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During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.

Specific issues include:

  • Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
  • A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
  • Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
  • Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
  • Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.

It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.

Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:

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Complete Monster Cleanup Thread

Please see the Frequently Asked Questions and Common Requests List before suggesting any new entries for this trope.

IMPORTANT: To avoid a holler to the mods, please see here for the earliest date a work can be discussed, (usually two weeks from the US release), as well as who's reserved discussion.

When voting, you must specify the candidate(s). No blanket votes (i.e. "[tup] to everyone I missed").

No plagiarism: It's fair to source things, but an effortpost must be your own work and not lifted wholesale from another source.

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

What is the Work

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

Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?

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

Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?

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

Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?

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

Final Verdict?

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

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

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#148601: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:17:06 PM

yeah, I think that works for Sendak.

Some of my favorites? Master Darque, Torquemada, Ego, tons of Star Wars and fantasy ones...

I've proposed, what, a thousand at least?

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#148602: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:22:15 PM

[up] Probably not too far off [lol]

And yeah, Ego's a GREAT villain. Seems like he might not be evil, then not totally evil, before throwing it all away. I also like how he's one of the most omnicidal MCU baddies, while also being one of the most personal.

My own faves are probably the "Novelist" (due to being my first); Rausch (JK Simmons finally got a CM); or some of the big-name comic baddies (Carnage or Ultron from the Marvel novels; Joker or Skull from comics). As an actual villain, Garcia Rejon's suitably loathsome, despite only appearing briefly.

Man, I have NOT done too many omnicidal ones; the ones with the highest (attempted) body counts, at most, "only" (plan to) destroy humanity, or blow up Earth. None with the body counts of, say, Erebus.

Edited by ACW on Feb 10th 2019 at 3:26:00 PM

CM Dates; CM Pending; CM Drafts
11111001011 Since: Dec, 2018
#148603: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:26:30 PM

My favorite is Malicia, the only Edutainment keep we have.

Michealthehero21 Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#148604: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:27:06 PM

[up] Indeed, Ego's a great villain, and definitely one of Marvel's best Complete Monsters.

miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#148605: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:31:24 PM

Ooh my favourites are Evolt and Shem Shem Tsiem. Both are two of my favourite CM's in general for sheer awesomeness and Evil.

Edited by miraculous on Feb 10th 2019 at 12:31:42 PM

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
Furygildeman Since: Nov, 2017
#148606: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:32:30 PM

How about Zamigo Delma from the “Lupin Ranger vs Pataranger” Sentai series? I haven’t finished the show yet so I don’t know for sure but I thought I’d throw him in as a candidate for you guys to debate.

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#148607: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:32:46 PM

I dare say one of the MCU's best villains PERIOD. Though, pretty much ALL of the Phase 3 villains, CMs or not, have been great. Hela's the only other Phase 3 CM, and is one of the WEAKER Phase 3 villains IMO (though Cate does a great job). I've not seen Doctor Strange, Spidey, or Ant-Man, but besides Ego and Hela, Zemo's surprisingly sympathetic; Killmonger's REALLY good (Michael B. Jordan should've gotten an Oscar nod); Klaue may be the FUNNIEST MCU villain; and Thanos is really good (even though they don't have his obsession with Death).

Here's hoping Captain Marvel does good work with Ronan.

[up] Effortpost please. Also, 2 weeks from the character's arc ending.

Edited by ACW on Feb 10th 2019 at 3:34:45 PM

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captainmarkle Limited Patients from Behind you Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
#148608: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:33:43 PM

I've put a draft in the drafts page, but I thought I'd share it here. I know it needs trimming down (like a lot - as you've all gathered, I've not proposed anyone for this before I wrote Ipslore's summary), so I'm posting it here for suggestions, in case I've included the stuff that isn't disgusting enough:

Sourcery : Ipslore the Red is the eighth son of an eighth son and a wizard formerly under the Unseen University, before being thrown out for violating the rule against marrying or fathering children. Though starting with good intentions and the redeeming quality of loving his wife by the time of the prologue, he is still shown to regard his eighth son Coin, a Sourcerer note  as little more than a tool for revenge and exploits Death by threatening to indirectly kill the boy should Death remove Ipslore from Coin's staff. Over the next ten years, Ipslore moulds Coin into an obedient killing servant through Electric Torture and by making his son dependent on the wizard's staff to prolong his revenge, in the process abandoning the love of his wife and losing all the redeeming traits he had to begin with. In the main story, Ipslore forces Coin to murder several wizards to bring the Unseen University into line, including a wizard whose only crime was being kind to the young child and being outmatched by Coin's natural magical abilities, then lets the university loose against the city of Ankh-Morpork by turning Lord Vetinari into a lizard (also threatening his pet terrier) and letting the wizards terrorise the helpless population. Under Ipslore's rule, anyone who attempts to interfere is killed regardless of the fact that they are unable to actually do anything to harm Coin. Eventually letting his hubris overtake him, Ipslore has Coin freeze the Discworld pantheon, with no care about causing The End of the World as We Know It from the Ice Giants arising or the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions exploiting reality's collapse from the excessive magic. While starting with tragic intentions, by the end of the story Ipslore has abandoned any redeeming traits, to the point that he will bully any perceived threats using the very institution he sought to destroy in the first place.

Edit: Fixed the note error - I'll keep making changes over on the drafts page! Any suggestions very welcome.

Edited by captainmarkle on Feb 10th 2019 at 8:51:50 PM

Trans rights are human rights. If you don't think that, please leave.
miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#148609: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:36:58 PM

[up]Might be a bit too big....

Oh right yeah Lupinranger Vs patoranger. I know I resrved it but I'm behind by a bit. So I hereby revoke my reservation. If anyone wants to ep anyone from there. Go ahead.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#148610: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:37:24 PM

Yeah, that needs trimming. Anyone else know the work and willing to trim it?

Meanwhile, I gotta get started on the rest of this week's batch (Transformers stuff is here).

CM Dates; CM Pending; CM Drafts
Michealthehero21 Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#148611: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:39:49 PM

@ACW I love all of the Phase 3 Marvel Villains, especially Ego, Hela, Vulture, and Erik Killmonger, but of course my most favorite phase 3 villain, and not only my favorite MCU villain, but also my all time favorite movie is Thanos himself.

Clown-Face Wild Child from Canada Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: In another castle
Wild Child
#148612: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:40:22 PM

My favorites? Probably Kans and Vlad. Not only two of the most heinous villains I've proposed, but both managed to be complex as well, to the point I initially thought they wouldn't count at first before they ultimately subverted all their mitigating factors.

Oh, and [tup]Ragear. Didn't think that film would have a keeper.

Edited by Clown-Face on Feb 10th 2019 at 12:43:34 PM

Why so serious?
11111001011 Since: Dec, 2018
#148613: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:45:46 PM

@captainmarkle Fix that note mistake.

Devoted2Nintendo Since: Jul, 2018
#148614: Feb 10th 2019 at 12:50:01 PM

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with that work, so I can't be of much help with trimming that (which I've been getting a bit better at in general). However, on the topic of trimming, I decided to follow Lighty and 43110's advice and apply this treatment to my proposed quote for the CM Quotes page:

Frollo: [after locking a family that he's accused of treason inside their house] Burn it.
Phoebus: What?!
Frollo: Until it smolders, these people are traitors that must be made examples of.
Phoebus: With all due respect sir, I was not trained to murder the innocent.
Frollo: But you were trained to follow orders.

Now is it suitable enough (and good enough of a quote) to be a worthy addition to the page? Also, I re-formatted the other quote I used from Sendak since I just realized it didn't have to have his name at the beginning of it since it was only a quote from him, and not part of back-and-forth dialogue between him and someone else (in this case, Shiro).

Edited by Devoted2Nintendo on Feb 10th 2019 at 8:20:15 AM

Beast from Ontario, Canada Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Browsing the selection
#148615: Feb 10th 2019 at 1:01:47 PM

My favourites my most memorable by years.

2014 - It was either Sammi Curr or Claude since they were my first sucesses...even though I didn't EP them. I guess if we are sticking to EP's I'm gonna go with Mitch Toblat and Vice Principal Stern (even though I wish I gave them better EP's.

2015 - Satan and Mark Jefferson.

2016 - Kieran Wilcox.

2017 - William Afton and the Warlock Lord.

2018 - Michael Myers and Roger.

I also noticed my track record of embarassing EP's following 2014. It's not something I usually keep if I didn't get two or three of them per year.

"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."
AustinDR Lizzid people! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Lizzid people!
#148616: Feb 10th 2019 at 1:15:14 PM

For myself...

2016: Count Waltz, Diana Walter, and the Phantom of the Opera.

2017: Rose Armitage, Amy Hughes, and Zarm.

2018: The Lord Commander and Twin Masters, and 2018!Michael Myers.

Edited by AustinDR on Feb 10th 2019 at 1:15:41 AM

DemonDuckofDoom from Some Pond in Hell Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#148617: Feb 10th 2019 at 1:34:23 PM

[tup] Brennus, Ipslpre, Vic and Zarrko

As for my favourite CM's of mine:

Edited by DemonDuckofDoom on Feb 10th 2019 at 1:34:39 AM

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#148618: Feb 10th 2019 at 1:59:01 PM

  • Ar tonelico ~arpeggio manga: The seemingly-kind scientist Masticus is the Big Bad of the story. Having a deep hatred of non-humans like the Reyvateils, blaming them for two apocalyptic disasters in the past despite humans playing a strong role in them, he aims to fully control all of them. Unleashing the Reveris virus, which caused Reyvateils to go berserk or become comatose, Masticus plans to study the virus itself and find the Hymn Crystal "Soporific" in order to perfect. When Espada's father had the Crystal inside his sword, Masticus sends out the living prototype of the virus, Kauron to retrieve it and kill Espada's father and his wife. Once Sonnet manages to retrieve the sword from Espada, Masticus begins showing his true colors, as he reveals that Sonnet is his latest version of the virus, and with the stone, Masticus transforms her into the perfect version of the virus and has her try to kill her two friends Espada and Adagio when they came to see her. Once Sonnet was able to break free, the virus manifests itself into a new physical form, and under his command Masticus orders the death of those who stand in his way. Once the virus is dealt with, he was asked to surrender, only for him to laughs at the heroes for their ideals before throwing himself to his death as one last attack. A hateful scientist, Masticus pretends that he fights for humanity side, but in actuality just wants to satisfy his hatred towards non-humans and humans who support them.
  • Blue Comet SPT Layzner: The monstrous Gosterro is a sadistic, brutal Gradosian officer whose only joy is in murder. Gleefully leading his forces in the Gradosian invasion of Earth, murdering soldier and civilian alike, Gosterro cheerfully catches his own men in his attacks, enjoying the deaths of his own soldiers while referring to those he hunts down as "prey" or "meat". Utterly without honor, Gosterro sets up a duel, only to use hidden snipers on his enemies so he can have the joy of murdering them after. With a body count of innocent and soldier alike that eclipses many Gradosians, Gosterro is later made into a cyborg and escapes after committing several more murders, intending on returning to kill all in his path just to satisfy his thirst for blood.
  • Violinist of Hameln: Even among the vile Mazoku, the Big Bad Chestra and The Heavy Bass are especially bad:
    • Demon King Chestra is the overlord of all demons. He seduces the kindhearted Pandora to father children so he could fill their lives with anguish and pain in a grand plan to force Pandora to open the seal to his Mazoku forces and regain his original power. When he was done, Chestra intended to devour Pandora and his own children as well to serve as power ups. Having killed so many humans he cannot even remember the exact number, Chestra murders his own minions and many humans to use their blood and souls for power, while intending on obliterating all humanity to reign supreme as a god.
    • Hell King Bass, a cold, emotionless Mazoku who is the second-in-command of their evil forces, is responsible for countless atrocities. Attacking the kingdom of Prince Lute with his forces, Bass attempted to ravage the land while attempting to massacre the royal family. Stopped only by Lute, Bass sadistically murdered him and removed his soul to make him a mindless puppet of Bass, intending to repeat the process with Lute's sister. Reviled by all the heroes, Bass terrorizes them relentlessly, being responsible for more tragedy than almost any villain in all the series.
  • Zyword, by Tamayo Akiyama: The Goddesses of Chaos were the creators of the dimension known as Zyword and were worshipped by its inhabitants as the benevolent goddesses of the land. However, it was revealed that they were responsible of all the mishaps that happened in the manga, such as the instability of the Zyword dimension. When the heroine, Lunatia Araimel, was 5 years old, the Goddesses quarantined several people because of their hatred of people with tainted blood. When Lunatia develops the hatred with the Goddesses, they gave her their "blessings", which would result in Lunatia getting sacrificed. In the present day, it was revealed that the Goddesses betray the inhabitants of Zyword, and then inflict the curse on the people of Araimel, which causes them to die in an eternal sleep. One of the three Goddesses, Arienna, was revealed to be the person who turned the soldiers of Valstoke into monstrous beings. Another goddess named Shervia manipulated an innocent person to murder two of her younger siblings in order to kidnap the cured Valstoke Soldier, Rain, and then inflicts Lunatia's childhood friend, Roddy, with a manipulative spell; it was also revealed when Lunatia was young, Shervia beheaded the Queen of the Fairy World, which resulted in the world facing its imminent destruction.
  • The Book of Fours novel, by Nancy Holder: Cecile Lafitte is a voodoo priestess who serves the horrific demon known as the Gatherer, harvesting souls to give to him. Tormenting and experimenting on countless souls to make them into zombies, Cecile uses her descendants to return to life. In one case, upon returning to life, Cecile seduces plantation owner Duvalier, making him her servant, and has him burn his own family alive. In the present day, she aims to find and destroy Slayers to offer her master their special souls. Cecile destroys the Watcher of the previous Slayer Kendra before coming to Sunnydale, unleashing the Gatherer with the knowledge it will devour the world and all existence, keeping every soul it takes in unending torment within.
  • Odyssey: Lylth the Eternal is an alien who travels from world to world devouring souls and leaving dead planets behind her. Upon her arrival on Troy, she brainwashes the population of Eckmul under her control. Feeding of the energy of youth to get stronger, Lylth murders countless of children in her temple and coldly kills a father trying to save his child. Attempting to open the Stargate, she sacrifices two sages and seriously considers killing hundreds more when it fails. At one point, she compels one of her minions to strangle another for their late arrival. She then commissions the sages with the creation of a spell that would multiply and accelerate the gestation of children, hoping to get hundred per day. Lylth also attempts to drains the powers of, thus killing, the Magohamoth—the source of all magic—and uses Lanfeust as a Human Shield when cornered. Even defeated and rejuvenated to a child, Lylth merges with the Banshees and sends them all over Troy to annihilate all life.
  • The Dead One: Tezcatlipoca is the Aztec god of Human Sacrifice, who molded Aztec society into a brutal empire that ripped hundreds of people's hearts out at a time. After being forced to sleep for centuries by the fall of his empire, he declared a young Juan Diego de la Muerte his chosen agent to bring him back to power across the Earth. Killing the adult Diego in a car crash, he resurrects him a year later, using him as a tether on Earth to kill the last three members of the bloodline that thwarted him and tormenting him with visions of brutal violence along the way. After killing two of his targets, Tezcatlipoca tries to kill Diego's girlfriend, mind controlling Diego himself to do the deed when he tries to stop him.
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: George Wickham is now a murderer who implicitly killed Darcy Sr. for the inheritance. After squandering said inheritance, Wickham later comes in possession of zombies he "civilizes" with pig brains and decides to unleash, as well as more of the undead hordes, on London. Leading them through many deaths of civilians, Wickham unleashes his armies on London to slaughter the populace until he can rule the city as a king. Declaring himself The Antichrist out to lead the dead, Wickham attempts to murder Darcy and later arrives at the end to attack Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding party to kill all of the Bennet family.
  • Three Big Men: The Spider, an interpretation of Spider-Man with no similarity besides the costume, is the cause of the crime wave of Istanbul. Leader of a gang that steals precious objects, sells and then re-buys them with counterfeit money, he is introduced killing a woman by leaving her head to be sliced by boat propellers. After his crimes call the attention of Captain America and El Santo, the Spider continues with his crimes alongside his girlfriend Nadia, strangling a rich woman in her bathroom and later impaling a couple to steal her possessions. A cruel boss, the Spider executes a former ally by leaving his face to be eaten by rodents; abandons Nadia after she is fatally injured; and laughs at the deaths of his minions during his last fight. Without care for anyone but himself, the Spider was a sadist criminal that enjoyed killing people in creative ways.
  • The Raven spinoff: Doctor Julian Heller, from "The Ex-Files", worked as a physician in medieval times, and ensured maximum profits by having his competitors falsely imprisoned and executed, with one of the victims being a midwife friend of Amanda's whom Heller had burned at the stake for witchcraft. In the present, Heller is an esteemed transplant specialist who secretly runs an organization that pays corrupt medical personnel to murder their patients so that their organs can be harvested for sale on the black market. When Nick's ex-wife, Lauren, begins uncovering his crimes, Heller has an assassin murder her informant and assistant, and afterward arranges for the hitman to be killed for failing to kill Lauren, which Heller does himself by poisoning her. During his battle with Nick and Amanda, Heller taunts the former over his ex-wife's death, and describes how he intends to keep the latter's headless body for experimentation.
  • BioShock: Rapture: The novel-exclusive Pat Cavendish is a constable for Rapture who uses his position to abuse and bully anyone he wants. Cavendish routinely brutalizes and tortures prisoners of Rapture, regardless of their level of guilt, and is the most trigger-happy constable in the city, always wearing a grin while gunning down suspects. Seeking to line his pockets with extra cash, Cavendish begins kidnapping citizens and handing them off to Sander Cohen to be nightmarishly murdered, and also kidnaps young girls to sell them to Dr. Yi Suchong to be experimented on. When sent to capture Bill McDonagh for execution, Cavendish gleefully plans to take in the man's wife and daughter as well just because he can, and attempts to gun down one of his fellow constables when the man tries to show mercy to Bill's family.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Book of Fours, by Nancy Holder: Cecile Lafitte is a voodoo priestess who serves the horrific demon known as the Gatherer, harvesting souls to give to him. Tormenting and experimenting on countless souls to make them into zombies, Cecile uses her descendants to return to life. In one case, upon returning to life, Cecile seduces plantation owner Duvalier, making him her servant, and has him burn his own family alive. In the present day, she aims to find and destroy Slayers to offer her master their special souls. Cecile destroys the Watcher of the previous Slayer Kendra before coming to Sunnydale, unleashing the Gatherer with the knowledge it will devour the world and all existence, keeping every soul it takes in unending torment within.
  • Cholito and the Gods of Chavin, by Oscar Colchado Lucio: Huallallo is the god of the Huancas. Attracted by the maiden Wandy, who rejected him, Huallallo becomes a bird to poison the food of her boyfriend, the god Huantar, just as he did with his own brother to steal his lands. After Cholito manages to save Huantar and Huallallo is sealed by a rival god, Huallallo manages to use his remaining influence to threaten to free the giant snakes from the the lakes of Ganchiscocha and Yanachocha if Wandy isn't offered as a Human Sacrifice to him. Unwilling to fulfill his part of the deal, Huallallo was fine with allowing the snakes to devour all humans, stopped only thanks to the intervention of a even stronger deity.
  • Sourcery: Ipslore the Red is the eighth son of an eighth son and a wizard formerly under the Unseen University, before being thrown out for breaking the rule against marrying or fathering children. Though starting the prologue with the redeeming quality of loving his wife, he is still shown to regard his eighth son Coin, a Sourcerer—a wizard who can use magic without having to learn spells and can allow other wizards to do the same—as merely a tool for revenge and exploits Death by threatening to indirectly kill the boy should Death remove him from Coin's staff. Over the next ten years, Ipslore molds Coin into an obedient killing servant through Electric Torture and by making him dependent on his staff to prolong his revenge, in the process abandoning the love of his wife and losing his sole redeeming trait. In the main story, Ipslore has Coin murder several wizards to bring the Unseen University into line, including a wizard who was kind to the young child, then lets the university loose against the city by turning Lord Vetinari into a lizard—also threatening his pet terrier—and letting the wizards terrorize the helpless population of Ankh-Morpork. Under Ipslore's rule, anyone who attempts to interfere is killed regardless of their inability to stop Coin, a fate that almost befalls Rincewind. Eventually letting his hubris overtake him, Ipslore has Coin freeze the Discworld pantheon, with no care about causing The End of the World as We Know It from the Ice Giants arising or the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions exploiting reality's collapse.
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: Lord Abbot Enomoto has his monks impregnate the nuns at Mount Shiranui Shrine and then has them and Abbess Izu take their babies away and murder them, keeping up the illusion they're alive via letters. If that wasn't enough, he deceives the nuns into thinking that they will be released from the shrine after 20 years of service. Instead, his master monks give them a drug that kills them on the way down the mountain and they end up buried in numbered graves, all to eliminate loose ends so that Enomoto can use the blood of the babies in a tonic to perpetuate his life and youth.
  • Scream: TV Series: The Ghostfaces from the first two seasons are malevolent murderers.
    • Piper Shaw, from season 1, is copycatting the killing spree of Brandon James, starting by killing Nina and her boyfriend Tyler, and later killing depressed student Rachel, making it look like a suicide. Constantly tormenting her half-sister Emma Duvall, via texts and phone calls, while being friendly and helpful to her face, Ghostface targets her friends for no reason other than to hurt her. Ghostface tries to force Emma to choose between killing two of her friends, and ends up killing Riley. Later, Ghostface has Will kidnapped and later set up in a death trap which Emma is tricked into triggering. Eventually framing Mr. Branson, Ghostface tortures Sheriff Hudson on a live camera, before leaving him in to be killed in a trap like Will before him. When Ghostface's identity is finally revealed, they reveal their jealously for Emma's life, and plans to kill Emma in front of their mother Maggie, before killing Maggie slowly.
    • Kieran Wilcox, from season 2, maintained a facade of being a friendly albeit troubled teenager, and loving boyfriend to Emma, but is in fact a needlessly cruel and brutal killer and the accomplice from season 1. As the accomplice, this Ghostface is personally responsible for killing Audrey's girlfriend Rachel, putting Will in a death trap for Emma to trigger, and the torture and murder of Sheriff Hudson—-their own father. In season 2, Ghostface torments both Emma and Audrey for her connection to Piper; begins a new killing spree by bisecting Jake with a scythe, before dropping his mangled corpse in front of his girlfriend Brooke; hacks off Branson's hand, burning the stub with an iron, before leaving him to burn to death; kills two cops for getting in their way; kills his other girlfriend Hayley; buries both Noah and Zoe alive while Emma and Audrey struggle to rescue them, even though they had already drowned Zoe; and frames Emma and Audrey with Mayor Maddox's murder. In the finale, upon being exposed, Ghostface reveals that both Ghostfaces had a bond based solely around their hatred for their parents and the fun of killing. It's also revealed Ghostface has been framing and bullying his cousin Eli since childhood, before coldly gunning him down. Ghostface then taunts Emma and Audrey with a plan to kill them and frame them.
  • Where the Spirit Lives (1989 CBC movie): Reverend Buckley is the headmaster of a residential school in Nova Scotia in 1937. After Indian Affairs agents deliver Native children to the school—after taking them from their parents—Buckley inflicts beatings on them if they speak their Native languages or perform Native rituals, wanting to destroy their culture and mold them into what he thinks are "model Canadians". If children actively defy him, he tortures them by putting them into isolation wards. He lies to one child, Komi, saying her parents had died, to better manipulate her. When Komi's parents arrive to claim her, Buckley lies to them and says she is not there. When a student named Rachel runs away from the school in order to escape the school's abuse and dies in the wilderness, Buckley does not allow the students to give her a native burial and holds a condescending funeral for her instead, making an Indian Affairs agent named Taggart quit in disgust. Though presenting himself as a kindly man who has a religious mission, Buckley is really a disgusting bigot who feels superior to the native children and treats them more like objects than people.
  • Resident Evil 2: Raccoon City Police Chief Brian Irons is monstrous in both the original game and the 2019 remake:
    • Original: Irons first establishes himself as an irredeemable scumbag during his university days when he was accused not once but twice of raping a fellow student. Due to "outstanding excellence in academics", however, he managed to get away with it, later becoming Chief of the Raccoon City Police Department, where the Umbrella Corporation would bribe him to turn a blind eye as they perform their experiments on the city's citizens. Not only would Irons gladly accept these bribes, but he would use them to fund his own personal "Taxidermy Sex Dungeon of Evil", which is filled to the brim with bones, surgical tools, acids, and stuffed bodies. When Umbrella's T-Virus broke free, spreading throughout Raccoon City and causing massive chaos, Irons decides to use this opportunity to kill whomever he wants, before the chaos consumes him. These targets include zombies, innocent bystanders, fellow cops, and even the mayor's daughter. While Brian Irons lacks the vast resources, grandiose visions, and god complexes that many other villains have, he makes up for it by being utterly psychotic, sociopathic, needlessly cruel, and, despite being only human, horribly depraved.
    • REmake: Irons is secretly working for Umbrella. A raping, murderous human taxidermist, Irons prefers killing women and having their bodies converted into stuffed dolls for him to admire. Moonlighting as the city's orphanage director, Irons, under Umbrella's orders, has hundreds of children painfully experimented on for the Birkins' scientific research, with most of the children dying. When one of the children manage to escape, Irons has Umbrella soldiers execute every child at the orphanage to cover the company's tracks. Kidnapping Sherry and holding her hostage, he tries to gun her down once she escapes.
  • Seven Deadly Sins collection: Nicole Carson, from Revenant, by Marc D. Giller, is a seemingly nice medic on an illegal salvage vessel called the Celtic, but is really a ruthless mercenary. When the Celtic sends an away team to a Federation ship, the USS Reston, which was partially assimilated by the Borg during the battle of Sector 001 to salvage its technology, Carson secretly infects the away team with Borg nanoprobes. Carson plans to have the entire away team assimilated by Borg technology, planning to sell the infected away team to her employer, who wants to turn the Borg into a weapon. Though Carson dies while attempting to execute this scheme, she does succeed in assimilating the away team, unleashing the Borg on the galaxy once again.
  • BioShock series: Even in this Crapsack World filled with morally dubious characters, a select few manage to stand out as the absolute worst:
    • BioShock (Fontaine and Suchong are also in Burial at Sea):
      • Frank Fontaine, aka Atlas, is the Arch-Enemy of Andrew Ryan. Seemingly providing shelter for orphans and the poor, in reality he was subjecting them with ADAM, a deadly substance he forcibly extracted from little girls, turning them into dangerous and insane Splicers. He would use these Splicers to start a civil war that would engulf Rapture in flames; during that time he forced Elizabeth to help him, first by torturing her then by torturing a child right in front of her, and later kills her after she gave him the means to control Jack. He would program Jack to kill his own father Andrew Ryan while he usurps the latter's position, and tries to kill him once he has served his purpose.
      • Dr. Yi Suchong was commissioned by the aforementioned Frank Fontaine to assist him in his takeover of Rapture. In Rapture, Suchong performs a variety of cruel experiments on innocent people, and is the one who pushes so hard for children to be used in ADAM experiments. In BioShock itself, Suchong experiments on dozens of young girls, turning them into "Little Sisters," as well as adult men, tortuously turning them into "Big Daddies". Suchong is the one in charge of raising and brainwashing Jack, who he conditions and torments to such a point that Suchong is able to force him to snap his beloved puppy's neck. Meeting his demise after physically abusing a Little Sister, Suchong commits his crimes only For Science!, having no remorse or hesitation, even remarking he has no concern or desire to know how a conscience works.
      • Dr. J. S. Steinman is a plastic surgeon obsessed with his own twisted idea of beauty and purity. On the surface a twisted sociopath who managed to restrain himself from dabbling in his cruel desires, upon traveling to Rapture, Steinman decides to embrace his vision of the world, and force it onto the citizens of Rapture. In Rapture, Steinman begins brutally mutilating and killing any stray Splicers he finds, before beginning to kidnap innocent civilians and perform his surgeries on them. Slicing off faces, carving up genitalia, and using ADAM all the while to keep his victims alive and in pain for longer amounts of time, Steinman even murders his assistant nurse when she tries to expose his crimes. Steinman soon enough succumbs to insanity thanks to overuse of ADAM, and goes on to murder countless more people in his delusional psychosis.
    • BioShock 2: Stanley Poole, who also has a small appearance in Rapture, is a weaselly journalist who once settled for covering up crimes in exchange for bribes; however, after joining up with the likes of Andrew Ryan, he becomes far worse. Poole gets into Ryan's good graces by ratting on Johnny Topside, getting the innocent man thrown into prison and turned into a Big Daddy, after which Poole is sent by Ryan to infiltrate rising revolutionary Sofia Lamb's inner circle. After gaining Lamb's trust and becoming the head of Dionysus Park, Poole anonymously betrays the woman and gets her locked away, after which he allows Dionysus to fall into anarchy while he wastes tons of money on himself. Poole sells off Lamb's daughter Eleanor to be experimented on by the aforementioned Suchong when the girl tries to stop his crimes, and, when Lamb escapes prison, Poole floods the entirety of Dionysus Park, killing the hundreds of residents solely to cover up how badly he's driven it into the ground. In the final moments of his life, Poole forces Subject Delta to possibly kill 3 Little Sisters, and is reduced to a sniveling, pathetic mess, screaming that everything he did "wasn't personal".
    • Infinite: Father Zachary Hale Comstock is the alternate version of Booker DeWitt who accepted baptism and took pride in being the "The Hero of Wounded Knee", where he massacred several innocent Native Americans, women and children included. Creating Columbia, Comstock made himself its "Prophet", where he had his citizens worship him, while oppressing all people of non-white races. Comstock also conspired with the Luteces to steal the daughter of Booker and imprison her in a tower which drains her powers, having the Songbird serve as her warden. When Comstock learns of Booker's arrival, he has his followers hunt him down, having one immolate herself and later raising the wife that Comstock himself murdered, from the dead, to kill him. Upon retrieving Elizabeth, Comstock has her repeatedly tortured, molding her into his successor and carrying out his final plan to destroy the world below.
  • Cardinal Syn: Syn is the mysterious woman who is behind the idea of the bloody tournament between each clan of the Bloodlands and the winner of said tournament will become the ruler of the Bloodlands. However, when one of the winners of the tournament tries to claim the prize, Syn betrays him by murdering him and won't let the other contestants win the tournament. In the other stories, it was revealed that Syn kept two people as a prisoner, brutally mutilating them and stitching their bodies together, which resulted in them becoming a fighter that worships her; she then massacres several knights in one of the fighter's backstories. In her story when she wins the fight, she then uses her powers, resulting in the Bloodlands getting destroyed and dragons flying away from the area.
  • F-Zero GX: Deathborn is the recent champion of the Underworld F-Zero Grand Prix who is also a wanted criminal due to being responsible for the Great Accident, and banishes the people who knew about said incident into the void of space. Introduced by strangling Black Shadow and threatening to eliminate him if he doesn't win the race, Deathborn then returns to executes Black Shadow with an Agony Beam when the latter loses the race. It was revealed that he intends to retrieve the Grand Prix belt in order to wipe out all life in the galaxy.
  • Kadu'av: The Beginning of the End: The wicked Windsor is a member of the Gilded Cross, a human supremacist group who seek to murder any race who are deemed unclean. Tasked with slaughtering caravans containing Yeshu, Windsor kills plenty of Yeshu people—including children—with sick glee, mocking his partner Jess for refusing to partake in the murders. After butchering another caravan, Windsor waits for Eden and Rachel to arrive and tries to kill them.
  • Adam Taurus is the embodiment of spite and cruelty. A high-ranking member of the Faunus liberation group the White Fang, Adam begins verging into extremist terrorist attacks with no care for innocents who die, prompting his Love Interest Blake Belladonna to flee the group. Adam later assists in the aforementioned attack on Beacon Academy, during the Vytal Festival, unleashing Grimm on the city. When encountering Blake, Adam vows to kill everything she loves, maiming Yang when she tries to defend Blake and trying to murder Blake herself. When the high leader of the White Fang, Sienna Khan, objects to what Adam has done, Adam murders her and takes her place before ordering Blake's family killed to "keep his promise" to her. Adam then leads a White Fang attack to destroy the city of Haven, spitefully attempting to detonate explosives to kill himself, Blake and all the Faunus present, White Fang or innocent, when he's cornered by the authorities. Adam later savagely slaughters his own former followers of the White Fang when they question him and returns to stalking Blake, hellbent on murdering her and making her suffer for "ruining his life".
  • The Strange Thing About the Johnsons: Isaiah is the abusive son of Sidney and Joan Johnson who develops an unhealthy obsession towards the former. Beginning with assaulting his father at a prom, Isaiah subjects his father to 14 years of sexual abuse, threatening bodily harm on him if he contemplated exposing it to the public. Even marriage fails to deter Isaiah, as he expresses little interest in his wife, and he deliberately breaks a glass under the guise of helping to clean up, solely to be alone with his father. After viciously raping Sidney out of anger at him locking the bathroom door, Isaiah tries to guilt trip him into staying in the relationship while additionally blaming him for the abuse. When Joan inquires him about this, Isaiah tries to push his mother into the fireplace.
Wolverine
  • Hideki Kurohagi, the main antagonist alongside Shingen, shows a monstrous personality despite his pathetic introduction. Having murdered his crime lord father to take his position, Kurohagi runs his criminal empire from the island of Madripoor, allowing crime to run rampant. Betrothing himself to Shingen's daughter, Mariko, Kurohagi treats her as his possession, regularly verbally and physically abusing her and implicitly planning to rape her once they are married. When Logan tries to save Mariko, Kurohagi tries to kill him several times, even unleashing a giant robot to murder him without regard for the collateral damage it causes. After capturing Yukio, Logan's partner, Kurohagi nearly strangles her to death while she is paralyzed and executes one of his own henchmen with a painful neurotoxin for no particular reason. When the rebels try to end his tyranny, Kurohagi gives orders to kill them, including an unarmed teenage girl trying to protect an elderly rebel. Confronted by Logan, Kurohagi holds Mariko at gunpoint and blows up an entire building full of dozens of people in an attempt to kill him. Smug, cowardly and incompetent, Hideki Kurohagi repulsed and horrified everyone around him, with even his own assassin bodyguard turning against him out of disgust.
Ultimate Spider-Man
  • Wolf Spider, from season 4's Return to the Spider-Verse Arc, is an evil alternate version of Peter Parker who decides to use his powers for evil instead of good. Declaring heroism and responsibility to be "pathetic ideals", he personally killed anyone who had believed in those ideals, including his world's Miles Morales. Upon discovering the existence of the other Spider-Verses through a shard of the Siege Perilous, Wolf Spider decides to use it to kill all of the other Spider-Men and conquer the multiverse. Forming a false alliance with the Lizard King, he attempts to kill Spider-Man and his friends in order to acquire the shards they had found. When this fails, he would later reappear in Kid Arachnid's dimension where he threatened to kill his mother if Arachnid didn't surrender the shards to him. Upon acquiring the Siege Perilous, he lures Spider-Man and his friends to his lair, leaving a trail of destruction behind in the process, where they witness him draining the life forces of the other Spider-Men to become stronger, before he attempts to drain them of their life forces as well. A ruthless, sadistic super villain who made his own name into a symbol of fear to the people of his world, Wolf Spider is the complete opposite of everything that Spider-Man stands for.
Only A Lonely Heart
  • Y'golonac is the god of depravity and a cruel Great Old One with a love of violating others. Fully capable of understanding human thought and emotion, Y'golonac lures a depressed Leon Duvalier to his cult in order to eat away at his soul as he possesses him. Using Duvalier's body, he rapes, murders, and eats countless people while forcing his daughter Monica to watch, while also making her believe herself to be Duvalier's deceased wife Rachel in order to rape her himself. With the corpses, he keeps their heads in jars to scare Monica for fun. Luring Hardestadt Delac to his hideout in order to eat him, he later tries to make him say his name in order to break free from his prison and turn North America into his playground of chaos and violation. When Hardestadt refuses, he taunts him with the fact that Eliza had been raped by her husband, all while savoring his anger. As he departs, he teases Hardestadt that he might have been raped himself. A putrid, disgusting sadist, Y'golonac truly earns his nickname of "the Defiler".

Edited by ACW on Feb 11th 2019 at 3:01:48 PM

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#148619: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:02:28 PM

ACW: the last sentence was an attempted summary as to what makes Ipslore such a hideous individual, but I'm liking the entry so far. I'm still trimming the summary on the drafts page if anyone wants to have a go.

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TheMadCr0w Gentle Laborer from Insignificant Little Blue Planet Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
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#148620: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:04:16 PM

The ones that got approved because of me? Probably General Korbut and Mylène Beardsley, since both come from well-known video game franchises, particularly Mylène.

[down] Already got it [lol]

Edited by TheMadCr0w on Feb 10th 2019 at 8:15:25 AM

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#148621: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:05:39 PM

I think it was favorite that YOU'VE done.

As for Ipslore, I think "in the process abandoning the love of his wife and losing his sole redeeming trait" covers it.

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#148622: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:16:20 PM

I forgot to add Elle Sheridan and Joana Wise to my 2017 list.

"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."
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#148623: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:17:23 PM

So how many do we have this week?

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captainmarkle Limited Patients from Behind you Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
#148624: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:18:39 PM

[up] ACW: a good point, especially considering I wrote that blooming line! Should've crossed my mind earlier.

I'll go to bed now and come back tomorrow with a fresh mind. Thanks for the rewrite.

EDIT: Just before going to bed, should we maybe include a line for Adam Taurus about Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse, especially since Blake calls him on his BS?

Edited by captainmarkle on Feb 10th 2019 at 10:20:15 AM

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Kylotrope Barb(Its a thread joke you wouldn't get it) from Honolulu Hawaii Since: Apr, 2018
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#148625: Feb 10th 2019 at 2:21:23 PM

And of Course for my Personel Favorite. I haven't gotten alot but from those I have its X Gaster.

@Captain Blake dosent do that. She said "Your delusional" in response to his fucked up perception Of there relationship not his Freudian Excuse(He didn't even reveal it til after she said that).

Edited by Kylotrope on Feb 10th 2019 at 2:34:53 AM

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