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-->-- '''The Kurgan''' to '''Connor [=MacLeod=]''', [[Film/{{Highlander}} the original film]]

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* ''[[Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer The Sorcerer]]'': [[NameOfCain Kane]] was a brutal warlord who [[RapePillageAndBurn scourged Asia]] to emulate his hero the Kurgan until his death from disease. Awakening as an Immortal, Kane slew his mentor and was later exiled by another for betraying them. Resuming his life as a ravager, Kane joined forces with the Kurgan himself until a battle with Connor [=MacLeod=]'s mentor caused a mountain to collapse, trapping him and his henchmen after Kane killed the man for his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]]. Freed in the present day, Kane swiftly murders one of his men to empower himself with the Immortal's Quickening, then hunts for Connor in New York City after the death of his remaining underling. {{Rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing a prostitute along the way, Kane kidnaps Connor's adoptive son to draw him out, recklessly killing civilians by car before combating his foe and threatening to rape Connor's lover after killing him.

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* ''[[Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer The Sorcerer]]'': [[NameOfCain Kane]] was a brutal warlord who [[RapePillageAndBurn scourged Asia]] to emulate his hero the Kurgan until his death from disease. Awakening as an Immortal, Kane slew his mentor and was later exiled by another for betraying them. Resuming his life as a ravager, Kane joined forces with the Kurgan himself until a battle with Connor [=MacLeod=]'s mentor caused a mountain to collapse, trapping him and his henchmen after Kane killed the man for his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]]. Freed in the present day, Kane swiftly murders one of his men to empower himself with the Immortal's Quickening, then hunts for Connor in New York City after the death of his remaining underling. {{Rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Raping]] a prostitute along the way, Kane kidnaps Connor's adoptive son to draw him out, recklessly killing civilians by car before combating his foe and threatening to rape Connor's lover after killing him.



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* ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} The Series]]'':
** [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Xavier St. Cloud]] is a particularly nasty Immortal and one of hero Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s oldest and most reviled enemies. A Moroccan warrior who perished in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades First Crusade]] and awakened to Immortality, Xavier was found and trained by Henri St. Cloud, an Immortal crusader. Xavier would later [[UngratefulBastard show his gratitude]] by taking the name St. Cloud when he murdered Henri for his first Quickening. Xavier would become a vicious headhunter for centuries, and when he took his own student, helped the young man gain revenge on his family for rejecting him by murdering them. Later dedicating himself to hedonism and wealth, Xavier took to [[DeadlyGas gassing soldiers]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to rob the corpses, where he would encounter Duncan again and nearly killed him when he was weak. In the modern day, Xavier robs jewelry stores by gassing everyone inside, including his mortal accomplices--whom he told the gas was just sleeping gas, at which point they walked inside and died; he did this just [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. He would then give a sham confession to Immortal priest Darius simply to mentally torment the kind-hearted priest. After losing a hand to Duncan, Xavier would team up with the Immortal-hating Hunters with a bargain that revealed the depths of his lack of honor: they would gun down Immortals while Xavier took their heads. Arrogant, selfish, cruel, and wicked, Xavier represents the worst excesses of Immortality.
** Season 3: [[AxCrazy Antonius Kalas]] is an ancient Immortal who was previously a monk who helped his teacher run a sanctuary on holy ground for Immortals. Kalas, however, used the sanctuary to murder Immortals by ambushing them as they left. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] exposed him and his teacher banished him forever, Kalas vowed revenge. He later attempted to murder a young singer after only suspecting Duncan was involved with her in the 1920s, and when he returned in the 90s, he systematically laid out a web to destroy everyone close to Duncan after murdering his old teacher, Brother Paul. Kalas shows no hesitation in torturing and murdering innocent people, destroying the live of anyone remotely associated with Duncan. At the end, he is willing to reveal the secrets of Immortals at large to world and throw everything into chaos if Duncan doesn't offer his head.
** "Free Fall": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Felicia Martins]] appears at first to be a DamselInDistress, a young Immortal on run from the run from the brutal, obsessed Claude Deveraux. It is revealed that Martins is far older than she claims and Deveraux is hunting her because Martins murdered his wife and their adopted [[WouldHurtAChild baby daughter]]. This is her MO: she ingratiates herself into the lives of her victims and murders everything they love, making it so they're off their game and she can easily take their heads. She tries to kill Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s loved ones after she takes Deveraux's head and is last seen [[KarmaHoudini vowing to return and murder who Duncan loves]] after he spares her.
** "Warmonger": [[SoftSpokenSadist Arthur Drake/Drakov]] is a particularly sadistic Immortal [[AxCrazy who loves war, murder, and torture]]. Going to different countries around the world, Drakov manipulates his way into a position of power, which he uses to [[WarForFunAndProfit create war and chaos on a grand scale]]. First encountering Duncan [=MacLeod=] after becoming an officer in the Soviet Union and arresting the Abernovs, Drakov forces Duncan to make a pact of noninterference before exiling the Abernovs and boasting about [[CardCarryingVillain how he will plunge the Soviet Union into ruin and misery]]. Later joining the Romanian SecretPolice, Drakov would randomly arrest citizens and have them executed, sending hundreds to their deaths. When a man called Eli refused to give up his brothers, Drakov had Eli's wife and children [[ForcedToWatch killed in front of him]] and then [[DeadGuyOnDisplay displays their bodies]]. Becoming the security chief for an unnamed Baltic state currently at war with its neighbor, Drakov has the president assassinated when he attempts to broker peace, before killing the woman who helped him and [[FrameUp framing it to look like a murder-suicide]]. Rubbing Duncan's vow of noninterference in his face, Drakov sends his men to kill Eli when he attempts to stop him and abducts a journalist inquiring about his activities, before ordering the vice president killed as well when he attempts to honor the president's peace treaty.
** "Line Of Fire": [[SociopathicSoldier Kern]] is described by his watcher as an "animal," who [[RapePillageAndBurn rapes, kills and steals as he will]]. Kern in the past was a scout for American forces who loves [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain killing Native Americans]]. He earned Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s enmity when he helped slaughter the Sioux village Duncan was living with and presented Duncan with the scalps he had taken. Kern has no remorse in taking an innocent young woman and baby hostage to gain and advantage and happily describes the crimes he has committed over the centuries when confronted.
** "Testimony": [[BaldOfEvil Ivan Kristov]] was an Immortal who, back in his heyday in the 1700s, led his band of UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} to RapePillageAndBurn their way through peasant villages on a [[PsychoForHire pay-per-slaughter basis]]. Killed temporarily by Duncan when he refused to participate in one of these massacres, Ivan resurfaced again in the modern day as a [[TheMafiya heroin trafficker]] who coldly orders his own lover murdered in the hospital after his attempt to use her as a drug mule nearly kills her.
** "Mortal Sins": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Ernst Daimler]] is the only Immortal seen who's a former [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]]. A firm believer in fascism, Daimler sought to help "purge" all lower races in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and ordered the slaughter of hundreds of innocent people, as well as wounded prisoners, until he was stopped by a young boy who stabbed him InTheBack. Thinking he was dead, the boy and his cousin wrapped Daimler in chains and threw him into the Seine where [[AndIMustScream he remained for decades]]. In the present, Daimler leads a white supremacist movement and finds the little boy who stabbed him, now a kindly old priest. Daimler gleefully guns him down after terrifying him off holy ground, and then attempts to murder a pregnant woman who tried to stop him before Duncan [=MacLeod=] intervenes and takes Daimler's head.
** "Comes A Horseman" & "Revelation 6:8": [[OmnicidalManiac Kronos]], an Immortal whose legacy of death dates to the Bronze Age, was the leader of [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse the Four Horsemen]], a band of Immortals who led armies to RapePillageAndBurn across continents. Kronos was the most sadistic of all of them, slaughtering the innocent and raping whom he desired, including a slave girl for no other reason than his sworn brother Methos had taken a liking to her. In the present, Kronos recruits Methos, now TheAtoner, back into a scheme to reunite the Horsemen and [[{{Plaguemaster}} create a plague to destroy all of humanity]], viewing himself as the end of time itself.
** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].
** "Indiscretions": [[HumanTraffickers Morgan Walker]] is unique amongst other Highlander villains in that he's been a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] for centuries. While Walker once dealt in the Atlantic slave trade, in modern times he [[ModelScam uses his job as a modeling agent]] to capture young women for the [[SexSlave sex trade]]. In prior years, Walker had an attachment to a slave named Charlotte, but after he suspected she had an affair, he killed her, [[DestinationDefenestration throwing her out of a high window]] and showing no remorse for her death. When hunting Methos, the Immortal she had the affair with, Walker also kidnaps the daughter of Methos's good friend with full intention to kill or sell her should her father not betray Methos.
* ''[[Series/HighlanderTheRaven The Raven]]'':
** "The Manipulator": [[EvilChancellor Vladimir Rankov]] was an adviser to the king of Savoy in 1565, tasked with brokering peace with the neighboring Bourgogne by beseeching its duke to arrange for his daughter, Christina, to marry the prince of Savoy. [[{{Greed}} Wanting the dowry that he was to deliver to the prince for himself]], Rankov murdered his fellow diplomats, intending to blame the deaths on the duke, not caring that this would exacerbate the war. After Christina's friend Amanda foiled his plans, Rankov retaliated by killing Christina on her wedding day, simply to hurt Amanda. Rankov went on to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture-murder]] one of his Watchers before becoming an adviser to an Eastern Bloc prime minister named Anton Novak. When Novak decides to peacefully put on end to the civil war that has been ravaging his country, Rankov murders him so that he can continue [[PlayingBothSides selling weapons and state secrets to the opposition]]; while having the journalist who he plans on framing for the assassination tortured, Rankov is amused to learn that the man is the dead Watcher's son, mocking him by saying that his father "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied didn't start begging until the end]]."
** "The Ex-Files": [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Julian Heller]] worked as a physician in medieval times, and ensured maximum profits by having his competitors falsely imprisoned and executed, with one of the victims being a midwife friend of Amanda's whom Heller had burned at the stake for witchcraft. In the present, Heller is an [[VillainWithGoodPublicity esteemed transplant specialist]] who secretly runs an organization that pays corrupt medical personnel to murder their patients so that their [[OrganTheft organs can be harvested for sale on the black market]]. When Nick's ex-wife, Lauren, begins uncovering his crimes, Heller has an assassin murder her informant and assistant, and afterward arranges for the hitman to be killed [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing to kill Lauren]], which Heller does himself by poisoning her. During his battle with Nick and Amanda, Heller taunts the former over his ex-wife's death, and describes how he intends to keep the latter's headless body for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]].

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* ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} The Series]]'':
**
[[ManOfWealthAndTaste Xavier St. Cloud]] is a particularly nasty Immortal and one of hero Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s oldest and most reviled enemies. A Moroccan warrior who perished in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades First Crusade]] and awakened to Immortality, Xavier was found and trained by Henri St. Cloud, an Immortal crusader. Xavier would later [[UngratefulBastard show his gratitude]] by taking the name St. Cloud when he murdered Henri for his first Quickening. Xavier would become a vicious headhunter for centuries, and when he took his own student, helped the young man gain revenge on his family for rejecting him by murdering them. Later dedicating himself to hedonism and wealth, Xavier took to [[DeadlyGas gassing soldiers]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to rob the corpses, where he would encounter Duncan again and nearly killed him when he was weak. In the modern day, Xavier robs jewelry stores by gassing everyone inside, including his mortal accomplices--whom accomplices—whom he told the gas was just sleeping gas, at which point they walked inside and died; he did this just [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. He would then give a sham confession to Immortal priest Darius simply to mentally torment the kind-hearted priest. After losing a hand to Duncan, Xavier would team up with the Immortal-hating Hunters with a bargain that revealed the depths of his lack of honor: they would gun down Immortals while Xavier took their heads. Arrogant, selfish, cruel, and wicked, Xavier represents the worst excesses of Immortality.
** * Season 3: [[AxCrazy Antonius Kalas]] is an ancient Immortal who was previously a monk who helped his teacher run a sanctuary on holy ground for Immortals. Kalas, however, used the sanctuary to murder Immortals by ambushing them as they left. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] exposed him and his teacher banished him forever, Kalas vowed revenge. He later attempted to murder a young singer after only suspecting Duncan was involved with her in the 1920s, and when he returned in the 90s, he systematically laid out a web to destroy everyone close to Duncan after murdering his old teacher, Brother Paul. Kalas shows no hesitation in torturing and murdering innocent people, destroying the live of anyone remotely associated with Duncan. At the end, he is willing to reveal the secrets of Immortals at large to world and throw everything into chaos if Duncan doesn't offer his head.
** * "Free Fall": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Felicia Martins]] appears at first to be a DamselInDistress, a young Immortal on run from the run from the brutal, obsessed Claude Deveraux. It is revealed that Martins is far older than she claims and Deveraux is hunting her because Martins murdered his wife and their adopted [[WouldHurtAChild baby daughter]]. This is her MO: she ingratiates herself into the lives of her victims and murders everything they love, making it so they're off their game and she can easily take their heads. She tries to kill Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s loved ones after she takes Deveraux's head and is last seen [[KarmaHoudini vowing to return and murder who Duncan loves]] after he spares her.
** * "Warmonger": [[SoftSpokenSadist Arthur Drake/Drakov]] is a particularly sadistic Immortal [[AxCrazy who loves war, murder, and torture]]. Going to different countries around the world, Drakov manipulates his way into a position of power, which he uses to [[WarForFunAndProfit create war and chaos on a grand scale]]. First encountering Duncan [=MacLeod=] after becoming an officer in the Soviet Union and arresting the Abernovs, Drakov forces Duncan to make a pact of noninterference before exiling the Abernovs and boasting about [[CardCarryingVillain how he will plunge the Soviet Union into ruin and misery]]. Later joining the Romanian SecretPolice, Drakov would randomly arrest citizens and have them executed, sending hundreds to their deaths. When a man called Eli refused to give up his brothers, Drakov had Eli's wife and children [[ForcedToWatch killed in front of him]] and then [[DeadGuyOnDisplay displays their bodies]]. Becoming the security chief for an unnamed Baltic state currently at war with its neighbor, Drakov has the president assassinated when he attempts to broker peace, before killing the woman who helped him and [[FrameUp framing it to look like a murder-suicide]]. Rubbing Duncan's vow of noninterference in his face, Drakov sends his men to kill Eli when he attempts to stop him and abducts a journalist inquiring about his activities, before ordering the vice president killed as well when he attempts to honor the president's peace treaty.
** * "Line Of Fire": [[SociopathicSoldier Kern]] is described by his watcher as an "animal," who [[RapePillageAndBurn rapes, kills and steals as he will]]. Kern in the past was a scout for American forces who loves [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain killing Native Americans]]. He earned Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s enmity when he helped slaughter the Sioux village Duncan was living with and presented Duncan with the scalps he had taken. Kern has no remorse in taking an innocent young woman and baby hostage to gain and advantage and happily describes the crimes he has committed over the centuries when confronted.
** * "Testimony": [[BaldOfEvil Ivan Kristov]] was an Immortal who, back in his heyday in the 1700s, led his band of UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} to RapePillageAndBurn their way through peasant villages on a [[PsychoForHire pay-per-slaughter basis]]. Killed temporarily by Duncan when he refused to participate in one of these massacres, Ivan resurfaced again in the modern day as a [[TheMafiya heroin trafficker]] who coldly orders his own lover murdered in the hospital after his attempt to use her as a drug mule nearly kills her.
** * "Mortal Sins": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Ernst Daimler]] is the only Immortal seen who's a former [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]]. A firm believer in fascism, Daimler sought to help "purge" all lower races in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and ordered the slaughter of hundreds of innocent people, as well as wounded prisoners, until he was stopped by a young boy who stabbed him InTheBack. Thinking he was dead, the boy and his cousin wrapped Daimler in chains and threw him into the Seine where [[AndIMustScream he remained for decades]]. In the present, Daimler leads a white supremacist movement and finds the little boy who stabbed him, now a kindly old priest. Daimler gleefully guns him down after terrifying him off holy ground, and then attempts to murder a pregnant woman who tried to stop him before Duncan [=MacLeod=] intervenes and takes Daimler's head.
** * "Comes A Horseman" & "Revelation 6:8": [[OmnicidalManiac Kronos]], an Immortal whose legacy of death dates to the Bronze Age, was the leader of [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse the Four Horsemen]], a band of Immortals who led armies to RapePillageAndBurn across continents. Kronos was the most sadistic of all of them, slaughtering the innocent and raping whom he desired, including a slave girl for no other reason than his sworn brother Methos had taken a liking to her. In the present, Kronos recruits Methos, now TheAtoner, back into a scheme to reunite the Horsemen and [[{{Plaguemaster}} create a plague to destroy all of humanity]], viewing himself as the end of time itself.
** * "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrian|ism}} demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].
** * "Indiscretions": [[HumanTraffickers Morgan Walker]] is unique amongst other Highlander villains in that he's been a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] {{slaver|yIsASpecialKindOfEvil}} for centuries. While Walker once dealt in the Atlantic slave trade, in modern times he [[ModelScam uses his job as a modeling agent]] to capture young women for the [[SexSlave sex trade]]. In prior years, Walker had an attachment to a slave named Charlotte, but after he suspected she had an affair, he killed her, [[DestinationDefenestration throwing her out of a high window]] and showing no remorse for her death. When hunting Methos, the Immortal she had the affair with, Walker also kidnaps the daughter of Methos's good friend with full intention to kill or sell her should her father not betray Methos.
* ''[[Series/HighlanderTheRaven The Raven]]'':
** "The Manipulator": [[EvilChancellor Vladimir Rankov]] was an adviser to the king of Savoy in 1565, tasked with brokering peace with the neighboring Bourgogne by beseeching its duke to arrange for his daughter, Christina, to marry the prince of Savoy. [[{{Greed}} Wanting the dowry that he was to deliver to the prince for himself]], Rankov murdered his fellow diplomats, intending to blame the deaths on the duke, not caring that this would exacerbate the war. After Christina's friend Amanda foiled his plans, Rankov retaliated by killing Christina on her wedding day, simply to hurt Amanda. Rankov went on to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture-murder]] one of his Watchers before becoming an adviser to an Eastern Bloc prime minister named Anton Novak. When Novak decides to peacefully put on end to the civil war that has been ravaging his country, Rankov murders him so that he can continue [[PlayingBothSides selling weapons and state secrets to the opposition]]; while having the journalist who he plans on framing for the assassination tortured, Rankov is amused to learn that the man is the dead Watcher's son, mocking him by saying that his father "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied didn't start begging until the end]]."
** "The Ex-Files": [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Julian Heller]] worked as a physician in medieval times, and ensured maximum profits by having his competitors falsely imprisoned and executed, with one of the victims being a midwife friend of Amanda's whom Heller had burned at the stake for witchcraft. In the present, Heller is an [[VillainWithGoodPublicity esteemed transplant specialist]] who secretly runs an organization that pays corrupt medical personnel to murder their patients so that their [[OrganTheft organs can be harvested for sale on the black market]]. When Nick's ex-wife, Lauren, begins uncovering his crimes, Heller has an assassin murder her informant and assistant, and afterward arranges for the hitman to be killed [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing to kill Lauren]], which Heller does himself by poisoning her. During his battle with Nick and Amanda, Heller taunts the former over his ex-wife's death, and describes how he intends to keep the latter's headless body for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]].
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* "The Manipulator": [[EvilChancellor Vladimir Rankov]] was an adviser to the king of Savoy in 1565, tasked with brokering peace with the neighboring Bourgogne by beseeching its duke to arrange for his daughter, Christina, to marry the prince of Savoy. [[{{Greed}} Wanting the dowry that he was to deliver to the prince for himself]], Rankov murdered his fellow diplomats, intending to blame the deaths on the duke, not caring that this would exacerbate the war. After Christina's friend Amanda foiled his plans, Rankov retaliated by killing Christina on her wedding day, simply to hurt Amanda. Rankov went on to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture-murder]] one of his Watchers before becoming an adviser to an Eastern Bloc prime minister named Anton Novak. When Novak decides to peacefully put on end to the civil war that has been ravaging his country, Rankov murders him so that he can continue [[PlayingBothSides selling weapons and state secrets to the opposition]]; while having the journalist who he plans on framing for the assassination tortured, Rankov is amused to learn that the man is the dead Watcher's son, mocking him by saying that his father "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied didn't start begging until the end]]."
* "The Ex-Files": [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Julian Heller]] worked as a physician in medieval times, and ensured maximum profits by having his competitors falsely imprisoned and executed, with one of the victims being a midwife friend of Amanda's whom Heller had burned at the stake for witchcraft. In the present, Heller is an [[VillainWithGoodPublicity esteemed transplant specialist]] who secretly runs an organization that pays corrupt medical personnel to murder their patients so that their [[OrganTheft organs can be harvested for sale on the black market]]. When Nick's ex-wife, Lauren, begins uncovering his crimes, Heller has an assassin murder her informant and assistant, and afterward arranges for the hitman to be killed [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing to kill Lauren]], which Heller does himself by poisoning her. During his battle with Nick and Amanda, Heller taunts the former over his ex-wife's death, and describes how he intends to keep the latter's headless body for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]].
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** Issues #0-4--"The Coldest War" arc: After [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan's death]], Immortal [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] agent [[EvilFormerFriend Tasya Desny]] took command of his secret army of Temnotiye, pseudo-Immortal {{super soldier}}s that the Kurgan had created in conjunction with the Soviet Union back in the 1960s. Wanting to use the Temnotiye to help her win the Game and conquer Russia, Desny has them cause the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} meltdown as a show of force, and afterward directs them to steal files pertaining to them from a KGB facility, giving them free reign to butcher anyone who gets in their way. While the stolen documents contain the location of and pass codes for a bunker that contains nuclear weapons and the means of producing more Temnotiye, Desny needs the scientist who oversaw the creation of the Temnotiye to get the bunker up and running. To that end, Desny manipulates the doctor, as well as her old allies Connor [=MacLeod=] and Paul Furio, into traveling to Russia under the pretense of helping her eliminate the Temnotiye. To strengthen her charade, Desny [[BadBoss kills several of her own Temnotiye minions]] in [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]], and lets them murder her KGB partner. When the bunker is unearthed, Desny reveals her treachery, decapitates Furio, and mockingly informs Connor that their friendship is a thing of the past and that all she cares about now is power.
** Issues #10-12--"Armageddon" arc: A self-declared prophet, Watcher archivist [[DarkMessiah Idima Nahru]] became convinced that it was her destiny to help usher in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]], which she set out to do by founding a [[ApocalypseCult doomsday cult]] called the Eye. Slaughtering anyone aware of the group's existence, Nahru has its members target Immortals all over the world, drawing them out by attacking and killing their loved ones. While "weak" Immortals are killed on the spot, sufficiently skilled ones are abducted and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight each other to the death]] in Nahru's compound in Tunisia. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] decapitates one of her Immortal acolytes, Nahru reveals that the woman's protective collar contained a DeadMansSwitch for an atomic bomb, which has just annihilated a nearby city. When Duncan peers into Nahru's mind, he discovers that she intends to kickstart the end of the world using a ship full of more warheads, one of which is about to be launched at the coastal city of Bizerte. When Duncan forces his way aboard the ship, the dying Nahru enacts her final gambit, forcing Duncan into a confrontation with one of her Immortal fanatics in the vessel's weapons hold; Duncan will either die from being beheaded, or be doomed to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for years from the effects of radiation poisoning]] after the Quickening caused by him decapitating his opponent sets off all of the nukes prematurely.

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** Issues #0-4--"The #0-4—"The Coldest War" arc: After [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan's death]], Immortal [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] agent [[EvilFormerFriend Tasya Desny]] took command of his secret army of Temnotiye, pseudo-Immortal {{super soldier}}s that the Kurgan had created in conjunction with the Soviet Union back in the 1960s. Wanting to use the Temnotiye to help her win the Game and conquer Russia, Desny has them cause the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} meltdown as a show of force, and afterward directs them to steal files pertaining to them from a KGB facility, giving them free reign to butcher anyone who gets in their way. While the stolen documents contain the location of and pass codes for a bunker that contains nuclear weapons and the means of producing more Temnotiye, Desny needs the scientist who oversaw the creation of the Temnotiye to get the bunker up and running. To that end, Desny manipulates the doctor, as well as her old allies Connor [=MacLeod=] and Paul Furio, into traveling to Russia under the pretense of helping her eliminate the Temnotiye. To strengthen her charade, Desny [[BadBoss kills several of her own Temnotiye minions]] in [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]], and lets them murder her KGB partner. When the bunker is unearthed, Desny reveals her treachery, decapitates Furio, and mockingly informs Connor that their friendship is a thing of the past and that all she cares about now is power.
** Issues #10-12--"Armageddon" #10-12—"Armageddon" arc: A self-declared prophet, Watcher archivist [[DarkMessiah Idima Nahru]] became convinced that it was her destiny to help usher in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]], which she set out to do by founding a [[ApocalypseCult doomsday cult]] called the Eye. Slaughtering anyone aware of the group's existence, Nahru has its members target Immortals all over the world, drawing them out by attacking and killing their loved ones. While "weak" Immortals are killed on the spot, sufficiently skilled ones are abducted and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight each other to the death]] in Nahru's compound in Tunisia. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] decapitates one of her Immortal acolytes, Nahru reveals that the woman's protective collar contained a DeadMansSwitch for an atomic bomb, which has just annihilated a nearby city. When Duncan peers into Nahru's mind, he discovers that she intends to kickstart the end of the world using a ship full of more warheads, one of which is about to be launched at the coastal city of Bizerte. When Duncan forces his way aboard the ship, the dying Nahru enacts her final gambit, forcing Duncan into a confrontation with one of her Immortal fanatics in the vessel's weapons hold; Duncan will either die from being beheaded, or be doomed to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for years from the effects of radiation poisoning]] after the Quickening caused by him decapitating his opponent sets off all of the nukes prematurely.



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* ''[[WesternAnimation/HighlanderTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'': [[BigBad Lord Kortan]], refusing to take the pledge the other Immortals took AfterTheEnd, declared himself the de facto winner of the Game, and decreed that he was now entitled to all of the world's knowledge and power. After killing Connor [=MacLeod=]--the only Immortal willing to break the oath to challenge him--Kortan [[EvilOverlord conquered and enslaved most of the planet]], ruling unopposed for 700 years. When [[TheChosenOne Quentin MacLeod]]'s immortality activated after Kortan's slavers murdered him and his mother, Kortan set out to slay this new Highlander through any means necessary. Kortan's worst acts included firing an atomic bomb at Quentin's homeland; feeding dissidents to mutant ants; lobotomizing people to make disposable "human keys" to his armory; regularly [[BadBoss executing his own followers]] for [[YouHaveFailedMe failure]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving their usefulness]]; deploying them as suicide bombers against a city; and inciting hatred of Quentin by founding a cult in his name, one that enslaved kidnapped children after staging their [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]]. In the final episode, Kortan destroyed whole towns with salvaged missiles, and threatened further bombardments unless Quentin confronted him at midnight. Even though the deadline was met, Kortan ordered that more rockets be launched anyway, laughing, "Why stop at [=MacLeod=] when we can crush them all?"

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/HighlanderTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'': [[BigBad Lord Kortan]], refusing to take the pledge the other Immortals took AfterTheEnd, declared himself the de facto winner of the Game, and decreed that he was now entitled to all of the world's knowledge and power. After killing Connor [=MacLeod=]--the [=MacLeod=]—the only Immortal willing to break the oath to challenge him--Kortan him—Kortan [[EvilOverlord conquered and enslaved most of the planet]], ruling unopposed for 700 years. When [[TheChosenOne Quentin MacLeod]]'s immortality activated after Kortan's slavers murdered him and his mother, Kortan set out to slay this new Highlander through any means necessary. Kortan's worst acts included firing an atomic bomb at Quentin's homeland; feeding dissidents to mutant ants; lobotomizing people to make disposable "human keys" to his armory; regularly [[BadBoss executing his own followers]] for [[YouHaveFailedMe failure]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving their usefulness]]; deploying them as suicide bombers against a city; and inciting hatred of Quentin by founding a cult in his name, one that enslaved kidnapped children after staging their [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]]. In the final episode, Kortan destroyed whole towns with salvaged missiles, and threatened further bombardments unless Quentin confronted him at midnight. Even though the deadline was met, Kortan ordered that more rockets be launched anyway, laughing, "Why stop at [=MacLeod=] when we can crush them all?"

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** [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Xavier St. Cloud]] is a particularly nasty Immortal and one of hero Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s oldest and most reviled enemies. A Moroccan warrior who perished in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades First Crusade]] and awakened to Immortality, Xavier was found and trained by Henri St. Cloud, an Immortal crusader. Xavier would later [[UngratefulBastard show his gratitude]] by taking the name St. Cloud when he murdered Henri for his first Quickening. Xavier would become a vicious headhunter for centuries, and when he took his own student, helped the young man gain revenge on his family for rejecting him by murdering them. Later dedicating himself to hedonism and wealth, Xavier took to [[DeadlyGas gassing soldiers]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to rob the corpses, where he would encounter Duncan again and nearly killed him when he was weak. In the modern day, Xavier robs jewelry stores by gassing everyone inside, including his mortal accomplices--whom he told the gas was just sleeping gas, at which point they walked inside and died; he did this just [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. He would then give a sham confession to Immortal priest Darius simply to mentally torment the kind-hearted priest. After losing a hand to Duncan , Xavier would team up with the Immortal-hating Hunters with a bargain that revealed the depths of his lack of honor: they would gun down Immortals while Xavier took their heads. Arrogant, selfish, cruel, and wicked, Xavier represents the worst excesses of Immortality.

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** [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Xavier St. Cloud]] is a particularly nasty Immortal and one of hero Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s oldest and most reviled enemies. A Moroccan warrior who perished in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades First Crusade]] and awakened to Immortality, Xavier was found and trained by Henri St. Cloud, an Immortal crusader. Xavier would later [[UngratefulBastard show his gratitude]] by taking the name St. Cloud when he murdered Henri for his first Quickening. Xavier would become a vicious headhunter for centuries, and when he took his own student, helped the young man gain revenge on his family for rejecting him by murdering them. Later dedicating himself to hedonism and wealth, Xavier took to [[DeadlyGas gassing soldiers]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to rob the corpses, where he would encounter Duncan again and nearly killed him when he was weak. In the modern day, Xavier robs jewelry stores by gassing everyone inside, including his mortal accomplices--whom he told the gas was just sleeping gas, at which point they walked inside and died; he did this just [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. He would then give a sham confession to Immortal priest Darius simply to mentally torment the kind-hearted priest. After losing a hand to Duncan , Duncan, Xavier would team up with the Immortal-hating Hunters with a bargain that revealed the depths of his lack of honor: they would gun down Immortals while Xavier took their heads. Arrogant, selfish, cruel, and wicked, Xavier represents the worst excesses of Immortality.



** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].

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** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].



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* 2006-2007 Creator/DynamiteComics series:
** Issues #0-4--"The Coldest War": After [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan's death]], Immortal [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] agent [[EvilFormerFriend Tasya Desny]] took command of his secret army of Temnotiye, pseudo-Immortal {{super soldier}}s that the Kurgan had created in conjunction with the Soviet Union back in the 1960s. Wanting to use the Temnotiye to help her win the Game and conquer Russia, Desny has them cause the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} meltdown as a show of force, and afterward directs them to steal files pertaining to them from a KGB facility, giving them free reign to butcher anyone who gets in their way. While the stolen documents contain the location of and pass codes for a bunker that contains nuclear weapons and the means of producing more Temnotiye, Desny needs the scientist who oversaw the creation of the Temnotiye to get the bunker up and running. To that end, Desny manipulates the doctor, as well as her old allies Connor [=MacLeod=] and Paul Furio, into traveling to Russia under the pretense of helping her eliminate the Temnotiye. To strengthen her charade, Desny [[BadBoss kills several of her own Temnotiye minions]] in [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]], and lets them murder her KGB partner. When the bunker is unearthed, Desny reveals her treachery, decapitates Furio, and mockingly informs Connor that their friendship is a thing of the past and that all she cares about now is power.
** Issues #10-12--"Armageddon": A self-declared prophet, Watcher archivist [[DarkMessiah Idima Nahru]] became convinced that it was her destiny to help usher in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]], which she set out to do by founding a [[ApocalypseCult doomsday cult]] called the Eye. Slaughtering anyone aware of the group's existence, Nahru has its members target Immortals all over the world, drawing them out by attacking and killing their loved ones. While "weak" Immortals are killed on the spot, sufficiently skilled ones are abducted and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight each other to the death]] in Nahru's compound in Tunisia. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] decapitates one of her Immortal acolytes, Nahru reveals that the woman's protective collar contained a DeadMansSwitch for an atomic bomb, which has just annihilated a nearby city. When Duncan peers into Nahru's mind, he discovers that she intends to kickstart the end of the world using a ship full of more warheads, one of which is about to be launched at the coastal city of Bizerte. When Duncan forces his way aboard the ship, the dying Nahru enacts her final gambit, forcing Duncan into a confrontation with one of her Immortal fanatics in the vessel's weapons hold; Duncan will either die from being beheaded, or be doomed to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for years from the effects of radiation poisoning]] after the Quickening caused by him decapitating his opponent sets off all of the nukes prematurely.
* ''Origins: The Kurgan'' prequel comic: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, is a savage Immortal warrior who [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Throughout the centuries, the Kurgan would continue challenging several immortals, beating them in combat and [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]], ready to continue murdering anyone in his path to satiate his insatiable thirst for combat.
* ''The American Dream'', by Brian Ruckley et al.: John Hooke first arrived in America on the Mayflower and has been a scourge ever since. First seen as an [[SociopathicSoldier officer]] in [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Confederacy]], Hooke attempts to lure Connor [=MacLeod=] off the safety of Holy Ground by massacring an entire village, shooting a man to death as a warning to Connor and beating a second to death with an empty gun. Over the centuries, Hooke is a thief and a SerialKiller, murdering countless innocent people simply for sport and pleasure with a fixation of [[CreepySouvenir stealing an eye]] from each victim he kills. Finally drawing Connor's ire, Hooke attempts to eliminate him and his friend Osta Vazilek by sending [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan]] himself after them so he may take the other's head unimpeded. While the Kurgan is likened to a wolf, Hooke is seen as a rabid dog and is seen by Connor as one of his most vile enemies in all his centuries of life.

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[[ComicBook/{{Highlander}} 2006-2007]] series (Creator/DynamiteComics):
** Issues #0-4--"The Coldest War": War" arc: After [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan's death]], Immortal [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] agent [[EvilFormerFriend Tasya Desny]] took command of his secret army of Temnotiye, pseudo-Immortal {{super soldier}}s that the Kurgan had created in conjunction with the Soviet Union back in the 1960s. Wanting to use the Temnotiye to help her win the Game and conquer Russia, Desny has them cause the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} meltdown as a show of force, and afterward directs them to steal files pertaining to them from a KGB facility, giving them free reign to butcher anyone who gets in their way. While the stolen documents contain the location of and pass codes for a bunker that contains nuclear weapons and the means of producing more Temnotiye, Desny needs the scientist who oversaw the creation of the Temnotiye to get the bunker up and running. To that end, Desny manipulates the doctor, as well as her old allies Connor [=MacLeod=] and Paul Furio, into traveling to Russia under the pretense of helping her eliminate the Temnotiye. To strengthen her charade, Desny [[BadBoss kills several of her own Temnotiye minions]] in [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]], and lets them murder her KGB partner. When the bunker is unearthed, Desny reveals her treachery, decapitates Furio, and mockingly informs Connor that their friendship is a thing of the past and that all she cares about now is power.
** Issues #10-12--"Armageddon": #10-12--"Armageddon" arc: A self-declared prophet, Watcher archivist [[DarkMessiah Idima Nahru]] became convinced that it was her destiny to help usher in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]], which she set out to do by founding a [[ApocalypseCult doomsday cult]] called the Eye. Slaughtering anyone aware of the group's existence, Nahru has its members target Immortals all over the world, drawing them out by attacking and killing their loved ones. While "weak" Immortals are killed on the spot, sufficiently skilled ones are abducted and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight each other to the death]] in Nahru's compound in Tunisia. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] decapitates one of her Immortal acolytes, Nahru reveals that the woman's protective collar contained a DeadMansSwitch for an atomic bomb, which has just annihilated a nearby city. When Duncan peers into Nahru's mind, he discovers that she intends to kickstart the end of the world using a ship full of more warheads, one of which is about to be launched at the coastal city of Bizerte. When Duncan forces his way aboard the ship, the dying Nahru enacts her final gambit, forcing Duncan into a confrontation with one of her Immortal fanatics in the vessel's weapons hold; Duncan will either die from being beheaded, or be doomed to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for years from the effects of radiation poisoning]] after the Quickening caused by him decapitating his opponent sets off all of the nukes prematurely.
* ''Origins: ''[[ComicBook/HighlanderOriginsTheKurgan Origins: The Kurgan'' prequel comic: Kurgan]]'', written by Brandon Jerwa: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, is a savage Immortal warrior who [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Throughout the centuries, the Kurgan would continue challenging several immortals, beating them in combat and [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]], ready to continue murdering anyone in his path to satiate his insatiable thirst for combat.
* ''The ''[[ComicBook/HighlanderTheAmericanDream The American Dream'', Dream]]'', written by Brian Ruckley et al.: Ruckley: John Hooke first arrived in America on the Mayflower and has been a scourge ever since. First seen as an [[SociopathicSoldier officer]] in [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Confederacy]], Hooke attempts to lure Connor [=MacLeod=] off the safety of Holy Ground by massacring an entire village, shooting a man to death as a warning to Connor and beating a second to death with an empty gun. Over the centuries, Hooke is a thief and a SerialKiller, murdering countless innocent people simply for sport and pleasure with a fixation of [[CreepySouvenir stealing an eye]] from each victim he kills. Finally drawing Connor's ire, Hooke attempts to eliminate him and his friend Osta Vazilek by sending [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan]] himself after them so he may take the other's head unimpeded. While the Kurgan is likened to a wolf, Hooke is seen as a rabid dog and is seen by Connor as one of his most vile enemies in all his centuries of life.



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* ''[[Creator/BigFinish Kurgan Rising]]'' AudioPlay: Architect [[AGodAmI Augustus Mason]], a member of the cult [[ReligionOfEvil Sons of the Kurgan]], used the group's knowledge and resources to construct the Barrow Building, a Parisian skyscraper that was designed to resurrect the Kurgan by ripping his essence out of Duncan [=MacLeod=]. Magically luring numerous Immortals into the structure, Mason places them in medically-induced comas, and forces one, a bishop, to consecrate the building's basement before [[MindRape destroying his mind]] with drugs and torture and using him as bait to lure Duncan into his trap. Mason forces Duncan to decapitate the bishop on the HolyGround, causing a blasphemous Quickening which the occult-infused architecture of the Barrow Building uses to revive the Kurgan. Along with driving Immortals all over the world [[HatePlague violently insane]], the aberrant Quickening also causes supernatural disasters that ravage Paris, killing hundreds. After brainwashing the Kurgan with psychotropic drugs and having him butcher dozens of the Immortals that he has captured, Mason reveals that he does not want to serve the Kurgan, he wants to use him as a puppet that will win the Prize for him and allow him to ascend to Godhood.
* ''The Measure of a Man'' novel, by Nancy Holder: Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli is a ruthless Immortal who gives himself unique advantages in the Game by killing other pre-immortals to pretend he has given them their newfound lives. Using them as cheap Quickenings or pawns, Machiavelli [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade murders rulers and popes, causes entire wars, and inevitably discards people when he's through with them]]. Seeking to [[WarForFunAndProfit cause a war]] between Venice and Turkey, Machiavelli abandons one pawn to be tortured to death; causes the death of Duncan's friend's son; and later returns in the modern day seeking a computer program that will allow him control of the world's computers, with the intent of shutting off even entire cities if it will get him what he want. Machiavelli murders his lover and co-conspirator, orders another pawn tortured before she is to be beheaded, and even tries to put Duncan in the [[SadisticChoice position]] of needing to behead another young Immortal and causing a plane crash or letting his own head be taken.

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* ''[[Creator/BigFinish ''[[AudioPlay/{{Highlander}} Kurgan Rising]]'' AudioPlay: Rising]]'': Architect [[AGodAmI Augustus Mason]], a member of the cult [[ReligionOfEvil Sons of the Kurgan]], used the group's knowledge and resources to construct the Barrow Building, a Parisian skyscraper that was designed to resurrect the Kurgan by ripping his essence out of Duncan [=MacLeod=]. Magically luring numerous Immortals into the structure, Mason places them in medically-induced comas, and forces one, a bishop, to consecrate the building's basement before [[MindRape destroying his mind]] with drugs and torture and using him as bait to lure Duncan into his trap. Mason forces Duncan to decapitate the bishop on the HolyGround, causing a blasphemous Quickening which the occult-infused architecture of the Barrow Building uses to revive the Kurgan. Along with driving Immortals all over the world [[HatePlague violently insane]], the aberrant Quickening also causes supernatural disasters that ravage Paris, killing hundreds. After brainwashing the Kurgan with psychotropic drugs and having him butcher dozens of the Immortals that he has captured, Mason reveals that he does not want to serve the Kurgan, he wants to use him as a puppet that will win the Prize for him and allow him to ascend to Godhood.
* ''The ''[[Literature/HighlanderMeasureOfAMan Measure of a Man'' novel, Man]]'', by Nancy Holder: Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli is a ruthless Immortal who gives himself unique advantages in the Game by killing other pre-immortals to pretend he has given them their newfound lives. Using them as cheap Quickenings or pawns, Machiavelli [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade murders rulers and popes, causes entire wars, and inevitably discards people when he's through with them]]. Seeking to [[WarForFunAndProfit cause a war]] between Venice and Turkey, Machiavelli abandons one pawn to be tortured to death; causes the death of Duncan's friend's son; and later returns in the modern day seeking a computer program that will allow him control of the world's computers, with the intent of shutting off even entire cities if it will get him what he want. Machiavelli murders his lover and co-conspirator, orders another pawn tortured before she is to be beheaded, and even tries to put Duncan in the [[SadisticChoice position]] of needing to behead another young Immortal and causing a plane crash or letting his own head be taken.

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** Season 3: [[AxCrazy Antonius Kalas]] is an ancient Immortal who was previously a monk who helped his teacher run a sanctuary on holy ground for Immortals. Kalas, however, used the sanctuary to murder Immortals by ambushing them as they left. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] exposed him and his teacher banished him forever, Kalas vowed revenge. He later attempted to murder a young singer after only suspecting Duncan was involved with her in the 1920s, and when he returned in the 90s, he systematically laid out a web to destroy everyone close to Duncan after murdering his old teacher, Brother Paul. Kalas shows no hesitation in torturing and murdering innocent people, destroying the live of anyone remotely associated with Duncan. At the end, he is willing to reveal the secrets of Immortals at large to world and throw everything into chaos if Duncan doesn't offer his head.



** Season 3: [[AxCrazy Antonius Kalas]] is an ancient Immortal who was previously a monk who helped his teacher run a sanctuary on holy ground for Immortals. Kalas, however, used the sanctuary to murder Immortals by ambushing them as they left. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] exposed him and his teacher banished him forever, Kalas vowed revenge. He later attempted to murder a young singer after only suspecting Duncan was involved with her in the 1920s, and when he returned in the 90s, he systematically laid out a web to destroy everyone close to Duncan after murdering his old teacher, Brother Paul. Kalas shows no hesitation in torturing and murdering innocent people, destroying the live of anyone remotely associated with Duncan. At the end, he is willing to reveal the secrets of Immortals at large to world and throw everything into chaos if Duncan doesn't offer his head.



** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].

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** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].



** ''The Raven'' {{spinoff}}:
*** "The Manipulator": [[EvilChancellor Vladimir Rankov]] was an adviser to the king of Savoy in 1565, tasked with brokering peace with the neighboring Bourgogne by beseeching its duke to arrange for his daughter, Christina, to marry the prince of Savoy. [[{{Greed}} Wanting the dowry that he was to deliver to the prince for himself]], Rankov murdered his fellow diplomats, intending to blame the deaths on the duke, not caring that this would exacerbate the war. After Christina's friend Amanda foiled his plans, Rankov retaliated by killing Christina on her wedding day, simply to hurt Amanda. Rankov went on to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture-murder]] one of his Watchers before becoming an adviser to an Eastern Bloc prime minister named Anton Novak. When Novak decides to peacefully put on end to the civil war that has been ravaging his country, Rankov murders him so that he can continue [[PlayingBothSides selling weapons and state secrets to the opposition]]; while having the journalist who he plans on framing for the assassination tortured, Rankov is amused to learn that the man is the dead Watcher's son, mocking him by saying that his father "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied didn't start begging until the end]]."
*** "The Ex-Files": [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Julian Heller]] worked as a physician in medieval times, and ensured maximum profits by having his competitors falsely imprisoned and executed, with one of the victims being a midwife friend of Amanda's whom Heller had burned at the stake for witchcraft. In the present, Heller is an [[VillainWithGoodPublicity esteemed transplant specialist]] who secretly runs an organization that pays corrupt medical personnel to murder their patients so that their [[OrganTheft organs can be harvested for sale on the black market]]. When Nick's ex-wife, Lauren, begins uncovering his crimes, Heller has an assassin murder her informant and assistant, and afterward arranges for the hitman to be killed [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing to kill Lauren]], which Heller does himself by poisoning her. During his battle with Nick and Amanda, Heller taunts the former over his ex-wife's death, and describes how he intends to keep the latter's headless body for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]].

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** * ''The Raven'' {{spinoff}}:
*** ** "The Manipulator": [[EvilChancellor Vladimir Rankov]] was an adviser to the king of Savoy in 1565, tasked with brokering peace with the neighboring Bourgogne by beseeching its duke to arrange for his daughter, Christina, to marry the prince of Savoy. [[{{Greed}} Wanting the dowry that he was to deliver to the prince for himself]], Rankov murdered his fellow diplomats, intending to blame the deaths on the duke, not caring that this would exacerbate the war. After Christina's friend Amanda foiled his plans, Rankov retaliated by killing Christina on her wedding day, simply to hurt Amanda. Rankov went on to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture-murder]] one of his Watchers before becoming an adviser to an Eastern Bloc prime minister named Anton Novak. When Novak decides to peacefully put on end to the civil war that has been ravaging his country, Rankov murders him so that he can continue [[PlayingBothSides selling weapons and state secrets to the opposition]]; while having the journalist who he plans on framing for the assassination tortured, Rankov is amused to learn that the man is the dead Watcher's son, mocking him by saying that his father "[[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied didn't start begging until the end]]."
*** ** "The Ex-Files": [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Julian Heller]] worked as a physician in medieval times, and ensured maximum profits by having his competitors falsely imprisoned and executed, with one of the victims being a midwife friend of Amanda's whom Heller had burned at the stake for witchcraft. In the present, Heller is an [[VillainWithGoodPublicity esteemed transplant specialist]] who secretly runs an organization that pays corrupt medical personnel to murder their patients so that their [[OrganTheft organs can be harvested for sale on the black market]]. When Nick's ex-wife, Lauren, begins uncovering his crimes, Heller has an assassin murder her informant and assistant, and afterward arranges for the hitman to be killed [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing to kill Lauren]], which Heller does himself by poisoning her. During his battle with Nick and Amanda, Heller taunts the former over his ex-wife's death, and describes how he intends to keep the latter's headless body for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]].

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* [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, was haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, and so hunts a young Highlander named [[ArchEnemy Connor MacLeod]], engaging his tribe in combat and finally killing Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan [[CarFu sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car]] and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.

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* [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original First film]]: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, was haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, and so hunts destroyer. Hunting a young Highlander named [[ArchEnemy Connor MacLeod]], engaging the Kurgan engages his tribe in combat and finally killing later kills Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan [[CarFu sadistically gleefully runs down pedestrians with his car]] and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.



** [[GeneralRipper General Katana]] is a ruthless tyrant [[GreaterScopeVillain responsible for those rebelling against him being banished]] as Immortals to kill each other in the [[Film/{{Highlander}} first film]]. Incensed by Connor [=MacLeod=] winning the Prize and going on to live peacefully, Katana ventures to hunt down and kill his adversary, murdering hundreds of subway passengers [[ForTheEvulz for his own sick amusement]]. Allying himself with Shield Corporation CEO David Blake, who is holding the Earth under a dome falsely claimed to save the planet from the damaged ozone, Katana uses his collaborator's resources to hunt for Connor before killing him and facing Connor, while trying to stop him from deactivating the shield.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive David Blake]] is the wheedling, corrupt head of the Shield Corporation who [[{{Greed}} cares only for profit]]. Despite knowing of the Shield's danger and the safety of switching it off, Blake keeps it up, knowing countless people will sicken and die as a result so he can continue to enrich himself through his monopoly. For those who defy his rule, Blake is eager to send them to a [[HellholePrison horrific prison]] where they face mistreatment, torture, and painful death, later allying with General Katana before trying to kill the heroes by crushing them with a [[DeadlyRotaryFan giant fan]].
* ''[[Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer The Sorcerer]]'': [[NameOfCain Kane]], birth name [[RapePillageAndBurn Kaan]], is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills and rapes for fun. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] butchering a village with his two Immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Connor [=MacLeod=]'s latest mentor, the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal his [[MasterOfIllusion magical powers]]. Upon his release in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills one of his associates without incident after sending the other one off to do his dirty work for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his LoveInterest after he's taken his head, and kidnaps and threatens Connor's son to get Connor to come to him.

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** [[GeneralRipper General Katana]] is a ruthless tyrant who [[GreaterScopeVillain responsible for ordered the banishing]] of those rebelling who rebelled against him being banished]] as to become Immortals to kill each other in the [[Film/{{Highlander}} first film]]. Incensed destined to fight each other to the last]]. Enraged by Connor [=MacLeod=] winning the Prize and going on to live peacefully, a life of peace, Katana ventures hunts Connor down, pausing to hunt down and kill his adversary, murdering hundreds of destroy a crowded subway passengers train and brutally kill the countless aboard [[ForTheEvulz for his own sick amusement]]. Allying himself with Shield Corporation CEO David Blake, who is holding CEO of the Earth under a dome falsely claimed to save the planet from the damaged ozone, Earth-controlling Shield Corporation, Katana uses his collaborator's resources cohort to hunt for Connor before killing him and facing Connor, while trying try to stop him Connor from deactivating the shield.
releasing Blake's dangerous Shield, [[EvilIsPetty all to spite]] his enemy from centuries past.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive David Blake]] is the wheedling, corrupt head of the Shield Corporation who [[{{Greed}} cares only for profit]]. the profit he may make]]. Despite knowing of the Shield's danger and the safety of switching it off, Blake keeps it up, knowing countless people will sicken and die as a result so he can continue to enrich himself through his monopoly. monopoly and price fixing on the one Shield in existence that only he controls. For those who defy his rule, Blake is eager to send them to a [[HellholePrison horrific prison]] where they face mistreatment, torture, and painful death, later allying with General Katana before trying to kill the heroes by crushing them with a [[DeadlyRotaryFan giant fan]].
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* ''[[Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer The Sorcerer]]'': [[NameOfCain Kane]], birth name Kane]] was a brutal warlord who [[RapePillageAndBurn Kaan]], is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills scourged Asia]] to emulate his hero the Kurgan until his death from disease. Awakening as an Immortal, Kane slew his mentor and rapes was later exiled by another for fun. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] butchering betraying them. Resuming his life as a village ravager, Kane joined forces with his two Immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Kurgan himself until a battle with Connor [=MacLeod=]'s latest mentor, mentor caused a mountain to collapse, trapping him and his henchmen after Kane killed the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal man for his [[MasterOfIllusion magical powers]]. Upon his release illusion magic]]. Freed in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills day, Kane swiftly murders one of his associates without incident after sending men to empower himself with the other one off to do his dirty work Immortal's Quickening, then hunts for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his LoveInterest in New York City after he's taken the death of his head, and remaining underling. {{Rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing a prostitute along the way, Kane kidnaps and threatens Connor's adoptive son to get Connor draw him out, recklessly killing civilians by car before combating his foe and threatening to come to rape Connor's lover after killing him.

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* [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]] & ''Highlander Origins: The Kurgan'' prequel comic: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, is a savage Immortal warrior who [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, the Kurgan hunts a young Highlander named [[ArchEnemy Connor MacLeod]], engaging his tribe in combat and finally kills Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan [[CarFu sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car]] and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.



* [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, was haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, and so hunts a young Highlander named [[ArchEnemy Connor MacLeod]], engaging his tribe in combat and finally killing Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan [[CarFu sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car]] and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.



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* ''Origins: The Kurgan'' prequel comic: [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]], born Vitor, is a savage Immortal warrior who [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Throughout the centuries, the Kurgan would continue challenging several immortals, beating them in combat and [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]], ready to continue murdering anyone in his path to satiate his insatiable thirst for combat.
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* [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]] [[labelnote:Appearances]][[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]; prequel comics (primarily ''Highlander Origins: The Kurgan''); his actions are also canon to ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} The Series]]''[[/labelnote]]: Born Vitor, this savage Immortal warrior [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, the Kurgan hunts a young Highlander named Connor [=MacLeod=], engaging his tribe in combat and finally kills Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.

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* [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]] [[labelnote:Appearances]][[Film/{{Highlander}} [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]; prequel comics (primarily film]] & ''Highlander Origins: The Kurgan''); his actions are also canon to ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} Kurgan'' prequel comic: [[BloodKnight The Series]]''[[/labelnote]]: Born Kurgan]], born Vitor, this is a savage Immortal warrior who [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, the Kurgan hunts a young Highlander named [[ArchEnemy Connor [=MacLeod=], MacLeod]], engaging his tribe in combat and finally kills Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan [[CarFu sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car car]] and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.



** "The Coldest War": After [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan's death]], Immortal [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] agent [[EvilFormerFriend Tasya Desny]] took command of his secret army of Temnotiye, pseudo-Immortal {{super soldier}}s that the Kurgan had created in conjunction with the Soviet Union back in the 1960s. Wanting to use the Temnotiye to help her win the Game and conquer Russia, Desny has them cause the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} meltdown as a show of force, and afterward directs them to steal files pertaining to them from a KGB facility, giving them free reign to butcher anyone who gets in their way. While the stolen documents contain the location of and pass codes for a bunker that contains nuclear weapons and the means of producing more Temnotiye, Desny needs the scientist who oversaw the creation of the Temnotiye to get the bunker up and running. To that end, Desny manipulates the doctor, as well as her old allies Connor [=MacLeod=] and Paul Furio, into traveling to Russia under the pretense of helping her eliminate the Temnotiye. To strengthen her charade, Desny [[BadBoss kills several of her own Temnotiye minions]] in [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]], and lets them murder her KGB partner. When the bunker is unearthed, Desny reveals her treachery, decapitates Furio, and mockingly informs Connor that their friendship is a thing of the past and that all she cares about now is power.
** "Armageddon": A self-declared prophet, Watcher archivist [[DarkMessiah Idima Nahru]] became convinced that it was her destiny to help usher in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]], which she set out to do by founding a [[ApocalypseCult doomsday cult]] called the Eye. Slaughtering anyone aware of the group's existence, Nahru has its members target Immortals all over the world, drawing them out by attacking and killing their loved ones. While "weak" Immortals are killed on the spot, sufficiently skilled ones are abducted and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight each other to the death]] in Nahru's compound in Tunisia. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] decapitates one of her Immortal acolytes, Nahru reveals that the woman's protective collar contained a DeadMansSwitch for an atomic bomb, which has just annihilated a nearby city. When Duncan peers into Nahru's mind, he discovers that she intends to kickstart the end of the world using a ship full of more warheads, one of which is about to be launched at the coastal city of Bizerte. When Duncan forces his way aboard the ship, the dying Nahru enacts her final gambit, forcing Duncan into a confrontation with one of her Immortal fanatics in the vessel's weapons hold; Duncan will either die from being beheaded, or be doomed to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for years from the effects of radiation poisoning]] after the Quickening caused by him decapitating his opponent sets off all of the nukes prematurely.

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** "The Issues #0-4--"The Coldest War": After [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan's death]], Immortal [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] agent [[EvilFormerFriend Tasya Desny]] took command of his secret army of Temnotiye, pseudo-Immortal {{super soldier}}s that the Kurgan had created in conjunction with the Soviet Union back in the 1960s. Wanting to use the Temnotiye to help her win the Game and conquer Russia, Desny has them cause the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} meltdown as a show of force, and afterward directs them to steal files pertaining to them from a KGB facility, giving them free reign to butcher anyone who gets in their way. While the stolen documents contain the location of and pass codes for a bunker that contains nuclear weapons and the means of producing more Temnotiye, Desny needs the scientist who oversaw the creation of the Temnotiye to get the bunker up and running. To that end, Desny manipulates the doctor, as well as her old allies Connor [=MacLeod=] and Paul Furio, into traveling to Russia under the pretense of helping her eliminate the Temnotiye. To strengthen her charade, Desny [[BadBoss kills several of her own Temnotiye minions]] in [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]], and lets them murder her KGB partner. When the bunker is unearthed, Desny reveals her treachery, decapitates Furio, and mockingly informs Connor that their friendship is a thing of the past and that all she cares about now is power.
** "Armageddon": Issues #10-12--"Armageddon": A self-declared prophet, Watcher archivist [[DarkMessiah Idima Nahru]] became convinced that it was her destiny to help usher in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]], which she set out to do by founding a [[ApocalypseCult doomsday cult]] called the Eye. Slaughtering anyone aware of the group's existence, Nahru has its members target Immortals all over the world, drawing them out by attacking and killing their loved ones. While "weak" Immortals are killed on the spot, sufficiently skilled ones are abducted and [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight each other to the death]] in Nahru's compound in Tunisia. After Duncan [=MacLeod=] decapitates one of her Immortal acolytes, Nahru reveals that the woman's protective collar contained a DeadMansSwitch for an atomic bomb, which has just annihilated a nearby city. When Duncan peers into Nahru's mind, he discovers that she intends to kickstart the end of the world using a ship full of more warheads, one of which is about to be launched at the coastal city of Bizerte. When Duncan forces his way aboard the ship, the dying Nahru enacts her final gambit, forcing Duncan into a confrontation with one of her Immortal fanatics in the vessel's weapons hold; Duncan will either die from being beheaded, or be doomed to [[FateWorseThanDeath suffer for years from the effects of radiation poisoning]] after the Quickening caused by him decapitating his opponent sets off all of the nukes prematurely.



* ''[[Creator/BigFinish Kurgan Rising]]'': Architect [[AGodAmI Augustus Mason]], a member of the cult [[ReligionOfEvil Sons of the Kurgan]], used the group's knowledge and resources to construct the Barrow Building, a Parisian skyscraper that was designed to resurrect the Kurgan by ripping his essence out of Duncan [=MacLeod=]. Magically luring numerous Immortals into the structure, Mason places them in medically-induced comas, and forces one, a bishop, to consecrate the building's basement before [[MindRape destroying his mind]] with drugs and torture and using him as bait to lure Duncan into his trap. Mason forces Duncan to decapitate the bishop on the HolyGround, causing a blasphemous Quickening which the occult-infused architecture of the Barrow Building uses to revive the Kurgan. Along with driving Immortals all over the world [[HatePlague violently insane]], the aberrant Quickening also causes supernatural disasters that ravage Paris, killing hundreds. After brainwashing the Kurgan with psychotropic drugs and having him butcher dozens of the Immortals that he has captured, Mason reveals that he does not want to serve the Kurgan, he wants to use him as a puppet that will win the Prize for him and allow him to ascend to Godhood.

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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzefVUeBo6dfoK44W5j-N_FiNnXPjMDAJ Dark Places]]'' (FanFilm [[ApprovalOfGod authorized by Davis-Panzer Productions]]): [[BigBad Andrus Keradoc]], in truth [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes Dracula]], was a [[AristocratsAreEvil sadistic nobleman]] who committed countless atrocities, from [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling thousands]] to [[KillThePoor burning the homeless and infirm of Wallachia alive]]. As an immortal, Keradoc leaves a legacy of horror behind him, murdering countless beings as he seeks his true conquests. Beheaded by heroic Willem Caelius, Keradoc's evil soul takes over Caelius to continue his deeds, killing all Caelius's friends and plotting even crueler deeds to carry on his legacy.

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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzefVUeBo6dfoK44W5j-N_FiNnXPjMDAJ ''[[Film/HighlanderDarkPlaces Dark Places]]'' (FanFilm [[ApprovalOfGod authorized by Davis-Panzer Productions]]): [[BigBad Andrus Keradoc]], in truth [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes Dracula]], was a [[AristocratsAreEvil sadistic nobleman]] who committed countless atrocities, from [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling thousands]] to [[KillThePoor burning the homeless and infirm of Wallachia alive]]. As an immortal, Keradoc leaves a legacy of horror behind him, murdering countless beings as he seeks his true conquests. Beheaded by heroic Willem Caelius, Keradoc's evil soul takes over Caelius to continue his deeds, killing all Caelius's friends and plotting even crueler deeds to carry on his legacy.



* Unproduced ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' remake [[https://www.scribd.com/document/508500344/Highlander-written-by-Art-Marcum-and-Matt-Holloway-January-21-2009 script]]: [[BigBad The Kurgan]] is a [[AxCrazy savage barbarian]] willing to do whatever he can to claim the Prize. Infamous amongst his clan for his acts of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]], the Kurgan was reborn as an Immortal after his execution, whereupon [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed he slaughtered his entire clan]], including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]]. Sensing the Immortal Conner [=MacLeod=] is near, the Kurgan gets the [=MacLeod=] clan's attention by massacring the [=MacDonald=] clan, leaving only one survivor amongst the bodies of men, women, and children. In the present, now going under Victor Kruger, the Kurgan slaughters a bank and kills Conner's Immortal friend Skinny on his way to New York. A dishonorable fighter, at the Gathering of Immortals, the Kurgan gets a cardinal to renounce the Trinity Church as holy ground by threatening his family, allowing the Kurgan to sadistically slaughter every single unprepared Immortal there.

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* [[Script/Highlander2009 Unproduced ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' Highlander remake [[https://www.script]] ([[https://www.scribd.com/document/508500344/Highlander-written-by-Art-Marcum-and-Matt-Holloway-January-21-2009 script]]: link]]): [[BigBad The Kurgan]] is a [[AxCrazy savage barbarian]] willing to do whatever he can to claim the Prize. Infamous amongst his clan for his acts of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]], the Kurgan was reborn as an Immortal after his execution, whereupon [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed he slaughtered his entire clan]], including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]]. Sensing the Immortal Conner [=MacLeod=] is near, the Kurgan gets the [=MacLeod=] clan's attention by massacring the [=MacDonald=] clan, leaving only one survivor amongst the bodies of men, women, and children. In the present, now going under Victor Kruger, the Kurgan slaughters a bank and kills Conner's Immortal friend Skinny on his way to New York. A dishonorable fighter, at the Gathering of Immortals, the Kurgan gets a cardinal to renounce the Trinity Church as holy ground by threatening his family, allowing the Kurgan to sadistically slaughter every single unprepared Immortal there.
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* Unproduced ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' remake [[https://www.scribd.com/document/508500344/Highlander-written-by-Art-Marcum-and-Matt-Holloway-January-21-2009 script]]: [[BigBad The Kurgan]] is a [[AxCrazy savage barbarian]] willing to do whatever he can to claim the Prize. Infamous amongst his clan for his acts of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]], the Kurgan was reborn as an Immortal after his execution, whereupon [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed he slaughtered his entire clan]], including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]]. Sensing the Immortal Conner [=MacLeod=] is near, the Kurgan gets the [=MacLeod=] clan's attention by massacring the [=MacDonald=] clan, leaving only one survivor amongst the bodies of men, women, and children. In the present, now going under Victor Kruger, the Kurgan slaughters a bank and kills Conner's Immortal friend Skinny on his way to New York. A dishonorable fighter, at the Gathering of Immortals, the Kurgan gets a cardinal to renounce the Trinity Church as holy ground by threatening his family, allowing the Kurgan to sadistically slaughter every single unprepared Immortal there.

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* Unproduced ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' remake [[http://screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/H/Highlander%20(2010).pdf script]]: [[BigBad The Kurgan]] is a [[AxCrazy savage barbarian]] willing to do whatever he can to claim the Prize. Infamous amongst his clan for his acts of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]], the Kurgan was reborn as an Immortal after his execution, whereupon [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed he slaughtered his entire clan]], including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]]. Sensing the Immortal Conner [=MacLeod=] is near, the Kurgan gets the [=MacLeod=] clan's attention by massacring the [=MacDonald=] clan, leaving only one survivor amongst the bodies of men, women, and children. In the present, now going under Victor Kruger, the Kurgan slaughters a bank and kills Conner's Immortal friend Skinny on his way to New York. A dishonorable fighter, at the Gathering of Immortals, the Kurgan gets a cardinal to renounce the Trinity Church as holy ground by threatening his family, allowing the Kurgan to sadistically slaughter every single unprepared Immortal there.

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** "Testimony": [[BaldOfEvil Ivan Kristov]] was an Immortal who, back in his heyday in the 1700s, led his band of UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} to RapePillageAndBurn their way through peasant villages on a [[PsychoForHire pay-per-slaughter basis]]. Killed temporarily by Duncan when he refused to participate in one of these massacres, Ivan resurfaced again in the modern day as a [[TheMafiya heroin trafficker]] who coldly orders his own lover murdered in the hospital after his attempt to use her as a drug mule nearly kills her.



** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].

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** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].
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* [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]] [[labelnote:appearances]][[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]; prequel comics (primarily ''Highlander Origins: The Kurgan''); his actions are also canon to ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} The Series]]''[[/labelnote]]: Born Vitor, this savage Immortal warrior [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, the Kurgan hunts a young Highlander named Connor [=MacLeod=], engaging his tribe in combat and finally kills Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.

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* [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]] [[labelnote:appearances]][[Film/{{Highlander}} [[labelnote:Appearances]][[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]; prequel comics (primarily ''Highlander Origins: The Kurgan''); his actions are also canon to ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} The Series]]''[[/labelnote]]: Born Vitor, this savage Immortal warrior [[AxCrazy embraced his bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of bloodshed, the Kurgan has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, the Kurgan hunts a young Highlander named Connor [=MacLeod=], engaging his tribe in combat and finally kills Connor's mentor before raping Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover Brenda, the Kurgan sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.



** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].

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** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].



* Unproduced ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' remake [[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7tpN-iM5phEJ:screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/H/Highlander%2520(2010).pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari script]]: [[BigBad The Kurgan]] is a [[AxCrazy savage barbarian]] willing to do whatever he can to claim the Prize. Infamous amongst his clan for his acts of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]], the Kurgan was reborn as an Immortal after his execution, whereupon [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed he slaughtered his entire clan]], including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]]. Sensing the Immortal Conner [=MacLeod=] is near, the Kurgan gets the [=MacLeod=] clan's attention by massacring the [=MacDonald=] clan, leaving only one survivor amongst the bodies of men, women, and children. In the present, now going under Victor Kruger, the Kurgan slaughters a bank and kills Conner's Immortal friend Skinny on his way to New York. A dishonorable fighter, at the Gathering of Immortals, the Kurgan gets a cardinal to renounce the Trinity Church as holy ground by threatening his family, allowing the Kurgan to sadistically slaughter every single unprepared Immortal there.

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* Unproduced ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' remake [[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7tpN-iM5phEJ:screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/H/Highlander%2520(2010).pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari [[http://screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/H/Highlander%20(2010).pdf script]]: [[BigBad The Kurgan]] is a [[AxCrazy savage barbarian]] willing to do whatever he can to claim the Prize. Infamous amongst his clan for his acts of [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]], the Kurgan was reborn as an Immortal after his execution, whereupon [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed he slaughtered his entire clan]], including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]]. Sensing the Immortal Conner [=MacLeod=] is near, the Kurgan gets the [=MacLeod=] clan's attention by massacring the [=MacDonald=] clan, leaving only one survivor amongst the bodies of men, women, and children. In the present, now going under Victor Kruger, the Kurgan slaughters a bank and kills Conner's Immortal friend Skinny on his way to New York. A dishonorable fighter, at the Gathering of Immortals, the Kurgan gets a cardinal to renounce the Trinity Church as holy ground by threatening his family, allowing the Kurgan to sadistically slaughter every single unprepared Immortal there.

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* ''Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer'': [[NameOfCain Kane]], birth name [[RapePillageAndBurn Kaan]], is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills and rapes for fun. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] butchering a village with his two Immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Connor [=MacLeod=]'s latest mentor, the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal his [[MasterOfIllusion magical powers]]. Upon his release in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills one of his associates without incident after sending the other one off to do his dirty work for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his LoveInterest after he's taken his head, and kidnaps and threatens Connor's son to get Connor to come to him.

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* ''Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer'': ''[[Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening The Quickening]]'': On an Earth [[CrapsackWorld gone to seed]], these miscreants who eventually [[VillainTeamUp ally]] are two of the worst villains in this branch of the canon:
** [[GeneralRipper General Katana]] is a ruthless tyrant [[GreaterScopeVillain responsible for those rebelling against him being banished]] as Immortals to kill each other in the [[Film/{{Highlander}} first film]]. Incensed by Connor [=MacLeod=] winning the Prize and going on to live peacefully, Katana ventures to hunt down and kill his adversary, murdering hundreds of subway passengers [[ForTheEvulz for his own sick amusement]]. Allying himself with Shield Corporation CEO David Blake, who is holding the Earth under a dome falsely claimed to save the planet from the damaged ozone, Katana uses his collaborator's resources to hunt for Connor before killing him and facing Connor, while trying to stop him from deactivating the shield.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive David Blake]] is the wheedling, corrupt head of the Shield Corporation who [[{{Greed}} cares only for profit]]. Despite knowing of the Shield's danger and the safety of switching it off, Blake keeps it up, knowing countless people will sicken and die as a result so he can continue to enrich himself through his monopoly. For those who defy his rule, Blake is eager to send them to a [[HellholePrison horrific prison]] where they face mistreatment, torture, and painful death, later allying with General Katana before trying to kill the heroes by crushing them with a [[DeadlyRotaryFan giant fan]].
* ''[[Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer The Sorcerer]]'':
[[NameOfCain Kane]], birth name [[RapePillageAndBurn Kaan]], is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills and rapes for fun. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] butchering a village with his two Immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Connor [=MacLeod=]'s latest mentor, the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal his [[MasterOfIllusion magical powers]]. Upon his release in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills one of his associates without incident after sending the other one off to do his dirty work for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his LoveInterest after he's taken his head, and kidnaps and threatens Connor's son to get Connor to come to him.
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** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].

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** "Archangel", "Avatar", & "Armageddon": [[ThePowerOfHate Ahriman]] is an ancient and powerful [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrian]] demon that returns to Earth every thousand years to cause [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] if not stopped by an Immortal chosen by fate to be humanity's champion. He's implied to have inspired every major religion's concept of a great antagonist and is just as ruthless and evil and that implies. He has no problem with gleefully inflicting psychological torture on the heroes and downright murdering bystanders who get in the way. One of his first acts is [[MasterOfIllusion manipulating Duncan MacLeod]] into accidentally killing [[LikeASonToMe Richie Ryan, his close friend and protégé]].


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* ''The Measure of a Man'' novel, by Nancy Holder: Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli is a ruthless Immortal who gives himself unique advantages in the Game by killing other pre-immortals to pretend he has given them their newfound lives. Using them as cheap Quickenings or pawns, Machiavelli [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade murders rulers and popes, causes entire wars, and inevitably discards people when he's through with them]]. Seeking to [[WarForFunAndProfit cause a war]] between Venice and Turkey, Machiavelli abandons one pawn to be tortured to death; causes the death of Duncan's friend's son; and later returns in the modern day seeking a computer program that will allow him control of the world's computers, with the intent of shutting off even entire cities if it will get him what he want. Machiavelli murders his lover and co-conspirator, orders another pawn tortured before she is to be beheaded, and even tries to put Duncan in the [[SadisticChoice position]] of needing to behead another young Immortal and causing a plane crash or letting his own head be taken.

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* [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]: "[[BigBad The Kurgan]]", born Vitor, is a [[BloodKnight savage Immortal warrior]] who grew up to [[SelfMadeOrphan slaughter his parents]] and entire tribe before moving on to kill all other Immortals in the name of winning "The Prize". Traveling to Scotland, the Kurgan engages [[ArchEnemy Connor MacLeod]] and his tribe in combat and later hunts for Connor after he flees and marries a woman, killing Connor's mentor and raping his wife to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover, the Kurgan sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.
* ''Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer'': [[BigBad Kane]], birth name [[RapePillageAndBurn Kaan]], is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills and rapes [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] butchering a village with his two Immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Connor [=MacLeod=]'s latest mentor, the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal his magical powers. Upon his release in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills one of his associates without incident after sending the other one off to do his dirty work for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his love interest after he's taken his head, and [[WouldHurtAChild kidnaps and threatens his son]] to get Connor to come to him.
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* [[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]: "[[BigBad The Kurgan]]", born Vitor, is a [[BloodKnight The Kurgan]] [[labelnote:appearances]][[Film/{{Highlander}} Original film]]; prequel comics (primarily ''Highlander Origins: The Kurgan''); his actions are also canon to ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} The Series]]''[[/labelnote]]: Born Vitor, this savage Immortal warrior]] who grew up to [[SelfMadeOrphan slaughter warrior [[AxCrazy embraced his parents]] bloodlust]] when he murdered his own teacher for his Quickening and entire tribe before moving on to kill all other Immortals in the name power. Starting a millennia-long legacy of winning "The Prize". Traveling to Scotland, bloodshed, the Kurgan engages [[ArchEnemy has ridden with countless marauding armies, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering, raping, and burning]] all in his path. Even after the Kurgan obtained a magnificent sword to last him forever, he [[UngratefulBastard repaid the smith]] by raping and murdering his daughter, killing the smith and then deciding to "take his time" with the man's wife. Haunted by visions of his eventual destroyer, the Kurgan hunts a young Highlander named Connor MacLeod]] and [=MacLeod=], engaging his tribe in combat and later hunts for Connor after he flees and marries a woman, killing finally kills Connor's mentor and before raping his Connor's beloved wife Heather to sadistically bask in his victorious kill. Over the centuries centuries, the Kurgan continues murdering and heads to New York City to battle the remaining Immortals, killing Connor's friend and wounding a bystander as he does so. Meeting Connor once again in a church, the Kurgan takes advantage of the Immortals' inability to harm one another on holy ground to [[PostRapeTaunt mock Connor for the rape of his wife]] and death of his mentor while loudly blaspheming in the chapel. Kidnapping Connor's current lover, lover Brenda, the Kurgan sadistically runs down pedestrians with his car and forces Connor to engage him in one final battle, promising to torture her if Connor does not come. A [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathically childish]] warrior, the Kurgan would set the standard for future ''Highlander'' villains to come.
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* ''Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer'': [[BigBad [[NameOfCain Kane]], birth name [[RapePillageAndBurn Kaan]], is a truly vicious Asian warrior who kills and rapes [[ForTheEvulz for fun]].fun. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] butchering a village with his two Immortal companions after the villagers don't give him the information he wants fast enough. He kills Connor [=MacLeod=]'s latest mentor, the wise Japanese sorcerer Nakano, to steal his [[MasterOfIllusion magical powers.powers]]. Upon his release in the present after being buried in a cave for centuries, he promptly kills one of his associates without incident after sending the other one off to do his dirty work for him. He continues his rampage by raping a prostitute, promises Connor that he will rape his love interest LoveInterest after he's taken his head, and [[WouldHurtAChild kidnaps and threatens his son]] Connor's son to get Connor to come to him.
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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzefVUeBo6dfoK44W5j-N_FiNnXPjMDAJ Dark Places]]'' (FanFilm [[ApprovalOfGod authorized by Davis-Panzer Productions]]): [[BigBad Andrus Keradoc]], in truth [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes Dracula]], was a [[AristocratsAreEvil sadistic nobleman]] who committed countless atrocities, from [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling thousands]] to [[KillThePoor burning the homeless and infirm of Wallachia alive]]. As an immortal, Keradoc leaves a legacy of horror behind him, murdering countless beings as he seeks his true conquests. Beheaded by heroic Willem Caelius, Keradoc's evil soul takes over Caelius to continue his deeds, killing all Caelius's friends and plotting even crueler deeds to carry on his legacy.

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