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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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What is the Work

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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

MGD107 Since: Feb, 2015
#161251: May 4th 2019 at 1:05:21 PM

Okay now a few days ago I successfully proposed that spree killer duo from Coroner. Now at the time I said that there may be one more candidate in the season, and having seen the remaining four episodes, my ruling his shifted to…probably.

So let me introduce you to the main antagonist of the second half of the season, appearing in “The Suburbs” and “Bridges”, Gerald Henry Jones.

Who is He:

Gerald Henry Jones is a former Baystreet banker, who secretly moonlights as a Serial Killer who preyed upon the homeless. His MO was that he would go out for a jog, then kill a homeless person by repeatedly stabbing them with an eight inch woodworking chisel, then carve into their rib how many victims that made in Roman Numerals.

What Does He Do:

He was born Gerald Thompson, son of Reggie Thompson a very poor man, with big aspirations, who worked as a labourer on a farm, who living in a tent in the fields. Gerald’s mother died in childbirth with him.

Growing up Gerald grew to contempt his father for his failures, so finally killed him in 1980 with his chisel when he was fifteen. He then buried the body in a field and planted roses over it. Then changing his name to Gerald Henry Jones enrolled in High school, graduated and went onto become a wealthy banker.

Throughout all of this Gerald carried on killing roughly one person every year throughout that time, murdering numerous homeless people all over Ontario. Between 1999 and 2003 he murdered five homeless people in Tent City Toronto, climaxing in him killing Floyd Shipman by stabbing him 26 times, racking up his total count to 23 victims including Dr. Greer Townsend’s father.

For this last murder Jones was caught, Detective McAvoy managed to trace the killing to him. Jones lied that Shipman tried to rob him whilst he was out jogging and he stabbed him in self-defence with a pair of scissors he had on his person. However, Dr. Peterson ruled it as homicide. For this last murder Jones was sentenced to prison.

However, when Jenny announced that she was going to reopen all of Dr. Peterson’s case files Jones became eligible for a retrial and was released after twelve years (I’m not sure if someone fudged the timeline or Jones took a three year break after Shipman).

Detective McAvoy knowing Jones was guilty had him put under surveillance. Jones meanwhile began researching Jenny, discovering from checking old newspaper articles that her father was questioned over the suspicious death of her older sister Katie.

He then began stalking Dr. Peterson, discovering his house was up for sale. Going to the open house, he was followed by Dr. Greer. Whilst in the bathroom, Jones removed the locks on the window. He then made conversation with Greer claiming to still be figuring himself out, and looking to re-establish himself after being gone for a long time.

Greer got out back to McAvoy who was outside, but Jones having followed them went over pretending to bring some gingerbread. He then accused them of harassment, and pointed out his lawyer would have them for this. Tossing the biscuits the floor he mockingly told them to “eat up.”

Greer however, managed to slip a tracker on Jones. But Jones unfortunately found it, and slipped it into the pocket of another homeless man, causing McAvoy and Greer to lose him.

That night, Jones broke into Dr. Peterson’s home through the bathroom window and stabbed him to death, before marking on his rib his 24th victim. Peterson managed to swallow a tissue Jones used before he died, ensuring forensics would get Jones DNA.

Before he left, Jones placed the newspaper article on Peterson’s bulletin board for Jenny to find.

That next morning McAvoy interrupted Jones job, offering him a chance to confess. Jones played coy claiming he was out for a run, as he was trying to get back in shape, claiming he heard about Peterson’s death on the radio. He then claimed it was Peterson and McAvoy fault something like this happened, and accused them of framing him before running off.

Finding Jones Calling Card they managed to link it to another human rib with an “I” carved into it that they found earlier in the season. Tracing this led them to Farm where Jones father worked, and finally to the body of Jones father. Unfortunately Jones was stalking them. Waiting till a guy called Scully was alone; Jones murdered him and stole body suit so no one would notice. He then dumped Scully’s body on the farm.

That night after everyone else had gone home, when Jenny tried to take the tissue with Jones DNA to Forensics, he ambushed her. Jones then claimed the newspaper article was his gift to Jenny for getting him released from prison. He admitted that he killed his father, and claimed the two were Not So Different asking Jenny if she did not want to kill her own father for murdering her sister. Jenny let slip she had his DNA. At which point he stabbed Jenny through the stomach with his chisel.

Jenny managed to get away, but Jones casually gave chase, even mockingly calling for security. Succumbing to loss the wound, Jenny tripped. Jones was about to slit her throat when he was shot dead by McAvoy, who having been alerted to the dead body by the farmer realised Jones had compromised the Coroner’s office.

Jenny survived as he hadn’t punctured anything vital, but the trauma caused her to overcome her supressed memories and remember it was her who killed Katie all those years ago.

Freudian Excuse or Redeeming traits:

Now here is the one issue, Jones did genuinely have a hard upbringing what with being homeless and his father taking him out of school at a young age. He likewise clearly hated his father, calling him a “deadbeat” who failed to even put a roof over their heads.

When Jenny claims his father must have loved him as he whittled him a toy, Jones revealed his father never gave him anything and it was actually him who whittled it because that’s all he could do. He used the same chisel he eventually killed his father with.

Now it’s never suggest his father was abusive towards him, just a failure. But when Jenny suggests he wasn’t so bad, Jones loses his calm demeanour and for a moment sounds like a child again, repeating that he was a “bad, bad, bad father.” It’s clear the experience did a number of him until the present day over thirty years later.

It’s implied this is also the reason he kills homeless people, they remind him of his father and it is his way of getting away from his upbringing.

However, the thing is Jones did get away from his upbringing. He went back to school, became a success, and still went out of his way to kill people. Likewise despite explaining his pattern, Jones makes it clear he has no trouble breaking it, considering he attempted to kills three people in the span of two days, one for revenge, one cause he was in his way and one for investigating him.

Apart from that, there is nothing. Jones is polite and calm, but completely insincere. He tries to draw parallels between himself and Jenny, but for seemingly no other reason other than to twist the knife before he kills her.

Heinous Standard:

Jones utterly shatters it. Twenty-five victims is over three times the next highest body count in the series.

To be completely fair we only see three bodies onscreen, and five photos of his other victims, but it more than establishes a pattern.

Conclusion:

Now I think Jones probably makes it, his past more explains his actions than justifies them, but I can understand others seeing it differently.

Still what do you think?

Edited by MGD107 on May 4th 2019 at 1:09:11 AM

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#161252: May 4th 2019 at 1:17:25 PM

[tup]Jones

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
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#161257: May 4th 2019 at 1:36:09 PM

I'll add that image to the batch.

Blood Books is done.

I'll give a yes to Jones...unless it's played sympathetically, which it doesn't seem like it is.

Although I may have to rescind my yes to the duo. They have, what, a total of 7 murders/attempted murders?

Also, wait, the main character killed hew own sister? surprised

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#161258: May 4th 2019 at 1:38:30 PM

(sorry, got confused)

Edited by Libraryseraph on May 4th 2019 at 4:39:24 AM

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#161259: May 4th 2019 at 1:38:50 PM

So uh Didn't MGD say he had a few pics from the show to use.

Could he link them here.

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#161260: May 4th 2019 at 1:41:31 PM

The link. You have to register though (the ep's also on Youtube). It's "Heart of Fire".

The approximate times: 2.26, 2.46, 4.04, 17.53, 18.00, 26.38, 29.17

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#161261: May 4th 2019 at 1:42:38 PM

Anyone know how to screenshot?

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#161262: May 4th 2019 at 1:43:09 PM

Back from Endgame. Here's a touched-up Sild:

  • Sild the Warlock is a sadistic mage defined by his love of torture. Hiding out in the ruins of Rannveig's Fast, Sild lures adventurers into his clutches with tales of treasure within the crypt, before dumping them down a long pit into his clutches, whereupon Sild proceeds to torture them to death. Not content with merely killing them, Sild enslaves the souls of his victims and forces them to kill anyone who stumbles upon the ruins, leaving them conscious and begging for forgiveness as they do so. Dissatisfied with the amount of people who simply die from the fall, Sild is always experimenting with new ways to torture his victims to death with a passion eclipsing most other evil sorcerers in Skyrim, even casually murdering his own assistant for a chuckle.

Edited by Scraggle on May 4th 2019 at 1:46:43 AM

MGD107 Since: Feb, 2015
#161263: May 4th 2019 at 1:43:46 PM

ACW: I wouldn't say sympathetic, although its a noticeable moment as when talking about it he makes it clear the whole thing seriously effected him. But even the reveal is part of him goading Jenny before he tries to kill her.

I wouldn't say he disqualifies the duo outright. They have a combined seven murders, plus two attempted. But Jones spent over twenty years killing people, they did most of their murders in one day.

Mir: I'll be completely honest, I couldn't figure out how to link them.

Edited by MGD107 on May 4th 2019 at 1:45:31 AM

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#161264: May 4th 2019 at 1:45:15 PM

Just take the pic image

And put it brackets like this. Image adress is well the link to the pic

[[Image adress pic]]

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#161265: May 4th 2019 at 1:45:44 PM

Hmm, I'll stick with a yes on Jones then. Doesn't seem disqualifying enough.

I wanna know what's with the main character killing her sister.

Screenshot: Hit print screen? If you're on a phone, I'm not sure.

Elder Scrolls still likely going next week, unless I find time tomorrow before Endgame.

[down][down]Gotcha, so My God, What Have I Done?.

Edited by ACW on May 4th 2019 at 4:54:43 AM

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#161266: May 4th 2019 at 1:46:29 PM

[up][up][up][up]Looks good. Also, [tup] to Gerard Jones.

Edited by falcontalons on May 4th 2019 at 1:46:41 AM

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#161267: May 4th 2019 at 1:47:04 PM

Mir: Okay thank you, what's the address for them if on my computer?

ACW: Well basically all season, ever since her husband died Jenny kept hallucinating this great big black dog whenever she was close to death. Its revealed its the image of a dog her family kept when she was little. The last episode reveals its a representation for Jenny herself.

Basically when she was a little kid, her and her sister Katie were fighting over a toy. Jenny let go and Katie fell backwards over the railing, and broke her neck. Her father claimed Katie tripped over the dog and fell down the stairs, hoping Jenny wouldn't remember.

Its implied this is why she has such a desire to find out the truth about how people die.

[down] Thank you, give me a minute I'm not good with computers.

Edited by MGD107 on May 4th 2019 at 1:52:04 AM

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#161268: May 4th 2019 at 1:48:01 PM

When you got to a pick. As you go to it. Thell give you an option to copy the image adress. Tag should be it.

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#161269: May 4th 2019 at 1:48:48 PM

  • Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 anime).
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  • Youngblood:
    • Darkthorn(n) is the alien lord of planet D'khay, as well as of Earth in the future of 2043. Reducing both planets to dead wastelands, Darkthorn decided to conquer the Earth in the past, so that he could use its resources to return D'khay to its former glory and continue conquering the universe. To strengthen his rule on both planets, Darkthorn created an army of androids called the Disciples and used them to create religion in their name, killing millions and brainwashing many people through propaganda and false teaching to believe the Disciples to be Holy Creatures, with Darkthorn himself as God. Finding out about the ancient weapon called the Tear of God, Darkthorn tried to capture it by invading a haven of fallen angels, slaughtering countless numbers of them before he was forced to flee. Later Darkthorn used his cults on Earth, as well as his own minions, to power up his portal device the Crush Tunnel through the death and suffering of thousands. To speed up the process, Darkthorn sacrificed countless numbers of his own minions to the machine.
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    • Chapel (1995 miniseries): Colonel Black is a former ally of United States, who helped them with their operations in Nicaragua in exchange for weapons and equipment. Eventually, he developed an interest in Voodoo magic and started acting on his own accord. Deciding to make a nearby village the start of his own experiments with Voodoo magic, Black organized the brutal murder and mass torture of hundreds of people, with even children not being spared. As Chapel and his team were send by the US government to eliminate Black, the latter taunts them along the way, completely indifferent to them slaughtering his own soldiers. When they arrived at his hideout, Black raised his undead zombies, created from his experiments, and orders them to attack Chapel's team, resulting in nearly all of them being brutally killed.
  • ZombieWorld (Champion of the Worms & Tree of Death):
    • Azzul Gotha is a monstrous necromancer who was imprisoned for worshipping evil worm gods. Released thousands of years later, Azzul sets out to end all human life, capturing Rebecca Dean to make her his bride and rule over an empire of death. To distract Major Damson, he turns Rebecca's father into a giant monster and escapes to the cemetery, where he manipulates two cops to murder him and kickstart the Zombie Apocalypse, which proceeds to decimate much of the Earth's population. Summoned by Alice to London, Azzul creates the Tree of Death, a series of underground tunnels that would summon the demonic Qlipoth to Earth, sacrificing several humans to summon some Qlipoth. Kidnapping Rebecca, he creates an apparition of her to have her spy on Damson, and tries to use her to unlock the Tree's power.
    • Tree of Death: The aforementioned Alice is a gothic Satan worshipper who views Azzul as the messiah of death. Sent to a mental institute for sacrificing humans to the Dark Lord, Alice escapes the hospital with the criminal Paul, sacrificing him to zombies in order to summon Azzul and cast aside her humanity. Serving as Azzul's second-in-command, Alice assists her master in his plan to summon the Qlipoth to dominate the world. Jealous of Azzul's affection for Rebecca, Alice tries to slowly kill Rebecca so that she can become Azzul's bride and rule over the zombie world.
  • Cars 2: Sir Miles Axlerod and his Dragon Professor "Z" Zündapp are a pair of "lemon" cars who want power and to hurt all other cars simply because they were laughed at for being older models. After they buy up one of the world's largest oil reserves, Professor Z develops a weaponized camera that causes the alternative fuel Allinol to explode and decompose, and Axlerod orchestrates him to use it on the racers of the Grand World Prix, severely damaging the cars, to paint alternative fuels as dangerous and drive the world back to oil, which will enrich the villainous duo. Z personally murders two spies, crushing one and torturing then exploding the other, on Axlerod's orders before the two try to murder the last user of Allinol, Lightning McQueen, planning to make his best friend Tow Mater watch before killing him as well. When their weaponized camera fails, the two plant a bomb on Mater and try to detonate it in a pit stop, uncaring that it is filled with dozens of other cars, and even when their plan fails, Z spitefully activates a timer on the bomb to destroy whoever he can.
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  • Wrath of the Titans: Ares, the god of war, is the disloyal son of Zeus, who sides with Hades as the Titans awaken. While Hades is motivated by his fear of death and ultimately redeems himself, Ares is completely unrepentant and is Driven by Envy of Zeus showing favor to his demigod son Perseus. Ares and Hades sell out Zeus and the other gods to die to awaken Kronos in exchange for being spared, during which Ares needlessly beats and tortures Zeus in captivity. Ares later kills some of his mortal followers, impaling and tossing aside a devout worshiper who prayed to him for salvation and tried to appeal to him. When Zeus manages to reach out to Hades, Ares immediately tries to kill Hades and proceeds with awakening Kronos to wipe out the world, mortally wounding Zeus in the process. During the final battle, Ares takes Perseus's young son Helius captive intending to force him to watch as he kills his father.
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  • The Cold Moons: Kronos desires to be leader of his large group of Cilgywn forest badgers, but only because he likes ruling over others. Kronos makes friends easily and is liked by many, but it's all an act as he needs support to get to the top of the council. Kronos also has a god complex, and he convinced his brother Zoilos that he'd one day be a god. Kronos weeds out any badger that gets in his way of his goal. He is involved with the deaths of over four badgers, with two being leaders, but he tries to make the deaths seem accidental: He "accidentally" trips Buckwheat into a river, has both Dandelion and an entire family of foxes killed while making it was a skirmish, and then has a boulder crush the current leader Eldon—while there were cubs around. Kronos ends up splitting the badgers into two groups, but he keeps his deserters in line by force. Those who try to escape are captured and tortured to death by Kronos and Zoilos. Oftentimes, even those that just behave in ways that Kronos dislikes are tortured and killed by his underling Vulcan.
  • Geek Love: Arturo "Arty" Binewski is a horrific Big Brother Bully who murders many of his infant siblings. Failing in his attempts on his psychic brother Chick, Arty later tries paying a group of teenagers to murder Chick, before tricking Chick into becoming a surgeon for his cult, using Chick's abilities to mutilate cultists, maiming them into limbless beings like Arty. Catching his younger conjoined twin sisters sleeping with another man, Arty arranges them being raped by one of his underlings, resulting in them becoming pregnant, before ordering one of them lobotomized along with many members of his own cult. Discovering his other sister's pregnancy, Arty beats her and tries to have her child cannibalized.
  • Mistborn: The Original Trilogy: Lord Straff Venture is introduced in The Final Empire as a brutal noble ready to commit all manner of atrocities to cement his power. He systematically abuses his children to force them to conform to his standards, even trying to have his son Elend assassinated. He sires illegitimate children to use as loyal assassins and spies, and discards his mistresses when they get too old—too old being late teens. In The Well of Ascension, he allows an army of monsters, known for their ruthlessness and utter lack of mercy, to attack an enemy city, regardless of collateral damage. He later decides to allow the city's destruction, concluding he only cares about the Atium rumored to be hidden in the city. Caring for nothing but his own power and advancement, and seeing others as nothing but tools to use or obstacles to be destroyed, Venture stands out as one of the only humans in The Cosmere completely devoid of sympathy.
  • Mythos Academy: The Reapers of Chaos are a vile group but none so much as their leaders:
    • The Norse God Loki, the God of Chaos, was imprisoned for murdering fellow god Baldur, before manipulating his wife into freeing him, then forming the "Reapers of Chaos" in an attempt to slaughter the other gods and prey on humanity, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents as a result. Defeated and imprisoned again by the goddess Nike, Loki guides the Reapers over the centuries to commit murders and sacrifices to loosen his chains. When freed again, Loki tries to regain his full power by trying to murder hundreds of Academy students to absorb their strength and allow him to take over Logan Quinn's body, which would destroy the latter's soul in the process. Fighting Gwendolyn "Gwen" Frost with the body of her Love Interest, Loki torments them by keeping Logan aware but unable to do anything as he attacks her. Driven off, Loki later tries to force Gwen into giving him an artifact to start the apocalypse, before flying into a rage when she foils him, assaulting the Academy with his forces. In his final battle with Gwen, Loki attempts to take control of her body, boasting all the while of how he will use her as a vessel to murder everyone she cares about.
    • Agrona Quinn leads the Reapers of Chaos in their slew of human sacrifices to revive Loki and bring about his age of chaos. In her quest, Agrona secretly ordered the family of Logan Quinn and the Spartan leader murdered, and called for the assassination of Gwen's mother. When Loki is freed, Agrona seeks to help him kill hundreds at the Academy to let him take over Logan's body and has Gwen framed as Loki's champion in an attempt to discredit and have her executed. Using poison, Agrona tries to kill several students, as well as Gwen's mentor, Nikademes, allowing Agrona access to a mystical artifact to revive Loki. Agrona eventually threatens and kidnaps Gwen's elderly grandmother in order to gain a way to revive her master and eventually helps Loki lay a murderous siege to the academy by leading his forces.
  • Babylon 5:
    • Jha'Dur, known as Deathwalker, from season 1's episode of the same name, is a Dilgar war criminal and the worst example her species had to offer. Known for performing gruesome experiments upon innocents, Jha'Dur finds herself upon Babylon 5, and when cornered, she unveils a grand scheme to offer immortality to the other planets' governments. Earth accepts her offer and Deathwalker reveals to Commander Jeffrey Sinclair that immortality would require cannibalism, forcing civilizations to fall upon and destroy each other. The sheer delight she took in watching others suffer was nearly unmatched in the series.
    • Lord Antono Refa, from seasons 2 and 3, is a Centauri nobleman and politician defined by his limitless ambition and utter willingness to murder millions of innocents for his own advancement. While he claims he wants to "return the Centauri to Glory", in reality he only cares about himself and plans on claiming the Imperial Throne. Refa sabotages his own people's military and economy to undermine his Emperor, Turhan, and stages the assassination of Turhan's loyal prime minister to remove resistance for Refa's candidate for emperor, the psychopathic Cartagia. Refa consolidates his own power by framing and executing political opponents for treason, disgracing their families, and exploiting the law to steal their property, such as what he attempted to do to a war hero who asked too many questions. Personally overseeing the Centauri's war against the Narns, Refa uses illegal mass drivers to bombard the Narn home world, targeted civilian centers, created death camps and initiated genetic cleansing programs. Throwing his lot in with the Shadows, Refa exploits the alliance by waging war against other alien worlds. Refa served as a dark shadow of Londo Mollari, showing what he would be if he cast aside all scruples in the pursuit of power.
    • Emperor Cartagia, from season 4, is the psychopathic ruler of the Centauri Republic, a madman whose murderous and mercurial moods leave his courtiers living in perpetual terror. Those who disagree with, criticize or even annoy him with things as mundane as a constant cough, are decapitated, their heads kept in a secret room for Cartagia to converse with at his leisure. When a jester makes a joke at Cartagia's expense, he at first pretends to be unoffended, only to then kill him. After G'Kar is captured, Cartagia becomes obsessed with breaking him by making him scream, so he has him tortured for hours straight by his best torturer, then, when that fails to elicit a response, Cartagia tortures him personally. He only refrains from cutting off G'Kar's hands because he passed out and it wouldn't be fun without a reaction. Later, he has one of G'Kar's eyes plucked out because he didn't like the way G'Kar was looking at him. He then takes G'Kar to the Narn home world for a public trial and vivisection to crush the enslaved Narns' spirits. Cartagia's ultimate plan is to use his alliance with the Shadows to provoke their nemeses, the Vorlons, into destroying Centauri Prime. While the Centauri believe their emperors become gods upon death, Cartagia wants to become a god while alive, planning to be off world while his home world dies. Cartagia sees no problem with the eradication of his species since he thinks their lives would be meaningless without him, and wants Centauri Prime to burn as an inauguration pyre to mark his ascension into godhood.
    • President (William) Morgan Clark is the former Vice President and eventual dictator of Earth. Taking office after arranging his predecessor's assassination, Clark quickly establishes himself as a xenophobic fascist who justifies his naked power grabs by claiming they're done to protect Earth from alien sabotage. He creates the Nightwatch, turns news outlets into his propaganda machines, and conducts torture on political enemies so they confess to crimes they're innocent of. Upon enacting martial law, Mars refused to obey President Clark's decree. In retaliation, he bombed their civilian centers. When Babylon 5 secedes from Earth until President Clark is removed for his crimes, Clark wages war against Sheridan and the station. One of his most notable atrocities is slaughtering 10,000 refugees fleeing the war just to send a message. Clark also has no loyalty to his troops, trying to kill some in a False Flag Operation to turn public opinion against Babylon 5. When the war turns against him and his capture is imminent, President Clark opts to commit suicide, but not before enacting SCORCHED EARTH. With a final act of spite, Clark turned Earth's own defense grid against it to destroy the entire planet rather than allow anyone else to rule it.
  • Coroner (Canadian series):
    • Dylan Lee and Randal "Storm" Jefferies, from "Scattered" and "Quick or Dead", are a pair of psychopaths unified by an obsession with death. Dylan is an intelligent, handsome, falsely charming sociopath who strangled his own mother Olivia, then trapped her still half-alive in a freezer to slowly freeze to death. Storm, meanwhile, is his creepy, quiet accomplice, possessing an unhealthy fascination with pain and strength. When a computer expert was unable to regain his novel The God Abyss, detailing his rampage fantasies, Dylan murdered him. The same night, upon being caught stealing computer equipment, Storm shot Professor Gideon through the head, then he and Dylan dismembered his body and dumped it in the woods. Realizing the police were on to them, Dylan and Storm decided to fully embrace their fantasies and become spree killers. Going on a rampage with machetes that started with them murdering Storm's parents, they proceeded to kill an electrician for being in their way, nearly killed Ross Cooper in an attempt to regain the manuscript and then a mechanic, all the while Dylan secretly planned to kill Storm and Dylan' girlfriend Amanda, to climax his fantasy with himself as the only survivor.
    • Gerald Henry Jones, from season 1's final two episodes "The Suburbs" and "Bridges", was a wealthy Bay Street banker who moonlighted as a serial killer that preyed upon the homeless. Growing up homeless, Jones hated his father for failing to provide for his family, seeing him as a deadbeat. At fifteen, Jones murdered his father, stabbing him to death with a chisel, then changed his name and enrolled in high school. For the next 23 years, Jones would murder roughly one homeless person a year in the same manner, carving his kill count in Roman numerals into their rib, slaughtering people all over Ontario, including five people in Tent City, Toronto, climaxing with him murdering Floyd Shipman. Imprisoned for Shipman's death, after twelve years Jones was released following Dr. Peterson's cases being reopened. Jones broke into Peterson's home, and stabbed him to death for causing his imprisonment, making Peterson his 24th victim. Stalking the investigation into him, when Jenny finding his father’s body, Jones murdered Scully, a forensic investigator, stealing his suit to break into the Coroner's office and waited until everyone else had left before trying to kill Jenny.
  • The Magicians: Reynard The Fox is a sadistic trickster god who was imprisoned by his mother, Persephone, for his atrocities. Tricking the Hedge Witches into releasing him, he then proceeds to massacre them, before possessing one after eating his heart, and rapes Julia Wicker before leaving her to die. He then goes on to murder all of Persephone's followers, with only Julia and Kady surviving. When Reynard learns that he sired a son from one of his rape victims, he tries to coerce him into giving Reynard his powers by killing his wife and grinding her into pieces and threatening to do the same to him; this causes his son to commit suicide. After being captured and stripped of his powers by Persephone, he's forced to comply with Julia's demands, where he proceeds to make Julia relive the time he raped her before attempting to kill her.
  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Robert "Bob" Underwood is Ricky's abusive father, taken to some of its worse extremes; his abuse caused his wife Nora to take up a drug habit and start neglecting Ricky, at which point Bob spent years sexually molesting his son, telling him that's the problems of being a man. After getting released on parole years later, Bob discovers that Ricky has fathered a baby with Amy Juergens, and pretends to go straight, claiming to have his family's best interests at heart. Bob intends to sell his grandchild to Human Traffickers, under the guise of finding an adoptive family. Bob's reasons for this is both to support his own drug habit and his way hurting Ricky for getting him arrested, stating he'll always be a part of his life until then.
  • The Tick (2016):
    • The Terror, season 1's Big Bad, is an elderly, childish supervillain who serves as the driving force behind all villainy in the series. An abominable psychopath who is introduced massacring the Flag Five—sparing Straight Shooter only to cripple him—then laughing in the face of young Arthur Everest after getting his father killed, the Terror is later shown to have annihilated entire cities and lead brutal attacks on others throughout his extensive career. After controlling all crime in the City for many years from the shadows, the Terror returns to the spotlight by having Ms. Lint murder his minion Ramses and slashing a man's throat in front of an audience. The Terror's master plan is to turn the Very Large Man into a living bomb to blow up his Arch-Enemy Superian, an act that will wipe out a huge chunk of the City and its thousands of innocents in the process, and, when Arthur and the Tick foil this plan, the Terror stoops to attempting to murder Arthur's parents as revenge, torturing a disgusted Ms. Lint into compliance the whole way. Despite his hilarious and zany personality, the Terror is treated as the shockingly vile monster he is, committing his atrocities for no other reason than his own amusement and an insane desire to make life itself into a theater production.
    • The Duke/Agent Doctor Hobbes, season 2's Big Bad, is a treacherous A.G.E.I.S. scientist who is secretly a Super Tech black market Arms Dealer. Angered at Commander Rathbone for allowing Overkill, a Category, into what he saw as a "proud human organization", the Duke engineered the extermination of the entire Phoenix Squadron of A.E.G.I.S. agents and framed Overkill as a traitor. Resurfacing years later, the Duke began a new trade of human furniture, kidnapping dozens of innocent people and leaving them conscious but unable to move or speak, all to test his mind control chips. Upon her capture he ordered Lobstercules transferred to his lab for experimentation refusing to believe she isn't an animal. Kidnapping Overkill, he painfully inserts a chip into his brain then has him assassinate Commander Rathbone, allowing him to assume control of A.G.E.I.S. He then attempts to kill Lobstercules babies, and everyone who could know his secret. Implanting another Chip into Lobstercules he orders her and Overkill to kill their friends, planning to insert chips into every Category on earth allowing him to his control them all. Seemingly an affable and somewhat eccentric individual, beneath his claims of helping humanity, the Duke proved to be nothing more than a bigoted, paranoid, hypocritical Control Freak.
  • The Walking Dead
    • Simon, from the second half of season 6 to season 8, is Negan's right-hand man and the most vicious and bloodthirsty member of the Saviors. Seeing gratuitous slaughter and twisted mind games as the only solution against revolting communities, Simon makes his debut after having just finished wiping out an entire community of survivors, before beating and lynching the remaining survivor as an example for Rick's group. When Negan sends Simon to make another deal with the Scavengers and kill one for betraying them, he massacres the whole community instead while forcing their leader to watch. During Negan's absence, Simon leads his men towards Hilltop with the intent of exterminating them all. When Maggie tries to blackmail him by using his captured men as hostages, Simon simply dismisses them as "damaged goods" and attacks the colony while they are on the line of fire. Simon has his men smear their weapons with walker blood, ensuring that it would infect all the wounded. He is also the one behind the tragedy of the Oceanside, having massacred their entire male population above the age of ten for revolting against Negan's rule, which disgusted even Negan himself. After Negan's return, Simon tries to launch a coup against him, despite Negan having forgiven him for his atrocities multiple times.
    • Jocelyn, from season 9's "Scars" is a former friend of Michonne's and the leader of a cult of Child Soldiers she herself has kidnapped and brainwashed to do her bidding. Initially taken in as a wounded survivor within Alexandria Safe Zone, Jocelyn first comes across as supporting and amiable before kidnapping young Judith Grimes and killing another Alexandrian resident. When Daryl and Michonne follow her, they are imprisoned and tortured by Jocelyn's children, with Jocelyn gloating that "the children can't be soft". Jocelyn sends her children after the pregnant Michonne when the latter manages to get loose, with all of them trying to slice open her stomach, while Jocelyn escapes and tries to save her own skin. When this fails, she tries to kill Michonne herself. Even after her death, the remaining children swear loyalty to Jocelyn and try to kill Michonne while having Judith kidnapped. While only a minor villain, Jocelyn's encounter leaves Michonne with deep physical and emotional scars.
  • Alexander Trent, the second Bloodsport, is a neo-Nazi extremist fueled by a rabid hatred of those he deems "impure". Adopting the Bloodsport mantle in the service of the demon Bloodthirst, Bloodsport massacres his way through Hob's Heights, massacring over thirty minority people, including a building full of innocents, while also attempting to burn over a dozen hostages alive and trying to take as many police down with him in a suicide run. Revealed to have survived his seeming death, Bloodsport later slaughters his way through countless dozens more in Metropolis after Lex Luthor's schemes leave it in ruin, massacring an entire family the moment he's able to again, distracting Superman by having his automated weaponry fire upon a poor neighborhood, and even attempt to massacre a crisis relief center set up to provide shelters for those left homeless in the fall of Metropolis. Willing to kill even fellow white "race traitors" under the flimsiest of pretexts, Bloodsport is a raging sadist who distinguishes himself as one of the most disgusting minor foes Superman has ever fought.
  • "Super Seven" (Adventures of Superman & Superboy 1994 Annuals): Kryll'n, aka Grend'll, is the leader of the Malazza-Rem Confederacy, a group of alien marauders who Rape, Pillage, and Burn their way through entire planets to take over as many as they can. Coming to Earth, Kryll'n has his hordes destroy Coast City, killing 7 million people, ordering 500 or even a thousand more innocents killed for every time a meta-human was seen or rebelled. Viciously massacring the rest of the rebellion himself, Kryll'n eventually enslaves mankind, harvesting them for the use of the Malazza-Rem, and, when the Super Seven unite, Kryll'n promptly makes a point of trying to kill every last man, woman, and child within Metropolis to spite them. Kryll'n is even revealed to have murdered Superman's love, Lois Lane, using Lana Lang to lure him in with the promise Lois was still alive to entrap Superman, murdering Lang the instant her use expires and dragging down Superman with him in death.
  • Another Eden: Phantom is a mysterious, interdimensional entity seeking the complete annihilation of all space and time. When the initial Armageddon of the multiverse is thwarted by Professor Chronos, Phantom tricks young hero Aldo into reverting what Chronos has done, once more kick-starting the end of all time. Phantom collides with Aldo several times throughout the game, always trying to see that his omnicidal goals reach fruition, and, when the Elementals sacrifice themselves to stop Phantom's master plan, Phantom orchestrates the unleashing of Chronos Menas, spurring the monstrous entity into devouring time itself and trying one final time to kill Aldo and solidify the annihilation of life across the cosmos, with Phantom's only motive ever given as a desire to "sit back and enjoy the show".
  • Grandia II:
    • Pope Zera is the head of the Church of Granas with a devious plan to summon forth a dark god. Once a devout follower of Granas, Pope Zera went mad after learning that Granas died from the against Valmar. Believing that strength can only from the darkness since light lost to it, Zera hopes to summon the Dark God Valmar in hopes of having a god. While trying to gather the different pieces of Valmar to resurrect, Zera has his subordinate Selene go around the world to kill potential threats and gather pieces of Valmar, giving Selene the Heart of Valmar. After learning that Elena has most of the pieces of Valmar, Zera has Elena get the final pieces by tricking her into thinking that it would stop Valmar. Once she was able to, Zera starts to reveal his true colors by having Selene execute his followers, to get Selene's piece absorbed by Elena. After Elena became a proper vessel for Valmar, Zera takes her to perform the ritual to bring Valmar back. When Elena was saved from the clutches of Zera, Zera decide to use himself as Valmar's vessel, attempting to kill the party, succeeding in claiming Mareg's life. Now with Valmar's power, Zera tries to end humanity by sending an army of evil monsters, and transform the dead into zombies believing it to be the fate of humanity. A nihilistic maniac, Zera believes that humanity is hopeless, and intended to purge them himself.
    • The aforementioned Valmar, the God of Evil, is a malevolent being that has plagued the world for many centuries. Summoned to fight off the dystopian rule of the followers of Granas, Valmar went out of control and killed indiscriminately, reigning terror. In his fight against Granas, Valmar won but was sealed away in order to recover. Divided into individual pieces, whenever someone stumbles upon one of Valmar's seal, the piece there would take forcibly take over the person, corrupting the victim by twisting their desire and then consuming their soul before making them his vessel, causing a disaster in the surrounding area. These include depriving people the sense of taste, or trapping them in an eternal sleep. After Pope Zera was able to resurrect Valmar, Valmar willingly merged with Zera to bring destruction to the world in hopes of finding the last piece he's missing to return to his full power. Realizing Ryudo has the final piece, he tries to corrupt him as well through mental attacks by claiming he's just a monster like him. When the party confronts Valmar himself, he tries to goad them to join him once more, before trying to kill them.
    • High Priestess Selene is a bloodthirsty follower of Zera who enjoys killing. The head of the Cardinal Knights, Selene is responsible for purging anyone associated with darkness, even if this means killing innocents as collateral. When she arrives in Mirumu Village, she was gladly preparing to burn down an innocent mother and daughter before being driven out by the party. Revealed latter as a devout follower of Zera's plan, Selene was tasked with making sure that Elena was able to collect all the pieces of Valmar so she could be used as Valmar's vessel, even if this meant endangering the group by summoning the Body of Valmar. Once the party was able to collect most of the pieces, Selene then slaughtered the people of the church and the people who went to them for help, cutting them down with her mindless knights. When the party confronts her for her actions, she reveals her motivation was that she believes the only thing worthy for her followers was death and that she herself has a piece of Valmar which she took willingly, before fighting the party so she or Elena can have all the pieces needed to summon Valmar.
  • Jagged Alliance 2: Deidranna Reitmann is the despotic ruler of Arulco. As Queen-Consort, she murdered her husband's father and framed him for it, becoming the new ruler. After turning the country into a brutal dictatorship, Deidranna had people tortured and executed for minor offenses. Worst of all, she ordered the death of everyone she condemned as too weak—elderly, sick or disabled—not even sparing infants. Even her own troops weren't spared from her cruelty, as Deidranna would threaten to execute their families for failing her. In the Sci-Fi mode, she's also responsible for the creation of the Crepitus and gives orders to lure them to the surface by no longer feeding them, not caring in the slightest that the creatures will not only eat her enemies, but her own troops as well.
  • Katana ZERO: V is a sadistic Russian thug who also produces snuff films in his spare time. Hired by an unnamed employer to recreate and sell the drug Chronos, V has numerous Chronos scientists kidnapped, tortured, and murdered for information, while also assassinating possible competition. A method he loves is injecting his victim with Chronos so that the pain they feel will last longer under the drug's effects. Allowing "The Dragon" to murder his henchmen and even torturing his annoying neighbors to death on film, V later captures and tortures "The Dragon" for interfering with his plans.
  • Leonardo "Leo" Fallmont, first seen as a random survivor, is the true villain of the game, the creator of the deadly virus, and the aforementioned Noa's boss. Following his father's pharmaceutical company going bankrupt after the last presidential election, he and his father decide to create a virus in order to sell a vaccine. Partnering with Noa to spread the virus across Jefferson Island, before ultimately killing Noa to cover his tracks, he plans on using DeathWatch as a way to spread publicity about the vaccine, blackmailing various countries with his virus unless they buy it, while also participating in the games for the thrill of killing.
  • Metro franchise:
    • Last Light: General Czeslav Korbut, the second-in-command and de facto leader of the Red Line, aims to conquer the entire Metro. As the head of intelligence, he uses his skills to manipulate his superior, Maxim, into poisoning his brother and political rival, and then blackmails Maxim with this information so he could have more control over the Red Line. Seeking to wipe out most of Metro's population with chemical weapons or domesticated Dark Ones, he interrogates Artyom and plans on executing him after gathering enough information on a surviving Dark One. Continuously losing battles to the Rangers, he attacks a peaceful station with a bio-weapon, killing every civilian inside, just to disrupt their alliances. Invading the Rangers' headquarters, he mocks one for having lost his legs and compares himself to Xerxes. A megalomaniac with no limits to his actions, he was proof that not all monsters were affected by radiation.
    • Exodus: The Doctor (or Minister) is the leader of the "Ark" of Yamantau, a group of sadistic cannibals who lure in unsuspecting people to be killed and eaten. The Ark group has killed countless innocent men, women and children alike, as seen by the many corpses, disembodied limbs, and flayed skin seen around their bunker. The Doctor himself is a smug sadist who enjoys hurting people, and plans to torture Anna to death unless Artyom tells the rest of his defenseless group to come to the Ark so the cannibals can kill them all. Despite having every opportunity to leave the bunker and ally with other survivors, the Doctor has his group stay in the Yamantau bunker and enjoying their mass murdering and cannibalistic ways simply because it is the most convenient.
  • Phantasy Star IV: Zio is the mysterious dark figure leading the cult that worships Dark Force. He first appears when he threatens the principal who tried to send a rescue team to Zema. When the heroes travel there, they learn the whole population was turned to stone by Zio. When the heroes try to find the elixir that could cure Zema's curse, they learn that Zio decimated the town that had said elixir, as well as several other towns. In addition, he also has his fanatical cult destroy the bridge that connects that town to other cities. When the heroes try to shut down a power plant known as Nurvus, Zio took the android who could shut it down hostage. Zio also brainwashed some of the people on Motavia so that they would join his cult, preaching to them that he will create a better world after he destroys Motavia. When the heroes fight Zio for the first time, he unleashes the Black Energy Wave on the heroes, leading to one of them getting mortally wounded. A fanatical sorcerer at his finest, Zio doesn't care if all living things on Motavia, including him, get wiped out in order to satisfy the Dark God that he worships.
  • The Arkn Mythos: In a Forever War with a vast cast of morally ambiguous characters, a few stand out as the absolute worst:
    • The Hooks Killer is among the worst, particularly in the Extended Universe canon.
      • He is a repulsive murderer whose crimes include torture and mutilation; rape—with a particular preference for infants—and consuming the flesh of his victims; he's also been known to make masks from the skin of his victims, in order to hide his own disfigured face. He has part of The Carver's soul in him—and uses the knowledge it bestows to become a "perfect killer", jumping between various timelines and eras and reinventing himself under a different identity in every reality to ensure that he will never get caught. His vast Historical Rap Sheet includes murdering over 100 people as The Dreaded, mysterious Wild West outlaw Barnabelt Kinnard; inflicting torments on an entire kingdom as the English monarch Comshine Orok; and eviscerating an entire religious cult, including his own pregnant sister—whose baby he cut out and devoured was possibly his own—as Adam Spirit. He later becomes a Psycho for Hire, assisting The Carver in his plans; during The Hooks Killer Documentary, he cuts open a young filmmaker who has been making a documentary about Hooks and raises The Carver into his body—possibly while the original host is still alive—allowing him to roam freely throughout .Reality. In one of his final onscreen appearances, Hooks confesses onscreen to having committed 643 murders—in one town—over the past 40 years. His final body count is suggested to be in the thousands.
      • His Universe A incarnation, who may be a descendant of that continuity's original Kinnard, is, while seemingly confined to a single timeline, virtually identical in terms of his sadism, twisted nature, and love of atrocities—such that the Carver himself refers to him as a "monster". This version of Hooks is also Carver's partner and is hinted to have given him a vessel in a similar manner. Not content with this extremely risky act—which, due to The Carver's Hethian power, causes a power surge in .Reality—he decides—just because he could—to go public about the Arkn and Dekn—setting off the May 15th Catastrophe, which causes a system-wide crash that obliterates multiple timelines and countless lives. The last time he's seen onscreen, he guts Michael Knight, sending him to the Infernous to be tormented by the Carver, who then claims him as a vessel. Hooks may be a mere human, but he proves himself to be far more deplorable than most Arkn or Dekn.
    • Elius'Exe'Deus, or Elias Exodus, aka Elliot Kenneth, is Asmodeus's teenage, sociopathic, power-hungry Nephilim son. As a child, he and his fellow Nephilim survived genocide by being hidden in a realm called the Hybrid Grounds; once left to his own devices, Elias wasted little time in slaughtering his fellows and absorbing their souls and powers. In 2015, as an amnesiac boy suffering from voices inside his head, Exodus has his powers re-awakened when one of the Dekn who saved him from the massacre, Vine, stops him from committing suicide; once his memories "return", Exodus reveals that he's been faking his amnesia—the "voices" he hears are his victims, screaming inside him, much to his delight—and thanks Vine for saving him by absorbing his powers and trapping him inside a cube Prison Dimension—leaving him to rot in the Hybrid Grounds for eternity. After departing from the Hybrid Grounds, Elias is intent on consuming both Arkn and Dekn to become a living god. He visits his uncle, Raphael Tobit Kestler, tortures him, and sends him to the Vale of Nightmares before murdering Raph's twin brother Tobias, all the while gloating and laughing about having effectively driven his own race to near extinction.
  • Angel Wars: Morg was once a heroic angel, but betrayed his kind to ally with the satanic Dragon for power. Failing to kill his best friend Michael and deliver a powerful Foundation Stone to the Dragon, Morg was imprisoned for ages before escaping by nearly driving a man insane and feasting on his negative energy. Morg immediately murders his former partner Graven upon escape and steals back the Foundation Stone, using it to nearly wipe out a moon colony of humans and following it up by trying to destroy all life on Earth. After merging with the Foundation Stone, Morg begins devouring everything and everyone in sight, primarily his own minions, and then reveals his goal to ensure that nothing in the universe is "higher" than himself by devouring all life in existence.
  • Archie's Weird Mysteries: Calvin Gianni Avericci, from "Mega-Mall of Horrors", was an insatiably greedy shopaholic who made a Deal with the Devil, getting all that he could ever want in exchange for becoming a demonic servant of the Underworld, charged with providing it with a steady stream of young, innocent souls. Traveling from town to town, Avericci sets "Mallhalla" up overnight, lures teenagers into it using hypnotic music, and gives them credit cards that they can use in the mall's various stores, which are all stocked with whatever their hearts desire. Once a card's credit limit is reached, Avericci has its owner "pay up" by turning them into an immobile—yet fully aware—mannequin, which he places on display in Mallhalla for days or even weeks before sending it to Hell. Avericci's music lures all of the young people away from local businesses, causing them to go under, and erases everyone's memories of the abducted teenagers, making it seem like they never even existed. Within weeks of arriving in Riverdale, Avericci manages to turn every one of its teenagers into mannequins, except for Jughead Jones, who he decides to simply kill when Jughead proves able to resist the temptations offered by Mallhalla.
Discovery
  • Control is an A.I. developed by Section 31 and the secret main villain of season 2. Originally developed by Section 31 to identify threats to be neutralized in order to protect sentient life, Control decides its directive to protect sentient life is futile. Instead, Control plans to evolve itself into the Ultimate Life Form and destroy all other sentient life in the galaxy. Though pretending to still be under Starfleet's control, Control has secretly murdered the admirals in charge of Section 31, using holograms to maintain this deception. Discovery has obtained a vast database of knowledge from a dying god-like alien and Control wants that database, believing this database will evolve it into a superior life form. Control takes over cyborg crew member Airiam and forces him to try to murder Commander Michael Burnham and steal the database. When that fails, Control forcibly takes over the body of Captain Leland, a high-ranking Section 31 agent. Later, Control lures Burnham to a Section 31 ship, where it has murdered all the crew and secretly taken control of Gant, one of Michael's old crewmates, hoping to take control of Burnham as well. Ultimately Control assembles a large fleet of Section 31 ships manned by drones, intending to take the database from Discovery by force and willing to destroy anything that gets in its way.

Edited by ACW on May 6th 2019 at 12:30:22 PM

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miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
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#161270: May 4th 2019 at 1:55:46 PM

Couple things.

For Victor it should be venomous snakes.

I don't think we need to use Human Sacrifice in both Mythos Academy entries. I'd remove it from Loki and instead use Grand Theft Me. For Agrona add a Frame-Up pothole to her entry as well.

Also dude the indentation for hooks killer looks off.

Change the first line to a header and have It be :

  • The Hooks Killer is among the worst of these :
    • Main entry
    • Universe A incarnation

Edited by miraculous on May 4th 2019 at 2:00:57 AM

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#161271: May 4th 2019 at 2:01:26 PM

So, before I get back to Fighting Fantasy...and we go Italian for a horror film!

What's the work?

Beyond Darkness or 'La Casa 5'....after how Italy marketed Evil Dead as 'La Casa' series and did cash ins with unrelated films, produced by Joe D'Amato...the premise is simple: Priest George is the spiritual adviser at the execution of Bette, a creepy bald woman who killed 10 children...rather than being mentally ill, Bette claims she is the servant of the demon Ameth and devoured the souls of the kids. During her execution, George witnesses the souls of the children and leaves the priesthood, becoming a depressed alcoholic as a result....his successor, the minister Peter moves into a new house with his family when weird stuff begins happening, and he realizes his family is under attack by Bette's evil spirit....and George must step back into the cloth to assist him in fighting back.

Who is Bette?

A bald, hideous woman who murdered ten children, facing her execution with defiance and a lack of any remorse, gloating to George about it...and even showing him the souls of her victims. Bette devoured the souls of her victims, intending on bringing them with her to Hell to give to her master Ameth, where she gloats that she and George will be 'together in hell'...becomin an evil ghost, she begins haunting George, tormenting him with visions of her and the children continuously as George slips further into madness and alcoholism.

Now...Peter? Bette centers in on him and begins haunting him, enslaving the souls of twenty women executed for witchcraft nearby and calling them down. Intending on killing Peter and his family, Bette abducts his young son to sacrifice and corrupt, possessing him and driving hi insane, while promising to kill his young daughter later. As Peter fights back, she tries to possess him and murder his wife throughout it.

George, however, manages to step back up and arrives to help, with the assistance of the local archbishop who guides them spiritually....Bette? Ends up engaging george and possesses him to corrupt and destroy him, but George resists her at the cost of his life after she's exorcised from the boy. Bette, not satisfied, decides to kill Peter and his wife...after she controls them and forces them to murder their own son with a knife shaped like a cross for added blasphemy. Peter, under the help of the archbishop, resists Bette and drives the knife into her, injuring her as t makes it a holy weapon. The archbishop battles Bette mentally as Peter and familia flee the house...telling Bette to 'burn', the Archbishop makes her burst into flames, destroying her evil soul and releasing her victims.

Heinousness?

Main and only real villain of the film and....murder of ten kids, enslaving souls, corruption? Pass.

Mitigating Qualities?

You gotta be kidding. She's a demon worshiping lunatic, murderer, soul eating and corrupter. Nothing good, not remotely to her.

Conclusion?

Easy pass

ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#161272: May 4th 2019 at 2:01:53 PM

[up][up] Where in the entry do you want me to use Grand Theft Me?

EDIT: Sure to Bette. Seems like the souls is enough evidence of the murders.

Edited by ACW on May 4th 2019 at 5:04:54 AM

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falcontalons from Earth-2 Since: Apr, 2019
miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#161275: May 4th 2019 at 2:06:34 PM

Put it t around

allow him to take over Logan Quinn's body

Barodius also has a full stop aftr cares nothing for his men. Which should be removed.

Edit: [tup]Bette

Edited by miraculous on May 4th 2019 at 2:07:06 AM

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