History YMMV / HeavenAndHell

** Fighting an angel-possessed [[spoiler:Statue of Liberty.]]

* CompleteMonster:
** The brutal [[KnightTemplar Uriel]], the lord of Heaven, is a [[LightIsNotGood violent, egotistical archangel]] who runs Heaven as a nightmarish dystopia. Any angel who puts a thought out of line or incurs his displeasure is used for [[HumanResources fuel]] in Heaven, with Uriel slaughtering countless angels in a fit of pique whenever he is displeased, as well as being the one backing the Children of Heaven and their evil activities. After [[DirtyCoward cravenly fleeing]] when Naberius is loosed upon Solomon, allowing trillions of Heaven's residents to die, Uriel returns to kick-start the war against Hell and sends his forces to massacre everything on Earth, along with every demon. Uriel begins killing countless humans himself, proclaiming that he alone is the will of Heaven and he intends to kill every human, demon and even angels who hesitate, murdering his loyal CoDragons Saraquel and Raguel just for delaying in a response to him. Intending to construct a new "utopia" of endless torture for all he deems below him as he builds a new order above it, Uriel proceeds to attempt to annihilate half of the universe, showcasing that an angel can be far worse than most demons.
** The aforementioned [[{{Sadist}} Naberius]], the Fallen Savager, the [[MadArtist Poet of Agony]], is a depraved Tulpa wicked by even their usually low standards. Having helped kick-start the Heaven Cycle that has led to trillions of deaths, Naberius uses his time to harvest, torture and murder countless innocents while also resurrecting the depraved Alice Witzenberg to commit their crimes. Naberius destroys the city of Solomon and trillions within before taking the chance at the final Cycle to collect as many humans as he can before revealing his PocketDimension where he keeps trillions of innocent being in [[AndIMustScream endless suffering]], in pain from [[TortureTechnician eternal tortures he devises]]. Naberius even forces them to breed so he will never run out of new victims to torture, and attempts to subject Tango and the others to the worst tortures he can think of. One of the worst beings in heaven or hell, Naberius constantly shows why his boast of being ten times worse than even Chayne Summers herself is nothing idle.
** ''The Ambition of Hell'': [[FatBastard Scott Niles]] is an obese, disgusting {{human trafficker|s}} who [[EvilMentor mentors young Alice in the ways of power and pain]]. Working in the slave trade for years, Niles sentences countless women to horrific lives of rape and torture, regularly "[[SerialRapist testing]]" the women out himself beforehand, and keeps several women in his makeshift dungeon to use and abuse at his leisure. Dealing in victims as young as [[WouldHurtAChild four years old]], Niles's cruelty and viciousness extend beyond torture, as he shoots a slave in the head for fun, cracking an awful pun about her ethnicity, and beats a child slave to death with a towel rack when learning that he is severely sick. Though terrified of Ashton Sharpe's psychotic savagery, Niles nevertheless sells him women and children, knowing they will be tortured to death. In his final appearance, Niles attempts to rape Alice in a drunken lust, and, though halting his advances when Alice fights back, Niles never once apologizes or shows remorse for the act, having earlier stated that he wouldn't care one bit if Alice lost their "precious virginity" while dealing in his business. Though lacking the supernatural resources of other villains, Niles is no less vile.
** ''The Radiance of Heaven'':
*** [[OmnicidalManiac Azazel]], [[SatanicArchetype Lord of Hell]] and one of the most powerful Tulpas alive, is a [[ManipulativeBastard ruthless, brilliant schemer]] hell-bent on seeing Hell rise supreme in the final cycle. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introducing himself]] to Tango and Mint by subjecting an innocent couple to a horrible death, Azazel steadily unveils his machinations: Having sacrificed billions to the twisted, murderous pleasures of his brother Naberius, Azazel manipulates Tango so he may place Naberius in the Heaven-controlled city of Solomon, extinguishing trillions of lives, angel soldier and civilian alike. Azazel also cultivates sects loyal to Hell so he may lead them to their deaths, taking the strongest and most rebellious and subjecting them to agonizing transformations to serve as demonic servants. Azazel further manipulates his adopted son Erebos, a survivor of a Greek city Azazel handed to Naberius, to strengthen Azazel's own position in Hell, planning to wipe out Heaven and lead the demons to exterminate all human life with only a few human survivors twisted into grotesque parodies of life, with no care of the cost to build his diabolical paradise.
*** [[SmugSnake Pluto]], born Lazaros, is the leader of the Children of Heaven and TheDragon to archangel Uriel. A vicious, depraved {{sadist}} who commits a multitude of grisly murders to further his master's goals, Pluto relishes using his [[MindRape mental powers to dominate others]], even having a nurse [[ClawingAtOwnThroat claw her own throat]] out--while she's aware of what she's doing--and attempting to force a child to eat his own mother alive. Pluto attempts to twist the soul of Mint, threatening to unleash the Phantom virus in a global pandemic to blame on Mint, and later murders Tango's father for sheer spite. During the Battle of Yonkers, Pluto sweeps through the city and has everyone within massacred just to be "done with these apes". Upon the start of the great war, Pluto leads the Children and indulges his sadism, having thousands kill and eat one another while leaving them enough self-awareness to be horrified at their actions, even [[BadBoss killing his own ally]] Leviathan when Leviathan loses against Tango. Pluto reveals he always intended on wiping out the other Children in his attempt to cleanse the Earth of life and rule it like a god, seeing Heaven itself as nothing more than a means to an end to deliver him the power he craves. Of all the villains in the Heaven Cycle, Pluto stands as one of the worst: a revolting, despicable man who'd sell the entire world to avoid facing up to the pathetic sadist he truly is.
** See YMMV/TheHeavenCycle.

*** [[SmugSnake Pluto]], born Lazaros, is the leader of the Children of Heaven and TheDragon to archangel Uriel. A vicious, depraved {{sadist}} who commits a multitude of grisly murders to further his master's goals, Pluto relishes using his [[MindRape mental powers to dominate others]], even having a nurse [[ClawingAtOwnThroat claw her own throat]] out--while she's aware of what she's doing--and attempting to force a child to eat his own mother alive. Pluto attempts to twist the soul of Mint, threatening to unleash the Phantom virus in a global pandemic to blame on Mint, and later murders Tango's father for sheer spite. During the Battle of Yonkers, Pluto sweeps through the city and has everyone within massacred just to be "done with these apes". Upon the start of the great war, Pluto leads the Children and indulges his sadism, having thousands kill and eat one another while leaving them enough self-awareness to be horrified at their actions, even [[BadBoss killing his own ally]] Leviathan when Leviathan loses against Tango. Pluto reveals he always intended on wiping out the other Children in his attempt to cleanse the earth of life and rule it like a god, seeing Heaven itself as nothing more than a means to an end to deliver him the power he craves. Of all the villains in the Heaven Cycle, Pluto stands as one of the worst: a revolting, despicable man who'd sell the entire world to avoid facing up to the pathetic sadist he truly is.

* CompleteMonster:
** The brutal [[KnightTemplar Uriel]], the lord of Heaven, is a [[LightIsNotGood violent, egotistical archangel]] who runs Heaven as a nightmarish dystopia. Any angel who puts a thought out of line or incurs his displeasure is used for [[HumanResources fuel]] in Heaven, with Uriel slaughtering countless angels in a fit of pique whenever he is displeased, as well as being the one backing the Children of Heaven and their evil activities. After [[DirtyCoward cravenly fleeing]] when Naberius is loosed upon Solomon, allowing trillions of Heaven's residents to die, Uriel returns to kick-start the war against Hell and sends his forces to massacre everything on Earth, along with every demon. Uriel begins killing countless humans himself, proclaiming that he alone is the will of Heaven and he intends to kill every human, demon and even angels who hesitate, murdering his loyal CoDragons Saraquel and Raguel just for delaying in a response to him. Intending to construct a new "utopia" of endless torture for all he deems below him as he builds a new order above it, Uriel proceeds to attempt to annihilate half of the universe, showcasing that an angel can be far worse than most demons.
** The aforementioned [[{{Sadist}} Naberius]], the Fallen Savager, the [[MadArtist Poet of Agony]], is a depraved Tulpa wicked by even their usually low standards. Having helped kick-start the Heaven Cycle that has led to trillions of deaths, Naberius uses his time to harvest, torture and murder countless innocents while also resurrecting the depraved Alice Witzenberg to commit their crimes. Naberius destroys the city of Solomon and trillions within before taking the chance at the final Cycle to collect as many humans as he can before revealing his PocketDimension where he keeps trillions of innocent being in [[AndIMustScream endless suffering]], in pain from [[TortureTechnician eternal tortures he devises]]. Naberius even forces them to breed so he will never run out of new victims to torture, and attempts to subject Tango and the others to the worst tortures he can think of. One of the worst beings in heaven or hell, Naberius constantly shows why his boast of being ten times worse than even Chayne Summers herself is nothing idle.
** ''The Ambition of Hell'': [[FatBastard Scott Niles]] is an obese, disgusting {{human trafficker|s}} who [[EvilMentor mentors young Alice in the ways of power and pain]]. Working in the slave trade for years, Niles sentences countless women to horrific lives of rape and torture, regularly "[[SerialRapist testing]]" the women out himself beforehand, and keeps several women in his makeshift dungeon to use and abuse at his leisure. Dealing in victims as young as [[WouldHurtAChild four years old]], Niles's cruelty and viciousness extend beyond torture, as he shoots a slave in the head for fun, cracking an awful pun about her ethnicity, and beats a child slave to death with a towel rack when learning that he is severely sick. Though terrified of Ashton Sharpe's psychotic savagery, Niles nevertheless sells him women and children, knowing they will be tortured to death. In his final appearance, Niles attempts to rape Alice in a drunken lust, and, though halting his advances when Alice fights back, Niles never once apologizes or shows remorse for the act, having earlier stated that he wouldn't care one bit if Alice lost their "precious virginity" while dealing in his business. Though lacking the supernatural resources of other villains, Niles is no less vile.
** ''The Radiance of Heaven'':
*** [[OmnicidalManiac Azazel]], [[SatanicArchetype Lord of Hell]] and one of the most powerful Tulpas alive, is a [[ManipulativeBastard ruthless, brilliant schemer]] hell-bent on seeing Hell rise supreme in the final cycle. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introducing himself]] to Tango and Mint by subjecting an innocent couple to a horrible death, Azazel steadily unveils his machinations: Having sacrificed billions to the twisted, murderous pleasures of his brother Naberius, Azazel manipulates Tango so he may place Naberius in the Heaven-controlled city of Solomon, extinguishing trillions of lives, angel soldier and civilian alike. Azazel also cultivates sects loyal to Hell so he may lead them to their deaths, taking the strongest and most rebellious and subjecting them to agonizing transformations to serve as demonic servants. Azazel further manipulates his adopted son Erebos, a survivor of a Greek city Azazel handed to Naberius, to strengthen Azazel's own position in Hell, planning to wipe out Heaven and lead the demons to exterminate all human life with only a few human survivors twisted into grotesque parodies of life, with no care of the cost to build his diabolical paradise.
*** [[SmugSnake Pluto]], born Lazaros, is the leader of the Children of Heaven and TheDragon to archangel Uriel. A vicious, depraved {{sadist}} who commits a multitude of grisly murders to further his master's goals, Pluto relishes using his [[MindRape mental powers to dominate others]], even having a nurse [[ClawingAtOwnThroat claw her own throat]] out--while she's aware of what she's doing--and attempting to force a child to eat his own mother alive. Pluto attempts to twist the soul of Mint, threatening to unleash the Phantom virus in a global pandemic to blame on Mint, and later murders Tango's father for sheer spite. During the Battle of Yonkers, Pluto sweeps through the city and has everyone within massacred just to be "done with these apes". Upon the start of the great war, Pluto leads the Children and indulges his sadism, having thousands kill and eat one another while leaving them enough self-awareness to be horrified at their actions, even [[BadBoss killing his own ally]] Leviathan when Leviathan loses against Tango. Pluto reveals he always intended on wiping out the other Children in his attempt to cleanse the earth of life and rule it like a god, seeing Heaven itself as nothing more than a means to an end to deliver him the power he craves. Of all the villains in the Heaven Cycle, Pluto stands as one of the worst: a revolting, despicable man who'd sell the entire world to avoid facing up to the pathetic sadist he truly is.
** See YMMV/TheHeavenCycle.
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** Fighting an angel-possessed [[spoiler:Statue of Liberty.]]
** When Naberius loses an arm, he compares it to Tango's missing arm, calling them twinsies.
* MagnificentBastard: Erebos, real name Nestor, is the adopted child of the demon lord Azazel and the master of the Sect of the Broken Mind. Manipulating his sect for ages to serve the interests of hell, even leading them to sacrifice themselves to test his emotions and further the strikes against heaven, Erebos eventually betrays Azazel to help Tango and their friends at Solomon. When Erebos helps them delve into hell to save a friend Azazel has captive, Azazel attempts to break Erebos by revealing his entire life and purpose were a line from the start. Erebos promptly turns the tables, enacting a brilliant scheme that results in Azazel's death before Erebos dedicates himself fully to saving the world, making a final stand against the psychotic Archangel Uriel for the fate of the universe.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Listed in its own page, [[Awesome/TheHeavenCycle here]].
* MoralEventHorizon:
** [[spoiler:Chayne's horrific MindRape of Aria]] drives in that [[spoiler:Chayne]] is not the caring mother she used to be. She has completely gone too far to ever stop and she will never be reasoned with.
** [[spoiler:Pluto's brutal murder of Tango's father. He was bad before, but this signifies him as the utter KnightTemplar scumbag sadist he truly is.]]
** Azazel revealing his manipulations of Erebos and the depth of all the evil he has done, with all he's planned.
** Uriel deciding he's going to exterminate all of Heaven ''and'' Hell, even killing Saraquel and Raguel when they hesitate in adhering to his wishes.
* NightmareFuel: As usual, the Heaven Cycle has horrific moments...
** The very concept of the cycles. Hundreds of thousands of endless deaths and extinctions under the whims of an equally callous heaven and hell that humans are completely captive in, doomed to be wiped out and enslaved time and time again.
** Scott Niles and his trafficking ring. No supernatural evil to it, just good old fashioned human nightmares where children are pimped out for the pleasure of all-too human monsters.
** What Azazel does to the luckless people who he deems worthy of changing...turning them into demonic slaves in a horrifically agonizing process, leaving them as the servants of hell forever. What he intends for earth isn't much better, with countless humans simply torn to shreds by demons and the rest enslaved in the aforementioned process, leaving only a horrific, maimed world dominated by demons. It doesn't help that Azazel had flayed his own former brother and left his skin like a trophy.
** Pluto and the Children of Heaven are sickening sociopaths, with Pluto as the worst. The things Pluto does are just nightmarish, often dominating the minds of others to force them to do things like ''eat'' one another while leaving them enough awareness to be horrified. All for the so-human motivation of greed and hunger for power.
** Naberius, as ever. One of the strongest beings in the setting and a nightmarish Tulpa with a monstrous appearance that surpasses anything else in story for unmitigated revulsion. Besides this, Naberius is the most twisted sadist in the entire saga, who relishes tortures on grand scales to the point Azazel has offered him countless human cities just so Naberius won't indulge in his appetites on Azazel and the demons.
** The disturbingly realistic take on the death of [[spoiler: Aria Summers, with her own mother finding her having hanged herself.]]
** Everything about Uriel. A beautiful, shining archangel who is an egotistical ''psychopath'' out to usurp godhood in all but perhaps name, with a horrific, monstrous appearance underneath and with no way to reason with him.
** Naberius earning his title as the 'poet of agony' with his pocket universe: over a trillion beings enslaved with Naberius forcing them to breed so he never runs out of playthings. Naberius subjects them to ''endless'' agonies with infinite new tortures he devises...skinless beings forced to fornicate, dance and praise him endlessly, countless more forced to boil alive for all time, and worse besides, as Naberius endlessly gloats over his twisted kingdom.
* TearJerker:
** [[spoiler:Chayne]] callously [[spoiler:mind-raping her own daughter Aria]] is brutal and wrenching, given how much is from poor Aria's POV.
** [[spoiler:The death of Charles, especially as he manages to be DefiantToTheEnd with Pluto, and expresses his pride in Tango before his death.]]
** [[spoiler:Even worse on the above is Pluto throwing Jenny into oblivion. Poor Tango is understandably shattered when they wake up.]]
** The entire battle of Yonkers, where multiple named characters die, but especially [[spoiler: Darby's death in Lavender's arms.]]
** Jenny [[spoiler:reflecting upon her father's death]], especially when she learns he's gone forever.
** The death of [[spoiler: Aria Summers. All her pain, her mother's madness and especially said madness causing Chayne to horrifically MindRape her leads to Aria's suicide. a truly brutally depressing end for such a character who was a victim of Chayne's ego and inability to ever see she was wrong.]]
** [[spoiler: The death of Horace himself, passing away after a peaceful HeroicSacrifice with his friends.]]
** [[spoiler: The death of Belphegor, and his farewell to Tango. One of the only decent Tulpas ever, and another person Tango's lost along the way, going out with full dignity and informing Tango what an honor it was to be their teacher.]]
** A lower key one, but the death of [[spoiler: Zita. After Horace died defending her and helping the others, Zita is too filled with rage to do anything but throw herself at the demons and angels, dying pointlessly...even though it's the last thing Horace would have wanted.]]
** Even Chayne's [[spoiler: final end. She breaks down over Aria's suicide, acknowledges it as her fault...and at the end, she truly allows herself to accept and move past her grief, understanding the true right future was a world where she lets Aria go...even at the end, Chayne dies at peace, with even the heroes admitting their sympathy for her.]]