YMMV / Kill Shakespeare

• Complete Monster: King Richard III is the psychopathic main antagonist of the comic, behind much of the evil. Once gaining sapience after being created by Shakespeare, Richard slaughtered his entire royal family and took the throne for himself, and uses his position to brutally tax and starve his subjects while allowing his soldiers free rein to rape and murder as they please. With no tolerance for failure or resistance, Richard carves the eyes out of one of his troops for failing guard duty, has an entire village of a group of rebels burned and every male child executed, and buries one of his foes alive. In the end, Richard leads a final assault against the rebel forces known as the Prodigals, ordering Lady Macbeth to annihilate the enemy forces, uncaring that his own troops will be caught in the blast, and plans to murder Shakespeare and take his magic quill for himself, using it to rewrite reality and make himself a god.

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