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

Specific issues include:

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

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

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

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Complete Monster Cleanup Thread

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

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

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

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

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

What is the Work

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

Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?

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

Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?

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

Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?

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

Final Verdict?

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

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

SkyCat32 The Draftsman of Doom (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
The Draftsman of Doom
#172501: Jul 14th 2019 at 10:16:24 AM

Lemme guess, being The Sociopath is a prerequisite to being a Complete Monster.

PolarPhantom Since: Jun, 2012
#172502: Jul 14th 2019 at 10:18:50 AM

Not necessarily, but it's so common as to be pointless to pothole unless it's really important somehow.

AustinDR Lizzid people! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Lizzid people!
#172503: Jul 14th 2019 at 10:22:24 AM

While a majority of CMs are sociopaths, that alone is not an automatic qualifier. They have to stand out as heinous enough by the standards.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#172504: Jul 14th 2019 at 10:31:27 AM

Put it this way: Not all sociopaths are CM's, but pretty much all CM's are sociopaths (to some degree).

Also, I gotta have all the Pied Piper incarnations potholed to The Pied Piper of Hamelin. We got how many incarnations? Ghostbusters, Sleepy Hollow, King Rat, Fables?

SkyCat32 The Draftsman of Doom (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
The Draftsman of Doom
#172505: Jul 14th 2019 at 10:45:12 AM

Similarly, I usually save the potholes for Big Bad and The Dragon for the part of the entry which mentions their role in the heirarchy, rather than potholing their names as Big Bad and The Dragon.

Hypothetical Examples:

As opposed to potholing their names as Big Bad and The Dragon, respectively

VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#172506: Jul 14th 2019 at 11:16:27 AM

After watching a playthrough of the first Front Mission, i noticed that the writeup for Driscoll doesn't mentions his actual goals and gets few facts wrong, like his scheme to create a perfect mechs are not just to "link and trap" people's brains in the Mecha, but to remove the brain entirely and "install" it in the Mecha as computer.

So, here is my proposed rewrite:

Front Mission: Driscoll from the first game is a USN captain, who in reality working for Republic of Zaftra, in the hopes of making it the most powerful government on Earth. Forcing Koichi Sakata, the President of Sakata Industries, to work for him under threats of death, Driscoll has company develop and produce the most powerful Wanzers called "B-Type" and "S-Type Devices" by kidnapping the most experienced soldiers from both USN and OCU armies and removing their brains to use them as computers for these Mechs. When an OCU reconnaissance unit led by Royd Clive was sent to investigate a USN munitions factory in the Larcus District, which in reality was one of B-Device research facility, Driscoll destroyed it, to hide any trace of inhumane experiments, which started a bloody war between USN and OCU. Capturing Royd Clive's fiancee Karen during this incident, Driscoll removed her brain and used it for his own Mecha "Raven", taunting Royd about this when they fought several years later.

Edited by VeryVileVillian on Jul 14th 2019 at 9:18:16 PM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#172507: Jul 14th 2019 at 11:22:46 AM

I'm not sure Driscoll ever got a full effortpost.

Pied Piper:

  • King Rat: The Pied Piper of Hamelin is reimagined as a terrifying Humanoid Abomination and a psychopathic narcissist who forced a holocaust onto the sapient rats of Hamelin, drowning millions and deposing King Rat of his position. Utterly enraged that Saul, the hybrid son of King Rat, is able to resist his songs through which he controls his victims, the Piper hunts him down relentlessly while casually slaughtering countless people in horrifying, brutal ways, including tying Saul's friend into the path of an oncoming train and brutally murdering a homeless woman Saul befriends simply to hurt him. Enslaving Saul's other friend to use the music of Drum & Bass to control all he can, the Piper is revealed at the end to have spirited away the hundreds of children of Hamelin into his domain into eternal torment, merely to get back at the rulers of Hamelin for refusing to pay him. A demented, strutting sadist aptly described as the "spirit of narcissism", the Piper is a creature of horrifying dominance and rage under his transparent human veneer.
  • The Pied Piper, from season 2's "Go Where I Send Thee", is an extremely sinister demon who is known for mass slaughter of soldiers and for what it does with children. Each generation, the Piper preys on a daughter of a specific family; the child, when she turns 10, is kidnapped and taken to the Piper's lair to await her fate, which is usually her bones being made into the Piper's instruments. What's worse, however, is what happens when the girl is rescued. Out of nothing but spite, the Piper proceeds to infect all the girl's siblings with a fatal illness to force the parents to either return the chosen girl to the Piper or watch their other children die. While the Piper was betrayed by his employer, his Revenge by Proxy far outweighs this excuse; considering he seemed to enjoy killing and made a Deal with the Devil beforehand, he was psychotic from the start. Even in Sleepy Hollow, the Piper remains one of the worst Ichabod and Abbie have ever faced.
  • The ectoplasmic being known only as "Piper", from "The Pied Piper of Manhattan," initially seems a savior to New York City when introduced, as his pipe has the ability to repel ghosts even the Ghostbusters are powerless against. Piper soon reveals his true colors, however: he is the one responsible for the sudden plague of ghosts, and when the Mayor attempts to pay him according to contract, Piper reveals he wants more. After his requests for a statue of himself down 5th Avenue and an office in city hall are denied, Piper uses his flute to hypnotize the children of the city and tries to force them to drown themselves, gloating that the mayor will "rue the day he refused to pay the Piper." When the Ghostbusters intervene, Piper has no compunction using the kids as human shields in the ensuing fight.

Edited by ACW on Jul 14th 2019 at 2:23:17 PM

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#172508: Jul 14th 2019 at 11:24:21 AM

I wrote up Driscoll back then. Easy keeper, though apparently I got a few detail wrong from memory. In favor. Yes to Sirius, too.

Can someone PM Cyber XII too? Guydot has been pending for far too long.

Edited by Lightysnake on Jul 14th 2019 at 11:24:46 AM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#172509: Jul 14th 2019 at 11:25:39 AM

VVV, please add to the Drafts. Looks like it's 60 PLUS the Neverkind stuff. Funny thing is, a LOT of those are de-potholings and removal of The Sociopath.

Edited by ACW on Jul 14th 2019 at 2:28:35 PM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#172510: Jul 14th 2019 at 12:57:22 PM

  • Markov from Marry Grave.
  • Emperor Basam Damdu from Blake and Mortimer: "The Secret of the Swordfish".
  • Death Adder from Golden Axe: The Duel.
  • Wrecking Paul from Everyday Heroes: 1, 2.
  • Linebarrels of Iron: Riku Ousei is a sociopathic member of the Katou Organization. While most other members have at least some redeeming qualities, Ousei delights in blowing people up from orbit with a Kill Sat just to make a point about his twisted concept of imagination, and he is ready and willing to kill off a couple of innocent bystanders just to taunt Koichi and drive him into a rage. After doing that, he was going to repeat the atrocity, this time targeting Koichi's Unlucky Childhood Friend Risako.
  • MW: Michio Yuki is a manipulative blackmailer, bisexual rapist, kidnapper, and murderer. In one chapter, he seduces and kills, for sexual thrills, the daughter of the president of the bank he works at, fakes her kidnapping, anonymously extorts ransom money from her parents, then robs her father's bank and pins the robbery on the dead girl by impersonating her, finally killing her father by making him lose his grip on a precipice by throwing lit matches into his mouth. His crowning achievement is stealing a classified military neurotoxin, the titular MW, and trying to slaughter as many people as he can with it as vengeance for his own mortality.
  • Occult Academy: Mikaze Nakagawa appears sweet and kindhearted, but is actually a black mage with a penchant for seduction and a desire to open a gate to Hell and obliterate the world. Disguised as a chef at a curry eatery with no apparent connection to the occult, Mikaze attempted to murder then-principal of Waldstein Academy Jun'ichiro to remove him as a threat to her own designs, and targeted his daughter Maya shortly after apparently killing him. Mikaze is responsible for the periodic monster attacks that have led to numerous deaths, and directly seduces time agent Fumiaki into doing her bidding. After exposing her true nature, Mikaze paralyzes Fumiaki after he wears out his use and promises to give him a torturous death, and utilizes her cult of brainwashed innocents to try and kill Maya and her friends, succeeding in murdering vice principal Chihiro and nearly attaining her goal of unleashing Hell upon the world. Mikaze was a manipulative sociopath with a wide sadistic streak with no reservation about murdering anyone who got in the way of her omnicidal plans.
  • Riki-Oh: Mizuguchi Kikuya, from Volumes 6 and 7, is the cannibalistic, sociopathic Yakuza leader of the Mizughi Gang, and a servant of Mukai. Originally tasked by Mukai with discovering the origins of Saiga Riki-Oh in exchange for power, Mizuguchi murdered Riki's adoptive father and drove his family into bankruptcy. Under Hina's orders, Mizuguchi gathered over 10,000 of the homeless following the earthquakes and fed them all poison, ordering his own men to burn the corpses and any possible survivors regardless of age. Holding Iwato's young daughter hostage for his servitude, he manipulates her into loving him, hoping to rape her when she turns 15. Capturing Riki and planning to eat him, after Mizuguchi is tortured by Aneyama and promises to kill Riki, Mizuguchi taunts Riki with the deaths of his friends and family, hoping to overtake Aneyama as Mukai's new second-in-command and gain even more power.
  • Tenjho Tenge: Sohaku Kago is a power-hungry sociopath who delights in ruining people's lives. Two of his favorite pastimes are engaging in Cold-Blooded Torture and watching one of his subordinates Mind Control helpless victims into fighting and killing each other. He has spent hundreds of years spreading his influence in order to manipulate, use, or kill hundreds of powerful martial artists as well as all the people around them. A few years before the beginning of the story, he experimented on his wife, using her Power Parasite abilities to steal the abilities—and in most cases, lives—of the most powerful martial artists in Japan, before judging her too weak, cutting off her arm, and ripping out her eye, which contained the powers she had collected and giving it to his henchman. In the present, he sets his full plan into motion, indirectly Mind Raping his son, Souichiro, who has the same powers as his ex-wife, into letting his powers turn him into a god-like being whose only purpose is to go on a rampage, killing any powerful martial artists it comes across and stealing their powers. Once this happens, his son goes around the world, killing thousands of people, just as Sohaku planned, before his friends can stop him.
  • Tokyo Mew Mew: The anime version of Deep Blue forsakes the good intentions of his manga counterpart and becomes a cold, self-concerned sociopath. The leader of the aliens who come to reclaim Earth, Deep Blue creates a human alias named Masaya to stay hidden and oversees his flunkies' attacks. In the climax of the series, Deep Blue overtakes Masaya, and the very first thing he does upon awakening is stoically torture his former identity's Love Interest, Ichigo, with electrical energy, unleashing a burst of energy that obliterates the nearby city. Deep Blue kills anybody who gets in his way, not excepting his own loyal servants, and is interested solely in wiping out all humanity so that he can have Earth to himself. Deep Blue's callous nature ends up turning even his own servants against him, and he shows himself to be thoroughly exempt of any humanizing traits that flesh out the other villains of the show.
  • Blake and Mortimer: Emperor Basam Damdu, from "The Secret of the Swordfish", is the head of the Yellow Empire. After claiming that he wanted peace, he attacked the free world, bombing several capitals in order to break the free world's minds, successfully taking over the world. When La Résistance starts fighting back, Basam Damdu and his Great Council put the blame on Olrik, subtly threatening him and telling him to force Mortimer to reveal the Swordfish's plans in two days, or he will send someone to torture Mortimer. When the resistance is slowly winning, Basam Damdu launches all of his empire's nuclear arsenal, attempting to destroy the world out of spite. A selfish, uncaring man who didn't care even for his own empire, Basam Damdu was among the first, and among the worst, of the comic's villains.
  • Dick Tracy:
    • Pruneface is a Nazi saboteur who helps to develop a deadly nerve agent for his masters, using it on his partner when the man draws police attention. Pruneface attempts to blow up a factory before going on the run, even murdering a dog for a sweater. Eventually returning in support of neo-Nazi groups, Pruneface attempts to blow up police stations and FBI buildings, even trying to spread a disease that causes mass blindness, not caring when even his family die in the pursuit of his revenge against Tracy.
    • The Brow is a Nazi spy who helps sabotage ships for his paymasters and reports on their location so the Nazis will be able to sink them. When a pair of twins, May and June Summer, find incriminating evidence, the Brow forces them to run "errands" for him while keeping one twin in a torture device to pierce her legs with nails. When they manage to overcome him, the Brow later returns to murder their taxi driver and drown the two before escaping. After a manhunt, the Brow attempts to kill all of Tracy's fellow cops before Tracy is able to take him down for good.
    • Itchell "Itchy" Oliver is introduced as a man for whom torture and murder are as natural as breathing. Seeking the fortune left behind by his associate Shaky, Itchy tortures B.O. Plenty for the fortune, even murdering Shaky's widow when she tries to defend Tracy from him. Murdering his own men as not to split the cut, Itchy goes on the run while killing whoever gets in his way, including a wedding guest to take his car, and a cop who stops him at the wrong time. Later capturing Tracy, Itchy attempts to slowly and painfully starve him to death, treating torture and murder as simply business as usual.
    • The unnamed pedophile in Mike Killian's run is a revolting kidnapper who abducts children to "play" with them, keep them in his basement and murder them. Abducting three kids, including Tracy's granddaughter Jewel, the pedophile reveals he has done this before, with at least one child's skeleton still in the basement. Upon realizing he has captured Dick Tracy's grandchild, he opts to kill the children quicker to dispose of the evidence, and spends his time trying to hunt down an escaped Jewel to murder her.
  • Harvest, by A.J. Lieberman, Colin Lorimer, et al.: Joseph Craven is an ice-cold corporate executive who runs an organ trafficking business, cajoling the desperate into letting Craven steal their organs and sell them to wealthy benefactors while throwing his patients-—who survive—-aside. Craven has his surgeon executed when he balks at slicing up any more innocent lives, convincing the downtrodden Dr. Benjamin Lane into accepting his services, and when Lane starts to rebel, Craven has a patient murdered and "everything they could take" cut out of him, pinning the murder on Lane. Craven sinks to his worst when he has the elderly grandmother of one of Lane's patients kidnapped and her retinas ripped out, ordering her, Lane and his ally Yomiko executed after.
  • King Tiger, by Randy Stradley, Doug Wheatley, & Rain Beredo: Tiger's evil father, the Evil Sorcerer known only as "Dragon", mated with an eldritch horror named Canthastius to produce many half-demon children, of which Tiger was the one success. Having twenty people taken as sacrifices, the final three being the thugs he'd hired to kidnap the other 17, Dragon burns them alive to summon the demon who bore his progeny, unleashing it upon an innocent city with the intent to have it consume the world so he may build a new order from its ashes, intending on sacrificing Tiger himself to fully power Canthastius.
  • Samurai: Heaven and Earth, by Ron Marz, Luke Ross, et al.: Warlord Hsiao is the Arch-Enemy of Lord Tokudaiji. Starting the comic by attacking Tokudaiji's lands, Hsiao slaughters Tokudaiji's armies, save for the hero Shiro, and attacks Tokudaiji's castle. Hsiao has everyone in the walls butchered, leaving Tokudaiji's headless corpse to mock his enemy, and taking Shiro's lover Yoshiko to be a Sex Slave before selling her to slave traders for being too willful. A Serial Rapist who keeps a harem of women he's taken, Hsiao also removes the tongues of his women should they displease him.
  • Sandman Mystery Theatre: "The Face" is a Master of Disguise who glories in his work, with a massive body count. Hired to assassinate a Tong mob boss who knows the Face's employer has Asian ancestry in the racist World War II-era, the Face begins murdering Tong members and leaving their heads around, hoping to provoke a Mob War, even killing a 15-year-old prostitute who is the sister of one member. In his spare time, the Face also rapes and abuses prostitutes, mocking them for their lack of recourse and often "tearing them up" below to leave them unable to work. The Face returns to kill others, plaguing the Sandman constantly. In the modern era, the Face accepts a job to bankrupt a wealthy man for an investor to profit, attempting to crash a blimp into Opal City to devastate it and kill countless people.
  • RWBY: Dark: Ruby Rose, sharing only the appearance, abilities and name of her canon counterpart, is a psychotic Serial Killer appropriately named "the Reaper", who wishes to surpass humanity, Grimm, and gods. Introduced when she kills her own parents, Ruby then battles her half-sister, Yang, and wins. Cutting out Yang's arms and eyes out of pure sadism, Ruby enslaves Yang, humiliates and abuses her on a daily basis, forces her to kill, and goes as far as to beat her down because she threw up without asking permission. Ruby also breaks into houses and slaughters the families inside, not even sparing children or babies. One of her worst acts was to break into a barn, kill an old lady, then "violate" a boy her age to the point he became a Death Seeker. During Vale's bombing, Ruby blocked the escape route so that she could kill the survivors who wanted to flee. When meeting Cinder's group, she barely remembered what she did to them during Vale's bombing, including taking Cinder's eye. Holding a grudge against Neo for having smacked her in the face, Ruby kills her by cutting her in half. Fueled by her love of destruction and death, Ruby is nothing more than a murderous egomaniac.
  • Mai-HiME fanfiction Perfection Is Overrated: Kirihara Hitomi is the first SUE to encounter the protagonists, and by far the most evil. Initially bored with spending her time mind-controlling people to rob them, after being forced to kill a police officer and a witness, she discovered her darker hobbies. In the appropriately-titled chapter "Moral Event Horizon", Hitomi proceeds to commit her two most vile crimes. First, she brainwashed a police officer to slaughter twenty innocent people—including a baby, because her cries annoyed her—and commit suicide when he's done; then, she mind-controlled another officer into raping and killing his wife, only freeing him of her control to let him discover the act, before killing him as well. The first event was notably horrible enough to convince Nao to join the HiMEs to stop her. After capturing Mai with a mind-controlled Natsuki, Hitomi tried to torture her with her child's powers. She's only stopped from doing so by Shizuru's intervention, and dies from her child's destruction—which would normally result in the death of the person she valued most—showing how self-centered she is. In the end, Kirihara Hitomi is a sadistic sociopath who committed her crimes solely for her own amusement.
  • Anna and the Apocalypse: Arthur Savage is, initially, just the strict headmaster of Little Haven's high school, and a consummate Control Freak who lets a glimpse of his true nature show when, during the Zombie Apocalypse, he callously "prioritizes" over an old woman with a heart condition. When Savage's desperate attempts to maintain authority over the survivors fails, Savage decides to allow the zombies in to slaughter all the survivors out of spite, gleefully locking his own students inside while promising to deliver whatever's left of Anna to her father whom Savage looks down upon, even attempting to murder both Anna and her father when they save his life from the ravenous zombies. Savage gleefully hopscotches over the line to demonstrate himself worse than any of the mindless zombies ravaging Little Haven, attesting during "Give Them A Show" that he "might as well have some fun" with the collapse of society.
  • Death Run (1987): Messiah is the smiling, megalomanical ruler of Junk City, having converted the population into a Cult of Personality dedicated only to him. Originally nothing but an outcast, Messiah took advantage of the destruction caused by a nuclear holocaust to influence the people into respecting him as their savior, despite allowing them to live in decadency. Holding dozens of mutants captive for his own entertainment, Messiah hosts a sadistic game called the Run, which involves handcuffing a person to an electrified metal wire and forcing them to fight mutants bare-handed; only one man has ever survived his game. Keeping several women as his sex slaves, Messiah once impregnated one of his victims and then expelled her from his harem. After Paul and Jenny are brought to Junk City, Messiah congratulates Jenny for lacking mutations and violently rapes her. Failing to have Paul killed in the Run, Messiah is surrounded by all of his rape victims and fails to understand why they would betray him.
  • Dick Tracy (1945): Alexis "Splitface" Banning is a sadistic Serial Killer who was convicted for murdering his girlfriend by a jury. After returning from prison, his handsome face ruined by a jagged scar, Splitface opts to take revenge on the jurors, hunting them down and slitting their throats with intentions to not stop until he has killed all of them. When he becomes annoyed with his partner, Professor Starling, Splitface gruesomely murders him as well, even taking Tracy's beloved Tess and their adoptive son Junior hostage with clear intent to murder them to get away.
  • No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh is a hired assassin defined by his nihilistic personal code. Compared to the Bubonic Plague by his former associate Carson Wells, Chigurh is an emotionless killer with no regard for human life, occasionally deciding his victims' fates with a coin toss. Introduced by strangling a police officer to death with handcuffs, Chigurh proceeds to murder an innocent man to steal his car, repeating this crime later in the film. Employed to recover $2 million lost in a drug deal gone bad, Chigurh murders two of his employer's men and relentlessly hunts for Llewelyn Moss to retrieve the money. Along the way, Chigurh murders several Mexican criminals who are also pursuing Moss, shooting one of them as he surrenders, and later kills a hotel clerk and a random motorist who get caught in a gunfight between Chigurh and Moss. Chigurh later kills Wells and the man who hired them both, intending to keep the money for himself, and promises to kill Moss's wife Carla Jean unless Moss surrenders the money, making it clear that he intends to kill Moss regardless; Wells had previously commented that even if Moss gave up the money, Chigurh would kill him anyway for "inconveniencing him". After Moss is killed, Chigurh murders Carla Jean, attempting to justify this senselessly cruel act by claiming to be keeping his promise. A chilling psychopath devoid of humanity, Chigurh is presented as an unstoppable force of evil, a monster without empathy or remorse.
  • Trust: "Charlie", real name Graham Weston, is a dark and realistic depiction of the dangers of people online. Charlie is a sexual predator who hunts underage girls online, charming them with a gentle facade before requesting them to meet up in real life. After meeting them, Charlie would trick these girls in going on dates with him, before attacking and raping them. By the time Annie Cameron fell victim to him, Charlie has become wanted by the FBI having had many victims around the country, including a 12-year-old girl, and leaving deep scars in his victims.
  • Final Fantasy VI: Kefka Palazzo was the court jester of the Gestahl Empire, but through treachery and atrocity he rose through the ranks and eventually became the world's most dire threat. His notable actions include putting a slave crown on Terra Branford to force her to attack villages and slaughter resistance fighters; poisoning the Kingdom of Doma's water supply against direct orders—killing innocents, including children; brutally murdering the noble general Leo by cowardly tricking him with illusions playing on his loyalty; and killing the Espers at Thamasa—along with his own men—without any remorse. Kefka reaches his worst, however, when he betrays and murders Emperor Gestahl and uses the power of the Warring Triad to turn the world into a poisoned wasteland. In the World of Ruin Kefka rules on high, killing and tormenting on a whim with the Light of Judgement across the whole world. Finally confronted by the party, Kefka is incensed that they managed to find hope in this dying world, and proclaims he will destroy everything and create a "monument to non-existence". Misanthropic, nihilistic and deriving pleasure from suffering and destruction, Kefka serves as one of the most iconic and singularly vile villains in the entire franchise.
  • Professor Ryoma Sengoku/Kamen Rider Duke is a researcher for the Yggdrasill Corporation who created most of the Armored Rider gears. Unlike his comrade Takatora Kureshima, Ryoma does not care about saving humanity and secretly desires the Helheim Forest to invade so he can become a god with its Forbidden Fruit, not caring about the billions of deaths it would cause. When Takatora's altruism get in the way of his plans, Ryoma coldly attempts to murder him before abandoning everyone else in Zawame City to die when the Overlord Inves invade. Ryoma later makes a deal with Mitsuzane Kureshima to save Mai's life if he kills Kouta Kazuraba, only for him to murder Mai to get the Forbidden Fruit inside of her, which he gleefully admits to Mitsuzane when he accomplishes the task.
  • Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith: Vasili Ilyich Nikitin is a slimy, power-hungry operative of the MGB during the height of the Soviet Union, having taken his position for no reason other than for the opportunity to hurt others. Getting his start in the Union by getting his own brother thrown in prison for decades for insulting Stalin while drunk, Vasili actively assists the Union in locking up innocent in horrific prisons for minor offenses. Teaming up with Leo Demidov, Vasili tries to undermine the man at every turn before impulsively torturing and executing two farmers, trying to kill their children as well, for being "traitors" to the Union. Once learning that they were seemingly innocent of this perceived crime, Vasili rounds up other people and threatens them to admit to being guilty to cover his tracks. Growing to hate Leo due to his noble nature, Vasili frames the man's wife for treason, gets him demoted, ruins the lives of his parents, and ultimately subjects the man to a torturous drug, all with almost sexual glee. Threatening men's entire families to get them to assist him throughout the story, Vasili, upon learning that Leo and his wife Raisa evaded an assassination ordered by Vasili, executes one of Leo's friends before tracking the couple down, giving his men orders to head into the housing complex they are in and kill everyone in sight if they try to escape again.
  • Enderverse: The Shadow Saga & Children of the Fleet: Achilles de Flandres, Bean's Arch-Enemy, is a megalomaniac obsessed with conquering the world. Becoming a Serial Killer in his teens, Achilles murders anyone he thinks has seen him as weak, which includes a surgeon who repaired his malformed leg. Recruited by Battle School largely due to his natural charisma, Achilles is expelled and institutionalized just two days later after Bean exposes his crimes, only to be freed shortly afterward by agents of the New Warsaw Pact. Achilles then begins manipulating various powerful nations into a series of brutal wars, intent on gaining enough influence over the eventual victor that he can effectively rule himself, and caring nothing for the resultant death and destruction. He also tries to have the School destroyed along with its students, simply out of revenge for expelling him. Driven by hatred both for Bean and for his friend and later wife Petra—whom he was attracted to, which made him feel weak—he murders an old friend of Bean's out of sheer spite, and sabotages the couple's efforts to have children just so he can crush their hopes utterly before killing them both.
  • Flesh and Silver, by Stephen L. Burns: Brother Fist is the dictator of Ananke. Having taken over the moon and constructed its religion around himself, Fist subjects the populace to oppression, slavery, sickness and death to keep power, but also for the sick thrill of watching them suffer. Enslaving the Bergmann Surgeon Marchey to save his life when he is dying of cancer, the ruthless Fist gleefully remarks how any cure is only for himself and will be withheld from anyone beneath them. The worst deed of Fist's is his right-hand woman Scylla, real name Angel, whose mind he warped and reshaped until she was his loyal bodyguard and killer, which Fist proved by having her flay her own mother alive.
  • Gormenghast: Steerpike is a vicious sociopath who was once a kitchen boy but rose to become of the most powerful figures in Gormenghast. Steerpike sets fire to Earl Sepulchrave Groan's beloved library, resulting in the Earl's insanity and eventual suicide, setting himself up as a hero who rescued everyone else within. Steerpike burns the master of ritual, Barquentine, to death to steal his position and steadily either discredits or murders those who stand in his path while also seducing Fuchsia Groan, plotting to dispose of her as well. Steerpike kills Sepulchrave's twin sisters by sealing them in a room and leaving them to starve, murdering the former servant Flay when he and Young Earl Titus catch Steerpike gloating to the corpses years later. Escaping into the castle, Steerpike decides to destroy everyone he can if he cannot rule the castle. Described as having forsaken any conscience he might once had possessed, Steerpike will lie, cheat and murder, stopping at nothing to claim power he feels should be his.
  • House of the Scorpion: El Patrón, the original Matteo Alacrán, is the most powerful and evil drug lord of them all. El Patrón rules over the country of Opium and punishes anyone who tries to illegally cross his borders by capturing them and implanting computer chips in their brains, turning them into eejits. These eejits are essentially human robots, programmed to do certain tasks all while their thoughts and emotions are repressed by the computer chip. Even El Patrón's security team and certain staff members have been implanted with chips, turning them into high-functioning eejits bound to El Patrón's will. The most common usage of "dumb" eejits is for manual labor in the fields used to create his drugs. Due to the harsh conditions and poor care, they tend to have a low life expectancy, leading to hundreds of thousands of bodies being buried beneath the poppies. El Patrón, like many drug lords, keeps himself alive to nearly one hundred and fifty-years old by harvesting organs from clones. Unlike most drug lords, however, El Patrón doesn't destroy his clones brains, instead he raises them like they were his own children, only to harvest and kill them without hesitation when the time comes. El Patrón cares for no one but himself and sees everyone around him as his possessions, such as the dead siblings he only valued because they were his. In the end, after his death, he still manages to murder everyone close to him by poisoning the wine they drank at his funeral. He also put his country into lockdown with deadly force fields only to be dismissed by his DNA, leaving them to starve as a "fitting tribute" to take with him into the afterlife, just like the kings of old.
  • King Rat: The Pied Piper of Hamelin is reimagined as a terrifying Humanoid Abomination and a psychopathic narcissist who forced a holocaust onto the sapient rats of Hamelin, drowning millions and deposing King Rat of his position. Utterly enraged that Saul, the hybrid son of King Rat, is able to resist his songs through which he controls his victims, the Piper hunts him down relentlessly while casually slaughtering countless people in horrifying, brutal ways, including tying Saul's friend into the path of an oncoming train and brutally murdering a homeless woman Saul befriends simply to hurt him. Enslaving Saul's other friend to use the music of Drum & Bass to control all he can, the Piper is revealed at the end to have spirited away the hundreds of children of Hamelin into his domain into eternal torment, merely to get back at the rulers of Hamelin for refusing to pay him. A demented, strutting sadist aptly described as the "spirit of narcissism", the Piper is a creature of horrifying dominance and rage under his transparent human veneer.
  • The Last Light of the Sun: Ivarr Ragnarson is the grandson of the great Erling raider Sigur Volganson and the last of his line. Deformed in body and mind, Ivarr is a sadistic psychopath whose dearest goal in life is to find a way to blood-eagle—cracking open the ribs and extracting the lungs—a victim while keeping them alive the entire time. During a raid on Brynn ap Hwyll's farmhouse, Ivarr allows his brother and his henchmen to die fighting, then while hiding tries to kill Brynn. During his escape he shoots one of his own men with a poisoned arrow, and takes the time to blood-eagle two peasants. He later hires an army of mercenaries, tells them that there is plunder to be had in Anglcyn lands, and essentially sacrifices sixty of them so that he can steer the survivors towards Brynn's house again and finish what he started. Escaping, Ivarr captures another peasant boy and slices off his nose and ears before torturing him to death. Making his way back to his ships, Ivarr is slain by the surviving mercenaries as he plots to assassinate their leader and another member of the crew.
  • No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh is a hired assassin defined by his nihilistic personal code. Compared to the Bubonic Plague by his former associate Carson Wells, Chigurh is an emotionless killer with no regard for human life, occasionally deciding his victims' fates with a coin toss. Introduced by strangling a police officer to death with handcuffs, Chigurh proceeds to murder an innocent man to steal his car, repeating this crime later in the film. Employed to recover $2 million lost in a drug deal gone bad, Chigurh murders two of his employer's men and relentlessly hunts for Llewelyn Moss to retrieve the money. Along the way, Chigurh murders several Mexican criminals who are also pursuing Moss, shooting one of them as he surrenders, and later kills a hotel clerk and a random motorist who get caught in a gunfight between Chigurh and Moss. Chigurh later kills Wells and the man who hired them both, intending to keep the money for himself, and promises to kill Moss's wife Carla Jean unless Moss surrenders the money, making it clear that he intends to kill Moss regardless; Wells had previously commented that even if Moss gave up the money, Chigurh would kill him anyway for "inconveniencing him". After Moss is killed, Chigurh murders Carla Jean, attempting to justify this senselessly cruel act by claiming to be keeping his promise. A chilling psychopath devoid of humanity, Chigurh is presented as an unstoppable force of evil, a monster without empathy or remorse.
  • Peter & Max: A Fables novel: Max Piper is consumed by his desire for power and his unbelievable narcissism. When the Homelands are invaded by the Adversary's forces, Max murders other survivors for supplies. Hungering for revenge against his brother Peter for inheriting the family flute Frost, Max goes out of his way to torment him, in one case crippling Peter's wife Bo Peep to hurt Peter. Max travels across the land while spreading chaos and destruction, even casting a spell to sterilize the entire Fable race. In his most famous act, Max steals the children of towns that refuse to pay him for his services and uses them to pay off bargains to dark powers he has made, adding "the little brats didn't die happy."
  • Serafina and the Black Cloak, by Robert Beatty: The Man in the Black Cloak, Montgomery Thorne, is the terrifying apparition stalking the grand Biltmore Estate. Originally a rich man who lost his fortune, the Man gained the ability to devour the souls, along with the talents and knowledge, of anyone he wanted by using a mysterious black cloak. When the Man consumes someone's soul, they are left trapped in his cloak in constant horror and agony, and the Man has no compunctions regarding who he devours, be they adult or child, and will outright murder anyone who gets his way. After he begins rapidly aging due to his use of the cloak, the Man begins devouring the souls of as many children as he can to preserve his life force, and, when Serafina tries to steal his cloak to save his victims, the Man sadistically tries to suffocate her for irritating him. A greedy sociopath who would harm anyone and everyone to become wealthy and powerful once again, the Man in the Black stood out in this children's novel as a truly dark and twisted man.
  • Stinger by Robert R. McCammon: The titular "Stinger" is an alien Bounty Hunter in service to the House of Fists who follow a twisted creed that anything that isn't one of them should die. Chasing a freedom fighter to earth, Stinger lands in the town of Inferno and entraps it in a force field, while he kills humans he encounters to learn more about them and recycle their biological material into his personal drones. Stinger tells the people to surrender his quarry or he will annihilate the town, and when he captures several humans, Stinger decides he has a better idea: to take them back to the House of Fists so the House will bring their wrath on earth. Stinger constantly shows he is alien only in appearance: his true nature is a scheming, amoral sociopath willing to facilitate genocide for a quick payday.
  • Take You Apart, by T.J. Spade: Andrew "Drew" Stephens, real name Robert Fobray, is a maniacal Serial Killer obsessed with playing a game of wits with his perceived Arch-Enemy, Caleb Everett. A perfect example of a psychopath since childhood, during which he tortured animals to death and creepily mimicked others in an attempt to "get" human interactions, Drew grew up to meet Caleb Everett, a psychic police detective who could peer into the minds of killers as they murdered others, and immediately develops a fixation on Caleb and besting his inhuman detective abilities. Drew kicks the novel off by kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a young woman, before sending Caleb her mutilated body parts to taunt him, after which he brutally rapes and beats a prostitute to near death. Realizing this didn't get Caleb's "full" attention, Drew tortures then disembowels one of Caleb's closest friends, also Drew's own girlfriend, then attempts to beat another of Caleb's best friends to death. In the end, after killing a homeless man to send a message and attempting the same on a young teen, Drew kidnaps Caleb's Love Interest, planning to kill Caleb then torture and rape the girl to death as his final victory. Drew Stephens is a classic psychopath with no ability to comprehend human emotions or interactions, having to instead adapt various personalities he runs into throughout his life, earning him the moniker of a "chameleon killer".
  • Towards Zero: Nevile Strange is a psychopath who feels that anyone who has ever wronged him must die. When his wife Audrey leaves him for another man out of fear, he decides that she has to die, and die humiliated at that, first killing her new husband and making it seem like an accident. With that in mind, he bludgeons his adoptive mother, Lady Tressilian, to death, and lays two overlapping sets of false clues, so that it will look as though Audrey not only committed the murder, but also tried to frame him for the murder. He arranged for the death of lawyer Arthur Treves, who remembered him from a case he committed as a child when he deliberately killed another child with a bow and arrow and might have been able to expose him. His intent is that Audrey be destroyed socially and then hanged; when he's exposed, he screams that he does not care, and starts ranting about how much he wants Audrey to be hanged.
  • The Pied Piper, from season 2's "Go Where I Send Thee", is an extremely sinister demon who is known for mass slaughter of soldiers and for what it does with children. Each generation, the Piper preys on a daughter of a specific family; the child, when she turns 10, is kidnapped and taken to the Piper's lair to await her fate, which is usually her bones being made into the Piper's instruments—but only after being starved to death. What's worse, however, is what happens when the girl is rescued. Out of nothing but spite, the Piper proceeds to infect all the girl's siblings with a fatal illness to force the parents to either return the chosen girl to the Piper or watch their other children die. While the Piper was betrayed by his employer, his Revenge by Proxy far outweighs this excuse; considering he seemed to enjoy killing and made a Deal with the Devil beforehand, he was psychotic from the start. Even in Sleepy Hollow, the Piper remains one of the worst Ichabod and Abbie have ever faced.
  • Adolf Hitler himself, from season 4's "He's Alive", turns out to be the shadowy benefactor of the troubled neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer, corrupting the young man into a solid mouthpiece through which to kickstart a new, hate-fueled Reich. Hitler cajoles Vollmer into murdering one of his own loyal followers to make a martyr out of him to inspire the crowds Vollmer amasses while stamping out any hints of decency or hesitance in Vollmer, ultimately ordering him to murder the old Jewish man who raised Vollmer practically as his own son. When Vollmer is finally gunned down, Hitler has formed him into his exact image of the perfect Nazi: all steel, and no heart, with Hitler himself seeping back into the shadow to feed off the prejudice and hate that authored so many millions of deaths during his reign of terror.
  • Solarman: Commander Gormagga Kraal is a power-hungry cyborg who destroys countless suns and planets to acquire enough power to conquer the universe. Setting his sights on the solar system's sun, Kraal cares nothing for the billions of human lives he'll decimate, and kills Dr. Sha-han for escaping with the Circlet, even melting his robot henchman for letting him escape. When Benjamin Tucker is brought to him, Kraal suggests cutting the boy’s arm off to acquire the Circlet attached to it, before trying to kill Solarman and destroy the sun himself.
  • Deathspell Omega's The Furnaces of Palingenesia: The unnamed narrator leads the totalitarian political faction known as the Order. The Order uses fear and paranoia to force absolute loyalty from all citizens, encouraging citizens to turn in their own loved ones for suspected crimes or even kill each other for perceived disloyalty. As a result, countless innocents are subjected to horrific punishments or murdered. The narrator is proudly aware of the terrors that the Order inflicts upon the world and in fact pushes it forward to the point society completely collapses under his rule.
  • Persona 2:
    • Innocent Sin: Ginji Sasaki, AKA Prince Taurus, is a member of the Masked Circle and easily one of the most depraved. A record producer, Ginji became infamous for his sexual advances toward his female artists, especially those underage. Out of a desperate attempt to regain his fame, Ginji made a deal with Joker in exchange joining the Masked Circle and helping them absorb Ideal Energy, using inspiring artists. Working with King Leo, Ginji, using the power of the rumors, started a new music group called MUSES, forcing Lisa to join by using her friends, with the intent of trying to bring her to their side and arrange a giant concert so he could absorb the Ideal Energy of the audience and then blow up the evidence with the bombs he help set up. When his plans were thwarted by Lisa and the party, Ginji tries to kill them, and when's he defeated, he decides to absorb the life energy of Lisa's friends in front of her out of spite before retreating. Ginji would commit atrocities without remorse just so he could keep his fame.
    • Eternal Punishment: Tatsuzou Sudou is the Japanese Foreign Minister and leader of the New World Order, a cult planning to reach the world of the Gods. Tatsuzuo, however, has more selfish ambitions. Using his own group to conduct crimes, which include framing the father of two of the main characters; unethical experiments resulting in humans turning into monsters; and attempted murder to Baofu, which resulted in his assistant's death, he furthers the ambition of New World Order while hiding it from the public. To that end he also sends his insane son Tatsuya Sudou to a mental hospital in order to lock him up from the public eye, and when he finds out he escaped sends the Taiwanese Mafia to kill him. Once the New World Order succeeds in their goal in activating a spaceship to use to reach God, this also causes the world outside the spaceship, which is the city they reside in, to be in danger from a natural disaster that can wipe out humanity, something Tatsuzuo is aware of. After reaching this far, Tatsuzuo betrays his loyal companions by mutating or killing them, while sending out demons to take down the heroes.
  • XYZ: Xerosic lacks the redeeming qualities present in his game counterpart. The chief scientist of Team Flare, Xerosic is fully complicit in his boss Lysandre's schemes to destroy humanity. After acquiring the Zygarde known as Z2, he conducts painful experiments on it, causing destruction across the Kalos region. Advancing to the final stage of the operation, Xerosic brainwashes Z2 before unleashing its full power upon Lumiose City, admiring the destruction that it causes and brainwashing the other Zygarde, Squishy, when it intervenes. After Team Flare is disbanded, Xerosic starts collecting the Zygarde cells in order to start the attempted apocalypse all over again and in the process attempts to brainwash Clemont to be his soldier.
  • "The Eden-verse" features these two corrupt Senators:
    • Think Tank: Senator Mitchell is the head of the Congressional Armed Services Committee and the one behind the funding of many illegal projects of Dr. David Loren. Ordering the creation of the Omega Project, a deadly flesh-eating virus which targeted specific DNA, Mitchell orders the US military to bomb a small Iranian science base as a distraction, while he secretly attacks Su Cheng and his family with the "Omega project" from afar. Killing Su Cheng and his entire family, Mitchell orders his co-conspirator General Diana Clarkson to kill Colonel Harrison, when Harrison was close to discovering the truth behind Su Cheng's death. Later on, conspiring with Chinese General Shangjong, of the People's Liberation Army to orchestrate a war between China and Taiwan for profit, Mitchell ordered his mercenary Bill to impersonate a dangerous Taiwan terrorist Tsang Ong, bomb a Chinese scientific facility and threaten to use the Omega Project on China as a provocation. The resulting war claimed the lives of hundreds of people, while Mitchell poisoned the President of the United States with the Omega Project, making him die on national TV, and then injected Loren with modified "Omega project", so that he can manipulate him to travel to Shanghai University, to kill hundreds of the brightest of minds of China, solely to keep America's supremacy in the world.
    • The Tithe: Senator Owen McKitrick is a racist politician who constantly tries to spread his bigoted policies to the public. Wanting to become President, Owen hired a gang of extremists and has them manipulate several Arabian people to be suicide bombers, forcing them to attack various heavily populated Christian places, resulting in the deaths of thousands. After each bombing, Owen orders his mercenaries to impersonate Arabian terrorists on camera and put these videos on the news, so that he can use this as proof of the "savagery" of the Muslim population. As his actions result in more and more hate crimes against American Muslims, Owen's popularity rises. Succeeding in becoming President, Owen spreads his corruption all over the country.
  • Front Mission: Driscoll, real name Mikhail Ilyich Rezanov, from the first game, is a USN captain, who in reality is working for the Republic of Zaftra, in the hopes of making it the most powerful government on Earth. Forcing Koichi Sakata, the President of Sakata Industries, to work for him under threats of death, Driscoll has the company develop and produce the most powerful wanzers called "B-Type" and "S-Type Devices" by kidnapping the most experienced soldiers from both USN and OCU armies and removing their brains to use as computers. When an OCU reconnaissance unit, led by Royd Clive, was sent to investigate a USN munitions factory in the Larcus District, which in reality was a B-Device research facility, Driscoll destroyed it, to hide any trace of inhumane experiments, which started a bloody war between USN and OCU. Capturing Royd Clive's fiancée Karen during this incident, Driscoll removed her brain and used it for his own Mecha "Raven", taunting Royd about this when they fought several years later.
  • Golden Axe (primarily the PC Engine's cutscenes), The Revenge of Death Adder, & The Duel: Death Adder is a monstrous tyrant who leads an army of evil to Firewood Kingdom, massacring everyone within the country such that Firewood utterly ceases to exist, exhibiting his personal sadism by murdering the king and queen in front of their young daughter, Princess Tyris Flare. Seeking even greater power, Death Adder invades Southwood kingdom to do the same thing, slaughtering villages and enslaving the populace. Upon his return from death, Death Adder opts to massacre and enslave everyone he can for revenge, with the consequences of his victory being death on scales such as the world has never before seen.
  • Jade Empire: Sun Li is also known as the Glorious Strategist. Prior to the game he orchestrated the genocide of the spirit monks, the protectors of the Water Dragon, the goddess in charge of rain and reincarnation. Ostensibly he did this to force the Water Dragon to save his empire from a drought, but in reality his plan was to kill his brother, Emperor Sun Hai, and take the power of the Water Dragon for himself, becoming a god. This would have the side effect of stopping the cycle of reincarnation and cause the dead to rise up and attack the living. After his protégé, the last Spirit Monk, kills his brother for him, he murders the last Spirit Monk, takes the powers of the goddess for himself, raises his younger brother, Sun Kai, from the dead to be his servant, and has the Lotus Assassins abduct and murder people to use their souls to power an invincible golem army for himself. Sun Li is a sociopath, incapable of empathy or seeing people as anything other than tools. He raised the last Spirit Monk since infancy, but kills them without a second thought after they had outlived their usefulness; and he has no problem with trying to kill his birth daughter, Dawn Star, either. While he tries to paint himself as well-intentioned, he's obviously lying to save himself, and, in the ending where he wins, his "utopia" is nothing more than an Orwellian dictatorship where everyone blindly worships Sun Li as a god, and the mere act of questioning him can bring death.
  • Sniper: Ghost Warrior series:
    • Sniper: Ghost Warrior: General Vasquez is the ruthless dictator of Isla Trueno, who is responsible for the awful condition of his country. Regularly burning down villages, killing and enslaving dozens of people, Vasquez forces them to work in the mines, digging up the minerals he plans to use for creation of a nuclear warhead which he intends to smuggle out of his country. Spreading his corruption and propaganda over the whole country, Vasquez forcefully conscripted countless men to his army, lying to them about "fighting the American oppressor", while he plans to escape from the country and leave it to rot in the ensuing power struggles.
    • Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2: Merinov and Maddox are powerful weapon dealers and the most personal enemies of Cole Anderson throughout the story. Starting off as a member of the Serbian forces and a sniper of the US military, respectively, Merinov and Maddox conspired to manipulate and betray a genocidal leader of the Serbian military, Marko Vladic, and elite US sniper Cole Anderson, who was Maddox's partner and mentor at the time, leading to Serbian forces attacking and sacking the city Sarajevo, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Tricking Cole into killing Vladic and then leading him to be captured, Merinov and Maddox plan to frame the US for the crimes of the Serbian army, while they order the remaining Serbians to bomb the city with mortars, not caring about any of their own getting caught. In the present, acquiring a large collection of powerful weapons, Merinov and Maddox started selling them in the black market. Stealing a dangerous biological WMD, Merinov and Maddox plan to sell it to a powerful terrorist, Abdel Ahmet Hassan, who intends to spread it over a border region between India and Pakistan, which would lead to war between the two nations. Merinov and Maddox plan to profit from this war, selling weapons to both sides.
    • Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3: Dr. Sergei Flostov is an enigmatic leader of the 23 Society. Using his secret society to spread his influence across the world, Sergei focuses his attention on the northwest region of Georgia, where he funds and supports the various war crimes of Russian-aligned separatists. Eventually, Sergei decided to start off his experiment at creating Super Soldiers, humans with enhanced physical abilities, by kidnapping numerous men and women and putting them through physical and mental torture, making them completely obedient to his commands. When a person proves to be incapable of being "broken", Sergei declares him "a failure" and sends him to his Slaughterhouse, where they get tortured to death and then hanged from the ceiling in a bag. Torturing Cole Anderson to death, Sergei successfully captures and brainwash Robert North, brother of Jon North, into being his chief enforcer by sadistically killing his wife and framing the US government.
  • A Voice from the Dark: The titular Voice from the Dark is the remnant of a powerful entity whose body decayed when it arrived from another dimension. Seeking to dominate all who could hear it and kill those who could not, the Voice reached out to Obed Scarsdale and manipulated him into building a mansion that could help rebuild its body. Scarsdale fought its influence and turned the catacombs of the manor into a maze to trap it. During its construction, the Voice arranged for the deaths of several of Scarsdale's assistants and converted his maid Emma into one of his agents. Many years after Scarsdale boarded the manor up, the Voice was awakened by the presence of the producers gathered at the mansion and trapped them within the maze. It turned the party planners Linkara hired into zombies and sent them to tear apart the sound technicians who had managed to record its whispers. Upon being freed, the Voice possessed the body of H.P. Lovecraft and planned to possess ERod once his body had been burned up by his raw power.
Eberron
  • "The Chimes of Midnight", "Quoth the Raven", "Hell's Heart": Genius Inquisitive Viktor/Victor Saint-Demain has his massive ego bruised by Baron D'Medani and plots a gruesome revenge, recruiting serial killers to commit murder all over Sharn with intention of wiping out the Baron, his House and to drop D'Medani's beloved daughter Zelina to her death. Foiled and placed in a sanitarium, Viktor manipulates a troubled man into becoming a serial killer who kidnaps and tortures his victims to death, with the intent of sending the heroes to die against him after creating a large body count. Locked away in the asylum of Hell's Heart, Viktor uses his manipulative brilliance to take over, allowing the insane doctor in charge to torture other inmates, before recruiting more serial killers. Having the D'Medanis captured, Viktor tries to have them killed, intending on framing the heroes for poisoning Sharn's water supply to kill thousands upon thousands of innocents, releasing his killers on the population and "clearing" his name to take advantage of the horrible chaos.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002-2004, by Image Comics and CrossGen)
  • King Hsss is an ancient ruler of Snake Men, who is bent on his genocidal conquest of Eternia. In the past, he kidnapped an infant Evil-Lyn from her father, an unnamed powerful magician lord of Zalesia called the Nameless One, who King Hsss tried to force to help him revive and control a giant snake god Serpos, so that Hsss could lay death and destruction all over Eternia and become its supreme ruler. When the Nameless One seemingly upheld his end of the bargain, Hsss refused to give him back his daughter, wanting to further force the magician to do his bidding. The Nameless One ends up backstabbing Hsss and escaping with his daughter, but as revenge Hsss found another way of controlling Serpos and use it to annihilate all of Zalesia and its people, before he was banished to the Void by the Nameless One and Council of Elders. In the present, freed by Kobra Khan and Evil-Lyn, King Hsss resumed his quest of conquering Eternia, trying to free Serpos once again with the help of the Nameless One by promising to heal his mortally wounded daughter in return, only to try to betray him anyway once again once the Nameless One did his bidding.
  • Merman is a former self-proclaimed ruler of the Sea and one of the Skeletor's Evil Warriors. In the past conquering all the underwater territory, Merman has led attacks on surface ships and terrorized the whole Ocean. Reducing his people to pathetic cowardly beggars, Merman regularly abuses his army, not letting them have a proper rest after battles and threatening his advisors with death when they argue with him. Finding out about an underwater village which is free from his control, Merman immediately attacks it, destroying it and then takes off, planning to send his ambassadors later for a "proper" taking over. When the villagers retaliated over his unprovoked attack, Merman tries to have them killed, not caring about any of his own people caught in the crossfire. When the war resulted in the whole Ocean rebelling against him, Merman was able to chase away and kill the attackers, only to find out that his kingdom is already destroyed and nearly all of his people are dead, falling victims to Merman's ego and carelessness.
  • Trapjaw, formerly known as Kronis, is a Gar cyborg and another of Skeletor's Evil Warriors. In the past, trying to usurp leadership over the Evil Warriors, Kronis was banished from the Snake Mountain, leading to Kronis vowing revenge on Skeletor. Forcing a gang of criminals to work for him, Kronis used them to sneak into a nearby criminal camp and kill its leader, after which he surrounded it and demanded the camp's people to either join him or die. Using his newfound small army to conquer tribe after tribe in the Dark Hemisphere, Kronis waged numerous bloody wars until he acquired the largest army in the continent. Leading his army of thousands at a suicidal charge against Skeletor, Kronis cared nothing when they started to get decimated almost immediately, only using them as a way at catching Skeletor alone and trying to kill him there. When he got quickly defeated and crippled, Kronis was spared by Skeletor and turned into the half-robotic Trapjaw. In the present, Trapjaw tried to conspire against Skeletor once more in exchange for his own lands and slaves, only to immediately beg Skeletor for mercy when this betrayal was discovered.

Series-Wide

  • Nyarlathotep, the Arch-Enemy of Hardestadt Delac, is a wicked, spiteful, and endlessly sadistic entity thoroughly worthy of the moniker of the "Crawling Chaos". Once the nameless emissary of the Outer Gods who went from world to world to drive entire civilizations to madness before offering them up to be devoured by Azathoth, Nyarlathotep was given hope of a more meaningful existence by the angel Aleviel—before instantly reneging on that once she was cast down and vowing to annihilate the world she desired to protect out of spite.
    • Empty Memories and Cold Graves: Nyarlathotep teams up with the Consultant in order to break Hardestadt's spirit for fun. Capturing one of Eliza's students, Vicente, and corrupting him into hating her, Nyarlathotep would later bring about The Black Death that resulted in the death of Hardestadt's lover, Maria. Massacring the town of Blatna with the below-mentioned Lucia, Nyarlathotep would either kill the town's inhabitants or send them to the Consultant to be tortured, sending Hardestadt to the City of Never to have him partake in a deadly maze to rescue Blatna citizens. Desiring to break Eliza's spirit as well, Nyarlathotep takes her to the graveyard of her fallen students while blaming her for their deaths; drives her mansion's servants to the brink of insanity; and paints Hardestadt as a monster who can't be controlled, before sending Vicente out to kill her.
    • Nights In Lonesome Arkham: Nyarlathotep drives the entire city of Thinis to murderous, chaotic insanity, driving the populace to slaughter the city's children and restoring the sanity of the surviving populace their solely to bask in their suffering and horror; slaughters hundreds of thousands across the world, some merely as distractions; rises up the Great Old One Ithaqua in an effort to doom the planet to its deathly cold; keeps the populace of entire towns frozen in eternal agony as trophies of his previous conquests; and, at the end, reveals his intent to devour the other Outer Gods and come astride the rest of creation, devouring all in his way and keeping whatever is left to torment forevermore.
  • "The Shadows' Consultant", real name Lucia, from Empty Memories and Cold Graves and The City of Never, is the Arch-Enemy of Eliza Cortly. A member of the ancient, godlike race of Daydreamers, Lucia, exiled by her own people for her cruelty and wickedness, allied with the imprisoned being Draynak, to use him as a way to get revenge. Lucia first appears stalking Eliza's former apprentice Vincente, killing anyone who harbors him and blaming Vincente. She teams up with the aforementioned Nyarlathotep to break the spirits of Hardestadt and Eliza. In the City, the Consultant sics a creature known as the Scrambler, using it to form a hideous conglomeration of thousands of still-living people. She casually admits that she, along with Nyarlathotep, caused The Black Death which killed Hardestadt's wife, among countless other people. The Consultant then tortures Eliza while Nyarlathotep forces Hardestadt to watch. Later on, seeking a child of the bloodline of the race of Seers, Lucia takes countless guises, manipulating endless bloodshed and pain so she can find a necessary host for Draynak. Using monsters from the City to annihilate entire towns and villages, Lucia takes potential hosts and infests them with leechlike creatures in a horrific violation that inevitably results in their deaths. When she found a suitable host, a 13-year-old girl, Lucia murdered her. Having found a suitable host in one hero Daniel's daughter Crystal, Lucia took great delight in agonizingly infecting her, murdering their friend Christian when he attempted to attack her. Later attempting to torture Crystal's sister to death, Lucia reveals she has always intended to annihilate all that lives as punishment for her humiliation, viewing everything below her as a toy to torture.

Edited by ACW on Jul 16th 2019 at 10:24:44 AM

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#172511: Jul 14th 2019 at 12:59:53 PM

ACW: Um I don't know if it means anything, but I feel I should point out that the Pied Piper in Sleepy Hollow isn't actually the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

The show makes a point that the two aren't connected.

Also I kind of feel the entry should mention the fact that he starves the children to death before making their bones into his new flute.

Edited by MGD107 on Jul 14th 2019 at 1:01:54 AM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#172512: Jul 14th 2019 at 1:09:26 PM

Oh, it does? Alright, I'll go back to Musical Assassin. How's this?

  • The Pied Piper, from season 2's "Go Where I Send Thee", is an extremely sinister demon who is known for mass slaughter of soldiers and for what it does with children. Each generation, the Piper preys on a daughter of a specific family; the child, when she turns 10, is kidnapped and taken to the Piper's lair to await her fate, which is usually her bones being made into the Piper's flutes—but only after being starved to death. What's worse, however, is what happens when the girl is rescued. Out of nothing but spite, the Piper proceeds to infect all the girl's siblings with a fatal illness to force the parents to either return the chosen girl to the Piper or watch their other children die. While the Piper was betrayed by his employer, his Revenge by Proxy far outweighs this excuse; considering he seemed to enjoy killing and made a Deal with the Devil beforehand, he was psychotic from the start. Even in Sleepy Hollow, the Piper remains one of the worst Ichabod and Abbie have ever faced.

Edited by ACW on Jul 14th 2019 at 4:14:39 AM

MGD107 Since: Feb, 2015
#172513: Jul 14th 2019 at 1:20:40 PM

Yeah, in show it was a revolutionary assassin who apparently made a deal for demonic powers. Inverse its MO resembles the Piper's story so people call it that, but that's the only connection.

Looks good, thank you.

Edited by MGD107 on Jul 14th 2019 at 1:22:23 AM

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#172514: Jul 14th 2019 at 2:24:45 PM

Ginji's entry is fine, but his name is Ginji Sasaki.

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ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
Mimic45 Since: Feb, 2017
#172516: Jul 14th 2019 at 3:34:29 PM

Hey, I have a question about CM Incarnations Per Character. Shouldn't Mephisto from the 1926 movie Faust be added to the page? Either alongside Marvel's Mephisto or all the Satan/Lucifer? (Aren't they more or less the same character anyway?)

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#172517: Jul 14th 2019 at 3:46:21 PM

I'm not sure if it's actually Satan, and that Mephisto I'd actually the Marvel one.

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#172518: Jul 14th 2019 at 4:00:02 PM

Mephisto isn't actually the Marvel version of satan btw despite some confusion. Chthon from Doctor Strange arguably holds claim to that title the best.

Edited by miraculous on Jul 14th 2019 at 4:03:53 AM

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#172519: Jul 14th 2019 at 4:09:37 PM

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Technically, Satan is a completely different entity from all the various Demon Lords and Archdevils, satanic archetypes, Gods Of Evil and eldritch abominations running around in Marvel. He's also never shown up, but the others do have meetings around his throne. It's been empty for so long many doubt Satan ever existed, but he's so feared that nobody dares sit his throne. Lucifer does exist as a separate entity, but he's a minor player.

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#172520: Jul 14th 2019 at 4:17:10 PM

Okay, shaving more off the to-do here:

What's the setting?

Army of Dr. Moreau is a comic miniseries from David F. Walker, talking about the supposedly-real experiments from the science that inspired Wells' Dr. Moreau. In the heat of the second World War, English soldiers are dispatched to an island where entire generations of homo-animalia—that is, humanoid animals—have become an entirely sapient, civilized race after their cruel creator died decades ago. Unfortunately, the Nazis are seeking them for other uses, and the leader of this operation is Commandant Metzger.

Who is Metzger? What has he done?

A scarred, vicious Nazi commissioned to create an unstoppable army for Germany through the animals, Metzger has resorted to months of tortuous and fatal experimentation on the homo-animalia, chastising his soldiers for retaining any amount of sympathy for the "ungodly abominations" while fully acknowledging they can think and feel. Metzger's experiments involve tossing innocents to the human-animals he's reduced to savages through his experimentation, watching them tear the people apart with clear satisfaction; and pitting them in battles to the death with one another, proceeding to execute the two who survive the fights on account of their weakness and defiance toward him.

Eventually, Metzger decides to crack down on the remaining human-animals he's yet to find to capture all of them, brutalizing his own soldier when he hesitates and ordering one of their encampments raided, leading to a full-out massacre with human-animals from the very young to the very old slaughtered, crucified, and their bodies burned en masse, with those who survive taken to be experimented on. The human-animals eventually attack back in full earnest with the English helping them, and Metzger decides to wipe them all out, nearly executing one of his human-animal soldiers that show sympathy toward his own dying men and only relenting because he's executed so many of them that his numbers are running out. Metzger slaughters everything in his way in animalistic wrath, before the human-animals overwhelm him and tear him to bloody shreds. Good riddance.

Any mitigating factors?

Zip, zilch, zero.

Conclusion?

Easy Nazi keeper #93454.

Thoughts?

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#172524: Jul 14th 2019 at 4:30:57 PM

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