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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- 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.
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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.
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
Steinmann
- Angry Candy, by Harlan Ellison: The unnamed rapist, from “Broken Glass”, is a cruel man who invades women’s minds to mentally violate and torture them, leaving them broken and traumatized in the real world. Invading Dana’s mind to rape and taunt her for the sole sake of pleasuring himself, the rapist has Dana’s mental avatar raped and tortured, forced to listen to a friend of hers die in a car accident, and making her feel sick all for the sake of fun.
With all that new information in mind, I'm changing my vote to a yes on Steinmann.
It's been a while since I've seen Heavy Metal, but does anyone think Sternn might count? He's been discussed here before, but was shot down because his crimes are never shown, though he DOES kill Hanover Fiste onscreen after giving him the money he promised him. Plus I'm wondering if perhaps the Loc-Nar itself counts.
Edited by Stellarvore on Feb 15th 2020 at 12:50:59 PM
It's hinted that Loc Nar is Made of Evil so that might be an issue
Berserk Button: misusing Berserk Button
By the way, just letting you all know that I will be reserving discussion for Witch's Heart and the fangame (Mario) The Music Box, two currently ongoing projects. I have some candidates in mind, but I will wait until the games are fully done before doing any EPs.
If I do not post here for at least a whole month, feel free to assume I am dead and snatch up these works.
One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.Actually, I do have one question about Warden: I can't remember, is the massacre at the hospital claimed to be related to the accident, or just For the Evulz?
In regards to the Loc Nar's Made of Evil status: it's shown that it COULD at the very least use it for some degree of good, for a certain definition of the word. Namely, like in the case of Sternn, it makes Hanover Fiste (I will never NOT crack a smirk typing that name) go all Hulk and try to kill Sternn, who is by all evidence, a horribly irredeemable excuse for a human being. Granted, its whole schtick is corruption, but I think that shows it can at least be somewhat less of an evil douchebag if it chooses.
As for Warden, from what I remember, no, the hospital massacre was unrelated to the mine accident.
Edited by Stellarvore on Feb 15th 2020 at 3:32:47 AM
So, my next Cassandra Palmer example...Ares.
Who is Ares?
One of the trapped gods and a particularly monstrous example, Ares is the former god of war who delights in bloodshed and death. After Artemis betrayed her kin and saw them imprisoned, Ares has longed for a chance to return and set the world back to what he feels it should be.Desiring the powers of the Pythia, Ares's influence creeps into the world when he concocts a plan to get at Cassandra and the others. Ares first shows his infliuence by using his children, the Spartoi, to try to hunt down Artemis and anyone else in the way.
Contacting Nimue of the Fay, Ares steadily poisons her mind and sets her against King Arthur himself...while steadily using her to provoke a bloody war among the Fay, a civil war and conflict to ignite the supernatural underground in the worst conflict he can think of. And the way the war is being funded? Selling others into sexual slavery with the funds used to provide for his conflict. Ares enhances the war to more destructive levels, intending on using the resulting energies to tear open his prison and release him...now, the demon species of the world? Ares intends to wipe them out to feed off them and restore himself, as Cassandra and the others foil the war.
The resulting fight, Cassandra and her incubus lover Pritkin use a sex ritual to manage to counter Ares upon his return, using the energies to summon the dead Apollo to counter Ares, with the gods fighting. However, when Ares attempts to do even more damage, Arthur arrives and uses Excalibur to trap the energies of the gods, reflect them and rip Ares and Apollo apart with their own might.
Hienousness? Other mitigating qualities
The sex slavery? Unique, plus the wars, and horrific attempts at massive death and destruction. And no, no good qualities either. He's just as vile as Apollo.
Conclusion?
An easy keep for the god of war.

Hearty
to Steinman. We have Cedric von Tuffece on this trope after all and he's in a Dark Fic that's 100 percent TD centric but it has plot and character development which keeps it from being needlessly dark in what is supposed to be a comedic preteen show.