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16	->''I am not the hero in my own story. I am the bad guy. I have no end in mind that justifies my means. There are no skeletons in my closet, no abusive childhood or inciting misery that might expiate my vile behavior. Nor am I insane. I know the difference between good and evil. And I am fully capable of empathizing with the pain, emotional or physical, of others. No sociopath, I. Rather, I simply prefer bad over good. Wrong over right. Dirty over clean. Sick over healthy. Untrue over true.''
17	-->-- '''Contagion''', ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: The Best There Is'' issue #3
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19	The ''Franchise/XMen'' have faced many [[Characters/XMenRoguesGallery villains]] over their [[LongRunners long history]], but [[CompleteMonster several members]] of their RoguesGallery stand out in terms of heinousness.
20	* Belasco, as well as examples from the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Universe]]; the ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series; ''ComicBook/XMen2099'' (''ComicBook/Marvel2099''); ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' and ''ComicBook/DarkAgesMarvelComics'' (Other Continuities) can be found [[Monster/MarvelComics here]].
21	* Examples from animated works can be found [[Monster/MarvelAnimation here]].
22	* Examples from [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the film series]] and the ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' TVMovie can be found [[Monster/MarvelFilms here]].
23	* Examples from unproduced scripts can be found [[Monster/{{Scripts}} here]].
24	* ''Series/MutantX'' can be found [[Monster/MarvelSeries here]].
25	* Examples from literature can be found [[Monster/MarvelLiterature here]].
26	* Examples from video games can be found [[Monster/MarvelVideoGames here]].
27	* Examples from the ''Podcast/{{Wolverine}}'' podcast can be found [[Monster/{{Podcasts}} here]].
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35	* [[MadScientist Dr. Roderick "Rory" Campbell]], in the [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast dark future]] of Earth-811, became a monstrous cyborg named Ahab. Responsible for the Hounds program, Ahab [[MoreThanMindControl tortures mutants into his obedient dogs]] and uses them to track down and convert or murder other mutants. Ahab attempts to do this to the [[WouldHurtAChild child]] Franklin Richards, even trying to convert his family, returning with his Hounds to also hunt down his [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]] Rachel Summers and wipe out the X-Men. Ahab later manages to incorporate psychic powers with a Hound, able to inject memories of horrific torture to shape his victims more efficiently, attempting to [[ComicBook/Extermination2018 exterminate mutantkind]] and whoever else gets in his way.
36	* [[SuperEmpowering Fabian Cortez]] is the leader of the defunct Upstarts, a group of mutants that [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunted and killed other mutants]] for points and bragging rights in Selene's Upstarts competition. In his first outing, he puts together the [[Characters/XmenAcolytes Acolytes]] and [[TreacherousAdvisor tries to sway Magneto]] back towards taking an antagonistic stance against humanity. When Magneto is wounded, Cortez uses his own powers to make him dependent on his treatment under the pretense he was helping him. Cortez's machinations lead to the U.S. and Russia destroying Asteroid M with a plasma cannon, which resulted the deaths of his entire first group of Acolytes, including his own sister. When Magneto returns and Cortez loses his top spot in the competition, he goes to Genosha and inspire the mutants there to rise up against their oppressive human government, causing a bloody civil war. At the same time, he kidnaps Magneto's [[WouldHurtAChild infant granddaughter]] so he can use her as a HumanShield against the X-Men, the Avengers, and [[Characters/MarvelComicsExodus Exodus]] in an attempt to kill as many of the Avengers as possible. When Magneto becomes the ruler of Genosha and learns the hidden technology that can restore his power levels, Cortez betrays him by amping up ex-Acolytes to send against him. A [[FantasticRacism supremacist]] and a backstabber at its finest, Cortez committed his despicable crimes in order to score points in a competition.
37	* [[TheCaligula D'ken Neramani]], until his demise, was the cruel [[TheEmperor Majestor]] of the [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Shi'ar]] Imperium. Under his leadership, [[GalacticConqueror thousands of worlds and their races have been conquered and enslaved]], sometimes subject to violent planetary genocides. D'ken himself is a sadist who murdered the pregnant wife of Christopher Summers after the latter tried to stop D'ken from raping her, ripping the fetus from her womb and incubating it into a slave that would grow up to become the homicidally unstable Gabriel Summers. Unsatisfied with the power he already had, D'ken tried to have his benevolent sister Lilandra's soul devoured by horrible beings called the Soul-Drinkers and then tried to use the M'Kraan Crystal to become all-powerful, jeopardizing the existence of the entire universe in the process. When his mind was restored from his defeat decades later by his loyalists, D'ken proved he learned nothing from his mistakes and once again attempted to abuse the M'Kraan Crystal and the now-grown Gabriel Summers, in particular trying to use the M'Kraan Crystal to subject [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]] to excruciating death or insanity.
38	* [[EvilGenius The Gorgon]], born Tomi Shishido, was a ChildProdigy of dizzying ability who, at a young age, founded the mutant supremacist group called the Dawn of White Light that launched multiple, brutal terrorist attacks across Japan that claimed many innocent lives. when he was eighteen, he joined the Hand, slaughtering his own family to show he had no ties elsewhere. Shishido, now called the Gorgon for his mutant ability to [[TakenForGranite turn humans to stone]] with a look, captured Wolverine and brainwashed him into a killing machine that claimed many innocent lives, and the lives of heroes such as Northstar. When deprogrammed, Wolverine killed the Gorgon, who was [[ComicBook/SecretWarriors later resurrected]]. The Gorgon quickly took a leadership role in [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Hydra]], eventually ousting Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, and revealed a disturbing habit of turning innocent women into stone as decorations for his chambers.
39	* [[Characters/XMenSinister Mister Sinister]] is a clone of Nathaniel Essex--a tragic, morally bankrupt nineteenth-century eugenicist--and has established himself as one of the most consistently awful villains the X-Men faced, lacking the good qualities of the original Essex. Sinister was approached by Apocalypse and granted great power, only to betray Apocalypse and strike out on his own. Recognizing his own genetic handiwork in some of the [[Characters/XMenMorlocks Morlocks]], a group of street-dwelling mutants, Sinister hired the [[Characters/XMenMarauders Marauders]] to exterminate them, because he viewed their existence as plagiarism. Obsessed with [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Scott Summers]]'s bloodline, Sinister cloned [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]], and sent the clone, Madelyne Pryor, to have a child with Scott, so that he might then steal the child. He later tried to use the High Evolutionary space station in order to alter the genetics of the entire planet; failing in this endeavor, Sinister later sent out the Marauders to murder everyone who knew about the dark future where Apocalypse ruled the world. On another occasion he merged with the Dreaming Celestial and transformed the entire population of San Francisco into clones of himself. At another time, Sinister promised to free the Weapon X project's prisoners from the concentration camp they were held in, only to turn around and use them as part of his own experiments. [[ForScience Concerned only with his mad genetic theories]], Sinister has worked with everyone from UsefulNotes/JosefMengele to [[Characters/XMenApocalypse Apocalypse]] in the interest of furthering his research, and making himself the dominant life form on Earth.
40	* [[ImmortalityImmorality Amanda Mueller]] is a [[EvilutionaryBiologist ruthless mutant geneticist]] who worked with Mr. Sinister, she faked miscarriages in order to supply Sinister with [[OffingTheOffspring her own babies]] to experiment on. She eventually joined the Black Womb project where she assisted in [[WouldHurtAChild experimenting on countless babies]] with methods too vile even for some of her partners, in one instance strangling a baby to death on camera. Seeking to murder Professor Xavier to use Mr. Sinister to [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport repair her body]], Mueller demonstrates that in depravity, she is nearly the equal of Essex himself.
41	* [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Omega Red]], real name [[SociopathicSoldier Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich]], is a sadistic SuperSoldier who loves killing so much that his need to drain the life force of others to sustain his own annoys him purely because it restricts the creativity of his murderous mind. An abomination since birth who mutilated animals, poisoned fellow children, and murdered vagrants, Arkady later used his position as a Soviet soldier to start murdering young girls. After being transformed into Omega Red, he uses his ability of energy-draining to end hundreds of lives over his appearances, notably killing the warrior Katu's entire village before ripping his arms off; nearly wiping out an entire prison of life; and melting Wild Child alive in lava. A [[PsychoForHire traitorous lunatic]] who responds to any attempt to control or hire him by inevitably turning on his bosses, Omega Red [[ComicBook/XLivesAndXDeathsOfWolverine later travels]] through all eras of time in an attempt to erase the X-Men from ever having existed, during which he bodyjacks and kills dozens of innocents; threatens newborn infants; and tries to alter history to cause mass death, so long as it accomplishes his goals and satiates his bloodlust.
42	* [[ChildHater Donald Pierce]] is the cyborg leader of the Reavers and a raving bigot who's thrown in his lot with the [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]] as the White Bishop for a chance to kill as many mutants as possible. Preferring not to go after targets who can fight back, Pierce deliberately goes after the young and vulnerable, having murdered over 300 innocent mutant--virtually all of them [[WouldHurtAChild children or infants]]-—with nothing short of glee, transforming his Reavers into cyborgs as well to have them kill as much as they want. Opting to torture the heroes if they fall into his hands, and even plotting the betrayal of his own nominal allies in the Hellfire Club, Pierce is such a vile, spiteful, cowardly bully [[ThePowerOfHate so filled with hate]] his last words before Cyclops kills him is to say he's just sorry [[FantasticRacism he won't be around to see the mutant race destroyed]].
43	* [[BloodCountess Selene (Gallio)]], at times [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Black Queen]] of the [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]], is one of the few mutants to be older than Apocalypse, and one of the few who can match his evil. A psychic vampire, Selene [[LifeDrinker survives by draining the minds of other beings into herself]], a move which brainwashes those she only preys on a little, and kills those she drains completely. She's also possessed of a phenomenal god complex, and has repeatedly tried to attain godhood, and has forced others to worship her. Her crimes include trying to psychically devour the entire city of Rome; using mind control to force the citizens of Nova Roma to worship her as a goddess; trying to kill her own descendant, Magma; successfully killing her loyal servant Eli Bard; manipulating Wither, an otherwise good kid, into descending into [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal mania]] while pretending to love him; promising the Upstarts prizes if they committed enough murders;repeatedly trying to bodyjack Rachel Summers; and enslaving the souls of all Genosha's dead. A seemingly immortal parasite, Selene set the standard for all future Queens of the Hellfire Club to follow.
44	* [[MindRape Shadow King]], real name Amahl Farouk, is the ArchEnemy of [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]], and a powerful mutant who made his living as a crime lord, using children--including Storm--as pickpockets or prostitutes. After being defeated by [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]] and locked in the astral plane, he became far worse. Taking the alias "[[DarkIsEvil The Shadow King]]", Farouk became a being of psychic malice. Not content to remain on the astral plane, Farouk consistently possesses others with psychic energy, and then enacts a game of destroying them mentally. He often forces them to indulge in the sickest desires he can imagine, or that he finds in their subconscious, leaving them aware that they are doing such horrible things, but making them enjoy it. Farouk enjoys psychic torture as a hobby, and seeks to [[TheCorrupter corrupt the hearts and minds]] of every human he can, this being both an art and enjoyable past time to him. Recently, Farouk was the one to reveal to the young boy who might grow to be Apocalypse that his life was a lie and he was the destined destroyer. Being Farouk, he mocked him the entire time about how his life was a worthless simulation, and [[CardCarryingVillain showed utter glee]] in awakening the one to commit genocide on humanity.
45	* [[SinisterMinister Reverend William Stryker]], debuting in ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', [[FantasticRacism hatefully persecutes mutantkind]], having stabbed his own infant son for being born a mutant and killing his wife for birthing the boy. Founding the "Purifiers", Stryker has them kill any mutants they come across. Kidnapping Charles Xavier to MindRape him, Stryker plans to use the psychic mutant to [[FinalSolution wipe out every other mutant on Earth]] in the name of his fanatical quest. Temporarily stopping his genocidal crusade, Stryker resumes upon finding the mutant-killing machine, Nimrod, founding a new Purifier group and revealing it to the world through bombing a school bus full of de-powered mutants, killing dozens of innocent children. After manipulating and then killing a young mutant, Stryker launches an all-out assault on the X-Mansion in the hopes of killing all the children living there. Even after his own death, Stryker's brainwashing of his own son breaks the boy into becoming a fanatical, bigoted monster like his father.
46	* [[SuperhumanTrafficking Tullamore Voge]], originally hailing from [[ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics Earth-1289]], is one of the [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil most horrific slavers]] the X-Men have ever faced. Going across the multiverse searching for enhanced individuals to capture, Voge allies with various other slavers like Ransome Sole to create a trafficking ring unlike anything seen before, buying everything from captured X-men to "living statues" to then sell elsewhere by the hundreds. Even when captured, Voge uses his psychic powers to [[MindRape break the minds]] of anyone he can reach, almost rendering several X-men catatonic. Resurfacing years later in the 2014 ''Nightcrawler'' series, Voge's operation later focused on superhuman [[WouldHurtAChild children]], trafficking thousands of children, separating them from their families, and killing anyone who tries to help them before selling them to other universes.
47	* ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' {{Canon Immigrant}}s:
48	** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dark Beast]] is the EvilDoppelganger of the kindhearted Henry "Hank" [=McCoy=]. Initially an apprentice of Mister Sinister, [[ABeastInNameAndNature Dark Beast]] earned a reputation as a sadistic monster in Apocalypse's [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] for his cruel experiments which tortured and killed many, giving him the nickname of "Beast", which he liked enough to mutate himself to better fit the moniker. When Dark Beast was brought to the X-Men's world, he set about killing everyone the good Beast cared for and continued his monstrous experiments on innocents. With his most heinous actions being to create a machine that fed off Hank's lifeforce while keeping him in unspeakable agony, in addition to his experiments on children, Dark Beast eventually attempted to foster a war between the X-Men and ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} When exposed and dying from experimenting on himself, Dark Beast attempted to initiate a bomb to take the X-Men with him simply out of spite.
49	** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Holocaust]], also known as [[OmnicidalManiac Nemesis]], is the son of Apocalypse. A [[AxCrazy sadistic savage]] who [[BloodKnight values nothing so much as murder]], Holocaust leads the Four Horsemen and gleefully participates in the savage culls, slaughtering entire cities or even nations while savoring a chance to torture his victims when he can or sending them to be broken down and used as raw materials for new SuperSoldiers. Planning a crusade beyond anything even his father wishes, Holocaust's fervent wish is to create a world where every living thing perishes.
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53	* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' Vol. 1:
54	** Issues #37-39: [[AliensAreBastards Mutant Master]], from the planet Siris, wants to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer Earth]]. To this end, he builds a robot body that is [[HumanDisguise disguised as a human]] and claims to be the Mutant Master, a mutant that will lead mutants to conquer humanity. He gathers several minor X-Men villains and convinces them to help him. Mutant Master kidnaps the X-Men and puts them on trial for crimes against mutant-kind. Mutant Master reveals his plan to the X-Men; he plans to have his underlings assassinate top Soviet military officials and take over a US military and launch nuclear weapons at the USSR, in hopes of starting a nuclear war between the US and the USSR, in order to [[KillAllHumans destroy humanity]]. Though the Mutant Master [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claims to act in the best interests of mutantkind]], he really only serves his own quest for power.
55	** Issues #395-398: [[FantasticRacism Paul Botham]], aka Mister Clean, was a particularly sadistic enforcer of the Church of Humanity with a liking for [[ManOnFire burning his prey alive]]. Having had his skin treated to the point of NighInvulnerability, Mr. Clean was tasked to attack the mutants living in the sewers beneath New York and approached his task with horribly vile relish, torching a community of over a hundred into a few straggling survivors in a single day. Mr. Clean continued to relentlessly hound the survivors of his massacre through the sewers, with special attention devoted to one of his would-be victims being nothing more than a newborn [[WouldHurtAChild infant]].
56	* ''Gambit'' Vol. 3 issues #4 & #6-7: [[WouldHurtAChild The Pig]] was the very first enemy of Remy [=LeBeau=], and perhaps the most wicked the Cajun has ever faced. A [[FatBastard hideous-looking]], order-obsessed mutant who [[SuperHumanTrafficking trafficks]] in ChildSoldiers, the Pig conditions teenagers through constant torture before selling them off to buyers like [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra HYDRA]]. Already responsible for the death of several members of the [=LeBeau=] thieves' guild and Remy's younger brother, the Pig's finest outing came when he attempted to use a mutant child who produced mind-controlling gas to subjugate humanity, having the mutant child torturously "milked" for his gases. Pleased with the horrific mutation endured by subjects exposed to the mind-controlling gas as they come to befit the Pig's own appearance, the Pig intends to dispense it upon all humanity, reducing them to his grotesque, mindless slaves forevermore.
57	* ''X-Men Unlimited'' Vol. 1 issue #36's "The End of the Line": [[SuperhumanTrafficking Papa/Poppa]] is a gross mutant trafficker who uses his tavern as a front for kidnappings, where he turns over his victims to become living weapons for the military or fodder for [[PlayingWithSyringes grotesque scientific experimentation]]. His latest two victims are two young runaway women whom he intends to [[SexSlave sell]] to perverts who "like their women a little different". [[BoomerangBigot Papa]] is a mutant himself with no compunction selling his own kind into slavery and death.
58	* ''ComicBook/XTremeXmen2001'' "Schism", "Intifada", & "Prisoner of Fire" arcs: [[{{Sadist}} Elias Bogan]] is a reclusive psychic billionaire and consummate [[MindRape mind-rapist]] who takes a particular interest in breaking the X-Men. Elias Bogan is the original inspiration for the Hellfire Club and its very first Lord Imperial, which already makes him responsible for all the blood they've shed before he even appears on-page. Bogan has a special proclivity for turning people into his shattered "pets", and he repeatedly attempts to subject the X-Men to mental torture and brainwashing, attempting to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy make them kill their own allies under his control]] and promising he'll rewire their minds to have them love and beg for the abuse he puts them through. The sickest incident comes when Bogan convinces a young mutant named Jeffrey Garrett and his desperate family to sign on an experiment with the promise of money. Instead, Bogan tortured Jeffrey's entire family until the point Jeffrey had to euthanize them, a fact Bogan [[MockingTheMourner cruelly mocks Jeffrey]] over later. Bogan only takes pleasure in the pain and destruction of others, and has filled an entire library with the archives and knowledge of sheer cruelty he's gathered over the centuries he's been alive.
59	* ''[[ComicBook/ApocalypseVsDracula Apocalypse vs. Dracula]]'', written by Frank Tieri: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Hamilton Slade]] starts off as the most ambitious and sadistic member of [[Characters/XMenClanAkkaba Clan Akkaba]], a large and ancient cult that worshipped Apocalypse. [[AmbitionIsEvil For the sake of his advancement]], Slade viciously turned his own brother Frederick into a paralyzed vegetable to remove him as a rival, using him as an example to terrorize the other members of the Clan into loyalty. Eventually, Slade eventually betrays his Clan for Dracula, causing the massacre of Clan Akkaba through his treachery. Even worse, as a vampire, Slade [[{{Matricide}} bites out the throat of his own mother]] merely for running her mouth. A [[SerialKiller vicious murderer of innocent people on the side]] who forces his abused valet Jack Starsmore to clean up the slaughtered bodies of his victims, Slade also promises to make Starsmore a vampire to endure this abuse for the rest of eternity.
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64	* [[PsychoForHire Mister X]] has been enraptured by death ever since he was a [[EnfantTerrible child]], where his sociopathic fascination culminated in him [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cooking his puppy alive]] and [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering his loving, wealthy parents]]. A minor telepath and a ConsummateProfessional killer-for-hire, Mister X's self-proclaimed "murder avant-garde" has claimed hundreds of victims, from entire buildings full of random innocents, to fellow martial artists and superpowered beings whom Mister X killed after learning everything he could from them. Obsessing over Wolverine after losing a fight to him, Mister X began killing random people he dressed up as Wolverine to slake his frustration, then goaded Wolverine into a second fight by means of mailing the decapitated head of a kindergarten teacher to him and then threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild burn her entire class alive]]. Mister X's treachery and penchant for death stood out even on [[Characters/ThunderboltsHAMMERMembers Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts]], where he more than once attempted to betray and kill his own teammates at the slimmest of provocation. On one occasion Mister X even left one of his victims a maimed and paralyzed shell of himself but refused to kill him, simply because it would be [[CruelMercy crueler to leave him alive]].
65	* Vol. 2 issue #1--"Sword Quest": [[RuthlessModernPirates Banapur Khan]] is a merciless pirate who preys on groups of refugees crossing the Indonesian archipelago. Banapur always massacres most of his victims, having the women [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] by him and his men as well before he sells whoever is left into {{slavery\|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}} and makes off with the loot of his victims. Banapur is introduced in the middle of one of these massacres, beheading the captain of a lost vessel in front of the women he hasn't slaughtered, then gloating that if they seem him as an ogre, "do you think it wise to make me angry?!" Also a brutal PsychoForHire, Banapur is employed to torture the information out of an old man for the location of a priceless blade, which only results in the old man croaking, and when Wolverine intervenes, Banapur attempts to escape with one of his captive women to keep him "[[SexSlave company]]".
66	* Vol. 2's "Hunted" & "Stay Alive" arcs; 2001 Anmual's "The Watch": [[ImAHumanitarian Jean-Pierre Beaubier]], aka [[EvilSorcerer Mauvais]], is a French-Canadian cannibal and sorcerer whose powers derive from living flesh. Released from [[SealedEvilInACan his tomb]] in a superhuman prison, Mauvais rejuvenates his powers by consuming the regenerative flesh of Wolverine, even [[EyeScream ripping out Wolverine's eyes]] while he's awake and screaming. Mauvais goes onto kill and eat dozens of innocent people, building a [[CannibalLarder larder]] of half-eaten hobos and slaughtering every contestant in a game show, all in a ritual meant to invoke the Wendigo. Mauvais wants to take the beating heart of the {{Wendigo}} and eat it to become its successor, giving him the power to banish the gods who sealed him away and then take over Canada.
67	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' Vol. 1 issues #8-12--"Perceptions" arc: [[WouldHurtAChild Krahn]] is a [[KillerCop Chief Inspector]] of the [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties RCMP]], as well as a pedophilic SerialKiller who has abducted, raped, and murdered countless young boys throughout British Columbia. When a benevolent {{Wendigo}} unearths the remains of one of his victims, Krahn blames the beast for the murder and exacerbates hysteria over it by leaking details of the case to the public, sparking panicked riots and misguided acts of vigilantism that result in the death of at least one innocent hunter. To keep the charade going, Krahn kidnaps and kills another boy, letting dogs gnaw on him in order to make it look like the child was mauled by the Wendigo. Later getting together a posse, Krahn sets out to slay the Wendigo, which will calm the public and allow him to resume molesting and killing children under more optimal conditions.
68	* ''Bloody Choices'', written by Creator/TomDeFalco: [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Bullfinch]] is an [[FatBastard obese toad of a human being]], a crime lord who specializes in the trafficking of drugs and of [[HumanTrafficking children]]. A vile, perverted pedophile who keeps the children he hasn't sold off in the husk of an old UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era internment camp, Mr. Bullfinch bruises, tortures, and rapes the kids himself, and throws one out a window to his death after he tries and fails to escape. Even when Bullfinch successfully buys his way into SHIELD immunity, he still insists on trying to take the dead child's brother as a personal SexSlave, and has the temerity to whine that he deserves mercy for the thousands of lives he's ruined.
69	* ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]][=/=]Wolverine: Six Hours'', written by Bruce Jones: "[[PsychoForHire Shredder]]" is an AmbiguouslyHuman hitman [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing his latest client to death when he's brought on to dispose of two drug dealers named Sid and Whitie. Shredder sets about murdering everybody in his path, connected to his targets or not, with disturbingly casual satisfaction. He [[WouldHarmASenior carves an old couple to pieces]]; disembowels a friendly fisherman; kills not only Sid and Whitie but their harmless drop agent as well; and throws a [[WouldHurtAChild twelve-year-old boy]] rendered inert by coral snake venom into a lake.
70	* ''Switchback'', written by Joseph Clark: [[KillerCop Sheriff MacReedy]] is a SerialKiller who uses a switchback curve to pick off his victims, a curve he's deliberately rigged to cause car accidents. These accidents aren't always fatal, and in that event the Sheriff drags them back to his cabin to finish them off. The Sheriff admits he kills ForTheEvulz, giving his innocent victims the "reality" he claims they all crave; his cabin alone is mounted with around two-dozen bodies he's kept as [[CreepySouvenir trophies]].
71	* ''The Best There Is'', by Charlie Huston, Creator/JuanJoseRyp, et al.: [[CardCarryingVillain Winsor]], aka [[{{Plaguemaster}} Contagion]], was born from a [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Latverian]] eugenics program. Winsor's body [[PoisonousPerson contained every single disease known to man]], which he trained himself to be able to release at will. Killing all the other children born from the program, Winsor struck out on his own, acquiring the services of numerous nearly-immortal individuals as both enforcers and test subjects, whom he would infect over and over again with his diseases in order to make them stronger and more deadly. Winsor [[AbusiveParents used his abused son]], deformed from exposure to his father's diseases, as bait to acquire Wolverine for his experiments under pretense of wanting to use his research to cure his son's condition, knowing Logan, as a FriendToAllChildren, would never refuse the offer. Ultimately, however, he revealed his true motive: In making his diseases stronger and stronger he hoped to engineer one that could kill absolutely anything, which he would then [[OmnicidalManiac unleash on the world and then the entire universe]] via a stolen spaceship. When his followers ceased being useful, he subjected then to AndIMustScream to ensure they would not rebel. With evil plans unmatched in scale for an Earth-based villain, Contagion more than makes up for his brief tenure in the comics with his cruelty.
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76	* ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}'' Vol. 1, issues #83-86: [[ConquerorFromTheFuture Gaunt]] is an intergalactic [[TheWarlord warlord]] from the [[BadFuture future]] who desired to [[GalacticConqueror conquer the entire universe]]. For 10,000 years, Gaunt led a campaign of destruction through countless planets and star systems, killing trillions of innocents, and would take tributes from his conquered planets such as women for his own use. When offered a deal to be released from his prison at the end of time, Gaunt accepts the deal and mystically enslaves Rachel Summers to force her half-brother [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]] to his location, offering him a fight to the death with Rachel's life in the balance. Gaunt is so desperate to continue his endless subjugation of the universe that he violates his own fair fight rules by psychically attacking Cable in his sleep, gaining joy from the suffering he and Rachel endure in the process.
77	* ''ComicBook/{{Daken}}: Dark Wolverine'' issue #5--"Empire, Act 2: Part 2": [[MoreDespicableMinion Petrus]] is a minor agent of Tyger Tiger's who nonetheless establishes a heinous operation for himself. In Tyger's absence from her main base, Petrus converts three entire floors of the headquarters into a brothel that specializes in [[HumanTrafficking trafficking]] dozens of enslaved [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--as young as 10--to wealthy perverts. Not content with merely the sex work of children, Petrus even sells them to the Weapon X program, knowingly sending the kids to be vivisected and butchered by the monstrous Director's scientists so Petrus can [[{{Greed}} line his pockets]].
78	* ''[[ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics Excalibur]]'' Vol. 1:
79	** Issues #45-50: [[EvilSorcerer Necrom]], an alien scientist who refashioned himself as the tyrant of an alternate Earth, seeks to harness the energy matrix caused by the alignment of all the infinite worlds of existence. In pursuit of this, Necrom leaves his planet to die after draining the life from it–-previously having a city of thousands massacred to wipe out the royal family and their loyalists, and [[HeroKiller murdering the Earth's version of Excalibur]] to turn them into his mindless undead servants–-and is pursued by Earth-148's [[BarbarianHero Kylun]], whose LoveInterest he spitefully murders. Necrom further massacres a unit of soldiers sent to investigate him solely for the thrill of it, subjecting the heroes to awful MindRape, before revealing his ultimate intentions to harvest the energy matrix by smashing down all the worlds in the multiverse into one, eradicating all life in reality for the sake of godhood.
80	** Issues #69-70: [[InsaneAdmiral Commander C'efn]] is a particularly brutal enforcer for the [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Shi'ar]] empire, who seeks to convert planets to their cause. C'efn achieves this conversion by [[FinalSolution committing genocide]], and firebombs the Knsashii race, with any survivors forced into the empire. After C'efn's actions shock Cerise, he coldly [[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]] survivor of the Knsashii [[ForcedToWatch in front of her]], while remarking that "she better be prepared for the next battle". After realizing that C'efn's genocidal ambitions are done for his enjoyment rather than any cause, Cerise herself sabotages his ship to stop his insane galactic rampage.
81	* ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' Vol. 1 issues #63-66--"Correction" arc: Johnston [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Coffin]] is wanted by ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a HellholePrison where he "[[WouldHurtAChild fixes]]" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. He also has his "Special Children"--kids from his first prison in the '[=70s=], whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long--it's implied [[AndIMustScream in perpetual agony]]--that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.
82	* ''ComicBook/{{Mystique}}'' issues #16-17--"Unnatural" parts 3-4: [[SuperhumanTrafficking Viktor]] is a club owner and powerful mutant psychic who is also a trafficker and [[TortureTechnician torturer]]. Luring in mutants, Viktor disables them, tortures them, and sells them to the highest bidder, as pets, labor, or as {{sex slave}}s. When several fall into his trap, Viktor keeps them in a cell and shows prospective buyers there, gleefully commenting one young woman will be "submissive" to a new owner.
83	* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' Annual #1--"Grand Design": [[MadScientist Dr. Wolfgang Helmut Heinreich]] is the son of a Nazi geneticist who inherited his father's penchant for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Working for the Eastern Bloc and killing any informants, Heinreich's evil is revealed when the team uncovers his lab: hundreds of mutants are abducted and experimented on, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp brutally vivisected]], and left conscious or brain dead throughout his attempts to recreate their powers.
84	* ''ComicBook/XForce'' comics:
85	** ''X-Force'' Vol. 1 & ''ComicBook/XStatix'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Spike Freeman]], the "[[Fiction500 Trillion-Dollar Man]]", is a technology mogul and producer of the X-Statix reality TV show. A firm believer in [[IfItBleedsItLeads getting ratings through sheer carnage]], Spike engineers disasters so that he can film the X-Statix stopping them, not caring in the slightest that this invariably results in gruesome ends for civilians and team members alike. Freeman is also an international ArmsDealer and smuggler, with among his greatest successes in this regard being the sale of chemical [=WMDs=] to dictator UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein; he has also deliberately worded the contracts for these deals to imply that the X-Statix members themselves were complicit, so that if he were ever brought down, he could take them with him. Freeman is so callous and selfish that his very last action before the Orphan kills him is to hire mass-murderer Mr. Code to murder former team member Lacuna to prevent her from releasing documents incriminating him.
86	** ''ComicBook/UncannyXForce'''s "Otherworld" & "Final Execution" arcs: [[RubberMan Harry Pizer]], also known as "the Skinless Man", was once a [[AmoralAttorney barrister]] who used his ability to stretch and contort his body to cheat and win cases. When contracted by the Weapon Plus program to fight the Russians during the Cold War, Pizer, designated Weapon III, [[PsychoForHire giddily]] used the opportunity to slaughter countless enemy troops, deeming it a righteous cause all the while before murdering his way into Otherworld to steal the powerful Orb. After being [[FlayingAlive skinned alive]] due to [[AntiHero Fantomex]]'s interference in his plans, Pizer only got worse as he assisted in orchestrating a bloody war against all of Otherworld, and later attempted to torture Fantomex and Psylocke to death in front of each other, starting by slicing Fantomex's face off. Eventually joining Daken's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants after murdering his ex-wife and her new husband, Pizer gleefully takes part in their plans to [[MindRape psychologically torture]] the young boy Evan into becoming the next [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]], even tricking the boy into [[HopeSpot thinking his father figure Fantomex is alive only to reveal Pizer murdered him]]. When confronted by a vengeful Evan, Pizer offers him one final chance to revive Fantomex, only to swipe the offer away, simply laughing at the boy's gullibility. Pizer stands out even among the Brotherhood due to the fact that, while all the other members have alternative motives for trying to create a new Apocalypse, Pizer just wants the boy to kill millions of people as a final spiteful move towards Fantomex.
87	** [[ComicBook/XForce2013 Vol. 4]]: [[CardCarryingVillain Yevgeny-Malevitch Volga]] is a cackling Russian {{sadist}} and a [[ArmsDealer merchant of death]] responsible for, among other episodes of carnage, the Alexandria Incident, where 3,000 innocent people were vaporized by one of Volga's powered-up mutants as a "proof of concept" to potential buyers. Volga specializes in young mutants he tortures into "peopleweapons", including an unfortunate mutant who could look into alternate realities whose family Volga casually murdered, and a pregnant woman named Marrow whose unborn baby was harvested for "weapons-grade stem cells" by Volga, a fact which he delights in [[MindRape nearly breaking her mind with]].
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92	* ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' (Earth-295): [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] himself, En Sabah Nur, led a genocidal crusade that led to the deaths of most of the world's population. Establishing a nightmarish regime with regular cullings of millions of innocents, Apocalypse allows "[[PeopleFarms breeding pens]]" to produce humans as raw materials for his twisted scientists' [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]]. Going against any truces, Apocalypse intends to [[NukeEm nuke the entire world]] to leave a world where [[TheSocialDarwinist only the strong survive]].
93	* [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-4935 Askani World]] (Earth-4935) has [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse En Sabah Nur]] and his [[DaddysLittleVillain equally evil daughter]]:
94	** ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfCyclopsAndPhoenix'': [[BigBad Apocalypse]] is an incarnation of Earth-616 Apocalypse two thousand years in the [[BadFuture future]]. His wickedness not dulled over two millennia, he has taken over much of North America and implemented his SocialDarwinism beliefs. Perhaps his most vile crime was infecting an infant Nathan Summers, the future [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]], with a Techno-Organic virus two thousand years prior, just to have Nathan prove he was strong enough to eventually serve as Apocalypse's vessel, as the latter is burning through his bodies, and so [[BodySurf has to take new ones more often]]. Even after finding out that Stryfe, a clone of Nathan, isn't a mutant, Apocalypse still tries to bodyjack the boy. Finally, Apocalypse is conducting research on a virus similar in composition to the Legacy Virus.
95	** ''X-Men: Phoenix'', by John Francis Moore et al. [[note]]takes place after Apocalypse has taken power, but several decades before the majority of the above story[[/note]]: [[TheHeavy High Councilor/High Prelate Diamanda Nero]] oversees Apocalypse's empire, decades before the majority of the above story, while the latter constructs his newest armor to house his body. A psychotic sadist who is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] fatally, and gleefully, [[TortureTechnician torturing a victim for information]], Nero has killed many mutants, at which point she [[MegaManning absorbs their powers]]. At one point, she tests a plague on an enclave, resulting in over 2,700 deaths. Using this knowledge, she creates Plague, basically a zombie turned into a WalkingWasteland. Her other crimes include more brutal torture and having her forces brutally kill a group assisting those fighting Apocalypse's rule.
96	* ''Civil War: ComicBook/HouseOfM'' (Earth-58163): In this timeline, before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] takes over the world, [[MadScientist Dr. Bolivar Trask]] is the Vice President under UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Trask is also the director of the Sentinel program and a major player in an [[FantasticRacism anti-mutant]] conspiracy. Trask has set up forced labor camps across America that use mutants as slave labor. When Magneto assassinates anti-mutant activist Graydon Creed, Trask uses that as an excuse to send a strike force to Genosha to kill Magneto. Under Trask's orders, Bucky Barnes threatens to blow up key facilities in Genosha, including a hospital, if Magneto does not let Bucky kill him; Bucky kills Charles Xavier in the process. After killing Bucky, Magneto goes to the White House for revenge. Trask uses this as an excuse to launch a nuclear strike against Genosha. When Blackbolt disables the nuclear missiles heading to Genosha, Trask considers [[NukeEm nuking]] the Inhumans' city of Attilan as well. When confronted by Magneto, Trask sends his special Theta Sentinels to kill Magneto, not caring whether he or his SHIELD subordinates die in the process.
97	* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'':
98	** Vol. 1:
99	*** [[BewareTheSuperman King Hyperion]] from Earth-4023, aka Mark Milton, is a vicious superhuman from a world that he tried to conquer, resulting in a massive nuclear suicide that left him the only being alive. Later attempting to conquer a new world, he instead allows it to die thanks to that world's Magneto's actions, betraying heroes and slipping through new worlds where he kills countless beings to conquer their lands. Arriving in a parallel New York, he tries to kill one hundred hostages after murdering all the heroes therein, betraying and slaughtering his own if it suits him. Returning at the Timebreakers' headquarters, Hyperion plans to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer the multiverse]], no matter how many he has to kill along the way.
100	*** Issues #1-2: [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]] from Earth-1815, [[AdaptationalVillainy in stark contrast]] to his heroic Earth-616 counterpart, is a [[MisanthropeSupreme genocidal misanthrope]] hell-bent on the [[KillAllHumans complete eradication of humankind]]. After being freed from prison by the Exiles, Xavier attacked them and went on a rampage in the middle of a city, releasing a mind wipe upon the minds of millions of people, which killed everyone in a five-mile radius. Xavier would later free his version of the X-Men to attack the New York Stock Exchange in order to destroy the human monetary system, while planning to tear the building full of innocent people apart. Xavier later attempt to mind-wipe Mimic--a fellow mutant--in a last-ditch effort to kill him in order to continue his genocidal mission, despite claiming to be a "[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist necessary evil]]" for mutantkind.
101	** [[ComicBook/Exiles2018 Vol. 3]] issues #1-5: [[Characters/KangTheConqueror Time-Eater Kang]], from Earth-18854, is a version of the conqueror who gained unimaginable power after slaughtering his reality's [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]]. Turning Galactus's skull into a fortress, Kang sets about on hundreds if not thousands of realities, killing their Galactuses as well until he's been warped into an entity that resolves to conquer the multiverse by [[OmnicidalManiac becoming it]]. Kang devours thousands of universes, not even sparing adorable SugarBowl universes, while massacring Watchers and using hundreds of his own counterparts as [[CannonFodder disposable fodder]]. The Time-Eater represents a version of Kang with no restraints and no good qualities left whatsoever, only a hunger to consume all life for the sake of his infinite ego.
102	* ''ComicBook/MutantX'' (Earth-1298): {{Dracula}}, [[AdaptationalVillainy lacking the redeeming features]] of his Earth-616 counterpart, had turned [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] into a vampire. Awakening to kill numerous innocent people, Dracula allies with the supposed Beyonder who [[OmnicidalManiac seeks to end the world]], as long as he can feed. Going on a brutal killing spree that sees many humans and superhumans killed, Dracula eventually tries to massacre all the X-Men, stopped just before he can bite [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor Xavier]].
103	* ''[[ComicBook/XMenPhoenixLegacyOfFire Phoenix--Legacy of Fire]]'' ([[Manga/MarvelMangaverse Earth-2301]]): [[BigBad Ma'Lethu Ko Rann]], the evil [[CastingAShadow Shadow King]], is an AncientEvil who plunged the primordial world into {{civil war}}s and mass death to feast on the agony. When he was banished by Clan Pyre, the Shadow King returns through a deal with demonic beings, having them slaughter most of Clan Pyre on his behalf--including the mother of the protagonists--wearing her skull and [[MockingTheMourner mocking her daughters]] with the gruesome visage.
104	* ''Series/{{Star Trek\|TheNextGeneration}}[=/=]ComicBook/XMen: Second Contact'': Characters/KangTheConqueror, after arranging for mass anomalies in the time stream, leads to "bad futures" of oppression and mass death to trick the X-Men and crew of the Enterprise into "fixing" them, with the heroes unaware that these are the time stream's way of correcting the damage. Intending to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate the heroes]] to give him control of the time stream and erasing entire planes from existence, Kang attempts to wipe out anyone who could ever be a threat and destroy the Enterprise completely.
105	* ''The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans'', by Chris Claremont et al. (Earth-764): [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] himself, seeking to expand his cosmic empire, seeks the power of [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] for his own ends. Having Characters/{{Deathstroke}} and Ravok the Ravager act as proxies down on Earth, Darkseid eventually rallies up both the [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen X-Men]] and the ComicBook/TeenTitans-–coldly vaporizing Ravok for failure with his Omega Beams right after--and uses their memories to painfully reawaken Jean Grey as the Dark Phoenix. With her power, Darkseid seeks to turn Earth into a second Apokolips, destroying most life on it, before repeating the process with every planet in the universe until he rules all.
106	* ''[[Creator/MarvelMAX Wolverine MAX]]'' issues #1-5--"Permanent Rage" arc (Earth-200111): [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Victor Creed]], the first ArcVillain, very much resembles his canon counterpart in being a [[AxCrazy sadistic beast of a man obsessed with killing]]. Having spent his near-immortal life killing everything in his path, notably a peaceful monk monastery where he drank the blood of the head monk, Creed eventually carved a path to become second-in-command of the {{Yakuza}}. Using his position to search for the Yashida clan's prized sword, Creed convinces a woman to suicide bomb a jumbo plane, killing nearly 400 people, in exchange for Creed giving her family a good life, something [[ILied Creed was lying about]]. Confronting Logan after needlessly decapitating two cops, Creed mutilates Logan and proclaims his intent to begin downing numerous airplanes over and over again until he finds the Yashida sword, and reveals he plans to murder the head of the Yakuza and take over first the organization, then the entirety of Japan.
107	* ''[[ComicBook/MarvelFairyTales X-Men Fairy Tales]]''' issue #3--"To Die in Dreams": The [[WickedWitch Witch]] is a powerful being who terrorized the lands before people managed to kill her. Resurrecting herself in the form of Burning Phoenix, the Witch [[DemonicPossession possessed]] the red-haired princess, using her as a host to try to conquer the kingdom and slaughter countless people who tried to stop her. After the knight, who was in love with the princess, managed to defeat the Witch, the latter fall in eternal sleep along with the princess. When she managed to awaken within the princess many years later, after the princess was found by the Tailor, the Witch escaped, promising to "double her wrath upon the land". Killing the former knight who previously imprisoned her, the Witch desired to kill the Tailor as well, resulting in the princess convincing the Tailor to [[HeroicSacrifice kill her, to end her threat once and for all]].
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