History Characters / WerewolfByNight

An evil sorcerer who seeks to kill everyone in the world and turn their souls into a personal demon army. [[spoiler:He was formerly member of Five-Who-Are-All, a group mystical cosmic beings who banished him from their ranks]].

The chaffeur of Jack's step-father, who blackmailed him and his wife on the orders from The Committee.

* TheBrute: Grant is one head taller than everyone else, and Jack thinks he's probably strong enough to kill a man with his bare fists. He even manages to give the Werewolf a good thrashing before losing his composure upon realizing that he isn't fighting someone in a costume.
* StarterVillain: Even with his strength, he's just a human bully squeezing money out of his employer, and he ends up dying in his introductory issue.

* KnightTemplar: He wants to rid the world of evil, but doesn’t believe in that pesky thing called ‘the law’. He was even court-martialed because he killed Nazis a little too gleefully during WorldWarII.

The chaffeur of Jack's step-father, who blackmailed him and eventually killed Jack's mother.

* StarterVillain: Even with his strength, he's just a human bully trying to squeeze money out of his employer, and he ends up dying in his introductory issue.

Initially the werewolf looks like a typical wolfman à la Lon Chaney Jr. Starting with ''Moon Knight'' #29 (1982), his appearance becomes more wolfish, still standing on two legs but with a fully lupine head. This change is explained as his werewolf self regressing ever further after an experiment to gain more control went badly.

!!Harlan Krueger / Hangman I

!!Steven Rand / Atlas

!!Dr. Winston Redditch / [=DePrayve=]

* ArtificialLimbs: He lost his right hand due to an unknown incident, and had it replaced with an artificial one with metal gloves.
* BerserkButton: If he thinks he's being laughed at, he'll lash out at the perpetrator.

!Sarnak
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Sarnak was a former sound engineer who became a villain for hire when his counterfeit production was discovered and he almost burned to death. He was hired by The Committee to cause chaos in Los Angeles. Created the Tatterdemalion, one of his former pawns.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: His face is covered with scars, which he hides with his mask.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is eventually defeated when he loses his hold on his minions, who then unmask him and are implied to kill him.
* KilledOffForReal: Possibly; His death is implied rather than actually shown, but he hasn't shown up again since it happened.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Used a mask to hide his scarred face.
* MindControlDevice: He uses a special "control whistle" to force derelicts, and even the Werewolf, to do his bidding.

!Harlan Krueger / Hangman I
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As a kid, Harlan grew to idolize silver screen heroes, and wanted to fight evil just like them. He however developed an extremely black-and-white view of the world, and became a vigilante when no law-enforcement agency wanted to hire him.

* BadassNormal: Despite lacking any super-powers, he's outright beaten a werewolf and the original Spider-Woman in combat.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: You're bad in any sense of the word? You'll meet the Hangman.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:After switching his methods to wiping out "bad influences" on society by killing the cast and crew of a slasher movie, he's stabbed to death with his own scythe by a film critic who had unwittingly fed him information.]]
* InTheHood: He wears a hood fashioned after ones worn by medieval executioners.
* TheJailer: He imprisons women to "protect from corruption of the outside world".
* KnightTemplar: He wants to rid the world of evil, but doesn’t believe in that pesky thing called ‘the law’. He was even court-martialed because he killed Nazis a little too gleefully during WorldWarII.
* SinisterScythe: His weapon of choice along with his trusty noose.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: See KnightTemplar above. [[spoiler: Leads ot his death when he accidentally kills a woman, leaving him too overwrought to notice someone sneaking up behind him.]]

!Steven Rand / Atlas
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Rand was an actor in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]]-esque movies who is now out of touch with reality, confusing himself and others with the roles from his last movie, and is out to get those he thinks is responsible for the accident that left him scarred.

* BadassNormal: He proves to be so strong that the Werewolf has to actually run away from him.
* BadWithTheBone: His character used a jawbone of an ass as a weapon, and so does he.
* BaldOfEvil: Justified because all of his hair has burned away.
* TheBrute: Tall, strong and [[AxeCrazy out of his mind]].
* NightmareFace: His face burned badly, leaving him with no lips, a left MadEye and strips of flesh covering his right one.
* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: He went insane after a botched stunt took away his handsome features.

!Dr. Winston Redditch / [=DePrayve=]
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Dr. Redditch was a scientist who sought create a way to suppress the aggressive portions of human brain. When he tries the mixture of his creation for that purpose, he chooses the wrong beaker that does the exact opposite and is turned into hulking brute who names himself [=DePrayve=].

* TheBrute: [=DePrayve=] is a big brute who likes to brutalize.
* CardCarryingVillain: "[=DePrayve=] is evil!"
* {{Expy}}: Of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' villain Mr. Hyde, though [=DePrayve=] is a more "bad guy in a body of a good guy" character than him.
* ForTheEvulz: [=DePrayve=] rants about two things: revelling in evil is fun and how sickening his good side is.
* JekyllAndHyde: Winston, a nice guy scientist who seeks to make the world a better place and [=DePrayve=], all the evil in Winston unleashed who seeks to spread misery and destruction for fun.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [=DePrayve=] chose to call himself that because he "is depraved". Simple as that.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Deciding that testing on animals is not enough, Winston decided to test his findings with himself.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [=DePrayve=] is physically stronger than his good side Winston.

!Dr. Glitternight
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An evil sorcerer who seeks to kill everyone in the world and turn their souls into a personal demon army. [[spoiler:He was formerly member of Five-Who-Are-All, a group mystical cosmic beings who banished him from their ranks]].

* BaldOfEvil: And it is slightly larger chranium than a normal humans, [[spoiler:since he is actually a former cosmic being]].
* BigBad: Of ''Werewolf by Night'' vol. 1, as his plans pose a threat to entire humanity.
* ChestBlaster: He shoots beams of "black light" out of his chest to harm his opponents.
* EvilSorcerer: He is a practitioner of dark mystic arts.
* MonochromaticEyes: His eyes constantly alternate between [[BlackEyesOfEvil black]] and white.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He calls himself doctor. Doctor of what, nobody knows.
* YourSoulIsMine: He has an ability to steal souls, which he uses to bind their owners to his will and create demons.

!Belaric Marcosa
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Marcosa was an evil aristocrat who used his status to hold parties that would end in a slaughter, and steal his victims souls afterwards. His soul still resides in his old house, and torments anyone who steps inside.

* ArtificialLimbs: He has a wooden right leg with talons on it.
* CaptainErsatz: He's a thinly-veiled version of Emeric Belasco, the villain of the novel ''Literature/HellHouse'' by Creator/RichardMatheson. The story [[WholePlotReference plays out rather similarly]], too, with the exception that there's now a werewolf in it and the novel's anti-psychic machine is replaced by Topaz's powers.
* CombatTentacles: He turns his hands into tentacles when he is finally forced into physical combat with Jack.
* GhostlyGoals: To be a dick even after death.
* GoldTooth: He has installed two rubies on his front teeth.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses illusions of his victims' loved ones to torment them further.
* YourSoulIsMine: He steals the souls of his victims to gain more power.

!Tatterdemalion
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One of Sarnak's [[CrazyHomelessPeople vagrant army]], he later strikes out on his own and wages war on the wealthy by destroying their stuff.

* AscendedExtra: He starts out as Sarnak's unnamed but memorable main henchmen in volume one before returning with his own codename and gimmicks in Jack's post-series appearances.
* EatTheRich: This is his motivation; he doesn't steal money, jewelry, and expensive things; he just destroys luxury goods and cash and brutalizes the wealthy.
* ExpansionPackPast: When he turned up in ''Comicbook/{{Dazzler}}'', he got a sympathetic backstory as a failed stage entertainer.
* ThePigPen: He's weaponized it; rather disgustingly, he takes advantage of his poor hygiene by throwing his filthy, reeking cloak over people in battle.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears one to hide his face.

* RedHeadedHero: One of Jack’s most striking and recognizable features, especially when his hair is long ([[DependingOnTheArtist and the artist remembers it’s supposed to be red]]).

* EnemyWithin: As mentioned in ''[[{{ComicBook/X-Factor}} X-Factor]]'' #224, human Jack vs werewolf Jack is a constant struggle.

Rand was an actor in [[ClassicalMythology Hercules]]-esque movies who is now out of touch with reality, confusing himself and others with the roles from his last movie, and is out to get those he thinks is responsible for the accident that left him scarred.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity
* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony: After switching his methods to wiping out "bad influences" on society by killing the cast and crew of a slasher movie, he's stabbed to death with his own scythe by a film critic who had unwittingly fed him information.]]

Rand was an actor in Hercules-esque movies who is now out of touch with reality, confusing himself and others with the roles from his last movie, and is out to get those he thinks is responsible for the accident that left him scarred.

Dr. Redditch was a scientist who sought create a way to suppress the aggressive portions of human brain. When he tries the mixture of his creation for that purpose, he chooses the wrong beaker and is turned into hulking brute who names himself [=DePrayve=].

* {{Squick}}: He's weaponized it; rather disgustingly, he takes advantage of his poor hygiene by throwing his filthy, reeking cloak over people in battle.

* TheNicknamer: Especially Morbius is on the receiving end of this in later years: Morb, Mikey-boy, M., Dracubilly... Ironically, in ''{{Morbius}}'' v2, Morbius responds to someone else calling him 'Mike' with "I prefer Michael."

An evil sorceror who seeks to kill everyone in the world and turn their souls into a personal demon army. [[spoiler:He was formerly member of Five-Who-Are-All, a group mystical cosmic beings who banished him from their ranks]].

* EvilSorceror: He is practitioner of dark mystic arts.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Jack developed shades of this after ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'' #54-59 in 1990. He sported longer hair, rode a motorcycle, [[NoShirtLongJacket wore a leather jacket with nothing under it]], and suddenly started using colloquialisms. His attitude changed accordingly, from a guy suffering under his curse to reveling in it. After volume 2 he kept the hair and the motorcycle, but TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks was shed.

* UnfortunateImplications: An insane homeless man so physically disgusting it's essentially his power.

* BadassNormal: He proves to be so strong that the Werwolf has to actually run away from him.

* CaptainErsatz/WholePlotReference: He's a thinly-veiled version of Emeric Belasco, the villain of the novel ''Literature/HellHouse'' by Creator/RichardMatheson. The story plays out rather similarly, too, with the exception that there's now a werewolf in it and the novel's anti-psychic machine is replaced by Topaz's powers.

One of Sarnak's vagrant army, he later strikes out on his own and wages war on the wealthy by destroying their stuff.

* AscendedExtra: He starts out as Sarnak's unnamed but memorable main henchmen in v.1 before returning with his own codename and gimmicks in Jack's post-series appearances.
* CrazyHomelessPeople

* ExpansionPackPast: When he turned up in ''Dazzler'', he got a sympathetic backstory as a failed stage entertainer.

* CaptainErsatz/WholePlotReference: He's a thinly-veiled version of Emeric Belasco, the villain of the novel ''HellHouse'' by Creator/RichardMatheson. The story plays out rather similarly, too, with the exception that there's now a werewolf in it and the novel's anti-psychic machine is replaced by Topaz's powers.

Sarnak was a former sound engineer who became a villain for hire when his counterfeit production was discovered and he almost burned to death. He was hired by The Committee to cause chaos in Los Angeles.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Jack developed shades of this after ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'' #54-59 in 1990. He sported longer hair, rode a motorcycle, [[WalkingShirtlessScene wore a leather jacket with nothing under it]], and suddenly started using colloquialisms. His attitude changed accordingly, from a guy suffering under his curse to reveling in it. After volume 2 he kept the hair and the motorcycle, but TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks was shed.

* InformedAbility: Many of Jack's powers and abilities as described in the Official Marvel Handbooks are never shown in-story. For example, it's said Jack is a practiced magic user who often casts spells, yet he is only shown doing so one single time (in ''Marvel Comics Presents'' #54).

* NinetiesAntiHero: Jack developed shades of this after ''Marvel Comics Presents'' #54-59 in 1990. He sported longer hair, rode a motorcycle, [[WalkingShirtlessScene wore a leather jacket with nothing under it]], and suddenly started using colloquialisms. His attitude changed accordingly, from a guy suffering under his curse to reveling in it. After volume 2 he kept the hair and the motorcycle, but TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks was shed.

* AgonyBeam: He shoot beams of "black light" out of his chest to harm his opponents.