Complete Monster Proposal Thread

Beldam and Byron

Beldam

Byron

William King Hale

Pending:

• The Blood on Satan's Claw: Behemoth (Atlantis)
• Shadow Police: Smiling Man (MGD)
• Deva (Mrph)
• Island Of Doomed Men: Danel (Ravok)
• Three Forbidden Books: Red-haired man (umaprasis)
• Jugo (umaprasis)
• Warframe: Philanthropist (Zuxtron)

• Island Of Doomed Men: Stephen Danel is a narcissistic Control Freak who lures paroled prisoners to his island for a supposed rehabilitation, only to enslave them for his brutal diamond mining operation. Dozens of men are overworked, starved and flogged on a daily basis under Danel's watchful eye, and any men who present enough of a problem are simply killed. He murders anyone who could expose his operation, and cruelly kills the beloved pet monkey of his manservant. Danel further subjects his wife to humiliating control, keeping her locked inside their home and threatening her on a regular basis. When his wife tries to escape his clutches, Danel plans to throw her into his mining pits and keep her alive for a "long, long time" as one of his slaves.

Alright. Noticed the question on whether or not torture is common in Genshin. So while it is common to take control in genshin (as Kujou and Azar were control freaks) as is murder, outright physical and torture is not as common, especially in the amount of victims that Dougier has. Most of the villains get to the point of killing or are just controlling without sadistically torturing their victims (while they do willingly make them suffer, the suffering is not as direct as Dougier).

Edited by Zerukin on Nov 4th 2023 at 11:51:15 AM

I'll say Yes to Dougier with that in mind, thanks for the clarification!

Here's one I'm a little surprised hadn't been brought up yet, but hey, that's the way the news goes!

What's the work?

Lady Snowblood is a classic of Japanese cinema, a 1973 action movie that would inspire plenty films in its wake, not least of which was Kill Bill.

The titular "Lady Snowblood", Yuki Kashima, was born for one purpose: vengeance. Birthed, raised, and trained on the idea of revenge for the atrocities her late mother went through, Yuki takes up her umbrella-sword and mother's cause as she hunts down the people who ruined her mother's life years ago.

Who is Gishirō Tsukamoto? What has he done?

• The leader of a band of a criminals, Gishirō Tsukamoto is the film's Big Bad. He kicked off the plot when, years ago, he preyed on civil unrest in Japan and tricked an entire town into paying him a fortune to "defend" them from government agents, who wore white. To "earn his pay", Tsukamoto ambushed a man wearing white—actually just a schoolteacher—and callously stabbed him to death. Tsukamoto then had the man's young son killed, before taking his wife and subjecting her to 3 days of gangrape and torture at the hands of Tsukamoto and his 3 minions. The woman, Sayo, was then handed off to one of the men to be kept as a Sex Slave.
• Years pass. Sayo kills her captor and swears revenge on Tsukamoto and his surviving 2 minions, but she is imprisoned. Determined to get revenge, Sayo sleeps with many men so she will get pregnant, and though she dies in childbirth, she bestows on her newborn the mission to avenge her mother. The newborn grows into Yuki, Lady Snowblood herself, and begins hunting those who hurt her mother.
• Now, Tsukamoto is supposedly long-dead from a shipwreck, but the truth is that he faked his death to avoid consequences for his opium dealing empire. Becoming an Arms Dealer, Tsukamoto soon enough learns of Yuki's story from his estranged, reporter son Ashio, who has befriended Yuki, as well as the fact that Yuki has already killed one of his past minions that took part in the gangrape of her mother. Tsukamoto tasks his other minion, Okono, to kidnap Ashio and subject him to brutal torture to lure Yuki out; when Yuki tears through Okono's forces, Tsukamoto murders Okono and frames it as a suicide to hopefully end Yuki's rampage.
• Ashio, however, reveals to Yuki that Tsukamoto survived the shipwreck in which he faked his death, and Yuki swears to kill him. Tsukamoto has a mook wear a latex mask of himself so that Yuki will kill him instead, then tries to use a gun to murder Yuki—when Ashio interferes, Tsukamoto shoots his own son dead, but the distraction gives Yuki time to strike a killing blow and murder Tsukamoto, finally avenging her mother.

Mitigating features?

None at all, he subjects his own son to Cold-Blooded Torture to lure Yuki into a trap, and while after that he "only" warns Ashio harshly to stay out of his way, when Ashio does team with Yuki to take him down, Tsukamoto kills Ashio with no remorse.

Heinousness?

Tsukamoto is explicitly the leader of the band of thugs who murdered Sayo's husband and son for profit then spent days raping and torturing her before selling her into sexual slavery; he further has his own son tortured and kills him, as well as murdering Okono when she outlives her usefulness and using one of his mooks as a human shield to die in his stead. It's a limited amount of victims but a lot of Kick the Dog going down, and between days of gangrape, the murder of a child, and torturing + killing his own son? He's bad enough.

Final Verdict?

Yep!

Edited by Ravok on Nov 5th 2023 at 12:37:47 PM

Tsukamoto

Late to Hale. EDIT: Also, to Tsukamoto too.

Edited by RandomTroper123 on Nov 5th 2023 at 1:16:58 AM

for Gishirō Tsukamoto.

Posting this now because I'm going to work shortly and will be busy most of the day.

• Laika: Aged Through Blood: The Two-Beak God is the tyrannical, bigoted ruler of the birds. Longing to see all non-bird creatures eradicated, the Two-Beak God allowed his soldiers to keep the Wastelands's Hopeless War going by having them all torture and murder any creatures who didn't support or bow down to the birds. Even his own soldiers weren't exempt from this, as deserters, rebels, and birds who refused to fight were slaughtered. Upon hearing of Laika's invincibility, the Two-Beak God had her daughter, Puppy, kidnapped in hopes of using her blood to extract the source of this power. When this fails, the Two-Beak God has Laika lured into a trap within his domain. After successfully capturing Laika and having the birds' rebel leader killed, the Two-Beak God attempts to drop a nuclear bomb onto the Wastelands, not caring that thousands of his own troops and the birds living in the Undernest will be caught in the blast.

for Dougier, Beldam, Byron, Cinder, and Tsukamoto.

Cinder and Tsukamoto

Tsukamoto and Dougier.

Yes to Tsukamoto.

to Cinder, Dougier and Tsukamoto

Sure to Dougier as well.

Also, people, Daylight Savings Time is over for now in the US, so please don't forget to change the pending times of future effortposts (I've already taken care of the current ones).

Edited by ACW on Nov 5th 2023 at 6:53:32 AM

To yet another Cinder, Dougier, Tsukamoto, and sure to a Puppet Combo page.

Another one I have Mir to thank for. From Moriarty the Patriot manga arc “The Man with the Golden Army”

Who is Daryl? What has he done?

Seemingly just soldier on Sebastian Moran’s troop when he was stationed in Afganistan, who died alongside rest when Afgan soldiers ambushed and massacred them, leaving Moran as Sole Survivor. In truth, Daryl is agent and right hand of Duke Graham Dunderdale, Queen’s great uncle and Governor General of India who plots to continue proxy war in Afganistan beetwen British and Russian Empire’s to prevent outhring war beetwen powers. As well as one who lured Moran troop to be slaugthered while he escaped, personally killing one of them.

In present, he continues to be Duke’s right hand man, assisting him in his effort to continue war by sending more trrops to death and smugling weapons behind enemy lines, as well to kill Afghan King backed by British Empire in offort to end the war. Duke organises party in his residence in Calcutta with king in attendance. There they will detonate explosives and kill everione, blaming it on terrorists and continuing bloody war.

When Moran and Miss Moneypenny infiltrate party to kill Duke and stop the war, Daryl has Moneypenny kidnaped and brought before Moran as he is about to kill Duke. Revealing depth of his zealotry and insanity to Moran, Daryl offers him place in their operation, if he kills Miss Moneypenny. It seemingly works and three depart to watch explosion from safe distance, something that Daryl is estatic about.

Moran pulls gun on him, decontructing his ideology and giving him chance to kill himself, saying if he is truly dedicated to greater good, he should just kill himself because his actions already ensured safety of British Empire. Daryl instead tries to kill Moran, only for his gun to be fake and Moran to reveal it was all ruse so Moneypenny could get everione out of mansion safely while he deals with two of of them.

Reddeming qualities?

Daryl claims he is only doing what is neccesary to protect british citizens and the world from global war, seemingly admiring Duke for his readines to do what is neccesary. However his actions show him to be blodthisrty zealot and Psycho Supporter, Moran flat out making it clear he dosen’t buy his and Duke’s WIE claims for one second and demonstarting Daryl’s true nature as sadistic coward with his chalenge. Case in point, when Moran asks him how he feels about betraying their troop while watching explosion, to which Daryl responds “as good as it does now!”

Heinous standard

Easily one of worst in the series, Daryl is Duke Graham’s right hand in continuing war in Afganistan and getting countless innocent people killed. Throw in personal villiany in getting Maran’s entire troop killed and trying to get mOran to kill Miss Moneypenny, in contrast to his more distant boss.

Conclusion?

Yes.

I'll give a yes.

The Duke not seen enough?

Also, is this from the manga or anime as well?

Daryl. (ill double check one more)

It's not in the anime. James bond is public domain in Japan (and also SA for the record) but not in the US of course. So they just cut this plot line from the adaptation.

Ah, I was wondering if the Moneypenny was the same one as Bond.

• Housing Complex C: Seichi and Keiko Koshide, a pair of murderous spouses, are responsible for the mysterious circumstances plaguing the titular housing complex. Introduced as the charming representatives over a group of Middle Eastern interns, Seichi and Keiko abduct and murder the residents in elaborate sacrificial rituals to revive their god Kuzululu. Just as sadistic as her husband, Keiko befriends the elderly Wada, only to betray her, and feigns being an unwitting pawn of her husband to make Kan put his guard down before trying to kill him.
• Vol. 8's "Blood-Bubble Bushes": The Mysterious Man is an evil vampire that can cast an ominous spell that causes bushes of blood fruits to grow from people's skin. Using it on a village, the man turns most of its citizens, including children into an entire forest of Blood-Bubble Bushes that he keeps in his castle. Some unlucky souls are still alive, practically mummified. Others don't turn into bushes, but only because they ate some of their own fruits and were turned into bloodsuckers themselves. When protagonists Ansai and Kana stop by his residence when their car breaks down, the man puts on a façade of kindness and offers them shelter, when really his only goal is to infect them and have them join his grisly garden. They manage to escape when some vampire children they encounter break in and start feasting on his supply, at which point the man viciously stabs one of the kids to death with a pitchfork. Even when they escape, the man has still condemned them to certain doom, as Ansai has begun to sprout tiny blood-bubbles on his hand and Kana starts devouring one of hers.
• Purple Eyes in the Dark: Kaoruko Sonehara is a biology teacher who is dead-set on researching Rinko Ozaki's bestial transformation. Sonehara has tried to get Rinko raped by thugs; sicced her hungry dogs on Rinko's younger sister Maiko], killing her; physically and mentally tortured Rinko on multiple occasions; and nearly drowned her newborn to lure her out, who she also intended to raise like a lab rat. Sonehara has also murdered her accomplice and unfortunate witnesses for being an inconvenience. Even 15 years later, despite having Rinko brainwashed and at her mercy, Sonehara's focus is set on her daughter Mai, with the next pursuit being accompanied by more deaths, including Rinko and Shinya's, ending with her blowing up a public TV station to prevent Mai's escape before being finally killed off.
• Abbott, written by Saladin Ahmed: Professor P.H. Bellcamp is a sorcerer from the Umbra, a malignant force in opposition to life itself. A elitist White supremacist intellectual from Detroit, Bellcamp considers a more egalitarian society as a degradation of society and carries out the murder and mutilation of many Black Americans and Mexican immigrants to turn them into chimeras—whose existence is so horrifying that they welcome their own deaths—to serve as his slaves. When the heroic journalist Elena Abbott investigates the murders and confronts Bellcamp, he tells her that he considers that the Illuminator being a working Black woman is a insult from the Light itself before trying to kill her and then targetting Elena's friends, killing Sebastian and turning Wardell into a satyr to capture Elena. Bellcamp tells her about his plan to turn her into a Harpy and corrupt her powers to create a "New Bloody Age of Heroes".
• Dragon, written by Saladin Ahmed: Vlad Dracula was an abusive bully to his brother Radu through their younger years. After being taken in by the Ottomans, Vlad embraced his inner sadist while beginning to murder people and impale others. Making a pact with dark powers, Vlad becomes the nightmarish "Dragon", slaughtering innocents en masse and corrupting others into vampire murderers. Ultimately returning to kill a grave robber, Vlad gloats that as long as there is evil, the Dragon shall never truly die.
• Fright Night, by NOW! Comics:
  • Issues #16-19—"Potion Motion" to "Daddy's Girl": Jacob Hinnault, the allegedly kind father of Charley Brewster's girlfriend Natalia, is secretly the vampiric leader of the Legion of Eternal Night. Reviving Jerry Dandridge, Jacob plots to use the mighty elder vampire to conquer the planet and reduce all of humanity to livestock. Killing any vampires who oppose his caste system, even having the heroes wipe out a group of dissidents, Jacob later attempts to kill his own sister and have Jerry turn Natalia for his army.
  • Issue #20—"The Charge of the Dead Brigade": Mr. Jones is a farmer who turns travelers into zombies, left aware but unable to do anything except follow his orders to work his farm. Many of his victims suffer for over a year, and when the heroes free them, Jones arrives to furiously shoot his former slaves dead.
• The Last Temptation: The mysterious Showman, who may or may not be a fallen angel or the Devil himself, is the master of the Theater of the Real who comes through town every five years. Seducing children with the threat of reality, the Showman bids them to sign away their future to him and join the circus, where they are twisted into monstrous shells of themselves to become "the thing that scares" forever. Upon the young Steven resisting him, the Showman reveals Steven's Love Interest Mercy was just his creation, and allows her to fade from existence, before vowing he will one day return and menace Steven again, as "the show never truly ends".
• Specter Inspectors, by Bowen McCurdy & Kaitlyn Musto: Virgil Von Brandt, mayor of Cape Grace from a century ago, is the true mastermind behind the town's haunted happenings. Seeking to win reelection after a disastrous term in office, Von Brandt captured a demon and stole its name to use its infernal power to twist the people into loving him, eventually conducting a ritual to absorb the demon into himself. Though foiled by the local bookkeeper, Von Brandt turned himself into an inhuman, undead monster and killed him in revenge, proceeding to haunt the town for decades as his spirit possessed and rapidly decayed the bodies of dozens of innocents—among them his own great-nephew. Gleefully upfront that human lives mean nothing to him, even murdering a young boy who saw him hiding a journal boasting of his misdeeds, Von Brandt assembles a cult to complete the ritual and absorb the demon so he can wield the full powers of Hell itself.
• Lovecraft's Legacy's "Lord of the Land", by Gene Wolfe: The Soul-Sucker is an eldritch being that came from the stars, landing on Earth so long ago that its existence inspired various gods of death. Existing by latching onto a "host" and then using them to devour the souls of other beings, the Soul-Sucker has consumed entire cities' worth of dead or dying souls for its own nefarious cruelty. It currently resides in the body of Joe Thacker, holding a dominance over Joe's father and daughter as the Soul-Sucker forces them to help it lure hapless people to their doom. Even when Joe is killed, the Soul-Sucker seems to then possess his daughter to continue its harvesting of life.
• "The House of the Temple": Chorazos, a Romanian priest turned cultist, initially ingratiated himself to the court of Queen Elizabeth II. Setting up a cult for Human Sacrifice and orgies, Chorazos was chased from England to set up shop in Scotland. Summoning a monstrous "Wampyre", a spawn of Yog-Sothoth, Chorazos fed innocents to the beast who took its souls forever, including children.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Evil Queen is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The Wicked Stepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid in vain envy of Snow White's beauty, and when her Magic Mirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have her killed. Initially she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an old hag so she can trick Snow White into eating a poisoned apple, all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into burying her alive. Hated and feared across the land she rules over, the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach. Vain, sadistic, and absurdly petty, the Evil Queen would set the stage for every Disney villain to come.
• Call of Cthulhu original scenario Saturday the 14th: The Seer is an eldritch entity that arrived on Earth in prehistoric times and settled in what became known as Lake Sandy Pines, preying on the humans that settled in the area. Feeding on its victims' fear and suffering as much as their flesh and blood, the Seer began assuming their forms to lure in more victims. Consuming and taking the form of Lenny Anderson, when a summer camp was established at the shore of the lake in 1980, the Seer—becoming enamoured with slasher movies—slaughtered all the campers except for a Final Girl, who it left alive but badly traumatized; then killed the police and CSI team who showed up to investigate. Repeating this when the camp was re-opened in 1982 and 1985, in 1989 the Seer slaughtered a film crew making a movie based on the events of its prior bloodbaths. When a CSI team arrives to investigate, the Seer forces them to experience its prior summer-camp massacres from the perspective of the slain CSI teams, intent on physically and mentally torturing them as much as possible before killing them and claiming one of them as its new host.
• ULTRA!TALE (EP#1: Chara is portrayed as a far more malevolent than they are in canon. A spirit hell-bent on wiping out the underground, Chara, prior to the events of the story, had either assisted in or outright been the cause of Frisk massacring the entire underground. In the present, Chara absorbs Frisk's soul, taking over their body with plans to finish what they started. Killing Sans in a brutal fashion, when Asgore and Flowey come to help Sans in the fight by giving him the orange soul, Chara proceeds to violently murder both of them, despite presumably having family ties. When a now powered-up Sans manages to restrain them in order to try and get Frisk to reset, Chara gleefully reveals that Frisk had lost the ability to reset upon Chara absorbing their soul. Taking sadistic delight in the fact that they had screwed over any chance of Sans being able to save the underground, Chara prepares one last attack in order to finish him off, mockingly saying that he would be with his brother soon.
• Diary of a Madman (1963): The Horla is an evil spirit that enjoys possessing innocent people to sow mayhem and ruin their lives. The Horla's latest victim is a man who was forced to slaughter 4 people by the Horla, who then arranges the man's death so a new victim can be found. Settling on Simon Cordier as his next target, the Horla cruelly forces Cordier to kill his beloved pet bird and smash a bust of his late wife, all while tormenting him with the guilt of his family's death. Possessing Cordier, the Horla puppeteers his body to murder Cordier's lover and frame an innocent for the crime, then tries to control Cordier into killing multiple other people to finalize the ruination of his mental state.
• Island of Doomed Men (1940): Stephen Danel is a narcissistic Control Freak who lures paroled prisoners to his island for a supposed rehabilitation, only to enslave them for his brutal diamond mining operation. Dozens of men are overworked, starved, and flogged on a daily basis under Danel's watchful eye, and any men who present enough of a problem are simply killed. Danel murders anyone who could expose his operation, and cruelly kills the beloved pet monkey of his manservant. Danel further subjects his wife to humiliating control, keeping her locked inside their home and threatening her on a regular basis. When his wife Lorraine tries to escape his clutches, Danel plans to throw her into his mining pits and keep her alive for a "long, long time" as one of his slaves.
• Midnight Mass (2003): Father Alberto Palmeri, once a Pedophile Priest who ruined Father Joseph "Joe" Cahil's life by framing him for the rape of a young boy, sold out humanity to the incoming vampires and became "the worst of the bunch". Now acting as the leader of the New Jersey vampires, thus responsible for all the bloodshed and mayhem throughout the city, Palmeri regularly hosts human sacrifices, with the bodies of his many victims littering the congregation. Sensing Joe trying to kill him, Palmeri kidnaps him and gives him the choice to either become a vampire or watch as Palmeri drops Joe's friend Gwen on a wooden stake.
• Night of the Hunted (2023): The Sniper is a sadistic and misogynist conspiracy theorist who stalks Alice for seemingly no reason other than wanting to. Setting up on a billboard across a desolate gas station, the sniper murders the cashier clerk and Alice's affair partner John before he sadistically toys and taunts Alice through a radio as he fires at her, spending hours raving misogynistic and patriotic rants as he attempts to kill her, giving the woman false hope before ripping it away each time. Killing any help that arrives to try and save her, the sniper kills an elderly couple stopping for gas, making their suffering last as he coldly kills them, before he attempts to have Alice decide to either have herself be killed or the elderly couple's granddaughter murdered, before he decides to go down and kill them himself. A Psychopathic Manchild who has multiple reasons on why he could be like this, in which all are debunked, the sniper is a hateful coward who simply hates the state of the world and wishes to be left alone to do what he wants.
• Outlaw of Gor: Lara is a sadistic and ambitious woman determined to become the queen of Gor. Seducing and then marrying Marlenus, Lara murdered him after he made hero Cabot his heir, and then framed Cabot for the crime. Immediately undoing all of Marlenus's work reforming the country, Lara allowed slavery to run rampant, with hundreds being sold on and either worked to death in the palaces and mines or used as Sex Slaves. When a cave-in occurs in one of the mines when Lara is present, she orders the exits blocked which results in many people being Buried Alive. Bragging to her henchman Xeno that she did this for no other reason than because she could, Lara reveals that she plans on enslaving the entire population before murdering Xeno himself when he realizes what a monster he has put on the throne.
• The People Under the Stairs: "Mommy" and "Daddy" Robeson are a pair of incestuous siblings known as cutthroat landlords in a poor neighborhood, evicting tenants ruthlessly. Even worse in private, the Robesons abduct children from poor families and hideously abuse them, cutting out "the bad parts" from them and imprisoning them under the stairs while killing any intruders and feeding them to the imprisoned and starving kids. When the hero, Fool, is lost in their house, the Robesons spare no effort to try to find and kill him while abusing their abducted child Alice. When Alice discovers the truth and rejects "Mommy" as her mother, the latter tries to kill her, screaming at her to burn in hell.
• The Return of the Vampire (1943): Armand Tesla was an expert on vampires whose obsession with the dark creatures transformed him into one. Embracing his new form, Tesla would haunt the lands for centuries, killing and draining the blood of innocent women and even targeting the young girl Nicki in her bed. Though staked through the heart by Lady Jane and Professor Saunders, Tesla uses his powers to arrange the death of Saunders and revive himself. Tesla used the tragic Andreas for years as his slave, forcibly transforming him into a werewolf, and upon his revival, Tesla immediately tracks down the traumatized Andreas and enslaves him once again. Targeting the family of Jane, Tesla kills several civilians, then tries to turn Nicki into a vampire and force her to slaughter her own family. When Andreas is mortally wounded in Tesla's service, Tesla coldly orders him to crawl into a corner and die for outliving his usefulness.
• Venus (2022): The Servant of Lamaashtu—really the Venus apartment building's seemingly sweet owners Marga, Romina and Rosita—are a trio of sadistic witches. Intent on ushering in the end of days through their evil deity, they have spent decades driving children to madness and suicide in ritual to appease Lamaashtu's love of suffering, even keeping their victims' teeth and tears. To prepare young Alba to become Lamaashtu's vessel during a solar eclipse, the witches torment her with nightmares to corrupt her and kill any who interfere, including Alba's young mother Rocio.
• XX's Her Only Living Son: Satan himself fathers Andy to bring about the end times. Having spent his child's entire life tormenting the boy so he inflicts suffering upon others, when Andy refuses his destiny on his eighteenth birthday, Satan kills him along with his mother Cora in a rage.
• The Legends of the True Savior's Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Death in Love: Souther, the self-proclaimed Holy Emperor, maintains all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart but lacks the care for his dead mentor. Devoted to building a mausoleum to his own greatness, Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves children by the thousands to be worked to death and responds to a planned theft of his supplies by a rebel group fighting to free his slaves by poisoning the food, knowing the rebels will give it to their own children first. Meanwhile, Souther enjoys luxurious banquets from his palace and enjoys whimsically throws away much of the food, while ordering any of the slaves who dare to eat any of the abandoned scraps beaten. Confronting and cutting the tendons of his former subordinate and Rebel Leader Shu, Souther threatens to kill all his slaves lest the wounded Shu carry the final piece of Souther's pyramid to the top without dropping it. Even when Shu does make it to the top, Souther orders his archers to fire on him before personally finishing Shu off with a thrown spear to amuse himself.
• Skyward Sword:
  • Demon King Demise is the vengeful ruler of monsters and the progenitor of all evil in the franchise. Long ago, Demise attempted to steal the Triforce and Take Over the World, exterminating most of humanity in the process before finally being sealed away by the Goddess Hylia as the Imprisoned. Freed by Ghirahim much later after consuming the soul of Zelda, Hylia's reincarnation, Demise repays his servant by forcibly converting him back into a sword. Amused by Link's courage, Demise challenges him to a duel, promising that his friends, loved ones, and any opposition will soon follow him in death. Upon defeat, Demise spitefully curses Link, Zelda, and the rest of their people with a reincarnation of his hatred, "dooming them to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time".
  • Demon Lord Ghirahim is the sadistic, self-proclaimed ruler of the Surface, who seeks to free the Demon King and wipe out humanity. On his quest to capture Zelda, Ghirahim unleashes monsters across the Surface to further his goals and repeatedly encounters Link, attempting to torture him to death each time for his own amusement. After successfully kidnapping Zelda, Ghirahim agonizingly feeds her soul to the Imprisoned, reveals his true nature as the spirit of Demise's sword, and summons an army of monsters to buy time, saying they can die by Link's blade or his own. Upon Demise's release, Ghirahim gleefully gives up his life to return to his sword form, content with the knowledge that Link and the rest of the world are doomed to his master's destructive ambitions.
• A Link Between Worlds: Yuga is the Sorcerer of Lorule, bent on kidnapping Princess Zelda and the Seven Sages—some of whom are children—in order to resurrect Ganon. Arriving in Hyrule, Yuga turns numerous soldiers into paintings that are fully conscious, yet unable to move or speak, and does the same to Link, intending to leave him to rot on a wall for the rest of eternity. After successfully capturing the Sages, completing his ritual, and merging with Ganon himself to obtain the Triforce of Power, Yuga is temporarily subdued by Princess Hilda of Lorule. Eventually revealed to be a servant of Hilda in her conspiracy to steal Hyrule's Triforce and save the dying land of Lorule, Yuga gleefully betrays her, steals the Triforce of Wisdom, and reveals his true plan: to use the completed Triforce to destroy Lorule and recreate it in his own image, while also dooming Hyrule in the process. A treacherous fiend obsessed with his own desires over the needs of his people, Yuga engages Link in a merciless final battle to gain the full power of the Triforce and condemn both worlds to oblivion.
• "Avengers of Space", by Henry Kuttner: The alien brain known as Droom is a powerful, godlike being that reigns over Mars, or Kathor. A childish sadist, Droom subjects countless beings to painful torture, with cruel games and wide-scale sacrifice it invokes upon its followers. Upon the arrival of Terry Shawn, Droom tries to have him and his crew tortured, with Terry's lover sacrificed.
• Beleth Station, by Bryan Smith & Samantha Kolesnik:
  • Robert Livingston is the mastermind of the horrible Gauntlet and the cesspool of violence that Beleth Station has become. To satisfy his own lust for power, Robert created a council of "Elders", empowered sadistic thugs like Rebecca Lawson, and used them to enslave the town for their cruel whims. Robert would oversee the Gauntlet being used to force kidnapped drifters into horrible acts of depravity and violence, all while Robert indulged in his own vile ways by raping and torturing women for fun. When a rebellion tries to rise up against him, Robert has the members brutally tortured and tries to wipe them out, as well as forcing lead Krista to torture two women to death to save her lover's life.
  • Rebecca Lawson is one of the most powerful people still remaining in Beleth Station. A Sadistic fanatic of torture and abuse, Rebecca participates in the regime by running the Gauntlet where victims are forced to run, kill, and torture one another for Rebecca's pleasure, with the "victors" simply taken back to her home so she can rape and abuse them before carving off their faces while they still live.
• "I Like Blondes", by Robert Bloch: The alien known only as "Ambrose Beers" is a member of a group of "collectors" who come to Earth to hunt humans. While his compatriots have their own fixations, Beers' preferred victims are blondes, who he lures into his clutches then kidnaps into space. Beers' method of "collecting" is uniquely vile amidst his group in that, rather than simply stuffing or mounting their bodies, Beers consumes the humans he captures; he has done so to over a hundred humans, and ends the story about to add another victim to his "collection".
• "The Last Thrilling Wonder Story", by Gene Wolfe: Gene Wolfe, the author himself, is a sociopath with a god complex who demands nothing but strict adherence to his story from Brick Bronson, the pulp hero set to defeat the Rigellian aliens. Initially planning a catastrophic Alien Invasion, Wolfe is enraged when Bronson prays to God and has the church destroyed with innocents inside before unleashing Lucifer Satanus on the world. After Lucifer destroys almost the entire cast and world, Wolfe intends for Bronson to be consumed with fire for daring to desire his own destiny.
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: The Cook is one of the leaders of the mutiny aboard the Grampus and the most bloodthirsty member of the crew. Leading a slaughter of the loyalist officers, the Cook hurls a man overboard to drown and kills over twenty others with his axe to knock them into the waves. The Cook plots to go pirate and kill the crews he encounters, while also setting other rivals out to sea to drown.
• TodHunter Moon trilogy: Mitza Draddenmora Draa is a treacherous woman who has no concept of friendship and no genuine love for anyone. Envious of her stepsister Cassandra for marrying Dan Moon—despite no longer caring for the latter—Mitza murdered Cassi with an envelope full of Sand Flies, putting Cassi through a lengthy, fatal illness. Allying herself with Oraton-Marr, Mitza kidnaps Dan and leads a pack of Garmin to abduct nearly everyone in the PathFinder village so that Oraton-Marr can make them dive for a submerged Orm Egg, knowing that many of them would not be able to breathe underwater and would not survive the task; Mitza also tries to ensure that her 12-year-old niece Tod would be taken as well. Remaining with her allies as they escape with the egg, Mitza is willing to drown the Apothecary's baby to force the Apothecary to assist them and prevent interference. Seeing no further benefit to her alliance, Mitzxa plots to kill Tod with Sand Flies to spite Cassi's memory, at the same time aiding the Red Queen in invading the Castle in hopes that she would cause death and destruction, and nearly succeeding in poisoning her niece.
• Virtus Draconis: Meredith Staunton is the self-serving, self-assured princess of the kingdom of Shaddhai. Unhappy with the societal progress the world has seen in comparison to her kingdom, Meredith launches an all-out campaign to subdue the world into following her kingdom's brand of conservative order. The first of her misdeeds is ordering one of her men to use a forbidden, incurable poison on protagonist Claude Virtus. Upon receiving word of the man's failure to kill Claude, Meredith promptly offs him without hesitation; she then commits blasphemy against the magical world by forcefully extracting the soldier's soul from his body and banishing it to Hell. Among Meredith's more despicable crimes is the use of Child Soldiers, trained at a young age to kill; making use of black ops squads to carry out murders in the dead of night, without care for collateral damage or innocent lives lost; and regularly disregarding the counsel of her inner circle. Towards the end, Meredith primes a magic missile with the souls of her personal warship's crew—extracted with their bodies literally torn apart—and propelling it with the souls of her warlocks, thus firing it at Prelid, a nearby village that is not a threat to her, just to get to the protagonists.
• Poltergeist: The Legacy's "Brother's Keeper": The Soul Chaser Demon is a hulking demon with centuries of hunting down escapees from Hell to return them to eternal torment. Having left trails of bodies across the centuries, the Demon hunts down the escaped Jimmy, brother of Nick, and promptly massacres those who cross his path. Upon reaping Jimmy's soul, the Demon decides to claim Nick's as well for the enjoyment of damning a good man.
• Windom Earle is an obsessive sociopath who serves as Dale Cooper's most personal foe and a testament to the belief that some humans are no better than the entities residing inside the Black Lodge. Formerly Cooper's best friend and a celebrated FBI special agent before falling in love with the evil of the Black Lodge, Earle moonlighted as a prolific Serial Killer, murdering his own wife Caroline once she found out the horrible truth. Caring only for his desire to become Cooper's greatest enemy and the rewards that the dark forces of the Black Lodge could offer him, Earle starts another killing spree in order to play a twisted game of chess against Cooper, one where Earle's victims are the chess pieces. Earle's need to humiliate others extends to his only companion, the mentally-impaired Leo Johnson, whom he regularly abuses and eventually murders to cut off loose ends. Once Earle has entered the Black Lodge and taken Cooper's soul as a trophy, Earle intends on harnessing its demonic spirits to give himself the power to reshape the Earth itself to his own liking.
• The Price of Fear's "Lot 132": Nathaniel Jeremiah Blackwell was a misogynistic murderer who gave his children poison and hacked his wife to death. After his death, his wicked soul persists within a portrait that remains soaked with the blood of his victims. Upon going to a suitable new owner, Blackwell possesses the father to repeat the same murders and leave the man to face the consequences, which is the fate that befalls Michael Emsley, a friend of Vincent Price, who only learns in time to rescue one final family.
• "A Dance with Darkness": Hugh Budleigh is the baron of Budleigh Hall and a retired admiral in the British Royal Navy. While presenting a dignified front befitting a Regency-era nobleman, Hugh became obsessed with regaining his family's lost glory—his father having squandered the family fortune—and discovered a ritual he could use to do so. Hunting down the components under the cover of The Napoleonic Wars, Hugh summoned an angel and allowed it to mate with his sickly wife. This produces a supernaturally handsome human-seeming son named Alexander and a horrifyingly monstrous Nephilim—who the traumatized midwife prophesied would bring about calamity. Only caring about his family in terms of how they can benefit him, Hugh disdains his biological daughter Charlotte; keeps his bedridden wife locked away and grotesquely pregnant with half-human horrors; plans to marry Alexander into a wealthy family once he comes of age; and callously has the Nephilim murder anyone who attempts to uncover or expose his secrets—including his own daughter.
• Universe issues #55-58—"Pirate Plunder Panic" arc (primarily): Captain Metal, formerly Metal Sonic v3.3, after seemingly being destroyed in Blaze's dimension before being found and repaired by Doc Ratcheturn. Repaying his kindness by stealing his ship and presumably killing the good robot, Metal would proceed to usurp control of the robotic Blackguard Pirates by destroying their leader Captain Boltbeard and using his destroyed remains to further upgrade himself. Metal would then lead his crew in a rampage across Blaze's world, plundering the seas, abusing his crew for for any minor failures, and threatening them with death. Metal would also cut of the heads of any robotic rivals and put the still-functioning heads on sticks to serve as warnings to other pirates, and even feed captured enemies to his pet Kraken to "grind their bones". After finding a Sol Emerald and a multidimensional super-weapon he renamed the Egg O' War, Metal would desire to steal all the Sol Emeralds to power his weapon, not caring that without the Sol Emeralds the world would be destroyed. Desiring to go to other worlds and rain down death and destruction upon whomever he wished, Metal attempted to use Blaze as a battery to power the Egg O' War by torturously removing the Emeralds' energy while forcing her to watch her world and friends be destroyed. When that failed, Metal attempted to fuse with the Egg O' War in one last attempt to destroy the other worlds.
• Beyond Shadowgate (1993): Belezaar is a snakeman who feigned being an advisor to King Aronde. Unsated with everything a man could have, Belezaar murders the king and frames the king's son Prince Erik in an attempt to have him executed, while kidnapping Aronde's daughter Princess Elizabeth. In addition, Belezaar has monsters terrorize the countryside, in one case attempting to burn a village, placing the entire population at risk of being entirely slaughtered. Belezaar also randomly has people thrown into the dungeon, with no regards to them potentially dying. When Erik comes close to saving his sister, Belezaar incapacitates him, not only to keep him from interfering, but also to watch as he tries to have Elizabeth sacrificed to the Warlock Lord, with humanity to be slaughtered next.
• Do Us Part: Lord Vollo is Margerita's husband who is revealed to have tortured and murdered his prior wives. Among his victims were Margerita's sisters Luisa and Carlotta, the latter of whom he manipulated their father into letting him marry with the father's debt. Claiming at least six wives, Vollo would chain them up and kill them in his Torture Cellar, indicated to be as sacrifices to demonic forces, and also imprisoned a talking cat to prevent it from stopping his murders.
• Gene Troopers: Ithaka Wassali is the true mastermind behind the game's events. Having discovered a sapient parasitic race she can control, Wassali implants a parasite into President Horacious Prowler's mind and manipulates him into becoming a warmongering dictator, and establishes the dreaded Gene Troopers unit, made by converting captured refugees and prisoners into cyborg minions loyal only to Wassali. Having entire populations of planets killed or converted to Gene Troopers, including causing the extinction of The Greys at some point, when the hero Bridger Johanssen tries saving his daughter Maureen from Wassali, Wassali instead had Maureen trapped behind a force field and forces the giant parasite inside Maureen to attack Bridger, taunting that she will make Maureen watch her father die.
• Laika: Aged Through Blood: The Two-Beak God is the tyrannical, bigoted ruler of the birds. Longing to see all non-bird creatures eradicated, the Two-Beak God allowed his soldiers to keep the Wastelands' Hopeless War going by having them all torture and murder any creatures who didn't support or bow down to the birds. Even his own soldiers weren't exempt from this, as deserters, rebels, and birds who refused to fight were slaughtered. Upon hearing of heroine Laika's invincibility, the Two-Beak God had her daughter, Puppy, kidnapped in hopes of using her blood to extract the source of this power. When this fails, the Two-Beak God has Laika lured into a trap within his domain. After successfully capturing Laika and having the birds' rebel leader killed, the Two-Beak God attempts to drop a nuclear bomb onto the Wastelands, not caring that thousands of his own troops and the birds living in the Undernest will be caught in the blast.
• Lies of P: Arlecchino, the self-professed King of Riddles, is a puppet who views murder as an art of blood. After his Ergo is awakened, Arlecchino tortures his master into revealing the location of Arche Abbey. Driven by a bloodlust for humans, Arlecchino embarks on a horrifying spree as a Serial Killer, culminating in the chilling murder of the Venigni family—done so purely for the perverse joy of watching their happiness end. Sparing Lorenzini Venigni solely out of curiosity to how he'd react to his parents' deaths, Arlecchino's actions mentally scar Venigni to the point of implementing the Grand Covenant with Giuseppe Geppetto, which indirectly allows the latter to trigger the catastrophic Puppet Frenzy. Arlecchino's depravity only evolves when he is later imprisoned, as he taps into the city's phone networks to terrorize survivors such as Adelina with riddles that lead to lethal traps. The player will receive riddles from this remorseless puppet and may confront him if they answer all 5 of his riddles, revealing a creature that embodies humanity's most monstrous potential. Arlecchino's limited resources only highlight his innate wickedness, using cunning and malice to enact chaos and terror upon Krat.
• Nun Massacre: The Mother Apollonia is the head disciplinarian of St. Cecilia's Preparatory School, where the young students are physically, psychologically, and sexually humiliated to "cure" them of their demons and keep them in line. Focusing all her attention to a young Janie McDonnell, Mother Apollonia psychologically and physically tortures Janie for her entire time at the boarding school, even raping her with a cross one night to mentally break her. Her abusive teachings are passed to Janie's mother, who follows her abuse against Janie to "cure her", which eventually causes Janie to kill herself, with Mrs. McDonnell's remorse years later eventually painting the plot of the game, taking the form of a hallucination of the Nun, which represented all of Mother Apollonia's cruelty.
• The Enigma of Salazar House: "The Devil" approached grieving mother Isabela Salazar after the death of her newborn Javier. He makes a deal with the mother in order to get her newborn back, having her murder her entire family before killing herself, causing the slain family to be stuck as ghosts, unable to move on to the afterlife and tied to the house. Stalking reporter Elisa Muñoz, the Devil manages to get her to investigate the house, infiltrating her mind to lead to her to completing the ritual for his own goals. In one ending, after Isabel completes the ritual and possesses Elisa, the Devil resurrects Javier, only to steal him away from her in an act of cruelty, leaving Isabel alone with her suffering family. In another ending, the Devil manages to sell Elisa's soul to him, making her a servant in which she is forced to raise Javier, the Devil plans to use for nefarious purposes.
• Shade: Wrath of Angels: The Angel of Faith is secretly the Dark Angel who, several millennia ago, instigated a war in heaven in an attempted takeover, leading to the near-extinction of angelkind. Sealed by the last three Holy Angels, the Angel of Faith, upon being unwittingly awakened by the hero's archeologist brother, had the population of an entire town Dragged Off to Hell, before manipulating the hero on a quest to reclaim the Holy Angels' souls required for the Angel of Faith to regain her ultimate power, in exchange for the hero's brother. Once restored to her invincible original form, the Angel of Faith reveals she never have intentions of fulfilling her promise, and with her powers restored, she will have the hero cast to the underworld too, before restarting the war to conquer the land of Gods and mortals.
• Wild Blood: Morgana Le Fay, posing as King Arthur's loyal handmaiden, secretly covets the throne and kingdom for herself. When Arthur seeks her help after discovering Sir Lancelot's affair with Guinevere, Morgana used Excalibur's magic to open the Hellgates, unleashing The Legions of Hell into Albion to conquer the land. As Arthur attempts retaliation, Morgana has Arthur sealed in cursed armor to become her enforcer, aware of his actions but unable to do anything about it. After an unsuccessful attempt as a dragon to kill the returning Sir Lancelot, Morgana sends her monsters to ravage whole populations to draw out Lancelot, and later uses Guinevere as a hostage before revealing she had Guinevere locked in the same cursed armor as well, forcing Lancelot to fight his beloved Guinevere nearly to the death.
• "Sins": Governor James Reading, pretending to be the firm but fair head of a rehabilitation unit for sex offenders, is in truth far more depraved than many of the inmates. An utterly sociopathic Serial Rapist, Reading had his head guard, Pike, isolate and then brutally beat inmates for the most minor of offenses and would himself sexually torture them for hours on end. At least 8 men were subjected to Reading's depravity, with the implication being that nearly all the prisoners he housed fell victim to him. Not content with simply victimizing the prison's inmates, Reading also subjected his own daughter to years of rape, and upon her telling him she was pregnant attempted to bully her into getting an abortion before trying to rape her again, eventually proving to be so evil that Boyd lets her get off scot-free for murdering him in retaliation.

Yes to Daryl and a big one to Tsukamoto! Good find!

• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976): The white Street Thunder warlord is the most savage of the gang's quartet of leaders terrorizing Los Angeles. Emotionlessly swearing the Cholo for all out war in retaliation to a police attack; he spends the chaos driving around looking for civilians to shoot, settling on an ice cream man and little girl.

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• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW):
  • Dragon is the father of Pantheon and the Greater-Scope Villain for most of the story. He is one of two children of Lord Brahma, meant to personify destruction while his sister Dreamer maintains creation. Together the two create life on Earth, but Dragon is never satisfied and constantly destroys what they create, eventually creating Pantheon as his ultimate project. When his sister’s dreams give birth to humanity, Dragon refuses to accept them having the ability to create and destroy on their own and spends countless millennia infiltrating the dreams of his sister and corrupting human souls into evil. Eventually, Dreamer creates a mortal soul to imprison Dragon and put a stop to his evil. However, Dragon corrupts the soul, Takeshi Tatsuo, into evil and, with his daughter Kistune, founding the Foot Clan and throws Japan into a century of bloodshed. The two work on freeing Dragon, but when Takeshi is slain by Oroku Maji and reincarnated as Maji’s son Saki, Dragon corrupts him to evil as well, including killing his own father. When Shredder realises his mistakes and commits seppuku, Dragon has Takeshi attempt to combine their souls so Dragon would be free to destroy humanity and conquer all realms. Seemingly convincing Saki to merge with him, Dragon orders Kistsune to sacrifice her granddaugther Karai to him so his resurrection will be complete.
  • Madame Null is an interdimensional businesswoman intent on creating mutant slaves and selling them across dimensions. In the past, she and her cousin tried to take the power of the mystical Turnstone. When the stone’s caretaker Cherubae escaped, Null had her captured brethren, The Four Winds, subjected to years of torture in an attempt to break them into servitude. Null comes to Earth and creates the Null Group, attempting to create mutants, which results in most of them dying, while an attempt to create mutants from the DNA in many animals ends in the deformed Seymour Gutz, whom she has isolated and experimented upon. Null has doctor Lindsey Baker kidnapped and threatens her to make her help them create mutants. Null has animals across New York stolen from pet shops to mutate them and tricks a former child soldier into being experimented upon, eventually planning to mutate and enslave the entire population of New York. When the detonation of a mutagen bomb turns many people into mutants, Null has the inhabitants of Mutant Town infected with serum that turns them into monsters and endangers the town because mutants being recognised as sentient beings would be bad for her business. Null joins the Rat Kings' Armageddon Game, even suggesting they take it beyond Earth, and hires Jasper Barlow to create turtle doppelgangers for the plan, intent on letting most of Earth burn as long as she gets mutants to enslave.
  • Doctor Jasper Barlow was a world famous surgeon whom the mutagen bomb turned into a rat mutant. Determined to regain his human looks and fame, Barlow tricks many inhabitants of Mutant Town into coming to his clinic, promising to make them more human while using them as guinea pigs for his surgeries. Many mutants end up dying, to Barlow’s complete apathy. He is hired by Madame Null to make turtle doppelgangers, resulting in him performing surgeries on dozens of mutants. Barlow’s favorite test subject is Bonnie, member of the Punk Frogs, on whom he used Dragon’s scale to revive her after his surgeries killed her, renaming her Venus and continuing experiments that resulted in her losing memories of her old life. Initially befriending Donatello because of the latter’s respect for his work, Barlow tries to have him, Alopex and Sheena Murphy dissected after they learn his true nature. After his clinic is destroyed, Barlow helps Rat King to separate Krang from Leatherhead as long as he gets the latter as his test subject. He uses Dragon’s scale to painfully control Leatherhead and have him kidnap mutants for his surgeries. When the Turtles and their allies venture to save young mutant who he kidnapped, Barlow uses powers given to him by the scale to show them their greatest' fears, before just attempting to kill them.

Edited by EmperorGeode on Nov 5th 2023 at 8:08:12 AM

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