Monster / [Work Name]

"Quote from a character doing something outstandingly heinous."

— Character

A tailor-made opening line saying these characters stand out as particularly vile.

Warning that all spoilers are unmarked:

• This character is an approved example, and the first sentence of this approved writeup gives a short description of the character. Opening with a dependent clause, the independent clause that follows explains the backstory of the character. Using multiple sentences, most of which start with a present participle or a conjunction of time even when such wording is clunky, the writeup goes on to describe the various evil acts committed by said character. Among the evil acts which are too numerous to list in this particular example include: evil act number 1; evil act number 2; evil act number 3; and evil act number 4. When they are necessary, the phrasal verbs "stands out" and "proves to be" are commonly included. This next sentence describes how the character compares to other, less heinous and more sympathetic characters. Closing with another dependent clause, this last independent clause makes a final remark about the character. Thank you for reading my essay.
• [Character] — See here for details.
• Complete Monster example which was posted here without asking on the trope's thread. Example is not actually that monstrous and/or is meant to be sympathetic, and was clearly added there to complain about the character.
• Unapproved Complete Monster example which is actually a 99% Monster (ie, they almost fit the criteria but fail one crucial point).
• Unapproved example that is not actually that monstrous, but the troper wants to make them look more evil, and therefore cooler, than they actually are.
• Name of alleged example with no elaboration whatsoever.
• Complete Monster example that has no spoiler markup, even though the rest of the page isn't Spoilers Off. The example reveals the villain's surprising identity and lists every murder and other spoileriffic acts committed by the character, completely spoiling the work for anyone who reads the YMMV page.
• Approved example with some unapproved edits.
• Complete Monster entry which does, in fact, fit all criteria, but was added by some newcomer unfamiliar with the voting process or too lazy to go through the necessary steps, at which point said entry will be deleted, grabbed by one of the thread's regulars, re-evaluated and discussed, before being reposted as an approved example (see above).
• Complete Monster entry which was approved, but have some error of grammars and tyops in it that no one bothered to correct during the draft phase, so you'll have to bring it up at the cleanup thread so it can be corrected both here and on the locked trope page.
• Complete Monster entry that misattributes villainous deeds to the character, and will probably get removed sooner or later.

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