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[[caption-width-right:225:"He will make of this century a killing ground. In his warm days, he murdered one-third of his own subjects. Imagine what he would do to those he considers his enemies."]]

* "Act III: Guignol": [[StrawmanNewsMedia Georges Du Roy]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive psychopathic newspaper mogul]] and leader of the Red Circle. Learning that [[{{Sadist}} he loved violence and evil]] during the events of Bloody Week, Du Roy helps found and cover for the members of the Red Circle, helping them unleash a wave of torture, rape and murder on the city for fun. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fervid anti-Semite]], Du Roy is also behind a smear campaign against the Jewish soldier Dreyfus and incites riots against the Jewish population of Paris, leading to innocent Jews being burned on the streets. Du Roy, along with the rest of the Red Circle, also forces and kidnaps young women into their grand act where they torture them to death for fun and intend to make Kate Reed their latest victim, all while forcing the master of the theatre Guignol to watch.

[[caption-width-right:225:""He will make of this century a killing ground. In his warm days, he murdered one-third of his own subjects. Imagine what he would do to those he considers his enemies."]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"...{{Dracula}} came out of Transylvania to conquer London, bringing with him horrors most of Europe didn’t believe in or had forgotten."]]

* UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, [[{{Dracula}} Vlad Dracul]] himself, is the [[VampireMonarch lord of all vampires]] and the rarely seen but always present OverarchingVillain. Dracula started off as the brutal Impaler in life and would have thousands put to the stake out of bloodlust before becoming a prolific killer in undeath. Having killed Van Helsing and most of his allies, Dracula sets up a tyrannical vampire PoliceState in England by forcibly marrying UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria. Countless people are impaled or sent to the Tower to be tortured, with Dracula outlawing sodomy as a crime punishable by death. Allowing his vampire followers to murder and rape with impunity, Dracula presides over a court where innocents are regularly torn apart in an orgy of blood as Victoria is ForcedToWatch. Later starting UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in all its bloody glory, Dracula has thousands impaled on the battle field and funds the creation of vampire pilots by destroying their sanity and killing millions in the bloodshed. Eventually corrupting and killing a teenage boy as a way to revive himself, Dracula later returns from the dead to destroy his rivals and resume his role as king of the undead.

[[AC:''Literature/AnnoDracula'' series: The following monsters reflect the dark world created after {{Dracula}} won and allowed vampires to reign supreme.]]
* UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, Vlad Dracul himself, is the lord of all vampires and the rarely seen but always present OverarchingVillain. Dracula started off as the brutal Impaler in life and would have thousands put to the stake out of bloodlust before becoming a prolific killer in undeath. Having killed Van Helsing and most of his allies, Dracula sets up a tyrannical vampire PoliceState in England by forcibly marrying UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria. Countless people are impaled or sent to the Tower to be tortured, with Dracula outlawing sodomy as a crime punishable by death. Allowing his vampire followers to murder and rape with impunity, Dracula presides over a court where innocents are regularly torn apart in an orgy of blood as Victoria is forced to watch. Later starting UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in all its bloody glory, Dracula later returns from the dead to destroy his rivals and resume his role as king of the undead.

[[AC:''Literature/AngelsOfMusic'': [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik the Phantom]] and his detective agency the Opera Ghost Agency have faced several vile foes.]]

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''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}: Literature/{{Drachenfels}}'' can be found [[Monster/LiteratureRToZ here]] or [[Monster/TabletopGames here]].

* "Act III: Guignol": [[StrawmanNewsMedia Georges Du Roy]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive psychopathic newspaper mogul]] and leader of the Red Circle. Learning that [[{{Sadist}} he loved violence and evil]] during the events of Bloody Week, Du Roy helps found and cover for the members of the Red Circle, helping them unleash a wave of torture, rape and murder on the city for fun. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fervid anti-Semite, Du Roy is also behind a smear campaign against the Jewish soldier Dreyfus and incites riots against the Jewish population of Paris, leading to innocent Jews being burned on the streets. Du Roy, along with the rest of the Red Circle, also forces and kidnaps young women into their grand act where they torture them to death for fun and intend to make Kate Reed their latest victim, all while forcing the master of the theatre Guignol to watch.
* "Act III: Guignol" & "Act V: Deluge": [[InsaneAdmiral General Assolant]] is a psychotic French general infamous both for his [[SocippathicSoldier brutality]] and [[GeneralFailure blundering]] and is one of the key members of the Red Circle, having innocents kidnapped to be tortured to death for the Red Circle's enjoyment. Upon being beaten by the Opera Ghost Agency, Assolant nurses a grudge for decades and later joins forces with Cagliostro/Antinea in order to get revenge, helping her flood the city and killing hundreds, and personally killing and plundering Paris, killing dozens more. Capturing the Angels Irene Adler and Kate Reed, Assolant and Antinea plan to murder them in front of him to cause him great plan, and Assolant will use his forces to overthrow the French government in violent revolution in order to put Antinea on the throne, killing multitudes so Assolant profits.

* UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, aka Vlad Dracul, himself is the [[VampireMonarch lord of all vampires]] and the series rarely seen but always present OverarchingVillain. Dracula started off as the brutal Impaler in life and would have thousands put to the stake out of bloodlust before becoming a prolific SerialKiller in undeath. Having killed Van Helsing and most of his allies, Dracula sets up a tyrannical vampire police state in England by forcibly marrying Queen Victoria. Countless people are impaled or sent to the Tower to be tortured, with Dracula outlawing sodomy as a crime punishable by death. Allowing his vampire followers to murder and rape with impunity, Dracula presides over a court where innocents are regularly torn apart in an orgy of blood as Victoria is forced to watch. Later starting UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in all its bloody glory, Dracula later returns from the dead to destroy his rivals and resume his role as king of the undead.
* ''Anno Dracula'' (first novel): [[ScaledUp Vardalek]] is a twisted member of the Carpathian Guard in England. A serial child-killing pedophile, Vardalek is caught by heroine vampire Genevieve Dieudonne while forcibly taking a little boy from his father to molest and devour, which he has done to numerous little boys before. Humiliated by Genevieve, Vardalek tries to have her killed, later caught raping and feeding from another child with another corpse nearby.
* ''One Thousand Monsters'': [[EvilSorcerer Lieutenant Majin]] is a servant of the Taira no Masakado and Enma-Ou in Japan. Seeking to raise his masters for HellOnEarth, Majin brutally runs the ghetto Yokai Town, having disgraced people from Japan sent to the ghetto to have them commit seppuku or be torn apart by the monsters so he can feast on their fear and pain. Turning Yokai and vampires against one another to cause bloodshed to feed his power, Majin intends to cause an earthquake and bury all of Tokyo before unleashing hellish nightmares upon the world.
* ''Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju'': [[ForTheEvulz Jun Zero]] is a [[TheCracker sociopathic hacker]] who savors causing pain to others, causing death, ruining lives and even stealing from orphanages to distribute the money to the wealthy. Seeking to hijack the plan of Christina Light to ascend to godhood at the new millennium, Jun Zero manipulates others at the Daikaiju building while intending to seize upon the ascension. Once done, he plots to turn the earth into a killing field where all that lives will be subject to torture and death at his hands until [[OmnicidalManiac the world has ended]].

* "Act I: The Marriage Club" & "Act V: Deluge": [[DiabolicalMastermind Countess Cagliostro]] is an EvilSorceror named Antinea who is a descendant of the lost civilization of Atlantis. Cagilostro desires control over the world and attempts in her first appearance to KillAndReplace dozens of high ranking officials with her dolls to seize control and later attempts to have the Angels sent against her killed by being dipped in hot wax. Beaten off, she assembles various defeated but surviving enemies of the Agency and has the city of Paris flooded killing hundreds while she lets her minions wreak havoc. Murdering Erik's best friend The Persian to hurt and draw him out , Antinea kidnaps his beloved angels Irene Adler and Kate Reed intending to along with Assolant kill them in front of him to cause him pain. Intending to overthrow the French government, Antinea plans to launch a missile into the city which could kill thousands before having Assolant's forces help her seize control of France and crown herself empress. Beaten by Erik, she tries to murder him and one of his angels as a final act of spite and sends Erik and herself to an apparent watery doom.
* "Act III: Guignol": [[StrawmanNewsMedia Georges Du Roy]] is a psychopathic newspaper mogul and leader of the Red Circle. Learning that he loved violence and evil during the events of Bloody Week, Du Roy helps found and cover for the members of the Red Circle helping them unleash a wave of torture, rape and murder on the city for fun. A diehard antisemite, Du Roy is also behind a smear campaign against the jewish soldier Dreyfus and incites riots against the jewish population of paris leading to innocent jews being burned on the streets. Du Roy along with the rest of the red circle also force and kidnaps young women into their grand act where they torture them to death for fun and intned to make Kate Reed their latest victim, all while forcing the master of the theatre Guigonol to watch.
* "Act III: Guignol" & "Act V : Deluge": [[InsaneAdmiral General Assolant]] is a psychotic french general infamous both for his brutality and blundering and is one of the key members of the Red Circle, having innocents kidnapped to be tortured to death for the Red Circle's enjoyment. Upon being beaten by the Opera Ghost Agency, Assolant nurses a grudge for decades and later joins forces with Cagliostro/Antinea in order to get revenge, helping her flood the city and killing hundreds and personally kills and plunders across Paris, killing dozens more. Capturing the angels Irene Adler and Kate Reed, Assolant and Antinea plan to murder them in front of him to cause him great plan and Assolant's will use hos forces to overthrow the french government in violent revolution in order to put Antinea on the throne, killing countless so Assolant profits.

The dark and zany Multiverse of Kim Newman are a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover which are home to some truly vile villains.

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-->--'''Jepperson''' on '''Jun Zero''', ''Literature/AnnoDracula 1999: Daikaiju''

-->--'''Jepperson''' on '''Jun Zero'''

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* ''Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju'': [[ForTheEvulz Jun Zero]] is a [[TheCracker sociopathic hacker]] who savors causing pain to others, causing death, ruining lives and even stealing from orphanages to distribute the money to the wealthy. Seeking to hijack the plan of Christina Light to ascend to godhood at the new millennium, Jun Zero manipulates others at the Daikaiju building while intending to seize upon the ascension. Once done, he plots to turn the earth into a killing field where all that lives will be subject to torture and death at his hands until [[OmnicidialManiac the world has ended]].

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[[AC:''Literature/AnnoDracula'' series: The following monsters reflect the dark world created after {{Dracula}} won and allowed vampires to reign supreme.]]