History YMMV / Baltimore

** ''The Infernal Train'': Signora Lucrezia Fulcanelli is a normal human woman and a [[PsychoSupporter steadfast servant]] of the Red King who [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters matches the soulless undead of the comic in pure evil]]. Driving the train of the title from city to city, Fulcanelli advertises her ghoul-burning furnace as a "cure" to ThePlague, withholding the fact she's [[{{Plaguemaster}} intentionally spreading these plagues]] to begin with to transform innocents into ghouls. Fulcanelli has these ghouls slaughter as many people as they can before luring them all into the furnace to burn them alive, proceeding onto the next town afterward and repeating the process all over again. Fulcanelli intends on orchestrating such death the Red King will have no choice but to wake up and devastate the world, whereupon Fulcanelli intends to [[TheStarscream displace even Haigus]] as the Red King's most favored servant.
** [[KnightTemplar Judge Andre Duvic]] is a [[HangingJudge vicious judge]] in the service of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition who stops at nothing when pursuing Baltimore. Torturing and killing those he comes into contact with to "purify" them, Duvic later kills a young woman who curses him before dying. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Returning from death as a savage werewolf]], Duvic [[CardCarryingVillain embraces his new form]], rewriting his religion around his own savagery while roaming across the countryside, butchering all he comes across while sadistically torturing those of the clergy he finds wanting. Upon the Inquisitors tracking him, Duvic toys with them, slaughtering them as well while savoring their fear.

** [[KnightTemplar Judge Andre Duvic]] is a [[HangingJudge vicious judge]] in the service of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition who stops at nothing when pursuing Baltimore. Torturing and killing those he comes into contact with to "purify" them, Duvic later kills a young woman who curses him before dying. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Returning from death as a savage werewolf]], Duvic [[CardCarryingVillain embraces his new form]], rewriting his religion around his own savagery while roaming across the countryside, butchering all he comes across while sadistically torturing those of the clergy he finds wanting. Upon the Inquisitors tracking him, Duvic toys with them, slaughtering them as well while savoring their fear.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Though done far more subtly than usual; the whole point of the book is that [[spoiler:war is a horrible, horrible thing, regardless against whom or over what it is fought.]]

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped - Though done far more subtly than usual; the whole point of the book is that [[spoiler:war is a horrible, horrible thing, regardless against whom or over what it is fought.]]

** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The nameless warlock--actually UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler--is a {{greed}}y, [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.
** Signora Lucrezia Fulcanelli, from ''The Infernal Train'', is a normal human woman and a [[PsychoSupporter steadfast servant]] of the Red King who [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters matches the soulless undead of the comic in pure evil]]. Driving the train of the title from city to city, Fulcanelli advertises her ghoul-burning furnace as a "cure" to ThePlague, withholding the fact she's [[{{Plaguemaster}} intentionally spreading these plagues]] to begin with to transform innocents into ghouls. Fulcanelli has these ghouls slaughter as many people as they can before luring them all into the furnace to burn them alive, proceeding onto the next town afterward and repeating the process all over again. Fulcanelli intends on orchestrating such death the Red King will have no choice but to wake up and devastate the world, whereupon Fulcanelli intends to [[TheStarscream displace even Haigus]] as the Red King's most favored servant.

** The Red King is the BigBad of the series as a whole, empowering supernatural beings to run rampant in the world and bringing about the plague to [[KillAllHumans devastate all of humanity]]. When he is summoned into the world in the form of Baltimore's best friend Thomas Childress, the Red King is revolted by the very notion of feeling human and sends his armies to slaughter humans in massive numbers while conducting massacres himself to contact the gods who used to serve him. Deciding to "crown" himself to regain his own powers, the Red King attempts a ritual fueled by the deaths of countless innocent people, intending to rule the Earth as a realm of suffering and chaos forevermore.
** The comic version of [[VampireMonarch Haigus]] is the object of Henry Baltimore's pursuit. When [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently awoken from his slumber by Baltimore]], Haigus spends time tormenting Baltimore turning his family into vampires and saving Baltimore's beloved wife for last. He leaves his wife for Baltimore to find, which forces him to destroy his family when they rise. Haigus spreads his plague throughout all of Europe, occasionally massacring entire villages and leaving the bodies strewn all over for Baltimore to find. He resumes his worship of [[EldritchAbomination the monstrous Red King]] and begins preparing the way for the Red King to return and obliterate the world of men. Haigus eventually tires from the endless pursuits and opts to die at Baltimore's hands, but takes delight knowing he's taken everything from him, and tries to murder Baltimore's only remaining friends before taunting Baltimore how he will never, ever know peace.

** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The nameless warlock-—actually UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler--is a {{greed}}y, [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** The comic version of VampireMonarch [[BigBad Haigus]] is the object of Henry Baltimore's pursuit. When [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently awoken from his slumber by Baltimore]], Haigus spends time tormenting Baltimore turning his family into vampires and saving Baltimore's beloved wife for last. He leaves his wife for Baltimore to find, which forces him to destroy his family when they rise. Haigus spreads his plague throughout all of Europe, occasionally massacring entire villages and leaving the bodies strewn all over for Baltimore to find. He resumes his worship of [[EldritchAbomination the monstrous Red King]] and begins preparing the way for the Red King to return and obliterate the world of men. Haigus eventually tires from the endless pursuits and opts to die at Baltimore's hands, but takes delight knowing he's taken everything from him, and tries to murder Baltimore's only remaining friends before taunting Baltimore how he will never, ever know peace.
** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]], who is clearly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, [[note]]This has been [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/mignola-golden-reach-beginning-of-baltimores-end-in-cult-of-the-red-king confirmed]] by WordOfGod.[[/note]] is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

* CompleteMonster:

** The Red King is the BigBad of the series as a whole, empowering supernatural beings to run rampant in the world and bringing about the plague to [[KillAllHumans devastate all of humanity]. When he is summoned into the world in the form of Baltimore's best friend Thomas Childress, the Red King is revolted by the very notion of feeling human and sends his armies to slaughter humans in massive numbers while conducting massacres himself to contact the gods who used to serve him. Deciding to "crown" himself to regain his own powers, the Red King attempts a ritual fueled by the deaths of countless innocent people, intending to rule the Earth as a realm of suffering and chaos forevermore.

** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]], who is clearly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler [[note]]This has been [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/mignola-golden-reach-beginning-of-baltimores-end-in-cult-of-the-red-king confirmed]] by WordOfGod[[/note]], is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]], who is clearly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (this has been [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/mignola-golden-reach-beginning-of-baltimores-end-in-cult-of-the-red-king confirmed]] by WordOfGod) is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** The VampireMonarch [[BigBad Haigus]] is the object of Henry Baltimore's pursuit. When [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently awoken from his slumber by Baltimore]], Haigus spends time tormenting Baltimore turning his family into vampires and saving Baltimore's beloved wife for last. He leaves his wife for Baltimore to find, which forces him to destroy his family when they rise. Haigus spreads his plague throughout all of Europe, occasionally massacring entire villages and leaving the bodies strewn all over for Baltimore to find. He resumes his worship of [[EldritchAbomination the monstrous Red King]] and begins preparing the way for the Red King to return and obliterate the world of men. Haigus eventually tires from the endless pursuits and opts to die at Baltimore's hands, but takes delight knowing he's taken everything from him, and tries to murder Baltimore's only remaining friends before taunting Baltimore how he will never, ever know peace.

** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]], who is clearly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (this has been confirmed by WordOfGod) is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** ''The Curse Bells'' storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]] is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.
*** The clincher? The nameless warlock is very strongly hinted to be none other than [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf Hitler]].]]

** ''The Cursed Bells'' storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]] is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** "The Cursed Bells" storyline: The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]] is a {{greed}}y, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by [[EatsBabies leaving a baby for it to eat]] and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]] of “The Cursed Bells” story is a greedy, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism, the warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by leaving a baby for it to eat and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]] of “The Cursed Bells” story is a greedy, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism, the warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals thsy he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by leaving a baby for it to eat and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** The [[NoNameGiven nameless warlock]] of “The Cursed Bells” story is a greedy, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism, the warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will MindRape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals thsy he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by leaving a baby for it to eat and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

** The vampire monarch [[BigBad Haigus]] is the object of Henry Baltimore's pursuit. When [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently awoken from his slumber by Baltimore]], Haigus spends time tormenting Baltimore turning his family into vampires and saving Baltimore's beloved wife for last. He leaves his wife for Baltimore to find, which forces him to destroy his family when they rise. Haigus spreads his plague throughout all of Europe, occasionally massacring entire villages and leaving the bodies strewn all over for Baltimore to find. He resumes his worship of [[EldritchAbomination the monstrous Red King]] and begins preparing the way for the Red King to return and obliterate the world of men. Haigus eventually tires from the endless pursuits and opts to die at Baltimore's hands, but takes delight knowing he's taken everything from him, and tries to murder Baltimore's only remaining friends before taunting Baltimore how he will never, ever know peace.