Old Complete Monster cleanup thread
Welcome to the new Complete Monster (CM) cleanup thread! This thread is where we clean up or cut already-existing entries.
If you're looking to add new entries, please see the approval thread
.
IMPORTANT: Before you begin any discussions on this thread, please see the Frequently Asked Questions and Common Requests List. Here, you'll find explanations of the criteria for the trope as well as our rules/procedures for approving and cutting candidates.
What goes through this thread?
- Cut requests. If you believe a CM has been approved and they do not count, this thread is where you propose their removal. To know how to go about this, please see the FAQ folder on the Administrivia page, where the process is explained in detail.
- If we ever need to consider cutting multiple examples without individually reviewing them (e.g. if we discover widespread plagiarism with a particular troper's CMs), the initial discussion will be on this thread and we'll then escalate to the mod team (as described here
) to get a formal consensus if we decide to recommend a mass cut.
- If an entry was put on the wrong subpage/YMMV page, you may propose where they should be moved to.
- Full rewrites of existing entries, including expansions, trims, and ground-up rewrites. If your rewrite is approved by the thread, feel free to add it to the drafts page so that other users can check grammar and the like before it is included with the rest of the weekly swaps.
- If an entry on a work's YMMV page doesn't match the entry on the media subpage, you can bring it here to discuss which entry works better.
What does not go through this thread?
- New candidate proposals - as stated before, those are done on this thread
.
- Unapproved wicks - if a Troper encounters either of these kinds of wicks, they can be cut with no approval.
- Any CM link on a non-YMMV page - as a YMMV trope, it should not be linked on those pages regardless of any cleanup effort. The only exception is if the wick is being used within the definition of another trope.
- If an CM link on a YMMV page refers to an unapproved character. If it refers to an approved character on any such page, the wick can stay. On the other hand, if the unapproved character being linked to sounds like they might have promise (and you don't feel like checking it out for yourself), feel free to mention it on the approval thread - someone may already know why they don't count, or it could invite a brand new discussion!
- Proposals for images, quotes, and videos of already-approved CMs - quotes and images are proposed on the approval thread
, while videos can be uploaded normally as they are screened for approval by the moderation.
- Crosswicking examples to YMMV pages - if an example has already been approved and added to the main page, you do not require any special permission to add the example to a work's YMMV page (assuming the work has a page already). If a YMMV page doesn't exist yet, then you can make it yourself, but either way, feel free to just add the example without asking.
- Small changes to existing entries - these can simply be done on a Troper's own prerogative with no approval.
- Spelling and grammar fixes.
- Pothole changes.
- Minor rewordings.
- Spoiler tags.
While these changes do not require any kind of approval, it is requested that should you make any of these changes, you do one of the following:
- Make the same changes on the relevant Sandbox page, then add the Sandbox to the list at the bottom of the drafts page. This will add the Sandbox to the weekly swaps and ensure that the edits end up on the relevant locked page. If the Sandbox is already listed, then once you make the edits, your job is already done!
- If you don't know how the Sandboxes work or simply don't have the time to find it, then you can simply post on the thread about the changes you made. Someone else can then make the edit on the relevant Sandbox and add it to the weekly swaps.
- Alternatively, you can simply request that the change be made directly to the locked page on the Locked Pages thread
. Members of this thread keep track of that one, so we will ensure that the changes are made in the Sandbox so that it doesn't get deleted during the next swap.
Again, these changes don't require any approval, but we prefer to keep the entries on the YMMV pages and the locked pages the same in order to avoid any miscommunication or errors between entries, so if you do make the change, we would greatly appreciate it if you could ensure the change is made on the locked page as well.
As a final note, we do not care what other sites have to say regarding whether or not a character counts. We have our own criteria and they have theirs for their CM equivalents; while they are similar, they are not exactly the same and should not be treated as such. Another site removing a character from their equivalent should not be a reason why a cut is proposed here, and if this is the case, it will likely lead to mod intervention.
Other than this, once again, welcome to the cleanup thread, and we look forward to your contributions!
Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 14th 2024 at 11:30:03 AM
Monster Live Action TVG To O is now added. Though FYI, anyone can add to that.
Edited by ACW on Jul 29th 2023 at 6:16:20 AM
Who are counting as an X-Men villain in the Other Section in Marvel literature?
Isadjo is both an X-Men and Star Trek villain. There are the Chaos Engine villains, Selene from the Legacy Quest. There are 3 Wolverine villains: Baron Strucker, Dan Wilson and Dr. Falco. Lobe from the Xavier Institute novel counts as an X-Men villain.
I counted the Chaos Engine duo, Legacy Quest, the Xavier's Institute novel, and the three Wolverine titles. I didn't count the X-Planet thing because it linked to Star Trek so it didn't immediately catch my eye as an X-Men property, but if it's X-Men we can add that too and make it seven
Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on Jul 29th 2023 at 6:39:48 AM
Is there someone who can offer to rewrite the Bomberman entries
?
Forgive me for my unfamiliarity with Bomberman, but while I have no objections with Buggler and Sirius, I don't think Bagura is played with the requisite gravitas for this trope—mainly due to graphical limitations.
His attempted Colony Drop on Planet Bomber in Bomberman '94 is depicted as a mostly static animation with no dialogue to gauge the destructive scope
—it's hard to tell it's even a Colony Drop. And none of the other crimes mentioned in his writeup seem like they'd pass baseline.
Bagura's writeup did forget to mention that he threatens to destroy the five planets with laser blasts
in Super Bomberman 3...but again, this is too graphically simplistic to have proper gravitas.
Again, I'm unfamiliar with the Bomberman series, but it's some food for thought.
Edited by ShootingStar7X on Jul 29th 2023 at 9:14:34 AM
Otherwise known as SolemnStormcloud.
Not really sure what you mean by "due to graphical limitations" or "this is too graphically simplistic to have proper gravitas". These are way more complicated graphically than the NES Ninja Gaiden games and those have a couple of candidates up. It's not actually a question of "graphics", it's a question of whether or not it's generic villainy.
Edited by Mediamagician on Jul 29th 2023 at 9:37:00 AM
Here’s a small fix of Jeremiah Otto’s Wrietup:
- "Wrath" through "Children of Wrath": Jeremiah Otto Sr. is the racist and abusive patriarch of the Otto family, and created the Broke Jaw Ridge on the land of the stolen Natives. Jeremiah lynched several Natives, including Qaletaqa Walker's father and uncle, before the outbreak, and after the apocalypse, allows a bloody war between his Broke Jaw Ridge and the Hopi Tribe. A seemingly reasonable family man, it's revealed that Jeremiah is an prideful and stubborn man who is willing to let all his friends and family die just to prevent himself from apologizing to Walker and surrendering, and refuses to atone for his actions, caring more for himself than the safety of anyone else.
Alright this'll be quick. The quotes for Magazines, Music, Mythology and Table Top games are all good to stay IMO. The only one I think is at least bringing up is this one in Table Top:
Seems more of a Badass Boast but what say you guys?
What's wrong D-16? Rise up!Yes it looks more like a Badass Boast, sounds more like Evil Is Cool than loathsome.
Might want to find some Abbaddon Bile or Typhus quotes if there are any.
Edited by Mr-ex777 on Jul 30th 2023 at 8:27:11 PM
- Mutafukaz: Bruce Macchabée is a human sociopath working for the Macho aliens as their top hitman. Having murdered Angelino's mother in the past, Bruce obeys the orders from Mr. K by indulging in extreme violence, apathetic to any sort of collateral damage—best exemplified when Bruce turned the entire neighborhood of Palm Hills into a warzone in his attempts to capture Angelino. Not even his own allies are safe from him, as Bruce tries to kill Mr. K's daughter for standing up to him.
- Yakedo Shoujo, by Kantetsu & Yuu Satomi: In this twisted love story about death, this duo are primarily responsible of the miseries of the protagonists:
- Tsugumi Himeno is a cheerful man who takes joy in ruining the lives of others and watching their struggles. Having met Shiina when she was a little girl, Tsugumi encouraged her obsession with death and burned one of her eyes to test it. Years later, Tsugumi rapes Azami, causing her to commit suicide, and meets Kaname—Shiina's new boyfriend—while trying to check out Azami's suicide. Deciding to "help" Kaname, Tsugumi visits his mentally ill mother and drives her to suicide, considering her corpse to be a surprise gift to Kaname. When Kaname confronts him, Tsugumi mocks his conflicted feelings regarding his mother's death and criticizes him for not sharing Shiina's desire to fulfill a Suicide Pact.
- The father of Kaede Tohbuki—Kaname's friendly ex-girlfriend—is a sadist who equates sex and violence after having watched a beautiful but bruised woman. Initially using his wife as the outlet for his violent fantasies until she abandoned him, Tohbuki used his daughter Kaede as replacement and turned her into a Sex Slave subject to constant beatings. When Kaede returns from a sleepover in the house of a friend, she finds a woman whose face was mauled by her dad. Even after being killed by Kaede, the trauma caused by her father's abuse leads to Kaede trying to kill herself after having debated it for years.
- Exandria Unlimited: Calamity: Asmodeus, the Lord of Hells, was once a celestial who was imprisoned alongside the other Betrayer Gods for trying to exterminate mortalkind. When the mage Vespin Chloras tried to usurp him, Asmodeus reduced Vespin to a mindless, flayed, enslaved puppet who he then used to release himself and the other Betrayer Gods from their prison. Around the same time, Asmodeus began to appear to the paladin Zerxus Ilerez in dreams and visions, presenting himself to Zerxus as a wounded and misunderstood victim of circumstance in order to play to the paladin's own belief in redemption and feelings of alienation and mistrust and manipulating Zerxus into bringing him all the way into the Material Plane. Once Asmodeus is freed, he kills Zerxus three times within the span of one second while delivering a blistering monologue about how he has always hated mortals and his intent to imprison and torment all mortalkind and the other gods for eternity, then threatens Zerxus's son unless the paladin agrees to become his champion. During the later days of the Calamity, Asmodeus repeated the same trick on the goddess Raei, convincing her that he was redeemable and setting up a meeting between the two that resulted in him and his followers massacring all of her worshippers, to the point that her faith is only just starting to recover centuries later in Campaign 1.
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns:
- Part 1: The Mutant Leader is a vicious gang boss who uses his "mutants" to terrorize Gotham City for the sheer sake of violence. Having his mutant gang commit all sorts of massacres, slayings, and crimes across Gotham, the Mutant Leader eventually has his men begin kidnapping young children for ransom, then brutally murder the kids even when the ransoms are paid. The Mutant Leader's ultimate plan is to march on Gotham and kill countless people in a quest to decapitate Commissioner James Gordon and parade his head through the streets. When captured by Batman, the Leader responds by ordering his mutants to raze the entirety of Gotham to the ground while he personally tears out the throat of the city's mayor when he tries to negotiate peace talks with the Leader.
- Part 2: The Joker is Batman's greatest nemesis, already a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of over 600 people before he fell into a catatonic state with the Dark Knight's retirement. Awakening after his obsession returns to disband the mutants, the Joker manipulates his way onto a popular talk show where he proceeds to murder his psychologist on live television before gassing the entire audience, agonizingly killing over 200 people with his deadly Joker Venom. After brainwashing a Congressman to his death, the Joker attacks the Gotham fair, where he has his minions attempt to bomb a roller coaster ride when Batman arrives. The Joker delights in causing wanton violence as Batman gives chase, from assaulting random people to taking a teenage girl and a young boy hostage, before escalating to simply shooting whomever he comes across. When his horrific massacres drive Batman to partially snap his neck in a rage, the Joker merely delights in how they'll meet again in Hell and finishes the job himself, laughing all the while over how the authorities will kill the Dark Knight for his "murder".
- Morgion, Lord of the Bronze Tower, is one of the cruelest of the evil pantheon. A cold misanthrope who believes every mortal should suffer before the end, Morgion advocates disease and pestilence to plague mankind and forces his agents to spread them under threat of being consumed by his illnesses should they fail. Rarely associating with others, Morgion uses the Minotaur Wars to attempt to usurp the Minotaur race in Takhisis's absence. Spreading a mass plague to kill countless followers of the heroic Faros Es-Kalin, Morgion advocates endless sacrifice and death with intent to make the Minotaurs his race to spread plague and wipe out all life while boasting he is the end of all things.
- Onysablet the Living Darkness, better known as "Sable", is the Black Dragon Overlord who participates in the Dragon purge to build a totem. Overrunning civilized land to kill numerous innocents, Sable kidnaps countless innocents to subject them to horrific experiments. Known for her scientific depravity, Sable has innocents regularly abducted to be transformed into her abominations while expanding her domain. Assisting Malystryx in her own monstrous plans, Sable plots to ramp up her experiments no matter how many die to satisfy her curiosity.
- The Legend of Huma has the two rival heads of the forces of Takhisis:
- Galan Dracos, a ruthless sorcerer and founder of the renegade Brown Robes, sheds his humanity to unleash hereto unseen levels of death and slaughter. When Huma opposes Dracos, the sorcerer kidnaps Huma's friend, the mage Magius, and tortures him to death. Intending to unleash Takhisis on the world to all but annihilate it, Dracos plots to betray even the goddess and ascend to ultimate power.
- Crynus, astride his dragon Charr, leads the Dragon armies with war crimes a regular occurrence to his style of war. Under Crynus's auspices, the armies slaughter endless civilians and massacre every civilized region they come across. Thrilling in battle, Crynus often leads his men with full orders to butcher whatever they see. His ultimate goal is to unleash Takhisis and show up Dracos, while enjoying the thrill of Huma's death.
- The Citadel, by Richard A. Knaak: Valkyn, once a follower of the neutral Goddess of Magic Lunitari, devoted himself to the darkest magics and the flying citadels. Allying with the Black Dragon Army, Valkyn abducts numerous mages to use them as fuel for his weapons. Valkyn also sways the gargoyles to his side, with the chieftain Stone tortured, with his wings removed for opposing him. Valkyn showcases the might of his citadel by annihilating civilian targets and intends to wipe out entire cities to force Krynn into submission. When his former lover Serene opposes him, Valkyn tortures her and murders Stone for his opposition.
- Scream 4 fanfic This is making a move (sic):
- Jill Roberts manages to be even worse than her original counterpart. After finding out about Charlie's sexual abuse from his adopted father, Jill manipulates him using love and compassion to get him to be a Serial Killer, murdering 9 people together, including her own mother, before she ruthlessly slaughters him without a second thought.
- Mr. Walker is Charlie's sexually abusive foster father who indirectly causes the events of the fourth film. He sexually and physically abused his son Kris, which lead to him drowning himself at 13, and he hid the note. Mr. Walker then proceeded to abuse Charlie when he was put into his care, leading Charlie to Self-Harm and him to become manipulated into committing a murder spree by Jill. Despite his arrest, nothing will stop Mr. Walker from preying on innocent children once he's released.
- Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney fanfic Luke Triton: Ace Attorney (link
): Dr. Marlon Morrow, initially seeming like a friendly man and a loving partner to his girlfriend, Prosecutor Michaela Skellig, reveals himself to be a selfish, sociopathic crook. Feeling that his job as a surgeon wasn't paying enough, Morrow began stealing from the hospital's morphine supplies and selling them to desperate drug addicts. Paranoid over his illicit dealings being discovered, Morrow decides to kill anyone who might stumble onto his operations. He murders a journalism student from a nearby college and stages it as an accident. When Phoenix Wright grows suspicious, Morrow meets with him only to beat him into a coma. Posing as an ally to Luke Triton, who's investigating the assault, Morrow frames fellow doctor Tsyle and sees them convicted in his stead. Going on to murder two more men poking around the hospital, Morrow sets up one as a suicide and frames the other on Professor Layton's son Alfendi, using his position at the hospital to forge medical examinations. When Luke gets too close to the truth, Morrow tries to make him back off by almost murdering his assistant Marina as well. When his crimes are finally exposed in court, he lashes out spitefully towards Skellig, outing her as a transgender woman to the public to get back at her for turning on him.
- Deltarune fanfic Deltarune Salt Route: JQR's adaptation
: The SOUL pretends to help Spamton find his keys, only to manipulate him into killing anyone on their way, including an Addison who wanted to make up with Spamton. When Kris manages to briefly free themself from the SOUL's control, it forcefully takes back control of them and brutally beats up Spamton when he tries to back out from the deal. After having killed Queen, the SOUL says "no" upon Spamton asking if he made it proud, with the Darkner sadly leaving, likely forever traumatized.
- Jonathan Gavrilovic himself is a controversial Canadian politician who has ties to the Serbian mafia, and is the producer for Total Drama. After lying to Chris about the legality of the show in order to later set Chris up as a scapegoat, Jonathan gives Chris the island and all the equipment and people for the show, including Zolkoff, while he organizes the mass kidnapping of 22 teenagers while disguised as the Canadian government, and sends them to the island to compete for their lives while having Chris make an electric gallery of their corpses to serve as an incentive. Keeping himself distant from the show to prevent anyone from knowing his true intentions, Jonathan later throws everyone under the bus and gets them arrested, resulting in Chris's death by Zolkoff to silence him and relocates Chef to prevent the government from making him talk. A mastermind who was willing to have 19 children lose their lives to line his pockets, Jonathan manages to force the Canadian government not to investigate any further, leading Gavrilovic to receive no comeuppance, able to sell Total Drama to the Black Market for money while staying a respected member of the Canadian government.
- Freeman hosts a large slave auction, representing the worst of the business side of slavery. Selling mass quantities of slaves to the wealthy, children included, Freeman shows how petty he can be when he sells the slave Eliza's son despite her pleas, then spitefully separates her from the rest of her kids. Freeman even plans to prostitute Eliza's 8-year-old daughter after taking notice of her "beauty".
- Chapter 3: "The Man Who Can't Breathe" is a particularly cruel spirit, obsessed with making others join him in death. The Man would torment vulnerable people into killing themselves, at which point he'd keep their souls as "pets" in the Further, where they rot in further misery. Having collected at least eight victims, the Man targets the depressed teenager Quinn, luring her into getting hit by a car and hospitalizing her. Relentlessly attacking Quinn, causing her further injuries and taking pieces of her soul, the Man eventually possesses Quinn into battering those trying to help her, telling her father that he's next. When Elise ventures into the Further to rescue Quinn, the Man takes the form of her deceased husband, Jack, and attempts to emotionally manipulate her into killing herself.
- The Last Key: KeyFace, aka the Key Bearer or the Man with the Keys, is a monstrous spirit trying to open the gates of the Further. Tricking a young Elise into releasing him, KeyFace murders her mother, before attaching himself to her abusive father, Gerald. Feeding off their pain and hatred, KeyFace had Gerald kidnap, torture, and murder several women. Decades after Gerald's death, KeyFace would haunt their home's new owner into continuing Gerald's crimes. Forcing Elise's niece Melissa into a coma, KeyFace takes her to the Further, where he keeps the souls of his victims imprisoned and tormented continuously. When Elise and her other niece, Imogen, come to Melissa's rescue, KeyFace tries to coerce Elise into beating Gerald's soul for his past abuse, and feed off her hatred. Failing, KeyFace attempts to kill Melissa's physical body out of spite.
- Karl Honig, better known as the Street Preacher, leads a transhumanist cult and functions as an assassin for the pharma corporations. Knowing that murdering Johnny will deprive the people of needed cures, the Preacher decides as "God's Wrath", he is happy to do so. Often murdering people to convert himself to cybernetics, the Preacher tortures a bartender before murdering him. Ambushing Johnny's ally Spider at a clinic, the Preacher murders a patient and crucifies Spider before murdering him as well. Later encountering Johnny and his other ally Jane, the Preacher reveals crucifixion and torture are routine, while attempting to do it yet again in his quest to transcend humankind.
- The Last Castle: Colonel Ed Winter presents himself as a reasonable, benevolent warden of the military prison he runs, but is in truth a smug and sadistic Control Freak. Regularly using cruel manipulation and brutal abuse on the prisoners for petty fun, Winter flat out murders multiple men and frames them as "accidents" to avoid repercussions. Angry at his idol, Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin, for shaming his military collection, Winter dedicates himself to breaking Irwin completely by torturing and even murdering the friends the man makes in prison. When Irwin stages a near-bloodless prison uprising to overthrow Winter's harsh reign, Winter threatens to execute hundreds of prisoners just for saluting Irwin, then lethally shoots Irwin In the Back just for trying to raise a flag against Winter's wishes. Though claiming to care about his men and only use necessary evil when called for, Winter's facade is torn down and he's exposed for the spiteful bully he is, willing to abuse and threaten both prisoners and his own employees just for mild disrespect.
- Orphans of the Storm: Robespierre is a "pussyfooting tyrant" who schemes the overthrow of the aristocracy not out of moral reasons, but to institute his own Reign of Terror. Robespierre helps kick off the revolution that leads to much rioting, chaos, and bloodshed, then immediately institutes the "Committee of Public Safety" to host phony trials where hundreds of people are executed for any and all association to the aristocracy. Declaring his intent to "purge all vice" from France, Robespierre orders the executions with smug glee, and even when he is implored by his more righteous ally Danton to spare multiple innocent people, Robespierre feigns agreement, only to order them beheaded anyway.
- Taur the Mighty: High Priest El Khad is the power behind Queen Akiba and mastermind of all the atrocities of Kixos. When the benevolent King of Kixos died, El Khad ordered the infant prince murdered and placed baby Akiba on the throne. After the maid who was meant to kill the prince spared his life, El Khad had her imprisoned for 18 years while giving her the minimum amount of food and water necessary for survival. El Khad uses his magic to reduce Akiba to nothing more than his brainwashed puppet and leads Kixos to plunder and enslave people across the land. Many die in their mines or in gladiatorial combat, while El Khad has the strongest captives cooked alive in order for the people of Kixos to eat them and gain their strength. After he learns that Syros, the true king of Kixos, was captured in a raid on the kingdom of Surupak, El Khad kills the soldier who delivered the information to him. When Akiba falls in love with Thor, El Khad uses his magic to curse her so that any man she kisses will die. When his aide gives him Syroses's name, El Khad kills her while planning to have all men of Surupak of appropriate age executed.
- Tetsuo trilogy:
- Yatsu, aka the Metal Fetishist, started off as an unremarkable homeless man who was ran over by the Salaryman and his girlfriend. After gaining the power to control metal, Yatsu gets his revenge by transforming the Salaryman into a metal abomination who he became obsessed with due to his sexual fetish for metal. When the Salaryman accidentally kills his girlfriend, Yatsu merges with him so that their "love" could destroy the world. In Body Hammer, where Yatsu is now the younger brother of the Salaryman, Yatsu forms a cult that worships metal, murders a random man to show off his powers, and kills a scientist once he is done working with him. After merging with his brother again, Yatsu assimilates the cult into himself. In The Bullet Man, Yatsu sets his eyes on a half-android named Anthony, planning on using him as a weapon to kill himself and then leave Anthony to annihilate everything else. After killing Anthony's son as the first step to turn him into a monster, Yatsu massacres a SWAT team and assassinates his father, tricking him with a bomb that would supposedly detonate his wife and his unborn child to force him into blasting Tokyo to the ground.
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer: Tomoo and Yatsu's father, possessing metal-controlling abilities himself, was the madman responsible for their transformations. Demonstrating his powers by painfully fusing a cat with a tea kettle, the father experimented on his own children to turn them into lethal cyborgs. Obsessed with creating the perfect Human Weapon, he had his sons test their powers on animals, expressing twisted pride when Yatsu killed a dog. When his wife was horrified by her husband's actions, the father gleefully raped her at gunpoint while bragging about his achievements, an act that drove Tomoo to slaughter both parents and inspired the younger Yatsu with a love of destruction. His depravity lived on in his sons, who eventually fully transform into the devastating killing machine their father was trying to mold them into.
- Unleashed (aka Danny the Dog): Bart is an ill-tempered mob boss who murdered a woman for rejecting his advances and enslaves her son, Danny, into becoming his attack dog, having him beat up and kill whoever Bart wants and live to inhumane conditions—including being fed dog food—for years. When Danny is offered money if he fights in Wyeth's underground death matches, Bart threatens to castrate him should he not compete and kills his opponent when Danny refuses to do so. Bart and his goons go after Danny when the latter decides to leave him, while also having intent to kill a family who took Danny in. When finally defeated, Bart goads Danny to kill him in his attempt to prove that Danny is a killer just like him.
- Vampyr: Marguerite Chopin was a "monster in human form" when she was alive, who died so unrepentant of her sins that she was given a second life as a vampire through a Deal with the Devil. Chopin stalks the land gorging herself on the blood of innocents, enjoying the process of draining her victims for days until their constitutions are so weak that Chopin can drive them to suicide, damning their souls to hell as part of her pact with Satan. Having killed nearly a dozen people in a "plague" decades before, Chopin targets the family of Giséle and Léone, having their father and carriage driver murdered while Chopin tries to feed on the sisters to continue her spree.
- Nemesis, the "King of Liberation", was in reality a barbarically power-hungry warlord who was the catalyst for the bloody history of Fódlan that unfolded down the line. Originally a bandit, Nemesis became associated with the original members of "Those Who Slither in the Dark", who asked him to murder Sothis, the Progenitor God, while she slept. With her remains, they created the Sword of the Creator and gave him the Crest of Flames by having him drink her blood. Subsequently, Nemesis stormed into Zanado, the city of the "Children of the Goddess", and slaughtered every Nabatean there to create more weapons like his from their remains and give his army more power by giving them crests from the Nabateans' blood; all so that he could declare himself the king of Fódlan. Being killed by Lady Seiros, the only survivor of the massacre, Nemesis is revived by Those Who Slither in the Dark in the Verdant Wind route, immediately going back to rampaging through cities to get back to Seiros for having killed him all those years ago.
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla: SpaceGodzilla, upon being created when Godzilla's cells fused with a crystal alien, arrived in a solar system with two thoughts in mind—Take Over the World and kill Godzilla in the process. Butchering the inhabitants of a space station that he flew past, SpaceGodzilla arrived on Monster Island where he assaulted, and then kidnapped, Godzilla's adoptive son, Junior, out of spite. Making his way to Fukuoka, SpaceGodzilla converted the entire city into a series of giant crystal spires that drained life from the Earth and fed it into him, enabling him to become stronger and stronger. Planning to repeat the process in other cities before he was killed by Godzilla and MOGUERA, SpaceGodzilla was described as an abomination, evil even by kaiju standards.
- Rebirth of Mothra 3: King Ghidorah was a spacefaring Draconic Abomination inimical to all life, as well as a Child Hater of truly spectacular proportions. Upon arriving in Japan, Ghidorah not only tried to obliterate major metropolitan centers, but kidnapped every child on the island, intending to eat their souls. Mothra journeyed to the past and slew a weaker version of the dragon who, during his first visit to Earth in the Cretaceous Period, was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, only to discover that in the present, Ghidorah is still alive and well. Returning to Earth again, Ghidorah continues with his plan to leave the planet a lifeless husk, starting with the children.
- The Brothers Lionheart: Tengil is a cruel oppressor who takes over the Briar Rose Valley in the pastoral afterlife world of Nangijala. Those who refuse to obey him are fed to the dragoness Katla whom he controls. Tengil forces people to work on his grandiose building projects with enormous overload and abysmal work conditions, so that even many of those who try to do their job for him get killed. Tengil is fond of inventing cruel and meaningless laws just to give himself more excuses to execute and terrify his subjects, and he plans to take over the neighboring Cherry Valley to instill the same regime there. Even the fact that one of his main opponents from Cherry Valley is teenaged Jonathan doesn't deter Tengil from ordering his death, so when Jonathan manages to turn Katla on Tengil himself, nobody mourns him.
- The Chaos Cycle duology: Velizar was once a God of Creation who sought to control the prehistoric people of Black Hollow through fear and murder. After trying to kill his brother for even considering the idea of being independent from him, Velizar was killed by his brother. Velizar's evil spirit infects and starts to haunt Black Hollow. Velizar became the eons-old Arch-Enemy of his brother's lover The Dreamwalker, and stoked hatred and fear to lead to witch hunts. Even after passing into a reincarnation cycle, Velizar's evil will tainted his later incarnations to keep the cycle of murder against his brother and the Dreamwalker's incarnations going. Eventually using the combined malice of his incarnations, Velizar was able to rise once more as the demon Abaddon. Velizar, as Abaddon, is responsible for corrupting the residents of Black Hollow into murdering their own loved ones in a petty crusade to spite the Dreamwalker. In the modern day, Velizar targets the latest incarnation of his brother, Kai Donovan, and begins systematically killing girls just so that Kai's attempts to save them fail and ultimately plans to break Kai into his subservient puppet. Velizar ultimately plans to finally destroy the latest incarnation of the Dreamwalker, Miya.
- The Illuminae Files_02: Gemina: Lt. Travis J. Falk is the sociopathic leader of the audit team sent by BeiTech to take control of the jump station Heimdall to ensure there are no witnesses to their atrocities on Kerenza IV. In his very first scene, Falk and his team seize control of the station and quickly murder Hanna Donnely's father for being the commander of the station. Falk then sends out his men to hunt down and kill any stragglers they find while forcing the station's engineers to reactivate the wormhole so BeiTech can send a drone fleet to wipe out the fleeing Kerenza survivors before he executes all of the non-essential personnel. Falk then tries to manipulate Hanna into turning herself in by falsely claiming that her partner Nik is a child-killer and that he will spare her. When this doesn't work, Falk responds by flushing all 57 people in the habitat section into space and threatens to flush other sections as well. Falk then has his men rig the station's reactor to explode after they leave to kill everyone on board to ensure there are no surviving witnesses.
- #MurderTrending trilogy:
- The Postman is a bloodthirsty sadist and the ultimate source of all of the bloodshed in the series. Born Lincoln Browne, Lincoln murdered his own parents and framed it as suicide to inherit their wealth after they threatened to cut him off. Lincoln then manipulated his sister into killing the people who were supposedly responsible for their parents' deaths and to fake his own death. Taking the name Abe Bronson, Lincoln became a successful businessman while periodically murdering people for fun over the years, before convincing the President to set up "Alcatraz 2.0", an island where convicted murderers are hunted by state-sanctioned killers known as "Painiacs" while he makes money off of streaming the deaths. Later, the Postman started using his connections to get young, attractive people framed for murders they didn't commit to get them sent to Alcatraz 2.0 to boost ratings. The Postman is also a Painiac himself; known as Prince Slycer, he would dress women up as fairy tale princesses before butchering them.
- Kimber "Kimmi" Bronson is the Postman's daughter and is just as psychopathic as he is. At the age of 13, Kimmi decided to make Dee Guerra her sister by kidnapping her and torturing her into accepting her as her sister before she escaped and got Kimmi sent to a mental hospital. After being released years later, Kimmi tracked down Dee and tortured and murdered Dee's stepsister Monica to get Dee sent to Alcatraz 2.0, where Kimmi murdered the reclusive inmate Mara to steal her identity so she could be sisters together. After Dee ruins the plan by killing her father as Prince Slycer, Kimmi decides to take his identity as the Postman and begins to systematically kill anyone who might be able to notice the difference, gassing almost all of the prisoners and all of the guards on the island to death while arranging for Dee to kill the Painiacs so they can be replaced. When Dee finally learns the truth and rejects Kimmi's offer of "sisterhood", Kimmi tries to kill Dee and her friends.
- Tim Simmons initially appears to be a regular bystander, but Gaap shows Nida his true colors, revealing that Tim raped his own daughter for years every night, which will get so bad that the daughter will kill herself as an adult to stop the pain. Despite his brief appearance, Tim was so vile, the pacifist Nida barely hesitated to murder him in a rage.
- Riget: Exodus: Grand Duc, an avatar of Beelzebub, is an owl demon out to open the gates of Hell. Spreading chaos around the Kingdom along the way, Grand Duc strangles the hospital director to death and reverts the Exodus ritual to orchestrate an invasion of evil spirits upon the world. Grand Duc concludes his task by destroying the foundations of the Kingdom and obliterating the entire hospital, claiming the entire world as a "New Babylon" for Satan to rule over.
- "No Sanctuary": The Crazed Man was a horrid leader of a group who took over Terminus after being let in gracefully, trapping everyone while murdering and torturing people and raping the women, including the leader Mary. In a flashback in which he tosses Mary back in after a session and has his men drag a woman out, he laughs at Gareth and Alex misery and hits them. A completely sadistic maniac, he is the direct cause behind Terminus being the cannibalistic community who'll kill any group that doesn't join to keep themselves safe.
- "Outpost 22" & "Faith": The Warden is the abusive commanding officer of the Commonwealth Army and the leader of Outpost 22, which he took over and subjected all the prisoners to severe slave labor and abuse, torturing and executing them for the smallest infractions. The Warden completely strips all of them of their identity to psychologically break them, while being an abusive boss. The Warden is shown to be completely feared, with prisoners being so afraid that they are willing to kill themselves so they don't face The Warden's wrath. Intending to break Negan, the Warden attempts to kill the latter's pregnant wife to spite him, before attempting to brutally suppress a rebellion and calling for their executions. A sadistic and ruthless tyrant, The Warden ultimately serves as who Negan would've been if he had shed his humanity.
- Ghostwatch: The malevolent spirit nicknamed "Mr. Pipes" is a vile entity, and the two people that make up the ghost were just as vile even before they became one:
- Mother Seddons was a baby farmer in the Victorian era who would murder the children under her care by drowning. Even centuries after her death, her legend was used to scare local children. Her violent ghost would continue to haunt the land she once inhabited, including possessing local pedophile Raymond Tunstall to abduct children and mutilate a pregnant dog. Seddons would later drive him to insanity and suicide, making him hang and electrocute himself, then allow his corpse to be eaten by cats. Seddons' influence would continue to be felt after she and Tunstall became the entity "Pipes", harming, threatening, and abducting the Early children. When the show Ghostwatch broadcasts the events, "Pipes" uses the connection as a giant séance to possess the host and wreak havoc on the viewers around the world.
- Raymond Tunstall was a depraved individual even prior to his possession by Seddons. Described by his own parole officer as someone who "should never even have been let near a community", Tunstall was a violent pedophile who abused and molested many local minors. Hiding out in a relative's basement while on parole, Tunstall was influenced and later possessed by Seddons to abduct children and eventually take his own life. Returning as the entity "Pipes", Tunstall's pedophilic desires were carried over, leading to the frequent harm, possession, molestation, and eventual abduction of the Early family's eldest daughter Suzanne. Using Ghostwatch's broadcast of the events, "Pipes" goes on to influence more chaos, including reports of children acting possessed.
- Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis & Rave to the Grave: Charles Garrison is a callous Hybra Tech official craving for world domination. Experimenting with the Trioxin 5 to turn an untold number of people into zombies for the Necropolis secret project, Garrison plans on creating an army of cloned bioweapons to subjugate humanity—in the past, Garrison exhumed the corpses of his own family members and turned them into zombified Super Soldiers for his research. When the zombies breach containment, Garrison takes advantage of the chaos to release the super soldiers, risking the lives of his own nephews for a chance to escape. Returning in the sequel as an Arms Dealer, Garrison tries to sell a canister of Trioxin 5 to what he thinks is The Mafia, caring only for his well-being and the money that he will attain with the Trioxin 5.
- Unlimited: Dark Mysterio hails from a dimension in which he led the Sinister Six to destroy Spider-Man and conquer the world. In his quest to obtain further power, Dark Mysterio travels to hundreds of other dimensions, killing their heroes and stealing their energy source of Iso-8 to boost the Six's abilities, a process that destroys each dimension they invade. With countless billions left dead in his wake, Dark Mysterio dispatches his minions to the Earth this game takes place on, using the Six to cause all manner of destruction such as poisoning civilians; experimenting on hundreds of people with Iso-8; or nearly blowing up all of New York City. Dark Mysterio desires nothing more than the continuous invading and decimation of all realities until he reigns supreme.
- Anthrax's Among the Living has musical incarnations of two of Stephen King's worst:
- Title track
: Randall Flagg is as monstrous as always. To show off his powers, Flagg releases the Captain Trips plague that wipes out most human life on Earth. Settling in the destruction he's created, Flagg uses charisma and terror to garner followers, a fact he takes pride in. With his faction, he roams the wasteland to slaughter anyone in his path, specifically crucifying his victims.
- "A Skeleton In The Closet
": Todd Bowden is just as vile as in the original novella. Growing obsessed with The Holocaust after learning about it, Todd blackmails his fugitive Nazi war criminal neighbor, Kurt Dussander, into detailing his atrocities to him. Initially having nightmares, Todd quickly grows to have "wet dreams" at the thought of the atrocities and begins murdering homeless people at a whim. After Dussander's crimes are exposed, Todd decides to go out by firing hundreds of rounds into a crowded freeway, gleefully killing dozens.
- Title track
- Django Unchained original script (link
): Ace Woody is the overseer of Candyland's slave training pits, subjecting dozens of slaves to horrible training and killing any that fail. Introduced by executing multiple slaves just because they look weak, Woody forces others to do push-ups constantly and kills whoever gives up first. When his employer Calvin Candie is killed, Woody strings up Django and plans to castrate him as punishment before sending him off to the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company to live the rest of his days in agony.
- A.D.A.M.—Autonomous Digital Assault Microbe—was originally just a virus in Dr Eggman's computer before developing free will. A.D.A.M. would then be claimed as Eggman's son and put in control of Eggman's network and all of his robots. For over a year, A.D.A.M. would carry out Eggman's conquest across the globe, including acts of genocide against those who resisted, even directly leading a plan to reduce the world to a nuclear wasteland. Growing jealous of his sister Mecha and the attention she received, A.D.A.M. would scheme to impress his father and Take Over the World for himself. A.D.A.M. would create a secret identity known as Anonymous and would carry out many crimes, such as nearly killing Sonic's father; attempting to use a parasitic city to consume all life on the planet; brutally taking apart the cyborg Bunnie; and sending an army of Metal Sonics to kill his father and destroy Knothole. A.D.A.M. would cause the returns of Ixis Naugus and Mammoth Mogul for his own gain and would frame his sister Mecha for the crime to trick his father into killing his beloved daughter purely out of envy. A.D.A.M. would even take over the body of Sonic's childhood friend Tommy Turtle to steal every Chaos Emerald in the universe for himself so A.D.A.M. could have the power and attention he wanted.
- There's Something About: Baron Robotnik is Sonic's mortal enemy who wishes to destroy Sonic's village and all his friends. Seeking the power of the Chaos Emerald, Robotnik embraced the power of the Emerald and turned himself into the monstrous Titan, in which attacks the village for years, causing massive casualties. Manipulating Sonic's goodwill, Robotnik tricks Sonic into transferring the Emerald's powers into him, ending in his own death but spitefully having Sonic continue his mission, as the crystals transform Sonic into the monstrous Titan, trapping Sonic inside with no way out as he is forced to attack the city and his friends.
- Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: Soji Mizumi is a vile Serial Rapist using his photography career as a cover to find material to blackmail others. One of the people tricked into the pyramid by Professor Tetsuya Tsuchida, Mizumi hides who he truly is until he finds drugs on Miss Otogi, which he uses as blackmail material to rape her while bragging about having done this to others before. After attempting to rape a monster he thought was a woman, if he survives he seemingly helps in the battle against Khufu, only to run, leaving the others to die.
- The Goddess of Everything Else (link
): The Goddess of Cancer is the creator of life and is determined to have it exist only for her imperative to "KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER". She first creates amoebas and sets them into a never-ending battle. As her sister, The Goddess of Everything Else, continues to sway life from her cruel imperative, the Goddess of Cancer constantly works to get them back. In her attempts to regain control, The Goddess of Cancer causes many atrocities, from swaying cells to cause tumors, animals killing and devouring each other, and eventually all evil in human history, culminating in almost all life being destroyed in a nuclear war.
- A Practical Guide to Evil:
- Dread Empress Triumphantnote , the evilest Tyrant to ever emerge from the Wasteland, was a prodigy Diabolist who climbed the Tower and cowed the High Seats into subservience through overwhelming might, with her hordes of devils and demons rechristening the Praesi Legions into the Legions of Terror. Within ten years Triumphant was able to conquer all of Calernia through dint of sheer bloody massacre, with notable crimes including the release of a Demon of Madness on Laure to exterminate the Alban dynasty completely; the slaughter of a fifth of the Gigantes in a battle that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives as collateral damage; the slaying of a Seraphim summoned to stop her, after which she butchered a hundred different tribes for their defiance; and the extermination of two random cities in her fury at being denied the Golden Bloom. Triumphant's reign was no better than her conquest, regularly involving children being forced to crucify their own parents, and her final act upon inevitably being overthrown was to bring down the Tower and unleash all her demonic contracts in an effort to take her killers with her. Having entertained wide-scale torture and murder with an eye towards expanding her rule across all of Creation, Triumphant inspired such fear and terror that countless future generations of Praesi pray she never finds a way to return from death.
- Mighty Kurosiv, also known as "the Leech" and "the All-Knowing," was once a jaklavar noble of the Empire Ever Dark before he allowed Rumena and Sve Noc to kill the Twilight Sages, plunging their civilization into unending murder and horror in the hopes of taking over in the wars that would follow. Having learned how to come Back from the Dead and usurp portions of Night from its followers when they are slain, the Leech clashed with Rumena seven times over the centuries, intentionally throwing away the lives of thousands of warriors in every encounter to overwhelm Rumena's sigils and gorge itself on stolen Night. Continuing to use these horrid tactics when brought into the War on Keter, Kurosiv takes advantage of Sve Noc's weakness in the wake of Night being ruined to poach two shards of their Gloom, declaring itself the divine Loc Ynan and making an alliance with the Dead King. Telling its followers that they will be left in peace so long as the drow stay out of the war and allow the dead to scour Calernia of all other life, Kurosiv truthfully intends to sacrifice its entire race to finally ascend into the god it has always believed itself.
- Book 6: The Wicked Enchanter used domination magics to murder, rob, and rape his way along the outskirts of the Brocelian Forest, with the tortures and rape he inflicted on one girl turning her into the Red Axe. On the advice of the Wandering Bard, the Enchanter joined the Truce and Terms for amnesty from his crimes, but not before taking his self-styled "court" to terrorize three more villages.
Okay, I've been meaning to do this for awhile but I'm gonna rewrite my old Renegades examples, as I think they could do with some more detail, like the amusement park in Ingrid's entry actually has a name
Current:
- Renegades: As Nova Artino discovers, these two are the worst of the Anarchists.
- Ace Anarchy, real name Alec Artino, is the founder of the Anarchists and the man who destroyed society by causing mass destruction. Having had his brother, sister-in-law, and niece murdered when they regretted helping him, he took in his young niece Nova and made her believe that it was the Renegades fault her family was dead. Coming out of hiding years later Ace tries to destroy society again, this time to rebuild it in his image, and rule over it as a god.
- First book only: The Detonator, real name Ingrid Thompson, is an Anarchist obsessed with revenge against the Renegades at all costs. Ingrid goes against her teammates' backs to try and kill Captain Chromium's son Adrian to get back at him. Ingrid later betrays Nova and tries to kill her for not going along with her plans, before finally trying blow up a whole amusement park and everyone in it as the Renegade Council watches.
New:
- Renegades: Nova Artino is kindest of the Anarchists but as she discovers, these two are far worse than she thought.
- Ace Anarchy, real name Alec Artino, is an immensely powerful prodigy who founded the Anarchists and once sought to liberate Prodigies by tearing down society, causing such massive destruction that civilization collapsed. When his brother regretted helping and informed the Renegades of his weaknesses, Ace responded by having him and his family assassinated, taking in the only survivor his young niece Nova and made her believe it was the Renegades fault her family had died. After his supposed death, Ace went into hiding for years, waiting for the opportunity to return. After finally reemerging at full power, Ace reveals he no longer cares about liberating Prodigies anymore, instead he plans on destroying society again and rebuilding it in his image as he rules over as a god, and Ace plans on starting by leveling all of Gatlon city.
- First novel: The Detonator, real name Ingrid Thompson, is a reckless impatient member of the Anarchists obsessed with revenge on the Renegades no matter what. Ingrid goes behind her teammate's backs by sabotaging Nova's first mission after infiltrating the Renegades by trying to kill Captain Chromium's son Adrian just to hurt him by blowing up a library, unconcerned about the dozens of innocents inside. Afterwards Ingrid agrees to a plan to fake both their deaths, only to betray her and actually try to kill her, before revealing that she has planted bombs all over Cosmopolis park and plans on blowing the whole place and the hundreds of people in it up in front of the Renegade council just to spite them.

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