I have posting on the Complete Monster Clean Up thread and the Generic Doomsday Villain trope is often brought up in that thread, mainly because a GDV cannot be a Complete Monster. However looking at the trope in more depth, some of the examples do not meet the requirements:
Shinzon from Star Trek: Nemesis is not a Generic Doomsday Villain, he just a badly written character. He has a defined back story, he is a evil Picard clone created by the Romulans to take his place, the Romulans abandoned that plan and sent him to a slave mine with the Romulans race of slaves, the Remans. So he has a reason for say killing the Romulan Senate in the beginning of the movie.
He has also has a reason for targeting Picard, he is suffering from a disease that can only be cured by a blood transfusion and organs from Picard to himself. He also seems to be envious of Picard, saying his life is meaningless while Picard is still alive. The only thing that is not well explained, is why he wants to destroy the Federation, that is not explained well in the movie at all. But since most of his other actions have some motives, it seems like he is not a GDV.
Doomsday from Justice League doesn't count either, he is very different from his comic counterpart. Doomsday in the comics is just a mindless killing machine, so he counts. Animated Doomsday from the JLU cartoon was a failed Superman clone who was tortured by Cadmus and conditioned to hate Superman, he has a defined reason to try and kill Superman.
There are other examples on that page that seem dubious or just subversion and likely should be removed, for example.
Shan Yu from Mulan has been confirmed as a Complete Monster, so he doesn't count.
The Archmage from Gargoyles has a personality, he is kinda of a generic badguy, but I think he has enough personality to escape this trope.
I have posting on the Complete Monster Clean Up thread and the Generic Doomsday Villain trope is often brought up in that thread, mainly because a GDV cannot be a Complete Monster. However looking at the trope in more depth, some of the examples do not meet the requirements:
Shinzon from Star Trek: Nemesis is not a Generic Doomsday Villain, he just a badly written character. He has a defined back story, he is a evil Picard clone created by the Romulans to take his place, the Romulans abandoned that plan and sent him to a slave mine with the Romulans race of slaves, the Remans. So he has a reason for say killing the Romulan Senate in the beginning of the movie.
He has also has a reason for targeting Picard, he is suffering from a disease that can only be cured by a blood transfusion and organs from Picard to himself. He also seems to be envious of Picard, saying his life is meaningless while Picard is still alive. The only thing that is not well explained, is why he wants to destroy the Federation, that is not explained well in the movie at all. But since most of his other actions have some motives, it seems like he is not a GDV.
Doomsday from Justice League doesn't count either, he is very different from his comic counterpart. Doomsday in the comics is just a mindless killing machine, so he counts. Animated Doomsday from the JLU cartoon was a failed Superman clone who was tortured by Cadmus and conditioned to hate Superman, he has a defined reason to try and kill Superman.
There are other examples on that page that seem dubious or just subversion and likely should be removed, for example.
Shan Yu from Mulan has been confirmed as a Complete Monster, so he doesn't count.
The Archmage from Gargoyles has a personality, he is kinda of a generic badguy, but I think he has enough personality to escape this trope.
Are there any other examples that need removing?