YMMV / The American Way

• Complete Monster: This duo shows that even in a world with staged heroes, real villains exist:
  • Hellbent was a Serial Killer and cultist leader used for the American government as an assassin. Freed to kill Cuban ambassadors, Hellbent escapes from American control and murders an entire bus of anti-racist activists except the brother of Jason Fisher—the Afro-American Superhero New American—whom he left paralyzed. Confronted by the Civil Defense Corps, Hellbent manages to take the axe of superheroine Freya and uses it to kill her and injure her companion Pharos before running away. Having murdered at least one child in the meantime, Hellbent taunts Jason by giving clues about his location and trying to burn him alive when Jason finds him. A serial murderer driven for a love of death who admits to enjoying rape and child molestation in his very first appearance, Hellbent successfully taunts Jason to kill him by confessing to having raped his paralyzed brother.
  • Chet Sloan was the field director of the Civil Defense Control and a follower of the religion of Hellbent. Taking advantage of the apparition of Jason Fisher, Chet gives superpowers to a fake supervillain, driving him to madness and causing him to kill his family before attacking Jason and revealing his identity as a black person in order to cause racial tensions between the members of the CDC. Freeing Hellbent by using the excuse of killing Cuban ambassadors, Chet allows him to escape and start a killing spree, leading to him being killed for Jason to add more fuel to the racial tensions in the team. When the members of the CDC start fighting amongst themselves and the government decides to nuke them, Chet causes most of the missiles to go to the cities of Washington, New York and Atlanta, before trying to kill himself while talking about the paradise that awaits him in the afterlife. An egomaniac obsessed with himself, Chet denies having any altruist reasons by confessing that—in his own words—"I just get a jazz for killing."