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During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.

Specific issues include:

  • Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
  • A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
  • Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
  • Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
  • Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.

It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.

Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:

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Complete Monster Cleanup Thread

Please see the Frequently Asked Questions and Common Requests List before suggesting any new entries for this trope.

IMPORTANT: To avoid a holler to the mods, please see here for the earliest date a work can be discussed, (usually two weeks from the US release), as well as who's reserved discussion.

When voting, you must specify the candidate(s). No blanket votes (i.e. "[tup] to everyone I missed").

No plagiarism: It's fair to source things, but an effortpost must be your own work and not lifted wholesale from another source.

We don't care what other sites think about a character being a Complete Monster. We judge this trope by our own criteria. Repeatedly attempting to bring up other sites will earn a suspension.

What is the Work

Here you briefly describe the work in question and explain any important setting details. Don't assume that everyone is familiar with the work in question.

Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?

This will be the main portion of the Effort Post. Here you list all of the crimes committed by the candidate. For candidates with longer rap sheets, keep the list to their most important and heinous crimes, we don't need to hear about every time they decide to do something minor or petty.

Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?

Here you discuss any potential redeeming or sympathetic features the character has, the character's Freudian Excuse if they have one, as well as any other potential mitigating factors like Offscreen Villainy or questions of moral agency. Try to present these as objectively as possible by presenting any evidence that may support or refute the mitigating factors.

Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?

Here you compare the actions of the Candidate to other character actions in the story in order to determine if they stand out or not. Remember that all characters, not just other villains, contribute to the Heinousness Standard

Final Verdict?

Simply state whether or not you think the character counts or not.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#110176: Feb 25th 2018 at 8:26:24 AM

Tyk's opinion means a lot to me...so if he says it's not pointless schlock, even as short as it is, I think it might just make it, so yes and yes to the Wallander duo.

miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#110177: Feb 25th 2018 at 8:29:13 AM

Abstain on vampire dude but easy, easy [tup] to Wallander duo

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
TommyFresh Since: Aug, 2013
#110178: Feb 25th 2018 at 8:35:03 AM

[tup] Wallander duo. Also gonna abstain on the Vampire. The story isn't bad but it feels undercooked and I can't quite bring myself to upvote him due to how short the story is.

ElfenLiedFan90 Me in a nutshell (Coping with Depression) from Jakarta,Indonesia Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Me in a nutshell (Coping with Depression)
#110179: Feb 25th 2018 at 8:36:35 AM

Yea on the Wallander Examples.....And abstain on Vampire duo. It's competently made but yeah, I agree with Tommy Fresh that the story felts rather half-baked

"Making screw-ups and mistakes was I ever really good at. Because everything I touch went to hell."
DemonDuckofDoom from Some Pond in Hell Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#110180: Feb 25th 2018 at 10:21:22 AM

[tup] Alfred and Kristina

[tdown] Vampire due to being a pretty standard horror villain.

Beast from Ontario, Canada Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Browsing the selection
#110181: Feb 25th 2018 at 11:15:49 AM

[tup] to Alfred and [tup] to Kristina.

Unsure on the vampire, especially from what I have seen and written about vampire characters as far as CM's go. This one feels pretty generic.

edited 25th Feb '18 11:17:48 AM by Beast

"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."
Overlord Since: Mar, 2013
#110182: Feb 25th 2018 at 11:28:51 AM

[tup] To Alfred and Kristina.

Abstain on the Vampire.

@ G-Editor, I think I will forgo doing an effort post on General Kol, I feel like he is close, but no cigar, I think he could have made it if they added a little bit extra. Of all the Klingon villains I have proposed (from other media material which seems of dubious cannon with the main series like Melkor, Admiral Vlict and Sho'Tokh), they all seem to go that extra mile, being far more proactive mass murderers.

Another knock on Kol is when Discovery returns from the Mirror Universe 9 months later, the Klingon leadership has broken down and now individual Klingon Houses are fighting for power and want to gain glory for themselves by attacking the Federation and don't seem to care about civilian causalities, which means the Klingons were quite capable of brutality without Kol's influence.

I think given his power level Kol is not heinous enough for the Star Trek bar.

@ nrjxll, yeah I would agree with you on Kol.

But since you saw Discovery as well it seems, let me ask you something, do you think it would be possible to get a candidate from the Mirror Universe? There are a lot of comics and novels that deal with the mirror universe, but the Mirror Universe is so screwed up I think it should have its own heinous standard.

The Terran Empire is one of the most evil empires in the Star Trek universe (only the Dominion could match it terms of causal brutality, though the Cardassian Union has its moments).

The Terran Empire seems to discourage morality and encourage cruelty and ruthlessness. the Terrans have moral agency, but they live in a screwed up society where genocide against other civilizations is accepted, torture is a common form of punishment and people assassinate each other to get ahead. Tilly was a mild mannered cadet in the regular universe, but in the Mirror Universe her profile suggests she is a mass murdering psychopath.

I wonder if there is point to look at Mirror Universe materials, if that universe is that screwed up, in terms of looking for contenders.

Silverblade2 Since: Jan, 2013
#110183: Feb 25th 2018 at 12:28:51 PM

Yes to No. 9, Simon Varner, Alfred and Kristina

No to Eckles and the Vampire

As for the Trickster, I give a yes thought a villain having their redeeming qualities negated in absentia is kinda weird. Are there similar situations?

edited 25th Feb '18 1:37:39 PM by Silverblade2

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#110184: Feb 25th 2018 at 12:46:56 PM

First time I can recall; it's definitely unusual. Two other cases (Ego; Torquemada) actively discarded theirs (Ego brutally; Torquemada by, IIRC, sending his supposedly-beloved wife to an insane asylum so she wouldn't get in his way).

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Goku Black
#110185: Feb 25th 2018 at 12:50:48 PM

[up]acw: If Father formed indepently of anyone else then he'd be a Robotic Psychopath rather than A.I. Is a Crapshoot.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#110186: Feb 25th 2018 at 12:55:19 PM

Hmm, I think you're right. Lighty, what say you? You have some cases like Ultron that seem to be both.

Silverblade2 Since: Jan, 2013
#110187: Feb 25th 2018 at 1:19:22 PM

Ah I see Fifty Shades Freed on the discussion list. Can we all agree that this... thing doesn't have any candidate?

Scraggle Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#110188: Feb 25th 2018 at 1:37:37 PM

Yes to the Wallander ones, but I'm saying nay to the Vampire. Characterization is important here and I'm not seeing the vampire pass it.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#110189: Feb 25th 2018 at 1:42:28 PM

[up][up] Yeah. "Abusive asshole douchebag" doesn't necessarily mean CM.

43110 (Striking Back) Relationship Status: Reincarnated romance
#110190: Feb 25th 2018 at 2:00:04 PM

Agreed. Let's leave it at that and strike it from the discussion dates listing.

[down] Uh... dude, the relevance is...?

edited 25th Feb '18 2:12:34 PM by 43110

hegelvonaxel Since: Feb, 2018
#110191: Feb 25th 2018 at 2:06:31 PM

[tup] Wallander duo. I must say that i can't understand how is Frollo complex in anyway. I would rather say that Joffrey is complex.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
hegelvonaxel Since: Feb, 2018
#110193: Feb 25th 2018 at 2:18:07 PM

@43. There is no relevance, i just said my opinion.

PolarPhantom Since: Jun, 2012
#110194: Feb 25th 2018 at 2:26:03 PM

[tup] Wallander duo.

We don't talk smack about Frollo in my house, buddy.

You know, with Mark Hamill's The Trickster getting approved, I think we need to rename the trope:

The Mark Hamill Type Villain.

Got a nice ring to it, I think.

JoeBlitz Since: Dec, 2016
#110195: Feb 25th 2018 at 2:48:13 PM

[tup] Wallander duo, [tdown] the Vampire.

"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#110196: Feb 25th 2018 at 2:54:26 PM

  • Emperor Nero, along with his witch queen Locusta, murder Nero's mother to take over the Roman Empire. Regularly torturing citizens to death, the duo delight at the delivery of a fresh batch of slaves, as they can extend their sick activities to new children. Setting the capital on fire, Nero happily played the lyre while watching his people burn and pinned the blame on the Christian sect, leading to their persecution. Tricking the undead warrior Aquila into killing the region's gods by falsely promising to return his soul, Nero and Locusta plan to turn Nero into a God-Emperor to take their rampage worldwide and violently quell attempts to rebel against them with such brutality that the streets are flooded with blood.
  • Domu: A Child's Dream: Old Cho, real name Chojiro Uchida, is an elderly man with psychic powers and the mind of a sadistic child. Routinely driving the residents of his apartment complex to suicide—with over 30 victims in under 3 years—to steal their belongings and keep them in a room, Old Cho reacts to investigators brought in to investigate the mysterious deaths by mentally torturing one of the lead investigators and forcing him to jump to his death. Maintaining a childish glee when committing his atrocities while simultaneously demonstrating that he knows full well what he's doing is utterly wrong, Cho views people as nothing more than toys for his own amusement.
  • Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry: Zash Caine was once a wizard of Fiore who fled to Stella after a failed coup. He went into the service of King Animus and then proceeded to kill his own allies to prove himself. In the present day, Zash uses mind control to force the White Tiger squadron to kill each other in order to steal the Dragon Cry. Zash shows no hesitation in trying to kill the Fairy Tail wizards, and is even willing to mind control others to do so. It is revealed that Zash keeps female prisoners to draw blood from to power his own magic, and takes Lucy captive in an attempt to draw blood from her. Towards the end, Zash betrays Animus and takes the Dragon Cry for himself. He proceeds to force Animus to go on a rampage and unseals the Quartum Army to eliminate the Fairy Tail wizards. He then activates the Dragon Cry in an attempt to destroy all of Fiore out of revenge for his exile, only failing when the power proves too much and incinerates him.
  • Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5: Krytus, from season 2, was known as the most malicious being in the multiverse. Ambitious and power-hungry, he restarted an eons old war between the Red and Blue Sentients to conquer the multiverse. When his own twin sister, Sage, froze the Red Sentients in stasis, he retaliated by carrying out a genocide on the Blues. It was also revealed that he had several thousand Blue Sentients tortured to death, and the one who managed to enter hibernation to escape him was punished by having his body sabotaged, dooming him when he woke up. After being freed from his prison, he then throws the one who released him off a cliff. He then spends most of the series trying to kill Sage. After being forced into an Enemy Mine with Vert to escape the Shadow Zone, he sets up an ambush for Vert the moment they're out of it. Not even the other villains are safe from his wrath, as he starts an Enemy Civil War among the Vandals through Grimian. In the season finale, when he and Sage finally have a confrontation, he asks Sage if it was worth it to imprison the Red Sentients, in which she replies that if she hadn't, Krytus would've endangered not only the Blue Sentients, but the multiverse. Krytus actually agrees with her as he plans on using them as an army to conquer the Multiverse itself and cares nothing for them.
  • Empress: King Morax is the psychopathic ruler of much of the galaxy. Prone to killing his subjects for the most petty offenses, Morax's cruelty drives his wife, Emporia, to flee from him, taking her children with her. Incensed at his wife's "disobedience", Morax commands a manhunt to hunt her down at any cost. He kills his commanders for failing to apprehend Emporia and their children and orders an entire city torched as a warning to those who might harbor them. Personally leading the manhunt, Morax slaughters anyone who had previously encountered the runaways as punishment for letting them get away. When he finally tracks down Emporia, he orders both her and their children sentenced to death in the arena, with his reasoning being that he cannot tolerate his children's presence due to them being a constant reminder of his wife's insubordination.
  • Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Jack the Ripper—in reality Commissioner James Gordon—is a psychotic Knight Templar and Serial Killer who believes in ridding Gotham of the "filth" of the streets, especially women. Kicking off a murder spree where he hunts down and slaughters numerous innocent women on the streets, the Ripper later tracks down and kills the kindhearted nun Sister Leslie. When he learns Dr. Hugo Strange has discovered his identity, the Ripper ambushes Strange and throws him to his own asylum's patients, who tear Strange apart. The Ripper then murders an old woman to frame Bruce Wayne for his crimes, and when Selina Kyle tries to prove his innocence, the Ripper targets her as well. The Ripper even regularly tortures his wife by burning the latter to "burn the sin away", until the latter has been utterly Driven to Madness. Utterly consumed by misogynistic fervor and a fanatic devotion to bloodshed, the Ripper showcases the true evil on Gotham's streets hiding within a human being.
  • Jessica Jones (2015) Fan Film Killgrave: The Purple Man: The titular "Purple Man," real name Zebediah Killgrave, is a lunatic with mind-controlling and a love for tormenting others. Having been terrorizing New York City through such means as forcing people to kill themselves and their loved ones, Killgrave is introduced ordering a young woman to jump to her death from a skyscraper. Later, Killgrave corners the two detectives tracking him, and, after having one shoot himself in the head, reveals he has already forced the other to murder his wife and child and enjoy the act, and ultimately orders the man to go kill himself after taunting Killgrave's Arch-Enemy Jessica Jones. Killgrave makes the most of his limited screen time to be a truly deplorable madman committing his crimes solely for his own amusement.
  • Colossal: Oscar is a childhood friend of Gloria's, presenting himself as a warm and welcoming guy, giving her gifts, a job at his bar and bringing her into his circle of friends, but when Gloria shows she has a giant monster avatar, he shows his more sinister colors, as well as a giant avatar of his own; in truth he is a spiteful, entitled and controlling stalker, who starts out with a foreshadowing by threatening to beat up his friend Joel, mocking the remorseful Gloria for the destruction she accidentally caused, and ending one of his friendships over a drunken argument. With his avatar making him feel special in his otherwise bitter existence, he uses this power to try to establish control, mostly over Gloria. To intimidate Gloria and her ex-boyfriend Tim, he sets off a dangerous firework in his bar, gloating how Gloria still won't leave due to the hold he has over her. When Gloria tires to stand up to him, he inflicts a nasty beating on her and forces her to watch as he has his avatar rampage through Seoul, killing hundreds of innocent people; he threatens further rampages for every day that Gloria isn't with him, a threat he attempts to make good on and start off by attempting to crush a child to death.
  • President's Day (2010): Leonard Wright is a teacher at Lincoln High School, as well as the psychotic spree killer who is targeting the school. Harboring an ephebophilic crush on one of his students, Chelsea Blythe, he attempts to express his "love" for Chelsea by killing her rivals in the student body presidential race. To this end he mercilessly slaughters students and teachers alike, stabbing, strangling, burning, crushing, and dismembering his victims. To throw suspicion off himself, he fakes his death, killing his own dog—the only thing he ever loved—in the process. He frames another teacher for the homicides, hanging him and making it look like a suicide, before forcing the principal at knifepoint to declare Chelsea the winner of the election. Killing two cops, he kidnaps Chelsea's rival Joanna Bolen and lures Chelsea to the school basement, where he demands that Chelsea kill Joanna to "prove her love". When Chelsea rebuffs him, he immediately murders her, demonstrating that his warped concept of love was simply obsession. An animalistic and self-centered killer with over a dozen victims to his name, he darkens the tone of this horror-comedy with his unhinged inhumanity.
  • Verna Sawyer, later Carson, who also appears in Texas Chainsaw 3D, where she posthumously gets her granddaughter Heather/Edith as her heir, is the matriarch of the Sawyer clan and arguably their most ruthless, with her appearance in this film showing her in a much more sinister light then what was previously seen. Seeming to be a matronly figure looking out for her family, especially her son Jed, she demonstrates a fanatical idea of family loyalty, treats her other family members more as henchmen, with her apparent care for Jed being both emotionally and mentally manipulative, as well as possessive. In the film's opening, she tries to get Jed to kill a trespasser as a child, expressing disappointment and when he refuses, before having the trespasser killed anyways. Seeking to find Jed and bring him into the family fold, Verna goes as far as to start a mass breakout at the Gorman House, battering everyone who gets in her way, starting a riot that gets several people killed. When she gets a cop on her payroll for information on Jed, she has him eaten alive by pigs once she gets what she needs. Making her worse is her callous disregard for the chaos she causes to get her way, and her single-minded myopic mindset that no one outside her family can care for Jed as she continuously gaslights him. Finally catching up to Jed/Jackson, Verna browbeats him to kill Hal Hartman, and later murder his close friend Lizzy to prove his loyalty to the family, proud that she successfully brought about his mental downfall and warped him into the killer Leatherface, making her directly and indirectly responsible for numerous murders.
  • Alex Cross has faced many revolting criminals, but these stand out as the worst:
    • 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 in Roses Are Red, 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, committing 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 in Violets Are Blue that 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 in Double Cross, 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 in Cross Fire, 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.
    • Geoffrey Shafer, known by law enforcement as the Weasel, is one of Cross's most personal enemies. A diplomatic staff member moonlighting as a Serial Killer, Shafer is playing a "game" with a few other men that he meet at the MI 6, who style themselves after The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with Shafer playing the role of Death. He is introduced in Pop Goes the Weasel, when he finds a prostitute and brutally kills her. He then puts on blackface, goes out in a cab, picks up a woman and murders her. He later goes out again, finds a man, and kills him too. Shafer stalks George Bayer, who plays Famine in the "game", murders the women he solicited, and leaves the bodies in a compromising position. Realizing the police are on to him he goes south to Maryland and kills a mother and her teenage daughter. Shafer then targets DC Detective and Cross's love interest Patsy Hampton and brutally kills her. Cross arrests him, but evidence being inadmissible due to diplomatic immunity means he gets acquitted. Shafer then kidnaps Cross's fiancée Christine. He murders the other players of the "game". After a fight with Cross he apparently dies, but resurfaces in Europe and kill his wife. He reappears in London Bridges living in Brazil. Here he continues his murderous hobbies until The Wolf uses a streetwalker to draw him out, kidnap him, and get Shafer to work for him. Shafer bombs an army base, and then meets a sniper and has her kill the CIA Director. He later goes out and kill another prostitute. After that he goes and confronts his sister-in-law and children. He threatens them, asks them for a kiss, and when they refuse he only refrains from killing them because he states that he "does not have permission" to kill them.
  • The Closer & Major Crimes: Phillip Stroh is the most personal, depraved, and recurring foe the Major Crimes division ever faced. When first encountering the team, Stroh is using his position as a defense attorney to draw attention away from the fact that he is a Serial Rapist who has raped over 6 women, having killed his latest target. After ditching his client to take the fall, Stroh returns after being ousted as a Serial Killer who has raped and murdered five women by strangling them to death with a chain, and though trying to stab the teenaged Rusty and his Arch-Enemy Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson to death, Stroh is captured. Though locked in prison, Stroh's evil continues as he uses two men he assisted in becoming serial killers to kill specific targets for him, including his own minions, and attempt to broker a deal for a better life in prison for himself. Escaping confinement by murdering several innocent people, Stroh goes on a bloody rampage while tracking down his mother to acquire her fortune, butchering numerous people from his childhood including his step-parents and first girlfriend. Stroh is revealed to have been truly wicked since birth, as he tortured his step-sister, tried to burn his family alive, and raped and murdered three young girls while only a teenager. In the end, Stroh leaves a teenaged girl to slowly be strangled to death so he may escape, and uses his final moments to plead for mercy, only to try to strike down his enemies in return for their mercy.
  • Kilgrave, real name Kevin Thompson, is an amoral, mind-controlling sociopath responsible for the ruination and deaths of countless lives throughout the series. After gaining his powers due to his parents' painful, though well-intentioned, experiments on him, Kilgrave turned them into his slaves and grew up getting everything he wanted, notably raping women, ordering those who annoyed him to maim or kill themselves, and tormenting children, simply because he felt like it. Kilgrave becomes obsessed with heroine Jessica Jones when she breaks free of his control after he forced her to kill an innocent, and begins ruining her life by addicting her neighbors to drugs and having them kill themselves in her house, ordering one of her clients to murder her own parents in front of Jessica, and tries to manipulate her into becoming his slave again by holding people hostage by the dozen. Though seemingly caring for his parents, Kilgrave reveals his true colors as he forces his mother to stab herself to death and has his father taken apart limb by limb until he is dead. When seemingly beaten, Kilgrave orders dozens of innocents to kill each other just to distract Jessica, and uses his final act to proclaim his intent to make Jessica's sister Trish his new slave to be raped and tortured at his leisure. A petty, childish bully who wanted everyone to be his playthings while never admitting true guilt to anything he did, Kilgrave is one of the most despicable villains the MCU has to offer.
  • Spider-Man Unlimited: In the tie-in comic book to the animated series, the Chameleon is a monstrous Beastial capable of changing his appearance to those he has murdered. To use this to his advantage, Chameleon systematically stalks and murders over a dozen innocent people, then uses their identities to commit crimes. After being stopped by Spider-Man during a bank robbery that nearly leaves several people dead, Chameleon boasts his plans to ruin Spider-Man's name and crush the hope of his people by framing Spider-Man for the killings. Even in a world of dictators and monstrous symbiotes, the Chameleon stood out as a vile Serial Killer who disgusted Spider-Man more than any other villain he encountered.
  • Parasite Eve series:
    • Parasite Eve:
      • Mitochondria Eve-2 is a sadistic collection of sentient mitochondria who formed into a singular, powerful figure. Having materialized in Maya Brea's kidney after being transplanted into actress Melissa Pearce, she later takes over her body by killing competing mitochondria and attaching to her cells. She plans to us Melissa to give birth to the Ultimate Being, a lifeform far more powerful than her with the power to instantly destroy humankind. Taking complete control over Melissa's body during an opera performance, she causes everyone's cells to burn up and combust. Knowing that Aya Brea is after her, she uses her powers to turn animals, both alive and undead, into vicious monsters to kill her. Working with Hans Klamp, she has him create special sperm to help her give birth, later having him gather up a group of people—including Daniel's ex-wife and son (though he ends up escaping)—to Central Park, where she melts them into a slime and has it hide in the sewers to later serve as her uterus. Having made Manhattan a complete ghost town due to her actions causing a widespread evacuation, she later raids the police station, having her mutated animals murder and injure the surviving cops. Obtaining a sample of Klamp's mitochondria-free sperm, she later gives birth to the Ultimate Being, tempting Aya to join her in her cause before trying to kill her after she refuses.
      • The aforementioned Hans Klamp is an anti-social misanthrope working with Eve-2 on her plan to eradicate humanity and allow mitochondria to take over, seeing them as superior to humans. As a teenage intern at St. Francis Hospital, he transplanted Maya Brea's kidney and cornea into Melissa and Aya before getting fired over selling patient records. Partnering with Eve-2, he removes mitochondria from his own sperm to allow Eve-2 to easily give birth to the Ultimate Being, prideful to be involved in its creation. He later invites people on an HLA list to a play in Central Park, where they are turned into slime by Eve-2 to be used as her uterus, causing the deaths of many, including Daniel's ex-wife Lorraine, with his son, Benjamin, escaping just in time. When Aya discovers his plans, he tries to kill her with a scalpel. Refusing to face arrest, Hans orders Eve-2 to burn him, chastising Aya for wanting to save him. Before his death, Hans engineered Maya's body to unleash another Eve once Eve-2 gives birth to the Ultimate Being, starting the plan all over again should Eve-2 not succeed.
    • Parasite Eve 2: Number 9 is a psychotic, sentient Golem designed by Neo Ark to keep AMNC subjects under control. Originally a human who personally requested to become a Golem, he paid the scientists to retain his human intelligence and memories after the transformation. Becoming a "Hunter" for Neo Ark, he leads an attack at the Arkopolis Tower that kills many people, sending in AMNC mimics to kill the SWAT team. He later attacks Aya Brea's partner, Rupert Broderick, in a church, escaping when Aya sees him. Attacking Aya on top of the tower, he sets off a series of explosions that destroy the tower and the people inside. Ordered to use the Pupa's powers to unleash a virus that would cause every human on earth to turn into AMNCs, he sends Agent Kyle Madigan to lure Aya to the underground Neo Ark labs, where she frees the young Eve. Afterwards, he kidnaps Eve, threatening to kill her if Aya tries to stop him. Planning to use Eve's powers to awaken the Pupa from its cocoon and make it stronger, he orders Kyle to kill Aya.
  • Sleeping Dogs:
    • Henry "Big Smile" Lee is the vicious Sun On Yee Red Pole (senior member) in charge of getting girls addicted to drugs then roping them into prostitution and pornography to support their habit. In order to expand his power within the Triad, Lee engineered a civil war within the Sun On Yee between Dogeyes's Jade Gang and Winston Chu's Water Street Gang, which culminated in an attack on Winston Chu's wedding, leading to the deaths of Winston Chu, his bride, Peggy Li, and eventually Uncle Po, the head of the Triad. In addition to his prostitution racket, Lee is also known for sending his horrifying enforcer, Liu Shen Tong—better known as Mr. Tong—after his enemies. Finding out Wei Shen is an undercover cop, he has Wei's best friend, Jackie Ma, Buried Alive, and while Wei manages to save him, Jackie is still tortured and disemboweled by Mr. Tong on Lee's orders. Lee also has Wei tortured himself, planning on the torture lasting for days before having Wei buried alive as well. Known for responding with overwhelming brutality even in the face of mere annoyances, Big Smile Lee is one of the most feared and despised Sun On Yee members in the city, even among his fellow gang members.
    • Nightmare in Northpoint DLC: Big Scar Wu, later known as Smiley Cat, was a vicious and ruthless member of the Sun On Yee, so much so that they had him killed for being wicked even by their standards; even giving him an undignified burial via grinding his corpse in cat food and keeping his finger to keep his spirit restless. Mocked for this by the denizens of Hell, Wu plotted revenge before his spirit managed to return and bring with him a demonic army. Wu starts off the DLC by abducting Wei's girlfriend and keeping her captive. Wu then raised demons and Jiang Shi to terrorize and take over Hong Kong, having its citizens possessed and enslaved, using innocent people in rituals to open portals to Hell. Wu then summons the spirits of Wei's dead enemies and has possessed gangsters in order to start his own empire. When Wei confronts Wu at the end of the DLC, Wu mocks Wei with his dead sister, and when seemingly defeated, shows he's secretly possessing No Ping.
  • Splinter Cell series:
    • Pandora Tomorrow's Big Bad Duumvirate:
    • Double Agent: Emile Dufraisne is the leader of the domestic terrorist organization John Brown's Army. The product of a rich traditional upbringing, Dufraisne liquidated his holdings to fund John Brown's Army. When Sam Fisher is recruited as a double agent, Dufraisne is introduced tasking Fisher to kill a helicopter pilot, who would be killed by Jamie Washington should Fisher refuse. Believing that the US government are traitors to the Founding Fathers, Dufraisne plans to topple it with his terrorist activities. His main plan was to destroy the cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville, Tennessee (where the US President will be speaking) with bombs containing several kilograms of red mercury. To test his weapons, he plans on using one of these bombs to blow up a cruise ship. If the player manages to foil this plot, Dufraisne will kill his weapons expert, Enrica, in a fit of anger. When the police and feds finally storm his compound, Dufraisne begins his plan to destroy New York in an attempt to gain some victory in his defeat.
    • Blacklist: Former MI6 agent Majid Sadiq is the leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the Blacklist attacks. He introduced his group to the public by blowing up an Army base and kidnapping one of the soldiers, later cutting the man's throat while recording a video message. Future attackd involved trying to poison the water supply of Chicago with a deadly biological agents; an attempt to unleash nerve gas into several trains in Philadelphia and setting the largest gas terminal on the gulf coast on fire. He also tried to goad to US government into declaring war with the Iran by creating some false evidences that made it look like they were behind his attacks. While he publicly claimed that the terrorist attacks would stop as soon as the USA called back all their troops stationed abroad, this was just another ruse. His true goal was to cause so much chaos that the US government would enact an emergency protocol and transfer all their sensitive data to a secure bunker beneath Denver. Once that happened he and his men stormed the bunker, where Sadiq had his men torturing the Secretary of Defense until he would give them access to the data. Notably he only became a terrorist after an US drone strike wiped out the Iraqi village he was stationed in, yet he himself never mentioned the villagers even once or showed any kind of sadness about their deaths. In the end his atrocities outweigh any justification he may once had.
  • Blake and Mortimer: In this animated adaption of the comic, Colonel Olrik is even more fiendish than in the comics. A mercenary willing to work for the highest bidder, Olrik is first introduced working as a military adviser for an empire and leads bombing runs against several major cities, devastating them and killing thousands in the process. Olrik wants to steal Professor Mortimer's new invention the Swordfish plane, betray the Empire and rule the world himself. After that scheme is foiled, Olrik returns, leads a military coup that turns a democratic country into a dictatorship and joins forces with a rogue general in Atlantis, trying to encourage a military coup there as well that would leave hundreds dead, just to plunder Atlantis's resources. Olrik later shows up and commissions a Mad Scientist to build a machine that controls the weather. Olrik uses this machine to cause disasters across Europe, until he unveils his master plan to blanket Western Europe in a toxic fog, killing everyone, so that a foreign power can successfully invade. Much later Olrik is seemingly killed after trying to using alchemy to gain immortality, but he is merely banished to an alternate world, where he takes over and rules as a dictator. Wanting revenge for being banished from the Earth, Olrik plans to use a powerful moon medallion in a ritual that would destroy the Earth.
  • Uncanny X-Force: Harry Pizer, also known as "the Skinless Man", was once a barrister who used his ability to stretch and contort his body to cheat and win cases. When contracted by the Weapon Plus program to fight the Russians during the Cold War, Pizer, designated Weapon III, giddily used the opportunity to slaughter countless enemy troops, deeming it a righteous cause all the while before murdering his way into Otherworld to steal the powerful Orb. After being skinned alive due to Anti-Hero Fantomex's interference in his plans, Pizer only got worse as he assisted in orchestrating a bloody war against all of Otherworld, and later attempted to torture Fantomex and Psylocke to death in front of each other, starting by slicing Fantomex's face off. Eventually joining Daken's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants after murdering his ex-wife and her new husband, Pizer gleefully takes part in their plans to psychologically torture the young boy Evan into becoming the next Apocalypse, even tricking the boy into thinking his father figure Fantomex is alive only to reveal Pizer murdered him. When confronted by a vengeful Evan, Pizer offers him one final chance to revive Fantomex, only to swipe the offer away, simply laughing at the boy's gullibility. Pizer stands out even among the Brotherhood due to the fact that, while all the other members have alternative motives for trying to create a new Apocalypse, Pizer just wants the boy to kill millions of people as a final spiteful move towards Fantomex.

edited 26th Feb '18 11:51:50 AM by ACW

JoeBlitz Since: Dec, 2016
#110197: Feb 25th 2018 at 3:07:35 PM

@ACW Something's wrong with the Kick the Morality Pet link in the President's Day writeup. It should look like this...

the only thing he ever loved

instead of this...

Kick the Morality Pet the only thing he ever loved

Other than that it looks good.

edited 25th Feb '18 3:14:17 PM by JoeBlitz

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#110198: Feb 25th 2018 at 3:15:48 PM

Whoops, forgot the brackets. Should be fixed now.

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#110199: Feb 25th 2018 at 3:28:10 PM

[tup] To The Wallfinder duo [tdown] To The Vampire

So Gerneral Kol is basically the Star Trek version of Ghetsis huh... well that’s just perfect

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#110200: Feb 25th 2018 at 3:34:41 PM

@ACW Krytus writeup looks okay but personally, I would change this part:

"in which she replies that Godzilla Threshold if she hadn't, Krytus would've endangered not only the Blue Sentients, but the multiverse" into this:

"in which she replies that if she hadn't, Krytus would've endangered not only the Blue Sentients, but the multiverse"

"Making screw-ups and mistakes was I ever really good at. Because everything I touch went to hell."

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