Magnificent Bastard / Web Original

Loki: Let me make you an offer. I'm in a playful mood. And I'm curious about how powerful you really are. I'm fairly impressed you've got my brother in quite the psychic prison there. I'd like to see how far you can take it. And if you amuse me, I'll leave peacefully. But under conditions. My conditions. And the whole time, my blade will be at this little artery that keeps her lifeblood flowing.
Nihilator: Do not toy with me.
Loki: Oh yes, you are my toy. I'm offering you the one chance you've got to survive, you bloated deity. How about you try this? Give each of my companions the same choice you just gave me. And if you can convince just one of them to give Skarra up for all this so-called power you've got stowed away in that black hole, I'll let you have her to live on in. If you can pull that off, I'd actually prefer you to be out there in the universe causing chaos.
Nihilator: What kind of being are you?
Loki: I'm sick and tired and bored. And I want to be amused.

— Thor: Metal Gods, "Chapter 14"

Various forms of Web Media have had their fair share of charming and manipulative villains.

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Let's Play

Examples

• Crusader Kings II After-Action Reports:
  • Anscarid d'Ivrea, the Free Count of France: Guy d'Ivrea shows how far intelligence, charisma and patience can take somebody. Starting as the ambitious Count of Mâcon, he works to gain power and prestige in an increasingly divided and turbulent France. Becoming House de Bourgogne's chancellor at an early age due to his silver tongue, Guy increases his demesne through private wars and establishes cadet branches for House d'Ivrea. During a long and brutal Civil War, Guy becomes a duke and gains widespread respect among the French. When King Renaud unexpectedly demands Mâcon from Guy and brands him a traitor when he refuses, Guy quickly turns the situation in his favor, defeating him in war and taking the French throne. Now King, Guy works towards France's benefit, expanding its territory and taking steps to safeguard his successors' power. By the time he passes on, Guy has set a good example for his heirs to follow and returned the Anscarid dynasty to its former glory.
  • Red Crescent: Sultan Yahya the Bold is the ruler of the Idrisid Sultanate who seeks both territorial expansion and the return to greatness of the Shia religion. Seizing large swathes of territory, he also successfully revives the Shia Caliphate with himself as Caliph. Though a general by inclination, Yahya proves just as adept in court as he is on the battlefield, keeping the magnates of his realm in line and promoting his domestic agenda with a skillful combination of diplomacy and intrigue. Balancing his expansionism and underhandedness with generosity and tolerance, Yahya the Bold sets the stage for a great Shia revival.
• Dream SMP:
  • Quackity manages to subvert his Butt-Monkey status post–Manberg vs. Pogtopia. Once the The Dragon to Jschlatt whom he helped win the presidential election, Quackity would end up double-crossing his boss after a long string of mistreatment and abuse, before joining up with Pogtopia in order to help take down the maniacal dictator. Becoming enraged at Technoblade for pulling a last-minute betrayal and bombing L'Manberg, Quackity establishes the Butcher Army alongside his fellow L'Manberg citizens in order to hunt him down, with him almost succeeding in such thanks to pulling a fast one on the warrior by holding his prized horse Carl for ransom. Having lost his initial battle with Technoblade, Quackity, now scarred, begins building up a new country known as "Las Nevadas", electing himself as ruler. Looking to find worthy allies to assist him in the process, Quackity begins to implore sleazy tactics in order to get what he wants, whether it's blowing up Purpled's prized UFO, or allowing Foolish to be sacrificed and killed in the Red Banquet, all for the sake of proving a point. Showing himself to be a formidable foe through and through, Quackity proves that no matter the obstacles or setbacks, he will rise up against the odds and get what he wants.
  • Technoblade is a ruthless anarchist with a strong belief that power corrupts. Joining Pogtopia under the pretense of being able to take down L'Manberg, Technoblade quickly proves himself to be a powerful ally, supplying the rebellion with gear that gives them a significant leg up in battle. Upon learning that Pogtopia had no intention of destroying L'Manberg, but rather keeping the system going, Technoblade rebels against them, using TNT and Withers to leave L'Manberg in ruins. Going into hiding post-battle, Technoblade attempts to settle down, moving past his anarchist ways to live a life of peace and tranquility, only to be thrust right back into the conflict when the Butcher Army, lead by Quackity, comes in and attempts to give Technoblade retribution for his crimes. Enraged by this act and viewing it as a great injustice, Technoblade prepares a full-on attack on L'Manberg, using countless Withers that he had kept contained for months in case of an event such as this occuring. Teaming up with Dream and Philza, the three of them lay waste to L'Manberg, reducing it to a point that puts the country's initial destruction to shame. Establishing the Syndicate following this event, Technoblade has since dedicated his time to making sure no forms of government could ever rise to power again. Powerful, ruthless, and always managing to succeed in his goals, Technoblade proves that he can easily be your greatest ally, or your worst enemy.
• Ish State Experiments' "1000 Players Build MASSIVE Civilization in Minecraft": Wazz0ck is the leader of one of the many tribes in the Jungle Island. Wishing to stop a war between two tribes before it broke out, Wazz0ck built a falling sand trap in secret and allowed them to meet on his tribe for any negotiations possible. Once they formally declared war, Wazz0ck had the trap activated, killing seven people and causing the two tribes to put the war on hold and hunt him down. Eventually, he grew tired of running and turned himself in, being executed on his own terms and granting the Jungle one last moment of peace.
• Let's Play Grand Theft Auto Let's Play "Michael’s Heist": Michael himself organizes the heist so that only he and Gavin will survive, doing so by having his other teammates killed off. Pairing Ray and Ryan together to provide backup for when the cops arrive so that they can die in the shootout, Michael does whatever he can to protect the normally clumsy Gavin from getting killed. Even when Geoff and Kerry aren't killed by their exploding escape boat, Michael is still able to quickly murder them himself before they can make an escape. With everyone else dead, Michael splits his earnings with Gavin and his wife Lindsay, securing the first victory in the "Heist" subseries.
• Medieval II: Total War Let's Play A Scotsman in Egypt: Aodh Canmore, the devoutly religious younger brother of King Domnall, proves to be one of the king's greatest assets. Starting out inexperienced and unsure of himself, he quickly grows into his own, repeatedly using underhanded means to solve problems he faces and advance what he considers the interests of the Scottish Empire. Through diplomacy, intrigue and military force, he plays a major role in defeating multiple nations in Europe and the Middle East, manipulates his older brother in order to keep him as an object of fear, puts the Catholic Church under the permanent control of the Scottish monarchy, and wipes out a Timurid invasion by luring it into a trap. As one final gambit, he manipulates his cousin Kirk and some of Kirk's friends into discovering new lands for Scotland to conquer. Supremely intelligent and very persuasive, Aodh Canmore plays a key role in cementing Scottish domination over much of the world.
• Stampy's Lovely World: Veeva Dash is seemingly a Minecraft helper and good friend towards Stampy Cat, but is revealed to be the girlfriend and partner-in-crime of Hit The Target. Pretending to be an ally of him to gain Stampy's trust, she promptly betrays him and lures him to the castle to release a wither on him. She proceeds to become the technical genius of the duo of crimes, making extremely ingenious contraptions such as mind control devices, lasers, and a voice-stealing contraction. She also shows extreme tenacity, using invisibility potions and crafty schemes to try and defeat Stampy and his allies, even luring Stampy into a trap with a voice-disguising parrot. Forming a temporary alliance with Stampy to get out of a dangerous situation, Veeva decides to redeem herself, sending warnings to him about Hit The Target's schemes and plots. During the series finale, Veeva Dash helps Stampy stealthily by hitting him with a invisibility potion to rescue him from Hit The Target, and when Stampy decides to give Hit The Target his World in order to protect his friends and dogs, Veeva Dash abandons Hit The Target and joins Stampy and his friends for a new adventure.

Podcasts

Examples

• Alba Salix: Royal Physician: Aten-Aben is a bombastic, malevolent, demon who proves to be a far more dangerous threat than anything Alba has faced before. Summoned by Queen Parabel to turn her unborn son into a girl, he instead offers to turn the child into a powerful mage so that, "the land of his birth shall never fall to its enemies," before also enchanting a nearby Magnus. Aten-Aben then crashes a party Parabel is attending and reveals his true plan. The enchantment on Magnus causes the entire building to be pulled between Planes to his hell kingdom where he'll raise the child and conquer all of Hell with his magic, pointing out that he never specified that Farloria would be the land of his birth. When Alba tries to stop him, he reveals that the baby's magic was drained from the rest of his family, leaving Alba powerless to stop him, taking King Gunther hostage to ensure Parabel and Alba’s compliance. When Alba manages to defeat him and throw him into the Planar Convergence, he reveals that even without him, the building will maintain its course and the child will still be born in Hell.
• The Amelia Project:
  • Amelia is the brash, yet affable leader of the titular death faking organization. Under her leadership, the Amelia Project has successfully faked countless deaths, sometimes recruiting clients to become valuable allies, including the brilliant Alvina. When the Interviewer gets kidnapped by the Russians, Amelia and Alvina make plans to move to his location to avoid MI5. When a Serial Killer forces her to fake his death, Amelia tricks him into killing himself, even sacrificing her beloved grandmother’s necklace to maintain the deception. Amelia is then forced to aid Panaraguan freedom fighter Pablo Perez Garcia in overthrowing the tyrannical President Julio, effortlessly outwitting and defeating rival death faker Mateo when he interferes. Arrested by Miguel, Garcia's idiot assistant-turned-Panaraguan President, Amelia organizes a plan to swap the lazy Miguel with Garcia, ensuring Panaragua has a good leader before reuniting with the Interviewer and relocating the Amelia Project to Paris.
  • Tara and Lily are a pair of friendly thieves who commit burglaries in accordance with "The Looter's Law" which entails them only doing impossibly difficult and unique crimes in order to avoid being cliche criminals. Having pulled off various miraculous robberies in the past, their masterpiece was the Washington Zürich Heist where they stole millions from a bank in America and another in Switzerland, and then broke back into both banks and placed the money from the other bank inside their vaults. After this, the pair broke into Buckingham Palace to steal The Queen's toothbrush but were photographed on the way out. They were then captured by MI5 and agreed to gather information on the Amelia Project in exchange for their freedom, and successfully posed as clients of Amelia and broke into a safe right under the Interviewer's nose and successfully traded its contents for their freedom.
• The Ballad of Anne and Mary: Anne Bonny and Mary Read are a pair of devious pirates. In the past the two were crewmembers on the pirate ship Revenge, amassing a large amount of treasure which they hid away. When Jonathan Barnet attempted a mutiny, Mary forced him to flee the ship and tried to kill him so he wouldn’t come back for revenge. When Barnet, now a privateer, attacked the Revenge and executed the crew, the two avoided execution because they were pregnant. While being interviewed by Nathaniel Mist, Anne planted the idea of the treasure in his mind to tempt him. Anne formulated an escape plan and tricked a guard into sending Mist a letter offering him treasure in exchange for helping them. After escaping prison with Mist’s help, the three are confronted by Barnet who also wants the treasure. Anne and Mary then reveal that they used the treasure to fake their pregnancies. Mary convinces Barnet to let a crowd decide their fate and leads the three in pretending to be innocent civilians, causing the crowd to turn on Barnet and allowing the three to escape.
• Batman Unburied: Poison Ivy was born Pamela Isley and her father discovers she is immune to poisons. Poison Ivy's father experiments on her until she kills him and takes his fortune and joins grade school. Poison Ivy travels to Palestine to interact with the world's oldest tree and killed her professor who tried to force himself on her. Bruce Wayne takes the tree and moves it to Gotham. Poison Ivy is sent to Arkham and convinces the administrator Hugo Strange to become her partner. Strange and Poison Ivy turns an inmate Cornelius Stirk into a Serial Killer to distract Batman. Poison Ivy kidnaps Bruce Wayne and convinces the world he died, in order to get the key to Bruce Wayne's vault and get access to the tree. Poison Ivy mind controls Vicky Vale and has Vale try to kill Batman with a poison kiss. Poison Ivy plans to use the power of the tree to kill of two-thirds of humanity so the reminder of humans can talk to plants and be one with nature.
• Carcerem: Vorlauf is a captain in the Vigil organization in the kingdom of Aaru. As a child, he and his childhood friend Dianna were attacked by a necromancer, who killed Dianna and tortured Vorlauf until he escaped. Vowing to rid the world of magic, Vorlauf joined the Vigils as an adult and would kill any magic users he would find. Vorlauf also investigates and kills Vigils who turn out to be corrupt and aggressively deals with obstructive officials who interfere with his job. Vorlauf is tracking a young woman Ora, who he suspects is a magic-user. When Vorlauf hears that Ora stole a prophecy about a Chosen One, Vorlauf deduces that Ora is heading the Chosen One tournament and attempts to ambush her. Later when Ivan resurfaces and creates a zombie army, Vorlauf teams up with Ora and devises a plan to defeat Ivan.
• Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind: Dr. Harleen Quinzel is a junior psychologist at Arkham Asylum, who is tasked with treating the Joker. Learning that her father has cancer and the operation to treat it would cost more than Harleen can afford, Harleen plays to Joker's ego and manipulates him into agreeing to steal money for her. Harleen claims the Joker is cured and coaches Joker to lie to the rehabilitation board so he can be released. After getting the money from Joker, Harleen's father dies during the operation. Feeling guilt over freeing the Joker, Harleen agrees to help the police arrest the Joker, manipulating him into a trap. Harleen later learns that Bruce Wayne owned the company that gave her father cancer. Harleen pretends to visit Joker in prison, manages to help him escape and when confronted by Batman, manages to have a backup escape plan to elude him.
• His Night Begins:
  • Virat Nariman is a highly skilled, crafty hitman who seeks vengeance on The Syndicate for the rape and murder of his daughter. Throughout his quest to take out everyone in the Syndicate, Virat deceives those attempting to lure him into deadly traps, and gets the upper hand on those sent to stop him, while torturing and murdering anybody who stands in his way, even getting his drug addicted son back into top shape. Later going up against Ahman Gotwani, the head of the Syndicate, Virat crafts a plan that takes advantage of Gotwani's lack of honor, whereupon he easily annihilates his army, karmically kills him, and destroys his entire country-wide operation. As he lays dying upon defeating his rival, the Nishajal, Virat manages to instill hope and affection in his son with his final breath, encouraging him to find love and start his own organization to hunt down Human Traffickers.
  • Season 3: The Nishajal is a rival from Virat's past who seeks to surpass him as India's best assassin. A savage animal who grew jealous of his mentor Aadia for preferring Virat over him, the Nishajal tirelessly worked to improve his skills in the way of combat and stealth, and when given the task to kill Virat by Gotwani, decides to take the job in order to get even with Virat. A charismatic man regardless of his brutality who holds a sense of honor for those he finds less fortunate, during his quest to track down Virat, he's threatened by two machete-wielding delinquents, casually inviting the more reluctant of the two to a simple game of soccer by decapitating his sociopathic partner and using his head as the ball. The Nishajal also lies to Virat about killing Aadia as a way to crush his spirit. Upon finally tracking down Virat, the Nishajal initiates a brutal battle with him, dying mortally wounding his rival.
• The Magnus Archives: Annabelle Cane is an avatar of the The Web. After her avatarhood, Annabelle proceeds to observe the Magnus Institute from a distance. She takes advantage of the nature of the Eye to communicate with John, leaving her statement somewhere she knows he is investigating that he won;t be able to resist reading it. In her statement, she reassures John she hasn't been directly controlling him, and shares her backstory, while admitting that she could be making it all up. In Season 5, after the Powers emerge into the world, Annabelle hides in a pocket dimension protected from the Change, leaving vague messages for John and Martin and trusting their curiosity to lead them to her. Annabelle is genuinely friendly with John and Martin when they arrive, but it's made very clear that this could be another layer of manipulation, and that she only meets them face-to-face in an arena where John is powerless. After stealing the pocket dimension's protection and Mercy Killing the other inhabitant at his request, Annabelle lures Martin to her with a promise of an end to the apocalypse, trusting John to work out where she's taking him and to follow. Without ever using her powers or even directly lying, Annabelle gets them into a position to undo the apocalypse, achieving the Web's goals.
• Marvel's Wastelanders: Hawkeye: Hawkeye is one of the few Avengers who survived an uprising by the world's supervillains. The villainous Baron Helmut Zemo had the Thunderbolts betray the Avengers, so he could slay them. Zemo spared Hawkeye as a cruel joke, believing Hawkeye posed no threat to him and took control of part of the US. Hawkeye joined a circus and pretended to be a drunken fool and a clown, but secretly plotted his revenge. Throughout the years, Hawkeye used his cunning to track down and murder the Thunderbolts, succeeding in killing almost all of them. Hawkeye plans to complete his revenge by killing Zemo himself when Zemo sees his show, not caring if he lives or dies afterward.
• Thor: Metal Gods: Loki is Thor's trickster brother who stole a crown Thor received from the ruling family of the planet Miskandar, with Loki giving the crown away. Thor discovers the crown contains the mind of the evil god Nihilator and finds Loki and recruits him to stop Nihilator. The crown is being kept in a Kree armory that Loki has been planning to loot for years. Loki takes the guise of an official at the armory and is able to sneak his allies in. While stealing the crown, Loki steals a Regalian Recorder that reveals that Nihilator corrupted the ruling family of Miskandar and Thor saving the royal family doomed the rest of the planet's population, sending Thor into depression. Nihilator plans to corrupt Skarra, a surviving refugee from Miskandar, in order to resurrect himself. Loki appeals to Skarra's goodness to get her to lower her guard so that Loki can put a dagger to her throat. Loki tells Nihilator he will release Skarra and let Nihilator go free if he can successfully corrupt Thor or any of his allies, knowing that Nihilator will fail and that Thor's willpower would defeat him.
• A Voice From Darkness: Dr. Malcolm Ryder is a parapsychologist well known for his radio show wherein he assists people with supernatural problems. Underneath this is a man with little compunction at manipulating others for the greater good even as he tries to assist them. Malcolm will frequently spin events in dangerous ways, enlisting the aide of some to spy upon the fiendish Traveling Salesman, placing them in danger, or figuring ways to solve supernatural problems that can be potentially fatal to those he tries to help. In the case of a man hunted by humanoid leeches, Malcolm gives him a terrarium of spiders that end up poisoning, paralyzing and using him as bait, with Malcolm merely noting that by his calculations the victim has an over 93 percent chance of survival.
• Zero Hours' "Those Familiar Spirits": Fayth Alden is a young woman working as a maid at the Royal Society for the Advancement of the Natural Sciences in Boston. Desiring a better life, she discovers that Liberty Howlett, a priest in contact with one of the Society's members, has possession of the scroll of Saint Eustace. Hatching a plan to steal the valuable artefact, Fayth works out the date a comet will be visible in the sky, and travels to Howlett's parish for that night. Presenting herself as a witch with information on the impending apocalypse, Fayth uses the absurdity of her claims and her sharp tongue to keep Howlett off balance until the comet appears in the sky. She convinces Howlett the comet is the start of the apocalypse, and that the scroll contains important information to stop it. When Howlett undergoes a crisis of faith, Fayth convinces Howlett to tie himself to the altar as penance, reveals her deception, and leaves with the scroll to start a new life, but not before telling Howlett that even if he's not a good preacher, he's a good man.

Web Animation

Examples

• Among Us Out 1-10 (links here and here): The Impostor, after being ejected from The Skeld onto the desktop and swapping colors with White, resumes its quest to kill the crewmates. It creatively uses desktop features and Minecraft assets to fight and defeat the crew one by one, and generates new crewmates to swap bodies with. Even after White blasts it out of Red's body, it hides in the taskbar and returns to resume its killing spree by possessing Blue, de-powering White, and later turning into a Warden. It takes blasting it from the desktop and sealing the hole to defeat it once and for all.
• AMONG US 3D ANIMATION - IMPOSTOR LIFE #7: Purple is an impostor with a strong camaraderie with his fellow impostor Yellow and Yellow's son. When Blue inadvertently sees Yellow kill Red, Purple shoots him as he flees. He later kills Lime offscreen and sabotages oxygen to kill Pink in admin, thanking Yellow for distracting the latter. When Pink's grief-stricken husband, Cyan accuses Yellow of the murder, Purple tries to defend him, and later tries to talk down Cyan when he kidnaps Yellow's son as Revenge by Proxy. When the latter is at the risk of being sucked out from the airlock after it is accidentally activated, Purple sacrifices his life to close it and pull his little friend to safety.
• Angel Hare: Angel Gabby, in truth the anomalous manifestation of the angel Gabriel, is the embodiment of both biblical kindness and harshness. Having disguised herself as a sentient animated children’s show host, Gabby extends emotional guidance to children, particularly those in dire situations. Having treated a young Jonah as her own child, she eventually came to the conclusion that his monstrously abusive father was beyond redemption, and carefully orchestrated a plan to dispose of him while ensuring Jonah had an alibi to avoid legal prosecution, before manipulating the weather in order to flood the municipal building of his town and destroy the public records, endangering several people for his safety. After discovering the internet, Gabby attempts to assist as many children as possible, only for its scale to overwhelm her, while ensuring the angel Zagzagel will be able to assist her before recovering with Jonah’s assistance to update her approach for modern technology.
• Animator vs. Animation:
  • Alan Becker, aka "the Animator", is the owner of the two computers where the series takes place. For a challenge, the Animator creates stick figures with the sole purpose of killing them in a fight. Growing a particular rivalry with his strongest creation, The Chosen One, he first enslaves him and then creates the Dark Lord with the sole intention of killing his previous creation, that plan backfiring when they team up due to his Lack of Empathy. Now on his second computer, the Animator accidentally creates another stick figure and ultimately has a change of heart after seeing that his creation could teach him to be a better artist, letting him and his friends have fun on the computer. Despite all what they've done to each other, when the Chosen One reveals himself to be alive, the Animator decides to team up with him to take down the Dark Lord, who's become focused on destroying computers. When battling his creations, the Animator is just as likely to decimate the competition as he is to get decimated by them, both in a purely awesome matter and bouncing back every time.
  • The Chosen One is the most powerful of the Animator's creations. Created for the purpose of giving a challenging fight, the Chosen One immediately escapes to wreck havok on the main computer, using a combination of his powers and resourcefulness to defeat the programs that tried to stop him. Upon being enslaved, the Chosen One frees himself several years later by using the Animator's own mouse cursor, and when the Animator creates the Dark Lord to kill him, the Chosen One traps him in Minesweeper to take him out of the fight, and later convinces him to help him destroy the Animator's computer and escape his tyranny. Upon finding out that the Dark Lord intends to destroy countless computers across the world with viruses, the Chosen One grows horrified with his former friend, and teams up with the Animator to take him down. When the Second Coming does what he couldn't by defeating the Dark Lord and his army, the Chosen One shows his respect by a Pose of Supplication.
  • Herobrine is the mysterious godlike entity hailing from the world of Minecraft. Having first been introduced possessing the Red Stick Figure and using him to steal the Minecraft Game Icon, Herobrine serves as the first real threat that stick figures have to face, forcing them to face legions of mobs and engaging in a brutal beatdown that leaves them on their last legs. Returning years later having come Back from the Dead, Herobrine now runs a Monster School where he teaches various mobs how to effectively kill players, as well as helping them advance in other avenues. Submitting his students to brutal trials that force them to think outside of the box, before ending things off with a race to the finish. Realizing that four of his students have fled the scene, Herobrine goes after them and winds up at odds with King Orange. Upon seeing that King Orange was putting his students in danger, Herobrine proceeds to engage in a One-on-One brawl with him, stopping at nothing in order to see his adversary's defeat. Proving himself to be one of the most powerful entities you could ever be at odds with, Herobrine is one teacher you don't want to mess with.
  • King Orange is a vengeful stick figure who seeks the destruction of the Minecraft world for losing his son in a simulation of the game. Researching everything there is to know about the game, King constructs a staff that is capable of channeling the power of in-game blocks and using them as a source of power. He then proceeds to seek out the Minecraft Game Icon in order to accomplish his ultimate goal of destroying Minecraft. To accomplish this, he has his second-in-command, Purple, retrieve it for him, with him ultimately succeeding in doing so. King stops at nothing to destroy the world, fighting off the Stick Gang, their ally mobs, and even godlike figures such as Herobrine, managing to fend them off all on his own and ultimately winning. Whenever he's outnumbered or surrounded, the King uses his quick thinking and distractions to turn the tables and immediately get the upper hand again. Nearly succeeding in his quest, King only is stopped when he has a change of heart, gives up the staff and the Minecraft Game Icon, and instead chooses to embrace Purple as a son, ultimately getting something better in the end.
• BIGTOP BURGER: Cesare is the devious head of Zomburger, Steve's rival food truck. Secretly a mysterious agent of "upper management" seeking to capture Steve for being a real Clown from a distant planet, Cesare uses his eccentric and childish nature to disguise his talent at capturing beings like Steve. Cesare pays his employees thousands of dollars per hour to wear zombie makeup and throws off suspicion toward his true undead nature, employing schemes like attacking Bigtop's truck with a cannon before turning to his ultimately successful plan: Providing Steve with "gifts" that he reveals to be magical kettle bells that he tricks Steve into carrying, capturing Steve and going off to a happy retirement.
• The Box Assassin, by Jeremy Schaeffer: The titular Box Assassin is a suave, skillful killer who uses his honed ability to hide inside any sort of box with grace and lethal capability. Be it mailboxes, delivery boxes, or birthday boxes, the Box Assassin can and will use them all to get close to his unsuspecting targets and take them out. For one of his targets, the Box Assassin calls in a pizza to the target's location, hides in the pizza box, then springs into action when the delivery boy arrives and wipes out the target and his minions, even politely tipping the delivery boy for his unsuspecting part in the assassination.
• Bunnykill 3's Parts 1 & 2 : Snowball, the main protagonist, is an assassin paid to kill the monstrous Professor Sludge and destroy his base on the moon. Infiltrating the base by posing as a soldier of Sludge's army, Snowball combines his overwhelming skills, teamwork with his acquaintance Smoke, and impressive smarts to slaughter his way to Sludge, using various weapons and tools at his disposal to take by surprise his enemies and leave them little time to react, such as sneaking on enemies through an air vent and blowing up guards with a grenade-launcher when they're busy looking at the surveillance cameras' recordings, ultimately succeeding at killing Sludge. Facing the far more powerful and skilled Dust alongside Smoke, Snowball ultimately manages to take him down by using his surroundings. Sparing the remaining two guards and setting off the base's self-destruct system, Snowball manages to escape the moon.
• Childrin R Skary: Casilda is an enigmatic girl with dark powers, who offers her services to others in exchange for a fee. When a man's village is attacked by zombies, he asks Casilda for help, and she coolly agrees so long as she's paid. With a mesmerizing dance routine, she places the zombies under her control and leads them out of the village and back to their graves, saving the villagers as she promised. When the mayor insults her by refusing to pay her for her services, Casilda resurrects the zombies with a smile, killing the mayor for his ingratitude.
• The Cyanide & Happiness Show's "Teleporter": The unnamed caveman at the other side of the "teleporter" (really a time machine) makes effective use of the tools and items the scientist inadvertently sends through, using them to build a wooden house and car, start a campfire, and presumably use as the basis to progress civilization by decades. When the scientist, believing his device to be a failure, tosses the blueprint into the "teleporter", the caveman appears in his laboratory, knocks him out, sends him back to the past, and takes his place in the present day.
• Counterspell: Lady Shiv proves herself a capable thief when she tricks Black Mage and Bruiser into hiring her as a bodyguard. Of course, when they go on a rampage looking for her, she realizes and expresses respect for them by offering them a Mega Phoenix Down. Afterward, she stays with them and helps motivate them to finally fight the heroes they were running from by providing them with a strategy to victory.
• DEATH BATTLE!: Deadpool, real name Wade Wilson, is a frequent combatant on Death Battle, with his Fourth-Wall Observer powers making him aware of the existence of co-hosts Wiz and Boomstick, thus beginning a long campaign of Deadpool annoying them and the hosts trying to make him shut up. Deadpool's fight with Deathstroke has him utilizing bizarre techniques, dancing mid-fight to overcome Deathstroke's skills, while nullifying Deathstroke's healing ability with his Carbonadium sword. Later, Deadpool befriends Pinkie Pie after recognizing her as a fellow fourth-wall breaker with the two of them managing to defy the creators by messing with their past videos and ending on a death-less Death Battle. When Wiz and Boomstick try to kill Deadpool off using The Mask, Deadpool tries to level the playing field using the Continuity Gem, and when realizing he is outmatched dies content, before tricking the co-hosts into resurrecting him back to life.
• Epithet Erased: Zora Salazar is a Bounty Hunter who works for Bliss Ocean, assisting them in their goal of ridding the world of epithets because she believes her own powerful epithet makes her job too easy. Looking to capture Ramsey Murdoch while completing her mission to retrieve the Arsène Amulet, Zora corners Ramsey in his cell, giving him a one-hour head start to make things more challenging for herself, then effortlessly defeats Bugsy and retrieves the amulet from him. She then resumes pursuing Ramsey, showing off a wide variety of creative applications for her epithet in the process. When Percival King, a police officer who Ramsey allied himself with for protection, proposes an epithet-free duel where the winner takes both the amulet and Ramsey, Zora agrees to those terms, only breaking the rule when Ramsey destroys her gun. Ramsey and Percy push themselves to the limit in an attempt at defeating Zora, and even then they only barely manage to briefly knock her out. When Zora recovers, she recognizes that the way she used her epithet was dishonorable and agrees to call the duel a draw, sparing Ramsey for the time being. Zora's playful, charismatic, yet intimidating demeanor makes her one of Epithet Erased's most threatening, yet entertaining and likeable antagonists.
• How It Should Have Ended's "How Harry Potter Should Have Ended": Severus Snape survives Nagini's attack by ingesting an antidote and healing his wounds. He arrives at Harry and Voldemort's duel, killing the latter with a handgun. After explaining how he survived, he asks for Harry's invisibility cloak and Hermione's Time-Turner. Acknowledging that he wouldn't be able to return, Snape travels back in time to Voldemort's youth and kills the young Tom Riddle at Wool's orphanage, saving the lives of countless people in the future, and casts a spell to make his body disappear.
• Interface:
  • Mischief is a shapeshifting, self-proclaimed parasite of Cerebral Electricity who serves as the story's main expositor. His ascension into power following the Philadelphia Experiment tampered with by being shot down into the ocean, Mischief rose again to travel the globe and devour Cerebral Electricity and empower himself further. Teaming up with Henryk to find the man's lost great-granddaughter, Mischief uses his powers to transport Henryk, protects him from Greetings Corporation, and waxes philosophical about the meaning of the life the whole way. Eventually facing down and destroying both KAMI and the Greetings' homunculus, Mischief allows himself to be consumed by the latter so as to devour it from the inside, the final montage implying that Mischief has finally ascended to godhood and has gained his greatest wish to consume "all that perish."
  • The mysterious "Ghost" that has been protecting Henryk's great-granddaughter is, in fact, Henryk's daughter reincarnated as a being of Cerebral Electricity. Devoted to protecting her family no matter what, when the cerebral parasite "Mischief" came to reap the cerebral energy of Henryk's Bungled Suicide and the subsequent death of his entire family in a car accident, the Ghost intervened. Saving Henryk's great-granddaughter, the Ghost promises Mischief the cerebral electricity of "all who perish" so long as he protects and guides Henryk toward his granddaughter again. Through this, the Ghost is responsible for setting up the Long Game that reunites Henryk with his remaining family, dismantles Greeting Corporations, and possibly even ascends Mischief into a godlike entity, all for the sake of her family's happiness.
• Madness Combat: The Auditor is a member of the Employers and the one behind the AAHW's creation. When Christoff reaches his lair to destroy the Improbability Drive, the Auditor tries to stop him, going as far as infecting him with some sort of disease, but accidentally destroys the Drive in the process of killing Christoff. Quickly adapting to the new situation, the Auditor uses Christoff's halo to make himself more powerful and proceeds to fight Sanford and a revived Hank, absorbing corpses to make himself bigger and stronger; he however commits the mistake of absorbing Tricky as well, at which point the clown takes control of his body and the halo. While initially freaking out, he eventually recovers and decides to help Hank with defeating Tricky. By the end of Expurgation, the Auditor has re-obtained control over his body and the halo while having also seemingly gotten rid of Hank and Sanford.
• Madness Heist: "Red" is a Consummate Professional working for the mob. Tasked by his boss to rob a bank to get a hold over his rival David Evans, when at the job he realizes it's a trap and manages to survive the ensuing ambush but his crew doesn't. Seemingly being arrested by cops, Red deduces they are with Evans and manages to kill them all while escaping with the money he got from the heist. He then comes to David Evans with the money claiming he wants a truce. Evans, not trusting him, has him executed outside, exactly as Red planned since he planted bombs in the money. He then ends the short shooting his would-be executioner claiming "It's just business."
• Mashed:
  • YOSHZILLA!: Toad is portrayed here as a shady conspirator and the mastermind of the video. After the first Yoshi that Mario brought home turned into an bloodthirsty monster who ravage the Mushroom Kingdom, Toad managed to capture it and imprison it under the stable. Using the eggs of the Yoshzilla, Toad murders and replaces the Yoshi’s every night for Mario’s adventures to prevent them from going feral, keeping it from Mario for years. When Mario catches Toad in the act, he manages to convince Mario it’s the only way and gets him to kill the latest Yoshi. When Mario become depressed over the situation, Toad simply has Mario killed, and simply replaces him with a clone, like he presumably done many times.
  • Secret Histories: Secrete History of OVERWATCH: The God Omnic is the true mastermind over the events in the game. Having successfully kidnapped the hero’s during the first Omnic Crises, The God Omnic placed them inside a simulation, analyzing their battle strategies and abilities to prepare for the Second Omnic Crises, and simply hits the Reset Button whenever the characters start noticing the inconsistencies of the simulation. In order to ensure that their invasion is successful, The God Omnic uploads the simulation all across the world as a video game to get all the battle strategies in the world, the video ending with the video game being a hit and widespread as their chances of success increasing.
• Murder Drones: Doll is a Russian-speaking worker drone and one of the most intelligent enemies faced by the main cast. Desiring to avenge the deaths of her parents at V's hands, Doll uses the Absolute Solver powers she inherited to kill of all possible prom queen candidates, planning to both feast on their oil to keep the Solver at bay and lure V to prom to kill her. Barely foiled by Uzi, N, and V, Doll strikes a deal with Tessa and J to get them the Keybug and go to the Cabin Fever Labs so as to cure the Solver, before betraying them and managing to escape when it becomes obvious Tessa wants to kill her. Doll then plays dead to get Tessa and V attacked by Sentinels, seemingly vanquishing the later. Only stopped by Tessa revealing herself to be the Absolute Solver and attacking her, Doll uses the last of her strength to get to Uzi and tell her to keep fighting.
• No Evil: Mahtigwess, better known as Wrip, is a rabbit spirit who hides a skilled illusionist and cunning trickster beneath her Southern Belle charm. Wrip first shows her quick thinking when helping the lizard spirit Calamity track down who stole the food of Hatfield village, and spies on brigands from McCoy who sought to starve out their rivals. Pretending to reward them for their theft, Wrip leads them to a well and signals for Calamity's water magic to suck them in, intending to teach them a lesson by starving them to near death over a month. Using her alchemical magic to create illusions, Wrip takes the form of the mother figure of the shy snake spirit Corn to trick him into healing her lover, the lynx sprit Vinkle, and later breaks up a violent confrontation between the feuding villages by weaving an illusion of how she first met Vinkle by getting the better of him while he was hunting her.
• OnyxKing67's Mario Bloopers' Broken Computer Arc and Zelus Arc: Zelus was meant to be OnyxKing67's Original Character from Splatoon, but he abandoned her when SMG4 made the same thing. Obsessed with revenge, she breaks SMG4's computer and forces Waluigi to frame OnyxKing67 for it, thereby forcing them to fight each other. When Ashley makes them stop fighting, Zelus is waiting for Mario and travels to the real world with him. Later, she forces Wario to sell Mario Bros. tickets in her mansion, where she disguised herself as "Scary" and promised to give them spaghetti, only to reveal herself and kidnap Luigi. She also forces Wario to kidnap Inklings, and subsequently she creates evil clones of them. Then, she goes to a party in the castle, where she disguises herself as Anime-Waifu and turns most of the party-goers into trophies, takes over the Mushroom Kingdom and gives everything to EM64. When the Memesistance defeats EM64, she teleports him and reveals her plan to them, using a bomb to try to kill them. After losing, she shows the Memesistance their worst nightmares, excluding Grasshopper whose face is protected. When Zelus understands it, she defeats Grasshopper in battle and almost kills her, but is stopped by "Jotaro Mario". Before being killed by him, she almost kills OnyxKing67, but changes her mind.
• Possible History's "What if Stalin Commanded Zombies?": Grigori Rasputin is depicted here as a scheming and skilled wizard. Foreseeing his death, Rasputin hid his soul in a book, appearing in said form to Josef Stalin in the desperate times of World War II. Manipulating Stalin by promising him an unbeatable army, Rasputin creates an army of zombies to harvest souls of those they kill and goads Stalin into killing more via promises of eternal life and intimidation. After attaining enough power, Rasputin kills Stalin and hijacks his body, tricks the Soviet leadership into attending a meeting to be slaughtered by zombies, and baits the Allies and Germans into advancing into Russia so that they are left defenseless to his aquatic zombies, ending the video on the cusp of victory.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Doctor Leonard Church served as the Director of Project Freelancer, who mourned the loss of his beloved wife. Founding his military program to test out the use of equipment with AI implantation in soldiers, the Director reverse engineered Split Personality in the one AI he had, the Alpha, to create fragments. The Director emotionally manipulated his soldiers to test out which AI matched which soldier and examined certain effects. The Director used turned one of his AI into Agent Texas, who would carry out dirty work for him. The Director also used his agents to steal equipment to perform more experiments. After the implosion of Freelancer and the apparent death of his daughter, Agent Carolina, the Director regrouped Freelancer, successfully hiding away the Alpha to keep him safe. When Washington rebelled and activated the EMP, the Director tried to use the Meta to stop him. Investigated by Chairman Hargrove, the Director argued that his actions were for the good of humanity, but submitted to possible arrest. In the end after a meeting with his alive daughter, the Director killed himself realizing that he could never bring back his beloved Allison.
  • Aiden Price was the Counselor of Project Freelancer. The Counselor emotionally manipulated the agents to serve the Director needs, and as such knew many things about them. After the implosion, the Counselor helped coordinate both the Alpha's hiding and Florida's disappearance. Serving as head of Recovery, the Counselor used his agents to track down the Meta at any cost, and ultimately brought the Reds and Blues in for help. After his imprisonment, the Counselor joined the Chorus genocide campaign with Charon mercenaries, manipulating a former Charon employee to act as an enforcer without giving away his former occupation. The Counselor was the only one who realized that the people of Chorus could win and doom the operation, but was unable to get his allies to flee before being killed.
  • Agent Wyoming, real name Reginald, and his AI partner Gamma, representing the Alpha's deceit, are the primary operators of Omega's plan. Hired by Omega to assassinate Tucker, Wyoming allowed a bomb to go off that knocked the Reds and Blues unconscious. Gamma manipulated an alien race into a believing prophecy, leading one alien to impregnate Tucker before being killed by Wyoming. After Wyoming sent Omega back to Blood Gulch to find a new host, he confronted and killed Agent York, and managed to escape Texas. Wyoming and Gamma reunited and headed to Blood Gulch to retrieve Tucker's alien son for Omega to possess and control the Covenant. Wyoming used his time distortion unit to cheat in battle, and when seemingly killed unleashed time copies to continue to fight. Wyoming's final push before his death was to reveal the full extent of his plan to get Tex on his side.
  • Sigma was split from the Alpha's creativity and ambition. Sigma became very interest in becoming human, and controlled Agent Maine for his full ambitions. Sigma also manipulated Agent Carolina into getting two AI, just to see the results, and ultimately almost offed Carolina to get both of those AI. As the Meta, Sigma hunted down agents for their AI, but also recognized more pragmatic choices to leave them behind, such as to get more equipment or recharge power. Upon realizing that Wash and the Blue Team were on his tail, the Meta remixed a transmission to trick the Red Team into distracting them while he stole Delta. The Meta secretly tagged along to the Freelancer Command Center, and tracked down and almost killed Wash to take the Alpha.
  • Zero: Phase, real name Danyell, is a member of Viper and Agent West's daughter, resenting him after he gave her up to be experimented on to save her life. Saved by Zero, Phase created a holo-echo, East, as a clone to join Shatter Squad, while she helped Zero with collecting the artifacts to unlock the Ultimate Power, killing many and torturing Wash to gain coordinates. Recalling East into herself to steal Tucker's Great Key, Phase eventually confronted her father and beat him unconscious before deciding to help Shatter Squad like her holo-echo used to.
• RWBY:
  • Ozpin, born Ozma, is an unfathomably old wizard who has walked Remnant for centuries. Having once built an empire with his evil former lover Salem before leaving when seeing the monster she became, he would oppose and war with her for centuries to come. In his life as the King of Vale, Ozpin thwarted Mistral and Mantle's final plan in Vacuo, wiping out their armies in a horrific battle where he would inspire legends of his greatness and terror as "The Warrior King". Ending the war with all bowing to him, Ozpin went on to restructure the governments of the world according to his own design, ensuring he would have allies in each government's Council and sealing away the Relics to hide them from Salem. As Ozpin, he is nearly able to damage Cinder Fall's machinations, and even after the Fall of Beacon, he ensures that the Relic of Choice is hidden far away and that he reincarnates into Oscar Pine earlier then the villains plan for. After being captured by Salem, Ozpin helps with Oscar's plan to divide Salem's group before Oscar is able to briefly destroy Salem herself by blasting her with the Cane, a secret weapon Ozpin had been preparing for centuries.
  • Neopolitan, aka "Neo", was once Trivia Vanille, the abused daughter of the corrupt manager for Vale's council. She would eventually grow into one of the most formidable criminals in Remnant: allying with Roman Torchwick, she assists with his schemes throughout Vale, and eventually defeats her sinister parents and brings down the Spider Syndicate's plot to take over Vale's underworld. After joining the forces of Salem, she and Roman assist with Cinder's sinister plans, and after Roman's death she becomes fixated on avenging him. She is able to skillfully steal the Relic of Knowledge from the heroes, and she later steals it from Salem to force Cinder to help with killing Ruby. After being thrown into the Ever After, her semblance grows more powerful and she quickly adapts to use these new skills and become an even greater threat to the heroes, even successfully driving Ruby to attempt Ascension. Eventually, she is able to move on from Roman's death and gives the heroes a graceful goodbye before she gives herself to the tree to find a new purpose.
• Skibidi Toilet Series: The Scientist Toilet is the G-Toilet's Dragon and the most skilled of the Skibidi Toilets. After creating the Spider Skibidi Toilets and the Parasitic Skibidi Toilets—alongside possibly other upgraded Skibidi Toilets as well—to better fight against the Alliance, the Scientist Toilet creates a massive mech and uses a fake G-Toilet to lure the Titan Cameraman and the Titan Speakerman into a trap, greatly injuring both of them before eventually fighting them directly, demonstrating to possess various abilities and tools during the battle. When the newly upgraded Titan TVman intervenes and destroys his mech, the Scientist Toilet escapes into one of the Skibidi Toilets' bases. While eventually killed, the Scientist Toilet still proved himself to be one of the most formidable foes in the series, and lost only due to the shared efforts of the strongest members of the Alliance and the Secret Agent's intervention.
• Sunset Paradise: Whisk is a feline thief who wears a mask to cover up her shyness, and is working for Benedict to clear her debts. While she originally stole to get by, she later got addicted to heists and became a full time criminal. She steals Meggy’s luggage and uses it to blackmail Meggy into working with her to steal from Froy and Doy Maloy, claiming she’d stop stealing for others, but not that she’d stop stealing entirely. Proven to be a quick thinker, she uses a wig as a substitute for her gun being missing to knock out Doy, and then imitates his voice on the phone to make it seem nothing went wrong. After the heist, she honors her deal with Meggy, giving her stuff back as promised, but is arrested by Auri. She is broken out by Benedict later, and helps him get into power, stealing the sheriff’s badge for him. She faces Meggy on top of the tower, repeatedly offering her to leave, being reluctant to kill her due to respecting her. She almost beats Meggy, but ends up losing; however, she would continue her life of crime and face no punishment.
• Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Shigeru Miyamoto, though just as silly as the rest of the cast, is nonetheless one of the most dangerous adversaries the SMG4 crew ever faced. A genius game developer who effortlessly saved Nintendo with a single game when Mario managed to drive it to ruin, he would eventually see the heroes as a threat to his company. When Meggy managed to free Mario from acting in a new game, he would instead make one with Luigi, still deciding to retaliate for this violation of Mario's contract. Having Lawyer Kong set up a firewall, he forced out all non-Nintendo characters while reverting the Nintendo characters to their original selves. When SMG4 and Meggy manage to undo this process on Mario and Luigi, he decides to sign a Super DMCA to erase all Nintendo characters, but lets Mario and Luigi attempt to show the other characters can make good games, only signing when they fail. He would later disguise himself as Judge Kirby and temporally undo the DMCA when presented with a parody contract. Ultimately allowing the parody contract to go through, he reveals himself and states that though the arguments used would not apply in an actual court, he judged SMG4 to not be a threat and grew to like the crew. Giving the condition of some characters changing their designs before leaving the gang in peace, he put the crew in multiple no-win situations and they only still exist due to his whims.

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• 5 Elementos: King Alphonse Hangul was born the Prince of Leona and heir to the unique Void Element. Becoming Belenus Llamaviva's pupil, Alphonse earned Belenus' adoptive brother's trust by telling him the truth about his rebel parents. As one of the titular Five Elements, Alphonse became known as Aither Kilin and crossed the ocean with his companions to discover the mystic World Tree Aya. Returning to Leona, Alphonse decides to use the power of Aya to accelerate the society's progression and murders his father, causing the Day Zero during which he kills the weakened Belenus and exiles his other teammates to the New World. Unifying the nations in his continent, Alphonse demonizes the Five Elements and militarizes his own country. Waiting for an Alcaist elemental to be born and naturally open the path to Aya, Alphonse launches an invasion of the New World and fights and kills the Giant King, whom he remains respectful towards even in combat. Fighting his former teammates, Alphonse defeats them in the name of his end goal to use Aya to become immortal and become a "Perfect King", only stopped by nature itself going against him to halt his ambitions. Having learned to evolve from the overconfident man he once was, Alphonse is both a respectful enemy and ruthless conqueror.
• Cucumber Quest: The second and fourth Disaster Masters prove themselves a cut above their siblings:
  • Noisemaster is a diminutive, one-eyed machine whose DJ persona does well to hide the ruthless and dangerous schemer he truly is. Making a colorful entrance by joyfully hijacking Princess Piano's concert, he reveals his intent to use his Noise Blaster satellite cannon to reduce the Melody Kingdom to ruin. Working together with his pal Mutemaster, Noisemaster stealthily kidnaps Piano and uses her persistent screaming to power up the Blaster. When she catches on to his plans and calms herself down, Noisemaster simply waits for the heroes to arrive, manipulating Cucumber and Almond during the ensuing encounter so that he can isolate and strike Princess Nautilus, pushing the Blaster up to 100% charge with Piano's resultant yelp of horror, nearly winning with ease were it not for the last-second intervention of the Nightmare Knight.
  • Rosemaster is an elegant and theatrical plant-woman out to seize victory in the Nightmare Knight's name, no matter how many attempts it takes. Using her powers of memory manipulation, Rosemaster concocts an elaborate scheme to trick the heroes into delivering her the power-boosting Hocus Crocus, via erasing all traces of the Flower Kingdom's royal family, setting up a fake contest to obtain the Crocus, and kidnapping anybody her powers don't work on so that they don't interfere with her script. Unfailingly loyal to the Nightmare Knight, when Glitchmaster reveals that he's been sabotaging the Disaster Masters for centuries, Rosemaster feigns anger to string her along, setting fire to Glitchmaster's plot to kill him so she may save the Knight from her wrath. While ultimately victorious and in a position to wipe out the heroes in one swoop, Rosemaster's personal conscience and faith in the Nightmare Knight cause her to throw the fight, praising Sir Carrot for his performance as she disappears.
• Danger Zone One: Here are some of the craftiest criminals PCPD officers Reena Saffron and "Maniac" Madison Wynter have tackled.
  • "The All Hallows' Thieves": "Mr. Jack", real name Symon Ghast, is a costumed criminal who plots to expose Mayor Neville's corruption to the people of Pallad City. Previously trapped in the Skyline Industries warehouse after Neville had it set on fire for the insurance money, Jack sought revenge after the pumpkin mask he was wearing fused with his flesh and ruined his life. Taking Neville, Madison, and Reena hostage, Jack has the city's skyscraper pumpkin mascot armed with explosives that will kill everybody celebrating the Halloween parade unless he receives $500 million. Though caught, Jack was still able to expose Neville's crimes to the PCPD.
  • "Nightmare Island": The cybernetic ninja Kijo is hired by Daedin Alacore to take out Dr. Beverly Hastings and her Subject 37 monster. Rightfully confident in her abilities, Kijo easily defeats the seemingly invulnerable Subject 37 and rescues Madison. Fighting off the mutated Dr. Hastings, Kijo allows Madison and Reena to freeze Hastings in place, only for Kijo to shatter her to pieces before they could arrest her. Her assignment complete, Kijo makes a simple getaway through a cloud of smoke before Madison or Reena could take her in.
  • "Integral Interval": Satori Riven was a skilled combat android working for Death Widow, Inc. who greatly impacted the young Madison Wynter during her days as a mercenary. With her tactical mind and skills on the battlefield netting her a 98% success rate, Riven teams up with Madison to wipe out a rival group of mercenaries holding the city of Rahjeen hostage. Stealthily taking out a soldier to save Madison's life, even though Riven is okay with letting some innocent hostages die, she still allows Madison to save them out of respect for her. But when a series of sudden airstrikes occur, Riven sacrifices herself to save Madison, imparting her with words that would stick with her for many years to come.
  • The White Wraith: Etricia Fantos, the "White Wraith" herself, is a famous thief best known for her determination, expertise in stealing, and willingness to persist when things go awry. Having stolen a camouflage suit from Syren Industries years prior, Fantos would make a living stealing from numerous criminals and syndicates, evading the police every time. Having also gotten out of a mob war her cowardly tech handler Farah Crest landed her in, Fantos is later hired by Farah to steal snow diamonds from the Red Wolf’s NANDA cargo ship. Acquiring the hidden diamonds, Fantos is able to evade the intruding Omega Cult and take advantage of the crumbling ship to escape, stopping the Cult’s dastardly plans in the process. Supposedly losing the diamonds in the ruckus and disappointing Farah, Fantos is revealed to have kept one diamond for herself, marking the heist a true success.
• Girl Genius:
  • "Fairy Tale Theater Break: Cinderella": Sleeping Beauty Snow White Rapunzel Ozma Rose Red Riding Hood Rumplestiltskin whom everyone called "Cinderella" is reimagined here as a brilliant Mad Scientist. When the kingdoms’ twin princes create a science fair, Cinderella’s cruel stepmother steals her inventions for the ugly stepsisters to use and grounds her. Initially content to miss the fair, Cinderella decides to go after her Fairy Godmother tells her that the winner will marry one of the princes. Showing her brilliance by fixing the Godmother’s wand in order to set up a grand entrance to the fair, charming the princes and exposing the stepsisters’ lies. When the princes reveal that their kingdom has no real defences, Cinderella reveals that she had actually sent a lifelike clank to the fair and reveals her “science fair project” to be an army of battle clanks she uses to conquer the kingdom, bribing the king into not objecting.
  • "Homecoming King", by Cheyenne Wright:
    • The Ht'Rok'Din is the first Heterodyne, famed and feared for his status as a brutal conqueror and a brilliant inventor. Summoned from the past, the Ht'Rok'Din attacks several students before learning that he is in a school owned by his descendant. He collects a number of devices, including one he famously used to teleport his army behind enemy lines in the past, to build a machine. When the machine is finished, he declares that he will conquer time itself, before sending himself back to his normal time to sire a son and begin the mighty Heterodyne family.
    • Professor Bosewichte is a brilliant and proudly evil teacher at Transylvania Polygnostic University. When the Ht'Rok'Din is summoned by a pair of students, Bosewichte ambushes and ties them up and aids the Ht'Rok'Din in building his machine. Bosewichte attacks the students when they try to stop the machine and when the Ht'Rok'Din sends himself back in time, he explains that he was ordered by Lady Heterodyne to ensure that the Ht'Rok'Din is returned safely.
• Ghost Teller's "A Story from Afar": Runia is an ambitious girl who dreams of stardom. Taking advantage of a fight that occurs between her friends Taejun and Shinhoo which leaves Taejun dead and Shinhoo gravely injured, Runia helps cover for Shinhoo by putting the blame completely on Taejun. Figuring she can use this to become famous, Runia leaks footage of Taejun and Shinhoo fighting to the press and gets them interested in her, with her playing the part of charismatic victim to lure in an audience to allow her dreams of fame to come true. Runia even thanks her friend Shinhoo as he's dying in the hospital for giving her an opportunity, and promises to keep his secrets to the end.
• Homestuck: The Draconian Dignitary is an agent of Derse and Jack Noir's main underling. Once Jack seizes control of Derse from the Black Queen, the Dignitary takes steps to ensure his rule is kept, including arranging the attempted theft of the White Queen's Ring. The Dignitary is led by Vriska to Rose's journal, which he uses the genetic code kept in it to create Becquerel, the First Guardian of Earth. This eventually leads to Jack gaining the powers of a First Guardian and rising to partial omnipotence. From then on, the Dignitary takes on the role of administrating Derse in Jack's stead, ordering the assassination of Jade Harley when his superior can't do it himself.
• Housepets!'s "Call o' th' Wild": Gale is a fierce mountain lion and the most scarily competent antagonist in this comedic webcomic. Formerly a friend of the wolf Miles and his family, as well as their improvised medic, she would have an argument with Miles, feeling betrayed by him, resulting in the wolves leaving the forest. Having remained as the undisputed apex predator, alongside her cub Pueblo, when Gale sees the Wolf Pack returning to her territory to go camping, the cougar sets off to have her revenge on Miles and the others through a mix of feral strength and feline cunning, all while mentoring her son. Capturing Miles' family through ambushes, traps, hand-to-hand combat and even seduction, she then confronts her old friend in her cave and, after an honorable duel, uses Miles' bluff against him and overpowers the wolf. Gale only allows Miles and his pack to live upon finding out that joining human society is an option for her and Pueblo, by which point she becomes a successful, self-made businesswoman in less than a year. Wealthy, feared as ever and planning to join medical school, Gale is now willing to patch things up with her old wolf friends.
• Lackadaisy:
  • Atlas May was the founder of the titular Lackadaisy Speakeasy. Originally just a coffee shop owner, Atlas took advantage of prohibition and a hidden limestone network beneath his cafe to establish a speakeasy, making sure to vet which patrons could be trusted by having them wear a club pin. Atlas recruited Viktor after seeing his fighting style by paying a lawyer to shorten his jail time and honed Mordecai's antisocial nature and analytical skills to make him a proper hitman, before pairing the two up. After teaming up with the Arbogasts due to their location near a railway and having a wine shipment from them be hijacked by Sicilians fighting the Marigold, Atlas sicked Mordecai and Viktor on them to secure an alliance with Marigold, steal their cars, and take back the liquor. Atlas then took a woman named Mary Ellen in, knowing her band would come with her, and turning her and Viktor more towards the criminal lifestyle to make sure they'd stick with him. Enlarging his empire together for years before his death, Atlas was remembered well by his employees and lived up to his name as the man who held the Lackadaisy together.
  • Mordecai Heller is Marigold's chief enforcer, and their smartest. Having started as a common criminal, Mordecai joined the Lackadaisy Speakeasy and became Atlas' top enforcer afterwards, demonstrating quick thinking in his fights. Switching to Marigold after Atlas' death to see if they were involved in it, Mordecai remains just as effective, managing to disarm the speakeasy under everyone's nose, get into Mitzy's car, track down the Savoy siblings, capture the much more physically powerful Gracie Grombach, and get the name of Grombach's informant in the Bureau of Prohibition.
• Mob Psycho 100: Touichirou Suzuki is the leader of Claw and one of the most dangerous opponents that Mob has ever faced. Seeking to conquer the planet, Suzuki has toured the world for 30 years, gathering enough power and followers to carry out his plans. When his attempts to empower his henchmen via machinery fail, he gives them his own psychic energy to use, taking it back after they've served their purpose. Suzuki recruits the timid Katsuya Serizawa by showing him that he doesn't need to fear his own powers, acting as a mentor to manipulate him. During his fight with Mob, Suzuki showcases mastery over over several different abilities in rapid succession. Upon overloading during said fight, he calmly requests Mob to kill him, having seen the error of his ways. When Mob chooses to save him instead, Suzuki decides to turn himself in, apologizing for how he treated his family and encouraging Serizawa to believe in himself.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Lord Shojo is the seemingly senile but secretly canny ruler of Azure City. He poses as a senile old man to manipulate the nobles and prevent unrest by making them believe they are manipulating him into siding with their own choices. He introduces himself to the story by having the Order arrested under false pretenses and faking their trial so they can be found innocent. Having them released, he cooperates with Roy behind the Sapphire Guard’s backs to take down Xykon, taking measures including releasing Belkar and lying to the authorities about it, intentionally breaking Soon Kim’s oath because he knows adhering to it would be much worse in the long run. Even in his final moments at the hands of Miko, he calmly accepts his arrest, and when she kills him, he manages to survive long enough to see her lose her Paladin abilities, getting in a snide remark at her expense before moving on. Calm, collected, affable and humorous to the end, he aids the heroes throughout his appearances, and manages to potentially do so even posthumously for Belkar.
  • Good Deeds Gone Unpunished's "How The Paladin Got His Scar": The unnamed hobgoblin cleric is, in spite of his seeming toadyism, a crafty goblinoid who strives for peace amongst his people. Intentionally hunching himself over three years to make himself look less threatening, the cleric manages to talk down the war-hungry general from attacking O-Chul and his cohorts to grant them an audience with the Supreme Leader by careful use of his words. Later on, after Gin-Jun has been stopped from raiding the outpost, the cleric enacts his plan to take over by poisoning the Supreme Leader and every other hobgoblin present. Framing O-Chul and his allies for the assassination so that his takeover can go smoothly, the cleric is able to lead the hobgoblins into an age of peace, massively expanding their numbers in the process.
• Sweet Home (2017): Hyuk Lee is the pragmatic leader of the survivors. After discovering the monsters' weakness to fire, Hyuk leads a rescue mission for Hyun, intending to utilize Hyun's half-monster status to use him as bait. Telling Hyun to consider the children expendable if it means rescuing Dusik, he reveals that it was actually a test to see how ruthless he is, a test that Hyun passes. When Joon Shin and his criminals arrive, Hyuk plays dumb until the best possible moment, escaping his imprisonment and knocking Joon out despite his monster infection. When the monsters break into the lobby, he unleashes his master plan to get everyone out of the building, and when Hyun finally gives into his infection and transforms, Hyuk transforms as well, imprisoning him with his monster form so that he can't kill anyone else.
• Test (by Midnight Radio Comics): The Auditor is an alien who visits civilizations before they gain space travel technology to test them if they are worthy to live amongst the intergalactic community. Arriving on Earth disguised as an old man, the Auditor is mistreated and imprisoned by humans. Developing a misanthropic view of them, the Auditor kills the several police officers stationed to guard him before performing a test on an officer thrown into his cell by his own corrupt coworkers. Talking with the betrayed cop, the Auditor tests him by threatening to destroy humanity unless the officer kills himself. Offering to make the cop another Auditor, the officer nearly kills himself to save the world before the Auditor reveals he has passed his 'test', congratulating him for his courage and departing.
• Your Throne: Lady Medea Solon is a cunning, elegant and manipulative noblewoman who will do anything to achieve the throne. After being raised by her abusive parents, Medea dedicated herself to becoming a genius manipulator and chessmaster who plays others for fools. Medea helped to secure her country's victory in a war through her battle tactics and now desires to defeat her monstrous father and Prince Eros who have tormented her. Over the series, Medea has carried out various genius schemes, from intentionally spreading a rumour to cause her father to turn on her and cause him to be executed, to intentionally endangering her servants and then saving them after their near deaths to put them forever in her debt. Medea is also a master of showmanship and orchestrates a trial that sends her enemies to their deaths while at the same time endearing her to the public. Always cool, calm and elegant with a new scheme or plan to defeat the competition, Medea is the epitome of a Machiavellian schemer.

Web Video

Examples

• Alternate Future of North America (Korean Mapping): The National Sonoran Republic is The Leader of the nationalist Northern Mexican nations. Emerging after two years of civil war, Sonora capitalizes on the instability of their neighbors to slowly grow their land and power over time, culminating in the unification of North Mexico under them. Allying with Denmark, Sonora sticks to Denmark’s plan to crush the ADB by invading California and Nevada, even as they are surrounded and invaded on all sides. When Denmark’s plan ultimately fails due to Tennessee’s betrayal, Sonora accepts their death with grace, warning the original Mexico “not to ruin our glorious nation.”
• Carmilla the Series: Matska "Mattie" Belmonde is Carmilla's catty but loving adoptive sister and a representative of the Corvae Corporation, and initial chairman of the Silas Board. Taking over Silas in the wake of her mother's death, she does what she can to suppress Laura's coverage of events or put a positive spin on them. It was soon discovered she plans on setting off an explosion to bury Loppiformes as a pragmatic solution to her mother's operations. When Vordenberg becomes too much of a threat, Mattie drinks Lopphi's blood to become more powerful against him. Despite her initial failures and death, her spirit returns as a servant of Ereshkigal, and helps aid the downfall of her mother. Correctly guessing how her mother's plans would fail, she appears again to taunt her over her failure, and a final time to grant Laura her life back if Carmilla could answer a riddle; one Mattie makes easy to guess out of compassion.
• CGP Grey's "How to be a Pirate Captain! 🌈 ☠️ 🌈": The unnamed captain is the Laughably Evil leader of his pirate ship. He disguises the ship as one of the Empire's, before revealing the Jolly Roger and using pirates' reputation of granting unjolly fates to those who fight back in order to intimidate ships into "presenting their booty," so to speak. Eccentric yet personable, the captain is a rare Magnificent Bastard from an educational web video.
• Critical Role:
  • Anna Ripley served as a scientist for the Briarwoods, creating an acidic compound to distil Whitestone ore into residuum. When Percy de Rolo attempted to kill her, she took interest in his gun, a weapon never seen until Percy made it, and recreated one of her own. After being imprisoned for attempting to leave the Briarwoods, Ripley manages to convince Vox Machina to free her in exchange for her assisting them, successfully escaping the party the first chance she gets. Vox Machina later finds out that Ripley was using the gun they confiscated from her to spy on them, hiring a crew and obtaining two of the Vestiges of Divergence from under Vox Machina’s nose. She also manipulates Kynan into working for her by taking advantage of his resentment for Vox Machina when they rejected him. When Vox Machina chases after Ripley, she lures them into an explosive trap, badly injuring the majority of the party, before ambushing the party, resulting in her successfully killing Percy. Brilliant and manipulative, Ripley proved to be one of Vox Machina’s most dangerous enemies.
  • Arkhan the Cruel is a Paladin and Highlord of Tiamat the Scaled Tyrant. Embracing the doctrines of Tiamat, Arkhan finds himself allying with Vox Machina where he forms a cheerful alliance to bring down the wicked god Vecna before he can dominate all Exandria. Showing himself a skilled and tactical fighter, Arkhan reveals his intentions are less than benevolent after Vecna's defeat when he pretends to try to destroy Vecna's remaining hand. Instead, Arkhan severs his own and attaches Vecna's to the wrist, escaping under the noses of a dumbfounded Vox Machina before intending to use the hand to unleash Tiamat to bring order to the universe, even if she must destroy it first.
• Danger Zone One Audio Drama's "A Crooked Case?! Protect the Criminal!": Lynn Dradio, head of the Dradio Crime Organization, uses her vast wealth and army of lawyers to get away with whatever crime she wants, from money laundering, to murder. After the thief Lance Traft steals her treasure, Dradio locates his hideouts and burns them down after retrieving her riches. With the mythical Dromore Egg all that’s left, Dradio intercepts Traft in his secret hideout, ordering Traft to be slowly tortured to death after finding the Egg. With the Egg actually being a replica meant to hide a microdata drive detailing her criminal activities, Dradio is eventually arrested, but nevertheless assured that she will avoid imprisonment with the help of her lawyers.
• Dungeons & Dragons Assassin stream, hosted by Neal "Koibu" Erickson: The eponymous Assassin, as played by Robert Barrera, is the most skilled agent in the Cult of Malkis, dedicated to spreading chaos to prevent societal corruption and stagnation. A skilled actor and musician, the Assassin disguises himself as a traveling bard to avoid suspicion and uses his trained charisma and countless guises to gather all the information he needs to perform his hits. His brilliance is shown through such hits as getting thrown in jail as a drunk to murder his currently arrested target, tricking local guards to kill his target after framing them for murder, and disgracing and drowning a cleric and making it look like a suicide. Even when tasked with "sending a message", he does his job well by massacring an ambassador's caravan and framing another nation or burning down an inn with a paladin inside after publicly shaming her. Despite his often cruel methods and willingness to kill innocents during his missions, the Assassin is still shown to have humanity through his interactions with children and his pet cat.
• Epic Rap Battles of History's Darth Vader vs. Adolf Hitler Trilogy: Darth Vader, the notorious Sith Lord, is pitted against the more vile Adolf Hitler, and proves himself to be one of the series' most dignified and pragmatic rappers, consistently displaying cleverness in defeating his opponent each time. In the first battle, he force-chokes Hitler and bathes him in Carbonite, all while continuing to rap, and in the second battle, he thaws him out so they could have a rematch, only to trick Hitler into standing over the Rancor Pit, disposing of him before his verse can properly end. When Hitler escapes the pit and challenges him to a third and final battle, Vader accepts, spending his verse verbally deconstructing and humiliating Hitler and his campaign before passing the mic to his "homeboy", Boba Fett, whose bars he genuinely enjoys before Hitler suddenly kills him in a fit of rage. While Hitler furiously rants to Vader, the Sith Lord calmly walks up to him and slices him in half, putting him down for good.
• A Heist with Markiplier: Yancy is a charismatic Brooklyn Rage speaking inmate at the prison the protagonist is sent to. Yancy is one of the few characters in this "choose your own adventure" series to avoid the pitfalls that plague everyone here. Yancy can use his catchy musical number to convince the protagonist to join him in prison. If you reject his offer to stay in prison, Yancy will be defeated and wowed, he offers you help to escape, with rejection of that offer of help leading to you being defeated by him in a dance battle and accepting the offer leading to him in helping to guide you to escape from the prison. If he helps you escape, Yancy will elect to stay, stating he belongs there but is willing to give parole a shot later and eventually does in the sequel In Space with Markiplier where he thanks the protagonist for being his friend.
• Joel Haver's "Playing an RPG for the first time" (link) & "Playing an RPG for the second time" (link): Marshall seems to be Townton's beloved town rat, but is in truth a villainous fiend who seeks to control the kingdom. Hiding his true nature of a power hungry usurper for ages to win the love of the people, Marshall initiates his takeover by infiltrating the kingdom's prison and unleashing its criminals onto the lands, creating total chaos. Marshall then kidnaps the Old Man's son as a hostage and inexplicably obtains a gun that he uses to march on the castle and murder the king, laying claim to the throne before dueling Jacob in an epic final battle. Marshall was the most deadly, truly evil foe Jacob ever faced, even able to dance around Jacob's enemy-detection skills thanks to having no moral compass.
• The Jester Trilogy (by MakeDo Entertainment): The titular Jester is an enigmatic entity who has a burning passion for Halloween. In 'The Jester', he comes across a man who is unappreciative of his magic and gets the man into a compromising position before either killing or teleporting him away. In 'The Jester: Chapter 2', he comes across a couple where the boyfriend Nate, who while costumed is clearly unenthusiastic about talking to him before even giving him a chance. The Jester manipulates the girlfriend Steph into almost killing Nate. In 'The Jester: Chapter 3', the Jester strikes up a friendship with a little girl and protects her from a bully and then later easily outsmarts and defeats a man who was attacking him. Managing to be incredibly charming without saying a single word, the Jester proves himself to be an expert trickster.
• Leeds: The Jersey Devil is depicted as a protective and charming, but shady, feminine spirit of the forest; reputed for burning parts of the forest and the homes of loggers and their families. When Henry, a nature loving young boy is made to work under his pushy and controlling grandfather in deforestation, he runs away when the latter has an outburst. The Jersey Devil approaches Henry, and sways him in her way of thinking, showing him that she starts fires to replenish the forest. She offers Henry "freedom" in exchange for killing his grandfather; when Henry refuses, she does so herself behind his back, offering Henry a place to sleep. Reassuring Henry that they're doing the right thing, she takes him to a logging yard, preparing another fire.
• THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: President Dean is the 37th president of the United States, and despite not having particularly long ads or speeches, easily gains the trust of the American people, beating Nixon in a Landslide Election and then manages to convince him to race cars at the end of his inauguration, right after a quick bongo session. Those who strongly oppose him are sent to Special Trees to be swapped with their Alternate Universe counterparts or killed by a Psycho for Hire. Dean is able to manipulate his enemies and convince his friends as long as it benefits his goal, but isn’t anywhere near being against lighthearted fun or doing good, like when he attempted to heal an entire nation that was deformed after an attack by said strong opposition.
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy: Shang Tsung is a representative of Outworld. Entirely devoid of his canon counterpart's sadism and cruelty, Shang Tsung proves to be a brilliant and perpetually polite businessman who prides himself on professional courtesy. Introduced attempting to recruit failing movie star Johnny Cage, Shang Tsung adjusts his goals and looks higher upon failure. Conversing with Earthrealm's former savior Liu Kang, who previously defeated and decapitated him, Shang Tsung never once lets his civil demeanor slip. Shang Tsung manages to use Liu Kang's grief over his girlfriend's death and his increasingly ruthless nature to turn Liu Kang to the side of Outworld. Liu Kang proceeds to intervene in the tournament and provide Outworld a massive advantage, all thanks to Shang Tsung's manipulations.
• Nerf John Wick (Link): John Wick himself is a master of Gun Kata whose quick thinking and strong arsenal make him unstoppable. Upon learning of a massive bounty being placed on him, John quickly arms himself and his hideout to the teeth, going on the offensive to take out the goons invading his place. With such creative and quick tactics as catching a bullet out of the air, throwing an empty magazine at an opponent to distract them, stealing an opponent's magazine for his own gun, and cocking a gun with a goon's body, John systematically takes down everyone who comes his way, ending the video ready to take on the entire underworld.
• The Onion videos:
  • "Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation": Chad Carter is an 8-year-old with leukemia who, after finding a loophole on the Make-A-Wish Foundation charter, decided to wish for unlimited wishes. Now gaining whatever he wants, Chad's wishes are costing the foundation 5 times its annual budget, with him being uncaring that it could lead to it filing for bankruptcy. When interviewed, president of the foundation Dean Feinglass answered that when Chad found out they had a legal team, he just wished them away, and that he wished to have the best oncology care possible from them to continue wishing as long as possible.
  • "The Onion Reviews 'Interstellar'": The terrible truth of Christopher Nolan is his stealing of Peter K. Rosenthal's film ideas. When Peter presented him with Interstellar for feedback, Nolan stole the film, returning the case with a copy of The Prestige and passed Interstellar off as his own movie while getting the entire cast and crew to go along with it. Having previously stolen Inception, Nolan still manages to have Peter consider him a friend despite constantly stealing his films.
• PAYDAY 2: The Web Series: Bain is once again the host of Crime.Net, and is as brilliant, if more ruthless, as ever. Organizing a successful heist on the First World Bank, he then pulls strings to deal with the resulting publicity from it, hiring assassins and contracts to kill anyone who could threaten his operation. When one cop tries to bust Crime.Net, he has a mole infiltrate the police department to keep her in check, discovering that she has a GPS tracker for Vlad and warning him of her in advance, resulting in him threatening her into dropping her investigation. Having the right connections for the job, Bain ends the series victorious, having gotten away with his crimes and seeking to continue them.
• Puppet History: The Genie is a mysterious figure who gave the Professor the ability to time travel. Realizing that the Professor's travels are inadvertently turning objects into puppets, the Genie began pursuing him through time in order to fix his mistake. When Ryan makes a deal with Satan to win an episode of Puppet History, the Genie uses the opportunity to have the Professor possessed and forces him to give up his time travel abilities before banishing him to the Cretaceous Period. All this while simultaneously luring all the puppets to a party where he removes their sentience, leaving the scene victorious. Returning later, the Genie willingly grants Ryan’s wish to return the Professor before parting with Ryan on good terms.
• The Scorpion's Tale (link): The Scorpion himself is in prison for planting a car bomb on a man and his lover. Remorseful for getting the lover killed, when his son visits the Scorpion says he shouldn't be there and for his son to not visit anymore. The warden of the prison comes and prepares to kill and dispose of the Scorpion, the story revealing that the warden was the one who set up the bombing. It is then revealed that this is a trap, the warden is subdued and forced to switch places with the Scorpion who walks out of the prison to meet his "son" who his is revealed to be an accomplice. He ends the short saying: "Debts are owed. It's our job to collect."
• So Pretty and So Dark: Sean is a charismatic vampire with a conscience who isn't above being vicious towards those who truly deserve it. Killing a pedophile, Sean lets himself get arrested in order to lure in FBI agent Wilburn in order to confirm the immoral actions she has committed against his kind. Exploiting a woman's desire for vampirism to overcome her drug addiction into freeing him, Sean forcibly vampirizes Wilburn after she kills the woman, and leaves her out in the sun to burn, finally avenging his fallen kin.
• Vinyl Thieves, by Blake Magician: Keyes is Otto’s loyal partner in crime, regularly assisting him in his vinyl thefts using his charm and wits. As Otto hands over the recently stolen golden record to his client, Keyes, knowing that the police are watching with intent to kill him, barges in holding the client at gunpoint to allow Otto to escape with the record. Keyes hands the client his gun, only to reveal it’s been emptied earlier, for which the client is mistaken for Otto and sniped by the police. Despite being caught by the tailing cop, Keyes faces death with dry humor and acceptance.
• The Whitest Kids U' Know's "Sniper Business": Mr. Welburn is a hilariously ruthless, business minded corporate overlord. When his rivals at Bergman-Sachs hire a sniper to kill him, Welburn uses the situation as an opportunity to espouse his business ideals and rhetoric to his employee Jenkins while deftly outmaneuvering the sniper. Sacrificing a hapless intern to distract and kill the sniper, Welburn then uses more weaponry and stoicism in the face of danger to negotiate a truce with his rivals, considering the entire ordeal just another part of running a business and having no hard feelings about the situation.

Others

Examples

• Good Doctor Locklear: Patient 399/Doctor Locklear was a doctor who became a Serial Killer of criminals and "sinners" who got off scot-free thanks to the system's incompetence so he could collect and use their organs to save innocent people who couldn't afford treatment. After being locked up, Locklear engineers a scheme to escape, putting on a "good boy" act to earn the trust of the staff there as he worked toward his goal. Locklear ends the story escaping the Asylum planning to continue his "good work."
• Hard Drive's "10-Minute Standing Ovation Just Long Enough for Tom Hanks to Go Through Audience Members’ Bags": Tom Hanks himself, having grown bored of his complacent life as a famous actor, takes up a new high of pickpocketing audiences and celebrities at events for thrills. Able to attend festivals uninvited and steal countless items by taking advantage of his reputation as a beloved actor with an iconic filmography, Hanks sets his sights on the 79th Annual Venice International Film Festival, exploiting the festival's overly long standing ovations by stealing from everybody none the wiser, even boasting his skills as a thief to a reporter.
• Reddit's Biggie Smalls song converted into Short Story form by college kid, tribute to the Notorious B.I.G: In this short internet story based on the late rapper's song, the Notorious B.I.G. aka Frank White and his childhood friend Arizona Ron are gangsters planning to steal from other criminals Frank was supposed to make a deal with. Hoping to escape crime with the stolen money and take care of his two daughters in Frank's case, the duo reacch the motel where the former is supposed to meet the other criminals. Coming to the criminals' room, Frank and Ron set aflame kerosene, forcing the criminals to get out of the room, and killing them the second they flee, in order to make sure there wasn't a trap inside the room. Taking all the money inside the room, Frank and Ron took advantage of the activated smoke alarms to hide amongst the panicked crowd, unnoticed by the criminals' reinforcements. Successfully escaping the motel in their car, Frank and Ron got away in their car with little comeuppance for their deeds.
• RPC Authority's Cosmic Embers Alternate Continuity: GRP-002-A is a god-like entity who existed only for a fraction of a second at the beginning of the universe. In that short time, however, he predicted everything that would happen in the universe, and so formulated a plan to achieve "rebirth". Creating some orbs who allow others—or rather, perfect copies of them—to go back in time to the moment he was still alive, GRP-002-A granted wishes to those he encountered to further reach his goals, mainly doing this with the Karza and the GRPC. While GRP-002-A is willing to harm innocents to obtain what he wants, he's also able to do good and overall demonstrates to be genuinely affable when interacting with others.
• SCP Foundation:
  • SCP 2137: The ghost of Tupac Shakur, fights corruption from beyond the grave, using music to communicate with the living. He got the Foundations attention when he urged one of his listeners to commit the vigilante slaying against a corrupt official and Serial Killer, who would have gotten away with it, providing evidence to exonerate his listener. He has the Foundation use their resources in his pursuit of justice, resulting in thousands of cold cases being solved, escaped killers being arrested or killed, and even the recovery of dangerous SCP's. When the Foundation decided he had too much power over his containment, they try to suppress him; Tupac's response was to release an album to the public, exposing the Foundation, their dirty secrets, and the location of a dangerous SCP, causing the Foundation to scramble to control the damage, following Tupac's demands. A researcher would uncover a obscured interview where Tupac implies he's actually an otherworldly being "on vacation", and that he even is pursuing the Scarlet King himself, outright calling him a "bitch who knows his days are numbered".
  • Murphy Law is a crafty Reality Warper who invades written narratives and turns them into Film Noir scripts, something he uses to his advantage. In his first appearance, Murphy invades the article for SCP-3043, stopping the malevolent Typewriter from rewriting reality by swiftly derailing its story and killing it afterwards. When the foundation tries to contain him later on by deconstructing his character, rendering him powerless, Murphy manages to will his powers back and escape by deconstructing the Foundation itself, revealing to his researcher that they too are fictional, leaving the Foundation hesitant to act against it for the time being.
  • The scholar with a head resembling that of a rabbit is one of the faeries residing within "Taboo"/SCP-4000. Desiring to return to the outside world, the scholar befriends Dr. Eugene Japers with his knowledge and gentlemanly demeanor, only to trick him into letting him steal his identity, allowing the scholar to happily leave the forest without fear of Foundation interference.
  • SCP-3992's Extended Test Log: Hans Gruber remains the suave planner he was in the original film. Taking over Nakatomi Plaza, Gruber quickly responds to the SCP-3922-A's attempting to kill him by tricking the police into attacking them, getting both of his back and reducing SCP-3922-A to 5 members. Only loosing due to McClane's last minute intervention in 3922's favor, Gruber stands out as one of 3922's most resilient targets.
  • The Meaning Of Fear: The seemingly harmless SCP-2006 is revealed to be far more intelligent than initially anticipated. A shape-shifting being that thrives off of fear, it plays along with the Foundations assumption that it thinks people are scared by B-Movies, enjoying the foundation's fears that it'll one day discover what true fear is. While conversing with a researcher, he subtly reveals his deceptions to her, correctly anticipating that she'll catch on and be horrified by the realization before politely allowing her to leave, getting in one genuine scare on the way.
• Whatever you do... stay out of the Disney vault: Dr. Disney is the Villain Protagonist of the in-universe film the Creepypasta focuses onto. A brilliant scientist working for the American government, Disney comes to the conclusion that humanity is a purely evil species harmful to Earth. After getting court-martialed and publicly shamed for his extreme scientific methods, Disney is approached by the Soviets, who offer him a hidden underground laboratory to conduct his experiments in exchange of whatever he creates belonging to them. After accepting, Disney secretly creates three anthropomorphic animals named Mickey, Donald and Goofy before giving the Soviets a biological weapon called "Fantasia", telling them that it will destroy all their enemies while also giving them the means to spread a non-existent cure. The weapon destroys all of humankind, Soviets included, while also mutating most animals. Disney spends his last moments in the underground laboratory with his three creations, telling Mickey that he'll serve as this new world's leader while stating that he himself has no longer place in the world because it no longer belongs to him. After an emotional goodbye, Disney lets his three creatures kill him, with Earth's new inhabitants worshiping him as a god after his death.

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