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@Lightysnake: Aside of Gogadantess, who else are the Genma with the redeeming quality? Because last I remembered, ALL of them are cackling evil bastards or not knowing any decencies. And from what I remembered, Gogadantess' redeeming qualities were less about eventually thinking that the way of Genma was wrong, but more like he's an advocate for fair play and sense of honor, being a Noble Demon Worthy Opponent. But yes, one Genma with a peculiar brand of redeeming points aside, the majority of Genma and any humans that come contact to them are all acting like pure Card-Carrying Villain and take pride on it (personally not a fan of such hamfisted characterization, but that has nothing to do with the topic).

The Fortinbras issue was stated on the the Onimusha wiki. But it does raise point on how valid it is. Capcom is being blurry as usual and not touching Onimusha a lot certainly did not help. About him popping up from the primordial chaos, the story made it that Fortinbras was the only one who popped out, thus placing him in the Creator God role. I think we should just roll with it, since Capcom made it that his version of creation myth took place instead of the other kind of creation myth from other religions or beliefs (that's why there's no Izanagi or Amaterasu over there).

I'll be putting up the draft soon. But just as a reminder, what kind of tweak would you give on Onimusha!Nobunaga?

@mir I guess it could fit for that rope as well but it's still an image of a Complete Monster doing something horrible so I think that it should go up.

to the Azog image.

@papyru I mean I’m hoping it’ll be back in theaters once the quarantine ends and they all reopen. If not, then yeah, I’ll see it here.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Mar 29th 2020 at 9:03:53 AM

Chris can I ask you a question. Do you play Sengoku Basara ?

If so is their any reason that game versions of Oda Nobunga and Mitsuhide dont count if their anime versions do ?

Yeah, I'm also curious about other Genma with redeeming qualities. I don't doubt it, just curious.

So we're just rolling with both Fortinbrasses (Fortinbrae? ) are the same?

As for the change, "to replace the slain king Fortinbras"...technically accurate, but if he comes back...

Yes to Wellebourne.

Looking through the character pages pulls up this trope for Oda

• Pet the Dog: Double Subverted during Ranmaru's ending in the 1st game, Nobunaga rewards the boy with a few pieces of candy. While today this may make Nobunaga look like a cheapskate, Fridge Brilliance/Values Dissonance would set in once one realizes Sengoku Japan didn't have a sugar refinery to make the candy, which is likely imported from Portugal. Long story short: the candy is most likely NOT cheap. Also, in the second game, he express genuine disbelief if Ranmaru is defeated during the battle of Azuchi Castle, contrasting his usual apathy.

And this one for Mitsuhide

• My God, What Have I Done?: Turned out he began to miss Nobunaga after killing him and breaks down when told he has lost his humanity.

I'm not sure thats redeeming for Oda....so he gives him some candy

So anymore votes or questions on Wellebourne ?

Edited by miraculous on Mar 29th 2020 at 9:12:48 AM

Ranmaru isn't even in the games until game 3, and Nobunaga's view on all his servants i "useful." Rewarding one doesn't mean much. As for redeeming features, Nohime and Jujudorma are both Genma higher ups who express love for Nobunaga. Jujudorma even uses her dying moment to kiss his portrait, and it's presented as entirely genuine.

Oh, if that's the case, I'm fine with Oda and Guildenstern staying; and, assuming both Fortinbrasses are the same, adding him.

• Vicious is Spike Spiegel's former friend and partner in the Red Dragon Syndicate, whose hatred took over when he discovered Spike and his girlfriend Julia were having an affair and tried to force Julia to either kill Spike or both be killed by Vicious, forcing them to part ways and flee. Raising himself up in the Red Dragon, Vicious would commit espionage for the Syndicate against his military superiors during a war before leaving a man who looked up to him to take the fall. Dissatisfied with the direction in which the Red Dragon was headed, Vicious murdered his own mentor, also bombing the transport ship of a rival clan representative sent for peace talks to prevent an alliance Vicious disapproved of. Taking command of the Red Dragon after outplaying their leaders during what was meant to be his own execution, Vicious leads his men on a bloody battle against the attacking Spike, leading to all of their deaths as he faces down with his rival. Merciless, power-hungry and completely devoid of human compassion, Vicious stands as a dark foil to Spike, made all the more dangerous by his matching skill and guile.
• Genocyber anime:
  • Dr. Kenneth Reed, in contrast to his kindhearted manga counterpart, was an amoral research assistant to Dr. Nguyen Morgan. Arranging for Morgan and his wife to die, Kenneth takes their super-powered daughters for his own research. When a detective helping the girls hides them in a hospital, Kenneth and his goons slaughter the entire building, gruesomely eviscerating the detective. Even as he dies, Kenneth watches with glee as the girls merge into the titular Genocyber, destroying Hong Kong and killing millions in the process.
  • Mayor Grimson Rockwell is the corrupt, smug leader of the City of the Grand Ark, using his influence to cruelly keep most of the citizens as abused, starving slave labor while his upper class elite throw hedonistic parties, engaging in torture and trafficking of lower class civilians. When a large group of people try to rebel against Rockwell, he orders them massacred and thrown into mass graves before executing his own security chief for moving too slow in carrying out the exterminations. Rockwell's greatest act of villainy comes when he learns of a church taking in orphaned children and spreading the word of God and, declaring them to be a threat to his rule, has them all slaughtered in machine gunfire, leading to dozens of defenseless men, women and orphan children being killed where they stand in the church.
• Black Ops 4: The High Priest of Chaos, the Big Bad of the "Chaos" story, plans to use the Prima Materia to control all of humanity and rule the world. Forming The Order by killing countless people before resurrecting and brainwashing them into becoming his followers with the Scepter of Ra, he would also use the Scepter of Ra to make himself immortal. Surviving into 1912, he has The Order pursue Alistair Rhodes, where he has all the people attending Alistair's mansion turned into zombies, creating mass carnage. When a group led by Alistair's daughter, Scarlett, travels to his time in Ancient Rome, he uses a Sentinel Artifact to turn all his slaves into zombies and forces the four to fend off the zombie hoard and complete the Trial of Ra before he attempts to execute them.
• Kill the Minotaur, by Chris Pasetto, Christian Cantamessa, et al.: The fanatical King Minos, viewing the Minotaur as an object of worship and his new son, wages war on Athena to force a tribute every year to feed young men and women to the beast, named Asterion, in preparation for the day when Asterion emerges from his labyrinth to wreak havoc on the world. Minos tortures his daughter Ariadne in preparation to one day be raped by Asterion and bear "godly" children. Murdering his adviser Daedalus for plotting to stop him, Minos also murders a boy he deems too sickly for sacrifice before sending Theseus and his friends to the Labyrinth. Upon Ariadne stealing into the Labyrinth to help Theseus, Minos simply decides to allow Asterion to violate his wife Pasiphae instead.
• Mist Man: The titular mist man is a malicious spirit on a several-century-long killing spree with a grudge against the Mallory bloodline. Living off the knowledge of his existence, he started out by killing farmers and visitors in a small town, driving Arthur Mallory to kill everyone in the town to prevent anyone from learning about him, and preventing his repeated suicide attempts. He continued to haunt the Mallory family for generations, smearing their name by killing people wherever they went. In the present day, he murdered Daniel Mallory's friends, leaving people to believe him to be the killings, eventually viciously massacring a hospital, including babies. At the end, it's strongly implied that he soon plans to continue his savage butcheries until there's nobody left to kill, driving Daniel to shoot himself out of guilt for perpetuating his massacre.
• Superman: Man of Steel (2002 video game): Mongul, as usual, is the ruler of Warworld and a galactic tyrant. When Superman discovers Brainiac 13 is about to return, Superman decides to go to Warworld to obtain some weapons to defeat Brainiac. Knowing Mongul will not help him, Superman frees Mongul's slaves on Warworld, saving them from Mongul's forces and receiving help from them. When Mongul learns Superman has freed his slaves, he demands compensation. When Superman refuses, Mongul's ship attacks Superman and the escaping slave ships. When Superman defeats Mongul's ship, Mongul launches the ship's reactor at the Earth, telling Superman the reactor is powerful enough to destroy the world, with Mongul wanting to punish Superman for his interference by killing everyone on Earth.
• Fifty Shades of Grey Deconstruction Fic Poor Unfortunate Souls: Christian Grey is portrayed here as a Serial Rapist and domestic abuser. In the past, he would seduce his exes, only to rape them in displays thinly disguised as BDSM, then access and siphon their bank accounts of all money, leaving his exes penniless. When he did this to Leila Cooper Williams, he also had her falsely committed to a mental institution just to get her out of his way. He also devours their auras to feed his own, and has been doing the same to Anastasia Steele, while extorting Jason Taylor into becoming his accomplice in exchange for giving his daughter the surgery she needs. When Leila returns and tries to take revenge by killing Christian, he attempts to kill her by strangling her before Taylor turns on him and has him arrested.
• Rose the Hat, upon being resurrected by her followers in the "True Knots", kills their current leader and those who defy her before forcing them back into her service. Draining children to death for their steam, Rose consumes it to remain undying and drives her own followers to insanity, with dozens killing each other horrifically and the sole survivor left traumatized. Bargaining with the Overlook Hotel for vengeance, Rose sends her maddened followers to Abra's town, slaughtering any in their path, and has the Hotel force Abra to kill her own mother. Merging with the Hotel, Rose attempts to kill Abra and her friends, and when beaten, spitefully uses a black hole to attempt to destroy the multiverse.
• Game of Thrones fanfic A Wolf Amongst Lions: Joffrey Baratheon and Ramsay Snow are as bad as in canon:
  • Joffrey attempts to execute the captured Arya Stark, later ordering his guards to beat her after Tywin talks him down from doing so. Angered by Tywin negotiating a peaceful end to the war with the Starks, Joffrey schemes with Littlefinger to restart the bloodshed in the hopes of slaughtering them, attempting to have Tywin and his own younger brother assassinated for his plot and tries executing the Stark representatives sent to finalize Tywin's peace agreement.
  • Ramsay schemes alongside his father, House Frey, and Cersei Lannister to depose the Starks and claim the North. Luring the Starks back to the North, Ramsay launches a bloody coup resulting in the death of Robb's wife and Arya's capture, intending to rape her purely out of a sadistic want to horrify her. When Arya defies him, Ramsay removes some of her fingers and sends them back to her mother, and after his coup is stopped and he is imprisoned, Ramsay breaks into Arya's bedchamber, making a spiteful attempt to rape and kill her.
• Hannah Montana fanfic I Didn't Sign Up For This: Cheryl/Drew is a seemingly normal student who befriends Miley and Lilly, but is secretly the mastermind of the explosion that killed eight people. She set off the explosion to kill Oliver and his band while preparing for American Idol, so that she would have all the fame to herself. When Miley confronts the bomber, Martin Eposito, she has him killed in a car bomb. To intimidate Miley she has Taylor, the girl she is with, thrown down the stairs by Jeanette, who she has hit by a car and killed. Once Miley is kidnapped by Cheryl's right-hand man Professor Andrew King, Cheryl guns down King, pretending to be trying to save Miley. Cheryl reveals that she was the one who killed her father, by tampering with his prescription to give him a heart attack while driving. Cheryl then tries to kill Miley, planning to pin the crimes on her.
• Gihren's Greed 4chan run Gopp's Gluttony: Admiral Gopp goes far beyond his official self in evil. A ruthless admiral of the Earth Federation, Gopp authorizes the use of nuclear weapons against Side 3 during the One Year War and puts the blame on an obedient general. Funding investigations on Newtypes to use them as weapons, Gopp orders the razing of North America to defeat Garma Zabi's guerrillas and uses the captured civilians as fodder for experiments, turning a little girl that tried to kill him in his brainwashed soldier daughter for mere amusement. Continuing the war against Zeon remnants, Gopp allows the enemy to use a Mass Driver against Earth in order to ensure the dependence of Earthnoids on the Federation, threatening Jamitov Himen when he tries to protect the Earth. Having turned the Federation on a dictatorship, Gopp's rule is opposed for every other faction in a bloody war where Gopp uses several Cyber Newtype soldiers. When he is forced to flee, Gopp drops the colony Luna-2 onto Earth out of spite and hijack the Queen Mantha from a broken pilot to fight the rebels. After his defeat, Gopp escapes to Jupiter, where he plots for his return.
• The Dark Knight: The Joker is a self-described "agent of chaos" out to give Gotham a "better class of criminal". Introduced by killing each of his goons after a bank robbery, the Joker proceeds to exploit the mob's desire to be rid of Batman, casually murdering henchmen, politicians and police to force Batman to unmask himself. He also makes the lawyer attempting to unmask Batman a target; ties a crime boss to a pile of money which he then burns; kills a gangster by making a pencil disappear...eraser-end first; blows up a hospital; leads police into a trap where they will shoot innocent civilians before getting killed by his men; attempts a Prisoner's Dilemma scenario to get a boatload of civilians and prisoners to blow each other up; and, primarily by manipulating a Sadistic Choice leading to Rachel Dawes's death, and then by mind raping an injured Harvey Dent in the hospital, is the driving force behind his transformation into Two-Face. The Joker's main motivation is fun, but he also wants to show that anyone and everyone can and will become a monster if pushed far enough, or even if just given the chance. He's proven wrong, but doesn't care, just giving an annoyed shrug and attempting to blow the two boats sky high with his own detonator.
• The Bleeding: The Vampire Monarch, Cain Black, seeks to spread vampiric dominion over the world while running a nightclub called Club Mortem where humans are regularly slaughtered. Having slayers captured and tortured, Cain tracks down and murders one hunter when he escapes before inviting several women to one of the clubs. We see Cain keeps a chamber full of dozens, if not hundreds of corpses, capturing women to have his men drain them sadistically, or have them butchered and carved alive by another vampire. Cain then initiates a slaughter of the humans in his club before attempting to murder his own brother, Shawn Black, to become even more powerful with his blood.
• The Hunt (2020): Athena is a businesswoman who, after a joke she made about hunting people for sport got her fired, decided to hunt people for real. Introduced killing one of her captives who woke up early by stabbing him in the eye, Athena watches as the other eleven captives are hunted and killed by her fellow hunters. When one of the captives, Crystal, kills the other hunters, Athena tricks her into killing Don, who was either another captive or one of Athena's hunters. When Athena is confronted by Crystal, it's revealed that the captives were critics of the Hunters who they deemed as "Deplorables" that needed to die, but that Crystal was chosen because Athena took her criticisms personally and not because she was deplorable. Athena proves to be nothing more than a narcissistic sadist, blaming her critics for her horrible actions, and is apathetic to the fact that she kidnapped the wrong Crystal.
• I Am Wrath (2016): Lemi K is a sadistic crime lord from Columbus, Ohio, who once ate a man's fingers in front of a rival gang. Retrieving an incriminating video of the Governor's son, Lemi K uses the video to blackmail the governor into letting him and his gang commit any atrocities they like without facing repercussions; as such, crime dramatically increases throughout Columbus, with Lemi K and his crew killing dozens of innocent people. On the Governor's behalf, Lemi K has his men kill Vivian Hill and her husband Stanley, and when Lemi K learns that the latter has survive and is seeking revenge on Lemi's gang, he cuts off a finger from one of his own men for not telling him about this sooner and goes after Stanley's family, eventually holding them hostage and killing Stanley's granddaughter himself.
• Mad Max: Fury Road: Immortan Joe is an elderly, sickly, brutal tyrant who has forged a kingdom in the Wasteland. In the prequel comic, it is revealed Joe was a marauder who murdered others for their supplies, enslaving the women and killing the men and children. Upon founding his kingdom, Joe selects people to join it, but forces the women to become breeding slaves so their milk may be harvested, and the men to run along treadmills to power the turbines. Joe indoctrinates the strong young men into the Warboys: drug-addicted cultist fanatics who long to die in his cause. The most beautiful women are kept as Joe's personal sex slaves and forced to bear his children; after three failed attempts at bearing a healthy boy, they find themselves exiled to certain death in the desert wastes. When several of his wives escape, Joe spares no resource to hunt them down and return them, though he is willing to kill one rather than allow her to be rescued, showing that he views them solely as his property.
• Once Upon a Time in the West: Frank is a sadistically cruel former bandit and the man the protagonist "Harmonica" owes his namesake to. Encountering a young boy in the past, Frank forced the boy's brother to stand on his shoulders with a noose tied around the brother's neck, before placing a harmonica between the panting boy's lips and telling him to "keep your lovin' brother happy." Frank watched with glee as the young boy subsequently collapsed and caused his brother to be hanged. Becoming an enforcer for railroad tycoon Mr. Morton, Frank kills off the McBain family for their property, happily shooting Mr. McBain's son just for knowing his name—despite being told by Morton to just scare them—and frames the bandit Cheyenne for the massacre. Ignoring Morton's peace offerings with widow Jill McBain, Frank takes Jill hostage, rapes her in exchange for sparing her life, and forces her to auction off her land, later trying to murder Morton himself to gain control over his railroad company.
• Paranormal Activity: Grandma Lois is secretly a cold-blooded witch and the head of the Midwives coven, that bargained with the invisible demon, in return for personal gain, to surrender the first male member of the family to the demon, knowing it would pursue her bloodline until a male child is conceived. In the third film, Lois orchestrates the death of her own daughter Julie when she refuses to have a son and watches Julie's boyfriend's brutal death when the man tries to rescue her granddaughters from her and the demon. Lois then manipulates and erases the memories of the girls to brainwash them into having a male child, leading to her descendant Hunter being taken by the demon to use his blood to successfully create a physical body to wreak havoc in. Fully aware of the pain and suffering that would come with her deal, Lois is a heartless monster willing to sacrifice her entire family for personal greed.
• Satanic Panic (2019): Satanist socialite Danica Ross raises her daughter Judi to be a Virgin Sacrifice to be impregnated by the demon Baphomet. Upon learning Judi has lost her virginity, Danica kills her lover and delivers Judi to other Satanists to be murdered, planning to kill her husband when he objects. Upon young pizza girl Sam's arrival, Danica substitutes her for the sacrifice, and upon problems with her coven, lures over Sam's coworker to murder him and glean answers from his entrails, using her own husband's soul in a ritual to manifest a monster to go after the girls. Torturing Sam and Judi into submission and painfully drowning her would-be usurper, Danica delivers Sam to Baphomet, and when things go wrong, furiously cuts her own daughter's throat.
• Vitals: Kaliyah, the ringleader of the organ harvesting operation, maintains an air of cordiality which belies his greed and ruthlessness. Kaliyah's front company called "Adventure Excursions", supposedly involved in assassination, is, in reality, directly connected to his organ harvesting operation. Introduced filling out a crossword and bantering with his assistant, Phillip, while watching Richard and Dr. Jane Carson on a security camera, Kaliyah has already removed Richard's kidney, intending to return for his heart; a flashback shows Kaliyah caring more about maintaining his "merchandise" than the lives of his own men, threatening the life of his surgeon's son if the latter fails him or otherwise doesn't cooperate. When Jane, who had hired him to kill Richard, tries to call off the operation, Kaliyah declines, having already sold Richard's organs to the highest bidder. Upon the surgeon's return, Kaliyah rebukes the surgeon for botching the job, causing a potential loss due to organ damage. With Jane's attempt to turn the surgeon against him, Kaliyah sends his subordinate, Carl, to kill Jane, failing due to the surgeon's intervention. After having his men eliminate a police cruiser with heavy weaponry, Kaliyah forces Jane to finish the surgery, further forcing her to continue harvesting organs as part of his organization.
• X-Cross: Keiichi Asamiya, Shiyori Mizuno's ex, leads the cult in Ashikari Village. Asamiya's cult practices Human Sacrifice, regularly performing a ritual in which a woman's leg is cut off, as well as putting the corpses of the sacrifice victims on display. Having convinced Aiko Hiuke to take Shiyori to the village, and claiming to want a fresh start with the latter, Asamiya pretends to rescue Shiyori from the cultists and convinces Shiyori not to trust Aiko before capturing her and preparing her as a living sacrifice. When the ritual is about to commence, Asamiya displays possessive tendencies towards Shiyori, claiming he will never let her go. When Shiyori kicks him in the face, Asamiya grabs an ax, with the intent of starting the ritual immediately, only for Aiko to intervene. With the arrival of Reika, the scorned paramour of one of Aiko's conquests, into the fray, Asamiya ignores the casualties among his cult in favor of keeping a grip on Shiyori. Upon Akira Mononobe, the brother of one of Asamiya's previous victims, Shizuka Mononobe, rescuing Aiko and Shiyori, Asamiya chases their car, intending to capture Shiyori once again.
• G.I. Joe (IDW): Krake is a brutal, vicious Cobra leader who carves a path of destruction straight into the position of Commander. Born in a war-torn country, Krake raised himself to be a cold-blooded mercenary, able and willing to kill anyone in his way in his path to power and survival. Upon joining Cobra, Krake carries out a bevy of missions chosen for him, notably leading an attempted massacre of a village detrimental to Cobra's operations, until he is chosen as a candidate for Cobra Commander, at which point he assassinates a fellow candidate and orchestrates the deaths of hundreds of G.I. Joes to secure his election. As Cobra Commander, Krake quickly orders the murders of the entire Cobra Council to secure his permanent reign; invades and nukes the country of Nanzhao, killing hundreds; and executes dozens of Cobra prisoners and any Cobra troops who have no usefulness to the organization any longer. Under Krake's more aggressive Cobra, terrorist attacks endangering civilians are faked to kill enemies of Cobra; an entire city is nearly destroyed to frame the G.I. Joes; and young children are taken captive to force their parents to do work for the organization, all of this working together to cement Krake's Cobra as the most evil the organization has ever been.
• "The Colossus of Ylourgne", by Clark Ashton Smith: Nathaire is a wicked, diminutive sorcerer with a huge chip on his shoulder. Faking his death and stealing countless corpses from the graveyards, Nathaire fuses them into a gigantic colossus to house his soul before going on a rampage. Ravaging the countryside, Nathaire tortures, rapes and murders everything he finds, plucking people apart when he catches them and leaving nothing but ruin and death in his wake for miles. Attacking the chief city of his wrath, Nathaire tramples over countless victims, slaughtering everything he sees before focusing on the church, intent on leaving no survivors.
• "The Dark Eidolon", by Clark Ashton Smith: Namirrha, born Narthos, is a beggar boy nearly killed by the carelessness of Prince Zotulla. Surviving and nursing a monstrous grudge, Namirrha becomes a great necromancer and invites Zotulla and his lover to a banquet. Having all their guests murdered, Namirrha then savagely tortures Zotulla and his favorite mistress, forcing Zotulla to watch the pain of the latter while also summoning demonic horses to trample Zotulla's chief city, killing everyone except those in Namirrha's palace.
• Micronauts: The Time Traveler trilogy, by Steve Lyons (based on the Image Comics run):
  • Ordaal, from the first book, is a manipulative slave driver and organ harvester who arrives on Earth seemingly in peace, pulling the population of Angel's Gift into partnership while truthfully butchering its inhabitants one by one and harvesting their organs to be sold on the Microspace Black Market. Ordaal runs a "circus" of various aliens he has enslaved as entertainment for the citizens of the town, all while torturing and even executing some of them if they step out of line. Allying with the mayor of Angel's Gift, Ordaal abuses and threatens the man into allowing Ordaal's evil to be perpetrated, personally killing a large number of the man's security staff for the pettiest of reasons before trying to flee Earth with an entire group of humans as hostages for him to butcher later, and kills his way through a street of innocents blocking his path to escape before being stopped.
  • Maruunus Ki, from the second book, assumes command of Micropolis in Baron Karza's absence, and proves to be a near-equally depraved ruler. Enslaving the citizens of Micropolis through brute force and addicting them to his virtual reality tech called "the System", Ki subjects the billions of innocents to starvation and hard labor, torturing and killing any who try to stand up to his rule. When the heroic Acroyear tries to take down Ki, Ki uses his minion Persephone to manipulate Acroyear into falling in love with her, only to later reveal the truth and viciously mock the hero over it. Ki ultimately betrays his entire planet to be afflicted by an alien plague, setting himself up in a secure bunker and slaughtering anyone who knows its location so he can outlive the plague while bragging that the millions who die are replaceable peasants.
• To Kill a Kingdom, by Alexandra Christo: The wicked Queen of Sirens is Lira's abusive mother and a genocidal sociopath who forces sirens to attack and sink human ships. Trying to force Lira to kill a human prince to indoctrinate her in her ways, the Sea Queen becomes furious when Lira does not rip the boy's heart out and nearly forces Lira to kill her cousin to repent, only waning when the Sea Queen's sister offers to let the Sea Queen kill her instead. When Lira disappoints her again, the Sea Queen renders her mortal and demands her daughter bring her a powerful artifact to exterminate mankind. When Lira turns the sirens against her tyrannical mother, the Queen resolves to boil the entire ocean to exterminate her own army out of spite.
• Babylon Berlin: Dr. Ullrich is a police analyst who turns on the force to achieve fame and glory for himself. Discovering who murdered the first actress in a film lot, Ullrich uses the evidence to blackmail them into committing more murders, before framing Walter Weintraub for these murders, just so Ullrich can "catch" him and be viewed as a hero. When Gereon Rath and Charlotte "Lotte" Ritter learn of Ullrich's crimes, he injects them with insulin, while also killing his own assistant once he catches on as well. He would then kidnap the police commissioner, Ernst "Buddah" Gennat, attempting to hang him and planning to frame Gereon.
• Vaughn Du Clark is the Big Bad of season 2 and Greater-Scope Villain of season 1, responsible for the initial zombie outbreak thanks to chemicals in his company's energy drinks. To eliminate potential bad publicity, Vaughn coerces Major Lilywhite into using his zombie-sensing abilities to hunt down and eliminate them by threatening the life of his Love Interest. Upon discovering Major has been hiding the zombies, Vaughn uses them to experiment on for a cure to zombieism, uncaring as the failed tests turn the zombies into mindless monsters. When a zombie breaks free from his lab, Vaughn flees to abandon his own daughter to be zombified. Completely incapable of taking criticism, Vaughn also makes a point of having any who make negative remarks about him or his company online assassinated.
• Marie L'Angelle bargained with Satan himself to make herself immortal by consuming the souls of others, collecting on those who do not pay for her voodoo services to do so. When her daughter Christina eloped with John Custer, Marie ordered her stomach cut open and for John's death, before forcing Jesse, her grandson, to suffer under her over the years. When Jesse returns seeking Marie's help to bring his Love Interest, Tulip O'Hare, back to life, Marie forces him into a blood contract wherein she holds Tulip's soul as leverage and later takes Jesse's soul to force him to follow her orders.
• Reign of the Gargoyles: SS-Obersturmführer Mueller is an agent of the Thule Society sent to wipe out take control of an army of gargoyles and wipe out or take over any enemy combatants in the area. When he arrives in the French village where the gargoyles were summoned, he massacres the populace for collaborating with the British Army, regardless of actual guilt, and threatens the survivors' children to get the enemy's location. Soon after, Mueller captures a couple Allied soldiers and leaves them as bait to be torn apart by the gargoyles. When the rest of the Allies show up to rescue them, Mueller abandons his men to die so he can save his own skin.
• Riget: Aage Krüger brutally murdered his prepubescent, illegitimate daughter by forcing her to inhale chlorine gas under the guise of a treatment for tuberculosis. In the present day, as a ghost, he callously seduces and abandons Judith, leaving her pregnant with a child whom he is heavily implied to have wanted to possess to give himself a new life. Sociopathic and callous, Krueger was the only pure evil character in a series full of moral ambiguity.
• The Rookie (2018):
  • Rosalind Dyer, from season 2's "The Dark Side" and "Day of the Dead", is a vicious Serial Killer obsessed with attention. Over two years, she enacted a series of murders by torture with no set victim type, killing men and women of every race and ethnicity. Her methods including peeling the face off a woman; pulling every individual tooth out of the mouth of a anesthesiologist; and removing the hands and feet of a man she drugged so he was paralyzed but conscious. Finally caught, Rosalind was convicted of killing seven people, although her actual total was much higher. Imprisoned, upon meeting up with "Caleb Wright", Rosalind had him enact a twisted plan to keep her game going, first burying the women he killed amongst her still-missing victims and bragging his kills were also hers, playing mind games with the LAPD, and finally having Caleb go after Detective Nick Armstrong whom she'd developed an obsession with for arresting her.
  • The aforementioned "Caleb Wright" is Rosalind's sadistic protégé and fellow Serial Killer. An identify thief and professional criminal who admired Rosalind's fame, Caleb stole a guard's identity to meet her. Enacting her plan, Caleb murdered Bryan Coleman and stole his identity. His MO was to kidnap one woman every three months, tattoo her with DOD (Day of Death) and that date, then slowly suffocate her inside an oil barrel so that she died screaming. Having already succeeding in killing two women, Caleb's third victim was rescued by the police. Catching Officer John Nolan, Caleb attempted to drown him in a water tank, repeatedly pulling him out to prolong the experience. Following a chance encounter he turned his attention on Officer Lucy Chen, who he kidnapped then buried her in an oil drum in the desert. Capturing Armstrong, Caleb intended to make him watch Lucy die before killing him in the same manner. Fatally wounded, Caleb interfered with the attempts to save him just to ensure Lucy would also die, his final words being him laughing that it was already too late.
• Season 2: Kieran Wilcox, while playing the part of loving boyfriend to Emma, is in fact yet another Copycat Killer and accomplice of the aforementioned season 1 Ghostface. Personally killing Audrey's girlfriend, he also put Will in a Death Trap for Emma to trigger and saw the Sheriff—his own father—tortured and brutally murdered. In season 2, this Ghostface torments the cast by viciously picking them off one-by-one, even dropping the corpse of one in front of his girlfriend and murders one of his girlfriends, while also killing off any cops who get in his way. Leaving Zoe's drowned body in a coffin underwater, Ghostface leaves a recording of the latter's screams and struggles to have others, including her boyfriend, think they have a chance of saving her and frames Emma and Audrey for his own murder of the Mayor. Exposed in the finale, Ghostface shoots his own cousin before gloating about a plan to murder and frame Emma for Ghostface's crimes.
• Bloodborne: Micolash, Host of the Nightmare, is a former member of the Byrgenwerth scholars who leads the School of Mensis. Bent on ascending past humanity and being granted "Eyes" by the Great Ones, Micolash and the school have countless people abducted into the Unseen village of Yahar'ghul, experimented upon to make hideous undead abominations without humanity. Sacrificing his school to draw himself into the Nightmare of Mensis, Micolash also keeps a Great One captive and tortured in their experiments, being the one who contacted the Great Ones to call down the Blood Moon upon Yharnam and start the horrific scourge.
• Quest Fantasy series: S O U L is a sadistic, otherworldly being that invades the game world to remake it In Their Own Image and gives the game characters self-awareness specifically to torment them. Seeking to unseal itself, it grants Old Guy The King great power at the cost of his sanity, then uses him to kill all the world's dragons to undo the seal. After kidnapping Cain's infant daughter to force him into a fight, S O U L corrupts the guardian of the Xenospire, using them to sacrifice countless people to itself, then has Guy manipulate HERO into killing an innocent Ogre to take his property. Upon being unsealed, S O U L destroys Town, wiping out everyone within, then forces HERO to kill his best friend, Kawaii Desu Girl, before making him kill himself by banging his head against a wall. In Love Plus Shoujo Edition, it possesses the Ogre's body and creates a mansion as a trap for several characters. In one ending, it takes one of them and turns her into a pod monster, making her fight the protagonist against her will, while in the Secret Ending, it kills John/Jane. Finally, in Era Ovation Acceptance, S O U L and Old Guy The King attempt to kill Morshu and turn him into another vessel for itself. Cruel and spiteful, S O U L instantly darkens the mood whenever it appears.
• Rainbow Six series:
  • Raven Shield (PC version):
    • Nikola Gospić, born Dejan Blazevic, is the leader of the People's Social Nationalist Party (PSNP) who seeks to plunge the world into fascism. Previously a high-ranking member of the Nazi-sponsored Ustaše Regime in Croatia during World War II, Blazevic was tasked to liquidate assets from countless Holocaust victims. Escaping to South America after the war, Blazevic changed his name and started a new life as a successful businessman and philanthropist. Seeking to turn the world into a fascist regime after discovering he has liver cancer, Gospić plans to create an economic downturn that will tarnish South America's oil industry and allow him to swoop in with his own oil company and rise to power. Sending out his terrorists to kill anybody who knows of his identity, while also working with politician Alvaro Gutierrez for political protection, Gospić plans to use his meatpacking plants to send out a deadly nerve agent, preparing to kill millions of people to create terror, even attempting to deploy a nerve agent bomb in Rio de Janeiro with the goal of killing thousands.
    • The aforementioned Alvaro Gutierrez, also in Athena Sword, is a far-right politician who works with Gospić to secure funding for his presidential campaign. An accomplice in Gospić's plans to kill millions of people to create a fascist empire, Gutierrez provides Gospić with the VX nerve agent for his plan, and even launches several terrorist attacks to cover his tracks. Despite being arrested by Rainbow Six, Gutierrez still tries to complete the late Gospić's operation. Gutierrez commands his soldiers from within his prison cell to launch terrorist attacks in Italy and infect Athens with a deadly nerve agent to make up for Rio de Janeiro, fully anticipating the deaths of thousands.
  • Lockdown (console version): Bastian Vanderwaal is the South African leader of terrorist organization Global Liberation Front (GLF). Raiding Black Market tech company LNR Anderson to acquire the deadly virus Legion, Vanderwaal uses Legion on the building's scientists, smiling at their deaths, and blows the building up. Responsible for every act of terrorism in the game through his cell divisions, Vanderwaal at one point takes over the NATO Summit in Barcelona, taking intel director Bill Tawney hostage and threatening to infect him and every world leader there with Legion, making sure to broadcast the deaths as a way to horrify the world into submission. Foiled by Rainbow Six, Vanderwaal escapes and attempts to infect a major European city's water supply with Legion, willing to kill millions of people just to spite Rainbow.
  • Vegas duology:
    • First game: Irena Morales is a revolutionary Mexican terrorist leader already infamous for blowing up the French embassy and for smuggling in Americans to execute on camera. Working for Gabriel "Gabe" Nowak on his plan to take down Rainbow Six, Irena kidnaps Gabe and Akahashi to hold them captive. Taking over Las Vegas on Gabe's orders, Irena causes countless deaths through her actions, such as blowing up buildings, and threatening citizens with a micro-pulse bomb, which contains a virus that causes peoples' skin to burn off. Causing all that destruction as a distraction for Rainbow Six, Irena plans to blow up the Nevada Dam and launch a micro-pulse missile.
    • Second game: Miguel and Alvarez Cabrero are a duo of human trafficking brothers who take part in Gabe's plan to take down Rainbow Six for profit. Crafting chemical bombs to be deployed over various parts of Las Vegas, Miguel tortures a mole NSA Agent named Scott Neville to death and deploys a bomb on a packed sports arena, which kills hundreds, later ratting out Alvarez to save his skin. Alvarez later blows up a hotel and attempts to use the monorail to blow up a highly populated part of Vegas, later trying to blow up a Chinese theater once that fails.
• World of Mana series:
  • Secret of Mana: Thanatos, once an Evil Sorcerer who sold his soul to the underworld for the prospect of dark powers and immortality, starts the game off by manipulating the corrupt emperor Vandole into throwing his entire country into a brutal war to rise up the ancient superweapon the Mana Fortress. Having already lived centuries by surfing from body to body, Thanatos weasels his way into a position as one of Vandole's loyal servants and has countless innocent lives from the kingdom of Pandora kidnapped and zombified to lure out the noble warrior Dyluck, magically turning the man into his slave and planning to use him as his new, permanent host. Eventually murdering Vandole himself once he lives out his use, Thanatos rises up the Mana Fortress and uses it to vaporize the Mana Tree whilst cackling, preventing the heroes from undoing the chaos he's wrought through his manipulations and planning on using the Mana Fortress to enslave the world to his cruel will, even possessing Dyluck at the final battle and forcing him into killing himself to prevent Thanatos from using his body.
  • Dawn of Mana & Trials of Mana: Stroud, later known as the Dark Majesty, is the Emperor of Lorimar who tried to murder his own baby brother by hurling him into the ocean and eliminating all other potential claimants to his throne. Making a pact with the demons of Mavolia, Stroud intended on sacrificing his own nation and later the world for power, even betraying the demons to become an archdemon himself. Ages later, in Trials of Mana, Stroud is revived as the Dark Majesty and intends to eliminate Mana's goddesses, fusing Mavolia with the world to bring Hell on Earth in a dark realm where he is the only god.
• Chasing Butterflies:
  • Mr. Hive is the sadistic operator of the looming Skycavity, traveling the endless time stream known as the Kinematic Envelope seeking those endowed with Steam. When Mr. Hive finds a lost xeno roaming the Kinematic Envelope, he offers them "deals" for one of the antiques onboard his Vanity Rail, tricking them into giving up their Steam while leaving out the fact that it will kill them and trap their essences in his Steam cane, powering himself up in the process. Taking the xenos Feyf and Croque as abused slaves, Mr. Hive treats them like property and kills Croque when he rebels, later breaking Feyf's legs when she escapes from him, promising her that she'll never leave his side again. When his attempts to steal the Steam of the young xeno Sal fail, Mr. Hive goes on a hunt across the Kinematic Envelope for him, wiping out a ship of sailors and torturing the survivor for information before recruiting the murderous "Gentlemen" to his side and giving them free reign to go on a massacre of Xemidas. As Sal continues to evade him, Mr. Hive, killing his own minions and promising to murder Sal's friends in front of him, threatens to drop the Skycavity on top of Xemidas and wipe out thousands of innocents, refusing to let anything stop him from cowardly sacrificing as many people as it takes to escape the Kinematic Envelope himself for good.
  • The Kind and Rude Gentlemen, nicknamed Kindly and Rudely, are a pair of reptilian xenos. Despite their differing personalities, the two share an intense sadism, manifesting in their operation in the slave trade while also enjoying murder for hire and fun, sometimes being paid in captives they can torture to death. Allying with the wicked Mr. Hive, Kindly and Rudely lead an attack on the peaceful city of Xemidas, crashing their chronofreighter into the gardens and playing a game of who can slaughter the most innocents before the other. Even after Kindly's death, Rudely kidnaps Ransa to salvage a payday, mocking the other xeno how he will deliver him to a chef who enjoys cooking his victims alive.
• Dicing with Death, hosted by Neal "Koibu" Erickson
  • Solomon the Cruel, as played by Neal Erickson, is a depraved cleric of the evil god Beelzebub who spread death and destruction in his wake in the name of his dark master. Starting small by burning down the temple and poisoning the food in a small village, Solomon moves on the city of Wodheim to spread ever greater chaos. In Wodheim, Solomon poisons the city wells with the bodies of victims he murdered, crucifies innocents to the holy tree in the center of the city and sets it ablaze, and defiles the local church by murdering the priest and painting his god's name in blood. Hearing rumors of a ruined pyramid to his god across the sea, Solomon travels there while blowing up the library in the port city he left from. In the village of Ja'vis near the ruins, Solomon enslaves several innocents and provides ritual sacrifices to a local hag who lives there to allow him to study the pyramid. After capturing and torturing the village shaman in an effort to reveal the pyramid's secrets, Solomon is knocked out and drowned as punishment for his crimes, but later comes back as a vengeful undead monstrosity leading hordes of zombies against the village before being destroyed a final time.
  • Lord Malcifer Winter, as played by Ryan Hufschmid, is the last of his noble house after his home island of Gadia was invaded by the kingdom of Eridon and who sought out the powers of necromancy to reclaim what he felt was his. Malcifer first gains control of his village of Winter's Reach by enslaving the populace through ritualistic marks of servitude and forcing them into the worship of the old gods of Gadia, the Winter Gods. To ensure their servitude, he goads them into a murdering a rowdy Eridonian knight despite several dying in the process. Using the village as a base from which to grow his undead hordes, Malcifer begins his conquest of Gade Isle by marching on the village of Sardinia and laying siege to the local lord's castle when they retreat there. Malcifer leads his undead to slaughter the hundreds on innocents in the castle and personally murders the lord and his young daughter. What follows is a long campaign of death and destruction as Malcifer leads his army to lay waste to numerous villages as he slowly makes his way to the capitol of Pinespur. During this campaign, hundreds of villagers and soldiers are either devoured by the undead or have their souls stolen by Malcifer to fuel his immortality. At Pinespur, Malcifer spares the local populace in exchange for the wholesale slaughter of any noble family of Eridonian descent and soon proclaims himself King Winter.
• Kung Fu Panda:
  • Legends of Awesomeness: Ke-Pa, from "Enter the Dragon", is an ancient demon who terrorized the Valley of Peace with his army of demons, driving out or killing the citizens. After his army was sealed away by Oogway, Ke-Pa spent decades waiting for the peach tree that his powers are bound by dies, then, with his power returned, transformed into a dragon and lay siege to the Valley of Peace, threatening to eat the citizens one by one. Capturing and torturing Shifu under the belief that he has the Hero's Chi, Ke-Pa tries to crush the Hero's Chi out of him to free his demon army, before doing the same to Po and succeeding. Once his demons are unleashed, Ke-Pa orders them to kill everything in the Valley of Peace, bragging that he will destroy all mortals on the planet and reign supreme.
  • The Paws of Destiny: The Voice in the Shadows, aka Baigujing, aka the White Bone Demon, once roamed the land devouring souls of entire villages and leaving dolls behind to mark her crimes. When sealed away by Sun Wukong, the White Bone Demon eventually contacts Shi Long, corrupting the young girl into being her slave and using her to assassinate the Emperor, Shi Long's own adoptive father. Having Shi Long steal the Wellspring for her, the White Bone Demon's plans lead to a drought plaguing China, and Shi Long destroys entire villages to serve the White Bone Demon. The White Bone Demon's spirit inhabits a Humongous Mecha with Shi Long's help in the finale, betraying Shi Long and eating her alive before viciously trying to kill Po, his students the Four Constellations, and all of their friends before bringing an age of darkness onto China.
• The man who would become the Youkai Wanyūdō was once a tyrannical daimyō known for mistreating his subjects, often having them drawn on the back of an Ox cart. After his assassination, the daimyō was reborn as Wanyūdō, a wrathful spirit in the form of a flaming cart wheel. Usually sighted in urban areas after dark, Wanyudou ruthlessly runs down and dismembers anyone he comes across, dragging their souls to Hell with him. One legend tells of a mother who glimpsed the creature through her window. Wanyūdō spared her, telling her to tend to her child...only for the woman to discover the infant's limbs scorched off, a sick reminder that Wanyūdō is just as sadistic in death as he was in life.

• Starscream is the former second-in-command of the Decepticons willing to do anything for power and revenge. Abandoned by Megatron for his treasonous behavior, Starscream manipulates his loyal Seekers to help him steal the AllSpark and Vector Sigma so he can become a living god and kill all Cybertronians for his insane utopian vision, starting with his loyalists first. When defeated by Optimus Prime and imprisoned on the Ark, Starscream tampers with Wheeljack's AllSpark emitters to launch a Hate Plague upon the Autobots in the hopes that they would kill each other. His most heinous crime is when he encounters the Quintessons and gladly sells out his planet and race to save his own spark. Rebuilt as a Quintesson Judge, Starscream uses his newfound authority to declare all Cybertronians guilty of crimes against him and takes delight in massacring civilians with the enslaved War Titan Croaton as he prepares to destroy the entire universe in his final act of revenge. An Omnicidal Maniac who holds no loyalty to anyone but himself, Starscream is a threat so destructive that the Autobots and Decepticons are willing to put aside their differences to save their universe.
• Megatron X, aka the Other One, is a Megatron from an alternate universe where he took the fateful decision of murdering his former friend Optimus Prime and claiming his Matrix of Leadership early in the war. With Prime gone, Megatron X proceeded to kill all the Autobots and use the AllSpark to create his mindless army of "Perfect Decepticons". After gaining his perfect army, Megatron X exterminated his "unneeded" Decepticons and tormented the survivors Astrotrain and the Insecticons so much that they would rather flee to other universes than live under his rule. When the multiverse-hopping Megatron steals his Matrix to stop the Quintesson invasion in present-day, Megatron X pursues his doppelgänger with extreme prejudice, eventually catching up to him in the main universe. He kills Megatron with ease, calling him unworthy and a failure to his name, and relishes to repeat his genocide of Autobots and Decepticons all over again in this universe. Feared and hated by everyone, Megatron X is what Megatron would have been without honor or respect for Optimus Prime.

Edited by ACW on Mar 30th 2020 at 4:19:30 AM

ACW: Wasn't that Hannah Montana fanfic one written up. Why isn't it there?

Edit: Here it is.

Edited by Bullman on Mar 29th 2020 at 11:33:35 AM

Yes to Wellbourne, too. Please don't ignore Mir's EP

Wellbourne

If Quest fantasy is a video game. Wouldnt it go before world of mana. If were talking alphabetical order?

Also Satanic Panic (2019) actually exists btw

Edited by miraculous on Mar 29th 2020 at 9:38:52 AM

What's probably better for the Dicing with Death write ups? Linking to the creator's twitch page like it is now or linking to the Dicing with Death playlist on Youtube?

Bullman: I don't think it was ever added to the Drafts.

Mir: Yes it would. I also changed the Satanic Panic thing.

Lore: You Tube playlist for the title, Twitch for his name?

ACW: I added it to Drafts then. I hope that's ok. And if not I am sorry. Again he was written up here

Edited by Bullman on Mar 29th 2020 at 12:08:12 PM

Here's another quick one:

What's the work?

From Beyond the Grave is a horror anthology film from the 1970s, part of the Amicus horror anthology series that included seminal releases as Tales from the Crypt, Asylum, and the House that Dripped blood, starring Peter Cushing as the owner of an old antique shop. The premise is simple: Four customers each purchase an item from Cushing's antique shop and...get more than they bargained for....the final story is called the door and our villain is one Michael Sinclair.

Who is Sinclair?

The main character of The Door is William Seaton, who buys an ancient and ornate door from Cushing's shop. Unlike the other customers, he deals fairly with the proprietor, and pays a negotiated price, taking the door home....hi wife Rosemary beleives it to be a bit too ornate, but after setting it up, Seaton finds a strange, blue room inside...and discovers ancient notes...

Sinclair was an occultist from centuries ago, who feared the touch of death. Having no conscience, he created the door as a link between worlds...and more importantly? To trap his victims. Sinclair, determined to live forever, lures in people through the door, to take their souls and lives, draining and killing them to live forever. He's done this...a fair few times.

Seaton realizes the influence of Sinclair is spreading through his life as he and Rosemary fall under Sinclair's spell. Sinclair emerges to take Rosemary and kill her, mocking Seaton to follow him back since "two souls are better than one" after all. Seaton is no match for Sinclair, but finds his weakness: the door itself. Using an axe, he smashes it, which wounds Sinclair himself. Sinclair tries to kill them, but Seaton destroys the door, which destroys the room and Sinclair's link to life, aging him to a skeleton and then to dust with Rosemary and her husband both surviving the tale.

...just as the shopkeeper finishes counting the money and determines all is well and good and he wasn't cheated. Pays to be honest.

Heinousness?

For a horror short, we see Sinclair's pattern with the door and luring people in, going for their loved ones and draining their souls and lives to live forever. I'd say it passes for a short here, when we see the nasty pattern.

Mitigating Qualities?

Nope. His notes are read in detail and narrated by Sinclair, and he targets Rosemary specifically to lure in Seaton to get two souls for the price of one. Character is on display and his only goal is Immortality Immorality.

Conclusion?

For an anthology film, I'd rate him a keeper.

Yes to Sinclair.

Yes to Sinclair.

to Bennun Wellebourne.

Edit: to Michael Sinclair.

Edited by MGD107 on Mar 29th 2020 at 10:13:47 AM

I just rewatched Once upon a time in the west recently, great movie and all, and while I don't want to get nitpicky, I have to note that Frank never succeeds in killing Mr. Morton. He intends to do so and has his men take him hostage. Only for Mr. Morton to pay them a much larger sum than Frank ever could and thus turning his men against him. They try to take Frank down but Harmonica saves him due to It's Personal reasons. Frank then goes to kill Mr. Morton in revenge, only to note that Cheyenne managed to do so beforehand.

Edited by Kookosbanaani on Mar 29th 2020 at 10:09:26 AM

Sinclair.

Yes to Sinclair and Wellebourne and simple solution for Frank? Change "murdering Mr. Morton" to "tries to murder Mr. Morton".

Edited by 43110 on Mar 29th 2020 at 1:12:30 PM