YMMV / Daniel X

aka: The Dangerous Days Of Daniel X

• Adaptation Displacement: Much like its sister series, fans are more likely to be familiar with the manga adaptations than the book series they spawned from.
• Complete Monster: Daniel X has fought many vile villains from The List of Alien Outlaws on Earth, but these are the worst:
  • Zeboul, known near-exclusively as "Number 1" or The Prayer, is the ultimate villain behind every bad occurrence in the franchise. Number 1 is an ancient God of Evil who uses his influence to drive entire civilizations into evil, and is responsible for empowering Abbadon in his horrific torment of humankind as a "show" for Number 1's viewing pleasure. Behind every major member on "The List", from setting up special shoots for Number 5's TV butcher shows to enabling Number 6 to wipe out Daniel's homeworld, Number 1 solidified himself as Daniel's Arch-Enemy by murdering the boy's parents and trying to kill him when he was a toddler. Harnessing his power from the evil others do, Number 1 becomes so tired of the Milky Way galaxy's innate goodness that he attempts to wipe out its billions of lifeforms just to "tip the scales" back in the favor of evildoers. Number 1 was an utterly sadistic monster of an alien, hell-bent on destroying everything good in the universe just to satisfy his love for all things evil.
  • The Dangerous Days of Daniel X: Ergent Seth, Number 6 on The List, is a powerful criminal who plans on eventually killing off the human race. In the meantime, Seth abducts dozens of kids at a time and uses them as slaves and drug-runners. Learning of Daniel X's hunt for him, Seth terrorizes and mentally torments the boy before he critically wounds and captures him. Seth then takes Daniel to his home world, where Seth taunts him about the fact that he has wiped out most of the population. Finding an underground city full of surviving citizens, Seth begins slaughtering them before Daniel challenges him to a duel. Accepting the challenge, Seth orders his child slaves to observe the fight, just so they would be in his crosshairs if he needs leverage.
  • Watch the Skies: Number Five on The List, also his only known name, is an "entertainment" director. Showing up on planets with lesser tech than his, Five mind-controls entire towns into performing entertaining acts, kills them in sadistic ways, then sells footage of these acts to illegal alien networks. Arriving on Earth, Five murders dozens of people through vaporization and Psychic-Assisted Suicide, including his own henchmen for unintentional insults, filming all the way. When his master plan to impregnate dozens of women with clones of himself to increase his filming to a galaxy-wide scale is thwarted by Daniel X, Five holds his girlfriend hostage and tries to kill Daniel while bragging the fact that he filmed the murders of Daniel's parents. Surviving his near-death at Daniel's hands, Five plans on infecting all technology on Earth and causing worldwide chaos, while also calling in reinforcements to help conquer the planet.
  • Demons and Druids: Phosphorius Beta, Number 3 on The List, has used time portals to hold civilizations throughout history in a grip of fear. Terrorizing London, England in the present as an "arsonist", Beta regularly burns down entire blocks, engulfing oil refineries, schools, and day cares. Amassing a small army by turning innocents into extensions of himself, Beta uses them to collect as much organic material—including humans—as possible, then ships it off to his home world, where it is used as "fast food". While trying to kill Daniel X and his friends, Beta reveals his hand in the murder of Daniel's parents while boasting of his plans to burn down London, then move on to the rest of the world until all that's left is a husk.
  • Armageddon: Abbadon, Number 2 on the List, is The Devil himself. A member of the reality warping Alpar Nokian race who reveled in destruction unlike the rest of his kind, Abbadon took up a job as chief entertainer for the Prayer, using his abilities to become Satan and begin terrorizing all of mankind. Abbadon is responsible for an untold number of atrocities throughout humanity's history, everything from The Holocaust to the Rwandan genocide having been perpetrated to Abbadon's tune simply to put on a show for the Prayer's enjoyment. Abbadon soon enough grows tired of merely tormenting the Earth and kicks off a full-scale apocalypse, in which he enslaves millions of humans to be tortured for eternity in Abbadon's "Hell" and slaughters billions more. Abbadon plans to turn the planet into nothing but an agonizing wasteland for any life left upon it, and is such a gleeful sadist that when Daniel X tries to stop him, Abbadon tries to sentence Daniel's Love Interest to an eternity of torture out of spite.

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