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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.

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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.

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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

Knack Since: Mar, 2018
MenInGreyToBlak V Since: Oct, 2017 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
V
#125252: Jul 28th 2018 at 8:26:37 PM

[tup] Du Prey.

I discussed with Lighty about if anyone counts in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, PM me if you want to know if anyone does.

Edited by MenInGreyToBlak on Jul 28th 2018 at 5:28:27 PM

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)
#125253: Jul 28th 2018 at 8:37:50 PM

[tup] to Du Prey I guess?

"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
#125254: Jul 28th 2018 at 8:46:33 PM

Yes to Belasco, Reggie and Du Prey.

Scraggle Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#125255: Jul 28th 2018 at 9:19:15 PM

Aye to Belasco. Reggie too... I'm utterly confounded by all these recent attempts to hyper-darken Archie of all things, aside from the obvious reason of the new freedom they have now that they're not trying to play exclusively to family-friendly audiences. Some work (Afterlife with Archie and the hilariously gory Archie VS Predator) and some... don't (Riverdale). Which does the Hunger fall into?

Edited by Scraggle on Jul 28th 2018 at 10:22:04 AM

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#125256: Jul 28th 2018 at 9:25:15 PM

It actually works pretty well. Jughead and Vampironica (Which I'm looking at for potential keeps) are quite good.

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
The 47th President
#125257: Jul 28th 2018 at 10:10:19 PM

@Scraggle: Mhm you don’t like Riverdale why is that? (let me guess you don’t like how it’s more focused on the Archie x Veronica and Betty x Jughead pairings)

[down] that’s a good reason to.

Edited by G-Editor on Jul 28th 2018 at 7:24:34 AM

My sandbox of EPs and other stuff
Scraggle Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#125258: Jul 28th 2018 at 10:18:41 PM

[up] No, I mostly don't like it because it's a terribly written show with terribly written characters all around, but that's neither here nor there.

Sure to DuPrey too. Sounds nasty and stand-out enough, especially with some of his victims being children.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125259: Jul 28th 2018 at 11:28:14 PM

[tup] DuPrey. He seems like a bad enough Serial Killer for the 616-verse. My ONLY hesitation is I'm not sure how mitigating Nice to the Waiter is, unless it's mere Pragmatic Villainy.

Scraggle, I'm not sure anything surprises me anymore, what with Rainbow Brite having a candidate, and Scooby-Doo having a freaking Eldritch Abomination.

[down] Oh right. And freaking KIRBY.

Edited by ACW on Jul 28th 2018 at 2:31:15 PM

Knack Since: Mar, 2018
#125260: Jul 28th 2018 at 11:31:18 PM

@ACW There was Count Chocula as well. [lol]

Sircray Since: Apr, 2018
#125261: Jul 28th 2018 at 11:49:31 PM

[up][up] It felt like a weird going through the motions thing, as he seemingly robotically says the exact same phrase ("Thank you, _____. Here's a little something for you.") to each person (the doorman, the valet, etc.) that he has to deal with as he makes his way out of a building.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125262: Jul 28th 2018 at 11:53:42 PM

Hmm, alright, that doesn't SEEM disqualifying, and Lighty said he's read the issues and gives a yes, so I'll solidify my yes.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#125263: Jul 29th 2018 at 12:05:55 AM

I think it's his faux-air of refinement more than anything. He's a smug overly superior dick.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125264: Jul 29th 2018 at 12:22:46 AM

  • Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals: Ra Devil is a malevolent cyborg who seeks to become Deathgyunos, the God of Oblivion. He stole Cid Previa's brain from his grave before murdering Cid's young grandson Mid. He then kept the brain alive and in torment to forcibly extract the knowledge of the elemental crystals that stabilize the world. Returning to Planet R two hundreds years later, Ra Devil steals the crystals, dooming the world to destruction. Setting sight on the Wind Crystal, he launches raids on Rouge Island and later the city of Tycoon. He then abducts the heroine Linaly, whose body hosts the the Wind Crystal and uses her as a battery to drain the energy of the universe and complete his transformation. After the heroes interrupts the process, Ra Devil fights them back and sadistically electrocutes Prettz and Rouge in front of their friends.
  • The Boys:
    • Black Noir, clone of the Homelander, was made to destroy the original, but chafes under never getting the order. Deciding to drive the Homelander insane, Black Noir goes on murderous rampages, killing sprees and rapes where he impersonates the Homelander, even killing and eating babies to take photos and send them to the Homelander to drive him insane and make him become a monster so Noir can receive the kill order. Billy Butcher's wife Becky was also raped by Black Noir, leading to her death. Noir later helps manipulate Homelander into starting a superpowered rebellion to get countless innocents killed, having embraced his own sadism and madness long ago.
    • John Godolkin is a twisted expy of Charles Xavier. The leader of the G-Men, Godolkin kidnaps children from their parents and turns them into superpowered Child Soldiers that he raises to be loyal to him. Any children who prove troublesome are summarily murdered and stricken from the rosters. Worse, Godolkin is a pedophile who rapes the children after he has abducted them, slowly brainwashing them into helping him rape the younger children later, building an army of fanatical soldiers ready to die for him. Even in the twisted world of The Boys, Godolkin distinguishes himself as one of the most vile around.
  • Broken Moon series:
    • Broken Moon, by Steve Niles, Nat Jones, et al.: Nosferatu, the lord of the vampires that have dominated most of the Earth after the apocalypse resulted in monsters overrunning the world, sets up a cruel, dystopian city where humans have been forced into slavery by his kind, either into forced breeding to produce food for the vampires or into hellish factories with giant death tolls that do nothing but blot out the sun. Unsatisfied with oppressing humanity, and executing even his own vampire minions if they question him, Nosferatu opts to have a pipe built into the ocean so he can poison it and subsequently destroy the atmosphere, turning the entire planet into a polluted hellscape to wipe out every other species from the planet.
    • Legends of the Deep, by Philip Kim, Nat Jones, Ben Meares, et al.: Lorren is a vicious cannibal who takes advantage of the apocalyptic state of mankind to engage in whatever fantasies he wants, having been mad from the start. Lorren squeezes out victims from a desperate fishing village Korbin works for, protecting them in exchange for men, women, and children to devour. Once Korbin turns on him to try and help stop Cthulhu, Lorren viciously tries to murder both him, his son, and the mermen he's allied with, exploiting cheap and dangerous labor from the other villagers to bury them in a landslide and maiming his own minions when they contest his ideas. Lorren ultimately ends up into a monstrous, mutated servant of Cthulhu, as much an abomination on the outside now as he was on the inside.
  • Extinctioners: Noah Adam Mahn, the cruel head of humanity's Science Division, is the Overarching Villain of the entire comic and the single greatest threat to ever scourge Alden. Mahn's forces wreak havoc and death across Alden, wiping out entire villages and a space station populated by well over a thousand innocent lives, targeting superpowered "hybrids" to either cow or mentally break them into their slaves while forcing them into breeding programs or to slaughter their own kind. Mahn's previous experiments with creating a sentient species ended with them being declared "expendable" and the entire species almost completely killed under his order, and Mahn announces his intentions at the end of the first arc to invade Alden and utterly crush the humanimals and their cities, enslaving whatever he doesn't annihilate. Even compared to his comparatively well-intentioned colleagues in humanity's fleets, Mahn is nothing more than a xenophobic monster willing to put an entire species under his foot out of a rabid sense of superiority.
  • H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival: Karl Heinrich himself, from The Temple, orchestrates his atrocities from the original story and goes beyond when he's revealed to have survived his trip to the undersea city, becoming the chosen of Dagon. Heinrich commands the operation of Henry Wilcox's cult, having loose ends disposed of while taking the occultist Michele LeSorcier to make her Dagon's bride, allowing Dagon to awaken and summon the other Great Old Ones. Heinrich intends to devastate the world and wipe out humanity as he remains untouched, madly preaching himself the "Master Race" and laughing as Dagon devours his own loyal Deep One followers.
  • Jughead: The Hunger: This interpretation of Reggie Mantle proves to be a far cry from his mainstream counterpart. After nearly being killed by a transformed Jughead, Reggie discovers that he gained the powers to transform into a werewolf. Reggie slaughters every doctor in the room before attacking and forcibly turning Veronica, Mr. Weatherbee, Moose, and Cheryl into werewolves, convincing them to form a pact with the goal of killing Jughead. Reggie has Jellybean, Jughead's younger sister, kidnapped, and sends a message to Jughead that if he doesn't come to their hideout, she'll be killed. Having his pack attack and viciously murder countless innocents of Riverdale while waiting for him, when Jughead arrives, Reggie and his pact attack him, and try to force-feed Jughead the innards of their slaughtered victims, Reggie threatening to feed Jughead's own sister to him next. While fighting Jughead, Reggie boasts about how he's embraced being a werewolf and that he takes pleasure in preying on the weak. Reggie then tells Jughead that after he kills him, he'll kill Jellybean anyway, and then hunt down and kill every family member of Jughead's, all to spite him.
  • The Third Testament, by Alex Alice & Xavier Dorison:
    • Duke Sayn is the 13 centuries old Evil Twin of Jesus Christ himself. Loathing human existence and seeing it as pointless, Sayn seeks to cause the apocalypse to consume mankind by having the last descendant of the Apostles, Conrad of Marburg, open the Third Testament. To do this, he frames Marburg for heresy, has his wife murdered and later has a group of monks massacred for uncovering directions to the Third Testament, crucifying the father of heroine Élisabeth d'Elsenor so she will seek out Marburg. Sayn shows no compunction in brutal torture or murder, killing many innocents including the wife and young children of Conrad's friend when the Templars take hostage to force him to help imprison Conrad. Sayn has Conrad freed to seek the Third Testament, intending on bringing the world to annihilation and restore himself as he feels he deserves.
    • Uther the Purple, Bishop of Stornswall, matches his liege in evil and faithfully serves him on his mission to bring about the end times. Uther personally massacres a monastery of nuns and slaughters Élisabeth's father, while furiously pursuing Conrad and butchering everyone who gets in his way. Even on his own time, Uther is vile, coldly torturing and murdering numerous people who get in the way of Sayn or himself with a specialty for drawing out their agony, and mutilates his own servants in Stornswall to permanently deny them any sort of a life outside of his walls.
  • Darkseid, born as a mud farmer named Uxas, orchestrated the war between the Old Gods and used it to steal power from them, transforming into a New God and destroying his home planet as the first act of his new status. Later on, he created his own world Apokolips, which he ruled over as an Evil Overlord, killing anyone for the slightest disobedience. He destroyed countless worlds in the Multiverse while chasing after Kaiyo, who he wanted to kill for daring to disobey his order. He orders simultaneous invasions on Prime Earth and Earth-2, killing millions in the process, including Earth-2 versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. After his attack on Prime Earth failed, he directed his attention solely on Earth-2, conquering it and using it as a Living Battery for Apokolips. Later on, Darkseid takes over Lena Luthor's mind, using her to send Superman and Lex Luthor to Apokolips, where he orders Desaad to release prisoners from slave camps and promises freedom to anyone who kills Superman, hoping that Superman will break if forced to kill innocent slaves. After being transformed to a child, Darkseid uses his daughter Grail to kill Greek Gods to restore his power. Planning to take back his throne on Apokolips, he organized an attack on the Amazon island Themyscira and turned many Amazons in to a new breed of parademons, before being stopped by Wonder Woman.
  • Equestria: Across the Multiverse: Princess Spring Heart/"Chrysalis", from the "Winter Wedding" arc, is Princess Rosie's Evil Aunt who was banished from the Isle of Pony for attempting to murder her older sister Starburst and intentionally got her infant niece lost at sea in an attempt to usurp the throne and use the stash of magical artifacts the royal family protects to conquer the world. Years later, she kidnaps her sister Winter Song and impersonates her with intent of slaughtering their entire family to continue her plans, including the now-teenager Rosie and Patch. When that plan is foiled, she attempts to slaughter the entire wedding party with her stolen jaunt tech-enhanced army, with a Dead Man's Switch that will nuke the Isle if she dies, eventually turning her homeland into a war zone. As her plans fall apart, she stops carrying about killing her own soldiers in the crossfire, and ultimately orders her sub to nuke as many places as possible out of pure spite, nearly destroying Ponyland's capital in the process. Spring Heart will destroy anyone and anything without a moment's regret to get what she desires.
  • Acts of Violence (2018): Max Livingston is the leader of a human and drug trafficking ring who sends his men to kidnap young women without families, including Deklan MacGregor's fiancée Mia. Acquiring the women, he implants a tracking device into their hands in case they escape, then gets them high on a tranquilizer drug to later be sold. When a woman tried to escape, he took her back, doused her in lighter fluid, then gleefully burned her alive, forcing his captives to watch. Having little regard for his men, he orders the family of a deceased goon to be killed, has Mia kill Frank for failing him, and threatens Richard with mutilation if he were to screw up again. With the MacGregor brothers on his tail, Max orders a raid on their house that kills Declan's sister-in-law Jessa, later leading a shootout that results in the death of Jessa's husband and Declan's brother Brandon.
  • Angst (1983): The unnamed narrator is an antisocial, thrill-seeking loner who can only achieve physical gratification through murder. A sadist since he was a child, he murdered his abusive mother at the age of 17 and an elderly woman when he was released from prison. Following his second release, he tried to strangle a taxi driver and invaded a home when his plan failed, drowning a disabled man and stabbing his sister to death. Wanting to kill multiple people at once, he stopped by a gas station and planned on killing everyone inside before his arrest, not resisting solely because his crimes would make him famous.
  • Commando Leopard (1985): Colonel Silveira is the right-hand of President Homoza, helping to rule an unnamed country through oppression and violence—much of which Silveira dishes out himself. Silveira has his forces slaughter an entire village for cooperating with rebels while trying in earnest to hunt the rebels and the remaining villagers down, torturing those who fall into his hands and burning down an occupied hospital when one of its patients spits on him, heedless of the pleas of one of his own wounded men inside. To turn public sympathy against the rebels, Silveira has a plane full of hundreds of the country's own children destroyed, killing everyone aboard, solely to frame the rebels. When Homoza flees the country, Silveira and his forces start massacring their way through a town to draw the rebels to them, killing the priest who tries to stop him and eventually gunning his way through numerous rebels before he's finally cornered and killed.
  • Die Hard: Hans Gruber is an self-described "exceptional thief" who leads the takeover of Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. A former German terrorist, Hans is focused solely on his own profit, attempting to steal millions in bearer bonds—a plan which involves demanding the release of numerous terrorists worldwide to throw the authorities off. Executing company head Joseph Takagi when he refuses to cooperate, Gruber has a SWAT team wiped out when they storm the building, and when John McClane interferes, Hans murders a hostage who claims to be John's friend and threatens to begin shooting more until he "gets to someone you do care about!" Hans never intends to let any hostages go, instead placing all of them on the roof to rig it with explosives, which he then plans to detonate—killing over 30 innocent people as a distraction—and fake his own death to escape with the bonds. While only succeeding in killing members of the FBI, Hans immediately kidnaps John's ex-wife before attempting to kill her and John in retribution. Ruthlessly devoted to his own profit above anything else and mixing an utter lack of regard for human lives—even those of his own men—with an air of urbane sophistication, Hans Gruber remains the most deeply personal enemy John McClane has ever faced, and serves as a prototype for countless future action movie villains
  • Flesh for the Beast: John Stoker is a wealthy man who acquired Fischer Manor, only to learn that it's haunted by succubi who torture and murder everybody who walks through the door. Figuring out that there's an amulet somewhere in the house that can control them, Stoker starts hiring paranormal researchers to find it in the hopes of making the succubi his sex slaves, leaving them to be killed by the succubi when they inevitably fail, totaling 30 victims at the start of the film. When Erin Cooper comes closest to finding the amulet, Stoker holds a gun to her head to make her talk and then leaves her to die like all her friends.
  • Nam Angels: Chard is a former member of the Nazi "Devil's Legion" who, after being rescued from near-death by an indigenous Vietnamese tribe, convinces them to prop him up as a god. His rule is brutal and isolationist, slaughtering any outsiders who stumble upon his tribe and selling POWs to both sides of the ongoing civil war. His men treated little better, Chard orders a village of his own loyalists slaughtered when one of them helps Lieutenant Vince Calhoun rescue his men, whom Chard had captured earlier. When Calhoun and the Hells Angels he's recruited attack Chard's hideout, the tyrant decides to sell them to the North Vietnamese Army in the hopes they'll be hunted for sport, while murdering one of the bikers himself and bringing his tattered coat back to taunt Calhoun.
  • Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf (2009): Nathan Flesher is a vicious gang leader who's also the head of a clan of assassins. When Blind Wolf trespasses on his land with his family, Nathan responds by raping, mutilating, and murdering his wife, and forcing Wolf to blind himself so that he'll spare his young daughter, only to kill her anyway before leaving Wolf for dead. Kidnapping the Drifter's sister and forcing him to fight one of his assassins, he keeps her as a captive and spares the depressed Drifter, only letting him join his gang to have more muscle. Arrested for his crimes, Flesher sends his gang of assassins to kill Wolf, knowing that he's coming to kill him. Having Drifter befriend Wolf as he slays his assassins, he watches with glee as he forces the two friends to kill each other.
  • Trapped (1982): Henry Chatwill is a fundamentalist hick who rules over a community of rednecks in Tennessee with a nasty tendency for vicious, petty retribution and physical abuse to whatever slights him. Chatwill beats his wife bloody and horribly tortures a man she was sleeping with to death, having murdered at least one other person before in a similar manner, and immediately arranges to murder the four teenagers who end up seeing this. When one of the members of the community helps them escape, Chatwill personally murders him, and threatens to rape one of the women of the group to lure out the hero Roger. Chatwill later murders Roger's friend whose sole crime was arriving on the scene when he shouldn't have and tries to run down Roger with his truck, willing to murder anyone who stops him from exerting his utter control over the town.
  • Kamen Rider Wizard in Magic Land: Prime Minister Orma/Kamen Rider Sorcerer is Emperor Maya's deceitful advisor and secretly the Drake Phantom. Kidnapping Koyomi to perform a ritual that would create Magic Land, Orma assumes a high-ranking position and takes advantage of Maya's hatred for magic to use him as a Puppet King. Routinely kidnapping the citizens of Magic Land, Orma sacrifices them to construct the Thanatos Vessel, a machine capable of driving all mages living in Magic Land into despair, leaving only the bones of his victims as evidence of his crimes. When the Thanatos Vessel is activated, Orma mercilessly mocks Maya with the information that he condemned Magic Land, having manipulated him not because it was essential to his plan, but simply because he liked the idea.
  • Anna Dressed in Blood & Girl of Nightmares: The Obeahman is a voodoo ghost/demon hybrid who takes large chunks out of his victims. His first known victim is Cas Lowood's father, who was killed when Cas was only seven years old, leaving the latter traumatized and suffering nightmares. Ten years later, the Obeahman returns, killing three more victims. He had been following the Lowoods since murdering Cas's father, eventually killing their cat Tybalt as well. As Cas and his friends fight him, Anna pulls off a Heroic Sacrifice by opening a portal to Hell and dragging the Obeahman down with her. A year later, Cas discovers that, while both are in hell, the Obeahman has been torturing Anna the whole time. When Cas and another girl, Jestine, make their way to a part of Hell, they find that the Obeahman had transformed into a spider-like creature that had linked Anna to it, sewing Anna's eyes and mouth shut before harvesting her. While fighting the creature, Cas recognized other nearby ghosts—some innocent—and realizes that the Obeahman had been haunting his athame, and has been feeding off these spirits.
  • Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom:
    • Jan Van Eck is a seemingly-respectable merchant who turns out to be an egotistical sociopath obsessed with his own glory and reputation. Callously disowning his son Wylan for his dyslexia that has made him illiterate, Van Eck divorces his wife, throws her into an asylum and tells Wylan she's dead so he can steal all her assets. When his new wife is pregnant, Van Eck tries to have Wylan murdered. After enlisting Kaz Brekker for a job and learning Kaz has Wylan hostage, Van Eck later attempts to betray Kaz and have Wylan murdered via having his ship sunk. It turns out Van Eck is behind a scheme to cheat his fellow merchants and distribute jurda parem to enslave the Grisha, or those with magic, subjecting them to addiction or death, all as long as he profits from the chaos he inflicts.
    • Heleen Van Houden, or Tante Heleen, the cruel owner of the brothel the Menagerie, buys teenage girls from foreign nations and cruelly trains them to be Sex Slave prostitutes. From Injeh Ghafa's backstory, we see this involves horrific abuse, both physical and psychological with Heleen repeatedly having her whipped and beaten, even having a girl who kept some money from a client cruelly murdered in front of the other girls as a lesson. Even after being freed by Kaz, Inej is intensely scarred by her time at the Menagerie, and Heleen gleefully taunts her of it when they meet, even trying to have Inej killed later. Utterly reprehensible and dedicated to making a fortune from the sexual enslavement of countless young women, Tante Heleen is one of the worst that Ketterdam has to offer.
  • Tailchaser's Song: Grizraz Hearteater became jealous of his older and younger brother and grew to hate cats in general. Hearteater summoned a Hellhound to kill as many cats as he could, and also ended up killing one of his brothers. Ever since then, Hearteater has hid underground in Vastnir to avoid being detected and also to avoid the light. Hearteater hates hates Meercat Allmother and wants to destroy all of Her creations. Over the centuries he's become an Animalistic Abomination and has been rearing monstrous minions to slaughter cats and kidnap slaves while he waits to start the apocalypse. Hearteater sits upon a throne of various tortured and dead animals, where all he does all day is eat the cats that his servants bring him. At the end of the novel, Hearteater decides to show his true power by turning his mound of animals into a deformed, vaguely hellhound-like monster only called "the Fikos" ("terrifying badness"), which slaughters multitudes of cats on both sides.
  • The Adventures of Superman: Lou Cranek, from season 1's "The Mind Machine", is a major crime boss being investigated by a Senate subcommittee for his illegal activities. Cranek kidnaps a scientist named Edward Stanton and steals a device Stanton invented that would use hypnosis to help mental patients. Cranek, who wants Stanton to use the machine as a Mind-Control Device, forces Stanton by knife point to force his former accountant to change his testimony in front of the committee. The accountant then goes insane, hijacks a bus with school children on it and nearly drives it over a cliff. Superman saves the children, but the accountant dies, the machine having destroyed his mind. Cranek uses the machine to silence and kill 2 other witnesses. When confronted with these deaths by Stanton, Cranek states he does not care and will use the machine himself when Stanton refuses to. Cranek plans to kill Stanton after he no longer needs him and plans to use the machine to silence the final witness against him, Lois Lane.
  • Cheo Yong:
    • The Man in Black, from the 2-part premiere "Ghost-Seeing Detective", is a cruel head of a Human Trafficking ring that specializes in the organ trade. Having countless innocents abducted via a taxi cab, he has their organs harvested by a doctor he blackmails at a local hospital. When a young woman discovers the truth, the Man in Black murders her by snapping her neck, and then when an order comes in for her eyes, he decides to use her young son instead, before trying to harvest the organs of a detective who gets too close. Sentencing countless innocents to be murdered for his trade, the Man in Black sets the stage for some of the worst Cheo-yong has to face.
    • Reverend Moon Doo-hyun, appearing part 2 of season 1's finale "Man Abandoned by God", is the head of a religious congregation who is secretly a corrupt monster. Extorting, terrorizing and manipulating his followers, Moon also rapes some of the female congregation, including the fiancee of a young man named Han-tae, escaping justice due to few being willing to accuse him. Deciding to cover his tracks, Moon has Han-tae murdered, and later kills his pregnant fiancee as well, which is the start of Han-tae becoming a murderous ghost. As a monstrous sexual predator, Moon stands as an example of the evil hiding under a veneer of righteousness.
    • Lee Cheol-gyu, appearing in part 2 of season 2's premiere "Venus", is a veterinarian obsessed with perfection. Seeking to create the perfect woman, he begins kidnapping beautiful women, murdering them and draining them of blood before dissecting their bodies to create the perfect female replica, using an assortment of body parts to create a preserved mannequin. Murdering multiple women and kidnapping a new victim, Cheol-gyu also murders a courier who gets too close to the truth before being forced to flee by Cheo-yong. Opting to hunt down his latest victim's twin sister instead, Cheol-gyu intends on using her head to crown his "perfect" masterpiece.
    • Chairman Yang Eu-mok, from season 2's "Weathercock", is the director of a major pharmaceuticals company who, along with the group's regional director, uses orphans as test subjects for volatile chemicals throughout Korea, Somalia and Russia. After experimenting on the children, they routinely have the children murdered, in one instance trapping them in the orphanage and burning it down. In the present, they attempt to eliminate a new batch of kids and have their orphanage director murdered, being some of the few villains to drive the normally relaxed Cheo-yong to sheer explosive fury.
    • Chong Nam-ho, from season 2's "Memories of Murder", murders women by snapping their necks after throttling them. Going on a spree of murders in the late 1990s, he targeted and murdered a kindly nursing home assistant who had been caring for the lead detective's aged mother, prompting said detective to abduct and murder Chong. Returning by later possessing a hapless camper, Nam-ho resumes his activities, claiming new victims and carving a number into the roof of their mouths, ending up going for nearly twenty victims before he is caught, planning to continue his spree as long as he can now that he is a ghost who answers to nobody.
  • Mr. Robot:
    • The internet myth known as "Whiterose", actually Chinese State of Security Zhi Zhang, is the leader of the hacker-for-hire group Dark Army, and the true Big Bad of this series. Having a polite and calm discussion with the FBI Agent Dominique Di Pierro, Whiterose orders her men to murder Di Pierro the morning after for barely any reason at all. In season 3, Whiterose has her hitman Léon kidnap Mobley and Trenton and then kill both of them. Planning the "Stage 2", a mysterious but ambitious project, Whiterose manipulates people from other hacking organizations to help her with it, playing them against each other, before finally revealing what the project was all along: blowing up multiple E Corp offices to kill thousands of innocent people, just to teach them a "lesson". Due to her status as an omen who very few people know the true identity of, Whiterose has not been punished for these actions and is untouchable by the law, while her other associates such as Tyrell are wanted by the law and have their lives destroyed, a fact about which she cares nothing whatsoever. While Whiterose shows signs of sophistication multiple times, it always ends with said person dying, and perhaps she says it best himself: "Do not mistake my generosity for generosity."
    • Irving is a psychotic yet falsely affable hitman for Whiterose, but unlike the aforementioned León, has no redeeming qualities. At first glance appearing slightly goofy, Irving eventually fully participates in and finances the events of Stage 2, and while other participators showed some sort of remorse for the murders or may not even have known about the final effects of the project, Irving was fully aware, showed no remorse, and still carried it out. In the season 3 finale, Irving brutally axes the Dark Army mole Santiago, and then gets the FBI Agent Dominique Di Pierro to replace the former, psychologically tormenting her by threatening to kill her family.
  • Quantum Leap: Sam Beckett and Al Calavicci have faced various evil people throughout their time travel adventures, but these are the worst:
    • Boss Cooley, from season 4's "Unchained", runs Talawaga prison in the cruelest ways. Keeping the prisoners in subhuman conditions, with beatings and forced labor on the chain gang, Cooley punishes any who resist in the sweltering Punishment Pit, with the option of murdering any who still trouble him. When Sam, in the body of a prisoner named Cole, and his friend, wrongfully accused prisoner Jazz, draw Cooley's ire, it is revealed Cooley is involved in a string of robberies that Jazz is accused for. Cooley murders the robber to cover his tracks and then reveals he regularly hosts "cockfights", where prisoners are forced to fight for the death. When Sam and Jazz survive this, Cooley intends to hunt them down and kill them himself.
    • Leon Randolph Stiles, from season 5's "Killin' Time", is the single most evil leapee Sam Beckett ever leaps into. An illiterate drifter and murderous hick, Stiles is a Serial Killer who lured and brutally murdered prostitutes to sate his urges, with no compunction about killing anyone else in the way as he murdered the daughter of the sheriff pursuing him. Sam leaps into Stiles as he's bartering with the lives of an innocent woman and her young daughter, while Stiles himself breaks out of custody by threatening to gun down everyone in his way while immediately trying to resume his killing spree in the futuristic city outside.
    • Alia's hologram, Zoey, from season 5's "Evil Leaper trilogy", is far worse than her sympathetic compatriot and one of the most monstrous adversaries Sam ever meets. Zoey, in her service to the malicious A.I. Lothos, steers Alia to leap from person to person across time, utterly ruining their lives and stringing countless bodies behind them, while Zoey does her best to break and utterly corrupt Alia all the while. Zoey is first met trying to frame a mentally impaired man for rape to have him committed while urging Alia to murder Sam when they cross paths, later seen trying to have a reckless student killed in a chicken race and vowing to kill Alia herself when she reneges with Sam. In the final episode of the trilogy, Zoey takes over the body of a corrupt warden to find Alia and Sam, coldly ordering a trembling, claustrophobic woman (inhabited by an amnesiac Alia, unbeknownst to Zoey) tossed into solitary confinement and indicates she's going to use her male body's "equipment" to rape Sam's leapee herself.
  • Fantastic Four:
    • Abraxas is one of the oldest and most powerful beings in the multiverse, opposing Eternity's order and stability with chaos and destruction. Freed by the death of Galactus, Abraxas runs rampant through the multiverse, slaughtering at will and murdering the children of Reed and Sue Richards with great relish on multiple realities, as well as murdering alternate versions of Galactus and announcing his coming by throwing the decapitated head of the Devourer into civilian populations. Gleefully trying to wipe out life on Earth, Abraxas reveals he is after the Ultimate Nullifer so he can end the entire Multiverse and kill every being who exists and has ever existed, plotting destruction on scales most villains would never even dream of.
    • (The) Master(s) of Doom by Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, et al.: The Marquis of Death, originally one version of the brain-damaged Clyde Wyncham on an alternate Earth, discovered his love of slaughter after murdering dozens of heroes and villains when his mind was fully returned to him, and became dedicated to killing as many things as possible. First massacring every single one of the 7 billion people on his own Earth, the Marquis spent the next billion years traveling to various Earths then slowly exterminating all life on each and every one, always drawing out the deaths of heroes and forcing them into sadistic choices for his own sick amusement. Through this, the Marquis annihilates millions of universes and amasses an unfathomable body count before finally showing up on the 616 Earth, where he annihilates all of Latveria before viciously executing his loyal servant Doctor Doom for going too slow in destroying 616's heroes. The Marquis goes on to torment the Fantastic Four with the millions of versions of their loves ones he has murdered, then tries to manipulate Mr. Fantastic into compromising his morality for the life of his universe, after which he attempts to simply kill this Earth as well then continue his dimension-wide omnicide spree.
  • X-Men: Soul Killer, by Richard Lee Byers: Belasco has turned Dracula's own brood to his cause to aid in his fervent worship of the twisted Elder Gods. Having slaughtered one previous version of the X-Men, twisting their Nightcrawler into his servant, Belasco seeks to unleash the Elder Gods on Earth and twist it into an utter hellscape where humanity will become the slaves to all the Elder Gods' malicious whims, as Belasco rules over it all. To approach his goal, Belasco endangers thousands by drenching a town in a heavy storm to lure the X-Men, having one of his servants possess Rogue and twisting another into her doppelganger while having her massacre dozens in the chaos he's stirred. Even having promised his servant life in the new world he will create, Belasco murders her himself when she fails her task, and cares for nothing save himself and the Hell on Earth he plans to raise through the Elder Gods.
  • Judge DuPrey, from War Zone's "Dark Judgment" arc, is a respected federal judge who is secretly the "Full Moon Killer", who has a double-digit body count. A smug Control Freak who gets off on having power over others, DuPrey butchers women and girls—in one instance killing a victim's dog alongside her—with a Sword Cane on nights with a full moon. A blackmailed mobster named Brazo, who is disgusted by DuPrey, reluctantly provides him with lookouts, and when Brazo is killed and replaced by a rival, DuPrey murders the man because he is not as sycophantic as Brazo was. Going on the run after this, DuPrey guns down two innocent bystanders while fleeing from an FBI agent and the Punisher. While fighting the latter, DuPrey waxes on about how much he enjoyed killing males for a change, and sneers that the Punisher sickens him and deserves to die because of how "mundane" and "unimaginative" his methods are.
  • Superman Returns: Mongul is the sadistic leader of Warworld, where he forces aliens to fight for his amusement. Capturing Superman on his way back to Earth from Krypton. Mongul forces him to fight in Gladiator Games against his will. When Superman beats his opponents, Mongul enters the ring himself, but is beaten. Mongul tries to goad Superman into killing him, and following Superman to Earth, he has his men attack Metropolis. In his final battle with Superman, Mongul attempts to have asteroids crash into the city and has his men attack citizens to hurt Superman.
  • Yakuza: Dead Souls: In this non-canon Spin-Off, DD is an Arms Dealer using Kamurocho as a testing grounds for a zombie plague dubbed Thanatos. Teaming up with Tetsu Nikaido, their first victim is loyal Omi Alliance hatchet man Hayashi. DD later helps Nikaido kidnap Haruka to lure Nikaido's true target—Kiryu Kazama—to the city. When Nikaido accepts defeat, DD shoots him full of his enhanced Thanatos, turning him into a monster. Responsible for the death of thousands of innocents, DD makes his mark on Japan's criminal underworld.
  • Al'Rashad: City of Myths: The evil Dalakhra Ka'Kymal is one of the High Lords of Al'Rashad who betrays the city to the sorcerous empire of Ra-Boka. Dealing in slaves primarily, Dalakhra keeps those in the dungeons pliant by serving them water laced with a highly addictive drug, and using a group of pirates to destroy a ship of the Gundring people to eliminate their king Alric. Later murdering Al'Rashad's Caliph, Dalakhra reveals he also keeps undead soldiers he has personally killed and revived, trapping them in their bodies. Bringing an army of such soldiers, Dalakhra intends to conquer Al'Rashad to rule it himself, no matter how many of the city's 700,000 people he must kill in the process.
  • Professor Hojo may not be the primary antagonist, but is responsible for nearly everything bad happening in the game. Prior to the game proper, he injects Jenova cells into the womb of his wife, Lucrecia, in order to turn their son Sephiroth into a supe soldier. He later murders Aerith's father and experiments on both her and her mother, his research leading to the latter's death. Throughout the game he is implied to manipulate most, if not all, of Sephiroth's actions, because he thinks of Sephiroth as research he wants to see blossom. He attempts to mate Aerith with Red XIII to create a half-human hybrid; experiments on the survivors of the Nibelheim massacre; murders Vincent, experimenting on his corpse and turning him into a half-monster; and attempts to help his son destroy the world at the end of the game. Dirge of Cerberus reveals Hojo to have copied his mind into the body of an experimental super soldier and used him to order other experimental super soldiers to commit mass kidnappings and murders, with the ultimate goal of awakening Omega and fusing with it.

Other Media

  • Legend of the Crystals: Ra Devil is a malevolent cyborg who seeks to become Deathgyunos, the God of Oblivion. He stole Cid Previa's brain from his grave before murdering Cid's young grandson Mid. He then kept the brain alive and in torment to forcibly extract the knowledge of the elemental crystals that stabilize the world. Returning to Planet R two hundreds years later, Ra Devil steals the crystals, dooming the world to destruction. Setting sight on the Wind Crystal, he launches raids on Rouge Island and later the city of Tycoon. He then abducts the heroine Linaly, whose body hosts the the Wind Crystal and uses her as a battery to drain the energy of the universe and complete his transformation. After the heroes interrupts the process, Ra Devil fights them back and sadistically electrocutes Prettz and Rouge in front of their friends.

Edited by ACW on Jul 30th 2018 at 4:22:25 AM

miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#125265: Jul 29th 2018 at 1:55:58 AM

@acw: Uh For Zoey could you specify it as Season 5's The Evil Leaper Trilogy. Also she tried to rape Sam's Leapee rather than Al's if I'm not mistaken.

[tup]Du Prey

Edited by miraculous on Jul 29th 2018 at 2:02:05 AM

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
DemonDuckofDoom from Some Pond in Hell Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#125266: Jul 29th 2018 at 2:09:41 AM

[tup] Du Prey

ACW, in Chard's writeup, can you change "indigenous tribe" to "indigenous Vietnamese tribe"? I just realized that the "Nam" nickname for Vietnam probably isn't common knowledge.

I got caught up in some stuff and forgot to write up Stoker, so I'll do it in the morning. In the meantime, any more votes?

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125267: Jul 29th 2018 at 2:21:21 AM

[up][up] Done. Scraggle, can you confirm either way which one it is?

[up] Done.

  • Judge DuPrey, from War Zone's "Dark Judgment" arc, is a respected federal judge who is secretly the "Full Moon Killer", who has a double-digit body count. A smug Control Freak who gets off on having power over others, DuPrey butchers women and girls—in one instance killing a victim's dog alongside her—with a Sword Cane on nights with a full moon. A blackmailed mobster named Brazo, who is disgusted by DuPrey, reluctantly provides him with lookouts, and when Brazo is killed and replaced by a rival, DuPrey murders the man because he is not as sycophantic as Brazo was. Going on the run after this, DuPrey guns down two innocent bystanders while fleeing from an FBI agent and the Punisher. While fighting the latter, DuPrey waxes on about how much he enjoyed killing males for a change, and sneers that the Punisher sickens him and deserves to die because of how "mundane" and "unimaginative" his methods are.

Edited by ACW on Jul 29th 2018 at 5:54:44 AM

Silverblade2 Since: Jan, 2013
#125268: Jul 29th 2018 at 3:04:07 AM

Here's Ra Devil

  • Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals and Final Fantasy: In this OVA sequel to Final Fantasy V, Ra Devil is a malevolent Cyborg who seeks to become Deathgyunos the god of Oblivion. He stole Cid Previa's brain from his grave before murdering Cid's young grandson Mid. He then kept the brain alive and in torment to forcibly extract the knowledge of the elemental crystals that stabilize the world. Returning to Planet R two hundreds years later, Ra Devil steals the crystals dooming the world to its destruction. Setting sight on the Wind Crystal, he launches raids on Rouge Island and later the city of Tycoon. He then abducts the heroine Linaly whose body hosts the the Wind Crystal and uses her as a battery to drain the energy of the universe and complete his transformation. After the heroes interrupts the process, Ra Devil fights them back and sadistically electrocutes Prettz and Rouge in front of their friends.

And here's a Hojo rewritte based on Polar Phantom's propositions. I also removed the Four Eyes, Zero Soul pothole because it was a chained Sinkhole.

Edited by Silverblade2 on Jul 29th 2018 at 12:05:15 PM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125269: Jul 29th 2018 at 3:09:21 AM

  • Professor Hojo may not be the primary antagonist, but is responsible for nearly everything bad happening in the game. Prior to the game proper, he injects Jenova cells into the womb of his wife, Lucrecia, in order to turn their son Sephiroth into a supe soldier. He later murders Aerith's father and experiments on both her and her mother, his research leading to the latter's death. Throughout the game he is implied to manipulate most, if not all, of Sephiroth's actions, because he thinks of Sephiroth as research he wants to see blossom. He attempts to mate Aerith with Red XIII to create a half-human hybrid; experiments on the survivors of the Nibelheim massacre; murders Vincent, experimenting on his corpse and turning him into a half-monster; and attempts to help his son destroy the world at the end of the game. Dirge of Cerberus reveals Hojo to have copied his mind into the body of an experimental super soldier and used him to order other experimental super soldiers to commit mass kidnappings and murders, with the ultimate goal of awakening Omega and fusing with it.
  • Legend of the Crystals: Ra Devil is a malevolent cyborg who seeks to become Deathgyunos, the God of Oblivion. He stole Cid Previa's brain from his grave before murdering Cid's young grandson Mid. He then kept the brain alive and in torment to forcibly extract the knowledge of the elemental crystals that stabilize the world. Returning to Planet R two hundreds years later, Ra Devil steals the crystals, dooming the world to destruction. Setting sight on the Wind Crystal, he launches raids on Rouge Island and later the city of Tycoon. He then abducts the heroine Linaly, whose body hosts the the Wind Crystal and uses her as a battery to drain the energy of the universe and complete his transformation. After the heroes interrupts the process, Ra Devil fights them back and sadistically electrocutes Prettz and Rouge in front of their friends.

Edited by ACW on Jul 29th 2018 at 8:31:58 AM

PolarPhantom Since: Jun, 2012
#125271: Jul 29th 2018 at 5:58:01 AM

I am toying with the idea of removing the Mad Scientist pothole from DD. He doesn't really seem like a scientist in terms of his appearance and personality... but he DID do science madly...

[tup] Du Prey while I'm at it.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125272: Jul 29th 2018 at 6:03:23 AM

[up] I got that from his character page:

  • Mad Scientist: Behind the zombie outbreak and utterly convinced it's for the better of humanity.

My only, SLIGHT, hesitation with DuPrey is heinousness, but I think, especially with the kids, double-digit murders is enough, especially considering resources: While he IS a federal judge, and has some help, he still doesn't have the resources of, say, a cult leader (aided by a freaking demon); possibly killed more than Fedenia or De Sade (who fill more unique niches); isn't a former general; and isn't a powerful drug kingpin who has assistance from powerful government officials.

Edited by ACW on Jul 29th 2018 at 9:05:55 AM

miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#125273: Jul 29th 2018 at 6:07:44 AM

[up]Heres something intersting speaking of Marvel and Punisher. Apparently the entity that Reverand Samuel Smith worships is none other than Belasco himself. Huh to think both are now going up.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#125274: Jul 29th 2018 at 6:11:16 AM

Yeah, that's the demon I was mentioning; Lighty mentioned that in his Belasco effortpost.


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