During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
Specific issues include:
- Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
- A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
- Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
- Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
- Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.
It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Knack 2: I swear I remember Kronos being listed in the past. Not sure why he was deleted, unless Rick Riordan's other mythology series' introduced characters at Kronos' level who were worse.
Anyways, I know nobody is here to discuss quality but whoever wants trials of apollo can reserve it, Rick Riordan imo does not seem to know how to be a good writer anymore considering how he squandered the ending of heroes of Olympus despite building it up as Gaia being the strongest opponent in the series endlessly, doesn't take his time, and is more concerned about preaching. At least he isn't Mark Millar.
edited 12th Feb '18 11:03:40 AM by Knack2baby
Preston (like Scraggle, I'm dubious about Piella counting, so definite no to Preston).
Erica Pierce; the abuse she experienced from her father doesn't balance out the sheer scale of the impact she's described as having on thousands of lives. She sounds like an easy
They're more obscure nowaways, but back in the 90s, Valiant was the third biggest in the market.
Totally agreed. Darque and Erica are complex complete monsters for me...but Harada? His intentions are just a bit too genuine. He's a firm believer in "can't make an omelette without breaking an egg" and he's capable of (conditional) affection to people...and genuinely, completely believes that him taking over the world is the best thing for it.
edited 12th Feb '18 11:15:00 AM by Lightysnake
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Valiant nowadays probably suffers from Adaptation Displacement; the Turok and Shadow Man games are probably better known than the comics.
Shame that Valiant died (well, for awhile anyway) while Image, whose Schedule Slip hindered the crossover, survived (though honestly, Deathmate seemed ill-advised from the start).
Oof, I don't blame you. That seems ghastly (I will confess to a soft spot for Turok though; the first game was the first Nintendo 64 game I ever bought, even before Super Mario 64).
edited 12th Feb '18 11:24:01 AM by ACW
Part of the problem? Acclaim bought Valiant out and completely gutted the company, firing lots of the staff and doing ridiculously terrible reboots.
Scraggle and I have decided to just...jump to the modern reboot of Valiant Entertainment and skip the Acclaim stuff since it's positively dreadful stuff.
Fun little factoid about Harada, by the way? He's so dedicated to that "omelette" philosophy his strike force is even called the Eggbreakers.
And yeah, what happened to Valiant is a goddamnes tragedy. Me and Lighty have pondered what it'd be like if Deathmate never happened — or was jus handled more competently from Image's end. The contrast of quality control from Valiant and "whatever" from Image brewed disaster.
edited 12th Feb '18 11:24:35 AM by Scraggle
I honestly cannot think of any other potential candidates for Warcraft right now. They literally have to have apocalyptic goals, as all listed candidates have, to even be a contender at this point. Sylvanas will always redeeming qualities, the Old Gods have agency issues, and the minor villains don't compare right now. Azshara, and Xavius too actually, will need expanded write ups but that's all I can think of.
Edit: Based on what you mentioned last page, you must be talking about Gallywix, who also has redeeming qualities. Also, the stuff about him aren't spoilers since they've been in game for several weeks now.
edited 12th Feb '18 11:29:21 AM by LoreDeluxe
Think you're tough because you made it through Lord of the Rings? Real men survive The Silmarillion.So, on the topic of complex villains, of Blizzard's characters there are three currently listed who could definitely use an update. Specifically Xavius, Azshara, and AU Gul'dan are considerably more evil in legion.
The nightmare lord Xavius returns to ally alongside the burning legion so he can have revenge on Malfurion but is still loyal to the old gods. He corrupted most of the zone Val'sharah, the birth site of druidism on Azeroth, and its inhabitants, his corruption kills the ancient of lore Elothir and he corrupted Y'sera the green dragon aspect, Cenarius who is Malfurion's mentor, Ursoc the bear god, the druid Elerethe Renferal and the dragons protecting the emerald dream from corruption. All of them are corrupted and in a state of eternal hatred and fear. Xavius also corrupted the world tree Shaladrassil in Val'sharah and captures Malfurion briefly to torture him. He nearly corrupted all of Azeroth through the rift of aln where the emerald nightmare was born, just so he can have revenge on Malfurion.
Queen Azshara killed all of the inhabitants of Azsuna and cursed their spirits to eternal undeath for rebelling in the war of the ancients and she almost drowns the broken isles through a corrupted elemental that embodies Azshara's vengeance, the wrath of Azshara.
AU Gul'dan when he seperates Illidan's soul from his corpse in black rook hold he also corrupted and cursed the souls of the night elf defenders there so they would see anybody other than themselves and actual demons as demons for eternity.
BTW, I hope nobody minds, but I added this to the YMMV page for Black Panther (with the percent signs):
- Please do not add any Complete Monster entries without going to the thread
; please also wait until Lightysnake starts discussion on March 2. Even mentioning anything here, or anything at all at the thread prior to March 2 (aside from saying "This movie was awesome. PM me if you have quesions."), will result in a holler to the mods.
edited 12th Feb '18 11:33:33 AM by ACW

Yeah, if they don't have as many resources, they could still count. It's not like, say, DBZ, where Van Zant had fewer resources than Frieza, but still couldn't count because like all the other qualifiers were omnicidal.