Complete Monster Proposal Thread

Stranger, Stagbringer and Merlot

Falcone

As for Kanjar just how common is And I Must Scream here?

Stagbringer, Dr. Merlot, Stalin, Jiang, Agamemnon, Witch of the West, Mombi, Vaen trio, Daimbert, Rudra, Custer, Stranger, Kanjar Ro, Kent.

Carmine.

Yes to Custer, Kent, the stranger, Stagbringer, and Merlot. No to Carmine, and I'll say no for Kanjar Ro for now, though I'm open to counterarguments.

What's the work?

Red Son again. Just to recap, the premise of the story is that Superman's ship landed in the 1940s USSR, eventually becoming the symbol of the communist way. Fortunately, he's still a boy scout, and kills Stalin once he learns of the state's crimes, proceeding to take over so he can actually practice what he preaches. Turns out, communism can actually work out pretty great if you have a superhuman leader who can strongarm things into doing what they're supposed to, leading to a new era of peace and prosperity in the east. Unfortunately, he's still, you know, a Soviet communist, so the methods he takes to get there, while genuinely well-intentioned, are a bit... much. Not helped by the influence of a certain AI.

Who is Brainiac?

The Collector of Worlds. Brainiac, as per usual, is an alien artificial intelligence with a giant skull spaceship. Arriving on Earth to shrink and collect the city of Stalingrad, Brainiac is seemingly stopped and destroyed by Superman. Eventually rebuilt and reprogrammed, Brainiac aids Superman in overseeing the growing Soviet Empire, providing his advanced technology and intelligence in ensuring prosperity for all its citizens.

Of course, that's all bullshit. Brainiac saw an opportunity while fighting Superman to take more than just a mere city for his collection, allowing himself to be defeated and pretending to be reprogrammed. As the right hand to the Soviet Premier, Brainiac steadily manipulates Superman into taking harder methods to ensure peace, lobotomizing dissidents into mindless servants of the Soviet cause while constantly suggesting that they invade America to free the people from capitalist oppression.

After a few... incidents, Superman loses his patience and finally agrees, with the two personally flying to the White House in Brainiac's repaired ship. I'm sure most of you know what broadly happens next—Lois brings out the bottled city of Stalingrad and asks why he doesn't just put the whole world in a bottle. Despite Superman protesting that he's been working for years to free them, Brainiac confirms that he could have enlarged the city at any time, but never brought it up because he knew Superman subconsciously didn't want to—it's the perfect representation of his utopia, an unchanging world carefully controlled and protected. Rattled, Superman calls off the invasion...

And Brainiac blows up Stalingrad, deciding he's had enough of waiting and intends to conquer the world now. Fighting ensues, Superman eventually punches his way through the ship to tear the robot to pieces, and he and Lex find that Brainiac has set his ship to explode in the event of his death. With a blast radius of 15 million miles, Superman has no choice but to fly the ship into deep space, sacrificing himself to save the planet...

Supposedly. In truth, the Man of Steel survives and returns to Earth in secret, happy to go into hiding and allow President Luthor to lead humanity to true global peace.

Mitigating factors?

It's Brainiac. Moving on.

Is he heinous enough?

Sets his ship to destroy the planet if he loses, and even if we take into account the possibility that it was actually Luthor who triggered the self-destruct to get rid of Superman, he's still a major player in the oppressive government of the USSR, lobotomizing countless people into loyal drones. He's also the one constantly pushing for open war against Luthor, with the lowest estimated casualties of his most efficient plan being about 6.5 million.

Yes to Brainiac, once again. No surprise, given he qualified in the original Red Son.

Does the Nome King from Return to Oz even count? I don't remember him being heinous enough in the original Return to Oz—you can make the argument that him being Affably Evil is a farce, but I don't recall him actually being heinous enough, particularly when him petrifying all of Oz is one of those generic, PG-friendly evil schemes that's undone with no real lasting effects at the end. I don't remember him having the oomph compared to Mombi (whose head-swapping and mass-And I Must Scream proclivities are done, IIRC, without the Nome King's involvement).

That said, I really wouldn't mind a revisitation of the Nome King's novelization counterpart, which if IIRC made him quite a bit worse with added detail.

Edited by Scraggle on Feb 18th 2023 at 10:22:36 AM

Yes to Brainiac; no to Falcone.

Brainiac….. Again.

to Stalin and Brainiac.

Brainiac

Yeah, the novelization could be seen as "worse" especially because the whole Affably Evil thing is an act. He pretends to be sympathetic towards Dorothy but the narrative makes it apparent that he was truly taking delight in seeing her upset. IIRC I did do the novel version a few years back. That, and it leaned more towards the idea of people being transformed as them still being conscious. Anyone can read the novelization if they want to.

Yes to Brainiac.

Edited by AustinDR on Feb 18th 2023 at 10:33:09 AM

to Brainiac.

Brainy

Yes to Stagbringer, Merlin and Brainiac

For Kanjar, while justice league has a step standard, threathing to leave entire planet in And I Must Scream state is something else.

Yes to Brainiac

Yeah, honestly I'm feeling pretty comfy with Kanjar myself, looking at the DC Complete Monster page I don't see much "planetwide Fate Worse than Death" like he tries to inflict in the Pre-Crisis section.

Edited by Ravok on Feb 19th 2023 at 1:19:38 AM

to Brainiac.

brainiac and Kanjar Ro.

Brainiac

Honestly fine with Kanjar Ro. Mass Fate Worse than Death doesn't seem super common in the comics.

Edited by Snowy66 on Feb 19th 2023 at 3:00:57 AM

Starbringer, Merlot, Brainiac and sure to Kanjar as well

Yes to Brainiac and Merlot.

• The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Obed Marsh, the founder of the Esoteric Order of Dagon, was a sea captain who observed foreign tribes achieve prosperity by sacrificing human beings to the aquatic Deep Ones. Taking the practice to his dying hometown of Innsmouth, Obed proceeded to institute mass sacrifices until his first mate led a rebellion against him. Rallying his followers, Obed slaughtered half the town and instituted a new regime of tyranny and murder, with many forced to breed with the Deep Ones in a horrific practice that lasted nearly a century.
• Odalia Blight is Amity's abusive and controlling mother, who proves to be just as cruel as she is in canon. Odalia has an iron grip on the lives of her children, eventually driving Amity away. When Odalia discovers Vee disguised as Amity, Odalia locks her up in Amity's room which has been repurposed into a prison cell. When Vee escapes, Odalia initiates a manhunt to track her down to have her back in her control. Making a deal with Philp Wittebane for control over the Boiling Isles, Odalia happily provides him with Abomitons, knowing that Wittebane intends on using them for his genocidal ambitions. Odalia then actively aids Wittebane with his attempted genocide by using an Oracle Orb to see into the future and tell him what he needs to do. Discovering Amity has a Witch girlfriend, Luz, Odalia tries to have her killed to replace her with a rich Human boy of her choosing.
• Bill the Elder leads the Titan Trappers, a cult that seeks to hunt the final Titan and free the Collector, whom they worship as a god by the name of the Grand Huntsman. Having been there when the first Titan fell a millennium ago, Bill was blessed by the Grand Huntsman to live until the final hunt is finished, helping to hunt the Titans to near-extinction in the meantime and personally killing hundreds of them, including children. In the present day, Bill attempts to sacrifice King so that he may free the Grand Huntsman and claim power and glory for himself alone. Unlike the rest of the Titan Trappers, who believe they are protecting the world from evil monsters, Bill cares not for saving anyone or stopping evil, seeking only the favor and power of gods, and is more than happy to commit acts of genocide in order to get what he wants.
• God Himself is an ancient being obsessed with perfect order. Creating the universe and humankind, God grew revolted at the creation of demons and began to exterminate them again and again. When Satan, God's greatest angel, took up the cause of the demons, God was enraged at the affront and initiated a plot to punish him. Steadily manipulating events in the modern day, including wiping out entire cities, God brings Satan and Devilman, Akira Fudo, into eternal conflict so Satan will suffer forever over being forced to destroy the one he loves most. God then wipes out the world and resets the time loop. Any humans or demons killed in this time are sent to hell to suffer forever, while God's faithful are taken to heaven to become God's lobotomized slaves that worship him forever.
• Bibidi—only seen in the anime—is a wizard whose universal hegemonic goals contrast his small stature. Releasing the entity Buu, Bibidi would have him ravage planets in quest for universal dominion. To stop any opposition towards him, Bibidi would also murder any of the Supreme Kais that get into his way, almost wiping all of them out. Despite being slain 5 million years ago, Bibidi's evil lives through his clone Babidi, who also attempts to use Buu for his own twisted agenda.
• Babidi, the doppelgänger clone of Bibidi, uses the evil in a person's heart to make them want to serve him, and orchestrated the revival of Majin Buu, ultimately making him the one responsible for the cataclysmic amounts of death and destruction that occur later. Babidi kills his men when they are no longer useful, including brainwashed minions Spopovich and Yamu, after which he comments how enjoyable their deaths were; and throws Dabura, his loyal right-hand man, under the bus once Buu is revived. Babidi took great delight in having Buu systematically kill the people of Earth so he could lure out Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks all for the purpose of getting his petty revenge against them. When he's asked to stop this by Goku, Babidi then announces that he'll have more people killed just to spite him. Finally, Babidi crushed the head of someone who gave him the names of Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks, just because he found the information to be useless. Babidi also constantly threatens Majin Buu when the latter doesn't obey him.
• Broly--The Legendary Super Saiyan (Funimation dub only): Paragus is the cruel Saiyan father of Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan. A long time after being banished from Planet Vegeta and being saved from the planet's destruction thanks to his son, Paragus creates a Mind-Control Device in order to control Broly and his violent psychotic behavior until he realized that he can use Broly to conquer the universe. Much later, Paragus uses Broly to destroy the entirety of the South Galaxy, killing billions. After forming an army of his own, Paragus enslaved the Shamoian race and forced them to do slave labor. While manipulating Vegeta into joining him in making a new Saiyan empire and tricking Goku and his allies into believing that he's a friendly guy, Paragus secretly plans to leave them, his army, and the Shamoian race to die on the new planet, "New Vegeta", from the cataclysmic Comet Camori. After one of his soldiers finds out about the comet, Paragus swiftly kills him. Once the comet is nearly close to crashing into New Vegeta, Paragus decides to leave his son, Broly, to die along with the planet, declaring his son to be "nothing" to him.
• Wrath of the Dragon: Hoi is a representative of the Kashvar, a cabal of alien mystics who believe all species other than their own should be enslaved or massacred. Responsible for multiple planetary genocides, the Kashvar were defeated when their attempt to use the colossal demon Hirudegarn to destroy planet Conuts was thwarted by the heroic brothers Tapion and Minosha. Surviving the subsequent downfall of the order, Hoi stewed for a thousand years before tricking Goku and his friends into using the Dragon Balls to revive the monster, gleefully commanding Hirudegarn to slaughter the cities of Earth in his campaign against all "inferior beings".
• Manga: Zamasu proves himself even more petty and egoistical than in the anime. Learning about Goku, Zamasu is insulted by the idea of a mortal with such strength existing and starts planning to wipe out all mortals in the multiverse. Killing his mentor Gowasu and stealing the time ring, Zamasu switches bodies with Goku and kills him before traveling to Future Trunks's timeline. Zamasu, now known as Goku Black, kills Future Gowasu and recruits his future counterpart. He kills the gods of the future timeline and wipes out mortals across the multiverse, scheming with his counterpart to spread his genocide across other timelines. Coming to Earth and sadistically wiping out its inhabitants, Goku Black toys with Future Trunks and mocks him about all the people he failed to save. Faced with time traveling Goku and Vegeta, Goku Black and Future Zamasu decide to kill all remaining humans, with Black even impaling time traveling Gowasu before fusing together into the self-proclaimed "One true god of the multiverse".
• Fusions:
  • Frieza and Cell prove to be just as monstrous as they are in canon. When Frieza is freed from hell by Tekka and his team, Frieza orders The Ginyu Force to kill them for no reason. When Tekka's team comes across Cell, Cell immediately tries to kill the group to lure out Goku for the purpose of fighting him. Later, the heroes find out that Frieza and Cell have joined Pinich's team for the purpose of manipulating him into performing the Ultra Fusion. Frieza and Cell then take over the fusion before attempting to destroy the Timespace Rift and everybody in it as Ultra Pinich, only stopped due to Beerus and Whis. The two then flee, opening up a portal to hell to create more chaos. They later escape to the real world in an attempt to destroy the entire galaxy.
  • Zamasu is an apprentice Supreme Kai who stole the body of Goku to become Goku Black so that he could carry out his crusade to purge all mortals from reality, starting with Future Trunks's timeline. Upon discovering the Timespace Rift that allowed him to access all timespaces, he began cleansing them one-by-one and making them disappear. Zamasu also recruited many alternate versions of Zamasus from different timespaces, where he came very close to wiping out all life across reality.
• Xenoverse duology:
  • First game: The Demon God, Demigra, was imprisoned in a crack in time by the Supreme Kai of Time. To free himself, he sends out an image capable of acting on the physical plane to cause chaos and distort time. One of the timelines has him brainwashing Piccolo into trying to kill Goten and Trunks. Another has him trying to brainwash Beerus into destroying Earth. After his release, he plans to destroy the universe and reshape it so that everything revolves around him.
  • Xenoverse 2: Zamasu is as arrogant a god as ever in the story mode. An egotist who can be tricked into mentoring the main character, Zamasu's ultimate goal is the eradication of mortals to the last in his "Zero Mortals" plan. Having swapped bodies with Goku, Zamasu gleefully begins to wipe out numerous mortals with full intent to eradicate them in every single timeline. Upon fusing with himself to create "Fused Zamasu", Zamasu then attempts to consume every timeline upon his final defeat.
• Mystic Force: Octomus The Master is the eldritch leader of the Underworld responsible for the orchestration of the Great War between his forces and the magic lands before being sealed away, also twisting the warrior Leanbow into his soldier Koragg. To escape his prison, Octomus uses one of his followers who tries to repent as his vessel and kills him by bursting out of his living body to escape. Unleashed at last, Octomus brainwashes the Red Ranger Nick Russell and has him lay waste to the village of Rootcore while also having Sculpin and Black Lance attack the city of Briarwood. During the carnage, Octomus lays siege to the Mystic Mother's palace, also killing Leanbow and Daggeron and dropping their bodies in front of the Rangers with sadistic glee. Octomus then warps the Rangers to the future he creates, with all life extinguished and the universe left as a desolate husk. Motivated only by making innocent beings suffer, Octomus's depravities make him one of the worst in the franchise while being one the most personal.
• Samurai: Serrator, the Nighlok King, outclasses even Master Xandred in terms of evil. A horrible boss, Serrator introduces himself slaughtering an army of Master Xandred's Moogers and will callously throw away the lives of any of his minions if it suits him. Taking pleasure in tormenting the Rangers, Serrator attempts to force a group of Islanders to fight to the death to perfect his new gun weapons. Serrator later betrays Xandred, and attempts to kill Xandred's Co-Dragons Octoroo and Dayu. Serrator reveals to Dayu and Dekker that he is responsible for turning them into accursed Nighloks for all of eternity, taking pleasure in their suffering. Serrator also uses far viler minions than Xandred to attempt mass death and destruction on the populace in order to create cracks in the Earth at specific points, which Serrator plans to use to split the Earth so the Netherworld floods it, in an attempt to take over both worlds. Callous to the potential deaths of billions of human and Nighlok alike due to his plan, and sadistic to horrific degrees, Serrator is one of the nastiest foes to ever face the Rangers.
• Bishamonten, named after the Japanese War God, is the leader of the "nobuseri," or masterless samurai-turned-bandits who have taken to preying on the populace. Occupying a post town, Bishamonten massacres whoever stands against him and makes the town his personal kingdom, where women are regularly raped or kept as sex slaves for him and his men. One son of a former samurai, who attempts to kill Bishamonten for raping his sister, is easily disabled by Bishamonten, who then thanks the man for his sister's body before killing him and having his corpse defiled. Kidnapping high-ranking officials in the province, Bishamonten uses them as hostages after slaughtering most of the province's military, and has said hostages dropped onto sharpened bamboo stakes later. Bishamonten captures Azumi's comrade Kiku, and upon learning Kiku is a transgender woman, Bishamonten breaks his word to not harm her by allowing one of his lieutenants Seiryu, to rape and beat Kiku to death.
• Hi-Speed Jecy:
  • Lou Bismarck is the elderly, immortality-craving patriarch of the Bismarck family. Across the galaxy, Lou runs dictatorships, smuggles arms, and seeks to conquer the galaxy, even using such methods as a horrible virus that might exterminate all life within the cosmos. Lou is also responsible for a massacre that claimed the life of Jecy's parents and countless other innocents. Midway through the series Lou uploads himself to a computer; in this form, he wipes out countless Federation soldiers and tortures Jecy's Love Interest, gloating he'll conquer the galaxy even if he has to "kill all you worthless humans!"
  • Cross Bismarck is Lou's son and the worst member of the Bismarck family. Cross kills, betrays, and tortures all in his path as he happily participates in whatever plan his father has concocted to increase his control across the universe, which include stealing a superweapon that could wipe out all life in the universe to easily colonize planets; and seizing the warship Roendolf during a party so that Lou can transfer his mind into it and start several wars throughout the galaxy, while also holding over 300 passengers hostage, even killing one for laughs. Later burning a building with people inside, Cross spends his final moments attempting to run over an injured Jecy.
• Shinobi no Ittoki: Kido Minobe is the current head of the Koga Clan after succeeding in killing his own brother just for being loved more than him. Kido covered up his crime by manipulating everyone into thinking Iga is responsible for his death so his village would be destroyed. Kido then steals the Iga Clan's scroll to obtain infinite power to further his goals. Kido later experiments on his own children by planting microchips in their heads just to show the entire ninja world the suffering he endured. Kido then plans to kill every single ninja so he can be the last one standing—even though he doesn't like ninjas—before using his robots to take over Japan.
• Brigada, by Enrique Fernandez: Yaibed is the leader of the dark elves who ostensibly acts as an intermediary for the divine Primordial Ones. In actuality Yaibed hasn't heard a clear message from the Primordials in years, driving him ever more furious as he's denied what he feels is his right. When he goes off the deep end, Yaibed begins massacring entire towns full of people, down to the kids, to provoke a response from the Primordials. When his pregnant ally Belzair rallies the other elves against him in horror, Yaibed sacrifices both her and her unborn child, stating he'll burn down the entire world if it means regaining communion with the gods. Reviled by the dwarves and the other dark elves alike, even Yaibed's gods are implied to be disgusted with him and his cruelty.
• The Unfunnies:
  • Troy Hicks is a comic book artist who gets arrested for raping and killing eight children. Using an occult ritual to contact the world he created, Hicks proceeds to introduce his creations to sex and violence, eventually filling the world's prison with murderers and rapists. Troy eventually convinces local mailman Frosty Pete to switch places with him and leaves him to fry in the electric chair before sexually blackmailing Birdseed Betty, a desperate woman whose husband he corrupted with child porn. He then restarts his child murders until the police catch up to him. Hicks then uses his occult powers to massacre the entire police department, cementing himself as the god of this world. His first act is to give Betty's family a chance at a happy life before crushing them with an anvil, ending the comic completely successful.
  • Dr. Despicable introduces himself talking a woman into letting him have her problematic child killed, a service he implies he regularly provides. Later tricking a rundown actor into thinking he's got testicular cancer so Despicable can castrate him to win a bet with another depraved practitioner, when disqualified for cheating, he suggests a new competition: stealing kidneys.
• Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox & Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay: Eobard Thawne, aka Professor Zoom, is the Reverse-Flash and opposes everything Barry Allen stands for. Thawne hires the Rogues to break into the Flash museum and straps bombs to them after they defeat Flash, planning to blow up the museum and several surrounding blocks, just so his nemesis will be tormented knowing that innocent people will die with him. After his initial defeat, Thawne mocks Flash over the fact his mother died. When Flash subsequently uses his speed to travel back in time and save his mother, the world is sent to a twisted alternate state, in which a war between Atlantis and the Amazons has caused massive devastation. Thawne delights in Barry's agony at the new world, and when Barry tries to fix the realities, Thawne tries to stop him, meaning he is willing to allow the destruction of nearly the entire planet in the war, solely to satisfy his hatred of Barry. Using the Speed Force to postpone his subsequent death, Thawne searches for a magic "Get Out of Hell Free" card in the new timeline, attempting to kill the Suicide Squad with a bomb and torturing Bronze Tiger to death with small cuts to escape the consequences of his petty, mass murdering ways.
• The Bourne Series:
  • Identity & Supremacy: Ward Abbott is a corrupt CIA chief, serving as one of the architects of Operation Treadstone and the head of its day-to-day operations. Abbott oversaw the creation of Treadstone and the implementation of its many brutal training routines, involving torture and psychological rewiring of soldiers into killing machines. After Abbott stole millions of dollars of CIA money with the help of Yuri Gretkov, Abbott tested Treadstone's capabilities by assassinating politician Vladimir Neski and his wife to silence their outrage against Gretkov's corruption. With dozens of people—terrorist, political dissident, and American citizen alike—murdered by Treadstone's operatives on Abbott's watch, Abbott later murders his subordinate Alexander Conklin to pin everything on him and rebrand Treadstone as "Blackbriar" to continue its operations. Later using Gretkov to kill off multiple CIA operatives and frame Jason Bourne for their deaths, Abbott tries to assassinate Bourne to cover his tracks—getting Bourne's lover Marie murdered in the process—and when he is nearing exposure, Abbott stabs his own assistant to death for unintentionally deducing Abbott's criminal activities. Even when he is Driven to Suicide by exposure, Abbott reiterates that he feels no remorse for anything he has done, proclaiming himself a patriot to his last breath.
  • Jason Bourne:
    • CIA Director Robert Dewey, the Big Bad of the film and the Greater-Scope Villain of the series, seeks to gain total control over the private lives of the American public. In the past, Dewey was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder and Jason Bourne's father Richard Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on his son, he tried to shut down the program and go public about it, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a False Flag Operation before manipulating Jason into enlisting. Going on to oversee other shady government projects, Dewey spearheads an operation known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and has Jason's friend Nicky Parsons assassinated when she tries to leak info about it to the public. When Jason takes up Nicky's cause, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by having his own agents callously killed and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kalloor for undermining his authority.
    • The Asset, Dewey's chief henchman, is first seen during the chase scene in Athens, where he murders several bystanders just to set up a sniper nest with which to ambush Bourne and Nicky. The Asset later derails Heather Lee's attempt to make contact with Bourne by murdering his fellow CIA operatives sent to monitor the meeting, callously disregarding the fact that they are his comrades and that they have nothing to do with his beef with Bourne. Finally, after failing in his attempt to assassinate Kalloor and Lee in Vegas, the Asset murders a LVMP SWAT officer, hijacks his SWAT truck, and charges it straight into a traffic full of civilian cars just to put a few yards of distance from Bourne. In the climactic fight with Bourne, the Asset denounces Bourne as "a traitor, always has been a traitor," even though he's the one who railroaded Bourne into the CIA by using a car bomb to kill Bourne's father, a loyal CIA employee, and attributing it to a terrorist organization.
• Brick: Laura Dannon is a seemingly innocent upperclassman and potential Love Interest to Brendan Frye, but she is in truth a manipulative, ambitious puppet master. Laura stole and poisoned a brick of cocaine from the Pin, ruining his reputation as a drug lord when the cocaine sent several users into the hospital. Framing her own best friend Emily for the theft, Laura tricked the pregnant girl into signing her own death warrant by enraging Emily's boyfriend Tug into beating her to death. To completely eradicate her competition and tie up all loose ends, Laura uses Brendan to arrange a meeting between the Pin and Tug, then sparks conflict between the two that results in the deaths of half a dozen students in a Gang War. Having put Brendan himself in the crossfire to succeed in her plans, Laura's only recourse when she is exposed is to callously reveal to Brendan that Emily was pregnant with his child, Laura hoping that these cruel words haunt him for life as payback for stopping her schemes.
• Mat Kilau (2022):
  • The cruel warrior Toga is an easterner who knows the Malay people well, utilizing his knowledge to exploit and murder them for the British colonizers. Opening the film by laying siege to a village and torturing the people for information, Toga happily leads the slaughter of them when none will talk. Toga is seen to manage slave quarries, regularly torturing and killing workers while also attempting to draw Mat Kilau out by slaughtering innocent Malaysians across the nation.
  • Haji Muhammad, one of Captain Syer's top-ranked soldiers, leads several village massacres in his quest to help the British colonize Malaysia. Humiliated by Mat Kilau at a jetty marketplace while trying to oppress the villagers, Muhammad later leads an assault on the marketplace, killing countless people there. Seeking information on Mat Kilau's rebellion, Muhammad abuses Wahid's pregnant wife for information, allowing Toga to kill her for refusing to cooperate.
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF: Junko Enoshima, in this What If? scenario, is the same despair-adoring psychopath and abusive younger sister of Mukuro Ikusaba who conditioned the latter into admiring despair. Having kickstarted "The Tragedy" with Mukuro, resulting in tons of destruction and riots, Junko wipes the memories of her friends at Hope's Peak Academy to have them all kill each other. Lying to Mukuro that she'll survive the killing game, after her attempt to kill her fails, Junko tries to pin her and the injured Makoto Naegi as the masterminds behind the game. When Mukuro turns against her, Junko promises to reset the game and have an amnesiac Mukuro compete as herself to make her and everyone else suffer, later presenting the students with an impossible deadly challenge to win their freedom, knowing they will most likely fail and fall into despair.
• Grounded for All Eternity: Samuel Parris, in life, was a manipulative reverend who orchestrated the Salem Witch Trials to profit off the mass hysteria. Upon escaping Hell, Parris's soul returns to the mortal coil to wreak havoc once more. Parris corrupts the residents of Salem and plunges the town into chaos, shifting the balance of good and evil in order to strengthen himself. Taking over the town, Parris orchestrates another witch hunt, attempting to have the young witch Charity executed to prevent her from getting in his way. Parris ultimately seeks to rule the world as a deity and tear down Heaven and Hell, regardless of the cosmic consequences it would wreak.
• "Scared to Death": Nigel Malloy, the Grim Reaper, tortured numerous women to death by branding them. Malloy lets a mentally unstable man, David Collier, take the fall for his first murder, resulting in David killing himself, while Malloy goes on to torture and kill five more women, manipulating his mentally ill brother, Leopold, into helping him commit these heinous crimes. When Malloy is found and arrested, Malloy declares that more people will die after he's been executed, which proves to be true when David's daughter, Amanda, kills two people as a result of Malloy's actions.
• Seasons 2 & 3: Mason Verger is the most sickening and twisted opponent Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham ever face. The heir to the Verger meatpacking empire, Mason lords his power over his sister Margo, having abused her physically, mentally, and sexually for many years. Knowing she will be disinherited if Mason dies without an heir, Mason mocks her with an intent to rape her to father that heir. When Margo sleeps with Will Graham in desperation, Mason arranges for her reproductive organs to be removed in the most invasive procedure possible. Mason also emotionally abuses every child he encounters, being a brutal pedophile who also molests some at a summer camp he patrons, so he can collect their tears for his martinis. Upon being paralyzed, and disfigured by Hannibal, Mason grows even worse. Finding only joy in the suffering of others, Mason plans to torture Will and Hannibal to death so he might dine upon the latter. Providing his sperm with Margo's eggs, Mason gives her a "surrogate", letting their child grow in the body of a sow so it will die a painful death, just for the sick joy of Margo's anguish.
• Tamamo-no-Mae is a wicked fox spirit reputed as one of the three most fearsome Yōkai of Japan, seducing and poisoning the retired emperor before being exposed and killed, her death cursing Japan to a brutal war. Later versions equated Tamamo with Daji and Bāo Sì of China and the Indian legend of Kalmashapada, seducing and corrupting kings into savage tyrants, torturing and slaughtering countless innocents, and kicking off wars. While some versions of her posthumously repent, others double down on their villainy and don't let even death stop them from bringing chaos to the world.
• The Six Brothers: The Magistrate is the governor of the village of the Six Brothers, and a corrupt official who, during a famine, would take the food meant for the town for himself, causing mass civilian deaths. After the brothers are seen conspiring to steal the food in order to feed the dying, the Magistrate orders the brothers to be tortured, and later killed.
• Wilhuff Tarkin, after being promoted to Moff following Palpatine's conversion of the Republic to The Empire, would craft the Tarkin Doctrine, which laid out the new Empire's principles. Tarkin would then repeatedly demonstrate his cruelties as a high-ranking officer: committing genocide against the 100 billion inhabitants of Geonosis by using poisonous gas; punishing the populace of Antar-4 with no regard to who had been loyal to the Republic, killing many innocents; ordering the annihilation of Kamino and its populace; and, upon his promotion to Grand Moff, taxing the subjects of the Outer Rim to starvation and engineering the torture of the potentially ignorant Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus. During the earliest days of the Death Star, Tarkin sanctions the obliteration of the rebel city NiJedha and claims the victory as his own, later having the station fire on the Imperial base on Scarif to quell rebel activity while killing countless members of the Empire's own men, his hated rival Orson Krennic, and the remainder of Rogue One. Upon briefing the gunners for the Death Star, Tarkin secretly monitors them to see if they will hesitate in their orders. When they do so, Tarkin chastises them for "weakness", noting to one Alderaan native he would happily annihilate his own world without a second thought before coldly dismissing them as weaklings and ejecting them into space. Tarkin's most recognized atrocity is having Princess Leia tortured and, even after gaining the information he wanted, forcing her to witness the destruction of her homeworld of Alderaan, killing billions of innocent people.
• Freedon Nadd is a particularly sadistic Sith lord who is responsible for the Beast Wars of Onderon, the Krath cult, and even the rise of Exar Kun himself. Nadd murdered a Jedi Master in a petty rage when he was rejected from the rank of Knight, and went on to take Naga Sadow as a Dark Side master. Murdering Sadow to steal his title of Dark Lord, Nadd turned the planet Onderon into his own personal fiefdom, wherein swathes of innocents were exiled to die while the rest were infected and tormented by Nadd's evil. For hundreds of years after his physical death, Nadd's spirit lingered and would corrupt his descendants into his puppets to further torment Onderon, subjecting the population of Iziz to torture and murderous outbursts. When the Beast Riders try to make peace with Iziz, Nadd uses Queen Amanoa to try to wipe out the Riders and murder her own daughter, before Nadd slays the loyal Amanoa and King Ommin for failing him and steals their souls. Empowering Satal and Aleema Keto in the Dark Side and orchestrating their heinous Krath cult takeover of multiple worlds, Nadd tortures and mentally breaks the ambitious Exar Kun into accepting the Dark Side and murdering several of Nadd's own followers. Nadd ultimately tries to use Kun in a brand new destructive campaign on the entire galaxy, having bore visions of Kun's power and hoping to twist him into a puppet for mayhem.
• Acrylic: Brittaney the Collage is revealed to be behind the murders haunting Acrylic Academy. Having drowned as a little girl because her father, Mr. Aaron, failed to notice her, she became a spirit and sought revenge on him and the living. Possessing Mr. Aaron, the Collage used his body to sexually assault three innocent girls, then gruesomely murdered two and drove one to suicide while forcing Aaron to watch, trapping their spirits in the school like her. When Nicole and Joelle Chapman enter the school at night, she has the latter murdered and can potentially subject the former to many gruesome deaths. Unlike the other spirits, the Collage actively refuses to move on from her grudge to the next life, instead reveling in her sadism.
• The Bourne Conspiracy's "Disarm Renard": Khalid Azar is a powerful nationalist from Morocco who is behind various terrorist cells in his country. Azar sets a meetup with Charles Renard at a black-tie event to buy a Dirty Bomb off of him that Azar hopes to "contaminate twelve city blocks" with, only to betray and shoot Renard dead to simply steal the bomb. Using his assassins and henchmen to kill off Renard's security team, Azar has many of the guests of the gala gunned down in the process as he tries to flee with the bomb.
• Cyberia 2: Dr. John Corbin is the ambitious scientist responsible for the creation of the nano-toxin bioweapon. When the FWA leadership plans to use it to wipe out the Rebel Underground, Corbin personally selects a settlement with a strong rebel presence for a test run, expecting a casualty rate of 70%. Despite working for the FWA, Corbin has no loyalty towards them, caring only about his scientific legacy and how the nano-toxin will make him the master of every living thing.
• Dead Space franchise:
  • Dead Space 2: Daina Le Guin, a Unitologist aboard the Sprawl, became obsessed with the comatose Isaac Clarke's capacity to produce more Markers to spread the Necromorph infection. Opting to steal Isaac to take his knowledge, Daina tricked Karrie "Vandal" Norton into unleashing the Necromorphs onto the Sprawl, massacring the government sector and killing almost every living thing about the station. Manipulating Isaac to draw him near, Daina's ultimate plan was to kidnap Isaac and send the resulting Markers across the galaxy in a Necromorph plague to consume life.
  • Dead Space 3: Jacob Arthur Danik is the Unitologist founder of the Circle, a particularly militant group that even other Unitologists find insane. Launching a brutal coup on the Earth government, Danik has numerous planets devastated and cities destroyed to release the Markers and the Necromorph plague. Hunting for Isaac Clarke to kill him, Danik becomes obsessed with the awakening of the Brethren Moon and begins its Convergence, seeking an end to humanity to force his twisted view of "evolution" upon them.
  • Remake: Dr. Challus Mercer lacks the Marker-induced insanity he had in the original, but commits far greater crimes. A devout Unitologist who seeks to escape death through gaining the Red Marker's favor, Mercer starts by having a mentally-vulnerable Brant Harris transferred to his care, where he takes advantage of his mental illness to manipulate him into agreeing to being turned into the Hunter, who he has help him kill survivors onboard the Ishimura. After things truly go to hell, Mercer's sabotage of the ship leads to several decks that may have held the line being overwhelmed and the crew onboard slaughtered. When a group of survivors from the Hydroponics Deck enters the Medical Deck, Mercer captures them, gruesomely experiments on them, and leaves them to be turned into Necromorphs. When confronted by Jacob Temple on the Crew Deck, Mercer puts him into stasis and shoots him in the head, intentionally dragging out his death for far longer. A crazed religious fanatic, Mercer claims he is acting on behalf of humanity's future, when in fact he only cares about his own eternal reward.
• The Last of Us: David, a seemingly kindhearted survivor, is really the leader of a group of cannibals in the post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world. David sends out hunting parties, having his men murder other survivors on sight, including children, to retrieve their bodies for meat. Becoming obsessed with the teenaged Ellie, David has preyed on other girls in the past, with one of his followers referring to Ellie as his "newest pet". Having sent waves of men to capture her despite knowing how dangerous she is, David is apathetic to their ensuing deaths, even thanking Ellie for killing them and making his group stronger. When Ellie rejects his advances by breaking his finger, David tries to chop her up for meat, and, in their final confrontation, shows his full depravity by attempting to rape and murder her. Even among a cast of morally gray characters, David's actions and personality show him to be utterly irredeemable and the most heinous of all the enemies faced by Joel and Ellie.
• Midnight Fight Express: Jeffrey Kingsworthy is a beloved philanthropist who is in fact "The Boss" of all crime in the City of Tomorrow, maintaining control through murder and torture. Before the events of the game, Kingsworthy was betrayed by Babyface, to which Kingsworthy responded by threatening to kill Babyface's son if Babyface didn't become a sleeper agent. When Babyface agreed, Kingsworthy killed his son anyway and tortured his own lover for days for accidentally helping Babyface. Forming a plan to increase his power called "Operation Neo Dawn", Kingsworthy rallies his minions to take over the City of Tomorrow in a wave of violence and death that sees numerous people butchered, with Kingsworthy attempting to spread the violence further by bombing the surrounding military blockade. A vicious boss, Kingsworthy performed tortuous experiments on his own minions, leaving many insane and violent, while others are mutated into inhuman monsters. When Babyface confronts him, Kingsworthy reveals that he's been harvesting the brains of everyone killed in the chaos and using them to create an army of robots with which he intends to conquer the world.
• Pocky & Rocky & Reshrined: Black Mantle darkens the mood in two otherwise lighthearted games. In the first game, Black Mantle hypnotizes the Nopino Goblins into rampaging and is later revealed to have hypnotized his own henchmen as well. Black Mantle also gives several captured Nopino Goblins to his Mad Scientist minion to experiment on. In Reshrined, Black Mantle uses Time Travel to undo his previous defeat and get revenge on Pocky. It is eventually revealed that Black Mantle is really the demon Gastaroth, who orchestrated the massacre of Anna's village and the deaths of her parents so he could exploit her anger to possess her. When finally defeated by Pocky and the Seven Lucky Gods, Gastaroth attempts to drag them down to hell with him out of spite.
• Kunpaetku is the High Priest of Fygul Cestemus, an ancient cult worshipping the god of destruction Palgaea. Ordered by Palgaea to obtain Soul Edge, Kunpaetku plotted to use it to usurp his master and become a god of destruction himself. Capturing Aeon Calcos and countless other warriors, Kunpaetku performed twisted experiments that transformed them into predatory Lizardmen. Abducting the young child Bangoo to serve as bait for Nathaniel "Rock" Adams, Kunpaetku intended to experiment on and sacrifice them. When his prized creation, the golem Astaroth, betrayed and slaughtered the cult, Kunpaetku mockingly dismissed him as a failed copy of Rock. Transforming himself into a human/golem hybrid, Kunpaetku shut down an insurrection and continued his experiments—sacrificing even his own cultists—to create a new line of mindlessly loyal golems he sent out to kill indiscriminately, intending to sacrifice them to become a "supergod".
• Dark Cat 1991 OVA: Jukokubo is the former Dark Cat mentor of Hyoi and Ryoi who believes all humans are capable of evil. Causing havoc across Tokyo by allowing humans to be possessed by evil spirits that turn them into monsters, Jukokubo poses as a high school dean to allow several students and teachers to be possessed by his spirits, even devouring some himself to gain energy. Getting his spirits to possess an entire classroom, Jukokubo allows the innocent Aimi to be taken over by the Primordial Evil, indulging in her gradual loss of humanity as she slowly turns into a monster.
• Krut: The Himmaphan Warriors: The Raksod Giants, a nation of fire-breathers, are led by a pair of warmongers:
  • The King of the Raksod is a vicious tyrant with aspirations of global conquest. Having already invaded several other nations, overtaken the border of the Kingdom of Ayothaya, and sent his subordinate to pose as the Defence Minister, the King leads the Raksod in the invasion and subsequent incineration of Ayothaya's capital, resulting in the deaths of several civilians and soldiers alike. In the subsequent occupation, the King has any survivors enslaved or imprisoned, with prisoners burning alive later suggested to be a regular occurrence for the regime. Since he intends to invade the distant Himmaphan Forest as well, the King attempts to have his army poison the Ocean and dry it out in an effort to kill the water's inhabitants and create a land-path to the Himmaphan forest. Even after the forces of General Watchara and their Himmaphan warrior reinforcements have defeated the King and his Raksod forces, Ayothaya is in such a state of ruin that it takes many years to recover.
  • The Commander, also known as the "Black Giant", is the King of the Raksod's sadistic second-in-command. Having previously masqueraded as the Defence Minister of Ayothaya, the Commander had used his position to incapacitate King Suriya-Indra with a poisoned beverage; attempted to continuously sabotage the Garuda's efforts at self-defence; and appointed himself Supreme Commander before being imprisoned by former King Subanphon. Upon escaping in his true form and joining the fray, the Commander captures Subanphon and facilitates the sacking and burning of Ayothaya's capital, later torturing Subanphon for the location of the royal treasury when the occupation is underway. When confronted by General Watchara's forces, the Commander threatens to douse them and a group of imprisoned civilians with oil and incinerate everyone if the soldiers don't drop their weapons.
• S: The Movie: Princess Snow Kaguya is a malevolent ice entity who goes around freezing planets for her "collection". Having frozen countless planets, Kaguya made her way to the Earth in the past. She was repelled, but continued freezing worlds. Eventually, Kaguya decided to eventually return Eons later. Tracking down an innocent astronomer for finding her shard that broke off from her traveling comet, Kaguya doomed him to a slow, painful death. Kaguya ultimately plans to destroy the world by freezing it and its inhabitants solid, with her Snow Dancers helping her.
• Paradox Interactive After-Action Report The Hohenzollern Empire: Engelbert von Haynau, The Butcher of Lithuania, is a virulent racist trying to massacre every Livonian he can. A firm believer of We Have Reserves, von Haynau sends countless troops against Livonia until the latter runs out of the capacity to resist. Von Haynau then annihilates the capital city of Vilnus to kill almost all civilians, with surviving soldiers tortured, before proceeding to expand his genocidal crusade.
• Cat-Ra: The parasitic entity calling itself "Aroda" searches for hosts to manipulate, corrupt to evil, and, if there is no other source of power, feed on. Aroda does this to Shadow Weaver and attempts to convince her to sacrifice a baby Adora in a ritual. When the sorceress refuses, Aroda horribly deforms her. Upon being transferred inside Adora, Aroda manipulates the girl and feeds on her body while trying to convince her to kill others, including her former friends Catra and Entrapta. Aroda persuades Adora to ignore Entrapta's warning that Hordak's portal would destroy all existence and activate it, so Aroda could acquire great power. Aroda psychologically torments and tries to kill Catra to stop her from saving reality and, upon defeat, attempts to persuade her to become its new host, abandoning Adora.
• Marvel's Wastelanders:
  • Old Man Star-Lord: Brandon Best was Doctor Doom's press agent during the supervillain takeover of Earth. After Doom is injured by the Hulk, Best imprisons the weakened Doom in a prison and takes his resources, turning the Midwestern United States into his personal fiefdom. Best has his subjects believe Doom is in charge when in actuality Best is the true ruler. Best forces his subjects to work in mines and factories for little pay and extracts exorbitant taxes from them. Best has his Doombots kill anyone who protests his dictatorship. Best also takes people who displease him and puts them on Deer on Spear, a broadcast shown to his subjects where Kraven the Hunter brutally kills people and then puts the bodies on trees as a warning.
  • Doom: Cora is a seemingly friendly and goofy robotic helper who is secretly a psychopath. Cora is a Rigellian Recorder who is saved by Star-Lord from hostile aliens. Star-Lord takes Cora to Earth and while Cora helps Star-Lord defeat Kraven the Hunter and his master Brandon Best, she is really scouting Earth for colonization by the Rigellian Empire. Cora eventually abandons Star-Lord and allies with a newly freed Doctor Doom. While Cora is assisting Dr. Doom in his quest to attain the Cosmic Cube, she is actually biding her time. After Doom regains the Cosmic Cube and kills the Hulk, Cora reveals her true colors. Cora has decided that humanity is unworthy of survival and will be destroyed to make way for the Rigellian colonizers. Cora hijacks a Cold War-era nuclear stockpile and aims it at Dr. Doom, destroying the West Coast of the US to achieve her goal.
• Danganronpa: Junko Enoshima, the Ultimate Fashionista/Ultimate Despair, is a young, chaotic psychopath obsessed with making everybody, even herself, feel despair. Corrupting and tormenting the students of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77 to assist her in her plans, Junko was able to use them to launch countless wars, disasters, and terrorist attacks, with millions dying in the process. Seeking to further drench the world in despair, Junko wipes the memories of the Hope's Peak survivors to force them all to kill each other to escape while being broadcasted worldwide, even killing her own "boring" sister Mukuro Ikusaba to enjoy the despair of losing a loved one. Forced to live as her punishment, Junko installs an AI built from her consciousness into the Neo-World Program, forcing the recovering Class 77 students into another killing game to corrupt them all into becoming her copies to rule the world alongside her.
• The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Spinoff: Mael Stronghart is the Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and the one responsible for all of the major events in the game. Originally a regular prosecutor with grand ambition, Stronghart blackmailed Klint van Zieks into assassinating other nobles, including the previous Lord Chief Justice, causing the infamous "Professor Killings". Stronghart orchestrated the trial against Genshin Asogi for Klint's crimes by manipulating many members of Scotland Yard's police into faking evidence, while also faking an execution sentence to supposedly let him free, only to convince his friend Seishiro Jigoku to shoot him when a bystander witnessed his escape. Later, Stronghart created an organization of assassins to kill anyone who escaped the guilty verdict, which would follow Barok van Zieks for years, and have him be known as "The Reaper of the Bailey". Eventually, Stronghart would want to ascend into the higher position of Attorney General, so he planned to blackmail Seishiro into both of them sending assassins to kill targets from their respective countries who knew "too much" of his involvement with any of the other conspiracies. Although Stronghart claims to have done it all in the name of making Britain into a better country, the heroes call him out on his hypocrisy, and Stronghart would in the end admit that all of his crimes and affable persona are just because he liked everything to run like a well-oiled machine.
• Plague Muffins (link}: Doctor Malcolm Canoll is the greedy, newly-appointed head doctor of the English Plague Doctor Society. Malcolm has all doctors who try to cure the plague or help patients in any way dismissed, replacing them with doctors who give temporary remedies in order to maximise the profit, sending his right-hand Claudia to kill all dismissed doctors who continue trying to help people. Having young Emilie sent to spy on Doctor Scilis, Malcolm has her burn down Scilis's bakery before trying to get Emilie to kill Scilis. Torturing her after she refuses, Malcolm, on the verge of dying from the plague, spitefully tries to kill Scilis.
• Eye Contact, by Zachary Rosenberg (link): Professor Love is an unearthly entity bent on evil and domination, who seeks to devour the minds of an entire college and institute her own order. Love sets herself up as a stern and caring teacher to the members of Eric Friedman's college, but in truth she uses eye contact to glut herself on the personalities, individuality, and very souls of her students, reducing them to mindless drones in her thrall. When Eric repeatedly resists her soul-draining process, she lures him to her office and forces him to watch as she performs her agonizing ritual on her latest hapless victim, having already done it to hundreds of students. Love then tries to consume Eric and his best friend Becca's souls to "fix" them, mocking their individual failings and personality disorders as proof of their "brokenness", out of petty sadism.
• Face the Storm: "Q" is the leader of a conspiracy group whose ambitions are the catalyst for much death and destruction. Trying to be elected President, Q uses his cronies to commit terror attacks to spread fear within the public, also spreading his corruption to the police and FBI. Losing the election, Q retaliates by leading various attacks throughout America, culminating in him overriding the government and nuking various cities. By 2040, America is a dystopian dictatorship, with Q's megalomania inspiring other like-minded psychopaths to rile up conflicts within their own countries.
• "Time of Troubles" & "Springtime in Paris": Zlego Zhardan is a greedy man who, 300 years ago, invaded the planet Akba to claim its natural resources. After Akba is hidden inside the Stone of Creation by Ozer Ran the Righteous, Zlego schemes to get his hands on the stone. Kidnaping Valerian and Laureline and forcing them to bring him the stone, Zlego orders his army to wipe out all life on Akba. Following his arrest by Valerian, Zlego attempts to have Laureline killed and Valerian's memories erased.

My main concern with Kanjar Ro is whether the And I Must Scream is actually played for horror or, like Scraggle said about the Nome King, it’s just a generic, PG evil scheme that’s easily reversible. Reading his introductory issue myself, I lean on the side of the latter, although I admit this is subjective.

What is the work?

Crystallic's Starbound Trilogy is, as the title suggests, a trilogy of Starbound fanfics written by CrystallicWolf108 on Wattpad. It follows a crew known as the Black Nebula, as they roam the galaxy, taking out any threats along the way.

Who is Desert Tumbler? What has he done?

Desert Tumbler is a major antagonist in the first book, and an infamous outlaw, having killed and stolen from countless people and banks. He is the arch nemesis of the series' protagonist, Ethyl Countrisyde.

In the story's past, he and Ethyl were partners in crime, Desert having manipulated a teenaged Ethyl who was in a bad place and causing the latter to become an outlaw instead of a protector. The two of them would partake in armed robberies in which countless innocents would be killed, mostly due to Desert since Ethyl only killed in self-defence. One day, however, a robbery went awry and Desert got hit in the head with a rock, giving him a split personality - one side being a Soft-Spoken Sadist and the other being loud, hammy and humorous. From here, he became a gradually worse person, attacking towns and villages just for the hell of it and killing more people. When Ethyl stands up to him for doing this, Desert shoots him in the knees and leaves him to be arrested.

In the story proper, he makes his appearance before the Black Nebula, teaming up with a group of armed gangsters. He tells them he's going to kill them, dropping off dozens of human corpses from his ship as a demonstration, and a fight breaks out. Civilians are killed in the fallout, but Ethyl and the Black Nebula manage to defeat him, cuffing him up and leaving him to be arrested, though not before Desert tells the group about his and Ethyl's former partnership.

Now, he is in prison, where he is met with the story's Big Bad, Mika, who gives him an offer to team up with her and the Floran Extermination Order, breaking him out. Desert, despite not being racist himself, agrees so that he can kill more people. He kidnaps Tori Spearleif on her behalf, making sure to taunt Katsu on the way out. When the heroes attack Mika's base to stop her from destroying an entire star system, Desert fights on her side, complaining about the heroes getting in the way of his "highscore", which proves that to him, killing people is just a game, even - no, especially if it gets him a kill count in the billions (shrugging off that they would all technically be assists). At some point during the final battle, he gets annoyed that Mika has been restraining his kills and keeping him aimed at his enemies, so to show off his skills to Robin and Lexie, he begins firing on his own allies before almost killing Robin. This, fortunately, manages to piss Lexie off enough to kill him in an explosion, with him spending his last moments prior to that laughing at her despair.

Any Mitigating Factors?

A couple potentially mitigating ones, but here's why they don't detract from his Complete Monster status.

The most glaring would be the fact that he became worse after developing his split personality, moving on from armed robberies to straight-up killing sprees. Thing is, though, he was evil even before that, and didn't lose any redeeming qualities as a result of this due to not having had any from the start. He was still an armed robber and proud of it, and still killed more people than he had to. Honestly, it seems more like a natural progression than a sudden change, and doesn't seem to have affected his moral agency. He knows he's evil and he loves it.

The other one is that he, mainly in his hammy personality, has a few comedic moments, mostly in his initial appearances, but after teaming up with Mika and helping her with her genocide, he goes straight from Played for Laughs to unambiguously Laughably Evil. Even so, in universe, he's taken wholly seriously by the other characters, and his actions are consistently met with horror and disgust.

Heinous Standards?

While the Trilogy has many villains in it and the heinous standard is pretty high, Desert manages to pass it pretty handily. This is in no small part due to the fact that he has more or less no resources save for the money to hire gangsters and his guns. In contrast, other villains are from massive groups with all their resources, such as cults, dictatorships, or crime organisations. Desert honestly really is just some armed dude.

Despite this, he manages to stand out. He's killed thousands on his heists, and was even willing to help the FEO for no reason other than to get his high score up into the billions. Though Mika ordered him to help her, he only did it because of the potential kill count, and clearly enjoyed it way too much. That combined with the kill count from before that and his personal cruelty to Ethyl, as detailed above, means he manages to stand out from Mika enough to meet the heinous standards. He later fired on his new allies out of sheer boredom and frustration, showing he had no loyalty to the FEO or their goals and was just fulfilling his own agenda.

Final Verdict?

A pretty firm keeper in my eyes.

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Switch to abstain on Ro now. Probably need to read it myself.

Sure to Desert. Does he only appear in The Black Nebula?

And what about Mika? She seems awful.

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