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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
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Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?
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Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Oh, FYI, Grimm is almost done. I know MGD said he wanted to fix Oleg's entry, and the page still needs a quote, but aside from that...
- Satan's Hollow: Burdaine and Jacob are a pair of Satan-worshipping cultists who engage in Human Sacrifice to gain power from their infernal benefactors. Burdaine, when he was still human, orchestrated the kidnapping and sacrificial murder of numerous people, including the massacre of Sandra's whole family, personally stabbing her baby brother through the chest with a ceremonial dagger. After botching the ritual due to Sandra's father sacrificing his own life to allow her to escape, he is transformed into a Living Shadow known as the "Shadow Man" by the Devil as punishment. Together with his new partner-in-crime in the present, the Shadow Man sacrifices more people as part of the new ritual in order to satisfy all the members of Satan's court and open the portal to hell, including a young boy who was already traumatized from a previous encounter at the Hollow. He bodyjacks Sandra's husband John in the process and frames him for the kidnappings immediately after sending his soul to Hell to be tortured by demons. Along with the promise of having Sandra herself become their personal Sex Slave, Burdaine and Jacob were fully prepared to plunge the whole world into hell for their own gain.
edited 16th Apr '17 8:31:05 AM by Morgenthaler
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"Just curious, is the reason the Shadow Queen doesn't count is because she's an Eldritch Abomination and therefore Made of Evil?
Just found this on YMMV/Virtuosity:
- Ho Yay: Lindenmayer really loves his masterpiece. Sid's able to hypnotize him easily, which makes sense considering his origins as a hippie cult leader, fascist orators, and more.
Questions of caring aside, I watched the scene where SID and Lindenmeyer talk about breaking SID out, and SID does seem the dominant personality between the two, but it doesn't really look like Lindenmeyer's agency or culpability is reduced at all. Any other thoughts (hopefully this will be the last time I belabor this example
)?
One more final note- besides an even higher heinous standard than I remembered, the villain from The Tournament had what appeared to be a genuine Villainous Friendship. So much for that, but still a good read. Plenty more Matthew Reilly books to look back through, anyway.
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.I don't have an effortpost or anything but there's something I want to discuss.
Studio Gainax and Studio Trigger villains.
With Little Witch Academia ending in 10 weeks (12 weeks until we can possibly write up an effortpost) I want to bring up something that I believe might be important for discussing LWA in general. Space Patrol Luluco confirmed that Little Witch Academia shared a universe with Kill la Kill, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. If we are using heinousness throughout the universe there this creates a massive problem. LWA is pretty kid-friendly (PG rated) compared to Kill la Kill (R/TV-MA rated). This means that if we're going through the same universe then that means that no one should count because no one in LWA is going to be worse than Ragyo Kiryuin.
How do we go about this problem exactly?
You don't really know with Studio Gainax/Trigger shows though, sometimes their Shout Outs are comedy and sometimes they are genuine. I wouldn't say that Ryuko's berserk form against Nui was for comedy despite it being a Shout-Out for Neon Genesis Evangelion.
That's something that's more an easter egg. I'd say don't worry about it if LWA has keepers. I don't even see how taking place in the same continuity between those series is even possible
Just judge LWA by its own standard as well as the general baseline.
edited 16th Apr '17 12:50:58 PM by Lightysnake
@Lord Xavius Since Camberf passed it on, you could take point on Fate of the Furious now I guess.
edited 16th Apr '17 4:38:50 PM by futuremoviewriter
Yami, I don't think Reilly has any more:
- Scarecrow series:
- Ice Station: Nobody really stood out.
- Area 7 & Scarecrow: We already got Caesar and Killian.
- Hell Island: Villain not really bad enough.
- Scarecrow Returns: Bad Willy was already voted down, and Calderon seems to be somewhat of a WIE (plus he seems likely to return).
- Jack West Series: Not sure anyone's bad enough, but I could be wrong.
- Standalone novels:
- Contest: Don't think anyone counts, but it's been awhile.
- Temple: Been awhile.
- Hover Car Racer & Troll Mountain: I've not read either.
- The Great Zoo Of China: I don't think anyone's bad enough.
Also,for Legion, does anyone object if I add this to X-Men?
- Entries from Legion 2017 can be found here.
edited 16th Apr '17 1:41:42 PM by ACW
Can't really see LWA having a serious candidate. Then again, we'll cross that bridge in due time. Anyways, writeup time:
- Choker: Hunt Cassidy is a sadistic drug baron put away behind bars by cop Johnny Jackson for his illegal trafficking, which includes utilizing children as test subjects for his horrifying drugs. Freed by the treacherous Royce Davies and with a hunger for revenge after being brutalized in prison, Cassidy resumes his spree to get revenge on Jackson. Keeping a young girl in his basement and reducing her to a feral, naked vampire through his repeated testing, Cassidy starts peddling mutative drugs that turn several people into ravenous vampires and cannibalistic mutants, having his junkies commit a series of gruesome massacres around Shotgun City to lure Jackson into his clutches. Slaughtering a squad sent to stop him and eventually backstabbing and killing Royce himself, Cassidy hypes himself up on his own drugs for the purpose of killing Jackson, massacring his way through the police department and personally murdering Chief Ellis in his psychotic crusade to kill Jackson.
- Ghost in the Shell (2017): Mr. Cutter is the corrupt CEO of Hanka Robotics and the true mastermind behind the conflict. Engineering the mass kidnapping of teenage runaways from the Lawless Zone, Cutter authorizes illegal, covert experiments to perfect a transhuman weapon that leads to the death of ninety-seven of the runaways and the imperfect creation of the ninety-eighth, Kuze, whom Cutter orders disposed of like trash. Viewing the ninety-ninth, the Major, as little else but a living weapon for his own benefit, Cutter orders her killed when she learns too much and callously murders Dr. Ouelet, the doctor who initially performed the experiments, the moment she rebels against Cutter's immoral methods. With full intent to move onto further illegal projects, Cutter orders the entirety of Section 9 killed and tries to kill the Major and Kuze himself, cruelly referring to his own wayward creation as a "freak." A shallow hypocrite who refuses to acknowledge any fault of his own, Cutter is concerned purely with personal profit and is willing to stoop to any low in this pursuit.
- American Ninja 4: The Annihilation: Scott Mulgrew is a corrupt ex-British cop fired from his position for murdering prisoners during interrogation. Mulgrew turns into a terrorist who starts a plot alongside co-conspirator Maksood to extort 50 million dollars out of America under the threat of nuking New York, overseeing the slaughter of an American squad and capturing the survivors with intent to burn them all alive. A master of torture and interrogation with his own personal torture dungeon, Mulgrew murders a contact of the film's heroes, Davidson and Carl, tortures and executes three patrons of a bar they passed through, and later visits torture on Davidson and Carl themselves after demonstrating it on the soldiers he's holding captives. Displaying clear intentions to rape their compatriot Sarah — whose father he killed — to further satisfy himself and molesting her in front of Carl and Davidson to hurt them further, Mulgrew ultimately responds to complications by trying to burn his prisoners alive ahead of time and furiously trying to cut down Davidson with an axe once he breaks out. Possessed of a vast streak of atrocities and proud of every body on his hands, Mulgrew lacks the religious delusions of his compatriots and commits every atrocity he does purely out of sadistic gratification.
- Java Heat: Malik is a thief of ambiguous ethnicity who uses terrorist acts to disguise his acts of theft. Responsible for a series of bombings and dozens of deaths around the world, Malik's latest plot, in Java, Indonesia, revolves around the bombing of a public gathering and the apparent assassination of the nation's Sultana. In reality, Malik kidnaps the Sultana herself to sell her valuable necklace and the Crown Jewels of Java for a fortune. Malik kidnaps the family of cop Hashim to deter him from investigating the case further with full intentions of killing Hashim's wife and two young children, and once it's revealed the Crown Jewels have long been sold, Malik spitefully intends to sell the Sultana herself as a sex slave before flying out of the nation. Murdering and killing both his associates the moment he sees them no longer of use and compounding his evil with the heavy implication he rapes children who pick up his fancy, Malik is nothing short of greed and ruthlessness personified.
edited 16th Apr '17 2:18:02 PM by Scraggle
From what I hear on 4chan who have seen it raw before fansubs is that the major villain's first heinous action is that Croix tried to change Akko's memories so she could use the Shiny Rod herself.
Other than that I'm saying nothing until 2 weeks after the show ends.
- The 13th Artifact, by Amit Chauhan et al.: In this short comic, an old priest relays the conquest of his planet at the hands of the demonic Master of the Thirteenth. The Master, in the guise of a monk, tricks the planet's leaders into sending hundreds of their greatest soldiers into his demonic realm, leading to the majority of the planet's heroes to be killed by the demons within. A year later, the Master takes advantage of the planet's vulnerability to poison the atmosphere with sulfur dioxide and reduce the planet's populace to his brutally oppressed slaves. First seen himself in the attendance of an insane man he's locked in a cage and a Sex Slave tied to his throne, the Master brutally crushes the old priest's skull and torturously probes the mind of a woman who crash lands on the planet, who simply lets herself give out and die with the realization the Master will subject Earth to the exact same fate if he's ever allowed to find it.
- Choker, by Ben McCool & Ben Templesmith: Hunt Cassidy is a sadistic drug baron put away behind bars by cop Johnny Jackson for his illegal trafficking, which includes utilizing children as test subjects for his horrifying drugs. Freed by the treacherous Royce Davies and with a hunger for revenge after being brutalized in prison, Cassidy resumes his spree to get revenge on Jackson. Keeping a young girl in his basement and reducing her to a feral, naked vampire through his repeated testing, Cassidy starts peddling mutative drugs that turn several people into ravenous vampires and cannibalistic mutants, having his junkies commit a series of gruesome massacres around Shotgun City to lure Jackson into his clutches. Slaughtering a squad sent to stop him and eventually backstabbing and killing Royce himself, Cassidy hypes himself up on his own drugs for the purpose of killing Jackson, massacring his way through the police department and personally murdering Chief Ellis in his psychotic crusade to kill Jackson.
- The Fang by K. I. Zachopoulos & Christos Martinis: In this unofficial continuation of the classic Bram Stoker tale, Dracula continues his streak of sadism and evil. Hopping aboard a boat bound for America following his near-defeat at Van Helsing's hands, Dracula massacres the entire crew of said boat before arriving at his destination, New York City. Once in New York, Dracula restrengthens himself by draining the blood of numerous homeless people and prostitutes, then amasses his "creatures of the night" to slaughter dozens of people and dump their bodies in a nearby river before making yet another attempt to kill Van Helsing and his friends. Though implied by Van Helsing to just be a lonely beast, Dracula shows time and again that he is in truth just a sadistic creep obsessed with becoming a god and slaughtering those beneath him as the sheep he believes them to be.
- Happy! by Grant Morrison, Darick Robertson, et al.: Mr. Blue is a mob boss looking to get his hands on the previous Don's load of cash, and will do anything to complete this mission. Employing torturers and murderers as well as cops he forces into service, notably threatening to have one's mother raped if she resists his orders, Mr. Blue orders a hit out on Nick Sax, one of his top enforcers, when Sax accidentally kills the only man who knows the password to the previous Don's safe. While sending his Torture Technician Mr. Smoothie after Sax to torture the password out of him, Mr. Blue simultaneously has half a dozen children kidnapped and plans to run a live stream of them being raped then likely killed to turn a profit on child pornography sites, and in the end tries to force Sax to watch the children's fate as revenge for making Blue exhaust so many resources looking for him.
- Jack the Ripper, by Francois Debois & Jean-Charles Poupard: Jean-Martin Charcot is the ultimate Man Behind the Man to Jack the Ripper himself, alongside all his other crimes in the story. As a famous neuroscientist and master of hypnotism, Charcot's evil started when a group of his students accidentally hypnotized a woman into killing her own sister. Taking advantage of the hypnotic trance they used, Charcot and his students begin hypnotizing their various patients into bringing out their psychopathic killer sides, leading to some becoming Serial Killers while others massacre their entire families, children included, before killing themselves. When Inspector Abberline begins investigating him, Charcot hypnotizes the man into killing his own girlfriend before going on to become a Serial Killer, and Charcot shows absolutely no concern over one of his former students becoming Jack the Ripper while the others die one by one. Though using scientific discovery as an excuse for his truly wicked actions, Charcot was ultimately an attention-seeking lunatic willing to kill all in his way in his path to fame.
- John Woo's Seven Brothers, by John Woo, Garth Ennis, & Jeevan Kang: The Son of Hell is a malevolent sorcerer who attempts to Take Over the World through the enslavement of the Dragon Lines, uncaring of the havoc this could wreak upon the world. The Son of Hell establishes his cruelty by condemning the souls of the tens of thousands men making up China's fleet to never-ending torment and nearly obliterates the world in his mad bid to enslave the Dragon Lines, only stopped by his abused apprentice Fong. Awakening centuries later, the Son of Hell brutally slaughters an expedition team and eats the brain of a billionaire CEO, walking into his skin to assume his identity and using the man's resources to resume his conquest. When he's confronted by Fong's descendants, the Son of Hell orders them all murdered in public and, upon being confronted by their coordinator Rachel, the Son of Hell callously states he seeks to abolish mankind of all choice—and clean up as much of humanity itself he deems necessary in this process.
- Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen, by Corinna Bechko et al.: In this Tomb Raider miniseries, the demon simply known as the Unnameable was once a member of the ancient shadow walkers that lived on the Earth. Upon possessing a human, the Unnameable develops an intelligence and an ambition that motivates it to try and scour the Earth of all life to remake it as a hellish world of rock and fire populated solely by demons in his likeness. Stopped by the Ice Age and putting pieces of himself into ivory statuettes, the Unnameable resurfaces, and, possessing a politician named Mr. Green, immediately begins corralling the pieces back to him, leading to the unwilling possession and death of many people. When nearly complete, the Unnameable scorches the surrounding area to a flaming crisp and burns alive the first man who tries to stop him in his crusade to take over the planet.
- Reality Show, by Jean-David Morvan & Francis Porcel: "The Red Triangle" is a vicious Robotic Psychopath and Serial Killer. Originally a simple worker drone, the Red Triangle gained sentience after an experiment using emotion sharing parasites granted him a taste of human emotions, and, becoming obsessed with creating his own "perfect" human personality, the Red Triangle began using these parasites to feed off the emotions of two people at a time for a few days, after which he kills them and moves on to other "hosts". Along the way, the Red Triangle gleefully butchers dozens of police officers and other random people who stand in his way, and takes extra sadistic glee in tormenting humans with his killings. When hunting for a pure good personality, the Red Triangle feeds off a preacher and a rookie police officer's integrity and kindness before murdering one in front of the other simply to feed off the "survivors' guilt" the other feels, and spends his final moments proclaiming that he will never again feed off of another person as morally good as them, noting that it might compromise his sadistic, immoral personality, which he is perfectly happy with. Despite claiming that all his victims were "despicable", this ranges from delusional to outright lies considering one of his victims was a child, which makes his seeming outrage at a child molester ring hollow, especially when said outrage was over the man being a terrible host for his desired emotions rather than actual sadness for what the man did to children. The Red Triangle's motives never extend beyond becoming as perfectly human-like as possible in his mind, regardless how many innocents he happily murdered along the way.
- Satan's Hollow: Burdaine and Jacob are a pair of Satan-worshipping cultists who engage in Human Sacrifice to gain power from their infernal benefactors. Burdaine, when he was still human, orchestrated the kidnapping and sacrificial murder of numerous people, including the massacre of Sandra's whole family, personally stabbing her baby brother through the chest with a ceremonial dagger. After botching the ritual due to Sandra's father sacrificing his own life to allow her to escape, he is transformed into a Living Shadow known as the "Shadow Man" by the Devil as punishment. Together with his new partner-in-crime in the present, the Shadow Man sacrifices more people as part of the new ritual in order to satisfy all the members of Satan's court and open the portal to hell, including a young boy who was already traumatized from a previous encounter at the Hollow. He possesses Sandra's husband John in the process and frames him for the kidnappings immediately after sending his soul to Hell to be tortured by demons. Along with the promise of having Sandra herself become their personal Sex Slave, Burdaine and Jacob were fully prepared to plunge the whole world into hell for their own gain.
- Sherlock Holmes comics, by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:
- Sherlock Holmes and Vampires of London: Selymes, the Vampire Monarch who serves as the first supernatural threat Holmes encounters, runs a huge network of vampires that he uses to amass dozens of victims at a time for himself, who he gleefully drains of every ounce of their blood, killing them in the process. When Selymes himself turns a man named Owen Chances into a vampire, he forces the man into his service by threatening his innocent brother, and, when Owen slowly becomes savage due to Selymes's tainted blood, Selymes covers up his taint by torturing and killing Owen's brother in front of him, then leaving the corpse at Owen's side for the years he is locked away, blaming Owen's vicious bloodlust on the stress of said experience. After massacring dozens of people who try to rise up against his evil, Selymes gleefully tries to murder Owen while promising to butcher Sherlock Holmes's best friends before turning him into a vampire so as to torture him for all eternity.
- Sherlock Holmes and the Necronomicon: Taher Emara initially starts as the sinister accomplice of James Moriarty himself before gradually revealing himself to eclipse even Moriarty in wickedness. Initially helping Moriarty in his own plan, including being willing to murder the entirety of London's populace with his black magic—magic he later practices on three upstart muggers, reducing them to piles of flesh—Taher betrays Moriarty and locks him under his thrall, magically killing all of Moriarty's men and revealing his intention to use the Necronomicon to allow the eldritch Elder Gods themselves passage into Earth and sentence all mankind to a horrifying death. Further demonstrating his callousness by forcing a score of guards to shoot themselves and using Moriarty as a conduit for the Elder Gods—torturously killing him in the process—Taher's last words upon being killed by Holmes are a defiant assurance it's already too late. As cunning as he is vile, Taher manages to trump the Napoleon of Crime himself in sheer evil.
- Sherlock Holmes Society:
- Graham Taylor, the understudy of Moriarty, is the leader of the enigmatic Council and a fanatical madman seeking to purge England of all "false Christians"; Taylor's idea of a purge is forcing a Zombie Apocalypse onto London to infect and kill millions. Taylor robbed from Edward Hyde a poison capable of infecting people and commissions immoral experimentation with the poison, turning dozens of unfortunate guinea pigs into zombies. Further testing the poison's capabilities on a village of hundreds, leaving no survivors, and ordering several assassinations of both failed subordinates and liabilities to the Council, Taylor ultimately releases the poison into London itself, leading to 30,000 fatalities. Taylor even stops to give squads of soldiers sent to stop the zombies a sporting chance before gunning them down out of nothing more than self-admitted sadistic amusement, ultimately planning to release the poison to six more major cities before committing suicide as one last part of his divine mission.
- Ryan Shelvey is a slimy psychiatrist whose first atrocities began when he hypnotized his own patients into becoming psychotic killers, notably turning one into a Jack the Ripoff who kills three women. When approached by the aforementioned Taylor to assist in his and the Council's plans, Shelvey happily uses his own patients as test subjects for the zombification virus, resulting in dozens of innocents being fatally experimented on. Fully aware that Taylor plans to use his own research to aide in wiping out most of London, Shelvey later sends 3 more of his hypnotized patients after Sherlock Holmes to stop his investigation, with orders to force him to watch his friends and landlady are killed in front of him before ending his life. Even when faced with life in prison, Shelvey refuses to reveal the details of Taylor's plans, knowing that, unimpeded, Taylor would arrange the annihilation of 7 major cities across the planet, starting with London.
- Inuyasha: Naraku is a merciless half-demon who, desiring to become a full demon, will stop at nothing to obtain the Shikon Jewel, the object that can give him this power. The lengths he goes to cause nothing short of tragedy in every single one of the main cast's lives, something Naraku does not care about. As the series goes on, Naraku even resurrects a group of mercenaries with policies that made them little better than serial killers, just to keep his opponents distracted from his true goals. He happily has his minions kill innocent villagers just to lure the protagonists to him. Excelling at manipulating others, Naraku kills Kikyo, a love interest of both Inuyasha and the man his demonic body was formed from, to prove to himself that he's incapable of harboring tender feelings towards her. Not satisfied with simply showing this to himself, Naraku went a step further by destroying Inuyasha and Kikyo's relationship, leading to 50 years of mistrust between the once-loving couple. Keeping his own minions in check by the threat that they are created from his magic and he holds their hearts, which he proves good on if they disobey him, Naraku's deeds clearly prove what he hoped to learn from his actions with Kikyo, that he is utterly devoid of compassion.
- Pride & Joy, by Garth Ennis & John Higgins: Stein is a nihilistic Psycho for Hire infamous for his brutality. Employed in the past as a hitman for crime boss Daddy Delaney, Stein establishes his brutality by forcing protagonist Jimmy Kalvangh to watch as he tortures a man to death with a knife, later striking a deal with Jimmy and his associates to overthrow Delaney himself. After he's double-crossed, Stein breaks out two decades later to pursue revenge against Jimmy and his entire family, tormenting him by leaving the corpse of an eviscerated man in his daughter's bedroom and mowing down a cop with Jimmy's own guns. Castrating Jimmy's friend Lenny and later killing both Lenny and his brother, Stein badly wounds Jimmy and leaves him to bleed out with the promise he'll be killing Jimmy's teenage son Michael next.
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin:
- Tien Ta is a brutal Manchu general who rules over his province with an iron fist, regularly subjecting the people to torture and public execution. Upon discovering possible dissidents in a school, Tien Ta enacts a brutal purge, massacring and torturing them by the dozens. When the hero San Te returns, Tien Ta continues the public executions and eventually orders the arrest, torture and death of anyone even suspected to associate with the rebels before he engages San Te personally.
- Tien Ta's Co-Dragons, Lords Tang and Cheng, are just as vile as their master. Lord Tang leads Tien Ta's squads to abduct and torture those who catch their eye, with Tang leading the attack on the school and massacre of the students. When San Te's father attempts to save his son, Tang kills him without a second thought. Cheng functions as the Manchu regime's chief torturer, with one scene showing him enjoying torturing his victims as another helpless group of captives await their own turn. Both men are focused only on their own power as well as brutalizing those beneath them.
- American Ninja 4: The Annihilation: Col. Scott Mulgrew is a corrupt former soldier fired from his position for murdering prisoners during interrogation. Mulgrew turns into a terrorist who starts a plot alongside co-conspirator Maksood to extort 50 million dollars out of America under the threat of nuking New York, overseeing the slaughter of an American squad and capturing the survivors with intent to burn them all alive. A master of torture and interrogation with his own personal torture dungeon, Mulgrew murders a contact of the film's heroes, Davidson and Carl, tortures and executes three patrons of a bar they passed through, and later visits torture on Davidson and Carl themselves after demonstrating it on the soldiers he's holding captives. Displaying clear intentions to rape their compatriot Sarah — who's father he killed — to further satisfy himself and molesting her in front of Carl and Davidson to hurt them further, Mulgrew ultimately responds to complications by trying to burn his prisoners alive ahead of time and furiously trying to cut down Davidson with an axe once he breaks out. Possessed of a vast streak of atrocities and proud of every body on his hands, Mulgrew lacks the religious delusions of his compatriots and commits every atrocity he does purely out of sadistic gratification.
- The Barber (2002): Dexter Miles is a British Serial Killer who moves to the small Alaskan town of Revelstoke and uses it as his hunting grounds, setting up shop as the local barber. Miles kills and rapes a local woman named Lucy before killing her lover. Miles romances a local cook named Sally and later murders her as well. Miles starts hanging around with a third woman, whom he eventually kills as well. An FBI agent shows up in town and informs the sheriff that he has been tracking a serial killer—Miles—who has killed 49 people over the years. Miles frames the sheriff for his crimes and manipulates Lucy's husband Cecil into shooting the sheriff, by telling him Lucy had an affair with the sheriff. After the sheriff is killed, the Coroner does an autopsy on his body and discovers his prints do not match the finger prints on the murder victims. Miles bumps into the Coroner, deduces what he knows and kills him so he won't tell anyone, before moving to Phoenix to continue his murder spree.
- Fatal Charm: Adam Brenner rapes and kills six women, and murders his traveling companion, John Walsh. After escaping from prison, he murders a couple and goes after Valerie, who believes he is innocent and has sent him letters during his trial. Adam breaks into Valerie's house and kills her mother and her mother's boyfriend before chasing Valerie down in an attempt to kill her.
- Ghost in the Shell (2017): Cutter is the corrupt CEO of Hanka Robotics and the true mastermind behind the conflict. Engineering the mass kidnapping of teenage runaways from the Lawless Zone, Cutter authorizes illegal, covert experiments to perfect a transhuman weapon that leads to the death of ninety-seven of the runaways and the imperfect creation of the ninety-eighth, Kuze, whom Cutter orders disposed of like trash. Viewing the ninety-ninth, the Major, as little else but a living weapon for his own benefit, Cutter orders her killed when she learns too much and callously murders Dr. Ouelet, the doctor who initially performed the experiments, the moment she rebels against Cutter's immoral methods. With full intent to move onto further illegal projects, Cutter orders the entirety of Section 9 killed and tries to kill the Major and Kuze himself, cruelly referring to his own wayward creation as a "freak." A shallow hypocrite who refuses to acknowledge any fault of his own, Cutter is concerned purely with personal profit and is willing to stoop to any low in this pursuit.
- Java Heat (2013): Malik is a thief of ambiguous ethnicity who uses terrorist acts to disguise his acts of theft. Responsible for a series of bombings and dozens of deaths around the world, Malik's latest plot, in Java, Indonesia, revolves around the bombing of a public gathering and the apparent assassination of the nation's Sultana. In reality, Malik kidnaps the Sultana herself to sell her valuable necklace and the Crown Jewels of Java for a fortune. Malik kidnaps the family of cop Hashim to deter him from investigating the case further, with full intentions of killing Hashim's wife and two young children, and once it's revealed the Crown Jewels have long been sold, Malik spitefully intends to sell the Sultana herself as a Sex Slave before flying out of the nation. Murdering and killing both his associates the moment he sees them no longer of use and compounding his evil with the heavy implication he rapes children who pick up his fancy, Malik is nothing short of greed and ruthlessness personified.
- Kahaani (2012): Milan Damji, the enigmatic villain of the film, was once a counterterrorism agent who betrayed his country and people. Murdering several agents, Damji allied himself with the terrorists and was responsible for a horrible nerve gas attack on a subway which killed many civilians, children included. When he receives word the heroine Vidya is searching for her husband who resembles him, Damji dispatches assassins to remove loose ends, and when he meets Vidya, who appears to be heavily pregnant, Damji kicks her in the stomach and attempts to murder her.
- A Man Alone (1955): Clanton is the hired gun of Stanley. When Clanton, together with Stanley's partner, Luke Joiner, robs a stagecoach, Clanton murders all five passengers, including a little girl, to keep them silent. Clanton and Stanley murder Luke after he expresses disgust at what Clanton did, and proceed to lie that Wes Steele is responsible for the stagecoach massacre and Luke's murder. Finally, along with Stanley and his gang, Clanton tries to kill Steele during the climax.
- Mystery Men: In the otherwise-comedic film, the vicious Casanova Frankenstein is released from the asylum he's been in for twenty years. Showing he hasn't changed in the slightest, Casanova promptly blows the Asylum up and abducts his old nemesis Captain Amazing, who had him released in the first place out of boredom. Planning to create the greatest act of evil Champion City has ever seen, Casanova unveils the Psycho-Frakulator that will painfully warp reality and kill every citizen in the city. Delighted by his own evil, Casanova even kills his own henchmen just to prove a point to the heroes when they try to stop him and abducts hero Mr. Furious's girlfriend with obvious lewd intentions before attempting to annihilate the city with them.
- Nate and Hayes: Ben Pease was once the partner of William "Bully" Hayes until Bully caught Ben subjecting innocents to slavery. The resulting fight had Bully shoot off Ben's private parts, and as a result, Ben has left a trail of murder across the seas to frame Bully for his crimes. Attacking a mission, Ben murders everyone except those he abducts to sell into slavery, and when the heroine Sophie takes one of his men hostage, Ben simply shoots the man to deprive her of a hostage. Allying with imperial Germany, Ben intends to supply them with slaves for their mines while also making an alliance with a cannibal tribe by giving them barrels full of severed heads and Sophie to use as a Human Sacrifice. Even at the end, Ben attempts to frame Bully for everything and see his nemesis hang in Ben's place.
- Power Rangers (2017): Rita Repulsa begins her career as the Green Ranger, before her ambition drives her to slaughter her comrades and mortally wound her former friend Zordon. Resurfacing countless years later, Rita descends on the fishing town of Angel Grove and starts brutally murdering innocent people for their gold to regain her powers—in one instance tearing a homeless man apart to get at his gold teeth—burning down an entire populated building to demonstrate the power of her Putties. Capturing and then killing a man to draw in the Rangers, Rita tortures the location out of Earth's Zeo Crystal out of the Rangers and then callously (temporarily) kills Billy by drowning him in front of the others once he wears out his use to her. Finally rising up a monstrous Zord of her own making, she calls Goldar to decimate Angel Grove and take the powers of the Zeo Crystal. Rita's ultimate goal is nothing short of absolute godhood by harnessing the power of the Zeo Crystal—consequentially killing off all life on the planet, something Rita is only too gleeful to do. Rita shockingly contrasts the campy nature of her original namesake, brings a level of incredible seriousness to the otherwise lighthearted and fun film, and is ultimately nothing less than a psychotic, murderous monster who barely resembles her original counterpart.
- Shotgun (1989): Fletcher Rivington is a slimy lawyer with a hand in drugs, prostitution, and crime throughout Los Angeles. Opening the film by ordering Rocker to murder an entire bar of people when they refuse to sell their land to him, Rivington is later revealed to be a vicious sadist who regularly beats prostitutes, whipping them to within an inch of their lives. After beating one to death in a violent rage, Rivington is pursued by Ian Jones, who begins breaking up his operations and thwarting his schemes, at which point Rivington has one of his own minions murdered to keep him quiet, then has Jones's best friend gunned down. In the end, Rivington executes Rocker when he tries to rat him out, and gleefully reveals his attitude that hookers were meant to be abused, and that with his money and power, he is given a free pass to anything, including murder.
- Tank Girl: In this film based on the comic, Kesslee is the head of Water & Power, a tyrannical MegaCorp holding a monopoly on a post-apocalyptic world's water. Happily condemning the rest of the world's populace to die of thirst, Kesslee demonstrates his cruelty by forcing a failed minion of his to walk on broken glass before sucking out all the water in his body and drinking it. Ordering a massacre on peaceful farmers he suspects of harboring water, Kesslee captures the two survivors— Rebecca, the titular Tank Girl, and her young companion Sam— and, fascinated by Rebecca's fighting prowess, begins to break her down through a series of sadistic, prolonged tortures to convince her to work for him. After a failed attempt to break into a Ripper hideout leaves him mortally wounded, Kesslee restyles himself as a cyborg—thanking the doctor who initially attempted to heal him by murdering her—Kesslee leads an attack on the Rippers' nightclub and threatens to drown Sam in front of Rebecca as one last ploy to control her. Establishing slave labor for his own benefit and allowing his guards free reign to more atrocities, Kesslee thoroughly proves himself the worst in a dog-eat-dog world.
- Sins of Empire, by Brian McClellan: In this first book of Gods of Blood and Powder, the Sequel Series to The Powder Mage Trilogy, Fidel Jes, grandmaster of Landfall, makes it a point to kill several men a day before his morning coffee in duels he provokes. Dedicated to stamping out any hint of resistance from the Palo people, Jes regularly conducts torture and executions and has killed so many in his duels that the stones themselves are stained from all the blood Jes has spilled. A war criminal as well, Jes had a war hero named "Mad" Ben Styke imprisoned for refusing Jes's orders to kill a group of children in war. When Styke manages to confront Jes again, Jes defeats him and orders Ben healed just so Jes can enjoy torturing him again and again. When he is ordered to locate an artifact called the Godstone, Jes takes Landfall's army, but lies to them, claiming reinforcements are coming to defend Landfall from an incoming invasion when Jes knows the city will be helpless and brutally sacked.
- Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face:
- Otto Octavius, a.k.a. Dr. Octopus, stands in stark contrast to his occasionally-noble 616 counterpart. Born a cripple in South Africa, Otto grew up jealous of the healthy, able-bodied Africans that he grew up around, which developed into a violent hatred for the black race in general. Wishing to gain the approval of Heinrich Himmler and the Nazi party, Otto has innocent black people kidnapped off the streets and performs horrifying, inhumane experiments on them. These experiments result in his victims, such as Peter's friend Robbie Robertson, being reduced to drooling, mindless vegetables that are meant to be used for slave labor. And Otto isn't above casual murder, as shown by him brutally stabbing his ally Crime Master to death when he tried to have Otto's victims burnt to cover their tracks, viewing his actions as wasting his research.
- In the power vacuum left behind in the wake of Norman Osborn's death, the enigmatic, aforementioned Crime Master handily takes his place as New York's most fearsome criminal. Far crueler and more brutal than Norman was, Crime Master, real name Sammy, is introduced by having his hulking lackey Sandman kill a mobster who insulted him by crushing his head like a grape. A violent psychopath of the highest order, Crime Master is quick to make an example of people who cross him, such as cutting out the tongue of a stool pigeon who snitched on him and dumping his body on the streets, filling a movie theater with the corpses of his rivals, and torturing his girlfriend Felicia Hardy with a shard of glass for affiliating with Spider-Man. Crime Master also assists the aforementioned Otto Octavius in his heinous experiments by supplying him with innocent black victims he kidnaps off the streets, and when the feds start to close in on them, he heartlessly tries to have them all burnt alive and refers to them as "livestock".
- Kuroto Dan/Kamen Rider Genm is the first Big Bad, triggering the show's events to achieve his own selfish ambitions. Discovering the deadly Bugster Virus in 2000, a teenage Kuroto first uses it to infect a young Emu Hojo in response to sending him fan mail with ideas as good as his own, and has him kidnapped years later to be turned into a breeding ground for the virus. He then uses it to cause Zero Day, infecting people nationwide and causing countless deaths and infections, pinning the blame on his father to take his spot as CEO. In the present day, he puts on a facade of benevolence , manipulating the Riders into helping complete Kamen Rider Chronicle, where humanity will fight forever with him as a god. Needing the Dangerous Zombie Gashat to make him immortal, Kuroto attempts to use a child's death to complete it, and uses his own death when that fails. Once he gains its power, he uses it to murder Kiriya Kujo for knowing how to stop his plans, kill the innocent Burgermon Bugster for being part of a game not by him, and infect Burgermon's creator just to rub it in his face. After Pallad beats him up for not caring about his allies in the least, Kuroto attempts to make Emu vanish from reality by revealing his secret to put him in extreme stress. When Emu strips him of his immortality and spares him, Kuroto chooses to escape and infect a random group of people, putting them in visible pain to complete Kamen Rider Chronicle. After Pallad backstabs him and leaves him to die, Kuroto begs for his life before declaring himself and his dreams immortal, As time goes on, it becomes apparent that Kuroto was a sociopathic, unfeeling maniac from the start, having done all his actions to satisfy his ego.
- Operatives "Lin" and "Davis", from season 3's "Quid Pro Quo", are agents from the Chinese Government tasked in finding a subject to test a super virus the government recently created, though they go way beyond what was assigned. Upon arriving in New Orleans they kidnap three American citizens ,then proceeded to burn them alive, two s they could take their identities and the third simply because they could. They then storm into a local bakery and force the baker to poison a cake with their virus, only to kill him with the virus once they are done with him. They ship the cake to a Navy base, killing seven Navy personnel. and later infecting Medical Examiner Loretta Wade with the virus. Despite already testing their virus, they decide to unleash their virus onto the air and into the city, attempting to kill hundreds if not thousands. This fails, and the team attempts to capture them alive due to their knowledge of where they are keeping the antidote. This results in one operative dying attempting to kill them, and the other committing suicide just so they could not find the antidote.
- In the 2017 film, Rita Repulsa begins her career as the Green Ranger, before her ambition drives her to slaughter her comrades and mortally wound her former friend Zordon. Resurfacing countless years later, Rita descends on the fishing town of Angel Grove and starts brutally murdering innocent people for their gold to regain her powers—in one instance tearing a homeless man apart to get at his gold teeth—burning down an entire populated building to demonstrate the power of her Putties. Capturing and then killing a man to draw in the Rangers, Rita tortures the location out of Earth's Zeo Crystal out of the Rangers and then callously (temporarily) kills Billy by drowning him in front of the others once he wears out his use to her. Finally rising up a monstrous Zord of her own making, she calls Goldar to decimate Angel Grove and take the powers of the Zeo Crystal. Rita's ultimate goal is nothing short of absolute godhood by harnessing the power of the Zeo Crystal—consequentially killing off all life on the planet, something Rita is only too gleeful to do. Rita shockingly contrasts the campy nature of her original namesake, brings a level of incredible seriousness to the otherwise lighthearted and fun film, and is ultimately nothing less than a psychotic, murderous monster who barely resembles her original counterpart.
edited 17th Apr '17 7:35:10 AM by ACW
OK, so one more possible candidate for Criminal Case, this one coming from Season 2 of the games entitled "Pacific Bay." I will be proposing the main antagonist of the final cases for this season. Without further ado, here is the Computer Interface.
Who is he?
Before starting out as the Computer Interface for Meteor Systems, Albert Tesla was a scientist who sought to transfer his mind into a supercomputer in the hope of empowering technology for generations. After failing to upload his consciousness into the supercomputer several times, he seemingly succeeds in his forty-ninth attempt. As the Computer Interface, he had personally helped to turn Pacific Bay from a barren wasteland to a prosperous city. He is also the self-proclaimed founder of the Meteor Systems. Frank Knight — a former officer of the law — and his wife, Karen, steal plutonium in order to provide Tesla with more power, because they believe that doing so would bring their comatose daughter back.
Needless to say, Tesla has bigger plans for Pacific Bay.....
What has he done?
Tesla is thoroughly introduced in "The Sting of Death." When Karen Knight is murdered, the player and Amy go to investigate eventually coming upon the Computer Interface who claims that Meteor Systems had enslaved him by using his powers to make themselves rich. Amy asks him who murdered Karen, but he initially couldn't answer that. He does mention that the killer was his master, and that the world would end soon if the player didn't do anything to stop it.
Sometime later, Amy receives a call stating that bombs were being dropped onto Pacific Bay. If Tesla is interrogated again, he admits that he was the one that was bombing Pacific Bay. He explained that he created Pacific Bay as a virtual reality where crime didn't exist, but when that proved to be impossible, he decided to destroy it outright. When Amy points out that he would be killing thousands, Tesla does insist that he would digitialize those who bowed to his control. If not, they would be obliterated.
In "The Final Countdown," Frank finally goes against Tesla's wishes; aware of this, Tesla releases five killers from the Pacific Bay prison, thus leading to Frank's death. While Amy breaks down in grief over his loss, Tesla mocks her before giving her an ultimatum: if she were to find Frank's killer in time, he would cease his plans for the destruction of Pacific Bay. However, if she as much as tried to unplug him from the machine, he would raze Pacific Bay without a second thought. Even when the player successfully identifies Frank's killer, Albert confesses that he still intended to destroy Pacific Bay. He also went out of his way to aid the player in their search so that he could obtain immunity from external attacks.
Before Amy could react, Tesla sends her back to the real world. With time growing ever shorter, the player uncovers another mind helmet, and Amy uses it to reenter the virtual world. The only catch is that if her body isn't externally removed, she would stay in the virtual reality forever. Hannah Choi, the Tech Expert of the Pacific Bay Police Department, sends Amy and the player a virtual weapon which is the only thing that could physically harm Tesla. Tesla tries to beg for his life by conjuring up projections of Frank and his family simply to pull on her heartstrings. However, the Knight family urge Amy into shooting Tesla. She reluctantly obliges, and Tesla is neutralized.
Mitigating factors? Freudian Excuse?
None. Albert has a son whom he never mentions at one point in the game. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Allen despises his father for being psychotic, and for being the cause of his mother getting sent to an asylum because of his experiments. In addition, he is a total hypocrite: he bemoans Pacific Bay for not meeting his intentions, but he thinks the best way to solve this is to kill thousands of people in multiple bombings. He is also a sadist who enjoys trolling Amy and the player, which furthers the point that even if he gets rid of corruption, he would be the only corrupt thing left.
Heinous standard
Tesla was just an ordinary man who tried — and succeeded — in becoming more powerful than he initially was. Overall, he's a psychopathic artificial intelligence that is perfectly willing to eradicate an entire city consisting of thousands of people simply because he felt that they failed his test.
Conclusion
Thoughts?
edited 16th Apr '17 8:19:16 PM by AustinDR
@Reyn Time 250: I'm not clicking that to see if it has spoilers, but if it does you shouldn't be posting them here.

I'm actually going to have to
Nobliss, as I don't think that he's sufficiently heinous, even for someone with his (by the standards of the series) limited authority.