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During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.

Specific issues include:

  • Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
  • A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
  • Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
  • Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
  • Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.

It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.

Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:

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Complete Monster Cleanup Thread

Please see the Frequently Asked Questions and Common Requests List before suggesting any new entries for this trope.

IMPORTANT: To avoid a holler to the mods, please see here for the earliest date a work can be discussed, (usually two weeks from the US release), as well as who's reserved discussion.

When voting, you must specify the candidate(s). No blanket votes (i.e. "[tup] to everyone I missed").

No plagiarism: It's fair to source things, but an effortpost must be your own work and not lifted wholesale from another source.

We don't care what other sites think about a character being a Complete Monster. We judge this trope by our own criteria. Repeatedly attempting to bring up other sites will earn a suspension.

What is the Work

Here you briefly describe the work in question and explain any important setting details. Don't assume that everyone is familiar with the work in question.

Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?

This will be the main portion of the Effort Post. Here you list all of the crimes committed by the candidate. For candidates with longer rap sheets, keep the list to their most important and heinous crimes, we don't need to hear about every time they decide to do something minor or petty.

Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?

Here you discuss any potential redeeming or sympathetic features the character has, the character's Freudian Excuse if they have one, as well as any other potential mitigating factors like Offscreen Villainy or questions of moral agency. Try to present these as objectively as possible by presenting any evidence that may support or refute the mitigating factors.

Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?

Here you compare the actions of the Candidate to other character actions in the story in order to determine if they stand out or not. Remember that all characters, not just other villains, contribute to the Heinousness Standard

Final Verdict?

Simply state whether or not you think the character counts or not.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM

DemonDuckofDoom from Some Pond in Hell Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#106576: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:28:01 PM

[tup] Everybody from Reid to here.

HamburgerTime The Merry Monarch of Darkness from Dark World, where we do sincerely have cookies Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
The Merry Monarch of Darkness
#106577: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:37:38 PM

[tup] Pope, Viera, Pierre.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#106578: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:42:12 PM

Here's a cut we may have to make. It was from a grandfathered-in-entry, and while he's bad, I'm just not sure he's heinous enough. Charlie Lynch from JAG. Looking at the transcripts of his eps, I'm not even sure he's a Serial Killer. He kills a little kid by stomping and choking her, kills 3 more women, and tried to kill said girl's sister. 4 murders and one attempted, even if the first and the attempted are of young children, I'm just not sure is bad enough for the universe. I mean, look at, say, Daniel Budd or Pritam Mondal.

Thoughts? At the very least, the Serial Killer pothole should probably be change or just removed.

edited 18th Jan '18 4:43:58 PM by ACW

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MenInGreyToBlak V Since: Oct, 2017 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#106579: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:45:22 PM

Well, he counts as a serial killer if he has murdered 4 or more people. Put me as an abstain.

xie323 Since: Jul, 2009
#106580: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:46:07 PM

Well, good luck with the Maker effortpost Ravok, I think people just didn't bother because of the reputation the Ultimate verse has and how convoluted it is.

Which would be a shame really, I think this was one of the cases where they're aiming for a genuinely complex CM given the stuff that appears on Ultimate!Reed's character page but failed on every level.

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#106581: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:49:21 PM

[up][up] Eh, I'm not really worried about the pothole as much as if he's heinous enough. There's nothing that I could see that establishes a pattern. Now, his killing of the kid IS brutal. I honestly could go either way, but I feel like it's something that should mentioned (especially since he was never effortposted; his entry goes back to 2012).

edited 18th Jan '18 4:56:46 PM by ACW

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#106582: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:57:55 PM

I don't really have much to say on the matter I actually haven't watched JAG could go either way

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#106583: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:01:31 PM

I don't know the JAG-verse, but I know NCIS takes place in the same continuity.

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#106584: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:08:53 PM

[up] If they are in the same universe, but no knowledge of the other series is necessary to understand the other, I think that both series have their own heinous standard.

Also, I was reading the Sword Art Online page and I was thinking about two things.

1) Which is the single series that had produced more Complete Monster?

2) There some issues with the info of Quinella and Gabriel, is my fault for not expressing myself properly.

edited 18th Jan '18 5:27:53 PM by KazuyaProta

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Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#106585: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:10:30 PM

Yeah, I'm not going to exclude a keeper for JAG based on NCIS, anymore than I'll exclude the villains from Constantine because of Zoom

LordYAM Since: Jan, 2015
#106586: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:13:04 PM

What IS so bad about Ultiamte Reed? I hear he's one of the few good things about the post ultimatum ultimates

FriedWarthog Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#106587: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:14:03 PM

Yes to Pope, and I'm looking forward to that Ultimate Reed effortpost. At the risk of ruining my credibility, after reading through a bunch of Ultimate Marvel and a few of his 616 appearances he's one of the few aspects of the Ultimate universe I actually like. Mainly because I really really love seeing a version of Mr. Fantastic take his abilities to the most horrific extreme and pull off all sorts of disturbing body horror shenanigans. But I also liked Ultimate Doom's goat legs, so what do I know?

Also, I took a look at the images section and noticed that this image of Grodd wasn't posted there despite only receiving approval. Did he not get enough upvotes or something? Well, here's the picture again for those who didn't weigh in the first time.

edited 18th Jan '18 5:18:45 PM by FriedWarthog

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
dragonfire5000 from Where gods fear to tread Since: Jan, 2001
#106589: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:21:36 PM

[up][up]My main concern with the image is that the word bubbles will be too small once the image gets resized.

FriedWarthog Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#106591: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:23:45 PM

WTF did I just see? [lol]

What's that image from? I give it a [tup] BTW. I'll submit that, Amon, and (if nobody says to cut it) remove the Serial Killer pothole from Lynch.

edited 18th Jan '18 5:32:05 PM by ACW

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bobg Since: Nov, 2012
#106592: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:49:10 PM

The Megatron from the comic I was reading does not count. There is a moment where he tells Starscream that he expects him to betray him one day and take over, and he tells Starscream that he will one day succeed, but that he needs to learn how to be a skilled fighter and leader. Yeah, not what a CM would say.

I do have a candidate though. From the 2010 film, Goblin.

Who is the candidate and what do they do?

The titular goblin. It was summoned by a witch in 1841 after her infant son was killed in a bonfire in an event to purge the town of all things evil and ugly. This was because the baby was deformed. Enraged, the witch summoned the goblin and placed a curse on the town so that the goblin would appear every Halloween to claim the town's children and infants and kill any adults and teenagers it came across. The goblin takes the children to the Netherworld to slowly drain them for energy over time. Eventually, the witch came to realize the error of her ways, however, she could not get the goblin to stop, so she tried to kill it. Unfortunately, she died before she could succeed.

Fast forward to present day, and the town now locks up everything on Halloween night, as the people stay in their homes to avoid the goblin. The goblin has claimed many children and infants, as shown in a newspaper. The Perkins family moves into the town to develop it. The family consists of Neil, his wife Kate, their teenage daughter Nikki, and the infant Nathan. Nikki's best friend Cammy is with them. The drunk Charlie, a descendant of the witch, tries to get them to leave but they don't listen.

The Goblin returns the day of Halloween, and starts by killing a father and his wife and kidnapping their son. It soon attacks Cammy in the woods, killing her and two people with her. It is soon discovered that Nathan is missing. The goblin later attacks the home and impales Kate with a shard of glass, which she later dies from. The goblin continues to attack Nikki, and Kyle, her boyfriend, who just happened to be staying in the village as well. Eventually, it kills another man who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Charlie comes and helps Nikki and Kyle. He tells them that his ancestor, the witch, created a spear to kill the goblin, but it must be driven into its heart. He also tells them that the goblin couldn't have taken Nathan since it's still after them. The goblin attacks, and Charlie stays back to hold it off while Nikki and Kyle go to find Nathan.

Nikki and Kyle discover that Nathan was taken by the wife of the sheriff, with the couple hoping to try and exchange Nathan for their son Alex. They lock Kyle and Nikki up in a room, along with Neil. Fortunately, Charlie, having survived his encounter with the goblin, finds and frees them.

The four find the sheriff and his wife trying to give the goblin Nathan in exchange for Alex. The goblin seems to agree, as Alex appears before the couple. However, it turns out that it's just an illusion the goblin created to give them a Hope Spot, as it disappears. It is revealed that the goblin doesn't actually take the children to the Netherworld, he traps their souls in his body. This means that he couldn't give them back Alex even if he wanted to, but he acted like he could and was going to just to mess with them.

Charlie runs up and stabs the goblin with the spear, but he misses the heart, only injuring the goblin, though this frees some of the souls from his body. The goblin kills Charlie, the sheriff, and his wife. Kyle, Nikki, and Neil escape with Nathan, with the goblin in pursuit.

The goblin attacks and kills Kyle, but Nikki is able to kill him by attaching the spear to a car and ramming the goblin into a tree with it, piercing his heart, which frees the remaining souls from his body as he dematerializes.

Heinousness?

The goblin kills many adults and devours the souls of children and infants. We see the souls of numerous children escape its body, and we see newspapers detailing the missing children and infants. He cruelly kills his adult victims by disemboweling them, and pretends to give the sheriff and his wife back their child before revealing this is something he can't do.

Moral Agency?

The goblin acted on its own accord, as the witch was not able to get it to stop after realizing the error of her ways. She instead had to create a magical spear that could be used to kill it.

Generic Doomsday Villain?

The goblin does not speak, and for most of the film, it does indeed seem like this. At the climax however, it shows a sadistic side when it pretends to give back Alex before it's revealed that it was an illusion and that his soul is in the goblins body. This was needlessly cruel, giving them a Hope Spot just to torment them. It earlier snuck up on a man and waited for him to turn around and notice it before killing him. I think that these two acts of sadism are just barely enough to show that it has a personality.

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#106593: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:50:55 PM

I am now correcting some mistakes caused for my fault at expressing myself in the Sword Art Online page.

With Quinella , everything is fine except this bit:

Quinella transforms thousands of people (including familiars of her own Integrity Knights) into swords and forms a Golem out of them, her victims conscious in their new form.

Quinella and her Golem are a massively heinous act, probably one of the most heinous that I have read but is not quite like that.

The Golem is powered for The Power of Love, Quinella had drove crazy to the souls of the poor persons inside of it making them obsessed with Love, Destructive Love. The souls believe that they are protecting ther loved ones, that is why the Golem is so violent and dangerous, it is powered for a distorsion of The Power of Love and, in a franchise that loves mentioning it, is certainly worth mentioning. Also, she wanted produce it in mass, the Golem that we saw was just a Prototype, Quinella wanted created a lot more of them, repeating the process with hundreds of persons from her own population for every single Golem.

Also, is not "even with", the souls of the original Sword Golem are the souls of her Integrity Knights purposely, all of them were the loved ones of her Knights in their original life, she did that to turn the Knights into Un-person s, a legend at best. Because if someone recognized them as Integrity Knights, they will start to suspect about the brainwashing. Is still horryfing, and actually even worse, because she does that with the Champions of the Four Empires Unity Tournament that she helps to organizate, the real price of the tournament is getting braiwashed and getting your family Driven to Madness, and she was doing that for centuries.

Quinella is one of those villains whose actions become worse when you think about it, also, is worth mentioning that Kirito and the The Big Good actually thinks that destroying the entire Underworld is a Mercy Kill compared to living in a world where she rules? He dont like the idea but when compared to letting Quinella rule, he thinks on it as Plan B.

For Gabriel , the only error is the line "sending his melee fighter", what happened is that he send a entire army of them, a entire army send to a ridicuously dangerous mission that killed a lot of them.

edited 18th Jan '18 6:09:41 PM by KazuyaProta

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#106594: Jan 18th 2018 at 5:59:55 PM

[up][up] That version of Megatron would never have counted anyway, as he pulls a Heel–Face Turn in later IDW comics and as far as I know, he's still a member of the Autobots.

edited 18th Jan '18 6:00:30 PM by chasemaddigan

KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#106595: Jan 18th 2018 at 6:00:52 PM

[up][up][up] I said yes [tup]

I know that I am not a regular poster, but I think that I know the criteria enough to qualify someone, so I say yes.

Also, is fine propose villains from a story that dont have a page? The movie that you proposed dont seems to have a page. I want do the same but I dont know if it is correct.

edited 18th Jan '18 6:01:38 PM by KazuyaProta

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Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#106596: Jan 18th 2018 at 6:07:01 PM

Yes, it is.

I'm kinda...unsure of the Goblin. Losing control of it does not mean it has agency

edited 18th Jan '18 6:10:26 PM by Lightysnake

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#106597: Jan 18th 2018 at 6:45:59 PM

No to Goblin. I am not convinced that it has agency.

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#106598: Jan 18th 2018 at 6:49:52 PM

[tdown] Goblin, due to agency issues.

edited 18th Jan '18 6:50:00 PM by JoeBlitz

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#106599: Jan 18th 2018 at 6:51:00 PM

Funny how I was considering watching the film in my spare time. [tdown] Goblin.

TommyFresh Since: Aug, 2013
#106600: Jan 18th 2018 at 6:52:31 PM

[tdown] to the Goblin. It's agency seems sketchy and I'm not sure if two sadistic acts are enough to truly establish a personality.


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