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Can't we just wait until season 5 is over?

@ACW: Yes, but given that this is Mikey we're talking about, I was fine with it. I'd rather have that than him make the situation worse.

Nothing else specific comes to mind, except the fact that he tried to kill the Turtles and their friends multiple times, and apparently wanted to eat April to gain her special powers.

edited 23rd Apr '17 12:08:52 PM by Tyk5919

Have more proposals coming...and they have something in common.

In the 80s, a few...unrelated films were strung together by Golan-Globus production company Cannon Films which...more or less introduced ninja to American moviegoing audiences...instead of the spies and saboteurs who looked just like anyone else as they were in real life, they were introduced as the masked, black-clad (or white or red in some cases) super assassins.

The first film Enter The Ninja has no keepers, as the villain is a bog-standard mob boss and the only truly heinous villain is the ninja assassin Hasegawa who has redeeming qualities. But the other films in the series...enter Revenge of the Ninja

The Work

Cho Osaki (played by Sho Kosugi,who you may remember as the hero from Pray For Death and our CM villain of Ninja Assassin), is the heir of a ninja clan whose way of the ninja leads to tragedy. An army of enemy ninja invade his home in Japan and murder his wife and young son with his mother and baby son surviving. Cho arrives home and kills the attackers, but swears off the way of the ninja forever and moves his remaining family to America with the help of his American business partner and friend Braden, where Cho opens an Oriental art gallery...but a mob war looms close by, led by the sinister black-clad Demon Ninja...

Who's Our Villain?

Surprise, it's Braden! That's right, Braden convinces Cho to go to America and open his art gallery for sinister purposes. Braden has concealed from Cho that when living in Japan, he too learned the ways of the ninja. Braden has his assistant Cathy get close to Cho in the gallery, while using the handmade dolls as containers for heroin smuggling. Approaching local mafiso Caifano to set up a deal for heroin trading, the two are unable to come to common ground. To cow Caifano, Braden dons the black suit along with a silver demon mask and begins assassinating Caifano's informers and relatives. In one memorable bit, Braden uses a poison dart on Caifano's nephew who's in a hot tub with his girlfriend...before walking over and calmly using his sheathed sword to hold her under the water as well until she expires.

Local martial arts trainer Dave is consulted by the cops and checks in with his good friend Cho...who realizes this can only be the work of a ninja, but declines to get further involved. Caifano sends his men to raid the art gallery and steal the heroin-laden dolls, prompting Cho to pursue and fight them (unaware the dolls contain heroin)...Braden sneaks into the gallery, only to confront Cho's mother. In a short battle, Braden murders her and tries to kill Cho's young son Kane as well, but Kane escapes. Braden returns where he left cathy, to find one of his men is trying to rape her. Braden kills the man and hypnotizes Cathy to kidnap Kane. After she does so and recovers her mind, Cathy calls Cho to inform him of Braden's true identity...only or Braden to interrupt her and tie her down in a hot tub which he begins filling with with more water, leaving her to both bake and drown in the hot water...realizing Kane's life is in danger, Cho takes up the way of the ninja once again as he and Braden storm Caifano's HQ independent of one another, Braden slaughtering both mobsters and police in increasingly nasty ways, in one instance basically torturing a cop to death. Kane manages to escape and save Cathy. Dave also comes to help Cho, but Braden cuts him down.

Braden and Cho proceed to engage in a final duel on the rooftop, putting all their ninja skills to the test, until at last Cho kills Braden, and reunites with his son and Cathy.

Freudian Excuse?

Nope. The most we get to Braden's past is "he was in Japan for twenty years" since I'm not sure of any evil ninja spirits in this movie that make you be evil (that'll be my next effortpost), Braden passes here.

Heinous Standard?

Sets it for the movie. The only other guys are the...faceless mooks who kill Chos wife and son in the intro. Other than that, Braden's well over the baseline with a lot of murder, including trying to kill a little child.

Redeeming Qualities?

Zip, zilch, nada. Braden acts like Cho's friend, but...isn't. At all. To say the very, very, very least. He treats Cathy horribly, informing the man he leaves to watch over her to 'deal' with her if she tries anything and while he kills the guy for trying to rape her, he demonstrates zero concern for cathy after, simply giving her orders right after like nothing happened. When Cathy warns Cho, he leaves her in a death trap while laughing sadistically, telling her he 'thought she was smarter.' He also smacks her when he gets angry, so easy pass.

Besides that, no, nothing. Braden is very sadistic and needlessly cruel, and everything he does is to make money off his drug trade. The fact he's prone to laughing evilly indicates he's getting a thrill out of his evil deeds as well.

So in conclusion? Easy keeper.

@Camberf: I wasn't trying to start discussion right next week, just stating the earliest said discussion could take place (I get the feeling that Scraggle's waiting until the end to talk about it, and I'm cool with that). Should have worded it better, so I apologise for that.

Anyway, I'm getting back on topic: yes to Kavaxas and Braden.

edited 23rd Apr '17 12:27:47 PM by FriedWarthog

Abstaining on Kavaxas. He does sound even worse than Shredder but I think he might fall short of the Kraang in terms of citywide and worldwide destruction attempts, and unlike Rat King, has little to make him stand out as relatively heinous by this show's standards. Plus his defeat sounds almost like a joke.

Braden.

edited 23rd Apr '17 12:29:35 PM by ANewMan

to Braden and I guess to Kavaxas

edited 23rd Apr '17 12:30:35 PM by Awesomekid42

"wanted to eat April to gain her special powers." Eh, I'll give a VERY slight then (April has special powers??? Huh.).

Braden, assuming "Braden returns where he left cathy, to find one of his men is trying to rape her. Braden kills the man" is more out of Pragmatic Villainy than Even Evil Has Standards.

Braden

Zero standards whatsoever.

Braden.

Braden

Abstaining on Kavaxas

Kavaxas and Braden

Braden.

Kavaxas and Braden

Next villain...remember I mentioned evil ninja ghosts?

Ninja III: The Domination, last in the 'trilogy.' The plot? An evil ninja is killed, but his ghost possesses an innocent woman to seek revenge from beyond the grave.

Who Is Our Villain?

The Black Ninja, no name given, is an evil ninja and assassin. At the start of the film, the Black Ninja attacks a rich couple playing on a golf course, killing them and their entourage...before the cops arrive. The Black Ninja proceeds to massacre about, oh, thirty people in the ensuing fight. However, even numbers have to tell eventually and the black ninja is mortally wounded, fleeing and running into a woman named Christie. Using his ninja magic, he transports his soul into Christie's body, leaving her with no knowledge of what happened. The Black Ninja begins slowly corrupting and toaking over her to use her in his quest for revenge against the officers that mortally wounded him.

Hunting down the numerous officers who had a hand in mortally wounding his original body, the Black Ninja kills numerous more off duty cops and anyone around them while also slaying a couple of young ladies who had the misfortune to see Christie in the area. Christies boyfriend, Billy, was one of the cops who killed the original body of our villain and when he realizes something is wrong with Christie, the Black Ninja attempts to kill him, only for Christie to briefly seize control and flee before the Black Ninja asserts control. When a funeral is held for one of the officers, the Black Ninja attacks the funeral in full ninja gear to get more targets in one place and kills about half a dozen attendees. At this point, Billy has tracked down a good ninja named Yamada (Who's like the only other Japanese guy in the film, played by Sho Kosugi himself.).

Yamada actually knows the Black Ninja personally, and was his arch nemesis as the Black Ninja murdered his father and stabbed out one of his eyes years ago, so he's only too eager to help. So they lure the Black Ninja to a....temple. In the desert. In the United States. Yamada uses his own ninja magic to exorcise the Black Ninja who...becomes a ninja zombie outside of Christie. The Black Ninja mindrapes the acolytes of the temple and sends them after Yamada to escape, but Yamada catches up and he and his foe have an epic ninja duel, ending with Yamada destroying the villain for good.

Excuses or redeeming qualities?

Nope. He's an evil ninja who does evil things because he's an evil ninja.

Other factors?

No, he's actually far from a Generic Doomsday Villain. He's got a hell of a personality, and motivations. HE's wantonly sadistic and cruel and we see plenty of his personality when he possesses Christie. He's also got a massive bodycount for a guy who dies in the opening ten minutes, it must be said.

Conclusion?

easy keeper.

Since then Braden only stopped the rape out of Pragmatic Villainy, I'll confirm my for him.

Black Ninja. The wikipedia description is SLIGHTLY misleading: "evil spirit of a fallen ninja when coming to his aid. The spirit seeks revenge on those who killed him."...Seems like he was ALREADY evil.

Would Braden and the Black Ninja be grouped together?

edited 23rd Apr '17 1:48:50 PM by ACW

Black Ninja.

Question about Complete Monsters: Can a character be subject to Heel–Face Brainwashing and still be considered a Complete Monster? There are a couple of characters in Persona 5 who would like to know.

Yes. We already voted them up

The Black Ninja.

Black Ninja.

Yea to Lighty's ninja candidates. Weak yes to Kavaxas.

Black Ninja.

And no, Heel–Face Brainwashing is NOT an automatic disqualifier.

Good actions performed without full moral agency are moot, much like evil actions without full agency.

Madder Red, for example, has a rather extreme case of brainwashing, being lobotomised, his brain cut up to make him a meek man. And he is still one of the most disgusting candidates we've approved.

An example of it being disqualifying would be if the character were cured, but decided Good Feels Good and continues to be heroic.

• Azumi:
  • 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. When he captures Azumi's comrade, a transsexual woman named Kiku, upon discovering Kiku is biologically male, Bishamonten breaks his word to not harm Kiku by allowing one of his lieutenants, Seiryu, to rape and beat Kiku to death.
  • Konishi Shizune and Tadane are a pair of psychotic twins who pose as a single "Shizune" in a small province. Pretending to be a devout Christian and the son of God, Shizune slowly manipulates the land's new administrator, the peasants and the samurai, laying the groundwork for a brutal war between them. When tensions are high, he then gives a speech to the peasants to declare the conflict a "holy war" that God himself has decreed. The twins proceed to drug Azumi herself, keeping her captive in their home where they torture her, starve her and deprive her of sleep to break her mind and make her their new servant, while also involving their old nursemaid Naka in the "games" as well, by forcing Azumi to choose between eating or sleeping and Naka's life. The twins proceed to enjoy the bloody war they have created while planning to have the noncombatants take refuge in a mine before trapping them there and burning them all alive. When a young woman whose family has been killed in the conflict offers herself to one of the twins, he proceeds to torture her to death while mocking her. Hiding their utter depravity behind a veil of gentle serenity, Shizune and Tadane end up being two of Azumi's most vile and deeply personal enemies.
• Demon Lord Dante 2002 anime adaptation:
  • God himself is the Big Bad of the series. An ancient energy being who first arrived at the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, God committed genocide and torture upon the inhabitants when they refused to worship him, before attempting to torture the survivors for eternity. Upon the demons and devils rebelling against him in present day, God engineers a series of horrible disasters and attacks before draining his energy from all the humans he had created, driving them insane and leading to bloody massacres over all of the world with the knowledge God has done this on many, many worlds before arriving on Earth. Sadistic and egotistical, God believes he deserves worship and will enact nothing short of terrible vengeance for any minor slight.
  • Lamia, one of the treacherous devils known as the Four Devil Kings—and possibly the worst of them—leads her forces to a series of brutal attacks that kill many civilians after she is released by God to stop Dante. Not satisfied with this, Lamia begins abducting young men and women, impregnating the women with her demonic spawn and using the lifeforce of the men to feed her progeny. Lamia's common MO is to have her children eat their way from the "mothers" and use them to overrun entire countries, devouring everyone therein. When the devil Medusa interrupts, Lamia attempts to use her as a host as well before trying to devour Dante himself.
• Gunsmith Cats OVA: Natasha "Bloody Pierce" Radinov is a vicious ex-Spetsnaz who makes her living as an assassin and mercenary, who only accepts payment in heroin so she can sell it for higher prices in Russia. Introducing herself in a routine murder, Radinov accepts a hit for a gun-runner. Radinov proceeds to storm a police safe house, massacring every officer inside before killing her target. Later kidnapping the heroine Rally Vincent's partner Minnie May, Radinov forms a deeply personal grudge when Rally manages to injure her. Killing several innocent civilians who were just in a spot she wanted to relax in, Radinov sadistically kills one of her employers when the operation's chief judges him a loose end. When the chief, mayoral candidate Eddie Haints, tries to lure Rally into a trap for Radinov, Radinov simply sprays the area with machine gun fire, not caring if she kills Haints as well while killing several of his guards. When pursued by Rally, Radinov kills several more innocent people in her way and expresses her wish to torment Rally slowly to death, gloating she'll show the young bounty hunter "all she knows about pain."
• Miner's Massacre (originally titled Curse of the Forty-Niner): Jeremiah Stone is a gold miner driven mad by Greed. Having become a Serial Killer, he's implied to have eaten his wife and child before kidnapping the local preacher's daughter. After a search party find the two, Stone brags about raping the girl before slicing her neck open. He's gunned down for his crimes, but binds his soul to his stash of gold. Having thusly become a phantom called "the Forty-Niner", Stone kills anybody who takes his treasure. His cursed soul pursues the protagonists of the film, killing them in sadistic ways which demonstrate precisely why Stone calls himself the Devil.
• Pray for Death (1985): Limehouse Willie is a brutal mobster and chief enforcer of the gangster Mr. Newman. When Akira and Aiko Saito move to the United States with their children Tomoya and Takeshi and a valuable necklace is stolen by corrupt cops on Newman's payroll, a series of coincidences leads Newman to blame the Saitos. First beating the original owner of their apartment to death with a crowbar, Willie kidnaps Tomoya and attempts to torture him with a blowtorch in front of Akira for answers. When Akira, secretly a talented ninja, escapes with his son and gives Willie a warning to leave his family out of things, Limehouse has Aiko and Tomoya hospitalized before putting himself in the hospital. Willie murders a doctor, several police officers and proceeds to rape and murder Aiko herself, barely stopped from murdering little Tomoya next. Tracking down the corrupt cops who stole the necklace, Limehouse guns them down in a restaurant along with everyone else inside, very deliberately murdering a young woman who is the only survivor of the initial shooting. When he finally faces Akira, Willie shows no remorse for his deeds, demonstrating no human feeling beyond an enjoyment of stealing the lives of others.
• Superstition: Elondra Sharack was a devil-worshipping witch who committed many evil acts in the 17th century, including torture and murder. After a nine-year-old girl named Mary, whom Elondra had tried to kill, accuses Elondra of witchcraft, Elondra, refusing to seek atonement for her actions, curses the town to suffer her wrath. After her execution, she returns from the grave and seeks revenge on the town, causing many deaths throughout the centuries, starting by burning down a church and drowning Mary. In modern day, Elondra murders numerous people and slaughters an entire family, including the young child, Justin. Reveling in her cruelty and embracing her status as a witch, Elondra knows that she is a monster and is proud of it.
• Virtuosity: Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer created SID 6.7 to serve as a training program for the act of taking down criminals. After SID (Fun with Acronyms Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous) overwrites the failsafe and causes a person using the training program to die, people decide to shut SID down. Unwilling to let his work be shut down, Lindenmeyer brings SID into the real world and allows him to go on a murderous rampage throughout the city. Lindenmeyer watches SID's rampage on the news, and is impressed at SID's crimes. When SID kidnaps Dr. Madison Carter's daughter, Karin, and straps a bomb to her, Lindenmeyer taunts Madison. When Lt. Parker Barnes destroys SID's physical body, Lindenmeyer mocks Barnes over the fact that there is no one who can reveal Karin's location before the bomb detonates. When Barnes and Madison send SID's AI back into the virtual world to try and get information from him, Lindenmeyer kills Barnes's friend, Cochran, and traps Barnes in the virtual world, leaving him to be killed by SID and Karin to be killed when the bomb goes off.
• Conviction, by Richard North Patterson: Eddie Fleet, though initially coming across as nothing more than a petty criminal and domestic abuser, is revealed to be something far worse. Fifteen years ago, he raped and murdered 9-year-old Thuy Sen, and than sold both his accomplice, Payton, and the accomplice's innocent and mentally-handicapped half-brother, Rennell up the river to save himself. Afterwards he continued his practices of hurting women and children, three of whom he abused to get revenge on Payton for trying to kill him for his betrayal. When Theresa Paget learns the truth from Payton and tries to expose him, Eddie becomes enraged and threatens to hurt her and her daughter, failing to act on his threats only for fear of getting caught. After going on the run following Theresa cornering him in his deposition, Eddie proceeds to beat and rape another woman, who shoots him in the mouth while he's asleep. Sadly, the innocent Rennell is still put to death. Narcissistic, selfish, and cruel, Eddie Fleet showed that even the pettiest of criminals could be among the worst of humanity.
• Tricky Business: Tark is a low-level driver of a drug boat. Tired of this, he decides to rob his bosses in a major drug deal. In the middle of a tropical storm, he has three of his associates beat up and knock out two guards of the boat. He mutilates and castrates one guard, and decides to force the other guard to swallow his own blood with his hands tied behind his back. When he gets to the drop-off point of the deal, he murders everybody crewing the operation. He then proceeds to betray and kill each and every one of his associates and even tries to kill some innocent people who get in the way. Motivated simply by greed, no one in the novel outshines Tark when it comes to sadism or disloyalty.
• In My Daughter's Name: In this 1992 Made-for-TV Movie, Peter Lipton rapes and kills the teenaged Carly Elias. In court, it is revealed that Lipton had previously raped another girl named Barbra Samp. After Carly's mother, Laura, begins stalking Lipton after he's released from psychiatric evaluation, Lipton confronts Laura outside her home, and implies that he wants to rape her other daughter, Lissa. Lipton tries to lure in a girl he meets at the mall to rape, before he is stopped and shot dead by Lauren.
• Legion (2017): "The Devil with Yellow Eyes"—Amahl Farouk AKA the Shadow King—is the psychopathic sadist responsible for all of David Haller's perceived illnesses and mental issues. In life a powerful mutant telepath, the Devil was banished to the Astral Plane during a duel with a fellow telepath, and, seeking revenge for this defeat, proceeded to latch onto the mind of his rival's newborn son. As this child, David Haller, grew up, the Devil constantly haunted and tormented him, gaslighting him into believing that any time his latent mutant powers manifested, it was actually himself going insane, and using this factor to ensure that David spent the majority of his life alone and miserable. Though in the present David gains mutant allies who attempt to help him, the Devil prevents any form of assistance so as to manipulate David into allowing him to take control of David's body to save his kidnapped sister, and, once in control, the Devil uses David's powers to massacre an entire building of government agents in particularly gruesome ways before trying to lock David and his friends away in their own minds to be tormented for the rest of their days. The Devil's final goal is to assume full control of David's body, then use it to become a god and go on a rampage across the planet, starting by murdering his former rival—Professor Charles Xavier—, and, even when seemingly beaten, the Devil jumps into the mind of Oliver Anthony Bird to use as his latest host and escape. A complete and utter sociopath who refuses to see the joy that comes from anything but power and control, the Devil with Yellow Eyes took many forms throughout the story, but his original, that of a bloated, disgusting monster, is handily the best representation of his true personality.
• Mortal Kombat: Conquest: Shao Kahn is the lord of Outworld and the conqueror of countless worlds that he brutally dominates, enslaves and harvests for souls. Introducing himself by stealing the soul of a slave, Kahn aims to invade Earth and subject it to his brutal rule like so many others. Setting himself up as a god named "Shakaa", Shao Kahn attempts to harvest the souls of the people in the city of Shakaana under the promise of delivering them to "paradise." In the finale of the show, Kahn proceeds to use his Shadow Priests to exterminate every other member of the main cast, including Kahn's own daughter Kitana, while defeating Raiden. Mocking Raiden for the deaths of all the others, especially Raiden's champion Kung Lao, Shao Kahn forces Raiden to watch as he leads Outworld's forces to utterly dominate and destroy every living soul on Earth:
  Let's see what gifts we have for our guests. A traitor...dead. Two sorcerers ...dead. A queen...dead. A daughter...dead. A bodyguard...dead. A thief...dead. A champion...dead. You...will...bow...to...me.
• Persona 5: While Yaldabaoth set the plot in motion, this duo proves that Humans Are the Real Monsters.
  • Coach Suguru Kamoshida, representing lust, is a former Olympian turned head PE teacher at Shujin High in Tokyo, and secretly a dangerous sexual predator. Protected by the school administration due to his past fame, Kamoshida sees Shujin as his own absolute fiefdom, and gets his jollies extorting sexual favors from the girls he teaches, often forcing one of his male students, Yuuki Mishima, to procure them for him. His male students fare little better, as when they do poorly in his classes he calls them to his office for "private tutoring sessions" that are really just excuses to beat the tar out of them; as a result both boys and girls live in terror of him. Kamoshida also indulges in pettier Jerkassery such as provoking the star of the track team into punching him as an excuse to get the team shut down, and leaking the Protagonist's criminal record to the entire school. When his "favorite" victim, Ann Takamaki, refuses to sleep with him, Kamoshida crosses the Moral Event Horizon and rapes her best friend as revenge; the girl in question feels so humiliated she attempts suicide. When confronted by the Protagonist, Kamoshida freely admits his crimes, but confident the system will protect him, types up a false assault report to have him expelled. Even after the Phantom Thieves steal his heart, he states his intention to commit suicide himself to escape justice, only submitting to arrest after a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Ann.
  • Masayoshi Shido, a charismatic member of the Diet and representing pride, is in fact the head of The Conspiracy profiting off the other villains. Having illegitimately fathered Goro Akechi, Shido is approached by an empowered Akechi offering his services as an assassin. Having been involved in the research of Wakaba Isshiki, who found out about the Metaverse, Shido has Goro kill her so he can steal her research. Shido has a will forged blaming Wakaba's daughter Futaba for her "suicide", sending Futaba into a depression. Later, Shido sexually assaults a woman before the Protagonist intervenes, which prompts Shido to ruin the Protagonist's life in response, later remarking that he's crushed so many people he doesn't remember someone that insignificant. Shido and Goro go on to manipulate the people's faith in the government and the Phantom Thieves, with support for the government decreasing and the Thieves increasing. Once the Thieves steal the heart of Kunikazu Okumura, a patron of Shido's, Goro, under Shido's orders, kills his Shadow, ultimately killing Okumura on live television and pinning the blame on the Thieves, while Shido and Goro— outspoken critics of the Thieves— rise in popularity. Shido and Goro then hatch a plan to kill the Thieves by Goro acting as a Mole, which the Thieves see through and foil. At this time, Shido's other confidant, the SIU Director, is killed by the duo. After Goro loses to the Thieves, Samael— Shido's Shadow— reveals that Shido sees Goro as expendable. When the Thieves confront Samael, he mocks the weakness of his followers and reveals that Shido was going to kill Goro anyway despite suspecting that Goro was his son. Shido's final action before his forced reformation is to destroy his own Palace after Samael's defeat in a final attempt to take the Thieves down with him.
• Criminal Case:
  • Albert Tesla, the overarching antagonist of the final three cases of "Pacific Bay" (season 2), was a scientist obsessed with transferring his mind into a supercomputer. As the Computer Interface, Tesla establishes Meteor Systems before transforming Pacific Bay from a barren wasteland into the prosperous city it is today. Displeased by the level of crime ravaging the city, Tesla decides to destroy it through mass bombing; those that subject themselves to his authority are to be digitalized into a virtual reality where he is the supreme ruler. To this end, he manipulates Frank and Karen Knight into stealing plutonium under the false pretense that doing so would allow them to reunite with their comatose daughter. When Frank gives Amy information on how to stop him, Tesla releases five murderers, one of which murders him. Tesla temporarily halts his destruction of Pacific Bay to engage Amy and the player in a sadistic game of cat and mouse. If they were to prove to him that justice still existed by finding Frank's killer, he would abandon his plans for a virtual world; if not, he would raze Pacific Bay to the ground. Even when the killer is found, Tesla doesn't live up to his side of the bargain, gleefully admitting that he was still going to decimate Pacific Bay regardless. Despite claiming to be well-intentioned in his goals, Tesla proves himself to be a hypocritical madman, no better than the criminals he resents.
  • In "Plagued By Death", Case #21 of World Event (season 3), Ayush Patil is a sociology professor as well as the mastermind behind the outbreak of an epidemic spreading throughout Bangalore. Starting as the assistant of Dr. Shweta Noorani, Ayush steals a strand of the virus that she created, and injects it into his student Sunil Dhudwar. Once spread, victims of the malady develop pus-filled mouth lesions before dying a slow and painful death. By the time the Bureau becomes involved in the epidemic, hundreds of civilians had succumbed to the illness. Lars Douglas—the Lab Chief of the Bureau—also contracts the virus and is in danger of dying as well. When confronted, Ayush takes full credit for having unleashed the virus, stating that once it became worldwide, not only would it solve the problem of overpopulation by killing millions of people, but he would also usher in a new era, ruling over the survivors as a god. Despite being a one-time character, Ayush is without a doubt the most depraved suspect that the Bureau had encountered.
• Heroes of Might and Magic series:
  • Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Kalibarr, once The Mentor to Gauldoth, got separated from him, but Gauldoth frees Kalibarr from prison years later. Having all his previous good qualities gone, Kalibarr starts with sending his old apprentice on dangerous missions in hopes of getting rid of him. Later, Gauldoth learns that Kalibarr was worshiping a God of Evil and under his orders, he wanted to destroy the whole world. He also kidnapped many children from the kingdom, fully intending to use them as human sacrifices to his God.
  • Heroes of Might and Magic V: Markal, who also appears in Clash of Heroes, is an evil necromancer who, learning that King Nicolai is dead, schemes to gain the trust of his grieving love, Queen Isabel, and raise Nicolai as a vampire lord. Marching to the Griffin Empire, he defeats a rebel army and persuades Isabel that he can resurrect Nicolai, knowing fully well what the result will be, and persuades her to attack the Wizards. Slaughtering the wizards who stand in his way, Markal restores the citadel of Lorekeep and ransacks the town of Hikm to gain the Amulet of Necromancy. Vowing to reunite the Vampire's Garment, Markal storms into the Silver Cities, turning the Wizard cities into Necropolises and converting the citizens—including children—into undead puppets for him to throw away as he sees fit. After killing Cyrus to gain the Ring of the Unrepentant, Markal kidnaps Freyda, Godric's daughter, when he rebels. Once Nicolai is resurrected as a Vampire, Markal decides to take command of the Griffin Empire, and he immediately orders Nicolai to attack Irollan, leading to the deaths of thousands of Elves, including their king Alaron. After Zehir breaks Godric out of prison, they attack Markal at his citadel and, after a close battle with the necromancer, defeat him. He tells them that killing him will ensure he can return, laughing all the while. When Zehir burns his corpse to ensure that cannot happen, Markal decides to get revenge on Zehir and lures him into the Ring of the Unrepentant, hoping to take control of his body. Ambitious, power-hungry and vengeful, Markal will do anything to further his desire for power and gain revenge on those who wrong him.
• Knight's Contract: The wicked Dr. Faust is a Mad Scientist obsessed with the Anima del Monde, an artifact which will allow him to gain ultimate power. Using his power to bring The Black Death upon Europe, Faust frames a group of innocent witches and subjects them to torture and execution to obtain their pieces of the Anima del Monde. Faust later resurrects them, using their anger and hatred at their deaths to send them against humanity, causing innumerable innocent deaths all so Faust can manipulate the only surviving witch into his grasp to obtain the final shard and achieve godhood for himself.
• Lair: The Diviner, the religious leader of the Alyssian people, and his right-hand-man, Captain Loden, are a greedy, power-hungry duo who betray their own people. When the Alyssian leaders attempt to parlay with the Mokai people who simply want to keep from starving to death, the Diviner and Loden launch a coup that kills the Alyssian and Mokai leaders, whereupon Loden leads his forces to the Mokai cities, massacring civilians and having a temple full of Mokai women and children incinerated with the Diviner simply ordering that no survivors remain. Any soldiers who disagree are locked in an extradimensional prison, with Loden later attempting to massacre them when they escape.
• Faster, Baby! DLC: Sheriff Walter "Slim" Beaumont, the vicious, ruthless and racist sheriff of Sinclair Parish who seeks to maintain power and to make sure the town has an all-white influence, does so by murdering black citizens after sundown. He also works with the Southern Union, letting them loose on Sinclair Parish, using additional murder and intimidation to keep its citizens in check. When a movement starts to expose his crimes and bring him to justice, he murders Ezekiel Dandridge, and steals the written testimonies gathered against him. By the time Lincoln and Roxy arrive in Sinclair Parish, Beaumont is already targeting the citizens that are testifying against him. When Lincoln and Roxy put a stop to his plans, he has Lincoln abducted and prepares to leave him to the Southern Union, taking the time to gloat to him. After his arrest, Lincoln dismantles the last of Beaumont's operations to get more people to testify. Beaumont then agrees to testify against his accomplices in the Southern Union and police department, if only to get a lighter sentence.

• Pokémon: Hard Mode: Mewtwo is the Big Bad of the FireRed arc. A clone of the legendary Pokémon Mew, Mewtwo grew a hatred for humanity due to being tortured by one of the scientists who created him. After killing a scientist who took no part in his torture in a rage and destroying the laboratory he was created in, Mewtwo came across Mew, who trapped the latter on a deserted island in hopes that it would give Mewtwo time for his anger to subside. Despite calming down and regaining sanity, Mewtwo still held his hatred of humanity despite knowing not all of them are cruel, attempting to slowly choke a human who accidentally washed on the island shore to death, simply because he believes it's been too long since he's killed somebody. Looking for a way to break the seal that keeps him trapped on the island, Mewtwo deceives Ruby into killing the three legendary birds, who kept Mewtwo's power restrained, by pretending to be the ghost of Ruby's deceased Nuzleaf. After Ruby defeats Gary and is about to be crowned Elite Four Champion, Mewtwo breaks the minds of everybody in the stadium except for Ruby, and frames Mew for it, intending for Ruby to kill Mew and completely break the seal. Mewtwo mocks Ruby for being tricked by him and proclaims that he looks forward to enjoying his newfound freedom, and might as well Kill All Humans while he's at it, promising to kill Ruby last as his way of "thanks".
• Pokémon: Storm Clouds: Masque, a Team Rocket agent who specializes in using hypnotic powers to strip Pokémon of their identities and make them his willing servants, is the true Big Bad. While initially presented as an ambiguous figure in the story and somewhat Affably Evil, he is gradually revealed to be a sick, twisted individual who enjoys the amount of control his mind games give him over others. He takes pleasure in stripping Pokémon of their identities and secretly manipulates all the higher-ups of Team Rocket for fun. He later breaks away from Team Rocket and attacks the hometown of the protagonists. While he does have an ulterior motive, it's still clear that he takes a disgusting amount of pleasure in terrorizing and slaughtering the residents of the small town with his Pokémon. When one of the protagonists call him out on his manipulations and accuses him of viewing humans as nothing more than tools, he responds thusly:
  I don't see human beings as tools. That distinction is reserved for Pokémon. No, I see people more as...toys. There's a distinct difference, you see. A tool is used to accomplish something, while a toy is just there to be played with. I wasn't using Giovanni for anything other than my own amusement. And like any toy, he eventually stopped being entertaining—and when a toy bores you, there's only one thing to do: snap it in half and throw it in the garbage. That's it, end of story.

• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Nobliss Gordon is greed personified. While he is publicly a beloved businessman and supporter of noble revolutions, Nobliss is in truth a greedy monster who cares nothing for any cause but filling his wallet. Manipulating the young Kudelia Aina Bernstein into becoming the figurehead for the Mars independence movement, Nobliss has her spied on while tricking the revolutionaries into dying pointlessly. When Kudelia reaches the height of popularity, Nobliss attempts to have her murdered to make her a martyr and spark the biggest, bloodiest , most violent revolution imaginable to profit on it from his arms trade. While mostly Demoted to Extra in the second season, Nobliss continues his corrupt practices by manipulating the media to portray victimized Child Soldiers as villains in the media to help facilitate their slaughter and continue to line his pockets.

• Shao Kahn is the lord of Outworld and the conqueror of countless worlds that he brutally dominates, enslaves and harvests for souls. Introducing himself by stealing the soul of a slave, Kahn aims to invade Earth and subject it to his brutal rule like so many others. Setting himself up as a god named "Shakaa", Shao Kahn attempts to harvest the souls of the people in the city of Shakaana under the promise of delivering them to "paradise." In the finale of the show, Kahn proceeds to use his Shadow Priests to exterminate every other member of the main cast, including Kahn's own daughter Kitana, while defeating Raiden. Mocking Raiden for the deaths of all the others, especially Raiden's champion Kung Lao, Shao Kahn forces Raiden to watch as he leads Outworld's forces to utterly dominate and destroy every living soul on Earth:
  Let's see what gifts we have for our guests. A traitor...dead. Two sorcerers ...dead. A queen...dead. A daughter...dead. A bodyguard...dead. A thief...dead. A champion...dead. You...will...bow...to...me.

edited 24th Apr '17 9:10:21 AM by ACW

As to brainwashing: There's also amnesia: Akakios, from Hack/Slash, was good, but when he regained his memories became evil.

BTW, Image-Pickin' for Power Rangers is open.