YMMV / Etrigan

• Accidental Innuendo: One panel showing Etrigan kneeling before Morgaine le Fay◊ drew a lot of snickers because it looks like he's giving her oral pleasure. Morgaine's choice of words didn't help matters.
• Audience-Alienating Era: John Byrne attempted to Retcon Etrigan's evil tendencies during the final arc of his run on Wonder Woman (1987), with Diana proclaiming that he'd always been a force for good.
• Awesome Ego: Etrigan, of course. Never before have boastful, nightmarish rhymes been so awe-inspiring.
• Complete Monster:
  • The Demon:
    • Vol. 1 issues #11-13: Baron von Rakenstein, better known as Baron von Evilstein, is a legacy to unethical experimentation and torture who operates on numerous beings in agonizing ways to create a perfect lifeform. Creating a "monster", von Rakenstein keeps it in line being endless torture and pain, with his intent being to do the same to Jason Blood as well so he might wipe out the doubting science community.
    • Vol. 3's "Haunted Glory" and "The Longest Day" arcs: SS General Ernst Focke-Wulfe von Raddel was a Nazi Panzer commander who led his unit on a host of brutal war crimes throughout Europe, killing and raping as they went. After recovering from decades of catatonia, von Raddel revives his unit as undead killers, wipes out a US military base to gain their tanks and plots to level all of the US and most of Europe to establish a Fourth Reich, even trying to practice by wiping out a town of two thousand people.
  • Batman/Demon: A Tragedy, by Alan Grant, Jim Murray, et al., Etrigan, the demon of the title, is Bruce Wayne's Superpowered Evil Side. Etrigan, a demon too evil for even Hell itself, was called upon in desperation in ancient Gotham to destroy their enemies in Metropolis, whereupon Etrigan slaughtered thousands from the opposing side before trying to turn his anger toward Gotham's innocents. Bound to Bruce Wayne, Etrigan attempts to escape, slaughtering criminals every night as a sinister bat-man before Etrigan finally takes the chance to free himself from his host. Etrigan promptly goes on a killing spree, gruesomely murdering Poison Ivy, Killer Croc and Catwoman and their gangs, before incinerating an entire squadron of police officers led by Commissioner Gordon. Etrigan is stopped before he can continue onto the rest of Gotham, but murders Bruce's Love Interest in one final act of spite.
• Magnificent Bastard: The demon Etrigan, reinvented as a ruthless and brilliant prince of Hell, is the son of Belial, father of lies. Learning his lessons well, even as bonded to human Jason Blood, Etrigan frequently outwits enemies with aplomb, even conniving his way into taking over Hell itself twice. Having defeated both the spirit of Gotham itself when summoned by his cousin Asteroth and a resurgence of Nazis by rallying the Haunted Tank and its regimen, Etrigan even connives a war between Heaven, Hell and Purgatory for the enjoyment of seeing demonic rivals fall, later stealing the trident of Lucifer for another attempt to take over hell and enjoy the resulting chaos.
• My Real Daddy: Though the Jack Kirby series is still held in fair regard, Len Wein, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman created the idea that Etrigan Rhymes on a Dime, and the idea of him as The Trickster rather than simply evil. Notably, Jack Kirby himself wasn't all that proud of Etrigan; he created the character on a whim, disliked horror titles, and hated that upper management cancelled his beloved New Gods in favor of the Demon.

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