History Monster / MarvelComics

* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' (Earth-2149): Henry "Hank" Pym, aka Giant Man, is the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire metaseries and a former superhero who got [[TranshumanTreachery much worse]] during the Hunger Virus outbreak. After being infected, Pym kidnaps Black Panther to use him as a personal food supply and confesses to him that even if he would become human once again, he would [[ImAHumanitarian still eat human flesh]]. When Wasp finds out about this and is angry with him, he bites her head off without hesitation. After Magneto destroys a portal to other dimensions, Pym, along with the other zombies, devours him in a rage. When the Silver Surfer arrives on Earth, Pym devours him and proudly reveals this to the arriving Galactus, angering him. Having devoured Galactus, he, along with several other zombies, uses the received cosmic power to kill all other zombies on the planet, seize Galactus's ship and travel on it across the universe. Forty years later, having successfully devoured all life in the universe, they return to Earth to repair the destroyed portal in order to devour sapient beings from other universes. Teletransported to Earth-91126, Pym devours [[TheWatcher Uatu]], studies his technologies, and successfully turns the planet's population into zombies. Later, he betrays ComicBook/TheSentry and tries to use his powers to activate the portal. [[AdaptationalVillainy Selfish, merciless, and sadistic]], Pym never tried to redeem himself, although he had such an opportunity, and would destroy his allies when they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]] to make the multiverse his personal "All-you-can-eat-buffet".

* [[YouClonedHitler Hate-Monger is in fact Adolf Hitler himself]], whose mind survived UsefulNotes/WorldWarII thanks to the technologies of Arnim Zola. Responsible for all the horrific Nazi crimes, the Hate-Monger incites violent riots against immigrants and racial minorities; he uses his hate rays to turn people against one another, intending on spreading them globally so worldwide pogroms tear the people apart until only the "haters" are left to rule over. The Hate-Monger attempts to rain nuclear death on the world so only the "MasterRace" can survive, and later tries to blow up New York as a message against a hub of diversity, gleeful about creating a new [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]], as he puts it. Even when allied with his former protege, the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], the Hate-Monger tries to betray him and gain cosmic power to enact his horrible will upon the world.

* [[SavageWolves The Man-Beast]], the greatest failure of the High Evolutionary, used to be one of Marvel's preeminent [[CardCarryingVillain card-carrying arch-villains]]. Born by giving a wolf superhuman intelligence and strength, the Man-Beast was [[ThePowerOfHate so full of hate]] that he tried to [[KillAllHumans destroy humanity]] minutes after gaining consciousness. Foiled in this, the Man-Beast decides to corrupt the High Evolutionary's next creation, the CounterEarth, out of vengeful spite; the Man-Beast is responsible for every atrocity, slaughter, and war in the entire history of Counter-Earth, effectively becoming the Satan to the High Evolutionary's God. For decades after, the Man-Beast executed scheme after scheme to take over or destroy Counter-Earth, Earth-616, and eventually all of reality, doing everything from attempting to MindRape Adam Warlock into destroying humanity, or initiating WorldWarIII on Counter-Earth to take over the ashes. When he fought the Avengers, he assumed the mantle of the Hate Monger and tried to frame them for an act of mass murder, all in preparation for a larger scheme that would have seen him foisting a HatePlague on millions. From his first issue to his ultimate defeat, the Man-Beast lived up to his name; a perfect predator, with the savagery of man and wolf and the redeeming traits of neither.

* [[TheDreaded Uranos]] [[labelnote:Main appearances]]''ComicBook/{{Eternals|2021}}: The Heretic''; ''ComicBook/{{Judgment Day|MarvelComics}}''; ''ComicBook/XMenRed2022''; ''ComicBook/LegionOfX''[[/labelnote]], "the Undying", was created by the Celestials as one of the immortal [[Characters/TheEternalsEternals Eternals]]' ruling triad. Considering Eternals superior to mortals, Uranos despised their duty as guardians of Earth. He eventually mounted a ZerothLawRebellion, subverting the [[{{Geas}} Principles]] that limit Eternal free will and urging his followers to imprison the Celestials and end all non-Eternal life on Earth and beyond. When defeated and captured, Uranos warned that Earth would be automatically annihilated by his hidden armory if he were killed or mind-wiped. After a century failing to break his will, the Eternals imprisoned him. Still imprisoned over half a million years later, he briefly became an ally of sorts to [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]], entrusting the Mad Titan with his armory--after initially scolding him for "only" killing half the universe. Later released as a BoxedCrook, Uranos waged war on the mutant world of Arakko for an hour before being teleported back to his cell--slaughtering over 98% of all life in a 50-mile radius. Released a second time, [[GodzillaThreshold as a last resort]], Uranos [[EatTheSummoner immediately betrayed his patron]] and tried to destroy the Earth. A third attempt to deploy Uranos this way was abandoned after a telepathic glimpse of his mind; even in the face of death from a demon-corrupted army, he was considered too dreadful to release.

** [[NightmareWeaver Nightmare]], one of the oldest and most bitter enemies of ComicBook/DoctorStrange, is the [[DimensionLord ruler of the Dream Dimension]]. One of the Fear Lords who plagues mankind with nightmares, Nightmare has repeatedly attempted to [[AndIMustScream trap them in unending torment and anguish]] for their nightmares to feast off the results. A SerialRapist, Nightmare once violated a succubus to ensure their offspring would burn through the mother in the birth and later raped Betty Ross to produce another child, among others. Consistently returning with grandiose schemes, Nightmare refuses to cease until all that leaves is reduced to insane or agonized shells to suffer in dreams.

** ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' Vol. 3 issue #55--"Skin Games": [[{{Sadist}} Morphine]] is a sadistic one-shot foe of Dan Ketch and a friend of Calvin Zabo, aka Mr. Hyde. A former [[PsychoForHire killer-for-hire]] who got bored of the rote ways he usually killed his marks, Morphine founded a club he called "Skin & Bones" with fellow minded sadists so he could use it as a hub to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torture random hobos to death in every way imaginable]], all for the sake of providing some live entertainment to his sick, wealthy audience.

!!The original [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Universe]] (Earth-1610; The Maker can be found in Multiple Works)

* Issue #28: [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], having been defeated while overseeing [[POWCamp Nazi concentration camps]], concocts one of his most diabolical schemes ever, as he changes his appearance to that of [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]], then wipes out Cap's entire army unit. Disguised as Cap, Red Skull uses his status as a war hero to propel himself to the [[PresidentEvil presidency]], where he instantly begins stirring up racial conflict until he manages to institute a police state. Throwing all who don't serve him or fit into his view of a "perfect" human being into concentration camps to be brutally tortured and murdered, Red Skull guns down one of his own advisors for suggesting caution with their plan, and ultimately hopes to expand his new regime until the entire world is that of a [[MasterRace pure, Aryan race]].

* Issue #67-68: In a world where [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] wasn't awakened from his frozen slumber in time, [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] was able to invade America and slaughter millions of people with his Nazi armies. Upon establishing the Fourth Reich, Skull subjects millions of people to horrific [[POWCamp concentration camps]] and uses dozens of mutants and superheroes as [[PlayingWithSyringes experimental material to be taken apart and mutated]], with their families being wiped out as well. When the rest of the world tries to temper Red Skull's conquest under threat of nuclear war, Red Skull gleefully kick-starts the war himself, using [[NukeEm nuclear weapons to wipe out countless people]] across the Eastern countries of the world and leaving Russia and many other counties radiated wastelands. Upon learning that his old foe Captain America has returned, Red Skull forces a mind-controlled Hulk to slaughter Cap's forces, and ultimately guns down Spider-Man himself before dying.

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

* [[TheDreaded Uranos]] [[labelnote:Main appearances]]''ComicBook/Eternals|2021}}: The Heretic''; ''ComicBook/{{Judgment Day|MarvelComics}}''; ''ComicBook/XMenRed2022''; ''ComicBook/LegionOfX''[[/labelnote]], "the Undying", was created by the Celestials as one of the immortal [[Characters/TheEternalsEternals Eternals]]' ruling triad. Considering Eternals superior to mortals, Uranos despised their duty as guardians of Earth. He eventually mounted a ZerothLawRebellion, subverting the [[{{Geas}} Principles]] that limit Eternal free will and urging his followers to imprison the Celestials and end all non-Eternal life on Earth and beyond. When defeated and captured, Uranos warned that Earth would be automatically annihilated by his hidden armory if he were killed or mind-wiped. After a century failing to break his will, the Eternals imprisoned him. Still imprisoned over half a million years later, he briefly became an ally of sorts to [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]], entrusting the Mad Titan with his armory--after initially scolding him for "only" killing half the universe. Later released as a BoxedCrook, Uranos waged war on the mutant world of Arakko for an hour before being teleported back to his cell--slaughtering over 98% of all life in a 50-mile radius. Released a second time, [[GodzillaThreshold as a last resort]], Uranos [[EatTheSummoner immediately betrayed his patron]] and tried to destroy the Earth. A third attempt to deploy Uranos this way was abandoned after a telepathic glimpse of his mind; even in the face of death from a demon-corrupted army, he was considered too dreadful to release.

!![[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Universe]] (Earth-1610; The Maker can be found in Multiple Works)

* ''[[ComicBook/ThorVikings Vikings]]'': [[BloodKnight Harald Jaekelsson]] is a {{sadist}}ic, [[AxCrazy psychotic]] villain who embodies the worst stereotypes of Vikings. In 1003 AD, Harald leads his men to [[RapePillageAndBurn rape and slaughter all inhabitants of a village]] before setting sail for the new world. Cursed by a wise man to sail for a thousand years, Harald and his men arrive at New York as [[RevenantZombie nigh-invincible zombies]]. Setting about to slaughter, pillage and rape all they find, Harald and his comrades turn New York into a near death camp, with Harald selecting the seat of his new throne built of human bones at the Empire State Building. When he faces Thor, Harald tries to humiliate the God and taunts him to go die a coward's death before casting him into the Hudson River. Despite only having a brief appearance, Harald marks himself as one of the most truly vile beings the God of Thunder has ever faced.

* ''Bullseye'', by Ed Brisson et al.: [[AxCrazy Teodor Zarco]] is a Columbian drug lord who lords over [[TheCartel the Black Knife Cartel]] with a sadistic, iron fist. Teodor gained infamy when he captured a squad of federal agents investigating his activities and tortured to death everyone who has ever known them in front of the agents one by one. Planning to expand the Black Knife to America, Teodor is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing a man to death as slowly as he can, and later is seen getting ready to butcher dozens of his minions who were stealing some of his drugs, planning to cut them all up and ship them to their mothers in little baggies. Upon being investigated by more federal agents, Teodor captures them all and plans to [[FedToTheBeast feed them to his pet tiger]], before betraying and trying to kill his American partner just for irritating him. Even in a comic featuring the world's greatest assassin Bullseye, Teodor stands out with his sadistically vile actions for a mere drug lord.

** [[MadArtist Mr. Tune]], real name Augustus Tuneski, is a psychotic SerialKiller who twists his victims' corpses into demented works of "art". Having spent UsefulNotes/WorldWarII fighting for the Nazis on a bicycle made of his victims' bones, [[EnfantTerrible all at the age of 10]], Mr. Tune reemerges with the Brothers, commanding their Shockers and leading their various massacres. Unafraid to make moves against the Brothers when it suits him, Mr. Tune kills various civilians, twisting their bodies into horrific sculptures; tortures the Punisher by slowly breaking his hand; and kills a victim's cat to force them to cooperate. Later on, when Polo gives him the means, Mr. Tune begins his "masterpiece" and confronts the Punisher in a fight to the death, armed with a DeadMansSwitch that will kill thousands of people should the Punisher kill him.

*** Issues #34-37: [[AristocratsAreEvil Belaric Marcosa]] was a shockingly dark villain for even a 70s [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] Marvel horror series. In life, Marcosa lured victims to his manor to use dark sorcery to drive them into "lewd depravity" before he sucked their lives and souls out before having them murder one another for his amusement. He then [[YourSoulIsMine kept their souls trapped in his manor]]. After his death, Marcosa had more victims lured to the manor so he could torture them as well, playing dark mind games and driving his victims to distrust and murder one another before revealing himself and attempting to add their souls to his collection.

** [[TheCaligula Rancor]], great-great-great granddaughter of [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], [[PlanetBaron inherited the throne]] of humanity's new home Haven II in the 31st century, clawing out her own father's heart at sixteen and enslaving the entire population of the planet. Rancor exercised [[AxCrazy random, sadistic cruelty]] beyond any other foe the Guardians had faced, massacring a crowd of thousands after they tried to rebel against her cruel rule, killing innocents at random, and eventually attempting to annihilate all of Haven II alongside its population out of sheer spite. Rancor tenuously allied with [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] afterwards, and not long after she did so she decided to kill Doom and eat his heart in front of a televised audience in response to an earlier slight. Rancor even has a planet full of six billion people annihilated solely to frame the Guardians. Guilty of everything from scalping her own cousin in response to an offhand insult to working thousands to death, Rancor's final appearance saw her enslave a new population and rape Talon in order to produce an heir to mold in her image, ensuring that her psychotic legacy will continue indefinitely.

* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers[=/=]Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', written by Stuart Moore (Earth-7642): [[GalacticConqueror Megatron]] is the tyrannical leader of the Decepticons who seeks to triumph over the Autobots, regardless of the cost. Desiring energon to fuel his war effort, Megatron [[ManipulativeBastard serially manipulates]] planetary populations into warring and wiping each other out for the Decepticons to strip their worlds of energon, killing billions. Planning to restart this process on Earth, Megatron tries to start a nuclear war between the countries of [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Latveria]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsWildPack Symkaria]], as well as kidnapping and physically tormenting Spider-Man to siphon his superpowers for his own minions. When the Avengers and Autobots work together to stop his plan, Megatron tries killing them personally, even spitefully trying to kill Iron Man [[ForcedToWatch in front of]] Optimus Prime.

* [[ForTheEvulz Zodiac]] is a [[CardCarryingVillain knowingly evil lover of chaos and wickedness]] who makes it his life's mission to cause as much random destruction as possible. First appearing in ''ComicBook/DarkReign: Zodiac'', Zodiac tortures over 100 people to death to send a message to [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]], then viciously beats the Human Torch to near-death before bombing the hospital he is transported to. Later unleashing a giant robot onto a city that kills hundreds more, Zodiac uses the chaos to pull off even more murderous schemes. Decorating his hideout in [[DecapitationPresentation severed heads]] and manipulating his partners into servitude even while he endangers their lives with zero concern, Zodiac ends up using the teen supervillain gang the Young Masters to declare war on the old guard of supervillains, leading to terrorist attacks across the world--notably [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Latveria]]--that end countless lives. [[ComicBook/MoonKnight2021 Returning much later]] to torment Moon Knight, Zodiac sics a variety of vicious villains onto the hero, knowing they will rack up collateral damage, and makes it his personal hobby to [[TargetedToHurtTheHero try to kill everyone Moon Knight loves]]--even targeting an entire neighborhood of people. Zodiac eagerly helps the Black Spectre in his scheme to drive New York insane, only to then torture Black Spectre to death for "stealing" Moon Knight's killing from him.

* Great Old Ones: [[MultiversalConqueror Shuma-Gorath]] is an EldritchAbomination from outside of the Earth dimension who fully understands good and evil, gleefully embracing evil. Having consumed entire realms and devoured the souls of countless innocents, Shuma-Gorath once spread his worship to Earth where he demanded blood sacrifice and wars to amuse and feed himself. Eventually banished by [[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the Cimmerian]], Shuma-Gorath returns against ComicBook/DoctorStrange where he has his servants spread destruction and evil across the world, taking the mind of Strange's master, the Ancient One, to gain a foothold in the world. When thwarted, Shuma-Gorath later creates a facsimile of Earth and damages it to reflect the same damage to Earth itself, risking the lives of billions for fun. Later revealed as one of the Many-Angled Ones, Shuma-Gorath was responsible for [[ComicBook/TheThanosImperative the Cancerverse]] when, in a pact with that world's Captain Marvel, he and his brethren killed Death and converted the entire multiverse into twisted deathless abominations to worship him, seeking to spread his malevolent influence to Earth and consume it as well.

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* Issue #44: In a world where [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] wasn't awakened from his frozen slumber in time, [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] was able to invade America and slaughter millions of people with his Nazi armies. Upon establishing the Fourth Reich, Skull subjects millions of people to horrific [[POWCamp concentration camps]] and uses dozens of mutants and superheroes as [[PlayingWithSyringes experimental material to be taken apart and mutated]], with their families being wiped out as well. When the rest of the world tries to temper Red Skull's conquest under threat of nuclear war, Red Skull gleefully kick-starts the war himself, using [[NukeEm nuclear weapons to wipe out countless people]] across the Eastern countries of the world and leaving Russia and many other counties radiated wastelands. Upon learning that his old foe Captain America has returned, Red Skull forces a mind-controlled Hulk to slaughter Cap's forces, and ultimately guns down Spider-Man himself before dying.