"Marcus. Do you know how many men I've killed over the years? How many women I've taken? All these years, burning with hatred for me. And I don't even remember you! Or whoever this whore was you say I killed!"
— Damek, Blade: The Series
Given the source material, it comes as no surprise that television series based on Marvel contain diabolical doers of dastardly deeds.
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- Mason Eckhart, the conscienceless head of security for Genomex, starts the series off already guilty of the torture and experimentation on just under a thousand innocent people to create the superpowered New Mutants. Eckhart murders the mentor of his hated rival Adam Kane, and frames the man's death as an act of New Mutant terrorism to give him an excuse to begin the persecution of mutantkind. Those Eckhart can't coerce into joining Genomex are either killed or sent to the stasis pods; those podded remain excruciatingly aware of every second, with one victim likening it to being Buried Alive. Eckhart is also a horrible excuse for a boss who tortures, murders, or pods his minions for the slightest of failures, while simultaneously letting them torture and kill their way through entire buildings full of innocent people. Eckhart orchestrates a variety of schemes to try and exploit mutantkind, from a Poison and Cure Gambit meant to wipe out any New Mutants who don't surrender to his cure; to poisoning one of his own mercenary teams with an experimental super soldier serum that leads to the death of all but a few members. Long after his death, Eckhart's most heinous posthumous gambit is revealed near the series' end: Deciding that if he can't control mutantkind, then they didn't deserve to exist, Eckhart ordered a sleeper agent to round up all of mutantkind in a traveling death camp, then condemn their souls to eternal agony.
- "Sign From Above": Dr. Sarah Woolf is an alien commander who has discovered that mutant spinal fluid increases the power of her kind. Beginning to track down and kidnap mutants so as to painfully harvest their spinal fluid until they are dead, Woolf tries to subject multiple members of Mutant X to the harvesting when they interfere, and murders her human ally when he outlives his use. Woolf's master plan is to gain access to Mutant X's database of all mutants on Earth so she can hunt them down and harvest their spinal fluid, then use the power it grants her people to invade the entire Earth.
- "Hard Time": Warden Wallington, once a proponent of criminal reform, is now far more heartless than any of the convicts he has locked up. The Warden sets up prison deathmatches for profit, dosing his inmates up on drugs that leave them as frothing berserkers, before letting them duke it out and beat each other to death for the entertainment of spectators. The Warden has staged fifteen of these deathmatches in the last six months alone, and he's stopped just before he can set up a sixteenth with a captured member of Mutant X.
- "Where Evil Dwells": Lee Marker, the "Puzzle Killer", is the worst Serial Killer in the show. Already responsible for the murder of 30 women, Marker takes a sadistic delight in tormenting a psionic profiler named Andrea when she is tasked to interrogate him over a wake of apparent copycat murders. The "copycat" is in fact Andrea herself; Marker has been psychically corrupting Andrea during the interrogations to make Andrea his pet proxy killer, only for her to repress the murders every single time. Andrea finally kills Marker when she finds out the truth, which Marker uses as the prime opportunity to psychically bodyjack her, stealing her body so that he can resume killing for his own merriment.
- "Brother's Keeper": Charles Carter is a telekinetic mutant who was once Mason Eckhart's top officer for rounding up mutants to be experimented upon. Realizing there's more profits to be made with mutants, Carter begins a heinous mutant trafficking organization that deals in butchering mutants to sell their organs on the Black Market. Killing half a dozen mutants in his latest harvesting spree, Carter subjects his right-hand man to regular torture and threats of death for failure, and takes twisted glee in the trauma he inflicted on the mutant Leo.
- "Possibilities": Lawrence Bosch, CEO of Loire Industries, enjoys the suffering of others almost as much as he loves money. To create profitable pharmaceutical drugs, Bosch runs illegal tests on hundreds of people, using them as guinea pigs who more often than not die from the experiments; when Lexa found one of his labs, 40 people were dead, and Bosch murdered members of her team to escape. Bosch took in the time-traveling mutant Samantha when she was young so as to force her to use her powers to witness countless experiments on innocents, then rewind time so she could give the data to Bosch's scientists for altering the experiments. When he learns that Broder Biochem is about to release information that will render one of Loire's expensive drugs obsolete, Bosch plans to blow up Broder HQ and kill hundreds just to cover up their discoveries.
- "Age of Innocence": Dr. Henry Burns is a Mad Scientist obsessed with eternal youth. Under the banner of Project Immortalis, Burns kidnaps many World War II soldiers and subjects them to monstrous experiments that result in almost all of them dying horribly. Continuing to target veterans decades later, Burns injects the men with an anti-aging drug to monitor the results before they invariably die. When he finally unlocks the secret for youth in a drug, Burns happily tries to mass produce the chemical without care that each dosage requires a Human Sacrifice to function.
- "Dream Lover": Nolan Blackledge is a slimy, nebbish ex-Genomex scientist and seemingly the junior of a Big Bad Duumvirate between himself and the more assertive Sebastian. Behind closed doors, "Sebastian" is just a frontman, a mindless clone Nolam created both to hide behind and to embody every aspect Nolan lacks. Nolan uses this cloning technology to prop up his nightclub, kidnapping dozens of innocent women so he can make servile clones out of them. The real women are kept drugged up beneath the nightclub, while the clones are sold off as mindless high-class call girls—and, if necessary, directed to kill their own clients before self-terminating.
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- Blade: The Series:
- Brian Boone begins as a familiar of Marcus Van Sciver. A corrupt cop who cleans up the vampires' messes and helps deliver innocent humans to them to be drained, Boone is eventually betrayed by Marcus and fed to the newly turned Kira Starr. Awakening as a vampire and escaping, Boone kills every vampire and human around to cover his tail before slaughtering his way across the state, murdering almost everyone who crosses his path before kidnapping a young woman to offer to the House of Armaya's vicious leader Damek in return for sanctuary, then using another vampire as a shield when Marcus's team comes to kill him.
- Charlotte, Marcus's immediate superior in the House of Chthon, is a Pureblood vampire who resembles a young girl. Sanctioning the Aurora experiments with numerous vampires killed, Charlotte also enjoys frequently killing human infants to feed on. After surviving Marcus's assassination attempt, Charlotte kills numerous humans to turn them as Cannon Fodder against Blade before using her appearance to trick and drain a nearby detective.
- "Delivery" & "Angels and Demons": Damek of the House of Armaya is a greedy, thuggish mobster of a vampire who through his many centuries has killed countless people. In the late 1800s, Damek first met the then-mortal Marcus who refused to pay protection money. Damek proceeded to rape and murder Marcus's wife Isabelle, sending Marcus to be tortured and killed. Upon being confronted by Marcus, Damek reveals he has raped and killed so many, he cannot even remember Marcus or Isabelle, laughing at the irony of Marcus burning with hate for him over a century.
- The Incredible Hulk (1977):
- "The Snare": Michael Sutton became bored with hunting animals, and so decided to start Hunting the Most Dangerous Game. He finds whatever men he can and invites them over to his own island, only to drug them to sleep and put them through deadly obstacles as he hunts them down, succeeding at least 5 times, and seeing it all as a "game"; he intends to do the same to David Banner. It's implied that the reason he's so successful is because he doesn't play fair, a fact David calls him out on, insisting that a real hunter plays fair and that all Sutton cares about is winning. When Sutton discovers David's inner beast, he becomes obsessed with it and tortures David with the intent of bringing it out and killing it, only to kill himself by accident. At the end of the episode, it turns out even in death Sutton can't stand losing, as it's revealed he booby trapped David's escape boat in preparation for the hero's victory. Ruthless, psychotic, and a cheater at his own game, Michael Sutton was unlike any other villain on the show, who were motivated by either tragedy or simple financial gain.
- "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk": La Fronte is a ruthless mercenary whose rap sheet includes everything from political assassinations to outright mass murder. Hired to kill the Hulk for a large payday, La Fronte deduces that he's David Banner and schemes to anger him enough to get him to hulk out, planning to kill him in his enraged form. To provoke him, La Fronte attempts to massacre a laboratory's worth of innocent scientists, trying to burn them all to death; when his horrified Dragon tries to intervene, La Fronte guns him down without a second of remorse.
- Legion (2017)'s "Chapter 14": In one of the Alternate Universes the episode focuses on, Amahl Farouk—the Shadow King—succeeds in his goal to utterly corrupt David. Having tormented David since youth, Farouk sways him into using his powers to get ahead in the corporate world, reading minds and manipulating those around him. Eventually becoming the richest man on Earth and "uniting" all of humanity under him as subservients whom he keeps under constant psychic surveillance, Farouk has David keep his old boss around as an assistant just to mistreat her; tortures his sister Amy's mind until her nose bleeds in a petty show of power; and keeps a posse around him of men and women implied to be a psychically enslaved harem.
- Spider-Man (Japan):
- Professor Monster is the alien leader of the Iron Cross Army, leading them on a crusade of death and terror throughout the galaxy that led to the destruction of Planet Spider and all the misery in the show that follows in his subsequent schemes to take over Earth. Monster creates Machine BEMs by having innocents kidnapped and transformed into monsters which kill dozens, even unleashing some on their loved ones, while enforcing a no-witness policy that kills dozens more, Takuya Yamashiro's father included. Throughout the series, Monster attempts to create an army of modified humans by subjecting countless people to torturous experiments, resurrecting those who die numerous times; attempts to annihilate all the major cities in Japan with missiles, and separately attempts to annihilate Tokyo simply as his four-hundredth "anniversary" on Earth; reveals he maintains his immortality by harvesting and drinking the blood of countless people; attempts to unleash a lethal nerve gas on the Interpol building, having it tested on people the Iron Cross has trapped in debt slavery; tortures and abuses his minions, even sacrificing a base full of them; and finally attempts to wipe out every major city in the world to take over whatever remains, even murdering his commander Amazoness for having failed him.
- The Amazoness is the savage right-hand of Professor Monster and a brutal, unforgiving woman who embodies a Child Hater killer. Carrying out Professor Monster's wicked demands, Amazoness leads attacks to kill countless civilians and murder the innocent while setting up a cult to sacrifice others to Professor Monster. When Takuya begins getting involved with helping children, Amazoness is always there to try to murder them, starting with her attempt to gouge out a little girl's eyes, attempting to use nerve gas on a little boy after practicing its use on adults, trying to burn a child alive, and trying to blow up a packed amusement park and leading terrorist attacks through Tokyo while gloating one targeted building has eight thousand people in it. Amazoness is also fond of torture on captives, while later capturing martial artists to fight death matches to determine who will be turned into Professor Monster's machine slaves, with her greatest ambition being to assist in utterly annihilating humanity for the Iron Cross army to rule the remainder.
