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Welcome to the Complete Monster proposal thread! This is the thread where new Complete Monster examples are vetted, approved, and written up. If you're looking for the general cleanup thread (for cuts, rewrites, expansions, and the like), please go here

Important: Before suggesting any new examples, please read the Frequently Asked Questions and Common Requests List; if you have any questions, the odds are high they are answered there. Additionally, please check here for the earliest date a work can be discussed (usually two weeks from the U.S. release date) and whether the work has already been reserved by another user.

Here is how the process works:

    Process 

  1. If you have a candidate to propose, you can simply come right in and propose them! If the character's run is brief, such as a single issue of a comic book, then a simple summary of their actions and any potential redeeming qualities will be enough; for longer-running candidates, an effortpost (EP) might be helpful for organizing the proposal. An EP is not outright required, but please be mindful that if a post becomes too clunky and unorganized, it can be very hard for other people to follow.

  2. After the proposal, there will be a 72-hour discussion and voting period, where people may ask questions and vote on the candidate. The number of upvotes must outnumber the downvotes by at least five for the character to be considered "approved".

  3. Three days after the proposal has been made, if the character has been approved, you may post the writeup (the text to be posted on the trope page itself) on the thread and send it to the drafts page. Your candidate will soon be added to the CM subpage. If the work has a page, you should add your candidate to the relevant YMMV page. Voila! It's that simple!

Outside of this process, we do have a few ground rules:

    Ground Rules 

  1. To keep the thread moving at a reasonable pace, there are some restrictions on when a proposal can be made. There should only be a maximum of four EPs posted both per page and per hour to ensure that nothing gets lost in the shuffle; additionally, each individual troper should only be proposing or writing up characters from a maximum of three works at a time (from initial proposals to end of their voting period). If your proposal would fall outside of either of these guidelines, we'd like to ask you to please wait until they would fit within; feel free to type them up on an outside document, and then when the time comes, you can just copy, paste, and post!

  2. No plagiarism of any kind. This is a very serious matter site-wide, as the website could get in actual legal trouble over this; as a result, this can very quickly lead to mod intervention. This can take many different forms:
    1. Direct plagiarism, i.e. wholesale copying. This is not only the easiest to find, but is also the most likely to warrant quick moderator intervention. To be clear, quoting in some places is perfectly acceptable, but it has to be very clear you're quoting from something else and it cannot be anything longer than a sentence or two - if you're quoting an entire work summary from Wikipedia, no one is going to believe you've actually consumed the work, so even if you cite your source, your candidate will be downvoted anyway.
    2. Self-plagiarism. Even if you can prove that you wrote the same text in both places, the site itself can't contain any of the duplicated text. If you already wrote something once before, it's not too hard to write it a second time.
    3. Using another site's work as a template for a proposal. Just because you don't copy and paste something directly doesn't mean it's any harder to detect if you're basing parts or all of your proposal on text someone else wrote. To be clear, this doesn't violate site rules and won't lead to mod intervention, but just like if you directly plagiarize, no one will believe you've consumed the work if you're clearly basing your proposal on something else. This thread largely operates on the honor system, and tweaking someone else's work to pass it off as your own is one of the fastest ways to lose trust.

  3. Votes must be for specific candidates, meaning no blanket voting (i.e. "yes to everyone I missed").

  4. If you are the first person to downvote a candidate, please provide an explanation of why when you do so. We're here for discussions above all, and a hit-and-run downvote doesn't facilitate anything.

  5. If a work is already reserved by another user, please don't comment on the work or any potential characters worth discussion before the discussion date. We know how exciting it is when a work has a keeper that you're waiting to talk about, but it's not fair to the person who reserved the work who is just as excited to lead the discussion to see the discussion getting spoiled before they get to do it. On the other hand, if the reservation only has one name attached, shoot them a PM - they may be down for a collaboration, which will get you in on the fun as well!

  6. Please keep the thread on-topic. While discussing the trope is fun and we encourage people to enjoy it, questions like "who's your favorite CM" are off-topic and can lead to thumps. That's the kind of question to take to people's PMs if they're willing. Similarly, while we encourage friendliness and familiarity with other users, posts should always have some kind of thread-relevant purpose; for instance, if you want to wish someone a happy birthday, feel free to, but if it's the only thing in the post, it's off-topic and needs something else alongside it. Again, though, while we strive for a friendly atmosphere, this is not Facebook; life updates are fun, but unless they have some kind of impact on your thread participation, please do not bring it here - we have Yack Fest for that.

  7. Please refrain from asking anything along the lines of "How Did We Miss This One?" In almost every case, the answer is simply "No one thought about it before". This Is a Wiki where everyone has different interests, and the fact that people missed a particular candidate, even one that seems like a textbook example of a trope or a character who is particularly iconic in pop culture, means absolutely nothing. The question is disruptive, has a simple and consistent answer, and provides nothing to any discussion.

  8. If you are suspended from parts of the website, it is still possible to participate!
    1. For users who are suspended from editing the wiki, you still have full access to this thread. You can propose candidates and write them up with no issues whatsoever; while you will have to ask someone else to post the entry to the relevant pages once it is done, all write-ups are considered thread-approved - as in, done by consensus - and thus doing so does not violate any rules regarding meatpuppeting.
    2. If you are suspended from the forums, your participation is limited but not impossible. It is still possible for a forum-suspended user to assist in creating the write-up for a character who has already been approved; as previously mentioned, write-ups are inherently considered a consensus-based edit and thus not tied to any one particular user. However, you can not assist in the proposal of a character; as a proposal is based around the forum rather than the wiki, doing so with a forum suspension qualifies as meatpuppeting.

  9. Please keep all discussions "in-house".
    1. What other wikis use for CM equivalents is irrelevant here.
    2. Please be wary of using other wikis, Fandom or otherwise, as sources of information. They are just as fallible as a site like Wikipedia in regards to accuracy because they can be edited by any user, just as this site can.
    3. Do not attempt to force a communication with an author in an attempt to gather evidence or settle a debate; besides the fact that this is a YMMV trope and thus author intent has variable weight depending on the circumstance, doing so may cross the line into drama exportation, which is prohibited site-wide.

If you would like to use an EP for your candidate, here's the general format. This format does not have to be followed exactly, but these are the main topics that need to be covered:

    Effortpost Template 

What is the work?

This is a brief summary of the work you're going to discuss. We don't need a full plot summary here, just however much we need to understand going into the discussion — it can even be as simple as quoting the summary on the work's page.

Who is the candidate and what have they done?

This is essentially the character's biography — who they are, their story, the crimes they commit, and, preferably (though not required), what happens to the candidate at the end. It does not have to include every single thing they ever do — for some villains, we'd be here all day if that was the case — but it should include the highlights of their journey.

Any redeeming qualities? Freudian Excuse?

This is where any potential redeeming characteristics or tragic backstory should be discussed. Do they have a tragic past? Do they show that Even Evil Has Standards or Even Evil Has Loved Ones? Maybe a Pet the Dog moment or two? This is where these should be discussed in full. Not every potential redeeming moment is a clear-cut disqualifier, but we should hear of any potential issues to ensure the character is discussed in full.

Are they bad enough?

A Complete Monster has to be particularly vile by the standard of the work they appear in. Therefore, you should look at what the character does compared to similar characters in the same work. This takes into account things like:

  • Their resource level (a human Serial Killer can't stand up to an alien Omnicidal Maniac, but they can be bad by the standard of other human serial killers)
  • The amount of time they have to work with (such as a one-shot character versus long-running antagonists)
  • The quantity vs. quality of their crimes compared to others (someone with a lower victim count but far more visceral and personal crimes could be considered as equally bad overall as someone with a higher body count but less horror involved)

Essentially, this section is an analysis of the kinds of villainy shown in the work and an explanation of why this particular character's villainy stands out within it.

Final verdict?

This is where you post your final conclusion on the character in question. You can continue elaborating on your reasons or even just say a simple "yes" or "no"; at this point, we've heard everything we need to hear.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This thread tackles very serious and dark matters on a daily basis. We will be discussing things like murder, rape, torture, human trafficking, crimes against children, and in particularly dark cases, several of these issues at the same time. We keep a lighthearted air, but all candidates carry the general assumption that these are awful individuals committing disgusting crimes. We ask that if you participate, you do so with the requisite seriousness such dark topics require; exclamations of how gross something is, whether serious or sarcastic, are disrespectful to the topics at hand, and if you cannot handle such topics, please do not participate.

And that's everything you need to know. Welcome to the thread!


Edited by Twiddler on Jan 17th 2024 at 5:42:49 AM

Ordeaux26 Professor Gigachad from Canada Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Professor Gigachad
#2676: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:09:44 PM

Yeah technically you are correct, but we split the Fan Works page up based on what Media Category they are based on, and the fanfic is based specifically on the Animated Adaptation.

CM Sandboxes, MB Sandboxes
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Classy, Refined, Unstable
#2677: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:12:49 PM

Hmm true since Multimedia groupings aren't a thing anymore. Eh fair enough. If somehow there's enough entries to justify a page we can just merge them.

Although that does make me wonder, I know we like 8 to be our minimum for pages unless they're spread across a lot of media then we'll allow 7 but what about pages from folders within the bigger subpages like DC and Marvel or Fan Works?

A million brain cells? That seems excessively destructive...
Ordeaux26 Professor Gigachad from Canada Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Professor Gigachad
#2678: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:19:13 PM

For now I have been very cautious about making these sub Fan Work pages unless I feel I likely have to, as they aren't exactly the best solution. Marvel might get one if we get like 1 or 2 more, FNAF and Sonic are ones I am trying to avoid due to the fact we would need a new image on the Fan Works and Fan Games pages, Zelda and ASOIAF might end up getting one eventually if we get a few more.

CM Sandboxes, MB Sandboxes
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#2679: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:23:48 PM

Yeah, DC and Marvel works get their own pages when either they're not exclusively that (like Conan), or when the number of works for that page would overwhelm the main page (for example: Batman & Superman; X-Men and Spidey).

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G-Editor Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#2680: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:36:44 PM

[tup] to Starscream, Henry, and Venom.

Okay here are my write-ups

  • Little Nightmares II: The Hunter is a Serial Killer living in the Wilderness, hunting his own kind and other beings. He has already killed countless people with mangled corpses, flayed skin, dismembered body parts, and stuffed bodies shown throughout as evidence. The Hunter has also captured Six, imprisoning her weeks with plans to taxidermize her after she dies of starvation, and upon seeing Six attempting to escape with Mono’s help, he pursues the two children with intent to kill them.

  • Ultraman’s Season 2: Alien Pedan(t) is the leader of the Blackstars who arrives on Earth demanding that the planet hand over half of its’ entire populace to him, manipulating Maya and her Dying Race into transporting countless humans to a void under his watch to serve as hostages for Pedan. Pedan also intends to capture the six Ultraman, having already captured one, Shinjiro Hayata, before entering the SSSP and slaughtering everyone his sees before brutalizing Shinjiro’s father. When Maya refuses to detonate the transmission device to subdue the 3 Ultramen, Pedan detonates it himself, killing Maya’s friends before having Maya killed and her race exterminated after they served their purpose. Growing impatient with humanity’s decision, Pedan launches a full-scale invasion to personally wipe out half of the world’s population, killing millions before the Ultramen arrive. Sadistically torturing the Ultramen until they manage to gain the strength to kill him, Pedan reveals that he intends to die by their hands to activate a plan which Bemular describes as “the end of all things”.

[down] yes

Edited by G-Editor on Jan 28th 2023 at 7:28:50 AM

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
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MGD107 Since: Feb, 2015
#2683: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:49:42 PM

[tup] to Starscream, Henry and Count Venom.

ACW: It was a theatrical movie.

Edited by MGD107 on Jan 28th 2023 at 3:50:58 AM

Fireball246 Since: Jan, 2023
#2684: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:51:05 PM

I swear this is the final question regarding Cursa-I slightly updated my write up of it on the CM drafts page because I forgot to add the fact that it absorbed and killed hundreds of Sparks prior to the events of the game and I was wondering if it is okay because it’s still barely less than 200 words.

Edited by Fireball246 on Jan 28th 2023 at 9:23:18 AM

CookieMonster69 Since: Feb, 2019
#2685: Jan 28th 2023 at 3:54:47 PM

[tup] to Starscream and Venom.

And to answer a question from before, Starscream's entry should be listed before the 2007 film.

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ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#2687: Jan 28th 2023 at 4:55:17 PM

The stuff in the Drafts and anything knew will be tomorrow, and swaps will be requested Monday as usual, but for now...

  • "Emperor" Tarish-Zi, of the Empire of Yokuda, is known foremost for being the one behind the various atrocities of the Anka-Ra, including genocide and the destruction of culture. Tarish-Zi rode his armies into Hammerfell and began a bloody sweep across the land, exterminating entire peoples and leaving civilizations as nothing but "blood and bones". The depredations Tarish-Zi visited upon his conquered cities were so extreme that one of them, Shada's Tear, voluntarily sold themselves into the service of the Nereids and a Fate Worse than Death rather than let the Anka-Ra into their city. Tarish-Zi even broke his own traditions and turned his armies against his own allies when he was unsatisfied with the power he had, trying to engulf Cyrodiil in a massive war that was only stopped by the treachery of one of his own retainers. Even then, as an undead ghost, Tarish-Zi again tries to raise an army to invade and subjugate one of the cities he ruled in life.
  • "Cold-Blooded Revenge" & "The Tree-Minder's Fate": Maldur is the head of Camp Merciful Reduction, who on behalf of the Altmeri Dominion has been draining the sap from Hist trees for his own corrupt research. When one of these Argonian villages refused to let him exploit their Hist tree, Maldur massacred nearly the entire settlement, even the hatchlings, and plundered their tree anyway. Maldur leaves the souls of these Argonians cut off from the Hist and condemned to horrible agony, unable to truly pass on.
  • The Dark God (link) (Fantasia & Gargoyles): Chernabog is the creature who, in ancient times, spent nights causing death and destruction on such a massive scale that night became known as the time of evil. Sealed in Bald Mountain, Chernabog spends nights with enslaved souls to entertain himself. Freed by Demona, Chernabog has the village beneath the mountain destroyed, eager to bring Hell on Earth. Toying with the Manhattan Clan and their human allies, Chernabog condemns Demona to die with the rest of the world after she tries to save Angela's life. Chernagog, as he is being turned to stone by the rising sun, mocks the heroes for only delaying the apocalypse till the next night, before trying to crush the them with his foot.
  • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: Nur-Ab-Sal, the old king of Atlantis and creator of the God Machine, attempted to create man-made divinity through the sacrifice of countless "unworthy slaves". To test the God Machine, Nur-Ab-Sal experimented on his subjects, turning them into mutated abominations; inevitably, they perished in agony, and their warped skeletons are strewn all along Atlantis. In a room bloated with these skeletons, the spirit of Nur-Ab-Sal himself attempts to possess Indy's companion Sophia after having acted as her malevolent Spirit Advisor for the game, callously attempting to dispose of her the moment he sees fit so he can reclaim the God Machine. Nur-Ab-Sal's arrogance and pride are directly mirrored by the Nazis themselves, who pay the price for attempting to exploit Nur-Ab-Sal's monstrous technology for themselves.
  • Fantoma Mark III, grandson of Fantômas, is a Diabolical Mastermind intent on flooding most of the world and rebuilding civilisation with himself as a ruler. After Lupin beats him in stealing the Punjab Ruby, needed to power the laser with which Fantoma intends to melt the ice, Fantoma kidnaps Fujiko and threatens to kill her unless Lupin gives up the ruby. Going back on his word, Fantoma has them both launched into space and Forced to Watch as he floods the world. Beaten and gravely injured, Fantoma organises a Thieves Race, intending to have Lupin killed, and even placing an Earthquake Machine beneath the stadium, uncaring about the lives of the spectators.
  • Volume 4:
    • "Yellow" arc: Carter Pillar is the richest man on Patch, and uses his wealth to cover his hundreds of heinous crimes. With a long history of killing anyone in his way, such as killing Hector Blaze's son with a Car Bomb and murdering the Ensleys while leaving baby Sapphire to die, Carter is the middle step in the Faunus trafficking operation between The Crown and Jacques Schnee; his role is to psychologically torture half of the slaves to leave them as loyal drones before shipping them off to be worked to death, while he keeps half of them for himself. The half he captures are tortured, mutilated, and killed by Carter himself, as shown when he tortures an entire family, murders the youngest child first to torment them, and then hangs the rest of them in his warehouse.
    • "CFVY" and "Vacuo" arcs:
      • Jax Asturias manages to be even worse than his canon counterpart. On top of running an international Human Trafficking ring that leads to countless slaves being sent to Carter and Jacques, Jax deals bad heroin that leads to countless deaths. After ordering the deaths of all his customers, Jax has his slaves and forces move through the Vacuo countryside killing everyone they see, leading to over five thousand deaths, and framing Atlas for all of them. Jax's ultimate end goal is to start a war between Atlas and Vacuo so he can martyr hundreds of his own people and destroy both Atlas and Mantle, even personally murdering his own sister when she gets in his way.
      • Miranda Spot is Isaac "Ink" Spot's mother and one of Jax's Co-Dragons. Miranda is Jax's most sadistic soldier and carries out his orders with relish, brutally executing Carmine Esclados and Bertilak Celadon and later leading assaults on five villages, killing everyone inside and burning them to the ground. In her spare time, Miranda has been raping Ink since he was five, and by the present day has turned her husband into a Sex Slave using him to produce and then rape seven more sons.
    • "Rise of The Tiger" arc: Ronald Atwood uses his role as a beloved teacher to hide his status as a serial child molester. Claiming 55 victims before attempting to molest Alessandro Khan, Atwood becomes infinitely worse upon being recruited by the assassin Lurker. Atwood begins filming himself torturing, mutilating, and raping children, sending the tapes to Sienna Khan out of vengeance for being caught, and even leaving several decapitated heads on her lawn. Eventually targeting Alessandro again, Atwood cuts off his limbs and removes all of his senses before trying to rape Blake, refusing to the end to accept that he ever did anything wrong.
  • The End of Mushroom Kingdom (video link): Bowser, portrayed far worse than he normally is, has gotten tired of his constant losses to the Mario Bros and figured out a way to fuse a power star with a poisoned mushroom, creating the Z-Star. Bowser launches a missile infused with Z-Star power at the Mushroom Kingdom, which ends up annihilating the entire Mushroom Kingdom, killing nearly everyone inside. The Z-Star would go around corrupting things that Mario would end up facing, and eventually, it would end up doing the same to Luigi, forcing Mario to fight and kill his own brother. When Mario confronts Bowser, Bowser infuses Peach with the Z-Star's power, eventually leading to her death.
  • Kargath Bladefist is the founder and leader of the Shattered Hand clan whose insatiable love of pain created one of the cruelest orcs in existence. Kargath led his clan to torture new recruits either to death or until they began to enjoy the suffering, and he would gleefully torture victims by flaying, burning, or having them eaten alive, all the while injecting them with poisons that kept them conscious and aware for as long as possible. Caring nothing for the orcs, Kargath became the only non-warlock to join Gul'dan's Shadow Council and sell out his race into enslavement to the Burning Legion. Reveling in the Old Horde's cruelties, Kargath successfully led the genocide of the arakkoa save for a handful of outcasts, and stayed behind on Draenor to keep the more savage clans in line. Betraying master after master over the following decades, Kargath ultimately settled on following Illidan Stormrage in exchange for ruling over the Fel Horde and further corrupting the last of his race to satiate his never-ending sadism.
  • Astra Lost in Space: Doctors Jed Walker and Olive Raffaeli lead a conspiracy of Immortality Seekers responsible for the events of the series. Having perfected a method of transferring a person's mind into a clone body, the two doctors and the project's various wealthy backers raise clones of themselves as their children, with the ultimate aim of eventually killing them and transplanting their own brains into the younger clones; the fact that the children are effectively their own people means nothing to them. When laws against cloning intensify, Jed and Olive callously lead their cabal in attempting to have all of them killed in a space travel accident to save themselves from incrimination.
  • Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!: Dr. Ikezaki Gensuke is a celebrity surgeon who uses his public image, wealth, and connections to shield his sexual sadism from both the police and the Yakuza. Gensuke's first introduced having savagely beaten Akihoshi Leia after hiring her as a call girl and then bribing her to keep quiet; Yashiki Kurisu heard of him similarly beating a worker at an extreme S&M club so badly that they banned him for life. After Misora breaks his left hand for the assault on Leia, Gensuke first hires a hitman to attack her with a sword, then has her kidnapped and attempts to make a Snuff Film where he first rapes her, then watches as she's vivisected—and he admits to there being many prior victims buried on the mountain behind the studio. Throughout it all, Gensuke remains unrepentant and utterly convinced he'll get away with all of his crimes.
  • Metropolis, by Osamu Tezuka: Duke Red has Dr. Lawton create the android Michi as a prototype for his Slave Race. Aiming to conquer the planet with his machines, Red works his replicas to death after Lawton rescues Michi from him and later kills Lawton himself. Red also has the global temperature raised, mutating animals which attack and kill humans across the world, while he rules the world from Antarctica, attempting to kill children to recapture Michi.
  • Just a Pilgrim: Castenado is the brutal and sadistic leader of the buckers, who sends his men to slaughter any group of survivors they see. Decorating his base with the heads of his victims, Castenado also forces other bandits to join his gang, forcing them to endure "initiation", which consists of eating the lips of the dead; wearing "the necklace o' dongs"; putting steel nails through their own skin; killing infants; and raping a goat. Bandits who refuse to go through "initiation" are brutally killed. Castenado has a habit of killing his men for the slightest provocation, at one point ordering them to jump from a helicopter to their deaths and slaughtering them when they refused. Constantly trying to massacre the group of survivors who were guided by the Pilgrim, Castenado managed to burn some of them alive, before he captured a few other survivors and attached them to his helicopters to serve as human shields. As his forces slaughter almost all the survivors, Castenado gleefully tries to kill a 10-year-old Billy, causing Billy to detonate the bomb that kills them both.
  • Kivu, by Jean Van Hamme & Christophe Simon: Colonel Ernest Malumba, the Director of Production of the firm Metallurco, enslaves civilians for the coltan mines. Before one of his raids, Malumba specifically orders his troops to rape and mutilate women and girls in front of their families, imprison men above the age of 12, cut the hands off anyone who resist, and burn old people and babies in their huts; he also threatens to chop the noses and ears of anyone who would disobey those orders. When a little girl falls into his clutches, Malumba announces his plan to sell her as a Sex Slave, and then attempts to rape her himself.
  • Black Adam (2022):
    • Ishmael Gregor is a mercenary, member of Intergang, and a descendant of King Ahk-Ton. Ishmael helped to throw Kahndaq into chaos, poverty, and oppression, even killing his own man for "beating" him too hard during an act. Ishmael, like his ancestor before him, intends to obtain the Crown of Sabbac to bring the armies of the Underworld onto the world, and he keeps people fearful, threatening acts of violence by Intergang. Once Ishmael manages to obtain the crown—through kidnapping and threatening Adrianna Tomaz's young son Amon—he becomes Sabbac and leads the army into Kahndaq with the desire to solidify his firm grasp over it first and then intends to turn the world into Hell on Earth.
    • The insatiably cruel Ahk-Ton himself ruled Kahndaq in ancient times with an iron fist while creating the Crown of Sabbac for ultimate power over the world. Having enslaved numerous natives of Kahndaq to build his empire and mine for the material Eternium, he regularly threatens and sacrifices the lives of dissenters, including executing the slaves as a "reward" for their work. When Teth-Adam's son Hurut becomes the champion for "Shazam", after Ahk-Ton tries to publicly execute him, and uses his powers to fight against him as Kahndaq's protector, Ahk-Ton has his mother Shiruta murdered, and Adam himself is gravely wounded in the process. When Adam is saved by Hurut transferring his powers to him, Hurut himself ends up being killed by Ahk-Ton's forces instead.
  • The Deer Hunter: The "guard in charge" of the Viet Cong Po W Camp serves as the ultimate representation of evil in The Vietnam War. Torturing and abusing the prisoners in his care, the guard in charge orders the prisoners to play a sadistic game of Russian Roulette for the entertainment of himself and his men. The prisoners are beaten and forced to play the twisted game until they die one by one, and any who refuse to play are locked inside a "pit" submerged in a rushing river to be slowly tired out and drown. Dozens of men die between the pit and the roulette, and the guard in charge oversees this horror for nothing but the amusement of gambling.
  • The Expendables 2: Jean Vilain is the leader of the mercenary group the Sangs, who cause havoc within Albania and its surrounding regions. Discovering a mine that contains six tonnes of pure, weapons-grade plutonium, which he plans to sell, Vilain then raids surrounding villages for their men to use as workers. Any worker who was too old or weak was summarily executed as a warning to the other slaves. Vilain ambushes The Expendables and bribes Billy's life for the mine map, killing him anyway after they give it to him. Wanting to speed up the process, Vilain has his thugs raid the surrounding villages again, this time with the intent of using female and child slaves. When Vilain obtains the plutonium, he seals the mine, trapping all of the slaves to tie up loose ends.
  • A Haunting at Silver Falls: Anne Sanders is a Serial Killer responsible for the death of not only the Dahl twins, but her own sister, as well. In the process of these murders, she allowed her husband Kevin to rape them before torturing them to death and keeping their photographs as mementos. Allowing Wyatt Dahl to be framed for and put to death over the murder of his daughters, Anne gladly used him to intimidate anyone who saw the ghost of the twins. While trying to keep up the façade of a loving aunt to Jordan, Anne nevertheless bullied her over perceived slights, eventually locking her in the bathroom while she and Kevin went on a date. Once Jordan discovered the truth, Anne revealed her true colors by openly plotting to torture her to death, smacking Kevin when he protested, and attempting to kill Jordan's boyfriend Larry when he tried to intervene. The evil failed to stop once Anne was killed, as she returned as a ghost to torment a man named Jack into committing more murders in her name, only stopping when Jordan managed to defeat her a second time.
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence: Mr. A. O. Neville—nicknamed "Mr. Devil" by his victims—is the "Chief Protector of the Aborigines", who uses his position of power to enforce his own racist desires onto Australia. Holding the Aboriginal people in contempt and wishing to slowly breed out Aboriginal blood in "half-caste" children, Neville signs a decree in which any children born from one white parent and one Aboriginal parent are ripped away from their homes and thrown into the Moore River Native Settlement, a labor camp where the children are forcibly trained into becoming servants for white society. Through this, Neville hopes to see a mass eugenics scheme come to fruition, in which all of the "trained" half-caste children are married off to white partners and their children have their Aboriginal bloodline bred out of them. Neville oversees the camp and ensures that any children who try to escape or otherwise misbehave are brutally whipped bloody and locked in cages in the heat, and he keeps one of his best minions in line by holding the man's daughter hostage at Moore River. Despite his proclamations of "helping the natives", Neville is a corrupt supremacist who reigned for 25 years and ruined thousands of lives, and is happy to tear families apart and sentence children to lives as slaves who are physically and sexually abused in his mad quest for white blood propagation.
  • The Ripper: Jack the Ripper himself was the misogynistic perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders, killing prostitutes to power his ring and gain immorality. Using his ring to return in the 1980s, the Ripper possesses Professor Richard Harwell and viciously disembowels young women, eventually trying to kill Richard's fiancée to restore his own body.
  • Thor and the Amazon Women (1963): The Black Queen is the cruel ruler of the Amazons. Invading the city of Babylon and having the royal family killed, including having the king pulled to death by horses, she has the male population enslaved to work in mines, starved and beaten for the smallest disobedience. The Black Queen has her army terrorise the land, stealing children to be raised either as slaves or as part of her army, while having any women who speak out against her made gladiatrices and forced to kill 20 other gladiatrices to earn her freedom. Receiving the prophecy about her defeat at the hands of Thor, the Black Queen sends her army to capture him. Learning that they instead captured the survivors of Babylon's royal family, Tamar and Amouk, the Black Queen has her general executed after her defection and takes Ubaratu as her new husband after executing the old one. Forcing Tamar into arena while Thor dangles over the fire, the Black Queen is shown not to hesitate to kill even her new husband.
  • Monster & Villain: Brigadier General Gwendolyn DiMarco desires to make Super Soldiers no matter the cost. To this end, she runs the classified military base "The Ranch" as second-in-command to Tom Peaks, and has horrific experiments conducted there, such as mutating people into human-animal hybrids, leaving many in constant pain; forcefully turning people into cybernetic killing machines; keeping alive and aware severed heads in jars to study them; and using the brains of infants to pilot suicide drones. When the horrors of the Ranch are exposed, DiMarco orders a battalion of tanks to attack Dillon Poe in an attempt to distract the public, unconcerned about civilian casualties.
  • Hero: Robert "Bob" Markovic was a predatory businessman before being mutated into a sapient swarm of plague-bearing bugs. Using his new abilities, Markovic attempts to take over New York City by infecting all of New York City Hall and Police Plaza with every deadly disease to exist, leaving everyone there in a state of twisted agony begging for death. Taking control of Grand Central Station, Markovic infected one man there as an example of what he can do. Markovic then hijacks a train, taking its passengers hostage as he heads to Washington to take over the government and attempts to kill the heroes—including his own daughter Simone—as they try to stop him.
  • Blood & Treasure Season 2: Batu serves as the "acting" Great Khan for Violet, where he would send her army to attack numerous locations in his search for the Spirit Banner of Genghis Khan, leading to countless bloodshed and deaths throughout the world. Batu would also break Simon Hardwick out of prison to force Hardwick to aid him in his search for the Banner, branding Hardwick when the latter tried making a move behind Batu's back, and later killing off Hardwick's group of white-hat hackers so they wouldn't get in his way. Batu shows the rest of his men this kind of cruelty, feeding them to crocodiles should they fail him. Batu's also believes that the Spirit Banner contained a virus that would kill off anyone that doesn't have Genghis Khan's DNA, a virus which Batu intends to unleash onto the world to wipe out everyone he deems lacking in superior genes.
  • The English: David Melmont was once the ambitious bookkeeper of Englishman Thomas Trafford. Allying with a group of vengeful soldiers, Melmont committed a brutal massacre on the innocent Cheyenne settlement of Chalk River with a helpless Trafford and Pawnee Scout Eli Whipp as the witnesses to his crime. Melmont then traveled to England to deceive Trafford's wealthy fiancée Cornelia Locke with false claims of Trafford being imprisoned and in need of 2,000 pounds to secure his release. Upon Locke realizing the truth, Melmont raped her and fled with the money to America. Unknowingly infected with syphilis by the rape, Locke raised the resulting child until he died of the disease years later. A respected businessman in Colorado, Melmont raped another woman without care of infecting her and their child as well. Upon meeting Locke again, Melmont can only express confusion on how she would care for the child while taking time to mock her relentlessly over her inability to kill him as the last living piece of her son.
  • TerrorVision's "One of a Kind": Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin appear to be the delightful owners of the One of a Kind fashion store in need of models. In truth, the two lure young women to their store to turn them into still-living mannequins unable to move or speak. With over eight mannequins acquired, the Benjamins successfully trick the bright-eyed Brenda into becoming one of their new mannequins, with hopes of doing the same to her friend Joan.
  • The Stupendium's "The Toybox": Elliot Ludwig is the ruthless head of Playtime Co. Desiring to make advanced toys he could sell, Elliot performed horrid experiments on countless people, even his own employees, to make them into living toys. The process results in them steadily losing their memories, and eventually being driven to murderous insanity.
  • Chouriki Sentai Ohranger's: "The School's Scary Nightmare": Bara Nightmare is a rogue Machine Beast who escaped to Earth 11 years prior to the start of the series. Developing a taste for prepubescent girls, Bara Nightmare would kidnap one or two girls from Sakurazaka Elementary each year and make it look like they died in an accident, when in actuality he stops their aging and traps them in a dream world, where he makes them act out whatever sick fantasy he wants. When his first victim Mayumi uses the nightmare to reach out to her best friend Momo Maruo, now Oh Pink, for help, Bara Nightmare traps her in the dream world and attempts to completely destroy her, both by trying to kill her and mentally break her.
  • Go!: Dragotron is the leader of the Predacons who seeks to Take Over the World. After the Predacons split apart from the Decepitcons, Dragotron and his troops destroyed countless worlds before arriving to Earth. Posing a threat to both factions, the Autobots and Decepticons teamed up to seal them away in Mount Fuji. Upon being freed and restored to full power by his followers, Dragotron absorbed two children so he can use the power of their Legendiscs to cyberform the entire planet, wiping out all organic life in the process. When that failed, Dragotron then absorbed his fellow Predacons so he can become invincible and defeat the Autobots once and for all.
  • Bayonetta 3: Singularity is the most monstrous foe ever faced by the Umbra Witches. An Artificial Human, Singularity destroyed his home universe with his army, the Homunculi, before growing aware of the multiverse. Seeking to impose his will upon all existence, Singularity launched a multiversal invasion to butcher thousands of universes and eradicate all life within. Becoming aware of Bayonetta as one of the few able to oppose him, Singularity would kill her countless times over the multiverse to take her soul and power. Coming to the "Prime" universe, Singularity began to rain death and destruction on numerous cities before trying to eradicate all existence as he had done thousands of times before.
  • Black Dahlia: Richard "Dick" Winslow is a seemingly inept, lecherous FBI agent who bumbles his way into Jim Pearson's heroics, but he is actually a Nazi operative with a mad dream to subvert reality to his whims. Dick seeks to obtain the Black Dahlia gem and use its power to enslave the minds of others, so he dispatches his partner Von Hess to torture and kill his way to obtaining the gem while Dick personally oversees the Cleveland Torso murders, a series of brutal slayings of innocents, as "blood sacrifices" to the Dahlia. Murdering Von Hess for failing him, Dick tracks the Dahlia across the globe, killing anyone in his way up to and including Elizabeth Short, who Dick heinously mutilates and bisects. Upon obtaining the Dahlia, Dick slaughters his partner Al King, forces Jim's lover Alice to kill herself in front of him, and tries to bodyjack Jim as the first step in his scheme to turn America into a new Reich for himself to rule.
  • The Praetorian Tammy Arcanus, more commonly known as Diabolique, was a simple sorceress in the Praetorian Midnight Squad who had an unhealthy obsession with dark, eldritch magics and Death. Accidentally causing her own body to wither into nothing, Tammy murders her father for his failure to save her and enslaves his soul with the mystic medallion he used to anchor her soul. Tammy would then flee the Midnight Squad and eventually become the magical attack dog of Emperor Cole, taking great pleasure in murdering numerous other mystics, including the entire Ravenwing Cabal, even if she couldn't refuse to do so. When Tammy, now called Diabolique, managed to acquire the medallion that was binding her to Cole's will, she journeyed to Primal Earth and joined forces with Mot. Exploiting the hatred of her enemies, the Talons of Vengeance, Diabolique tricks them into gathering more people to kill and further empower her new ally, delighting in all the death she brings wherever she goes. Upon her initial defeat, Diabolique is empowered by Mot and exploits her master's defeat to take his powers, thereby becoming Death Incarnate, setting her sights on conquering not only Primal Earth with Death, but Praetoria and all other Earths.
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology:
    • Little Hope: Simon Carver is the reverend of Little Hope who forces the child, Mary Milton, to accuse innocent people of committing witchcraft. These innocents are then executed in horrific ways with Amy chained up and drowning to death, Tanya either being hanged or burned on the stake, David impaled by a fence, and Joshua being pressed by stones. Carver would then accuse Mary of being a witch, and if Carver succeeds in getting Mary executed, he smiles sadistically while watching Mary being burned alive.
    • The Devil in Me:
      • Henry Howard "H.H." Holmes himself, real name Herman Mudgett, was America's first serial killer, and its deadliest. Having ran the World Fair Hotel as a front to kill his guests in painful ways, Holmes kept the skulls and rings of his many victims for his own amusement. Killing an innocent couple in the prologue before moving on to murder a mother and son, Holmes is found to have amassed a body count of over 200 victims, his influence inspiring the likes of fellow killers Manny Sherman and Granthem Du'Met.
      • Manny Sherman was a small-time Serial Killer who left behind a sinister legacy. Known as the "Beast of Arkansas" who sought to leave his mark on the world after being inspired by H.H. Holmes, Sherman would lure female realtors to abandoned houses near airports so that he could murder them as planes flew over them, happily knowing that nobody would hear their screams no matter how hard they yelled. With thirteen murders under his belt, after being arrested and put on Death Row by FBI Agent Hector Munday, Sherman manipulated the mentally deteriorating Munday into becoming a serial killer like himself, allowing him to become the dreaded Granthem Du'Met and kill hundreds of people, just as Sherman hoped would happen.
  • FAITH: The Unholy Trinity:
    • Gary Miller is the inhuman leader of the Eternal Order of the Second Death who desires to summon forth The UNSPEAKABLE and bring about Hell on Earth. Under Gary's leadership, the Order takes over an abortion clinic, transforming unborn children into horrifying abominations and getting several people killed in the process. They also regularly summon dangerous demons. At the clinic, Gary met Amy Martin and tried to use her to summon The UNSPEAKABLE, mutilating her and sacrificing infants as part of the ritual. When priest John Ward stops the ritual and tries to stop the cult, Gary attempts to have his friend possessed by a demon. Gary also mistreats his followers, twisting them into inhuman monsters, breaking the fingers of those who displease him, and causing many to be killed by demons. When Ward arrives at his lair, Gary slaughters several cops and attempts to summon The UNSPEAKABLE through Ward, causing him to rip apart several cultists in the process.
    • The UNSPEAKABLE is the demon worshiped by the Eternal Order of the Second Death. Said to be The Antichrist, the Order's ultimate goal is to summon the UNSPEAKABLE through a twisted ritual of mutilation and infanticide. In its name, the Order has committed Human Sacrifice, and summoned murderous demons for decades. When Amy Martin was chosen as a vessel for the UNSPEAKABLE, it possessed her and gruesomely murdered her parents and Father Allred and tormented John Ward. Depending on John's actions, the UNSPEAKABLE either drags Gary to hell for failing it, or is successfully summoned and drags John to a realm of eternal torment while the UNSPEAKABLE brings destruction and chaos to the world.
    • Chapters II & III: Sister Miriam Bell is a member of the Eternal Order of the Second Death and the mother of Gary Miller. Years ago Miriam gave herself the Second Death, turning herself into a portal to hell and having dozens of infants sacrificed to the portal, resulting in the appearance of Gary. Miriam later volunteered at a church that was housing orphans, eventually "consuming" six of the children, murdering a nun, and driving a priest to madness and death. Miriam is also implied to be behind the deaths of several children in the church's past. Miriam eventually tried to summon the UNSPEAKABLE through herself, knowing that its appearance would being chaos and death to the world.
  • God of War series:
    • Greek era Primarily : Ares, the depraved God of War, is Kratos's predecessor upon Olympus. Not content with merely ruling over warfare and coveting sole rule of Olympus, Ares busied himself with endless slaughter. Responsible for directing every human conflict, massacre, and genocide, Ares gloried in the usage of monsters to torment humanity and the Furies to torture them. Upon arriving in Sparta and taking the boy Deimos, Ares gave him to the god Thanatos for eternal torture. Saving the life of the Spartan Kratos years later, Ares used him to conquer most of Greece with bloody purges until the day when Ares tricked Kratos into murdering his wife and child. Finally losing patience with his role, Ares then tried to annihilate all of Athens, with his ultimate goal being to destroy the other Gods, heedless of the damage it would do to the world.
    • Ragnarök: The Raven Keeper is a wretched hag responsible for the creation of the Eyes of Odin. To achieve this, the Raven Keeper had Odin's worshippers across the realms hang their children to provide her their souls to twist into spies for Odin, keeping them fully aware of their torture.
  • Grandia III: Grau is the sinister lackey of Emelious who is later revealed to be the one responsible for his "master"'s actions. Having stumbled upon Emelious after he was corrupted by Xorn, Grau began using him as a figurehead to resurrect Xorn in a bid of power. Guiding Emelious to kill the other Guardians knowing it would bring destruction upon the world, Grau also enlisted their personal army to ruthlessly carry out their plans, apathetic of the casualties they caused. By the time of Xorn's return, Grau, revealing his true colors, tries to backstab Emelious and kill Alfina after their role was complete before trying to command Xorn with the Godkiller, laughing the world was his amidst the desolation caused by his resurrection.
  • I Frog-ot (link): Dreameater is a supernatural entity who feeds on the bodies and souls of humans. Luring people to its cabin, it puts them in a dreamlike state and makes them see the house as colorful and friendly as it puts the appearance of a cute frog and forces them to do some tasks for it. As soon as its victims finish, Dreameater devours their bodies and souls and then seeks another victim. Killing 18 people this way, Dreameater tries to do the same to its most recent prisoner, getting furious when they manage to break free of its control, after which Dreameater taunts them and tries to hunt them down.
  • Doctor Harlan J. Fontaine is a renowned psychiatrist, whose folksy front masks a cold-blooded manipulator. Joining the Suburban Redevelopment Fund, Fontaine becomes the primary mastermind behind their schemes, next to Leland Monroe, with their plan being to extort millions from the government through eminent domain. To this end, Fontaine manipulates and drugs a traumatized soldier, Ira Hogeboom, into burning down houses for the SRF. When two families, including children, are killed as a result, Fontaine apathetically dismisses their deaths, only being later concerned about the publicity Hogeboom would bring, putting a hit out on him. Fontaine also buys off lethally potent morphine from his protégé, Courtney Sheldon, secretly selling it as "medication" for his patients and distributing it around the city, as the mob's biggest provider. Setting up Elsa Lichtmann's friend, Louis Jan "Lou" Buchwalter, to be killed in an "industrial accident", Fontaine would encourage Elsa's drug addiction and exploit its toll on her. When Courtney Sheldon learns of the SFB's corruption, Fontaine kills him with a lethal dose, and prepares to kill Elsa when she connects Fontaine to Lou's death.
  • Terror of Hemasaurus: Richie Hoarderson is the greedy and nihilistic CEO of PollutaCorp, who knowingly spreads disinformation about climate change; starts a cannibal EcoTerrorist death cult; builds a time machine; bioengineers Hemasaurus, and sends it back in time to be frozen in a glacier. As the Shepherd of the Church of the Holy Lizard, Richie directs Hemasaurus to rampage across the United States—destroying multiple cities, sabotaging climate science research, and sadistically killing thousands—while treating everyone other than himself as completely disposable. Once he grows bored of the scam, Richie decides to abandon Earth to live on the Moon, using his private army as a meat shield to stall a repentant and vengeful Hemasaurus while expressing zero remorse for his actions.
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: "Big" Jack Horner is a childishly sadistic pie factory owner and crime boss who dreams of achieving the power of the Wishing Star so that he can use all the world's magic to make himself ruler. Once a young entertainer before turning to crime out of jealousy, Jack is a collector of various magical objects he stole, including baby unicorn horns. Hiring the Serpent Sisters to retrieve him the map to the Wishing Star, while uninterested in the amount of people they had to kill to acquire it, Jack uses the Midas Touch to turn one of them into gold after growing annoyed of them. Packing up his belongings and bringing his Baker's Dozen to chase after Puss and Kitty after they steal the map, Jack relentlessly and carelessly sacrifices all of his men on his journey to the Star, even acting apathetic when he accidentally kills some during a firefight. Ultimately reveling in his villainy, Jack passes off any attempts at redemption or kindness to achieve his goals, remaining one of the cruelest people encountered by Puss and friends.
  • Issues #35-36—"Katie" two-parter: Thomas "Tom" Dawson, father of Tommy Monaghan, is a seemingly respectable businessman who hides a monstrous ego. A frequent client of the prostitute Katie, Dawson repeatedly threatened her if she ever tries to trick him. When Katie got pregnant with his child, Dawson burns down her house with her 3 young children inside it to protect his reputation. Tailing Katie to America, Dawson then brutally mutilated her to cover up his tracks. 30 years later, Katie's child Frances, along with Tommy, return to Ireland, with Dawson retaliating by butchering Frances and then attempting to kill Tommy.
  • What She Did (link): The sisterly Mari is depicted here as an emotionally manipulative sexual predator. Even since her brother, Sunny, turned twelve, she slowly and possessively groomed him into thinking that sexual interactions between brother and sister were normal. Shortly after Sunny turned sixteen, Mari repeatedly raped him amidst her monthly visits from college. Over the years, she used the friend group's and Faraway Town's adoration of her as grounds to keep the abuse a secret, leaving Sunny with hallucinations of her and a severe phobia of physical affection. When Rowan confronted her about her abuse, she mocked and silenced him as well, by threatening to out him as gay and accuse him of being the one who raped Sunny.
  • Metropolis (1989): Futura is a cognizantly sadistic version of Maria's robotic double. After having the heroic freedom fighter likeness grafted onto her by the orders of John Freeman, Futura is sent to disrupt the planned rebellion of Metropolis's working class by impersonating Maria. Distracting the workers through cruel manipulation, Futura gleefully tries to suffocate them all as the unmanned machines drop the oxygen levels, and takes a child hostage to keep them at bay, stabbing hero Steven when he tries to stop her.
  • The Sandman's Pillow (link): Keith Hoffmann is the successful young founder of the Sandman Sleeper Pillow Corporation. Forced by his wealthy father to make his own fortune, Keith uses a magical storybook to summon The Sandman, and begins marketing sand-filled pillows as his company's gimmick. The sand causes anyone who sleeps on the pillow to fall into an irreversible sleep so deep that they are declared legally deceased, with at least 26 victims being claimed. Apathetic to this side effect, Keith hopes to eventually sell millions of pillows, and uses his connections to institutionalize anyone who attempts to hold him accountable.
  • Unclassified Encounter:
    • Lucius Varus, in the distant past, was a soldier for the Roman Empire. During one of their many big battles, Lucius's entire army was killed by an enemy, and Lucius was mortally injured. Lucius, in an effort to survive, would start eating the dead body of one of his fallen enemies, discovering that he could gain immortality by eating human flesh. Lucius returned to Rome and started luring people to him so he could kill and eat them to keep himself alive. After the Roman Empire fell, Lucius would become a traveller going from place to place and participating in anything that would retain his immortality. Lucius would participate in many historical atrocities including assisting Elizabeth Báthory, the Sawney Bean group of cannibals, as well as personally being responsible for the Jack the Ripper killings, the Man from the Train slayings, and the Hinterkaifeck killings. In "Episode Five: ELAH", Lucius disguised himself as a doctor on the British ship the Bickleigh Bridge. When one of the people on the ship recognized Lucius as the one who murdered her family, Lucius tries to kill her.
    • "Episode Three: NERTHOL": The unnamed alien was sent by its superiors to scout out humanity for an unknown mission. The unnamed alien attacks the RAF Pengam Moors, launching a beam weapon at it that instantly destroys it, killing thousands of people in the process. The alien then goes onto the ground inside a high-powered suit and kills anyone that survives his initial attack, viewing humanity as nothing more than pests that need to be eliminated.
    • "Episode Five: ELAH": Captain Krancke is captain of the Admiral Scheer, working for the German Army during World War II. In an effort to weaken the British forces, Krancke is leading a massive campaign to sink various British merchant ships, in an effort to prove to his superiors that this idea is effective so he can have the approval to sink even more British merchant ships. Captain Krancke attacks the Bickleigh Bridge after sinking another ship previously, killing many people in both of these sinkings.
  • Whateley Universe:
    • Deathlist is a psychopathic cyborg who has an obsessive desire to spread carnage for his own sadistic pleasure. Responsible for the horrific butchering of innocent men, women, and children, Deathlist reaches a new height of depravity when he kidnaps an innocent mutant superheroine. Removing her limbs and jamming a device into her skull, Deathlist has the mutant subjected to a month of torture and rape by his own troops. Deathlist later kills her and leaves her body as a taunt towards her teammates.
    • Hekate, real name Kallysta Thessellarean, is a sadistic sorceress who aspires to become something much worse. Sacrificing two children to learn a spell, Hekate uses her newfound magic to mentally enslave two of her classmates for a year, keeping them aware while they were raped and abused. Later trying to use the same spell on Fey, Hekate summons three iron elementals to brutalise her, promising them dozens of sacrifices. To spite Fey, Hekate stabs Jade in the heart, just to torment her foe.
  • Grune was one of the most respected soldiers of the Kingdom of Thundera who secretly desires the throne. After he and his brother in arms Panthro are sent to search for the Book of Omens, an enraged Grune frees and pledges himself to Mumm-Ra, seemingly killing Panthro in the process. Grune helps lead the lizard army to plunder Thundera and enslave its people, even helping organize the death of the king. As Mumm-Ra's right-hand, Grune occupies the elephants' village, suspected of harboring the Spirit Stone, and threatens the lives of its inhabitants. In the end, he even attempts to betray Mumm-Ra, and as he is being sucked into the Astral Plane, tries to pull Panthro with him.

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#2688: Jan 28th 2023 at 6:30:49 PM

Time for me to post my writeup on Phibious, and in a few more days, I'll post my writeup on Venom.

  • "Monster From The Black Lagoon": Phibious is a monstrous fish creature from the black summoned by Lord Tenoroc to pollute the sewers of Carnival City. However, Phibious has his own plans and decided to poison the air of the city with swamp gas so that everyone could perish. All kidnapping one of Matt's friends and two street kids so he could genetically modified them into monstrous fish creatures like him and serve him as slaves forever.

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#2689: Jan 28th 2023 at 7:32:43 PM

What is the work?

Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical is a 2022 live-action comedy film based on the stage musical, which is based on the book by Roald Dahl. Today's candidate is everyone's favorite sadist principal and professional child abuser Agatha Trunchbull

Who is Agatha Trunchbull? What has she done?

Agatha Trunchbull is a former Olympic Hammer Thrower and step-aunt of Jennifer Honey. Before Jenny was born, she forced her father and pregnant mother (her step-sister) to perform an extremely dangerous circus act, which involved the mother having dynamite in her hair and jumping over a water tank with sharks while her husband tries to escape from a cage within a limited time frame. During the act, a rope snaps and the acrobat falls to the ground, breaking every bone in her body. She later dies while giving birth to her daughter.

Magnus, Jenny's father, later invites Agatha to stay with him and help raise the young Jenny. While Magnus is at work, Trunchbull often abused Jenny and said that If Jenny cleaned the floors, then she'd be nice, but when Jenny did clean the floors, she'd be even nastier. She later threw her down into the basement and when Magnus came home early, he discovered Jenny laying in the basement crying and later angrily drove off to confront his step-sister-in-law about this. Magnus was never seen again, and It is implied that Trunchbull murdered him. After his death, Trunchbull became Jenny's legal guardian. When Jenny became a teacher, Trunchbull gave her a bill and made her sign a contract to pay back every single penny that was spent while she was under her care, and also forged a document that said Magnus had given her the house. This caused Jenny to move out and find a small cottage she rents from a farmer.

As Principal of Crunchem Hall, she treats the students in similar ways to how she treated Jenny. Whenever students misbehave, she sends them to a small outhouse in the woods called Chokey, which is extremely dark and filled with spikes and wood. Her abuse also caused some of the older students, namely Hortensia and the Prefects, to become hardened and also somewhat mean to the younger students. Hortensia's arm is also in a cast, implying she may have done something to break it in some way. Some of the students also mention that she once threw a kid out of a window (They also say that she turned a student inside out and sat on another one until he was jelly, but those are more likely than not exaggerations and/or stories told to the younger students to scare them)

When she was under the belief that a kid named Nigel poured treacle over her chair, she came after him to punish him, but Matilda managed to trick her that Nigel was actually sleeping the whole time due to a condition. A few seconds later, she grabs Amanda Thripp by her pigtails and throws her over the fence just for having pigtails, smiling sadistically while doing it. She sends a boy to check to see if she is still alive, and when the boy does confirm her survival, she gives a rather disappointed face and says "Oh" which gives the implication she wanted her to die or at least be severely injured.

During the same scene, she tells Matilda she likes troublemakers because they "make such a lovely sound when they snap"

Later, she accuses Matilda of stealing her cake, but when Bruce Bogtrotter accidentally rats himself out by burping loudly, Trunchbull says he shall eat a whole cake and he will be pardoned for his crime. But when he actually does it, she reneges on her word and sends him to Chokey. When we see him later in the film, Trunchbull has made him her personal assistant and he looks absolutely miserable and emotionally broken.

When word gets out that Matilda called out Trunchbull on her bullshit, a spark of rebellion is formed. Trunchbull, in order to expose the students rebelling, decides to force Matilda and her class into a session of Physical Education to get them to break. When Nigel says that she's mad, she drops him into a basket full of balls. When Ms. Honey says that what she's doing is cruelty, Trunchbull agrees with her and admits she finds it fun. When Lavender drops her newt into a jug of water and Trunchbull spots it while drinking, she freaks out and accuses a kid named Eric of doing it. She grabs his ears, pulling them and stretching them, and she says to Ms. Honey she found out little boys’ ears stretch "through years of experimentation"

When Matilda calls her a stupid, horrible bully, Trunchbull stops her torture of Eric and marches toward Matilda, threatening to crush her and dissect her, among other things. Matilda uses her telekinesis to throw the water cup into the Trunchbull's head, which causes the newt to crawl down to her knickers, causing her to run away scared.

When Matilda later uses her powers to destroy Chokey, Trunchbull decides to tear down the school's jungle gym and orders Ms. Honey's class to the canteen, where she forces them to do an impromptu spelling bee, and If they spell a word incorrectly, she puts them into a new, even smaller Chokey. When the kids stand up to her and start deliberately misspelling words, she unveils a dozen new Chokeys that she plans on putting them in, but Matilda uses her powers to create a giant ghost of Magnus made out of chains and she uses him to destroy the Chokeys. When Trunchbull tears down the chain ghost, Matilda turns Trunchbull’s hair into pigtails and throws her through the roof like Trunchbull threw Amanda. When Trunchbull lands in front of the school, Ms. Honey says she’s taking control of the school and Trunchbull flees the school grounds in terror, ending her reign of abuse once and for all.

Mitigating Factors

While she does have a few comedic scenes, like having a dream sequence during one of her songs where she dreams of swinging on a swing surrounded by white horses while wearing a white dress, don’t really detract from her heinousness, and while she does have a scene where she pathetically screams that a newt is in her knickers and runs off, this is treated more like karmic humiliation than truly detracting.

Unlike the original musical, where she deliberately sabotages her sister and brother-in-law's act, here, It just seems to be a very bad accident, and Agatha even seems to give a shocked expression when it does happen, but It isn’t clear If she's shocked out of care for her sister, or she just didn't expect it to happen. Either way, she doesn’t seem to care that her sister dies.

Heinous Standards

She's the only real villain in the story, with Matilda's parents not really doing much in the way of villainy aside from emotionally abusing their daughter and cheating the mafia. Harry Wormwood does get a little bit physical with Matilda at one point when he throws her to the floor of her room, but that action is nothing compared to what Trunchbull pulls.

Final Verdict

I personally think she counts, but It's up to you guys.

Edited by TheJokster22 on Jan 28th 2023 at 8:53:32 AM

futuremoviewriter Since: Jun, 2014
#2690: Jan 28th 2023 at 7:41:14 PM

She sounds only barely different from the regular musical version. I want to hear other opinions on this Trunchbull before I vote if that's alright.

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#2691: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:01:28 PM

We don't have a 'needs to be different' rule anymore. But also I think Lighty was working on the EP for this version?

The First man
Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#2692: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:03:02 PM

I was, but no big deal. Yes.

I will, btw, be doing one more Cthulhu Mythos one

Edited by Lightysnake on Jan 28th 2023 at 8:04:23 AM

Ordeaux26 Professor Gigachad from Canada Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Professor Gigachad
#2693: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:03:07 PM

[up] He didn't reserve it.

[nja]

Edited by Ordeaux26 on Jan 28th 2023 at 8:03:15 AM

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TheJokster22 Justice for Skywarp from Down Unda Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Justice for Skywarp
#2694: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:03:41 PM

[up] I'm sorry, Lighty, I wasn't aware.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#2695: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:04:43 PM

Why be sorry? You did nothing wrong at all. Happy to upvote!

futuremoviewriter Since: Jun, 2014
#2696: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:06:06 PM

Then based on the EP, [tup] to another Trunchbull then.

Didn't know we nixed that rule. Sorry.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Jan 28th 2023 at 8:06:42 AM

Snoketrope Barb / Temporary Kylo from California Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
Barb / Temporary Kylo
#2697: Jan 28th 2023 at 8:09:59 PM

Alright, happy [tup] to Trunchbull.

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