History Sandbox / MonsterLiteratureAToC

* ''Literature/TheChrysalids'': [[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.

* ''Film/{{Baahubali}}: [[Literature/BaahubaliBeforeTheBeginning Before the Beginning]]'' trilogy, by Anand Neelakantan [[labelnote:Other Appearances]]Film duology & ''[[Animation/BaahubaliTheLostLegends The Lost Legends]]''[[/labelnote]]:[[ItsAllAboutMe Bijjaladeva]] is the self-centered older son of Mahishmati's Emperor Somadeva. Abusing his subjects, Bijjaladeva [[TortureTechnician regularly conducts torture]] and casually [[AttemptedRape tries to rape]] a slave girl, leading to [[DrivenToSuicide her suicide]]. His frequent bouts of cruelty making Somadeva pass him up for the throne, when his father and brother die, Bijjaladeva schemes to ensure his own son Bhallaladeva is named Emperor to rule as he desires. Feeding his son's hate, when Bijjaladeva's nephew Amandera Baahubali is made Crown Prince he frames Baahubali as a traitor to be exiled, later having him killed and wiping out his wife's kingdom. As advisor under Bhallaladeva, rebels are whipped to death and citizens are robbed to fund an ostentatious golden statue, and when it nearly falls while being erected, Bijjaladeva states he hopes the "sacrifice" of the hundreds stuck beneath will keep it intact.

*** ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Telsin Ladrian]]/[[TheHeavy Sequence]] is a ruthless member of the Set, and is the very worst of their ranks, [[CainAndAbel far from the sister Wax once knew]]. Overseeing the torture and experimentation of Malwish, Telsin fools her brother into thinking that she was an unwilling participant, even killing one of her own men to maintain the guise. Telsin ultimately uses this opportunity to shoot her own brother when he's off guard. After the search for the Bands of Mourning turns against her, Telsin promptly flees and leaves all her subordinates behind. Resurfacing six years later, [[ManipulativeBitch Telsin]] masterminds a plot to destroy the entire city of Elendel and its millions of inhabitants, claiming that it is necessary to stop an invasion from the god Autonomy, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when in reality]], her plan will be nearly as destructive as the invasion, and is actually intended to impress Autonomy enough [[GodhoodSeeker so that they will make Telsin a god]]. When it appears her plan will succeed, Telsin reveals to Wax that she has always hated him since childhood, and [[EvilGloating gloats]] about her success over him, revealing her to be nothing more than a petty and callous individual who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares]] about proving herself superior to her brother, indifferent to the countless lives that her actions take.

* ''Literature/TheBookOfDragons''' "The Last Hunt", by Aliette de Bodard: [[SocialClimber Lianlei and Ongjie]], part of a race of unnamed masters, lead their kind to [[PlanetLooters invade countless planets and deplete them]] of their resources until they're reduced to lifeless husks; Earth is an example of a planet they've thoroughly despoiled. Lianlei and Ongjie would also enslave each planet's population and [[PlayingWithSyringes subject them into experiments]] to turn them into their pets ,with very few surviving, and force them into hunting their own kind, with Lianlei attempting to kill Xuan Thao when the latter rebels against them.

** Geoffrey Shafer, known by law enforcement as the Weasel, is one of Cross's most personal enemies. A diplomatic staff member moonlighting as a SerialKiller, Shafer is playing a "game" with a few other men that he meet at the UsefulNotes/MI6, who style themselves after The Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, with Shafer playing the role of Death. He is introduced in ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', when he finds a prostitute and brutally kills her. He then puts on {{blackface}}, goes out in a cab, picks up a woman and murders her. He later goes out again, finds a man, and kills him too. Shafer stalks George Bayer, who plays Famine in the "game", murders the women he solicited, and leaves the bodies in a compromising position. Realizing the police are on to him he goes south to Maryland and kills a mother and her teenage daughter. Shafer then targets DC Detective and Cross's love interest Patsy Hampton and brutally kills her. Cross arrests him, but evidence being inadmissible due to [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] means he gets acquitted. Shafer then kidnaps Cross's fiancée Christine. He murders the other players of the "game". After a fight with Cross he apparently dies, but resurfaces in Europe and kill his wife. He reappears in ''London Bridges'' living in Brazil. Here he continues his murderous hobbies until The Wolf uses a streetwalker to draw him out, kidnap him, and get Shafer to work for him. Shafer bombs an army base, and then meets a sniper and has her kill the CIA Director. He later goes out and kill another prostitute. After that he goes and confronts his sister-in-law and children. He threatens them, asks them for a kiss, and when they refuse he only refrains from killing them because he states that he "does not have permission" to kill them.

* ''Literature/TheColdMoons'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Kronos]] desires to be leader of his large group of Cilgywn forest badgers, but only because he likes ruling over others. Kronos makes friends easily and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is liked by many]], but it's all an act as he needs support to get to the top of the council. Kronos also has a [[AGodIAm god complex]], and he convinced his brother Zoilos that he'd one day be a god. Kronos [[RemovingTheRival weeds out]] any badger that gets in his way of his goal. He is involved with the deaths of over four badgers, with two being leaders, but he [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident tries to make the deaths seem accidental]]: He "accidentally" trips Buckwheat into a river, has both Dandelion and an entire family of foxes killed while making it was a skirmish, and then has a boulder crush the current leader Eldon--while there were cubs around. Kronos ends up splitting the badgers into two groups, but he keeps his deserters in line by force. Those who try to escape are captured and tortured to death by Kronos and Zoilos. Oftentimes, even those that just behave in ways that Kronos dislikes are tortured and killed by his underling Vulcan.

* ''Literature/TheBottoms'', by Joe R. Lansdale: Cecil, the SerialKiller who plagues the Bottoms, is a seemingly-normal, affable member of society with a predilection to raping, torturing and killing young women. When the first victim is discovered, it is initially ignored by the town at large because the victim is black, which allows Cecil to prey on more women until he finally murders a white women, framing a black man for the crime and seeing him lynched. Cecil is finally caught when he attempts to kidnap and rape the hero's pre-teen sister, interrupted from assaulting her and trying to excuse himself by [[NeverMyFault blaming the girl]] for being too much a woman to resist.

** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Mr. John Whitby]] is a rich, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected]] gambler in Chicago who's secretly a rabid anti-Semite. Whitby looks down on the Jewish population of the city and wishes to purge it of them, which leads to him allying with the like-minded, insane SerialKiller Grigori. Whitby helps Grigori in his murders of innocent Jewish boys while planning to take their evil even bigger. Whitby plans to burn down the Jewish Corner of Chicago, and when confronted about how this could destroy the entire city and possibly kill thousands, Whitby only smugly sneers that as a gambler he doesn't care.

** [[GreaterScopeVillain Lucius the Dark Knight]] is the traitorous general of the King who sought to overthrow his superiors and take over for himself. After this murderous coup resulted in his banishment, he sets his sights on the land of Arrethtrae, seeking to dominate it through any means simply because the King wants to bring peace to its people. Lucius employs a variety of evil tactics in his schemes, from mass murder to slavery to genocide, and fully endorses his nightmarish Shadow Warriors and the vile brands of evil they bring upon Arrethtrae. After his initial plan to conquer Arrethtrae and subject its people to an eternity of torment and dictatorship fails, Lucius returns with the goal of [[OmnicidalManiac wiping out all life in the world]] except himself and his army, his lust for power leaving thousands dead in his wake and attempted countless more.

* ''Literature/TheCroning'': "[[ForTheEvulz Bronson Ford]]" is one of the Children of the Old Leech, a cult dedicated to a [[EldritchAbomination monstrous Dark One]]. Having been on Earth for centuries, including as Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}, Ford sows devastation, chaos, and murder simply because he savors the taste of human pain and anguish. When hero Donald "Don" Miller is on his trail, Ford makes clear that there is nothing Don can do and forces a [[SadisticChoice horrific choice]] on him: to become one of the Children with his wife Michelle forever, or Ford will kill and torture his entire family. The pact is to be sealed with Don's baby grandson, as Ford and the Children [[EatsBabies find children to be a delicacy]]. Ford admits he could take whatever he wants, but he enjoys the suffering of humans too much not to make the bargain.

*** ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Telsin Ladrian]]/[[TheHeavy Sequence]] is a ruthless member of the Set, the very worst of their ranks, and [[CainAndAbel far from the sister Wax once knew]]. Overseeing the torture and experimentation of Malwish to try and find the Bands of Mourning, Telsin fools her brother into thinking that she was an unwilling participant, even killing one of her own men to maintain the guise. Telsin keeps up appearances until a critical moment to find the Bands of Mourning, where she shoots Wax. When the search for the Bands of Mourning turns against her, Telsin promptly flees and leaves all her subordinates behind. Resurfacing six years later, [[ManipulativeBitch Telsin]] masterminds a plot to destroy the entire city of Elendel and its millions of inhabitants, claiming that it is necessary to stop an invasion from the god Autonomy, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when in reality]], her plan will be nearly as destructive as the invasion, and is actually intended to impress Autonomy enough [[GodhoodSeeker to make Telsin a god]]. When it appears her plan will succeed, Telsin reveals to Wax that she has always hated him, and [[EvilGloating gloats]] about her success, revealing her to be nothing more than a petty and callous individual who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares]] about proving herself superior to her brother, with no care to the countless lives that her plans take.

** ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': [[DiscOneFinalBoss Rayse]], the Vessel of [[ThePowerOfHate the Shard of Odium]], is a stern, tyrannical man who made it his mission to hunt down and sunder the other Shardborn. Heedless of who gets in his way, Rayse is willing to burn entire worlds to shatter the rest, having [[KillTheGod murdered those seen as "The Almighty"]] in the process while sowing his dark influence on worlds to create war and bloodshed until he can conquer or raze it to nothing. On the world the eries is set, Rayse's influence is responsible for the mental lobotomies and enslavement of the Parshendi race, the massive wars and the corruption of many others with [[BadBoss his own Fused being little more than slaves]] he will send to eternal damnation [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]]. Arriving himself, Rayse intends to slaughter everything in the world until all that is left are him and his own twisted armies, a process he will repeat through the cosmos.

*** ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': [[spoiler:[[AmbitionIsEvil Telsin Ladrian]]/[[TheHeavy Sequence]] is a ruthless member of the Set, the very worst of their ranks, and [[CainAndAbel far from the sister Wax once knew]]. Overseeing the torture and experimentation of Malwish to try and find the Bands of Mourning, Telsin fools her brother into thinking that she was an unwilling participant, even killing one of her own men to maintain the guise. Telsin keeps up appearances until a critical moment to find the Bands of Mourning, where she shoots Wax. When the search for the Bands of Mourning turns against her, Telsin promptly flees and leaves all her subordinates behind. Resurfacing six years later, [[ManipulativeBitch Telsin]] masterminds a plot to destroy the entire city of Elendel and its millions of inhabitants, claiming that it is necessary to stop an invasion from the god Autonomy, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when in reality]], her plan will be nearly as destructive as the invasion, and is actually intended to impress Autonomy enough [[GodhoodSeeker to make Telsin a god]]. When it appears her plan will succeed, Telsin reveals to Wax that she has always hated him, and [[EvilGloating gloats]] about her success, revealing her to be nothing more than a petty and callous individual who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares]] about proving herself superior to her brother, with no care to the countless lives that her plans take.]]

** ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'': [[SmugSnake Lord Straff Venture]] is introduced in ''The Final Empire'' as a [[AristocratsAreEvil brutal noble]] ready to commit all manner of atrocities to cement his power. He systematically [[AbusiveParents abuses his children]] to force them to conform to his standards, even trying to have his son Elend assassinated. He sires illegitimate children to use as loyal assassins and spies, and discards his mistresses when they get too old--too old being late teens. In ''The Well of Ascension'', he allows an army of monsters, known for their ruthlessness and utter lack of mercy, to attack an enemy city, regardless of collateral damage. He later decides to allow the city's destruction, concluding he only cares about the Atium rumored to be hidden in the city. Caring for nothing but his own power and advancement, and seeing others as nothing but tools to use or obstacles to be destroyed, Venture stands out as one of the only [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]] in ''The Cosmere'' completely devoid of sympathy.
** ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': [[DiscOneFinalBoss Rayse]], the Shardborn who inheritred [[ThePowerOfHate the Shard of Hatred, Odium]], is a stern, tyrannical man who made it his mission to hunt down and sunder the other Shardborn. Heedless of who gets in his way, Rayse is willing to burn entire worlds to shatter the rest, having [[KillTheGod murdered those seen as "The Almighty"]] in the process while sowing his dark influence on worlds to create war and bloodshed until he can conquer or raze it to nothing. On the world the eries is set, Rayse's influence is responsible for the mental lobotomies and enslavement of the Parshendi race, the massive wars and the corruption of many others with [[BadBoss his own Fused being little more than slaves]] he will send to eternal damnation [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]]. Arriving himself, Rayse intends to slaughter everything in the world until all that is left are him and his own twisted armies, a process he will repeat through the cosmos.

* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': [[TheChessmaster Artemis Fowl]] and [[CowboyCop Holly Short]] have faced various deadly foes with these being the worst:

* ''Film/CountessDracula'' novel, by Guy Adams: [[VillainProtagonist Elizabeth Sasdy]] is a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] movie star who, after she starts to age, [[ImmortalityImmorality resorts to murder to keep her looks]]. After accidentally striking a maid and discovering that the maid's blood reversed her aging, Elizabeth, inspired by the crimes of the infamous Countess UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, decides to [[BloodBath bathe in blood]] to regain her youth. Bullying her husband Frank Nayland into helping her, the two murder dozens of prostitutes to gain their blood, all in Elizabeth's selfish search for eternal youth.

* ''Literature/TheChaosCycle'' duology:[[AncientEvil Velizar]] was once a [[JerkassGods God]] of Creation who sought to {{control|Freak}} the prehistoric people of Black Hollow through fear and murder. After trying to [[CainAndAbel kill his brother]] for even considering the idea of being independent from him, Velizar was killed by his brother. Velizar's evil spirit infects and starts to haunt Black Hollow. Velizar became the eons-old ArchEnemy of his brother's lover The Dreamwalker, and stoked hatred and fear to lead to witch hunts. Even after passing into a reincarnation cycle, Velizar's evil will tainted his later incarnations to keep the cycle of murder against his brother and the Dreamwalker's incarnations going. Eventually using [[ThePowerOfHate the combined malice of his incarnations]], Velizar was able to rise once more as the demon Abaddon. Velizar, as Abaddon, is responsible for [[TheCorrupter corrupting the residents]] of [[TownWithADarkSecret Black Hollow]] into [[KillTheOnesYouLove murdering their own loved ones]] in a petty crusade to spite the Dreamwalker. In the modern day, Velizar targets the latest incarnation of his brother, Kai Donovan, and begins systematically killing girls just so that Kai's attempts to save them fail and ultimately plans to break Kai into his subservient puppet. Velizar ultimately plans to finally destroy the latest incarnation of the Dreamwalker, Miya.

* ''Literature/TheChaosCycle'' duology: [[AncientEvil Velizar]] was once a [[JerkassGods God]] of Creation who sought to {{control|Freak}} the prehistoric people of Black Hollow through fear and murder. After trying to [[CainAndAbel kill his brother]] for even considering the idea of being independent from him, Velizar was killed by his brother. Velizar's evil spirit infects and starts to haunt Black Hollow. Velizar became the eons-old ArchEnemy of his brother's lover The Dreamwalker, and stoked hatred and fear to lead to witch hunts. Even after passing into a reincarnation cycle, Velizar's evil will tainted his later incarnations to keep the cycle of murder against his brother and the Dreamwalker's incarnations going. Eventually using [[ThePowerOfHate the combined malice of his incarnations]], Velizar was able to rise once more as the demon [[MindHive Abaddon]]. Velizar, as Abaddon, is responsible for [[TheCorrupter corrupting the residents]] of Black Hollow into [[KillTheOnesYouLove murdering their own loved ones]] in a petty crusade to spite the Dreamwalker. In the modern day, Velizar targets the latest incarnation of his brother, Kai Donovan, and begins systematically killing girls just so that Kai's attempts to save them fail and ultimately plans to break Kai into his subservient puppet. Velizar ultimately plans to finally destroy the latest incarnation of the Dreamwalker, Miya.