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->'''Characters/{{Inuyasha|Inuyasha|TheCharacter}}:''' Do you know how many villages were destroyed just so you could lure Kikyō out?!\\
'''Hakudōshi:''' Oh, please. Is that what you're so upset about?
-->— "[[Recap/InuyashaEp159KohakusDecisionAndSangosHeart Kohaku's Decision and Sango's Heart]]"
[[Franchise/{{Inuyasha}} Across the brutal world]] of the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, the [[Characters/InuyashaInuyashaTheCharacter the title character]] and [[Characters/InuyashaMainCharacters his companions]] have faced many vicious [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]]. Whether their ArchEnemy, [[Characters/InuyashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku himself]], one of his incarnations, or other psychopaths, [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst stand out for monstrosity]].
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* [[ItsAllAboutMe Naraku]] is a {{manipulative|Bastard}} half-demon seeking the [[ArtifactOfDoom Shikon Jewel]]. Born out of the bandit Onigumo's pact with demons to covet the love of the priestess guarding the Jewel, Kikyo, Naraku instead uses his first moments alive to mortally wound Kikyo and make her think her lover Inuyasha betrayed her. When Kikyo has the Jewel burned with her body rather than wish upon it to extend her life, Naraku, plotting while awaiting its recreation, curses a family of monks to die slowly and horribly with each generation lest they kill him; and later graphically [[WouldHurtAChild murders a group of children]] with his [[DeadlyGas poisonous miasma]]. In present time, Naraku becomes more active as the Jewel returns; orchestrating countless demon attacks to devastate cities and towns across the country; creating incarnations of himself to carry out further massacres; [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] a young demon slayer into killing his family and manipulating him as a puppet; and resurrecting the [[Characters/InuyashaBandOfSeven Band of Seven]], a group of mercenaries who have killed thousands, to murder as they please as a distraction while he experiments and strengthens himself. [[AbusiveParents Horrifically abusive]] to his incarnation-children, Naraku threatens their lives to ensure their allegiance and cruelly leads them to their deaths as soon as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they cease being useful to him]], holding the literal heart of one captive to ensure her loyalty. Eventually completing the fractured Jewel, Naraku uses it to attempt to eradicate Kikyo's village and even after being mortally wounded intends to use his miasma-laden corpse to [[TakingYouWithMe kill all the villagers]]. A spiteful, sadistic monster, Naraku deals with his own depression and insecurity by devastating the land of Feudal Japan and seeking nothing more than to cause as much misery as possible.
* "[[EnfantTerrible The Infant]]", Naraku's eighth incarnation, is a sociopathic [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]] who contrasts his harmless, defenseless appearance with a truly heinous personality. Immediately after his creation, the Infant takes control of a lady in royalty and begins a mass execution of innocents in an attempt to draw out heroine Kagome Higurashi for the Infant to possess. The Infant goes on to kill a variety of priests and backs Hakudōshi's vile butchering and [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on demons, before utilizing his fabricated "Moryomaru" armor to slaughter and absorb hundreds of demons for his own power. Unleashing demons upon innocents and empowering bandits to raze entire villages, the Infant goes so far as to nearly murder Koga's [[WouldHurtAChild young friends]] in front of him, all to prepare himself to [[TheStarscream betray Naraku]] and assume his power as his own. The Infant also shrugs off the death of his other half Hakudōshi, mocks Kagura's murder in front of her friends, and even abandons his living armor Moryomaru with no remorse, assuring all that he would have been a worthy successor to Naraku's villainy.
* [[CreepyChild Hakudōshi]] himself, Naraku's incarnation born of a split from the Infant, matches both for cruelty and sadism. Murdering multiple demons to examine their minds for the secrets of the netherworld while allying with Princess Abi to oversee the mass blood-draining of countless villagers, Hakudōshi eventually unleashes [[SwarmOfRats swarms of demon rats]] to devour entire villages to lure out Kikyo and plans to unleash them all over Japan should she not give herself up, bragging that he shall repeat similar schemes and endanger even more lives while showing sadistic glee in the almost unparalleled amounts of bloodshed caused. Later murdering demons for experiments to create Moryomaru for the Infant—callously leaving his failed experiments to run rampant on villages—Hakudōshi also viciously abuses Kagura, forcing her to risk her life in his name and using her as a HumanShield. Hakudōshi even [[TheStarscream plans to backstab Naraku]] alongside the Infant, [[ItsAllAboutMe with no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself]].
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* ''[[Anime/InuyashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime Affections Touching Across Time]]'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Menomaru]] is a [[MothMenace moth demon]] and the former second-in-command to his father, the Lord Hyoga, who sought to conquer Japan 200 years in the past until Hyoga was killed and Menomaru {{sealed|EvilInACan}} by Inuyasha's father. Reawakening, Menomaru tricks Inuyasha into unsealing the dead Hyoga's powers, allowing him to spread his poisonous moths across Japan, killing all they come across for Menomaru to [[SoulEating consume their souls]]. Empowering himself enough to become the new Lord Hyoga, Menomaru, a vicious monster bent on proving his superiority over everything, summons forth his father's army and orders them to [[OmnicidalManiac kill every living creature on the planet]].
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieTheCastleBeyondTheLookingGlass The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass]]'': "[[DarkActionGirl Princess Kaguya]]" is a ruthless demon who [[MonstrousCannibalism devoured many other demons for power]], later [[KillAndReplace consuming the real Kaguya and taking her identity and form]]. After being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]] by Miroku's grandfather after slaughtering numerous villagers, Kaguya returns after Naraku's supposed death to attempt to turn Inuyasha into a bloodthirsty monster. Enacting a ritual to bring "Eternal Night" and [[OmnicidalManiac end time for all beings]], destroying them, Kaguya intends to reign over the planet as the only living thing left.
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieSwordsOfAnHonorableRuler Swords of an Honorable Ruler]]'': [[ManipulativeBastard So'unga]] is a [[EvilWeapon sword]] housing the evil soul of a dragon. Possessing those who wield it to slaughter all about them, So'unga was controlled by Inuyasha and Sessshomaru's father, the Great Dog Demon, until his death. Returning to briefly [[DemonicPossession possess]] Inuyasha and trying to destroy modern-day Tokyo, So'unga revives the vicious demon-hating warrior Takemaru to slaughter numerous men to steal their souls and [[NightOfTheLivingMooks revive them as zombies]], enhancing Takemaru's negativity and prejudice towards demons against Inuyasha and Sesshomaru for revenge. Even after Takemaru is dead, So'unga is intent on opening the path to the underworld and [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all that lives]].
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* ''[[VideoGame/InuyashaTheSecretOfTheCursedMask The Secret of the Cursed Mask]]'': This version of [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] maintains his deceitful nature and is the game's true villain. Manipulating the living doll Utsugi, Naraku brings their descendant, the PlayerCharacter, to the past, ostensibly to allow Utsugi to become human but really to devour them and empower himself. [[FrameUp Framing]] the protagonist as a criminal to draw them out, Naraku fights them in Castle Town after possessing the Lord and after defeating them, wipes out the city and resurrects the local samurai and [[WouldHurtAChild even a little girl]] to serve as his [[NightOfTheLivingMooks tormented undead soldiers]]. Also orchestrating Utsugi's attacks on the wolf demon tribe and piling his lair with the carcasses of demons he used and devoured, Naraku eventually consumes the pained Utsugi for their powerful aura.
* ''[[VideoGame/InuyashaSecretOfTheDivineJewel Secret of the Divine Jewel]]'' (2007): [[CatsAreMean Gorai]] is a half-demon lord who hopes to harness the power of the god Datara. Staging an attack on Datara's village and wedding to slaughter the populace, Gorai [[IHaveYourWife uses Datara's baby as a hostage]] to force him to don the Demon Mask and put himself under Gorai's control. When Datara's fiancée, Tsugumi, is forced to seal Datara away and kill their infant to protect them from Gorai, Gorai responds by enslaving Tsugumi to his will for centuries. After turning dozens of villagers into soulless husks for slave labor, Gorai orchestrates Datara's reawakening and immediately massacres several villages, planning to [[GodhoodSeeker ascend to godhood]] and TakeOverTheWorld in bloody conflict.
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* [[Theatre/Inuyasha2017 2017 stage play]]: In this retelling of the manga's beginning, [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] remains the cause of all of the heroes' suffering. Biding his time for the Shikon Jewel's return after causing Kikyo's death and Inuyasha's sealing, Naraku resurfaces with the Jewel's return to use the Spider Head demons to kill Inuyasha and his companions, allowing them to attack the neighboring villages as they please and later [[MindRape mentally tormenting]] Inuyasha to kill him for his Jewel shards. At the end of the play, Naraku once again attempts to use his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]] on Inuyasha and in the final scene sends an army of demons after Inuyasha and his LoveInterest, scourging the land [[AmbitionIsEvil in the name of gaining ultimate power]].
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->'''Characters/{{Inuyasha|Inuyasha|TheCharacter}}:''' Do you know how many villages were destroyed just so you could lure Kikyō out?!\\
'''Hakudōshi:''' Oh, please. Is that what you're so upset about?
-->— "[[Recap/InuyashaEp159KohakusDecisionAndSangosHeart Kohaku's Decision and Sango's Heart]]"
[[Franchise/{{Inuyasha}} Across the brutal world]] of the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, the [[Characters/InuyashaInuyashaTheCharacter the title character]] and [[Characters/InuyashaMainCharacters his companions]] have faced many vicious [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]]. Whether their ArchEnemy, [[Characters/InuyashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku himself]], one of his incarnations, or other psychopaths, [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst stand out for monstrosity]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:[[Manga/{{Inuyasha}} Original Manga & Anime]]]]
* [[ItsAllAboutMe Naraku]] is a {{manipulative|Bastard}} half-demon seeking the [[ArtifactOfDoom Shikon Jewel]]. Born out of the bandit Onigumo's pact with demons to covet the love of the priestess guarding the Jewel, Kikyo, Naraku instead uses his first moments alive to mortally wound Kikyo and make her think her lover Inuyasha betrayed her. When Kikyo has the Jewel burned with her body rather than wish upon it to extend her life, Naraku, plotting while awaiting its recreation, curses a family of monks to die slowly and horribly with each generation lest they kill him; and later graphically [[WouldHurtAChild murders a group of children]] with his [[DeadlyGas poisonous miasma]]. In present time, Naraku becomes more active as the Jewel returns; orchestrating countless demon attacks to devastate cities and towns across the country; creating incarnations of himself to carry out further massacres; [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] a young demon slayer into killing his family and manipulating him as a puppet; and resurrecting the [[Characters/InuyashaBandOfSeven Band of Seven]], a group of mercenaries who have killed thousands, to murder as they please as a distraction while he experiments and strengthens himself. [[AbusiveParents Horrifically abusive]] to his incarnation-children, Naraku threatens their lives to ensure their allegiance and cruelly leads them to their deaths as soon as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they cease being useful to him]], holding the literal heart of one captive to ensure her loyalty. Eventually completing the fractured Jewel, Naraku uses it to attempt to eradicate Kikyo's village and even after being mortally wounded intends to use his miasma-laden corpse to [[TakingYouWithMe kill all the villagers]]. A spiteful, sadistic monster, Naraku deals with his own depression and insecurity by devastating the land of Feudal Japan and seeking nothing more than to cause as much misery as possible.
* "[[EnfantTerrible The Infant]]", Naraku's eighth incarnation, is a sociopathic [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]] who contrasts his harmless, defenseless appearance with a truly heinous personality. Immediately after his creation, the Infant takes control of a lady in royalty and begins a mass execution of innocents in an attempt to draw out heroine Kagome Higurashi for the Infant to possess. The Infant goes on to kill a variety of priests and backs Hakudōshi's vile butchering and [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on demons, before utilizing his fabricated "Moryomaru" armor to slaughter and absorb hundreds of demons for his own power. Unleashing demons upon innocents and empowering bandits to raze entire villages, the Infant goes so far as to nearly murder Koga's [[WouldHurtAChild young friends]] in front of him, all to prepare himself to [[TheStarscream betray Naraku]] and assume his power as his own. The Infant also shrugs off the death of his other half Hakudōshi, mocks Kagura's murder in front of her friends, and even abandons his living armor Moryomaru with no remorse, assuring all that he would have been a worthy successor to Naraku's villainy.
* [[CreepyChild Hakudōshi]] himself, Naraku's incarnation born of a split from the Infant, matches both for cruelty and sadism. Murdering multiple demons to examine their minds for the secrets of the netherworld while allying with Princess Abi to oversee the mass blood-draining of countless villagers, Hakudōshi eventually unleashes [[SwarmOfRats swarms of demon rats]] to devour entire villages to lure out Kikyo and plans to unleash them all over Japan should she not give herself up, bragging that he shall repeat similar schemes and endanger even more lives while showing sadistic glee in the almost unparalleled amounts of bloodshed caused. Later murdering demons for experiments to create Moryomaru for the Infant—callously leaving his failed experiments to run rampant on villages—Hakudōshi also viciously abuses Kagura, forcing her to risk her life in his name and using her as a HumanShield. Hakudōshi even [[TheStarscream plans to backstab Naraku]] alongside the Infant, [[ItsAllAboutMe with no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself]].
[[AC:Anime Films]]
* ''[[Anime/InuyashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime Affections Touching Across Time]]'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Menomaru]] is a [[MothMenace moth demon]] and the former second-in-command to his father, the Lord Hyoga, who sought to conquer Japan 200 years in the past until Hyoga was killed and Menomaru {{sealed|EvilInACan}} by Inuyasha's father. Reawakening, Menomaru tricks Inuyasha into unsealing the dead Hyoga's powers, allowing him to spread his poisonous moths across Japan, killing all they come across for Menomaru to [[SoulEating consume their souls]]. Empowering himself enough to become the new Lord Hyoga, Menomaru, a vicious monster bent on proving his superiority over everything, summons forth his father's army and orders them to [[OmnicidalManiac kill every living creature on the planet]].
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieTheCastleBeyondTheLookingGlass The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass]]'': "[[DarkActionGirl Princess Kaguya]]" is a ruthless demon who [[MonstrousCannibalism devoured many other demons for power]], later [[KillAndReplace consuming the real Kaguya and taking her identity and form]]. After being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]] by Miroku's grandfather after slaughtering numerous villagers, Kaguya returns after Naraku's supposed death to attempt to turn Inuyasha into a bloodthirsty monster. Enacting a ritual to bring "Eternal Night" and [[OmnicidalManiac end time for all beings]], destroying them, Kaguya intends to reign over the planet as the only living thing left.
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieSwordsOfAnHonorableRuler Swords of an Honorable Ruler]]'': [[ManipulativeBastard So'unga]] is a [[EvilWeapon sword]] housing the evil soul of a dragon. Possessing those who wield it to slaughter all about them, So'unga was controlled by Inuyasha and Sessshomaru's father, the Great Dog Demon, until his death. Returning to briefly [[DemonicPossession possess]] Inuyasha and trying to destroy modern-day Tokyo, So'unga revives the vicious demon-hating warrior Takemaru to slaughter numerous men to steal their souls and [[NightOfTheLivingMooks revive them as zombies]], enhancing Takemaru's negativity and prejudice towards demons against Inuyasha and Sesshomaru for revenge. Even after Takemaru is dead, So'unga is intent on opening the path to the underworld and [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all that lives]].
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''[[VideoGame/InuyashaTheSecretOfTheCursedMask The Secret of the Cursed Mask]]'': This version of [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] maintains his deceitful nature and is the game's true villain. Manipulating the living doll Utsugi, Naraku brings their descendant, the PlayerCharacter, to the past, ostensibly to allow Utsugi to become human but really to devour them and empower himself. [[FrameUp Framing]] the protagonist as a criminal to draw them out, Naraku fights them in Castle Town after possessing the Lord and after defeating them, wipes out the city and resurrects the local samurai and [[WouldHurtAChild even a little girl]] to serve as his [[NightOfTheLivingMooks tormented undead soldiers]]. Also orchestrating Utsugi's attacks on the wolf demon tribe and piling his lair with the carcasses of demons he used and devoured, Naraku eventually consumes the pained Utsugi for their powerful aura.
* ''[[VideoGame/InuyashaSecretOfTheDivineJewel Secret of the Divine Jewel]]'' (2007): [[CatsAreMean Gorai]] is a half-demon lord who hopes to harness the power of the god Datara. Staging an attack on Datara's village and wedding to slaughter the populace, Gorai [[IHaveYourWife uses Datara's baby as a hostage]] to force him to don the Demon Mask and put himself under Gorai's control. When Datara's fiancée, Tsugumi, is forced to seal Datara away and kill their infant to protect them from Gorai, Gorai responds by enslaving Tsugumi to his will for centuries. After turning dozens of villagers into soulless husks for slave labor, Gorai orchestrates Datara's reawakening and immediately massacres several villages, planning to [[GodhoodSeeker ascend to godhood]] and TakeOverTheWorld in bloody conflict.
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* [[Theatre/Inuyasha2017 2017 stage play]]: In this retelling of the manga's beginning, [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] remains the cause of all of the heroes' suffering. Biding his time for the Shikon Jewel's return after causing Kikyo's death and Inuyasha's sealing, Naraku resurfaces with the Jewel's return to use the Spider Head demons to kill Inuyasha and his companions, allowing them to attack the neighboring villages as they please and later [[MindRape mentally tormenting]] Inuyasha to kill him for his Jewel shards. At the end of the play, Naraku once again attempts to use his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]] on Inuyasha and in the final scene sends an army of demons after Inuyasha and his LoveInterest, scourging the land [[AmbitionIsEvil in the name of gaining ultimate power]].
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->'''[[Characters/InuyashaInuyashaTheCharacter Inuyasha]]:''' Do you know how many villages were destroyed just so you could lure Kikyō out?!\\
'''Hakudōshi:''' Oh, please. Is that what you're so upset about?
-->-- "[[Recap/InuyashaEp159KohakusDecisionAndSangosHeart Kohaku's Decision and Sango's Heart]]"
[[Franchise/{{Inuyasha}} Across the brutal world]] of the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, the [[Characters/InuyashaInuyashaTheCharacter the title character]] and [[Characters/InuyashaMainCharacters his companions]] have faced many vicious [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]]. Whether their ArchEnemy, [[Characters/InuyashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku himself]], one of his incarnations, or other psychopaths, [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst stand out for monstrosity]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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* [[ItsAllAboutMe Naraku]] is a {{manipulative|Bastard}} half-demon seeking the [[ArtifactOfDoom Shikon Jewel]]. Born out of the bandit Onigumo's pact with demons to covet the love of the priestess guarding the Jewel, Kikyo, Naraku instead uses his first moments alive to mortally wound Kikyo and make her think her lover Inuyasha betrayed her. When Kikyo has the Jewel burned with her body rather than wish upon it to extend her life, Naraku, plotting while awaiting its recreation, curses a family of monks to die slowly and horribly with each generation lest they kill him; and later graphically [[WouldHurtAChild murders a group of children]] with his [[DeadlyGas poisonous miasma]]. In present time, Naraku becomes more active as the Jewel returns; orchestrating countless demon attacks to devastate cities and towns across the country; creating incarnations of himself to carry out further massacres; [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] a young demon slayer into killing his family and manipulating him as a puppet; and resurrecting the [[Characters/InuyashaBandOfSeven Band of Seven]], a group of mercenaries who have killed thousands, to murder as they please as a distraction while he experiments and strengthens himself. [[AbusiveParents Horrifically abusive]] to his incarnation-children, Naraku threatens their lives to ensure their allegiance and cruelly leads them to their deaths as soon as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they cease being useful to him]], holding the literal heart of one captive to ensure her loyalty. Eventually completing the fractured Jewel, Naraku uses it to attempt to eradicate Kikyo's village and even after being mortally wounded intends to use his miasma-laden corpse to [[TakingYouWithMe kill all the villagers]]. A spiteful, sadistic monster, Naraku deals with his own depression and insecurity by devastating the land of Feudal Japan and seeking nothing more than to cause as much misery as possible.
* "[[EnfantTerrible The Infant]]", Naraku's eighth incarnation, is a sociopathic [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]] who contrasts his harmless, defenseless appearance with a truly heinous personality. Immediately after his creation, the Infant takes control of a lady in royalty and begins a mass execution of innocents in an attempt to draw out heroine Kagome Higurashi for the Infant to possess. The Infant goes on to kill a variety of priests and backs Hakudōshi's vile butchering and [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on demons, before utilizing his fabricated "Moryomaru" armor to slaughter and absorb hundreds of demons for his own power. Unleashing demons upon innocents and empowering bandits to raze entire villages, the Infant goes so far as to nearly murder Koga's [[WouldHurtAChild young friends]] in front of him, all to prepare himself to [[TheStarscream betray Naraku]] and assume his power as his own. The Infant also shrugs off the death of his other half Hakudōshi, mocks Kagura's murder in front of her friends, and even abandons his living armor Moryomaru with no remorse, assuring all that he would have been a worthy successor to Naraku's villainy.
* [[CreepyChild Hakudōshi]] himself, Naraku's incarnation born of a split from the Infant, matches both for cruelty and sadism. Murdering multiple demons to examine their minds for the secrets of the netherworld while allying with Princess Abi to oversee the mass blood-draining of countless villagers, Hakudōshi eventually unleashes [[SwarmOfRats swarms of demon rats]] to devour entire villages to lure out Kikyo and plans to unleash them all over Japan should she not give herself up, bragging that he shall repeat similar schemes and endanger even more lives while showing sadistic glee in the almost unparalleled amounts of bloodshed caused. Later murdering demons for experiments to create Moryomaru for the Infant--callously leaving his failed experiments to run rampant on villages--Hakudōshi also viciously abuses Kagura, forcing her to risk her life in his name and using her as a HumanShield. Hakudōshi even [[TheStarscream plans to backstab Naraku]] alongside the Infant, [[ItsAllAboutMe with no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself]].
[[AC:Anime Films]]
* ''[[Anime/InuyashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime Affections Touching Across Time]]'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Menomaru]] is a [[MothMenace moth demon]] and the former second-in-command to his father, the Lord Hyoga, who sought to conquer Japan 200 years in the past until Hyoga was killed and Menomaru {{sealed|Evil In A Can}} by Inuyasha's father. Reawakening, Menomaru tricks Inuyasha into unsealing the dead Hyoga's powers, allowing him to spread his poisonous moths across Japan, killing all they come across for Menomaru to [[SoulEating consume their souls]]. Empowering himself enough to become the new Lord Hyoga, Menomaru, a vicious monster bent on proving his superiority over everything, summons forth his father's army and orders them to [[OmnicidalManiac kill every living creature on the planet]].
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieTheCastleBeyondTheLookingGlass The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass]]'': "[[DarkActionGirl Princess Kaguya]]" is a ruthless demon who [[MonstrousCannibalism devoured many other demons for power]], later [[KillAndReplace consuming the real Kaguya and taking her identity and form]]. After being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]] by Miroku's grandfather after slaughtering numerous villagers, Kaguya returns after Naraku's supposed death to attempt to turn Inuyasha into a bloodthirsty monster. Enacting a ritual to bring "Eternal Night" and [[OmnicidalManiac end time for all beings]], destroying them, Kaguya intends to reign over the planet as the only living thing left.
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieSwordsOfAnHonorableRuler Swords of an Honorable Ruler]]'': [[ManipulativeBastard So'unga]] is a [[EvilWeapon sword]] housing the evil soul of a dragon. Possessing those who wield it to slaughter all about them, So'unga was controlled by Inuyasha and Sessshomaru's father, the Great Dog Demon, until his death. Returning to briefly [[DemonicPossession possess]] Inuyasha and trying to destroy modern-day Tokyo, So'unga revives the vicious demon-hating warrior Takemaru to slaughter numerous men to steal their souls and [[NightOfTheLivingMooks revive them as zombies]], enhancing Takemaru's negativity and prejudice towards demons against Inuyasha and Sesshomaru for revenge. Even after Takemaru is dead, So'unga is intent on opening the path to the underworld and [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all that lives]].
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''[[VideoGame/InuyashaTheSecretOfTheCursedMask The Secret of the Cursed Mask]]'': This version of [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] maintains his deceitful nature and is the game's true villain. Manipulating the living doll Utsugi, Naraku brings their descendant, the PlayerCharacter, to the past, ostensibly to allow Utsugi to become human but really to devour them and empower himself. [[FrameUp Framing]] the protagonist as a criminal to draw them out, Naraku fights them in Castle Town after possessing the Lord and after defeating them, wipes out the city and resurrects the local samurai and [[WouldHurtAChild even a little girl]] to serve as his [[NightOfTheLivingMooks tormented undead soldiers]]. Also orchestrating Utsugi's attacks on the wolf demon tribe and piling his lair with the carcasses of demons he used and devoured, Naraku eventually consumes the pained Utsugi for their powerful aura.
* ''[[VideoGame/InuYashaSecretOfTheDivineJewel Secret of the Divine Jewel]]'' (2007): [[CatsAreMean Gorai]] is a half-demon lord who hopes to harness the power of the god Datara. Staging an attack on Datara's village and wedding to slaughter the populace, Gorai [[IHaveYourWife uses Datara's baby as a hostage]] to force him to don the Demon Mask and put himself under Gorai's control. When Datara's fiancée, Tsugumi, is forced to seal Datara away and kill their infant to protect them from Gorai, Gorai responds by enslaving Tsugumi to his will for centuries. After turning dozens of villagers into soulless husks for slave labor, Gorai orchestrates Datara's reawakening and immediately massacres several villages, planning to [[GodhoodSeeker ascend to godhood]] and TakeOverTheWorld in bloody conflict.
[[AC:Live-Action Works]]
* 2017 stage play: In this retelling of the manga's beginning, [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] remains the cause of all of the heroes' suffering. Biding his time for the Shikon Jewel's return after causing Kikyo's death and Inuyasha's sealing, Naraku resurfaces with the Jewel's return to use the Spider Head demons to kill Inuyasha and his companions, allowing them to attack the neighboring villages as they please and later [[MindRape mentally tormenting]] Inuyasha to kill him for his Jewel shards. At the end of the play, Naraku once again attempts to use his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]] on Inuyasha and in the final scene sends an army of demons after Inuyasha and his LoveInterest, scourging the land [[AmbitionIsEvil in the name of gaining ultimate power]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Not to worry...[[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations I]] was careful to avoid hitting your precious heart[...] Enjoy what little time you have left to live...of course, it will only be filled with pain and despair."]]
->'''[[Characters/InuyashaInuyashaTheCharacter Inuyasha]]:''' Do you know how many villages were destroyed just so you could lure Kikyō out?!\\
'''Hakudōshi:''' Oh, please. Is that what you're so upset about?
-->-- "[[Recap/InuyashaEp159KohakusDecisionAndSangosHeart Kohaku's Decision and Sango's Heart]]"
[[Franchise/{{Inuyasha}} Across the brutal world]] of the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, the [[Characters/InuyashaInuyashaTheCharacter the title character]] and [[Characters/InuyashaMainCharacters his companions]] have faced many vicious [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]]. Whether their ArchEnemy, [[Characters/InuyashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku himself]], one of his incarnations, or other psychopaths, [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst stand out for monstrosity]].
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[[AC:[[Manga/{{Inuyasha}} Original Manga & Anime]]]]
* [[ItsAllAboutMe Naraku]] is a {{manipulative|Bastard}} half-demon seeking the [[ArtifactOfDoom Shikon Jewel]]. Born out of the bandit Onigumo's pact with demons to covet the love of the priestess guarding the Jewel, Kikyo, Naraku instead uses his first moments alive to mortally wound Kikyo and make her think her lover Inuyasha betrayed her. When Kikyo has the Jewel burned with her body rather than wish upon it to extend her life, Naraku, plotting while awaiting its recreation, curses a family of monks to die slowly and horribly with each generation lest they kill him; and later graphically [[WouldHurtAChild murders a group of children]] with his [[DeadlyGas poisonous miasma]]. In present time, Naraku becomes more active as the Jewel returns; orchestrating countless demon attacks to devastate cities and towns across the country; creating incarnations of himself to carry out further massacres; [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] a young demon slayer into killing his family and manipulating him as a puppet; and resurrecting the [[Characters/InuyashaBandOfSeven Band of Seven]], a group of mercenaries who have killed thousands, to murder as they please as a distraction while he experiments and strengthens himself. [[AbusiveParents Horrifically abusive]] to his incarnation-children, Naraku threatens their lives to ensure their allegiance and cruelly leads them to their deaths as soon as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they cease being useful to him]], holding the literal heart of one captive to ensure her loyalty. Eventually completing the fractured Jewel, Naraku uses it to attempt to eradicate Kikyo's village and even after being mortally wounded intends to use his miasma-laden corpse to [[TakingYouWithMe kill all the villagers]]. A spiteful, sadistic monster, Naraku deals with his own depression and insecurity by devastating the land of Feudal Japan and seeking nothing more than to cause as much misery as possible.
* "[[EnfantTerrible The Infant]]", Naraku's eighth incarnation, is a sociopathic [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]] who contrasts his harmless, defenseless appearance with a truly heinous personality. Immediately after his creation, the Infant takes control of a lady in royalty and begins a mass execution of innocents in an attempt to draw out heroine Kagome Higurashi for the Infant to possess. The Infant goes on to kill a variety of priests and backs Hakudōshi's vile butchering and [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on demons, before utilizing his fabricated "Moryomaru" armor to slaughter and absorb hundreds of demons for his own power. Unleashing demons upon innocents and empowering bandits to raze entire villages, the Infant goes so far as to nearly murder Koga's [[WouldHurtAChild young friends]] in front of him, all to prepare himself to [[TheStarscream betray Naraku]] and assume his power as his own. The Infant also shrugs off the death of his other half Hakudōshi, mocks Kagura's murder in front of her friends, and even abandons his living armor Moryomaru with no remorse, assuring all that he would have been a worthy successor to Naraku's villainy.
* [[CreepyChild Hakudōshi]] himself, Naraku's incarnation born of a split from the Infant, matches both for cruelty and sadism. Murdering multiple demons to examine their minds for the secrets of the netherworld while allying with Princess Abi to oversee the mass blood-draining of countless villagers, Hakudōshi eventually unleashes [[SwarmOfRats swarms of demon rats]] to devour entire villages to lure out Kikyo and plans to unleash them all over Japan should she not give herself up, bragging that he shall repeat similar schemes and endanger even more lives while showing sadistic glee in the almost unparalleled amounts of bloodshed caused. Later murdering demons for experiments to create Moryomaru for the Infant--callously leaving his failed experiments to run rampant on villages--Hakudōshi also viciously abuses Kagura, forcing her to risk her life in his name and using her as a HumanShield. Hakudōshi even [[TheStarscream plans to backstab Naraku]] alongside the Infant, [[ItsAllAboutMe with no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself]].
[[AC:Anime Films]]
* ''[[Anime/InuyashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime Affections Touching Across Time]]'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Menomaru]] is a [[MothMenace moth demon]] and the former second-in-command to his father, the Lord Hyoga, who sought to conquer Japan 200 years in the past until Hyoga was killed and Menomaru {{sealed|Evil In A Can}} by Inuyasha's father. Reawakening, Menomaru tricks Inuyasha into unsealing the dead Hyoga's powers, allowing him to spread his poisonous moths across Japan, killing all they come across for Menomaru to [[SoulEating consume their souls]]. Empowering himself enough to become the new Lord Hyoga, Menomaru, a vicious monster bent on proving his superiority over everything, summons forth his father's army and orders them to [[OmnicidalManiac kill every living creature on the planet]].
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieTheCastleBeyondTheLookingGlass The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass]]'': "[[DarkActionGirl Princess Kaguya]]" is a ruthless demon who [[MonstrousCannibalism devoured many other demons for power]], later [[KillAndReplace consuming the real Kaguya and taking her identity and form]]. After being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]] by Miroku's grandfather after slaughtering numerous villagers, Kaguya returns after Naraku's supposed death to attempt to turn Inuyasha into a bloodthirsty monster. Enacting a ritual to bring "Eternal Night" and [[OmnicidalManiac end time for all beings]], destroying them, Kaguya intends to reign over the planet as the only living thing left.
* ''[[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieSwordsOfAnHonorableRuler Swords of an Honorable Ruler]]'': [[ManipulativeBastard So'unga]] is a [[EvilWeapon sword]] housing the evil soul of a dragon. Possessing those who wield it to slaughter all about them, So'unga was controlled by Inuyasha and Sessshomaru's father, the Great Dog Demon, until his death. Returning to briefly [[DemonicPossession possess]] Inuyasha and trying to destroy modern-day Tokyo, So'unga revives the vicious demon-hating warrior Takemaru to slaughter numerous men to steal their souls and [[NightOfTheLivingMooks revive them as zombies]], enhancing Takemaru's negativity and prejudice towards demons against Inuyasha and Sesshomaru for revenge. Even after Takemaru is dead, So'unga is intent on opening the path to the underworld and [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating all that lives]].
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''[[VideoGame/InuyashaTheSecretOfTheCursedMask The Secret of the Cursed Mask]]'': This version of [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] maintains his deceitful nature and is the game's true villain. Manipulating the living doll Utsugi, Naraku brings their descendant, the PlayerCharacter, to the past, ostensibly to allow Utsugi to become human but really to devour them and empower himself. [[FrameUp Framing]] the protagonist as a criminal to draw them out, Naraku fights them in Castle Town after possessing the Lord and after defeating them, wipes out the city and resurrects the local samurai and [[WouldHurtAChild even a little girl]] to serve as his [[NightOfTheLivingMooks tormented undead soldiers]]. Also orchestrating Utsugi's attacks on the wolf demon tribe and piling his lair with the carcasses of demons he used and devoured, Naraku eventually consumes the pained Utsugi for their powerful aura.
* ''[[VideoGame/InuYashaSecretOfTheDivineJewel Secret of the Divine Jewel]]'' (2007): [[CatsAreMean Gorai]] is a half-demon lord who hopes to harness the power of the god Datara. Staging an attack on Datara's village and wedding to slaughter the populace, Gorai [[IHaveYourWife uses Datara's baby as a hostage]] to force him to don the Demon Mask and put himself under Gorai's control. When Datara's fiancée, Tsugumi, is forced to seal Datara away and kill their infant to protect them from Gorai, Gorai responds by enslaving Tsugumi to his will for centuries. After turning dozens of villagers into soulless husks for slave labor, Gorai orchestrates Datara's reawakening and immediately massacres several villages, planning to [[GodhoodSeeker ascend to godhood]] and TakeOverTheWorld in bloody conflict.
[[AC:Live-Action Works]]
* 2017 stage play: In this retelling of the manga's beginning, [[Characters/InuYashaNarakuAndIncarnations Naraku]] remains the cause of all of the heroes' suffering. Biding his time for the Shikon Jewel's return after causing Kikyo's death and Inuyasha's sealing, Naraku resurfaces with the Jewel's return to use the Spider Head demons to kill Inuyasha and his companions, allowing them to attack the neighboring villages as they please and later [[MindRape mentally tormenting]] Inuyasha to kill him for his Jewel shards. At the end of the play, Naraku once again attempts to use his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]] on Inuyasha and in the final scene sends an army of demons after Inuyasha and his LoveInterest, scourging the land [[AmbitionIsEvil in the name of gaining ultimate power]].
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