History Monster / ASongOfIceAndFire

** [[BastardBastard Sers "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ulf (the) White]], aka "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder The Betrayers]]", are [[DragonRider dragon tamers]] descending from Targaryen bastards recruited by [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfRhaenyraI Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen]]. Defecting to her rival-brother [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfAegonII King Aegon II]]'s side, Hugh and Ulf attack Tumbleton, scorching the town with their dragons and killing thousands in the burning and many more drowning in the river as they try to flee. Having Tumbleton's gates opened to [[RapePillageAndBurn sack]] it, women—and girls as young as eight—are raped, babies are impaled on spears, and Ulf personally makes a point of raping three maidens per night, feeding those who fail to satisfy him to his dragon. While Ulf demands Highgarden for his services, Hugh plans to depose Aegon and take the throne himself with his dragon, nailing horseshoes to the head of one man who angrily knocks off Hugh's self-made crown.

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* [[VideoGame/GameOfThrones 2012 game]]: [[BlackKnight Valarr Hill]], {{bastard|bastard|}} brother to Alester Sarwyck of Riverspring, is the main villain of the game. A member of Queen Cersei's guard hunting for the pregnant mother of one of King Robert's bastards named Jeyne, Valarr [[FrameUp frames]] his and Alester's younger brother for the death of their father and later tries to have him assassinated. Revealed as the man who killed hero Mors's family on Lord Tywin's orders, Valarr also raped Mors's daughter, a fact he taunts him about when they meet in trial by combat. Valarr intends to force his own half-sister into marriage and rape her, before cheating in the duel by using dark magic to kill Mors and having all the witnesses massacred before murdering his and Alester's sister; hunting down Jeyne, killing her; and having the lord defending her and his men massacred. Valarr breaks every taboo Westeros has, from kinslaying, rape, violating guest right and more, caring for nothing but [[AmbitionIsEvil his own ascent to further heights]].

-->-- '''[[Characters/GameOfThronesRamsayBolton Ramsay Bolton's]]''' "Pink Letter"/"Bastard Letter" to [[Characters/GameOfThronesJonSnow Jon Snow]], ''Series/GameOfThrones'', "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS6E4BookOfTheStranger Book of the Stranger]]"

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* [[TheNoseless Rorge]] is a SerialRapist and SerialKiller--especially of [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--and the worst of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheBraveCompanions the Brave Companions]], his cruelty even exceeding their leader, Vargo Hoat. Freed along with his companion Biter, Rorge signs on with the "Bloody Mummers" after Arya Stark saves him from certain death, to which he responds by threatening to sodomize her with her own wooden sword. After the Brave Companions capture Jaime and Brienne, Rorge attempts to rape Brienne and threatens to mutilate her face if she screams. After Hoat's death, Rorge leads a band of brigands on the raid on Saltpans, resulting in the massacre of nearly the entire town. Rorge personally kills 20 men and rapes a 12-year-old girl, mutilating her then giving the girl to his men to mutilate her further. Upon encountering Brienne again, Rorge expresses a desire to cut off her legs and have her watch him rape a 10-year-old girl--with the latter's own crossbow. Additional material indicates that he is also the reason why Biter is the way he is--finding an orphan boy, Rorge removed his tongue, filed his teeth, and made him fight dogs with only his new fangs.

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** [[BastardBastard Sers "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ulf (the) White]], aka "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder The Betrayers]]", are [[DragonRider dragon tamers]] descending from Targaryen bastards recruited by [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfRhaenyraI Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen]]. Defecting to her rival-brother [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfAegonII King Aegon II]]'s side, Hugh and Ulf attack Tumbleton, scorching the town with their dragons and killing thousands in the burning and many more drowning in the river as they try to flee. Having Tumbleton's gates opened to [[RapePillageAndBurn sack]] it, women--and girls as young as eight--are raped, babies are impaled on spears, and Ulf personally makes a point of raping three maidens per night, feeding those who fail to satisfy him to his dragon. While Ulf demands Highgarden for his services, Hugh plans to depose Aegon and take the throne himself with his dragon, nailing horseshoes to the head of one man who angrily knocks off Hugh's self-made crown.

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* [[Characters/GameOfThronesJoffreyBaratheon King Joffrey I Baratheon]] graduates from a [[RoyalBrat spoiled prince]] to a "[[TheCaligula vicious idiot]]" of a ruler following the death of his supposed father Robert. Having once tried to kill his fiancée [[Characters/GameOfThronesSansaStark Sansa Stark]]'s [[Characters/GameOfThronesAryaStark younger sister]] and lowborn friend for standing up to him, Joffrey swiftly orders the execution of Eddard Stark, Lord of the North and father to Sansa, even knowing it will mean war. Throwing aside all pretense of charm, Joffrey also begins regularly tormenting his captive bride-to-be, forcing Sansa to gaze at the severed head of her father while having his Kingsguard beat her at his leisure. A whimsical sadist, Joffrey responds to a bard's taunting song by ordering him mutilated and when his rule drives starving peasants into accosting him, orders them all be put to death in a bloody riot. Lusting at the mere thought of violence, Joffrey forces one prostitute bought for him to beat another, later restraining and shooting the survivor to death for his own amusement. Not even family is safe from his insanity, with Joffrey threatening to kill [[Characters/GameOfThronesCerseiLannister his mother]], ordering [[Characters/GameOfThronesTyrionLannister his uncle]] assassinated, and having all of Robert's bastard children--including babies--murdered to secure his false claim to the throne. A blossoming [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopath]] even without the years of most of Westeros's worst behind him, Joffrey's short rule is marked by such cruelty he is said to have possibly grown to surpass the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen for sheer depravity.
* [[Characters/GameOfThronesPetyrBaelish Petyr Baelish]], aka "[[FromNobodyToNightmare Littlefinger]]", is a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], self-serving man who believes that "chaos is a ladder", and [[TheChessmaster orchestrates]] a variety of Westeros's misfortunes to climb to the top. Owning and operating a brothel whose workers he abuses, mistreats, and even mutilates to suit his clients' desires, Baelish callously has any who cross him sent off to be butchered, notably handing off Ros to be tortured to death by Joffrey Baratheon. Out of both {{ambition|Is Evil}} and a petty desire to possess the hand of Catelyn [[Characters/GameOfThronesHouseStark Stark]], Baelish [[WarForFunAndProfit kick-starts the War of the Five Kings]] by seducing Lysa Arryn into murdering her husband while Baelish stages an assassination attempt on Catelyn's crippled son, turns kingdoms against one another, and personally arranges the death of Catelyn's current husband Eddard "Ned" Stark and many of his men. Profiting off the massive, bloody war that costs thousands of lives across Westeros, Baelish murders Lysa and shifts his lustful attentions from Catelyn to her young daughter Sansa, psychologically abusing the girl before sending her off to be raped and tortured so as to later "[[EngineeredHeroics save]]" her from her fate and convince her to team with him in wiping out her own family. His scheming leading to unfathomable death and devastation through the kingdoms and empowering monsters like Joffrey and Ramsay Bolton/Snow, Baelish is willing to doom countless lives--even those of his apparent loved ones--so long as [[ItsAllAboutMe it brought himself good fortune]], [[SmugSnake proudly boastful]] that the climb to power for power's sake is the only thing that truly matters to him.

* [[Characters/GameOfThronesRamsayBolton Ramsay Bolton/Snow]], the bastard son of Lord Roose Bolton and the most vicious member of House Bolton, is a sadist with a knack for torture and [[FlayedAlive flaying others alive]]. After capturing Winterfell, Ramsay proceeded to play [[MindRape twisted games]] with the captive [[Characters/GameOfThronesTheonGreyjoy Theon Greyjoy]], pretending to be an Ironborn agent who comes to save Theon—killing his own men to keep up the ruse--and culminating in Ramsay bringing Theon to the Dreadfort and subjecting him to prolonged, hideous torture, including [[{{Fingore}} flaying bits of him]] and [[CripplingCastration castrating]] him. All that remains of Theon afterwards is a broken, obedient shell whom Ramsay dubs "Reek." In his spare time, Ramsay and his equally psychotic lover [[DarkMistress Myranda]] release girls into the woods to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt them for sport]], also using the girls to feed Ramsay's savage hounds. When Ramsay makes Theon negotiate a surrender with other Ironborn, Ramsay guarantees their safety, only to have them flayed alive and displayed as gruesome trophies. After marrying Sansa Stark, Ramsay rapes her on the wedding night and continues to [[DomesticAbuse sexually and physically abuse her]] throughout the rest of the marriage. Ramsay cements his rule over his hold by murdering Roose and having his hounds eat his infant brother and stepmother. When he finally engages the Northern armies, Ramsay is apathetic to the death of his own men and shoots the preteen Rickon Stark dead--moments before he reaches Jon Snow. With few matching his pointless savagery, Ramsay Snow exemplified every [[BastardBastard negative stereotype about bastards]] in Westeros.

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* ''ComicBook/{{A Clash of Kings|2017}}'' issue #11: [[AbusiveParents Craster]] is a vile man who [[ParentalIncest marries and rapes his daughters]] from a young age, while keeping them isolated from the world beyond Craster's Keep. Craster then eventually [[WifeHusbandry marries and rapes]] his granddaughters, and so on. If his offspring bear any sons, Craster [[OffingTheOffspring has them sacrificed to the Others]].

* [[VideoGame/GameOfThrones 2012 game]]: [[BlackKnight Valarr Hill]], {{bastard|Bastard}} brother to Alester Sarwyck of Riverspring, is the main villain of the game. A member of Queen Cersei's guard hunting for the pregnant mother of one of King Robert's bastards named Jeyne, Valarr [[FrameUp frames]] his and Alester's younger brother for the death of their father and later tries to have him assassinated. Revealed as the man who killed hero Mors's family on Lord Tywin's orders, Valarr also raped Mors's daughter, a fact he taunts him about when they meet in trial by combat. Valarr intends to force his own half-sister into marriage and rape her, before cheating in the duel by using dark magic to kill Mors and having all the witnesses massacred before murdering his and Alester's sister; hunting down Jeyne, killing her; and having the lord defending her and his men massacred. Valarr breaks every taboo Westeros has, from kinslaying, rape, violating guest right and more, caring for nothing but [[AmbitionIsEvil his own ascent to further heights]].

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* [[BastardBastard Sers "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ulf (the) White]], aka "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder The Betrayers]]", are [[DragonRider dragon tamers]] descending from Targaryen bastards recruited by Queen Rhaenrya I Targaryen. Defecting to her rival-brother King Aegon II's side, Hugh and Ulf attack Tumbleton, scorching the town with their dragons and killing thousands in the burning and many more drowning in the river as they try to flee. Having Tumbleton's gates opened to [[RapePillageAndBurn sack]] it, women--and girls as young as eight--are raped, babies are impaled on spears, and Ulf personally makes a point of raping three maidens per night, feeding those who fail to satisfy him to his dragon. While Ulf demands Highgarden for his services, Hugh plans to depose Aegon and take the throne himself with his dragon, nailing horseshoes to the head of one man who angrily knocks off Hugh's self-made crown.

* ''ComicBook/{{A Clash of Kings|2017}}'' #11: [[AbusiveParents Craster]] is a vile man who [[ParentalIncest marries and rapes his daughters]] from a young age, while keeping them isolated from the world beyond Craster's Keep. Craster then eventually [[WifeHusbandry marries and rapes]] his granddaughters, and so on. If his offspring bear any sons, Craster [[OffingTheOffspring has them sacrificed to the Others]].

* [[VideoGame/GameOfThronesTelltale Telltale Games Series]]: [[Characters/GameOfThronesTelltaleHouseBolton Ramsay Snow]] is the representative in the North for the as-yet-unseen Roose Bolton, orchestrating the conflict between the Forresters and Whitehills for profit and enjoyment. Ramsay is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] while [[FlayedAlive flaying a man alive]] for recreation, lamenting that the result is "not [his] best work". After entering the Forresters' estate by force, he tries to take Talia hostage with clear [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lascivious intent]] before pragmatically settling on her brother instead, and murders the teenage Ethan on a whim. He later returns to "break" Rodrik by forcing him to witness his torture (and eventual murder) of Rodrik's friend Arthur. He later pits the Forresters and Whitehills against each other in a war of annihilation, passing up potential profit for the sake of a bloody spectacle. A sadist who lives only to relish the suffering he inflicts on others, Ramsay is [[TheDreaded feared and loathed]] throughout the North.

* [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseClegane Ser Gregor Clegane]], aka "[[OneManArmy the Mountain that Rides]]", is a {{sadist}} who [[PsychoForHire serves]] House Lannister and one of [[TheDreaded the most feared men]] in Westeros, rumored to have murdered his sister, father, and two wives. When he was 12, he [[BigBrotherBully burned half of his brother Sandor's face]] when the latter played with one of his toys. At 17, he dashed the infant Prince Aegon's head against a wall, then raped and murdered the latter's mother, Princess Elia. While at a tournament, Gregor murders one of his opponents, then tries to kill another and Sandor after losing a joust. Following the tournament, he and his men gang-rape an innkeeper's daughter. Unleashed on the Riverlands, Gregor and his men rape and murder anyone who falls into their hands. At one point, for ten days, Gregor picks one person each day from a group of villagers to torture for information. After one villager volunteers to save her daughter, Gregor has the daughter tortured the next day to make sure the mother didn't leave anything out. He tortures [[AssholeVictim Vargo Hoat]], including cutting strips of flesh from Hoat and [[{{Autocannibalism}} feeding them to him]], before letting Hoat die. During a duel with Oberyn Martell, Princess Elia's brother, who asserts his responsibility for the murder of his sister and her children to him, Gregor's only concern is that Oberyn got the order of events wrong, correcting him before brutally crushing Oberyn's skull.

* [[AbusiveParents Craster]] is a wicked, hedonistic [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheFreeFolk Wildling]] and uneasy ally of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheNightsWatch the Night's Watch]]. Keeping a harem of abused women, Craster rapes them in his isolated keep beyond the Wall, even assaulting any female children born to his "[[WifeHusbandry wives]]" from a prepubescent age. Any male children born are left as sacrifices to the Others, Craster desiring nothing more than a life to enjoy casually raping the women in his keep free of consequence.

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* [[AxCrazy Ser Gregor Clegane]], "the Mountain that Rides" of [[Characters/GameOfThronesHouseClegane House Clegane]], is Westeros's [[TheDreaded most dreaded]] knight, in service to [[Characters/GameOfThronesTywinLannister Lord Tywin Lannister]]. An ill-tempered sadist since childhood, Gregor once burned his brother Sandor's face for playing with his toy to the point of gruesome disfiguring. When Gregor later loses a jousting match in a tournament, he wrathfully decapitates his own horse before storming the crowd, trying to kill the man who beat him and any who stand in his way. Occupying Harrenhal fortress under Tywin, Gregor has his sadistic minion the Tickler torture prisoners to death for information and after losing Harrenhal, orders the hundreds of remaining captives be put to death. Recruited to fight for the crown in Tyrion's TrialByCombat, Gregor is found perfecting his sword skills by violently butchering more prisoners in one-sided "duels". Battling Prince Oberyn Martell, Oberyn tries to force Gregor to confess to having raped and murdered his sister Elia, as well as her children, something Gregor outright boasts of as he shoves his thumbs through the prince's eyes before squeezing his head until it explodes.

* [[AbusiveParents Craster]], a vicious [[Characters/GameOfThronesWildlings Wildling]] and shaky [[Characters/GameOfThronesNightsWatch Night's Watch]] ally, is given a self-righteous demeanor. Abusing the women of his isolated keep, Craster regularly rapes them, even keeping any girls born as a result to add to his dozens of victims, while leaving any infant boys born to be taken by the White Walkers. Incensed by the mere implication of debauchery, Craster declares himself a "[[HidingBehindReligion godly man]]" and threatens to kill any of the Night's Watch brothers who dare question his way of life.

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* [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating King Maegor I Targaryen]], the First of His Name, and also known as [[TheCaligula Maegor the Cruel]], [[TheUsurper usurped the throne]] from his nephew and promptly decapitated the one Archmaester who protested. As king, Maegor turned to brutal tactics to suppress the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheFaithOfTheSeven Faith of the Seven]], even riding on his dragon Balerion to burn down a Sept with all worshippers inside, using archers to pick off stragglers. Maegor proceeded to commit massacre after massacre, even passing off the skulls of poor smallfolk in the wrong place at the wrong time as members of the Faith's warriors. Worse still was Maegor's attitudes towards family, as he killed his own nephew in combat. When one of his wives gave birth to a "stillborn monstrosity", Maegor had her, everyone at the birth, and her entire family executed. Obsessed with having an heir, Maegor forcibly married three women, including his own niece. After having the Red Keep constructed, Maegor also [[ShootTheBuilder had the builders massacred]] to keep its secrets to himself. The books further reveal Maegor cut the limbs off a leader of the Poor Fellows and had another nephew tortured to death.

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* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Tyanna of the Tower]] is the [[LadyMacbeth third wife]] of Maegor the Cruel. A former Pentoshi courtesan rumored to dabble in alchemy and sorcery, Tyanna served as Maegor's [[TheSpymaster chief spy]], plotting the deaths of thousands for Maegor. When Maegor's nephews rebelled, Tyanna personally tortured Prince Viserys for nine days before he expired, with many, many more innocents dying in agony at [[TortureTechnician her hands]]. Tyanna would [[MasterPoisoner poison]] Maegor's other wives to ensure they birthed only stillborn monstrosities, including Queen Alys Harroway, who Tyanna herself tortured to death while dozens of Alys's suspected lovers died, along with Alys's entire House. Justly feared and despised during Maegor's reign, Tyanna was one of the few who could rival her husband for wickedness and sadism.

-->--From '''[[Characters/GameOfThronesRamsayBolton Ramsay Bolton's]]''' "Pink Letter"/"Bastard Letter" to [[Characters/GameOfThronesJonSnow Jon Snow]], ''Series/GameOfThrones'', "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS6E4BookOfTheStranger Book of the Stranger]]"

* [[RoyalBrat King Joffrey I Baratheon]] of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseBaratheonOfKingsLanding King's Landing]], [[TeensAreMonsters despite his young age]], stands out as one of the vilest characters in the series. While always shown to have a darker side, Joffrey finally crossed the line when he had Ned Stark executed, ensuring that the war with the Northerners would never reach a peaceful conclusion. Joffrey not only did this in front of Ned's daughter, Sansa, Joffrey's own fiancée, he then forced her to look at the decapitated heads of her father and household afterwards. This was then followed by a long period of DomesticAbuse during which Joffrey had her regularly beaten by his Kingsguard and threatened to rape her even after she married his uncle, Tyrion. As king, Joffrey reveled in his power over life and death, and his reign was filled with all manner of [[ForTheEvulz pointless cruelties]]. Joffrey's crimes included having a minstrel whose song offended him choose between losing his fingers or his tongue; attempting to have a drunken knight drowned in a cask of wine; firing on starving peasants with his crossbow; ordering his bodyguard to cut through a crowd of peasants to get at one of them who threw manure at him; nailing antlers to the heads of Stannis sympathizers and firing them from trebuchets as entertainment during the Battle of the Blackwater; and attempting to convince his grandfather to execute everyone who fought against him, regardless of whether or not they surrendered. A budding psychopath who believed being the king gave him the right to do whatever he liked, Joffrey's sadism was so great that he was well on his way to surpassing his predecessor as the next [[TheCaligula Mad King]] of the Seven Kingdoms.

* [[Characters/GameOfThronesEuronGreyjoy Euron Greyjoy]] once oversaw the burning of the Lannisport fleet. Banished from the Iron Islands by his brother Balon after the Greyjoy Rebellion, Euron takes to the seas to follow the "[[RapePillageAndBurn Old Way]]", torturing and robbing crews, [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil taking slaves]], and [[SerialRapist raping women by the thousands]]. At one point, Euron even [[TongueTrauma ripped the tongues out]] of his entire crew for interrupting his thoughts, even after they had just saved his life. Returning to the Iron Islands to murder Balon and claim the Salt Throne, Euron joins Queen Cersei Lannister in a war to conquer Westeros, intent on spreading his vile pillaging across the whole world.

* [[TheNoseless Rorge]] is a SerialRapist and SerialKiller--especially of [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--and the worst of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheBraveCompanions the Brave Companions]], his cruelty even exceeding their leader, Vargo Hoat. Freed along with his companion Biter, Rorge signs on with the "Bloody Mummers" after Arya Stark saves him from certain death, to which he responds by threatening to sodomize her with her own wooden sword. After the Brave Companions capture Jaime and Brienne, Rorge attempts to rape Brienne and threatens to injure her further if she screams. After Hoat's death, Rorge leads a band of brigands on the raid on Saltpans, resulting in the massacre of nearly the entire town. Rorge personally kills 20 men and rapes a 12-year-old girl, mutilating her then giving the girl to his men to mutilate her further. Upon encountering Brienne again, Rorge expresses a desire to cut off her legs and have her watch him rape a 10-year-old girl. Additional material indicates that he is also the reason why Biter is the way he is--finding an orphan boy, Rorge removed his tongue, filed his teeth, and made him fight dogs with only his new fangs.

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* [[AbusiveParents Craster]] is a vicious [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheFreeFolk Wildling]] and uneasy ally of [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheNightsWatch the Night's Watch]]. In his isolated keep in the wilderness, Craster beats and berates his harem of women into becoming his "[[WifeHusbandry wives]]", even [[VillainousIncest marrying and raping]] any females born as a result, starting as young as eleven or twelve. Any male child born to his women is left as a sacrifice to the Others, and Craster is happy to let the eldritch monsters drag his own children away to maintain his grotesque, hedonistic life.

* Yi Ti/[=YiTish=] [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireLegendaryFigures Mythology]]: The [[SorcerousOverlord Bloodstone Emperor]] is the [[DrivenByEnvy jealous second son]] of the semi-divine Opal Emperor. Murdering his own older sister, the Amethyst Empress, to take power over the paradisaical Great Empire of the Dawn, the Bloodstone Emperor begins worshipping an [[ArtifactOfDoom evil stone]] and marked his rule with mass murder and enslavement, [[IAmAHumanitarian feasting on the flesh of man]] and taking to practicing torture and [[{{Necromancy}} dark magic]]. So atrocious is the mass sin at the tyrant's hands that the benevolent Goddess, ancestor to the Bloodstone Emperor himself, leaves the world in peril to eradicate the latter's empire. Though his tyrannical regime fell in the following dark age, the Bloodstone Emperor's influence lingers still as followers of his sinister religion still practice his twisted teachings to present day.
* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Tyanna of the Tower]] is the [[LadyMacbeth third wife]] of Maegor the Cruel. A former Pentoshi courtesan rumored to dabble in alchemy and sorcery, Tyanna served as Maegor's [[TheSpymaster chief spy]], plotting the deaths of thousands for Maegor. When Maegor's nephews rebelled, Tyanna personally tortured Prince Viserys for nine days before he expired, with many, many more innocents dying in agony at [[TortureTechnician her hands]]. Tyanna would [[MasterPoisoner poison]] Maegor's other wives to ensure they birthed only stillborn monstrosities, including Queen Alys Harroway, who Tyanna herself tortured to death while dozens of Alys's suspected lovers died, along with Alys's entire House. Justly feared and despised during Maegor's reign, Tyanna was one of the few who could rival her husband for wickedness and sadism.
* [[BastardBastard Sers "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ulf (the) White]], aka "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder The Betrayers]]", are [[DragonRider dragon tamers]] descending from Targaryen bastards recruited by Queen Rhaenrya I Targaryen. Defecting to her rival-brother King Aegon II's side, Hugh and Ulf attack Tumbleton, scorching the town with their dragons and killing thousands in the burning and many more drowning in the river as they try to flee. Having Tumbleton's gates opened to [[RapePillageAndBurn sack]] it, women--and girls as young as eight--are raped, babies are impaled on spears, and Ulf personally makes a point of raping three maidens per night, feeding those who fail to satisfy him to his dragon. While Ulf demands Highgarden for his services, Hugh plans to depose Aegon and take the throne himself with his dragon, nailing horseshoes to the head of one man who angrily knocks off Hugh's self-made crown.

* [[Characters/GameOfThronesHouseClegane Ser Gregor Clegane]], the Mountain, is [[TheDreaded the most feared knight in Westeros]] and [[PsychoForHire works for]] Tywin Lannister and his family. A violent sadist who had once [[BigBrotherBully burned his brother Sandor's face]] for playing with one of his toys, Gregor is introduced in the Hand's tournament where he murders another contender via splintered lance; when Loras Tyrell manages to unhorse him, Gregor slaughters his own horse for failing him and attempts to murder Loras. When Gregor's own brother interferes, Gregor tries to kill him as well. When next seen, Gregor is head of the occupying Lannister forces at Harrenhal where he selects prisoners to be tortured to death by one of his men known as [[TortureTechnician the Tickler]]. When Harrenhal is lost, Gregor has every prisoner put to the sword, leaving hundreds of corpses for the next arrivals to find. In season 4, Gregor is seen practicing his sword skills by butchering prisoners in wholly one-sided duels before he enters into a Trial by Combat representing the Crown against Prince Oberyn Martell who wishes to force Gregor to confess to the murder of Oberyn's sister Elia and her children. When Gregor gets his hands on Oberyn, he [[EyeScream shoves his thumbs through the prince's eyes]] before [[YourHeadASplode squeezing his head until it explodes]], wanting to hurt the man as much as possible while he roars out his guilt in [[WouldHurtAChild killing the children]] before he raped and murdered Elia.

* [[BastardBastard Craster]] is a particularly nasty [[Characters/GameOfThronesWildlings Wildling]] who resides beyond the Wall, making his living as an ally to the Night's Watch by providing them with supplies, shelter and info. Craster delights in antagonizing them, however, hiding behind the fact he's necessary to them to avoid reprisal. What makes Craster sickening is how he rules his self-given kingdom: Craster routinely [[WifeHusbandry marries any daughters]] he has when they come of age, [[VillainousIncest beating and raping his many wives and daughter-wives]]. If they bear him sons, Craster [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices them]] by leaving them out for the White Walkers.

* [[BastardBastard Craster]] is a particularly vicious [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheFreeFolk Wildling]] and ally of the Night's Watch (each of whom identifies him as belonging to the opposing organization) who, in his own words, kneels to no man, including Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall. Living alone in a huge, ramshackle compound, Craster keeps a harem of women in line with [[DomesticAbuse brainwashing and violence]], breaking their spirits until they cannot rise up against him, despite the fact that they vastly outnumber him. All of these women are his "[[WifeHusbandry wives]]"; many of them are also [[VillainousIncest his daughters and granddaughters]]. When one of them becomes pregnant, Craster waits to see if it is a boy or a girl. If the child is female, he waits until she is old enough--eleven or twelve years old--and does his best to impregnate her. If the child is a boy, Craster leaves him in the woods as a sacrifice for the Others. Obsessed with his own hedonism, and raising the next generation of wives, Craster uses his allegiance with the Night's Watch to make sure that nobody, not even the Watch, interferes with his business.

* [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseTargaryenAncestors House Targaryen]]:
** [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating King Maegor I Targaryen]], the First of His Name--also known as [[TheCaligula Maegor the Cruel]]--[[TheUsurper usurped the throne]] from his nephew and promptly decapitated the one Archmaester who protested. As king, Maegor turned to brutal tactics to suppress the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheFaithOfTheSeven Faith of the Seven]], even riding on his dragon Balerion to burn down a Sept with all worshippers inside, using archers to pick off stragglers. Maegor proceeded to commit massacre after massacre, even passing off the skulls of poor smallfolk in the wrong place at the wrong time as members of the Faith's warriors. Following the capture of Wat the Hewer, a leader of the Poor Fellows, Maegor [[AnArmAndALeg had his limbs cut off]]. Worse still was Maegor's [[EvilUncle attitudes towards family]]: Maegor killed his own nephew in combat, and then had his second nephew captured and tortured to death. When one of his wives gave birth to a "stillborn monstrosity," Maegor had her, everyone at the birth, and her entire family executed. When his favorite wife, Tyanna of the Tower, revealed she'd poisoned said wife from jealousy, causing the monstrosity, Maegor [[AssholeVictim cut her heart out]] and gave it to the dogs. Obsessed with having an heir, Maegor forcibly married three women, including his own niece. After having the Red Keep constructed, Maegor also [[ShootTheBuilder had the builders massacred]] to keep its secrets to himself.
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Tyanna of the Tower]] is the [[LadyMacbeth third wife]] of Maegor the Cruel. A former Pentoshi courtesan rumored to dabble in alchemy and sorcery, Tyanna served as Maegor's [[TheSpymaster chief spy]], plotting the deaths of thousands for Maegor. When Maegor's nephews rebelled, Tyanna personally tortured Prince Viserys for nine days before he expired, with many, many more innocents dying in agony at [[TortureTechnician her hands]]. Tyanna would [[MasterPoisoner poison]] Maegor's other wives to ensure they birthed only stillborn monstrosities, including Queen Alys Harroway, who Tyanna herself tortured to death while dozens of Alys's suspected lovers died, along with Alys's entire House. Justly feared and despised during Maegor's reign, Tyanna was one of the few who could rival her husband for wickedness and sadism.

** [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseHoare House Hoare]]: [[TheCaligula King Qhored I Hoare]], aka "Qhored the Cruel", was a vicious Ironborn ruler who had [[SexSlave thousands of women taken and raped]]. Steeply taxing the lands in his domain, Qhored even cut out the hearts of one subject's sons [[DisproportionateRetribution for being late on tribute]] before drowning him, going on warring and reaving and spreading his tyranny for three-quarters of a century.
* Yi Ti/[=YiTish=]:
** [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireLegendaryFigures Mythology]]: The [[SorcerousOverlord Bloodstone Emperor]] is the [[DrivenByEnvy jealous second son]] of the semi-divine Opal Emperor. Murdering his own older sister, the Amethyst Empress, to take power over the paradisaical Great Empire of the Dawn, the Bloodstone Emperor begins worshipping an [[ArtifactOfDoom evil stone]] and marked his rule with mass murder and enslavement, [[IAmAHumanitarian feasting on the flesh of man]] and taking to practicing torture and [[{{Necromancy}} dark magic]]. So atrocious is the mass sin at the tyrant's hands that the benevolent Goddess, ancestor to the Bloodstone Emperor himself, leaves the world in peril to eradicate the latter's empire. Though his tyrannical regime fell in the following dark age, the Bloodstone Emperor's influence lingers still as followers of his sinister religion still practice his twisted teachings to present day.
** [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireEthnicGroups History]]: [[WarriorPrince Lo Bu]], the "Boy [[TooCleverByHalf Too Bold By Half]]", was the final inheritor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. Totally without mercy, when the neighboring Jogos Nhai stepped up the frequency of their regular raids, Lo Bu opted to [[FinalSolution exterminate not only the raiders but the entire Jogos Nhai people, even the women and the children]], to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem make a permanent example of them]]. At least one million Jogos Nhai perished as Lo Bu's armies [[RapePillageAndBurn marched across the plains]]--"unswayed by tributes, hostages, oaths of fealty or offerings of peace"--leaving behind nothing but slaughtered ruins. Lo Bu's cruelty dooms his entire empire in the end, as the Jogos Nhai, driven by the desperation to survive, slaughter Lo Bu and topple the Golden Empire for good.
* [[BastardBastard "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ser Ulf the White]], known as "[[{{Turncoat}} The Betrayers]]", are "[[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHistoricalOtherWesterosi Dragonseeds]]", descendants of Targaryen bastards, who successfully [[DragonRider tame dragons]] and are recruited into the forces of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. During the Battle of Tumbleton, however, they reveal their true colors: Defecting to Aegon II's side, the two attack Tumbleton with their dragons, scorching the town from end to end with their flames and killing all those caught up in the conflagration, with thousands of refugees burning or drowning in the river Mander. This eventually leads to a [[RapePillageAndBurn brutal sacking]] of the town, during which people were killed, women--as well as girls as young as eight and ten years old--were raped, and babies were impaled on spears. After the Fall of Tumbleton, Ulf rapes three maidens per night and feeds those who fail to please his urges to his dragon. Ulf demands the rulership of Highgarden for his service while Hugh intends to take the throne in the same way as Aegon the Conqueror--with a dragon. When one knight is so incensed he knocks Hugh's self-made crown off, Hugh has three horseshoes nailed to his head.

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** [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireLegendaryFigures Mythology]]: The [[SorcerousOverlord Bloodstone Emperor]] is the [[DrivenByEnvy jealous second son]] of the semi-divine Opal Emperor. Murdering his own older sister, the Amethyst Empress, to take power over the paradisaical Great Empire of the Dawn, the Bloodstone Emperor begins worshipping an evil stone and marked his rule with mass murder and enslavement, [[IAmAHumanitarian feasting on the flesh of man]] and taking to practicing dark magic. So atrocious is the mass sin at the tyrant's hands that the benevolent Goddess, ancestor to the Bloodstone Emperor himself, leaves the world in peril. Though his tyrannical regime fell in the following dark age, the Bloodstone Emperor's influence lingers still as followers of his sinister religion still practice his twisted teachings to present day.

* [[Characters/GameOfThronesEuronGreyjoy Euron Greyjoy]] once oversaw the burning of the Lannisport fleet. Banished from the Iron Islands by his brother King Balon after the Greyjoy Rebellion, Euron takes to the seas to follow the "[[RapePillageAndBurn Old Way]]", torturing and robbing crews, [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil taking slaves]], and [[SerialRapist raping women by the thousands]]. Returning to the Iron Islands to [[CainAndAbel murder Balon]] and claim the Salt Throne, Euron joins Cersei Lannister in a war to conquer Westeros, intent on spreading his vile pillaging across the whole world.

* [[BastardBastard "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ser Ulf the White]], known as "[[{{Turncoat}} The Betrayers]]", are "[[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHistoricalOtherWesterosi Dragonseeds]]", descendants of Targaryen bastards, who successfully [[DragonRider tame dragons]] and are recruited into the forces of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. During the [Battle of Tumbleton, however, they reveal their true colors: Defecting to Aegon II's side, the two attack Tumbleton with their dragons, scorching the town from end to end with their flames and killing all those caught up in the conflagration, with thousands of refugees burning or drowning in the river Mander. This eventually leads to a [[RapePillageAndBurn brutal sacking]] of the town, during which people were killed, women--as well as girls as young as eight and ten years old--were raped, and babies were impaled on spears. After the Fall of Tumbleton, Ulf rapes three maidens per night and feeds those who fail to please his urges to his dragon. Ulf demands the rulership of Highgarden for his service while Hugh intends to take the throne in the same way as Aegon the Conqueror--with a dragon. When one knight is so incensed he knocks Hugh's self-made crown off, Hugh has three horseshoes nailed to his head.

[[Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire The continent of Westeros]] and surrounding areas are home to [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters hundreds of characters]] from [[MoralityKitchenSink all over the moral spectrum]]. Even in this CrapsackWorld, however, there are still some characters who are [[CompleteMonster especially heinous]].

** [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireLegendaryFigures Mythology]]: The [[SorcerousOverlord Bloodstone Emperor]] is the [[DrivenByEnvy jealous second son]] of the semi-divine Opal Emperor. Murdering his own older sister, the Amethyst Empress, to take power over the paradisaical Great Empire of the Dawn, the Bloodstone Emperor begins worshipping an evil stone and marked his rule with mass murder and enslavement, [[IAmAHumanitarian feasting on the flesh of man]] and taking to practicing dark magic. So atrocious is the mass sin at the tyrant's hands, the benevolent Goddess, ancestor to the Bloodstone Emperor himself, leaves the world in peril; while his Empire was eradicated in the age that follows, followers of his [[ReligionOfEvil sinister religion]] still exist in the present day long after his fall.

* [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating King Maegor I Targaryen]], the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseTargaryenAncestors First of His Name]], and also known as Maegor the Cruel, [[TheUsurper usurped the throne]] from his nephew and promptly decapitated the one Archmaester who protested. As king, Maegor turned to brutal tactics to suppress the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheFaithOfTheSeven Faith of the Seven]], even riding on his dragon Balerion to burn down a Sept with all worshippers inside, using archers to pick off stragglers. Maegor proceeded to commit massacre after massacre, even passing off the skulls of poor smallfolk in the wrong place at the wrong time as members of the Faith's warriors. Following the capture of Wat the Hewer, a leader of the Poor Fellows, Maegor [[AnArmAndALeg had his limbs cut off]]. Worse still was Maegor's [[EvilUncle attitudes towards family]]: Maegor killed his own nephew in combat, and then had his second nephew captured and tortured to death. When one of his wives gave birth to a "stillborn monstrosity," Maegor had her, everyone at the birth, and her entire family executed. When his favorite wife, Tyanna of the Tower, revealed she'd poisoned said wife from jealousy, causing the monstrosity, Maegor [[AssholeVictim cut her heart out]] and gave it to the dogs. Obsessed with having an heir, Maegor forcibly married three women, including his own niece. After having the Red Keep constructed, Maegor also [[ShootTheBuilder had the builders massacred]] to keep its secrets to himself.
* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Tyanna of the Tower]] is the [[LadyMacbeth third wife]] of Maegor the Cruel. A former Pentoshi courtesan rumored to dabble in alchemy and sorcery, Tyanna served as Maegor's [[TheSpymaster chief spy]], plotting the deaths of thousands for Maegor. When Maegor's nephews rebelled, Tyanna personally tortured Prince Viserys for nine days before he expired, with many, many more innocents dying in agony at [[TortureTechnician her hands]]. Tyanna would [[MasterPoisoner poison]] Maegor's other wives to ensure they birthed only stillborn monstrosities, including Queen Alys Harroway, who Tyanna herself tortured to death while dozens of Alys's suspected lovers died, along with Alys's entire House. Justly feared and despised during Maegor's reign, Tyanna was one of the few who could rival her husband for wickedness and sadism.
* [[TeensAreMonsters Dalton Greyjoy]], one of the earlier [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseGreyjoyAncestors Greyjoys]], aka the "Red Kraken" and Lord-Reaper of Pyke during the Dance of the Dragons war, began his [[SerialRapist reaving]] when he was [[EnfantTerrible only a boy]]. At the age of 12, Dalton began killing men and taking [[SexSlave salt-wives]] for his own, with numerous successful raids behind him. During the Dance, Dalton indulged his bloodlust by raiding up and down the west coast, sacking cities and taking hundreds of women as salt-wives while quickly tiring of women and passing others to his brothers if he did not find them attractive enough. Attacking even noble houses and plotting to sack and conquer even pillars of Westeros such as Oldtown, Dalton was only stopped after one such salt-wife, known as Tess, opened his throat in revenge for her rape as he slept.
* [[BastardBastard "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ser Ulf the White]], known as "[[{{Turncoat}} The Betrayers]]", are "Dragonseeds", descendants of Targaryen bastards, who successfully [[DragonRider tame dragons]] and are recruited into the forces of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. During the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHistoricalOtherWesterosi Battle of Tumbleton]], however, they reveal their true colors: Defecting to Aegon II's side, the two attack Tumbleton with their dragons, scorching the town from end to end with their flames and killing all those caught up in the conflagration, with thousands of refugees burning or drowning in the river Mander. This eventually leads to a [[RapePillageAndBurn brutal sacking]] of the town, during which people were killed, women--as well as girls as young as eight and ten years old--were raped, and babies were impaled on spears. After Fall of Tumbleton, Ulf rapes three maidens per night and feeds those who fail to please his urges to his dragon. Ulf demands the rulership of Highgarden for his service while Hugh intends to take the throne in the same way as Aegon the Conqueror--with a dragon. When one knight is so incensed he knocks Hugh's self-made crown off, Hugh has three horseshoes nailed to his head.
* [[TheCaligula King Qhored I Hoare]], aka "Qhored the Cruel", was a vicious [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseHoare Ironborn ruler]] who had [[SexSlave thousands of women taken and raped]]. Steeply taxing the lands in his domain, Qhored even cut out the hearts of one subject's sons [[DisproportionateRetribution for being late on tribute]] before drowning him, going on warring and [[RapePillageAndBurn reaving]] and spreading his tyranny for three-quarters of a century.