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** ''ComicBook/DarkmanVsArmyOfDarkness'':
*** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen of Darkness]] is a spirit who [[DemonicPossession possesses Julie Hastings]] to ravage Darkman's city with Deadites. Having people killed en masse, the Queen plots to use the ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon Ex-Mortis]]'' to empower herself and create a worldwide empire of the dead. When her minions fail her, the Queen resurrects Darkman's [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] Robert G. Durant, and keeps killing to revive the fallen as more Deadite soldiers.
*** [[ResurrectedMurderer Robert G. Durant]], revived by the Queen of Darkness as her "field marshall", hopes to rule the empire of the dead with her. To bolster the Queen's forces, Durant beats people to death or severe trauma so they can be crafted into new Deadites. Dispatched to capture the heroes, Durant lures them out by taking over a news station, and threatens to cut a new anchor's fingers off one by one, lest Darkman confront him.



** [[TheChessmaster The Great Question]] is the [[DiabolicalMastermind diabolical arch-villain]] responsible for the creation of the titular heroes as well as the true mastermind behind the Steel Army. The Great Question sought to open a dimensional doorway to other worlds in order to [[GodhoodSeeker grant himself godhood]], so he orchestrated the Steel Army's numerous terrorist attacks claiming many lives in their quest to destroy all of Washington DC just to gain attention from the government. The Great Question would later use his PsychicPowers on John Aman, the Amazing Man, to take control of him, constantly driving the latter to murderous rage against his allies. In the ''Air Man'' tie-in comic, the Great Question has Thresher horribly tortured in order to locate the interdimensional doorway. After finding what he was after, the Great Question opens numerous portals that began destroying part of the world; murders his old foe The Eye; and shows no concerns that his actions would doom the Earth, as long as he achieves total power and godhood, and ends up [[EarthShatteringKaboom completely destroying the entire planet]].



** ''ComicBook/TheProtectors''
*** [[TheChessmaster The Great Question]] is the [[DiabolicalMastermind diabolical arch-villain]] responsible for the creation of the titular heroes as well as the true mastermind behind the Steel Army. The Great Question sought to open a dimensional doorway to other worlds in order to [[GodhoodSeeker grant himself godhood]], so he orchestrated the Steel Army's numerous terrorist attacks claiming many lives in their quest to destroy all of Washington DC just to gain attention from the government. The Great Question would later use his PsychicPowers on John Aman, the Amazing Man, to take control of him, constantly driving the latter to murderous rage against his allies. In the ''Air Man'' tie-in comic, the Great Question has Thresher horribly tortured in order to locate the interdimensional doorway. After finding what he was after, the Great Question opens numerous portals that began destroying part of the world; murders his old foe The Eye; and shows no concerns that his actions would doom the Earth, as long as he achieves total power and godhood, and ends up [[EarthShatteringKaboom completely destroying the entire planet]].
*** The [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] known as [[HeroKiller Mr. Monday]], real name Professor Erwin Montag, is the [[StarterVillain first foe]] the Protectors faced as well as the commander of the Steel Army. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment He begins the story]] by leading a [[CopKiller massacre at a police station]] just to establish a message. Declaring his intent to raze Washington, D.C. to the ground, Monday leads his army across the US, killing civilians and cops alike in his mission of attempting to assassinate the founder of the Protectors and former superhero Philip Reinhart. Mr. Monday, under orders of the Great Question, lures Night Mask to a trap and takes sadistic pleasure in torturing him before killing the young hero. After his defeat, Mr. Monday breaks out of prison, leading to the death of multiple soldiers, and goes off killing Air Man and Arc, taking sadistic glee on killing two more heroes.
*** ''ComicBook/{{Gravestone}}'' issues #1-3: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Night-Plague]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient]], highly sadistic creature that threatens to bring [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt doomsday to the world]]. Once summoned by a renegade sorcerer in the past, the entity was responsible for wiping out {{Atlantis}} and its population. Returning in the present by possessing the body of long-deceased teen named Melissa Grant, murdering her whole family, the Night-Plague resurrects a [[ZombieApocalypse horde of zombies]] to devour everything in their path, while attempting to slowly kill Gravestone.
*** ''ComicBook/{{Gravestone}}'' issue #6--"The Last Laugh": [[MonsterClown Jug]] is a seemingly normal clown and performer who is in actuality a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent bloodsucking vampire]] who was pursued by Gravestone over the years. Having feasted on the blood of peasants and royal nobles in the past, Jug throughout the centuries is responsible for a series of murders and kidnappings where he uses his performances as a secret hunting ground to eat. Claiming the lives of several innocents, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], Jug plans on consuming Gravestone's blood so he'll become completely unstoppable.
*** ''ComicBook/TheFerret'' issue #10--"Chains of Love": The nameless SerialKiller is a mysterious supranormal who uses a biker bar as means to hunt down young women, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating]] and [[ManOnFire burning]] them to death with his power-ignited chains. Already claiming the lives of six women, he tracks down a detective attempting to catch him, attempting to make her his seventh victim.

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** ''ComicBook/TheProtectors''
*** [[TheChessmaster The Great Question]] is the [[DiabolicalMastermind diabolical arch-villain]] responsible for the creation of the titular heroes as well as the true mastermind behind the Steel Army. The Great Question sought to open a dimensional doorway to other worlds in order to [[GodhoodSeeker grant himself godhood]], so he orchestrated the Steel Army's numerous terrorist attacks claiming many lives in their quest to destroy all of Washington DC just to gain attention from the government. The Great Question would later use his PsychicPowers on John Aman, the Amazing Man, to take control of him, constantly driving the latter to murderous rage against his allies. In the ''Air Man'' tie-in comic, the Great Question has Thresher horribly tortured in order to locate the interdimensional doorway. After finding what he was after, the Great Question opens numerous portals that began destroying part of the world; murders his old foe The Eye; and shows no concerns that his actions would doom the Earth, as long as he achieves total power and godhood, and ends up [[EarthShatteringKaboom completely destroying the entire planet]].
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''ComicBook/TheProtectors'': The [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] known as [[HeroKiller Mr. Monday]], real name Professor Erwin Montag, is the [[StarterVillain first foe]] the Protectors faced as well as the commander of the Steel Army. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment He begins the story]] by leading a [[CopKiller massacre at a police station]] just to establish a message. Declaring his intent to raze Washington, D.C. to the ground, Monday leads his army across the US, killing civilians and cops alike in his mission of attempting to assassinate the founder of the Protectors and former superhero Philip Reinhart. Mr. Monday, under orders of the Great Question, lures Night Mask to a trap and takes sadistic pleasure in torturing him before killing the young hero. After his defeat, Mr. Monday breaks out of prison, leading to the death of multiple soldiers, and goes off killing Air Man and Arc, taking sadistic glee on killing two more heroes.
** 'ComicBook/{{Gravestone}}'':
*** ''ComicBook/{{Gravestone}}'' issues Issues #1-3: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Night-Plague]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient]], highly sadistic creature that threatens to bring [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt doomsday to the world]]. Once summoned by a renegade sorcerer in the past, the entity was responsible for wiping out {{Atlantis}} and its population. Returning in the present by possessing the body of long-deceased teen named Melissa Grant, murdering her whole family, the Night-Plague resurrects a [[ZombieApocalypse horde of zombies]] to devour everything in their path, while attempting to slowly kill Gravestone.
*** ''ComicBook/{{Gravestone}}'' issue Issue #6--"The Last Laugh": [[MonsterClown Jug]] is a seemingly normal clown and performer who is in actuality a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent bloodsucking vampire]] who was pursued by Gravestone over the years. Having feasted on the blood of peasants and royal nobles in the past, Jug throughout the centuries is responsible for a series of murders and kidnappings where he uses his performances as a secret hunting ground to eat. Claiming the lives of several innocents, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], Jug plans on consuming Gravestone's blood so he'll become completely unstoppable.
*** ** ''ComicBook/TheFerret'' issue #10--"Chains of Love": The nameless SerialKiller is a mysterious supranormal who uses a biker bar as means to hunt down young women, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating]] and [[ManOnFire burning]] them to death with his power-ignited chains. Already claiming the lives of six women, he tracks down a detective attempting to catch him, attempting to make her his seventh victim.
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* ''1903: Manhunt'', by Federico Galeotti & Francesco Mazzoli: [[AxCrazy Gavin Miller]] is a bloodthirsty {{outlaw}} who seeks revenge on the members of his gang who sold him out years prior. Tracking one member down and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesomely torturing him to death]], Miller happily tortures and murders innocents who stand in his way, even luring a squad of deputies after him into a trap that sees them all getting blown up. After killing the final member, Miller attempts to murder said member's innocent daughter for no reason.


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** Issue #137's "Brainwashed!": [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Malva]] is the vile leader of the Kruzians from the planet Nova. After the peaceful species with which they shared the planet drive them off after the Kruzians try to exterminate them, Malva sets her sights on Earth as their new home and base of operations. She leads a [[AlienInvasion destructive invasion]], intent on [[KillAllHumans completely destroying humanity]]. When Magicman tries to fight the invasion, Malva has him captured and brainwashed into believing he is a Kruzian, unleashing him on Earth's military and using him as a propaganda tool. After Magicman is freed from her control and goes to Nova to ask for help, Malva brainwashes him once again to turn him against potential allies while her army finishes its conquest of Earth.
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* ''Creator/HarlanEllison's Dream Corridor'''s adaptation of "Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream", by Creator/JohnByrne: [[DigitalAbomination AM]] is a misanthropic MasterComputer who [[MisanthropeSupreme hates humanity with all of his being]]. Having wiped out most life on Earth when he gained sentience, AM keeps 5 humans around and extends their lifespans so he can unendingly torture them both physically and mentally. AM starves, mutilates, {{mind rape}}s, and deforms the group of humans, keeping them as his prisoners for over a century while giving them false {{hope spot}}s to make their torment worse. When Ted kills the rest of the group to spare them the hellish existence, AM spitefully punishes Ted by turning him into a formless, immortal blob whose mind is nonetheless intact and able to comprehend the passing of time, so Ted will [[AndIMustScream suffer for eternity]].

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* ''ComicBook/ChildsPlayInnovation'': [[Characters/ChildsPlayChucky Chucky]] is just as vile as ever. In the first issue, he kills three people, and gets another man arrested [[FrameUp by making it seem like he committed the murders]]. In the second issue, Chucky tries to ruin Karen and Mike's lives even more while also managing to kill one of Karen's doctors and one of her orderlies while trying to kill Karen and Mike, [[HeroKiller succeeding in killing the latter]]. In the fourth issue, it's revealed that Chucky indirectly killed several innocent sapient toys by using them as {{Human Shield}}s. In the fifth issue, Chucky kills an employee in an amusement park; murders a guest visiting the park; tries to kill dozens of other theme park guests by trying to have them violently thrown out of a ride; and tries to kill an innocent family, including two [[WouldHurtAChild children]].

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[[Characters/ChildsPlayChucky Chucky]] is just as vile as ever. In the first issue, he kills three people, and gets another man arrested [[FrameUp by making it seem like he committed the murders]]. In the second issue, Chucky tries to ruin Karen and Mike's lives even more while also managing to kill one of Karen's doctors and one of her orderlies while trying to kill Karen and Mike, [[HeroKiller succeeding in killing the latter]]. In the fourth issue, it's revealed that Chucky indirectly killed several innocent sapient toys by using them as {{Human Shield}}s. In the fifth issue, Chucky kills an employee in an amusement park; murders a guest visiting the park; tries to kill dozens of other theme park guests by trying to have them violently thrown out of a ride; and tries to kill an innocent family, including two [[WouldHurtAChild children]].children]].
** ''ComicBook/{{Chucky|Devils Due}}'', by Brian Pulido: [[Characters/ChildsPlayChucky Chucky]], full name [[SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray]], is the same sadistic KillerDoll as always, here seeking revenge for his defeat in ''Film/BrideOfChucky''. Chucky hunts down Detective Preston and uses power tools to kill the man, his lover, and their dog, then kidnaps his enemy Jade's fiancé Jessie. Chucky begins murdering all of Jade's friends--including a small child she babysits--in grotesque ways and framing Jessie for it, planning to let Jessie take the fall for the killing spree and [[TargetedToHurtTheHero leave Jade with a broken, miserable life of suffering]]. Along the way, Chucky routinely, creatively slaughters entire groups of people, from camping teens to armed police, before trying to cap off his ruination of Jade's life by torturing and murdering Jessie.


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** Issue #145's "Case of the Bottled Microbes": Mr. Ravel is a foreign agent tasked with delivering deadly germs to America so other agents can [[WaterSourceTampering spread them through the country's water reservoirs]]. Ravel tests germs on a random lake before coming to New York and gathering other agents. Ravel presents them with germs and shows glee at what the germs will be used for.
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* ''ComicBook/TheBeyond'':
** Issue 10's "Release from Satan's Scourge": {{Satan}} himself is a wicked master of evil who plans on bringing HellOnEarth and eternally torturing humanity. He was defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in a book]] by Duke Black when his demons terrorised the Duke's land, before being freed by the skeptical Gil Jenkins. Satan sends his demons to kill Duke's numerous descendants and destroy his grave, [[CruelMercy letting Gil live]] so he could see Satan spreading his evil across the world.
** Issue 23's "Minion of the Bloody Horsemen":
*** [[AmbitionIsEvil Hans Richter]] is a bloodthirsty and ambitious [[StateSec S.S.]] colonel whose [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII service]] earned him the moniker "Butcher of Rome". After being saved from execution and brought to AncientRome by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Hans willingly becomes their servant in return for power. Organising a slave rebellion and blackmailing the Emperor into giving him a Legion for the conquest of Africa, Hans plots to take the hand of the Emperor's daughter in marriage and take control of the Roman Empire. He leads his army to [[RapePillageAndBurn plunder and raze]] Africa's cities while spreading the Horsemen's evil, at one point ordering a crowd of starving people who asked him for bread killed. Returning to Rome after a plague kills half of his Legion, Hans kills the Emperor after learning his daughter has been struck by plague, declaring he doesn't need the Horsemen anymore and that he alone will conquer Rome.
*** The Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse themselves are evil fiends who brought Hans to ancient Rome. Promising to make him the most powerful man in UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire if he serves them, the Horsemen assist him with organising a slave rebellion. The Horsemen join Hans in his conquest of Africa, assisting him while spreading their evil, leading to lots of death, starvation, and plague. Not even people at their side are safe, as a plague kills half of Hans's legion and their evil spreads to Rome as well, bringing the Empire to the brink of collapse.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Abbott}}'', written by Creator/SaladinAhmed: [[EvilSorcerer Professor P.H. Bellcamp]] is a sorcerer from the Umbra, a malignant force in opposition to life itself. A elitist White supremacist intellectual from Detroit, Bellcamp considers a more egalitarian society as a [[EvilReactionary degradation of society]] and carries out the murder and mutilation of many Black Americans and Mexican immigrants to turn them into chimeras--[[AndIMustScream whose existence is so horrifying that they welcome their own deaths]]--to serve as his slaves. When the heroic journalist Elena Abbott investigates the murders and confronts Bellcamp, he tells her that he considers that [[TheChosenOne the Illuminator]] being a working Black woman is a insult from the Light itself before trying to kill her and then targetting Elena's friends, killing Sebastian and turning Wardell into a satyr to capture Elena. Bellcamp tells her about his plan to turn her into a Harpy and corrupt her powers [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil to create a "New Bloody Age of Heroes"]].

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* ''ComicBook/{{Abbott}}'', written by Creator/SaladinAhmed: In her years fighting against the Umbra and its followers, [[IntrepidReporter Elena Abbott]] fought some truly vile enemies that lived up to their role as enemies of life itself.
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[[EvilSorcerer Professor P.H. Bellcamp]] is a sorcerer from the Umbra, a malignant force in opposition to life itself. A An elitist White supremacist intellectual from Detroit, Bellcamp considers a more egalitarian society as a [[EvilReactionary degradation of society]] and carries out the murder and mutilation of many Black Americans and Mexican immigrants to turn them into chimeras--[[AndIMustScream whose existence is so horrifying that they welcome their own deaths]]--to serve as his slaves. When the heroic journalist Elena Abbott investigates the murders and confronts Bellcamp, he tells her that he considers that [[TheChosenOne the Illuminator]] being a working Black woman is a an insult from the Light itself before trying to kill her and then targetting targeting Elena's friends, killing Sebastian and turning Wardell into a satyr to capture Elena. Bellcamp tells her about his plan to turn her into a Harpy and corrupt her powers [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil to create a "New Bloody Age of Heroes"]].Heroes"]].
** ''Abbott: 1973'': [[SerialKiller John Smith]] is a [[StrawMisogynist misogynistic]] murderer who uses his influences and supernatural powers to kill countless woman since "before this continent had a name", while taunting cops and journalists by [[CallingCard leaving a pin with his initials]] near the corpses of his victims. In 1973, John works alongside Hunter and Madame [=DeCadillac=] to break the spirit of Elena Abbott, killing Mafiosi to kidnap Elena's girlfriend Amelia and trying to turn Elena into another of his "toys".

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** Issue #8's "The Evil Ones!": The [[AntagonistTitle titular Evil Ones]] are spirits from the Fifth Dimension who every night go to the Human World and wreak chaos [[ForTheEvulz for their amusement]]. The Evil Ones bring wars, famines, and other evils both big and small upon humanity. When test pilot George Bailey gets lost in the Spirit World, the Evil Ones send him visions of their evil, including those closest to him dying at their hands, because it is more amusing than immediately killing him. They [[DemonicPossession possess]] his best friend and wife, driving both to their deaths, before blowing up the airfield Bailey works at and finishing him off.



** "[[TortureTechnician Anvil Charlie]]", real name [[{{Sadist}} Chareg]], is a native who sells out his own people to slavery for the chance of immunity. Named so for his proficiency with an [[DropTheHammer anvil hammer]], Charlie takes delight in torturing any slave who complains by breaking their bones with his hammer with many tortured and killed by him, dismissing their pleas that his victims used to be his friends. When Django himself is brought to him, Charlie revels in the chance to torture him and intends to go for Django's "[[GroinAttack soft oysters]]" as well.

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** "[[TortureTechnician Anvil Charlie]]", real name [[{{Sadist}} Chareg]], is a native who sells out his own people to slavery for the chance of immunity. Named so for his proficiency with an [[DropTheHammer anvil hammer]], hammer, Charlie takes delight in torturing any slave who complains by breaking their bones with his hammer with many tortured and killed by him, dismissing their pleas that his victims used to be his friends. When Django himself is brought to him, Charlie revels in the chance to torture him and intends to go for Django's "[[GroinAttack soft oysters]]" as well.

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** Issue #40's "Heart of the Snow Maiden": [[EvilIsDeathlyCold The Ice King]] is an evil spirit of cold who [[{{Yandere}} grows obsessed]] with the beautiful Snow Maiden. When she falls in love with the man from the village, the Ice King sends an avalanche to destroy the village and [[IfICantHaveYou kill the lovers]] in revenge. Feeling that the Snow Maiden has been revived, the Ice King travels the world to claim her for himself, destroying everything in his path.



*** Issues #5 ("Thumbtacks & Yarn") & #38 ( [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Aegyptus]] is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling them into slavery]] to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an EldritchAbomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.

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*** Issues #5 ("Thumbtacks & Yarn") & #38 ( #38: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Aegyptus]] is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling them into slavery]] to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an EldritchAbomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.



* ''ComicBook/CatAndMouseRolandMann'' Vol. 2--2019-2023: [[TheQueenpin Lorinda Johnson]], otherwise known as the "[[TheCorrupter Widowmaker]]" is the [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] head of an [[MurderInc assassination]] and [[SexSlave forced child prostitution]] racket who regularly takes in runaway girls, manipulates them, and trains them as [[TykeBomb underage assassins]], aka "Widows", one of whom was Bobbi Vasquez herself. Additionally, the Widowmaker regularly threatens the families of her Widows who refuse to comply. Once she has ordered Bobbi to kill the New Orleans Police Officer Brett Huffman--Bobbi's would-be brother-in-law--after the latter attempts to expose her, when Bobbi doesn't follow through, the Widowmaker eventually makes Bobbi accompany her during one of her HumanTrafficking shipments, attempting to deflect Bobbi's subsequent confrontation. When Bobbi subsequently refuses to comply with the Widowmaker's order that she kill Brett, the Widowmaker threatens Jennifer--Bobbi's sister--if Bobbi doesn't comply. Upon finally encountering Keith "Demon" Greyson, Brett himself, Bobbi, and the warrior Kunoichi in a showdown, the Widowmaker [[FieryCoverup detonates her base of operations before escaping]].



* ''ComicBook/{{Empress}}'': [[BigBad King Morax]] is the psychopathic [[GalacticConqueror ruler of much of the galaxy]]. Prone to [[TheParanoiac killing his subjects for the most petty offenses]], Morax's cruelty drives his wife, Emporia, to flee from him, taking her children with her. Incensed at his wife's "disobedience", Morax commands a manhunt to hunt her down at any cost. He [[BadBoss kills his commanders]] for failing to apprehend Emporia and their children and orders an entire city torched as a warning to those who might harbor them. Personally leading the manhunt, Morax slaughters anyone who had previously encountered the runaways as punishment for letting them get away. When he finally tracks down Emporia, he orders both her and [[OffingTheOffspring their children]] sentenced to death in the arena, with his reasoning being that he cannot tolerate his children's presence due to them being a constant reminder of his wife's insubordination.


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** Issue #52's "The Girl in the Grotto": [[AmbitionIsEvil Genly]] is an ambitious WitchDoctor in a tribe that lived before humans. When her tribe discovered Genly used her powers for evil, they imprisoned her in a cave and put her into perpetual sleep. After being freed by professor Harley Mellon, Genly seduces his ambitious assistant Jim Edwards into joining her in [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]]. Genly plans to provoke a nuclear war and give humanity a choice between proclaiming her their supreme ruler so she would stop it, or destruction of the world. While promising Jim that they would rule together, she reveals her plan to leave him to die after detonating an hydrogen bomb in Europe, hypnotising him into completing the mission while she escapes to safety.

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** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Aegyptus]] is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling them into slavery]] to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an EldritchAbomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.
** Issue #17--"Sorrowsday": [[BloodKnight Krigari Ironhand]] started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength]], becoming a [[GalacticConqueror galactic tyrant]] with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the HeroicSacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to Krigari's [[OmnicidalManiac universe-destroying crusade]].

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*** Issues #5 ("Thumbtacks & Yarn") & #38 (
[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Aegyptus]] is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling them into slavery]] to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an EldritchAbomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.
** *** Issue #17--"Sorrowsday": [[BloodKnight Krigari Ironhand]] started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength]], becoming a [[GalacticConqueror galactic tyrant]] with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the HeroicSacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to Krigari's [[OmnicidalManiac universe-destroying crusade]].

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** Issue #17--"Sorrowsday": [[BloodKnight Krigari Ironhand]] started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who [[AuthorityGrantsAsskicking slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength]], becoming a [[GalacticConqueror galactic tyrant]] with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the HeroicSacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to Krigari's [[OmnicidalManiac universe-destroying crusade]].

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** Issue #17--"Sorrowsday": [[BloodKnight Krigari Ironhand]] started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who [[AuthorityGrantsAsskicking [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength]], becoming a [[GalacticConqueror galactic tyrant]] with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the HeroicSacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to Krigari's [[OmnicidalManiac universe-destroying crusade]].



* ''ComicBook/FortyCoffins'', by Rodolfo Santullo & Jok: {{Dracula}} turns out to be the enigmatic stowaway aboard the ''Demeter''. Dracula picks the crew as sustenance for his long journey from Transylvania to England, picking them off one by one and [[DrivenToMadness driving them all insane]]. After he's slain all but one crew member, Dracula spends the duration of the remaining voyage tormenting the captain by staring at him in the silent dark, before coming onto England's shores to claim countless more victims, beginning with the first man who finds the captain's diary.



*** ''ComicBook/{{Gravestone}}'' issue #6--"The Last Laugh": [[MonsterClown Jug]] is a seemingly normal clown and performer who is in actuality a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent bloodsucking vampire]] who was pursued by Gravestone over the years. Having feasted on the blood of peasants and royal nobles in the past, Jug throughout the centuries is responsible for a series of murders and kidnappings where he uses his performances as a secret hunting ground to eat. Claiming the lives of several innocents, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], Jug plans on consuming Gravestone's blood so he'll become completely unstoppable.



* ''ComicBook/FortyCoffins'', by Rodolfo Santullo & Jok: {{Dracula}} turns out to be the enigmatic stowaway aboard the ''Demeter''. Dracula picks the crew as sustenance for his long journey from Transylvania to England, picking them off one by one and [[DrivenToMadness driving them all insane]]. After he's slain all but one crew member, Dracula spends the duration of the remaining voyage tormenting the captain by staring at him in the silent dark, before coming onto England's shores to claim countless more victims, beginning with the first man who finds the captain's diary.

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* ''ComicBook/CaptainAction'' (Moonstone Comics's 2008-2009 run): Franchise/{{Fantomas}}, from issue #1's short story written by Paul Kupperberg, seeks an "elemental farewell" to Paris. To this end, he concocts his schemes to rig fireworks during a Parisian celebration to rain death upon the revelers; sets off bombs in the metro to [[BuriedAlive bury scores alive]] and [[ManOnFire burns many others to death]] in the Parisian gardens. Plotting to [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom overflow the Parisian sewers to bury huge sections of the city underwater]], Fantômas [[CardCarryingVillain happily gloats over his lack of conscience and enjoyment of mass murder]].

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* ''ComicBook/CaptainAction'' (Moonstone Comics's 2008-2009 run): Franchise/{{Fantomas}}, Literature/{{Fantomas}}, from issue #1's short story written by Paul Kupperberg, seeks an "elemental farewell" to Paris. To this end, he concocts his schemes to rig fireworks during a Parisian celebration to rain death upon the revelers; sets off bombs in the metro to [[BuriedAlive bury scores alive]] and [[ManOnFire burns many others to death]] in the Parisian gardens. Plotting to [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom overflow the Parisian sewers to bury huge sections of the city underwater]], Fantômas [[CardCarryingVillain happily gloats over his lack of conscience and enjoyment of mass murder]].


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* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}: +100'' & ''Mimic'': [[SoftSpokenSadist Beauregard Leander Salt]] is the progenitor of the Salt Clan, who's [[VillainousLegacy responsible for all the misery the heroes currently face]], despite [[PosthumousCharacter being dead over a century]]. Once known as "[[SerialKiller The Phonebook Killer]]", Salt was so sadistically sociopathic that he was unaffected by the Crossed Virus. Realizing the self-destructing nature of the Crossed and wishing to keep his heaven of violence and chaos going indefinitely, Salt orchestrated a ploy to prevent the extinction of the Crossed and draw out the suffering of humanity for as long as possible. [[DarkMessiah Salt]] would spread his messages and philosophy across the country, making him a prophet figure towards the other Crossed, while experimenting on his numerous members, weeding out hostile ones as he tortures and teaches The Crossed to become intelligent and able to bide their time. Creating The Salt Clan, promoting several of his most obedient Crossed to leadership roles across the country, Salt orders all of them to build their strength in numbers and bide their time and, within the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak, [[RapePillageAndBurn commit their horrid acts]], before going back to wait more decades to repeat the cycle. Even elderly and bedridden, Salt is proud over his actions recreating The Crossed and dies content the world will forever be a hellish nightmare. Even within the [[CrapsackWorld dark setting]] of ''Crossed'', Salt is easily the worst of them all.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Abbott}}'', written by Creator/SaladinAhmed: [[EvilSorcerer Professor P.H. Bellcamp]] is a sorcerer from the Umbra, a malignant force in opposition to life itself. A elitist White supremacist intellectual from Detroit, Bellcamp considers a more egalitarian society as a [[EvilReactionary degradation of society]] and carries out the murder and mutilation of many Black Americans and Mexican immigrants to turn them into chimeras--[[AndIMustScream whose existence is so horrifying that they welcome their own deaths]]--to serve as his slaves. When the heroic journalist Elena Abbott investigates the murders and confronts Bellcamp, he tells her that he considers that [[TheChosenOne the Illuminator]] being a working Black woman is a insult from the Light itself before trying to kill her and then targetting Elena's friends, killing Sebastian and turning Wardell into a satyr to capture Elena. Bellcamp tells her about his plan to turn her into a Harpy and corrupt her powers [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil to create a "New Bloody Age of Heroes"]].



* ''ComicBook/{{Crashing}}'', written by Matthew Klein:
** [[DiabolicalMastermind Gordian]] is a supervillain and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] whose [[FauxAffablyEvil façade]] as a polite patient of Dr. Rose Osler hides a ruthless mastermind. Personally funding Don's crusade on inhibiting the rights of powered people, Gordian engages in a brutal battle with Rex Glassman, killing dozens in the Senate house to ensure the bill gets passed so he can set up a BlackMarket for the desperate powered people]], including dangerous experimental vitamins and a task force to kill any of his enemies. When Rose attempts to refuse to help Gordian more than their deal required, Gordian sends Herakles to kidnap her, resulting in the deaths of several innocents and causing Rose to fall OffTheWagon, and claiming the life of the teenage Piper. In order to have her back as his doctor, Gordian kidnaps Rose's husband Don to make him his business partner when he runs for office, and when the final battle against Rex gets him and the others trapped under rubble, Gordian attempts to manipulate Rose into taking the dangerous vitamins to save his life, disregarding her addiction.
** [[TheHeavy Herakles]] is Gordian's [[FauxAffablyEvil suave]] yet brutal [[TheDragon right hand]] who serves as the pure muscle for his boss's heinous crimes. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] subtly threatening to murder Rose, her husband, and her assistants if she doesn't save Gordian's life through her surgery. Coming to kidnap Rose to make her stay as Gordian's personal physician, [[SoftSpokenSadist Herakles]] enjoys taunting Rose and Don as he plans to murder Don to cover his tracks, before blowing up the apartment complex when Piper rescues Rose, killing several innocents in collateral and causing Piper's death due to her exhaustion and Rose's addiction resurfacing during an operation. Kidnapping Don for Gordian, Herakles causes the base to collapse during the battle and proceeds to leave everyone, including his own boss, to die under the rubble, escaping any justice for his crimes.



* ''ComicBook/DeadMall'', by Adam Cesare, David Stoll, & Justin Birch: The Penn Mills Galleria is a sadistic GeniusLoci in the form of the Mall. It uses its illusion powers to lure and imprison countless people, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], and [[ForcedTransformation transforms them]] into deformed creatures on whom it feeds. When a thief who is immune to its powers keeps breaking in and out of it, the Mall eventually condemns and imprisons him while letting him keep some of his will, occasionally letting him sneak out of its grounds while setting traps for him as a twisted game. When five teenagers break into it on the night before its demolition, the Mall lures them one by one into its clutches while planning to let one of them go so the demolition would be delayed. At the end, it drops the only girl who survived where the demolition crew will find her, and eagerly awaits new victims who will come in search of her friends.



* ''ComicBook/{{Dragon}}'', written by Creator/SaladinAhmed: [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Dracula]] was an [[BigBrotherBully abusive bully]] to his brother Radu through their younger years. After being taken in by the Ottomans, Vlad embraced his inner sadist while beginning to murder people and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] others. Making a [[DealWithTheDevil pact with dark powers]], Vlad becomes the nightmarish "[[{{Dracula}} Dragon]]", slaughtering innocents en masse and corrupting others into vampire murderers. Ultimately returning to kill a grave robber, Vlad gloats that as long as there is evil, the Dragon shall never truly die.



* ''ComicBook/FrightNight'' (NOW Comics) Issues #16-19 ("Potion Motion" to "Daddy's Girl"): [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Jacob Hinnault]], the allegedly kind father of Charley Brewster's girlfriend Natalia, is secretly the vampiric leader of the Legion of Eternal Night. Reviving Jerry Dandridge, Jacob plots to use the mighty elder vampire to conquer the planet and reduce all of humanity to livestock. Killing any vampires who oppose his [[FantasticCasteSystem caste system]], even having the heroes wipe out a group of dissidents, Jacob later attempts to kill his own sister and have Jerry turn Natalia for his army.

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Issues #16-19 ("Potion #16-19--"Potion Motion" to "Daddy's Girl"): [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Girl": [[VampireMonarch Jacob Hinnault]], the allegedly kind father of Charley Brewster's girlfriend Natalia, is secretly the vampiric leader of the Legion of Eternal Night. Reviving Jerry Dandridge, Jacob plots to use the mighty elder vampire to conquer the planet and reduce all of humanity to livestock. Killing any vampires who oppose his [[FantasticCasteSystem caste system]], even having the heroes wipe out a group of dissidents, Jacob later attempts to kill his own sister and have Jerry turn Natalia for his army.army.
** Issue #20--"The Charge of the Dead Brigade": Mr. Jones is a farmer who turns travelers into zombies, [[AndIMustScream left aware but unable to do anything]] except [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil follow his orders]] to work his farm. Many of his victims suffer for over a year, and when the heroes free them, Jones arrives to furiously shoot his former slaves dead.
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** Issue #21's "Deity of Death":
*** [[EverybodyHatesHades Zeni]] is the god of violent death who demands daily {{Human Sacrifice}}s from his followers. He was originally worshiped across the Southwest Pacific until only a cult on the island of Ilomar remained. After being woken up by his followers, Zeni announces his desire for his cult to take control of the world and continue supplying him with endless sacrifices. At one point, Zeni destroys the walls of the prison his followers plan to attack to gather new recruits. To celebrate his plot to [[NukeEm nuke Washington. D.C.]] as a first strike against humanity, Zeni has the cult kidnap Jim's LoveInterest Ruth and plots to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten have Jim sacrifice her as proof of his loyalty to him]].
*** HighPriestess Kurreli is the leader of Ilomar's cult and is devoted to Zeni's evil ways. After learning that Jim Cullen was accidentally branded as Zeni's follower, Kurreli has him kidnapped and brought to Ilomar, where she uses her powers to reawaken Zeni using human sacrifice. She recruits Jim into the cult and sends him to gather new recruits, while she continues to preside over the daily slaughter in Zeni's name and plots to spread his rule across the world. Kurreli eventually kidnaps Ruth on Zeni's orders and tries to get Jim to sacrifice her to fully devote himself to evil.
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* ''ComicBook/ForbiddenWorlds'':
** Issue #11's "The Wax Demons": UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is the most infamous historical villain brought back as an unintended consequence of Professor Sherman's DealWithTheDevil. Hitler unites other resurrected villains and leads them in stealing an atom bomb, which he plans to [[NukeEm drop on New York]], tricking America into starting WorldWarIII in order to destroy humanity.
** Issue #12's "The Chest of Death": Abhen the Slayer is an evil genie who terrorised Persia until he was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]] by the good wizard Kasmar. After being brought to America and lost by Kasmar's descendant, Abhen kills everybody who opens the chest he is imprisoned within, with ten kills making him powerful enough to escape his prison and [[KillAllHumans wipe out humanity]].
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* ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent The Lich]], as vile as in the cartoon, continues his crusade to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] after his defeat in Princess Bubblegum's body, taking physical form again to use a BagOfHolding to suck up thousands across Ooo, with the ultimate intent to suck up the entire planet and throw it all into the sun. Even destroyed, the remnants of the Lich's power continue to horrify and torment [[Characters/AdventureTimeFinn Finn]], with an echo of the Lich's power creating a dungeon to MindRape the heroes -- taunting the Ice King/Simon Petrikov with an image of his old love Betty and forcing him to watch as she fell apart -- and twisted a sapient tree into a horrible monster, both in preparation to eventually recuperate and destroy life again.

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* ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent [[Characters/AdventureTimeTheLich The Lich]], as vile as in the cartoon, continues his crusade to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] after his defeat in [[Characters/AdventureTimePrincessBubblegum Princess Bubblegum's Bubblegum]]'s body, taking physical form again to use a BagOfHolding to suck up thousands across Ooo, with the ultimate intent to suck up the entire planet and throw it all into the sun. Even destroyed, the remnants of the Lich's power continue to horrify and torment [[Characters/AdventureTimeFinn Finn]], with an echo of the Lich's power creating a dungeon to MindRape the heroes -- taunting heroes--taunting the [[Characters/AdventureTimeIceKing Ice King/Simon King]]/Simon Petrikov with an image of his old love Betty and [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch watch]] as she fell apart -- and apart--and twisted a sapient tree into a horrible monster, both in preparation to eventually recuperate and destroy life again.
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* ''ComicBook/BlackTape'', written by Dan Panosian: [[SerialKiller Lucas Fortune]] is a [[FauxAffablyEvil seemingly benevolent]] music agent, but is actually the wicked leader of a satanic cult bent on mass suffering. Lucas kidnapped and horribly tortured half a dozen women to death in ritual [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] to [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] and his "son" Jack King. Trying to turn Jack's widow Cindy into the final sacrifice, Lucas reveals his desire to bring HellOnEarth and stand above the rest of humanity at Lucifer's right hand. Even when the demonic Jack reveals that he himself is disgusted with Lucas's villainy, Lucas still tries to weasel his way into seeing his plan to fruition without Jack.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'': [[HumanoidAbomination The Bishop]], the ancient, ageless servant of the [[EldritchAbomination eldritch old gods]], pledges his existence to providing sustenance to his masters by wandering across the Earth in various forms. Engaging in regular ritual sacrifice -- some of which involves the lives of dozens of infants tied to a tree and left to rotx-- and lording over servants who have cast aside their own humanity to serve him, many of whom [[BadBoss he kills for slights]], Bishop pursues violent delights to enthrall himself in his early years, awakening once after the 1906 earthquake to fatally beat a pleading old man trapped under rubble and soon after engaging in a spree to murder as many people as he could before sunrise. After an attempt to sacrifice the immortal [[FemmeFatale Josephine]], or "Jo", Bishop moves to San Francisco in 1956, [[TraumaticCSection tearing the unborn baby out of a pregnant woman]] and savagely killing a group of mobsters to tempt [[DirtyCop Walter Booker]]. Blinded shortly after, Bishop arises in the form of a [[ReligionOfEvil cult leader]] named Hansel in the 1970s, where he leads more cult violence, regularly sells a woman named Suzy to be raped, and leads an attack on Jo's home which ends with her caretaker and current lover dead and the house burned down. Finally arising in the 1990s to 2014 as an executive named Mr. Sommerset, Bishop continues his attempt to sacrifice Jo -- murdering scores of people and lounging in their corpses or bathing in their blood in his off-time -- and finally resorts to torturing and killing Walt's nephew Nicolas in front of her. With no low he will not stoop to, either to provide for his gods or simply ForTheEvulz, Bishop is as big a monster on the inside as he is on the outside.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'': [[HumanoidAbomination The Bishop]], the ancient, ageless ancient servant of the [[EldritchAbomination eldritch old gods]], pledges his existence to providing sustenance to his masters by wandering across the Earth in various forms. Engaging in regular ritual sacrifice -- some of which involves the lives of dozens of infants tied to a tree and left to rotx-- and lording over servants who have cast aside their own humanity to serve him, many of whom [[BadBoss he kills is responsible for slights]], centuries of HumanSacrifice. The Bishop pursues violent delights to enthrall entertains himself with sadistic torture and murder, in his early years, one case awakening once after the 1906 earthquake to fatally beat a pleading old man trapped under rubble and soon after engaging in going on a spree to murder kill as many people as he could before sunrise. After sunrise, starting with a pleading old man trapped under rubble. The Bishop makes an attempt to sacrifice ArchEnemy out of the immortal [[FemmeFatale Josephine]], or "Jo", FemmeFatale Josephine, regularly torturing and killing her loved ones to spite her. Among decades of atrocities, the Bishop moves to San Francisco in 1956, [[TraumaticCSection tearing the tears a unborn baby out of a pregnant woman]] and savagely killing woman; pimps out a group of mobsters to tempt [[DirtyCop Walter Booker]]. Blinded shortly after, Bishop arises in the form of a [[ReligionOfEvil cult leader]] named Hansel in the 1970s, where he leads more cult violence, regularly sells a traumatized young woman named Suzy to be raped, and leads an attack on Jo's home which ends with her caretaker and current lover dead and under the house burned down. Finally arising guise of a depraved cult leader; regularly kills his own minions for slighting him; bathes in the 1990s to 2014 as an executive named Mr. Sommerset, Bishop continues his attempt to sacrifice Jo -- murdering scores of people and lounging in their corpses or bathing in their blood in of his off-time -- victims; and finally resorts even sacrifices newborn, squealing infants by the dozens to torturing and killing Walt's nephew Nicolas in front of her. With no low he will not stoop to, either to provide for his gods or simply ForTheEvulz, Bishop is as big a monster on the inside as he is on the outside.eldritch gods.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Adventures into the Unknown}}'':
** Issue #10's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf": Josiah Pendle was the founder of Pendleton before he burned alive in his mansion. Stuck as a [[GhastlyGhost ghost]], Josiah spends 100 years haunting his mansion before luring Jimmy Rogers into it. Josiah uses his CompellingVoice to try and influence Jimmy into opening the dam and wiping out the entire town of Pendleton as revenge for people who laughed at Josiah. After Jimmy snaps out of his control, Josiah tries to kill him in anger.
** Issue #13's "Menace from Mars": The [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist King of Zils]] is the greedy [[PlanetBaron ruler of the planet Mars]]. After a lack of Ionide on Mars threatens to drive the population of Zils into extinction, the King sends thousands of agents to Earth to give humanity weapons of mass destruction and provoke a nuclear war. In truth caring only about getting another planet to rule over, the King plans to take the surviving Zils to Earth after humanity drives itself to extinction. When Garner offers the king a formula for synthetic Ionide in exchange for him ending his colonisation plan, the King pretends to to agree out of fear of provoking a rebellion, before trying to kill Garner, his fiancée, and the prince of Zils so there would be nobody to stop the Zils agents.
** Issue #21's "The Zombies Prowl": HighPriest Imhotep was a powerful Egyptian priest who started to worship the evil god Setesh for power and immortality. Exiled from Egypt, Imhotep finds the Valley of the Toltecs and enslaves its people. Imhotep eventually exterminates the Toltec race and plans to [[NightOfTheLivingMooks raise them as his zombie army]] to [[KillAllHumans wipe out humanity]]. Going into hibernation until a time where he could perform the spell comes, when the death of an archeologist wakes him and the Toltecs early, Imhotep plans to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice them]] in order to renew his powers and gain control of his army.

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* ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Mendoza]] is the cruel captain of a galley who [[BadBoss mistreats the rowers and has them executed for the slightest reason]]. When he learns of the existence of the treasure of the Tangerine Islands, Mendoza shoots the man who gave him the map and decides to find the treasure in order to build an army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. After meeting Séléné, Mendoza becomes determined to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force her to marry him]], intending to make her a battered wife. On the Moon, Mendoza joins the service of Prince Jean and leads his armies to attack the capital, killing the three Cadets who were protecting it, all the while plotting to assassinate the Prince and steal the throne from him. In his last appearance, Mendoza manages to capture the protagonists and prepares to throw them into space, and also tries to have Hermine gang-raped while [[ForcedToWatch forcing her lover Lope to watch]].
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAction'' (Moonstone Comics's 2008-2009 run): Franchise/{{Fantomas}}, from issue #1's short story written by Paul Kupperberg, seeks an "elemental farewell" to Paris. To this end, he concocts his schemes to rig fireworks during a Parisian celebration to rain death upon the revelers; sets off bombs in the metro to [[BuriedAlive bury scores alive]] and [[ManOnFire burns many others to death]] in the Parisian gardens. Plotting to [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom overflow the Parisian sewers to bury huge sections of the city underwater]], Fantômas [[CardCarryingVillain happily gloats over his lack of conscience and enjoyment of mass murder]].

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* ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Mendoza]] is the cruel captain of a galley who [[BadBoss mistreats the rowers and has them executed for the slightest reason]]. When he learns of the existence of the treasure of the Tangerine Islands, Mendoza shoots the man who gave him the map and decides to find the treasure in order to build an army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. After meeting Séléné, Mendoza becomes determined to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force her to marry him]], intending to make her a battered wife. On the Moon, Mendoza joins the service of Prince Jean and leads his armies to attack the capital, killing the three Cadets who were protecting it, all the while plotting to assassinate the Prince and steal the throne from him. In his last appearance, Mendoza manages to capture the protagonists and prepares to throw them into space, and also tries to have Hermine gang-raped while [[ForcedToWatch forcing her lover Lope to watch]].
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAction'' (Moonstone Comics's 2008-2009 run): Franchise/{{Fantomas}}, from issue #1's short story written by Paul Kupperberg, seeks an "elemental farewell" to Paris. To this end, he concocts his schemes to rig fireworks during a Parisian celebration to rain death upon the revelers; sets off bombs in the metro to [[BuriedAlive bury scores alive]] and [[ManOnFire burns many others to death]] in the Parisian gardens. Plotting to [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom overflow the Parisian sewers to bury huge sections of the city underwater]], Fantômas [[CardCarryingVillain happily gloats over his lack of conscience and enjoyment of mass murder]].



* ''Ciudad'', by Creator/TheRussoBrothers, Ande Parks, & Fernando León González: [[DirtyCop Lieutenant Mora]] is the chief of police in the WretchedHive of the title, and a figure so abhorrently corrupt he exceeds the actual drug kingpin Gabriel Roche in awfulness. Lieutenant Mora kidnaps Gabriel's daughter Eva to hold her for ransom in his plan to corner the drug trade in Ciudad and bump Gabriel off as a rival, willingly throwing the streets of the city into chaos in his pursuit of Eva when mercenary Tyler Rake rescues her. A gloating SerialRapist on his off time, Mora [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduces himself]] throwing one of his [[WouldHurtAChild child drug runners]] off a building and nearly tossing another after him when he figures out they've been nicking money, before forcing the survivor to hack off two of his own fingers to pay for the other's crime.

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* ''Ciudad'', by Creator/TheRussoBrothers, Ande Parks, & Fernando León González: [[DirtyCop Lieutenant Mora]] is the chief of police in the WretchedHive of the title, and a figure so abhorrently corrupt he exceeds the actual drug kingpin Gabriel Roche in awfulness. Lieutenant Mora kidnaps Gabriel's daughter Eva to hold her for ransom in his plan to corner the drug trade in Ciudad and bump Gabriel off as a rival, willingly throwing the streets of the city into chaos in his pursuit of Eva when mercenary Tyler Rake rescues her. A gloating SerialRapist on his off time, Mora [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduces himself]] throwing one of his [[WouldHurtAChild child drug runners]] off a building and nearly tossing another after him when he figures out they've been nicking money, before forcing the survivor to hack off two of his own fingers to pay for the other's crime.



** "Convict Commandos-Rain of Terror": Nazis [[MadScientist von Erlich]] and [[InsaneAdmiral Gruppenführer Horst Nagel]] are the masterminds behind the plot to use acid rain against [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Allies]] in North Africa and Russia. It's first used against a group of [[LaResistance Maquis]], causing Indian Professor Chandrapalli Ram to investigate; it is a ploy to get the anti-British Ram to defect, and apparently succeeds. Von Erlich decides to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill Ram when he's served his purpose]]; when Ram turns the tables and kills von Erlich instead, Nagel tries to kill Ram with the acid rain.

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** "Convict Commandos-Rain of Terror": Nazis [[MadScientist von Erlich]] and [[InsaneAdmiral Gruppenführer Horst Nagel]] are the masterminds behind the plot to use acid rain against [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Allies]] in North Africa and Russia. It's first used against a group of [[LaResistance Maquis]], causing Indian Professor Chandrapalli Ram to investigate; it is a ploy to get the anti-British Ram to defect, and apparently succeeds. Von Erlich decides to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill Ram when he's served his purpose]]; when Ram turns the tables and kills von Erlich instead, Nagel tries to kill Ram with the acid rain.



*** UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, when human, [[SerialKiller killed countless girls]] to [[BloodBath bathe in their blood]]. After rising as a vampire, Báthory slaughters numerous innocents as "festivities", and when she meets Jack the Ripper, she kills his latest victim and makes him her pet. In modern day, Báthory allows Jack to function as a serial killer while bringing her young women. Turning others into vampires, Báthory kills her victims, attempting to force Vampirella and Barnabas Collins to kill one another before celebrating by trying to have her hostages torn apart for fun.
*** UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynist]] psychopath who slaughtered women in Whitechapel. Now serving Báthory, Jack brings her victims while operating as a SerialKiller through the ages. Garnering the name "The Big Apple Butcher" for his latest, Jack targets multiple innocents and relishes in their suffering, even trying to murder Vampirella and her friends to satisfy his lust for murder.

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*** UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, when human, [[SerialKiller killed countless girls]] to [[BloodBath bathe in their blood]]. After rising as a vampire, Báthory slaughters numerous innocents as "festivities", and when she meets Jack the Ripper, she kills his latest victim and makes him her pet. In modern day, Báthory allows Jack to function as a serial killer while bringing her young women. Turning others into vampires, Báthory kills her victims, attempting to force Vampirella and Barnabas Collins to kill one another before celebrating by trying to have her hostages torn apart for fun.
*** UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynist]] psychopath who slaughtered women in Whitechapel. Now serving Báthory, Jack brings her victims while operating as a SerialKiller through the ages. Garnering the name "The Big Apple Butcher" for his latest, Jack targets multiple innocents and relishes in their suffering, even trying to murder Vampirella and her friends to satisfy his lust for murder.



* ''Defiance'', by Douglass Barré; Jacob Lee; Kanno Kang, & Zack Suh: {{Satan}} himself takes over the realm of Sheol and turns it into a horrifying pit where the native residents are tormented by his fellow fallen angels, later damning countless souls into eternal torture under his reign. Striving to take over a futuristic Earth, Satan makes a deal with the corrupt mayor of Tri-City, taking residence in his body and casually wiping every memory of the man's loved ones to make room for himself. Orchestrating leagues of horrid mass murder and torture in his quest to stop the man destined to give the message to his daughter to fight against him, Satan eventually brings his son Dirge -- whom he treats as little else than a pawn to his face -- into Earth to lead his armies, wiping out thousands of lives, capturing and torturing his daughter into perfect subservience, and ending the comic ready to oversee his legions to take over Earth, annihilate Heaven, and set up [[HellOnEarth a reign of eternal torture among all mankind]].

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* ''Defiance'', by Douglass Barré; Jacob Lee; Kanno Kang, & Zack Suh: {{Satan}} himself takes over the realm of Sheol and turns it into a horrifying pit where the native residents are tormented by his fellow fallen angels, later damning countless souls into eternal torture under his reign. Striving to take over a futuristic Earth, Satan makes a deal with the corrupt mayor of Tri-City, taking residence in his body and casually wiping every memory of the man's loved ones to make room for himself. Orchestrating leagues of horrid mass murder and torture in his quest to stop the man destined to give the message to his daughter to fight against him, Satan eventually brings his son Dirge -- whom he treats as little else than a pawn to his face -- into Earth to lead his armies, wiping out thousands of lives, capturing and torturing his daughter into perfect subservience, and ending the comic ready to oversee his legions to take over Earth, annihilate Heaven, and set up [[HellOnEarth a reign of eternal torture among all mankind]].



** [[BigBad Gùrko Zagreda Langdon]] is the Archduke of Arizona and a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil despicable slaver]] who sees himself as above all "commoners" by the decree of UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny. Langdon feigns his way into becoming the Archduke by forging legal documents while killing anyone in his way, and passes off a native woman named Conchita he raises as Spanish royalty, marrying his way into power before [[DomesticAbuse raping and abusing Conchita]] all throughout the marriage. Langdon employs brutal slave labor of the native Indian tribes to build a colossal railroad through Arizona, [[BadBoss killing many of them]] through the precarious missions to destroy the mesas blocking their path and having any others who complained tortured or murdered into silence. When opposed by Django and Zorro, Langdon heartlessly murders Zorro's steadfast servant Bernardo before deserting when the slaves revolt, killing his own son while decreeing him and his late wife a failure to his legacy.

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** [[BigBad Gùrko Zagreda Langdon]] is the Archduke of Arizona and a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil despicable slaver]] who sees himself as above all "commoners" by the decree of UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny. Langdon feigns his way into becoming the Archduke by forging legal documents while killing anyone in his way, and passes off a native woman named Conchita he raises as Spanish royalty, marrying his way into power before [[DomesticAbuse raping and abusing Conchita]] all throughout the marriage. Langdon employs brutal slave labor of the native Indian tribes to build a colossal railroad through Arizona, [[BadBoss killing many of them]] through the precarious missions to destroy the mesas blocking their path and having any others who complained tortured or murdered into silence. When opposed by Django and Zorro, Langdon heartlessly murders Zorro's steadfast servant Bernardo before deserting when the slaves revolt, killing his own son while decreeing him and his late wife a failure to his legacy.



* ''La Flèche ardente'' (''The Burning Arrow''), by Jean Van Hamme: [[InsaneAdmiral General Robioff]], tasked by [[BigBad Emperor Babylos III]] to retrieve the deposit of uranium from the archipelago of Black Islands, leads his army to bomb the village of apes and attack Prince Nazca's underground city. Robioff then has Nazca [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] at length with a pair of burning pliers, and when the Prince collapses due to the pain, Robioff attempts to wake him up by burning his feet. Robioff also plans to abduct and torture Professor Marduk and his assistant Sylvia Hollis and enslave the surviving citizens. When the city is threatened by the erupting volcano, [[DirtyCoward Robioff]] coldly leaves his Colonel Argus stuck under rubble.

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* ''La Flèche ardente'' (''The Burning Arrow''), by Jean Van Hamme: [[InsaneAdmiral General Robioff]], tasked by [[BigBad Emperor Babylos III]] to retrieve the deposit of uranium from the archipelago of Black Islands, leads his army to bomb the village of apes and attack Prince Nazca's underground city. Robioff then has Nazca [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] at length with a pair of burning pliers, and when the Prince collapses due to the pain, Robioff attempts to wake him up by burning his feet. Robioff also plans to abduct and torture Professor Marduk and his assistant Sylvia Hollis and enslave the surviving citizens. When the city is threatened by the erupting volcano, [[DirtyCoward Robioff]] coldly leaves his Colonel Argus stuck under rubble.



** ''Nöel'': [[TheManBehindTheMan "Doc" Elvis Yorkshire]] is a con artist and the one responsible for starting [[AGodAmI Apollo]]'s cult. After Elvis and Apollo began to con civilians through religious methods, Elvis hypnotized Apollo into creating his own cult and got him addicted to morphine so he would be easier to control. After recruiting hundreds of members, Elvis had Apollo murder all of them in a suicide pact before the police could apprehend them for abduction. Elvis and Apollo's new partner, Nicholas, then tried to sway the public into voting Apollo to be the country's next leader, promising to cull humanity once elected. When his plans fail and he's caught by [=LeBrock=] and Chance, Elvis tries to kill them both when they refuse to take the bribe he offers them.

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** ''Nöel'': [[TheManBehindTheMan "Doc" Elvis Yorkshire]] is a con artist and the one responsible for starting [[AGodAmI Apollo]]'s cult. After Elvis and Apollo began to con civilians through religious methods, Elvis hypnotized Apollo into creating his own cult and got him addicted to morphine so he would be easier to control. After recruiting hundreds of members, Elvis had Apollo murder all of them in a suicide pact before the police could apprehend them for abduction. Elvis and Apollo's new partner, Nicholas, then tried to sway the public into voting Apollo to be the country's next leader, promising to cull humanity once elected. When his plans fail and he's caught by [=LeBrock=] and Chance, Elvis tries to kill them both when they refuse to take the bribe he offers them.



*** "The Black Dahlia" (Issue #13): UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is introduced as an immortal vampire indicated to be {{Dracula}} himself who claims credit for the ghastliest [[StockUnsolvedMysteries unsolved murders]] in the modern day and [[HistoricalDomainCrossover countless more untold]]. Preferring not to draw blood through the neck but through the bloody consumption of the organs, Jack slaughters [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]] and other women who won't be missed everywhere from Whitechapel to Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930s. Once, Jack left the mutilated carcass of an associate of his named Elizabeth Short in Leimert Park after he was finished using her to his content. Jack is interrupted from his latest feeding in Detroit only long enough to gruesomely murder the fiancée of a detective pursuing him before closing in on the detective herself.

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*** "The Black Dahlia" (Issue #13): UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is introduced as an immortal vampire indicated to be {{Dracula}} himself who claims credit for the ghastliest [[StockUnsolvedMysteries unsolved murders]] in the modern day and [[HistoricalDomainCrossover countless more untold]]. Preferring not to draw blood through the neck but through the bloody consumption of the organs, Jack slaughters [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]] and other women who won't be missed everywhere from Whitechapel to Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930s. Once, Jack left the mutilated carcass of an associate of his named Elizabeth Short in Leimert Park after he was finished using her to his content. Jack is interrupted from his latest feeding in Detroit only long enough to gruesomely murder the fiancée of a detective pursuing him before closing in on the detective herself.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince: Bloodmoon Huntress'' & "[[https://thedragonprince.com/thequeensmercy/ The Queen's Mercy]]": The wicked and treacherous [[MagicKnight Kim'dael]] is an ancient Moonshadow elf who has [[ImmortalityImmorality survived with her youth for centuries]] by [[SerialKiller murdering innocents]] and drinking their blood during the Blood Moon. Thought to be just a myth, a young Rayla witnesses her trying to kill a family of elves with [[WouldHurtAChild no compunction at killing children]]. Upon her plan being foiled, Kim'dael tries to murder Rayla as well.


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* ''ComicBook/{{Hollow}}'': [[VengefulGhost Mort Tenebrous]] is the [[FamilialFoe personal enemy of the Van Tassel Family Lineage]]. An evil spirit who wishes to gain misery and power, Tenebrous swears vengeance against the Van Tassel family for rebuking him, killing their youngest son. For the last several generations, Tenebrous causes accidents to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the firstborn child]], just to settle his petty hatred. In the present day, Tenebrous acts in the guise of a teacher where he attempts to murder Vicky Van Tassel, trying to cause her dad to accidentally run over before attempting to kill her girlfriend Izzy to make her sacrifice herself.

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* ''ComicBook/AnimalCastle'': The [[AngryGuardDog vicious Azov]] is the [[RightHandAttackDog cruel enforcer]] of [[PresidentEvil President Silvio]]. Leading a pack of dogs to uphold Silvio's tyrannical rules, Azov is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] ripping an innocent hen to pieces--a regular occurrence. When rebellion simmers, Azov increases the violence, having a shelter burned down to leave numerous animals to freeze in the winter while threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild murder a litter of kittens]] to force compliance.



* ''ComicBook/{{Blueberry}}'''s "Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine" arc: Dr. Wernher Amadeus "Prosit" von Luckner, real name Gustaaf Hazel, is a DirtyCoward with a {{sadist}}ic streak and a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder propensity to shoot his partners in the back]]. "Prosit" has a lot of murders on his conscience, including when he was the butler for the actual von Luckner, killing him to search for the gold himself. He also put a rattlesnake in the boot of his latest partner and then made him "dance" so that the venom would spread faster in his system. His latest act of villainy is trapping Blueberry and two other people in a cave with no way out, leaving behind a big taunting message for his victims.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Blueberry}}'''s "Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine" arc: Dr. Wernher Amadeus "Prosit" von Luckner, ''ComicBook/{{Blueberry}}'':
** Issues #[[Recap/BlueberryLAigleSolitaire 3]]-[[Recap/BlueberryLaPisteDesNavajos 5]]:
*** [[SmugSnake Pedro Luis Armendariz]] is the [[AntagonisticGovernor corrupt governor]] of Sonora, Mexico. [[AmbitionIsEvil Plotting to seize control of the entire nation]], Armendariz is [[TheManBehindTheMan the secret supplier of Lone Eagle]]. Stockpiling weapons and giving them to the Natives to [[WarForFunAndProfit foster a bloody and genocidal war]], Armendariz opts to keep his hands clean and direct Lone Eagle to wipe out all the Americans he can, including slaughtering them out of Texas while helping Armendariz launch a coup and take over Mexico.
*** [[WarHawk Lone Eagle]] is an [[TheSavageIndian Apache war chief]] who loves nothing as much as [[WarForFunAndProfit war for its own sake]]. In cooperation with the wicked Pedro Armendariz, Lone Eagle repeatedly sabotages peace efforts from both sides in a war between the Whites and the Natives, hiding among the US Cavalry as a [[ArmyScout scout]] named [[ManipulativeBastard Quanah One-Eye]]. "Quanah" tortures and kills anyone who finds out his
real name Gustaaf Hazel, is plans, nearly having Blueberry's entire caravan slaughtered by an Apache ambush. When a DirtyCoward with lieutenant carrying a {{sadist}}ic streak message for the President that will guarantee an end to the war tells Lone Eagle he could save hundreds of Native lives, Lone Eagle destroys his message and laughs that he's in no rush to end the bloodshed. Lone Eagle later spitefully scalps one of Blueberry's closest allies, Crowe, earning him a hatred rarely evoked from any other foe Blueberry fought then or since.
** Issues #[[Recap/BlueberryLeChevalDeFer 7]]-[[Recap/BlueberryLaPisteDesSioux 9]]:
[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder propensity Jethro "Steelfingers" Diamond]] is a corrupt agent [[PsychoForHire working]] for {{railroad baron}}s to shoot his partners in sabotage their rivals. In truth [[ItsAllAboutMe out for himself]], Steelfingers [[TheChessmaster orchestrates an attack]] on the back]]. "Prosit" has a lot of murders on his conscience, including when he was the butler for the actual von Luckner, killing him local Sioux to search for the gold himself. He also put a rattlesnake in the boot of his latest partner and then made him "dance" so that the venom would spread faster in his system. His latest act of villainy is trapping frame Blueberry while leaving men behind to be framed and two scalped. Rallying the Sioux, Steelfingers plots to use them to kill everyone aboard a train so he can rob it while ensuring only the Sioux are blamed and a war begins between them and the local Whites. Murdering his entire gang as not to share any profit, Steelfingers attempts to flee and leave Chief Sitting Bull and his men to be wiped out.
** Issues #[[Recap/BlueberryLaPisteDesSioux 9]]-[[Recap/BlueberryLeGeneralTeteJaune 10]] & [[Recap/BlueberryLeBoutDeLaPiste 22]]: [[GloryHound General "Golden Mane" Allister]] starts out as an insufferably smug GeneralFailure who wages a war of extermination against the Native population for the sake of his own glory. A living cocktail of idiocy, racism, and sheer unchecked ego, Allister throws his own men against hordes of Native warriors in battles that kill his own as much as the enemy, all while he hounds at them to target women, children, and the elderly. Even after Blueberry saves his life, [[UngratefulBastard Allister repays him]] by setting him up to die with a regiment full of men that Allister has deemed expendable. Allister pops up years later no better than he was before, now the mastermind behind a scheme to assassinate President UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant--as well as a train full of dozens of
other people as collateral--as part of an insane plan to dupe the American people into making him PresidentEvil in a cave with no way out, leaving behind a big taunting message for his victims.the subsequent chaos.

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