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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

TheLaurelCrownedRaven Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
#38976: Mar 10th 2024 at 5:06:10 AM

Here’s the other Nightmaretale candidate, and my briefest proposal so far.

Who is Chara’s father? What has he done?

He isn’t a literal monster. He doesn’t have any supernatural powers. Nothing indicates he’s even aware of the Underground. But he still manages to be one of the vilest characters in the story, and certainly the worst human.

Appearing in a flashback in a side story revealing Chara’s origins, Chara’s father was a pimp who forced Chara and three other children into prostitution, even calling his own child ‘merchandise’. The father also frequently beat Chara because they would always fight back against the clients.

Out of anger at having to compensate his clients, the father threw Chara into confinement for three days. However, this experience awakened Chara’s Determination. Breaking free and manifesting the knife that would become their Iconic Item, Chara killed their father and escaped. Unfortunately, the father’s henchmen killed all the other children before Chara could rescue them. This ordeal gave rise to Chara’s animosity to other humans. They also blamed themselves for what happened to the children, Memoryhead using this guilt to manipulate them further.

Mitigating issues?

OK, at least Memoryhead had a few moments of Evil Is Cool. Chara’s father stands out as the story’s only Hate Sink.

Heinousness?

He’s a very minor character, but that didn’t stop Shou Tucker or Suguru Kamoshida from qualifying. No other character does what he does to children, let alone their own child.

Final verdict?

[tup]

SalohcinPancakes Since: Mar, 2023
#38977: Mar 10th 2024 at 6:04:07 AM

Hello welcome to my first Complete Monster Proposal!

What is the work?

Hitman (2016) is a stealth game where you play as a cloned assassin named Agent 47 who is tasked to kill people. it is a sequel to the Hitman games and the first part of the World of Assassination Trilogy.

Hitman (2016): Patient Zero is a separate campaign of this game part of the "Game of the Year" edition, where Agent 47 has to stop an evil cult from relating a deadly virus worldwide

Who is the candidate/what has he done?

Owen Cage is the titular secondary antagonist of this campaign. he is the nihilistic partner of the Liberation Cult Leader Oybek Nabazov & the man who developed the Nabazov virus, he serves as the main target of the 4th and final mission: "Patient Zero"

Owen Cage was an eco-warrior & terrorist who wanted environmental collapse through extreme measures, he exposed conspiracy theories under the alias "Black Tide". He was also a virus researcher working for the Ether biotech company, before he resigned & moved on to join the Liberation Doomsday Cult and personally developed the infectious hemorrhagic Nabazov virus with the cult leader Oybek Nabazov and planned to use it to infect the world, starting with Oybek attempt to unleash the Nabazov virus in Bangkok until Oybek's death.

After Oybek’s death as well as the sleeper Agents Oybek sent out by ICA Agent 47’s hands, Owen Cage was the last sleeper agent alive, and he infected himself with the virus so he could become its Patient Zero and spread the virus across the world and kill everyone which would have been a straight-up omnicide attempt for no reason other than nihilism, first he was about to head to Sydney on a plane from Tokyo, Japan and infect everyone there and beyond in the world, but before he could do so he got apprehended by authorities at the Tokyo airport for doing a suspicious cult ritual, and when the virus began taking effect & showing symptoms, Owen got escorted to the Hokkaido Gama Facility Hospital, where he was quarantined and placed under the care of Klaus Liebleid who cared more for weaponizing the Nabazov virus before Cage dies than caring for Cage himself.

Even at the hospital, (determinally) Cage can still get what he wants and spread the virus through Agent 47 or an unprotected nurse, who can go on to infect the entire hospital of up to 141 people at most whom Agent 47 unfortunately has to put down to contain the spread. (it's implied that Agent 47 canonically killed 47 infected innocents by an achievement) but Owen Cage & Klaus (also determinant-infected civilians) were assassinated by Agent 47 in the end, ending the Liberation Cult's reign of terror for good.

Heinousness?

Hitman has a high heinous standard, but the dude attempts to commit omnicide, which completely throws the heinous standard out the window, even compared to rapist Edward Wade, and serial killer Etta Davis.

Also, he made the virus in the first place that kills you quickly in a very painful way, Oybek Nabazov and his goons would have never been able to do their bioterror attacks in Bangkok, Sapienza & Colorado if not for Owen Cage

Mitigating factors/redeeming qualities?

he may seem like a GDV at first because of Lieblied's drugs that prolong Cage's life but at the same time make him delirious and delusional, but he really isn't. he injects himself with the virus willingly and does a cult ritual in the mission briefing, he is also apparently anti-semetic due to believing in "Elders of Zion", and at times in the hospital, he is seen muttering Liberation quotes and prophesies which shows he still believes in their nihilistic beliefs while still delirious.

Although Lieblied gives him drugs to make the virus's effects inside Owen last longer and to keep him alive but is in constant suffering and agony to the point where he is weakened & delirious & doesn't react to anything, it isn't played for sympathy. If anything Owen Cage does deserve it.

He is Oybek Nabazov's partner but nothing shows that they care for each other and their partnership is likely professional.

Verdict?

I'm giving him a yes[tup]

Edited by SalohcinPancakes on Mar 10th 2024 at 6:18:20 AM

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#38978: Mar 10th 2024 at 9:20:02 AM

I know Skaar's here twice; one's for Ghost Rider; the other for Marvel (Strange's tree).

  • The Saint
  • Ajin:
    • Manga:
      • "Satō", real name Samuel T. Owen, is a bold, brilliant, and charismatic, yet utterly amoral Ajin. A skilled soldier, Satō awakened as an Ajin after being caught and killed by a criminal syndicate following his own murder of hundreds in the underworld. Seeking the ultimate challenge, Satō frees other Ajin to challenge the whole Japanese government, forming a resistance movement while incapacitating any Ajin uninterested in his cause. Threatening to decapitate protagonist Kei Nagai when the latter refuses to join him and make Kei watch as a new head regrows to take his body, Satō begins planning to throw the whole country into turmoil under the guise of revolution. Personally killing hundreds in a plane crash to destroy a pharmaceutical company testing on Ajin, Satō proceeds to murder a list of targets before aiming to take control of Japan altogether. Tricking his way into a military base, Satō swiftly takes control of it, using the jets for Suicide Attacks he revives from repeatedly to murder Japanese officials, seeking to murder his way to escape Japan and make his way to a new country to seek more entertainment.
      • Minister Yuuwa Tokui uses his position in the Ajin Control Commission to line his pockets. Cutting a deal with a pharmaceutical company, the Minister allows Ajin to be tortured through experimentation to develop new drugs, with one suffering for years. Capturing more Ajin to continue the cruel experiments, the Minister only relents to negotiate for peace with Satō after his own life is threatened, and when double-crossed, furiously tries to torture and encase Satō's unarmed former subordinate in cement.
    • Anime: "Satō", real name Samuel T. O'Brian, is an even more vicious version of the cunning Ajin terrorist. Once a soldier discharged for his trigger-happy brutality, Satō discovers his immortality and chooses to entertain himself by forming an Ajin extremist group claiming to fight for Ajin rights. Toppling a building to destroy a pharmaceutical company as part of his plan, Satō kills countless before stealing canisters of nerve gas and capturing a military base, from which he threatens to fire them with missiles and destroy Japan lest the government yield to his demands. Rejecting the offered peaceful compromise as "boring", Satō fires one of his missiles upon the Prime Minister's office, the blast killing many in such a brutal attack that causes many of his own subordinates to defect out of horror.
  • Crime and Punishment, by Osamu Tezuka: In this Lighter and Softer adaptation of the famousnovel, Svidrigailov remains a dark reflection of Rodion Raskolnikov but with none of the redeeming qualities of his original counterpart. Re-imagined as a communist rebel convinced of his own superiority as an Übermensch, Svidrigailov murders a landowner and mockingly smirks at the cops for failing to find enough evidence to arrest him. Seeing a kindred spirit in Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov attempts to recruit him to the People's Liberation Army, and tries to murder the boy for rejecting his offer. Leading the takeover of St. Petersburg during Red October, Svidrigailov oversees the massacre of civilians with nothing but glee, laughing as homes are torched and explosions destroy the city.
  • Freedom Fighters: The Ray (Earth-X): Overgirl lacks her canon counterpart's genuine love for her husband. The leader of the New Reichsmen and chief weapon of the Axis powers, Overgirl prosecutes a brutal war campaign that has left New York a burnt-out ruin, leveling entire cities in the hunt for "undesirables". After killing three of the Freedom Fighters, including the original Ray himself, Overgirl learns the location of the resistance base and leads an assault to slaughter the thousands of rebels down to the last man. Along the way, the New Reichsmen capture the hero Vibe, whose ability to traverse universes Overgirl plans to use for a Nazi conquest of the multiverse.
  • "Age Of Chivalry": Craig Sutton is an animalistic Serial Rapist. Terrifying even his own mother with his vicious misogyny, Craig grew to hate women at a young age to due to perceived social rejection. Befriending a man named Murray Watkins at a restaurant the two work at, Craig manipulated the latter into aiding him in brutally raping a woman. Making Murray his driver, Craig went onto rape a further three women at knifepoint, with his brutality even disgusting hardened officers and causing one of his victims to commit suicide. When the police began to suspect him after a victim identifies him, Craig bludgeoned Murray to death in order to cover up his tracks. Despite his low victim count, Craig stood out as one of the most brutal rapists in the entire show.
  • Darkman vs. Army of Darkness:
    • The Queen of Darkness is a spirit who possesses Julie Hastings to ravage Darkman's city with Deadites. Having people killed en masse, the Queen plots to use the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis to empower herself and create a worldwide empire of the dead. When her minions fail her, the Queen resurrects Darkman's nemesis Robert G. Durant, and keeps killing to revive the fallen as more Deadite soldiers.
    • Robert G. Durant, revived by the Queen of Darkness as her "field marshall", hopes to rule the empire of the dead with her. To bolster the Queen's forces, Durant beats people to death or severe trauma so they can be crafted into new Deadites. Dispatched to capture the heroes, Durant lures them out by taking over a news station, and threatens to cut a new anchor's fingers off one by one, lest Darkman confront him.
  • Irredeemable: The Plutonian was once a superhero who only saved lives for the adoration it brought him. However, his inability to handle any form of criticism led to him snapping and becoming the most evil being the world had ever known. Starting his evil campaign by painfully lobotomizing his teenage sidekick, Plutonian later massacred the population of Sky City, numbering in the millions, to keep a mistake he made from going public. After hunting down his former teammates and brutally murdering them and their entire families, children and babies included, Plutonian annihilates the country of Singapore solely because an ambassador from said country lied to him. Seemingly locked away forever on an alien planet, Plutonian rejects an alien's attempts to redeem him and leads a breakout with a group of psychotic criminals. Returning to Earth, Plutonian carves his own insignia into the U.S.A., killing thousands of people, slaughters entire cities and uses dozens of superheroes as ammo to fling into space. After trying to murder the last remaining superheroes, Plutonian is fully willing to let the entire Earth perish due to radiation poisoning just to spite his nemesis, Qubit, only saving the planet because his own life is on the line. Though having many possible excuses and sympathetic moments throughout the story, it is slowly revealed that Plutonian was ultimately nothing more than a childish sociopath who would kill innumerable innocents just because he wasn't universally loved, while caring for no one but himself.
  • Wonder Woman (2011 pilot): Veronica Cale is the corrupt CEO of a pharmaceutical company planning to create Super Soldiers. To test her product, Cale peddles dangerous drugs to poor teenagers from minority communities; the drug's side effects make their users bleed from their eyes before dying via catastrophic heart failure. Cale further refines her serum by conducting experiments on over a dozen trafficked subjects, leaving them horribly deformed. When Wonder Woman attacks her facility, Cale happily allows her employees to be brutalized so that footage of the illegal trespass can be used against her nemesis.
  • Amphibia: King Aldrich Leviathan, the previous ruler of Newtopia and the father of the current ruler King Andrias, is a megalomaniacal tyrant desiring to rule Amphibia for eternity. Having implicitly invaded other worlds during his kingship, Aldrich tasks his son with strip-mining a medieval Earth and exterminating mankind, expressing nothing but contempt for the "primitive species". Upon assimilating his consciousness into the Core, Aldrich grooms his son into becoming the ruthless monarch he was. After being defeated and losing his connection to his host Marcy Wu, Aldrich activates his final gambit: sending an artificial moon to crash into Amphibia just to deny the heroes their victory.
  • The Torrential Turnabout (Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, & Zero Escape): Miles Murdoch is one-third of Sheol and the mastermind behind Sheol's Room and Board. Obsessed with games such as the Zero Escape series, Murdoch decided to create his own version of the Nonary Games. Kidnapping nine people and throwing them into a bunker designed for his game, Murdoch designs the game so that only four of the nine will escape and sets things up so that the players will mistrust and kill each other. Five years after the Room and Board concludes, Murdoch blackmails survivor Detective Klein to force him to silence Detective Bishop in order to stop him from discovering his identity. When trapped in a courtroom by Zero, Murdoch murders his partner Judge Harper to make sure she doesn't reveal anything in the events that will follow, and later tries to pin the identity of Sheol on Mia Fey and Diego Armando to save his own skin.
  • Natural Selection: Ragyo Kiryuin, CEO of REVOCs and matriarch of the Kiryuin Clan, is the monstrously abusive mother of Ryuko Kiryuin, Satsuki Kiryuin, and Nui Harime. Wanting to assimilate all of humanity into the life fibers, Ragyo experimented on her own children in order to infuse them with the fibers. Treating Satsuki like trash for being human, Ragyo would sexually abuse her own children, both by doing it herself as well as having Ryuko and Nui rape Satsuki. Turning Nui into a psychopathic assassin and Ryuko into a bloodthirsty mass murdering tyrant, Ragyo would send Nui to kill Satsuki and her own husband Soichiro after the former fakes her death.
  • One Piece fanfic This Bites!: Shiki "the Golden Lion", once having tried to conquer the world before being stopped by Gol D. Roger, announces his return by dropping ten fully-crewed battleships on Marine headquarters, killing everyone aboard. Afterwards, he strands the Straw Hat Pirates on his base island of Merveille, where the entire animal population has been mutated to become hyper-aggressive and more efficient at killing by Shiki's underling, Dr. Indigo. Shiki intends to use the mutant animals to destroy the East Blue and everyone in it as revenge for Roger stopping him long ago, using Cross's snail transceiver to force the world to watch the East Blue die, and plans to use Merveille's local village as a testing ground for the beasts. He only relents from trying to kill the Straw Hats when Nami and Perona agree to join his crew, whereupon he tears open the bunker meant to protect the villagers from the beasts, mocking Nami for not having thought to include sparing the villagers in their deal. When Nami and Perona betray him, Shiki, no longer wanting them on his crew, poisons them both. After being defeated by Luffy and Bartolomeo, Shiki is locked in Impel Down, only to be freed by Blackbeard. Joining Blackbeard's crew, Shiki and Byrnndi World drop a massively enlarged battleship on Marineford during the Summit War, and Shiki tries to kill Whitebeard.
  • Fairy May Cry (Devil May Cry & Fairy Tail): Mundus is the Demon Emperor of the Underworld. Originally a god called Pluto, after interfering with the mortal world, he was stripped of his power and banished to the Underworld where he eventually overthrew the then-ruler, and became the Emperor of Demons. Thousands of years before the start of the series, Mundus attempted to conquer Earthland, only being foiled by the demon Sparda and his alliance with the dragons. Since then, Mundus has made many attempts to escape to resume this conquest while taking every opportunity to get revenge on Sparda, sending demons to kill his wife Eva in front of his sons Dante and Virgil, leading to Dante and Vergil's tragic origins. This also made Sparda reluctant to reveal that he was one of the co-founders of the Fairy Tail guild, fearing that Mundus would send his demons to target the guild out of revenge as well. It's later revealed that he was the one who cursed Zeref, making him responsible for the 400 years of death and destruction caused by Zeref's creations and fanatical worshipers, as well as corrupting Fairy Tail's second guild master and co-founder Precht becoming Hades, the guild master of Grimoire Heart, in the effort of drawing out Zeref to continue to torment him. Mundus is responsible for almost every tragedy in the series in his effort to conquer other worlds with the intention of enslaving and exterminating humanity, while getting revenge on Sparda by going after his children and their allies.
  • Pappu Thekedar is a sadistic member of Bansi's group who takes extreme joy out of deflowering the young girls. When one of the girls fought back against him, he shoved chili powder up her private parts, laughing sadistically at her torturous pain. His actions and behavior manage to disgust even the other members of Bansi's group.
  • Europa (1991): Siggy is a representative of the Werewolves, a terrorist organization masquerading as a resistance movement fighting to liberate Germany from Allied occupation. Introduced having two little boys sacrifice themselves to assassinate Mayor Ravenstein, Siggy works closely with Katharina Hartmann to manipulate her naïve husband, Leopold Kessler, and participates in the murder of Katharina's own brother Larry to get rid of a possible witness. Forcing Leopold to plant a bomb under a crowded train to destroy a bridge, Siggy seeks only to destabilize the country in any way possible and bring fear into the hearts of those trying to rebuild Germany.
  • The Black Room: Gregor de Berghman is a cruel Tyrolean baron who devises an Evil Plan to murder his kindly twin brother, Anton, and impersonate him. Gregor's hobbies include serial murder; the film's namesake Black Room is a secret room where Gregor hides the bones of all the women he's killed. After successfully killing his brother and assuming his identity, Gregor also murders a colonel who knows the truth and arranges for an innocent man to take the fall for it. Gregor even kills his own devoted servant Mashka, a woman who has nothing but devotion to him, because she's an inconvenience to his plan of marrying another woman he values only as an object for him to possess.
  • The Body Snatcher: The sinister John Gray, "evil himself", is a cabman by day and a grave robber by night. Gray digs up cadavers to provide to his associate, Dr. "Toddy" MacFarlane, and he shows off the kind of man he is by braining a dog with his shovel when it almost gives him away. Eventually, taking inspiration from the old case of Burke and Hare, Gray murders a harmless, blind street singer to give her corpse to MacFarlane. When Gray's assistant Joseph tries to blackmail him, Gray laughs, smothers him to death, and presents his body to "Toddy" as a sick gift. Gray finally admits he puts MacFarlane through such psychological torture just for the pleasure of having a rich man bent to his whims, and he vows he'll never stop tormenting MacFarlane. Gray haunts MacFarlane even past his own death, having broken the doctor beyond the point of all recovery, and his words follow MacFarlane to his untimely death: "you'll never be rid of me, Toddy!"
  • The Foreigner (2017): Hugh McGrath is the one responsible for the IRA's brutal bombing campaign of London. A bloodthirsty IRA terrorist with a reputation for brutality even among his organization, McGrath grew enraged at Liam Hennessy brokering peace with the British government. After Hennessy decides to run a fake bombing campaign with dud bomb in order to gain pardons for IRA members, McGrath hijacks the plan and arms the bombs with his own Semtex. Personally directing the bombers and encouraging them to massacre as many civilian targets as possible, McGrath has the rogue cell bomb a shop and a packed bus, killing dozens, including women and children. Directing the cell to take down the British Prime Minister onboard her own plane, McGrath planned on framing Hennessy to ensure his full cooperation.
  • Split Second (1992): The Serial Killer plaguing London is revealed to some form of demonic, alien creature who commits his murders to devour the souls of innocents. The killer routinely tears out the hearts of citizens and consumes them, using the resulting blood to paint satanic, mocking messages for the police. He murdered Harley Stone's beloved partner in the past, and when the killer begins his spree again, he torments and taunts Stone over the death of his partner. Eventually kidnapping Stone's Love Interest, the killer tries to murder her, Stone, and his new partner as well so nothing will stand in the killer's way from murdering more people.
  • Vol. 10 issues #18-21: Stefan Skaar is the leader of the Cult of Mephisto and one of the most evil men ever fought by Ghost Rider. Skaar started off as a hooligan teenage warlock who terrorised his community and murdered his girlfriend Talia Warroad's parents to further indoctrinate her fully to him. Sealed away by Doctor Strange, Skaar resurfaces years later and founds the Rocky Mountain School for Troubled Youth, by which he kidnaps troubled children and teens and indoctrinates them as loyal soldiers for Demon Lord Mephisto. Skaar corrupts the kids to mutilate, torture, and murder, and in one noticeable incident turns the child population of the town of Burrow against their parents and convinces them to mass murder them as human sacrifices to Mephisto. Skaar is responsible for a reign of terror which stretches over the entire country as his brainwashed pawns cause chaos. After Johnny Blaze and Talia Warroad enter his academy, Skaar is revealed to have a massive pile of the bones of human sacrifices and mocks and lethally harms Talia.
  • Bullet Books Speed Reads series:
    • Iron 13, by Manning Wolfe & Billy Kring (Book 2): Fierro is the leader of MS-13, a drug cartel that resorts to extreme violence and rape threats to get what they want. Having a love for murder since he was a young boy, with his first kill being a homeless man when he was eight, Fierro would later join several cartels before starting his own. Moving his operation to America, Fierro is hired by the terrorist Grozny to assist him in assassinating the American and Russian presidents at a parade, with Fierro looking forward to living his life in luxury while the world descends into chaos. Blackmailing Senator Barry Sands into giving Grozny a travel visa by murdering a woman and framing Sands, Fierro later kidnaps Barry's wife Shannon, promising to have her raped if the cops are called on them.
    • Two Bodies One Grave, by Manning Wolfe & Scott Montgomery (Book 9): Whisper is a mute, sword-wielding Italian assassin hired by the Patti family to kill Knucks. Having killed over 60 people back in Italy, Whisper introduces himself by murdering Knucks's girlfriend Beverly, even slaughtering several cops who intrude upon the scene and pinning the murders on Knucks. Finding joy in his murders, Whisper later slits the throat of Knucks's precious daughter Cali.
  • The Magnificent Nine: Elias Vandal leads the Scourers, a band of vicious marauders on the arid world of Thetis. Vandal claims to have once been a Reaver, and while some doubt this claim due to the fantasicalness of it, they have to admit he fits right in with Reaver ethics, such as they are. Vandal and his Scourers typically bully small towns into giving the Scourers the rights to the town's water wells, forcing the townsfolk to buy their own water back from the Scourers. If a village resists, the Scourers will cut off all avenues of escape and destroy all access to water, leaving the people to slowly die of thirst and desperation. Anyone who crosses Vandal will be tortured to death, even his own Scourers. But the icing on this detestable cake is that Vandal, and by extension his Scourers, have a preference for very young women, carrying away any attractive teenage girls to their camp to be "rut dolls". That they're always on the lookout for new ones indicates their tastes run to violent and brutal, and the girls who fall into the Scourers' clutches don't last long.
  • "The Shadow (Fairy Tale)": The Learned Man's first shadow is a selfish, manipulative being. Abandoning its master, the shadow spends years spying on people and blackmailing them with their darkest secrets to purloin their goods. Returning to the Learned Man, the shadow convinces its ailing former master to journey with it to a health retreat while swapping roles. Destroying the Learned Man's sense of self, the shadow fixates on marrying a princess and when the Learned Man refuses to live as its shadow forever while it rules, manipulates the princess into imprisoning and executing the Learned Man.
  • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story's "God of Forgiveness, God of Vengeance": John Wayne Gacy is a sadistic Serial Killer and Serial Rapist. Enjoying feeling like a god to his victims, Gacy brutally beats, rapes, and kills one young man, doing the same to dozens more.
  • Obliterated: Wade Maddox is a PMC owner infamous for serving clients with despotic tendencies. Eager to obtain Ivan Koslov's 5 kiloton nuclear weapon, Maddox kidnaps Koslov's courier Vladislav Litvin, and through his henchman Ehren, tortures Litvin by mutilating his one good ear before leaving him to die in a freezer alongside Koslov's associates, then having Trunk tortured with a blade to his genitals as well. Not content with the prospect of just nuking Las Vegas and killing millions, Maddox intends to cause a Civil War in the United States by inflaming tensions across the political aisles in wake of the city's obliteration, so he may reconstruct the devastated country as he sees fit.
  • Taxi Driver (2021) Season 2: Park Min Geon, aka the Bishop, was responsible for kidnapping numerous children, putting them in a orphanage, and gaslighting them into thinking they were abandoned by their parents. The Bishop then brainwashed them into becoming his protégés, killing the children he considered "weak". One of the kids, Kim Dan Woo, later On Ha Joon, was manipulated into killing his own father as initiation. The Bishop schemed for many years revenge against the Rainbow crew, wanting to spitefully eradicate them so he could continue his evil deeds. In addition, the Bishop had disturbing obsession with Kim Do-Ki and, wanting to destroy him, lured him into a trap, and cruelly reminded him of his mother's murder.
  • Ghost Rider Vol. 10 issues #18-21: Stefan Skaar is the leader of the Cult of Mephisto and one of the most evil men ever fought by Ghost Rider. Skaar started off as a hooligan teenage warlock who terrorised his community and murdered his girlfriend Talia Warroad's parents to further indoctrinate her fully to him. Sealed away by Doctor Strange, Skaar resurfaces years later and founds the Rocky Mountain School for Troubled Youth, by which he kidnaps troubled children and teens and indoctrinates them as loyal soldiers for Demon Lord Mephisto. Skaar corrupts the kids to mutilate, torture, and murder, and in one noticeable incident turns the child population of the town of Burrow against their parents and convinces them to mass murder them as human sacrifices to Mephisto. Skaar is responsible for a reign of terror which stretches over the entire country as his brainwashed pawns cause chaos. After Johnny Blaze and Talia Warroad enter his academy, Skaar is revealed to have a massive pile of the bones of human sacrifices and mocks and lethally harms Talia.
  • Miles Morales: Spider-Man, by Jason Reynolds: The Warden is a corrupt, racist prison warden who runs a giant prison complex located in Brooklyn. The Warden is a 400-year-old immortal who is looking for new people to populate his prison. The Warden has his assistants, the Chamberlains, become teachers at schools to try to kick young black students out of school and then have them arrested on trumped-up charges and sent to his prison. The Warden is using his prisoners as slave labor, and desires to have slavery re-established in the US. The Warden learns Miles Morales is Spider-Man and has one of his Chamberlains try to kick him out of school. The Warden also uses his telepathic powers to attack Miles in his dreams, wanting to break him and turn him into his super-powered pawn.
  • Evelyn Evelyn: Mrs. Deborah (Devora) Bouldger is the seemingly kindhearted caretaker at Underwood, who takes in Eva and Lynn Deville as young kids. However, in truth she runs a child sex trafficking ring, producing child pornography from the orphaned kids for her company, Budding Flowers Entertainment, while having them pimped out to men, manipulating the kids into accepting this behavior. The Evelyn Twins were frequent victims, as Mrs. Bouldger would use their conjoined appearance to get more clients. Whenever the kids turn 13, they are deemed too old and are either killed by Mrs. Bouldger or kicked out, which ends up happening to the twins' only friend, Sally Fishnets, who is never to be seen again. Manipulative and completely heartless, Mrs. Bouldger and her actions were by far the worst of what the twins had to deal with in their childhood.
  • Daredevil GraphicAudio adaptations, by release date:
    • The Man Without Fear adaptation:
      • The Kingpin, Wilson Fisk, is a rising crime lord who schemes to take over all of New York. Serving at the side of Don Rigoletto for years, Fisk tires of Rigoletto's honorable aversion to the dirtier aspects of crime, so he snaps the old man's neck then wipes out his many loyalists to take over the organization for himself. Flooding New York with a new, more vile wave of crime than ever before, Fisk begins dealing in Human Trafficking and snuff films that primarily feature children who are tortured to death. When the dozens of children he has kidnapped are rescued, Fisk has any of his partners who could link him to the snuff ring immediately assassinated so he can get away scot-free.
      • Larks is a self-described sociopath whose only real joy in life is watching people die. Introduced needlessly stabbing a security guard through the eye, Larks serves as Fisk's triggerman who kills dozens of people in the name of their crime syndicate. Larks loves using a fishing knife to slowly murder his victims, and kills everyone from cops, to witnesses, to his own minions when they fail him. Tasked by Fisk to eliminate Rigoletto's loyalists, Larks tortures one to death for information, assassinates others, then burns down an entire casino of people to eliminate the few remaining. Larks then tries to protect the interests of the child snuff ring, and kidnaps a teenage girl to use as a hostage against Daredevil; even when Daredevil surrenders himself, Larks gleefully plans to torture the girl to death anyway.
    • Guardian Devil adaptation: Mysterio, Quentin Beck, is a Master of Illusion who is determined to cement his legacy of supervillainy. Diagnosed with cancer due to the chemicals he has used in his criminal career, Mysterio decides to utterly ruin Daredevil so as to go down in infamy. Drugging and artificially impregnating a teenage girl, Mysterio waits until she gives birth, then murders her parents, tricks her into handing the baby over to Daredevil, then kills the girl as well. Using a variety of disguises and trickery, Mysterio convinces Daredevil that the baby is the Antichrist and nearly drives the hero into killing the infant; to further Daredevil's downward spiral, Mysterio murders Foggy's girlfriend and frames him for it, then convinces Karen Page she has AIDS. After he massacres his dozens of henchmen, Mysterio hires Bullseye and has him murder a church full of nuns, kill Karen, and kidnap the baby so Mysterio can use it as a hostage to set the stage for a final showdown with Daredevil.
  • The Dancing Joker, aka "Noble Thayer", is the most famous alias of the Inner Sphere's most skilled and sought-after virtuoso assassin. He first makes a splash by killing Melissa Steiner with a bomb that wounds and maims many others including Morgan Kell, and kills many more, including Morgan's wife Salome. He later sets up shop on Zurich, where he takes up the Dancing Joker nickname as he leads an insurgency against Xu Ning's Capellan-backed government during the Chaos March debacle. Dancing Joker sets up his lover, Cathy Hanney, to be captured and tortured for information by Xu Ning's forces as just another step in his plan to topple the regime, because he figures "overthrow planetary government" looks good on a resume. Against all the horrors of war seen in the BattleTech universe, the Dancing Joker still manages to stand out for the sheer depth of his utter lack of any human emotion or morality, even if he's incredibly good at faking those things.
  • Ghost Recon Wildlands:
    • El Sueño ("The Dream") is the leader of the Santa Blanca Cartel and responsible for turning the once-prosperous Bolivia into a narco-state. Within the cartel El Sueño personally oversees and partakes in the production and distribution of cocaine, the trafficking of children, and the torture and murder of thousands; there are numerous corpses hanging from telephone poles found throughout Bolivia. El Sueno orders the kidnapping of anyone who opposes the cartel before torturing and executing them, then manipulating the mentally disabled man into turning the corpses into "meat" soup. When El Sueño learns that one of his men is an undercover DEA agent, he personally tortures the man for 47 hours straight. His acts of cruelty also extend to even the most loyal of his subordinates; should they fail him in any way, he would arrange for them to either be tortured, murdered, their loved ones kidnapped and murdered, or all the above. When the Ghosts manage to dismantle his cartel, El Sueño reveals that he made a deal with their government granting him immunity while he would use them to take down rival cartels and gloats about his victory by throwing at them a recently decapitated head of rebel leader and former ally, Pac Katari. With nearly every atrocity committed by the Santa Blanca Cartel being traced back to El Sueño, underneath his religious and charitable exterior lies a towering and brutal egotist, utterly unfeeling to the violence caused by his actions.
    • Fallen Ghosts DLC: Los Extranjeros took over Bolivia after the collapse of the Santa Blanca Cartel and prove themselves to be amongst the most monstrous enemies the Ghosts have ever faced. While its leader Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo is absent throughout most of the DLC, his three lieutenants in particular really stand out:
      • Major Luis Rocha, "El Espectro" ("The Specter"), runs the Western Precinct in Bolivia where he subjects the populace in that area to slave labor to rebuild cocaine production. Rocha would kidnap these people's loved ones to force them to work themselves to death, while also killing some of his own workers and nailing their corpses in the fields as "extra motivation". When one village didn't meet Rocha's expectations, he orders his soldiers to lure the villagers into one building for them to slaughter.
      • Captain Dante Cruzar, "El Diablo" ("The Devil"), runs the Northern Precinct of Bolivia where he carries out killing sprees on the Christian population, killing hundreds of innocent people and stacking their corpses onto a massive pile, with some of his victims being burned alive. When the Ghosts try to dismantle his hold on the Northern Precinct, Cruzar responds by initiating a massacre at a village, killing all the villagers there, while mocking their belief in God's protection.
      • Captain Tomas Ortega, "El Oso" ("The Bear"), runs the Eastern Precinct of Bolivia where he establishes an arena there where he has the populace there fight each other to the death for his amusement. Ortega would also kidnap innocent civilians and use them as target practice for his fighters to kill, and would even kill his own soldiers if they don't meet his standards as warriors. When the Ghosts arrive in his Precinct, Ortega lures them to his arena where he uses his prisoners as disposable fodder against the Ghosts before trying to kill them himself.
  • "Return to the Spirit World" 2-parter English dub: The Professor is the agent of Yliaster tasked by Rex Goodwin to duel Luna and learn the secrets of the Duel Monsters Spirit World. He hypnotises Luna during their duel in order to find a way into the Spirit World, even threatening to have the spirit Kuribon tortured unless Luna shows him the way. After following Luna into the Spirit World, where his mere presence corrupts and starts destroying it, the Professor reveals he has no loyalty to Yliaster, planning instead to destroy and rebuild it under his rule.

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Tyk5919 Your friendly neighborhood stank goblin Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Your friendly neighborhood stank goblin
#38979: Mar 10th 2024 at 10:53:36 AM

Yeah, infecting the whole world with a virus seems like enough, even for the ludicrously-high heinous standard for Hitman. So [tup] for Owen Cage.

And also [tup] for Chara's father.

I write stories and shiz. You can read them here.
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#38980: Mar 10th 2024 at 10:57:54 AM

Sure to the father.

For Owen, I wanna know more about his environmental extremism.

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Powermaster201 The Emperor of Evil! Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
The Emperor of Evil!
#38981: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:01:02 AM

[tup] to Owen Cage.

Btw since Darkman now has 9 C Ms would this mean we can remake his page again?

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#38982: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:05:22 AM

We can; not sure if we need to. Ditto with GTA.

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EmperorGeode Not the Eye from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
Not the Eye
#38983: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:07:14 AM

[tup] Chara’s dad and Owen

[up] I though 9 CM is when we definetely give franchise a page.

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#38984: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:13:38 AM

I don't think we have a definite.

Also, I need more details on Owen. Is he a WIE like Goldman?

Edited by ACW on Mar 10th 2024 at 2:14:23 PM

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SkyCat32 The Draftsman of Doom (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
The Draftsman of Doom
#38985: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:19:54 AM

Holding off on Owen until W's question is answered.

AutumnLeaves Since: Mar, 2014
#38986: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:22:21 AM

Writeup for McFee.

  • Beyond This Horizon: McFee Norbert is a high-ranked member and possibly the leader of a revolutionary group called the Survivors' Club. He plans a takeover of America and eventually the world and intends to turn the majority of the human population into genetically-modified secondary beings designed to serve a small group of leaders including himself. In preparations for the takeover, he kidnaps women from the "barbarian" regions still recovering from the devastating Genetic Wars and forces them to carry babies McFee then uses for cruel genetic experiments. After the takeover, McFee intends to wipe out the "barbarians" except for a few saved, once again, for experimentation. With his utter lack of morals or scruples of any kind, McFee's crimes stand out in the very changed world of the future as much as they would today.

MermaidEyes15 A Girl, Just One of Many Kinds from The Grand Dance of the Vast Universe of Life Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: Puppy love
A Girl, Just One of Many Kinds
#38988: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:51:13 AM

Yes to Chara’s dad and from what I know, Owen’s environmentalism is never really explained for me to say it’s preventing, so yes to Owen as well

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TheMadCr0w Gentle Laborer from Insignificant Little Blue Planet Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Gentle Laborer
#38989: Mar 10th 2024 at 12:03:02 PM

@ACW For Svidrigailov's entry, there should be space between "famous" and "novel".

TurlesTheVegan from The Darkest Pit of the Underworld Since: Dec, 2023 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#38990: Mar 10th 2024 at 12:05:34 PM

[tup] for Chara's dad and Owen Cage.

Braz The Digital from Cyberspace (Troper in training) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
The Digital
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#38992: Mar 10th 2024 at 12:25:34 PM

[up][up][up]Yeah, already pointed out in the cleanup thread and fixed at the appropriate place.

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Agentofchaos A God Am I from Somewhere in the Universe Since: Dec, 2021
#38993: Mar 10th 2024 at 12:28:23 PM

[tup] Chara's dad, Owen

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jlvs200s Jogo from The Netherlands (Troper in training) Relationship Status: At the center of everything that happens to me
Libraryseraph Showtime! from Canada (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
Showtime!
#38995: Mar 10th 2024 at 12:40:31 PM

[tup] Chara's dad, owen

Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?
LarryT I’ll take a potato chip… and EAT IT! from the Eldritch Ocean Abyss Since: Aug, 2023
I’ll take a potato chip… and EAT IT!
#38996: Mar 10th 2024 at 1:03:40 PM

[tup]Herod, AM, Chara’s father, and Owen

Anyone have an answer to this?

In honor of Akira Toriyama
Ravok Caesar Since: Jun, 2015 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Caesar
#38997: Mar 10th 2024 at 1:20:29 PM

Sure to Owen and Chara's dad

  • Generator Rex:
    • Van Kleiss
    • Quarry
    • Dr. Fell is a ruthless scientist who wants to wholly expunge EVOs and their nanite infection from the planet. The former chief scientist of Providence, Fell disregarded his compatriots' desires to more benevolently study the EVOs, instead painfully experimenting on and dissecting the EVOs on a molecular level. Even when the young EVO boy Rex was discovered to have the capability of curing nanites in a natural, painless way, Fell refused to show mercy and chose to attempt vivisection on Rex. Returning years later in a tie-in comic where he has continued his EVO experiments as a rogue operative, Fell tries to dissect a captive Circe and nearly kills multiple Providence agents for stopping him. Fell's last appearance sees him wreaking havoc in a city with a giant robot.
    • Moses

WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY!
CapitanoNox Lord of Space from Italy Since: Oct, 2018 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
Lord of Space
#38998: Mar 10th 2024 at 1:52:07 PM

Little question that came to my mind recently: if a villain who fits for the CM criteria were to be permanently split into two separate beings, would they need a separate EP? Or would we still consider them as the original character?

Edited by CapitanoNox on Mar 10th 2024 at 11:14:30 AM

EmperorGeode Not the Eye from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
Not the Eye
#38999: Mar 10th 2024 at 2:02:11 PM

If charcater is permanently split that they would be their own characters, assuming both are new beings rather than one being original and other new entity like Naraku and his incarnations. Of course, if they continue to function as unit and share most of crimes then you could do one single EP for them if you want.

Starkrafty A coupla mammals makin' gravy (Pentatroper)
A coupla mammals makin' gravy
#39000: Mar 10th 2024 at 2:18:28 PM

I've got a new Spaghetti Western to discuss, and this one's a collab with Ravok!

From the Spaghetti Western tradition of films ending in "-ango" such as Django (all 30+ of them), Rango, and Shango, comes...

Cjamango.

What has El Tigre done?

  • El Tigre is one half of the film's Big Bad Ensemble, a bandit engaged in a vicious war in a nearly-deserted Mexican village with his rival Don Pablo. Years ago, when the town was still populated, El Tigre and Don Pablo joined forces to steal a giant load of gold, and in the process they gleefully massacred a saloon full of innocent people.
  • In the present, Don Pablo has control over (what's left) of the village, but El Tigre has backstabbed him and made away with the gold itself, which provoked the ongoing gang war. El Tigre's gang kill multitudes of people in their fight with Pablo's gang—including innocents, like an innocent old man named Fernandez whose only crime was associating with Cjamango.
  • When Cjamango steals the gold from under Tigre's nose, Tigre gets his revenge in a sadistically overblown way. He ties up a young orphan named Manuel that Cjamango has befriended, and tries to blow up the kid with dynamite, all while making Cjamango watch at gunpoint.
  • Eventually, the gang war with Don Pablo reaches a fever pitch, which ends with a final showdown. El Tigre is the winner; after wiping out Pablo's entire gang and personally finishing off Pablo, Tigre tries to make off with the gold, but Cjamango beats him to it and guns the evil bastard down.
Any mitigating factors?
  • Zilch.
Heinous standard?
  • His only competition in the movie is Don Pablo, and I think they're roughly even in terms of heinousness. Ravok will expound a little more with his post on Pablo but the long and short of it is that they're equally despicable, which is how the film treats them overall.

Edited by Starkrafty on Mar 10th 2024 at 4:20:19 AM

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