. A cold, unfeeling sociopath since his [[KidsAreCruel history of violence in his youth]], Razim sold out his own parents and sister to UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein before joining Scorpia. Come his involvement in Operation Horseman, Razim plans to blackmail Britain into handing over the Elgin Marbles, or else defame the country by revealing the contents of the Horseman file, ultimately to assassinate the Prime Minister of England and throw the country into a war. Fascinated by pain, Razim routinely tortures countless innocents to death in perverse "[[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]]", in an attempt to create a measurement for pain, initially claiming it for the sake of science but likely simply to amuse himself more than anything. When Razim captures Alex, Razim forces him to watch his mentor and guardian Jack Starbright blown up--in truth handing her off to the Grimaldi twins but keeping the emotional stab to Alex all the same, while casually adding the boy's emotional pain was so great, he may have to create a second measurement. From there on, Razim tries to have the US Secretary of State assassinated, framing Alex so that he'll be shot dead. Lacking the scale of previous antagonists but trumping all of them in sheer, frightening sadism, Razim makes his mark even in the dark world of ''Alex Rider'' as Alex's most personal foe.

** The Villains of ''Point Blanc'' seem oddly similar to the main (human) staff of WesternAnimation/Superjail: a Mengele-esque leader, a BrawnHilda and a gambling addicted assistant.