Complete Monster Proposal Thread

Old Complete Monster cleanup thread

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

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.
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".
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

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

Complete Monster Drafts and Bookkeeping

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

StalkerGamer Memetic Loser Mother Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: Love is an open door

Memetic Loser Mother

#42876: Apr 28th 2024 at 6:08:50 AM

to Steve

miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)

Goku Black

#42877: Apr 28th 2024 at 6:10:27 AM

Steve.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."

EmperorGeode Not the Eye from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl

Not the Eye

#42878: Apr 28th 2024 at 6:41:21 AM

Steve

TheMadCr0w Gentle Laborer from Insignificant Little Blue Planet Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER

Gentle Laborer

#42879: Apr 28th 2024 at 6:55:41 AM

Vlad

Falcone

Abstaining on Steve

With Ramirez out of the way (splendid job, Rav!) It's time for my own Manhunt candidate.

Who is he?

The last of the triumvirate behind the Snuff Film operation, Gary Schaffer is the chief of the Carcer City Police Department. Introduced in Grand Theft Auto III, Schaffer was already extremely corrupt even before the events of Manhunt, having been "cleared" of corruption charges in a controversial decision by the court. In Manhunt proper, Schaffer is bribed by Starkweather to turn a blind eye and cover up the countless atrocities committed in the city.
Schaffer runs the police department in the most trigger-happy and cruel way possible: His underlings enjoy engaging in Police Brutality and "cleaning the streets" on a regular basis, they specifically like the act of "hobo breaking"—The homeless population of Carcer City is routinely beaten up or straight-up murdered by the cops for nothing more than sheer sadism. What's worse? Supplementary material reveals that Schaffer lets some of his own subordinates star in Starkweather's snuff films.
When Cash becomes a nuisance to Starkwather, Schaffer is ordered by Starkweather to dispatch some of his own boys to take care of the situation... which fails, spectacularly—the cops are only after Cash because they're under the belief that he's some troublemaking homeless guy, presumably a lie told to them by Schaffer—After Starkweather is finally killed by Cash, Schaffer's ties to the snuff film ring are exposed to the public and he's brought to court again, and unsurprisingly, his intentions are to plead "not guilty" to the accusations.

Mitigating Factors? Despite never appearing in person (like his co-conspirator, Mr. Nasty) we have just enough characterization. We actually get to hear his voice and the Enemy Chatter tells us everything we need to know about the CCPD under him, especially all the violence that goes unpunished.

Heinous? He plays a vital role in the operation, it's because of his greed that Carcer City is the worst Wretched Hive in the entire Shared Universe.

Conclusion?

Edited by TheMadCr0w on Apr 28th 2024 at 1:40:14 PM

jlvs200s Jogo from The Netherlands (Troper in training) Relationship Status: At the center of everything that happens to me

Jogo

#42880: Apr 28th 2024 at 6:56:32 AM

Gary

"Stand proud, Sukuna, you are strong." | He/Him

EmperorGeode Not the Eye from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl

Not the Eye

#42881: Apr 28th 2024 at 6:59:32 AM

Gary

Evanpotter09 Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: It was only a kiss

#42882: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:01:18 AM

to Schaffer.

What, like it's hard?

Beast from Ontario, Canada Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Browsing the selection

#42883: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:18:42 AM

SCP!Dracula.

Steve.

Schaffer. And before anyone asks, I don't think his cameo in Grand Theft Auto III is enough to combine pages or anything — it's just a radio broadcast covering his past trial.

"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."

Libraryseraph Showtime! from Canada (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You

Showtime!

#42884: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:21:23 AM

to Drac, Scaffer, and I guess Steve

To Aura

Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?

RWBYraikou888 The Undercover Troper from The Kingdom of Atlas Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary

The Undercover Troper

#42885: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:27:38 AM

I've been debating on whether or not to suggest this, but I'm gonna go for it.

What is the work?

The Nightmare Before Christmas Who: Skellington's Revenge is a YouTube Poop created by MoBrosStudios that combines the worlds of SpongeBob SquarePants and The Nightmare Before Christmas. What sets it apart from most YouTube Poops, however, is that it's considerably Darker and Edgier and tells a cohesive story throughout its second half.

Who is the candidate and what have they done?

The Black Hiver is a Sadistic Holiday Demon who does deals with those looking to take over Christmas, in exchange for taking over their worlds without their knowledge. Approached by Jack Skellington, the two warp Bikini Bottom's Christmas celebrators into the Hiver's Pocket Dimension, whereupon the Hiver starts consuming their souls. Starting with Soldier and Scout, he turns their empty corpses into servile robots and turns them against their companions. He then steals Fluttershy's soul and turns her into a crystal monster out for Ed's head, then uses his gingerbread and nutcracker army to round up Double D, Eddy, and Spy to him before burning them alive and devouring their bodies. After SpongeBob makes peaceful negotiations with Jack, the Hiver insists that Jack finish the job and defiantly drains SpongeBob's soul. Once Jack learns the consequences of setting the Hiver free, he begins to undo the summoning spell, with the Hiver in a last-ditch effort attempting to kill Jack to keep him from stopping the deal. A callous sadist who cares for nobody but himself, the Black Hiver is a scarily dark figure in the otherwise bizarre world of YouTube Poop.

Any redeeming qualities? Freudian Excuse?

None. He only ever entered a deal with Jack for the sake of using him and taking over Halloween Town, and was not afraid to kill as many lives as needed to set himself free.

Are they bad enough?

Not much is known about the Hiver's backstory, but he's definitely not a Generic Doomsday Villain, as he's shown to possess sapience by callously talking down to Jack and SpongeBob during the climax, and aside from "sadistic" being in his Boss Subtitles, he's outright shown to be a sadist, coldly laughing in glee after he rips SpongeBob's soul out of his body. In regards to the heinousness factor, he ends up killing eleven people over the course of his one appearance, three of them being children, and goes for a twelfth with Jack before he's stopped. In MoBros' The Chronicles of Poop series, the only one who rivals the Hiver in body count is Mario Head in "Meet the Mario Head

", but he's shown to be Obliviously Evil who's unaware of all the people he's killing around him, whereas the Hiver knows the ramifications of his actions and takes delight in his killing spree.

Final verdict?

I think the Hiver is a solid keep. And fun fact, this character was a partial inspiration for Kosha Vinka's design of the page image on the main Complete Monster page, specifically the chest plate.

Edited by RWBYraikou888 on Apr 28th 2024 at 10:28:40 AM

Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.

MasterN Berserk Button: misusing Berserk Button from Florida- I mean Unova Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters

Berserk Button: misusing Berserk Button

#42886: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:36:45 AM

Already proposed and rejected long ago for the concept being inherently non-serious, and I don’t particularly remember it being taken all that seriously when I watched it either.

One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.

DoodSlayer136 Woagh from Pizza Tower (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters

Woagh

#42887: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:38:24 AM

Sure to Steve and Gary.

to the Hiver.

NOISE IS CALLING, PICK UP PHONE

EmperorGeode Not the Eye from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl

Not the Eye

#42888: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:40:47 AM

Hiver

TheCosmicCollector A Child from the Stars from Somewhere Beyond the Boiling Isles. Since: Feb, 2023 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow

A Child from the Stars

#42889: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:42:00 AM

for Hiver.

"If we're gonna play Owl House, we're gonna NEED an Owl House!"

Libraryseraph Showtime! from Canada (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You

Showtime!

#42890: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:42:42 AM

Absolutely not to the ytp villain

Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?

therealjackieboy Ultimate Moral Compass from Austin, TX Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Ultimate Moral Compass

#42891: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:44:06 AM

Schaffer

Hiver

"No running in the halls!"

CapitanoNox Lord of Space from Italy Since: Oct, 2018 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder

Lord of Space

#42892: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:50:50 AM

to the Black Hiver.

Evanpotter09 Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: It was only a kiss

#42893: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:52:29 AM

to the Black Hiver.

Edited by Evanpotter09 on Apr 28th 2024 at 3:52:45 PM

What, like it's hard?

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009

Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster

#42894: Apr 28th 2024 at 7:56:46 AM

We Bare Bears: The Movie: Agent Trout is the corrupt commander of National Wildlife Control who sees bears as "filthy mindless beasts". Trout has captured dozens of innocent bears and trapped them in his preserve, with the bears being left in harsh conditions and having various injuries. When Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear accidentally start a blackout, Trout has them sent to his preserve, and starts a relentless pursuit of them when they escape. Upon finally catching them, Trout makes sure they will be in separate cages just to torment them. After his electric fence causes the preserve to catch on fire, and all the bears stack up to reach Officer Murphy's helicopter, Trout uses them to reach the helicopter and tries to leave the bears to die just to satisfy his xenophobia.
Unknown Worlds issue #33's "Don't Judge Until You Hear My Story!": Edward Jennings is an ambitious missile scientist from the 20th century who leads an expedition on Marlo IV in search of riches. He finds a civilisation which used nerve gas to enslave a race of giants. Edward pretends to be their friend before using atmosphere-burning bombs to wipe out all life on the planet and steal the gas in order to reduce Earth's people to his unthinking slaves. When a time anomaly takes him 60 years into the past, Edward doesn't miss the opportunity to gloat about his crimes to what he believes to be an alien, actually his granduncle Harry.
Mirage is evil incarnate, devoted only to proliferating misery and destroying all that is good. As an early testament to her evil, Mirage orders a village and its population incinerated in her debut just because of the crops they grow for the surrounding land. Mirage's plots range from the grandiose to the sadistically petty, everything from attempting to have all of Agrabah destroyed and brewing up civil wars for fun, to trying to destroy Aladdin and Jasmine's love for each other by slowly transforming Jasmine into a snake. Mirage even tempts children into her clutches, promising them immortality in exchange for becoming the monstrous El-Katib, a process she neglects to mention entails their eternal servitude in a dark void with release only three nights every seven years. Mirage has no issue abandoning the El-Katib to die, coldly leaving them all to perish in the sunlight when one of them finally defies her.
101 Dalmatian Street: Cruella de Vil, the one and only Devil Woman, returns in this series to seek revenge on the descendants of Pongo and Perdita. The decades since the original movie have turned Cruella into a harridan by harridan's standards who now acts with full regard to the Dalmatians' sapience. Cruella plans to mince all 99 of the puppies in her very own skinning machine, intending to force their parents Doug and Delilah to watch the entire macabre process before turning them into "matching luggage". Cruella is also hideously abusive to her grand-nephew Hunter, at one point leaving him locked in a shipping container for six months with only dog food to eat, resulting in the poor kid undergoing Sanity Slippage. When he discovers that she actually intends to kill the puppies and calls her a monster. Cruella takes it as a compliment before ordering his henchmen to have him caged up with the puppies because she has grown bored of him.
Something More: Dr. Cassandra Gross is even worse than in canon. Engineering a deadly virus to wipe out the leaders of Hub Island and half the populace she used the accidental unleashing of it to further hers and Minerva's control over the humans, feeling proud of the death toll it caused. Years later, in order to find a good excuse to leave the islands and have humanity take back control of Earth, Gross manipulates the Hiders into indirectly getting Finn lost at sea and ending in Ooo so she could scout out the land in the guise of a rescue mission by manipulating Minerva. Gross sends out Seeker Kara first and installs a program to override her free will in case she backs out of the mission. When that fails, she opts to take matters into her own hands and goes to Ooo herself to wipe out all of its inhabitants, kidnapping many to use as guinea pigs and threatening Princess Bubblegum with eradicating her kingdom unless she joins her side. When Finn and his allies confront Gross, she remorselessly tries to kill him alongside his newfound friends when he refuses to aid in her goal of wiping out the "mutant freaks" of Ooo.
Avengers: Infinite Wars (Marvel Cinematic Universe & Star Wars): Ultron is a rogue, genocidal AI that decided the only way to achieve peace would be the extinction of all life. Upon being sent to the Galaxy Far Far Away alongside the Avengers, Ultron decides to restart his genocidal campaign on a universal scale. After launching an all-out, full-scale attack against all factions of the Civil War, Ultron attacks several planets and slaughters all of their inhabitants before revealing his master plan: an Assimilation Plot where he has been kidnapping and experimenting on both clones and Jedi to forcefully convert them into sentry/human hybrids using kyber crystals, while also killing and reviving his subjects until he gets his intended results. When Ultron invades Kamino, he forcefully converts Clone 99 and broadcasts the event to the galaxy in an attempt to drive them into despair before killing them, and bombards the planet with anti-matter bombs, killing all life on the planet. Even upon defeat, Ultron refuses to see the error in his atrocities and states that his only regret is not witnessing whatever horrors the heroes will be forced to go through in the future.
1408: Room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel is a sapient, mind-warping location. Tormenting anyone within it, the room has claimed 56 victims—whether they were Driven to Suicide or killed by it directly—using the images and corpses to torment and attack future victims. When Michael Enslin enters Room 1408 to write about it, the room locks him in and subjects him to rounds of psychological torture in between attempts on his life. To break him, the room shows him visions of his deceased daughter Katie, only to "kill" her again in his arms, lets him call his wife for help before it hijacks his video chat and winks at him afterward, and makes him believe he was free, only to reveal he was still trapped. Mockingly giving Michael "free will", Room 1408 gives him the choice to either kill himself or suffer within forever, taunting him that he will never escape. Though enigmatic in nature, the rare direct communication from the room paints it as a sadist enjoying its power.
D-War: Buraki is a destructive and malevolent Imoogi who seeks to become a Celestial Dragon by claiming the Yuh Yi Joo for himself so he can destroy Heaven and Earth and rebuild them in his own twisted image. When Heaven had the Yuh Yi Joo hidden inside of a young girl, Buraki had his army invade the girl's village and slaughter the villagers, including a young child, before chasing after the girl himself, leading to her and her guardian, Haram, committing suicide to stop him. Returning 500 years later, Buraki and his forces slaughter countless innocents out of pure sadism while hunting down Sarah Daniels, the modern reincarnation of the young girl. When his forces capture Sarah and her reincarnated guardian Ethan, Buraki attempts to devour the former to claim the Yuh Yi Joo before being disrupted by the chosen good Imoogi who was awakened to oppose him. During the battle, Buraki gains the upper hand and mortally wounds the noble serpent before resuming his diabolical ambitions.
I Am Wrath (2016): Lemuel "Lemi K" is a sadistic crime lord from Columbus, Ohio, who once ate a man's fingers in front of a rival gang. Retrieving an incriminating video of the Governor's son, Lemi K uses the video to blackmail the governor into letting him and his gang commit any atrocities they like without facing repercussions; as such, crime dramatically increases throughout Columbus, with Lemi K and his crew killing dozens of innocent people. On the Governor's behalf, Lemi K has his men kill Vivian Hill and her husband Stanley, and when Lemi K learns that the latter has survive and is seeking revenge on Lemi's gang, he cuts off a finger from one of his own men for not telling him about this sooner and goes after Stanley's family, eventually holding them hostage and killing Stanley's teenage niece himself.
Monkey Man:
- Baba Shatki is an insidious spiritual guru who hides his cruelty behind a mask of faith. A celebrity amongst the populace who rose from nothing, Baba uses his ties to the rising Sovereign Party to spread corruption across India, encouraging violence against trans citizens and non-Hindus in order to purify his country of undesirables, while secretly profiting off of Queenie's prostitution and drug running operations. Baba has several villages wiped out by his police squads in order to build factories over the lands, even converting surviving villagers into members of his cult and using them for slave labor. Baba's thirst for power has ultimately ruined the lives of many, with Kid's village being one of many he's destroyed.
- Rana Singh is the crooked chief of police who assists Baba Shatki in his plans. Carrying out Baba's corruption by allowing his cops to abuse trans civilians and Muslims in return for drugs and women, Rana also leads the massacres of several villages in order to build Baba's factories over their land. Rana even attempted to rape Kid's mother during a previous pillage, and when she retaliated, Rana angrily strangled her to death and burned her body for good measure.
The First Omen: Cardinal Lawrence is the leader of a conspiracy within the Catholic Church. His outwardly friendly demeanor masks a depraved and calculating mind that is responsible for some unspeakable crimes. On Lawrence's orders, over a dozen women are raped by a demonic jackal with the goal of creating an Antichrist who will prove so terrifying that people will have no choice but to turn away from secularism and back to the Church. Given that the conspiracy is ultimately successful with the birth of Damien, Lawrence can be blamed for the many innocent lives lost throughout the series.
Redemption (aka Hummingbird): Max Forrester is a Serial Killer who purchases prostitutes and sex slaves from Human Traffickers whom he would proceed to beat up, rape, and kill before dumping their corpses in a river. He would then repeat his murderous cycle, racking up a body count in the dozens, including a homeless girl that Joseph Smith befriended.
Radiant Emperor Duology, by Shelley Parker-Chan: Chen Youliang is Zhu Chongba's most dangerous and personal nemesis. Plotting alongside Zhu and weaving through the deadly decadence of their faction's courts, Chen thinks nothing of ensuring his rivals' deaths and even going so far as to see one skinned alive before their peers while he smiles. After seemingly dying after Zhu betrays him, Chen forms a power base to fight Zhu's own and sends a message to Zhu by severing many of his own soldiers' arms. After this, Chen proceeds to mutilate bodies and dump them under the ocean water to make a barrier of agonized, trapped souls that will horrifically kill anyone who crosses it. When Zhu finally confronts him, Chen murders her best friend and honorary brother Xu Da and mocks her about it, still devoted to claiming power for himself at any cost and tormenting anyone who would dare to oppose him.
"DON'T LET THE BELLHOPS BITE": The Hotel Manager runs a hotel in the Dark Dimension, staffed by the Murder Monkeys. Having had countless previous guests torn apart, the Manager taunts the latest arrival before sending the Monkeys after them, prompting a wild chase, ending with yet another victim.
JT Music:
- Amanda the Adventurer song "You're the Answer": The Demon, Paimon, is portrayed here as a Sadistic and violent entity who possessed Rebecca—aka Amanda—within the animated show, using its powers to kidnap children en masse and suck them into the television. Psychologically torturing Rebecca and Wooly, who is heavily implied to have been a person once, Paimon takes control of Rebecca through Amanda as it proceeds to kill Wooly when he attempts to warn the viewer before turning into a monster, attacking and eating the viewer in the end.
- Five Nights at Freddy's song "Reflection": The Mimic is a narcissistic, mechanical Serial Killer who took up the mantle of "Springtrap". Having been designed to be a robotic assistant, it studied and became obsessed with violence, particularly the crimes of William Afton. The Mimic went on a brutal killing spree, replicating some of William's murders, and brutally killing several more people. It boasts of having a body count so high, that the list is "almost bottomless". The Mimic would use its digital avatar to infect the animatronics at the Pizzaplex, corrupting and robbing them of their autonomy. It would use the pizzaplex animatronics to continue killing, with 3 of its victims' souls being trapped within the Pizzaplex's wet floor signs. After being sealed away, the Mimic would infect a girl named Cassie and manipulated her into freeing it.
"Papa" is the entity behind SCP-6618. Having kidnapped James Vane, "Papa" subjects him to severe psychological and physical torture under the guise of "disciplining" Vane, causing a slow regression in the latter's mental state. After Vane attempts to escape his abuser, "Papa" punishes him by repeatedly throwing him to the floor, heavily injuring his body, while also gaslighting Vane into thinking "Papa" loves him. When the Foundation investigates "Papa's" cabin, they find boxes filled with other SCP-6618 instances, televisions displaying similar videos to the ones on SCP-6618 and a pit containing at least several hundred corpses, Vane's among them. All of these corpses are wailing like infants, even after some of them have rotted away, with others being crushed to the point of near liquification and granularization, and are only able to cry for their Papa, who has long since left his "babies" to rot.
What If The Clone Army Did NOT Have Inhibitor Chips For Order 66 (link): Palpatine, after finding that Order 66 was sabotaged and the clone troopers are coming to arrest him, slaughters every one that comes after him on his way to escape. Initiating his contingency plan, Palpatine arrives at the Republic Cruiser carrying an imprisoned Darth Maul, and releases him, killing Ahsoka on their way out. Killing Maul once the latter introduced to the Shadow Collective to become their new leader, Palpatine attacks Kamino to try to destroy the cloning facilities. Confronted by a redeemed Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Plo Koon, Palpatine is finally killed when a wave from a crashed ship distracts him.
Superman (2023): Dr. Pharm is a callous scientist and rival to Lex Luthor himself, planning to upstage and ruin Lex. Pharm kidnaps and horrifically experiments on hundreds of homeless people to carry out his plans. Pharm torturously experiments on Parasite to cause him to multiply and drain people of energy and endanger Metropolis. Pharm later experiments on and amplifies Silver Banshee's scream, against her will, to attack the city. Later capturing Toyman, Pharm tortures him to take control of his robots and try and destroy the city. Pharm ultimately attacks LexCorp and reveals that he plans to unleash a lethal Kryptonite-infused virus on the city and blame the resultant mass casualties on Lex to ruin his reputation, all out of spite.
LIZZIE: Andrew Jackson Borden, the father of Lizzie and Emma, is portrayed as a monstrously abusive father who doesn't care about his family. Abusing his children for years, he would neglect them and keep them away from the outside world in order to keep them under his control. Andrew Bordens's most monstrous crime, however, is that he would repeatedly rape Lizzie, to the point where she is driven insane and murders him and her stepmother.
The Flower Collectors: Haussmann is a former member of the Policía Armada now seeking to become an elected official of Spain. As a police officer, Haussmann was in charge of a unit called the Flower Collectors, whose goal was to repress anyone who challenged or opposed the Nationalist Party. During his tenure, many officers wound up arresting or abusing hundreds of people over the span of three years; more than a dozen civilians were killed during the raids. After becoming a politician, Haussmann used his influence over the police to continue harassing and arresting activists and revolutionaries, even going as far as bribing a club owner to sell out her patrons and threatening anyone who knew of his illegal crimes to keep their mouths shut. When a former officer tries to release a list of victims Haussmann was responsible for killing to the press, he has the man murdered and attempts to silence all of the people who witnessed the crime.
The Count of Years: Amnās, an evil spirit originally associated with the night sky and the only witness to Ecaîas's creation of evil, brings the news to the creator Iáinos, gloating that his creations have outsmarted him and ruined his universe. When Amnās is made to stay on Almea's surface until he atones for his gloating, he furiously swears revenge on his maker and all who are loyal to him, and creates Soxāeco to assist him in ruining Almea as much as possible. They create the race of Ogres after learning that Iáinos created the Giants, and have them wipe both species out in a war. Amnās creates the race of ktuvoks as soon as he finds out that Iáinos's second species, the iliū, are even greater than the Giants. Amnās creates the ktuvoks to keep slaves by nature, as well as to kill and eat iliu children. He then tells the ktuvoks to destroy the iliū, which plunges Almea into thousands of years of war. When the elcari are made, Amnās steals their children and brainwashes them into worshipping him and waging war on their own parents. Amnās whispers temptations into the ear of the human king Līxigōcas, so that he declares war on the iliū, making the entire human race fall into sin permanently. Amnās then uses a superweapon to wipe one of the repentant human kingdoms off the map, changing it from fertile land into a desert. He then gets into a Duel to the Death with the king of the iliū and kills him, before burrowing deep underground in order to free Ecaîas, knowing that this will destroy all life on Almea, willing to have all his own creations destroyed instead of letting his enemies continue to live on Almea. Amnās's war destroys all civilization and brings humanity back to the Stone Age for 10,000 years.
Chicken Feet: Eric is the head of GOOBER Laboratories obsessed with absolute perfection. All but said to have transformed a man into a crazed chicken, Cooper, Eric experimented on a baby, Sebastian, for 20 years, turning him into an Artificial Human who is deformed and pained, and plans to redo this on another baby. Sending interns to their deaths when Cooper breaks out, Eric plans to get rid of both the protagonist and Sebastian when the latter contains the chicken, and even when killed, Sebastian commits suicide when realizing he's a human, just like Eric.
God of War series has one of Kratos's main antagonists from each era:
- Greek era ^PrimarilyFirst game; Ghost of Sparta; Ascension: Ares, the depraved God of War, is Kratos's predecessor upon Olympus. Not content with merely ruling over warfare and coveting sole rule of Olympus, Ares busied himself with endless slaughter. Responsible for directing every human conflict, massacre, and genocide, Ares gloried in the usage of monsters to torment humanity and the Furies to torture them. Upon arriving in Sparta and taking the boy Deimos, Ares gave him to the god Thanatos for eternal torture. Saving the life of the Spartan Kratos years later, Ares used him to conquer most of Greece with bloody purges until the day when Ares tricked Kratos into murdering his wife and child. Finally losing patience with his role, Ares then tried to annihilate all of Athens, with his ultimate goal being to destroy the other Gods, heedless of the damage it would do to the world.
- Norse-era duology: Odin, the self-proclaimed All-Father of the Nine Realms, wears the mask of a wise, friendly sage, but is actually a controlling narcissist who seeks ultimate knowledge and power, and only values those who further this cause. Lord of the Aesir who turned his people against their creator Ymir, Odin drowned the Jötnar race in Ymir's blood in a bigoted attempt to "cleanse" the Realms of Giants. Crafting Midgard and beginning a campaign of brutal conquest, Odin forced Svartalfheim to craft war machines by enslaving the dwarves; threw Helheim out of balance and caused the Desolation by corrupting the Valkyries into insanity; and lead repeated genocide attempts against both the realm of Vanaheim and the repopulated Jötnar. Odin created his "eyes" by having mortal followers sacrifice their children so that their souls would be trapped as Odin's "spies" forever. Odin has a knack for abusing and ruining those he "loves", from tricking the huntress Skaði into murdering her own father; to torturing Mimir daily for over a century; to damning his wife Freya to be trapped, defenseless, on Midgard while her people believe she abandoned them. Odin's immediate family fare no better, as he "thrashed" his son Thor to raise him into an alcoholic killing machine, and regularly throws his other children or grandchildren into danger while deriding them as "useless" if they die. In his quest to avert his prophesied doom from Ragnarök, Odin turns Kratos's son Atreus against his father; uses hundreds of Midgardians as human shields; stabs the beloved Brok to death, and even murders Thor when he refuses Odin's order to "not think; just kill who I tell you to kill!" A petty tyrant who mistreats everyone and everything in service of himself, Odin is described as never having loved anyone, and even when redemption is offered, he promises to never stop his mad quest for omnipotence.
Parkour Civilization (link): Protagonist Evbo's predecessor as the Parkour Champion and leader of the titular civilization overthrew the previous champion by cheating in a parkour battle, after which he made radical changes to the rules of Parkour Civilization. Under his rule, anyone who falls into the void gets sent to prison, where before they simply respawned to try again, and prisoners are forced to constantly jump over a lake of lava, occasionally being chosen to test-run new parkour courses and potentially fall to their deaths. Noobs are subjected to mandatory parkour checks each day for food, while Pros must perform daily tasks or face punishment by being forced to partake in a parkour battle to the death against a Master. Paranoid of losing his power, the Champion does everything to keep the lower ranks where they are by sabotaging the paths of advancement, even sending an assassin to kill Evbo when the latter overcomes the sabotage. When he faces Evbo in a parkour battle, the Champion quickly resorts to cheating with invisible barriers, sending Evbo back down to the Noob level, where Evbo discovers the Champion had cut off the food and other supplies for both Noobs and Pros, condemning two-thirds of Parkour Civilization to starvation. After Evbo returns for a rematch and starts winning, the Parkour Champion refuses to admit defeat and tries to kill both of them in a Suicide Attack.
Delusions of Grandeur:
- Original: Razanak is a vengeful evil spirit that plans on preying on Fox McCloud's want to be the King of Smash to use him as a tool of vengeance. Threatening Fox when the latter says he doesn't want to hurt his friends, Razanak corrupts him and uses him to attack multiple fighters and start a fight that leads to Mewtwo accidentally killing Pichu. After trying to use Marth to kill Fox after an attempt to control Fox again fails, Razanak spitefully erases all the fighters except Fox from existence.
- Remake & The Demon Of Delusion prequel: Razanak is a vile demon who has razed numerous worlds by corrupting individuals into serving as his pawns. Approaching the disinherited prince of Drochal, Arulo, Razanak convinces the embittered royal to try and usurp the throne, first by killing his father and then helping him brainwash an army to seize the throne by force, devastating the capital city and killing numerous in the process, killing Arulo afterwards once the latter feels regret for his crimes. Later on, Razanak latches onto Fox McCloud and gives him the power and idea to brainwash the Smashers he feels have wronged him, his machinations leading to the death of Pichu. After Fox is exiled for his crimes, Razanak forcibly takes control of his body to escape their prison and tries to kill Mewtwo for foiling his scheme. After Fox escapes his control, Razanak possesses Roy to kill him and the forces allied against him before attempting to finish the job himself.
Fright Krewe:
- Belial is a demon who feeds on fear, and serves as the most recurring foe the Krewe face. Centuries ago, Belial manipulated the victimized human Pierre D'Rousseau into making a deal for power; Belial proceeded to lock Pierre inside his own mind and take control of the man's body for his own use. Belial caused a number of tragedies so he could consume the terror of innocents—from an outbreak of yellow fever that killed thousands, to burning down a schoolhouse—and when a headmistress tried to interfere, Belial punished her by removing her mouth and trapping her ghost in the school. Revived in the present day, Belial allies with Mayor Furst to create a supernatural race war, planning to wipe out both sides in a brutal fashion, while getting many innocents caught in the crossfire. Orchestrating Furst's death when he outlives his usefulness, Belial then summons a variety of horrific demons to endanger vast swathes of people, and often manipulates hapless humans into helping him along. After corrupting and toying with the Krewe for the whole show, Belial forces them to destroy the Tree of Life to unleash his full power, at which point he traps them all in their greatest fears—ranging from dying alone, to being forced to choose between saving their mother or their baby sibling. Belial ultimately plans to trap all the citizens of New Orleans into unending nightmares for him to feast on and spread his influence worldwide.
- Season 2:
  - The Reveler is a giggling demon of excess and chaos who is summoned by Belial to be his chief servant in terrorizing New Orleans. Capable of controlling the bodies of humans with his beaded necklaces that leave his victims' minds aware that their bodies are being puppetted, the Reveler is introduced nearly killing two people to lure the Krewe out. The Reveler endangers a variety of innocents through the series for fun as much as for Belial's plans, to such a point Belial has to hold the Reveler back. The Reveler at one point takes control of dozens of people and threatens them all with self-harm to force the Krewe into compliance, and he gleefully uses a giant, mechanized golem to try to kill a gathering of the city's rougarou, vampire, and human population all at once.
  - "The Bridge" & "The Return": Antoinette du Sang is a vicious vampire. A former friend of Fiona's who believes vampires should remain feral killers, Antoinette, upon finding out Fiona fell in love with a human, slaughtered an entire ballroom of people and spitefully turned Fiona's lover into a vampire. Freed from her imprisonment by Belial, Antoinette happily assists him in terrorizing New Orleans and murdering anybody she can get a hold of. Antoinette threatens to murder Stanley's mother if they don't leave her alone, before promising Fiona that she'll kill everybody she loves.
  - "The Collection" & "The Escape": Gilda is a demon passing as an unassuming old lady whose modus operandi is to prey on the desperate. In exchange for nothing but a simple painting, Gilda will magically solve whatever catastrophe is going on in her clients' lives. Only then does she double around to reveal the true price of her deals: She traps the souls of her unfortunate victims in the painting, where they meet all manners of horrifying deaths before Gilda eats their remaining years and leaves their souls trapped in the painting. A master of Exact Words, Gilda has been doing this song-and-dance for decades, and she's tricked countless dozens into joining the gallery of ever-screaming paintings she has framed in her shop.
Sentinels-related:
- The original Master Mold was designed as the overlord of the Sentinels, meant to head up the capture of mutants across Earth, until it gained sapience and became a threat to the whole planet. Deciding to exterminate all mutants, the Master Mold plans to then lead the Sentinels in conquering humankind itself, and forces its horrified creator Bolivar Trask to help it in this goal lest it destroy half of America one city at a time. Though seemingly destroyed, the Master Mold is restarted by Steven Lang's brainwaves, and begins a new murder spree against humans and mutants alike. The Master Mold tries to unleash a lethal virus that will painfully kill all mutants, and when it learns that the virus has evolved to target humans as well, the Master Mold shrugs it off and notes that a small percentage of humans will survive that it can enslave.
- Bastion is a seemingly-human enemy of all mutantkind, whose hatred for them extends into unbridled sadism. Bastion was born from a magical merging of Master Mold and the more sympathetic Nimrod into an organic, amnesiac being, and though raised by a compassionate human woman, Bastion still developed an egotistical, prejudiced desire to destroy mutants and Take Over the World. Creating "Zero Tolerance", Bastion used the operation to carry out the systematic kidnapping of, experimentation on, and execution of dozens of mutants, notably subjecting Professor X and the teenaged Jubilee to weeks of sensory deprivation and Mind Rape. Bastion's preferred method of targeting mutants is by framing them for acts of terrorism he himself commits, such as trying to slaughter a camp of his own followers and their families to pin it on Rogue; or by using a virus to force innocent mutants' powers to go into out of control and kill hundreds of humans around them. Bastion further creates "Prime Sentinels" by kidnapping and turning humans into cyborg sleeper agents, killing any of them who regain their sapience, and plans to transform all of humankind into these hollowed-out drones when he succeeds. Later reviving a variety of mutant haters, Bastion keeps them as his slaves even as some beg for death, then tries to annihilate 800,000 humans just to kill a pocket of mutants. Even when he discovers a future where mutants no longer exist, Bastion deliberately travels to the past so he can painfully, horrifically "evolve" millions of humans into mutants, just so he will always have mutants to torture and butcher.