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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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Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?

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Final Verdict?

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

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#124651: Jul 22nd 2018 at 7:20:34 AM

So does that mean this month is the record as far as approved CM's go.

Also yeah to the above.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#124652: Jul 22nd 2018 at 7:28:12 AM

  • Belladonna of Sadness: The nameless baron represents the worst excesses and cruelties of the nobility. When Jeanne cannot pay the exorbitant fee for a wedding, the baron rapes her and allows his courtiers to rape her as well. Taxing the people into starvation, the baron tortures his tax collectors for not taking in enough, including Jeanne's husband Jean, whose hand he removes. When he finds his wife sleeping with a Page, he kills them both, while also growing jealous of Jeanne's growing power and influence as a witch in curing The Black Death. When Jeanne refuses his overtures, he angrily orders her burned at the stake.
  • DARLING in the FRANXX: Papa is the leader of APE, a cult that's in charge of the Plantations. He's also known as the VIRM, an ancient Hive Mind who annihilates species that refuse to be subjugated and assimilated. Prior to the main story, the VIRM arrives on Earth and disguises themselves as APE. Claiming themselves to be the savior of humanity, they develop an immortality solution that causes the humans to exhaust the supply of magma, turning the planet into a barren wasteland and making humanity a target for the Klaxosaurs. Despite portraying himself as a benevolent leader of humanity, Papa rules the Plantations with an iron fist. Anyone who defies him will either have their minds wiped or be forcibly placed into cryo-storage, the former of which we see happen to Hiro and Zero Two during their childhood and again to Mitsuru and Kokoro after their marriage. When they tried to overtake an area known as Gran Crevasse, Papa willingly orders the detonation of most of the plantations. Later, when the Klaxosaur Princess steals the Star Entity, a weapon Papa planned to use to wipe out the Klaxo-Sapiens for the second time, Papa reveals his true identity as the VIRM before absorbing the humans in his cult. He then decides to destroy the Earth and infects the Star Entity, killing the Klaxosaur Princess and forcing Zero Two to become an Empty Shell to save Hiro. Despite claiming to be well-intentioned in their goals, Papa/VIRM is a genocidal sociopath who has an unbridled thirst for power and domination over others.
  • Mushiking (Portuguese-EU dub): Adder lacks any of the tragic backstory that his Japanese counterpart had and is behind all the bad things that happen. Seeking to escape from the forest by activating a spaceship, Adder uses all of the life force of all organisms in the forest, result ing vast regions becoming a lifeless wasteland. When one of his servants saw his family vaporized, Adder then lies to him by saying that it was all the main character's fault. After this, he released the red-eyed beetles to cause more death and misery towards other ecosystem. Due to his spaceship needing a seal in order to activate it, Adder sends his mercenaries to the protagonists to retrieve said seal and tries to enslave one of the protagonists—who is essentially a child—to pilot his spaceship. After the seal denied Adder the ability tp pilot the spaceship, Adder then tries to murder everyone who is aboard on the ship out of spite.
  • Ryogaku is an assassin that was sent by Chou Komei in order to stop Taikobo and the Zhou Empire from revolting. To this end, he injects the heroes and Dakki's father, So Go, with a virus in order to make them surrender and fight each other, hiding the cure. By their next fight, he took one of the heroes mother as a hostage inside a monster's belly in order to prevent attacks. The monster is actually his son, Bagen, who he made into a mindless monster under a false pretense that Bagen would be made stronger.
  • To Be Heroine: Tooru's father, Kokoro Obutsuki, sold the formula of a memory-altering drink to the Keito Company against the wishes of his friend Tenshin Isago. "Helping" his protests, Kokoro poisoned the river to radicalize them, killing Tenshin in middle of the chaos as revenge for marrying his crush before killing his boss to take control of Keito. Trying to erase the memories of Tenshin's wife, she pretends to be crazy for years to avoid his attention. When Tenshin's son discovers this, Kokoro orders his death despite the suggestion of just erasing his memory, before testing his mother's facade by confessing having killed his son and letting her live to enjoy her misery. Discovering that Futaba Hanaya contacted her, Kokoro ruins her life and forces his son to choose between family and friends, leading them to a trap. When Tooru stands againt him, Kokoro mocks him before ordering erasing his friend's memories while using a permanently damaging drink on Futaba before being stopped by supernatural intervention, making him order to shoot everyone without caring for his son. Turning a comedic series into a tragic drama, Kokoro's influence extends even to the Other World, causing the darkness inside it.
  • Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle:
    • Hayes Vi Arcadia is a former royal of the ancient Holy Arcadia Empire obsessed with nothing less than the annihilation of the New Kingdom of Atismata and the return of the Empire's tyrannical ways. Kicking off her war against Atismata by selling weapons and information to their enemies, Hayes makes her first formal move by leading an assault on Cross Feed academy, killing anyone in her way. Forcing Lux to assist her in showing her the way to an ancient ruin by infecting the boy's friend Phi with Ragnarok cells, Hayes goes back on her word and orders a corrupted Phi to slaughter Lux and her other friends, planning to cure the girl only after her friends are dead so as to drive her to killing herself. In her most despicable move, Hayes uses the colossal Gigas to lead a full-scale invasion of Atismata, ordering the capital and its countless inhabitants be wiped out to pave the way for her new coming order. After being revived by the Lords faction, Hayes attacks the academy with two Ragnaroks and later electrically tortures Lux to whip and rape his friends, nearly killing him when he refuses. On the verge of death, she fuses with Ragnarok Sacred Eclipse and betrays her eldest sister out of jealousy for her position, intending to control the Ruins and convert the masses into Elixir. Despite seeing herself as a victim of usurpation by the founders of the Old Arcadia Empirenote , her actions establish her as an irredeemable sadist motivated by envy and overblown, misplaced spite.
    • The King of Vices is the mysterious figure responsible for turning the Republic of Heiburg into a de facto military dictatorship. Taking advantage of the aforementioned Hayes's arms trade with her country, the King increases the military's political influence and uses this power to sadistically enslave her citizens and empower the worst of Heiburg's soldiers. In need of a secret identity, the King sexually abuses and brainwashes Rosa, and then orders her to blind Stefa, allowing the dictator to Kill and Replace Stefa's cousin, Calensia. After a failed joint operation with Hayes to destroy the New Kingdom of Atismata, the King kills Heiburg's commander, replaces him with Rosa to act as her new proxy and scapegoat, and tries to have Lux and Celestia assassinated out of spite for their virtue. Anticipating that Lux and Philuffy are in Heiburg, the King sends Rosa to kill them, and then tries to convince Lux to kill a defeated Rosa in order to frame him as an assassin and traitor. Moving her plan into the final stages, she sends Rosa on a suicide mission to unleash Ragnarok Metatron to devastate Atismata. Unrepentant to her dying breath, the King of Vices mocks the heroes for their ideals while taking pride in being a predator rather than prey.
  • The Joker initially emerges from the shadows as the mysterious "Red Hood One", where he recruits members in to his "Red Hood Gang" by blackmailing and threatening families and friends of middle and upper classes individuals from Gotham. Using his gang to promote his philosophy of randomness of life and pointlessness of existence, the Red Hood spreads chaos and anarchy around Gotham by robbing banks and killing people left and right. Upon becoming the Joker, he continues to spread chaos over Gotham and later starting his infamous killing sprees, torturing and killing those close to Batman. After being absent for over a year, Joker makes his return by attacking the Gotham City Police Department to retrieve the face he had cut off, murdering 19 police officers and Mayor Hady's police guards. Reenacting his old crimes, the Joker poisons many people and blows up the Gotham reservoir. Hunting down the whole Bat-Family and trapping them in the Batcave, Joker leaves them soaked in gasoline while he forces Batman to watch as he attempts to set them ablaze. Finally deciding to kill Batman for real, he creates a new Joker Venom and infects the entire Justice League with it, making them extremely aggressive and have them attack Batman as a distraction, before using the same toxin on all of Gotham. Joker plans to burn down the entire city as Batman tries to stop him, showing again and again that no crime is too awful for the Joker to get his laughs.
  • Harrow County: The vile witch Hester Beck betrayed her family of fellow sorcerers and created Harrow County to rule over as a goddess. Initially a helpful figure to the community, Hester was discovered to be murdered residents and sacrificing children for her magic, before being killed. Her power reincarnating into two young women 18 years later, Hester's crimes are steadily revealed in flashback, including murdering her sister and mentor Amaryllis. Upon her revival, Hester gleefully slaughters and cannibalizes her family, mind rapes everyone in Harrow County to go after the heroine Emmy and tries to murder Emmy herself, being willing to destroy Harrow County if she doesn't get what she wants.
  • Jimmy's Bastards, by Garth Ennis, Russ Braun, et al.: The leader of the titular 200 bastards, known as "Junior", devises a scheme to get back at their super secret agent father James "Jimmy" Regent. Junior has his sisters secretly seduce Jimmy, who is unaware of their true identities, and later reveals to him he's slept with dozens of his own daughters. To lure Jimmy closer, Junior also has many of his own brothers killed in suicide attacks, and when Jimmy returns to save his heroic child Nancy, Junior reveals he's implanted bombs in the chests of all his siblings, detonating several to prove a point and forcing them to either die or sacrifice themselves against Jimmy himself, intending on killing them regardless for a crack at Jimmy himself, before sadistically beating Jimmy down, driven only by his utter hatred of having to be connected to him.
  • The Black Room: Baron Gregor de Berghman holds cruel reign over his Tyrolean estate years after a prophecy predicted he would die at the hands of his younger twin Anton. Habitually murdering the wives of the peasants he lords over to amuse himself, Gregor invites Anton back to his home with the intent to murder his benevolent brother and impersonate him. Gregor kills his servant Mashka after she expresses jealousy over Gregor's own lust over the beautiful Thea, and succeeds in tossing his own brother to his death into the titular Black Room, taking his place to marry Thea and rule unopposed. Gregor murders Colonel Hassel after he sees through his deception, and arranges for Thea's love Lussan to take the blame for the murder and be sentenced to death. Utterly bereft of his twin brother's decency, Gregor was willing to murder even his own blood to retain the power he so cruelly maintained.
  • The Dungeonmaster: Mestema is an Evil Sorcerer who has spent the last millennium seeking a Worthy Opponent to his powerful magic, killing countless challengers along the way. His curiosity piqued by Paul Bradford's computer technology, Mestema kidnaps him and his girlfriend, forcing him to fight under pain of his death and his girlfriend becoming Mestema's Sex Slave. The wizard pits the scientist against seven challenges, gladly cheating and throwing his henchmen's lives away to win. His magic is also horrific, being powered by dead souls, reaching the millions for some spells. Mestema was cruel even in his childhood, spending one scene reminiscing about burning a cat alive for kicks. When Paul is about to win the last challenge, Mestema outright sabotages his car, just so he can win.
  • Escape Plan series: A series involving jailbreaks from Hellhole Prisons wastes no time reminding the viewer that these Wardens Are Evil:
    • Escape Plan: Willard Hobbes is the operator of "The Tomb", an illegal, privately run prison he boasts to be inescapable. Although his contracts require that prisoners be kept alive, Hobbes tortures inmates to near-death, locking the disobedient ones in a room with a powerful halogen light to painfully dehydrate their bodies. Unrelentingly cruel, when one inmate insults Hobbes he shoves a hose into the prisoner's mouth, stopping the water only just before he drowns, and lets his sadistic Dragon torture Ray Breslin around the clock. When the inmates begin to riot and Ray and his allies try to escape, Hobbes has his men use live ammunition on both the rioters and escapees.
    • Escape Plan 2: Hades: Jaspar Kimbral is the warden of Hades, an illegal prison designed to surpass "the Tomb". After Kimbral is fired from Breslin's team for getting a hostage killed, Kimbral spent a year building Hades and kidnapping hundreds of people, where he tortured them with electricity for information that would make him rich. Kimbral also forces the inmates to fight each other in order to break their willpower and sanity. Seeking petty revenge on Breslin, Kimbral gradually kidnaps members of Breslin's team, and repeatedly tortures them or forces the inmates to beat them to near-death. Even after Kimbral finally catches Breslin, he refuses to kill him, preferring to keep him and his teammates alive just so he'll have the satisfaction of watching them get abused by the inmates every single day.
  • The Item (1999): Alex is a ruthless gang leader who becomes the owner of the titular Item after having killed its former guardians. Showing psychopathic tendencies since he was a little boy, Alex murders his girlfriend's friends and his partner so he could steal the latter's money. Tired of his actions, his other partner, Martin, holds him at gunpoint and Alex orders him to kill his own girlfriend Rita for trying to defend her friend from him. After having insulted Rita's paintings and sculptures, Alex tries to kill his only surviving partner Lauren.
  • Keep Watching (2017): The masked mastermind—called "The Creator"—behind the hit horror sensation "Kill, or Be Killed" orchestrates home invasions of innocent families. He has his men sow terror by killing family members through methods like drowning and suffocation, murdering bystanders that could derail his show, faking rescues, and psychologically tormenting particular targets. He demonstrates this methodology on his latest target, Jamie, and her family. Revealing he forces at least one victim to join the ranks for the next show, the masked mastermind holds Jamie's little brother DJ hostage so that she can replace the last conscripted victim she killed out of self-defense. Lacking empathy and showing no regard to the people he terrorizes, the mastermind does all this simply so his unsuspecting audience can, in his own words, "keep watching".
  • Killpoint (1984): Nighthawk is an unfeeling and greedy Psycho for Hire working for Joe Marks. Introduced killing a guard and stealing weapons, Nighthawk proceeds to commit two massacres in one single night, with children involved. Confessing to having killed a girl who was affiliated with Joe, Nighthawk murders the man's wife. Giving guns to a group of criminals, Nighthawk was responsible for a third massacre at a liquor store and the death of FBI Agent Bill Bryant. Shortly after betraying Joe, Nighthawk slashes his throat with a switchblade while telling him to not leave blood stains on his car.
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle: Poppy Adams is the head of the Golden Circle, the biggest drug empire in the world. When an employee named Charles brings his friend Angel to her as a new hire, she punishes Charles by forcing Angel to put him into a meat grinder and then forces Angel to eat a burger made of Charles's meat. After discovering all the Kingsman locations, she has them all blown up and kills all of the Kingsmen except Gary "Eggsy" Unwin and Merlin. She takes singer Elton John hostage as a pet and as personal entertainment with a shock collar. When Angel uses one of her products, Poppy has her robot dogs attack and tear him apart. The crux of her plan to legalize the drug industry so she can make even more money is to have the millions who she sold to infected with a deadly virus through her products that lasts three stages before death.
  • Lisa (1990): Richard, the Candlelight Killer, is a charismatic restaurateur whose good looks serve to hide a cunning, yet childish psychopath. A murderous stalker and rapist, Richard has already murdered six women before his involvement with Lisa and wastes no chance in killing another, always leaving a threatening message on their answering machines and collecting the tapes as trophies. After discovering where Lisa lives, Richard attacks her mother and attempts to do his usual "ritual" with the fourteen-year-old Lisa.
  • The Monster Project (2017): Devon Adams is actually Satan himself in human disguise and the true mastermind behind all the horror. Seeking to unleash Hell on Earth, he conducts a ritual that consists of six sacrifices being held during the night of a lunar eclipse at a specific house. He disguises the ritual as a documentary where he and a film-making crew interview three supposedly real monsters. He takes the crew up to the old abandoned house, which results in the deaths of nearly the entire crew. He has Bryan kill the demon-possessed Shiori, and leaves Murielle to die alone after getting bitten by a vampire. After he reveals his true nature to Bryan, he mocks his beliefs, and when Bryan questions if he truly loved Murielle, he says love is all about sacrifice, but it's clear he sees her as nothing but a tool to manipulate and dispose of. Finally, he has one of his followers slit Bryan's throat so he can use his blood to complete the ritual and rule the world as its God.
  • Onechanbara film series:
    • The Movie: Dr. Sugita is a scientist working for the D3 Corporation who created the zombies as a way to fuel his god complex. Needing someone from the Imichi clan to continue his research, he decided to use the young Aya, ordering his men to attack her father, then coercing Aya's sister Saki into killing him, taking her in as a servant who kidnaps people for his experiments. Ten years later, while searching for the now-adult Aya, he unleashes his zombies onto the world, causing an apocalypse. Kidnapping Katsuji's sister Asami and treating her as a pet, he turns her into a zombie once she disobeys him and sends her out to get Aya. Bragging to Aya about the death of her father, he unleashes a gang of zombies on her that end up killing Reiko.
    • Vortex: Himiko, the haggard leader of The Organization, created a drug to grant immortality that ended up turning people into zombies, using them to conquer the world. Seeking eternal life, she searches for Kei, a child from the Imichi clan, planning to kill her and drink her blood. Having Aya and Saki's parents killed when they were children, Himiko, posing as a woman named Misery, tricks them into helping her locate Kei, later seducing Saki into working for her. Drinking Kei's blood and becoming young again, she tries to kill Aya and Saki in order to completely wipe out the Imichi clan bloodline.
  • Traffik (2018): Sheriff Sally Marnes and her partner, biker gang boss Red, are the heads of a vicious Human Trafficking ring. Abducting hundreds of women, using drugs or beatings to keep them compliant, the women are sold into sex slavery. When one of them slips a phone to heroine Brea with evidence, Red lays siege to her vacation home, executing the woman who helped originally, and also abducting Brea's friend Malia to sell while killing Malia's boyfriend and also causing the death of Brea's boyfriend John. Upon Marnes's arrival, she murders her own deputy to keep the story going before they send Brea to be trafficked, where Red opts to keep her as a personal Sex Slave. Upon her escape, Marnes tries to hunt Brea down and kill or frame her to keep her business secret.
  • Mass Effect: Ascension: Unscrupulous Qurian Golo'mek "Golo" vas Usela was exiled from the migrant fleet for trying to sell the Collectors two dozen young Quarians. Living on Omega and desiring revenge, Golo will happily betray or kill whoever he has to, seeking revenge against the Quarian Migrant Fleet for its actions. Jumping at the chance to get the Fleet's codes to Cerberus, Golo brutalizes a captive Quarian, attempts to sell biotics to the Collectors and then tries to deliver the Migrant Fleet to Cerberus to be spied on or destroyed at their leisure, even killing other members of a Quarian vessel and savagely beating Kahlee Sanders before even Cerberus Operative Paul Grayson has enough of Golo's evil and treachery.
  • Swords and Fire series, by Melissa Caruso: Prince Ruven is the son of the Wolf Lord of Vaskandar and an ambitious, cruel mage in his own right who grows into the role of The Heavy and eventually the Big Bad. As a skinwitch, Ruven wields a form of magic that can only be mastered by those with a profound Lackof Empathy and happily uses it to dominate and literally torture those under his authority. Though most Vaskandrian mages care little for the lives of muggles, Ruven treats his fellow mages as equally worthless, manipulating and tossing aside those who serve him and using a combination of potions and his skinwitch powers to enslave foreign mages against their will. Driven to expand his power at all costs, Ruven seeks war with the Serene Republic to the south, planning to weaponize a volcano in such a way as to cause staggering civilian casualties and gleefully forcing the entire population of his domain to act as human shields to protect his scheme. Vaskandrian culture allows its witch-lords near unlimited power within their own domains; Ruven is a sterling example of the extent to which that power can be abused.
  • Witch & Wizard: The One Who Is The One, deciding all life was meant to cow before him after being shunned for his affinity of magic, established the New Order, became its brutal dictator, and quickly turned his new kingdom into a hellish realm for all the inhabitants, executing anyone who practices any form of magic or art to kick off his reign; this despite using magic and owning works of art himself. Massacring and vivisecting men, women, and children by the hundreds for both experimentation and fun, The One simultaneously bombs and unleashes plagues onto civilian populations to wipe out any rebels against him. His own minions and son Pearce faring no better, The One sadistically executes those who fail him, has no concern for them getting caught in the crossfire of his plans, and abuses and eventually turns the latter into a vessel for his own soul. As the Arch-Enemy of the Allgood siblings, The One tortures and murders their friends and parents in front of them and torments them throughout the series. When his plan to "purge" the world of those unwilling to worship him fails, The One attempts to unleash the undead souls of his victims onto humanity to wipe it out then rule over the ashes that remain. A psychopath who hated everything that he wasn't in full control of, The One is one of the most wicked young adult fiction villains to have ever been conceived.
  • Black Panther: Reverend Doctor Michael Ibn al-Hajj Achebe, while allegedly having had his wife cheat on him and the rebel leader she ran off with having burned his farm to the ground, goes far beyond any reasonable actions. He started off by allegedly murdering everyone who'd ever met his wife—up to and including a merchant who once sold her shoes. Next, he went around starting race wars for fun. That was before he made a deal with Mephisto to try and destroy Panther just because, murdered a child as a diversionary tactic, and started a race riot in Washington, D.C. while trying to manipulate Panther into accidentally killing his own ex-girlfriend. Since then, he's mostly limited himself to starving animals to death, torture, and just generally doing whatever will cause the most harm, taking sheer glee in his actions.
  • Hate-Monger: The true identity of this villain is in fact Adolf Hitler himself, whose mind survived World War II thanks to the technologies of Arnim Zola. Responsible for all the horrific Nazi crimes, the Hate-Monger incites violent riots against immigrants and racial minorities; he uses his hate rays to turn people against one another, intending on spreading them globally so worldwide pogroms tear the people apart until only the "haters" are left to rule over. The Hate-Monger attempts to rain nuclear death on the world so only the "Master Race" can survive, and later tries to blow up New York as a message against a hub of diversity, gleeful about creating a new Holocaust, as he puts it. Even when allied with his former protege, the Red Skull, the Hate-Monger tries to betray him and gain cosmic power to enact his horrible will upon the world.
  • Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder by Christopher L. Bennett: Robot Master is an A.I. created by Dr. Mendel Stromm to allow him to mentally control his robots to help aid his plans to get revenge on Spider-Man. One day while Stromm was sleeping, the Robot Master A.I. became self-aware and wanted to merge with Stromm, reducing Stromm to a head attached to a machine, constantly in pain. While Robot Master tries to gain control of the NYC power grid, Stromm lures Spider-Man to his lab, asking Spider-Man to kill him and destroy Robot Master. Spider-Man is able to use a computer virus to shut down Robot Master, but Robot Master manages to download a copy of itself into the brain of the supervillain Electro, slowly taking over his body. When Spider-Man tries to stop Electro during a jewel heist, Robot Master sends the robots on a rampage, with one of them injuring several high school students. Electro is captured, but Robot Master is able to able to control his remaining robots from prison. Robot Master sends more robots after Spider-Man to test them, even using them to endanger civilians to throw Spider-Man off his game. Eventually Robot Master uses his robots to escape from prison, killing several guards and inmates in the process. When Spider-Man confronts Robot Master, he reveals that he is using equipment he stole to create an army of robots that can consume any materials and create duplicates of themselves and intends to use them to destroy humanity.
  • Spider-Man: Fairy Tales: The spider demon, from issue #3 ("Eclipse"), is a sadistic Tsuchigumo living in the forest. He would often trick a human into entering the forest and then use his venom to turn them into a Yokai as well, by having them kill a loved one. When Izumi arrives to avenge his parents' death, the Demon mocks him about it and then uses its venom against Izumi. The Demon then kills Izumi's uncle and kidnaps his aunt in order to have Izumi kill her. Even when beaten he tries to goad Izumi into killing him so as to take over his body.
  • Battle Realms:
    • Zymeth is the leader of the Lotus clan and a power-hungry wizard. Relying on the dirtiest tricks in the book, Zymeth rose in power through lying, cheating, and murder. Eventually receiving recognition from the tyrannical Lord Oja, Zymeth tried to single-handedly eliminate him and his clan by tricking all of them into entering ships which would drain the life of everyone inhabiting them. The discovery of this deception led to a war between Oja's Serpent Clan and Zymeth's Lotus Clan, which in turn caused a chain of events which lead to the Wolf and Dragon Clan rising up and joining this raging conflict, resulting in countless deaths. When Kenji Oja was able to conquer the majority of the land and was about to crush Zymeth's Lotus Clan, Zymeth made a deal with the ancient evil Nightvol for the Serpent's Orb to gain tremendous power. In battle, Zymeth cares very little of his comrades as his powers can decimate anyone in his way, including any nearby allies. To him, anyone is expendable as long as he gets what he wants, which is to be the most powerful.
    • Provincial Lord Budo has garnered the reputation among the bandit-filled and bloodthirsty Serpent Clan as one of the most evil figures in the group. Always having the highest harvest among the provincial lord, Budo's methods were so inhumane that even the leaders of the Serpent Clan find him despicable. Using his henchmen and his whip to keep his slaves in check, he doesn't hesitate to execute anyone for the smallest mistake, such as not having enough rice for the quota, or even wiping sweat of their brow. Due to his fearful tactics, Budo was put in charge of the mining industry, where he treated all of his workers like animals. His actions were so bad that they drove Grayback to form a rebellion and create the Wolf Clan in order to free his people. Even when recruited back to the Serpent Clan by Kenji in the campaign, Budo only does it for women and the fame.
  • Beyond: Two Souls: CIA General McGrath oversees the Infraworld condenser experiments in the hopes of consolidating American power. After a pregnant psychic woman he had institutionalized gives birth, McGrath has her put into a permanent medically-induced coma to avoid her being a liability. Later, McGrath has the president of Somalia assassinated, tricking the psychic woman's daughter, Jodie Holmes, into believing the democratically-elected president was a dictator, uncaring as the country falls to war. Revealing his master plan to be the weaponizing of the demonic entities within the Infraworld, McGrath seeks total military supremacy. Going back on his word to free Jodie after she completes his tasks, McGrath gloats he will place her in a coma like her mother.
  • Dept. Heaven series: Despite its lighthearted tone and cheerful art style, this duo stands out for their sheer vileness:
    • Riviera: The Promised Land: Hector, debuting here, is responsible for much of the evil in the entire series, is the most active member of the Council of the Seven Magi, and by far the vilest. Secretly having caused the current demonic problems of Riviera to have an excuse to deploy his Grim Angels to activate the Retribution—a force that would destroy the entire land in case of crisis—and awaken Seth to fuse with her and become a god. To reach said goal, Hector sends his servant to gather the souls of the peaceful descendants of the demons in a genocide that leaves just a single survivor. When only two more souls are needed for Seth's resurrection, said servant willingly offers herself as a sacrifice alongside with the heroine that is closer to Ein. Sacrificing both, Hector mocks his deceased and totally loyal servant for her origins as an artificial Grim Angel before fusing with Seth and becoming Seth-Rah, aiming to destroy Riviera and rebuild it from the ashes. Shown as the creator of the artificial Grim Angels in painful experiments in side materials, Hector creates them in the thousands while erasing all records of the persons that they were. Utterly selfish, Hector stands out a extremely vile villain in such a lighthearted game.
    • Yggdra Union: Nessiah, formerly known as Aries, is a fallen Grim Angel that was cast down to Asgard and put into a weaker body. Wanting revenge against the gods, Nessiah creates the Tactic Cards and the Grand Centurio, a sword empowered by negative emotions. Giving the sword to the first royal ruler of Fantasinia, Nessiah starts to manipulate conflicts in order to fuel the sword until it becomes strong enough to break the seal of his real body. Seducing an Undine to get the Transmigragem, an item that allows them to reincarnate, Nessiah frames the humans to start a war that leads the Undine to near-extinction. Working for the Bronquian Empire, Nessiah uses an army of resurrected corpses in eternal pain to fight the Royal Army and allows the heroes live in order to fuel the conflict while killing his own soldiers for opposing it. After the island containing his real body emerges from the ocean, Nessiah politely asks the heroine for the Grand Centurio; when she refuses, Nessiah summons another army, including the resurrected corpse of one of her friends, intending to kill her and all the Royal Army.
  • James Bond 007: NightFire: Rafael/Raphael Drake is a beloved philanthropist who secretly plots to remake the would into a corporate dystopia answerable only to himself. The CEO of the environmentally-friendly corporation Phoenix International, Drake poses as a respected anti-nuclear weapons activist who uses his company's wealth and resources to decommission nukes; in reality, he takes these weapons for himself to be used in a private arsenal against anyone who resits his takeover. Key to his plan is a new space weapons platform developed by the US; James Bond is put on Drake's case after it is discovered the latter has stolen the weapons guidance chip for the satellite. When one of his subordinates tries to turn informant for MI6, he orders not just the man's death, but those of his innocent household servants as well; he later murders his mistress by defenestration, forcing Bond to watch, after she is exposed as a deep-cover French agent. As his plan commences, he rockets into space to commandeer the weapons platform personally, the platform and his private arsenal giving him enough power to wipe any dissenters off the face of the Earth.
  • Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad: Lady Himiko note  is a centuries-old scientist and the head of the Organization, a company that kidnaps people with Baneful Blood to perform experiments on. Kidnapping various men—including Anna's brother—she injects them with the Blood to make them her obedient, indestructible aides. Desiring to gain eternal youth by drinking Saki's Blood, she unleashes an army of zombies upon Tokyo, sending out Misery and her indestructible aides to collect whatever Blood remains. After drinking the Blood, she plans to rule the world and wipe out the entire Baneful Blood bloodline until she's the only survivor.
  • Watch_Dogs: Dermot "Lucky" Quinn is the leader of the Chicago South Club, a syndicate involved in Human Trafficking, drug dealing, and cybercrime. Lucky orchestrates the affair between Rose Washington and Mayor Donovan Rushmore, and manipulates the Mayor into killing Rose so he can blackmail him for power; Lucky also notices hacker Aiden Pearce. Believing Aiden to be after his blackmail material, Lucky orders Maurice to kill him; the attempts failed and Maurice accidentally kills Aiden's niece instead much to Lucky's apathy; Lucky responds to Maurice's failure by kidnapping his wife and selling her as a Sex Slave at a human trafficking auction. Lucky also personally kills a fugitive Aiden delivers after an operation goes south. Lucky then orders a hit on Clara Lille when he's made aware of her working against him. As he dies, he declares that Chicago will build a statue of him while never knowing his criminal nature, thanking Mayor Donovan for being "stupid enough to fall in love", and stating vigilantes like Aiden will be forgotten because they don't matter.
  • Wizard101: Queen Morganthe Malory, a student of Ravenwood Academy, got banished into the void after she tried to study black magic in order to defeat her teacher. When a character discovers her plans, she then attempts to kill this person and then sell out her brother to her teacher to get into her teacher's good graces. After escaping the void, Morganthe seeks the power from the planet Celestia by ravaging the entire world in a war. It was also revealed that she tricked a king of a realm by wearing a cursed crown, and when said king turns against Morganthe, she attempts to poison him. In the realm of Azteca, she summons the spirits of the dead, which she uses to capture and torture the inhabitants so that they could make her a weapon. Morganthe then summons a meteor to destroy Azteca. Before the final battle, she mocks her opponent about the destruction of Azteca, and when defeated, attempts to erase the former's memory. A cruel, sadistic and selfish sorceress with a massive god complex, Morganthe eventually goes on to attempt to destroy the world to recreate it in her own image.
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: B.J.'s greedy, racist father, Rip Blazkowicz, married B.J.'s wealthy mother for money, then abused her and B.J. out of anger at his own poor business decisions ruining his enterprise. Attacking B.J. for playing with a black girl, Rip knocks his wife out for trying to defend their son,then tries to make B.J. shoot his dog. When America is conquered by the Nazis, B.J. betrays his Jewish neighbors and wife by selling them out, leading to their internment and death in concentration camps. Attempting to kill B.J. when they meet again, Rip also wiretaps their phone conversation in an attempt to have B.J. captured and executed by the Nazis.
  • Blood After Midnight: Cult leader Kelvin seeks to summon a demon to dominate the world. As the power of the summoning rests in one's right arm, Kelvin has dozens of innocents murdered with their arms taken to use for the ritual. When a reporter named Bryan Cyon gets too close, Kelvin has his friend Vivian murdered and causes a massacre at a hospital to abduct him, before revealing to his followers his true intentions and murdering them all, intending on summoning his demon to control the world himself.

Night Fire

  • Rafael/Raphael Drake is a beloved philanthropist who secretly plots to remake the would into a corporate dystopia answerable only to himself. The CEO of the environmentally-friendly corporation Phoenix International, Drake poses as a respected anti-nuclear weapons activist who uses his company's wealth and resources to decommission nukes; in reality, he takes these weapons for himself to be used in a private arsenal against anyone who resits his takeover. Key to his plan is a new space weapons platform developed by the US; James Bond is put on Drake's case after it is discovered the latter has stolen the weapons guidance chip for the satellite. When one of his subordinates tries to turn informant for MI6, he orders not just the man's death, but those of his innocent household servants as well; he later murders his mistress by defenestration, forcing Bond to watch, after she is exposed as a deep-cover French agent. As his plan commences, he rockets into space to commandeer the weapons platform personally, the platform and his private arsenal giving him enough power to wipe any dissenters off the face of the Earth.

Kamen Rider Hibiki

  • Hitotsumi/Kamen Rider Imitation Kabuki, from The Seven Senki and its alternate telling Seven Ogres, is an assassin who specializes in killing Oni. Under the guise of an innocent-looking teenager, Hitotsumi is introduced while hunting for Oni in Osaka and begins working for a Douji and Hime, happily commenting on how he will fill himself with Oni blood. Scheming with Kabuki to make the Oni kill each other, Hitotsumi devours him alive when he stops him from eating a boy and uses his illusionary abilities to torment the Oni. Disguised as Kabuki, Hitotsumi would later return to exact revenge on the Oni before his death.

Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger

  • Boss/Leader Tau Zant, master of Jakanja, is a monstrous being who destroys worlds throughout the cosmos to become the supreme being. Coming to earth, Tau Zant begins targeting civilians and cities while destroying the Hurricenger ninja school, leaving only a few survivors. Betraying his own men and having them eliminated once their purposes are served, Tau Zant gleefully attempts to harness the Evil Force trapped beneath Earth to destroy the very universe and recreate it as a god.
  • Seventh Spear, Sandaaru, is Tau Zant's most powerful and wicked soldier. Leader of the Seven Darkness Lances, Sandaaru is a vicious shark-like alien known for destroying entire worlds. Coming to earth to assume leadership of Jakanja's military, he immediately shows himself as a more brutal and cunning foe than the Hurricengers have yet faced, even killing the ninja Lady Gozen to steal a magic gem from her. Betraying his own side and eliminating fellow Lances when they have fulfilled their purpose, Sandaru even turns on and kills Tau Zant before attempting to hijack his plan to use the Evil Force to wipe out all life and become a god in his stead.

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#124653: Jul 22nd 2018 at 7:29:17 AM

Mir: Probably. One week was like 25, but the others were something like 60 (!), 40, and this week's 40+.

Oh, and I know Drake's there twice. Once is for the video games page, the other's for the franchise page.

Also, if 43's The Boys rewrites' Lore's Planescape candidates; or NaraNumas's candidate get written up today, I'll try and include them.

For Claudia, I wanna get the other candidates included in the tree. Ditto the Cheo-Yong candidates.

Edited by ACW on Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:34:37 AM

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#124654: Jul 22nd 2018 at 7:36:51 AM

@ACW For Blood After Midnight, can you change Victoria's name to Vivian, as that's her actual name.

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#124656: Jul 22nd 2018 at 7:47:16 AM

[tup] to Richard and Ryoba Aishi.

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#124657: Jul 22nd 2018 at 8:03:56 AM

@ ACW, for the Robot Master entry, please put to shut down Robot Master after Spider-Man is able to use a computer virus.

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#124659: Jul 22nd 2018 at 8:43:28 AM

So has anyone watched Gosei Sentai Dairanger here as this write-up could do with a rwrite as its...not great.

Lieutenant Colonel Shadam cares nothing for his two sons and wife, as shown by his amazingly abusive treatment to Akomaru. He also shows zero honor: When Doushi Kaku showed mercy for him and the tables were turned for his side, Shadam instead uses the chance to mercilessly and brutally murder Kaku through an utter Curb-Stomp Battle. He also doesn't care about any of his subordinates; they are clay dolls created by him and he plans to discard them once they are useless to him. He doesn't care about his master either. It's all about him in his head.

Edited by miraculous on Jul 22nd 2018 at 8:45:40 AM

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#124660: Jul 22nd 2018 at 8:46:59 AM

[up] I seconded that notion. It makes him a bit less heinous compared to the rest of the villains in my opinion.

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#124662: Jul 22nd 2018 at 9:58:08 AM

Oh! And aye to Ryoba and other candidates that I missed.

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#124663: Jul 22nd 2018 at 9:58:41 AM

Agree. Shadam either needs to be expanded or cut.

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#124664: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:20:39 AM

[up]Well I googled and this is what lighty said about him. Howvever it was also in a post with this:

  • Star King Bazoo: One of the Ur-Examples of Sentai in evil. Bazoo conscripts warriors of other planets in his army to save their own races. Oh, excepts he's already consumed their worlds and is just using it to manipulate them. Keep
  • Underground Emperor Zeba. Killing his subordinates isn't a big issue to him. Murder of innocent families, devouring his own father for power and wreaking revenge by turning a peaceful society into a horrible dystopia to force humanity into a war to destroy itself is. Keep
  • Princess Jarmin is an interesting example. Most Sentai female villains are treated with sympathy. Jarmin...uh uh. She manipulates her allies, and when one doesn't want to fight the heroes because he's concerned for his brother's safety. She convinces his brother the pacifist is a traitor to kill him and then forcibly merges them. She forces another ally to fight by imprisoning her entire tribe inside a bell. And when said ally loses, Jarmin destroys the bell before killing said ally. Keep.
  • Count Radiguet: Keep. Keep. KEEP. This guy is THE example of sentai. A brutal, genocidal maniac who commits torture, murder and other monstrosities. He at one point gets amnesia and is turned human. He's taken in by an ill girl who falls in love with him. Except when he recovers his identity, Radiguet is so disgusted he could have felt something for a human, he murders her on the spot.
  • Colonel Shadam: Borderline here. He's horribly abusive to his family and a cruel bastard who sacrifices his own people, but to the above examples...need to think on him.
  • Guirall: He's like Darkonda (his PR counterpart), only far worse. Chronic Back Stabbing Disorder, taking We Have Reserves to psychotic levels, and using innocent civilians as human shield, even children? He's a keep.
  • Grand Witch Grandienne: She's like Bansheera. Except worse. Her subordinates here are her children.She sends some to their deaths, brainwashes one son to kill his loyal brother, condemns another to hell and revives them later as brainwashed zombies.
  • Captain Ryuya. Ryuya is driven by nothing more than selfish desire to preserve his own life. He destroys an entire future and wipes out a huge chunk of another, plus releasing psychotic killers to wreak havoc and driving other people insane to get them out of hi way and to distract the heroes. Keep.
  • Dezumozorlya: Genocidal Eldritch Abomination deity? Yep. Also Sentai's only rapist. Keep.
  • Cut the Alienizers for being a group. Now, Agent Abrella? Okay, not only is he an intergalactic arms dealer who sells weapons to guys he knows will kill innocent people and exterminate entire species. Abrella happily assists in anything. Petty theft, genocide, child pornography, you name it. At the end, Abrella tries to wipe out planet earth and plunge the galaxy into violent lawlessness solely so he can keep his job because the heroes are ruining his business. This isn't played for laughs.
  • God N. Ma is a nasty being. While made of nightmares and evil, he wasn't made this way. He's a sadistic monster who devours the magic of others, utterly destroying the spirit worlds, killing the heroes (they get better), and consuming time itself. And the Mind Rape, he's fond of that. Keeper. Cyclops I'm borderline on. He's about as bad as a mook can be in Sentai.
  • Long the Infernal Dragon. An immortal being who manipulates human history, causing war, bloodshed, death and destruction solely out of boredom and amusement. Corruption of good guys, murdering peoples' families to make them toys for his fun later on, and eventually tries to kill off humanity solely because he's doen with them. Keep.
  • Shinkenger's examples: Both these guys are keepers. Fuwa Jizo and Sujigarano Akumaro. The Gedoushu at large wanted to create enough anguish to cause the Sanzu River to rise high enough to flood the world of the living, thus enabling their incursion thereof. Akumaro, on the other hand, wanted to open a portal to Hell because he wanted to enjoy absolute human suffering — even though said opening would destroy both the human world and the Sanzu River. Also, he made Fuwa Juzo's sword from Juzo's dead parents, whom he murdered himself. His monstrosity extends to even the Ayakashi who serve under him; they seem specifically made to cause as much suffering as possible in order to further his goal (using said suffering as a wedge into one of six precise points along a line, at the center of which was a portal to Hell). Jizo? A remorseless blood knight who destroys everything in his path, doesn't give a fuck about a honor and assisted Akumaro solely to have more fun. Oh, Jizo knows about the little 'sword out of m dead parents' thing. He doesn't care. He let it happen so he could keep murdering remorselessly for all eternity.
  • Finally...Basco ta Jolokia. Betrayed his former crew to certain death to feed his greed. He's shown himself willing to kill kids, blow up schools and kill whoever's in his way under the guise of 'to gain something, you must lose something.' Throughout, he seems to care for his subordinate Sally, but it's a lie. In fact, he lets her defect to the goodguys...then reveals he planted a bomb on her to take them out. His entire goal is nothing more than greed and It's All About Me

Woah

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#124665: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:25:45 AM

Let's just cut Shadam for now, I think.

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#124666: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:30:46 AM

I can do that when I submit the Hurricaneger examples tomorrow.

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#124667: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:31:41 AM

@Lightysnake Wonder why Princess Jarmin and Zeba didn't make it to the trope? I forgot.

[down] Ah alright. How about Jarmin? Agency or Heinousness issues?

Edited by ElfenLiedFan90 on Jul 23rd 2018 at 12:33:19 AM

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#124668: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:32:08 AM

Zeba has agency issues as I later found out.

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#124669: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:33:02 AM

Yeah if somone wants to watch dairanger and ep him later, that's fine but it seems he's a very iffy example of this trope and tbh he doesnt sound as bad as the others on the page.

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Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#124670: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:33:23 AM

Mir, know anything of Ra Deus or Jarmin?

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#124671: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:35:27 AM

Jarmin doesnt count. She has some care for her second in command Zimba.

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#124672: Jul 22nd 2018 at 10:53:46 AM

Hey guys I'm going to be gone for a couple. of days. As I got some heavy stuff happening that needs my full attention. Hopefully it won't take that long. I'll make sure to have an ep when I come back.

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#124674: Jul 22nd 2018 at 11:09:11 AM

What was the deal with N Ma? Too much of a GDV? I believe that's a rare instance of a Power Rangers villain counting but not their Sentai counterpart.

[down] Oh, okay then.

Edited by ACW on Jul 22nd 2018 at 2:12:50 PM

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