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DCUO Joker

Assists Falcone in a gang war against Penguin by bringing in Joker explosives and Apokolyptian weapons

Has the player blow up cop cars and patrolmen

Contaminates venom supplies on the street and has Bane's guys overdosed just to see what happens

Has the police in the funhouse both gassed and set on fire

Releases Clayface in the SCU, destroys their mainframe, has their exobytes stolen, then gasses their party

Goes after T.O. Morrow before going back to Brainiac

Captures an audience full of people, then executes a row of them for no reason before gassing all of them

Brainiac

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Standard Brainiac ritual of bottling cities then destroying the planets

Uses his exobytes to strip metahumans of their powers

Uses the Queen Bee's HIVE to recover his exobytes, who uses her pollen to create her own mind controlled army

Comes close to bottling Gotham city after capturing citizens to digitize them

Captures the data in Brother EYE for data on all the superpowers people

Creates a robotic copy of Joker that goes after the real one

Lex Luthor

Has the Metahuman hospital wing conducting illegal experiments with Doctor Psycho - including implanting them with a chip that makes them easier to capture

Is willing to leave his scientists to HIVE if they fail him

Helps out with Gorilla Grodd's entire plan, including vaporizing STAR Labs employees and destroying their generators, forcefully devolving humans into gorillas, and ultimately taking out both Flashes

Helps Sinestro take on the Green Lanterns, including letting him think the Lanterns are the ones sabotaging his rings and having the protagonist outright kill many of them

Gathers information on Superheroes through Brother Eye, including killing several OMAC victimsReleases Sinestro from prison, including having the protagonist blow up cars and terrorize civilians to charge up their rings

Felix Faust

Steals dozens of souls from the Gotham University

Sabotages the resurrection spell for Isis to steal Black Adam's power - it makes the protagonist have to kill her again

Magnificent Bastard:

Jane Doe

Jane connects Victoria to Lucien and goes to him, then escapes Hell with Alex

Jane drags Maria to the woods, finds Alex's phone, takes down the kelpie by bombarding it with psychic energy

Finds Alex, who tracks Clara's phone to find the Lodge

Jane taunts the Wolf into letting her inside, then later comes up with the "plan" to sell Lucien out on the spot

Helps take the Wolf down and helps incriminate and arrest Marcus, having put together the pieces herself

Second book:

Jane forces her mother to testify against Marcus, sending her to witness protection

Jane saves Alice's life and kills the Griffon

Jane sees a vision of the future then quickly saves Lucien's life - Lucien quickly has her taken down and breaks the weapon, then Jane bombards her with visions of Hell

Jane and Alex banish a specter from Jones' hotel room - Jane outright says the best part of keeping Clara alive was because she's useful

Jane tells Robyn about her mother, and keeps to her theory about Robyn's father even when Robyn disagrees - but she manages to persuade her against killing her mother

Jane proves knowledgeable about death magic and how spirits "age", then lets Yolanda talk to her son to get her to help and lies about which religions are correct with a Star Wars quote

Jane calls down a storm as the battle with the Seven breaks out

Jane kills the Visigoth when it puts its guard down

Jane exercises Judith and contemplates killing David to save Yolanda

Jane disarms Andy Taylor - says she'll pistol whip him, then kills Dave the unicorn

Jane quickly adapts to the second test, changing the water around her to magic and becomes the god of the area

Jane takes Robyn's life and feelings and forces them into the Dryad

Jane stalls Jones then attacks after Robyn distracts him and breaks the Devil Gun

Jane brutally kills Marcus with a voodoo doll, taking her time exploding his heart

Third book:

Jane realizes the Stranger is bad just before he shoots Lucien - she asks Emma to shoot through her

Jane manages to defeat the stranger again

Jane ends up stabbed and in hell, then just snarks about having a pitchfork and attacks Phillip

Jane escapes from the boggart by stabbing it in the eye with her heel, then fights Shears despite the power disparity

Escapes from the slaugh nurses who almost cremate her before Lucien guns them down

Jane catches Alice and Preacher talking about restoring their master

Jane gets attacked and stabbed by Jesse, but she powers through and stabs her back, then restrains her with force and exercises her

Jane stabs Preacher during the confrontation, taking advantage of William's distraction, and manages to shoot her in the resulting confrontation - she proves willing to kill the Boogeyman's host to stop it

Jane gets desperate enough to heal Janet that she prays to Raguel for healing

Jane then manages to stall when Janet makes her move too early and exercises Alex while he fights from the inside - she then proceeds to actually dodge bullets

She stands up to Phillip right up to the bitter end no matter what he promises her, then smacks him with the book of Midnight and tells everyone to either attack or run away.

It's revealed that Jane sucks as a shaman so much because Kim Su was sabotaging her

Jane and Lucien leave Bright Falls, with Jeanine becoming Shaman

Short story:

Jane nonchalantly shoots Roland and Charlesmagne, then fights Roland one-on-one

Alex Timmons

Alex recruits Jane on the spot

Alex and Jane escape Hell

Alex tracks Clara's phone to find the Lodge

Few days later, Alex already knows about Judy's crimes and hides them from Lucien, then sends them to Kim Su

They take the Red Wolf down together

They coordinate to incriminate and arrest Marcus

Second book:

Alex sends hunters after Jane and Emma, then appears on the crime scene himself

Alex lies to Jones' face about not having the Merlin Gun

Alex resists Robyn's charm and sends her to Jane

Alex sends the hunters to Lucien to kill Jones and his cult - Lucien enchants everyone to stop the fight

Alex gets arrested for Jones' murder

It's revealed that Alex sends Yolanda and Larry after supernaturals that the FBI won't touch

Alex lets Clara believe he killed Jones and fixes Jane's rune

Alex encouraged Lucien's vengeance mission and killed supernaturals for years - no innocents, but people who didn't have to die

Alex rejects David's help while Jane informs him of her vision of his death

Jane and Alex banish a specter from Jones' hotel room

Alex apparently made a deal with the personification of America for protection

Alex recovers from his anger at Jane fast and calls Lucien to battle

Alex leads the group and realizes that the Seven are coming for Robin, then reveals that he and Lucien got Robyn's son to safety

Alex engages the Visigoth with his powers

Alex kills the other dragon with his magic

Alex sacrifices Steve Caldwell to save Yolanda, then guides Robyn and Jane into the Grove while Lucien guards it

Alex reveals that Andy's the Guardian of the Grove then heals him

Alex lies that Dave wasn't Robyn's biological father

Alex reveals he knew Phillip is actually alive and intends to beat Jones until he finds out where, then resists the Dryad's charm

Alex saves Kim Su as Jane fights Jones

Third book:

Alex and Lucien go on the warpath against Phillip off page, killing many of their agents and labeling him an enemy of the state

Lucien and Alex stay behind to fulfill Lucien's blood oath while Jane retreats

It's revealed that Alex imprisoned Phillip in Darkwater Lake

Alex is training Janet in sorcery to keep her away from Phillip - he sealed the book with his spirit away by stealing the true name of reality from Archangel Gabriel - he also already knew Samantha was alive

Lucien not only has his allies watch the cast and crew, but has his allies watch each other to cover his bases - he gives Jane a charmed amulet so she can sleep

Alex and Lucien team up to send Phillip to Hell

Lucien Drake

Lucien pulls his "recordings are porn" thing, Alex arrives not long after

Lucien helps gets Alex and Jane out of Hell, then arrives in the forest to help fight the Wolf

Lucien briefly attacks them on the Red Wolf's urging, but resists and is talked down

They take the Red Wolf down together

They coordinate to incriminate and arrest Marcus

Second book:

Lucien harvests Hell's energies for his nightclub, turning it into a den of consequence-free vice

Lucien quickly has Preacher taken down and breaks the weapon

Lucien reveals that he essentially rebuilt the town from the ground up, then shoots Anne's ear out and bonds her with her own chains to bargain with Clara

Lucien arrives in the forest with Gerald, having fudged the truth to get him there, enchanted to protect him from the sun

Lucien transforms and engages his fellow dragon

Lucien protects Judith and David from Jones' spirit

Third book:

Alex and Lucien go on the warpath against Phillip off page, killing many of their agents and labeling him an enemy of the state

Lucien comes up with a plan to make a movie to cover up for money laundering to pay off the vampires and recruits Jane for security

He got a restaurant by breaking the previous owner's hands - he maintains he had it coming

Lucien was wearing enchanted Kevlar and realizes the attacker was a slaugh (nightmare fae)

Lucien resets his arm like a champ

Lucien and Alex stay behind to fulfill Lucien's blood oath while Jane retreats

They go ahead with the movie plan, even after Lucien straight up says he'll kill Judy and hires Arthur Morgan as director

Lucien reveals he went to the Vampire Nation to cover Alice's debts

Lucien puts together that the unknown killer has access to his script and is a fan of Halloween, but shoots down Arthur due to pragmatism and is filming at the lake because it's easily defensible

Lucien not only has his allies watch the cast and crew, but has his allies watch each other to cover his bases - he gives Jane a charmed amulet so she can sleep

Lucien has been resisting Preacher's love spells

Lucien immediately deduces what happened with Alice and Preacher and reveals he survived a zombie attack

He then decides to go on the offensive to kill both Phillip and the evil god at once

Lucien reveals he saw through Preacher and just didn't know what to do, but is going to New Detroit to take more power

Lucien brushes off Janet's confession of her involvement because they need to stick to the plan - then walks through Hell to Alex

He is then not surprised when Janet is revealed to be Samantha, only to get shot.

Alex and Lucien team up to send Phillip to Hell

Raguel/The Merlin Gun

Encouraged Alex's vengeance fueled hunting spree, leading to his career as a hunter and Lucien's life of crime

Keeps Jane informed throughout their mission to kill Dr. Jones, including of his forces

Approves of Jane's use of Hell memories to fight Preacher

Encourages Jane to kill Marcus, but tells Jane to hold off on the Dryad

Manipulates Emma into picking it up to kill the Stranger

Leaves to go fight on behalf of Heaven in an upcoming battle, giving Jane some final encouragement before leaving.

He later answers Jane's prayers to heal Janet, expressing disappointment for using the Hell gun

When he comes back, he reveals that Bloody Mary's plans gave her a pyrrhic victory

William England

Nightmare on Elk Street

Appears as Lucien's prime accountant, unrepentant of the fact that he decides who is guilty and who is not

Reveals he knows about the deal between Phillip and the Boogeyman and intends to hunt down the doppelgangers

Kills Alice O'Henry for planning to kill the cast and crew, but gets shot by Preacher

Distracts Preacher for Jane to stab her, then grapples with the Boogeyman

Rupert Giles

Who is Rupert Giles? What does he do?

Is he Magnificent?

This guy is easily the smartest character in the entire show and maybe even the entire franchise.

Is he a Bastard?

This is perhaps the first character where is he a Bastard at all is the question since he’s one of the show’s heroes, but he’s definitely got the required ruthlessness to qualify. In no particular order, he:

Beats the hell out of a physically harmless noncombatant, Ethan Rayne, in order to make him reverse his spell

Lets the group think Angelus has returned in order to suss out Faith

Suffocates Ben, a Tragic Villain whose only crime was wanting to get away from Glory, while he’s already been rendered harmless, in order to take Glory with him

Uses Faith as an assassin against a rogue Slayer

Orchestrates an attempt to kill Spike after he’s already gotten his soul back and wants to redeem himself

Puts the entire world in danger in order to defeat Dark Willow

Tortures one of Glory’s mooks, albeit with a discretion shot, in order to make him talk. Keep in mind that all of them are Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains

Threatens to burn down a benevolent demon’s workplace in order to make him cooperate

Is the only one willing to sacrifice Dawn if it means saving the world on Glory’s Big Day

So yes, he is most definitely on the side of good, but he has more than enough ruthlessness to qualify, especially with his Dark Willow gambit.

Any mitigating factors?

So here’s the thing - at the beginning of his run, Giles is more than useless. He’s a British stick in the mud who, while trying his best, tends to get knocked unconscious more than he helps. However, if there were a single character who defines the idea of growing into this over time, it is Rupert Giles.

Final verdict?

An absolute yes from me - what about you?

Reverend Gene Purdy

Has Dana following Johnny after he wakes from his coma, using him to spread the faith in a higher power

Uses Dana to spread recruitment for the Faith Heritage Alliance

Covered up Vera's death to protect her legacy

Calculator

Releases the protagonist from Brainiac's captivity, then helps them escape the ship

Serves as Mission Control for the villains, including during missions where he clearly realizes the flaws in the plan

Guides the protagonist through Intergang, including taking out cameras and ultimately getting the Crime Bible

Helps decrypt the Batman-level Brother Eye logs to use the info in them against Oracle

Manages to get you to one of Brainiac's hideouts, using Brainiac's codes against him

Manages to circumvent the Monitor and send a robot to fight the Batman Who Laughs

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A ray of hope

One of the oceanic survivors has latent psychic abilities and a suspicious background; Ben Linus is extremely concerned that it means she's more special than him—- a threat to his power. He might have to get rid of her. But there’s an undeniable connection between the two, an eventual fragile trust, and compassion. A team-up between the wary allies may be exactly what The Island wants.

— Archive of Our Own summary

A ray of hope is a Lost fanfic written by baroquedreamss. In it, the author adds three original characters to the story: Melissa Sharpe, Natália, and Bruna, a trio of thieves who were once investigating the mythical story of the Island only to end up crashing on it on Oceanic Flight 815. After largely spending their time minding their own business within the group, they get irrevocably entangled in the conflict with the Others when Melissa starts making friends with Henry Gale, the fake identity of Benjamin Linus.

The story can be read here at Archive of Our Own.

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Adaptational Context Change: In the show, the apparition of Christian that appears in Jacob's cabin is never explained, even after the reveal that the Man in Black can take the form of dead people. Here, it's confirmed to be the MIB manipulating Locke into moving the Island in order to put the candidates in danger.
Adaptational Villainy: In the show, while Ben killing Keamy also killed everyone on the Freighter, he was still portrayed very sympathetically, as he was blinded by rage over his daughter's death. Here, Alex survived the attack, so we get a very clear glimpse of his thought process as he knowingly condemns everyone on the Freighter to death as long as he can guess that Melissa isn't on it.
Armor-Piercing Question: After Ben and Melissa clear the air regarding their mutual stabbings and why Ben thought he was betraying her, she asks him a question that finally makes him actually think about himself: though she concedes that this incident was an accident, will he still feel just as jealous and angry if she actually hears Jacob's voice?
Contrived Coincidence: When Melissa and Ben are trapped in a tree during a boar attack, the boar keeping them there stays long enough for them to discuss their past and reconcile their relationship. The moment that they work everything out, the boar immediately leaves, with the narration noting that it's almost like the Island wanted them to reconcile.
Foreshadowing: When Ben kills Keamy, the narration mentions that out of Melissa, Nat, and Bruna, only two of them made it onto the helicopter. Two chapters later, we learn that Nat stayed behind for what she thought would be a brief period, only for the Island to move before the helicopter got back.
Green-Eyed Monster: After a lifetime of being Jacob's puppet and having to sacrifice everything, Ben gets insanely jealous at even the implication that he's showing favoritism to anyone other than him. Even the mere thought that he was reaching out to Melissa was enough to make him forsake his feelings for her and hold a gun on her.
Spanner in the Works: The Man in Black intends for Locke to move the Island, as Locke is the easiest to manipulate out of the group and moving the Island would endanger the candidates. Unfortunately for him, Ben interprets the instruction to mean that he needs to move it, which leaves Locke on the Island to eventually stabilize it before any more candidates can die.
What You Are in the Dark: After escaping the Island, Ben has the perfect chance to kill Gabriel guilt-free, since he's about to be targeted in a drive-by and all he has to do is just not do anything. However, he can't bring himself to let Melissa be hurt again and saves his life.
Xanatos Speed Chess: As always, the Man in Black is an expert at adapting his plans on the spot. In particular, when Melissa goes to enter the cabin with Locke (which would expose "Jacob" as an imposter), he quickly takes his smoke form, drags Nat away so that Ben and Melissa chase after her, then drops her in the jungle so he can quickly head back to the cabin and take Christian's form.

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