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.
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
- Zardoz
◊ from Dog Soldier.
- Kai
from Parallel Paradise
- "Sweet" Joe Petunia
◊ from The Iron Saint.
- Peter Dellaplane
◊ from Action Jackson.
- Black Lagoon: In this Crapsack World, filled with terrible people, none manage to be quite as hateful—or fundamentally petty—as Chaka from the "Fujiyama Gangster Paradise" arc. A Yakuza lieutenant with a penchant for Domestic Abuse, Chaka makes his entrance beating up Rock in an effort to impress Revy. When the battle between the Yakuza and the Russian mob goes badly for the Yakuza, Chaka kidnaps and brutalizes Yukio, his boss's teenage daughter, beating her bloody, and plans to sell her to a sexual sadist as part of his plan to take control of the remnants of the Yakuza. When Revy and Ginji arrive to bail her out, Chaka shoots through his own men to try and get at them, kills another man for daring to try and run away, then runs away himself, leaving his men to be massacred. Childish, stupid, and completely out of his depth, Chaka manages to make an impression only through his complete lack of conscience, loyalty, or human decency.
- Monster: Johan Liebert's refusal to seek redemption makes him the titular monster. A sadistic chessmaster since he learned to walk and talk, Johan murdered his own foster parents and manipulated over 50 adults and children into massacring each other, even as a preteen. As an adult, Johan is on a personal journey to become, in his own words, as dark as possible. He is also trying to find out if there is anyone as evil as he is out there, or, failing that, forcing the heroic Dr. Tenma, and/or his own pacifistic sister, Nina Foertner, to kill him in cold blood. In this way, he hopes to establish that even the best people can become just like him. Along the way, he convinces children to jump from rooftops; gets a recovering alcoholic drunk before throwing him off a building; sets a highly-occupied library aflame, with a smile on his face; and convinces various serial killers to murder every foster family he has ever lived with, as part of his quest to become an Un-person. In the end, Johan tries to manipulate the population of an entire town into slaughtering each other, and, failing at this, prepares to shoot a child in the head just to torture Tenma. In the end, Johan undermines any possible Freudian Excuse, proving himself to be simply pure, unadulterated evil.
- Parallel Paradise: Kai is an immortal bishop of the Black Dawn, a cult that worships the God of Deep Jealousy. Fueling her immortality by consuming human gallbladders, Kai has spent millennia treating the seaside city of Lille as her personal feeding ground, ambushing those foolish enough to walk the beach at night. In order to strengthen her hold on the city, she sealed the land-bound goddess of Lille under the ocean, breaking the key into thousands of pieces and holds the final piece in secret in order to mess with the daughter of said Goddess. At one point, she has cursed the sister of Pinako, one of Lille's guardians, in order to force Pinako into becoming both the mole in the city and her Sex Slave. Once the existence of both herself and the god she worships is revealed, Kai then slaughters any civilians who discovered the secret. Paralyzing the civilians with a spell, she meticulously stabs them through the chest before transforming into the monstrous Cetus in order to fight with Lumi and the other guardians. Beating them to within an inch of their lives, Kai offers to spare them in exchange for loyalty, only to try to kill the one who accepts her offer regardless.
- Batman: Castle of the Bat, by Jack C. Harris, Bo Hampton, & Tracy Hampton-Munsey: In this alternate universe set in 1819, in which Bruce Wayne turned to science instead of crime-fighting, Dr. Seltsam is a depraved doctor wanting to preserve bodies for study. Refusing to acknowledge criminals and ineffectual medicine students as "people", he hires Van Klooster to kill Thomas Wayne for opposing his goals. Years later, he betrays Van Klooster and puts him—and Bruce's servant, Alfredo—in an experiment, injecting Klooster with a formula to paralyze him. Near the end, he tries to electrocute a resurrected Thomas— now Bat-Man—to send him back to Hell.
- Cursed, by Fiona Avery et al.: Victor Hahn is a director of museum of antiquities in Germany and a former worshipper of Osiris. After Osiris didn't choose him as "chosen protector", he swears to enslave Osiris as revenge. He decided to start by murdering dozens of people at night, trapping them in the status between life and death and making them his slaves through an ancient Egyptian ritual. When he discovered Shan Beaumont, a reporter who was chosen by gods instead of him, he decided to kill her through Egyptian ritual, thus making her "the Door" to Afterlife, so that he could summon and enslave Osiris. Right before the ritual, he killed whole group of tourists in his museum.
- Dark Ark: The wicked Echidna is the mother of monsters. Surviving the flood as the Leviathan, Echidna hounds Noah's ark to feed off the animals there, intending to destroy it and kill Noah's family without tribute. When her own children come to investigate, Echidna happily kills them as well. When the sorcerer Shrae attempts to bargain with her, Echidna leaves him to drown to attack the Dark Ark, mentally dominating her monster children to feed her Shrae's family and remaining captives, while intending on breeding them to provide a fresh supply of meat.
- The Iron Saint, by Jason Rubin et al.: "Sweet" Joe Petunia is "number three" in the criminal syndicate after Big Daddy and Michael Irons. When he was sent along with Michael Irons to collect the debt from John Chase, for some casino owner, who was working for Big Daddy, he unexpectedly turns on Irons and kills John Chase, his wife, their two little children and that casino owner. Taking the money for himself, Joe decided to lie to Big Daddy, by telling him that John Chase didn't come with the money and Irons went nuts and start killing everyone until Joe stopped him, then he left the mortally wounded Irons to die. When Irons managed to survive, Joe put a price on his head, and during their final battle he kills many of Irons's allies and randomly murders two of his henchmen, so that he alone could kill Irons.
- The Last Siege, by Landry Q. Walker, Justin Greenwood, et al.: The evil king Istvan betrays and murders the family that took him in, having the old duke killed before his children, before killing them and their mother. Going on to raise an army, Istvan rampages across Europe, killing all who stand against him, often by having unscrupulous traitors open paths for his army, whereupon Istvan slaughters the nobility to add the armies to his own. Coming upon the heir to Lord Aedon, whom he had assassinated, the 11 year old Lady Cathryn, Istvan attempts to kill her along with her protector, his old friend Tomislav. Even threatening to have young Cathryn flayed before Tomislav's eyes, Istvan sacrifices countless soldiers of his own army for victory, caring for nothing save his victory and power.
- Nevsky: Hero of the People, by Ben McCool, Mario Guevara, et al.: Hermann von Bolk, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, is a savage fanatic who ravages Russia, killing many civilians, including the infamous Massacre of Pskov where he has his men slaughter hundreds of men, women and children. Von Bolk even has infants taken from their mothers and burned alive before crucifying many of his victims as the punishment for being "unbelievers" in his eyes. Intending on ravaging Novgorod, von Bolk leads his men to the Battle of the Ice, not content to stop until all of Russia burns before him.
- Nyarlathotep, by Rotomago & Julien Noirel: An adaptation of the short prose story Nyarlathotep by Lovecraft himself, Nyarlathotep arrives in one ordinary city to bring it to ruin. Infesting it with eldritch nightmares, Nyarlathotep leeches from the brains of all around, bringing them to insanity and madness before enslaving more and sending many of them to be destroyed by his own creatures. Driving the rest into the wastes after seeing what he has made of their world, Nyarlathotep seemingly brings about the end of the world and goes about to torment as he sees fit.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Cthulhu Mythos crossover The Stars Will Aid Their Escape: Herald, an avatar of Nyarlathotep, gives Trixie the Neighcronomicon and drives her insane just so he has an easily manipulated pawn to use as a decoy. He rips out the Cutie Mark Crusaders' souls and then goads Rainbow Dash into collapsing the building they're in so that Dash thinks she's the reason they're catatonic; renders Twilight hopelessly insane when he registers her as a possible threat; uses the CMC's souls as leverage to make sure the Princesses don't banish him before he can do the same to them; has his Dark Young henchmen slaughter most of the Royal Guard; and finally throws the jar containing the CMC's souls over a waterfall just to hurt the Mane Six more. Most of this was completely irrelevant to his plan to summon the Outer Gods and was done just For the Evulz.
- Action Jackson: Peter Anthony Dellaplane is an industrialist who ruins his business partner and has him murdered, also dispatching his first wife due to financial issues. When his plans for work are interrupted by a union, Dellaplane begins having the union members killed to deal with the issue. When he realizes his current wife has caught on to the plan, Dellaplane murders her as well and reveals he intends to arrange an accident for his own son in prison to clear up any loose ends, while attempting to murder his own own mistress and framing Detroit Police Department Detective Sergeant Jericho "Action" Jackson for his crimes, after killing and burning him.
- Danger Dolls (2014): "Guru", the leader of the Kouka Shinrikuo cult, is a psychopath who wants to take over an Earth without weapons, having already drowned his home dimension in radiation. Viewing himself as a god after gaining powers from a wormhole, he sends his followers out to either commit crimes, or disguise themselves as Kouka party politicians in order to gain access to nukes, planning to hold the world hostage and become their new leader. Having Kouka politicians kidnapped and electrocuted to death, he later guns down the Danger Dolls while they're fighting his followers.
- Darkman: Robert G. Durant is a crime boss turned Psycho for Hire who is introduced having a potential obstacle's entire outfit executed before he tortures the boss by chopping off all his fingers with a cigar cutter. Later, on behalf of Louis Strack Jr., Durant attacks Dr. Peyton Westlake in his lab, setting him on fire, killing his lab assistant and ruining his life by turning him into the titular Anti-Hero Darkman. Durant thinks nothing of betraying and killing allies, and when he returns in the second film, he shows himself as even nastier than before. He hires crazed scientist Dr. Alfred Hathaway to build a high-powered laser weapon to mass produce to anyone who can afford it; has scientist Dr. David Brinkman beaten and murdered in order to steal his lab; and has David's sister Laurie threatened to get to Westlake when he discovers his arch rival Darkman's return. Durant also has reporter Jill Randall killed for bringing his activities to light and showing an unflattering picture of him.
- Disturbia: Robert Turner is a Serial Killer who moved into a suburban neighborhood to evade capture after killing several people in Austin, Texas. He builds a multi-layer Torture Cellar and killing lair underneath his house, with decaying corpses piled up all over the place. He seduces several women and invites them to his home before killing them, cutting up their bodies and disposing of them in garbage bags. When the teenage Kale Brecht discovers his true nature, he kidnaps and arranges to kill the boy's mother Julie and frame him for both that and the planned death of his best friend Ronnie. Turner also taunts Kale about the motivation being for believing his mother blamed him for his father's death in a car accident and forces him to write his own suicide note too. Turner further threatens Kale's love interest Ashley Carson both when she's stalking him and when she shows up to help Kale escape, and kills Officer Gutierrez, who arrives on the scene, by breaking his neck.
- Faust: Love of the Damned: M is the white-haired, infernal leader of The Hand, an occult Satanic criminal organization with ties to corrupt government officials that he uses to spread evil in the world. After ordering his goons to brutally murder the girlfriend of artist John Jaspers, he confronts Jaspers as he's about to commit suicide to give him "the power of vengeance" in the shape of a superpowered demonic form in exchange for his soul, intending to use Jaspers as his unwitting instrument of death. Jaspers refuses to kill any longer after slaughtering everyone at an embassy, so M has him Buried Alive. M's new plan then becomes to release the Homunculus, a giant demon serpent who will bring Hell on Earth. When Jaspers escapes, M kidnaps his Love Interest Jade to hurt Jaspers through his loved ones by brainwashing an honest detective investigating The Hand to lure her in. M reveals that in the past he raped Jade when she was only 11 by possessing her father's body so that he could indoctrinate her and later impregnate her as an adult with his demonic spawn, an act that he forces Jaspers to watch. No less ruthless towards any of his followers, he devours the corrupt police commissioner he's aligned with for questioning his leadership; briefly melts his Dark Mistress into a blob for displeasing him; and eventually incinerates her in a summoning ritual, and has his cultists sacrifice themselves en masse in the same ritual to summon the Homunculus. Even when his plan is foiled, he uses his contract on Jaspers's soul to bargain for the soul of Jade's unborn child with the promise of "releasing" Jaspers.
- The House That Jack Built: Jack is a sadistic Serial Killer who views killing as an art form and wants fame. His murders spanning 12 years, Jack murders everyone from annoying strangers and police officers to even his girlfriend and best friend, in increasingly brutal ways. Jack even kills children, gunning down two young boys in front of their mother before executing the woman herself. Racking up a body count of well over 60, Jack tries to use a World War II-grade bullet to kill 6 men at once, and, when led down into hell to suffer for his crimes, Jack refuses to accept his punishment and remorselessly attempts an escape.
- Ilya Muromets (The Sword and the Dragon in the US): The Tugar Khan Kalin is a savage warlord who leads his forces to Rape, Pillage, and Burn through all Russia, massacring villages and killing countless innocent people. Tearing apart the lands until he comes to Kiev, Kalin intends on ruling the city by demanding tribute, while keeping his ferocious dragon, the Zmey, in reserve. When he learns of the city failing to pay tribute, Kalin intends on massacring Kiev and even builds a pyramid of dead corpses to observe an ensuing battle before unleashing the Zmey to burn all before it.
- The Passage: SS officer Captain von Berkow is a devoted Nazi hunting the Basque and his charges. Capturing a French informer, von Berkow savagely tortures him before cutting off his fingers, cooking them in goulash and, it's implied, forcing him to eat them. Pursuing his targets to a Gypsy village, von Berkow captures and sexually assaults one target before burning the village leader alive and having the Gypsies massacred by his forces once he has the information he desires. Dedicated only to his advancement in the Nazi regime, von Berkow even considers those who lack his sadism to be failures, believing only he has the drive to rise higher.
- Revenger (2018):
- Carlos Kun/Kuhn is the bandaged leader of the prison island AP 101. Originally a criminal who killed Yul's wife and daughter in front of him, Kun faked his death and headed to AP 101, where he immediately slit a man's throat; chopped off Bau's hand; and killed Jin's father. Becoming the island's leader, he has people captured and released so his men can chase after and kill them. When Yul kills one of his men and releases his prisoners, Kun kills the man who told him this and sends his assassins out to murder Yul, before trying to kill Yul himself.
- The unnamed right-hand-man of Kun's forces is a grinning psychopath who participates in horrible games on the island. Hunting down and murdering those in his path, the killer carries out Kun's will and gleefully executes those in his path. Attacking Bau's village, he leads a massacre there, killing most of the village while even slitting the throat of one of the heroes' allies in front of them before trying to kill a little girl's mother before her, even trying to kill her as well before Bau saves her.
- Rocky Handsome (2016): In this Bollywood remake of The Man from Nowhere, Kevin and Luke are a pair of ruthless drug dealers who usurp control of the operation from their boss by leaving him to be killed by the hero Kabir, aka Rocky Handsome. Luke and Kevin, finding that a woman named Anna has stolen their drugs, kidnap and torture Anna's young daughter Naomi, before murdering her to feed their other trade, organ harvesting. The two use child slaves for their drugs before harvesting them and other innocent people to make money on the black market, attempting to harvest little Naomi. Even when Luke is captured and executed by Kabir, Kevin displays little interest or care, simply ordering Naomi's death to be expedited.
- Under Siege duology:
- Under Siege:
- William Strannix is an ex-CIA operative who specializes in taking down or taking over ships and submarines. When his superior, CIA Director Tom Breaker, believes Strannix to be going rogue, Strannix responds by murdering the agent sent to kill him and, along with his crew, hijacks the USS Missouri battleship, killing several of its passengers. Strannix coldly kills a random hostage just for standing next to another who got killed for trying to fight back and warns of doing the same again unless there's more cooperation. Strannix has a satellite station blown up along with both a fighter jet doing a watch and a helicopter with a rescue team, the latter two of which could lead to the whole ship being destroyed in an airstrike by other fighter jets. He amusedly lets the crew's lives be threatened in order to try to trap and kill ex-Navy SEAL turned cook Casey Ryback and fires two nuclear Tomahawk missiles towards Honolulu to kill everyone there.
- Commander Krill is the Missouri's Executive Officer who helps Strannix and his men infiltrate and take over the ship, just because the Captain believed he was too abusive towards the crew. Krill, having a bottomless hunger for power, personally murders the Captain himself, and before the hijacking, he drugs Playboy Playmate Jordan Tate, claiming that the pills he gave her are for motion sickness. From that point forward, Krill endorses and takes part in all of Strannix's plans and actions, including turning nuclear weapons on the ship over to allies on a North Korean submarine. He expresses gleeful sadism at Strannix's plan to bomb Honolulu with two Tomahawk missiles, and tries to lure Ryback into a trap where he can be killed. This involves Krill trying to drown the entire crew in the room they're being held in by having it flooded, and taunting Ryback about it over video while one of the hostages is shot and killed for good measure.
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: Travis Dane is a former government scientist responsible for creating Grazer One. He hires Marcus Penn and several mercenaries to hijack the Grand Continental train, resulting in several deaths. Once they take command, he finds two of his colleagues and forces them to give up the codes for Grazer One by threatening to insert a hot needle into their eyeballs. After he receives the codes, he has both colleagues killed, reactivates the satellite, and proceeds to demonstrate the power of Grazer One by destroying a chemical plant in China. Several terrorists offer Dane one billion dollars to destroy Washington D.C. with the satellite, an offer he happily accepts. He then goes on to destroy a civilian aircraft for another hundred million dollars. Later on, he switches the train tracks so that the Grand Continental is on a collision course for another train carrying gallons of gasoline. Near the end, shortly after Penn and most of his men are killed, he tries to flee the Grand Continental, fully prepared to let the remaining men, all of the hostages on the train, including Ryback's teenage niece Sarah, and millions of people in DC die.
- Under Siege:
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah: Chuck Wilson, the leader of the Futurians, was paranoid about Japan becoming an economic superpower, and so hatches a mad plan to ensure this never happens. First, he takes a time machine, along with his allies Glenchiko, Emi Kano, and a small army of androids. Then, he takes three genetically engineered creatures called Dorats with him to the past, in 1991. Convincing Japan's government to aid him with lies about Godzilla, he has his lackeys travel to the past, and attempt to remove Godzilla from history. When they fail, Emi, on Wilson's orders, leaves the three Dorats behind, where they are hit by a nuclear explosion, absorbing the radiation and becoming forcibly fused together into the Heisei King Ghidorah. In the present, Wilson takes control of King Ghidorah and directs it like a living WMD. It destroys an entire city and kills hundreds of people under his orders, before flying to Hokkaido next, destroying everything in its path. Eventually, Japan has no choice but to bring Godzilla back, making Wilson indirectly responsible for all the evil Godzilla does in future movies. Wilson, showing no remorse for all the lives he's taken, just gloats that either Ghidorah will destroy Japan, or Godzilla will do it for him.
- Dr. Levine, from "Organ Grinder", is the head doctor at a free clinic, known as the Folter Clinic. She is also the head of a ring of Geiers who harvest human organs in order to create products for Wesen. A vulture-like race, Geiers are infamous for this disturbing practice, but traditionally they only targeted the dead or dying, befitting vultures' status as scavengers. Levine, however, takes this brutality a step further, luring in or kidnapping homeless teenagers, then vivisecting and eventually murdering them. Openly taking pleasure from her grizzly acts, she forces a boy named Hanson to watch as she prepares to cut open his sister, and barely reacts as her subordinates are gunned down by Portland Police, when they rescue the teens. Having murdered countless people, all in the name of profit, Levine established herself as one of the most disturbed killers amongst a race of them.
- Blackbeard's Pirates vs. The Evil Mummies, by James Black: Sakhmet is a former Egyptian queen who has become the ruler of the evil mummies. Feeding on the souls of her victims, Sakhmet kills many people to join her legions, massacres the crew of a Turkish ship when they hold her sarcophagus, and later targets Blackbeard's own crew. After killing many more people, Sakhmet possesses and kills Blackbeard's sister Mary before announcing her intentions of unleashing her armies on the world to reap and devour the souls of countless innocents until she reigns over what's left.
- Diablo: Legacy of Blood, by Richard Knaak: General Augustus Malevolyn shows what kind of man he is by handing a loyal soldier to his witch and mistress Galelona to be horribly sacrificed to demons. Hunting down the armor of his ancestor Bartuc, Warlord of Blood, Malevolyn eventually makes a pact with the demon Xazax, who shows him a ritual to bind demons to his soldiers. Sacrificing the souls of his entire army, Malevolyn has them slaughter a patrol from Lut Gholein before having the city attacked. Despite promising them peace should he get what he wants, Malevolyn reveals he intends on having Lut Gholein massacred to the last human being before moving on with a demonic army to subjugate or slaughter all before him.
- The Shahnameh: Zahhak, after delving into evil with the wicked Ahriman, becomes the worst tyrant the world has ever seen after murdering his own father. Conducting horrific massacres and bathing in the blood of his victims, Zahhak has two men a day sacrificed to feed their brains to the snakes growing from his shoulders. Upon learning of the hero Fereydun destined to defeat him to avenge his father, Zahhak massacres those close to him, even the cow who functioned as his wet nurse. Zahhak, after being driven back by Fereydun, flees to India where he proceeds to kill thousands of innocents. The pinnacle of mortal evil in the Shahnameh, Zahhak stands as a testament of wickedness even centuries later.
- "Snow, Glass, Apples
", by Neil Gaiman: "Snow White" is the unnamed, vampiric princess who is opposed by the supposedly "wicked" stepmother. Showing her inhuman nature by feeding on her new stepmother's blood, Snow begins draining her own father over years, sexually and physically abusing him until he dies a wasted skeleton of a man. When the new queen attempts to have Snow killed, Snow enslaves the dwarves in the forest and begins hunting travelers, killing many for their blood. While being temporarily defeated by a poison apple, Snow returns later to usurp control of the kingdom from her stepmother, having the queen cooked alive as the main course at Snow's wedding, free to terrorize the kingdom how she desires.
- Thomas Wilder's killing fields are discovered early in season 6, where Danny Reagan finds the corpses of three women who have been beaten, raped and murdered. Hunting down clues, it is revealed Wilder has raped and murdered at least 18 women, with only one survivor who still suffers from what he has done to her. Later murdering her as well, Wilder continues killing in his spare time and even murders his own mother. Latching on to Danny Reagan, Wilder kidnaps his niece Nicky to kill her, too, and when Danny saves her, Wilder tricks Danny into shooting him unarmed just so his death will haunt Danny further.
- Bodyguard (UK 2018): Nadia Ali is a Middle Eastern Terrorist who led the train bombing operation, in an attempt to kill the hundreds of passengers aboard. Upon being caught by David Budd, she pretends to be a unwilling participant, while pinning her crime on her subordinate posing as her husband. Upon being recruited to Luke Aiken's conspiracy, Nadia would create a bomb for Aiken, that would later be used to kill Home Secretary Julia Montague and countless others caught in the blast radius. In return, Aiken would give Nadia more resources for her to create more bombs; she decides to test one out by sending a bomb to an elementary school that David's children attend, which ends up killing the police force sent to intercept it. Nadia would then spread false information about David, and later has a bomb vest strapped onto him in an effort to frame him for all her bomb attacks.
- Future Man: Dr. Stuart "Stu" Gavin Camillo was a scientist working for Elias Kronish, and responsible for creating the Bad Future in season 2. Upon Kronish's death, Stu takes over in creating the cure for all diseases, where he gives it to the worst of humanity, knowing that their abuse of it will lead to global war resulting in massive loss of life and resources while he uploads his consciousness to an artificial intelligence to become immortal and rule over what remains. He would also conduct horrific experiments on 4,891 people, forcibly uploading their conciseness into his mainframe, leading to their deaths. In the year 2162, he would trick the people on The Mons into giving up their physical bodies and free will and uploading their consciousness into his mainframe, dubbed Mankind's Automated Reality Systems (M.A.R.S.), on the pretense that they'll be traveling to the planet Mars; those that refuse to go along this plan will be murdered by his army of robots. When he learns that Josh Futterman is attempting to invade M.A.R.S., he plans to trap him there, so that he can torture Josh for all of eternity. While Stu claims to be saving the human race, he's nothing more than a childish megalomaniac who just wants complete control over it and when his plans are exposed he orders his robotic army to exterminate all of humanity, including his own daughter Ty-Anne and his Lust Object Tiger.
- Journey into Mystery: The Haunter in the Dark, the wicked Outer God Nyarlathotep, from "The Haunter of the Dark" & "The Shadow from the Steeple", awakens after being released by one hapless seeker. Tormenting those in his path to drive them to madness, Nyarlathotep kills several, including the one who awakened him after driving the man incurably insane. Revealed to have demanded violent blood sacrifice in great numbers, Nyarlathotep possesses a doctor who has access to weapon systems, intending to use said systems to wipe out humanity, and kills the one man who knows the truth.
- Mattimeo:
- Slagar the Cruel, formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, reinvented himself as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the worst boss in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for letting some slaves escape, wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day betraying Malkariss as well, Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.
- General Ironbeak, the fiercest fighter of the north, is a thuggish bully of a raven who leads his followers to conquer Redwall Abbey. Arriving at the Sparra loft, Ironbeak massacres the elderly and baby sparrows who were left behind to take over and proceeds to launch attacks on the abbey. Upon taking Redwall over, Ironbeak reveals he intends to massacre the population, who are all innocent civilians and little children, including the innocent baby Rollo Bankvole. When he attempts to attack the abbot, the innocent Sister May attempts to protect him, prompting a furious Ironbeak to attempt to kill her on the spot.
- Cult Encounters
& Supernatural Encounters
: The monstrous Typhojem is the worst of the Old Ones and the Sith War God. Born the child of the Celestials, Typhojem genetically engineered the genocidal Yeveetha and created the cults to the Dark Side to enslave the lesser races. Going on a genocidal rampage, Typhojem exterminated entire worlds, razed Geonosis into ash and annihilated the entire Vorsuul system. Going through the galaxy, Typhojem left horrific rampages in his path, even torturing his "grandfather", Wutzek, to death. Seizing control of Coruscant, Typhojem fed all dissenters to his demonic Ruzzem, set to ensure that all life either served and worshipped him or ended.
- Maghda is a devout servant of Belial, the Lord of Lies, and the leader of vile demon worshippers known as the Coven. Once a compatriot to Adria, Maghda assumed control of the Coven by poisoning her masters after believing them to be lax in their devotion to the Prime Evils. She devotes the Coven to worship of Belial and appeases her master by torturing and mutilating thousands beneath King Leoric's manor. Tasked to retrieve Tyrael's shattered sword, Maghda forces the local goat men to assault the survivors of New Tristram and leads the slaughter of the village of Wortham to get the pieces. She personally tortures Deckard Cain and Leah to force him to remake the sword, and kidnaps an injured Tyrael to torture him to death as a sacrifice. Ultimately forced to flee east to Caldeum, Maghda provides a distraction for Belial by butchering the city of Alcarnus to lure in the Nephalem. While slain, Maghda's atrocities set the standard for what horrors the Nephalem would encounter throughout their journey.
- Just Cause series:
- Just Cause 2: Pandak "Baby" Panay is the oppressive and brutal dictator of Panau. Having usurped and assassinated his father, Panau's previous, benevolent, president, Panak immediate begins his regime by stripping away the rights of his citizens, and increasing his power in the military. If anyone questions his government, he has them tortured and killed. During the revolution, Panak has innocent civilians arrested, tortured and sometimes killed for minor offenses. When the prisons became full, Panak orders an Execution Day to put all prisoners to death. After a botched attempt to kill him, Panak retaliates by ordering a nuclear strike against Russia, America, China and Japan, whilst attempting to kill Rico Rodriguez, promising to make his suffering legendary.
- Just Cause 3: General Sebastiano Di Ravello is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a sociopathic Pyromaniac. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, in addition to starting a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed Rico Rodriguez's parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. When introduced, he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".
- Just Cause 4: Oscar Espinosa is the dictator of Solis, creator of the Black Hand, and the head of Project Illapa. Years prior to the game, Oscar convinces his father to weaponize Project Illapa to sell it to the highest bidder, believing that using Illapa for the good of the people was a waste of money. When Miguel Rodriguez, father of Rico and co-creator of Project Illapa, decides to leave the project in disgust of Oscar's intentions, Oscar sends the aforementioned General Sebastiano Di Ravello to kill him while imprisoning Lanza in order to force him to continue working on Illapa. When Rico attempts to depose him years later, Oscar orders for Illapa to be activated in an attempt to kill Rico, before sending the Black Hand to capture Mira Morales, who assisted Rico, and to capture or kill Lucas and the rest of the local resistance members if Mira doesn't surrender. After Rico destroys the weather core, Oscar decides to flee, leaving his men to die. Later, Oscar reveals his intentions of using a perfected weather core to kill the resistance and even his own men, and then sell it to the Agency for trillions of dollars, uncaring of the lives that will potentially be lost in the process. A greedy dictator willing to kill many for his own benefit, Oscar establishes himself as one of Rico Rodriguez's most personal foes.
- Klonoa Heroes: Janga is the maniacal dragon of Garlen. Having once worked with Guntz's father, Butz, as a hunter to find the Darkness of Nahatomb, he is gleefully quick to betray and kill him on Garlen's orders when Butz refuses to resurrect Nahatomb. He then proceeds to join forces with Garlen and Joka in their goals to resurrect Nahatomb in order to harvest nightmares for his own sinister purpose, uncaring of the destruction this will cause. Making his introduction by sending extracted nightmares from the captured people of the ruins to the Lunar Base, he mocks Guntz about his father's death before fleeing, at one point using Klonoa as a shield. When Guntz finally corners him, Janga attempts to kill Guntz with the latter's father's own gun. Before fleeing, Janga kidnaps Klonoa's friend, Lolo, to be used as nightmare energy for Nahatomb, which leaves Lolo in a comatose state. When defeated by the heroes, after he gets Guntz to spare him with a false apology, Janga attempts to poison Guntz with his poison claws, only for him to poison Klonoa instead, but Janga doesn't care and proceeds to mock Guntz about the boy's condition. A cruel, heartless individual who betray and kill anyone to achieve his own desires, Janga is an dark villain for an otherwise lighthearted series.
- Thrill Kill:
- Cleetus: Cleetus T. Radley was a cannibalistic Serial Killer before dying of a tapeworm. Partaking in the Thrill Kill tournament to be brought back from the dead, Cleetus will often devour or dismember his opponents. If he is brought back, Cleetus will toss a health inspector into a meat grinder for giving him a bad review. It is then revealed he is now selling his victims' meat to the unsuspecting masses.
- Dr. Faustus: Gabriel Faustus was a deranged plastic surgeon who disfigured many of his patients for no other reason than because he could. Upon dying and going to Hell, he took part in the Thrill Kill tournament to be reincarnated. Faustus is an animal in combat, often biting off his opponents' heads or disfiguring them like he did his previous victims. If he wins and is reincarnated, Faustus kills one of his patients while trying to attach his signature jaws to their face.
- Mammoth: Franklin Peppermint was a postal worker who killed his coworkers and customers after being fired. Becoming a monstrous, fur-covered beast in Hell, Mammoth joins the Thrill Kill tournament to be resurrected. Mammoth uses his immense strength to tear his opponents limb from limb, often beating them to death with the severed limbs or just leaving them to bleed to death. If he wins, he is brought back to Earth still trapped in his monstrous form, and proceeds to kill an innocent old lady by stuffing her and her dog in a mailbox.
- Twilight of the Red Tsar: Joseph Stalin, having survived the stroke that killed him in OTL, launches massive purges of Soviet society that kills hundreds of thousands, with many Soviet leaders, even loyal veterans, like Zhukov, being gruesomely executed. Continuing with the "Doctor's Plot
", amplified by his paranoia, Stalin orders a purge of Jews from Soviet society, included loyal followers, persecuting them badly enough to have his actions labeled as the "Soviet Holocaust" or "The Great Pogrom". When the Sino-Soviet split happens due to disagreements with Mao Zedong, leading to the Sino-Soviet war, Stalin uses chemical weapons, unleashes smallpox on the Chinese, and destroys many villages before finishing the war by nuking Chinese cities just to spite Mao as Stalin starts to feel his own death, killing 50 million Chinese in the war. Out of prejudice and paranoia, Stalin orders an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Caucasus region and the Baltic states, save Lithuania, deporting its indigenous people into prison camps in Siberia, killing hundreds of thousands. Having destroyed many nations due to ambition, hatred and paranoia, Stalin left a bloody legacy that eventually lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself, now the most hated nation in the world.
- I wasnt carefull enough on the deep web
(sic): Culture 045 is a ruthless, murderous pedophile who recounts his horrific deeds on the Deep Web site "All The Gore". He is introduced by recalling how he broke into an innocent family's house, killing the mother and father, and abducting their 8-10 year old daughter who he proceeded to torture and rape for an unknown period of time before brutally killing her, even posting photos of the act. After John threatens to call the police and have the site shut down, Culture 045 sets his sights on John and attempts to kill him twice. After John survives both encounters, Culture 045, still determined to ruin John's life, forces him to watch a livestream of a preteen boy being killed on camera. Culture 045 then sends the livestream to all of John's friends and family, making it appear that John was the one who sent the livestream, turning all of them against John. Even after he and three other accomplices are arrested, John wonders how many madmen like Culture 045 lurk in the world.
- 3 Terrifying Tales
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- Heinrich Strauss, the Big Bad of 73 Years Later
, when sent by Adolf Hitler to find the key to immortality, occupied a village in Norway, where he released captured Jewish families out in a field to be used as target practice; forced Harold to watch as his dogs killed his soldiers; and shot Harold in front of his boyfriend Alfred. Slipping into a coma, he killed the witch Alitha and decided to become immortal. In present day, he made himself look like Harold and killed Alfred himself, visiting his funeral just to spit on his grave. Desiring to kill Alfred's grandson Michael, he has Danielle lure them to his hideout, where he kills her and Michael's boyfriend Lucas. Resurrected in Electrocution, Heinrich kills the scientists who brought him back to life and escapes with Vincent North. Establishing an underground concentration camp, Heinrich has Vincent torture a captured Michael for years while he gleefully executes captured survivors of all ages. Once Natalie Walker's men storm his base, Heinrich murders Vincent for failing him, leaves his men to die, and orders every one of his injured soldiers killed.
- The aforementioned Vincent North, debuting in Cold Winter Nights
, is a Serial Killer who murders women of all ages by freezing them to death overnight, taking photos of their corpses and selling them on the Dark Web. As a child, he let his injured mother die in the freezing cold, disappointed when her screams and suffering proved too quick. Resurrected alongside Heinrich in Electrocution, Vincent killed the scientists there and escaped with Heinrich. Working with Heinrich in his underground concentration camp as his Torture Technician, Vincent tortures Michael for three years, while also taking random women from the camp and freezing them to death, storing the frozen corpses in his room as trophies.
- Electrocution
: The aforementioned Natalie Walker is a selfish businesswoman who seeks to become the Earth's goddess. Finding a staff that resulted in a huge meteorite crashing into the Empire State Building, Natalie cared nothing for the thousands of deaths, and killed her girlfriend for witnessing the event. Cutting the breaks in her parents' car, she took over her father's company and began researching the meteorite's substances on animals. Using the serum on Heinrich and Vincent, she left her scientists to die by their hands, then decided to have people kidnapped, killed, and experimented on once she found that she could control the resurrected mutants. Unleashing these mutants onto New York, she establishes an underground base where its citizens view her as a goddess and the women are kept as sex slaves. Sending Maggie to kill Heinrich, she turns her men into mutants against her wishes, kills Michael, and tries to use Maggie and her soldiers as a way to spread her virus across the world.
- Heinrich Strauss, the Big Bad of 73 Years Later
- Dinofroz: Neceron is the lord of all dragons and the Big Bad of season 1. Desiring more power, Neceron broke the treaty between dinosaurs and dragons and declared war on the dinosaurs. He then spent several years ordering his dragon armies to eradicate his foes and kidnap humans to use as slave labor. When the Dinofroz arrive and start interfering with Neceron's plans, Neceron repeatedly tries to destroy them all, even going as far as nearly drowning the residents in a village just to lure them out of hiding. After one of his generals tries to start a rebellion, Neceron and his army simply kill all of the rebels without hesitation. Upon finding out that the Dinofroz are merely four young boys, Neceron and his dragons kidnap three of them, and he threatens to kill them all one by one if they don't surrender. He later drains all of the power from his three loyal generals and leaves them for dead before going after Tom Carter in his Dinofroz form. Once Neceron begins to lose the fight, he tries to make Tom submit by threatening to murder his father right in front of him.
- The Secret of NIMH: Jenner, in contrast to his noble brethren amongst the rats of NIMH, desires nothing but power. When Mrs. Brisby comes to the rats for help moving her family and house to be safe from a farmer's plow, Jenner sabotages the moving so the wise and kind leader of the rats, Nicodemus, is crushed to death, while the Brisby house is sinking in mud with Jenner not caring about the impending deaths of the kids trapped inside. When he sees Nicodemus bequeathed it to her, Jenner attempts to murder Mrs. Brisby for a special stone. Jenner, like all the rats, owes his very life to Mrs. Brisby's deceased husband and the father of her kids, but displays zero remorse or gratitude to Jonathan's memory. After his henchman Sullivan finally has enough with Jenner's lunacy, Jenner slashes Sullivan's throat and attempts to kill his rival Justin, declaring his only philosophy in life: take what you can when you can.
- Generation X: Johnston Coffin, from 2000's "Correction" storyline, is wanted by S.H.I.E.L.D. for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a Hellhole Prison where he "fixes" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. He also has his "Special Children"—kids from his first prison in the '70s, whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long—it's implied in perpetual agony—that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.
- Superman: At Earth's End: The DNA Diktators, revealed to be cloned twins of Adolf Hitler, are two biology-perverting madmen obsessed with continuing their work from World War II in creating a "Master Race". As clones of Hitler, the Diktators happily take responsibility for their original form's crimes, and continue these in the present by rounding up thousands of innocents, performing horrific experiments on them that leave them in constant agony, then grinding them up into raw material to create an army of mutant Nazi stormtroopers. After their mutant monsters fail to murder numerous children who escaped the Diktators' grasp, the Diktators order the children, alongside Superman, all murdered by their various creations, even having defiled the corpse of the hero Batman by using his corpse to create nightmarish bat monsters that they sic on Superman to torment him. Utter sociopaths with delusions of godhood and megalomania, these clones of Hitler display all of their original's cruelty and evil in their quest for a perfect race.
- Superman: The Dark Side, by John Francis Moore et al.: Darkseid uses a Boomtube to teleport baby Kal-El's ship to Apokolips after the destruction of Krypton. After murdering two of his slaves who discover the ship, Darkseid raises Kal-El in isolation. Naming Kal-El Superman, Darkseid presents him to the public in a gladiatorial match, where Superman defeats Darkseid's son Kalibak. Darkseid orders Superman to kill Kalibak after he is defeated. Darkseid then orders Superman to go to New Genesis and destroy it with an Omega Bomb. Though High Father manages to save some of the New Gods, most of the population of New Genesis dies. High Father reveals Darkseid's lies to Superman and teleports Superman to Earth. However. Darkseid soon arrives on Earth and discovers that Superman's DNA contains the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid has Desaad torture Superman and then uses the Anti-Life Equation to turn everyone on Earth into his mindless slaves, intending to do the same to the rest of the galaxy.
- Superman: Red Son: Brainiac stands as a stark contrast to the misguided intentions of this Superman, who grew up in the USSR. At first allied with Lex Luthor to defeat Superman, Brainiac shrinks down the city of Stalingrad and puts it in a bottle. Superman easily defeats Brainiac and reprograms him, making him his servant. Brainiac becomes the USSR's chief scientist and comes up with a horrifying way to deal with people who threaten Superman's rule: turning them into lobotomized robots. Brainiac tries to push Superman into more extreme actions, like declaring war on the US in a preemptive strike, noting that if they attack now only 6.5 million people will die and the US will be conquered in a matter of hours. Lex Luthor confronts Superman and Brainiac, wanting to debate Superman, but Brainiac has him taken away to become a robot. Superman relents and agrees to invade the US. Superman is confronted by Lois Lane, who uses a letter from Lex Luthor to convince Superman what he is doing is wrong. After calling off the invasion, Superman is attacked by Brainiac, who was not really reprogrammed, and was simply pretending to be Superman's ally because it suited his own purposes. Brainiac plans to kill Superman, conquer the world and then conquer the galaxy. However, Lex Luthor escaped and manages to shut down Brainiac, but after his defeat, it is revealed that Brainiac has rigged his ship to explode if he has ever defeated, which would cause an explosion that would destroy the Earth and every thing in 15 million mile radius, willing to kill the human race out of spite.
- Superman: Speeding Bullets, by J.M. DeMatteis, Eduardo Barreto, et al.: In this comic in which Thomas and Martha Wayne adopt the boy who would become Superman, Lex Luthor is a businessman of Metropolis with no respect of the law and is mostly interested with power. After surviving the industrial accident that nearly killed him, Luthor then embraces his role as the Arch-Enemy of Batman known as The Joker. He was responsible for sending burglars to Bruce Wayne's house, and executed them when they failed. When Lois Lane rejects his advances, Luthor then throws her in the streets, and after revealing himself to be the Joker, he then attempts to take over Gotham by mercenary forces, causing massive destruction, in order to make his state known as Jokerania, with Lois as his queen.
- Superman's Metropolis, by R.J.M. Lofficier, Roy Thomas, et al.:: In this universe that transports the world of Superman into the world of Metropolis, Lutor is the corrupt leader of the town. Years ago, he killed Marta when she spurned him for Jon-Kent, and tried to do the same to their adopted son. Years later, he builds a robot called Futura, has her disguise herself as Lois, and sends her to spread discord among the soldiers and pull a switch that will cause the machines to boil over, causing a cataclysmic disaster. He later kills Jon-Kent, kidnaps Lois, delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Superman, and strikes Lois when she tries to intervene.
Literature, by Publication Date
Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time, by Ralph E. Vaughan
- Laslo Bronislav is a sorcerer whom even Aleister Crowley fears. Hunting down the M'Tollo idol to achieve godhood, Bronislav leaves a trail of bodies, manipulating criminals and one lord to commit murders on his behalf before eliminating them as well, with no regard for the massive damage committed by the serpentine hunters of the idol. Learning of a plot by Irish separatists to bomb key government places, Bronislav decides to allow the plot to continue as the chaos will prove beneficial to him. Deciding to clear up any loose ends, Bronislav proceeds to even murder his own loyal manservant by having him torn asunder by demons, showing no remorse for all the misery and death he has left in his wake.
"His Last Arrow", by Christopher Sequeira, from Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes
- Sherlock Holmes himself is depicted here as an evil Djinn responsible for most of the murders that he's claimed to solve. Holmes wreaks havoc on London and the surrounding area, causing fantastical and seemingly impossible murders and than coming up with a seeming solution to gain fame. Influencing the minds of his victims, Holmes even has countless innocents take the fall for his crimes and sends them to lifelong imprisonment, and even the gallows, simply to satisfy his hunger for fame and attention.
- Reverend Charles Fitzsimmons is the head of the House of Silk and the headmaster of the Chorley Grange House for Boys, a guise that obscures his far more wicked pastimes. Using his position to regularly pimp out his young boys to wealthy clients to rape and sodomize at their leisure for profit, Fitzsimmons enforces a brutal campaign to snuff out any potential threats to his operation in the cruelest ways possible, Charles has a young homeless boy named Ross brutally tortured to death and left with a white strange of silk tied to his mangled carcass as a warning. In response to Sherlock Holmes himself picking up the case, Fitzsimmons kills Ross's sister himself and frames Holmes for it, trying to have him murdered later. Fitzsimmons's response to his operation finally being exposed is smug, cheerful indifference to the well-being of the children and a gloating assurance that the position of himself and his clients will assure his immunity. A sociopath specializing in the agony of children, even Moriarty himself willingly helps Holmes against Fitzsimmons's operation.
"Lestrade & the Damned Cultists", from Sherlock Holmes: Cthulhu Mythos Adventures, by Ralph E. Vaughan
- Lord Alathon is the leader of the Order of the Eldritch Gate, brushed off as a raving madman until he and his cult start engaging in brutal sacrifice, leaving four murdered with their throats cut and the Elder Sign upon them all across Whitechapel. When Laverne and his men interrupt his affairs and interrupt an attempted fifth sacrifice, Alathon reveals his plans to let the Great Old Ones rise to enslave and feast on all humanity, as he rises above the ashes a god.
Edited by ACW on Jan 28th 2019 at 11:26:30 AM
Well, I'm giving an EP a try. The story is the Commando short story "Nazi Nightmare".
Who is he? What has he done?
Bernhard Gruber is introduced as a nuclear physicist trying to develop an atomic bomb. When SS Colonel Hartmann arrives to check on his progress, Gruber asks him for a thousand slave labourers, their having a tendency to die like flies.
Gruber admits his failure to isolate Uranium-235, casually mentioning how he needs less than a kilogram to create a bomb that could level cities.
His cowardice shines through when Hartmann tells him that he's run out of time as the Allies are getting ever closer. The Colonel says he's forced to implement "Plan Cuckoo", and that Gruber is to give himself up to the Americans.
Hartmann leaves, and after ordering his security chief to burn the building down and kill all the prisoners, Gruber flees with two guards as escort.
Not long after, he has his vehicle shot out from under him by the Russians. He's saved by the British. Who want have him put on trial and executed.
Plan Cuckoo is put back on track when the Americans request him for "special interrogation". This is just a ruse, and he's flown to America to become part of the Manhattan Project under the new alias of "Mister Smith".
He's ready to leave the Americans after learning all he can, but he gets nervous having to steal an implosion trigger. He's saved by two men who gun down suspicious guards who take him to meet an "old friend".
The old friend turns out to be none other that Colonel Hartmann, now in the guise of Alfonse Kline, a ranch owner in Patagonia. Here, over the course of several years, he builds a number of bombs. Kline plans for them to be detonated in America and Britain, the idea that Americans will blame Russia and start a war that will lay waste to the former allies.
He's ultimately killed by one of his own bombs, detonated by Carlo, the leader of the "Society of the Living Dead", former prisoners of Gruber afflicted with radiation poisoning who had dedicated their remainder of their lives to hunting Nazis like him.
Heinousness?
He's introduced considering his prisoners as nothing more than a resource to be replenished as needed. Also, the fact he was trying – and was eventually able to – build bombs that could wipe out cities literally meant nothing to him. All he ultimately cared about was his own safety.
Freudian Excuses?
None given.
Conclusion?
I'll leave that up to you.
Edited by TheUnsquished on Jan 27th 2019 at 7:57:19 PM
(Annoyed grunt)Request for a change for Dr. Levine, I did some research and found that "folter" means "torture" in German. Suggesting new link to Meaningful Name.
Old version:
- Dr. Levine is the head doctor at a free clinic, known as the Folter Clinic. She is also the head of a ring of Geiers who harvest human organs in order to create products for Wesen. A vulture-like race, Geiers are infamous for this disturbing practice, but traditionally they only targeted the dead or dying, befitting vultures' status as scavengers. Levine, however, takes this brutality a step further, luring in or kidnapping homeless teenagers then vivisecting and eventually murdering them. Openly taking pleasure from her grizzly acts, she forces a boy named Hanson to watch as she prepares to cut open his sister, and barely cares as her subordinates are gunned down by Portland Police, when they rescue the teens. Having murdered countless people, all in the name of profit, Levine established herself as one of the most disturbed killers amongst a race of them.
New version:
- Dr. Levine is the head doctor at a free clinic, known as the Folter Clinic. She is also the head of a ring of Geiers who harvest human organs in order to create products for Wesen. A vulture-like race, Geiers are infamous for this disturbing practice, but traditionally they only targeted the dead or dying, befitting vultures' status as scavengers. Levine, however, takes this brutality a step further, luring in or kidnapping homeless teenagers then vivisecting and eventually murdering them. Openly taking pleasure from her grizzly acts, she forces a boy named Hanson to watch as she prepares to cut open his sister, and barely reacts as her subordinates are gunned down by Portland Police when they rescue the teens. Having murdered countless people, all in the name of profit, Levine established herself as one of the most disturbed killers amongst a race of them.
Edited by k410ren on Jan 27th 2019 at 2:34:17 PM
"I'll show you the Dark Side." CM actors and killsFound this in The Darkness:
- Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: The only thing that keeps Jackie from being a Complete Monster; he actually believes that the mob is supposed to be The Godfather films. He's Nice to the Waiter, he would Never Hurt an Innocent, and when he says I Gave My Word, he means it. Doesn't mean he's not a vicious killer, an unrepentant pervert, or a greedy, narcissistic Bastard Bastard — it just means he refuses to hurt anyone whom he doesn't feel deserves it. That's a vague guideline, too.
Okay:
- I just changed "Washington" to "DC".
- I'm not sure that Bill image got enough votes.
- I think Bilingual Bonus might work better than Meaningful Name, but I'm fine with a change.
- For Gruber, I'm not worried about his cowardice, but moreso the fact he seems like a mere cog in the Nazi system.
Edited by ACW on Jan 27th 2019 at 2:29:32 PM
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Thanks, ACW. Also suggesting a slight word change to same; changed "cares" to "reacts". Ready for drafts?
Edited by k410ren on Jan 27th 2019 at 2:36:02 PM
"I'll show you the Dark Side." CM actors and kills
Gruber
Alright batch time. I'll add potholes later.
- Sherlock Holmes himslef is depicted here as an evil Djinn responsible for most of the murders that he's claimed to solve. Holmes reaks havoc on London and the surrounding area, causing fantastical and seemingly impossible murders and than comming up with a seeming solution to gain fame. Influencing the minds of his victim's, Holmes even has countless innocents take the fall for his crimes and sends them to life long imprisonment and even the gallows simply to satsify his hunger for fame and attention.
- Angelmaker: Shem Shem Tsiem, or the Opium Khan, was born a Prince during the twentieth century and quickly moved to have all is family members he could hunt down with a claim to the thrown drugged and burned alive. Choking his surviving nephew to death to seal his claim to the kingdom, Shem Shem Tsiem commits so many atrocities against his people they flee in terror to the surrounding woods and forcibly focuses all agricultural production on producing opium to avariciously conquer the world market. To stroke his own ego, Shem Shem Tsiem tortures an Archbishop into insanity, to proclaim his divinity. To spite his own mother and her love of elephants, Shem Shem Tsiem sadistically creates a worldwide poaching ring to have them killed for sport, much to her torment, later cutting out her tongue and decapitating her to put her head on a spike. Under the alias "Brother Sheamus", Shem Shem Tsiem takes over Eddie Bannister's former organization, the Ruskinites and savagely corrupts them: creating minions by brainwashing and destroying the minds of countless people including young orphans. Ultimately dreaming of turning the whole world into a mass of lobotomized, obedient slaves, Shem Shem Tsiem uploads his mind into Vaughn Parry to live forever as an unquestioned God. Facing off against Eddie in present day, Shem Shem Tsiem has her ally, Joe Spork, sent to an asylum in the hopes of breaking him for information and than turning him one of his mindless minions. An utter monster embodying the most narcissistic of god complex, Shem Shem Tsiem cements his position as Eddie's Arch-Enemy.
- Sangue Serenissima: Eliphas Coyte is a wicked seeker of knowledge whose ambition led him to study the dark arts which he used to make his own father brutally kill himself. Worshipping the eldritch "Ending Eye", Coyte brings it to his hometown, allowing it to devastatingly mutate his fellow villagers. Becoming fascinated by Eliza Cortly and the Seers, Coyte abandons the Eye, switching sides between various Dark Gods to play his own agenda and leaving them when it suited him, dragging people to be ravished by 'the Defiler' and fathering eldritch spawn just to destroy them in inventive ways. Eventually coming to serve the "Masque", Coyte cannibalizes the brains of Seers to steal their connection to a mental web attached to the consciousness of all living things, aiming to devour the souls of everyone in Venice as part of his deal with Masque to ascend to godhood. Learning how this will annihilate large swaths of the Teraverse, Coyte remains apathetic as long as he gets to satisfy his thirst for knowledge. Creating minions by having their bodies warped by otherworldly powers and horrifically killing or mutating everyone in the Venetian Li Fonti manor, Coyte also consumes the minds of more Seers by boring into their skulls, getting "high" off the energies while their brains crumble to dust. Kidnapping the young Julio, a friend of Eliza's, Coyte threatens him to draw Eliza to his manor, then kills the boy anyways before she arrives, keeping his head to mock her over his death. Planning to kill Eliza when she finishes her purpose in his plan, Coyte misses no chance to show just how non-existent other human beings are to him in the name of his own pursuit of knowledge and power.
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown: Lucien Moreau turned Gabriel into a vampire out of a whim of interest, as he did to his sister out of a twisted obsession, the horrific transformation causing her to commit suicide. Brought to trial by the vampire council for turning humans, Lucien manipulates Gabriel into taking the fall for him, nearly leading to his death, had the Spider not chosen to spare the latter, instead appointing him to destroy new vampires to stop their kind from spreading. Spitefully creating more new vampires, Lucien chooses victims who resemble Gabriel's deceased siblings, delighting in the torment destroying them causes him. Behind a massive spread of vampirism, Lucien's actions force vampires to live in the walled-in, titular "Coldtowns", apart from humanity to avoid all the death and destruction. Becoming the ruler of his own Coldtown, Lucien lures in innocent teenagers as a seemingly-friendly figure, throwing lavish parties to ensnare them before draining them of blood in his dungeons and finally killing them after months of torment. When Gabriel tracks him down for revenge, Lucien feigns regret, promises him "vengeance" against the spider and murders his own loyal right-hand woman to fake friendship. Tricked by Gabriel, Lucien despicably tries to make his escape by taking Gabriel's Love Interest hostage, trying to save his own miserable life after his plan to rule over all vampires is shattered.
Thoughts ?
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Wouldn't Hartmann be a better candidate than Gruber in that case?
Also, here's the tweaked Grimm entry:
- Dr. Levine, from "Organ Grinder", is the head doctor at a free clinic, known as the Folter Clinic. She is also the head of a ring of Geiers who harvest human organs in order to create products for Wesen. A vulture-like race, Geiers are infamous for this disturbing practice, but traditionally they only targeted the dead or dying, befitting vultures' status as scavengers. Levine, however, takes this brutality a step further, luring in or kidnapping homeless teenagers, then vivisecting and eventually murdering them. Openly taking pleasure from her grizzly acts, she forces a boy named Hanson to watch as she prepares to cut open his sister, and barely reacts as her subordinates are gunned down by Portland Police, when they rescue the teens. Having murdered countless people, all in the name of profit, Levine established herself as one of the most disturbed killers amongst a race of them.
Ye gods, cut that a zillion times over. Jackie is nowhere NEAR a CM
Now, one of potentially several EP's for today:
Whats the work?
Enemy Mine is a 1985 film by Wolfgang Peterson, centering in a war between humanity and the Drac. The war is kind of based around misunderstandings and xenophobia and in a dogfight, pilot William Davidge and Drac fighter Jeriba crash upon a desolate world. Initially, the two despise one another, but slowly work together to survive...as time goes by, the two form a deep, brotherly friendship. Midway through the film though? Drac reproduce asexually, and Jeriba has a child named Zammis, dying through complications, to Davidge's grief. Davidge raises Zammis who grows quickly and thinks of Davidge as an uncle (as a note, to Drac, family lineage is insanely important)...in a scene added largely because executives kinda thought the title would fly over people's heads without an actual mine? Well, enter the insta-villain of the piece: Stubbs.
Who is Stubbs?
Played by Brion James whose script did not include the word 'subtlety,' Stubbs is a scavenger and leader of a slaving operation in a mine on the same world, a coincidental distance away...here? Stubbs is enslaving Drac illegally, and working them to death to mine minerals and precious metals. Stubbs is a gleefully sadstic psychopath who abuses the slaves, working them to death, all for a profit.
Now, one tiny issue about Zammis's time with Davidge? Zammis has never learned about hatred between humans and Drac, and moreover, he thinks all humans are good. With his curiosity, he arrives in the mine, and is found by Stubbs. Stubbs torments Zammis, who claws his cheek in self defense, prompting Stubbs to try to beat him viciously, and enslave him. Davidge arrives and kills a slaver, only to be shot supposedly dead by Stubbs. Davidge's body is recovered, but it turns out he's not quite dead...Davidge eventually returns to save Zammis, where we see the operation in full and it's nasty. The Drac are abused, starved and killed in great numbers, and Zammis is added to the ranks, savagely abused by Stubbs. Davidge infiltrates the mine and befriends the Drac slaves by speaking the Drac lanuage that Jeriba (Or "Jerry") taught him...they realize he's the 'uncle' Zammis told them about. Now, Stubbs catches them, tries to kill more slaves as Davidge leads a revolt, ending in a fight between him and Stubbs. Stubbs tries to murder Zammis after using him as a hostage along with the others, but one Drac slave shoots Stubbs, sending him falling into molten metal...melting the flesh off his bones and finishing him. At the film's end, peace seems close by and Davidge takes Zammis to the Drac world where he recites his family lineage and is enshrined there as Zammis's uncle to the Drac.
Heinous standard?
Stubbs is the only bad guy in the film, not counting the wild animals that threaten Jerry and Davidge, which...don't count. He's basically a walking, talking embodiment of sadistic racism. The Drac and the Humans aren't angels to one another, but the war is basically just pure greyness and neither side is evil or fully good. Both species have ordinary, good and bad people, which makes Stubbs' savagery stand out more.
Mitigating Qualities?
No care shown for his men, and he's just greed and sadism on two legs. Stubbs is a vicious bastard who views the Drac as expendable. The Drac are a sentient species as well, and overcoming racism is the film's major message, so Stubbs really sticks out here.
Conclusion?
Pretty easy

I found a pothole in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) – Other Villains:
- Kick the Dog: From his Fantastic Racism to anything that isn't human, to putting Slash under mind control, to surgically installing a nuke into Slash in case he ever had to abandon control of him in battle, this version of Agent Bishop comes very close to being a Complete Monster.
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