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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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
BTW, here's the Hellboy page. If someone can up-quality the image, by all means feel free.
Edited by ACW on Apr 28th 2019 at 5:35:45 AM
the Film itself would still need to Imply she has some sort of Mental illness. Wich it never does. The idea She does is pure speculation. Hell she acts LESS crazy Then Manga Light does.
Wether or not she does go up. I do think an Intersting thing to note is that the Director said Mia is meant to be more like Light was in the original
Edited by Kylotrope on Apr 28th 2019 at 2:48:19 AM
Things are really about to get Fun around hereBut, it is. The film Never Implies she is Mentally ill. And we've had way WAY way More charachters who act way more Unstable then Mia.
Things are really about to get Fun around hereWhy did Mia Sutton come back up? I thought she was a hard pass on this trope. Ryuk was the most heinous character in that movie and even he doesn't actively do enough to qualify.
A thousand times
Mia.
And wait, did movie!Syndrome get voted up? I only recall Darkhorse Comic!Syndrome making it onto the trope. What could have changed to get the original version on?
@xie323: Don't count on it. Much as I consider him a qualify, gameverse Ghetsis was firmly deemed a "he meets the trope's qualifications on paper, but within the restraints of the actual medium he's in, he falls short of the mark" character in the Ultra Sun/Moon discussion back in 2017. The reason fanfic!Ghetsis counted and manga!Ghetsis has a better shot at counting is because of no such restraints in the mediums depicting him and his crimes.
- Skeletor and Mumm-Ra
◊ from He-Man/ThunderCats.
- The Joker
from The Dark Knight.
- Bill Sikes
◊ from Oliver Twist.
- Superman & Batman: Generations:
- The Ultra-Humanite attacks the Metropolis World's Fair with a giant robot in 1939, intending to kill civilians until he gets $1 million. After he is stopped, he takes Lois Lane as his hostage until Batman and Superman find his lair. He reveals that he has set the Hyperglobe to blow up Metropolis, but Batman and Superman stop him. Though seemingly killed, it is later revealed he has swapped brains with the below-mentioned Lex Luthor. Years later, he exposes Lois's unborn son, Joel, to Gold Kryptonite, rendering him powerless, and manipulates him into believing that Superman stripped him of his powers. In 1979, Joel and the Ultra-Humanite attack the wedding of Bruce Wayne Jr. and Supergirl, leading to the deaths of Supergirl and Lois. Hours later, Joel also dies, because the concoction from the Humanite that gave him superpowers is ultimately fatal. In 1989, when Superman tracks him down, the Ultra-Humanite reveals he had several of his close friends and family murdered and plans to swap brains with Superman to gain his powers. When Superman stops him, it is revealed that the Ultra-Humanite has made it appear that Superman killed him in cold blood out of spite for Superman.
- Lex Luthor is far worse than his mainstream counterpart. In 1929, he betrays his boss, Dr. Erwin Stanislaus, and has a robot wreak havoc on the city until it is stopped. In 2008, Luthor, now a brain in a robot's body and calling himself Metallo, attacks Metropolis and is stopped, but not before he detonates an EMP that causes a blackout in Metropolis. In 2025, Luthor escapes from prison and detonates a larger EMP, causing humanity to fall back into the Dark Ages temporarily, with hundreds of millions dying. In the 25th century, Luthor is freed again and goes to the Superman Museum, planting a bomb and intending to gain control of every computer grid on the planet. The bomb is contained safely, but Luthor succeeds in gaining control of every computer grid, and wages war on humanity until he is stopped.
- The Great Fusilli, from the episode of the same name, is a traveling stage magician who lured people onto his stage under the guise of making them famous actors. He would then have them perform for an imaginary audience, in order to use enchanted puppet strings to convert them into lifeless puppets, which he would then play with for his own amusement. Once Courage finds a room filled with the dozens of people he's converted into marionettes, Fusilli turns his owners Muriel and Eustace into puppets—an act not reversed by the end of the episode, causing Courage to suffer Sanity Slippage—while at the same time attempting to dispose of Courage.
- Madder Red, before being brutally tortured and lobotomized into becoming a pacifist known as "Filmore Press", was a sickeningly sadistic psychopath. Madder Red spent three years torturing and killing thousands across the city of Bedlam, with standout atrocities including massacring innocents at a religious gathering after decapitating two of the church leaders and massacring a restaurant filled with dozens. In his so-called "greatest achievement", Madder Red slaughtered an entire opera house, including a class of children, and when his Arch-Enemy, The First, arrived, Madder Red slit the one surviving child's throat in front of him just to anger him. Madder Red also revealed, after being captured, that if he was not dead within one hour, his associates would detonate bombs located in six schools across the city and kill hundreds of children and adults alike.
- Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight, by Alex de Campi et al.: Kalinka, from "Prison Ship Antares"—issues 3 and 4—is the sadistic warden of the titular prison ship. Claiming to be the second coming of Miyamoto Musashi, she seeks to "purify" the prisoners of their sins through brutally torturous methods, including spraying acid on one in front of everyone and scrubbing another with steel wool. When the prisoners stage a breakout, she kills one of her guards for running away and prepares to crash the ship into Saturn to kill everyone onboard while she escapes in a pod, bringing Cookie with her to torture for an entire year to keep herself entertained.
- He-Man/ThunderCats & Injustice vs. Masters of the Universe: Skeletor and Mumm-Ra are the evil supernatural beings who decided to unite in order to destroy their sworn enemies and take over all reality. Enslaving the Ancient Spirits of Evil, thus giving them the form of titanic beasts, the two command them to cause chaos all over Eternia in order to take possession of two ancient magic swords, the Sword of Omens and the Sword of Power. As a result, thousands of Eternians were killed, and nearly all Eternia was on the brink of destruction. When the remaining forces of Eternia and the ThunderCats managed to defeat their beasts, Skeletor and Mumm-Ra fused into the extremely powerful Mumm-Ator and, after destroying the remaining opposition, break in to the Castle of Greyskull to try to take over the multiverse. After Lion-O and He-Man combined their power to separate and banish them, the weakened Skeletor pretends to serve both Darkseid and the power-mad Superman, manipulating them both, causing Darkseid to invade Eternia, an action which resulted in many more people being killed or brainwashed to be servants of Darkseid.
- Ghostbusters fan film Return of the Ghostbusters
: Professor Klaus Constantin/Konstantin is a paraplegic, egoistical madman seeking out the Amulet of Anubis in his quest for power, initially planning to sell the amulet as a weapon. After his failures, Klaus learns that he needs to sacrifice human souls to work. He steals the Ghostbusters gear, stealing the soul of a homeless man who annoyed him, and steals dozens of others, framing the Ghostbusters and ruining their reputation. Having a crush on April Young, he stalks her at her apartment and steals the soul of her landlord for stopping him. Klaus then opens a portal to the underworld that threatens the city of Denver, revealing his plan to summon the death god Ammut, and destroy humanity's souls, sparing only those who worship him as a god.
- The Blind Warrior (1987): Raden Parna is a warlord so evil he's rumored to be the son of Satan himself. Conquering the local region and oppressing thousands, Raden regularly has people killed for any infraction to his rule and has innocent women regularly taken to him to sacrifice them to the evil god he ostensibly worships, only to secretly dump them into his private sanctum to have them serve his carnal desires. Raden orders a village completely exterminated to seize a gold mine they harbor and institutes awful slavery of the local residents, with all the prisoners forced into grueling labor as the guards torture and murder them for any perceived slight, even children seen forced to work and cut down in front of their mothers. Further boasting a harem full of women he's butchered the loved ones of and even keeping some of his soldiers loyal under the threat of their families' lives, Raden has an entire settlement where the heroes are nesting at slaughtered, throwing the titular blind warrior into a “hellhole” to die and trying to marry his companion Samila to make her his.
- Hellboy (2019): Nimue, the Blood Queen, is a tyrant seeking the death of all humanity to build a new Eden out of the bloody ashes. Betrayed by her own coven and her body hacked apart, Nimue has a changeling named Gruagach reunite her pieces, proceeding to horrifically kill the majority of her old coven and unleash a plague upon London when she's whole again. Nimue eventually kills Gruagach after his use wears out, and after her attempt to seduce Hellboy fails, Nimue spitefully cuts the throat of his friend Professor Bruttenholm to drive him into insane rage and allow him to become the beast of the apocalypse, unleashing horrific monsters on the world through his power to horribly butcher all humanity.
- Steel: Nathaniel Burke is a slimy, sociopathic ex-soldier defined by his greed. Kicked out of the military for causing an accident with the weapons of John Henry Irons that kills a visiting senator and cripples the good-natured Susan Sparx–-to his utter apathy, blaming everyone else for keeping from from "going places"-–Burke reinvents himself as an Arms Dealer using stolen technology from Irons. Burke, throughout the movie, murders a rival and an elevator full of people with her when she calls him out on his reckless demonstration of his weaponry; has a failed minion of his assassinated; has another used as a live target during a weapons pitch to the criminal leaders of the world; and eventually murders his own associate, to make himself the sole and most powerful arms dealer in the world to let them use his advanced weaponry to wage wars with. Burke even attempts to murder Sparx and Irons's young friend, gloating he wants to see Irons utterly crushed before killing him.
- A Night in Terror Tower & Return to Terror Tower: King Robert usurped control of medieval York by murdering his brother and sister-in-law, whose children, Princess Susannah and Prince Edward, he then locked away in Terror Tower, the entrance of which he then cursed so that anyone who tries to enter it without a key is turned to stone, a fate which has befallen dozens. When a family friend tried to rescue the children, Robert had the family friend killed and condemned to haunt the royal palace as a ghost until he is deposed. Using a magic amulet, Robert proceeded to brainwash every member of the royal court into serving him, rechristening one man the Lord High Executioner. Under his tyranny, York descends into poverty and squalor; hypnotized soldiers routinely terrorize and steal from the peasantry, and haul suspected dissidents and any man, woman and child who is to pay his exorbitantly high taxes off to the dungeons, where they are tortured and either beheaded or left to rot, being thrown scraps once a week. Eventually deciding to eliminate Eddie and Sue, he instructs the Executioner to smother them, and when a sympathetic wizard named Morgred uses three magic stones to send the children to the future, he sends the Executioner after them, and cows Morgred into serving him by threatening him with torture and painful death. In Return's worst possible ending, he steals Morgred's magic stones, has Eddie and Sue executed, and amuses himself by forcing their cousin to dance around the throne room while avoiding blades before having them stabbed to death.
- Daniel Budd, from the final two episodes of season 12 and the season 13 premiere, was the leader of the Calling, a terrorist group responsible for recruiting children through the Internet for the purpose of turning them into terrorists or suicide bombers. Those he turns to terrorism are sent to kill several naval agents, while those he turns into suicide bombers blow themselves up in highly-populated areas; he sent a young boy to blow himself up at Cairo, Egypt, killing dozens, because an NCIS agent was located there. When the adoptive parents of a young boy try to convince him to leave the Calling, he has them killed. When one child is arrested, Budd has him killed just so he won't say anything. He then uses an adopted child to try to kill Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, with his next plan to destroy Shanghai and make it look like the North Koreans. His reasons for doing all of this was to kick-start a war simply because he wanted to kill thousands.
- Tahir Khaled, Agent Sam Hanna's Arch-Enemy, is a Sudanese terrorist and war criminal—demonstrated by a mass grave of his victims in his first appearance. First appearing in season 3, he brutally murders three CIA agents and tortures Agent Sam Hanna. He later arranges for his abused sister Jada to be killed, only to have a recently-rescued Sam save her. Upset that Jada will testify against him, Khaled sought vengeance against Sam during season 7 by targeting the latter's loved ones, ranging from launching a missile at his family's home, to appearing at his son's school with the intent to kill him, while callously killing innocents along the way. Upon being arrested, he arranges for his escape near the end of season 8 by kidnapping Sam's wife, Michelle, to use as a bargaining chip for his release. Despite being released, Tahir has her asphyxiated, then steals her body to desecrate it. When Tahir manages to lure Sam to him in a bus, he attempts to detonate a bomb he placed inside said bus, intending to take Sam as well as everyone else in the bus with him to the grave.
- Marcel Janvier, aka "The Chameleon", runs several cartels from behind the scenes, while he acts as the driver. He kills people by incinerating them in their cars and plays a dangerous game of "hide and seek" where he forces people to act as him to lure them to dead ends, killing them in the process. When infiltrating the NCIS, he murders and assumes the identity of a police officer to infiltrate the operation to capture him. In his proper debut, Janvier set up a family of arms dealers to be killed by the police and car bombs Agent Lauren Hunter before blackmailing the NCIS by threatening to inform Iran of a US spy working in Tehran. He later returns, with a hand severed, at the end of season 4, having been brought in by NCIS to broker a deal that would help them capture his old friend Isaak Sidorov, and offer him revenge against the Iranians for removing his hand. However, in the process, Janvier tells Sidorov that Sam is an undercover agent, resulting in the torture of Sam and Deeks. When Agent G. Callen confronts him about it, all the Chameleon has to say is that his goal in life is to now make Callen suffer.
- The Goblin Wars, by Kersten Hamilton: Fear Doirich, the Dark Man, is the god of the goblins. Having created goblin-kind by cobbling together creatures from different worlds, Doirich led them in invading Ireland and, upon being driven into Mag Mell by the Fire Bolg and Milesians, sealed the gateway, forcing the Fire Bolg to travel aimlessly without a home. Seeking vengeance against Amergin, the Milesian responsible for his imprisonment, Doirich kidnapped, tortured, and killed him and his Highborn lover Maeve, sparing their daughters Aileen and Roisin with the intent of forcibly breeding a new race bent to his foul will. As per a blood covenant with a cruel rich man seeking vengeance against a traveler, Cumhaill, for running away with his daughter, Doirich cursed the lovers and their ancestors to be hunted by goblins for all eternity. Having Aileen killed, Doirich thus seeks to subjugate her daughter Teagan and kill Teagan's young brother Aiden, having his goblins torment and kill their loved ones along the way.
- The Kane Chronicles: Setne, son of Pharaoh Ramses the Great, was a murderer and blasphemer who escaped oblivion to return to Earth and sow chaos, being responsible for massive amounts of destruction, including The French Revolution and World War I. While initially assisting the Kane siblings against Apophis, Setne betrays them to instead try to seize control of the great serpent, intending on feeding it many souls in the afterlife, his father included, before unleashing Apophis to destroy most of the world whereupon he will proceed to rule the rest. Upon failing in this, Setne later returns to attempt to devour the gods of every pantheon to make himself the supreme one god who will dominate the world entire.
- Fear Itself was a short-lived anthology series that brought us these two Serial Killers:
- Duane Mellor, from "Eater", is a Cajun murderer and "Eater" who was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using a voodoo ritual, devouring the souls of several officers with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because he enjoyed frightening his targets. When his patience is exhausted, Mellor simply goes for the kill.
- Forest J. Caldwell, aka the Beast Killer, from "Something with Bite", is a man obsessed with werewolves and becoming one, and stands in stark contrast with the benevolent werewolves seen in this episode. Donning a makeshift werewolf outfit, he goes around killing multiple people across the city in a manner which is mistaken as animal attacks; this is all to attract the attention of real werewolves and fulfill his dream of becoming one. In one instance, he mauls Kayla, a friend of such a werewolf named Wilbur, but is unable to kill her when he's scared off by police. When Wilbur confronts him, Caldwell questions if he's upset about Kayla, stating he intends to finish her off at the hospital.
- Possessed: Hwang Dae-doo was a Serial Killer who murdered 30 innocents in 5 years, with an MO of killing loved ones to watch the suffering of his victims. After he is returned to life by a fanboy, Dae-doo becomes a powerful evil spirit, betrays and kills his partner and begins harvesting the souls of his victims. Killing more innocents, Dae-doo fixates on detective Kang Pil-sung, even enacting a game where he murders people to force Pil-sung to kill his Love Interest Hong Seo-jung to stop Dae-doo. Dae-doo, in a new host body, experiments on innocents with drugs to cause a near-murderous zombie outbreak, and when he realizes the soul of his old nemesis Detective Kim Nak-cheon is back, he targets Kim's family to seduce his daughter, before attempting to murder her. After losing his current body in a shooting spree, Dae-doo kidnaps the loved ones of two of Pil-sung's officers to force one to kill the other by a certain time—only to kill both hostages because the chief was off by a single minute. Later forcing Pil-sung to kill Seo-jong to save a little girl, Dae-doo kills Pil-sung's adoptive mother in his quest to "judge God" as well, not caring that his unnatural presence is bringing the end of the world itself before the final battle with Pil-sung. Evil, remorseless and hellbent on proving anyone can be as twisted as he is, Hwang Dae-doo delights in destroying all he encounters.
- Twisted: Vikram Desai, Danny's father, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the murders and the one responsible for ruining his son's and family's lives and reputations. Vikram had numerous affairs, and as part of a coverup, murders his own sister—Danny's aunt—by strangulation, emotionally manipulating a young Danny into taking the blame. Years after Danny is released from juvie, Vikram has since faked his death and been having a secret affair with Gloria Crane, blackmailing the latter's teenage daughter Regina into silence and implicitly having an affair with her too. When Regina says that she will reveal the truth to Danny, Vikram has her beaten to death, and comes up with a plan to have Danny framed with the help of both Gloria and a corrupt investigator. When Danny finally confronts him, Vikram insists he did was for the good of his family and loved ones, while Danny shoots down his claims and says Vikram is only out for himself. Vikram then attempts to kill Danny's friend Jo, and attacks Danny telling him that it's all his fault.
- Hideki Kurohagi is the main antagonist alongside Shingen. 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. Engaged to Shingen's daughter, Mariko, Kurohagi regularly abuses her, 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 without regard for the collateral damage it causes. Capturing Logan's partner, Yuki, and nearly strangling her to death while she is paralyzed, he later executes one of his own henchmen with a painful neurotoxin. When the rebels try to end his tyranny, Kurohagi gives orders to kill them, including an unarmed teenage girl, and when 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.
- Sublime and Kick, aka the U-Men, make the most of their limited screen time to stand out as truly horrifying monsters. A pair of mutant-hating murderers, the U-Men are known for kidnapping mutants, specifically young teens, then sadistically butchering and vivisecting them, using their organs to upgrade their own cyborg army. Along with this, the U-Men test out an experimental serum on innocent mutants that transform them into abominations in constant pain. When Kick fails at killing the X-Men, he wantonly opens fire on them along with the numerous teenagers and police officers in the area, trying to kill anyone he can. Sublime, having left Kick to his fate, returns with a powerful suit of armor and before blowing himself up in one last attempt on their lives. Both spend their last moments proclaiming their hatred and disgust for all mutantkind.
- Mastermind, real name Jason Wyngarde, is the leader of the Inner Circle, a group of mutant supremacists, and the one responsible for Jean Grey's rampage across a city and her death by transforming her into the Phoenix, framing his former lover, Emma Frost, as revenge for Frost leaving him. Working with the aforementioned mutant-killing U-Men, he fully endorses their crimes, using them to learn of a powerful mutant residing in Japan, where he uses his abilities to ingratiate himself into the lab staff of mutant researcher Yui Sasaki. Learning that the powerful mutant is Sasaki's teenage son, Takeo, who has reality-warping powers, Mastermind spends months secretly using his powers to psychically torture the boy, eventually into a horrifying state of death-longing insanity. While holding numerous X-Men hostage, and using his powers to torture Cyclops, Mastermind reveals he plans to unleash Takeo's powers on the world like he attempted with Jean Grey, then watch the worldwide destruction and chaos that unfolds before him. Believing himself and all mutants to be the Master Race of the Earth, Mastermind treats his atrocities as his "right" for being at the top of the evolutionary food chain.
- Orion, one of the heads of the Russian terrorist organization Leviathan, uses his position to perpetrate numerous atrocities, including Human Trafficking and drug running. Orion manipulates the hapless scientist Elihas Starr into creating a Super Serum that Orion forcibly experiments with on hundreds of innocents, destroying their minds, before he rebuilds them as mindless slaves. Planning to sell these biosoldiers to the highest bidders in the hopes that they will use them to start wars that he can then capitalize on, Orion unleashes one onto the city of Dubai as a test run, resulting in numerous civilian deaths, and also mind-controls the Punisher into gunning down agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the end, Orion attempts to murder Black Widow and a reformed Elihas, before laughing at Elihas for taking a bullet meant for Widow for his "weakness". A self-righteous madman with delusions of grandeur, Orion believes so strongly that only the strong make the rules of the world, that he would kill countless innocents just to show how "weak" they were.
- Biohazard 2 manhua:
- The man only known as "God" is the president of the Umbrella Corporation who desires the destruction of the world by any means necessary. Unleashing the G-virus onto Raccoon City and turning everyone into zombies, he uploads his brain into a parasite once news of Chris Redfield storming his headquarters arrives, and orders his staff members to commit suicide. Retreating to the artificial islands, he sets up a cyborg gladiator ring and unleashes a poisonous gas onto the entire audience once he's been found by the BHST. Taking control of his supposed friend, Inzaghi, he sends his squad to infect multiple parts of the island with his virus, infecting countless innocents. Having kidnapped Leon's father and making him the terrorist assassin known as the Hardened War General, he orders him to infect multiple parts of the island with the G-virus, including Leon himself. Taking BHST prisoner, he reveals that he had cloned the deceased Ada Wong to be his bride, ordering her to kill Leon and herself when the former arrives to stop him. Duking it out with Leon, he destroys an entire city while looking for him, and combines with him to become the ultimate life form, where he attempts to nuke the world to achieve his dreams of an apocalyptic wasteland.
- Brian (Irons), like his game counterpart, is a violent rapist secretly working for Umbrella. As a child, he would capture rabbits and dissect them for fun. Using his position as Commissioner of the Raccoon City Police Department, he shuts down STARS after the Spencer Mansion incident to cover Umbrella's tracks and leads the massacre of several Umbrella scientists in order to take out William Birkin. Ordered to keep Amy Chan safe, he instead kills her and plans to keep her as a trophy. Capturing Claire Redfield, he shows her his room containing stolen human organs—hoping to add hers to his collection—and has Leon thrown into a room with Lickers.
- The Young Man
: In this possible origin story written for SCP-106, Corporal Lawrence is a seemingly normal but unsettling soldier of the British Army in World War I, feared due to his emotional detachment and love for nihilism. When Lawrence began to display his powers, he rotted away an enemy unit in a manner that stunned even hardened soldiers. After the incident, Lawrence began to spread a disease along his unit, killing one of his fellow soldiers by disemboweling him. After his unit dies off, Lawrence was hospitalized before he attempted to sexually assault a nurse, an attack that cost her an eye and a few fingers. Lawrence is then institutionalized before he disappears, taking several patients with him and leaving their teeth behind for the staff to find.
- Dr. Zachary, Knuckles's Arch-Enemy, is introduced as a seemingly harmless old man and one of the last of the echidnas. Zachary tricked Knuckles into leading him into the Emerald Chamber, whereupon he shattered the Master Emerald and used the Chaos Emeralds to empower a reprogrammed machine of his. Zachary gleefully allowed the inhabited floating island to fall onto Mobius as a "monument to his genius", intending to butcher the population of the planet Mobius for his own amusement before seeking revenge on Knuckles's people. In his second appearance, rebuilt as a cyborg, Zachary leads Robotnik to the location of the floating island's villagers so Robotnik could use them as components in a biological computer, which would consequentially kill them, a process which Zachary happily watched over. Possessed of a vindictive streak matched by few, Zachary manages to outshine most of the comic's other antagonists despite his relatively minor running as a villain.
- Chaos, the primary villain of the final arc, undergoes significant Adaptational Villainy from his game counterpart. Once a Drakon Prosecutor who fought for the glory of his cruel empire, Chaos was forcibly mutated into a beast made of Chaos Energy when he was exposed to the Chaos Emeralds. Sealed for a time, Chaos immediately goes on a destructive rampage once released by the careless exploit of Grimer, savagely killing Johnny Lightfoot during his confrontation with the Freedom Fighters. Once Chaos comes into contact with the Chaos Emeralds again, Chaos attempts to drain them—uncaring this will cause the populated island they support to collapse into the ocean—and later successfully manages to achieve his Perfect Chaos form upon absorbing them in Robotnik's fortress, announcing his intent to reshape the entire planet and purge everything not part of his destructive image. Online expands further on his villainy, where he's revealed to have constantly tortured the teenage Tikal for eight millennia while sealed away with her.
- Doom II RPG: Virtual Icon of Sin, or VIOS, is an AI of demonic origins that leads Hell's invasion on one of the Earth's moons. When the Player Character arrives to clean up the station, VIOS constantly attempts to intimidate him/her into feeding him a database of several UAC terminals; said database is implied to consist of human souls. Upon invading an Earth base, VIOS assimilates a UAC computer designated SAL and continues his attempts to manipulate the player, even torturing him/her with his telekinesis at one point. When confronted, VIOS tries to kill the player for good, even if the latter had been choosing to feed human souls to VIOS during the gameplay. VIOS clearly revels in the carnage he causes and displays a particular sadism in doing so.
- The Punisher: General Kreigkopf is the leader of the Russian Syndicate in the second portion of the game. An associate of the Gnucci Family, Kreigkopf would supply them with drugs and money from the harbor. When Castle attacks the harbor, he discovers Kreigkopf has been smuggling in weapons, including a tank and a nuke. Frank discovers that Kreigkopf is also part of a Human Trafficking ring. Kreigkopf sends the Russian to attack Castle at his apartment. When Castle and Furry invade Grand Nixon Island, he prepares to launch the nuke at New York City, and manages to get it to the point it's supposedly irreversible before Frank kills him.
- Slender: The Arrival: This rendition of the Slender Man communicates a more deliberately malicious personality in its rare messages. A being responsible for centuries of disappearances, the Slender Man has stalked the Matheson family for generations. In one notable instance it terrorized and abducted young Charlie Matheson from his parents, mutilating him into an emaciated corpse-like creature in constant pain, later causing Charlie's father to commit suicide. When Carl Ross and Kate investigate the disappearances and find out knowledge of the Slender Man keeps it around, Carl tries to kill himself and Kate to stop the Slender Man, only for Kate to be taken and turned into the ravenous Chaser as part of its plans. Following Kate's friend Lauren as she uncovers the truth, she eventually jumps off a tower, only for it to try to keep her alive to continue its influence. In its messages, the Slender Man indicates it sees death and torment as a game to play on humans, and in a secret level displays this by burning a helpless victim alive before killing her.
- Marvel's Spider-Man: The City that Never Sleeps: Hammerhead is a sadistic Maggia don who yearns for the "good old days" where mobsters like him ruled New York City with an iron fist, and the police knew to look the other way. When Sable International leaves their technology behind after the Devil's Breath incident, Hammerhead arms his men with as much as he can find and tears up the streets of New York with a brutal gang war against the other crime families so he can seize power from them, attempting to have numerous civilians killed. When Spider-Man and his cop ally Yuri Watanabe attempt to stop him, he provokes Yuri into shooting him by killing numerous cops while stealing the dangerous Project Olympus armor before having other crime bosses slowly drowned in cement, trying to broadcast their deaths across the city. When that fails, he goes into hiding and has himself converted into a cyborg, forcing an Oscorp scientist into upgrading his men with cybernetic enhancement, not caring that some of his men would die due to the procedure. When he resurfaces, he tortures Silver Sable with a power drill until she gives him the most dangerous Sable Tech in her arsenal.
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan: The Quinking is the leader of the Quinkan with an contempt for all life, which he desires to kill or enslave. Prior to the events of the game, he has his forces invade the Dreaming, seeking to conquer it and kill all of the Bunyips. After being summoned to Southern Rivers by Boss Cass, he forces Cass to become his slave before sending his forces to invade Southern Rivers, destroying Buramudgee and turning the rest of the land into a hellish war zone in the process, so he can have them prepare for his arrival so he can destroy all life and enslave any survivors. When Ty returns and helps Bush Rescue fight back against the Quinkan, he attempts to have Hexaquin kill Ty. When this fails, he has his forces kidnap Shazza to use her as bait for Ty so the Dragonquin can kill him. After Ty acquires the Shadowrang and prepares to assault the Quinkan homeworld, he sends his forces to stop him, nearly killing Ty's friends in the process.
- The Wolf Among Us: The seemingly-benevolent Crooked Man is a ruthless crime boss and the major source of Fabletown's corruption. Controlling much of Fabletown's supply of glamour, the Crooked Man uses desperate citizens' needs to manipulate them into indebting themselves to him, at which point he forces them to repay him with outrageous prices, having them killed if they can't pay him back. The Crooked Man also runs the Puddin' N' Pie strip club, which is a front for his prostitution ring where the girls are forced to be sex workers under threat of decapitation by magical ribbons which also magically prevent them from speaking, using Georgie Porgie as a pimp, and forcing the beaten girls to work in his sweatshops. When Sheriff Bigby Wolf confronts him, the Crooked Man tries to pin everything on Georgie and tries to have Bigby killed. After being arrested, and ultimately found guilty, The Crooked Man attempts to throw Bigby down the Witching Well.
- Skullmaster overthrew his previous master and took control of his subterranean kingdom from where he plots world domination. Skullmaster is a sadist, reveling in physical and psychological torture, and engages in both short-term brutality and long-term gambits. One of his most vile acts was vowing to save an ancient civilization from sinking beneath the sea, lying about it and trapping their souls as his slaves, in the present sending them after Max's head, "attached to the body or not." Responsible for the deaths of multiple heroes throughout the story, Skullmaster even attempted to blackmail Max for his mentor and friend Virgil's life by surrendering his magical cap. When Max turned it over, Skullmaster brutally killed Virgil, killing Warmonger soon after.
- The New Adventures of Ocean Girl: Galiel is an alien sorcerer whose obsession with obtaining eternal life and ultimate power led him to steal one of the four magic crystals that sustain the planet Oceana. Using the crystal's power, Galiel spent the proceeding 2,000 years conquering and plundering worlds like Bandor, whose emperor he executed in front of the man's son, Prince Jobah. When his crystal's energy begins to wane, Galiel is reduced to a decrepit state, so he returns to Oceana to get the other three gems, opposed by the planet's prophesied chosen one, Princess Neri. In his quest to obtain the crystals, Galiel terrorizes the Oceanans with natural disasters, attempts to bomb the royal palace, and repeatedly possesses King Nemon to try and turn everyone against Neri. He also frequently tortures his two minions, Elgar and Moza, and is eventually revealed to be the one who destroyed the latter's home world, only sparing the infant Moza so that he could be raised to serve him. When Elgar takes one of the crystals for herself, Galiel seduces her into giving it to him, and uses it to rejuvenate himself before abandoning Elgar and setting off to get the remaining two crystals while laying waste to all of Oceana.
- Stargate Infinity: Commander Da'kyll of the Tlak'kahn Empire is the ruthless, bloodthirsty leader of the Warrior caste, known for his habit of turning his adversaries into living trophies in suspended animation while he works on finding a way to break their spirits and turn them into mindless servants. After orchestrating the massacre of Major Gus Bonner's old team, Da'kyll has him framed as a traitor to Stargate Command, and relentlessly pursues him and his new squad across the universe, intent on capturing Bonner's mysterious alien ally Draga, who Da'kyll is convinced is one of the Ancients. Da'kyll at one point takes a village hostage, and threatens to destroy it unless Bonner surrenders to him; when Bonner does give himself up, Da'kyll orders that the village be razed anyway before deciding that it would be more fun to let its inhabitants die slow deaths from an illness that is ravaging them. When the Mardan, one of the Tlak'kahns' Slave Races, help him capture the Stargate crew, Da'kyll destroys the team's cure for a plague that the Mardan are suffering from while noting that if the Mardan manage to survive the sickness on their own, they will have proven worthy enough to be used as Cannon Fodder. Da'kyll threatens soldiers who fail him with torture, murders his professional rivals, and frequently flouts the authority of the Nax'kan Council, who he intends to overthrow using the knowledge and power of the Ancients.
- Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron: Erzsebet Ondrushko is an evil countess based on the infamous Elizabeth Báthory. Consumed by her vanity and wishing to stay young and beautiful forever, Ondrushko sold her soul to Hecate, the Greek Goddess of Witches. In return, Hecate transformed Ondrushko into a vampire and gave her the power to rejuvenate her body if she bathes in the blood of young women; she is said to have murdered over a thousand people in her quest to remain young. Through a series of flashbacks, we see Ondrushko take over a dress shop, by murdering the shop owner and her infant child, to lure in and kidnap a young girl named Anna. Anna's fiancé gathers a rescue party, including a young Professor Broom, which goes to Ondrushko's castle, which is filled with torture devices and the bodies of young women. Finding Anna drained of blood, they kill her to prevent her from becoming a vampire as well. Ondrushko kills most of the rescue party, but Bloom manages to kill her. Though her body died, her evil spirit remained. Sixty years later, the BPRD is sent to investigate a supposed haunted mansion, which is in fact haunted by the souls of Ondrushko's many victims. Ondrushko's minions resurrect her and she bathes in the blood in the mansion's owner to rejuvenate herself.
Edited by ACW on Apr 29th 2019 at 2:22:14 PM
Movie syndrome has been Discussed recently. He got upvoted because many tropers realised the Orignal reasons he was cut didn't hold up.
What...what Evidence is there to Suggest Mia Is mentally Unstable Exaclty?
And, so is 13 Victims, 12 of whom she made kill themselves not enough to cross baseline?
I seriously don't think Ryuk Comparison is fair. Ryuk is an Ancient demon old as History who can kill people in any way that's physically possible if there Names in the book. Mia is a Human teenager with limited access to said book.
Edited by Kylotrope on Apr 28th 2019 at 3:18:54 AM
Things are really about to get Fun around hereNo to Mia. She valued the Death Note more than she valued Light, but I don't believe she didn't care for the latter at all considering she planned to make sure his death was negated and the aforementioned Single Tear
to Mia Sutton. She wanted to rule as a god with Light, but was afraid he was losing his nerve and that's why she resorted to betraying him, so she could finish his work and the two of them could be together.
Also
Syndrome, God it feels good to say that.
Edited by SumDumNerd on Apr 29th 2019 at 7:28:38 AM
Read Slender Man vs Siren Head 2: The Foundation hereI'll drop in to chime on Mia.
If you go by her actions without context, I easily would have believed that she counted. She certainly meets heinous standards, and threatening to kill Light for the notebook through her over the line. However, her reactions point toward that she genuinely wanted to let Light live, and that writing his name was an act of desperation. While it's twisted, her emotions suggest that she does genuinely care for Light in her own twisted way.
Contrast that with the original Light, who is shown to be a genuine psychopath who is just really good at pretending that he cares about people until it's time to throw them away.
Also, great that Syndrome has been finally added, as I too didn't think that his mitigating factors held up. And the villains from Cars 2 as well? Didn't like that movie but
to them anyway.
Jade Eyes 1 has (again) changed information on The Arkn Mythos without consulting us first. I removed his changes and invited him to submit his rewrites here. We'll see how this goes.
The thing about Her reactions, As said before its worth noting it's established Mia is a good actress and had been good at Manipuaitng Light for roughly half the film. No big differance is made between the Single Tear scene and every other scene in the movie.
and that's fine. I'm not Insulting you for voting one way. Just Paritcipting in the debate
Edited by Kylotrope on Apr 28th 2019 at 3:51:12 AM
Things are really about to get Fun around here

Mia Is never Implied to Be Mentally Unstable. And she was Clearly intelligent enough to make an Admittedly Smart plot
And I'm not seeing how she isn't bad enough. She has has a body Count involinvg 13 innocent people and made 12 of them kill themselves.
Edited by Kylotrope on Apr 28th 2019 at 2:35:30 AM
Things are really about to get Fun around here