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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Metzger.
To Metzger. Kind of reminds me of the time I effortpost Metz (you know because they share the first four letters Metz and are utterly monstrous Nazis)
Edited by G-Editor on Jul 14th 2019 at 2:05:26 AM
My sandbox of EPs and other stuff
to Smedes, Vizer, Ganji, and Metzger.
Also, a bit more off topic, isn’t there a page where it lists the number of cm incarnations certain characters have? What was it called again? I’ve tried to find it but was unable to.
EDIT:
Thanks Luka!
Edited by PureGrainAlkaSeltzer on Jul 14th 2019 at 12:05:26 PM
I have no idea what I am doingSo, there's the Fables novel incarnation, the King Rat incarnation, and in Once Upon A Time, Peter Pan is the Pied Piper. That's three incarnations. Four if you count the Ghostbusters one, but as far as I know that one isn't the original Pied Piper, just a ghostly being with a similar motif. Is there any actual connection?
jjjWriteups:
- Batman Beyond: Douglas Tan, a disturbed youth obsessed with the Joker and his carnage, dedicates himself to proving the fundamental meaningless of life and becoming the Joker's own Superior Successor. Fashioning himself "the Joker King," Douglas drugs dozens of Jokerz from around the nation into becoming suicide bombers, using them to wreak havoc across Gotham and cause thousands of deaths in an attempt to destroy the city, murdering his own best friend on a random whim just before the destruction starts. Douglas eventually decides to murder his entire family too, attempting to kill his comatose father in the hospital and only hesitating when his sister steps in the way—before deciding without another second of hesitation to kill her too.
- Turok (2017): Imperator Licendor Vex is the cruel ruler of the Varanid Empire that rules the Lost Valley, having set himself up as a god by having every single believer of the Seventy-Seven gods massacred. With torture and murder rampant in his regime, Vex intends to produce a heir through the use of thirteen breeding slaves, intending to regain his libido by butchering and eating several young children to use their flesh to replenish himself.
- Hassan-I-Sabbah, better known as Khyber, is the lord of the Hashshashin, having his assassins slaughter whomever they wanted before seemingly fading into myth to prepare for his greatest attack on Earth yet. As a foretold bad future portends, Khyber divides nations and causes horrible terrorist attacks for centuries, dealing and divvying power to a variety of supervillains, before defeating Superman himself and using the ensuing chaos to scar the world with war and disasters, killing billions and allowing whomever survives to exist in nuclear winter under the cruel rule of the supervillains he's dealt with. Killing Superman himself for real during their final battle, Khyber's ultimate end comes in the form of his own creation Sirocco, a man whom Khyber put all his capacity for remorse and guilt into, making him immortal while forcing him to bear the emotional torment of every atrocity Khyber has committed for centuries.
- Army of Dr. Moreau: Commandant Metzger is the cruel Nazi dispatched to create an army for the Third Reich via experimenting on the sapient human-animals on an unmarked island to turn them into killers. Metzger has the homo-animalia tear innocents apart and fight to the death to demonstrate their savage prowess, executing them on a moment's notice and only refraining from killing one near the end as their ranks have been whittled from his horrible abuse. Metzger eventually attempts to take every homo-animalia on the island through force, having an encampment of theirs utterly massacred down to the elderly and the children, dismissing them as merely "ungodly abominations" he seeks to control no matter what he has to put them through.
- Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead: Boukman is a powerful, almost two-hundred-year-old bokor in Haiti with powers over zombis, with a known tendency to murder countless "young and beautiful" natives on the island to turn them into revenants, or merely drugging them into slaves who can do nothing but utterly obey Boukman's every command. Boukman seeks ultimate power via the talisman of the Maldye which will allow him to unleash a zombie army upon the entire world and kill countless people, intending to use his own great grand niece Marie—whose mother he murdered—as a sacrifice to empower himself, as well as Indy, his allies, and the entire village of locals he's terrorized for so long.
Metzger
A little grammatical error in the writeup for Owen Mc Kitrick here:
"Senator Owen Mc Kitrick is a racist politician]"
Yes to Metzger and something (I think) Scraggle brought up to me a while ago and I just forgot about. Remember we upvoted that version of his very own Ash from Heaven from a fan fic called Address? Clicking the link provided on the work page, that fic... doesn't seem to exist anymore. Can we even trope something with no record of its existence? I was under the impression we purged such cases, including any monster entry it might have.
