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Witchblade (2000)

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  • Complete Monster:
    • Vorschlag Industries CEO Kenneth Irons is the cold-blooded Big Bad of the entire series, tormenting Sara Pezzini at every turn in his quest for the Witchblade. Throughout the first season, Irons is revealed time and again to be behind many of the show's villains, be it a government group that drugged and experimented on people to turn them into super-soldiers or a Mad Doctor who artificially inseminated several women to clone himself, until finally, Irons takes center stage, murdering all of Sara's friends and loved ones in a mad gambit to manipulate her into his servitude. When this fails, Irons acquires the Longinus Lance, using it to slaughter two of his own men who leaked his secrets after giddily displaying that he murdered their families for their "betrayal", and later attempts to cut Sara down then use the Lance to wipe out all who would stand against him. Returning from the grave as a spectral entity following his death at Sara's hands, Irons continues his machinations, influencing his son Ian Nottingham, who he has abused since childhood, into continuing his crusade against Sara, killing several bystanders in the process. In the finale, Irons's evil reaches its peak as he uses the website Cyberfaust to "download" himself into hundreds of people across America, then control them into committing vicious murders of all those nearby, claiming countless victims, adult and child alike. Kenneth Irons was the pinnacle of villainy in Sara's conflicts, with the only thing matching his eternal life being his depths of depravity.
    • "Nailed": In a series filled with magical foes, demonic entities, and insane immortals, Carl Dalack stands out as the sole ordinary foe Sara faces, yet nevertheless one of the most wicked. Dalack is a despicable Serial Killer and rapist of young teenage girls, who he tortures by ripping out their fingernails to satisfy his fetish for hands. Having claimed eight victims by the time he is released from police custody on a technicality, Dalack immediately begins stalking and terrorizing several young girls, mocking an entire class of them by reminiscing about some of his victims' screams, later killing one of these schoolgirls as the restart of his spree. To get revenge on Detective Danny Woo, the one who originally busted him for his crimes, Dalack kidnaps the man's young niece, molesting then preparing to torture and kill her just to hurt Danny, and, when Danny captures him once again, Dalack attempts to goad Danny into killing him to ruin both his conscience and his life.
  • Foe Yay Shipping: Sara and Kenneth Irons, Sara and Ian Nottingham.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Ken Irons crosses this irrevocably when he burns alive one man's wife and family and drowns another's wife and child just before killing them both for betraying him.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Jeffrey Donovan, who played Daniel Germaine in "Lagrimas", is now better known for his lead role as Michael Westen in Burn Notice.
  • Tear Jerker: In the first season, Anyone Can Die. Many of the deaths qualify. Special mentions go to the deaths of Conchobar and Joe Cirus.

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