History Sandbox / MonsterLiteratureAToC

** ''Scorpia'': Julia Rothman is an executive board member of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Scorpia]]. Under orders from a client to spoil the special relationship between America and Britain, Rothman [[WouldHurtAChild infects every schoolchild]] in London with nanites containing cyanide, planning to make claims that she knows can't be satisfied and make a less extreme demand to America with the same consequence knowing that they will meet them after that. To demonstrate the weapon and show that she is not bluffing, Rothman kills a completely separate group of high school football players without giving them a chance to be saved. She also manipulates Alex into joining Scorpia by getting him to think his father worked for them and was killed by [=MI6=] when it was the other way around. Rothman is also an [[BadBoss awful boss]] who will frequently murder her own men [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] and kills a colleague via venomous snakes when he objects to her plan. When confronted by Alex, Rothman shrugs off the thousands of deaths that will occur, [[{{Greed}} all for the sake of money]].

** [[EvilFormerFriend Kyle Craig]], or [[DirtyCop The Mastermind]], is a former FBI special agent and Alex Cross's ArchEnemy. A violent individual since childhood, Kyle was responsible for multiple killings even before joining the FBI, including that of his own brother. As the Mastermind, Kyle perpetrates a series of bank robberies followed by murders in ''Roses Are Red'', making sure to dispose of his accomplices, and [[ILoveTheDead raping the women he had hired post-mortem]]. While his partners at the FBI are busy investigating the murderous robbers, Kyle rapes and kills a woman in a home invasion, and then sets his eyes on Alex's girlfriend, committing the same crime with her and mutilating the body afterwards. Kyle calls Alex to inform him about the horrendous death of his girlfriend, just so he could hear his reaction. Realizing in ''Violets Are Blue'' that he has been exposed, Kyle attempts to kill Alex's partner and later a woman he had saved from another killer, but is arrested and sent to death row. Assuming the identity of his attorney in ''Double Cross'', Kyle escapes and [[{{Matricide}} kills his mother]], using her money to travel around the world and murder more people, including the judge who had sentenced him to death. Failing to kill Alex, Kyle returns years later in ''Cross Fire'', this time posing as a FBI agent he had killed who had been assigned to work with Alex. Seeking to hurt Alex's loved ones, Kyle attempts to take his family hostage, and commits suicide upon defeat, dying in [[EvilCannotComprehendGood confusion to why Alex did not kill him]]. A merciless SerialKiller with an [[ILoveTheDead obsession for female bodies]] and being Alex's shadow, Kyle was one of the worst criminals Alex had to face in his career.

** ''Scorpia'': Julia Rothman is an executive board member of [[Characters/AlexRiderScorpia Scorpia]]. Under orders from a client to spoil the special relationship between America and Britain, Rothman [[WouldHurtAChild infects every schoolchild]] in London with nanites containing cyanide, planning to make claims that she knows can't be satisfied and make a less extreme demand to America with the same consequence knowing that they will meet them after that. To demonstrate the weapon and show that she is not bluffing, Rothman kills a completely separate group of high school football players without giving them a chance to be saved. She also manipulates Alex into joining Scorpia by getting him to think his father worked for them and was killed by [=MI6=] when it was the other way around. Rothman is also an [[BadBoss awful boss]] who will frequently murder her own men [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] and kills a colleague via venomous snakes when he objects to her plan. When confronted by Alex, Rothman shrugs off the thousands of deaths that will occur, [[{{Greed}} all for the sake of money]].

** [[AxCrazy Esplin 9466 Prime]], better known to the cast as [[BigBad Visser Three]], is the only [[Characters/AnimorphsAndalites Andalite]]-Controller in existence, and is the sole [[Characters/AnimorphsYeerkEmpire Yeerk]] with the power to morph. Cruelly scorning his weaker twin, Esplin 9466 Lesser, and eventually sentencing him to exile to die of agonizing starvation, Esplin begins his career in the Hork-Bajir war where he is responsible for untold war crimes in his attempt to seize an Andalite body. Later claiming Prince Alloran Semitur-Corass as his host, Esplin uses Alloran's knowledge to launch a series of nightmarish attacks, killing countless Andalites and civilians in a wave of conquest and enslavement. Serving under Visser One on Earth, Visser 3 finally ends his rivalry with Prince Elfangor by devouring him alive. Having acquired countless monstrous Morphs through Alloran, the Visser is keen to use them to kill and torture. Forsaking all subtlety to embrace his personal [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and cruelty, the Visser [[BadBoss slaughters his own subordinates by the shipful]] for any real or imagined [[YouHaveFailedMe failures]], even morphing into a Yeerkbane, one of the few Yeerk natural predators to [[MonstrousCannibalism consume them]] in an ultimate taboo for his species. Behind the infestation and murder of numerous humans, Visser Three eventually arranges the downfall and agonizing execution by starvation of Visser One to [[TheStarscream seize control of her rank]] in order to lead the invasion and institute a fully armed assault to slaughter humanity into submission. Unwilling to be cowed, Esplin will sacrifice untold thousands of his own, planning the complete extinction or enslavement of the Andalites and countless others to satisfy his cruel ego and petty spite toward Elfangor.
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Crayak]] is an alien and member of [[Characters/AnimorphsTheHighestPowers The Highest Powers]] who acts as the series' GodOfEvil. A nearly omnipotent [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]], Crayak seeks to create a universe ruled by one species and one species alone. To that end, Crayak engineered the Howlers, a race of psychopathic {{child soldier}}s who think that killing is a game, and used them to gruesomely exterminate countless species, including the pacifistic Pemalites and Graffen's Children. In order to ensure that the Howlers' HiveMind is never contaminated by memories of defeat, Crayak obliterates any Howlers who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]]; he also destroys any Howlers who realise that their victims are people too. Not content with having created one of the most feared races in the galaxy, Crayak also lends his godlike might to other vicious species, secretly backing the Yeerks and other would-be {{galactic conqueror}}s; he plans, for example, to have the Yeerks enslave humanity, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only to then be wiped out by the Howlers]]. In a series filled with shades of grey, Crayak was as close to pure, unadulterated evil as one was likely to get.

** [[SinisterMinister Joseph Strorm]] is protagonist David's [[AbusiveParents father]] and the worst of Waknuk's intolerant society. Out of [[KnightTemplar fanaticism]] and [[FantasticRacism bigotry]] towards those deemed "mutants" for abnormalities, Joseph brutally whips David for so much as making a joke about a third hand being useful to compete a complicated task. When a young David's childhood friend Sophie Wender is exposed for having a sixth toe, Joseph whips David until he denounces Sophie before exiling her to the dangerous Fringes. With decades of purges behind him, when Joseph discovers both David and his younger sister Petra are telepaths, he rallies a posse to hunt down and kill them, even going to war with the mutants of the Fringes when his children are taken captive by the denizen--not because he cares about them, but because they belong to him.

** [[BigBad Joseph Strorm]] is the [[AbusiveParents father]] of [[FirstPersonPerspective David Strorm]]. A [[SinisterMinister fanatical fundamentalist]], we first see Joseph's evil when he beats and whips David for an innocent childhood remark about needing a third hand. He then brutally whips David to get him to give up the location of his friend Sophie Wender so he can sterilize her. Upon Sophie's capture, he proceeds to smugly gloat about it in front of David, who is only 10 years old, just to hurt him. When it is discovered that David and his little sister Petra are telepathic, and therefore blasphemies, he personally leads a posse to kill his own children and torture them, even though he had previously tried to spoil Petra. A horrible fundamentalist who unnerves even the Inspector, whose job is to deal with blasphemies, Joseph represents [[FantasticRacism the worst of human intolerance]], seeing purity as more important than even his own children.

* ''Literature/ArmageddonForce'': [[CardCarryingVillain Dr. Edgar Malbarn]], an utterly psychotic {{sadist}}, runs the Carvina Cooperation, an organization which takes wounded soldiers off of battlefields and [[PlayingWithSyringes conducts fiendish, torturous experiments]] on them. Malbarn, using only enough anesthesia to prevent Carvina victim Jon Heck from passing out, replaces Jon's blown-off arms with mechanical ones. Much to Jon's disgust, Malbarn plans to make Jon head of Malbarn's brainwashed army, which will spread chaos throughout the world. All the while, Malbarn taunts Jon, and lashes out when he gets angry, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him]] even beyond the experiments. Once Jon is rescued, both he and fellow Carvina victim [[ActionGirl Yui Shinozaki]] are haunted by nightmares of Malbarn, which continue even after Jon kills Malbarn.

* ''Literature/{{BZRK}}'': Lystra Ellen Alice Reid, aka [[BigBad Lear]], is the enigmatic founder and leader of the titular BZRK, and is the most morally reprehensible of the main antagonists in the series. Lear wishes to drive the world insane, simply ForTheEvulz. [[EnfantTerrible At a young age]], [[{{Matricide}} she murdered her mother]], and at the age of 9 got sent to a foster family, who she murdered in a car "accident" 7 years later. Two years later, she started tattooing all of her victims to her body with tortured expressions on their faces, covering up around half of her flesh. She starts buying out failing medical companies in order to get DNA samples from random people for her plan, getting at least 29,000 samples by the time the series starts. In the third book, she starts putting her plan in motion and begins instilling fear into the world by driving various renowned and well-known figures, such as the Pope and the Prince of England, insane, as well as a majority of attendants at big events such as movie premiers, and forcing Bug Man to help her by threatening him with madness. She brainwashes Plath into giving the command to blow up the Armstrong Twins hideout, the Tulip, and killing hundreds of innocents. Then she starts mass-producing biots and driving people mad, starting with 15 major cities so they can cause mass pandemonium, then military bases that hold nukes so they can fire them off en masse. Utterly remorseless and [[AxCrazy psychotic]], treating everything she does as a game, by the end of the series she has, either directly or indirectly, killed around 210 million people.

* ''Literature/TheAurelianCycle'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Ixion Stormscourge]] is a sadistic, arrogant noble who will do anything to restore the Triarchy rule over Callipolis. Becoming Firestrider of the New Pythian air fleet after his sister's death, Ixion would abuse and humiliate any peasant under his command, such as locking their [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in high-profile military targets during an air raid [[IHaveYourWife to ensure their loyalty]]. Ixion launched airstrikes on Callipolis, killing countless civilians with dragon fire. After seizing power in Callipolis, [[EvilOverlord Ixion]] would begin to reinstate the old regime's brutal policies, as well as having several villages burned to the ground to make the peasants fall into line. Believing that peasants were inferior to nobles and were his property, Ixion represented the worst the Triarchy had to offer.

* ''Literature/TheAurelianCycle'' trilogy, by Rosaria Munda: [[AristocratsAreEvil Ixion Stormscourge]] is a sadistic, arrogant noble who will do anything to restore the Triarchy rule over Callipolis. Becoming Firestrider of the New Pythian air fleet after his sister's death, Ixion would abuse and humiliate any peasant under his command, such as locking their [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in high-profile military targets during an air raid [[IHaveYourWife to ensure their loyalty]]. Ixion launched airstrikes on Callipolis, killing countless civilians with dragon fire. After seizing power in Callipolis, [[EvilOverlord Ixion]] would begin to reinstate the old regime's brutal policies, as well as having several villages burned to the ground to make the peasants fall into line. Believing that peasants were inferior to nobles and were his property, Ixion represented the worst the Triarchy had to offer.