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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

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)
#118826: May 20th 2018 at 10:14:43 AM

Yes to Moses but no to Scarlet King.... Wonder how many C Ms with Awesome Mc Cool name that we had as for now. (Dont get me started on Ringmaster Jesus pffttt....)

"Making screw-ups and mistakes was I ever really good at. Because everything I touch went to hell."
43110 (Striking Back) Relationship Status: Reincarnated romance
#118827: May 20th 2018 at 10:31:54 AM

No to Scarlet King, yes to Moses and ACW, while you're working on those potholes, I'd say get rid of the Far East Asian Terrorists one, you've already got them tagged as genocidal anti-humans, I think the reader can figure it out. For her name itself? Please try and find a trope that actually embodies the big point of her villainy because Disc-One Final Boss literally just tells me "person who was built up as the main antagonist but died too early".

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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Clown-Face Wild Child from Canada Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: In another castle
Wild Child
#118830: May 20th 2018 at 10:54:29 AM

How about pot-holing Gyokuro's name to Wicked Stepmother, Dark Action Girl, or Green-Eyed Monster?

And on the subject of villains who need to be de-potholed....Mitch Toblat. That entry has far too many unnecessary potholes.

Why so serious?
ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
DemonDuckofDoom from Some Pond in Hell Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
TheMadCr0w (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
#118833: May 20th 2018 at 11:37:19 AM

Here we go.

What is the setting? The story begins with Piper Chapman and her lover, international drug smuggler Alex Vause going to the same prison, Litchfield. Piper's unhealthy relationship with Alex and the vast number of characters the series has to offer makes for some hilarious situations, but beginning with Season 2, most of the comedic factors have been annihilated by the sheer cruelty of some antagonists, but two of them stand out from the rest, Vee and Humphrey.

Who is Vee? Yvonne "Vee" Parker is an inmate introduced in Season 2 and the Big Bad of said season. A prolific heroin trafficker, Vee made a habit of adopting street children and molding them to be her minions; one notable example is one of Piper's friends, Taystee. A woman incapable of feeling love, Vee is a master manipulator who uses a combination of charisma and threats to extort other people. When one of her children, Taystee's "brother", Nice Guy RJ, starts a drug business of his own, Vee seduces him, one of the boys she had raised since childhood, and then bribes a corrupt cop to end his life as punishment for trying to have a life of luxury, believing that she needs to be the only drug lord around.

Vee has a well-known rivalry with the show's Team Mom, Red, once sending inmates to attack her for refusing to work for her. In Litchfield, Vee takes advantage of a depressed and mentally ill inmate, Suzanne, and corrupts other girls into working for her, except Taystee's best friend, Poussey, who notices her sociopathic behavior. Seeing this, Vee manipulated Taystee into hating Poussey, out of sheer spite. Alone with Red, Vee beats her with a lock in a sock, leaving her incredibly injured, and gaslights Suzanne into believing that she was responsible for the crime. Shortly after escaping from Litchfield, she is run over by another escaped inmate, killing her.

Who is Humphrey? Thomas Humphrey is the primary Arc Villain and Hate Sink for Season 4 and 5. The show's worst Psycho for Hire, Humphrey is a former Sociopathic Soldier who now works at Litchfield. Hated by his own co-workers, who always think that he is on the verge of committing a mass murder, Humphrey sees inmates as nothing more than mere toys. One prison guard informs another that he once saw Humphrey killing a cockroach by putting it inside a blender, rather than just stepping on it. Noticing two of the funniest and nicest inmates, Maritza and Flaca playing a game of "would you rather", Humphrey hears Maritza saying "Gun to your head, do you eat ten dead flies or a live baby mouse?". Humphrey then brings Maritza to a cabin outside of Litchfield, points a gun to her head, and forces her to decide whether she will eat a mouse in a cup or a napkin with dead flies; this left Maritza depressed and suffering from post-traumatic stress, destroying her happy-go-lucky personality and stopping her from making jokes.

In the presence of other inmates, Humphrey tries to coerce a white supremacist into beating Suzanne, who he calls an "ape", simply because he wants to win a bet of 20$ bucks, and when that fails because even a white supremacist can have standards, Humphrey has another mentally ill inmate and Suzanne's romantic interest, Kukudio, beat her. The incident caught the attention of Litchfield's director, Caputo, who tried to have Humphrey suspended from his job. Humphrey brings a gun to Litchfield, which is against the law, and convinces other guards to let him in. Tired of Humphrey's cruelty, hispanic inmate Daya steals the gun and shoots him in the leg. Humphrey refuses treatment by Sophia, a trained firefighter, because she is a transgender woman. Initially believing that he is dead, Humphrey discusses his "favorite" torture methods with Suzanne and Kukudio in the prison hospital, and realizes that he is still alive because "lesbians don't go to heaven". As revenge for what he had done to them, Kukudio blows oxygen blubbles into his IV, causing a stroke, leaving him wheelchair-bound and comatose for a while before he finally dies.

Freudian Excuses? Both have none.

Heinous? Other notable antagonists include homophobic and fanatic christian Doggett and Humphrey's superior, Piscatella, both have tragic backstories and are not as bad as these two in terms of cruelty. Vee and Humphrey are the most vile antagonists in the series for multiple reasons and both stand in contrast to each other as different aspects of sociopathy, high-functioning and low-functioning respectively. Vee not only murdered her own adopted son, but she also had sex with him minutes prior just for the heck of it, this single act cemented her evilness and drove the show to a more Darker and Edgier path. Humphrey on the other hand is never seen killing someone, but what makes him stand out is his For the Evulz attitude, while even Vee had her reasons, Humphrey does things because he wants to see people in a state of discomfort. Prior to his stroke, if Humphrey was included in a scene, then viewers were sure that something really bad was about to happen. My only fear here is the good ol' baseline and how it will affect them.

Conclusion? You decide.

edited 20th May '18 12:03:31 PM by TheMadCr0w

DemonDuckofDoom from Some Pond in Hell Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#118834: May 20th 2018 at 11:50:57 AM

Those two don't sound like they quite meet the baseline. [tdown]

KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#118835: May 20th 2018 at 11:52:13 AM

[tdown] Vee, she dont sound as bad as Humphrey

And Humphrey...Ugh, he is such a asshole but...he didnt killed anyone by himself, or he did?

edited 20th May '18 11:54:50 AM by KazuyaProta

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Scraggle Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#118837: May 20th 2018 at 11:55:50 AM

Glad you found luck with Magnum there, Lighty. Yes to him.

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Goku Black
#118838: May 20th 2018 at 12:01:39 PM

[tdown]humprey and vee.

Don't sound above baseline.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
erazor0707 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Knack Since: Mar, 2018
#118840: May 20th 2018 at 12:20:21 PM

Yes to Moses Magnum.

edited 20th May '18 12:23:45 PM by Knack

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#118842: May 20th 2018 at 12:33:09 PM

No to Vee and Humphrey.

ACW, having Fantastic Racism and A Nazi by Any Other Name is still redundant. Can you seriously please just pick one without trying to keep swapping in another trope?

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#118843: May 20th 2018 at 12:43:32 PM

Alright, alright:

  • Complete Monster: Gyokuro Shuzen is the leader of the genocidal anti-human organization Fairy Tale. In her position, Gyokuro tasks her men with sowing the seeds of the Human World's destruction, aiming at nothing less than humanity's annihilation by awakening the ancient vampire Alucard. Gyokuro also brainwashed her gentle, kind daughter Kahlua into being an efficient assassin that cannot refuse her orders to kill, viewing Kahlua as a proud achievement. When she confronts the heroes, Gyokuro rips off her stepdaughter Moka's Rosary Seal, and proceeds to cheerfully laugh, enjoying the pain it causes Moka. It is then revealed that Gyokuro had implanted bits of Alucard into the other Shuzen vampires, which have devoured them from the inside out and turned them into ravenous ghouls. When Moka begs on hands and knees for Gyokuro to save her beloved Tsukune from this fate, Gyokuro agrees, and then mocks Moka's weakness before punching her in the face. She even directs Kahlua to murder her beloved little sister—and Gyokuro's own daughter—Kokoa with no remorse. It's revealed Gyokuro's rage stems largely from petty jealousy at Moka's mother, her rival Akasha. When she fuses with Alucard, Gyokuro gloats that she will destroy everything Akasha ever loved and destroy the world she protected. Beautiful, sadistic and unforgiving, Gyokuro viewed all in her path as nothing more than stepping stones for her own power.

Knack Since: Mar, 2018
#118844: May 20th 2018 at 1:25:11 PM

No to Vee and Humphrey, nasty people but not heinous enough.

Idisagree Since: Jun, 2011
#118845: May 20th 2018 at 1:41:53 PM

I'd say Vee isn't even borderline heinous. [tdown]

Also what's the verdict on Shiki (One Piece)? I say the movie he's in and wanted to give me opinion. I'd say that if he succeeded his body count would surpass Doflamingo's "Bird cage" (if that worked). Despite his occasional silliness and Jamaican accent in the dub, he's taken seriously enough and is very ruthless. He's never shown to respect Roger as a person in the movie (in fact he only mentions him when defeated). If mildly respecting a rival was a disqualifier, then we'd have to disqualify Dio Brando for telling a minion not to disrespect Johnathan. That's explicitly stated unlike Shiki's supposed respect for Roger.

KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
TommyFresh Since: Aug, 2013
#118847: May 20th 2018 at 1:52:23 PM

[up][up] Except in Episode 0 Shiki is shown assaulting Marineford when he finds out Roger has been captured by the Marines. Some of his lines there imply genuine respect and I find it hard to believe that he would risk so much for Roger if he only had "mild" respect for him. And Episode 0 is canon to Strong World.

[tdown] to the Orange is the New Black duo.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#118848: May 20th 2018 at 1:53:20 PM

That doesn't work as a comparison as Dio's respect stems from his all-consuming narcissism.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#118849: May 20th 2018 at 1:55:11 PM

  • Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Colonel Yoran Pailsen is a ruthless Mad Scientist who crafted an experiment on the world of Sunsa that involved burning hundreds of children alive to determine who had a unique "survivalist" trait. Obsessed with creating the "perfect soldier", Pailsen directs his private unit, the Red Shoulder Battalion, to commit wartime atrocities and even fight to the death among themselves. In order to test his theories, Pailsen even manipulates the head of the military, Fedok Wockam, into starting a pointless battle that leaves 120 million people dead, obsessed with furthering his research no matter the human cost.
  • Iczer:
    • Fight! Iczer-One: Big Gold is a powerful alien android who, along with Iczer-1, is one half of a machine created to grant wishes. Granting the wish of the Cthulhu race's matriarch to save her dying race, Gold ends up turning her species into a fascist leadership with her as their ruler, forcing the matriarch to be her slave and renaming her Sir Violet. Desiring to Take Over the World and eradicate humanity, Gold sends parasitic aliens that mutate and control people from the inside, turning the world into an apocalyptic wasteland, with Nagisa's parents becoming victims themselves. When Sir Violet's plans to destroy Iczer-1 and Nagisa all end up failing, Gold kills her and decides to kill the duo herself. Destroying a human military spaceship, Gold laughs as she witnesses the destruction she's caused on earth, later attempting to kill Iczer-1 herself.
    • (Iczer Girl) Iczelion: The wicked sibling team of Cross and Chaos, androids created by Big Gold, travel the galaxy with their forces, the Geas, murdering and destroying all they find. They strip a planet of resources, killing everything there and then hunt down the planet's defenders, the Iczelion, before murdering them, the OVA starting with Cross gleefully torturing an Iczelion to death after wiping out all life on her world. Arriving on earth, Chaos dispatches his strongest soldiers, the Voids, to wipe out entire cities and kill as many people as possible while Cross targets the new Iczelion, gleefully trying to murder her innocent civilian friends and kill and torture as many innocents as she can.
  • Macross Frontier: The original version of Dr. Grace O'Connor plans to Mind Control the alien Vajra into subjugating humanity and the Zentradi under her control and killing those who resist. Murdering the parents of the seven-year-old Sheryl Nemo, Grace torments the then-homeless girl while she is all alone, before using Sheryl in a painful experiment which killed her previous eight subjects, and guarantees Sheryl will die in a decade. Although Grace admits she grows to gain some genuine affection for Sheryl, she decides these feelings will get in the way of her galaxy conquering goals and electronically deletes them from her own brain.
  • Rosario + Vampire: Gyokuro Shuzen is the leader of the genocidal anti-human organization Fairy Tale. In her position, Gyokuro tasks her men with sowing the seeds of the Human World's destruction, aiming at nothing less than humanity's annihilation by awakening the ancient vampire Alucard. Gyokuro also brainwashed her gentle, kind daughter Kahlua into being an efficient assassin that cannot refuse her orders to kill, viewing Kahlua as a proud achievement. When she confronts the heroes, Gyokuro rips off her stepdaughter Moka's Rosary Seal, and proceeds to cheerfully laugh, enjoying the pain it causes Moka. It is then revealed that Gyokuro had implanted bits of Alucard into the other Shuzen vampires, which have devoured them from the inside out and turned them into ravenous ghouls. When Moka begs on hands and knees for Gyokuro to save her beloved Tsukune from this fate, Gyokuro agrees, and then mocks Moka's weakness before punching her in the face. She even directs Kahlua to murder her beloved little sister—and Gyokuro's own daughter—Kokoa with no remorse. It's revealed Gyokuro's rage stems largely from petty jealousy at Moka's mother, her rival Akasha. When she fuses with Alucard, Gyokuro gloats that she will destroy everything Akasha ever loved and destroy the world she protected. Beautiful, sadistic and unforgiving, Gyokuro viewed all in her path as nothing more than stepping stones for her own power.
  • Conan the Cimmerian: The ruthless Shah Amurath, from issues 19-22, is a Hyrkanian Shah in service to Turan. A sadistic slave trader, Amurath purchases a woman named Olivia and proceeds to rape, brutalize and degrade her to his heart's content. A great believer in torture, Amurath has one of Conan's close followers among the Kozaks tortured to near death and later ambushes the Kozaks in revenge for them humiliating him in battle. Refusing any quarter, Amurath has many Kozaks tortured to death and fed to the vultures, with only Conan as a survivor. When Olivia attempts to flee Amurath attempts to hunt her down and abduct her again, vowing he will not soon grow tired of violating her.
  • Ruby and Nora series:
    • Ruby's Birthday: Admah Keter is a Serial Killer who was incarcerated for killing his mother and three families (including the children). When he and a handful of Vale's most dangerous criminals are placed in an Atlas airship for the Halloween weekend, Keter tricks his guard into unlocking his cuffs, which negated his teleportation Semblance, and strangled him to death. Making off with hacker Hector Blood, Keter forced him to find the family of the guard that released him, along with hacking into Beacon's files, under threat of murdering his family. Killing a store owner for her scissors, Keter killed a teenage girl and her family for a laptop, then killed the guard's family after Hector found their location. When Hector hacks into Beacon's files, Keter plans to cut out Ruby's silver eyes when he learns their importance to Ozpin. Keter then kills Hector, along with an Atlas soldier investigating his crimes. When he finds Ruby, he stabs Weiss to draw her out and abducts her, taking her to an abandoned building, then calls Yang and Pyrrha to brag, before forcing them to confront him or he'll kill Ruby.
    • Weiss and Pyrrha: The Big Bad, Nurse Abigail Lemon, is an unrepentant Serial Killer who proves to be far worse than she seems. Patients under her care tend to have a habit of dying, and Weiss would have been the victim of a morphine overdose, had she not reacted fast enough. Instead, Abby reopens Weiss's stitches, almost causing her to bleed to death. When caught by Pyrrha, she unleashes her Semblance, an EMP, and kills almost 100 people on life support to make her escape. She later lures Pyrrha and three cops into a trap while leaving a book of all the people she killed and the dates that she killed them. As Pyrrha looks at it in horror, Abby kills the three cops, while claiming that having such power over life and death makes her a goddess. Abby is only stopped from killing Pyrrha because of the latter's Semblance.
    • Field Trip: Father Tiresias Scorch is a bat-Faunus who is the leader of the White Fang, and the man responsible for turning it into a terrorist organization. He claims to be a messenger of the gods and wants to rid the world of humans and homosexuals. His first act in the story is forcing Ilia to kill her lover, Lily, after they were caught kissing each other. He later finds out about the Beacon students after Adam caught Blake and Yang, after which he orders the teachers to be brought to him to watch the destruction and the students to be killed, promising to show Ruby's body to Yang. He loads bombs onto a train running under Vale to let Grimm into the city to destroy it, while allowing several of his men to die when they go off. He surveys the destruction with satisfaction, but when his plan fails, he kills Ren and Ilia out of spite. He cared for no one but himself and even referred to his own followers as replaceable.
  • The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity: "Dear Cutie Mark Crusaders" Arc Villain, former Captain Feather Duster, was fired for drunkenly flooding rabbit holes during Winter Wrap-Up, taking revenge by causing a catastrophic storm, killing Applejack's parents. Feather Duster would have happily let Rainbow Dash, his replacement, face the wrath of Ponyville, had he not drunkenly passed out at the scene of his crime. Lashing out at Dash again, Feather Duster forces her to choose between saving Scootaloo and stopping him from unleashing another, even more destructive storm. After seemingly being stopped, Feather Duster returns in "Cutie Mark Crusaders Dream Warriors", where his disembodied spirit returns to feed off the nightmares of ponies and tries to possess Scootaloo's body to murder Dash.
  • The Cry of the Children: The unnamed mill owner profits on the suffering of those he forces to work for poverty-level wages in his brutal textile mill while he and his wife lavish, exploiting in particular brutal child labor and working all of his employees to the point of starvation and disease. When his workers go on strike, the mill owner waits them out until they've been starved to a point where they're forced to return to work, and, after failing to convince the family of one child to hand him over their child Alice for his wife's pleasure, sees her worked to death in his factory. An early example of a Complete Monster in film, the mill owner was and is a poignant reminder of the very real evils of child labor.
  • Darc (2018): Ginzo Kageyama, the Oyabun (absolute leader) of the Kageyama family, runs his business on human trafficking and prostitution. When the hero Darc is a young boy, his mother is forced to work in the Kageyama brothels where the women experience violent abuse. When Darc's mother resists, Ginzo personally slits her throat in retribution. Later abducting an Interpol agent's daughter to keep him off the syndicate's back, Ginzo threatens to have her murdered if her father interferes further. When his own son is killed by Darc, Ginzo is only annoyed as to the problems it causes to the syndicate, and threatens the only witness's family before luring the Interpol agent out by faking his daughter's hanging using said witness. When he has the girl, Renee, at gunpoint, Ginzo attempts to force Darc to kill himself by promising Renee will live, only to reveal he plans to sell her into sexual slavery anyways.
  • Die Fighting (2014): Fabien Garcia is a stuntman-turned-director who desires fame and success. Writing and directing an ambitious movie titled The Price of Success, he coerces an actor to play the movie's villain, a sadistic filmmaker who forces Fabien and his stuntman friends to run a deadly gauntlet, pitting them against armed criminals and thugs, and forcing them to kill people, with every one of Fabien's friends dying in the process. To give his characters motivation, he kidnaps and ties up his own girlfriend and Lohan's wife. After killing Lohan himself, he later murders the Filmmaker's actor in cold blood, gleefully forcing Lohan's wife to cry on camera after revealing her husband's death. Claiming to be giving his friends a boost in fame, Fabien only cared for himself, viewing his friends as tools to further his career in cinema.
  • Hard Boiled: Johnny Wong is a bloodthirsty Arms Dealer driven solely by a mixture of greed and sadism. Introduced orchestrating an ambush where dozens of rival gangsters are slaughtered, Wong forces undercover cop Alan to gun down Wong's adversary Uncle Hoi, before ordering him to kill Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. Having an informant beaten and murdered, Wong declares that "the innocent must die" after the police discover his secret cache of weapons, and orders his men to gun down cops and innocents alike before holding a hospital hostage. Wong heartlessly guns down a room full of patients; shoots his right-hand man Mad Dog dead for having a change of heart; attempts to kill everyone by blowing up the hospital; and ultimately holds Alan at gunpoint in a desperate final attempt to win. Claiming to value loyalty despite having no loyalty to anyone other than himself, Johnny Wong admits to seeing people as nothing more than objects, and will not hesitate to kill anyone if it suits him.
  • Horror Hospital (1973): Dr. Christian Storm was a genius scientist seeking to create the "perfect servants". Using his connections to a brothel to abduct women to experiment on, Storm turned them into brainless, lobotomized slaves for his whims. Later injured in a fire that destroyed his "zoo" thanks to a thief he murdered, Storm establishes Brittlehurst Manor, a health retreat that the uses to entrap and enslave or murder people. When the heroes are captured, Storm tries to subject them to the same horrific treatment, even taking a woman to assault before beating her to death when she resists.
  • Horrors of the Black Museum (1959): Horror writer Edmond Bancroft gains new inspiration by using antiques rigged as torture devices to commit murder so he can write about it in the tabloids. Starting the film by using his hypnotized and brainwashed assistant Rick, Bancroft has a woman given a pair of binoculars that end up impaling her through the eyes; has his own girlfriend murdered after they break up; and kills an antique store owner when she reveals she knows of his schemes. Becoming a true Serial Killer with his booby-trapped torture devices, Bancroft even has Rick murder his own girlfriend and then tries to have the cops murder him so nothing remains to tie Bancroft to the killings.
  • Jungleground (1995): Odin is the ruler of Jungleground, and the leader of the Ragnarockers, a gang of drug dealers who kill competition through any means necessary, despite promising his people that he would get rid of pushers. When Lt. Jacob "Jake" Cornell investigates his crimes, Odin captures him, has his girlfriend tied up, and promises him that he won’t kill him unless he gets back home before dawn, even executing a henchman for talking to him. Sending his goons out to hunt Jake, he doesn’t care if they're killed, even manipulating Dragon to seek vengeance on Jake for killing his little brother. Once Jake makes it back home, Odin upholds his promise by having his soldiers kill Jake instead of killing Jake himself.
  • A Lonely Place to Die: Mr. Kidd & Mr. Mcrae are a pair of kidnappers who abduct a little girl named Anna and bury her alive with only a breathing tube, planning to extort her wealthy mother of all they can get. They have abducted children before only to murder them if the parents refuse to pay. Murdering hikers who stumble across them, and a pair of poachers to get their guns, Kidd and Mcrae hunt down the hikers who rescue Anna, murdering police and civilians alike n town before ultimately going on a full rampage to kill all in their path to recover the girl.
  • Mandrake the Magician film serial (1939): The evil criminal mastermind the Wasp, real name Dr.Andre Bennett, seeks to dominate the US's communication grids, using a series of bombings that target populated areas, including a dam. He also seeks a special radium device to give him the ultimate power he desires. When he tries to eliminate Mandrake, the Wasp even targets populated areas such as a train or large building with his bombings. In addition, the Wasp is also a terrible boss, gassing his subjects for failing him or even for knowing too much about his organization, willing to stop at nothing to Take Over the World.
  • Meeting Evil (2012): Richie is a psychotic assassin who shows up at John's door after his car is stalled. Upon John giving him a push, the two pull over at a convenience store where Richie gets into a confrontation with the manager that ends with him killing everyone inside. When a phone dealership clerk refuses to let him and John use the store phones, he kills her and runs over her husband. When they find a seemingly abandoned home Richie kills the old lady inside as well as her grandson. He kills a sheriff and takes his car and uniform. Upon entering a diner he kills the waitress as well as a navy veteran. He makes it clear that he is quite willing to kill John's family. Despite claiming John to be his "friend" even refusing to kill him like he was hired to because of such he only cares about him in the sense that he sees potential in molding him to be as psychotic as him and has no problem having John take the fall for his crimes.
  • Rampage (2018): Claire Wyden is introduced informing a hapless scientist on a space station to "return with a sample or not at all", preventing her escape and eventually getting her killed. Running her business with ruthless efficiency and removing those in her way, Claire proves the depths of her evil when she learns her company's chemicals have turned three animals into massive monsters. She proceeds to use a signal to lure them to Chicago, causing untold casualties, solely to get them killed and collect samples off their corpses. Later, she even attempts to murder the heroes and skip town without a twinge of remorse for the lives she's destroyed.
  • Satan's Slave (also known as Evil Heritage) (1976): Alexander Yorke, the uncle of the protagonist Catherine Yorke, seems to be a pleasant man who takes young Catherine in after the seeming death of her parents. In truth, Alexander is a wicked Satanist who tortures and sacrifices women for the pursuit of personal power, seeking the power of his descendant Carmilla to harness her power for his coven. Alexander even murdered his own wife years ago while forcing his son to watch, twisting the boy into a deranged killer of his own while treating him as nothing more than a disposable tool he threatens to murder himself in the present day. Alexander ends the film closing in on Catherine after having driven her boyfriend to suicide, with the intent to sacrifice her and resurrect Carmilla.
  • Vampirella: Vlad is a stark contrast to the otherwise peaceful vampires of the planet of Drakulon, devouring hundreds of innocents while massacring the council and its High Elder, Vampirella's father, when he's brought to trial. Escaping to Earth and mutating in the process, Vlad spreads his evil legacy over centuries with countless converted into his vampire lineage and the very myth of vampirism founded on his evil, responsible for numerous horrible deaths in the present day either to slake his bloodlust or in his feud with Operation PURGE. Vlad spitefully transformed the father of Adam Van Helsing into a vampire while forcing Adam to kill him, later trying to starve Vampirella to a point where she drains Adam after the two become partners and eventually espousing his intentions to bring the world under darkness and slaughter all humanity.
  • The Three Musketeers: The mysterious, murderous Milady de Winter is one of the top agents of the visionary Cardinal Richelieu in his campaign to strengthen France and free it of foreign influence, but shares none of her employer's lofty ideals. Instead, she uses her position, resources, and quasi-supernatural beauty and charisma to indulge her limitless appetites for money, power, and indiscriminate, disproportionate revenge on anyone who gets on her bad side. Ever since her humble origins as a larcenous nun, she's targeted and seduced any sufficiently-useful man she comes across, destroying those who reject her and either killing or abandoning anyone unlucky enough to become her thrall as soon as they're no longer valuable. Her steadily-escalating battle with d'Artagnan brings out all her worst excesses, as she first tries to enlist him to kill her brother-in-law for his inheritance and a young noble for apparently turning her advances down, then, after he humiliates her, repeatedly attempts to kill him with zero regard for collateral damage, endangering and killing several innocents along the way, and finally murders his Love Interest as Revenge by Proxy whilst pretending to be her dearest friend.
  • Birds of Prey:
    • Detective Claude Morton, from Prey for the Hunter, is a transfer cop from Bludhaven's PD who in actuality is a Serial Killer of Metas. Morton copies his victim's mutative powers before turning them against his victims and horribly killing them, racking up a sizable victim count of criminals and innocents alike. When he's ousted by Huntress, Morton derides his partner as a "disappointment" for refusing to shoot Huntress and reveals that not only is he a Meta as well, but he's seeking to commit genocide on his own kind simply so he can live in a world free of "freaks".
    • Malcolm, from Gladiatrix, is the misogynistic owner of the titular illegal fighting club. To keep his club running, Malcolm has Metahuman woman kidnapped and uses a drug to give them uncontrollable rage to make them fight to the death for the amusement of both him and his customers. Any fighters who don't strike the killing blow on their opponent are tortured to death for disobeying him. A Control Freak of the highest order, Malcolm also uses electric shock collars which inflict horrific pain to keep his fighters docile and under his control.
  • Dupla Identidade (also known as Merciless): Eduardo Borges, or simply Edu, is a Serial Killer fascinated by the idea that lives don't matter, allowing him to kill everyone he wants without having to feel remorse. Originally an US citizen named Brian, he committed a series of killings in Florida that claimed the lives of four women. Escaping to Rio de Janeiro, Brian adopted a new name and became the right-hand man of a Corrupt Politician to better cover his tracks. Now as Edu, he continued to murder other people both for pleasure and to prove his nihilistic philosophy. His crimes included abducting a girl and sexually torturing her in his home; luring a crime enthusiast to the scene of one of his previous murders and killing her there; hanging a colleague upside down and leaving her body to be found by the police; and pushing a man from the top of a building. Edu's homicidal behavior culminated in a killing spree that ended the lives of three women in one single night: breaking a cat's neck in front of the owner; strangling her to death alongside another woman; and forcing a third woman to play a game of "live or die", smashing her head with a rock when she loses.
  • Justiça: Oswaldo, the Big Bad in Rose's story, is the most repugnant criminal to be introduced in the show. Starting as a teenager, Oswaldo was a prolific Serial Rapist who used his job as painter as a front to find victims, and forced them to imagine that they were liking the situation. Raping Rose's best friend, Débora, Oswaldo would proceed to rape another woman to the point she had to be sent to the hospital with multiple injuries around her body. Capturing Débora again, Oswaldo coldly remarks that she must have missed him, and asks her if she "wants more". At the mercy of Rose's thuggish friends, Oswaldo begs to be escorted to the police, and confesses that the first thing he will do upon getting out of prison is rape Débora again.
  • Lois & Clark: Lighthearted as this show is, it still packs in numerous nasty villains:
    • Tempus, one of the most recurring villains of the show, is a witty criminal mastermind who originates from a utopian future created by Lois and Clark. Considering this future tedious and longing to tear it down and replace it with a hellish dystopia, Tempus tries various schemes to make this happen, attempting to murder an infant Superman with Kryptonite and leaving Lois stranded in a time period where she'll have no legal rights in his first appearance, and trying to frame Superman as a hostile alien invader before trying to leave a building full of people to blow up with a bomb he's activated in his second. In Tempus's last appearance, Tempus traps Superman outside of time and mindwashes America into voting him in as President; personally murders or disposes of various loose ends who might compromise him; tosses his bodyguard to his death for a cheap laugh; and ultimately tries to trigger a global nuclear war to annihilate the entire planet while gleefully attesting he simply wants to murder billions for the fun of it now. Even Tempus's snarky demeanor fails to mask the utter lunatic he truly is, and he stands above even Lex Luthor as Superman's most vile enemy.
    • Thaddeus Roarke, from season 1's "Honeymoon in Metropolis", is a tycoon who runs a company called Apocalypse Consulting. After losing a military contract to Lex Luthor to develop a coastal defense system for the Navy, Roarke plans to sabotage Luthor's system so that the Navy will pick his system. Roarke is working with a Congressman Ian Harrington who works on the House Subcommittee on Defense and is giving Roarke information about Luthor's system. Roarke eventually reveals his scheme to Harrington, that he plans to cause a massive disruption in Luthor's system that will result in it creating a giant tidal wave which will destroy Metropolis and several cities on the coast, which horrifies Harrington. When Roarke discovers Lois Lane and Clark Kent have been spying on him, he tries to kill them by putting a bomb in their hotel room.
    • "Anonymous", from season 3's "A Chip Off The Old Clark", is a mercenary who works for the highest bidder. Anonymous is hired by terrorists to destroy an ongoing peace process between two countries, Tanzor and Fostonia. Anonymous learns of a young boy named Jesse who has some of Superman's powers and kidnaps him. Anonymous hires a hacker to hack into Tanzor's nuclear defense system and then shoots the hacker so he does not have to pay him. Anonymous has Jesse kidnap the President of the Tanzor and uses truth serum to force him to reveal Tanzor's nuclear launch codes, planning to launch a nuke at Fostonia's capital city. Lois Lane arrives and tries to trick Anonymous into surrendering by pretending to have a gun, but Anonymous tricks Jesse into pressing the launch button. Discovering that Jesse has lost his powers, Anonymous decides he is no longer useful and tries to use poison gas to kill Lois, the President and Jesse.
    • Steve Law, from season 3's "Super Mann", is a Nazi who awakens from suspended animation in present-day Metropolis to help lead the world into the Fourth Reich. Establishing himself as the nastiest of his three compatriots, Law tries to have a Western sympathizer in his inner circle murdered when he tries to renege and unflinchingly executes his own associate when he tries to abandon the mission as well. Law spearheads the mission to crush the world himself by threatening to detonate bombs in Metropolis, Washington, and LA if America's government doesn't surrender, trying to detonate the bombs as soon as he's able and even dismissing all of his own men who will be caught up in the explosions as "martyrs to the cause".
    • Professor Jefferson Cole, from season 4's "The People vs. Lois Lane" and "Dead Lois Walking", is a narcissistic, brilliant mind expelled from S.T.A.R. laboratories after he attempted to sell weapons technology to those who would misuse it. Breaking out of jail years later and possessed of a vendetta toward the people who locked him away, especially Lois Lane, Cole frames Lois for murder by rigging a gun to go off in her hands and kill his own henchmen, later using his illusory technology to further discredit Lois until she's sentenced to death. Cole murders one of his own minions who tries to clear Lois's name in remorse and reveals his trump card is to rain down hybrid-Kryptonite on Metropolis to horribly kill its entire populace, all out of petty spite for the city having "shunned his genius".
  • Lennart Gavling, also known as The Money Man, is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, and the Arch-Enemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later kill their newborn baby and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being Driven to Suicide, something Gavling takes full credit for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal, something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous, below-mentioned Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium—which can explode at any time—using immigrants. In his final appearance, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for knowing too much about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to later kill him when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in killing all six of the police officers.
  • Wyatt Mathewson, from season 4, is a hitman working for the Company under its leader General Jonathan Krantz. He's the worst and most chilling assassin the Company has to offer, with nearly every scene involving him killing someone or torturing people to death while talking to them in a calm, soothing tone. He kills or tortures many people (mainly, anybody working against Krantz); this includes women and even murdering Cameron Mahone and blowing the child's head off post-mortem to mutilate the corpse just to spite his father Alexander Mahone further. When he's given intel on Scofield and his crew by Roland, he promises to give Roland $1 million and to let him go in exchange for the others. Once there, Wyatt progressively shoots Roland in the kneecap, then his thigh, and then in his stomach to watch him bleed out.
  • Christina Rose Scofield, who first appears in season 4 but is mentioned earlier, is a high-ranking leader of the Company and along with General Krantz is revealed to have been behind most of the events in the show. A sociopath who only cares about her own advancement, she sacrifices her whole family: She abandoned both her sons Lincoln and Michael while they were kids without saying a word; rejected her husband after he turned on the Company and had him hunted down; and arranged for her adopted son Lincoln (whom she despised for his relative lack of intelligence) to be framed and executed for a staged political assassination of Terence Steadman. She tries to kill General Krantz to steal a device called "Scylla" and sell it for its profitable military use, then kills her conspirator when he botches the hit. She pretends to sell the technology to a renowned Indian scientist/politician, but instead has him assassinated in public and frames Lincoln again, along with Michael, Mahone and Don Self. Christina intends to unleash a decades-long war between India and China so she can sell the tech to both sides for a quick profit, knowing that it would quickly escalate into a global conflict. When Michael steals Scylla back from her, she kidnaps Lincoln and gives Michael an ultimatum for its return by shooting Lincoln in the lung to watch him die slowly. She later tries to kill Michael when he's ruined her plans one too many times.
  • Sherlock: "Consulting criminal" Jim Moriarty lends his genius to help other crooks commit crimes, in the name of alleviating his own boredom and obsessively trying to capture the attention of Sherlock Holmes, not caring who he hurts while doing so. Behind the villains of the first two episodes, Moriarty takes center stage in "The Great Game", selling out his own clients and challenging Sherlock to solve his puzzles lest bombs he has strapped to innocents—one of whom is a child—detonate, considering the whole spectacle a demented game for himself. When an old woman begins describing the sound of his voice to Sherlock, Moriarty immediately detonates her bomb, killing her and eleven others. Later, threatening the family members of a jury to force them to declare him innocent when arrested, Moriarty goes on to poison two children; murders his own accomplice; frames Sherlock for his own crimes; and tries to force Sherlock to commit suicide, threatening to have his loved ones killed if he does not. When Sherlock attempts to force Moriarty into calling off his killers, Moriarty happily shoots himself dead to "win" his game with Sherlock. Even after his death, Moriarty arranges a plan with Sherlock's sister to continue forcing him through Sadistic Choices, resulting in the death of more innocents, unwilling to let go of his obsessive chase with Sherlock even with his own passing.
  • Nirrti is a ruthless System Lord who fancies herself a Mad Scientist. Well known for depleting populations of humans under her control so much that she had to begin poaching the slaves of other System Lords, Nirrti seeks to create the perfect host, and regularly depopulates entire planets in her domain. In one such instance, Nirrti left only a little girl alive, implanting a bomb inside her to explode in Stargate command. Later arriving with fellow lords Cronus and Yu under a flag of truce, Nirrti plotted to assassinate Cronus and start a war between the Goa'uld and Earth so she could seize Cronus's domain. In her final appearance, Nirrti is revealed to be using gene manipulation, devastating and torturing another population of innocents in her endless hunt for perfection.
  • The Q Continuum: 0 is a nearly omnipotent extradimensional entity with a penchant for torturing and exterminating "lesser" species under the guise of testing them. Having been exiled from his home plane eons ago, he manipulated a young Q into letting him into the Milky Way galaxy and guiding him to more "subjects". He attempted to enslave the Coulalakritous energy beings for warp speed transportation, and in response to their successful resistance he compressed them into a lump of ice (which they remained as for 2,000 years), only stopped from going even further by Q’s own intervention. Gathering a group of similar beings, 0 had them engineer a decades-long civil war in the Tkon Empire, and after the Tkon managed to make peace, he personally sped up the death of their sun, consuming all seven trillion inhabitants, for which the Q Continuum banished him from the galaxy. In the present, 0 manipulates a scientist into breaching the galactic barrier to allow him to continue his depredations as well as take revenge on Q for turning on him.
  • The Transformers: Flame is an Autobot scientist who was kicked out of his academy in disgrace after proposing a revival of Megatron’s plan to turn Cybertron into a mobile spacecraft. Bitter over his rejection, Flame ignored the warnings of his peers despite the danger his project posed to Cybertron. After discovering an abandoned engine room left behind by the Decepticons, Flame faked his death and continued his research in secrecy. When a test firing of the repaired engines destroyed a section of the city Kalis, Flame transmitted a signal that reanimated the corpses of his fellow Cybertronians and forced them to attack anyone who came close to the city. Flame refused to listen to the warnings of his former colleague, Emirate Xaaron, and tried to kill him when Xaaron attempted to shut down his reactor before it would destroy Cybertron. Flame showed no remorse over turning the victims of his own hubris into his zombie slaves, and only cared about restoring the reputation he deservedly lost.
  • Evil Dead: Regeneration: Dr. Vladimir Reinhard is Ash's former psychiatrist and the man behind the invasion of Deadites. A selfish, egotistical man who developed a fascination for the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, Reinhard tested the book's properties on an ADHD patient named Sam, torturing him for two years. Reinhard started his plan of reshaping the world by unleashing the Deadites in his own asylum, before opening additional portals to kill even more people. Becoming increasingly more sadistic with the book's powers, Reinhard changed his intentions of reshaping Earth to wiping out all of humanity, wishing to use Ash's lawyer, Sally, as a Human Sacrifice to complete his work.
  • The Mystery Files of Detective Inaba: Nagito Akashi, revealed to be the jovial and friendly chef Toa Nakagishi, was behind almost all the bad things that happened in the first game. Teaming up with his brother, he kills all of the guests that his brother brought so that he could write about his experiences in the novels that filled his bookshelves. In the present day when two guys—the carpenter and the novelist—killed each other in a locked room, Nagito then took one of the weapons and then left it in Sogo Inaba's room in hopes of framing him. When the former got cornered, he then attempts to kill the remaining survivors to finish his masterpiece. In one of the endings when Sogo fails to save his assistant from accidental murder, Nagito then mocks Sogo about it, claiming that it was a great twist for his own book.
  • TalesFromTheSpidersWeb: Clowny is an utter monstrous Psycho for Hire tormenting David and his friends for fun. A cannibalistic Serial Killer, Clowny was revealed to have been the one behind the disappearance of Madison White. Initially appearing to be a simple hacker, Clowny proved himself to be much more than that by visiting David's underage friend, Chance, and stabbing him to death, burning his parents alive in a house fire which he had started. Setting his eyes on Kyle, he did the same to his relative, savagely devouring his body afterwards. An animal in human skin, Clowny overshadows his compatriots in terms of sheer cruelty and brutality.
Kamen Rider Decade
  • Otoya Kurenai/Kamen Rider Dark Kiva is King's substitute in the World of Negatives, possessing not only all of his Fantastic Racism, but also a charismatic personality to hide the fact that he is a cold-hearted, scheming dictator. Having created a law that qualifies humans as less than Riders, Otoya exterminated more than half of humanity in a genocide, and sends his minions to wipe out survivor camps. He also beats a Pseudo-Rider for defying him, commenting on how he must obey him for being a true Rider. Seeking to make Tsukasa his successor, Otoya tries to corrupt him into abandoning his journey and accepting the nature of his hateful world.

edited 21st May '18 5:29:50 AM by ACW

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#118850: May 20th 2018 at 2:11:46 PM

Nicely done, ACW. Not a fan Kamen Rider Wizard, but after watching one of its movies, The Promised Place, i may have a candidate.

What is the setting? In the world of Wizard, creatures known as "Phantoms" are born from humans who fall into despair, these people are named "Gates". One of the many ways to summon Phantoms to our world is via the ritual of Sabbath, the gathering and sacrifice of humans to give birth to several Phantoms at the same time. One of these Gates is our protagonist, Haruto, a man who keeps his inner phantom, Wizar Dragon, at bay by being the Determinator, and uses his powers to prevent people from falling into despair as Kamen Rider Wizard. In his journey, Haruto faces some incredibly heinous phantoms, some of which manage to be worse than others, and one of these Phantoms is our candidate, Ogre.

Who is Ogre? The Phantom born from a man named Ōsuka, Ogre differs from other Phantoms in the fact that he doesn't care about serving their superior, Wiseman, and is a cannibalistic Serial Killer of his own race, enjoying devouring other Phantoms to have their powers as his own; notable victims of his were copies of Gremlin and Legion, two C Ms from the show. For this reason, Wiseman rejected Ogre but was unable to contain him. After the death of the show's Big Bad, Sora, Ogre targeted Wizar Dragon, intending on consuming him to achieve more power and become the strongest Phantom in existence. Ogre introduces himself to our heroes by devouring three Phantoms, mentioning that they must "offer their lives to the great Ogre", something which horrifies even them. Following Haruto to a beach, Ogre takes the Hope Ring from him and uses it ressurect Haruto's deceased friend, a despair-filled Koyomi, asking him if he will get her killed again, or let her live to wreak havoc, and by extension, make innocent people fall into despair, just to make Haruto himself fall into despair. Using Legion's mind-raping powers to invade Haruto's Underworld, Ogre finds Wizar Dragon but is unable to devour him, as the inner Phantom is now a symbol of Haruto's hope. A fight ensues and Ogre is succesfully destroyed by Haruto.

Freudian Excuses? None

Heinous? The show had some terrible baddies, the aforementioned Gremlin, a Serial Killer, and Legion, a specialist in Mind Rape, are the best examples; Ogre not only literally and metaphorically combined both of their aspects in one person (bonus points for being a cannibal), but his revival of Koyomi just to force Haruto to kill her may very well be the cruelest thing a Phantom has ever done.

Conclusion? [tup]

edited 20th May '18 5:15:13 PM by TheMadCr0w


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