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Okay, final 90s Marvel baddie, at least for me, at least for awhile. From 2000's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D: Empyre.

BTW, there's a lot of psychic stuff in the novel.

Who is Nadir al-Bazinda and what has he done?

He is the dictator of Quorak, the "Fist of Allah", (and a likely stand-in for Saddam Hussein) but isn't even mentioned until more than halfway through (although he gets enough deeds and personality), so let's start at the beginning.

Nick Fury is training with S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits. Later on, Fury is assigned a mission—this turns out to be a fake, as while on the plane, the pilot and co-pilot try to crash it. Fury survives, along with the other crew and passengers.

Meanwhile, there is a plane crash on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier; aside from the pilot and co-pilot, the other "victims" are Life Model Decoys (basically robots which look like humans).

These were from Hydra, who try to destroy Fury and the Helicarrier because they're planning something.

Later on, there is a plane which crashes in Persopolis, the capital of Middle Eastern country Nira (which, not coincidentally, had been at war with Quorak).

Long story short, Hydra is working with al-Bazinda (Nadir from here on out) to form a new Hydra Middle East.

Imperial Hydra (no Strucker in this novel, so looks like his death was for good) has a meeting with Nadir. They were working together: Quorak's capital, Gullahbad ("City of Ghouls"), would be the capital of Hydra ME, which would give all its resources to Nadir.

Nadir grows impatient, but offers a deal: the Hydra agents unmask, and bow before him, or he beheads them anyway. They do, but he does anyway, with only Imperial Hydra managing to escape. He, Fury, and Starla Spacek (a telepath) are captured, whereupon they are taken before Nadir, who says that his life is almost over, but he plans to take the world with him.

Later on, in a prison, Imperial Hydra says that they had a deal: They rearm Quorak, they be allowed to operate in Gullahbad. However, Nadir betrayed them, and plans to use plains filled with Inferno 42, an A.I.M. discovery that burns for several days, only stopping when deprived of oxygen.

Long story short, Nadir's endgame is to suicide attack numerous (at least 15 or so) cities with said planes, while he himself attacks the Helicarrier. Through psychic suggestion, all but one of the attacks are stopped, while Fury himself shoots down al-Bazinda's plane, putting an end to the madman and his schemes.

Heinous standard and other disqualifiers?

Three things. First off, heinousness? Not an issue. The man plans to kill what would be, likely, millions at the VERY least. Incidentally, when reading his mind, Starla Spacek says "this is an extremely evil man".

Second, when arguing with Imperial Hydra, he has a line about "I have consecrated my life to demolishing Americans, not my fellow Arabs." Thing is? One of the targets is Cairo, Egypt. You know, Egypt, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the most populous country of the Arab League (which, incidentally, began in Cairo). So I think we can rule this as bullshit.

Third, and the most notable thing, this conversation; I took screen shots of the pages (thank you Amazon preview):

Now, al-Bazinda may think he's performing a Mercy Kill, but considering Omar doesn't wanna be killed, I'm not so sure this is mitigating enough,

Conclusion?

I think he counts, but the conversation with his astrologer gave me some pause. Not enough to disqualify him, IMHO, but that's just me.

edited 18th Feb '18 9:40:49 AM by ACW

Daddy, Walt and Nadir. Writeup for Riccardo:

Aureolus Riccardo Belli is the third stalker and Fiona's uncle. An imperfect clone of his ancestor, Riccardo kills his brother, Ugo, and his sister-in-law by causing a car crash, both out of rage and envy for Ugo being a better clone than him. Hated by his father for his disobedience since childhood and his inability to understand emotions, Riccardo works as the castle's keeper and captures any animal he can find to extract their Azoth. Riccardo was responsible for Debilitas, a simple-minded homunculus he had created using a dog's placenta. Not only cruel to animals, Riccardo also beats his father's maid, Daniella, whenever he has the chance. Despite following his father's orders, Riccardo secretely wants to usurp his position by raping and impregnating Fiona, his niece, so she can give birth to a perfect version of him, and succeeds in doing so in Ending D. If Fiona is killed by Riccardo, he takes the opportunity to rape her corpse. A violent individual with an inferiority complex hidden behind an immense ego, Riccardo proved to be worst than even Lorenzo.

edited 18th Feb '18 10:13:19 AM by TheMadCr0w

Nice timing. I'm almost, but not quite, done with this week's batch, so I should be able to include Riccardo. Drafts please.

edited 18th Feb '18 10:16:20 AM by ACW

BTW, I'm still ill but the relationship issues are gone now. No need to worry. I'll probably be back completely tomorrow.

• Robyn Hood:
  • 2012 miniseries: Cal King was once a bored, spoiled and sociopathic teen who was already a monster before leaving earth. A bigot who regularly tormented innocents, Cal boasted about stabbing a gay boy for fun and led the gang-rape of the heroine Robyn, carving out her eye for spite. After nearly being burned to death by Robyn in retribution, Cal returned with dark powers and an even greater drive for evil. Becoming the Sheriff of Nottingham, Cal glories in tormenting all under him and wishes to hunt down Robyn to torture her to death. Cal proceeds to try to murder all of her friends that he can get his hands on, and murders the child son of Prince John to take power for himself. While many others have been corrupted by the Dark One, Cal stands alone as a human who gleefully leaped into evil of his own accord.
  • I Love NY: The Vapor Lord is a vicious vampire who took over a children's hospital, feeding on the young patients for over a decade and killing many of them. Seemingly stopped by Robyn and her ally, the Vapor Lord arises in the body of one of his victims, slaughtering a mortician and attacking the sister of the possessed. Targeting a populated area, the Vapor Lord goes on to gouge himself on the blood of countless more innocents.

• Arhian: Head Huntress, by Arahom Radjah, Yannis Roumboulias, et al.: Grannark, the Dark Lord, is the ruler of Thaldoom, the "City of Horrors". A death-worshipping despot, Grannark dedicates a month of carnage to his god, regularly slaughtering civilians and displaying their corpses at the kingdom's entrance. He has multiple virgins abducted with the intentions of sacrificing them, particularly Gina, a rumored sorceress, with Grannark hoping to steal her powers for himself. When Arhian frees his prisoners from his clutches, an incensed Grannark ruthlessly pursues her to enact vengeance for his humiliation. Along the way, he captures the surviving members of Arhian's pirate crew following a failed mutiny and has them killed once they give him the information he desires, and brutally kills a lowly cabin boy for accidentally spilling a drink on him. Once he finally tracks Arhian to Mazkaran, home of the Amazons, Grannark initiates a bloodbath between his men and the Amazons, all to sate his wounded pride.
• Battle Girlz, by Rod Espinosa: Geneszorr is a galactic terrorist and the sworn enemy of the goddess Sasa Rai and the Battle Girlz. The last of the supertyrants, whom were imprisoned by Sasa Rai centuries ago, Geneszorr orchestrates multiple terrorist attacks on Arlan while amassing an army comprised of mercenaries and other supervillains. Launching an invasion on Arlan's neighboring planet Gallia, Geneszorr and his forces slaughter everything in sight, razing an entire continent to the ground with a doomsday weapon, which results in hundreds of casualties. He callously throws away the lives of his entire army to distract the Battle Girlz, sneering that they were all expendable. Geneszorr's ultimate goal is to open up the gates of the Last Bastion, where the most dangerous threats in the galaxy are imprisoned, and unleash all of them onto the universe.
• Elephantmen:
  • Dr. Kazushi Nikken is a MAPPO Corporation scientist responsible for creating the eponymous Elephantmen, as well as being responsible for the pessimistic, dreary state the world is currently in. Driven by his obsession, Dr. Nikken spent trillions of dollars attempting to make a new species in Africa. After numerous failures, he finally succeeded after kidnapping women and fertilizing their eggs with animal DNA. Longing to make more Elephantmen, Dr. Nikken had hundreds of thousands of women around the area kidnapped and subjected to the painful procedure; the men and children, however, were murdered. After each woman gave birth, they were immediately killed and their bodies were discarded. With hundreds of thousands of Elephantmen at his disposal, Dr. Nikken had the creatures tortured and brainwashed throughout their lives, and raised them to become savage soldiers who were bred to kill. When United Nations discovered what MAPPO had been doing, the Elephantmen were deployed across Africa and Europe, resulting in a war that led to the deaths of millions. Even after Dr. Nikken is caught and arrested, he tries to excuse his actions by reminding the U.N. of all the good MAPPO has done, before immediately reverting back to his smug, god complex behavior.
  • Joshua Serengheti is a ruthless Black Market dealer and Sahara's Arch-Enemy. As a teenager, Serengheti discovered how to sell the drug known as "mirror" in order to make a profit, and soon came under the belief that anything anyone wanted could be sold for money. He soon began selling all forms of illegal items around the world, including humans, weapons, and drugs. After Serengheti's lover gave birth to Sahara, he sold her off to MAPPO, and forced his daughter to watch as everyone in the village was either kidnapped or murdered. For seven years, Serengheti tortured his daughter by having his men rape her and even had her circumcised while she was still a child. Several years after Sahara escapes and falls in love with Obadiah Horn, he sets out to destroy his daughter's reputation. Serengheti attempts to murder Horn while he's in the hospital—along with many medical workers—and later sends Tusk's severed head to them in a box as a warning. Upon finding out Sahara is pregnant and will soon marry Horn, he and his men roam around the city brutally interrogating anyone who has information on Sahara's whereabouts and murdering those who refuse to comply. Once he obtains enough information, Serengheti attacks Sahara and Horn at their wedding, mercilessly cutting down innocent civilians before he kills Panya, Sahara's close friend, and kidnaps Sahara's baby. Even in a society filled with literal "monsters", Serengheti stands out as a depraved man no different from the beasts he despises so much.
• Dream Eater Merry: The anime-exclusive "Mystleteinn"/"Mistleteinn"/"Mistilteinn" Treesea is a vicious dream demon who has a knack of torturing other dream demons for fun before finishing them off and eat them. Prior to the main story, she slaughtered Lestion's companions in the battlefield when they're trying to capture her. After meeting with the equally-sadistic Ryota Ijima, who has the plan to ruin other people's dreams, Treesea then happily executes said plans by trying to implant other Dream Demons on innocent students, including Yumeji's friend Isana, and then slaughters them. As a result, the students become emotionless and apathetic towards their own goals and their future. When she was confronted by Merry and Yumeji when trying to ruin Isana's dream. Treesea imprisons Isana in an orb of water and then taunted Merry by wearing her hat. Treesea then wraps up Isana's dream demon with her chains and then puts him near Isana's heart so that she could make a human skewer after piercing both of them. In the final battle, Treesea pierces another dream demon, Engi, in her hip-area with a large thorn, and then imprisons Merry in a white rosebud called "The Bud of Despair" so that Merry could be destroyed by her own sorrow. After Chizuru and Lestion performs a Heroic Sacrifice, Treesea mocked the emotionless and empty Chizuru about the sacrifice that doesn't bear a fruit. In the last-ditch effort before getting beaten by Engi and Merry, she then swallows Isana's dream demon and taunts both of them that they will also kill Isana's dream when they kill her. Lestion said it the best, that she was formed in a deepest pits of hell and she took every enjoyment in what she did.
• Paprika anime: Seijiro Inui, better known as The Chairman, was introduced as a stern man who disapproves of the Dream Machine project at first. However, it is revealed that he is behind all the bad things that happen. Stealing three Dream Machine prototypes, he used it to Mind Rape some innocent people, causing them to become insane and almost mortally wound themselves; and he also used the machine on Tokita's assistant, Himuro, to frame him for the crimes that he committed, and leaves him nothing but an Empty Shell. When he and his assistant, Osanai, ended up being found out by Atsuko Chiba, in her Paprika persona, for their crimes, they pinned her to the table and, despite Osanai's love for Chiba, the Chairman demands to finish her off and tries to take control of Osanai's own body. After Osanai got murdered, the Chairman then turned himself into a nightmarish form and then threatens to darken the world, and tries to rewrite reality itself to suit his own whims. Despite claiming to be well-intentioned in his goals, the Chairman at the end of the day was a delusional madman with a god complex, and once he ended up achieving his goals, the true monster he really is came out.
• Cupies: Leo is a sadistic dragon who torments the Cupie Kingdom. A greedy creature, Leo attacks the Cupie Kingdom, during which he scares a family into their home, then burns it to the ground. He did this in order to blackmail the king into paying him on a monthly basis under threat of slaughtering the whole kingdom. During one of his monthly visits, when Leo cruelly crushes a guard to death in his hand for the king “getting too pushy”, King Cupie decides to call in Kirby to free them from this threat. When confronted by Kirby, a terrified Leo sets fire to a populated building as a distraction. When defeated, the king asks him why he attacked them, to which Leo reveals he thought it would be easy to push them around.
• Origins of Sectonia: Dark Meta Knight is a vengeful being who is determined to get payback for Kirby killing his master.When Sectonia's husband, Herrick, brings home the Dimensional Mirror that the Knight resides in, he first reveals himself to Herrick by forcing him to drink a vial of poison to drive Sectonia into despair. That's when he possesses her and forces her obsession with vanity. He makes her abuse Taranza and neglect her subjects. While they are starving and struggling to survive, he makes her waste the kingdom's money on beauty products. The whole time, Sectonia is fully aware of what is happening, but is powerless to stop it. Dark Meta Knight only ever cared about himself; his vendetta isn't even about loyalty, but is because his master was his "only source of power in this world."
• Dark Web (2016): The unnamed man known as "The Boss" is the head of a depraved group that captures young women and allows wealthy clients to hunt them for sport. Uploading the videos of the hunts onto the dark web to get more money, the Boss has his hunters follow a specific ritual to ensure a large audience. Capturing Ilona after murdering her father, her brother is kept captive and threatened with death unless she provides the depraved entertainment the Boss demands.
• The Dead Girl: Carl is a Serial Killer who violently kills prostitutes, taking their undergarments and shoes for his fetish. Having claimed at least eight victims, Carl constantly abandons his lonely wife to go on his murder sprees. Picking up young mother Krista, Carl stabs her to death, leaving her body in a farm field after he has had his sick fun.
• The Fate of the Furious: Cipher serves as the Big Bad of the film and the Greater-Scope Villain of the series. A powerful cyber terrorist who desires nothing more than to have the world under her thumb by obtaining nuclear codes, she first meets Dom in Cuba whom she blackmails into being compliant to her schemes and betray his family by holding Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) hostage. With Dom, she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters and steal the God's Eye, where it was also revealed to have caused Owen Shaw's descent into villainy, earning Deckard's hatred in the process. Cipher uses God's Eye to take control of hundreds of remote-controlled cars in New York and have them crash everywhere, causing widespread chaos and panic just to get the nuclear codes from the Russian minister. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by having Elena killed in front of Dom and his child. When Deckard Shaw hijacks her plane, she crashes it before jumping out, fully expecting him to stop Dom's son from falling to his death. A pure sociopath who delights in taking people's freedom, and who commits her crimes simply because she can, Cipher cements herself as the vilest villainess that Dom and his family had ever encountered.
• Frenzy: Bob Rusk, despite his veneer as a kind-hearted, jovial, and upstanding citizen and good friend to Richard Blaney, is in actuality a sexually sadistic psychopath who moonlights as the infamous "Necktie Murderer". Rusk rapes and then strangles his female victims with his tie, proclaiming that "all women are the same" and denouncing them for not fulfilling his perverse urges. Revealing his true colors to Richard's ex-wife Brenda, Rusk forces himself on her before violently strangling her to death. Rusk later lures Richard's lover Barbara to her death, and uses the dead woman's clothes to frame his old friend for the murders. When confronted by Richard and Chief Inspector Oxford, Rusk is in the process of disposing of the corpse of yet another victim. Completely bereft of compassion and remorse, Bob Rusk is only able to mask his true self with superficial charm, and deep down is an utterly callous and twisted individual who kills for his own pleasure.
• Kite: "The Emir", head of a human trafficking organization, kidnaps kids to sell to wealthy clients. Having his thugs abduct the children, he has one young girl's parents murdered in front of her before taking her. After capturing Sawa, the Emir tries to torture information out of her by deep-frying her hand. When she breaks free and prepares to kill him, The Emir argues the cops he has had killed—which she believes includes her father—were "unreasonable" for not accepting his bribes.
• Scary or Die: Keith, from The Crossing, is a friend of Buck, with whom he hunts down and kills anyone they believe to be an illegal immigrant at the Mexican border. The two having amassed countless victims, as indicated by the graves at their hunting ground, Keith is proud of his racist killings. When one victim explains he is a US citizen, Keith and Buck ignore him because of his appearance, Buck happily slitting his throat while Keith guns down another victim who tries to flee in terror.
• Shadow of a Doubt: Charles "Uncle Charlie" Oakley is a seemingly affable and caring man who in actuality is a cold-blooded Serial Killer known as the "Merry Widow Murderer". Denouncing widows as "greedy, fat wheezing animals" who exploit their husbands' hard-earned wealth, Charles has strangled at least four women to death, stealing their fortunes for himself. When his niece discovers evidence of his dark secret, Charles sets about attempting to murder her, sabotaging a staircase to make her fall to her death, locking her in a garage with a running car to asphyxiate her, and ultimately attempting to throw her off a speeding train. A misanthropic maniac who has no remorse for his petty actions, Uncle Charlie stands out as one of the earliest, and most vile, depictions of a sociopath in film.
• Dissidia Final Fantasy series: Shinryu is an entity that uses the void to traverse the multiverse. Shinryu willingly turns Chaos into a force of destruction, knowing full well that this will likely destroy the world he's supposed to be watching over, purely out of spite. Scenario 000 reveals that pretty much everything in the Dissidia series is entirely his fault. To wit, he takes advantage of Cid's grief and rage over his wife's death and tricks him into a Faustian deal under the guise that he would help make Chaos strong enough to defeat the nation of Onrac. Instead, however, Shinryu strips Cid of his body so he can never die and thus forever witness the cycle of death and keeps the War going for untold centuries; all of this is so Shinryu can increase his own power by draining the warriors from both sides of their memories at the end of each cycle. Sometimes he doesn't revive one of the warriors and instead leaves their spirits to rot in the Void for eternity simply because they no longer have any strength for him to steal. When Cid breaks the deal with him to allow the heroes' victory, Shinryu, in revenge for the loss of the warriors' power has him trapped in a nightmare world. Returning in the sequel Dissidia NT, Shinryu ascends to the position of Big Bad, summoning manifestations of himself called planesgorgers that start to systemically destroy all of World B and threaten its existence. Cruel to startling degrees, Shinryu constantly hungers for more and more power for itself with no regard to those who get hurt in the process.
• Ray Beckett, from season 3's "Ho'opio", runs a kidnapping ring where he has kidnapped numerous children whom he would abuse until they reach adulthood, where he proceeds to kill them by burying them alive. Amanda Rollins was only 7 years old when she was kidnapped, and killed ten years later. He would also beat his wife regularly make her keep quiet and be compliant to his schemes. When the Five-0 task force arrests him and demand why he did all this, he responds that he could profit from the welfare checks that were given to the children, and mocks the parents' grievance over the children that he killed.
• Alex Cross series:
  • Kyle Craig, or The Mastermind, is a former FBI special agent and Alex Cross's Arch-Enemy. A violent individual since childhood, Kyle was responsible for multiple killings even before joining the FBI, including that of his own brother. As the Mastermind, Kyle perpetrates a series of bank robberies followed by murders, making sure to dispose of his accomplices, and raping the women he had hired post-mortem. While his partners at the FBI are busy investigating the murderous robbers, Kyle rapes and kills a woman in a home invasion, and then sets his eyes on Alex's girlfriend, comitting the same crime with her and mutilating the body afterwards. Kyle calls Alex to inform him about the horrendous death of his girlfriend, just so he could hear his reaction. Realizing he has been exposed, Kyle attempts to kill Alex's partner and later a woman he had saved from another killer, but is arrested and sent to death row. Assuming the identity of his attorney, Kyle escapes and kills his mother, using her money to travel around the world and murder more people, including the judge who had sentenced him to death. Failing to kill Alex, Kyle returns years later, this time posing as a FBI agent he had killed who had been assigned to work with Alex. Seeking to hurt Alex's loved ones, Kyle attempts to take his family hostage, and commits suicide upon defeat, dying in confusion to why Alex did not kill him. A merciless Serial Killer with an obsession for female bodies and being Alex's shadow, Kyle was one of the worst criminals Alex had to face in his career.
  • Gary Soneji, real name Gary Murphy, is one of Alex Cross's earliest and most personal foes. First appearing in Along Came a Spider, Soneji is a depraved killer who claims to have killed over 200 people, and starts the book by brutally murdering two black families, mutilating the women and even killing an infant. Longing to become the most infamous criminal mastermind in modern history, Soneji duplicates the Lindbergh baby case by abducting two private school children, fully intending on burying them alive while he disappears without a trace. Killing the FBI agent in charge of the case as well as a schoolteacher, Soneji has a breakdown after his plan goes awry, and takes a McDonald's restaurant hostage, killing an innocent man and a cop. Upon his capture, Soneji quickly plans his escape, and once he's free he attempts to murder Alex Cross's family for revenge. Returning once again in Cat and Mouse, Soneji, feeling he has nothing to lose due to contracting AIDS in prison, decides that the whole world deserves to be punished for his misfortunes, and goes on a cross-country killing spree, slaughtering innocent men, women, children, cops, and even his own wife; he leaves his young daughter alive, but tied up in his house's cellar to slowly die of starvation. When confronted by Cross yet again, Soneji takes a bus full of innocent people hostage with a bomb, and abducts a baby to ward off the cops before attempting to beat Cross to death for "ruining his life". A relentless and utterly unstable murderer who longs to top other killers in sheer brutality, Gary Soneji would stop at no limits to feed his pathological need for attention.
• Britannia's Fist trilogy, by Peter G. Tsouras: James R. "Big Jim" Smoke is the chief agent of the Copperhead movement in Indiana, hated and feared throughout the Midwest. A man seething with hatred, Big Jim helped to arm and free thousands of Confederate POW to aid in a brief but bloody Copperhead uprising to take the Midwest into the Confederacy. Following its failure, Big Jim flees and joins Lafayette Baker's Secret Service, becoming Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard, plotting with John Wilkes Booth to have Lincoln kidnapped. Later, during the joint British-Confederate attack on Washington DC, Big Jim coldly attempts to kill Lincoln and his family as they comfort one another. Brutally and sadistically killing several men throughout the series and smiling as he did, Big Jim, shown to be a competent, ruthless and hateful thug, is the one character that is never portrayed sympathetically once in a series full of morally complex characters.
• Wallander:
  • Film Series: Rolf Liljeberg, from "The Secret", at first seems like a really nice guy who is enjoying his retirement after a long career as a police officer. He helps the protagonists find the man who killed a boy named Johannes, the suspect being one of Rolf's friends Magnus. He manages to keep a really good façade, but his true colors are shown when Stefan remembers how he was heavily abused by Rolf as a child, and a flashback scene is shown where Stefan is running away from Rolf and gets his scar. Stefan goes home to Rolf, and constantly points his gun against Rolf and is willing to shoot him. Rolf laughs and wants Stefan to kill him, since he'll never get away with it. He also states that no one else has successfully tried getting away with similar things previously either. A picture can be seen of a young Stefan naked in Rolf's house. All of this is too much for Stefan to handle, so he commits suicide. It is also now revealed that Rolf is behind the murder of Johannes as well. In his last scene, he kills one of his friends for revealing to much information to the police and tries killing her child as well, but fails. Even in a series like Wallander, where all of the main antagonists have murdered at the very least one person, Rolf stands out as one of the few, if not the only, pedophile in the series.
  • Swedish TV Series: Heinrich Böhle, from "The Pyramid", is a criminal mastermind who is seeking to destroy drug dealer Yngve Holm's entire life after a drug deal gone wrong. Introduced during a flashback scene during Wallander's early police career, a gunshot can be heard inside an old man's house while Wallander is having a fun time with one of his best friends outside. Wallander hears this, and sees Böhle, who manages to escape the scene, killing Wallander's friend in the process. 25 years later, Böhle meets Wallander again, but is even more sadistic and evil this time around. After one of Yngve Holm's drug dealers accidentally causes an overdose, Böhle, scared that he might get caught by the police, targets Holm's family and friends. He starts out by kidnapping Yngve's sister, and taping her around a chair, he puts a heart rate monitor on her, so that if she tries escaping her heart rate will go up, and a bomb will explode, blowing up the entire house. Her sister comes and tries saving her, but the house blows up, killing them both. Böhle then meets with Yngve's right-hand Frank, and kills him as well. To complete his killing spree, he kidnaps Yngve's daughter who he puts a bomb on. He puts a heart rate monitor on himself this time so that if his heart rate goes below 50 or over 90, the bomb will explode. Despite murder being a very common aspect in the Wallander series, Böhle stands out as a psychopath who only wanted to destroy and kill for his own benefit.
• King Aerys II Targaryen, better known as "The Mad King", was Joffrey's predecessor, the last king of the Targaryen dynasty, and one of the most hated tyrants the Seven Kingdoms had ever known. Although he began as a promising ruler, Aerys slowly descended into insanity, at one point having a man's tongue torn out for joking that Aerys's Hand and best friend, Tywin Lannister, was the true ruler of Westeros. Following his release from Duskendale, Aerys orders every Darklyn and Hollard, excluding Dontos, to be executed. After his son, Prince Rhaegar, absconded with Lyanna Stark, Aerys imprisoned Lyanna's brother Brandon for demanding her release. When Lord Rickard Stark demanded a Trial by Combat to settle the matter, Aerys named fire as his personal champion, having Rickard slowly roasted to death over an open flame. He also forced Brandon to watch Rickard's execution, strapping him to a torture device that strangled Brandon to death as he struggled to save his father. Aerys also ordered Jon Arryn to surrender Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon for execution, with Jon's refusal sparking Robert's Rebellion. Over the course of the war, Aerys had several of his failed Hands either exiled or burned to death, eventually replacing his competent advisors with deranged alchemists who shared his passion for fire. Aroused by the sight of men burning alive, Aerys savagely raped his wife on a number of occasions. When Tywin betrayed Aerys at the end of the war, Aerys ordered his pyromancers to use Wildfire to burn King's Landing to the ground, intending to kill hundreds of thousands rather than admit defeat. ^note :There is no indication all the wildfire has been found. He also ordered his Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister, to murder Tywin, his own father. This led to Jaime betraying and murdering Aerys to save the city and his father's life.
• Ser Gregor Clegane, alias "The Mountain that Rides", is a colossal sadist in service to House Lannister and one of the most feared men in Westeros. Rumored to have murdered his sister, father, and two wives, Clegane's confirmed crimes are even more heinous. At twelve, he burned off half of his younger brother Sandor's face when the latter played with one of Gregor's discarded toys. At seventeen, he dashed Prince Aegon's head against a wall, then raped and murdered his mother, Princess Elia, with the baby's brains still on his hands. Introduced at a tournament in A Game of Thrones, Gregor murders one of his opponents, then tries to kill another and his own brother after being unseated in a joust. After tourney, he and his men rape a 13-year-old innkeeper's daughter. Unleashed on the Riverlands, Clegane and his men rape and murder anyone who falls into their hands. At one point in A Clash of Kings, for ten days, Gregor picks one person each day from a group of villagers for "The Tickler" to question until they die from his torture. After one villager volunteers to save her daughter, Clegane has the daughter tortured the next day to make sure the mother didn't leave anything out. In A Storm of Swords, Clegane cuts strips of flesh from Vargo Hoat and feeds them to him, torturing Hoat for days before letting him die. He also smashes a girl's face in for speaking when he wanted silence, then turns her over to his men to be gang-raped for days. In the same book, during a duel with Oberyn Martell, Princess Elia's brother, who asserts that "you raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children", Clegane's only concern is that Oberyn got the order of events wrong, correcting him before brutally crushing Oberyn's skull:
  "Her name was Elia of Dorne. First, I killed her screaming whelp. Then I raped her. Then I smashed her fucking head in. Like this."
• Rorge is a Serial Rapist and Serial Killer—especially of children—and the worst of the Brave Companions, his cruelty even exceeding their leader, Vargo Hoat. Freed along with his companion Biter, Rorge signs on with the "Bloody Mummers" after Arya Stark saves him from certain death. He offers to repay her by anally raping her with her own wooden sword, only stopping when she threatens him with Jaqen H'ghar. After the Brave Companions capture Jaime and Brienne, he attempts to rape Brienne, threatening to inflict Facial Horror if she screams. After Hoat's death, Rorge leads a band of brigands into Raid on Saltpans, during which women were raped and mutilated, children were butchered in the arms of their mothers, and almost the whole town was massacred. He personally kills twenty men and rapes a twelve-year-old girl, tearing her body with his armor, then giving the girl to his men who mutilate her further. Upon encountering Brienne again, Rorge expresses a desire to "cut off her legs and set her on her stumps so she can watch me fuck the crossbow girl." The girl in question is under ten years old. Additional material indicates that he is also the reason why Biter is the way he is-—finding an orphan boy, Rorge removed his tongue, filed his teeth, and made him fight dogs with only his new fangs. A consummate He-Man Woman Hater and Child Hater, and a pedophilic serial predator in a world full of warriors, Rorge earns the enmity and disgust of everyone he meets.
• The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens: "Hard" Hugh Hammer and Ser Ulf the White, known as "The Betrayers", are "Dragonseeds," descendants of Targaryen bastards, who successfully tame dragons and are recruited into the forces of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. During the battle of Tumbleton, however, they reveal their true colors: defecting to Aegon II's side, the two attack Tumbleton with their dragons, scorching the town from end to end with their flames and killing all those caught up in the conflagration, with thousands of refugees burning or drowning in the river Mander. The soldier who surrender are promptly beheaded and the two brutally sack the town, with people killed and women raped, including girls as young as eight and ten years old. Following the sack, they set themselves as tyrants over Tumbleton. Women who fail to please Ulf are given to his dragon. Ulf demands the rulership of Highgarden for his service while Hugh demands his own crown. When one knight is so incensed he knocks Hugh's self-made crown off, Hugh has three horseshoes nailed to his head. The two are so vile that a secret conspiracy between the two sides is formed for the sole purpose of eliminating them during the war. Even in the brutal Dance of the Dragons, these two exemplify why bastards are often seen as villains in Westeros.
• Lord Ginis, an alien with an Inferiority Superiority Complex, despises being made of Moebas, beings he looks down upon. Creating the Deathgaliens, Ginis uses them to serve as his warriors in the "Blood Games"—wherein he challenges and destroys other worlds—currently having done so to 99 planets and now targeting Earth. Creating an ever-collapsing barrier around planet Earth, Ginis plans to allow it to destroy the world unless the heroes managed to deactivate it. Although his barrier is stopped, Ginis sets up a destructive robot to continue his genocidal plans. Cunning and manipulative, Ginis tricks the friendless Misao Mondo(u) into becoming his servant and hires a sadistic alien hunter to make his "game" of planetary destruction more interesting for himself. When one of his men betrays Ginis after finding he was responsible for the destruction of his home planet, Ginis defeats and spares him, before watching with amusement as the broken man insanely destroys everything in his path. After all but one of his followers are killed, Ginis decides to end the Blood Game by injecting his cells into the core of the Earth, wiping it out entirely. Incapable of loyalty or gratitude, when the Zyuohgers discover Ginis's body to be made of Moebas and reveal it to his last remaining follower and she declares her loyalty to him in spite of this, Ginis, cruel to the end, kills her off for daring to pity him.
• 2Dark: Dr. Sergei Krach is a former professor of criminal behavior and the one behind all the chaos in Gloomywood. After mutilating and killing three of his students, Krach follows the lead detective on the case, Mr. Smith, during a camping trip, decapitating his wife and kidnapping his two children, Sandra and Martin. Now wheelchair-bound, Krach heads an orphanage where he abuses the children he kidnapped for years until they develop sociopathic tendencies. Years later, Krach releases six of his disciples in Gloomywood to wreak havoc and kidnap even more children, keeping Sandra and Martin with him to serve as his Co-Dragons. With the return of Mr. Smith, Krach has his cat nailed to a wall and kidnaps the daughter of his only friend. In the orphanage, Krach forces his subordinates to see him as their god and keeps the children locked behind bars so he can make a new set of killers to cause even more death in the future. If Mr. Smith kills Sandra and Martin, Krach wastes no time in rubbing it in his face before being defeated. A self-proclaimed evil genius who sees others as "weak creatures in chains", Krach was the absolute worst criminal Mr. Smith had to face.
• The Cat Lady: While all Parasites are undoubtedly evil, the first and final Parasites stand out even more:
  • Dr. Xavier Zelmann, or simply Doctor X, is Susan's psychiatrist. A seemingly good-hearted man who cares for his patients, Xavier is in fact a Soft-Spoken Sadist who uses his job as a way to finding women for him to take down to his basement and kill; one of his victims being his own co-worker Liz, who he impaled on a wall with a metal rod through her neck. After killing his victims, he uses their bodies to recreate Renaissance art pieces and puts them on display as if his basement was a gallery. When Susan finds Xavier after he stabbed her multiple times, he is torturing a woman tied to a chair, and dancing blindfolded so he can better hear her screams, which he associates to a song and poetry. Despite only being the first Parasite, he managed to be one of the worst.
  • Adam, also known by his online pseudonym The Eye of Adam, is the fifth Parasite and the one whose presence is felt throughout almost the entire game. A spiteful, wheelchair-bound young man with grandiose delusions, Adam surfs around internet forums so he can find depressed people and give them ways to commit suicide. Prior to the events of the game, Adam got in contact with Mitzi's boyfriend, Jack, who suffered from depression after discovering his girlfriend's brain cancer, and convinced him into locking himself inside his car and inhale hydrogen sulfide. Having implanted a device which would release poisonous gas in his apartment, he activates it in an attempt to stop Susan and Mitzi, killing his own father in the process, despite everything the latter had done for him. Inside his flammable, gas-filled room, Adam tries to coerce Mitzi into shooting him, knowing this would end with the room exploding. Adam was not only Susan's polar opposite, but he also served as an example of the evils a simple troll can do if given the chance.
• Condemned: Criminal Origins Leland Vanhorn, better known as Serial Killer X, is a deranged madman who targets serial killers and kills them with their own methods—as well as any innocents who may be in the way. Before the events of Criminal Origins, he murdered an FBI agent searching for the Polaroid Killer, and by the beginning of the game, he has killed at least seven other serial killers. He spends the duration of the first game stalking another agent while searching for the Match Maker, shooting two cops and framing the agent for their deaths, before killing the Match Maker himself, along with another violent killer known as the Torturer. Once he has the agent captive, he cuts off his finger and is prepared to finish him off.
• Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future: The two unnamed Exalted Ones lack the redeeming qualities of the leader, Mutaclone, and are merely vile supremacists. Using their power over their oppressive group, the Clan, the Exalted Ones order numerous atrocities, such as using whales as living generators; cutting off the food supply of a village they cast out before sending sharks to attack them; and torturing a member of the dolphin resistance. Unrelentingly cruel, the Exalted Ones show nothing but pride in their action, one even saying they believe compassion to be a weakness.
• Haunting Ground: Aureolus Riccardo Belli is the third stalker and Fiona's uncle. An imperfect clone of his ancestor, Riccardo kills his brother, Ugo, and his sister-in-law by causing a car crash, both out of rage and envy for Ugo being a better clone than him. Hated by his father for his disobedience since childhood and his inability to understand emotions, Riccardo works as the castle's keeper and captures any animal he can find to extract their Azoth. Riccardo was responsible for Debilitas, a simple-minded homunculus he had created using a dog's placenta. Not only cruel to animals, Riccardo also beats his father's maid, Daniella, whenever he has the chance. Despite following his father's orders, Riccardo secretly wants to usurp his position by raping and impregnating Fiona, his niece, so she can give birth to a perfect version of him, and succeeds in doing so in Ending D. If Fiona is killed by Riccardo, he takes the opportunity to rape her corpse. A violent individual with an inferiority complex hidden behind an immense ego, Riccardo proved to be worst than even Lorenzo.
• Shadow Man: Legion is an ancient entity who rules the Deadside with an iron fist. Originally banished from the Deadside by superior forces, Legion poses as voodoo gods and makes up a false prophecy surrounding the end of the world, so he could manipulate those in the Liveside. Wanting to spread his influence to the other side of the veil, Legion assumes the form of an elegant middle-aged man, and visits Jack the Ripper, recruiting him and four other serial killers, giving them a chance to keep committing murders if they help him invade the Liveside. In the Deadside, Legion builds a vast "Cathedral of Pain", where he experiments on the already-suffering Deadsiders, mutilating them to create a massive army of grotesque monsters. Legion toys with Michael Le Roi by taking the form of his deceased little brother, Luke, and reveals himself by telling a joke about murder, mocking him for not letting his brother rest in peace. A sadistic demon hiding behind a façade of aristocracy, Legion proved to be one of the Shadow Man's most personal enemies.
• The Condor: Corrupt company partner Nigel Harrington and his mercenary, Taipan, are a despicable, greedy duo who kidnap the homeless and use Nigel's company chips to mentally enslave them. Giving them enhanced abilities, Nigel and Taipan have them commit crimes to test the chip, not caring that the chips burn their hearts out and kill them. Wishing for stronger test subjects, Nigel has Taipan kidnap skateboard enthusiasts, repeating the enslavement process on them. Upon his scheme being discovered by his business partners, Nigel has his mind-controlled pawns kill them to cover his secret. Luring his partners' son, Tony Valdez, to the scene of the crime, Nigel has him beaten and crippled; Taipan going on to manipulate Tony's cousin into setting Tony's house on fire. Attempting to sell their technology to terrorists, they do not care how it is used, as long as they profit. Having no loyalty to one another, Taipan kills Nigel to keep all the money herself.
• The Founder, the Big Bad of Jason Aaron's 2010-2011 run, is the son of a robber baron and proud of his wicked father's abuse of his workers. After his father was killed by Wolverine, the Founder seeks vengeance, forming a cult, the Red Right Hand, with Wolverine's other enemies, to hunt him down. Selling his soul to a demon lord to damn Wolverine to hell, the Founder then has anyone who was ever kind to Wolverine hunted down and killed. After Wolverine escapes from hell, kills The Founder's minions, the Mongrels, and hunts the Red Right Hand down, he finds the cult has committed suicide. Leaving a tape recording, the Founder reveals the Mongrels were really Wolverine's lost children, as a final mockery.

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de Walt and Nadir

Nadir

For Ginis could you pothole moebas as mooks so people know what they are.

de Walt and Nadir.

de Walt and Nadir

Denis and Nadir.

The second Valiant keeper, and a bit of an unusual one. The comic Britannia...set during the reign of Emperor Nero, written by Peter Milligan. The hero is Antonius Axia, a Plebeian by birth who is most skilled at ferreting out information and investigating odd happenings, earning him the name 'Detectioner.' However, Axia has a bit of a Dark and Troubled Past...rescuing a kidnapped Vestal Virgin left him incapacitated for a while, to the point he had to leave his newborn son, whose mother had died in childbirth, with a kind couple as he recovered. He cannot even remember what happened then.

In the far-off province of Britannia? Devilry is afoot. Murders, druids, creepiness, the works. Nero, at odds now with the Vestal Virgins' leader Rubria, dispatches a reluctant Axia to the backwater to get to the bottom of it. Rubria counsels him ahead of time, before Axia arrives, only to be the target of an ancient, demonic being....enter Orkus.

Who is Orkus?

Orkus, Lord of the Cave, is an ancient being, worshiped as a God by some and feared as a devil by others. A cruel, capricious being who loves to devour others, especially virgins. Orkus built a cult among the Etruscans where he commanded slaughter and cruelty in his name for fun. Those years ago? Axia rescued the Vestal Virgin from being devoured by Orkus, who had borne a grudge against Axia ever since.

in Britannia, Orkus decides to sow chaos. Tormenting Roman soldiers, Orkus begins driving them mad with visions, manipulating them into killing their own as it feasts on the fallen. Upon Axia's arrival with his right-hand man, the slave Bran, Orkus uses visions of his dead wife to tempt him. We see the remains of Orkus's last playgorund...a hideous battlefield with corpses strewn everywhere.

Orkus uses his magic to influence an old druid named Eryn, as well as his young slave/lover, Bodmall, with the ancient 'Wyrd', Druid magic. He uses Eryn to sow more discord as he himself possesses and influences the head of the Roman garrison to murder, hunt down and slaughter Britons and Roman soldiers alike....appearing to Axia again, Orkus tries to tempt him to suicide, with a promise to 'take care' of his soul, only for Bodmall to drive him off with her magic.

Realizing Axia is a threat, Orkus has Eryn send Bodmall to kill him. This fails and Bodmall resists the charm used on her. Axia confronts the head of the Roman garrison and a duel ensues. Axia wins and Orkus reveals his possession of the man, reminding Axia that he took a sacrifice from him and thus he wants revenge...it is then seen Orkus has caused the slaughter of an entire village in a fit of pique and revenge against Eryn for the old druid's failure.

Orkus then appears again to Axia, vowing that he will turn Rome in on itself, "rome will fall, and I shall rule the chaos." ...and that whenever he takes a sacrifice, he keeps their souls in torment to feed on. Orkus moves to consume Axia, who remembers the prayer Rubria taught him, inciting Vesta's protection. Using his god-blessed sword, Axia impales Orkus's head, annihilating the devil and managing to return to Rome victorious, to Nero and Rubria's surprise (it'd been reported to Nero he was dead and Rubria expected it to be a suicide mission to take out Orkus...Axia holds no grudge, as he knows his life would've been worth it).

Heinous standard?

Blows past it. Britannia isn't connected much to the other stories, but Orkus is nasty even so. Human sacrifice, soul torment, lots of death and destruction. I'd give him an easy pass here.

Mitigating Qualities?

For an Eldritch Abomination, nothing ever suggests Orkus's nature makes him evil. He speaks fully rationally and does everything of his own volition. He's an ancient devil who savors fear and bloodshed, and makes a choice to sow discord and destruction as well as target Axia out of revenge. Zero care for his followers, either and he happily kills them by the truckload. Pass.

Conclusion?

I'd say easy keeper.

orkus

Alright, I've added that mooks pothole and added Riccardo to the batch.

Orkus.

Orkus

So I was wondering did anyone count in The Xfiles season 10. Season 11 is starting so I was curious and saw there was no discussion on it.

One weaker keep from the new Valiant verse... another from The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage. Lord Ivros.

Who is Ivros? What has he done?

Ivros is a demon lord of tyranny and devastation, a sadistic entity who's been trapped on the Deadside for what seems to have been quite a long time. A monster who abuses his followers, his lackey Drit most prominently, Ivros has been hungering to lead an invasion into the world of the living, dealing with the corrupt occulist billionaire Linton March and his cultists. Unfortunately, the previous attempt to summon him into the world simply resulted in a much more benevolent being being summoned into March's clutches. Spending his meantime devouring the essence of spirits across the Deadlands while trying to break through the barrier that keeps him out, Drit manages to find a wandering Dr. Mirage... eager to use her power, Ivros pursues her across the Deadside with the intention on tortuously consuming her powers and soul to empower himself, with the "last screaming shreads" hoisted up as their banner as they invade the world of the living. Dr. Mirage, after a long pursuit, manages to trick Ivros into being locked in a cage (long story short, a game played by the demonic residents of the Deadside? Lock one demon up and torment them until another frees them and takes their place to be tormented on the condition that the replacement owes the freed a favor down the road... something Ivros wants to exploit).

Ivros frees himself from his prison by tossing in Drit into the cage to suffer torments in his place — under the threat of personally torturing him in even worse ways — before gleefully revealing March and his cultists are at it again. They have Mirage's corporeal body and intend to sacrifice that to Ivros... whereupon Ivros will devour her essence and invade the world to dominate it. Not just dominate it either, mind you, but to tear apart and devour its residents in a reign of blood for all eternity, with all humanity serving as an eternal feast for Ivros and his demonic minions. With the help of Mirage's deceased husband Hwen. With that favor Mirage owes him by the law of the land, Ivros gleefully tries to force Mirage into carrying the banner into a tide of slaughter unto her own world, before Hwen attacks him from behind and a battle ensues. Trying to bathe in Hwen's agony personally, Mirage manages to stop March from committing the sacrifice in her own world and frees the other being they have trapped, breaking the barrier... but giving Ivros enough of a distraction for Hwen to kill Ivros and race away as the sudden surge of energy destroys the cult and drives off the demons.

Any mitigating factors?

Not a whit for Ivros with full agency and no excuses or redeeming moments. For the heinous standard... what Ivros admittedly lacks in the sheer vile personal villainy of Walt? He easily makes up for in scale, with his master plan to devour on the flesh of the living for all eternity a fair bit more brutal and visceral than just the usual "destroy the world and reign over the ashes" deal with these characters and giving him I think an easy edge into qualification.

Conclusion?

I'd say keeper.

Thoughts?

Ivros

Lord Ivros. Nice to see that neither Valiant run had a Karma Houdini CM (I don't think).

Closest I can remember is Doctor Eclipse who I... don't actually think was ever ceremoniously defeated after the Chaos Effect.

Orkus and Ivros.

Question about Valiant examples; Is it really possible for a work to have that many C Ms? Because I suspect that some might fail the heinous standard with so many C Ms.

Orkus and Ivros.