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.
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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.
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Duke Sayn.
I need to get those weird comics somehow. There must be a western comic counterpart to the Manga page that I use in spanish.
Watch me destroying my countryBTW, since there are SO many this week, I think I'll submit the batch
tomorrow morning.
VIP entry: Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! isnt potholed correctly at the end.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Done and done.
Lighty, for Tenzen, does Manipulative Bastard or The Chessmaster work best?
Okay, cool, so that part's fine as is.
Edited by ACW on Jul 9th 2018 at 11:08:05 AM
For Sayn... Does asking God why He abandoned him qualifies as an Alas, Poor Villain moment?
A minor nitpick, but I think the image for Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure page should be changed. Literal Kick the Dog / Bad People Abuse Animals moments are not outstanding at all by the standards of the story, even for non-C Ms.
Part 5 anime was confirmed a couple of weeks ago so it seems that Cioccolata (probably the most repulsive CM in the entire series) will have some images to choose from. But somewhere in next spring or so (at least) when his respective episode even airs. Other than that, there's Dio forcing Senator Philips to drive his limo through a crowd of pedestrians or D'Arby the Younger showing his collection as the best images I could think of.
Edited by Kookosbanaani on Jul 9th 2018 at 9:20:01 PM
Kick the Dog, or Bad People Abuse Animals?
Either way, I don't disagree. Hell, it looks like he could be making out with the dog!
Any suggestions?
Yes to Sayn. None of his whiny speeches go anything beyond self-pity and self-righteousness. On that subject? We've got one more from the comic who may be worth a post... Uther the Purple himself.
Who is Uther the Purple? What has he done?
For about the first half of the comic? It seems Uther is building up to be the Big Bad... however, as the comic goes on? Uther's revealed as the zealot right-hand of Sayn himself, a Knight Templar no less vile than his master who serves as the Bishop of Stornswall. A corrupt leader of a ring of smugglers delivering various rare items for his master's benefit, Uther makes himself busy by pursuing Conrad, personally massacring a monastery full of dozens of innocent monks and fatally crucifying Elisabeth's father. Uther also serves double-duty as Sayn's Torture Technician, with just one example of this practice seen as he oversees a man on the rack, telling him to spill the information or see his torture drawn out slowly. At the end, Uther sees the man pecked to death by crows.
Now, as Uther and his forces chase after Conrad, he and Elisabeth come to Stornswall after spymaster Gerard informs them he's trying to implicate Uther for all his cruel practices and corruption. When they come into Stornwall's walls, they find... Uther, aside from his chosen black robed monks, has horribly disfigured all those in his service so they can never leave his walls or be anything else than his property, their faces branded and their tongues hacked off. Uther ambushes the others and butchers a young boy they'd befriended who sailed them to the island, revealing that the plan was never Uther's... but that he's also a fully willing and eager component of his lord Sayn's scheme. Finding out one among his service revealed the existence of the Third Testament he and Sayn are looking for to the heroes, Uther has him taken away to be horribly tortured as he pleads for his life, informing him "you'll give me the names of all your contacts, and I'll kill them — one by one. Then you will die, and I will take my time with you."
Eventually, a tortured, broken Conrad manages to find Uther himself as Sayn's forces close into victory, and personally drops the big bombshell... Sayn is Jesus' brother, immortal for thirteen centuries, and is to herald the end of all times — something Uther is willingly helping to set up. Unimpressed, Conrad walks over to Uther and slices his neck open as he comes to meet Sayn...
Any mitigating factors?
No. Uther's loyalty to Sayn's cause is typical batshit insane Knight Templar lunacy underscored by a particularly awful brand of sadism to undermine it even further (as evidenced at how much he seems to love drawing out his torture sessions). Nothing to talk about there.
The standard, for a second-in-command? Uther is damn nasty. He's fully aware of the apocalyptic end mission for starters and sheds a lot of innocent blood on his master's behalf, but also willingly racks up a lot of godawful spite, prolonged torture, and murder on his own time as well with how he casually disfigures his own servants and ruins any chance of them ever having a better life again done entirely on his own initiative as the Bishop of Stornswall. Uther's a pawn in the end, as Conrad notes, but he's as nasty as he can be and he's way worse than any of Sayn's other minions in the end with most of the dirty work of the scheme carried out gleefully by him.
Conclusion?
Honestly, I'd keep Uther too. He's exceptionally nasty for a glorified torturer and bishop on his own.
Thoughts?
Edited by Scraggle on Jul 9th 2018 at 4:26:07 AM
Uther the Purple, the color of EVIL
Edited by KazuyaProta on Jul 9th 2018 at 5:06:09 AM
Watch me destroying my country

I try not to, but I tend to slip up when trying to write a character with a lot of details. That's why I try not to look for candidates in very expanded series such World of Warcraft and Planetscape.
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