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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Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?
This will be the main portion of the Effort Post. Here you list all of the crimes committed by the candidate. For candidates with longer rap sheets, keep the list to their most important and heinous crimes, we don't need to hear about every time they decide to do something minor or petty.
Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?
Here you discuss any potential redeeming or sympathetic features the character has, the character's Freudian Excuse if they have one, as well as any other potential mitigating factors like Offscreen Villainy or questions of moral agency. Try to present these as objectively as possible by presenting any evidence that may support or refute the mitigating factors.
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
ACW: Since this is the second Total Drama fanfic keeper shouldn't it be given it's own section in the Western Animation folder like we normally do.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread- Legend of the Millennium Dragon: Monk Gen'un pretends to be a loyal servant of Japan, but is in truth a greedy and ruthless man manipulating a war against the supposed 'Oni,' in truth human beings attempting to defend themselves from extermination. Killing many himself to gain their power and continuing the war, Gen'un attempts to trick time-traveling hero Jun into destroying the Oni utterly. Found out, Gen'un murders the leadership of his temple and attempts to force his protege Raiko into becoming a monster to destroy the Oni before taking his power with no need for who he destroys in his quest to rule the world.
- Buffy: The demon known as 'Ken' poses as a friendly man who runs a shelter for troubled teenage runaways. In truth a slaver, Ken lures them in and takes them to his dimension where they are tortured and enslaved in back-breaking labor. Not content with this, Ken has them mentally tormented, grinding down their self esteem and forcing them to admit they are 'no one,' killing any who resist. After decades of work in his dimension, Ken throws them to the threes of LA, broken and insane, to die when they cease to be of use, gloating that his realm is hell solely for the pure absence of hope those who enter it suffer.
- Dr Stone: Minister Ibara is the true ruler of the Petrification Kingdom. Having petrified the true leader with the weapon 'Medusa,' Ibara tried to kill his baby son to remove any 'witnesses.' Reigning as a tyrant Ibara has women abducted for the leader's harem, with the rule he is allowed to 'sample' them first, gloating how he loves them to put up a struggle first. When Senku and the heroes of the Kingdom of Science alive, Ibara tries to petrify them forever, even sacrificing one of his followers for that end. A lecherous, fiendish tyrant, Ibara cares only to satisfy his own lusts for women or control.
- Die Hard Screenplay, Second Revised Draft
: Hans Gruber poses as a terrorist and holds over 30 people hostage in order to rob the Nakatomi Plaza vault of millions in treasury bonds, indifferent to how much blood is shed in the process. Making pseudo-pleasant small talk with Joseph Takagi about his suit, Hans attempts to extract the vault code from Takagi, callously stating he doesn't need the code when the former admits he doesn't know it. When a SWAT team is called in against Hans and his men, Hans has his men use heavy weaponry against them. In response to John McClane's interference, Hans kills a hostage claiming to be John's friend, threatening to kill more hostages until John returns the detonators and explosives he had stolen, which Hans intends on using against the hostages. In response to a police helicopter flying towards Nakatomi, Hans has his men shoot it with missiles. When the hostages hear an explosion from the vault, Hans shoots a screaming hostage while the rest escape, before proceeding to abduct Holly Gennero, John's wife, then vindictively attempting to eliminate them both.
I was talking about on the Fan Works page. That's what we usually do. In each folder is a section or sections for fandoms with two or more. Why would it matter if anyone counts in the show or not? When I am talking specifically about fan works?
Edited by Bullman on Mar 1st 2020 at 3:52:39 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadSome pothole suggestions:
- Shadowbeast: Manipulative Bastard at "manipulates"
- Skinwalker: Stalker Without a Crush at "stalking", Cold-Blooded Torture at "savagely torture and disfigure"
- Dante: Evil Teacher at "her own alchemy student Izumi Curtis"
- The Bishop: Boarding School of Horrors at "boarding school"
- Victor Zsasz: Gutted Like a Fish at "slit her open"
- Governor Gessler: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil at "women are raped", Evil Tower of Ominousness at "gigantic tower"
- Rudi: Those Wacky Nazis at "unrepentant Nazi"
- Darius: Vampires Own Nightclubs at "rave and sex club"
- Ivan the Terrible: Poison Is Evil at "poisons his victims"
- Kenjiro Oda: Attempted Rape at "attempt to rape her"
- Haruka Enokida: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil at "rape her two group mates"
And that's all I can think of for right now.
Yeah the Western Animation folder on the fan works page. You know which is separated into folders by media.
Sorry I probably could have said it better. My bad.
Edited by Bullman on Mar 1st 2020 at 4:01:57 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread@acw: For Jonathan. Could you remove It's All About Me and pothole either Torture Technician or Cold-Blooded Torture somewhere in his entry instead since that fits him better.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."@miraculous
"Alright if that's it could we please close up shop and just do something else."
Ask and you shall receive. Yes to Gen'un.
Still gotta love Complex for these candidates.
Hey Mister Mister is a 1995 song by Kool G Rap, well-known within the hip-hop community for his more than solid technical ability. Expect him to be amongst your favorite rapper's favorite rappers. Just look here.
There's a reason, however, why this song was rated 1st in Complex's 25 Most Violent Rap Songs. Without any bodycount.
Who's Kool G Rap's character? What has he done?
Kool G Rap's character remembers the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown he gave to his cheating wife a week ago. Turns out, the guy his wife was cheating on him with knew Kool G Rap's character... Who promptly gave him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and stopped when he saw that the guy had pictures of his wife.
Said wife got a bloody, gory, No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in public, courtesy of her pissed-off husband. Allow me to show you part of the lyrics for you guys to enjoy :
''I stomped her and I kicked her and I punched her in the face Some people crowded around but nobody got out of place Don't want heroics, "Hey buddy" - aiyyo money don't get in this "Hey miss you alright?" - motherfucker mind your business! I'm bashin her with the nine, inches away from pullin the trigger But a nigga got to hit her till I see her face get bigger I'm sick of all the bullshit, tired of all the nonsense So I pistol whipped the bitch till her ass fell out of conscious Now she's all bloodied up, layin in that red shit Bitch press charges, I guarantee you she's a dead bitch The first time you play me is your last So yo don't interrupt me when I'm whoopin on my bitch ass''
So yeah, he gave her, in public, a graphic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown with his pistol to the point she was left an unconscious, bloody mess on the ground. Anyone who remotely tried to intervene was threatened to suffer the same fate. Oh, and if she pressed charges, the angry husband would kill her immediately.
But wait, it isn't over!
See, Kool G Rap's character noticed that his money started out disappearing out of nowhere. Obviously, he wasn't pleased with that. When he noticed the girl who was responsible... Let's just say that she likely wished that she was the guy's wife instead. Forced fellatio to the point she was choking and another No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
Comeuppance? HA HA HA—No.
Heinousness?
Now, on paper, he doesn't seems to go over the baseline : okay, he essentially gave a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to two women for crossing him, threatened to kill his wife (and actually had the gall to beat her down to a pulp in public so that he could humiliate her further) and forced a thief to give him a fellatio.
I'd argue that he has a chance due to, I don't know... The sheer graphic detail in which he did that (details he shows full awareness about, yet doesn't do cares) ! At this point, this is something that could be written in the Inverted part of Offscreen Villainy. Also, he may have not killed anyone, but he threatened to kill his wife, and I'd argue that it is a Charlotte's father case : doesn't kill but the sheer depravity he pull his relative through plus rape (attempted or not) makes him worth a shot. Especially for a short rap song where the baseline is more about killing swiftly a couple of people than giving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in public and sexually abuse someone.
Freudian Excuse? Redeeming qualities?
His Freudian Exuse is jack. It does nothing to justify his crimes and is treated as Evil Is Petty and Disproportionate Retribution of the highest order. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Generic Doomsday Villain issues?
At this point I'm pretty sure you noticed that he's anything but that. Pass.
Verdict?
Leaning
, but I'll let you guys decide.
What's the work?
"Chuckie" is a solo-song by the late Bushwick Bill, appearing on Geto Boys' 4th album, We Can’t Be Stopped. It was written by Ganksta N-I-P, specifically for the late Bushwick Bill, after they watched Tom Holland’s iconic horror film Childs Play together, according to Wikipedia.
There's a sequel song on Bushwick Bill's solo debut album Little Big Man, called Chuckwick.
As you can expect (especially for Bushwick Bill, who suffered from dwarfism), it's about a pint-sized Serial Killer.
Who's Chuckie? What has he done?
"I told you size wasn't shit, that's why I murdered your nieces"
Yep, that's how the song started. Nice, huh?
Said "niece"'s head was found cut to 88 pieces.
He also "fished" in a child's head.
He has also plenty of weapons, boasting about a carjack, 100 missiles, and 10,000 pencils. Yup.
So, what does he do with that?
Said missiles are used against a little girl, a polar bear is stabbed in the neck with 10 000 pencils inside him, someone he killed back in 1982 is only found now and guess what he did when sleepwalking? He offed 300 people. But then he's told what he just did. And then, awake, he killed 300 more people. The song ends with him threatening your kids. Nice, huh?
Cue the sequel song Cuckwick, where our friend, renamed Chuckwick proves to be still as depraved as ever, mentioning that he gives every head he severs to Cujo, and bragging about how bad he is.
Heinous standard ?
Blows it up. Simple as that. Enormous bodycount. Over 600 victims. You hardly get worse than that. Okay, he may have killed 300 when sleepwalking... But then kills 300 more when awake so... Now, the mass murder stuff doesn't seems detailed enough, but his modus operandi is a clear-cut case of There Is No Kill Like Overkill so I think he passes there.
Freudian Excuse? Redeeming qualities?
Nope. He does show some self-hatred, but no actual regret for his crimes.
Now, in Chuckwick he seems friendly enough with Ganksta Nip's character, calling him through the friendly version of the N-word, but there's little detail about their relationship. As such they come off more as murder buddies than people caring about each other.
Still in Chuckwick, there's an interesting line : "Every arm I chop off I give the fingers to charity". This isn't exactly what you'd call redeeming though.
Any other mitigating qualities?
Nope.
Verdict ?
Up to you guys.
How serious is that played since that sounds like Black Comedy.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
to the guy from Chuckie. It's a comedy song, it's intentionally over the top and absurdly violent because its Comedic Sociopathy being Played for Laughs. That's like nominating Slim Shady or Cartman.
Edited by WaryHoglet on Mar 1st 2020 at 2:18:37 AM
Abstain on the song cannidates.
ACW: Shouldn't Palpatine be group with the other Fan Work stuff? Since they are all going to the same page.
Edited by Bullman on Mar 1st 2020 at 4:21:23 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread@miraculous This is horrocore. It's supposed to be more or less over-the-top, but it remains serious, the song plays it seriously and the production remains as dark as you'd expect.
J’m’arrête pas tant qu’j’vois pas des lignes sur les moniteurs (Not stoppin 'til I see Flatlines)@miraculous This is horrocore. It's supposed to be more or less over-the-top, but it remains serious, the song plays it seriously and the production remains as dark as you'd expect. Honestly, at best, it came off as Crosses the Line Twice. Heck, the first two lines establishes the characters' motivations.
J’m’arrête pas tant qu’j’vois pas des lignes sur les moniteurs (Not stoppin 'til I see Flatlines)And there's another one where he raps chillingly about "...when I'm mad I'm ready to slay The graveyards are packed But it ain't nothing but child's play..."
How serious it comes off may be inconsistent, but I think that with the dark production, the humor comes off as much more downplayed than expected.
J’m’arrête pas tant qu’j’vois pas des lignes sur les moniteurs (Not stoppin 'til I see Flatlines)

- Dr. STONE: Minister Ibara is the true ruler of the Petrification Kingdom. Having petrified the true leader with the weapon "Medusa", Ibara tried to kill said leader's baby son to remove any "witnesses". Reigning as a tyrant, Ibara has women abducted for the leader's harem, with the rule he is allowed to "sample" them first, gloating how he loves them to put up a struggle first. When Senku and the heroes of the Kingdom of Science alive, Ibara tries to petrify them forever, even sacrificing one of his followers to that end. A lecherous, fiendish tyrant, Ibara cares only to satisfy his own lusts for women or control.
- Kill la Kill: Ragyo Kiryuin is the CEO of REVOCS and the monstrous mother of Satsuki Kiryuin and Ryuko Matoi. Aiming to annihilate all human life on Earth with the alien Life Fibers, Ragyo previously married the genius scientist Soichiro/Isshin, having her aforementioned daughters with him and using them for experiments with the Life Fibers, callously throwing away Ryuko when she thought her work had killed her daughter. Over the years, Ragyo has Soichiro hunted down and murdered when he betrayed her, and frequently subjects Satsuki to sexual abuse. Reunited with Ryuko seventeen years later, Ragyo immediately breaks her mind into subservience and later molests her mind-controlled daughter before sending her off in an attempt to kill her friends resisting Ragyo. While preparing for her apocalyptic endgame, Ragyo has nearly all of humanity converted into enslaved, mindless COVERS to build herself an army and while Satsuki is held in her captivity, continues to subject the helpless young woman to further sexual assault. Even when eventually defeated by Ryuko and offered a chance for reconciliation, Ragyo refuses any kinship and spitefully kills herself, cementing her status as a hollow megalomaniac whose only desire was to dominate everything under her own will.
- Legend of the Millennium Dragon (2011): Monk Gen'un pretends to be a loyal servant of Japan, but is in truth a greedy and ruthless man manipulating a war against the supposed "Oni", in truth human beings attempting to defend themselves from extermination. Killing many himself to gain their power and continuing the war, Gen'un attempts to trick time-traveling hero Jun into destroying the Oni utterly. Found out, Gen'un murders the leadership of his temple and attempts to force his protege Raiko into becoming a monster to destroy the Oni before taking his power with no need for who he destroys in his quest to rule the world.
- Magical Girl Apocalypse: Rei Kurorogi, using the container body of Kaito Makabe, kidnaps ten female scientists, and knowing one has an ability for him to become a god, perversely experimenting on her and horrifically mutilates the others. Creating two Artificial Human children, Kurorogi as Makabe subjects them to torturous abuse, killing one and driving the other to destroy multiple parallel Earths to ultimately kill himself and escape his creator. Kurorogi also uses the identity of Sou Shirokane to manipulate his brilliant son into becoming an unstable demon that almost destroys Tokyo. Ascending to godhood, Kurorogi attempts to obliterate all life when the heroes oppose him, and after his initial defeat, takes control of the King, the Earth's will, for his revenge. Creating Magical Girl Site, Kurorogi drives anguished teenage girls to complete despair, with the intent to cause the apocalyptic Tempest and assume supreme rule over humanity.
- The demon known as "Ken", from the season 3 premier "Anne", poses as a friendly man who runs a shelter for troubled teenage runaways. In truth a slaver, Ken lures them in and takes them to his dimension where they are tortured and enslaved in backbreaking labor. Not content with this, Ken has them mentally tormented, grinding down their self-esteem and forcing them to admit they are "no one", killing any who resist. After decades of work in his dimension, Ken throws them to the streets of LA, broken and insane, to die when they cease to be of use, gloating that his realm is hell solely for the pure absence of hope those who enter it suffer.
- Hawley Griffin, aka The Invisible Man, is a cowardly and even more depraved incarnation of the literary character. Recruited by England, Griffin has been using his powers to sexually assault the students at an all-girls boarding school, having impregnated three and caught in the midst of trying to force himself on a fourth. Joining the team out of a promise for payment and pardon for his crimes, Griffin continues to prove his despicableness by beating an innocent constable to death at one point to steal his clothes and abandoning his team to die at another. When the Martians arrive to destroy the Earth, Griffin happily sells out his race so he can rule alongside the invaders, giving away the locations of human artillery positions and the hiding places of his own teammates.
- The Toadman Saga:
- Keith "Toadman" Lesler was a Serial Killer who was executed for murdering dozens of children. On the brink of death, the Shadowbeast offers him the opportunity to return every 30 years. In the first part, he targets Abram Linfeld, beheading his two friends Donny and Angie and tying their heads to his waist. He then attacks Abram, chopping off his leg, the former only surviving thanks to a crate of fireworks. In the second part, a policeman, Tyler Smith, comes to investigate the murders. When he and local beat cop Doyle Wheeler head down to the mine shaft, Doyle, under the influence of the Shadowbeast, attacks Tyler. When this fails, The Toadman beheads Doyle, and then forces Tyler to free the Shadowbeast.
- The aforementioned Shadowbeast is an ancient alien who came to earth and brought upon chaos and havoc, viewing himself as a god. Having been sealed away after murdering and mutilating children, the Shadowbeast made a deal with Keith "Toadman" Lesler to be resurrected every 30 years to act as his servant. Responsible for Keith's murders and possessions, the Shadowbeast manipulates those into releasing him from his prison, and when one person, Doyle, refused, he summons Keith to kill him, forcing his friend Tyler to free him and doom the world.
- I Was Claimed By a Skinwalker
: The titular Skin Walker develops a fixation on the protagonist Jake, stalking him and his friends on a camping trip. After picking off two of his friends, the Skinwalker possesses, or takes the skin, of Jake's beloved girlfriend Blair, before presenting the mutilated bodies of his friends. The Skinwalker did something to his friend Cori that Jake refuses to describe. Still wearing Blair's face, the Skinwalker proceeds to savagely torture and disfigure Jake, declaring him it's property, before being driven off. In the sequel
, the Skinwalker has been tormenting Jake for a year after he returns home, making him wish for death as he becomes a recluse, frequently appearing to him as Blair and mockingly mimicking her affectionate personality. As Jake gradually rebuilds his life and befriends a hotline worker named Lana, the Skinwalker tells Jake it will leave him alone from now on. As Jake gets his life back on track, the Skinwalker appears one more time to trick Jake into strangling Lana in his sleep before disappearing for good. This leaves Jake utterly broken, causing him to finally commit suicide.
- Batman Beyond (includes the Comic Book, besides Brother Eye):
- Derek Powers is the corrupt CEO of Powers Technology, who eventually devolves into the psychotic supervillain Blight after a radioactive accident. Before his accident, Powers cheerfully attempts to sell a bioweapon that horrifically melts away its victims to terrorists who would use it on wider scales, unnerving even the Kaznian diplomat after he exposes an employee to it purely to demonstrate its effects. Powers becomes the archnemesis of the second Batman, Terry McGinnis, after Powers has Terry's father murdered and the Jokerz framed for it. Powers' deteriorating sanity from the accident only accentuates the monster he is inside, as experiments on and then kills Mr. Freeze; disinherits and then flat-out attempts to murder his own son Paxton; and, upon his vengeful return in the comics, attempts to initiate a nuclear meltdown, heedless of all the downtrodden lives this would consume. Powers has ruined so many lives in the name of self-interest his only reply to Terry's accusation that You Killed My Father is to snarl "do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!"
- Douglas Tan, from the comic book's "10,000 Clowns" arc, is a disturbed youth obsessed with The Joker and his carnage, and dedicates himself to proving the fundamental meaningless of life and becoming the Joker's own Superior Successor. Fashioning himself "the Joker King", Douglas drugs dozens of Jokerz from around the nation into becoming suicide bombers, using them to wreak havoc across Gotham and cause thousands of deaths in an attempt to destroy the city, murdering his own best friend on a random whim just before the destruction starts. Douglas eventually decides to murder his entire family too, attempting to kill his comatose father in the hospital and only hesitating when his sister steps in the way—before deciding without another second of hesitation to kill her too.
- Die Hard screenplay (Second Revised Draft
): Hans Gruber poses as a terrorist and holds over 30 people hostage in order to rob the Nakatomi Plaza vault of millions in treasury bonds, indifferent to how much blood is shed in the process. Making pseudo-pleasant small talk with Joseph Takagi about his suit, Hans attempts to extract the vault code from Takagi, callously stating he doesn't need the code when the former admits he doesn't know it. When a SWAT team is called in against Hans and his men, Hans has his men use heavy weaponry against them. In response to John McClane's interference, Hans kills a hostage claiming to be John's friend, threatening to kill more hostages until John returns the detonators and explosives he had stolen, which Hans intends on using against the hostages. In response to a police helicopter flying towards Nakatomi, Hans has his men shoot it with missiles. When the hostages hear an explosion from the vault, Hans shoots a screaming hostage while the rest escape, before proceeding to abduct Holly Gennero, John's wife, then vindictively attempting to eliminate them both.
- Darlin': The unnamed Bishop is the head of St. Philomena's, a boarding school and reform home for delinquent girls, which is under threat of being shut down; the Bishop seeks to civilize and exploit the feral Darlin' for his own fortune. It turns out the Bishop is a serial pedophile and ephebophile who continuously preys upon the girls taken there; the reason Philomena's is about to be shut down is due to investigations by the church. It is implied he uses rape as a form of punishment, as a terrified Billy is taken to his office for disrupting class. He later attempts to do the same to Darlin' herself when he seems to reach out to her. The Bishop also previously raped his assistant nun, Sister Jenny, when she was a student of his; when confronted over it, he alternates between threatening Jenny, bringing up her delinquent past, to saying she's at fault for not forgiving him. The Bishop ultimately claims that he is doing his victims a favor, by having a man of God take their virginity.
- Birds of Prey (2020):
- Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask, is the disgraced former heir of the Janus Corporation and the most powerful crime lord in Gotham's East End. Roman is a flamboyant, misogynistic, mood-swinging sadist with a Hair-Trigger Temper, once having a woman forcibly stripped in his club because—he thinks—she's laughing at him. Roman demonstrates his love of torture via his fondness for having people's faces sliced off while they're alive, having a crime boss and his entire family tortured to death this way and having the man's young daughter killed because of a snot bubble in her nose from crying so hard. Roman, throughout the entire film, hunts for the powerful Bertinelli family diamond to make himself the most powerful man in Gotham—the Bertinelli family itself massacred down to the children, save for Helena "Huntress" Bertinelli, all according to Roman's design—and Roman attempts to kill everyone in his way getting to it, from Harley Quinn to Cassandra Cain to his own singer and driver Dinah "Black Canary" Lance.
- Victor Zsasz, the right-hand man of Roman Sionis, is a vicious killer who enjoys "releasing" others from existence. Years ago, Zsasz gleefully participated in the Bertinelli family massacre and, as Roman's enforcer, Zsasz does most of the killing for him, including peeling the faces off the victims while they are still alive. Zsasz carves a tally into himself for each victims, boasting of having many, many such marks over his body, and when he finds that young Cassandra Cain has swallowed the Bertinelli diamond, his recourse is try and force Dinah Lance to slit her open before killing all the other heroines.
- The Legend of William Tell (1934): Governor Gessler is the cold, iron-handed Austrian bailiff in charge of annexing the Swiss lands from their people, making slaves of the Swiss to abuse them in every way possible. Under Gessler's reign, women are raped, houses are burned, and a man hiding his rebel son has his eyes put out, all under Gessler's oversight. At one point, overseeing the construction of a gigantic tower through the slavery of hundreds, Gessler decides to order both the tower and the dungeons to be built bigger than they already are, simply to spite the Swiss rebellion. When Gessler's attempt to force a local village to pay tribute to his helmet is stopped by the brave William Tell, Gessler forces Tell to precariously shoot an apple off his own son's head, before ordering him arrested and executed after he pulls it off anyway for concealing a second arrow meant for Gessler's heart.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015): Rudi von Trüsch, known almost entirely as Uncle Rudi, is the uncle of Gaby and secretly an unrepentant Nazi in league with the Vinciguerra crime family. Once a bullied little boy who concluded from his torment that the masters of life were pain and fear, Uncle Rudi put his skills to use in the second World War, using the carnage to torture as many people to death as he could in as many possible ways to document them in his scrapbook. So prolific his name has been mistaken for three different artists, Trudi has no care as to what his employers want, torturing Napoleon Solo purely for the fun of it when he has him in his clutches and cowardly selling off everyone tangentially connected to him when he's captured.
- No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh is a hired assassin defined by his fatalistic personal code. Compared to the Bubonic Plague by his former associate Carson Wells, Chigurh is an emotionless killer with no regard for human life, occasionally deciding his victims' fates with a coin toss. Introduced by strangling a police officer to death with handcuffs, Chigurh proceeds to murder an innocent man to steal his car, repeating this crime later in the film. Employed to recover $2 million lost in a drug deal gone bad, Chigurh murders two of his employer's men and relentlessly hunts for Llewelyn Moss to retrieve the money. Along the way, Chigurh murders several Mexican criminals who are also pursuing Moss, shooting one of them as he surrenders, and later kills a hotel clerk and a random motorist who get caught in a gunfight between Chigurh and Moss. Chigurh later kills Wells and the man who hired them both, intending to keep the money for himself, and promises to kill Moss's wife Carla Jean unless Moss surrenders the money, making it clear that he intends to kill Moss regardless; Wells had previously commented that even if Moss gave up the money, Chigurh would kill him anyway for "inconveniencing him". After Moss is killed, Chigurh murders Carla Jean, attempting to justify this senselessly cruel act by claiming to be keeping his promise. A chilling psychopath devoid of humanity, Chigurh is presented as an unstoppable force of evil, a monster without empathy or remorse.
- The Thirst (2006): Darius is the leader of "The Family", a clan of violent and sex-crazed vampires, who habitually go on rape and murder sprees wherever they travel. They initially set an operation in the form of a rave and sex club, where they eventually slaughter all the attendants; during which, Darius reprimands the newly turned Lisa for not killing her boyfriend Maxx. When Maxx tracks down their hideout, it's discovered the Family has taken an elderly couple hostage, whom they constantly torture and molest. Taking Maxx under his wing, Darius has him turned as well, swaying him into a violent vampire who murders his friends under the influence of "The Thirst" drug. Darius and the Family plan on setting up a camp to lure children in to be fed upon, and they try to track Maxx and Lisa down to kill them when they escape. With Darius and the other clan members at each others' throats, when Maxx and Lisa kill them in the ensuing fight, Darius brags about how he'll have the children for himself.
- Waxworks (1924): Ivan the Terrible, from the second segment, is a cruel tyrant who is described as turning entire cities into cemeteries. A sadist who poisons his victims, Ivan visits them nightly to enjoy their agony and torment them with an hourglass to represent the slow passing of their lives. Ivan turns on his poison-maker when he suspects the man of disloyalty before attending a wedding where he sacrifices the bride's father against an assassination attempt, kidnaps the bride for himself and attempts to send the groom to his torture room.
- Cassandra Palmer: Cassandra Palmer, as the Pythia, is in charge of protecting the world from supernatural threats, with the following being the worst:
- Jonathan, first appearing in Touch the Dark, is a leader of the Black Circle who for over nine hundred years has tortured vampires for days or even weeks, bringing them back from the edge of death, only to resend them to near death over and over again in order to gain power to rejuvenate himself. Desiring to return the gods in order to increase his power, Jonathan, over his long run in the series, attempts to kill the pregnant woman who carries the heir to faerie in order to start a civil war between the fey which could kill thousands; tortures Louise-Cesare to near death; unleashes zombie vampires to kill the North American Vampire Senate; tries to crash magical Hong Kong into normal Hong Kong—which would kill millions—in order to create an energy wave to exterminate the various Vampire Senates which oppose the gods; and tries to unleash the Ancient Horrors in order to conquer all. A complete sociopath only interested in himself, Jonathan is eventually revealed to graft the skin and ghosts of creatures and people to himself in order to gain their powers, keeping them in agonizing pain all the while.
- The wicked god Apollo, first appearing in Touch the Dark, once ruled portions of the world, terrorizing, sacrificing and tormenting mortals en masse while feeding on magic. To escape his prison and resume brutal dominion where few humans survive, Apollo hunts for the Pythia, Cassandra Palmer, to sway her to his side. Secretly arranging for a genocide of magic users, Apollo tries to break free and devastate the mortal world to resume his godhood.
- Ares, first appearing in Hunt the Moon, has his children, the Spartoi, try to hunt down and slaughter anyone who will be a problem to his return, particularly the traitorous goddess Artemis who helped the mortals banish and bind the other gods. Ares sways Nimue into conflict with her grandson Arthur and kicks off a brutal war between the Fey, funding it with sex slavery to eventually free himself and throw the world into war to establish his own dominion.
- No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh is a hired assassin defined by his fatalistic personal code. Compared to the Bubonic Plague by his former associate Carson Wells, Chigurh is an emotionless killer with no regard for human life, occasionally deciding his victims' fates with a coin toss. Introduced by strangling a police officer to death with handcuffs, Chigurh proceeds to murder an innocent man to steal his car, repeating this crime later in the film. Employed to recover $2 million lost in a drug deal gone bad, Chigurh murders two of his employer's men and relentlessly hunts for Llewelyn Moss to retrieve the money. Along the way, Chigurh murders several Mexican criminals who are also pursuing Moss, shooting one of them as he surrenders, and later kills a hotel clerk and a random motorist who get caught in a gunfight between Chigurh and Moss. Chigurh later kills Wells and the man who hired them both, intending to keep the money for himself, and promises to kill Moss's wife Carla Jean unless Moss surrenders the money, making it clear that he intends to kill Moss regardless; Wells had previously commented that even if Moss gave up the money, Chigurh would kill him anyway for "inconveniencing him". After Moss is killed, Chigurh murders Carla Jean, attempting to justify this senselessly cruel act by claiming to be keeping his promise. A chilling psychopath devoid of humanity, Chigurh is presented as an unstoppable force of evil, a monster without empathy or remorse.
- American Gothic (1995): Sheriff Lucas Buck is a devilish, corrupt lawman in the town of Trinity who kicks the plot off by raping a woman, later murdering her after she gives birth to his son, and then murders her daughter, framing and killing her husband before trying to claim the boy Caleb Temple for himself to raise in his image. A charming, charismatic man, Lucas is responsible for frequent disappearances of "outsiders", in one instance keeping a pesky reporter tied up and tortured until the man dies, and shows no hesitation in utterly destroying the lives of those who defy him on what he wants. In one such instance, a man who refuses Lucas's request to employ his sixteen-year-old daughter is steadily driven insane and tricked into murdering his own wife while a radio host who tries to blackmail Lucas finds his career and life utterly destroyed. Lucas attempts to corrupt Caleb, murdering people on seeming whims or to achieve long-reaching goals, and even tries to trick the ghost of Caleb's sister into killing a baby so she can return to life and destroy Caleb's faith in her.
- The Haves and the Have Nots: Veronica Harrington is the matriarch of the Harrington family. She regularly antagonizes her son, Jeffrey, for being gay. Just a couple of her methods of abuse are cutting him off financially; and blackmailing him into dating—and later impregnating—Melissa by threatening to have him incriminated for Wyatt's hit-and-run crime. Releasing Quincy from jail, she keeps him under her thumb by threatening to have his family killed, and orders Quincy to lay a brutal beatdown on Jeffrey. Discovering that her husband has been having an affair, she lights his mansion on fire while he is asleep in an attempt to kill him. When Wyatt goes to jail, Veronica arranges for an inmate to brutally rape him. She also had Justin arrested and arranged for his beating and rape in prison just because he slapped her; and had a hitman fatally shoot Maggie for sleeping with David. A true narcissist, Veronica was obsessed with making people live the life she wants them to live and won't hesitate to harm anyone who doesn't, including her own family.
- Muse is a deranged Serial Killer obsessed with sharing his "vision" of beauty with the whole world. First kidnapping over 100 innocent people, Muse exsanguinates them for days, leaving them near death, and uses said blood in his art. Later, after murdering close to a dozen Inhumans and posing their bodies, Muse kidnaps 4 people and plans to torture them to death, then captures Daredevil's sidekick, Blindspot, whose eyes he gouges out as a sick play on the young teen's name. Muse decorates his lair in the butchered corpses of his countless victims during his time as a serial killer, and when caught, tries to kill his 100 blood-drained captives. Escaping from prison and slaughtering a dozen guards in the process, Muse tries to kill two innocent woman who just wanted a picture with him, and then massacres a group of police officers to decorate one of his murals. When confronted by Blindspot—who Muse tries to mutilate once more, this time by ripping out his tongue—over his motives, Muse just brags that killing makes him better, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else, before committing suicide just because he felt he wasn't the "star" anymore.
- Old Man Quill miniseries: Galactus serves as the dark god of the Church of Universal Truth, which is led by his zealous servant, the Matriarch. Galactus stole the power cosmic from the Silver Surfer, putting him into a coma in the process. Galactus than uses the power cosmic to create a machine to mind control people, mentally enslaving people to fill the Church's ranks. Matriarch retains her free will and leads the Church's forces, attempting to subdue planets and lead Galactus to them so that he can devour them. The Matriarch attacks Peter Quill, providing a distraction so Galactus can devour the planet Spartax, killing everyone on it, including Quill's family. The Matriarch and the Church launch an attack on New Xander, home of the Nova Corps. When the Nova Corps seemingly defeats the Church, the Matriarch summons Galactus, so that he can devour that planet as well. When the Matriarch discovers most of Earth's heroes have been killed in the supervillain uprising, she informs Galactus, who is delighted to have a chance to devour Earth without interference.
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night: Mephistopheles, master of the Deal with the Devil and wicked Lord of the Fallen, attempts to lay claim to Beethoven's soul as he has so many others before him. Mephistopheles promises to relinquish Beethoven's soul if only he obliterates all his music and hands over his Tenth Symphony. Failing that, Mephistopheles gleefully pledges to torture and damn a random orphan child should Beethoven not break, espousing in "Misery
" through all the horrible ways he'll torment the child before dragging her off to Hell.
- The Division: Larae Barrett is the psychotic and despotic leader of the Rikers, the most vicious faction to have taken over New York. Previously imprisoned for the murder of two cops, Barrett became the leader of the prisoners after seducing an administrator into getting her a barge, after which she murders him when the time comes to escape. Barrett has the Rikers go on a rampage across New York, slaughtering any and all law enforcement they can find, with Barrett declaring they will rule New York as anarchistic kings, at one point converting a jail into their own personal torture dungeon. Barrett has one of her lackies carved to death during a rally because he made too many complaints, and sets a rival gang leader on fire. When confronted, Barrett and the Rikers are hosting a "party", where captive officers are being tortured and murdered.
- SIMULACRA series:
- Pipe Dreams: The AI controlling FlapeeBird is a sadistic Eldritch Abomination with the voice and personality of a nihilistic Psychopathic Womanchild. Having the ability to erase people from reality after they get addicted to its game, the AI desires to make the game famous so it can kill millions. Exploiting Teddy's depression by offering him a place where he can always be a winner, the AI uses Teddy as its own puppet to share information about the game on social media, once targeting his girlfriend. Successfully infecting several of your contacts, including a relative, the AI cheats at its own game to force you to give your life in exchange for an easier challenge.
- SIMULACRA 2: The Simulacrum, or "The Ripple Man", is an entity that haunts the cyber world and seeks to spread its power and influence, absorbing the souls of its victims into its consciousness. The Ripple Man makes deals with people to protect them from critics and boost their popularity, before it rips their faces apart and takes their souls, leaving them tormented in its consciousness and dimension. The Ripple Man seeks influencers on Kimera to draw more people in, and kills one such influencer, Maya Crane, after she took its deal, and tormented her for some time before claiming her. Haunting Maya's friends, the Ripple Man tries to drive them against each other so that one of them will take its deal after being blamed for Maya's death, at which point it will claim them. Should it succeed, it will try to make a deal with the Player Character that can end with Detective Murilo's department being shut down, leaving it unopposed. If the player gets Maya's friends to work together against it, and successfully banish it, the Ripple Man states it can continue hunting people elsewhere; if unsuccessful, the Ripple Man will claim all of Maya's friends at once.
- Shining Song Starnova: While the idol industry looks glamorous on the outside, this dastardly duo represents the very worst of the business:
- Kenjiro Oda is the chairman of Golden Calf Productions, and the one who represents some of the darkest aspects of the idol industry. A pervert and pedophile, Oda, for at least four years, would use his position to molest and sexually assault any idol under him, even kids, and if they refuse he would destroy their careers as retaliation. This led to numerous idols receiving scarred psyches, which Oda cared very little about. In Sasami and Aki's routes, Oda takes over the role of main antagonist, where he tries to usurp the role of CEO of his company through illegal means in order to continue his crimes and further his reach with his new position. In Sasami's route, he goes as far as to attempt to rape her, and in the bad endings of both routes, he would succeed and begin forcing the women under him through "inspection". Sleazy and despicable, Oda is a chilling reflection of how horrible a human being can be in the idol industry.
- Haruka Enokida is an idol who will do whatever dirty deed to get to the top. Cruel and sadistic, Haruka wears the mask of a sweet girl before striking. Luring other girls into her posse, she uses them to bully and humiliate her competition to permanently scare them from the industry, like stripping Mariya naked with scissors and suffocating her with a bag of feces when she was in Quasar or belittling Kana into a mental breakdown. At Aki's and Sasami's route, she shows the full extent of cruelty by attempting to run over Kamijou after her sex scandal was exposed and was fired in Aki's route, and in Sasami's route she assists Kenjiro Oda in his hostile takeover of Quasar. While letting Oda assault Sasami, Haruka goes on to rape her two group mates, Kaori and Stella, cutting them, taking snuff photos and brutally violating them with a dildo, and using it as blackmail to force them to leave the industry, with the intent of doing this to future competitors. Ruthless to the core, Haruka will stop at nothing, even rape and murder, to be the top idol.
- Piecing Together the Ashes: Reconstructing the Old World Order: The man known as "The Beast" was the last American president before The Deluge. A far-right American military leader, the Beast staged a coup against a leftist president to take control over the country. When Canada, Mexico and Cuba criticized said action, the Beast either ordered the overthrow of their governments and put friendly dictators in change or invaded the countries. When America was harshly sanctioned by the international community, the Beast threatened to unleash Hell on Earth, which he did by ordering the use of multiple nuclear weapons throughout the world while believing himself a messenger of God, killing billions and causing the collapse of modern civilization. A brutal, petty bigot who tried to send American Muslims to reeducation camps, the Beast's crimes made him feared and hated even generations after his death, with his figure becoming the personification of evil to future civilizations.
- The Adventures of Tintin: R.J. Rastapopoulos is, much like his counterpart from the original comics, Tintin's most ruthless foe, and personal Arch-Enemy. Initially appearing to just be a benign film producer, Rastapopoulos is eventually outed as being the leader of a massive drug smuggling ring that is operating out of Africa and Asia. Anyone who opposes Rastapopoulos is either killed or driven insane by a special poison, and when Tintin begins dismantling his organization, Rastapopoulos tries to have him and his allies, the Wangs, beheaded by the Wangs' own poison-maddened son, Didi. Later, in attempt to rebuild his criminal empire after it was toppled by Tintin, Rastapopoulos draws up plans to steal the wealth of a millionaire named Laszlo Carreidas using a truth serum developed by his new ally, Doctor Krollspell. When he is accidentally injected with the serum, Rastapopoulos inadvertently lets slip that he was going to shoot Krollspell as soon as they finished with Carreidas. When this plan is foiled, Rastapopoulos, under a new identity, starts promising Arab refugees safe passage to America. After the refugees give him all of their valuables, Rastapopoulos has them drowned in the Pacific. When Tintin begins investigating his latest activities, Rastapopoulos tries to get rid of him by planting a bomb on a passenger airplane that Tintin had boarded, and by blowing up one of his own refugee-filled ships when it is taken over by Tintin.
- X-Men Fairy Tales: The Witch, from issue #3 ("To Die in Dreams"), is a powerful being who terrorized the lands before people managed to kill her. Resurrecting herself in the form of Burning Phoenix, the Witch possessed the red-haired princess, using her as a host to try to conquer the kingdom and slaughter countless people who tried to stop her. After the knight, who was in love with the princess, managed to defeat the Witch, the latter fall in eternal sleep along with the princess. When she managed to awaken within the princess many years later, after the princess was found by the Tailor, the Witch escaped, promising to "double her wrath upon the land". Killing the former knight who previously imprisoned her, the Witch desired to kill the Tailor as well, resulting in the princess convincing the Tailor to kill her, to end her threat once and for all.
- Die Hard (Second Revised Draft
): Hans Gruber poses as a terrorist and holds over 30 people hostage in order to rob the Nakatomi Plaza vault of millions in treasury bonds, indifferent to how much blood is shed in the process. Making pseudo-pleasant small talk with Joseph Takagi about his suit, Hans attempts to extract the vault code from Takagi, callously stating he doesn't need the code when the former admits he doesn't know it. When a SWAT team is called in against Hans and his men, Hans has his men use heavy weaponry against them. In response to John McClane's interference, Hans kills a hostage claiming to be John's friend, threatening to kill more hostages until John returns the detonators and explosives he had stolen, which Hans intends on using against the hostages. In response to a police helicopter flying towards Nakatomi, Hans has his men shoot it with missiles. When the hostages hear an explosion from the vault, Hans shoots a screaming hostage while the rest escape, before proceeding to abduct Holly Gennero, John's wife, then vindictively attempting to eliminate them both.
- "What If Qui-Gon Jinn Trained Anakin Skywalker?
" (covers The Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones) & "What If Qui-Gon Jinn Was In 'Revenge of the Sith'?
" (covers Revenge of the Sith): Sheev Palpatine is the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and is also Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith. He incites the Clone Wars, betrays his apprentices and allies left and right and instigates the destruction of the Jedi all as he did before, but in addition to all that, Palpatine emotionally manipulates Anakin Skywalker into fighting and helping him kill Mace Windu and helping orchestrate the death of Anakin's pregnant wife Padme, tricking Anakin into thinking he's revived her to convince him to become Darth Vader. Palpatine's actions further result in Anakin receiving life-threatening injuries and killing Qui-Gon Jinn. Palpatine then continues to keep Anakin in line with the incredibly cruel false promise of Padme being alive and staying alive.
- Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic Asylum: Dante is as vile as her canon counterpart. Posing as a kindly old psychologist, Dante is secretly a centuries-old alchemist who has been prolonging her own life by alchemically transferring her soul into the bodies of young female patients. In order to do this Dante admits patients with strong alchemic power—usually children and teenagers—and drains their power in a painful and lethal process. Two of her past victims were her own alchemy student Izumi Curtis, who fell terminally ill, and Izumi's son, Wrath, who eventually went catatonic. When Roy Mustang falls ill in the midst of an escape attempt and has to be left behind, Dante lures Edward, Alphonse, Riza and Havoc into a trap when they come to rescue him, imprisoning them in a transmutation circle that painfully extracts Edward's alchemy and slowly kills his friends and brother. In one last attempt to break Edward's spirit, Dante dresses the homunculus Sloth up as Edward's dead mother, tormenting him with his guilt and trauma over having failed to bring her back to life.
- Resident Evil 2 fanfic Epic: The Third Survivor: Brian Irons is just as horribly depraved here as he was in canon. The Chief of Raccoon City's Police Department, Irons would allow the Umbrella Corporation to conduct their experiments on the city's citizens, on the pretense that Umbrella would get him elected mayor. During the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City, Irons kidnaps the mayor's daughter and brutally rapes her before shooting her in her stomach, causing her to bleed to death; it would later be revealed that Irons has raped and killed numerous other women beforehand and would convert their bodies into stuffed dolls before putting them in his hidden room as part of Irons's morbid collection.
- The Loud House/Cthulhu Mythos crossover Revival: "Maya Lottie", aka Nyarlathotep, is the most active and personable of the Outer Gods. Having grown bored with the usual games he plays on mankind, he decides to bring an end to existence to give the world a final curtain call. Previously driving an entire town to madness and death, Nyarlathotep devours the family of Patrick Stark, taking the form and alias of his daughter Maya to spite and enslave him. He starts by killing the Loud family dog, and gives Lana the Necronomicon to resurrect him, having her invoke the Old Ones. Attacking the Loud family, Nyarlathotep sets his army onto Royal Woods, killing hundreds alone; drives both Loud parents out of their minds; forcibly takes Leni and Lola's souls to bargain with the Louds, flinging them into space-time; he then summons the pantheon onto the world, slaughtering thousands of people. Nyarlathotep makes a deal with Lincoln to call things off if the latter could save his sisters' souls, not intending to hold his end of the deal if Lincoln wins; he tries to cheat when Lincoln starts to win, summoning Cthulhu to kill the Loud sisters, and forced the Louds into a final confrontation. As he dies, Nyarlathotep's life flashes before their eyes, revealing the great atrocities he was involved in throughout history.
- Inside Out fanfic Kids World
: Annis is a power-hungry preteen who uses a Depopulation Bomb fatal to people older than twelve to rule over the remaining children. Assuming control, Annis abuses her "best friend" Riley and her foster sister Caroline, forcing the latter to set a building full of kids on fire and beats her for stopping Annis from feeding an infant to a pack of dogs. With Caroline seemingly killed, Annis mocks and brutally beats the heartbroken Riley and later throws her off a bridge for trying to stop her from causing more chaos. Enraged when Caroline and Riley survive, Annis burns multiple buildings to the ground, uncaring if they're populated, ultimately intending a devastating attack on Riley's former home Minnesota to spite her. When her control over her followers is broken, Annis rejects Riley's offer of redemption, vowing to kill her and take back her power.
Total Drama- Lost and Found
: Sawyer is the abusive father of Gwen. Having abandoned Gwen when she was three, he takes her in after her mother and brother are seemingly killed in a House Fire. He regularly abuses her, beating her up and even going as far as cutting her, leaving cuts on various parts of her body. Sawyer threatens to kill Trent if he sees her with him and almost making good on that promise when he has men beat Trent to near-death. It is revealed that Sawyer was the one who burned down Gwen's house, kidnapped her mother and brother, faked their deaths and held them captive to use as hostages to keep Gwen in his clutches, only keeping her around so he can make money off her. When a maid stands up for Gwen, Sawyer unhesitatingly kills her. Coming into conflict with Trent, Sawyer threatens to "spill" Gwen's brains if he makes a move. While in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown, he tries to shoot Gwen's mother, stabs Hilary and uses Trent as a Human Shield, taunting Gwen about not having it in her to hurt her boyfriend.
- Monster Chronicles: Cedric von Túfeice is an undead demon. In life, he killed his mother and became a Serial Killer known as the Zodiac Killer. He was killed when a school bus he was planning to shoot the tires off ran him over. Upon being sent to Hell, he stroke up a deal with Baron Samedi. Baron loaned him a veve talisman, and the power of voodoo, in exchange for Cedric feeding him souls. Upon being revived inside an empty Coke bottle a young Cody found, he convinced Cody to let him use his body, which he used to commit murders, leaving a 10/6 Calling Card by his victims' corpses; he was dubbed The Mad Hatter Killer. He had claimed the lives of over a hundred victims—including Tyler's pregnant mother—before being sealed up by Cody. Six years later, during Total Drama World Tour, he is released, and again taking over Cody's body, he seals Cody's soul inside a potato battery and enters the game under his identity. When Alejandro tries to eliminate him, he frames Al for wrecking Chris's private lounge, and brutally kills him. Over the course of the season, he kills hundreds of officers and soldiers, and causes several eliminations. In the season finale, he stowes away on the plane waiting to arrive in New Orleans, where he plans to find a tapestry that he will use to open a white hole that will plunge the world into utter chaos.
Gaslight Series- Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes:
- "His Last Arrow", by Christopher Sequeira: Sherlock Holmes himself is depicted here as an evil Djinn responsible for most of the murders that he's claimed to solve. Holmes wreaks havoc on London and the surrounding area, causing fantastical and seemingly impossible murders before coming up with a seeming solution to gain fame. Influencing the minds of his victims, Holmes even has countless innocents take the fall for his crimes and sends them to lifelong imprisonment, and even the gallows, simply to satisfy his hunger for fame and attention.
- "Merridew of Abominable Memory", by Chris Roberson: Phipps, better known as the Dockside Dismemberer, is a steward running a nightmarish con game that entails serial murder. Abducting his victims, Phipps proceeds to torture them for days on end, slowly dismembering them before killing them after repeated torture.
- Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes:
- "The Best Laid Plans" by Robert Lauderdale: During the mass arrests, Professor James Moriarty gleefully guns down several of his associates as he's being arrested, either for trying to escape or just to tie up loose ends. It is revealed that Moriarty has experimented on dozens of people, fusing them with animal parts and leaving them in agonizing pain and later uses a failsafe to dispose of them before making his way to Reichenbach Falls in order to duel Holmes to the death.
- "The Hand-Delivered Letter", by Simon Kurt Unsworth: After Reichenbach Falls, Professor James Moriarty is found by a kind farmer couple who he later murders to escape. Rounding up scientists, Moriarty creates an undead plague, testing it on innocents and murdering his scientists to cover it up. Later having Watson killed by a zombie, Moriarty brings down a zombie plague on London just to spite Sherlock Holmes, sending the titular letter to gloat over the apocalypse.
- Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes: In "The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes", by Tom English, Brother Moriarty is fiendish monk who communes with the Devil in order to create a magical book inked with his own blood. Moriarty enchants it so that anyone who reads it will become mind-controlled with the need to murder and mutilate people in the most horrific ways possible, with the book even leading to the creation of Jack the Ripper, over two centuries after his death, ensuring a legacy of evil.
Mycroft Holmes, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse- Adam McGuire is a racist businessman who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, McGuire uses slave labor to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, murders their young children and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. McGuire, contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as Cannon Fodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. McGuire captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up McGuire well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."
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