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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

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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.

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

What is the Work

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

Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?

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

Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?

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

Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?

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

Final Verdict?

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

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

emperors Messenger from another dimension. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Messenger from another dimension.
#127026: Aug 19th 2018 at 4:38:08 AM

Yes to all First Wave villains.

My dad recovered by the way.

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#127027: Aug 19th 2018 at 4:44:26 AM

[up] Hope he stays on the ups, Emp!

[up][up] He's trapped in the loop, yes. And no, that was a trick from Mabus. No idea why you'd think that was genuine from him.

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#127028: Aug 19th 2018 at 4:50:36 AM

[up] I figured as such, although Believing Their Own Lies is possible, as in the case of Vicar Zhaspahr Clyntahn.

How's the series, BTW? I think I'll put Mabus at the top of the eventual tree, as he's the Big Bad.

[up][up] Good to see smile

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#127029: Aug 19th 2018 at 4:51:30 AM

Oh, pretty decent. Some episodes are obviously better than others in a 60+ episode run but I'd rec.

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Knack Since: Mar, 2018
#127032: Aug 19th 2018 at 7:12:51 AM

@Polar Phantom Nah there isn't any madness there, what we have to have are even more spiritual successors, even if they are spiritual successors to spiritual successors, if it is an excellent story driven game than that is always good. grin

Edited by Knack on Aug 19th 2018 at 7:22:05 AM

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#127033: Aug 19th 2018 at 7:29:47 AM

  • Chrono Crusade: The anime iteration of Aion is stripped of his original counterpart's redeeming qualities to become a remorseless seeker of ultimate power. Having decapitated the leader of Pandemonium, Aion uses her severed head in his ritual and sparks a war in the demon world that kills countless millions. Tearing off the horns of fellow devil Chrono for showing remorse, Aion bestows them upon the young Joshua Christopher, uncaring that they drive the boy mad and lead him to petrify everyone from his orphanage. Taking advantage of a lonely woman, Aion manipulates her into killing an entire town of people as a sacrifice to him, delighted in the control he holds over others. Conducting his ritual for godhood, Aion nearly destroys San Francisco, and when Joshua's sister, Rosette, seemingly stops him, reveals it was her powers he wanted after all. Brainwashing her into becoming his slave, Aion entrances civilians with her healing powers before declaring himself a prophet who has deemed humanity sinful and demands they kill each other. Despite knowing the cost of his power is the destruction of both Earth and Pandemonium, Aion is utterly apathetic to the deaths of billions.
  • Apos, with his golden hair, crimson eyes, and beautiful features, resembles an angel. The truth is markedly different. Apos is an immortal who finds amusement in suffering and agony. Apos hunts down female immortals and rapes and tortures them physically and mentally to consume their "core" of immortality; the suffering improves the taste. Apos obsesses over the heroine Rin Asogi and has his female subordinate Laura disguise herself as Rin to ruin Rin's name with a series of murders, and also satisfy his lust by raping her. At one point, he brutally crucifies and rapes Rin's best friend and lover Mimi simply because he was bored waiting for Rin's arrival. Apos is behind nearly every evil plot in the series and engineers a plot to turn the world against immortals and turn on itself by causing a nuclear explosion with an immortal seen as a survivor. He then reveals the world tree Yggdrasil to the world to have humanity infected with the time fruits and become immortal so he can harvest them at leisure. Apos betrays Laura and forces Rin to kill her old lover, who Apos had turned into a carnivorous angel, in self defense, before personally executing her current lover—Apos's own father—and attempting to sacrifice Rin to Yggdrasil. When asked what he wants with the world, Apos's response is simple: "I want to taste it!"
  • Sword Gai: The Animation: Grimms is the first of the Busoma. An ancient, powerful demon, Grimms wanders the world, killing innocents to turn those close to them into Chrysalises, hosts for new Busoma which he directs to cause more bloodshed. Seeking to awaken the Busoshin, the ultimate Busoma, Grimms tries to force Gai and his friend Shin to fight, revealing his goal is to exterminate humanity and create a world where the Busoma fight in ferocious bloodsport until only the strongest survive.
  • Tokyo Esp: In a series constantly fluctuating between comedy and drama, this duo of Ares executives proves being the worst that the organization have to offer.
    • Claudia Kuroi, the mother of the Kuroi sisters, is a horrifying combination of sadism and ambition. A master thief from a family made of them, Claudia murders her husbands for no reason before abandoning her daughters to travel around the world. Joining Ares, Claudia—having become a esper herself—leads a faction running a underground fighting ring that forces captured Espers to fight to the death for the entertainment of wealthy viewers while selling some of them as Sex Slaves. Appearing in Tokyo to find Fujiko Orisube, Claudia manipulates her to enhance her own powers while also kidnapping one of her daughters to find the Holy Ark and then torturing her in a mix of sadism and emotional sadomasochism born out of guilt at knowing the wrongness of her actions. When the factions of Ares break up in a civil war, Claudia annihilates the whole group. Being empowered for Fujiko, Claudia kills her and her own servant before starting a rampage in Tokyo and trying to kill her other daughter. A hypocrite that rages at the world for not allowing her have a family that she herself destroyed, Claudia destroy everything what she can't have.
    • Hephaistos, the Machine Duke, is an over-120 years old Esper with the power of possession. Taking the bodies of teenage female espers for both their powers and to satisfy his lust in all that time, Hephaistos leads the assault on Murasaki's house to capture Ren Jomaku while shooting at everything that he can and taking the body of Marume Maruyama, technopath and Ren's close friend, gloating to her about how her friend is gone. When the factions of Ares break up in a civil war, Hephaistos starts by using drones and bombs to destroy the streets of Tokyo while proclaiming his domain over the city and personally fatally injuring another of Ren's friends. When Marume starts regaining control of her body, Hephaistos tries to kill himself with the intention of taking her with him. A perverted old man, Hephaistos is the only person that can match Claudia in egoism.
  • Vigilante: My Hero Academia Illegals: Kuin Hachisuka is a Quirk-using queen bee, and dealer for the dangerous Quirk-enhancing drug, Trigger. Prior to the story, Kuin critically wounded the wife of Knuckle Duster and invaded the mind of his daughter, Tamao Oguro. Using Tamao as a host, Kuin regularly invaded homes and murdered their residents to take them over, regularly changing homes to find more victims whenever she got bored. Kuin introduces herself by using her Quirk, Queen Bee, to infect several innocent civilians with Trigger, causing them to go on rampages while in constant pain. She later convinces the ruthless vigilante Stendhal to attempt to murder young delinquents who previously used the drug. For no reason other than her amusement, Kuin attempts to cause a bus filled with passengers to crash, complaining how boring it would be if there were no victims when the hero Ingenium saves them. She also uses her bees to possess a classmate she befriended, having them burst out of her body to attack the delinquent, Souga Kugizaki, wounding if not killing her friend. When she hears that there'll be a concert that Pop Step is a part of, she has a monstrous electric eel, formerly a regular young man who Kuin kidnapped and experimented on, to cause a blackout, intending to infect everyone at the concert with Trigger. When cornered by Knuckle Duster, Kuin attempts to detonate several of her explosive filled bees, knowing that the recoil she'll suffer will kill Tamao.
  • Ghostbusters: Answer The Call: Dr. Kruger ("Schreckgespenst") was a Mad Scientist active in the 1900s who was obsessed with fear. He would kidnap innocent people and experiment on them, torturing them with their fears, often resulting in their deaths. After Kruger died, the city sealed the building he was living in, trapping his spirit there. Decades later, when the city decided to develop Kruger's building, Kruger used the ghost of a young boy he killed to lure the Ghostbusters to his building. The Ghostbusters deal with the problem, but Kruger possesses Dr. Yates and manages to escape his building. Kruger escapes from the Ghostbusters and takes over the Empire State Building. The Ghostbusters confront Kruger, but he uses his powers to expose them to their worst nightmares. Kruger exposes more citizens of New York to their nightmares to gain more power. Ultimately, Dr. Kruger plans to merge the world with his personal nightmare realm, wanting to torment humanity with its fears and rule this new world as a god.
  • Tales from the Crypt: Senor Tobosa, from issue 42's "The Bath", is the greedy owner of a South American silver mine, whose prime hobbies consist of horrifically brutalizing his workers and bathing constantly to relieve himself of their "filth". Viewing the people under him as lowly, diseased vermin, Tobosa would force them to mine in horrific conditions, personally whipping the starving workers for requesting food and water, and at one point ordered a man to have his mouth sewn shut for coughing in Tobosa's presence. When he and his men raid a village for more workers, Tobosa drafts a young boy to the mines, despite his parents' pleas. He then takes special pleasure in whipping the child and ultimately causes his death. Tobosa brushes off the boy as a weakling and later guns down his grieving parents when they attack him in revenge, simply for getting his clothes dirty. He then orders their bodies to be left in the sun to rot out of spite.
  • The Tale of Robert Elm: Valentine Ambrose Lombard is the leader of the Black Circle. While in its early days the cult was founded to prevent the spread of a plague, he seems to have taken up the mantle of leader for no other reason than as an exercise of his sadism and depravity. Lombard tampered with the mind of Robert Elm's lover, causing him to develop abusive tendencies, with the intention of luring him directly into the cult's arms to murder him and neutralize the threat he poses to his order. When Elm is assaulted by a zealous follower, Lombard nurses him back to health, all while slipping doses of human flesh into his meals—acquired from various captives held in a shack—to nullify Elm's power over him. Just as Elm is almost back on his feet, Lombard and his followers rehearse a ritual wherein he plans to sacrifice Elm, using the follower who assaulted Elm as practice, eating his liver after slaying him.
  • Amusement: The Serial Killer known only as "The Laugh" vivisected a rat as a child to show to three girls and began plotting murderous revenge on them for showing disgust. Kidnapping one of the girls, Shelby, the Laugh begins killing people around her. Disguising himself as a clown, the Laugh tries to murder Shelby; another of the girls, Tabitha; and the daughter of a man he had already killed. Kidnapping the roommate of Lisa, the last of the three girls, the Laugh murders Lisa's boyfriend when they go to investigate and captures Lisa. Psychologically tormenting the three captive girls, the Laugh tries to dissect Shelby before violently killing Lisa.
  • The Avengers (1998): Sir August de Wynter is a depraved, Bond-esque mastermind who heads Wonderland Weather as a front for his immoral activities. De Wynter starts the "Prospero Project" in a bid to control the world's weather, murdering two of his own minions by tricking them into backing out of the project and later killing even the loyal scientists who helped to devise his doomsday device. Wynter, in the steps to his master plan, has an agent in Emma Peel's likeness murder people to frame the Ministry while knocking out and attempting to rape the real Peel in a moment of lust. Wynter ultimately attempts to extort billions out of all the world's nations lest he manipulate the weather into creating natural disasters to ravage the entire planet and kill millions, trying to freeze all of London to death to prove he's serious.
  • Cannibal Mercenary (1983):
    • Colonel Nikum Promclair is a former ranger turned merciless drug lord in charge of the Kankoom Empire, as well as the leader of the Draculas, an army of cannibalistic soldiers. Hanging anyone who invades his territory, Nikum orders his men to invade a village and kidnap Wilson Manna. Taking Wilson and his men hostage, he has one walk through a line of exploding firecrackers, buries his body, and drives a spike into his head to be fed to his soldiers, later clawing out Namchoke's eyes and having his soldiers feed on him before strapping lit dynamite to Wilson and his remaining troops.
    • Nikum's bald, nameless Co-Dragons, one wearing striped pants, the other wearing a jacket, are a brutal, sadistic duo. Ordered by Nikum to find Wilson and his squad, Striped Pants leads a raid on a village and has his men kill everyone there, with Striped Pants killing a child to lure Wilson out. Taking them back to base, Jacket forces a man to walk through a series of firecrackers exploding under his crotch, later killing Jumpa when she tries to protect Wilson. With Wilson and Bun-yun making an escape, Striped Pants shoots at them, succeeding in killing the already wounded Bun-yun and heavily traumatizing Wilson.
  • The Curse of El Charro: El Charro was an Old West land baron known for his cruelty. After a working class woman spurned him, El Charro slaughtered her family and placed a curse on her bloodline before he was himself executed. Waiting in the desert for her family to return, El Charro tormented them with nightmares, causing at least one to be Driven to Suicide. Meanwhile, he keeps the spirits of his victims in a Fate Worse than Death as his slaves, forcing them to carry out his whims despite their constant protests. When El Charro finally gets a victim of his curse to show up in the town, he heads out to kill her and make her his eternal Sex Slave. Anybody who stands in the way is brutally murdered, even if all they did was see him.
  • The Darkest Minds: President Gray is revealed to be behind all the misery that the Espers children have to endure. When his son, Clancy, gets a mysterious disease known as IAAN, Gray performs various experiments on him and later uses him as a tool for propaganda so that he could make concentration camps for the Espers. In said camps, most of the children were mistreated with anyone who defies the soldiers being executed. He is also revealed to be the one who came up with the procedure of eliminating "Orange" and "Red" Espers leading to the near extinction of the Orange Espers in the process.
  • Drop Zone (1994): Ty Moncrief is a rogue DEA agent who hijacks a plane, killing over a dozen innocent people, and nearly destroys the airliner with hundreds aboard in order to escape. Killing multiple security guards and DEA agents along with way, Ty reveals his ultimate plot is to steal into the DEA headquarters with a hacker and download all the names of the DEA's undercover agents, before selling them out to the cartels and criminal organizations to be killed and tortured while he skips town with the money.
  • Jack the Ripper (1976): Dennis Orloff, the titular Jack the Ripper, is an impulsive and rude doctor who moonlights as a Serial Killer. Unable to deal with the memories of his past as the son of a prostitute, Orloff begins murdering streetwalkers as a way to "wash away his own sins". After dismembering a woman and dumping her remains in a lake, Orloff murders another woman and visits a party, taking a young prostitute to a forest and repeatedly stabbing her before bringing her to his lair so she could be vivisected.
  • Lovely But Deadly: "Honest" Charley Gilmarten is a local businessman who moonlights as a drug lord. Using the local high schools to distribute, Charley sells highly addictive strains to anybody, including minors as young as middle school age, not caring about the epidemic of overdoses and accidental deaths that ensues. He also hosts parties where he pimps out teenage girls while paying them in drugs. His methods of dispatching his enemies are also quite brutal, and include boiling his dragon alive on suspicion of betraying him and locking The Hero in a shipping crate to starve to death.
  • Night Terrors (1993): The charismatic cult leader, Paul Chevalier, is a descendant of the Marquis de Sade himself who has dedicated his life to embracing and upholding his ancestor's deranged teachings. Chevalier leads sadomasochistic orgies among his cult while fixating on a young woman named Genie who bears resemblance to Sade's own lover, terrorizing her by sadistically murdering her friends and tormenting them with her bodies. Chevalier eventually has Genie kidnapped, her father murdered and his head brought to torment her, while killing the man who brought Genie to him in the first place. When Genie remains defiant of him, Chevalier decides to torture her to death in whatever way his whims decree, horribly murdering even his own lover who tries to protect Genie from Chevalier's psychotic intentions.
  • The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior: Sargon, king of Akkad, uses black magic to kill Mathayus's father with scorpions, and then runs a horrific regime where people are killed just for speech he dislikes. When Mathayus infiltrates his guard to kill him, Sargon tries to force Mathayus to kill his own brother Noah to test his loyalty and uses black magic to kill Noah when Mathayus refuses. Seeking more dark power from the goddess Astarte, Sargon attempts to massacre all of Akkad by burning the people alive while he attempts to kill Mathayus personally.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except: The Big Bad is the unnamed leader of a depraved cult which goes on a killing spree, killing entire families and kidnapping babies. These crimes gain notoriety for their brutality, with two of the victims being stabbed and shot over sixty times. The cult leader also kills dogs to use their blood for rituals. Kidnapping a group of twenty people, the cult leader spends the next several days torturing and killing them one by one, intending to kill them all by the time he's done. When Staff Sergeant Jack Stryker shows up to rescue the hostages, the cult leader kills one in a rage before running away. He then flags down a motorcyclist, stabbing him through the heart for his bike.
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Asahi sas Brutus is an ambassador from the Garlean Empire who reveals himself to be a sociopathic follower of Zenos yae Galvus. He tries to sabotage the peace between Doma's leaders by trying to provoke the Player Character, and it was revealed that he hired the mercenaries to fake his good nature. However, his worst act is when his parents adopted his cousin, Yotsuyu. When Yotsuyu got mistreated by Asahi's parents, Asahi then came out with the idea to sell Yotsuyu to an abusive drunkard for money and political connections, as well as selling her to a brothel. After Yotsuyu regained her memories, Asahi sent her parents on her, which resulted them being killed. When the prisoner exchange happens, Asahi then tries to invoke the primal Tsukuyomi into Yotsuyu and callously shoots her multiple times when she tries to die peacefully, mocking the player, while brutally beating Yotsuyu, that attacking him would result in a war.
  • Octopath Traveler: Of the many villains inhabiting the eight tales of Bravely Default's Spiritual Successor, these are the worst:
    • Lyblac, daughter of the thirteenth god Galdera, is the architect of every single misfortune in the game in her bid to open up the Gate of Finis and hand the world over to Galdera for the subsequent annihilation of all humanity. For a full century, Lyblac deceives and manipulates everyone around her, causing the fall of both Matthias and Yvon to lives of evil and murder for the purposes of her plans while implicitly having Geoffrey Lockhart murdered by the Obsidians to cover up the Gate of Finis. Lyblac, dealing with the corrupt sellsword Werner, also set in motion the events that led to the fall of Hornburg, destroying an kingdom full of lives to take control of the Gate. Finally, Lyblac attempts to use those of the Crossford lineage in her attempt to have him bear Galdera's essence, slowly reducing Graham of them to a tortured monster as the consequence for escaping her and simply opting to use his son Kit as her next choice for the vessel. Lyblac is described as a lethal poison by her own uneasy allies, a witch truly worthy of the epitaph "Daughter of the Dark God."
    • Lucia, the Big Bad of Cyrus Albright's path, is an ambitious scholar who seeks and values ultimate knowledge of the world, even over the lives of humanity. Allying with the aforementioned Lyblac in corrupting Headmaster Yvon into evil, Lucia then commissions the amoral sorcerer Gideon to perform dozens of horrifying blood experiments on innocents, resulting in their agonizing deaths, to perfect a working blood crystal. After orchestrating Yvon's death, Lucia reveals her plans to harness immortality and then spend years amassing all knowledge that humans are unaware of—-such as cures to illnesses or things that would help humanity progress-—then horde and keep them all for herself, just for the pride of being the smartest entity on the planet.
    • Werner, the Big Bad of Olberic Eisenberg's path, was once a mere sellsword with lofty ambitions before he was given a chance to realize his dreams by Lyblac, at the cost of the entire kingdom of Hornburg—a price Werner considered worth paying. Werner wins his trust with the local people of Hornburg by arranging bandit attacks on border villages and beating them back with his own warriors, the Black Brotherhood, before integrating within Hornburg's own royalty and arranging the assassination of the king and his personal guard. The fallout destroys countless innocent lives and annihilates the entire kingdom, while Werner walked away from the ashes a rich man. When Olberic, one of Hornburg's last soldiers, finally tracks him down, Werner's set himself up as the despotic ruler of Riverford, regularly having innocent people burned alive on trumped-up charges or solely as a means to curb rebellion. When Werner tracks down the resistance, Werner proceeds to have them all massacred while murdering his own men when they refuse to fight the much-stronger Olberic, even pridefully gutting himself in front of Olberic at the end rather than admit his guilt in destroying thousands for self-gain.
    • Helgenish, from the first chapter of Primrose Azelhart's route, is bar none the most repulsive Starter Villain in the game. A depraved, obese tavern-keeper who employs several exotic dancers to entertain his guests, Helgenish brutalizes and demeans the women under his care while beating any who try and fight back to near-death, leaving them in the gutter to die. Helgenish favors Primrose herself, raping and abusing her to assert his control of her, and when Primrose defies his orders with the help of her only friend Yusufa, Helgenish has Yusufa brutally tortured. When Primrose comes back, Helgenish murders Yusufa right in front of Primrose's eyes, hysterically mocking her tearful last words and noting "if she'd shown that kind of potential earlier, maybe I would have kept her on longer!"
    • Rufus, the left hand of the Crow Men, is one of the leaders of the Obsidians, involved in the murder of Primrose's father while maintaining the Obsidians' various connections in the present. When Primrose tracks Rufus down, he's maintaining the Obsidian Parlor, a whorehouse specializing in unwilling prostitutes Rufus hands out to the whims of powerful and depraved men for a profit while keeping a personal harem himself. Rufus is seen giving a woman to serve the incestuous desires of a priest in his service as just one example of the many lives he's ruined to the services of the Obsidian Parlor, while mocking Primrose even to his last breath.
    • Simeon the "Puppet Master" is the head of the Crow Men, the master of the Obsidians, and the bane of Primrose's existence. As master of his "Wings", Simeon has a hand in all forms of mass murder, assassinations, and human trafficking, all while eliminating anyone who could stand up to his organization's rule, notably murdering Primrose's father with his own hands. A complete psychopath who gets the most joy out of life by hurting and tormenting others, Simeon takes sick glee in befriending Primrose and developing a romance with her, only to stab her, make her watch a play of Simon's own production showcasing the tragedies and traumas of her life that ends with her and Simeon in a "happily ever after", then make a final attempt on her life, never ceasing his vicious mockery and proclamations of his desire to see her die screaming in despair.
  • Shou Tucker, the Sewing-Life Alchemist, is known for his ability to create chimeras capable of speech. He's introduced to the Elric brothers as an awkward man with a 4-year-old daughter named Nina. With his State Alchemist license soon to expire, Tucker created another Chimera by fusing Nina and her dog Alexander into a miserable Half-Human Hybrid which is in constant agony. When the Elric brothers discovered Nina's new state, Edward's rage nearly drove him to kill Tucker. It is then revealed that the other speaking Chimera was actually his wife and Nina's mother, whom Tucker created by fusing her to another animal, earning him his State Alchemist status in the first place. Tucker refuses to admit what he did was horrible, going as far as to tell the Elric brothers that they shouldn't have a problem with his actions and that anybody else in his position would have done the same thing. While only appearing in one chapter, Shou Tucker manages to be one of the most depraved characters in the manga and Brotherhood anime.
  • The Sacred Star of Milos: "Melvin Voyager", actually Security Chief Atlas, is a power-hungry, sociopathic Cretan soldier, who starts off by denouncing his vows to protect the Crichton family by brutally murdering the female protagonist Julia's parents and then rips the skin of Julia's brother's Ashleigh's face in order to steal his identity. This was done so that Atlas could easily manipulate the rebel group, Bats, into making a transmutation circle for him by promising Creta enough power to rival other nations. Ashleigh, in turn, ended up becoming a vengeful Knight Templar, seeking revenge for Milos after losing his faith for its people. After showing his true colors, Atlas murders Bats' leader, Miranda, so that he can use her blood to activate the circle. He then proceeds to murder his co-conspirator, Raul, as well when it turns out there is not enough sacrificial blood. After succeeding in activating the circle, Atlas sacrifices dozens of Amestrian soldiers by feeding them to Milos's machinery to create a Philosopher's Stone for himself. A textbook sociopath who abandoned his honor and home country for power, Atlas stood out as one of the most vile villains in the Brotherhood canon.
  • This version of Envy is an misanthropic sadist, who uses his powers to torment his victims by taking on the forms of people's loved ones before killing them. He is responsible for murdering Maes Hughes, by impersonating his wife and rubbing it at his face before killing him. Envy is mostly seen manipulating Amestris's government behind the scenes with a string of mind games and murders. This all culminates in him killing Ed when he finds out that Envy is, in fact, the homunculus version of his half-sibling. Unlike other homunculi, who wanted to become humans, Envy was the sole exception, only working for Dante so he could kill as many people as possible, abusing both other homunculi and prisoners in the process simply for laughs. When captured by the Thule Society in his serpent form, Envy is kept docile by being allowed to painfully impale his father Hoenheim, with his fangs.
  • King Bradley/Pride is the military dictator of Amestris and one of the aforementioned Dante's most trusted homunculi. He is the mastermind behind the events that caused the genocide in Ishbal, and worse yet, repeats the same actions in Reole in order to lead his own nation in destruction. At one point, he even releases the infamous Mad Bomber Solf J. Kimblee from prison and unleashes him upon Reole citizens in order to take care of the deed as fast as possible. While mainly assisting Dante in her plans to create the Philosopher's Stone all over again, it is made clear that Bradley enjoys committing these deeds for the sake of "purifying" the population and expanding the country's territory. After Martel finds out about Bradley's true identity, he proceeds to murder her cold-bloodedly in front of Al in order to keep her silent. In the final arc, Bradley plays a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with Roy Mustang, torturing him both physically and emotionally, even bringing up the tragic fact that he couldn't save his best friend from a certain death. When his own son steps in the hopes of helping his father, Bradley strangles him to death while ranting about being an agent of God.
  • The aforementioned Solf J. Kimblee stands out as even more insane and psychotic than his manga counterpart. A state alchemist with the ability to turn objects—and people—into explosives, Kimblee Loves the Sound of Screaming and earned a reputation during the Ishbal genocide for his ruthlessness. As seen in early flashbacks, Kimblee was responsible for creating mass destruction in his district, all while laughing like a maniac. He also tortured Scar by sadistically blasting him apart one piece at a time, giving him the distinctive mark in his forehead. Later, Kimblee escapes the prison by using a fellow inmate as a bomb and starts working for Greed before betraying him to Frank Archer and being indirectly responsible for the Devil's Nest massacre. After his reinstatement, Kimblee reenacts the Ishbal genocide in Reole and tries to murder Al by transforming him into a walking time bomb.
  • The Sleepwalker: Hassam Bin Hassam sells shoddy and faulty parts to airlines, leading to dozens of planes carrying hundreds being in danger, and the deaths of nearly 350 people from a large plane crash, something for which he had absolutely zero remorse. He would regularly beat his wife, son, and housekeeper. He abused his son for enjoying Western culture, despite enjoying it himself, and kills his own wife when confronted about his plan to cover up his involvement in the plane crash. When he finds bugs in his house, he brutally waterboards his housekeeper in the toilet and shoots her in the thigh so she can not get help. When cornered, Hassam holds his own son hostage at knife-point and threatens to kill him if he is not allowed to go free.
  • Brigands M.C: Ralph "The Führer" Donnington is a Neo-Nazi in charge of the South Devon Chapter of the titular biker gang. He is introduced trying to assault and possibly kill his son Martin for spitting on a member's patch, only stopping when the member appeases him by having Martin fight the much more skilled Dante Scott. The Führer later threatens to kill Dante's father when he disagrees with his plans to have the clubhouse torn down for new facilities. When Dante's parents kill one of his thugs, he retaliates by killing them and their two older children, and the younger two only live when Dante escapes though the window with the baby, accidentally injuring said baby in the process. To eliminate Dante as a witness he sends a gang member to try to bomb the foster home that Dante was staying at. When the Führer finds an undercover cop in his group he takes him to a field to execute him, until the cop tells him that he doesn't want a murder of a officer on his hands. Instead, the Führer has him cruelly dumped outside the house that Dante's family was murdered to mock him for failing to get justice for them. When protagonist James Adams gets a job as a server for the clubhouse, the Führer threatens to kill him for delivering tepid food as a sick joke, and admits he does this with every new server.
  • Masks of Aygrima: The Autarch is the ruler of Aygrima who created the masks to prevent any rebellions from ever happening. He is introduced overseeing the destruction of a village which is the last in a series of villages he's destroyed in his pursuit of the Lady of Pain and Fire. If a person fails their masking he sentences them to work in a mine in the mountains for life. He has an extreme Lack of Empathy for everyone around him, shrugging off the deaths of his personal guard and closest advisors. He's an Immortality Seeker who is fully willing to suck the life out of all of his subjects, personally showing up at the masking of several gifted just for this purpose, a decision that normally results in the failure of that person's masking. He has a group of young gifted follow him around so he can sap their magic leaving them sickly and weak. Not long before the start of the series, he has all masks changed so that all citizens become extremely submissive to his rule, later using these masks to control all citizens to fight the rebels attacking the capital, causing many of them to die in combat and others to drop dead once they are released from his control. Finally he intends to possess Mara Holdfast's body to extend his lifespan.
  • An Artificial Night: Blind Michael, the leader of The Wild Hunt, has his followers kidnap children and painfully transform them into his thralls. Reducing fae children to riders and humans into steeds for his army, Blind Michael kidnaps the nieces and nephews of October "Toby" Daye to force them to participate in his latest Hunt, trapping the consciousness of one niece and intending to forcefully make Toby his bride. When his plan is foiled, Blind Michael goes into a rage and takes it out on his current wife, Acacia, scarring her with his knife and stating his intent to keep his current thralls under his draconian enslavement for eternity.
  • The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton & James Patterson: Suliman Cindoruk, the head of the Sons of Jihad, is in truth in his business more for money than ideology. Suliman assists in terrorist attacks while arranging assassinations to cover his trail. When President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan goes missing, it is revealed Suliman intends to upload a virus to destroy the US's internet and power grid, completely sending the planet to the dark ages and also helping to poison the water supply, with massive amounts of casualties inevitable in the fallout.
  • Raven: Swordmistress of Chaos series, by Richard Kirk: Karl ir Donwayne is a ruthless slaver and Raven's arch-nemesis. Having been her master from a young age, Donwayne had Raven's mother raped and killed by his men before raping the young Raven himself. Donwayne is shown to relish in slavery, being a Serial Rapist of female slaves, keeping locks of their hair as trophies to mark his conquests. After being defeated by Raven, Donwayne returns as an undead monster, trying to kill her friends and even threatening to kill Raven and make her his undead Sex Slave for eternity.
  • Vulgyre is the true leader of the Zone Army. In the past, Vulgyre desired a woman named Meadow to be his queen and killed her when she rejected his attempts to covet her, keeping her soul captive within him. Assuming Meadow's likeness to lead the Zone while he disguised himself as Zone's flagship, Vulgyre intended to use the Zone as pawns to destroy 1,000 inhabited planets-—with Earth being the thousandth—-as part of a ritual to obtain eternal life so he could become God of the Milky Way. After his true identity was revealed to his subordinates, Vulgyre forcefully fused Doldora and Zaza together to transform them into a mindless monster when they refused to continue serving him. He then corrupted Chevalier's soul with the blood of his victims and had him killed so he could absorb the energy of his death in order to become his "Galactic Super Beast" form. A cruel being who cares for nobody but himself, Vulgyre is as vile as his name implies.
  • Forever Home:
    • Barclyss is the rogue Tren General who is revealed to be behind all the tragedies that Xero and his companions has to endure. Starting as a normal street urchin with intellectual potential, Barclyss lost any respect towards human life after studying biology books. After he joins the Judgment Faction, he first decimates the peaceful town of Ellea. When Corporal Slash of the Blaze Soldiers is captured by the Judgment Faction and refuses to be subjugated by Barclyss, he then spares the Corporal so that he can hear all the screams of his men being butchered in the arena. When Xero tries to challenge Barclyss in order to save the Tren Captain Farrell, Barclyss beheads the captain out of spite. It was also revealed that he turned the people that he slayed into his slaves for Judgment Faction. In addition, he was also responsible for the loss of his childhood friend's eye. When the heroes tries to form a pact with another country, Heyama, Barclyss takes a mobile "Aquadome" fortress to Heyama's shores and has it fire on a building complex. After Barclyss confronts the heroes, he then launches a spell towards the duo and throws warning shots out of petty amusement. After Barclyss's army is defeated, he uses a weapon that could decimate most of the planet's surface by causing a nuclear winter. Although claiming to be a victim of his nihilistic grief and saying that survival is merely an option, Barclyss really does all of his atrocities in order to slake his sadistic and nihilistic pleasures.
    • General Kail is the chief subordinate of the aforementioned Barclyss, and is just as omnicidal as his master. As a high-ranking member of Tren's Judgment Faction, Kail joins Barclyss in shelling innocent villages, murders prospective faction recruits, and summons a sea monster to sink a civilian ship, all to slake his bloodlust and to give the faction more undead slaves. During the attack on Heyama, Kail personally oversees the destruction of the country's largest housing complex, only expressing regret that the Aquadome's cannon doesn't allow him to savor his victims' deaths up close. Using his alchemy and scientific knowledge, Kail acts as the chief engineer of the orbital fortress Affliction, which he and Barclyss commandeer to bombard the planet with the explosive Cosmite mineral. Once his boss is defeated, Kail takes charge of Affliction by himself, launches the largest Cosmite shard, and tries to ram the fortress into the surface in order to finish off the planet's few remaining lifeforms. Cruel and self-centered, Kail seeks to betray Barclyss and rule an utterly silent world as its Sole Survivor.
  • Phantasy Star IV: Zio is the mysterious dark figure leading the cult that worships Dark Force. He first appears when he threatens the principal who tried to send a rescue team to Zema. When the heroes travel there, they learn the whole population was turned to stone by Zio. When the heroes try to find the elixir that could cure Zema's curse, they learn that Zio decimated the town that had said elixir, as well as several other towns. In addition, he also destroys the bridge that connects to other cities by summoning a meteor. When the heroes try to shut down a power plant known as Nurvus, Zio took the android who could shut it down hostage. It was also revealed that Zio brainwashed some of the people on Motavia so that they would join his cult and preach to them that he will create a better world after he destroys Motavia. When the heroes fight Zio for the first time, he unleashes the Black Energy Wave on the heroes, leading to one of them getting mortally wounded. A fanatical sorcerer at his finest, Zio doesn't care if all living things on Motavia, including him, get wiped out in order to satisfy the Dark God that he worships.
  • None Too Holy: The Pijavica, actually the mother of the mute orphan Aleksandar, is the entity whose murder of Father Collins and attempt to bring Aleksandar back into her clutches sets up the plot. The Pijavica murders one of the nuns of the Maryland orphanage Aleksandar lives in to pose as her, slaughtering another when she reveals her true identity and attempting to massacre all of the other children and nuns there to get at her prey. The vilest revelation concerning Aleksandar's "Majika" was her constant incestuous attentions on Aleksandar in life—dooming her husband to hang when she was exposed and executed—seeking to rape Aleksandar one more time before murdering him as well.

Edited by ACW on Aug 20th 2018 at 9:48:05 AM

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#127034: Aug 19th 2018 at 7:36:10 AM

few things:

Fuhrer is written as incorrectly in the part which I added. It should be Führer.

Also Super Sentai uses the ac separation. So cut the fiveman link in vulgyre's write-up.

Edited by miraculous on Aug 19th 2018 at 7:41:02 AM

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#127035: Aug 19th 2018 at 7:46:28 AM

Yea to the second First Wave duo

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#127037: Aug 19th 2018 at 8:00:35 AM

[up]Thanks. Out of curiosity do you want to know what happens to him and Hassan ?

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Awesomekid42 Lord of Hell Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: It was only a kiss
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#127038: Aug 19th 2018 at 8:23:25 AM

@ACW

At one point on the Kuin write-up, "Quirk" is mispelled as "Qurik". I fixed that on the YMMV, but it was removed from the drafts before I could fix it there

Stellarvore Since: Apr, 2016
#127039: Aug 19th 2018 at 8:34:01 AM

I believe Lombard has enough votes.

The Tale of Robert Elm: Valentine Ambrose Lombard is the leader of the Black Circle. While in its early days, the cult was founded to prevent the spread of a plague, he seems to have taken up the mantle of leader for no other reason than as an exercise of his sadism and depravity. Lombard tampered with the mind of Robert Elm's lover, causing him to develop abusive tendencies, with the intention of luring him directly into the cult's arms to murder him and neutralize the threat he poses to his order. When Elm is assaulted by a zealous follower, Lombard nurses him back to health, all while slipping doses of human flesh into his meals — acquired from various captives held in a shack — to nullify his power over him. Just as Elm is almost back on his feet, Lombard and his followers rehearse a ritual wherein he plans to sacrifice Elm, using the follower who assaulted Elm as practice, eating his liver after slaying him.

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#127040: Aug 19th 2018 at 8:48:24 AM

42: Fixed.

Mir: Hassan does a suicide by cop rather than going to prison. Fuhrer escapes, but gets arrested in a later book.

Stellarvore: Please add to the Drafts and I can get to it today.

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#127041: Aug 19th 2018 at 8:55:12 AM

I uh know that. Ive read this series. I was just wondering if you did ?

Alright It'll take a bit but I'll reread book 7 (The Fall) and ep the 3 leaders of the human trafiickig ring who are the secondary villains. As I said sex crimes and especially rape (with children involved being even more so) are very rare for this series so should be easy keepers.

Edited by miraculous on Aug 19th 2018 at 8:55:50 AM

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#127042: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:01:30 AM

That's good for you, My Emperor. Good luck anyway.

[tup] Bishop

[tup] Magus.

Also, Kagerou Project seems ready to lauch a third album and more adaptations. Our current keeper, the Snake of Red Eyes / Kuroha is likely to reappearing due to his iconic Big Bad status (or in the worst case, get redeeming traits...).

So. I'm going to keep an eye on it. Ok?

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Knack Since: Mar, 2018
#127043: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:05:52 AM

@Kazuya Well if they don't hire a lousy writer like Kishimoto who was the writer who thought giving Tobi a last minute redeeming quality was good writing, and instead have a writer who has any understanding of how characterization of good and evil is supposed to work, than there won't be any trouble.

Edited by Knack on Aug 19th 2018 at 9:13:03 AM

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#127044: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:13:45 AM

@Knack

Nah. Orochimaru and Kabuto are the real deal, if Kabuto has stayed villain and haven't got his backstory, Trust me that I would have proposed him easily. Like, the whole Edo Tensei mess is a massive crime by itself.

Tobi is curious. He did start with a Freudian Excuse who got slowly revealed to be Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse, but then the Freudian Excuse started to work again and he got redeeming traits for it.

Also, his old entry said that Hidan, our current CM keep, actually had Redeeming traits in a Wouldnt Harm A Child standard. But that never really appeared in the series (All There in the Manual stuff). Dunno if that is really true but I find it funny. Having a moral standard but never showing it for lack of screen time.

Edited by KazuyaProta on Aug 19th 2018 at 11:17:43 AM

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#127045: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:14:03 AM

Out of curioisuity is the snake, one of only 2 cm's for Mamoru Miyano. I put up the other of his being D.

Edited by miraculous on Aug 19th 2018 at 9:15:30 AM

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Knack Since: Mar, 2018
#127046: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:21:39 AM

@Kazuya Yeah I agree Orichimaru is significantly more severe. But having your excuse be "my first crush died and I am depressed about it" and portray it as justifying all of your crimes and intentionally rewriting your characters to MAKE it sympathetic? Is still lousy writing since he was attempting to kill everybody for THAT. Orichimaru is lousier though since it practically happened offscreen. I do agree he is MUCH more of an instance of badly written rdeeming qualities.

As for Hidan, that supposed standard is pure speculation, he doesn't show any hints of altruistic qualities onscreen.

Edited by Knack on Aug 19th 2018 at 9:28:50 AM

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#127047: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:24:22 AM

Mir: Oh, do I WANT to know. I missed the want [lol]

What happens to Aramov?

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#127048: Aug 19th 2018 at 9:27:22 AM

Leonid is murdered by his ex-wife Tamara. Considering the fact he would rape and beat her. Its very deserved. No Karma Houdini CM's here.

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Kookosbanaani Since: May, 2015
#127049: Aug 19th 2018 at 10:04:59 AM

Now about Octopath: a whopping 6 C Ms is very exceptional and I would like to ask from you guys, which other stand-alone work has 6 or more monsters in its account? Not counting a series with multiple works of course.

And about Solf's entry: I would fix the line "As seen in early flashbacks, Kimblee was responsible for massive explosions all around the region, all while laughing about it" to something like "As seen in flashbacks, Kimblee was responsible for creating mass destruction in his district, all while laughing like a maniac". The former is not phrased very good and has a typo ("responsible for massive explosions" instead of "responsible for creating mass explosions") and this is coming from the one who wrote the said entry, yours truly.

[down] I would also pothole "pride" in Bradley's entry.

EDIT: I would take Morality Pet away. Offing the Offspring makes it already clear that not even his own family is safe from him.

Edited by Kookosbanaani on Aug 19th 2018 at 8:25:49 PM

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#127050: Aug 19th 2018 at 10:08:38 AM

Well, you've got shows like Criminal Minds, and long-running comics like Punisher and X-Men and Judge Dredd, and long-running AniManga.

Check Solf's now. I'm not sure it's a typo exactly, but "mass destruction" works better IMO (not to mention it's pretty obvious how, what with the Mad Bomber, Having a Blast, and Why Am I Ticking? potholes).

Which pothole to take out for Bradley then? And I didn't do that for Envy.

Edited by ACW on Aug 19th 2018 at 1:20:11 PM

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